05.18.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting

good morning everyone i would like to call to order the hybrid virtual pasco county border county commission meeting of may 18 2021 at this time please silence all electronic devices and mutual microphones please rise for the invocation and pledge o merciful creator your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts amen i amen allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all madam clerk please call the roll district two commissioner moore here district three commissioner starkey here district four commissioner fitzpatrick here district five commissioner mariano aye district one chairman oakley here thank you uh this time uh mr steinstein are you please go over today's proceedings for the bcc be happy to mr chairman on march 12 2020 the board of county commissioners declared a local state of emergency after the governor issued executive orders 2051 public health emergency and 2052 state of emergency related to cobit 19 which was recently extended by executive order 2194 on april 27 2021. the board is holding its board meeting with a quorum physically present utilizing communications media technology for the public and team members to participate a detailed notice indicating the board's intent to conduct a hybrid virtual meeting has been posted on the board's website the board adopted resolution 20 182 on june 30th 2020 establishing procedural rules for hybrid virtual meetings such as the one being held today however resolution 21 176 adopted by the board on may 4th 2021 opens the board chambers for attendance by the public with maximum capacity limits to allow social distancing okay thank you now is the time for public comments citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this session or the board also takes public common items placed on a future board agenda or other business under their preview due to cover 19 operations and october 19 operations and to safeguard the well-being and safety of our citizens and staff

today's public comment will be handled as follows first there will take public comment from those who are at in person this includes public comment kiocks if it is necessary due to the overflow of if if someone shows up and prefers to speak at the kiosks and hasn't and it hasn't closed yet next we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for webex link and are currently on cue finally we will read enter the record public comments comments documents powerpoints or videos that have been identified by the members of the public to be read out loud played at the meeting or received and filed this new format does not weigh the request that when you address the board comment comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member but rather directed at the issues this provides respect between the board members and the public for webex and person and in-person kiosks participants after stating your name and address for the clerk the end the timer will begin and activated start a countdown after two minutes one beep will sound letting you know that you have one minute remaining after the time is up two beeps will sound indicating the three minutes are up and you should close your comments webex participants will be disconnected when their time is up and kiok's participants will be asked to walk away from the kiocks the following people have signed up to speak it in person so adam clark will take i guess those first that are here to speak yes sir we have the first first person who is signed up is uh costas i'm probably going to hurt that last name i'm sorry thank you but everyone knows them as kostas much easier thank you good morning good morning good morning i think i know every single one of you up there except the newest commissioner i uh submitted a petition name address name and address first uh name is cost costa 8841 creston forest boulevard new parisi florida three four six five four about a mile from here up the streets we have submitted the petition in regards to the changes that are taking place uh uh in the intersection of ross lane and little road uh all that where the va is being built we have gone through about a year and a half for many challenges up there without

anybody's knowledge of what was supposed to be happening we have asked plenty of questions and it doesn't seem like anybody knows what the master plan is in the area there unfortunately about a week and a half ago without anybody being notified anybody knowing about it we were blocked from having access to you know little roads thus going up the street maybe two three lights trying to make a u-turn that is not you know visible at the same time we saw what happened and it's gonna present a lot of issues in the future when veterans are trying you know all you know people like me trying to come out of the va and trying to pull a u-turn 180 degree turn right on little road that's going to have an impact on the traffic i mean i don't know if you have driven you know lately on lyra road it's it's a mess so number one you have a v8 coming out try to take a left has to make a u-turn it's going to cause a lot of accidents same thing for us my wife works about 300 yards from here it used to take her five minutes at seven o'clock in the morning to come in the office right now it's taking 15 minutes a mile house from my house this property is a mile away i try to take to go just as an example the first you know monday we were blocked up to 54 to have some blood work done i took a ride it took me about 15 minutes to find a place to to turn and then all the way another 30 minutes to go up on up on 54. we need you to take a look at it we need to have some you know knowledge of what it's potentially going to be happening there and we need your help we would like also a meeting with two three of you to sit down uh take a look at it we had uh bill racket's office come come down i took the guy up the street down the street i saw them all of the issues they agree with us the va cannot block a scene like that without anybody's knowledge thank you i appreciate your time thank you for commenting the next citizen signed up is um pastors or pastor troy peterson good morning i'm troy peterson 68-27 sandra drive port richie florida my pastor church of brotherly love hudson beach outreach also the evangelist at light of the world tabernacle in port richey florida i'm truly blessed to be networked with a group of pastors and their congregations in pasco and nationally called somebody cares i believe god has sent us here today to listen

and to hear how we can share our resources abilities and wisdom with our governing authorities we meet twice a week with a group of pastors to pray specifically for our commissioners hallelujah and our governing authorities i believe i'm here today to listen and to report on how we can specifically pray for all of you as a pastor here in pasco county it is my god-given responsibility to teach the holy scriptures that they're able to make us wise for uh wise and to teach us for salvation through faith which is in christ jesus all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness why that the man or woman of god may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work we desire to be a doer of the word of god not just a hearer only to be an asset to our governing authorities to by servant leadership and sharing the wisdom of god and the resources that god gives us many pastors in this region understand that it is our responsibility to teach our congregations to serve and obey our government according to titus 3 1 to remind them that is our congregations to to remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities to obey and to be ready for every good work to speak evil of no one to be peaceable gentle showing all humility to all men this is a faithful saying in these things god wants us to affirm constantly that those who believe in god should be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable to men it is our reasonable service unto god and to our government to avoid foolish disputes contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and use useless we hear what we hear and what we learn here today we will take to our prayer intercessors and pray with other pastors and leaders in our community god will answer our prayers and he will speak to us and open doors on how we can effectively serve with our congregations the needs and requests that our commissioners have thank you for your time thank you the next person signed up is kevin bratis good morning good morning good morning i just uh just come i do uh an address yes sir first name is kevin last name sorcerer uh brodis his last name and uh i live here newport richie 7501 humboldt avenue newport richie florida okay

