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in Lake County it's March 25th 2025 I want to welcome everybody to joining us here this morning uh for our regularly scheduled Lake County Board of County Commissioners meeting uh thank you all for attending this meeting is being streamed live on the County's website um we are
also broadcasting the media the meeting via Zoom for those members of the public who wish to provide input so you can not only provide input here but you can also provide input uh live via Zoom as well which we totally encourage uh as is our tradition here in Lake County we will begin with our
invocation our pledge today our invocation will be given by Pastor James Gardner First Baptist Church of Y matilla thank you again for joining us this morning thank you for allowing me to do this let's pray uh Lord we come to you now thanking you for your goodness Lord thank you for the fact that you hear our
prayers um we come to you now just asking that you would bless all that takes place here today Lord bless these folks who have uh stepped forward and uh Faithfully served this community I pray that you bless them give them wisdom and discernment Lord as they make decisions bless each person here that's going to be presenting and Lord I Thank you for
the fact that we can um have this opportunity to have this type of government I pray that you would guide and direct all that takes place and we would honor and glorify you we ask this in Jesus name amen amen for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Pastor all right once again good morning uh so if you've probably noticed I am
not chair Campion this morning uh I am filling in for uh chair Campion uh who could not make it today uh as well as uh commissioner Kirby Smith as well so um we will uh do the best with the three of us and uh move things along and again thanks again for everybody participating
today we'll go right into the agenda um with agenda update uh Jennifer yes good morning uh Mr Vice chair we have one update to the agenda tab 20 was added as an addendum since the publishing of the agenda and that will be discussed by
commissioner Sapa later in the meeting excellent okay anything else commissioners okay all right so we'll move right into uh our minutes approval um Christie oh I'm sorry Mr coone is here I overlooked you well you called on the smarter one
so that's all right good morning uh Mr chairman or Mr Vice chairman I have one set of minutes for your approval this morning all right do I hear a mo motion for February 11th 2025 move approval second all right all those in favor say I I I opposed there are none that passes
unanimously so now we move into the citizens uh questions and comment period um anyone who has joined our meeting through zoom using their phone may press star9 to virtually raise your hand any youone to participating through Zoom
online please click the raise hand button to let us know when you wish to speak everyone will have three minutes to speak a lot can be said in three minutes um we do appreciate and we do listen to your input um after the 3 minutes goes off that's with the little
beeping the alarm that Nikki has set for us so that's just you know you know to when to kind of wrap things up at that point um if you have cards and you still wish to speak right now would be the time to fill those cards out we do have a few of those cards that I've received for public input and I'll get into those in just a second but now's your time if
you want to speak fill out one of those cards all right so uh we'll start with Eric is there anybody online that wishes to speak all right then we'll go uh I have three cards filled out here and these are for items that are not I don't think that they're on the agenda
um so we'll start with Jill Lawson Miss Jill Lawson well welcome and I'm almost 65 okay I am here to seek help um I don't know how all this goes so if I have to be put on the agenda possibly you can do that for next time
um I my husband served 30 years in the military and he died during covid and that has left me financially devastated so I have been struggling and I applied for rental assistance on October 1st of last
year um it has been my experience that they are stalling and I am about to get served for eviction now because they've taken so long it's been six months um everything that they have asked they started asking for things I
think the very end of October and then through November I gave them everything sometimes they only gave me three days they never respond to submittable which is the only way that I have to to talk to them I tracked them down and went to their office and was told I have to go
to submittable they will not talk to me um I contacted representative truno office finally for help and he's got an assistant there named Elise and she was trying to help me and they contacted her
back in February I think like the 20th or something and they told her um that they would be taking care of this they were just wrapping it up and uh they just needed to know who to pay my landlord is the Castleberry city manager
he's very respected they have given him such a hard time that he has texted me and he's like if they say I didn't provide information I did my property is in a trust um they don't want to pay a trust even though they've done it in the past and even though they've paid other
