05.05.2020 Pasco BOCC Virtual Meeting (Morning Session)

[Music] all right you can you just tell me when we're life yeah I'm on time I was in a meeting where's my board everybody's saying so that means so can the audience I'm ready to okay five four three two one good morning everybody welcome to the Pasco County County Commission meeting of May 5th 2020 today's meeting is virtual once again I like to remind everybody that's on a call online live to silence your electronic devices and it's very important to mute your microphones if everybody could actually do that at this time please mute your microphones and madam clerk if you would please do the invocation whole do the pledge please rise thank you 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 which it stands one nation [Music] district 1 Commissioner Oakley district 3 Commissioner Starkey here district 4 commissioner wells be what commissioner wells will be with us later who's having some technical issues but he'll be joining us in near future thank you district 5 commissioner mariano your district 2 chairman more I am here Thank You Madame clerk this time mr. Stein Schneider our county attorney will you please go over today's proceeding with the BCC be happy to mr. chairman on March 20th 2020 the governor de santis issued an executive order 20 2016 9 which suspended any Florida statute that requires a forum to be present in person or requires local government entity to meet in a specific public place the author allowed the board to meet virtually utilizing communications media technology a detailed advertisement was run in the Tampa Bay Times indicating the board's intent to conduct a virtual meeting based on executive order number 20 91 the governor's stay-at-home order the conduct of a regular meeting would certainly not meet the spirit or intent of the order even though now the governor has moved Florida into phase 1 the the virtual meetings are still allowable under the under the executive orders that are in place the process has been established by the use of technology to proceed in a manner in in a manner that is as in-person as possible public is being afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by the use of communication technology that has been provided mr. biles issued emergency order April 6th or April 8th 2020 establishing procedural rules which the board then adopted as their own their own rules under 2112 I believe is the number you are required to take public comment on anything which you're going to act on pursuant to two eighty six point oh one one for Florida Statutes and I'm available for any questions okay Thank You mr. Stuckey Snyder now is the time for public comment citizens given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the

board or the public that section board also takes the Kuomintang items placed on a board agenda or this is another curve you do the 18 operations and a safeguard the well-being and safety for citizens of staff well the Commons will be handled differently first we'll take comment from others that have pre-registered and are currently on queue after we read to the public record comments documents powerpoints or videos that have been identified but by members of the public to be read out loud slated to meeting not two minutes for each this new format has waive the request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally it gets a commission or a team member but rather consider the issue this provides mutual respect between them members in the public for those participants calmly in after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer will be activated and will start a countdown after two minutes one beep will sound letting you know that only one minute remains at the time is up two beeps will sound indicating that three minutes are up please note that calls be disconnected after the minute and before we move on um I will ask somebody to turn their mic off you there Mike I hear tons of paper rustling and if I hear it that means the audience can hear it louder that I'm talking I need everybody to mute their mics before I move on thank you we have anyone pre-register to speak or emails read to the record you're healing the Russell sorry I'm still hearing it it's really low so everybody please mute your microphones mr. chair we have one person who pre-registered Ann is in the queue his name is Christian Smith jr. okay go ahead please mr. Smith please state your name and address for the record and start your comment mr. Smith yes hi can you hear me yes sir hi my name is christian william smith jr i go by Chris Smith and sorry I'm trying to turn off a background communication I live in the Santa Brooke Gulf community at five three four four foxhunt Drive Wesley Chapel Florida three three five four three calling in relation to the regular number one agenda item associated with the third amendment to the amended and restated cooperative funding agreement with Pasco Economic Development Council for coordinating economic development programming obviously associated with the Novell coronavirus or kovat 19 the purpose of my call is I wanted to let you know that I run a company with my wife my wife is the majority owner and founder president of promotional brand ambassadors Incorporated which was founded in November 13 2018 in 2013 we made a decision to relocate from Tarpon Springs in Pinellas County over to Brookside right next door to Saddle Brook where we rented for two years while in the process of buying and renovating one of the original properties in Saddle Brook I'm the co-owner and CEO of promotional brand ambassadors and also the minority partner if you will for which we've run for the last seven years right here out of Wesley Chapel we are in my little office here in Saddle Brook basically

three to five people depending on the time of the year's apologies and I across the United States put more than 2,500 people to work annually paying 750,000 dollars in what are known as IRS 1099 miscellaneous income payroll that does not include anybody that earns under $600 there's a lot of what we do in the promotional world people make four or five hundred dollars and we never see or hear from them again to give you an example of what I do I do events and promotions for things like the NFL Super Bowl which we just did at the beginning of the year before the coronavirus really kicked in the World Series for Major League Baseball and those are just a few of the many many programs they do concerned because I have been obtained terrible information from our federal governments and horrific media outlets that seem to not tell us the truth or not provide us timely and accurate information and I am currently been shuttered since February with no income in fact my last check was two hundred and eighty seven dollars at the beginning of March I believe it was I have applied for PPP loans on two different occasions now and I am still waiting to hear back yet again from achieve a credit union after Bank of America totally blew the first opportunity that I had I want to let you know that I found out about the grants that you all are making available or had made available after seeing a story on one of the local TV stations and it simply said that Tampa and Hills Thank You mr. Smith for your comments that was on the phone yes chairman Moore that is the only person we had in the queue okay thank you so we've received six emails however pursuant to the virtual public comment instructions these emails a bit forwarded to the board members clerk and comptroller and I'll be submitted to be to receive them for how's that correct yes chairman that is correct okay so we'll be moving on right now include our public comment portion of the meeting agenda and we also have some addendums so you're three addendums which would be hate the one a C 2 C 4 T Rexes it they have been published so do we have any today from any commissioners or staff yes chairman we do we have C 3 which is a withdrawal c 6 which is a withdrawal c7 is a pull and revise C 15 is a withdrawal c-17 is a pull and revise C 23 is pull and revise C 24 is pull and revise c 28 is pull and revise C 33 is pull and discuss and a c1 is withdrawal it madam clerk I hate to do this to you but can you do that one more time in just a little bit slower so I can write it down yes sir c3 withdrawal c6 withdraw c7 pull and revise C 15 withdrawal c-17 pull and revise C 23 pull and revise C 24 pull and revise c 28 pull and revise C 33 pool and discuss a c1 withdrawal thank you so much madam clerk to any of the my commissioners have anything else they'd like to pull this is Commissioner Starkey I did have a question I did email Todd Bailey this morning on the fees and I didn't get a chance to go through his email since I had that meeting this

morning prior to this board meeting so I do have some just some questions on the fees for third party okay what number is the police commissioner will pull that yeah I don't remember we're looking c11 c11 : discuss anything else there's anything else okay I will entertain a motion for the remainder of the consent agenda I make that motion this is Commissioner Starkey my Commission to start getting a second please Ron only seconds a second by Commissioner Oakley I'm madam clerk please call roll mr. mr. chairman yes [Music] yes that includes the three withdrawn items and the two addendum items madam clerk please call the roll I think it needs to be corrected mr. Stein Snyder it's the consent agenda with the to eject to addendum items those that have been pulled or those that have been withdraw it or not not included in this okay so I moved to accept the consent agenda along with the two addendum items I'll need a second factly Ragno create your seconds I have a second of emotion in us Commissioner Starck yes second by Commissioner Oakley madam clerk please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley district three Commissioner Starkey I District four Commissioner Wells district five Commissioner Mariano District two chairman more hi motion passes 4-0 thank you madam clerk and let's move on with okay c3 withdraw c6 c7 revised okay c7 points chairman this is Clerk Nikki Alvarez Souls and it is a pull from my office to amend our agenda memo there's a link on the bottom and that link was inaccurate so we've just updated the agenda memo with the correct link any questions let me take a motion I move to approve c7 this Commissioner Starkie a second by Commissioner please madam clerk please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley ah district thank you district three Commissioner Starkey I District four commissioner Wells District five commissioner mariano i district two chairman more hi motion passes 4-0 thank you madam Clerk moving on c c11 : discussed with the commissioner Starkie yep so I had sat in on some think of us horizontal development meetings and an actually had a meeting with some permit companies in the county last year on this issue we were charging review fees for third party reviewers and I'm glad that we're fixing it but I just wondered is this I couldn't compare it to what the cost is for a third party I didn't have the data to know for if this is a reasonable expense so how does this compare to the fees when they do it in-house is it the same administrative fee that we charge in-house as we do for out of house no mr. Starkey Todd Bailey acting county administrator assistant county administrator for development services and I'm also going to be joined by Esther L Yama le Emmy our chief building official and possibly Cristie Sims who's been representing us from legal counsel we heard the Florida Statute that went into effect last July 1st which was

