Commissioner reports on hurricane memorial parks tourism

50:01Okay. We are um done with the regular agenda and we're gonna move to commissioners items. Oh wow. Oh yeah. That was quick. Told you I run a fast meeting. You can start five minutes late.

50:12Uh

50:13you a little light.

50:17Uh I'd like to thank staff on the job well done for Hurricane uh Ian or what's this last Hurricane's name? Nicole because uh Andy Fossa and his team and the staff that we use in the county to uh w work us through that. The outcome was great, even more so because the storm wasn't near as bad as we had predicted, but we were prepared to take care of it and want to thank all the staff for doing that because uh

50:47certainly appreciate their hard work and and Making things happen the right way. So we were prepared even though it didn't come as bad. Um next uh I'd like to report on the fallen law enforcement uh officers memorial groundbreaking ceremony, which was October twenty-seventh at ten o'clock here at the courthouse in the uh northwest corner. uh the courthouse property here is where that new uh facility

51:18or memorial will go. More you only have. Yeah, sir.

51:24So it might not be working for anybody in the case. Yeah,

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51:32Can we hold it?

51:33Yeah.

51:34Okay. So this is what it's going to look like. Uh they've worked on this for about nine or ten years, Craig LeFour and the uh Law enforcement uh Benefit Memorial Benefit Foundation that was Tim Hennigan, Craig Lapor, Skip Stone, Jeff Gray, Tim Marshall, Scott Humphrey? Um They led this for like nine years and needed

52:04a little push to get us over that finish line to have the money to supply this. So Um I'd been over to myself and uh Randy Blankenship had gone over to Poe County and saw, met with Grady Judd and on the way in we saw his memorial that they were having. And the fact of it is um It was just astounding how beautiful it was and I looked back and We were looking at each other and said, why don't we have ours

52:34done? Because they've announced it a couple years before, but we still couldn't get there. Couldn't get it that groundbreaking and now we've got to that point. But the following people helped raise $100,000 toward this But then we're going to do that. and and making this happen. Those people are Randy and Shannon Blankenship, Alex Deb, Tom Dobies, Sean Foster, Pat Gastaway, Jim Gidry, Larry Guilford, Randy

53:05Magerton family, uh myself, Pete Peterson, Scott's, uh, Sheridan, Wilton Simpson, Joel II, Mike Wells Jr. Barbara Wilheite. Waste aid systems, uh Pasco Office Park LLC, PCS Civil, and Devoted Creations all put together monies to uh make us

53:35cross that finish line of gaining another hundred thousand toward that and now it's gonna happen. So We look forward to it coming to the property here and hopefully it'll start very soon. We've we'll make sure we're getting all the parts, all the material we need to carry it through before we actually break that ground. And leave it messed up for through the season. So That should happen in the near future. Okay. Well that's all

54:05I have. Thank you very much. All right. Commissioner Moore.

54:10Thank you, Madam Chair. My last miscellaneous business ever. But I have some things I like to say, but I'm gonna wait till the end of day if that's okay. Um just a couple cool things. Um Atlanta Lakes Library reopening. I think it was yesterday Atlanta Lakes Library reopened after being renovated. So I want to obviously thank the citizens of Pasco County for approving our Go Bonds to actually to help make that happen and our entire um library team. It's uh it's a great uh great library and I'm sure the citizens are excited for it to be

54:40reopened over there with that. Yes, yes. So that's exciting. Um I do have a photo.

54:50Talking about tourism a little bit. I wait for that to be uh There we go. So what you're looking at here is something really cool from our tourism DMO, Fulda Sports Coast. They work with a television host Guillermo Lockhart from Uruguay. Came here to film a Halloween special in downtown Dade City. They aired on Channel 12 in Uruguay. And they actually aired on Halloween. So they f filmed plenty of sports and things around Dade City, but one of the big things they they did was focus a lot on um uh screaming

55:20geton in the cemeteries and the historic courthouse. So they talked about the ghost tours that are going on in Dade City, 'cause you know we're very, very haunted here, if you didn't know that. If you if you guys ever heard the things in the rafters up here?

55:37But it's it's a long segment and in Spanish. Um and um included all kinds of neat stuff. So um Andy has that link or or the tourism office has it. They can send it to you if you'd like to actually see the the full thing. But it's really what's really cool about it is that you know we think about tourism in Florida Sports Coast and the reach that we have now. You know we have people from TV stations from Uruguay coming all the way over to, you know, not just the United States but uh good old Pasco County and And um filming

56:07pieces just like this. I wanna hey Kathy, can you come here real quick? Do you mind?

