5.20.25 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting

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Good morning. Start the meeting first, then deal. We're going to get started in 15 seconds. I'm missing a lot of commissioners. I'm not sure why. Okay. Good morning and welcome to the BOCCC meeting of Yeah, I don't have a quorum. Here they come. You guys are good because I don't have my uh Katie, where's my script? Okay. Like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission meeting, 10 a.m. meeting of May 20th, 2025. At this time, silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones. And please rise for the invocation and the pledge. And we have someone to give us an invocation this morning. Good morning. Let's pray. Well, Father, we've come once again to discuss important matters in the county, Lord. And so we ask that you uh give us the wisdom to be able to respond to uh the needs and concerns of our community. But we also have come together today to recognize some important folks. Lord, we lift up all of our public works figures. All of our people who are working tirelessly to make sure that everything is working that's supposed to work. Lord, I just ask a special blessing on them as they go about uh their work uh often unrecognized. So, thank you for them, Lord. I also lift up our EMS workers today, Lord. uh they are out and about 24 hours a day responding to the needs of our people. So ask a special blessing on them and your arms of protection as they go about doing their job. So thank you for gathering us for these purposes and ask that you be with us, guide us in all that you'd have us to do. And I lift us all up in your name. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. So, um, can you please call the role? District one, Commissioner Oakley here. I don't think my mic is on. Commissioner Oakley. Let me do that again. District 1, Commissioner Oakley here. District two, Commissioner Waitman, present. District four, Commissioner Joerger here. District five, Commissioner Mariano here. District three, Chairman Starky here. You have a quorum. Okay. Uh, so now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business under the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First, we will take public comment from those who are here in person. Then, we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for WebEx Link and are currently on Q. We request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or a team member, but

rather directed at the issue. This provides mutual respect between board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, a three minute timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After two minutes, a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. When your time is up, a red light will be displayed. Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments. WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. Before we begin, I've gotten a little word that some people are here to speak about an issue that is this afternoon. I'm going to have my county attorney explain how some of these rules work. Yeah. Public comment is is for business which is on the regular or consent agenda or is for a future meeting. Those items which have which are on your public hearing agenda starting at 1:30, the public comment for those items needs to be taken up in those meetings. Um my understanding is that there are folks signed up for the little road MPD which has a comp plan amendment as P43 and the reasonzoning which is P55. That comment is more appropriately taken this afternoon during those items. Thank you very much. All right. Um Madam Park, do you have a lineup? So I would you would think so, Madam Chair, but I only have two people signed up. So, I'm assuming there's more people in the audience that didn't sign up. So, we'll take the two that signed up first. So, we have Wanda Chasnoff followed by Rachel Hobbs. And those are the two that I have signed up. Okay. And maybe we're full from the resolutions. Good morning. My name is Wanda Chasnoff. I live at 668 Status Lane, Newport Richie. I'm here uh I was here a few weeks ago and I was here on the homeless people that live on Green Key. Well, there's only been two arrests and warnings. The neighbors don't feel like we're getting anywhere. They're still there 6 5:30, 6 o'clock this morning. I was out walking the street. They was out roaming the streets and everything. Last week, I got up straight out of bed at 7:00 in the morning and what I walk out my door. What? I smell fire. They got a fire going. I had to call the fire department. And Miss Starky, you had put some pretty pressure on them about doing something. Jack's secretaries are trying to do what they need to do, but we're not getting anywhere and we need to push further to get this out of there because we're going to have a major fire. All this trying to fix our houses and everything. I just got a permit and I applied in January. I'm just starting to fix my house. Okay. I'm dealing with the count uh the city about the Motel 6. They're live the homeless people are beginning to live in the Motel 6. I had Colin out there last week. I made him walk the property with me about the flooding. Pleasant Bill is a mobile home park in front of me. They're putting all new trailers, but we got no drainage on Green Key. It's going to flood again. What are we going to do? We're putting all this new money and everything on

Green Key and we're all going to flood again. We got homeless people roaming, flooding, fires. What else do we need? We need your help. Please, I'm asking. If not, I'm picking up and moving. I don't know what else to do. Madam Chair, I'm 67 years old. Is that is that private property? Well, so Madam Chair, to to talk I'd like David to get with her about the homeless that's in the old area. The one parcel she's talking about that we talked about is actually in public. We're working on it right now to buy the property. We think we have an agreement coming together. It's going to help with the drainage. It ain't moving fast enough. Here we are. Hurricane season again and I ain't even barely started on my house. All right. Um, so we'll talk to David Allen. If you want to talk to um, Sonia, she can tell you what's going on right now. It's in real estate right now. I've been in contact with them very quickly, but you don't understand what's going on clearly because we are working on buying the property. We think we're going to come to terms. So that solution is there for drainage as well as homeless for that one particular. For the rest of the homeless, I'd like you to talk to David Allen. Let him handle it. Okay. Thank you. I just need y'all's help. I can't We are working on it. Okay. Next. Um, good morning, chair and commissioners. Um, my name is Rachel Hobbs. I represent Home Run Financing. We're a third-party program administrator for the Florida Pace Funding Agency. Um, my address is 750 University Avenue. It's in Loscatos, California. So, I'm here before you today to provide you with the regular three-yearly report of the Florida Pace Funding Agency as required in your interlocal agreement dated May 2019. And I have two pages. I have copies here for your staff to to get to each of you. Move receive file. All in favor? I I You just hand it to her. So, uh, thank you for, um, your time and for the opportunity to present this report to you. As I've mentioned, this is the report of the Florida Pace Funding Agency. In the paper I have for you, we have the agency email and the website as required. The interlocal agreement is dated May 2019. Um, we're required to give you the written report, a verbal representation, uh, sorry, verbal presentation every 3 years. Um, so as a reminder, this, uh, is an ILA that covers the uninccorporated part of your county only and does not cover any of the properties within any of the city limits. The total of the assessments that have been originated until February at the end of February this year is um 15,347,146 um with the average amount of the assessment being $20,545. Um this is the report only of the Florida Pace Funding Agency. It's not of any of the other PACE districts that are operating within your county. Um, and I would like to mention that the Florida Pace Funding Agency is under new leadership. There is a new executive

director there, Wendy Leech, and her email is the email listed for you as the uh agency email to mention. Some ancillary benefits of the PACE program is roof roof replacement which is helping your homeowners with the everinccreasing insurance issues within the state of Florida. To give you a brief update, there was major legislation uh at the state level last year effective July 1st. It brought in um new consumer protections including confirmed terms calls an ability to pay test. It reduced the maximum term from 30 to 20 years and it put the Florida Auditor General as uh state regulator for the PACE program. It also um expanded the program to include septic to sewer conversions and flood mitigation. So at a state level it was decided that those two items would be uh PACE eligible from now on. And thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. We need to make sure we have the other companies doing this. This is the first time I've seen this. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else? Is there anyone online? Um there was one one person signed up, but they're not logged in yet. Okay. Is there anyone else here who wishes to speak to the BCC? Come on up. As you're walking up, please state your name and address for the record. Good morning. Julie McIll, 4922 Wishart Boulevard, Tampa. I come before you today to talk about Bailey's Bluff. Uh Bailey's Bluff consists of about well 130 136 homes, most on the water, but all on septic. Really? She caught my attention when she mentioned that septic to sewer. Okay. Um the the simple solution would be to run a sewer line down Pine View. All these septic systems are aging. A lot of those houses built in Bailey's were built in in the late 60s. So we have aging septic systems which are overflowing drain fields. There's not enough room to to build a new one if old ones have gone bad. Sand Bay on the other hand was built in the 80s. Those people were given sewer. So we weren't around in this capacity in the 80s. But why wasn't that developer made to run that on Pine View to service not only San Bay, but also Bailey's Bluff? Lots of reasons. It's it's a mess. Um the problem, the huge problem we have is when those septic systems when we have hurricanes or when they overflow or they have to be pumped repeatedly, not only is that byproduct of nitrogen going into our groundwater, it's also overflowing into our waterways. I walked the neighborhood and I got a lot of feedback from the neighbors. Most of them with waterfront property don't even feel like they're they have waterfront property because nitrogen not only I'll get to the sea life in a minute. Nitrogen causes sediment buildup. They've been waiting since 2017 to have their waterways dredged so they can get their boats out. They're paying taxes on waterfront property and it's sledge front property basically. The other problem is we have a federally protected manatees. Okay. This nitrogen

runoff kills the seaggrass that these these animals live on. That's their main diet. I emailed each and every one of you about an article about Indian River. Manatees,00 manatees starve to death because of nitrogen runoff that killed their main food supply. We're a ticking time bomb here in Bailey's Bluff. It's going to happen. And I hope that this doesn't fall on deaf ears. We can already see the evidence. I have a homeowner here that when they first moved in, they saw manatees. They don't see them anymore. The oyster beds are black in the lagoon. They should be white and thriving. They're black. They're dying. We need to do this now. Get this sewer run. Get these people off septic or we're going to have another Indian River on our hands. So, well, thank you. Bring this up. Well, I'm going to add this right now to our CDBGDR list. Thank you. I tell the administrators. I appreciate that. All right, thank you. Um, is there anyone else here who wishes to speak? Okay, we will move on to the consent agenda and um, the individual still not on WebEx. Was the individual, I believe. Oh, okay. Julie McIll, was that okay? Thank you. All right. Um, do I have Oh, this is for the afternoon. This whole list. I do have a list here. That's applicants. That's applicants for the afternoon. Okay. All right. Um, do I have a poll sheet? No, I don't have anything for the consent agenda. Did you want to do resolutions or were you just moving to consent? Well, mine Okay, we can do resolutions. Mine is a time certain. So, we'll do RS1. Okay. But I but I don't have a pull sheet. If you are here for National Public Works Week in Pasco, please step up to the podium. All of you. Not just a few little bunch. They're not here to say something to us about it. Sorry. Thanks. Anybody working today? Promise this is a We're going to make this very, very fast. Public works. All right, I'll I will go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 25-227, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 18th to the 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week in Pasco County. Whereas public work professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, quality of life, and well-being of the citizens of Pasco County. And whereas these infrastructures and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of the Pasco County's public works professionals who are engineers, managers, and employees responsible for rehabilitating, improving, maintaining, and protecting Pasco County's transportation network, public buildings, and storm water infrastructure that are essential for public for Pasco County citizens. And