i'm part of a outreach team here in the area and community that tries to help kids and families and i just wanted to come today just to say thank you for allowing us to have the time here but also just how just we just want to be a a blessing to you all and the county commissioner and appreciate what you're all doing but we want to be uh an active member in helping this community and just here to serve you guys whatever needs you have that we can we have a team of volunteers would love to help and i just come today just to say we would love to serve in any way we can do to help you in this community thank you thank you yes sir all right the next next individual signed up is charles thomas charles thomas 14 609 old dixie highway hudson florida thank you for the opportunity to give my public comment i've had a vacation rental in hudson since 2015 and i've been paying my state and local taxes ever since uh the other day i got trolled by somebody on the internet that turned me in on a some ordinance violation and what that involves is when i when you get turned in then you have to get 51 of the people in your subdivision to sign a notarized letter which means you gotta go around with a notary to get their approval for your vacation rental and um so these these codes and ordinances are being weaponized because what i've heard is i got turned in by somebody that's over a mile away from me and uh what they have you know why can they dictate what i can do with my property i'm not impacting them in any way and if i don't cease operations i got a 30-day notice that i'll get a 500 a day fine so this is not something to just overreach um the next here are some of the vacation rentals in hudson there's over 180 so i'm i'm just one of a bunch and vacation rentals they offer a a great opportunity for the for the uh community i've had guests from sweden england ireland uh germany you know and they haven't been able to come because of covet but you know as soon as they can they'll they'll be booking again uh there vacation rentals i don't know if you've ever stayed in one but they're they're a great opportunity to to uh show the area a lot of our guests when they first get step in they go where are the good restaurants you know and then by the end of the stay they're looking for what property they can buy

and you know vacation rentals are well maintained they're guests are friendly they enjoy the area many went look for the property they they love the wildlife the manatees the potters the birds they love to fish they're here to relax and deprogram and to get away and you know here's one subdivision some of the subdivisions the largest i found was had 317 properties that's a lot of people to get notarized letters from thank you for your comment sir thank you all right um the next person signed up is william pettitt name and address for the record sir my name is william pettitt i live at 14922 capri lane hudson florida i don't want to say anything right now okay okay thank you um oh the next person signed up is uh bob dillinger thank you sir and i see it okay okay the next person signed up is daniel griezo or grisso my name is daniel grisso i live at 99 27 san mateo way port richie florida 34668 what i wanted to talk to you about today was a hazard a danger we live on a community of canals which lead into the uh double hammock creek channel which over the years has become so shallow from the sediment coming in that while out there if you're unaware of this i've seen people come in and their boats slam into the sediment because the tide has gone out i've seen people fall off of boats i've seen children thrown from boats and vehicles because they're unaware of it a lot of people come into this area to fish where we're at and there's no warnings of any kind of how shallow it's gotten from what i understand this was dredged out 40 years ago i understand dredging was supposed to be discussed today but it was taken off of the agenda so what i just wanted to do was bring this to your attention that this is not just a convenience for people it's actually gotten hazardous it's hard to navigate through this place and there's hundreds of boats that come through on the weekends and not just the residents of westport that live there people come from around the surrounding areas to fish there because it's great fishing back up into this waterboys salt springs park around the waters there so what i'm really just wanted to do is bring to the attention of commissioners how bad this has gotten and there's a lot of support there's a

lot of people here today to support this and to speak about this okay thank you for your time thank you all right gerald uh guillaima sorry hard to read the handwriting gerald [Music] okay name and address for the record sir hi good morning my name is gerald a jim paglia i live at 99 26 san sebastian way in port richie i'm here also to support any help we can get to have the canals dredged out it is a very very hazard thing i got stuck myself a few times but um we'd like to take a look at it and see if we can get any help thank you for your time thank you for your comments all right so i'm going to um call out three names and if you could just line up down the aisle so that we can do one after the other we'll do it in three so that you can properly social distance i think this written as either harry or nancy thorough t-h-r-o-w-e-r thank you it's nancy all right david uh nope that's for the resolution we've got norman palmando is that correct sarah thomps thomas norman palm i think it's palmandon if you could stand um in line six feet please behind the speaker at the podium all right thank you and then scott thomas are you here to speak okay let me go to the next page william taskowski i'm sorry please forgive me thank you all right if you want my name and address thank you thank you good morning commissioners and and staff thank you for all you do my name is nancy thrower 6009 sea ranch drive hudson florida i have copies of the comments i'm about to make regarding vacation rentals if it is your desire to receive them let's receive bob second okay may i approach all those in favor opposed like that motion pass thank you i've owned my condo at gulf island beach and tennis club in hudson for seven years i'm here today to request that you begin the process to amend the current pasco county ordinance governing vacation rentals as you know the current pasco county vacation rental ordinance enacted way back in 1999 restricts vacation rentals to 30 days or more unless community owners file a petition with 51 percent owner support to change the minimum to six days instead it would be to our whole

county's benefit to update this ordinance as soon as possible because right now pasco county is losing out on much needed revenue it is out of reach financially for most families to take 30 days off in a row for a summer vacation pasco county businesses are also missing out on tourist revenue we all know coveted 19 really stressed our economy the extra revenue generated from updating this ordinance would go a long way to helping local businesses continue getting back on their feet and then prosper going forward our county businesses will definitely see an increase in customers with this change as it will help extend our tourist season third investors are losing money many condo owners at gulf island and other communities purchase their properties to enjoy themselves and uses vacation rentals to help pay for them until they retire finally in the spirit of local control i have no doubts about your commitment as county commissioners to supporting local private business passing an ordinance of no less than six days is sufficient to keep condo complexes and other associations from competing with hotels while unburdening private businesses so all can prosper this is truly a win-win my ask is that you change the current 30-day pasco county vacation rental ordinance to a six-day minimum please empower homeowners associations and property owners with the right to propose a longer minimum stay for their own properties if they so choose please amend this ordinance to make it less restrictive on our personal property rights and help our local businesses thrive i thank you all very much for your prompt consideration on this matter and for your service to pasco county and may god bless you always thank you mr chairman and madam clerk just um no you're good um i just got a message as a reminder because of the limited capacity there's people waiting in the lobby to speak they ask that if everybody after they speak if they could just go ahead and go out this door and go back to the lobby so they can let the next person inside to speak okay yeah i just got that note because i don't i think that was the policy that we enacted to just we aren't doing it now so thank you commissioner okay you can continue to listen in the lobby if you

want if you're if you're still going to speak stay here but they just want to let the other people in to speak okay yeah sure you can come forward name and address for the record pardon me name and address for the record yes nom plamondon 1998-34 san mateo way port richie i'm here basically to support on the trudging of the double hammock canal that has become a hazard the markers are falling down we've tried to maintain them as best as possible it should be considered and thought of and if you would we've got a boat club you're more than welcome to contact us and we can gladly be with anybody uh take anybody out to take a look at it uh basically i'm i'm here basically to support my son-in-law he owns the home uh and but he could not make the meeting so i came here to in support for that as well as support for the rest of the people that are here on that appreciate your time thank you very much have a good day yes sir my name is william shistowski jr i live at 6320 spoonbill drive in newport richie which is in the sea forest area chairman oakley and normal commissioners thank you for allowing me to speak with you this morning you know better than i that west of state route 19 is a major asset that supports our being a vibrant place a residential asset that generates premium tax revenue from home and landowners this is possible because of the access to the gulf and all of its recreational opportunities made possible by residential canals we have all read stories in local newspapers about the valuable yet affordable waterfront property existing in pasco county all of our canal communities contribute an economic benefit to the county currently gulf landings association canals are not included in the permitting discussion it is my understanding that the original decision to exclude gulf landings occurred when we were accidentally removed when the woodlands declined to participate canals and gulf landings support the county's economic base canals and gulf landings support the county's long-term plan canals and gulf landings support the county's recreational activities canals and gulf landings allow the county to levy premium taxes on homes located on them and finally canals and gulf landings allow the county to be a true destination location it makes good tax policy good economic sense

