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Good morning watching. Yeah, there are some items over here covered that aren't action items. People came here for So hopefully we'll have a solution soon. The show is going to go on. We may not have some action items today, but we still have some other things that don't

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require action. So we're going to see what's going to happen here in the next few minutes. Thank you for your patience. Let's find out if we got a >> start with go Pasco and then work our way back. >> I already did. >> Oh, thank you.

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>> Start with the community. last year. >> We'll have an answer momentarily. >> Although I believe the unprecedented >> that was pretty remarkable. explain. >> No, I got me. >> Commissioner Wood built it out. Happy birthday is kind of fun. Then Mr. Wood

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from Day City came built it out. Happy family. It was pretty special. >> Yeah, she started off and the crowd thought they were supposed to sing along and then they was like, "No, no, no. We just need to laugh and run this show." >> She's got a voice. >> If you want a happy birthday squeeze, just right away.

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That's very cool to get show up >> and he's dropped credits >> to drop. Yeah, >> we start with the committee. The

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committee >> start I want to give fine. No problem. >> Get an affirmative. >> The city of date city has if if a city that's here has an alter. >> Yes. If you have an alternate for the

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volunte city, >> it has to be a different city that >> Yeah, that'd be nice. >> Jack gets passed. He's >> everybody cheer that Councilman Peina is

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getting ready and he's on his way up. >> Everybody knows. >> Does that mean we're gonna have a quia? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Is Jack online? 15 minutes. >> No, I just said

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>> join us and I'll give some instruction. >> Frustrated. >> We have someone coming to our rescue. Zapper Hills does have a duly appointed alternate uh to our uh MO board and so he is on the way. So it may take a few minutes. So, what we'll do is we're

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going to go ahead and begin the meeting here in just a moment and we'll go through all the non-action items. And once we're completed with the non-action items, should the representative not yet be here from Zephr Hill's alternate member, Councilman Steve Spenna, we'll

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take a a recess and then we'll call the meeting back to order once he arrives and take care of the action items. But hopefully by the time we get to that point, he will have arrived. But keep in mind he's having to uh make some arrangements to prepare himself to even get here. U so we may have to have that

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recess. But that's that's the plan of action for us this morning as we proceed. Thank you everyone for being here and thank you for your patience. All good to go. Oh, there he is. All right. This time I'll order the pass

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county meeting. If we could all rise for the invocation. Remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Clerk's office, please. >> Gracious God, we invite you into our discussions today. Unite our hearts and guide our conversations with wisdom and patience. Help us to seek solutions that

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honor you and benefit everyone involved. In your name, amen. >> Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all. justice for all >> and um I'd like to acknowledge works office thank them for their services to us and couple of new employees that are getting their uh training with MO and later today they're real training with planning for it uh but it's good to have

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Sierra and Danny joining us from the clerk's office new employees from the clerk's office thank you for all that you'll do for Um, at this time we'll have our roll call. And if you could also acknowledge the ones that may be on the line. >> Mayor John Eric Hoover >> here.

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>> Councilman Lance Smith. >> Councilman Matt Murphy >> here. >> Commissioner Ron Oakley. Commissioner Seth Wayman. >> Commissioner Katherine Starky >> here. >> Commissioner Lisa Jagger. >> Commissioner Jack Mariano.

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And Chairman Scott Black here. >> Thank you very much. This is the period of time that we set aside in our meeting for public comment. If there's anyone that is with us today that would like to make public comment, this is your time to do so. We do ask

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that you limit your comments to three minutes. We certainly solicit your input at this time. Did we have anyone that signed up prior? Well, they would have first priority if they one. Did anyone sign up to speak? >> Okay. Anyone in the audience that would

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like to speak? Yes, ma'am. Please come forward and >> sign up. >> Oh, you're fine. You're fine. We just uh if you signed up, we'd take those first and then we go from there. If you could state your name and address for the record, please write your name there. It's too old to sign in sheet. Thank

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you. >> Okay. My name is Anita Stewart and I live at 36830 Beth Avenue in Sephford Hills. And um what brings me here today is um

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I'm want to express my concerns about the rapid expansion of data centers in Pasco County. Um we're being told that data centers represent progress, technology, and economic development. But before we accept that narrative, we

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need to ask a simple question. Who is the progress for? Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water. Many modern facilities require millions of gallons of water each year for cooling systems, placing additional

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strain on local water resources. Here in Florida, where growth is already putting a lot of pressure on our aquifers, springs, wetlands, and water supply, adding more largecale industrial users is not a responsible long-term strategy.

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Second, data centers create surprisingly few permanent jobs. During construction, there may be temporary employment opportunities, but once operational, many facilities only employ a few dozen workers. Compare that to other forms of

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development that generate hundreds of jobs, support local businesses, and contribute to the community on a daily basis. Third, data centers. um they generate little community benefit.

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They are essentially giant warehouses filled with servers. They don't bring customers to local business. They don't create vibrant town centers. They don't support our tourism. And they don't enrich our quality of life. East Pasco

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County has something increasingly rare in Florida. open space, wildlife habitat, agricultural land, and a rural character that many residents have worked hard to preserve. Once that land is converted into industrial

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infrastructure, it is gone forever. We must also consider the burden on our electrical grid. As AI and cloud computing continues to expand, energy demands are growing dramatically. Citizens should not have to face higher

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utility costs. or increased infrastructure burdens to support facilities whose primary profits leave our community. Economic development should be measured not simply by square footage or tax incentives, but by whether it genu

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genuinely improves the lives of residents. We should prioritize businesses that create meaningful jobs, protect our natural resources, support local entrepreneurs, and strengthen the long-term resilience of East Pasco

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County. The question before us is not whether technology is important. Um, we know that it is, and most of us use it every day. The question is whether East Pasco County should sacrifice its water, land, infrastructure, and rural

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character for facilities that offer relatively little in return. >> Thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you for your input. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else like to address the NBO board at this time? Yes, ma'am. If you could also come forward, state your name

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and address for the record. Hi there. Pastor Jen Carowak, Shady Hills Mission Chapel, 15925 Green Glenn Lane, Spring Hill, Florida. Um I thank you. Um I wanted to say quickly,

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Mayor Hoover, I appreciate the um what you did for faith and family at the park on Saturday. I was with my Baze band there and that was a wonderful event and I encourage everyone to seek to do

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something similar. I'm here today mainly that um just to continue to advocate for the expansion of Shady Hills Road and also just to bring to this group. Um, I was at the opioid task force meeting the

