12.10.19 Pasco BOCC Meeting

[Music] more everybody I'd like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission meeting for December 10 2009 remind everybody please silence your cell phones and any other electronic devices you may have we please rise for the invocation and the pledge at this time because thankful for your loving Providence and granted we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts Madame clerk please call the roll Commissioner wells here district 5 Commissioner Mariano here district 2 chairman one here thank you so much ladies and gentleman now is the time for public comments so this was given the opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board or in the public comments section the board also takes public comment is be placed on future board agendas rather business under their purview public comment for public hearing items are taking during these individual public hearings beginning at 1:30 p.m. is requested that when you address the board that comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member but rather direct it to the issues this provides mutual respect between the board members and the public individuals speaking to Republic comment will given three minutes to speak after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer located the podium will start a countdown after two minutes one be equal sound and light on the timer will change from yellow to green or is actually from green to yellow letting you know that only one minute remains after the time is up two beeps will sound the light on the timer will change from yellow to red indicating the three minutes are up and you should close your comments at that time and I have three people lined up to speed actually we're gonna Joseph marina from once with Felicia River electric we have a special presentation good morning how are you so we'll have name and address for the record yes my name is Joe marina district manager with kuchi electric 21st Street Dade City good morning chairman more commissioners administrator biles Turner Stein Snyder clerk Alvarez Souls as you know what kuchi electric is based in Pasco County we are member owned not-for-profit company giving back to the communities that we serve in our members our top priority here's some examples scholarship program that we that we have this year we will be awarding 110 scholarships worth $11,000 each potential path 1.2 million dollars since 1997 we've awarded 1974 scholarships with over thirteen point three million dollar potential we also have a program called Operation roundup we've helped 621 families through catastrophic events since that program's inception in 1994 we've awarded over 2 point 1 million most currently we're involved in helping with mental health we have embarked in a project called the Vinson house project and we appreciate the county self thank you very much

again we do appreciate the excellent working relationship with Pasco County this year we are awarding in total 21 million dollars back to our membership and on behalf of our CEO mr. Brown our board I would like to present you with courses big old fake check but some real checks here and your refund to Pasco County Commissioners is three hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars excellent and I will take that this time yes but actually you can hand it to the clerk I'd also some money so thank you for that well we're much appreciative you guys did great things in the community you continue to weaken we're very thankful on how much you do give back in so many areas Joseph and I think since you do have the big check I guess it's only appropriate that we go down in and take a photo so I can ask the whole dais if you like to come down you see buddy thank you [Applause] okay thank you so much moving on I do have and I apologize that I can't read the last name very well I'm Gerald Novotny is that right no bad okay I'm sorry okay thank you and nima not just a record circle condominium park Zephyrhills resident DMV of 307 units and before I start with my presentation I'd like to thank the commissioners that have helped us in the past when we were fighting aqua utilities Jack Mariana I remember we were together we talked together made some trips to Tallahassee anyone that else those are the two that come to mind thank you for all your efforts this morning I'm here to talk about a project again I said I live an American condominium park and we're on State Route 54 we are between Lake Bernadette Zephyr Shores and to the west of us is Crystal Lake mobile home park two years ago Crystal Lake mobile home park started a development to expand to up to 500 homes and they got pushed back to that additional 250 as part of their development they built a four acre pond that is adjacent to our community at the before the commencement of construction we were told that none of the water from the new pond was going to come to American condo it was too late for the death there is proven to be false and I'll say March they they started constructing this four acre pond right adjacent to our pond and about March time frame our fest came down and this 30 inch concrete pipe came into our property which we did not expect because in Patricia initially we were told we weren't like to get their water in August of 2018 we started to get water and it was turbid water and we call we went over to see that community and they kind of Stonewall this we went and saw the contractor superintendent we were stonewalled again so we not been able to get any any information they built that they built the pond too close to our property line there's supposed to been a 10 foot buffer according to the drawings and they've got it right against our property line they not supposed to discharge turbid water according to Southwest Florida Water Management

District a case with mud but they've been discharging it for over a year I've got a handout here that I'd like to present to them to the Chairman few seconds left second second all Barrett motion passes think you can play same to the clerk don't you go fast enough I will in a second you're not gonna read it now this is very a that's fine um Swift mud has done nothing for over a year they've allowed this turbid water to come in they've allowed the water to come down and hop through their bank and saturate our property our fence line now sits in the water yes I'm done yeah so if you don't mind if you can hand that to the clerk and then the clerk will get it to all of us you can just like go way down thinking yeah I I was told it was only gonna be five commissioners here's all right but I brought seven okay great well we need one for the record anyway so thank you sir we appreciate and got some money here Mike they can talk to the general so sir my kabbalah has somebody he can point you out to that can have a further discussion with you okay okay thank you there's anybody after mr. Lewis that would like to speak I'll ask that you'd line up now if I don't see anybody line up behind mr. Lewis I will cut off public comment now you're up to answer okay anybody else I'd like to speak behind mr. Lewis I was frightened get as many public comments speakers and this side of the county is you go on the west side well what I'm I'm the spokesman for the COO and Kyle me my address for the record address - okay my address 37 3 3 9 Northside Drive Zephyrhills Florida thank you so this one the outskirts of several Hills our main problem is with the expansions and everything going on in the last few years the road run through by Lowe's that's Kyle our food - Cathy Cathy grunts down into cool would cool it was over - Kyle and Kyle Khandava 14 so it's a country road is what it is and I've been turned into petition two years ago or have this probe flak top cool would a Kyle because of that they housing development back in there you know there's 30 40 points back there and along that road and we get a lot of dust and stuff some people's got Appling some of the kids have to get out there in the morning to catch the school buses and and you know with the dust and everything and so now we're supposed down on the blacktop that's going to be both though and maybe they said if everyone so what my concern is right now they said they were working on exemptions and I feel we need exemptions to call for a cut through road as far as the school buses and everybody else going through that road so I didn't know how to proceed on this my desk so we don't have back and forth during public comment but I can point you out to a team member and they'd be happy to help you with that situation right mr. Kabbalah once again he's a popular person this morning he will be happy to explain the process to you sir and everything can answer he had

additional questions all right that's it what I came for it thank you sir I appreciate your help yes sir if you could help me thank you have a great day thank you thank you good morning somebody name an address for the record please good morning my name is Dominic's Cannavino 6040 Riviera Lane New Port Richey Florida mr. chairman distinguished Commission thank you for allowing me to speak I was at the meeting in October and at that meeting I raised the question with regard to a golf course or ordinance that would consider the owners of the golf course when they closed it to continue to maintain the property there with the golf course at OU I've been in committee I've talked with many of the commissioners about it the memberships are just amazing being in the business of property management that are constantly coming to my office asking for Michael unfortunately there's not a whole lot I can do without your help I'm asking what the next step would be I've sent you all an email in August I've been to the meetings in October I'm again asking what next what are the next steps for me to take in order to get this ordinance accomplished I've sent you two examples of ordinances which you have I'm sure I've reviewed I just need to know what the next step is okay thanks so much you know we don't go back and forth and dice oh I'm sorry we don't do back before I understand it so yeah but I'm sure somebody will reach out to whoever will that's all I'm asking thank you sir yo high priest you have a great day mr. chairman yes sir we have Jeff maybe just talk where no well he's sittin up here I need him up here right now but he can I'm sure they can touch base thank you okay last up sir name and address for the record and I see nobody else let me be the last person for public comment Kenda ops 46:17 flormar terrorists new port richey way over on the Gulf I just came to thank you all for working and and County staff for working on the Aqua budva acquisition this is a just a great thing I know I've seen Jack Mariano a number of meetings pushing hard for that and also Katherine Starkey and that this is just the greatest thing for those people I don't live in there I don't want any property in there but I've been there the waters been outrageous the pricing is outrageous that kills their property values this is a great thing that's our 7010 today so I'm sure you're gonna pass it so thank you in advance thank you for your coming sir thank you thank you okay thank you all moving on we do not have any resolutions this morning so the next order of business is the consent agenda I do have a pull sheet with the following items listed okay we have a new sheet okay one second here c9 pulling revised c37 polar revised P 48 no see 48 to see 60 is withdraw see 65 corner of eyes see 38 forward draw 61 hold a draw see 42 pulling us Gus see 44 pulling discuss to the commissioners have any other items they would like to pull this time scene then we'll move on

move to approve the Romania jacket have a motion in a second all in favor aye all opposed same sign motion passes thank you moving on to seat 9 c9 Johanna morning fares this is just a revision to the term dates to reflect that mrs. Said's three-year turn began on December 2nd 2019 and will end on December 2nd 2022 thank you okay questions are part of the provisions I have a motion second second all in favor aye all opposed see the same one passes thank you c37 good morning chairman my name is Chris Ward engineering services director c37 is a correction to show the overall savings on the weekends drive construction project it's been corrected questions comments motion second second all in favor same side most patents thank you thanks Chris okay so see 48 to 60 are withdraws and crosses or comments moving on 665 his boner buzz see 65 Mike Carvalho assistant county administrator public infrastructure a notary stamp was inadvertently left off since been corrected and put back in your packages okay motion second all in favor aye opposed same sign mr. Pryce's thank you your dates withdrawal 61 withdraw 42 pullman discuss mr. Starkey yep that's right um maybe I don't recall but this is in my district and I I don't know not Corrine rants bro oh I'm sorry you're on 42 sorry we're on C 42 and 42 sorry are you okay emotion second second all in favor aye apace himself as passes thank you and we have one more seafood 44 that's the waiting on that so whoever can get that listen to me I'd like to see the other citizen boards and and how they operate there are only two others okay and that would be Williamsburg and [Music] the those two are the only historic MSP is that have had advisory boards this one is being added I assume based on this year's tax event yeah with the adoption of this there will be okay so this one came about with a t marker balls team and I work with them we thought it would be best to have a citizens advisory board within that neighborhood not everybody was in total agreement on every issue within that so we thought it'd be best to obviously bring them together and yeah I'll be appointing some people with the staff to today probably have women go far but of course two or msb you and we just want to have idea what we're doing in other places so we have maybe a Bobby put together well yeah so I'm sure the team once we get this one rolling we can be happy to help you along the great deal have a motion okay second all in favor aye opposed same sign motion passes thank you that's it but it consent okay okay now we go on to our regular agenda items we do have a either 11:00 a.m. time sir immediately following the consent so is the typically Regional Planning Council good morning mr. chairman that was the Commission my name is Shawn Sullivan and the executive director of the Tampa Bay Regional