good common sense and good political sense to add as an amendment and to approve in the phase two permitting schedule the inclusion of all canals and waterways in the sea forest area which includes those of the gulf landings association i urge you to make this amendment finally i wish on a personal note to thank you for allowing me in the to participate three years ago in the pasco citizens academy i learned a lot about pasco county the least of which is that a vibrant community needs involved citizens see what you created thank you and god bless you for all that you do for pasco county thank you for your comment all right um the next person signed up is jade archball i'm sorry i can't hear you okay so they're just attending okay um would you like mr chair if you would like for her to view the proceedings in the lobby or she said that she doesn't want to speak oh she doesn't want to speak correct okay so i don't know i'm asking the board the people that are speaking i think this is for people that are speaking right yeah you'll have to go to the library or how many people are left in the lobby are you here for the petition um i don't believe so i mean the resolution is archibald are you here for the resolution okay she's not it's what's the board's pleasure do you still have live i do i feel she needs to move to the lobby what do you guys think how many people are left in the lobby that needs to come in one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty i have twenty one left twenty one there's nothing that's signed up i have no idea if they're speaking or not but they're signed up on the list let's make a decision i feel they should move to the lobby and so the people are going to speak and come in does anyone agree well we got to see that we got to hear these we got 20 right here signed up you got 20 here that's going to sign up and move out so they can come in i know i think this person who doesn't want to speak needs to move are we all speak up in the lobby are all 21 in here or we don't know yeah 21 right in here so do we have anyone is there anybody left out in the lobby that would like to speak do we know no one else is in the lobby then okay oh oh i see what you're saying okay all right so the next person signed up i have ann corona

and then the next person after her is mrs uh chuckus and mr chuckus they need to line up i don't have a first name on them they're not here thank you thank you miss corona if you'd like to go ahead and state your name and address for the record thank you good morning ann corona 7615 tangled drive newport ritchie florida good morning commissioners i want to also extend to you thank you for your courtesy in meeting with myself and residents of tanglewood east i'm here actually today to speak more about the explosive growth in pasco county um specifically the trend toward massive multi-family development which has accelerated in the past year i consider this to be exponential growth posing an existential threat a threat concerned with or involving human existence in this county of course i cannot overlook the impending threat looming over my community tanglewood east or have lived on nearly four acres for four decades the looming disaster of four four-story structures between two rural residential neighborhoods literally blocking the sun producing constant mechanical noises numerous garbage dumpsters drawing rodents the noise of up to 1 000 residents and years of construction vehicles as well as the tearing up of our roads will be intolerable setting aside that particular issue allow me to address the effect of on the county of these multifamily projects we can further factor in the overdevelopment of 54 with massive residential communities packed with homes and arms with the part when we moved to pasco 40 years ago 54 was beautiful green land farms pastures grazing cattle pastoral settles settings i'm sorry now where's the beef aside from the occasional patches of rent-a-cows placed there to afford landowners tax break there are none commissioners you are building yourself into extinction i do nothing in pasco because of the traffic on the ground level it's traffic but where are these people going to be working i would like to dispel what i call the moffett myth compared to the growth that is occurring the number of jobs created will be minuscule uh certainly not enough to make significant impact additionally one must assume that everyone that re relocates has um is medically trained moving on to overcrowding of schools there's no possible way for the system to efficiently keep pace with the influx students will suffer address the overt of government services

the sheriff's office sheriff naco has repeatedly voiced his concerns about the continued construction of mass projects the citizens will suffer due to increased response time why would anyone want to visit or move to an area that looks exactly like where they are trying to get away from we constantly preach about our tourist appeal i'm reinforcing the fact that with this exponential growth of multi-family apartments you are building yourself into extinction as the northeast has done as commissioner moore said we have to sit back and see what impact these i'm paraphrasing paraphrasing sorry multi-family apartments are going to have because we can't just think about today five years from now 10 years from now we think about 20 years from now and the impact they will have on our area the moratorium should be continued throughout the entire county thank you thank you so um i will call the um mrs uh chuckis and mr chukkis and they're not out in the lobby no all right um kim wilder robert corolli i'm just here to support the dredging of the hazardous canal okay i think it's miriam i can't read the handwriting um hager rump her up marian marianna hager rump okay william um wow these games are so hard for me i'm so sorry thank you i appreciate it and then elizabeth statzer i think i got that one right all right ma'am if you don't mind i'm stating your name and address for the record i didn't want to touch it that's okay good morning my name is kim wilder and i live at 9828 san mateo way in port richie i am a resident of the westport subdivision on the gulf coast in pascagoula county the westport subdivision is located between gulf harbor and hudson and is surrounded by the werner boyce salt springs state park double hammock creek is the main channel into our subdivision since westport was established in the 70s and 80s there have been multiple storms that have filled the channel making it near impossible to navigate at low tide the more recent event that has impacted our waterway was the bp oil spill this has trapped many residents from getting back to their homes due to the settlement that has built up over the years the sediment builds build up also inhibits first responders from rescue operations in and around the

channel if any should arise making this a life safety issue since the bp oil spill a settlement was made and the restore act was created these funds given to states and local counties was meant to mitigate some of the issues arising from the oil spill in and around waterfront communities i do applaud the commission for taking action in developing a plan for dredging operations however i feel the funds should be divided equally amongst all waterfront communities and not just the affluent neighborhoods the westport residents are all taxpayers and would like to see a plan that includes our waterways being cleared we would like this for our safety and to be able to enjoy the boating lifestyle that we all moved to westport for again my name is kim wilder from the westport subdivision and thank you for your time thank you hi my name is william stem i live at 9811 san diego way in port richey in the westport subdivision i'd like to turn in some pictures six of them for our area this is my property right here where i am literally 50 percent dry in low tide the sun when it bakes during the summer time mostly the odor and smell is absolutely nauseating we get we get sick we don't go outside to use our pool that we've had redone it's a house that was a foreclosure and we redid it to be able to have the life to be able to go outside and use the waterways just all of our canals i mean our we have tons of shoals rocks we've had neighbors that have bought new boats and end up with seven thousand dollars in damage tearing out their lower unit we're just trying to hopefully get on the book on the books so we can have people come in take a look at our properties and be able to fix it my other neighbor i'm talking for a little bit is thomas howell at 5749 seabreeze drive his property is the other side of my canal i'm on the end but i am literally 50 percent dry and i'm getting no help no matter who we talk to that's it thank you guys move to receive and file i'd like to put these yes i'd like to put these six pictures in second okay you can hit it have a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye [Music] all right um the next person signed up i did call was um marianna that's pretty haggerup elizabeth statzer all right um new names that i'm calling out are mike armani marge engelman judy patton and so no one uh mike armani marge engelman all right miss patton if you don't mind

