TDT numbers, school year, stormwater, resiliency updates

1:12:31you're right. Mr. Moore. Thank you. right, I'll read quick. Thank you. Um T D T numbers for May. I just wanna uh share a little bit about the Tourist Development Council numbers for May, T D collections for May twenty twenty one. We're actually up ninety six percent over May twenty twenty. Imagine that, right? Um great testament to the work that our DMO has been doing. We really appreciate um Adam and the entire team beefing up tourism in Pasco County. Um If you look at Mate D T collections, uh they're actually up over four percent of 2019.

1:13:02So we're on track to have our best year ever, and we really appreciate it. Um anybody has time, staff, whoever, um, had the opportunity to be on Spectrum's In Focus program, which was a um hosted by Allison Walker. The great thing about that program, besides being in the Tampa Bay market, it was also in the Central Florida market around Lake. So I had the opportunity to spend an hour with her as well as Commissioner Kimberly Overman from Hillsbrook County to talk about sports tourism and the impact sports tourism has on the uh not

1:13:32only the entire Bay Area but the entire state. So thank you to Ms. Walker and Spectrum for allowing me to participate. One two more things I wanted to mention. If you didn't see it on the consent agenda today, just wanted to um special thanks to our PCTPT. PC PT team. Uh F Dot had three vehicles that were in surplus. We were awarded them at no cost, which is awesome. Now we have more transit vehicle, pair of transit vehicles out

1:14:02in the community for our residents, and it didn't cost our local taxpayers any additional dollars on top of what they probably paid in sales tax that goes to the state that F Dot pays for their vehicles for. So thank you to them. And one last thing, um, well, happy school year to everybody that's watching. I'm sure they're all tuning in today, whether in class, but uh happy first day of school. But I do have just you know just something to think about in the team and Mr. Biles, your team, and whoever in our other um team members that are here

1:14:32today. Unfortunately I've had Quite a few complaints lately in reference to it's not saying it county complaints as much as it is complaints that. There's some projects out there that are dumping a lot of water on the neighbors. Um I've heard that more and more over the last several weeks than I've heard in the past. I just want to make sure we keep it a keeping a close eye on this because um Donald Carey and it and his team

1:15:03Doing a great job, but I'm keeping them busy right now. And as well as Swift Mud. So John Pwanda from Swift Mud, I appreciate him as well, is having to go out there. Um I think we had I'm just gonna let Andy do a nod. It was three and then another one today or yesterday as well, um, where we can see that you know the runoff is coming from these projects. And we actually I won't mention which one, but we have something that's gonna come in front of us uh probably in the next month or so a project we'll be voting on that I I think um got

1:15:33turned down. No it didn't get turned down, it was a three two vote, sorry, a loss of three two vote, but One of my concerns was about the possible water at this project. And now to come to find out that the neighboring property is already building some townhouses. It's spitting water on this one property owner at this time. And that project, I won't even mention it, it's gonna come in front of us in the future, but it's one of the things I mentioned that we have to be very concerned about this because there's already the um there's already um a

1:16:03possible impact and that impact is happening now. And that was a local farmer that has cattle on on in their fields and now they can't even have the cattle in the pits because this is flooding them out. So So I you know, be very just we need to be more conscious, I think, and continue to be more conscious of what's going on when we're going through the process of making sure 'cause we say there can't be one drop of water that impacts a neighboring property. Well we need to be Yeah. Very,

1:16:33very considerate of that um now and in the future. I'm not saying we're not. Things happen, I get it. It's been very rainy uh at the same time. Um if it wasn't there a week before and it's there now. It's it's obvious what's going on. Yeah. Okay. That's all. Thank you.

1:16:53Okay. Mr. Fitzpatrick.

1:16:56Thank you. Um I would like to say I was honored to t attend the Rosalie Residence Blessing and Ribbon Cutting. Pasco County and Saint Vincent de Paul Kerris has a very strong partnership to try to end homelessness and provide affordable and permanent supportive housing for Pasco County. And since last year, since March of last year up until now, we've been able to house 191 households. So I feel it's really important that we work continue to work together.

1:17:27They have an eighty-five percent positivity rate to end homelessness and not to go back into homelessness. And then last also in the past nine months, Saint Vincent de Paul Cares has already ended homelessness with Pasco County of 270 267 households. So I think that's a phenomenal job and And I would love to continue to work together to end homelessness in Pasco County. Um Also, with it being back to school, I've been attending multiple backpack drives. I was out to help

1:17:57fill thirty thousand backpacks one Saturday off s Saturday morning and I was really excited to go and go back out f a few just this past weekend and watch the dish and be there to help with the distribution and then also going over to help with Pastor Troy over at the Back Backpack Backpack Drive in Moon Lake.