chapter 5 5 3 section 791 we are we are not allowed to charge any fees related to third party provider fees of upon application however we are loved for the per that section charge an administrative fee to recover our cost which we have broken down from the building construction services department and charge for pool $120 for single-family residence $600 and for commercial $980 no now the people that that put in fir permits aren't charged any fees except for the most Advan fees which are to cover costs upon their submission of their of the third-party providers back into the county because we still have to review those plans and and that's the only thing that we can charge for we have a board approved vertical construction feed table that was approved by the by the Board of County Commissioners in 2017 still in effect we are going to re-review that vertical vertical feet table the summer with third party consultant and revisit it next fall going into the fiscal year however we're still in an Euler feed table what which charge to some of those third-party providers we are late getting this program going off between July 1st and March the 30th of this year we have been charging them fees on appropriately and we are counting and rebating those fees as we speak right now and there is a rebate program going on we hope to complete that by the 10th of May and return any excess funds that were charged for any home owner or builder or charged excess third party provider fee according to the forest statute so as of March 30th our building official came out with a memo to the board that was posted publicly on on those fees of being going into effect on April the 1st so we are conducting an audit from July 1st through March 30 and rebaiting anybody who has been charged inappropriately against this quarter statute ok yeah I knew we needed to fix that and just an FYI I know you responded to me this morning but the links didn't work it gave me a program error or error so I couldn't do that research on what you sent me so I'm glad we're fixing this and I would move for approval of C 11 this is Commissioner Starkie most by commissioners donkey for C 11 I need a second second Commissioner Mariano second by Commissioner Mary madam clerk please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley hi district three Commissioner Starkey I District four Commissioner Wells District five commissioner Mariano district 2 chairman more local passes for zero thank you about Clerk c15 withdrawal c-17 pull and revives the board this is Erik Breitenbach assistant county administrator for internal services Fein is an amended and restated agreement for inmate labor with Pasco Sheriff's Office this Agreement the revised and affected agreement is presumed of the board for consideration and our approval of the agreement glasses Commissioner Mariana but with the noted changes I have a second by Commissioner Starkey madam clerk please call the roll district 1

Commissioner Oakley I district 3 Commissioner Starkey I district 4 Commissioner Wells district 5 Commissioner Mariano I district 2 chairman more if the pass is for a 0 C 23 mr. Breitenbach and so is c24 wherever you are a microphone was up sure I just turned it on there with me one second I've enough budget to address c-23 I could ask the chair to skip me on C 23 and C 24 well that's C 28 yep 5c 28 he told me my karbala c 28 there was a wrong document loaded up in desire on the plaque to the side of medicines been corrected entertain a motion move to approve c 28 this is Commissioner Starkey second I'm by Ron Oakley motion by committing a second by Commissioner Oakley MedicAlert please call the roll aye aye motion passes 4 0 thank you c33 C 33 Mariana mr. chairman that's my item this is an item to extend and increase the costs of the sea pines neighborhood flood abatement program I will tell you from years ago when I first got elected back of 2004 they had flooding issues we had a plan I'll say it was three years ago with Senator Simpson represented Mariano meeting with staff with Swift mud weather had taken every single home out of the floodplain we had trouble with one landowner dr. Chang trying to give up property whether we're going to go straight through it around it we resolved that issue and the connection is along old Dixie Highway with Sea Pines is there's at least two points that connect where it takes the water from one side of Old Dixie to the other side of Old Dixie were kind of flow back and forth the southern part down by Gulf Way which the map that we were shown really doesn't show you all the way to the end but a connection the bottom part of the Swift mud property it's the natural flow of the water it would not put any extra harm in it it would get the water out there quicker the water still has opportunities to go down south if need be on a major flood event the more connections we have the better I will tell you I left a message with the Swift my director Brian Armstrong I talked to secretary Valentin about this and we're going to study this issue a little bit for so I'd rather continue this for two weeks rather than approve it and see if we can get Swift but they have a change of heart because it's gonna cost us more money make a less beneficial product to the citizens and again for all the time they've spent and if you look in the center of the map that we have there the the property that we dredged out I'll say seven eight nine years ago goes all the way the little feet in dead ends right there those people have just as much flooding as ever and there's even one gentleman up there who's actually losing property as it likes silts away so we need to get this fixed and I don't want to see us take another 18 months to get this thing done there's no need for it so if I could have a continuance I'd like to talk with the department heads in our team and try to fix this so I'll move to continue second mr. Starkey

coordinated economic development program additional micro loan program funding a five million dollars take it away dan all right Thank You commissioner this is an amendment to to the EDC's agreement to fully fund the grant program based on the applications they had last week or two weeks ago actually at this time and the director CEO president of the EDC is on the line now and bill can take it over have mr. crone all right morning can you hear me okay thank you okay thank you and thanks for advancing the slots at just a quick overview of what the grant was and thanks to the Board of County Commissioners last meeting you all had approved the grant program the emergency grant program to the amount of up to $5,000 per local application and we had overwhelming success in terms of the response within the very first day before we even went to bed that evening we had well over 900 applications as a matter of fact we had over 90 people on the website before we even left the Board of County Commissioners meeting the previous meeting I can slide please just a reminder of what the application criteria was I had to be a Pasco County resident had to be registered as a Pasco County business prior to March 1st and that's according to son biz registered as a headquarters 1 to 25 employees and that includes the 1099s and part-time must have at least tried to apply for federal aid either the EIT L the emergency injury disaster loan or the PPP the Paycheck protection program loan and the business and the business owner had to be in good standing meaning no no judgments against them no child support those types of issues so they could only use the grants for rent mortgage utilities and payroll between the periods of April May June I'm sorry March April May and June and they had six months to perfect those receipts if you advanced the next slide please so on that first day and we opened at 11:30 during the meeting as soon as you guys hit the gavel ins that approved at 11:30 by 5:00 p.m. the following day on Wednesday we had received 1461 applications in the total amount that people were requesting in those applications was over 7 million dollars we process those and I'm happy to say that over 410 have been approved for payment they qualified and that brings us up to about one point nine nine six six six five million dollars that will be sent out to our local companies there was three thousand three hundred and thirty five dollars of delivery cost and that includes the ACH the 1099s the additional bandwidth for our internet services to send those out we did accept any any fees and we used our own staff time against that so as of that as of today and that number over 1.3 million of that is already out on the streets and people have that in their hand so that's that was a huge step considering that was just less than it was just few weeks ago that we've already got that much money into our local economy if you couldn't Vance this

