5.07.24 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Afternoon Session)

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and mute your microphones now we will have uh proceed with the public hearings will the County Attorney please uh go with the procedures for Z that came up quick came up um there are two resounding agendas regular and consent sta will present each application to the board of County Commissioners if the staff or Planning Commission has recommended approval and if there is no opposition the application will be considered by the board without further presentation if staff or Planning Commission is recommended denial or if there's opposition to the application the applicant will be given 5 minutes for presentation the opposition will be given three minutes for each individual or five minutes for a group representative and the applicant will be given three minutes for rebuttal any individual disagreeing with staff or Planning Commission recommendation or anyone wishing to object to any condition of the rezoning May at this time request the petition be pulled from the consent agenda in which case that application will be heard under the regular agenda later on during the meeting otherwise all resoning applications on the consent agenda will be approved by a single motion and vote if you wish to speak to any petition please give your name and address and whether or not you've been sworn for the record these are Quasi judicial public hearings the law in Florida is that mere public support or opposition of an application is insufficient for this board to take action please limit your comments to those criteria for resoning found within the board's Land Development codee Madam clerk would you like to swear the public in yes if you are here to speak on the matters that'll be before us this afternoon please rise and raise your right hands okay do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth so help you God thank you okay this is public hearing the first item is P5 4 item p54 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 13th 2024 good afternoon Commissioners Denise Hernandez planning and economic growth Department item p54 CAO 243501 uh the request is to continue the item to the May 21st 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in Newport Richie as I understand that the item has not yet been signed by the governor actually he signed it this morning according to Mr Mr Lair um but we can't take action on it today because it was noticed as a continuance and we need four members to do that to do this one so thank you Mr County move to continue time certain second got a motion and second all those in favor say I I motion pass 30 Z all right move p55 item p55 was published in Tampa Times on March 20th 2024 item p55 is pg24 7694 Aon amendment sr54 in Lake Crystal mpud master plan unit development Interstate homes LLC and

others the request is to continue the item to the July 9th 2024 board County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in D City to continue time short second got a motion and second all those in favor to say I I I okay uh I and motion pass move to uh p56 item p56 was published in the 10 times on April 3rd 2024 item p56 is pg24 7720 it's a zoning Amendment Harvest Commons vop master plan un development Galvin vop LLC the request is to continue the item to the June 4th 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in D City move to continue second I got a motion and second move continues all those in favor say i i i a motion pass 30 P57 is it yes item P57 was published in Tampa Times on April 3rd 2024 item P57 is pg24 7772 it's a zoning Amendment Grand View mpud master plan unit development Galvin vop LLC the request is to continue the item to the June 4th 2024 board to County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in dat the city move to continue time certain second got a motion in second all those say I I I motion pass 30 move on to p58 item p58 was published in Tampa Times on April 3rd 2024 p58 is Peg 24777 3 on this item there is an expart um communication with commissioner waitman and to the extent that that has not been submitted to the clerk's office we will um shortly after this meeting or during this meeting and that is Harvest Hill South vop mpud master plan unit development Galvin vop LLC the request is to continue the item to the June 4 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in dat City we be continue time service second got a motion and second all those in favor say I I motion pass three Z move on to p59 item p59 was published in Tay times on April 3rd 2024 p59 is PG 24777 4 on this item there is an expart communication with commissioner waitman to the extent that that has not been provided to the clerk office that will be done so during this meeting or shortly after it's a zoning Amendment Harvest Hills North Bop mpud master plan unit development Galvin vop Peg 24777 4 the request is to continue the item to the June 4th 2024 Board of County commission's meeting at 1:30 in date City move to continue time certain thanks time certain y i uh second got a motion and second all those in favor say I I motion pass 30 move on to p60 Mr chair can we please move on to item p65 this is our first consent item no p65 is the zoning item regular Cherry Hills West which I understand is also being continued that's why there a request to continue which came in yesterday okay U Mr chairman this is was advertised for Action um but as been requested to be continued by the applicant if any as is the normal process that I recommend you take public comment if the public cannot attend the June 4th meeting that this is being

