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Here. All right. Uh now is the time for public comment and citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business under the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First we will take public comment from those who are here in person. Then we will take public comment from those who are pre-re who have pre-registered For a WebX link and are currently on queue. We request that
when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against the commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues, and this provides mutual respect between board members and the public. After starting stating your name and address for the clerk, a three-minute timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After two minutes, a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. And when your time is up, a red light will be displayed Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments.
Webex participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. And Madam Clerk, do we have anyone who's signed up?
We do. We have a few who have signed up. Um if I pronounce your name incorrectly, you can correct me. I'm I'm okay with that. Uh the first one up is Inaki Alvarez, and then followed by Amanda McCall.
Hello, good morning. My name is Alvarez, Inaaki Alvarez, and I'm the uh uh [address removed].
And I'm the president of the Fairway Oaks Homeowners Association. And with me is Annette, she's a board member. And um Good morning and thank you for for letting us speak here. The um The reason why we're here is because uh a year ago.
Uh we discussed a sale of uh Property. Ryan Holmes was buying. The closed golf course. that exists in our community, Fairway Oaks. And uh in that
uh, we believe was agreed That's right.
the land to uh twenty acres that is in our side of the golf course was going to be given To the community free of charge. And The developer was going to help clear the trees. the pine trees uh that were especially in the retention ponds uh that were placed there as part of the closing of the golf course. and
that the county uh agreed to take the debris away at no charge. to the community. So we are here just to confirm that that that all is indeed the reason we're here also is that we've heard from r what we think are reliable sources that the sale is actually gonna take place now. It was postponed from last March. And perhaps it's gonna happen now in October. That's what we're hearing from reliable sources. So we thought we'd come the month
before. uh address the the the county to please guide us and make sure that what was agreed to, what we believe was agreed to, indeed happens. And um and that's that's it. Let's see.
Some of you were in that meeting. I recognize some of the
we don't typically engage during public comment, but someone will meet you in the back and I think it's Mr. Engel over here. And um he will discuss everything with you.
Is that a yes or no or is that um
that Mr D Mr
Yeah, I understood what about that.
We we don't have the agreement in front of us.
All right. All right, well, if that's the case, I appreciate it very much. Yes, I know.
I would have been having media ahead of time, but David Engle
could
have.
All right, thank you. Next.
I'm gonna take that as a positive, I hope, although
I hope
so
too.
All
right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Amanda McCall followed by Christina Wood.
Uh looks like we're gonna receive something.
Yeah.
Make a motion.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Uh yes, I have document documents to submit.
All in favor?
Aye. And they're multiple copies, so I hope everyone gets one.
But good morning. Um we are here, myself and my neighbors. Name and address. Uh Amanda McCall, [address removed].
You may proceed. Um, we're here about a nuisance property as well as health and safety concerns. Um across the road at nine six four five Jerome Drive. Um The owner passed away back in 2020. Taxes have not been paid. The property is still not up for sale.
Squatters have moved in. They're living in Two different campers as well as a garage. The house burnt down in 2007. They have electric and internet. Um currently I believe they have ten adult dogs that are allowed to run loose. We have called animal control. They were there Thursday and received, I believe, close to 2,000 incitations. They have not kept them put up. They're still running. They've started chasing people with a PAC
mentality. Um we do know that There's drug use on the property. Um I have contacted Code. I also have transcripts from Code. Fire Department, Sheriff's Department, and 911. Seventy-five calls to 911 just this year alone. Uh 14 EMS calls, 23 code complaints, it's just a waste of tax money and we do fear for our safety and the children and people that live around
us. Since the owner has passed, I was informed by code that there's nothing that they can do that we would need to
Mm-hmm. to ask for a resolution to this issue. As far as one of the pop-up campers the Moon Lake area. Yeah yes.
Is it New 'cause I'm is it New Port Richey or Hudson?
New Port Richey. New Port Richey, I just looked up Moon Lake. Yeah, I believe we're in District Four, I think.
Not
for certain Lake. What's the n what's the area? Jerome Drive. We are No no the the neighborhood. Moonlight. Oh it is moonlight.
Oh
yeah, it is moonlight. Okay.
