Commissioners' committee reports from districts

54:09Alright, committee reports, Commissioner Oakley. Okay. From the largest district in the county. Yeah. Yeah, my hat of the county.

54:20That looks good.

54:21Uh

54:24But we'll start off with um Here we have the soft opening for the library, here for Pew Embry Library, and we um Add this and It it's pretty amazing that here we are talking about the remodeling all of of the Library Hugh Embury Library.

54:47Yesterday we got word, uh Ralph put it out I guess that The uh Pasco Libraries is organized as Library of the Year by Florida Library Association. So you gotta be really proud of our Library Association and the library that we have throughout the county. It really I had a fellow tell me one time that libraries wasn't very important. We ought to take that money and use it somewhere else. Yeah. But let me tell you something, there's a

55:17lot of our citizens that depend on that library. in whatever area or community we are. When you close one down like Hugh Embry, The phone rang off the hook for a long time for uh trying to get it back open so that they miss their library that much. So and now it's back open. And a little later on we'll have a ribbon cutting for that.

55:39I almost think they shouldn't be called libraries that they should be like community centers. Something more than library. 'Cause when you think of the old school, you know, library books, but they do so much more than that. So

55:51they do. They really I'd love

55:52for us to come up with a better one.

55:53Yep. Yeah, well move on to uh last Friday we had the U Lagoon, if you don't notice the pictures, uh You can't get the total lagoon in a picture. It uh 15 acres, so it's it's quite large and uh I'm blessed again in in my district I have the first lagoon in in the nation. In the nation, first one in the nation. in my district. And this is the second

56:24lagoon in the not just second in the nation, but it it's it's not that at all. It's a first largest lagoon in the nation by fifteen acres. It's pretty amazing facility. With a

56:39mermaid.

56:39Cost a lot of time and I I won't go there, but So but yes, they had mermaids out there the other day, so um it w it was a very beautiful sight out there to have that relaxation. What?

57:00But uh It's actually beautiful.

57:04That is good.

57:05Pretty amazing. I mean there'd be two hundred thousand people coming. and visit this lagoon, if you can imagine here in our county and in here and in District One. You have to drive it and then you ride

57:18your bike to it.

57:19Yeah. Or put the park. The reality is it's pretty amazing. I didn't have to help turn the s switch on or the the valve on to get water in. But the first lagoon The water had to be turned on. And it's more than just turn the valve open. Because you had to maintain water pressure for safety and fire control at the time you were filling the first lagoon. But actually we t got it turned on the right time. Mike probably was a

57:49big part of that at that time. And uh his team got it turned on and we got it and we maintained pressure throughout the system to where We didn't give up our safety for our homeowners in case of fire. for our safety. So

58:03this was this a ma amazing first project, second project, and the time they took to listen to the people. and go through everything and say, here's how we're gonna do it. When the concerns came up they were able to show what they were gonna do and then coordinate with our own utilities, which um Mike being a part of We did it all they did it all, they did it all right every step of the way. Oh yeah. And it was just and and to see it coming for a second one, I was sitting down with Kartuk and uh Mike and saying, How does it feel to like create something as awesome as this? Yeah. Gotta be proud of this.

58:32Pretty awesome. Yeah. And we as a county Definitely we need to be proud of these lagoons because they actually are a great amenity for for the Marathi of in in Pasco County and also the other lagoon also and a lot of citizens have been at that one and actually you get a lot of visitors from Europe and all coming over here just to be near around these lagoons. So Yeah. So it's it's really good. So I went from there, I went to

59:03uh Dev Web site over in Land O' Lakes. And because we've been discussing, you know, 40 and 50 foot lights, so these are forty, fifties and I think there's some sixties in here. It's pretty amazed. Look at the landscaping on these houses. and and the architectural view that you have on these. Now this is five and older. uh property. So They either have one car, a car and a golf cart. And

59:33so but They've done such a great job in architecture and Look at all the landscape. Some of these that have come in before don't have this kind look at that landscape. And the architecture of those houses. That's it. I don't mind having four and pictures if I have that. I mean really that's that's a beautiful home. And uh of course the big five and older, a lot of single Uh people that live here with one cart and a golf

1:00:04cart and there's some there's couples. Some of 'em have a uh It's like um balcony area inside their house for when they have grandchildren also. But uh Very well done and a very nice product in our county. Actually this one's in Land Lakes. and they're gonna be building one in Palmetto Ridge. That's a Dell Web product that's coming in Palmetto Ridge.