continued to um if they choose to speak today they wave their right to speak on the fourth Mr chair I do have two people that have signed up to speak on this item we have folks signed up to speak to this item yes sir we did did we do okay um did you you need you still need to do no um aage public publication yes right item P 65 was published in the Tampe times on March 20th 2024 and by Affidavit of certified mailings and site postings I'm going to read the item title it's Peg 24772 six a zoning Amendment Cherry Hills West mpud Master Plan unit development Veterans of Foreign Wars of us major Francis e Day post 4283 and others it's for resoning from an AR agricultural residential district to an mpud Master Planning Development District to allow for the maximum development of 160 single family detached dwelling units on approximately 34.072631 and commissioner waitman and those are from 1:12 of 2023 um I will to the extent that those have not been provided to the clerk's office we will do that after this meeting or during this the meeting's time and the applicant has requested a continuance to the June 4th 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in D City okay this item is going to be continued to June 20 uh June 4th 2024 do those that are signed up for this item do they wish to speak today or they want to wait and speak on June 4th okay if you speak today you cannot speak on on June 4th you understand yes sir okay come forward okay name and address for the record and if you've been yes I have been Andrew rener 1271 Pro Road D City Florida I'm going read this to try to get through this in my 3 minutes my wife and my kids could not come but imploring you as a longtime pasal resident not to approve Cherry Hills as it's been improved been requested in its current density um you know local leaders Paul rener is a family member of mine speaker of the house I know many of you know wi Simpson they've talked about recently protecting our Florida land developing responsibly when we moved to Pasco County almost 20 years ago we fell in love with the am the um just the beautiful hillsides we call it Tree City uh Open Spaces vibrant places everything we love about it you know we purchased the land and the home we live on prer road it was Z AG residential everyone around us has property no one has huge subdivisions around us people have horses chickens Liv stock different things it really to us is like Bedford Falls it's like a Wonderful Life okay the the high density that they're proposing with Char it doesn't fit into the area okay you know why why are we just giving to what the developers want why are we not requesting them to be lower density people would still come they would still love the area like we do but it it just seems like when it's requested that that is what happens you know so to us and

and I speak for my wife my family my kids other neighbors who can't come because it's in the middle of the day and and many of us are working right is that they agree that this does not fit into the community and for us we're already there's already proposal on the other side of us so if this goes through we're going to be surrounded on three sides by hundreds of homes hundreds of homes um so we would ask at least we have setbacks we have some type of a wall some type of protection from the noise and the development very similar when in Fort Kings of State many of you probably know about that right crime has gone up since then we've even been personally affected by someone coming through our property to go to Fort King Estates my wife didn't feel safe and those are the kind of things that are happening because of that uh we love Florida specifically our area Florida um we just ask that you would not vote as it's currently being proposed trying to stay within my 3 minutes here I'm cutting out most of this um um so please do not approve it or if we do approve it please reduce the density make them put up some kind of buffers and protection for those of us that live there we're the people that have voted right to put yall in the positions and I feel like you know we need to make sure that we're being represented as well not just future residents of of this development and other developments of Pesco County okay any questions for me I know I read that very fast we don't talk back and oh you don't okay no okay thank you thank you anyone else to speak today on this item hello my name is Terry Saxon I reside at 36640 Opportunity Way dat City 33525 I have to agree with the gentleman uh I too you've been sworn did did you get in yes okay you just have to be on the record yes sorry about that this is kind of new to me but I've kind of been out of the loop because we were recovering from a hurricane at my business but nevertheless I agree 100% with what he said I've told the city commission the same thing people move up here and it's for our our homes we spent our last retirement dollar to be able to have a home that we can stay in and we have woods and D city is known as the tree tree city um and you have developers just coming in and and popping up anywhere and anywhere because it's all about the money and again it's no consideration to the people that's already here here um Cherry Hill specifically I would like to know if there is an on the record if there is an erress Ingress other than the one coming up by the BFW on uh BFW drive because I've seen plans or something that first originally it was fictitious and now it's being said that they're going to come across our easement for our neighborhood and our community which I would strongly recommend our our request that you folks deny and that's really all I got to say

