2.05.19 Pasco BOCC Meeting

foreign [Music] good morning everyone I would like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission meeting of February 5th 2019. I would like to remind everyone to please silence all electronic devices at this time I would like to ask you to please stand for the invocation and pledge living creature make us thankful for your loving Providence and Grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gifts amen amen under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Madam clerk please call the road District 2 commissioner Moore here District 3 commissioner Starkey here District 4 commissioner Wells District Five commissioner Mariano here district one chairman Oakley here now is the time for public comment citizens were given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this public comment act section the board to the board also takes public comment on Adam's Place in the future board agenda and other business under their purview public comment for public hearing items be taken it this afternoon at 1 30 pm individuals speaking during public comment will be given three minutes to speak after stating your name and address for the clerk the timer were located at the podium will start a countdown after two minutes One Beat was sound and the light changes from green to Yellow letting you know that you have one minute remaining after the time is up two minutes two beeps also sound the light will change from yellow to Red indicating the three minutes are up and close and years to close your comments we have a sign up sheet foreign maybe I think there were a couple people okay okay I think we read the name of those to come speak followed by Christy Zimmer if you go ahead and step up to the podium and then if Miss Zimmer Christine Zimmer could still just be prepared [Music] yeah my name is Joseph Stephens I live at 4045 Cox Drive Land O Lakes Florida I'm here on the issue of roofs on docks we've discussed it a few times before this is now my first time before the commission I've already had some uh individual meetings and brought people up and had discussions outside of the commissioner's meeting with commissioner Moore over the past year so our issue really is freshwater docks docks boat houses Boat Lifts things especially roofs of freshwater dogs to protect boats protect the investment protect the people in the way of life that's been at land o' lakes and the central Pasco area forever and ever I don't have to show you PowerPoint to

look at the aerial photographs and see everybody has a Boathouse and all the freshwater lakes to protect their Investments when they buy property they expect that's what they're going to get they they think that that that's what comes with the environment sometimes passed down through generations sometimes new in the area when they look around they say this is the way life I want they see it they expect it and whatever however the situation came where in this particular the freshwater lakes mostly Central Pasco area where this law got passed where there's no room uh public opinion is nobody even believes it now when I talk to people about it they go what whether I'm in this County I work I'm also a marine contractor so I build a lot of docks I work in Hillsboro mostly now because I have to because that's where the work is because I can't do most of my work here but the point being is even other counties in this County most people don't even believe this is the situation until they until it gets into their backyard um so I deal with it all the time I think um I think that it needs to be the attention of the Commissioners to say this is not what we're really looking for and however this happened but I think they can make some real changes and get this thing back where it should be um I don't think we need to talk about flat roofs versus pitched roofs we can talk about total Heights of roofs we don't need to talk about covering boats versus covering decks it's really not that important and the other counties they don't do that they do talk about total square footage how big it can be maybe how tall it can be but they don't completely wipe it off of books they still allow it especially in Hillsborough County where I work most of the time Pinellas County they still do Hernando County they do so Pasco County has stood out amongst itself as a place that what are you talking about why can't we do what everybody's been doing for Generations and I really want to see something change on this and I think we got the ball moving where we can hopefully get back into perspective where people are real about this is the area we live in this is what people expect thank you very much all right thank you for your comments Mrs Zimmer followed by Miss Zimmer will be Sandy Graves good morning Christy Zimmer 3615 pine cone Court Land O Lakes Florida and with me is Ronaldo Ronaldo Charles um he bought the house out on Bellamy brothers Boulevard at the corner of Fisher Lane and Bellamy brothers in prior to purchasing that property we communicated with the county with regard to a demolition order that had been submitted we the prior owner had worked with Mr Mastery Anthony mastercolo whatever I can't say his last name

anyway he did quite a bit of work and then they said postponed the demolition order and this gentleman decided he wanted to buy it he bought it in October of 2018. he worked with County prior to unsubsequent working with Lisa Hatter and they were very generous in working with him and told him what he needed to do to bring the property up to code and he submitted his money and application and they cashed his check and then on about January 11th he received a phone call from Christian Sims in the county attorney's office telling him no they were returning his money and they were tearing down the house either he had to do it or the county was going to do it and lean the property my question is why would the county allow this to happen to create a forty thousand dollar tax base on a piece of vacant land versus allowing this man to come in and do renovations to this house bring it back up to historical condition and it's also been verified through the Florida Master site files that it does have a applied number for archaeolog archaeological sites historical structures and he's willing to do whatever it needs to be done to bring this back up and create a 650 000 tax base on this house I'm asking you Commissioners to please postpone the county attorney's office from doing any further demolition order on this and allow this man to go forth and complete the property Renovations according to code Mr John um I did read your email and I just want to make sure that you understand we there is a short-term rental ban in the county and so you cannot do this and a short-term what rental ban you cannot it's not a rental okay in the in the letter it says that it was going to be done for like home away or VRBO and whatever happens I just want to make sure as you work on your investment you cannot it'll be a resale it's not a rental check the email okay we don't really comment during this time oh okay yeah yeah please take that into consideration but I would I would like though if the county attorney's office would have someone meet with them to go over this issue because I think it is something significant that you can't to me you should be issuing a permit and then pulling it back the problem is that they didn't timely file for an appeal of the demolition order it was more than a year old and the staff should have never accepted it when it came in well at some point they took a check and processed something forward so I think we should take a look at it especially because this would seem to me if I'd rather have a property rebuilt redone whatever just torn down and have nothing yeah just trying to comply with your own ordinances commissioner thank you for your commenting hi Sandy Graves 21946 Shamu Drive Land O Lakes Florida 34639 I'm just here in support of Joe steffens in the doc issue and the um roofs um I I first of all I want to thank you all because I know you've always paid a particular

