04.20.2021 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting

good morning everyone i would like to call to order the hybrid virtual pasco county board of county commissioner meeting of april 20th 2021. at this time please sign us all electronic devices and muture microphones please rise for invocation and pledge oh 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 amen here district 3 commissioner starkey here district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick here district 5 commissioner mariano here district 1 chairman oakley here uh reminding everyone today we do all our voting by roll call since mr moore is not present but virtually here with us mr steinsteiner will you please go over today's proceeding with bcc be happy to mr chairman on march 12 2020 the border county commissioners declared a local state of emergency after the governor issued executive orders 2051 the public health emergency and 2052 the state of emergency related to covet 19 which has recently been extended by executive order 2145 on february 28 2021. the board has chosen to hold its board meetings 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 was posted on the board's website on september 25th 2020 the governor issued executive order 2244 moving the state into phase three of the governor's safe smart step-by-step order which was extended by executive order 2297 issued on november 24 2020 large gatherings over 50 people is still not recommended to congregate in any public space that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing the state's surgeon general's public health advisory is still in place with regard to maintaining social distancing and avoiding gatherings of 10 or more people the public has afford been afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by use of communications technology that has been provided the board adopted resolution 2182 on june 30th 2020 establishing the procedural rules for hybrid virtual meetings such as the one being held today as with any meeting you wish to take action you are required to take public comment on any proposition pursuant to section 286.0114 florida statutes i'm available for any questions okay thank you sir now is the time for

public comment citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this section the board also takes public comment on items to be placed on future board agenda and other business under their preview due to copa 19 operations to safeguard the well-being and safety of our citizens and staff today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take public comment on those from those who are pre-registered for webex link and are currently on cue after we will read the end to the record public comments documents powerpoints or videos that have been identified by members of the public to be read out loud played or played in the meeting or received and filed also remember these items whether you have an item read into the minutes or if you are speaking to this uh public comment you are given three minutes only finally we will take public comment from those currently signed up at the kiock station comments are not to be played it's not to exceed three minutes per person this new format does not weigh the request that when you address the board comments are not redirected personally against a commissioner or a team member but rather directly to the issues this provides natural respect between the board members and the public for webex and kiock's participants after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer will be activated and will start a countdown after two minutes one beep will sound and letting you know that you have one minute remaining after the timer is is up two two beeps will sound indicating three minutes are up and you should close your comments webex participants will be disconnected when their time is up and kiock's participant will be asked to leave the kiock station madam clerk do we have anyone pre-registered pre-register speak on webex yes chair we have one person pre-registered and another person is on webex that did not pre-register mr chairman my understanding that commissioner mariano's office contacted the administrator's office to have this person who filed late at 10 by webex today because of the item he's bringing up in old business if the board wishes to hear from that uh constituent i would recommend that you suspend the rules 20 resolution 20 182 the section on on notice our

pre-registration for that individual to speak to you today okay okay what's the pleasure of the board let me just did it come in did it come to me before noon time on monday or to come after that what i saw from the administrator's office this morning was it came in at 8 55 last night um i mean i'm not looking to change the rules if it didn't get in it didn't get in okay yeah thank you i agree because then we're don't have any rules because i did have a few that got in you could before noon on monday i told me that before i don't i don't know the specifics of this so i just saw the email this morning and i hadn't was trying to no i don't change the rules all right all right so we do have one person who pre-registered uh miss kristen tully mr leaf you can state your name and address for the record please uh my name is kristen thule my address is 17708 wendy sue avenue and that's in hudson 34667 you may proceed thank you we're joining here jack mariano mr mariano is going to be bringing up something that's very important to our neighborhood we've been having some really serious issues involving trespassers which has caused property damage um to my property as well as it has caused injury to myself and my animals and just the amount of traffic that goes through is really disrupting to this neighborhood we he will be presenting several things that have uh pictures videos things like that that i've brought up of just how just how bad this problem really is just this past weekend there was actually one of the police cars that was hit from an atv that they were trying to kick out of the posted no trespassing area there's also was an atv accident two weeks ago i had a group out right at my fence line that almost flipped an atv into my fence uh almost watched somebody die because they were crowd surf they were surfing in the back of the truck and the truck spun and almost ran them over it's all day all night on the weekends we get no sleep there's you'll be hearing a letter from a rebecca pritchard who lives over on coyote as well as a couple other residents over there where she has a total of six houses passed her on a dead-end road coyote road and the amount of traffic that goes down that road between atvs and trucks that atvs aren't even supposed to be on the roads but they'll be 20 30 40 50 vehicles an hour or more

on a dead-end dirt road with six houses down there the music is so they play their music so loud they're a distance away from me but it sounds like you live in a nightclub between the atv engines and and the music i mean we live in an atv park slash nightclub you get no peace and quiet what's it whatsoever and it's 24 7. they're they're always running around out there i mean it's it's really a nightmare so i was hoping maybe to get something something on the books maybe some ordinances changed or added that may be able to help deal with this with getting the property secured we do have the full backing of the pasco sheriff's office i have an email from that where they're backing the proposed changes that we're we're suggesting on to get these property owners to actually secure and maintain their properties to try to put a stop to this because i know that our neighborhood's not the only one that's having the issue as well this issue is a county-wide issue i'm just lucky enough to have got been able to get something before you and actually get get some attention and somebody listening to it to maybe get us some help okay thank you thank you anyone else signed up for uh no one is on webex um but i do have some emails uh requested to be read into the right start emails at this time um mr chairman i i would suggest that you take public comment at the kiosk in case somebody has shown up okay and wants to live to live do live testimony when they send an email in just thank you just so that we don't have to tell somebody who's live no you've already had your three minutes by email make sense thank you okay all right is there anyone at the kiocks there were people at the kiosk when i walked by please state your name and address for the clerk i'm sorry we had some technical difficulties a technical difficult thing we can hear you now but if you could if you could please restate your name and address for the record and then you may begin thank you okay thank you my name is alexandra pappas gould 3948 silhouette lane holiday florida 34691 thank you you may proceed hi my name is alexandra good morning i live off of buena vista uh back on lake connolly had the property for 87 years my family and uh the road going uh it's an eighth of a mile the road of buena vista and it has 20 i just counted the bottles 2 500 potholes y'all um i can't hear y'all have um filled the potholes for 25 years

that i've been living out there my whole family lived out there at one time uh it's um it's the hood it's uh got drug dealers it's got uh condemned trailers on that street uh one of this that was just paved last week it's beautiful it's a 500 feet from us uh the machinery's still there i've been asking to have my road paid for a whole year now and commissioner starkey i've been talking with her she drove that road she told me she did i don't know if she did but how bad it is um again we have uh the homeless three years ago i was armed robbed in my house at gunpoint and um taped up and robbed my husband my son and i and again um it's really bad i'm sure the sheriff's office have told you what's going on there it seems to be that street um it's out of hand i need help i need to be paved and cleaned up there's a burnt trailer there's condemned trailers there's drug dealings going on you just need to come down there and see what's going on it's really bad because that used to be a very nice place it's where the shuffleball court is and it was usually people from up north that had their little summer winter homes here and it was really nice back in the day but it's gone to trash and i have to go through it every day and i was told that that i don't live on that street but i do live on that street because that's how i get to my house and the two homes back where i live on lake conley just sold one for one million one for a half a million so they're paying big taxes back there too the potholes that have been um taking care of for the last 25 years that i've been here the money that has been spent at least two to three times a month the potholes are filled now the danger is when you come off at 19 to get onto buena vista if it has rain there's two feet of water so the people slow down to cross over 19. there's been many of accidents there uh that's how bad because there's a big dip with the big potholes i've lost four tires in one year my husband with his diesel truck too might drive a truck my daughter had to get rid of her car because she couldn't make it down the street because it was tearing it up um i'm just asking for something to be done um i like that bonita yes commissioner starkey at the board meeting at our last board meeting we started the process for a board she can't hear me hello you can't talk to her i can't hear her wait a minute something's wrong when starkey was talking we couldn't