Planning Council our address is 4000 get Lee sin to Boulevard and Pinellas Park Florida mr. chairman I put together a brief PowerPoint if I could that tells her a little bit about the council the activities of the council I can start as that's being loaded there one of ten regional planning councils in the state of Florida we're also the original RPC in the state about to begin 57th year in operation next month the region that we represent voting certainly Pasco County is a three point seven million people six counties in 21 cities 5,000 square miles it's a mission statement mr. chairman to serve our citizens and member governments by providing a forum to foster communication coordination in collaboration and identifying and addressing needs of regionally and if I might add briefly a commissioner Mariana was elected to the Executive Board yesterday at the council meeting so for 57 years with promoting regional leadership collaboration leveraging our expertise and resources to access federal and state dollars and to reduce duplication and extend the value of public investment this is a the statute Florida Statutes that talks about regional planning agencies gives us authority that we have mentioned the 21 counties scratch at 21 municipalities six counties our board is also comprised of 13 gubernatorial appointees and three ex officios that Swift mod F dot our staff is 10.5 full-time equivalents representing collectively over 100 years of professional expertise we do own a building the council hold the bones of building in Pinellas Packers 26,000 square feet that we lease out over 16,000 square feet of their 2 to long profits pace Center for girls being won and healthy stock coalition that helps young mothers with infants as another tenant and we occupy approximately 10,000 square feet at less than 50% of the building we are a designated economic development district for the Department of Commerce US Department of Commerce economic development administration as tells a little bit about that yeah what we do in terms of our regular contact on projects included in the region specifically if I could the last five bullets they have talked about presentations that were made we are wanted a competitive grant after Hurricane ARMA happened to 2017 to come up we'll work with primarily small businesses and small groups such as rotaries and chambers to help plan prepare and recover from disasters in to explain that to folks we are recently awarded another EDA grant federal dollars to develop a disaster recovery tabletop exercise many of you on the Commission may be familiar with hurricane Phoenix which approximately 10 years ago the regional plants like the Planning Council developed in partnership with members of the council in our region to talk about the absolutely flipped into quick wow this really jumped around please I'm sorry here we go our tabletop exercise we're going to have simulated cat 5 hurricane hitting the Tampa Bay region it's an update of a

project we did ten years ago the feds are all in the uniqueness with this particular project mr. chairman is that we this time we will be involving small business directly since EDA funds that they want us to do that well we've got a consultant team on board to help us out and we would be ready to roll this out in June of this year of next year our economic analysis program this is one of the strengths of the regional planning council we do have a economist on board director of planning randy DeShazo was here with me today talk so this talks about the studies we work regularly with the Pasco Dec we do economic analysis of transportation costs such as the recent Brazilian Tampa Bay program with Pascal Pinellas and Hillsborough MP OHS are involved we were invited by USDOT who funded that grant to make a presentation in Washington DC in early November at a conference on extreme weather events and resiliency and I was happy to represent the council making that presentation and DC medical tourism you may recall mr. Chen back in 2014 the council had an initiative predates by employment but the council had initiative about that medical tourism and essentially it was a feasibility analysis so at the end of the study is really read determined it was not feasible to move forward with medical tourism and just don't see the market what we found very specifically is that our folks in the medical community have proprietary information that I am not terribly willing to share and without sharing that data it makes a furthering and feasibility analysis really next to impossible we did the study it's available I don't recommend recommend we move on it's really not feasible in my opinion some Pasco projects that would like to highlight the continuum provide studies as requested particularly to the EDC program business development retention incubator microloan and trade programs we're expanding analysis into indirect environmental and health issues or currently working hillsboro a public health department on a diabetes study for public health we're currently scoping a project here in Pasco for the aerospace industry with the EDC resilience it may have heard mr. chairman attempt to Bay Regional resiliency Coalition is a product of the Regional Planning Council it's the 18th type of its time the 18th type of initiative resiliency initiative and the United States we are having a I'll get to that a moment having a summit in January to talk about the need for resiliency we know Pasco County is one of 29 governments in the region that signed on to the initiative and as of today we've got 80 private sector business partners also signed on to the initiative back in October 18 we had our signing ceremony and all of you would know the gentleman on the left top left picture of former governor Crist one of the things mr. Chanin we're presenting talking about the resiliency coalition we purposely stay out of the politics it's not a dr and our issue and as governor former governor chris and current congressman Chris mentioned that

they he has been both and he's all in and resiliency we know for example mr. chairman that September of 2018 was the warmest September on record in the Tampa Bay region and in October of 2018 was also the warmest October on record so climate change is real I'm not here to get into the science of it but the science kind of speaks for itself and when we work together we think we can help become a more and that number a more resilient region that number a sense has grown to 29 the city of Bradenton last week voted to join the coalition briefly mr. chairman some some of the visualization projects and graphic design projects that we offer we did a project recently in this city of New Port Richey with Councilman Pete Altman how he presented this at the Florida Redevelopment Association conference in Tampa back in early November talked about the redesign perhaps of downtown New Port Richey and then what if a flooding inland flooding will occur with the city could expect I anticipate emergency preparedness is another program that we offer we work very closely with the Florida Power the emergency management I would met with director Moskowitz talked about our programs we host quarterly meetings of the fire Oakland Fire Rescue professionals from throughout the Tampa Bay region Pasco Fire County Fire and Rescue participates in those meetings we do specific site means and site analysis this happens to be at the Tropicana plant the city of Bradenton an empty County in terms of environment mr. chairman we have an agency of a management which was really a subcommittee of the Regional Planning Council they meet quarterly they have a meeting this coming Thursday 12 Pinellas County Commissioner Barbara Sheen taught as the current chair Vice Chair is a commission and Mariela Smith from Hillsborough County these are some of the programs that we work on we also have I know $100,000 isn't a big deal in scope your budget but it's a big deal to to the to the cities and counties certainly in the region we work with F dot very closely F daughter wads us money we then work with Pasco County and other counties and cities in the region and we appropriated hundred thousand dollars a year and smaller projects but among the projects are the most common with that amount of dollars vehicle wraps in storm drain markers because the goal is it has to be public outreach under the federal program we also have a GI yes a gentleman who's worked with us for over 30 years he's really cracker jacket GIS systems these are some of the evacuation studies and projects we've worked on that with state partners and federal partners and further maps that we produce this is our resilience and durability program he talked about a moment ago it's one of 10 pilot programs across the United States funded by the federal highway administration USDOT and Pasco County his main player in that program one-day macintosh' watercourses named after former mayor Dade City and back in 2018 a 17 Pasco County a connected city which is a real cool

aware so you know one of the things that was a disappointment to me is that who Commissioner Starkey sat on the board she had come to us along with a representative from the organization and talked about the medical tourism so commissioners I don't know who else did I know Commissioner Starkey and I did solicit for funds to assist with that and it's very disappointing we never heard back we never got a report we never got an update and I I think my tourism director is still here you don't have to come in the deck did you ever get an update of medical tourism that's a no so that was what for 2014 again before your time and then one at one time he was scheduled in April 26 2016 rescheduled to January 24 2017 and it was when the presentation was pulled because the day of a regional planning council was not ready to present and that was the quote that I have from the response for public records so you know when these types of things happen I have the question why are we making an investment I mean just for the public's knowledge is that it's not a choice for us to be a part of the regional planning council we're required to by state statute whereas cities are not required by state statute for some crazy unknown reason but they're not required to so you know I I've had many discussions about how many boards and committees we have throughout our region and that were we we don't have a choice we're required to participate in so many but we're also required not just to participate we required to make a investment actually our citizens are required to make that investment so again my concerns always lie what are what are we getting in return and again so I do appreciate you coming today and explaining some of this to us I would you know let me ask you one question so I think 81 percent of your your funding comes from membership dues is that correct yes it's closed we don't survive without membership dues no question we leverage to help the leverage federal dolls with dues but yeah they're critical components right survival so you from in it's been oh you've done this for a long time you've received a federal grant that actually goes through you I think you could even go through the do if it needed to right wrecked absolutely okay but it does go towards the Regional Planning Council as a whole and spread out those are discretionary dollars mr. chairman any there's no guaranteed dollars from the state after nine years ago and former governor the legislature change your growth management act so we've really had to kind of reinvent ourselves but dues are a critical component of our revenue and then we leverage that for discretionary dollars both at the state and federal levels hi magic okay I understand I appreciate it again you know just me and I've said this you know previously just for the record again I think as counties we should have the opportunity to include ourselves or not include themselves not saying that we wouldn't be a part of something like this but at the same time I think you know when

again looking at the state level you know to me it just seems like another unfunded mandate that we're having to fund ourselves versus the state assisting is with us we're required to participate we have to pay the dues but that's in question where I really sure if we do or not but that's a discussion for another time but I do appreciate your being here and I think maybe going forward the Commissioner wills to suggest it if we could have some type of update absolutely I'm that way we don't get to this point again that you're having to come just for the fact that you know I questioned the payment of the dues I'm happy to do that yeah I appreciate you know the questions or comments I just a couple of comments again I think he's doing a phenomenal job this summit meeting that's coming up February 6 and 7 we have a board meeting on one day we've got staff going down there and I'll tell you we did the boatyard developmental burn Hudson was on the canals that we couldn't get it developed in a break it all up so the County Commission did it first house got built and we had a problem with getting the final permit because of the way it was constructed in the way the permit was pulled etc but Sean come up here to go take a look at it to study exactly it's exactly the type of development want to see one see the RACI walls especially at the highest level it may go higher if we study where I was done and I think it's gonna be like I say it's critical coming up but he's taking the time he's paying attention to what's going on and and I'm thrilled with his leadership there at that the committee to to make this go so that's some that would be a good thing to go I mean when you get jeff vinik have a dis group in the razor when there was a few other strong crannies you some money I mean a hundred eighty people are coming to its right thirty someone sponsors in it so the keys getting so much as I had the same struggles you had years ago I know we got a great direction right now well I don't like to feel confident so and then appreciate and it seems like obviously you're our point he has confidence in you and I do I do understand that so you're gonna give us a discount today we're sure absolutely yeah and our dude I'm just hey you know what never hurts to ask right it was god I appreciate it and you know great tech thank you very much thanks so much thank you thank you okay so moving on we have an exciting presentation always exciting when Bill Cronin comes to the podium right so Oh actually I apologize my fault I gotta put you back down no we'll bring it back to Jan yeah I apologize I jumped the gun I've been sitting are staring at you the whole time so he's right behind the podium with that we were going to have another exciting presentation with the graduate who's chin of our 2019 citizens Academy so who's taking the lead on that Johanna mone again Johanna Rodriguez intergovernmental affairs we're bringing before you the 2019 graduating class of the Pasco County citizens Academy but first we'd like to share with you a

short video we prepared with the public information office team the video highlights some of this year's sessions as well as comments from a few of the participants [Music] it's a chance for us to because that [Music] to hearing what they're playing on the way in the future to get more welcoming and [Music] Academy participants have direct access to leaders within the organization German question and answer sessions we bring them behind scenes to the facilities equipment and accesses that serve our customers across 57 lines of business the experience includes places that they might even earlier work that our libraries paxton Development Center offices as well as places normally posed to the public including our Emergency Operations and [Music] oh well we have certificates we'd like to present to the class on their completion of the citizens Academy program as well as some t-shirts will present those now if you all would please join us sure so before I think before we do that just if the other commissioners want to say anything - we do appreciate participating on that I know it's a it's a commitment - it just wasn't you know coming one or two times it was a commitment and we thank you for doing that and I I've heard from many people that have been in the citizens can Academy I know Commission Commissioner I'm starting was a big part of helping to put this together in the past um I think you probably realize you know that this there's a lot going on in this county right in that we have great employees employees that really really do care about their jobs and care about what they do and they don't just do it for a job and you know and that you know there's also not a big pile of money sitting out back at this courthouse so we can just dip into and spend on whatever we want to there's actually processes that we have to follow their statutes that we have to fall and there's land development codes and there's a lot going on and there's reasons that what we do as commissioners and how we do it why we do it on a day to day basis and what the ultimate result is so I know it's very very educational and I do appreciate you once again you know participating because it is important or you know a number of our citizens to realize what we do here on a daily basis we realize what our our teams do so we have a great team and we're very appreciative all of them to does anybody else want to add anything before we go no Commissioner Starkey well thank you so much for taking the time and I would say that please we we used to do this twice a year and I know that took a lot of staff time but please let other people know that this is available so that we can keep educating our citizens on what their local government does and who we are you know there's there's