light please so that leaves of those those 1,400 applications that came in we have about a thousand companies that made it in before the window shut and when coming to you today because we'd like to see those those companies funded and based on our average rate of about 8.5% of ineligibility that we've experienced thus far we has to make that be about four point eight million dollars to fund the remainder of those companies and then our delivery cost would go up about three times as much because of the size and that includes the processing of the additional 1099s the increase of our server bandwidth and the ACH processing in the internet speed and I'll give a little shout out to Senator state bank as well to who is a treasury management for this when we first got the first two million dollars to send out our distribution according to to their federal guidelines for ACH was limited to five hundred thousand dollars in in five day period they have worked very hard to get that increase to two million dollars in a five day period so now we're able to disperse up to two million dollars every five days going forward and if you could advance the assignment so just some some feedback so that we're all working virtually we don't always get to see the response from the business community it's it's been fantastic every so every one has passed on their appreciation for the grant and we've got some testimonials that we're sharing on the screen for you all in all very good response and if you could go to the next slide and I'll share with you that several of the companies have already started on their compliance piece after receiving the funds which they had to provide receipts and attend the refocus workshop that helps them to to retool and potentially look at new business model going forward based on the changes that we've experienced and several of them already participated in the refocus workshop which will offer several times a month but some testimonials from that workshop as well - so one of the neat byproducts of this is that our companies through this process are becoming more resilient and they're learning how to do better business and we're all getting stronger through the process and with that I'll stop if he could advance the slide I believe that's the end so the ask is to fund the remaining companies that came through the window before it was shut on April 22nd and 5:00 p.m. which is about a thousand more companies here that that could use that grant and it would total around four point eight million dollars and if you if you were to fund it over that the pathway to see any and unused money would be sent back to the county great Thank You mr. Cronin I really appreciate it and I want to obviously thank the board for a proven this last at last meeting the initial funding for it in and Dana staff working hard but also especially want to thank the past we DC staff for everything they've been doing you know you've done incredible work quickly processing the emergency business grant program applications and

getting this fun hammer out some quickly so it can flow into our economy that was obviously I'm very very important and I think here what I'll think I know even before we created this program you guys have done an amazing job I'm getting the word out and resources I had the you know opportunity to do that workshop with you that one it was I think we had 150 or so people in line at one time so I do want to just give them quick thanks to all your staff though so I'm gonna take one by one so Suzanna rinse Kowski Becky Martin Lorne the Sally Turner Arbor Daniel Mitchell Jennifer Ziegler Jeannie summer Tom Ryan Mike Bishop and of course I'm the CEO bill Cronin again thank you all for everything you're doing before I open the questions - just one more reminder and this is for the public to this this is good much you know straight through the EDC now in the essence of full transparency the commissioners does not have access to this list we do not have access to any of the applications any inquiries need to continue to go through the EDC that's very important we again we the board accounting finishers do not have does not have access whatsoever so we cannot look up applications I know we some of us probably got a few emails and I appreciate that more than happy to point people in the direction but again full disclosure this has to continue to go straight through the EDC we do know how to access we cannot push applications through with that additional questions from the board this is Commissioner Starkey I don't have questions but I - I'm very grateful that we have this opportunity to help our our businesses I know we actually had a family member whose business is here in the county but she lives in Hillsborough County even though the business is here we're like sorry this is this is specific to small businesses when you live and reside here in our county so um I'm very grateful we're doing this project I think we've got another great one coming up and thanks again to Bill to all your people who did an amazing job and um I fully support this this initiative commits to start any other questions mr. Oakley I see your hands up yes right bill Krahn his team I mean they've done great things in this project and they've done great things all through our County so I'd like to thank them for the amazing job they've done and we're going to continue working with them I know they're going to have a lot of things coming our way in the future but this grant for our citizens and our small businesses has been very well welcomed in our community as you can see we I think it was within 24 hours you had 1400 and some names come in for our applications for this first two million dollar grant which was amazing and had to stop because we could only afford to do 400 some businesses were that first grant but a great job you've done a great job our staffs done also in coordinating with you and with that I'd like to approve item are one second Jack Mariano I have a second I mean I have a motion by Commissioner Oakley

have a second with discussion by Commissioner Marriott please go ahead sir and I just like to say you know the Board of County Commissioner has always been pushing for hard for small business and this is just a great way bill you're you and your team and Dan miles you know team to try to find another way to come up with this extra money to get those other businesses that wanted to apply they didn't get it so instead of having that old shut out feelings you kind of feel when you apply for grants that now the people are getting the money it's going to really help the economy and it just built just amazing what you what you continue to do to make this county just shine for for all sorts of business up and down so thank you all very much thank you have a motion and I have a second madam clerk please go ahead and call roll district one Commissioner Oakley hi district three Commissioner Starkey I district 4 commissioner Wells District five Commissioner Mariano I district 2 chairman Moore thank you madam clerk motion passes 4 to 0 and everybody have Thank You mr. Cronin and have a great day thank you again for all your support oh to acinar you you and that house I should say yes I'm over here in Dade City can you hear me okay sir we can see you in here you go ahead for work all right Thank You mr. chairman warden Scott Caston fire chief Pasco County Fire Rescue about a year ago I'm not really sure where the cameras at I think it's over here so apologies for looking the wrong way I know the power points over this direction but about a year ago we entered into a discussion with the city of Zephyr Hills who approached us with the desire to merge the County Fire Department with the City Fire Department and over that time both parties have worked really really hard to craft an agreement that would be you know ultimately beneficial to both the city and the county all right if we go ahead and flip the slides please and what we have before you today is the interlocal agreement that that specifies how that will happen now this entire time through the planning process we have adhere to the County administrators philosophy of people purpose and performance what you see up there on the graphic and how we applied that next slide please so there are some significant operational improvements that will be beneficial like I said to both parties but for the county specifically some of the benefits that we will see are identified up there on the screen number one being a murky response deployment by having two additional fire stations in Pasco County that will allow us additional crews on the east side of the county specifically to help with emergency call deployment over there now also as part of this agreement would be the acquisition of all the equipment at both of those fire stations that are currently in Zephyrhills and that does include a ladder truck which will allow the county some additional capability on the east side with respect to high-rise firefighting it'll also allow for a

unified dispatch for 9-1-1 calls because currently the city has its own 9-1-1 center and handles its own call so any any time that we need to request assistance from the city to help in the county we have to go through their 9-1-1 system and that always you know potentially has a the ability to create a delay and as I mentioned this this agreement does allow the it says absorption but it'll be the migration of both of the current suffer Hills fire stations into the county system will offer decreased response times for for both agencies will also allow for equal distribution of ambulances throughout the county because we have we have several stations now that have two ambulances running out of them and now by allowing or by the ability of having two additional stations in the city limits of Zephyrhills we will be able to move a couple of those ambulances in there and disburse them around part of this agreement includes the acquisition of 24 full-time employees that are currently employed by the city is up for hill so they will all come over into the county and then an overall improved service delivery model alright next slide please now I mentioned 24 personnel this is the makeup of the the current 24 personnel at the city of Zephyrhills that will be coming over into the to the county roles alright next slide one of the unique things with the city's effort Hills they do currently have a very robust cadet program which is a program for high school aged youth that are interested in the profession of firefighting or emergency medical services and with the county also has a program and what this merger will allow then also to happen is now to have two cadet programs under one umbrella of course under the county but will now allow two different programs one on east side and one on the west side of the county to minimize the drive time for some of the students that participate city Zephyrhills also currently has a robust volunteer program and that program will then merge also into the county and be the joint the other four volunteer programs that are already within Pasco Fire Rescue alright next slide this is a graphical representation of the two fire stations that are currently in the city is effer hills they're in the city they're known as station 1 and station 2 they will be renumber to Pasco County Fire Station 25 and 29 and like I said we will move one of our ambulance or two of our ambulances out of the double stations and move them one and into each one of those stations which currently do not have an ambulance at them now part of the agreement also allows that in the future the the county decides to vacate one or both of the stations that the city will have the right of first refusal to purchase the building's back next slide and and lastly this is a list of the fire equipment or the assets that will be coming over as part of the merger so we're very fortunate that the city Zephyrhills did an amazing job of

