Resolution congratulating Martin Levins Eagle Scout
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It's time for a resolution. Madam Clerk, will you please read the first resolution?
Yes is, I believe he's in the first front row here. Um can Martin Levins, the second, please stand up to the podium.
Come up here.
Up to the podium.
You're on you're on camera now. You're on T you're on T V so you there you go. There you go. You're the center of attention.
All right. Resolution number 21252, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, congratulating Martin Levins II on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Whereas Martin Levins II, son of Martin J. Levins and Janet C. Levins, is 17 years old and will begin his senior year at Saddleburgh Preparatory School. And RAS, Martin joined Cub Scouts as A Tiger Scout in 2010 as a member of Pac 40 crossing over into Boy Scouts to join Troop
1775. Natick name? Did I get that right?
Netick, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts, thank you. How do you pronounce the city?
Natick.
Natick, okay. In two thousand fifteen. Continuing on to be a founder of Troop 300, Saddlebrook, Florida, in two thousand seventeen, where he completed the Eagle Scout requirements. On September 19, 2019, he attained his Eagle Scout rank. And Raz achieving the rank of Eagle Scout is of special significance not only to s not only in Scouting, but also in areas of higher education. business and industry, and community service. The award is a performance based achievement whose standards have been well maintained over the years, and
RAS to earn the rank of Eagle Scout the highest advancement rank in Scouting A Boy Scout must fulfill requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. And Raz Martin has held the position of Junior Assistant, Scout Master, Troop Guide, Senior Patrol Leader, Patrol Leader, and Scribe. And Raz Martin has earned 39 merit badges, 21 of which required to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout, including family life, archery, swimming, rifle, shooting, and shifting. Shooting, photography,
medicine, oceanography, sports, citizenship in the world, coin collecting, cycling, first aid, gardening, cooking, camping, lifesaving, citizenship in the nation, golf, environmental science, reading, game design, small boat sailing, kayaking, communication, citizen in the community, personal fitness, wilderness survival, personal management, and the personality. management, motoring, boating, salesmanship, fishing and wildlife, geocaching, and the eastern Um canoeing, engineering,
astronomy, safe traffic safety, fishing, search and rescue, and horsemanship. And whereas Martin has earned 13 scouting awards, the bronze, gold, and silver eagle palms after achieving his eagle. He has camped 66 nights, logged 95 miles of hiking, and provided 151 hours of service as well as assisting his fellow Scouts Scouts Eagles project. And Raz for his scout eats I'm sorry. And uh and Raz and for Oop, let me try that again. And Raz, for his Eagle Scout
Service project, Martin decided to do an environmentally friendly project that recycles used tennis balls to make low impact tennis courts for people with disabilities. Through Martin's Eagle Scout Service project, over forty thousand tennis balls have been collected and sent to the recycling company Recycle Balls. enough to provide the surface for four low impact tennis courts. Martin began its project in July of twenty nineteen and with the help of fellow troop members, school members, friends and family, the project was finished by September twenty nineteen and took 169
hours to complete. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby congratulates Martin Levins the second on attaining the coveted rank of Eagle Scout and is very proud of Martin for his accomplishments. Dunham resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the tenth day of August 2021. Second.
Got a motion of second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed like sigh. Welcome. Motion passed 4-0.
Before we come down, yeah, congratulations. What an accomplishment. I know we tried to do this last year. Um we wanted to have you in here, but obviously um other things prevailed. But we're so happy to have you here again Have you here? What an accomplishment. Um, you know, I I spent some time with Scouts but I never got to the rank of eagle. Um it just I watched so many people go through I mean, listen to you heard what he did. I mean it's that was like a full time job for you. Right?
Yeah, it was it was a ton of fun. I you know, I've worked so hard for this my my whole life and I've wanted to achieve this goal and I'm just I'm s overwhelmed with I'm just so happy that I've been able to do it.
Excellent. So going to Saddlebrook, are you also a tennis player? Yes. Good. Is that the original reason you moved down here to play tennis in Saddlebrook?
One of the reasons, the other reason was because my parents were fed up with the cold and I
started. Okay, well that's that's smart. That's smart. There's there's only one reason for snow is if you have skis or a snowboard on your feet, right? Besides that there's no use for it. You go to visits, you don't go to live. Yeah. Good. So um are you competing on a national level with tennis right now or more of a local level?
More competing local level.
Are you? Good. Good. State? Do you have a state ranking yet?
I do not I do not know at this moment.
No, no, okay. Just getting rolling again. I play tennis, that's why I asked. Back in back in the day. Back in the day, I think when I played at Greenleaf, that's when Capriotti was there. And Tommy Ho and if you remember those folks. That's been a that's been some time. But I'm I'm not as good as you, trust me. Well what we're gonna do now, we're gonna come down and present you with this resolution. Uh we have a frame if your parents would like to come up and we'll shoot a couple photos.
Yeah. So I this is a little square with this issue as well.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
let's see this you can come let's go right in front of the phone in there.
You can come right to the other side.
And then if everybody else is gathered or can you fit us all in here?
We We probably probably do one more person on this one.
There you go. Here we go.
And then what I want right here? But yeah, we w we'll point that way for the thing we want to do.
I guess what the very
Like paparazzi here for you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Good luck with everything and and good luck with the chemistry as well. That's awesome.
It takes a lot of work to help you get that.
Give him a round of applause, everybody.
And you're welcome to stay as long as you want, but it is gonna be pretty boring.
Yeah. So Yeah.
Oh oh sorry, E D C that's gonna be real entertaining, sorry.
Number one is sounding. Take care of us.