really no place in school where you where you learn what local government is and how they function so this is our attempt to really educate the public so thank you so much for your for your time so we are gonna do it commissioner we're gonna do it twice again this upcoming year oh we are yes there's another client star contain your okay that's great there you go your wish is a grand job has anybody also anything else to say before we go now think I'll thank all the citizens were taken ashore Starkey was a great idea from the start it's been a great success yes okay with that let's go down and we'll hand out certificates and make introductions right sure look the graduates but please come up as I call your names Katie Altschuler Jennifer Burch Eileen Cochran presscon David kakuzu lilian kakuzu Jonathan's NOLA Griffin [Music] but Hamilton rosemary Jonassen Vanina Jones Russell Miller Michael Oher William just asking Lisa Tomlin Morrigan been huntin evany bars Laurie web there's rosemary and Daniel McCullough folks I'd like to present to you the 2019 graduating class of Pasco County we're gonna do a photo opportunity if everyone would please line up here in the front and then the commissioners will stand behind us [Laughter] [Music] just a reminder during the board meeting great we'll have cake and refreshments downstairs in the large conference room please join us or ate my jam okay now more exciting news again will bring up Bill Cronin and Dave Pingo our three you can have a consent of agreement confidential project Artemus which is about to be non confident not for long right David Engel economic growth manager Pasco County it's my pleasure today to introduce encompass health corporation to and and welcome them to Pasco County encompass health corporation is one of the largest post acute health care providers in the United States they do business in 36 states in Puerto Rico it's a publicly owned company traded on the New York Stock Exchange the property is located in the Bexley ranch MPD along Bexley Village Road it's approximately five point seven acres the building will be a one-story freestanding building with an architectural facade that is very consistent the design standards of that MPU D it looks very residential compatible and suburban and scope this is a qualified target industry and it's initiated through the Pasco Economic Development Council and mr. Cronin is here today to represent the EDC it's a

one-story administrative office building it's quite a substantial project there's over 15 million dollars in capital investment 220 direct and indirect jobs 179 will be working at this facility at a minimum and it contributes over ten million dollars a year to the gross County product so the ROI is over - one the Pasco EDC offered to recommend to our staff and also to the Board of County Commissioners at nine hundred and eighty-three thousand dollar economic incentive package the various features of the package are a job creation and center for a hundred and seventeen of the administrative jobs the mobility fee waiver that comes with Class A office construction a ten-year ad valorem reimbursement of the first five years will be 50% of their ad valorem payment and 25% for the the back half there is an employee training grant to allow the the lot training of the new employees coming into the county for good transitioning lastly on the dollars there is a waiver for the county building permit fees up to $80,000 a pause for a second can we and because this is a qualified target industry we're also offering a rapid response team and expedited permitting which is a not only a time-saver it's a large financial incentive to the applicant or the company so before I make a record step recommendation I'd like to introduce mr. Cronin who's the CEO and president of the Pasco EDC and representatives of encompass health corporation good morning everyone it's once again a great day here in Pasco County we're really excited about this company coming in attack right into Central Pasco creating some wonderful jobs and I think there's something to be said about having a publicly traded company choosing Pasco for a location for this regional operation they will be serving 25 states here and Puerto Rico so this is a real regional footprint for them and these jobs are good jobs as you all know we've been focusing on our life sciences cluster in building that we've had some recent announcements this is going to do well with those in compliment that industry as well as making sure that the future jobs here and the talent that we're developing in the life sciences area have somewhere that they can call home and we keep those jobs right here I think there's another important point to mention with regards to the mqd that we're starting to see these MPD's now honoring their employment entitlements and rounding out those those development so now this development has true live work play at their development so you've got residential you've got jobs you've got retail and that means less people potentially on the road you can actually live here work here and shop here so we're starting to see those all take shape and of course it's a really strategic location right at 54 and Suncoast near the airport another one of Pascoe's fabulous gateways for the rest of the world when they come to visit us and visit encompass so I want to introduce a couple of the leaders of encompass dine

Adair yet she's the director of the central business office as well as Brian Hoffman who are here visiting and they can share with you why they chose you guys know I'm I'm the hired help so I'm a little biased about Pasco but I'd love to hear what they have to say morning good morning first I'd like to behalf of encompass health and our staff thank you for the consideration in helping us grow our workforce in Pasco County I know when speaking Diana were speaking of the location it's ideal is a lot of exciting things going on in that area and we're excited to be a part of it excellent just like to add anything yes thank you for your support and we're really excited about our new operation the new building will allow us to have a lot of amenities for our workforce fitness center walking trails we really like the setting of best Li and the walking trails and bike trails in that general area and yes I totally agree with the work life you can literally live across the street from where our building is going to be so we're very excited about that thank you very much excellent anything else Dylan Dave before we move on yes one last thing I'd like to recommend this to the board for a affirmative vote this is a scent of package in cooperative funding agreement thanks ed well we appreciate you coming today and obviously you should be in Pasco right this is the greatest county of the minute so it's a fastest growing County in the timber region with not the fastest growing in the state of Florida we know it's one of the fastest growing in the nation so again as we always say we like to invite companies that come to Pasco it's very important for our citizens be able to you know and for the better quality of life to stay close live close to where they work on a daily basis we prefer citizens to stay here in Pasco then have to go outside the County so we appreciate you being a part of that but again you know we say it all the time now when you hear a long time you got to be in Pascal you know this is where it's happens is where it's at so we do appreciate you being here and I'm sure our citizens and we'll appreciate it too once they have an opportunity possibly to work with you so any other questions before the commercials could just wells real quick excited to have you here I know staffs work very hard to be to work it out the building's kind of look great we're excited to have you and this is an example of a mud run project that that is working out and it's excited to have you in district 4 but really in the Gamma County and it's just relevant to our workforce we have here that you're having employments it's exciting so very very exciting so thank you emotion typically well chuck it emotion we have a second all in favor aye opposed same seven passes thank you thank you thank you [Applause] we'll go ahead and join you guys for a photo and then congratulations thank you yeah that would he need a workshop [Applause]

mr. County Attorney yes sir this is actually mr. Kenney administrator I'll go to you do you want to do our four do you want them go ahead and move to our five in our six well we do four five and six and that's about our four thank you okay if we're gonna be forward to our five Dave you're back up hello again David Engle economic growth manager for Pasco County I'm here today to present a economic development project there are two items on the agenda there's r5 and r6 I'm gonna present them in a combined fashion but if the board were to take action would be to separate votes today the first item is a request to declare surplus real property and agreement for the sale and purchase of the spray field property which is 99 acre piece of land is owned by the Pasco County Utilities Department it's on old Pasco road about a third of the mile south of the overpass Road and intersection back in the spring of this year we received an unsolicited request to purchase the property by the record company for two million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars they the basis of their request was they calculated there be fifty seven acres of developable land associated with his property the remaining property was designated wetlands stormwater retention I'd Rajesh I draw both areas and also some right away for the i-75 interchange project in the widening of old road after a extensive amount of negotiation the the the purchase price proposal has been increased to three million five hundred and ninety six thousand five hundred dollars this amount is we found doing our due diligence looking at comparables and appraisal Xin the area it's far superior to what land is going for in this neighborhood of the county the purchase agreement is contingent on the developer constructing economic development and compliance with the MPD that was approved in the spring of 2018 and there's three conditions of sale one is that the developer in the county entered to a cooperative funding agreement for the first phase of development which is four hundred thousand square feet the total concept master plan is approximately nine hundred thousand square feet of industrial construction the second component of the conditions are that Pasco County will remove the existing decommissioned wastewater infrastructure from the site regraded property install the basins and lastly the company obtains all necessary land approvals for Phase one one of the nice features about this project is is that the developer will be paying us for land that will be committed to right away for road widening and also for the i-75 interchange so rather than the county paying for the land the developers paying us for it so it's very good terms and on that I'm not going to go into the next item which is the cooperative funding agreement which is a which is part of the project so the what we're where the developer is requesting incentive the staff is recommending three million seven hundred thousand

dollars of incentive that mounts to $9.25 a square foot which is the most economical incentive so far brought before the board since the penny was enacted in 2015 the project first phase 400,000 square feet is 26 and a half million dollars it will create four hundred and twenty seven direct and indirect jobs the contribution to the gross county product is 48 million dollars that's a 13 to one ROI and on that I'd like to just make one amendment request on the sale and purchase agreement we'd like to insert an amendment indicating that the buyer in the county shall prior to closing entered into an amendment to this perma agreement for sale and purchase of property that requires that a prior to issuance of the first building permit for vertical improvements on the property the county add the widening of the section of all Pasco road from the south entrance of the property to overpass Road to four lanes and added to the five-year capital improvement program and be the financing by a party other than the buyer designed permitting and construction of the old Pasco segment to be in place such that the old Pasco segment will be complete prior to the issuance of the first certificate of occupancy for individual tenant premises for buildings within the project in in your package you saw that we provide a prototypes of the construction it's attractive tilt-up industrial style buildings and it's a scale and prominence that has yet to be constructed here in Pasco and on that I'd recommend two votes the first vote would be on the declaration of surplus real property and the agreement for sale and purpose and then the second vote would be on the cooperative funding agreement between the County worker companies okay thank you so much today thank you obviously another good probably there's something you've you've wanted to see happen along for a long time mr. Mariano as well as others excuse me and I do appreciate the amendment that's been made because you know the importance to myself and so the other commissioners one through part up during the past four meetings of that road being completed prior to any business being done so it's very very important to us and it's very important to the citizens as a whole but it's also going to be important it's very important to the user of that property but we want to make sure that's widened so I appreciate that happening and with that any other additional questions or comments coming or and I apologize for my rounds mr. biles had to jump in yeah mr. chair the represent of the river companies here if you'd like to bring them up yeah and I do we want to do that - let me go ahead and go to Kim mr. Mariano will do that I want to say this is a very exciting day from looking at old spray feel that was hardly used as the organic sitting there to turn this over to the potential of the organics - now industrial space on a prime prime real estate Pasco County you know I want to I want to salute the board for the way we talk things through

