e --------- start ma'am we get start of the meeting good morning I would like to call to order the Pasco board County Commission meeting 10:00 meeting on February 11th 2025 at this time silence all electronic devices and mute your phones please rise
for the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance oh merciful Creator your hand is open wine to satisfy the needs of every living creature make us thankful of your loving Providence and Grant that we remembering the account that we must one day give may be faithful stewards of
your good gifts amen amen the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all will the clerk please call the role yes
sir district one commissioner Oakley here District Two commissioner waitan president District Four commissioner joerger here District Five commissioner Mariano here and District three chairman starky is not present today excuse but
she is listening but she's not participating help the meeting flow Now's 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 broad's purview today's public comment will be handled as follows first we will take public
comment from those who are in here in person then we will take public comment from those who are pre-registered for a WebEx link and currently on Q we request that when you address the board comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or team member but rather directed at the issues this provides
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close your comments WebEx participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up Mr clerk do we have anyone signed up for public comment yes we have several and I appreciate those who have printed clearly so please uh some of these are a little hard to read
uh Kimberly Barnes hello I'm Kimberly Barnes my address is 366 53 Palm Street dat City ready in the morning early morning of October town of 2024 when hurricane Milton hit we went outside to access
what damages had been done only to find our whole house surrounded in water as far as the eye could see the water extended down our road to other roads to our neighbors the only way we were able to leave our home that morning was with a canoe that we were lucky that we had
aside from rescuing ourselves and our children we had to rescue our neighbors as well all of our vehicles were either trapped or underwater days after the storm we had in some areas at least 10 ft of water sitting in our yard I understand hurricane Milton was a 100-year storm we had never had rainfall
like this my issue is our problems actually began long before Milton when the city of Dade City annexed a property right in front of us and decided to allow 302 homes to be built this development called Heritage Hills was controversial because it was what they
referred to as a basin of special concern yes we are in a low-lying area we do not get we do get tired of hearing that but this development also used to be in a low-lying area they put a retention Pond directly in front of us which messes with the
water table in our yard so it's already saturated aside from the Retention Ponds they put put a pop off drain right outside the fence line that drained straight down the road which is on a county easement we actually experienced major flooding from this pop off drain in 2022
long before hurricane almost flooded and it almost flooded the neighbor's house Mr Oakley actually um came out to our property that day to try to help us um he did push the city um to to do some stuff and to um to
um drain some of the coverts although no one seems eager to help because we reside in the county the city doesn't really want to do much for us even though the development is in city limits multiple calls have been made to Swift Mud in the city since
2022 now that a major hurricane hit I have no answer still our house sustained flood damage and we are unable to get contractors back to our property and any work done because our road is still unaccessible we are still out of our home we are actually living in a different home than our children right now which is extremely upsetting to me
because no one should have to do this but no one's claiming responsibility for this pop off drain which I believe in trapped my family and my neighbors during this hurricane in which we were not able to get out safely the drain still sits over the fence line of this development with dead trees and and it's
unmaintained I am still waiting for answers after two years of who is responsible for this and why it's allowed to be placed there my husband has lived on this property his whole life his grandparents lived on this specific piece of property it is sad because we've been treated throughout the years and disregarded
because our vocal concerns about the flooding even before this storm even before this development was even thought of all of this continued development flows into this Basin am I done okay thank you um is
Bradford here Branford public horse please talk with the lady ma'am branford's going to branford's coming up he's going to he talk with you about the flooding I know we have teams out in dat City right now this today looking at this have been but want to take your specific situation
take a look at next person Patrick Knight good morning my name is Patrick Knight I live at 47 37423 more Drive in the Hickory Hills neighborhood
uh thank you for allowing me to speak on this issue uh my first comment is um I actually built a new home in Hickory Hills uh it was my retirement dream home and
uh it was you know 60 70 feet above sea level I I didn't want it to live anywhere around water and uh the field behind me was high and dry you know uh all around me
was high and dry U but uh this dream home has turned out to to be actually the opposite and uh I'm presenting to you some questions uh my first question is uh since we're still having a lot of
flooding uh the flooding actually came to the edge of my foundation and uh there was uh some resolution with the U uh TR the tanker trucks coming in and
uh that really helped a lot it helped helped reced the water but uh that that that was stopped abruptly and there was there's still water in my yard and erosion on the back of my property but uh what I'd like to
know is what measure is the county now doing to purge flood waters from Hickory Hills apparently some steps were taken uh a few weeks ago but then it it stopped you
know and I called the county and they said uh FEMA was out of money that's that's what I was told or or FEMA stopped and I don't think that that was a that's what I understand not a FEA is
issue and I'd also like to know what measures is the county taking to prevent this from happening again I mean uh do pumps covers uh a storm waterer system is
really needed in Hickory Hills and I'd also like to know uh what steps are being taken to ensure mon Side Drive construction and new development at tar Woods will not affect future flooding
with all this enhanced elevations it's only going to exacerbate the problem and my last comment is uh why did this happen water drained from the lake Javita area four days after the
hurricane there was no water behind us and all of a sudden flooding occurred so apparently this water was coming from somewhere else and I I was uh someone from the county on YouTube said that uh it was actually
draining from the lake Javita area so I'd appreciate any comment on that thank you for your time all right so sir we don't comment in public comment but I we'll tell you the team is out there looking at it today we're looking for a long-term solution if you would go out the gentleman just went out there Branford and
Jason uh talk with them please thank you next person Mar gar maren had asked me an extra five minutes she's an HOA president from Beacon Point Beacon Park so thank they have the PowerPoint up you
don't have additional time for group you can the board can grant it but in public comment there's no additional time all right so I'd like to give it's okay with the board give her five minutes she wants to speak for the whole association okay that's the resoning it's the second one okay next okay this is what I'm
going to be talking about today uh my my name is Moran gark I live at 8620 regal lane Hudson Florida I'm currently the HOA president of the Estates and reserves of Beacon Woods I'm here today representing our community to share the frustrations of our community as it
pertains to the construction of Beacon Park you'll notice that up there in the corner my objectives here today A Brief uh history of our community update the Board of Commissioners regarding the disruption and negative impacts on the construction phase of Beacon Park
causing our Community sharing the annoyances that we have witnessed and the various disregards by the developer the employees and their various contractors engaged in this construction and lastly understand the County's approach to resolving these issues brief history
we're found off of Hudson and Little Road the Estates and reserves and we're an established development of 35 years young with 480 homes paying property tax to Pasco County until a few years ago we were a golf course community Community we know no longer Matt lman closed the
Links golf course Beacon Park is a development behind our houses on the north northwest side of the Estates of Reserve this development has passed a mirrored reviews needed to proceed with such development eventually eventually being approved by this very same Board
of Commissioners today I'm here to discuss how the lack of taxpayers are being negatively how the taxpayers are being negatively affected by Pasco County's lack of success enforcing the approved plans set by these Board of Commissioners the permitted plans
approved directed all construction routes to go from Beacon Point development off Aqua Clara and not the Estates and reserves on Tennyson and Poe if you'll note right here Aqua Clara that little yellow strip is 0.11 miles
to the Beacon Park the blue and the purple going in are just under a mile for the Construction route that they're taking now and they're not supposed to be taking that currently the developer is using Tennyson and po as the entrance to
circumvent the County planning and development plan that was agreed upon Construction route the developer is using hauling trucks Vehicles dump trucks 18 wheelers with diesel sod dirt and sand throughout our community I'm I'm also going to be submitting this
presentation I have me emailed it to uh Gina and you'll see our Roots here Aqua claro was the agreed upon access point for the developers despite our efforts early summer of 2024 contacting County
officials Commissioners sir uh sheriff's department and Pasco C uh code enforcement amongst many emails we have not prod we have not seen any produced tangible results Confusion by the county the county officials and the developer initially claimed that they had the
right to go through the Estates and reserves wasn't until December 23 of 24 that David Engel County employee produced the agreed upon Construction route and I quote the 2022 Mass grading permit conditions and the only hall
route for this project is aqua Clara Drive accordingly David Engel sent out the notice to the Builder to cease and assist all traffic on this on our entrance well during the holidays our community experienced a significant
disruption over 180 dump trucks entered and exiting carrying loads of dirt sand Diesel and causing Road messes the construction vehicles are still using our neighborhood today our residents remain concerned we have property damage
to at least three properties that I know of the maintenance on our roads no videos have been taken by the county or the developer for our roads but they were taken for aqua Clara the developer will not return phone calls to our residents that have damage we've called
for noise ordinance and we have loud machines running day and night and oh by the way the screeching alarms at 5:30 are even on Sundays that's also a code violation we've had hazardous conditions we've had uh persistent speeding contractor Vehicles hitting hitting
almost hitting a resident with his dog and the contractors parking on our streets making it difficult for our our residents to maneuver around significant dropping of sand and dirt still continues and now there's mud environmental conditions we've got diesel leaks all over our roads and in
the packet you will see the diesel marks on our roads what was the County's response it's been minimal the county has responded to a limited lip service in emails setting plastic barricades street sweepers last week for the mud and
conducting one week of traffic evaluations none of these actions have changed the behavior of the developer the employees or the various contractors they're using um our homeowners are expected to follow the laws we're held accountable to the various code enforcements so should that
developer be held for those same the county agencies have not held this developer accountable nor have they enforced these plans agreed upon by you so I leave you with this is it unreasonable to ask when will the developer be held accountable for this
greed upon permit and how will our homeowners know these expectations for the county codes for these laws to be implemented for this developer and why are there not concrete barriers stopping in the developer today I appreciate your um uh your time for listening to us
thank you maren I've got David Allen in the back David Engle here as well uh they're ready to go meet with you when your board members downstairs to talk it for further and I will I'll just say to the board this developer is the worst one I've ever dealt with they have been rude they've been just ignored everything and trying to take advantage
of where they could use a local Road they say to get into it instead of using the construction road that was given to them in a very in a very positive way compared to what they were supposed to go on Buffalo Drive initial so it's it's very very tough in the residence if there's any more of my residents from my community I saw one or two come in come
with us thank you thanks thank you thank you very much thank you Daren and Victor Lumis good morning how yall doing this morning okay I'm not doing too good uh my name is Victor lemis I live at 12518 Fort
King Road in Dade City Florida and I'm here to address the continued flooding on the access road to my house we have no entrance no exit uh commissioner Marina was gracious enough to come out and inspect and View and uh
we address the problems and I just want to reaffirm that this is a safety hazard we have been locked out of our property for four months there's no access for emergency
medical emergency fire if there's a fire if there is a heart if I die you're carrying me out in a body bag we have to get this water off the road your constituents need to have access to their property you know this is the
United States of America the most wealthiest richest country in the world and we're living like we're in a third world country I don't think that's acceptable I hope you all don't think that's acceptable all my neighbors on Moore Road and Hickory Hills are
fighting the same battle and we need a short-term resolution immediately and a long-term resolution in the future and I don't think that's asking too much you know I'm at the point now where the train is leaving the station here at
Pasco County and it's heading up 75 and it's not going to stop until it gets to the governor's desk so I'm asking you be part of the solution not part of the problem thank you thank
you Tim I I'm going to say Elden of on Apache Street who's after that Scott wsmith smooth yeah okay Mr Tim or Tom Tom FR Tom Tom FR um here
representing bmar Acres Club Incorporated and we are a 1673 unit mobile home park in sepher Hill Florida okay uh may I pass out a handout
a motion some move second all fa say I I any post I think I think you have seven right okay um are we came here to make an appeal to
this board okay um we would like this board to address our issue our issue is we believe that Mike Wells the Pasco County property appraiser is charging us non-ad valorum
special Assessments in violation of Florida statute 193 okay the packet has numerous handouts I've been fighting this since January of 2024 okay and one of the handouts uh
then attorney general Charlie Chris back in 2024 said that the Florida legislature had the correct idea and not charging common area properties of a subev for non-ad vorm taxes and the
reason they didn't do that is so they could not be sold at a tax auction we have been paying this for years okay nobody anybody I've talked to hasn't helped us with this issue okay the property appraisers
office says this statute Florida 193 doesn't pertain to them okay um Jordan wolfg Graham one of your attorneys stated to me that statute 193 doesn't apply and she quoted me a case on the
city of Gainesville versus the state and the department of transportation that case does nothing more than to support our case that these taxes are charged to us in air because that case ruled that the city of Gainesville could charge
these utility fees and we're not arguing the fact that these fees have to be paid in Pasco County we understand that all we're saying is that they should be spread over all our development and that Gainesville case said that the state if were they were charg the utility fee as
a utility fee would have to pay it but if they're charged it on the as a non edor special assessment they were exempt from paying it and that's the same contention that we're making we our request is to be placed on the the March
agenda so that we can discuss this further and to have an opinion you will have time to digest that then and then we'll have an opinion from you guys okay as the reference in this matter we do not want to go to