I'm gonna pass these on so you can see. Um But yet um including in some of just There's trash, junk, debris, constant noise. Um I know that they have been cited for the permitted use of not being allowed to live in the structures that they're living in. Um constant open burning, which they're doing on the back of the property, which borders Jerome Lake, which I believe is county property. Um one of the trailers
I know is pushed back far enough trying to hide what they're doing. I do believe it's actually sitting on county property. Um as far as 911, there's been warrants, overdoses, battery, assault, forgery, noise, animals. Um It just goes on and on. And this is just this year alone.
So what we're all here for is just requesting that something happen because since the owner's dead, there's No way for code to do anything.
Can somebody talk to her?
Um who here can speak with her and the others that are here for this issue? Mm-hmm.
Oh sure. Thank you very much. Thank you. I hope it gets cleaned up.
Yeah, we're trying. Thank you, Debbie. Yeah. All right. We have Christina Wood followed by Alan Rose. If
you're here for that issue, the head of our code enforcement is in the back there with the sh the sheriff's representative and they'll talk to you.
Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna piggyback off her. My name is Christina Wood. I'm at [address removed]. I actually live directly next door to them. I have direct view of all the trash. I wake up in the morning to drink my coffee, that's what I see. I just bought this house five months ago. My husband and I worked very hard to move here and our goal was to find peace. We are living in a very bad apartment complex over off of Ridge Road, wintry apartments, I'm sure people know about it. We
moved out of there and got ourselves in what we thought would be a better situation. I have chickens, which I absolutely adore, who are getting attacked by these dogs. Code was like she said, Code was there Thursday. I was out with a chicken on my lap yesterday. These dogs came running up to me. My husband got up, yelled at the dogs to go away. The woman next door started yelling for her dogs, and I yelled back, you need to keep your dogs on your property. I don't want to have to take control of that situation on my property
with the dogs, if you get my understanding with that. That's the last thing I want to do. I'm an animal lover first. But these dogs do have a mentality of a pack. They run around the neighborhood. I have videos even up to today of these dogs in rows of five or six going across my property, going through my yard. I have a dead rabbit now. My rabbit died yesterday because a dog was torturing it in its cage. I'm I'm done. I'm over it. I've called police, they'd be
playing music at Two o'clock in the morning. My son, who's fifteen, is in high school, first year high school, R O T C great student, does really well. Can't sleep at night because of the boom boxes in the middle of the night. Two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning, and it's all day. I work from home. This music was starting at five in the morning and going until eight at night. I was physically ill from the bass being in my room hearing this all day.
the drugs we be out will be out there with our animals cause we spend a lot of time outside with them. We're sitting out there and They're coming out of the camper, literally tweaking. And I hear people yelling in the camper about getting Narcan. I called nine one one. This this has gotta come to an end. Whether or not there's an owner involved they're they're causing a real big problem in our neighborhood and we're not getting any rest. So
I will tell you we are working on it. It's it's it's a huge lift but we are on it. Yeah. And I'm also having um my aide meet you in the back along with them. Right. And
I actually called a couple of weeks ago on the phone and spoke with you guys about this meeting coming and dealing with this. So
Okay. But we're gonna try and help you as much as we can. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Madam Chair?
Yeah. There's a lot passed by the legislature this past year about dangerous dogs. I think uh with Chase in the back of the room, with David maybe they should get together as well and just find out what can be done about what's going on there.
I I you know. These child these problems are hard. Um it took me a year to get the people living in those tents on 19. Out of there. Um We should Bring this up with our legislature that uh that we we need to be able to help our citizens, be able to live in their homes comfortably. Yeah. It's not right.
Agreed.
All right.
Good morning. Alan Rhodes, [address removed]. Presentation for the board. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.
