city council meeting tues February father God we come to you in the precious name of Jesus we just ask for wisdom for the stuff that's on the agenda tonight thank you that you guide us as a team with your word and your spirit to lead to make the right
decisions not only for the city but for the residents here so we continue to give you the praise Glory and Honor as we do the pledge allegiance in God we trust in Jesus name Amen to the flag of the United States of
America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all cler I have Ro Mayor John Eric coover here vice mayor Linda Rodriguez here councilman David
Mueller here councilman Robert hubard at the record show that councilman Robert hubard is absent from tonight's meeting councilwoman Lisa Burke let the record show that Council M Lisa Burke is absent from today's meeting City attorney Nancy
Meyer here city manager Matthew coppler here thank you um first up we have a proclamation and and if I could have Veronica come down to accept it it's on flood awareness week but I need somebody to give it [Laughter]
to that's why you told her to show [Music] know so I have proclamation of city of Port Richie recognizing flood awareness week March 2nd 2025 to March 8th 2025 whereas severe weather events can result
in flooding of coastal and riverine areas causing damage and losses to homes and businesses whether in high-risk fesal flood Hazard areas or low to moderate risk flood zones and whereas the city of Port Richie is a voluntary participant in FEMA's National flood insurance program which sets higher regulatory standards to reduce flood
risk and potential property damage and in return allows residents to protect themselves against flood loss through the purchase of reduced rate flood insurance and whereas public education helps promote preparedness control and mitigation measures to reduce property damage and loss of life and we join the Florida flood plane manager association
and local municipalities in recognizing flood Awareness Week to promote awareness of flood risk flood insurance flood protection and emergency preparation methods now therefore I johary coou mayor at City Port Richie do hereby proclaim the period from March 2nd 2025 to March 8th 2025 as flood
Awareness Week in Port Richie and urge all residents businesses and organizations to participate in activities that enhance our community's preparedness and resilience against flooding in witness whereof I have here unto accept my hand and cause the great SE of city of Port Richie to be a fixed this February 25th 2025 John coou May
City of Port [Music] Richie two perect [Music] okay next up we have uh two sets of council minutes look for a motion for 1126 2024 city council me minutes motion
to approve 1126 2024 C minut second have a motion second for discussion all in favor by saying I I opposed motion carries next I need a motion for February 11th 2025 city council meeting minutes motion to approve um Council
minutes second have motion second any further discussion all in favor by saying I I I oppos motion carries I own okay um next up comments
from General Public I do have one signed up Danny Fields welcome my name's Danny Phils my address is 8114 Li kid kid and I just want to thank you guys personally for your leadership and your servitude and working together as a team to make this
a great place to uh work and live and be a part of what's going on in the community for development I do want to thank all the First Responders for all they do the police the fire department the EMTs and stuff out there ready to
assist in in any emergency and you know I'm grateful for the equipment they have and the training they have and you know we we all need to call on them recently I had to call but it was uh the Newport Richie fire department showed up so I'm
so grateful for how they handled and used their expertise and even kept me calm and moved me over to the side so they could do their job so it it makes it personal when you go through things and see the response and the training they have but on that note I just want
to thank all of you we do got a lot of stuff coming up with somebody cares and light the world Tabernacle we will be uh working in the community doing more events we do have an event coming up starting March the 5th uh it'll go for
40 days it'll lead up to the National Day of Prayer at the government center on May the 1st and we will be doing at the Oasis Coffee Spot which is Jerry the head of somebody cares and it's also uh a a coffee house Christian bookstore and
a church and we'll be doing the 40 days of prayer we pray for the city and for the seven mountains influence so we made up a book so that way we could pray because everything through prayer and supplication changes things it gives us wisdom it gives us guidance it gives us
Insight that we wouldn't have not just with knowledge but wisdom uh and it's part of training I think about training that we all go through so this is a training that is on a different level but not taken away from the natural training because I've been trained in a
lot of areas myself but this is a training that prepares the way for for God to unite us together through the through the faith-based church in the community and First Responders and governments working together so we uh have more Mayors coming on board in
other uh counties uh uh so that is great news there and so that will be at um the O Asus Coffee Spot 9213 Little Road in Newport Richie the
zip a 34653 uh for those that can make it Monday through Friday from 9: to 10: they'll be there for an hour and then like on Wednesdays we'll be at at uh 6:00 to about 7:30 so uh all are welcome
and those online that want to come to it and be a part of it and then continue to work in the park with all a lot of events coming up in the future so thank you for everything you do blessings in Jesus name thanks d boy time that perfectly that's all signs I have show
hands anybody else like to speak say that I bring it back to comment for the city manager I pass to Mr copper for his comments thank you very much and good evening I had a number of things mostly updates he wanted to provide tonight uh first uh the contractor for the peer
demolition is in the process of starting the mobilization uh they intend if everything goes as planed to start the uh actual deconstruction on February 27th and that day was chosen because of
the low tide if you're curious as to why uh second item uh ARF funded uh Paving we are right now working on getting quotes from um Ajax on uh Bay Boulevard work River Golf and portions of old
poster believe it's to the north that we're looking at uh doing Paving there so uh once we have uh those numbers we'll be able to start finalizing how we're going to be spending that money of course you know we'll bring it back and
speak to council before we go forward with that um we recently submitted a grant to Lowe's who has a program that uh funds Community type projects uh we put in uh for a grant of a million
dollar plus uh for the Brash Park improvements uh including that are restrooms playground new KAC kayak launch Pavilions parking lot and uh we're told that we might be hearing something as early as next week uh on
that funding uh we received notice from FEMA that the expedited laugh that expedited debris uh funding for Helen was obligated and we're in the process of getting the 50%
uh reimbursement from them and hopefully the rest of it will be expedited but maybe in a more expedited manner than than this um but that's a good first step in getting reimbursed for I think it's approximately million two somewhere
in that neighborhood and it's 50% 50 right now yeah and then the remainder will be coming at some point in an expedited manner total cost of the bre pickup was Million to uh yeah and I think that's
just for I don't think that included the uh that was just C and D so it's the the housing construction debris that was out there not the uh debris from the uh uh vegal
debris from Milton either no I don't think I don't think there's anything again Milton was primarily yard waste so is that was there a cost associated with that that we're getting reimburse for as well or uh I think we're working on that right now we're
not we didn't do that through the expedited so that just be going through the regular category a um let see here we put the way finding and branding RFP out that is due at the end of March so uh the CRA should be
seeing that sometime in April to hopefully award so we can get that moving forward uh we did receive uh a draft of the Newport Richie interlocal for mandate Point uh I know the City attorney has made some comments I'm in
the process of sending them back to the uh Newport Richie to see if uh those are acceptable changes if they are we may be seeing that at the next meeting but definitely uh the second meeting in March if not next week uh still waiting
on comments and finalization from fot on the Grand Boulevard us9 intersection improvements so we don't have a lot to report on that and the last thing I had before we turn it over to the fire department for their presentation
because it is the second meeting of the month which means Department presentations um received notice today from the Army Corp Engineers that our cap 103 project request uh has now moved
on to the next phase which is the determination of federal interest and we should hear in about two months if uh our our issues here we want to correct with Federal money are a federal interest and we can move to the study
phase what was the scope of that so there's a lot of things in that um primarily 103 is for uh inundation club uh storm watera
ination the other one I think 203 is Cap 203 is actually riverine flooding which should be like um Sunset long sunset uh well it could be and that that's the difficulty in this is that this could go
two different ways depending upon the justification um right now we're just looking at it from the standpoint of of Helen and the storm surge ination um but we have put out there that that that you
