Old miscellaneous business

1:29:13the question? Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you for your support. Yes, sir. Okay, that ends our regular items. We'll move on to uh old miscellaneous business and we'll start with Mr. Weightman. Thank you.

1:29:29Mm-hmm.

1:29:32Good, Sean's still here. So it started as a uh a a customer called us about a book a couple of books in our library system. And The books that that they found were in the easy readings picture book section of the libraries. For little kids, this book is rated pre-K to third grade. And so there's three copies countywide. I'll pass them out and y'all can Read 'em. As you wish. But

1:30:02it well you don't think it hits close to home is uh adult conversation in our kids' environments about transsexual all the things that go on that people figure out in life as they get older And so our office, once we looked in, it was brought to our intention. We asked the library team to do a full review and got with Mr. Kabbalah, Ms. Pearson, and Sean McGarvey. I can't tell you how grateful

1:30:33I am for how serious the team took this exercise. And here we can pass this down. This you know, these books look harmless. Parents started reading this to their their kids. And so we went through the exercise and so far there were 96 books found with similar verbiage. For the uh young adults and juve and thirty-four were juvenile, which is how they're classified, so 130 total. We compared the list to the Florida Department of Education's objection list.

1:31:04Um and there were about a there were a hundred books that matched that. um criteria. So Pasco County Library System had at least thirty Additional books on top over and above. And so they're currently running, Sean and his team are currently running audits here. Pass them down. The third one's missing somewhere, but it's it's Is this the same one? Yeah, same one. But there was one there was it's the same one. It's one in each section of the county. There's one at central, east, and west parts of the county of this book. So easily readable

1:31:34for you know for Cross County. So we're doing an audit to see what what books are there. And this message is really a a PSA. to all the parents and grandparents out there that look you please be vigilant to what your kids and grandkids may be reading. Um we live in a a very busy, busy world and you can't ever tell if you look at these books, they look quite benign, they look harmless. And so what I'm hopeful to do with with with Sean's

1:32:04leadership and Kathy is remand as we find these books, remand all of these this material. back to the library board or whatever the appropriate policy is and have them vet, thoroughly vet These books. And then see what the library advisory board, the members that we appoint, feel that they're appropriate or not. They have a list, the objection list from uh Florida Department of Education and other material to see if this these this reading material is appropriate for our littlest

1:32:36to, you know. They're all minors in my opinion until they graduate high school. Uh so it was just disturbing. It hit close to home. It's the same book. And um I felt that the need that we need to do a public service announcement and that folks, you know, pay attention to what you read, pay attention to what your youngers are are looking at. And uh again I just Appreciate Kathy and Sean and Mike. the seriousness and the prof professionalism that your staff have showed during during this exercise. And um I look forward to seeing

1:33:07what we come up with and then engaging the Library Advisory Board and and see what they have to say. So I don't know if any other board members feel like that. Any type. uh on this and and if professional staff has any other comments. So Mr.

1:33:20Mariano? This is extremely disturbing. I think we had this conversation about two years ago getting certain books out that was brought to our attention. Uh why this is in our library is beyond me. I don't think we need to wait for a committee. I think we need to get on this thing right now. This is this is uh this is absolutely horrendous.

1:33:40Mr. Yeager.

1:33:41Um I just wanna thank um Commissioner Weightman for spearheading this because I completely agree we have to get these books out of our library.

1:33:49I think

1:33:49we're gonna get an answer. Yes, sir. Sean McGarvey, Library's Director. Uh those books have been what is called uh sus suppressed and uh removed under review, so they are currently not on the shelf. So and all of the titles that the commissioner stated have been also suppressed from the catalog and removed at this current time. Are

1:34:11they still in our schools?

1:34:14Uh I can't speak to that ma'am. Uh we don't control that.

1:34:17Yeah.

1:34:18I can't so he controls the library.

1:34:20Yeah.