uh state your name and address for the record hi my name is marge engelman i am at 6025 barefoot court in newport richie um i am here to talk about the dredging i am going to presume that the amendment be amended to include golf landings i'm going to assume that this was an oversight when the amendment was written that we were not excluded on purpose it is important for all our waterways just for the marine life and for the constant flow of water for flooding that we be included in this dredging and i know you took it off the table today because you're looking for funding but as commissioners i would hope that you're looking at the bigger picture and looking at the whole area and what we can do to improve our marine life that's it just please include golf landings thank you thank you all right i previously called mike armani marge engelman still don't see them the next names are michael patton missy is it hanny david howell well thank you hi i'm michael patton and i'm at 9919 san diego way port richie uh we moved to florida permanently about a year and a half ago we bought this house because of the view and it's a beautiful view and we find out we can't get out on the water half the time because the water is so low and it's so dread dirty it stinks it really does all i want as a taxpayer is to get some help get some support and clean all our canals and clean our way out so we don't have to worry about getting stuck and i hear it all the time and it upsets me unbelievable i'm paying money people are coming here paying money taxes are being paid we're getting nothing out of it that's how i feel and i'm getting emotional about it and i'm sorry but that's all i have to say thank you all right thank you yes ma'am approach and then name and address for the record hi there my name is missy hanny i'm at 5419 welfield road newport richie in southern oaks i just want to say that this is my first visit and this will not be my last i want please know that the community is now awake and we are here to stay involved and pay attention to your actions regarding issues in pasco county we are going to make you accountable and we are not going away i am embarrassed to have you as our county commissioners each and every one of you had ignored my voicemails and emails regarding the mask mandate each one of you have failed me and the citizens of pasco county you are elected officials which also

means you can be unelected officials you work for we the people and you are here to listen and respond back to our concerns in a timely manner and not ignore the citizens was that part of your campaign as a commissioner vote for me and i will ignore you in the issue that you are concerned about we have not forgotten what you did you all have a choice to be a good commissioner or a bad commissioner you know the old saying you know better you do better you swore an oath on a bible with no mouse on last year it's on video i hope you start now to hear your community and your community will ensure that you are never voted in again we know when you are up for re-election and if you are not there for your community you will be replaced right now you are seen as rules for thee and not for me i urge you to listen and learn from the citizens and to do a better job thank you for your time thank you yes my name is david hollowell i'm over in 98 37 tradewinds drive port richie um westport community i'm just following up and i don't want to repeat what everybody else has said but i've been here for 10 years and my real reason for it is i know that pasco has a problem getting the water across little road 19 and that was one of the issues of opening the canals trying to get the canals open in order for that water to flow out not just to dredge our canal for us but it's also for the flooding purposes because that water comes across can't get across we get it tied we're stuck in the middle of it and that's been going on for years since the no name storm i wasn't here then but i've seen it a couple times and i see what they have with the problem that they have they have a problem with getting the water across little road and 19 to get the water to the gulf because that's where it's all got to go so that's really why i want the canal to get dredged in my part so that's pretty much all i have to say thank you yeah sure all right the next individual signed up deborah leone david graham sandra gordon good morning and thank you for allowing us to speak today my name is debra leone 4630 dewey drive newport richie florida and i live in the gulf harbors woodlands uh neighborhood so currently gulf harbor's woodlands is in the process of attempting to dredge two canals that were not part of the overall pasco plan we actually sent a presentation in including the latter and drainage maps for both

our neighborhood and golf landings there's been discussion incorporating part of our canals in the county-wide dredge plan and i also understand there was talk of possibility excluding non-exempt areas from the plan so back in 2019 some members of our association met with commissioner mariano and some county employees and to kind of discuss where we might go with dredging following that meeting the association reached the research the cost for doing its own dredging as it preferred not to be part of an msbu with all the additional administrative costs that go along with an msbu as a result we passed a budget line item in 2020 for a hundred thousand dollars we spent thirteen thousand dollars had a hydrological survey done of all of the canals that affect gulf harbors woodlands some of them are shared canals with gulf landings in no way did we ask or expect the county commission to not include gulf landings it was just we wanted to know what to expect should we have to reserve money to dredge our own canals nothing against the commissioner of the county but we've seen a lot of studies and no dredging and what happens is in 2009 we did a very small dredge actually on a shared canal and it did alleviate some of that problem but that problem is back and it's ten years later and the more shallow it gets the more of a collection point so there will be a point in time very shortly that gulf landings sea forests and the woodlands probably won't be able to use that portion of the canal to get out and that's the main area to get out so actually we have requested funds from the county our cost right now to do two canals that are no longer that are not part of the plan is 170 000 uh we have 85 000 of that we've asked the the county commission to consider matching our funds to complete the dredging we've looked at stormwater funds restore funds funds that may be used to add us to the plan any discretionary funds you may have if you look at the maps you'll see there's a direct correlation between drainage and where we have the problem areas in our canals so we're asking also to look forward to mitigating future storm water discharge contamination thank you thank you were those maps given to us i emailed that yesterday to all the commissioners okay yes ma'am hello commissioners thank you um i'm here my name is sandra gordon i live at 8844 ross lane in newport richie i'm here just as mr costas was about the entrance to rosslyn we were