know there is a a blue sky flooding going on that that would qualify under the riverine uh flooding which is a different cap which I think is either two3 or 205 one of the two um so we're still working through that one but this
one is really just related to inundation from storm surge and So within that we have the fire department um we we have our critical infrastructure such as the lift stations um roadways things like
that nothing to do with uh any Canal debris or anything like that uh yes and no um to deter yeah and and again it's kind of a a very high level right now and when you get if if there's Federal
interest which we seem think there will be um then we get into the specifics of what they're going to be looking like at and then that will be a part of the the actual study that will be conducted by the Army Court okay but again you know what we we primarily focused on was the
fire department was the uh station roadway um but again we have you know Sunset Boulevard we also have uh Babel of our no post in that area so
there's a lot going on there that that once they make the ation it's better un just we can start honing down on what it is they're they're interested thank you and if there's no other questions on any of those I will turn it over to the
chief for the presentation good evening everybody I haded a fly out I didn't have a chance to add this to the slide um Mr Copler had asked us to do a uh where we are and where we're going presentation state of the department
presentation uh this is more of where we came from and then we'll get into the actual rest of the the PowerPoint um when I was hired I was told to be Progressive make a change but be budget wise as we're a small City uh I worked here my entire life on the west side of
Pasco County and I'm very aware of the disaster potentials of the flooding the Hurricanes tornadoes brush fires boating accidents and all the things that happened on the west side of the county when I stepped into this position over here I identified weaknesses with Tom in many discussions
uh but the whole goal of that was to make sure these weaknesses that we could go after um but the whole time being realistic and what I mean by that is like a weakness that we have in the city if we don't have a ladder truck and we have a lot probably the most congested
area of elevated structures in the west side of Pasco um but realistically we don't have a Le to house a ladder truck so that's just something that isn't on you know it isn't on our current radar so with those weaknesses that I identified um one was that we were very
dependent and relying upon others uh other people to wash our bunker gear other people to fill our air bottles um other people for specialty equipment that we didn't have um and we couldn't do fire inspections without the fire truck going out um we only had two guys
on duty every day um we were only basic life support and not Advanced life support with paramedics we had no 4x4 trucks we had no high water rescue capabilities we had no brush truck we had no no quick response small boat for
flooding and kayak emergencies you we had some fire department related dispatching issues um we had just started you know uh stepping into the cancer prevention issues but we still had serious cancer profession things that we needed to take care of as
an agency uh we had no true second in command it was only me and as you can see I have to steal time at times um and we didn't have the ability to handle two calls at one time these were just things that I had focused on in the beginning as um issues and priorities for me to
you know to work on within our agency uh the the problem that Captain Quinn had and the agency before me was um they never needed it before mentality was very prevalent amongst the uh um pre previous fire department staff
I was questioned by some as to why do we need small rescue boat why do we need a brush truck why do we even need four-wheel drive it's a pavement City just so you know every one of those assets were put into play rescuing people or protecting people we got some of the biggest brush fires we've ever
had in the last couple of years some of the biggest disasters we've ever had and every one of those assets that I had asked for and you guys had approved were put into play um we could not have gotten to or would have depended on other to assist us in rescuing or
protecting the residents had we not purchased those items that we had requested um in the hurricane at one point I just ran into a dispatcher last night they had 600 calls waiting to be dispatched throughout the county the City of Newport Richie was overwhelmed
so the three times during the storm I asked for help nobody was available I mean everybody was overwhelmed but us we have never been more prepared you know uh than we've ever been or we were more prepared than we've ever been uh with the hard work of the
team the foresight of all of us together uh grants that we had sought um and many many Council approvals uh and you guys believing in us and in your fire department we have collectively solved all but the last three items on that list and those three items are all being
plucked away at at this time that's where we started when I walked in the door and that's where we're currently came to at this point on the actual state of the department you Tom start off so am
I so you'll see here that we're going to go over everything for 2024 uh so in 2024 we responded to 1,563 incidents um obviously we weren't able to capture all the data uh we'll go over that here in a second from
Hurricane Helen um just because of this not able to really capture correctly but most fire departments you'll see have a 68% we actually quite lower the average is about 72% of medic emergency medical we run about 68% uh 22% is other and
then 9% of that is fire uh it's broken into several categories uh rescue EMS service calls as what breaks down that large one that you see that as obviously EMS calls so about those incidents our average first apparatus travel time is 3
minutes and 25 seconds the average first apparatus turnout time is 1 minute and 6 seconds um so you ask what where does that play the NFPA set 191 1710 uh puts an average response time of 8 minutes and 43 minutes um and nfda says that you
have 80 Seconds to turn out of a fire station um so and that's 90% of the time so we're within our average response time is obviously much better than the average response time our turnout time is probably where it needs to be probably could to do a little bit better
um we had 2594 hours which say spent on calls for incidents so that's about 108 days that we actually spent on our fire truck on incidents of that
1,45 say 46 hours were on fire related incidents so if you were put dolls all the day we would spent 43.5 six days on fire related incidents to respond to property value versus the loss so we responded to a r rough estimate of
7,821 th000 some change um of a loss of 612,000 but with that means our response times and everything else uh equated to about an 87.5 one% saved on instance that respond to so what we do is we take
the value what we responded to we figure out how much it cost to replace that value with the the Damage Done and that's where it came to that's on the property values now on the responsive content so people people's contents with inside their home we responded to about
38 about 388,000 of that we had a loss of 144,000 which is about a 64.6% saved on our response of content values hold up right there the biggest thing that we see out of this to
summarize it is how much time are we gone meaning tied up on calls have we missed any calls and during that time process how fast are we getting out of the station and how quick are we getting to the calls um I can say that I'm I'm very we are very happy with the numbers
and the way that plays out because we are definitely far below the national average and the National Standard and and real quick the property values and content values that's based on structur Fires that's not based on like what resc and brush fires and all that other
stuff uh incident fact continued so last year of a breakdown of that we had 66 wildfires uh March of 20 24 seen the highest of 37 brush fires we responded total of 59 structure fires 29 of those were within the city porty limits 16 of
those were in the city of New por limits 11 were in Pasco County's jurisdiction 93% of our structure do you have your hand up sorry that 93% of our structure fires were single family homes um 13 other type fires so that refers to
Vehicles trash or small little outside fires maybe a cigarette in the middle of the median or on that um we also responded to 44 water rescue incidents we have 36 that were documented from Hurricane Helen uh with a total of about 106 that we can come up with um and then
we extrapolated that down to show you guys what resources being used so fireboat 42 which is our 18 foot Flats responded to 14 of those incidents Marine one which is the combined boat between the police and fire and respond to three of those incidents but remember
it's only been in service since September 2024 rescue boat 42 which is our 14ot inflatable respond to 13 of those incidents um a quick question on the on the 29 that was within the city limits do we know how many times within those
29 that we had another fire department so that's the next slid okay so when we look at our incidents right here we've now broken it down to um Mutual Aid and automatic Aid Mutual aid for everybody so you can understand Mutual Aid is we pick up the phone and we got to ask for
help right automatic a is mean we get a certain type of call that we predesignated and that in that department is automatically coming we're automatic aid for Newport Richie on any structure fire so if Newport gets a structure fire we get a struct fire Newport no matter what is coming they've
agreed an automatic agreement for for us for us and we're going to them we're first call for each C so is that so that 16 I think was Newport on theirs that was how many call 16 yeah that's how many times we went to that they came to US 29 times