hear that they muted uh yes sir name and address for the clerk william burchard retired scientist living in newport richie florida three four five two olympia street dear alfred okay start your comments you can go ahead and have your comment now okay my comment um that's it oh my papers i printed a lot of stuff that uh is what i'm gonna ask about that i wanted to give to you can somebody take these into you because it would help so you can read along can i submit these uh papers there's just uh one two three four five five papers [Music] district 2 commissioner moore district 3 commissioner starkey aye district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick aye district 5 commissioner mariano district 1 chairman oakley aye motion pass we receive the items you have someone who'll pick it up yeah let's see that's right okay great okay let me go uh the concern is i'm trying to read it uh will any illegal people coming across the border basically with other diseases and things like that are they going to be picked we have a lot of older people here in pasco county to condense the items one through six uh i have a sister here's katy now she's worried about people coming in will any of those people be in pasco county are put in pasco county or be busted in pasco county so uh the question is is the commission of this do you have any answers about this and do you understand me and as you read through i'll just go to number seven uh my sister's 80 plus angry frustrated won't go out of her house we have a lot of older people in pasco county uh what are they gonna do when people come in with diseases and things we don't know how to handle uh will there be people from the border are they being vetted before they come here uh that they shouldn't have any comment on that or what do you think you could do about that or what could you guys do they won't answer no we can't talk to you sir you have to give us your comments we're listening to your comments okay okay so the next thing is uh uh will the police stop the blm and uh antifa from burning our city down uh we have the question about that uh what are we going to do about these people that come in will the police protect us uh we need

we feel as a group and group in our area that we need more police we have a better police support and then we also have economic questions about government spending so much money that our society here in pasco county will taken care of like the lady said about rules or anything else or human health um and are you concerned about hr1 because of its past we won't have a vote we will not have a vote in 20. okay i have some more down there but that's the bulk of it and people are getting very upset i'm not saying they're going to go to war for civil action uh i do not propose that at all but i do say that people need to know what's going on and you guys are the commissioners we hope so and you're doing a good job nice to see you again all right thank you for your comments yes sir thank you thank you name and address hey guys yep brian paris 7401 allison street poor richie florida three four six six eight i just wanted to continue to say thanks for staying strong on the mask mandate healthy people should not be forced to wear masks this is to address the people that keep saying we should wear a mask no we should not healthy people should never wear a mask also you guys are still hiding behind this guy dan biles and behind hiding behind these doors public should be allowed to come in and address you guys without having to go through i agree with that and uh uh also i wanted to thank the pasco county sheriffs i've been noticing you guys all around the city just tired worn down we just want to let you guys be the people of the republic we love you guys we thank you for your service we thank you for what you do for us we know there's going to come a time when you have to pick the oath over a job we we pray you pick the oath we pray you never come for our guns because the second amendment isn't part of the constitution of the united states of america some people look like they're sleeping up there on the board but it's okay over here to this guy over here on the right whatever he's doing but anyway i just want to say thank you guys have a blessed day god bless america and keep stay strong for us stay strong for it thanks for your comments hi my name is kathy julian i live at 102 32 worthy laneway newport richie florida and um i would like to say thank you even though you guys to my knowledge never voted on the mask mandate thank you for ending it i'm standing behind your administrator um

and the other thing is aid of emergency i'm not sure why we're under a state of emergency typically those are from when we're having a hurricane through or something i don't ever have past 14 months um i know it's used for money and um but i don't know why we're keeping it in force for that the other thing i'd like to say is you know it was announced in the newspaper last week that these meetings were going to be open to the public that we could come into the meetings and apparently that newspaper report was incorrect so i wonder where they got that information but anyway you guys don't seem too interested in what i have to say so i'll say goodbye bye all right thank you for your comments next individual good morning guys my name is james hoteling i'm at one two nine two four kellywood circle in uh hudson and uh i had some things i wanted to say but i mean everything that's that that's needed to have been said has already been said by other parents in other counties and other states and in fact in other countries you know we're as americans we're not the only ones that are dealing with uh tyrannical acts from from their government the the governments of the world are all doing this one thing i did want to ask you guys if you are aware that just a couple counties away there's a there's a shared by the name of billy woods and he's actually sent out a memo i'll read i'll read the memo of verbatim since i got collected this is no longer a debate he said nor is it up for discussion so as for us my order will stand as is when you're on duty working as as my employee and representing my office masks will not be worn he wrote an amendment he also ordered that any person who walks in the main and district offices while wearing a mask will be asked to take it off so i'm wondering what he know that you guys don't know because we can't even go into the facility meanwhile he doesn't even let people into the facility that are wearing a mask because it is actually against the law the law is six one two you're not even supposed to have meetings wearing a masks and you guys were all doing that um but anyway i'll leave you with this the reason why billy woods made that uh decision because he makes this statement we can debate all day as to why and why not people should be wearing masks and why they shouldn't the fact is the amount of professionals that get that give us the reasonings for why we should be wearing masks and why

we should be social distancing and why we should be having lockdowns we can find the same amount of professionals that that say the exact opposite of that so as our as our elected officials as public servants we want you guys to do what is best for us not in that's what what not but not what is the best interest of uh corporations corporate interests pharmaceutical uh companies and whatnot we we elected you guys do what's right by us that's that's all i have to say thank you for your time thank you next individual hi my name is janine dombrowski i live at 2926 wainwright court in portuguese 34655 i'm here again today not to thank you for removing the mass mandate but to point out how quickly businesses remove their signs and all their door nazis the pasco residents and businesses i am sure thank you however we need to discuss what will be done about the mass glitter everywhere in our county now this needs to be made a priority next step is to address the so-called state of emergency that we seem to be under pasco residents would like a detailed explanation as to why we are under a state of emergency we want to know the laws pertaining to a state of emergency as well as the reason for and the scale used we would like to have this made public last but not least this needs to be the last time we speak to you through a monitor at both county locations and evening public comment must return to either one we expect rapid changes and attention to these details and i will see you again soon have a great day thank you next individual hello um hi my name is lisa decare i live at 2245 balsam court land of lakes florida 34639 i i'm very nervous so um i hope i get this right because this is so important to me i my family moved into the very first house in lakes neighborhood on state road 54 atlanta lakes 32 years ago the last time i saw a cougar a florida cougar or a um a bobcat until last summer when one came through my backyard another bobcat because of the over development and the all of the building that's going on here i'm very concerned about what we're going to leave from the next generation my daughter is a second generation floridian and i i this is my first time ever coming out and and doing any of this i just am very concerned about the traffic i'm concerned about we don't even have enough like teachers in the school systems as it is and then we're we're allowing all these builders to

come in and build all these fancy houses who who's affording these we're not paying the teachers enough to come in and be able to work and i just don't know where we're going to come up with all these schools we're literally on top of each other and i just i worry about the reason that i know that we moved here because we didn't want to be in all brody hillsborough county concrete jungle we liked the coolness factor of the trees i just want that to be what we're still about 32 years from today and i think it's really important that we preserve our animals and our nature because it takes so long for it to be there and concrete just doesn't get torn up it's there forever and that makes me sad one more minute oh my goodness well um sorry i'm like i said i am very nervous there's some developments that are being proposed like off of aaron cut off to make this downtown connerton and it would be tearing up so much of our natural habitat i just worry about what we are going to leave to our children and how are we going to get around town i mean already as it is i live two miles from my grocery store and it takes me maybe 10 minutes to get there that seems silly to me where where are these people coming from when there isn't the businesses here to support it we're only supporting big corporations and not the small business owner that seems wrong to me i want us to be a cool county and i i don't i don't know what else to say but you'll be hearing from me again because just i will okay have a lovely day thank you is nobody left here for the key app all right thank you we have uh emails to be read in uh yes mr chair um 11 emails were submitted and all requested to be read okay none of them have spoken none of them have spoken okay thank you okay the first email is from joe marina at 13738 michelle avenue hudson florida three four six six seven in his request he asked for an email chain to be read into the record so i'll start with this first email commissioners we are writing to express our concern over the recent updates regarding the enforcement of boat lift covers ordinance without providing the opportunity for paso county residents to voice their concerns at a public comment hearing when we purchased our aluminum frame boat lift cover and had it professionally installed the contractor explained that the cover did not violate any ordinances since it is not a permanent structure