keeping up their equipment and they have a lot of newer equipment so they'll make great assets we plan on keeping it all all the stuff that is listed up there will most likely stay in the city limits of Zephyrhills as the as if the deal is approved so currently the the effective date or the date of implementation rather of the agreement would be September 27th 2020 this year this will allow us time if approved today to do some of the work that needs to be done in order to make the two fire stations and all the equipment available for use in the county in terms of some technology related items and also allow the ability to train up all the individuals that will become an over-under County so like I said this has been a long time coming we've been working on it for over a year there's been a lot of people involved there's a lot of people I'd like to thank but it's a very lengthy list but I specifically wanted to thank the City Council and the city manager of Zephyrhills Billy Poe and of course the former city manager Steve spinner and especially our two unions the IFF unions for both the city in Zephyrhills and in Pasco County at the firefighter level they were able to work out a lot of the details that went into the the final agreement so we appreciate all their help and on both sides you know from HR legal administration FLE finance on and on and on there's there's just been a lot of people involved and we thank all of you for all your time so the proposal was presented to the city is up four hills last week Monday April 27th and all the city council ultimately voted unanimously to accept the county's agreement attached to this agreement later on this afternoon there'll be a public hearing to if this agreement is accepted this morning that we will have the the proposed ordinance to adopt remove the city of Zephyrhills into the fire mstu so that concludes the presentation I'll turn it over now to the board for consideration of the agreement and to answer any questions any questions at this time questions not statements questions no questions no questions no questions okay anybody else this is Commissioner strategies no mr. stark you go ahead I just want to say I love this idea and I won't belabor it say it's a great idea and I just want to do a shout out to the other municipalities that we don't service that we're open for business ready to talk to you thank you I don't see your mr. Oakley go ahead and hit your camera there you go I see I I totally agree with this merger that we're having between Pasco County and Zephyrhills enough worked along with Chief and Dam Bi along with this and their staff working on this very hard to bring this together I've spoke several times down it the city is are four hills about the win-win for both county and city residents and it's a great thing it's a great day in Pasco County it's not only my citizens of my district it's our citizens as in Pasco County so I really I'm just this is just an awesome move I think for the betterment

of our community and this is what we try to keep doing in our County so it's just another way that we can help with our County in this in this area so I with that I'll make a motion that we accept this agreement looks like I'll approve Jack Mario with a little more discussion second by Marriott i with discussion sir and chief I want to say you did a great job your whole team getting together and Commissioner Oakley your leadership is just coming through a stronger stronger and I really want to applaud the City Council of Zephyrhills to actually taking a look at what's best for their taxpayers it's better for them it's better for the county to work seamlessly together so it's going to save everybody a lot of money and getting better service so great work everybody please call the roll mr. chairman if I may clarify it's approved the the interlocal agreement and authorized the chair or designee to sign that's correct thank you district 1 Commissioner Oakley our district 3 Commissioner Starkey I district 4 commissioner Wells district 5 commissioner mariano district 2 chairman more hi motion passes 4-0 thank you all next PR you know mr. Chairman I believe r3 has been withdrawn is that correct that mr. minister that is correct r3 is withdrawn and our one on the addendum is mine hold on what's that mr. stacks that are foreclosed move on to the addendum they are go ahead mr. Steiner mr. chairman air one is an amendment to your procedural rules based on the current situation that we're in I'm recommending that you amend your procedural rules at section two point three that in the AB in the physical the absence of the physical presence of the chairman or vice chairman the senior most member of the Board of County Commissioners available is authorized to sign on the chairs behalf it just will will help us in having to shuttle documents around now and in the in the event that we normalize you'd still have a quorum but the chair or vice chairman are not there whoever is this is the senior most member in terms of longevity on the board would be able to sign documents okay thank you any questions see you then I'll entertain a motion please Ron Oakley most moves to approve the motion second Commissioner Starkey motion by Commissioner Oakley a second by Commissioner Starkey madam clerk please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley all right district three commissioner Starkey I District four commissioner Wells District five Commissioner Mariano uh district two chairman more motion passes or zero thank you all artists AR q AR to public services the virus pandemic persons distribution of food apostle County residents were faced economic hardship D to fill the 19 that's County Board of County Commission on the way of Pasco Hank operation feat Pascoe $600,000 good morning everybody kathy peterson assistant county administrator public services thank you for the opportunity

before we go into the PowerPoint I just wanted to make note for the record there is a revision to the agreement the very last page of the agreement we have struck out the method of payment method of payment has been take suggest that for the record thank you does that have to be voted on there before I go on no no okay Jeff's telling me no so that was that so yes so thank you all as you all know we are this is the corona virus we are eligible for this funding through FEMA and so since our dining end program launched about three weeks ago and that program was partnering with our triple-a Area Agency on Aging to prepare meals with our restaurants for our seniors we thought well what a better way to expand this program with this funding and with this we are going to be partnering with United Way and developed a program which will feed the county residents utilizing Pasco based restaurants we are going to be partnering with our restaurants to provide food for our food pantries so we have a volunteer way we have the Rope Center we have one community now some of the ones that are going to be implementing and developing this we have ready to launch tomorrow morning believe it or not will be our first meals that we'll be launching the plan is to distribute about 61 thousand meals over 60 days and any of the restaurants that are interested please we put the website out there you need to contact the United Way we've got phone numbers up there we've got a cell phone number from Madeline Cologne at seven two seven three five nine seven nine nine nine or the office number seven two seven eight three five two zero two five as Madeline Cologne of the United Way I do want to put a big shout out to the United Way when we were talking about this program I immediately jumped into action with Chuck Anderson and he immediately said a big ole yes so they have been coordinating with all the agencies the food banks and the restaurants and putting that all together and I couldn't thank him enough and I also want to thank Jeff Stein's neither enjoy in the wolfgramm I have been driving Jeff crazy for the last week and a half with all these requests and Jordan came through so with that we may come back and ask for more money we'll see how this goes we want to evaluate it for sixty days and we'll take it from there so any questions you Cathy any questions mr. chairman Jack Mariano mr. Commissioner Mariano glad sir Cathy I want to say great job with this whole program putting together I know your staff was all like buzzing all last week about trial how they going to make it all work got once again I dia and you probably already thought of us I'll just throw it out there anyway though we've got a list of people that are seniors that are on the waiting list for illiterate attrition to get meals on wheels those people included in this if they can come to the food pantries they would be eligible so they would want to go to one community now or volunteer way I'm sure they would be eligible because

that's where we're dropping the food off for people that are driving through the food pantries to pick up this food so let me try to look different then a little bit of go to looking at a different way in a separate thing do you think maybe over the next few days we can actually take a look at a program of doing something for meals on wheels because some of these seniors don't have transportation they're kind of like stuck in their homes you want to expand the program that I will have I would like to be able to take a look at expanding the program going forward these will use some of this money for that well we take it let's go after money we may have this program but another program yep exactly do we do it do not boast on it with a list of people that you already have to try to use it with separate money and I think Area Agency on Aging got additional money down specifically for that program but they have expanded it now I don't know if that's gotten rid of the entire backlog that we have on the list no it has that program has been it it has not yet gotten rid of the people on the on the waiting list but it's put a big dent in it so even if there's only for 60 days we could kind of do that if you guys could do that I'm fully supported to maybe see that happen commission more and caps target good thank you so much you and Marci for putting this together we talked about this as soon as I learned this was coming on one of my white house calls and you know we had talked with some others and other government agencies and you know the thought was well people are getting 275 a week plus the 600 from the government so that's a that's a lot of money if you're out of work but the problem is there are a lot of people haven't gotten that money yet and just this morning I talked again with the owner of a hair salon in longleaf who shuttered their doors March 26 and still haven't gotten through to the unemployment office and nor have any of her employees so this is you know one of the employees may not have a car anymore you know so this is to help our citizens be able to just cope until we can open those businesses we're not Cathy correct me if I'm wrong we're not giving anyone direct money but we're paying their bills for them oh that's a different one talking the same way right now and I don't I don't have those copies so that's the only one I have if someone comes mail that to me I would love that well all right so I'm reading the I'm reading the wrong one then but when we get to that these comments apply because that's that's that's a a let me ask you I'm sorry I'm on I'm on CD 20 - Oh 185 that was just mailed to me by someone is that the wrong one okay all right sorry I'm responding to the next one but that one's also excellent - any questions any more questions on our - if none I'll entertain a motion I move to approve our - absolutely motion to approve our - I need a second ron oakley seconds oakley madam clerk