consideration when I come in front of you about the lake conditions and whatnot and you are very much prone to being a believer in our land of lakes and our lakes and I appreciate that I'm a native Laker and this has never been an issue Atlanta Lakes I'm a member of a Lake Association of the second largest private Lake in Pasco County and it's never been an issue for us these roofs are part of our scene and their beauty of it so I just want you to go forward with this and I think Joe's made a good point of these are freshwater lakes or private lakes and just consider that that we don't have a problem with it in Atlanta Lakes appreciate it thanks thanks for your comments Denise brand followed by Bryant Brant Grant you can Denise brand 3210b Court Lando Lakes Florida Brian Grant 3210 will be Court Orlando Lakes we are connected with a restaurant that is on a lake in Land of Lakes Ukulele Brands currently we have seating on a dock that goes out on a little Lake we would like to make changes to the dock but we are afraid that we would not be able to put a roof over a new dog currently um our doc has three steps down so it's difficult for elderly people and people with disabilities to access the dock seating area so we did not realize until recently that if one dot if the existing dock was to be renovated that we might not be able to put a roof over the new one and we would like for you to consider roofs being allowed on docks okay thank you for your comments for that last person okay this time that ends the is there anybody else that uh learned to speak in public comment that has not signed up seeing no wonder we'll move on to consent agenda I have the following items pulled c37 withdrew uh c-39s withdrawn and then C8 pull and revise we've approved remaining position got a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye opposed like saying motion pass sure at this time we will take C8 they all go I'm so glad they didn't have to drive over here for that isn't that great yes great shots good afternoon me this is for item C8 PDD 190570 an interlocal agreement for phase one of the Cody River Trail underpass and budget amendment the agenda memo revisions are that the recommended board Action Now States approved the attached budget amendment Journal number 1686 confirm availability of up to fifteen thousand dollars in funding for Metropolitan planning organization task order number mpo 19-02 authorize the chair to execute the interlocal

agreement and direct board board records department to record the interlocal agreement and distribute a set forth under the distribution section below the distribution section of the agenda memo now had a revision to the first sentence it now States board records department to record the interlocal agreement and distribute as set forth below in the inner local agreement itself page 8016 session 10.1 contact information information of scrivener's error was corrected the county address now reads 8731 citizens Drive okay move for Brewers we're honest second got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye all of those like sign emotional tasks that ends the consent items we will now go to regular agenda and R1 chairman members of the board uh you have asked that the county attorney's office um come back with amendments to chapter 1001 docks and sea walls for three different uh topics um before you is a proposed introduction of the revisions to the various sections which I will go through um in section 1000.1 thousand one point four visibility the previous prohibition against Ruth's walls enclosures attached to docs with the exception of those docs built prior to June 1st of 2010 would be amended to allow roofs roof overs to docks and boat houses on man-made lakes and other man-made bodies of water under private control that language might have to be finessed a little bit based on this morning's public comment but but generally that the we I had majority of the board who seemed to be in favor of making that change um in section 1001.5 um B2 a new section is added which would allow this is the issue of exceeding the one-third of the total width of the Waterway on a dead-end canal um that language is is would provide that it had done in Canal if the property owner owns the corner of that but end of the canal they would be able to exceed the one-third distance provided that they don't impair navigability or the property owner on the opposite sides ability to to have boat access um in a new section 1001.6 sea wall maintenance uh that takes the operative language of the Hernando County ordinance that commissioner Mariano brought forward um and adds it to your existing section section it didn't seem to be necessary to to redo the whole section of the ordinance when you already had AC walls and docks ordinance it just this is just

the section that that requires folks to maintain their sea wall I will tell you that there's still some discussion in my office about whether or not the the addition of the term public nuisance will help or hurt enforceability so prior to planning permission we like the discretion to decide which which would be in the best interest of the county and and either allow it to go forward with public nuisance or take that out um but those are the three sections that the and we've added some additional definitions that weren't currently in your ordinance uh in the Land Development code that seemed to be appropriate for that section those are the three changes that were directed by the board of County Commissioners and uh if it meets the board's desires we will move it forward to an ordinance amendment to come back before you James last Channel okay yes thank you more I have a plug over there so but I want to thank the team and your team Mr steinsayer for bringing this forward I know it's been a long time coming but you had to we had to work through this so I'm also happy for the you know when we're voting on it today this introduction but I will I feel confident that the sport will pass this in the in the coming hearings one thing you mentioned earlier about maybe changing some language on going back to the Lakes um when you said man-made I think you need to add and or private what about our natural you have some natural language that's why I said or private Lake yeah private can be that can also be natural lakes or man-made Lakes okay so the desire would be uh private lakes that have no connection to to the to the gulf or to or or to any other water exactly which is every Lake we're talking about in in Atlanta lakes and loots in those areas in Odessa so that would cover all this in those two yeah but no so I appreciate but again you know thank you thank you for bringing this obviously over the past couple years met with quite a few residents did a lot of site visits and um and you know obviously they're they're right there's you know it's a it's a quality of life issue we heard from a business today too which is a great business and we love going to your place after softball game sometimes by the way um but I would love to see obviously more happen with that and allow you guys to be able to obviously expand as as you see fit and I know what you're talking about about the drop down I'm very familiar with that so it does make it difficult for some of your seniors or somebody maybe with someone with disabilities maybe access that portion of that dot so it'll it'll be it'll be great for the residents and it'll help be a little Boon to businesses too so so okay thank you commissioner a couple of questions the first one is um