hurricane rated and is removable they also explained that the language was drafted presented to and was slated to be approved by the paso county commissioners to formally allow the covers our cover was a significant investment and a great improvement to our home we have noticed that many hudson beach residents have invested in improving their properties by installing aluminum frame boat lifts covers as well as renovating homes replacing docks painting and or cleaning up yards which is a great thing to see our neighborhood has been neglected for years and i strongly feel that banning the sleek aluminum frame boat lift covers is a step in the wrong direction for our area we need an incentive we need to incentivize people to move to the hudson beach area which will foster the improvement of our community and increase property values we are concerned that the investment many hudson beach residents made would be a waste if the covers were banned the professionally installed aluminum frame boat lift covers do not pose a safety threat or block views please take our concerns into consideration and approve the room and approve the removal professionally installed hurricane rated aluminum boat lift covers in the hudson beach area thank you joe and sandy marina an email from commissioner starkey i believe your contractor was warned not to install any he was aware we had this ordinance in the works please take a look at google earth front pasco all the way along the coast and you'll see very very few coastal communities allow them mr marina's response catherine thank you for your response we are unaware of what the county told our contractor only what was relayed to us by our contractor which is explained below we strongly believe that allowing the covers in hudson beach would be a great benefit even if the covers were not allowed anywhere else in the state the aluminum frame covers do not block views or cause any safety concerns they are very well built look presentable and protect expensive boats from the elements much better than a standard boat cover we agree that the permanent wood roof structures scattered throughout hudson are bulky and may pose a concern if they are not constructed to endure hurricane force winds however the aluminum frame covers are engineered to withstand hurricane force winds and are very sleek and look great again thank you for your response since a public hearing has not been offered as an option we are voicing our concerns to the commissioners via email thank you for all your time and for taking our opinion into consideration

okay so next email is from larry hamilton address is 13934 ethel avenue hudson florida three four six six seven please reconsider your decision on boat covers i'm a 77 year old 100 percent disabled veteran i'm unable to put a boat cover on and off due to my disability we had our boat lift covered when the lift was first installed prior to 2000 at that time we checked with the county building department and then we were told they didn't have any authority as to as it was over the water that if it were over the land we would need a permit but since it was over the water we didn't need one we are at the end of the canal and blocking no one's view we are not miami or palm beach why was this put up for why was this not put up for public discussion thank you for your consideration larry hamilton the next email is from jean where address 21207 cali rose drive lando lakes florida 34637 okay at the february 9th 2021 bcc meeting the board voted four to one to remove canopies from boatlifts i feel this was a poor decision on their part three commissioners oakley fitzpatrick and moore didn't even have a dog in this fight this silly law doesn't even affect their districts mr mariano's district number five runs almost the entire coast of pasco county it stops at the very bottom of the coast where mrs starkey's property is located this is a very small piece of the overall coast what you have done is let a small section of the coast impose ms starkey's wishes to remove canopies upon the entire coast the starkey's neighborhood already has deed restrictions pertaining to roofs and docks she should get her own hoa to enforce their restrictions is she using the powers of the office and the hammer of the county to do this instead this is just wrong i feel three commissioners voted along with her because it was the easiest thing to do now she owes them a vote later down the road i would like the commissioners to readdress ordinance 1001.4 and put in language allowing canopies on boat lifts in pasco county this would not override areas where deed restrictions may already have allowed them i feel we should have the ability to protect our property this request is not unreasonable and would like the county commissioners to reconsider this option in closing i would like to remind the commissioners that i sent them an email earlier this year in that email i told you that i had called central permitting office after canopy company called me and said that

they could not get a permit in pasco and therefore would not do therefore would not do the job they did not want to risk losing their license i had seen canopies in the nearby canals so i thought it was odd that they couldn't get a permit i called the permitting office and they told me i was allowed to put the canopy on my boat lift and did not need a permit i called the canopy company back and told them to verify next day canopy company called me and said no problem and we now have two beautiful canopies at our place in hudson this occurred in november 2018. if you order me to remove them you're going to send me back you send me a check for eight thousand dollars maybe a judge would have to decide that the next email is from john and bev baird address is 13521 garris drive hudson florida three four six six seven my wife beverly and i lived in hudson for 22 years in september 20 in september 20 years at 13521 garris drive in sea ranch but always on the water i do not have a cover on my boat lift but i wish i did as it would be nice to protect the 40 000 i have invested in my boat these lifts are that are removable canvases are not the eyesore like you think in fact we hardly notice them other than it looks like a great way to protect your investment i have heard that many i've heard they may be a hindrance to navigation this is this i would doubt as we don't use sextant to cruise canals or golf please take it from a 22 year resident couple they are not a problem with me or anyone who lives out here i doubt that we have a county commissioners living in sea ranch to complain if so close your eyes please allow us your freedoms our freedoms to i'm sorry please allow us our freedoms as most active political figures are trying to control us or restrict us we are people not steve sheeple okay we are people not sheeple let us live and enjoy the time we have on this earth thanks john and beverly baird next email is from robert watson address one five six two seven almond drive hudson florida three four six six seven dear pastor county commissioners my name is robert watson i'm a property owner and resident at the waterfront section of the sea pines community in pasco county i'm in favor of allowing the boatlift covers and have been a point that has been a point of discussion in recent commission meetings i have owned my property in c pines for over 10 years

and know personally that the boatlift covers of all types have been in existence there since prior to my purchase in 2011 as many added sin and many added since then i've yet to meet anyone in our neighborhood that objects to the boat lift covers these canals waterfront communities in paso county attract boat owners as the primary residents boats are part of the coastal way of life and are assets that need to be protected from the elements i also become aware i've also become aware that many of the same type covers exist in the freshwater lakes of paso county and are not being a targeted not being a targeted as point of discussion for removal i would ask the question why my business travels take me to the southwest florida areas of lee and charlotte counties and i've noticed these same boat lift covers are extremely popular to their upscale waterfront communities and literally thousands of them exist these engineered and prefabricated style boat lift covers are well constructed and are typically color coordinated with the home on the other hand i've seen boats in waterfront communities covered with blue tarps for protection which is surely an eyesore i would like to ask the capacitor county commission and staff to review these counties ordinance regarding these boatlift covers before rushing to judgment for removal respectfully submitted the next email is from julia julian roger sanders at 3618 stacey drive hudson florida three four six six seven boat lift covers should be on separate ordinance than the dock because boat lift covers do not block view if it did you would need to be 10 feet tall this is a boat community and we have worked very hard to have what we have and we want to protect our boats as you do your car next email is from bonnie kirkness at 3618 stacey drive hudson florida three four six six seven boat lift covers should be on a separate ordinance hold on the same thing two different people same thing okay boat lift covers should be on a separate ordinance then the dock because boat lift covers do not block view if it did you would need to be 10 feet tall this is a boat community and we have worked very hard to have what we have and we want to protect our boats as you do your car next email is from jeff brown at 6426 beach boulevard hudson florida three four six six seven i would just like to express my concern over the rumblings i have been hearing concerning boat covers in pasco county i am in support of the vinyl temporary covers and do not feel that the statements made

