Chairman's pictures and committee reports

40:50Okay. I saw Chase left earlier, but okay. Um so I get my pictures. Um the Tourist Development Council, Florida Sports Coast, won the one of the bronze medal for the Adrian Award, so they were pretty happy about going to there. They had a nice celebration for it, so good job to the team. And next picture just shows one up in DC. Uh lower left there is Commissioner Starkey myself, Mr. Carbella and Mr. Lair. We had a meeting with Congressman Bellarakus, so the picture there. And just a couple of interesting

41:21things. Uh Senator Moody uh was w meeting with uh Josh from uh Moffat. Stick go back to the previous page, please. Um Senator Moody uh was very good to uh Josh Copper from Moffat had a great meeting, talked about what they were trying to do that we had voted on before. The upper right project is part of a picture that shows you the Jefferson Library that was sold to the United States when everything burnt down years ago, and a very impressive building in the House of Library Library of Congress. And there's another picture of the

41:51Library of Congress that I thought was very, very impressive as far as the structure goes. Tremendous. Uh next slide. There's Commissioner Starkey myself with Congressman Belarakis and Dominique Holmes. She's from Hernando County. She wanted to meet the Congressman and we did a joint meet and we did talk about County Line Road being a project to work together on. That's Congressman Stuby to the next in the middle picture there with Commissioner Starkey and myself. And uh I tell you, Senator Moody had a really neat thing

42:21going. She's got a morning that she does once a week in the uh Capitol, uh in her office area. And uh she meets with a whole bunch of people, there's her talk with a whole bunch of students in the second picture down below. And down below is where we uh went to the Department of Labor. Next slide. And we did the Hudson cleanup on Saturday. It was about a nine o'clock pitcher. Um people went out there, cleaned all the area. And one thing that concerned me, which I'll show you pictures of in a second, was as they were talking to not

42:51to go up on Hudson Avenue. Near the school. Now the Shortman School And that was up there 'cause it was a homeless camp, it was dangerous up there. So Uh I says I need to go take a look at that. So I did. Next slide. And this is a picture at Hudson Beach. Um those who haven't been to, In the Gulf is a great restaurant in the Gulf of America, which on the top right slide there. It shows it building a big deck on the upper deck. Now they get enough parking for themselves. There's some stack stone they put in, nice

43:22uh overlays. The lower right side shows an outs outside patio. in the view of the Gulf is like perfect for sunsets. It's it's just outstanding as far as this coast goes. The upper deck is gonna be the front of the restaurant, they're building it right now since they they s got permitting about three or four months ago. They're gonna expect to open that up I think this fall. Um but if you can blow that picture up in the middle on the low on the lower end, if you look down Strickland Parks on the side And that picture there kind of shows you what happens with parking. All

43:52those areas are parked around the oak trees next to the parking over there, and people are just filling in. I've talked to um Administrator Carbellar about looking at trying to improve that and also around the inn, but I want to tell you we do have a strong need for a parking garage situation down there to improve the parking to work with it. We own the property behind Sam's. It fits to the same uh park and garage that we put by Kais but the New Parigi put by Kaiser. I think it's something we need to go take a look at. Next slide.

44:23Uh this is the area upper hot zone. When you look from the street you don't see much. But when you look right inside, those pictures here kind of show what's going on. This the company that owns it, G S D Investments L L C. We need to kinda go after that again. I I've given this to a county administrator and we alerted the sheriff on it. He asked for b addresses. We I gave him the addresses, gave him the pictures, and uh I want to say Chase responded right away on it, which was great. Um our team's working on it, but we need to make sure we clean this up and Uh get this trash out of here. Uh next

44:54slide. Uh went to the Cinderella Sau Cop. And I want to say, Commissioner Starkey I knew you weren't there, but you were felt in your presence. Uh the wine selection that you distributed for everybody and donated, they greatly appreciate it. And I tell you, it was delicious.

45:12Thanks.

45:15My daughter had a blast there.

45:16And if you take a look at the picture there That's the new newly renovated ballroom that's in there. Um really did a nice job with the rugs, the walls, the fixtures, so uh some great improvements there. Nice little uh drawing from one of the kids. Next slide. Uh and it's center pitcher up top. We did a meeting last night with the Chasco Fiesta, all the sponsors. They had 51 sponsors there. to a s to a high level to try to help with that that event which is such such a great event for us. Um on the

45:46pitches all around it there was a marching forward to stomp out addiction. They had done uh other five K runs. This is the first time doing one at um Sun West Park and I tell you they loved it. The team was great, everything went great. That's Pasco Restal in the pink shirt in the top left. I was the Grand Marshal and that was the flag I used. Hope it's not of offensive anyone, but pr fairly patriotic and just the pictures of the beach and the the runners to the side. Next slide. Uh and I wanna g let everybody know, Steps to Recovery, who was also at the at that event. Uh

46:17this are pictures some of the pictures of the building coming out. It is coming out fantastic. They're almost done.

46:22Uh

46:23we're gonna try to work with Veterans Affairs up in DC to get them down here. So as soon as they can kind of pinpoint when they think they'll be able to open it up. Um we're gonna rock and roll, but it is coming along great. The everything looks fantastic out there. So they're and they're very excited.

46:37When how long d until you think it's open?

46:39It like might be a month or two away. I mean really close. All right, next slide. Uh went down to a volunteer with breakfast right down in your neck of the woods, down at Gulf Harbors. Uh they hosted them down there and I tell I didn't know what I was gonna walk into. But if you see the pictures of top right and lower uh top left and lower left, lower right, um That's how many people were there. They had prizes galore, had a really fun way to go about it, and uh really raised a bunch of money. And if you don't know it, the volunteer way's got an executive director and one other

47:10person, everyone else is actually a volunteer there. So everything they do, all that money goes directly to feeding our people, doing different things. I took a tour of their building and the hydroponics plant they got is fantastic. They got peach trees out there now too. Yeah. But they're gonna try to do even more expansions. But they do a phenomenal job. They actually have a beehive out there too. Uh well they they have their own honey they make. All right, next slide. That's it.

47:38Okay. All right. And that's all I have. I got one.

47:41Go ahead. I wanna uh correct. So during lunch I did research on that epic city. I sent you all the one from Texas. Um the one um that someone sent me in Vero Beach. I think that was um a lot of people worried that what was going on in Texas was going on in Bitter Beach, but it wasn't the same. thing. Although what's going on in Texas a little crazy. Um but the Vero Beach one. was just a development company, had the name Epic City. They weren't building an epic city. Yeah.