Commissioner reports and announcements

4:40:16Well I had a list.

4:40:19One.

4:40:20Simple.

4:40:20A list?

4:40:22Yeah, but you already went through through a bunch of

4:40:25already went through stuff.

4:40:26Oh I got yeah, I got a few things. Just

4:40:31Well I can tell you it's about twenty minutes we're out of here. I have two things and an announcement. If you're through or not through uh we're gone. I

4:40:39go before you. You go like this.

4:40:41No you don't. No. Yeah. No, you go by Oh just recognized. Yeah.

4:40:47I'll let you slide.

4:40:50So uh

4:40:51Okay,

4:40:51go ahead. Uh historically so there's a uh Oh serious uh Commissioner Moore was here uh this group worked with Commissioner Moore's uh office and Terry in the past. So uh there's a concert for the cure uh for a cure it's a it's a concert benefiting benefiting cancer resource uh research at uh Land O' Lakes Heritage Park and uh they're asking that the county waive uh their fees that way they can

4:41:21profit more and historically

4:41:22how much are their fees?

4:41:24Uh do we know

4:41:25it's a couple of hundred bucks, two hundred and fifteen dollars I'll it's a couple hundred dollars. I mean it's

4:41:30I can't pay them too long.

4:41:34It's work it's more

4:41:35money for charity,

4:41:36sir. It's gone in the past and uh so more in the past.

4:41:40Make a motion

4:41:40on a second. Second.

4:41:42We got a motion second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

4:41:45Thank you, board members.

4:41:46It's passed. Okay. Next, you're done? sir.

4:41:52Ms. Torkey?

4:41:53Me. Okay.

4:41:58I'll start with uh the uh Commissioner Oakley, you were there. We had the pleasure of uh putting out I think we did six hundred cars that morning. Oh yeah.

4:42:09Um

4:42:10giving out the the food. Yeah um

4:42:12that's pretty amazing how many cars go through the

4:42:14Yeah.

4:42:16Well well done on uh Mike for Silo

4:42:19and thanks for Mike and everyone for putting that together. Um then my staff went to Metropolitan Ministries, which is the next pictures, which I think the county are you had you been there earlier in the morning? Was it the same day or you went I think you were there on the same day as us. Yes,

4:42:35our Executive leadership team, so

4:42:37the Assistant

4:42:37County Administrator and myself, we had volunteered over there as personal shoppers, parking, it was a fantastic experience.

4:42:43Yeah, and I you know I've done it, I did it at the old Metropolitan Ministry site and now it's moved right now to Generations Church and another very well oiled machine. And uh because we were gonna have bad weather Sunday, man, that Saturday was or Friday Saturday what we did on Friday, Saturday was gonna be bad weather. It was packed and um And I I don't even know how many people they um oh thirty thousand families. Alright, um wanna show you a picture of our county flag. And

4:43:13uh my staff came to me with this and they said, what do you think if we had a contest to redesign our flag? 'Cause look how fun those other ones are and look at ours. So We um you know let us talk m I don't know with whom and

4:43:31I don't know about those others but that one on the left is traditionally uh Pasco County.

4:43:36No, that is ours and the other ones this is Orange County, this is Oakaloosa and this is Hernando. Hernando changed those a few years back. So I think it would be fun to have A little contest and jazz up that flag.

4:43:51Fernando's I believe is their branding. Would be like your Your brand.

4:43:57If we wanted to go that way with the branding. Yeah. Um so just wanted to do like that.

4:44:03We have existing branding already, which is the the cranes and and the we

4:44:08can we can we can design it ourselves.

4:44:10I mean our seal always is the seal to the commissioners.

4:44:16It's missing the star.

4:44:18Um I mean do you like Like that or would you wanna try and go to something a little more fun?

4:44:23I've said for a long time I thought we should change it. Traditional as it is, I think every other s county in Florida does something ties into their area and does something nice. So I I think we should do it to dress it up. Yeah.

