Resolution 24-126 Automotive Service Professionals Month
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Now we're on R S three.
All right, so R S three. Um is anyone here uh supporting National Automotive Service Professionals Month. I saw Mr. Wall earlier. You have your team with you?
This is County Fleet, what a drill.
He's trying to make him come join. Wow,
we have Lisa's signature on it.
They could agree.
Uh righty. Don't be bashful, come on.
Come on up.
Okay, this is resolution number 24-126, a resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the month of June 2024 as National Automotive Service Professionals Month in Pasco County. Whereas automotive service professionals play a significant role in the efficiency and effectiveness of both government and personal transportation. and whereas the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence, ASE, is a nonprofit
organization established in nineteen seventy two. And its mission includes improving the quality of vehicle repair and service by testing and certifying automotive professionals. And whereas automotive service professionals at the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners and at other public and private organizations have a tremendous responsibility to ensure vehicles and equipment are operable, dependable, and safe. And whereas today's motor vehicles are highly complex and equipped with
more advanced technology than ever before, requiring specialized tools and highly trained professionals to perform vehicle repairs. And whereas the Pasco County Fleet Management Department is dedicated to offering preventative maintenance, repairs, bulk fuel storage, refueling, and acquisition services for vehicles and equipment to all departments within Pasco County. And whereas the Pasco County Fleet Management Department recognizes, supports, and practices the ASC
guiding principles, ethics, and commitment to quality service. And whereas the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence has designated June as National Automotive Service Professional Month to further expand the awareness of the Automotive Professionals' role in providing essential services. services within government, business and the monitoring public. Motoring public, sorry. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby
declares the month of June 2024 as National Automotive Service Professionals Month in Pasco County and urges all Pasco County residents to join in recognizing the role of automotive professionals in the government, business, and transportation. Dunn and resolved in regular session with the quorum present in voting this twenty-first day of May 2024.
Move to approve. Second. Motion is second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passed five zero. All right. Who's our spokesman today?
Yes, sir. Uh good morning, Brent Wall, Fleet Management Director. Um Just wanted to take this opportunity to give a little bit more of a picture of just one of the examples of what um this organization has been able to do. Included in your packets, I don't know if you have a chance or opportunity to look at it, is a chart. Um I love charts by the way. But anyway, what this chart says is back in twenty seventeen this department, through
the work of these individuals, Managed to maintain the fleet for a cost of seven point four million dollars, and that is all the equipment and everything else that needed to be kept running. Now as you know, since then the county growth has continued as much as anything else. Inflation has been through the roof. And if you look at the blue line from that seven point four million dollars That's what the uh billing would have been. If we would have just accommodated the
growth of the fleet, it made no changes to um to our operations. The tan line there is what that uh what that cost would have risen to if we account just for inflationary factors based on the consumer price index. And if we add those two in uh cost factors together, you would get the red line of what that cost would have been. But because this team has gone through on a regular basis. reviewed
their activities looked for improvements and just flat out done a whole lot more with less and just done better. The actual billing or the cost of maintaining this this fleet is actually what the green line represents. Overall in summary that's um taking in fifty five percent uh increase in cost factors. but yet only representing a twelve percent actual cost increase. All
told bas uh from twenty seventeen to where we are projected to end this year, that's a cost avoidance of fourteen million dollars. that this team and others have brought forward. So Um, just a real opportunity to take this month and give the team a real shout out for some recognition of a really, really big accomplishment.
Well um that's amazing. Thank you so much. Um I'm curious how many how many cars or and trucks do you maintain?
Right now the number is right around twenty one hundred.
Wow. And how many uh staff? uh in your department?
Uh total st uh total positions in the department are fifty one.
