Pepin Academy fee waiver and final updates

4:41:58Okay. I believe that's all I have for the agenda. So I I'll stop with I'll start with Mr. Carvalho.

4:42:08I had three things, but I'll just give you one thing. I just need some action on it. You'll recall last meeting I had asked for a waiver of fees for some school board projects. We're in the middle of um

4:42:18sixty.

4:42:19Amending the interlocal. That process will take time, but we've had a school uh Pepin Academy at Kirkland. Uh I just need a uh motion to uh and vote to um waive our review fees for that school until we get the interlocal done. So the motion to waive the school. Wave the fees for the Pepin Academy.

4:42:42Yes.

4:42:44So you don't have to keep doing this. Is it possible to

4:42:50I'm glad one of us is lucid here at the end of the day. Thank you, David. Yes, actually uh until we get the interlocal codified, it would be I'd I'd welcome the if you would allow me administratively to approve fee waivers for the school board projects. I'll bring them back as noted items over the course of time, but at least until we get the interlocal agreement amended because that could take a few months to to go through the process.

4:43:14All right. So have a motion without effect? Yeah. Motion. Motion and a second. All in favors. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

4:43:27That's all?

4:43:29That's it?

4:43:31All right. County Attorney's Office.

4:43:34I thought I would have something but it turns out I don't so

4:43:37Oh

4:43:37and

4:43:38adjourned the meeting right now.

4:43:41Madam Clerk.

4:43:42I will be brief. I just wanted to provide a board the board with an update on the progress of our Operation Green Light. As of the end of the day yesterday we had 101 cases paid in full. 255 cases put on a payment plan. Um we pulled ninety cases from collections and that's over thirteen thousand dollars of collections fees that have waived, been waived. We've made um three hundred and seventy seven driver's license eligible. for reinstatement through this program and um sixty one

4:44:12have been a stri um uh uh reinstated through the through the Operation Green Light. And that is going on well, it's over today, but it tomorrow's the last day and through seven PM tomorrow. So eight A. M. to seven P is t P. M. tomorrow's the last day of Operation Greenlight um to help people get their license back. Um one other thing I wanted to mention was Operation Stand Down. Uh that's coming up on April twenty first. That's for veterans. And um

4:44:43so far there it's uh partnership with uh one community now who does the operation stand down in Pasco. So far we have 36 veterans registered for Veterans Court that day. Um it's being held at Safety Town in the nature. um nature center uh a building over there and that will be again on the twenty first from nine to noon for veteran support. Thank you very much.

4:45:06All right, thank you. Uh I just have one item left and Ralph, I just want to help you help me cover it. Um I was alerted yesterday that there's a law that's gonna start taking place. If you have citizens insurance and you're in an AE zone than making you get flood insurance. That's a major effect for someone who's financing a property, you have to have it anyway. But if you don't have a property, think about the the effect will be that on your monthly bill. to what these things are. Um I alerted to our

4:45:36coastal legislators to to what's going on, but I wanted the board to know. And Ralph, if you want to talk to it real quickly?

4:45:46So this is a bill that just came out just recently that uh in the in the legislature, what I'll do is I'll pull it out, but you saw it, Commissioner, um when our CEO, our CFO um brought it to their attention saying, you know, it was a concern based on um having the the homeowners have flood insurance in certain areas. To me, I think this is the legislature's way of trying to address some of the concerns, especially with

4:46:17citizens, to try to shore up the cost uh and moving forward. Um, especially what came out of uh the last hurricane and and uh the only way that they can probably do that is to require residents to have that home uh that flood insurance. They were looking at zone A's and so and zone Bs. Uh what I'll do is I'll I'll I'll just get more information and I'll forward that uh that bill to you. If you all would like to engage and respond, you can reach out to to the commission uh

4:46:47to the uh legislators as well within our are Pasco legislative delegation.

4:46:52So h so h my my thought is if someone Has a property that's on the ground. And they don't have a mortgage.

4:46:58I

4:46:58don't know why we I mean I I can see why we

4:47:00can't. You can still go bare. Yeah.

4:47:04But the reason why they're requiring it is because Majority of people do not uh own their homes. It's owned by the the lender owns it. Right. So that's why they're requiring it.

4:47:13But let's say that you own your own home as well and you're up there and you're up Base flood elevation fifteen feet, fourteen feet, whatever the number is, you've spent the money, you've done it, you feel safe, you're not worried about a flood. They're not going to cover anything underneath anyway, citizens not. So it's not you're not you're not protecting citizens, so why force the people with the extra bill? That's all. So

4:47:33and again I've

4:47:33got to do that.