07.14.2020 Board of County Commissioners (BCC) Hybrid Virtual Meeting

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Everybody, I'd like to call to order the hybrid hybrid virtual pass county board of county commission meeting of July 14th, 2020. I'd like to remind everybody that please silence your front devices and mute your microphone, which I obviously left mine on mute. So, so madam clerk, please call the role. Or actually, I I apologize. Let's actually rise for the invocation and pledge. It's been a while since I've been inside here. So, oh merciful creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen. Amen. Pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Now, madam clerk, please call the role. District one. Commissioner Oakley. I. District three, Commissioner Starky here. District four, Commissioner Wells. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District two, Chairman Moore, here. Thank you so much. Mr. Steinstein, will you please go over today's proceeding with the BCC? Be happy to, Mr. Chairman. On March 20th, Governor Danis issued Executive Order 2069, which recently has been extended by Executive Order 2150, which suspended any Florida statute that requires a quorum to be present in in person or requires a local government entity to meet at a specific public place. board has chosen to to uh meet a as a quorum present um and utilize the the communic virtual communications media technology. Detailed advertisement was run in the Tampa Bay Times indicating the board's intent to conduct this hybrid virtual meeting. Even with executive order number 2112, the governor's safemart step-by-step order, large gatherings of over 50 people are not recommended to congregate in in any place that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing. Based on this, the conduct of a regular meeting would certainly not meet the spirit or intent of this order. The public has been afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by use of the communications technology that has been provided. The board adopted resolution 2182 on June 30th, 2020 establishing procedural rules for these hybrid virtual meetings such as the one being held today. As with any meeting that you take action, you are required to take public comment on any proposition pursuant to 286.0114 Florida statutes. I'm available for any questions. Thank you, Mr. Stein Snider. And if I'm not correct, Madam Clerk, um, Commissioner Wells is on now. He I think he can hear us. So, Commissioner Wells,

can you hear us? Okay. I know he's there somewhere. Oh, okay. He can hear us. I think we'll just have to figure out how to unmute him. Is he via WebEx? Yes, I am here. Chairman. Yeah, there he is. See, I knew he was there. Good morning. So, good morning. So, we'll count him in. So, we have we have all five commissioners. We're good. So, ladies and gentlemen, now is the time for public comment. Cers are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this public comment section. The board also takes public comment on items to be placed on a future board agenda or other business under their purview. Due to CO 19 operations to safeguard the well-being and safety of our citizens and staff, today's public comment will be handled differently. First, we'll take public comment for those that are pre-registered for a WebEx link that are currently on Q. After after we will read into public comments, documents, records, PowerPoints, or videos that have been identified by members of the public to read out loud or played at the meeting. Finally, we will take public comment from those currently signed up at the kiosk station. Comments are not to exceed 3 minutes. Um, this new format does not wave the request that when you do address the board, comments are not directed personally against any commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides a mutual respect between the board members and the public. For WebEx and kiosk participants, after stating your name and address for the clerk, the timer will be activated and will start a countdown. After 2 minutes, one beep sound, letting you know that only one minute remains. After the time is up, two beeps will sound, indicating 3 minutes are up, and you should close your comments. Webex participants will be disconnected when their time is up. and kiosk participants will be asked to move away from the kiosk. Madam clerk, I know we have a number of people pre-registered to speak. I will let you go ahead and take over from here. Great. Um, 10 did pre-register. However, there are five that are connected. Three of those five are for our nine. So, we can just go to the individuals that are here for truly public comment. So, we have um the first registered is Mr. Joel two. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I hope everyone can Yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I think every Can everyone hear me? Excuse me, Mr. Tulle. Please state your name and address for the record and then start your comment. Joel 2, 4700 Ridge View Road, Palm Harbor, Florida. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm addressing item C15 on your consent agenda titled multi multif family reasonzoning and land use amendments criteria to you. I'm speaking for myself as a land use attorney with over 25 years of service in Pesco and also for multiple land owners and developer constituents within your South Market

area. There are major substantive issues with a 1 half mile prohibition on multif family projects extending for many miles across the south market area within your urban service area. The substantive issues in include direct conflicts with the board's adopted comp plan policies for the south market area, the urban service area, including density transit, etc. There also are direct conflicts with the long-term transit plans for the South Market area. I also am concerned there potential regulatory taking andor Bert Harris Act claims with a 2,000 ft setback area and a requirement for vertical building use integration. This is going to be very problematic in the postcoid retail user world. There will not be enough retail users to take up a half mile swath across your entire South Market area for many years to come. Most significantly, the are procedural issues. This is de facto a comp plan and an LDC amendment without following your chapter 163 process and having public hearings to adopt these changes. There has been no use of the normal 1:30 p.m. BCC land use agenda process. Instead, PDD is pushing this through on the 10:00 a.m. consent agenda without stakeholder notice or public input and more importantly during it doing it during the CO 19 virtual meeting process. I am concerned that this is actually a usurppation of the board's own mandatory public hearing process for adoption of plan amendments and LDC amendments which the private sector would be required to follow. You're not receiving any planning commission or local planning agency input or direction on this. Consequently, I respectfully request that you consider a reconsideration of the directive adopted at your last meeting that you table this matter and you refer it to a normal workshop process for public input and then the normal chapter 163 process to take any such comp plan amendments including modifications to the south market area through the public hearing process with your planning commission and your LPA for recommendations. and you allow the stakeholders an opportunity to have input, you may come out of the back end of that normal public hearing process with the same result. However, you will thereby avoid many misgivings and problems with the process that's being followed. And I I hope you take this into consider. All right, Madam Clerk, who's next? Uh the next uh registered individual is Mr. William Anderson. Mr. Anderson, please state your name and address for the record and start your comment. Yes, William Anderson. Uh, my address is 1002nd Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida. Go ahead. All right. Great. Well, good morning. Uh I would just like to address the board and just uh state you know just to follow up on Joel 2's comments uh to state that we are a developer that does a lot of work in Pasco County uh both retail and mixed use and we just ask that the agenda item number C15 is pulled from agenda and go through the

normal uh usual state and county regulatory process where it can be heard. um through each you know planning and zoning board etc. And we ask that uh the board hears our concerns in this in this COVID world. It's very difficult uh to get projects done and further restrictions on development um are are pretty much guaranteeing that projects are even more difficult to be done. So thank you and I will uh turn my comments over to the next speaker. Okay. Thank you. Um, M. Madam Clerk, who do we have next? Chairman, the next three that are in line to signed up are for R9. So, we'd like to hold those till that time. Is that correct? Um, no. We don't take public comment during regular agenda items, so they will have to speak now. Okay. We have Mr. Mike Sutton. Mr. Sutton, please state your name and address for the record and start your comment. Good morning. Mike Sutton, uh, president, CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Penelis and West Pasco Counties, 4131 Madison Street, Newport Richie. Uh, good morning, commissioners. I'm here to present um and speak about uh agenda item R9, which is Habitat's loan forgiveness request. Habitat believes the redevelopment of Leisure Lane and Vander Avenue will be a catalyzing and transformational development for West Pasco County. Prior to our partnership, this area was known countywide for a place of rampant prostitution, drug use, and generally unsafe conditions. Since merging the Penelis affiliates a little over 12 months ago, we've been able to complete seven homes in the Town and Country Villa, significantly increasing production. Um, and this was even through the pandemic. This is an achievement entire organization is proud of and the work continues to this day. Through a combined effort and partnership with the county as well as the community, we have already witnessed significant change in the area and hope to see the quality of life for the residents and businesses continue to vastly improve. However, there are significant challenges that remain with the redevelopment of this area. Outside of the neighborhood challenges already mentioned, additional barriers include the property being in a flood zone, demolition of derelct structures, and substantial infrastructure requirements and low home appraisal values. The county commission and staff have remained eager and willing partners. Yet, we are requesting this additional investment to increase the feasibility of development of the area. We do not want to lose momentum that has already been created. Municipal municipality funding uh land purchases for redevelopment of affordable housing for their citizens is not unique. As county staff mentions in their memo, due to the property being in a flood zone, alternative federal funding becomes much more challen challenging to obtain and other state dollars cannot be utilized for loan forgiveness either. An almost

half a million dollar investment by the county will leverage over $5 million in construction and will very well add over $1 million in tax revenue over the lifetime of the homes. This past year, Habitat presented an $858,000 ceremonial check to the Penelis County Board of County Commissioners, which represented the total property values of our our Penllis homeowners paid last year. We expect that number to be over a million this year. We would love to present Pasco County Commission with a similar size check in years to come. This investment makes both financial sense and is in the interest of the public good. We respectfully request the commission approval to forgive the balance of this loan. We thank you so much for your time and considerations. Thank you, sir. Um, next, Madam Clerk. Yes, we have Miss Crystal Lazar. Miss Lazar, please state your name and address for the record and start your comment. Miss Lazar, Miss Lazar, are you there? Check your mute. We have her muted. Crystal, can you hear us? You can speak now. I think I hear you. Does she have yourself muted? Yeah. Crystal, think. Look at your phone and see if you have your phone muted. All right. Why don't we go on to the next person? You can try her back if you would. Okay. Um, the next individual signed up is Mr. Sha King. I'll stop the call. Okay. The next person signed up is Mr. Robert Park. Mr. Park, please state your name and address for the record and start your comment. Rob Park, 9614 Aaron Cutoff Road, Landelakes, Florida. Contesting ordinance 20-9, an ordinance amending the Pasco County comprehensive plan changing from residential one to residential 6 located on the southwest corner of Aaron Cutoff and Calendia Boulevard intersection June 30thC meeting saw that my comment regarding ordinance 20-9 voted on May 21st 2019 was connected with the different comments for the ordinance 2019 application data is based before Aaron cutoff was widened in corners which dramatically increased vehicular traffic ordinance-9 includes the call your parkway extensions call your parkway merge which no longer exists due in part to the BCC voting to accept the and the fact that the permit for Conertton Village 3 and 4 is expired. Section three of ordinance 20-9 specifically in part that any of the exhibits are invalid the ordinance is suspended. Clearly, two of the exhibits are invalid. I ask 20-9. I've received no email response from my email inquiry on first and have been unable to con contact Mr. Biles by phone regarding this issue.

