11.17.2020 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Hybrid Virtual Meeting (Morning Session)

[Music] protect [Music] office under the constitution of the state [Music] that i will well will well and faithfully perform the duties of county commissioner of pasco county commissioner [Music] congratulations i just needed to sign okay so you wanted to know because he's there i'll send them the message you want to know the sea wall this is is the sea wall can be in conjunction with the boardwalk so we design them together so they fit properly where is oh there you are oh sorry [Applause] [Music] good morning everybody welcome to the hybrid border county commission meeting for november 17 2020. i'd like to remind everybody to please silence your electronic devices and your microphones around mute unless you're speaking we can please rise for the invocation and pledge [Applause] 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 [Music] okay well good morning once again everybody um good to see you all um if i could ask you to please make microphones in newport richie um at this time i'd appreciate that um this morning obviously we have um we're going to welcome a new commissioner to the board of county commissioners and also the swearing-in for three other commissioners that were re-elected so congratulations to you all um commissioner mariano is in newport richie and he was just sworn in um in new por richie so at this time if i could ask um commissioner commissioner oakley if you could um step down and commissioner oakley is going to be sworn in by his nephew matt mager which is an attorney here in um in pasco county so welcome mr maggard thank you commissioner more i appreciate that will you please raise your right hand and repeat after me i do solemnly swear i do solemnly swear that i will support protect and defend the constitution and of the state of florida and of the state of florida that i am duly qualified to hold office under the constitution

of the state under the constitution of the state and that i would will well and faithfully and faithfully perform the duties of the county commissioner of pasco county county commissioner of pasco county on which i am now about to enter of which i am now about to enter so help me god so help me god congratulations thank you [Applause] now if i could ask um soon to be commissioner fitzpatrick if you could step down and commissioner starkey if you could step down and uh we are honored to have the honorable judge crane here with us this morning that we'll be swearing in um miss fitzpatrick and commissioner starkey michelle you can certainly use that if you felt comfortable just raise your right hand i do solemnly start warfare i do solemnly swear or affirm that i will support protect and defend that i will support protect and defend the constitution and government of the united states the constitution and government of the united states and of the state of florida and of the state of florida that i am duly qualified to hold office that i am duly qualified to hold office under the constitution of the state under the constitution of the state and that i will well and that i will well and faithfully perform the duties and faithfully perform the duties of county commissioner of pasco county on which i am now about to enter on which i am now about to enter so help me god so help me god congratulations thank you very much grandfathers that's nice please raise your right hand i do solemnly swear or affirm or do solomon swear or affirm that i will support and i will support protect protect and defend and defend the constitution the constitution and government of the united states the government of the united states and the state of florida and the state of florida that i am duly qualified to hold office that i am duly qualified to hold office under the constitution of the state under the constitution of the state and that i will well and faithfully that i am well and faithfully perform the duties of county commissioner of pasco county will perform the duties of commissioner in pasco county on which i am now about to enter which i am now about to enter so help me god so help me god good luck congratulations well once again congratulations to all commissioners that were reelected and congratulations to now commissioner fitzpatrick um what i like to do before

we um call chairman yes if i may yeah i need to get the two commissioners that were just sworn in to fill out their paperwork so if we can take okay we're gonna take five minutes to do that and um great your paper oh and uh yeah the judge has to sign your own [Music] okay yeah we're going to make sure everybody's official before we continue on you already filled out that paperwork you already filled that out i guess yeah yeah [Music] somebody's got a new one thank you [Music] um [Music] baby [Music] i need time to jump while we're waiting commissioners there um there will be there's an email in your inbox with an addition to the consent pull sheet it'd be just so you can look at it it's r80 when did that come in um the email should have just come through um it was at 9.50 from this french oh okay on the consent pull sheet so yeah there's so you have a consent pull sheet in front of you but there's also an addition to that and it was emailed r80 commission asked your newport that's your port richie discussion that you wanted to move to the 8th of december alrighty i i have the consent pull sheet okay i'm sorry the consent and the regular agenda you said okay gotcha all right i'm just for those at home just a couple other housekeeping items to make sure everybody's official and we'll begin shortly all right we good mr stein center we good okay so again welcome everybody again congratulations to each and every one of you um what i like to do is just take a minute before we um i pass the gavel we do the reorganization today of the of the board um just going to the line and uh starting with commissioner oakley if you have anything to say to your constituents out there and again welcome back yeah i um of course i had a hard fight on my first four years to get elected to be in this position and very proud to serve the citizens of pasco but i'll be honest with you i'm just as proud right now serving them as having already been serving for four years to be chosen for this district seat again for formal years so it says a lot

about what's going on in the county and and that we're doing a lot of good things here with the board and we don't do it by ourselves we do it as a group and you know as well as i do that this board is i've always said this board comes together we come from different walks of life we meet here we discuss the items here and then more than not we eventually vote together and i think that's cured a lot of weight in our county and i think our citizens realize that we're working together and i think they're very appreciative of us doing that and and working things out so i know it's uh we can't please everybody but uh in large part i think we're doing a lot of great things for our county and and our citizens a lot of those things are citizens asking for those things to services and things that they need that they haven't gotten in the past but with the growth and the expansion we've had it's very very much needed by our citizens and i think we're meeting their needs and i think it's very important we continue that so thank you thank you congratulations welcome back commissioner starkey um yes i'd also like to thank um the citizens of pasco county for re-electing me to my third term very excited about the work that we're doing as well on the county commission and i think these next four years are just going to be [Music] outstanding years for pasco county we have so much going for us and now now that um you know our development our good developments on a roll i think in the next four years we'll see some really good redevelopment starting to happen and i think that'll be so good um for some of the older parts of the county so uh that's probably gonna be a lot of my focus in the next four years is lifting up the the older parts of the game so i'm excited to get to work well thank you commissioner stark and welcome back commissioner fitzpatrick welcome good morning [Music] um i would like to say thank you and i'm honored to have the opportunity today to serve pasco county as county commissioner district four and i am looking forward to working with everyone in pasco county and with my board thank you thank you and welcome welcome commissioner mariano hi thank you mr chairman um i want to say it has been a tremendous honor to serve the citizens of pasco for four terms i'm very excited

about this fifth term i think the way this board operates together works together discusses things through uh i can't tell you how proud i am that we're getting things done like never before and these next four years i think are going to be even better and i do want to thank the citizens of pascal county for taking a look at you know our all our commissioners here and making a great choice uh greatly appreciate they and appreciate the honor to serve thank you commission mariano and before i pass the gavel i just want to obviously congratulate everybody and it's been an exciting year it's been a year that um obviously none of us expected um but it's been an honor to serve as your chairman once again um again given the circumstances with the pandemic um i think we've uh we've had it overcome quite a few things quite a few challenges but as always you know we prosper here in pasco county and we will continue to do so um but you know we have an awesome staff and and i want to obviously you know as chair as you know um those of you who serve this chair you depend on the county attorney's office um i have mr stein schneider on speed dial but uh your you and your team are very much appreciative and obviously thank you for your guidance throughout the year amazing team and thank you to dan biles and his his entire team i mean we're again we'll continue to do great things in the county and again i want to thank each and every one of you for reporting your trust not in me but in this entire board and we're going to have like commissioner starkey said um another great for you maybe two years from some of us we'll see how things go in the future right so with that i'm what i'm going to do now is we every year we do would call for there's a home reorganization and with that what i do is i pass the gavel as chair to the clerk and we will do roll call right now okay that sounds good all right district one commissioner oakley here district coup due commissioner moore here district 3 commissioner starkey here district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick here district 5 commissioner mariano here okay so with that i'm going to pass the gavel and you have your script ready or wrong yeah so at this time i will open nominations for the chair of the board um yeah go ahead i'm just thinking since we're not all together um that maybe we just wait and do this at our next

meeting is there um i talked to the county attorney and i think there's no rule that says we have to do this today no that's not what i said commissioner what i said was you could suspend your rules require you to do it today but you could suspend by a four a super majority vote you can suspend the rules and could put the election of officers off for one meeting if you wish and then the current officer well the current chair would stay chair vice chair is no longer on the board if that's if you feel more comfortable with that i want to make sure we're all on the same page if you're more comfortable with that and we have everybody in the same room i don't have an issue with that we've never done a split so i just thought well you know commissioner mariano i'm good with that he's okay with that commissioner oakley yep okay well i guess i'll have to call i'm about to call the vote so to suspend the rules the motion would be to suspend the rules to uh to allow the the election of officers to occur at your next regular schedule so that's the motion okay i have a motion i have a second all in favor aye aye all opposed same side motion passes okay well i need to get more prepared now just kidding does that have to be wrong i don't think that does have to be a wrong call right thank you let's do a roll call madam clerk district one commissioner oakley aye district two commissioner moore aye district 3 commissioner starkey aye district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick aye district 5 commissioner mariano hi motion passes 5-0 thank you madam clerk i guess i can sign that big box of papers for you now right we were holding off on that okay okay let me uh get resettled here if you don't mind for one second mr chairman while you're getting settled do you want me to read the county attorney i would love you to do that thank you sir on march 12 2020 the board of county commissioners declared a local state of emergency after the governor issued executive order 2051 declaring a public health emergency and 2052 a state of emergency due to covet 19. the board has chosen to hold its board meetings with a quorum physically present utilizing communications media technology for the public and team members to participate since june of this year a detailed advertisement was run in the tampa bay times indicating the board's intent to conduct a hybrid virtual meeting on september 25th 2020 the governor issued executive order

