Fire rescue award and security

1:25:21Okay. See, I don't have some pictures. All right. So this was the um Penellas County Deputy Delatai's family wanted to thank Pasco County firefighters who saved his life. Deputy Dela Chai was seriously injured in a crash involving a semi-propane truck on Pasco County Road. They did the math and it took Pasco County Fire Rescue six minutes and twelve seconds from the time they put the truck. Truck and park and took him out of the car. Pasco

1:25:51Fire Rescue crew was honored with the Green Cross Award. This award is aimed at high honoring individuals that have made significant contributions to safety and injury prevention. This was amazing. It was so emotional. There were many people there that was on scene. Gentleman to the left, the the young um boy Dylan um Delandro, he had kept in touch with the family

1:26:22the entire time and at one point the wife d was, you know, asked if she, you know, you might have to take him off life support and she reached out to him and kind of walked him through how many minutes he was unconscious, things like that. But ultimately helped make her decision to keep him plugged in and waited out. Um It was absolut it was I don't know if there was a dry eye in the house. It was absolutely beautiful. Commissioner Mariano was there, Seth was there. Um

1:26:52it was great. And of course that little cutie is his son and I asked him if he wanted to go climb on some fire trucks. That's a great

1:26:59pick

1:26:59right there. Yeah. And he's like, Yeah. I'm like, all right, let's go. So uh that that was amazing. All right, next one. So this was the graduation and they had oh boy there's a ton of graduates a hundred and forty-two largest promoting class um that they've ever had and um my legislative aide Pam, her daughter, was in that class, so that was an exciting day for her as well. Um And

1:27:30then next slide. And this was the big blue barbecue. That was a great time. The money goes to the police department. One of the things I just wanted to bring up in my commissioner items, I have been talking to some of our legislative delegation, and they have been receiving death threats. They've had to move venues. Danny Burgess no longer even keeps his

1:28:00door open. It's always locked, and there's a note on the door. Recently, Congressman Bilarakis had to change his event. He was in judges' chambers, so I had reached out to Eric and asked him if we could be fun. Security. Um and the sheriff's office and Chase were more than um gracious and and did that. So I'm just asking my other commissioners like, how do you feel about

1:28:30having one point of entry and the wanding that went through today? Um, for me You know, I think I rather be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to our new normal. So um

1:28:46Commissioner, I tried to get this done before when I had a gentleman come into my conference room with a gun and um I wasn't successful. Uh but most commission uh buildings uh Most of them have some kind of some kind of um security. Uh at the FACT conference I s I met a company that works with the sheriff that has a portable Um thing that you walk through and the it it can be moved around. I mean we c we can

1:29:16do this without spending a lot of money, but I think I think you're right on.

1:29:20I asked Andrew to to price that for me, the uh metal detectors and he's gonna get back to me and he also wants to talk to the Sheriff's Department to see about staffing, but ultimately the ones are like two hundred and fifty dollars. We already have one deputy if we could have another deputy. Okay. I you know, that would be great.

1:29:39I think if we have a lot of people coming in, a wand might be really slow. Um so we have to think about that. Um but I definitely wanna explore something and maybe that we have a committee that comes the comes up with the idea that is the most efficient um for us. But Commissioner And

1:29:57even if like the judges lately have had I I think it was like sixteen death threats in the past couple of months. So p you know people are it's it's becoming more and more frequent and I just I don't want a tragedy. Yeah. So

1:30:12I just want to speak in um agreance with Commissioner Yeager. The fact that I've noticed and I'm in my ninth year but I've noticed since I first got here till now the change in the atmosphere with the public and being pre added. I hate the fact that you have to do that, but the fact is we want everybody to be safe, so We don't want somebody that just you know you know how the art people can speak out so strongly and about

1:30:42even just a paved road or something of that nature. But we just want to make sure we're all protected. Did

1:30:49staff want

1:30:49to

1:30:50speak?

1:30:50Our staff.

1:30:51Eric, did you want to say something?