Members of the board, the speaker is actually talking about 19 ordinance 19-20. After the last meeting, we pulled the the board records was kind enough to pull the ordinance that he's really talking about. It was adopted on in May of 2019. It is 19-20, not 20-9. Right. So, that's not an item we'll be hearing because we it's already been No, it's it's been in effect for over a year. Over a year. Thank you, Mr. Styer. Who's up next, please? That is it. Like to try Miss Lazar again. Mitchell. Yeah, she's back on. She dropped. Oh, she dropped. Okay. Well, um, Madam Clerk, I guess we do have some emails that need to be written to the record. Do we? Do I have one? Okay. [Applause] This email is from Val G. Ferris. Uh, team leader. I'm trying to find the address. The address. I do not have an address for the individual. I Val Ferris am writing in to voice my concerns about both lift covers. For my understanding, permanent boat boat lift covers are not allowed in Pasco County for saltwater canals, only freshwater lakes. I have recently installed a boat lift over by cover by Coastline Boat Lift Covers Company. Prior to the installation, I called the county to confirm I am good since this is not considered a permanent structure and was given the okay as well as the assurance from the company will with these covers they are not no different than a temporary sun shade. This was installed and I have since been told by the county that I am out of compliance and will soon either need to remove it or face fines. There are over a hundred of these structures in Paso County on saltwater canals. That tells me there is an obvious public need and desire to be able to cover our boats. I firmly believe that not allowing boat lift covers is a serious safety factor when forcing residents to place manual covers over their on their on their boats versus allowing for a simple roof. This does place people at a safety risk falling fail falling off the docks or boat and heat stroke from the need to place the poles under the hot covers. My boat is a 24 foot Triton that from top to bottom is approximately 6 feet tall. That is much more restrictive view than the cover that I have. That is only 2 feet from the bottom of the structure to the top of the actual cover is vinyl. That is less than an inch. Someone please explain to me and all the other residents why these covers are such a concern about blocking a view. They are very minimal. I would ask the commissioners to make this priority and draft an ordinance that would meet the needs of the boat owners as well as other residents that feel this would restrict their view. I would think we can all be accommodated or better yet

put this in a referendum and let the people speak to it. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, that will conclude the public comment portion of the meeting. We will now move on to the consent agenda. I do have a poll sheet. Uh C8 withdrawal, C40 withdrawal, C A C2 W withdraw, C No, A C4 pull and revise. C15 pull and discuss. Um does anybody have anything else? No. Okay. Move approval of the consent agenda. Have a motion by Commissioner Mariano. Second by Commissioner Stark. Have a second by Commissioner Starky. Madam Clerk, please call the role. District 1, Commissioner Oakley. Hi. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Wells. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District two, Chairman Moore. I motion passes 5-0. We will move on to C. Chairman, if I may, that includes the addendum except for C2 and C4 that were pulled just for the purposes of the record. Yeah, I have an addendum C2 and aum C4. That those two were pulled off of the addendum agenda. What I'm at making sure for the record C addendum C1 and addendum C3 were included in the motion you just all made. Yes. Yes. Thank you, sir. C1 and C2 for the record are included in the motion by Commissioner Mariano. That was approved. C1 and C3. You pulled C2 and C4. Sorry. Okay. What you said? Um, A C4. Miss Pearson. Good morning. Kathy Pearson, Assistant County Administrator, public services. So, this is the uh revisions to PS2-000014, item AC4 on the addendum, which is template agreements for outside not for-profit agencies. So, we have a few of them, so bear with us. Uh in the subject line of the agenda, PS20-0014 changed the funding amount from 96 million to 4 million. On the agenda, we added a second paragraph to the recommended board action section of the agenda authorizing Dan Biles, county administrator, to approve check runs. We also listed on the attachments that on the agenda the template agreements. Instead of we had three uh templates, we listed each one of them individually. rental assistance, reimbursements of funds, and advancements of funds. On the rental assistance template, attachment one added clarifying language to the title on page one and changed out the signature page, page four, to reflect the correct spelling of the clerk's name. We apologize, Nikki. On the reimbursement of funds template attachment two, added clarifying language to the title on page one and changed out attachment B, page 25. and on the advancement of funds template attachment three added the clarifying

language to the title on page one and changed out attachment B page 23. All right. Thank you, Miss Pearson. Move approval. Second. I have a motion by Commissioner Oakley, a second by Commissioner Starky. Madam Clerk, please call the role. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Wells. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District two, Chairman Moore. I. Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. And Commissioner Starky wanted to pull C-15. So, uh, yeah. So, I have some reservations on this actually. Um, I wanted Terry to come up. I received a couple couple of emails questioning um you know the our process and I I I tend to agree with them a little bit and I want to make sure that we end up doing what what it is that we really want. So um I wanted Terry to uh speak to you know what integration means. Um what could this actually it's not a half a mile. I I did the math and it's 37. You're right. Um so um but you know what is what would the effect be um if this goes through you know is it is it strip mall lining strip malls lining 54 because I don't think any of us want that. So but if you could address what what it is that um the endgame is of this. So can I jump in real quick just to make sure we're on the same page. Remember this is just a addendum to what we already passed. So you did it just so yeah it's clarifying the a date or something but there are still make sure you knew that there are still some misunder misgivings about and misunderstandings about what we're doing and frankly I'm a little concerned about what we're doing myself. So thank you Mr. Ron you're have to wait buddy I see your hand up. Commissioner I just have I just have a question. Okay. You got to wait for Commissioner Stark's got a question on the table for Terry. So then I'll come back to you. Okay. All right. Thank you sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, right. So, it is we're clarifying today with this item uh when the applicability begins. So, it would be applicable as of June 30 for new submittals into the planning process. So, new applications and also we're clarifying that the purpose of the directors is from State Road 54 from Gun Highway to I75 and State Road 56 from I75 to 301. That's the clarification that's being made. In terms of the language that's in the uh policy directive that was previously uh passed by the board on the 30th of June, um we do use language that includes the word in uh integration. So in in particular, I'll go ahead and read that sentence just to put everybody on the same page. It essentially says that new multif family residential zoning and future

land use amendments along say rout 5456 corridor from gun to 301 shall be integrated with a mixture of employment generating land uses and it goes on from there. Um when we talk about integration um at a minimum we're talking about you know the question of how many multimmodal connections can you make to surrounding land uses. So we're talking about uh pedestrian connections bicycle vehicular micromobile connections etc. We're also talking about what kind of uh connections are you making to the land uses that are around you. So um what we've talked about previously has been um land uses that might uh be considered commercial industrial office. We've also talked about civic types of land uses because often schools and local governments um are major employers in local communities. Uh amenities. We've we've also talked about single family areas as being part of the mixture of land uses that you might be connecting to and integrating with um and the various types of uh pertinances to those uh types of developments and neighborhoods like parks. Um after that when you talk about integration really it turns into a a site planning question of how you're treating landscaping and the types of barriers that you're putting between land uses to separate or to bring together. You're also talking about the types of screens that you can put up that can soften hard edges, right? So, landscaping that's up against a building that uh that softens the harsh appearance of a blank facade, for example. Um, you're also talking about what kind of orientation to the local street network there may be. Uh, so might you consider how might you consider the placement of the building on a site in relation to the street? How far back? How far forward? whether or not parking lots are to the side or rear, it's all about the scale of the development and how that influences the the daily interactions of the people that are moving through there. Um and then also um I think uh integration also speaks to the idea of what kind of scales you're referring to. Automobile scale, pedestrian scale. Um all of those are um I think part of the discussion of what allows for any land use really. Well, in this case, multif family to be integrated with the surrounding environment. Okay. Um, Commissioner Oakley, you had a question. Yeah. One of I don't understand what Miss uh Commissioner Starky was talking about. 37 miles. What What was that? That's a longer distance we're talking about in this. No, it's not. That's the distance isn't changing. Commissioner Oakley, she was just referring to somebody made a statement that it was a half a mile. She was stating that that was incorrect. It's not a half a mile what a speaker spoke about earlier. Yeah, I misunderstood that. All right. Yeah, that's good. Also, also we went through the workshop to come up with this program and then revisited at one of our meetings. Yes,

sir. So, we've done that to this point. So, but yeah, I would agree with you, Mr. Starky. But but uh this is in a little bit in violation of some of our land development code that we're going to have to fix, right? I mean I mean we have this is generating some work for you. Uh it can generate some work. I think some of the language at the end of the policy directive um Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I I would let David Goldstein answer. Maybe I didn't say that or Mr. Stein. Yeah. Yeah, that's a cool, but I think we're conflicting with some of our own stuff. I'm just saying that I I've had the conversations with the county attorney's office and and on everything. And I think you need to let David answer that question being that he's the attorney. Yeah, I don't think it is in conflict, but if to the extent we identify any conflict with the land development code or comprehensive plan, those would be brought back to the board of county commissioners through future land development code amendments or comprehensive plan amendments, and those would go through a public hearing process. In addition, I think it's important to point out that this policy only applies to discretionary reasonzonings and land use amendments that are going to come back to the board of county commissioners anyway. So to the extent that Mr. 2 or any land owner feels that if that the application of this policy to a particular zoning or comp plan is inconsistent with other comprehensive plan policies, they can address that through the public hearing process when the resonings and plan amendments come back to the board and county commissioners and the planning commission. But to answer the direct question, I'm not aware of any incon direct inconsistencies with the comp plan or land development code to apply this policy. However, if we identify any, we will we will address that through appropriate land development code or comprehensive plan amendments in the future. Okay. But um my my fear um my my fear Oh, that's weird. My my fear is I don't want to see 54 and 56 stripped out and I know that goes against our land development code. So, um I'm hopeful that we'll be able to see some projects that have this integration. Um you know, similar to uh downtown Long Leaf or Lake Nona or um what's there's some other projects that bring this kind of mixeduse feel right to the to the street, but um I just I would just hate to see us strip out everything. That's not a good development way to develop either. So, right. Um again, Commissioner Starky that you know obviously the we talked about like Oakley did mention you know there obviously the entiret was to pull

