Commissioner's items today

1:43:28Ms.

1:43:30Well that was

1:43:31the end of that. We'll find out where I'm after.

1:43:37We had a couple of things. Had the opportunity to go uh spirit the community leader breakfast uh Land Lakes last Friday. Um showed the picture there. And then after that, we're going on to honor the uh grand opening of the Moffitt Spiritus Outpatient Center on Friday, January 9th. And there we are.

1:44:09That's all I had for today.

1:44:11Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Weightman.

1:44:12Yeah, thanks, Chair. Yeah, just very nice. I figured you'd have photos. You're better capturing photos of me, but very nice event at Moffitt. Congratulations to everybody who was working on this per prior to my time. Saw a lot of happy faces from from working on this from years to to present. And um did you have pictures of Ford? You have the Ford pictures? Any of those on yours?

1:44:38I didn't put them on the phone, but

1:44:40oh anyway, well we had congratulations to Jarrett Ford, Commissioner Oakley, and Mariano and I uh for the opening of Jarrett Ford, which is pretty neat. We had Henry Ford II's granddaughter present. uh at pr uh present and be there with the the the Jarrett family. And that was a pretty, pretty cool piece of American history and American business history to meet her. I tell you what, she is She's you can tell she runs the ship and

1:45:11uh she's responsible for over ten thousand plus Ford locations domestically and internationally and so to have her come to Pasco County uh was was was pretty neat. And then lastly I want to thank Tony and the and the staff. Um For putting together

1:45:30the farm share uh event that's coming up next Friday. Um and we're gonna have it at Life Church, which is in between Oakland Boulevard, Oakley Boulevard and Old Pasco Road near the Grove. Expecting a pretty strong turnout so I wanna thank everybody at County for for helping us put one of these on. I know it's been a long time coming for this area and if anybody's um Uh wanting to come, weather might be a little bit warmer. hopefully, uh, to help folks out. So anyway, just wanted to thank everybody and and um

1:46:01that's all I have, Mr. Chair.

1:46:03Okay. Mr. Yeager or Mr. Starkey?

1:46:06Um so uh he's not

1:46:08abstaining from comments.

1:46:10I um also uh Attended, I think Commissioner Mariano did as well, but he had gone by the time I got here. The first new class of the Citizens Academy. So looks like another wonderful class. And I also attended the Spiro's leadership breakfast and grand opening. I have a little story to tell. Some of you old timers might remember Renato's, a restaurant restaurant that was on 54. One

1:46:40of the Ronado's is in my Bunko ladies group, and unfortunately both of them have cancer, and she told me that they would be. Going to the uh Moffat Spiro's campus for the first time last week instead of driving all the way down to Tampa for their treatment. And they were so excited that they could just, you know, go 10 minutes, 15 minutes around the corner and take up the whole day

1:47:11and drive. To Tampa, so pretty cool that I got that I have friends that are being helped right here in Pasco County.

1:47:21We uh had the the budget and the homeless workshop and uh also the economic forecast luncheon. And um I attended the Riverside Village Septic to Sewer meeting. And I have to tell you a little funny story. Oh, you can't read the writing on there. Um but on that picture that gentleman is saying That um, you know, we went for a grant. If you remember uh Commissioner Simpson had told us he had set some money aside for

1:47:51septic to sewer conversions, and when we were trying and trying to access some of that money with uh Representative Yeager, but we were we were, I don't know, we've not been successful with that pot of money, but he was able to secure almost a thousand dollars, a million dollars. Yeah. than the legislative uh cycle last year. And but there was still a four to five million dollar shortfall to take about seventy or eighty houses and get them get 'em um onto county the

1:48:21county system because when it rains, their septic system is in the street and the sidewalks just turn around. It's just they have to move out some of them to go stay with friends in heavy, heavy rain. So we're at the meeting. It's it's actually at my church. And They're mentioning they got four point eight million from C D B C D B G money. So this is seven, eight o'clock at night, and I'm texting Brantford and com and uh County Administrator. Like I don't recall

1:48:52voting on this. Um this isn't a low income area, so how did they qualify? I didn't I didn't I was about to get up and say don't count your chickens yet because we haven't voted on this with our C D B D D R money. And um And then I found out that the gentleman that whose back is to us is a he is a consultant to FGUA. What's the name of the company? Edmund Jones? Jones Edmonds. Jones Edmonds. And he got a the project

1:49:22100% funded with state CDBG bunny. Now I didn't even know that we could apply for state C D P G money, but apparently the state got Who kn wh who here knows how much they got? And this gentleman was telling me how much money he was bringing into all the other counties.

