Habitat, fire, corrections, sheriff updates
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jun 16, 2026
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Commissioner Yeager.
Okay. So this was Habitat for Humanity. This was Mr. Paul Cuba. He was an interesting story. He had started ten years ago with Habitat and never gave up. And he volunteered over 500 hours. So he was only supposed to have 350, but he helped other people go for home. So that was really cool. Okay, next is my public safety update. Um so fire rescue had a total of 8,826 calls. The MVA, is that the Metavac? What
is that? What does MVA stand for? What's it stamp for? Motor view boxes. Oh motor view boxes. I know that. 321. Structure fires 37. Special ops calls 153. And then um there is a story. Joanna, would you like to tell the story? Since I can't find it about the e-bike?
Yeah, I believe that was the the call that we responded to at like I think it was like one in the morning, but um there was a structure fire in this home, two story home. And um th we found the fires in the garage um with this e bike, so there's a picture of this one.
Wow, really?
Mm. How did they catch fire? All right, all right. And uh let's see. Oh and then do you wanna go back to the other slide? So um this was the um
This was the corrections honor guard the members served at last week's Ray's baseball game. So that was really, really An honor for them.
I would just like to say those guys are sharp.
Really?
Very sharp.
And then um we just have a shout out for the corrections. Lieutenant Joseph Allen with the Corrections Department was recently recognized by inmates family and corrections leadership for his professional and compassionate care following an inmate incident. The inmates family wrote, We appreciate the prompt response and reassurance that he is receiving appropriate care. His mother and I feel much better knowing that he is safe, that his medical needs were addressed. And this just highlights the team's commitment to their excellence and attentive care. So shout
out to Corrections. And then just for the Sheriff's Office, their update is All right, so since their last update on 519, they have received more than 21,500 calls for service and have conducted more than 3,500 traffic stops, including that total of a thousand welfare checks, where some calls into report they are concerned about a person they have not heard or seen. Recently, more than 20 million. Missing people investigations and substantial response
needed calls for service such as human remains being found in a construction site and stopping multiple teen takeovers, including a highly publicized event at the crate at Wesley Chapel. So just um my monthly update for them, shout out to them because we have an amazing public service team and not to not to mention our 911 workers, we love you too. I wanted to just bring attention to something that the team and David Ingall and I have been working on and it is a small business initiative
and we've we've uh nicknamed it Work Local. And it's basically making a path for small businesses in Pasco County to move through the process more efficiently with a Boutique type of service, like a concierge service, and also to Help get them going quicker and to try and navigate some of the fees. Nice. So and we're also working on some of the blighted areas