in the media by commissioners are a truth representation of the population of pasco county trying to restrict the use of a quality vinyl cover is just like saying i can't place a vinyl cover over my parked car in my driveway i urge you to please stop wasting our tax dollars on a restriction that none of us want to see come to fruition thank you for your time and consideration next email is from bruce marquis address 6824 puffin lane hudson florida three four six six seven i'm writing this email to support my oh i'm sorry i'm writing this email in support of my fellow citizens being allowed to have a boat lift cover if they want one i feel that the waterfront citizen should be able to vote on this matter it's too easy for the folks to make a blanket statement such as the vast majority don't want them or all my neighbors don't want them with no evidence if it voted down by the waterfront citizens then that's how the majority voted or if an hoard restricted community wants to vote for no covers then let them have it their way in their community but i don't believe it's the county's place to put this restriction on some of its citizens they pay taxes just like everybody else they should be able to enjoy their property as they see fit if residents have control over one third of the canal enough to install a lift and store or boat there then they should be also be able to install cover on their lift just as well as anyone would construct a gazebo or tiki bar 10 feet away on land especially since boat lift covers are much higher and out of line of sight as compared to gazebos since the commissioners told us to look at the rest of the state for evidence i did and found that most places around the state have covers on the issue of storm safety please look at the links from mexico beach florida where hurricane michael devastated everything around the boat dock the boat dock covers yet the covers survived and then there's a link um street view of the same devastation another link thank you ps here is a list of links showing boat lift covers in the vast majority of the state note i've only indicated a link here and there there are typically tons of covers near each link hillsborough county he placed a link tampa bay a link town of country a link olsmar there's a link safety harbor another link saint pete beach pass a grill a link st pete pete florida more links pasadena link bay pines link madura beach this is a for rent covered

slip business where folks are allowed to work on their bones boats provided a link seminole florida provided two links google street view of same roof as you see it see that it is indeed a roof and provided two links google street view of same roof as you can see that it is indeed a roof provided a link indian rocks beach florida provided two links largo beach florida one two three four four links brevard county two links tons and tons of them on canals cocoa beach provided a link new smyrna beach provided another link florida city florida provided a link ormond beach florida provided a link flagler beach dot cover tight canal provided a link flagler beach boat lift cover provided a link boyington beach florida provided a link hobo sound florida provided a link stewart florida provided two links roseland florida provided a link my three minutes there's more links okay no i've got two more two more um i have an email from john and joanne rux no address provided as homeowners in the sea ranch section of pasco county since 2011 we would like to express our opinion on the boat lift covers we do not feel the covers blocked any view past the cover most of you pass the cover if blocked is from the boats on the lips from which the county charged extensive permit fees which we feel is the whole reason behind the denial of the covers you are looking for another about another 164 permit allowing the covers there are many other blockages along the canals many that were erected after paying for a permit to the county then boatlift covers interfering with any view all right last email is from larry hamilton address is one one three nine one seven summers avenue hudson should you already do literally i think you already did larry hamilton yeah okay there was there was a larry hamilton early in the the cube there was a jamie and number two number two i thought was william burchard what was that that's what it was written i have number two larry hamilton after joe marina oh i'm sorry i thought you meant at the kiosk no no you already what i'm saying is i see what you should say you've already read an email from larry thank you it's on there twice all right so that's all this one let me look so nancy hamilton on the second one forwarded an email from larry hamilton and the email that is the last one is from larry hamilton but um nancy hamilton forwarded it from larry hamilton asking for it to be read at larry hamilton or the one that's identified as number

two no larry hamilton's email on the second one is different than the larry hamilton's email on the last one remember from the wife once again there's no address well there isn't hold on let me just check to see if the addresses are the same no their addresses are different okay let's go ahead and read that last one and we'll be done with them okay and that we will not make a mistake by not allowing someone's word being read publicly okay okay so this is larry hamilton at 13910 summers avenue in hudson to give you the benefit of the doubt i'm going to say what's the problem for years of lack of funding and support for your growing water infrastructure deterioration florida prides itself on tourism and attracting families to relocate based on a unique waterfront opportunity and lifestyle why it is why it is local state federal responsibilities to maintain this infrastructure has failed tens of thousands or more homeowners or tourists to maintain a reasonable waterway there is also a widespread lackluster of interest support or commitment to sincere and sincerely engaged in the pub to sincerely engage the public in these coastal areas statewide you have collections of resid of resident citizens that rely on not really implement improvements but rather restoration of long-term deterioration of the waterway infrastructure these interested citizens have a large capital investment in the community waterways and annually support funding directly to waterway use please address these concerns among yourself in partnership with state and federal officials to become a shining standard for funding and a timely action to support all floridians instead of continuing investing all monies in non-waterway ideals that is it for the emails okay thank you all right thank you okay so so that uh now concludes public comment portion of the meeting we're now going to resolution rs1 or yes sir okay so we are in resolution one um recognizing community development department and receiving the audrey nelson community development achievement award with those involved please step forward wonderful here we go resolution number 21-149 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida recognizing the community development department for receiving the 2021 audrey nelson community development

achievement award whereas in january 2021 the national community development association awarded the pasco county community development department with the 2021 audrey nelson community development achievement award for their collaboration on the vincent house project and vincent house identified and was funded to address and was founded to address the need for increased mental health services in pasco county and rise the board of county commissioners in support of increased mental health services for the citizens of pasco county donated 10 acres of land in hudson florida to vincent house and whereas a grant of over one million dollars utilizing community development block grant funding was used to construct a 10 000 square foot facility for the first international clubhouse model program in florida and res vincent house's facility and programs exhibit innovation sustainability and collaboration for the residents of pasco county experiencing serious and persistent mental illness and raz the board of county commissioners recognize the contribution and partnership of the with ficucci river electric corporate cooperation cooperative sorry with luchi river electric cooperative in the implementation of this award-winning community project to benefit low and moderate income persons living with serious and persistent mental illness to regain the skills needed to become productive members of our community and whereas paso county community development department has demonstrated a commitment to improve the lives of pasco's low and moderate income persons through community partnerships to fulfill its mission now therefore be resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida that that the board hereby recognizes the community development department for receiving the 2021 audrey nelson community development achievement award done and resolved with the quorum president and voting this 20th day of april 2021. no approval exactly got a motion and a second all those in favor by roll call vote ii commissioner moore aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano hi district 1 chairman oakley all right motion passed anonymously thank you job well done so um yeah come and speak tell us what this is what this award is if i could um march before you go i'd like to thank you marcie for in your great team uh with lecouche dave lambert and company uh what a phenomenal job people

from the vinson house the outstanding work you've done in the past and what you're gonna do here in this facility is gonna be amazing um davis it was about three years ago we sat down in the ui in amber over in uh engle park looking at that piece of land saying this could work yes sir um and it's uh so so impressive so happy that uh you guys were able to bring this to fruition i do want to let you know too there's a development coming across the street that they're going to reserve some commercial stuff and i says i want you to get in touch with the vince house people find out what type of commercial might work there to help those people get employed where they can just walk right across the street so we're going to continue to partner with you work with you and just thank you all for the great work you've done to bring this forward thank you so much commissioner and thank you all for this recognition we have an opportunity to celebrate some of the good work that is done in our community through the national community development association so this is a national award and we did assist with community development block ground funds to build the building and you all donated the land and so it was a great public private partnership with with coochie uh electric electric cooperative say we're both doing the same thing so um what i do want to take a moment to recognize is the staff from community development that were front lines and making sure that the building went vertical that all the gopher tortoises were safely removed all the all those things that happen uh behind the scenes so that is uh denise lindsay our community development specialist and michael ball our housing rehab specialist and they were really on the front lines to assist and i'm just very grateful for the work that they do we had an opportunity last week david and i to do a presentation a webex and talked about the project during community development week and i think what was most exciting was that there were residents not residents but um guests members let me get the word right members of vinson house that were on it and i'll tell you that it is just an honor honor and a privilege to be a part of their journey of healing and restoration in the community and that's what this is all about and we all get to share in that so thank you thank you david's got to speak

