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1. 1Feb 25, 2025
   Board of County CommissionersC7Consent agendaApproved

   Approved minutes

   Approved Staff’s recommendation with Commissioner Weightman voting nay and Commissioner Mariano absent from the vote.

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   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   39:21Yeah. All right, so um I guess we we won't take a picture. We'll just hand this back to Jack. He probably is supposed to give it to someone. But thank you all for sharing your Irish heritage with us. And now we will move on to the consent agenda, I believe. Is that correct?

   Lisa Yeager

   39:39Well that was different.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   39:41Yeah.

   39:44Jack can look back on that on that sometime and uh okay. So um we have a poll sheet. I'm gonna look for it. There it is. Okay, we have one pulled off, Commissioner Weightman, C7. Wow. Is there anything else? Coming off the consent agenda today. Okay, seeing nothing, I'll take a motion for to approve the consent agenda minus C7.

   Seth WeightmanSecond Vice Chair

   40:10Second.

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   40:10All in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. Commissioner Weightman.

   Seth WeightmanSecond Vice Chair

   40:15Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. should have known this was coming. Commissioner Yeager wasn't here. I I don't know if she was if you've been briefed on the history. So the county receives receives surplus properties through tax dees and whatnot. And sometimes the county invest taxpayer funds in them and all sorts of there's a there's an expense And Principally and philosophically I disagree. We were selling them for a dollar. I'm glad to see it's for sale for ten dollars today, a property for sale for ten

   40:45dollars. versus fair market value. to the taxpayer, even at fair market value with or whatever the reimbursement back to the county is to make the county taxpayer whole is is what I still think it should be. And um You know, I don't mind selling these properties at all sell rate, but this rate is just not justifiable in my mind. And so I won't be supporting it, staying

   41:15consistent with my arguments in the past. And um You know, so that's just that's the reason why I pulled it. Selling property, taxpayer assets for a dollar or ten dollars is wrong. In my opinion.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   41:29Thank you. Okay, you wanna explain uh the process and the property, please?

   Andrew Baxter

   41:33Yes, ma'am. Yes more. So this uh consistent with the decision that the board made a little over a year ago. Uh we were uh proposing to Uh after much discussion with individual board members. Uh we were proposing a thousand dollar minimum. Uh the board ultimately decided in a 3-2 vote to reduce that to a nominal fee. As we worked with the county attorney's office, that nominal fee ultimately was turned into a ten dollar

   42:04transaction.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   42:07let him let him give his presentation.

   Andrew Baxter

   42:10So This Colfax Drive location. As sheeted to the county. And There just so you can get uh perspective of where this is, that's state road fifty-two and US nineteen are the two main uh thoroughfares there. You can see the conditions from twenty eleven to two thousand twenty-four. It's been an overgrown uh lot.

   Dade City

   42:37This is the lot it at or this is the parcel. It consists of two lots, uh 50 by 127 in size. No taxes were paid on the on this parcel since 2006, which has uh resulted in twenty-five thousand dollars plus in lost revenue to the county. Just based on the vacant land uh taxation rates. If it was developed, it could be even more. It

   Andrew Baxter

   43:08is sheeted to the county in twenty nine in twenty eighteen. Um an achievement is a legal process where no taxes are paid, it goes through a legal process at the clerk's office and then is ultimately presented initially by the clerk's office for public sale. Right. No one bids on it. And if no one bids on it, then it's it reverts back to the county. Um So we then become the custodian of this property. Uh

   43:38what we have also looked at the current appraised value is twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars, and that's for the vacant land according to the property appraiser. Again, this is one parcel. It's a hundred by twenty se one hundred feet by one hundred and twenty-seven feet, but actually two lots. Um and so The county expenses from 2009 due to code violations, property cleanups, and other activities. There was an old shed that was on the property that was demolished just to

   44:08remove uh blight and uh other in other concerns in the neighborhood, four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents. So As you can see, almost thirty thousand dollars of expenses

   44:23Lost revenue uh have occurred at this property. So what does the future look like for this property? Well Community development when we issue when this uh property became aware that Uh the county wanted to dispose of this property. We go through our property or our Surplus and disposition notification. Community development identified this as a potential. Reuse for a community development housing project. Tampa Bay Neighborhood

   44:54Housing Services was uh was one of the organizations that community development partnered with to look at this property. and as they really dug into it, they could build two approximately sixteen hundred square foot houses, three bedroom, two bath, one car garage houses on this property. The estimated value of those new homes will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 to $250,000. This uh then would uh can be considered approximately fifteen hundred

   45:24to twenty five hundred dollars in taxable value per year per house. So what we've done is take a loss that we were looking at annually of about fifteen hundred dollars a year. and turn that into revenue generation. of approximately four thousand dollars a year. Give or take. going forward by partnering with this and disposing of this and allowing Tampa Bay Neighborhood Housing Services to build these these homes

   45:54for Pasco County residents. There are reversionary clause as we've discussed in the previous uh within three years construction must take place or it reverts back to the county's ownership. Um and then once the uh Tampa Bay Neighborhood Housing Services builds these homes. The they will be given to Pasco Pasco residents who have been Pasco residents for at least three years.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   46:19They're not give it to them. They they'll

   Andrew Baxter

   46:21pr yeah they'll they'll be into the program.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   46:24With the low low income, low mortgage and their age rest there's m affordability restrictions.

   Andrew Baxter

   46:31Here's an idea of what that uh similar type homes that uh This organization has Um Completed in the past. You can see a small three bedroom, two bath house. Um Yeah, that uh can be

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   46:47No landscaping. We'll have to

   Andrew Baxter

   46:48well in

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   46:49the

   Andrew Baxter

   46:53have to meet our codes and our standards in this county. But this is like just to give you a a flavor of what we're talking about doing for this project here. So That is the and it is consistent with our with our stated not only state statute um but also our county uh surplus policies and procedures.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   47:15Okay. Um so uh does anyone besides me have some comments 'cause

   Lisa Yeager

   47:22I mean I I'm for selling the property at you know for ten dollars if it's going to a nonprofit. Um you know we lean on those nonprofits, the county does, we partner with them. So I think you know that's our way of you know helping. giving them support. So

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   47:38And these these lots um I have quite a few now in my district. They sit vacant and then people start living on them and trashing them and dumping on them. And so one we get these lots you know, back into um Yeah. and stops all that transient activity, but it also starts lifting up neighborhoods when they get new homes on it. Increases the value around it, increases the Um the uh investment that other homeowners

   48:09might make. So You know, th we don't get very many of these, um, but when we do, I I'm very much in support of getting them back out into these community builders and and back having income coming back into the county.

   Lisa Yeager

   48:23Yeah, and one other thing, I it's important too that this is homeownership. We're not having uh, you know, a rental property in there where people can trash it. You know, um Yeah, I'm all for it. Uh

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   48:35Commissioner Oakley?

   Lisa Yeager

   48:36Oh.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   48:37Okay, well we need a motion then to approve C seven.

   Lisa Yeager

   48:40Motion to approve C seven.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   48:41Second. All in favor? Aye? Nay. Okay. All right, thank you very much. So gosh, ripping right through.

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