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[Music] Good morning. Start the meeting first, then deal. We're going to get started in 15 seconds. I'm missing a lot of commissioners. I'm not sure why. Okay.
Good morning and welcome to the BOCCC meeting of Yeah, I don't have a quorum. Here they come. You guys are good because I don't have my uh Katie, where's my script?
Okay. Like to call to order the Pasco County Board of County Commission meeting, 10 a.m. meeting of May 20th, 2025. At this time, silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones. And please rise for the invocation and the pledge. And we have someone to give us an invocation this
morning. Good morning. Let's pray. Well, Father, we've come once again to discuss important matters in the county, Lord. And so we ask that you uh give us the wisdom to be able to respond to uh the needs and concerns of
our community. But we also have come together today to recognize some important folks. Lord, we lift up all of our public works figures. All of our people who are working tirelessly to make sure that everything is working
that's supposed to work. Lord, I just ask a special blessing on them as they go about uh their work uh often unrecognized. So, thank you for them, Lord. I also lift up our EMS workers today, Lord. uh they are out and about 24 hours a day
responding to the needs of our people. So ask a special blessing on them and your arms of protection as they go about doing their job. So thank you for gathering us for these purposes and ask that you be with us, guide us in all
that you'd have us to do. And I lift us all up in your name. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Thank you. Okay. So, um, can you please call the role? District one, Commissioner Oakley here. I don't think my mic is on.
Commissioner Oakley. Let me do that again. District 1, Commissioner Oakley here. District two, Commissioner Waitman, present. District four, Commissioner Joerger here. District five, Commissioner Mariano here. District three, Chairman Starky here. You have a quorum. Okay. Uh, so now is the time for public comment. Citizens
are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business under the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First, we will take public comment from those who are here in person. Then, we will take public
comment from those who have pre-registered for WebEx Link and are currently on Q. We request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or a team member, but rather directed at the issue. This
provides mutual respect between board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, a three minute timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After two minutes, a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. When your time is up, a red light
will be displayed. Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments. WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. Before we begin, I've gotten a little word that some people are here to speak about an issue that is this
afternoon. I'm going to have my county attorney explain how some of these rules work. Yeah. Public comment is is for business which is on the regular or consent agenda or is for a future meeting. Those items which have which
are on your public hearing agenda starting at 1:30, the public comment for those items needs to be taken up in those meetings. Um my understanding is that there are folks signed up for the little road MPD which has a comp plan
amendment as P43 and the reasonzoning which is P55. That comment is more appropriately taken this afternoon during those items. Thank you very much. All right. Um Madam Park, do you have a lineup?
So I would you would think so, Madam Chair, but I only have two people signed up. So, I'm assuming there's more people in the audience that didn't sign up. So, we'll take the two that signed up first. So, we have Wanda Chasnoff followed by Rachel Hobbs. And those are the two that I have signed up. Okay. And maybe we're full from the resolutions. Good morning.
My name is Wanda Chasnoff. I live at 668 Status Lane, Newport Richie. I'm here uh I was here a few weeks ago and I was here on the homeless people that live on Green Key. Well, there's only been two arrests and warnings. The neighbors
don't feel like we're getting anywhere. They're still there 6 5:30, 6 o'clock this morning. I was out walking the street. They was out roaming the streets and everything. Last week, I got up straight out of bed at 7:00 in the morning and what I walk out my door. What? I smell fire. They got a fire
going. I had to call the fire department. And Miss Starky, you had put some pretty pressure on them about doing something. Jack's secretaries are trying to do what they need to do, but we're not getting anywhere and we need to push further to get this out of there because
we're going to have a major fire. All this trying to fix our houses and everything. I just got a permit and I applied in January. I'm just starting to fix my house. Okay. I'm dealing with the count uh the city about the Motel 6. They're live the homeless people are
beginning to live in the Motel 6. I had Colin out there last week. I made him walk the property with me about the flooding. Pleasant Bill is a mobile home park in front of me. They're putting all new trailers, but we got no drainage on Green Key. It's going to flood again.
What are we going to do? We're putting all this new money and everything on Green Key and we're all going to flood again. We got homeless people roaming, flooding, fires. What else do we need? We need your help. Please, I'm asking. If not, I'm picking up and moving. I
don't know what else to do. Madam Chair, I'm 67 years old. Is that is that private property? Well, so Madam Chair, to to talk I'd like David to get with her about the homeless that's in the old area. The one parcel she's talking about that we talked about is
actually in public. We're working on it right now to buy the property. We think we have an agreement coming together. It's going to help with the drainage. It ain't moving fast enough. Here we are. Hurricane season again and I ain't even barely started on my house. All right. Um, so we'll talk to David Allen. If you
want to talk to um, Sonia, she can tell you what's going on right now. It's in real estate right now. I've been in contact with them very quickly, but you don't understand what's going on clearly because we are working on buying the property. We think we're going to come to terms. So that solution is there for drainage as well as homeless for that one particular. For the rest of the
homeless, I'd like you to talk to David Allen. Let him handle it. Okay. Thank you. I just need y'all's help. I can't We are working on it. Okay. Next. Um, good morning, chair and commissioners. Um, my name is Rachel Hobbs. I represent Home Run Financing.
We're a third-party program administrator for the Florida Pace Funding Agency. Um, my address is 750 University Avenue. It's in Loscatos, California. So, I'm here before you today to provide
you with the regular three-yearly report of the Florida Pace Funding Agency as required in your interlocal agreement dated May 2019. And I have two pages. I have copies here for your staff to to get to
each of you. Move receive file. All in favor? I I You just hand it to her. So, uh, thank you for, um, your time and for the opportunity to present this report to you. As I've mentioned, this is the report of the Florida Pace
Funding Agency. In the paper I have for you, we have the agency email and the website as required. The interlocal agreement is dated May 2019. Um, we're required to give you the written report, a verbal representation, uh, sorry,
verbal presentation every 3 years. Um, so as a reminder, this, uh, is an ILA that covers the uninccorporated part of your county only and does not cover any of the properties within any of the city limits. The total of the assessments
that have been originated until February at the end of February this year is um 15,347,146 um with the average amount of the assessment being $20,545. Um this is the report only of
the Florida Pace Funding Agency. It's not of any of the other PACE districts that are operating within your county. Um, and I would like to mention that the Florida Pace Funding Agency is under new leadership. There is a new executive
director there, Wendy Leech, and her email is the email listed for you as the uh agency email to mention. Some ancillary benefits of the PACE program is roof roof replacement which is helping your
homeowners with the everinccreasing insurance issues within the state of Florida. To give you a brief update, there was major legislation uh at the state level last year effective July 1st. It brought in um new consumer
protections including confirmed terms calls an ability to pay test. It reduced the maximum term from 30 to 20 years and it put the Florida Auditor General as uh state regulator for the PACE program. It
also um expanded the program to include septic to sewer conversions and flood mitigation. So at a state level it was decided that those two items would be uh PACE eligible from now on. And thank you very much. Thank you
very much. Thank you. We need to make sure we have the other companies doing this. This is the first time I've seen this. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else? Is there anyone online? Um there was one one person signed up, but they're not logged in yet. Okay. Is there anyone
else here who wishes to speak to the BCC? Come on up. As you're walking up, please state your name and address for the record. Good morning. Julie McIll, 4922 Wishart Boulevard, Tampa. I come before you today to talk
about Bailey's Bluff. Uh Bailey's Bluff consists of about well 130 136 homes, most on the water, but all on septic. Really? She caught my attention when she mentioned that septic to sewer. Okay.
Um the the simple solution would be to run a sewer line down Pine View. All these septic systems are aging. A lot of those houses built in Bailey's were built in in the late 60s. So we have aging septic systems which are overflowing drain fields. There's not
enough room to to build a new one if old ones have gone bad. Sand Bay on the other hand was built in the 80s. Those people were given sewer. So we weren't around in this capacity in the 80s. But why wasn't that developer made to run
that on Pine View to service not only San Bay, but also Bailey's Bluff? Lots of reasons. It's it's a mess. Um the problem, the huge problem we have is when those septic systems when we have hurricanes or when they overflow or they have to be pumped repeatedly, not only
is that byproduct of nitrogen going into our groundwater, it's also overflowing into our waterways. I walked the neighborhood and I got a lot of feedback from the neighbors. Most of them with waterfront property don't even feel like they're they have waterfront property because nitrogen not
only I'll get to the sea life in a minute. Nitrogen causes sediment buildup. They've been waiting since 2017 to have their waterways dredged so they can get their boats out. They're paying taxes on waterfront property and it's sledge front property basically. The
other problem is we have a federally protected manatees. Okay. This nitrogen runoff kills the seaggrass that these these animals live on. That's their main diet. I emailed each and every one of you about an article about Indian
River. Manatees,00 manatees starve to death because of nitrogen runoff that killed their main food supply. We're a ticking time bomb here in Bailey's Bluff. It's going to happen. And I hope that this doesn't fall on deaf ears. We can already see the evidence. I have a
homeowner here that when they first moved in, they saw manatees. They don't see them anymore. The oyster beds are black in the lagoon. They should be white and thriving. They're black. They're dying. We need to do this now. Get this sewer run. Get these people off
septic or we're going to have another Indian River on our hands. So, well, thank you. Bring this up. Well, I'm going to add this right now to our CDBGDR list. Thank you. I tell the administrators. I appreciate that. All right, thank you. Um, is there anyone else here who
wishes to speak? Okay, we will move on to the consent agenda and um, the individual still not on WebEx. Was the individual, I believe. Oh, okay. Julie McIll, was that
okay? Thank you. All right. Um, do I have Oh, this is for the afternoon. This whole list. I do have a list here. That's applicants. That's applicants for
the afternoon. Okay. All right. Um, do I have a poll sheet? No, I don't have anything for the consent agenda. Did you want to do resolutions or were you just moving to consent? Well, mine Okay, we can do resolutions. Mine is a time
certain. So, we'll do RS1. Okay. But I but I don't have a pull sheet. If you are here for National Public Works Week in Pasco, please step up to the podium. All of you. Not just a few little bunch.
They're not here to say something to us about it. Sorry. Thanks. Anybody working today? Promise this is a We're going to make this very, very fast. Public works. All right, I'll I will go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number
25-227, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 18th to the 24th, 2025 as National Public Works Week in Pasco County. Whereas public work professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to
sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, quality of life, and well-being of the citizens of Pasco County. And whereas these infrastructures and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of the Pasco County's public works professionals who are engineers,
managers, and employees responsible for rehabilitating, improving, maintaining, and protecting Pasco County's transportation network, public buildings, and storm water infrastructure that are essential for public for Pasco County citizens. And whereas it is the public's interest for
civic leaders, residents, and children of Pasco County to gain knowledge of and to maintain progressive interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. And RAZ efficiency of the qual qualified, dedicated and talented employees who
staff public works is materially influenced by their cand do attitude and an understanding of the importance of the work they perform. Andraz National Public Works Week beca became an educational campaign in 1960 and 2025
marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. And whereas the 2025 National Public Works Week theme is people, purpose, presence, which highlights the three cornerstone ideals that motivate public work
professionals to serve in their communities every day and recognize a substantial contributions they make to protect our national health, safety, and quality of life. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said, board hereby declares the
week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025, as National Public Works Week in Pasco County and encourages all citizens to support public work activities this week and throughout the year. Done and resolved in regular session with corn present and voting this 20th day of May 2025. Move approval. Second. All in
favor? I. Good morning. Morning. I'm Jason Mls director. Is anybody uh working today? I'll just quick how many in your department? That's a good question. Commissioners is a very very small small section of our 270 plus folks that we
have working in um public works. Yeah. Right. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Well, um first thing I want to say is, you know, thank you Commissioner Oakley um for sponsoring this. Um Madam Chair and the rest of the board. I I genuinely want to thank you for all the support
that we get um not only during our regular daily activities of providing um safe and efficient and proactive um storm water and road maintenance activities, but you were really there for us along with the executive leadership team this year during our our
storm season. Um, you know, part of part of the three storms that these folks all dealt with um throughout throughout the kind of the the storm season of 2024 was unprecedented as you know. And um we all kind of band together as a county and as
a team to to deal with each of those storms that seem to each get worse um throughout the year. And and partly I know this is a big group here behind me, but the main reason why they're here today is because these are the folks who um really work tirelessly throughout
that whole process. And it's it's our our field teams that were out there working tirelessly. It's our engineers, our GIS techs or scientists, um the inter office people. You have people that worked um long hours on our fiscal
team. Um, so we have a we have a large cross-section of people here and I wanted them to get acknowledged. I want them here to come here today and just so you can see their faces and know all the great people that are out there doing all the great work. Well, we are really grateful for to all of you and we see
you out there. Um, and uh, and Jason, I do want to walk BMP5 with you early in the morning. Okay. When it before it's hot. Um, so I don't know if you want to come on that one, Jack, but um, yeah, Commissioner Oakley, we want to, uh,
thank you and all your team uh, with your leadership team, plus yourself and and all the staff that makes things happen here in the county because without you, the county would be quite a mess without the work y'all do. So, uh,
that's from west side to east side. So, it's been a long time since I've seen anyone leaning on a shovel or something of that nature, but we've we've actually developed uh you continue working all the time now. So, but we certainly
appreciate you doing what you do and doing your job. So, you're a big part of all that what happens here in Pasco. You're not just someone that we forget out there. We we know you're there. We know you're doing the work that needs to be done. I I have to go back to one
thing that Brford brought one time was fixing the potholes. When you called in, within the next couple of days, it's fixed. So, it's u it's very heartwarming to see that done because in years past that wouldn't have been done at all. So,
it's it really saves a lot of tires and cut for the citizens and um when things show up in roadways and all that cleaned away to to make room for our citizens driving on these roads, uh we certainly appreciate you for all that work. But
all of it, you're you're not just uh someone that we don't know. We we see you and we thank you every day. Okay, Mr. Wait. Thank you, Chair Branford, Mr. ML team, everybody behind you, you guys
are tough and gals and thank you for sticking with us through last year. I know we're in a in a new year. Hopefully it's it's not as tough on us, but uh we couldn't do it without you. The decisions we make, you guys have to implement and uh appreciate your dedication and service to the citizens
of Pasco County. And remember during storm season, if we were to have another one, take care of yourselves. You're not good to anybody else unless unless you're taken care of, too. So, we're here to support you just as you support us. And very happy that you're here with us today.
Yes, me. Uh, first of all, thank you so much for everything you guys do. And, um, I always see you guys out working Commissioner Oakley. Um, and um, just like he said, you know, you pick up a phone and you guys are on it. So, thank you and we appreciate everything you do.
Thank you, M. Mariana, thank you. And I want to say I just greatly appreciate from from back in 2004 when I was first campaigning to run and all the storms that were going on and seeing all the devastation and the suffering that was going on. Uh I wanted to make this a main mantra for mine for uh for my career here. And I want to say what you
guys have done over the years has been amazing. I mean, we started out with the MSTU back in 2006 to go study what we needed to go do and after that information's gone through the execution. Uh, and I'll say especially when Brford came on as well with everybody here, I think everything freed up to give you guys the opportunity to
get the work done, figure out what need to be done. We had plans that were on the shelf for years like at Holiday Hills that was out there for 30 years ago, uh, how to fix it and we kind of went very similar to those plans. So, it's great to have ideas. It's great to have engineering and we got the
execution to go with it to what you guys have done has been phenomenal. last year when we had the tropical storm hurricane Debbie coming in and we kind of we talked on a Friday afternoon with Jason Brford, myself, Swift Mud D and trying to make something happen. And the next
morning out at Palm Terrace, we had 29 trucks ready to go. Back loaders ready to go. Are we going to go dig out the the ponds onto the side to cut away? We're going to actually put fill in there or we're going to dig out the spray field to the side now that the plant's been shut down to go go. These
guys were ready to go when they were ready to go all the way through. They took out 400 truckloads of dirt in very very short period of time, like three three days. They came back the following week after the storm had passed and then went back to it and did a phenomenal job. And then even after that, we still had to go work on what we're going to do
for that whole area because we don't want them flooding again. And it would get really close with another storm that came in, just a regular storm. But what you did for even that area right there has just been amazing. I mean, Gulf Highlands where they suffered year after year after year. What you guys have done
for uh I used to call it a loop like when the storm was coming in, I had a place I'd started see pines, work my way down and around. I don't have as many places to go anymore by far and but now as I go there in satisfaction just to see how great the work that you guys have done has been. So, uh, I want to tell you for someone who's watched you
guys and watched you guys grow as a as a group, um, it's been absolutely phenomenal what you've done for this county because instead of being call it a laughing stock, call it a troubled area that with with growth right now, you look at all the things we had going on last year. I only saw us on the news
one time at old Dixie Hudson and frankly just this past week when we saw some things there, we just got a couple of pipes here. We got to probably just like seal them in uh, line them and that that area is going to get taken care of too. So, I just want to thank you guys for what you have done has been absolutely
amazing and I appreciate you every single day. Thank you. Y'all may not know this, but Jason and I go way back when way 25 years, I don't know, when I was on the PA basin board, SwiftMUD, and Jason was was there. And back then, Pasco County had no money. We did not
have a storm water fee. So, we couldn't do cooperative funding projects with SwiftMUD. All our money was being spent in Penllis County. It was so frustrating when I was a board member, but um now we are uh rocking and rolling. And I think with this money we got from HUD, you
guys are going to be really busy in the next few years. So, we're going to fix a lot of issues in the county that will help our citizens. So, thank you very much. And uh the county administrator would like to say something real quick. Yeah, just real briefly. You know, public works is a it's a core competency
of government because without it, nothing else happens, right? You underpin society, right? And even during the storms, right, the first responders would not have been able to get where they needed to go had had the roads not been cleared, had the flood waters not been where they are. So the work that
you do helps our economy thrive and helps our people stay safe, quite honestly. And it it can't be more succinct than that. So I just thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work, Jason, that you and your team do every single day out there. So thank you. Okay. Um, Commissioner, I'm gonna
go down front. We'll stand up back here. [Music] I think you guys are going to have to go forward. Mr. Oakley, step forward. You guys make three rows. Someone organized them.
I can see right now that's not going to work. Well, this one back here in the green, there's no way no one's going to see. No one wants to see him anyway. Get up front. She's hiding. Hiding. Okay, she wants to
hide. Windowide window. And you're a beautiful color. Everyone look at Amanda first, please. I love those yellow shirts. Thank you, guys. back out of the heat.
Okay, we're gonna jump over to res three. Res three I have is a time certain for 11:15. Oh, did I skip one? Wait a minute. Yeah, two here. She's here. We can have resolution. No, no, no. I'm going to wait on that one. Oh, I'm sorry. Res two. Yeah.
All right. So, resolution two. Um, if you are here representing the Economic Development Week in Pasco County, please step up to the podium. Very good. I'll go ahead and read the resolution.
Resolution 25-228, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 12th through the 16th, 2025 as economic development week in Pasco County. RAZ economic development week is an event created by the international economic
development council to celebrate the achievements of economic developers and since 1926 the international economic development council has been a leader and driving force in advancing economic development initiatives with a steadfast commitment to fostering growth and
prosperity in communities of all sizes through um equity, inclusion, sustainability, resilience, and innovation. And whereas more than 100,000 economic development and related professionals worldwide are committed to creating, retaining, and expanding
opportunities that facilitate long-term equitable community growth. And whereas the economic development profession cultivates thriving neighborhoods, champions sustainability and resiliency, boosts economic prosperity, enhances quality of life, and builds robust tax
bases. and RAZ economic developers are engaged in a wide variety of settings including rural and urban, local, state, provincial and federal governments, public private partnerships, chambers of commerce, universities, and a variety of
other institutions. Andraz economic development professionals serve as stewards bridging connections between community stakeholders as a as such as residents, business, business leaders, elected officials, industry executives and educational
administrations to collaborate in promoting job creation, community investment, infrastructure advancement advancements and um optim optimistic futures and since 1987 the economic development council EDC has served as the lead economic development
organization dedicated to the overall growth and prosperity of Pasco County through the development of sustainable and diversified economy. And whereas in 2025, the Pasco EDC was recognized as one of 86 economic development organizations accredited by the
International Economic Development Council as an accredited economic development organization. NRA. Since 1996, the Pasco EDC has assisted companies through business expansions and relocations, resulting in over three billion in capital improvements and over
22,000 new jobs in Pasco County. And economic developers attract and retain highquality jobs, develop vibrant communities, and distri and contribute to the betterment uh and progress of Pasco County. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida,
that said, board hereby declares the week of May 12th through 16, 2025 as economic development week in Pasco County, and recognizes the importance of this community celebration, which supports expanding opportunities, bettering lives, and moving societies forward in Pasco County. Done and
resolved in regular session with a quorum present, and voting this 20th day of May, 2025. Approve. Second. All in favor? I. Good morning. Um, this is Commissioner Weightman. Good morning. Good morning. Y'all gonna
arm wrestle up here today. See who's who's stronger at economic development around here. No, thank you. It is no secret that Pasco County is on the map and the place to be in the Tampa Bay area. And uh, our
economy has just grown leaps and bounds. um you name the product type, it seems to be coming this way uh and being looked at. And thank you both for uh taking the responsibility of guiding folks in industry to our county and
selling uh to them why Pasco County is the place to do business. So with that, I'll turn it over to you all. Well, thank you again and thank all of you for recognition and the resolution today. Uh economic development is a team sport. It really is. And Lots of people don't know
what all is in economic development because they do so many different things, but the main thing is promoting Pasco as a place to do business. And when we're marketing Pasco better when we're marketing Pasco, we're not always marketing ourselves or our
profession. So the the professionals that are involved with economic development, this is kind of a week to celebrate them. There's over 16,000 agencies in the United States that do what we do. really competitive out there and a lot of them aren't visible like public works with yellow vest and and
can't always be seen. As a matter of fact, they're at the office today working, but it is very much a team sport and uh David's here with me because the county team has been extremely supportive. We can't do what we do without them and and vice versa. Uh it is a a team sport. It's a full
contact sport. um we've done really well and punch well above our weight, but to recognize the individuals that work in this uh this industry is rare because um most people don't go grow up saying I'm going to go to college to be an economic developer.
We all kind of fall into it by accident and we bring with us some skill sets and we're just really blessed that we're able to do something for good in our day-to-day jobs. David, do you want to add? Sure. Uh David Engel, planning and economic growth director. I just want to
thank the board for their commitment on job skills training, advancing our county as a uh employment hub for the region. And I just like to give Bill some kudos. Uh Mitech, Belco, Southeast
Colbert, Gary Plastics, Metler Toledo to name Touchpoint Medical. These are just some of the projects that the EDC has facilitated and brought to our county. And also a testament to the EDC and the county board is the fact is that we are having industry expand here and stay
here in the county like Soul Medical and some others. So I thank you very much for your support. Thank you. Um let's see. Commissioner Oakley, we're going to work our way down this. Okay. Um thank you both for what you do here in the county and for our citizens of Pasco
County. Uh having more and more jobs here in the county keeps our citizens at home and at large here in the county uh being able to play and stay and have the open space. They think all the space is leaving, but I got news for you that a
third of this county is going to be open space forever. So, um we need to take good care of those things that are coming in that will help and be a big part of the citizens here in Pasco County. And thank you both for what you do.
