Commissioner items reports

2:20:09Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. There you go. Thank you. So much. Thank you. All right. So I think we're on to commissioner items. Is that correct?

2:20:19Yeah.

2:20:20Yeah. Commissioner Oakley. Oh,

2:20:24it's on you, buddy. Please.

2:20:28Well a lot's been going on, of course all of us have been. aware of all of our elections and all. I didn't have a lot going on uh personally in different areas but been uh out there watching our citizens Search for new leaders and leaders. to stay in our community and glad that portion of our primary knowledge over and we move forward. So Other than that. That's all I have today.

2:20:55All right, Commissioner

2:20:56Moore. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll be pretty quick myself too. Uh later this evening, the Port Ritchie uh City Council, they're gonna be voting on removing the Sand Pebble neighborhood. from the C R A boundary. Um same people, you know, sitting on the C R A board. Um are on their council, so they voted unanimously to remove it on July twenty sixth. Um so since I only have a couple of months left here, I d I did w just want to state again, you know, this is something I'm I'm very proud of that we were able to work with the cities and get this accomplished because for a lot of years i it wasn't. So

2:21:26again commend their council, commend their their city manager and commend this board and our team, obviously our county team as well to working through this 'cause you know we had a lot of issues with these C R A's um but now it's coming to fruition and you know, realize that you can't have, you know, giant mansions in a catered neighborhood with a c a CRA anymore. So thank you again um for everybody that's been supportive of that. It just obviously works out better for all the citizens, not only the city, but the citizens of Pasco County. I

2:21:56do have one more video for you I'm gonna show today if we can if we got that queued up. Um you know we had a great scallop student. Did anybody else go scalloping this year? Yes.

2:22:05Hira, one of the group their PHSC w was on our boat Friday.

2:22:10Well it if you went out

2:22:12uh

2:22:12okay cool. So if you went out of Pasco County this year and went scalloping Um I'm not gonna tell you exactly where I went.

2:22:21They move so it doesn't matter.

2:22:22I was in I w I was in a very good spot. I I tell you what, if we want I mean it we didn't even take what we could. We want to leave some for others. Um but we could have taken our limit no problem within you know a a couple hours or less. Probably less than that. But it was the best I've ever seen it and for I'm hearing from people, it's been better in Pasco County It was better in Pasco County than it was in Hernando and Citrus

2:22:46did not have that good of a season.

2:22:48And they were big, big scallops too. So, you know, our our tourism team has once again has been a doing a great job as Florida Sports Coach promoting this. So check this out. This is actually a video from Austin, Texas. This is actually a news story in Austin, Texas. And look where they're at.

2:23:08From exploring to strolling, Florida's sports coast has plenty of outdoor fun. Pam LeBlanc with Austin Travels joins us with a rundown of things to do in that particular part of the Sunshine State. Good morning, Pam. Thank you so much for being with us today. Good morning, how are you? I'm doing well, thank you. Um Florida is near and dear to my heart. I lived there for uh a number of years, so I I just I do adore that state. Um but l uh yeah I've I I want to talk a little bit in just in terms of geography, can you put it on the map

2:23:38for our viewers who may have never heard of the sports coast in Florida?

2:23:43Sure. I was in a place called Pasco. County and so I flew into Tampa Bay and I drove about 45 minutes north of Pamp Tampa Bay along the west coast. So I home base in a place called Newport Ritchie and that gives really easy access to the coast and there's a bunch of different communities all along the shoreline there. So the biggest

2:24:04let me

2:24:05No

2:24:05go ahead. I'm just thinking the biggest city is uh is is Tampa for uh for a reference point for our viewers.

