Commissioner Starkey chain link fences, water, center

1:56:53Okay, um I am going to bring back to you a discussion about chain link fences on main on main corridors because I don't have any photos today, but I want to show you what's popping up more and more on State Road fifty four and I don't think we should be allowing it. I don't think that's what a premier corridor looks like. Um So uh do you remember that site that I showed you the photos of behind the Walgreens on nineteen it was on Marianne Drive behind the Bank of America. Um

1:57:23so interestingly Uh I noticed going through my emails that I had one from Mike Carbala that was forwarded to me. From the Um F G U A So it turns out there's a well right there next to that little strip of property and they tested their water was full of E. coli. So You know Something that you don't think about when these homeless people

1:57:52These people are living in the property like that. what what uh is happening to the water system around it and they had to go Uh they had to shut off the well and go around to all the neighborhoods and say, Don't drink your water. So Um We do have a penny for Pasco workshop settled. Um do you want to give out that date, Mr. Biles?

1:58:14March twenty ninth. Sorry. I haven't thought into March yet.

1:58:18Yeah. March twenty ninth will be including the uh school district and the sheriff or or I don't I know the school district.

1:58:27I it's mainly between you and the school district to to talk about what you're gonna do with your piece of the pie, your forty-five percent.

1:58:34Yeah. All right. Um The uh a number of us attended the ribbon cutting for the Starkey Cultural Center. that some people call the Starkey T L C Um I wanna thank those of you who attended. It's it's really uh an awesome um venue that's the nation's only P four. Two two public entities and a private entity coming together to um co-locate The

1:59:05cultural center with the library and the theater. and the school district with the Starkey K eight and the park, so and the developer. So Yeah, it's a really, really uh awesome um facility and I hope we have the opportunity to replicate that more around the county. Um Congratulations, Commissioner Oakley, on your appointment to Tampa Bay Waters chairmanship. I was glad to uh make that motion. Um And just to follow up again on what's going on over there, it's pretty

1:59:36important stuff that we're working on. We're down you know, it's it's our charge to make sure we have new water supply sources that are coming online. It takes twenty years or so to bring 'em up. We had four, we knocked out one. Um actually I think Tampa just withdrew it. So we're down to three and one of 'em's pretty contentious. I just wanted to let you all know that. It's It um has to do with our um being fairly compensated for reuse water. And so we will be uh

2:00:06our utility directors. And Tampa Bay Water and Hillsboro, there there'll be some very big conversations coming up in the next few weeks.

2:00:15I've notified my comment to

2:00:17the right-of-way. Yeah. Yeah, well they were watching.

2:00:18Yeah. Yeah.

2:00:19Um

2:00:20Madam Chair? Yeah. On that topic, can I bring up an idea? Um You know, reclaim water is all of a sudden it's a good marketable thing. People would like to have it as opposed to using their own potable water. On the flip side of that, I will tell you talked to several golf courses where they would rather have Be able to use some of the well water pump. Because when they use the reclaim water they have to use other chemicals on top of that. That have to be that have to neutralize it. So I think probably every golf course would rather see let me go use some of the old well water I used

2:00:50to use in the area. And use a little bit less reclaim water. Now if that frees us up to go. Put the reclaim water on the r on the regular retail market and make more? and help the golf courses use less chemicals anyway, there may be a win win.

2:01:04That that's a carbolic question that that um you know we'll just want to

2:01:08as you bring it up, I think it's a good idea to look at.

2:01:10Yeah, I mean we don't permit wells. I think the Swiftman question is whether or not they're gonna permit those again.

2:01:15But again, it's I think it's a conversation to have. The same amount of reclaim water is going to get used, the same amount of potable is going to get used. Is it a better way and a better use?

2:01:24Yeah, yeah, again that's I think that's a question for Swiftman.

2:01:27Well that Well the consumptive use permits for these golf courses that are on reclaimed water has been taken away by Swift Mud. They all they have now is a reserve quantity. um where if our system failed for some reason they could go back to potable water. Um but that it that's a state law question. You're right.

2:01:49Yeah, that's not a good one. That's something that we can hear from Mike or someone about, but I'm not sure that's something.

2:01:55Yeah, you I mean you've a your reclaim water system, you effectively create a water supply of twenty five million gallons a day that didn't exist.

2:02:04Yeah. 'Cause

2:02:05that's how much reclaim we're pumping into our system right now that would otherwise be used we'd be using And that's a massive water supply.

2:02:11Yeah. And and and the challenge is that you know know there's a new state law that Hillsboro k w soon will not be able to dump their their treated water from the Howard Curran into the bay. When I was on the Swift Mud Board in the early two thousands we were trying to figure out what to do with that water. They were gonna actually We had put money aside and they were gonna pipe it up to Pasco and rehydrate the wetlands back in the early two thousands and then then that got pulled 'cause then they were gonna sell it to Polk County. And

2:02:41it's still being dumped in the bay and so their their hands are a little bit tight. Yeah, that the kind of the issue is they don't have a wholesale user and they're gonna wanna kinda wanna charge Tampa Bay water retail prices. So

2:02:54Swift Mud uh Swift Mud Parton with uh Oh Tico on some Private, public. Partnership. to cool down their towers and all for the for making electricity and all. And so that reclaim water came out of Tampa and went out to a Tico plant and it was used to cool down those towers.

2:03:14They're dumping 60 MGD into the

2:03:17putting 60 million. Pineapple's Pineavis puts a certain amount in in the May also have how much that is, but it's a lot. So

2:03:27um so uh this week I came out of my house in Gulf Harbors to four giant trucks on my street. and I couldn't figure out what they were doing. Then I saw the word like lining or something. And they're lining all my sewer pipes in Gulf Harbor. So that that was cool. Um Tibarda. Uh you might have seen the article in the paper on T Barta and um and uh I'm not gonna stir the harness nest too much. I'm just gonna say there's

2:03:59I I I find it frustrating that one commissioner is stalling a regional solution and hopefully there's workarounds, that's all I can say. And there's discussions on that. Um lastly You guys have the new The new um flyers, thank you very much. And I've already handed out three of these, so I'm not sure you can hand these out when they're soliciting you in the middle of the road. You might get in trouble with our new ordinance. But

2:04:29um

2:04:31I just realized I because I gave this one to that lady in the middle of the street yesterday.

2:04:35Just give it with a with some educational piece on the new ordinance and you're good.

2:04:39Okay. Maybe I need to put a little sticker. Um But I I I can't they really do work. And w w when uh the lady said w do well do you have showers? Can you really help me? Um She was just so excited and she you know Called, I'm sure. But she was just so happy to maybe even just get a shower. So Okay. I think that's it. All right. We're adjourned.

2:05:05Thank you. All right. Thanks.

2:05:07So Kevin, um

2:05:15Yeah.

2:05:20Mm.