Wow. So um you know, I think this is the first time we've ever had these guys up in front of us. So I don't know a lot about your department, but I'm so glad that um we're learning more about the great work that you do. And you know, something that comes to my mind and your your group here is pretty young. Um but I know um we we do have an aging workforce and Uh Zephyrhills High School has an automotive academy, I'm pretty sure it's Zephyrhills. And We've been partnering
students um through an AM skills program with the utilities department. And I wonder if we shouldn't be working with the Zephyrhills um automotive academy and and getting some of our students opportunities in the summer and maybe in future job future jobs. So let's let's work on that. If you remember I brought that program back from my board meeting in Minneapolis that that that that county was doing. So uh Gosh, I I'm gonna come out and visit you guys and where where where
are you even located?
Um
You're kinda all over, right?
Uh actually we have uh a location here on this campus in the back. Uh we have another one, uh a newer facility on McKendry Road, uh w where we're co-located with Go Pasco. Okay. And we have a facility that will be opening in the next sixty days, about a half mile from here at the Galen Wilson complex to support our bus operation there.
Well thank thank you again. Um I'm honored that I'm sponsoring this and thank you for the great work that you're doing.
Mr. White. Thank you, Chair. Twenty one hundred pieces, huh? You don't lose a single one. It's uh no I come my professional life from a fleet based business, so just absolute respect for what you guys do and keeping the operation running. Uh you're putting maintenance schedules and and keeping on top of those and doing it, you know, the savings to the taxpayer of $14 million. You know, you guys be proud of the work that you do. You're highly sought after. I'm sure you you know that within, you know, all
industry, public and private alike. So Appreciate y'all hanging tough and managing what you do. Uh often you know you guys are quietly in the background and not thought of unless a tire blows or something happens and then you guys have to have to get that vehicle up and running and um so Yeah, great work, fantastic job, uh, Brent and team, and uh hopefully we see more of you.
Yes, thank you for what you do. And you know, the the first thing I think of is just like you guys keep America running, right? So like you keep our trucks and cars on the road and deliveries to people and um like Commissioner Starkey said, just hoping like more students and you know choose that as a career um in their workforce. So thank you.
Ms. Bayonet Point. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know I moved a few years ago. You and I met, Eric, uh we would talk about the fleet plan, what we're gonna go do, et cetera. And your plan was to try to get better vehicles in, turn 'em over, find problem vehicles, turn 'em over. So part of the internal thing of looking at what to do was critical and I know the feedback from your team was critical in making those decisions as well. Uh when you just look at and I I I'm glad you brought this chart up a phenomenal chart. to think from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty four your costs have only gone up eight and a half
percent? Is absolutely phenomenal. Well maybe I did my number wrong. I did my own division. Bottom right corner.
Finance major. A phen a phenomenal, phenomenal change uh to what you've done. That's great. And looking at it, it's like That's the type of premier things we want to do in this county to run more efficiently, to run better. And uh you guys are leading the way, so thank you very much.
And you guys um Really get it done. When you think about that many vehicles and service and things of that nature that you have to keep keep up to speed on. Um I would imagine you're servicing vehicles every day. So It's uh and not just one. So But I appreciate everything you've done and our equipment looks great out there on the road, I can tell you that. And you're a big part of that. The green line? Any uh business
anywhere in the county would want to keep a green line that's down like that is compared to what you're doing. So a very good job and it's a good way of spending uh citizens money to take care of these this equipment and do it at a lesser cost. So Very important.
The administrator wants to say something.
Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh Brent team, I just want to say thank you for what you do. We we live in a transit oriented economy. Uh Pasco County is a big place. We're growing. Our teams would not be able to do one iota of work without your services. You know, we're gonna recognize uh EMS week here. Uh an ambulance does not roll out, you know, without without you know good good mechanics and things, things are taken care of. So just appreciate you guys doing that. You do things well, you do things efficiently, so efficiently
that you know you're you're kind of taking one for the team, if you will, by by you operating in a efficiently and and as a it's a it's a fund enterprise within the organization. You free up other teams' budgets to absorb other portions of growth. So it's just a shining of example of of the work work that you do that supports the whole. So thank you for all that you guys do.
All right. I'm going to come down and give this to you and
you don't listen to staying up here behind them? Yeah. You got quite a few there.
Show you.
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