whereas it is the public's interest for civic leaders, residents, and children of Pasco County to gain knowledge of and to maintain progressive interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. And RAZ efficiency of the qual qualified, dedicated and talented employees who staff public works is materially influenced by their cand do attitude and an understanding of the importance of the work they perform. Andraz National Public Works Week beca became an educational campaign in 1960 and 2025 marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. And whereas the 2025 National Public Works Week theme is people, purpose, presence, which highlights the three cornerstone ideals that motivate public work professionals to serve in their communities every day and recognize a substantial contributions they make to protect our national health, safety, and quality of life. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said, board hereby declares the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025, as National Public Works Week in Pasco County and encourages all citizens to support public work activities this week and throughout the year. Done and resolved in regular session with corn present and voting this 20th day of May 2025. Move approval. Second. All in favor? I. Good morning. Morning. I'm Jason Mls director. Is anybody uh working today? I'll just quick how many in your department? That's a good question. Commissioners is a very very small small section of our 270 plus folks that we have working in um public works. Yeah. Right. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Well, um first thing I want to say is, you know, thank you Commissioner Oakley um for sponsoring this. Um Madam Chair and the rest of the board. I I genuinely want to thank you for all the support that we get um not only during our regular daily activities of providing um safe and efficient and proactive um storm water and road maintenance activities, but you were really there for us along with the executive leadership team this year during our our storm season. Um, you know, part of part of the three storms that these folks all dealt with um throughout throughout the kind of the the storm season of 2024 was unprecedented as you know. And um we all kind of band together as a county and as a team to to deal with each of those storms that seem to each get worse um throughout the year. And and partly I know this is a big group here behind me, but the main reason why they're here today is because these are the folks who um really work tirelessly throughout that whole process. And it's it's our our field teams that were out there working tirelessly. It's our engineers, our GIS techs or scientists, um the inter office people. You have people that worked um long hours on our fiscal team. Um, so we have a we have a large cross-section of people here and I

wanted them to get acknowledged. I want them here to come here today and just so you can see their faces and know all the great people that are out there doing all the great work. Well, we are really grateful for to all of you and we see you out there. Um, and uh, and Jason, I do want to walk BMP5 with you early in the morning. Okay. When it before it's hot. Um, so I don't know if you want to come on that one, Jack, but um, yeah, Commissioner Oakley, we want to, uh, thank you and all your team uh, with your leadership team, plus yourself and and all the staff that makes things happen here in the county because without you, the county would be quite a mess without the work y'all do. So, uh, that's from west side to east side. So, it's been a long time since I've seen anyone leaning on a shovel or something of that nature, but we've we've actually developed uh you continue working all the time now. So, but we certainly appreciate you doing what you do and doing your job. So, you're a big part of all that what happens here in Pasco. You're not just someone that we forget out there. We we know you're there. We know you're doing the work that needs to be done. I I have to go back to one thing that Brford brought one time was fixing the potholes. When you called in, within the next couple of days, it's fixed. So, it's u it's very heartwarming to see that done because in years past that wouldn't have been done at all. So, it's it really saves a lot of tires and cut for the citizens and um when things show up in roadways and all that cleaned away to to make room for our citizens driving on these roads, uh we certainly appreciate you for all that work. But all of it, you're you're not just uh someone that we don't know. We we see you and we thank you every day. Okay, Mr. Wait. Thank you, Chair Branford, Mr. ML team, everybody behind you, you guys are tough and gals and thank you for sticking with us through last year. I know we're in a in a new year. Hopefully it's it's not as tough on us, but uh we couldn't do it without you. The decisions we make, you guys have to implement and uh appreciate your dedication and service to the citizens of Pasco County. And remember during storm season, if we were to have another one, take care of yourselves. You're not good to anybody else unless unless you're taken care of, too. So, we're here to support you just as you support us. And very happy that you're here with us today. Yes, me. Uh, first of all, thank you so much for everything you guys do. And, um, I always see you guys out working Commissioner Oakley. Um, and um, just like he said, you know, you pick up a phone and you guys are on it. So, thank you and we appreciate everything you do. Thank you, M. Mariana, thank you. And I want to say I just greatly appreciate from from back in 2004 when I was first campaigning to run and all the storms that were going on and seeing all the devastation and the suffering that was going on. Uh I wanted to make this a main mantra for mine for uh for my career here. And I want to say what you

and driving force in advancing economic development initiatives with a steadfast commitment to fostering growth and prosperity in communities of all sizes through um equity, inclusion, sustainability, resilience, and innovation. And whereas more than 100,000 economic development and related professionals worldwide are committed to creating, retaining, and expanding opportunities that facilitate long-term equitable community growth. And whereas the economic development profession cultivates thriving neighborhoods, champions sustainability and resiliency, boosts economic prosperity, enhances quality of life, and builds robust tax bases. and RAZ economic developers are engaged in a wide variety of settings including rural and urban, local, state, provincial and federal governments, public private partnerships, chambers of commerce, universities, and a variety of other institutions. Andraz economic development professionals serve as stewards bridging connections between community stakeholders as a as such as residents, business, business leaders, elected officials, industry executives and educational administrations to collaborate in promoting job creation, community investment, infrastructure advancement advancements and um optim optimistic futures and since 1987 the economic development council EDC has served as the lead economic development organization dedicated to the overall growth and prosperity of Pasco County through the development of sustainable and diversified economy. And whereas in 2025, the Pasco EDC was recognized as one of 86 economic development organizations accredited by the International Economic Development Council as an accredited economic development organization. NRA. Since 1996, the Pasco EDC has assisted companies through business expansions and relocations, resulting in over three billion in capital improvements and over 22,000 new jobs in Pasco County. And economic developers attract and retain highquality jobs, develop vibrant communities, and distri and contribute to the betterment uh and progress of 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 May 12th through 16, 2025 as economic development week in Pasco County, and recognizes the importance of this community celebration, which supports expanding opportunities, bettering lives, and moving societies forward in Pasco County. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present, and voting this 20th day of May, 2025. Approve. Second. All in favor? I. Good morning. Um, this is Commissioner Weightman. Good morning. Good morning. Y'all gonna arm wrestle up here today. See who's who's stronger at economic development around here. No, thank you. It is no secret that Pasco County is on the map and the place to be in the Tampa Bay area. And uh, our economy has just grown leaps and bounds.

um you name the product type, it seems to be coming this way uh and being looked at. And thank you both for uh taking the responsibility of guiding folks in industry to our county and selling uh to them why Pasco County is the place to do business. So with that, I'll turn it over to you all. Well, thank you again and thank all of you for recognition and the resolution today. Uh economic development is a team sport. It really is. And Lots of people don't know what all is in economic development because they do so many different things, but the main thing is promoting Pasco as a place to do business. And when we're marketing Pasco better when we're marketing Pasco, we're not always marketing ourselves or our profession. So the the professionals that are involved with economic development, this is kind of a week to celebrate them. There's over 16,000 agencies in the United States that do what we do. really competitive out there and a lot of them aren't visible like public works with yellow vest and and can't always be seen. As a matter of fact, they're at the office today working, but it is very much a team sport and uh David's here with me because the county team has been extremely supportive. We can't do what we do without them and and vice versa. Uh it is a a team sport. It's a full contact sport. um we've done really well and punch well above our weight, but to recognize the individuals that work in this uh this industry is rare because um most people don't go grow up saying I'm going to go to college to be an economic developer. We all kind of fall into it by accident and we bring with us some skill sets and we're just really blessed that we're able to do something for good in our day-to-day jobs. David, do you want to add? Sure. Uh David Engel, planning and economic growth director. I just want to thank the board for their commitment on job skills training, advancing our county as a uh employment hub for the region. And I just like to give Bill some kudos. Uh Mitech, Belco, Southeast Colbert, Gary Plastics, Metler Toledo to name Touchpoint Medical. These are just some of the projects that the EDC has facilitated and brought to our county. And also a testament to the EDC and the county board is the fact is that we are having industry expand here and stay here in the county like Soul Medical and some others. So I thank you very much for your support. Thank you. Um let's see. Commissioner Oakley, we're going to work our way down this. Okay. Um thank you both for what you do here in the county and for our citizens of Pasco County. Uh having more and more jobs here in the county keeps our citizens at home and at large here in the county uh being able to play and stay and have the open space. They think all the space is leaving, but I got news for you that a third of this county is going to be open space forever. So, um we need to take good care of those things that are coming in that will help and be a big part of the citizens here in Pasco County. And thank you both for what you

do. Commissioner Joerger. Well, first of all, I think you have an easy job because Pasco is amazing. But all joking aside, thank you for bringing quality um businesses to Pasco County. Um we have a little bit of everything. We're very diverse. We're very blessed. Um and every time I think we have something unique, something else unique and amazing you guys find to bring to Pascosa County. So, thank you for recruiting and, you know, trying to get the the best of the best here. So, appreciate that and all the hard work you guys do. Commissioner Mariano, I tell you, we're lucky to have two superstars out there. Um, and you guys, as you say, Bill, it takes a great team, but it takes the great coaches, too. And what you guys do to lead the way has been amazing. Um, I think the countyy's always wanted to for years to to be an economic leader. uh they want to be a bedroom community to tamper in Penllis County. So all that said, the change has happened and with take we've taken advantage of the space. You've done a great job analyzing set us up for success. I mean your reputation around the country has been around the world has been phenomenal. So it's been easy uh to for you to I think take a big step. Um we're lucky to have you u however that played out was great. I'm just I'm thrilled you're here because what you've done has been phenomenal. And David, as you work with the companies he brings in for years, you've been setting up with these incentive programs that can work every step of the way, which has led to not only us uh spreading out further, but getting funding and buyin from the public to say we'll support you in the penny for Pasco as well. So, thank you for your great leadership, your great teamwork, and and keep doing what you're doing. You're doing phenomenal. Um well, you know, this is a passion of mine and before we had Bill and when uh Hillsboro County and Panalis County said, "You can't participate in our international economic development efforts," I said, "Okay, well, we'll start our own." Uh look where we look where we are now. Um so, uh to me, it's always that's always been the lowhanging fruit and um I just think we've done amazing and and there's lots of room to do even more. Um, David, I know I photobombed you the other day in a meeting. Um, you know, uh, you know, I was chair of the International Economic Development Task Force at Niko for three years and then vi I've been vice chair ever since. So, um, we had an amazing report um, on our last two national calls about a county in upstate New York called Anendega. Trying to say it right. Anendga. And they and now they got a chip. They got a chip factory. Um, I I can't I mean, what they had to do uh in within the county is amazing. And David, I'll send um um Oh my gosh, forgetting your name over here, Bill. I will send it to you, too. But I do want to go I do want to talk to you about what they did sometime. I know we're not going to get a chip factory, but I thought it was