4:44:35And you know, it could include our brand and um it could not. So maybe we have someone give us ideas on what direction the contest should go in. Or do you want to decide either? I mean our brand I mean ours is that yellow is that bird like theirs. That's the only thing. The heron, right? No. Sandhill crane. Sandhill crane. Sandhill crane. Um look put it out to the people. Yeah. Yeah. Let the people tell you what they want. And um we could, you know, have a monetary.

4:45:05Yeah, let me let me talk to our communication staff. Okay. Get back to us on the circle.

4:45:10Okay, so there's that one. Uh Um there's the metal fences, move on from that. I already talked to you about Coban grasses, we already decided that. Um so we've got a prob problem with semis parking on po on our county right away. And this is on Trinity Boulevard. And actually our our code went out and gave him a warning. and the the one left and then another one came in. So Um You know, I'm working on a a procedure page with

4:45:41staff and the sheriff's office and all affected parties on what to do when a homeless person when someone calls in and reports a homeless person or homeless camp because we we're all over the place on how we deal with these. Um It's really I mean, who's who is supposed to be Ticketing these people. Is it our code? Is it the Sheriff's Office? Is it the highway patrol? Um, we also have it I don't know if I have pictures any more pictures, but they're they're doing it on

4:46:11a road behind the restaurants in Starkey Ranch, but it's a C D D, so Um some Longspur if you're ever in there. There people have other R Vs. That's that's where they keep 'em, on on the road of Long Spur. in in Starkey Range. So um we wanna know what is the procedure and who's responsible and I think we need to figure that out. Lastly, huh? Yes, we already have that fresh. Okay. I

4:46:42wanted to share with you that Marcy and the team submitted uh the AMPSkills project for the 2024 Audrey Nelson Award. With the National Community Development Association, so the C D BG, all projects in the country. that use C D B G money and we won.

4:47:02So we're one of five projects in the country. And so um I'll be cutting my vacation short, sadly. Oh because it's when I'm on the ski slopes, Savannah. Uh but I'll be cutting out two days and heading to Washington. Um with Tom Madano and Marcy and her some of her staff. Um and we'll be presenting. And uh Congressman Belarakis is invited and will be receiving our award, so I'm very grateful that they put us in and that we won. So that's it for me.

4:47:32Mr. Mariano. I just want to say uh I had a great wedding with my daughter getting married uh the December twenty eighth. We did it at Saddlebrook and I tell you they were phenomenal. Everything was great job and uh very very happy for her. Right. Okay.

4:47:49All right. That's it? That's it.

4:47:54Mr.

4:47:56I'll be very, very brief. I think I texted you individually on New Year's Day, but I wanted to advise the board publicly that our community rating system, our CRS rating, was upgraded from a six to a five. That equates to an additional five percent of savings over on federal flood insurance for our citizens. So uh hats off to our emergency management team, our building construction uh service. Team and our stormwater teams for the and you know and the host of the team for working together on that. A lot of it was just documentation

4:48:26of process that we did not really have pulled together for some 2018. And Commissioner Starkey know maybe some concerns over increased cost for building. That is not the case from moving to a a six to a five or even a five to a four for that matter, if you were to lower it to a three that that could involve certain. Certain acts. But but nevertheless it's it's it's a good thing. So I just wanted to, you

4:48:49know,

4:48:49let the board know that hey, we're saving our citizens some money on their flood insurance. So

4:48:54Thanks. Marion County, you want to cover that?

4:48:58Oh, I thought you were going to cover that, but that's I was gonna let you cover it. Well, thank you, sir. Uh we uh uh through our through our facilities team uh relationships uh we had the uh members of the uh Marion County Commission as well as their administrative staff come and visit uh Pasco County uh last week. Uh they came specifically to they wanted to talk, look at some of Our fire stations. We weren't able to do that because their chief was unavailable. But we did look at uh animal services as well as wellness centers, and it was a great opportunity to exchange information and and

4:49:28learn about what the other teams are doing. Uh and then I think uh we talked them out of going to Top Golf and sent them over to Pop Stroke. So they uh they enjoyed their time here in Pasco County and it was great. Chair was there, myself were there to to greet them as well as some of our team members. Yeah, it was it was. It was an excellent time. And of course, they extended an invitation to us to come visit their county at any time if there are things that uh we want to see. So thank you.