1:18:22As many of you are aware, today is the first day of school, so I would like to say thank you to all of our students and staff and teachers and welcome back to school and thank you for everything that you do. I hope you have a safe and healthy year. And Marjorie's Hope is an amazing nonprofit which is there to help. They can supply school supplies, backpacks, clothing for children that may need clothing or any supplies, and then I also supply School supplies to teachers to help

1:18:52in their classrooms. I would like to say thank you to Pat Phillips with Code Enforcement. I had some complaints over in Magnolia Valley with the big rig trucks that were parked out front. Also I did call Alex Alt. Thank you. Um When I drove by with my legislative aid rich, I was able to contact a few of the big red companies and they came out and they removed their vehicles pretty quickly. Code has worked very diligently and they are putting up signs for no tr

1:19:23um that they're not allowed to park there. So and you're also educating them on where they can park. Lastly, I'm gonna follow up with Commissioner Moore. I have been working over off Massachusetts with a project and I feel it's really important that we do consider New projects. We have one project that was done Years ago and it was built up. And right now I have about five homes. that the water flows off the pr adjacent

1:19:54property down into their backyards and it's affecting their septic tanks. They can't go to the bathroom, they can't shower it's affecting their daily lives and nothing has been d being done right now for to help with them and they're living there and they can't even use the bathroom. And they can't cook, they can't shower, they can't do anything because their backyards are so full of the water and the flooding that their leech fields can't use their septic tanks properly. So I would like to see

1:20:24how we can address that. More quickly and hopefully very, very soon, because that is affecting their quality of life. Thank

1:20:32you. Mr. Chairman Mariano interrupt. And I and I should have brought as this microphone literally breaks right in front of me. Um I think maybe we can have some time maybe to just uh bring back is maybe just let's talk about the review process a little bit more. Commissioner Weightman had some questions. questions earlier, right? I just think we need to have uh some further discussions about that room review process. Um Because I mean sorry, there's a few things happening I don't think should be going on.

1:21:00Okay. I agree.

1:21:01Yeah, sure. I'll just touch on that just for a second too. You know, one of the things I was talking about as far as like the stormwater requirements that we have, they're in place. There are other requirements for different storm events, which might have been one of these latest storms that okay, it protected for that other storm, but on a big heavy event, that may not be enough to to code. Um so yeah, I think we need to take a look at all of that as we go.

1:21:21These families have been going for the past three weeks to the past month and getting calls and photos daily that they can't take a shower. Something has to be done sooner than later.

1:21:34Is that everything?

1:21:37Oh, I'm done. Thank you.

1:21:39Okay. Mr. Morana. Um I want to say I had a uh great meeting at the Tampay Regional Planning Council yesterday. Um there was a lot of talk about resiliency and you know Commissioner Moore, I know years ago he says, you know, what's the relevancy? And Sean Sullivan would say it many times, I'm sure you heard it when you were when you were there as well. I I'll say it's very relevant to what they're doing right now. Um there's gonna be a summit meeting coming up, but more critical than that is getting ready for the meeting as we had the second one we had we skipped last year because of COVID. But uh one of the things we talk

1:22:10about is development coming up, especially along the coast. Not only be resilient but be smart about it. Um one of the things we had trouble with Boat Yard Avenue was a guy wanted to build a seawall a certain height, we had to fight that for months. We finally got it to the height. And we're still having troubles getting those things done. Uh Broward County, Palm Beach County, Miami Dade, they'd been working on this for probably ten years ahead of us before we even started our coalition uh from a couple of years ago. And one of the things they did was this storm surge uh sea

1:22:40level rise, whatever you want to call it, that may be as much as five feet by twenty sixty in the Tampa regions from three feet to three and a half feet. Um I wanna allow people to take a look at that and study that before we have the summit meeting They're willing to work with us, they're working working with the others other than the region as well. But I think it's going to be very optimal to go look at seawall construction, fill up around canal homes. Over in Broward County, when someone lives on a canal, they want them to build it up so that

1:23:10it stays drier. And if the guy beside them doesn't build his up, They actually put penal look at penalties for that guy, whereas we do the exact opposite of that. To me, it's the better height that you have, the better off you're gonna be. When the water rises up over the seawall, once it's behind you, it's flowing out down the street, working its way up, way, way back out anyway. That's like one of the things to look at. Septic to sewer conversion is coming up too. around the whole state. There's a whole new set of grants out there. And the Regional Planning Council is

1:23:40working with the other counties as well to look at these different grants. And I've already talked to Colleen's actually worked with our with our staff, Adam Adam Diddlecombe and Company, to try to look at what other things we can go do out there. We've got some other things working where we've done research. Stormwater runoff trying to deal with that upfront, up and down the coast. They love the idea of the baffle boxes which take stormwater runoff from the get-go. So on like places like Gulf Harbors where they have stormwater that drains right into the canal right beside it and silts in around

1:24:10it that's got to be dredged out. There's ways to contain that. So I'm trying to get us to work together, not only just with the counties together, but get Swift one at the table, get FEMA at the table. So everybody can say, this is what we can do to build better as we're coming forward, to build safer and smarter. So I want us to kind of just encourage staff that over the next couple of weeks, three weeks, four weeks, that we actually work to go with the Regional Planning Council staff. and the rest of the people, players in the region to try to put us in a better position for the future.

1:24:40So if that sounds okay and if Dan's got a general acknowledgement of that, then I'm happy to just keep on working that. That sound like a reasonable thing to do?

1:24:49Yeah.

1:24:49Okay. Yeah. And that's all I have?