understanding that there was going to be a light but we would like that but if this curving is going to stay there there's an issue with narrowness and if you have a boat or any trailers or anything you're pulling behind it's too narrow to turn onto our street you will have to cross the curbing to do it and that makes me wonder about fire trucks coming in are they going to be able to get in and out i think it needs to be looked at and we're asking for you to help us go back and look at that entrance also i have a concern i understand there is a retail section coming in to the north and apartments to the north i must that's what's on the plans i understand and they've got it opening out onto ross lane we only have the one way out king healey would be a better entrance for those properties and i'm asking you to consider that look at the plants ask them to go in and out at king healy with the light rather than emptying them out onto ross lane with us with the va and that's why i'm here today and i thank you for your attention okay thank you for your comments all right um i called previously david graham all right next up elliott steele mary lou vogel and brian paris elliott steele mary lou vogel brian parris is that all the ones on your list two more [Music] i'm sorry i called um mary lou vogel elliott steele i believe that was the one okay mary lou vogel and brian paris yeah you said two people before me i was just making sure they weren't going to speak okay sir come on okay yeah my name is brian paris um 7401 allison street por richie florida 34668 before i respond to why i came i want to respond to these vacation home rich entitled people this is a local town if you don't live here full-time sorry for your you know oh well take no one's begging you guys to be here you know you guys been pushing locals out for a long time there's a lot of locals that are born and raised here that can't even find a home so just because you have a little second home or third home whatever you have you know oh well boo hoo anyway but now to the we the people the constitutional republic who i've been talking to for a little while a lot of them very upset the way you guys have governed not just you guys in general but but yeah yes definitely some of you guys obviously locally but just the way the elected officials have treated this we the people the constitutional republic during this china virus lockdown and all this china virus stuff you know a lot of people are awoke they're assembling and they plan on either

voting you out or assembling peacefully through the constitution of the united states to remove whoever has been governing against the constitution and also to the poli i've i respect i always pray for our our police our sheriffs but some of them been uh acting unconstitutionally i've even hit up the sheriff's office to speak about this and they've been they don't want to respond what's weird is we're also a county that is number two or three in a state in human trafficking but yet they're worried about coming after a disabled veteran because he refuses to wear a mask and wants to exercise his first amendment right and his seventh amendment right and since i can't speak at other places i'm going to speak here no matter who you are any elective it's weird that only one person on this seat is being investigated and none of the rest of you guys are it's so weird the guy that's been mostly fighting for the people against the mass mandate is the only one under investigation i find it odd thank you for your comments yeah do you have any more listed or um mary lou vogel which i called before and then janine dombrowski and kathy last name is hard to um i can't hardly see a jewel julian thank you hi my name is janine dembrowski but you all know that my address is 2926 wainwright court newport richie three four six five pay attention to the united states in order to form the perfect union establish justice ensure domestic tranquility love that word provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings they come from god of liberty so does that to ourselves and our posterity to ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america see the difference between the united states we the people and the constitution for the united states of america i think we just all need a another education in the constitution so we're going to start and do this slowly a couple definitions a republic a republic is a common wealth a state at which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in the representatives elected by the people republican is a self-governing forum wherein a free sovereign moral and enlightened people guarantee to one another and to all minorities the right and obligation to have retain

and protect each other's god-given common rights to life freedom liberty and the pursuit of happiness in their separate capacities as free inhabitants and or as free sovereign people within a nation state nation state and or a country all by positively accepting the oaths as recipients of the oaths of their servants holding public office now democracy to possess to govern a form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation i just want to make clear like what is a republican and what is democrat you all claim to be republicans so you really need to sit on these words because yes we will be holding you accountable um also um the mask little problem um something needs to be done we want to know what's being done what the costs are going to be it's not good for our environment it's not good for the waterways that everybody likes to talk about today it's not good for the the animals that are in there they're laden with chemicals it's being absorbed into our soils so we just want to know what's being done there um i'm really grateful though that you have the in-person meetings this makes us all very happy um but i also can't leave here today without discussing also the building on 54 and how many people really are upset about it i know my time is up um and the focus should be yes on the dredging um where we live in town off of 19. there's a lot of low income housing like that i will be back thank you thank you now if anyone else is in the room that didn't get signed up please come to the podium and the others that want to speak today line up behind her thank you hi my name is kathy julian and um you have my address on record i was told that your name i didn't call was the last one on the list i just couldn't read the last name i understand nobody ever gets my name right which seems very simple no it's simple i just now i can see it but before i couldn't thank you um i i was planning to come and talk about the fact that eating less on the meeting because that's what i read online but i see you've resolved that issue so good job the other thing is i was going last week to they do these drive through parades for the graduations and my daughter's graduating from pasco e-school in the next couple weeks and we went out

to the one in wesley chapel an area of the county i'd never been to before and holy cr pamoli the construction going on out there i know people complain about the construction going on on 54 but you guys built the infrastructure before you did the building of the houses that area out there in wesley chapel oh my gosh i live off of moon lake road and the road that accesses that looks like moon lake road and i know what we went through with moon lake road when they built all the houses out there which is a very small subset of what's being built out in wesley chapel from the looks of it and i mean our neighborhood has an access that's not off of moon lake road which was nice but wow i can't imagine how are they why are they building all these houses without the structure there's no i mean maybe there's roads i didn't see but i didn't see them on the google maps either so that's scary to me and um like i said i'm not against additional construction obviously people have property rights they have the right to do what they want to do with their their thing but 54 should be the model for new construction not what's going on out in wesley chapel thank you for your time have a great day thank you for your comments so is there anyone left that would like to speak i see no one coming forward is anyone at the kiocks there is nobody here at the kiosk all right thank you now we'll go to uh webex do we have anyone online no sir um one of the individuals that had pre-signed up was present oh okay we spoke all right so we'll go to email okay how many emails do we have today i don't know exactly we have a lot so i have duplicate emails that i'd like to go through first if that's okay where it was the same verbatim was written on each of the emails so i can go through and do the name and address on each of those and then read the statement from them and then we have other emails that are all different okay okay all right okay so i'm going to go through and do the names and address of those that um submitted an email and it was um the same okay we have andrew and lisa villacana addresses 5351 jobeth drive newport richie florida five 34652 brian fassen 6208 spin bill drive new port richie florida three four six five two joanna thurkill and address is 6311 garland court newport richie florida 34652

