Commissioner Oakley Hugh Embury Library Tampa Bay Water

1:55:14And now we'll go to commissioner

1:55:15items. Commissioner Oakley. My wife had a busy month. Probably a busy last couple weeks. Uh I have a few items this time. We celebrate the the reopening of Hugh Embury Library on uh Thursday, September twenty-first, uh, funded and uh founded in nineteen oh four. I believe this to be the oldest library in Pasco County. We

1:55:45have uh great community involvement and thank everyone for their involvement they've had to Yeah. To help in in this matter when we we got it back together. A lot of people miss the library being closed for the renovation. But they're back in force and they had a great turnout for the ribbon cutting. Did I have pictures for that or All right.

1:56:24Yeah. Very good.

1:56:28Alright, there's a ribbon cutting. Very good.

1:56:36I didn't know I was supposed to speak but I did.

1:56:41Ooch. When you're a politic you're always ready, I guess. So Yeah. You can see he was a young man when he started Hugh Emory Library. His dark air. So But we had a great turnout. A lot of people there.

1:57:00Alright, now we go to my second item was uh Tampa Bay Water held our 25th anniversary celebration a few weeks back. Friday, September twenty second, we uh toured the uh seawater desal plant and uh there's pictures there on the right.

1:57:22Yeah. And I told you about the possibility of um that going to a Brackish Wells which would speed up the process and be really, really good for getting more water for our customers. Oh so

1:57:38we also toured the uh regional reservoir and the surface water treatment plant. Uh the reservoir you see at the Top picture. And The treatment plants here on the right picture. But that reservoir is huge. I can't remember exactly but it's I believe it's two miles across and about three and a half, four miles long. holds 15 billion gallons of water.

1:58:09So we have a lot of water there, so But then because of that um Water we have there and also the D SAL water and then water from the Bypass Canal and all that we we blend all the waters together and we come out with one Very good taste in water. So uh our challenges are always coming up with ways to bring in more water force. And that, I can tell you this, we're working very hard to

1:58:40do just that. So And we'll have someday in the future we'll have a uh A little film with uh with some of that. film that we had before. It's I think it's about an hour and a half or two hours long, so we won't be showing that during one of our meetings. But there's uh pictures of D Sal plant right here, so

1:59:05And there's pictures of the uh reservoir.

1:59:13Some of these gentlemen that I actually met there I dn I didn't know them, but they actually are some of the people that started when they did the uh ended the water wars here in Pasco and Pineas and Hillsborough County. And uh they they really had uh a great vision for what we get out of water when they started Tampa Bay Water. It's been very good for Pasco County.

1:59:44And there's very large fish in that reservoir. So and then we went um Last uh let's see October 3rd we had a ribbon cutting with uh Premier Community Healthcare and we were there to speak. We had uh Commissioner Simpson was there with us and his wife and We had a r grand opening now. You can imagine all the Health. uh hospitals that

2:00:14we have and we're gaining because we had advent health, we got Bay Care came in across the street in Bruce P. Downs. We got Orlando Health coming out on 56. We have um

2:00:30Another hospital coming on the uh Spader Wildcat property or Spader property at Overpass. all children's hospitals hoping to come there. So Uh the benefit of all these hospitals and all the work they did with uh with pre-mary even. They had the foresight, their directors had the foresight. to start this soon enough and in time for the care of our citizens. So they really were thinking ahead because they got here but

2:01:01We still have all these other hospitals coming. So our community is going to turn into quite the health industry in one day when everybody gets in and gets settled. So great ribbon right breaking here where we cut it, so it was good.

2:01:21Uh let me think. Oh. Now I'm gonna tell you about double branch, but if if you really wanna remember what it is for years, at least 30 years of my life or more, could be 50 years. I've heard of this property out here at 52 and 75 on the south side of 52. as being called Pasco Town Center. It's been that for years and years, and they've renamed it to a historical name of Double Branch, which

2:01:51is a name that had been used way back in time in our history, so they named this whole development Double Branch. And um Can't thank them anymore for for what they're doing. That's probably one of the largest mixed use developments we got going in Pasco County and happens to be I I hate to say it East East Pasco in District One. Is this your district? Okay's half of the county, but I'm not gonna tell you that today. I'm gonna save that and tell you that some

2:02:21other time. But We got a lot to be thankful for and there's a lot more development coming. in the Pasco County and a seventy eight million square feet of office and also a hundred and one thousand jobs were coming in then the pipeline coming to us so we can work, play and and live right here in Pasco County without having to live here and then travel somewhere to work. So it's coming our way. So great thanks. With that, that's it. Okay,

2:02:52thank you.

2:02:54Commissioner Weightman.

2:02:56I'm gonna pass a I appreciate the problem.

2:03:00Okay. Mr. Starkey?

2:03:02Well, I need some notes but I don't know where we went. So um