properties that they have um they finally came up to um a Le with uh representative truno office and said I needed to provide they had everything pretty much wrapped up they just needed to know who to pay and it had to be somebody that had um a license and what
have you they gave me some stipulations it's the same address because the um manager of Castleberry the city manager and his partner run a property management company and um so I did get that information I got the license
number sent all that in in February I'm still waiting I get nothing I'm hoping I can get some help um I have all the stuff I thought I could hand it out but I obviously can't for the attorney and everybody that's present but this is literally everything on submittable and
90% of it is what I have sent um they just don't respond they're not doing anything and my landlord just contacted me yesterday and said something has to happen so I'm really hoping I can get some resolution on this thank you thank
you Miss Lawson I'm I'm sorry to hear that and Jennifer it looks like uh yes so if you would leave your information with Nikki right here on the end uh let me look into it I don't know any of the details and we'll see what we can offer
assistance okay perfect if you would just hand that to Nikki we'll look into itk thank you thank you Miss Lawson and uh you did you did well to come and for your first meeting speak so we'll see what we can do to help all right um Mr
neimi one of my friends from South Lake good morning Vinnie Vincent neck Regency Hills clamont good morning Commissioners uh today is a special day because I come before for you to show my
appreciation I'd like to say a big thank you to all the Commissioners especially Mr Sean Parks who's our district man uh commissioner and especially a big shout out and a thank you to Mr Jeff aart who diligently worked to get our situation
by Hancock and Harwood Marsh corrected uh for those Commissioners that aren't able to know what Mr ahart did he basically went down there spent a lot of time uh realizing that there were sensors in the ground so instead of
creating more traffic for Heartwood Marsh going either direction from east to west if there was not a car on top of the sensor then the light would not turn green or change which to me is a life-saving uh situation for Heartwood
Marsh because just this weekend we had an accident which actually caused close to a half an hour delay just to go a half a mile uh basically for myself and all the residents along Hancock in Harwood Marsh
in District 175 we won't forget this help that you gave us if I may please I would like to give a special uh shout out and a thank you to Mr Paul Eric Ericson mostly you know him he's our Public Service super superintendent he
gave me the knowledge of most of the roads or majority of the roads around the South Lake area which I'm studying uh it's a lot so I understand that everybody here has a lot on their plate besides South clamont also I would like
to definitely shout out to our acting City Commissioner uh city manager Mr Rick vanwagner for amplifying all our voices to the BCC and also the FD D so once again thank you from the bottom of
our hearts for helping us with this situation God bless you all and hopefully I won't have to come back no thank you Vinnie and you you can come back any time um and I'll just say personally thank you for um staying on the issue and being passionate about it
um you know you you I obviously for a couple years now I can I've been able to tell that you really just care about the community and I appreciate that and want to Echo a few of the same things that you said certainly app appreciate the relationship with Claremont trying to work on that issue with Hartwood Marsh
Road the next thing is to get it widened uh which we're working on uh Expediting that a lot of people don't know about that but we're actually made that the number one County priority Road uh uh for the last two years to get funding for that and we're going to we we think we may have a way to move it up we don't
know for sure yet but we we may have a way to move that up uh significantly in time to go ahead and get that widened which the sooner the better for me as I know you are too we'll get there uh we'll get there very soon I hope so um a lot more on that issue but uh really
just want to thank you very much for coming this morning and Thanking us appreciate that all right okay uh so the last card I have is uh Mr Richard cartright good morning good morning uh thank you for letting me speak uh I live
in Mount Dora and the uh community that they're building behind me is uh Lakeside uh and we've got a real issue there with dust now obviously we've had you know 20 25 mph winds here lately uh
I can appreciate that they can't control that but just under normal circumstances uh my property backs up to theirs and they put a what they would call a retainer fence for the dust and debris that's approximately 2 and 1/2 3
ft high and then they come in and they fill dirt up to the top of that so that does not do any good at all and you can I can't even sit out on my patio and enjoy this beautiful weather for the spring we're having and I'm sorry that