it's it's just ongoing everywhere you turn it's it's coming up I don't know if anybody's doing anything with the infrastructures you know I thought Z Hills was out of water so you know obviously that's a big issue and there's some people that they don't care what it takes to get it done whether they tell the truth or not but there's some of us seniors that have been here we love our we love our property we love being in Florida we moved I was Lakeland I moved out of there cuz it's gone nuts but um um please consider the people around you you know if they want to go on a pastor out there with doesn't inflict on anybody more power to you but please consider the people that they're infringing on and uh encroaching on when we we abide by the rules we abide by the ordinances when we bought the property and intend to do so in the future and we would really love if they did the same thank you thank you thank you is anyone in audience wish to speak to this item Mr chair I have no one on WebEx for this item nobody on web okay now I entertain a motion for continuance move to continue time Ser second I got a motion in a second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 30 Z Now what number are we on p60 p60 which one 60 yes sir okay so I item p60 was published in the Tampa Times on February 21st 2024 and by Affidavit of certified mailings and site posting the item was continued from the January 9th 2024 BCC meeting to the February 20th 2024 BCC meeting where it was continued to today item P 60 is Peg 24773 7 zoning amendments orange State mpud master plan unit development orange orange State Enterprises Inc it's a substantial modification to the approved orange state mpu master plan in development to allow the development of 11 town homes on approximately 3.07 Acres this comes to you with a recommendation of approval with conditions from the Planning Commission and the planning and economic growth Department there was a um an issue with the proof of publication but we provided that to the clerk's office um prior to the meeting yester we provided it yesterday okay does anyone in audience wish to speak against this item Mr chair I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx okay seeing no one leave that on consent agenda and move on to p61 item p61 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 21st 2024 and by Affidavit of certified mailings and site postings the item was advertised from the um April 10th 2024 BCC um meeting to today it was continued not advertised item p61 is Peg 24 7639 it's a zoning Amendment Timber Ridge MP master plan unit development Timber Ridge State City LLC it's a rezoning petition from R3 medium density residential district to an mpud master plan unit development District to allow a maximum of90 single family detached units on approximately 4842 Acres um

there is an expar communication um for this item with commissioner Mariano and to the extent that that has not been provided to the clerk's office it will be provided uh the item comes to you with a recommendation of approval with conditions um as included in your agenda packet from the Planning Commission and the planning and economic growth Department okay is anyone here speak here to speak against this item seeing no one uh leave it on consent move to p62 item p62 was published in the Tampa Times on February 21st 2024 and by Affidavit of certified mailings and site postings the item was was continued from the April 10th 2024 BCC meeting to the April 23rd 2024 BCC meeting where it was continued to today item p62 is Peg 24772 it's a zoning Amendment for the ankot River Resort mpud master plan unit development and clo River Resort LLC it's for a resoning request from an AR agricultural residential district and mpud master plan unit development District to an mpud master plan unit development District to incorporate 2.57 acres into the existing an clo River Resort mpud it does not add any additional entitlements to the mpud uh the the uh recommendation is approval with conditions as included in your agenda packet comes to with at recommendation from the planning and economic growth department and the Planning Commission okay is anyone uh here that want wishes to speak against this item and is there anyone signed up there's no one signed up and no one on WebEx okay all right seeing no one it remains on consent move on to p63 item p63 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 6 2024 and by Affidavit of certified mailings and site posting the item was continued from the April 10th 2024 BCC meeting to today item p63 is pg24 7712 on this item there are several ex party Communications that have been already provided to the cler's office uh two from commissioner starky one from commissioner Mariano one from commissioner Oakley one from Comm commissioner waitman and then there's also exper Communications from all Planning Commission members again it's Peg 24771 to it's a zoning Amendment KD 52 mpud master plan unit development M landco liquidating company LLC and others it's for resoning request from AC agricultural R1 MH single family mobile home and C2 General commercial districts to an mpud master plan unit development District to allow for the development of 190,000 square ft of retail commercial 3 million ft of light industrial 500,000 ft of office a 250 room Hotel um or 250 rooms of Hotel 1,550 Square uh multif Family Apartments 150 Town Homes 600 single family homes 27 single family estate homes and Associated infrastructure on approximately 785 Acres this comes to with a recommendation of approval with conditions from the Planning Commission and the planning and economic growth Department um and the appr and the conditions are as included in your