the way we get a dialogue going we have a conversation you take one idea from a certain point and it gets better and better from good discussions so I want to salute you all for just listening to me as I get done bringing it even from before you guys are even here to make this come together and I want to say bill groaning you are absolutely phenomenal you know we have the resources here but the way that you can bring things in with the respect that you have in the community the nation internationally it's just amazing what you're done and mr. Engel I want to say you've been such a break so some enthusiasm and productivity since you just walk in the door I don't care if it's little point distillery working on something or something huge like this from an international company from in Atlanta they're just looking for for good investment so I thank you all for the great work to make this project come it's a great sign for Pasco County creating jobs and making the most use of its resources so thank you Thank You Commissioner Mariano I think okay miss Rosalie I'd like to say David you did a great job and the presentation you gave me was absolutely awesome I mean this is a great project coming in and because I was one of the previous owner to this were so to the counties back in 1989 and to see this project come forward it just a part of me seems like it's going it's brewing so it's a a great project I appreciate the fact that we're before I mean having a four-lane road going in there at the time and along with the overpass being built the interchange all that working together is gonna be great for County so it's just one of those things it's just really and I guess the rest of Commissioners realized this we had that a surplus and we just named that surplus and a very few months ago and then information this has come to fruition so quickly which government usually doesn't happen that quickly but this was really coming together I certainly appreciate all the work went into it you know prone and all the work all his staff did I just want to reveal one secret commissioner oakley sold us to the county for $10 no no it was a million dollars but it was both sides of the front on the east side and also the one on the west side but it was after a freeze in 1989 when our gross froze to the ground and we saw that and then of course that helped utilities start growing in the county at that time you go out that facility balance grown quite a bit so they keep adding to it but the use of this property is great I really appreciate all you've done and make this happen Commissioner Starkey Richard yes thank you all for bringing this project to us it's a pleasure to meet you the other day and I'm especially excited about the prospect for manufacturing site we had a wonderful talk about ham skills and already yesterday I got a call from the Tampa Bay business girl snooping around your intentions and and so this is art this is already out in

the community but it's a what what a great day for Pasco planning but the two projects go in front of us so on welcome to the county and we look forward to doing this oh I didn't bring were corruptive him this is mr. casein goofy of the record company Atlanta Georgia good morning good morning my name is casein Mufi I am a vice president with Rooker and I will be the Rooker representative charged with developing the new class a business park at overpass Road and old Pasco Road Rooker is a privately held family owned real estate development business the Rooker business that I work for today started in 1968 when Jack Rooker developed his first industrial building in Atlanta Georgia since that time Rooker has developed and constructed more than 50 million square feet of industrial facilities across the southeastern United States Jack Rooker son John is now managing the business and he has set a strategy that has led us to invest in pro-growth municipalities in Florida South Carolina Tennessee and Georgia we have a proven track record in developing business parks of this kind and public-private partnerships with government entities and I applaud Pasco County for having the vision to create the penny for Pasco program rezone this property and invest in the new interchange at overpassed Road and i-75 each of those factors was critical to us we look forward to working side-by-side with the county to attract quality jobs and grow the tax base for Pasco County and its citizens and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them thank you thank you so much I guess we in a mode we might we may be able to welcome you officially we still have both save anything else before I salt no sir there will be two votes one for the Declaration of real surplus property in the sale and purchase agreement and the second vote will be on the co-operative funding agreement for the economic incentive with our 5 I move approval for Adam one of the purchase agreement you wanted to claret surplus first so don't get where we're live first where all our fights guys yeah our pile okay let me start off I need a motion from our five plus r5 I have a motion for r5 of a second home favor hi all the post same side motion passes emotionally they not real quick before we go to horse six the amendment to though he write it into the right here in the record so we're good okay so make sure I got a very important a motion are six I have a second on favor hi I'm opposed same sign motion passes thank you very much very good mr. chairman yes good thing Clark hobby thank you for help shepherding this all the way through as well with all the details work with staff so thank you thank you board members and thank you to your staff David Engel and I am particularly worked on this and David worked on this with the Brooker folks for three or four months before I even knew about it so thank you very much to you all for your

leadership into your staff thank you well thank thank you I appreciate it and besides the project I'm grinning ear-to-ear because there's gonna be a robot in there in addition to an interchange right good stuff good stuff okay so we can move backwards we will go back to our for our four and we this is a third time your your like the star of the show aren't you you're like an eighth class now it's the end of the year and we're cleaning up business the next item well David Engel economic growth manager Pasco County I'm here today to present mr. Mike Davis the chairman of the pass of Pasco jobs and economic economic opportunity Committee every year the board required that the J EOC make a annual presentation just to give you some quick tracked background in 2015 the Board of County Commissioners enacted the rules and structure of the penny for Pasco economic incentive program and as a result of that they also created the jobs and economic opportunity committee to provide oversight of the penny for Pasco economic program so every quarter the staff makes a presentation very comprehensive presentation of the J EEOC going over the project status the financials what we're working on our new initiative planning and the J do C then provides us with council and recommendations guidance as to what we're doing and every year the J EOC presents their findings to make sure that the programs that we've been enacting are consistent with the requirements of the Board of County Commissioners and they will make recommendations as they see necessary so I'd like to turn this over to mr. Davis Thank You mr. Engel good morning ladies and gentlemen commissioners thank you for spending more of our money so now we have to deal with this next court just kidding middle thank you so we're gonna try to keep this brief for you guys I know we're past our time so our projected revenues for the J EOC trust fund which is again you know it's a 10-year tenure paying for Pasco we actually increased the expected amount to sixty four point twenty two million dollars this is assuming a three and half percent annual increase this was actually increased from last year's projected 59 million based off of increased taxable revenues that we were receiving here within Pasco County to date the jeo trust fund has expenditures over twenty million dollars as of December actually this is actually as of October 2009 teen the board can't commissioners has approved 16 items last fiscal year totaling 30 little over 36 million dollars for projects and programs which attracted primary and industry target industries feedback to expand in Pasco County the administrative costs associated with the trust fund as currently under 5% collected revenues I talked to you about here is a approved project summary that you guys approved that the board approved last fiscal year I'm going to

kind of highlight a little bit of these just to reiterate there's been a lot of things I've gone on last year some direct incentive zhmed lurch Elite Toledo safeline true simulations well built our first three direct incentive recipients of the trust fund combined these three companies have either hired or in the process of hiring 854 new jobs in Pasco County with average annual wages exceeding 200% of Pasco County's average annual wage additionally these three companies have provided capital investments in excess of 50 million fifty four million dollars over three hundred and twenty five thousand square feet of industrial space these three projects alone are expect to generate an additional one hundred and thirty seven million dollars in GCP combined that's a pretty good impressive number the path of pores program which is the pass to accelerate development sites and Pasco fantasy occupants structures they have Mitchell fifty four partners HP Osteria and land Investment Partners which are receipts of funding to create shell shell industry or office space to fill these much needed voids and Pasco counties these three projects will provide for additional three hundred and eighty-five thousand square foot shell Class A office and industrial spaces which could employ twelve hundred residents cities upper hills in Pasco County are in the process of creating job ready sites that will have all major utilities and Zoning for industrial and office users for up to eight point seven five million square feet that could accommodate twelve thousand new employees again here's some more approved programs Pasco Economic Development Council has awarded three-year fundings to provide ready site programs international programs and Smart Start entrepreneurial programs and Hance marketing programs part of our the projects pages are listed here the main part of these is our total expenditures that have been reported to the GOC are in line with with what you have approved with through the Office of Economic Development this is my favorite slide right here is this is what is truly impacting Pasco County total jobs that have been created through this initiative there's a more than 20 308 jobs which has a which has a significant impact based on the expenditures that we spent the pain from Pasco gave out or rewarded just under 18 million dollars and our rate of return on that is three hundred sixteen point five million dollars so that's a very good rate return I'd like to invest in that so that's that that's huge that shows that the money that we are receiving we are doing due diligence and we are helping to increase the economy here within Pasco County so we have some approved projects there that are I've been a recent stanchion in order and have been approved again these are these are sites that have that you have already gone through and approved throughout the year 2000 fiscal year 2019 highlight some major accomplishments which you alluded to earlier and some of the presentations am

skills you know we gave or you awarded them 175,000 point of ciliary 153,000 and they won PE DC start-up of the year called web new properties gaming center villa a million dollars there are 1/2 million sorry and Pascoe her name to workforce board for reentry that's also a little over a million dollars they over back over past park that you guys are just making additional changes to for the future a lot of this is our completed this was again for fiscal year 2019 so things have changed over the last three months and one of the things that's not this is something that's a given angle and Troy Jackson wife his his co-workers has been putting in is the Jeff landing here the business love the redevelopment programs which helps businesses that are undervalued mainly they're working on in the holiday area to make improvements on a loan basis they get to pay back their undervalued so it's very difficult for them to get loans business with loans through traditional route so through this program we're able to reinvest in our business community and allowing them showing them that the Pasco County government is trying to help them and in a long-term it's actually going to help them not only increase their revenues but that revenues do end up coming back to Pasco County through taxes so that's a that's another avenue that under david which he's been a he's been an awesome person to work with has brought a lot of diversification to this program and is utilizing it very very sparsely and appropriately so that is the end of my presentation of course any questions questions good questions oh listen we appreciate you doing this that's involved as a volunteer and it's obviously important when we have programs like that's like this to have that oversight and that and that citizen oversight and and it's obviously needed and it's great to have outside eyes like yours and the others participated so we appreciate you we really do so with that in yeah yeah no great day David Thank You mr. Mariano yeah you know what listen to vacation from Rooker just talking about the county itself and then being pro-growth and viewed where they're gonna look what they want to look at a pro-growth counties in those certain states so for us to be in that group is phenomenal so the leadership that you're showing be on this committee we greatly appreciate it and David again between you bill in the whole team keep up the great work thank you thank you thank you very much mr. chairman no voters required this was before to the port don't we appreciate it thank you thank you with that we're bringing up we're gonna skip our seven that goes into the afternoon I'm gonna pee tin so we're gonna bring up our eight am Thomas so folks art DMO so you can have an impact visitor tracking report Thank You mr. chairman fellow good morning fellow commissioners Adam Thomas director tourism for Pasco County 8730 warned citizens drive suite 135 in New Port Richey three four six five points okay so on the on the piggybacking off of all the great news

this morning I just want to present an informal presentation on the value of the economic impact and visitor tracking report for fiscal year 2019 for Pasco County and the methodology of how we get here we try to get five hundred samples of in-person interviews on a quarterly basis and you can see that our interviews are over 2,000 in-person interviews at local attractions parks hotels and events between October or 2018 as of September 2019 the overall economic impact is a function directly of the spend by visitors in Pasco County and they take that spend and implement it into their multiplier using implant economic model to calculate the multiplier effect based on direct expenditures and data from visitors to Pasco County so I'm gonna start off big big picture economic pack and we're gonna put we're gonna follow it up at the back end with the post trip experience so big impact economic impact for Pasco County of 2019 we were up 37 million dollars a year over year of economic impact before the destination direct expenditures we were up close to twenty six and a half million dollars that were spent on local accommodations restaurants groceries transportations attractions of entertainment and shopping visitors we crossed a milestone this past year in 2019 welcoming over 1 million visitors to Pasco County through nights out of that 1 million visitation a little over 1.2 million 85,000 rooms rented on an annual basis so jobs jobs and wages you can see the the job growth even though these aren't real high paying high paying jobs and executive positions we are still offering our the industry still offering a ways to support family and the local economy and the local citizens here creating a salary that's that's over six hundred and sixty eight million dollars in 2019 visitor status visitors creating jobs we know that in 2019 the number 132 visitors that came to Pasco County creates one job total tourists effect tourist development tax revenue for we like to call it a user fee in the tourism industry another tax we were up close to five hundred thousand dollars a year over year and new revenues coming in which ultimately saved Pasco County household around three hundred and ten dollars on their tax bill at the end of the year marketing spend here's a return on marketing investment that your that your DMO office gets to provide the the economy here in Pasco County we know that every dollar that's spent on getting our marketing efforts brings back another four hundred and forty seven dollars a visitor spending inside Pasco County so pre visit we know that top reasons for visiting visiting friends and family at twenty four percent forty percent was a sporting event and nine percent was also a special occasion and a vacation transportation the mode of travel this is changing you over a year because of our marketing efforts of reaching a broader audience that's on a national international front we see that the