2244 moving the state into phase three of the governor's safe smart step-by-step order large gatherings of over 50 people are still not recommended to congregate in any public place that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing the state's surgeon general's public health advisory is still in place with regard to maintaining social distancing and avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people the public has afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by the use of communication technology that has been provided the board adopted resolution 20 182 on june 30th 2020 establishing the procedural rules for hybrid virtual meetings such as the one being held today as with any meeting you take action you are required to take public comment on any propositions pursuant to section 286.0114 florida statutes i'm available for any questions thank you mr steinsteiner um and a reminder before i move on to public comment we have an um addendums there are two item addendums on the consent and one on regular um tour time certain items this afternoon um so let's go ahead and move on with the public comment um now is the time for public comics so this is a given opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this public comment section the board also takes public comment on items being placed on their future board agenda another business on their purview due to coca-19 operations and the safeguard the well-being and safety of our citizens and staff today's public comment will be handled differently first we will take public comment from those that are pre-registered for a webex link and are currently in queue after we'll read into the public comments documents powerpoints or videos that have been identified by members of the public to be read out loud plea of the meeting are received and filed finally we'll take public comment from those currently signed up at the kiosk station comments are not to exceed three minutes per person the new format does not waive the request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally against the commissioners or team members but rather directed the issue this provides mutual respect between the board members and the public for webex participants after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer will be activated we'll start a countdown after two minutes one people sound letting you know that only one minute remains after the time is up two beeps will sound indicating that three minutes are up and you should close your

comments um webex participants will be disconnected when their time is up and kiosk participants will be asked to move away from the kiosk madam clerk do we have anyone registered or pre-registered i should say to speak on webex this morning uh yes chairman we have three individuals that um pre-registered and um the first two are on the line the third has asked for a video to play in lieu of her speaking okay well mr steinsteiner of a video to be played in lou do we have we have we seen that video my understanding is that i have not personally but i'm understand that uh administration has reviewed the video uh your rules provide that if that if they wish to submit a video uh that counts against their time so that apparently this speaker has elected to have the video shown versus the video is has something to do with what is on our agenda or our future agenda i think it would be something that's on i think it's with respect to covet 19 which could be on the future agenda i'd say okay um we'll go ahead and madam clerk and move forward with the people who are signed up all right the first person signed up is christopher mayashiro good morning hi maybe an address for the record please chris miyashiro13521 hicks road hudson florida three four six six nine thank you sir good morning folks um thank you for your time i appreciate uh everyone's attention um regarding my concern i have concerned about kovid i have a sister that's an assisted living facility three daughters currently in school in pasco county um based on the florida's website our cases are increasing um our positivity rate is increasing um and i currently don't feel like i'm i fully understand what our process is going to be moving forward we're still at 100 capacity for restaurants and bars i like to see if the commission has a plan or a strategy to compensate for covet increase over time for both the public and the school in terms of additional resources for either limiting capacity to 25 uh or perhaps shutting down facilities depending on the rate of covid as it increases well thank you for your comment sir next the next person signed up is chris hertz yes good morning mr awards name and address for the record please hi good morning uh christopher wurtz1148 lake como drive and that's in lutz 33558 go ahead with your comments sir uh this is i'm here just concerned about our

roadway uh we've petitioned it twice uh where it's failed both times i've been in contact with commissioner starkey's office and pvas a number of times uh the road is dangerous we've seen and i've witnessed and videoed commercial vehicles driving down the wrong side of the road my concern is just a danger we're gonna we're gonna lose a child or somebody running on the street with with these vehicles going down the wrong side of the road all right what road was that again um sir go ahead and repeat that um road uh lake como drive yes luke florida three three five five eight but i think i think today we're working on a uh p bass relationship yeah all right our 83 is like that road yes sir so uh help is on the way great thank you thank you sir and madam clerk we have the next person which you i guess has stated there's a video that'll be played that is correct the name still need a name and address for the record so i have one is cindy t-r-a-g-e-r address is 21317 bowman road okay morning [Music]

mm-hmm [Music] so [Music] all right thank you for that um do we have anybody do we have any emails that need to be written into the record we have three emails okay well we'll proceed with that before we go to the kiosk thank you madam clerk [Music] are these supposed to be running to the record okay please [Music] and address is 9115 derby lane did the bcc and county admin despite several attempts over the last 45 months to contact you know to ask questions give criticisms about the mask order i've received no response i find this disconnect between local government and citizenry to be of equal concern to the topic at hand however i'm limited to three minutes but please note i believe it to be a due to a lack of concern accountability and not a lack of manpower as you get only about 10 comments to any one post getting on topic how in a time where we know so much about the virus do you continue to push unconstitutional and ineffective measures like a mandatory mass order have you seen the cdc study exhibit a and do you comprehend its findings i'll break it down for the use of mass never rarely always in a 14-day period it shows the same distribution of mass unmasked people who got coveted compared to a control group of people who did not get it meaning the mass were not a relevant factor in contr and contracting the virus local evidence of mass ineffectiveness would be comparing your county our county to others who no longer have or never had a county mandatory mask mandate exhibit b looking at pasco next to brevard and manatee county which are similar to pasco and population and case distribution you can see it is pasco the only county with a mandate who has had the largest increase in the cases in the last month further real world proof though antidote anadoka would be in the restaurants how many mass less people do servers come in contact direct contract with while they are taking orders and bringing food to the table i'd say hundreds per day if a mass may made any difference servers would be disproportionately infected but they're not to conclude though you might think i'm just some selfish jerk with no skin in the game that is not the case i am in constant contact with my 70 year old father immune compromised mother who has cancer and

is in the process of chemo my 99 year old grandmother turns 100 and believe me if mass did anything anything at all i would be the first to wear one and would almost be grateful for the uncons for your unconstitutional overreach of authority however they do nothing in real world applications and evidence reflects that this is just a political con job if i'm wrong then prove it with any real world evidence if you cannot provide any real world proof of its success then i rightfully ask that you repeat repeal the mask order i the hundreds that have signed my petition asking the same exhibit c and all freedom-loving citizens that believe in personal choice responsibility await your response thank you for your time regards gerald all right next one please okay the next email is from mark vita who resides at 11039 link side drive port richie florida three three six six eight dear commissioners i can point out a hundred doctors who claim mass do not prevent the spread of covid19 virus and you can find a hundred doctors who claim the mass do prevent the spread of covid19 from personal experience and talking with my doctors i can positively state that mass do cause a significant increase in blood pressure and body temperature i can tell you about a friend who is deaf in one ear and has a hearing loss in the other he reads lips to be able to communicate he is at a serious disadvantage when anyone has a mask on we can we can talk about people with asthma and copd and how mass do more harm to them than good but instead i'd rather go in a different direction let's talk about freedom my father along with his brother and brother-in-law fought in world war ii one of my uncles never made it back home they went to fight for freedom for them and their families and you and your families what do you think they would say today if they were alive about a forced mask mandate where did our freedoms go some states are not allowing holiday gatherings in private homes some are closing schools and churches when did elected officials get the power to take away an individual's rights i strongly recommend that the mass mandate that was initiated by county administrator biles be reversed and that wearing mass should be up to each individual in closing based on the pasco county population of 554 000 people we had 12 403 or 2.2 percent positive cases we had 259 or 0.04 deaths 0.00 percent deaths think about those numbers a death rate