the you know the oversaturation of multif family which which we all talked about and agreed on off that off that um corridor. And then this one amendment too needed to clarify. There was some confusion among some people and the public that asked questions about, hey, wait, is this the south 54 corridor? Are you including the other portion of 54, which it doesn't. So, that had to be clarified today. So, it was not that confusion was not um out there um within the community. So, it does remember it's the southern portion of 5456, which is one straight corridor. It does not include that section of 54, which goes um from, you know, West Boulevard and goes up to Zephr Hills. you guys with me? Cuz I know somebody was concerned about that before, but that does not include it doesn't include that. That's that had to be clarified today. So, so, so I'm not against multif family and the 5456 corridor at all. I think our our comp plan um tries to put the density there along that corridor. Um that's the only way we'll ever have transit and and that is one way you kind of stop urban sprawl. Um I for me, I'm not a fan of the big apartment complexes. I think when these big developments come in, there's other ways to integrate multif family um into a community rather than you put one kind of house here and one kind of housing there. Um that that I wish we could strengthen that and and say don't do these big complexes, but mix them around. That's what he's trying to do. Well, yeah, not necessarily, but okay. Anyway, so record I'm not against multif family on 54 56 corridor. Okay. Commissioner Mariana. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, we actually have another floor in October as well. Um, oh, Mike, turn on your mic. I'll turn mine off. Um, I don't know if it's FL just I'll say I didn't understand it to be this way, but actually brought was brought out by Dr. Blanco, which I think you met with yesterday. Uh, he's got a very high-end economic development concentrated property that would be great for a big business, but we have a component in our code which I'd like to get you to bring something back so we can change that as well. Whereas we're making it mandatory that part of his employment jittering facility has to have multif family in it. We don't need that. Correct. So we need to if you if you can I think we need to bring that back. Otherwise, he's got to go through a process to spend three grand. But no matter where it is in the county, I think it's a uniform policy that if someone's going to have a giant company that wants to come in and they want to use it all for commercial for their for jobs, I want to have flexibility to go do that. I would agree with you, Commissioner. Yes. and other discussion. Commissioner Oakley, I apologize. Go ahead, sir.

That's okay. Hey, uh, one thing none of us, I think, have thought about and and I think, uh, Mr. Tube brought it up in his statements in public hearing. We don't know what is going to happen after CO 19 for the retail market that he was talking about that might not come to fill in that space between the road and these apartments. So that's something I guess we're going to have to keep a close eye on because retail market won't be like that in the future. So I think that's some that's just an unknown. So I think we just have to watch that as we go. No, I and I appreciate it, sir. I mean I think you know I appreciate anybody's public comments and the gentleman that both the gentleman that spoke this morning. Um I'll just remind you one's an attorney from outside the county and one the person was from somebody outside the county too. I didn't hear from any land owners speaking against this that actually own land on long 54 and 56. I didn't hear from one of them during public comment that have an issue with this. So I think it's I think that's a valid point. They we did not hear from one land owner on 54 and 56 that says in public comment they said they have an issue with us today. I didn't hear from anybody in Pasco County today during public comment that said they have an issue with this from Pasco County that lives in Pasco County. So I think there's any more discussion. I entertain a motion. Move approval. C15. Have a motion to approve. Second. Second. Ron. I have a second by Commissioner Oakley. Motion by Commissioner Mariano. Madam Clerk, please call RO. District one. Commissioner Oakley. I. District three. Commissioner Starky. Oh, reluctantly. District four, Commissioner Wells. I, District 5, Commissioner Mariano, I. Chairman Moore, I. Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. And if I'm not correct, that does it for and thank you, Terry. Thank you, David, for stepping in and answering those questions. Um, I think that does it for our consent agenda. [Applause] All right, we will move on to the regular agenda starting with R1 when I get to it. R1, Cly update, Pasco Economic Development Council. And if I think we have Mike, are you on the line? Good morning, Mr. Chairman. How are you? We're doing great. Thank you. The show is yours. All right. Um, can you see the presentation? All right. All right, we're pulling it up right now. Got it. Well, good morning everybody, members of the board. My name is Mike Bishop. I'm the director of stakeholder engagement at the Pasco DC, and I'm here

to uh give our quarter 3 update. If you advance the slide, please. So, this is our year-to- date business recruitment project pipeline. You see that we're still pretty active and we're getting a lot of interest uh from companies looking into Paso County. inquiries are still strong and uh we're continuing to funnel them towards legitimate leads and and working on increasing those leads as we you know continue through this current crisis. If you can advance to next slide please. This is a breakdown of the projects that we're currently working on. So you can see a pretty good mix of different industries, healthcare in there, transportation, but of course manufacturing is comprising a good majority of it and that's over 50%. So that's uh that's encouraging news. Next slide. So here's our progress on projects, new jobs, capital investment. Mike, I hate to stop you real I hate to stop you real quick, but um just state your name, your full name and where you're from just for the record for the clerk. Yeah, I should have done at the beginning. I apologize. Mike Bishop, 21201 Sky Vista Drive and that's in Land of Lakes. Okay. Just wanted to make sure we had that. No problem. Sorry to stop you. All good. All good. So, uh, so here's our projects, new jobs, and capital investment progress year to date. So, you'll see, um, on we're we're still on a pretty good track. Our projects, we're at, uh, 10 out of 12 right now, and that's 83% of our goal. On the new jobs, we're at 493. That's a goal of a,000. So, that's at 49%. and capital investments were uh pretty close to 77 million and uh that's 85% of the goal uh which is 90 million. Next slide please. So going to business recruitment and and um uh sorry business retention and expansion. I apologize this has been very active for us this quarter as you can imagine. Um the biggest thing to highlight here is on that first goal of 90 company visits. We're at 76 right now and that comprises 33 um interactions on manufacturing capability assessments that uh we did early on in in the crisis. Um you can also see here that uh we're at 17 when it comes to uh introducing local primary target industry employers to relevant training programs and uh that's at a goal of 20. So that's that's pretty far along. And also when it comes to introducing Paso companies to um different uh service providers such as career source and skills, we're at uh six interactions on that. Next slide, please. So these are the uh the events that we attended virtually uh through the quarter. you'll see that a lot of them are uh COVID related and in in regards to obtaining information that's relevant for businesses and being able to relay that that information. Next slide, please. So, this is where you can tell that we um we got a little bit of an impact from uh from COVID and we uh you know were unable to attend any you know business market missions or

conferences. We're we're continuing to track that and you know when we're able to do that safely you know we'll we'll continue down those paths but um you know right now unfortunately a lot of those will be cancelled. So and I am and I apologize I am I am moving relatively quickly. I believe that you have a pretty jam-packed schedule. So if there's anything you want me to slow down on let me know. Uh next slide please. So we still able to um do some local presentations. We did six of those to uh different business groups. Um all of these were done virtually um you know in order to uh uh stay safe and and still accommodate being able to obtain these these different goals. All right, next slide. So going a little bit into the marketing piece, there was an estimated 264,000 and estimated earning value or earned media value rather. A lot of this was in regards to the um pass emergency business grant which we'll go into a little bit in next few um in a couple slides. Um we also had an announcement for the uh the new incubator at the Grove and uh a company announcement as well. So that that's how that uh 264,000 in our media was obtained. Next slide. So real quick on our Google Analytics um you can see all the data there. The biggest highlight here, I'll point to our page views, uh, close to 50,000. That's a significant uptick and that's mainly attributed to our COVID 19 resource page that was put together for businesses. Um, and also, uh, the Pasco emergency business grant. So, uh, very encouraging to see that a lot of our local businesses were, um, getting onto our site and looking for additional resources that can help them through the current crisis. Next slide. and some of our social media analytics. Um, you know, not much really go over there. You can see the numbers. Next slide. A little update our on on our investor piece. So, um, I'll just go through the numbers really briefly here. You know, you'll see we have 76 total investors. Um, we're at $397,750 raised to date so far. We're at 29 board members with three exeicio. Um, so far we have gotten actually that's a typo that should be five new investors with a new investor this uh past quarter named Brooker. And next slide. So this is the the the biggest piece of the presentation and forgive me I'll I'll go through this line by line because I think it is important to highlight these pieces. This is our COVID update. So, um, just to go through it, um, we were, uh, working on the Pasco Emergency Business Grants and we awarded 1,250 companies with that grant. Um, we had 6,43,000 dollars distributed for the past emergency business grant to these companies. We had 238 company operation status phone calls. So, this was um uh call standup call center that was that