six three i'm sorry let me do the name first vincent um azu azub address is 6325 garland court newport ritchie florida three four six five two and we have andrew and lisa villacana at five three five two joe beth drive newport richie florida three four six five two we have james and lisa mancuso and their address is 4324 sand dollar court newport ritchie florida 34652 todd heff president coast um coast life housing lifestyle additions at 6212 spoonbill drive newport richie florida three four six five two we have a christopher hayden 5567 sea forest drive newport ritchie florida 34652 mark antina emerson address is 5557c forest drive number 214 newport richie florida three four six five two go to the other list linda gear 6115 bayside drive newport richie florida 34652 robert sprott at 5727 biscayne court newport richie florida three four six five two rick hug um hugette at 6238 spoonbill drive newport richie florida 34652 dennis o'hare three six two six garland court new porchy florida three four six five two sergio vasquez six four two six garland court new percy florida three six four five two jonathan elrom six zero one zero seaside drive lot 306 newport richie florida three four six five two chris reisinger six two seven two spoonbill drive newport richie florida three four six five two jonathan shepherd five nine zero one seaside drive newport richie florida three four six five two jeff caradana 6140 seaside drive newport richie florida 34652 brett litig at 6144 seaside drive new purchase florida 34652 sharon evans 6205 bayside drive newport richie florida three four six five two cindy buck um four four three five golf side drive new port richie florida three four six five two maria lydic 6144 seaside drive newport richie florida three four 34652 first name is m-e-l-c-h-i-o-r-r-a kepner address is 6165 seaside drive newport ritchie florida 34652 tarika and last name is g-o-r-d-o-n-z-a-c-h-e-r-y address is 132 spoonbill drive newport richie florida 34652 cindy bell 6127 fjord way newport richie florida three four six five two jane petty five five three seven seaforce drive unit 102 newport richie florida three four six five two um ike lane five seven two two biscayne court newport ritchie florida three four six

five two steve early six zero four zero seaside drive new port richie florida three four six five two e j strauss uh three four i'm sorry four three zero five sand dollar court newport richie florida three four six five two anthony ferrani five five three eight joe beth drive newport richie florida 34652 janet lynn and john michael mcguire 5537 see forest drive unit 207 newport richie florida 34652 thomas hayworth 5712 biskin court unit 102. [Applause] my apologies on the last one i just read um he actually sent in a separate um a separate letter i'll be reading shortly all right next one is lori taylor 5727 biscayne court 109 newport richie florida three four six five two joseph niffo uh seven five seven two seven biscayne court unit 205 newport richie florida three four six five two lorena l-l-e-w-e-l-l-y-n four three four zero seagull drive newport richie florida three four six five two irene anderson six one four five seaside drive newport ritchie florida three four six five two stacy lafrance 6221 fjord way newport richie florida three four six five two um andrew papa michael four three three one sand dollar court newport richie florida three four six five two martin um f e o r e r o four seven zero eight general way newport richie florida three four six five two james hayden 5946 seaside drive new porchy florida 34652 dennis gruden 4314 san della court new port richie florida 34652 michael five six three one micro ballast in a letter kubala k-u-b-a-l-a let me enunciate that better five six three one joe beth drive new porche florida three four six five two michael bouquet five six three one joe beth drive new port richie florida three four six five two jim and deborah uh toth six three one two spoonbill drive newport richie florida three four six five two thomas bell six one two seven fjord way newport richie florida three four six five two fred gruden four three one four sand dollar court new port richie florida three four six five two jennifer adam mexi a-d-a-m-c-z-e-w-s-k-i six one four zero bayside drive newport richie florida three four six five two scott pendleton four three three four sand dollar court newport richie florida three four six five two jw and beth bailey 5727 biscayne court 106 mariners way anthony justice 5419 joe beth drive newport richie florida three four six five two um less and then last name is

e-x-z-a-b-e five five three seven c-force drive newport richie florida three four six five two beth hinton six one one zero bayside drive newport richie florida three four six five two colleen wilson 5722 biscayne court unit 103 newport richie florida 34652 thomas collins 5722 biscayne court unit 103 newport richie florida three four six five two ronald and kaylee bates six zero zero five bay bay way court newport richie florida three four six five two amy holliday 6239 fjord way newport richie florida 34652 robin martin 4431 gulf side drive newport richie florida 346.52 steve crothers mary crothers was in person and got to speak five five eight five joe beth drive new port richie florida three four six five two richard fogg four three two zero segal drive newport richie florida three four six five two all right so those are the duplicate emails and i will read their statement [Applause] dear paso commissioners i reside oh we already did those addresses i request pasco county board of county commissioners add an amendment and approval by the board of county commissioners to include all the canals and waterways in the sea forest area which includes golf landings association to be included in the phase 2 permitting that is scheduled for may 18 2021 bocc meeting i request my email to be read and entered into the record of the may 18 2021 board of county commission meeting okay [Applause] one moment please i don't know sorry i have these left okay all right i'm just thinking about some of the folks that are in the audience right now they're here for a specific resolution that was time certain is there any possible way if no if nothing when it comes to the emails are related to the resolution coming up that we could go forward with the resolution and come back if there's no emails speaking of reference to the resolution mr chairman if if none of the emails regard the resolution in fact if none of the emails regard things that are currently on your consent agenda you can move forward with that and then take public comment at any point in any point in the day that you wish to so if you want to if you want to get done with your morning agenda and then come back to public comment so long as the public comment is not

right addressing your consent agenda or the resolution you can do and we don't have dredging on our agenda today the only reason i say that obviously is the chairman's discretion is because we do have some people waiting that have been waiting for a long time for the specific resolution and we can come back to it if that's okay with everybody right i just would i would love to see them be able to move forward and okay not wait longer yeah we'll pause with the public comment at this time for reading of the emails we'll come back to them at a later time it's our time is running away from us this morning it's 11 29 so this time uh we'll move to the resolution okay if um anyone is here for david bruce lambert the second um please with uh with a coochie river electric cooperative please come forward okay including mr lambert [Laughter] summer blevins at the office of congressman gospel arrakis and my address 18831 almost street lutz florida through three five five eight i am just here to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of david lambert and his countless contributions to our community and to leave a an extension of remarks that have been entered into the official congressional record on his behalf so i can leave this here for him when he comes up to get your resolution if that's okay thank you thank you congratulations mr lambert would you mind stepping forward thank you i will go ahead and read the resolution resolution number 21-183 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida recognizing david bruce lambert ii for his 27 years of service to with lacucci river electric cooperative and the pasco county community whereas david bruce lambert ii started his career with with licucci river electric cooperative r-e-r-w-r-e-c um 27 years ago as a meter reader and since then has dedicated his career to whis lecouche as a lineman journeyman and he now he now oversees five departments manager member and community relations government affairs purchasing safety and human resources and whereas david's professional career has him working closely with local state and federal elected officials fostering the goals and objectives of with lacucci's commitment to its members throughout its five-county service territory and the community at large overseeing with lecouchi's operation roundup education foundation and cares board and whereas davis david bruce lambert ii