of 0.04 and remember about half of those deaths came from very elderly individuals who were living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities please vote on ending the current mass mandate for pasco county thank you for listening sincerely mark vita the last email is from rob park he lives at 9614. erin cut off road land of lakes florida three four six three nine agenda item 49 approve wetland credit purchase agreement eip credit co llc agreement for purchase mitigation wetlands credit for the ridge road extension project phase 2 uh two two million seven hundred thirty nine thousand eight hundred the taxpayers should not pay for this as the ridge road extension has pending litigation litigation will most likely end the ridge road extension phase one then the need for phase two can be determined the taxpayers may have to burden the cost of undoing unwanted construction this board has a reputation of not listening to the taxpayers more taxpayer voices are heard against the construction of the ridge road extension then four this taxpayer does not want to pay for this sincerely rob park that's it anybody at the kiosk do we have anybody at the kiosk there are two people yes you have two people that are signed up okay great we can name an address for the record please hi hi name and address good morning my name is janine dabrowski 2926 wayne wright court newport richie three four six five five i come representing myself and a large group of people in pasco county being that you are all republicans we would have assumed you would be away to the fraud being perpetrated on us the american people however many are still ignorant to what is actually going on in the world today everything i'm about to say is a fact but you won't find it on your tv or even a simple search in google our media media is severely compromised a huge political agenda but you should know that i have brought some binders of information for you all please accept them they're full of information the pcr tests are a complete fraud this novel virus has never been isolated there is no gold standard do you even know what that means i do look it up coven 19 data collection is a fraud death certificates for cove now done by a different standard than any other infectious diseases why cdc now decides to stop counting the flu why we have no more deaths this year than any other year go check the numbers we have hospitals getting kickbacks we're using cova to embezzle money so are the states and counties don't think that we don't know because we know there is no science that says masses are safe actually they are extremely bad for

your health on so many levels i know people that are very sick from wearing a mask i would have thought it was common sense i will never wear one and neither will my child and neither should anyone else body autonomy is a fundamental right this is not just about mass this is a war between good and evil today we are drawing a line in the sand many people are watching to see how our local civil war will play out and where you all stand behind the lies and corruption or truth and freedom before you go blindly believing napier just because he works for the florida health department it doesn't mean he knows a lick about health and science i mean look at him he is also being controlled by the cdc fauci the who the fda gates and big pharma whom are all being sued this tyranny over a pandemic needs to end it's no different than the flu thank you thank you um you said we have somebody else at the chaos yes i do she has binders here do you guys want to accept them to accept the binders okay i got motion accept second second all in favor aye aye aye i'll post them so much thank you down the road now we're over here good morning my name is natalie cronin i live on the 511 amulet drive uh newport richie florida three four six five two um firstly it is very strange right now that i am in a different building from you that yeah let us not pretend that nobody is seeing other people that this distancing is really doing anything i am sorry it is not but what i really came to speak about is the masks of course mandating masks frankly it is not it is not your place it just is not and as somebody who wears them at work and has observed co-workers wearing them in work and customers it is different to wear them for an eight-hour shift versus to wear them to do a quick nip into a store or to walk into a restaurant sit down and remove it and you know in some places replace it between bites which really contamination much what i observe is that people are just knowing the way they are wearing them they are touching their faces more because you can't really breathe in them things sorry no you can't people will tell you that we're making that up but it is not the truth they are always adjusting them they are taking them on and off they are putting them in pockets and they are sneezing and coughing into them and then continuing on to wear the same mask that is now damp and you know disgusting from having been coughed and sneezed into

this seems to be very good breeding ground to make bacterial infection which those are still dangerous those are still real this virus is not the only thing and cloth masks versus n95s if cloth masks were so effective at protecting yourself or preventing transmission or acting as source control as they say they would never have bothered having n95s says cloth masks he's more sustainable reusable cheaper in the long run think about it all the money in this is behind the pro mask pro mandate movement thank you sorry yes there is no money behind no masks all the money is pro mask follow the money thank you anybody else that's it all right well thank you all right that closes public comment it's interesting um okay we will move to the consent agenda and right now i have these items being pulled or withdrawn c10 pulling revised c16 pulling revised c40 withdrawal save c44 pulling or buy c76 pull and revise um commissioners does do you want to pull anything else this morning i gave some to the clerk okay go ahead mr starkey would like to pull c 11 and c 58 okay c11 and c 58 by commissioner starkey and i think uh commissioner mariano wanted to pull a couple okay i'm sorry go ahead sir i'm sorry i i i got my answers between all this so i'll mess up with my answers so no polls for me so and i apologize uh commissioner mariano we we can't there's a we're getting a little static or something with a microphone so i'm going to need it to they could check into that because we're not able to hear you very well sir i'm sorry no polls no we answer this question okay so no one just mariano if you guys i t if you don't mind checking out um what's going on there i'd appreciate it um i do have one poll if i could just um just to discuss real quick to clarify something that i went over with um mr biles earlier that way the public can understand it c28 d28 okay with that i'll entertain a motion for the remainder of the consent jennifer okay second a motion by commissioner oakley second by commissioner starkey all in favor aye aye all opposing motion passes that's right i forgot commissioner marianas and the other spot so we're going to have to do a roll call and every vote this morning madam clerk please call the roll hi district 3 commissioner district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick hi district 5 commissioner mariano hi hi district 2 chairman moore aye motion

passes all right commissioner are you coming over here in the afternoon you know yes ma'am all right cool thank you sir okay c10 uh mr bellis yeah mark bella's performance management uh we pulled c10 to correct an inadvertent type one paragraph two okay questions i have a motion i have a second madam clerk please call the roll district one commissioner oakley all right district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano hi district three chairman i'm sorry district two chairman moore aye motion passes thank you thank you c sixteen mr petos good morning mr chairman victorious pito's planning and development department item c16 was pulled and revised to correct the typo on the date of the memorandum okay approval second no motion by commissioner oakley is second by commissioner starkey madam clerk please call the role district one commissioner oakley aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore aye motion passes five zero thank you c40 is withdrawn by mr steinstein we're going to move on to c44 mrs zigler good morning stacy ziegler purchasing director this pulling revise was just to update the actual vendor that will be providing the services from copy concepts to the manufacturer toshiba okay questions second no motion by commercial oakley of second by commissioner starkey madden clerk please call the roll district district 1 commissioner oakley district 3 commissioner starkey aye district 4 commissioner fitzpatrick aye district 5 commissioner mariano hi district 2 chairman moore aye motion class 5 0. thank you mr wiley c76 good morning keith wiley parks recreation natural resources this item was pulled to correct the grant agreement extension date to june 30th 2021 questions motion move to approve second a motion by commissioner starkey is second by commissioner oakley and clerk please call the roll district one commissioner oakley district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore aye ms class of five zero thank you let's go ahead and move on to commissioner starkey c11 yeah so i'm actually um on our website i guess we have a new format to pull up agendas and i cannot pull up um the consent agenda to get the to pull it off of that so i don't know it

looks very different to me oh yeah i don't know so i'll just have to wing it um so this is the am skills um contract that we pulled from before and there's a line in there that i would like to strike and that says that we won't we'll be won't be asking for funds in perpetuity and i i i want to strike that um and um so amp skills is moving from uh a place where the school district has has covered us for since our inception to our own building in the next year and we've been contacted by uh tampa bay builders association and the utility depart with lecouche electric and others to help um set up training programs for them and so um i think it is a mistake to put something that says we can never ask for operating funds again so i would just ask that we just keep it at the 125 and um and then see what happens next year but don't put something that hamstrings anyone in perpetuity because what we're doing with workforce training and helping people get great jobs is amazing we're getting noticed nationally and i'd hate to hamstring the only source we have that can um go 100 to operating money when we get grants most of the time it's for um like capital or or or specific things but not not operating so it's not that much money um it it really uh so so we you know we've lowered it to 125 and i so this if if we take that word out we would still be at the 125 and and then we would evaluate it for next year so that's my recommendation and motion do i have any question comments on this item and dave engel is available to speak if he'd like you'd like him to carefully on the roi do you have any questions comments i'd like to hear i mean we were moving away from it so who would answer that the reason we were moving away to where we wouldn't for you would be funding that anymore is there a reason do we think there's uh money's coming from them or to them provides them the funds they need to operate without us good morning david engel office of economic growth just to provide clarity and some information for the board back in fiscal year 19 when we're entertaining a annual funding cycle for ram skills for 175 000 they had requested uh some direction as to where antschills was going with their program and how much uh additional funding was required and fiscal year uh 20 funding cycle for 150 000

