01.12.2021 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 commission meeting of january 12 2021. i would like to remind everyone to please silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones at this time i would like everyone to rise for the invocation and pledge release 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 one nation under god indivisible with justice foreign madam clerk please call the rules district 2 commissioner moore here district 3 commissioner starkey here district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick here district five commissioner mariano here district one chairman oakley here uh again i welcome everybody back uh after the new year it's been most of you haven't seen since last year so the uh they have a lot going on in this county and with a lot of good things happening for the citizens of this county a lot of projects we have very strong board that willing to tackle these projects and hopefully be the best for all of our citizens in pasco county mr steinsteiner will you please read today's proceeding with bcc be happy to mr chairman uh on march 12 2020 the board of county commissioners declared a local state of emergency after the governor issued executive orders 2051 and 2052 public health emergency and state of emergency related to coven 19 most recently extended by executive order 20 316 on december 29th 2020. the board has chosen to hold the board meeting with a quorum physically present utilizing communications media technology for the public and team member indicating the board's intent to conduct a hybrid virtual meeting has been posted on the board's website on september 25th 2020 the governor issued executive order 20 244 moving the state into phase three of the governor's safe smart step-by-step order which was extended by executive order 22 97 issued on november 24th 2020. large gatherings of over 50 people are still not recommended to congregate in any public space that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing the state surgeon general general's public health advisory is still in place with regard to maintaining social distancing and avoiding gatherings of 10 people or more the public has been afforded to make

public comments either in writing or by use of communication media 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 that you 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 public comment now is the time for public comment citizens were given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during the public comment section the board also takes public comment on items to be placed on future board agendas or other business under their purview due to copa 19 operations in safeguard and to safeguard the well-being and safety of the citizens and staff today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take public comment from those that have pre-registered at the webex link and are currently on queue after we will read into the record public comments documents powerpoints or videos that have been identified and meant by the members of the public to be read out loud played at the meeting and or received and filed finally we will take public comment from the currently signed up at the kiock station comments or not should not exceed three minutes per person this new format does not waive the request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member but after directed the directed at the issues this provides much respect between the board members and the public for webex and kiocs participants after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer will be activated and will start at a countdown after two minutes one beat will sound letting you know that you have one minute to finish your comments after the time of two beats will sound indicating three minutes are up and should close your comments on webex participants will be uh disconnected when their time is up and kiok's participants will be asked to move away from the kiosk madam clerk do we have anyone signed up to speak on webex no one is signed up on webex okay so we go do we have any emails to be read to into

the record and receive and file no emails were submitted okay [Music] and i want to make clarification for the public okay so we're going to have any is anybody in the kiosk or anybody at the kiocks there's no one at the kiosk so we have no one at the kiosk and no one to speak in the public comments section okay we move on to consent items and i have a pull sheet andrew baxter c22 full and revised uh barbara hitzman c30 withdrawal and then i myself um have pulled c1 uh a resolution with john paris who is here today with us so um what's the pleasure board on the other consent items move approval remaining consent agenda second i got a motion in a second all those involved were just just for the clerk's per benefit and that includes the and then the consent addendum as well as emotion yes yes so moved thank you okay all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass okay uh c22 good morning chairman members of the board andrew baxter facilities management director c22 is being modified to change on the change order there is one instance where reference to change order one this should stay change order two with that minor scrivener's error change we recommend approval ufo approvals revised second have a motion second to approve the changes all those in favor say aye aye opposed like sign motion pass all right c30 that's withdrawal excuse me all right c1 um like to recognize john powers i should have talked to you good morning chairman good morning first how many years has it been john well it's been 19 and a half years um been working with the county directly for almost 30 years so it's been uh it's been been a very uh eventful and uh very well very fulfilling uh career and had a lot of good uh had a lot of good opportunities uh through you all and uh we've accomplished a lot and i gotta tell you you guys have a lot of good people on the field and it's been my honor to work with them so great thank you john you know what i want to speak i i'd say johnny been a pleasure to work with um just one of the most knowledgeable people i know in your field if not the most knowledgeable person i know in your field so

you can be truly missed but i have a sneaky suspicion you're still going to be around i've offered my assistance uh there's a lot of going on right so thank you for everything sure mariana john like to say it's been a pleasure to work with you uh your professional is is just outstanding your relationship with your people though i think is just one of your greatest assets too you help cultivate people you help cultivate situations with solutions and ideas every step of the way you've been very innovative and very uh pleasure to work with every every step of the way so wish you all the best oh thank you him straight likewise and i would say the same it's been a pleasure working with you and look forward to your next endeavor yeah thank you john it it has been a pleasure working with you um i've known you for quite a while but you you've got to be one of the most intelligent people in that line of work and i certainly appreciate your knowledge and the knowledge you've been giving me ever since i got on board to uh know more about our solid waste and how it works so um you've done a great job and i know you're going to be around a while longer and and helping us go through the next steps to uh try to improve for the finding the right memory that will lead us forward with solid waste so certainly appreciate all you do for us thanks madam quick would you like to read the resolution yes you ready i am right resolution number 21-066 a resolution by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida commending john power for over 19 years of dedication to pasco county and congratulating him on his retirement whereas john power began his employment with pasco county on august 27 2001 in the role of solid waste manager and served the last seven years of his career as a solid waste director anne raz john power has served pasco county utilities and the public infrastructure branch with the highest levels of integrity and professionalism as the solid waste director and under john powers with leadership this county's solid waste program has become one of the premier solid waste programs in the country receiving the solid waste association of north america's waste to energy excellence award in 2015. sustainable florida's sustainable government best practices award in 2016 and the tampa bay regional planning council's future of the region going green award in 2015 and whereas john power's innovative business-like approach promoted recycling and reduced operational expenditures through the beneficial use of waste to energy ash

and obtained the first ever standing use permit in the united states in 2014 and res under john's direction solid waste department has reused over 5 000 tons of ash in roadway construction and cement and cement manufacture and set the stage for significant future use that will increase the useful life of the county's solid waste assets and whereas john power extensively contributed to the solid waste industry through affiliations with several organizations and associations and served as the president of the florida waste to energy chapter of the solid waste association of north america from 2015 to 2018 and whereas john power provided outstanding leadership support and service during times of natural disaster to include the 2004 hurricane season tropical storm debbie in hurricane irma and whereas john power always displayed a positive attitude cared deeply for all his employees customers and fellow citizens supported his colleagues and his team in times of personal and professional hardship and established a nationally recognized and award-winning solid waste program and whereas on december 31st 2020 john power will have officially retired from pasco county and will be dearly missed by his co-workers and colleagues john was a leader mentor and friend now therefore be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of pasco county florida that said board hereby commends john power for over 19 years of faithful dedicated service to the citizens of pasco county congratulates him on his retirement and wishes him all the best in his future endeavors done and resolved with a quorum present and voting this 12th day of january 2021 i already have a motion from mr moore in a second by commissioner mariana all those in favor say aye aye aye congratulations thank you and i'd like to reiterate that uh it truly has been a team effort and it would have been done without the support of the board and i greatly appreciate that [Music] yeah just trying to maintain six feet off with um congratulations okay um all right so our 76 or 77 have been pulled and going to be on the um or withdrawn from from the regular agenda today it will be at the 26th january 26th okay this time we'll do r 74. okay our update mr chair members of the board my name is mike bishop with the pasco edc

i'm here to give our quarter one pasco edc update start the presentation here so we're gonna start with the mou presentation and the first slide get over there i'll get going on i think can you can you all see it right now okay so in our business recruitment project pipeline this is a snapshot of our leads add to projects and successes and this is amongst our six target industries so see we have 40 active projects right now a majority of which are in advanced manufacturing at 21. we also have two successes one in high technology and one in advanced manufacturing so diving into those two successes you'll see that they account for roughly 14 million in capital investment and 208 new jobs and those charts at the beginning show the progress of those numbers towards our annual goals then on to the business retention and expansion these are highlights on the training programs company visits and training connections i want to point out these seven company visits are in-person visits so kobe continues to be a challenge as we meet with businesses face to face on the next slide in our engagements you'll see just a highlight we attended two conferences six events that we participated in as well as three local presentations to uh business groups the marketing slides to go through that very briefly we had close to 128 000 in estimated earned media value on the website analytics you'll see that 86 percent of our new of our users are new to the website so that's encouraging we're continuing to get new engagement with uh with our website on social you'll see we have close to 8 600 total fans 173 posts close to 123 000 total impressions and almost 2 700 total video views that are on there on to our investor slide so we have 82 current investors of which 34 of those are board or policy council members we've raised close to 185 000 in private investment and we had five new investors this previous quarter that is uh stevens construction the usman law firm raymond james coca lackas construct contracting rather and j.e dunn construction group so other leadership updates we kicked off two new task forces this year we have the uh reshoring task force and that's chaired by rachel ebner of stevens construction that kicked off in december as well as the sustainability planning task force and that's chaired by cynthia spidell of stearns weaver miller and that also kicked off in december we completed the final evaluation of our performance