please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley hi district three commissioners Starkie I District four commissioner Wells District five commissioner Mariano by district 2 chairman more hi motion passes 4-0 thank you madam Clerk moving on Kathy I guess you're gonna still have this will still be your show r3 r3 which is Pascal cares program provides relief direct assistance for pentacle County residents for million dollars take it away okay Thank You commissioner so yes this is the Pasco cares program that we are doing for the very first time and introducing you today and this funding is coming from part of the ninety-six Cova $19 so the purpose of this is we're going to just as Bill Cronin and his group with Pasco Economic Council has held businesses we are going to help our citizens so we're asking to allocate four million dollars to begin this program and giving dann up to another four million of a total eight million based on the community need so what we're hoping to do with this as we're as suffering an economic interruption to the Cova 19 Pasco County residents they'll have to be eligible there must be a Pasco County resident 80% of the area median income will be able to provide mortgage or rental assistance utility transportation maybe pay a car payment and all of these payments will be made directly to a vendor will be first come first serve and it's up to $3,500 threshold next slide please after that and we just wanted to put up what the 80% ami looks like so with folks losing their jobs a lot of people are going to fit into this category so a family of one is 39 four all the way up to a family is six is sixty-five thousand two hundred and fifty so how do we get this going and when do we get this going so how to cement the Pasco County website will be my passcode net slash Pasco cares applicants will receive a confirmation email upon the middle applicants will be contacted within two days of the Seminole applicants will have three days to provide the county with a necessary paper documentation that's going to be really important for those of the listening out there please when you get that call we need to get your paperwork within three days and the program we're ready to launch this this Thursday at 9 a.m. and we are probably only going to be able to probably fund about 1200 at this point so the the will shut down after the first 1200 against I can't stress enough this week and a half what this team has been doing to put this together it has been unbelievable we are building an airplane as its flying as I always say and I couldn't think I've got to thank these folks Brian Hoban who's our interim Community Services Director Marci s Berg director of development community development the whole entire public services branch Marc Bella's and Lisa Stinnett with the customer service they are going to be taken calls if needed for those that can't do the applications they will help

folks walk through that application when we've got volunteers for the folks ready to get trained today and tomorrow from all branches and I thank you all for that the IT department my lord they have just worked endlessly around-the-clock they've had to build a whole new program for this a portal and the clerk of courts Nicky we can't thank you enough they have worked with us very closely in the past week so we will be able to cut checks almost every day for this program so it should be no holdup with that and again Jordan wolfgramm from the County Attorney's Office we could not have made it possible without her putting all this together for us so with that we are ready to rock and roll on Thursday and hopefully we can get this program we're hoping the payments maybe by nine to ten days we're hoping our pay our people will see these checks so we're going to have some glitches as we go on the way but we are ready to rock and roll Kathy thank you a favor back up to slides and keep that website up if Todd if you can just leave that up instead of showing our faces when we're talking just for a minute while we're discussing this that way I mean the citizens have more time to write that down if you think that this time I'll ask and leave that up please any questions from the Commission please yeah I have a question is Commissioner Starkey so if they're receiving the unemployment benefits are they eligible for this or is this for people who haven't received those yet proof that they're the two things that they have to show is that they've had of either letter that they've been furloughs from their job or they have proof that they've shown for unemployment proof that they've shown proof that they applied for unemployment okay but are we gonna give this money to people I thought we were giving this to people that haven't been able to get through we are if we open it to everybody then people who are already receiving unemployment no they will not receive this but whether they've applied for unemployment it could be weeks before they get that unemployment they at least need to show us that they've applied for it yeah or tried to apply or trying to exact okay I'm good at that Thank You mr. chairman Jack Mariano maryadas so Cathy another great project and mr. Starkey for always that neiko president's that you have to kind of keep these things rolling so everyone can get on board ahead of time is great and Nikki thanks for the great work as well the process I hope we have the same great success we just heard about with EDC get that money out there quick get it in the economy where it needs to go for those people that are just frustrated waiting I mean I feel real bad for those salon owners that just can't open their businesses yet and restaurant people that just can't get to full capacity where they should be able to go to you know make money and live their lives so great project good speed with it thank you you can pull the slide down now Cathy real quick just to reiterate this if you just now it will

go live at what time tomorrow live 9:00 a.m. on Thursday May 7th 9 a.m. may 7th it'll go we're given a day for folks to get the word out make sure people know about it and be ready to launch 9 a.m. Thursday ok Thursday 9:00 a.m. just to reiterate that ok with that I'll entertain a motion second sorry move to approve addendum our three turkey have a second by Commissioner Mariano Oh madam clerk please call them district one Commissioner Oakley I District three commissioner Starkey I District four commissioner Wells District five Commissioner Mariano hi district two chairman more hi motion passes 4-0 thank you all thanks Kathy and your team for all your great work and your efforts and with that unless I miss something I think that does it for the regular agenda unless I have a sneaky walk-on not all right old business mr. Oakley anything today even a yes sir of course I keep keep saying this but I made it from the bottom I heart I appreciate you everything our staff and Dan and all the staff and also Jeff's town center and all his staff everyone that worked very hard during this time and it's very unusual times but they've done a great job and they've done it from not necessarily sitting in an office but a new way of working things really came out well and I think it shows when you look at the end result and the facts of not only how Pasco County is down but the fact that our Florida and a whole as a whole I have a personal I don't need to appoint as dr. Andrew illega to the EMS and ivory board to fill the vacancy for district 1 previously held by David wilter dr. pol ego is the EMS medical director of Zephyrhills an attending physician at us ACS he also sits on the champion cephus sepsis committee at the advent hospital in Zephyrhills but I'd make a motion to put him as there in my slot there for advisory board any a second second second Commissioner Mariana second I have a second by Commissioner Mariano madam clerk please call the roll district one Commissioner Oakley uh district 3 Commissioner Starkey I district 4 commissioner wells district 5 Commissioner Mariano uh district 2 chairman more motion passes for zero thank you anything else Commissioner Oakley I find that takes urine thank you Starkey yeah I want to send in some pictures actually of some of the projects that we've done over the last few weeks in delivering food but Danny I hope you're listening who do we send it to to get a picture up on the screen Oh to Paula okay Danny send some photos please from some of our our food deliveries so as you know I don't know if you can get this on the screen how that works okay so we started a program here in Pasco called flag 2020 Pasco and its front line appreciation group and this is a movement that's going on all across the country where local citizens are contributing to the fund and we support local restaurants and we deliver food to the hospitals that are caring for the kovat patients and we have so far delivered to North Bay the hospital

