Ridge Road agreement and vaccine
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All right. Uh Mr. Biles.
Yes, sir.
Uh I'll start with good news. Um so we executed the agreement with Florida Turnpike Authority on Ridge Road in the interchange on Friday, uh where they fully funded their responsibility um as they agreed to twenty-four years ago. And we are still on track that that leaves us still on track to be able to open that road to traffic. in the J July time frame. So by the time hurricane season really kicks in, we will we will be able to put traffic on
that road. Um so so that's the first thing. The second thing is the I think a couple of commissioners mentioned uh Port Ritchie s is having a C R E meeting tonight. The city manager invited me, so I will attend And I will bring up the points the board made, uh, specifically the two with respect to boundary and then also with respect to the finances and of Yeah, Kat. trying to get from the city a plan to to bring it into compliance from a financial perspective. And part of that is they're going to wait on their audit. from the state that's due, I think, in the next thirty
to sixty days and that will probably drive that piece of it. The the third item is just for perspective, um, you know, I I know everybody knows Publix came on board with giving the vaccine out last week at night all nineteen locations. Um they're also working From the federal level and the state level to get the other pharmacies on board. I just looked at a couple of their websites. They're not on board yet, but they have they're starting to build the website so that as soon
as Wendixy and Walgreens are available, that they're they have the website started to build to be able to take appointments that way and for perspective. The DOH last week. averaged about 1700 and that includes Andy's IMT team, so the state team averaged about 1700. And that's both first and second doses. But as a county, we got about 2,500 vaccinations. on the day weekdays. So we were actually getting about eight hundred more vaccinations
in the county than DOH is getting from the state. So that's publics, that's going other places. So That so we are doing better. There are other options out there and so it actually may become easier to get vaccines from the public's pharmacies. pretty soon than it is from from our yeah from our system as well. So and they're nineteen on nineteen locations, which means you don't have to drive either you know to the Sears location or St. Leo. So that is ultimately the private
sector, publics, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Wendixie, all the pharmacies will overwhelm the capacity of DOH. And that's what we need to get to and we'll probably be there in the next several weeks, which is positive. Yeah. Uh The last thing, um, I have a new chief of staff. I think most of you met her, but I want to formally introduce her at board meeting, uh, Joanna Cheshire. She comes to us from the Penellas Sheriff's Office, where she's been there for the last six years. And so she has started about a week and a half ago. So we wanted to welcome her to the team formally at
a board meeting. So with that, Mr. Chair, that's all I have for now.