agenda packet okay is anyone here to speak against this item see no one it remains on consent move on to p64 item p64 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 20th 2024 item p64 is Peg 24295 it's a development agreement um mod modification Chapel Crossings mpud master plan unit development Thornwood Associates LLC it's a modification to development agreement for the chapel Crossings mpud to clarify terms and conditions therein comes to you with a recommendation of approval um from the planning and economic growth department and also from the local planning agency who found it consistent with the comprehensive plan and recommended approval to the board of County Commissioners okay is anyone here to speak against this item see it no one may it remain on consent and then I entertain a motion for the consent item we approve the consent agenda second got a motion in second all those in favor say I I I I motion pass 30 we move on to thank you p p64 66 or 66 excuse me and that's a regular item item p66 was published in the Tampa times on March 31st 2024 and April 7th 2024 good afternoon Heather wolf real property division the real property team has received a petition to vacate a portion of platted undeveloped and unmaintained RightWay along Sunset Lane as submitted by Jason and Sarah Baker the purpose of this vacation is to unify the petitioners par which include all of the parcels to the North and the South of the segment of Sunset Lane which the petitioner seek to vacate as a condition of De of approval the petitioner will grant with luch River Electric a replacement easement there were no objections to this approval and team there were no objections to this petition and the team recommends approval okay this public hearing is there anyone here to speak to this item I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for this item okay move approval second got a motion and a second all those in favor say I I I motion pass 30 thank you now we had a lady this morning was going to speak to us on the public comments and we could not understand her because of the phone connection we had we have an email from her and we're going to read that in record now okay um from Golf Coast signs aol.com sent Tuesday May 7th 2024 11:11 a.m. to Sonia tulos CC Joanna Chesire subject regarding virtual signup for 57 BCC meeting letter good morning I am sorry for the technical difficulties I was having my name is Ruth Clayton Golf Coast signs and Services LLC 14803 us19 Hudson Florida 34667 women own business for 24 years 9 years in Pasco County this is in reference to the sign ordinance I just found out through a competitor about these changes I was never notified of this ordinance and we are licensed

insured bonded in Pasco County while abiding by the new ordinance I have turned down 12 to 15 jobs that have been completed without pulling permits since no permits are pulled there are no inspections being done on these signs as well this is a big concern of mine as well since the signs can fall and or catch fire since this change I am down to one full-time employee and one part-time employee from eight employees before this change my Revenue has decreased by almost half since this has taken place when customers come in wanting to do business in Pasco County and that sign requires a permit to be pulled I tell them to call Pasco County building department to confirm what I am telling them and that they can only have 32 square foot Banner their response is mostly I can't have a lit business sign I'm totally con I am totally against hanging a banner on a storefront due to the high winds we do not get we we do get here and Golf Coast signs and services would be liable for any damages that might occur the thought of a banner coming loose and flying onto a major road like Highway 19 could possibly cause an accident as well I have removed closed up three businesses in Pasco County and they relocated to Hernando County Paso county is also losing Revenue I'm also being approached by shopping center owners who have leases with their bigger tenants like Publix wind Dixie Etc this required a certain amount of square foot of sign signage just for reference a few weeks ago Hernando County had a Dollar General remove their Monument Al sign due to a distra a distraction of Motor Vehicles and seeing oncoming vehicles I have had a meeting with Paso County building department and one commissioner I would like if possible to meet all Commissioners and discuss my concerns in more details thank you for your time Ruth Clayton president of P of Golf Coast signs and services 4808 US Highway 19 Hudson Florida 34637 Sonia can you please confirmed youve received this email thank you for your help as well okay all right thank you Mr chairman yes sir to to comment um I I did meet with her um I think she's got some real concerns that are good I think it would be good if she did meet with the board members so if you guys could do that and then maybe we can bring it back for a boat item okay all right um so that's the last item we've had did anything come up for the benefit of all okay if not no we're Jing and that's a record what time is it [Music] oh [Music]