as you know the the people who live on the Gulf um have very different kind of lock configuration in the people in The Lakes and I'm wholly in support of people in The Lakes having their boathouses but when you put that in a tight lot on the water and someone builds a Boathouse then you have no View The View sheds gone so I I'm not sure what this is saying here um we um we have talked about roofs over slips so is that not allowed here no this is okay this only allows the prohibition stays unless the board wants to change it there are no roofs walls or enclosures or other similar visual obstructions shall be allowed with the exception of those on right now it says man-made lakes or other man-made bodies of water so so this would only apply to the length issue that was raised in the central portion of the county I didn't frankly the last several conversations we've had I didn't think there was a majority of the board that wished to have them in the saltwater regime and I you know we're big boaters and we go down to Boca Grande or keep the keys whatever and I so I travel through a lot of jurisdictions on the intercoastal and the vast majority do not allow any kind of coverage it's very rare when you when you find a community who allows coverage on the intercoastal for that reason um but it does say here permit issued by the county existing as of June 1st 2010 so are you allowing exceptions that's your existing ordinance that's what the ordinance currently reads because when you at when the prohibition was clarified in in the code that's when it was adopted you had a bunch you you had for many years um either with permit or without people who had constructed roofs and the board at that time was not interested in going back in those quote grandfather structure so that's that date that date and exception is in your current Land Development code it is not something I'm proposing to change okay and I'm on the sea walls um there are people who see walls have fallen in um is this going to require them to fix them or are they grandfathered into having their sea walls fall into the channels and canals and waterways that is up to the board the way it is currently written um I do not think that there is grandfathering for okay because I don't understand father I think I think you're yeah and that that was the direction of the board was to bring something back that required them to fix them because under the current ordinance um it didn't seem that we had that that ability but that that is a public health safety and Welfare issue because you affect your neighbor's property if you don't maintain your own Z1 yeah and the safety of the boating community okay

then I am good with this thank you Mr chairman um as far as the Lakes go the whole protection of everything as far as putting a Boathouse out there putting a dog I'm 100 forward I think the board was 100 unanimous there's no issue with anybody doing that and it should be able to protect their property uh I will say that I've been checking with let's say a couple of developments you might say with Leisure Beach signal Cove I was just at the signal Cove last night I was at leisure Beach about two weeks ago before that we talked about the the roof ordinance over over protecting their boats and they don't want to see boat houses along these canals to block The View but everyone except for one person in the two meetings put their hands up I've got pictures of it if you want to show them said that they're okay with a roof over a boat lifter dock just to protect their boat just the way the gentleman said these are Big major Investments that want to be protected between the Sun the rain Etc it does block a little bit of you but if you have a boat lift you're probably looking about another two feet if it's a dock it's not that much more I I think that as we go through this hearing process I want to have some language put ready to switch it over that if we find out there's enough people to say I want to be able to cover my boat if I live on a canal I won't have that right to go do so it's over overwhelming with the people and there was one lady actually when she first put her hand in the in the meeting last night when we first mentioned about putting up there was like I asked for a show of hands and only one lady didn't put her hand up I said tell me why she goes well I don't want to block the view from from what was going on we talked a lot about it a little bit further and she even said you know what that does make sense you should be able to protect it I don't think it'll affect the view that much I think in a good discussion which this organ setup that we haven't designed public hearings will come out that way but I need to have that I want to have that language ready to go and put out there if the boy doesn't at this point say we should be able to protect those votes so commissioner Starkey I know we had issues down there with some built in major houses on the water out there and that's what kind of spurred a lot of a lot of concerns you know from years ago but I want you to really think about it and check with your your folks and Gulf Harbors but putting a roof over and I don't care if you change the pitch or whatever as long as it's not so bad but to protect their boats don't you think a lot of people down there want to protect their boats too well my boat has a roof um people I've seen boats up to 40 50 feet where they're 40 feet where they're putting covers on them I'm checking right now but I'm pretty sure the Gulf Harbor civic association and I'm checking with

some of my some other communities around there right now don't want the roofs on the on the lip on over the boats so I'm going to check him we'll see what happens okay because again those two communities and straight conversation what was coming up in last night's meeting I told them exactly this wood is coming up now and I think you even saw an email from one of the people on the board there's a Civic director with Leisure Lake leisurely Carrie Hiller sent it over saying hey we want to see that they use you know are protected we ever like to protect them we had a uh we have one person that's caused some issues in Gulf Harbor's who have a houseboat no not what do you call those boats nope those big square ones with the pot yeah and he put a roof over it um and then he put side flaps on it protect the sides of the boat it was a huge huge block it's just the same as a Boathouse blocking everyone down the line from seeing out so um it's a pretty contentious issue and go far so a lot more information for the next meeting yeah and with that scenario that's exactly what I don't want to see happen I'm just talking about covering a boat over keeping the view shut down through that's there not to Boathouse or structured like a Boathouse that blocks the view so I'd like to see some language putting it like that and maybe the gentleman knows how they actually listed elsewhere where they don't have bought houses on it well I don't think well you can't you can't you can you can communicate to us maybe after the meeting but yeah I wouldn't mind that but how they do it where they can protect their boat without blocking the dealership no walls so okay yes just a little bit more excuse me indicators that might it might take a little more like you mentioned a little more due diligence a little more research on that and maybe talking to some of the communities on that side I don't know if a Civic acidic Association um can apply their own rules similar to an HOA I can't answer that so some HOAs would allow some wouldn't I don't know if the civic association could but um what I don't want to see though happen is that this get held up if we're going to have an intense discussion on those docs I just want to make sure for sure what we have now passes and gets through for for the Lakes and if we need to have continue that conversation further and bring it back again after this is done I just want to make sure we don't hold this up this process up so if if it needs to take longer to do that due diligence and do that research find and willing to continue that conversation I just don't want this portion for the lakes to get held up because we want to add something else and again it's not adding some of those just I don't want to compromise something would be tough to come back in