56:14Thanks.

56:17Should they actually do? Andy, will you tell I need Terry up here real quick too? I I texted her butt. I didn't know we were moving so fast today with miscellaneous business. So I I I do wanna um Ending. Oh there she is. Okay cool. No, just sit down. If you don't mind. Thanks. I didn't know miscellaneous business was coming this fast, so But wait, wait, Terry, wait, Andy, wait. Go sit have if you don't mind just have a seat for one second. But um one of the things that um This

56:45is different.

56:46Well no I you know I know. It's gonna be different. It's

56:49gonna

56:49be different. Things

56:51are changing.

56:53We're changing the way we do things. No, but one of the things, you know, as um just for the citizens' knowledge, when we are elected and we have campaign accounts, um we're able to roll money over until we use it as an office account. Um and one of the great things about the office account is that you know we we do things with it so with our old Campaign money, hundred the law, you know, uh we're allowed to roll up to like twenty thousand dollars and we use it for incidentals and we use it for um you know a number of different things instead of having to use the taxpayer dollars, right? So but sometimes we have

57:23some left over. So I got a couple they're not big checks, but I have a couple I'm I'll just I won't come down but I'll let I'll let you come up here. So I do have two for you. I have one for well wrong one. That's for somebody else. Um I have one for parks and recreation for five hundred dollars. I'm gonna give to you. Um and if I would just ask, you know, if you could use it for these inclusive playgrounds that you're doing coming up and and and donate towards that if you would. And they have another one, you know, I have a obviously a special place in my heart for animal services, and I continue and

57:53always will. So I have another five hundred dollar check you can give to animal services to help offset some. The cost to our fellow taxpayers. So I'll let you come get those. I will. Can I say that?

58:06Can I just say thank you, Commissioner Moore? Um, Kathy Pearson, Assistant County Administrator of Public Services. I'm all choked up. I really am. You know how I feel. I'm gonna miss you terribly. Oh you're sweet. And um, I wish you nothing but success in your future, too. You've been a great commissioner. We've had our days when we fought, and we had our days when we supported each other, but the next day we were always on the same page. So I thank you for

58:31money to say that.

58:33So here you go. And I don't I don't know where this needs to go after. Maybe it's to go right might have to go right back to the clerk. I don't know. So I if I could though I'm gonna have if I have Andy and Terry come up for a second. So

58:51I I I for some reason I thought miscellaneous would have been in the afternoon. I thought we were busier this morning. But you know, uh you know, it it takes a great team to be successful in what we do, right? We don't we don't do it on our own. And uh Terry has been with me for seven years, maybe go over seven years now, right? Pretty much since the beginning. Yes, you know. And just you know, I'll get choked up myself talking about this. But just a an incredible person that's that's uh assisted me and and the citizens of

59:21Pasco County as well, you know, for these seven and a half years. And again, you I you know I wouldn't be able to do this without you. So I thank you so so very much for everything you've done for me and the citizens throughout throughout the years. And I do have something I would like to give you if you don't mind I'm gonna come down for a second here. And then actually I will have Andy step up too and this and Andy if you don't mind too. Um Same thing with Andy and it's been well over three years now.

59:49Uh almost four.

59:50Almost four. You know, and when we came on counting, I came on as

1:00:00But um you know one of the things we didn't have when we were I came on the commission were were were legislative aides and um you know people we had like two secretaries at one time and then you know I brought Terry on and we have executive assistants we brought on legislative aides I think you know having executive assistants and like legislative aids both it approves you know the worth um again not just for to assist the commission but what we're able to do with staff and with and with the citizens and that's what matters most. So Andy,

1:00:30you know obviously you've been a joy. You've been a you know you've been with me you know tied to my hip for all for these last four years so I appreciate I'll get everything you've done what twenty through the years. So I do have I do have something I want to present both of you right now and these state just for the public record here. This one says presented to Andy Taylor for your outstanding service to Commissioner Mike Moore and the citizens of Pasco County. And

1:01:00of the like This one for Terry.

1:01:04Look at this. Wow.

1:01:06Does say that presented Terry Yuing Chow for your outstanding service to Commissioner Mike Moore and the citizens of Pasco County. So I'd like to come down and present these devotes.

1:01:21It's really you know, I've scripted his miscellaneous business for the last three and a half years. This really wasn't in the script. He did it

1:01:28on

1:01:33We'll make sure that.

1:01:34That's what's yours.