we don't have more people here to represent my community but we they should be able to put a higher fence or something up to control that even though their work on their first phase is pretty much done uh or at least it will
be pretty soon what's going to happen next is you still have all that dirt there until they get the houses built so I'm asking if somebody would please step in and ask the developer to do something uh to control some of that dust absolutely um yeah thank you Mr
cartright um so again we'll get some information from you exactly where it is I think I know from what you just describe where it is but they are uh you know to my knowledge uh anybody that's doing construction uh has an npdes responsibility uh both to prevent
erosion uh from the water and windborne dust so they're they're probably supposed to be doing things like maybe occasionally wetting it down so that it doesn't blow or putting sod down as quickly as possible and we'll find out it's something our Engineers could uh definitely uh find out if they're if
they're doing that and if they're you know they're supposed to be doing something with their permit if there's a some kind of an issue there's something they're doing they're they're not doing that they're supposed to be doing is what I'm trying to say okay uh we will we will find that out for you well they do try to wet it down and you know
obviously I come back to just what I just said it's the fence issue yeah when they start building in there I don't know what kind of fence is actually going to be around the perimeter of their property but the issue now is the fence they put there they put the dirt up to the same height as that so oh I
see okay so that fence is basically not any good at all okay all right so we'll look at that too as well but the dust and everything that you had that was of concern you know so we'll take a look at it just make sure you get the information to Jennifer Nikki probably right thank you
very much thank you appreciate it all right um I have no other cards uh is there one more chance for anybody online nobody else online okay all right then so I'll go ahead and close the public comment
period and uh we'll move to the Clerk of Court's consent agenda good morning again I have three items on my consent agenda this morning [Music] thank you Mr Cooney do approve second all right all those in favor say I I oppose there are none that passes
unanimously that was tab two we'll now move to our uh consent agenda so uh one more chance there's anybody in the public that has any questions about anything that's on the consent agenda that would be tabs 3 through1 17 I don't see anybody there's do we
have somebody online Okay um Eric yes we had a one hand raised it's a phone number uh 352 428 6652 you should be able to unmute and then give your comments to the board please okay go ahead and if this whoever's online if you have a question
about it okay good they are still muted you'll have to unmute your uh line to be able to speak but this is somebody who rais their hand okay okay sorry that's right go ahead uh yes ma'am uh
just state your name for the record please okay um and do you have a um go yes I saw Mr Sav uh speaking about the having Doge work with us to find out about waste or
whatever so I would be against that my husband and I want to not have a federal agency C well it's not even an agency to have someone come into our County and our state that would have uh some say
over what we're doing in our County and our state and uh we should be doing uh information gathering on finding out if there's waste in um in our government we don't need teenagers and 20year olds
coming in and looking at private information as they're doing at the federal level and uh the Optics are bad the richest man in the world may be telling people here that they no longer have a job so I would uh like to keep
our sovereignty and not get involved in that and if you need someone to help you find waste I guess I could do that too um but I think that that's the responsibility of Us in Lake County as the residents here and as you who are
the um representatives of us here and not to get not to allow Federal anything come in right now because we are a sovereign state and I would like to keep us that way okay thank you for your so that okay
go ahead no ma'am I was just going to say thank you for your input I didn't want to cut you off do you have anything else that you would like to say I know just that I would not want okay that's a sovereign state and a
sovereign County and thank you for your help thank you for listening oh you got it thank you for uh participating and we'll have discussion on this a little later at tab 20 um I think that that concern over the federal uh reach can be addressed um because we'll be doing this
through the state but you know stay tuned we'll be talking about that a little later on in the meeting tab 20 all right is there anybody else nobody else okay so we're back to move approval thank you the consent agenda for the consent agenda yes sir um all those in
favor say I I opposed there are none that passes unanimously all right so we're moving along pretty quickly here now we're going to go to our public hearings so this is tab 18 U and I will call on Melanie our attorney for this tab
