8.6.24 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Morning Session)

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e e [Music] Board of County Commissioners 10 a.m meeting of August 6th 2024 at this time please silence all electronic devices and uh please rise uh for the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance oh merciful Creator your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature make us thankful for your loving Providence and Grant that we remembering the account that we must one way one day give may be faithful stewards of your good gufts amen amen unit States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all okay so instead of going by what my uh word say I won't say madam cler I see Mr FL would you please call the role yes sir uh District Two commissioner wigman pres District three commissioner starky here District Four commissioner Jagger here District Five commissioner Mariano here uh district one chairman Oak here that be known we have a quorum present uh uh now is the time for public comment citizens were given an opportunity to comment on any current F future current or future agenda item going before the board and other business under the board's prview today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take public comment for those folks that are on here in person then we will take comment from those who are pre-registered for the web act and are currently on que we request that when you uh address the board comments are uh director not personally toward a commissioner or team member but rather at the issues this provides mutual respect between board members and the public after uh stating your name and address for the clerk a 3 Minute Timer will be activated after 2 minutes a single beep will notify you that you have 1 minute left when your time is up you will two beeps will sound and we ask that you close your comments at that time uh WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up uh Mr clerk uh do we have someone signed up for public comment I believe we do not have anyone in the room signed up but we do have uh online participants okay um is there anyone in the room that did not sign up wish to speak at this time for public comment if you do you just come forward don't see anyone coming forward all right we'll move on to our webx John marrow Mr marrow please state your name and address John marrow uh Lyn or Vance Anderson please state your name and address I believe that's Mr uh marrow trying to come up right now with that number Mr marrow you're are muted s we're not hearing you at this point let us check the level okay Mr marrow we're hearing you now please

proceed okay it took me a second on mute sorry my name is John marrow I live at 4621 Road Drive in Newport Richie I'd like to thank you guys for allowing me the opportunity to address each of you and I'm very excited about the land that you acquired on BR Avenue for the homeless the reason I'm excited is my bu business partners and I have a passion for not only helping the homeless the transitional folks but also the folks we can educate back into society and Home Ownership we believe that the issue at hand is bigger than just homeless and unsheltered it's about education and giving people a hand up not a hand out we're working at municipalities to eradicate this issue globally and we believe this is more than just build a few rapid response shelters We Believe by building a community fully equipped with a a community center and three B housing that in 10 years when we have done things will look very different than they do today we l to work with PCO and solving this issue that has been gone for way too long and that's it just thanks for your time [Music] and thank you sir um ly or Vance Anderson uh we're not seeing them online at this point is that the only people left yes that's the only one signed up okay seeing no one coming forward on the WebEx uh we will close public comment we'll move on um to our resolution uh Mr Court would you please read the first resolution yes sir resolution number 24156 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida recognizing Suzanne wankowski for 30 years of dedicated service to the Pasco Economic Development Council whereas Suzanne rowski has been devoted to the Pasco Economic Development Council and its mission for and vision for 30 years demonstrating unwavering commitment and dedication to the enhancing the professional landscape of Pasco County since beginning her career with them in 1994 and whereas over three decades Suzanne has supported programs such as investor relations office management Budget Finance and has played a pivotal role in the planning and execution of all major events for Pasco EDC including the annual award Wards netfest the holiday social and many others and whereas Suzanne has been the office goto for all questions and keeps meticulous historical information documentation recordkeeping and has served as a mentor to many team members over the years and whereas since 1996 Pasco EDC has assisted companies through business expansions and relocations resulting in nearly 3 billion in capital investment and over 21,000 new jobs in Pasco County and whereas in 1980 Suzanne studied at Taylor Business Institute in New Jersey during which time she worked for an eye surgeon Dr John Norris as he was developing cataract surgery with Dr James B gills and whereas prior to joining the Pasco EDC Suzanne worked for Pasco uh I'm sorry for St Leo University as a public affairs coordinator where

she completed her business coursework in 1993 and whereas Suzanne has been with her high school sweetheart John wowski since 1975 and will be celebrating 43 years of marriage together in September of this year they have a son named Michael a daughter named Lisa and a grandson named Elliot Suzanne and John enjoy spending time traveling and with family and friends and whereas Suzanne's commitment to the betterment of Pasco County throughout her extensive career has not only bolstered economic development in Pasco County but has been an inspiration to many and has shown true passion for her community now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida that said board hereby recognizes Suzanne wowski for her unwavering commitment to the positive economic growth of Pasco County by serving the Pasco Economic Development Council for the past 30 years then and resolved in Reg session with the Forum president voting this 6th day of August 2024 move approval second and a motion second all in favor say I I motion pass 5 Z welcome thank you I truly truly appreciate that I can't believe how time has flown by and I'm really not that old I don't think started very young well you're like some other people that are retiring I think they still have a lot of time and effort to give for this County and appreciate all that You' done but we're welcome you to stay home so few years that's what I was Wonder to you've been there 30 years it's not a retirement it's not a retirement I I just wasn't clear about that yet so we're celebrating quite a career yeah that is great Mr chairman and and commission thank you again for joining us and recognizing Suzanne um three decades is is something you don't hear about anywhere these days and uh um we love her and we so happy that you guys are with us to celebrate um those accomplishments but she is the go-to in our office uh not just from an office manager standpoint there were two employees when she started and we're up to uh 13 now I mean so you know it's not easy um but she's she keeps us straight she keeps me straight which you know is a big difficult job uh and she's a friend to people in our organization too so um thank you again for for recognizing her and sharing the love Mr White thank you chair you know I first heard about it just with all the retirements we've had coming down the the pipeline recently oh suzan I'm not retiring I'm not retiring and I was like oh fantastic you know great we're just getting to honor and recognize you for your 30 years of service and like Bill said people don't stay around in a in a workplace that long so congratulations we're glad you're with us andad glad that you're going to keep hanging out for a little bit longer Mr St same I think uh I can't I I don't think I could count how many emails I have um with your name on it and it was Suzanne and I who worked on

the um party for the at 4G Ranch that's now a a big deal for um for the pedc in the county so Suzanne I'm glad you're not leaving I'm sure they'd be devastated um but congratulations on such a long career my hats off to you for staying in one place for so long I've never done that this is the longest job I've ever had Miss Jagger well congratulations on 30 years and also on 43 years of marriage both are huge accomplishments and thank you for staying around and uh thaning Pasco amazing okay Mr Marana soan I can't believe it's been so long I know and uh from from what you've always been you've always been that as I say the go-to person every step of the way and Bill it makes your job and your team's job a lot easier when you get someone like her in that position just taking care of things and making sure the eyes are dotted Jesus Christ and that that helps quite a bit but uh I I wish I'm glad you're standing it's so cool that everybody was worried about the same thing I was is she retiring so that that's a testament how great you are and what you do so we greatly appreciate you yeah well certainly thank thank you for all the time you spent here with the county we're better because people like yourself that spend that kind of time with the county so it keeps us moving and Keeps Us close to being Premier so um I was with my company 51 years before I stepped away I've been here on my 8th year so there's you got plenty of time left so so thank you Mr we thank you for everything uh do you have family members here with you too today or staff and my husband is here all right well have him come forward too he can come up but we'll come down and take pictures and uh they're welc welcome to join us in those pictures [Applause] everybody right here first thank you okay we have no more resolutions for this morning so we'll move on to the consent agenda uh I have a pull sheet with C10 withdrawal c24 withdraw uh C 13 pull and revise c27 pull and revise c28 pull and Revis does the board got any other items I wish to pull is that pull on there what number was that pull 45 please okay all right C 45 all right I entertain a motion for the rest items left on the consent agenda submit second got a motion second all those in favor say I I I'll oppose like sign motion pass 5 z uh now we C10 has been withdrawn c24 is withdrawn uh C13 pull and revise yes sir morning Mr chair members of commission Eric Brighton boach assistant County Administrator for internal Services C13 is a task order for pre-construction services for the Nottingham Public Works

facility uh because it's pre-construction Services bonds are not needed and so the revision is to eliminate the last sentence of the recommended board action and with that I'd ask the board uh approve with the recommended change okay entertain a motion move second got a motion and a second uh all those in favor say I I I motion pass by 5 move on to c27 yes sir good morning Commissioners chairman Alex parns County Surveyor c27 and c28 are also my team and mine um we are these are here for a recommendation for pull and Revis unfortunate clerical errors um and so we we want to make sure that we don't hinder the process when things are outside of our normal flow of our procedures all of the papers have been revised and they're all here and already been delivered this morning uh this is why we recommend a full and revise and it should be good to go okay I entertain a motion for c27 Mo approval c27 got a motion second a second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 5 now I entertain a motion Force 28 yes c28 uh is the same situation um I call them unfortunate invert uh inadvertent CL clerical errors and so all of the documents have been corrected they are here there's no hindrance on the schedule we recommend pull and rise okay I just have one question okay question and um let me see if I can answer it myself here it says um what is the Sun Coast multi-owner what is that um sorry I'm not familiar with the Sun Coast multi-owner LLC oh um is the is the developer that is the developer company okay not for me all right I move to approv sorry got a motion in second uh I didn't hear a second I didn't hear a second second okay I got a motion on second all those in favor say I I motion pass 5 move on to Mr Mar On's item c45 yes Mr chair i' like to have uh Mr Thomas come in to give us a presentation on this good morning Mr chairman fellow Commissioners Adam Thomas tourism director Pasco County uh c45 is a request to amend the restated ground lease agreement at the Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus of Pasco County uh the hotel ground lease at for the residents in Marriott Wesley Chapel so before you today is a request to appr the ground leas and the amended um the amendment to increase the uh ground lease terms to 2100 um on WebEx with me today is uh Michael berth he is the vice president of um pet tree group who is the new developer for the sports park property hotel okay okay M Mar well when we put this lease together it was very favorable terms um I had some people in the marketplace that did done funding on their own financing on their own that they thought it was a really strong deal wonder why we would would have done it just the way we did it uh and we did it the proper way but the terms are very favorable this extension all the way through um is

