Consent agenda approval and pulled items

58:59Now we are on to the consent agenda. And

59:05We have um

59:11C eleven by uh attorney Diane Snyder for to pull and revise. C17, Andrew Baxter, Pull and Revise. C eighteen, Andrew Baxter Pull and Revise. Uh we are not going to withdraw. I crossed it out.

59:32Oh twenty twenty-six. Okay. Sorry, I scribbled over it. We're withdrawing C thirty eight by Margaret Smith. Mike Carbala, C forty nine. Pull and discuss Jason Mickle, C fifty one. Withdraw. Marcy Esperg, C fifty two, Pull and Revise. And Commissioner Moore, AC One Twenty Four, Pull and Discuss.

59:58Are there any other items you'd like to see pulled from the consent agenda? I'm gonna make a comment on one, but I can do that under discussion. Okay. Seeing that I'll take a motion. So move.

1:00:09Second.

1:00:10All in favor? Aye. Aye. Oh, I forgot to do discussion. I'm just really glad to see those uh uh uh openings to the Starkey Wilderness Park happen um south of the of the river. So um that's on your uh on your consent agenda and it's my gosh, it's been something we've been working on forever. So glad to see that going through. And th and those are for the public. to access the lower half of the park. Okay, we'll move on to C eleven.

1:00:39Madam Chairman, members of the board, um we are pulling and revising C eleven. The account um for the transfer in um was the wrong account number. Um and before you ha there is a new Munis printout. Um Showing the correct Account number for outside legal accounts.

1:01:02Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Passes. Um then we have C seventeen. Ancy eighteen.

1:01:12C17, Andrew Baxter, Facilities Management Director. C seventeen is to update this task order. Exhibit B was not Banded system. Um we have now attached that, which is the fee summary. With that uh additional documentation, we recommend approval.

1:01:35Same issue existed on C eighteen. The fee summary was not scanned in. It has now been attached. With that recomm with that attachment we now recommend approval. Move approval.

1:01:45Second.

1:01:47All in favor?

1:01:47Aye.

1:01:48Aye. Opposed, thank you very much. We are on to C thirty-eight. That's a withdrawal. C forty nine is also a withdrawal. C fifty one.

1:02:01C49 is a pool in

1:02:02discuss. Oh, I'm sorry. Skipped right over you.

1:02:05Go back and check my numbers.

1:02:07No, no, I I had Bob's pulled in with you.

1:02:10Thank you. Mike Carbala, Assistant County Administrator for Public Infrastructure. I'm here to present to you today uh Mr. David Allen, PE, for confirmation as our new utilities director. Um the concept of utilities department is rather new to Pasco County. Uh probably we created the department about three years ago with the advent of the public infrastructure branch. Before that utilities director position kind of rolled up to the ACA level since it was it was a branch function, but with the expansion Of those duties, it

1:02:41was necessary to create a utilities department. Um, Mr. Rob Marin uh faithfully served in that position uh in a couple of years and uh you know decided he had some other career uh goals, and so uh that position is vacated. We we conducted a national search, and uh I'm happy again that uh Mr. Allen is here to to join us. He has over 30 years of local government and utility operations and public work. Experience. Most recently as an assistant city manager with the city county of Broomfield. Before that, public works and utility director and utility

1:03:11positions with Los Angeles, City of Anaheim, among others. And he's spent the past 15 years of his career more in the executive leadership level. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University as well as a Master of Science in Water Resources from the University of Southern California. Um I'm excited personally to have him lead this new this nearly five hundred and fifty men and women uh department in our county that provides essential services to our citizens. And so uh with that uh present to you Mr. Allen to perhaps come and say a couple words.

1:03:45Good morning.

1:03:45Good morning. Thank you, Michael, for that introduction. Uh good morning, Chair, Vice Chair, and Commission members. Um, I'm just really excited about the opportunity to come here to Pasco County. My wife and I were looking for an opportunity to uh relocate from Colorado to Florida. Our daughter's gonna be moving out here this coming summer, and so this was just a great opportunity. I got uh the opportunity to meet with a lot of the staff through the interview process. And I'm looking forward to working with them and then also working with each of you more closely once I come on board. So thanks very much.

1:04:16Second.

1:04:18All in favor? Aye.

1:04:20Welcome.

1:04:20Yeah, I hope you can find a place to live. Good luck.

1:04:32Okay, Okay, then we have um Jason. Is Jason still here? Is that a withdrawal? That's the withdrawal. Oh withdrawal, sorry. Marcy. Okay, Marcy. Let me double check here.

1:04:46Good morning, Commissioner Oakley for the record. Marcy Esperk, Director of Community Development. Uh item C fifty two is to spend uh Funding uh with our state housing initiative partnership. to purchase five units of affordable rental housing with our partner ACE Opportunities and the purchase price is $375,000 and the uh the contract as well as the memo, the agenda memo was revised

1:05:16to $405,000 to include closing costs. Wonderful.

1:05:22Madam Clerk? Yeah. Quick question. Marcia, where are these located?

1:05:24Yeah,

1:05:24I'm trying to look

1:05:25they're right by um Walmart, uh um on the uh west side of nineteen south of Walmart. Uh in Port Ritchie.

1:05:35Okay, so those apartments are at the in the back there?

1:05:38Yeah, they're duplexes.

1:05:39Okay. Oh

1:05:40yeah. We've been some of them Okay, I know exactly where that is.

1:05:44Good pricing.

1:05:45All right, so that's wonderful. I'll take a motion.

1:05:47Move approval.

1:05:48Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? All right, that passes. Wonderful. Commissioner Moore, AC one two four. I think

1:05:56Mr. Baxter's gonna come up for that one.

1:05:59And all our firefighters left. Well we have one.

1:06:09Absolutely

1:06:10the importance of it.

1:06:11And Andrew Baxter, Facilities Management Director for the Rec. So this uh agenda item is to replace the training burn tower that was purchased in uh 20 2006. The the average lifespan of a burned tower is about ten years, so it's it's due for replacement. and that we are going to be replacing the entire burn tower out at the location. And uh it's pr over a half million dollar uh uh purchase to upgrade and uh

1:06:41update the entire burn tower out there, which enables the firefighters to be able to train at that location for many more years to come. Excellent. Thank you. Move for approval.

1:06:49Well, I I have a question because the memo was confusing to me because it has this statement in November. Twenty twenty two Pasco County fire rescue will need to undergo a state inspection. Well, let me go to the next paragraph. The construction of a new training center with the burn tower Funded by the general obligation bond is delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain shortages, inflation, and other causes. It is currently expected that the existing training center will remain operational on a full time basis for at least ten years. So

1:07:19the tower is separate from this comment.

1:07:22Uh that comment, that specific paragraph, is talking about part of the bond uh referendum. was to whatever we were able to Uh Have at the end of the bond program. We were planning to build an entire ню тренін комплекс. out near the jail. This is this burn tower is at our existing complex up in Shady Hills. And so that r that is in reference to the new training center and there would be a burn tower at

1:07:52that new location as well. Um but based on the market escalations that we're seeing in the that we're seeing in for the construction of all the new and replacement fire stations, we're reevaluating that entire plan. And this gives us time. to do that by replacing this existing tower at the at the existing Shady Hills training center.

1:08:16Okay. And the uh county attorney just told me they got this out in two days. High five.

1:08:21Yes they

1:08:22did.

1:08:23Without touching him, I give him a high five. Okay. Did did I get a motion a second? I made

1:08:30a

1:08:31motion. And we got a second? Yeah. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. That passes. Good news. Okay. Um we are now on to the R's. I've lost my script.