litigation to be clear we understand that the county has to have a certain amount of money in order to run what we're saying is the wrong parties are being charged name address the lot owners need to be charged instead of Corporation as a Scott walkth 36919 Tera
a Zephyr Hills thank you m sir you can keep coming if you want yes it clearly states in the statute it says the value of each parcel of land that is or been part of a platted subdivision that is designed on the plat or approved plat as a common element for the exclusive
benefit of the lot owner shall regardless of ownership be prated by the property appraiser and included in the assessment of the Lots within the subdivision which constitute inventory for the developer or are intended to be conveyed in this case they have been
conveyed into private ownership for the exclusive benefit of the lot owners within the subdivision that's a lot written by lawyers for lawyers to interpret but our interpretation of this law is the Count's entitled to its money they're just charging the wrong parties okay and
we would like that straightened out all right we'll get with our County attorney the office to review it I mean obviously I've never seen this document before and just hearing of this for the first time so it's going to take some time to look at it but we'll have them reach our County attor to reach out to you and set a meeting up to to review it thank you
very much thank you so much thank you Eric Clayton name is Eric Clayton live at 12704 Green Oak Lane uh in Hickory Hills and I'm here to speak on the the flooding in the Hickory Hills area I wasn't supposed to have to deal with
this um my house was flooded in 2004 my dad fought this fight uh he's since passed so now I'm fighting this fight um we were told then that it was a 100-year flood and that it would never happen again and then this Melton comes through
and dumps an outrageous amount of water on uh the community and now it's a 200-year flood U Mr Oakley and Mr Marino both have been out to my property to see where this water lays at and where it's supposed to be moving and I think you
both know at the moment that the water isn't moving this all backs up to Mr Lumis property and all the other people in Hickory Hills and if we could fix the elevations this water would
move through out to 301 under 301 and all the way to the wuchi river where it's supposed to I realize it's not as simple as how I'm saying it and there's a lot of things that go into getting this done I'm also aware that to grow a
community you have to build well when you build you take away the Earth and you put in concrete the concrete can't absorb like the Earth can I'm not opposed to growth what I'm opposed to is that we need to fix the things that we
can fix before we do this growth it's that's how communities in you know grow I get that I would just like you guys to remember us you know in 2004 it was um
commissioner Shader you know we're going to get this fixed I have spent many a day with Mr Oakley who's been gracious enough to hear me out over the past five to 10 years uh and you know we're going to get this fixed I would just like to see a little follow through you know in the
near future um just a lot of people being affected by this and I again I I know it's a a bigger task than I'm making it out to be but just a little push to get things done before we build
more would go a long way I appreciate you guys letting me speak today thank you uh Robert Tucker morning Robert Tucker 37451 more Drive Hickory Hills I just want to reiterate what Mr Clayton just said other than the
fact that I've been in the neighborhood for 32 years in 1998 we had a flood the water Rose to a level that was reasonable I would say no one really lost their homes at that time to my
knowledge the water flowed out under the Railroad Bed that all of you are familiar with and know that it's there between 98 and 2004 the property owners on the east side of that Railroad Bed went through reconfigured the
drainage Outlet ditch actually added soil backfilled and so in 2004 when we flooded the water had nowhere to go it could tried to go but it couldn't because it was being impeded by the one cover
excuse me the one C and the elevation changes on the east side of that Railroad Bed So at that time the county came in they placed pumps graciously and they pumped 247 until they got the water down where it needed to be after that the county came in and added another
covert and at that time we were told this would never happen again well here we are and the reason the C the Cs are there but the water's sitting in the Cs because it cannot flow because of the elevation changes on the other side of the railroad bed and no one seems to
want to address that so that's my question is why and thank you for your time Janice [Music] stuffy hi Janine Duffy 5550 Front Drive Holiday Florida so I'm I everybody's in
such a mood today which I understand but these are exciting times ahead we um we have a new president who is for the people um fighting for American values and putting Citizens first um and since you proudly call yourselves Trump supporters um I know it is safe to
assume that you will follow his lead correct um the residents of Pasco County are looking forward to seeing the great things you're all going to do to support president Trump's Vision lower our taxes audit the budget dis dismantle mosquito control protect our land and water stop
resoning a 5-year moratorium on all residential development to catch up on severely lacking infrastructure help those flooded by our overdevelopment adequate services for mental health and addiction last but not least a full AI audit on every
Department in our County let's start there thank you for making these a priority and moving in president's Trump's speed we are looking forward to the changes we are in a new year and I think it's time for everybody to flip the
switch act like Republicans do what the people ask things are happening at the top they're going to come down let's meet in the middle I'm trusting that you're all going to from now on make better decis decisions for your residents that live here we've been crying out for
years thank you Donna Deo which we call back for there come back to it okay uh Lisa Moretti morning pleas mer 16331 Iola Woods Trail sorry about my
voice I'd like to draw your attention to the recent Planning Commission meeting because unfortunately it turned into something of a circus it was a quasa Judicial hearing on the Evans 8 project and the disrespect shown to our
commissioners and our County staff by the applicant was simply remarkable um at the end of the meeting I approached the applicant to say please come back to the table for a community meeting and sit down with us so we can
find a solution that will work for everybody at which point he began screaming at me and trying to bully me which I don't take well I don't believe in bullying you I don't believe in bullying our staff and I certainly don't believe in bullying me and so I stood up
for myself downstairs I was in the hallway just standing by the bathroom and he again came up to me and got in my face and bullied me again that's unacceptable in our County during a quasa Judicial hearing also people that
are affected parties should have the right to respond to things that are said that wasn't allowed and we run meeting in a very prescribed Manner and so when the applicant is constantly jumping up to the podium when not being asked to come is not
acceptable I felt so badly for Mr Goldstein because the applicant talked over him and was rude to him was rude to Mr Engle it was absolutely deplorable behavior and I think it's unacceptable in our County so I'd like to remind you
all that we're stakeholders too that we care deeply about where we live and we care deeply about what you do and how we all can work together so I'm hoping that you will ask the applic representative I get it he's supposed to represent his client and he does it in the best way he
thinks possible but bullying you bullying this community that's not the way to do it on another note I'd also like to add to the growing body speaking about flooding issues the folks over in King Lake and part of the connected CI still have issues there too so I hope that
you'll also consider them in when you address what kind of things are going on in the county thank you so much D Donna Deo yep I would like to speak about the flooding oh I'm sorry name and address
support the record okay my name is Donna Deo Stanford family property and my address is 8 621 Aaron cut off okay and um I just would like to speak about the flooding that we were we're having over
off of a Aaron cut off and it it was definitely we had the storm and by that this point it should have subsided but it did not and um come to find out Aaron had these big pumps pumping property pumping
to my Lake okay their water cuz they didn't care about us they only cared about theirselves now Mr waitman I understood that you stopped the pumps the first time but lonard did not listen to you
you did not keep a watch on it I guess some way the watch didn't keep on it well they started pumping again and they pumped a lot my son rode out in his kayak it was up to his knees one day the next day once y'all shut the pumps off
again you went out there and made them take them out okay they're down to my son's ankles what is that telling you the water's starting to subside now the county allowed lenar Holmes I'm sorry I was out speaking to somebody um the
county allowed lenar Holmes to pump the water on into my Lake okay and the it's going like they have the property tilted there which we're still going to have problems because of the way the engineers allowed lenar holes to build
there I mean so you're going to have problems on Aaron C off every time something happens you know an event but most of the times I've lived out there that area my family has for a long time since 1975
okay so I've never seen this I realize a hurricane came through but there was other hurricanes and storms and stuff okay I'm 71 years old and I've seen other things so I just want you to know kind
of under your St Steward chip y'all kind of felt us cuz y'all didn't keep making sure that the pumps were not pumping cuz one and there was no filters on these pumps and now there's a bacteria in my leg so there is
pollution which I'm not happy with it so I want to thank you for shutting them off the first time but the fact that someone did not keep check on it cuz the water probably would have been down more that my son found it about three weeks
ago I'm sure you've probably I've tried to talk to you this but you've seen the film that KY took and I mean that's proof of that lenar caused it and by this point it you would have never had to have trucks out
there pumping on air and cut off never it's never happened like that and that that's my opinion okay very nice to let me speak thank you thank you Mr chairman that's all we have signed up in advance
there are none online is there any anyone else here from the public that would like to speak sorry come right up sir and if anyone else would like to speak please line up behind this gentlemen others will end public comment go into the queue after this first of all I'd like my name is Jack
two Brenda to at 310 Diana Drive and uh you guys have a heck of a job I wouldn't want it I want to thank you for your service first and foremost uh I'm not here to complain about something uh I want to bring something to your you're aware of it you guys know the homeless
situation in the county uh we have a not for profit that we started uh we want to comply all zoning and coding so so we would like to get direction from uh our commissioner in district one and U see
if they can help us find property that would be suitable for me to build a shelter uh and maybe even help with the property um nobody wants a homeless shelter in their backyard and uh but you know they still they need to love and
they need a place to stay so basically I'm just I'm in the season of my life where I want to back and I need your guidance so I love some of our credentials uh if I give them to them or give to commissioner Oakley whichever
you prefer move approval take fa I yeah I'll take them thank you yes sir appreciate your time thank you uh so we're going to end public comment in here is there anyone else on
online somebody standing over there oh I'm sorry hello thank you for allowing me to talk my name is Paula chakon I live at 12526 for King Road and um my property is sitting in a 10.4
acre as this water it's been flooded it my road is unaccessible for the past four months the only thing I have available at my house is maybe unless is in an acre that's where my house is
sitting um we've been struggling to go through a back doors house through a neighbor to another neighbor to get to my house um we had to put our way our dogs had to be gone for our property because it was not safe for them now at this
point the water has to smell there's so many mosquitoes my husband has to go get propane on his own and water for us to cook and to drink and it's not safe I have health issues and in case I would have to get an emergency call there's no
way the fire department or the ambulance will be able to go in there and I really like ask for you guys to help us because it's been four months that we have no access through our road we have no access to the waste management we have
to be carrying out the garbage somewhere else and I really ask you guys to help us with all this thank you thank you for your time and listening to us Mr chairman uh the group that was outside has moved downstairs
the speaking to this you might want to go down and join them want me to downstairs yeah the group you might go they they move downstairs because it was too loud okay I'm okay all right so that'll close public comment inside
here is there anyone else online no sir okay I I'll just make a quick statement just to let everyone know that uh our team is at actually working very actively commissioner Oakley he's helped me on my side I'm helping him on his side uh we're all working together to try to solve these issues not only for the shortterm which is critical because
we don't want to see an ex exacerbation of the problem that we had last year with the storms coming in but also for the long term as well and they're actively working on us right be patient with us as we as we try to go through it you are being you are being listened to ENT um okay FAL Clos public comment now
is the time for resolutions yes sir resolution number 25116 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida presenting the 5A High School's fire science program with the donation of a E1 typhoon fire pumper as a token
of appreciation for the program's partnership in promoting fire Science Education and exposure to the career path to the Youth of Pasco County whereas the Pasco County Board County Commissioners recognizes the importance of education and Workforce Development
especially in the fields of Public Safety and emergency response and whereas the fire science program at 5A high school has demonstrated a strong commitment to providing highquality educational opportunities for students interested in pursuing careers in
firefighting and emergency services and whereas this program has fostered valuable Rel uh Partnerships with local fire service professionals agencies and organizations in Pasco County strengthening Community engagement and support for public safety education and
whereas 5A high schools fire science program has contributed significantly to the development and exposure of the next generation of fire service professionals and Public Safety leaders and whereas the Pasco County border of County Commissioners desires to support and
enhance the educational efforts of the fire science program at 5A high school and whereas as a token of appreciation for the programs outstanding contribution to the youth at Pasco County and its dedication to promoting fire Science Education the Pasco County
Board of County Commissioners has agreed to donate an E1 typhoon fire pumper to the 5A High School fire science program now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida the said board hereby acknowledges and expresses its
appreciation to 5A High School's fire science program for its outstanding contribution to to the education and career development of Youth of Pasco County recognizes the value of and encourages the continued partnership between Pasco County and 5A high school
and donates a E1 typhoon fire pumper to 5A High School's fire science program as a symbol of its appreciation and an enhancement to the educational resources available to the students of the program this donation will assist in providing
students with hands-on experience and training in the operation and maintenance of fire apparatus furthering the program's mission to prepare future fire service professionals done and resolved in regular session with a quorum pres voting this 11th day of
February 2025 a motion move approval second second all in favor say I I okay all right well first of all I am honored and excited to bring present
this resolution to you all today as a mom of five and someone who worked for the school board for the past 10 years um I'm a huge advocate of all theem and all the technical education opportunities that our students have I
want to thank uh Pasco fire rescue for donating the fire truck to our students so they have Hands-On learning experience while you guys are training to be firefighters my son is in the cadet program and every Monday he comes back
so excited and just learning so much so I want to say thank you to Pesco fire rescue and 5A high school for everything you do inside the classroom and outside the classroom and I want to thank you for in investing in our youth our future