a very generous extension and I had trouble with it even though we got some Provisions coming and they're going to help us with accelerations for increasing the rates as uh things will will dictate but one of the question I asked Adam is what is the average daily occupancy rate and ell what was the number uh currently as it sits right now for um the year 2023 it's at 58.8% in occupancy and their competitive set right now is at 74% so what we're doing in terms of the ground lease to help offset the average daily rate is to help out with the ground lease agreement at $40,000 a year currently it's at $25,000 a year we're going to 40 next year with some escalators built in every 5 years depending on Market studies um at 3 3 to 6% So currently as it sits right now the ADR is at around $180 $189 don't use acronyms just so I'm sorry yeah average daily rate my apology average daily rate is around $189 for the year so when these events come in we are seeing leakage over to Hillsboro County because of the rates being too high so we negotiated the terms on the ground lease to help offset the rate to help bolster occupancy therefore generating additional Revenue per available room for not only the hotel but also for the county so let me ask Michael a question Michael I know with apartments in the area they go through and they look at all sorts of numbers to what's in the marketplace how they set their rates to probably maximize profit more than anything else um with your rate so low at 58% and I've talked to other Hotel years years ago they were like 90 95% occupancy in the Wesley Chapel area which is why I think so many hotels came in you're at 58% it's such a low number um I want to try to work with you on this but I I need to find some way that we can get that number up higher and I don't I'm not even satisfied with 74% I think the number should get higher this is an ideal piece of property I want to see it filled because this is an asset that we've got it should be different than hotel we should shoot be shooting close to 100% but I want to know how you can how you how you how you set your numbers up to get to only 58% when the market at 74% thank you all um so for cont the asset now for a week half figures are not based off of our operations but off of the prev this is part of our business plan in uh in our underwriting is right siiz of Mis occupancy comparatively to the competitive set um you know there clearly a a difference in average P rate uh with versus our own and ultimately here that point the premium location is the premium property you know for Contex we uh we own and operate 85 hotels across 28 States over 11,000 rooms uh We've invested $1 million in the hospitality industry over the last 15 years we are you know we have our own taxes management company we work with our

management company as well as the as the brands in this case marott on Revenue management specifically maximize those occupancy average daily rate and Rue for available room to you know to to ultimately um you know make sure that we are running the property as efficiently as possible uh on average the residents in um you know should out perform it's given set of he uh and there's no reason again based off of the product based off the location next such AI there's no reason the property performing as it as it was currently under the previous ownership um and again our our idea uh as the ask that based of our experience with the product type uh within the Tampa area is to actually this is this is somewhat counterintuitive to what how we typically underr a deal but it's a lower rate considerably in year one in order to drive off be right size our Revenue perail correct Mr bur this uh commissioner Oakley um I am interested you have uh the actual number average room rates in that area I would assume and your target is going to be try to match that so you can increase your uh room room stays and percentages so so this right now is just a guesstimate but you think this possibly the change of that room rate will would move it on up to 80 or 85% possibly well so so typically in in Hospitality there's a bit of a Tipping Point with regards to occupancy the goal is is ultimately not to run 100% occupancy unless you know uh those those last couple rooms are charging someone a premium from a rate perspective so the sweet spot for this type of of asset is probably given given competitive set I'm looking at uh I'm looking at the competitive set right now just I've got G data pulled up so our competitive set for the for the TR 12 months in June 2024 competitive set is running 73.4% and we're running uh right at 65% so if you look at the recent trends of the property the the previous management and again these two numbers represent the previous ownership we closed on July 23rd um so we again we we are still very much getting uh getting our feed W so to speak at the property level um but the previous management was already starting to employ this strategy there was a consider considerable increase year-to dat in occupancy comparatively so if you're looking at the numbers um the property for the year to dat period uh is up 20% of occupancy uh at at just a 1% bumping rate so they they're starting to they were starting to understand where the uh you know where where the trends in the market were settling and it already starts to somewh employ our our own business plan as we go forward so again our goal is not to run 100% occupancy it's it's impossible in in a market like this and most markets kind of outside of like you know Manhattan uh or approximate to a very busy airport um the idea here is to is to find that sweet spot uh and and maximize those occupancies um you know as well as average daily rate to make sure that we are running the property uh as efficiently as possible we're

ultimately fiduciaries to our investors as well um you know we want to be good stewards to Pas County to WI our grass we're we're incredibly thrilled to be uh to be owning and operating this this asset uh we see the potential we're excited about the expansion of the of the fields uh and for hopefully subsequent expansions of the of the facility Mr chairman thank you for the answer yes sir Mr and I and I appreciate that I understand it's a business you're trying to make money as much as you can but we have a responsib to our investors the citizens of Pasco County so we invested in this property to try to get it to a a high occupancy rate and I think the deal that we cut before um and maybe we should have more specifics to it we should be shooting for a higher number and I know from his experience talking to the people that were were running these things in Westy Chapel in this area without even being on premises they were running close to 90% some 95% occupany I'm not even looking for that number U but what I'm looking for is I want to get as many people in those rooms as reasonably possible so that number one they're not commuting from Hillsboro coming up here spending money in hillsbro coming up here put clouding up our roads anym than up here I want that thing as full as it possibly be I don't mind giving a sweetheart deal in a sense but I want something in return to show at least I'm going to generate more s more uh tourist money by having more people in there I'm going to have a bigger economic impact by having more people in there so as much as your sweet spot for your investors I don't think it's going to align with our sweet spot with our investors well um what number do you think is I I think at least 80% 85% we should be able to get in contract and and you know if if a market thing happens like a CO a hurricane I'm willing to adjust from those numbers but on a regular Market event I think we should be looking to get that number that's it's a reduced rate that they have this property at it's at a prime location with the thing and and by the way we still need to do more because we still got to go build a garage out there the parking out there in a big events you've guys been out there it's crowded as heck we need to do something so we need a partner in there too to to work on uh you know getting a parking garage whether it be extra revenue or you partner with us something's got to happen out there the way it's set up as well from from an doy perspective our our interests are completely L we're trying drive as many people to that hotel as possible the last thing that we want to do is see leakage into hillbo County or anywhere else uh our our incentives are completely line based off of the current occupancy in in that market I think looking today getting to 80% 85% I think it's going to be difficult uh it it should you know as as uh as things continue to improve uh our interests are completely L we we don't want to see any leakage to uh any of the counties we want to keep as much business in the immediate area as

possible well I'm I'm going to disagree with you just because as you say you're sweet spot you're trying to maximize your profitability for your investors we're trying to maximize it to the best economic benefit for Pasco County that means more people more heads and beds in that location they're spending money in our area they're off our roads as well which frees up congestion as well so ours are going to be different and that's okay but with this deal that you're looking at to get from us I want to get a number to what we can go for as far as a higher occupy rate than even just the regular market rate that's what I'm looking for okay Adam so commissioner you're you're 100% right we we want to fill capacity and fill occupancy at that venue specifically because of the investment that you all made into that Sports Park property we're doing that on the event side and the structure of our events we are at 83 no I'm sorry 92 events last year we're at 118 events this year we're driving demand we're already getting people we're getting our uh hotels filled I'm sorry we're getting our teams here our hotels aren't being filled because there is leakage over into Hillsboro County because of the rate so this this deal is helping to subsidize some of that rate in and with hopes to boost that occupancy so we are getting the traction here we are getting the teams here on an annual basis and we're seing an increase in events our goal was to have 80% of the the calendar filled um the sports campus we're at 87% in climbing so we are getting the teams here we are getting the traction here we are getting the demand here we're just not getting them into the hotels because of the rates structur and exactly so the rates structure they've got to bring their rates down to get more people in there CU they're competive market so just like you're saying you're doing a phenomenal job you canil your whole team bringing people in the like this is supposed to do like we designed to do right now these guys are taken over granted the other guy before they're the new guy but the numbers again for the market to what's out there and I don't know how broad-based the 73% is as far as what the market is I'm just saying knowing the high percentage in Wesley Chapel what these hotels were that we should be striving for those numbers and with what you're doing driving in there everybody's going to want to stay in there if they can if they can afford it but if they price it too high they're not going that's why I say that sweet spot it's different from our alignment they're want to maximize the revenue I get that but that doesn't align with us we need to get more heads and beds and the more people stay in there that's less traffic all around I I think you're going to find out this year with Adam and his team what they're doing and the events they've got coming in you're going to see an increase in that hotel without any changes uh that are going to push that numbers up and I think with these changes we we'll be comforable they'll push those numbers up and we got