1:34:20May I Commissioner Yeager? So the Florida Department of Education has their objection list. And I'll get my office to email that out to everybody. And so from what our research shows, the school system follows, I guess, this objectionless rule. Pasco County Libraries is under our purview. And so what Sean and his team have done is, you know, compared this list and then found some above and beyond as we're looking, looking and and reviewing. So this is completely our, this board's jurisdiction, and um we

1:34:51can make a decision that we see fit.

1:34:54I'm

1:34:54ready to make a motion. You're ready? Mr. Chairman Mariano. Yes. So we have set up a process for these books to be vetted. Um I would highly encourage the board to allow that process to work. State is currently being sued by the publishers of some of the some of the th the materials that are on the objection list. Um so

1:35:22I would the process was set up for a reason. I'd let that process um work its way through.

1:35:32Okay. Mr. Chairman Mariano. Do we need a motion for the process or is it set up to the process?

1:35:40So

1:35:40that's been

1:35:41you.

1:35:41Well who approved the process um a year ago? Two years ago, sorry. Two years ago.

1:35:48Like I I said, I thought we had dealt with this thing, so I'm glad they're suppressed, but again Right. Okay. Why is that on the shelf for now? It's a good process.

1:35:56There

1:35:56is

1:35:56a civilian oversight board on it and they will begin the review process.

1:36:00Okay. Well when we hear back from them, please let us know. Absolutely. Good job. All right. Thank you.

1:36:07Okay. I got this. You done? Alright, so Gina, I have some photos, I think, so I'll look to see which ones you put up first. I'm gonna try and go through them kinda fast. Oh I uh had the pleasure of being a celebrity guest at the community service council's Chopped event. Um we won. Yay! And uh

1:36:25Wait a minute, you cook?

1:36:26Uh my son and I cooked, yeah. And we would have won a whole bunch of 'em. For two little tweaks, but we won the appetizer and we won the overall money coming in. I gotta tell you, if you get asked to do this, it's a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Although

1:36:39that that tenderloin looks like beef jerky.

1:36:42We didn't use any tenderloin. What tenderloin? It's a cannoli. That's a cannoli.

1:36:47It was it was a joke.

1:36:49Oh. No, because I was given a piece of tenderloin but I didn't use no it wasn't tenderloin steak. I did not use it. But those we had to do uh breaded mussels. Frozen breaded mussels. Not in my repertoire. Anyway, that was a lot of fun. And that money went to the community service council. Um who makes a big dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, and um it does a lot of scholarships. Okay, next big sir. Um okay, you know what, I'll leave this for you to talk about uh Commissioner Oakley, 'cause you went to both of them. But that was a a

1:37:19a great tour that we went on and I I'm going to be going to Pinellas County as well. Um but um I missed the Pinellas County 'cause I was at the governor's conference on tourism. Um And uh that was very interesting. And I one of the things that I came out of it was, um, Sean, I'm glad you're here because I want to um tie our tourism council in more with the Cultural Council and work on some joint projects.

1:37:49I want to a presentation of what other counties are doing in I just want to make sure we're Firing on all cylinders.

1:37:58Yeah, sir. Uh Sean Garry Library Director. Yes, ma'am, we have a meeting next week and we can bring that up to the CAAC as we discuss it.

1:38:07All right, and I I'm gonna make sure some of th those meetings get on my schedule so I can attend some.

1:38:11Absolutely, ma'am.

1:38:12Okay. Um All right, uh we have a a video thanks Sean. We have a video um that I'd like you to see that my staff has been doing a little research on. You know, we don't recycle glass here in Pasco County, which drives me crazy.

1:38:26It's all over the state in the in

1:38:29Georgia and everything. Yeah, so watch this.

1:38:33'Cause you see what other people are doing.

1:38:39We're going to use this equipment here behind me to turn glass into sand. The whole process starts here with the C by 12 jack pressure module. The glass will get fed into the hopper. It'll vibrate down through the jack pressure where it's crushed to about three-quarter inch minus. And it comes up this discharge conveyor under a cross-belt magnet.

1:39:05And the crossbelt magnet will pull any steel lids or caps from the screen and take them off into a separate bin.