this will be an ordinance of the board of County commissioners of Lake County Florida amending the following sections of the Lake County code appendix C Lan development regulations chapter 2 entitled definitions and section 30103 entitled schedule of permitted and conditional uses defining and permitting natural gas resiliency facilities in all commercial and Industrial zoning
districts defining and allowing solar facilities in the agricultural zoning District providing for severability providing for inclusion the code providing for filing with Department of State and providing for an effective date this is your second and final reading on this if you choose to approve it today it'll become ordinance 20255 and as a reminder these changes
are required by state law move to approve second we need to open the public hearing please yeah I'll do it I was going to take the second so there's a motion on the floor but we'll go ahead and do um uh public input is there anybody in the audience that wishes to speak on this tab tab
18 okay is there anybody Eric are you seeing anybody online okay so we'll go ahead and close the public comment period come back to the board we do have a motion on the table any final discussion no sir okay uh hearing none all those in favor of the motion say I I opposed there are none that passes
unanimously uh looks like Melanie you're up again for tab 19 no this is actually going to be John Simpson from the office of fire rescue okay my apologies you're glad right
good morning Mr Vice chairman good morning board uh I appreciate you giving me a few moments this morning to come before you to discuss the uh um the evaluation of providing leopard transport a limited basic life support certificate of Public necess public convenience necessity I apologize um in
the audience with us this morning is Dan McCarthy his wife Elizabeth who are the owners of leopard transport Kimberly Chao who is their operations manager and Nelson green who has served as their consultant through the process so I want to provide a little bit of background about why we're here
today and about the copcn process we'll talk a little bit about current need um I'll give you some background information on Leopard transport uh there are Local Company we'll summarize and then I'll put forward a recommendation uh and give it back to the board for the public hearing so the State of Florida is a
certificate of public convenience necessity state so they are a copcn state uh chapter 401 of Florida stat Utes uh provide sole authority to the County Commission of each County to provide certificates of public convenience and necessity which are requirement uh to receive licensure as
an ambulance provider in the State of Florida um providing ambulance services is highly regulated in the State of Florida it's to the Department of Health Bureau of emergency medical oversight um you must have a copcn to provide them to show that the County Commission has authorized those services to be provided um the uh certificate of public
convenience necessity or copcn is required if there's anytime Advanced life support services are provided or if there's basic life support or Advanced life support Transport Services provided so Lake County code section 1119 that provides the process and the
general form of a copcn and the application here in Lake County the um the U EMS division of the office of fire rescue serves on the board's behalf as the ambulance Authority and so we actually evaluate any applications we perform inspections all of that sort of
thing to evaluate the organizations Lake County The Bard of County Commissioners hold the only trans not I'm sorry the only unrestricted transport copcn in the county and that is administered through the office of fire rescue and so we provide Advanced life support and basic life support
responses in the county to provide transportation as the EMS Authority we also oversee all of our response Partners in the provision of advanced life support so one of the current needs that exist many patients that are discharged from our local facilities from hospitals
to home uh from home to nursing facilities hospital nursing facilities hospice patients also ancillary care appointments oftentimes those patients need oxygen oxygen can only be provided in a licensed ambulance an ambulance license at the basic life support level
can carry and provide that oxygen to be able to provide that need that we have in our community par Transit uh companies provide stretcher and wheelchair transport but they cannot provide medical care they cannot provide medical monitoring and they cannot provide oxygen to the patients that they're
transporting the county does not provide that service again you know specialization leads to efficiency and we specialize in emergency response scene response so this is a need in our community uh that needs to be taken care of for these patients so a limited scope basic life
support copcn would provide a solution to this and provide access to care for those patients so leopard transport to Central Florida there are Local veteran-owned Company uh they have provided they have been providing Paratransit services for
the last seven years throughout Lake County they do have a history of financial stability and they also have established relationships in the community so they currently serve all of our hospitals they serve various nursing homes hospices they already do the uh