so so they say that they only had 16 structure fires because we would respond all them doesn't mean that they've only had they only had 16 working structure fires because when we put these statistics in look we could we could get called to a structure fire the other day that wasn't a structure fire we don't categorize that as a structure
fire burn in the backyard of somebody's residence they thought was a house fire so it' be like action taken other or something on that that's why when you go back these incidents you'll see other typee incidents those are those ones that don't fall inside so on our mutual Aid um we average about 82 incidents um
a day of mutual Aid whether we're going to somebody or somebody else coming to us um 16% was Mutual Aid received that we got 8% of that was automatic Aid given 9% was automatic Aid received so we went automatically about 8% of the
time to Newport they came to us about 9% of the time 67% we gave Mutual aid but if you see the huge Spike um in that that was the hurricane so like Chief polastri said at the beginning of the slides uh we
obviously were in a predicament uh were obviously quite proud of what we were doing during the storm that we were able to help other communities and take care of our own Community uh once we got to a point that we knew we're able to do so and automatic Aid that's only structure
fire fires would yeah automatic structure fires no the call is automatic just structure fires well so anytime we go to Newport we categorize it automatic Aid so we could have went them for a medical call and we'll put it as automatic Aid inside
just because that's how we ex with them going on that side the situation with with Helen when the order was given to evacuate M and as
result of people not listening to that evacuation order caused a lot of that effort cor it was Statewide all the way down the coast not just Port Richie but I'm trying to bring a point out here is
had people adhere to that and the and the message is out there say you know if you're going to stay in shelter and place don't count on support coming for until things subside so you're going
to have to be on your own for a period of time but at some point in time you guys make a decision not to go because you jeopardize your own life in trying to save somebody else's correct yeah that message was put out um I
know very clear there was people uh trucks driving around making that announcement it was very clear but still people stayed in their homes and ultimately had impact I can tell you that the second hurricane uh the spike wasn't as
strong now there's two issues you know one is some people were damaged from the first one but the spike was nowhere near as strong because uh The Cry Wolf thing uh syndrome uh wasn't part of that well and and I
people ran I think people have got the message you know it's it was devastating to this city but you know potentially you got save lives and we certainly appreciate that so when you look at that when you take our whole total and it equates
about 19.5% of our calls either have mutate or were given mutate which is a well below a national average of what we're getting for Mutual Aid or getting back um with mutual Aid with the B of calls we did we put out were all
residents waiting because I know you only have three firefighters so were any of our calls put on hold or someone else have to come in while you were helping no because else I can't 100% say no but I can only think of a
couple of times I think one time was um the nursing home on Pine Hill we had a sended engine but the county had one on Congress okay um off the top of my head um I don't have that actual number but it's extremely low but it does it does happen yeah and that's come up in the
past that's why I wanted to get it on the record you know that if that has happened how was it frequent or not and one of the things we have to consider is you know yeah we gave M Lake out 67% but we're sending them one fire truck for a very slow amount of time um the large
brush fire that everybody's well aware of that we had um we had over 22 Pascal Count's apparatuses so they had probably six fire stations in the mediate area that didn't have responses because we had them tied up for half the night the
whole night yeah until 10 to 12 hours so you know we're it it is reciprocated looks like we probably go a little bit more um but when we call them we need them like they they send us millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment yeah so without even blink you know so
we gota you know we're both good partners in this in this it's being reciprocated back very well thank you you questions on that site you want do this just saw you so the total fire um inspections um as you know we implemented a fire inspection
fee program last year um and we collected a total of 22852 75 um in fire inspection fees um fire inspection fees sorry that should be fire on the bottom one should
actually say fire um plan review plan review fees uh we collected about $1,000 in those um so we did a total of 303 our current fire inspector Works about two days a week um and he's averaging to where it's paying for him where it's
paying for because he is part-time um and he on about average of about three inspections a day um he did three of those 313 inspections only 68 actually required a reinspection which is good um because the first reinspection is
obviously free every reinspection after that we start charging but it just goes to show you that the community is involved and making sure that they're proactive with fire safety and the fact that we only had to go out 68 times to do reinspection do we have any go past the first inspection where
we had a second or third yeah we had we had a few very very few few couple stubn people but most of them we kind of knew were going to happen already so but in the end when the F started hitting them more they they amazing how fast they got at line the the whole great thing about
this was we were able to Institute an inspection program with the goal of inspecting every business in the city every year um with no cost to the you know the the general fund and the general taxpayers the businesses were paying for something
that they needed to have um and then and it doesn't tie the fire truck up uh so the fire truck's not we're not using the most expensive piece of equipment that we have now to go out um and then it also makes available to us another firefighter on the days that he's here so if there's bigger incidents car
accidents multiple he's responding to those calls so it was a winwin win all the way around and the program itself is working out awesome so far oh not to mention that this wasn't on your list but it was a good ad it was a good ad
thank you um the um fire hydrant testing uh when I came uh one of the things that uh Captain Quinn had had pointed out to me was that you know we we do the hydrant testing but it's it's hard it's cumbersome it's it's it's it's tying the fire truck up between going out and
trying to do inspections and then going out and testing hydrants and trying to run calls and trying to do public education events and uh so we got together with a plan and through us and then coupling up with uh Public Works and teaming up together and using the
fire inspector that we have on his third day that's what he does he we started a a testing and a maintenance program so he goes around now annually he touches every single hydrant in the city and then every single hydrant within our water distribution system painting them
maintening some uh testing them documenting them GPS them to make sure we have the GPS locations of all of them and make sure that that's in the system and if a Hydra gets taken out by a car and moved 10 feet it gets reg GPS and put into the system so at any point in time we can click and we know exactly
where the hydrant are and and and what they flow um so that program worked out awesome um all all 188 were documented they're all mapped and again uh it began with NPA and ISO color coding all the way across the
board I want to say he's uh just finishing he's just starting the unincorporated area yeah that's where we're at now the city is done and now he's in the unincorporated area on continuing that that program and that graph right there just breaks down what
percentage of hydrants you have um and their flow rates it says that you have 23% that flow, 1500 gallons percent or more you have 34% that flow anywhere between 1,000 to 14.99 um you have 29 excuse me 34 29% of
anywhere between 599 gpms um I think 5% of 500 gallons per or less and then 10% um for some other reason I tried to rerun this and rerun this because I know he's tested that re hydrant but it come back as 10% of not
accable is that because the the pressure in those areas where those fire hydrants are are different or is it the capability the actual hydr itself so I don't want to talk on Daryl's expertise but if if I had to make an educated answer to that it's the size of the pipe
um it's the distance of where it's at um all hyd are the same 29% when you actually strap L off 180 hydrants isn't many hydrants that we have I could probably tell you off top of my head where those two are at um but and we've already plan pre-planned what this does to help us pre-plan to know
hey if we're going inside that area It's a larger home we're probably going to need to lay in from a different area so now do you guys paint those things different colors so you know what it is there the tops or so or the whole High gr the no you tap the tops so the
coloration there it writes blue so blue is, 1500 gallons per minute or more green which is not green on this thing he's color blind by the way I'm just throwing that out there ask the right right question you guys got what it spit out so the 34% should be green but I
don't think it is it's purple right 29% is red that's I know that right got right you know that um and then um the excuse me orange it say and then red is 5% yeah so it's common to
have a high percentage of orange and green hydrants um that's that's about where you're at it's it's very I'm even surprised we have 23% blue but I would guess those are probably all Walmart's hydrant H hydrants as far as the accomplishments uh the next slide we we touched on most