33 virtual events. Um this was part of a co-starters refocus class and uh we had 70 745 participants and very good feedback from those classes as well and that has comprised many different businesses across Pasco County. And as he mentioned the Grow Pasco event, the main event is also rescheduled for January 21. Um and we will still have Kevin Harrington as that as that keynote speaker. Um, yep. So, this is where I'll I'll I'll stop here. Like I said, there's much more detail ahead. Um, I did cover the highlights and if there were any questions at all, I'm happy to answer. Comments, questions, comments. Commissioner Oakley, Commissioner Wells, I can't see you right now, so do you have any questions or comments? None. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. I appreciate. Have a great day and stay safe. Well, thank you. Um, great things happen. We appreciate all your efforts. I know it's challenging times and we again we appreciate everything you and your entire team are doing. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, members of the board, R2 presentation, landscaping enforcement commissioner Starky. Unmute. So, I think y'all know my uh legislative assistant, Danny McAuliffe. And um this is one of the projects um he has been working on. And some of you may or may not know that Danny is heading off to law school. So, I always knew I had him just temporarily. Unfortunately, I've I've tried and tried to get him to stay and not go to law school in New York City. They just wait another year. Were you NYU? Uh no, form. He's going to form. He went Oh, I think he said New York. Okay. New York. New York City. Yeah, it's right by Columbia. I thought you said Florida for a second. Florida. Okay, good. Very, very good. Oh, yeah. I'm very familiar. Congratulations with that. So, um we would have normally waited a little while for this CO stuff to die down, but since Danny is leaving um August 1st, um um we're going to go ahead and give you this presentation and then talk a little bit about it after. Okay. So, my name is Danny McAuliffe. I live at 8811 Pratt Drive, Newport Richie. Uh before I get started, may I approach and give you a copy of the landscaping code? Yeah, you may. Why don't you go ahead and give Yeah, if you want to. Yeah, just make it easy for yourself. Thank you. Thanks. Oh wow. So today's presentation is obviously about landscaping. Um the landscaping code or there our modern landscaping code applies to developments uh built

after or submitted proposals after fee February 26, 2002. And the intent of this code is actually written in the ordinance itself. Um and as you can see up there on the second bullet point, it reduces the visual impact of development. So that's pave services, um large buildings, etc. It screens conflicting uses from one another, residential, commercial areas, provides buffers, things of that nature. And it helps establish a harmonious relationship. I like that phrase. Uh between the natural and the built environment. We also know that uh the cars, parked cars, cool down uh quicker when they're under shade. And so therefore, there's an ad emissions benefit to this. And then also in our landscaping code we incentivize planting of non-native spe or planting of native species uh droughtresistant plants and water efficient plants things of that nature. Next slide please. But there are some problems with our landscaping code and on paper and in practice is where the discrepancy exists. So inside that code there's a there's mention of perpetuity. All required landscaping shall be maintained in a healthy condition in perpetuity and accordance. Uh that means forever. But out and around the county we see missing and deteriorated trees, shrubs, and ground cover. So obviously there's a problem between what they proposed on paper many years ago and what they're actually doing in practice. Uh, one of the problems to that is that when you have a business that is keeping up their landscaping and taking the effort and the money and the resources to do it, they're looking around our county and seeing that other businesses aren't doing the same. I know the commissioner is very involved in this and she's heard complaints of that nature before. Another problem on our end is that enforcement is kind of difficult. It sort of takes a trained eye. I'll be honest, when I started doing some research on this issue, I didn't really know what a landscaping violation looked like. Now I kind of do and I kind of know what to look for. But I also have a bit more knowledge about planning material and I found out how to get access to site plans which are sometimes hard to track down and understand what you have them. Um, so that's just one other problem to keep in mind. Next slide, please. So before 2002, uh we did have some landscaping requirements. Believe they've been difficult to track down. Um but I did take an image of a site that we know uh was built before then. I'm not sure whether they've had remodels or not, but that's just to give you an understanding of what maybe something might have looked like before then. There are also some other areas where a business all they really have is grass and they were built in the 80s or the '9s and things like that nature and they're not not required to do the same things as today. Uh but next slide please. Uh before we get into the examples um it

is going to be an examples of businesses in the county. I did try to obscure their name. Uh today is not really about slapping them on the wrist or the individual business itself. So hopefully you might not be able to tell. some of them it was sort of hard but hopefully we won't spend too much time thinking about that individual business and more about the fact that this is happening in the county and that it's sort of rampant. Um we did survey dozens of businesses uh but the ones that I'm showing you today are just some examples where I thought I could briefly get the point over to you all about what's happening. So next slide please. So this is our first example. It's in holiday. Um, and it was approved in 2004. On the right side, it's kind of difficult to see, but in that red rectangle, you can see a row of circles. And those circles on the landscape plan, which was approved in 2004, are wax myrtles. And in the tinier circles all around the perimeter and throughout that landscape plan represent shrubbery and a whole lot of it. In fact, on this one, there's 309 shrubs just lining that front perimeter on the far right side, which borders a main corridor in the county. Uh, next slide, please. So we saw in paper and now here's what is actually happening on the left side and you can see a similar right uh right red rectangle and obviously to the left of that sidewalk there you can see a lot of gaps along that row and I mean I we didn't even have to go out there to know that they're obviously missing some shrubbery. So you can see the ground itself um and a whole lot of missing trees. That photo on the right shows the gaps in the shrubbery. Um, next slide, please. And then we have one more image of the front of the business and you can see there's no way that 20 wax myrtles um are still along that perimeter. The island itself in the parking lot, uh, you should should see 20 shrubs and there was a total of six different winged elms planted around this particular parking lot. Obviously you can see the shrubs are no longer there but the wing domes are. Next slide please. Our second example is the landscape plan in Trinity. Uh I individually marked the trees on this one. So the red rectangles over those tiny circles are trees. Um so just pay attention to that. And on the next slide I'll explain why there. You're fine. Uh you can see on the aerial there are no trees along that road. Um and that it's the same image as the one before. So we're looking right where it abuts the road itself at the top of the image. That's where you should be looking for trees and there aren't any there. One more slide please. And that's a final image of the business itself. Uh you should see 53 various shrubs planted in staggered rows. You can kind of see on the right side of the image one of those staggered rows in front of the other but gaps between it. So obviously some things have happened

here and the eight magnolia that were on the landscape plan are no longer anywhere along that perimeter. Next slide please. This is another plan uh in the same area as the last one. It was approved in 2003. Now those circles along the edge are elm trees. This business actually does have them. Um, but they're missing a lot of shrubs. So, next slide, please. You can kind of see looking in from the road, there's a massive gap, and that's sort of disturbing, I think, what the intent of this landscape plan was, which is to shield some of the development from the corridor, you know, giving that, like I said earlier, harmonious relationship between the natural and the built. Next slide, please. I gave you some examples from 2002, 2003, 2004. And we know it's hard uh for businesses, you know, to upkeep their original landscaping plans over decades. So, we also wanted to show you some more recent examples. This one is approved in 2019. If you look at the top of that red rectangle, you'll see an area on the next slide that I'm going to talk more about. Next slide, please. Thanks. So that area is a landscape bed um that was outlined in the plan. Um in it itself there should be nine shrubs of two different varieties and a crepe myrtle uh which was required to be 6 ft tall at installation. Uh that crepe myrtle is not doing too well and I don't see any of the other shrubs in that area. It's just a blank planting bed. Um next slide please. This is another image of the front of the business. Along this row, we should see 37 different shrubs and two trees, one dogwood and one Florida maple. Uh, those two trees are not there, and the shrubs are looking like they're struggling to thrive. Uh, next slide, please. Here's another recent example uh, in the holiday area along this row. This is I wanted to include this because it's more about deterioration and there some language in our code about proper maintenance of planting. material and upkeep, etc. So, you're not just putting seeds or uh saplings into the ground. But those are four crate myrtles that are lining that row. They're actually supposed to be 10 ft tall and then shrubs spaced in between. Now, on the next slide, uh next slide, please. Yep. We see that what is that thing? That area or th those those shrubs are basically dead. And those crepe myrtles were about as tall as I was. And they're supposed to be 10 ft tall. on this part particular site plan. Uh so it's just not it's deteriorating or it's you know it's it's not getting what it needs. Uh but the intent was there. On the bottom I show what pisporum which is the required shrub that's supposed to be there. That's what it can look like. That's the potential. And then that's it in practice. Um so next slide please. And most of those were dead right Danny? Yeah they're mostly dead. You can't really see it but there's definitely

brown and um we can talk about that after. Uh but I want to include this example right here uh because people sometimes do things after their landscape plan that sort of renders the point of them moot. Uh so shade trees are in our landscape plan um with the idea that their average mature spread would be greater than 20 ft. In other words, providing shade. um it didn't look at the particular site plans for these properties, but when you prune uh trees in that way, it sort of defeats the purpose. It basically turns them into a hedge or a shrub. So, we wanted to talk about that. Uh next slide, please. And that's just an example of general deterioration of what we're seeing around the county. You can see that probably at one point that was a continuous row and those shrubs were uh since pulled and uprooted and it obviously invites some other litter and other activities around the area as well. Uh next slide please. Today is not all bad. Uh this is an example of a business that I believe the county worked with before my time. Uh so it's all hearsay but I did hear about this. Um before you can see on the left that's images from 2012. If you look at the left corner where that business meets the intersection, you can see just all brown. Uh then the county, I guess, had a conversation with them, educated them, and they willingly uh brought their landscaping up to code. And that's the same look angle looking in from that left top corner on the right side. And you can see on the satellite, it's a lot more greener um in general than it was before. And that the Verizon at Trouble Creek and Little. So So it looks wonderful. We'll share them because we're very happy with them. So, uh, next slide, please. So, this is more of a conversation starter. I wanted to also qualify a few things. We're very sensitive to the economic hardships small businesses and businesses in general have been facing. I in theory was prepared or ready to do this presentation before CO 19 hit. And, uh, with my time here coming to an end, I still wanted to do it. But it's not about slapping businesses on the wrist. uh we really think that maybe they're unaware of it. Uh they don't have the education about it. They they've maybe forgotten. Um I mean, you know, they're not willingly breaking the law or breaking code. And we don't really want to fight with them. So, uh to that end, I'll turn the conversation over to you. I think we want to give or maybe talk about how we can add an enforcement wing to our great code. Um an extensive code and code that's hard to read. Uh but uh that that conversation's for you all, not me. Thank you. Thank you, Danny. Thank you, Danny. And all the best to you. All the best. I'm sure you'll do great. I think it was a great year to get involved with local government.