1:01:41Those are really nice.

1:01:44I'll give you guys the vases and you can put them in.

1:01:47Do you want us to stand behind or hand? Or get out of the way.

1:01:54Out of the way, is it?

1:01:56Okay.

1:01:59Right here, everybody?

1:02:16Congratulations guys. Yeah. That was very nice.

1:02:30Are you done?

1:02:30Yes, ma'am. Thank

1:02:31you. Okay. Um Commissioner Fitzpatrick, your last Commissioner.

1:02:38Surprise.

1:02:38You ever talk about the picture?

1:02:50Sure, which was not. But I did wanna just give an update on the all inclusive playground, especially you just mentioned it. The equipment should be coming in on December twenty first and it should be completed within three weeks of the equipment coming in, so I'm very excited to watch that be completed.

1:03:10And is that like Lisa? Yes, and I

1:03:12have the photos here but I did not send those ones. Okay. Um So that was for the all-inclusive playground. Also, I would just like to mention Pine Hill. I know back on February twenty sec February twenty-second of this year, the land swap was finalized. So it was very exciting to see that. Um

1:03:35And I just want to confirm.

1:03:39Is is there something going on with the screen? That's the

1:03:43screen. So with the Pine Hill They just completed the r field renovations, which is very exciting. And then of course after going to the softball fields at Starkey, they are beautiful. And as we're setting that premier standard, and you're br we're having kids go from Pine Hill to Starkey Softball Fields and back to Pine Hill. So as we set that premier standard, it's very important that we have that premier standard through. throughout the entire county. So we had the funding from the Geobond

1:04:15to update the Bathrooms and the concession, but now going

1:04:23It went out for design and construction, so in the next six to eight months it it's going through the design process for the bathrooms, the concession, the bleachers, the dugout. and all of the fencing. And fencing was very important to get completed because it also was a safety factor at that point. So I'm very excited to see all of that completed next year as well. Um

1:04:51Oh, I feel bad for your pictures. That's

1:04:53So next, um I did attend the New Port Riche Rotary Veterans Luncheon that they host annually. I did have the honor for Jeff Brockman with Pasco County, that's in public Pasco Safety. to come to the event. And I would also like to say thank you to Mike Karbala and all of our veterans that work for Pasco County and thank you to all veterans in Pasco County for serving our co for our country.

1:05:27And if I can ask Brantford to come on up.

1:05:33Please.

1:05:36I know we started discussing something the other day, I wasn't sure if That was ready yet?

1:05:44Good morning, Commissioner. Brantford Abdumboa, Interim Assistant County Administrator. Yes, um I'm trying to refresh my memory. Um

1:05:53You had said the list of roads that were sent, there was an additional roads that were sent out for fire rescue and they deemed them impassable?

1:06:03Yes, there were five of them which are Did email them to you last night? Yes.

1:06:11And I copied taught taught on that too.

1:06:23So there were additional five roads that were deemed impassable, that were looking for a one time fix. And just to confirm, these were all public roads? Yes. No private roads?

1:06:38Yes. And I think I emailed them two days ago, not last night.

1:06:41I see that. Okay Monday, thank you. Um So it was Evergreen Street, Nadia Avenue, Napor, Olson and Rylan. They range from seven thousand to twenty thousand, so it was a total of forty eight thousand dollars. And I believe you said there was funding for that because they are public roads?

1:07:00Yeah, so the the way we handle one time fixes is uh we take the funding from our budget. Budget that has been approved by the Commission. We don't have a budget every year for one time fixes. So, you know, uh the work is usually done in house so the equipment are there and uh the labor is there. So that is how we do it.

1:07:21Okay. So I was wondering I would like to make a motion for a one time fix on these five roads.

1:07:26No.

1:07:27Well we can't

1:07:29I

1:07:29uh is that g are they gonna go up there? Um I don't know if I have the photos on these ones.

1:07:39Evergreen Street is an unpaved dirt road.

1:07:45Yes, I think. They've been deemed impassable by fire rescue?

1:07:50Yes, we sent them to fire and rescue. They drove on the roads and all five were deemed impassable. Uh there were some because of the condition of the road and also because of the trees. We're on the road which will require tree trimming and uh regrading. Um But yes, the fire and rescue did arrive in the motion. Yeah. I recommend

1:08:12you

1:08:12Yeah, we need to fix that. It was as requested by Moon Lake Roads publicly dedicated and not been accepted, but were evaluated by fire and rescue and determined impassable by fire and rescue. So Thank you.