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other day and the study that USF did did highlight that there is a significant lack as the survey that that they had done within the community, a lack of transportation and mobility within the

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community and that address the needs of those folks that are in need of services as it relates to where the services are currently available. And so I just wanted to present that because I know the decisions you make in here within

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this group. It's very important to have these things brought to light. So I just appreciate your concern and your commitment to improving the lives of those in Pasco through transportation and safety most importantly. Thank you

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>> much. Thank you for being here today. Would anyone else like to speak at this time during public comment? Yes, ma'am. if you come forward and state your name and address for the record as well. Thank you. >> Good morning. My name is Chris Shaver. I live at 37707

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Pure Waterway in Suffer Hills, Florida. Thank you. I also want to address the issue of the data centers. This young woman over here made an excellent point. My point also is the pollution that it's going to cause that feeds back. We've

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had enough incidents and accidents happen where pollution is being released back into our aquifers between the mosquito spraying, um, crop spraying. We don't need it anymore. The joke when I was growing up is

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Florida is where people go to die. Now people want to live here. How long are they going to want to live here and make the state grow and prosper the way it should because of all the wonderful things we have? If we start polluting our aquafers even more than we already

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have, what happens when the energy consumption is so high that people are going, I can't take it anymore and I leave. People become here because it's a wonderful place to retire. People live here because you have access to

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everything. And we are going to be taking that away. We have seen from the solar farms that they are putting up everywhere. It's destroying the land. Are we going to do the same thing with the data centers? What happens when these data centers become obsolete? Where is all that going to go? Where's

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all that pollution? And it will become obsolete in the next 10 years. They're going to want something else. They're going to want something bigger. Are we willing to sacrifice our way of life for a profit of a major company? Thank you.

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>> Thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Mr. >> Um, Mr. >> Thank you, chair. To the data center crowd, in case you were confused, we have planning commission today in the same building at 1:30. Right, David Goldstein?

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>> Correct. >> At 1:30 where the the data center moratorum item is going to be discussed today. Is that on our docket? So the data center uh moratorum uh item will be at a different meeting the planning

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commission today in the same building at at 1:30. Um so I would encourage you to share your same comments uh with county planning commission at 1:30 here today if you have time. So picture stick around and enjoy a beautiful day in

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downtown Davidson. Thank you for your comments today. Certainly. Thank you. Any further comments that would like that could be made at this time during public comment? Seeing none, we'll close our public comment and we'll move into our agenda

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items. Keeping in mind that um the first these will need to be postponed. So, we'll come back to these uh items one through four um their action items. So, we'll come back to these hopefully in a in a short while. No advisory committee

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reports. Uh we do have several here. They're prepared uh to make our advisory committee reports. Um I believe Mr. Hoffman, you'll be making the report on behalf of the citizens advisory committee. Thank you very much. In the absence of chair Tom Ryan. Thank you.

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>> You had jury duty, so I figured I'll do it for you. Don't worry. >> Civic duty comes in more than one form, doesn't it? >> Absolutely it does. All right. Good morning. Uh we had our last citizen advisory committee meeting on Wednesday, June 3rd at 9:30 a.m. at the Starky uh

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Ranch Theater Library in Cultural Center. Uh we approved the minutes from May 6, 2026. Uh we heard the MO board report from the May 21st board meeting. The final list of project priorities and the final

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transportation improvement plan and the final UPWP were all approved and we also saw presentation on the final freight plan but then made an action to move it from presentation to action item and then made an action to approve the final

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freight plan as well. Um we also had two public comments that were also about um preserving green spaces in Pasco County. So yeah any questions? >> Thank you SH. Thanks y'all. Thank you very much.

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>> Technical advisory committee Miss Spidel. Cynthia Spidell. >> Good morning Cynthia Spidel with the technical advisory committee. We also met on June 3rd and we unanimously approved many of the items that are on your action list today including the

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list of project priorities, the tip and the final year five work program. Um, we did take a lot of time to look at the freight plan. Um, we made sure that some of the recommendations that we had made when it was initially presented were incorporated and they were. Um, so we were happy to see that. We also moved it

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from presentation to action items so that they would be able to ask you for an action on that as well today. So we did unanimously approve that. Um, I think there was a lot of discussion about it. I think the most meaningful thing that I would want to convey to you today is that we think that this freight

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plan should be married to the vision plan and as the vision plan gets changed and updated over time that the freight plan is kind of in concert with that because things will change. So with that we recommended approval and happy to answer any questions you may have.

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>> Thanks Cindy. I have a note here that if we're still awaiting Councilman Spinner that we may need to kill a little time by singing happy birthday to you. do that. >> I appreciate the motions. >> Thank you. Thank you very much.

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>> Any questions for Midel advisory committee? Thank you very much. >> Bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee. >> Good morning. Um the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee also met on June 3rd. It did have a quorum. They heard all the

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same items and voted to approve all of them. Um the only exception um is they heard an additional presentation on a incoming possible incoming development near the head of the Suns Trail um and a brief overview on how to access the cella um so that they can utilize that

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as a public entity. Um but otherwise that concludes my update. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Any questions? Commissioner Starky, do you have any comments on? >> No, I'm good. >> Okay, very good. >> Thank you very much.

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>> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> All right. Go Pasco Report. for director. I just have a couple of updates for you. >> So, um, thanks Sean. I don't have the

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>> Oh, I'm sorry technology. >> Okay. So, let's go. First microtransit. So uh we have finalized agreement at this point is with the vendor uh to you know for their final review and we're

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looking to go to the board for final approval approval uh sometime in July or August with the micro transit that will be on the north part of the county in Hudson cover Denton area 52 and little road. Um we also launching on May 18 um

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mobile ticketing. We have token transit now. Um this is a easy way for our riders to pay their fair when they get on the bus. Uh we um 343 passes were purchased within two week two weeks after launching this app. And that's

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very good for us especially that we're driving people from buying the regular passes paper passes into using an app. And the great thing about this particular app is that um also HART, Kilhuro County, PSDA, Penelis County and the bus in uh Hernando County also

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accept transit. So our writers will be able to uh download the app and pay their fair with different agencies. Uh next we have a demand response um also known as parat transit services analysis. So we just started this uh

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study. We re realized that um you know we need resources on the road for um to provide transportation doortodoor services. So this study will evaluate and improve our demand response services. We're currently like I said

