Old business: Farm Share, Gulf Harbors storm damage, townhome trees

1:47:00Okay, good morning. Thank you Mr. Chairman M just a few things and I think there might be a couple pictures that uh the team's gonna put up. So on April 13th, uh I partnered once again with Farm Share for a successful food distribution um in the Westley Chapel area of Pasco County. Uh as you know, FarmShare is a great organization and I really, really appreciate them bringing another truck full of fresh food. for the community. Uh this time um we had about 30 volunteers gave out approximately 16,000

1:47:30pounds of food and about three hours. So I do wanna you know last time when I did this last year it was a little over about 33,000 pounds of food, uh less than three hours. Hopefully it's a good sign that there's not as many people in need now, but obviously there were quite a few people still in need because we did give out um sixteen thousand pounds of food. So thank you so much to the Grove Theater, Bistro and Entertainment for letting letting us use their parking lot for the distribution.

1:48:01And I also want to thank Senator Pasano, who showed up, Commissioner Oakley, who showed up to help out, as well as Judge.

1:48:12Um Joe Justice. And and again, thank you to all the thirty volunteers. It was a great day and thank you again, Farm Fair. We really, really appreciate all you did. Um second thing I wanted to mention, you can throw up the next picture. Um on April 15th, I had the honor of presenting uh Mr. Jolt Jackson of Lana Lakes with the 2020 Residential Water Wise Award for Pasco County. Uh that's partnership with the Tampa Bay Water and Extension Offices. And Mr. Jackson, just a kind, kind gentleman, um, and his wife as

1:48:43well. Give me a nice tour of the yard before the presentation. It's just full of plants and pollinators and and and native plants from here in Florida. You know, conserving water is so important these days, especially here in Pasco County, being one of the fastest and other fastest growing counties in the state and the nation. So congratulations again to Mr. Joe Jackson and his

1:49:08wife. Just again, just a great gentleman. Um he's done so much in the air. He worked for Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa for a number of years. He actually um was the Plane or behind Let us Lake Park if you've ever been there and you'll you know how What a great asset that is for the um even though it's an ill bit me, great asset for the entire Taylor Bay region. And his last two things, um couple resolutions this morning. I want to thank you all for passing the two resolutions that I had on the consent agenda this morning. Uh we recognize the Tampa

1:49:38Bay Buccaneers for winning the Super Bowl in dope box. Uh I'll be presenting that to them in the very, very near future at an event. And then we also pass the National Day of Prayer resolution, which is May 6th this year. I'll be presenting that during National Day of Prayer on the east side of the county. And if I'm not correct, Commissioner Mariano, I think you're doing that on the west side of the county, if I'm not correct, sir.

1:50:03Yes, sir. Thank you.

1:50:05All right, great. Thank you. Um I had one more thing, but you know what? I'm gonna wait until the next meeting because I'd like to be live um and then on on the dies when we talked about that. So I am done. Thank you.

1:50:16Okay. Thank you. Ms. Darkey?

1:50:19Yeah. I was gonna show the pictures of the road damaged by the storm that I found, but I think you're gonna bring that up in yours, so I will just say um we did find those pictures that we talked about before. Um I do uh I was on a tour on the east side of the county with the county inj um with car m Mr Karbala and others looking at some of the road conditions of some of our new roads, and I came upon this um Development. I'm not gonna s I have no

1:50:49idea who built it. Um and I'm not gonna say where it is, but I'm gonna say we have Houston, we have a problem. And um is this a photo or a video? Oh, take a look at these townhomes. And um as you see there is not one tree. Is that that one the one little palm tree over there? It's concrete, no side n no street trees. Nothing. I have some photos too. I don't know if they they made it there. Kind of similar to the video, but Um

1:51:21We had this problem wi at the reserve over Sun Coast by the Sun Coast and um was that a city project? No no, no, this is in the county. Uh we were able uh Mr. Biles went in there and I think he Um well we now have palm trees in front of those town homes. But in talking to Brad Tippen, um this is what our ordinance allows. And um our ordinance requires a certain amount of trees per the size of the lot, but they're putting 'em in the little backyards

1:51:52and I guarantee you Those trees are gonna g be cut down. And we have nobody who goes out to see if people are keeping the house the trees that are required on their lots to stay. So um can you put that just put the video back up even if it's not running or or run it again? I can't think of any place where I've ever been where they allow this to happen. Um, you know, in the Just to have n no landscaping and Nope.

1:52:24No shrubbery or anything. I mean you you can already see cars were c parking o on on on some of the other photos. They're parking over these little teeny landscape triangle things. They're not gonna live. So I was really disappointing, so I I really want us to fix that in our land development code. Um Mr. Chairman

1:52:45Mariano.

1:52:45Yes, sir.

1:52:46Just could I c tag on with you on that?

1:52:48Yeah. 'Cause

1:52:48I mean looking at that I saw something like this up in Orlando. uh when my daughters were up there and they were renting up there and it was like parking was ridiculous.

1:52:55Yeah.

1:52:56Uh if you're gonna and if if you look at the like the even the truck that's in there that hangs over the sidewalk We need to make sure we set these things up. They have enough parking as well on their own premises, as opposed to having to travel down and around, et cetera. So I think that's something we should take a look at immediately as well.

