Resolution 24-129 Permitting Assistance Day

1:14:01All right. Um RS six, um the building construction services team who helped on permitting assistance day. If you will come join the podium, saw the huge group of you. You're gonna really test my skills here with all these names at the end.

1:14:23Oh boy.

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1:14:24bashful coming forward.

1:14:28so this is resolution number 24-129, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, commending the building building construction services team who helped on Permitting Assistance Day in Pasco County. Whereas Pasco County Building Construction Services held Build Better Together Permitting Assistance Day on Saturday, May 4th, 2024, to assist the citizens of Pasco County. And whereas the event included permit

1:14:59education and application assistance, help with online Pasco Gateway registration, eliminating after-the-fact penalty fees on work done without permits. Scheduling inspections, issuing permits on the spot, and the case. and a QA session for any permitting needs from Pasco County citizens. And whereas the Building Construction Services individuals who helped on Permitting Assistance Day are Anthony Mastrochcio?

1:15:30First one, Matt Batten. Okay. How about

1:15:33raise your hand when your name is called? His name is Anthony in the back.

1:15:37Okay. Debbie Bella Fueli.

1:15:42Okay. Courtney Burns, M Melissa Walganeri, Kara Couch. Carla Garlock. John Lynch, Jeff Blasfetic, Kelly Facini, Swan Patel, Danny Knight, Omero Diaz, Chris Main, Jeremy Dalliere, Deborah Jadick, Katrina

1:16:12Dos Santos, Paige Matessek. Megan McConnell, Mike Glazebrook, Darius Kionas, Paul Burke, Kevin Jadak. Mary Shicatano. And J. P. Murphy. And whereas Pasco County Building Construction Services encourages their team to build strong relationships with the citizens of Pasco County. And whereas the Pasco County Building Construction Services

1:16:42team is helping raise awareness about safety in residential and commercial buildings and encouraging community members to do their part with compliance. And whereas during the month of May 2024, in recognition of Building Safety Month, the Pasco County Building Services Department has waived after-the-fact penalty fees on any work that may have been done completed without permit. And whereas Pasco County Building Construction Services takes pride in excellence

1:17:13in service excellence, providing great customer service and serving the Pasco County community to create a better future. Now therefore be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby commends the building construction services team Anthony Mastroscino, Debbie Bella Fuele, Courtney Burns, Melissa Walgrani, Kara Couch, Carla Garlock, John Lynch, Jeff Blastovich, Kelly

1:17:43Facini, Sawan. Patel, Danny Knight, Homero Diaz, Chris Main, Jeremy Delier, Deborah Jadick, Katrina Dos Santos, Paige Matessick, Megan McConnell, Mike Glazebrook, Darius Keones, Paul Burke, Kevin Jadick, Mary Shikitano, and JP Murphy for their commitment and service to the Pasco County community. Done and resolved in regular sessions.

1:18:14Move approval.

1:18:15Second.

1:18:16All right, I got a motion and second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passed five zero. JP, I think you're up.

1:18:23Well first of all, thank you, Madam Clerk, for reading all those names twice.

1:18:27She did very good on the names. She wouldn't want me doing that.

1:18:31Uh Mr. Chairboard, thank you. Welcome Commissioner Yeager. Um we're delighted to be here today. We had a fantastic event. We colored this event a a big success. And and the interesting thing and for a bit of background and uh my comments will be brief, is this idea was born out of a meeting with the Shady Hills Community Association. And we they told us about their residents having issues with transportation, digital divide issues, quite frankly, time off of work to be able to come into one of our offices and get some extra special assistance. So we thought, well, can we take our

1:19:01show on the road? And that's exactly what we did. The team behind me uh came on on their precious weekend and and figured out a way. We all found a way to go out to LC Logan Park, set up a permitting office that literally as you walked around the room left to right it is you started with licensing and you went around and and and we had many folks get issued a permit on the spot. Um so that that 10 day time frame kind of turned into one day and it was it was a really great feeling to see all the folks behind me come to work with their full full heart

1:19:31to try to build better together, work with the community and we had so much great feedback. It was the first time I heard somebody walk out of a permitting experience going, wow, that was easy. Those folks were really easy to work with. Um and and it was great to see smiles and and the people behind you really um deserve all the credit. in how they approached working together with our residents. And we're thr we're trying to plan on doing some more of these events throughout the year, um kind of all geographic reason re regions in the community. But uh big

1:20:02thanks to to them for all their hard work. And um by the way, it also showed that it about we could set up in about an hour and a half after a natural disaster to get permitting and and help folks uh immediately. So that was kind of a secondary benefit to that. But thank you and thank you to the team.

