Permit numbers, opioid litigation, financial report

1:45:03Yeah. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And that's all I have, Mr. Chairman. All right. Thank you. Mr. Miles.

1:45:14Yes, sir. Uh a couple things from the good news item and then I'll I got the March or April permit numbers. I'll kinda give you a highlight of the what's going on there. Uh and then if if Mr. Chair, if you're gonna bring up them the video from Moffat, I won't. So I'll let you introduce the Moffat video if you want. So Yeah.

1:45:37This is pretty routine, but animal services won another couple more state awards. Uh for Yeah, that I I think I say that about every other month with animal services. But uh they won a couple more state awards. Uh and then just wanna let everybody know that um FAM tours are back in business. Uh DMO did their first uh fam tour uh last month. Uh so they're so that's the first one since the pandemic started where they had people in visiting you know the Florida Spoke Coast

1:46:07and our things to kind of go back and advertise and write about what you can do here in in Pasco. So um Slowly getting back to normal, uh, in that area as well. Um so just uh just quick high level overview. We're up almost double last year, year to date and single family home permits and we're up over thirty percent in commercial, which is, you know, that's that's key, right? 'Cause that's that's tax base right there. So A lot going

1:46:37on and we've actually Probably in the next couple of days we'll have issued more single family home permits than we issued in all of twenty n eighteen. All of twenty eighteen. So that's the rate we're going. And if if the trend continues, we will actually double our twenty twenty number in twenty twenty one. It's really close right now. So a lot going on, a lot of inspections happening, uh, both with our team And with the private providers. Um, and I think we all

1:47:08are hearing from the building industry that you know they have some material issues and and labor issues, but they are going full throttle right now in Pasco County. Um and with that, Mr. Chair, I'll let you introduce Moffat video when it comes up, but it's ready to it's teed up for you.

1:47:24Can I can I ask a quick question? Yeah. Um and Dan, right now you've got a situation where people are are slow and permanently they go private and we don't even charge them anything extra right now.

1:47:34The administrative fee. There's still some fees that that they do have to pay as part of that permitting process.

1:47:44Um and someone brought up an idea to me, and maybe you can review this. They in St. Lucie County, they have some what some sort of a expediter, and I don't know if that's the right term or not, but to help people where they can pay an extra fee to help someone expedite through the permitting process. Process. Have you he ever heard of

1:48:00that? We we have that on the

1:48:02B D C.

1:48:03Yeah, we have that on the planning side, expedite permit, but it got to this point where everybody was paying for expedited, which kinda meant nobody was getting expedited reviewed. Well, they're gonna

1:48:12pay extra money for it. Could you hire more people to help them expedite it through?

1:48:16If there were people actually out there we could hire. Yes, sir. But the pro we're having the same labor issues the um that the industry is having. If you talk to engineering firms, architectural firms, construction firms, everyone's having labor issues. You know, it's d it's everywhere. Yeah, so if if they were out there, yes, sir. Okay. You know, and and we are actively working in recruiting. In fact, there's a job fair today. Here in Dade City, a Pasco County Job Fair here in Dade City today, where we're trying to hire people. So, you know, we're working

1:48:46it. Right now it's it's a it's an issue across the industry. Yes, sir. Thanks. That's all I have.

1:48:53All right. Mr. Pencenter? Um, just sort of a heads up for the board, there is some movement on the opioid litigation, uh, especially with the legislation that was bouncing around this session, um, where the Attorney General wished to have the authority to stop political subdivisions from getting into cases like that Um there is ongoing negotiations between

1:49:26uh attorney general moody's office. and the consortium of team of lawyers that is representing the political subdivisions throughout the country. uh including the ones that are representing us. Uh that being said, I may need a litigation assessment meeting at some point. I hope that it will be the June meeting and not the May meeting. um, to get some direction from the board about where we go with that

1:49:56litigation, but um the Attorney General's Office has made a proposal um that is still being worked through about how Any settlement monies from the opioid industry would be divvied up between the state and local governments. Um

1:50:21Yeah.

1:50:24what the percentages will would be to flow with with each. Um because basically the the industry is not willing to settle unless they're sure that basically all the litigation goes away and they know what the the check is that they have to write. And so as soon as I get some more information about that, I will either contact you all individually or we'll set up set up a litigation assessment meeting on the That's

1:50:54all I have for you today.

1:50:56Thank you. Madam Clerk.

1:50:59Thank you. Thank you very much. Just uh real quick. Um, I'm just happy to inform you that the fiscal year 1920 annual. Comprehensive financial report, how to change those. Those are the names um for political reasons. But anyway, um the annual um Comprehensive financial report has been completed as part of it. We included the single audit this year with it. So that's great. The single audit is it

1:51:30covers your federal and state major grant programs. So I wanted to basically extend my gratitude to my financial services team and specifically Manny Long and Matt Lazar and their leadership in this. If it's a Herculean effort to get this done every year. And in that we do uh we work very closely with the county's team. We are constantly asking for information to respond to the external auditor. And I just wanted to say both

1:52:00our teams are amazing, and we couldn't put it together without this effort between the county and the clerk's office. So this is the financial statements for the county that is um examined by an external auditor. That um report is also posted on my website for the public to view as well. And I emailed it to you a couple of days ago. I just wanted to make the comment on record and to thank both of our teams for the efforts. Thank you. you.