in Dade City the Advent Hospital in Zephyrhills and the H HCA in Trinity and we'll be going to bake care I'm sorry beignet point this week and also back to Trinity I want to thank Commissioner Oakley who sponsored the hospital in Zephyrhills and superintendent browning and board member school board member all Allen Altman who sponsored the hospital in Dade City along with some other citizens of Dade City mr. Oakley was out of town so representative Magor delivered the food to Zephyrhills last Friday so they thank you very much and Thursday representing Zika is delivering lunch to the hospital in Trinity along with some other so please if you want to help support those in the hospital who are on the front line taking care of our citizens you can go to flag 2020 pasco our Facebook page and donate through PayPal or venmo and we are going to start again this week our second round of donations and then we will also be serving the drive-through sights the bay care site and the new advents site so thank you all to those folks are going into the hospitals every day and taking care of our citizens and I was doing some reading this weekend and I saw that the governor's orders did not close the beach on Anclote Island and the sandbar I was under the impression that those beaches were closed but what I read this weekend was that they are that they are not closed and there's one of his latest order so can we get clarification on that and and if if I am correct here's some of the photos there's representative Maggard delivering Sonny's to the hospital in Zephyrhills so let's let's let's find out if that's true or not and that's a Trinity hospital there and the Republican Club from Land O Lakes area so leisure lane I'll know Jack's gonna talk about that but I'll just say great job thank you so much how you know I Drive through there almost every three days just to keep an eye on it because I live right by there and so grateful that we were able to take care of that thank you Mike Karbala and your team and and others and I'm sure jack will touch on that more I came off of my 30-day restriction for exercising and and started to ride the Starkey Gap trail and almost got hit I'm the first time crossing state roads for car pulled into my lane as I was crossing I had a meeting with F dot and our staff and I'm very pleased to say that we are you're going to be hearing that this project is moving forward rapidly and that we figured out some some funding options and it's going to be coming to you as a joint project from F dot and the county to do the bike overpass that trail I don't know if any of you had a chance to go on it it's it's an awesome trail and it's full there are families with training wheels roller bladers skateboarders fishing people fishing it's a beautiful trail really really well used and but very dangerous to cross 50 for everyone who's waiting at the sides freaks out and holds their breath when they get across so again I want to thank all the staff in the

county the health department all the county commissioners who are working so hard I told someone it reminds me of the times when we were in a hurricane mode it's just lasting for weeks instead of a few days but I think I've never worked more hours and since I've been elected than during during this time we're pushing out a newsletter every day keeping the citizens updated and I know others are doing webinars and videos and just grateful that I think our numbers are quite good in the county I don't thank our citizens for really paying attention and I'm excited about this slow opening and I thank the governor for for taking those steps I look forward to our next step there you go come on Mariana Thank You mr. chairman and mr. strike I'll touch on that lesion lane that that is a very exciting project those that haven't seen it it would it would just amaze you what's been accomplished I mean what we accomplished there in two years has been great but this past project was phenomenal there was trash everywhere just was just deplorable conditions that almost had gotten to taking a step backwards and right now they cleaned it out level you can actually get on leisurely and actually look out the see us 19 there was a homeless camp that actually hooked up to a building out there they used their electrical which is very dangerous they hooked up with it water they had a up dying upside down boat that was a table they had a portal it out there I mean just deplorable conditions that are there that were just going on that nobody knew because of the weave and that may have made us to go out there so it is just a lot safer out there and and provides the table with Mike Sutton he is much more optimistic about making this project go and I'll tell you a kind of interesting story that happened was he talked when he'd come back he came up to look at it with his construction supervisor and they looked at and ago you know this would really work nicely because it's actually a little lake that could actually be there a waterway that's there that's our opponents in the back and he says a townhome project would be there and I happened to be playing golf with a realtor that actually years ago looked at that property trying to do with townhome project so was where they talked about trying to work together this could be a great opportunity to make that happen with a local vendor to try to drive those costs down to make it more affordable which would be something that I think everyone saw the email from habitat was they're losing about 35 to 40 grand a home they can't sustain it they wanted they want to build we got the land to go do so they may be looking for us to forgive some of the cost that we've had in there maybe there's a way we could look at something to get to help make that happen but they're they're very excited about what we've done out there this is past two weeks staff Mike rbailey you and your team John powers John Justin were phenomenal out there next subject

the Lynx golf course I think you've probably seen a few emails we kept them from coming into kind of knocking on the door as far as what's coming up but I want to read to you something talking to Denise Hernandez we have a policy that we allow people that if they're not permitted to actually keep on working until they go through the process the Lynx golf course has leased their property from about a year now to a company that does golf carts they brought golf carts into where the restaurant Pro Shop area are now it's not ancillary use when it's used for that if they want to go build a rain and all that other stuff so be it but right now they're operating in violation of our code it's kind of like bringing dealership into a residential area we wouldn't allow that to happen their meeting actually this morning about whether they even going to deny access to the people because they don't even have an agreement about having access coming in and coming out as an ancillary use it's always been used that way when I look at the fire that was with the Gulf Depot over in u.s. 41 a couple weeks back that was from a golf cart being charged that somehow something caught fire and burnt the building down the building down next to it where is this building that's right here has a golf cart in the Pro Shop and I don't know if they're charging or not I don't have proof of that but I do have pictures of withan golf carts were in there if that ever catches fire not only is the building that they own in jeopardy but the club I was right beside is in jeopardy now you heard a long time ago we had a craft brewery coming in where they just have a simple plugin for their plant where they brew and that had to have a firewall inside the building itself I've got it a budding building I don't have it so we've got a policy as I just said as far as our code is we allow people to operate they could be six months before they get back and I will tell you they kind of talked about how they had a golf course golf cart retail business the people there say they did not have that type of business they do not have a dealership license to be in that property as well and it doesn't fit with the code that's currently there so talk to Denise Hernandez I had to send me an email so we can look at looking at a policy change that we could make even if we went one by one I would start with this one in particular see how it works out but as she said to me as per our conversation yesterday it is customary hold enforcement in advance while the applicant is working in a pre-application in the public hearing process to bring the property into conformance I will tell you to me a long hard struggle to go there's a lot of opposition for it which you'll hear as it does come forward but I think we should have stop be able to shut this thing down and not put the people in jeopardy until it goes through our full process again it's it's not compliant with what's there as staff there's not a district disagreeing with but this would take policy direction from the

Commission to go forward so I just like to have the discussion well I am curious wasn't that a don't golf courses have a golf cart barn and wasn't that what that space was used for the golf cart barn is where they do the charging it's where they store the golf carts what they're doing now is they're bringing retail and to actually do sales so they could do more construction they brought some of those golf carts as I said into the Pro Shop restaurant area which is not designed for that so that's that's where again the issue was they would they told staff at the meeting that you know they've done the retail sales no one from the five board members I talked to have any recollection of anybody buying a golf cart from there except when they dissolved their lease didn't start until the golf course could shut down as well so it's clearly not an axillary use to what's what's going on there it's not for me it's for legal that I just wondered if golf courses have golf cart facilities so how is that not a use but a permitted use there that well according to your zone administrator it was not a previously permitted use the only caution and and it's within your purview not to give a grace period for people who are trying to come into compliance if that's the board's direction however if that's the board's direction it's across the board it's not it we can't single out a particular use and tell them they they're in violation we're not going to we're not going to recognize the the that they are trying to come into compliance yet we do it for others that's that's gonna get you in trouble yeah I'm thinking of some breweries that would have had to or may have to close and others that didn't realize they needed this perimeter that permit and we'd have to shut them down I think that that probably that's probably an unintended consequence you don't want to go after maybe there's another way they can look I don't want to do that's all those business this is a very unique situation if you see the picture and this is on the screen that does the golf Depot that when on fire what scares me if that happens to that and and again if it happens to the golf cart building that catches over to the next building it catches over there's nothing protecting that other one it's a dangerous situation so I don't want to see it take six months to get to that point and I and I will tell you when they meet me today it may be a moot point because they may just cut their access off anyway because they don't have an agreement between them but maybe staff could move that thing a lot quicker than mr. chairman if I'm if I'm a commissioner now don't we can't blur the issues if there is a fire code issue that's not that's different from the zoning issue that's going on and coming into compliance we if there's a life's hate life safety issue in terms of a fire code violation I'm not aware that the fire department gives them any period of compliance so I mean if it's that bad they shut them down so so the