more events coming so those automatically those numbers going to be up cuz there's not going to be any lag time from you know doing a lesser number of events last year to a higher number this year that's going to push that oxy higher so M sty Mr Mariano I mean they're in the business to make money why wouldn't they be setting hotel rates that would fill their hotel so I'm confused because obviously they want to fill their their hotel Mr chairman yes so and I like I said they are in the business for making money we're in the business to maximize our tourist development dollars investment we benefit more when more people are in there so do they they hang on they benefit no they benefit more when they maximize Revenue by keeping a higher price their higher price is what's keeping the the room rate down I'm trying to get it to where we're going to get to a higher number and if other people in the Wesley Chapel Market which I'd love to look at that study if those num if they're higher like 80 85% we should be looking to that number so may maybe a way to tie it into the market in the Westley Chapel area I think we're looking at that number can that and maybe this is not done in contracts and I understand they have a deadline I mean they're under pressure for their financing um and I think David Goldstein work they worked on this but um is it possible to say that the the room rate must be competitive within x amount of dollars within a certain uh Geographic area I'm going to have to defer to Michael on that one because that's that's that'll affect his business and bottom line so I'll all defer to to Michael on online yeah and and listen I I think ultimately our what we're talking about our interests are very much aligned we are you know we're professional Hotel operators we we utilize Revenue management through our owns through the brand you know again we're we've been in this asset for 10 days uh we are already rightsizing the operations I think that ultimately again our interests are very much alot we want to maximize occupancy at this hotel we're not going to do it at the uh to the detriment of um you know of the business if if rate in a given week is X we're not going to charge it 2 x we're going to charge with the rate with the market will be um in order to maximize our occupancy in this in this hotel I mean again this is this is our this is our business this is our you know we've got a full operating platform we've been operating hotels for 15 years we've operated this exact product type in very similar markets across the country um you know this this is this is our core competency and and we feel like we're pretty good this we've been doing it a long time we've made Investments all over the place and when we invest in a given Market we're not just there to to maximize our profit like ultimately our our interest um both from a county perspective and from a be stre perspective are maximiz in their

and and we want to be good Steward of the asset we want to be good stewards of the of the wi development and we want to be good stewards of the county because ultimately that's that's going to help us maximize our business um you know and and obviously the uh um you know the ability to throw room chairman yes sir thank you chair Adam in the in the contract is there a change in law CL claws in there if we see something shift in the market do we have the ability to capture the increase that commissioner Maran says a year or two 12 24 months from now current no sir so 5year term right um it's a 25y year Amendment to the the ground lease with options of three additional options for 10year renewals so it takes it takes it into 2020 uh 2100 but there are extensions that can go to 2070 if if need be so there's no opportunity to do every 12 24 month say a rate review working with Michel and you guys every five years well Michael would you be if we did a rate review in every 12 months to make sure that the the board's somewhat concerns there I'm just looking to get to make a happy medium I personally I think it's been odd that the government's in the hotel business but I digress on that point but I think this thing needs to get across the finish line and and let you guys go to work but I just want to make sure everybody's comfortable with this contract uh I I feel like that 20 every 12 months is a a little too soon for a business operating like this so about 3 years I'm just throwing something I'm not going to say I understand the hotel business I'm just throwing something out there again I'll have to defer to to to Michael on on that okay so we we we've worked uh in tandem with uh with the tourism board uh with the county attorney's office over the last four months to to craft this agreement I I think when you if if the goal here is to maximize documen the asset uh at the expense of of rate to make sure again that the property or the competive set in general is not overcharging I think if we're looking at a 12 month recet that directly leads to potential increases and Ed again ultimately that LE payment is is to to the the commissioner point that LE payment is uh is part of our profit L patment and ultimately if that if that least payment becomes overly owner RIS at the current rate structure rates inherently will have to to rise I think the way that we've structured it specifically I mean again going back to our first conversation with David gold with Adam with it was Center the on the sensitivity of of average daily rate at this property with the with the kind of mindfulness to make sure that you're not you know creating some borous rent structure that ultimately will lead to necessitating us to have to increase rates uh at an accelerated rate to cover those those pays Mr chairman the whole Genesis of of the of the amend Le based off exact point that commissioner brought up Mr Mr Marana so Michael I tell you I wish this had come before us one-on-one interviews to kind of look at

this thing ahead of time uh especially when we just had a contract we had to end because it was a bad contract for us it cost us a bunch of money so before I go to another contract extend it all out I want to make sure we're in good terms have you looked at the what what is your opinion as far as the market I I'm not sure if I'm going to get a good answer or not from you but as far as the the price that we're charging you how does that Co coordinate with the market as far as a balance out there compared to your other properties yeah I I think it's I think it's absolutely commiss again with uh with with the ground r i mean and I'll be honest with you you know we typically shy away from from resold assets because of um because of of owner police payments I me we we've done a significant amount of diligence we paid uh a very aggressive price uh on this asset based off our belief in the in the long-term viability of the of the property of the expansion of of you know Wire Grass uh Ranch of the growth of the Wesley Chapel and Pasco area uh Pasco County uh areas at large we've studied extensively through third parties through our own research the macroeconomic trends in the market we this is a this is an asset that we have a significant amount of conviction in that you know if we're talking a half million dollar lease payment that obviously changes the profitability and and the viability of um you know of the asset I think in general when you're talking about just on a on a pure marketability uh basis you know that the the you know the market looks at least uh fairly differently than it does simple as do we internally and I think this is this is a um you know is a uh down the middle of the road lease it's obviously with a a government authori those are the type of Le hold that we uh that we feel comfortable with uh because of that there's no it's not it's not privately held you're not dealing with 12 month R escalation uh you know that that starts to become a snowball rolling downhill and again the payment become oous and it's got to come you know you got to figure out a way to cover it um at some point when those when those numbers do become large and it's not through occupany unfortunately is rate I think again looking at the economics of the lease looking at the economics of the extension uh the extensions that we're requesting we miror the current uh economics uh and accelerators of the extension we think they're Fair uh and we think they're applicable to to all parties again the idea here is to uh create a partnership going forward we work very closely with the tourism board we're excited for the the prospects of of the ownership of this asset uh and the growth of the market well I'll say commissioner wait I think you bring up a good thing I'd like to take a look at it it doesn't have to be every year I'm okay even with three years to take a look at it again to see how we're doing before we uh go on I think you know I respect what you're trying to do

um the Marriott brand is a great brand to have as well so I'm I'm all for that I just want to make sure that we take care of the investment we've made as well because we've got to go out there I don't know if you thought about this but I don't think the I think the parking's an issue out there we still got to deal with that issue and if we have enough Revenue we can actually offset some of that but I want to make sure this deal works for us and I don't want to be locked in again giving you guys an extra 25 years and 35 years on top of that that's a long way to go without being able to claw back to say okay we don't like what you're doing because if your numbers still stay at the low numbers or even if they're at the market numbers we still may want want more uh and could expect more with the premium of the asset depending how great a job ad Adam is done with his team Adam the the parking issue and concerns we share the same concerns the hotel sh shares the same concerns uh everyone at the sports campus shares the same concerns even our events owners share the same concerns in terms of parking because now you're now you're dealing with the visitor experience right so that is going to be um identified in the in invitation to negotiate that's currently closed out so hopefully the said prop U uh bids on the invitation to negotiate will actually come with um a plan to handle the the parking M Mary um just uh looking at your photos online and I I don't think these are stock photos but I um I'd love to have the opportunity to talk to you about putting some very tasteful photos of Assets in Pasco County in your hotel so maybe Adam and I can um meet with you and help Market some uh some of the fun places to go see and and activities to do in the county we we would welcome that opportunity all right so with that I'm going to move for approval second with the change to three three years or five years years okay do want now what you we did we did a change to look at the rates in 3 years versus 5 years okay I have a motion in second second is is this a um is it a roll call Vote or just normal vote normal vote normal vote okay uh clarification I believe there was a second from commissioner Wakeman and then you called for second didn't call for another second but she's she didn't hear Mr Whitman I don't believe M no I didn't sorry m starky had the motion and Mr waitman had the second all those in favor say I I I all oppose like side okay motion approved thanks joh all right thanks Michael all right that ends the uh all right thank you uh now we'll move on to a regular agenda and I have two items but they're on a Time certain but we're ready to go Bill all right we'll start with 50 R 50 good morning again and um Commissioners I'm really excited about the item that's following this one so I'm going to go pretty rapidly but before I even start I just want to comment on the um uh the County's response to uh to Debbie uh was was

wonderful I think our emergency management team uh our elected officials uh fire department Sheriff's Department continue to get better and better and better at this and the calls on the EOC go really smooth and as an economic developer for people to see us meeting today business as usual send some powerful message to companies that are looking to come to Florida because it continues to show our resiliency so kudos to everybody in the room um it's my pleasure to present to you display the displays now not working okay so I guess I'm going to do charades here from the uh Pardon Me Do they have it in their packet should okay what do you have the presentation in your packets I don't uh I didn't put that background in my I don't think I have this is on on your r yeah R50 I don't have a presentation I can look online no there no it's not in your agenda electronic agend or can you email can you email them are you able to open her she emails you okay I'll go ahead and get started while while she's doing that um and um so first normally uh as I present our quarterly uh report for uh the Pasco EDC and this would be for quarter three of year 24 um usually start out with our wins our capital investment and our jobs and I'll be doing that again today and we'll actually see that number increase by the end of the day today uh currently we have seven wins uh that's new projects located to the area 774 jobs which um is just about half of our goal right now awesome iMagic no more charades and then $250 million of capital investment we've already uh hit our goal for new capital investment and again that impacts the the ADM tax um takes the pressure off our residents by having more of that adorm from commercial bill can you go back to that is that 14 is that annual or is that to date to date to date so we want to have 14 but we have seven yeah so usually the end of the year uh is when most of them come in you like I said you've got something coming up today as well too that that number will continue to to grow and that as a goal I think last year we finished round 12 okay and uh you'll be surprised or happy to see that the majority of them are still in advanced manufacturing our leads in our Pipeline with all of the focus that we put on life sciences and it and business Professional Services with our offices uh Advanced manufacturing still coming through strong so that's another one that has a bigger multiplier for us active leads right now 127 active projects 130 you know we like to see the leads bigger than the project so that that's actually a funnel um so it does make us a bit nervous when we have less leads than active projects but have 130 active projects is um is is beyond normal usually we have about 35 to 40 Projects so uh we are