um for fiscal year last year and made a new performance plan for this upcoming fiscal year that we're in as well as the policy council developing the legislative agenda for for the upcoming legislative session upcoming events our next event that's coming up is january 29th that's our virtual edx series we're also targeting the end of february for economic forecast election which is always pretty well attended meet the projects is going to happen in quarter two maybe a hybrid virtual situation and uh grow pasco on may 8th i'll pause there any questions through those slides okay i'll um i'll move on through the uh the penny presentation there's a little retool to try and cover the majority of these things so i'll kind of cruise through this i apologize i'm gonna read a little bit from the slides just to highlight these so in our ready sites the seventh radius light is halfway through evaluation projected to be completed in february this year the program which you'll see in the forthcoming slide is up to six sites so this would be the seven site edition a highlight on the international program the global competitive committee will continue through this fiscal year uh kickoff meeting happened back in november and uh currently working on recruiting pasco company to participate in the march uh 2021 virtual international trade show and that's presented by enterprise florida enhanced marketing highlight there workforce connect annual report completed and distributed amongst other items you'll see on there in workforce connect you'll see uh continuing to work with partners to develop internship guide for pasco businesses as well as additional marketing plan for uh q2 distribution q2 the ceo program dinner with a shark ceo dinner that's going to be a part of the grow pasco event in may and that's coming up and uh big news and smart start is the the smart start of the grove build out is pretty much complete we're almost ready to move in there and that will be our third incubator coming online which is very exciting so going through the the ready sites highlight there i already touched on we have six sites so one one is uh uh in progress to move to the seventh we had um apologize three site inquiries three response two rfps one presentation uh to developer uh and uh three site visits you'll see the the map of the radio sites there so just to um get through the different programs i wanted to give a snapshot of the progress of these programs

you'll see on the um the ready site slide their highlight is that we had two uh marketing channels that have been executed to market these ready sites one through the business facilities avatorial another through a business facilities full page ad so see amongst those goals there we we've estimated we're about 45 percent complete and so in progress heavily in progress in the race sites program for the international piece um just wanted to uh touch on so you'll see there the different items that are in progress and the total uh figures we have uh three there on the assist companies with export marketing discovery assisted through sbdc and that's goal of five so that's on its way but to go to the next slide in the highlight there so there was a international workshop that was attended and that was virtually it was the international economic forum of the americas montreal 2020 and that gives us the progress of the international program of roughly 29 ceo program is a little behind this is very event-related so challengers would covet impacting that however these playing playing for these events are in progress i mentioned the ceo dinner with kevin harrington that's part of grow pasco and a lot of these will be back loaded at the end of the year so hopefully we'll have some more to record for q2 workforce connect a lot of these figures are in progress so that's working through these goals just wanted to put that out there for you so you can see that all these are started and part of workforce connect website integration um other things when working with workforce connect partners as well and we got we're roughly halfway there on that piece so cruising through really quick on smart start so i can get to the progress there so what continues to be a highlight is the amount of event attendees and events offered through smart start so continuing to assist our small businesses and recovery and and helping with cover related measures we have 16 incubator members as a highlight there currently both on and off site we're excited about this third incubator coming online that number is going to continue to increase and we've measured a continued impact of roughly 214 jobs have been created through this incubator program in co-star ears you'll see that we continue to administer that program we had three co-starter graduates so far some of those pieces are also in progress as well pascal enterprise network we're really we're actually waiting on some

information to be shared with us through the enterprise network partner so we'll have to keep you updated in the next quarter there however we did continue to hold round tables virtually you'll see that number in the top right uh moving on to uh there you go next slide um our micro loan program so i believe we had yes we had two new micro loans that were closed so that started to our goal of five um did work on some other pieces there we're doing software and other servicing measures so that gives us a uh roughly 46 completion of the smart start program there and just to cap it off just to try and give high level progress reports here we're saying amongst all the programs we're about a third of the way through so we still have some work to go but we continue to move forward with administering these programs any questions any questions from the board good okay great good thank you so much have a great day and move on to r75 good morning chase hey good morning do you guys have uh my powerpoint yeah we're here a couple weeks ago if you need i can i can re-forward it okay sorry about that we're uh we're getting to the right person though russell happy new year though it's great great to see you guys i feel like i haven't been here in like eight nine months so i remember how to tie a tie this morning yeah we definitely hadn't seen you since last year it was nice to see you guys on a tv screen or a computer screen or youtube or what have you so just give us one moment to get it set up for you perfect thank you [Music] there we go perfect so um so first of all thank you to commissioner starkey for for the interest in getting an update on the rental registry um those who remember this was passed last year uh pasco county ordinance 20-03 which required the registration of rental properties with the pasco sheriff's office so it was passed on january 21st 2020 which feels like a a lifetime ago and took effect on april 1st 2020 for those who who were here we worked a lot with the realtors groups and other entities and then at the at the time then commissioner wells um with passing this uh ordinance requires registration for re for vacant property and rental properties um as you see there in section 18 within 30 days of a property becoming vacant or within at the time 30 days of the ordinance beginning on april 1st 2020 and then as i'll discuss in a little bit

it requires penalties but also provides for some exemptions every year registry is re-required on the anniversary and what we've been doing at the sheriff's office obviously we haven't hit the anniversary of april 1st 2021 yet but we have a a plan in place that will send an automatic renewal email to anyone who has registered with us and they will just have to click a link to verify that the information is the same or change any information that they're required to change next slide please as i mentioned though there are exemptions this is something that we worked on last year i said with commissioner wells and the um the rental management companies so apartment complexes for instance are exempt any commercial businesses churches are exempt so essentially the the rental registry requires those that have less than four units um and that are not any kind of uh housing or federal housing or state housing or urban development programs again those exemptions are designed as part of to to work this out and get this done but also to focus on the most need that the sheriff's office and code enforcement were seeing you know for instance the goal um wasn't necessarily a thousand unit apartment complex or something like that but was for more of the um you know the the houses that were being rented out through craigslist and and through other channels that were possibly inherited from people who don't even live in the area anymore to give us a solid point of contact next slide please so with that the pasco sheriff's office created a rental registry website which was which was part of what was required by the ordinance that is through citizen.pascossheriff.com and we call it our citizenconnect portal from there and this is a screenshot of what the what the website looks like when people get there they have the ability to go register the rental property we require um several forms of information so we we need the owner of the property a designated agent someone that we can contact locally if the owner is not local and again the the desire with this is not necessarily enforcement so much as it is compliance because again we're we're not looking to write fines or tickets on this but we're trying to get this necessary information for these people so whenever we respond to a house or code enforcement response to a house they have someone that they can talk to

that they can contact and make sure that they're aware of the issues at the house and work with us in partnership with county code enforcement and partnership to address whatever those issues are that we're seeing obviously our plans to to market this as i mentioned it came into effect on april 1st 2020 have been difficult because of the the pandemic um you know whenever we had uh talked about this ordinance our plans were our plan was to attend community meetings to attend hoa meetings to make sure that everyone in our community was was aware of this ordinance we have been working with our local media outlets and our social media though to to push out the the flyer as you see there on the right that raises awareness to register talks about who needs to register how they can register where they can register leads them to the citizen.pascossheriff.com rental registry website to put in their their information for us again we do have plans um you know hopefully as as the pandemic lifts and meetings resume sometime in in the future to go to hoa meetings to go to cdd meetings as well and get buy-in from those folks make sure they're aware of this need to to register these these rental properties in pasco county next slide please as i mentioned um there are also possible penalties and uh and requirements so um you know penalties include not registering a timely fashion providing false information not updating your your information in a timely fashion the ordinance provides for for 30 days to update any of that information and then it also provides for for possible penalties within the within the code structure which includes citations notice prior to citations and again as i as i mentioned our goal with this is not necessarily enforcement on on getting these these penalties but instead compliance with the with the registry and getting people um to register so we are using a an educational approach to this as as you'll see in a in a few slides we're primarily using an educational approach to this and in lieu of fine so far which is to get people to make them aware of the ordinance and also make sure that they are registering and getting that information that they need next slide please so as i mentioned to date we have issued zero citations but we do have 168 properties that have registered since april 1st 2020. again those are properties with less than four rental units and with those no-date exemptions we also do plan to continue those awareness efforts as i mentioned um some of our efforts have not been uh possible this year because of the the cancellation of

