Board of County Commissioners · Person
Dan Biles
110 appearances across 73 meetings between Mon, Sep 17, 2018 and Tue, Mar 24, 2026.
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- Resolution commending outgoing County Administrator Dan Biles for five years of service1:52:52Spoke
“it's been truly a remarkable 5 years I don't think I ever would have imagined we've gone through the things we've gone through Over The Last 5 Years”
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- FY2023 preliminary budget overview, revenue assumptions, and millage rates2:19Spoke
“we do not have the preliminary assessed values yet from the property appraiser and so there are you will see no recommendations as part of this”
- Fire rescue enhancements, staffing, peak hour rescue units, and station construction timeline7:03Spoke
- Constitutional officer budget requests — Sheriff, Supervisor of Elections, and Clerk42:01Spoke
“recycling is now making better money as you say dan so we're making better revenue for that anyway”
- Impact fees, MSTU feasibility for fire and sheriff, and deputy staffing ratio review57:10Spoke
“dan has found money to get 10 more”
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- #R63New $41M half-cent sales tax loan to fund detention center expansion13:55Spoke
“between the original general obligation bond, the money we set aside from the revenue replacement under our ARP and this it covers what we think we need at this point for the jail expansion”
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- Commissioner and administrator reports, jail transition update, and public announcements1:53:15Spoke
“we've got some project managers team working on the scope of this and putting things together we've drafted several documents”
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- #R52Legislative wrap-up presentation postponed to later session1:17:41Spoke
- Miscellaneous commissioner reports and county administrator updates1:20:37Spoke
“we are rescinding the requirement to our mask on public transportation buses for now in accordance with the judge's order”
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- #Public CommentPublic comment — fire rescue staffing, penny for Pasco, land sales, airport zoning1:23Spoke
“at 2 30 we're waiting for the trainees to get through the current training class and then that will be ready to go”
- County administrator updates — daycare letter of support, jail transition, water reuse milestone1:45:44Spoke
“pasco county utilities is the largest residential reuse provider in the southwest florida water management district now”
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- #R55Pasco County homeless services system of care update and gaps analysis1:49:09Spoke
“Marcy can you find this information for other counties”
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- #R57FY2023 budget economic outlook and revenue forecast presentation1:26:53Spoke
“it's going to be a challenge maintaining our current level of service across all our lines of businesses with the expenses that we see right now”
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- #Public CommentPublic comment — eight speakers on various community issues27:04Spoke
- #100Pasco County Sheriff's Office jail capacity, funding shortfall, and expansion update1:49:08Spoke
“the current contract will be in front of the board here in the next few months for the firm fixed price we expect construction to start in the spring”
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- #6Leisure Lane redevelopment and Habitat for Humanity partnership update44:55Spoke
- #9Sign ordinance and commercial landscaping standards alignment between county and cities1:16:44Spoke
- #13Annexation, de-annexation, and boundary enclave cleanup between county and cities1:54:40Spoke
“there's a house at the house fire on michigan and washington and most of michigan is in the city but this particular house on the corner of michigan washington is in the county”
- #13Annexation, de-annexation, and boundary enclave cleanup between county and cities1:54:40Spoke
“the law is pretty clear for an enclave has to be surrounded and a lot of what's been talking about with these fingers may not comply with the ability for government to do it”
- Workshop adjourned with request for future full council participation2:02:59Spoke
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- #R55Tax Collector presentation and $2.881 million revenue check to county1:12:50Spoke
“your county administrator dan biles just fabulous and working with him his staff”
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- #R-98Adoption of FY2022–2026 Pasco County Strategic Plan54:50Spoke
“this will take us through the next four fiscal years and is aligned to the same four pillars that we're in the old one”
- Florida Sports Coast Flagler Award recognition for tourism marketing partnership2:00:57Spoke
“our very own county administrator dan biles enjoys a sports coast pilsner while watching his aggies”
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- Commissioner and staff reports: tourism, stormwater, homelessness, Zephyrhills/Trilby planning1:12:24Spoke
“our extension office won some tampa bay times people's choice awards this year”
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- Discussion on scheduling conflict between BOCC meeting and Regional Planning Council21:28Spoke
“we coordinated with all the offices and we were told that that date was clear so that's why the board adjusted that date for the 13th of september”
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- #R69Setting tentative millage rates and first budget public hearing date38:55Spoke
“i don't expect that the property value increase from 2023 will be less than what you just received for 22 budget based on the construction activity that's happening today”
- Miscellaneous business: diverging diamond contractor default, code amendments, TCO rate case1:23:34Spoke
“I need to ask the board's permission to intervene in the TCO rate case if deemed necessary and to allow the county attorney to spend up to twenty five thousand dollars”
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- Board votes to end practice of reading emails into public record26:36Spoke
“We'll we're going to reevaluate it every every time.”