busy training programs and working with our existing business um we continue to go out meet with companies we had 18 company visits this last quarter 74 uh to date and that's where we get to go talk to the companies find out what their obstacles are look under the hood see how we can help them uh and lots of times it's Workforce you Workforce is something that you all still hear on a regular basis of either people can't find good help or the right help even with 1,200 people move into the state every day uh Workforce still continues to be one of our biggest priorities and it's a good one because we get to keep those workers here regardless of the company's day or not um telling the story you know 2.3 million in earned media value over the quarter that is where other people are telling our story so again we're kind of the hired help when we tell the story yeah uh we can do lots of press releases but when other people tell that story that's even better better yet for us and uh the website keeps getting lots of views six almost 177,000 uh this last quarter most of them were looking at Smart Start ready sites uh and of course coming from States like California New York Virginia Georgia and Texas several of those states have uh the same thing in common High tax and they want to get the heck out of there so uh we're getting their attention and they are they're looking at at us uh have about 12,000 followers on social media engagement um about half of them are over half of them are actually engaged uh in and having conversations with us online um we'll never be at the same number of the sheriff as long as we don't have canines and dogs but uh um we're getting there and it's important because this is our locals that are are hitting this to find out what resources we have available and then uh attending events uh and getting out in learning more about the business as well as networking with our peers uh we've had 15 events and trade events uh seminars and conferences 11 presentations to local industry organizations and business group six and that's uh everything from naop to si uh to crew some of those large organizations that are Partners or multipliers and then most recently in the quarter we hosted a strategy session in concert with the county uh on June 13th ernston young as you know has been hired to do the economic development strategic plan uh with David Engle and his his shop uh we brought together several of our Business Leaders 33 key stakeholders came together to provide input about the growth of the uh our economy the types of programs we need to be looking at and they're represented by some uh some well-known names that you all know Tio energy Kar Bayer Duke uh commercial asset Partners adur group and many more so a success they got lots of good feedback uh at the strategic planning session and that's something that you're going to hear about again here in about two months and stakeholder so we're up to 92

investors uh that's a private sector investors our biggest investor still is one that's you guys um but 92 investors on the private sector 483,000 private sector dollar raised six new investors just in the third quarter alone so uh that's where people appreciate what we do they understand the growth of our economy and they we leverage private sector dollars to do things that other people can't do oops before I go further let me mention a couple upcoming events um well this happen because I think we were scheduled originally for last uh meeting so July 24th we had the Pasco count the industrial update well ended uh sellout crowd at the Hilton Garden Inn and then September 5th is our 36 annual Awards 36 36 yeah yeah all these numbers are getting bigger um and that is going to be at the instructional um Performing Art Center the phsc IAC as we call in Wesley Chapel uh we still have tickets available and sponsorship opportunities so I'll go in real quickly also segue into the penny for pass agreement um ready sites you this is this is the program that uh that we put a lot of money into and it's been five solid years of building that up to get the sites that we have over 2,000 acres of sites and we've had a couple of them off the market already Amazon up on 52 we also celebrated bedo and Zephyr Hills uh earlier this year in October and uh little foreshadowing probably a little announcement following this about another ready site uh you can see that we have another one that has come online personally one of our best sites in the county and that's at Double Branch at 52 and I75 very strategically located you all approved over 3 million square fet of industrial entitlements there um that's huge for the communities in East Pasco but also our drive to Market uh that will be a super Park meaning that uh they're actually selling pieces of that to bring in more than just one or two big companies uh one of our ready sites was chosen as a finalist and uh uh again you'll hear more about that on the next item and then we've had visits of people kicking dirt going out and actually seeing the sites uh all throughout this summer we've had 19 inquiries about the sites 19 responses to rfps that's where site Consultants ask us about U um what we have available for their projects and we're able to include these sites into our responses to those uh proposals and then uh presentations to consultants and developers 17 um that's the people that bring us the projects and then seven site visits people actually getting in their car visiting the site um we went out marketed uh this internationally so international program continues to grow uh select USA is the annual conference that the US Department of Commerce and the foreign commercial service through the embassy worldwide bring uh prospective investors uh people looking to move their companies into the United States they bring them to Washington each year uh we exhibited as part of our Global Tampa Bay Consortium and we had our own booth which was busy every

single minute um really good uh response and it wasn't just because we had Tampa cigars in the booth um that was a a really nice flavor because they've heard what is continuing to go on in our community and see us working together as a region really paid dividends uh we hosted a regional familiarization tour from uh Germany um somebody that uh was looking to bring more companies here and we've schooled them up on all the things that we have in the area and then we've got a trade Mission coming uh September 9th through the 12th and U that is to Vancouver British Columbia we've got some Pasco companies going commissioner starky is going representing uh Pasco we also have Commissioners from Hillsboro and pelis and Mayors from each of the counties as well and I almost had a new company they're very interested but they're already in Europe that day but um I'm ask for you to meet them they're doing international business in blood spattering oh well I think we'll get them with first yes yes we'll get them together with first and the no they they came from the Sheriff's Office okay they just left there and went off on their own and they've got some Global business going on project exter I don't know if don't tell anybody um sorry so we continue to work with those companies to take them abroad 43 counseling sessions over the quarter um trade missions we got a little uh asteris next to it that is the one goal we have for the year will be in September at the end of the c or fiscal year and then we've had six uh trade related events and uh enhanced marketing so that's telling over and above the story especially as it relates to the penny uh we marketed ready sites at most of these s a bio conference uh that was attended in San Diego and we had five um Smart Start testimonial video campaigns uh reaching over 164,000 people I've got some cool stuff about Smart Start I'll tell you just a second but uh Workforce connect had their Pasco 5050 and uh the report in the discussion was about mitigating business risk and Workforce Trend so here we are in that season where this was very timely uh we had 18 annual existing industry visits and um the uh uh uh advisory team continues to meet to discuss what the needs of businesses are in using our connect op uh application on our website executive success program uh ended up part of the building and sights tour they went around and saw all the assets we have so that they can tell our story as well and then uh they celebrated with the graduation um with graduation graduates from Advent Health greater zepper Hills chamber SKF development St John's partners and South Lake signs of Tampa uh so if you see any of them in the streets ask them about Pasco they will tell you a lot uh about what they've learned and then I hinted that Smart Start had something really cool uh couple things one we finished a um course a 9we co-starters course called co-starters for causes and you might recall back on our annual conference last year our annual Awards event I

mentioned that we were going to actually train up our nonprofit Community because they weren't able to scale as fast as our businesses to meet the growing demand of people moving in here so we scholar shipped uh 10 companies to come through um not nine of them ended up going through the whole course and graduated with co-starters to learn how to run their nonprofit more like a business and to scale better as they meet the growing demand of of service needs in Pasco County really proud of that one because that's not necessarily our bread and butter but we depend on those service providers here in our community um because it's about the whole Community we're looking for sponsors for next year to do a couple more cohorts like that we're looking to do at a time of our nonprofits in the community uh we had some workshops uh on AI and we actually attended uh soft week uh Special Operations Forces Week Big used to be sopic down in um in Tampa most of the um exhibits were around AI about oneth of them were about ai ai is quickly moving into almost every industry sector so this next year one of our task forces might also include AI Mr chairman Mr Marana you know I attended the industrial Workshop commission wait you were there as well right and what I liked on the discussion was the talking about AI which a realtor did not know of uh that we had been doing for like 16 17 months so we had talked about setting one up Bill and I didn't know you had done the other two but uh as far as you along I would love for you to get with JP Murphy get together and let's go plan one we can make it broadbay so everybody in the Community knows what we're doing promote it hype it up and and make it a big event so they can understand how we've taken these steps to use AI for our own permanent process which I think will help us even more so yeah I think I think it's important the public knows that uh that the County's embracing AI for things like permitting and things that we can do um to increase our speed and efficiency so awesome uh and then lastly this is the one of the coolest backs out there we had uh three of our Smart Start uh businesses from our incubators actually move into brick and mortar so that's the goal of what we do with our startups is to not just get them up and going but get them to the point that they're into market-based space in the community um and those include Lily Education Center AL Brewery and Mexican craving so if you get a chance stop by spend some money there help them out with their uh lease payments and congratulate them on uh how they've graduated into real space and what is Mexican Cravings do you remember it's a restaurant yeah oh it's a restaurant yeah okay very good yeah yeah so so our food incubator of course is um in in dat city has been turning out a lot of great yummy stuff uh um I don't know how our staff manages to stay fit to be honest with you they're sampling everything uh lots of events through Smart Start we continue to offer events 742