pretty amazing how they did this comprehensive plan for the county based on what was coming. They had to buy 40 houses to make room for it. So, it's very, very interesting. and the repercussions it had all through the county. So, um uh and I think Moffett, you know, Spiros is going to do it do for us like what that did for for that county. So, I'm very excited about the future with the two of you at the helm and um congratulations on on uh International Economic Development Week. All right, I think we have room for all of us to go down. I want to talk more about the chip factory. I like potato chips. We also have to learn. So I said yes to share. Yes. Can everyone take where to step this one? [Applause] Okay, now we have we're going to skip RS3 because that's a time certain. No, that's our RS4. So, let me see. RS3 is time for 11:15. RS4. We have Commissioner Joerger's resolution. Okay. Uh so if you're here for family abduction awareness day, please step forward to the podium. Are you sure? All right. Um if no one is um present, I usually read by title only if is that all right or Okay. Resolution number 25-231, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring May 25th, 2025 as Family Abduction Awareness Day in Pasco County. And do we have take a motion? Yes. Approval. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Then we have RS5. Commissioner Mariano. If you're here for National Emergency Medical Services Week in Pasco County, please step up to the podium. I'll go ahead and read the resolution as you're making your way to the podium. Resolution number 25-232, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as National Emergency Medical Services Week in Pasco County. Whereas National Emergency Medical Services, EMS, week was first established in 1974 by President Gerald Ford, making this year the 51st annual National EMS Week. Andraz EMS week is a celebration to honor the over 1 million EMS providers nationwide for their service and sacrifices. It is also an opportunity for fire and EMS crews to continue to raise public awareness about the critical role of EMS in the community. And whereas EMS week recognizes the members of the emergency medical services team who provide a vital public service and are on the front lines ready to administer life-saving life-saving care and services to all residents in need in Pasco County 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. and RAZMS system members. Daily hard work, especially in potentially fatal situations, dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those

who experience sudden illness or injury. And whereas the members of the EMS team engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills. and RAZ. The EMS system consists of emergency physicians, nurses, skilled dispatchers, emergency medical technicians, EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, first responders, educators, administrators, and others who provide quality emergency care. Andraz, the 2025 emer national emergency medical services week theme, we care for everyone, emphasizes the dedication and compassion of emergency medical services professionals who provide life-saving care to individuals in need regardless of their circumstances. and whereas it is important to recognize the value and accomplishments of emergency medical service providers and to honor them by dis designating the week of May 18th through the 24th 2025 as National Emergency Medical Services Week. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida. That said, board hereby proclaims the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as National Emergency Services Week in Paso County and encourages the citizens of Paso County to join in expressing appreciation for the exemplary efforts, hard work, exceptional services, and dedication provided by the individuals who work for Pasco County Fire Rescue. Denon resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the 6th day of May, 2025. Approval second. Second. All in favor? I. Commissioner Mariano. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, I'd like to thank you guys for your service, your whole team. Um, I think the way you guys carry yourselves and the way you serve our people, make you a a group in the nation that's respected as one of the best departments there are. Uh, you guys are innovative, you're caring, um, and you're you help us help our citizens better, too. So, I just want to thank you for the great work you guys do every every day, day in and day out day out. Um, Commissioner Oakley, I'd like to thank you for all the work you do and your people go through to uh help our citizens throughout the county and see more. It seems like it's happening more often than not that we're opening new stations all the time, which provides that infield in a in a shorter time frame in and servicing our citizens. So, I certainly appreciate everything you do. and Commissioner Waitman. Thank you, Chair. It's good to have you all here today. Exciting to see you in the building. Recognize all the hard work you do, not just for our county, but for everybody who lives here, our businesses. Um, keeping those keeping their everything up to date. That way, folks can shop and spend money and go to work and and and not worry about things that you all do. and uh just grateful that you could choose any of the all 67 counties, you choose Pasco to to work here and know that we do our best every budget cycle to try to figure out ways to retain and recruit and uh it's, you

know, a testament to the leadership of our fire service and EMS service on how to get folks to uh come to Pasco and say, "Hey, this would be a great place to train and work and hopefully live a live a good life." So proud to recognize you all today and very happy you're here with us this morning. Commissioner Jerger. Yes. So I want to say um thank you for everything you do for our community and I also want to just touch on what you guys do for the for the youth. So my son is in the cadet program and the people running this program are pouring into these kids. I mean, my son last night, he's talking 45 minutes when he got home from the cadetses last night and he's doing a ride along with somebody in Clearwater and and it's just sky's the limit. Like he he has his path is so solid and that he cannot wait to work for Pasco County. I am so proud of you guys, you know. And here here's another example. I I had put on Facebook that, you know, my son's team was one game away from being in the state championship and you know what, a bunch of firefighters showed up to the game to support the kids. Like that meant so much to that to the team. So, just thank you for everything you do from everything in the community and I just wanted to touch on the youth because what you guys do is absolutely incredible. Thank you. Well, um I too would uh say as as I always say, you you're just every time I I'm out on the road, I see you guys. And I we have some new faces here today, though. So, I guess you mix it around when uh when you when you bring the guys in. So, um and girls. I don't think we have we Oh, yeah. We have one here today. So, thank you so much for all you do. Um gosh, I I can't even imagine uh what would happen if, you know, we didn't have you guys. Hopefully, we get to keep our state funding and uh keep I shouldn't go into that. It's a little crazy times in Tallahassee. Um but uh again, we all we all appreciate everything that you do and the dedication you have to our citizens and our county administrator would like to say something. Yeah, just just briefly echo echo the sentiment. You guys are critical infrastructure at the end of the day. Again, similar to public works, we we could not go on with life literally in some cases uh with without you. I mean, we are probably one of the busiest ambulatory services in the entire state of Florida. Uh, you guys are out there, you know, humping a lot of ground to make to make stuff happen. And so, uh, those first minutes are critical and we we continue to make those investments to try to help you reach our citizens on their worst day as quickly as possible. So, thank you, Chief, and and just thank you team for everything that you guys do. And you want to address us? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you all of you for your support, especially the citizens as well. It doesn't ever go unnoticed. And you know, Pasco County has been making headlines recently for a lot of new things that we're doing. But what we have done

consistently is is had some of the best paramedics in the state. And these guys save lives every day better than any other agency around us. And you know, they run the lion share of what we do. Our um rescue crews are going to run probably 90,000 calls this year. And some of the stuff that we're doing in the back of these ambulances is literally life- saving. So we are at the we're the tip of the spear as Mr. Murphy likes to put it as far as uh treatment and saving lives and and um you know procedures in the back of an ambulance. And if you ever had time to come ride along with us for a day, you would absolutely be amazed at what these men and women are doing in the back of there. So, uh we can't thank them enough. They're literally saving lives every day and we appreciate your guys' support. Thank you so much. Thank you. Um what do you think? I'm coming down. I go down. Okay, we're good. All right. What do you think? It said it's in that folder. Wait, where did this tall guy come from? I Googled where the downloads here. Yeah. Yeah. Every meeting I have this Every meeting I have this problem. I can't find it. [Applause] You're taller than me. Even me up here on should be. You said your son's riding in Clear Water. Yeah. Why not ride with us? He can. His name is Josh. Very good. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Let's we'll figure that out in a second. We have now RS5. So, we did RS5. Um, we have RS6. RS6. Wanted to double check that. If you're here for National Safe Boating Week in Pasco County, please step up to the podium. National Safe Boating Week. Wonderful. I will go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 25-233, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2025 as National Safe Boating Week in Pasco County. Whereas the National Safe Boating Council, NSBC, was organized in September of 1958 under the name National Safe Boating Committee. ANRAZ. The goal of the National Safe Boating Council is to improve boater behavior through education, awareness, and training to make recreational boating a safe and enjoyable experience by reducing boating accidents. ANRA National Safe Boating Week is observed to bring attention to important life-saving tips for recreational boers so that they can have a safer, more fun experience out on the water throughout the year. and RAZ through basic boating safety procedures, carrying life-saving emergency distress and communications equipment, wearing safe life jackets, attending safe boating courses, participating in free boat safety checks, and staying sober when navigating, we can help ensure boers stay safe throughout the season. Andres, on average 650 people die each

year in boating related accidents in the United States with most of these accidents caused by human error or poor judgment and not by the boat equipment or environmental factors. and res in accordance in accordance with Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission requirements and the mission of the United States Coast Guard classes are offered monthly by Hudson flotillaa 117 United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Hudson Flotilla 117 United States Coastg Guard Auxiliary teaches boating safety classes performs vessel safety checks and works in the community for boater safety and whereas Boers are encouraged to be conscientious and deliberate in making choices that will ensure a safe boating experience for all boers enjoying the waterways of our community. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby recognizes the importance of life of safe boating and declares May 17th through the 23rd, 2025 as National Safe Boating Week in Pasco County. Done and resolved in regular session with the quorum president and voting this 20th day of May, 2025. Move approval. Second. All in favor? I. Commissioner Mariano. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Uh, every year you come forward to accept this uh resolution, we greatly appreciate the work you do in our community. Uh, safety is everything and what you do is to educate our people to make them safer. We greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Commissioner Oak certainly like to thank you for all that you do and help make boats safer as we go because uh our our activity on water has increased since we got our scallop season and we want people to enjoy and and uh be on that water as much as they can because we're in an area where we can be there a lot more fishing and and scoloping throughout. So being safe is very important to everybody. Thank you, Mr. Waitman. Thank ma'am. Yeah, just in time. School's out soon to be out for summer and uh you know people are going to be flocking flocking to the coast and to the lakes uh around Pasco County and around our state. And so, uh, thank you for coming this year and just getting word out to for people to stay patient. Uh, be mindful of how they're acting and operating their watercraft. And, uh, for those who don't necessarily want to be on the water, I recommend getting a lawn chair and umbrella and just posting up at a public boat ramp anywhere in our state and just have a good time uh, watching the festivities throughout the day. Good morning. And I am a my we are big boers our our family. So we are um very grateful for all you do. You sure have a lot of colors on you. You guys um very well decorated there. Um you know just this weekend I was out of town actually. I was in Boca Grand where a lot of Boers are and um I got messages back from my community, Gulf Harbors, that there was a 4ft t to t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t turtle or tortoise, I don't know, turtle in distress