Commissioner Joerger. Well, first of all, I think you have an easy job because Pasco is amazing. But all joking aside, thank you for bringing quality um businesses to Pasco County. Um we have a little bit of everything. We're very diverse. We're very blessed. Um and
every time I think we have something unique, something else unique and amazing you guys find to bring to Pascosa County. So, thank you for recruiting and, you know, trying to get the the best of the best here. So, appreciate that and all the hard work
you guys do. Commissioner Mariano, I tell you, we're lucky to have two superstars out there. Um, and you guys, as you say, Bill, it takes a great team, but it takes the great coaches, too. And what you guys do to lead the way has been amazing. Um, I think the countyy's
always wanted to for years to to be an economic leader. uh they want to be a bedroom community to tamper in Penllis County. So all that said, the change has happened and with take we've taken advantage of the space. You've done a great job analyzing set us up for success. I mean your reputation around
the country has been around the world has been phenomenal. So it's been easy uh to for you to I think take a big step. Um we're lucky to have you u however that played out was great. I'm just I'm thrilled you're here because what you've done has been phenomenal.
And David, as you work with the companies he brings in for years, you've been setting up with these incentive programs that can work every step of the way, which has led to not only us uh spreading out further, but getting funding and buyin from the public to say we'll support you in the penny for Pasco
as well. So, thank you for your great leadership, your great teamwork, and and keep doing what you're doing. You're doing phenomenal. Um well, you know, this is a passion of mine and before we had Bill and when uh Hillsboro County and Panalis County said, "You can't participate in our international
economic development efforts," I said, "Okay, well, we'll start our own." Uh look where we look where we are now. Um so, uh to me, it's always that's always been the lowhanging fruit and um I just think we've done amazing and and
there's lots of room to do even more. Um, David, I know I photobombed you the other day in a meeting. Um, you know, uh, you know, I was chair of the International Economic Development Task Force at Niko for three years and then vi I've been vice chair ever since. So,
um, we had an amazing report um, on our last two national calls about a county in upstate New York called Anendega. Trying to say it right. Anendga. And they and now they got a chip. They got a chip factory. Um, I I
can't I mean, what they had to do uh in within the county is amazing. And David, I'll send um um Oh my gosh, forgetting your name over here, Bill. I will send it to you, too. But I do want to go I do want to talk to you about what they did sometime. I know we're not going to get
a chip factory, but I thought it was pretty amazing how they did this comprehensive plan for the county based on what was coming. They had to buy 40 houses to make room for it. So, it's very, very interesting. and the repercussions it had all through the county. So, um uh and I think Moffett,
you know, Spiros is going to do it do for us like what that did for for that county. So, I'm very excited about the future with the two of you at the helm and um congratulations on on uh International Economic Development Week. All right, I think we have room for all of us to go down.
I want to talk more about the chip factory. I like potato chips. We also have to learn. So I said yes to share.
Yes. Can everyone take where to step this one? [Applause] Okay, now we have we're going to skip RS3 because that's a time certain. No, that's our RS4. So, let me see. RS3 is
time for 11:15. RS4. We have Commissioner Joerger's resolution. Okay. Uh so if you're here for family abduction awareness day, please step forward to the podium.
Are you sure? All right. Um if no one is um present, I usually read by title only if is that all right or Okay. Resolution number 25-231, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring May 25th, 2025 as
Family Abduction Awareness Day in Pasco County. And do we have take a motion? Yes. Approval. Second. All in favor? I. All right. Then we have RS5. Commissioner Mariano. If you're
here for National Emergency Medical Services Week in Pasco County, please step up to the podium. I'll go ahead and read the resolution as you're making your way to the podium. Resolution number 25-232, a resolution by the board of
county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as National Emergency Medical Services Week in Pasco County. Whereas National Emergency Medical Services, EMS, week was first established in 1974 by President Gerald
Ford, making this year the 51st annual National EMS Week. Andraz EMS week is a celebration to honor the over 1 million EMS providers nationwide for their service and sacrifices. It is also an opportunity for fire and EMS crews to
continue to raise public awareness about the critical role of EMS in the community. And whereas EMS week recognizes the members of the emergency medical services team who provide a vital public service and are on the front lines ready to administer life-saving life-saving care and
services to all residents in need in Pasco County 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. and RAZMS system members. Daily hard work, especially in potentially fatal situations, dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those
who experience sudden illness or injury. And whereas the members of the EMS team engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills. and RAZ. The EMS system consists of emergency physicians, nurses, skilled
dispatchers, emergency medical technicians, EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, first responders, educators, administrators, and others who provide quality emergency care. Andraz, the 2025 emer national emergency
medical services week theme, we care for everyone, emphasizes the dedication and compassion of emergency medical services professionals who provide life-saving care to individuals in need regardless of their circumstances. and whereas it is important to recognize the value and
accomplishments of emergency medical service providers and to honor them by dis designating the week of May 18th through the 24th 2025 as National Emergency Medical Services Week. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida. That said, board hereby
proclaims the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025 as National Emergency Services Week in Paso County and encourages the citizens of Paso County to join in expressing appreciation for the exemplary efforts, hard work, exceptional services, and dedication
provided by the individuals who work for Pasco County Fire Rescue. Denon resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the 6th day of May, 2025. Approval second. Second. All in favor? I. Commissioner Mariano. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, I'd like to thank you
guys for your service, your whole team. Um, I think the way you guys carry yourselves and the way you serve our people, make you a a group in the nation that's respected as one of the best departments there are. Uh, you guys are innovative, you're caring, um, and you're you help us help our citizens
better, too. So, I just want to thank you for the great work you guys do every every day, day in and day out day out. Um, Commissioner Oakley, I'd like to thank you for all the work you do and your people go through to uh help our citizens throughout the county
and see more. It seems like it's happening more often than not that we're opening new stations all the time, which provides that infield in a in a shorter time frame in and servicing our citizens. So, I certainly appreciate everything you do.
and Commissioner Waitman. Thank you, Chair. It's good to have you all here today. Exciting to see you in the building. Recognize all the hard work you do, not just for our county, but for everybody who lives here, our businesses. Um, keeping those keeping their everything up to date. That way,
folks can shop and spend money and go to work and and and not worry about things that you all do. and uh just grateful that you could choose any of the all 67 counties, you choose Pasco to to work here and know that we do our best every budget cycle to try to figure out ways
to retain and recruit and uh it's, you know, a testament to the leadership of our fire service and EMS service on how to get folks to uh come to Pasco and say, "Hey, this would be a great place to train and work and hopefully live a live a good life." So proud to recognize
you all today and very happy you're here with us this morning. Commissioner Jerger. Yes. So I want to say um thank you for everything you do for our community and I also want to just touch on what you guys do for the for the youth. So my son is in the cadet program
and the people running this program are pouring into these kids. I mean, my son last night, he's talking 45 minutes when he got home from the cadetses last night and he's doing a ride along with somebody in Clearwater and and it's just
sky's the limit. Like he he has his path is so solid and that he cannot wait to work for Pasco County. I am so proud of you guys, you know. And here here's another example. I I had put on Facebook that, you know, my son's
team was one game away from being in the state championship and you know what, a bunch of firefighters showed up to the game to support the kids. Like that meant so much to that to the team. So, just thank you for everything you do from everything in the community and I
just wanted to touch on the youth because what you guys do is absolutely incredible. Thank you. Well, um I too would uh say as as I always say, you you're just every time I I'm out on the road, I see you guys. And I we have some
new faces here today, though. So, I guess you mix it around when uh when you when you bring the guys in. So, um and girls. I don't think we have we Oh, yeah. We have one here today. So, thank you so much for all you do. Um gosh, I I can't even imagine uh what
would happen if, you know, we didn't have you guys. Hopefully, we get to keep our state funding and uh keep I shouldn't go into that. It's a little crazy times in Tallahassee. Um but uh again, we all we all appreciate everything that you do
and the dedication you have to our citizens and our county administrator would like to say something. Yeah, just just briefly echo echo the sentiment. You guys are critical infrastructure at the end of the day. Again, similar to public works, we we could not go on with life literally in some cases uh with
without you. I mean, we are probably one of the busiest ambulatory services in the entire state of Florida. Uh, you guys are out there, you know, humping a lot of ground to make to make stuff happen. And so, uh, those first minutes are critical and we we continue to make those investments to try to help you reach our citizens on their worst day as
quickly as possible. So, thank you, Chief, and and just thank you team for everything that you guys do. And you want to address us? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you all of you for your support, especially the citizens as well. It doesn't ever go unnoticed. And you know, Pasco County has been making headlines
recently for a lot of new things that we're doing. But what we have done consistently is is had some of the best paramedics in the state. And these guys save lives every day better than any other agency around us. And you know, they run the lion share of what we do. Our um rescue crews are going to run
probably 90,000 calls this year. And some of the stuff that we're doing in the back of these ambulances is literally life- saving. So we are at the we're the tip of the spear as Mr. Murphy likes to put it as far as uh treatment and saving lives and and um you know procedures in the back of an ambulance.
And if you ever had time to come ride along with us for a day, you would absolutely be amazed at what these men and women are doing in the back of there. So, uh we can't thank them enough. They're literally saving lives every day and we appreciate your guys' support. Thank you so much. Thank you. Um what do you think? I'm coming down. I
go down. Okay, we're good. All right. What do you think? It said it's in that folder. Wait, where did this tall guy come from? I Googled where the downloads here. Yeah.
Yeah. Every meeting I have this Every meeting I have this problem. I can't find it. [Applause] You're taller than me. Even me up here on should be.
You said your son's riding in Clear Water. Yeah. Why not ride with us? He can. His name is Josh. Very good. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Let's we'll figure that out in a second. We have now RS5.
So, we did RS5. Um, we have RS6. RS6. Wanted to double check that. If you're here for National Safe Boating Week in Pasco County, please step up to the podium. National Safe Boating Week.
Wonderful. I will go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 25-233, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2025 as National Safe
Boating Week in Pasco County. Whereas the National Safe Boating Council, NSBC, was organized in September of 1958 under the name National Safe Boating Committee. ANRAZ. The goal of the National Safe Boating Council is to
improve boater behavior through education, awareness, and training to make recreational boating a safe and enjoyable experience by reducing boating accidents. ANRA National Safe Boating Week is observed to bring attention to important life-saving tips for
recreational boers so that they can have a safer, more fun experience out on the water throughout the year. and RAZ through basic boating safety procedures, carrying life-saving emergency distress and communications equipment, wearing safe life jackets, attending safe
boating courses, participating in free boat safety checks, and staying sober when navigating, we can help ensure boers stay safe throughout the season. Andres, on average 650 people die each year in boating related accidents in the
United States with most of these accidents caused by human error or poor judgment and not by the boat equipment or environmental factors. and res in accordance in accordance with Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission requirements and the mission of the
United States Coast Guard classes are offered monthly by Hudson flotillaa 117 United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Hudson Flotilla 117 United States Coastg Guard Auxiliary
teaches boating safety classes performs vessel safety checks and works in the community for boater safety and whereas Boers are encouraged to be conscientious and deliberate in making choices that will ensure a safe boating experience for all boers enjoying the waterways of
our community. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby recognizes the importance of life of safe boating and declares May 17th through the 23rd, 2025 as National Safe Boating Week in Pasco County. Done and resolved in regular
session with the quorum president and voting this 20th day of May, 2025. Move approval. Second. All in favor? I. Commissioner Mariano. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Uh, every year you come forward to accept this uh resolution, we greatly appreciate the work you do in
our community. Uh, safety is everything and what you do is to educate our people to make them safer. We greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Commissioner Oak certainly like to thank you for all that you do and help make
boats safer as we go because uh our our activity on water has increased since we got our scallop season and we want people to enjoy and and uh be on that water as much as they can because we're in an area where we can be there a lot
more fishing and and scoloping throughout. So being safe is very important to everybody. Thank you, Mr. Waitman. Thank ma'am. Yeah, just in time. School's out soon to be out for summer and uh you know people are going
to be flocking flocking to the coast and to the lakes uh around Pasco County and around our state. And so, uh, thank you for coming this year and just getting word out to for people to stay patient. Uh, be mindful of how they're acting and
operating their watercraft. And, uh, for those who don't necessarily want to be on the water, I recommend getting a lawn chair and umbrella and just posting up at a public boat ramp anywhere in our state and just have a good time uh, watching the festivities throughout the
day. Good morning. And I am a my we are big boers our our family. So we are um very grateful for all you do. You sure have a lot of colors on you. You guys um very well decorated there. Um you know just this weekend I was out of town
actually. I was in Boca Grand where a lot of Boers are and um I got messages back from my community, Gulf Harbors, that there was a 4ft t to t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t turtle or tortoise, I don't know, turtle in distress and um a lot of boers were were trying
to find it and um you apparently got hit by a boat and and I have asked the county or tried but have not been successful yet. I still have to figure it out how we can put um a slow speed area and Filman's by you. I I watch
every day Boers just going through there so fast. The water's very shallow there. So if there's a turtle or a manatee that's not in one of the little channels, they're going they get hit and um I I still want to try and make that happen. I know your staff's pretty good
at figuring that out. But um uh just thank you for all you do and um there's going to be more and more Boers on the water. They showed me someone put a picture of Ankllo Key Saturday. It was a boat every 20 feet on the beach. I've
never seen it like that. So, um thank you for all you do. All right. So, do we want to We can take a group picture. Oh, Commissioner Y. Yes. And I want to say thank you as well. We're we're a big boating family and um we have children and we're always educating them on you know don't be on the back of the boat
when the prop is on and you know just about voter safety in general. Um thank you for you know educating people and is there a website or anything like that that people can go to to get your information? Yes, it's online. It's online.
Okay. Everything from the national all the way down to the local area has has as as does H. Okay. We're happy to do that. Awesome. That's a great resource. And also, thank you for your service to our country and um Yeah. So, especially
and just to piggyback on what you said, why there's so many boats on the island is because the sandbar since the hurricane has gotten really small. So, um that's that we're going to see a lot more boats. That's frustrating on the on
the island. So, thank you. Would you like to say a few words? Yeah, please address please address us. Your district, we were at Sims Park this weekend and it was constant boat after boat that we inspected. Sims Sims Park
or Anklot River Park? Sims Sims Park. Sims Park. That's me. That's Commissioner Jagger. Yeah, that's your area. She shows the park itself. I have the park itself. A big blitz. And we're going to do another one up in the Hudson uh this coming weekend. And I'll tell
you it was something good. Good. But we're educating the public. Good. Do you write you don't write citations or anything like that? You're just giving educa out educational material. They're they're safety inspections. Simply looking the boats have the proper equipment and everything on them that
they need and it's not a law enforcement activity or anything like that. Uh but we do remind them. Yeah. Making sure their flares aren't expired and their Coast Guard kits are intact. Yep. And and in the third cooler, we remind them about that as
well. Yeah. I'd like to we cover everything from Arapa all the way down pretty much all the way down the tarpon is our area of responsibility. So you'll see us out on the water a lot. We we are in the works of trying to add some more boat boater access. Um sometimes we need
um enforcement on the land near boating ramps because it gets a little testy. I know ankle river park it's a problem on Saturday mornings. So um but go commissioner Mariana and if you if you gentlemen would like um on we're having a scolop fest again this this year starts July 24th if you guys want to
come out there and be happy to have a sponsor put a booth out there for you and let you go out and kind of talk about safety and uh even introduce her any any time that you want to introduce people as well in touch with you sir. Absolutely. Okay. Great idea. I'll do it. All right. Let's all go. All right.
Let's go down and take a picture. You know, Florida country. Okay, let's take a photo. supposed. [Applause] [Music]
app. So I guess we'll we got 15 minutes for the other. So we'll go to committee reports. Commissioner Oakley. [Music] She'll be right here. I think don't we have to do uh
consent? We're going to go to we're going to go to our consent. Oh yeah. We hadn't done consent. That's right. Sorry, but I had to do something. I had to get two hands. Okay, I now have a pull sheet.
Is there anything else that we want to pull from the agenda? Okay. Can you announce what it is? We will pull C26 and C29 from Commissioner Mariano. Okay. Move approve the rest of the consent agenda. Did you want to? I'll
second it. Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. C26. C26 is withdrawal. Oh, it is. Okay. C29. C29. I just pulled this for good news. Um, you know, we hear a lot about what's going on in the Shady Hills area trying to like make things better. And I think it was about three or four
weeks ago, maybe a little bit longer, that we talked about um an agenda item coming up. We're going to put a right turn lane uh in front of Shady Hills Elementary School, and it was going to take until the following year to get it done. So, I asked if there was a find a way we could get actually get it done.
So, we actually reached out to the DE community, Barbara Willite in the back. Thank you. Uh, Ripa Construction as well. Got together uh with our team who did a phenomenal job. Nick uh Mike and the whole team got together, worked it through where they could actually get it done quicker and it looks like about
$100,000 less and it'll be done when summer when the summer pro summer vacation starts. It'll be open before school opens up. So that will help a lot of issues that we've been dealing with this past couple years uh with all that out there. So I just want to say thank you to the team. Thank you to the private market out there that actually
work together to make this program come up quicker, cheaper, better for the citizens. So move approval. Second. All in favor? I I Okay. Um my my 11:15 time certain is not here yet. So we will go
ahead and jump over to um Mr. Cronin and we'll get the update. Good thing I didn't leave. She would have chased after me. Um, again, thank you for the opportunity to present. I'm Bill Cronin, Pasco EDC. I'm here to present our
quarter 2 update for ourou and our penny for Pasco agreement with the board of county commissioners. Uh, in the interest of time, I'm going to go pretty quickly here. Uh, you should have in your packets um the metrics behind these results. But before I get to the results
of Q2, I just want to share with you a couple things because I'm still really excited about it. Next time I report to you, I'm going to be telling you about two awards that we got last week at the Florida Economic Development Council's annual meeting down in Port Charlotte. And uh though both of those were related
to marketing, one was for marketing our ready sites program and our new 3D videos. You might recall when we first uh came out with one of the videos, we showed it here at the board of county commissioners. Well, we've done that with all the sites now and we got an
award last week uh statewide award for that video. And then secondly, we got an award for um something called co-starters for causes. And I don't know if you recall back about a year and a half ago at our annual awards, I
mentioned that our nonprofits were having trouble keeping up and scaling with the growth that they had in this county. So, we funded the first cohort of co-starters. And that's the curriculum that we use for our startup businesses and our incubators for those
um uh nonprofits to help them scale so that they could actually um meet the need of this growing community. And because it was such an innovative process in partnering with co-starters, we got an award for that as well last week, too. So really proud of my team.
The last couple years that we've been there, we've came back with good news. Uh we've had scholarship winners. We've had workforce development professionals of the year at that conference. And this year we are also joined by um uh Derek Burgerer and Steve Smith from the county. So again, team sport, making
sure that we're all focused on economic development and it's paying off. They're they're talking about you all uh around the state. So quarter two, you'll see cookies and dirt. Uh the two don't go together normally, but we had B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Buko's
groundbreaking uh in quarter two and you can see in the background the label. That day was a a great day for all of us because uh they had lots and lots of cookies obviously uh but we also got news that they're going to be expanding yet again uh into a larger footprint um
uh which is included in some of our wins here. So, I shared with you that the job numbers are still low. We've got two um uh projects that have not reported their final numbers yet out of those six wins. I anticipate that's probably over 500
extra jobs that will go in there. Uh that will get us closer to halfway the goal, which where we should be halfway through the year. Uh but the other news is that with six wins, that means we're also focused on even the smaller companies, too. We often get accused of
just working with the big companies that hire hundreds of jobs. It's really important for us to work with the smaller companies as well. And they're still coming and the pipeline is uh is robust. 125 active projects right now, 161 leads. Of those
125 projects, I'd say we've got about 20 that are close to the finish line. But I am here to report there is a pause right now with a lot of companies pulling the trigger on their investments. And I think a lot of it has to do with the the politics that we're seeing uh both
locally and federally. Uh a lot of people are unsure what the markets are going to do and especially the institutional capital. We're we're seeing less influ less uh impact from institutional capital and a lot more private investment that's coming in
these projects. So, um, when you see new new companies coming in, think about where they get their money from and how that money gets here. And, uh, sometimes it is impact by national news. So, we're keeping an eye on that. That's one of the two things. Well, that's one of the several things that keeps me up at night
is, uh, is our reactivity to outside circumstances that we don't necessarily control here. U,, but still getting the right mix in terms of diversifying the economy. Uh and we're still working with our local businesses and that's again where we spend most of our time. Uh you
you all have seen the groundbreings, the ribbon cutings, but about 80% of our time is still with existing business and workforce is still the number one thing that most businesses are interested in is where am I getting my talent from? What does that look like? How do I
prepare for the future? And they should. That's our best resource that we have in this county. uh telling the story, 3.59 million in year-to- date earned media value. And that's again where other people are telling our story, not us. Uh
again, we're the hired help. So, anytime we get other people to tell our story, it means that much more. They expect me to say nice things about Pasco. But when a a newspaper reporter writes nice things, that's really good for us. Um, you'll see that jump up next quarter
because during that uh economic development week last week, we had another 103,000 impressions and 870 engagements online last week. That means that people that we were talking back and forth with, so they were active about Pasco
County to see website hits on uh most of our our landing pages for buildings and sites. And that's good because that's we want them looking at our product and why they want to move here. And we still have really good followers on social media. But social media most of it is
for our local so that they know what resources are available to them not necessarily for people outside looking to move here. Um trade events getting the word out and with our stakeholders. Last quarter, we attended 21 trade events and
three conferences and seminars and then eight presentations um during that three-month period to industry groups and organizations. Um we're up to 94 investors. Um and that's the private sector investors that offset uh what we
get from the public side from yourself. And uh four of our newest investors are U Habitat uh Touchpoint Medical, Saddlebrook Resort, and Bank of Tampa. And uh right now we're up to 45 policy council members, which is also a record
for us. Uh you remember back in the day we had maybe five. And this is uh the group that helps us to steer our legislative agenda, which uh uh this time of year is kind of busy. um upcoming events September 4th and this is always the Thursday after Labor Day
our annual awards and we will be back to Saddlebrook. So, uh Saddlebrook will be ready for us. We'll be back. Um we're all pretty excited about it. There'll be a different layout obviously and um uh nominate committees or companies if you haven't yet thus far uh for awards and
that'd be your small, medium, and large companies. Uh onto the penny for Pasco. Um the ready sites program I I mentioned continues to get hits. We continued to get visits. Um 11 site inquiries this
last uh quarter, 13 RFPs that we included those sites in. So when somebody says, "Hey, we want to move our facility to Pasco County. What do you have?" These are going in those RFPs in response to that international program. Uh we
attended the select USA road show in Brazil and uh that was seven different uh cities in Brazil. It was kind of exhausting over 59 meetings uh during that that time. But they were lined up because they heard about what Boduko had
done and the US embassy said, "Hey, here's a good example of how Brazilian investment in the United States works." And they all said, "Well, we want to go to Pasco County." So, we had a really full dance card when we got there, which is fantastic. Um, also had our growing
global event celebrating the international trade and tourism day that was held at Starky Market this year. And then, um, our global Tampa Bay trade mission to Mexico City. Is there somebody talking? No, you're good. Okay. Okay. Um, to Mexico
City and that was with our partners at Global Tampa Bay, Hillsboro, and Panelis County. That was on the trade side. In a couple weeks, we'll have the foreign direct investment mission uh which Pasco will be participating in with elected officials from all three counties and that'll be to London uh the 2nd through
the 5th. Continue to council companies on trade and enhance marketing. We launched our ready site videos for the rest of the ready sites that I mentioned and working with the founders of of SmartStart. We call them founders now,
not just startups. they founded companies to get more testimonials out from them so people know where they can get that assistance. Uh workforce continues to work with career source. We just released our survey for our annual uh workforce survey and that's to understand the hiring trends of what the
needs are of our employment employers uh in in their industries. And then uh Smart Start uh had a bunch of events. So, we had our uh food extension uh day out at the county
extension office at our food incubator, Epic, that we did with the county. Um it's always a good day to wear your stretchy pants and get lots of good food, lots of free samples. Um I love that stuff because that's your your small mom and pop businesses that are doing what we do best and sometimes
that's growing stuff and cooking stuff and eating stuff. Um we hosted Grow Pasco at St. IO uh our largest one to date and that was an all day event um uh at the wellness center out there and then uh we also had partnered with u
Canary Detections which is a uh one of our smart start members and exhibited at Synapse and held a seminar at Synapse which is the big IT summit in the region. Lots of events though. Smart Start, 407 people this last quarter, 50
events. Uh we're up to 43 incubator members and that's over the three incubators in the county and two microloans out the door already this year. Um again, they couldn't do that if um if we didn't have that loan available. These are companies that uh
are turned down by banks. They're unbankable. So, thank you again for all that you continue to do to support uh the work that we're doing. And uh it's good to know that you all have our back and that we're in that team sport together. As I mentioned before, it is a a full contact
sport when we look at uh competing with the other regions and uh the 16,000 other agencies in the United States that are all going after the same business. So, thank you again. Thank you. Um board members any okay question Bill might not be the most time of the place but
started hearing uh about data centers popping up and maybe looking at generally what they I don't know if there any interest in coming into our area but what's interesting to me with the data centers is all the ancillary
jobs that come with those centers so I didn't know if EDC has been approached or put any thought on those if if they're worth Yeah, data centers absolutely are are something that one we're going to need more and more of with all the AI and everything that uh
we're using our tech for. Um but the biggest issue that all of us have in Florida is that we've got power. It's just spread out everywhere right now. And most of these data centers in order to build the size that we want in our county are going to need for one of
those utilities to create a generation facility just for that data center. Uh we do want to make sure that we reserve enough power for hurricanes and things like that. So one of the things that is is kind of a chicken in the egg here is the data center needs to sign an
agreement saying they guarantee they will buy this power and the utility signs an agreement and says okay we will build a generation facility but in such a competitive uh uh industry nobody's willing to sign an agreement ahead of time until they somebody says okay here
is a place for you with the generation u Florida doesn't have any major data centers and part of it's because of our geographic uh positioning that historically people said, "Oh, it was too hot or we had a threat of hurricanes." Well, that's not really an
issue that much anymore. We do need it. And I think there's a a real interest from the governor's office also to make sure that we have our own, that we don't rely on Georgia and Atlanta and places like that to to store our data. This is starting to become a competitive thing.