the transports that are being discharged from these facilities however they cannot do them if they're discharged on oxygen so leopard has acquired three ambulances uh to provide this service the EMS division has performed thorough inspections based on state criteria and they have passed all of those
inspections they possess all the necessary equipment uh and they have fulfilled all obligations on the application additionally they are investing in the infrastructure in Lake County what you see on your screen they are building a 9,000 squ ft headquarters and maintenance facility uh in Groveland
this facility is located uh just north of the intersection of 19 and 27 right at the turnpike entrance uh so you may see that when you're driving by there they're actually it's being constructed already as you can see so uh we've reviewed their fee structure it falls in line with current
County schedules again all application materials have been completed they have agreed to County oversight and so they will work in partnership with us and they desire to provide a BLS BLS transport services so if awarded today um they will provide BLS inter facility
transportation that is restricted to patients departing a licensed hospital to a residential or nursing facility or the patients residents patients from residential nursing facilities for the purpose of scheduled ancillary care appointments and patients requiring dialysis who meet medical necessity for ambulance
transport so in summary there is a need in our community for these oxygen dependent transports uh the patient condition warrants transport by a licensed uh basic life support ambulance and leopard is seeking to provide that service they uh are a local business and they have a Prov they have a proven
Transportation history um additionally they are expanding Services locally so all County requirements have been met so the requested action is to issue leopard transport Central Florida a limited scope basic life support certificate of public convenience and necessity and
with that chairman I'll V Vice chairman I'll turn that back over to you thank you Chief appreciate that good presentation um Commissioners any questions question how many other um people do we have how many other companies do we have that do this so
currently locally uh RightWay transport they have they have they also have a limited scope copcn a matter of fact next month I'll be coming before the commission for another public hearing because it's time to renew theirs they've been providing it for the last two years theirs has been restricted to hospice patients only um however when
they renew we'll be opening up to the same type of patients as defined here we we're just going to remove the hospice area uh so they are the only other service in the county that provide that thank you you're welcome so Chief obviously this is um for our public safety concerns and at times the our
general EMS system can be strained with demands and everything obviously this is a a relief to that that assist right there's a yes sir this is a service that we cannot provide exactly yeah so it's going to it's going to help us with our overall providing uh First Response yes
sir okay I'm just I know you mentioned that just thought it would be important to point that out again so I appreciate what they're doing and thank you very much uh for the obvious investment into the county um thank you move to approve more public comment we need a
public you it's a public yeah okay all right so we'll do yeah I wasn't gonna anybody in the any anybody in the audience that wishes to speak on this matter uh anybody online okay go ahead and close the public comment period we have a motion to approve okay uh any
final discussion uh hearing all those in favor of the motion say I I I oppose there are none that passes unanimously thank you very much thank you Commissioners thanks Chief all right so we're getting near the end of the meeting uh we're going to go now to tab
uh 20 before we do our commission report so this is uh something that uh commissioner sabatini has asked that will be put on the agenda uh before uh he wants to make any comments I will just say um uh this is obviously of great importance now this issue these
questions about efficiency we did receive a letter uh at least Jennifer did um last week that maybe you could explain uh maybe I don't want to I know this is commissioner sabatini's uh item on the agenda so maybe just commissioner
you go ahead and speak and then Jennifer I'll a couple words and then I think obviously she'll you know she can um you know the governor wants all the county cities school boards everybody to to to publicly state that they're open they're willing to open their books and and Etc
work with the governor um I think we have the great opportunity to be the first government entity in the State uh to pass a resolution saying such and then lead the state lead the counties on this uh Bay County was the first County to say they were going to do it but they haven't passed a resolution yet I think
