Watergrass traffic hurricane and invasive species reports

1:30:02Alright. I think I have something that developed during uh public comment. So I guess Mr. Cabal I'd I'd like to ask um That we

1:30:15come together or something with our engineers or whoever for water grass. and have some answers that are more concrete than we've been given. Uh, so we all know how the traffic's gonna flow, 'cause as far as I know, and I told 'em this morning that traffic when overpass came from the interstate across It was always supposed to come, but I never heard When they were gonna do that section of road. that turns back to the north and meets up with Fairview Heights Road, that continues out to

1:30:45across Fort King to Cossack Road and hits 301. Because until that's done, we have real issue through that neighborhood. Uh and and people are are screaming about. Some of the issues they're screaming about. has to deal with their own HOA with the golf carts and things of that nature, unless they put those trails in as a HOA and do those things the right way That's on them. That's not on us. But the road and and the traffic through there

1:31:16and Try not to tear all that road up in there at the same time. There's a lot of traffic being moving. We did do the ordinance to know through trucks for now, so I don't know how that's working, but uh we need to do everything we can to get a resolution in there. that will satisfy those citizens along that way. Some of them I'm sure didn't even know that Overpass actually went all the way through there to meet up with Fairview Heights, so but it's I think it's

1:31:46been in the long term vision but The visions jump ten years or so I think because it's uh it's on us.

1:31:55Yeah, I I think we were probably looking for a developer in kind project going on out there, but uh we'll we'll talk with the team, figure out what the challenges are and then we'll we'll see how we tackle 'em.

1:32:05Okay. Just I mean if you will let let the board know. So

1:32:11I

1:32:12saw okay. Commissioner Weightman.

1:32:15Uh just echo Commissioner Oakley's sentiments there with folks coming out of Western Chapel and trying to get up to the schools and it's just it it backs up you know west all the way to Old Pasco through there. So whatever relief we can we can get there be fantastic. And outside of that uh don't have don't have anything going on. Maybe.

1:32:42Congratulations.

1:32:46Sorry, Commissioner Starkey.

1:32:47Yeah, I actually don't have much either, but I just wanna thank our staff for all their hard work during uh our hurricane and we we dodged not all of us, but many of us um didn't fare as badly as I I thought we would. I literally for the third time now pretty much emptied out my house and both bars. Um a good portion of it's in my car right now. And uh in my garage at my other house. So um we um

1:33:19We just for the most part are are are quite quite lucky and um I feel for our friends on the river and in the northern part of the county that did that did suffer damage. Um and I want to thank all our first responders and all our staff for their hard work. Um this is a sign that uh I was just up in uh Connecticut meeting my new granddaughter and And um my husband actually saw this picture and sent it to me. So um I thought this was kinda cool

1:33:50and and maybe something that we could replicate here in the county. Um so I wanted to bring that to your attention. And then I had one more thing. I've been sitting here looking for photos.

1:34:01Commissioner Starkey, can we talk about that for just for a second? Sure. So the pin handling thing would be difficult. But I think transacting business in a safety area might be a better verbiage. And and to word to word it where it's illegal not only for the people receiving, but the people giving.

1:34:17Yeah.

1:34:18And if we need to put a few of those up, maybe it works 'cause I tell ya The panhandle is still out everywhere. Oh still out there's it's it's it's sad. We've got a great ordinance that can work and we can't get it fixed.

1:34:29Yeah.

1:34:29But

1:34:30we've had a woman at the Mitchell Ranch Plaza and a wheelchair out there for days um on the on fifty four and the entrance uh going in to the uh to the stores. So uh one last thing and I was looking here for a good picture and I'm usually on the phone when I'm driving here and can't switch real quick to take a photo. But I'm very concerned about the Kogan grass and

1:35:00the field on the sides of fifty two. Um I'm seeing it spread to places where it hasn't been before, but we have got to have a policy where when say Pasco Town Center or um the Central Pasco employment village especially that's covered with COVID. I mean, um Kogan they have to deal with that when they clear. And I think the way they do it is put in a pile and burn it, but I'm not

1:35:30sure. But what's happened is they they clear off the top And then they use that as fill for somewhere. And then it just spreads. That's how we brought it into Aristida. We put it in the berms behind a house and now it's all over Aristida. I say we the doll. um brought it in and the the homeowner when we saw what it was the homeowner would not um let anyone come in and spray it so it just continuously got mowed and now it's in the wetlands, now it's down in the public areas. So

1:36:01we must we must not let development spread it. And and then we have our own issues with with the state's land. on fifty two where it's all over the right-of-way.

1:36:15Yeah, we've we've put some money in the budget to address areas, but I hear what you're saying with the development. Let me let me talk with development services and county attorney's office to see what

1:36:24I think we need some kind of ordinance to say you cannot that how you have to deal with an in when you're clearing your land with an invasive species, especially one of the most invasive in the world.

1:36:36Chairman

1:36:36Mariano. Yeah.

1:36:37Mr. Wickley, thank you. I recall we talked about this early on in the year that that the the staff is putting together some B and P's and and going to address our our right of way mowing contractors and like

1:36:53there was going to be some some kind of holiday.

1:37:02But to the Commissioner's point, as it spreads, right, then it becomes the county's problem, so you want to stop it at the source. And so I I I would need to research and see how we, you know, if that's something you do at the site development plan stage. I I don't know. There's there's probably some land development rules that we'd have to, you know, consider with that, but um we'll we'll take it for action and and report back to the board here shortly. I've got a fraction.

1:37:26I kind of thought that that was inferred in our last conversation.

1:37:29No, we never did anything for the private on the private side. And I know that Swift Mud, because I've dealt with them uh on on their property with Cogan, they they don't have it. They take care of it right away because they don't want it to spread in into their land. So they eradicate it right away. Um but I'm telling you it it it'll be a huge nightmare if we don't get it. I s I think I see it in the entrance features to Murata.

1:37:57It's everywhere. Yeah. And the only I I did find one thing that does does eat it? Pigs.

1:38:07Pigs like to eat the roots of it. So you know how you get goats to eat kudzy?

1:38:13But not the shark pigs.

1:38:16We can move pigs around the kind of uh but that's that's it for me.

1:38:20Okay.