So, very much on our radar screen. Yeah. So, which corridors you think would be best to market? Trinity area down 54, 52, 75. It depends if it's one that uh people come to actually visit uh their shelves of of racks of servers. Um
sometimes you've got people that come in and they want to service the actual equipment there. Sometimes they want to be out in a bunker type of atmosphere where there's no one around, no one to bother, and um they're safe and far away from everything. And some of the big ones fall into that category where they
really want to be out uh somewhere away from the general population. I would say on first glance an easy answer would be anywhere along uh major highways and railroad anywhere that you can run fiber. So fiber has to get there. So if you run it along the um uh in
infrastructure uh it makes it that much easier for them. And of course workers too can drive on the road. Interesting. Thank you, Bill. Good question, Commissioner. um on that that uh call that we had two calls for the International Economic Development Council of NATO. The second one was on
data centers and it was uh a commissioner from Lowden County, Virginia. They have 200 data centers and 117 more in the pipeline. Yeah. Yeah. If you're around Washington DC, you're going to have a lot of data centers. It actually is a problem for them. Yeah.
So, um I but I will I will get those. They're taped. I'm going to send those out. I'm going to send both of the those uh calls out because it's fa fascinating what those counties have gone through. Um but yeah, we I'm sure we could land a
couple. Yeah, a couple would be good, right? Um any other any other Okay. Okay. Um Bill, again, great job as we we talked earlier and you mentioned at high-tech we're at like 4.8%. Um, Commissioner Stark, you mentioned about
the New York getting the um, they got the chip. The chip. Yeah. So, depending on how much space they need, you know, one of the things I think we've talked about before is like trying to get one maybe at that Hudson Industrial Park that's trying to come to life. Um, that's got 210 acres, it turns out. Uh,
and we can put housing right around it as well. Is that big enough? Is it too big? Is it something that could possibly go there? Data center for not not data center, for a chip factory. Chip factory. Yeah, I would I would I would watch the chip factory uh announcements
very carefully. I'm not sure they're all going to come through the same way they were announced during the last administration. Um I know the folks up in Anandga and they are in uh Senator Schumer's district and uh he was very
much a part of of that legislation. I think that we need to make sure that if there is something that's going to benefit our community. Um whether it's chips, whether it's data, whether it's anything um that is forward thinking, we've got the product available for it.
It's just a matter of making sure that we protect the the industrial land around it and make sure that we don't have so much residential encroachment in those areas. So, uh to answer your question, yes, like live local could do to us. Exactly. and and uh keeping an
eye on things like live local. Uh we we've worked five years to get these ready sites up and going and changing the culture of land ownership so that people preserve land for industrial development, for job creation. Um to lose it on short, you know, u u
legislative actions that might just help one part of the state after we put in that much time u really hurts us. I think the best way we can protect that is to continue to focus on these ready sites. Uh maybe even go out and look at industrial authority to actually
preserve some of this land to prevent anybody from from taking advantage of it. But any any industry whether it's chips, data centers, uh I think we're pretty well situated, but we again we got to keep our eye on the ball. Okay. As far as the Brazil group, uh, as far as making that trip, I just want you to
know we've got a paddle tennis at the Scollet Fest coming up at Sunwest Park. So, that should be a what do they call that? Padal padal. Pedal. Pedal. So, paddle tennis, whatever. Yeah. So, that that's going on there. And it may be some Well, no, it may be something to advertise with your Brazilian people.
Here's what's going on here. It could be a beach volleyball tournament, too. But just for them, I think it's where it started, I guess. So, they may be intrigued to come up. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you all. And now I see we have our
res three recipients recipient here. So where's Lisa? I'd love for her to hear her to hear this, but we'll go ahead and start. All right. Uh Miss Gloria June, is it Vivo or Vivo? Vivo. I was going to say
Vivo, but I wanted to check. If you stand up to the podium and you can come with her if you'd like. right to the podium. I'm going to read the resolution first. Resolution number 25-229, a resolution by the board of
county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, honoring Gloria June Vivo for her 103rd birthday. Whereas Gloria June Vivo was born on June 7th, 1922 in Manhattan, New
York. Anra, Gloria's parents immigrated from Naples, Italy, and had seven daughters with Gloria being the youngest of them. Anra at the age of just four years old, Gloria became a child prodigy on the piano. She shared the passion of
music with her sisters, all who played musical instruments. Anra, after graduating high school, Gloria studied voice, dance, and acting. Andraz in the late 1940s in New York. Gloria was a leading lady in Broadway's production of
High Button Shoes alongside Phil Silvers and uh is it Nanette Fabre. Thank you. And Raz after three years in Broadway, Gloria worked in early television, radio, and many
nightclubs in Atlantic City and Miami Beach. and Raz Gloria married and went on and and went on to have two children, two grandchildren, and recently became a great grandmother at the age of 100. And Resz Gloria has resided in Newport
Richie for over 22 years now, continuing to entertain her family and friends throughout the years and has played music in two restaurants in town along with her local clubhouse. And whereas Gloria continues to stay busy by
cooking, baking, reading, and going out with friends and family and has an interest in natural health and healing. At soon to be 103, Gloria attributes her good health to maintaining a healthy lifestyle by walking, eating healthy,
and taking supplements every day. And whereas the board of county commissioners of Pasco County recognized this momentous achievement of one of Pasco County's citizens and wishes for Gloria's continued good health and
happiness in the new year to come. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby honors and congratulates Gloria June Vivo on the celebration of her 103rd birthday, extending its best wishes to her. Denon
resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 20th day of May 2025. [Applause] Oh approval. Well, we should have Gloria
sing. Wait to her thing. Um, yeah. Give I got a motion and a second. Yeah. All in favor? I I um we can sing happy birthday to you, but you don't want me to sing. Seth normally leads. Okay, Seth, we start it off. I'll mute my mic. An early an early birthday. Early June
birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Gloria. Happy birthday to you.
If you need a singer for a party, she's your girl. Um, Commissioner Oakley. Yeah. We're going to go f Wait, stay up there. We're going to do this fast. Okay. Yeah. Do it fast. Okay. Commissioner Oakley. Oh, we're so happy that you're having this birthday come up
very soon. I don't know what your diet is or your medicine, but please send that to me because I think I need that. Or your skinincare regimen. So happy that you're here with us there at your 103rd birthday. That's great.
Commissioner Waitman, thank you. This is a very rare treat and an honor to have you with us today approaching 102 going to 103. Y just absolutely amazing. Thank you all for bringing her here today and just very proud that we get to celebrate
you and I hope you have a terrific June birthday. My birthday is June 2nd. So to June birthdays, Joerger. Well, happy birthday. Um, my great grandpa lived to be 104 and um so it's quite an
accomplishment and um I love that you are still so active and that you're giving back to the community. Um and just God bless you, Mr. Mariana. And I want to say congratulations too. My I've had a couple of aunts get to 99. Uh so
100 is great. 8003 is phenomenal and you actually share the same day as my wife's birthday. So special. Well, um I've known Gloria and her daughter Carolyn for many, many years. Um Gloria, I think used to sing in the Cafe Grand. That's
where I used to hear her sing all the time because it was my favorite restaurant back in the day. It was the only decent restaurant around. Um, and Glor, so Gloria, I want you to uh talk to to the board about some of your um health food health habits. It's amazing.
Carolyn grew up in a very unusual uh household in New York City. And tell us a little bit about yourself. Um, put the mic down there. Well, let me just say this. Gloria lived alone until the hurricane came and hit Beacon Square Villas. And now she's with Carolyn. Her
house home is not repaired yet, but I think she's going to stay with Carolyn. But she was living alone all by herself. I used to see her out to lunch with her friends at the market. So, you want to say a few words to us, Gloria? That um that you were interested
in, you know, health foods and healthy. She's had a wonderful life. Well, I'm very healthy at my age, 103, because I've always been interested in in health. So, I've always eaten a
very healthy diet all my life. That's why I have a lot of energy. At 103 years old, I don't have any physical problems whatsoever. Is that amazing? So, I I want to tell everybody to do the same
thing I've done and you'll be healthy beyond 103. And she and Gloria, if you don't mind me, Sharon recently had shingles at her age. Wow. Um, so yeah, after the storm. So she recommends that shingle shot
which I got. Um, and Gloria, are you still playing the piano and singing? I wish I had one in here. So you guys Okay. Not so much singing anymore. But um, but yeah, perfectly. And you see there's no walker, there's no glasses.
There's no nothing. And she was paying attention. Now you're reading that, too. So, so Commissioner Mariano, I upped you because I think yours was 101. Yeah. Yeah. And the piano I retired from that now. She just plays piano for fun now.
Yeah. I play the piano and I sang I I sang in lots of hotels. Yes. Years ago. Miami Beach. Yeah. All right. Let's go down take a photo. We're gonna come down and take a photo. All right, we're gonna take a photo.
This is for you, an official. Thank you so much. appreciate it so much. Appreciate it very much. [Applause]
All right. Okay. That was special. Isn't she amazing? Okay, that's incredible. Nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. Yeah. All right. So, we are on um treasure items, I believe. Is that right?
Huh? Okay. So, Commissioner Oakley. Yep. I have some pictures. The pictures you're seeing of Wilton Simpson and myself. We were out looking at the building there at u the college there at Dade City. a new
science science building. A lot of things were happening. So, this was the topping off party uh for that. And then we have a the opening of uh uh station 18 there on Chanty Road.
Every time I turn around, I said earlier, every time I turn around, we're opening a new fire station. No, they're coming fast. And they're coming fast. And that's that's good. That's good for our citizens. And we're being able to uh these stations are being way more active
than were this one was supposed was at originally at uh Crystal Springs. They moved it up on John because 95% of the calls for this station was up closer to Zephr Hills and only about 5% calls they
got in Crystal Springs area. So, but very good to see that open. What we got here? Oh, we got the um um Oh, not many there today. Pasco's government governor day. Uh so we're
there talking. I think there was 26 I believe persons there that day. So um Mr. Starky missed it, I think, and Jack Jack was there and Seth was there with me. So that was up too. But it was
very good. Very good. We had that. Here is the um the ele well not the election but the installation of Dr. Brian Butler of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church in Nade City. He was uh became the chairman of
the Pasco County NWC NW NAC. I'm not saying that right I guess. So but uh but it was a good good ceremony. Uh Dr. Brian Butler, he's a very good
man and located there in Day. They're on 8th Street right in Date City area. So very good group of folks and uh always willing to reach out and help them and move forward. So good thing. Um that's
all I had on that, but I wanted to bring up one other item. Um, on the way to work here to the west side of Pasco County for for our meeting today, I was
stopped over a mile from Bellamy Brothers in line waiting on the light to change over a mile back to the east back toward the interstate. Heading west on 52,
not at 41. Stopped at Bellamy. Yeah. Crazy. And it took at least two maybe three light changes for us to get through Bel and the the traffic coming to the east on that on 52 at the same time was backed up all the way past Aaron Cutoff
and then it was after that it was still quite a bit of traffic but there was a break in it a little bit from the red light at 41. But my concerns are and I think a lot of our citizens have the same concerns is
the fact that we've got u Palmeta Ridge development coming. I don't know when they're going to start. Also the the development between Bellamy and the interstate on the north side is is coming. There is absolutely no way I
believe that we can build those developments and be able to control traffic for the development and the construction and not have that road in four lane because there's no way traffic
can move now. So I don't know how it's going to move if we start those developments prior to that. But I I think it's something we need to all look at as commission and administrator and look at what we're doing and and do a better job of of
setting these processes of developing new businesses and new things and home sites coming in. We just need to do a better job at uh programming this out. So, Commissioner, I agree with you. Um, and as you saw, I asked the traffic
expert how he generates his numbers at our last meeting. Um, I was talking with David Engel about this very subject because I'm seeing it too, and it worries me. So, I wanted to suggest that we um ask our staff to embark on a
traffic study for the county and and and and go in depth really and and and take a good look at I think we got a little bit of it from that NO report at the MO from the um I don't remember the name of the the group that took a swing at it, but we
need to we need to take a look at what's coming and what what kind of transportation network we have and see, you know, what kind of solutions are there? Um, and and then we have a workshop on it, but we we need to understand it a little better. I think
we just need to do a better job at planning this out. It hasn't necessarily been this way before, but I see it here now because it's always been, if you put it in development, the mobility fees and all come in afterwards when roads are being improved. But the fact that this
is state money, a state road and I think it's scheduled for the first part from from Bellamy to Aaron Cutoff happens in 27 and 28. That part
from from Aaron Cutoff to um what's it housing development right there. Well, but let me just let me just and then the next one is is on to 41, right? The you know what is the reliever
of state road 52 there? What we we are putting all the traffic on one road in the county and h and half the we're putting half the county's population on two roads. I mean this is why I'm always talking about connectivity so there's
other ways to get around. Is there envisioned in our road network another road that parallels 52 north of it? I don't know. Do you have to go all the way up to County Line Road? So, I mean, imagine Penllis County with two east west roads. So, in my mind, we're kind of doing this
to ourselves by not having an integrated road vision of an integrated grid system within the county. Why why couldn't there be another road behind Panther Ridge that comes across? And um so but I I do think let's take a good
look at our road network to to your point that's why I've been harping on the call your parkway extension as a reliever to air and cut off at least the north section and um that's that segment of road is going to be incredibly
important to get to 41 because as of today cut offs not sufficient especially once the commercial traffic comes online when you got the industrial trucks And no doubt Shady Hills is not going to be able to handle it. And and and not only our development, Hernando County's
development because they're going to be using all our roads, too. So, we got to really, you know, take a good look and and make some, you know, difficult choices. Yeah. So, I think it's tough at a zoning to change and make things happen, right? Because you have your
limited. I think the time to negotiate to get road improvements done like that project at Bellamy to the north. That project probably should had two left turn lanes put into it. It should have had at least a right turn lane of its own coming out as you hit 52. That could
have al alleviated a lot even to get traffic to flow for the future. When DOT was picking ponds, they took out the neon cowboy spot right there. um they could have left a lot more space right there instead of just putting all the pond right to the edge. So we we missed
an opportunity that we've got to make sure that when we're we're doing these things we got to look and the land use is a time to talk about them things because you have flexibility you don't have it with the zoning. So I think much as it says we used to have like a lot of pipeline projects we don't push for those anymore. We need to start pushing
because the acceptable or the the argument of well after the growth comes and development is going to come and the infrastructure is going to come. People aren't buying that anymore. They're stuck in traffic just like you were stuck in that thing. Had we set these things up ahead of time, maybe it doesn't happen. And I think we need to
look at that at every land use. What can we do? What can we get to make it come? Because right now you got developments coming up in Hudson. This not have infrastructure up there either. And we can get some good stuff in there. You've got the ability to have a grid up there. Yeah, I know. And I'm I had a vision
road for 14 years. So, that's going to be good for you. So, there's there's opportunities. But I also think I also think there's some important intersections that will probably be, you know, not not in our time, but in the next generation's time, some overpasses. And so, we need to be citing buildings
at certain intersections where we don't have to buy a whole Amazon distribution center or whatever. I'm just pulling that out to to put an overpass over an intersection, but if there's no way no way to go wider, we're going to have to go up and over. Commissioner Oak. So, so
you'll know, I've got a meeting set up with staff and folks out on Bellamy Boulevard tomorrow evening and we will be discussing the new changes for the safety of Bellamy Road from 52 all the way to the county line. Good. I hope it
will be it'll be widened and it will safety uh parks put in that roadway that makes it safer. Some of it will be no passing and yeah continue like that but it'll be widened on that road because very
important. I had a person call me a citizen call me one time he says when I moved here two years ago on Bellamy it wasn't like this now this well he was part of the problem because people like what we have in Pasco County and they want to move here or when they do that
problem creates that problem. So, well, we got to have the vision road network looked at for the whole county and see if we can make improvements. Well, we're addressing Bellamy this week and that's to happen in 20 uh 27 and more and more people are using the multi-use paths to
get around with the kids on and I'm going to bring it up in my commissioner items, but those multi-use paths are a way for people to get to work to not be in their car. And we need and we're going to have a great network of them when we're finished, but we we need them on all our arterial collectors. Um,
okay, Commissioner Commission, great discussion, Commissioner. Yep. Yep. Speaking of fire stations, Commissioner Mariana and I uh opened up or broke ground on station two uh on 54, which is be great service for the Meadow Point
area and cuts the times down and and we're we're we're moving along. So congratulations chief and your team Rob and Justin prom was there and uh good group. So what's the opening date on this chief? A year approximately sooner.
No pressure. 18 months. Yeah. 16 18 months. He said he'll do it in 12. So there. So congratulations to the guys. And this was the last and thank you to the voters. This one. This is one of the last projects uh remaining from
the GO bond from back in 2019. So uh thank you to the voters who who voted for the GO bond to to fund this station. Excellent. Um next Tibbit Tibbitz uh we all know is at uh 41 and 52. They're moving uh their
shop over to into the Zephr Hills in the Zephr Hills area. They're moving or doing a new one. Well, this will be a larger bigger plant. So, I imagine they closing the other way or keep Well, I think it probably depends on what that intersection happens there, which concerned me. You know, Tibets is such a
main state. They do a great business here in Pasco. So, um this will be their flagship facility. It'll be in Zephr Hills and it's set to open in the third quarter of 2026. And it'll be the company's largest trust plant with a state of the state of the art mill
workshop, window warehouse, and a multi-acre lumber yard plus administrative offices and have a CSX rail spur and doing all this on 46 acres. And they have 10 locations throughout Florida and their 11th one is set to open in St. Augustine. So, I was
relieved to see when Arlland Tillis and his his group reached out and uh invited us uh to come to their new shop that they were going to stay in Pasco and that the intersection improvement wasn't necessarily going to impact them uh in a good way. So, very very happy Tibbitz is
is here. And then the next location, I'm happy to get those trucks off the 5441 intersection. You can have them over there. You know, it'll be less traffic coming out of that shop. Will be over there. So that'll help us. So next we have So Sprouts took over the old gym uh
where Grace Family Church is on at CER and 54 on the south side. So we showed up, we were instructed to be there about six o'clock in the morning. And there were people in line from where Sprouts is all the way around the complex to Grace Family Church. It must have been
400 people. Wow. in line for Sprouts to open up at 700 a.m. So, the people who were first in line were there at 5 something in the morning. And it was just when Brian and I went, we're like, "Well, who the heck's going to be at a ribbon cutting at 6:15 in the morning?"
We've all done, you know, a whole bunch of these things. There wasn't free. Yeah. But folks were really pumped up and excited and and the team there at Sprouts were geared up and ready to go. It was just an incredible looking location and it was nice to have
a refurbished shop and Michael's is going in right next door. So that whole complex has really been invigorated. Um and on the opposite side there's Flying Squirrel which is trampoline park and we go to birthday parties there all the time. But it's really you know this the complex has had a renaissance and
been revitalized and so congratulations to to Sprouts coming in the loots. It was it was a pretty fun morning. And then just want to give uh shout out to uh Chief GOP and his team uh for their fight for air climb which
um uh they compete in every year and it's for the American Lung Association. And so Pasco, they've won multiple awards this year. They won the top fundraising uh team for the firefighter division. Uh they're also the highest fundraising team. and they raised over
$15,000 and uh their cadet dress competition, the Pasco cadets beat Tampa Fire cadets. So, our uh guys and gals have been whipping up on Tampa Fire Rescue and uh just appreciate all the work that Chief GOP uh heads and done
this multi-year. And um JJ, I know you're there last I couldn't be there last night uh due to a couple of different town halls and things, but if you want to say a few words about your folks, you have to keep it Yeah. pressed. He doesn't speak.
I think that's purposeful, ma'am. Uh, thanks for pointing that out. Yes, I was there last night. Uh, this is a great cause. U, you know, and it was great to be there with the cadetses last night. And, uh, they were all given our commemorative Pasco County coin, which,
uh, they really appreciate it. Uh, and I told them to use it as incentive to motivate them to, you know, they're they're our future, right? So what what uh the captain does and you know we had a battalion chief there in the picture.
Uh yes they the lung association created a new award because we raised so much money and there are so many people participating in that. So uh Mike wasn't there last night but they uh they nominated you know somebody from administration and since I have a bad
wheel Mike will do the stair climb next year I think. Uh, you know, I nominated him last night when they they called me out. So, with a bad wheel, I don't think I can do it, Mike. So, you do it next year, I'll do it the year after. And, uh, uh, Commissioner Weightman will be happy to have you join the team next year as well. Start training on at Sun
West. I also want to say that uh, my son who was there said he the thank you to uh, David Goff for the pizza. Bought a bunch of pizza for the cadets. So, nice. Yep. And then one last one last thank
you. We had the um the CDBG town hall at Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus last night. Thank you Joanna and Marcy and the team uh for all being there and answering answering questions to folks. Uh nicely done. Uh David Lambert was there on behalf of Coochie River Electric and just various stakeholders.