commissioners thank you so much and you know marcy talked about the people with the community development i just want to say on behalf of with boccuccio electric you know we've had a great partnership of working with you all every step of the way from administrator assistant county administrator community development and we've got a lot more projects that we're looking to work on and licoocci has been one of them and we're still marching through that after nine years of still being involved and moving forward i think a great transition has come but what you've done with vincent house is going to change the lives of thousands of people in pasco county for years and years to come so we're very grateful for that and you know i know a couple of y'all came and talked about veterans advocacy and homelessness we are fixing to embark on a new 77-unit veterans family housing complex right off of massachusetts avenue with the pasco county housing authority which will be great for this area too and you know it's just a collaborative partnership of all of us working together and i just want to say community development by hands down has been such a phenomenal partner for us it has been and and working to achieve things together in our community and people there so thank you for everything you do we greatly we really do appreciate it thank you thank you thank you look at these resolutions mike moore's commission more silver to sign himself okay thank you okay with that we'll move on to [Music] the consent agenda i have a pull sheet it has on it uh c8 to withdraw c13 to withdraw from consent but actually being put on public hearing this afternoon at 1 30. and then we have c-15 withdrawal and c36 withdrawal okay anything else move approval remain at the consent agenda i got a motion motion a second to accept the consent agenda all those in favor say hi vote district 2 commissioner moore district 3 commissioner starkey aye district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district one chairman oakley aye motion passed unanimously and the items i called out earlier were these um we don't call for a vote because they're all withdrawn right okay except for item c13 which would be placed on public hearing this afternoon at 1 30. okay we will go to our items should we go to r39 r39 it's a regular agenda item 39. economic development yes yes sir morning mr chair members of the board my name is

mike bishop i'm the director of stakeholder engagement for passing vdc i'm here to give the pasco edc quarter two update so um just to give a little start off to it quarter two did start to become a little more normal for us and you'll see as we go through the presentation a little uptick in some of the normal services we're used to so that's all very encouraging and i'll kind of go into some more detail here so i'll start off with our overview of our business recruitment pipeline you'll see we have 42 active projects being worked on predominantly in the advanced manufacturing industry one of our target industries and that continues to be a good source of leads for us we did add a new win in life sciences sector as you all know with the moffitt announcement so that is our third success there on the list and we're hopeful to see a little more um a little more leads come in on life sciences because of that so can you hang on one second yeah is there some reason i mean i can't read that really i'd like to see the numbers and um we can't our screens are blank we don't have a handout or presentation no problem i'll give her that what's happening near your desk sir there it is oh there it went yeah you probably want to see numbers when i'm going through it they should restart this it was there for a second thank you okay we're good good to go all right um did you want to go over that one again heard manufacturing foreign i wanted to see of course um so as i mentioned the start business recruitment pipeline so you'll see a breakdown on our leads and active projects so 42 active projects right now advanced manufacturing been being the lead source in active projects being worked so very encouraging on that part so diving into a little bit more on the current winds next slide all right oh wait i'm sorry can you go back yes just trying to distinguish between the gray and the orange so 18 lead is that that's a lead that is lead yes so is that separate than the 20 active so you have 20 active plus the 18 leads that's correct okay okay wonderful thank you okay so on the next slide these are three current project wins right now in a breakdown so um we have three other 13 there you'll see on capital investment and new jobs we're we're really hitting the mark on that um thanks mostly to the moffat announcement so continue to move on that part

on the next slide you'll see some of the um what i was hinting at on getting back to normal so we have a good uptick in company visits as um you know starting to subside and we're able to get more into businesses and offer the services we're used to so we um hope to continue to see that trend as things get a little bit better next slide is some of our events so this is also on the uptick we have plenty of events coming down the pike as well so these are attended conferences events you'll notice on there that list also includes our economic forecast luncheon which we held back in february and um had a great presentation from nicholas lacey who's the chief portfolio strategist at raymond james and that's on our youtube as well so if you missed out you know feel free to check it out it was a great presentation little highlights on our social media we'll earn media rather on the first one so you'll see that we had over 800 000 in earned media and this was mostly driven by project announcements and press releases put out on the next slide is website analytics so that's very encouraging we see that 76 of the visitors on the website are new so these could be new projects new site selectors always very very encouraging to have a high percentage of new visitors a quick touch on social media a little uptick on fans total posts and videos there um not as usual but uh we've been busy nevertheless and um a little overview on the uh investorship so um we're on the right mark for private cap private uh investment uh raised we have 83 total investors excuse me 34 of which are board policy council members and we had two new investors over the past quarter uh stearns weaver miller weissler al hadef and bridge commercial real estate group so going a little bit into the leadership update so i had mentioned the the economic forecast luncheon that's really our first major event that we put on a hybrid basis we also have a major event coming up our team up which is very exciting this is our joint event with florida sports coast that's going to be held at advent health center ice on may 6. in conjunction with that event i do also want to mention that we were working on a joint video for um to release at the event but also to be used for business recruitment and for florida sports coast to use for promoting a good live work play environment so a great collaboration video that we're working on there and um also just hinting on the legislative

update working through those pieces but these are some of our upcoming events and you'll see we have plenty coming down the pike um really capped off with that team-up event that's going to be the real real big one there are may so as always any questions on that call my boss i mean so i'm sure he's watching all right any seriously though any questions on that piece before i move on to the penny presentation okay so our opinion for pasco just want to highlight a couple of the key pieces here so on the rating sites we have our seventh site evaluated and that's complete international program the global competitiveness committee is working on the may 27th event the tampa bay regional trade update saying here today trade tomorrow um i came up with that tagline and um we're also working on new virtual trade missions and starting to get some of those exporting pieces back online enhanced marketing working on that joint video as i mentioned with florida sports coast that's in its first edit right now so really getting excited to see that final come out the event workforce connect so still continuing to work with our employers as workforce has been a challenge and trying to get them to um work on developing how to hire the best employers and getting experience skill skill workforce ceo program the uh the biggest piece there is working on getting the ceo roundtable back up and running so that's coming down later this this fiscal year and then smart start i wanted to hit on that a little bit if you can switch to that next slide so we had the ribbon cutting for our third incubator center at the grove and that was back in february so i put i put a few pictures in there of the space it's a phenomenally new space it's great layout good open seating you'll see there in the bottom left as well as private offices for budding entrepreneurs to start their business so really really exciting stuff there so i'll skim through this piece ready sites i'd already hit on the highlight there's seven active programs now or seven active sites rather in the program a little map of the sites that we see there then going into the individual programs so ray sites program we have the the highlight there is just some of the marketing pieces that have been put together so trying starting to ramp up some of that marketing and i have a borrow percentage there so we're about halfway through our deliverables

on that piece on international program this is starting to come around as i mentioned so we'll see that we're starting to do more assistance as far as export counseling working on those trade missions you can switch to the next one and then the highlight there is actually getting more export counseling to the pasco company so we had a pretty good uptick in that this past quarter and you'll see that we're pretty close to halfway through on those deliverables here the ceo program this is really focused on events so this is coming up very soon you'll see on there that we have the um the we have a may 7th dinner at the hyatt um that's a dinner with a shark in conjunction of our grow pasco event so both of those events are our ceo forum as well as our um our peer networking event and on the workforce connect program you'll see a lot of these deliverables are in progress and we have a program progress report there at about 56 diving a little bit into the smart start piece a lot of these are fueled by um some of the residual of the paso emergency business grant that we did last year that really required participants applicants to participate in some refocus sessions that were put on so we're seeing a lot of good engagement that way so that's what drives a lot of these numbers with workshops and attendees and then our incubator members with the third incubator coming online these numbers are continuing to grow so very positive trend in that in that manner and you'll see the total jobs created is continuing to go up on the co-starters program so um i believe there was one um trainee in that piece and then we also have one co-starters graduate that's um they're being they're going to be graduating another class next week so we'll see those numbers increase and these are some of our our pen partner numbers as far as workshops and individual counseling sessions that are happening and some of those deliverables are continuing to be in process throughout the year microloans we are actively marketing that piece right now that's that's something that we will see ramping up here over the last uh half of the fiscal year and then on the last piece i have all the programs uh bar charts the progress and uh you'll see we're pretty close to about 50 through on deliverables and uh working our way through the rest of the fiscal year so um any questions none of this but i'll ask a question um i have a question on the um the smart