of these already um as you all know we got the assistance of firefighter Grant uh we got that air trailer which stopped our uh uh you know necessity to depend on others just to fill our air bottles um and now but that thing you set up to also do multiple other things support us
when we go to dive calls uh support us on L larger incidents and on public education events um again we we implemented the fire inspection fee program last year uh which in result in inspecting over it was like 96% of the businesses within the city so it was
over 90% we did the continued progress towards Advanced life support just so you know where we are as far as The Paramedic program um we're there we're just waiting to pull the trigger any day we're just basically dting every eye and Crossing every te the inspector's been
uh talking to us a couple different times and just ready to do it so it's just a matter of me and him making sure that everything that could possibly be inspected is exactly how the how we want it um and then we're just going to call him to come in and inspect it once he says yes he signs the form correct me if I'm wrong he sends out to the state we
get our license and from that point on WE we'll be providing ALS services so it's going to be very very shortly you already have Personnel in place yep yep so you're going to need a vehic what's that you will you need a vehicle no the engine will be okay yeah whatever the
Primary Response engine will be Advanced support life support now again we're not mandatory Advanced life support meaning that I can't we don't have the money to maintain make sure there's always a paramedic there 24 hours a day but uh we have several staff so I would say 70% of
the time listen if I can be Advanced life support 10% of the time is worth it just the one call would be great but uh so I want to say right at the moment I think we're going to be able to maintain an easy 70% of our responses being you know uh being able to provide that service but when there's no parametic on duty that
day it doesn't harm us any we're right back to where we are today so anything with that uh side of the coin is a benefit uh we of course received the afg grant for $2,653 party to wash our fire gear um a big accomplishment U was the Sops and S
sogs for standard operating procedure procedures and guidelines we had some standard operating procedur that were dated in 1996 um so that had been done on that side we continue progress and water rescue and Rapid diver training of all of our staff we implemented the uh
police the public safety boat uh the big one that um we began the merger process of dispatch for fireing EMS Professional Standards um and then we awarded at the end of 2024 the Department of Health Grant which will come in front of you guys here probably within the next two
months um where we're going to be able to buy patient care monitors autopulse additional aeds for our equipment so all together last year um between I count last year but the year before so all together between fiscal year 22 and 23
and 23 and 24 the far received $210,500 risk reduction programs um things that we want to do to help uh lower the risks with within the community some of them would be like um the hurricane Expos we started joining the county one we're also going to join we've been joining Newport riches with
really a goal of possibly even putting on our own hurricane Expo right here um and several other things we've been doing within the community is the the CPR we did CPR in the park now we're looking at going to do it we since we have that training room probably offering a community CPR right there at
the fire station um volunteer and firefighter recruitment retention things uh some of the ideas we had through Consulting with our uh volunteer team we' be sending teams to 5A High School which does a fire recruit
class uh and then trying to recruit students right out of that high school program to come and join our volunteer program um we' be put on a basic a recruitment presentation but starting like uh we used to have an Explorer Program years ago but it kind of fell off the radar so basically just re beefing up that Explorer program so we
can get them in at a younger age get them mo motivated into the uh uh uh agency and move on from there um cancer initiatives um we worked on the uh we got the shed we got the gear washers the extractors um we moved all of our gear
out of the bay um but we also want to now continue those initiatives there's a lot of more things lot more things coming out on the market uh like white bees and little things that they're that they're doing after calls to help minimize the cancer you know risk potential to Firefighters so we want to
stay on top of those Trends um Advanced border rescue initiatives uh water rescue is a high percentage of what we do um matter of fact we run a lot more than those than we do house fires um and it's a very dangerous call the ground's moving the water's moving the wind's
different uh every call you the lessons you learn on this call are different from that call so we want to really put a big focus on the training and the Boating skills that we need to make sure that uh we're doing what we need to do and make sure that we have the equipment and the specialized tools that we need
to solve those problems grants grants grants grants uh afg looking for an afg Grant to fund um another full-time position I want to say it's a fiveyear grant if we get it um the grant writer we have is on top of it
and she's gotten this a couple times before for people so um there's we're going to shoot for that and see if we can't get that position filled um that person would also oversee the community risk reduction responsibilities the volunteer programs public education especially now with having a school
within our jurisdiction and oversee the hydrant and inspection program so that person would oversee all of that aspects um and then the uh another thing we're looking at is trying to focus on with that grant that Manning would allow us to now handle two calls at once which
was something that uh I saw as a weakness early on when I came meaning that um you know we have one fire to run a call if we get a second call we should have the ability to to handle that call um any other questions on that with um
with being ALS capable soon and the goal is actually be run two calls at once um we don't have a rescue truck and normally a rescue truck would be be deployed on that um is is it is it possible to take one of our
other nonf fire Tru vehicles that we had and maybe outfit that for that purpose we do that now so in other words if the fire inspector is out and about and um the engine's tied up see the engine's on a call at Whiskey River and another medical emergency comes out I'm not
going to leave him sitting there testing a hydrant you know what I mean when he has an AED and a medical bag and medical training and so he'll respond to the call but we still make sure we call for that Mutual Aid in case Manpower is is needed just one guy you know being there um so we're getting somebody there quick
as quick as we can um but we're still calling for the mutual a to backfill that the goal would be to have two Twan trucks you know I mean so we can actually big incident comes out kind of like what Newport does now inant comes out two trucks go to the call you know the house fire the the bigger incident
or one truck runs this call one truck runs that long I just just wonder if if it because I the truck harder to maneuver you probably takes longer to get to a a health call than it would um another vehicle should we should we look
at trying to focus on getting that Niche Bill we what was it 60 some per of our calls are the downside to that is then you commit your people in a small truck and then a fire call or a big car accident comes out and we have a small truck out there so if you if you're
talking about taking the team that I have now and and and on these everyday you know let's call them I don't call them minor calls but on these everyday calls sending the little truck so it's less expensive that you will get caught with your pants down bad agencies have
tried that before and then they had to respond back to the station to get the truck that they needed I mean that fire truck carries a lot of a glim it actually happened in our city I think I mentioned before that they had tried this in the the early 90s um and a house caught fire in Bay Boulevard they went
out to sand bevel to run a call yeah and then they had to pass the house that was on fire in Bay Boulevard because they were out at Sand and the fire truck can handle everything and it was a van that had it um you know the other part of that too is that's a big Ro toolbx right um just the other day I had a medical
call pulled up on and we end up using the extrication tools on the call because the guy was stuck between the toilet and the bathtub and I needed tools you know where I now had to would delayed getting mad of that situation because I didn't you know it didn't have that that th that happens quite often
yeah it's there's plenty of communities that have looked into that um and plenty of communities that do that um it but it's just unfortunately the way our community set up it would be a hard we don't have the staff it's more Staffing issu with the Staffing we would be able to do that you know what I mean to have
like right now if we have a a certified volunteers that that are there and they're trained to respond the vehicles that's exactly what we do we'll put the engine in service and let's say the brush truck and the brush truck will be the immediate response to Medical calls you know what I mean so I'm not hammering the fire truck all the time but again that's that's a staffing thing
when the Staffing's there to allow us to do that that's exactly what we do okay thanks have a couple things sure um I think the young going to 5A and getting the young guys because I think two of you at least were