uh we have requested that dam schools provide a five-year work program and budget and we included that in the funding cycle from last year and in this year we we updated the budget and for with the fiscal funding cycle of 125 000 which indicates and skills require additional funding based on their own projections for the next three years uh of note though the work program that was submitted by amskills deals exec specifically with mechtronics and machining and they are entertaining now are working with the tampa bay builders associate on a very important trades program so that's the three and genesis of this matter and questions i'd be glad to answer them i i just have one question and then just commissioner maybe you can respond to this or david can i know there was at one point though when we had these discussions previously i think like three years ago that and in their agreement there was a point in time where they were going to stop asking for any accounting funding that was part of their that was part of their agreement so why i mean and i just asked that because you know eventually the i mean it's a great program and everything but um but eventually they were supposed to be something finished yeah so um it's kind of knew that we are having to leave marchman because they're expanding their electrical program and so um we didn't we weren't paying any overhead or any rent there and so taking on a new building which i think will be very advantageous for um amp skills and the southwest pasco county where we have a lot of folks who really need workforce training and um and the move towards uh making an innovation training center that will help other industries as well it's it's going to be a new um you know it's uncharted territory and so i just think that you know i'm okay with the 125 that's in the budget for this year i'm just saying there's no reason to put in perpetuity and if if there's a case for them to be need to ask again next year leave that door and let them ask again it's very um you know we gave we give a lot of money to career source um but what what we do is is different and um and we're helping our citizens get great jobs and again this is the only money that does not have a restriction um that can be used for salaries and and i can tell you um that the team over there works very hard uh tom madano has not had a race since

he came to work for us and um and we have we are very fiscally uh prudent and i and dave you are telling me about the roi that you felt our roi was very good for the county well the the return on investment uh there's a lot of intangibles but the immediate return on investment is about three to four dollars for every dollar that we put out in the job creation and the enduring uh benefit to the local economy so again i'm not asking for money for next year i'm at i'm just saying keep it where where we were today at 125 which is a reduction again just take out the word in perpetuity and if if there's a need or or whatever we don't know what's going to happen in the next year um let's leave the door open and then we can judge it next year if they if if there is a request mr chairman um question real quick if um you could just take that out and then reevaluate the situation when they have skills for next year and and see where they stand and really get an evaluation of what good they're doing out there so we can decide then whether to fund more or not so that's a second all right start this motion okay okay i have a motion um by commissioner that she made um in a second by commissioner oakley to strike the sentence let's go ahead and do it for the record again what would you like to try to strike the word in perpetuity um i believe that's the word that was in the uh contract um on r11 okay just make sure we have it correct for the record can we um read that mr engel read that line to make sure we have it correct yeah yes yes sir on the second page in the whereases it says whereas amstels has submitted a five-year business plan to the office of economic growth indicating that amb skills will not require additional pasco county funding support beyond fiscal year 21 which is included in exhibit a by reference so uh if it were to strike excuse me you need to strike that line yes sir okay are we all on the same page it's just nice there okay okay i have mariana did you have a question i was just going to say that was sealant c11 yes sir okay okay i have a motion in a second um i'm gonna go ahead and call the vote madam clerk district one commissioner oakley district three commissioner starkey i district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore aye motion passes five zero thank you and commissioner starkey said was it c51

or c58 you wanted to pull um e-58 okay i can't read my own writing is um my carballos world um this is a landscaping contracts and i don't have any photos today but i know i've driven around with ainsley and um others looking at the state of the pasco county medians and that was two years ago and i don't see any improvement in them and so i'm a little frustrated because we will have uh we have medians that have gaps in them and i think they look really sad when they're not being kept up i worked really hard to change the rules in pasco county to allow for landscape meetings when i was a average joe citizen and so i was wondering if in this contract that this is going to include the upkeep of me of median landscaping and pasco county meetings actually the public works director brantford is on the line i think he can answer that question thank you good commissioner starkey oh he's bradford bradford's gonna speak oh he's i'm sorry i missed that he was in the car with ainsley and i when i showed them the state of our median so and i'm pretty sure i was told that we were gonna have someone start fixing them so branford he is unmuted i'm not sure why he's not speaking i don't see him i see sam bennett yeah i don't see his name up there either that's plus three which mediums sorry guys i don't know why he's not speaking he is unmuted commissioner it is my understanding that uh this particular contract is to take care of what i would call the more higher end landscape medians within the county i don't have a specific list we can provide that but this is an attempt to to make sure that we are maintaining those medians in an appropriate manner okay because when i read it it didn't say median so that's why i was just questioning that but if you tell me that we are going to work on the medians i'm very happy and we i think that we can use funds from the tree mitigation trust fund to help uh replace the missing trees so we have the funds available to purchase them so it's just a matter of pro i think having the manpower or the contracts to do it so i'm glad this is moving forward yes thank you and and if you'd like we can try to get you a list of the areas that were included in that bid and then if there's opportunities to do other things they look worse i yeah than having that yeah yeah and just for commissioner stark's point and you know i'm in agreement because you think about how

good 19's looking now we tried to get funding for 41 twice unfortunately um it was vetoed both times but there are obviously county roads that are in dire need and i agree 100 you know when we're trying to just for the daily drives for our citizens but in addition we're looking at recruiting businesses to come to the area and want to see that we keep maintaining our areas it's like we require citizens to maintain their landscape and their businesses right yeah so thank you with that i removed the i have a motion by commissioner starkey a second by commissioner oakley man of course please call the role commissioner oakley hi mr poor uh mr mariano hi district 2 chairman martin motion 5-0 and uh i just asked for c28 and nobody needs to come up you don't have to come up um i'll save you the time but i just wanted for the public's knowledge um and there was a little confusion some people had reached out to me in a reference to c-28 that's the new river library to extend the grooming 80 days i want to make sure for the public's sake they know that um it's not extending the opening of the library it's not being pushed back the library will um open again roughly in mr biles in january which don't have an exact date but in january so this is not going to push the library opening back to february march i know it reads it's a little confusing when you read it but that's the only i just wanted to make that statement we're excited that's moving forward and great job by the team to get that going this is just some added benefits um to that to that library um but it will open on time as scheduled so can i get a motion second i have a motion by commissioner oakley a second by commissioner starkey man i'm clear please call the roll district one commissioner oakley aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore all right motion passes thank you that does it for the consent agenda we're gonna move on in commissioner stark you stated you wanted r80 continued to next month yes i had a conversation with um mayor tremblay yesterday and um he is putting together a presentation for us okay and um and he will give it to us on the next meeting in newport richie so i think we'll hold off and have a discussion with you okay all right thank you and um bob put together a great package if you haven't

anybody hasn't had time to review that um he spent a lot of a lot of time on that and i would highly advise everybody to review that before this next discussion if you have not had time to review that and he did send that to the city as well and that was done with coordination with the came attorney's office so they they helped him with that okay well great appreciate that yeah great thank you thank you county attorney's office for doing that too moving on r81 r81 mr biles is this yours or no yes sir sally okay chairman good morning commissioner sally sherman assistant county administrator i come before you this morning seeking your confirmation on the appointment of gary joyner as our building and construction services director of administration he will be taking over the role that is currently being held by miss paula baracardo who you later have on the agenda this morning um being considered for director of support services which is in more in line with her personal goals at this moment i'd like to pause and say thank you to paula publicly for all of her support and hard work during this time period mr joyner is a native of pasco county he has over 30 years of work experience he has worked in the role of enhancing the efficiency and service deliveries in the offices that he has worked in and held he's dedicated to fairness and accuracy i'd like to put a pen in those two words and come back to them later he's managed over 200 people he has skills in improving organizational performance and delivering services to not only meet but exceeds customer service expectation this has been done while he build trust inspire confidence and promote accountability on both his staff and himself when i thought about this position and the role that was needed i focus on the mission of this organization and that's serving our community to create a better future moreover i focus on the values that have been identified in the commission's strategic plan which is paramount to me one of the things that really inspired me on a daily basis and those values centered centers around integrity respect service excellence and innovation also when it comes to building and construction services sir board i think of life safety and just for your information from june to october of 2020 building and construction services have issued approximately 47 000 permits of those 47 000 permits they come in at a valuation of 2.5 billion dollars these permits were