and um a lot of boers were were trying to find it and um you apparently got hit by a boat and and I have asked the county or tried but have not been successful yet. I still have to figure it out how we can put um a slow speed area and Filman's by you. I I watch every day Boers just going through there so fast. The water's very shallow there. So if there's a turtle or a manatee that's not in one of the little channels, they're going they get hit and um I I still want to try and make that happen. I know your staff's pretty good at figuring that out. But um uh just thank you for all you do and um there's going to be more and more Boers on the water. They showed me someone put a picture of Ankllo Key Saturday. It was a boat every 20 feet on the beach. I've never seen it like that. So, um thank you for all you do. All right. So, do we want to We can take a group picture. Oh, Commissioner Y. Yes. And I want to say thank you as well. We're we're a big boating family and um we have children and we're always educating them on you know don't be on the back of the boat when the prop is on and you know just about voter safety in general. Um thank you for you know educating people and is there a website or anything like that that people can go to to get your information? Yes, it's online. It's online. Okay. Everything from the national all the way down to the local area has has as as does H. Okay. We're happy to do that. Awesome. That's a great resource. And also, thank you for your service to our country and um Yeah. So, especially and just to piggyback on what you said, why there's so many boats on the island is because the sandbar since the hurricane has gotten really small. So, um that's that we're going to see a lot more boats. That's frustrating on the on the island. So, thank you. Would you like to say a few words? Yeah, please address please address us. Your district, we were at Sims Park this weekend and it was constant boat after boat that we inspected. Sims Sims Park or Anklot River Park? Sims Sims Park. Sims Park. That's me. That's Commissioner Jagger. Yeah, that's your area. She shows the park itself. I have the park itself. A big blitz. And we're going to do another one up in the Hudson uh this coming weekend. And I'll tell you it was something good. Good. But we're educating the public. Good. Do you write you don't write citations or anything like that? You're just giving educa out educational material. They're they're safety inspections. Simply looking the boats have the proper equipment and everything on them that they need and it's not a law enforcement activity or anything like that. Uh but we do remind them. Yeah. Making sure their flares aren't expired and their Coast Guard kits are intact. Yep. And and in the third cooler, we remind them about that as well. Yeah. I'd like to we cover everything from Arapa all the way down pretty much all the way down the tarpon is our area of responsibility. So you'll

see us out on the water a lot. We we are in the works of trying to add some more boat boater access. Um sometimes we need um enforcement on the land near boating ramps because it gets a little testy. I know ankle river park it's a problem on Saturday mornings. So um but go commissioner Mariana and if you if you gentlemen would like um on we're having a scolop fest again this this year starts July 24th if you guys want to come out there and be happy to have a sponsor put a booth out there for you and let you go out and kind of talk about safety and uh even introduce her any any time that you want to introduce people as well in touch with you sir. Absolutely. Okay. Great idea. I'll do it. All right. Let's all go. All right. Let's go down and take a picture. You know, Florida country. Okay, let's take a photo. supposed. [Applause] [Music] app. So I guess we'll we got 15 minutes for the other. So we'll go to committee reports. Commissioner Oakley. [Music] She'll be right here. I think don't we have to do uh consent? We're going to go to we're going to go to our consent. Oh yeah. We hadn't done consent. That's right. Sorry, but I had to do something. I had to get two hands. Okay, I now have a pull sheet. Is there anything else that we want to pull from the agenda? Okay. Can you announce what it is? We will pull C26 and C29 from Commissioner Mariano. Okay. Move approve the rest of the consent agenda. Did you want to? I'll second it. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. C26. C26 is withdrawal. Oh, it is. Okay. C29. C29. I just pulled this for good news. Um, you know, we hear a lot about what's going on in the Shady Hills area trying to like make things better. And I think it was about three or four weeks ago, maybe a little bit longer, that we talked about um an agenda item coming up. We're going to put a right turn lane uh in front of Shady Hills Elementary School, and it was going to take until the following year to get it done. So, I asked if there was a find a way we could get actually get it done. So, we actually reached out to the DE community, Barbara Willite in the back. Thank you. Uh, Ripa Construction as well. Got together uh with our team who did a phenomenal job. Nick uh Mike and the whole team got together, worked it through where they could actually get it done quicker and it looks like about $100,000 less and it'll be done when summer when the summer pro summer vacation starts. It'll be open before school opens up. So that will help a lot of issues that we've been dealing with this past couple years uh with all that out there. So I just want to say thank you to the team. Thank you to the private market out there that actually work together to make this program come up quicker, cheaper, better for the

citizens. So move approval. Second. All in favor? I I Okay. Um my my 11:15 time certain is not here yet. So we will go ahead and jump over to um Mr. Cronin and we'll get the update. Good thing I didn't leave. She would have chased after me. Um, again, thank you for the opportunity to present. I'm Bill Cronin, Pasco EDC. I'm here to present our quarter 2 update for ourou and our penny for Pasco agreement with the board of county commissioners. Uh, in the interest of time, I'm going to go pretty quickly here. Uh, you should have in your packets um the metrics behind these results. But before I get to the results of Q2, I just want to share with you a couple things because I'm still really excited about it. Next time I report to you, I'm going to be telling you about two awards that we got last week at the Florida Economic Development Council's annual meeting down in Port Charlotte. And uh though both of those were related to marketing, one was for marketing our ready sites program and our new 3D videos. You might recall when we first uh came out with one of the videos, we showed it here at the board of county commissioners. Well, we've done that with all the sites now and we got an award last week uh statewide award for that video. And then secondly, we got an award for um something called co-starters for causes. And I don't know if you recall back about a year and a half ago at our annual awards, I mentioned that our nonprofits were having trouble keeping up and scaling with the growth that they had in this county. So, we funded the first cohort of co-starters. And that's the curriculum that we use for our startup businesses and our incubators for those um uh nonprofits to help them scale so that they could actually um meet the need of this growing community. And because it was such an innovative process in partnering with co-starters, we got an award for that as well last week, too. So really proud of my team. The last couple years that we've been there, we've came back with good news. Uh we've had scholarship winners. We've had workforce development professionals of the year at that conference. And this year we are also joined by um uh Derek Burgerer and Steve Smith from the county. So again, team sport, making sure that we're all focused on economic development and it's paying off. They're they're talking about you all uh around the state. So quarter two, you'll see cookies and dirt. Uh the two don't go together normally, but we had B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Buko's groundbreaking uh in quarter two and you can see in the background the label. That day was a a great day for all of us because uh they had lots and lots of cookies obviously uh but we also got news that they're going to be expanding yet again uh into a larger footprint um uh which is included in some of our wins here. So, I shared with you that the job numbers are still low. We've got two um uh projects that have not reported their final numbers yet out of those six wins.

I anticipate that's probably over 500 extra jobs that will go in there. Uh that will get us closer to halfway the goal, which where we should be halfway through the year. Uh but the other news is that with six wins, that means we're also focused on even the smaller companies, too. We often get accused of just working with the big companies that hire hundreds of jobs. It's really important for us to work with the smaller companies as well. And they're still coming and the pipeline is uh is robust. 125 active projects right now, 161 leads. Of those 125 projects, I'd say we've got about 20 that are close to the finish line. But I am here to report there is a pause right now with a lot of companies pulling the trigger on their investments. And I think a lot of it has to do with the the politics that we're seeing uh both locally and federally. Uh a lot of people are unsure what the markets are going to do and especially the institutional capital. We're we're seeing less influ less uh impact from institutional capital and a lot more private investment that's coming in these projects. So, um, when you see new new companies coming in, think about where they get their money from and how that money gets here. And, uh, sometimes it is impact by national news. So, we're keeping an eye on that. That's one of the two things. Well, that's one of the several things that keeps me up at night is, uh, is our reactivity to outside circumstances that we don't necessarily control here. U,, but still getting the right mix in terms of diversifying the economy. Uh and we're still working with our local businesses and that's again where we spend most of our time. Uh you you all have seen the groundbreings, the ribbon cutings, but about 80% of our time is still with existing business and workforce is still the number one thing that most businesses are interested in is where am I getting my talent from? What does that look like? How do I prepare for the future? And they should. That's our best resource that we have in this county. uh telling the story, 3.59 million in year-to- date earned media value. And that's again where other people are telling our story, not us. Uh again, we're the hired help. So, anytime we get other people to tell our story, it means that much more. They expect me to say nice things about Pasco. But when a a newspaper reporter writes nice things, that's really good for us. Um, you'll see that jump up next quarter because during that uh economic development week last week, we had another 103,000 impressions and 870 engagements online last week. That means that people that we were talking back and forth with, so they were active about Pasco County to see website hits on uh most of our our landing pages for buildings and sites. And that's good because that's we want them looking at our product and why they want to move here. And we still have really good followers on social media. But social media most of it is for our local so that they know what resources are available to them not