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halfway there um and whatever the recommendation will be whether is buying more buses, hire more drivers or uh bringing a contractor uh we will be trying to implement it right away. understand the lack of um transportation

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in some of the areas in Pasco County. So the goal is to expand the demand response services and increase the trip availability not only for people that live outside of our fixed route corridors but also for people with disabilities and elderly that live farther out and cannot use our fixed

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route those individuals. And uh this analysis will also bring um you know like I said uh bringing in an additional transportation provider maybe to help us to complete these trips. Uh the router study we did a router study last year. I brought up some uh of

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the updates throughout this year. So this uh this June is a year since we did this uh study. And so we see that foreseeing an increase of 4% which is the standard uh in the industry for a medium-siz agency is about 3%. So we

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foresee having a 4% increase in writership we've seen already uh and we are projecting that uh that increase and also because this is part of um not only the study that we did but also we implemented a real time app. This way our riders can look at the the bus where

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it is and they can walk to their bus stop. they can see exactly the time that the bus will will be there real time at the bus stop. So, um it's more convenient for the rider. And lastly, the sepal transfer station. So, that's going to be going to the board uh next

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week for construction on June 16. We will get uh hopefully the approval from the board and uh construction will be starting sometime in July, August, and we will be coordinating a groundbreaking ceremony. So, um, we will be

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coordinating that with your offices. And with that, um, I'm done. >> You guys have any questions? >> Any questions? Go ask. >> Mr. W. >> Thank you. So Pastor Jen's point, it's

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identified that people are saying we need more routes and more ridership, but our data shows our riders, at least last time I met that our ridership was kind of waning a bit, right? And we had to reconfigure routes.

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>> Yes. To >> make the the routes more efficient. >> What's the kind of action plan? Is there anything other than just to be done other than than marketing to try to get ridership up? Um, obviously you just

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can't it's a very expensive endeavor public transit, right? >> It's upside down financially most of the time for for government. So what's uh

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the need is there. So what's what's the plan to try to >> capture those that right? >> Yeah. So what first we did the route study last year and like I said we already those changes that we made we not only made changes to the routes we

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added two more routes 41 and 35 and um we also um adjust the schedule across the board and that was the first step that we did. We also brought in the real time app so we can capture more of the more riders. Over the past couple of

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years our rider sheet had decline. So that's when we took those steps not only to please the our system but also bringing those apps that is again convenient mobile ticketing and um realtime information for the writers and now it's already showing that there has

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been an increase from 20 fc year 25 to 26 we have about 4%. That's for fixed route. We also are doing I mentioned the parat transit study and that will identify whether we need more resources and where those resources are needed within the county and that's the par

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transit for example there is no transportation in Wesley Chapel area. So that's what's going is one of the areas that has been identified not only on our route study but also going to be identified our par transit study. So we're working towards making um

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decisions to find those solutions for um transportation. We're also going to start with microtransit. This is the pilot for pilot program for a year project I mean and uh after that we'll see whether we should stay in that same zone or maybe look at other areas and

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instead of putting a bus maybe use microtransit or use on demand services. So we are exploring all these mobility options for for Pasco. change to the fee datit

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hoping that it'll be more successful uh than the current way of of ridership. Probably a little more comfortable. Um how long is that pilot for? 12 month >> pilot is going to be for 12 months.

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>> 12 months. >> Yes. to your point where we're looking, you know, to to find data to see what if we should continue or not and move it to another area. So that's what we we're exploring and definitely we understand that there is a need. Transportation is is needed throughout the county and uh

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we want to grow and expand services, but we want to do it in a smart way, not just put a route that is not going to uh you know pick up anybody. We we we understand the investment and so we're really working hard uh to to expand services in the smart way. What's the

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anticipated uh start date for 12 months? >> Um, so we're going to be going to the board agreement July, August. I'm thinking about 60 days, 60 to 90 days, you know. >> Okay.

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>> But we are very anxious to to get started. The sooner the better. >> More about that. I I'll bring back up the data information once it's completed. >> Further questions at this time. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate your

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report. >> Thank you. >> Going back one item to the um temp the proposed Tampa Bay regional version. >> Good morning. Um I just wanted to recap from our Tri County VOCC meeting. We had

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good discussion as it relates to the um upcoming Tampa Bay MO merger. Um I did meet with some of you this week to kind of have a recap of the conversation as it relates to board governance and some of the items discussed. Uh just to let you know the staff director uh myself uh

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Whit Whit Bland and Johnny Wong were looking at the proposed executive uh policy committee to the regional board that would operate in the capacity of what was discussed like Tampa Bay Water. It would have uh roughly about three

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commissioners uh from each county and then they would be guiding the policy uh that would be taken to the actual propo to the regional board. Um I think that discussion uh we're trying to flush that out right now. Um and then we'll come

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back to you uh roughly about the August time frame. Um my proposal would be if we wanted more time to talk about that information and also the interlocal uh agreement and the bylaws that was

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presented that was sent out uh prior to the tri county. We could propose a workshop for the Pasco uh MO to discuss. I don't know if August would be uh would have enough time on our agenda to kind of flush that out, but I wanted to bring

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it to the board today to just have that discussion and see what your sentiments were if you would like a a additional meeting at some point in July or would you like to just put it on to the August meeting because I'm sure you'll have questions, comments as it relates to the

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bylaws and the interlocal and also the discussion of the executive committee. So, I just wanted to present that uh information. And then additionally, our upcoming TMA meeting will be on October 2nd. That'll be our next TMA meeting. Uh

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we don't want to put more onto the schedule. So, we're looking at the October time frame. Our NO board meeting would be August 20th. So, just to give you frame of reference for time, um what we're looking at. So, I just wanted to

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approach that today with the board. um desire to have a July meeting you're asking >> correct a July workshop for intent and purposes to discuss um the upcoming um proposed merger items such as the

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>> like have a meeting in July or in August wait till August what's our July schedules look like >> it's vacation time commission meeting that happens in our world, >> right?

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>> Councilman. Yeah, >> I'd like to, but whenever I'm flexible. So, if if there is a a date in July in which we could have a room, I guess you don't have enough for workshop, but if we get the we'd certainly want to, we would not have a workshop. It's only one

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or two here, but um if if there was a time in July in which the commissioners could join us, um would we want to do something? Are we good to wait till August or what's pleasure fish? Yeah. >> Good. Beautiful.