2:24:11Exactly. And I was north of Tampa in New Port Richey. And the main thing that I went there to do was to go scalloping. And I don't know if when you were in Florida you ever did this, but this is like an Easter egg hunt on the water. I went out on a boat, a captain took me and several other passengers out. It was maybe a five or ten minute boat ride offshore. And then we put on masks, fins, and snorkels, and we swam around in the water along the alongside the boat and we we

2:24:41looked for scallops. And so it didn't take long. It took about an hour and between three of us, we caught enough scallops to have dinner that night. And there's a very short scalloping season. in Pasco County the season varies depending on what part of Florida you're in but in Pasco County it's a 10-day season in July but there are other areas it's a little bit different. So we went out we caught our scallops and then we cooked them up for dinner that night and it was amazing. It was so much

2:25:11fun to do and it was also really delicious to eat. Very

2:25:15similar to uh if you were on about fishing.

2:25:19Exactly. Only easier I think. You don't have to fight the fish with a rod and a reel. You don't have to fight the scallops. So you can just pick them up off the ground and tuck them in a little mesh bag. But I did more than the scalloping while I was there. There's a lot of outdoorsy activities you can do in Pasco County. I went hiking. I went to a park called Werner Boy Salt Springs. You can kayak there, you can canoe. places you can fish. I also went to a state park called Ancloak Quay and this is a park

2:25:49that you take a boat ride to get there and then you can anchor off the shoreline and then go hiking along the the coast and look for seashells or tons of shells. And one other thing that I did that was really super cool while I was in Florida is I went to the World Bank

2:26:14But again, how awesome is that? Pr promoting Pasco County. That's Austin, Texas. And if anybody's been to Austin, Texas, Austin's a pretty big city, lots of people. So, you know, hopefully they don't encourage. Yeah, I took one, yep. Yeah. Uh not too long. Well, it's been a couple years ago. Um but um it's uh great that we're getting this um free promotions. I mean you're thinking about what the what it's worth in ad buys for a five minute segment on a very large market in a very marge lar large market in Texas. So again um congratulations and

2:26:45uh That's all I have. Thank you.

2:26:47Thank you. Commissioner Fitzpatrick.

2:26:50Um okay. The last two weeks have been extremely busy, but I did go and with staff and the team to visit Penellas Hope. And I know we've been talking about the different homeless population and the different outcomes that we could bring to pass. different options that we could bring to Pasco County. So we v visited Pinellas Hope and Hillsboro Homes. They do have about eight by eight foot rooms that the homeless could live in depending on

2:27:20where they are. And if they are in that specific area, they can work on getting their social security card their ID and they also have one of the units for resources such as medical units and things like that. So I think it's really important that they're able to get housing. Um we especially considering our homeless population has increased four hundred percent since last year. It's really important. There are many citizens that would like the help. And

2:27:51then of course there's others. Um oh and I didn't bring the pictures. So last Friday, I know everyone was always asking about Regents Bank and Everyone and staff has have been doing an amazing job keeping it cleaned up. I drove by on Friday and Spoke to one of the homeless gentlemen and another gentleman that was just passing by on a bike I had gotten some garbage bags and they all pitched in. So I think it's really important that if we get out and um involved in the community and if they're

2:28:21willing to step up and help and we just have to provide garbage bags to them. then spend an hour, go out and let them help us clean up the areas. So I think that was really important. Um Let's talk about the flooding discounts that was brought up in our last board meeting. Now it has came to my attention that If you live in the unincorporated area, you get a twenty percent discount as of now. But when

2:28:51we were discussing with staff and they were here that day, certain Cities

2:28:59within Pasco County, some don't get any percentage discount on their flood insurance. Some won't some get zero, some get five percent. So I think it's really important that we I was looking forward to working with the municipalities in my area to help them so they can update their code so they as well and the citizens in those areas can have a twenty percent discount on their flood insurance because they don't So

2:29:25Um Yeah, I'm not clear about what you're saying because it's the whole county. Yeah. It's county wide, right?

2:29:33the building depart i if they have a flood protection that they're doing their own building permits if in most cases and so they get their own C R S rating if they're allowing Well, lesser standard than the county. 'Cause you're You're Ordinances only imply to the unincorporated area.

2:29:53Oh, okay. So this is the municipality. Yeah,

2:29:55yes.

2:30:01Oh, interesting. They don't have it they have the don't have the same rating.

