Employee appreciation and AI in government

3:50:15So I think uh a lot of folks will talk about the Employee Appreciation Day in their own way and we've just got some some great uh photographs that were that were taken while we were out there. I just uh I want to thank the board uh for for their support of our of our employees and being out there to help participate in activities, uh uh serve food, um because uh that I it it meant a lot to a lot of folks. I had a lot of our folks come up to me and uh they they loved the event. In fact I I heard it was probably the best best

3:50:46one ever is is what I'm hearing. They loved everything from the venue out there at Wesley Chapel District Park. A lot didn't even know it existed and the amenities and things that we had out there. to uh to you know obviously you know uh Chamber of Commerce Weather Day, it was it was it was perfect. You know, we did a lot of different activities. You can see here the the axe throwing was was always popular. We did more of that. But we had artistic um events as well, right? We had painting, we had uh a jam session for for some of our musically inclined folks in

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3:51:18Yeah, yeah. And he was sweating. I you know, I thought yoga was just a stretching thing, but he was sweating. Mr. Chairman

3:51:25Mariano?

3:51:30I could have been wrong. I could have been wrong.

3:51:33You know, so so uh you know, and and yeah, I I had a good time getting out there too and seeing folks and even playing a little football there. Oh, look at that guy, who's that guy?

3:51:43Must have been another touchdown.

3:51:47So again, just thank you for for your support and all that. I think it was um I it was definitely well appreciated by all of our folks. And I guess publicly I'd like to thank uh the leadership team for helping come up with a lot of the ideas and actually helping to put it on. Part of it is that we we serve our employees back. So we look at that servant leadership model very, very seriously. And so you know we had to Department heads out there, making sure we were cleaning up, helping to collect trash and do a lot of those things. The other thing is I just want to mention it to you. It's just a heads up. Attended a very interesting conference last week, um, Florida

3:52:18FCCMA on uh artificial intelligence and and government, and it's really got uh a lot of uh thinking going on, both the benefits as well as potential pitfalls of it. So uh we'll be meeting uh with within the ranks here to determine where we are, where we should be using AI, and uh start to construct a policy around its use that we'll we'll be talking to the board about in in coming months. But I just want to let you know that that's out there.

3:52:44Yeah, Mr. Chairman Mariano I guess Patrick Dutter did a presentation.

3:52:47Patrick Dutter did a phenomenal job talking about the uh development review assist that we are already using for for site plan. So yes and he did a fantastic job Yeah.

3:52:57I w I should have mentioned this. So uh at the NACO conference they have this AI forum that goes on. So I'm I'm I'm listening to all the stuff and They're all getting worried about the AI this and the AI that what's going on here, what's going on there, what can happen bad, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And uh to the end I asked a question to to one of the folks that was on the panel. And I said, Tell me this I says 'cause one of the things they're looking at is like they're gonna try to use this artificial intelligence with D E P, uh, NEPA and all different things for permitting. I says that and they mentioned the Army Corps

3:53:27in a previous meeting I was at. So it was like I'm like loaded up for this one. I says, Are you going to use this with the Army Corps to actually help the permitting go through? And then uh one lady says, I'm working really close with NEPA. We're working closely with all the things they're doing to try to actually go that way. And then I told them how we had gone through and actually hired it to do per site permitting, uh MPUDs, and it's really helping us quite a bit. And they were like amazed that we were that far ahead of the game. But they and they didn't see any downside to that type of thing. So much as

3:53:57his fear on AI and certain things

3:54:01I mean I had like a two other groups come up to me afterwards, say, tell me more about what you're doing, tell me what's going on and how and how's it working for you? So I mean what we're doing, where we're like on We're breaking the cutting edge. We're ahead of it. Yeah, I'm I'm

3:54:13very proud of our of our use and I think really it's how we are going to leverage it and use it and that that's really the key is is how you use it. And making sure that we're I I I think that there There's boundless opportunities within within government to really make things better for our citizens. Sure, there's there's probably areas that you need to be careful of and watch, but on the whole, it's understanding how to use it and leverage it. And I think uh a lot of training and a lot of our folks are gonna have But I I I I really see a lot of benefits coming forward. So I'm I'm looking forward to sitting down with the team seeing where we're

3:54:43using it, where we can expand it, more importantly, how we can put some some guardrails around it to to make sure that we we use it appropriately.

3:54:52We can use it for code enforcement as well. I I don't understand it. The property appraiser can use drones. To survey property. And the sheriff can use it. But our code enforcement can't use it. Is that right, Ralph? Yeah, that okay, so let's let's work on that next year as a policy change.

3:55:13That's all that's all I have, is we'll we'll note that with

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