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CAO-23-5109

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Heard once, at the Board of County Commissioners on Oct 25, 2022.

OutcomeAdopted by the Board of County Commissioners on Oct 25, 2022
Approved to adopt.

Official title

A Resolution By The Board Of County Commissioners Of Pasco County, Florida, Congratulating Nickolas Curci, Jeffrey Faughnan, And Andrew Kelly On Achieving The Rank Of Eagle Scout

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    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Okay, so I think then we are We have R S five. R S five. Commissioner Mariano.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Yeah.

    We have um individuals receiving the rank who've received the rank of Eagle Scout. If you could come up to the podium. Nicholas and Cersei. Oh cursey, sorry. Um Jeffrey Is it faunin? Oh yay. That's good.

    Um Andrew Kelly. All right. I'll go ahead and read the resolution. A resolution number twenty-three dash um w zero one zero. A resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, congratulating Nicholas Kersey. Uh Jeffrey Faunen and Andrew Kelly on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Whereas Nicholas Kersey, the son of Todd Kersey and Stacy Kersey, is fifteen years old and is sophomore at Hudson High School. Jeffrey Faunen is the son of Tim Faunen and Kim Faunen

    is 14 years old. And a freshman at Mitchell High School, and Andrew Kelly, the son of Joe Kelly and Amy Kelly, is 15 years old and a sophomore at Wendell Crine Technical High School. And RAS, in 2016, Nicholas joined Scouting, at which time he joined Club Scout Cub Scout Pac 40 in Hudson, Florida, and later became a Boy Scout in 2018 after being awarded his Arrow of Light. And in two thousand fourteen, Jeffrey joined Scouting, at which time he joined

    Club S Cub Scout Pac 40 in Hudson, Florida, and later became a Boy Scout in 2019 after being awarded his Arrow of Light. And in 2013, Andrew joined Scouting, at which time he joined Cub Scout Pac 40 in Hudson, Florida, and later became a Boy Scout in 2018 after being awarded his Arrow of Light. And Ras on August 31st, 2022, Nicholas and Jeffrey attained their Eagle Scout Rank and on July thirteenth, twenty twenty two, Andrew Kelly attained

    his Eagle Scout rank. And whereas achieving the rank of Eagle Scout is of a special significance. Not only is Scouting not only in scouting but also in higher education, business and industry, and community service. The award is a performance based achievement and stand with standards that have been maintained Over the years. ANRAS, to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest advancement rank in Scouting, a Boy Scout must fulfill requirements in the areas of leadership, service, and outdoor skills.

    NRAS, Nicholas, Jeffrey, and Andrew have all held the positions of Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, and Senior Patrol Leader. ANRAS Nicholas has earned 40 merit badges. has earned 39 merit badges and Andrew has earned 27 merit badges, 21 of which are required to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. These badges include citizenship in the nation, archery communications, personal management. Environmental sciences citizenship

    in the community, sustainability, personal fitness, camping, swimming, finger painting, first aid, orienteering, rifle shooting, Indian lore, Life saving family life. Game design, welding, and more. And RAS, Nicholas, Jeffrey, and Andrew have participated in numerous community service projects with their Troop 40, including roadside cleanup, and have assisted with other Eagle Scout projects. And RAS for his Eagle Scout project, Nicholas chose to design and lead the construction of a

    primitive campsite at Cruise Lake Park, along with uh along one of the many trails in the park. Which took 60 hours to complete. For his Eagle Scout project, Jeffrey chose to design and lead the construction of picnic tables at Seven Springs Elementary School, which took 55 hours to complete. For his Eagle Scout project, Andrew chose to lead the cleanup and painting of the nature of the Nature Center and outside decking at the upper Pithloc. I can never say that Pithlocco. Cascoti. Thank

    you. Pisco. Yeah, Cody River. Yeah, thank you. The upper Cody River Preserve, which took 50 hours to complete. Troop 40 members and friends helped with all aspects of their projects. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby congratulates Nicholas Kercy, Jeffrey Faunan, and Andrew Kelly in a tangent.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Move approval.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    All in favor. Aye. Aye. Commissioner Mariano.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Thank you, Madam Chair. Um so gentlemen, I've got three resolutions today and it's a it's a group resolution. I want to say I'm gonna redo these for you though, so you're gonna have your own individual one coming up, but I'll give you at least these for today. Um If I could, I want to have you guys just to talk a little bit about your um projects that you had. So let's go with Nicholas first with the uh campsite.

    Nicholas Kercy

    So for my uh project I built primitive campsites in Cruise Lake Park. It was very interesting leading a team of scouts to uh assemble picnic tables, would paint them, move them, get them all in the right positions.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Could you say Yeah, we

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    need your name and address

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    for the

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    record.

    Nicholas Kercy

    You can lower that mic.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Okay.

    Nicholas Kercy

    My name is Nicholas Kercy.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    And

    Nicholas Kercy

    Jeffrey?

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    And

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    give your name first, Jeffrey. Full name.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Uh my name's Jeffrey Fawnin. Okay. Um my project I build picnic tables for elementary school. Um it was kind of weird trying to get everyone to work together for uh one goal. But over time they all worked as a team and it went well. So

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    excellent. That's great. All right. And Andrew?

    Andrew Kelly

    My name is Andrew Kelly. Uh my project was to repaint the nature center at Upper Cody River Preserve. Uh we overcame some obstacles with not enough paint, but however the the project did end up b it looked great and I'm glad for the county's support on that project. Thank you. Fantastic.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Hey and I I have a brother and a nephew who are Eagle Scouts, so I know how much work goes.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    I tell you and I and I greatly appreciate it's it's it's been a while since we've given one. So I'm delighted to give three in one day. That's phenomenal. Uh what I'd like to do with you three gentlemen and maybe your troop is let's go out to Sunwest Park uh at a second lake we have out that we've already developed There's an area we're gonna do like a primitive type of a campsite thing we're talking about. Uh picnic tables is appropriate. Uh the I'm sure there'll be some painting and you guys can give us maybe some input as far as what we're thinking about doing and g and get your insight to what you think would be good because I think all in all it would be a great

    place for a cults to the scouts to actually be able to go out there and spend a weekend out there and kind of enjoy it in the nature that's right there. So uh if you guys would endeavor uh that with me, I would uh I'd appreciate that and we'll take a look. Sound good? Um so we get the families here, right? Okay. So let's do a picture. If you guys would let's stay up here, I'm gonna do a picture with the three down below with the three of of them, and then we'll bring the families in, we'll do w do one by one with that. That sound all right?

    Unidentified speakerVoice B

    And boy is that ceremony long. wrong. Oh yeah, oh yeah. That's a very long ceremony.

    I remember my twins following sleeping in the map and waking up and sleeping. And that's time to work for us here.

    Unidentified speakerVoice C

    Yeah. All right, everybody, right here.

    One more. Great, thank you.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    All right. And all the family members follow? Even the county employee ones.

    Unidentified speakerVoice D

    Okay, everybody, right here? One, two, one more. Great, thank you.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay, that's good. Now I want to do each individual download.

    What was that right here? Let's go with a massage all that.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    All right,

    Brian Hoban

    right here, folks.

    Thank you. Great.

    Yeah.

    Okay, right here.

    Perfect, thanks.

    Nicholas Kercy

    Thank you.

    Brian Hoban

    All right, everybody right here, please.

    Got it. Thanks.

    Unidentified speakerVoice C

    Well that's