Recess for lunch

2:12:04later. Great, but good comments. Okay, we'll um recess for lunch. We'll be back at 1 30. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll start with you when we start a bit.

2:13:00County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Stormwater carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, waterfowl, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County Department of Public Works at seven two seven eight three four three six one one.

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2:13:35I'm Mike Napier, Health Officer for the Florida Department of Health here in Pasco County. We understand the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on you and we all want to get back to some normal. The best way to do that is to get vaccinated. Now I know the vaccine distribution process has been frustrating, and we want you to know we're doing everything we can to improve that process. For starters, we're making the vaccine registration process much easier for you. The Department of Health and Pasco County government have hired

2:14:05a new company to run Pasco County's COVID-19 vaccination registration through the CDR Health Pro Portal. This is the same company's assisting registration in neighboring counties, and this partnership will greatly improve our online and phone registration experience. Just visit our website right here on your screen or go directly to patientportalfl.com to see your vaccination locations in your area and to pre-register. Please remember you

2:14:36do have to pre-register before you can get an appointment for your shop. We hear your concerns and we know navigating the website can be difficult for some seniors. So a new feature we're offering is a call-in number. Grab a pen, it's right here. eight four four four four four four four seven seven seven seven seven seven seven zero eight five four eight That's eight four four four four four four four seven seven zero eight five four eight. If you don't have a computer or just need help booking your appointment, call this number. Please

2:15:06remember there's limited vaccine and a lot of people to be vaccinated, so the call lines will be busy and you might be asked to call back when the next batch of vaccine is available. We also have a callback feature for you. Just choose this option and a member of the callback team will call you back. You won't lose your place in line either. Believe me, I share your frustration with the limited supply of vaccine Pasco County has received, especially because we have the ability to provide thousands of vaccines

2:15:36a week if we had that much to give. Our West Side Drive-Thru Vaccine Clinic is located at the south end of the Golfview Square Mall off US 19 in Port Ritchie. And we're also opening a drive-thru clinic on the east side at St. Leo University. Again, you'll need an appointment at both locations. Just register on the website or call the appointment line. Please do not call St. Leo University or Pasco County Government. While they are partners in our vaccine sites, they cannot

2:16:06answer questions about vaccine operations. The Florida Department of Health, Pasco County Government, and many of your community partners stand ready to vaccinate as many people as we get vaccine for. We are working on your behalf to get more vaccines in the coming weeks, and we thank you for your patience. Mm-hmm.

2:17:03Hi, my name is Andrew and we live here in the area, Pasco County, and I just want to tell you our family absolutely love the library and the park system. For us, the library has been such a huge blessing to be able to take our kids here. They have so many great programs for little children and for kids of all ages where they can just come and be kids and just have a great time. And we also love our park system because we

2:17:33can just take the kids to the playground and they just love playing on there and it's such a great experience. for us just to bond with them through the different programs and being out in nature. We absolutely love the parks and the library.

2:17:46This park has run its course through my life for the last 20 years, 20 plus years actually. This park provides connection for myself with the community and with nature.

2:17:59You can tell it's evidenced by the way they keep the grounds. The grounds here are immaculate. You know, if there's a piece of trash on the ground, someone who's walking by always picks it up. It's just that kind of a community and that kind of space that's been created. It's always well maintained, well groomed, and you can see that that love flows through everything that's here. And it's shadowed then on the people who visit here. Whenever you're walking, someone will say, Hi, how are you doing? You know, how's your morning? There's never a lack of connection at this park and it's that is the reason why I love this park and it

2:18:29is a huge asset to this community.

2:18:33As a family of five, we didn't always have a huge budget to go out and do things, but we found everything we needed at the library, just from all the varieties of programs they've run. And the library system has really uh welcomed our family with open arms and made them feel special and in turn it's made my children want to read more. Um which is really a big break for me because it kind of rolls into them wanting to come home and do their homework and then

2:19:03wanting to go to school and enjoying that. Um my oldest is 11 and he now goes to middle school and he'll come to me pretty much every other day and tell me what book he's reading and he's still really excited about it years later to pick up a book and just read. which makes my mommy heart very, very excited.

2:19:25Hi, I'm Sandy. This is my husband Joe. And we enjoy coming to the park. Almost every day we come and walk at least two and a half miles. We enjoy the fact that it there's a lot of people that use this park. I've also used the library and it's very accessible to people. Um you can set up internet access there. We have grandchildren that I take there. for the children's activities. So

2:19:56all in all I'm a big believer in having parks and libraries and things that the community can use.

2:20:05We're the KFC knitters and we come here and we love the library. They're most generous to us.

2:20:12Part of the draw to the area for us was the community park program. I have three children and we utilize the park services very often. We have kids at cheerleading at the rec center, at football at the fields, they go to summer camp here, they're gonna come to winter camp here. We're here every weekend. When they were little, we took them to the park constantly. That's where we made friends, that's where we met people. and that's where we felt that we became a part of the community. So it's been a very important part of our life.

2:20:40I think the library is an integral part of our community. I'm here very often and I see a wide range of ages. I see young children coming here for the pre-program. I see older people participating in the different community activities we hear from the um gardening uh programs that we have here to the music programs to the reading, using the computers. And it's absolutely

2:21:11wonderful to see so many people coming in and out. all different um age groups and using it in many many different capacities from the movies the videos the um books and uh