that um looking at David and Tom both were in here what 14 and you're still here so I think going to 5A or going to many of the other schools is is a great asset and pulling people at you guys are here and and still working with us so
that's exactly I Comm I commend both of you and everybody else who's done it and that's a great idea great idea um ACLS I think is BC BLS of course basic life support of course saves lives ACLS is far beyond and I've talked to you about it what drugs you're going to pull and
stuff like that and you're not going to go overboard we've already talked about it I think that's great um it's going to save lives so I and I know you've been working on it for a long time all of you so great job on that you guys have gotten more grants and I you guys work real hard I
don't know how you find them all and and you guys do a great job in getting grants and getting a lot of this stuff paid for that not coming out of the taxpayers pockets again phenomenal and on a personal note you guys know most of you know I've called them when my husband
was with us about a dozen times and be just about before I hung up the phone they were at my front door so the response times are absolutely accurate on what they're showing so um fire and police you know I have nothing but the love of both you so I thank you both for all you do great job on everything thank
you there question we done sir um I what quick quick question on if you could give me a little information on how you guys do the volunteer stuff and I I grew up in a small town I was actually on the volunteer fire department it was all volunteer it wasn't staff at all and so what would happen is is everybody was a volunteer the fire stuff a call would
come in we'd have a a a tone would go off a whistle would blow um we'd have pag or whatever and everybody would respond and as he would put that crew together um basically first come first serve they jump on truck and go so that's how it kind of worked how does
our volunteer so I our volunteers have an open door to come in and I tell them I don't care if you can only come for one hour anytime you can come and spend some time at us and help us to cover calls come so they have an open door to come and ride anytime they're available um what that the way they typically
function from there on out is that uh if we we're out on a call and let's just say um the crew's committed anytime they're committed um whether it's like we're going to be on a car fire and it's going to tie us up for a couple hours between the you the they're putting it out traffic you know take care of traffic mopping it up investigating it
we'll we'll page out the volunteers so we'll page them out and notify them of any um longer term duration or any working incident uh brush fire house fires um storm problems we page them out um and and and they can either show up at the station and man auxiliary
equipment and radio us hey we're there we got a team we're ready to come or they come to the scene and assist right at the scene um during bigger events or let's say uh plan events or events that we know are coming like storms hurricanes or uh public education things
we we notify them ahead of time they put themselves on a rer and we know like the cancer CW that's coming up we already have a team and we already know who's going to be there how long they can come we assign them on the units and and that's how we put them out so on working big incidents they get paged they all get notified actually they get notified
of every call we run because they're in the system but we specifically page them out um if we know that we're going to be tied up committed or it's something bigger working fires automatic page brush fires automatic page yeah and uh so they have a group in our paging
system for the pr V's so all we have to do is get on the radio and say dispatch page out the volunteers with this call and it sends a text message to all their phones and they they can allude to that the the downfall is um what the state of Florida did um in about 2002 they
implemented to where to be a structural firefighter a volunteer structural firefighter you have to have a minimum of um firefighter one I do believe firefighter one is 240 hours now 206 206 hours um so we currently have guys that
are going through the firefighter one program um but what happens is you know you went through the firefighter one program might as well go through the firefighter 2 program get your Fire 2 certification get a job um so that's we might have for instance we have a group of about 20 volunteers right now that
are that are good um but of those volunteers only four could actually fight a structur fire but we train them in Wildland fire fighting obviously train them in emergency medical services and stuff like that so they can go to brush fires and go all that stuff but for structure fire responses
unfortunately hard it's getting harder because why wouldn't you just take that initial step then to go to the fire academy back when you were before there was an8 hour volunteer there was I like you you could be a volunteer there was a 16-hour volunteer uh nowadays they did
away with all of that so to actually be interior like you said structural fire fighting you have to go and commit to that 206 hour State Certified course go through the whole testing process so it's a lot we offer that to our Volunteers in house um it's called a
grow grow as you go program that Captain wood kind of sponsors and and and and heads up matter of fact he had some people there today that were work working with them and they can do some of the uh um testing online the the training through our staff to try to get certified but it's a it's it's a task
book about that thick write down to can you answer the phone by the third ring as crazy as it sounds but they test them on that but yeah well so going back to the the um medical side of it or whatever with with Staffing or whatever because in that department we had people that wouldn't got their EMT training and
so they they would respond to those those calls or whatever I just didn't know if that was something we could maybe look into enhancing that we could maybe beef up that so we would the goal we're trying to recruit more volunteers that's our goal remember as we go ALS you're going to want that paramedic going y um and it's very rare
not saying it doesn't happen to find somebody that's wanting to volunteer as a paramedic when they could go make $60 an hour at a hospital so um once we go ALS the first truck out no matter what it is should be a paramedic truck um just because the state's now holding you
to that saying hey look your first truck out should and if rightfully so um but we do have volunteers that are EMTs that will back that is one of our reques now for that truck to leave that has to have at least one EMT on it for them to go to Medical call okay anything you guys
think of that could enhance your services i' you know bring it to us so we're working on it sir we ain't shy yeah that's for sure thank you thank [Music] you okay that everything that's okay um
Can we is it possible because you know who's going to be coming to this if we can get that on the agenda so talking um comments from boards and committees is next up um do we have anything cic meets next week and Coastal resilience didn't
have a so I'll uh I'll update because Centennial meets every week because we got this crazy stuff going on so um probably the most notable thing is that um we changed our vent uh list we
kind of scaled things back um and we cancel a couple events a couple events that we we did away with in in total were the wine stroll pub crawl event um one because have the facilities
for that give a situation at the waterfront always going to have to use probably Newport rich and that so we we kind of Nix that event um the other field day we we kind of rolled we're taking the the best parts of field day
day if you will and kind of combining those with the Saturday before the fireworks that week and and kind of make beefing up that event because it was originally just going to be a um children's event and uh what they call dog show um mck M
and so we basically are going to take field day kind of combine those the best of those events kind of with that to beef up that that Saturday event um the um flea Fest same thing that was going to be rolled into that Saturday before
fireworks um and so we're going to really have a lot going on that's that Saturday which kind of makes sense it's a good time to have that so we're gonna really make that a a strong event um the we we also separated a car show and food
truck night um at the request of Ocean Honda who's going to be hosting that at the dealership um and the golf cart parade we took that out as a separate event we were rolling that into the actual main parade so have a section of golf carts in that parade which make makes more sense and we don't have a
separate event for that so we tried to combine where we could and um what didn't make sense we we took out um and so that's we have a new schedule events and I I'll just uh just quickly go over them since this is this is a solid list now going forward obviously February
February's done but so another thing to note we took all the events out of March that we had in there um and we we're using Marge to promote promote promote promote to get people to sign up for this stuff we're finishing up our flyers and uh payment method uh online with QR
codes and stuff so we should have that all solidified by Tuesday of next week and then we're going to push that out and really promote that stuff all through the month of March um then then our first event we kick off April car show is April 12th from 10 to2 uh the
food truck night would be Sunday right after April 13th 4: to8 and both those are Ocean Honda the fishing tournament which is going to be a red fish only fishing tournament is going to be Saturday April 19th and it's going to start from at 6:00 am and end at 3M the
uh Friday night before that there'll be a captain's meeting at Whiskey River uh then the golf scramble is Monday April 28th uh which starts at 8 goes to about two the golf would be about from 8 to 12 and then it's launch and the award ceremony stuff take out to probably one