1:49:39Oh the state DR?

1:49:40The state DR money. I'm hoping that we can jump on the bandwagon and see what else we can apply for and definitely get some more septic to sewer money from the state. And what else do they have that we could apply for? Because I thought that since we only had our we got our C D B D R money, we I didn't think I thought that was for the stakes that didn't get any. But that's not the case.

1:50:04Well we had a direct allocation which which is rare, you know, but

1:50:10Double dip. Well I'll find out if we can.

1:50:13Well well. I know we can because he said he got tens of millions of dollars for Lee County. Is Fort Myers in Lee County?

1:50:21Yep.

1:50:22He got tens of millions of dollars for Lee County to do septic to sewer conversions.

1:50:26I wish I would have Elfers and C. Pines right on the list.

1:50:28Yeah, yeah.

1:50:29Can we can we reach out to them, Mike, and and make that happen? Yeah, Connor.

1:50:34This is a phone call. We'll we'll check it.

1:50:37A hundred percent funding. The people don't even have to pitch in. That'd be huge. Um okay. Um I hosted a charity run for John Hopkins, All Children's Hospital on Saturday. Um there is Mike and his wife. Is this before or after you spilled her coffee? Uh no, not before. I think this is juring. I think her hand is dripping with her coffee, her latte. Did you run? I walked it. I walked it. Yeah. This is my girlfriends and I walk in it.

1:51:03Mr. Stuck, we got a problem with this picture. Is it l is it is it is it okay to wear shorts and a winter hat? I don't know. There's something going there. I don't know.

1:51:16I actually had two layers of pants on.

1:51:18It is if you run six point two miles on the side.

1:51:21Uh but we had um over 160, you know, we capped it at 150 and then we added some people in at the end. Um But we raised uh actually we raised twenty over twenty thousand dollars, which is great for our first attempt. It was a lot of fun. Um what uh our parks department it was the second time they'd ever used their race equipment and the first time they did it with fifty people So um oh yeah well here's some of the pictures though these are great um Look so there

1:51:51were a lot of kids here who were jo John all children's patients. Um and so that and that and that's what we want to get, right? W I just was it was kind of emotional. But um Uh Commissioner Yeager, that that your name is on the back of that shirt for your sponsorship, so we'll have to make sure you get a shirt. Um there was another picture of all the county employees that did it. But didn't we take more than one? Well Um let's see. So

1:52:21we had a 10 mile or K run. We had a 5K run walk, which is what I did, and then we had this one mile fun run and that's that's the one you see with all the kids. Um and they w they went up and back. So and then they had the bounce house and everything and So uh thank you for participating, County Administrator, and uh and um look for this again next year, it'll be even bigger and better. Let's see. Um

1:52:52okay, uh I'm taking up the time that you guys you guys had a short list. Um Mike, I emailed you the list of the C D B G HP H P M G

1:53:05uh H M G P Hazard Mitigation Gram.

1:53:08I I program I don't recall us ever talking about it. Can you put that list up on the screen? Um did you guys ever see this list? Yeah, exactly. There we go. So I have

1:53:25how m how many millions of dollars did we get for that HG M P

1:53:29I think I'd like to bring Andy Fossa up to talk about the HMGV.

1:53:34This is the this is the gr pot of money that that I said we cleaned out the Anclo River with for a little part of it last time we got some. Kevin Guthrie got us this money. I've been asking, asking to have get the rivers clean. But apparently someone there's already a list and We didn't see it.

1:53:53I think he should sit down. We normally see him when

1:53:57Things aren't the best. Good

1:53:59afternoon, everybody. Andy Foss emergency management.

1:54:05There there is some confusion. What the H M G P list. And the Local Mitigation Strategy Working Group.

1:54:13Please tell us what that is.