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>> Why don't you Why don't you do that, Miss Gorman? If you could, the man of the hour. Join us. Join us. Uh yeah, if you could kind of you poll everyone and see if a July date is available with the county commissioners

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and with the city reps and um that way we can um have a July meeting a workshop that give us a leg up on everything maybe before a county finished meeting or something. I

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>> I would uh propose a different date for the county commission meeting only because that meeting is so large and there's a lot on the agenda and also the clerks have to prepare and staff. So I would propose a different date um prior not on the county commission day or

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planning commission if we can avoid it. >> I just wanted to put that on there. >> I just wanted to put that out. >> Yes, I'm sorry. I will lament that the Tampa Bay water board model is highly effective and it

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continues to allow every all the stakeholders I see a table to make their decision and um that way everybody can continue to work together and be on the same page. So, uh, I welcome the opportunity that we can still have forms

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such as such as this to figure out roadway infrastructure as best we can in a timely fashion. >> I think that is an interesting proposition with the temp water structure idea for the regional.

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>> So, I was gonna see Commissioner Starky. >> Yes, Commissioner Starky. Um yeah so so we had a long discussion there at the the meeting and what's proposed and what and what all three

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counties have passed is the um 25 I think it's 25 right Tia member structure >> um but the executive committee would follow the same guidelines and same structure as Tampa Bay water which I

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think is a great compromise so um I think most Most of the comment commenters were happy with that approach. >> Very good discussion on this item. You'll be back in touch with us. >> Yes. And then I have one more correction

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for the record. At the last board meeting, I did state that we needed supermajority for the LRTP and the tip when we adopt it's actually just majority. It is not a super majority. So I just wanted to correct that on the record as well. Is it be a simple majority?

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>> Yes, majority. Correct. >> Very good. >> All right. That is all I have. >> Thank you. Question Gman. >> Okay. Thank you very much, Tina. And um it's good to have with us, President. We can add council member Steve Spinner from the city of Zephr Hills. He's the

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duly appointed alternate member for the city of Zephr Hills. Thank you for being here with us, Steve. And now that we have a majority present on the deis, that means that Commissioner Starky can also vote >> correct

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>> remotely. Okay, very good. So you understand that, Commissioner Starky, we now have a quorum present here. Okay, very good. >> All right, what we'll do at this point and we also need to recognize Justin Hall is here with us today, our FDOT

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district secretary, who's one of our non- voting advisory members of the MO. Thank you for being here and of course your staff is always good to be here too. You're often here as well. So um welcome back especially the last year Mr. Secretary. >> Thank you Mr.

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>> Chairman the question remote voting through that process. I thought people could not vote >> if we have a majority president totally vote when I was so I just clarify >> for clarity if you'd like.

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>> Yeah. You can vote as long as you have a quorum physically present. >> Okay. Thank you, Davis. >> All right. We're going to go back in our agenda to the this will be um toward the beginning of the agenda, the approval of

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minutes. Uh we have several months of minutes that we need to approve this time. uh the first time approval of minutes of the MO meeting of October 9th, 2025. If we have any additions or corrections on this item hearing none, do we have a motion? No brief. >> Second.

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>> We have a motion. We have a second to approve. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Those opposed? Nay. Thank you. Item two, the approval of the minutes of the NO meeting of November 11th, 2025. Any additions or

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corrections? Hearing none, do we have a motion to approve? Excuse me. There was an addendum and just for clarification, the minutes were incorrectly um labeled as November 11th. Um the correct minutes are November 13th. So have that amended in the

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motion. >> Okay. >> Very good. So the our motion and our second the the maker of the motion and the one who seconded the motion an agreement to amend your motion that we um that be amended to state the correct

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date of November 13, 2025. Correct. Okay. Further discussion on your iPad. Oh, there's some federal bes I did notice um and I just need a

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clarification maybe from as well. I noticed that on these minutes we don't capture made motion to the floor. Um I think that's a requirement to be in the minutes if I'm correct. I I think the person is saying that you just follow through saying it's saying that you

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understand the person there but I think the maker motion was supposed to be listed there. Understand I never listen before several minutes here and they did not have the maker. >> Thank you. We'll let staff research that

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yeah for future um >> Okay, very good. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second to approve item two, the November 13th, 2025 minutes. Um, all those in favor, please say I. >> Those opposed, nay. Thank you. Item

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number three, approval of the minutes of the January 28th, 2026 no board meeting. Any additions or corrections pending? Hearing none, do we have a motion to approve? >> Got a motion. We have a second. It's been duly motion and seconded to approve

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this item. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed, no. Thank you. >> Thank you. Item four, NO minutes approval February 12th, 2026 meeting. Any pending any additions or

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corrections? Do we have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Have a motion to approve. We have a second. We have a motion and we have a second. Discussion hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed? >> Thank you. Now we'll move to action item

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five on our agenda. This is the final NO 2026 list of priorities, project priorities. And look >> um so today in your agenda packet is a copy of the MP's final 2026 list of

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project priorities or lot which I'm presently to you for approval. The lot contains a list of prioritized transportation improvement projects located on local roadways for which the NPO's constituent communities seek state or federal funding assistance. The list is updated and adopted by the NPO and

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provided to the board of DOT District 7 for developing the following year's 5-year work program. Since the draft presentation last month, there have been no changes to the lot. Um, but I will re reiterate that three program projects on the 2025 lot are

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requested for removal on the 2026 lot because the projects have been successfully constructed. Um, no unfunded projects are being removed this year. The only other change is there is one new project um is a we discussed it last month, but it's right there at number

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two. Um, I don't know if you can see it. We can maybe try to zoom in. It's the State Road 525. It doesn't want to zoom in for us, but we can get you a copy if you need it. >> Mr. White Sher highway. Um, this was a previously approved project. We have some segments

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of it in the program projects. Um, and that, um, has just been resegmented, but it's there's no significant changes. Um but otherwise that concludes my presentation for the law. >> Thank you. >> Any questions missing? None. Okay, sir. Uh I know uh in Kieran County

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engineers here just want to be on the record. I know we're working on trying to get the car parkway extension bumped up and how critical it is just because of uh the market shift and where developments happening and how people

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are moving between 41 52 especially uh once D starts are much anticipated and needed state road 52 widening on the east of 41. Um, I just want to be on record of of of stating how critical the

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at least the northern piece of the Cer Parkway extension is from Parkwood Boulevard North and um uh if there's any any ability to to uh bump that project up over time or funds kind of available

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uh keep it on forefronts of our of our work list that okay thank you any Other comments on this item? This is an action item. Um, do we have a

