Authorization to Shortlist and Delegation of Negotiation and Execution of Agreement to County Administrator for Solicitation No. RSQ-KM-24-064 – Bellamy Brothers Blvd. (SR52 to Hernando County Line) Roadway Safety Improvements – Not to Exceed Budgeted Amount Plus 20%

1:20:01All right. Um In the process of saving time because it seems like we're running behind today on things. Let's move back to the uh consent item. And Take them up now. I have a pool sheet with C twenty two. Uh withdrawn C forty eight withdrawn. Um C forty nine withdrawal. C twenty-five, uh

1:20:31pull and discuss. C thirty four pull and discuss. And it looks like Uh C forty six. Is that poll?

1:20:43And C thirty four. Um that'll be just really, really brief for me.

1:20:47And I'd like to pull P seventy eight.

1:20:51It's you can't pull a

1:20:53I meant I can't discuss it.

1:20:55That's public hearing if it's public hearing.

1:21:01It's the storage um

1:21:03Yeah, that's your afternoon public hearing.

1:21:05Oh okay.

1:21:06It's on can it's on consent then, but we'll pull it up. We'll pull it after we'll do that.

1:21:13Okay. Uh is there any desires on any of the other C I uh consent items?

1:21:19Seeing

1:21:19none, move to

1:21:20approve

1:21:20the consent agenda.

1:21:21Mr. Mr. Chair, the um motion to also approve the addendum item for consent.

1:21:28Which is what's the number of what's

1:21:29it is AC 121.

1:21:31Add a AC 121 to my motion to approve.

1:21:34Go with the secondary. All right, I got a motion and second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion pass.

1:21:44Four zero. Uh Okay, now we'll take up the first item to pull and discuss is C25.

1:21:56Who has that?

1:22:00That was you. It's under your name. Um it's next item.

1:22:07Mm-hmm. Good morning Mr Chair, Commissioner Staren, uh County Engineer.

1:22:17Okay. So this was pulled by the commission. Do you have a question you want us to address or do you want us to just give you an overview of the project?

1:22:24Well I just want to know the overview of the project and um Uh Ms. Bramford and myself have gotta have a meeting and I'll talk to him about that out on Bellamy to discuss what we're doing in the future on Bellamy Boulevard.

1:22:39Well and and to be clear, we are designing safety improvements for the Bellamy Bull um Bellamy Brothers uh Boulevard Corridor from State Road fifty two all the way to Hernando County. We're very excited about the investment in the safety of this corridor. I think commissioners have noted a number of crashes recently, as early as uh recently as earlier this year. Right that we would like to prevent any future reoccurrence of those kinds of incidents from occurring. The scope of work for the project is to uh reconstruct the entire roadway with the four foot paved shoulders to provide for lane recovery.

1:23:09So for lane departure crashes, we'll we'll have that recovery area. We're also gonna be providing the tactile response uh the rumble strips on the edge and the center line of the road. So that we can give ad uh very tactile feedback to drivers who are who are um departing from their expected

1:23:26A lot of the crashes have actually been happening because they're allowed passing along that strip? And it's very dangerous. We've got some side roads.

1:23:35And we have illuminated chevrons as part of this project so that we can guide you through the S curves on the corridor. We have additional street lighting that's going to be deployed as part of this. Right.

1:23:48And

1:23:48these improvements need and and I know that we have to do that. Fellow commissioners, we've all heard about different issues out on Bellamy and and I just wanted to pull this so everybody's made aware of what we're doing to correct this issue and then Bramford and I we're gonna have another Uh community meeting out that way so we can take care of

1:24:07the

1:24:08right-of-way.

1:24:08That's right. That is part of our design screen. Let

1:24:09them know what we're doing.