issued implementing codes and ordinances adopted by you the commission and also adhering to some other local state and federal policies which is paramount and that's where it comes in with accuracy and fairness in service delivery when you hear about building and construction services sometimes we focus on some of the failures and tragedies that's what they report in the newspaper but what they don't focus on are those thousands of structures that are built to standards meeting life safety codes you can't quantify a life when you're dealing with building codes and permitting i have had an opportunity to speak with mr joyner on a number of occasions and i strongly feel that his personal values are totally aligned with the values of this organization and i have um joked with him on occasion saying that you must have been in the meeting that i just completed because the things that he said resonated with what i our administrator mr bao and you as the commissioner want to see in-service delivery when it comes to permitting so again i come to you seeking your confirmation on the appointment of mr gary joyner as our building and construction services director of administration thank you mr sherman questions talk um mr chairman yeah go ahead sir sally i was going to say uh and i want to say sally i think you're doing a phenomenal job as as uh our assistant county administrator that sits over permitting uh it is a difficult job and we've talked many times and you've helped get a lot of things through but we still struggle seem to get them through do you think that this position which i'm okay with the position itself but do you think we should look internally as far as your own department and look even externally as far as any if there's any of the best candidates that may be out there as well commissioner mariano i appreciate your compliment and i also appreciate uh you're bringing that to the forefront i we have considered internally and i'm going to tell you that internally i don't feel that there is a person that will be able to handle the position again based on what i've been able to learn and discern based on looking at mr joner's background in a very unique way asking questions of his current team members and past team members i truly feel he's the candidate for this position matt i'm sorry i apologize yeah i was trying to see if he had a follow-up to that

but it doesn't look like so okay um sally commissioner starking yeah and glenn again i'm so glad you're here and um uh i know we have a lot of work to do and and uh you have your hands full and i do think this position is needed but um as i mentioned to the administrator i have a little reservation with this selection just from my own personal interaction um when i found something that wasn't correct and i uh on our uh in his world of property appraising and i brought it to his attention at multiple times and it was never corrected and it was frankly the answer was not that they weren't going to do anything about it and it took doc me talking to dr bellis about it to get get it fixed and it cost this county tens of thousands of dollars and while okay forty fifty 000 maybe isn't a lot of money the um the inaction um of fixing the problem does not sit well with me because you're your department in in that position needs a lot of action and um and so i'm i'm probably not in support so i think we need to maybe keep looking commissioner while i appreciate your comments i would like to say that i'm sure that with the 47 000 permits that we've issued during this past year you're going to find some people who felt that we have not done things as they felt that it should have been done and i ask that you trust me in making sure and i think each of you will attach to the fact that if there's an issue that comes up and you notify me that it is looked into immediately that's my role and that's mr bowell role and i'm certain that uh if there's a concern that arises it'll be handled appropriately i i still go back to the point that it wasn't wasn't my role to um fix it i brought it to the attention of someone in in a leadership position that should have fixed it and i brought it to his attention multiple times and it never got fixed on their end and so that to me is a lack of leadership and i think you need leadership in that position so that's that's where i am and i appreciate it but i'm the role that's going to ensure that it will be addressed and i will guarantee that for your commissioner miss fitzpatrick i was just wondering was this posted and listed publicly so was there any other applications no this was an internal this was a specific hire an internal

position hunter okay so and then my other question just was his level of education is he replacing paula so as sherman mentioned paula's moving over to another position that's more in line with her long-term career goals and we are supportive of that and that's coming up in a couple items so this this is a position to that that is nbcs to run the department in the key experience that mr joyner brings is this customer service expertise in running government customer service operations and that is what we need you know 85 percent of our permits are not the standard home builder they're not the commercial developer they're the one offs if you will and so that is where we need to focus our customer service operation and that's that's what we need to do and you know again this isn't an operational issue we are hiring somebody to fill an operational role which is what you really hired me to do and so that is kind of what we're doing here we have a comparison between the two and i'm just looking i know i'm new with this but looking at paula's salary of 105 000 and then having someone replace her for twenty thousand more it just it's it's what the market will bear for those two positions you know they're that both positions have different level of expertise a different level of responsibility and so that's kind of where we and how we define the salary requirements of those positions right but if he is replacing paul's position commissioner fitzpatrick i apologize i'm doing to do this to you real quick but um you're getting feedback which is we're not i don't think the public can hear you um thank you thanks for fixing that and i apologize but i wanted to make sure everybody could hear you clearly i was just i don't remember where i was at all right um that's okay i was just asking if paula was making 105 000 and mr joyner was going to come in and replace her why is he getting paid 125 000 so it just doesn't look i don't know that paul was only in there as an interim fill while we went through this process waiting on mr joyner to become available and then being able to fit in the role so that was an interim position for a short duration with the idea that we would then be moving her into a position that is more in line with her long-term career goals which is what we're doing today and then eventually young so you felt she was qualified to do that position but she wasn't getting short and then on a short term basis on

an interim basis i'm just looking at the pay scale difference from male to female doing the same job one was doing it i remember i i understand your concern was an interim basis in you know the 105 is actually based on the criteria and duties and skills of the one she's moving into not the one she's leaving and that's a that would be a permanent salary she had a temporary boost while she's in their interim following our paid policy in hr and so that we were following the policy with her when we went out to hire mr joyner we are working on what the market would bear for that position and that is what we are hiring him at okay thank you commissioner thank you commissioners i um i appreciate ms sherman's uh value in this position and and her choice of gary joyner feeling that i have i believe that that probably is the right decision at this point i have a little reservation because of some of the things that happen with some of our owners and developers of properties that are going to be developing and coming to your office in the future that i want to make sure that there's no issues caused by what he's done in the past as a property appraiser to affect those people coming forward with new projects new developments coming coming forward and so i have all the confidence in the world and mr biles choice of this position and and following through with it and i know that if there's conflicts and things that will affect that position and affect us as a county i would feel assured that you would take care of that right away and we wouldn't have that issue so with that i do give you my support and i uh make a motion we accept so i have a motion on the table to accept i do have one question though so i haven't had a chance to have a discussion yet um this is just this is general um you know typically a position because this question was just raised um i think either commissioner fitzpatrick or i think with commissioner fispage to raise it um typically on director level positions from my memory um unless it's an internal promotion they're always publicized i don't remember one time when we did not publicize an opening unless it was an internal promotion commissioner i can answer that one you know in general we would and this one i felt uh with miss sherman that you know there was a talented individual out there that was specifically

had the skills and experience necessary to do the job that was already effectively a pasco county employee as a property appraiser and it just made sense to just go directly to him and not go through the process when i already knew who we thought we needed to hire and and so we didn't want to anytime you go that process you put other people through time and effort to get through that when and if you already know who you think you want to hire then it probably makes sense just to go straight to to the end result and you know i kind of go by the amount you know when there is talent available that is that would make sense for the county or for whoever i'm working for i want to try to accumulate that talent and that's part of what we try to do here at this point also chair one of the things that you and the commission have passed with the division is the improvements that you want to see with regard to customer service and i feel that this is the most efficient way to continue to advance those improvements in a timely manner so that we can get to where you want to be with customer service delivery in the branch commissioner fitzpatrick has a question can we postpone this to be an agenda item until next month and open it up so it's publicized so we make sure he to confirm that he is the best person for the position i i would prefer not i mean the board obviously can do it and direct us what the board wants to do i i will go back to you know the hiring and firing of the county employees is an operational decision that you know we bring the directors and above to the board for confirmation right mr chairman just let me go but to her to answer your question yes you have the ability to do it yes you do okay i want to make sure you understand that thank you there's a preference but you as a commissioner do you have the ability to continue an item if so see fit commissioner mariano i would say and and kind of uh talking with listening to commissioner starkey bringing up a customer service point i will tell you the people at the lynx golf course when they found out which they didn't know kind of surprised all of us including myself that the agricultural exemption was granted there uh i know that people tried to reach out to him to get him to come meet with him to some degree and i don't know that that happened from what i understand it didn't happen uh and when we're going to be in that position we need responsive uh action right off the bat and back to christina commissioner point as far as going out on the market i think there's a lot of people out