4:49:51Okay.

4:49:53I don't have anything for you today.

4:49:58Why not I mean, we like some of your expertise or something.

4:50:04Okay. So I

4:50:06the boss did give me something. So gave me a minute. Discover that. So a couple things. Um N eighty-two is the IG twenty twenty-four annual audit plan. It was emailed to the commission from Patrice Monaco McBride on December eighteenth. Um so you have a copy in your email. Um Just want to put it on the record. N eighty seven our office is gonna withdraw it its minutes, um, but it has the wrong date on it. So we'll resubmit it on a future one. But right

4:50:37and then lastly, um there's jury scam hits again. Another Pasco County resident was um called by a fake Pasco County deputy being told that she was gonna have to pay eighteen hundred dollars or risk being handcuffed and taken to jail um because she didn't show up for jury duty. Um which uh s so they ended up um she ended up Venmoing the the money and they um So

4:51:08this individual uh paid that amount out of her Venmo account and then the fake deputy then told this lady to go to the clerk's office and ask for Nikki or Nicole and that's how we found out about it. But um it we've be we've been trying to put something out there it keeps happening at least once a month it happens so they are out. But that's all we have.

4:51:29That's it. Well thank you. Um, only a couple of things. Um one of 'em is uh Mr. Weightman, I need you to serve on the um aging group with Anne Marie. They meet one day a month, same day as Tampe War. Jack and I can't serve. Kathryn has all she can handle. It comes back to you and she said she was gonna try to have they used to have two meeting

4:51:59votes, she's gonna try to have four meetings in Pasco. Which would help you then go into and you only have to uh Make ten meetings out of that. It's uh well it's a total of ten meetings.

4:52:11Yeah. So I'll do my best. But

4:52:15I need you to and I need you to at least make the minimum of that 'cause 'cause it has to be a commissioner. It can't we can't assign it to someone else. It has to be a commissioner. I would be more than happy to do it, but I'm on Tampay Warren. I can't do both. And Jack's got same issues.

4:52:36Not able to on some of that. I'll do my best. All right. That's all I want. Just ten minutes. Once a month.

4:52:46Okay. Uh and also I need a person for a VAB board. Uh Mr. McBride had uh retired from that board. It only meets A couple of a couple of three days a year, I think, so it's very short. So if you have someone that would like to serve and And that's a that's actually a very interesting board commitment. Ask Ellen Altman.

4:53:11He is he's

4:53:12a

4:53:12school board member.

4:53:13Who?

4:53:13Ellen Altman.

4:53:14Yeah.

4:53:15And he lives here.

4:53:16I think he's on it already.

4:53:19Yeah.

4:53:22He was as a school board member, but he's not on the school board anymore. Oh

4:53:25that's

4:53:25right.

4:53:26I'll ask.

4:53:27Yeah.

4:53:28But y'all think of any other names, let me know.

4:53:31That that meets over here, right?

4:53:33Yes. Myself and and Mr. Weightman are on that same

4:53:38So we need a citiz a uh citizen appointee citizen.

4:53:41Yes. If you think of someone to be good for that then and it's not a big requirement, you have to read it the information, but it's uh it really goes very smooth and it's not a long meeting or anything of that nature. So Okay. Um see.

4:54:03We're not adjourned yet. You can't do it you can't ride in the dark if you'd uh if you'd have listened to me earlier in the day you'd have been gone at three o'clock. But Well that's all I have. thank everyone. I I'm uh

4:54:18did Did you send out the list of our appointments?

4:54:21Wanna? Yes. Yeah, I've seen them up.

4:54:24That's all been handled.

4:54:25All been handled. Yeah. And um I wish everybody a happy new year and a new beginning for this the commission for this year. Um I look forward to being a very, very busy year. We have a lot of good things gonna happen.