R thirty one interlocal service boundary agreement Newport Ritchie

1:33:03now we'll go to item number R32.

1:33:08Excuse me, R thirty one.

1:33:10Perfect. Thank you, Commissioner.

1:33:14Dumb me down a little bit, thank you. Um R thirty one is a

1:33:21R 31, check, mic check? Here we go. That's better. Thanks, Khalil. All right, so item R 31 is a is a resolution to the Board of County Commissioners regarding the initiating resolution, the City of Newport Ritchie, Florida, regarding an interlocal service boundary agreement. So on March 17th, the City of Newport Ritchie adopted a resolution that Pasco County Enter into an interlocal service boundary agreement. I won't get into the legalities of that, but it's

1:33:51under an act of state law. It's a very formalized process where we would enter into a negotiation over boundaries. The subject of this particular resolution is that the city was asserting that their recreation and aquatic center actually services and provides a substantial benefit to the unincorporated citizens. and surrounding uh the city's Newport, uh the city of Newport Ritchie's uh service area. So they have, I'll show you on the next slide a map of that proposed service area, but they're basically proposing that their their aquatic

1:34:21center provides service or value to the unincorporated citizens within these boundary areas. And as such they want to enter into a negotiation with the county to discuss of many things, of all things probably providing additional funding to support that aquatic center. Under the law, we are required to file a response resolution and formally adopt certain things. So in our response, we are uh we have

1:34:51identified that this the county actually also provides uh substantial parks and and recreational benefits to those uh citizens of of Newport Ritchie, and uh that we can also identify Additional issues for negotiation and uh we we have identified in addition to the cities um request to discuss uh funding their aquatic center that we talk about the city's fiscal responsibility to the county uh for the parks and recreation natural resource um uh areas that we have surrounding

1:35:21the city and I'll show that on a map in a second as well as the city's participation in the parks MSTU and that you would then authorize the county administrator to enter into those negotiations. It's a very formalized process. So in other words the city wants Uh the county to uh Perhaps contribute. To their aquatic center. And in return, we're we're saying that, well no, well, we need to talk about the parks MSTU, amongst other things. I would say, I will say that it is my understanding that unincorporated citizens, uh I'm sorry, unincorporated

1:35:52uh folks that use that aquatic center are charged a fee. Uh I'm not certain if that fee covers their expenses, but we'll we'll get into the nitty-gritty of it uh once we're gonna do it. We pass this resolution and allows me to to go ahead and enter into negotiations with the city. This is the map that our parks department has put together.

1:36:11uh amenities and park amenities that we uh as a county have uh have within this general s generalized service area and you can see there are a number of them. And with that, I'll take any questions or any discussion from the board, but I do ask that you approve the resolution to allow us to move forward.

1:36:30So in it it's eighty percent of the People memberships there are from the city itself.

1:36:35So according to a two thousand twelve report uh that was that was done by a city consultant, yeah approximately eighty percent were, but those additional twenty percent are are charged the fee, is my understanding. So

1:36:46as far as far as the basic it's it is pretty much for for their folks. And I think this past couple of years we took over Pine Hill Park, which is a park that was in the city, was owned by the city, run by the city, and how many millions of dollars did we spend redoing that park?

1:37:00I believe it was six to seven million dollars that the county reinvested into that park and it is beautiful.

1:37:05And and and I think in the in in part

1:37:07of the

1:37:07exchange we also gave them an office building. That is um When I look at we used to put money into the park between fifty, sixty thousand dollars a year to help run that park at Pine Hill. I think we'd make it a pretty good contribution then. At this point, I think are they still about 99% considered blighted, which funds this CRA, which gives them a lot of money to go kind of redevelop.

1:37:30So their their CRA, my understanding, covers pretty much most of their municipal service boundaries. That is correct.

1:37:35So I I think you should as you have the conversation coming up. Let's go look at that C R A. We had Port Ritchie pull out a lot of pro property from there, probably still not enough. But we did have them take money out of the CRA, which takes money from our regular taxpayers to go into the city itself. So I think that should be part of your conversation as you're as you're going forward.

1:37:55Okay, so Commissioner Mariano, you'd like to amend that resolution to include another topic of discussion, C RA boundaries.

1:38:01Oh, I think absolutely. So let's go look at what's really blighted there and what should be coming up.

1:38:08I I don't have an issue with that.

1:38:10Yeah. I I wouldn't mind seeing what that boundary looks like again. Just to refresh my memory of where

1:38:19it's pretty much the city limits.

1:38:20Well it can't it can't be um Gulf Woodlands, I hope.

1:38:25No.

1:38:28I don't know if we have C R A boundaries as a layer in the GIS or not.

1:38:34So how do we go about adding that language? I I would just if you just want to make a motion and and amend the resolution with that, Jeff, I think that would be appropriate.

1:38:47Okay. I move.

1:38:48Second.

1:38:49Motion is second. All in favor I say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay.

1:38:53Uh I have a question on that. Mr. Starkey. On this on the C R A, if they're defining so many neighborhoods as glided. Are they required to fix those neighborhoods? Or are they allowed to spend the money in other places and not fix the blighted departments?

1:39:10In theory, they're given CRA revenue to fix the blighted areas.

1:39:15That's correct.

1:39:16I don't know that that's how any CRA operates statewide in practical in a practical manner.

1:39:23Now the board has has asked for reports. And and so certainly we have collected, I know through our Office of Management and Budget, they've collected those reports and distributed them as we as we receive them. them from the from the various C RAs and we'll continue to do that. But with this we'll pay some extra we'll have some extra discussion on that with the city.

1:39:42Because I'm aware Newport Ritchie of of a developer or builder um Uh gosh, the dad had a famous builder, I mean, really quality stuff that came in that wanted to build some really nice townhomes. And, you know, five people came and objected so they denied it. But it would have elevated some of the housing stock around downtown, which they need badly. And that's how you get rid of blight. I mean so