firefighters it does not go unnoticed so thank you okay thank you commissioner uh Ryan Gwen fire chief um first of all I have to start by thanking everybody in the county that made this possible it's not just fire rescue you for the resolution the entire board for uh this isn't the first donation we've made with
5A this is a continuing relationship that we've had and it's been super beneficial thank you Miss Gina for getting the resolution on thank you for Fleet for helping us find the apparatus and be able to donate uh you know it really is a Monumental task to get to this point so um but we're proud to have
this relationship we've worked with 5A they are trying to grow inhome Pasco County firefighters and that's exactly what we want and that's exactly what we look forward to so it's been a great relationship so far we've enjoyed it um and we can we hope to continue it so with that I'd like to give Dr Romano a
second thank you so good morning and we just are here to show our sincere gratitude thank you Mr chairman Commissioners and staff um on behalf of Pas Pasco County schools and the 5A high high school fire science
academy I would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude for the generous donation of this fire truck this contribution significantly enhances our training capabilities and provides our students who are here with us today with invaluable Hands-On
experiences our long-standing partnership with the Pasco County fire rescue has been instrumental in the in the success of the 5A High School fire science academy we um several years ago when I first came on board in the uh director position of recurent technical
education um fire chief Gwyn and our team and his team went up to to alacha County and learned about their program there and brought that back and it's been a long-standing partnership um since the very beginning we are deeply appreciative of fire chief Gwyn and his
team's unwavering support and dedication to our program their commitment has been a Cornerstone in preparing our students for future careers in fire service I would now like to introduce Lieutenant Smith our fire science academy instructor and his students who will now
share a brief word of gratitude thank you again for your supported this program good morning Commissioners my name is Lieutenant Steve Smith I'm the instructor at 5A High School's fire science program on behalf of the staff at Pasco County Schools Career Technical
education program and 5A high school I want to extend our deepest appreciation to Pasco County fire rescue for their extremely generous donation of a fire engine to support our program this is more than just a vehicle it's a
transformative gift that will profoundly impact on our students uh education and future careers thank you again Pasco County fire rescue for your continued and unwavering support without your support our program would not be as
successful the Practical hands-on experience this fire engine provides is invaluable while a fire hydrant offers a basic understanding of water pressure the fire engine allows us to simulate a wide range of realistic firefighting
scenarios our students will gain Mastery of crucial techniques including hos line Evolutions pump operations and emergency vehicle familiarization skill simply impossible to teach effectively without this equipment this enhanced training will
not only increase their competency and confidence but also significantly significantly improve their job prospects upon graduation your contribution represents a vital investment in the future of our community by equipping our equipping our
students with the highest quality training you're directly enhancing Public Safety thank you again for your unwavering commitment to 5A high school and our community your support is greatly appreciated I'd like to introduce two of my firefighter three
students Maya Amerson and Ryan Mel to speak about our program and appreciation of the donation [Applause] hello I'm uh Ryan m i a student at 5 high school 5 fire3 I want to give our our appreciation to our fire truck as we
were learn basic operations of pump operations um how we're going to set up our engine how engine set in Pasco County and how to work not work on a fire engine sorry on how we do our pre-checks for an engine check
our equipment everything like that and like I said Thank You final rescue and thank you for yall for your support thank you job all right Mr Oley yes sir thank You' all for coming and uh it's just great news to
continue hearing good things happening with our firefighters your support as your Radu in students into the world of work and do the things and already been trained I know is going to Chief W and his team are looking forward to using
them because I think they've already started the dshift and uh more and more and more things are happening to the good for our citizens of Pasco County so for all of you I appreciate and support everything that you're doing to make firefighting better for our citizens
thank you Mr W thank chair you know what a great way to retire a piece of equipment put it back to work so Chief and JJ and everybody thanks for thinking outside the box and partner with the school system um you know there's a pipeline
coming out of Pasco schools and very glad to see that y'all are trying to capture those who are eager and and want to serve and uh continue their life's journey here in Pasco County so thank you all I like to say I greatly appreciate this program uh 58 near near and dear to
my heart my two girls graduated there and had a great time there thank you Eric all right um and this program is exciting to me when when I first started back in 2004 we had firefighters we had EMS sometimes we're cross Train sometimes not we Tred to push to make
that broad spectrum across and I think with this all the improvements where no more volunteers everyone's paid the careers are good and now with the dshift even better we can do so many other things in your life as well as being a firefighter to to give you a great quality life I'd like to see how how
we're going along the line maybe you can educate me a little bit more Lieutenant um I would like to see a program that we could put together that when they actually graduated high school they could be ready to go almost to be fully certified maybe not all the EMS but the other parts of it to be done because if
you can set that stage up it's a little expensive and time consuming to actually go through that whole process but I think as a fire fire fighter supporters as we all are that if we can help make it to that next level up even if we got to do some more enhancements to the program we'd I'm sure we'd like to see
that happen to help these guys get at least the firefighting part done and let them go work on the EMS while this while they're working or something um we're open to that discussion every step of the way all right all right all right you guys want to um stand here we'll take a picture yeah with somebody I
guess we'll stay up here you get stand next to me I made the right decision 00 before last night [Music] all right one more one more all
[Applause] right 100% behind you thank you thank appreciate thanks for helping it is J it's the allar that com thank you there's a quite
a few parchments on that on this s Mr chairman uh members of the board just to for the record note that the donation on the resolution is also contingent on c22 on the consent agenda that's upcoming nothing like pressure
[Laughter] okay you ready for the next one we're ready for next public comment yes a very special one here all right resolution number 25117 a resolution by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida commending the 2024 star
performer star leader and Star Team of the Year if they're present if they could come forward whereas each year Pasco County recognizes a star performer of the Year star leader of the year and Star Team of the Year from each branch and whereas
Hannah brilley Wade bed Wade bed Ward uh Larry arcade Patricia Christ Yingling and Sergeant Michael Brady have been selected to receive the 2024 star performer of the Year award and Karen
Stanley Eric Jacobson Scott Brown Christopher dutter and Captain David G G garolo have been selected to receive the 2024 star leader of the Year award and
whereas during the back-to-back hurricanes of 2024 stories of service above and beyond the Call of Duty came from all parts of the organization so many so that so many so that singling out just a few teams would have
understated the work our team did for the community for this reason the 2024 Star Team of the Year award will be shared by all Pasco County team members and whereas for an organization to become Premier it must attract grow and
support a Workforce of servant leaders that are dedicated to improving the lives of people contribute to a purpose larger than their individual job and perform at the highest possible level day in and day out and whereas these
2024 award recipients consistently demonstrate Pasco County's core values through an impeccable work ethic dedication to service excellence and achieving quality outcomes in every situation they serve as an example to their fellow team members of going above
and beyond and exemplify the expectations of star performer of the year star leader of the year and Star Team of the Year now therefore be it resolved by the board of County commissioners of Pasco County Florida the said board hereby congratulates our
2024 Star Award winners for Pasco County and commends them for outstanding efforts in serving our community to create a better future denim resolved in regular session with the Forum president voting this 11th day of February
2025 approval second all in favor say hi hi hi Larry glad to see you made it back one time one time during the storms one time we're out in Green Key and uh this gentleman's on his ground reaching into a tube to go see if the water is Flowing or not so um I just want to say Mike
carella uh before you speak I want just say a couple of things you know Pasco County I want to say right now is Premiere we're going to get better and better and get better but we are Premiere I want to say everywhere I go we talk about the storms and what went through and what every team leader every
team person all the way through the people with that you work with every day uh the people are thrilled with what that response was every step of the way and I know all the things we're working on and we're going to deal with growth issues and flooding issues and all the things we're still working on but that makes us striving to get better and
better which we're going to continually do but I want to just say that I think that you can feel good about how the people are perceiving what's going on in this County and a in a positive positive way so I want to thank you and all your team members for all the great work you're doing
Mike y thank you thank you thank you um this is phenomenal and I think that it's it's wonderful that this is happening on the heels of Employee Appreciation day where we showed our employees how much we how much they really mean to us but this group behind me right here really excelled uh they excelled as As Leaders
they've excelled as as individuals in their careers and as the resolution points out it was so difficult to really pull a team together after what what happened last year we we actually learned the meaning of team I would say that we all we all worked together broke down silos and barriers it was simply
amazing but again I can't say it enough that the support of the board uh here with these folks here um is is just phenomenal as you as you say Mr chair that is it helps us get to where we are where we are in in being Premier so I just I thank you I thank the board for
this recognition rley y I can tell you um I know we're getting Premier when we got these kind of leaders leading for our staff and our staff they can tell you and I know each one of them would say
that their team behind them is the best so it wouldn't wouldn't rise everybody to the top without a great team behind us all so I appreciate everything y'all done during these times and um Never Say Never because there will be some back
because it continues to happen but our staff and our employees seem to step up when it's time to step up and do the right job so I thank you all for that Mr wait thank chair you know you can work about anywhere you want to in this country and the fact
that you all chose to come to work in the public service field you know likely taking a pay cut for what the private sector is doing right now just means a lot and we represent the citizens of Pasco County and also you as well and so
thank you for choosing to work for Pasco work for the the folks here and you can rest assured that day in and day out you have some support of this board to help do your job as effectively as you can as safely as you can and try to have a level of a work life balance that makes
your work life and your private life good so hopefully we continue on that Trend here in Pasco County and congratulations to everyone countywide uh on your wonderful work this last year and looking forward to see what we can accomplish in 2025
commissioner y I just want to say thank you for your sacrifice thank you for your service and your dedication to Pasco County we are the premier County and I'm I'm super proud of um our fire rescue and all of our um First
Responders and again I'll just say that thank you for the great service you're doing uh I know you got great team members behind you but we greatly appreciate every you did and congratulations being recognized by your peers uh Mike I've got eight flyers and two plaques so you going to help me out to B these out I think just with so many
stay up here again unless you want to come down yeah we'll [Applause] stay stand here guys right wants to be in the middle [Music] camera almost get everybody's okay Now's the Time for the consent agenda we have white item C15
has been withdrawn are there any other items to be withdrawn or pulled seeing none can have a motion to approve move approval second all in favor say I I I any opposed okay and now we have a Time C for 11 o'clock Mr
Cronin you should right good morning everyone happy Tuesday it's uh Bill Cronin Pasco EDC it's my pleasure to present to you um the quarterly reports for our final
Q4 of last fiscal year and q1 of this year and because we're doing both at once I'm going to go through them fairly rapidly and make sure that we've got enough time for for Q&A afterwards oops okay that's not yeah
the the Powerpoints not the metrics reports that's all right so while he's doing that I'll just I'll share there's one we finished off last year really well um probably one of the most important things that people want to
look at that's that's q1 can we get Q4 they want to know how we did with the um the jobs and projects the capital investment coming into the community uh with the growth that we've got coming in so it looks similar to the to the other
one but it's Q4 [Music] okay verbally I'll tell you as as they're looking for it uh last year we finished the year with 14 wins and WIS our companies uh uh projects either new companies coming into Pasco County or uh
expansions where we're competing with other places in the United States and the key driver for those are are always jobs and capital investment coming in new jobs to Pasco County uh our goal last year was 14 uh we hit it and it was
pretty much right almost at the very end of the fiscal year so we did we set our bar just about right uh we ended up with 1182 new jobs for the community for last fiscal year and um $360 million of new capital investment
and that uh Sub sub went over our goal of $250 million for the year so that one we're really proud of and that's uh that's new bricks and mortar that's new capital investment in terms of machines uh things that we get to keep here in
this community that go on our tax rols and also offset uh the taxes that our residents have to pay and of that there we go and you'll remember uh that was an announcement um that we made for bedo I
believe or was that um I'm sorry my yeah that was uper Hills announcement go ahead and yep there we go so of the the pipeline and the activity that we've had you'll see most of it's still in advanced manufacturing
but you see also Life Sciences creeping up 19% of our business recruitment activity a lot of that has to do with mafa and the the new cancer center in Sparrow campus coming in but also all the smaller uh spin-offs and a lot of it
businesses that cross over with uh life sciences distribution Logistics we're seeing that go down a little bit uh we're still a big consumer state but we've got a lot of distribution centers already here and I think a lot of us don't necessarily want to see more and
more of those large boxes up against our roads like some of our neighboring counties so that's actually good news there um we went out and again most of our time is still spent with our existing business about 80% of our programs are dealing with existing business to help them grow uh worked
with with Career Source we actually made a referral for one of their programs company visits that's still our bread and butter that's when our our staff goes out meets the company looks under the hood understands what they're what they're up against what the obstacles they have how they can become more
efficient uh last quarter at the end of the year we ended up with 82 direct company visits and then Workforce connections and this is where we work with our partners several of some them you've seen here today phsc am skills
others to help make sure that our Workforce is getting trained we've made 37 connections for those programs throughout the year uh $2.5 million and earned media value and that's when other people are telling our story so uh it's one thing when we tell the story you
