Governor luncheon, NACO, homeless protocol

3:35:57Yeah.

3:35:58Um that was uh very nice and right there in that picture. Um I didn't see that. So that that was good. Um we went to the NACO com I'm not gonna really go over that online. Jack, are you covering NACO? Um go go back to r go back can you

3:36:18We met with Gus. First of all, he has a new office. Isn't it a beautiful view out of his office? I thought

3:36:23that was a picture.

3:36:24No, that is that is Gus's office right there. Um that he told us that the things that we had funded in his earmarks for this year They he th he's been told they're going through. So we're very excited about that. Kathy had a lot of questions about cares that we'll have to get with you after he wants to be sure that Um You're not gonna get embarrassed with supporting something and Now I hear there's some back and forth on what's going on with that building in Dade City, but it's not my thing.

3:36:55I haven't been involved with that, but um anyway the congressman just has a lot of questions on cares. Maybe you could fill in his staff. Um Uh Jack and I met with a bunch of agencies and um trying to learn how to do better on our build or raise grants, whatever it's called. So we have some ideas. And J J was with us. And hopefully you did well with all the issues you had to work on. That that

3:37:25speed in the on the last morning they take the it was bigger th this year than last year. They had every agency there. um massive amounts of um people to help counties navigate or find out information about different things. So that was That was excellent.

3:37:44Okay.

3:37:45I gave you this protocol for citizens reports of homeless encampments. So And you know, my office gets a lot of calls. I think Jack's does too. Maybe the other the rest of you don't get as many. But every time uh we get one our response is a little different. So we had the sheriff in there the sheriff's office represented all the different agencies in the county that would need to be their code and uh attorney. Um we had the brigade from Metropolitan Ministries and

3:38:15we had the Um Coalition, I Kathy was online. And um we came up with this Procedure. of how to f what to do if you get a citizen call on an in homeless encampment for now. I mean things may change following this legisl legislation, but We want to make sure that every office got this. I think all your staff should have been emailed this procedure. But if you have any comments, don't give

3:38:45them to me right now. You can give them to me later. Um okay, last.

3:38:51I'm glad you did this. We need a protocol.

3:38:53Yeah,

3:38:54we needed

3:38:54that.

3:38:54Oh. Standard operating procedure.

3:38:56You know how that lady came up and talked about about the uh illegal immigrants and gave us this thing? I was thinking this morning, listening to the news, uh when I was driving home from Sarasota yesterday, And I normally don't wait into very political things, but I feel I need to wait into this one. Because Texas at least wasn't a sanctuary state. And if you cross the border in Texas there was some kind of law enforcement or something

3:39:27there. Homeland Security, something. or Border Patrol. In California apparently in Arizona there's nothing. There's nothing and they were talking how people were just walking over from Kurdistan. Is that from the China, they're just walking into the state. So why am I paying all this money at the airport for security? That's what I wanna know. So I'm I'm getting a little fed up with it that we don't have some kind of

3:39:57security here and I'm I'm I don't necessarily want to prove something that was given to me that I haven't read that has a lot more maybe politics in it that I would want, maybe, but I'm getting a point where I feel like I need to make a statement that It shouldn't be okay that anyone can come from any country and just walk in without any questions, nothing. So uh that's what I want to say about California. Um lastly

3:40:29Uh we have three hundred and fifty two structures on the list to be done with. We're s we are so far behind. On average we add a hundred and thirty a year. We have four hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated for demolition each fiscal year. And we've never run out of the demolition fund since the program started. So it's not that we're not putting enough money that we don't have any companies to do it. I do have a meeting coming up. with um someone

3:41:01who wants to get into this business. And to find out how this works with the county. I have no idea how we find demolition companies. I know we had two. One guy died. Uh and then we just had the one, then we got another one and something happened and he can't do it anymore. So we have one company to demolish three hundred and fifty structures. So I'm hopeful that we'll find a solution.

3:41:23Well let me look into why that is. I I'm sure some of it's a due process. You know, you can't just go demo someone's house just be you know, there's there's a process that's a good thing. Well I think a lot of it's been processed. So I I mean if if it's uh if it's a contractor volume issue then then certainly it makes sense.

3:41:39Yeah.

3:41:40If it's something else then then we'll we'll identify that and bring that back.

3:41:43I think it's contractor volume. Okay, that's all I'm gonna do today.

3:41:47Oh, great.

3:41:49I have to say two things for the next thing.