1:00:32And so in this kind of

1:00:33community,

1:00:34all the landscaping is maintained by one company.

1:00:37Yes. All of it's done by one company and this this is yards mode and everything else. Right. They pay a f the each homeowner pays a fee for their yard care and all so But you can see

1:00:48it's very well done. And it keeps it looking nice all the time. And you know, when you get a senior community, those smaller lots I think um are definitely much more acceptable. You don't need all the parking you do for a family. Yeah. You drive down to some places you'll see they used to be like first seniors and then the young families moved in and you got your cars being parked in the grass all over and uh it's a whole different world. But in a senior community I think those forties and fifties work. Uh they got parking out front so they do have more people. And it's not a lot of other things going on so it does the community works.

1:01:18Their area where everybody goes in the central part is like a men amenities amenities galore. Keep them all happy. There it is.

1:01:28So

1:01:30Just absolutely just beautiful what you see in this this product.

1:01:36Yeah. Yeah, swimming pool and they have um I guess they have times for children to be at the pool, but it's not when the adults are gonna be there. They have like a two or three hour slot in the afternoon like from two to five and children can be there. Other times just the other adults were there. So But it's uh Very well done, very nice product. I look for more products like this and and would hope that we can get uh some more of these developments

1:02:06other than Dell Webb and other than fifty five and older we need we need this kind of product for our other homes that we have in developments. So we'll move on to um Next item we had was uh during the cleanup event in Zephyrhills they moved removed seventy tons of trash, tires and uh The Code Compliance and All Solid Waste Public Works and the City of Zephyrhills conducted

1:02:37this cleanup. And seventy tons is a lot of stuff just laying around in yards and I know Miss Starkey she knows that all the different areas that she goes to, there's a lot of tonnage that's laid out there and need to be picked up. And this was very successful to do this cleanup in Zephyrhills. This uh was very good uh And so thank you to the all the volunteers and team members who made it possible for this cleanup. So

1:03:09and I was trying to think there was uh there's so much been going on, it seems like uh

1:03:19In the last few weeks I don't I worked since I got So again. Two assistants now instead of uh instead of just one. It seems like they've decided I need to work six days a week instead of instead of just five and I told I had a meeting with him the other day and I said, Y'all gotta cut out the Sardies on 'Cause uh three events I went to to speak. I only knew about one of them that I was supposed to speak at. And I mean Thank

1:03:51goodness I've been here six years to have the information to be able to cover it, but from uh giving a house to uh a veteran to uh uh opening a new VA clinic in Zerpri Hills and other things and then this with a lagoon. So you gotta be really thankful for all the things that happened in our county. Actually the veteran home was off Cawyer and in District Two. And uh But very nice that

1:04:21people give of land actually the land was donated and the tours um The

1:04:30Tunnels Tunnels Datours Foundation is the one to present that home to the to the veteran. So very welcome family to the Pasco County, so very nice. So with that, that's everything I have today. All right. Thank you, sir. Okay. Mr. Wheatman.