guys pay us to tell the story we're pretty much the marketting crew for business in the community but when the others uh media outlets and other Publications tell our story we know we're getting their attention uh website continues to get
big hits I think it's always interesting to see what they're looking at uh ready sites is one of the those that they continue to look at but you look at where they're coming from uh California New York Georgia Virginia and Texas now
three of those uh are pretty high tax states and you know why they're looking at our area but some of them are competitors in the same industries that that we are so it's not unusual for them to look at places that does the same Industries pretty
well uh engagement and followers still growing up there that doesn't really shrink people don't really leave uh the engagement once they start following our social media and those resources and getting the news out to events and seminars industry peer organizations uh
we still do a lot of that getting out doing public speaking making sure people know what resources are available here and they know what kind of a business community that we have uh that photo you might remember was uh end of last year one of our staff members received the um
uh young innovators award the Dan Webster award from the state uh still really proud of our our team to get these Statewide recognitions uh as individuals makes our team that much stronger and then uh where are we with our stakeholders well we've got almost a
hundred now investors that's the private sector uh folks that come alongside us and help to invest and offset that burden from the taxpayers so that uh they understand what we do as economic development and helps their businesses grow as well
too uh into the year we ended up raising 584,000 of private investment uh from local companies that support our mission and then uh i' would say also from the penny for Pasco I'll just dive
right into it and uh leave some time at the end for for U Q&A my tech of course we we had an announcement with one of our sites there uh double Branch Ranch which is corner of U 52 and I75 I'm
sorry double Branch uh is now you see the moving dirt that should be going vertical here soon with a couple of new spec buildings going on site and we're continuing to get visits and inquiries on the ready sites program you saw last year we had over 24 inquiries 29
responses to rfps people that were looking for sites to move their companies presentations to Consultants 22 and then seven site visits that's when they actually come want to look at the site kick dirt and we know they're really serious at at that point those
are all really good numbers for us um internationally we joined with global Tampa Bay to host a trade mission to uh Vancouver uh one of your Commissioners joined us on on that event uh we also had a meeting in Mexico City with IMC
followed by one-on-one appointments for foreign direct investment and did some speaking events down there as as well too uh export counseling 60 uh that's where we're actually teaching companies how to export how to find markets overseas get their products out and make
more money and bring it back here to Pasco County so we had the one trade mission for the year which is our our goal which was the Vancouver uh this next year we'll we'll have one coming up here in just a few weeks and then trade related events throughout the year we had eight enhanced marketing continue to
tell this story and this is over and above what we do in our general activities so when special things come out like a new ready site those things get uh additional marketing above what we would normally do and then Workforce connect it's still our bread and butter
is our Workforce and our talent and that program uh has really become more of a tool uh we still call it a program but it's a tool that we use in almost all of our business retention and expansion efforts and our business recruitment cuz people want to know what we've got for a
Workforce and how they can navigate that spectrum of Workforce training providers executive success program that was the last class so uh we phased out executive success program and the pen Network this Fisco year uh as we were asked to remain
flat for the year in terms of of funding uh and as we're waiting for the ernston young uh strategy and rolling out some of those new recommendations making room for for that uh Smart Start continues to do
great uh I think the the location here in D city with the food incubator seems to still be one of the most popular ones but I think uh the U holiday location is quickly coming up uh as being also as popular because we've got the maker
space there the CNC machines 3D printers things like that and we hosted our very first rapid prototyping boot camp for inventors uh so they can go out and make their invention make a prototype and then they get access to that facility uh
to use and train on the Machinery we expect to see more and more of that and that's U that's not limited to just people on the West Side that's countywide you can actually use that program and then uh events with Smart Start 983 participants throughout the
year that's almost a thousand people in incubators and startups that are looking uh to grow their very small business a lot of people think that we just work with those big companies that do the groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings there's a thousand participants right there of those small companies that
still need handholding and they need us to uh to work with them uh to grow their Market here there's nothing better than showing that you're helping your existing business and your startups especially when we're recruiting other companies of how we take care of our existing business it's the best
testimonial that we have there's the team and uh if you like i' go right into q1 so that uh okay can we get to okay sorry guys have you jumping through hoops
today well that while that's coming up Bill when you mentioned the incum for food um Regency Park library's got a nice little setup there it might be good for them if they want to do an event to they could actually go up there and do it too yeah yeah so we've used uh some of the incubator members I think uh we
had the event at um uh sun west last year we had some uh one of them catered the event we've also had a pitch competition at uh St Leo where one of the um uh incubator members won the pitch contest and now they actually have a bricks and water facility within the
wellness center um it's one of my favorite programs out there of course I like to eat and I like the food that they turn out but uh it is something that is Deep In Our Roots in terms of Agriculture and food in the community too so it's nice to continue to work in that area yeah they they did a great job
of this callest you had two actually two vendors cuz one could make it one of the nights but they were phenomenal every step of the way the food was delicious people loved it and good news is advent Health has already said they're going to sponsor it again so we've already we got a dates coming up so we're going to look forward to having again we'll get the
word out so uh q1 again we had another ribbon cutting groundbreaking this case it was a ribbon cutting Gary line you might remember the uh company came last year well they're open and they're haven't added I mean they've got so many employees out there over uh 400 remember
this had a uh uh uh a career day or a hiring day and they had them lined up around the block and this is the almost the most Northwest portion of our County to be able to show that much Workforce in that area really sent a powerful message to people that we we've got a
skilled Workforce that is here and ready and they don't want to drive down to Tampa and St Petersburg every day to work so Bill how far ahead at the schedule were they filling up all the jobs we're going to go get oh um they ended up it it came so fast that they needed to bring in extra people just to
get through the applications they really didn't anticipate they were going to fill them that quick we were way ahead of schedule in that um and they were they're very surprised in the process too so um yeah speed to Market is important for these companies when they're coming in so everything from you
how how quickly we get the ground ready permitting but hiring training all of that because up until then they're not making any money so the all of these things are important that's where we all come together as a as a team uh so far this quarter five wins already if you
look at the jobs and the capital investment numbers they seem pretty anemic and let me tell you that of those five two of them we haven't reported the jobs numbers and the the capital investment so next quarter you're going to see that we got a commitment from
both of those winds already to expand and we're negotiating and probably without incentives going to be able to get those to expand even further one of those two wins I'll give you a little foreshadowing is a company that we know from Brazil that uh had originally
committed to 400,000 square feet building we've got them at a million square feet now um so with a million square feet I don't know if there's media in the room still um million square feet we know there's going to be a lot more jobs coming to the community
uh and capital investment that comes along with that but first and foremost will be that that footprint so 400,000 to a million uh and that's just in this last year that we've worked with them that they've said yeah we want to do more in Pasco we love you guys and we
want to continue to see that grow so stay tuned a little foreshadowing there uh still heavy in in Advanced manufacturing Life Sciences um high-tech still up there and you see a good cross cross pollination between high tech and some of these
other uh Industries they're kind of like peanut butter and jelly high-tech and Life Sciences now if you've been to the hospital as a doctor lately um you see all the tech that's involved with that well that means that there's jobs involved that you don't have to be a doctor but you can still be in life
sciences that's really good for our community and our Career and Technical education uh programs uh already making referrals out to training programs and visiting companies like I said uh as far as last quarter 21 already this quarter and then um I don't know if you recall
but I just showed you the um earned media value for last year it was 2.5 million for the entire year first quarter of this year we're already over $3 million and one of the reasons is one of our companies who started in our
incubator started in our food incubator Y lasses and has the uh I'm giving them a commercial they've got bricks and mortar right across the street here um they were picked up by MSN and uh it got all over Nation Nation Nationwide news
and uh over $3 million worth of hits really drove that up um with their extension um and the fact that uh she's a US Marine veteran as well too so go buy some some uh shortbread and show
show some love we we really like to see those companies grow and expand and she's exporting now too internationally um still top Landing sites California uh Georgia New York Virginia same same locations that tells
you they're still not taking care of those bu their business in some of those States and we're still getting uh uh the same growth and followers on regular social media too already attended 21 events uh this past p uh first quarter attended three conferences and seminars
but made eight presentations to Industry groups and usually most of those groups are anywhere from 50 to a couple hundred people uh talking about Pasco and doing business in Pasco we're up to 101 investors so just as a couple minutes ago I was what 97 now we're up to 101 if
I stand here long enough I guess it'll just keep keep growing but 101 new uh or investors that help on the private sector side for Pasco ADC um some of the new ones include JP Morgan uh Bank of Central Florida Thirsty Buffalo Brewing
you might remember one of our former employes uh started a u business and came back as an investor so we don't mind when we have alumni that that grow uh their own business and Goodwin Mills and then for the uh here's a
picture of the uh uh food vendor fair that uh we have each year at the uh incubator here in in Dade City in Tommy town and bedo uh company that I may have just referred to won the uh deal of the
year for the crew excellence awards and that was in Zephyr Hills our uh Amazon robotics facility on 52 also broke ground uh this this first quarter and we continue to get inquiries and advanced manufacturing for these other sites so
five site inquiries already five responses to rfps uh three presentations to Consultants no visits yet but I know that's going to that's going to change now that U holidays are over and people are back in the swing of things uh promoted Pasco
County at the Japanese uh SC us Japan event in Charlotte North Carolina uh also attended the governor's trade Mission uh to Italy which uh this was something that was barely last minute you might recall um several people from all over the state but Tampa Bay very
well represented and we got some uh decent leads out of there as well too so Florida showed strong uh lot of lot of similarities between uh Italy and Florida these days in terms of the style of government we're both peninsulas so
they both have yachts and fast cars so there's uh they both like food there's a lot of lot of great things in common um I would say watch Italy uh as far as the EU goes as far as being a really strong potential partner for Florida and eventually for Pasco too uh next trade
Mission February 24th to the 27th is Mexico City and that will be in conjunction with select USA and the global Tampa Bay uh Alliance that will be bringing companies down uh from The Three Counties from Pasco pelis and Hillsboro and that's just in a couple
weeks and that actually anytime we have new flights coming from the airport going into the airport new trade Lanes we try to follow that up with a trade mission to show those uh airlines that it's not just tourist traffic it's also business traffic and this is uh this was
planned as part of that new announcement of direct flights from Tampa into Mexico City uh seven counseling sessions already this quarter three trade related events and then that trade mission that I mentioned will uh will be the one for
the the year on that slide enhanced marketing uh launch the double Branch super Park ready sight video so any of the ready sites you know we do a digital marketing and that's videos uh do Publications in different languages um encourage you to take a look at that
that video it's probably one of the best ones that we've done thus far and it's it's kind of energizing too when you when you watch it and see uh all the things that we're advertising all the assets that we have locally here for companies that come and invest in Pasco
County and then Workforce connect uh bis blast we we had our our p 50 but we also had bis blast that's when we go out and uh instead of waiting for them to come to us we go out to the the companies we set up something in the community
usually industrial park where people can come at their Leisure uh and or their lunch break and talk about uh Workforce and the programs that are available for Workforce training and then Smart Start continues to uh to do well our three incubators uh
and the staff uh have been recognized ized in the Tampa Bay business journals Innovation award in the entrepreneurial support category they got an award this year from tbbj and uh already 291 event
participants uh just in this first quarter 46 events uh from our Smart Start incubators and uh again there's the team um couldn't do it without them they're the ones doing the the work I'm just here presenting to you today and I'll stop there and see if yall have any
question questions questions commiss wman Hey sir so you mentioned tangible taxes um obviously that's what said the state level but has there any been whenever folks are looking at coming here for business large and small has ever been
in any conversation around tangible taxes is probably not something that we think about ordinarily in the impact to their bottom line um I'm personally not a fan of tangible taxes right but has there been any conversation any of your
prospects or business dealings surrounding taxes there has and uh at the state level as well too so depending and you've seen some efforts in different Industries where they've made some exceptions like for R&D and Manufacturing things like that so uh
there's recognition at the state level that's it's there um for years anytime we look to see reduction in some of those and the same happened back with uh rents on leased buildings you remember we're we're one of the only states that
was charging uh tax on rent and when we look at that from a competitiveness standpoint it used to be that the state would come back and say well you know we don't charge personal income tax here we've got to charge tax somewhere else last few years I've seen that attitude
change quite a bit where I think we're starting to see some changes in um that position that we're pretty healthy overall and I think there is an opportunity for us to continue to Wht away at some of that so how how do we do that do we allow key
business to go up to North Florida and and discuss it like who's going to walk out there on a limb and yeah so I think I think that's where your your industry associations your Florida chamber um those types of groups that have uh
lobbyist ability to do true lobbying we're a C3 we can educate and Advocate which we do um c6s can get out and do some true lobbying for it I think lots of times there's so much going on here that they just have to pick pick what their priority is and uh usually there's