to two o'clock Max uh check-in would be starting around 7 AM that morning that's on a Monday uh then the business expo is Wednesday April 30th and that's from 3:30 to 7:30 at VES oh the golf scrambles at Seven Springs Country
Club um so that's all of April and then may which is the the main main month for us the kickoff parade is Saturday May 10th and that's going to be um it's going to start lining up around 4:30 uh the parade is probably start around 5:30 to 6 uh and go till 8:30 there's going
to be some other stuff going on in the park I think like drum circle and some other stuff it's part of that parade but anyway that's on May 10th uh the mayor's ball will be Friday May 16th uh from 6:00 to 10: p.m at Spartan Manor and then the Centennial Festival which I've alluded to is going to be the the big
Saturday event May 17th um from 9:00 am to 2m in the park and then Sunday still the Johnny Cash concert fireworks celebration and then uh installation of the new time capsule here at City and that's going to go um actually starting here at City Hall and then on
to Waterfront Park um from 6:00 p.m. to 10: p.m. and so that that's and that's the 18th that's the 18th that's the the main day that's the birthday so that's our new event schedule um like I said it
just didn't make a whole lot of sense to try to have all these we're not getting great participation we're getting participation um just kind of give you an idea our our Centennial history day we had about 50 people S I think went
through we had on the tours around 50 um 50 including the tours and people here yeah which that was pretty good the bowling tournament we had nine teams um that was a fast Saturday it um you know we had nine teams two of those were sponsored teams
uh one team was my team I didn't Bowl on it my team from that that I bowl with got a sub and bowled on it um s's team they Bowls in the summer they uh they they participated s's uh friends also had a team that was in there so you subtract that we probably had two or
three actually organic participating teams that signed up based on the advertisement that we advertised the heck out of on Facebook and Fires at the bowling alleys um so it while we did have a good event everybody had a good time it it could have been a lot better and so the concern is
obviously as we we put these events on um if we're not going to get the participation make all that sense to have you know just events for ourselves so we scal it back and hopefully with the advertising all in March um we'll be able to really uh have some good events going forward so can I ask a couple
questions about this um like the fishing tournament is there a cost to enter the cost uh I can't remember what she's thinking about it I want to say it was was it $100 I think it was our next week meeting is going to
determine okay as far as all the entry pricing because we're trying to finalize these flyers before the start of March so we can get everything out so um at our next meeting we're going to discuss um you know possible prize funds if that's allowed and what we could set them at and then entry fees and everything like that will be locked in
the flyer right now she's looking at between 100 150 so but that's not that's the big conversation I've already talked to Nan about we we've got to figure out how to what prizes can we can we give um because there's there's no
for the bowling for instance there's a there's an exception in the in the florid statutes to allow you to have bowling tournaments and you can use the entry fee to create that prize fund so for the bowling tournament it was $100 per team um $60 per team went to the bowling alley for the lining fees and
$40 went to the prize fund so we we paid the bowling alley for those nine teams $540 we paid out $360 in prize fund you can't do that for a fishing tournament you can't do that for a golf tournament because it's gambling um could you give trophies instead you could do yeah and there's there's ways that you can give
prizes and this we've got to get all that solidified so the hope is that we'll have cash prizes um what they are but they can't be tied to entry fees so that's why like the golf scramble she was going to charge 400 per team $100 per person team or four um our cost is
around 280 I think per team by time we pay for the food and stuff and so that 120 was really thought would go towards price you can't do that statutorily so we've got to figure out how to work that do we know how much the ticket is going to be for the May's bow or may bow is
$100 and a table is going to be if you do a table of eight you get it for $ 750 somebody was asking me about yeah I actually had somebody reach out that was wan to buy tickets to mayor's ball so there's there's interest out there so we really need to push out that the Flyers and the procedures to get online and get
those tickets we also today um we've got actual tickets for the mayor's ball we've got an invitation that I'm going to send out to some dignitaries um and try to really get some I mean we've got we're going to invite Governor sis we're going to invite Rick Scot um who's the
new Senator U Ashley Moody Yeah Ashley Ashley Moody and then um OB our You Know Jack Mariano who's our and and as well as um uh Lisa Jager who covers our area um
and some other dignitaries that that are important to the city of Port Richie invite those guys so hopefully we get their participation there um there's a potential I I won't say is it's be surprised working on working on a really good celebrity uh person at 10
but anyway we've got those looked at those uh flyers and stuff today and tickets and so those will be touched up and we'll get ready to send that stuff out very good stuff going appreciate your help any other questions on okay any board committees I don't
think we have anything else represented here so all right next up is the consent agenda item number one look for a motion motion to approve the consent agenda second yes second I I second it I second I can do that tonight do that
today you can actually do that there's three people oh no kidding he's special today you gotta let him do it I have one question yeah um what is this charge for Mt Cowley building service inspect or
build building inspector so that's that's our building inspector I thought it was safe well that's the the underling company that that here that's the company behind safe well no safe bill is kind of the
umbrella company and this is the more that's fine yeah okay any further discussion any public comment see bring back for a vote all in favor 65 by saying I I oppos motion carries uh next
up we have some public hearings um my understanding that item number two second reading and item number three second reading are unable to be um done tonight they were first reading was handled last meeting on the 11th and were approved right and so
we are going to move those [Music] to will be continued so ORD number 25711 and ordance number 25712 will be continued to March 10th 2025 6m here at City Hall in Fort Richie 6333 Ridge
Road sorry Mar oh that's my fault let me restate that so go all the way back over so try to go come on Nancy I know ordinance number 25711 and ordinance
number 25- 712 will'll have the seeven second reading of those two ordinances continue to March 11th 2025 here at City Hall 6 p.m. 6 6 333 Ridge and the reason for that is uh these are going through a review process
with the state there were a couple changes that they have some concerns with that we still haven't got feedback from them with our answers to what they originally had questions about so we just don't feel comfortable moving forward until we get their sign off and
and just for transparency purposes the reason that we announced that new date or whatever that takes we don't have to re announced that in the paper correct and so there won't be a you won't see an ad in the paper for that because this is a notice is being continued because the original second reading was supposed to be held tonight everybody who was
interested should be listening and now they know the new date is that correct okay okay so item number two item number three are being continued item number four second reading of ordinance number 25- 729 of the city of Port Richie Florida enacting article four in chapter 18 of the Port Richie code of ordinances
to address the prohibition of camping or sleeping providing intent providing definitions providing for sever B providing for codification and providing for an effective date um I'll pass that to Nancy for a reading you just did number why not let me let me make it for
my right ordinance number 25729 and ordinance of the city of Port Richie Florida enacting article four and chapter 18 of the Port Richie code of ordinances to address the prohibition on public camping or sleeping providing intent providing definitions providing for cability providing for codification and providing for an effective date okay
and so this this ORD was uh first read on uh February 11th and all the details were there so I'm going to open up for public comment seeing none I'm GNA bring it back for coun close the public hearing and open up for Council discussion and or
motion moot to number 25729 second motion second any further discussion all in favor 65 by saying I I I opposed motion carries next up Council business item number five approval of resolution number 25-20 to authorize the
city to enter into a lease for a pier saber pumper and authorize city manager to execute all necessary documents related to the lease I will pass that to Mr coppler for introduction at the January 12th 2025 council meeting decision was made to move forward with purchase the new Pierce sa pumper for
the fire department the council chose to pay by means of a lease to own through US Bank cour government leasing and financing doing so the company would discount the cost of the pumper by 110,000 by $49 City attorney staff we still working