1:08:25Yeah, no, no, I was just gonna clarify. So yeah, I I I found the email. We're we're speaking of Evergreen Street, Nadia Avenue, Naper Street. Olson Street and Ryland Avenue, all of which are publicly owned, public publicly dedicated roads that are not currently under under maintenance and so we would we would ask for the one time fix in order to make them passable. Total estimated cost using in-house resources is up to forty-eight thousand dollars.

1:08:49Okay, so we have a motion and a second. Any more discussion? Second over there. All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay.

1:08:57Thank you. And then we have the Gulf I attended the Gulf Coast Street Safe Street Summit and I found it very informative and my takeaway from that event was their pledge to slow down. And I thought it was great because they are willing to put our county logo on it and I've spoken with Sheriff Nacko as well and to see if they would be interested and then also I would still have to reach out, I believe with Steve with the s

1:09:27our Florida State Troopers. Um to do what? To move forward s with the pledge. Um so Should I jump to that or go on these pictures? Okay. At the Safe Street Summit they actually had pledged to slow down

1:09:47yard signs and I had taken two of 'em, I put 'em out at Calusa 'cause that's of course close to where I live. And I think it was very informative because I would love to see, as I mentioned last year at the MPO meeting, vision zero. I think vision zero is extremely important because one life is worth saving and if we can g I know vision zero seems impossible, but every day if we can strive to have one less accident. and we could save a life.

1:10:17So I would like to still work on

1:10:23Work towards vision zero. I don't know if many know, but my sister did pass in a um car auto accident on nineteen. So of course I would like to promote that. And can we click on their website? 'Cause their website has about five PSAs, but there's one PSA specifically that was the most impactful to m to myself.

1:10:52And then Desiree, were you you able to get that email with the link? Thank you.

1:11:15And it's the someone's loved one. It's the third one down. Thank you.

1:11:29How many license they're going to train on it?

1:11:34This is my name. This is my husband.

1:11:41This is my call.

1:11:48Everyone laughs. Just sound.

1:11:52Then she should slow down and drive safely.

1:11:56And I was gonna bring this up at the MPO meeting, but we did not have it. So I think it's really important.

1:12:05if we can work together because I know it was gonna be a regional

1:12:11project and then it kinda just went to Polk County. But I would like to try to encourage us to go on board With uh the pledge to slow down.

1:12:27Um I also spoke with Sheriff Nacko with the traffic citation and team and is obviously very

1:12:39It's very difficult because we have so many nine one one calls. And But if we could if he can't work directly towards traffic and we of course we have the Florida Highway Patrol that works on our traffic citation team.

1:12:59if we can start helping and giving additional resources. If he can't specifically get to that specific objective, then if the county can work on helping slow down traffic and which would reduce accidents because by having everyone slow down and increase our safe streets, then there's gonna be less nine one one calls, which is gonna be less ambulan less accidents, less nine one one calls, less

1:13:27ambulances and it's just gonna reduce expenses everywhere. And then also he's focusing on a lot of homeless and mental health concerns and I find it

1:13:41if the county can help add another layer to our ment an a mental health unit or if Pasco County can have a Mm MRT, a mobile response team. Because instead of everyone having to call nine one for someone to come out to address the mental health and have them and then the mobile response team from Baycare comes out within thirty minutes Why not help alleviate some of

1:14:13Some of his loan and then us step in and create a mental health unit and a s um mobile response team. So that's just something that's been brought up. Okay. And then my last is a presentation that I've actually been working on for probably ten years. And so we're gonna go Run through it pretty quickly and I would like to say thank you to Doctor Bellis because he had helped me work on this project, get it out of my head, put it on paper

1:14:44and it does work 'cause I've seen it work on someone. So um thank you. So The objective is to promote healthy babies and improve the quality of life for families. The next slide. We want to promote healthy families and promote healthy babies for babies that are born of at risk of exposure. I want to be able to treat the addiction, support the mental mental health, and then reduce homeless. So there would be four phases. Um,

1:15:14we would be targeting the woman that is addicted or prescribed medication due to other medical needs. And why do we need this? Because there really is no continuum of care for the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction while pregnancy. And we want to of course pr improve the quality of life for children. And wean the women off the medication when possible and then the benefit is to reduce the number of babies born substance exposed. We're improving the quality of life for families, proactively

1:15:44preventing and ultimately breaking the cycle that results in homelessness, addiction, and mental health. If we invest now, the cost of saving will reduce the cost of neonatal care and extended health care costs.