serves on multiple boards including chair of the pasco county housing authority chair of the pasco hernando career source board and board member of feeding pasco's elderly and as and has been a fervent advocate for mental health working diligently with van gogh's palette co-founders elliot and diane steele founding board member and retired pen and retired pasco pinellas public defender bob dillinger state senator wilton simpson pasco county sheriff's office and the pasco county board of county commissioners to bring mental health services to pasco pasco and hernando county through a recovery through work program known as vincent house pinellas vincent house pasco and vincent academy of the nature coast and whereas vincent house of pasco county in partnership with pasco county community development received the national community development association 2021 audrey nelson community achievement award for showing exemplary and innovative use of community development block grant funds to address the need of low and moderate income families homes and neighborhoods and res david continues to bring awareness support grants and donations to open up and expand vincent house pasco and vincent academy of the nature coast and razz david serves as president of van gogh's palette offering pinellas pasco and hernando counties much needed services to those living with mental illness and along with with licucci ceo mr billy brown and with the coochie staff is instrumental in providing mental health services throughout the tampa bay region and res vincent house pasco joins vincent house hernando and pinellas in delivering hope providing individuals with mental illness the opportunity to rebuild their lives increase self-worth and become productive citizens and raz may is nationally recognized as mental health awareness month and david continues to be an advocate for those with mental illness to remove the stigma of mental illness and whereas mr mr david lambert is a silent but humble warrior for the people of pasco county now therefore be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida that said board hereby recognizes david bruce lambert ii for his 27 years of service to with lecouche river electric cooperative and the pasco county community done and resolved with a quorum present and voting this 18th day of may 2021 move for april second promotion

second dollars in favor say aye aye motion pass 5-0 welcome david when do you sleep david well doesn't mean you're retiring or you're staying with us no i'm not retiring at all that's a vicious rumor [Laughter] i'm hoping to stay another 20 years if the members will have me and the board i just want to say thank you and i'm very humbled by this proclamation and a lot of credit goes to a lot of people who really have uh have stepped up and done a lot of things not just me no one does anything uh by themselves and uh you all were instrumental in bringing vincent house to pasco and your leadership was unbelievable when we came knocking at the door to community development kathy pearson commissioner mariano our county administrator dan biles and asked for help to bring it here senator simpson you didn't leave no one stone unturned and for that you're going to save thousands of lives mental health is a big issue within our communities and nationally and and we certainly need to focus on that a lot more you know i'm just greatly appreciative and humbled i'm humbled that uh bob uh and diane and elliot still bob blinder allowed me to come to vincent house and thankful for my wife and family who has helped me through this entire process and my two daughters that are here today and more importantly the board with lecouch electric and our ceo mr brown who have been just invested in our communities so with that i'm very humbled and i'm grateful for all the members of vincent house you know they prove to me every day that even though you have a disability mental illness or something you can lead a full and productive life given the tools and resources if you have them and that's just dedication to our community and and dedication to those so um thank you very much i greatly appreciate it very humble thank you um i think it's undefeated is this under your name yes i'm sorry okay yeah she might speak yes okay i would like this i would like to say thank you to mr david david lambert um he was one of the very first citizens well one of the first citizens that i've met and i was honored to meet with him and i was also honored to be able to attend the vincent house open house so thank you it's so important that we have services for mental health for mental health services and it is a growing concern um this tampa bay area is one of the

highest for overdoses not just the average is higher than not just florida but it's higher than the united states as a whole so it's very important that we have the services to help our citizens so thank you very much you're welcome thank you commissioner would you like to go down and take a picture absolutely and um and uh i you know did i mention your chair career source yes ma'am no you didn't i don't i don't think it did but um yeah and uh dave also is a wonderful chair for career source it's been a real pleasure working there with you thank you would you all mind if my family and um folks from vincent house and stuff come up here come on up everybody my wife panoramic lens right space everybody scrunch in just a little bit very good hold on one second just a couple here one more all right i said one more a couple more there excellent we got it [Music]

i know tears my mentorship [Music] okay now we're going to go into the consent agenda i have a pull sheet with c21 pull and revise and c24 pulling advise as any other item that the board would like to pull see now no the one that did was pull so it's not only jimmy this one because it was c34 before but that's not on the agenda anymore to check and make sure there's uh no e uh email that will relate to anything on the consent agenda we have looking left i have our three on vacation rentals vacation rentals is not on today's agenda either okay the rest um are identified as dredging yeah that was taken now there are a couple that have been handed to me that aren't on and on the list so let me i'll review them if you want to go forward with consent and then i'll let you know i think you can take action on the consent agenda okay so we'll move forward um what's the pleasure on the balance of the atoms not pulled motion second in a second okay i got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all opposed lag sign motion pass five zero uh first item is c21 good morning commissioners andrew baxter facilities management director c-21 is to correct the scrivener's era error this is for the award of the hugh embry library it was found that the construction bond backup information had the wrong total cost amount we're changing that from one million five hundred and four thousand five hundred and sixty one dollars to the corrected amount of one million five hundred and four thousand five hundred and eighty one dollars with that revision i would recommend approval okay got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye opposed like sign motion pass five zero c twenty mr chair members of the board todd bailey chief information officer a c24 item is a memo the mmo amount was correct the detail sheet for the wastewater fund there was a scrivener's error from 1900 that was transposed that that's supposed to be 1960 so it's a 60 error under the fiscal impact cost revenue statement okay second you got a motion a second all those in favor say hi hi hi mr imposed black side motion past 5-0 chairman yes question for a county attorney's office do is there anything in our ordinance or my statute

that staff wouldn't have to bring back a revision when it's less than a certain amount of money i mean this is just think about time 20 63 it still has to come from the board for a revision it's that it's that the agenda item was in error is why i mean i know but i'm just saying it with twenty dollars i didn't know if there was a certain amount of yeah they're just correct and it has to come i would think just curious just thinking about you know it says it's a small dollar amount okay um with that we'll go with the photos we'll go back to we have 15 minutes before the launch break we go back to emails i checked the ones that were not on the list but they were submitted timely they were all about dredging and one is in regards to p 64 for this afternoon okay then the one for this afternoon needs to be read this afternoon yeah those for this afternoon will be read this afternoon and now we need to read those that are for this morning try to i don't know if you can finish it up in 15 minutes but do your best so okay okay okay let's see all right um this email address is from um jim thurkill i reside at 6311 garland court new port richie florida three four six five two i respect request the board of county commissioners to add an amendment to approve phase two permitting scheduled for the 5 18 21 bcc meeting the inclusion of all canals and waterways in the sea forest area which include those of the gulf landings association we love our house on the canal and the area but unfortunately the canals are becoming less navigable every year and very badly need to be dredged so we can be more frequently enjoy the water the local waters thank you very much for this attention next email is from jeffrey and joanne k-a-z-i-s-t-a residing at 6-0-2-9 baywood bay way court newport richie florida want i want to i want our email right into the record during the may 18th bcc meeting or whatever the date the gender item is heard i reside never mind i've already read that i respectfully request board of county paso county board of county missioners to add an amendment and to approve in the phase two permitting scheduled for 518 2021 bcc meeting the inclusion of all canals and water rays in the sea forest area which includes those of golf landings association okay next email is from lawrencepaulmd