participants already this year uh for Smart Starts so when people ask what you're doing for small business and startups this is what we're doing we're helping them grow we're giving them micr loans three of them to date so far 115,000 and we're providing counseling 414 counseling sessions that's not therapy that's counseling them how to do better business and to help them not make mistakes and with that I'll uh I'll stop so that we can hopefully get to the the next item but let me ask if you all have questions as well question I'll just say comment bill again you you you guys do a phenomenal job um have you've provided such great energy coming here having great people suzan the team you've developed has been amazing um and I appreciate your helping out with the schola Fest we had two of the restaurants from there yeah presenting and get a chance to get their name out in the community which is great thank you Bill for your presentation very informative and we're moving forward we keep moving forward so yes indeed that's great were you that um select USA our team was Turner was and so I'm I'm a little curious um and I was put back on the international economic about Task Force at Mako as Vice chair again um but our Focus this last year and you've come on on some of our national calls was to um help Commissioners from counties around the country uh learn how to attend and make select USA profitable for them so we had quite a few new County Commissioners go there and actually make some deals on with they they would each brought some staff they didn't have Booth but um there were some deals made out there but someone was standing by the restroom I don't know um but I wondered if they came by our booth because I asked I asked them iqu our booth and say hi well we can check the attendance cuz we captured all the names so um I wouldn't be surprised we were very visible right next to the Florida booth and Florida continued to send us uh business all day long as well lot of it because of the talent that we have too um you so we've got a lot of people that are out training other communities on how to how to work better uh it's my goal to get to a select USA I just I haven't made it yet but um I I just it's a bad time for me May next year may okay all right thank you all right let's let's move on to R51 yes David's going to be David ready good morning David Angel Planning Development economic growth director you for the board today for consideration is an economic incentive agreement with confidential company BSD um I'm going to just overview the company and the project bill is going to introduce the name of the company and introduce you to some of the management leadership here and then we'll we'll finish up and for a recommended vote of approval the company provides integrated software Services engineering products and automated solutions for the building industry so this a good fit here here for for the company the company has decided to

consolidate uh facilities in Largo in the city of Tampa moving 125 employees out of those cities to Pasco County with an additional 25 newly created jobs the project will be situated on 111 acre piece of land on Paul espb Canan highway just north of chela Road near the industrial area of the Z Hills airport which the board is invested capital in there for Industrial Development in the past I've uh attached a location map on your agenda memo so you can see where the company is situated the the the project will generate approximately 480,000 ft² of total industrial space and it will be a capital investment of $ 77.6 million the average wage of uh the employees that the board will be uh requested to provide incentives is $ 71,2 a year that's 125% more than the average wage here in Pasco this year and the project will contribute $183 million a year to the gross County product the incentives recommended by the uh Pasco Economic Development Council as follows the total is $33,150 th000 uh not to exceed $75,000 to create 25 new jobs the reason why we're not incentivizing all the jobs is that we don't poach from our regional partners and we're disincentivizing for the new jobs coming to the company there's an adval equivalency Grant of $2,975 th000 paid out over 10 years it's 50% so the county will receive the same amount of money net to the general fund and the employee training Grant is not to exceed $100,000 so at that point I want to uh give the microphone over to thank you thank you David and uh you all know I'd be remiss if I didn't say it's a great day in Pasco County right um to have another announcement uh especially at one of our ready sites continues to say hey we're doing it right this is the right stuff that uh uh we're creating in terms of product but especially Testament to our our Workforce um this particular company uh has been around since 1955 and um they have have over 5600 employees throughout the world they are a birkshire haway uh company traded on the New York Stock Exchange um under BR rkb uh since 2001 they've had a record of continuous growth and Innovation it's my pleasure to announce that mych is the newest company to come to Pasco County uh in a partnership with uh Pasco County County Board of County Commissioners and the City of Zephyr Hills this is another one of those projects that we work together with the city uh you heard about the incentives that were offered from our County uh the city earlier passed a similar incentive uh with 50% on their ADV valorum which is in the spirit of true partnership to work together this closely resembles the bedo project in that these are creating some very very good jobs in the area where we desperately needed on the east side as well as a 400,000 ft building uh in zepper Hills I'm extremely proud of the partnership that we've created and to speak on behalf of the company I've asked a couple of the individuals um Mr

Ryan Cook who's in their North Carolina office and Joe Sebert who's in their Missouri office to join us virtually to say a few words they had planned to be here yesterday in person their flights were cancelled so thanks to uh uh the clerk and the team they were able to to get them wired uh to join us virtually so Ryan or Joe I'm not sure which one of you want to speak first they're both on mute there we go Brian I can I can speak first I'm not sure if there should be video as well no oh there we go there we go you you are able to see me so um first off I would like to thank all of you the the County Commissioners and and everybody in the room there um for your consideration for this project and for your welcome to the area um we're excited about the opportunity of building this this new site it will be our Southeast Center of Excellence uh in Pasco County there um the as mentioned previously the site will bring together and expand our our lgo Florida Camp operations um we feel like this site was perfect for us you know some important factors right from the beginning were the the direct access to rail and then also the um the proximity to our Workforce that that is there in water campus we intend to to retain as many of those people as possible um but during our first visit to that area we quickly recognized you know the small town field there in jeer Hills um family oriented it seemed like a hardworking community and we feel like that culture perfectly um throughout throughout this process the feel that feeling has just continued with our interactions most notably with Tom R and and Billy F there and Zer Hills and then their respective teams I mean everybody's just been more than willing to to jump on and help help us push this thing through the Finish Line um so yeah overall we're just really excited and and thankful for for your welcome and your consideration and also I I did want to want to make mention that uh mayor Melanie mson is here with us as well too uh from the city of zepher Hills uh again in the the spirit of part partnership but I'd like to offer her the opportunity to say a few words to welcome Mar thank you appreciate you allowing me to take a couple minutes as you know we have worked to preserve the chansy Road Corridor as our manufacturing and this is this is a great partnership we've worked with Tom for a number of years um um on these ready sites and this is a great testimony of how pedc the county the city can all work together to bring these jobs and these companies into our community so we want to thank you for your support and we're excited to bring this company we want to thank Ryan and his team for choosing us and we know that yes we are the small town field and we will welcome them with open arms y and you happen to be in district one just to bring that up who District we welcome in district one I can tell you was there someone

else online that wanted to speak did Ryan did Joe want to say anything hello can you guys hear me yep yes great thank you I'm Joe director of project management in MCH again I Echo what Ryan said we considered a number of cities and counties within Florida for this new project and we are happy to have picked the site here at se Seer Hills in Pasco County and again we recognize the small town F and the Coalition with Tom Ryan and the City of Zill so as Ryan said we're excited and we are ready to hit the ground running and uh and get things going thank you Joe we're looking forward to it we want you to be wildly successful and make lots of money and hire lots of people um and with that I'll turn it back over to so that okay you all can officially do [Laughter] something thank you the professional staff uh recommend this item for approval thank you okay love oh darn I was going got a motion second a second all those in favor say I I motion pass 5 welcome to past County thank you very good all right that's all of our regular items for the day uh at this point we'll move on to um miscellaneous business uh commissioner waitman excuse me would you like a grou to send oh yeah oh yes we will come forward and we'll come down and get a pick yep we could Photoshop them in with squeze [Music] okay everybody right here than you than than [Music] [Applause] good guy I think of better things okay we will now go to uh that's all of our regular items we'll move on to miscellaneous business commissioner waitman you're up front all right thank you chair few things that um July 9th I don't think we have any pictures do we July 9th um Advent Health broke ground on a new er uh on 54 like the one at 54 veterans so many of them but another one popping up we have coming on uh 54 in Wiregrass so congratulations to Advent advent's got quite a few uh ground breakings are doing here in Wesley Chapel we just celebrated the new Family Medicine Residency practice uh commission a was there commission Mariano joined in and um where they're recruiting uh Physicians to come and come and work and stay with the organization and soon be cutting ribbon on going uh the expansion of the main uh section of the hospital uh that'll be coming up soon I think hope everybody received an invitation we're we're adding another floor uh to the middle section so Advent health is is growing um in west of chapel and excited for them uh chair Oakley and I visited Saddlebrook uh for a lunch and learn and to see how everything was progressing going on with the new uh management at Saddlebrook and we learned that

Saddlebrook is now the pick ball headquarters for the United States so we have y yep so the pickle ball organization moved their outfit to um to S Brook and they're right here in our backyard and um July 24th uh Tampa prium outlets and the Simon group uh donated a substation for the Peso County Sheriff's Office and for no rent they've added a room to the back and money for a blood hound named Simon of course and so uh thank you to the Tampa Premium Outlets and Chris Durant and everybody there for Their donation to to Pasco County so a lot of good stuff and uh lastly I want to thank Branford and his team Branford and Jason and Barrett and Larry Al alade uh fig everybody knows fig Robert Pope Trevor Williams Chad ruin and Matt mcferson uh for helping out with flooding issues and working through the challenges and Ling Oaks um you know storm events are stressful and we just can't thank everybody enough through you know leaving your families and and working through the Storm at all levels so thank you everybody and um that's all I have Mr chair okay thanks sir Miss sty um well somewhere in here I have a picture but um I was oh yeah there it is how about that one I was uh happy to um of course attend the no conference in Tampa and and um Mike carbal came and attended my um I heard I heard your session went very well yes those are it was very interesting it was um the the lady next to me is like the number two person at nassa at Kennedy Space Center and um female engineer it's always fun to see someone achieve success at that level and the gentleman next to her is the head of um I don't remember quite his title but he's with loed Martin and um and and uh we talked about Workforce and Manufacturing and I think uh we had a really good session at the end there you can see Tom Adano was there um speaking about am skills for Workforce Development and we had a packed room so um it's good conference it was great to showcase our city the weather held out really well and um little hot but I think everyone had a really a great time um Sonia I just sent you some pictures there so okay so this is uh wavy Edge um from the storm as you guys know this is our trouble spot in the Trinity Thousand Oaks area um got a little nervous I was down there yesterday and the residents were uh getting in touch with me um got within 8 ft of that one house that backs up to that pond on Little Road where we had those pumps are there again but um Jason um Jason's here Jason and I were communicating and they were able to uh open the gate out there commissioner Mariana if you remember all the bmps bmp1 cuz it was it was closed um and we're going to talk about this after but for some reason during The Heavy Rain event it was thought that we needed to close it not open it um which runs backwards from what I remember with all our task force we changed that years ago cuz it was set up that way but we said that doesn't make any sense we haven't changed it so yeah so um so they did