2:30:04So the unincorporated is twenty percent and a municipality is zero and another one is five percent. And I'm not There's still our citizens that live in our jurisdiction, so um uh live in our county. So I would like to see the discount be applied to them as well. So um I will continue to work on that and see how much I can get done. Thank you.

2:30:25Commissioner Mariano.

2:30:27Thank you. Um I'll just touch on quickly um the scalloping season. I think it's We tried this year to get an extension of the time. It didn't work, but I think the great results that I have heard from other folks that are out there too it's time d that we get the full uh allotment that Citrus and Hernando get. So I'd like to see us develop something in our agendas with those new state representatives coming up to make that a priority for them to actually go fight with us early Rather than just waiting it to get shut down by a bureaucrat

2:30:57from the state. Um As far as the homeless population in in Pasco If it's an increase of four hundred percent, I don't wonder what is causing it. Uh I will tell you that when we cleaned out the Leisure Beach area, which by the way Our team working with the Sheriff's Office did a great job clearing it out. Alex, thank you guys.

2:31:15Ben all the no trespassing signs were up. They weren't out there to clead out all the stuff and all the encampment encampment stuff was like yanked out of there. And down the street that's been cleared up quite a bit as well. We've still got a lot of work to do on it. Um In that area there was some people that were bust in or u Ubered in for uh other areas. So I really want to go take a look at where these people are coming from, because it's not just Coincidentally, the economy is strong, jobs are everywhere, everybody can go to a restaurant and see LDMP tables because people aren't working. There's opportunities that are out there. Um

2:31:46We've got a piece of property at um Little Road south of fifty two by the Point Distillery. And where the water flows into there, uh which is now an impaired water body. There's a homeless encampment that was there. Looks like it's defunct at this point, but it's our property. It's about eighty acres that's in there. I want to see the maintenance get approved in that area, which I think we are looking at, but we have got to go in there and clean out all the trash that is in there that is getting into the waterway which is not helping the water quality. Um I

2:32:18want to compliment uh Brantford and the team um with the Stormwater Project in Seapines. It was a difficult situation 'cause a lot of uh anxiety about what was gonna happen out there, but I will say between the associations that are out that's out there and I think I'll and I'll incorporate with rainbow palms that was here today. The project we have out there is gonna go great. We've got the easement all the ver verbally agreed to terms that we needed to go make that project happen. It's gonna take 300 homes that are consistently been flooding for all my eighteen years.

2:32:48We've now got a path forward to go and I think it's gonna be phenomenal and Uh I'm just Brantford, what your team did. I mean Joe Omo was phenomenal in saying this is what we need. Donald Carey was good about working out details. We had a meeting with Swift Mud that actually ran a on a Tuesday night from five thirty to like seven thirty, eight o'clock. And we're going to do that. Talked about it and two days later we get a letter back saying these are the terms everything's agreed to pretty much. So uh Brantford you guys were phenomenal with that. And uh today at uh Item C

2:33:19forty three. Holiday Hills. It's a little uh development across from uh Gulfview Mall Mall. Years ago that would flood out Even when the waters were down in the in the river going out to the the Gulf of Mexico were like six or seven feet below The water couldn't get that to the canal. Since we put a pump in seven years ago. They haven't flooded out since Staff's put a plan together, we've engineered it. And uh looking very closely at the plan, those folks out there are going to use the existing pipe we put in the ground seven years ago.

2:33:49There's gonna be a double pump. lift stations set up out there so that even if one fails, the other can go. And that'll be a project Brantford will be looking to get forward to go forward. I'd like to time this project as soon as that's done. with the the stormwater improvement that we get the road paving ready to come. We haven't done it because we didn't want to do it until the road w the stormwater was fixed. Now that we've got the solution, we know the timing, I want to make sure as we sign we time this up and we want to make sure to get this to the contractor quick. So the costs don't go up. and then time

2:34:20it so that as soon as they're gonna be done. We can have the paving crew ready to come in. And fix that neighborhood up once and for all, which I think would be phenomenal. Um And that's all

2:34:29I have.

2:34:31Thank you. Uh the administrator?