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that Pasco is a diverse and cultural County significant to our state and our citizens what are the possibilities for Pasco County only you along with our planning and development team and elected officials can decide the outcome of Pasco for years to come follow us on social media for ideas on how you can participate in making Pasco the perfect place to live work and play hello everyone my name is davia tacis and this is Carolyn Johnson and we are from Pasco County Senior Services we will be presenting a presentation today on turning reaction into to action a senior center Survival Guide to crisis operations we have three objectives today that we will be focusing on handling the crisis keeping the seniors fed and staying in contact while observing social distancing requirements we have found these three objectives critical to maintaining a high level of service when faced with a crisis handling the crisis in our line of business business one of the first things we focus on in any emerging crisis is the food security of our seniors and how it is being threatened when determining this we focus on four pillars of food security availability access utilization and stability with availability we are trying to determine if enough resources are available to sustain the program through the crisis next we look at access do seniors have access to the resources required for a nutritious Diet before the pandemic many seniors relied on our senior centers for a nutritious meal for some seniors this is the only meal they would receive let alone one that meets their daily nutritional requirements next we have utilization do the seniors have the ability and knowledge to prepare food safely do they have Clean Water Sanitation and Health Care needed to reach a state of nutritional well-being where all needs are met finally we have stability we need to make sure that the supply chain is not threatened by economic political or environmental issues let's take a look at the covid-19 pandemic and how we moved through our decision-making process by using the four pillars of food security did the crisis have an impact on food security this crisis did have an impact on food security due to the food shortage the supplies were difficult to Source locally and backup plans were needed where economic activities disrupted the answer for that question during the pandemic is yes grocery store hours were reduced and many restaurants closed their doors as a result of the pandemic many seniors in our community rely on going to restaurants every day for some of their meals since some seniors struggle to prepare food for themselves going out to restaurants help them get the full balanced meal they need this stopped abruptly during the pandemic covid-19 immediately presented new Complicated new challenges that we had never faced before we had to innovate and get ahead of the crisis and incredible new ideas came from all

levels of our organization some of the most innovative ideas came from Carolyn Johnson and her team at the Dade City Senior Center focusing on how to continue providing service to our congregate diners once a senior centers were closed as a result of the pandemic I'll turn it over to Carolyn to talk about some of the Creative Solutions they have came up with on March 16 Pasco County senior centers were closed in accordance with the guidelines set by the CDC the guidelines recommended social distancing at least six foot apart and no groups exceeding 10 people they also recommended that anyone over 60 years old to self-isolate and not not leave their homes unless absolutely necessity with our seniors being the most vulnerable group to covid-19 we had to rethink our operations from every angle and make it a priority to find a way to continue services for our aging adults I called my manager and ask if McDonald's and Burger King can serve their clients through a drive-thru why can't we he like the idea so we drafted a proposal and submitted it to every Agency on Aging who in turn submitted it to the Department of Elder Affairs for approval within 24 hours the oea had approved the proposal and we three fully operational drive-through sites was up and running by March 18th in order to accomplish this we had to set up standard operation procedures and an incredible amount of work had to be completed to transaction the program to this format the staff called clients setup clients or pickup meals and possible and planned for delivery with these clients that did not have transportation to minimiz risk clients are remain in their vehicles and a staff member would place the food in the client's vehicle while wearing gloves a mask and maintaining the social distancing humans are social creatures drive-thru Services provides an opportunity for clients to leave their home in a safe Manner and accomplish small degree of socialization with our staff self isolate can be dangerous for our our seniors loneliness causes depression premature death and an increase of chance of developing dementia it's tough because we don't see the people from here anymore and we can't come in and you know you miss all the getting together and socializing uh for me it's the biggest thing besides not being able to see local friends as family I've had uh grandsons cancel trips twice coming down here from then there two of them in college one in uh high school and they were all coming down as a family and they had to cancel and that's been hard cuz I haven't seen them in year and a half right if nothing else it's lonely you know cuz I haven't been able to get out much so um I think the biggest thing about the pandemic has been the loss of Social and having to just be able to talk and see people yeah uh I get like $17 for a month for food stamps mhm I don't have any other income except my Social Security and that goes for doesn't take much to eat that up I'm

a Korean vet and so that's been it's been hard on me from that standpoint and even though it's a bad time for all of us the nutrition Center is making sure the seniors are well taken care of getting their meals and giving them something to do during the day so appreciate center it's allowed me to make friends and uh appreciate the uh other uh people who come here and and the staff has been supportive and helpful in a lot of lot of ways so really enjoy it here I like it I love it because I see all the people here and everybody's so nice and they're smiling and they're waving so it's like I'm in a parade every day oh the activities here have been uh uh fun I mean there's different groups and I know my wife has been getting more active and bringing up more more type of activities for everybody to participate in games that you're giving us to do the Bingo and it's very nice because you're not leaving us just out on the edge we're here with you [Music]

