Commissioner reports on parks, roads, lighting, airports

32:18Uh forty six and that that's gonna be a while. So um we'll start with uh old business.

32:26Oh really?

32:27Commissioner Moore?

32:29Okay. Wow, that was fast. There we

32:31go.

32:35Just some uh good news items.

32:40Give me one sec here.

32:48Okay. First thing I just want to give a shout out to our friends at Parks and Keith Wiley and his team. I think Keith wasn't here, but uh They actually were able to secure the Bay Area Renaissance Festival. Oh here in Pasco County, if you guys weren't aware of that. So the Bay R Bay Area Renaissance Festival has been a mainstay at um Mosey for a number of years. And um the parks teams did an excellent job of bringing

33:18that here to Pasco County. Um They are actually putting it over at Wifflikue River Park. So when we think about um this event being part of the parks, it's also big for tourism, right? It's it's huge for tourism in our area. It's gonna they actually bring people from not only uh the the state of Florida, people actually travel outside the state of Florida to cut come to this uh Bay Area Renaissance Festival on a yearly basis. If none of you have ever been, it's pretty neat experience. It's it's a lot of fun. Those dates are

33:48going to be April 17th. It'll run six weekends all the way through May 23rd. And again it's been a tradition for over forty years um in this area and we're happy to have it here in Pasco County. Um so again I was

34:03at the park out at out at the

34:05With Lakie um River Park.

34:08What's the one called North at Lacucci. Truly. Not that one. Which

34:13the one out here at

34:14the River.

34:15River Park. Yeah. River Park. Yeah. Yep. So it's a pretty big deal. They're gonna have uh four stages of exciting entertainment. The musicians, magicians, jugglers, and mimes. Um obviously they have uh um food and beverages as well as um a number of vendors that g you know sell odds and ends. So it's a it's a great event. It's it's really fun. So we're we're uh happy to have it here in Pasco County. So again thank you to all of you. Next one to bring up is Commissioner O'Hoping a farm share

34:45distribution next week, Tuesday, April 13. Uh thirteenth. Last time I hosted it with um Representative Maggard. I was in the recession now. Um last time it was at the shops of Wiregrass. This time it's gonna be over at the Grove. Um it's gonna be right in front of the Grove Theater Entertainment and Bistro. It's gonna start at nine A. M. Um open anyone that can come to join us or you know, obviously this is really meant for people that do have a need. Um, so I'll just remind people of that. This is really set for people that do

35:15have a need and could really use the food at this time. So again, nine o'clock, it's a drive-thru only event. Uh people do not have to leave their cars. They pull up, open their trunk, and uh we will place food in there. Last time I geez, I think I had over fifty volunteers that showed up. Um we had more than enough and I see no issue with volunteers again this year. So Excited. Be great for the community. Again, we want to we like moving it around a little bit to give more people an opportunity throughout that uh area. And the last thing, um the ABC

35:47Action News um highlighted Wesley Chapel. Um that was on March twenty-sixth. They focused in on Wesley Chapel and many um staff members and community folks were a part of that. It was just a really, really good way to highlight Pasco County and that Wesley Chapel area. I think the week before they had done uh Newport Ritchie, if I wasn't correct. Um So they reached out to TMR in early March. I did an interview with them, um, Keith Wiley, Adam Thomas as well, and a number of our

36:17uh team members. And they actually chose the county facility wiregrass um ranch. Uh sorry, sorry. I always I mix it up myself sometimes too. The um wire grass Rants sports campus of Pasco County is where they did their live shot all morning. And then anchor uh Dia Riley, which um actually lives in Pasco County, she was the anchor that uh did most of the work that's that morning. So started at five A. M. and and it was I think it ran all

36:47the way through about ten. Am I correct? So five hours uh Wesley Chapel and Pasco County were on air on that day, so

36:55I think that does it for me. So again, thanks to the team. Thanks for the staff for doing a great job. Oh, we're gonna play.

37:04Pardon me? We just had the

37:05graphic box.

37:06Graphic. Okay, I don't think we have. It would take five hours to play it all.

37:11That does it for me. Thank you, Mr.

37:13Chairman M Ms. Darkey?

37:15Um I I I have two things. But I'm not sure So Mike Melanie is is out recovering from something and Derek is off getting his shot. So I don't know if the residential lighting photo got sent to the county to put up. Okay. So um I actually have this issue in my backyard um in uh Gulf Harbors when people

37:46have lights on in their backyard that um shine into your own yard and into your own house. We don't have an ordinance that covers that. We have an ordinance that covers it for commercial lighting. You know, all lighting is required to shoot down and cannot take out someone's night sky and the stars in commercial settings. But sadly it doesn't um It doesn't uh go over into residential.

