R-1 Star Performer Leader Team awards

2:02:10All right. Well in that case then let's uh move to R S one, sir, and then we can

2:02:13Yeah, we're ready for R S one. Yeah.

2:02:18Mm-hmm.

2:02:20They're coming in

2:02:21here. Sa the a few people are now going out for a photo.

2:02:28Who's doing the presentation?

2:02:31that's our star leader here.

2:02:34Well as members of our two representative. We'll take the resolution out.

2:02:44Yeah, I don't they're all like

2:02:50Sounds like a gaggle.

2:02:53It It sounds like a gag or geese, doesn't it? Okay. Yeah, yeah,

2:02:56yeah.

2:02:58Start. Wait or do for any give me a start?

2:03:03Are they

2:03:08Okay, let's just

2:03:09I'm happy to start. Just let me know when.

2:03:11Go ahead.

2:03:14Resolution number 24-060, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, commending the 2023 Star Performer, Star Leader, and Star Team of the Year. Whereas each year, Pasco County recognizes a Star Performer of the Year, Star Leader of the Year, and Star Team of the Year for their accomplishments. And whereas Sarah Shirkim? Shirkram. Okay. Has been selected to receive the twenty twenty-three Star Performer Performer of the Year Award

2:03:45and Ben Deal has been selected to receive the twenty twenty-three Star Leader of the Year Award. And Raz, I apologize ahead of time if I

2:03:54Massacre the names.

2:03:55Exactly. There's quite a few, so I'm gonna go as as best I can, but my uh my apologies if I do. The Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus transition team, including Matthew Uh Bena Jar, John Alland, Doug Anderson, Eric Anderson, Louis Anderson, Lorraine Atwater, Todd Babinsack, Shell Shelley Bandy. Nicholas Barr, Andrew Baxter, Todd Bailey, and the Bayonet Point. Jesse. Bednerick?

2:04:28Elizabeth Blair, Chad Blaze, Earl Birch. Troy Caston. Matthew Christian, David Conlin, Chuck Corden. Christina Corden, Elva Correa. Carolyn Kramer. Todd Kersey. Anthony DeFeo. Anita Dirks, John D John De John.

2:04:54Hmm.

2:04:55Connor Donovan, Kyle Endress, Monica Ewaltz, Emily Farrell, Alex Fizzano, Danny Ferns, Denise Foreman, Joe Fox, Curtis Franklin, Kayla Getz, David Goldstein, A Domaro Gomez. Samantha Grant. Peter Grayling, Art Grief, Ashley Grin Grindstaff, Soraya Hairston, Michael Hall, Laura Hayhurst, Eli Hazen. Marjorie

2:05:26Hilton. Roy Hernandez Rivera, Louise Height, Barbara Heitzmann, Greg Hodges, Carolina Howard,

2:05:37Mm-hmm.

2:05:43Um Ben Isaacs, Lindsey Janssen, Shello, Jean Louis, Tom Johnson, Tambri Lane, Emily Leathers, Ryan Lewis, Karen Lloyd, Marie Vett, Maldonado Figueroa. M Michael Molloy. Geoffrey Mannion, Anthony Martinez, Matthew McDonough, Lawrence Miller, John Morel, Timothy Myrick, Brenda Nardini. Or

2:06:14mari. Raoul Darty. Geoffrey Neely, Katie O'Neill, Ronnie Outston, Gail Parnell. Sarah Finney, PJ Syke, Matthew Raffaelli, Carrie Roberts, Consuelo Sanchez, Shawn Sanders, Shannon Saracina, Nina Shirac, Uh Christopher Schreur. Brian Shaw, Robert Shipley, James Sykes, Isaiah Smallwood, Michael Smith, Kathy

2:06:44Spinks, Doug Steiger. Terrence Stewart, Cindy Zeppan. Brian Taylor, Jennifer Tirallini. Sorry, I knew I got that one wrong. Um Daniel Tresher. Adam Thomas, Ralph Tramell, John Van Martyr, Sarah Vogel, John Waltz, Laura Weeks, Keith Wiley, Ian Williams, Holly Willett, Melissa Winings. Winnings, maybe. And

2:07:14Cecilia Yancey. Yes. Have been yes. Have been selected to receive the twenty twenty-three Star Team of the Year Award. And whereas for an organization to become premier, it must attract, grow, and support a workforce of servant leaders that are dedicated to improving the lives of people, contribute to a purpose larger than their individual job, and perform at the highest possible level day in and day out. And whereas these 2023 Award recipients consistently demonstrate

2:07:45Pasco County's core values through an impeccable work ethic, dedication to service excellence, and achieving quality outcomes in every situation. They serve as an example to their fellow team members of going above and beyond and exemplifying the expectations of Star Performer of the Year, Star Leader of the Year, and Star Team of the Year. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners. of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby congratulates our 2023 Star Award winners for Pasco County and commending them for their outstanding efforts in serving

2:08:15our community to create a better future. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this twenty-third day of January 2024.

2:08:24Yeah,

2:08:24more approved. Second.

2:08:26Got a motion and second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passed 5-0. Mr.