open it yesterday and if you see the next picture um then you'll see uh I just got this this morning um it went down oh you didn't get it okay so it it that water is mostly gone so thank you so much Jason um the these folks were having heart attacks last night but especially that house that's over there on the right they they get water in it all the time but they escaped um having water in their house M St just just a question if have we looked him to put the drain in there where they drain that out stay this is where we have the pumps on either side of little road by Generations church and right next to this Pond I didn't take a picture of it on Little Road and we have buried a line um and I was asking for the pumps to have little pump houses on instead of leaving two pumps permanently sitting on the side of the road they we actually had taken the pumps away um which they said a couple meetings ago and but we brought them back um it's a it's a very challenging area um it's the whole Community is built 15 in too low it's a long story I remember that yeah but um we haven't had water in the culdesac in over 5 years so this is the first time I've seen it come back um I think uh they did draw down the water ahead of time I'd love to know how much you know I want to meet with the our staff just to go over over what we did here and make sure that we're on top of it so we don't get this um again it was starting to come up in other areas um in the community as well and they just had so much trauma here that they had they had a lot of anxiety two of these houses have their own two of these houses actually have their own pumps going and they're pumping from their backyards into the culdesac to keep the their houses from going underwater the one on the left is and then the that White House over there has had their own pump going as well so um just a trouble oh you can see you can see the pump he didn't use it but you see on the right hand side there the blue the little blue p uh line that's his pump um but they try very hard to keep the water out of their houses so with their own pums um uh then um I had the my husband and I travel to Scotland and to the azors and do you have those pictures no why not okay come back to me I got to resend them and yeah I'll I'll come back to those pictures this work on your time so okay I'll try again so there's that one got that one that one I no it says they went to you we have time I'll let them come back to me I'm going to resend them go ahead commissioner okay umer can you come back to her thank you oh no I okay so um I attended two Habitat for Humanity home dedications the first dedication I had the honor of handing over the keys to the home to the I family um these dedications are so amazing and all the Sweat Equity hours these these uh people put into their homes and just how grateful they are for

the program and to own their own home I attended the emergency service recognition ceremony that's the next slide okay that one's the Baton family sorry okay there's the Emergency Services um it was nice to recognize and hear all the stories at who handle the high priority calls the Lifesaver Award the stor award and the tenure Awards these people just make a huge difference in our community so I'm very thankful to all of them and that was great to um go to so our next slide um this is an issue with County storm water retention maintenance and large trees first I'd like to thank Barrett Joe from public works and Mike Woodward who is our arborist for joining me on the site visit to address a couple of concerns from our constituent first there's a piece of County property storm water retention that is not being properly maintained behind his home the county is having a hard time getting back the property with the large Machinery to maintain the property progress is being made I believe they currently have two of the three easements required to get the larger equip equipment back to the site there is also a large beautiful tree in the back uh that big huge tree it's on County property so right now we're kind of in a dilemma we're going to trim some of the trees back just to secure his home um our fifth slide is this was an accessibility on Trouble Creek and grand um again I'd like to thank Barrett for joining us on another site visit the visit was concerning an individual who lost its ability to drive due to sight and relies on his scooter for Mobility there are no sidewalks on MacArthur and antonet Street which makes him go south to Trouble Creek and East to Grand he feels Crossing at Grand and Trouble Creek is dangerous he is also asking for additional sidewalk on the west side of Grant we're in the process of navigating this but this poor gentleman has to it takes him like 10 minutes just to make one turn um and I'd like to give a shout out to JP Murphy um who helped me address some concerns yesterday and um get some people uploaded in the portal and one of them was a fire chief from Plant City I don't have a picture to send to that I uploaded but his whole neighborhood was underwater and there was um a Transformer issue so just thank you for him and his team and their quick response that's it all right thank you y uh Mr Mariana thank you Mr chairman I think I got some pictures coming up too okay um I want to say um when the storm was we declared the state of emergeny by the governor than than us I want to say it staff did it the right way I want to say that uh getting together with the team all on that Palm Terrace area where had been flooded out for several times before we're able to get with Swift Mud is is it right in here so we able to get with Swift Mud on the line we had D on the line and we try to look at the two Pawns in the left where the two stars are to try to get some access to water going there those pwns are sitting dry now as we decommission this

we couldn't get approval with d to allow that to happen but they did get we did get the approval with Swift Mud to go take this whole spray field area here and start taking out some dirt um from the 3:00 in the afternoon we talked about it from the time the uh official declaration from the county they had I I say 25 trucks lined up uh they had two back hes ready to go putting a plan to place too they took out probably over 600 truckloads of dirt before two days were so when the storm hit it could take that capacity I'm going to the pictures show which I'll show you later on where that red line is um was all backed up so there it was from yeah stay right here first thanks so this whole area here from where you see the the red line on the spray field all the way up to where it says arberdale drive that whole area there was like underwater all the way down to the corner from the corner went all the way up past the second star up the street a little bit by taking the ACT action from the Declaration which we did something similar with hurricane Michael 7 eight years ago with Governor's approval to the state of emergency by digging that out it saved all those people from flooding out and we're not even done yet so I think on most major events as we finished that off that is going to be a tremendous project it's going to work to keep those people dry and after years of just suffering all the way through the pictures you'll show just kind of show from before and afters there like the same streets nice now dry after the storms uh that was a pictures from before the previous storm you can see on the far left that's all the way up the retention we Dr dug before which was great wasn't enough to take the storm it shows you the next picture kind of the middle one doesn't show you too much but now the digging that went on on the far right side and the and the other side it kind of shows you the right side was done first it was dry that's the picture afterward in the left side where the storm came in so all that water went in there and it's still being held as of yesterday afternoon but at least it didn't get on the street uh keep on going if you could and this is yesterday I was like it was funny like the night before I sent commissioner a picture of Oakley of I of him and I in 2016 out uh working on storm water stuff I sent him the picture and I was actually went through the areas which I'll show some other pictures and I thought I was pretty well done in the area other than the green carryer area which I know they were working on and I uh I was going to head over to your side to try to take a look as far what was going on out there right because I was was watching the bands were heavy on the east side but we were like escaping pretty much yeah so instead I got a text message from a friend who's on olar and she was like hous is underwater Steve lucart former School Board member principal uh he was underwater uh in the yards a little bit

in one of the houses so I went down there to take a look and there was like a new pipe they had put in that was kind of looked like it was silted in blocked out so we kind of dug that out a little bit the Water started flowing and then I called uh uh Jason up and Barrett up and said hey we to get a crew down here to go take a look at this thing so they came down after we opened up just a little bit of a flume going they come down here with a little little truck which I'll show you in a second and they cleaned that thing outout the Water started flushing within probably 2 hours it dropped down 6 in from that ho yard area and was hiding out toward the gulf look at the guy on the far right side this is what our storm water team does I didn't get his name cuz once he was done he was like out of there but I'm telling the whole team's in there he's in there checking a dra a train going through making sure it could clear out uh so he's got to go put waiters up to here going through there going in there who knows what's in that water and that guy's going make it happen and I'll tell you I'm going to give a shout out for uh Larry elade is's new with us that same area right in there Larry's like trying to find CU water didn't like was flowing from the other side Larry gets down in his regular shirt reaches down under to figure out if there's water flowing or not and that led them to go say we need to definitely clear this out and they cleared out three more pipes we're waiting for the City Newport rich now to go finish it off but I want to tell you that team uh I'm going to mention Bradford Jason Joseph uh Barrett as well as Larry Tim and Jay in their whole team members out there were just on the spot looking and finding Solutions and made some great things happen to get that water to flow and another Street happened above so we still working in that area but more to go I remember I remember back in 16 walking through a lot of water puddles I mean we were almost knee high oh yeah walking in that water over there with you that time I'm going to what you what I show you these next pictures the project Gulf islands that we just got done I'll show you these here I think coming up next so it's not still that way is it oh I'm going to no it's I'm tell you it's it's I tell what we're doing out there we're not done yet but what I know we're not done yeah what we have accomplished has been phenomenal if you could go the slides so that's Timber Oaks I used to flood all the time oh yeah uh there's a nice little Memorial there but that whole thing all the water is being held right in and instead of that areir always going underwater we used to when I first started the storm water team they had there to work with us and what they've done there what we did with that project there working fantastic go to the next one um that there's an old picture uh from way back when as far as when we're working out uh uh down the street that's actually oh that's Steve luk car's post okay I got next picture so here's a code issue coming up that we're going to deal