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- #P84Rezoning for Life Church PUD 122-unit residential development on Old Pasco Road1:45:48Spoke
“you'll award the design contract next week the goal is to get under construction 12 months from now”
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- County Administrator updates on permits, animal services, DMO, and Moffitt video1:45:08Spoke
“we're up almost double last year year to date and single family home permits and we're up over 30 in commercial”
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- Commissioner Starkey — residential lighting ordinance expansion discussion37:14Spoke
“the problem is that you're going to want to apply it not to new development but to all development so it's probably code of ordinances”
- Commissioner Springer — back to board, mask mandate comments, Sunwest Park senior discount proposal49:10Spoke
- Commissioner Springer — back to board, mask mandate comments, Sunwest Park senior discount proposal49:10Spoke
- Chairman Oakley — Citrus County animal services visit, small business support, northeast rural area committee, and road infrastructure updates1:17:20Spoke
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- County Administrator update on COVID-19 vaccinations, public participation, and community programs1:35:01Spoke
“over 20 of the counties had at least one shot and again that significant buffering even while you're waiting on the second shot so that's a positive number”
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- Senator Fasano visit — business tax receipt compliance and enforcement discussion57:58Spoke
- Administrator Biles — COVID-19 vaccine status, cybersecurity improvements, and county updates1:32:14Spoke
“we are up to...at least 51 percent of our plus 65 residents have had at least one dose of the vaccine”
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- #RS1Resolution commending 2020 Star Performers of the Year8:46Spoke
“i will say that there are probably 2 900 pasco county employees that probably deserve to be recognized”
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- TDC appointment, EMS board reappointment, VOPH committee reappointments, library board appointment1:46:17Spoke
“the last quarter of 20 we issued single-family residential permits that same quarter hillsborough issued 1632 single-family new permits we actually issued more permits that quarter than hillsborough did”
- County Administrator updates — permits, budget, I-75 overpass, CARES funds1:47:11Spoke
“that interchange will be open to traffic in summer 22”
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- Miscellaneous commissioner announcements, VOPH appointments, mobile home registration enforcement discussion2:55:24Spoke
“our budget team won for the fourth year in a row the gfoa distinguished budget award”
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- Tax Collector Senator Fasano presents $3.457 million surplus check to county44:54Spoke
“dan biles has been phenomenal and in leading us through this serious crisis”
- Resolution honoring Commissioner Mike Wells for six years of service1:37:06Spoke
“on behalf of the 2700 employees thank you for your support of the employees”
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- County administrator CARES Act spending update — $62M of $96M expended or committed55:19Spoke
“we've expended or committed over 62 million of the 96 million allocations so we're on track uh to spend that and get that out into the community to zero by the end of the calendar year”
- Chairman Moore raises FDOT DAB Constructors delays on diverging diamond interchange project1:00:06Spoke
“dan biles told me the overpass interchange will be opening in the last quarter of 2022”
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- Commissioner and staff reports — transit, Anclote River park, trade event, and community updates27:27Spoke
“animal services went up to some of the area impacted by hurricane sally and brought some animals back to help one of the shelters up there”
- #AdjournmentMeeting recessed pending noon fire rescue photo event42:25Spoke
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- #Public CommentPublic comment on mask mandate and consent item C932:36Spoke
“on august 26 that the numbers kept coming down that you would look at changing the mass mandate to highway recommendation”
- #C93Tyndale Oliver task order for PCPT transportation planning services withdrawn18:14Spoke
- #R2COVID-19 pandemic update from Florida Department of Health Pasco office1:02:06Spoke
“we've seen a reduction of about 72 percent in new cases on our seven-day rolling average since from our peak”
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- #R3West Pasco coastal dredging project funding options — MSBU, MSTU, and grants16:49Spoke
- #Public CommentLandscape ordinance burden on small businesses — tree mitigation fund discussion45:56Spoke
“It's capped at $10,000. We could look at increasing the cap... there is in excess of a million dollars in that fund”
- #Public CommentCOVID mask order status and community safety update by Commissioner Oakley1:08:26Spoke
- #Public CommentCounty Administrator reports Fitch/Moody's stable bond ratings and 6.7% unemployment rate1:38:00Spoke
“both Fitch and Moody's uh redid did a credit evaluation on the county as part of our new bond offering... both of them held us constant with what we were last time”
- #Public CommentChairman Moore addresses census push, DAV Day proclamation, November meeting location change1:43:43Spoke
“November 17th in Date City, December 8th in Newport Richie.”