So um a very nice evening sports campus uh is looking great. Busy busy busy parking parking parking. Uh so anyway, thank you all. Good job, Commissioner Jagger. Okay, we might get through before noon and go fast. I'm just making
my slide. Okay, so we at our community farm share at Moon Lake Park. We served close to 300 families. Um I'd like to thank Parks and Wreck and Animal Services. They came out with cat cat
food, dog food, um Tony and Sarah for putting it all together. And we had a ton of volunteers. Um, it was a great event. So, I can't wait to do another one. So, next slide. So, we toured the Hudson Community Health and Resource
Center. They partner with so it's Premier Community Healthcare, Metropolitan Ministries, St. Leo, and the school board. So, this was really impressive. If if you guys haven't toured it, I highly recommend it. So, they have dental and medical there. So
the kids if they have written consent they can um be escorted over during school hours, get health care, get med medicine, things like that. And it's also open to the community. So one of our um families out in Moon Lake was saying how his um three-year-old did not
have access to health care. So I immediately gave him the contact information. He was able to get his daughter an appointment for dental and and for health. So they have a big resource center for clothes and brand
new shoes. Um pretty much everything the kids need. They can go grocery shopping and um get a bag full of things that um are needed for their families and their parents can come shop too. So I would love to see um another one of these. I
know they have two. I would love to see another one in Pasco County because this this is just amazing. um working with at risk youth that's one of the biggest barriers is transportation. They can't get to to the doctor. You know, their parents can't take off work and they
don't have a ride and um they can't be seen without their parents. So, here they can have written consent to be seen. They don't need their parents and they can get medication that same day. It's absolutely amazing. I can't say enough about it. I encourage all of you
to visit it and see if we can get another one open. So, and that's all I have. Commissioner Mariana. Okay. I think I have some pictures coming up. Uh, just to touch on the subject this morning come up on Green Key. Just so everybody knows, we'll work very hard at that. We got a legislative uh budget of
2.5 million to improve the the workings of the uh flooding down there. And we've got that one property that's along just to the side of Status Lane that's a tenac was going to come in for development. Looks like we're going to be buying it out. Uh it's a reasonable price. sort of tie right into the other
pond that's right beside it. So, there going to be some improvements down there that are happening. So, I'm not sure why she was so fired up, but um literally we were working and and getting things done there. Um there's a picture of the uh with Luchi River Electric uh annual meeting. Um what a great turnout. What
great enthusiasm. David Lambert did a great job speaking. Uh next couple pictures will show the the event venue Simpson Farms out there, which is a great place. Uh and the commissioner of agriculture was there as well. and uh what a great host and what a great team they have out there. Uh this is a
housing uh summit that Senator Jeff Brandis hosted and while that was going on uh there was one of the speakers up there that took a shot at Pasco County. Uh and they talked about like live local about why is Pasco County so fired up
about not having more affordable housing. Did you get Oh, I get in. I get in. Oh, I get into it. Good. had everyone heard. I mean, you did a club of Oh, I I I I at the end of like it was the last question to to be picked up for that segment and I said, "Look, Pasco
County has they talk about impact fees, too." I says, "Pasco County studies impact fees. Looked how they did it. We led the way and now everybody else has fallen our way so our taxpayers didn't take the burden." I says, "We have taken ourselves to make sure that we keep our tax as low as we can." And as far as
when I as we look at what job jobs are, 54% of our people in the county have to leave to go to the south to go to work. We didn't want to change. We wanted to change that and we set up a great plan going forward. This love local thing is going to take our tax base and destroy
it if all these apartments are giving us 75% tax breaks. We don't want to see that. We want people working in our county. We've got a plan together. So this plan, I'm all for trying to help Miami do what they want to do or others. But leave us be to what we're doing because we're right now the third for
fastest growing county in the state of Florida and the second fastest nationally commercially. So what we're doing is working. We just don't think this legislation works. And I think others that may want to think that we do, let them control their own destiny. It was pretty well received. Even a even
a gentleman I was on a a committee with him last year on the same affordable housing and we're like going toe-to-toe back and forth about he was opposing some of my stuff. Even that guy come up to me and shook my hand to say great job on that. You got to make sure Jeff understands our position. I laid out
pretty good. A few people come up to me and they excellent. All right. Anything else there? Next pictures. Um, I was just at a uh a golf tournament at Seven Springs and this cryo ease. I haven't seen it yet. That's amazing. But the results are phenomenal from what I
heard. This they run this tournament all to try to They treat veterans for free. What I want to do is go look at it. And I talked to Barbara Hinsson, but I'm going to go down and take a look at their facility. Check it out. She's going to bring someone who's a former doctor that works for other vets now, one of her nurses who was in the team
and go take a look and see how good this is. But one of the things we do is we have extra money from Blue Cross Blue Shield that comes out. And I think it may be good because a lot of our deputies use it. A lot of our first responders use it. Some people that may be stuck in workman's comp claims may use it and other people that just want
to get better. And if it's not covered by insurance, but if we take part of that money that we have, we can actually help with our health with our county employees. I want to go take a look at it. And I may bring it. It's in New Okay. But I got the there's the flyer right there. I can get that for you,
too. Yeah. All right. Next picture. It's in your district. Yeah. I guess I wasn't going. Is that all? Okay, that's it. Okay. All right. And um I just want to make a statement. Haven't seen public's works here. Just kind of like, you know, so glad that they're getting recognized for the great work they do.
And I want to say that uh working with Brandford has been phenomenal. We're working on the Hudson and Old Dixie. You saw it underwater a couple of times over the past year. Um it's like the one thing that was going on. Hudson Waterworks had a main break was like an unscripted u you know wasn't wasn't on
the map as far as a main that main broke another main broke and our storm water pipes that were there looked like they're in good shape but the links between them are weak so what they think is and they're going to staff's going to work on it but try to look to do a uh a lining of it and I'm not a big fan of
lining but this lining here they think can work without hurting capacity it could help that whole area and I think that'll be one of the project I talk with Mike Carbella about yesterday. It's one of those things that this may be one of those health safety things that work with the CBGDR money as well. And I want to get that looked at as far as that
infrastructure goes. And maybe working with the sewer company we have trouble with that's that's private and and Hudson Waterworks. Maybe there's way to combine forces with the county to kind of make that situation better like we talked about doing years ago. Um, and I just want to say driving up the other
day from uh Tampa Bay Water coming back, I come across four different intersections where I had homeless people out there with signs, etc. Uh, I had one where I actually stopped to get gas and a guy's at the retail station going through. Uh, I' I've made this
conversation where my mother went to Wind Dixie I think last month. While she's coming out, some guy startles her, whatever, looking her for money, etc. gets her take her bag, whatever, and her license disappears. They found it later. But we've got to help take care of this
uh homeless population, the ban handling going on, and we've got to nip it. And we can't be saying we're not going to do this. We've got to do it. We got to go enforce it. And I think as far as code, especially my district on the on the 19 Carter, I don't need to write them up for this, that, and the other thing so much, but I need to help them because if
they got people standing out front begging, doing their thing, and and pleading on people coming in and out, and they can't monitor everything, we got to help them. So, I think it's something that we need to go up and down, look at these intersections, and I don't care if you put one person on the duty going all day long back and forth,
but something's got to be done. We can't just say this is the way it's going to be. It doesn't have to be. It shouldn't be. If you want to talk talk about removing blight, that's the first way to do it. I'm all for getting people help that want to get help. You know, the homeless shelter helps us that we put in place, the the rope center, the holy
ground. I want to give them all help, but we can't just allow this to keep on going and going. Our people don't want it. It's not good for our look. That's all I got. Okay. I'm trying to send some pictures here, but I don't know if I'll make it to this today. Um, let's start
with uh our community cleanup. We had uh 1.4 I don't know what that is there. 1.4 tons brought to the landfill and uh 10 10 tons um 10 and a half tons collected on the site. I told you about all the wet mattresses. So um I attended the
PACE uh breakfast there. I think uh were some of you guys there? I was there. Yeah, Lisa. Um that's always such a great event. Um and it's a it's a nonprofit founded in 1985 by Vicky Burke. uh that first PACE center was launched with 10 girls in Jacksonville
and um the idea was that there were girls entering the juvenile justice system as a response to behaviors often embedded from trauma and PACE has successfully grown to serve more than 3,000 girls annually in 25 communities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
So, it's always great to honor those girls. I was the judge in the 16th annual water awareness poster contest with FGUA and Pasco County Utilities. And um this was the 16th annual one. And I just want to give a shout out to
parents because you know it was pretty obvious in some of these posters that mama did it or dad did it. I mean there's no way that a kindergartener's drawing hands with
shading and fingers and all that. So, we had to disqualify a whole bunch of posters. So, um yeah, this is for the kids, you know, help with the homework, but don't draw their posters. This is really good first grade artwork. Yeah.
Yeah. Some of them were pretty crazy. So, I will be seeing those winners here shortly. And I have never been to this place. Um I don't even remember the name of it, but it's up there on 19 in your district, Jack. It's the old sports authority. It's insane. I I I I
videotaped the whole thing to show to my kids like look at look at this indoor ropes courses and timing like uh that that ninja like the ninja games ninja warrior. Yeah. I had no idea this was there. So, you know, get get on up
there and have fun. Um I held my tr my third Trinity Odessa Leadership Council meeting last week. Um SwiftMud was there. Did a great job. Um code compliance. Denise, I think I saw her here. She did a wonderful job, too. Um, sheriff's office. Um, Chase also and
libraries. Um, as a matter of fact, we have to bring libraries back because we had such lengthy discussions on um especially Swift Mud that um that um and code that we didn't get really to our library. So, we'll redo them. I also uh
they asked a lot of budget questions and so I said at our next one which will be in September, we're going to have someone come and talk about the budget. Um we we had we had to bring in chairs. I mean we had I don't know 10 or 12 uh neighborhoods represented and and more
are going to join. Um I did the VIP tour of uh Met. It's why I miss some of your y'all's events. Um the daycare is getting ready to open this create learning center. It's going to provide the homeless and at risk families with safe well met provides homeless and at
risk families with safe stable housing. And this daycare is going to uh be onsite for the residents that are there. And then anything any seats that are available, it's going to open up to the holiday residents, which there are really no daycare facilities down there.
Um so this is going to be great for the community. It's absolutely adorable. I took a picture of this company of these little tables here. The little the little teeny uh I don't even remember what you call them chairs. The Well, those are low low high chairs. Yeah. Because because I thought they were
absolutely adorable. Um and then Tim Marks was honored. He's retiring, but they're going to put a road an interior road there is um Tim Marks Drive. And if you haven't toured this in the Derek Mitchell welcome center, it it it's amazing um opportunity that we have in
the county to have such a quality facility like this. You can see the playground in the back. It isn't all the way um done yet. And that's what's keeping the daycare uh from opening up. And some of the residents here will be able to, if they choose, get
certifications to open their own daycarees. So, they'll be working there in the daycare center. Um uh so my staff's always very busy and they've come up with this great idea that why don't we put some murals on our
utility project utility property. These other ones are pictures. I think this bottom one here is Penllis County could be Dun Eden, but we've got these buildings that are just ripe for some wonderful art. So wanted to throw that out there to our utilities department.
And I, you know, I think those look great. Um, okay. This is, uh, something that I want to get done before I'm done being a commissioner. And, um, this these are like little what I what you you might know as spite strips.
And we have at least three on this side of the county that I want to address. And Commissioner Joerger, um, I have mentioned this one to you. So that on that'll be on the next page. But the first one is Amazon Drive in Anaconda and the developer of that is
Commissioner the owner of that property is Commissioner Shear from Penelis County and he is willing to give us that. So um so if you are uh someone who needs uh some kind of ambulatory or you know an ambulance to come to you, you
would not believe how you have to drive all the way around because of this fight strip here in Amazon and and again adding connectivity keeps people off the the main roads. If they want to go over here but they live in here and they
can't connect there, you have to drive all the way around. you have to go through 54 and little and and there's no reason for it. So, we just need to connect those two then. Um, yeah. And when that was built, it was designed to connect. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We got another one here.
Now, this one did connect and my predecessor, Commissioner Hildebrand, unconnected it. But when I got elected, these residents came to me and said, "Could you please reconnect this?" This is at G Trace Boulevard. And I don't even know the name of the the street,
but if you um if you could go to Google Earth and pull that intersection up, um you wouldn't believe what the residents have to do to go to the park before the park. Yeah. Yeah. They have to they they live right behind
um the Holiday Lake Recreation Center, but they have to drive all the way out to 19, go down, make a Uturn, and come in Gulf Trace Boulevard to go to for their kids to go to baseball practice or soccer at the park. So crazy. Um so
yeah, zoom out a little bit. A little bit more. Okay. So, up here in the upper left corner, you you see um the elementary school. The elementary school's here. In the upper left corner, you see where they don't connect, right? So, if you live on that
street, you're driving all the way in front of all these people to go all the way out to 19. You got to come down, make a U-turn, and come back up to go to that park. Or if you want to drive your kid to school because it's raining, you got to all these people. So, I would
really like us to reconnect that one. The next one is Ostein. Do I do we not have a picture of Ostein? Okay. I think we're working on that. Yeah. So, this was connected, but um Mrs. Ostein, who used to live there, somehow got it
unconnected when they built Ridge Ridgewood High School. So, Pepin is now there. And this is another one. It's if you So the first one is a closeup of Pepin Academy. The second one where I have all the X's, that's Marchman.
That's the elementary school and that's now Wendel Krin. And then you got Pepin over on the right. To get into any of these complexes, you have to come up um what's I think it's Congress when you get over there or Rowan, whatever. And you come down Orchid Lake in front of
all these houses and then you and then you um go into the school complex. or if you're going to uh Pepin, which is, you know, the special needs school, you got to drive in front of all those houses to get over there when it should just connect to Massachusetts. Agreed.
So, um, we got to we got to get that one connected. I got one more for everyone. Yeah, bring it on. Right near where you are, where Orchid Lake goes across, there's a connection that can actually come right out here. I think it might be Blueberry. It's Blueberry. Yes. I And I showed that to them, too. So, um, I sent
that to staff. So, if you see where Pepin is and you look just north of there. Right there. Yep. It's just a little space right there. Um, where they should connect and come they will come out to Little Road. There you go. The more connections you have, the less everyone is inconvenienced and the safer
it is for our residents. Yep. I I'm going to make a motion that we look to do all those connection and bring a bring a agenda to make. Hallelujah. I don't have to run again. All in favor? I I Okay. Um the last thing I have and I see
we're here at lunchtime. Um is um you all were given this flyer. This is from Orange County. So I've been I go drive down Starky Boulevard and I see these kids. I my staff told me what they're called. Hot rockets or something.
They're like little tiny motorcycles. And they are they were going I videotaped it. They were going 45 miles an hour on the trail on Starky Boulevard. And they do it every day. At least they're wearing helmets. I was just gonna ask you. Hopefully they're wearing helmets. They're wearing hel helmets. So, we started looking up the
ordinances. We We don't have one that controls how our multi-use path should be um regulated or whatever. Um but um so I want to uh propose that we would that we
look with work with the sheriff's office and to create an ordinance regarding mopeds, goss, pocket bikes, and motorized scooters. and um and then bring it back to us for discussion. Oh, and then lastly, this is um this is a road in um Starky Ranch.
The road has been conveyed to us. I can't remember the name of it. Long spur. People businesses are using this as a place to park all their business equipment on our road. There's boats, there's trailers, there's the parts of
uh long haul trucks. Every time I drive here, there's it's just amazing what people are parking on our roads. So, I think our staff is working on a solution, but we need to, you know, we need to get done. So, otherwise, we start charging the monthly rent and it'll be very, very
high. Um, and thank you, David Angel. Um, I attended that, uh, the second Grand Boulevard workshop. Um, it was very well attended. You guys did a great job on that one. So, thank you very much. And we'll adjourn for lunch. Did you want county administrator? Oh, no. We'll we'll we'll finish the others. Oh,
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[Music] right, we're going to call the Back to order. First order we have item P42 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 19th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site posting. The item was continued from the
March 25th, 2025 BCC meeting to the April 22nd, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to today. Okay, Mr. Pito. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, item nutrious PTO's planning development economic
growth. Item P42 is PTE250060. This is an ordinance amending the Pasco County comprehensive plan to the future land use map um for the Fletcher sub area policy. Uh this item is being continued to a date uncertain.
Move move approval for date uncertain. Second. All in favor say I. I. Hi. P43. Item P43 was published in the Tampa Times on February 5th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site
postings. The item was continued from the March 25th, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to the April 22nd, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to today. All right. If I could, um, I want to postpone P43 till Commissioner Stark
gets here. Um, and let's move to P44. Mr. Chairman4. Okay, let's go to B45. Item P45 was published on Tampa Bay Times on April 2nd, 2025. Mr. Mr. Chairman, um,
for item P43, the applicant as of this morning has requested or as of this afternoon has requested a continuence to the June 17, 2025 BCC meeting in Newport Richie. Okay. Um, I'm okay with the continuence, but
here's what I don't want to see happen. Um, especially with Commissioner Jagger not here. You got some people that are probably here to speak to this item. Yes. that are probably going to want to come back to see it after they make their comments the following. So, if the board's okay with continuing it, I want
the public to be able to speak to it, but I don't want to preclude them from speaking again later on depending on what the changes are coming forward. Now, if that's the case, we might as well wait. We don't need to have the we don't need to have public comment on it. We're
not holding it till Well, if I got some people that really want to speak that can't make it. I don't want to preclude them or may maybe they're not sure if they're going to make it, but up to the county attorney, I guess. Well, it was not it was not advertised as a continuence. The the rule has been that
if they cannot make it back to the continuence date that the board will take that public comment, but they can't have two bites at the apple. They can't speak twice. No, I'll say this with this item in particular. Um, I had met with
the developer. I told them what I wanted to see and from what I can see, it didn't happen. And I think the same complaints or concerns I had were there. And again, when this comes back, I'm sure they're going to be some changes
and they may be satisfactory or not. But because of the sensitivity of this development and to what's gone on with it, um, I think we should make exception to the normal rule that we have. you can't speak twice because I know there's going to be some changes and I don't want to preclude them if they can make it or can't make it not to get their
input in now because I think it's important we hear it now and then we'll let the developer at that point continue from there and then come back in and do another hearing with it. But I I think this is like a unique opport a a unique situation. All right. Well, the problem problem I
have with that is the fact that if there's going to be changes to it, they'll be speaking on something. It might not even be in the they they would probably need to hear those changes prior to having that meeting in June. Well, M because if they speak to it and
they're speaking to something that's going to be changed, they're they're kind of wasting their time talking about it if it's if it's not going to come forward. And I'll say the the reason I I differ differ with that is because what's going to happen is as they speak to it, there may
be some things that are going to get changed, some things not. And if if I think the developer hears it, it may affect them to actually make the move on it to make it make it as good as it can be. Did you have your hand raised, Mike? I
did. I told Commissioner Jagger is online as well, just so you for your awareness. Not sure. Okay. Well, we have four, then I' i'd be okay with them speaking, but again, we don't know what those
potential changes are. We don't. So, we're just shooting in the wind a little bit here. Yeah. So, do we do we want to prevent people from speaking a second time is the question right now. Commissioner Oakley doesn't want to speak again. I do. I'm speaking twice.
Uh, potentially. Yes. Hopefully all the questions are answered and everybody's okay. Okay. All right. So, for the public, if you want to speak to the item, you going to be allowed to speak in the second time back again? Um, I'm going to ask you this though. If you
hear something that someone says, Mr. Chair, I can. Does that mean you're not going to wait for Commissioner Starky? Because originally we passed on this one to wait for Commissioner Starky to come back because we're not going to discuss it. I'm okay with it. otherwise I would have but right now this just be public
input anyway completely up to the board I just All right so if you if you're here for P43 you want to speak to it we are going to continue the item I believe um but we'll give you an opportunity to speak if you want I don't want to I want to preface please do not extend this if you want to have something to want to
say if someone says it before you um don't feel the need to say it again but just I want to get some input from you to what you're thinking with the neighborhood please I do have three people signed up for P43 I can pull their names If you'd like, let's call them up. And this is the comprehensive plan amendment, not the reasonzoning,
not the zoning, just the comprehensive plan amendment. I have uh Tyler, I think it's Sander. Threeers. Okay. So, someone under um then maybe it's Robert Jarnell. Jerel. Jerel. Thank you.
This is just for the land use. We're not talking about the zoning. Hi, my name is Robert Jerel. I live at 9231 Jasmine Boulevard. I've been there since 2007. Just for you, just so you all know, I paid $675,000 for my house. I
have horses, I have donkeys, I have goats. I live in an agricultural community. I bought the house because it's an agricultural community. The developer is proposing to put all these houses, all these town houses and everything right behind right against my property, against where my animals are and where my family is. The problem I
have with this beyond the fact that they're going to be putting hundreds of cars coming back back and forth in commercial right next to all my neighbors is that my property and the developer did not know this at the planning commission meeting. They didn't even understand that this was happening.
My property floods so bad that I have 250 about 200 yards of fence between mine and my neighbor's property that my fence the bottom of my fence for 2 and 1/2 ft is rotted out. My my other neighbor fixed
it. That's how bad my property floods. Now, if you guys understand what this is, what's happening here, they're going to elevate that property and whatever they do to that property is not going to mitigate the fact that my property is low. I've called swift mud. I have a
delineation line. My property where my pasture is for my animals, my horses, and my donkeys is considered a dry lake bed. It is exactly against the um the uh south side of their property.
We are not happy about this. We have over 130 signatures against this development right now, guys. When does that happen? And that doesn't include the people that couldn't sign it in our neighborhood because we have a neighborhood chat. Everybody is against
this. I implore you, implore you, please look at this very, very seriously as this is going to be a detriment to my community and all my neighbors that are next to it or anywhere even close to this. This is not a good thing for our
community. It really is not. The traffic flow out on Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard, there are accidents there. You guys can go look at the the the studies. There's my neighbor got his wife got hit the other day. I mean, there's going to be more traffic in there. It's not even there's not even a
light there where they're going to be coming in and out of. And guys, I want to though I want to tell you real quick, unfortunately, I have reached out to the owner of this property. This property is become a racetrack for off-road vehicles right now. I've asked them over and over
and including the last planning meeting, told them about this. They won't even bother to put a gate up. They don't care. I talked to FWC. They have um a tortoise endangered tortoise um uh uh thing there on the property. The tortoises are getting killed by all
these people riding around there. They don't seem to care. They're not doing anything. They won't even answer me. I've tried endlessly to, you know, talk to them about these a lot of these issues that are going on there. I'm going nowhere and they just don't seem to care. Guys, thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Um who do we have
next? Madam Chair. Yep. Joe, we decided that there's like maybe two other speakers or one other speaker that's going to speak. We're going to let him speak again because it's going to be continued coming up. They're asking for a continuence. But but I did want to have this input done. All right. And uh thank you for indulging me. I Yeah, no
problem. Had my dryer delivered from the hurricane and um the door was opening the wrong way, so I couldn't use it. So they had to figure out how to open it the other way. And I don't think they'd ever done that before. So it took them a long time. Okay. Um, I have a a
procedure request or question um for Mr. Stein Snider. Did for this item did the since it's going to be continued or presented, do we still need to read the title of P43 into the record? Would be nice. Okay. Yes. So, Mr. PTOS, would you
mind? Item P43 is PD250054. This is an ordinance amending the Pasco County comprehensive plan providing for a comprehensive plan amendment to the future land use map 2-15 in sheet 10 from res one residential one dwelling unit per gross acre to PD plan development on
approximately 7.83 83 acres of real property located north of the intersection of Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard and a text amendment creating sub area policy uh flu 7182 Little Road PD and a map amendment to the future land use map 2-9 adding
sub area map 2-982 uh Little Road MPUD and providing for additional text amendments as necessary for internal consistency for repeal servability and effective. Thank you. I can call up the next um public comment is Tammy White.