through some of the issues I think we got it down to one now um to do this but they require a uh resolution US Bank requires a resolution of the city council authorizing not only uh doing this through a lease but
authorizing the city manager to sign necessary documents and that that first lease payment would be when in 2026 okay so we would we would have the outcome of any appropriation request so would be right and and you said it was a
lease but really it's a financing arange correct we own the property yeah cap motion to approve item number six uh approval for the uh resolution 2520 to
authorize the city to enter into a lease for a pier saber Pumper and authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents related to this lease motion of second any discussion any public comment see that I bring back
for a vote all in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries next up item number six addendum to interlocal agreement for a Pascal County Consolidated Communication Center between Pascal County and the City of Port Richie I'll pass it to Mr C for introduction so as council is aware uh
we were authorized to uh start working with Pasco County for a provision of dispatch services for the police and fire departments uh one of the Milestones is getting a interlocal agreement between Pasco County and the
City of Port Richie um so after a while of discussions back and forth a couple hurricanes um a start and stop to a different path on this process we are here now with uh an interlocal that the county has proposed
um in effectively it's the same interlocal that provided to Newport Richie to Zephyr Hills uh for this this particular and dat City I should add um for the provision of dispatch Services okay open for motion or
discussion I have some questions ask away all right moving to there you're reading something different I have this listed as item number seven there must have been an update Seven online as well yeah anyway
he indicated it was item six I have it is six uh this is what's I copied over so I okay could have could update actuallyy it's item seven I have item
six Proclamation yeah anyway oh actually you know what there's approved minutes is one and consent attend is one oh so sorry I did not notice that yes is item number seven agenda is number two so I don't know
anyway long story short let's go let's go to page 157 157 um it talks about halfway down the page B transferred employees shall receive the same benefits and subject to the same Pasco County Personnel policy
and procedures manual as all other County Employees uh and it talks about retirement benefits of transferred employees that would be people moving from Port Richie to the Pasco County shall be subject to
Florida Statutes and rules govering the transfer merger and consolidation of government units is there any any would we have to pay that to them or do just it just transfers the balance that the State of Florida has on the books to the the employee and the so ultimately these
if if the employee if there is an employee that would want to go there and they would accept it right um there are some costs and it could be on the retirement side um but again we wouldn't know that until the AC right and then you come forward with hey it's going to
cost okay yeah there so what they're what they're basically doing is you know they want to be responsible for those those uh post posty costs that weren't incurred by them so we would be responsible for doing that but at this
point in time there probably won't be any employees going over that okay and we did request actually this this language be removed but okay um and then it talks about the county will transfer the county will transfer the
balance of all CI city of Port Richie sick time shouldn't it be the other way around no so it would be the sick time that was earned here here we would transfer to them okay via VIA payment for that
correct yeah so there would be a cost for that yeah so yeah and any any post post uh employment benefits that they have earned here since they haven't gotten those there we would have to reimburse okay
so there bottom line is there's there's a mystery cost here if an employee go and well it's already on book be talked about at Future Point time I'm all right it's already on the books it's going to come off the books Bas liability for us right now right but we're going to have
to pay to move that libr that's all I wanted to call call that out that's what I thought was happening but we don't know it's undeterminable what right got it I don't want to okay question um so we are still keeping
employees here the same number as we have right so the service that they're providing they already provide to us in the way that all 911 all cell phone calls go to the port the excuse me 911 yes go to the
Pasco already so this is an additional 91 1,38 on top of what we're already paying the five or six people that we still have to employ here so this is an additional cost that we're
incurring I understand fire is is in favor of this and I understand that and we've had this discussion in in ch in here that I think education is appropriate first but I just want to let you know I I'm still against this only because Pasco County already provides
all cell phone calls that go to 911 they get the calls already first they don't come to our dispatch yeah but you they get the call but they transfer it to us $91,000 actually has them dispatch it I understand that but it's an we're we're looking at every
penny in our budget so this is an additional $91,000 plus that we're paying for a service that we already we already um reap we already get but at the end of the day my expectation would be is once
this thing settles out those three to five people are going to have different roles and maybe there'll be some attrition and maybe they'll be able to they still have to provide for the police I get that I get that but a new police chief is going to be on board and
his Charter is going to be trying to find Opportunities to save money this is a good area for him to investigate and uh reorganize so what one thing when you're looking at that don't look at it in a vacuum because it's not $91,000 because that's that's the option
that we chose because to keep it in the house it couldn't it couldn't stay the same as it was it was going to be another $276,000 right now so 91 is if if we if we don't do this we're going to pay $276,000 more to put get a dispatch that
there's no guarantee we'll get but that's what it would cost to get it there so it's it's it's a it's a it's an apples oranges comparison it's not $91,000 if we stay way we are we're saving $991,000 we're by going into the
County dispatch we're spending $91,000 instead of spending $276,000 that correct yes I don't remember the numbers I I don't there was there were three different options and this happened like six or eight months ago and I don't recall the detail um so
but I I still am against it so FYI that's the so that I can I can tell you what the options were roughly uh option number one which was um keeping in a house had a price tag of about $550 some th000 item number option number two was
a hybrid taking the the just the fire department of the county keeping the police here that was about half a million dollars 500,000 I think it was it wasn't much difference I say 500,000 I can pull it up if you need to but pretty sure 500
and then going to the county was uh uh 300 that that I'm sorry I apologize go ahead but that includes what we're already we're already paying that five that $500,000 or whatever the figure is we're already paying those people so it's not an additional $500,000 in
addition to what we're already paying these people are already getting paid yes that's so you're so you're so so this is addition go ahead no so so the first option well I think first option was do nothing um and hope for the best
the second option was actually provide the service that we should be providing and that was doubling the number of employees and so that basically doubled what the the cost was like 250 about five 5600 I don't like to
remember the next option was um in doing the hybrid where uh dispatch police would stay in house fire would go to the county um we still were adding additional Staffing I think it was to
six uh from four to six um then the last option was to uh go to the county with everything and that was the additional 91,000 to what we're paying now I thought our Stephan was was already six we just didn't have we no we only have
four we have four but we but what we're budgeted for for six no no and the other aspect was is there was no there was no full-time person that was able they were pulling police off of
their regular role to supplement this because they couldn't maintain this staff I understand that because we needed six people to you can't run a 24-hour 24-hour 365 day position on four
FTE but because you were short you had vacancies no we could no no we had four full-time positions and we had two part-time positions we never had sex well that's why you couldn't do it because you can't sta
that absolutely i% but I remember that we had number I remember when Sai was sitting there we had six FTE and the reason you were pulling police in was because we couldn't fill those positions no no how many FTE do we have
so it it is currently four full-time and two part-time and I think part of the the is to filling the positions we had people that were out on on uh long-term league for bals and different things of
that nature so that created a a vacuum was or it was another vacancy or something that would come up in the process of that not two four full time and two part time that's what I said I thought you said two two full time no no four four
full time two part time so there's three of us here the reality of is if if it's not a majority of the three of us it fails okay the consensus of this full Council was that we select option one sorry option three which is
mov it to the county the reason being is is because that was the cheapest option of the three and it was the better option of the three because we're getting a a fabulous dispatch service that we can't replicate in house but if we want to try to