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motion to approve >> under discussion? >> Yes. Go ahead, Commissioner. >> Just a little curious about 54 and 41 um with with Secretary Hall there. Just wondering how we're how how that project

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is coming along. >> Mr. Secretary, you would like to come forward. >> Okay. So, we do have a motion. We have a second whenever we're prepared to vote. Okay. Thank you. >> Welcome, Secretary. >> Morning. Justin, D Secretary in District 7. So, 4154 right now. We're looking at

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interim operational improvements. So, we're going to add triple lefts to three of the legs. Uh we're going to begin here soon purchasing right away for the ultimate. As you can imagine, real estate costs continue to go up. So feel like every time we get close to moving on this, the cost uh increases on us. So

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we're trying to look for opportunities to reduce costs, but like I said, in the interim right now, we're going out and putting in triple lefts, which should help with clearance times. Hopefully we can get it where it's two signal uh cycles instead of three to clear the turn queue. But we are continuing to

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work on it and I think we do have some uh operational improvements that my team's put together. But right now, the triple lefts are what we're doing in the short term. Secretary, um I know that I think Congress is reauthorizing the um transportation bill. Did that get

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reauthorized already? >> I'm trying to >> they uh it made it past the first step. Now it's in I don't know what they call it, you know, statewise we call it a cooling off period, but it's in the period where it's in contemplation by Congress, but the initial vote passed.

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They did increase capacity funding. So if that comes to be, the state of Florida would receive additional funding for capacity improvements. >> We um la last year when we were in Washington, we went to our um congressional delegation and asked for

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support went for an application that would come from DOT um to uh look for some I don't know I don't remember what they call it, tiger or build or whatever the word is of the day. uh money to help expedite that that

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interchange and I hope that we'll work together and get some kind of application going since it's so important to the region. >> Yeah, absolutely. We can work with uh Pasco County staff to get an application together for that. >> Okay, thank you. I see I see Waitman's hand is up. So,

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>> thank you, Commissioner Stark. Any other questions for Secretary Hall on this item or any other items on the lot? Commissioner, thank you and thank you Mr. grant for 41 with the pending raise several times with the pending raise

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deal and if the go if if the state mobilizes uh the task force do all the infrastructure work is Pasco County funding for 52 and and uh improvement in jeopardy with the movement funds aren't

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infinite right so I just hair of concern are um we protect our funding for that stretch of road and and any you know progress we make at 541. >> Yeah, I can tell you that the funds that

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would come to support the raise are coming from completely outside the district. They have no impact on any projects inside the district. >> Thank you, sir. >> They're coming from another area. So like it's >> Well, see that's why that's why we asked the question. >> Yeah. Yeah. So we're we're we're winning

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on that one. change, please engage us to help. >> We'll do >> we will get our >> and start for sure. >> I'll let you know. But right right now you're good. You don't need to worry about that. >> Any any other questions, comments from

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the board on this item? >> Thank you, Mr. Secretary. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we have a motion. We have a second to approve further conversation on this item. Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I those opposed? Nay. Thank you. Item number six.

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>> Thank you. Uh item number six, Miss Abasi, you're also up for this one. This is addendum item final NO fiscal year 2027 to 2031 transportation improvement program. >> Thank you. In your agenda packet is also a copy of the NO's final fiscal year 27

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to31 transportation improvement program or TI um which I'm presenting today for your approval. that there have been no significant changes to the document since the draft presentation in May with the exception of some formatting and editorial changes. Nothing significant. Um but otherwise I'm happy to answer any questions.

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>> Very good. Any questions for staff from Miss Aval on this item? >> Okay. Hearing none with the pleasure of the board. We have a motion to approve motion. We have a second. >> Second. >> Have a motion. We have a second. There's no further discussion. We'll have our

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vote. All those in favor, please say I. I posted n. >> Thank you very much. >> Um, thank you, Angel. Item seven, Pasco County Metropolitan Planning Organization final unified planning work program fiscal years 2026 to 2027 to 27

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to 28. Dr. Campbell, good morning uh chair, members. Dr. Campbell, planning manager for Pasco MBO. Today I'm here to present the final unified planning work program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028. I'd like to briefly explain what the

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UPWP is. The UPWP is essentially the NO's 2-year work program. Um it outlines all the planning activities we will carry out um within these two fiscal years. um how those activities support our transportation goals and how

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federal, state, and local funds will be used to support that work. Uh now, regarding the development of the UPWP, an initial draft of the UPWP was released uh to the public on March 12th, uh 2026.

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At that time, we opened a 30-day public comment period which ended April 12th, 2026. All comments received during that period were reviewed and addressed uh as appropriate in the updated document. During our May 21st

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uh meeting, the board approved the UPWP pending final approvals from our federal and state partners um FDOT, FHWA, and FTA. I'm pleased to report that we have now received FDOT's approval for the UPWP.

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With that approval in place, the NPO staff recommends uh to this board uh formally adopt the unified planning work program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028. Thank you. And I'm happy to answer any questions from this body.

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>> Thank you very much, Casey. Any questions for Dr. Campbell this? >> I have a question. >> Commissioner Starky. >> Yes, thank you. Um and I to me I just sent you a text. Um um so we got some CDBGDR money that that

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can be used for um infrastructure improvements and um the county is meeting with all the commissioners about projects in their districts. And one of the projects that is bubbling up in mine is the Mitchell Boulevard extension. Um

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there are some really a couple of really big projects on either side of Little Road getting ready to put a shovel in the ground and um so and that's a failed intersection 54 and Little. So we are looking at accelerating Mitchell

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Boulevard and so I I just need to make sure that it's on here somewhere. Um and I don't recall how that works. Tia. >> Okay. But Commissioner Starky, we are on the unified planning work program. If we wanted to go back to the item for the

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list of priority projects, I can we can have that discussion, but we have to go back to that item to add Mitchell Boulevard onto that. But before I do that, could I speak to county staff to have that discussion and just know where we are with the project and the ranking

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and then come back to the board and would that be would that work for you? >> Yeah, that's fine. I I understand the permit the permit for the road is going to be is going in in within a month. >> So, >> okay, I will connect with transportation

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engineering to have that discussion. >> Okay, cool. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Gorman. Further questions for Dr. Campbell hearing none. What's the pleasure of the board on this item? >> We have a motion to approve. Do we have

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a second? We have a motion. We have a second. Further discussion hearing none. All those in favor please say I. >> I. >> I. I. >> Thank you very much. And item eight. This is uh an action. No not an action item. This is presentation only. Freight

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plan final presentation. >> It it is it is action that is >> there's no action required. So it it is okay. Very good. Yes sir. Um, please state your name and address for the record, Mr.