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- Commissioner reports: scallop season success, employee raises, stormwater, website fix, budget award48:23Spoke
“congrats to our budget office they were awarded again for now for the fourth year in a row the government finance officers association distinguished budget presentation award”
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- #C-21C-21 Acknowledgment of leasehold mortgage for Wiregrass hotel approved27:06Spoke
“I do believe it's pretty soon and I do believe we have site plan plans in for review”
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- #P4Ordinance amending Chapter 42 overgrown vegetation conditions ordinance continued27:57Spoke
“mowing a golf course is order of magnitude larger than a single-family yard and so there is not money in codes budget to mow”
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- #C18Demolition lien item — discussion on post-demolition dumping and trespass enforcement53:51Spoke
- #AR-3 (Time Certain 3:00 PM)Pasco Emergency Business Grant Program — $2M microloan fund for small businesses1:13:35Spoke
- Commissioner and administrator reports on COVID-19 response, parks reopening, and budget2:07:27Spoke
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- #AdjournmentMeeting adjourned following commissioner reports2:31:45Spoke
“when County Administrator Biles and I left the hearing in federal court”
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- Meeting adjourned2:57:55Spoke
“the sponsor actually called me after we adjourned and we talked briefly and I told him we had some comments and would be working with him”
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- Commissioner discussion on county customer service, permitting, and utility technical standards1:08:51Spoke
“we actually inspect development a lot less and I'm used to from my experience in other places so we leave a lot to the engineering record”
- Commissioner reports — Ridge Road milestones, building permit trends, and miscellaneous updates1:33:00Spoke
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- Old business and commissioner reports including universal playground and illegal dumping update56:57Spoke
“the Code section time house in the land development code so it's not just a quick thing”
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- #3City of New Port Richey downtown revitalization, motel ordinance, and US 19 issues2:17:40Spoke
“the staff does have a draft sign ordinance but I'll coordinate with administrator biles to see if there are some things that we can change”
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- #Public CommentMorning public comment session — multiple citizen speakers1:20Spoke
- Commissioner reports and miscellaneous board discussion1:37:29Spoke
“we recently applied for through parks a Department of opportunity Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery grant to help harden the upcoming rec center at Burke's park”
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- FY2020 Budget Overview: revenues, economic indicators, and staffing1:37Spoke
“Dan calls them our Canaries in the coal mine”
- Outside agency funding requests and United Way allocation review18:06Spoke
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- Commissioner and staff reports, old business, and event announcements37:55Spoke
“just a reminder tomorrow we're having the groundbreaking for Touch Point Medical”
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- #AdjournmentMeeting adjourned2:51:35Spoke
“Don's assured me his whole team's gonna be the best so I appreciate each and every one of them”
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- Commissioner items: roads, water tower, FGA project, opioid crisis, and events48:31Spoke
“we're trying to get our hands around how big that issue is and then once we get an idea develop a plan”
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- County Administrator overview of reopening plan and fiscal impacts42:26Spoke
“we are starting to build the opening Pasco up again plan and part of that is following the presidential guidance that was put out last week”
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- #Public CommentCommissioner reports: traffic lights, recycling, sidewalks, Airbnb, and other board business1:46:57Spoke
“I'll be out of town the rustle week returning next Tuesday”