1:30:53Uh yes, ma'am, Madam Chair. I appreciate the discussion being held by the board. We did have enhanced security screening for today. I'm very I'm taking direction from the board to work with the sheriff to figure out what's the right uh security measures going forward to have enhanced screening. We will do that with uh Chase and his team. The one question I have for the board is board meetings only or are we gonna expand this to MPO meetings and planning commission meetings?

1:31:20I definitely think MPO a thousand percent. Um w you have everybody and even you know the peop members from the city, things like that. So I mean I'm all for that. But it's

1:31:32You'd have to include Planning Commission on the Commissioner Weightman.

1:31:37Madam Clerk.

1:31:38Do we need to have a vote or

1:31:40we have to operate within the parameters of section one ninety or chapter one ninety uh seven ninety, sorry. Um the Firearms Act that was passed by the legislature several years ago, the protection only extends to the governing board meetings.

1:32:01Is that us, not the Planning Commission?

1:32:04Oh so

1:32:04uh So we can't have security for a government building?

1:32:08You cannot. You cannot well.

1:32:09Well how what's Fernando doing and Penellas

1:32:12doing have security you can but you're you can't have a firearms policy that is inconsistent with the preemption that the state legislature has has put in place and with the new First District Court of Appeals law that had that came out a month ago. two weeks ago, something like that. Yeah, the open carry? That that now legalizes open carry

1:32:42in the state of Florida. only those things which are

1:32:49a concei a concealed firearms permit would not allow you to go to. So there's a list of there's a list of things in the state law that says that you can't if you if you have a can't if you have a concealed firearms permit you can't go in to the meeting of a governing of the governing board. Um you can't go into a jail. You can't go into

1:33:13a bar.

1:33:14A bar. A bar? Um So we can apply the we can apply that to open carry. We can apply that to concealed firearms. The the concern I have is if you start screening in an for an area that They can legitimately carry a firearm into You can't stop them.

1:33:43So

1:33:46Well, whatever the law is, we want enhanced protection and we would like you to come back with a proposal for us, right? Whatever we're allowed to within the law. Very well, Madam

1:33:55Chairman Mr. Steinheider,

1:33:56thank

1:33:56you for that.

1:33:57Commissioner Oakley. Yeah, I

1:33:58and I think the way you should do it is frankly go ahead and do your research. I think in the interim, the way we had it set up today with the one being done before someone comes in and single entry's good, uh the other deputy stays up here, et cetera. Uh this way in case any in and out which does happen during our meetings that we're protected as we're waiting to finally do the follow final policy. Yeah.

1:34:22Big s uh just like at the airport terminal isn't it?

1:34:25Yeah, that's what Hornando County has it

1:34:26for their commission. Take your shoes off just like that, etcetera. So um if we get there we get there, I don't know. But I think I think looking at it, come back with cost proposals for us, shows the things and I think you do one on ones with us first, as soon as you get it together, what you're thinking about doing so any individual tweaks can be thought of and then when it gets bro brought to the board has been fully as best vetted as possible then we can make a decision on it.

1:34:49The only thing I wanna add is, you know, if it does add an extra burden onto the sheriff's office, um whatever we have to pay for, whether it's to staff it what up I I'm I'm for if we have to pull it out of the general fund however much that will be for a year for security. Um I'm fine with that. I just want the security.

1:35:09Well we have a bailiff already. Why can't he hold the wand and do

1:35:12right. But I think they're gonna need two staff members.

1:35:14Probably

1:35:15they won't be able to do it with one.

1:35:17Yeah.

1:35:17So I'm just saying that Um I agree with Commissioner Mariano a thousand percent. Um I'm just saying I'm willing to take the money for wherever for the security. Um, whatever that looks like. I'm not saying go big or go home, but I'm saying like if it's wanding and we have to pay for one extra deputy, I'm I'm all for that. So

1:35:37Okay, so you have your march in orders?

1:35:39I do, ma'am. We will work with the PSO, develop options, brief individually, and then bring something back and forth. Thank you.

1:35:45Anything else, Commissioner Yeager? Okay. No. Commissioner Mariano. Okay.