1:39:15The cross. class then falls into the speed hopper here. Where it can be evenly metered out of this vibrating feeder on the bottom, onto this conveyor belt, up the conveyor belt, into our 16 by 12 hammer belt. The hair mill will do the fine crushing where it takes the collet-sized glass and crushes it down to sand through our 0.8 millimeter screen.

1:39:43To keep the dust down, water misters can be installed or a drip of water added to the hammer mill, which will greatly reduce the dust while keeping the final product dry. Really, really well. We can take all that scrap glass and steel caps, run it from the equipment, and we can turn it into a really nice glass hand. This is about 70% passing 30 mesh and 50% passing 50 mesh. I can squeeze it. My hand is not sharp at all. There's no glass shards

1:40:14in there. It's all nice and rounded. It's just nice sand. We've sold these to municipalities, governments, cities, recitement plants, islands where they're crushing their glass and using it for beach rehab. This stuff is really, really cool. You can use this stuff for sandblasting, beach remediation. There's a whole list of other things you can do with this crushed glass. And it works really, really well. And then here's the seal that came out. Various top

1:40:44The wave was pure gap, pulled right up and connected, did a great job. If you'd like any more information on the equipment you saw today, you can find our contact information.

1:40:55Okay. That's what we should be doing with our glass. This is what Disney does with their glass and they do their trails and their landscaping and their beaches and whatever with the glass. So I'd love for us to look into this.

1:41:06They make money with it.

1:41:07That machine is not very expensive. At all. So wanna throw that out there.

1:41:13What's what's the price, you know?

1:41:15Huh?

1:41:15Do you know what the price?

1:41:16I uh I think Katie said si six million six six thousand dollars. I don't know if she's if she'll text me. Um If she's listening maybe she'll text me. But let's watch this video now. This is where we can get the money from. Okay, watch this.

1:41:30Throwing away an estimated sixty-eight million dollars worth of coins every year. One waste company's

1:41:35on a mission to collect all that loose change. Fox business is Jeff Lop is live from that facility in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania this morning.

1:41:43Jeff Talk about one man's treasure and another man's head's trash, another man's treasure. This is a company called Reworld. You're looking at the product of trash that has been incinerated. They don't carry a fine throw, they don't jump in a sea. They actually incinerate it and make the harvest of metals for you. That's a little bit of a shallow. Uh but I think the most interesting thing, not the most important thing. The most interesting things they're finding in the trash. Coins when it

1:42:13comes round the hole. That's where coins are dropping through the squarter here. Boy, come down here and show you just what's happening. This by the way is what it looks like when it comes to them. This isn't serated trash. Very close to these opposite crap in there. But come over here and look what's being sorted out. Again, some of it is the stuff that's just you would get those easy but elements in your trash. In here I'm seeing pennies. These are pennies bars with. And over here I'm

1:42:43seeing orders and

1:42:46there we have is a series of story materials. This is about the quarter-five particles where we need to get the plastic ease, a little bit of hardware, but mostly orders.

1:42:5810 million dollars! That is all money right there. It doesn't look like a Rebecca. Come over here. One last thing I want to show you before we get away, and that is it being washed. And then it comes out looking like... Actual money.

1:43:14It is money.

1:43:17And a key

1:43:18determined what points are good condition or did damage. It also lets us know what denominations we're dealing with. We can get millions of dollars of coins out of those reports and calls that we we absolutely do, but here at Remo that's not all we do. Uh the coins is kind of a small piece of our

1:43:36Absolutely. So we have about 20 million waste a year. Out of keeping stuff out of the land goal. Look at that. Real money. Urban farming.

1:43:49Mike? What's going on with our money? What that is what?

1:43:54Do we do that? Mr. My

1:43:58understanding that some of our iron and fares materials do go to that facility. So I I don't know what the what the details of the of the agreement are. We do run our recycling program, and uh it is taken down to a materials facility down in St. Pete, and that's where we stop touching it. So

1:44:16Well, I want to find out what's going on with our money.

1:44:19Maybe that's how we keep our price per ton

1:44:21side.

