Presentation - Florida’s Sports Coast Telly Awards - No Funding Required

1:48:10R62, is that correct?

1:48:13Yes, ma'am.

1:48:22Madam Clerk, can I just take it away? Yeah. Thank you, ma'am. Adam. There he is.

1:48:30Before I turn it over to Adam Thomas and and um our our other guest, um I've talked about the Telly Awards over the past years, but uh this year we wanted to put on the agenda to actually do a formal presentation so all the commissioners and our friends in the audience and at home could see what the telly awards are all about. So uh Mike Bishop's here and um Adam Thomas and

1:48:54That's right. Sorry. Um So the Tele Awards, I'll just go over the Tele Awards a little bit and then you can talk about the video more. The Tele Awards honor excellent in video and television all across the world. And it's actually an international competition. So I'm happy to announce this year that the Sports Coast team, along with the Pasco EDC, are recipient of a gold telly award as well as three additional tell you a words which Adam will explain to each and

1:49:24every one of you. Um uh a fun fact I'll brag a little bit on Adam and and uh the EDC team on this. in the c the gold category that they won. Um they actually s finished ahead of a couple of companies you'll probably know, like Viacom. Um, CBS, ahead of Warner Brothers, and one of the um in the international competition um that they did, they actually finished ahead of a Spider-Man No Way Home movie promo, which is pretty big. So

1:49:55you think about how many how much money and energy and hundreds of people are working on this thing and good old Pasco County. Brings home the gold. So with that, I'm gonna let Adam take it away, and then you can show the video that won the gold and talk about the other awards as well.

1:50:10Good morning, Madam Chair, fellow commissioners. Thank you so much, uh, Commissioner Moore for bringing this uh this prestigious award uh to to this council. Um we are excited uh not only to win. I'm gonna channel my inner LeBron James for a second. We didn't win one, not two, not three, but four tele awards for Pasco County for our live, work, and play uh uh right here. And and this is um a great example of cross-cross uh collaborations between two marketing agencies that position Pasco County as a viable vacation

1:50:41destination and also a great destination and a great community in a great county to actually build business or recruit business too. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and tee up the the video so you can actually see why we won these prestigious awards. It's pretty funny too. It's it's good stuff. Yes.

1:51:03You see all of that? You know what that is? That's opportunity. You probably don't know who I am, and that's okay. You probably don't know a lot about Pasco County either. From country to a nature-rich coastline, Pasco County, also known as Experienced Florida's sports coast, has a little bit of something for everybody. Let's get down to business. Specifically, your business. We are a right-to-work state with a pro-business government that offers Low operating cost and no personal state income tax. Sounds pretty sweet, right?

1:51:3315,500 feet. Time to jump.

1:51:35That's our sum. Don't worry, it gets better. Who

1:51:42Sounds too good to be true. It's as true as the plains people flock here to see, given Skydive City is one of the top drop zones in the world. I mean, take a look around. What do you see?

1:51:56That's right, Terry. Possibility and lots of it. Pasco recently implemented a Ready Sites program that has assessed and evaluated over 2,000 acres of land to prepare property for industrial development. Each property is strategically located with the necessities to support your growing business. Let's say free falling towards the earth isn't your cup of tea. Maybe a refreshing Arnold Palmer is something more your speed.

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1:52:30They have over 90,000 square feet of meeting space, a spa, 43 tennis courts, even two full-size Arnold Palmer golf courses.

1:52:43No. I think that's a good thing.

1:52:46There's more than enough space to network or strike deals while hitting the fairway. Now I know you've seen a mall, but have you seen a mall like this? Shops at Wiregrass is Tampa Bay's premier open-air lifestyle shopping center with over 800,000 square feet of retail, restaurants, and entertainment. You can even bring your best friends. Hi.

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1:53:38Yeah.

1:53:40Terry, do you know what synergy is? Stop! I'll tell you. Owned by Florida Sports Coast, this facility came together with private and public partnerships, including a private land donation that this community project now sits on.

1:53:58This 98,000 square foot sports campus can also be transformed into an expansive meeting convention event space with two 34,000 square foot separate spaces. There's even an on-site residence inn by Marriott with a rooftop bar for an excellent view of the surrounding area. Pasco's award-winning Workforce Connect platform allows employers to find programs that produce talent that will thrive in their industries and explore resources that will help their business stand out to top candidates,

1:54:28as well as allow job seekers to discover and explore various career pathways in a diverse economy of fast-growing industries.

1:54:40Oh, Terry, I said top candidates.

1:54:48Pasco County has a long history of specialized production. From the early years of pioneering technological advancements in Florida citrus industry to our revolutionary breakthroughs and advanced sensor-based manufacturing methods for global brands like Mettler Toledo and Touchpoint Medical, Pasco is positioned for long-term growth with access to the second largest manufacturing workforce in Florida that is high. skilled, forward thinking, and growing like crazy, Pasco is ready for the future. Harry,

1:55:19don't touch that!