more than one priority for each legislative session so making sure that uh it's in those top one two or three for an organization sometimes is hard because there's so many things going on here but that's that's who I see as being uh the groups and manufacturers
Association would be one as well too I'd just be curious to see the impact to say somebody like a whomever pick one who you think that might be the most impacted by and and see if they might be willing to share that information or have a discussion in uh maybe breakout
session or something during the EDC or just oneon-one but um just find tangible taxes to be an interesting tax so thank you Bill no I think that would help us become more competitive that's for sure M rookley yeah I bill looks like you've
had a great year and uh kind of busting at the seams which the whole county is with all the development and everything we've got but you know we've got I just heard here recently that we've had over 160 muds in the pipeline and so we're
going looking for a bigger and better push in this year too because a lot of things are coming forward and along that comes a lot of good business good jobs for people in pasc good County where our citizens can live here play here and also work here close to home and that's
what we want to get to be so we're so CL I think we are our Premier County because we offer an awful lot that we used to not offer and jobs was one of those so we' brought that up to the Forefront and I I think you'll see contined growth on that thanks
commissioner I think it's it's really important for us to continue to focus on the job piece of those muts yeah a lot of people are seeing the growth around here and I think some are are panicked about uh uh the residential growth but once the employment center C piece of those MPS fills in and people aren't
having to get on the road and drive to for their jobs that congestion will change and we want to keep that local I mean there's no sense that we should House people here and have the job somewhere else right we can't change a whole lot about some of those developments but we can sure make them look like they should look and we can
architecturally and uh with landcape and those issues we can make that look like we want it to be and especially in East Pasco Count's got more growth than probably other areas right now in this County um we need to make it look like we want it to look and we're very ryal
and we want to keep that atmosphere out there too y so thank you m oh you guys are doing a great job it's so exciting to hear all the projects and you know everybody um interested in our County and um we're one of the fortunate
counties that we still have land so it's important you know I feel that you know we're not giving away our land that we really do the research before we you know who we have come in our community so and what that looks like but thank you for all you do oh thank you
commissioner we do brag about our Green Space as well too and for a lot of companies that that makes a big difference 84,000 Acres of protected Green Space is a pretty big deal um especially in a state that doesn't have that um we're one of the few places that
has people and land and we take care of both well I like to say you're doing a phenomenal job as always I want to tell you about a couple of opportunities coming up um recently met with a container homes company that's thinking about where they wanted to locate
happens to be a local person so I told them about the Hudson Industrial Park very interested in doing that because he a lot of a coastal impact that'll be there that he wants to kind of do it along that way um we're going to try to have some meeting coming up I think you might already been noticed on it another one coming up uh company called Energy
Tech uh they're expanding commuter uh commercial launch of this sixth generation Vin sodium ion battery uh could be a huge thing for the nation um especially with trying to relay or you know get off the China supply all the way through new technology that's out
our six Generations was not that new but uh up and coming that I think it's I want to definitely get your involvement so we get some State help uh to bring this one in you can count on it and thank you again you guys you're you're some of the best extensions of of our team and uh and we don't have to pay you
you know I think uh you end up to be some of our best economic developers as as a commission but and of course our partners at the county too and one one suggestion I got for next year I know you can't do it now but uh on netfest I know it's coming up pretty soon it's going to be a big event uh yeah you
happen to run it the same week as Chasco if you could maybe take a look next year and and try to avoid that it's on a Thursday which is not a bad night but uh there is a golf tournament going on which I'm I'll help and run but I'm going to do both but just it's going to be a little bit tight for me to get know we tried to do it a little earlier so it
wouldn't be so hot um but yeah we'll take a look at that and maybe we can arrange for some uh back and forth between the two events as well we actually still could buy your cowboy hats and Boots now all right thank you again for all you do and your support thanks for the great work you're doing appreciate you
all right take care thanks and your team okay so now we'll go to committee reports uh commissioner Oakley oh I have a few um had the opportunity to visit with the Advent Health this week they uh had a
ribbon cutting on the new cath lab did we have some pictures or not maybe not if not oh there you go yep and that's in Zephyr Hills and Advent Health in Zephyr Hills so yep very new new very
new equipment and uh to get the job done so also I had um the ple speaking at the first first prian church in Dade City uh just gave them an outline what's going on in in East Pasco County based on the
flooding that we've had and and a lot of the issues from this flooding so a lot of people think the flooding just started recently because we had more than a I heard somebody say this morning one in 200 year flood we actually had a one in 500 year flood
um and it always floods when we have those kind of events here first time in my life during these floods that I saw the river actually come up to 301 and underneath 301 going to the west and
that hadn't I've never seen that in my lifetime I've been here the entire 79 years so it's uh those things that happened then went on to the opportunity to go to the governor's lunching and uh there at the state fairer last Thursday
and got to see uh my friend Wilton Simpson and uh others and uh Mr Moffett was named the uh citizen of the year in the Tampa Bay area and it was welld deserved so a lot of people there I see
that uh some of them from D City that lived in Tampa for years but they like uh Tommy touchon that they just did the new uh park down here at coming in the south out of D City the new park he
dedicated to his uh mother and uh for many years ago but that's that's a new design on that Park very well welcome um then we had U Pasco County Fire Services there we go
more and more new firemen coming into Pasco County and the um the dshift is on its way so we're we're uh we're getting a lot of uh it's it's a total change within the last two to three years of our support
with the firefighters and all that how we've changed people are wanting to come to Pasco County instead of being run off before two years ago we lost in public safety we lost like I think
72 um employees and this past year we only lost two so it's a big change and I I don't know what that number will be this year but it's I Haden heard that number yet but we've got a lot of Good Farming I know uh in that graduating
classes this week there were some EMS and firefighters actually were coming from Plant City back into Pasco County and they actually live in Pasco County already so was just great to see that uh had the opportunity to participate in
the Employee Appreciation day yesterday well I could tell you some secrets about that but probably I probably not need to talk about it but there was three men there from our
staff that I'm not going to say what I said to them yesterday that wouldn't go over good but we had three Davids picking up trash so but they did a great job and stayed up with it uh it's like the Three Musketeers David Allen David
Engel and and David G Team all working together and made a great team out there but all the staff and everybody that helped we certainly had a I think everybody had a great time especially in the what do you call that the puffball
or something what is that ball that everybody's in uh cabala took a hit and went on the floor and well he never made the floor cuz he's got this huge ball thing around him so but it was lot of fun watching that and seeing
different ones to it um but just a great day and I think everybody really enjoyed it that's two years in a row at that park it I don't know why but that Park seems to allow us to be able to do that with you know feeding anywhere from uh
2500 to 3,000 people and I think they told me at one time they made to take out to different firemen and I they took out uh over 700 dinners to feed the fireman others that had to be working at the same time we had appreciation day so
we surely thank everybody that took part in a great thing for Pasco County and this is the kind of thing that continues to make us Premier thank you it oh sorry
I'll get my pictures ready to go very respectful and patient I appreciate that oh slightly humorous yes uh so good stuff yesterday Mike and and Team U enjoyed being the SLO man
with uh commissioner jger watching my six as SLO the SLO lady SLO woman um that enjoyed seeing all the happy faces commiss Oakley's right I mean Chapel District park works out fantastic great
offerings for all the employees to do all the different activities throughout the day I don't know if you have a headcount but it seemed like there was more participation this year than last year um just just beautiful weather a chamber of commerce day uh some more good news so Pasco count I don't know if
Keith here thought I saw him maybe earlier but Pasco County um we're going to be hosting the 2026 Dixie s ball World Series at starky Park which is pretty cool and um you know as that
event draws draws near want to make sure that it's a a fantastic experience the um Chris Nelson from the West Pasco girls fast pitch softball Association put at a bid and we won and so there's going to be um 18 teams from nine
different states coming to the starky ranch District Park softball fields and and as we know you know we we're trying to balance the needs for fields and field space and softball if softball keeps growing it might be uh something we need to take a look at
especially if we're starting the sports Coast brand takes off and we're starting to capture more you know notoriety and folks coming into the state from from out of state and uh so 18 teams from nine different states and also include four teams from Florida which is pretty
cool and so that'll take place uh July 17th through 22nd and um so as that draws near for 2026 um you know hopefully we'll get some good pictures and notoriety out of that uh the last thing just to put on
everybody's radar I don't know if goldstein's here but if I'm not sure you saw email but we have another live local act application quite frustrating uh going into an existing luxury apartment complex that sits directly uh West off Oakley Boulevard behind the
Grove um it's a it's a really nice complex as it stands today and it's a Canadian based company and uh they're looking to see to file their exemptions we'll see what the housing court from up and Tallahassee says and uh we'll take
it from there but um you know the live local act uh isn't going away it seems and there's definitely holes in the program and uh significant unintended consequences especially for Pasco County
and so since we're in the legislative session we have another real life example for our lobbyist to use and um you know maybe we get our delegation or somebody from up there to come look look at the complexes that are applying uh you know obviously they're going to want
to come in and Target Wesley Chapel uh which has seemed to have been Ground Zero um you know it's the highest producing tax revenue District of the county commissions and I think they're just trying to find a way to gain the system so anyway just wanted to give an
update there if I comment to that sure far away so and I say this wrong but on a land use decision we have all the flexibility we want in making a decision to for Denial on anything correct in the comprehensive plan you
have legislative you have legislative discretion when you get to quasi judicial you have much less discretion right so that mean a zoning yes the zoning so I'm going I'm going to say I think we need to just at this point until we get this whole thing resolved
from here on through we should put a hard stop on any Apartments coming in on land use decisions because you could get stuck some other the time down the road and just kind of let's send a message out there so we do have flexibility we can't do in zoning but we're going to do a land use so at least consider that and
if we want to decide to go further with it then so be it but I think it's something we can do and we probably should send a message out there we don't want to see this live local stuff I think it's clear that we say no to the live local we've got it what
we're seeing now is existing complexes what's it a fiveyear role or three-year role from when they had their Co essentially um I don't know how we deter that I
mean well if you put a stop I mean if we so moving forward like what would be that line because you have projects in Q well you continue to opt out every year and then while they can apply if they if they are outside the
target area if if you've opted out of live local then it's not discretionary for the property appraiser to give them the tax break and I can let David fill in the
details for you but but but the first year we had issues because they didn't give us the ability to opt out we're now into it into the next year that when we had the when they modified the
legislation the second term we can now pass those resolutions which the board has done but how do we do that to existing builds so the opt out applies to existing builds too so when we opted out
out so the particular apartment complex you're referencing the property appraiser intends to inform them that we've opted out and that the school board has opted out so as long as we can continue to opt out we should be generally safe on the tax side we're not
safe on the land use side but on the tax side we're as long as that shimberg report still continues to show that we have a surplus and the Tampa Bay MSA which the last two years has showed that we have a surplus in fact we have an item coming com to you on the next agenda where we're going to opt out again this
year because we still have a surplus so as long as we continue to have a surplus in that 80 to 120% of Ami range we can continue to opt out the other thing I want to add is on new land use approvals new imputes um anything that has multif
family entitlements we make them wave the right to seek that tax tax exemption so to what commissioner Mariano's comments if the board goes that route and there's not
inventory than what's our vulnerability in 12 to 24 months is that like I'm not sure I mean I'm not sure that's going to necessarily help you because you need to keep up your inventory the fact that we have a
surplus is what allows us to opt out so if you stop allowing it completely at some point you may lose your Surplus and then you won't be able to opt out so I'm not my personal opinion is I don't think it's a good idea to
necessarily say we're going to stop all multifam because you at least the way the legislature has structed structured it you need to still have a surplus in Tampa Bay MSA to be able to opt out so then industry would probably pivot and attack our industrial more commercial
Zone properties use the land use piece I mean yeah I also tell you Ralph L just sent me there's a proposed bill this session that's even worse in my opinion because it it allows existing office and hotels to convert to multif Family
Apartments and get tax breaks and be exempt from zoning land use this thing just keeps evolving to a bigger pile of crap I I don't disagree with you when when Ralph sent me this proposed Bill I said this is even worse than live local because this means that you could have
approved a project for office or light industrial or hotel assume that's what you're getting they create jobs create tourism all the things that we want and then a year later they convert to apartments and there's nothing we can do
about it this is so the new bills live local on steroids yes in a more negative way so the legislators potentially passed some of the worst piece of legislation in a very long time out of there now they're doubling down and filing something
that's even they call it something nice they call it adaptive reuse which makes it sound like it's some great thing but really it's being able to convert Office Buildings hotels to multif family residential Apartments even and these could be
hotels and Office Buildings that we gave a break on Mobility fees to because they were hotels and Office Buildings or maybe we gave them tax incentive because they were Office Buildings and then they turn around and convert to Apartments I don't know if that bill is
going anywhere I don't know if Ralph is here to speak to it but but but I mean all the stuff that Mr Cronin works on to get all these winds with office and light industrial could just well it's concerning you hear this Ford we want
good quality hotels we want to go from C Level to b and a level hotels commission Mar AO advocates for it all the time and it just this is just it's Troublesome and as you say Wesley Chapel is the highest district going on when
