Confirmation of Code Compliance Director - Patrick Arotin - $110,000.00 Annually

20:45Give you guys a little breathing room. All right, R fifty one.

20:55Good morning, Commissioner. Sally Sherman, Deputy County Administrator for Development Services. I come before you this morning asking for your confirmation of Mr. Patrick Errington as a code compliance director. under development services. This is a new position within the branch. We use some of our existing positions to look at this. As you know, over the course of the past few years there has been

21:25an ongoing dialogue with regard to co-compliance in all areas. This is an opportunity for us to bring co-compliance related um departments or areas under one umbrella as it relates to the budget preparation and management, contract management. There's a plethora of contracts that we deal with. General business operation, and most importantly to look at process improvements and how are

21:55we looking at code related issues and how can we improve on our response, how can we improve on our documentation and focus on excellence and customer service while we're doing that. If you have any questions, Mr. Errington is present here with us this morning and I'd be more than happy to see if you would want to have him do an introduction.

22:22I'd love to have him um tell us a little bit about his background and and meet the board.

22:28Commissioner Mariano, were you gonna have questions too? Um

22:31I'll ask them after

22:32Okay. Good morning. All right.

22:34Good morning. How is everybody? Good.

22:36I think we need your name.

22:37Patrick? Thank you. Ariton.

22:39Yeah. Thank you. Do we need an address? No. Okay. You don't have to keep your address.

22:43Don't have to.

22:45Go ahead.

22:47I I'm I'm sorry. I didn't I didn't expect uh I didn't anticipate to come up talking in front of people but uh I'm looking forward to serving everybody in Pasco County. Uh hopefully this all works out well. I've got uh twenty three years of law enforcement, I'm retiring from that uh next week, so that should uh bode me well as we move forward.

23:03Wonderful.

23:05Oh sorry.

23:05Okay, Commissioner Mariano and then Commissioner Weightman.

23:09Yeah, it's interesting.

23:11yourself justice. I read your I know your background. G get into it a little bit more. Just Besides being a police officer you had or law enforcement you had a background in the military as well?

23:21Correct. So uh twenty-three years in law enforcement and ten years prior to that I was in the military. Served in the US Navy. uh as a hospital corpsman, if anybody knows anything about the military. Served a few years uh with the Marine Corps as well as a as a uh hospital corpsman. Uh got uh three earned three degrees along the way married, got three kids, um and uh have done some fun things in the law enforcement world. Uh and some fun things in the military world that we could

23:51probably discuss over dinner or beers or something.

23:55That's good. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Listen, I read your background, I know it's it's pretty impressive. So you're allowed to brag about yourself.

24:01Are you new to Pasco County?

24:02I'm

24:02sorry? Are you new to Pasco?

24:04Yes, I am.

24:05Well welcome.

24:05Thank you. Commissioner Mariano. Yeah, Major. Thank you for your service. Um I'd like to say that uh coming up that we've got a few Challenges. I actually like the idea of the position. Uh Sally needs to take most stuff off her plate directly and I think the consolidation is good. Um I like to work with you closely as far as the Hudson area and all the way down through holiday as far as we get a home situation and I'm gonna be bringing up in the committee reports as far as some of the issues that are going on now. So I look forward to working with you. Move approval. Second.

24:34Uh any more discussion? I'm sure you'll get to know District 3 very well.

24:40Thank you. All right. Uh all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, welcome to Pasco. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Um R fifty two.