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1. 1May 20, 2025
   Board of County CommissionersRS1ProclamationAdopted

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   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:01to consent then? Well mine okay, we can do ourselves. Mine is a time certain. So we'll do R S one.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:10Uh

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:10but I but I don't have a bullshit.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:12If you are here for National Public Works Week in Pasco, please step up to the podium.

   Ron Oakley

   24:18All of you?

   Ron Oakley

   24:31Mostly.

   Ron Oakley

   24:33Is anybody working today? I promise. This is a topic.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:36We're gonna make this very, very fast.

   Jason Mickle

   24:38Public works.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   24:39All right, I'll I will go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number twenty-five-two two seven, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the week of May eighteenth to the twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-five as National Public Works Week in Pasco County. Whereas public work professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities. And to the public health, quality of life, and well-being of the citizens of Pasco County. And whereas these infrastructures

   25:10and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of the Pasco County's public works professionals, who are engineers, managers, and employees responsible for rehabilitating, improving, maintaining, and protecting Pasco County's transportation network. public buildings and stormwater infrastructure that are essential for public for Pasco County citizens. ANRAS it is the public's interest for civic leaders, residents, and children of Pasco County to gain knowledge of and to maintain progressive interest and understanding of

   25:40the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. ANRAS efficiency of the qualified, dedicated and talented Employees who staff public works is materially influenced by their can-do attitude and an understanding of the importance of the work they perform. NRAS National Public Works Week became an educational campaign in 1960 and 2025 marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

   26:10And RAS, the 2025 National Public Public Works Week theme is People Purpose Presence, which highlights the three cornerstone ideals that motivate public work professionals to serve in their communities every day and recognize a substantial contributions they make to protect our national health, safety, and quality of life. Now therefore be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares the week of May eighteenth through the twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-five as National Public Works Week in Pasco County and encourages

   26:41all citizens to support public work activities this week and throughout the year. Denner resolved in regular session with Corn present and voting this twentieth day of May, 2025.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   26:50Move approval.

   Jason Mickle

   26:51Second.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   26:51All in favor?

   Ron Oakley

   26:52Aye. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Jason Mickle, Public Works Director.

   26:59Is anybody uh working today? I'm just questioning.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   27:02How many in your department? That's a good question.

   Jason Mickle

   27:04Commissioner, this is a very, very small, small section of our 270 plus folks that we have working in public works. Yeah, right. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you. Well um first thing I want to say is you know thank you, Commissioner Oakley. U um for sponsoring this. Um, Madam Chair and the rest of the board. I I genuinely want to thank you for all the support that we get, um, not only during our regular daily activities of providing um safe and efficient and proactive um stormwater

   27:34and road maintenance activities, but you were really there for us along with the executive leadership team this year during our our storm season. Um you know part of Part of the three storms that These folks all dealt with throughout throughout the kind of the storm season of 2024 was unprecedented, as you know, and um we all kind of band together as a county and as a team to to deal with each of those storms that seem to each get worse throughout the year. And and partly I know this is a big group here behind me, but

   28:04the main reason why they're here today is because these are the folks who um really work tirelessly throughout that whole process. And it's it's our our field teams that were out there working tirelessly, it's our engineers, our GIS techs, our scientists. um the inter-office people, you have people that worked um long hours on our fiscal team. Um so we have a we have a large cross-section of people here and I wanted them to get acknowledged. I want them to hear to come here today and just so you could see their faces and

   28:35know all the great people that are out there doing all the great work.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   28:38Well, we are really grateful for to all of you and we see you out there. Um And uh And Jason, I do wanna walk B M P five with you early in the morning when it before it's hot. Um so and I don't know if you wanna come on that one, Jack, but um Yeah, Commissioner Oakley.

   Ron Oakley

   28:56We want to uh thank you and all your team. Uh with your leadership team, plus yourself and And all the staff that makes things happen here in the county because without you the county would be quite a mess without the work y'all do. So Uh that's from west side to east side, so It's been a long time since I've seen anyone leaning on a shovel or something of that nature. We've we've actually developed a uh you continue working all the

   29:26time now, so But we certainly appreciate you doing what you do and doing your job. So you're a big part of all that what happens here in Pasco. You're not just someone that we forget out there. We we know you're there. We know you're doing the work that needs to be done. I I had to go back to one thing that Brantford brought one time was uh fixing the pot hose when you call in within the next couple of days it's fixed. So It's um it's very heartwarming to see that done 'cause in years

   29:56past that wouldn't have been done at all. So It it really saves a lot of tires and country for the citizens. And um When things show up in roadways and all and they're cleaned away to to make room for our citizens driving on these roads, uh We certainly appreciate you for all that work. But all of it You're you're not just uh someone that we don't know. We we see you and we thank you every day. Okay.

   Seth WeightmanSecond Vice Chair

   30:22Thank you, Chairman Mariano. Brantford. Mr. Mickle on team. Everybody behind you. You guys are tough and gals. And thank you for sticking with us through last year. I know we're in a in a new year. Hopefully it's it's not as tough on us. But uh we couldn't do it without you. The decisions we make you guys have to implement. and uh appreciate your dedication and service to the citizens of Pasco County. And uh remember during storm season if we were to have another one, take care of yourselves. King are

   30:53not good to anybody else unless unless you're taken care of too. So we're here to support you just as you support us and very happy that you're here with us today.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   31:02Commissioner?