for instance Advent Health uh go ger built a hockey rink out there that came in that brought in all sorts of hotels all of a sudden we get stays up here that enabl us to go build the W Sports campus brought even more so they the money that it generates is phenomenal right here rather than going somewhere
else I I think we did a great job with hiring three lobbyists one one especially close with the governor and maybe we need to go when we go up there uh set a meeting up with the governor's office to try to find out where he is at in the bill because if he's against it we know it's going to well it may not
even stop because they may have a super majority me the bed taxes are incredibly important to the legislature right let's let's not hurt the bed tax opportun the opportunities that the B bed tax provides every
County I just wanted to follow up layer intergovermental Affairs officer um from what um David Goldstein said house Bell 409 adaptive reuse of land that just was filed they're in the house it does not have a senate companion bill at this
time we continue to follow that bill and see where it goes as for the live local bill that passed a couple years ago Senator pasido has made the statement in an article that she will revisit the issue since
there's been so much negativity coming from local governments uh regarding that legislation so we stand poised to sit down and talk with her I've created a a a a onepage discussion point
that we can share with our delegation as well as her if she wishes to engage uh that conversation with us uh and we will continue to do um your wishes as we move forward in in this legislative session who filed the
bill uh Caruso representative Caruso from where pardon me where's he from um he's on the east coast of the county I will say during the uh special um session he had a um he
butted heads with the speaker who then I believe stripped him of his chairmanship in his office so I don't know if his bill will move at all this it's just interesting say I don't know it's a republican member I I heard everything I needed my
question okay do you think there's a chance R for a permanent out opt out provision that you could put in there I don't know if they'll if they'll address that issue I mean I think you're seeing more and more local governments following us and and seeking the uh opt
out with the tax exemption uh and have been uh very appreciative that we were able to get that in um you know previously in the previous session so that's good to see that our local other local governments besides Pasco County does see that it has a negative impact
on them and uh you know they're they're doing the same thing is opting out of the tax exemption what we're trying to address hoping moving forward is either permanent uh and also address the land use issue I think if you could get the permanent and I and I hopefully with the
lobbyists we've hired in our delegation if we get that out there that would solve the we have to worry about from year to year to year and we can actually plan properly for what we're going to go do it would make a lot easier for everybody this is just my opinion I think the reason why they they don't want to make it permanent I think they
want you to prove that you do have um enough uh product in your community to to receive that so they want to make sure you have a surplus um that's just my opinion but that's what we will work toward is trying to get a permanent
solution thank you on the tax exemption M wa thank you chair Ralph so essentially this the bill and Florida legislature is forcing local governments to build multif family housing stock rental stock so say an incorporated city or
county you know they they want to prioritize levels of home ownership over rental this if you want to I mean it's going to be a full-time job for somebody in or a job for for somebody I mean Mike
we're going to have to keep up with rental stock potentially and then be very deliberate on where when you know to commiss Mar's point where and when multif family product is approved that way we're not in violation but it doesn't it doesn't stop the the the
spread of the multif family product it doesn't allow proper planning to put the multif family product in maybe a particular area that we want to see it in I mean if we we end up segregating certain parts of the county and say only multif family here and you just have whatever County just loaded with all the
multif family product hey it's going to have a bad look it's just a mess it completely handcuffs the planning operation for every Council and board in the state so
I think that's an important piece that we really need to discuss with them um the other thing I would add to that is that our real deficit on the rental side is below 50% of Ami we just got a report done I just got it LLY today we don't have much of a when you
get into the even above 50% 80 120 we don't have a serious deficit of rental housing in that income range so part of the problem with with local is it just misses the Mark I mean our need we have a need for rental but it's below 50% of
Ami and then we have a need un owner occupied we actually have a this report shows that we have a deficit of owner occupied affordable housing but live local doesn't tackle that at all doesn't do anything to help owner occupied affordable housing so I think you're
right commissioner weitman that our bigger problem in Pasco County is probably affordable owner occupied homes but Li local is not addressing that it's only looking at the rental even the opt out is only looking at rental it's not looking at owner occupied
and so it's not that we don't have an affordable housing need in Pasco we do but Li local is not targeting what we actually have a deficit of and I'm happy to explain that to anybody no listen Comm yeah I just want
to add something to it because we've approved quite a bit of multif family coming in my district out around curly Road and P2 there's if you think about the numbers of some of those apartment complexes that are coming in we're going to have an overabundance Apartments
coming especially in that area that comes in with Bop so we'll be seeing that for a while yeah I don't I don't I mean I don't I'm not predicting we will have a serious shortage of the yeah I upper income
apartment units in Pasco but we are going to continue to have a deficit in the lower income when I say lower income I mean below 50% of Ami so that's where we have a true need throughout the county not just in any particular but what you're going to see is what they're
approved as they going to go file who they file with HUD uh they're going to file for the exemption a year or two down down the road like you're starting to see the trend of existing luxury apartment complexes
without estate owners or investment firms filing for the exemption and say Commission Oakley's point is they come on with connected City because currently the plan the only title that are left or what multif family I mean the the
vulnerability is great in what's potentially approved and so we approve it for one thing to day and then 12 or 24 months later you know the exemptions are are are there so and it's going to be the same
thing in Bop or wherever else in the county it's going to be a game it a game that they're playing I agree with you and I I guess if we were getting true affordable so what the legislature did not remove is the opt out for or the tax exemption for below 80%
of Ami that was you can't opt out of that currently however we don't have a single apartment Builder that's actually seeking it because they won't build below 80% of Ami they they they probably because they're at that point they're starting
to lose money without some some some kind of subsidy so you're right that the only people that are really seeking the tax exemption or playing this game are the ones that are charging market rate rents anyway so that's why they're not meeting our
need I'll say later on my committee reports after we get done today I'm going to actually bring up a project that I think could actually go after the low Mii Ami for not only rental but for ownership right along the coast and be a lot safer and hurricane resistant
another question is um if they opt out when they're first coming in to build their development for multif family within the next five years they can't opt back into that if if they are subject to one of our newer approvals they have a condition this is they can never opt for
that tax exemption okay but that's only the projects we've approved since live local that have that I mean if it's a project that was approved prior to live local we had no idea that tax break was ever going to occur and the three that actually sought the tax break were all happened we approved
those well before Li local ever existed and then they built their project they've been up and running sometime in the last 5 years and then they sought the tax exemption now fortunately the first two were denied by the property appraiser that was good and then the third one the
property appraiser basically going to tell them we opted out so don't even bother pursuing this the only reason there's a minor technicality which is that each taxing Authority has to opt out so we opted out the school board opted out we're not
positive the mosquito control opted out or not even though they have a very small amount of the tax bill in theory they could seek the tax exemption for just the mosquito control taxes but I'm not even sure that's worth doing or I guess it's mosquito control and Swift Mud may not have opted out but as a
county and for all our citizens we do need to look at affordable housing and afford aable Apartments when we can I think in my opinion based on the report I just saw if you have a project that's below 50 60% of Ami that's something
that we do have a shortage of and that you probably should be encouraging right in addition when you get to home prices owner occupied that are below 300,000 that's something that we have a shortage of that you should be encouraging because we don't a lot of the single family that we're approving
now has no restrictions on price or affordability and so it's we probably have a surplus of housing single family housing that's higher priced and a deficit of what's lower price right
okay all right it's noon time so we'll take break for lunch we'll back at 1:30 okay thanks sir e e e Part: 2
oh he all Mission meeting of February 11th please silence electronic electronic devices and mutr phones uh for the public hearings first we have item p31 as a proposed ordinance and we have a
continuance requested s we have proov of publication of the hearing of this item in the January 15 22nd 29th and February 5th 2025 editions of the ampa Bay times thank
you thank you Mr chairman nario PTO Planning Development economic growth item p31 is pte 2577 this is an or ordinance establishing the KD 52 Community Development District number one however
this is recommended to be a continuance uh to the February 25 2025 Board of County Commissioners meeting in new Richie at 1:30 p.m. we have a motion move can you second all in favor say I I I many
opposed motion passes p32 do we have proof have publication temp B times January 15th 22nd 29th and February 5th 2025 thank you Terry item p32 is PD
2581 this is an ordinance established in KD 52 Community Development District number two pursuing to chapter 190 of FL of statutes however this is uh requested for a Contin to the February 25 2025 Board of County Commissioners meeting in Newport Richie
at 1:30 p.m. move continu second all in favor say I I any opposed okay and now we'll proceed with the public hearings will the County Attorney please read the procedures for resoning be happy to Mr chairman there are two resoning agendas regular in consent the 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 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 resoning 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 please limit your comments to those criteria for resoning found within the board's Land Development code Mr clerk would you like to swear folks in who would like to testify yes sir if
anyone is present that wishes to speak to these uh resoning items either for or against if you please stand at this time again if it is your intention to speak for or against any resoning item to be heard please stand raise your right hand
do you and each of you swear confirm the testimony you will given in these matters is the truth so have you got thank you when you come to the podium please give your name and address and acknowledge that you were sworn thank you today we have two public hearings on
the consent agenda and for the continuances we'll start with p33 continuance we proof yes we have proof of publication and the August 21st 2024 and October 27th 2024 editions of the Tampa debate times for the October 8th
meeting which was cancelled due to Hurricane buildon the item did not appear on the October 22nd meeting but appeared on the November 12th meeting of the board of County Commissioners where it was continued to today item p33 is PD
27738 this is a zoning amendment in the name of Evans county line 80 mpud master plan unit development by Evans Properties Incorporated this is requested for a continuance to the March 11 2025 Board of County Commissioners meeting here in D City at 1:30 p.m. may
have a motion to continue p33 I second move second uh all in favor say I I any opposed next p p34 m Mr clerk we approve we approved publication of the hearing
of this matter in the January 1st 2025 edition of the Tampa Bay Times item p34 is PD 27834 this is a zoning Amendment to the name of harvest Hills West vop mpud by
gelvin Land Services this is requested for a continuance to the March 11 2025 border of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. here in D City may have a motion to continue p34 so move second all in favor say I I any oppos
item P35 we have approved we have approved for publication again January 1st 2025 edition of the Tampa Bay Times there item P35 is PD 27842 this is a zoning amendment in the
name of cologne vop mpud by galin Land Services this is requested for a continuance to the March 11 2025 fora County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in date City continuous second all in favor say I I I I any
oppos item P36 Mr Clark 36 originally published in the October 23rd 2024 edition of the Tampa Bay Times and was continued to from the January 20 uh January 14th
2025 board County Commissioners meeting where it was continued to today s i 36 is PD 27651 this is a zoning amendment in the name of tall timers mpud by Extreme Team 41 LLC this is requested for a
continuance to the March 11 2025 border of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in dat City move continues second all in favor say I any opposed thank you next item 37 we have
proof proof of publication December 25th 2024 of the Tamp Bay Time supplemented by affidavit is certified mailings and site postings okay item p p37 is pd25 cu7 this is a conditional use amendment
in the name of DV Dade LLC disovery mood and anxiety it's a conditional use amendment to increase the number of beds from 24 to 40 in an existing residential treatment and Care Facility in the ar1 agricultural residential district which is in East Central Pasco County on the
northwest corner of the intersection of Clinton Avenue and windsorwood Boulevard containing approximately 9.37 Acres this comes to you with the recommendation to approve the conditional use request from the Planning Commission and the Planning Development and economic growth Department okay is there anyone here to
speak against this item seeing none leave it on consent P38 do we have proof proof publication T A times December 25th 2024 okay item P3 is pde
2582 this is a development agreement Hamilton Oaks mpud master plan unit development amh Development LLC proposes a development agreement for Hamilton Oaks uh mpud this comes here with a recommendation to approve the
development agreement from the uh villages of passing V Hills planning and policy committee and the Planning Development economic growth Department okay is there anyone here to speak against this item Mr chairman on
p37 actually there was um I believe the applicant is the only person signed up for p37 yeah he's not speak I'm sure want to oppose this I don't think so but are sure the applicant uh no I'm not I'm
saying I believe it to be because of the organization involved but okay I I would like them to confirm that the online that they are the applicant and they are just monitoring uh so this would be Nick
glin you are here okay I'm shown you being online you you're not speaking on opposition thank you okay okay we have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second all in favor say I any
opposed P39 approve we have proof of publication Tampa B times January 8th January 15th editions of 2025 good afternoon Joanne Rita real property division the real property team
has received a petition to vacate a portion of three platted rights of Way by 13 State Properties the purpose of the vacation is to consolidate the petitioner surrounding properties for development there were no objections to this petition and the team recommends
approval okay does the applicant wish to speak this item okay this is a public hearing do we have anyone in person or WebEx to sign up for this item none online all right is anyone here in person here to speak to this item okay we'll conclude public comment
do we have a motion for P39 so move second all in favor say I I I any opposed okay that includes the public comment portion of the meeting going to go back to committee reports than commissioner