1:04:47Thank you, Chair. First gotta throw out there since Moore's in the room, go Bulls. Go Bulls. Um obviously we have a a Senate president, so I'll give some love to a former Speaker, Will Weatherford, who's chair of USF Board of Trustees, and uh this last week USF entered uh the Association of American Universities, which is a big Yeah and talk about w regional impact

1:05:18and what that means. Uh USF's just going going to the next level. Uh best and brightest will go there, um, unlike UCF. Uh

1:05:32It it will continu it will continue to To pump up the to pump up the green and gold, so Thank you for indulging me, Mike Moore. So congratulations to USF and Chair Weatherford and and uh everybody in the USF community. Um next we had uh we had our first town hall, it was in Lexington Oaks and uh I thank Maxine Carlson and Jose and Kim for spearheading it and inviting us out and um great conversation

1:06:04with the folks in Lexington Oaks. They're a really engaged group of people and I put a picture of the sign, I think Commissioner Starkey'd be proud of the sign and And um uh did a good job of of of bringing this in and and sharing their concerns. There was a there was a lot of longevity in the Lexington Oaks community, so turnover of home ownership is seemingly pretty low. So those folks that live there had a lot of history within the community and and um a a pretty fantastic perspective on on things.

1:06:34And they kept their oaks, unlike seven oaks. It's no. Right? They took theirs out.

1:06:43Yeah.

1:06:46So anyway, thanks to the folks at Lexine Oakes for having us. Um also June second was a a special day, Pasco County's birthday, and so we have to recognize recognize that. And do we have any any other f Pictures up on air. Here we

1:07:05go.

1:07:06So And Andy made us do this. Commissioner Oakley, you did a fantastic job kicking off the Marauder Lagoon event. And uh it's like you're in a totally different totally different world. A fun way to kick off summer, uh great crowd and uh you know A piece of information that was pretty interesting is that Lagoon will hold up to 4,000 people. Four thousand, yes. And then there's over a mile, approximately over a mile of shoreline

1:07:37around this pool. So, you know, just an amazing uh design and build there. So congratulations to everybody who um stayed the course to get that project done. And I don't see anything else. Am I missing anything? We're good? All right, that's it, Mr. Chairman Mariano.

1:08:00Commissioner Starkey.

1:08:01Um okay, let's see how my pictures roll. I have a lot of them. Okay. Do you have the kids collection first?

1:08:11Okay. So uh the first one uh I want to uh talk about is the kids collection for the Oasis Pregnancy Center. Um thank you to everyone at the BLCC office for um donating. Um we had quite a collection of diapers and everything. Um thank you Jack for coming and we we here's our our collection and um they were very grateful To receive all these, and we'll work on this again next year. And I have some ideas how to even uh publicize

1:08:43this even more. Um, we had the annual community cleanup in Holiday Lake States on May 21st. I was at the MACO um board meeting, so I I missed it, but my staff went. Um we collected 36 tons of garbage, and thanks to uh all the staff. Staff that came out. We had to do it on a Sunday. Thank you to John Batista and Robert Penny and the Solid Waste Team, to John Delandro and the Rhode Bridge team, Christian Jaccox environmental compliance team, and Patrick

1:09:13Arrington and the co-compliance team. So got a lot of stuff out of that neighborhood. And we had our Commission on the Status of Women, had their inaugural one. Uplifting women event on May 23rd. And uh Derek's doing a great job with that. I'm very excited about uh what he's what he's done there. And so uh the uh the Commission on Status of Women serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of County Commissioners and County Leadership with respect to matters

1:09:43pertaining to the status of women like discrimination, employment, education, and other vital topics. You can follow them on Facebook. things I love is they're compiling uh a list of women-owned businesses for the county. So if you know any, um please be sure and send that to me and we'll get it on to them. Next we have Bexley.

1:10:05Oh this is even worse. So um Commission no, our county administrator lives in Bexley. This is not your picture though, right? Because Okay. On one of this on one of the streets, there's one builder on one side and another builder on the other side. And when I drove around, you know, I did my um Del Web in the morning and then the afternoon I was with um uh

1:10:35DR.

1:10:36Willie Nines Company, um

1:10:37West Bay.

1:10:39How's by West Bay and with um Martin Frame of um gosh

1:10:44If you notice there's no landscape.

1:10:46Martin Front Frame. So

1:10:47Davley? David Weekly.