necessarily for people outside looking to move here. Um trade events getting the word out and with our stakeholders. Last quarter, we attended 21 trade events and three conferences and seminars and then eight presentations um during that three-month period to industry groups and organizations. Um we're up to 94 investors. Um and that's the private sector investors that offset uh what we get from the public side from yourself. And uh four of our newest investors are U Habitat uh Touchpoint Medical, Saddlebrook Resort, and Bank of Tampa. And uh right now we're up to 45 policy council members, which is also a record for us. Uh you remember back in the day we had maybe five. And this is uh the group that helps us to steer our legislative agenda, which uh uh this time of year is kind of busy. um upcoming events September 4th and this is always the Thursday after Labor Day our annual awards and we will be back to Saddlebrook. So, uh Saddlebrook will be ready for us. We'll be back. Um we're all pretty excited about it. There'll be a different layout obviously and um uh nominate committees or companies if you haven't yet thus far uh for awards and that'd be your small, medium, and large companies. Uh onto the penny for Pasco. Um the ready sites program I I mentioned continues to get hits. We continued to get visits. Um 11 site inquiries this last uh quarter, 13 RFPs that we included those sites in. So when somebody says, "Hey, we want to move our facility to Pasco County. What do you have?" These are going in those RFPs in response to that international program. Uh we attended the select USA road show in Brazil and uh that was seven different uh cities in Brazil. It was kind of exhausting over 59 meetings uh during that that time. But they were lined up because they heard about what Boduko had done and the US embassy said, "Hey, here's a good example of how Brazilian investment in the United States works." And they all said, "Well, we want to go to Pasco County." So, we had a really full dance card when we got there, which is fantastic. Um, also had our growing global event celebrating the international trade and tourism day that was held at Starky Market this year. And then, um, our global Tampa Bay trade mission to Mexico City. Is there somebody talking? No, you're good. Okay. Okay. Um, to Mexico City and that was with our partners at Global Tampa Bay, Hillsboro, and Panelis County. That was on the trade side. In a couple weeks, we'll have the foreign direct investment mission uh which Pasco will be participating in with elected officials from all three counties and that'll be to London uh the 2nd through the 5th. Continue to council companies on trade and enhance marketing. We launched our ready site videos for the rest of the ready sites that I mentioned and working with the founders of of SmartStart. We call them founders now, not just startups. they founded companies to get more testimonials out

from them so people know where they can get that assistance. Uh workforce continues to work with career source. We just released our survey for our annual uh workforce survey and that's to understand the hiring trends of what the needs are of our employment employers uh in in their industries. And then uh Smart Start uh had a bunch of events. So, we had our uh food extension uh day out at the county extension office at our food incubator, Epic, that we did with the county. Um it's always a good day to wear your stretchy pants and get lots of good food, lots of free samples. Um I love that stuff because that's your your small mom and pop businesses that are doing what we do best and sometimes that's growing stuff and cooking stuff and eating stuff. Um we hosted Grow Pasco at St. IO uh our largest one to date and that was an all day event um uh at the wellness center out there and then uh we also had partnered with u Canary Detections which is a uh one of our smart start members and exhibited at Synapse and held a seminar at Synapse which is the big IT summit in the region. Lots of events though. Smart Start, 407 people this last quarter, 50 events. Uh we're up to 43 incubator members and that's over the three incubators in the county and two microloans out the door already this year. Um again, they couldn't do that if um if we didn't have that loan available. These are companies that uh are turned down by banks. They're unbankable. So, thank you again for all that you continue to do to support uh the work that we're doing. And uh it's good to know that you all have our back and that we're in that team sport together. As I mentioned before, it is a a full contact sport when we look at uh competing with the other regions and uh the 16,000 other agencies in the United States that are all going after the same business. So, thank you again. Thank you. Um board members any okay question Bill might not be the most time of the place but started hearing uh about data centers popping up and maybe looking at generally what they I don't know if there any interest in coming into our area but what's interesting to me with the data centers is all the ancillary jobs that come with those centers so I didn't know if EDC has been approached or put any thought on those if if they're worth Yeah, data centers absolutely are are something that one we're going to need more and more of with all the AI and everything that uh we're using our tech for. Um but the biggest issue that all of us have in Florida is that we've got power. It's just spread out everywhere right now. And most of these data centers in order to build the size that we want in our county are going to need for one of those utilities to create a generation facility just for that data center. Uh we do want to make sure that we reserve enough power for hurricanes and things like that. So one of the things that is is kind of a chicken in the egg here is the data center needs to sign an

agreement saying they guarantee they will buy this power and the utility signs an agreement and says okay we will build a generation facility but in such a competitive uh uh industry nobody's willing to sign an agreement ahead of time until they somebody says okay here is a place for you with the generation u Florida doesn't have any major data centers and part of it's because of our geographic uh positioning that historically people said, "Oh, it was too hot or we had a threat of hurricanes." Well, that's not really an issue that much anymore. We do need it. And I think there's a a real interest from the governor's office also to make sure that we have our own, that we don't rely on Georgia and Atlanta and places like that to to store our data. This is starting to become a competitive thing. So, very much on our radar screen. Yeah. So, which corridors you think would be best to market? Trinity area down 54, 52, 75. It depends if it's one that uh people come to actually visit uh their shelves of of racks of servers. Um sometimes you've got people that come in and they want to service the actual equipment there. Sometimes they want to be out in a bunker type of atmosphere where there's no one around, no one to bother, and um they're safe and far away from everything. And some of the big ones fall into that category where they really want to be out uh somewhere away from the general population. I would say on first glance an easy answer would be anywhere along uh major highways and railroad anywhere that you can run fiber. So fiber has to get there. So if you run it along the um uh in infrastructure uh it makes it that much easier for them. And of course workers too can drive on the road. Interesting. Thank you, Bill. Good question, Commissioner. um on that that uh call that we had two calls for the International Economic Development Council of NATO. The second one was on data centers and it was uh a commissioner from Lowden County, Virginia. They have 200 data centers and 117 more in the pipeline. Yeah. Yeah. If you're around Washington DC, you're going to have a lot of data centers. It actually is a problem for them. Yeah. So, um I but I will I will get those. They're taped. I'm going to send those out. I'm going to send both of the those uh calls out because it's fa fascinating what those counties have gone through. Um but yeah, we I'm sure we could land a couple. Yeah, a couple would be good, right? Um any other any other Okay. Okay. Um Bill, again, great job as we we talked earlier and you mentioned at high-tech we're at like 4.8%. Um, Commissioner Stark, you mentioned about the New York getting the um, they got the chip. The chip. Yeah. So, depending on how much space they need, you know, one of the things I think we've talked about before is like trying to get one maybe at that Hudson Industrial Park that's trying to come to life. Um, that's got 210 acres, it turns out. Uh, and we can put housing right around it as well. Is that big enough? Is it too big? Is it something that could possibly

go there? Data center for not not data center, for a chip factory. Chip factory. Yeah, I would I would I would watch the chip factory uh announcements very carefully. I'm not sure they're all going to come through the same way they were announced during the last administration. Um I know the folks up in Anandga and they are in uh Senator Schumer's district and uh he was very much a part of of that legislation. I think that we need to make sure that if there is something that's going to benefit our community. Um whether it's chips, whether it's data, whether it's anything um that is forward thinking, we've got the product available for it. It's just a matter of making sure that we protect the the industrial land around it and make sure that we don't have so much residential encroachment in those areas. So, uh to answer your question, yes, like live local could do to us. Exactly. and and uh keeping an eye on things like live local. Uh we we've worked five years to get these ready sites up and going and changing the culture of land ownership so that people preserve land for industrial development, for job creation. Um to lose it on short, you know, u u legislative actions that might just help one part of the state after we put in that much time u really hurts us. I think the best way we can protect that is to continue to focus on these ready sites. Uh maybe even go out and look at industrial authority to actually preserve some of this land to prevent anybody from from taking advantage of it. But any any industry whether it's chips, data centers, uh I think we're pretty well situated, but we again we got to keep our eye on the ball. Okay. As far as the Brazil group, uh, as far as making that trip, I just want you to know we've got a paddle tennis at the Scollet Fest coming up at Sunwest Park. So, that should be a what do they call that? Padal padal. Pedal. Pedal. So, paddle tennis, whatever. Yeah. So, that that's going on there. And it may be some Well, no, it may be something to advertise with your Brazilian people. Here's what's going on here. It could be a beach volleyball tournament, too. But just for them, I think it's where it started, I guess. So, they may be intrigued to come up. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you all. And now I see we have our res three recipients recipient here. So where's Lisa? I'd love for her to hear her to hear this, but we'll go ahead and start. All right. Uh Miss Gloria June, is it Vivo or Vivo? Vivo. I was going to say Vivo, but I wanted to check. If you stand up to the podium and you can come with her if you'd like. right to the podium. I'm going to read the resolution first. Resolution number 25-229, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, honoring Gloria June Vivo for her 103rd birthday. Whereas Gloria June Vivo was born on June 7th, 1922 in Manhattan, New York. Anra, Gloria's parents immigrated

from Naples, Italy, and had seven daughters with Gloria being the youngest of them. Anra at the age of just four years old, Gloria became a child prodigy on the piano. She shared the passion of music with her sisters, all who played musical instruments. Anra, after graduating high school, Gloria studied voice, dance, and acting. Andraz in the late 1940s in New York. Gloria was a leading lady in Broadway's production of High Button Shoes alongside Phil Silvers and uh is it Nanette Fabre. Thank you. And Raz after three years in Broadway, Gloria worked in early television, radio, and many nightclubs in Atlantic City and Miami Beach. and Raz Gloria married and went on and and went on to have two children, two grandchildren, and recently became a great grandmother at the age of 100. And Resz Gloria has resided in Newport Richie for over 22 years now, continuing to entertain her family and friends throughout the years and has played music in two restaurants in town along with her local clubhouse. And whereas Gloria continues to stay busy by cooking, baking, reading, and going out with friends and family and has an interest in natural health and healing. At soon to be 103, Gloria attributes her good health to maintaining a healthy lifestyle by walking, eating healthy, and taking supplements every day. And whereas the board of county commissioners of Pasco County recognized this momentous achievement of one of Pasco County's citizens and wishes for Gloria's continued good health and happiness in the new year to come. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby honors and congratulates Gloria June Vivo on the celebration of her 103rd birthday, extending its best wishes to her. Denon resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 20th day of May 2025. [Applause] Oh approval. Well, we should have Gloria sing. Wait to her thing. Um, yeah. Give I got a motion and a second. Yeah. All in favor? I I um we can sing happy birthday to you, but you don't want me to sing. Seth normally leads. Okay, Seth, we start it off. I'll mute my mic. An early an early birthday. Early June birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Gloria. Happy birthday to you. If you need a singer for a party, she's your girl. Um, Commissioner Oakley. Yeah. We're going to go f Wait, stay up there. We're going to do this fast. Okay. Yeah. Do it fast. Okay. Commissioner Oakley. Oh, we're so happy that you're having this birthday come up very soon. I don't know what your diet is or your medicine, but please send that to me because I think I need that. Or your skinincare regimen. So happy that you're here with us there at your 103rd birthday. That's great. Commissioner Waitman, thank you. This is a very rare treat and an honor to have you with us today approaching 102 going to 103. Y just absolutely amazing. Thank you all for bringing her here today and