right to have it done at least have the language ready secondly when we do move this forward that public hearing for the Planning Commission I think should be held on the west side as well yeah we actually we actually could have that ready if that's the case and as we're going through the process we can add that we can always attempt to get a Madrid to address the concern yes okay um and not necessarily change right now we have now and and since my office does not normally take forward Land Development code amendments this would have to be coordinated through planning and development that they they're the ones who need to to be moving this forward I mean we'll continue to assist but but right normally I only bring you amendments to the code of ordinances this was a okay an exception quickly yes just a clarification um tell me can you say the language that we change the in reference to the Lakes the private versus um well you've asked me to to clarify the issue of that this applies to all freshwater lakes not just those that are that are man-made and so I'll I'll tweak that language to make that cover for it before it gets released excellent to them moving it Forward yeah I thank you for bringing these three issues up as quickly as they've been done I know the the darker ones taking along a very short period of time I appreciated the dead end Canal thing was phenomenal how you brought that forward so quickly too so I appreciate your good work yeah okay so if we if you can just move staff recommendations and we will move this forward all right that's recommendation I got a motion second and a second all those in favor say aye aye thank you that completes the regular items we're moving right along well now right now we will go to uh old business and uh commissioner Moore keep it light today I have nothing you have nothing no sir okay good commissioner sturkey um I have a t Barda board meeting highlights sheet that I hope you all got um um and I want to say we have a we have a person who resigns one of the governor appointments okay there's there's really not much that happens that we're we're working on hiring a federal lobbyist but um we did have a member resigned and so I believe there's a governor appointment available and I think we need to work very hard to make sure it's someone from Pasco County right on I agree so let's get on the phone and call and I don't know when that needs to be done um maybe we'll I can work on that and find that out today but we need to get someone's name in and um uh Tampa Bay Water we had a record-long

executive committee meeting which all the members attended pretty much and I'm still working towards making sure we're all on board for tap which is the Hillsborough County project where their city of Tampa project where they're taking the Howard Warren reused water or reclaimed water and and um so I expect action at our next board meeting and lectures on the lawn is February 22nd so I hope you all will come out we'll make sure we keep sending out the notices this is our third try I understand our uh our staff on on high alert for tornadoes because the last two times I've scheduled it we've had tornadoes on that day so hopefully the third time is the charm and we pull that off and um and then we have the ribbon cutting for the coastal and cloak Trail on the sixth and on the way here I was talking with um Sam and we're working on a date for the really big ribbon cutting which would be the um the the Starkey Gap trail so we're going to have people from all over the state here and hopefully the Greenways and trails Council will have their meeting here at the same time so that'll be a big one it's being paved as we as we speak right now that's it all right uh commissioner Wales was not here this morning but it'd be here this afternoon he gets some time this afternoon for his old business so thank you Mr chairman um at the Gulf Coast Consortium meeting we had this past week I appreciate the board giving me the flexibility to become an officer of the of the committee and that was made elected to the secretary treasurer so I take that role so as far as just being an executive board now it's even a higher position which I'm very happy about at that meeting we did talk about the gulf environmental benefit fund part of the funding that came from the Triumph spill that the state settlement was Triumph got 75 percent of that money went to the eighteen eight Panhandle counties that were most affected the other monies were into that fund and nothing was allocated the first year just went to general fund uh the commit the Consortium is in process of looking at how we can actually take maybe what what could be 20 of that money back to the 15 counties uh their their member of the Consortium the five percent that's sitting out there now is currently being looked at by a bill that's in the legislature so we're taking a look at that issue as it comes forward to try to help us out with that on another note with the sun west the new beach Sanders now come in uh part of the FEMA settlement of the book partially funded so it makes some good things happening out that Park as well that's all in that on that beach sand if they restructured any of the round to hold it there instead of when it rains it washes out uh well part of the the erosion problem would happen day to day was just