meetings um but as those restrictions lift we do have plans to go to hoa meetings cdd meetings real estate meetings and realtor meetings to to discuss this make sure people are aware of it but we are also as we are responding to residences and we're you know we may be having issues there county could may be having issues there and understanding um you know and talking to the owner about the need to register and i said to this point we have 168 properties that that have registered so far next line and i believe that's actually the the last side so i'm open to any questions or any information that you guys have have on this question thanks chase and i get that the pandemic is causing a little havoc on this but but that is a pretty low number so um i was thinking uh if we could get creative with how to get the message out and i have a couple of thoughts one is to put your flyer in our bill that we send out was is that our either with fasano with taxes or our pasco county utilities you know sometimes we put informational pieces of literature in there the um i would love to have that flyer to put on my newsletter we can put it on our social media as well and um and then i would suggest maybe working with mike wells uh in the appraiser's office to um identify the um non-homesteaded properties and and let's think of some kind of mail campaign a postcard or something um to to get a lot to get more compliance so absolutely thank you how many uh numbers do we think we have so that is a a tricky question um that we're still working on on the outcome too we believe it's probably somewhere in in the range of approximately probably one thousand properties um but again that is just one thousand is that what you're saying yes ma'am um so we i think we have you heard him right 50 000 rental homes in the county yeah and that's just talking to it to our code enforcement folks that they think based on the the exemptions and requirements but that's you know again a number that we haven't really been able to to nail down but we do plan to use that um non-homesteaded property to to figure out that information well definitely then you need to get i think with with mike wells to get that now because i think we have a thousand in the holiday lakes alone so at least a thousand yeah this is the first time i've heard about it um and i would definitely target the non-homestead

so and if any time they're sending out the property taxes send the flyer along with the non-homestead properties because i would never have known about it so i'll be taking some notes here perfect mr mariana thank you mr chairman i would at least finished hey chase um you know seeing that number is a very low number um i wonder if it's really a bad thing to see it so low because one of the things we were going to focus on are the troubled ones that you guys would have a code enforcement have so if it's only 168 and that's all the troubled properties we have it's really kind of encouraging absolutely and that is where the primary chunk of these registrations have have come from to date is from our code enforcement deputies or county code enforcement whenever they respond to to a nuisance property or a place where we've had issues making sure that those owners are aware of this we haven't seen a lot of registration um without that that guidance that leadership but i said we we kind of attribute that to not being able to go to those meetings and get that that messaging out but yes your point these these 168 are largely from um those properties that we've had issues with that we've responded to since this came into effect on april 1st right and i think all the avenues we tend to look at to get people registered is great but those that don't want to register and i can understand those that wouldn't want to do you see anything any glaring things that we're missing as far as what we're not going after just people are just they don't have that many trouble trouble properties out there correct and that and that's the key is so far we have not found anyone wherever we responded to a house um we have not had any owner said nope i don't want to register i won't do it um whenever owners become aware of it especially these problem houses or the registered agents become aware of it everyone has been more than willing to register give us the information um but that's where those penalties are are important as as we have you know if we do run into issues where we have owners who don't want to register refuse to register we then have the ability to levy those penalties and those citations to get that compliance okay all right thank you chair commissioner um when we had our workshop we had comments from multiple companies who have rental divisions and i think in the berkshire hathaway for one um and they have thousands of them i think that they are that are under their umbrella in the county so i think you should be contacting

those um companies that have um managers of rental properties and getting their lists it's also a way to add many more today okay that's fitzpatrick thank you um is this the same list that the people that have seasonal homes register with so they can have pasco sheriffs to keep an eye on their homes as well no ma'am those are those are two separate lists um so we have the um vacation home uh that our csus will will go and drive through and make sure that um you know nothing looks amiss or no broken windows as they can um but different from from rental homes the vacation homes are largely not rented out as we're finding it's primarily owned by the individuals so they go on that list have our csus just make sure you know glasses and broken windows aren't broken things like that will they also be on that list because those homes are vacant half of the year so that is um something that we i remember i think we talked about and maybe the county attorney can tell me i remember we talked with um miss senza i believe it's only if um they are not i think vacation homes wouldn't count because of the i think we excluded the folks that were that were not renting them i [Music] it was a rental registry and those people who were uh it was their home and and they chose to choose not to be in it for six months out of the year they didn't have to register yeah that was my belief as well what about the you said vacant it's regis for rental or vacant homes so if they're vacant how are you going to contact those people or because technically the seasonal homes are vacant for several months out of the year i believe it's vacant from rental so so for instance if you are renting a house um you have to be on the list but then if you also have that house up for rent and it has not been rented for for 30 days and we also require um registration that's um through those rental companies and things like that thank you one thing thank you so much um chase i don't want to say this is off topic because you mentioned it earlier but um i know you're not looking at the large multi-family apartment developments at this time with this ordinance but they do have their own challenges and calls their own challenges to the department do they not absolutely the amount of them that are in pasco county now are causing challenges to the sheriff's office for the sheriff's office absolutely and um you know that's something that we we had initially talked about with with this registry

should it include those large apartment complexes um some early things that we had considered is is maybe having a notice posted on the department complexes with the number that the sheriff's office could could contact with issues um that didn't make it into final drafts as we as we talked to to other entities and groups but yes sir to your point um you know we do see obviously any apartment complex especially some of the the larger developments could add the population that that you would see in a in a small city so those add you know obviously criminal concerns just whenever you're adding that many people um obviously crime is going to happen traffic concern on on roads um things like that obviously you know not contemplated within this within this registry but that we we do see yes sir thank you sir if there's no more questions i'll move for approval absolutely i'll email the flyer um and commissioner fitzpatrick as well you would like it yes please and can we share that on facebook and other social medias absolutely absolutely and we're sharing on the sheriff's office page as well so i'm in any help that you guys have on your uh whether it be your personal social medias or through the through the county social media we always appreciate into the to the clerk as well send it to me and then we'll get out there yes ma'am perfect thank you very much good to see you guys again thank you chase hey again i'll state that uh r 76 and r 77 have been moved to january 26th uh our 78 is a time certain uh 11 45 for pictures for the today for the commission and i believe after we take those pictures there's also photos for the human trafficking out out front are you in charge of that yeah so okay mr fitzpatrick will lead us out there once we take the pictures inside for now we move on to [Music] old business we start with commissioner moore thank you mr chairman and happy new year to everyone thankfully we have a lot of time because i do have probably my longest list ever unfortunately but lots of good stuff after i get through the first one because the first one is i just wanted to recognize them the passing of our state attorney bernie mccabe as many of you know he did pass away over the holiday break um just such such a kind man but a dedicated man um to the entire region when it comes to pinellas and paschal county he also said on my public safety coordinating council that i that i chair

and i always appreciated obviously his insight and his knowledge um on that on that council so you know my prayers and i'm sure all of our prayers continue to be with his family so he will definitely definitely be missed the second one um on behalf of the dmo i have a recommendation from an appointment to the vacant position on the tourist development council um again on the recommendation the dmo they would like to appoint bobby d felipes of the spring hill suites by marriott suncoast they wanted to keep something obviously over there close to the west side again and they had to be a hotelier bobby's involved in our community on and actively involved with the dmo already um he participates in events and has done many things for the for the dmo and uh on the recommendation the tdc i'll make that motion to approve mr d felipe's as a member of the tdc board you got a motion have a second second because i don't know why people didn't jump in for seconds but you know but there's a second there yeah the second right here so um all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass okay okay a few more things um next request i have and you've probably seen letters from the sheriff in the past um i'd like to add a representative from the sheriff's office to the planning commission i think what we need to do is get obviously okay the entire board and then give the county attorneys direction to uh draft that edition but uh spoken to sheriff naco um obviously he's in favor of that if you remember the past letters that he sent in addition it's come up quite a few times in conversations i've had with them recently so it would definitely be an asset with the growth of the county and the concerns when it comes to public safety as well as the traffic concerns they need to be represented on the planning commission we do have the school board that's on the planning commission um it would only benefit us to have the sheriff's office have a representative on the planning commission mr steinstein um the school board is on the planning commission only for the purposes of increasing residential density and that's by statute i'm not sure that you couldn't put a representative of the sheriff's office on it but that would require the uh every require a land development code amendment to change that composition right so i don't understand the traffic part of that because they're involved with speeding right speeding but what congestion is not part of the

