Commissioner items Oakley Weightman Yeager Starkey

2:28:36Okay, we'll take commissioner items. Did we finish everything else in the morning? Believe

2:28:41you did.

2:28:43Okay, Commissioner Oakley.

2:28:45I have nothing. Well, uh ten day trip to South Dakota.

2:28:52Oh how nice. You could have gone to my NACO uh conference that I couldn't make. We

2:28:57went and saw uh Mount Rushmore. Very beautiful.

2:29:00When you get an opportunity

2:29:01to go, that's the place to go.

2:29:03Shoot. I would have

2:29:04had to stop in.

2:29:06They uh they did a dinner they had a special dinner at the uh Mount Rushmore inside it. for the NACO comf my NACO Board of Directors meeting. If I'd known you're going I would've hooked you up nice facility. Yeah, it's cool. Did you see the Badlands? Yeah.

2:29:24Yes.

2:29:25Very interesting, right? Yeah. It's

2:29:27small though.

2:29:31It's just amazing that it's kind of mind bottling what the uh Badlands look like. Yeah. And it makes you wonder how it got the way it did. So I still have not wrapped my brain around it.

2:29:43You know who lives right near there is Christy Sims, our former county attorney. She lives in the town just north of of that town at the Badlands. Yeah. Yeah. Commissioner Weightman.

2:29:55Uh nothing pressing, just um Just a little particular reminder on seeing where we are with our tree ordinance. uh coming up and Um

2:30:13to discuss the changes to the Live Local Act. We had some wins. in session where we could opt out, but also essentially Any any zonings in in play now.

2:30:25So I'll I'll ask David Engel to speak to the tree ordinance, but regarding the legislative piece, we will be a high

2:30:31level since we're making you know the afternoon sessions that we have.

2:30:34Yeah, we're going to have a regular item at the July meeting.

2:30:37Okay, then we'll I'll wait on that.

2:30:38Yes,

2:30:38sir.

2:30:39Good afternoon, David Engel, Planning and Economic Development Director. The uh tree preservation and mitigation ordinance is in two parts. The board will see in the next couple of meetings, if not the next meeting. A uh tree mitigation ordinance where we're increasing the fees and broadening the use of funds so we can get that money out on the street for canopy trees. The second component is street uh tree preservation. Last week the Planning Commission held a workshop to discuss tree preservation.

2:31:09Uh we have a draft uh um ordinance all ready to go. We got their input, we're gonna bring it back to the PC. And uh most likely you're gonna see that in front of you in September.

2:31:20Very good.

2:31:21Thank you. That's all I have, Chair.

2:31:23Thank you.

2:31:27All right. So we went to this is located at Signal Cove, um and we had a grand opening for Grace's food pantry and Jack was there as well, so I will Speak for Jack, so this was great and the community um when I got there there was a line out the door of people waiting to get in. So I think they're really gonna benefit this from this a lot. So next slide. So this was the Sunrise of Pasco Hope Breakfast and this gentleman was Gabby Petito's dad.

2:31:55Oh boy.

2:31:55Yeah, the m

2:31:56his

2:31:56uh wife was supposed to come, but she had covet and boy was that really moving. And he was basically saying in a nutshell like You know, he's a he was a firefighter in Hillsborough and he said na you know, he was like I I wasn't trained to see the signs of of what those red flags look like. So now it's his mission to make sure everybody knows what what these flags are. So it was very, very um moving in touching. Also is

2:32:27it coming? Nope. Okay. Well Saturday we are going to be having um we're partnering with the Department of Health and we're gonna have a health and wellness fair at Moon Lake Park. So that's Saturday and At nine a.m. So if you know anybody that can benefit from that, please send them our way.

2:32:50Update on area of aging. We just had basically their audit went well with the budget cuts. They had a great impact video. This lady, she was 107 pounds, had breast cancer, really couldn't get to the store. or cook her own food, signed up for meals on wheels, and now she's a hundred and thirty pounds. So just what a what a great story. So um here's um Here's our flyer

2:33:20for Saturday. So if you guys could share it um on your social media if you live on this side that would be very helpful because we're trying to get as many people to our event as possible. Very nice. That's all I have. Uh

2:33:35Just two quick items. Um first as a reminder, your budget workshop is this Thursday at nine AM here in Newport Ritchie. So we'll be discussing uh all things budget. Uh the other thing is is as of effective today we've rescinded the burn ban and so that's being communicated through the appropriate outlets. That's all.

2:33:54Um are you next? No, I'm next, but I don't have any

2:33:58of the right-of-way. And I'm gonna um just so you know, I'm gonna not do my CNU stuff because we have two commissioners gone and I wanna save all that for that. So um going through mine real quick, um we'll see what possible Up here. Uh attended the Sports Coast Tourism Banquet, and that's why I missed the NACO Board of Directors meeting. Hopefully they don't kick me off. But I just felt I needed to be there as the chair. Um, got to sit next to Tony Dungey. I uh I were you there? Oh yeah, you were on my table. Yeah.

2:34:29Yeah. W what an amazing man. Uh just amazing man and He learned a lot about Pasco that he didn't know about, even though he comes up here to cycle Uh frequently. So that was kinda cool that he rides our trails.

2:34:44His kids went to high school here.

