R S five Building Safety Month resolution

1:09:20Now we move to R S five.

1:09:22All right. Um is anyone here for Building Safety Month? Come on up.

1:09:33Okay, I will go ahead and read the resolution as you are making your way to the podium. Resolution number twenty-six dash one nine four, resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the month of May 2026 as Building Safety Month in Pasco County. RAS Pasco County is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength depends upon the safety and essential roles our homes, buildings, and infrastructures play in both everyday life and when disaster strikes. And RAS, our confidence in the resilience

1:10:03of the buildings that make up our community is achieved through the devotion of diligent professionals such as building safety and fire prevention officials, architects,

1:10:15Design professionals, laborers, plumbers, and others in the construction industry who work year-round to ensure the safe constructions of buildings. ANRAS, these professionals and dedicated members of the International Code Council, a nonprofit that brings together local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal officials who are experts in the building industry to create and implement the highest quality codes to protect citizens in the buildings in which they live, work, and play. ANRAS Modern Building Codes

1:10:45include safeguards to protect the public from. from hazards such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, wildfires, and earthquakes. And Res Building Safety Month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind the public about the crucial role of our community's largely unknown protectors of public safety. Our local code officials, and assure us of safe, sustainable, and affordable buildings that are essential to our prosperity. And whereas in twenty twenty six theme I'm sorry, the twenty twenty

1:11:15six theme for Building Safety Month is Build to Last. Which encourages us all to raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local, and global scale. And RAS, each year in observance of Building Safety Month, people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience, and economic investment in home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all citizens by local and state building departments. departments, fire prevention bureaus, and

1:11:45federal agencies in protecting lives and property. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares the month of May 2026 as Building Safety Month in Pasco County and encourages all Pasco County citizens to join and participation of Building Safety Month activities. Done and resolved in regular session with the quorum present and voting this twenty first day of April 2026.

1:12:09Move approval.

1:12:10Second.

1:12:11All in favor say aye. Aye. JP, so glad you and your team are here today. Um you know building safety is everything. Everything we try to do is to try to get the inspections not for a bureaucratic process, but is to make sure the work was done right, properly, and the people are safe and protected down the road. And I wanna say from the time that you got here, we used to have many, many conversations. I hardly haven't talked to him anymore. Sandy, my assistant, used to take care of my permitting stuff. We had a whiteboard was like full all the way through. Boom boom. Nowadays it's

1:12:41like if I have something, it's like Check on this for me. And like the other day we had one last week where a building was coming up and CO was important to get within a t in a period of time. Literally says, I don't want to get involved in it. Let the process go. He says, But the time's so sensitive. Sent just a quick little light email later that afternoon. CEO's issued. The type of service you're giving people nowadays, I wanna just expand to say it's been phenomenal. Greatly appreciate you, the team. Uh hopefully new headquarters are working up, but what you guys are doing is far and

1:13:11away the best I've ever seen and and just keep on the great work. But I'd like to say a few words.

1:13:15Yeah, thank you. JP Murphy, Director of Building Construction Services, for the record. Thank you, uh Madam Clerk, for the wonderful recital as always. Thank you, uh Chairman Mariano, for the for sponsoring this. I I thank you for your comments. I can't take credit for that. Behind me and and certainly at our our our three offices is an outstanding staff which this time of year we take time out to celebrate their accomplishments and their dedication to their professionalism to not only to the code but to the people of Pasco County and keeping them safe and resilient. Um

1:13:46so much of what we do is a is not only about just getting through a process quickly and efficiently and and explaining it, but it's really about making sure that structure is safe, not only from hurricanes, but from fire, from everyday things. A lot of the stuff Folks don't realize we also work on accessibility. So people of all different abilities can come and enjoy our public spaces, our businesses, and live safely in homes. We do a lot of great work with some veteran organizations and making sure that they get some housing that works really well for them. But all of that starts with

1:14:16the team behind us. They they put in the hours, they really see the intent of what we're trying to do. Um, not only is our internal goal to to make Pasco County, BCS, the best building department in the nation, a promise which we've taken a great step this past year in becoming IAS accredited again, just to remind you. Only county department servicing a population of 600,000 to 1 million in the United States that is IAS accredited. So we're very proud of that. And we're going to continue that great work. We're going to have a fun month here in May,

1:14:46starting on May 2nd with uh we're gonna join the disaster expo. We always do some fun stuff for kids and make ourselves available to uh explore different things from floodplain regulations to how to make your homes uh disaster resilient. We're gonna have some open houses for our contractors and uh bagel with the bagels with a building official and you're gonna have some some other fun towards the end. We've been doing a lot of fantastic work with the Brighter Futures team. We Like we're marching in lockstep with them to make sure that those projects go through. And we're going to use

1:15:16the month of Mill uh of May to celebrate all the hard work and effort of this team behind me. So

1:15:21again, greatly appreciate you, the the whole team, because it takes a team. You could set up this table for everybody, but they've got to do all the work. And for the team members, I want to thank you all for the great work you're doing. Uh David Allen, since you've stepped in as well, has been a great transition. It was tough to see you leave the utilities. But I think your leadership there has helped the team get better in Mike Carbella, uh since you became county administrator and by the way, happy anniversary for twelve years today. For that, yeah.

1:15:49Uh for all that teamwork to make this county premier and make it better and better, it takes everybody as is working and what you guys have done. I want to take the the moment again to say you're doing a phenomenal job and we greatly we greatly appreciate it. So come back toficial.

1:16:05David, I'll do my gets too. Yeah.

1:16:21Yeah, yeah. I think Chase the right. Yeah.

1:17:08All right.