Commissioner Oakley Weightman Yeager miscellaneous business

1:16:11Okay, now we'll proceed to miscellaneous business. Um Commissioner Oakley?

1:16:17I think you have a picture there to bring up as uh Baduca groundbreaking ceremony happened this past week and

1:16:26Really uh exciting to see that new business coming in. uh bringing in six hundred new jobs. And the Zephyrhills area right near the airport. Um It's gonna be a uh Great place for having a company of that nature and it's right on the uh You might say Brad Pasco in the So there's a lot of direction they can go with trucking and things of that nature to uh help them out in their business. So Um

1:16:57they use a lot of different products so there'll be trucking companies and others uh receiving revenues so the economy boost would be very good in the marketplace for for this business acting here in in uh Brazil. Yes.

1:17:13Yes. Can you turn your mic on?

1:17:15Nobody can hear you?

1:17:17Oh.

1:17:18Thank you.

1:17:18I didn't know it was oh

1:17:22is that better? Oh yeah. Well I'll start over again. So but yeah, this new business um They've actually uh They're coming in there on uh right on Chauncey Road right by the end of the airport on the north side of the airport. And It's really great that they will come bring that They've been in the United States for over twenty years. And they're bringing their This is a major

1:17:52undertaking for them to uh and they're gonna service out of this all of United States and abroad at the same time. So they've got a lot of cookies they're gonna be making and and sending out all over the world. So they use a lot of by products or liquid foods and things of that nature that that work in making cookies. So but The idea that we have six hundred new jobs coming into that community uh means a lot for East Pasco County and And and the city of Zephyrhills 'cause

1:18:24uh people are uh needing good jobs, so Um It it'd be be well well well done. They actually already have expansion in that building. Uh in certain times and and they will continue and have space to more and they've actually bought uh some other property just to the south of of the property they have now to start on. So it's gonna be a uh a very good business in in East Basco County. Um

1:18:56Then there was uh let's see Okay. See what out of the items I had.

1:19:03I had that and then I went to a um this kind of amazing I went to a Charging of a new pastor in Saint Paul's uh Missionary Baptist Church in Dade City. That church had been in Dade City for a hundred and twenty-nine years.

1:19:22Just think about this. That's before I even got there. Sorry.

1:19:28Just a little. So but the fact of it is uh they charge n a new pastor coming in. The new pastor's name is Uh Dr. Reverend Jesse, David. Washington Junior. So there's a a tongue fool to call that, so uh sitting there in the ceremony on Sunday afternoon and and listened to everything that was going on and his sister was sitting near me and said, Yeah yeah. I went

1:19:58to school with your son Ronnie. I said, Oh, this comes close to home when you When you meet people later in years and they're in their uh early to mid fifties. And they've got to do it. They went to school with my own some of my own children, so It's pretty nice.

1:20:18Basically still a young man, but Quite a service going on in that church that day. I I can tell you God's presence was there. So with that, that's all I have. Okay. Mr. Wheaton.

1:20:31Uh one thing I have today, just like last year um Like to ask the board to support the National Crime Victims Rights Week. uh for the weeks of April sixth through twelfth. and to light up uh the West Pasco government center in the east in the historic courthouse, purple. In honor of Um Recognizing National Crime Victims Week. So I guess I would make a motion.

1:21:03For that to happen?

1:21:08Uh the east and west side government building. Oh yeah,

1:21:10we did do the building.

1:21:12So we have to take a vote on on that to do it again. So just doing it a week ahead of schedule that way can be lit up the week of April sixth through twelfth.

1:21:21Okay.

1:21:24A second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

1:21:29Thank you, board.

1:21:31That's all yet? Yes, sir. Okay. Commissioner Yeager?

1:21:35Okay.

1:21:38Can I have my picture, please?

1:21:47Okay, so we toured Pepin Academy and this was a really um really um awesome experience. They have a super low uh student to teacher ratio. They teach them life skills, they have music, they have all sorts of programs for the kids and they were so well behaved. I was I was very impressed. It's in the old Genesis property. So really cool if you haven't visited there. All right, next slide. So we had our pop-up pantry again in

1:22:17Moon Lake. We are doing some work in there. And that is Miss Grace. She is 80 years old and she does not look 80 years old. She is the founder. We fed close to 240 people that night. We had fresh meat, vegetables, desserts, fresh beds breads that day. Um and every time we're there we're going again tomor uh Thursday night, we see new families. So we've been anywhere from 100 to 250 families, but

1:22:47this specific week we were at 240. So doing great things out there. All right, next slide. Oh, that's more of Moon Lake. So we toured um Mosquito Control. So lots of cool things happening there. Um I highly recommend this if you're in a homeschool co-op or things like that. It was super educational, very hands-on for kids and adults. So they gear it down if you know you're with a with a group of kids. So that was a really enjoyable

1:23:17tour. Okay. So this next one is my favorite. Um this this young man was born with a rare disease. He graduated from River Ridge High School and he had to present a project for college and he had to have a problem and then be able to solve it and he had a present it to a personal person with influence. So he said, I know Miss Lisa. So he brought it to the county and we got people to hear his presentation.

1:23:48So at the end he said, Does anybody have any questions? And I raised my hand and I said, Would you like to go to Tallahassee to tell your story? So next slide. So Not even a week later, Gavin goes to Tallahassee. He him and his mom, Dawn, testified on the Senate side about rare diseases and how the new Sunshine Genetic Act bill would help families like Gavin. They'll be doing newborn screenings for rare diseases, hundreds of them at birth. So it'll

1:24:18help. save the families um time, money and earlier intervention for the kids. So Gavin got the red treatment and um He went on the house floor and he was the clerk opened um so he could even vote. So it was very cool and he enjoyed every moment. So that was a great story. And that's all I have for District Four.