38:16And so Apparently in this neighborhood. They've kind of been having some light wars. And they're like shining lights on each other and i i the sheriff's been called. Um I would really like for us to take a look at extending the rules and our light ordinance for commercial to residential. It's You know, I have to hang up things on my window sometimes when people have their security lights on and they're shining into my living room. I can't

38:46even, you know. Watch my own T V. So Um I got no problem with people wanting security lights, but they need to shine into their own backyard and not spill into everyone else's. So Um wanted to have the board's thoughts and direction for staff.

39:07So these are actually shining across the road.

39:10Yeah, yeah. And I have s I have people who don't even live there um year round as my neighbors and they have security lights all over their docks and everything and I I can't sit outside and see the star. When they're on. So

39:25Uh-huh.

39:26Yeah.

39:27Well funny Commissioner Starkey because I'm not sure if you're The night before last I actually Slept in my daughter's bedroom from my back and

39:35Mm-hmm.

39:36Our neighbor's security light is like flashing right in the backyard. Ba b right in the back room. So I can see exactly what you're saying. But these pictures here are pretty outstanding as well. So I think it's worthwhile taking a look at.

39:46Yeah, this is Forest Hills. Um, so they're having problems, but I tell you we have them in Gulf Harbors too. And I would guess that anyone who has a neighbor who has lights shining into their houses would appreciate would appreciate it. So I don't know what the process is, Dan. Is that just in our next code rewrite? Can we just add a little blurb? I don't want it to take you know, it shouldn't be something that takes a

40:15revise that code to read Well.

40:20Well that's

40:21the the lighting ordinance, right? The problem is that you're gonna wanna apply it not to new development but to all development. So it's probably co it's probably code of ordinance.

40:34Um we'll we'll look at Seeing where it's best to put that.

40:40Come back to us.

40:41Yeah.

40:41Okay.

40:42All right, great. Um I uh is that a motion? Do we need a motion or do you have board direction? Direction. Okay. I think

40:49just direction. I don't hear anybody.

40:54I received uh an email from Stephen Lucas. I think we all got it, about the Florida Medical Examiner's Commission ballot. And um Dan suggested that we bring it up here and

41:04commissioner's items. So that's what the chairman's got it from his uh.

41:10Did you did you get the photos of um The uh cleanup of the Helenella site. I just emailed it to Dan and Yeah. So if you recall it just happened like this that We had a homeless population move into the former Helen Ellis Um Walk-in center on nineteen that we had taken down. I just wanted to show you what it looked like in a matter of A couple weeks. A couple of weeks. I don't

41:40think I got I don't think I got those.

41:42Oh you can get the photos?

41:43No, not those. Okay.

41:45You sent

41:45me the photo of

41:47a darling.

41:50So who else can I mail it to? And then you can come back to me.

42:01It it wouldn't go.

42:08Maybe my mailbox is full. That's right.

42:11One of them.

42:14So so come back to me because it'll take a second for them to

42:16move

42:16that. All right.

42:18Ms. Fitzpatrick.

42:20Thank you. Chairman Mariano.

42:25Well, I have several items. I would like to first thank Parks and Rec and Natural Resources. They're excited to offer their first special needs camp this summer named Par. PAR Camp PAR stands for Pasco Adaptive Inclusion Recreation. I'm very excited that we're going to be able to offer the special need. summer camp this w this summer as well. And of course we're working on the special needs playground on the west side of the county. Also, we have the Moon Lake cleanup.

42:55scheduled for Sunday, April eleventh. We will have two dumpsters at Win Dix one at um we'll have dumpster sites at Win Dixie and Moon Lake Park. And I would like to thank staff and everyone that has helped prepare for the cleanup and of course all of the staff that's going to be there at the cleanup.

43:16my after meeting and having community meetings with different communities regarding the PVAS and MicroSEALs and everything I would like to make a mo um After our meeting on Monday, I would like to make the motion to discontinue the microsurfing project for Aristita.

43:40Second.

43:42K What was that now? Say that motion again.

43:46Okay. So aft on Monday evening I had met with Aresida community. I had people on WebEx and in in the boardroom in Newport Ritchie and we had a meeting discussing their microsurfing and the different options for the full depth reclamation. So I actually have two motions today to bring forward. And the first motion would be after discussing with the community and having their input. And now that they have guidance on

44:16what's gonna happen to the French drains and their draining situations, they will I would like to make the motion to discontinue the microsurfacing project for Aristida.