never got maintained I will tell you that uh the staff out there is doing such a phenomenal job Mr Grubbs from Harbor Town is I'll actually get involved in trying to try to help them along this road with ideas and other things to help keep the park up but as they maintain it they shouldn't have an issue with it eroding like they did for years but not maintaining it okay that'd be good yes and by the way uh there's actually a lady that had does beach weddings a lot of them down in Clearwater she's actually from Key West and she's actually interested in actually taking a look out there I'm going to bring her up with staff maybe do some beach weddings out there as we you know progress down the road okay that's everything yeah all right your pictures Mr miles oh just uh I'll get pictures on the screen that was from that one there was from uh signal Cove last night you see the one lady with their hands together she was the one lady that says I'm not sure about the the beach the roof covers but later on we talk about it further that's the board of directors that supported the fold and the other picture the picture before that was the uh Leisure Beach meeting from the previous where everybody went up okay good thank you all right Mr miles yes we're just uh two brief things one just a reminder tomorrow we're having the groundbreaking for touch Point Medical uh their facility there off of State Route 54 just a reminder I think most of y'all have already got to invite RSVP to that but just a reminder that this big just like mettler Toledo it's the next big Domino that's happening and we use our expedited plan review process to get them a permit uh pretty quickly through the process so good thing sir and they're ready to rock and roll on that site the one other one is Mark mentioned briefly during his annual report the discussion about uh Employee Engagement best places to work for and kind of how we did this year on the survey and at that time he didn't have our final ranking there were 100 large companies that applied for the best places to work for and this year we finished 33rd out of 100. still not where we want to be but that's a significant progress what we were and again the way the employees feel about working for Pasco County directly results in the way we provide customer service to the people that work and play here so that's it's an important feedback loop for us as to how our employees feel about working here so just want y'all to be aware that's where we are we expect to be in the top 25 next year and going shooting for number one eventually so that's where we are on the on that so just out of what area so that's the Tampa Bay Region and that's uh we only compete against large companies so I think that's companies I think over 500 employees but I could be wrong I could be wrong with that

number they got small medium and large companies and we compete in a large category so and that's all I have sir okay thank you thank you Mr time Center I don't have anything today thank you all right thank you a couple of event reminders last board meeting talked about our big shred event that was to occur it did occur last weekend it was in Dade City and the weekend before that it was in Newport Richie and was very successful 7.5 tons of individual documents that individuals brought to get shredded that contained personal or confidential information we have three events coming up our first event is February 14th Valentine's Day for a Valentine's Day ceremony and it will be done right here outside in front of the fountain the last day to get a license if you want to participate in that and get married will be Monday February 11th it's um The wedding is at 2 p.m on Valentine's Day then we have um our All-American youth Art Walk that is where we have partnered with the school board and students from kindergarten through 12th grade provide us artwork and we display them in the courthouses and then you get to see the artist's name their medium that they chose and the artist will actually be there and we have cake and punch to celebrate them they bring a lot of joy and happiness to our Courthouse where we know that everyone is having a rough day when they enter those doors um the last event that I want to talk about is passport day our office is doing a passport day on Saturday March 16th so you don't have to take time off of work or wait for spring break when the kids are out of school to come and get a passport it is going to be an event from 9 00 a.m to 11 I'm sorry 9 A.M to 1 p.m on Saturday March 16th they'll be in Dade City in Newport Richie's government centers if you're interested in going for the big shred event I want to say thank you thank you to the County's recycling department amazing job working with our office covanta also helped provide the services thank you I also want to say thank you to Debbie gay our director of Records she put it together all of these projects and events for us and our community so thank you okay thank you the only one thing I have is uh put on your calendars February 18th through the 24th is a Pasco County Fair uh starts off with a 3 30 4 o'clock time for the milk off and all of your Commissioners and Clerks County Administrator County attorney we're invited to participate in Memphis I'm actually going to be milking a cow against uh former commissioner Sylvia Young so I know she can beat me at milk on a cow so but uh what time is that it'll be fun it's 3 30 or 4 o'clock four o'clock I think it's one of the milk off actually starts so you need to be there a little early say 3 30. that gets you 30 minutes early I won't

be early I'm trying to get you early in a helicopter do what now they're doing parade parade uh there is a parade I believe that Dave I don't know what time that starts probably 11 11 30. and you know out there at the fairgrounds um we can check and see we'll let you know I'll get Marie to check and let all of you know but please let us know that you're going to attend and be a participant and we'll let the fair know that you will be there okay so thank you all right that's all I have anybody got anything else all right we'll adjourn for uh lunch break at this time and we'll be back here at 1 30 for public hearing resolutions and public hearing thank you you want me down [Music] I called back to order the Pasco County Board of county commissioner meeting on February 5th 2019. I would like to remind everyone present to please silence all electronic devices at this time we have resolutions Madam Clerk ing oh wait I'm sorry newspapers and education he was quick answer and when you come to home please state your name and address for Clerks uh Sue bedroom 6330 Citation Drive Port Richey Jody Pushkin 16212 Sagebrush Road Tampa Florida okay great thank you resolution number 1985 whereas newspaper and education week nie an initiative of the of the American Press Institute is an international program that encourages the use of the daily newspaper as an instructional classroom tool and is celebrated annually during the first school week in March and whereas through nie newspapers are used with all classroom subjects as a progressive teaching resource for students from primary through adult education levels and whereas the newspaper provides teachers with contemporary informational text Tech texts that engage students and relate academic learning to real world experiences and whereas helping a child learn and love to read is the ultimate goal to improve students chances for success in school and Beyond and whereas research tells us the best way to help children discover the joy of reading and become lifelong readers is to involve them early and often and whereas for more than 40 years the newspaper Times newspaper and education I'm sorry the Tampa Bay Times newspaper and education program is proud to serve Educators students and families through throughout Tampa Bay by providing classroom newspapers companion materials and instructional support at no cost to schools teachers or students in addition to partnering with Pasco County recycling program for over a decade to