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>> Good morning. I'm Rob Kerzy, a vice president with um, Finnish, a general planning consultant for the Pasco NPO and my address is 609 Faget Drive South Safety Arp, Florida. >> Welcome. Thanks for being here with us today.

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>> Sure. This is the third time I've been before this group for the uh, past three meetings. Uh you'll recall two meetings ago I discussed our needs assessment and last month about three weeks ago I briefed you on where we were heading

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with recommendations and implementation plan. The change that has occurred here is we have submitted our draft documentation for tech memo 6 which is the recommendations and tech memo 7 which is the implementation plan and

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they've been improved or included in your packet. So you see the full list of recommendations and locations that we've identified for needs and potential projects. Um and that brings us to this point where we're here before you for approval.

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So my presentation today, since I've briefed you on much of the other study process and the and the preliminary activities, I really want to spend the time today focusing on those recommendations and the implementation plan.

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What got us to this point was we did a systemwide analysis looking at the entire county. We identified freight activity centers. We took a look at deficiencies on the roadway system. This is more level of service, congestion, mobility as we

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would call it. Also looked at safety analysis in locations where there were safety issues of crashes that included commercial vehicles. We then thought, okay, we want to really focus in on where the trucks are, which facilities they're using, uh the location of those

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freight activity centers. So you see in the middle there, we really focused on facilities which had high truck volumes. And from that we're able to conflate those two data points and come up with needs. Our recommendations you see on the left

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there I full Mr. W has a question. I'll wait to uh on the left side are the types of recommendations that we have made. I'll go each through each of those in detail, but they are to address the needs and issues that are on the right side of

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this slide. Let me emphasize here that what this study is is it's a needs assessment resulting in policy recommendations and locations where freight needs exist. It provides freight related analysis and insight for practices and processes that

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raise the profile of freight mobility and safety needs for future freight identification. projects um project prioritization and project development. What it is not since it's not a program so we didn't

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get down to these levels of doing concepts at intersections or roadways just reference more freight friendly design. We made some recommendations of what we thought some improvements might be which would uh which would uh address

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the need. uh and we did not do detailed cost and estimates since we did not have detailed concepts. So uh it is a guidance guiding document that we feel provides something for everyone from this document. If the NO in developing

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their next long range plan, their next list of priority projects, their next tip could use this document to identify roadway improvements that could facilitate the movement of trucks and

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goods. Also, if it's a local government or it's FDOT, you can take a look at it and use some of the findings from this report either in identifying new projects and developing a work program, a capital

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improvements program, or even use some of the information as a project is going into design or project development. it could actually take into consideration some of the locations where we've identified needs specifically at the intersection and corridor level.

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So with that said, let me hit first on the policy recommendations. Won't go into too much detail here, but the first couple really have to do with development review and the practices of the county staff when developments are coming in for approval.

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Consider the type of development, the location of the development, and how that could impact freight mobility, generation, attraction of freight trips on the network. And make sure that you're providing for adequate access to

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freight activity centers in and out. Even if it's if it's a development which is a large residential development that does not in the long haul going to generate a lot of truck tra or freight traffic. Um consider that

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>> you got to get building materials in. That can be a long haul three four five year process. Make sure that construction logistics plan are taken into consideration because those large developments do um clog and congest uh

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the existing infrastructure. Couple of other items here. Um, truck lane restrictions or limited access facilities. We didn't rec recommend any changes here, but we just want to for the long term realize that there are ways that for the major arterials or the

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limited access roadways that you can consider such um such applications and maybe study them in the future. The example I always throw up is uh Southwest Florida, I75, where you'll see the restrictions of no trucks in the

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left lane. As I75, as Sun Coast get more congested, uh you can consider managing those truck trips and making sure that they do not uh complicate either from a mobility or a safety standpoint. From a policy level, one of our crowning

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achievements for this study is the designated freight network. It builds upon the freight network that that was developed for FDOT for the strategic freight plan. Provides a little bit more detail of the roadway network to the

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local level for Pasco County. The county is very well served by many uh state roads which are the primary movers of freight traffic within the area. What our study did was get down to the freight activity centers which you see

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here in gray. uh those are either clusters of industrial uses or individual uses and what we're trying to provide is access to those facilities from the primary roadway network. So we identified some secondary roads and some

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freight activity center roads uh which which could be used to make sure that adequate access is provided. This could be a document that could be used uh in the development of the next comprehensive plan. It could be used in development review for the county in

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identifying the facilities which are designated as movers of freight primarily over the road trucks, heavy trucks and make sure that uh those facilities are protected, designed and maintained for that particular use.

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some of the systemwide recommendation. Our study would benefited from the fact that FDOT and the county both have good data on traffic counts and truck volumes on those facilities, classification counts. That was very helpful in doing our analysis for future freight

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analysis, continue uh that practice. We did note that during the course of our study, we had several new commercial clients on the rail line CSX, especially in the Zephr Hills and Dade City area, being aware that with those new rail

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sightings, uh that there could be increased freight traffic, which could result in extended closure of railroad crossings and the impact that that could have on delay and safety, especially in uh your more

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congested areas. Yes, state of good repair just refers to resurfacing program and making sure that whenever uh resurfacing projects take place that

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those that are carrying heavy trucks are designed accordingly and use materials uh that will accommodate those trucks. We've all been through some of the older industrial areas and we see how quickly those roadways degrade and get rutdded and cause issues. Also with

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intersections if it does not have the correct turning radius you can be crushing curbs, running in infrastructure, light poles, things like that. So definitely that that comes under the state of good repair. Truck parking is an issue throughout the US specifically here in Florida. FDOT's

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taken the lead in doing a lot of truck parking uh enhancements, building new facilities here in Pasco County. The additional parking spaces for the rest area between uh or on on I75 between 56

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and 54 uh has added new spaces. District 7 is also building a truck parking facility in Hillsboro County on I4 at the Hillsboro and P County line. There are no planned public uh use or public

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sector truck parking facilities coming online. But what we're seeing is that actually the private sector is step stepping in. You do have the Flying Jay which we all know is a point of congestion and a lot of uh a lot of parking demand there which is off often exceeds the capacity. But we're seeing