there who have a great skill set that could actually help it may have superior skill set and i think one of the things that paula struggled with while she was there and told her did a phenomenal job but if we can find someone with the skill set in the permanent business just like sally's growing up in the business she's got the skills from the bottom line level all the way to the position she's at now i think there may be some talent that's out there and if we don't look out there and find the best person for this position which is a very very critical position we deal with this all the time uh for four years dan we've given you you know whatever you need to go as far as to find the right people coming in i think sally was a great pick but i think if we're going to bring this position forward the way you've done it i think we're best serving the people at pasco to put look at everybody out there not to even take him out of the position but at least let's to go look at the talent that's out there and who wants this job and find out what's best for the position so i still have a motion on the floor i have not re i will call for a second do i have a second on commissioner oakley's motion what was his motion so i did not have a second on commissioner oakley's motion i did have i did have it was not a motion but i had a question if a motion can be made about continuing the item but right now my i don't have i still don't have a second on the other motion so with that that motion dies did you you have to make the motion to postpone it to the next agenda to next month on the agenda so i have a motion to continue this to the december question i think her motion was to postpone it and advertise advertise and just make sure we have thoroughly nature yeah so why don't you restate what it is that you want i would like to make a motion to advertise publicly the position to make sure we have the superior person and the best fit for the job that is the motion on the floor at this time i'll second that so i have a second to that motion discussion discussion no discussion i will call that motion district one commissioner oakley hi expect two i'm sorry district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore aye motion passes five zero and just for discussion if i understand make sure we understand correctly too is that um that it's not taking anybody out of the running for the position but

this position at the board's direction will now be advertised and um they'll be brought back to us after that's advertised okay i guess i don't see any knotting heads but i assume that's what's going on that's what i heard okay okay directions been given r82 r82 eternal services mr breitenbach morning mr chairman uh ladies and gentlemen of the board r82 is a recommendation to approve the award of the lobbying as it was eric breitenbach assistant county administrator internal services r82 is a recommendation to approve the award of a lobbying services contract to corcoran associates on your monday 21 september meeting the board requested that we solicit for an outside lobbyist to work with our internal governmental affairs staff on pasco county focused issue issues that process is complete a four member commit committee evaluated the responses that we received we did receive three responses to our solicitation they were corcoran partners sean foster llc doing business as sunrise consulting group and shoemaker advisors of florida after the four-member committee met and evaluated all the proposals they scored the corcoran partners proposal as the highest and with that purchasing recommends the approval of the award to the contract to corcoran partners in the annual not to exceed amount of 60 000 per year for fiscal year 2021 for a one-year term with up to three one-year renewal options and also to designate recommend designating the county administrator the authority to renew the annual renewal options as needed up to the annual amount uh not to exceed amount designated and standing by for questions from members of the board mr chairman um commissioner starkey so i'm not happy with the way this was done when we picked our last lobbyist we had presentations and the board selected the lobbyist and and so i'm not comfortable with the way this went down and i would like to make a motion that we do not pick a lobbyist today but we ask for um presentations at our next board meeting and at that board meeting select the lobbyist okay i have a motion on the floor a discussion i can say all right so there's a second on that okay okay any discussion uh commission mariano yeah um and i think they're matter of fact the state elector's getting sworn in today uh so they're starting their committee meets right away mr stark are you comfortable if we we're going to miss a couple of weeks you're

okay with that yeah that was my though i was going to bring that up the reason i know the time is of the essence but i think this is did you hear the presentations none of uh was there a presentation i i don't know but i think it's our i think it's not staffs lobbyists i think we're the policy makers and i think it's more appropriate that we hear the presentations and so i'm disappointed the the process we set in place last time was changed i think we should have been asked about the process maybe we were and i missed it but you know that's why i say at december 8th we we listen and we pick and get them to work right away i'm sure any lobbyist that we we would pick at our next board meeting i mean between now and then is thanksgiving not a whole lot's gonna get done they'll get to work right away yeah i think they actually did the process based on us giving direction to go reach out to uh lobbyists for this uh maybe we're not as clear as we should have been and said we wanted presentations i don't remember talking about that so but i think that's how we went through that that's correct mr or mr oakley we we follow the normal rsq our request for statement of qualifications for um having a consultant or a lobbyist or any other we follow our normal standard process in the county with uh in this case i didn't read the members of the committee there were mr biles that's kathy pearson um espero caldo and ralph lair so those were the folks that evaluated the responses and our recommendations based on their their findings from the from the proposals well just the way i hear it our board would be better suited if if we heard their presentations and chose from listening to their presentations so i think that's what forwards ask motion or something so i have a yeah so i have a motion for now i i mean i'll just make a statement and that i'm i'm aware of these firms and i know they're they're all very admirable and they do um i know we've probably all had dealings and work with each and every one of them so they're all great firms and i know two of them actually are based in pasco county in their home offices or pasco county so that's great that we obviously have folks that are based in paso county i think the other one was in hillsborough so it wasn't far away right okay so close by so it's nice to see the people that um that apply but i do

but with that i mean i do have a motion in a second on the floor um to ask for um presentations to be given to the board um so mr chairman if i can ask you please go ahead so the motion that's on the floor would would have uh presentations from all three of these vendors correct that would have yeah yeah you're not you're not shortlisting you're taking the three that the three that are there and asking for and asking for presentations from all three i think that's to be fair for everybody so wait should we clarify how long a presentation should be or is that maybe we should be specific well you do i think you're going to have to do that because so let's go let's back up a little bit in in the past the presentations we're giving to the to the board like you mentioned that there's a certain time limit as well as now the board ranked those applicants or yeah so i think that you know how we that's what we did previously i don't know 10 minutes five minutes well five's too short ten it's pretty important yeah i mean i i would ask i would i would go revert back to the team and ask them how long the presentations were that were given um to you to your so for this station the committee did not receive presentations they evaluated solely off of the responses that were provided in response to the rfp and so in having sat on many committees historically presentations run anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes it just depends on the on that particular solicitation in this case my recommendation to the board would be 10 minutes but that's clearly the discretion of the board i think 10 minutes that sounds good okay any other discussion commissioner mariano okay i agree okay so i have a motion in a second madam clerk please call the role district one commissioner oakley aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district two chairman moore aye motion passes five zero moving on r83 mr mr codwell good morning sir good morning good morning commissioners is the call at public works um this siteman is brought to the board um to get some direction as to whether to proceed as a board in the board initiated um project um i have a brief powerpoint [Music] is it possible to okay thank you

the next slide please this is item number pw21-0019 the lake home would drive evas number 3375 it's one road count maintained and paid and there are 97 lots and um 37.35 erus in terms of the estimated calls we're looking at the new um pavement contract and um there's 166 000 about uh maximum cost for eru on the new contract is four thousand four hundred there's a discounted amount of seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and the final discounted eru amount is three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars and the next slide please um le como location map and i think i have a photograph or two off the road conditions next slide please and i'm done yeah yeah it's been that long since we've been huh so um this is uh a road that you know has has needs and i just for sake of time i'm going to move that we approve the board initiated pvas on lake como okay i have a motion in a second madam clerk please call the roll out of discussion commercial marijuana okay madam clerk please call the roll district one commissioner oakley aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick thank you okay my question i'm sorry was it it was originally five percent interest rate for everyone and it was lower being lowered to three point okay um in terms of the interest rate is based on when the project is noticed so since this project was will be noticed in a few days it will be at the three point two five percent oh it will be at three point two five yes this process in the on the agenda when you click on it it says it's that the two of them are at five percent and one of them is 15 years at 5.25 yes so what are your public hearing agendas in the afternoon this is a this is a board initiated so okay what ainsley is saying is that the resolution applies to this one yes we'll have we'll have discussions on the afternoon public hearings when those come up yes hi hey you good hey hi okay okay district 2 chairman moore aye motion passes 5-0 thank you r-84 ms pearson good morning kathy pearson assistant county administrative public services uh congratulations commissioner oakley commissioner starkey commissioner mariano and welcome and congratulations commissioner fitzpatrick so i'm here before you to ask for your confirmation for paula baracado to be the director of support services director of support services is going to oversee our veterans in

