Call to order, invocation, pledge, roll call
What the county recorded
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It is a stretch of the recording that this archive identified as a separate matter — a call to order, a recess, or something taken up that the agenda does not list. There is no official title, no staff recommendation and no disposition, because the county never recorded one. Everything below is inferred.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Apr 20, 2021
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Apr 20, 2021
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What was said
Machine transcription of 3m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 75% of 16 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Good morning everyone. I would like to call to order the hybrid virtual Pasco County Board of County Commissioners meeting of April 20th, 2021. At this time, please silence all electronic devices and mute your microphones. Please rise for invocation and pledge.
O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen.
I pledge my relationship to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands, my nation, and individual liberty, and just to fight our law.
Madam Clerk, please call the rope.
District two, Commissioner Moore.
Here.
District 3, Commissioner Starkey.
Here.
District 4, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Here. District 5, Commissioner Mariano.
Here.
District 1, Chairman Oakley.
Here. Uh reminding everyone today we would do all our voting by roll call since Mr. Moore is not present but virtually here with us. Uh Mr. Steinsteiner, will you please? Uh go over today's proceeding
with BCC. Be happy to, Mr. Chairman Mariano. On March twelfth, twenty twenty, the Board of County Commissioners declared a local state of emergency after the governor issue issued executive orders 2051, the public health emergency, and twenty fifty-two, the state of emergency related to COVID-19, which has recently been extended by executive order twenty-one forty-five on February twenty-eighth. twenty twenty one. The board has chosen to hold its Board meetings
with a quorum physically present utilizing communications media technology for the public and team members to participate. A detailed notice indicating the board's intent to conduct a hybrid virtual meeting was posted on the board's website. On September 25th, 2020, the governor issued Executive Order 2244, moving the state into phase three of the governor's safe, smart, step-by-step order, which was extended by Executive Order 2297,
issued on November 24th, 2020. Large gatherings of over fifty people is still not recommended. to congregate in any public space that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing. The state's Surgeon General's public health advisory is still in place with regard to maintaining social distancing and avoiding gatherings of ten or more people. The public has afford been afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by use of communications technology that has been provided. The board adopted
resolution twenty one eighty two on june thirtieth, twenty twenty, establishing the procedural rules for hybrid virtual meetings such as the one being held today, as with any meeting, you wish to take action, you are required to take public comment on any proposition Pursuant to section two eighty six point zero one one four, Florida statutes. I'm available for any questions.