with and I've already sent this to the staff but see that tree that's leaning right there that could fall in the guy's house right beside it the roof ball is up so we had actually helped out a lady from Beacon Woods when we had a similar situation so I've reached out to Mars unit team to find his way to get the grant that there's a trailer on the far right side of that picture um and then on the far left side there's that house picture that's of a abandoned house there's another house beside it that have homeless living in it on the back trailer on the far right picture there's all sorts of rats that are in there so we're going to go take a look at that for health reasons as well uh and team is working on it right now go ahead next picture scholar Fest was because of the storm we canceled it Friday um but uh it it actually turned out really well because with the scul and thank you Commissioners for for sponsoring and supporting sun west cuz having that extra parking that was great uh everything's been going great out there the the food people were actually Chef Trey and Chef arlet they were both phenomenal the scalp dishes were like Immaculate uh so we still got one more weekend to go we'll see how the weather goes yeah we'll see how the weather goes we put have Beach Boys on I think on Saturday and then Amry Brothers to close it out with a gigantic firework show cuz everything they did do Saturday they're going to put in the show on Sunday okay I mean the Friday is going to come I've heard I've heard it's a lot of fun it's it's it's really good I tell you the the band's uh chasing Talent has done a FAL job picking the right people so it's it's been well received everybody's bit to see it uh go to the next picture there just a picture of some of the people out there having a good time um so this G Fest so we didn't have you when we canceled the Saturday the event we had already ordered the food because we knew Friday was going to be iffy we thought Saturday was perfect so we kind of like shifted a little bit of food for Friday to have enough and then Saturday we had to cancel it because the way the weather was changing so in doing that uh so no scops and I call up first Advent Health to see if they wanted to have the scallops I could bring them over to them whatever and uh they said no we can't do it because I di dietary things so I called HCA up to see if they they wanted the scallops we bring them over to them so Sally Seymour the CEO there was just so phenomenal to work with and and everything I've done with her how she's taking care of my family Etc uh so I call her up and I tell her about goes you know I'd like to do an Employee Appreciation thing so she bought the sculp so we don't even lose any money bought the sculps to take care of her staff so go and show the picture U so there's all the people there that she fed that day and there's the the chef on the on the top right there but all those people are so happy talk about morale building and it just it just felt so good for so many ways to know this hospital is taking care of its

people shown appreciation which we were trying to do as well with this colest as well as our First Responders but for her to take that extra step in the situation and I would have just given them to her just because they didn't want to see him go to waste but no she wanted to make sure we took care of the uh steps to recovery our own Park scholarship program and the ctoa that they stepped in and took care of the whole thing and we we stayed there served them probably like an hour and a half we had it all all cleared out and everybody was thrilled you cheaper to buy scallops at public spend the gas money and the boat and all that activity you do cost a lot more money but that is more fun than just going to Publix and buying your SCS that's right but if you want them to eat yeah you know so is that the last picture of that one a little bit more there they are the different dishes okay so I'll get the toast second but I just want to say with the scallop season we are work with fish and wildlife to make sure there was a big collection of uh a dangerous chemical in the shelfish right yeah at enclo uh we're going to do more testing we may know in another week or so they said they'd be flexible as extending the season out but right now we're still a standstill for right now as we test be a little careful about Open Season backup after you've had that so yeah and want be careful and and like I said it was a concentrated area and we think it was because of the dredging was down the ano river that pushed a lot of boom out uh higher than normal but I still think that to the northern part of the test come out that we should at least to the northern part of the con but we'll wait to see how it goes so I just want to say uh Sonia Walling my my Aid uh has been taking part of toast masses I don't know if you guys have ever gone to this but really cool what they do as far as the speeches they give and they gr the grade the the the grueling part of this whole thing was like pretty cool like they grade you on every type of thing delivery content uh not repeating yourself not saying I or anything else you know all that stuff these guys were doing great and I'm sitting down watching and they asked me if I wanted to do it I said I'm going to watch a little bit more and when I watched them later on it didn't work out or I got to speak but it was so fun to watch them I got went to them later on say and I'm glad I didn't speak but really cool that goes on right here and it's and I think it's great skills developing with our team that they go do this phenomenal but great it's great to see what they're doing and what else do we have okay that's it okay so I got one one thing um oh did you not those pictures from uh Gulf Highlands so let me say this with Gulf Highlands you've seen them like flood out with the project we had I sent to Tin I was sending to person okay so I just want you to hear just I I wish I could show you the pictures but but literally Gulf

Highlands and Grey Birch we had a um area which just has flooded for years and years between maybe sinkle fills and just bottom of bottom of basin where they always flood out and nowhere to go we started pumping up to a high uh area where we own land and it was Dy as can be what we did was a major project we gravity fed from both ponds from one to the other to the giant Pond and it goes in there and that pond was probably less than I'll say the whole base was almost full but it didn't go up that high so it was like plenty of capacity that job was so good every street now that they put the Finish just finished the second pavement dry as a b home every single street that would normally be underwater so I'm going to tell you my Jason Branford your your whole team what you guys have done executing has been absolutely phenomenal so these people don't suffer like they used to so uh I want to say that one last thing I have uh Fairway Oaks uh they were part of the Estates the lyx Golf Coast part uh took a took a look with them as far as what they needed to get done they want to go clean out all the dead trees and debris that's out there uh they want to do it later on in the fall they were going to do it in August I says I think you're better off waiting well it's not as hot see if people can make it so they're going to delay it a little bit uh John Batista put an estimate between 2, and4 uh $2,000 $2400 to take all the Tipping fees off it and I said I bring that to the board to see if we can wave those fees for them uh could keep part of my cleanup budget or whatever trying to do it low budget but if we could uh if I could make I'm going to make a motion that we take the fair WS fees up to $2,400 get waved on their clean up coming up you can't wave them re you can reimburse them from the general f don't that's a motion that's a motion I got a do I have a second second and a second all those in favor say I I I okay motion pass 5 Z all right thank you it's all okay uh M sty you got your got some pictures to go through real fast um just you know I'm very big about cycling and trails so um I wanted to show you the trails that my my husband and I rented bikes in Scotland and we biked Cycles whatever from Edinburgh to Glasgow 5 and 1/2 hours me and hundreds of other people cuz that that trail was full of people it was gorgeous how wi that TR we're actually going along a canal that they dug in the 1700s you can see the canal boat on the left um it used to be for Commerce but now um they've red du these canals and there are a lot of Tourism boats and private boats that go up and down these canals all around Europe actually there's a couple more pictures in in this right this is where I got my cough though cuzz it rained on me in the last hour M um this is uh us going over a um what do you call this uh what do you call it where the water's up high no well there's a lock on here but no it's an aqueduct it's an aqueduct I think it's the second longest aqueduct in yor um but you couldn't you had to walk it it was too bumpy to write sadly when I filmed it I turned out I was

filming my hand and my jacket and not this scenery on other side so you can't really see how high and how cool that was um next picture uh that's more of the trails with the beautiful flowers all over there's restaurants all along the way we stopped and pubs we stopped and had lunch I didn't put that picture here next picture that's the aqueduct that we went across and then this is uh we did the same thing in the azors um we rented bikes and and a guide and we um did this bike ride around uh a um Caldera because the aers are very volcanic more pictures that's just heading up to the that's where we biked to up to that Rim that was not fun I almost quit that's kind of The View when we were up top and the last picture oh that's the view from up top so it's beautiful but that they are building their cycle tourism as fast as they can and in the azors and next picture is this is the reason why I was in the azors this is Miss barbar will height who is now Mrs Peter deusa um that's Barbara coming down um at a city hall there in her in her wedding dress so um we'll congratulate her the next time we see her but she's still she's still there um enjoying her her new wetted Bliss so um okay uh the next pictures are this is a piece of land that's on US 19 it is the old Helen Ellis um Walkin site uh it has um kind of been abandoned by the property owner he didn't pay taxes on it for 3 years and uh someone has now bought up the tax receipts but here's my problem we cannot serve this guy it's an LLC in Texas to get in there and clean it up and um if you could see what it look like I have some older pictures we are getting so many complaints in my office um I have some older pictures from over a month ago if you could cycle did you yeah um but it's so much worse now they're building like houses on there there it's just like this whole village of garbage debris and and people living there and it just blows my mind this is right on 19 when you as you come into the county that we can't do anything and so um south 19 or North 19 because we don't have a trespass agreement with the the land owner who's gone awall um we're we're going to be able to I guess we're going to try and sight the people that are living on there um now the county has cleaned this this site up once and we've leaned the property but I don't know legislatively um is it Jeff is it too big a is it a constitutional issue that we can't do something when someone is trashing property like this and living no no water no sewer no electricity cannot the health department shut it down I mean do we have no tools to clean this up it's been months that I've been dealing with this I'll have to get with with Sam and Jessica it would seem to me that there's a there's a health code issue that that could be pursued um my my latest comment from Jessica is we cannot enter private property to clean the junk and debris without either a court order allowing us to do so or permission from the property