produce award-winning recycling educational materials now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby declares the week of March 4th through March 8th 2019 as newspaper and education week and commends the Tampa Bay times for participating in the program done and resolved in regular session with the Quorum present and voting this fifth day of February 2018 signed by the board emotional second all those in favor say aye aye okay welcome ladies thank you very much we appreciate it and we are proud and happy to partner with the County Commission and with the school district of Pasco County thank you thank you for all you do would you like to say something also thank you Mr chairman and members of the board thank you so much we enjoy serving the constituents of Pasco County and we appreciate all you do okay wait right there and we'll come down and have a picture [Applause] [Music] thank you resolution two okay is anyone here representing Economic Development week really thank you resolution number 1986 whereas Economic Development week is an event created by the international Economic Development Council to celebrate the achievements of economic develop developers and whereas the Florida Economic Development Council fedc is a non-profit organization established in 1964 which represents Florida's economic Workforce and Community developers and whereas the fedc has endorsed recognizing Economic Development week to celebrate the contributions of economic developers to Florida's business climate job retention and growth tax base and overall quality of life and whereas Pasco County and the Pasco County Economic Development Council active members of the fedc promote economic well-being and quality of life for Pasco County by facilitating the creation retention and expansion of jobs that facilitate growth enhance wealth and provide a stable tax base and whereas economic developers are engaged in a wide variety of settings including rural and urban local state provincial and federal government's public-private Partnerships Chambers of Commerce universities and a variety of other institutions and whereas economic developers attract and retain high quality jobs develop vibrant communities and improve the quality of life in Pasco County now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby declares the week of February 11th to the 15th 2019 as economic development week in Pasco County and recognizes the work of all economic developers and their Partners acknowledging the importance of the profession in advancing career opportunities and improving quality of life done in

resolved in regular session with the Quorum present and voting this fifth day of February 2019 signed by the board super cool second got a motion a second all those in favor say aye aye good time to vote welcome thank you and just a quick word of recognition for for each of you we can't do what we do without you all continuing to keep this a very pro-business environment keeping our regulation process really easy to get through providing great Partnerships with our staff and then especially the business community so I'm going to borrow something that your County Administrator said earlier today every week is economic development week not just this next week we celebrate it all week long but we do thank you for the recognition okay thank you we appreciate everything you do Bill I mean y'all do a great job and I think I heard our Administration the other day we should be doing that every day recognizing what PDC does for us in this County a lot of growth we appreciate it thank you everybody join me anybody wants to say anything before we go down all right join me down below for pictures everybody resolution three see anyone representing Prodigy Cultural Arts month you could come forward please oh boy look at that resolution number 1984 whereas Prodigy is a research-based prevention and diversion program for all at-risk youth ages 5 to 18 which uses Visual and Performing Arts as a way to help young people develop life skills and whereas Prodigy Cultural Arts month is an opportunity to recognize the transformation and artistic talents of at-risk Youth and pay tribute to the positive transformation that takes place in the lives of those youth and whereas in February individuals can attend annual Prodigy cultural arts program showcases throughout Central Florida spotlighting the artistic talents of program youth and whereas The Prodigy cultural arts program showcases allow attendees to view various art forms such as dance music production vocal performance painting photography drums keyboard guitar sculpture drawing spoken word and creative writing and whereas Prodigy culture arts cultural arts program participants benefit from the asset-based youth development model which infuses cultural art lessons with life skills such as communication leadership problem solving anger management career aspirations and goal setting and whereas by altering juvenile Behavior The Prodigy cultural arts program prevents and diverts youth from moving deeper into the Juvenile Justice System thus saving the state money improving our communities and transforming young lives now therefore be it reselled by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby proclaims February 2019 as Prodigy culture arts month in Pasco County and urges all

citizens to join in recognizing the value of The Prodigy cultural arts program and the importance it serves for our at-risk youth across central Florida done and resolved in regular session with the Quorum present and voting this fifth day of February 2019 signed by the board move to approve all those in favor say aye aye uh I apologize for being late my errands took me much longer than I thought they would but I'm so glad that um I'm here and that you're here and that is awesome um so I met these guys at Metropolitan Ministries they they run a class there um and then I went and toured their facility down in Hillsborough County I was just blown away I know I think Amber is it Amber that's been down there so I encourage everyone to go down and take a look at what they're doing and we are very excited to be hopefully and we're planning on bringing you all up here so please approach the mic and explain a little bit about what you do and your artist and and how this came about and then we'll come down and uh congratulate you well thank you so much commissioner Starkey for your support of the program and I actually want to turn this microphone over to our new chief operations officer of the university area CDC Josie Rocco who also used to be the program manager for The Prodigy cultural arts program good afternoon we really just wanted to take a minute to say on behalf of the university area CDC we want to thank you for your support with the expanding of The Prodigy program within Pasco County we also want to thank Kathy Pearson for supporting the library and parks recreation parks and rec uh partnership that we're working on at this time so just thank you guys a lot for your support and can you um introduce the artist are you that were you the artist I can actually introduce these are my co-workers the artist is I met him at his Junior Polo he is actually the instructor at Metropolitan Metropolitan Ministries all of our instructors what makes them so unique is there are all professional instructors so can I color can I color in the lines of course I can well I hope we can um but I would not be a good instructor so they teach true they're true artists that teach their passion and their skill to the youth throughout West Central Florida so and uh and the kids in the program we're painting that painting at Metropolitan Ministries and I'm gonna I don't have a check on me but I have one in the car if you want to hang around but I'm going to pay for that painting and again I um any other commissioner who would like a self-portrait to hang in your office I'm sure they'd be happy to do one too definitely definitely yeah who is that y'all doing pretty good foreign oh thank you so much pleasure we can hang it right here [Laughter] yeah no what we're really going to do is put it in her chair when she's not here