There was a whole lot of experience this year. I I bet I bet it was. Commissioner Starky. So, um, this is, uh, a problem that, you know, we're seeing around the county, and I I really see it in the in the businesses that have been up and running for 10, 15 years where they, you know, they're not being held to the standard that they're supposed to um, when they when they built, when they came in. And so, um, it's a it's it's a a strange, um, well, it's hard for code enforcement to take this on because they're not this is not part of their wheelhouse in my opinion. This is more building services. And I've talked to the administrator Biles about this about how we how we can start um making sure that we're not letting our county slip back to where we were in this 80s and before because a really bad landscaping job with broken, you know, unbroken with a broken string of hedges and dead trees looks worse than nothing. and um it will come to your area and all the new stuff if we don't stay on top of this. And um and so uh I think Dan, you said that in the business plan you have a plan to um be able to start enforcing this in the next year. Well, we have the ability to take a couple of the positions that BCS has asked for and adjust to make to have them do more conditions of approval compliance. Not necessarily landscape conditions of approval compliance. Site plans get approved with conditions of approval to make sure people are staying in compliance with the conditions of approval. Yeah. Which would include landscaping, but there's also other there's other things too as well. Yeah. And you know, an example of what um he's talked about too is if you remember, we had that business that came to to US19 in Holiday, the towing company, Pete's Towing, I think, and we denied him his um his uh permit to remodel and do a um towing and storing on 19 because we don't want that kind of look when we're trying to, you know, revitalize the area to make it a have a a towing facility right there on 19. And so, um, they appealed and they came back in. They said, "Let us come back in with a great landscaping plan." And we said, "Okay, with that land landscaping pan plan, a six-foot opaque fence and really nice plantings in front of it, you can operate that kind of business on US19. And then three years went by and they never did it." Um, and I and I would be the one calling and where what's going on? Where's the landscaping? So, and the fence. So, no, there there isn't there we don't have someone who goes around and double checks on conditions of approval. And so, I think that's really important and that's not something code is able to do because they don't, you know, they don't know what the conditions of approval are. They're out looking for trash and it's different everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. So, um we wanted to bring this to your attention and and we do want our business businesses to know too

that we have the ability to help you with your landscaping. Um we have the tree mitigation trust fund and and you can get grants up to $10,000 each. So um we so you know we think education is the first thing that we should do is is there should be a letter written and actually Christy Sims has written that letter um that we can send out to businesses to say hey you may not realize that you're required to keep up your landscaping and you need to put back in the landscape that's missing and dead and then um and you know we're here to help you. So we we don't want to be, you know, big bad government, but we we don't want this to continue. So, anybody else? Any any other questions, comments at this time? Commissioner Mariano, it might be good to do a workshop on it. Um, you know, I look at some of the pictures. I remember we talked about BMS are hard to maintain. Yeah, we got rid of those. Hey, turn your mic on. So, maybe that's something that can be brought up like they can lower it down so maybe those things don't die because the water can't get to the bottom. Um, when I look at the shielding of the current, sometimes you got might have signage issues. So, maybe a good chance to look at that as well. And I saw some of the trees well under the power lines, but I know if you drive down like 52 coming over, you'll see other areas where they just have to chop these big trees that are underneath that, you know, might might look at maybe changing that as well. Um, so I mean we got some opportunities to take a look at it and maybe even take a look at this used to be the landscaping and irrigation ordinance and water was designed to go into the planters and if you saw all the curbings you see most around there. The curbing blocks any water from going in there usually goes into a drain somewhere else. So maybe that's something to take a look at too. But I'm happy to go down the road looking at it and find out let's let's go find out what the business community wants us to do and how we can try to make it so we make everything look better at the same time work within their requirements too. Thank you, Commissioner Mariano. And I'll I'll double check, but Jack, I do think that um when we when we went into this before um we got rid of the BMS because those are really hard to maintain. And um and then I think DOT uh or the the power companies already have um a rule that you cannot plant a certain kind of tree under a power line. And I think what we're seeing with those oak trees that get trimmed very strangely is is before that ordinance came came into effect. But that was a good change. I think that was statewide actually. And then what was the third thing you said? Um oh the irrigation. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know about what we have with the irrigation. It might go just but but nothing's good. Nothing works

unless you enforce it. Right. And and I think like I said with the the intent is really good. And I think if we look at if you go back to the requirements that were done 20 years ago to that building, well now we've made changes with the BMS and the trees. So maybe we need to go look at how this has changed too. So maybe educate them along the way as well. Exactly. I think a big part of it is education and if we have the money in the tree mitigation fund to go help them with the expense now it makes it even easier to get it done. Yeah. So first thing I think we should just let them know that they're in violation. Yeah. Commissioner Oakley or Commissioner Wells, do you have anything to add? I'm good. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks, Danny. Great job. Now, we do have Danny. Yeah, we do have T-Barta on the line. And this is your item again to M or Commissioner Starky. Yes. Um and David, is that you? Who's presenting from T-Barta this morning? This is Bill Ball from Tindle Oliver representing T-Barta. Oh, okay. Great. Well, welcome You have the floor. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner, Mr. Chair, members of the board. Again, I'm pleased to be here at Bill Ball with Chindel Oliver representing Tarta on Envision 2030, which is the first ever regional transit development plan for the Tampa Bay area. Next slide. Really the number one thing we're trying to accomplish within vision 2030 is to get regional consensus on a vision on a blueprint for the future of regional transit in the Tampa Bay area. Next slide. And we've learn we've worked substantially with the key regional partners, the five local transit operators. You can see the existing local bus services that are provided by each of those operators on this map here as well as the MO chair's coordinating committee and the Florida DOT. Next, now this really depicts the values and benefits that we're targeting for TARA to contribute to. We feel strongly that the the more robust regional transit investment would have great contributions to these benefits. So I'm going to talk about two in particular in the next two slides. Next slide. First is job access throughout the region. And no doubt that if envision 2030 were implemented, we'd have a substantial increase in the number of jobs that the average resident has access to. And that's particularly true for the lowincome and moderate income populations throughout the region. Next slide. Now this talks about regional competitiveness. the Tampa Bay partnership. They facilitate a regional

assessment of how Tampa Bay ranks with other regions around the country. And unfortunately, Tampa Bay does not rank particularly well in a lot of those categories, including transit supply and transit demand, as well as the housing and transportation affordability. So, the whole concept here is a more robust regional transit investment would contribute to a more competitive region. Next slide. Well, more than 10,000 people were engaged over the last 12 to 15 months as part of Envision 2030 and we've incorporated those the the that input into what we've come up with with the vision we have today. Next slide. There are two key priorities that TBarta is focusing on and this is important to the board today and they'll continue to discuss this at their meetings on Friday. Number one is increasing the total transit funding that comes to the Tampa Bay region. That whether it's regional services, local service, regardless, we're talking about increasing the total transit funding pie. Secondly is really the consensus with the regional partners as to how Tarta can best help support making progress towards that regional transit vision. Next slide. We did spend a lot of time learning from other peer regions around the country. We picked some specific areas of the country that focus and how they use regional transit to improve their connectivity throughout the region. These regions have traditionally been more successful in securing federal transit funding. So, we wanted to learn from their best practices. And we've identified a number of areas and provide details in the plan as to what we should potentially consider here in the Tampa Bay area. Next slide. We didn't reinvent the wheel. There's been a lot of work done by local transit agencies, by the NPOS's, by TBarta previously, and the input that we received and put together the the transit vision that we have in front of you today. Next slide. And this is that regional transit vision. And you can see in the map that we provided regional vision of what transit could look like to provide connectivity throughout the five county areas with a variety of technologies that would be pursued over over the course of time in the future. And you can see that the range of technologies that are indicated on this slide. And you can see the major corridors that are covered in Pasco County and how you connect to the regions to the to the north and south throughout the T-art area. Next slide. So now that we have a vision indicated, we needed to step back and decide now what can we accomplish to make progress toward that vision in the next 10 years. So what we did is put together three investment scenarios to facilitate that discussion and they're indicated on this slide here. Number one was really a status quo scenario where TBarter would continue as they are today focusing on regional transit planning and commute

Tampa Bay which is vamping and other commuter services. The second scenario is what we've termed the lower impact scenario where Tartar would focus on generating new funding to the region that they could in turn provide to local transit providers to improve the existing regional services that are out there today. And then number three is the high impact scenario where we're talking more substantial transit investments in the region, including the phase one of the regional rapid transit project. That's the premium bus project between Wesley Chapel, downtown Tampa, and downtown St. Pete, as well as beyond that, some additional new express bus routes that would provide commuter service to the counties throughout the region. Next slide. Now what this map shows is a visual of what scenario three the high impact scenario would look like. It's basically a subset of that regional transit vision that we showed earlier and it shows progress toward the vision uh recognizing that today this is not a funded scenario but what we want to strive for in the next 10 years. Next slide. Now cost the the ultimate question. We wanted to show what TBarta has in terms of existing revenues which is the $42 million a year that you see I mean per over the 10-year period 42 million over that 10-year period and how it compares to the operating cost of each of the scenarios. It's balanced with the status quo and then you can see the deficit that increases with each of the scenarios that we have on the slide. Next slide. Similarly with capital cost, it's pretty minimal capital investment with the first two scenarios and then we start having that major capital investment with the high impact scenario. A lot of that related to that regional rapid transit project. You can see the large deficit associated with that investment. Next slide. So we wanted to give you a feel for the existing funding that TBarta has over the next 10 years with existing sources of revenue. You can see that they have about 42 million in operating, about 10 million in capital over that 10-year period. The bulk of those revenues are from state and federal sources of funding. There is a small portion in the gold that's local funding from the five counties in the region. That accumulates to about 5.6 million over the 10-year period. Next slide. And that comes from the $550,000 that the counties contribute to TBarta on an annual basis today. And this is how it's distributed amongst the five counties based on population. Next slide. So the ultimate question is Tarta funding in the future. To enable progress towards that vision, we've got to come together as a region to pursue dedicated funding from the state from two perspectives. one to fund the agency and its operations and secondly to be able to implement regional transit projects like regional rapid transit. So