1:20:18Mr.

1:20:18Mayor.

1:20:19Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um you know I was so excited uh going out there a couple of weeks back to to watch this go on. And to just see the excitement. And whenever I got word that everybody had to volunteer at a time to go out there. They didn't have to go out there. They chose to be out there. That's it. Uh and that experience Uh is just phenomenal. The attitude that you guys showed by doing that, trying to help our people get through tough times and scary situations for them. Uh it means so much to them. And you know,

1:20:49as we strive to be premier, I'm gonna tell you all the things you we were a lot of good things about different things in our our different departments going on. But the step I think we took forward from from that exposition there at Shady Hills is phenomenal. Um I I just can't thank you guys enough. And I get to it was great to see you guys so happy when you're helping the people. I mean it was like, you

1:21:10know,

1:21:10just everybody everybody's in charge and everybody's happy. So I think that attitude running this through, building better together, is is gonna be something that's gonna be your jobs I think are gonna get better. You're gonna get more satisfaction. Our people are gonna get better as as they go through. And uh we took a tour of the uh facility yesterday. Uh thank you very much for that. Uh and I want to tell you when you walk right in the right-of-way. You walk in those places to sit but there's someone to greet you right away. You can walk in and then right behind that there's a booth setup where you sit down with the tech one on one. you

1:21:40look at the same screen, the text looking at the screen, so it's f completely interactive. And if they're going through a situation where they can't get the answer and they need to talk to somebody else, instead of you sending someone to another room and try to find another person and come back. They now have the technology to sit right up on a screen, kinda like a FaceTime with a screen almost the size of what's in front of us here, to talk to that person while with the tech right there. So the resolution of things I think is going to be phenomenal. Uh the other technology, I want to make sure that you guys get it, is a giant screen

1:22:10where you can go up. on the on a board and actually pull look at the plans, pull 'em up one by one, and you can blow it up isolated and get the work done right then and there. So I think for your work stations is gonna be absolutely phenomenal. The people are gonna benefit and then Pasco just rises up stronger and stronger. So again, I wanted to do this resolution because it meant so much to me to watch all that. Yeah. I have my assistant Sonia do nothing but Take care of my calendar and work with things to go through. I know it's gonna get so

1:22:40much easier now, so thank you all.

1:22:42Yeah.

1:22:43Mr.

1:22:44Whiteman.

1:22:44Thank you, Chair. Yeah.

1:22:49Volunteering your time. It's something special. It's time that you'll never get back, but you volunteered your time to help folks. who are probably a little intimidated by the power of the government, especially if they did something whether knowingly or unknowingly with a permit in a building structure. And for for Pasco County to give them an opportunity to to help them in an unintimidating way and say, Hey, no harm, no foul, let's work through this together. Really I

1:23:19think It just re energizes or hopefully starts building Uh Credibility back into government in general and the people that work here and try to serve our citizens. You know, we take a lot of lumps, government does. government work. Uh I think the confidence level sometimes wanes, but programs like this and what you guys have done here I think have added uh you know, hopefully starts to help build back significant credibility in their in their local government and the services

1:23:50that we provide. And it starts with you all on the front lines and spending time out there helping people and and giving them confidence and surety that what they can call and get help and not be penalized. uh and you can work with them in a way that they they understand what to do and not do. So appreciate all of you. Very glad that you're here today. And um You know, keep up the great work.

1:24:13Mr. Starkey.

1:24:14Yeah, I also want to thank you for donating your time and and and what a service. You know, we we all get calls from people who are buying or selling a house. and and have run into this problem and it's very stressful at a you know they appear at closing and they can't close And um I remember one of our sheriff's deputies calling me and they were it was gonna be a cascade of tragedies um with their with their issue. So I'm really grateful that you took the time to do this and um whose ever idea it was, fantastic

1:24:44and I just thank you so much for your service. Ms. Yeager.