535431 joe beth drive newport richie florida 34652 i have owned a home in sea colony golf harbors for 17 years i previously voiced concerns about taking out our canals off the list for the upcoming dredging project at the time that woodlands wished to not participate we were erroneously removed our requests that sea colony and our canals be added to the project sincerely next email is from david goins five four zero five joe beth drive three four six five two my family lives on jobeth drive our canal is relatively shallow and needs to be dredged we have trouble getting out our back at the lowest tides we would love to see this happen for our canal and the rest of sea forest best regards the mirror ar and i'm going to spell the last name k-a-d-d-o-u-r-i junior p-a address is 3-2-2-0 west cypress street tampa florida three four six zero seven i want this email read into the record during the may 18th bcc meeting or whatever the date the agenda item is to be heard in support of expanding this project to include the inclusion of all canals and waterways in the sea forest area which includes those of the gulf landings association it is my understanding that the workers would likely have to pass through the canals that we would like to get included in the scope of the work just to access the original targeted area it makes the most sense to work on the items we are suggesting to better manage the waterways as well as make it a wonderful opportunity for those for use by the residents finally i doubt that this would significantly increase cost as at some point the work of the sea forest area canals would be needed if we don't do it now it would mean another mobilization charge and ultimately more costs thank you very much next email is from leslie stella 4341 seagull drive newport richie florida 34652 for the ongoing usability of the canals i'm sorry i want this email read into the record during the may 18th bcc meeting or whenever the uh the date the agenda item is heard for the ongoing usability of the canals in golf landings i request they be included in the dredging plans it was through an oversight that they were omitted and as a homeowner using canals for saltwater access is important to me both for my family both for my personal use as well as for the eventual resale value whenever there that should occur next email is from [Applause] robert sprott

dear pastor county commissioners i live at 5727 biscayne court newport richie florida 34652 there are 60 plus residents in my condominium community i respectfully request the board of county commissioners to add as an amendment and to approve in the phase ii permitting scheduled for the 518-2021 bcc meeting the inclusion of all canals and water rays in the sea force area which includes those of the gulf landings association this highly affects hundreds of boaters in this area this needs to be done in order for our community to continue to be the ideal beach community it has become next email is from james and gina drake dear board of county commissioners we own property at the sea forest area of golf landings community 5722 biscayne court unit 101 as you know this is a unique neighborhood with saltwater canals giving homeowners boating access to the gulf of mexico many of these canals are owned by pasco county and maintain these canals maintaining these canals are essential for upholding upholding the property values and in turn the tax base for pasco county accordingly we are asking that all canals and waterways in the sea forest area including the gulf landings association be included in your phase two permitting agenda item that is currently scheduled for may 18 2021 additionally requests that the letter be read into the meeting on including the board record thank you next email is from ron and sharon getty 5712 biscayne court 204 newport richie florida three four six five two my husband and i moved from tampa to mariners away a part of gulf landings association off at sea force drive in 2018 it was supposed to be our last home as we made condo life our permanent residence at this time it's been a wonder it has been wonderful having the access to the gulf through the mark canals that we follow in our boat along the many beautiful homes and mangroves with all its nature to explore maintaining these canals is essential to our future boating in the gulf coast and property values which is linked to the tax base for pasco county we're proposing for your consideration that all the canals and waterways in the sea forest area be included in phase two permitting agenda item on may 18 2021. thank you very much for all your efforts to see that that every boater is able to continue to make their way out to the gulf for a beautiful day on the water we appreciate your interest and attention to this matter close close to our hearts heaven is a little closer in a home by the water

but to create a safer waterway for everyone next email is from william van vechten 9823 san sebastian way port richie florida three four six six eight i want this email read into the record during the may 18th bcbocc meeting the canals need to be dredged because as sediment builds up on the bottom of the waterway it reduces the depth of the water dredging strips away the accumulated debris which can restore the water body to its original depths and and reduce the risk of flooding respectfully yours next email is from susan moskowitz 9827 san sebastian way port richey florida three four six six eight the canals need to be dredged in order to maintain the health recreational enjoyment it is beneficial to the environment and to the quality of the canal thank you [Applause] the next email is from eddie and joe welsh westport waterfront homeowners i do not see any an address a good morning members of the board my wife and i recently became waterfront homeowners in the westport subdivision we are active members of the westport homeowners association and the west port boat club organization it was brought to our knowledge that on in august 2020 the board of county commissioners university voted to push forward changes to the comprehensive and strategic plans that support the restoration efforts of our pasco coastline we are writing today to express our utmost support of the bocc's vote and pledge our dedication to the restoration and preservation of the canals channels and the adjacent salt springs as we are sure you are all aware the canal channels and waterways in the westport area have been neglected for years in fact we could find no record of dredging has ever been done the effects of this neglect has become a safety issue for the aquatic life ethnic organisms vegetation plant growth wildlife and wetlands the water quality is poor due to an abundance of resting decomposition decomposing organic matter and silt which depletes the oxygen supplies in the water when weather events occur that occur the silt turns up and the decomposing bottom waters are driven to the surface as a result all of the above mentioned are suffering the adverse side effects dredging is a key component to the health of our canals and channels and can significantly reduce the effects of shoreline erosion dredging improves aquatic habitats for local plants and animals the material displaced while dredging can be used

as a valuable resource in promoting native plant growth in our wetland area when strategically deposited this material can be used to reinforce and restore aquatic environments for our wildlife additionally the neglect to our canal has had an adverse impact on boaters residents and visitors to our local salt springs a lack of maintenance and dredging of the canal have caused them to become silted in for many residents and visitors this restricts golf access solely to high tides resulting in lower waterfront property values and a decrease in tourism in the salt springs we have an immediate and urgent need for the help and support of the paso county bocc we're in desperate situation and is imperative that we begin the process of restoration and preservation of our canals and channels post haste before the damage of of the neglect is irreversible we respectfully request that this restoration and dredging of the westport channel and canals be marked as a high priority if not the highest priority on the dredging schedule and funded at least in part by the restorative monies again we want this email written to the record on may 18th bocc meeting or whenever the date of the agenda item is heard thank you for your consideration how many do you have left [Applause] 10 11 12 13. so what is the pleasure of the board we'll continue into the lunch hour or yep great for lunch a meeting okay so we'll pause now and we'll take this back up after public hearing this afternoon to finish our public comment for this morning thank you sir thank you so this time we'll break for lunch and be back at 1 30. [Music] you