the issue of there being a fire code issue if there is one should be taken play that enforcement should be taken place to the fire marshal's office that that's different than the zoning issue of having a retail where they're not supposed to be if that's the case okay I'll go with chief casting on it we did talk about this yesterday because I talked about you know how does the city protect itself and you have buildings next to each other when you have different uses we are you have a firewall and have a firewall and a craft brewery to me when you have two buildings that aren't owned by the same person there should be a firewall they're especially good at that change and if they do have golf carts in that Pro Shop which I did see pictures of I don't know if they were charging but if that did happen the same fire could happen right there it would be a bad thing mr. mr. chair on this issues you know fire-rescue has been out to the Lynx twice to look at that facility and while there were you know minor violations that we find pretty routinely those were all being addressed when they went out there the second time those were all be an address or they had parts on order to address them in the case of a negative sign or two that there is a distinct difference between the two events the fire at Land O'Lakes facility you know was a shed in a double-wide motor home being used as an office for a small business out at the Lynx it's two buildings that are physically separated by 12 feet 12 a clear zone there CMU block building and so there is a distinct difference fire more likely and so I mean can I stop you because you've given that information the cart burn area is separated from the regular building that is true that's where they did a lot of the charging through the years for all the golf carts that's really get charged what's different right now is in the Pro Shop in the restaurant area they had pictures of golf carts that were in there I asked the residents anybody knew if they were actually charging in there I don't have confirmation the charging in there if they ever do charge a golf cart while it's in that Pro Shop you're gonna you could have a situation like that fire that could happen right there and carry to the building that's where the difference is yeah I'm just reading from the far more I understand what the when I questioned the chief on it so I can follow up with it I think the county attorney actually you brought up a good point which I wasn't aware of how we couldn't selectively do it but I think it's something that warrants further further review to it for that safety the one problem with the situation is if it has a safety item and they do have golf carts around there and they have charged golf carts in there that is a big safety violation that could be an issue so oh all I can report sir is that the fire marshals been out there twice and looked at the facility two times and they bring them up for some minor violations and they are working to correct those and as

I say I don't know if they have the golf carts in there right now I did see pictures in there the residents said they're in there and if that is the case at least if nothing else the fire marshal needs to make mention to that and I did not see that in the report yeah I can't speak to that okay this is Trevor Moore let me chop is hurt Commissioner Mariano is is they're making a motion today to change a policy or are you bringing this back it's to make a motion cuz yeah mr. chairman I was I was going to make that motion but in light of what the county attorney had just said I don't want to shut down all the other projects that are good that are trying to come into compliance I just want it I'm just going to go back and look at this in a different way with the administration from this point so I'm not gonna make a motion on it based upon with the county attorney just said anything yes I would like to say that my car Bella you and your team today we're out at Gulf Islands right along state 52 where there's an over over time place is a big retention area that hasn't been cleaned out those guys have the bulldozers out there now it's going to help a side street that floods out every single time that's going to get cleaned out this new maintenance person that you have in charge is I think is going to do a phenomenal job a great idea of flattening the organization to get it done so thank you for taking care of that and I know Brantford is gonna work on the beacon woods majestic bridge area there he's got plans for that too so thank you very much for that I want to bring up just one of them right him if I could with all this grant money going on in dealing with kovat Dan I haven't even talked to you about this year they just had the idea maybe this morning but the Sun Coast Recovery Center is trying to go through and get an SBA loan with all this Cova things going on they pushed them to the backburner they've been waiting for a little bit of time trying to make the terms any way they could help people that I think we've seen there's more domestic violence that's out there there's probably most suicides it's out there then maybe more drugs that are out there as well the Sun Coast Recovery Center actually just touched it and about this if we could possibly take a look and maybe bring something back or have that conversation they could probably house about 30 to fully homeless people get them treatment get them off the drugs in in in in free up hospital space which we don't want to worry about so we have to furlough all those hospital workers and create the extra capacity if you Dan could look at that and work with Kathy maybe try to find out if there's that we could loan the money to them let them pay us back it might help them open their just a bucket their planes ready to submit yeah caffeine I briefly discussed and we're gonna get together or later to talk more about it okay that's all I have sir thank you Thank You Commissioner Mary Otto mr.

BIOS yes sir thank you give my notes real quick just Andy was here briefly but I know he's we do the three day a week or three times a week briefings for stakeholder everything so I sent him back to the EOC to work on some other issues today's numbers we are up another two in new cases from Department Health if I read the site right just a few minutes ago in general from accounting perspective we are slowly working through our parks to open them and now the beaches are open again got maintained social distancing in small groups and all that the next phase of parks opening will be probably the walking trails that are in our active parks that will probably open parts of the park where those are available but not necessarily the recreation facilities themselves again to minimize the large groups at those places we're also working on a plan to slowly roll out a phase one opening of our libraries that announcement will probably come later this week and so we were working on that the customer service counters weren't going to change right now they're going to continue to operate the way they are the same thing with our groups that are working from home they will continue to work from home for the time being because that's consistent with the governor's order so that is kind of from an operational perspective I mentioned last meeting that there was a priest and different revenue hit that we were expecting over the next several months the revenue numbers from Marx didn't differ as much as we expected that's good they weren't as high as we had budgeted for in that month either so that's you know it didn't hit those numbers either so there was a small dip from what we had expected when we budgeted March so we sat down over the last couple weeks and went through some various options to I will say restrict spending in the general fund over the next several months as we get a better handle what our revenues actually will be in the general fund the the specific departments that are being hit outside the general funds like gas tax the Transportation Trust Fund and tourism or all work in their specific plans and make sure that they can manage with the revenue they expect to come in the reduced revenue from the general fund perspective we are putting in place what I will call a soft hiring freeze ie if you need a person and you can justify that person up to your associate county administrator level then we can still go through the process of hiring that position it's not a hard freeze there are some places where it still makes sense to hire that person depending on what that position is all FY 20 business plan initiatives that have not been implemented or have been placed on hold until we see what our revenue looks like over the next few months we are obviously travels restricted so we've kind of swept a lot of the travel funds out of the departments and put those in a savings account in same thing with that there's not a lot of in person training going on right now so the cost

for those conferences and classes also have kind of been swept up and kind of our hold any training that's required for certification though we are still allowing that kind of training but most of those are virtual today anyway and we're working on carefully watching our large purchases over the next few months to make sure again that it's something has to happen as opposed to something we that we can wait until we see the what the revenue perspective but right now we expect about a 5.7 million dollar hit to the general fund in FY 2008 respect to the revenue so we think we have a plan in place to to be within that revenue over the next six months from an expense standpoint and as we are working right now building the FY 21 budget I will say that on the general fund and these other funds that will be impacted by this it will be a very lean budget as in there will not be many extra so any business plan initiatives proposed because there probably will not you know probably taking a priest if you hint on the sales tax even in 221 and understanding that in 222 we will probably be taking a hit on the ad valorem sat at alarm aside because the building will be slowing down over the next several months which means our new construction number in 22 will be lower than always see in the last few years I will say that building permits were down about 25 percent from March to April that's probably within what we kind of expected the market to do still a lot of building going on out there but that's still down 25 percent March to April and that will probably continue to drop over the next couple months until people really get a feel for what is happening out there in the economy so big picture we in in short we've gone through done our due diligence on our 20 expenses we think we have a plan in place that will keep us within the projected revenue in 20 the revenue 20 and that our 21 budget will be very lean with respect to new business plan initiatives in the general fund very close to zero right now unless we see some change in the revenue perspective so that's kind of what we're looking at right now and that's all I had mr. chair do you have anything mr. stark he just asked for the floor yeah I I was gonna mention to mr. biles and everyone else I received a Wall Street Journal article this morning that interestingly said housing prices were prices were up almost 8 percent in March now that's not to say that's gonna happen through the whole year but it looks like the trend is that the demand is still very strong the supply is still not so good so I also I also saw some comments from Taylor Morrison in an article that they're still actively looking for land and their did you know kind of focusing on the adult retirement and they still see the demand in Florida is very strong so hopefully we won't hopefully we'll bounce back very quickly I did want to ask you one question administrative Lea and and that happened with me this morning you know so I didn't have any of the addendum stuff printed and and I couldn't find it in my emails I get so many trying to