Go back. I should my comment. Um just a minute, please. He he was he signed up for the reason. He should he should be entitled to speak on the compliment amendment. Okay. That's fine. That's fine. Um I'll you can come up first. It
is Tyler Sanders, correct? Yes. Okay. If you don't mind saying your name and address for the record and then you can Tyler Sanders. Uh I live at 10515 Hilltop Drive, New Richie. My property is immediately on the back side of this development. It currently floods um on
the back right corner. So I too am concerned just like Robert mentioned with the flooding that this is going to create for on the back side of my property. But I'm also concerned about having twotory buildings right off my my fence line. My property sits up the
house and it slopes down as it sits right now. who this row of houses, these um these dwellings will have a direct view right into my backyard in my pool. My issue and I brought this up with the developer was, you know, we all bought
into this community because it was zone erate residential uh with the understanding that this is, you know, you have a minimum of 1acre lot. Um I mentioned to the developer at the meeting that um um if you were going to take the 7.83 83 acres and put seven
houses back there. Nothing we could do. I mean, it's that's what it's zoned for. Um, obviously, they want to maximize their profit at our expense. Um, I argue with the developer that, um, even though he said it's going to be these will be upscale condos or town homes, I said
it's still going to decrease our property value. You're putting 23, 24, 25 houses back there where we all have to have one house per acre. And I said, "There's no way that's not going to impact our property values." Um, and
their response was, "Well, we could put hUD houses back there." And I said, "Well, I mean, as a threat to us, like, well, what is that supposed to mean that you you can um, you know, really really stick it to the homeowners who are living there and put something back there that's not going to be as
appealing?" Um, it's gone back and forth on the sides of the fence that they're going to put up to block out the the view, but no matter what, it's right on my back property line. My 200 feet will be now a row of houses. So, that's my
objection is to our property values are going to be impacted as well as to the um flooding that is inevitable is going to occur. Even though they they said they're going to mitigate that, we all know that um you know 20 10 15 years down the road next storm comes through
here. Um you know how is my property going to flood less than it did this last August during the last storm? No, it's going to there's no way it's going to flood less. There's a whole lot more houses and development and roads, asphalt uh now right behind my property. So that's all I have to say, but thank
you. Thank you for um allowing us to speak today. Thank you. Next up, I have Tammy White. All right, I'm Tammy White. I live at 9320 Hilltop Drive. I've lived in my home for 34 years. I have seen
horrific changes in our community in these 34 years. And most recently, it just seems like um Golden Acres is under attack. This is going to put more traffic into our neighborhoods. Right
now, all of us that live on the main roads, Hilltop Drive, Oyola, Lake View, people come through there and take out our fences. In the last two years, I've had my fence and gate taken out
twice. One woman took out 60 feet of my fence. Her truck was wedged in between two oak trees. It took three wreckers to get her vehicle out of my property and she got away with
it. I'm a widow living there now by myself and I have to take care of what other people do to our properties. It was mentioned at the last meeting that there is a swath of land that goes from that property to Hilltop Drive and
we couldn't talk about it because they said to us we can't talk about something that may or may not happen in the future. Eventually that property is going to be used for them to go to Hilltop Drive just like the Greek church
does. And every event the Greek church has their People that go to these events exit on Hilltop Drive. They end up going into neighbors properties because they don't
understand that it's not an entrance to the church. We have to clean up our roads every single day in front of our house and it's getting worse and worse. I just We live there for a reason. We want
our quality of life and we want it to stay that way and we're fighting for it now and not at not with just this. So, you know, please consider that if you lived in our neighborhood and you were under attack like this, that's just what
it feels like. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone online? Um, I have two more signed up and possibly have a third. All right. Alan Rose, I have a presentation for the board.
Move approval to accept. All all in favor? I I think developers request. grateful you all get a copy or is this going to be you need to
go please try not to repeat okay here we go she's hanging out um there's 30 homesteads surrounding this property all designated as state residential 15 in Ocola Heights 15 in
Golden Acres and what this is going to do is going to impugn the neighborhood. It's going to dramatically affect, as you've heard, our property values and what the the what we're used to. In
anyway, I listed all the properties that are surrounding it and every property is on one acre or more. We have residential and equestrian animals and whatnot. The next item that we have is, as you've heard, the
traffic. We're a little road bypass coming through our neighborhood. And that's why the traffic summaries that you've seen, the traffic reports you've seen are all inaccurate. If you put those uh speed bumps that we once had back on our roads, you'll put the traffic back on Little Road and you
watch what happens to the traffic on Little Road. We suffer this every day from 4 in the morning till 9 in the morning and then every evening from starting at three in the afternoon till 8 at night. The dramatic traffic that we get for the little road bypass coming through our neighborhood. They come
through Hilltop, they come through it's just it's ridiculous what we what we deal with because of this. So the traffic summary that they've submitted is totally inaccurate because they don't take that into account. Then there's the flooding. It floods two ways. It floods
north and it floods south. To the north, you're going to go down into the Bear Creek Basin, which is an impaired water basin. And to the south, it goes over Jasmine and down into our wetlands. And that wetlands goes throughout Golden Acres, goes over to Cranes Roost, floods
out. I've listed on this, you'll see where it floods up every year, the two overpasses, and this will just increase the flooding we have, the repetitive flooding, and it's going to it's just is just going to be dramatic and but the traffic is really going to be
horrendous. That's what I have to say. I have 130 signatures of people that are opposing this, all residents of the area, and we all do not want to see this development happen. Thank you. Thank you. I have um Jeff Hill.
Jeffrey Hill 10447 Granning Lane. My whole property touches this. So I have one acre. It's like narrow. So where I am now, there's woods, there's a field, and then the church where my son
goes to school. When they develop this, every inch of my property, when I go outside, I'm going to look. I'm going to see people in their houses. Not only that, I'm going to see the back of a strip mall because they're putting two strip malls in. What's going to happen to my property value? It's going to
tank, right? And I can't sell it now because then I'll get sued, right? It's it's going to be absolutely measurable. When they were remodeling the church, I was okay with it because it's turning into a school. My walls rattled. What's going to happen when they build this
right here? It's going to tank my whole property. everything. My son goes to that school. When school lets out, the traffic is from the school to the next intersection. They're going to have one way in, one way out. Not going to happen. They're going to put a road in
going to Hilltop and that's going to go right on top of my fence. It's just I completely oppose it. It's going to destroy Golden Acres. It's going to destroy my property and my value. Thank you. I have someone signed up, but they didn't put an agenda item. I just want
to make sure they're not here for this item right now. Shirley, okay. Do you know which item you're for? Okay. That public hearing is at 5:00 p.m. Oh, thank you. I didn't see that on the agenda. Um, Madam Chair, that is all
that I have signed up in on the on the forms. I don't know if any and there's no one on WebEx, but I don't know if there's anyone else. Okay. Um, so is there anyone else here that wishes to speak to this? Okay. Are we just I didn't see what you did. Is this
just open door for anyone to speak, Jack, at both hearings? Why are we doing that? We have never ever done that before. Well, we had a long discussion while you weren't here. What? We had a long discussion about it while you weren't here. So, okay. All right. Come on up. This is just unusual. We usually don't let people If
you speak here, you won't be It's unusual for me. You can't speak at the next one. So, no problem. John Hall 9210 Turkey Shootute. My property is on the north side of backs up to the north side of what's being proposed here. As they've already spoke to, you know, the flooding issues. I've even worked with
Jack in uh years past. The church that's north of this property has a massive flooding issue. That swamp head that's behind there is what my house backs up to. That swamp head has a channel that runs on the north side of the school. Uh that is that floods continuously. The
county pumps water from there over to get the drainage over to Little Road to the thing. There is no manhole for that water to go to. So, what happens is swamp head gets too high and then it floods, which is what most most of the properties around there are dealing with. I've been there 20 years this uh
this year. Uh have 250 ft along there. Flooding issues, like we said, that's that's a massive problem. property values, uh, traffic issues. Like you said, I already have people coming through constantly down my street every single afternoon, every evening for at least three or four hours. U, we've got
130 sign 30 signatures already, which is is gaining. Um, the the visual of these buildings, too, this, like they're saying, backing up to their lot, staring right into their bathrooms. I mean, who we've been there 20 years living in an acorage. It's called Golden Acres for a reason, right? Golden Acres. That's
where we live. So, everybody has at least an acre or more. Uh the uh the uh everyone surrounding this is going to lose value. We're all going to be infected in ne in negatively ways. And the flooding issue is a known issue there. It's known. I mean, I the county
pumps water over little road to get rid of it from the swamp bed. And my house is immediately affected. It comes to right to the back door every single time I have a storm. So, that's my piece. Completely object. Thank you. Um, okay. So, since we're doing
something unusual today, are we letting the applicant speak to any of this or we just going to skip all of that, too? The applicant wanted to continue, so we're just going to I know, but you opened a door, so Oh, no. We We to take all this comment. I think you you take applicant
rebuttal. Yeah, sure. I mean, I don't want to be sued. Hello. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'll make these comments with the understanding we're going to continue this. Yes. And you can have your opportunity again just like Very good.
Yeah. This is uh Mr. Chad, pardon me, Mr. Chad Davis, uh legal counsel for the U developer and Miss Ava Russo, um one of my engineering staff members. I guess for the record, I guess my name is Michael Hoffman,
Advanced Engineering Consultants. Property address 109, Gallant Lane, Tampa, Florida. Uh 33625. Um I don't think I want to go through what we have planned for next,
just to address some of the key possibly myths or concerns. One of the reasons we're continuing this is to have more staff conversation uh with uh utilities and and storm storm water management about a possible
existing uh pumpout at that location. But I want to emphasize one key thing here. If you look at the topography of this site on the south mid portion of the property, there's it's basically like a
small hill. Okay. And that water sheds to the north and sheds to the south. If you leave the propert kind of a ridge, it's actually like a little hill. Okay. Okay. Um
if if you leave the property the way it is right now, yes, you will continue to flood. If you develop this property in accordance with storm water management principles of attenuation, treatment, draw down, we're actually going to
improve the amount of water that leaves this site. We're going to reduce it by law. Our pre uh development water, our post-development water has to be less than our pre-development water because of the storm water retention underground
chambers. the county will not allow us to to put more water in the adjacent properties. It's actually going to diminish. We're going to manage it. So, this concern about us flooding the adjacent people is actually going to improve. That's a very key point that people are not really
understanding. The second thing, the privacy issue. My client is willing to put up an 8 foot tall masonry fence all the way around this property. If they stay with the current development, they're actually have less
privacy because there' be maybe a fence, no fence, two stories, people looking into their backyards. That's still going to happen. If you also look at that location, the proximity of our uh buildings for most
of them are several hundred feet to the next structure. There's only one structure to the south which is only about 80 feet. But he's going to have a a beautiful wall like Mr. Trump says, a beautiful wall 8 foot tall and he won't he won't
he his privacy will not be compromised. So you can't you cannot speak up back there. Sorry. So those are some of the key points. Um also u oh yes the concern about the the sliver
of land that runs from our property or the developer's property to the east. the developer is willing to donate that land to those adjacent owners upon a successful outcome of this to mitigate any concern about people
thinking that there's going to be a road in their backyard. So, all these arguments you've heard, very emotional arguments, I get it. But honestly, it's a little bit of a hyperbole. Okay. And uh with that said, Ava, is there anything else I should
add? you're he's looking like he wants to say something or so I I think I hit upon the the key points. Um in regards to property values, this is going to be a new classy
development. Okay, I would argue we're in matter of fact going to improve the property values in the area due to the amenities that we're providing and the um next in next meeting we'll show you the depiction of what it's going to look like. It's going to actually improve the
property value in the areas. So, I think that's what I have for now. Good afternoon, commission. Again, Charles Davis. I'll be very brief. I just wanted to clarify uh the nature of the continuence. Um we also have a companion item P-55. So, I just wanted to make
sure if we're doing if we're granted this continuence that we're in fact continuing both items. It'll have to be continued at we get down to it. Okay. Understood. Okay. Thank you. Um, TA, do you have anything? I think we covered it. Okay. Any other comments or questions? I don't think we're going to
engage. We're just giving you the opportunity to Okay. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a another procedural question. Okay. You asking me or you asking Mr. Steinstein? Um, my understanding is that county staff received some emails. Do we want
to put that on the record as well as our procedure? No. If this is a continue, this is Let's Save it for the full hearing. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. So, I'll move to continue, but I'm not sure if we do a time
certain. Terry, when to when do we want to continue this? Uh, through the June 17, 2025 board of county commissioners meeting at Newport Richie, 1:30 p.m. You sure that's going to be enough time? Because that engineer is going to take some time. That's the date that the applicant has
requested. I think they're terms of the analysis that's been conducted thus far, we have a good head start. The next board meeting in New Richi is in August. August 19, I believe, something like that. So, but the applicant said they'd be ready by
June 17th or who's I didn't hear. Yeah, the applicant is requesting June 17th. They must be uh far along. Move to continue to June 17th. Second. All in favor? I I
um you have the commissioner online so you'd have to do it as roll call vote. Okay. District one commissioner Oakley. I District two Commissioner Weman. Hi. District 4 Commissioner Joerger. I was told. Commissioner Joerger, we did not get
your vote. Commissioner Joerger, District 4. I think she can vote. I tried to get online. I couldn't drive in here. It wouldn't. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District
three. Chairman Starky. Hi. Okay. And maybe uh she's going to come back on. Um so we're on P44 and I am asking for a continuence on this one and I think county administrator. Well, no. I was
trying to see if uh Commissioner Joerger was online. She's she's able to dial in. She says she voted twice, but uh she's not on mute. Can we can we test her right now? Commissioner Joerger, are you online? Okay, we we we can't hear you,
Commissioner Jerger, if you are online. Can you hear me? Yes. I All right. That was an I. So I have a chair. I have a procedural question. Voting online. We're not ill. Can we vote this way?
Attorney, she has a business commitment that she is heading to the airport. She's still in in the county. So it's if the board believes it's an emergency, you can. It it's not it's not
for convenience. She's I'm okay with her. She's got a catch. I just want to make sure that it counts. Okay. Thank you. Still pass. Okay. So, um I just spoke up about continuing P44. Madam Chairman, can I read the um proof of publication for Yeah. I just want to
know how long she's going to be online. We continued. Um do you have to do that first? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Item P44 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 5th, 2025. The item was continued from the April 9th, 2025 BCC meeting to today. Thank you. Okay. P44 is your
first hearing on this. Right. Right. The most important one. Madam Chair, why would you want to continue? Because at least I don't want to speak for another commissioner. Did you get contact by another commissioner? Commissioner Commissioner Joerger did request uh to continue it as well since
she wasn't here, but we do have her online. So, I'm okay to continue. Okay. move to continue. Okay. So, we'll move it to the June 17th board meeting. Roco, do you have to read my read title? Madam Chair. Yep. So,
instead of Let's get Let me ask a question though before we go go to that. Instead of doing June 17th, it's going to be two hearings. You want to just have the other one Dade City first because otherwise it's going to be later. No, because it's affects the the people on the coast most. Yeah, it's
it's mostly mostly in my neighborhood. Oh, no. I know. I know that. All right. 17. Let's have the clerk read the title into the ordinance, then you can make your motion to continue. Uh, okay.
Or Mr. Beach. Madam Chair, uh, item P44 is PD250135. This is an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners, amending the Pasco County Land Development Code, amending section 10001, docks and seaw walls, section
101.1, intent and purpose. Section 10001.4 visibility section 101.5 maximum projection and location of docks and seaw walls creating section 101.6 Six boltlets, canopies, appendix A definitions and other sections is
necessary for internal consistency, providing for applicability, repealer, providing for severability, inclusion to land development code, and an effective date. Thank you. Um, I do want to note we have planning board members here in the audience and I appreciate them coming today. Um, if you didn't see it,
the planning board voted unanimously to deny this. Do I have that right? Do I have that right? They're nodding their head. Okay. All right. So, um, then we will I'll take a motion. You got a motion. And I appreciate you guys coming. I hope you come the next time,
too. Please. You got a motion to continue. So, you you move to continue to June 17th at 1:30 or soon thereafter is say maybe. I second it. Okay. All in favor? I call. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Roll call. District 1, Commissioner Oakley.
Hi. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger. Hi. We heard you. District 5, Commissioner Mariano. I District 3, Chairman Starky. I Okay. P5.
I'm going to read P45's proof once again. Um, just because we were a little bit out of order. It's was published in the Tampa Bay Times on April 2nd, 2025. Good afternoon, Madam Chair, commissioners, madame clerk, counselor. Justin from fire marshall with Pasco
Fire along with Chief Quinn, fire chief. Uh, item P45 is file number F FR25-1621, an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners amending the Pasco County Land Development Code to increase fire, combat, and rescue impact fees beyond
the phase and limitations of section 163.31801 subsection 6 Florida statutes amending section 103.1 jurisdictional applicability providing for amendments to section 132.6 six fire combat and
rescue service impact fee to make such sections consistent with the 2024 fire combat and rescue service impact fee study and to adopt such study to increase the amount of fire combat and rescue service impact fees providing for additional amendments as necessary
to ensure internal consistency providing for applicability repealer providing for separability inclusion in the land development code and an effective date. We do have a presentation prepared uh if you would like. Myself, Chief Gwyn, and Peter Napoli is here at your disposal to
answer any questions and are asked to the board as to public comment. Adopt the proposed ordinance amendment by roll call vote. Authorize the chairman to execute such ordinance amendment and direct board records to transmit such ordinance to the Department of State by electronic mail within 10 days after
adoption of the ordinance amendment. Madam Chair, yeah, I think we discussed this pretty well last time and I want to say I appreciate Chief actually reaching out to find out that no other places have those caps. So I'm comfortable the way it's been set up as we discussed last meeting.
Um well, see, I personally think when we're raising people's when we're going to people's wallets, we should have a public hearing. I mean, we should talk about it. And as you know, I thought we should cap some of the really big buildings. Um I don't remember what
number I suggested last time. 250,000 square feet, ma'am. Which is we don't have very many of those, but correct. Um so do you think you can just briefly do a little presentation? Not the whole one, but Yes, ma'am. Go into a little little more depth. Yep. We could go hit
the cliff notes and we could address uh that 250 up. Sorry. [Applause] I got it. Now you don't have to do the whole one. No, you need more stuff.
No. Okay. Uh so while we're here before you, we looked internally, this started uh over three years ago at our capital revenue in the form of impact fees on both the uh fire, combat and rescue
impact fees. Uh to that point, uh it was well underfunded to sustain the population growth and the increase in calls for service and demands on our service delivery. uh the the board of county commission, county admin, the men and women of our agency have gone leaps and bounds to carry our agency into a
premier industry standard setting uh department. With the inidation of population growth, uh the demands on our services in the form of our unit hour utilization, our response times in different disciplines and geographical areas in the county is seeing the
implications of that. Uh the ask was to stand at Stante Techch Consulting to come in and conduct a third-party review of our current impact fees and make their recommendations. Um those recommendations were were set before you
uh and the hopes to parallel uh and reduce the amount of impact fee collection to uh 35 months down to approximately 15 months to be able to fund one new service delivery area based off the
capital revenue uh in the form of impact fees. There was discussion um with respect to the cap. Currently, there's a uh a square foot cap. Uh Chairman Starky brought up the point of possibly entertaining a 250,000 square
foot cap. We worked with the consulting firm um to change that and look at that. If we were to implement that, the increase would go from 632 to 375
from six from what? So $632, correct? To $375,000. No, no, no. What? Per square foot. Oh, per square foot. Yeah. So the the current proposal as it's before you today without the cap is to increase to
362 and with a retaining a cap at 250,000 square foot that would increase to 375 and then on the rescue service it would increase from 224 to 234. Um, also
at your disposal is the fact in the form of variance uh for any specific case by case matters that's brought before that may exceed any commercial cap. Okay. So so and and that that is our
position and ask as well as a consulting firm is that we forego the commercial cap and uh our ask is that the recommended proposed increase. So, so you are recommending a commercial cap? No, he's not recommending a commercial.
So, how much would the Amazon building or Target be? You know, Madam Chairman, if you've heard what the chief said, you will be forcing that fee down, correct? You're you're forcing it down
to lower to other square footage, forcing the impact fee up by implementing a a correct arrive at the same amount of money. Correct. Right. Okay. So, okay. And I don't know that the consultant was the consultant able
to identify that the calls for service to a larger building would be less the calls for service. No, the resources and the commitment that we have to provide the level of protection is exacerbated by proximity of the that and the demands
on on the building. All right. What did you say? My goodness, hotels and hospitals and they're going to be paying a lot more. Okay. Not necessarily to to I'm willing to to accept the motion without the cap, but I do want to leave
the opportunity there that depending on the user that comes in. I talked about this with Mr. Cabala that uh we could look at them if it's a sizable business and they're looking to be in you know to land in Pasco that we'd have the flexibility to negotiate I would like
that uh something within it you know but that's I'm sure those are going to be rare few far between. Go ahead Mike. Yeah I just I just want to be clear on what that is is any business that comes in you're free to have an economic type incentive deal or an arrangement based on based on the industry or business. you've always had that and whatever
those fees or whatever those monies are can go to pay down for example this impact fee would be an example of what that would be. So you you're not actually waving the impact fee so much as either funding it from a different source of funds is but you have that flexibility in in how you negotiate deals all the time when it comes to
economic incentives. Okay. And um uh I want to be sure u Lisa didn't want to say anything just I don't I can't see hands up or anything here. Does anyone I know she's on. I'm just I support the no cap. She's for the No cap. Okay. Um
and there is one thing that I I would ask and we have built some beautiful fire stations and I talked to you all about this, but I feel um we need to be a little more careful about our spending on the fire stations.
I mean, they're they're absolutely beautiful and I'm glad people are very comfortable in them, but I think I think we don't think we've gone kind of luxurious when maybe we don't have to go so so luxurious. Madam Chair, I think the um
the chief and others have answered that before. They are looking at ways to uh sharpen the pencil on those buildings in the future. And he and you went over that a little bit with me when I toured that your new 17 and and for the record, we we've worked with Andrew Baxer and his team. We've we've decreased the fire
station bills by about $1.9 million already just in existing changes and our future bills going forward. We're certainly going to take a look at that as well. Okay, that's awesome. Sure. Okay. Yes. And to c on impact fees, when are we might when are we having our impact fee conversation? I think it's
important. It's our impact fees are heavy. I know we're capturing funds with all the new folks that are moving into Pasco, but I do have concern for those who've lived here a long time and want to build a house uh or upgrade or wherever and it's just pricing them out
of the market. So, looking forward to a impact fee conversation. Um, anytime we raise taxes or fees, it's it's pain point for me, Chief. Um, but yours, you know, yours is important, but overall, I'd like to take an overall look at
impact. Yes, Commissioner Weightman. We we are planning on in conjunction with the mobility fee update uh which is coming towards the end of this summer at the same time to present that to the board in a workshop as well as a holistic approach to impact fees as as you had requested uh at a previous
meeting. So, we'll have that discussion. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion. And do we have a second? Oh, yes. It's a public hearing. Would anyone like to speak to this item? I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for this item.