start or the incubator thing in land lakes where where is that it's at the grove in wesley chapel oh that's right i remember talking about that okay did he donate that space um no we're leasing that space and okay and who did the build out for it um i believe mark oversaw that that's a better question for dan the program manager okay um but uh dan was or sorry mark was instrumental in helping the efforts with getting that built out right that looks good and that table looks very cool on there a very cool table yeah i almost had to move it but fortunately someone else showed up yes very much yeah thank you very much have a great question i appreciate it mr chairman i never commented in the presentation but i just wanted to reach out and say thanks i'm sure bill's watching right now so i'm sure uh you know driving down i-75 yesterday watching all the progress on the overpass business park as well as the ramp um you know bill's leadership and then listening to what was conversation with the commission to help push that forward to make that employment center has been phenomenal um and i'd also like to thank him for looking into and making a comment on which i thought was unique on the central paschal employment village uh he had some good input i wanted to stay focused and i'll be looking for his as that project comes forward to what his input is what we could do best out there especially was the school wants to put a vocational school out there so this could be something really good to uh to jump on with so appreciate all your help you guys are doing a phenomenal job yes thank you very much thank you thank you all right thank you okay what time is it it's 11 16. okay now it's time for a time certain which is our 40. who's presenting this oh they're online yes sir this is a presentation from feeding tampa bay their ceo thomas mann okay thomas i think you're online you're good to go yes i think everybody can see me and i do see our presentation up so thank you commissioners for the opportunity to present to you today we wanted to make sure we gave you an update on what we're doing up in pasco county and how food relief uh and the work that we do is impacting the folks that you all are elected to uh serve uh and that we're certainly pleased to be able to serve along with you so i'm not sure who's driving our slides for us today but we certainly appreciate you doing that and we'll run through a little presentation here and if you all have some questions we certainly would be

happy at the opportunity to answer those so next slide please if you all don't know this feeding tampa bay is a part of feeding america which is a national food bank model and this is critical to pasco county because if you don't know there's not enough food in pasco county to feed everyone in pasco county so we bring food resources from outside of the county via the state and nationally and we work along a model that's tried and trued and tested we've been here close to 40 years and food banks in general have been around for over 50 years and so we apply the skills tools resources from that model and and use that locally uh in pasco county uh next slide please just a little bit more about us if you don't know feeding tampa bay is the largest food relief organization in this tent county area you can see the areas we serve i think it's always important for counties to understand that while we look at borders and boundaries in the way in which we govern and serve the reality of the clients that we serve they don't observe borders in the same way so someone in pasco county that lives there could be getting food in hillsborough county or ellis county and so we think it's important that you understand it's an integrated process that we're able to build for you as it notes there we're nourishing right now more than a million folks who are food insecure we support about 450 or 500 agencies and then i think importantly for you all uh because of the pandemic we'll actually provide close to 90 million meals in the course of the this pandemic year and i'll talk a bit more about pasco county in a moment next slide please i think importantly as we look at the impact of the pandemic pre-pandemic we had about one in seven folks were food insecure now it's one in six and if you don't know one in four kids are food insecure in pasco county today and then a statistic which really just amazed us was in our work during the pandemic we found that in doing some surveys some 68 of the folks who were coming to receive food had never been in a food line before and i think all of all of us know someone who's been impacted by food insecurity neighbors friends family members people that were impacted those folks ended up in our in our partner's care as as we went made our way through the pandemic next slide please so we want the commission to know our goal is a hunger-free tampa bay by 2025 and what that means pretty simply is everyone that has want or need of a meal

we're able to provide it or just as importantly we're able to get folks out of a food line by providing resources training partnerships programs that create personal or household stability it's a big and audacious goal but it's been done across other counties and regions in the united states and we've actually spent time studying those to make sure that it's possible in our world there is enough food to feed everyone it's just the ability to gather it and move it as necessary and of course as you all well know that obviously costs money um so um next slide please so as we talk about that we want a hunger free tampa bay by 2025 we really want two outcomes which is health and capability most critically food provides help so whether you're a child trying to learn in school whether you're a senior trying to stay out of a doctor's office and live a good retired life whether you're a family trying to make ends meet we want health to be the outcome the output's food the outcome's health we also want capability just as importantly we're investing money in making sure that we can get people out of a food line we often get asked the question and it's a fair one what are you doing to make sure that over the longer run people have access to greater resources so they don't need a food bank forever we're just as committed to that strategy as any other would be because we want to do the same thing you want which is to make sure that our friends and neighbors can live the lives they want to live you'll see four different strategies down there i won't go into those but we have a strategy to fit our objective as an organization next slide please i mentioned health and capability sorry i previewed my slides we can go on to the next one so our key strategies here in pasco county so let's talk a little bit about the county first next slide so when you look at pasco county there are about uh today as you all know there's a little over 550 000 folks who are living in the county recovered at about a 14 footed security level we had about 75 to 80 000 folks who every day were experiencing food insecurity the postcovid level we're at about 18 food insecure and that takes that number up close to 100 000 folks every day in pasco county who are looking for some degree of food relief and or social services further we would tell you that in our look at the way the county is built out it's a higher percentage based on the alice population i'll talk more about that in a moment

but when we do the math on those hundred thousand folks that means there are about 18 million missing meals every year in pasco county so last year we provided about 5.5 million meals this year we're looking to close to double that 9 million meals and by 2025 we'd get to that fully realized number of 18 million i think you all tend to know us mostly through our partners because if you think about the way that which we work is we do some distribution ourselves but a lot of our work is to make sure that our local partners in pasco county have the resources they need so great organizations like volunteer uh way and lester and his folks who have been partnered with for many many years first umc united methodist church of hudson you a lot of the folks that you know we make sure that they have the resources they need let me go on and dive a little deeper into food insecurity in pasco county next slide please when you look at this map which is what we pay attention to it goes on a gradation from left to right or light to dark as to where we have the greatest concentration of folks who are food insecure or within the alice population if you don't know alice stands for asset limited income constrained but employed if you wanted to take a rough number across the whole of pasco county about 42 percent of the residents of pasco county earn enough money uh to be over the uh poverty threshold but not enough money to keep their household stable so going back to that 550 000 folks in the county if you looked at an alice population of some 42 percent you would have close to 230 000 folks who economically are considered unstable and what things like the pandemic do is they really rock the world of folks that were already teetering on the edge economically if you go to the next slide you'll see how we try and concentrate our services across those areas so the red areas are where we are concentrating most of our relief efforts either directly ourselves or with our partners and we do that in a few different ways but we want you all to know that we study population we study population based area of need and try and make sure that we have resources built into those areas as effectively as we can next slide please so how do we do that so one is we have school pantries that are opened that aside from food relief through the agencies we have school pantries that we started building out several years ago that are allowing us to get to families

in a different way one of the things that we know is we have to be present where our community is and so school pantries is where we started but we've even moved into in pinellas county we're working with the bus system we're working with medical offices federal qualified health centers all of those as we start to move into finding ways to put food where our clients are not necessarily where we are but where they are you'll note our healthcare partnership with baycare we're working with two local hospitals as we build out a process by which we can uh identify folks who are presenting with an illness but probably of an underlying cause of food insecurity and then we also during the pandemic built out a meals to go and homebound delivery service because we found that not everybody needed groceries people also needed prepared meals so we went from preparing about 500 meals a day to at our peak preparing 10 000 meals a day we've settled it somewhere between two and five thousand meals prepared every day based on what folks need but this was particularly critical for seniors and other folks who don't always have the ability to manage a bag of groceries next slide please for you all we did develop one of the additional methods that we developed in order to move more food into the communities we launched a mega pantry in june uh last year uh we're grateful for your all support and partnership with that and several of the commissioners have volunteered with us over time thank you for that but we want to be accountable to what was given to us the financial support given to us because it comes directly back to the county in terms of food so we provided a little over 1.25 million meals which affected about 30 000 plus folks in the community we are still providing that mega pantry and will continue to do so and then we also beefed up our drops in different places to make sure as you go back to that map that we're hitting the areas where there were folks in greater concentration to make sure that we could answer the pandemic's call next slide please and then finally as we start to move forward as i mentioned before we're going to continue to build out our partnerships in pasco county traditionally the church network has been a terrific partner to us and will remain so but as i mentioned before people are spending their time in different spots and i i noted this a moment ago but we as i said we launched a unique partnership in pinellas county with the