Yer okay well we had a lot going on in District 4 so I I chose I chose a few so this might be my favorite um I was asked to read to the students at the Early Learning Coalition and um my husband always says kids five and under are my
are my best friends so I had a great time doing that all right next slide I was invited to the African-American Club of Pasco so I attended that last Saturday and they're trying to do some uh great things with
their youth and also trying to get um a house a um historical um marker so that was that was a great group next one and I was also at the uh pinning for the
firefighters they had 18 graduates so I always love going to those and then next slide I was at the ribbon cutting for Fifth Third Bank in loots so they are going to be great Community Partners in the Sunlake area and also they gave a
check to amskills for $10,000 which was great very exciting for the program and then last was I just wanted to give a shout out for team appreciation day that is not a great picture paa um and that was uh as commissioner waitman said he
was behind me we were we were throw in law so it was a great day played some pickle ball and um just thankful to our our great County workers our staff so that's it okay let's go to County Administrator
all right thank you I guess too I would like to just to add on that team appreciation day was a re resounding success and uh again I appreciate um everyone coming out and supporting our our team members and and appreciating the work that they do um just as a reminder for the board I know we had a
lot of public comment regarding flooding on February 18th we will be having a workshop the subject of that Workshop will be storm water uh flooding and we set that up as a as a result of the aftermath of the Hurricanes uh to educate and to learn more about what can be done from a policy perspective as it
relates as it relates to uh those those issues here in Pasco County uh that'll be advertised to the normal to the normal channels um and uh as I was talking with Mr Cronin one of the things that we we forgot to mention was that we are going to celebrate international
trade and tourism day on February 20th uh that's at 4:30 p.m. at the starky market in Trinity uh it's a great opportunity for tourism and trade Partners to come together and again there'll be um $15 per person it's a
it's a wonderful cause and event some of that money that gets raised actually helps to fund uh The Exchange programs that we've done with our trade folks we've done folks with animal services and utilities that have gone over to Germany and vice versa and those those those missions happen so that's one form
by which that that's all sir all right and I'll say um my the my Newport Richie rotary is a big player in that commissioner Stark I think is going to make a donation from a campaign to make sure it happens so if there is a shortfall of funds hopefully they'll step up and keep this program going to
uh keep our relationships cross across the across the pond yes love all right thank you uh County Mr County attorney uh Mr chairman uh one of I know your most favorite things to do um I
need an appointment to the canvasing board my understanding is that commissioner waitman has agreed to do that is that correct and so he's not in the affirmative um I need a letter signed by
the chairman that not that appoints commissioner waitman as the board's canvasing board representative and Greg Giordano as the alternate so motion to authorize the chair to sign such a
letter I'll move the motion then I have a question before we vote I'll second it okay have motion second question what is this this coming year or two years municipals for this year2 municip okay I'm good then that's I was
wondering if it was the next year right year oh okay all right so it would it would only be for the Municipal elections right I did my certification so we'll make good use of the time spent okay on that certification so you can
you can determine signature verification now that's I'm going to make good use of that certification class okay and Frank I always thought you were certifiable but I'm certifiable throw the same bu right
all in favor say I hios all thank you um this morning speaker on bmar Acres uh just for the board's clarification this is not a tax issue this is a storm water utility assessment
that bmah is experiencing on their golf course they have for a number of years um and um we dealt with the B Mar Acres
lawyers about five years ago and thought the issue was put to bed um our position is still that they are owed the assessment um that they owe us the assessment um
because it is a 403 chapter 403 uh storm waterer utility not a tax U not a general special assessment um but that's you know that our position
has been that for some time they have spoken to both they have spoken to to the previous lawyer that was involved in that position and Miss wolf Graham who is the current lawyer in that position um I'm not sure that there's
anything that we can resolve with them but let me ask a question mhm we like golf courses and we've designed a lot of them to take us rainwater storm water and reclaim water why would we tax them for storm
water utility if they're actually part of the solution for storm water because they're it's not good question yeah good question um I'm not I was not here when the storm
water utility was developed that is something clearly we can we can review with um the infrastructure branch and see what whether there whether that's an exemption we could we should think about
um was dealing with the facts as I we're just giv them so I get it I think we should take a look at that because I think if I'm going to have a golf course it's going to take storm water like I want them to like Seven Springs Timber Oaks used to um it's a benefit to us and we're really trying to
tax the ones that don't and all the people around at the erus with they more condense they're paying their eru so I think I think it's something that she'll take a look at and bring back okay some of the issue that we have down there is uh bmar it's going to the association
the HOA group that looks at after the golf course they're getting that bill but their members don't want to pay it and the members won't allow them to raise their fees for the golf course to take care of that so it ends up on them
all the time and I don't think they end they have a struggle to get the money up for that so that's what the issues been okay and and you know what golf courses is are I know elsewhere around that are struggling so I think it's I think it's good to take a burden off them if we can
um and and again because they're actually helping the storm water situation I don't think we should be taxing them for what they're helping them but yeah if you want to bring it back there be great okay that's it all right um all right I'm going to go to my committee report I'm going to go right to you Mr okay Mr County attorney um
when we heard the people today from Beacon Park come in to speak there were hearings years ago I went back back to 06 where initially that development was supposed to access through Buffalo Drive then it switched over to another hearing where they allow him to go to the aqua
Clara which is only a short short little drive to get in they've taken advantage of the public roads to go use their AES to go in and David Engle and David Goldstein and David Allen are working now and Jeff and Jeff to try to change that what happened was there was a
decision made by staff which we empowered them years ago I think it was under under Dan biles to give staff flexibility on doing certain things I want to undo that flexibility from staff because staff has overruled the public hearing which these people were very
vocal on very knowledgeable about like one of the general was here back in 06 early today and to see that public hearing that they had protected themselves in the neighborhoods to have the development come in flipped on them and now they got to deal with all this hassle so I'm going to say that uh Jeff
if you talked to the ordinance I want to bring it back to us so we can converse it back and give the power back to the commission and and keep the strength in the public hearings we've had in the past how how we've decided we wanted the development to come in and for you know construction Roots Etc that
they get respected not changed by staff this is a fatal not a fatal error but a very bad error that uh staff had made to a full I want to make sure we don't have this happen again so hang on a second commission I just want to add something to I mean if we're going to bring it
back that's fine let's find out why it ended up that way and the reasons and then be able to make a good decision or whether we should keep it that way or change and I I think um our staff can talk with you as we bring it forward but Jeff if you would talk to it for a minute sure um you know when I when I
became your county attorney the the and when there was a development Review Committee um all site plans went to the DRC as a notice public hearing item
um DRC would make a decision on it after hearing public comment and it could it could be appealed to the board back in back in the day
um the rationale for doing that the planning director at the time uh was that site plans generally should be consistent with your Land Development code and so therefore
there there's nothing that could be done at a public hearing as we as you know the in certain instances like this one where they were dealing with construction traffic it wasn't really
the site plan approval that was at issue it was the how they were going to access the site and so that the the DRC back then made put a condition on it that said this is going to be the hall route
for the for and entry and exit into into this Beacon Park approval um had it all been done in 2006 be we probably wouldn't have the
issues that we're having today but this remained an undeveloped portion and so now the this several developers later this is the the new project coming in um
I'm not so sure that it's the site plan okay and and we can we can I mean it all can come back and you can you can talk about it it may be more along the lines of whether or not
deviations from the plan the site plan should be approved administratively or not but that's up to you all um you know the alt standard as it's become known um is something that you all
approve within MPD in the zoning stage there is also an ability to do them administratively at under the current code at staff level during site plan review um and to some
extent I think that's what's happened here um part the other the other issue that that is that occurred in this particular project was the
construction hall route was tied to moving dirt on and off the site through an excavation permit that they then chose not to use so there was no condition at the time that the
development of the residential subdivision is currently undergoing which is why County staff did not stop them from using these roads is because there is no condition that's legally enforcable to do that and these are public
roads who's the building any building Sou good afternoon board David Allen assistant County Administrator development services had to change that one up the uh um I have Southern
impression Southern Impressions development out of Jacksonville is who the developer and I think you know I think part of the the challenge with um this particular project was was as Mr Steiner had mentioned was the hall road
condition um being on the grading permit that that same require requirement didn't carry over to the site development plan which probably would have been appropriate in this particular case because um just because of the the nature of the location of where this
project is in proximity to existing um residential uses and so certainly I think that the the difficulty with the request is going to be the volume of work that we process and I think that that not having that ability is is is
going to be a challenge but I think that there are ways that we can work around um those types of deviations and ensuring that any preexisting conditions that are on projects carry forward to subsequent reviews well approval let me stop here a let me ask this question because I I I looked at the documents
all the way back from 06 and ' 06 initially was going to be Buffalo Drive switched to Aqua Clara um and in that it said construction traffic was going into that so what happened to take away that condition was in the public hearings from the DRC did did they look for an
alternative St they say they could put did they put something in very clearly say the construction traffic could go somewhere else is there something I'm missing no the umz that's what public hearing said so the the the hall route
was specific to the mass grading plans was which included let me mass grading and construction activities that in 06 it was all construction activities didn't talk about Mass grading 06 the subsequent approval however was the site
development plan which then did not have the Construction route specifications within the standards but how does it disappear if it wasn't mentioned how does it disappear that the construction right now changes because they were the same approval they were they were
equivalent approvals so you between 06 when it was done by the DRC and then subsequently ratified by the board and the ones that were issued more
recently they were issued administratively because the board gave site plan authority to staff there were there is no more notice public hearing for a site plan that's okay but what I'm saying is the site plan or the approval
done with DRC back in ' 06 said your construction traffic had to go in aqua Clara didn't talk about M grading just that and where in the in the from staff changes to talk about Mass grading that's Mass grading but that condition was not carried forward in the new in
the in the more how does it disappear though if it was in the mpud and it wasn't mentioned because it wasn't carried forward it's still in the conditions from back in 06 it wasn't in the zoning conditions it was in the site plan approval and a subsequent site plan
approval took that condition off I don't did it address the construction traffic it did not did not rather than taking it off I think I think it was just it was not carried forward in terms of the so if it's not mentioned why wouldn't it still stay because one thing
if you say construction traffic can go through public roads or through other things but if you don't mention it I don't think that thing in 06 disappears there's a public hearing we had people in there speaking about it fighting for it had the condition put in if you didn't take it away I don't think just cuz you don't mention
it it doesn't disappear it's still there this point I mean are these whenever these are amended are they redlined like an like an addendum or amendment to a contract like an RFP Tye that way you can see what was there and what wasn't
there generally what would happen it's for the record and right right um so so part of the challenge here is is is the way that we handle the the approval process has changed so that answer is no so that answer is no answer is no it's
an entirely different form form of approval all right you're good so the bilder at the time if it changes contractors they may may not be looking what what said back in h it's not even the same property
owner it the the the the property owner in ' 06 that got it was a DR Horton project that got the initial approvals at least my researches and now it's a property owner out of Texas with Southern impressions as doing the site
work so things can get lost in translation well they've been found and I'm saying if a public hearing done an ' 06 in front of the people with the documents there that said construction traffic has to go through that whether you mentioned or not in sub other other
approvals and other alternate stand if you didn't cover clearly construction traffic goes somewhere else I think they got the right to have them stopped and my legal opinion commissioner is that the site plan that was issued by staff
administratively superseded the ' 06 approval how can a staff approval overtake a public area because you changed the process in the inter and you no longer require that public hearing but but again you I
haven't heard we're in the new approval that you dealt with the construction traffic and if you didn't deal with it it's still there how do it disappear it's a completely different approval and that's when you when you revise an
approval it takes over the previous approval completely I mean they issued a new legal approval for a different site plan for the same property that's what controls
them site plan site plan but if we're talking about access and they put access in is a separate the condition was on the site plan it was not on the zoning but I'd agree with you all day long if that was a condition of the mpad resoning but that's not where that
condition got attached to it it got attached to it at a noticed public hearing before the DRC that is that then was then the board's change of the Land Development code took away
the public hearing and gave it to an administrative body to approve I I but I don't think just just because another hearing was held if you didn't address the issue the previous law of approval
goes away I mean if if if it's a site plan's a site plan and if you want to talk about your masc rating go a certain way I don't think that thing goes away I think you got something to work with there were two approvals that staff issued one was masquerading and one was
the site plan the site plan had no conditions in it regarding a hall route the masquerading plan was not utilized and abandoned by the oper I want to sit down I'll review this with staff but at a minimum at least
right now how do we go change this rule of Staff changing these things it would take a Land Development code amendment I think your planning director wants to speak to it chair wait so two things so staff
