Water Awareness Poster Contest first place students

27:08Yeah. Hi. R R S two. Where's that other one? It needs more subject.

27:16Um I gave it I gave it to Oakley design. All right.

27:23If you are here for Pasco County Elementary students receiving their respective grade levels in 11th, 12th, and 13th, please come up. Regarding Water Awareness Poster Contest.

27:49Thank you for that.

27:57Some good looking trophies. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and read the resolution first. Resolution number twenty-two-one fifty-five, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, recognizing and commending Pasco County elementary students receiving first place for their respective grade levels in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth annual water awareness poster contest. Whereas clean, safe, and sustainable water resources are vital to Pasco County's economy, environment, and citizens. NRES,

28:28we strive to protect and preserve our water supply by educating our citizens and taking action to conserve and recycle water. And REST every year, Pasco County Elementary School students are given the opportunity, with the assistance of dedicated Pasco County teachers, to explore Stem. Uh maybe it's steam. Science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Based tech uh based teaching materials that expand their knowledge of water-related topics through artistic expression. And whereas the water awareness

28:59poster contest is an annual opportunity for students to apply their newly gained knowledge and their artistic skills. And whereas the Water Awareness Poster Contest was developed jointly by Pasco County Utilities and the Florida Governmental. Utility authority, FGUA, with the support of the Pasco County School Board as a champion for the education of water conservation. NRES during the annual Water Awareness Poster Contest, approximately 1,400 posters are submitted. Nearly 19,000 entries have been submitted

29:29from Pasco County students since the program's ins inception.

29:35A judging panel that included representatives from the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners offices, Pasco County Utilities, and FGUA, and community sponsors from each year's program. And Raz, the posters chosen displayed exceptional artistic merit, creativity, and clarity of marriage, representative of students at various levels of learning from kindergarten to fifth grade. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby thanks participating students and teachers for their dedication

30:06in promoting water awareness and congratulates first place recipients Helena Is it Borough Cass? Did I get that? Okay. Um McKinsey Coleman? Jonella Morgan, Jackson Sandel, Isabella Moloyney, Sorry, Mackenzie Meisenbach, Joshua Vega, Ava Evans, Uh Willen hm Willen is sorry, I don't know how to pronounce that name.

30:36Hernandez Vasquez, Isabella Garcia, Sofia Heller Oquiendo. Avery Haynes, Jaden Chavez, Anderson F. Hazel Crow Mar uh Mar Mariska? I think that's that. Marisca. Jarby. Uh Peyton Burton and an additional student whose name is withheld by request for their outstanding achievement. Dunner resolved in regular session with a quorum present

31:06and voting this 21st day of June 2022. So sorry for the mispronunciation of names. I'm sure I did that.

31:14we should directly that's playing for approval second all in Aye. Aye. Opposed? Well congratulations. Um We love this tradition and we'd love for all of you to speak to us about your poster and for FGUA to speak about this contest.

31:34Mm-hmm.

31:34If you've been there you've

31:35got to be a little bit more than

31:35a little bit.

31:38Hi, I'm Janella Morgan and I think that the poster was really hard but I got through it.

31:47What what we don't have a picture of your poster, right? So what what does it look like?

31:54Can you describe it?

31:56It was a water poster of like evaporation in water and about the cycle of the rain.

32:02Nice. And what school do you go to?

32:04Cypress Elementary School.

32:06And what grade are you in?

32:07Um I'm going to fifth now.

32:09Rising fifth grader, the leader of the school. Well congratulations. How about how about your two uh fellow students there?

32:18And if if somebody would just if you bend the end of the mic, just the end of it. Just the end of it. Just grab the end. There you go. Oh bend it. There you go.

32:27Hi, I'm Hazel Crow and my poster was a heart earth with

32:36Stormy clouds, lightning bolts, raindrops.

32:46Well it sounds beautiful. I hope someone will send us do have we been sent photos of these and I missed it?

32:52Are they hanging in the

32:53Where where are they hanging?

32:55They're hanging right up out here in the government.

32:56Oh good. Well I will go look at your posters and I'll know which one is both of yours. And what school do you go to?

33:02Seven Springs Elementary School.

33:03And what grade are you in?

33:05Third.

33:05Third grade. Rising third? You're in third grade next year?

33:11No

33:12you're going to fourth grade. Very good. My kids went to Southern Springs Elementary. And and who are you, young man?

33:19Um, I'm Anderson Friedman. Um my poster. was about um dirty water. and um nice and clean water. And it had lightning and storms.

33:36Very nice. And what school do you go to?

33:38Countryside Montessori.

33:40Okay. Well thank you so much for participating in the in the contest. We're uh Very happy to have you here this morning and the parents too. And do you do you want to speak to the contest at all? Yeah. Anyone? Whoever?

33:56Say so?

33:57Hi Commissioner Oak Matthew Reese, Community Services Manager for FGUA. We want to thank you for your continued support of our program. This has been 13 years as in the program, and it's been an amazing to watch students basically for almost two cycles of elementary school kids go through this program participating in this. We want to uh just you know see the the great work that the posters were done. As we did state the uh The posters are out here in the H room area, so feel free to look at them. We also have the display board. And uh

34:27it's uh the posters are also the winning posters are on our website at watercontest.org. So feel free to to check those out as well.

34:34Wonderful. All right, I have a whole stack of resolutions for you guys. So board members, let's go down and hand these out.

34:43Okay, you can uh just stand up behind

34:44me and I'll

34:45just do it.

34:54Well

34:54at least

34:55they're short.

34:59Oh, that's an easy way to do it. Um read to kids and then we'll give them now you're gonna get those all the number. Oh,

35:10probably like that for the photo. These are very official. Let me get behind you here. I have a cough drop on my head.

35:19It's just linger in the past. Three weeks. Okay.

35:22You

35:22good? Because all that I have to say. Say cheese, right?

35:27All right, right here, please.

35:33Perfect.

35:35I guess that's

35:36fair.

35:43Um

35:45course.

35:49You're gonna be useless.

35:58Um I don't know. That's a good question. I'm gonna give them back to Starkey.

36:03Too cute.