taking into consideration the importance of communication with our clients face to face while social distant in the Drive-Thru enabled our staff to maintain Rapport while providing a nutritious meal to our clients a partnership with area of Agency on Aging and local restaurants was a result of this pandemic we rolled out the dining out at home program this program had the combined purpose of invigorating the local economy by partnering with local restaurants to prepare nutritious meals tailored to the specific needs of a senior that could be provided to food insecure Pasco County seniors the dining out at home program goes hand inand with operation Feed Pasco which provided a similar service to Children families homeless and other individuals in need here are some of the delicious meals provided by our dining out atome partner restaurants we now have a short video that highlights some of the successes from the dining out at home program and operation Feed Pasco [Music] thank you thank you for providing meals when I couldn't go out for helping us help those in need during [Music] covid-19 thank you thank you for keeping us in business for keeping me working [Music] [Applause] when a crisis is identified our priority as a nutrition provider is to ensure we're able to continue providing nutritious meals to our clients regardless of the crisis older adults are typically going to be more at risk of of food insecurity than any other age group the importance of taking action cannot be overstated here because every minute you don't take action you are potentially putting a senior at risk we need to educate and prepare our seniors for the crisis increasing their understanding of the situation can help their mind at ease in stressful situations people often will be frightened but if we prepare them with information and what can be done to stay healthy and safe it will go a long way to alleviate some of that stress to accomplish this during the covid-19 pandemic we had issued shelf stable emergency meals ahead of time and printed newsletters with CDC best practices to educate and minimize the risk of transmission finally it is critically important to preserve your continuity of operations and maintain the supply chain having a contingency plans for different vendors and staff is important to make sure you can sustain operations through the crisis some observations for our home delivery meal program as seniors began to follow the stay-at-home guidance we began to see a significant increase in hom delivered meals and drive-thru meal across in the month of January prior to the start of the pandemic we delivered 14,43 meals to Pasco County seniors just 6 months later we had an increase in our hom delivered meal program by

66.5% delivering just over 24,000 meals in July of 2020 some observations for the drive-through meal program in the month of January prior to the start of the pandemic we served almost 3,800 meals to congregate participants throughout Pasco County with the closure of our senior centers and the transition to drive-through operations we experienced a massive increase in service providing over 9,000 meals through our drive-through program a 142. eight% increase in this graph the orange bars will represent the month of January of 2020 and the maroon bars will represent the month of July of 2020 which was during the pandemic The New Normal we continue to provide our aging adults with nutritious meals to maintain physical health and well-being all centers have collaborated to plan new activities for the seniors in the new environment to maintain mental health and some semblance of normality cognitive thinking contributes to A Healthy Mind Health prevent memory loss activities include drive-thru Bingo word search trivia coloring contest and more most activities are also rewarded with a prize staff is continuously coming up with new ideas that keep the seniors active when a client comes through and it's their birthday the staff goes out and sings happy birthdays some ideas for the future are a drive-thru resource fair and a parking lot Bingo which we call Bingo what you see here is our drive-through activities during the covid-19 pandemic we noticed that the community really came together to help those in need many donations were provided including handmade face mask from our Pasco County librar toilet paper from the Tampa Bay Rays when it was in very short supply personal High je kits from Bay care for every client we serve and distill water from Publix for CAC machines Chef stable meal bags from the Rotary Club and many many more these are just some of our donations [Music] received Pasco County has always welcomed volunteers or many of our volunteers choose to self-isolate many more have stepped up from the community and other organizations to lend a hand in this time of need with their Helping Hands we've been able to increase our client counts to the highest numbers we've seen in years volunteers have brought fresh ideas to the program to help improve the lives of our seniors volunteers for seniors in service and with Luchi River Electric out there making a difference by delivering meals to needy [Music] seniors we've reached out to Becky McKenzie at the Area Agency on Aging of Pasco and penales to get her perspective on providing crucial Services during a p pandemic in her words we didn't realize the possibilities we had with nutrition Services until we forced to adapt the flexibility that has been provided to us during this pandemic has actually allow the PSA to think of more creative ways

of delivering meals that clients seem to love example drive-through meals services are a big hit this model has never been seen before in Florida but might be something to consider continuing with in the future the particular crisis has forced everyone to reev out their service models is shown that we are capable of but also given an opportunity to take a better look at our vulnerabilities and where we can make processes more efficient even outside of a pandemic and in conclusion a strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it to [Music] reality hi I'm Insley with Pasco County pavement management people always ask why can't you pave roads faster well the process isn't as simple as it seems we use two methods which you can see here they're called milling and Paving and full depth Reclamation and soil cement what does that mean exactly let's break them [Music] down 90% of our Paving projects are done through milling and Paving which takes about 2 weeks depending on weather and the length of the road we start by grinding ending and removing 2 to 3 in off the road then we sweep