1:10:50So this is a very interesting street in Bexley. One side of the street has street trees and the other side does not. So I made you know, I I pointed this out to our our our TBBA folks as we were driving through this neighborhood and I got a call uh from our friends at Pulty and said, oh, whoops Yes, we are missing a hundred and eighty trees in Bexley. We will put them in And that's great, but how is

1:11:20it that we're missing 180 trees and we didn't know it? So once again I say We have a process missing in our process. And um I uh in going out there to meet Martin, I don't know if the um if I s did I send the picture of the town homes in Wesley Chapel? Gina? I sent that to Katie. I whether it's a little bit of a Okay, so I drove through a uh a community in Wesley Chapel off

1:11:50of Mansfield and um they're like no trees. And so I've asked for the copy of the plan to see what was supposed to be there and then we can compare it to what's there and and again I think that's um that's not it because it's town homes. That yeah I think that's That's what that is. I think that's the townhome community in uh off of Mansfield. I can't remember the name of it. Um But you can see I I

1:12:20feel like something's missing there. And I I I'm pretty sure when they do their develop get their development agreement, it has a requirement for X amount of trees. Okay, next picture.

1:12:33You come. Okay, so then I uh on my way to Over there. I drove down um Lake Patience Boulevard. So to get there you pass through Oakstead and keep keep scrolling through and we'll because these aren't in order. Um I want you to get to the map. Okay. Oakstead and Lake Patience up here. Uh you see where the green is, that's where the multi-use trail is. And

1:13:04it stops at the entrance to that last neighborhood in Oakstead. And it's right across the street from Oakstead Elementary, which by the way has no sidewalk. Um but then Then you go um this dotted line Uh okay now now keep going. Let's see what let me see what else you did here. There's a um Keep on? I thought she showed where there was a sidewalk. Well, so these are two pictures of

1:13:34brand new developments on Lake Patience Drive. One is uh Homes for Rent uh by American Homes and one is a I think it's a Fulti project. And You see the right-of-way that we have. And my understanding and someone here can correct me, but what I got from staff is that um and Brad can explain this better than me, I know. Tell me if I get this wrong. Like patience was in the five-year CIP, so there were kind of like eyes on it during development. Some they did a route study

1:14:04and decided, okay, Lake Patience doesn't need to be four-lane and only needs to be two. And so it fell out of some kind of review And so now These neighborhoods just put in the five foot sidewalk. So we have the multi-use path coming from Oakstead that stops. There's a a sidewalk over the bridge that it stops and then we get a brand new five-foot sidewalk that we will have to rip out to continue the multi-use trail. What is Unfortunate.

1:14:36Did I say that right?

1:14:37Rative and planning and development. Yes, that was actually a very good summary given the complexity of it. Uh yeah, it was in the CIP. So when when projects like that are in the CIP, typically a new project coming in will actually pay into the fund to help the county construct the project. Uh so that was what happened and then after those payments were made and and it was mitigated for uh the CIP was reprioritized and it fell out of the CIP. So that uh the sidewalks that are actually there are technically a little bit above and beyond because they've already

1:15:08paid in to have the county build the sidewalks in the future with the trail system and whatnot. So uh yeah there was a lot of those have to be

1:15:14ripped out for the

1:15:15multi

1:15:15the we'll we're putting a multi-use

1:15:17trail down

1:15:18here so those have to come out.

1:15:19Yeah they'll they'll end up coming out. But we

1:15:21could have had them build The the path.

1:15:24Yeah, yeah. That was that was a uh uh Just a perfect storm of timing with it being in the CIP and then coming out of the CIP. But those are the types of things that happen when when we're prioritizing and reprioritizing road systems because these projects, you know, these are several years typically that these things can be approved.

1:15:44So

1:15:44but this

1:15:45just goes back to my conversation with administrator that when we have no one in charge of the trails We're making very costly mistakes. And it's it's very disjointed. And you know, th I know Keith is saying when they get their master trail master parks planned and trails done, they can be the one but they would never see this because this is not a park. And um M PO doesn't want to look at this, doesn't get it. Is it somewhere s we're missing a person? It

1:16:16and I really, really need you to get that person on board, that system on board.