they're going to pass it early next week or later this week so we would be the first if and when we did it uh obviously I think everybody agrees with this um um I think it's great um I don't think that they're going to be going through every single County I think they're going to be looking for the trouble counties
which uh might be some of our neighbors and some people down south but certainly not us uh I think staff did a great job keeping it short sweet Legal Professional in terms of the resolution just says we're willing to work with them I think there is enormous benefit to the county to being the first to do
this in the state I think it's enormous benefit to do it in the middle of a legislative session showing the Govern Governor that we support his initiatives and showing him that we have his back while we have a lot of projects pending uh before the governor's pen here in a few weeks so I think that's good too uh
just uh shows a spirit of accountability and uh I just think there's a lot of lot of reasons to get it done quick I think the more interesting issue now would be um you know um we don't have the full board here but the reason why I would support passing it just with the remaining members of the board is
because the resolution that passes just has the the Chairman's name the cler county clerk's name Gary Cooney's name and the county manager so if we passed it with three we passed it with five honestly doesn't matter they're never going to see that they're never going to look and say okay who voted no or whatever they're just going to see that the county passed it I think it's best
to do it now because honestly getting it out quick and early leads will lead other counties other counties will say okay cool I mean I made a post about this on social media last week and I got 10 texts from elected officials saying please send me your resolution uh before it was even drafted so I think getting
it in getting it out um creates us as a leader in the eyes of the state when it comes to fiscal accountability and so that's why I would generally you know if Commissioners weren't here and it was something significant that gathers public interest I'd say let's wait till everybody's here but honestly knowing that uh the way the resolution is
crafted it's just speaks for the commission itself doesn't reflect any no votes or absent votes or anything like that and then secondly knowing that everybody on this commission and the staff are basically conservative accountable people who support it um I would I would make a motion to pass it
today because I think you know just the timeliness is key and there's so many advantages to being the first out the door and getting this out quickly I think there's advantages to that so that's why I obviously a low discussion but I'm going to make a motion to pass it today okay um so we'll come back to that
motion in a minute but um so a couple of things so I don't know if you're able to put up I should have thought of this earlier but if you're able to put up on the screen the resolution just so anybody can see it uh let me I'll Eric will work on that okay um in the
meantime um I did have a conversation with commissioner Campion about this as you made uh everyone aware earlier she was unable to make the meeting she has made a request that we table this until the full five member board can weigh in
and vote on this resolution however it is up to the board today to make that decision but I just wanted to put that on the record um as far as the letter that was received that you referenced earlier this does not have anything to do with the resolution that commissioner
sabatini has requested that was a letter sent from the executive office of the governor's Doge team requesting information about the financial stability of the county and I believe our Clerk of Court who acts as the controller from the county will be
addressing and responding to that letter that we received by the deadline of April 8th great yeah thank you and um I always like to point out the beautiful balance of power that we have at local government where our Clerk of Courts who's only beholden to the voters not to us has the ability
at all times to audit us uh which he does uh and you will be responding to that letter is that correct yeah I've already met with Jennifer yesterday Jennifer and Melanie have already drafted a letter to go the governor today nice yeah thank you good job appreciate that and just so you know we
they're asking for information uh beginning with the 181 19 fiscal year and each year we provide as part of sending up our financial report to the state we actually certify every year that we meet all of these tests and we've done that every year so we've
never been in financial distress um so as far as this letter goes my response should clear that out of the way for them um they have a repository up there where they could go look U but we're going to send them all the certifications that we did over the past year excellent thank you sir appreciate
that so as we're discussing this more I'm going to put something out as a thought um you know is it is it possible on for something like this that I think there's support I would agree there's support on this uh for probably all I'm saying all three of us that are here you know is this something that you can do two two readings on it's approved today