just very proud that we get to celebrate you and I hope you have a terrific June birthday. My birthday is June 2nd. So to June birthdays, Joerger. Well, happy birthday. Um, my great grandpa lived to be 104 and um so it's quite an accomplishment and um I love that you are still so active and that you're giving back to the community. Um and just God bless you, Mr. Mariana. And I want to say congratulations too. My I've had a couple of aunts get to 99. Uh so 100 is great. 8003 is phenomenal and you actually share the same day as my wife's birthday. So special. Well, um I've known Gloria and her daughter Carolyn for many, many years. Um Gloria, I think used to sing in the Cafe Grand. That's where I used to hear her sing all the time because it was my favorite restaurant back in the day. It was the only decent restaurant around. Um, and Glor, so Gloria, I want you to uh talk to to the board about some of your um health food health habits. It's amazing. Carolyn grew up in a very unusual uh household in New York City. And tell us a little bit about yourself. Um, put the mic down there. Well, let me just say this. Gloria lived alone until the hurricane came and hit Beacon Square Villas. And now she's with Carolyn. Her house home is not repaired yet, but I think she's going to stay with Carolyn. But she was living alone all by herself. I used to see her out to lunch with her friends at the market. So, you want to say a few words to us, Gloria? That um that you were interested in, you know, health foods and healthy. She's had a wonderful life. Well, I'm very healthy at my age, 103, because I've always been interested in in health. So, I've always eaten a very healthy diet all my life. That's why I have a lot of energy. At 103 years old, I don't have any physical problems whatsoever. Is that amazing? So, I I want to tell everybody to do the same thing I've done and you'll be healthy beyond 103. And she and Gloria, if you don't mind me, Sharon recently had shingles at her age. Wow. Um, so yeah, after the storm. So she recommends that shingle shot which I got. Um, and Gloria, are you still playing the piano and singing? I wish I had one in here. So you guys Okay. Not so much singing anymore. But um, but yeah, perfectly. And you see there's no walker, there's no glasses. There's no nothing. And she was paying attention. Now you're reading that, too. So, so Commissioner Mariano, I upped you because I think yours was 101. Yeah. Yeah. And the piano I retired from that now. She just plays piano for fun now. Yeah. I play the piano and I sang I I sang in lots of hotels. Yes. Years ago. Miami Beach. Yeah. All right. Let's go down take a photo. We're gonna come down and take a photo. All right, we're gonna take a photo. This is for you, an official. Thank you so much. appreciate it so much. Appreciate it very much.

[Applause] All right. Okay. That was special. Isn't she amazing? Okay, that's incredible. Nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. Yeah. All right. So, we are on um treasure items, I believe. Is that right? Huh? Okay. So, Commissioner Oakley. Yep. I have some pictures. The pictures you're seeing of Wilton Simpson and myself. We were out looking at the building there at u the college there at Dade City. a new science science building. A lot of things were happening. So, this was the topping off party uh for that. And then we have a the opening of uh uh station 18 there on Chanty Road. Every time I turn around, I said earlier, every time I turn around, we're opening a new fire station. No, they're coming fast. And they're coming fast. And that's that's good. That's good for our citizens. And we're being able to uh these stations are being way more active than were this one was supposed was at originally at uh Crystal Springs. They moved it up on John because 95% of the calls for this station was up closer to Zephr Hills and only about 5% calls they got in Crystal Springs area. So, but very good to see that open. What we got here? Oh, we got the um um Oh, not many there today. Pasco's government governor day. Uh so we're there talking. I think there was 26 I believe persons there that day. So um Mr. Starky missed it, I think, and Jack Jack was there and Seth was there with me. So that was up too. But it was very good. Very good. We had that. Here is the um the ele well not the election but the installation of Dr. Brian Butler of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church in Nade City. He was uh became the chairman of the Pasco County NWC NW NAC. I'm not saying that right I guess. So but uh but it was a good good ceremony. Uh Dr. Brian Butler, he's a very good man and located there in Day. They're on 8th Street right in Date City area. So very good group of folks and uh always willing to reach out and help them and move forward. So good thing. Um that's all I had on that, but I wanted to bring up one other item. Um, on the way to work here to the west side of Pasco County for for our meeting today, I was stopped over a mile from Bellamy Brothers in line waiting on the light to change over a mile back to the east back toward the interstate. Heading west on 52, not at 41. Stopped at Bellamy. Yeah. Crazy. And it took at least two maybe three light changes for us to get through Bel and the the traffic coming to the east on that on 52 at the same time was backed up all the way past Aaron Cutoff and then it was after that it was still quite a bit of traffic but there was a break in it a little bit from the red light at 41.

But my concerns are and I think a lot of our citizens have the same concerns is the fact that we've got u Palmeta Ridge development coming. I don't know when they're going to start. Also the the development between Bellamy and the interstate on the north side is is coming. There is absolutely no way I believe that we can build those developments and be able to control traffic for the development and the construction and not have that road in four lane because there's no way traffic can move now. So I don't know how it's going to move if we start those developments prior to that. But I I think it's something we need to all look at as commission and administrator and look at what we're doing and and do a better job of of setting these processes of developing new businesses and new things and home sites coming in. We just need to do a better job at uh programming this out. So, Commissioner, I agree with you. Um, and as you saw, I asked the traffic expert how he generates his numbers at our last meeting. Um, I was talking with David Engel about this very subject because I'm seeing it too, and it worries me. So, I wanted to suggest that we um ask our staff to embark on a traffic study for the county and and and and go in depth really and and and take a good look at I think we got a little bit of it from that NO report at the MO from the um I don't remember the name of the the group that took a swing at it, but we need to we need to take a look at what's coming and what what kind of transportation network we have and see, you know, what kind of solutions are there? Um, and and then we have a workshop on it, but we we need to understand it a little better. I think we just need to do a better job at planning this out. It hasn't necessarily been this way before, but I see it here now because it's always been, if you put it in development, the mobility fees and all come in afterwards when roads are being improved. But the fact that this is state money, a state road and I think it's scheduled for the first part from from Bellamy to Aaron Cutoff happens in 27 and 28. That part from from Aaron Cutoff to um what's it housing development right there. Well, but let me just let me just and then the next one is is on to 41, right? The you know what is the reliever of state road 52 there? What we we are putting all the traffic on one road in the county and h and half the we're putting half the county's population on two roads. I mean this is why I'm always talking about connectivity so there's other ways to get around. Is there envisioned in our road network another road that parallels 52 north of it? I don't know. Do you have to go all the way up to County Line Road? So, I mean, imagine Penllis County with two east west roads. So, in my mind, we're kind of doing this to ourselves by not having an integrated road vision of an integrated grid system within the county. Why why couldn't there be another road behind Panther

Ridge that comes across? And um so but I I do think let's take a good look at our road network to to your point that's why I've been harping on the call your parkway extension as a reliever to air and cut off at least the north section and um that's that segment of road is going to be incredibly important to get to 41 because as of today cut offs not sufficient especially once the commercial traffic comes online when you got the industrial trucks And no doubt Shady Hills is not going to be able to handle it. And and and not only our development, Hernando County's development because they're going to be using all our roads, too. So, we got to really, you know, take a good look and and make some, you know, difficult choices. Yeah. So, I think it's tough at a zoning to change and make things happen, right? Because you have your limited. I think the time to negotiate to get road improvements done like that project at Bellamy to the north. That project probably should had two left turn lanes put into it. It should have had at least a right turn lane of its own coming out as you hit 52. That could have al alleviated a lot even to get traffic to flow for the future. When DOT was picking ponds, they took out the neon cowboy spot right there. um they could have left a lot more space right there instead of just putting all the pond right to the edge. So we we missed an opportunity that we've got to make sure that when we're we're doing these things we got to look and the land use is a time to talk about them things because you have flexibility you don't have it with the zoning. So I think much as it says we used to have like a lot of pipeline projects we don't push for those anymore. We need to start pushing because the acceptable or the the argument of well after the growth comes and development is going to come and the infrastructure is going to come. People aren't buying that anymore. They're stuck in traffic just like you were stuck in that thing. Had we set these things up ahead of time, maybe it doesn't happen. And I think we need to look at that at every land use. What can we do? What can we get to make it come? Because right now you got developments coming up in Hudson. This not have infrastructure up there either. And we can get some good stuff in there. You've got the ability to have a grid up there. Yeah, I know. And I'm I had a vision road for 14 years. So, that's going to be good for you. So, there's there's opportunities. But I also think I also think there's some important intersections that will probably be, you know, not not in our time, but in the next generation's time, some overpasses. And so, we need to be citing buildings at certain intersections where we don't have to buy a whole Amazon distribution center or whatever. I'm just pulling that out to to put an overpass over an intersection, but if there's no way no way to go wider, we're going to have to go up and over. Commissioner Oak. So, so you'll know, I've got a meeting set up with staff and folks out on Bellamy Boulevard tomorrow evening and we will