1:16:24Because if it's uh it's not on the MPO plan then where does it fall? And right now we've approved a whole bunch of money for Penny for Pasco coming up that's gonna go the trails. Right on 5A Road. Those are

1:16:34on the big trails, but

1:16:36I'm gonna get to this.

1:16:37Yeah.

1:16:38Uh up up on 5A had a development coming in that was gonna put a five foot path in. Meanwhile I know this year it was supposed to be on the CIP to be done where uh the eight foot or ten foot wide multi-use pail trail trail was coming in. And these guys are laying it out to go five foot. Called in, we looked at it. We got them to negotiate with us so they at least they build their part. of the same amount of square footage concrete and put the trail in. So it's there. We still gotta connect it, still gotta rebuild it, but That was almost

1:17:09missed.

1:17:09Yeah. So if we're not gonna build A four lane road here. We're not? Is that correct?

1:17:16Uh my understanding is that the last study that when the uh tower road to the north was uh good job to change the So who's

1:17:24maintaining all that grass there?

1:17:26I believe that that is actually all dedicated to the county at this point.

1:17:30Okay, so now we have this big m maintenance cost there. And so why not take that area and turn it into a linear park? You know, do do something with it that benefits the community.

1:17:43Could

1:17:43potentially

1:17:44be a trailhead for the trailhead.

1:17:45A trailhead or, you know, a a kid's playground, uh I don't know, something, but let's think bigger than than just having a big piece of land that we have to mow. Um okay, I have I have more.

1:18:00Yeah. Uh

1:18:10Um so A number of years ago, Rick Baker, um, when I was involved with Template Partnership, he gave me a book about building great cities. I went and read a chapter uh and he and he he highlighted um a section that I should read, which is how uh North Carolina brought manufacturing back um to its community. And one of the ways that they um were very successful was when they were able to get one manufacturer back ac actually it was in the textile industry.

1:18:40When he came to their community he made them very very welcomed and they got him into the country club and they made sure that he met people in s in the society in the community and then that guy went and told all his buddies back in Italy actually what a great place that area was and a bunch of them moved their companies there. So I took that to heart with my international program. It's kind of part of uh how I started that international national program. program at PEDC. And I take

1:19:11take my international CEOs in manufacturing here in the community. I was taking them around, showing them community assets in Tampa Bay before COVID hit. We've toured the airport, the port, Emily Arena, Camels, some of our local manufacturers, and it and it lets our CEOs kind of meet each other and and it's great things happen when they when they meet each other and they they strike a business with each other because they didn't even know. Two of these people didn't even know that the

1:19:41other one existed until I had lunch with them uh before we went on this event. So here we are uh This is out of order, but this is at the point. You probably recognize that. And this was kind of a little West Pasco day, and we just did it in the afternoon. So we had I had seven CEOs in and we we toured the point distillery. This is a very cool prohibition distillery, so that's kind of an oxymoron, but um

1:20:11they have two of those. And this this company is amazing here in Jack's district. And I was really grateful for them to open up and give us this this tour. And so here we are at a company called 2.6, another amazing one in your district, Jack. Um, it's so nondescript in the front. Um, but they grow crystals for lasers. And um it's one of the only ones like this maybe in the world. There's I think there's

1:20:41another one in the United States somewhere. But um they they they have an amazing um They pull a lot of electricity. And uh because the crystals grow for months in a very very expensive machine. I can't couldn't show all of it because it's it's Department of Defense and it's their security there and everything. So um this is their generators. And and and so if if the power goes off They have to have uh a massive amount of

1:21:11uh electricity to be made and they have a backup for the backup. Because if if they lose power for even a few seconds, they have to stop and rebuild all their all their um crystals. So uh I wanna thank them for the tour. I think they're gonna be expanding so we gotta get David over there. Um but uh Something I do. maybe a couple times a year. Oh and we toured the jail. Our last one before COVID was we toured the jail. And these guys all really