bus system and we put actually pantries at different bus stations because we knew people were re using public transportation we have a conversations in hillsborough county about using the library system because that's where people go to get internet and we've mentioned a federal qualified health centers and other places where we know that our community is so that we can make sure that food is available to them i want to just skip down to a few of the bottom there the groceries on the go is actually a mobile grocery store that allows us to put a grocery store in a place where there's not one because we find that again access is a challenge and then we're launching in pinellas county in early july the launch of an empowerment center which is a centralized club of service where we bring food in the form of a trinity cafe which is a sit-down meal a pantry where folks can get groceries but we also then reach out to the partners in the community and we build a wraparound services model so that when someone walks in for a meal they walk out with a future they walk out with access to resources capabilities and other things that might not be available to them if it weren't for them coming in for a meal i think as we would share with this uh commission when someone comes in for a meal that's not all they need uh and part of our objectives to make sure that when they come into our care we provide them with resources and partnerships we don't provide everything we're that's not who we are but we do connect folks with other partners mission partners community partners so that they know where to go to get the resources that they need and i'll finish my presentation today uh with letting you all know that we are in the midst of the development of capital campaign here in tampa if we're going to get to a hunger-free tampa bay by 2025 or in your instance a hunger-free pasco county we'll need to change our facility and capabilities we're in rented space that we've long outgrown so at some point we'd like to talk to the commission a bit more about our work on that capital effort and the reason why it matters is the greater our strength is it will translate into more resources directly into pasco county not only meals but program services and other methodologies we can employ to get folks out of a food line so with that i hope i maintained my responsibility for timing and i'll finish my presentation uh mr chairman and again thank the commission for the opportunity to present to you all today yes sir miss thank you you're right on time and uh you've done a great job and i've

actually been out there working on the line at yeah there's the college and i don't know if you're still at that site or if you're over at burke's park in east pascoe we've moved a couple yeah we've moved a couple of times yes yeah so but y'all do very good work and certainly appreciate everything you do in our county so thank you starkey yes and i've had the pleasure of working with them when they did food distributions here on the west side and also i went down to their facility and had a wonderful tour it is it's so impressive what they're doing at um and and their growth has been amazing and i would really encourage the other commissioners to to go down and take that tour um uh they're gonna be moving i don't know when do you're not you're not moving anytime soon are you no we have property identified and we're finalizing that and of course we have to raise the money to build a new facility but uh but thank you commissioner yes yeah so really really uh very cool um program and you know they have companies that come in and work when i was there jabel was uh doing i think two shifts and uh you know something to think about that the county could go down and do a shift maybe one day um but uh certainly uh as they um come come uh you know they're gonna be uh building in pinellas county and then we hope they'll come up here to pasco county and anything we can do to help i've committed to help them here in the county uh just love their mission and and what they do so yeah anyway thank you thank you commissioner for that it was good to see you here i say thank you for your great work i know um especially volunteer way and the other groups that are on there you're doing a great job supplying so appreciate it yes sir thank you very much lester's one of those heroes thank you thank you for all you do for our county so i certainly appreciate it yes sir well we appreciate the time to present to you today and we thank you for your partnership and support and we remain committed to making sure that uh that our community is taken care of we'll hopefully see you all soon yes sir mr morgan you have something to say i see you showing up well i thank you i'll i'll wait till uh mr mance gets off and i was going to make a suggestion yeah go ahead he's he's done go ahead thank you sir uh thank you thank you mr chairman hey i see that the time certain um for the citizens academy but i'm not correct i think you guys are taking a picture with them um let me go ahead and do

r42 that's the last time before you do r41 since you're running ahead a little bit r41 that's what you're looking for i think r42 required presentation well you got to make a selection there's two reappointments in one selection okay yeah so we have to do approval here okay good morning commissioners denise hernandez planning and development r42 is pdd210338 and this is for the reappointment of jamie girardi and peter hansel to planning commission and for the board of county commissioners to select a planning commission member from the applicant list that was um there were 19 applicants um that you know it was it was uh the application was put up for one month and we received 19 applicants very qualified applicants different things that retired fdot civil engineers community association managers retired uh department of justice employee real estate investors real estate appraisers real estate brokers mortgage brokers folks that formerly served on planning and zoning commissions in other states architects folks that served in the public works commission in other states certified there was one certified planner and a few contractors so those just to name a few of the different um backgrounds that you received applications on so um again the recommendation is to reappoint jamie girardi and peter hansell to the planning commission and to appoint a member from uh to fill the vacancy um that was uh left behind by uh commissioner cox who resigned in um february mr moore thank you sir can i uh make promotion uh to nominate um peter hansel back on the planning commission are we um question can we uh can i amend your motion to nominate peter hansel and jamie girardi to the commission wait well i just thought we'd do them separate so sorry well they got them together yeah are you okay with that staff's recommendation okay what was this commission the motion is for jamie girardi and peter hansel to be appointed back on the planning commission but what was miss my motion was peter hansel and there was he just was doing another one oh okay it's just taken both of them the staff recommendations at one time just for time uh and i i like that motion mike commissioner starkey to add uh jamie as well so okay so that's the second well i don't want to step up i think he has to accept friendly it's a friendly amendment she's asking for are you okay with that okay that's okay

boy we i can't really understand what he's saying he said that's fine okay goodbye all right so let's look at you yeah okay so [Music] let's go ahead and take the vote on those two uh we got a motion in a second and i just want to confirm second was by miss uh commissioner mariano yes well it was mine my second amended second okay just making sure we got it down for the record thank you district two commissioner moore aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district one chairman oakley aye motion passed unanimously okay now do we have a list yes you have a list that was attached to your agenda and i can go over the members with you if you'd like i can read them out or i i would make a motion to um accept don anderson's a second okay further discussion yes and we've got some great applicants on there and don enso would be a great one as well but if you look at the way the structure is the way we've changed it from seven every district commissioner having one it's now wide open i don't have anyone from district five and i will tell you seeing melissa horn who's a realtor in the area very active in the area i would love to see her get on i i have no idea where anybody lives that's on there um i don't think we're going by that i have i have no idea where don anderson lives or i only know where peter hansel is because he's a friend of mine but um i think we have a motion and a second on don anderson because i think he brings a really fresh perspective that's needed um to the commission uh i do wonder there's so many great applicants here and people that are wanting to serve is there something else we can do um is there another com commission or counsel or something where we can put some of these talents together that's a really great question because many of them as they filled out their application one of the questions is are you willing to be considered for an ultra alternate committee and most of them said yes so yeah i think we should think about that i think we should in the future we can add people to a list that you know we we always look for people that will be involved so and there's so many talents here that we should um put to good use i think you know when our citizens have uh the ability to have more input in local government it's a good thing so maybe we talk about that

to hit a million in population in the not so far future and that sounds scary as a resident like oh how are we going to manage that but after hearing the developers i feel very confident that pasco county really is the place to live and work congratulations to the citizens academy class of 2021 for more information about citizens academy or to apply visit mypasco.net citizens academy wonderful thank you so we'd like to present certificates of completion to the class following the presentation during the noon break we asked board members join us for a photo opportunity so class when i call your name please come up for your certificate matthew abbott derek berger kathleen fitzsimmons john grace michael hamrock adam james shari mercer joseph micah andre vagosa shannon rains adrian rogers margo scott theresa schlemenov leona schuler deanna richardson thank you leanne williams did i miss anyone what's your name sir oh joe let me get yours so you're playing all right thank you congratulations good job and where are we gonna go outside now for the photo uh when we break for lunch we bring college in about 10 minutes okay i got a lunch meeting so let me tell them i just wanted to say congratulations to our 2021 class we hope you enjoyed the program we were able to graduate of total of 18 participants this time around we look forward to our next cycle which will commence in the fall of 2021 and we invite the board to take a photo with us outside uh during the noon break thank you as soon as we break we'll come right out there okay thank you okay our 43 will be heard after uh public hearing this afternoon that's all for this morning now we go to old business mr moore okay good morning thank you mr chairman um just a few things and i think there might be a couple pictures that uh on april 13th i partnered once again with farm share for a successful food distribution i'm in the wesley chapel area of pasco county uh as you know farm share is a great organization and i really really appreciate them bringing another truck full of fresh food for the community this time we had about 30 volunteers gave out