the big question will be TBarter is working now on the board and its committees are discussing what form collaboration should take with our local partners to further discuss the specific strategies that we've laid out in this plan to decide what are the best ways to increase that total transit funding to the region. Next slide. We did pull together a call to action and some recommendations that would help facilitate that discussion that's in the plan and it's organized into the three areas that you see on this particular slide and I'll talk briefly about each one. Next slide. First is the policy call to action. Now, the TARTA board adopted the plan back in June 22nd at the June board meeting and we really need to move on to the next steps of educating further the local partners that are involved in this regional planning effort and demonstrating the value that TBarta aspires to today and in the future and what needs to happen to really achieve those values down the road. uh really pursuing support from our partners and and the key will be those collaborative workshops that I referenced as the T-Barta boards decides the best way to move forward with those those workshops. Next slide. The funding call to action. There's a number of things that TBarta staff are working on that they can, but the bottom line is to secure dedicated and sustainable funding, especially at the state level. It will require some legislative change and and so that will be the target of discussions as we decide what are the best things to pursue in terms of getting support for that change at the state level. Next slide. It's coming down to commitment and collaboration, building consensus on the regional approach, and then building support and champions from the TBarta board, of course, the county commissions like yourself, the MO boards, the transit agency boards, and then ultimately the state legislative delegation, which will be critical to securing some changes in legislation to to pursue that funding in the future. And beyond that, it's also business and grassroots support and leadership that we we saw was really starting to to come evident as part of this planning process, but needs to be continued to build as we move forward. Next slide. Again, I'll reiterate the the values and benefits that we're trying to aspire to with regional transit investment helping secure these benefits for the region in the future. Next slide. Now, back on June 22nd, the board did adopt the plan and they focused on three elements as at this point in time, which is number one, they adopted the regional transit vision that I presented earlier with the understanding that it's unfunded at this point in time. Secondly, they adopted the status quo scenario, essentially the cost feasible plan that it's funded with existing revenue sources. Um and then third, they really supported the continued evaluation of how we can make changes,

pursue additional funding, and do that in collaboration with our local partners so that we can pursue these higher impact scenarios in the next 10 years. Next slide. So this is where we are today. We're trying to get out present to all the commissions like yourselves. We presented to the C chair's coordinating committee for the MO last week and we're continuing to present in the coming weeks and months as we have the opportunity to do so. So, we'd be happy to answer any questions today, but stay tuned for for team career. We'll be reaching out to to invite your participation in some type of collaborative workshop to discuss the next steps for the Envision 2030 plan. Great. Thank you. Next slide. I'll just mention here there's additional information on this website if you want to see more information about the plan, but I'll be glad to answer any questions. I believe David Green's on the line as well if you have questions for the executive director. Thank you so much. Any questions or comments, questions? Well, I just want to say, you know, as has been as has been stated, we are the largest MSA that doesn't have any kind of transit. And um this is our our first baby step um to getting transit for the region. And I think we're doing a very cost affordable project. Um, I know there are some people that are disappointed it's not a train, but um, that just, you know, I think we all hope one day we'll have something like that, but this is a great first step. Um, and we have it starting, you know, at State Road 54 and going all the way down to to St. Pete. Um, and, uh, it will be a blend of state, local, and federal money. Correct. Um, right. So, uh, but right, you know, right now our our our federal money is going to other areas. We're funding other people's transit solutions. So, I hope we really come together and um and and that in 10 years or maybe even 5 years, we we can see this operating here in the Tampa Bay area. Thank you, Commissioner. I think and I'm just going to jump in real quick if you don't mind and I know we had these discussions before and I think Commissioner Mariano both agree on this too because we both stated this in the past that one of the main things too is we want to see that dedicated lane here in Pasco County right yeah that's what we want to continue to see and we appreciate that because I know when I was on Tarta that's what I brought up constantly but with that I'll pass it up to Commissioner Mariana could you go back to slide 14 could you go back to slide There you go. Can you talk about the um so at status quo we got a $5 million surplus and a $.2 million deficit for low impact and then high impact you got a deficit of 43 million. Can you elaborate into that what that exactly means? Sure. The deficit this is Bill Ball again. Thank you. Um the impact scenario includes the first phase of that

regional rapid transit project which would be those exclusive lanes on the I275 corridor between Wesley Chapel and all the way to downtown Tampa and to downtown St. Pete. So it's a substantial investment that would come online and commensurate with with the interstate uh reconstruction that would occur on on the segments of the interstate. That's why you have the significant capital investment. Okay. So it's all capital is what we need. So we need to get together. Now the prior slide also showed the operating costs associated with the service that would be implemented on that once it's once it's in place. All right. And when I look at the um conversations we had Friday, we had like three transportation meetings back to back to back and two of them seem to overlap completely with each other. I was like, you know, we do have enough transportation meetings in the area. Yeah, but there's definitely a an issue that one of the commissioners from Hillsro has maybe more about the park and garages. When when I look at area like, you know, when we go to DC, we see uh Central Station there. Mhm. All that stuff's right there and all that commercial that's right in there. I I wonder if we shouldn't take a better look at those garage situations. Let's go look at where those businesses want to locate, where the parking's going to be, is where the people are going to be, where the business can be before and after. Maybe we need to go look at that a little bit separately and maybe that'll that'll win the support that you need to to get us because we do need a united voice across the board. And right now it's divided out there and and I and I agree continually as well. We need that continual lane, the gold standard they call it all the way through. So have you have you guys looked at that or do you have the ca capability to actually go look at doing something like that with those park and ride areas? Again, this is Bill Ball. I'll start and maybe David wants to chime in, but the the parking needs are to be evaluated as part of the project development evaluation that's occurring right now. So, there's 13 stations currently identified along that corridor and each station is being evaluated for the purpose that it will serve, including many parking needs. uh for example, those in the more outlying areas and and more like Wesley Chapel, if we have a a station there, that's more likely a greater need for a park and ride situation where you would park, catch that, and then take it into into the job areas to the south. David, do you want to add anything to that? Yeah. Uh and that was kind of a a great intro into the comments that I was going to make. Uh there is no oneizefits-all uh for the stations. the the original concept that we started with came out of the the regional transit feasibility plan and you know admittedly there was a

uh a lot of parking incorporated in that plan as a placeholder. So once we got out of the PD&E for this existing project the parking has been scaled down significantly. Uh we have we have already um uh conducted some cheretses uh for the stations. We wanted to hold them at each individual station location because the needs of each station will be different based on whether uh the station will be located in the neighborhood or just you know off of the interstate. U so we met with residents of of the neighborhoods around each station and businesses and even uh received input from the NPOS and the transit agencies uh to come up with what these stations potentially could look like. and um there may be stations that have no parking whatsoever if if that best meets the needs of that particular neighborhood. So we are having those conversations and we'll continue to do so as the the plan continues to evolve. Commissioner Starky. Um yeah, just to add on to that, I I think our our friend, the commissioner from Hillsboro is premature in um banging the gong like she always does on the parking garages cuz we that's we're not we're not down to that level yet. Um, but I can tell you that uh I know that at least in the suburbs, well, I think in in in urban areas as well, it's a it's an economic opportunity to have those people have a station near near your business or to put your business near a station. So, um I don't look at this as a detriment. I look at this as a positive um something positive economically for whoever gets to have those stations near them. as long as they're done correctly. So, um I know I think that the developer that I believe is planning on having the station in at State Road 54 is very excited to have that station there and help feed his businesses. So, um I just I just think it's a matter of maybe deeper education for for some. Yeah. Thank you, Commissioner Starky. I would agree with both you, Commissioner Starky and Commissioner Mariana makes you're 100% on on point there. So, well, with that, um, gentlemen, um, thank you so much for being here today. If I don't see any other I don't see any other questions from the board. I don't see Commissioner Oakley, you're good. Commissioner Wells, you're good. Okay, great. Thank you all so much. We appreciate you. Take care. Okay, moving down the line. So, we have exciting things happening today, obviously. So, I'm going to pass it on to our county administrator, Dan Biles, to make an introduction and to vote on a confirmation. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ward, um, want to introduce and ask for your confirmation of Miss Sally Sherman as the new assistant county minister for development services. As as she comes up, real quick, we started this process. We had over 100 applicants. We went through um reviewed the resumeumés, built into did some phone interviews, did some video interviews, some Skypes, at some Q&A so we could kind of get some

feedback on that. Narrowed it down over a period of time to four that we brought in a couple weeks ago. Had a reception with some stakeholders. Um and then also had another dayong worth of interviews and introduction around the county. And so as a result of all that, uh, want to introduce and ask that you confirm Miss Sally Sherman. Uh, she's got over 30 years of experience doing this kind of work in various locations and is the perfect blend of experience and the leadership, mentoring, and coaching that we need in that branch right now. And so with that, I will turn over to her for a couple comments and then you have any questions you may have. Well, good morning, Miss Sherman. Oh yeah, we'll go ahead and pass it on to you and then we'll uh if we any questions we will go proceed with those. So good morning. Good morning chair, commissioners. I'm excited to be here joining the team here at Pasco County as um the administrators indicated. I come to you bringing a plethora of in uh his work history in local government specifically in development services. And one of the key things that I think is important based on the feedback that I've been receiving is that once I got into um local government after receiving a masters in public administration and management, I felt it was important that I learned also how to work with our human resource and that's our team and help them to be successful. So I'm excited about being a part of the team and look forward to working with each and every one of you. Thank you. Great. Well, thank you Miss Sherman. and maybe just give us an idea since this is confirmation, a little more background I guess on um where you your your last job was and maybe some of the places you've been. I've worked for two counties in two cities. I work for uh the cities of Leburg and Deltona and had an opportunity to work with, you know, Deltona was a bedroom community, fast growing bedroom community, work with Leburg that was somewhat rural um moving forward and helped them 10x almost 5,000 acres into their city and to grow a um commercial, retail, and um industrial center with supporting housing. I also worked for Semino County for 25 years and that's where I gained um the majority of my experience. In fact, I started at the very bottom of the organization as a clerk typist and ended up being their deputy county administrator all along working in the planning and development arena. My last tenure was with the um county of Flaggler and I was there for a decade. Um, again, another fast growing community that had some challenges and opportunities that we've um faced head on. Great. Well, thank you so much. Thank go ahead and pass it on to any questions or comments. Commissioner Mariano. Um, so I really appreciate meeting you today and met with her and Todd Bailey. It was great meeting you today with Todd Bailey and having that conversation. Um, and something I want to say is your