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with a lot of the new commercial gas stations, truck stops, whether it's the Speedway or it's even Circle K, um, Racetrack, some of those you're starting to see, um, the canopies for the trucks in the back with parking. So, that need

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is being addressed pretty well with the private sector. So I think it's everyone's hope that you know public sector with um federal and state funds is taking care of it from some to some degree but that the private sector is

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probably going to come in and solve the rest of that issue. So we want to make sure that we at least address that within this study. And for prioritization, we hope that the results of this study uh will incorporate um freight prioritization into all of your project prioritizations and programming

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schemes and hope that this uh that this study provides good information to that purpose. So, let me get into the infrastructure and operational recommendations. The map here, you see we have some um some of the corridors marked as well as some of

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the intersections. The intersection re recommendations are related to that state of good repair, safety, access, and mobility where we saw the need. We lit up the map there. And the same thing with the corridor ones with the dash lines or the solid

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lines where we blackened out or grayed out some of the locations. Those are the major improvements that are already programmed and underway. You see how state road 52 is just about the length of the corridor

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there. So that really gets into um where we have faith that those projects that are under development, under construction, that are freight corridors, as we know all the state roads are, that freight design has been

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taken into consideration and that they're going to be taken care of. So most of our recommendations did not double down on uh projects that were already under development. We really focused a little bit more on locations where a funded project was not already

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identified and really saw if we could uh um emphasize the needs within those locations. This is not the full list that I'm showing here in my presentation. This is just an example of the intersection recommendations we made. This is from

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the tech memo 5. So we it's it's alphabetically. So you see see I just picked it out here with state county road 54 island boulevard haze road some of those. But I wanted to give a good mix here of where we identified a need be it within reliability which is more

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congestion safety asset management all of those. We then identified if it if a programmed improvement was at that location which could immediately help remediate some of the

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freight needs. And then we and then we identified recommended improvement type. And you see in the far right column we did make a note of what we're seeing. For instance, Houston Avenue at US19 signs of overtracking improve Houston Avenue

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westbound right turn radius. So we didn't develop a project or go to that length but just based upon our operation our observations and the needs that we saw there we did get about as close as we could to um providing information as the type of improvement that could be

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made. Did the same here for um corridor improvements just a little bit different uh language or description that was used here. Island Boulevard for instance you see description is bottlenecks at handcart road dean dair road and US301

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operational improvements may address safety need um the need the need and improvement type there was related to mobility and safety. So you see we got to that level of information. And so if someone were analyzing, looking for projects, looking for needs along a

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corridor, this document would provide some good guiding leading information and how to address improvements. So let me move into the implementation plan here. As I mentioned before, we didn't do detailed cost estimates. uh we

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didn't do detailed uh uh conceptual design but based upon the nature of the projects and improvements they fell somewhere within the a nine box category of either being low medium to high cost short-term midterm or long-term. So for

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each of those projects that we identified, we were able to go in here as an example once again from the table from TechMo7. We're able to identify each improvement as something that would be more low cost and low mid or long-term

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in potential implementation. So that looks something like see that. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, Chansy Road, Zephr Hills, your industrial corridor. That's all very uh uh very central to our analysis. So, that looks something like this. Once

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you map those potential implementation projects, I didn't really emphasize it too much here, but as part of our study, we did do a more detailed circulation and access assessment of the major freight activity centers. So, whenever you see, for instance, uh Hudson, where

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we identified a large uh freight activity center, you see there's a lot of dots and dashes up in that that location, we did get down and really try to immediately address some of some of those needs. So through this, we really feel like that our plan has something

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for everyone. Be it if you're in the policy realm or you're in the short-term project implementation, you're in the long range planning, there is some bit of information here on the subject of freight and goods movement that uh that

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you can seize upon and we help uh raise the elevation of freight needs. I'll take any questions or comments. Thank you very much, Mr. Kirsty. Any questions for Mr. Kurt this time? Comments? Commissioner Wakeman. Thank

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you, Chair. Might be for county engineer. Uh, back to my favorite subject of the day, the Parkway Extension Earl. The central pass employment village

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comes on right south side 52 and with Aaron cut off being the only north south connector between 52 and 41 are redesigning that stretch of road to

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handle freight and commercial traffic because it's Amazon comes online as the concrete plant that's right there at the intersection and whatever the future holds. with based on those zonings. Uh we know air cut off is taking a lot of

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commercial traffic, freight traffic to cut to cut not go all 401 couldn't do. Is the design of the road network within that corridor wouldn't be sufficient

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to handle truckers as GPS takes them right. uh it'll show up and cut off. It'll it's no longer a secret spot anymore. There's none of those because of Google maps. Are we going to be able to have sufficient flow

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through through that corridor into the future? I know it wasn't called up was surprising, but I guess you're taking you know what's happening today versus future. >> Correct. And I'll let your county engineer address the the designing

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concept for >> you'll probably be using this. >> But I but I can tell you that there there was there was a lot of debate about that when we designated the network. We felt that given the current configuration of Aaron Cutoff that it is

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not the safest best route for truck movement. So therefore we did not designate it as such. Also given the existing um the existing land uses along there, the concrete plant is really the one that

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generates most of the trucks in its close proximity. Most of them hopefully are going up to 52 and not going south to 41, but that's probably not the case. Um, so that was our consideration in not having it as a freight facility at this

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point, but obviously that's all subject to change and updates and however the county wants to take what we've done and either adopt our existing map and enhance it or make changes even as Cynthia Spidel said earlier as far as bringing in additional vision roads. So

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that was kind of our existing snapshot of of what we were of of what we were seeing there and why we did not designate it as a freight facility. >> Yeah. To your question regarding design and and the planning study that we have

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underway. Yeah. Absolutely. Designing for truck movements. Four lane divided will have a designed vehicle of sufficient length and width to support truck volume movements on the corridor. Not putting them on air cut off, putting

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them on the construction of a continuous four-lane road from 52 to 54 that will be designated as Collier Parkway. >> Okay. We know they're going to use it. >> We know. Yes, we we will accommodate that use. Um implementation is not going to be quick because it's a long corridor

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and all of the land is not in county right away and we have still to decide exactly where we will go in a few segments. And then we have to assemble the resources to pay the cost to build it. But the ultimate condition will be a

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continuous four-lane road that we will construct over time that will accommodate trucks. We brought it up at the last meeting and you know I know you know this kind you but we have to we have to take into account where technology is sending people these days and so it's very definitely has to be

