Miscellaneous business Commissioner Oakley and Moore
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Thank you. All right.
Miscellaneous business. What time is it? Commissioner Oakley. What's your group?
That's a time circle.
We didn't think we'd be done this quick. I'd be fast meeting.
That's
right.
That's
awesome.
All right. Well a lot of things are happening in the county. I uh teach. We had our first uh workshop meeting for Lakuchi and uh this past week. Went went very well. Um I look for that to continue going forward and actually that community coming back, the school being back up to uh more than fifty percent, hopefully in the seventy or eighty percent. Uh feeling in the near future. So but
a lot of things gotta happen in that area. But
that that area around Trilby, Trillicucci, and Lacouche will continue to grow and there's a lot of pressures on it because we're getting a new four-lane road from 301 from 50 all the way down 301 back into where it is four lane now. for lining also around Uh Dade City on the bypass and then of course Probably around June or July we will have the new Route 52 being
complete and they'll start moving forward with that across coming across 301 bending the new road toward 98 98 to the county line over in Pope County before Lane. So a lot of things happen, a lot of roads are going to be complete in the near future that that we've been struggling with the construction all going on like diversion diamond and it it's coming together and it's moving very nice. I've been through it a couple of times. And um uh of course overpass
paid by Pasco County. Um that overpass hopefully toward the end of October we'll have a conclusion on overpass and that'll be operating and it helps spread out that traffic and things will get better near the Wesley Chapel area, Mr. Moore. So it'll help all of us. That's basically all I have this way.
Great. Thank you. Commissioner
Oakley Thank you Madam Chair. I'll talk really slow to get us to eleven o'clock. No hurry. Well I guess first of all, congratulations are in order for um Mr. Kabbalah. I think we all saw on our consent agenda today his contract. So he is official now, so congratulations,
Mr. Justin Pick on him more.
Yes. He's the real deal now.
Yeah, there you go.
Um let's just go over some tourism things. We had some major events over the summer at Advent Health Center Ice that our tourist um office, um Adam Thomas and his team of Florida Sports Coast partnered on. Um Taurus roller skating uh tournament again was at 2,643 room nights. So that's really, really strong. And that's the towards the roller skating, that's the um I I call it it's not really roller skating, it's roller hockey, right? They do it on inline
skates, but that's pretty big. We actually have former um NHL NHL player, minor league NHL players that actually play in that as well, so it's a pretty big tournament. Um Sunshine's Cup hockey tournament, that was one thousand three hundred and eighty-six room nights, very strong. Then they recently had the US figure skating national showcase, eight hundred and nine room nights. So that was a really, really big event. Actually my my daughter got my my uh son to volunteer. He actually
volunteered there to help out. They needed volunteers because um they were coming from all over the nation. I think the the the uh figure skating folks are from up north somewhere so volunteers so
no wonder so busy in Weston Chapel. There you go.
But those are all conservative figures. Our final numbers really haven't come in. I we
have
a feeling that there's those numbers are even better than what that um we've published so far. But um again these are the people that are coming to our our county they're eating our restaurants staying in our in our hotels and supporting our small businesses and we really appreciate that. So congratulations again Adam and your team for constantly bringing in those big big tournaments. We talked about a Port Richey CRA last last time that they're going to be voting on pulling another area out. They did so I know we're all happy about that.
Good thing for everyone so we appreciate the mayor and council and the new city manager for working hard on that.
I was gonna talk about this, but I'm gonna wait, because I need to talk to Mr. Paula. Before.
Go ahead, we have time.
No, no, I want to check on something before I actually
Well I d I I do too, so at least check your phone and give me an answer.