1:15:58Um back several years ago, it was one in three babies were born substance exposed. I heard um one of our chiefs mention there was six or seven out of ten babies born substance exposed in Tarpon Hospital. So those are very high numbers.

1:16:17And okay. So when we're comparing healthy infants, if you have a neonatal abstinence syndrome baby, which is a NAS or an S C N substance exposed newborn

1:16:30A regular pregnancy costs about six to eight thousand back when I originally did the study. A neonatal absence syndrome baby can cost an additional fifty thousand dollars for that year. Babies can stay in the hospital for an average of twenty-three days currently, but I've heard they've been in the hospital all the way up to 180 days. And if we move to the next slide. Oh, and about eighty four percent of these babies born substance exposed are on Medicaid. So if we can start working

1:17:02If we can start working on redirecting funds now, let's invest that fifty thousand during their pregnancy and then maybe they won't be born substance exposed. Maybe they won't be born with a disability. if you're looking so they won't have to do physical therapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy. Maybe they won't need all the additional services in schools, maybe they won't need additional IEPs and the McKay scholarships can go up to $24,000. So that's about three hundred thousand dollars of additional

1:17:32care in the public school system on in addition to the physical therapy and the speech and language and the OT. Um in addition, let's just say the supplemental security income for a child that has special needs. Let's average it out to a thousand dollars a month. Well a thousand dollars a month times twelve is twelve thousand a year, multiplied by seventy years is eight hundred and forty thousand dollars plus the three hundred thousand for school plus all the additional funds that we have to spend in addition to the quality of life of that child.

1:18:03And then it of course it has additional costs of homelessness, um, law enforcement, trespass arrests. And I'm gonna if I say this correctly, Dr. Bellis, there is a cardboard sign project, and it actually proves that it's cheaper to and less expensive to house someone instead of having them be homeless. Um and so not paying attention to this is costing the taxpayers additional

1:18:33funds. So if we can go to the next slide. There's four phases: there's medical, education, tradition, transition, and self-sufficiency. And we can go to the next slide. Of course, we want a woman that is dependent on the system to be independent and have self-self-stability and become a productive member of society. So phase one would be an pregnancy center, an opioid, where we would be able to wean mothers off the opioids. level two ultrasounds which can monitor all the vital organs

1:19:03for that baby and then of course they have the belly bands that monitor the heartbeat and the contractions. And of course we would have to pull in a we would request a medical provider to help oversee that phase. The next phase. At this phase during their pregnancy, and then during this phase, we would request Pasco Kids First to come involved. They do have programs such as Healthy Families that teach parenting skills and life skills, which can reduce shake and baby syndrome. We have

1:19:34Healthy Start that can provide medical referrals and provide them counseling services, and then, of course, every suite in this facility would have their own bed, whether it's an apartment or duplex or wherever the facility is, they would have their own bed and crib which would reduce co-sleeping. Phase three. Once they graduate from phase two, 'cause Healthy Families is a two year um is a program that they can start during their pregnancy all the way up

1:20:04to April prior to being school age. Once they graduate that program, they can go into a program. The Housing Authority actually oversees a program. I think there's Sunnydale and another facility that they can go there for two years and then they learn how to take care of their own home and every month there's money that's put aside so after two years they can use it as a down payment for their own home. And of course we have Healthy Start working with the wraparound

1:20:35care and giving referrals if still needed. Healthy families they're just graduating from there, the housing authorities, their two year program And then once they graduate from phase three with the housing authority, they would go into their own home. Of course it'd be great to have a pool and swimming lessons here because it drowning is leading cause of death for children under the age of five in Florida and then a preschool facility so parents can take the necessary classes that they need. Phase four. Of course you have to continue counseling. The housing authority, this would phase four would

1:21:05be their own home, so that would be a house. Um they are now in elementary school and it'd be imperative for them to be able to have mentorship programs. Of course we would ask the housing authority, the schools, law enforcement, and mentorship programs to be involved in this wraparound care and the next So we would want to reduce the baby's born substance exposed by five percent annually, reduce the top three causes of infant deaths, which are co-sleeping, shake and baby syndrome, and drowning, which are the top three leading causes of deaths for infants. We want

1:21:35to reduce the number of children placed in the dependency system by five percent annually, and of course reduce each of these categories by five percent. Next slide. I did take away the critical partners. I do have a very long list of who would be a critical partner. Of course, we can have the county law enforcement schools and everyone else. I have been speaking to many and presenting this presentation to many others. And next slide. So what we could use for resources, there