44:27You may want to tag on the if you're gonna create another board board initiated. For full depth reclamation, you may want to make it all one motion because that will explain what you're doing to the rest of the

44:40Okay, 'cause I don't want to discontinue one and not be able to get the other. Okay. So I would make a motion to discontinue the microsurfacing project for Aristida and motion to start the process for board initiated full depth reclamation for Aristida.

44:55Got a motion and a second. All those in favor.

44:59Well, just so just So the Aristida Microsurfacing was a board initiated.

45:07Right.

45:08So in effect the board is discontinuing that board initiated and moving to a full depth reclamation, which is gonna require new noticing to be sent out to the neighborhood.

45:18Okay. And that'll change the cost to it. It'll change it'll it'll change the cost. There was they'll look into stormwater and other issues on that road. So okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed like some?

45:33I don't think I can vote.

45:35No, you can't vote.

45:36Sorry.

45:37Okay. I did not.

45:40Okay. So it's uh all those against it's a uh Four for the for the motion and one abstaining, uh Commissioner Starkey. Okay.

45:56Um, I would like to also say I visited Am Skills. I would like to recogni recognize the work that they are doing. I think it's a great opportunity for people to be able to be reentered into the work environment and they offer also offer it for our youth. as well. And if anyone has not contacted them, I would encourage them to make contact and go for a visit 'cause it's a ve v very good program that they're offering. And I do like the fact that they're

46:26um moving forward and helping people to get into the workforce. Yeah. Aristida Airports. Okay. Next I did go out and I visited um the airports in our community. And Yeah. I would like to look at adding some protections for our local airports. We have four airports in Pasco County, whether they're public or some are public and private. And they're

46:56a huge asset for our county. I believe there is some stat there is a stat Florida State statute that would require us to add special protections and ordinances in place. So I would like to ask the staff to take a look at developing an ordinance to that specifically outlines the protections for existing airports.

47:18They're already under mandate by the state statute to do that. So then you don't know we're I mean you can ask for a status report on on that project, but but they're all they're already They're working on it. Working on

47:33it. Yeah. So like an update on that place.

47:36Terry Terry Petos was handling that. Mm-hmm.

47:42Thank you.

47:46And lastly, I would like to thank the M Biles for having the courage to lead us through this pandemic. The mass mandate was very difficult to navigate, and I think we should I would like to go over some of the numbers that they have discussed. They said 70% of our 65 and up population has been vaccinated. With at least one. And also 57% of our population, 50 and up, has also been vaccinated.

48:21I also feel, and the mass media is recent, um, just that we would strongly recommend their use, especially if someone has an immunocompromised immunity or if they fall into an identified group that would be highly susceptible to the virus. And please keep in consideration and be conscientious that we did just open. The vaccines were made available to eighteen or sixteen. and up. So our eight, sixteen to forty population is still gonna

48:52need some time to get their vaccinations. So if we can still make sure we're conscientious of them and for peop people that are highly susceptible or immunocompromised in that age group so they have the time so they can prepare and get their vaccine. Thank you.

49:09Thank you.

49:11Mr. Bayonet. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Great to be with you folks. Yeah. Glad you're back. I uh you know I I had a back surgery back in February. I had a complication from a bad move I made that caused me to have another back surgery, so uh I couldn't make it here, so I had the WebXM. Didn't really want to fully get to full, full discussion with it for personal reasons, but um anyway, I'm glad I'm glad to be back in person and uh appreciate your patience with me as letting me speak in and I thought it was pretty fluid how it all went. So thank you for handling it so well. Yeah.

49:42Appreciate it. Um I'd like to thank Mr. Biles and I'm sure he had support from the board to uh take away that mask mandate. Um I think it's uh it was the right move. I don't know, maybe Dan, you're going to talk about the in-person meetings as far as having citizens come in. We talked about that last meeting when you when you got your committee reports and maybe the uh state of emergency, how that's going to stand out coming up to the end of the month. I'll let you discuss with all that. I would like to say that as in talking about the vaccines, I think staff, uh our team has done a phenomenal job across this county getting

50:12people vaccinated. Anybody that wanted to, at least on my list, the list is now blank. So everybody's got filled in. We even had a uh situation over in Sea Ranch where they're wanted to have one at their civic association and they had to have a minimum of 50 people, but so many people had been vaccinated all the way around. They actually reach reached out to Gulf Highlands with Nancy Benitez and got some people over there to get them to that number. So I think, you know, Dan, you've done a phenomenal job. work with Mike Napier, et cetera, the whole team, uh Andy Foster and all just to get this done. It's been tremendously