be discussing the new changes for the safety of Bellamy Road from 52 all the way to the county line. Good. I hope it will be it'll be widened and it will safety uh parks put in that roadway that makes it safer. Some of it will be no passing and yeah continue like that but it'll be widened on that road because very important. I had a person call me a citizen call me one time he says when I moved here two years ago on Bellamy it wasn't like this now this well he was part of the problem because people like what we have in Pasco County and they want to move here or when they do that problem creates that problem. So, well, we got to have the vision road network looked at for the whole county and see if we can make improvements. Well, we're addressing Bellamy this week and that's to happen in 20 uh 27 and more and more people are using the multi-use paths to get around with the kids on and I'm going to bring it up in my commissioner items, but those multi-use paths are a way for people to get to work to not be in their car. And we need and we're going to have a great network of them when we're finished, but we we need them on all our arterial collectors. Um, okay, Commissioner Commission, great discussion, Commissioner. Yep. Yep. Speaking of fire stations, Commissioner Mariana and I uh opened up or broke ground on station two uh on 54, which is be great service for the Meadow Point area and cuts the times down and and we're we're we're moving along. So congratulations chief and your team Rob and Justin prom was there and uh good group. So what's the opening date on this chief? A year approximately sooner. No pressure. 18 months. Yeah. 16 18 months. He said he'll do it in 12. So there. So congratulations to the guys. And this was the last and thank you to the voters. This one. This is one of the last projects uh remaining from the GO bond from back in 2019. So uh thank you to the voters who who voted for the GO bond to to fund this station. Excellent. Um next Tibbit Tibbitz uh we all know is at uh 41 and 52. They're moving uh their shop over to into the Zephr Hills in the Zephr Hills area. They're moving or doing a new one. Well, this will be a larger bigger plant. So, I imagine they closing the other way or keep Well, I think it probably depends on what that intersection happens there, which concerned me. You know, Tibets is such a main state. They do a great business here in Pasco. So, um this will be their flagship facility. It'll be in Zephr Hills and it's set to open in the third quarter of 2026. And it'll be the company's largest trust plant with a state of the state of the art mill workshop, window warehouse, and a multi-acre lumber yard plus administrative offices and have a CSX rail spur and doing all this on 46 acres. And they have 10 locations throughout Florida and their 11th one is set to open in St. Augustine. So, I was relieved to see when Arlland Tillis and his his group reached out and uh invited

us uh to come to their new shop that they were going to stay in Pasco and that the intersection improvement wasn't necessarily going to impact them uh in a good way. So, very very happy Tibbitz is is here. And then the next location, I'm happy to get those trucks off the 5441 intersection. You can have them over there. You know, it'll be less traffic coming out of that shop. Will be over there. So that'll help us. So next we have So Sprouts took over the old gym uh where Grace Family Church is on at CER and 54 on the south side. So we showed up, we were instructed to be there about six o'clock in the morning. And there were people in line from where Sprouts is all the way around the complex to Grace Family Church. It must have been 400 people. Wow. in line for Sprouts to open up at 700 a.m. So, the people who were first in line were there at 5 something in the morning. And it was just when Brian and I went, we're like, "Well, who the heck's going to be at a ribbon cutting at 6:15 in the morning?" We've all done, you know, a whole bunch of these things. There wasn't free. Yeah. But folks were really pumped up and excited and and the team there at Sprouts were geared up and ready to go. It was just an incredible looking location and it was nice to have a refurbished shop and Michael's is going in right next door. So that whole complex has really been invigorated. Um and on the opposite side there's Flying Squirrel which is trampoline park and we go to birthday parties there all the time. But it's really you know this the complex has had a renaissance and been revitalized and so congratulations to to Sprouts coming in the loots. It was it was a pretty fun morning. And then just want to give uh shout out to uh Chief GOP and his team uh for their fight for air climb which um uh they compete in every year and it's for the American Lung Association. And so Pasco, they've won multiple awards this year. They won the top fundraising uh team for the firefighter division. Uh they're also the highest fundraising team. and they raised over $15,000 and uh their cadet dress competition, the Pasco cadets beat Tampa Fire cadets. So, our uh guys and gals have been whipping up on Tampa Fire Rescue and uh just appreciate all the work that Chief GOP uh heads and done this multi-year. And um JJ, I know you're there last I couldn't be there last night uh due to a couple of different town halls and things, but if you want to say a few words about your folks, you have to keep it Yeah. pressed. He doesn't speak. I think that's purposeful, ma'am. Uh, thanks for pointing that out. Yes, I was there last night. Uh, this is a great cause. U, you know, and it was great to be there with the cadetses last night. And, uh, they were all given our commemorative Pasco County coin, which, uh, they really appreciate it. Uh, and I told them to use it as incentive to motivate them to, you know, they're they're our future, right? So what what uh the captain does and you know we had

a battalion chief there in the picture. Uh yes they the lung association created a new award because we raised so much money and there are so many people participating in that. So uh Mike wasn't there last night but they uh they nominated you know somebody from administration and since I have a bad wheel Mike will do the stair climb next year I think. Uh, you know, I nominated him last night when they they called me out. So, with a bad wheel, I don't think I can do it, Mike. So, you do it next year, I'll do it the year after. And, uh, uh, Commissioner Weightman will be happy to have you join the team next year as well. Start training on at Sun West. I also want to say that uh, my son who was there said he the thank you to uh, David Goff for the pizza. Bought a bunch of pizza for the cadets. So, nice. Yep. And then one last one last thank you. We had the um the CDBG town hall at Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus last night. Thank you Joanna and Marcy and the team uh for all being there and answering answering questions to folks. Uh nicely done. Uh David Lambert was there on behalf of Coochie River Electric and just various stakeholders. So um a very nice evening sports campus uh is looking great. Busy busy busy parking parking parking. Uh so anyway, thank you all. Good job, Commissioner Jagger. Okay, we might get through before noon and go fast. I'm just making my slide. Okay, so we at our community farm share at Moon Lake Park. We served close to 300 families. Um I'd like to thank Parks and Wreck and Animal Services. They came out with cat cat food, dog food, um Tony and Sarah for putting it all together. And we had a ton of volunteers. Um, it was a great event. So, I can't wait to do another one. So, next slide. So, we toured the Hudson Community Health and Resource Center. They partner with so it's Premier Community Healthcare, Metropolitan Ministries, St. Leo, and the school board. So, this was really impressive. If if you guys haven't toured it, I highly recommend it. So, they have dental and medical there. So the kids if they have written consent they can um be escorted over during school hours, get health care, get med medicine, things like that. And it's also open to the community. So one of our um families out in Moon Lake was saying how his um three-year-old did not have access to health care. So I immediately gave him the contact information. He was able to get his daughter an appointment for dental and and for health. So they have a big resource center for clothes and brand new shoes. Um pretty much everything the kids need. They can go grocery shopping and um get a bag full of things that um are needed for their families and their parents can come shop too. So I would love to see um another one of these. I know they have two. I would love to see another one in Pasco County because this this is just amazing. um working with at risk youth that's one of the biggest barriers is transportation. They can't get to to the doctor. You know, their parents can't take off work and they

don't have a ride and um they can't be seen without their parents. So, here they can have written consent to be seen. They don't need their parents and they can get medication that same day. It's absolutely amazing. I can't say enough about it. I encourage all of you to visit it and see if we can get another one open. So, and that's all I have. Commissioner Mariana. Okay. I think I have some pictures coming up. Uh, just to touch on the subject this morning come up on Green Key. Just so everybody knows, we'll work very hard at that. We got a legislative uh budget of 2.5 million to improve the the workings of the uh flooding down there. And we've got that one property that's along just to the side of Status Lane that's a tenac was going to come in for development. Looks like we're going to be buying it out. Uh it's a reasonable price. sort of tie right into the other pond that's right beside it. So, there going to be some improvements down there that are happening. So, I'm not sure why she was so fired up, but um literally we were working and and getting things done there. Um there's a picture of the uh with Luchi River Electric uh annual meeting. Um what a great turnout. What great enthusiasm. David Lambert did a great job speaking. Uh next couple pictures will show the the event venue Simpson Farms out there, which is a great place. Uh and the commissioner of agriculture was there as well. and uh what a great host and what a great team they have out there. Uh this is a housing uh summit that Senator Jeff Brandis hosted and while that was going on uh there was one of the speakers up there that took a shot at Pasco County. Uh and they talked about like live local about why is Pasco County so fired up about not having more affordable housing. Did you get Oh, I get in. I get in. Oh, I get into it. Good. had everyone heard. I mean, you did a club of Oh, I I I I at the end of like it was the last question to to be picked up for that segment and I said, "Look, Pasco County has they talk about impact fees, too." I says, "Pasco County studies impact fees. Looked how they did it. We led the way and now everybody else has fallen our way so our taxpayers didn't take the burden." I says, "We have taken ourselves to make sure that we keep our tax as low as we can." And as far as when I as we look at what job jobs are, 54% of our people in the county have to leave to go to the south to go to work. We didn't want to change. We wanted to change that and we set up a great plan going forward. This love local thing is going to take our tax base and destroy it if all these apartments are giving us 75% tax breaks. We don't want to see that. We want people working in our county. We've got a plan together. So this plan, I'm all for trying to help Miami do what they want to do or others. But leave us be to what we're doing because we're right now the third for fastest growing county in the state of Florida and the second fastest nationally commercially. So what we're doing is working. We just don't think this legislation works. And I think

others that may want to think that we do, let them control their own destiny. It was pretty well received. Even a even a gentleman I was on a a committee with him last year on the same affordable housing and we're like going toe-to-toe back and forth about he was opposing some of my stuff. Even that guy come up to me and shook my hand to say great job on that. You got to make sure Jeff understands our position. I laid out pretty good. A few people come up to me and they excellent. All right. Anything else there? Next pictures. Um, I was just at a uh a golf tournament at Seven Springs and this cryo ease. I haven't seen it yet. That's amazing. But the results are phenomenal from what I heard. This they run this tournament all to try to They treat veterans for free. What I want to do is go look at it. And I talked to Barbara Hinsson, but I'm going to go down and take a look at their facility. Check it out. She's going to bring someone who's a former doctor that works for other vets now, one of her nurses who was in the team and go take a look and see how good this is. But one of the things we do is we have extra money from Blue Cross Blue Shield that comes out. And I think it may be good because a lot of our deputies use it. A lot of our first responders use it. Some people that may be stuck in workman's comp claims may use it and other people that just want to get better. And if it's not covered by insurance, but if we take part of that money that we have, we can actually help with our health with our county employees. I want to go take a look at it. And I may bring it. It's in New Okay. But I got the there's the flyer right there. I can get that for you, too. Yeah. All right. Next picture. It's in your district. Yeah. I guess I wasn't going. Is that all? Okay, that's it. Okay. All right. And um I just want to make a statement. Haven't seen public's works here. Just kind of like, you know, so glad that they're getting recognized for the great work they do. And I want to say that uh working with Brandford has been phenomenal. We're working on the Hudson and Old Dixie. You saw it underwater a couple of times over the past year. Um it's like the one thing that was going on. Hudson Waterworks had a main break was like an unscripted u you know wasn't wasn't on the map as far as a main that main broke another main broke and our storm water pipes that were there looked like they're in good shape but the links between them are weak so what they think is and they're going to staff's going to work on it but try to look to do a uh a lining of it and I'm not a big fan of lining but this lining here they think can work without hurting capacity it could help that whole area and I think that'll be one of the project I talk with Mike Carbella about yesterday. It's one of those things that this may be one of those health safety things that work with the CBGDR money as well. And I want to get that looked at as far as that infrastructure goes. And maybe working with the sewer company we have trouble with that's that's private and and