Seeing no one, I'll take a motion. Be second. All in favor? Roll call vote. Roll call. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Oakley. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger.
I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. I. Okay, there you go. Thank you all. I appreciate it. Okay. All right. P um 46. Item P46 was published in the Tampa Bay
Times on April 30th, 2025. Good afternoon, chairman, commissioners. I'm Jerry Williams, public infrastructure, fiscal, and business administration department. FIFA 2550319, an ordinance by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, dissolving Highlands municipal
service benefit consisting of seven distinct units as of December 31st, 2025 and providing for an effective date and applicability. So on June 18th, 2024, ordinance number 2431, the road rehabilitation services
mi municipal service taxing unit, MSTU, was approved by the board of county commissioners. So Highlands roadways are now maintained under the parameters of the road rehabilitation services MSTU. So, Highlands consists of seven
units, 36.5 road miles, 742 erus, and 3,288 acres. And this is a road map. I mean, I'm sorry, this is a map depicting the boundaries of the MSPU. Oh, yeah.
Itemizing the respective units. So, the recommended action is to accept public comment and adopt the proposed ordinance. Okay. I do want to comment on this. Um, but let's see if there's any public comment. Madam Chair. Okay. None. Can I
can I comment first? Yeah. Um, so, uh, Jerry, great job on this and I think it's it's it's good to bring it forward. However, there's one thing that I think the board should think about and maybe we postpone this to further discussion through the summer as we look at what we're going to do. I don't think we
should get rid of it. Okay. And I'm going to go along that way be just because as we look at, let's say, dirt roads. The reason we have seven districts here, not just geographical, the different road conditions. Some of these things are in great shape, some are in just terrible shape. Dirt roads that need a lot of work. And I think if
we're going to be looking at trying to maximize the dollars we put in for the uh MST MSB we put in for transportation, we may need this to help fund some of these roads that want to get done. But you need the funding so it's in place. So I think it's going to be good to
actually continue this. I don't know, Mike, how long do you think? Well, whether you continue it or you just choose to leave it on the books and adopt a zero, uh, you know, you can That's what I would say. He's just keep it at zero for now. Keep it at zero and
just let's leave it. I'm going to go with that for now. So, does the board wish to withdraw this ordinance? Yes. But I I do. Yeah, that would have to be it. And then when we come back over the summer when we are setting various millages and MSBUs,
staff would recommend setting the the assessment at $0. So I I'd need a motion from the board to to deny adoption of of the ordinance dissolving the Highlands municipal service benefit unit and it can always
be revered and sure. Yes. I just want to be careful. I mean these folks are paying the road MSTU. I just that's why we're making it zero. Well, it's still on there and could be funded. I mean, there's a chance potentially that they could end up double taxed if we're not
this board changes. Um, so it's just just a concern. I'm fine with leaving it at zero. It's just a I see a vulnerability for double taxation for these folks. Madam Chair, yeah, and I'm okay with
bringing it back at some point. may bring it back next year so it's still fresh in everybody's mind. But some of these roads are in terrible shape. Some are in great shape and that's why the different categories they have set is in there. I think setting it at zero is fine and then we can look at it again next year. But I think leaving in place
rather than reconstructing it, which would take a lot more time and effort. I think the wiser thing is just set it for zero for this year and we can revisit it next year no matter what happens. Okay. Yeah. We'll have a further idea of when they may be getting to them. I'll second that. Yeah. Okay. Um, it's a roll call
vote. So, madam, I don't know that there was a motion. I'm I put it on the record. Before the motion, I just wanted for the record that no one has signed up in person and no one on WebEx for this item. Okay. To anybody who was here to wish to speak to the Highlands Ridge
Road and Bridge District. Seeing none, I will move to set the assessment for zero. Yeah. No, that'll need that you can that you can do in in July. But what I We need to get this advertised public hearing dispensed with. So it would be
that to deny adoption of the ordinance for dissolving the Highlands. Okay. I deny adoption of the ordinance. Second. Roll call. Roll call vote. Okay. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner
Joerger. I District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. Hi. This is an unusual meeting. Okay. P48. Is this a continuence? 47. 447. Oh.
Oh, sorry. I always turn and then I turn again. Okay. P47. All right. Item P47 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on April 2nd, 2025. Do we want to do the uh Oh, is it time? Is it that time for you? We can do that. There are two reasoning
agendas, regular and consent. Staff will present each application to the board of county commissioners. If staff or planning commission has recommended approval and there's no opposition, the application will be considered by the board without further presentation. If staff or planning commission has recommended denial or if there is
opposition to the application, the applicant will be given five minutes for presentation. and 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 reasonzoning may at this time request that a 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 found within the board's land development code for reszoning. Madame Clerk, would you like to swear the public in, please? Yes. Mr. Stein Snider, if you are here to speak
on any of the items to come, please stand 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. You may be seated.
And if it's okay, I'm going to reread the publication for P47. U P47 was published in the Tampa Times on April 2nd, 2025. Thank you. Item P47 is PD 257688. This is a zoning amendment to
the name of Riveridge MPUD, uh, master planning development for Riveridge Homes Incorporated. This is a request to continue the item to a date uncertain. We have two people here. We can well actually at least are on the phone. So, all right. Um, move move to continue
date. You need you need a quorum. Katherine Wil to continue P47. Second. Um, roll call vote, I guess. Yes. Yeah. Okay. District one, Commissioner Oakley.
District two, Commissioner Weightman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. I Okay. P48.
Item Item P48 was published in Tampa Times on May 1st, 2024. The item was continued from the June 18th, 2024 BCC meeting to the August 21st, 2024 BCC meeting, where it was continued to September 3rd, 2024 BCC meeting, where it was continued to the October 8th,
2024 BCC meeting, which was cancelled due to Hurricane Milton. The item then appeared on the November 12th, 2024 BCC meeting where it was continued to the January 28th, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to the February 25th, 2025
BCC meeting where it did not appear. The item then appeared on the March 25th, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to the April 22nd BCC meeting where it was continued to today. Oh my gosh, we're going to go through that again. No, ma'am.
This uh item P48 is PD257739 zoning amendment in the name of Fletcher and PUD but in the name of Mary L. Fletcher revocable trust and Richard D. Fletcher. This item is being requested to a continuence for a continuence to a date uncertain.
Okay. Since it's advertised a continuous, I don't have to take public comment. Correct. Um board members, Madam Chair, so does this mean the next meeting going to read this whole thing again? That's what I was laughing about. It'll be renoticed. Brand new notice. So, it's going to start fresh again.
Yes. Yeah. Okay. Continue. I'm sorry. Second. All in favor? Is Is it a roll call? Lisa is on. Okay. Yes. Okay. Roll call. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District two, Commissioner Waitman. I. District four, Commissioner Joerger.
I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Stury. I Okay, I turned the So, I got to make sure I didn't turn too um P49. Item P49 was published in the Tampa
Times on March 5th, 2025. The item was continued from the April 22nd, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to today. Um item P49 is PTE27781. This is a zoning amendment in the name of Enclave at Livingston MPUD
uh by Academy at the Lakes. The item was continued at the planning commission to June 19, 2025. That means that the request for continuence today is to the August 19, 2025 for the county commissioners
meeting in Newport Richie at 1:30 p.m. And this was advertised as a continuence. Correct. Is that correct? Although the date was different. Yes. Okay, Madam Chair. Yeah. Is this the one located at Collier Parkway? Yes, sir. Yes. It's about in the middle. Shouldn't
this be on the other side of the county? I was telling the difference in my head. Would it be easier? I think this one flexes about the same distance. It is to used to have a general line of 41, but this is definitely on the east side. So, according to internal measurements,
it was easier for neighbors to get to Lup Richie than to date city. Okay. Continue August 19th. Second. Roll call vote. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger.
I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. I P 50. Madam Chair, this is consent. Yes. Sorry. Um, as of yesterday, the applicant for P-54 and P-54
P-57 um, coordinated with the county a continuence for the Riverstone MPD substantial modification and for the Riverstone development agreement, but we're on the wireless one. You want to jump to those or Well, they're just continues. Oh, you want to do all the continuances? Yeah. Okay. So, what So,
tell me those numbers again. 54 P547 and 57. Okay. But they were advertised not as continuences. Correct. So, let me just go right now and see if there's anyone here who who wanted to speak against P-54.
I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for P-54. Is there anyone here who wishes to speak against P-57? I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for P-57. Right. I'll take a motion to continue those. Do we have to
take each separate separately please? Okay. So we'll take up P57 54 P54. Move to continue P54 time certainly. Is that what it says? June 17, 2025 130 Newport. Are they both to June 17? Yes, ma'am.
Okay. Second. Okay. Uh roll call vote. District one, Commissioner Oakley. I. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I. District 5, Commissioner Mariano. I, District 3, Chairman Starky, I. P57,
move to continue June 17th. Second. Roll call vote. District 1, Commissioner Oakley. Hi, District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I, District 5, Commissioner Mariano, I. District three, Chairman Starky. Hi. Oh,
that's going to be a long meeting. Madam Chair, yeah. You want to just continue P55? Um that's the companion, right? Sure. All right. So, let's go. Um so, um that Okay. Um not taking public
comment. Yeah, that's up to the board. 55 is the companion item. You took public comment on the comprehensive plan amendment. Um it Yep. And the applicant has left, so I'm definitely not taking public comment. Okay. So, we're going to
move P 55. And I just wanted to state for the record, Madam Chair, um, of the individuals that had signed up for P43, there was one that signed up just for P55, not P43. Um, and I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of that
before, but he spoke. Um, his name is I think it's Joe Hall or John Hall. He spoke. He spoke. He spoke. Yeah. And but but our our rules are typically we don't allow it if there or they can well I guess it is you can speak now but you can't speak the second here. So we'll
we'll do that for in fairness but I don't think the applicant is still here. So I'm a little so he's not going to hear the the comments may not understood that one. Well what should I do? I guess that's
you stay with your normal pro procedure which is If anybody wishes to speak on 55, they will not be able to speak at the next hearing. Okay. So, um we're on P5 that we have said we're going to continue
if you want to. Yeah. Read the headline. Head head. Okay. Read the title into the record, please. Item P55 is a zoning amendment in the name of Little Road MPUD master plan development by Nagoyantine. It's a
reszoning petition from er estate residential district to MPUD master plan unit development to allow for 23 town homes and 32,452 ft of commercial uses and associated infrastructure on 7.83 3 acres located on the east side of Little
Road approximately 550 ft north of the intersection of Little Road and Jasmine Boulevard. Okay. So, um if you wanted to speak to this today, you will not be able to speak at the meeting where we're going to hear this. So, it's up to you if you
want to speak today or wait and listen when we have this meeting. Do we have a time certain? Is it June 17th? June 17th. Is there anyone who wish Allan if you speak today you will not speak at the next meeting? I understand that because I'll get to speak to the other
issue that's being carried on. Excuse me. The other issue that was put forward earlier that we commented on before you arrived. You you can't speak if you're not going to be a you can only speak if you're not going to be available at the next hearing. Okay. Because I will be
available for that other issue. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. I'll take a motion. Seeing no one any more public comment to continue P55 to June 17th. Uh roll call vote. District one. Commissioner Oakley. I.
District two Commissioner Weightman. Hi. District four commissioner Joerger. I. District five Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three chairman Starky. Hi. Hey. P50. I have a a procedural question
for the P54 and P-57. I don't believe the title was read into the record. Do we need to read the title into the record if it was advertised as a Oh, no. It wasn't advertised. continue. I can I can notate that P-54 was a development
agreement for the Riverstone, formerly known as Rener MPUD, by KB Homes Tampa LLC, which was the second amendment to the development agreement to allow the developer to receive certificates of occupancy for 98 homes prior to the completion of road improvements for the Benner MPD to clarify terms and
conditions therein and rename the development agreement from Rener to Riverstone. and P-57 was the companion piece which was a substantial modification to the Riverstone, formerly known as Rener MPU KB Homes Tampa LLC, which was a substantial modification to
allow the developer to receive certificates of occupancy for 98 homes prior to completion of road improvements through modification of a previously approved condition to rename the renter MPUD to Riverstone MPUD. Um, and that was the title. And madam
chair, um I need to read proof to for the continued items into the record. So item P-54 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 19th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site postings. The item was continued from the May 6th, 2025 BCC meeting to today and item
P57 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 19th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site postings. The item was continued from the May 6, 2025 BCC meeting to today. I don't think I read in the proof for P5 uh was it
55 P-55? Nope. Um P-55 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 5th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site postings. The item was continued from the March 25th, 2025 BCC meeting to the April 22nd, 2025 BCC
meeting where it was continued to today. Mr. Pito, did we write read the title to P55? I believe I did. Yes. Okay. And we're good. Okay. Well, then we are on P50. Madam Chair, if I may, Commissioner
Joerger has stuff. Okay. Thank you. Item P50 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on March 5th, 2025 and affidavit of certified mailings and site postings. The item was continued from the April 22nd, 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to today. Item P50 is PTE 25
CU08. This is a conditional use uh request in the name of Rubrech Ronald C and Paty M living Living Trust Anthemet Verizon Wireless. It's for a 180 foot above ground level close mount monopole
wireless communication facility WCF and an AC agricultural district located in south central Pasco County on the west side of Troy Drive approximately 700 feet north of Dog Patch Lane. This comes to you with a recommendation from the planning commission and the planning
development economic growth department to approve the conditional use request with conditions that set forth under the recommended conditions section below. All right. Do you have anyone signed up to speak against this? I have no one excuse me. I'm doing my job. Thank you. There's
no one signed up and no one on WebEx for this item. Is there anyone here who wishes to speak against this item? Seeing no one, then we'll leave it on consent. P51. Item P51 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on January 8th, 2025 and March
5th, 2025. The item was continued from the February 25th, 2025 BCC meeting to the April 22nd B 2025 BCC meeting where it was continued to today. Item P51 is PTE 257769. This is a zoning amendment in
the name of Mirs 4 LLC. It's a change in zoning from a C3 commercial light manufacturing district specific use to a C3 commercial light manufacturing district in northwest Pasco County on the southwest corner of the intersection or the
crossroad of Shady Hills and Lenway Road east of the Sun Coast Parkway containing approximately 9.10 acres. This comes with a recommendation from the planning commission and the planning development economic growth department to adopt the zoning amendment. Okay, this is on consent. Is there
anyone here who wishes to speak against this item or anyone on So I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for this item. And seeing no one here, I will leave it on consent. Approve the consent agenda. Okay, take a second. Second. All
in favor? I. Okay. P52. Item P-52 was published in the Tampa Times on April 20th, 2025 and April 27th, 2025. Hi, good afternoon, commissioners. Lori Joe Bryant from Real Property Division.
The Real Property team has received a petition to vacate a portion of Platted Rideway filed by BW54 Cattlegap LLC. The purpose for this petition is uh or excuse me vacation is to allow for future development and the team
recommends approval. Well, is that the whole presentation? That is it. Unless you have any followup. Can you go back to the map again? Absolutely. Um where so that's that's where is our road
coming in? So it was platted where the where the outline of red is. Now all of the rest of the uh roadway to the west has been previously vacated. There's no current utility applications there. Um
so the rest has already been vacated. Yeah. I need Rangland Boulevard is is to the north. it. There's another parcel in between there. And this this piece is not related to the construction or rightway needs for that facility, nor is
the owner of that property um involved in anything or any other rightway that we might need for that. Can you go back Can you go back to that map? Um so this this portion above this red line that is a commercial that's a developable piece. Is that what you're
telling me? So the the red area is the actual right ofway. What's the parcel? The parcel to the north. Um I'm I believe it's TSWR something similar to that. Um but
it is not included in this request. Oh, I I know it's not. Yes, ma'am. Um who who was who who was requesting us to vacate this? The parcel to the south or the parcel to the north? the parcel that the rightway is currently in. So,
Madam Chair, I don't know how to say that any clearer. So, you're saying there's three different property owners? There's one property owner for all all the pieces. My concern is as always is the orange belt trail. So, I want to know how that fits in here.
Um, as because you can see there's a wetland right there or a storm water pond. So, I just want to make sure we've taken into account all we need because that road does something weird right there. You see where the E is on Gladstone
Drive? How How is that possible? We're going to skip over that corner. So, I don't I don't really understand what's going on right there as far as design. So, are you speaking for rangeand? Is that just to clarify in the corner where
it's Right. I am speaking about rangeand and that weird design that someone has in the road. So his parcel the the petitioner's parcel is there's a parcel to the south or excuse me to the east northeast and
then the one directly north of that contains the proposed yes but we may need some of that land and so I you know I'd rather horse trade um because I don't understand this this drawing here. It doesn't make sense to me. Now, maybe one of you road engineers can tell me
that I'm misunderstanding, but that doesn't look right on the orange, the red lines there. It gets narrow and then it gets wide. So, what's going on right there? Madam Chair, I could Eric Brightenbach, assistant county administrator for internal services. That parcel is already developed. That's
where the new Texas Roadhouse is over there in front of next to Gun Highway. So in terms of any available land to put a trail on, what have you there? I don't believe there's an opportunity to Well, this is north of that, right? No, ma'am. This red line, this is that parcel. The that red line runs right through the
middle of the one continuous. So they built on our property, the easement, correct? That's correct. Okay. So who owns the property to the north of that? Is it the same company? It does not. That is the developer Ranch owns that property to That's We lock. That is We
lock. Okay. Um, how did we let give a permit on top of our property? That would be a it's a great question. Probably one for permitting. Unfortunately, I don't have that answer. Well, that's interesting.
Okay. Well, then you're good with this, chair. Well, um, let's open it up to public comment since it's a public hearing. Does anyone else want to try and understand what happened here? Does anyone else want to speak about this? We have a Texas Roadhouse, the number
one dining casual steak dining state chain in America. Dinners for everybody. Did you want to speak? Okay, come on up. It's a vacation. I have not been sworn in. It's a vacation. You don't need to be fantastic. Austin
Simmons, 3708 West Swan, uh, Tampa, Florida. My partners and I own that property, the north side of the Red Line and the south side of the Red Line. It's all one piece of property. Okay. Oh, well, see, so it's it's all one piece of property that if long time ago there
were thousands of roads that were platted out there. They were all over the place. They've all been vacated. Yeah. Because there used to be a whole bunch of houses along there. Absolutely. Our our press went there. Our surveyor did all the vacations. Yay. Fantastic. We did a survey of that property. We
used that for our development permit. Our surveyor said there's no road out there. We vacated every road. Fantastic. We built a building there. Y'all peritted. We built a building. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Our second tenant who was out there now in the
middle of permitting right now said, "Hey, our title company says there's a road there." said, "No, no, there is no road there, guys. I've seen the survey. I've talked to the surveyor who vacated it. They said there's no road there." Turns out there is. Okay. The road to
the west vacated. There's nothing to the east. There was never a road there. It's always been wetland. You guys have the road to the north, which is rain uh Gladstone. Gladstone. Gladstone. You have your road to the west obviously at 54. This is right in the middle of our parking lot that we built with our
building which we built and we're going to build more on it. It It was a forgotten No one at your department knew you had a road. We weren't hiding it. Our You're okay. Okay. I'm just wondering how our staff missed it. Yeah. Thank you. Hard times are good. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. He
submitted a sealed survey that said there was nothing there and we believed you. Our title company lawyers here too because they got Okay. Um, well, we lost. Are we still okay to do anything? You got three. Okay, I'll take a motion.
I'll second. Okay. Any was there anybody else that that wanted to speak on this? I have no one on WebEx and there's no one signed up. Okay. Um, all in favor? I You can stay open. Um, so we we moved P 54, right?
253. Oh, sorry. See, I flipped I flipped to see what's next. Okay. So, item P53 was published in Tampa Times on April 2nd, 2025 and affidavits of certified mailings and site posting. The item was continued from the March 25th, 2025 BCC
meeting where it was continued to today. Uh, good afternoon, Amy Tol with planning, development, and economic growth. Uh today is a conditional use request in the name of CNM Low Limited Limited Partnership and Port Hudson
Marina LLC, Old Dixie Highway Marina. So before you is a conditional use request. The existing future land use is ROR retail office residential and res six residential six uh six dwelling units per gross acre. The existing
zoning district is C2 general commercial and the applicant is proposing to develop the property as a commercial marina which will consist of 125 dryboat storage spaces and eight wet slip boats boat lifts with ancillary facilities typical to a marina. Uh the location is
north and south of Harbor Drive at the intersection of Old Dixie Highway. Here's the subject site location within the county being in the Hudson district of the West Market area. context map showing you the proximity of
the subject site um along uh Old Dixie Highway and Harbor Drive. Here's a zoomed in aerial to depict where the marina will be located and situated. Future land use map depicts uh Res 9 and RO to the south.
The current uh zoning is current is C2 on all the properties. Uh here is the conceptual plan and for note uh so within the comprehensive plan there is policy COA 2.1.5 which requires development
conditions for marinas. uh within those policies, the findings of fact have met some of those standards or a portion of those standards. The other standards that have not been met at time of the findings of fact or currently uh are subject to the conditions of approval
set forth in the proposed amendments or proposed petition. Uh the conditions of approval will include a hurricane preparedness plan, a fuel management plan, additional signage to designate the marina basin as an idle speed zone,
compliance with applicable Pasco County manity protection and preservation plans um and demonstrate adequate sufficient upland areas to accommodate all necessary supported facilities. And that with that, we recommend approval of the conditional use request uh from planning and
development as well as the planning commission. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have for this one. Uh I don't have any questions. I see the applicant coming up. I did also want to make note that there were emailed expartes and an opposition that were
sent to the clerk's office this morning as well. Good afternoon. Barbara Wilhight, 8627 Grand Boulevard, Newport Richie for the applicant. We are prepared to do rebuttal. Um I think staff covered all the highlights. Um and you'd like to just save and make sure we answer any
questions depending on what the questions are if that's acceptable. Yep. Thank you. Okay, Madam Chair, sorry. I have two people signed up for this item. Okay. Um Elizabeth uh Donatello and then followed
by Pete Feto. And if you when you come up to the podium, if you could state your name, address, and whether or not you've been sworn. I have not been sworn. Okay. Um my name is Elizabeth Donatello. I live at 6915 Clark Street in Hudson. Could you raise your right hand? Do you swear
or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth, so help you God. I do. Thank you. You may proceed. Um, so I live almost directly across from where the proposed marina site is. The impact
that marina will have on our properties is I I it can't be overstated how negatively it can potentially affect those properties. Our quality of life, the property value. Um there was a lot of planning that went into the land
portion, but there was kind of some over they they just didn't really look at the canal portion. When you're talking about that canal right now, it is dead quiet. There's um there's there's no boat
traffic except for kayaks and paddle boarders. There is um there were some fishing boats that were there that were a huge problem, but those boats over the past couple of years. There were maybe four or five. They went out two or three
times. Um they were ended up being good neighbors. There were some issues with the um leaks, but the current proposal has 14 and a half hours of open operation. The planning commission
changed the hours till dawn till dusk. Yesterday dawn till dusk was 6:12 in the morning till 8:45 at night. That that means for those 14 hours we'd have trailers and tractors going back and forth across the roadway
entering into the canal. Boat motors, boat engines, boat lifts, um all contributing to the noise in a canal right now that is dead quiet. Um the I know that um Miss Wilhight will address that and she has a proposal to address
that, but I wanted to put it on the record. Also, um our properties took a hit during the hurricane. This isn't going to help. Um I've talked to Miss Wilhight. My concern is with the hurricane preparedness, you got 125
boats. Some of you were down there for our um directly after And you saw our homes. Sorry. You saw what the hurricane did. There were boats everywhere. There
was debris. There were hot tubs. There were docks. There is no way to describe the stench and the smell of oil and gas from those boats on the canals. And that mixed with the sewage, mixed with the flood water, and inundated the exterior
and interior of houses all along Clark Street, all along Harbor, that whole area. It destroyed that area. And now we're going to put 125 boats at the end of a canal at the only access point,
evacuation point for Harbor Drive and the only point. That's That's the end of your time. But I I understand I'm That call was because I'm still trying to get my house back together from the hurricane. That's my being redelivered. I'm sure you understand that we had
fires and that's the only that's the only entry point for emergency vehicles. Thank you. Okay, good afternoon. My name is Pete Veto, 6915 Clark Street, Hudson, Florida. Um, my wife just sworn Mr. Veto, you've been
sworn. I have. Okay, you may proceed. Thank you. My wife just spoke very briefly about the disaster that we just went through for actually two hurricanes in a row. Now, you're going to put 125
additional boats in a small area where the majority of those boats are going to be in front of our house either idling or being put in or being removed 7 days a week. Additionally, a gentleman that was
on the planning commission has got a financial interest in this project and expressed so as he sat up in your seats. I mean, this is wrong. I've talked to a number of homeowners on Clark Street where we live and also on Harbor Drive.