sheriff's wheelhouse and i'm assuming that's after what chase just said that's kind of what you're thinking and that i don't know it just it just seems kind of odd to me to put i mean if you look at the letters i mean i think it maybe not did you guys not see the letters of him requesting to be on it in the past no no um he sent them in the past it's been quite some time i've never seen that okay i think uh chase you want to forward those to them real quick they're old it's been a while is there any planning commission in the state that has law enforcement i am not aware of it i but i would have to research that and is there anyone at the sheriff's office with planning background so the most recent conversation i had with the sheriff he does have obviously someone in mind that he would like to uh point to that so so to uh commissioner moore's point i believe where the sheriff is is thinking on that is obviously as as uh commissioner moore noted before you know obviously any time that there are new developments that come in obviously there there could be um criminals to that and so you know there are the concerns with with septet which is crime prevention through environmental design um guard houses gates security cameras lights um you know and to commissioner starkey's point as well about about speeding obviously anytime you add more cars on the road you obviously add more people that are um you know speeding people looking for for through routes and trying to get off major thoroughfares that's going to relate to traffic coming down main roads so i believe that was the the sheriff's intent was that was that so many of those things that do come through um the planning commission and in those zones we would just um you know appreciate the opportunity to have eyes on as they go through and make recommendations on things like um you know maybe some security um apparatuses that could be there to to improve the the criminal environment or or concerns whenever it comes to your staffing manpower things like that that are caused by those developments i don't think those issues are discussed at the planning commission i think that's a different kind of committee mr chairman commissioner starkey is right what what i'm hearing chase say is that the sheriff wants a role in design which which is not would be a they need a seat at the table at ordinance review where we're developing the land development code changes but if somebody is coming forward with a

residential project in a euclidean zoning category a straight zoning category the planning commission nor this board has any say other than yay or net but if it's a issue of design then that's part of your land development code and while the planning commission does review that that's a very small percentage of their job and um and now you it kind of rings the bell that i think the sheriff has asked to be at the table in those discussions and what comes to my mind is the trouble that we're having in copper spring so in the design of that neighborhood there is a cut through that where people are speeding and um sheriff is having to be out there all the time um dealing with the people speeding through the middle of that neighborhood so um i'm i'm fine to have a safety voice in uh in that where that committee lies because i think that would be great to have actually so so that would be more on the issue of when they go to building construction when they start discussing those projects coming in planning mr chairman can it be a check box that they get to comment on the safety aspect and the future troubles they see might come from a planned design mr chairman um what may be beneficial or not um a lot of the i shouldn't say a lot there are communities that are requesting for changes to allow law enforcement in within their communities but the law enforcement's not allowed in specific communities due the fact that the signs are not up to code and things like that so i understand that aspect with code but maybe if we can i don't know if they come in at ground level and help with the aspect of sheriff's office is going to be allowed to come into that community or not in that community so if i may okay issue that commissioner fitzpatrick raises is state law that says that the sheriff's office is only allowed to patrol county roads unless there is a traffic enforcement agreement in place traffic enforcement agreement is available to any community that say cdd or private hoa but the sheriff's office needs the signage to meet the manual on uniform signage or they're not allowed or they can't write tickets so the the the fix there which wouldn't be popular is that in the land development process they are not allowed to have decorative signs because that's where that's what's happening is that communities like cdds

are putting in decorative signs they don't they don't meet standard they don't have reflectivity then they're required when they have traffic problems to go through and upgrade all their signs at a large cost cost when the citizens finally when the residents finally take over control of the cdd again that's is that implemented during planning or the design phase that would be that's a basic issue in your land development code you could you could stop that from happening by changing the land development code to say private or public has to have sign internal signage that meets them the manual because currently now the when a private development comes through the site plan review they can put in signage that is decorated quote decorative and doesn't mean strictly meet the manual mr morano thank you mr chairman you know i welcome the sheriff's office to get involved in setting the land development code to make those changes that we'll actually look at before we finalize anything anyway coming forward but i i don't think we need to have them on the zoning board a planning commission i should say mr chairman yesterday i guess i don't understand the apprehension but um to have somebody appointed by you know from the sheriff to be on the planning commission when you know anything and everything that's approved does have some type of impact on law enforcement and that's what they're asking they're asking to be involved in those discussions so if a if a any type of i don't want to just say a development with any type of item that comes up they can actually give input on so if there is a high crime area or the potential for being additional crime or to have an additional impact on the sheriff's office which in turn impacts this boards and our future decisions when it comes to their budget i don't understand the apprehension of allowing them to be on there and having input i mean we we've seen time and time again on our on our surveys that i know mark is going to uh go over here soon i'm not sure when that's coming up this afternoon i think no next meeting okay sorry next meeting um public safety always ranks number one um i'd actually like to see even um fire rescue even have probably more involvement at the same time but we do have obviously you know mr biles and others that you know do attend or give input so they're able to do that um but the sheriff as really as a

separate entity in fact um i think should have additional input and and and be able to be able to be participate in these discussions so i would hope that uh you know this board would entertain that yes um i think that uh we take public comment and certainly we hold the sheriff's comments in high regard and i would think that that his comment that he should come to the meetings made me a comment however having a vote being a voting member i i for me it's just not the right place for for them i think but i do want them to be more involved in what chase mentioned um and that is the um the design of a neighborhood for less for better safety for the residents and less problems um that the sheriff has to deal with i think that's i think that's a really good idea so that's that's where i am i would be a no for the plane mr chairman how many people sit on that board right now 86 plus a school six plus a school bus district seven seven people so with an eight person if the only thing is it would have a split vote that's i've never seen that before but to me it just seems like um it doesn't quite fit in the in the mission but it does fit somewhere in in planning and building construction and have a say in in those safety issues for any development coming forward so well mr chairman just this is a follow-up we talk about beltling but you know there's a lot of things that the planning commission does and and oh i know we you know in addition to that and i'm sure you know somebody from staff can speak to if they'd like but i i i know because it's brought up on this diocese quite often that i mean how many commissioners that sit behind this diocese are reaching out to the sheriff's office on a regular basis about issues that are going on in the communities i know for a fact it happens i'm sure if they want to log the calls from this board and how many times they hear from us um it's it's there's a lot and i know more than others so i know now we're you know yeah now we're giving them an opportunity to um you know have that input from the beginning so maybe those questions and those and those issues don't come up in the future and a lot of them do come from this board it's a fact i could see where it would be beneficial i'm an additional person from the

community have a voice it's a different insight it's a totally different insight but again i mean i'm still talking um but if the um no again if the the this commission doesn't feel that it's a benefit i guess then those people don't feel it's a benefit but unless uh terry pito is right behind you let's see him answer he's in planning thank you mr chairman uh terry peters planning and development director i think the um if the intent is to look at design and consider the various safety aspects of it um catching a project very early in the process would be most helpful at the planning commission often that's at least at best two or three months into the life of a project and in some cases it could be even deeper than that it could be seven eight months into the life of a project which is fairly late in the game so i think if you're really interested in looking at design there is the point of the pre-application that takes place even before a project is submitted where multiple county departments provide their input to a project such that when the developer the entity approaches the county with a complete application they ideally have addressed many of the issues that have been given to them by the various county departments and um it would be a good place i think for other agencies to participate in the in the pre-application stage of a project very early comments are known at that point and can be cascaded and addressed down into the review process and into the life of the project all the way through the planning commission in the bcc however i want to mention too that a lot of the projects that go to pre-application meetings yes many of them are zoning related particularly mpuds but also many of them are site plan related which is an administrative review which those projects don't go to the planning commission for review so your site plans and things of that sort don't often go to the the planning commission so the pre-application is a great place in those pro in the life of those projects to get that safety input from places like perhaps the sheriff's office or traffic cops etc and in that way those comments are insured for those projects that don't appear at a planning commission great great points and um you know i kind of remember having one of my coffees with