our fiscal and also act as our program administrator with special projects for our branch we did advertise the position and we had six um applicants that applied and paula came up on top she is uh what can i what can i say about paula we all love paula she's probably one of the most professional dedicated public servants i've ever met and i am so honored and humbled that she's going to be working for the public services branch now paula's been with us since 2011. she's had various positions throughout the county most recently is the chief of staff to our county administrator she is a dedicated dedicated person and i know she's going to bring some great positive energy to the public services branch with the rest of the great positive energy team that we do have she just recently graduated with a certified public manager she holds a bachelor's degree from the university of south florida in political science and international studies as well as a master's degree in public policy administration from northwestern university so with that i am requesting that you would respectfully uh confirm ms paola barakallah was the new director of support services i moved to approve it have a motion by commissioner starkey a second by commissioner oakley you almost got that second in commissioner fitzpatrick just another second battle clerk please call the roll district one commissioner oakley aye district three commissioner starkey aye district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five mr mariano hi district two chairman moore aye motion passes welcome hey congratulations thank you so much chairman and board members it is a pleasure and honor to be here i would not be here without the support of our leadership team our assistant county administrators my co-workers in county admin every single coworker and colleague that i've held in the last nine years uh it has been a long trip to get home but i think i'm finally getting there and so thank you for your support and so grateful and humbled again thank you so much mr chairman commissioner mariano paul if i could well i want to say i think you are extremely professional uh friendly very competent uh i'm glad you're finding your career path where you want to go i want to say you've got tremendous courage to step in that permitting role as you did and i appreciate your efforts in that intern position uh you did a great job there and i'm just happy that your career is going where you want it to go so thank you so much appreciate that sir

excellent congratulations again so we have a walk on i'm gonna i need a motion to hear that don't worry let me see here on the end of the no you're on the emotions it is on the denim okay great um are147 and i think i'm gonna pass that to commissioner starkey aren't i yes and um let's see if we can get this zoom thing working um um today we get a proclamation it is manufacturing month apprenticeship month one of those two and um um so we have a special award this morning and can we can we get that up please and you know because we can't have the public in our uh boardrooms we um are uh doing this virtually and i see peter brzezinski's there they are there you go um so there is uh peter brzezinski is that that bar or where you work i'm at the uh starkey ranch huh no this is my [Laughter] i'm working from home today actually so that's the rest of the crew over there hey hey so um i think tom is ready to go and tom can you uh explain uh what we're doing this morning real quick yes are you able to hear me okay yes yes all right well good morning my name is tom madonna i'm the ceo of am skills manufacturing training and apprenticeships i want to first thank the pasco county commissioners for your support of am skills and for recognizing national apprenticeship week as we celebrate apprenticeships around the country we also would like to recognize someone who has recently finished his amb skills apprenticeship here at farmer works in pasco county justin beau who's here at the head of the table is one of our first high school students who started with the am skills in 2015. justin attended an engineering a program when he learned about the am skills program and he attended after school during his junior and senior year and upon graduation he knew he wanted to go into manufacturing and just helped him to secure a job at a local manufacturer however they did not have an apprenticeship program so after a year working there he requested a transfer and it was at that time that justin interviewed with peter berzinski who was president of farmer works at that time throughout the interview peter saw the potential in justin and was impressed with his enthusiasm and work ethic and hired justin on april 16th 2018 as an amp girls apprentice pharma works committed to helping all apprentices and provided justin the opportunity to be a part of all aspects of the company justin was able to move from basic tasks

to more detailed tasks precision type tasks and eventually became a part of the setup crew to prepare machines for customer visits during the training of setting up the equipment ingo federal vice president and technical director spent valuable hours and he's behind me i believe back here spent valuable hours teaching justin lifelong skills on setting up equipment troubleshooting equipment involved him in a numeral innumerable tasks that helped him grow in his career the knowledge and experience have had led justin to quickly advance to his current role as service technician currently working with bill suggs service manager who's also here at the age of 22 justin has installed multi-million dollar machines at several key pharma works customer locations across the country including mexico hungary and many cities across the united states in fact justin's work travel schedule um because of that amsgill was not able to present him last year because he received the apprentice of the year award from am skills it was selected by his peers so today justin amskillz wants to congratulate you on your accomplishments by presenting to you your florida department we have jim uh here uh his florida department of education apprenticeship certificate as an industrial mechanic as well as a 500 check in recognition for him as uh amskill's apprentice of the year today we have many people with us uh including ben brauer who's the general manager of pharma works and many of his uh team members here and i want to now introduce peter berzinski vice president of farmworks who wants to say a few final words yeah first of all i just want to say you so much to the county i mean the county has been so extremely supportive of this program that was just been a rolling snowball of development and a lot of unanswered questions and so really appreciate your patience and we know this is a long-term approach to um to really a successful justin is a great example of how apprenticeships work and it's uh it's really great just to see that you know he gets a really great well-rounded foundation with the people that are in the room there there are others that are mentors and um you know that allows him to have opportunities i mean we're able to see the benefit from him immediately and then justin's got a bunch of great uh you know multiple career pathways if he chooses because of that foundation so um you know the investment pays off

west side of the county so it's very good that you reach out and and touch the lives of the businesses that we need to move things through and actually streamline things to get it done the right way so i appreciate you sally for all that you've done thank you um that i'd like to uh show you a picture i i kept a promise that i said when commissioner wells was leaving that's why he was in georgia he got his deer oh that's funny he's a happy man so um look for good things out of him as a property appraiser in the future so with that that's all i have today thank you commissioner of league commissioner starkey yes um first i uh would like to reappoint andy goetz to the vo ph planning and policy committee so i make that motion i have a motion i need a second second i have a second motion by commissioner second by commissioner oakley madam clerk please call the rule um you know i was going to talk about section 8 housing but i think i'm going to wait on that one um but but suffice it to say that i i'm going to be working with faq and neco to try and change federal rules on section 8 housing vouchers and i'm not going to go into more detail right now because they ask me not to i'm just remembering that but something's wrong there and i'm going to try and fix it in the next few years um i did um want to uh talk about the starkey gap dedication i believe we have some photos that are supposed to be up so if we can get those up um i want to thank uh ralph lair and the staff for um putting on um our our starkey gap so trail dedication this was originally scheduled for the spring but because of covid and the inability of state uh workers to travel we postponed it until last week um in this photo if you looked i'm in the middle next to me is steve diaz who's the head of npo for hernando county and he's very big trails guy we have secretary gwen but there's our honorary speaker of the day that's former senate president andy gardner and it's andy who started the program when he was senate president to annually fund on the sun trail program to i believe it's the 25 million dollars a year although this year they may be taking a hiatus so um but um we're we were really uh happy that he drove over from orlando to to speak um to this this trail did at this trail dedication and i want to be sure you saw um commissioner eggers is in that photo uh many members of the state green mason

trails council are in here and of course you see our kathy pearson and sam bennick the trail the project manager um we have former commissioner uh well that the chairman of the sarasota county commission betsy benneck is there a man at manatee county and um so thank you to everyone who came out commissioner mariano is there as well that trail is a is a much loved trail and um and uh the dedication was long overdue but i'm glad we got it done we also did a virtual uh celebration of the um coastal ancloak trail uh kathy was also with that one and sam and i had so many neighbors from gulf harbors as you know we don't have a park anywhere around there anywhere to ride so i couldn't believe how many of my neighbors put cars or dogs in their car and drove over there to take their dog for a walk including barbara will height and um just gave rave reviews on the coastal and club trail and um actually the project manager for uh the uh trail that will be the extension of the pinellas trail was at our dedication for the starkey trail and so um he's very excited and they're blowing and going on their end of the trail and next year we'll have another dedication with pinellas county when those two trails meet so um very excited about what's happening there um wanted to uh oh by the way i talked to um secretary gwen about the divergent diamond um backup um while we were there and they are trying to work with the contractor to allow for subcontractors to try and get them back on track and so we are very hopeful that will be um successful and that that they can speed it up um the holiday lake estates cleanup is november 22nd from eight to two and uh looking forward to that um i understand we have an up the alcohol ordinance has uh been moving along and i'm hoping we're gonna be voting on that on december is it eighth that it that is our next meeting we are going to try and get it advertised for your meeting on the eighth yes yes so uh i know there'll be a lot of happy people um in the county that can uh do their shopping early and um i had a meeting yesterday with um actually the gentleman i've known for a long time who has the property across from our former ranch office and it's the second or third time i've had someone come in