2:34:45And his kids went to high school here, yes. Uh Atlanta Lakes, I think, right? Penny Lakes High School. So um Uh attended the station 17 ribbon cutting. Lisa, you were also there and so was Commissioner Oakley. Um It's a a beautiful, beautiful fire station. Um I did a trade mission to London. Um Mayor Castor. The chair of Hillsborough County was there, and the chair of Pinellas County, the mayor from Clearwater. And

2:35:16the mayor from Saint Pete and uh Tampa Bay Partnership was also there. And there were some other other people. Um really a great mission. This is just our Private a dinner that we went to. Um We met with uh let's see if you can see it here. So this this table here at the uh with the long table. Those are all um that was put on by the British American Chamber. Those are all business. business people who are wanting to move their companies to Florida. So

2:35:47really cool opportunity for all of us to, you know, say why they should move to Tam Tampa Bay. We we spoke a little bit about our our individual counties, but we you know, s send the machine uh me the uh mission about coming to Tampa Bay. Um but we also had some private meetings and Turner was running around everywhere with private meetings. I I did get to meet I don't have the picture here, I should have taken it. Um The uh gentleman

2:36:17who he's not the president but he's very high up in the company that is putting their um North American headquarters in my district. it's uh called G and H, they're defense contractors and they bought Miopta. um which used to be Photonics. So they're over there on Photonics Drive and and they are Uh they have Five or six locations in the US, and this is going to be their North American headquarters. And they were very excited to hear about Amskills. And um We

2:36:47may have some opportunity to get some more of their company located here in Pasco County. So that was a great meeting. Um And that other picture, go back one. Also um we were at the where we're on in the Uh one of these. This up this upper left one, we were at the embassy. And the State Department um, brought all kinds of business people there who are looking to move uh to their businesses or expand in the Tampa Bay area. So it was just Meeting after meeting

2:37:17after meeting. All right. What's next? Um Oh, my staff attended the Sparrow's Town Hall. And um they also went to look at the um Zephyrhills where they're building the um container homes. And I look I look forward to getting out there myself. I haven't been there but um these are some pictures that they took. Of the uh Oh. uh of that business. This is one of this delay.

2:37:48You don't know how many years it took us to get this done. I think Buena Vista was one of the worst paved roads in Pasco County.

2:37:55Have you

2:37:55been turning down

2:37:56to Green Key ever?

2:37:58Yeah, it's bad. I'm getting calls about Green Key too. But Buena Vista was really bad. Um the Papa's family had a r has a ranch at the end of this, so you know, they're driving down there in their nice cars and and uh they they're getting their tires align their cars aligned like every every week. Um I literally went door to door making sure people signed up for the PVAS. and we got it to a hundred uh per not a hundred percent, but we got it to over fifty and it passed the PVAS, but Um it took a really long time

2:38:28uh Because they had a big drainage issue that we had to work out with DOT. Looking at that picture, I sure do wish we had put the power lines underneath. Um, that's kinda rough looking. Kinda sad about that one. There's no street trees or anything, so that's gonna be a hot that's gonna be a hot road, but Uh I know that people are glad that they um It looks a lot better. Yeah, it looks a lot better. Now th now they're gonna be calling us 'cause they're racing on that road. You know that. You know

2:38:58that's coming. Um so skip the Buena Vista, I mean the CNU stuff. Um I want to tell you there'll be a survey coming out about childcare. Pasco County's been looking at um uh operating Our own child care facility. Um, we've been in talks with the school district for about two years now. And so we're gonna be sending out a child care survey and um we hope that you'll help spread it out to all the employees.

2:39:29Um but I I think it's uh as you saw on the on the information from uh the status of women that that's one of the major issues that and affordable housing. And I wanna quickly talk about My chicken. Backyard chicken ordinance. And I'm hoping that we can um bring that back up. Not everyone wants some, but there are some people in the county that would like the opportunity. to have their own chickens in their backyard and My

2:40:00niece had a a chicken coop in her backyard in Seminole Heights in Hillsborough County. It doesn't bother the neighbors. There's no roosters. You just you get to collect your own eggs in the back. Doesn't smell. They make no noise. So um you'd be surprised at how many of our residents have 'em already but they're not legal. So we started we did this chicken ordin ordinance a while ago and then Wilton was in the egg business I think and he didn't really want to see it, you know.

2:40:30And so um but now he's not. He sold his egg business.

2:40:34Well you

2:40:34gotta do

2:40:35your egg business.

2:40:37So I would love for us to be able to bring this um back.

2:40:42There are some areas that I I agree with you, some areas really need that. I mean it and really the way things are egg prices going sky high. It's

2:40:51and it's good for the kids to see where food comes from. I I lived in uh River Crossing and my son at ten goes, Mom, I want to be a chicken daddy And I said, what? So he said he said, so he went and we bought chickens and I asked the HOA and they said there are no rules whatsoever against having chickens. So

2:41:10Yeah. I mean some HOAs might might not allow it and th those rule over it. I

2:41:16think there's some zoning issues about that.

2:41:18So um well good I have support for the chicken ordinance. I

2:41:22think I just counted to three.

2:41:23Yes. So let's bring that back and you know, we don't want roosters. Limit the number and all that happy stuff. So David, um at our next board meeting we'll do a little presentation on some of the things we learned at the CNU conference.

2:41:36Yes ma'am, I'll need four hours.