1:55:22Florida Sports Coast is the perfect destination for the active individual. Hit the trails by bike or foot and explore the hundreds of miles of paved and unpaved trails the destination has to offer. Oh, excuse me, Terry. Oh. Thank you.

1:55:37Wait, it's my bike.

1:55:41Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Pasco County is experiencing an unprecedented growth with over 19,000 acres of master plan developments in the works to create the ultimate live, work, and play communities. Speaking of live and work, Pasco is one of the top places in Florida to work from home. Look! Wait! WHAT? Do you like an adventure? What about an adventure on the water? We are a coastal community with plenty of hidden

1:56:11gems just waiting to be explored. Pedal faster, Terry!

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1:56:48we work, how we play, how we live, I only have one question for you. What are you waiting for? Cheers.

1:57:07I would like to thank Diamond View, who is the uh production agency that helped us uh grow this uh this prestigious uh video and and win these awards. Um Commissioner Moore actually identified some some um Companies that we beat out on goal, but At the government level, we did win a silver for government relations and we did beat out the city of Taipei, Taiwan. Metro Vancouver and then Colorado Springs. So we We're growing and um Mike wanna say a few words?

1:57:36Oh.

1:57:37No, just that we appreciate the partnership with Florida Sports Coast at the EDC it's important with us to partner with tourism as businesses evolving we continue to expand our partnership. So Adam, thank you for allowing us to collaborate. Absolutely excellent.

1:57:49Well congratulations again and and Madam Chair, I mean if we could um like to come down, we'll take a picture altogether.

1:57:56Yeah.

1:57:56This is the gold. This was on my shelf at home. I'm not, it's not really it's in the tourism office shelf, but uh yeah, well you can pass it around with a Stanley Cup, right? But can we

1:58:10I'm gonna show you something that um that this uh happened I can't remember how long ago. Um but it was it was uh when we started working on the billboard ordinance. So we we also won the worst ad Um at the Addy Awards once. And it was for this. Um they closed the ceremony somewhere in the United States with this photo of Pasco County. It's a billboard on forty one And so we want we uh yeah.

1:58:37How many years ago was that?

1:58:39Uh gosh, twenty about twenty five years ago.

1:58:44That was like the worst worst uh thing that they had seen. So we we call

1:58:49Come a long way.

1:58:52Yeah, they they just totally butchered that tree. So but from this we got a ban on billboards. So from the words.

1:59:00Exactly. Exactly. Good job.

1:59:03Before you get the picture, I I just wanna thank you guys for doing collaborative working together. Uh Larry Pendleton used to be the head of the Florida Spo Florida Sports Foundation. Where they take the license plate money and put money in that we Yeah. And his favorite phrase was the purpose of economic of tourist development is not Tourism, it's not heads and beds, it's economic development. And what you guys are doing together working here right now is phenomenal.

1:59:28You know, um can you speak to the um games that are coming up? Uh for you know the uh the senior games. Florida

1:59:35Senior Games. We did land the Florida Senior Games for the next two years starting this year uh at the beginning of December for twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. We have up to three thousand um athletes fifty years and older that are gonna be coming in playing in over twenty two sports um across the entire Pasco County. We are extremely honored and proud and we're going to come back to this council in uh next month and do a full presentation along with the Florida Sports Foundation.

2:00:05Okay. And and when does that um take place? What time of the year?

2:00:08Uh it's the first week of December.

2:00:10Or spring December.

2:00:12Three years straight too.

2:00:13So it's

2:00:13locked in. Could we let's go down and take a picture and we have a time starting at eleven.

2:00:18We will hit it right on the notes.

2:00:25Go first in that.

2:00:31Yeah, we s now we did um at the T D Cold What at the at the T D C meeting we did a fun thing where we held it up, which was a fun picture. So can we get it?

2:00:44Oh my god.

2:00:50So if you don't have one, give it a thumbs up. If you have one, hold it up.

2:00:56Or the podcast.

2:00:58Hey.

2:01:02Thank you. All right. Hold on. Stay in position. The microphone's in it if I take it from there.

2:01:07Like like really hold it up. Like, you

2:01:09know,

2:01:09I'm a whip.

2:01:14Uh commun share one minute to hold the dot again by side and the fed up. There you go. Perfect. Love the thumbs up

2:01:20too. There we go. All right. Thank you very much.

2:01:26So Anskill's won an award on the Tampa Bay Business Journal? They love the awards at the Bad Review Office. Very cool. A diamond D space? No, not yet. Oh it's it's neat. Yeah.

2:01:41Yeah, right.

2:01:43It's my best Tom Brady.

2:01:47Okay, so I think we're we can uh start moving to that time certain at eleven. And start reading the resolution.

2:01:58Can Madam Chairman do you mind? Can can I just go ahead before and invite Dr. Beers up? Sure. Dr. Beers there, and we have a lot of guests. So if we could bring the entire team from P Pasco Hernando State College, everybody that came along. Please come on up.