1:24:48Yeah, I just think um, you know, it's a great resource for Pasco County. I know somebody that was there that day and she had nothing but amazing things to say about the whole process. So again, thank you for taking your time and just for helping everybody. Yeah.

1:25:06I can tell you that. Mr. Kamal.

1:25:09If if you don't mind, Mr. Chairman's fine. Thank you. Thank you.

1:25:14Thank you again for taking your time. Thank you, JP and Anthony, for your leadership, and thank you, team, for for doing what you do day in and day out. You ensured compliance, but you built trust, you know, based on, you know, going off of what Commissioner Weightman was. You built trust into the community, and it ensures our our objective. Our objective is public safety. You are you were there, you know, no one no one calls to thank the IRS for enforcing the tax code, right? You guys enforce the board building code and and and it's okay. And you know, and again, thank you for demystifying the process. You know,

1:25:44I tell JP you know all the time, it's no PhD in Pasco. So so thank you. I I really do appreciate you guys uh you know towing the line on this and and making it happen. Let's do more.

1:25:55Well I can tell you that ever since I've been elected I've been trying to make this group better and better. As we go. And I'm finally hearing what I've been wanting to hear for seven years. So I can tell you I'm elated with what's going on and what people are talking about because it's making it smoother. I can't tell you how many less calls I get. now on permitting and issues with BCS. It's amazing. I'm

1:26:25not getting those calls. I should none of us should be getting those calls because you're doing your job. We won't get those calls. And I certainly appreciate it. Way more than I can express. how much I appreciate what you do and you step up and help things move smoother through building permits and things of that nature that in the zonings because People are concerned and they don't uh most time they don't understand. But you're there where you can help 'em. and

1:26:56and your help for them may seem very small But it's very large in their eyes because it's a different world for them 'cause they're not used to permitting, they're not used to zoning and all the things that go on. Y'all make that life for them easier and better. And you're doing that for the citizens of Pasco County. And I commend you on a job well done and keep up the this is good work and keep up that good work. So thank you. Um I'll c well no. Jack go down and take a

1:27:26picture and we'll stand

1:27:27up here behind

1:27:27you.

1:27:27I'd just like to say m uh Mike Carbella, um you know, since you took over this position and uh I told you how important this was to us, uh it was one of one of the big issues and you have done a phenomenal job putting a team together, empowering them, and uh JP I want to make sure the technology stuff we talked about that if we have any trouble make sure that gets in the budget. We want to make sure we get all the right tools for you guys to do a great job that you're doing. Uh just a quick thing too, as you mentioned, you know, when Commissioner Oakley gets elated, that's a good thing. Yeah. But uh

1:27:57this is an important group.

1:27:59Oh it is, absolutely. You know, we had that we had the one gentleman that that I think you guys may remember. He was down and I had met him at a meeting we had here on flooding, and a realtor told me about this one guy who had his house for four years and had a problem that was solvable. But we couldn't solve it the way w things were set up. This amnesty thing that we had done gave them now the the way to get it done. That guy was so excited, so happy to have that burden for four years on his life trying to do the right thing. Oh yeah. And we found the way to get it done and you guys were phenomenal. Uh

1:28:29the other gentleman, I think the the very first guy that command, I'll just be the last one I talk about. But that guy walked in was so scared what he was walking into, he walked out so happy. And that was like the story of the whole day all along. So again, thank you all very much. Great word.

1:28:41Okay, we'll stand up here. Okay.

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1:28:56Yeah, yeah.

1:29:03We Yeah, we're on it.

1:29:10You get bossed around all the time?

1:29:15Yeah.

1:29:22Thank you. It could be before lunch.

1:29:26Slide right in the center. Okay everybody right here first please thank you

1:29:37Everyone's good. I think I have everyone.

1:29:44Perfect. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank

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1:29:51you. Oh yeah. You're both. That was funny. Thank you. We tied her up, took her over to the nice to meet you.

1:30:13Now we'll move on to uh Our next item which is time certain, which uh our time certain run a little late,

1:30:21but

1:30:24take take the

1:30:26um Oh yeah. We can do do that pretty quick. You wanna do that? You okay with it, Mike?

1:30:33So let you release some people. Yeah.