1:54:15So the Local Mitigation Strategy Working Group is a group of members from the county. It can be public works, utilities, and then we have stakeholders outside stakeholders. Um, it could be hospitals, it could be community developments, and then we have our municipalities. They make up this working group. So what happens is Um The county and all the members come

1:54:45in with a list of projects they would like to see be done. with either HMGP money It could be FMA money, it could be H L M P money. Uh Flood mitigation assistance. And um Um There's a a a few other grants I can't tell you off the top of my head 'cause there's so many of them. So what happens is the group comes in with their projects. The group rates The

1:55:16projects and they form a list from one to whatever 21, 22, 23 uh projects. As these grants come over, like especially the hazard mitigation grant program. which you can be can do elevation, acquisition, stormwater projects, generator projects, building hardening projects. as we go down the list, because we have to go down in chronological order. We pick these lists these these projects

1:55:46out and we submit them into the state and then through FEMA. As these projects get approved and funded. Then that project gets packaged up, comes to us, then we package it up, and we present it to the board for approval. So Half of these that you see on this list right now and you can see on the right hand side they tell you where they're at right now application review. Some have been closed, some have been approved. When

1:56:16they get approved at that level and they come back to us is when you guys see them.

1:56:21Is this there's four pages. This isn't all of it. Where's where's the other pages?

1:56:28Can someone cycle? Thanks.

1:56:31What does it mean when it says backup, like take a sunfish drive elevation backup?

1:56:38I'd have

1:56:38to see it.

1:56:39I

1:56:39mean

1:56:39I don't have the list in front of me.

1:56:44So I I think, yeah, if I may, Commissioner. So Andy, I I think really what I'm hearing from Commissioner Starkey, and I don't know how long the process has been the way that it is, right? Since 2015, this has just been the process by which that the county has undergone. So stakeholders come together uh and And they look at criteria and they prioritize these across these various grant funding sources, which are not necessarily guaranteed. Um and then you you just said they come chronologically? I mean I saw things from storms from Debbie, that's why I'm asking.

1:57:13So that is just a list of just the HMGP stuff.

1:57:15Okay. So Anyway, but but anyways just to to cut to the heart of the matter here, if if you know I think this board is used to having transparency with prioritizing things when it comes to say opioid funding or other other types of programs. You know, it it's there's a lot of minutiae with this, but if the board would like us to revisit the policy that's been in place for 10 years to bring back things that would allow the board to help set priorities as well, I am happy

1:57:46to do that. Um it's it's a lot of money, there's a lot of things that go on with it, but I would prefer that we Have a presentation available to it that can walk through what this program is about, what the dollars are and what the appropriate when when it would be appropriate to have board input into it. What I'm hearing you say though is that hey there's projects that we don't even see it until it comes forward for approval and maybe that you'd like to have a thumbprint on that prior to and happy to do that. We just need to find out the right way.

1:58:17H.

1:58:20The C D B G H G M P M H M G P money.

1:58:24Hazard mitigation grant. I

1:58:26brought it up and I s I don't know what Pas the now these are FEMAs, I don't know. Pasco County project number two, number four. Um I've uh Where Why are the rivers not in here? Cleaning the rivers. And you heard the presentation this morning. What happened to that?

1:58:46Because that will that those projects that you see on that list come from the various departments. It could be public works.

1:58:52Well are we not a department?

1:58:55No.

1:58:57We don't get to have input and how any of this money is spent. That's part of my problem here.

1:59:01And that's what I'm hearing you say. And I'm not sure.

1:59:05That's my problem.

1:59:08I've been asking about these.

1:59:10Oh does the board agree? If the board wants that, then I'll we will do it.

1:59:14Well um I'll I'll go if I could. You know, when I look at you got Fed share, non Fed share, that means whip hand. Anytime this body's gonna spend money and approve it, I think early in the process of the appropriate time, have a recommended body. I'll tell you we have different stakeholder groups, but before this it gets submitted anywhere, it should be in front of us to see which one you want to put through.

1:59:36Yeah.

1:59:36Now I I will see there's a ton of projects here. They don't seem like be a lot of large scale, a lot of a lot of what looks like small scale. But if it doesn't hurt us to go forward to put projects in, so be it. Um but I hate to get something approved, especially that's been submitted now, and then say, oh, we didn't want to do it. Though I do a c see a couple of city projects that Frankly we've given it to the right-of-way. I got see I see Pasco County town and country villas his for nine hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars and I've given them two million dollars of money already already. And they're gonna

2:00:07be now blighted. And I'm gonna give them money. I'm gonna go take Bayhead Road, Bay Bay Boulevard, and and whatever on in in the city of Port Ritchie and go put money to that when I know they got a big stormwater pond that I should be working with D O T and us to go clean that thing out, to get that southern outfall done before I go raise the road. I should fix the flooding first. So yeah, I think we should be looking at all these things and if it's appropriate Now may now maybe you could not today, but surely might be a good thing.

