Spray field, homeless meeting, reef project

1:35:50And I want to say uh JJ, thanks for the invites for those two the that firefighter presentation saving the life was just absolutely amazing. Um that wife, I mean to to hear her talk and just uh a life saved but the whole family there's like four other kids as well. Um the mother and father were there just like dramatically uh just just just incredible and then all the promotions for everybody and she gave birth while he was in the hospital. There we go, that's right. Yeah. I mean six months in the hospital. Yeah. So

1:36:21that was that was impressive. Um And I want to just show you those pictures you asked about. So this is the spray field. This spray field used to sit up about four or five feet higher, used to be a block of water, because it was always saturated from the spray field so it didn't even drain. Now all that water that's in there is set up and drained. Do you have a few more pictures?

1:36:41Mm-hmm.

1:36:44What's the fence all about? It's a great picture of a fence. Yeah, I I can't get it. It can look prettier. I had Sonya or not get those

1:36:51pictures.

1:36:51So this

1:36:52this how the new the new pond looks, it's it's all dug out.

1:36:55But is it fenced is it fenced?

1:36:57Uh just on the side of the inside part. So here's um

1:37:04I'm not gonna say that's an asset to the community. I mean

1:37:07it it is

1:37:07so

1:37:07holding the water but like I say so so keep mind all that water that was there had nowhere else to go before 'cause at the bottom of a bowl, et cetera. So this is what's there and that and that's why I say We talked about doing this into a nice park. It was part of like restore even had something on it. So now is the time to now that we've taken care of the drains, which is number one. Now let's go look at what we got on there. You can make some tweaks around like that fencing that you see. We can do that better because all you've got to do is actually lower that down like six inches below the road. The water will go in drain in that naturally. So I know we can do better, but I want to say the team did

1:37:38a great job doing what they had to do to make it the stormwater work, but as you can see we can do a lot better with the finished product out there.

1:37:44Yeah.

1:37:45I hope

1:37:46that one day looks a lot better.

1:37:48All right.

1:37:50Uh this is a picture. We had our uh homeless meeting here in the West Pasco Government Center, uh very well attended. And I tell you, it took a different approach than what I was thinking. Uh my my first thoughts were, okay, last time we had that meeting like this we had a lot of the churches that were there that always like to give the food to keep the people in the woods, et cetera, because they gotta find a way to eat and still do their drugs. So I kind of addressed that type of thing and I said, We're gonna listen to ideas all the way through, staff's gonna put the presentation on, but we're trying to like take a different approach because what we're doing is clearly

1:38:20not working. And I want to tell you, I thought I was going to get stoned in the sense. But the conversation after that was like really good about let's go look at solutions, let's go look at uh the opioids, C D B G D R, things that can be done. Even the uh Sun Coast Recovery Center people come up there, uh they were they were talked about a bit as far as like a solution. So I wanna say it was a very positive meeting and uh I think we've moved our homeless meeting where it actually fits my calendar, thank you. Um to get all of us there because I think

1:38:50we all need to hear the solutions that were proposed about, talked about, and I think it'll be a much better workshop for us. But it was a very positive meeting. God's right. It went the full two hours. Uh you know, Kathy Pollard and the and Chief Walters did a did a phenomenal job out there. Um and it really made people see that okay we're gonna try something different. And it didn't get like All negativity was all positive stuff about let's go look at stuff and let's go make something happen. You know

1:39:17just to

1:39:17add what

1:39:18what Jack's talking about on that. The one they had over at Saint Leo. Right. I talked to Kathy, it went very well. I was not able to go. I had other meetings but um they said it went very well. Forty or fifty people there. Yeah. And they were very interested in trying to help with whatever they could have with.

1:39:35If you remember when we um converted the um Boys and Girls Club to a family shelter, mm, we had a lot of opposition. Some from our friends, right? That were very concerned about negative impacts to their communities miles away from from the site. I haven't had one complaint.

1:39:55I could give you a few. But it's not as bad as what was expected.