1:21:41appreciate it. We have Metler Toledo, Touch Point, we have um Dan Tang from is it GTS I think he's probably our one of our fastest growing companies. He's about to open up in four countries. So he'll be in about eight or nine countries here soon. Um we have Miapta we have pharma works, one company I'm trying to recruit here, so I'm very uh excited about what we do. Okay, next picture. This is um in Commissioner Bradford's

1:22:12district when I was coming back from one of those drive-arounds. This is the in the next picture. This is a Kubota dealership. I don't think they're allowed to to do this, but I know they're not allowed to put those out on the highway. And I did talk to Commissioner Bradford, and he does want Code to keep their eye on this and not let them put their tractors out. In the right-of-way of US Borny One. Okay, um next.

1:22:41Uh this is a picture of June from June 15th of our car wash on 54. And then the next picture is what it looks like today. Mm-hmm.

1:22:53That's your district. And apparently, you know, I can't say anything in other people's districts set. So um I don't know. I'm happy to pass this on to you, but this is what's happening all around the county. Okay? This is literally what is happening all around the county.

1:23:09Did you submit this?

1:23:10Can you can you go back to the one from twenty fifteen?

1:23:12Did you submit this already?

1:23:14I can't because apparently um I'm not I don't know, as as a Joe Blow citizen I can turn in three a day, so maybe this is one of my I'm turning this in right now.

1:23:29But I I you know I I know I keep harping on this, but i i it it's just it's just we're just

1:23:34c what's the color

1:23:35slipping backwards.

1:23:36What's the color of the building today?

1:23:38Uh

1:23:39right back.

1:23:40That one. Clean machine, it's kinda grey. You see the trees between the two buildings are gone? There's a and there's a

1:23:47notice there's

1:23:48a lot of stuff gone.

1:23:49There's a noticeable change there.

1:23:52Yeah. Okay. I um also I wanted to ask Terry, uh just rolling on up to twelve. Uh there was a uh a meeting last night in holiday. I wasn't able to go because I had an ill neighbor who had we had a birthday party for. Um I was wondering how well it was attended how well attended it was and is it possible to have Did you have one in Trinity? Because I n I think you had something nearby. My husband was gonna go when I was uh in in Utah but If not, I'd like to

1:24:22schedule another one.

1:24:24Uh Nicaragua Speedos Planning and Development. Uh there's a number of comprehensive plan update workshops happening around the county this summer. Uh so far we've had two. The first was at Saint Leo University. Um these are countywide events. They're not necessarily you know prescriptive to the particular region that they're being held in. But um we had well enough in Saint Leo then Yesterday's was the second meeting or the second workshop. Um Roberto uh Basarello,

1:24:54the assistant planning embowment director, was in attendance so he'll be able to provide an update.

1:24:59Later commissioners, uh Robert Tobacchi Plan Development. So yesterday's meeting was uh very nice. They were about sixty to seventy people. Wow. Yeah, it was very good. Uh they they have some activities that uh people were excited, they participated, uh they they showed like some uh app through the phone and and they survey uh their input. Um next they did a some write on and

1:25:30and people kinda scattered throughout the room to participate on on their input for what are their uh their vision I guess for whether transportation or other elements. So it was it was a good turnout.

1:25:45And so where are your next ones?

1:25:49Uh those are currently being planned out. There's one being planned in Hudson. Um there's another that's been talked about at a few uh public meetings, uh possibly in Shady Hills. Um there is one I believe that's Wesley Chapel, Zephyrhills later this summer. And I believe there's one more um off the top of my head I can't remember.

1:26:09I hope you can do one on the fifty four corridor Trinity Odessa area.

1:26:13Uh I I think Land O' Lakes was one another one that that uh So we're skipping

1:26:17Trinity Odessa?

1:26:18I can double check to see if there is uh one scheduled for that area.

1:26:23Okay. Well if I'd love to have them there. You know, go the Starkey T L C maybe. I thank you. Okay.

1:26:31Thank you. Okay.