owner okay and we can't find the property owner no no property owner has abandoned the property hasn't PID the taxes not responding to anything we could fly someone out to Texas and maybe try and find him at his office but it just seems that counties need more tools in the toolbox to deal with problems like this okay we should be able to get a unless they're they're clearly the person is clearly not anywhere where they can be found I but you there are ways to find people so okay I will get with my team and see all right like I said this this is not this these are not representative of how bad it is right now on on 19 thank you did I have another picture oh no but I had a note um I to staff I drove down little road yesterday when I was driving to like at Thousand Oaks and and all of that and I also drove out to Oak Ridge and looked at the the outfall there um little road is at 54 north of it it is just one big pothole after another I don't know what happened but like that section by the Walmart it's it's World War II in that area so is that our road or is that Dot's Road I feel like it's our road yeah so it we're going to need some some kind of big repairs out there it's really just falling apart right out there at that intersection thank you thank you um Mr bright moach do you have anything in your duties today uh yes sir first I'd like to uh thank the board for his tolerance and patience dealing with a pinch hitter today as County Administrator uh however uh did want to highlight some of the bullet points from Hurricane Debbie response and know many of you have talked about the good work Public Works has done it also was a big team effort from Emergency Management 911 fire rescue PSO those are the heavy heavy entities involved in this one so I want to say thank you to uh those elements of the organization for their response and dedication over the weekend all that being said we got about 6 to 10 Ines of rain across the county Peak winds were in the upper 40s we wound up Sheltering 22 people at the hurricane shelter during the event that's been closed now however and we've exended the voluntary evacuation order however even though the EOC is back to level three in monitoring there we are still keeping an eye on the ancl river it's projected to Crest tomorrow or the day after um and then we're still working some of the areas that commissioner jger commissioner Mariana mentioned we got a call this morning about a city's wastewater treatment plant that we're working to assist so the team's still actively engaged I just want to thank them very much for all the work they've done and continue all right thank you count attorney uhoh he's got something today yeah I do um I have uh um two litigation matters that need a litigation assessment meeting um I am

hoping to do it at your next uh next board meeting in August um we contacted your assistance and it looks like 9:00 a.m. is the best time on your calendars um I think I can do them both together as one project or not one project but but one litigation assessment meeting the cases are Embassy Center LLC versus Pasco County Florida and Coastline Boat Lift covers Nature Coast LLC and Jeremy gamble uh individually and Rebecca gamble individually versus Pasco County uh both of these involve uh Land Development code issues um and litigating various provisions of Our Land Development code um and and I am going to seek uh advice as to how to proceed on those both okay need a motion or anything for that meeting no I just we've asked we've asked that your that your assist your assistance log that time um I tend to unless there's an objection we will uh schedule a court report for that okay for that time period all right thank you anything else nope all right thank you Mr clerk nothing from uh from the clerk at this time okay I appreciate it um goes to me and I've got all kind of stuff I've been to Alaska I've been to I almost hate to say it I've been Washington DC so oh is a is that up is that out there um okay so we'll start with these pictures how about that so these These are the what I've been waiting on 2 and 1/2 3 years and been working at along with the uh Fallen officer Foundation is the delivery of our Angel uplifting a fallen officer it arrived uh on July 18th as it tell you there so you can see how we were lifting it you'll see more pictures there were on top so on top of the stance it's there now it's cover oh we're going to have a dedication ceremony for this on 911 and I haven't determined the exact time yet but it need to be somewhere between 9 and 10:00 or 9:11 here um for the dedication of this Fallen officer Memorial so it's been a long time coming um I think the following officer board has been working on this for um somewhat like nine years before I got started working on it and I've been working on 2 and 1/2 uhoh so there she's flying in on top it's pretty amazing when you look up close there's so much detail on this uh Memorial it's just really amazing how much detail the artist had and I looked at the the artist was here of course cuz he's always nobody sets his uh statues he does it he comes and does it himself and then he puts the final code on the on the Statue but I got looking at the angel of course of course I made joke that why wouldn't it a man angel angel instead of a woman and everybody said everybody wants to be cuddled by their mother so I got my answer pretty quick from that so but and looking at the face on the Angel and the the artist had his wife

and daughter here I can tell you their face that daughter and that wife that look very much alike different ages of course but they're very much alike they're the face on that angel oh so uh very nice uh and very nice you know work and getting there so so happy and proud that that is actually here so it's one one of those good things and I got involved in it two and a half three years ago I'll just give you a brief story uh Randy blankers ship and myself were headed down to sheriff Grady Judge's office in Lakeland and of course we walked through his memorial for his Fallen officer memorial for his deputies and officers there and and po County uh so we went in we were our reason for being there is uh some folks that were running a little league down in mbery had stole over $99,000 from the Little League the person running it from this little league group this community so Randy had saw it on one of gry shows I guess about what had happened and he he called me he says you know this happened down there this is terrible and so he he said said we I want to give that money back and I said well I'll tell you what if you let me be a part of it I said I'll go along half with you so we gave them a check 5,000 each Randy and myself made $10,000 so they we went down to Gray's office just to present those checks and that was for little league organization down in uh mbery and so they got that but they also had insurance and got their money back through their insurance they covered their monies but for a person to steal from a little league organization is uh it's pretty low so yeah yeah but Randy out going to make sure that that wasn't going to stop them from being to help kids in that area um so on when we left we walked through the following officer Memorial and we see the statue of a man a deputy and a dog and of course that's the one that uh gr Jud made the statement on national TV that why did why did they shoot him 101 times or something of that nature and he says I guess they ran out of book yeah like they needed more I guess but but the fact of it is that gentleman they were they were shooting actually uh was armed um all they could see with his legs under a tree big tree limb where he was hidden in there and and they just took him out because he was armed he could kill another deputy but he killed a deputy and and his K9 on on that and and those statues are there at that Memorial in pop County and he actually he from the same artist he got another s he has five fallen officers lifesize statues in his memorial for Pope County there and it was they received that the day before we received the angel here so um and we've never had to follow an officer Memorial we working on for I guess total about 12 years and probably have wished and wanted it sooner than that so but Randy and I got

involved when we saw that and I started asking questions because the board had already seen a presentation of what we were getting but it just never seemed to happen the years kept going by so I reached out to them and they they needed some money and um they said there because of Co their money had dried up and they were not able to um to raise enough money to finish the project and I said well how much money do you need and uh they said oh probably 60,000 or something of that nature and I said I tell you what you think about that number but tomorrow you come back to me with the right number a good number so you're sure that that will take care of it so he came back the next day and he said he needed $100,000 and so Randy and I reached out to friends of ours throughout the county that cared for citizens of Pasco in this Memorial just as we did and asked them to give us $5,000 as individuals not as a county commissioner as individuals I have some people that didn't give it's okay it's their choice and um but the fact of it is we got that $100,000 in a week and a half that the money that was going to this organization they couldn't raise anymore cuz it dried up but it didn't dry up for people that care about uh Pasco County and what we do here and what they wanted to be a premier County just as well as we do and they there are different business owners throughout the county that are part of this this project so um it's it's so thankful for all they do I mean many many people stepped up and gave toward this Memorial it might have been in work or materials were paid for but a lot of it was free the the work actually put in was free was given to the county for this Memorial so there's a lot of people that had a lot to do and touch touch this more but I've been going nuts for two and a half years three years to see that this statue arrived and it just took forever gr Jud told me he says the company you've chosen for this statue is the best company and best artist that you could pick to do this Memorial and the fact of it is they're also the slowest to get it done I said well that part I believe and after seeing it he was very much right in in the fact and you will say the same thing once you you see it placed there and for the many many events happen in the in this County in the future toward this Fallen ALS Memorial just represents a lot of heartfelt thoughts throughout our citizens and and our County so we got to be very grateful and thankful for all the citizens and all that we try to get done sometimes it doesn't work out right but a lot of times it does and this is one that took a long time to get here but we're going to be here and not on 911 it couldn't be a better time to dedicate that here at this courthouse so look forward to we'll have that message for out very soon um commiss Oakley yes sir I want to commend you for uh seeing this thing through putting your heart and soul into it reaching out to your friends to make

this happen because it is a this is going to be a great tribute for many many years to come so thank you for your service helping out thank you but I didn't do it for that I did it for uh my citizens in Pasco County and and all of us we all want this happening if I have brought it to a group vote here at this day we'd all voted yes so we're all part of it not just one person no but Texas I there's not an eye in team and I'm so proud of our team and all they do uh throughout and every time we get a chance to do the right thing we it comes Forefront and we do the right thing so um nothing I wanted to reach out to uh and I did or personally I called uh Andy fosa and I call Andrew Baxter and thank them um and their staff and other members probably even Eric or even Mike kabala and what they did to the Dade City thanked me the other day for the quickness of getting two pumps here in Dade City and the fact of it was the pumps you you can't beat timing timing is everything the pumps actually came from the state at the very time they were asking for the two pumps and so we diverted their destination to D city rather than maybe the other side of the county those two pumps came in there was timely manner but uh chief of police and and the City of D City are very thankful for uh the awareness and the timing that we were able to get those to them and you can't be timing you don't make that kind of timing up CU took me 3 years I would have had this done three years ago if I could make up that kind of timing but sometimes timing just works right so a lot of times it doesn't CU I've got issues about flooding and other things that need to help some people and then and the timing is just not right I know that what the solution is but sometimes you can't get to construction some of that moving quick enough for our citizens to help them and some blood issues so um now let's see what else I had uh I attended with uh the Boys and Girls Club up with W Simpson Pasco County Sheriff's Office to deliver uh backpacks and school supplies to children on Friday July 19th and that went very well um lot lot of kids there a lot of backpacks um it's really great to see when these kids come through line and receive a backpack here's who sitting there but W and I went up and Vis will so really a lot of lot of good people in the county a lot lot of good things that they're doing so okay then the next uh oh and I had the opportunity with also I think with the commercial waitman we we toured Saddlebrook and uh got to see some of the new models and uh parts of the building that was on uh July 23rd and that's that's I've lost any PR I think it's the last item I had but we were able to do this and uh um it really celebres coming on fur