Public comment on items before the board
What the county recorded
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 9, 2021
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 9, 2021
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What was said
Machine transcription of 8m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 93% of 46 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Okay. Uh r like to remind everyone uh today R 52 will be heard after the public hearing this afternoon. So uh now it's time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any incoming any item coming before the board during the public Um Comment section. The board also takes public comment on items to be placed on future board agenda
and other business under their preview. Due to COVID-19 operations and to safeguard the well-being, safety for our citizens and staff, today's public comment will be handled as follows. Number one, first. They will take. Public comment from those that pre registered WebEx Link and are currently in use. After we
will read the record or record the comments, documents, PowerPoints, videos that have been identified from from members of the public to be read into
the meeting and played at the and those videos played at the meeting or received and filed. Finally, we will take public comment on those currently signed up at the kiosks. Comments are not to exceed three minutes per person. This one. This new format uh does not weigh the request that when you address the board and comments are not are not directed personally against any commissioner or
team member, but rather directed as is as the issues. This provides mutual respect between board members and the public. For WebEx and Kios participants, after saying your name and address for the clerk, the timer will uh activate and we'll start a countdown. After two minutes, one beep will sound, letting you know that you have one minute remaining. After the timer is
is up, two beeps will sound and including the that includes the excuse me indicating three minutes are up and you should close your comments. WebEx participants will be uh disconnected when their time is up and kiosks participants will be asked to Move away from the kiocks. Madam Clerk, do we have anyone signed up for the WebEx?
Yes, uh Chairman. Two individuals uh signed up. One is logged in. We have Miss Lauren Gentry. On the WebEx.
Please state your name and address.
Yes, my name is Lauren Gentry. I reside in [address removed]. I have an item on the consent agenda and I'm simply logged in in the event that the commissioners had any questions on that. No comments at this time.
Thank you.
You didn't say what
item.
What
item
number? She her item is the Bridgewater C D um item that is under my portion of the agenda. I think it's C six.
That's correct. C six.
All right, thank you.
Second person.
There uh the uh second person who signed up is not on WebEx.
So we just go on. Okay. Um
So do we have any emails to be read into record or
So um the only email that was sent in was sent in after the hybrid pub uh virtual public comment closed. The email did ask, uh the person asked for it to be read into the record, but it has closed. Um the email was forwarded to all of the commissioners. It will be part of the record as received and filed.
Breed
that in or It didn't comply with your rules. So it I mean it's been provided to the commissioners so that they can read it. And it's in the record. And it's in the record.
All right. Um
More smell. Keoks. Anyone at the Keoks this morning to speak?
Yes.
Yeah, they're not
there is
There's nobody there? Yes, there is one. Okay. Please state your name and address for the record.
Nancy Hayswood, [address removed].
All right, so welcome to 2021. Um I did try to come to another session. and found that the kiosk here was closed. It was because it was in Newport Ridgeie, even though it was a matter that was in our area. So that was about a month ago. I missed your first one. Uh
Thing See off them. We have spotty Internets, we can't do it that way. The phone doesn't always work out here. And we've actually got older people that it's gonna be hard for them to get all the way over to New Port Richey. Uh I don't understand why you can't do that. It seems like a pretty
There are actually people out here with no internet at all. And my first thought when I was not allowed when I found it was closed was they did this on purpose. I thought, no, they wouldn't do that. They just don't understand that there are people that might want to address this matter. The particular issue that I wanted to address actually had a hundred and fifty people write into it. So I don't know why it was putting dates in Newport Ritchie anyways. So what I'd like to ask is that
y'all find a way to keep both these kiosks open for the board meetings and the planning commission so nobody else has to have Such a frustrating experience of coming up here and not even having time to drive to New York Ritchie as they can. to address the board. Nobody should be cut out from addressing the board. Thank you for your time.
All right. Thank you. Anyone else at the PIS or that's the only person?
There is nobody else here at the kiosk.
All right. Thank you. Mr. Chairman Mariano. Just on behalf of the team and the staff and the board, can I just make a statement real quick? You
may.
Thank you, sir. Um and while I appreciate the comments that were just made, I just want to remind um everyone and just you know, that's watching at home, is that typically when we speak in person, it's either at whichever site the meeting's at. There's actually more opportunity now to speak to the Board of County Commissioners than there's ever been before because now you do have the opportunity to speak via WebEx or the telephone as well as go to the kiosk at the site. So
there's more opportunity and you can actually send in emails and be read into the record as well. So there's three options now in addition to going live on site that had never happened before. So more opportunity, not less opportunity to speak to the Board of County Commissioners. Right.
Because from before you had to be here to s to speak.
You would still have to drive over to the site. Yes, sir. Exactly. Three more opportunities now. That's when I make sure that's for the record. For those watching home, you have three opportunities in addition to coming live on at the kiosk.
Yeah. Even if it's on the other side of the county, you still can call in. Yeah. Or send a email. Or do the web access we can watch
on basic.
Yes, sir. That's true. All right. Yeah. Battle.