2:08:31Kavala. Thank you. Uh thank you, Chair. Thank you, Board. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I know it was like a graduation ceremony there reading that. And thank you, Board, for your indulgence of signing that many resolutions. Um, we have a lot of great things to be proud of here on this team. With nearly 4,000 employees implementing the policy of this board, we want to recognize a lot of the good that happens out there. There and so we have a process. Every department nominates a star leader, a star performer, and and some of the branches and teams get together and some more and support

2:09:02teams. And these all filter up, and we have branch winners that then go on to uh to the administrative and the executive leadership team to select one, and it's a very hard choice. So you know we bring Ben Deal forward here, uh, you know, as our star leader of the year, our star performer, who she's unfortunately uh deployed, I think, up in the panhandle as well, and so we'll we'll we'll work her another day. But then the team with with the Wiregrass Ranch uh sports campus and really taking what what went s south pretty quickly and and turning it around and turning

2:09:32it into a success was a a truly a team effort. Members from the County Attorney's Office, from parks, tourism DMO, uh IT, uh just across the board really came together on that. Um and I'm I'm just gonna ask Ben to come up here and just say a couple of words. Mr. Deal. Um and then uh and then maybe a couple representatives from the Wiregrass sports team. And then whenever you'd like to adjourn, I have the team outside, and they would love the opportunity uh for a picture with with the

2:10:02board. But uh you can say whatever comments you have here, we're gonna make sure that they all get them. So I'll I'll turn it over to Um uh Ben and unless the board has any comments.

2:10:12Yeah. R Ben.

2:10:14Good afternoon, Commissioners. Um just want to say how appreciative and humbled I am to the receive this award and uh If you guys will indulge me, I have a short list of 96 people I'd like to thank.

2:10:30I'm teasing on that.

2:10:34I will say this, um as honored and and appreciative as I am of of being recognized, um you you never achieve something like this alone. And so I do want to thank my team. Um I wanna thank Mike uh first off for the leadership that he shows and and uh the backing that he gives to our training and development team and and to my boss Mark who's a a fantastic leader in in his own right. And uh my team who's back there, Lori and Ty and Terry, they make my lives

2:11:05easy. And um actually every every county employee that volunteers to help with our our PascoU training, uh it it certainly is a team effort um to to do this with, like you said, nearly four thousand employees. So um Thank you for the recognition. Uh again, I'm truly humbled by this and and thank you all who are here in attendance for all the help and support you've given me over the Thank you. Thank you.

2:11:32Token of our appreciation we we do we do appreciate it.

2:11:45That's it. That's it. There you go. So thank you. Thank you for the time and the actually the support. Obviously, I when when I wrote the nomination, I wanted you to appreciate the scope of work right through the transition. And when I originally got the assignment when I was sitting in the uh county administrators room, and Adam was there, and Ms. Pearson was there, and it was uh Dan Biles at the time. I heard like the Mission Impossible soundtrack going through my head, like you have 45 days to execute said transition. And so quite honestly, I didn't think we were gonna be able to do it. Cause I don't think I've

2:12:15done anything of in 45 days working with the county that's you know, we've been able to actually get it done quickly. So and that's not a criticism, there's processes in place for a reason. So anyway, we would not absolutely have been able to do this without your support. And all of those, I don't know what the total number was, 106 folks. I'm sure there was more that touched this project, but you have an awesome group of employees, and that without their leadership from their directors and everyone involved, we would have never been able to successfully move through this transition. So I've been working for Pasco for

2:12:45almost 14 years, and this is definitely one of my proudest moments just in terms of total teamwork. So thank you very much.

2:12:52Great

2:12:52job. Great job.

2:12:56Okay. Um I know y'all probably have something to say, so how about it,

2:13:01Jack? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um I wanna say this is a tremendous achievement. It was such an important feat to accomplish. Uh we were in a situation that we wanted to change, we needed to change it for all the right reasons. Um And to make this happen is such a big event for us because not only have you set this groundwork to take the seamless transition of our biggest investment in sports tourism, which is economic development for this county, but now we're in a position to actually gather data to go look at what can be done. And as we take our steps forward down the road, whether we keep

2:13:31control or we s sub out from there, whatever it may be, what we're doing right now is setting the stage for great work. And the work that you guys have all put into it has been greatly appreciated. Um we just can't thank you enough. It was such a critical, critical thing to happen. So thank you all very much. Greatly appreciate it.

2:13:47Mr. Bradford? Good.

2:13:51Mr. Whiteman? Thank you, Chair. Yes, but yo. Came on at a tough time and a transition coming and but we all we all know that you could gain control of the situation and Make the Wiregrass transports campus great again. So, you know, thank you for for for taking the lead and working through something that probably none of you have ever done before. But successful outcome, the kids love it, they have a great time. Uh at the campus, and we're excited to see what the future holds. So uh thank you

2:14:21for all your hard work and to all the team out there, your dedication, congratulations to you all. and uh excited to see what we can do in twenty twenty four.

2:14:30And to be brief, I'll just echo uh my fellow commissioners. Great job. Um You know, we didn't know what we were getting in. getting into and I'm I'm glad um where we are today and all the great successes that you've had. And um look forward to in the future successes and our photo that we're gonna go take right now, right?

2:14:51Yeah.

2:14:52And um And to the others that won the award too, because I know this one was for the team, but we had some individuals. So thank you as well. Um we appreciate your dedication to the county and the peop and the citizens of Pasco County.

2:15:05It's always a team effort and we certainly appreciate ever each and every one what you do. 'Cause it's it's paid off. It'd be hard to choose another team to take your place

2:15:16because