look through it this morning but in looking at what was sent to me it all came in as r1 r2 and r3 and I already have an r1 r2 r3 so can we do some kind of numbering system where it's a r1 r2 and a r3 so it's a little easier to follow so I don't get it all mixed up like I tend to commissionaire apologize for dad apologies normally we wouldn't number it a 1 a 2 a 3 we were trying to make it easier to find for the public so because we're working with a system that is not necessarily reliable but we're working on replace right now that was a way that the numbering came out to be but we will be addressing that in the future ok great thank you sir mr. chairman members of the board I want to take the opportunity to thank my team again they are putting out a lot of stuff that is not not what we normally do and Cathy's comments earlier she was lucky that the chief was done with MS wolfgramm because she put together the interlocal agreement and and the ordinance for the fire merger that's on today's agenda and then not being able to take a breath moved right into assisting community development with the cares funding so we have been the the County Attorney's Office has sort of been working in the background to try and assist administration in this time of pandemic thank you sir anything from the clerk's office today yes sir I have three quick items I just wanted to also thank my team they have been working throughout this pandemic and we've had a lot of extra work come our way as it relates to the cares money and handling of that and other initiatives and having to work differently so I just wanted to remind the public that we are open for business and we can assist you on the phone or in the office and there's also a lot of abilities for customers to do business on our website so we are here to help in this time where money is extremely tight and if you have any sort of court fines fees or charges that are outstanding that please contact our office we are here to help we can put you on a payment plan with deferred payments to help you through this time another thing I wanted to mention a small PSA that too please watch out for scams we're getting information from our customers those that are waiting on checks individuals are calling them and telling them sorry for the delay of your check we need some additional information can you give me your social security number or your bank account number and people are providing that because they think finally they're getting some movement for their check to come so that is a scam government does not call you and ask you for those things over the phone so I just wanted to make sure that information was out there for the public the last thing I want to mention is the curbside food drive that is this Saturday from 8:00 till 3:00 that is a wonderful event that is a collaboration from many AM agencies it includes Pasco County and Fire Rescue out there we have a Pascal Education Foundation in Powell County Schools the sheriff's office our legislators as well as my office helping to collect food for

our families here in Pasco County again it is this Saturday May 9th from 8 till 3 p.m. and it is located at the Sam's Club parking lot on 54 in Wesley Chapel you have a question thank you yes I do right number number one I'd like just like to say I think damn bowels and Jeff Stein Schneider on them and their staff and a clerk's office and their staff and everything they do to make this meeting as close to being a regular meeting as you can imagine I don't know if y'all feel that way but I'm sitting at my desk and going through Smee I feel like it's the same as the meetings we normally had before even though we're under different circumstances but I'd like to thank all the staff for for that and dance leader and also Jeff's leadership and and Nicky's and in getting things to work out the way they are because this is very close to being our regular meeting and I'm very thankful this worked out this way so and with that the question I have is we have a meeting I think scheduled May 19 is that gonna be virtual or is that gonna be live that's virtual it's virtual okay yes thank you that's all I know we don't know about June until we hear from the governor again right okay thank you sir okay so awkward to me just briefed just a couple things I did want to mention some of the meetings I've had lately actually after the last couple months I think a lot of you know that I had the meeting with the past go well you don't know about that so I had I made it with the Pasco mayor's gonna online and talked to every mayor from Pasco County Dana not we answered some of the questions it may they may have had we took some other input so I appreciate all I'm getting on the fly with me I also had another one with our entire legislative delegation so I think them for being on that call in addition that had meeting with the chairs of the Dallas and Hillsborough County Commissioners long as the mayor of Tampa in Clearwater to talk about some regional issues and in some of them I've continued to have conversations with I also put together an informal group to keep myself and Dan by us up-to-date on some things that are going on in the community so I did a Chairman's opening opening Pasco advisory group I had a couple of physicians on there dr. Jana talk doctor dr. Yan Tech and dr. Pino Mike Nick year myself to him by old sheriff's office superintendent browning the CEOs from each and every chamber here in Pasco County as well as bill Cronin from the EDC sympathy we um got open we met and after the governor made his statement we met again obviously online virtually to talk about some of their suggestions and against those suggestions and thoughts were used when in the policies that's been taking place now so I think everybody for participating in that also had the opportunity to participate in a and moderate with the chair for the school board coming moto in we did a virtual meeting reference to people to see families implements they have children

with disabilities that went very well a lot of feet a lot of good feedback great people on that call actually besides calling them and we had the director of student accessibility for pastor NATO State College Darcy McDowell pepid academies Pascal principal inch Keller we also had dr. Monica Terada which is the with the Florida Department of Education and say she's the ESO chief so we're able to get a lot of great information out there to the community and answer some questions everybody has been involved in those meetings I'm one last thing this is a feel-good I think most of you probably already know it's National Nurses Week and teacher appreciation week so these are challenging times obviously for our nurses in our teachers so for the bottom I heart I want to thank each and every one of you that are part of those professions wife's the registered nurse so obviously I appreciate her very much too but and you know especially our you know our nurses out there putting their health at risk every day to make sure that they healthy we it's very much appreciated again our teachers that are you know working in different circumstances and they're doing a great job I've had the opportunity to be on some zoom cause with students and tell you what they're they're really doing amazing amazing work of educating our children during different times so with that that's all I have mister we're gonna go ahead and recess this pro lunch I will see everybody back here at 1:30 with that move are now No some of us are still staying on mr. chairman before recess gonna just say a couple things I forgot no but can we not take this up this up during commissioner items we keep going back and forth it's really hard to do this especially virtually well I tell you that was just just give me just a minute won't take long first of all Commissioner Stark I've been to venmo you before about your thing with the food drive so I want to help with that but I wanted to put a special reach out when you mentioned feel good you made me think of something I was supposed to bring up today a couple years ago I got the lucky position actually worked with Tracey raiser Kathy was very nice to let her come to work for me was great I didn't like the fact that you took her back frankly but I want to say we had a voting situation over beacon woods and the condominiums and it was something that the Association dealt with a couple years ago and it resurfaced again they were looking for help so they came back to us so we went out there Thursday Tracey and I we went with the bull we talked it through and I want to tell you Tracy did such a phenomenal job talking to the lady try to find out what her issues were how we could help her every step of the way through and then yesterday we had a crew out there some workers from the Rope Center finally they weren't work and I got some guys out there that had kind of helped out we filled up a whole four yard dumpster and it was like

such a slow process but Tracey was so phenomenal talking with her having her just let go of the things over and over again and now she's in a hotel they're trying to find a LFR but I just want to say you had a perfect person she did a great job with it in every step of the way had she not had that hands-on contact with her every step of the way we wouldn't have had this success we had so that all the residents happy the person who was in trouble is happy and we're gonna get some good help too so thank you and and I just received some news I want to share with everybody that the fact meeting in June is canceled the naica one is suspended and we'll you know we'll find out and here it is so close that so many of our staffers could have gone over but the naica one as of now suspended they'll make a decision in a few weeks thank you all we're on break [Music]