50:42efficient and I know our people have really appreciated it. Um just a couple of things. Uh I got a call from a lady from uh Tim Brooks the other day and she was talking about uh Sunwest Park and uh You know, I I think we have a great price at thirty dollars for an in in in citizen, you know, resident of Pasco County to get an annual pass there. Uh but she says, you know, some seniors are on such fixed income they don't need the money for that. So I'm just wondering maybe if we took a look at giving a senior discount. Maybe we cut the number down in half for

51:13the seniors. Called sixty five years old, whatever it may be, just to kind of go through. I don't think it's gonna affect much other than just getting some more seniors out to the park. Um how does the how does the board th you want to think about that? But sound reasonable just for the seniors sixty five years and older? Yeah. All

51:29right. It encourages them to get out. That's

51:31you know.

51:32Do we have waivers for our seniors through

51:35if you have a Handicap sticker? The th they don't have to pay to go out to the park? But as far as for that I mean We we have to pay like everybody else does. Have you talked to Keith about it? I mean, I'm not sure. I I did talk to Keith. I was gonna try to pull him on Webex. I ex texted him before, but I don't know if he's signed in yet. But he's he was he thought it was a decent idea as well.

51:56He's in the building somewhere. Right. Yeah, I think

52:00he went back to uh back to work.

52:02But uh I can even have him bring it back to to take a look at it. 'Cause it's n another thing we're out there. Um Like the Shrimpy Crab Fest was packed. They made I think seven thousand dollars in parking So having the event was great. But there was all also a lot of upfront charges they had to pay too, like another four grand that we charged them to command. And as we come up to the summer, maybe we need it, maybe we don't, but when we increase that parking and that revenue comes in. That can really offset his expenses and if he can time it all to go through that way. I

52:33think we want to make it so that let's say I charities that wanna come out there and do something. Yeah, will it be uh Well you know no matter what the event, uh it's gonna get better down the road. But I think if they w can events run uh get 'em with less expensive cost up front and just make the money in the parking. Every time we're gonna run it. We're gonna make more money. He's still he's got this similar staff people there. If they know it's gonna be big, he can also make adjustments for it as well. So I wanna give him the flexibility to kind of look at that and go. He's kind of a little bit afraid of it, but maybe I'll even have him bring us something back to the next the next meeting coming

53:03up. Him and I did talk about it and uh they are working on a an event with There's a uh Olympic champion volleyball player out of Tampa. I mean not Tampa, Orlando, uh Phil Dumas, I think is his name. And he's gonna wants to come in support with another guy down beach bums down in Saint Pete and actually run concerts and volleyball tournaments, would be sand soccer tournaments and maybe some summer camps. For our kids coming up here. So I wanna make it so it's advantageous for them to come in and do it, drive people to that park, and then in the next year or so when we have a restaurant coming in or

53:33hotel coming in, Now we've got a a good infrastructure set up to to make it again more beneficial for everybody that's out there, especially our citizens. One of the things that was a problem that I didn't like that I saw. was at this other concert that they had, they were charging people the park. And it used to be, I think, ten dollars to get into the concert par part of the area with all that stuff. Well, they had to raise the price up t to fifteen dollars to make it come in. And I th I think w by the time you look at that number is like, you know, do I really want to go in there for that? And it kinda has a negative effect. And one of the things and I'm glad

54:03to see Alex is here from the Sheriff's Department. One of the things if you would get with Keith Wiley as well One of the things that they have when they set up these things as far as permitting goes, they look at how much share of coverage they want to have out there. And one of the things is they I think they have the Sheriff's Office, two deputies there. An hour before they even open. And it's slow enough getting in, the parking's just coming in. I don't know if I need a deputy for all that time. Uh whenever there's alcohol involved, we want to have it there. But I don't know if they need to be there an hour before, an hour after might be

54:33better. So if you work with Keith and J Judge on the safety, et cetera, but just kinda like we would just want to cut the cost down so these guys can bring in more events and make it more appealing for all our people and and and help the tourism aspect of the park go. Right. That's all that's all I have, Mr. Chairman. Get up with um Keith and then have him come back

54:50and

54:51give us a Yes I'll have Keith come back, but I just want to kind of run those ideas we we had talked about. Yeah,

54:55that'd be

54:55great.