the sheriff and us talking about having them be part of the that process so i think i think you're spot on that we need to engage them in those uh conversations much earlier yeah i think early on when you start those projects i think that's good so i have a motion on the floor i'll have a motion i made a motion you made a motion to add the sheriff to plenty of commission the commissioner can clearly make a motion to add the plan to go through the process of changing the land development code to add the sheriff's position yep um but you need a second yeah that's that's the motion i'll second it austin we have a motion in a second okay all those in favor say aye aye aye all opposed slam nay motion uh fails to pass by 3-2 vote okay all right thank you sir um let me go ahead with my other items real quick was there a rec sorry mr chairman is there a recommendation for because they said to start him off sooner which position or which so if currently we are not including the sheriff's office in the initial distribution like we do with fire and and other agencies of of site plans i'd we can do that without the board taking any action but the administrator may wish to address that but we are we're distributing all residential projects to the sheriff's office early in the process now we'll connect to the sheriff's office make sure we're sending it to the right spot we'll do that today to make sure we're sending to the right spot and that they're involved early in the process we but we do that just like we do with fire rescue and all the other agencies that may be impacted yeah they basically fire risk you know sign off on those projects lately okay mr chair you said the fire department signs off so does the sheriff have to sign off on it as well they have it in the past i don't think yeah they're part of the review process now whether or not they get a check the box or not i don't know there's a fire code that gives a fire marshal the authority to you know drive some things that doesn't necessarily exist on not on that side so they're the limiting factors are what's in the land development code that we can enforce and what's in the building code and typically neither of those are well fire code is relevant to site plan but it's really the land development code when the slot during the site plan

we're ending up with 1500 this week and we appreciate senator burgess and all his efforts and helping out with that as well um and the other legislators that have participated in make calls and other legislators did as well and i talked to senator simpson as well as um and um representative um but at that rate so if we were to get uh let's say um 1500 a week it would take about seven and a half years to vaccinate the population here in pasco county if we were to get what we had last week at 3 500. it would take approximately three and three and a half years to vaccinate the entire population of passcode county every one of us are getting the calls and the emails from our constituents and i know that each and every one of you as well as i do wish that we could do more for them unfortunately right now only thing we can do is ask and beg because i i really feel like i was begging yesterday honestly yeah on behalf of our citizens we need more vaccines in pasco county now i'm going to go to dane real quick so cause i asked dan to look at some numbers dan do do we have those numbers for how many vaccines pinellas county received in hillsborough because i know hillsborough county actually received about 11 and a half thousand or so yesterday 11.2 they received quite a few yesterday and they originally had 9 000 um jared told me that i was on the phone with him that pinellas i can i can't confirm this but he did tell me the phone that pinellas received like 25 000 last last week well they're at 900 something thousand we're about 600 000. it does yeah i know it doesn't seem to work out so dan what numbers do you have yeah i don't have the exact number that they're not getting because that that's not part of the state's recording right reporting process it's on the public side so i have how many shots so actually how many vaccines are being distributed in in to be honest the entire region's being shorted if you look at our population so not just pasco but hillsboro's being shorted the whole region is being shorted for other parts of the state and so you know pinellas is close to where you should be based on population um but they're a little negative when you when i updated it this morning with yesterday's numbers from vaccines that are in the region so of the six counties that i captured in the region hernando hillsborough manatee pinellas polk and pasco only one has actually gotten more vaccine distributed i.e actual shots on the arms than they would have if you normalized by population and they're only like

a couple percent over that everybody else was negative so it's not just a pascal issue it's a region issue we aren't getting the vaccines distributed uh as opposed to some other regions so yeah pinellas has done the best they've gotten almost 30 000 people vaccinated uh and hillary had a pretty good jump over the last couple days they're up to 44 000. when i look two days ago hillsborough was actually below pinellas so they've done a pretty significant job the last couple days in hillsboro but again those are regional so the people that live in the region can go to any of those and we've added the links to every county site in the region to go register to our website so if you go under coronavirus you have the links to every other department of health in the region so if you want to go register in polk or hillsboro you have the ability to do that because they cannot restrict by location we also added the link to publix so if you want to drive up to hernando or citrus where publix is actually giving them out that link's on our website too where you can go register at the public site so we're we're trying to push it out there but as the commissioner said we're short and we're at the rate we're getting it's six plus months just to get the over 65 community where are we at if you're at 30 and 44 where are we at what's that analysis at 30 000. as of yesterday pasco has given 16 700 shots now that's not just a health department that's everybody that's health communities everybody that's the state's number yeah i want to reiterate that before you have this question because i want to make sure you separate how many vaccines have come through the health department right let's not i i hate the count because of yes hospitals receive their own for their health care workers which is separate from what the county or another the health department received to give to the general population and all those which was 3 500 right and in addition to that was some from our for our front line workers which brought that over to like about 4 100. right yeah the health department's giving out roughly about 35 3 600 shots the health department and they i can't speak on me but i know he said they were giving out 500 but they can have the capacity to give out 1200 to 2 000 a day we could probably give out close to 2 000. with two locations we're working on getting an east side location opened up but again it's not enough you're not location dependent anybody can register for them so favorite sorry cancer um when i had a conversation with

um the health director he said that we as quick as we can give it out we can get more so i'm wondering did hillsborough and pinellas have have some kind of uh system set up that they're giving it out through more than just their health department because i'm trying to figure out why we're being shorted right so you know the health systems are getting vaccine too and so you know it's going to the health systems the the initial priority there was the healthcare frontline healthcare workers and so that was the initial priority but it in all at all the health systems and then they have the ability to give out to 65 and older community too so it's just that's why the state number of 16 000 in pasco is different than the health departments what they've given out of 3 500 is different you know that's why the numbers are so different is because there's health systems and much of that is going to healthcare workers which that's that's the first priority right and so as of mike gets gets rid of his vaccine as quickly as he gets it if he gets it on monday then over the seven days they get rid of it and they get to zero by sunday yeah but for us to get zero is unconscionable and unacceptable um number one number two um aren't our guys going uh you know we house that group here at pat in pasco county and they're going into pinellas and administering in their nursing niches right in hillsborough so and then tells her have they come are they yet so that's a state mission that we are running but the missions and then where the locations they're going are directed by the state now some of those have been in pasco but the vast majority of their initial mission was long-term care facilities in pinellas that was their initial mission and then they've done both missions in hillsborough pasco and pinellas over the last several days on sunday they were down at the governor's initiative with the minority churches they were down i can't remember which one our teams went to but they were down there on sunday giving shots out so you know i get that we're only one or two weeks into this but it seems like it's a it's it's a um unfortunate distribution plan and i would say stronger words but i'm going to be politically correct and um is there a way that we can have a voice that makes sense to help uh set up a better system mr moore have you had that conversation so i'll tell you

so when i had that conversation yesterday with mr moskowitz you know stating that we were supposed to have the 3 500 why didn't we get 3 500. he did state there was a shortage um it was these are his words there was a there was a shortage we weren't getting as many from the federal government as expected but i have if you look at the webs i think though some tweets that went out from the department i think it was ralph you shake your head yes or no was there about 2.2 million that were get they they mentioned last week i think it came to the state wasn't it or weak let's find that number again because i have it real quick let me and i apologize let me pull it up um he mentioned yesterday that they had a yesterday this was just yesterday i don't know what's coming today or the next or or in the afternoon yesterday he stated that um they had 170 000 i think 175 000 left and that's kind of where i made the statement of okay if you have 175 000 and you do it by the size of a county the average size county is about 313 000 people in the state of florida 67 counties if even if you divided that by each county it's two and a half thousand doses per county if you do it by the size of the county we would have been in the 5 to 6 000 range so i don't understand the numbers or how they are getting distributed if there's 175 000 there why do we only get well none yeah until the call a thousand and then another 500. and i think right here with the one i think has said week 4 vaccine update florida has received 1.2 million doses we are expecting to receive 250 000 additional allocations throughout next week which this is next week right so according to the florida emergency management website they put out for week four of the vaccine update uh a total vaccines received for the state of florida 1.2 million doses um as of week four they had uh individual vaccinated 514 000 and then this week they were putting out an additional 250 000 which still leaves a difference in the amount that we have at the state to the numbers that they're they're putting out so shall we maybe craft a letter to the governor and to jared requesting that the vaccines be distributed per capita in a in a fair and uniform manner it's a great idea it's also considered emotion i'll second that i would uh thank that very very good when you do craft a letter yeah so i and and also i would suggest that we um talk to fat and get their support behind that that kind of movement