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part of the conversation whether it's part of our long-term freight planning or not. We have to remember the GPS our what the Walmart distribution center in Hernando County. What's the name of that road is on? Um anyway, at one time

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it was called Trilby Cemetery Road in Hernando County because it did link down to Trilby past the Trilby Cemetery. Well, through the years we've had problems with the fence at the Trilby Cemetery because GPS was sending semi trucks that were taking things to Walmart distribution center leading them

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in 575 into Trilby along Trilby Cemetery that get as far as they could go at Cemetery Gate and then they'd back in take out our fence and gates everything like that. So yeah, technology is doing this. So >> and and candidly, I think our challenge is that we have areas that are still

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rural that are being asked to absorb the impact of a rapidly suburbanizing and urbanizing county. and and we're doing our best to to ensure that we provide segregation of those uses and and adequate facilities to support the urban

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and suburban development patterns that we are allowing through our comprehensive plan and development approvals. It the transition period is sometimes painful. Interesting how our world has changed. You go along these roads and you know

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they never were planning on all this traffic to suddenly start going down their roads, but that's where they're being sent. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Percy? Commissioner Starky, do you have any items to add? Okay. Hearing no.

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>> No, I'm I'm good. Thank you. >> Okay. Very good. We have um we've heard our freight plan presentation. Oh, you one thing you mentioned was this would be helpful with comprehensive plans. >> Oh, and >> I do have something.

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>> Okay, go right ahead. >> Um Mr. >> Ju just to um go back to the Mitchell extension. Um we have on either side of Little Road coming to uh what what do you call

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those? um big box distribution retail places. I I'm not sure I can say the names. So, um I don't know if you looked at freight around the Trinity area. Uh we

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also we also have another speck industrial two two large speck industrial facilities um going in the area. One is St. John. It's under construction. a million square feet of

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light industrial and then another one on Gun Highway and Interlockin. So, not sure if that was on your radar. >> Yes. Yes, Commissioner. We did look at all of those as we were doing our our analysis and I've gone back to the

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designated freight network here on my presentation and you will see that those locations um such as those stack warehouses some of the large individual ones even if they weren't in the cluster uh but Gun Highway um Sun Lake

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Trinity area so >> they're not showing I I I didn't see the map so I apologize. So, so in order to provide access to those, we do have secondary freight collectors um in that area. We do have uh Trinity and Little

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Road, some of those and and Gun Highway that provide access to those to those facilities. Um the good news is a lot of those that are coming online, they already have direct access, driveway access to uh many of those uh secondary

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and primary freight roads that we've identified. Okay, thank you. >> You had indicated that this great plan could be of use with comprehensive plan. Uh will we be able to and I'm sure the municipalities can piggyback with this

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plan with our own comprehensive planning. Could we pro make sure that each of our six municipalities get a copy of this final plan and uh not just for the city manager but also the city planner. If you can make sure that at least two copies go one to city

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management also to city planners uh economic development directors uh and the cities because this would be very helpful to us with our comprehensive plans and our cities too as much as we can piggy back on. That was one of the uh one of the hopes and aspirations of this study. And as we went through our

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stakeholder engagement, we did meet with each of the cities, the planning departments, and we met with the department heads uh for many of the county departments and just talked about what the study was about and how they could incorporate some of these

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recommendations into their daily practices. So, we're hoping that it will be a useful uh document at at all levels of uh of government and implementation agencies for Pasco County and beyond. >> Very good. Thank you, M. Kersy. Anything

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further for Mr. Kirsty on this item before we take action? >> Okay. Thank you very much. At this time, we do need to take action on this item approving the freight plan as presented uh by uh Venish um Mr. Percy today. Uh,

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do we have a motion to approve? >> We have a motion to approve. Do we have a second? >> We have a motion. We have a second. >> I I under discussion. >> Um, I still I still am concerned.

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>> There's nothing there for the million square feet of light industrial that's coming south of 54. Um, is that I don't know what that means to not be on here. I I don't know the

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significance of it. >> That question for Commissioner Starky, >> Mr. Percy. Okay. Thank you. >> Because it looks like you have the roads inside. Are those green lines in there inside Trinity uh the uh West Pasco

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Industrial Center? Is that what those green lines are on the north of 54 in Trinity? >> Yes, that that is correct. >> So why would then you not recommend any lines south of 54? >> I think the locations that you're

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primarily referring to already have direct access to 54 or Trinity Boulevard, so they might not be >> uh No, well St. John's does not have access to

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Trinity Boulevard until Yeah. No. And yeah, there there's a light going and it does have access to 54. It's further further west of the West

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Pasco Industrial Center. >> What roadway does the development have primary access onto? Where will the where will the driveways be? That would that would help me in responding to that. >> Um well, it's retail and commercial up front, but in the back with the million square feet of lot industrial, they're building the road. I don't know the name

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of it. >> It's getting involved in the conversation at this point. Mh. Commissioner Sty. >> Yeah. Should it be identified as activity center? >> Gotcha. On the south side. >> Gotcha. Yes, Commissioner. We did try to

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include as much of the of the planned developments as we could when we identified our freight activity centers. Uh that's one that doesn't light up on the map as a freight activity center, but as um Nick just pointed out, it does have direct access to 54. So we could

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identify it on our maps as a freight activity center, but as far as our recommendations with that direct access, it would be accommodated by >> State Road 54. >> Okay. But I I just want it acknowledged. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you very much, Mr. Stury. Further comments on this item. We have a motion. We have a second to approve this time. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. >> Thank you. Right. I believe we covered all of our

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action items, all of our presentations. Um and so this will bring us to we had no status reports any further things on that item and any other items. Um our next meeting will be August the 20th. We'll take the

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month of July off plus we may have a workshop of course regarding the regional NO but our next meeting August 20th. That meeting will be in Newport Richie. Am I correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. That meeting will be at the West Pasco government center.

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want to thank uh Dr. Council member Savannah Steph Manager Ammeritus for joining us today saving the day. Thank you very much Steve for being here with us and Stephen contributing to the conversation. I know the idea of the

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Frank plan is of great importance to several hills as it is to the rest of us as well. Also want to uh thank Commissioner Waitman when the answer was no we can't do this he found a way to do it and so glad we could continue our meeting as my daddy would say when I was

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growing up in Shelby and probably my old granddad ahead of him there is more than one way to scan a cat the old he walks before the light today who remembers that one >> Senator Governor >> Governor Charles if there is nothing further we will adjourn our committee

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thank everyone being here. Thanks for accominating.