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

1:09:18Okay, so I think then we are We have R S five. R S five. Commissioner Mariano.

1:09:23Yeah.

1:09:25We 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.

1:09:45Um 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

1:10:15is 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

1:10:45Club 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

1:11:16his 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.

1:11:46NRAS, 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

1:12:18in 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

1:12:48primitive 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

1:13:18you. 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.

1:13:53Move approval.

1:13:55All in favor. Aye. Aye. Commissioner Mariano.

1:13:58Thank 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.

1:14:19So 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.

1:14:38Could you say Yeah, we

1:14:40need your name and address

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1:14:41You can lower that mic.

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1:14:46My name is Nicholas Kercy.

1:14:48Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right.

1:14:49And

1:14:49Jeffrey?

1:14:51And

1:14:51give your name first, Jeffrey. Full name.

1:14:53Uh 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

1:15:09excellent. That's great. All right. And Andrew?

1:15:15My 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.

1:15:32Hey and I I have a brother and a nephew who are Eagle Scouts, so I know how much work goes.

1:15:38I 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

1:16:08place 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?

1:16:39And boy is that ceremony long. wrong. Oh yeah, oh yeah. That's a very long ceremony.

1:16:46I remember my twins following sleeping in the map and waking up and sleeping. And that's time to work for us here.

1:16:57Yeah. All right, everybody, right here.

1:17:03One more. Great, thank you.

1:17:06All right. And all the family members follow? Even the county employee ones.

1:17:22Okay, everybody, right here? One, two, one more. Great, thank you.

1:17:28Okay, that's good. Now I want to do each individual download.

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1:17:47Thank you. Great.

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1:18:00Perfect, thanks.

1:18:03Thank you.

1:18:08All right, everybody right here, please.

1:18:13Got it. Thanks.

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