So good morning and uh this morning I'm bringing to you before you Stormwater Management West Pasco County in the Central Basin. Areas concerned Golden Acres, Bass Lake, Crane's Roost, Ossiola Heights, Griffin Park, Timber Oaks, Beacon Woods, Summer Tree, Shady Hills, Moon Lake, River Ridge, and Hidden Lake. All these communities are now prone to flooding due to a lack of waterways management at Bear Creek and the Coti River. They are also prone to flooding due to a lack of maintaining the stormwater system already
in place for years, bringing the waters to Bear Creek to our north and the Cotee River to our south. Just like Trinity to our south, repetitive flooding every year. Theirs is the Ankle River. All these, all three of these waterways are over impaired water basins, mainly due to lack of flow and repetitive flooding due to not maintaining stormwater management stations in place. Our wetlands are being rezoned and built on throughout the area. Most recently the building
buildings from uh Lowe's south along Little to the New VA hardening the surface and now the water flow that wouldn't naturally drain that way now flows to Rocky Sink. And uh Rocky Sink now fills up fast. Where that used to be a natural drain from where we live over in Golden Acres across to Rocky Sink and just naturally go that way. Well now with all this development over here, it's pushing the water into Rocky Sink faster. And I just watched this last storm
systems that we had, I watched rocky sink flow backwards. And I know Bass Lake, they were four feet high. Their water docks were underwater. So I went to uh Well, anyway, more to more to this, the Hidden Lake Preserve has been sold to a developer. 500 acres of wetlands. I can only imagine how that will affect stormwater management and water quality throughout the ecosystem once it's rezoned and built on. There is new repetitive flooding throughout our basin. There hasn't been before. The
basin is bordered to the north at State Road 52, to the south at Ridge Road. To the west Little Road, and to the east Moon Lake Road. Our wetlands throughout this basin in the northern section flow to Bear Creek. Wetlands in the southern section drain to the Coti River through who Rocky Sink in the Tanglewood spillway. and Hidden Lake through Port Douglas Drive Wetlands bypass.
New flooding being experienced in Golden Acres on Casey Drive and Sunshine Boulevard to the wetlands normally fro flowing from Camps Camp Camps Woods south through Casey Drive, Sunshine and Wild Palm East to the Tanglewood Spillway. There is a blockage between Sunshine and Royal Palm on Hilltop by the old VA Center. Uh look lack of maintenance. Then to the north of Jasmine and Hilltop and Jasmine and Nina Court.
And filling the star trail.
Aye. Thank you.
There's a lot there.
Okay, I'm sure our stormwater folks will will give this to them. They're here.
We have Mike Garrett followed by Pastor Troy Peterson.
Good morning. Mike Durant, [address removed]. Sorry, a little too close.
Uh I'm sorry, what was your address?
[address removed].
All right. I'm a resident of Pifla Coda, Cody River Delta. It's been a long standing history. It was first inhibited by Native Americans from the Calusa tribe, Over on Olzner Mound, there's artifacts dating back as far as 1000 AD for its fertile fishing grounds. clean water with its thriving seagrass meadows, Um it holds uh Uh Homes to many protected species, including the Florida manatee,
bottlenose dolphin, Florida alligator, green sea turtles, and ospreys, to name a few.
Our watershed has been overlooked and neglected for the past seventy years. With the development of industry and water runoffs that are impaired Waterways have killed our eel grass. Uh No maintenance to remove any sediment. um has ever been done. Uh
As late as nineteen eighty, Miller's Bayou was thriving with seagrass meadows, clear water, And now it's stagnant. and often gets close to swimming due to the warm temperatures and high bacteria count. By renovating this watershed, will we have better infrastructure for storms that will provide discounts to residents?
um the call it home, uh better habitat for all native species. and bring more eco-friendly tourism to our local communities. Uh recently uh this impaired waterway Uh contributed to scallops season being closed. For one month. Um Which is one of Pasco County's uh Tourism fisheries. Uh most recently uh a staff member Uh where I volunteer
at the EMC uh Got staff infection. Uh and had to miss work for a week. Um
Uh finally with these elevated water temps it attracts hurricanes and we all know the devastation that that can cause in our community. Thank you.
Thank you very
much.
We have Tr Ma Pastor Troy Peterson.
I do have some flyers for you guys. Would
receive file? Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye.