uh because every county's if some are getting more than others it's just like during the hurricane when we have a debris removal fight um it's ugly and and we don't need to be fighting each other and and you know i just i think that letter would be appropriate yeah i i i second i think it was emotion okay here i have a quick question because what concerns me is going into the primary care physician doctors and they're saying and i asked the different doctors and they're like yes three of the four doctors in that primary care physician they have gotten vaccinated because three of them go into the hospitals but even our primary care physicians are not being vaccinated which i find very alarming because they are seeing the patients and we don't need any pediatricians primary care doctors getting coven and exposing it to the rest of their patients so let's get that letter off immediately and get our fair share i have a uh i have a motion and a second to draft a letter to this i guess to the governor the governor and jared and i would cc chris browse and wilton simpson [Music] we can do that in favor of that say hi mr chairman yes sir i think we need to get a federal letter as well when i look at new york wasting all their vaccines not getting them out there we need to get florida up in the front as well so i think tomorrow i would agree with a federal delegation we should send one out to them as well you want to add that to that motion i have one for the federal one for the state so that was great good idea great idea i just continued yeah because i have a question but you may hit on it okay so well if you don't see it so but i i do when i reiterate you know we appreciate everybody's effort and their hard work and i know for a fact mike napier county staff including chief fossa are doing an excellent job with what they have but they can only do with what they have and you know unfortunately they're feeling the brunt of it i mean poor mike nippier had to deal with um a um a fake um tickets to yes lina our deal on on the web where people were signing up somebody was scamming people and they showed up in line they had to tell them no that's terrible you feel so bad for them but you know we really feel bad for the citizens and lately over the last couple days instead of returning emails i've been actually asking people for people's phone numbers and talking to them on the phone um because i just want to hear what they have to say and what they're having to go through i've gotten some of the same emails and you hear it out on the

in the county from our citizens it's all us we're in charge of that and we're really not yeah and and the fact of it is uh mike napier and and andy foster and the whole group and all of our staff are doing the best they can with what they get yeah so yeah we were supposed to open up saint leo for a drive through this week but with absolutely getting none on monday and then then hearing only a thousand today but then i heard we added 500 but that's just not acceptable we we got to have more vaccines for this county and we sit here and all the vaccine goes to all the other counties yeah we'll never get our population actually can i just can i just finish my last sentence if you don't mind real quick um so just moving it going on again so when they set up these sites i mean i heard lots of positive responses that it went smooth it went quick they did a great job pastor county is utilizing paramedics to support this yes you know we are we are using paramedics to support this cause so we're we're willing to do anything and as we had the conversations yesterday just like you know it was brought up by one of you a little bit ago we can not we the health department can do with the support of all can do at least 2 000 a day on the west side and they might be able to do 2 000 on the east side of the county a day two so that's possibly four thousand if we have the vaccines come to the county the people will get their vac they will get them they will be immunized there that's the fact we just need them gotta have them i heard the sears location is doing very well in distributing and they did a very good job with coveted testing and i heard other counties were trying to replicate that and they were actually being shut down so if we're able to vaccinate and test and everything like that then and others counties are being shut down then we should be the ones getting the vaccine vaccines to distribute to our right mr mayor can i segue into another conversation that does come up with our with our folks um you get a lot of seniors that maybe aren't quite computer savvy and to have them have to go on every day that we're doing this is definitely tough for them number one but even why we even do it that way i understand with cares we had the money we're handing out we kind of did it that way just as we had so many people give it

out eventually when they get to these vaccines but maybe it should be a one-time thing that put the call in get on the list and if the list is 50 000 people long so be it but this at least you'll have that list and you know where you're at instead of having to go every day to try to get in there and then for those that can't even do the computer work because they might have the assistance to it it might have the the computer hookup uh to even let those that don't have that to be able to call in and get on a list so i know it's a long ways before we get to all this but i think it's something we should understand what you're saying but it's not a list of just pasco county people because anywhere in the states you can go to another county and receive that shot so we're starting a new program so i was gonna we're the health department the arty is going to convert from the ever bright system to another system over the next couple days we actually got them under contract on friday they were working over the weekend because we thought we were going to have 3 700 shots to give out starting on monday that system will be rolled out this week it's a different it's more integrated it's better it's still web-based but that will give us the ability to streamline our actual physical processing the shots faster because all the paperwork will be done and captured ahead of time we will be opening or the health deposit could continue to mike and we're working on such a great team i use the term we um but it is a health department as a lead on this are working to open up a st leo site later this week that is still on track now that we have some vaccine we're going to put some vaccine there so the other thing we're doing is we are reaching out to the 55 plus communities we've done one pod we are building a list of them because that actually is a pr relatively logistics free way to give out shots because they do all the paperwork they give everything we show up and get shot so we are working on that list there's another one on some of the vaccine will go to the next one on the list today or this week and so we're that's another way the other way is both our libraries and our senior services are available to help people get on the list on the web whether it's at our terminals that are in the libraries those are available so then get into the libraries and we have several on the west side they're available and our senior services can both help them get

that done this will evolve over time so that we will get to a list where we call you when we're ready we're just not there in the in the process yet and uh and i've been talking to the gentleman who represents state of florida from this company at salesforce actually um that is behind this um i can't remember the initials of this pdr or crsd um but they're up and running in orange county and it's going really well um they're uh pinellas there's a whole bunch of counties about to jump on this platform and one of the good things it does is when you get your first shot they they all automatically sign you up for your second so you don't wait to one and wonder when you're getting the second shot on there and there's all kinds of follow-up um with it so i'm excited about that and um also why the area the group that um what is that area your agency on aging um yeah so they're getting ready to um they're having a call tomorrow actually uh and the health department's jumping in on that call and they're going to fan out to help seniors as well to learn how to do the program but until we have the it doesn't work for them to learn how to do event right because we're pivoting from event so that's got to be on pause for a second what the hell but but this new program will be much better much easier well the health department also they've been telling you when you go get the shot i know when i'm getting my second shot yeah they're sitting there are you doing that they've been doing that all along yeah so but it will convert to the new system you get an evil yeah because my mom got the shot but it's not as seamless as this one is going to be um and i'm i'm uh going to try and get more counties to switch from eventbrite onto this i'm helping them we gotta get the vaccines though right we don't have the vaccines you can't get your second shot and i don't know where you're at then so and i did want to touch on your 55 and older because i know in hernando county they did a community and there was this big political brouhaha but um and and i'm sure you have to in talking with our health director you know if we if we're able if we have the vaccine to fan out and just give as many shots as we can in a day it's to everyone's benefit and at these um communities and again even if it's a 55 and older it's just the 65 and older that are getting the shots okay i'm just saying this for the public's benefit because i've been getting letters and and questions it's for the 65 and older

but we it's less resources for the county to go in and and give these shots in those those communities the other thing i want to ask though is and i don't know if this is true i didn't ask my friend where she heard this but she told me that there are plain that there are chartered flights from canada because you know the snowbirds didn't come down this year but there are chartered flights of canadians coming down to get shots in florida i i don't know if that's true but that's true i it's unsettling to me um i know it's a federal thing not it's we have no control over the county line of who goes where and frankly um i understand that a lot of the people who had signed up for the um was it wednesday and friday or whatever the two days of shots in our county they had 40 to 60 people not show up because many of them went and got their shots in another county and so they took a space on our list um now they were able to call people and and and i believe they distributed all the shots that they had um but it's a little bit chaotic what's going on there and i'm sure it'll get better as it goes on but god dang it we gotta have our we gotta have our fair share they had a three person wait list 300 person wait list citizen wait list and with the thousand vaccines they were going to target those 300 that were on that wait list and then yeah but they had to come down within you know 15 minutes or 20 minutes so i'm just if there was a more i don't know oh i think commercials just one more thing to to tie this all in together i'm glad you brought it up um so back to the people that aren't computer savvy that are local people as well you know if we're going to try to work with the libraries to help these people get done maybe we need to set up a program for the seniors that want to go down to the library and hook up benefit of that is and again we got to follow the federal regulations et cetera but if you're coming down to a library and we can sign you up there the benefit is we know at least our people that are here are having a way to get set up as opposed to competing against the world wide web whether it be canada or wherever else coming in so i think if we can kind of look at that maybe take it take a few days and kind of try to structure something bring it back to us or just do it just actually just do it yeah we'll just execute okay you know with this video when we have the process a simple