visitors are actually used in Tampa International Airport almost doubled in what they did in 2018 our traveler profile we know where they're coming from for it with the bulk of our visitation coming in from in-state narrowing down to the top origins 60% of visit Pasco County visitors were from six US states and obviously 42 percent being the majority of share from Florida travel parties to and have people come in a regular travel party and we know that 35 percent of the travel party is traveling with kids that are under the age of 20 so length of stay nothing has really changed year-over-year we're still hovering around like five five point seven five point nine percent accommodations 37 percent stay in hotels 36 percent our day-trippers and then the post trip experience you know we like to see how we do eight point three percent is a rating score that our visitors have given Pasco County on a scale of one to ten a 95 percent will return again very quick we have a hundred and nine page packet of the entire report in your and your board packet thank you so much for your support the DMO teams thank you all you do for for us and professor County so thank you so much Adam obviously sending records again in a number of ways so I think the big one was hitting that million dollar visit million person visitor mark and we only know that's gonna increase with arrows all your efforts but of the efforts of obviously everybody in this room staff board everybody that's involved and you see what's online coming up with the right grant sports complex coming in next year you know and towards the end of year that will obviously help with those numbers too but there's a lot of great things going on so with that do we have any questions comments from the board cause comments time to make sure my pictures of Commissioner Mariano anima great news I mean I think you know looking back to the help of that hockey rink um it was a big big thing for mr. Chappell I think the Sports Complex going to generate more I think it's was driven those hotel to be built every step of exciting things like when you see people like tree toppers building those extra many of these two that are going to draw more people someone to stay in there more activities good to go what I want to look at the numbers of the 14 percent come from sporting events you see that number climbing obviously with a complex movement yes sir we're gonna see that climbing because the the folks and the events that we're talking to now we're not booking right now we're cooking them for 20 21 22 22 22 23 so future are features down the road we'll see those events pay off okay one of the things we look into the future up at Sunwest is to put a connecting walkway going across a little bit further look at paving somebody or something down the road with the bonds maybe coming up this you haven't success to you thinkers give me more help as far as like sand soccer

tournaments with volleyball the huge volleyball tournaments cosmetically I don't know if we're there yet I know we have the spaceport I don't know if it's we have one shot of bringing these site selectors and tournaments in for a site visit so I want to make sure that talking with Keith and Parks and Recreation that that the park is up - up - yeah up to snuff up to a level where we feel it's ready for competition well I'll say this our staff since we took over our table have an absolute phenomenal job I get more and more compliments every step of the way so Keith while in this whole team up there I do want to put on a little job do you think having that dirt parking lot is like a detriment to people up there that's to be determined I'm not real big on understanding like the parking lot but I know people like to drive on an asphalt instead of dirt grass or grass I'm not I don't know I'm not an engineer so I couldn't help you out with that one I'm sorry people yes it goes back into the amenities and what the park looks like when site selectors come yeah thank you mr. wells anything no great I mean numbers speak for themselves yes sir you and your entire team and ready here thank you yeah thank you mr. stark yes um so every year Thanksgiving my family comes mostly from Miami this year at 34 and we always do an adventure on Friday and typically we've gone to be watching and we kayaks down the river there we've done that maybe six or seven times sometimes we go to the shooting place and sometimes we go to tree toppers but this year we decided to stay local support local being a local business owner now and we I didn't even know they did this and I've been in that store twice we hired get outside to supply us with kayaks STPs and canoes and I get I sent him some pictures what happened it I was I was just speechless and so I think I think this might be something you can recommend but we were supposed to put in a great preserve and due to Kody River unfortunately the great preserve kayak launching dock is under water so we ended up putting in at Francis Park and week I act a reason we went north and then we went south to Sims Park I did ask staff to help help with the river because apparently in the Pasco County section of the river there are trees down that keep you from going further north and I think my car bob was sending some people out there that to clean that up and it hinders their business a little bit but I wanted you to see the pictures of how beautiful it is and you don't have to drive up to sit to to the county's up to the north to get great beautiful kayaking on rivers I is something wrong okay so I'm and my family just loved it so so get outside downtown New Port Richey think they will launch they'll pick you up for you and then we went here we go looks like to another cameraman looks like we got it Wow you just turn your head to the side it was low right so there was beautiful birds along the way there are some of the groups going we had canoes kayaks as a piece I think 30 of us did it well

yeah wait and we weren't the only ones on the river this is a lot of voice oh yes I did I would think that there yeah I did clean up the river to I was going I didn't say glad tray let the shirt on because we don't even see that picture [Laughter] we went up with that's a turtle let's that's the only turtle I saw we went up as far as gray preserved then turned around a kit and came out since bark but this is right off of a plaque and and but you're you feel like you're out in the wilderness I'm sorry oh we're we're we're so Elsevier we're going up this Bruce yeah I have never 56 years had no idea what's available right here in New Port Richey so it's an obvious really doing here your group sometime and maybe go check it out Colby's out there right now with a media freelance journalist from Montreal at Warner Boise State Park actually showing them our estuaries okay and this is different from that this is the Cody's great that's another watering opportunity so anyway I was so blown away I just have to stare at this very nice the US Commissioner Oakland what I'd like to say Adelman and you know this to this sports fest coming in February that's going to be a big deal in Zephyrhills with tennis skydiving soccer a lot of different sports events happening right there and in Zephyrhills and gonna bring a lot of people in like these guys oh they're working on that project bonds from now so I mean that's gonna be a shot all that you've done is great but look what's happening in the coming year it's it's going even be better so excellent mr. chairman two years ago I stood up here in front of this board with myself and Consuelo in the awe and the audience today we're about to hire our eighth team in person thanks see you next week our digital content producer but we've grown from a budget of nine seven thousand dollars over three million dollars in two years thanks to the support in the direction and guidance from from this board so I think again thank you very much all right thanks so much time thank we share everything an excellent so with that I'm gonna pass over to Commissioner Oakley because we have a special guest yeah we have a special guest came to that I realized that today was our last meeting before Christmas and reached out to this person and Ashley come by since he was gonna be in the area of picking up letters to himself and checking out his route for the 25th of 24th 25th of December and so he's with us today so I'd like to present to you Santa Claus [Applause] and mrs. Claus Wow it's graced us with your presence today even though you don't mind the pun right I hope you brought your manners so Santa Claus your address is what North Pole right yes okay just to make sure for the record can you bring your toy manufacturing here eligible to come here that's great well Santa Claus of business Clause do great

work and what they do then and really bring law joy to the children in Pasco County and other areas too but they they've been closed tomorrow because they've done such a well job there they actually have time they will be during December they would be back and forth and they will be in the World War Two memorial where they will get pictures with children and families when they come to visit us and I don't know if you want to add anything to what you do or that's right so probably I would need you to give me give me a list of when you'll be in the World War Two memorial when you're traveling I know you're busy at this time of year but if you could give us that maybe we can put on the website where we're families of children now an area that they could come and visit and this have those pictures and Santa Claus is very very familiar with Pasco County - yes yes in the closet so so if y'all right let's go down and have a picture minute sounds great and then if anyone here in the audience rate anyone would like pictures with them and yes so personal pictures would be fun but we'll adjourn so we're good at well no that's okay so we're gonna go ahead and this will be our official break now we'll do some photos and we'll break for lunch yeah back to do Commission or items up to the Virgin [Music]

okay then everybody else you call back to or the Paso County Board County Commission meeting of December 10 2009 tino remind everybody please silence all electronic devices at this time there now I'm going to proceed with our public hearing agenda starting with p2 we're skipping p1 we're going to p2 Kirk do we have proof of item p2 p2 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on November 22nd 2019 Christie Simms County Attorney's Office is the first and final public hearing on amendments to an ordinance by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County Florida amending chapter 79 demolition of some or blighted structures to reco defy provisions within chapter 18 buildings and building regulations removing obsolete and or unnecessary language and provisions providing for appeals of process of substantial damage substantial improvement determinations including those related to demolition cases to be hurt by hearing officers instead of Pasco County construction board providing for applicability for running for repeal or providing for severability providing for infusion of the code and providing for an effective date we would ask the she right we would ask the board to hear public comment if any adopt that word announced by roll call vote authorizing chairman signature in the ordinance and direct for records to transmit the ordinance to the Department of State by electronic mail within 10 days after adoption of this ordinance briefly as I said this is a recodification of the provisions in chapter 79 in building chapter I don't consider any of this to be significantly a substantive except for the appeals being moved from the construction for to a hearing officer and the construction board is in favor of that because those hearings are a signed up for this item it is thank you thank you like the p1 thank you good afternoon commissioners today is the adoption hearing for the self-storage design standards ordinance in the way of of element code and I will read that into record an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners amending the Pasco County land development code creating section 1105 self-storage design standards and amending section 5 - 5 c1 neighborhood commercial district section 905 point to landscaping and buffering session 907 point 1 on-site parking section 1302 point to mobility fees to increase the mobility fees for mini warehouse Appendix A definitions and other amendments as necessary to ensure internal consistency providing for applicability repealer severability inclusion in the Pasco County land develop code in an effective date the vote for today was continued from November 19 board of county commissioner hearing the November 5th 2019 Board of County Commissioners hearing had the first reading of this proposed ordinance and back in October 24th the LPA forwarded this proposed ordinance to the BCC without a recommendation due to the lack

of consistency or consensus regarding the geographic applicability of section 1105 point 5 general design standards since then we've continued to have further stakeholder meetings and refinements to address any of the concerns that stakeholders might have had with the design standards and we have made those adjustments and we're ready to I guess except any public comment if needed in the to go ahead and adopt this proposed ordinance by Brokaw ballot questions for staff questions new questions seem down this is the public hearing I didn't have anybody signed up but you'd like to speak to this item but I want to say one interesting thing is and I can discuss tonight I'm sure you got the same emails but I was getting emails to you guys quite don't know this for us to please keep the moratorium going because they the folks who own storage facilities feel there's like the lot on the market and their rental prices are going down but as I said so that's a market-driven they and we don't that's Jenna my comment yep so that's a good point I know we are I would assume we all received the same emails and I didn't know what I when I initially started discussing this I said it's obvious there's an oversaturation the market have people say there's not an oversaturation well because people will say there's a little bit of a proof that there is a little bit of oversaturation of it in the market but that's not why we're here but we will get some O's on apartment complexes is it so with that I have a motion in a second this is a roll call so as I know I get to make a motion I'll second it's dark you made it - yes district one commissioner oakley by district three commissioner Starkey plan district 4 Commissioner wells are district 5 Commissioner Mariano a district 2 chairman horn motion passes thank you okay next we will proceed with the procedures for rezoning special cutting attorney these are these are procedures for rezoning I should there are two rezoning agendas regularly sent staff will present each application to the Board of County Commissioners of staff ro Planning Commission has recommended approval and there's no opposition to the applet the application will be considered by the board without further presentation if staff for Planning Commission has recommended denial or if there is opposition to the application the applicant will be given five minutes for presentation the opposition will be given three minutes for each individual or five minutes per group representative and the applicant will be given three minutes for rebuttal any individual disagreeing with staff or Planning Commission recommendation or anyone wishing to object to any condition of the rezoning may at this time request the petition be pulled from the consent agenda in which case that application will be heard under the agenda later on during meeting otherwise all rezoning applications on the consent agenda will be approved by a single