she's late save that picture I'm thinking about put my garden in oh yeah now I have a walk-on resolution title only uh move to approve the walk-on second emergency doctor a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye aye okay thank you it's resolution number 1993 I'll read by title only a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida expressing appreciation to Karen V Patel Deputy clerk for the office of the clerking controller for her 12 years of outstanding service to Pasco County done and resolved and regular session with the Quorum present and voting this fifth day of February 2019 signed by the board second got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye all right thank you uh with that we'll move on into public hearing items or the first P1 ordinance do you have proof yes Tampa Bay Times January 11 2019. good afternoon Commissioners Denise Hernandez Planning and Development today is the first reading on this ordinance I will read the title an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners amending the Pasco County Land Development code chapter 900 development standards amending section 901.8 pedestrian facilities and creating new subsections 901.6.8.5 standards for driveways for residential construction and 901.6.8.6 standards for paver driveways and sidewalks providing for applicability repealer severability and inclusion into the Land Development code and an effective date this item comes to you because the Land Development code does not have any provisions for the use of paver driveways apron apron areas in the right-of-way or sidewalks also Pasco County has relied in the past on the right-of-way use permit to have to show the standards for those for the driveways and this actually codifies current practice this item was presented to the horizontal Roundtable and interested parties meeting both on April 18 2018 December 19 2018 came to the board of County Commissioners for introduction on January 22nd 2019 and this went to the local planning agency who found the proposed ordinance amendments consistent with the Pasco County comprehensive plan and recommended approval to the board of County Commissioners and that was on January 24 2019 so today that we ask that you accept public comment there is no action required by the board today on this item this is the first of two public hearings the adoption hearing is set for February 19 2019 at 1 30 in Newport Richie and I'm here for any questions on this item I don't have a sign up sheet either Nicole there's not any okay is anyone in the audience that would like to speak to this Adam

okay seeing no one we don't have we don't want no action we got a P2 do you have proof Tampa Bay Times June 22nd 2018. item P2 is PDD 18 cu-27 this is for Patricia Weber fessmeyer North American Towers LLC it was for a conditional use for 195 foot above ground level monopole Wireless facility in an AC agricultural District the applicant has requested that the item be continued to a BCC date uncertain and staff is in favor of that continuous request okay this items to be continued to a date uncertain for the board of County Commissioners all right move to continue don't I don't think we need them yeah okay so I got a motion in a second all those in favor say aye aye all right it'll have to be re-advertised but you're technically continuing the end okay all right P3 do you have proof Tampa Bay Times January 18 2019. item P3 is PDD 19-0193 is for a large-scale comprehensive plan Amendment cpal 1901 project Arthur and uh this is a recommendation to continue the item to the March 12 2019 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1 30 in Dade City let me continue second all right motion a second all those in favor say aye all right P4 do you have that Tampa Bay Times December 21st 2018. if you've only got one item but I'll read the procedures there are two reasoning agendas regular and consent staff will present each application of the board of County Commissioners the staff staff or Planning Commission has recommended approval and there's no opposition the application will be considered by the board without further presentation if staff or Planning Commission is 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 for a 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 petition be pulled from the consent agenda in which case that application will be heard under the regular agenda later on during the 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 on whether or not you've been sworn for the record you could have been done already yeah I don't have a sign up sheet anybody signed up is there anyone in an audience would like to speak against Asylum 7375 in the name of Albert James oralda captivila it's a change in zoning from an AC agricultural District to an AR agricultural residential district this item comes to you with a recommendation of approval from both planning and

development department and the Planning Commission is there anybody in the audience who wishes to speak in opposition to this application leave it on consent move approval consent agenda second gotta motion a second all those in favor say aye aye aye approved thank you now that concludes public hearing items this time we go back to Old business and commissioner Wells yes I've got a couple things I'm first and I don't know if any of you seen you know that Senator president galvano has has a resolution for the state to work on the the Suncoast Expressway going up to Georgia as an alternative route I would like to see us as a board write a resolution in support of that it's something I can get to each one of you but I know the several counties in our region are are supporting that and I think it makes sense that's the first thing and then we all we have in the Moonlight cleanup which I know that I spoke to all of you about a month ago and I just need to get approval for us to use funds out of general fund to pay for whatever the expense is for that event okay all right and a motion a second all those in favor um what's emotion are we voting discussion for the Moon Lake well do we need to vote on the resolution we'll just bring it and they can look just need directions so I'm not in favor of that at this time I think one day there may be demand for it but I'd rather see the funds he's felt enough funds be spent in other places but you know the and I can show you the resolution like as much a look at it I don't disagree but the issue comes up at 75 last year with this people couldn't get out you know I'll get it to you and then as a board we can make the decision before it comes to us if if you don't agree then we'll we'll talk through that so is that correct okay fair enough is that okay to the board the rest of the board that's good okay and then that was a res that was a second on the Moon Lake clean up taking money from general fund that we already that was what we voted on the book yes we haven't voted yet we haven't voted yet so are you ready yep yes sir John favor say aye aye aye okay okay are we ready with the other thing so this morning I apologize that I was not here I was representing Pasco County um got to spend the morning at Brasher park in Port Richey this is the first time the Duke Energy has ever done this if you didn't know they have a facility up in Citrus County at the plant where they raise redfish and they release the redfish in Levy County Citrus County and Hernando County this year because of the Well from last year because of the red tide and us being affected from the red tide as well as seven other counties they're releasing redfish and each of the counties to help with the stock so this morning I was able to be at Brasher Park to speak on our behalf and thank Duke Energy for their great partnership

