Budget, legislators, public comment changes

1:32:58Do we have anything else?

1:33:04Mr Miles, do you have anything else you want to add today?

1:33:07No sir, I'm good.

1:33:09Good. Commissioner Yeah? Well what?

1:33:18I didn't say this in my um Time before and I think we'll have an update at a upcoming meeting. Um I'd like to have Sean Foster here and Ralph to talk about the um budget and the things that transpired towel has of course we want to wait a little bit.

1:33:36Maybe we're gonna wait until after he signs our vetoes, everything to include the budget, so it may be a little while.

1:33:42Right. But I do wanna um thank uh Senator Simpson and Representative Sprouse, Speaker Sprouse, and Senator Cooper and Representative Mariano and my friend Ben Albritton, incoming Senate President, for their help in um At least they they you know, and Ralph and and Sean for um Helping get the Lindrick project fully funded, 3.2. So I'm very excited about that. And uh AM

1:34:13skills um fully funded. So now we hope it stays, but I think Pasco did very well and I'm grateful to our legislators. So thank you very much.

1:34:22Mr. Chairman? Yeah. Yes, sir. You know. And the Commissioner, I'm I'm glad you bring it up because I think it's a good point to actually talk about what is on the table right now. But we don't want to take a chance, I don't think, on waiting until to see if he vetoes or not. I think we need to go take a better stance. I think we should invite the governor down. Let 'em see Metropolitan Ministries, let 'em see Landrick. Let him see M skills, invite him down to what the great things we're trying to do in this county to to help. So I think we should actually take a better stance rather than waiting to see if he signs it or not.

1:34:50Not a bad idea.

1:34:51So maybe you can put a we'd put a plan together to Make that happen.

1:34:54When I was in Tallahassee, I did go, um, I think I told you guys I did go visit with DEO because the AMSkills project will be in the DEO budget. So I want to make sure they knew what it was. Um and uh met with the governor's office. Um Stephanie is chief of staff who's friend of a friend. And um so I'm trying to make sure things stick, but I think that's a great idea we can try.

1:35:16Let's give it a shot. Okay.

1:35:20You know, in the consent agenda we took we were gonna change public comment, which If we had public trick comment changed a little bit today, we could have probably saved a lot of time. Um, do you wanna talk about the changes that are gonna be upcoming?

1:35:33With respect to the eighteenth board meeting.

1:35:36Yes. Well we

1:35:37just

1:35:37passed

1:35:37this morning. Right. What you approved today will allow limited numbers of the public into both boardrooms to include public comment at the at the podium. uh both in Newport Ritchie and here, if we reach capacity, then obviously in Newport Ritchie we'll overflow into the lobby. Here we would overflow into the East Pasco Government Center where we have the kiosk set up.

1:35:59Okay. I and

1:36:00I appreciate the board is still accepting WebEx comments, emails to be entered into the record, emails to be read into the record, and then public comments either in person or via kiosk.

1:36:11Yeah. Well thank you for bringing that forward for for the board today. Yeah. I'm so happy

1:36:15to have a

1:36:15person

1:36:16coming into the boardroom is the only actual difference what we've been doing. So yeah.