1:39:58Yeah. I mean I I I've been by there. I'm I've never seen I've been there a number of times, not seen any issues. And with Pasco Hope that's you know, in my district in on Grand Boulevard, um in my meeting with Kathy yesterday, is she here? No? With the windows, I sometimes I can't see anybody. Um we have how many 70, 80, how many people are there?

1:40:23A little over seventy. And

1:40:24we

1:40:25still have some individuals that are been displaced and uh individuals that are homeless uh mix of combination there.

1:40:31So we have fifty pallets there?

1:40:36Work great. Then we still have some trailers which are a little more troublesome to manage. Um but No complaints from anybody. And I I haven't been there in a while so I need to drive by again. Um have we started any

1:40:49industry?

1:40:49Yeah. It's on Grand Boulevard. Yeah. Um And Uh you know, so I I'm hopeful that we're gonna get one uh over here on the east side. Um we know that homeless people over here do not want to go all the way over there. and um they want to stay by their community and their family, so Um we talked about having a big meeting uh in in in and in my um talk I'll talk more about that, but I I just wanted to say no no issues from anyone

1:41:20in my constituency. Uh Commissioner Yeager wanted to say something.

1:41:23Yeah, I just want to give um Pasco Hope a shout out. I had um back in the Hur the hurricane days I had um worked with um a veteran named Bob and he is still over at Grand Boulevard. He had a stroke Um and The staff there, David, the case manager, I just want to give him a shout out. He was at the hospital with me, with Bob. I asked him, hey, can you go get his li his medications and his little

1:41:53back book? Because he couldn't speak. He could not speak at all because of the stroke. And he also has dementia, so he couldn't unlock his phone. David went all the way back to Pasco Hope. brought his medications, his black book. We were able to unlock his phone. I mean the guy went above and beyond. the call of duty for someone at the shelter. So however you can recognize David, I I would really appreciate that. We'll make

1:42:20sure that we pass along, Commissioner. So All right, Commissioner Mariano.

1:42:23Yeah, just a little bit more. Um, and I know Commissioner Starkey, you s you saw our presentation on the reef project uh that was proposed up for uh Hudson Beach and Ant Globe. Yeah. Something could be really coming interesting. I know Anthony Thomas is working closely with Mark Bellis on it to try to bring something forward. The Hudson Beach area is just uh really needs something like that. And if you've been to that beach, if you've seen it, we've got the best sunset in the world at the same time, the worst. beach in the world.

1:42:46Yeah.

1:42:47And we can

1:42:47with

1:42:48green. We can fix it by moving it by putting a j uh a uh a a seawall on the side of the south, put the spray uh move the bathroom instead of being right in the view shed area, move it to the side, put the splash pad in, and then create the beach out to the front which we're working on. So uh that can

1:43:03Commission Mariano can that seem um um project be looked at for Green Key with the with the wall to keep the sand in. Yep. Because we have to improve our beaches completely. Not all our residents can drive down to Clearwater to go to a nice beach.

1:43:17And they don't want to. They won't spend the money to do the

1:43:19traffic. And let's do

1:43:20it.

1:43:22Yeah.

1:43:22For tourism, for for the economic development of people here, qu quality of life here, we need to do do better and I know we're gonna look at Green Key for a project coming up which I think would be great. Um and last thing I wanna say actually I got a one video quickly for with Lane Mendelssohn with good two good souls, but uh actually just go ahead and play it.

1:43:42Hello everybody, I'm Wayne.

1:43:44And at Penny Wilson.

1:43:45Hope everyone's doing well. We have a very special announcement that we want to make. For

1:43:50two consultants event, we will be joining the town commissioners team, which means that every donation we do also goes to their team.

1:43:57How many

1:43:57shoes are we doing? Finally.

1:44:00Um

1:44:01The hundred sucks.

1:44:03Co team

1:44:06Team Mendelssohn. Yeah. Yeah. Great great great people, great family. That's uh he's doing a great job with his girls. Uh yeah. Tremendous. Uh last thing too, uh I uh did meet the leadership Pasco group who two over in uh West Pasco. They picked up actually Hudson Beach and went there, went to Sun West. They were blown away with all the improvements that went up at Sun West as well, so uh kudos to the What for a Making that thing just elevate up. That's all I got?