   Lisa Yeager

   31:03Yes, me. Uh first of all, thank you so much for everything you guys do and um I always see you guys outwork, Commissioner Oakley. Um and um just like he said, you know, you pick up a phone and you guys are on it. So thank you and we appreciate everything you do.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   31:22Thank you. And I wanna say I just greatly appreciate from from back in two thousand four when I was first campaigning to run and all the storms that were going on and seeing all the devastation and the suffering that was going on, uh I wanted to make this a main mantra for mine for uh from my career here. What you guys have done over the years has been amazing. I mean we started out with the MSTU back in two thousand six to go study what we needed to go do and after that information's gone through the execution, and I'll say especially when Brantford came on as well, with everybody here. I think everything freed up

   31:52to give you guys the opportunity to get the work done, figure out what needed to be done. We had plans that were on the shelf for years, like at Holiday Hills, I was out there for thirty years.

   32:03And we kinda went very similar to those plans. So it's great to have ideas, it's great to have engineering, and you get the execution to go with it to what you guys have done has been phenomenal. Last year when we had the tropical storm uh hurricane Debbie coming in and we kind of we talked on a Friday afternoon with Jason, Brantford, myself, Swift Mud DEP and trying to make something happen. And the next morning Out at Palm Terrace. We had twenty nine trucks. Ready to go. Backloaders ready to go. Are we gonna go dig out the the ponds onto the side to cut

   32:33away where we can actually put fill in there or we're gonna dig out the spray field to the side. Now that the plants been shut down to go go. These guys were ready to go when they were ready to go air all the way through. They took out four hundred truckloads of dirt in very s very short period of time, like three three days. They came back the following week after the storm had f passed and then went back to it and did a phenomenal job. And then even after that, we still had to go work on what we're gonna do with that whole area because we don't want them flooding again and it would got really close with another storm that came in, just a regular storm. But what you did for even that area right there

   33:03has just been amazing. I mean Gulf Highlands where they suffered year after year after year. What you guys have done for uh I used to call it a loop. Like when the storm was coming in, I had a place I'd started to see pines work my way down and around. I don't have as many places to go anymore, by far. And it's but it's not as I go there in satisfaction, just to see how great the work that you guys have done has been. So uh I want to tell you for someone who's watched you guys and watched you guys grow as a as a group. Um It it's been f absolutely phenomenal what you've done for this country because instead

   33:33of being call it a laughing star, call it a troubled area that with with growth right now. You look at all the things we had going on last year. I I only saw us on the news one time at Old Dixie and Hudson. And frankly, just this past week when we saw some things there, we just got a couple of pipes here. We gotta probably just like seal them in, uh line them, and that that area is gonna get taken care of too. So I just wanna thank you guys for what you have done has been absolutely amazing, and I appreciate you every single day. Thank you.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   34:00Y'all may not know this, but Jason and I go way back. Way back twenty way twenty five years, I don't know. When I was on the uh PA Basin Board of Swiftwed and Jason was was there. And back then Pasco County had no money. We did not have a stormwater fee. So we couldn't do cooperative funding projects with Swift MUD. All our money was being spent in Penellas County. It was so frustrating when I was a board member. But um now we are uh rocking and rollin' and I think with this money we got from HUD, you guys gonna be really busy

   34:31in the next few years. So we're gonna fix a lot of issues in the county that will help our citizens. So thank you very much. And uh the county administrator would like to say something real quick.

   Mike Carballa

   34:41Yeah, just real briefly, I you know, public works is a it's a core competency of government because without it nothing else happens, right? You underpin society, right? And even during the storms, right? The first responders would not have been able to get where they needed to go had had the roads not been cleared, had the floodwaters not been where they are. So the work that you do helps our economy thrive and helps our people stay safe, quite honestly. And it it can't be more succinct than that. So I just thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work, Jason, that you and your team do uh every single day out there.

   35:11So thank you.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   35:12Okay, um Commissioner Oakley, I'm gonna go down front yet. We'll stand up back here.

   Ron Oakley

   35:19Yeah, let's go.

   35:36I know we

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   35:39Uh I think you guys are gonna have to go forward. Commissioner Oakley, step forward. You guys make three rows. Someone organize them. I can see right now, that's not gonna work.

   35:54There we go. Yeah. Well this one back here in the green, there's no way no one's gonna see it.

   Mike Carballa

   36:01No one wants to see him anyway.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   36:03Get up front.

   Mike Carballa

   36:05She's

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   36:05hiding high. Hiding? Okay. She wants to hide.

   36:11I won't be a window. Yeah, don't hide. In a window.

   36:16Make sure you gotta

   Seth WeightmanSecond Vice Chair

   36:17be in a window.

   36:18Make sure we

   36:18can see you every time.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   36:23Now high there.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   36:29Okay. Everyone let me know Amanda first, please.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   36:33It's a great group. Looking good. I love those yellow shirts. I want to make them.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   36:46Back out of the key. Yeah,

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   36:52Okay, we're gonna jump over to res three.