county administrator updates on operations and personnel

1:46:08it. County Administrator.

1:46:10Uh just a few items, Mr. Chair. Um first thanks for bringing up Commissioner Weightman, the uh Traffic Operations Center. I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't invite all of you to visit our traffic operations center. It's probably not as impressive as District 7, but a lot of the same concepts as far as running and routing traffic along US 19 and 54. So those those folks are doing that every day. A couple of shout-outs. First, the public infrastructure safety team safety is very important in our organization. We have a lot of folks that do a lot of dangerous jobs. And uh it's it was great to hear that the Florida Safety Council recognized. The

1:46:40public infrastructure safety team with outstanding safety performance and safety leadership, winning both a gold and honorable mention in those categories. Uh third thing is uh again shout out to Code and Code Compliance Animal Services, uh working jointly with the Pasco County Sheriffs and the uh Dade City Police Department um on a particular issue that didn't necessarily pan out in terms of of looking at at an animal fighting operation, but but did yield uh finding a number number of code violations uh as well as some stolen vehicles. So our team is working jointly with with our partners.

1:47:11uh out there in the law enforcement community to to do good things. And lastly. Where is she at? Desiree Wagner. Desiree, stand up, please. Mm. So Desiree has taken a position within the IT department. She has worked with us since November of twenty one as our agenda coordinator. She is moving on to to to greater things. She's always been a rock star and has made this run seemingly. Desiree, you're like a duck, right? Nice and calm above the water, but paddling like mad.

1:47:42you know, below below the surface. But thank you for everything that you have done. You have done a phenomenal job. So I just want to r publicly recognize you and give you a round of applause. So thank you.

1:47:55In the hot seat here we have Miss Gina Jeffers who will be uh filling that role uh coming up in the future. So thank you. That is all.

1:48:02No, one more thing.

1:48:03I've got one more thing, apparently.

1:48:04Unless he's doing it. What about our joint counties meeting?

1:48:07Uh yes, I'm sorry. And uh item C seven on your agenda was approving a um a resolution to to conduct a joint workshop with uh Pinellas County and Hillsborough County Commissioners. I met with the uh other county administrators as we discussed topic. Most likely will will surround resiliency, emergency management, possible affordable housing, and other obviously topics. Transportation trip we'll we can we can broach broach individual topics, but we're we're trying to find Topics that that we we can we can have as a first of course. We

1:48:38all want to take on one commissioner in particular.

1:48:40At any rate, I will be meeting with you to kind of go over what we would like to cover on the agenda for this first, hopefully of maybe many other meetings jointly as as a region. But this is a great opportunity that's going to be on May twelfth. And again, that's all in the all in the resolution, so more to come. But thank you.

1:48:56Well I know the other two uh county.

1:49:00Very excited about it. We don't have any mayors invited this time, but we thought maybe in a future time that we should invite Some folks from the cities as well.

1:49:10And I'll say um

1:49:13Definitely want to do that and I would add I would make sure transportation is there especially Talking about CSX and Rail. That was a very big topic topic with the others and I'll talk about my my items coming up. So So definitely need to add that in there.