we do a second reading no you only want to do one okay all right yeah I I would prefer to have all five here um what I want to be very cautious is that I I feel we're all conservative yeah but I
don't want to turn the dis into a political event and I would like everybody to be able to weigh in on this um and that and that when we get everybody's I mean I think it's the fierce thing to do okay yeah I I and I
agree I you know traditionally we we usually you know respect a commissioner really wants to weigh in on something so it's apparent that uh chair Campion wants to weigh in on it so um we'll wait but I think it's clear to say on the record and you know that um anybody
listening that this is something that's important I think it's I'm glad you brought it up um it's not it does not there's no federal connection I that was a question that came up earlier right that that is correct this is strictly through the governor's office um that he's created the EOG do Doge team is is
the official title of the team um I would like to offer that if the board and it sounds like the consensus is to wait till we have all five members we do have a board meeting next Tuesday so I'd be happy to include it with that agenda
excent that sounds good to me sounds good to so I'll retract the motion we'll get it done Tuesday okay and I appreciate it I think it's I think it's a good sign again hopefully we're still the first to pass it yeah yeah I mean we're we're definitely a leader in that and and we are a leader I think it's a
great opportunity for us as a county to show that we are leader in efficiency I know Jennifer's always you know pressing and pressing and staff to try to find efficiencies and and and you know better value for the tax dollar which is really important especially at the local level
um for everything that we've got to do requirements for public safety and everything so I I think it's a good this is also a good chance for us to lean into it and show those that we serve that we actually are very efficient and we're willing to uh look in those areas that we have to improve and make changes
there as well so I appreciate thank you good good discussion and uh we'll move that to uh our next meeting and um wow that's it we're getting close to our final part of the meeting and that is uh commissioner
reports we'll start with um our attorney though nothing to report Miss Jennifer nothing okay commission 7 one nothing no updates nothing to report okay M I want everybody to be to uh come tonight to Mission in to the Boy Scout
dinner because our prestigious uh Vice chair is being honored tonight it's a great fundraiser for the uh Boy Scouts and congratulations on getting your Eagle thank you I appreciate that yeah it's uh secondly um the city of leeburg has a fish fry that
is probably the best fish you'll ever want on April 3rd so grab your tickets is a great event that's it thank you commissioner I appreciate that um just two items for me to report uh was at the Florida Association of
counties uh last week I think commissioner Sab sabatini was there right uh so I want to um I want to um compliment Florida Association of counties for giving us a really good presentation had all the secretaries come in and really give us an update
talked about some critical uh proposed legislation so um there's a long way to go in session things are bills and things are getting worked and reworked so we have to kind of wait till the end but it's always good to be engaged with the process
um so uh I think as as Commissioners you know we'll stay involved and be able to report to those that we serve in our districts but we have our staff that's tracking some of the bills as well to see how it'll affect us particularly in the rural areas um so we more to come on
that uh thank the Florida Association of counties all right last thing I'm supposed to do here is um of course commissioner Smith is not with us this morning and what does he do he over always provides a what day it is um so he has he has passed that along to uh
Jennifer as to what the day is today and drum roll but today is National Medal of Honor day big deal um I know that um private murus is our Congressional Medal of Honor I believe
I've got that correct right okay yes our historian in the audience Ray Powers is uh confirming that and of course se's from Altuna and um received a very rare that very rare Congressional Medal of Honor
for his uh heroics at iima and saving a platoon of men or maybe more even uh single-handedly taking on uh the Japanese Army at that time um for that very uh um it was a serious uh well just well you know your history it was a very
important battle for us so um he is he is one that I know of from Lake County and I don't know if there's any other medal of honors but maybe but but um anyway today is a national Medal of Honor day and uh certainly something for us to think about um this great nation and those that gave their lives for us
so and on the liner side for commissioner satini it's International Waffle Day guess we're all going to Waffle House Waffle House yes yes and I know that you have your you have your waffle houses staked out all around Lake County you know that trust me all right uh if
there's nothing else then um we are adjourned thank you good morning thank you good job thanks I'll see you guys tonight at the dinner all right thank you unifor for