West Pasco Sertoma Club check presentations

2:27Well we'll do you before we do the resolution. You wanna do that one now? Mike? Were we gonna do that before the Red Lice vr okay, come on now. This is a this is kind of a celebration.

2:39Well we should bring Marilyn up too.

2:42Whoever wants to come up for this award is is fine.

2:47My name's Harvey Reinhardt I live in a [address removed]. And I'm member Treasurer Secretary of the West Pasco Setoma Club. And were the Uh managing uh club of the Pasco Sclop and Music Fest. So We want to thank all the sponsorships that we had. We want to thank Jack and his staff for Making

3:19it all possible for it to happen.

3:21They worked very hard.

3:24And we want to thank those that helped us, steps to recovery. And the Parks and Recks. And today we want to present uh checks to each of our organizations in the amount of seven thousand dollars.

3:43Marilyn?

3:44Thank you.

3:53Um wait, let's let's do this definitely.

3:56You want to move to receive and file? Yeah.

3:59Okay, let's do that first. Move to

4:00receive and file. Second.

4:01All in favor? Aye. Um so you have three placards or or two? Two? Three. So are there

4:08one with the

4:09is anyone else here with you? Is there anyone else here with you?

4:12Uh I don't see

4:14Jack, I definitely think you should go down.

4:15Jack, come on down and um you take it. Stay up here.

4:18Another one Kathy Pearson for Parks and Record.

4:21Yeah, let's um let's read off let's read off who the recipients are, each one, because I think you only said two. And then right-of-way.

4:30they're for? She wants you to read out who they're

4:32for. Yeah, well go ahead. But you have to stand at the podium microphone so they can record it.

4:38All right. The Board of Commissioner for Parks and Recks for summer camp for the children that can't afford it. Okay. Seven thousand dollars. Seven thousand dollars. And we have one for steps to recovery in the amount of seven thousand dollars.

4:59And our West Pasco Sertoma Club in the amount of seven thousand dollars. And I might add that fifty-two fifty of that will go to Sertoma Speech and Hearing Foundation. because it's an organization that The club started forty one years ago.

5:16I donate my glasses to you.

5:18And we give seventy five percent of whatever fundraisers we have to the organization.

5:24Wonderful. So first let's let's Yeah.

5:29Um I'd like to take a photo. Does anyone else wanna come down and get in in the photo and then we'll move on with Yeah, come on down. This is special. And we'll Jack, you wanted to give us some.

5:43Give one.

5:54Yeah, he gets money and he's not even here.

6:01I'll I'll help you. There you go. Slide a little bit that way.

6:08How are you? Are you ready?

6:18And um is there a little

6:20bit I I pass I pass by your construction every day, so that'd be great.

6:30Marilyn, can you say a couple of words about how is your

6:38Hi, I'm Marilyn Matius and I'm with Steps to Recovery. We're an organization that helps veterans, homeless veterans with a disease of addiction. And I cannot sing the praises of the people of Pasco County and the Board of County Commissioners. We have had our little organization grow from six beds in 2006 to Pretty soon it's gonna be Over eighty beds

7:09for people who want to recover from drugs and alcohol. And it's all due to the to again to the residents and to the Board of County Commissioners that have supported us over the years. And I'm the the building itself. Is is actually coming along beautifully. It's on Trouble Creek between Grand and Madison. Um they're expecting it to be completed in the spring. I think they said f

7:40let's say February, March. I I'm not sure I trust construction people with when they're gonna be done all the time.

7:48But that's what they're telling us. And it's gonna it's that building will house thirty veterans and we'll have a support person on on staff there. Um and we're just thrilled. We also gonna do uh some educational things and Um I'm at a loss for what else to say. I know you got a busy day, but thank you, thank you, thank you. You will never know how much you all are appreciated, every single one of you. Thank you.

8:12Marilyn, thank you for all the great work you're doing for our community. I mean it's been so easy to get behind you with all the great stuff you're doing from the get-go. Uh and I'll tell you at the Scholar Fest, her team of people that that that live in those homes were all out there volunteering and they were phenomenal. Things were coming up, whatever was needed, they did uh did a phenomenal job. So we're so happy what you're doing for our veterans and helping our community a better place. So thank you.

8:33You know in about two years we're gonna have so many resources, you know, when all these construction projects that are so good that are are going on. And we're gonna get you some oak trees to replace the ones you had to knock down.

8:47Okay. Okay.