approximately 16 000 pounds of food in three hours so i do want to go last time i did last year there's a little over about 33 000 pounds of food less than three hours hopefully it's a good sign there's not as many people in need now but obviously there were quite a few people still in need because we did give out sixteen thousand pounds of food so thank you so much to the pro theater um bistro and entertainment for lending letting us use their parking lot for the distribution um and i also want to thank senator fasano he showed up um commissioner patrick who showed up to help out as well as um judge joe justice and again thank you to all the 30 volunteers it was a great day and thank you again farm fair we really really appreciate all you did um second thing i wanted to mention you can throw up the next picture on april 15th i had the honor of presenting mr jolts jackson of lana lakes with the 2020 residential waterwise award for paso county that's partnership with the tampa bay water and extension offices and mr jackson just a kind kind gentleman and his wife as well give me a nice tour of the yard before the presentation it's just full of plants and pollinators and and native plants from here in florida you know conserving water is so important these days especially here in paso county being one of the fastest and other fastest growing counties in the state in the nation so congratulations again mr joe jackson and his adult as well his wife um just again just a great gentleman and he's done so much he worked for hillsborough county and the city of tampa for a number of years he actually um was the planner behind lettuce lake park if you've ever been there and you'll you know how what a great asset that is for me um even though it's an illegal company great asset for the entirety of a region and his last two things um a couple resolutions this morning i want to thank you all for passing the two resolutions that i have the consent agenda this morning uh we recognize the tampa bay buccaneers for winning the super bowl in jokebots i'll be presenting that to them in the very very near future um in a bit and then we also pass the national day of prayer resolution which is may 6 this year um i'll be presenting that um during the national day of play on the east side of the county and if i'm not correct commissioner mariano

i think you're doing that on the west side of the county if i'm not correct sir yes sir thank you all right great thank you um i had one more thing but you know what i'm gonna wait until the next meetings i'd like to be live um and then on the dice when we talk about that so i am done thank you okay thank you mr starkey yeah um i was gonna show the pictures of the road damaged by the storm that i found but i think you're going to bring that up in yours so i will just say um we did find those pictures that we talked about before i do uh i was on a tour on the east side of the county with the county and um with mr carbala and others looking at some of the road conditions of some of our new roads and i came upon this um development i'm not gonna i have no idea who built it um and i'm not going to say where it is but i'm going to say we have houston we have a problem and um is this a photo or a video oh take a look at these townhomes and um as you see there is not one tree is that that one the one little palm tree over there it's concrete no sight no street trees nothing i have some photos too i don't think they made it there it's kind of similar to the video but um we had this problem with at the reserve over suncoa by the suncoast and um was that city project no no no this is in the county uh we were able uh mr biles went in there and i think he um well we now have palm trees in front of those town homes but in talking to brad tippin um this is what our ordinance allows and um our ordinance requires a certain amount of trees per the size of the lot but they're putting them in the little backyards and i guarantee you those trees are going to be cut down and we have nobody who goes out to see if people are keeping the house the trees that are required on their lots to stay so um can you put that just put the video back up even if it's not running or run it again i can't think of any place where i've ever been where they allow this to happen um you know in the just to have no landscaping and no no shrubbery or anything you you could already see cars were parking on on some of the other photos they're parking over these little teeny landscape triangle things they're not going to live so i was really disappointing so i really want us to fix that in our land development code um mr chairman yes sir just couldn't

tag on with you on that yeah because i mean looking at that i saw something like this up in orlando uh when my daughters were up there and they were renting up there and it was like parking was ridiculous yeah uh if you're gonna if you look at the like even the truck that's in there's hangs over the sidewalk we need to make sure we set these things up they have enough parking as well on their own premises as opposed to having to travel down and around et cetera so i think it's something we should take a look at immediately as well yeah you know that some of these uh if they're they're if they're three bedroom they're gonna have three cars four cars and uh all you it's it is not gonna be it's gonna reminds me some of the things i saw in some not nice neighborhoods in philadelphia once a long time ago so that we're allowing this and what is supposed to be a premier county is a real flaw to me in our land development code um so i'm very pleased to say that amp skills closed on the purchase of their 13 000 square foot building and we've been uh we have been visited by congressman bilarakis he he has included us in one of his top 10 um what do you call it earmarks that he's allowed to submit so we're very excited of his support for manufacturing training and whatever else whatever other kind of training will come from that site um yesterday will weatherford was there he was you know speaker when we were able to get this program off the ground and he's going to be helping us as well we're just very excited or what what this means for um the holiday community the county at large and um and really florida you know to to bring back manufacturing i think is so so important um and uh at tampa bay water as commissioner oakley and i both sit on we are in the midst of uh working for a search company to uh help us recruit a new head of tampa bay water and barta we are um we have a very important meeting coming up where we will be i think voting on hopefully a a kind of a modified uh rapid bus program that we think we can get hillsborough on board with it's just been a real challenge for hillsboro to be thinking about the region at large and not just at their own county so um but we we hope that this one will make it through when they when they did the numbers i should send this to you they showed that some something like 70 of the people who are going to use this route are hillsborough county residents so you know that they're not on board was just you know it's frustrating but uh that's my update

for today okay we're standing oh wait i'm sorry i have one more thing very important can you show the pictures of the storm damage so we had a storm come through last week um in gulf harbors and um we thought it was a tornado um and it just came upon us in one of those red lines um but it turned out to be a whole series of microbursts and and i want to share with that's a county truck that diverted from the moonlight cleanup to come pick up this the porch of uh of a house that i'm not sure that was a legal porch um and it that that screen porch happened to have insulation and a roof on it so that was interesting but um we had vinyl fence vinyl fences blown out of the ground pool cages destroyed another pool cage destroyed screen room a full pool gauge torn off a house on um galleon court on my street a roof was damaged we had trees damaged flat roofs bit torn off the back of homes and many sheds were blown off their foundations and tree and a lot more tree and roof damages and the addresses i don't know so we have at least six hou addresses and then many others whose addresses we have not collected yet on my street someone's property blew off from a couple blocks away and landed on the back of that galleon courthouse did a lot of damage it's a no-name storm they cannot the homeowner cannot file for insurance what's really frustrating and this is why we're concerned about the boat covers because no one no one you would not have had time to run out there in the storm and take take your your stuff off that the house that was on my street that was damaged that homeowner has to pay for it themselves that not the house whose porch flew into their porch and roof but the homeowner who was affected and they have a 2500 deductible so they're out 25 hundred dollars plus the repairs and i can tell you that every day there's been a truck on that street helping them they came immediately after the storm i didn't walk back there to see what happened but uh yesterday there were two or three strucks for um two or three big trucks parked there so uh this is the problem when you have debris that's flying you don't have responsibility for the damage if it's your debris so did you you showed them pictures right yeah that was one house there were seven that you wanted to address before i was in four yes please you got one item total or you got more than one item i have multiple items but i would like to

address one item that you want yeah because i i have to go to a meeting and after that then we'll reset yes make it quick as quickly as i can can i have the storm pasco storm damage on the screen please so i know not everyone was here when everything had happened with the storm damage roads and i just wanted to give everyone a brief history over it um in december of 2015 it was a program was set up to identify the initial roads and i wanted to do the presentation first but just we don't have too much time at that time i know commissioner mariano moved to approve 3.5 million dollars from the pbp settlement funds commissioner wells and commissioner moore seconded the motion was to clarify and indicate the bp funds were to front the work and would be repaid um commissioner starkey called on the motion and it was a unanimous vote five to zero this one it's the one with the brief overview from july 28 to 2016 when staff presented it to the this is all board we've received maybe we should revisit this after can we have time to discuss it it was sent to me by dan biles jim yeah mr biles this afternoon well no that's good then we can talk about it more i can present it before we go into the public hearings and have to vote you can oh i see why you want to do it now well you can do it during the public hearing for crane's roost if you wish yeah i mean i don't see any problem in there that is part of the presentation okay thank you it's relevant that's relevant okay so um we'll recess now everybody will go out for pictures now and then recess and be back here at 1 30 for public hearings [Music] you