motion and vote if you wish to speak to any petition please give your name and address and whether whether or not you've been sworn for the record these are quasi-judicial public hearings along Florida is that near public support or opposition of an application is insufficient for this board to take action please limit your comments to those criteria found within the boards line at all yeah Thank You mr. Steiner Madame clerk and actually if anybody hears willing or wanting to speak to these items please stand and be sworn in by the clerk if you're here to speak to any of these items so nobody's going to speak to these items all day because I know I have some money this that's signed up for one of these items so I assume you're wanting to speak to the item thing no one I have somebody sign up for p3 by the name you guys are good okay so nobody's going to speak on any of these items okay great okay each time so we have five public hearings item the consent agenda these items will be approved one boat without a presentation unless there is someone here in objection AIIMS p3 to p7 on the consent agenda madam clerk do we have proof of those items published in the Tampa Bay Times on October 25th 2019 your turn Thank You mr. chairman from Targa's betos planning and development department had an p3 of the zoning amendment Fisherman's Cove LLC it's a change of Zoning from our MH mobile home district with conditions to our MH mobile home district in the east-central past economy at the southeast intersection southeast corner of the intersection of Clinton Avenue and kovalainen containing approximately of 5.9 takers come see with recommendation of approval all right anybody here to objectless item see none leave on consent item P 4 is the zoning I met Theodore a and Marshall cake change in zoning from AC agricultural district to a are five agricultural residential district in north central fast Makani on the west side of sharper Road approximately 700 feet south of GU globe containing approximately 15 acres it comes through with the recommendation of approval better here to speak to the injection this aisle signs of our consent item p5 is a conditional use request Pasco Ranch Inc parcel 1 retail building sale of alcoholic beverages to comp beer wine and beer and wine only on-premise consumption and conjunction with operation of a retail center with outside seating and service of alcoholic beverages on a patio in a MPD master planning of development in south central best Makani on the south side of Sierra center Boulevard approximately 4050 feet east of Marsh Fenway comes through with recommendation of approval with conditions somebody here they rejected this item seeing none leave on consent item p6 in the conditional use request Pasco Ranch Inc cigars international also for the sale of alcoholic beverages for cop beer wine and liquor on-premise consumption in conjunction with a specialty retail store and lounge with outside seating and surface of alcoholic beverages on a

patio and an MPV master planning and development in south-central Pasco County on an east side of Creek grass weigh approximately 350 feet south of State Road 50 6 come Co the recommendation of pool of conditions anybody here to exact to this item seen that Olivo content item p7 any conditional use request Osceola Land Company see glory days Grill sale of alcoholic beverages for tapas at best beer wine and liquor on-premise consumption in conjunction with a restaurant without succeeding in service of alcoholic beverages in a patio and an MPV master plenary development in south-central passive economy on the south side of state 154 flex my only a 1500 feet east of West Ranch Boulevard comes with proven conditionals buddy here two objects this item seen only moments it okay take a look second emotion present through the consent agenda on favor aye I'll put some time passes thank you okay we're going to move on with the remainder of the public hearing items this one needs to be presented by staff by subject so much their courage a real properly planned division real property plane and received a petition to vacate a portion of apply to easement from Michael and Andrew helper in and it's been 1 0 for 7 role in picker Lane and loose currently in the petitioner has a 30 foot training judgment in their backyard or requesting to vacate just a fortunately 5 foot of it currently they have a paid portion on the sidewalk kitchen when I correct for an encroachment and with that staff does recommend growing questions for staff questions mrs. Popkin does anybody here to speak to this item seeing none back to the board move approval motion second second all in favor aye opposed message thank you p9 and with p9 we're going to well it's gonna go ahead in here he or ar7 after that videos but at home Ainsley Caldwell public works this is just a follow up with regards to Deer Creek project at the last meeting we were actually determining whether or not at least the functional criteria for collector Road we have gone through and it does not so staff is recommending that the the project they approved with the information provided there the total estimated cost of 1.8 million dollars the cost for EIU is two thousand five hundred fifty seven dollars executors discounted amount is two hundred eighty nine thousand and the cost per TR you after the discount was two thousand one hundred sixty dollars which Mariana I'm gonna say that appreciates step looking at it I wish this had been done previously to it so they're just coming forth but I'm gonna accept staff's recommendation as far as it not being a collector Road it would have been otherwise end discount if they could have got it but I tell you a 2162 a little bit value to get it done especially because we've gone out there look at the drainage issues which will get address Thank You commissioner any

other questions for staff seem none I don't have anybody sign up for public hearings anybody here to speak to this item see no one movable have a motion I can have a second all in favor aye opposed same sign motion passes thank you okay moving on Pete ten which that would be followed by mm linking good afternoon Mike Carvalho assistant county administrator public infrastructure just to Y bring Justin up here just a reminder this is a continuance of course of the great resolution hearing in conjunction with the FGA acquisition so mr. grant will come up and he will we give his presentation that he gave to the board last time we would ask them that she received public comment and then discuss whether or not the rate increase would go forward after that we would hear r7 which was the companion piece defining the public interest so the last meeting the board did find that there was a public interest we would ask for you at that point in time to consider and to consider the the rate reza sorry the acquisition resolution and the transition agreement which worlds and they allowed the acquisition to go forward mr. Starkey I would suggest that we see if there's anyone here that that's a good suggestion exactly what I plan on doing so you you and I are on the same page is there anything different in the presentation for the last time no addition else you can you go to the mic to explain none yeah so there's only two changes in there we we add in one slide that showed the difference in the affordability metrics that we kind of discussed we just crack did the graphic representation of that we also just what you had coming in on the last time Commissioner Starkey in terms of what campus plans were okay so once you go to those two slides it's that way since they was requested by the filter Commissioner good are those two slides but is there anybody here that will be speaking to this item is there anybody here that will be speak to this item I don't see any hands are we sure okay so we're just gonna go to this two slides and said doing the whole presentation we're sure because that as long as that's okay with everybody else yeah we're good so make sure as we mentioned there this is this is a slight we're referencing it just adds the the top and lower tiers that talks about the affordability metrics for our rates and currently previously on the 19th we had only the awwa metric which was a the most strict metrics that it measures utilities at 2% we also added the combined metric for EPA which is a two and two and a half percent as you can see will weld the need that in terms of what our rate increase would bring we're currently at 181 with the proposed increase that would put us at 187 still below the most strict metric any questions any questions for that no okay great and then the only other slide is this one and this is the one that we updated to reflect the latest information

with all the regional utilities does not change our position relative to those utilities are still to one and a half and three and a half gallon wind beneath us is port richey that is remaining thank you so I do have a comment or a question and I do want to thank my fellow commissioners for allowing us to bring this back to both sides of the county even though so far we don't have anybody that's why I will call for it again wanted to speak I think it is important that what was we move forward I know we have another one he's coming possibly next year year after that that we do give the opportunity for people to be heard on both sides so this is a rate increase that affects the entire county in this dome is raised in C and I will call for public comment in a second thank you sir raise your hand I do want us to think about this a little bit it's so today we sold a piece of property utilities has will go into your fund balance right so looking at future projects one is the one that was also suggested by other commissioners which was the one call harbors Wondrich okay thank you which is lender if we wanted to see how we can offset some of the cost these dollars have to stay within that fund they cannot be you go to the general fund I did already talk to staff and the county attorney's office to make sure of that I would like you to think very closely because we have been asking you know we wanted to try to find some funds that might be able to use to offset some of the cost for our taxpayers I think we need to look at possibly using those dollars to help bring down that contribution for our fellow citizens I'm sorry the money's not spinning yet because it was unexpected to come in get budget for something that's not happening wasn't gonna happen no I'm sorry I mean yeah I mean certainly as but it's part of the general rape making process we we consider all aspects of revenues this is a one-time for example the sale of the property to corrector agency was was the sale of an existing asset you know those those go into into the utility fund those funds actually was we build rates or kind of already generally baked in so as as we look to future rate increases and and how do we offset costs we consider all revenue sources so those those would go to the benefit of the entire rate base at some point in time I can't speak specifically if you're suggesting that we take that those proceeds and apply it directly to this acquisition I'm not quite sure that those numbers would really pan out to any real relief given given the amount of debt that we're talking about on these systems so I mean certainly when they come back into the utility fund for example we would probably reinvest that money into the system or additional on our activities or capital activities it makes its way to the end of the general utility fund so when you bring these systems in there there's going to be capital needs and that's what these these rate increases do this is a again

a one-time shot but again it really would not provide meaningful rate reductions even if falling given the magnitude of the numbers that we're talking about here but it is always a consideration and generally as we go through the rate making process we look at the the entire pie if you well know and I can and I definitely can appreciate I know discussions we had I had one on why than we had a diaster in this whole process is that we need to look at every avenue that's possible whether it be additional and what's been brought up state health if that's possible for the next acquisition in addition to any other funds when you find today thankfully because of the great work of staff and this board we did sell a piece of property that wasn't being put at the almost 3.7 million dollars and I think that would have a significant impact on your next possible acquisition knowing what the price of that acquisition is so I think that couldn't help with that increase because the increase is coming because we're going to have to pay off that debt right and that's what I mean it need any time you bring down so it's I'm gonna use some abuse 2nd grade math here so if I'm gonna buy something for $10 a my mom gives me $2 I'm only paying $8 now in my pocket right correct so that could be very helpful so I mean I mean certainly I can have the financial staff look at that whenever we approve a rate increase it is always up to a certain number yeah so okay so I'd like that to be taking consideration but give me the decision here today but we need to take that into consideration when we make that next acquisition because I'm still not very fond of having to come back next year and do another way increase so all right so commissioner of mariano had you've been waiting Thank You mr. chairman and it says a momentous day got a lot of great news a lot of impacts we've seen first development where it cuts down our taxes for our property taxes I will tell you the value so that people in let's say palm Terrace especially where homes were being stolen I'll say about twice twice for like 16 thousand dollars because of the flooding that would happen the sewer water goes in the street and the issues that were there for the flooding never mind all the high water rates never mind all the people who don't water their lawns this is going to increase property values will benefit all the taxpayers in the county to it to a major regard and then we have goal to be premier County this is a major step to do that it's not our fault to stuff the citizens fault that the PSC and their rates improve those that happen for the past 10 to 15 years and driven up the cost of all these things it's just the way it's going to be and it's just it doesn't look like changing anytime the near future may even get worse so this is a great great acquisition I think numbers might even be better as well as I think Commission where I like your idea let's go take that money that