1:44:23Well I hope that we're getting it.

1:44:25Yeah. I hope

1:44:25that's that was that was shocking how much money is. We'll get you some details on it. perfect. Alright, I got one more video. Mr.

1:44:31Chairman Mariano.

1:44:38So the machine that uh breaks down the bottles took a lot to uh to sand. You know, years ago we used to do it. Uh years ago we looked at machines that actually took it down to the smaller chunks not to define. First time we see him to find one. But I think that is definitely what we need to go do.

1:44:52Yeah.

1:44:53Um and I'd like to see bring some items back up to us.

1:44:57Yeah. It's

1:44:57a phenomena.

1:44:58Um and and uh Katie said there's uh there's grants for that, Doctor Bellas knows. where the where to find those grants for that machine.

1:45:06That's awesome.

1:45:07Yeah.

1:45:07Yeah.

1:45:08Okay, um I'm gonna skip the solar power one today and I'm gonna go to um well I'll go to that photo and then I have something else and I'm gonna pass this out to you guys. Uh I don't know how many copies I have. So um next this is This is a house on Patriot Lane. It's next door to the hoarder. I sent this to some of you guys. Um this gentleman's is interesting. When you talk to him, he just wants to talk how he's the king of Switzerland. But um This

1:45:38is his front yard and this is his fence. And you know we don't have fence permits so You know, is this allowed by code? It reminds me of that metal fence in your district. that every time I drive down fifty two I just wonder how that can be legal to have pieces of metal Leaning against something with all those cars behind it. But this is his fence and that's how he gets in and out of his house up and down that ladder.

1:46:00That's in District Four.

1:46:02So just look for okay, that's your problem. We're gonna talk about that. Um uh I'll have photos at the next board meeting. Um but that cannot be legal. Is and I just want to know if it is. that this is how you get into your yard. And um I think Um Brad told me you're not supposed to have a six foot foot fence across the front of your yard and I've got it all over in my district. One just went up on Seven Springs Boulevard, a ruin. So who's watching out? Who's

1:46:32dep whose department is to watch out for people I think they call it making compounds. um putting these six foot fences ab uh above the uh in the front of their yard, but surely surely we have to do something about this. All right. Um what I passed out to you is something that's been bothering me for a while, and it really came to a head because I think we have a little issue with Angeline and and um

1:46:59Uh the power company that doesn't want to bury the lines. Is it Angeline that wants or Moffat. Moffat wants their power lines buried. But I know that my brother went through Hurricane Andrew Um And after that, you know, they were without electricity for weeks in Miami. All the power lines have gone underground in Miami Dade County and they i it took 'em a while, but they kept they got 'em underground. This is so Florida Power and Light, ninety percent of their new distribution

1:47:29lines That they install or underground. Um Tico. Uh fifty percent of Tico's power lines are underground, mostly in areas of new construction.

1:47:41What about Moffat who who covers that area?

1:47:44That is with Lakucci and they don't want 'em to put 'em underground and listen, I hate driving by these nice developments and seeing the power lines. in front of it and then they can't you know they look ugly and then you can't put the trees. And most places, you guys if you ever drive Sarasota, you you drive down there, Jeff, you see that the new developments have the power lines underground.

1:48:06Local distribution lines are required in Manatee and Sarasota to be underground by

1:48:11Why are we not doing that? Why are we not going to be able to do that?

1:48:17In this particular case, I don't know if we're talking about transmission, which is higher voltage, which is orders of magnitude more expensive to to protect and bury.

1:48:26But do we require local transmission lines to be underground?

1:48:29I don't know the answer to that all.

1:48:31I don't think we do.

1:48:32Where I live, mine are underground.

1:48:34Yeah, it's better for them to be underground. But I don't think we do see I don't see a new development or a new neighborhood with

1:48:41power

1:48:42that I was speaking of. uh my understanding is and I'm gonna you know, Commissioner it's your district and you might talk with them, but I I was It was brought to my attention that there's this disagreement happening and Moffitt would very much like their lines to be underground. And um But if we don't have this rule that all these other counties have, I think we need it. Okay. Um

1:49:06I'll reach out to David Lambert and ask him.