2:00:35So let me clarify a little bit. When these items are selected, say the city of New Port Richey put a stormwater water project in. We submit it. the projects in. If that project gets approved We do not manage that. We do not put any funding towards it. That we let them know your project has been approved and you guys can move forward with it. But if that's money that could have come

2:00:59to this county instead of the city, then there's a problem.

2:01:02I I understand that, but unfortunately by statute It's a stakeholder group. The stakeholders are the ones that Formulate the list and rank the list. We do not have As the chair and co-chair, we do not have say over that. So

2:01:19let me I I I that's that's that's why I say I want to bring something back to the board because I think there are some nuances that need to be discussed and to understand that it's it may or may I don't even know myself. And so we I need to sit with Andy, let us come back to the board with a presentation on how HMGP works. From both the statutory perspective and from the board, and again we find out what the appropriate uh point is for the board to provide its its its interjection into this. And and I understand exactly what you're saying, Commissioner Mariano.

2:01:49In related to this conversation, the way it's going and the information that we're kind of talking about, I think it's probably better off to do one-on-ones first, then bring it to the board. 100%.

2:01:56Do what first? Okay.

2:01:57One-on-ones first.

2:01:59Um And So if the process was different departments put in what they wanted There was no c no consideration for cleaning out any of the rivers?

2:02:13I I don't know, Commissioner. I don't have a good answer for you on that. We know we look to the departments to look at whatever the qualifications are for the dollars, uh other sources of funding for projects and things. There's there's a whole host of things that go into it. But we will look at that. I'm committed to being transparent with the board on that, but let me go through The process with Director Fossa here will brief you individually on how it works and then see what would be appropriate if anything to make changes to it.

2:02:42All right. So um this so then I have two two requests. One, um bring bring us what the cost was for the last cleanup that we did. uh of the Anklet River from Starkey Boulevard to Little Road, uh when Kevin was here. And then um please put the county uh commission districts on here so so you get an idea of what part of the county this is in 'cause I don't I I don't wanna go into each one and try and figure out where they are 'cause some I

2:03:12know and some I don't. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, okay.

2:03:16Commissioner Starkey, just to add if I add on to just what you're saying? Yeah. So we we there was a lot of funding done from Tarpon Springs all the way up the Anclote River. We know we wanted to get to self-drive just like the gentleman was talking about today. So I think it's as we look at our federal stuff to maybe add that into the mix as we as we look at it too.

2:03:32Yeah, that so that um that dredging that Congressman Bellarakis got for tarpon uh doesn't come to the county. Yeah, that went over to downtown down to tarpon for their shipping. And uh fishing, whatever. They couldn't get boats couldn't come out at silted in. Yeah. Certainly uh go we need to um be making our our rivers more navigable so that the water flows better and and we get the water out. I mean that should be seems

2:04:02like

2:04:05kind of one on one to clean the river so they the water flows out. I don't know. Um, okay then um Um maintenance issues.

2:04:18I don't remember what that one's on. Um so uh I wanted to note that uh uh when the woman spoke from the um uh food policy council Um Charles I can't remember his last name, the guy who had the museum? Charles Adar or something like that. You we all went to the museum. He's about to move out of the county. He is about to move to Saint Pete and put a museum in in in in where all those other museums are because we don't he don't have any space where he is and he can't Have

2:04:48you guys I don't know if you've been to see his museum. The maps. It's it's amazing.

2:04:52Amazing.

2:04:53Amazing. And you know, we had an opportunity to have that Arts and Crafts Museum in Pasco County. That guy wanted it to be in our county. I never met him. He met with Commissioner Hildebrand years ago and wanted to donate it to the county. He actually had done a lot of work, Commissioner Oakley, and he had discovered that no hurricanes had really ever hit the date city. Area. It was high and dry, it wouldn't flood. And so it is a gentleman that's had this amazing collection of and um and he was looking for a home for it. And the

2:05:23Mitchell family had an amazing um Uh Museum.

2:05:30So he put it but he ended up putting it in Saint Pete.