1:22:05is the opioid task force, there is legislation. Funds, there's CDBG funds, there's health insurance, Medicaid, private pay, private donations, and endowments. Next slide. And of course here's some additional resources. And the next slide. And some other models to follow up and investigate would be the Children's Board of Hillsborough County. Because even if there was if everyone paid one or three dollars a year, that would

1:22:35help if we had a break-even analysis. If we paid one to three dollars per household or that would only bring in about three million dollars a year, but what you can do with that three million dollars is pull down matching grants, which would be a lot would cost which would be a lot more funds to Pasco County to help with these with these programs and that by having this program we would break the cycle of homelessness, addiction, and mental health, and then we would be reducing the cost that

1:23:06and all these extra r resources that are put on the burden of law enforcement and the schools by breaking this cycle so children can be born into a better quality of life and not born substance exposed. Thank you. And that's it.

1:23:20Wow, it's a lot of work. Oh. Okay. Commissioner Mariano.

1:23:25Thank you, Madam Chair. Um Yesterday we had a meeting at the uh Tampei Regional Planning Council, had a good presentation on living seawalls. Uh I'll eventually bring that person forward to do a presentation when they're gonna be back in town again. We set up our conference this year for resiliency. It's gonna be May 4 and 5. And I think when you look at the uh results of these last two hurricanes that we just had and a collapse of exposure to maybe stuff that could have been prevented. That it's gonna be something that uh could be very beneficial for us all. Uh CJ

1:23:56Reynolds, who was actually heading up this uh conference again this year, just got appointed with uh Florida's resiliency coalition. So she's gonna be looking up and down the state, both sides, to find out what damages has happened, what things can look at that I think can be could be beneficial for us. And uh I've talked to Administrator uh uh Mike and he said uh he's gonna probably try to make it to that event which I think would be good for the administrators to sit down. Um and David Allen I didn't talk with you before the meeting but

1:24:26we did talk before about uh Newport Ritchie and the discharge. Um could you come up so we can talk about that just for a minute now that we have time. I didn't know if we have time today but since we do, uh it's an important issue. Um

1:24:39Would you talk about the discharge that's going on right now that's been permitted and what they're looking to to increase the discharge and we'll go further from there?

1:24:47So the City of Newport Ritchie has a NPDS permit for their wastewater treatment facility. They are authorized for three different uh discharge locations. Um two of those are related to reuse operations or reclaimed water operations. So one is with their system, the second one is to our reclaimed water system, the third one is to the Gulf under wet weather emergency circumstances. And so that permit is currently under review

1:25:18by um FDP F D E P for renewal and um they are essentially requesting um similar provisions what's under their current permit, which allows uh wet weather discharges when the capacity of the plant exceeds, I believe it's eight million uh gallons a day. And looking back at the last three years of records, they had one incident where they did discharge and it was back in 2021. a problem either with the um inflows to the plant or the plant

1:25:48itself and and that's where they were discharging to the Gulf. But other than that, within the last three years they have not had any discharges to the Gulf.

1:25:55So I wanna make sure we Before a this permit gets issued that we actually take a look at it and find out what things we can do to help prevent this going on. I mean that they're approving coastal development going out there and if they don't have the capacity to take care of what they got now, I don't want to see it get worse. So uh I just want to keep the board informed that as this comes forward it's something we want to take a look at. Because I've had we've had residents from out there complaining about the smell of the discharge that recently happened and they wanted to know what was going on. So Now that we've got this permit that's coming up, I want us to take a closer look at every

1:26:26step of the way. Okay. Um and I want to say I missed uh my wife and I were for our thirty-first anniversary last the previous week and uh a couple of things we missed, the overpass ribbon cutting, which is phenomenal for the county. Um and the other was uh uh ribbon cutting for uh tunnel to towers over in Land O' Lakes. Uh on the on the TV show Sean Hannity a few nights ago, they actually did a big highlight boat. the project itself. Really? And being Land O' Lakes being the host in Pasco County of this event. So

1:26:56I'm gonna try to do something. Commissioner Oakley I'd love to work with you on it and I know uh anyone anyone else anyone else would like to jump in. Try to do like a little more of a fundraiser for 'em, get 'em a little more awareness and and try to help that project uh take its next big step. I think December fourteenth or so is when the uh next ribbon cutting's gonna be out there and And I'm gonna try to make it for like the day before that. And that's all I have. Thank you.

1:27:20And Madam Chair, they did just have their five K race just a few weeks ago here in Pasco. Thank you.