resume is phenomenal. This is probably going to be your biggest challenge ever. Um, you've got a great supporting staff though. We got a great team up there. We've got uh you're going to get great help, I think, from Todd, um, from Paula. I know Dan will be right there with you try to help you go through the process. And, um, I've actually got in line and I want to open this up to everybody, but I've I've put a list together about 55 different people between contractors, business people, etc. that would like to meet with her at some point. So, we're going to do a little forum here probably in August when she gets established. So, I'm going to pass that list out if you guys want to add people to the list too and bring them out. I think it'd be good for her to hear from the people to what she's going to be what what they're facing and then she can look at it broad scope after being there for I'll say a week or so and really help her, you know, achieve success. Okay, great. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Starky. Um I I would just echo um what Commissioner Mariana said and um I'm I I hope that you uh enjoy living here in this county as much as we all do. I think I think we it's a wonderful place to live and um just welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Oakley and or Commissioner Wells. Yes, sir. Um I'm glad to see you here today. Um, I happen to be on the only commissioner on the east side today, so I'm sitting here by myself with one night, so I don't have to wear my mask so much today. But, uh, welcome aboard. Um, I've heard a lot of good things about you, and I'd like to have you reach out to my secretary, Marie Miller, and set up a meeting and come visit with me. So, I think I heard something about streamlining the process. And if you did say that, So, but there's there's a lot to the U position you're taking that's very very important to this county and we look forward to working with you. So, thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Commissioner Oakley. Commissioner Wells, anything? Yeah, I'll just be brief, but um welcome to the team. You know, we got a great team up there that you're going to be working with. I know I know they're excited and uh I know we're excited. I look forward to meeting with you when I get back in town. So, thank you. Wish I could be there. Thank you, Commissioner Wells. With that, I'll entertain a motion. Oakley seconds. I have a motion by Commissioner Mariano. I have a second by Commissioner Oakley for the confirmation for Miss Sally Sherman as a new assistant county administrator of development services. Madam clerk, please call the role. District 1, Commissioner Oakley, I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I.

District four, Commissioner Wells. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I, District 2, Chairman Moore, I Motion passes 5-0. Okay, Miss Sherman, welcome to the team. We're happy to have you. Thank you. Okay, good stuff. Good stuff. Now, I'm looking at the time is 11:37. Um, Bob, you can be brief. Yeah, you don't have to be brief. I just want to make sure you have your time to do it when you do because obviously this is very important. So if you feel comfortable Yes sir I do. Okay then it's your show. Morning Robert Corey Pasco County budget director. As you are aware the state statute requires that the board approve a tenative millage rate for the truth and millillage notices that will be sent to all of our property holders in August. And before we get into the the truth and millillage, I'd like to give you some updates on some of the things that have happened since our June 30th meeting. So, if you'll go to the next slide, please. We did get the final taxable assessed values uh for the county for for our fiscal year 213. The it increased from our preliminary values of 7.4% to 7.7% uh was our final that we received. You'll notice that 7.7% in fiscal year 21. It was a 9.3% increase was the increase in fiscal 20. So you'll notice that the new construction over a billion dollars just about where we were in uh fiscal year 20. The reevaluations, those are existing properties that have had improvements to them. Didn't grow quite as fast as it did in fiscal year 20. Next slide, please. So this is just a representation of where we are with our new construction. And you see since the bottom of the Great Recession in 2012, we've had an increase in our new construction value. We believe this new construction value is much more sustainable than it was prior to the Great Recession just because of the the amount of diversity we have in our new construction base. Next, please. So, with the 7.7% increase in our taxable assessed values in July, we take that and compare that to what we presented to you for the June increase of 7.4%. So that's an increase in property tax of 15.2 almost 15.3 million. As we talked about previously, the sheriff uh in our agreement with the sheriff gets half of that money for his new uh initiatives and for ongoing uh protection of the county. And that's would be 7.6% or excuse me 7.6 million or about $200,000 increase. So that would leave 7.6 6 million for the county if we deduct the amount from the CRAAS as well as the payments to the TIFF and the contribution to reserves. And so the 1.4 million contribution to reserve to get us to our 12.5% uh level for our reserves. That leaves the county about

uh $3.38 million or just over $100,000 to spend on new initiatives. Next, please. So although the taxable assess value for the general fund increased, the taxable assess values decreased for the fire fund between June and July. June was very high at 10.6% and that did come down to 9.7% and that's a difference of about $400,000. Next please. Uh if we look at the tiff, countywide tiff, because of the increase from 74 to 77, the countywide tiff increased 1.7 or $172,000. The villages of Pasadena Hills and the Luchi area, both of those the taxable assessed values in those areas decreased and so the amount of money going to those areas decreased as well. Next, please. And here you can see our CRAAS, our community redevelopment areas. This is money the county gives to the cities to combat slum and blight in those areas. And as you can see, all of those areas uh increased in value between June and July with the exception of Newport Richie. If we go to the next slide, you'll notice that since July, Newport Richie passed an ordinance or a resolution that removed two neighborhoods from the CRA. Those numbers were not included in the previous slide. And so that's removes about $21 million in value from the CRA taxable values. And so we anticipate that to be a savings in the neighborhood of $40,000. That's not in the materials you've been given. We'll be working with the property appraiser to incorporate that change into the taxable assess values. And so those will be reflected in the future. Next, please. And so just to highlight for the budget, we're we are recommending no change in the operating millage rate of 7.6076 6076 or the fire service MSTU millage rate of 1.8036. As you're aware, under the save our homes protections, the taxable assessed value of homesteaded properties is capped at 3% or the change in the consumer price index, whichever is less. The consumer price index for the year is 2.3% and so taxable assessed values on homesteaded properties cannot increase by more than 2.3%. So, if we do the simple math, homesteaded homeowners will notice an increase in their property tax bill of $17.50. And that's because their property values have increased, not because there's been a change in the property tax rate. Next, please. And as we want to go back and just look at the major funds, you can see most of them have uh changed a little bit. The biggest change is the tourism development fund. And the reason for that is because we are expecting the uh because of the pandemic not as many folks staying in hotels and so on. So we are expecting that revenues to go down and so likewise the amount of revenue for programs is down about 20%. However, our crack tourism team is standing by. They're ready to do the best they can with the money that's available. Next, please.

And so if we look at our major departments within the general fund, you'll notice a couple of changes. Uh the the major ones are the fire rescue. That's down about 10%. The reason for that is because with the pandemic, there's fewer people out there driving. There's fewer accidents. So that the revenues going to the fire rescue are not as high as we had had anticipated. So we're not really able to move forward with some of the uh business plan initiatives that we had incorporated into the fire department at that time. You'll notice the library is increasing by almost 9%. We have a new library coming online in this summer. So that is reflected there. And then our parks and wrecks increasing by almost 7% and that's Starky Ranch District Park. We're gradually taking over the uh management of that park. So as we do that, we're taking on some additional costs for that park. Next, please. And so at our June 30 meeting, uh Chairman Moore had asked for what is the total budget. You can see here the total budget the operating piece of the budget increased by about or decreased by8%. And the the biggest increase was our capital increase by 115%. And the reason for that are twofold. First is that we're anticipating many of the general obligation bond projects to be completed or to come online in fiscal 21. And we're heavily investing in our utility to keep things up and running and safe for our community. So that's really the the two big changes there for our capital program. Next, please. And so, as you know, the the purpose of the trim is to approve the tenative millage rates that will appear in the truth and millage notices in August. As you're aware, the tenative mill rate reflects a millage rate that once you pass the millage rate in September, that mill rate can be the same or lower than the tenative millage rate, but cannot be higher. And the the action today will also set the first public hearing for September 8th at 5:15 in Dade City. You'll notice these are the tenative millage rates for fiscal year 21. Many of the general obligation bond millage rates are slightly higher than they were in 20 because in 20 we were paying interest only and in 21 we're paying interest and principal. One thing I wanted to point out Pasco County Commission aggregate if you add those up you'll think that we don't know how to operate a spreadsheet. That is not that aggregate is not a sum of those tables of those trim or of those millage rates. What it is is a sum of those millage rates divided by the assessed value of the county. Oh, someone in Tallahassee thought that was very interesting. So, we're required to present that figure to you. I don't know exactly how we're going to use that to make any any good decisions, but we are required to present that. So, there it is. So, with that, I would ask that the county approve the tenative military agency before you and set the first public hearing for September 8th. Okay. to the board for questions, comments. Seeing none, Commissioner

Oakley, Commissioner Wells, questions, comments. Well, I had a comment. Commissioner Stoy, that was interesting that the operating budget went down. Good. Good for us. Yeah. A lot of that was driven by the tourism development. They've gone down by about 20%. Yes. Their operating budget. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. via collections of TDT dollars over the last four months that weren't there. Yeah. But um have they laid off people? No. No. Because they can cover they can they they're able to Yeah. For fiscal year 21, we still are going to be investing in the events and the uh organizational activities in Pasco County. What we're going to be doing is reducing the amount that we're investing in capital kinds of things throughout the county. Okay. All right. Very good. Well, here Commissioner Oakley, you have a question. Yeah. Uh Bob, this this voting on this today doesn't affect anything like if I believe the last meeting there was talk about um employee wages and raises. I was I wasn't here at the time. I had to out of the office. That's correct. the the budget that you have before you is reflects a 2% wage increase for employees with the the the exception of the fire. The fire will get their it's about a 2.8% increase for a fire to get them into the correct step plan, but for general employees, this reflects a 2% wage increase. Well, my only concern is is I would I would uh support a 3% for our employees. So, want to make sure I made that public. So, so an increase of from 2 to 3% would be about a half million dollar uh increase to the general fund and the municipal services fund. Okay. So, so and Bob, please step in. So, we set the trim today or reminder that what we one of the things we can't do is raise the millage rate. Once that's done, that's correct. And published, you can always lower. Yes, sir. You would have to, Commissioner Oakley, and I'll wait for Commissioner Wellsby wants to jump in after this, too. Um, you just have to shift some things around and decide if you're going to take additional funds out of the general fund or or not or out of um Yes, sir. We suggest we would look at that, see what we could shift around. Yeah, that's what would to be done, which you still have the time to do because we're certainly at the still at the early stages, I guess you could say. So, Commissioner Moore. Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Starky. Um, could you give us a history of the increases that the staff has had maybe over the last five years?