youtube video that explains it that's good good work wonders with the new cdr program they are working on i believe a call center to go along with so then the seniors can call the call center yeah my last thing thanks i have one more yeah sorry um motion that was voted on was only to go to the state there was an amendment after the motion and [Music] a letter to the federal government second all right you got a motion a second all those in favor of the federal letter also thank you say hi all right thanks i'll oppose like that if you could while you're there's a slide i have a slide for my last item and why is that why are you putting that out my aunt and uncle are getting vaccined in uh polk county today but my family and around here don't have any vaccines so they're not they're not getting vaccinated here i don't know where polk got i guess they got so um i'm sure everybody you guys will love this one so you know we you know we've had many workshops we talked constantly i've beaten this drum for years about apartment complexes in pasco county especially ones i'll just say within my district obviously all our citizens all are constituents but in district two um so i went ahead and did something so this is i did a poll of residents in the wesley chapel in the atlanta lakes area this was not funded with county dollars i used my own account for this and paid for it cost seventeen hundred dollars so i did a poll on apartment complexes i'm not going to do the whole presentation for you guys because it could be a while but i'm going to pull up a few slides here this poll was conducted by sprice strategies it was done in december so one thing you're going to see is there are going to be some unsure and no opinions because it was the holiday time but i wanted to get this out because we have so many people that are coming in with apartment complexes and i wanted to get this out um if you look at the first actually 400 respondents from zip codes within wesley chapel and some of the atlanta lakes the first slide is there a way to take that see on the top left we can't read the uh slide that's just there you go thanks do you prove or disapprove of the amount of apartment buildings in your community 97 approved 154 disapprove 149 unsure or no opinion so you had 38 percent overwhelming majority can you go

to the next slide would you prefer to see more office and commercial development or more apartments being built 196 would prefer to see more officer commercial 15 49 14.75 would prefer to see more apartments than you had the unsure or no opinions let's go to the next one please believe more apartments should be built and approved in pasco county no 57.75 yes 18.25 and then unsure or no opinion i did this poll because as many of you probably have heard from a lot of our constituents i hear it every time i'm out practically it's not a day goes by that i'm out especially in the wesley chapel in the lakes area that i have somebody come up to me and start talking about this i have having had coded emails sent about vaccines that bring up the apartment subject in that email that shows you how frustrated the community is when it comes the amount of apartment complexes being built in that area again i'm going to say that area we know there's some areas on the west side we said they could they could be useful right i will leave it up to the district commissioners to make that decision but um i i thought this i wanted to do this i wanted to show you i wanted to show the public that what i'm saying almost every meeting is not just coming out of my mouth it's coming from the citizen's mouths that live in our area and i have a sneaky suspicion if um when it says the unsure and no opinions that would have been a lot higher if it wasn't the holiday season people probably want to get off the phone and probably like leave me alone let's be honest but i was willing to make that investment out of my account to do this just to obviously show everybody that um we're we have an issue and we have a major issue that concerns many many many people um like i said not a day goes by that i don't hear about it i could be out there with my family and i got people walking up to me talking about it it comes up in conversations even my friends why are you doing this i'm not doing it [Laughter] so there's a poll there's more slides um i'm happy to have that email to each and every one of you if you like it okay and that does it for me thank you okay thank you and i'll bring those back up probably later this afternoon during the public hearing register um i have a couple pictures um one is uh on december 10. i was very excited to join um the folks from the lightning and some hockey players whose names i don't remember

but i know they were famous guys i don't know how to remember that's a good picture and uh and mr stanley um as we dedicated our um hockey rink um opening in um the holiday wreck so the ben harold memorial holiday rec center so uh that was pretty cool um event and uh where the lightning you know they won a few years ago and um the all their names are there on that bottom row it's interesting what happens is as they add an um more teams the top row comes off and gets preserved at the i guess it's at the hockey there's a hockey library or museum somewhere and i think that's where it goes because i asked does it just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger but no they take that top row off and um and then often goes to be preserved forever so thank you so much to the lightning um keith had said that his phone was ringing off the hook before this even opened so i'm really grateful that um kids are going to have something else to do and adults too um in the county um then i want to show you some pictures that i took over the last few days on my drive down 54 to my home in gulf harbors it's really frustrating because you can see this right from state road um 54. do you have those pictures did they did they come the apartment they were there they would have been the titan the what would have been the top jordan newport richie they're the ones running we do not have them um she said um she just sent them so if if you can put them up jordan um morgan said she thought yep give us give us one sec we'll get them up for you okay i just checked in the property appraiser and one of the houses is a homesteaded house um and the other house is a rental house but how this can build up without notice from our staff is i don't know i just want to move to proactive and not reactive but i did send an email in the other day and then they added more and i sent the picture to chase like i i don't know how this car can even drive down the highway um hopefully they're gonna get up soon um but while we're waiting for those to get up uh i wanted to say if you um if you haven't had a chance i would love for all of you to go visit the coastal anco trail it's we are just getting nothing but rave reviews except for some of the emails that are coming in of the trucks and the atvs that are still driving out there at night they go out there at night and they they do wheelies and all kinds of things on our trails so

um you know they've had free run of our land we own about 200 acres out there and then the duke has some property um for 20 something years and i know it's taking a little while to um make them realize that's not legal the sheriff was out there last week and gave out eight or ten tickets so i'm very grateful for that but i wondered if we couldn't see about putting a trailer there that would house either a parks employee or sheriff's deputy um like there are in other facilities and maybe that will help ooh that's not that's kind of weird that didn't work in that's like part of a photo yeah windshield of a car that's it um there you go look at that car oh my where are those i don't know why this is zoomed in so close if you need to if you need a microwave i guess you can go but how would you like to be driving down that car on the highway there's no rope tying any of this on his truck um i did talk to the gentleman yesterday the whole family was out front they did videotape me so you might be able to hear the conversation somewhere um and it's a very nice man from bosnia who who is collecting metal uh to sell for money um but he's running the business out of his front yard and um there are and then we have kind of the same issue next door and the neighbors are thrilled that's that's the um next door neighbor um who's running a i guess a window company out of his front yard this yellow house is on the corner of 54 in flamingo drive and the house to the right is one house in from state road 54 and i just hope that um we can get out to these people right away but i i just we have to have our staff driving by and seeing this and i i wish i wasn't i don't know maybe i should retire from county commission and join law enforcement officers but uh it's really bad for that community i feel bad for them so good work um and i think that's it for me okay thank you not a garbage can we have we have two minutes if you got very much on your own business what was fitzpatrick hey mr chairman do we really need to wait i mean can we not just get done with everybody's items i mean we need anybody go anywhere during lunch i mean it just takes a minute to take a picture yeah you don't have to do 11 45. we didn't get through i think originally was supposed to be 12 anyways i think the pictures were supposed to be 12 somehow it got on the agenda at 11 45. it was supposed to be noon okay um okay so we have the human trafficking

reconciliation and i just wanted to say a few words and also i did visit victory high school and thank you commissioner moore for helping introduce them as well i did go to their ribbon cutting and then let me go back to the human trafficking awareness month so good morning thank you chairman oakley for allowing me to address the human trafficking issue and present the resolution the human trafficking is best described as the exploitation of individuals where they are focused to work for and exchange sex for anything of value pasco county has recognized the criminal nature of human trafficking and in 2014 attacked the problem head on by forming the commission on human trafficking the commission is made up of 13 members of the variety of areas across our community including the school board county government law enforcement and hospitality industry they all band together to fight against this modern warm day of slavery florida is ranked number three for the most calls to the human trafficking hotline florida is also number three in the nation for the most human trafficking cases in 2019 in 2019 there were 819 cases reported we need to lower this figure and the only other two that were higher than the state of florida was california and texas the commission created a complete campaign to help curb the human trafficking including working on ordnance 1634 which mandated that the signage offering to help victims be posted in restrooms and restaurants of sexually oriented businesses the commissioner has the commission has produced public service announcements that have made over two million impressions so far human trafficking often occurs near large events that bring in groups from out of town such as super bowl people sometimes act differently when they're not at home we have super bowl coming to the aries bay area soon we want to highlight the efforts of the heat commission on human trafficking they have developed a campaign that addresses human trafficking called pasco doesn't buy it there are bus wraps and digital billboards and websites too even pasco bus drivers are receiving special training on human trafficking we want to be sure that we rid our community of this horrible crime and we think you are thankful for the works of the pasco commission on human trafficking so thank you the fellow board members for helping with this important topic thank you okay that's it all right commissioner thank you mr chairman um i'd like to bring one item back later on today but let me just do these quick