1:53:10Yeah, you know that some of these uh if they're they're if they're three bedroom, they're gonna have three cars, four cars, and uh all you it's it is not gonna be It's gonna r it reminds me of some of the things I saw in some not nice neighborhoods in Philadelphia once a long time ago. So that we're allowing this in what is supposed to be a Premier County is a real flaw to me in our land development code. Um So uh very pleased to say that Amskills closed on the uh purchase

1:53:41of their thirteen thousand square foot um building and uh we've been uh we have been visited by Congressman Bilarakis. He He has included us in one of his uh top ten um uh what do you call it earmarks that he's allowed to submit so we're very excited of his support for manufacturing training and whatever else whatever other kind of training will come uh from that site. Um yesterday Will Weatherford was there um he was you know speaker

1:54:11when we were able to get this program off the ground and he's gonna be helping us as well and we're just very excited of what what this means for um the holiday community, the county at large, and um and really Florida, you know, to to bring back manufacturing I think is so so important.

1:54:32And uh at Tampa Bay Water, as Chair Commissioner Oakley and I both sit on, we are in the midst of uh Working for a search company to uh help us recruit a new head of Tampa Bay Water. And uh T Barda we are um we have a very important meeting coming up where we will be, I think, voting on hopefully a a kind of a modified uh rapid bus program that we think We

1:55:02can get Hillsboro on board with it's just been um a real challenge. for Hillsboro to be thinking about the region at large and not just at their own county. So um but we we hope that this one will will make it through. When they when they did the numbers, I should send this to you, they showed that some something like seventy percent of the people who are gonna use this route are Hillsborough County residents. So, you know, that they're not on board was just, you know. Is frustrating, but um that's my

1:55:32update for today. Christina, do you think that's a good thing? Oh wait, I'm sorry, I have one more thing. Very important. Can you show the pictures of the storm damage? So we had a storm come through last week um in Gulf Harbors and um we thought it was a tornado. Um And it just came upon us in one of those red lines. Um but it turned out to be a whole series of micro bursts. And I and I wanna share with that's a county truck that diverted from moon the Moon Lake cleanup. The porch

1:56:03of uh of a house that I'm not sure that was a legal porch. Um And it the that that screen porch happened to have insulation and a roof on it. So that was interesting. But um we had Vinyl fence, vinyl fences blown out of the ground, pool cages destroyed, another pool cage destroyed, screen room, a pool uh pool gauge torn off a house on um Galleon Court on my street, a roof was damaged. Um we had trees damaged,

1:56:34uh flat roofs but torn off the back of homes. And uh many sheds were blown off their foundations and tree and a lot more tree and roof damages and the addresses I don't know. So Um we have at least six how addresses and then many others whose addresses we have not collected yet. On my street Someone's property blew off from a couple blocks away and landed on the back of that galleon courthouse. Did a

1:57:04lot of damage.

1:57:07It's a no name storm. They cannot th the homeowner cannot file for insurance What's really frustrating and this is why we're concerned about the boat covers, because no one No one's not going to be able to do you would not have had time to run out there in the storm and take take your your stuff off. the ha the the house that was on my street that was damaged, that homeowner has to pay for it themselves. The not the house whose porch flew into their porch and roof. but

1:57:38the homeowner who was affected. And they have a twenty five hundred dollar deductible, so they're out, twenty five hundred dollars plus the repairs. And I can tell you that every day there's been a truck on that street. um helping them. They came immediately after the storm. I didn't walk back there to see what happened, but Uh yesterday there were two or three strikes for um two or three big trucks parked there so Uh This is the problem when you have fl debris that's flying.

1:58:09You don't have responsibility for the damage if it's your debris. So Did you s you showed them pictures, right? Yeah. That was one house. There were seven.

1:58:22Yes, please.

1:58:24You got one item total or you got more than one item for

1:58:26the

1:58:26easement.

1:58:27I have multiple items but I would like to address one item.

1:58:30Yeah, because I

1:58:31I

1:58:31have to go to a meeting. And after that then we'll reset.

1:58:35Yes.

1:58:35Make it quick.

1:58:36Can as quick as I can. Can I have the storm Pasco storm damage? On the screen, please. So I know not everyone was here when everything had happened with the storm damage roads and I just wanna give everyone a brief history over it. Um In December of 2015, it was a program was set up to identify the initial roads. And I wanted to do the presentation first, but Just

1:59:06so we don't have too much time. At that time, I know Commissioner Mariano moved to approve $3.5 million from the P B P settlement funds. Commissioner Weightman Commissioner Moore seconded. The motion was to clarify and indicate the BP funds were to front the work and would be repaid. Um Commissioner Starkey called on the motion and it was a unanimous vote. Five to zero.

1:59:34This one.

1:59:37It's the one with the brief overview from July twenty eighth to twenty sixteen when staff presented it to the board.

1:59:57This is all that we received.

2:00:01Maybe we should revisit this after when we have time to discuss it.

2:00:10It was sent to me by Dan Biles, Jim Yeah, Mr. Biles.

2:00:15Yep. We break the life we'll find it in the last ready for you, is that okay? Well

2:00:20No, that's good. Then we can talk about it more. I can present it before we go into They public hearing?

2:00:30Oh, I see why you want to do it now.

2:00:33Well you can do it during the public hearing for Green's Roost if you you wish.

2:00:38Yeah,

2:00:38you

2:00:38can't do that.

2:00:41Okay, Okay, thank thank you. you.

2:00:42It's

2:00:42relevant.

2:00:43It's relevant. Okay, so we'll um we'll recess now. Everybody will go out for pictures now and then recess and be back here at at 130 for public hearing.