we made on that property to find out how much money better off would be to effect it just to show we're in better financial position and I think in that in the near future maybe you can take a look these water use rates that are going on right now and see if these numbers don't actually go up which would actually save the taxpayers of the utility system a bit more money because the increased revenue is going to happen so with that I'm delighted I think staff did a phenomenal job because we just start down on the stored immediately but when we saw the public input from the public meetings which was very well done we talked very clearly that this was an issue they didn't want to get taken over so it's a great first step so and I want to thank the board for bringing to this point and Commission more I think you're right when we do the next one we do need you on both sides of the county so from one side to the other side it's a great way to do it because it does affect everybody so thank you thank you for that Commissioner Starkey yeah I'm excited about this day too and I used to be on the other side but then I started talking to commissioners from around the state and in Florida had a lot of private utility companies and most of the other counties have bought themself and we just whatever reason didn't it maybe didn't negotiate well back in the day or whatever but we went a different route so I think then this is very timely I I still feel bad for those who have pride water systems that wouldn't sell we have I know release one in the county and and I think we should talk to our legislators about the fact that even when they raise the rates for on these citizens it seems to me that the money doesn't have to go into capital improvement now I don't understand that I've kept you a no not if she wakes the up well I've seen more they you know I used to be a customer of Aloha and they would what you're talking about the PSC well PSC is is raised yeah said mister when when the private utility companies left they don't I don't believe that they have to show that it's awkward going into capital and I these guys made a lot of money it didn't improve their systems and that were happy to pay for that and and that needs to stop so I'm glad that we're doing this I do have a suggestion and a thought on other utility utility own land I think whenever we can we should try and get revenue from those lands so you know we're looking at doing concessions in our parks department and why not see if it's appropriate on some of our land utility lands to do some concessions there before I go to the audience agree on the questions for staff okay this is a public hearing I don't have anybody signed up I have one gentleman they did raise his hand so sir if you want to come up name and address for the record and there's anybody else that would like to speak to this item I would ask that you line up behind the gentleman that's coming to the podium now morning and good morning again re good afternoon name and address for the

record please my name's Dave Janeway address one three two to seven legends trail Dade City and I apologize for wearing the Hat but I hear pieces in the shop so for you that's great what's that I don't understand a lot of stuff you guys are just talking about all I know is that there will be a rate increase for everybody in Pasco the bring these three communities in and when the flip side of that it's it's about time that they've been brought in because to hear that there was anybody in Pasco County that doesn't have clean water and proper sanitation I mean for crying out loud was 2019 gonna be 2020 it seems like we're about 30 years behind if we have communities like that but anyways I'm gonna make the point there before we raise taxes on everybody else have we exhausted every opportunity that helped define other money to help pay for this you know I looked at the samus's budget for 2020 and sounds like he's gonna lower property taxes again at least try you can't do that well we will not so that's what he's doing so the counties set the property tax rates so there's no mechanism for him to actually the state government to lower property taxes they would have to cut in other areas throughout the state regulation you know number of things I guess would be they generate their revenue based on sales taxes tax and yeah in fees yeah but all right so as a tax payer all I know is that why you're a politician saying that okay that sounds like counties are going to go back they're gonna get funding cut in certain areas and what are they gonna do you're gonna come back and ask for a tax tax like somewhere else and I'm pretty sure that the majority of people on the border mostly Republican right we can't say it up here but you can look it up I did like it up and uh you don't Republicans don't raise taxes so well yeah right so today what they're doing and we don't use the epigraphic or during public comment but since the only person that will they are actually looking at raising the water rates but not have taxes on your millage so which connection tell us are those these taxes yeah it's all tax to me I know I'm that's all I want to we appreciate it so no no thanks so now we could stay hasn't ended yet thank you sir I have another citizen here I'm even address to the record please you can pull that light down just a little bit if you don't mind at the last meeting y'all barely touched on a surcharge for us that's beating customers I'm lucky better explanation I read in your papers online that you really connect percent okay so after you're done speak about have you sit down if you can answer that because alright people at home than when it hears the same answer is there anything else from the ditch into that no just that okay thank you thank you so much it looking inside anybody else here like to speak to the silent they can only see staff in the audience besides that okay if you could

answer that question for citizen that ask please absolutely um so yes back in and I'll actually go back to the presentation [Music] yes city interest just there will be no search are gonna be done for me sir he could just say there will be no search I should be done yeah of course is the research art there was no surcharge currently there was three alternatives considered back in February Board elected alternative number one which was a one-time two percent rate increases who does not include a surcharge existing or acquire customers okay so the answer again is there's no family there's no surcharge on existing or new customers that was one of the options and that option was not chosen by the Board or Recor suggested by staff in the end all right so any other questions at this time for staff none mr. chairman with the move approval sighs that's recommendation I have a motion in a second all in favor say aye [Applause] this is the second half second half of what so yes back to our seven and let's just go ahead explain what we did last time this is the second part of that item for our seven that we need a finish that's correct the first part of it being the determination of public interest which was voted upon last time so this is the remainder of that item which is just the acquisition resolution and the transition agreement and I'll be very brief the acquisition resolution just documents the finding of public interest and affirms the authority of the Chairman to execute the transition agreement and the transition agreement primarily spells out the details of the transaction and the transition the agreement also mirrors the 2008 interlocal agreement which sets forth with the purchase price is outstanding debt plus transition costs and the agreement sets in motion the remainder of the transition to do items that we have on our list they're listed on this slide key takeaway is that we'll take the keys to the utility around June 2020 June first is the target date and shortly thereafter we will begin billing aqua customers at the new County rate in July in addition improvements to the system will continue after we take the keys including construction of the interconnects that will allow us to take the wastewater treatment systems and existing wells offline it's important to note that the agreement that is in front of you is different than the one that's in the board packet there are some negotiations that were still ongoing after the board packet was put together the the only thing that was changed was a minor change to a provision that involves escrow and verification handling as revised the fda would be responsible for both verification escrow and the county will have the right to review and approve the final escrow deposit agree

that's all I have and what's the board has any questions any other questions for the board which americano let's chairman there's been a long process mr. Rogers thank you very much Justin thank you for your great work Rob Marinol Richardson Brian I'm strong very helpful and with the leadership of Mike Carr Bella and Dan violence to bring this forward so I got it is a public hearing still no no it's on a regular item now well we just wish that does it go I'm good okay you you held a public hearing the last time okay make sure made that made the determination so really that's all that's before you is so transition or green okay and so so you're good okay I have a motion second discussion so mr. Rogers that the change that you outlined is to paragraph 16 that's great it's the red line that has been distributed to that aspra thank you okay motion in a second all in favor aye all opposed same sign because you pass us thank you alright ladies and gentlemen and unless there's something that snuck up on me I think that's it for our public hearing items so we would go to miscellaneous business middle there oakley yes sir I've had a vacancy on the Commission on the status of women and I'd like to recommend that gene nappy to fill District one second motion have a second all in favor aye all this inside motion passes thank you well the snow park has had a ribbon-cutting so they'll be making snow probably enough I don't think it'd be this year it's been too hot this son maybe next year they'll make some snow things have been moving along with it but they they planned the trees in the buffer areas around that project and the force of trees broke so sometime next year that I believe they hope to open that up so they have good new attraction or bringing people in the bastard character thank you sir that's all I have mr. stark so be somewhere - yeah but you just thought if we did so well I think I'm fine so I did a I had a contractor come in my office whose grandson is homeless and holiday area and he led a whole bunch of us on a tour around Southwest Pasco unfortunately who's very soft-spoken and now and not everyone in all the cars could hear all the stories he was telling me but we we went to a couple of homeless camps and a couple of businesses where they congregate in a couple of blocks with where there seems to be a congregation of homeless folks it was very sad I've been very troubled by that thing because I just wish I knew how to help those people some of them I had seen over and over again at that bus stop in front wah-wah Kathy you know you were there and I appreciate all staff that came with us but this one here this is our property this brother this is the second time I've been out there and they just looked like this with all different stuff I didn't put all the photos up but I had a lunch meeting with Mike Harbaugh and

we're trying to figure out but I'm pretty sure that this property has a conservation easement on it and so we therefore cannot grub it we cannot do anything but go pick up this garbage and let it and I guess let it happen over and over this is right next door to sunray Elementary by the way and last time I was there was full of hypodermic needles I did not see any this time if it is utilities own property and apparently they have some in that area that has a pipe water pipe line going through it we can't clear it but and I don't know if the remedy is to put a fence around this but I just hate to see this happening on our property over and over it actually gets wet in here in a real rainy season and then this stuff starts moving in the water so I do need staff to go out here off of sunray Boulevard and pick this up again please so we also found a homeless camp on trouble Creek and we cannot call in that complaint apparently because you can't see it from the road so I was told that it has to be someone from a neighbor neighboring property well that's what you were there right that's what they said the sheriff's office or our code enforcement office said we cannot turn in that homeless camp that it has to be visible from the road or someone on neighboring yeah so we own the property in front of the trouble Creek camp which is not doesn't is not raishin property I don't know why we own it but we either have to have the Athenians here we either have to have the property that the homeowner or property owner to the east of it went ahead and cleared their property and put a fence around it to stop this problem on their property or it backs up to a couple houses on the west side and one of those folks have to call them in and complain there were three tents in that one so so we're working on getting the Commissioner this is our property not our property they've walked through our property to get to this box but it might pop that it's visible from our browser yeah I guess would be if you stood on the ends of our plant well I have to see I would have to see where the property line was but our property is heavily vegetated the the issue is from a from a legal standpoint we can't prosecute a case that we've trespassed to see the violation that's that's what you're being told so it is so law it's not a matter of calling it in per se it's a matter of observing the violation you can't be on someone else's property that you don't have permission for to observe the violation okay I you know I have no idea where our property line is and it heavily vegetated where that heavy vegetation blocks your view Brett so we need staff to look at that one too and we will get to the address on on probably let's see at the back conference there was did we talk about this last time the Hillsborough County was trying to push something through that Pasco County would not have been happy about is Ralph here okay so so Ralph and our staff got together and we worked we we killed the motion by Hillsborough County but House bill

someone five has been put into effect has been filed by Randy beggar and this is a bill that we do like it's we've been assured that this bill will not violate interlocal agreement with Tampa Bay water but we need to have regular updates on House bill 75 I have been getting emails from my constituents about a 15-minute backup on the intersection of Trinity Boulevard and East Lake Road at fact I did have conversations with Commissioner Edgar's and Pinellas County Administrator and someone I'd only remember who it was told me they thought they had an idea that would help this intersection it's in Pinellas County it's not in Pasco County but it is greatly affecting our citizens and they send me pictures and ways Max and I started taking some of mine at 7:30 in the morning it's backed up for miles so we need we need a solution for that intersection and we're still getting flack from our last tap of a a tea party meeting that we held and in our conference room because it wasn't live streamed it was a flukey thing you know I have a new assistant she talked to IT and they said everything was set and but apparently we don't have filming of availability on Fridays unless were specially asked for it so the usf gentleman was gone and we ended up taping it and then giving it to T bargain this is the third second or third meeting that they brought it up and now they had a vote at the last meeting that they won't go to a County that cannot live streams and cannot allow for calling on a conference style phone so I did text the administrator about this and so we need to be able to confirm that we can have a phone that someone can hear all the voices and interact during a meeting or will have to drive to all the other counties for the meeting so I'm hoping we can get that resolved it's it seems like something I've teeka do for those kind of meetings I know I myself have tried to call in and listen to a meeting if I was out of town or something and you can't you can't do it just you have to have someone put a phone by something but we need some kind of some kind of sound system the gentleman that was here from Rooker when I told him about an skills he was so excited that we're talking about maybe putting one in building and he thinks that would be a humongous asset to help him brain manufacturing companies down he said because their biggest problem is workforce and he the real turn already contacted me that is the commercial or industrial realtor for the Tampa Bay area to find out more about am skills so he can use it as a tool for Braden companies here so I wanted to share that with you guys I went to the ribbon-cutting ribbon-cutting of the Hampton Inn in Odessa and they built that hotel in ten months the company the guys said it was unprecedented they built it so fast it was ready to open before they had ordered the furniture and said it was one of their best experiences ever in building a hotel and that they couldn't give enough accolades