and and talk about redevelopment in that odessa area that encompasses all a lot of that industrial um area that is around gun highway between 54 and the county line and the cemetery of trinity and um gun highway and and beyond gun highway so there's there is a lot of incorrect zoning that we have out we have ror which we don't even have anymore um res nine within surrounded by industrial and i had hoped that we could um do some kind of change there that would be a blanket for that community that people didn't have to come in individually and go through a lot of time and hassle because we all know we want jobs in that area and so um um mr boz i don't know if we can oh terry's here yeah there's who i spoke with so terry do we have to wait for the full comp plan revision or is there anything that we can do as a first step in that area uh good morning again commissioners um victorious planning and development no we don't have to wait for the comprehensive plan to update itself we are currently working on the ec flu if you recall a few months ago the employment center future land use designation was brought up i believe by commissioner mariano so we've been looking at adjusting the proportions that are identified in the ec flu it's the proportions within the flu that made it difficult to manage the existing land uses within that area and still get the industrial uh scope that you're that you're referring to but with the potential adjustment to those proportions um similar to what commissioner mariano had brought up in the previous pcc meeting that might open up uh some flexibility within the ec flu but then we can expand the ac flu over the whole area with um at gun highway in 54 and still make sure that the land uses that are there today remain conforming to the comprehensive plan and then also enable that area to redevelop itself in a in a new way does ec allow for light industrial nc3 it allows for some types of lead industrial not all of what is in c3 is allowed within ec but it does have some availability for light industrial it's just if it's our intention you know to bring jobs here and we know that that's an area where we want those kind of um businesses to move to i hope we can make it as easy as possible as quick as possible

yeah we're working on the ec flew per the board's direction back in august i think it was so we should be able to bring that forward and then that should be a little bit of a game changer for the ec flu itself okay and you know what that was not brought up in my meeting with them yesterday because that you know they were they were told well maybe you need to do uh go for an mpud i mean it's five acres and that's expensive for five acres and um and would take a lot of time and and so it seems like we're hurting ourselves so um god speed really yeah once we have that ec flu calibrated a little bit fixed whatever word you want to use um i think it'll open up some opportunities for that area in particular we can look at look at that area for the discussions that we've previously had with regard to ec okay wonderful that's it for me thank you commissioner sturkey um commissioner fitzpatrick do you have anything for us today um well i would like to just say thank you because i have met i know today is technically my first day but i would like to say thank you to all the county administrator attorneys all the assistant county administrators for briefing with me even though it was one hour it was two to three and a half hours until late nights and i would like to have a thank the other commissioners for the warm welcome and i'm looking forward to working with them over the next two years and hopefully the next four years after that i do know i i'm looking forward to declaring the month of november as national hospice and i will be speaking at st vincent de paul so i am hitting the ground running and ready to go and then i'm looking to start some additional programs within the community and i will let you know more about that next time and i'm sure i'll have more to address later on thank you thank thank you mr mariano yes yeah i apologize we if you guys are good with it we were supposed to take a photo anyways i would like to just continue running through if you guys are good with it you guys are good okay cool go ahead commissioner all right thank you mr chairman um just like to say the um as commissioner stark was talking about as far as the zonings that we have trouble with there was years ago when we did the comp plan we found we had several conflict zonings that kept on coming in uh we took care of them i work with the people to get it done so i think along the lines she's talking about if we get other projects that are out there like it the same way i think staff should actually take a look at trying to let's get those

resolved and standing having people spend months and months of time and tons and tons of money uh that we try to help them through the process to try to make our complaint work the way it's supposed to work um said that the uh beacon woods roundabout uh commission stock you'll love it it's almost done now um the other improvements are going to be done by dot has done a great job out there and i would like to say we've got uh on saturday smile faith which is a group that's a volunteer group a a donation group for our veterans uh veterans don't get dental benefits for the primary part uh let's say a lot of them don't and this group provides free dental care for all these people uh the school that they've actually set up now they can actually make dentures they make all sorts of cleanings that go on there other improvements uh crowns so what i was looking for um through the whole process and they operate two different ways number one to take care of veterans there's no charge for the veterans to go there so it's a great service for pasco county uh i would like to see us promote it within our own county that we kind of refer people down there or just make our citizens aware of it it might even be good to maybe if i could if i could mr chair maybe we'll set up a presentation for smile faith to talk to us and and kind of give some awareness to what they do because there's a great service for the county and it could be actually something we might even incorporate with our own um agreements between having them with their own dental plan that they could set up or even just something to uh flexible spending accounts where we can encourage people to go down there it would be a great help for our veterans and that's all i have for today thank you commission mariano okay again welcome to commissioner fitzpatrick we're happy to have you here and congratulations to all my other fellow commissioners thankfully i was the only one that did not have to worry about running this time so make my life a little bit easier just couple things uh tourism and our tourism department is just doing outstanding things and they're being recognized for it um they won another major award um they've been named the 2019 destination branding and marketing campaign of the year for populations over 500 000 and that's by the sports events and tourism association so a huge congratulations to them um the award is given in 2020 obviously for 19. um and it includes also includes the brand launch as florida sports coast which kicked off last year they're going to be recognized at the sports events

and tourism association conference which has been moved to april in birmingham alabama so this follows up the alvin telly awards that our tourism department has won and i tell you what we got a great team there i really really enjoy um sharing that council because it's it's better than ever right now and i think everybody that's on that board will will tell you the same great things happening um this is even bigger bigger and better news than winning awards actually our collections were up uh for tourism in september year over year which is pretty wild with a pandemic our collection's up up just under two percent but they were up so very positive efforts by our our team and we had events throughout the county that um accounted for that so we had five different events out of town events um that came a golf tournament a fishing tournament basketball hockey and baseball which brought in thousands of room nights which accounted for those um those increases in numbers um also had another beach volleyball tournament and golf tournament that were canceled but hopefully they'll be rescheduling and we'll continue to see more great things from florida sports coast i think it's this thursday let me double check my calendar i think this thursday i'll be attending an awards ceremony yes the flagler awards which actually is are happening here in tampa this year i'll be attending that event with adam thomas and i think some other folks i don't know kathy you're going whoever else is going from tourism but i'll be attending that so we'll i will update you on how those go at the next board meeting and with that look at that that's pretty good 1201 we got through everybody we're going to take a break commissioner starkey i i do want to say um there is a faq meeting in um in jacksonville december 1st through 4th okay so i know i'm going commission mariano are you going to that i plan to yes yeah so um and maybe second to the fourth yes commissioner if it's patrick they're having the uh new commissioner orientation there and so um um mrs patrick will be attending that so that's great i found that very very helpful i went through that whole program and i went through the master one so thank you i look forward to it well and i apologize i need to um continue on for a second so let me go to the uh the uh county administrator and then the county attorney in the clerk listen i still like you guys

i just uh i was try i was trying to get done by 12. again until the clerk said something everybody's like whatever i don't need to say anything that's right all right mr biles do you have anything you'd like to go over again we have the time so two items real quick on one update on the cares expenses we are 95.3 million dollars expense are committed okay uh so it leaves a balance about 1.3 million uh that i'm you know we'll be working through on that between now and the end of december what we will be doing is over the next three to four weeks working with all the partners who did receive money from us through the cares program to make sure they expense it yep prior to the end of december and we'll probably put a deadline on closer to like the 20th so that if we need to return money to us we have the ability to to expenses on so i just put that out there very successful from the rent mortgage pro cares program to the small business grant program a lot of different things out there the other one is i think you've all seen um our case rate has effectively doubled over the last few weeks we're up to almost 120 cases per day now of cova 19 and our positivity rate is in the eight percent range both of those are going the wrong way um i so um talked to department health mr napier and in in general it's people are doing a a good job where they're out at work it's school where they're seeing the case rises and family gatherings and other social settings so we got to remember that even though if you have a family gathering you still that is where we're seeing transmission right now family gatherings and social settings so please be mindful of that and we'll work on messaging out to the public later this week so that's all i have sir thank you mr biles mr steiner i don't have anything for you thank you sir man sorry mike thank you yes i have two quick items thank you for recognizing the top that's what happens when you give him back the gavel that's right um i just want to brag on my office they've been doing such an amazing job and we have um two things that i wanted to highlight one um is happening this week starting uh wednesday wednesday thursday friday it's operation green light it's our driver's license reinstatement event so those individuals that have um court costs that they haven't paid yet and they are delinquent on those cases if they come to our office they can come by the phone they can come

virtually they can come to our front counters and we will help assist them and um we will are waiving up to 25 in collection fees for that event to help them get back on the road um the event has extended hours by phone 7 30 a.m to 6 pm again it's this wednesday thursday friday and our front counter hours are the same 8 30 to 5. so kudos to the team for putting that together and then the second thing i wanted to mention is that we have expanded online payment capabilities so um previously you are only able to make payments online for civil traffic infractions in child support now if you have a felony case a misdemeanor or criminal traffic you can also pay those online so it's a great great service we are seeing our customers take advantage of that which is very helpful um to helping them on the case as well as our court system so that's my updates thank you thank you madam clerk and with that we'll see you back at 1 30. so we don't have a bailout in here you're right