There is not one person who is in favor of this. If we're at the end of the canal by the Gulf of America, no question. God bless them. Do whatever you want to do. But to have these go back and forth in front of over a
hundred houses, that's ridiculous. I realize that this was granted back in the 70s. Well, Hudson doesn't look anywhere near like it did in the 70s today. I mean, these are expensive residences. We've put hundreds of
thousands of dollars into our property to have it turn now into a boatyard. Commissioner Mariano was tremendously helpful in getting that corner cleaned up. We were told right out was like that for 25 years and it'll be effing like
that for the next 25 years. Well, we don't want another disaster. I talked to the maintenance person that was responsible working for Lowe's, whether it was low directly or a tenant of his. And I said, "When are you going to clean this up?" He said, 'Well, I've got a
push lawnmower over there that hasn't worked in three years. I mean, this is this is not right. This absolutely should not occur. You're looking at the interest of one person as opposed to the interest of
hundreds of taxpayers. Commissioners, I'm begging you to take another look at this and a hard look at it. The traffic is going to be a disaster in that area. It is a
disaster. Now you have a school bus that stops and you got traffic backed up on Old Dixie. You got traffic backed up on Hudson. You got traffic backed up on Clark. Now you're going to add 125 potential additional vehicles.
I mean, this this project really needs to be re-evaluated before any approval is getting. Once again, you're looking at the interest of one person as opposed to hundreds of people that live in that
neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. That is all that I have signed up and I have no one on WebEx for this item. Okay. And I will um ask if there's anyone else here that wishes to speak to this. Okay, we'll have that applicant's
attorney come up. I'm just looking at the map here. Good afternoon again. So at planning commission, we brought forward and we actually wrote a lot mostly all the conditions. I wrote them um to make sure we had good writ well-written binding conditions. And so if we said we
were going to do something, we were conditioned to do it. What we had requested was 7 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the hours of operation. No earlier than 7 a.m. and no later than 7:00 p.m. Um then at the planning commission, we
realized there's dawn to dusk. And so the planning commission changed it to dawn to dusk. But then as as the first speaker has stated, that extends the hours even longer or could extend the hours even longer than we were requesting. So, we did work I did show her some language um before the hearing
here and we can change the language of condition seven to hours of operation for the boat ramp shall be no earlier than 7 a.m. and no later than 7 p.m. That's what we had requested but no event before or after daylight. So, I think that was addresses the issue of of
not making the hours even longer, but actually can make them shorter if daylight falls before those hours of 7 a.m. or 7 p.m. With regard to the dead quiet, we do have you have a noise ordinance we have to comply with. Um, I'd also note that that property is zoned C2
currently, so there's some pretty intense uses that can go on that property. Um, with regard to emergencies and and and people evacuating, there's also Apple Street, which we our boats have an emergency access. Our storage um yard will have an emergency access to
Apple. So, Apple can be used as well. Um, Tim Low is here if you want to hear about his statistics from his marina he operates as high and dry and how many people actually use the um use their boats there versus how many are
stored. It's a very low percentage. Yes, there is a tenant um on the property that has not cared for the property, a commercial tenant, but that tenant will go away when when this property is redeveloped for this marina. Okay. I have I have some
questions for members. Okay. All right. Um so in regards to um similar to a travel park, in a travel park, if we declare a state of emergency, they're supposed to hitch their homes, whatever,
up to a truck and leave, right? Um I think we should have a condition here that if the if there's a hurricane that the boat should have to leave if they're stored on the ground. What does that make sense? I will let Mr. Low. We can't. Well, you don't want you don't
want boats to be there when a hurricane You can, but if you're operating a traditional high-end drive facility. No, no, it's not. They're stored on trailers. On trailers stored on trailers at ground level. I don't know. I don't know if that's makes sense or not, but I'd sure hate to see all the boats going people's yards and in the
water. So, question. Tim Low, 6924 Harbor Drive, Port Marina. Madam Chair, Commission, in response to your question about requiring the boats to leave in a storm, I don't know that's necessary. I I would imagine that most of the boats,
if not all the boats, uh would be removed well in advance of the storm because it's easy to do so being on a trailer. Yeah, these boats will be stored on a trailer across the street from the waterfront parcel. um far enough away from the canal to where
residents on the canal vacating their boats will not be affected by our customers removing their boats uh in the event of a storm. So, are they on their own trailers or are they on your trailers? They'll be on their own trailers, but the marina staff will actually launch the boat for the customer with the I was just wondering
if I mean if if most people in Gulf Harbors and you have a place in Gulf Arbors. I mean, my boat was too big, but if you had a boat of a smaller size, they got them the heck out of there. So, I would think people would want to get their boats out if we had another monster coming. Absolutely. And we will have a hurricane plan. We have one at
Port Hudson Marina just less than a mile away. We can store up to 300 boats there. We communicate to our uh customers well in advance um of our plan of when we recommend that they remove their boats. We did have a lot of damage with the storms last year, but we did not have any boats relocated off of our
property. Okay. Um you know, I have a question. Did we lose Commissioner Oakley? He had another engagement to be at, so he uh had to leave the meeting. Madam Chair, yeah, I don't know. Um, we have to find out if you've been sworn or
not. I have been sworn in. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. Sorry to interrupt. I just was one wondering if we should wait for him to come back, but um Okay. Uh Okay. That that was my question. Well, I'm I'm sitting here looking at the map and I see one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, seven commercial vehicles in the water, but then there's property to the south. And on this map up here, C2 and C1 are on the south that aren't pink. Those are that's not your property. Correct. I know I met with you, but I don't remember. Yeah, that Well, that
that doesn't look like it's very nicely kept. I would agree with that. But is are you gonna have you know landscaping and a nice fence and all those things that I care about? I mean make it a an you know enhance the neighborhood rather
than that looks kind of derelct. Most certainly. Yes. We'll have landscaping uh shell fencing. We'll apply with all the ordinances and then some go a little bit above and beyond. We want to improve the area. We've been in the neighborhood for 25 years and um we're we're not
going anywhere anytime soon. All right. And are these homes on septic? No. Good. Okay, that's the end of my questions. All right, Madam Chair. Yeah. So, I I think it'd be good to put a hurricane plan in in place just to give some
comfort to the residents as far as those issues go. Um, you know, this this plan was actually shown to me 20 some odd years ago and then it just never came back um as time went on. Uh I went out to the site um with Tim with uh John
Moody as well. We looked at it and this is the area where I talked about earlier from Mo Dixie and Hudson was just above this where there's some drainage issues with the the water needs to come down. Uh they will to work with us to fix that drainage to open up what swells we need to bring it down through. Uh there's
some trees in place that if we get moved over they can actually make the landscaping good going along O Dixie which they've um said they will do as well. Um, so I think they can help the drainage in the area. They've also agreed, it's not in any condition here, but they've agreed to uh entertain with
us as far as if we do the canal rest when we do the canal restoration that they will use that make that site available to us to consider to be able to store some of the debris, which will save the taxpayers and actually help the the dredging get done quicker and less expensively, which will help everybody.
Uh, which I think is is a benefit. Um the the property itself, the building that's there is really decrepit. Uh it needs to be torn down anyway. Uh with what's probably going on from the previous uh people in there. So I I know that's going to help the area. I think
Tim, if you could do some extra landscaping, say in front of uh let's say the let's say the northern piece on the C2s around where the water is to put some lice nice landscaping to make it look better as well. Um I don't know
what a multi-use trail coming up old Old Dixie. Old Dixie there will be. We're going to work we're going to work they're going to work with us on that too. Okay. Um but I I think if you can dress up the landscaping in there, come back with a plan u that staff likes. So I think that would be a benefit to the
area too if there's some way to minimize what's going on. Now now keep in mind the shrimp boats that were in there before they were pretty loud. They were pretty it was a tough tough tough setup for people. I mean, I had I had many many complaints with boats going up and down um and what they were leaving
behind, what was going on, etc. So, I think this could be a lot better. Uh though it's going to be a little bit more busy. Hopefully, the boats will be quieter than what those shrimp boats were and less obnoxious. So, if you can uh work to be a good neighbor with it, I think that uh it it'll be better than a
series of shrimp boats, which which it could go back to, which I think was detrimental for everyone I talked to up and down the canals. Um I know you don't know other property. Something else we did talk about a little bit was uh if we have like fire rescue that needs to launch, you know, rather than Strickland
could be pretty crowded, people trying to get the boats out of the water and get them out of the way. if they can launch our boats if we need to, whether it be fire, rescue, sheriff, deputy, even code enforcement. Uh that can be a benefit to us as well as we kind of like try to keep the waterways clean and maybe protect some people that are out there even in search and rescue
missions. It could be a pretty handy setup for us. Um so I'm going to say it's like it's it's um it is going to be a use. I'm glad we're going to shorten the hours. Um at the marina, you open up early
just dusk. I mean a dusk and dawn. We're open 8 to 5. We requested that 7 to 7. Just we don't know what the future's going to hold. We may have one or two customers that say, "I want to go out fishing early this this weekend because of the tides. We'd like to be able to drop his boat in at 700 or 7:30
potentially. We just didn't want to restrict ourselves." Yeah. And most people aren't out at dark. I mean, dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. We we don't want to pay the staff to be there that long. Remember, the staff's launching and retrieving these boats, right? our our labor would be through the roof. So, our
intention is stick to the 8 to 5 like we're doing at our other location. So, 8 to 5 and then you'll you'll just on special exceptions allow people in for an earlier takeoff because of tides which are sensitive to getting in and out. Honestly, that's not our intention at the moment, but if things change down
if we had a large customer base that was adamant about going out a little bit sooner, we want want to entertain that option. Okay. Um well, let me ask this. As far as the um vehicle that's going to be towing the vehicles back and forth, is there any
noise associated with that? I mean, it's it would be a uh compact tractor. So, it' be a diesel engine compact tractor. So, the noise would be similar to that of a fullsize diesel pickup truck. What about beeping sounds when their nos is
at the um no beeping sounds did you say? Right. Like sometimes you have a truck that moves and it has a beep on it that there's no beeps or alarms on it that that I'm aware of. Okay. Okay. Um Commissioner, I can't address your um
request for a hurricane plan. It is condition number 17. We staff and I anticipated that and we put that in. Okay. Seth, any questions? Okay. Um I do have a I I I have a question for
the county administrator. Just looking at the I'm I'm on Google Earth and across the street is an RV park, not that's the one that's travel park. That's the ones where they're supposed to hook their homes up and leave in a
hurricane. So, we need to make sure we need to see what's going on over there. Okay. I don't have any more questions. So, you want to give a motion? I'll move approval. Second. Um, all in favor? I I
I believe uh lighting. I was going to say Commissioner Joerger is online. Yes. Okay. Oh, then roll call vote. But I I do I do have a question. Lighting. I want to be sure that you have lighting that does not affect the neighborhood, but I think it's in our ordinance
already, but I I heard a comment once that made me think maybe we're not doing it everywhere, but the lighting needs to be shining down and not into any of these houses. Right. Correct. Okay. District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi.
District four, Commissioner Joerger. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District 3 Chairman Starky. I next item would be P56. C56. Madam Chair, if I could just clarify on the pass vote, was that including the
condition of approval that Miss Wilhigh offered on the the seven to seven? Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Item P56 was published in the Tampa Bay Times on April 2nd, 2025 and affidavit
of certified mailings and site postings. Okay. Good afternoon. William Vermillion Planning, Development, Economic Growth. This is PDE 257825 is zoning amendment Mitchell SJP
for master plan unit development. Before I get started, I do have some expartes to provide to the clerk. File. Uh, all in favor? Wait, did I get a second? Give me a second. Second. All in favor? Wait, can I Does that have to be
roll call vote for that one? Roll call vote. District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman. District 4, Commissioner Joerger. District 4, Commissioner Joerger. Commissioner Jagger, we cannot hear you.
Hold on just one moment. Can you hear me? Yes. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I. Thank you. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. Hi. Perfect. So, here is a a map of the
county indicating where the project is. This is just south of State Road 54 in Southwest Pasco County in the South Market area in commission district 3. This resoning request is for a master plan development. The current zoning is
industrial 2, I2 zoning district, general industrial park. This is to allow for the maximum development of 515,000 square ft of business park and 106 or 107,000 ft of commercial retail on approximately 92
acres. This is 2 miles east of the State Road 54 and Starky Boulevard intersection. Here is that location map for this project. the zoning map indicating the current I2 zoning
district and the future land use of PD. Here is the context map here. This shows a uh the Starky the current Starky trail runs along the Duke East along to State Road 54. Here is the MPD master
plan. Sorry. The pink and red areas highlighted show the commercial retail portions of this MPD. The 107,000 square ft which are C2 uses with provisions.
The blue is the business park portion of this MPD. The that employment generating uses industrial medical office. The small T there is the connection uh the stub out to the Starky Trail in
which the applicant is providing financing for the county in terms of a uh $15,000 from their engineer cost estimate to be able to allow the county to connect to this trail if it is proven feasible with Duke Energy. That V there is the uh it's a vehicular
stubout uh in case the uh the Starky Boulevard extension requires a connection there and it's somehow feasible with the the trail intersection. And then you can see highlighted there on A, B, and C are the proposed access points for this
development off of State Road 54. There is internal pedestrian circulation throughout both the business park and the commercial node to highlight some of that in internal capture for people that work within that blue area to to be able to go to lunch and so forth within the
red area. There are a couple variations associated with this project. The first from 901611, this is to not provide a vehicular interconnect to the east or to the south.
This recommendation comes with the amanability from PTE as well as the planning commission. There are wetland impacts as well as uh as some neighborhoods to the south the applicant proposes not to impact from 8056 restrictions on
post-development wetlands and upland buffers within residential lots and non-residential parks as well as from land development code 9022 storm water management requirements. Both of these variations speak to the applicant not having to form a CDD or an HOA to maintain these. Rather, the individual
parcel owners would be responsible for their for their maintenance of both their storm water as well as their um their buffering and landscaping such. Finally, from 1302 from mobility
fees, this speaks to a blended mobility fee rate which are located in the conditions of approval. Wait, um I have a question on that. Perfect. I thought that I thought that the company was keeping this. So why why are you talking about individual owners
maintaining their storm water plant? Because there is one owner of all of this. Are you talking about in the in the maybe in the front? Sure. I I'm I will we'll cover that when you come up. Yes. Okay. I don't want to speak for the ownership.
Sorry. Moving back to uh 1302 which is the mobility fees variation from this because of the the multiple users that could end up in the business park within that blue area staff and the developer agreed to a blended fee which is
essentially a calculation which uh takes office industrial and retail and blends them together in which time the applicant would be assessed this fee at the certificate of completion when they get to building construction services just because of the multiple full tenants um that would be associated
instead of each individually being charged. Staff agreed to a blended fee here and that's a variation from 1302. This is to uh to encourage those employment generating uses that could be priced out with a project of this size. And finally from 9052 landscaping and
buffering. This is for internal buffering between the business park and the commercial residential. That variation is to allow for greater pedestrian um walkability and visibility to not separate these uses as hard so we
can keep some of that internal capture. This comes to you with a recommendation of approval from both the planning commission and planning development economic growth. Okay. I'm here for any questions. Any any questions for staff? Yeah. You got to know my question, Will. You
have to know it. Oh, well, we do have the live local conditions in this one, Commissioner. Thank you. Um, let's have the applicant speak. And I I have a question. Couple, but I'll let you do your presentation if you want
to. I have two questions. Well, she's pulling that up. Clark Hobby Hobby and Hobby PA 109 North Brush Street, Tampa, Florida, have been sworn. This is an exciting day,
commissioners. Uh, we've been discussing uh the Western Hub for many years and the Mitchell family has owned this property uh for many, many years. Uh, the subject site that we're here to talk to you about today is going to be one of the largest employment nodes in West
Pasco and will generate a significant number of jobs. Our client that's going to be developing the site, uh, St. John Properties out of Maryland has extensive experience in building uh business parks with what they call flex buildings that
are, if we can go to the next slide, uh based on a lower slung building built to higher standards than we typically see in a lot of the highway distribution industrial parks. And the uh ultimate uh
result is that they build them to a high enough quality where the buildings themselves and the spaces within them can flex to a higher percentage of office than a typical tilt wall highway distribution
uh building would. And after uh conducting a survey of the space that our client has developed over time, uh we've determined that again we expect this site with the uh flex buildings that will have on it to generate 1,800
jobs for West Pasca. So it's really exciting. Uh Dewey Mitchell spent a considerable amount of time interviewing uh industrial developers around the country and settled on St. John's because of their extensive experience in building this product. If I can go to
the next page, you'll see where this differs with the higher quality finish on the side and the way the windows are oriented. So again, you can flex to more expensive buildout space, more office flexibility than the tilt wall 40 foot
buildings that we see typically by the interstate and to some degree by the Sun Coast Parkway. If I can go to the next slide. So, I just wanted to let the board and the citizens know, and I know we'll have some questions from a couple of our neighbors here. This site has
been uh zoned for heavy industrial since 1983. The aerial you see here from 1985. It's showing that uh none of Trinity adjacent to the site had started to be built by then. If we can go to the next
slide and you'll see that the Fox Hollow area next to us started to be built in about 2001. We go to the next slide and we can just roll on through there. From the initial comp plan that was adopted and readdopted in 1991 through the next we can go on to the next couple of
slides. This site has always been designated heavy industrial and it's been zoned heavy industrial since 1983. We can go to the next slide. If we were to zoom in a little bit here, you can see there's a lot of reasons why none of
us want the existing heavy industrial to remain in place, it would allow for some extremely noxious obnoxious uses that we don't want there. They're not good for the county. And so we are essentially downzoning. Now, if I go to the what I
believe is the last slide, we're very much aware that Fox Hollow was built behind us there and so a great amount of care with the St. John property team has gone into making sure that we have appropriate setbacks, buffers, etc. So,
I'd point you to two things. The upper part of this graphic is showing you that the closest neighbor is 315 ft away from the first building. And we will have between that neighbor and the first
building, we will have on our side uh the very nice landscape buffer that's shown on there with a vinyl fence and landscaping on their side. We will then have a pond and a wetland. And the pond that's there uh will have a fountain in
it. So, it'll be a really pretty amenity and again will create a really nice visual buffer in addition to the fencing between the residences that are there and again a football field or more away the first buildings on the south side. And this is just from our property line.
We're over 629 ft away where the first building is and there's a wetland along that boundary too. So, we're almost, you know, it's getting close to being a quarter mile away from any residences there. We've given a lot of thought to how we've laid this project out. Uh
we've provided for the connectivity both vehicular and uh for uh pedestrians over to the Starky Trail through it. If if Duke Energy will cooperate with permitting for the county, we'll be able to build, you know, a connection or the
county will be over over to that area. And our client went ahead and is going to fund the pedestrian trail connection over to the Starky Trails. We want it to happen. and our only concern is just trying to get the permits and approvals from Duke. So again, we're really excited about it. I'm happy to answer
any questions that you may have. Is that it for your slides? That's it for my slides. Okay. Um I have questions, but I'll go to you guys first. Yes. You want to go first? Go ahead. So with this zoning, I just for general conversation, I think
it's important that we in the appropriate locations keep our heavy industrial uses wherever those are. I I think we need to figure out where we want those and to have them. Um but with a caveat, this is this is really a unique project within this zoning.
Clark, I talked a little bit about this this morning with uh Bill Cronin and EDC. If a data center wanted to to move in, would this be a location that could potentially work? I mean, you talk about Duke right here and Absolutely. And and just so you all know, and I I try to be
a little bit demure. I don't want my client's head to get too puffy up uh here in Pasco County. This is their first project, but this client has o a tenant list of over a thousand tenants, and they have a huge presence with light
industrial and office folks, data centers, high-end labs, and I'm very hopeful that we're going to get some of those higher paying jobs in this facility that will be on a much higher employee per square foot basis than we've seen out by 75 to date, for
instance. Okay. All right. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, I was at a golf tournament this weekend and I had a guy that uh knew of the knew of this company as a local contractor and spoke very very highly of them. Uh, so they're they're happy to see that coming forward. Uh, I want to say for this
development, industrial heavy is is great in certain areas. This is a tough area and we've we lost a lot of industrial in this whole area to resident not to to residential to, you know, retail etc. So keeping this even as a light industrial is phenomenal. Uh
I think the job opportunities are great and as as you mentioned the live local this could have been storage units, it could have been car washes, apartments, etc. And not having that as something behind these people is so much better to the height that's going to come up here. Um I'm happy to see that you're putting
the heavy buffer in 20 foot width 20 27 shade trees might be really tight there. Uh evergreen shrub which I think is phenomenal plus with the privacy fence. So, I think as far as buffering goes and creating good quality jobs where we want it to be, I think it's phenomenal and I hope that you'll uh follow through and
and talk to them about that industrial park up in Hudson because I think these guys could do something great up there, too. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Um, so I'm not a fan of vinyl fences and commercial applications and industrial especially. So, uh, can we get What happened to the
screen? Oh, uh, what do you guys think about brick or concrete? Um because I think vinyl behind people's houses that's going to be a nightmare upkeep for those people on their side. Um so why would it be it's going to be
on our property? Why would it be there's the other side the back side? We're going to have to we're going to have to you're going to be on both sides. This is going to be we're going to maintain the the landscaping. I still don't I I do drive around the county and the commercial. I I could see vinyl and
residential uses, but I I just don't like what I'm seeing in the commercial. Um they get blown out in a big storm. I I don't know. Well, if if I might commissioner remember and I think this is what you were asking a question earlier about the the maintenance of the
common areas while we are going to plat this uh project and that's part of the reason for one of the alt standards just related to uh lot lines that will go through the truck uh parking areas as an example and loading areas. Uh St. John's
generally does not sell any of their business parks. So their office, their regional office will be in this facility and their intention is to own it all uh basically in perpetuity and maintain it. And the way that they operate and again
it's different. They don't go in merchant build, lease it up, sell it. So they're very uh keenly interested in how the maintenance looks over time because they're there releasing the space again and again and again. They have several
of these parks that are they've owned for over 50 years in Maryland. And so that's how they make their bed bread and butter. So I I've seen so we acquired um that place I don't remember his name on mile stretch who was operating a used
car lot illegally to put in a vinyl fence between him and the houses behind him and and then he put landscaping on it. He's not maintaining it. It's full of mold. It's dirty. So, I don't know what happens when you pressure wash a vinyl fence. Someone put vinyl fencing
around um the I think around long leaf at the at the front and it's just fallen apart and but I think it's very hard to pressure wash vinyl fences and so how do you repaint them? Um I think over time they just over time they just have to
replace the the panels themselves over time. So um someone in the development world had suggested we instead of requiring concrete or brick which I think you mentioned cracks um it was suggested that maybe uh the way Metro
just did the fence in front of Longleaf it was poured panels which seem to last very well between some posts. Um so you're talking about pre-cast. Yeah I guess um you know I don't know how my fellow This is how I feel. I don't know
how my fellow board members feel about vinyl fences and commercial and industrial applications. If if I might, Commissioner, I mean, I I would just say right now you're only putting it right there behind those houses. That's right. But we're we're exceeding the code already with our plings and and our
landscaping there. I'm just worried about the maintenance of that. I know. And I would tell you, I mean, if you know, there are applications where we need the ability to have the vinyl fencing in because the pre-cast stuff is so expensive. If you're doing it over a
large expanse, it's generally, cuz I just had to price this at my house, I think it's three or four times as expensive as vinyl fencing generally. Did we increase the amount of industrial square footage that they're putting in there from the original? Well, it was it was a Uklitian district. It's tough to
say, but I mean, we're doing 500,000 square feet. And what were they asking for originally? The original it was it was a uklitian district and our application is to over 500,000 square feet. Okay. I just No, the the original uh heavy indust Yeah.