1:24:10That is part of our design scope of work, both to collect feedback on the kickoff and then to communicate the specific scope and schedule of the project as we get closer to finalizing the design and ready to advertise for the construction contract. I will mention to the commission one of the things that we are paying close attention to, just take a shameless opportunity. For this plug. We're paying close attention to in Pasco County is the investment in improved safety for our two-lane, somewhat rural roadways that exist within portions of Pasco County. There's a lot of attention being

1:24:41paid to that on a statewide scale. There are federal safety dollars that come to the state of Florida to the tune of about $125 million every year, that it can be used for investments on two-lane roads like these. The state has been making a priority to address their two-lane roads throughout the state of Florida with some of the similar treatments that we're doing on Bellamy Brothers. And we are definitely in conversations with District 7 and with Tallahassee to see if we can't secure some of those federal safety dollars for improvements on other county roads that we would look to make

1:25:11projects happen on those going forward. Please note that we're excited about Bellamy Brothers and we're definitely paying attention to opportunities for other people's money to make our transportation system safer for all the people of Pasco County.

1:25:23I appreciate that. That's that's very good and and I know the board knows that we work very well with Secretary Gwyn with District Seven and Uh we're actually partners and we really we partner together a lot. So Actually uh they're gonna bring a light to uh Wire Road and Three oh one. And the design has already been started and uh and we'll get a light there. Uh thanks to F D O T. So that's coming. So um

1:25:51if you want to stay there.

1:25:55If you want to stay there for 34, uh I'm I just have a quick comment. Um that's mine, that's the one that's next. Oh okay. Is that um it's suggests that um Oh, move to approve C twenty five? Yeah, second thing.

1:26:11We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passed. 5-0. All

1:26:16right. On C thirty-four, I just I had some challenges with AECOM, I'm gonna tell you, uh, and a project um that is um Buena Vista Lane and um And it kinda slipped by uh everyone's notice that nothing Nothing had happened in over a year. And so um I asked for the next AE com contract to come up just to Remind them and I talked someone from A e Comp called me and

1:26:46remind our staff That's right. Even when you're working on a little project, we gotta have some kind of timer so that doesn't get forgotten because months and months went by and and nothing happened and the residents really want their roads road paved and we were trying so hard to get it done before the rainy season. Um so Um with that I would move approval of C thirty-four.

1:27:10Okay. All right, got a motion second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passed five zero. Okay, move on to uh

1:27:20C forty six. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And the reason I pull this, I just want to just have a quick comment to it because I think it's phenomenal that Firehouse Subs has their foundation. Uh which is giving the county three hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred ninety-nine dollars for Improvements for our for our county. I mean it's just tremendous and I just want to kinda say firehouse subs a couple of times to promote them. But if you want to talk about what the improvements will be, but I'm I'm gonna be fully supportive. Oh

1:27:47boy. Hello again.

1:27:51Thirty seconds. I can get you in thirty seconds. During the Hurricane Idelia uh two years ago, we uh noticed a gap in coverage. Uh along with the Sheriff's Office, we had over a hundred and twenty rescues of victims. victims, pulling them out and evacuations. One of the gaps that we saw was the inflatable boats. So as an agency we took the time to write a grant to get these inflatable boats into our arsenal so we can serve the citizens if we have another flood emergency, more likely we will have another flood emergen flood emergency. So that's what it's going to. It's not a matching grant. Nice.

1:28:23They're firehouse to us, our firehouse. So

1:28:25okay.

1:28:26I'm gonna go get a firehouse so

1:28:28I'm glad I'm glad I eat lunch there about every board

1:28:31day.

1:28:32Uh

1:28:33over

1:28:33here.

1:28:33So while C forty six is the item you're talking about, the description on your pool sheet is Not is for C forty five, but but we are talking about C forty six.

1:28:47Okay. Move to approve. So I have a motion and a sec uh second.

1:28:52Second. Okay. All

1:28:54those in favor say aye.

1:28:55Aye.

1:28:56Motion passed five zero. Thank you guys.

1:29:04me it was

1:29:04corrected, but I'll fix that. Thank you. Yeah.