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1. 1Aug 22, 2023
   Board of County CommissionersC10Consent agendaNo disposition in the minutes

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   Jack MarianoChair

   58:55So on the agenda items we got I'm gonna ask that we do C thirty three last. Uh so we'll go to C ten. Elizabeth Elizabeth Blair?

   attorney to the tourist development council

   59:06Good morning, Commissioner. It's Elizabeth Lair, Pasco County Attorney's Office. This matter was pulled and revised just for some clarification and also to change one of the facts in the agreement. Clarification is on the page of the agenda memorandum where the sentence is and has been included that reads as follows: the digital faces will consist of one 672 square foot face and four 300 square foot faces. That's referring to the digital billboard conversions provided. Provided for in this amendment to the agreement. I wanted the amount the memo to be consistent with the actual terms of exhibit B

   59:36of the agreement. And then also I wanted to fix the uh whereas clause on the actual First Amendment to reflect that the billboard structure to be relocated along 54 is actually moving west on 54 and not south on the Gunn Highway. It's gonna go to the Lowe's parcel that's currently under plans for consent. construction there and there is frontage on both uh gun highway and fifty four the billboard structure is going to be moving from seventy five feet to the east to the west then onto the Lowe's property. Are there any questions?

   1:00:07Well yes.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:08Okay. I mean Mr.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:00:09Starkey

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:10Yeah I was talking to Elizabeth about this yesterday. It's It's my preference that they come down, but apparently this was already done. And um But how many will come down as we're

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:00:23the total number of billboard structures to be removed will be 11 under this amendment to the first agreement. In the memo, I've actually included some background facts about how a total of the 23 registered billboards so far have come down that Clear Channel owned. So this program of removal and replacement of certain ones with digital is is working. We are seeing some fruits of the of the effort here. So it's a slow process over the years, but it is working, especially with Clear Channel. They've been really great partners

   1:00:53in this matter.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:55So I I I just want to emphasize that when we in my opinion, when we have the opportunity When development comes and the billboard has to come down like it did uh fifty four and little That The contract just needs to end with

   1:01:12Upper Um it to be moved somewhere else. I mean we have that opportunity to just sunset that billboard. Okay. And and that's a great way for us to start cleaning up the county. And Commissioner, I I heard that maybe you had passed some billboards that maybe had some content on it that You know, we don't always wanna see, but we cannot regulate The content of what goes on these right?

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:01:37That that is correct. I mean there are First Amendment cond you know, restrictions on the county. county.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:01:42We can

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:01:42we can regulate location, we can regulate

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:01:45it's But sometimes we have some content that Maybe some of us don't think should be in neighborhoods, but

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:01:54Move approval. Yeah. With

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:01:56the noted changes? Okay. And just uh Elizabeth, just I just want to make a comment as well. Um how many billboats have been taken down in US nineteen?

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:02:05Oh gosh, the total number that can be removed from US nineteen or have been removed?

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:02:08Have been.

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:02:09I I don't know the answer to that. Denise Hernandez might know, but she's not available in the room right now.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:02:13I mean I I

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:02:14I can find out for you.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:02:15Okay. Maybe there's a discussion point for later on. But I I don't think many have become down just because I think the ratio

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:02:29There's a particular number of conversions that are tied to each of our roads so you don't end up with a lot of digitals along 54. When the original program was created back in uh 2016, I believe, um, that was kind of a let's just allow X number of digital faces along.

   1:02:49uh c you know co a a whole bunch of them along like US nineteen for example. So we did then tie the requirements for takedown between the uh the FAP roads and the non-FAP roads to try to get some of the

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:03:01Uh explain to the commissioners what an FAP road is.

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:03:03Um those are the federal um

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:03:05federal aid primaries.

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:03:06Yeah they're they're they're just classifications of road basically before for purposes of F D OT and and so forth. So the program was kind of set up in a way to make sure that all the districts saw something happen, you know, in their districts. And also to recognize that the industry itself has numbers that they're looking for, and they have to evaluate the number of views for digital to actually say, hey, there's a certain volume of cars that go by, so it's worthy of taking down these non-used billboards and other areas that aren't. As well seen to then focus

   1:03:37their efforts on certain areas of the county where there's a lot more traffic because the digital billboards are so expensive. Some And we can always revisit the program if you all, you know, want to going forward. Well,

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:03:49the the the other thing to remember is as we um are working to um landscape and revitalize nineteen that when you see an island that doesn't have the palm trees on it, it's because there's a billboard. On the other side of the street. And we can't block The view of that billboard with the palm trees. On certain roads, that is correct. On FAP roads, federal aid primary

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:04:12So I I wouldn't mind doing a little bit more, getting more information as far as what's happened on nineteen, bring something back to us and just show us the effects 'cause maybe something we we want to take a relook at 'cause I don't know about you but I don't see anything different with the a lookout there and I

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:04:24think there's

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:04:24potential.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:04:25Yeah. Well the ones they take down are the little ones that you didn't really even notice. That weren't getting ads on them, you know? True.

   attorney to the tourist development council

   1:04:32They're they're allowed to pull down the inventory that's not as profitable or as that is that is actually falling into disrepair, take those down, get rid of them, um as part of the conversion agreements. Yeah. All right. Thank you.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:04:43Thank you. Do we have a second? Oh we have a second, yes. Yes, you have a second. Motion a second.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:04:50District One, Commissioner Oakley. Aye. District two, Commissioner Weightman. Aye. District three, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District four, Commissioner Bradford. District five Chairman Mariano.