replicate that in house so that we would fix our broken dispatch it would cost us over half a million dollars to do so so we're only paying 300 some thousand don't have numbers in front of me but it's 91,000 plus the salaries of these 27 or 250 or
was not that high it was 245 something but anyway the the reality of it is is we're going to pay more for dispatch Services no matter what option we chose but to keep it in house was the most expensive and no guarantee that we
would get the services that we were trying to get and so the the consensus Council four to one vote you cons you was against it um that has passed and got to this point we're at the point to sign it this agreement um and unfortunately we don't have the other
two council members here so are you wanting to vote no is that where you're at on this okay then I would ask for a motion to table till have full councel or you can you can present your motion to I I have no problem with that I have no problem with tabling it till full councel we got enough to make a
decision no you got to have all three of us all three that's so part of the so part of the yeah but she has to say yes it's a majority of the council has to to and so the majority of council is three our Charter change would change that to allow for the majority present okay
gotta so we have to have we have to and nothing passes without the three of us so at the end of the day we're going to just defer this to another meeting yeah okay that's what she wants to do that's fine someone needs to make a motion I need a motion for uh motion to table I second any any further discuss I'm fine
with that any public comment yes I have a comment fur discuss okay go ahead I would like to bring that data back forward so it makes it crystal clear to everybody that we're making a decision on to better the city's response time to lower the cost to effectively staff
these roles and to move forward with this U on the next Mee let's bring those slides back out and make it that's fine make it on there because evidently there's some confusion and this will put everything in the light it's perfect
yeah oh yeah I don't think anybody's confused it's yeah but we can do that so I've got a motion table second it um any further discussion nope any public comment saying none I bring it back for a vote all in favor by saying I I opposed motion
carries okay next up is old business item number seven which I guess is maybe eight discussion business when I'm doing yeah no problem any old business
discussion good okay oh yeah do we know when we're gonna get a new police chief I can't hear you do uh do we know when we're going to get a new police chief any insight there no Insight no insight and the outsite jury's
out okay so if there's no other old business uh comments from mayor and city council I will start with uh vice mayor Rodriguez or comments I'm thinking trying to find one I can't at the
moment I'm no I'm good thank you so much well think about it i' come back to you okay I'll come back couple couple of things I noticed the guys have been clearing out the ditch along Old Post Road uh toward BR uh toward Brasher looks like they
removed several palm trees that were of uh significant size that were blocking the water flow looks like they still got work to do but um that that's good I also noted that looks like they were dealing with that drain at blueo and old
post as well today and I see a new drain there and a new they clean that up I wasn't in town most of the day and uh uh my neighbor went went uh had called 911 this morning and actually
Pascal County showed up first before our own people so that system looked like it's working but they were right behind him so that's all good he's in the hospital and uh on oxygen um but I don't think they're going to kick him out he's in an oxygen
tent so that should you know we we passed that rule so but I don't think he's in a right away so he's good keep him in your prayers y we'll do that anything else yeah I'm good think of anything I'm good
okay only thing I've got is uh uh myself and Matt or Matt and myself I guess went to uh I had a meeting with the Pasco County and uh do District six seven seven um on the coda River
underpass uh and the RightWay discussions um and I've I've got the email that u i was C with huh West Bay Trail West Bay Trail yeah and so I want to give you the kind of update to that
meeting so F do will administer the design and construction of the underpass funded with federal funds from the no uh the city of Port Richie will acquire right away from catches East Lake LLC uh for their parcel on the west side of 19 and there's there's Federal requirements
that we'll have to file to do that um City Port Richie will we will need a specific sketch in legal area for the acquisition and fot is going to do a survey and preliminary design for the West Side 19 only to create the sketch legal uh
description for acquisition and then once we have that I'll say we'll go to catches and show them this is what we need to acquire and we'll we'll work on acquiring that right away um in here put targets provide is six to nine months into 2025 so it's going to take them six to nine months to get us that uh that
sketch so at that point then we would we would take gauge catches um see for she wants to realign the pathway on the east side of us19 to remain completely within the F dot right away um Let me show a little bit about that so the original plan for the trail was to dump out on
Bia and go down that street we don't have any sidewalks there we don't have any really infrastructure for that it's crossing over a boat ramp that the property owner um looks as if they may actually own a section that would prevent us from be able to get across
there so there's some discussion has to happen um I'm actually talking with um the property owner to kind of talk about that but in in the interim I think we can move forward by mimicking what we have on the west side on the east side so as you come
under the bridge go right back along 19 and back up onto that sidewalk so you create that loop I think that probably needs to be there in addition to access to baia um but baia may cause some issues with safety and and whatnot with
with property and what whatnot so um I think that's something that uh if we can get that project moving and get at least that Lo done so you you come from both sides of 19 down that sidewalk go underneath the bridge um and then at a later date um we can actually look at making that
connectivity to come across baia as that as that area redevelops down there and you have the Crab Shack restaurant and tally other stuff that may develop down there would make more sense in the future to make that connection after that those properties are they change hands or if they're
redeveloped what have you but in the in the interim we can make that Loop uh and it's kind of go along the dot uh right away along the side of that property back up to the the uh sidewalk and so that's what um that's all about and so we're going to look at that as well to
see if there's any we need to possibly get from that property owner um to make that happen and then obviously the federal RightWay acquisition requirements um we're supposed to get uh documentation on that if if the owner
decides to donate property um we got to inform them of their rights to an appraisal and compensation for the property in that RightWay acquisition um and they have to sign a waiver of those rights if they're going to give it to us um and the only thing they noted in the meeting that if catches is is about 10
parking spaces are impacted they stay it could the cost could be significant because it impacts 10 parking spaces um I don't know that it's uh the way it looks it's only going to probably impact about a third of those parking spaces uh not a third is it the number 10 but
still 10 but it's going to cut them make them about 2/3 long as they were for so it's going to take a third of the parking space way which could be a golf cart parking or something so I think they could still be utilized for smaller vehicles um so it might not be as impactful as it once was when the when
the plan was to actually make it 20 foot wide and golf carts go uh down through there and everything else so anyway kind of want to let you guys know that's ongoing discussion as we get these um designs back of what actual RightWay we would need to make that happen we'll
look at uh acquiring that and then um hopefully that project to move up on the the the no I'll push for that obviously I have support on the no board that wants to see that project happen as well um so I think we can realistically get that done um so that's where we're at
just kind and that's pedestrian and bicycle correct pedestrian bicycle hike and bike basically and then golf carts obviously the idea is to Grand Boulevard once we get that done so perfect very good you you'd mentioned U at a previous meeting about the potential to go across
the bridge is that included in this um discussion with fot not this that's something separate when we look at doing Grand Boulevard Matt was going to engage about creating those uh lanes lanes on the on the actual bridge to
come across the water um that's a so we we're impacted by that Newport Richie as well is impacted by that I did uh have a conversation with uh newp Richie about the so to know we want to look at potentially making that a Crossing on that bridge as well we got8
foot there there's a spot on each side of the river that goes into about seven and half seven three4 and then it goes back out so we' either have to open that up a little bit to get 8 foot that's required or we could maybe be accepted from that little
area on both sides the variance of that some sort right so but the goal is to is to get that done as well yeah be a joint effort with Newport Richie as well you okay poter oh it might be rolling roll I'll get it
sorry I apologize for no problem sorry so that's all I've got any questions any comments if not look for a motion motion to ajour Second all in favor by