Hudson Waterworks. Maybe there's way to combine forces with the county to kind of make that situation better like we talked about doing years ago. Um, and I just want to say driving up the other day from uh Tampa Bay Water coming back, I come across four different intersections where I had homeless people out there with signs, etc. Uh, I had one where I actually stopped to get gas and a guy's at the retail station going through. Uh, I' I've made this conversation where my mother went to Wind Dixie I think last month. While she's coming out, some guy startles her, whatever, looking her for money, etc. gets her take her bag, whatever, and her license disappears. They found it later. But we've got to help take care of this uh homeless population, the ban handling going on, and we've got to nip it. And we can't be saying we're not going to do this. We've got to do it. We got to go enforce it. And I think as far as code, especially my district on the on the 19 Carter, I don't need to write them up for this, that, and the other thing so much, but I need to help them because if they got people standing out front begging, doing their thing, and and pleading on people coming in and out, and they can't monitor everything, we got to help them. So, I think it's something that we need to go up and down, look at these intersections, and I don't care if you put one person on the duty going all day long back and forth, but something's got to be done. We can't just say this is the way it's going to be. It doesn't have to be. It shouldn't be. If you want to talk talk about removing blight, that's the first way to do it. I'm all for getting people help that want to get help. You know, the homeless shelter helps us that we put in place, the the rope center, the holy ground. I want to give them all help, but we can't just allow this to keep on going and going. Our people don't want it. It's not good for our look. That's all I got. Okay. I'm trying to send some pictures here, but I don't know if I'll make it to this today. Um, let's start with uh our community cleanup. We had uh 1.4 I don't know what that is there. 1.4 tons brought to the landfill and uh 10 10 tons um 10 and a half tons collected on the site. I told you about all the wet mattresses. So um I attended the PACE uh breakfast there. I think uh were some of you guys there? I was there. Yeah, Lisa. Um that's always such a great event. Um and it's a it's a nonprofit founded in 1985 by Vicky Burke. uh that first PACE center was launched with 10 girls in Jacksonville and um the idea was that there were girls entering the juvenile justice system as a response to behaviors often embedded from trauma and PACE has successfully grown to serve more than 3,000 girls annually in 25 communities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. So, it's always great to honor those girls. I was the judge in the 16th annual water awareness poster contest with FGUA and Pasco County Utilities. And um this was the 16th annual one. And I just want to give a shout out to parents

because you know it was pretty obvious in some of these posters that mama did it or dad did it. I mean there's no way that a kindergartener's drawing hands with shading and fingers and all that. So, we had to disqualify a whole bunch of posters. So, um yeah, this is for the kids, you know, help with the homework, but don't draw their posters. This is really good first grade artwork. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them were pretty crazy. So, I will be seeing those winners here shortly. And I have never been to this place. Um I don't even remember the name of it, but it's up there on 19 in your district, Jack. It's the old sports authority. It's insane. I I I I videotaped the whole thing to show to my kids like look at look at this indoor ropes courses and timing like uh that that ninja like the ninja games ninja warrior. Yeah. I had no idea this was there. So, you know, get get on up there and have fun. Um I held my tr my third Trinity Odessa Leadership Council meeting last week. Um SwiftMud was there. Did a great job. Um code compliance. Denise, I think I saw her here. She did a wonderful job, too. Um, sheriff's office. Um, Chase also and libraries. Um, as a matter of fact, we have to bring libraries back because we had such lengthy discussions on um especially Swift Mud that um that um and code that we didn't get really to our library. So, we'll redo them. I also uh they asked a lot of budget questions and so I said at our next one which will be in September, we're going to have someone come and talk about the budget. Um we we had we had to bring in chairs. I mean we had I don't know 10 or 12 uh neighborhoods represented and and more are going to join. Um I did the VIP tour of uh Met. It's why I miss some of your y'all's events. Um the daycare is getting ready to open this create learning center. It's going to provide the homeless and at risk families with safe well met provides homeless and at risk families with safe stable housing. And this daycare is going to uh be onsite for the residents that are there. And then anything any seats that are available, it's going to open up to the holiday residents, which there are really no daycare facilities down there. Um so this is going to be great for the community. It's absolutely adorable. I took a picture of this company of these little tables here. The little the little teeny uh I don't even remember what you call them chairs. The Well, those are low low high chairs. Yeah. Because because I thought they were absolutely adorable. Um and then Tim Marks was honored. He's retiring, but they're going to put a road an interior road there is um Tim Marks Drive. And if you haven't toured this in the Derek Mitchell welcome center, it it it's amazing um opportunity that we have in the county to have such a quality facility like this. You can see the playground in the back. It isn't all the way um done yet. And that's what's keeping the daycare uh from opening up. And some of the residents here will be able to, if they choose, get

certifications to open their own daycarees. So, they'll be working there in the daycare center. Um uh so my staff's always very busy and they've come up with this great idea that why don't we put some murals on our utility project utility property. These other ones are pictures. I think this bottom one here is Penllis County could be Dun Eden, but we've got these buildings that are just ripe for some wonderful art. So wanted to throw that out there to our utilities department. And I, you know, I think those look great. Um, okay. This is, uh, something that I want to get done before I'm done being a commissioner. And, um, this these are like little what I what you you might know as spite strips. And we have at least three on this side of the county that I want to address. And Commissioner Joerger, um, I have mentioned this one to you. So that on that'll be on the next page. But the first one is Amazon Drive in Anaconda and the developer of that is Commissioner the owner of that property is Commissioner Shear from Penelis County and he is willing to give us that. So um so if you are uh someone who needs uh some kind of ambulatory or you know an ambulance to come to you, you would not believe how you have to drive all the way around because of this fight strip here in Amazon and and again adding connectivity keeps people off the the main roads. If they want to go over here but they live in here and they can't connect there, you have to drive all the way around. you have to go through 54 and little and and there's no reason for it. So, we just need to connect those two then. Um, yeah. And when that was built, it was designed to connect. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We got another one here. Now, this one did connect and my predecessor, Commissioner Hildebrand, unconnected it. But when I got elected, these residents came to me and said, "Could you please reconnect this?" This is at G Trace Boulevard. And I don't even know the name of the the street, but if you um if you could go to Google Earth and pull that intersection up, um you wouldn't believe what the residents have to do to go to the park before the park. Yeah. Yeah. They have to they they live right behind um the Holiday Lake Recreation Center, but they have to drive all the way out to 19, go down, make a Uturn, and come in Gulf Trace Boulevard to go to for their kids to go to baseball practice or soccer at the park. So crazy. Um so yeah, zoom out a little bit. A little bit more. Okay. So, up here in the upper left corner, you you see um the elementary school. The elementary school's here. In the upper left corner, you see where they don't connect, right? So, if you live on that street, you're driving all the way in front of all these people to go all the way out to 19. You got to come down, make a U-turn, and come back up to go to that park. Or if you want to drive your kid to school because it's raining, you got to all these people. So, I would really like us to reconnect that one.

The next one is Ostein. Do I do we not have a picture of Ostein? Okay. I think we're working on that. Yeah. So, this was connected, but um Mrs. Ostein, who used to live there, somehow got it unconnected when they built Ridge Ridgewood High School. So, Pepin is now there. And this is another one. It's if you So the first one is a closeup of Pepin Academy. The second one where I have all the X's, that's Marchman. That's the elementary school and that's now Wendel Krin. And then you got Pepin over on the right. To get into any of these complexes, you have to come up um what's I think it's Congress when you get over there or Rowan, whatever. And you come down Orchid Lake in front of all these houses and then you and then you um go into the school complex. or if you're going to uh Pepin, which is, you know, the special needs school, you got to drive in front of all those houses to get over there when it should just connect to Massachusetts. Agreed. So, um, we got to we got to get that one connected. I got one more for everyone. Yeah, bring it on. Right near where you are, where Orchid Lake goes across, there's a connection that can actually come right out here. I think it might be Blueberry. It's Blueberry. Yes. I And I showed that to them, too. So, um, I sent that to staff. So, if you see where Pepin is and you look just north of there. Right there. Yep. It's just a little space right there. Um, where they should connect and come they will come out to Little Road. There you go. The more connections you have, the less everyone is inconvenienced and the safer it is for our residents. Yep. I I'm going to make a motion that we look to do all those connection and bring a bring a agenda to make. Hallelujah. I don't have to run again. All in favor? I I Okay. Um the last thing I have and I see we're here at lunchtime. Um is um you all were given this flyer. This is from Orange County. So I've been I go drive down Starky Boulevard and I see these kids. I my staff told me what they're called. Hot rockets or something. They're like little tiny motorcycles. And they are they were going I videotaped it. They were going 45 miles an hour on the trail on Starky Boulevard. And they do it every day. At least they're wearing helmets. I was just gonna ask you. Hopefully they're wearing helmets. They're wearing hel helmets. So, we started looking up the ordinances. We We don't have one that controls how our multi-use path should be um regulated or whatever. Um but um so I want to uh propose that we would that we look with work with the sheriff's office and to create an ordinance regarding mopeds, goss, pocket bikes, and motorized scooters. and um and then bring it back to us for discussion. Oh, and then lastly, this is um this is a road in um Starky Ranch. The road has been conveyed to us. I can't remember the name of it. Long spur. People businesses are using this as a place to park all their business equipment on our road. There's boats,

there's trailers, there's the parts of uh long haul trucks. Every time I drive here, there's it's just amazing what people are parking on our roads. So, I think our staff is working on a solution, but we need to, you know, we need to get done. So, otherwise, we start charging the monthly rent and it'll be very, very high. Um, and thank you, David Angel. Um, I attended that, uh, the second Grand Boulevard workshop. Um, it was very well attended. You guys did a great job on that one. So, thank you very much. And we'll adjourn for lunch. Did you want county administrator? Oh, no. We'll we'll we'll finish the others. Oh, I went before you guys. I sure did. We'll do you and you and you after lunch. Sorry. [Music] on you to keep them healthy. Excess fert.