ones real quick um terry petos i'd like you to try to get me updated later on in pilot country also sunwest as far as those uh comp plan changes we're looking to doing i'll see how we're doing there and i want to say staff did a phenomenal job on the beacon woods roundabout uh did a phenomenal job the connection to the walmart and country club the states is operating unbelievably smoothly every step of the way and the item i'm going to talk about later on today will be uh at gulf harbors the woodlands they're starting their own dredging projects separate from the rest of the project and they're looking to get some stormwater help some that commissioner wells mentioned a long time ago he supported i thought it was good depending on the scenario so i'll bring that later on when i have a little bit more information that's all i have for now thank you yeah all right mr miles yes sir i'll just uh go over a couple things real quick um if you drove up 54 or i'm sorry 75 you saw the construction going on in our overpass interchange just make sure everybody's aware that interchange will be open to traffic in summer 22. so that's just around the corner it actually may be open to traffic before the diversion diamond i didn't want to go there commissioner but that's yeah i'm getting the same date on the diverted diamond finish so um as as you know we started the 22 budget process and we're kicking that off this month uh we will bring a presentation to the board to discuss revenue projections and stuff like that at the first march meeting that's kind of the plan at this point as we move through the process and then finally i sent i think all y'all kind of an update on building permits and calendar year 20. uh what i didn't send you and i just we just found out because hilbert posts theirs as well is that actually the last quarter of 20 we issued single-family residential permits that same quarter hillsborough issued 1632 single-family new permits we actually issued more permits that quarter than hillsborough did on the single-family home side that that's mainly because we basically doubled year over year the number of permits we were pushing through building construction in that time period well they i mean they're still issuing significant permits but they they didn't see a jump of double like like we did over the last really six months in bcs and so as you know we're working several things because you don't go from 300 permits to 600 permits and not have a level service issues so we're working several things

to try to address level service issues including you know one of the items approved today but also removing the administrative fee from the private providers for a short period of time to try to help offload some of that load we're working on how do we streamline some other parts of the process as well so just wanted to update you on that and that's all i have sorry i have more good news but i'll let i'll wait we'll send it out later well that's very important what you added on on building construction going through those permits because they're stacked up and there's a lot of complaints not moving but it's because you got such a backlog permits coming in all the time so mr steinsteiner uh mr chairman uh following up on commissioner moore's um survey results i just want to make it clear to the board that if the board sees the future of pasco county differently than its current comp plan and land development code it has the it has the policy choice to do that but you need to do that through your comprehensive plan and your land development code you are going to be limited in the projects that are coming forward in addressing them in the context of your land development code and comprehensive plan even if your constituents see a different vision for pasco county so what i'm saying is that's a legislative decision you're going to have to make you don't make that decision on a project per project basis there may be reasons not to approve a project based on your current compliance of plan and lend development code but survey results are not going to be one of those things you can use for that i'm not sure i'm sure that's not why the commissioner raised that that issue i think he sees it as a larger policy discussion that the board needs to have but i felt i needed to say that especially going into this afternoon where there's a multi-family project on sure sure mr chairman let me just respond to that and i appreciate that and again yes this is you know i looked at an overall area you know multiple zip codes um for that survey i think there was was there four and i have it on my list four zip codes some of that did go into you know like say commissioner starkey's district because it's right across you know it's on 56 as well um and over in the area over uh in the lutz area you know that's on the opposite side of district 2 as well so yes that is that and yes as you stated mr steinstein there are um if things are inconsistent

with the land development code this board has the full authority to deny a project if they are inconsistent with the land development code so if a project comes forward and we can show those inconsistencies we can deny those projects which we have in the past um but yes that's that was more for um letting people know the feelings of the area and you can always do things like moratoriums to move forward but we're not going to talk about that right now unless somebody else wants to that's all thank you okay thank you uh madam clerk yes thank you chairman i do have um a few items mostly of gratitude especially to the county one is the pasco county 2020 team of the year was for the pasco and community cares team and i wanted to tell the board thank you and my appreciation because in that team awards you recognized our office as part of the extended team of the county and i just wanted to say that the whole cares project that we worked on together was just a great example of how government agencies work well together and especially here in pasco county i am i'm very grateful to have the relationship that our offices have together so to do good things in our community so i appreciate that i appreciate all the hard work of all the departments that were involved we worked especially a lot with kathy pearson's group with the community development and it was just a great partnership and there were many many other departments of the county that helped in that endeavor and i just grateful that we could take part in something so wonderful for our community the second piece of gratitude i would like to tell the to the commissioners and to your team is um for the acquisition acquisition of the cisco video conferencing system for my office that has been tremendously impactful i took my new term started tuesday of last week and as part of my duties i needed to deputize my team to deputize around 300 people um and make sure that it was safe the cisco system was absolutely imperative it was wonderful i was able to hold four sessions simultaneously throughout the day to connecting six locations in the office to make sure that everyone was safe to properly deputize them um it went perfectly i wanted to thank um especially todd kersey who spent many hours with us to make sure everything went smoothly and it did and it's working wonderfully so thank you for allowing me to start my my my new term smoothly that's greatly

appreciated it will allow connectivity with our office and the county the courts and also outside parties so it was a great investment and we greatly appreciate that um my third and last thing is to let everyone know that we have our big shred event coming up at the end of this month this is um in line with data privacy day free shredding services of your documents we partner again with the county to to do this and we have it scheduled for newport richie it'll be at the um the west paschal judicial center on the 30th of this month from 10 a.m till noon and we will hold another session on february 6 at the robert sumner judicial center in dade city right here not in this location but across the way there to participate um you would just need to either bring three bankers boxes up to three bankers box size of documents or two kitchen size trash bags two of your documents for us to shred please remove metal objects on them staples and clips and just to let you know last year um newport richie we had 5.5 tons of paper were shredded at that event 264 cars came through the line dade city not as big because it was a rain day um that day but people still made it out we had 82 cars and two tons in dave city that day so we're hoping to also help our community that day for those two days as well that's it thank you thank you um mr chair i have uh reappoint dr andrew jonathan michael caliga to the emergency medical services advisory board for district one so that's a motion i need a second i got a second all those in favor say aye aye motion pass the next motion is to reappoint mark fillman and andrew pittman to the at-large committee members on the voph planning and policy committee their terms have have expired and it needs to be done today with the board so that is a motion i need a second second one second a motion second all those in favor say aye aye aye motion pass okay the last thing i have is uh we talked about overpass and all the construction going on there i think i don't know if the roads closed right now but february 1st was the date i was given that the road would be closed or the bike the overpass would be closed for that construction so is that still i'll need to verify that i didn't that's one of the dates i think in february first is what uh that's what the eot said they were going to get out and let everybody know also and that's supposed to accelerate construction by six to nine months

yeah closure then so you know can i have an alibi okay same thing yes commissioner fitzpatrick also had you reminded her that she's got an appointment she needs to be okay thank you i would like to appoint kayla cooney to the library advisory board second get a motion in a second all those in favor say aye okay all right motion passed thank you that's it mr chair real quick yes the clerk reminded me of something the supplemental cares appropriation that the congress and the president signed right around the christmas holidays included another allocation for specifically for rental and mortgage assistance that will be direct distributed to counties we applied for that uh we've not received the money yet but you will see an agenda item on the next board meeting to accept that we're estimating that's going to be in the range of about 15 million dollars one five but we're not sure because the numbers haven't been worked out yet and treasury hasn't posted the actual numbers for each jurisdiction so we've applied for that you'll see that in front of you it's specific to rental and mortgage a little more strings attached than our program but we're working through that to get that set back up to do that and as the clerk mentioned our team of the year was the keras team mr todd kersey who's on the line today was the employee of the year or 10 member of the year and then tambry lane who you're all familiar with was the leader of the year so that's all i had sir congratulations media with a good note one of the good notes thank you okay one comment on that money uh so i the government did extend the deadline for um us to spend the money so you know we were in this rush to just in case for december 31st but they did give us an extension to december 31st of 2021 right that is correct um unfortunately we got that extension three days before we were supposed to be 100 executed and so we were 100 executed our non-profits that didn't spend all our money have we've extended the date now so they can continue to work on those issues into the new year but the cares money was expensed because we were supposed to be 100 expense on the 30th of december and when you extend my deadline two days before that well sorry we're already going to be expensive and that was another um unfortunate rollout mr chairman all right are you are you going to bring up the letter that um senator fasano sent to us did you want to bring that up or uh i've asked for

um for a comment from the attorney's office okay based on that we're going to get that answer back before i move forward with it okay okay i just i know we were all copying letters i didn't know if he was coming up today but i was having them look at it before we were bringing after work so okay yep okay all right that's everything for now uh we'll break for lunch but we have photos here and then photos for human trafficking out front of the mr dispatcher or legacy you