An Ordinance By The Pasco County Board Of County Commissioners Amending Various Sections Of Chapter 2, Article IV, Division 2, Of The Pasco County Code Of Ordinances Relating To Purchasing; Providing For Changes To Definitions Of Terms; Providing For Clarification Of The Purposes Of These Sections; Providing For Changes In Purchasing Limits And Delegation Of Authority In Certain Instances, Including Emergency Purchases; Providing For Changes To Local Preference; Clarifying Restrictions On Communication During The Solictation Process; Providing For Changes To Unauthorized Purchases; Requisitions And Estimates, Encumbrance Of Funds, Authorization For The Use Of Electronic Media And Signatures, Ethical Conduct And Sanctions, Piggyback Contracts; Provide For Requests For Statement Of Qualifications And Invitation To Negotiate As Methods Of Procurement; Providing For Changes In The Bid Protest Procedure; Providing For Changes Relating To Central Stores; Providing For Changes To Authority To Debar And Debarment And Reinstatement, Prohibition Against Award To Certain Persons And Entities, Donations; Providing For Clarification Of Declaration Of Surplus Lands And Alternative Disposition Methods, And Unsolicited Proposals; Providing For Severability; Providing For Inclusion In The Code And Providing For An Effective Date.

48:13Yeah. Okay. Seeing no one else, um it's to the board. Oh no, there's no action on this one. Okay, we will uh move on to The next P eighty nine.

48:29Good afternoon. Carrie Roberts, Purchasing Director for the County.

48:32Ms. Roberts, can I read the publication directory for

48:37this item P eighty nine was published in the San Bay Times on August 30th, 2022. Thank you.

48:43Thank you. you. I'm gonna read the title, but not nearly as fast as my colleague did. This is an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners amending various sections of Chapter 2. Article four, Division II of the Pasco County Code of Ordinances. Relating to purchasing, providing for changes to definition of terms, providing for clarification of the purpose of these sections, providing for changes in purchasing limits and delegation of authority in certain instances, including emergency purchases, providing for changes to local preference, clarifying restrictions on communication during the solicitation

49:13process, providing for changes to unauthorized purchases, requisitions and estimates, encumbrance of funds, authorization for the use of electric. Electronic media and signatures, ethical conduct and sanctions, higgyback contracts, provide for requests for statement of qualifications and invitation to negotiate as methods of procurement, providing for changes in the bid protest procedure, providing for changes related to central stores, providing for changes to authority to debar and debarment and reinstatement, prohibition against award to certain persons and entities, donations, providing for clarification of declaration of surplus lands

49:43and alternative disciplines. Acquisition methods and unsolicitation unsolicited proposals, providing for severality, providing for inclusion in the code, and providing for an effective date. This is the second reading and we do have a short presentation on what has changed since we presented it to you at the first meeting. Next slide please. So since we read it to you on the 25th of October, we have taken your comments into consideration and we have taken the emergency authority at $250,000

50:14for purchasing director and we are leaving it at $100,000 as in the current ordinance. For the local preference, we also did not make any changes, so the final version has no changes to the local vendor preference policy. For the cybersecurity award, we took the recommendation of the board and increased the county administrator's award authority to $500,000, and then the board would approve anything over $500,000. And then on the donation acceptance, we did increase department, I'm sorry, County Administrator approvals to $25,000.

50:46Do we have any questions? Good changes.

50:52Okay. Uh is there a second?

50:54Second. No, no. Oh

50:55we've got to do public comment. Oh that's right. We could do that under discussion, that's what I was thinking of. Okay, we will um first

51:03will you want to make your comments first? Yes, um and this is just uh for the for the board and um there

51:08is

51:08a provision in there that authorizes the purchasing director to make um any corrections that are scrivener's errors before it's submitted to the Florida uh Secretary of State. Our office is the one that forwards it um or submits it to the department, uh the Secretary of State. Um and we have a quick turnaround. time of ten days to get that done by law and um if anyone is going to review it if they could review it qu um sooner rather than later because we do have a holiday coming up. and I just want to make sure that we get it in on time. um and just work well

51:38uh with our board records department to get that done. Yes ma'am. Thank you. Okay, this

51:43is a public hearing. Does anyone want to speak to our new changes in our um

51:50Policy here. I have no one signed up for this item and no one on WebEx for this item. Okay, seeing no one, take that motion.

51:58Uh

51:58move approval. Second.

52:00All in favor? Aye.

52:01Roll call vote.

52:02Oh, roll call vote. District One, Commissioner Oakley.

52:06Is there any more of this? No.

52:08District 2, Commissioner Moore. Aye. District 4, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Aye. District 5, Commissioner Mariano. Aye. District 3, Chairman Starkey.

52:16Aye. Thank you very much.

52:18Thank you.

52:19Okay, we are now going