to our staff here in the county so thank you all it was an amazing to hear that and the room was packed and that hotel was already filling up and all those people that were checking in and there a lot of them were businessmen were hearing the guys the partnership who put the hotel together say these great things about our county so really congratulations to everybody yesterday I was driving south on Starkey Boulevard and turning right onto 54 and I watched a car almost killed a bike rider or hit a bike rider who had to swerve they both swerved very quickly together the way of each other so I texted secretary Gwynn Sam and staff was out there today to see what they could do because apparently there are a lot of people already riding that bike trail even though it's not open and it was crazy when I saw I don't know I don't know why it was happening I think there was a car that was parked in the bike crossing a pedestrian crossing and so the cyclist had weaved around a car but we we almost don't even have the trail open and almost have a serious injury I also talked to secretary Quinn about what I think will be a very cheap fix for the Suncoast in 54 just like we did on u.s. 41 and 54 s made a humongous difference when you're driving east to get to the Suncoast or to get past the Suncoast and you turn into the target which isn't even open you cannot continue on the turn lane because there's some white i don't balance market you know blocking the through right turn lane but you can see that the whole right turn lane is empty so d-o-t is looking at taking those balance out and making that a through right turn and i think it'll save a lot of time I know there's some safety issues but that would that would really help help with that back up because that's the next I think biggest back up in the county and I oh I also was contacted by a gentleman who wants to bid on our bus bed to advertising and apparently we don't put those out to bid there it's kind of crazy but in Florida there's a statute that says a municipality or County may authorize the installation without public bid of benches and transit selves or shelters together with advertising displayed there on within the right-of-way limits of such rooms so I would like to be sure that we do put that out to be and I was involved in that ordinance years ago writing that alone inson we we put it's been since I've been here it's probably four years ago there was a there was an RFP that went out and we actually changed the company that is doing the bus benches from thank you speak metropolitan used to be metropolitan just two so that contracts coming up in January so just like to be it expires in January so just want to be sure that to hear thank you very much thank you insurance turkey yeah well my assumption is we were probably most all reached out it was on my calendar but yeah I don't know if it was the contract ends in January contract the contract expires expires in January that would be the PCP - yeah procurement so it's a big so I believe

facilities is handling that and from what I'm understanding we are going to be bringing back I don't think we'll have time like you're saying to go out bar apiece so I know kurz when we're working with facilities to possibly extend the contract to see if we can go for RFP or club and I've heard a rumor could be at 16 that they haven't fulfilled their contract duties so I'd like that to be checked well that would in any contract extension would have to come in from this port correct right Thank You mr. wells Thank You chairman I had the opportunity yesterday to go present the resolutions we signed back in November for two young ladies at animal services that volunteered over 7,000 hours it was a great you know they have their meeting and everybody was there the entire team Dan was there Cathy was there Mike and it was just it was great to have an opportunity to tell them thank you to give you an idea that I know Commissioner Starkey and Commissioner Mariano have been here long enough since we changed tonight and 90% live release rate is our goal last year last history year they had 95% for dogs and so far this is really about 96 percent so was it was it was neat for me to be able to sit there and listen to Mike and his team and the camaraderie is unbelievable and it's not easy what they do obviously it's a highly stressful job but it was great for me to thank all the numbers off of us for what they do is that was they really did a great job it was great for me to be out there and to give you an idea of volunteer hours for fiscal 2019 they had over 21,000 volunteer hours so without the volunteers we can't do what we do so just what I've taken the opportunity to tell thank you again and I got a letter from a young lady yesterday 97 years old 97 years young that rides our bus to see friends and church functions and her exact words for me is that the drivers treat me like or make it because it seems like we always hear the negatives you know kind of everything but it was needlessly to take the time old school write a letter you know the old school writing very great ladies I'm gonna reach back out to her and sent it to curves so Kurt can reach out but to make sure he gives kudos to his teams I just wanted to let you know that so that's it thank you Tom Thank You Commissioner wells Mariana Thank You mr. chairman I want to see to my car biller and his team over at Country Club the states are doing a phenomenal job redoing all the work up there getting the beacon woods Walmart preparation ready which great news on that as well as looking at Trevor we 2020 to have the first two parts of that stuff to get started so it's gonna be a great boost got a call the other day from the Rope sent out when the accent or burnt down across from vegan woods they get a lot of people they can't take care of all the people over there so I think we need to look closely what we're going to do there it may be time to maybe speed up the I know we at the

meeting were that Homeless Coalition Cathy and I were there we've talked about doing that point in contact point in time count in February but the people are scared of what's gonna happen if the people don't get through and last night that leaves your Beach or is it the Civic Association meeting they were like Frick that's afraid you know what are you gonna do you know the food sauce is gone what's gonna happen next and the Sheriff's Department was there talking about how to be safe et cetera so I think it's something we need to take a closer look at I know in the point in time count for the first time they're gonna ask this question which I asked them about and they actually like the idea was to find out with these people are coming from I mean I've heard stories of people coming North Carolina being referred to Pasco County epithelium bust here dropped off here and you know I'm all for taking care of the ones that are are sitting here and trying to help for them but as far as if I get people coming from bus from out of town that's a burden out they got tax raising one of her be stuck with in the news today major New Jersey something a City New Jersey suit New York because they were giving them getting them apartments helping pay for down payments of apartments or something in New Jersey and make suits yeah and then that may be happenin here as well so I think it's I think it'd be good maybe if Kath maybe your team would go maybe go to the Rope Center and look let's kind of like stop that point in time count right now let's find out where these people are coming from yeah because I think with the economy the way it is this great opportunities are out there I know the ropes under does a great job metropolitan ministries is a great job the people to holding around and take it in people that really struggle along different issues I know we're still working on getting the Sun Kofi's coverage center up to where they can actually start building they've done demolition work but they still need to bring the stuff for also again it's going to be something to keep an eye on some commissioner distance I know that there was the facility in Seven Hills and if it had some issues I remember meeting with that gentleman and he said the majority of people that were there were actually at his facility I'm not saying across the county his facility were actually from out of state yeah they came down here for us to hmm they weren't local they'd come down here yeah that's what he said because I asked me what was it how many people from Castle County would you consider a you know about how many played for Pasco County I mean people from outside the area said okay they came down I mean I'd say even even people at hospitals on Lakeland I call on the Rope Center to see if they can bring people over here it just doesn't make sense so I think that will be hurtful I think the invasive species wilderness that we've submitted MIT would be a good thing to bring forward so we do have these people that are housing a month

property that we know clear out the bushes and at least be able to identify them and you can deal with that on another note 9 Florida is a private utilities water company in in Hudson Florida I think it a really restrict a lot of growth because people don't want to pay the fees so high for the sewer treatments there Hudson Water Works is very reasonable as far as the pricing goes but not has like extremely high and I think that we should take a look at trying to buy them again we try to understand from before I think it's time to do it again Brian I'm strong ask him to hang in here just for a little bit because he's got a relationship with the attorney that actually represents them and tried dealing with him before on the flip but I think we should give it another try to see if we can bring them to the table rather than going to some of these other processes well it's not even in its like the FG way I get all that but I'm just saying this may be a time to go try to look at night again there's some legislation going to Tallahassee that could make these utility even more expensive the body we're not gonna push with the other one but I think us at least we should go take a look and see we negotiate with them and let it wasn't bring back off how do you that and I know Florida doctor any any come any person up the Hudson again water water bills up there that deal with the sewer thing I mean they could take a look at even Hudson Beach I think it was closed 250 times this year or something crazy this sewer lines that are up there this conversion that was supposed to happen I don't think it converted all of them and what they told me I just think we do a much better job we might be able to get even state help no one we can actually tie it to water quality to try to get some some assistance but I think we should at least try and again with Brian's expertise in relationship we make he'll make something happen that will take a motion from the board to go I guess boy so do any do any motion statutory just be nuts I think that action as long as the administrator has direction to better sue it wouldn't we can look all right that's all I have thank you very much for you sir I don't have anything to then madam Clerk really just want to thank the team my fellow commissioners again for your great support of the universal playground obviously we know that with the last week amazing turnout great turnout from the community - yeah wasn't it it doesn't quit couple little stories if you notice there was quite a few children there and they came from John Lowe middle school and I was talking to the assistant principal and she was pointing out a couple of the kids that had never participated before at their playground one little boy she mentioned for example that was just typically just if he was outside or doing anything he

was really focused just on playing like with a water bottle she had never seen him on a piece of equipment another child typically would be outside and you know just for reasons we screaming a lot in just the overly excited but not in the fun way right she pointed her out she was on the equipment just having a great time laughing and enjoying herself so just at that moment you know I looked I looked at myself and thought to myself I should say there wow this was all worth it right there well it and I know you commissioned you know the Commission's that were able to make everybody wasn't able to make it that day I mean you saw firsthand and where this if a person with his children and just think about you know what everybody did to change those children's lives and it changed it right there you think about all the time in energy could people put in the therapy throughout the years and their successes right then in their 15 minutes after they got there yeah oh yeah and I had to walk away I was I was getting a little emotional but well really I said man it's just these you know 30 50 kids whatever they were that day and it changed them just for that moment it was but we know it's gonna affect I haven't positive impact on many many children throughout the year so again I thank you all for that and I think you'll be hearing more about something coming up with a near future or in another oneself so with that I did want to mention this to you know Kathy and your team c19 I know we didn't pull it today because we're trying to get through the day but animal services partnerships you didn't see that it was a partnership with the TLC pet snip all that correct we did prove that they are nonprofit spay and neutering service offers low-cost services for citizens with animals at the county he's actually getting paid rent from the leased space out and using that facility and they'll provide the service that we normally have when we have to hire our in-house veterinarians this actually does save the taxpayers funds save some money but for still providing a very very good service I think on a more regular basis on that correct is that right okay so kudos to you your team and Mike just tell them we say thank you for that and one thing because I wanted to write this up as it does affect Commissioner Oakley it goes into your district to just something mr. biles to just I'm gonna eighties already reaching out to staff to have this conversation but I have had quite a few relationships with citizens along both pasco recently I know we're making the interchange of Route later intersection improvements at old Pascal and Quail Hollow and also where Oakland comes in but it's a very very dangerous areas still I know we're gonna start construction not correct later this fiscal year but maybe 2021 until it's finished if there's any way we could possibly look at where you going north on old Pasco there's a left and turning left on the Quail Hollow that's when the majority of the problems are there's no

left turn signal there there's a term symbol coming the other way but not there and that's where the majority of the traffic is going that's what the matauri the accidents are having happening it's very difficult to see I don't think there's a way to get a temporary signal there if you're able to do that with them with the current signal that's there they can add a left turn have you talked to murder okay well so we're arranging that nail but I didn't want to attack baby I wanted to bring it up because even though that's right not your district but it'll EADS to a lot of your citizen going that area that's right so I know they're concerned about it too but I would like us to look into that you do at least temporarily I really think it could save possibly save some lives but definitely can bring down the accidents and now we have school buses going through there and a regular basis to which it makes it even more difficult so if we could look at that that could be a balista temporary solution until that intersection is completed I appreciate it and with that merger thank you thanks sir [Music] you [Music]