2:05:33What about golf high school?

2:05:34Well that's that's where the the guy is now but there's not enough s no No, no, he's at

2:05:38he's at Wonder Queen.

2:05:39He's at Ridgewood. Yeah, he's at Wonder Queen. I don't know but we were gonna try and see if we could come up with any space. I I don't know what we have or help him, but um my brother just went to see him 'cause he inherited some an antiquities from my mom and and he told him that he's probably gonna be moving out soon because There's no space here for him. So We don't have a lot of culture here like that and I I know.

2:06:06I've been I've been racking my brain too trying to help that guy.

2:06:09So

2:06:11Okay. And especially your grand your grandchild would love it if you've never been.

2:06:15I've I've been to it

2:06:16they have a dinosaur egg that shows an x-ray of the the baby dinosaur. Yeah. And you can touch everything. It's really cool. Yeah.

2:06:24Okay, that's it for

2:06:26Okay. All right, well I won't repeat everybody, but this was this was m uh Moffat. Um and there's

2:06:35Look at Lee Moffat in that picture. It's a great picture.

2:06:38Which one? Lee Moffin.

2:06:40Great shot. Great

2:06:42shot. So I won't repeat what everybody said, but it was an amazing celebration and looking forward to everything else they have coming down the the pipeline. Um I don't have a picture, but I was at Magnolia Valley uh Civic Association meeting on Saturday and I just want to give a shout out to staff because they were amazing. Uh Nicole Allen just jumped right in. She's brand new and she was she She was just holding her own and

2:07:12I was so proud of her. She was able to answer all their questions. We had Panos there. Panos did a great job and he he got a lot of heat and he he did great. We had Pasco County Sheriff's Office out there just talking about neighborhood wide. It was just it was a great meeting. So all good. We had they have some questions, and Miss Grace introduced herself today, so we are getting with the team and trying

2:07:42to see if we can get all their questions answered. One of their concerns was the Magnolia Valley Golf. course is only mode really when they have events. So we're gonna try and get them on the rotation so it looks nice. And that's about it.

2:08:00That's all I have. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Starkey had something?

2:08:03Yeah, um, I need to talk to you about something that I've been asked to bring forward. Um Uh David had to leave uh And he could help explain this better than me. But um you might remember when Starkey Ranch was being developed um and we didn't have the money. To build a park. Um we lock uh and the develop the developer and Wheel Lock came for well Well they c the development team came

2:08:33forward and offered to fund the maintenance of that park for I don't know if it was six or eight years They put land into it. Um they were just a great partner. It actually was the first P four in the country. um to do with the school district and the county and and the developer and um This is a very, very unusual deal. I wish we could do more deals like that. But the gentleman who put that all together and spearheaded it, his

2:09:03name was Matt Call. I don't know if you you guys remember meeting him, you wouldn't have met him, Commissioner Yeager, but uh he was in his early 40s and and developed um pancreatic cancer and uh passed away a couple months ago very sadly. Um left two young children. But we've been asked if we would consider naming the fields. either the field or the gymnasium after after him for all the work he did in putting that

2:09:33together. Um we think the fields are better. Doesn't involve the school district. So um we'd like to uh it's commissioner driven, so we need to get approval here to put up a sign. uh calling the the fields the m Matt Call Memorial Fields.

2:09:52I love that idea.

2:09:53So that's a motion.

2:09:56Commissioner Yeah I don't have any objection to what you're saying, but there is a process in the land development code for naming stuff.

2:10:06This is what

2:10:07I was told to do. So I Would think that we would follow that process.

2:10:11Is this how it gets started?

2:10:13So it would it's interesting too because I had asked Eric if we had had a policy on the naming of facilities. It looked like there was one that was developed under the previous administrator but never really executed in. If you just give me a meeting, uh just one board meeting cycle, we can maybe bring something back that kind of makes sure that we check all the boxes. with the LDC and make sure that if if we want to approve this policy and then that way it's all formal and we can, you know, have all the right reasons and everything put put into place and that works. It's it's documented

2:10:43well. So I'll just bring that back on the third if that's okay. With that with that. Direction from the board to to name those ball fields that and then that way it'll also be a little bit more.

2:10:55Flat footed two. I I'd like more information.

2:10:59Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

2:11:02Okay. That's it. Thank you.

2:11:04Okay.