Yeah, last year was a was a large increase simply because there was the uh compent class study where we were trying to get all of our employees up to the market rate and I think the average increase in last year was about a 6% increase. The two years prior to that I believe were a 4% increase and I would have to go back and look for the others. I don't remember what those increases were beyond that. Yeah, I think they were at least three and three. So, I I feel pretty good. We've done a good job with our raises and you know, this is a year and we don't know what the effects are going to be next year and um and I think in today's COVID time, 2% a good a good raise. So, I I'm I don't know of anything I want to cut. As a matter of fact, I want to find some money for metropolitan for uh habitat. So, I'm still hoping we can find something there. So, I I I'm I'm okay for going with the 2% this year and then maybe next year catching back up. Economy's better. Commissioner Mariano, as far as the budget, as we set this and we approve this number here, obviously we can't change it from there, but are we expecting other monies coming in from other constitution ones as well? We are expecting that each year there are some excess fees from the constitutionals the most of which comes from the tax collector generally in the area of one and a half to $2 million per year. So we could wait a little bit more and make that decision a little bit down the road just saying we want to go away. Yes sir. I'd like to I want to bring up an idea later on in the committee reports that someone had brought to me. the capital project. Uh Keith Wing had talked about Hudson Beach and down at Hudson Beach down at the part by in the Gulf by the canal that's there. It's always it's shut down quite a bit for u bacteria levels that are high and the sand is also escaped down along the channel which kind of blocks the channel's navigation as well as you know it's very valuable sand. So, we talked about doing a jetty project up there to go forward. But someone had brought an idea to me which I thought was brilliant uh about taking it around the whole Hudson Beach. Um I'll show it on the my committee reports where there's an opportunity to bring that beach back to life. If we put kind of a footer or retaining wall around the whole thing, we raise it up 3 ft. And being that we're ready to go and do dredging, it's actually could create a good seaw wall in a sense. fill it up about three feet and then we could take the dredging spoils and actually put them right in there and then take some of the sand from the canal which would probably take care of at least uh a third of the beach, maybe even half the beach that would just put right over the top of it. Then we just got to cover the other part. It would really change the dynamics of the area. It would provide

for an area if we put a jetty in the backside where you can actually walk across the water closing off the canal from right in the front. So when right in front of like Sam's Club or in the Gulf, you'd see nothing but B sand where you can actually put about 20 boats that'll go alongside the channel as well. So I want to make sure we have flexibility to talk about projects coming up because Keith says he that had to cut some things out. But if we got flexibility to talk about this a little bit down the road with that extra money coming in, I'm comfortable to kind of, you know, stick with what we've got right now, but just kind of keep the flexibility. Yeah. Thank you, Commissioner May. Yeah. And then and then there was one thing we had talked about, Bob, too, and I don't I think Dan had to step out, obviously. Um, but we talked about that library. Yes, sir. That's been on hold for ever in uh Yes. Wesley Chapel that never has never been completed. Um, and one of the things we thought of we could look at was maybe maybe not obviously funding the entire project at this time, but looking at possibly funding the maybe the design. The design. Yes, sir. Yeah. So that's the first year we'd considered possibly doing the site plan looking at that. Yeah. So that's one thing again I don't have many ask of her. So but that's uh something they've been waiting on and as we look at throughout the county and there's obviously refurbishing a lot of these and doing renovations I should say a lot of the a lot of the libraries across the county. You have the fastest growing area that doesn't have one. So um and that site's been there for I don't know 17 years. Is that about right? Sounds right. I think it's about right, Kathy. Yeah, long time. So, never never move forward. So, um that's something I would like to see. At least we could get started with the design and that would be obviously a small percentage, but again, that's just would put that out in the open when we come back and have those conversations about what funds might be excess funds might be available when, i.e. the tax collector and other constitutions may return. And then going back to the race thing real quick too. I know we did have that conversation too. We want to make sure that um it's important to that we're all in line i.e. the constitutions that fall under our budget. Um that we're I know some talked about what percentage they're going to do. We've talked about what we want to do, but we want to make sure we're in line. Everybody's in line. So those constitutions um Commissioner Wells, sir. Yes, Chairman. Um I'll be brief, but I I want to I'm working with Barbara Hman to send you guys an email to outline exactly what the employees get for time off. I know Commissioner Starky had said

they get a month when they start. That is incorrect. But I I don't want to debate it back and forth right now. But I'll have Barb and and don't forget, you know, the four or five years our employees without any went without any raises. And you know, these raises they got the last couple years doing these studies, it's been to get them right, which some of them still aren't right. And the bottom line is we're talking about other projects and those are important, but there is not anything more important than taking care of our folks. So I'm not going to make a motion on it today. I know that you all agree with me. I I think Commissioner Starky, I get it. Uh but our employees deserve 3%. They've earned 3%. And the other constituents have given 3%, the state's given 3, we need to give 3%, but I'm fine bringing it up later once we figure out who's giving us back money. But you all know outlining exact how the employees get their time off. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Wells. Any other additional comments, questions? I just like to tag on to your thing with the library. I think it's a great idea. All right. Thank you, Commissioner. Okay. With that, I will entertain a motion. Move approval. Motion by Commissioner Mar. Okay. Second by Commissioner Oakley with discussion from Commissioner Stark. But if we if we if there's sentiment among you guys to give a higher raise, don't we have to put the trim notice higher right now? No, the term notice we can still balance the budget and not move the uh military. Oh, okay. We would we'd cut projects. Yes. Or well, we don't know. Or we may have some money from another source. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Which probably is the most likely place. Yes, ma. Okay. Okay. So, I have a motion by Commissioner Marion. That was second by Commissioner Oakley. Any more discussion? Seeing none, madam clerk, please call roll. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Wells. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District two, Chairman Moore. I. Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. We have four minutes. If somebody thinks of on R six, R seven, R8, R9, R10, I know some of us have lunch meetings, which I do too with staff. So if somebody thinks they can pull it off in four minutes, you move right ahead and so you feeling good about this? Yes, sir. Good morning, Justin Wrestler, assistant solid waste director. Um, R six is a preliminary page supposed to be coming up. It's a preliminary annual disposal assessment of rates, fees, and charges

for the solid waste disposal and resource recovery facility. So really at a high level, the goal of the solid waste department is to process all of our non-recyclable waste through our waste energy facility. We know that our waste energy facility is above its capacity. Last year in fiscal year 19, we were over 45,000 tons above that capacity. And what we've seen over the past six months, particularly during the time of CO 19, is that we've seen trash tonnages continue to rise. When we did our initial projections for waste growth in Pasco this year, we were at 4%. But we've seen actually a 6% growth rate. You can go ahead and go to the next slide. Um really there's two main funding sources for the solid waste department. That's the nonadvalorum disposal assessment and the power sales from the waste energy facility. Um right now we have a very lucrative power contract with Duke and that does end in 2024. Um and actually we're selling that electricity to Duke for more than they're turning around and selling it retail for. And so while we're working on a number of things to try to to lessen that hit when that agreement does expire in 2024, ultimately there's going to be some reduction in re revenues associated with that just because of the marketplace of energy sales of right now. And so what we did a couple of years ago is we went out and we hired an independent firm to do an assessment of our revenues and project out um what we'd need in the next seven years to to make the enterprise fund work and and continue with capital projects that we presented previously. And what we saw is a $7 increase in the residential eru um disposal assessment over the next seven years. And this proposal is the second year of that. Um I'd like to point out that these disposal assessments are are are similar to other municipalities with waste energy facilities. Um for example, in Hillsboro County, they're just north of $100 for their disposal assessment. So again, we we fit right in the bracket with with many of the communities that have the similar type of waste disposal systems. Um, this would also raise the tipping fee by about $6 to 72, slightly over $72 per ton. Next slide. Um, finally, we wouldn't be changing any of the fees for our ancillary items like mattresses, white goods, tires. We would be adding one category, which is flammable liquids. So, right now, we get a lot of people coming in with used gas or oil, pulling out of a boat, something like that. And we allow up to five gallons at a time. Um, we cap that at five gallons, but we want to make that a larger amount. However, we do want to recover the cost for that. And so, we are would be proposing adding a line item of $255 per gallon for used oil, diesel, fuel, things like that. And that is just the cost that our our vendor charges us to recycle it. Next slide. Um, so with that, this concludes my presentation. Um, our recommendation is that the board approve uh this resolution and set the final public hearing for September 8th in Date City.

Okay. Um, so for September? Yes, sir. Well, that would be the resolution was set up for September. I'm sorry. Okay. So, you do need to take action. Yes. Okay. Questions? Questions? Got to do it. Commissioner Oakley. Commissioner Wells questions move approval. I have a motion. So I have a motion by Commissioner Mariano. Second by Ron Oakley. I have a second by Commissioner Oakley. Madam clerk, please call the role. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District three, Commissioner Starky. I. District four, Commissioner Wells. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District two, Chairman Moore. I. Motion passes 5-0. Great job. You were over 16 seconds. You almost made it. If you were to bet me, you would have lost. But so with that, we are on break. We will have to come back, ladies and gentlemen, for items R seven, R8, R9, R10, and miscellaneous business that will all happen after the public hearings. Let's wait one second. [Music]