unilaterally amended the the decision they had an application from the developer they processed it in the due course they issued an approval sta sta okay interesting uh next piece
is are these what's the condition of these roads if the volume of dump trucks that are running up and down it they are Public Road under ordinary use how much life has been eroded away from it and and the roads were never intended
to handle the volume of and the weight of the commercial traffic I don't know I'd hate I'd hate that to be a piece of something the taxpayer has to eat I think if there's a decent partner in this contractor I would
hope in hearing the Public's uproar and you know they could be a good partner using my legal terms right je be a good partner in helping be a solution to fix at least clean it up right it's all in how it's
all in how we respond now right the damage is done so that Avenue at this point to me is almost more important because then it's going to exacerbate the frustrations of the neighborhood that the roads have eroded away with the
volume of traffic and we get a couple of weather events next couple years and then they're come and say hey we need our roads repay because of the situation that chair Maran was talking about today so I think we need to look further
Downstream how we get this cleaned up the right way thank you David Engel planning economic development director commissioner waitman you bring up some good valid points and that's what I wanted to speak to today we had a meeting with the officers of the Beacon
Park homeowners association this morning uh we are going to uh we we discuss the situation they realize uh that the current development order and site plan does not regulate access and in out of the site uh we have a number of things
we're going to do and we're going to report back to the uh Beacon Park HOA at the next meeting uh I'm going to look very carefully through the conditions of approval for that mpud to see if there's anything that we could hang our hat on regulating and requiring access where we
also have I believe a meeting tomorrow with David Allen and Jason mckl to talk about postd development uh Road Road restoration project um compliance is now engaged and there'll be a designated Point person so if there is violations
to our hours of work and noise requirements in Our Land Development code we will expeditiously respond to that and U I could tell you that the HOA officers were very pleased with our attitude and the fact that we are doing everything possible to help them
So speaking about discretionary deviations from board policy back in the summer the current planning department was reconsolidated with Planning and Development we have measures in place that will make sure that this situation
does not occur again uh there is a sop we're developing now requiring supervisory reproval of all the plans and permitting before they're executed and we have what's called a planning check instituted at our current planning division where the board approvals and
memorialization of policy pertaining to any particular development is carried out at the site plan level so let's say hypothetically Beacon Park came up today and what we're dealing with today I would review it and determine that
there's a board policy question and I would I would render the uh the decision to bring it back to the board as a substantial modification their approval because this isn't a minor deviation this is a substantial deviation so we have the check and balances in place to
make sure that board policy is maintained and there's no arbitrary approvals going forward and I tell you the manager of this project contractors have been just brutal to these people I'm going to show you a couple of pictures of what this's
going through I got homes that have had to put a black screen on the back of their fence where then it had used to be just Woods whatever and Grant that things going to change but instead they got a large trailer truck with Burgess civil engineering right in their backyard that's their view now right front they could have they could have
angled it back to minimize the impact all thank you for the put the pictures up then you look at the edge of this is the edge of a yard right you see the grass that was a yard and within like 8 ft you got a cliff going down to where they're putting a lift station of all
things um and that's I mean good rain that thing erods away but even still not not good for the for the long term they had it nice and Loud they kind of turned it up at night so you see the pump that's kind of block boxed out to minimize the damage they could have pumped that thing like 50 yards away
instead they put it right by the home so they got to look at it and listen to it go to the next picture sorry go back a little bit that looks a little less serious yeah all right so this's the this there this is one of the houses right on the on the left side this is the pool this is like their pride and joy I mean these people
have a a capan out there put a TV against the wall with a nice cover on it is that that's the pool no that's a concrete wearing away from the pool because of the vibrations so they can't even use a pool and all the dust and dirt is what they got to deal with go ahead and go to the next
one next one that's Mr Fritz 100 years old my dad that could be okay that's it all right so anyway so so what these people people are dealing with it's been brutal every step of the way and it just it's not what we designed and and again if
this public hearing was not so clear in Vision to when we made him go a Clara and part of the reason was not even to think they we think about going down that road through Coral Creek clop there's probably more sink homes in that area it was built over wetlands and Marshland Etc so a lot of settling going
on in the roadways that go through there's already one part that's settled down a little bit already but you get these roads that are with these huge truck traffics as they say when they get older it exponentially damages these roads so I know staff's talking about doing some looking at the roads frankly
it needs to be done immediately and just kind of like get this guy to the table but I will tell you between the contract between the uh developer it's the worst time to dealt with as far as like you know what's reasonable what's better and and for them again going 1.1 miles it would have slowed the development done
getting done but if they had started the other way they could have worked their way to it cuz they still got to start everything from the other end anyway so I mean literally just been it's been brutal and if Jeff if you can bring this back to us we can look at it um it's something we need to change we need when you have the public hearings that you
have and people come out they spend the time to go protect the neighborhood have the hearings decisions are made we can't have staff Chang in these things and I still want to go through this Mr County attorney with you to what was actually changed from 06 I haven't seen those documents I just saw the original ones
to when the public hearing was I want to see what really we looked at cuz I still can't get past turning over a public hearing when something clearly didn't say all right we're going to change your access all right stay on that picture there that's good that's a different one I if I could just add something to the conversation not withstanding the
things that Mr angle have brought up some of the things we we've been talking about internally to is as we see more infill projects coming back into the county is is really something that I was kind of call thoughtful design in looking at how these site plans and
things that are configured because times you do have individual groups looking look at the the instance of this Pump Station being right right where it's at you know you know are there things that are team members can be looking at looking at a holistic picture in terms of you know how we move our approvals so
we're going to be talking more about that because I think you're going to see more and more of that as we do more infill projects smaller projects that are going to kind of kind of fit into the into the nooks and crannies that need to peacefully coexist with with residents and people that have built their lives so just appreciate the the
the conversation on this and just know that your your team has listened and that we are we are moving forward in the right direction I I got faith in you guys but again I need to make sure we if we need to change rules to make sure that we don't get stuck in a situation like this because there's just no need for that and it could happen again I
want here's one I want to show you just a few pictures of this is K States you've heard them uh the ladies speak before as you've heard someone speak this is one where it used to be one house per uh 10 acres in this whole development it's now been changed to 180
when this came before the board it didn't show access on this little side road prella which went right through middle school now it does and not only does it show just an easement what they have permission for but now they've come in without I know told staff they've raised this land up like 8 ft so now you
see that huge pitch going down that's going to the bottom of an area and this is at the bottom of a bowl of this whole area so all the water is going to go to this low area and now you're taking out a lot of the storage by building this road can take another picture now they
even knocked down a school sign School sign down school zone sign they left it there on the ground absurd again next one I think that's all that that's all of that okay yeah so if you looked from the BMS up they up over there where that house is it's about to
the top of that BM is probably 6 feet higher than where the lady's property is and with the con and where that pond is on the other side there's not even a buffer between the two so all the water and this is the lowest Pond that everything that's going to be built in is going to come in I mean you get a retention wall up by that one house with
the wood around it and then you got the street that's there and then all that water very very poorly designed for the people great for them commissioner yeah some of the issues we excuse me some of the issues that we're finding
out when we're going back in infilling they're raising the land up which makes the property next door lower and really creates some problems uh Zephyr Hills the city raises that property four or 5 ft higher and some of the county
property is a boat and there there only one place the war goes in that boat so we need to watch how we build next door and don't cause a problem by raising up the the height of the land to create a problem next door which they hadn't had
one before yeah and we heard the one about D city today too so I don't know what we can do about C indexations and then this this going on but this has got to be handled better but again this is like County to County changing a big use of property from Little easement to now
they're building a road um kind of crazy all right um I'll go through my rest of my pictures all right I joined the VFW today auxiliary uh this past week that's my dad there that's Judy Kennedy there and uh my pseudo cousin Lorry Capone and
then next pitcher that's my dad holding the flag that's going to be the flag that the the picture they're going to use in the he's he's the Patriotic leader of the VFW there over in Dick Street Tony Ro 442 next one and that's Fritz we're going to do a
resolution him next meeting uh if the board doesn't mind I want to do it about 1:30 because I've got the installation of the phsc president in the morning so just to make make sure I'll get them there for 130 if we do that first thing but Fritz is now 100 years old and that's his daughter right there um World
War II veteran at Normandy yeah great great great man I tell you what still doing stuff and we were like cleaning this house out for the flooding that was going on literally the days after he's like going on the taso floors scraping up the little bit of glue that's left over all all the way through just a
great great human being his brother's 97 now so nothing what's his age he's he's 100 just turned 100 oh just turned Brothers just during 97 God bless them great yeah great guys they still fight uh no they got along great they probably do they got great it's amazing all right
guys now this is when we're down at the Eagles and look at that shirt oh I like that Ben through hel it back this man lost his home people helped him get another one the next picture shows the pictures on but this guy come up to me in tears after they had given us the plaque to s s how thankfully he was all
that the county had done for H there back all the sponsors that kind of helped out the community uh and I don't if you know that's Angel and uh Rachel Rachel spoke to us a little while ago about an item uh while we were there because we had so many people there they were going to do
the reveal the next day wouldn't be a lighter crowd I let's go try to do it now so they agreed and they're having a baby boy a they look pretty cool and that was at St Leo University do we Mitchell's in the audience uh keep going and Ed herin
and that's a uh part of the in the nursing school that's you know the nursing school opening up there was a big deal whole second floor and they got all these mummies or whatever you want to call them robots that test everything out going on with bodies all the way through kind of scary it has a blood
pressure it's it's kind of funny cuz it moves the eyes blink so they do something wrong some crazy might happen all right next one that was us getting our are you talking or yeah they got one for
Sonia and myself it's pretty cool there angel on the back all right is that all okay all right uh and then I had uh Regional planning Council and I uh I'm sorry I missed the uh Employee Appreciation date but I had Regional planning Council
which I would have missed if not for the second part with the resiliency Summit that we had coming up I wanted to see the agenda and talk about the agenda so I sent you guys a copy later last night after I got I don't if you had a chance to look at it but the front page shows you the event details early bird pricing
registered attendees some sponsors going in uh but I was most concerned and wanted to get your take and if you're not ready to even comment on it today so be it uh but I just wanted to take a look at the uh um items they have as far as what the agenda is going to be uh
they got a mayor's panel I I frankly told them I says that's fine with that but I really think especially nowadays we just went through these storms that we should have an administrator's panel we should have the FEMA manager officials out there in in a panel we should have people like David Allen and
other people for planning talking about how we're going to rebuild what we're going to go do and how to look at things um on our energy transition one of the things I mentioned is you got you know Duke there great but you know what about what about Tio what about with Luchi electric uh local people that are
invested in the community a little bit more so um the next one I was okay with the break they should um the urban Forest resilience in Tampa Bay strategic path forward uh to take a spot for something like that I don't know if that was a
best move we could have made but they have their points they want to make um alternative funding strategy making them work of your Capital you know again if I had FEMA reps in there if I had pering people uh the following day perming practices I've got Mike Twitty who I think is doing a phenomenal job he's got
some great ideas I think all the appraises should be in and maybe talking about what the tax status is going to be with all these homes that are looking for abatements what's the effect going to be that would be better for them and they can make some uh recommendations like Mike squidy actually put a really good thing together and something Mike
if you talk to them what they did was they put something in an ordinance where if there's a trust and the trust is in someone's name and it's homesteaded they can go through and still do the owner contractor so they can do work on their own place and
still not be penalized where they can't sell LS for a year so something happens in major GE that's something that they did that we can go learn from them and then go put that in we want to take it further to mile everybody to go do it especially in a hurricane situation um FEMA is not anywhere on this sheet and
they should be there as well and I think we should actually have like three building officials together I going be five building officials let them be in the same room and let them deal with FEMA and just see what each one of them are told it says day two fous staff to be determined Disaster Recovery panel
yeah but it's not set up yet I will I will say I gave I gave mad I got Kevin gotth three coming yep I which is phenomenal I think he'll he'll do great um so anyway I just want you guys to take a look at if he get anything it's all about resiliency for years they struggled of being what they said
relevant and I want to make sure that we do an agenda it's well attended exciting it's beneficial to go there spend your time and I would like you guys to go but I would like to get your comments in this is not a final schedule but it's something that can be tweaked so if you see something you think we need to go do
please let me know and uh we'll pass those recommendations on and that is that's all I have great we're Jour thank you great meeting did I hear you
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