1:49:08Yeah. And Okay. I think that'll be it for me. I'll leave the solar power for the next

1:49:18Ms. Yeager.

1:49:20Okay. Um, do I have a picture? Alright. So um Oh yeah. Yep, we were all here. The Department of Health, Pasco County Premier's New Dental Office. Uh we attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Department of Health and Premier's New Dental Office. They did an amazing job with the building. It's absolutely beautiful. They have a pediatric center and they're going to be able to provide service to people that don't have insurance and are medically

1:49:50underserved. So very exciting.

1:49:52And Premier has a dental office in that building. Yeah.

1:49:55Yeah.

1:49:55Yeah.

1:49:57Alright, so I got to meet Nikki and her team. I got the new commissioner tour, and it was perfect. I enjoyed my time there. Alright, next slide. So this is a fire in Moon Lake, a family that attends River Ridge High School, three kids. The mom and the Children were living in a shed. So one of my first phone calls, and I want

1:50:27to give a shout out to the firefighters and firefighter charities. They immediately got this family one week in a hotel. So just their rapid response was amazing. The outpouring from our community has been incredible. We've been able to raise funds and gift cards and just provide shelter. Um, and a new development is the mom um is looking at a mobile home right now. Um

1:50:57somebody generously in our community has discounted it um by a lot, so um they may have a place to stay, like permanently.

1:51:06So do they are they gonna move the mobile home to this line or yeah. Okay, that's wondering.

1:51:12Nope, they can't. And the mobile home is already on another lot. Um it was just very sad because the kids the kids were like, Well okay, we're here for a week, Mom, and where are we gonna be? Because they truly lost everything.

1:51:23But you said they were living in a shed? Yeah.

1:51:26Yep.

1:51:27That's

1:51:27so just a shout out to firefighter charities and our amazing community. Pasco really came together to help this family out.

1:51:35Did someone do a GoFundMe page? Because I was looking through the

1:51:38not right now. Firefighters are gonna um set up a um a link.

1:51:44Because we'd like to help. Okay.

1:51:45Yeah. And that's all I have for just a core.

1:51:47For started fire.

1:51:50Gene,

1:51:50I think we got a

1:51:50couple pictures just sent over to you.

1:51:53Hmm. Okay. Mr. Mariano?

1:51:56Yeah, I've got a just a couple of things. Um So we'll just come on the proof first. That was the Oasis Pregnancy Center right down the street. Um The the we had to move up to the lobby because there was so many people there. Really, really great turnout. Uh Representative Maggot Steele were there as well. And next one is Premier Healthcare.

1:52:18Uh what a what a what an a w awards event they had. You can see the usual sponsors that had been held, HCA Florida, Florida Blue, Hor my road recalled actually, uh they were doing a tremendous presentation of of what they do for people. And uh I'm gonna get this l slideshow forwarded to everybody to take a look. But I think there's one more picture. It just shows you it was a packed room. So, uh they are doing a phenomenal job and I know we're looking to try to help them further to go through it,

1:52:48but the way they highlighted what they're doing and why they're doing it was very important. That's all

1:52:52I have. Did you get the stand up, Commissioner Mariano?

1:52:59Under forty five.

1:53:03All right, All right, Ms. Kabawa. Uh yes, sir. Uh Board of County Commissioners here. Uh first and foremost, uh we were approached by the uh folks from Safety Town to engage and consider and taking over that operation, probably from the sheriff and school board. Uh I believe it falls in line with our community risk reduction programs within the fire department. Uh however, I do think it would be prudent to enter into some kind of agreement. So I would just like the board just it's just a motion for for me and County Attorney to kind of sit

1:53:33down and craft up an agreement to bring back to the board for future consideration regarding potentially taking over safety panel. Mm-hmm.

1:53:42Okay. You need a motion? Yeah. So got a motion?

1:53:47Second.