It again in a uklitian district, you don't have it doesn't say for instance the number of square feet. Okay. I just think it increased from my first meeting with them. Well, that's just how I feel. Maybe one day we'll talk about it when we go over fences. Go ahead, Commissioner. Mariana, Clark, what about instead of a vinyl because you're going
to do heavy landscaping. So, a typical vinyl fence is good to buffer a fuchsia that's going in there. But if you're going to do heavy landscaping there, what would what would the think like say just like a metal fence going vertical? Decorative metal. Decorative metal going up and down. I don't I don't I don't
know enough about that. But let me let me let me say this. I'm happy to chat with you, Commissioner Starky, and and talk about this uh you know, as we go through site plan permitting, but right now I feel like we're going above the code and I I feel I don't even know if
you need a fence. Is someone saying you have to have a fence? We we've offered that to the neighbors and I've talked to a couple of them on the on the, you know, either at the meeting or on the phone and I I don't want to take out what I've already told them I was going to have as a minimum. But I'd be happy to chat with you all, but I would need
to get with a client or engineer and work through what our landscape plans are. Okay, so that's question one. Um, the second question is that I was just looking at some of your beautiful projects around the country and um um I just have a little issue with the flat
roof, flat facade and and looking here, I have seen in other St. John's properties where they put some awnings to just break up the monotony. I'm I'm actually kind of surprised we does our code allow just the flat roof and big
long flat buildings. We don't have any more architectural controls in there. So generally commissioner that applies to big box which is designed for retail buildings. However, you raise a good issue and we already have a meeting set up with Mr. Engel and his staff after you know assuming that the MPU would get
approved to talk about some of that architectural design because David already raised it. I think maybe he got comments from you on it. Yeah. And well, we we see what happened at Sun Lake. I I would tell you in speaking with our client on these particular types of buildings, my understanding that
breaking up the roof line in in that way, it literally there are uh architectural and foundational issues that it creates. And my understanding is that it was going to increase the costs of some of the phase one buildings by as
much as three or 400,000 just to do that because it creates the way our building specifically are set up. There are issues that translate all the way down to the foundation and doing that. But again, that's why we want to meet with your staff as more of a technical I've seen some from some of the other guys coming in where they're doing that and
they're doing awnings. But at the very least have as nice a finish on the rest of the buildings that we do either. And then um so I noticed we worked hard on the site plan. Yeah. Um so we're are we going to see that eventually? Oh yeah. I mean it's gonna we're gonna have again
we're going to have meetings with staff. We got to get the NPU approved first. Staff will see it. Yeah. Staff will see it. We'll be happy. I mean commissioner we'll be happy to meet with you on it. I mean you're you're going to see it. We know you're keenly interested in it. Yeah. We
we spent a lot of time working on that for sure. And um but just so you know, I mean all the comments that I believe you had about, you know, two-sided buildings and so forth, that's all in our MPU conditions. Okay. Staff already implemented all that. Okay. Then one
last thing. Um uh so I see where you guys, you know, have the road stub out where we hope we hope no guarantee that we can get it through because that'll keep people allow people to go back and forth between the developments and uh Mitchell Boulevard, right? say without
having to get on 54. So that's what we want, right? Um but I do wonder if um if until that happens if the the Sun Coast Trail comes right to the edge of this property and I was just looking at it on the map. Um
can we uh work with Duke to to just connect to the trail somewhere else on this property? What what's going to be along here western edge? Ju just just so you know, I mean, we have already agreed to fund the cost of taking the multi-use
path to the Starky Trail in the location and there are other areas that may be closer. This was one of the furthest spots and we're providing you the funding on it. So, but if it if it works out that they will give us approval right away if we do it somewhere else because it's right there. It's right on your border. Yeah. If I mean that'd be
great. You'd have extra money to build it. We're giving you the money. All right. I just I just don't know what what if you if anything you plan to along Western we have no objection. I mean again that the way St. John looks at this uh St. John properties they
they're looking for amenities for the people who work on site. So nothing but an amenity. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is a public hearing. Is anyone else want to speak to this? Maybe we addressed all your questions if you're here. I have no one signed up and no one on WebEx for
this item. Lisa, did you want to say anything? I can't tell if your hands up, so No, I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone anyone online that wishes to address this? No one is on WebEx. Take a motion. Madam Chair. Yeah. I just
want to say I think it's going to be a great project. It's a great quality company. Happy they come here and I'm I'm happy working with Clark that you've talked to the residents to find it to want. I'm sure making them happy is is a big priority. So that's great, too. So without a move approval. Second. And I I've seen that client list and you can
go online and look at it. It's it's fantastic. We want them all here. Um roll call vote. District one, Commissioner Oakley. District District 2, Commissioner Weightman. Hi. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I.
District five, Commissioner Mariano. Hi. District three, Chairman Starky. Hi. Okay. I know he waited a long time for that one. All right. We are. Oh, we're done. Miss Lies. Okay. So, we're back to our
county administrator that I skipped. Great. Thank you. I'll be really, really quick. First, I'd like to welcome back Gina. Gina is our agenda coordinator. She's back from maternity leave. We're happy to have her back. Uh so, she's she's glowing here. Wonderful. I'd also
like to publicly thank uh my executive assistant and our our program manager um Stefania Dwey and Tony Stillo for finch hitting during the what felt like an eternity Gina that she was gone. So uh I'd also like chief of staff Joanna Cheshshire to take just a minute to
brief the board on where we are with the CDBGDR action plan. Joanna, thank you. Joanna Cheshire, chief of staff, county administration. I'm very proud to work closely with the office of disaster recovery resources. You guys know Marcy and Connor very well. Um
they've been phenomenal through this process as well as the other parts of the the county that have helped us kind of drop everything and help move the ball forward with with this project. Um I'm not going to start from the beginning, but we are on track. Uh I will start from the Tri County workshop.
Uh you may remember uh my colleague Matt Spore from Penllis put up a a slide deck that had um some percentages from the other counties and ours was missing. That's because we our community input survey was still open. Uh it was closing that Sunday. So it has since closed. We
received 2,000 responses through just the survey alone. That doesn't count the comments that received through the uh community input sessions that we had. Um we've worked really closely with our consultant Marcy and Connor have been working overtime with that um putting together a careful marriage between uh
of the qualitative and quantitative data that we received to come up with a draft action plan that we're very proud of. So that's on our website for public consumption and comment. Um we've had we we have scheduled three public hearings on the draft action plan to see if we
really uh hit the mark on what we've heard from the public. So, we've had two of them so far. The third one is tonight following this this meeting at five o'clock here in this room. Um, so looking forward to that. Uh, two important dates coming up. June 3rd,
we're going to have a presentationonly um, uh, item on this agenda for you all to have a chance to kind of have almost like your own personal public hearing on on the draft action plan. Um, and then June. What time is that a time certain thing? We can make it a time certain. Yep. It'll just be a regular item. Oh,
that Okay. So, you know, if it's at a certain time, I could I could hear. We're going to meet one-on-one with everyone before that. So, we'll have a chance to get with you and get your concerns and comments and and uh hopefully praise on that draft action plan. Um the other date to keep in mind
is June 17th. So, that's the second uh uh county commission meeting in June. That's when we uh hope to get your approval on the action plan so we can send it to HUD. It's actually it's another important date to the 17th is because our requests for qualifications for our implementation consultant are
due that day. So this the ball is really rolling. We're doing a phenomenal job with it. So thank you for your time. That's all I have. Okay. Um I don't have anything. Thank you. I have two things. I believe there was supposed to be a walk-on resolution. Oh yes, I have a walk-on. Okay. Just want to make
sure. Uh what what do we have to do about it? Do we just read the title? I can read the title. Just read the title. Read Yeah, we just Yeah, just you can just read the title. Okay. Or whatever whatever you need to. Resolution number
25-237, a resolution by the board of county commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, congratulating congratulating Consuel Sanchez on her many achievements and contributions to Pasco County. So, we're giving her this one at the tourism
uh dinner Thursday night. Is this a surprise? Kind of. Yes. Surprise. Don't tell her. Move. Move approval. Someone said, "What if she's listening?" I said, "She's not going to be listening to this. Why would she listen to this?" Okay. Uh roll call vote. District one,
Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman. I. District four, Commissioner Joerger. I. District five, Commissioner Mariano. I. District Three, Chairman Starky. I don't say anything. The other choice, Commissioner Waitman, was to advertise the tourism banquet as a board meeting
and have you vote there. That could be kind of fun. So, my last item is um last week on Thursday, I um co-f facilitated uh Government Day for Leadership Pasco along with Sean Foster and Kimberly Thompson. And there was a board of county commissioners panel. I know you
weren't able to make it. That's all right. But I just want to tell you thank you for those that were there. Um I think you guys were a hit. The class really enjoyed the day and Commissioner Oakley was able to have lunch with the class as well. So that was really nice. I just wanted to say thank you for your support and participation. It was a
pleasure. Thank you. That's always so much fun. you do a great job and um you can see mind shift in their understanding and uh it's always glad when folks take the time out of their day to learn about
Pasco County government. Right. Um I had one thing that I besides council I wanted to bring up. I just um I I sent this to the county administrator. may or may not have sent to everybody, but um No is very concerned about this and um
maybe we should talk about it with other others at the at your next meeting. Go ahead and talk about it. Um that there is a proposal in Washington to get to do away with CDBG funding, EDA funding, and a whole bunch of other funding that we
ship and others that we rely on. Um, so, um, I I'm, you know, I don't know where the Congress is on it, but I think the CDBG funding does a lot of good in the communities and and I support that that
funding. Um, so, um, I think we spend our CDBG money very wisely and if we want to talk about it with the full board or with, um, Marcy and others, I think we I think we should
and see if we want to say something, Madam Chair. Yeah. I mean, I I'm comfortable having uh the board draft a letter of support for CBG and have it have it sent out and have the chair sign it and let it go. The sooner the better. Yeah. Um I mean that's not money that I
mean we vet those very very well and we watch every penny and we put it all to good to work. Yeah. I'll make a motion we draft a letter to show support for CDBGs to Niko and our It's also EDA. Do you want to just leave it? Do you do you have the text I sent you by? I I Yeah, I
don't have I I didn't list all the different ones that he's off uh suggesting, but um even if we I think it's CDBG, EDA, and SHIP, which is the it's the money that's used
to help with workforce housing. Um yeah, we use all of those programs. I I would recommend, you know, if the board's supportive of it, we can do that and we can draft up some success stories as well. I mean, some of our CDBG projects have won awards. So, I think that there's our veterans ones. And yeah, I
mean, yeah, let's let's especially me mention how we're using it to house homeless veterans. So, move. Okay. Second. Uh, roll call vote. District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weman. Hi. District four,
Commissioner Joerger. District five commission I'm sorry. Thank you. District five commissioner Mariano. District three chairman Starky. Hi. Thank you very much. And chair before we adjourn. So I just have to give you a shout out
uh Reneell for sitting here all day long. Yeah. So Rell Shirley with Be a Light Mission Service Center. met her last night at the um CBG acronym storm money event at sports
campus and so it sounded like you showed up for tonight's evening but got the show of the commission uh in action today. So thank you for sitting through and hearing our meeting but would encourage you to meet my fellow commissioners and share with them what you do. Reell is on a mission to try to
to help with us and she heard your comments. Commission Mary and she's read about my comments uh about our homeless and how we need to figure out come up with a policy something because we don't have anything concrete today. So enjoy speaking with you and thank you for
coming today and um she's earn earned a shout out for sitting through this today. So thank you Reel. I did hear that we're getting ready to transition Pasco Hope hope from the um storm sheltered folks to the homeless
unsheltered folks. So that's good. Yes, you had two consent items that solidified that. That's right. We talked about that. Um what and we're adjourned. Um Kathy, can I ask you something about
[Music] [Music] Hey, Waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Storm water carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an
unhealthy environment for fish, water foul, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County Department of Public Works at 727-834-3611.
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Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Homelessness has many definitions and because our funding comes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, otherwise known as HUD, we go by their definition. It starts with people who
are literally homeless. That can include people who are living in emergency shelters or transitional housing and hotels or motel, people living in cars, living in encampments or the woods, people in the streets, people in abandoned buildings. We also consider
people who are fleeing from domestic violence or human trafficking and people who are at imminent risk of losing their housing. There's so many factors that causes homelessness and that's why it's such a
complex issue to solve. A lack of affordable housing, lowpaying jobs, financial hardships, substance abuse, mental health, and mental illness. So at Community Development, we offer a number
of initiatives that span the spectrum of homeless services for our community. funding outreach services, fund an agency to provide homeless prevention services, renovation money for our family shelter. We also helped an agency
buy a new facility for a women's shelter. So, we've gone from outreach to homeless prevention to emergency services. But really, the key to ending homelessness is to house people. So, we also provide financial assistance to
help people get rapidly rehoused or let's not forget our awardwinning project Rosaly Rendu Apartments where we helped an agency purchase multifamily apartments, renovate them, and create 12 permanent supportive housing beds. So,
we think it's important to help our homeless neighbors get into our system of care. And the best way to do that is for them to call numbers where they can be served by the organizations that are
helping our homeless. The best way to get this information and this card would be to visit my pasco.net and contact our office and we'd be happy to assist you.
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[Music] Hi, I'm Hans with Pasco County Public Works. You'd be surprised at what ends up in our storm water inlets. Besides the occasional gator, we find
mattresses, bicycles, even shoes. How does it all get here? More on that later. First, it's time to clean up and clear out. Over time, storm water inlets get clogged with sand, leaves, and grass clippings, natural things, but also cans, plastic bottles, and other trash.
Our team clears all that debris so storm water can drain properly. To better see what we're dealing with, our stormwater asset management team has a special camera on [Music] wheels. The camera goes where we can, checking storm water pipes for anything
that might block the water flow. The camera also helps us check the condition of the storm water pipes to see if repairs are needed. And that's important because Pasco has more than 347 mi of storm water pipes and more than 17,000 storm water inlets. Once we analyze the
video, the operation team shows up to blast water into the storm water pipes and vacuum up any debris. Then we truck it all away. With clean storm water pipes, cleaner water is now flowing into our ponds, rivers, and lakes. And some of that water eventually flows into the
Gulf of Mexico. Clean storm water inlets also prevent flooding, which means safer properties and less damage for everyone. So now you can see why dumping anything into a storm water inlet or altering a storm water structure is not only illegal but harmful. Don't dump grass
clippings, fertilizer, chemicals, paint, basically anything that affects water quality in the environment. Pasco has a waste drop off site in Spring Hill that's open every day except Sundays. So bring your household hazardous waste here instead. You'll avoid a hefty fine
for dumping in the storm water drains. We want to protect your family and your property from flooding. And we want to keep our natural resources as pollutionfree as possible. And you can do your part, too. We hope you learned a little about how we're serving our community. And if you see a clog storm
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[Music] When I spoke to the officials here that were on scene before I arrived, they indicated that at least the winds were clocked at 60 mph that that came through. Some of the damage that had occurred, it ripped the roof right off
the entire facility. Screws and all just ripped it out. Destroyed the carports, any attachments, sheds, snap trees. So, there was substantial damage for 60 mph wind. So, this one here was rather close. As you could see, it
removed it. It removed the entire roofing system, but left the insulation, and that's what saved his structure actually from getting substantial damage. They had a tarp now to secure it. The insulation, as I indicated,
stayed intact, but the remainder of the roof and carport has been placed in the backyard. [Music] And I walked out, tried to open the sun
room door, and the rain was going this way. So I shut the uh sun room door, step back a few feet feet, and it went pop. One big boom. That was it. We realize that the winds may pick up tomorrow. So we'll be back out here
again checking the structures again to make sure everybody's safe. But this one here, we'll keep an eye on just to make sure it's uh it's safe for the occupants to be [Music] inside. Have you met TED? Pasco County's
Transportation Engineering Department or TED is responsible for building and operating a safe, connected, and efficient transportation system for everyone. We ensure public funds go to the best transportation projects. Hi, I
am Ted. We build new roads, turn lanes, bike lanes, and sidewalks. I am Ted. We install traffic signals and ensure they operate properly. I am Ted. We make sure that property lines for new
development are accurate. I am Ted. We build pathways and make crosswalks safer. I am Ted. Ted works to provide a great transportation system for all of Pasco County. If you have a question, concern, or request for our
transportation team, just visit our website and search TED. Pasco County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains.
Storm water carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, water foul, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County
Department of Public Works at 727834-3611. [Music] [Music] [Music]
Hey, what? What? No. No. Hi, I'm Lisa Negron. And I'm Amy Schultz. We're here to talk about burn prevention tips. Today we're going to talk about burn prevention for teenagers and adults. Did you know that in 2017 in Pasco County over 120 adults were
treated for burn related injuries in hospitals and four of those were fatalities? That doesn't include the number of adults that seek treatment at walk-in clinics or at their doctors. That's a lot of people getting injured and approximately once every minute someone in the United States sustains a burn injury serious enough that requires
treatment. Let's talk about some of the leading causes of burn injuries for adults. Scald injuries account for more than onethird of all burn injuries. That's right. It can take less than a second to get a thirdderee burn from hot coffee. To keep from spilling coffee or other hot liquids, put them in a cup
with a tight fitting lid, especially if you have children around. Lisa, you may like your coffee, but I like microwave popcorn. The steam in a microwave bag can reach 180° and it can give you a scald burn when you open the bag. So, make sure you let it cool for a minute before you open it. And make sure to
open the bag away from your face. Cooking is another source for a lot of burn injuries. You should always keep an eye on what you're cooking to prevent burns from happening. Turn handles away from the edge of the stove to avoid knocking the pan off and keep a lid close by to cover the pan if a small fire starts. This will smother the fire.
Also, be careful around the tub and the sink. A survey showed that 40% of homes had their water temperature set dangerously high. The you should have that water set at 120° or lower or just below the medium setting on your water heater. To test the water, run the water
for 1 to 3 minutes and then check it with a thermometer. If you have to adjust the setting, wait 24 hours after setting it before you retest the temperature. A normal bath temperature that's safe is about 100°. Great tips, Amy. If you want more information, feel
free to visit our website at www.pascoountfl.net/fire rescue and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Pasco County government operations are staffed by over 2,300 employees representing 57 different lines of business to nearly 500,000 customers
covering 740 square miles of territory. As state and federal funding continues to shrink, additional financial responsibilities are pushed down to local governments. intensifying the everpresent challenge of limited funds. This appears to be the new normal. While county government is nonprofit in
nature, Fasco County operates in a manner similar to the private sector. Always looking for better and more innovative ways to make the most of the available funds. For us, being lean, effective, and accountable isn't just a catchphrase. It's how we approach everything we do
every single day. Measurement, analysis, and process improvement provide the foundation necessary for us to go from good to great. Our continuous efforts are already being recognized across the country. Pasco County is gaining a premier reputation and we have the awards to
[Music] [Music] prove. My name is Gina Bachello. I'm the pet services supervisor here at Pasco County Animal Services. I am very blessed to work with our rescue partners
every single day as they visit our shelter to remove animals that are not eligible for adoption either due to severe medical or behavioral concerns. Our rescue partners are essential in helping us meet our Save 90 mission to ensure that at least 90% of our animals
are live released. My name is Robert Splade of Norman's Royal Rescue. Hi, I'm Devlin and I'm with Ruggaz Rescue and Project Golden Years. I'm Robin Vetro, the president of Norman's Royal Rescue. I am Dr. Carrie Burick. I am a rescue coordinator for Sun Coast Animal League
in Palm Harbor, Florida. I love and work with my county because my shelter loves and respects our rescue. We have a large development and an educational boundary that knows we take the special cases. I think the best thing about rescuing is
that as low as as low as it can get, I'm probably going to get emotional with this. As as bad as it can get and the things that we see, as bad as they are, um we know that we have the ability to make them better. We have the ability to make these animals lives amazing.
It's it's just that these poor animals what they go through and their a lot of with their backstory is where they come from and all they want is somebody to love them. So we figure if we can rescue them whether they're injured sometimes
behavioral we rehabilitate them and find them that home. It's just something that we're the voice of them. They they don't have a voice unfortunately. About five years ago, we adopted a dog that was a rescue dog. His name was Norman. He lived here. Um, he showed us that whole
world where there were these dogs that people just overlooked because they were different. Pasco County Animal Services is an excellent partner to Sun Coast Animal League. I mean, we have a great relationship. We work together in rescuing animals and improving the
animals lives and um getting these animals out, getting them the medical care that they need and and getting them where they need to go. As far as Pasco County Animal Services go, it is the best shelter in the five counties we've visited. We actually live in Hernando.
Um, but we visit all the shelters and we get the most help, the most love from the people that work here, the people that volunteer here. They become family and that means more to us as a rescue because we have a support system outside
our foster base. Our county has come so far from where it had been 12 years ago when I was a director at the SBCA locally. We have come so far feets and boundaries where dogs like our ex here who was a hit by a car, who was a very stressed out, not a really appropriate
shelter dog that we wouldn't have been able to treat here at the shelter. We get that phone call, hey, can you you're you're one of our partners that'll do card cases like this in the car on the way. Not a problem. For us, it's just an invaluable partnership, you know, and I
think that we've managed to change the lives of so many animals, save the lives of so many animals because of this partnership. And it is just a really cool thing. [Music]
[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Sharon uses Pasco County Public Transportation just about every day she can. It saves my life actually because
I'm not a person to stay home. She rides the bus system to go to the doctor, shopping, and even