Uh Troy Peterson, uh 8114 Leokid Road, Port Ritchie, Florida. Uh that's uh Light of the World Tabernacle. I am also one of the pastors for uh Somebody Cares Pasco. And the flyers that I'm handing out here first, uh would be the Care Fest. Many of you guys are uh remember CareFest. We've been doing this about twenty years and I'm really excited Um this year
Uh once again, we've partnered with Elderly Nutrition through the Meals on Wheels program. So all these projects, I believe there's twenty-seven of them. where actually the county has been out there seen that, you know, veterans wheelchair ramp has fallen apart and needs to be fixed or fence has fallen down. Um, you know, there's blight in the community, such as speak of Um that we can
come together. uh to work on these projects together uh the church and government and businesses in the area uh to help these that can't afford to take care of the problems themselves. I do know uh in the past uh this is uh one day a year, right? The last Saturday in September, this time it happens to be September twenty-seventh. But also this is a year-around thing uh where code enforcement,
whether it be Pasco County or whether it be Port Ritchie uh particularly uh will give us a call and say, hey, you know, uh their their lawn is over mode and we're gonna have to find them or give them a code enforcement. meant you know, uh go give 'em a violation, they can't afford it, you know, would you guys go and and take care of it? And uh we're glad to do that through our men's maintenance program uh with Pastor Jerry. They're out of the Oasis Coffee Spot on Thursday
nights. Also, um I give you a half page flyer of a night of inspiration looking at the past to inspire our future. Uh this is with Dr. Doug Stringer, uh the uh Somebody Cares International. just to kinda give you a heads up what this guy's all about, when Governor Rick Scott was governor and, you know, we had problems with hurricanes, right? Um he called up Doug Stringer and said, you know,
Doug, would you lead a national uh day of would you lead a day of prayer and fasting? Of course, Doug said yes and United somebody cares to do that. Um working with you know, also with Governor DeSantis, hurricane relief. You know, w who do they call when all that flooding happened in Texas? Well, Doug Stringer, uh Somebody Cares International. And of course you guys know Daniel Bernard, uh Somebody Cares Tampa Bay. Uh we're gonna meet at the Oasis Coffee
Spot there on little um Saturday, October fourth, and we're gonna have uh music and word of encouragement. And uh is that my time up or do I got a minute?
That is your time.
Okay. All right. I did want to pray for you guys, so I'll do that in private. I just come from a prayer meeting anyways, so we are praying for you and I do thank you guys for your service.
Thank you. So Madam Chair, that that is um all that I have signed up. I also wanna let you know I there's no one signed up for WebEx, so If you would like to make a Okay, so if would
anyone here like to address the board this morning? Come on up, sir.
Be before I start, my name is William Justiniano. I would like to read a script. Your
address.
[address removed]. Uh Roman thirteen From one through three. Every person Is to be In subjection of the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God. And those which exists, are established by God. Therefore,
whoever resists authority has opposed Ordinance of God. and they who have opposed will receive condemnation. upon themselves. For rulers.
a cause of fear. For God behavior. But for evil. Do you want to have No fear of authority. Do what is good. And you will receive Prayers. From g from the same. I I came before Uh Because I had a problem? But I think God brought me again over here. I've been coming here a
lot of times. Uh And There's uh such thing, honorable people from authority. and management That needs to be addressed. as as an attorney Pas. is responsibility if he doesn't follow the rule of law He he comes in condemnation. The same thing We
follow Uh God And the word of God. Because Uh
even though that many people don't don't know how to interpret it. But as a building code does not follow his book. There's a problem. because then it brings condemnation to the people that they serve. The same thing the law. If they don't it if they don't Abide by The their law Who they're gonna be following. I follow
the law of God. Because this is uh
were were binded by God.
So The problem is The building Code is not following. And nobody else other than the people that follow the book if you are followed the law of the book Then It brings combination to me. and then then it brings condemnation to the rest of the people as a domino fact.
Thank you.
Thank you. I think you were the gentleman who had the issue with the windows.
Yes I am.
Aye.
And if it's not Followed I I I I don't expect nobody to tell me uh I'm sorry that that I if I if I When when I preached the God God's word I stay in God's word. When I was in the military I followed The law The legal law of being in the military. So
I expect Everybody else. To follow The code.
I I I I I hope by I put myself
thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Is there anyone else here that wishes to speak speak to us this morning?
Okay, seeing no one, we will close a public comment. And move on to the, let's see, I was getting wrong. So is it resolutions?