as well as CCA and FWC and and witness the release of 2000 redfish four to six inches and I believe 30 large ones so I just got a couple pictures I know Adam was out there with me it was a good turnout it was pretty awesome so foreign I wish it wasn't on a board day because I know you know you would go we all would have liked to have been there too but I just heard the pictures yeah that I don't know if there's repeats on the pictures but if there is I apologize so there's the young lady releasing and you can see they're big we um 30 of them or about that size breeder fish so they're oversized they tagged every fish so all all 2000 small will be tagged as well as each one of these fish so I should go out this afternoon maybe so there's there's the big tanks they had where they had the fish it was it was pretty cool it was it was pretty neat to witness this I've never seen this done there's the size of the ones they released 2 000 of those size redfish and again each one's tagged which ideally is so you release them take pictures of the tag and release it back there we go that guy broke the bag I had to run them over to the water real quick because he was so big so there's a little guy he was he was like I want to try it obviously he couldn't lift it but it was neat to see the kids there wanting to help and then there's kind of you can see a lot of media a lot of a lot of local folks there a lot of guides they're supporting it and there's the hose and I think we got a little video Adam took of uh then releasing Affairs uh I forgot her name from duke I apologize she was she was our representative three and a half years ago and now she's over overseas the whole West Coast and then that's Brian who's the head guy for CCA for the state and then Tom grafe who's the head guy for FWC over the state lucky to have them that's don't know what that is so yeah okay just show the video it's not really much to see but it's kind of cool that they literally just open up the tanks and the fish go out the tube and they're these are the little fish though because obviously the big ones would get stuck so you can see them all coming out it was it was pretty neat it was uh we're the first stop they're gonna do at the eight County so it was turnout was great a lot of folks there so you can see them kind of Dart in a way but they're probably all hanging in the mangroves now I hope there were any Dolphins around no the dolphin there was one but he left so I I sorry I wasn't here I know there wasn't much on the agenda but it was it was pretty neat like I said this has been the first time in my lifetime we've had this release in Pasco County it means a lot to tourism as well as you know just jobs and everything else so

it's pretty exciting that's all that's all I have now they need to do some I don't disagree um we're working on I think that's we have maybe have a plan for that so all right that's all yes sir thank you um Mr chairman before you adjourn um I've put in each of your blue folders at the at the lunch break based on the public comment that you received this morning about the uh demolition on Bellamy brothers Road uh Boulevard um there is I've attached the copy of the notice of order of demolition you will note it's January 26 2018. it's a full year ago um and but more importantly the letter from the Department of State which while the speaker identified that this was on the register of historic places the letter that was given to Community Development from the Department of State says however based upon its current condition the property no longer appears to retain sufficient Integrity to be considered eligible for listing in the our be therefore the proposed demolition of the property will have no effect on the properties listed or eligible for a listing in the nrhb just because the speaker it identified that it was why were we demolishing something that was on the register of historic places again this is we're just trying to comply with with the ordinance that that the board has in place okay everyone else yes Mr chairman okay you know and I appreciate the research Mr County attorney but in light of a gentleman going up and buying a piece of property relying on information from the county that he's going to be able to rebuild it being issued a permit that we could rebuild it is there any way that we can actually look to get this a matter reconsidered before we have it demolished I mean the Man spent money had a permanent issue I mean it's just something we can do I mean someone made a private investment at decent property in Pasco County the problem is that that this is another one of those I can't control what staff indicates to the public and at the person that they spoke to is at such a level that it would not be binding on the board the without amending the ordinance to create a new window I mean we're talking a year out of you know the the the the proposed order had been there for a full year and in fact it was recorded and they knew about it the the presidential uh problem with taking in a late appeal at this point in time um with the entire program it was is something that would have to be weighed I am I can we can look at this some more but my inclination is that it is what it is the the appeal was not timely they bought a property where the appeal was not had not been perfected

they knew there was a demolition order on on the property um and I at this point we don't even know that the the structure is capable of being rehabbed yeah and again if the consideration was there to do it and it was a found a way to do it again I feel bad that someone bought a piece of property relied on staff information and now we're going to make them tear it down and you say that they knew of the demolition order yeah well I'm not sure I'm not sure if they did because of uh I don't know that they did a title search if they had done a title search they were sending a demo well the correspondence from the realtor said she informed the buyer before he closed okay so I'm that's what I'm basing in my opinion and further in his letter to the congressman he said we plan to make this a high-end rental uh short-term rental home was not allowed anything else one other item okay um just something if anybody wants to take a look at I've got a letter here um showing the letter support for the National Comedy Hall of Fame if you board members would take a look at it you want to send one on your own I sent one yes perhaps you go in today we'd have school in today so if you do it take a look at you you can insert your name I sent one out yesterday yeah we did if Mr Wells needs one or something we can get it out today for you okay go ahead thank you okay let me know meetings adjourned thank you [Music]