1:53:48One second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion pass 5-0.

1:53:54All right. Just a couple of couple of recognitions, actually. Our community development team was was recently honored with the New Construction Rental Development Award at the Florida Housing Coalition's conference. So our developer Bird Song did a great job of constructing 88 units of affordable. housing at the uh Tanger Square uh and the Coalition and the Coalition of the Homeless. So just uh well done uh for our housing team led by Jeff McKittrick and and and uh Marie uh three young so we're very

1:54:24Pasco proud about that so just just to show that to the board that uh they developed this doing wonderful things. I also uh would like to recognize our purchasing department as well they had uh they were recently recognized as one Of uh 49 counties in the country uh to be met with the achievement of excellence in procurement awards. So again, it just goes to show that uh you know the team continues to do great things out there. Um I think we've mentioned this in the past, but our community rating system uh with

1:54:54the uh federal emergency management agency, we were I guess upgraded, and then we went from uh I think we went from six to a five, which actually results in I want to say a 25% reduction, a total of 25% reduction in what our residents will pay to flood insurance. So that's that's almost four million dollars of savings to residents as a result of those efforts. And a lot of this, you know, gets off emergency management of BCS folks, a lot of it's just documentation of processes and paperwork. So

1:55:25we're trying to hit that sweet spot of getting to a four. I think after that you really have to make some adjustments in your codes, which could add to some costs. But right now, the team is working very, very hard to try to bring those costs down for our citizens. And the last item I want to bring up, it's it's with great sadness that uh I just don't want to bring it up, but Doreen Packard, who is a former employee, she retired a few years ago, there's a resolution was passed. She'd retired because of you know my battle with cancer. She did pass away.

1:55:55Um and that just if if you just indulge in a brief moment of silence for her she meant a lot to uh Dr. Bellis and his and his team. Um but uh she'll be sort of this.

1:56:05Okay.

1:56:12That's all I ask

1:56:12for you. All right. Thank you. Mr. Steinstone?

1:56:16I don't have anything generally

1:56:18good

1:56:18for it.

1:56:20Is that Ray?

1:56:21Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have one item. Um back in July, um, you actually the board uh presented a resolution to Patrice Monaco McBride, who was the retiring um uh inspector general at the time. And I just wanted to introduce the board to the newly um appointed Inspector General with my office, Christine Calliano. Would you mind just stepping forward real quick? Um Just a little bit of background with about Christine. She has 12 years experience in auditing and leadership. Christine previously worked

1:56:51for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Office of Inspector General, the Citrus County Clerk's Office, and our office as an internal auditor. In addition, she mentored, directed, developed, and trained junior auditors in her leadership roles at the Citrus Clerk's Offices and recently as the IG manager in our office. Um Christine holds a Bachelor's of Arts, get this, in Japanese. How fun is that?

1:57:20From the University of Rochester and is a certif is and a certificate in management studies. She possesses many skills that align with the needs of the position, such as auditing and investigating, risk assessment, project management, and strategic planning. She also obtains certifications relevant to the position. She's a certified fraud examiner, a certified government auditing professional, and a certified inspector. Director General Auditor. These certifications take many years of experience to attain. So without further ado,

1:57:51um I wanted to introduce Ms. Christine Cagliano.

1:57:54Good afternoon, Chairman, Commissioners, County Attorney, and County Administrator. I appreciate this formal introduction. I have met some of you, but not all of you. Um and as Nikki already spoke, I have some technical background, but I am extremely grateful and very excited about this role to take the baton and be the next Inspector General. Um interestingly enough, there was some really good tie back to the present. On the strategic plan, there were three key words in there that had some resonation with me. And they are

1:58:24change, which we're all faced with. um agility and objectives. So those are three key components of what our office has is endeavored to do is to serve you and the departments. And as much as there's a technical aspect to what I do, I am definitely a people person. So I really endeavor to forge new relationships with county management that that's already started, grow the ones we already have and And look forward to a continued partnership where we can be of service to all of you. And

1:58:55I thank you very much for this opportunity.

1:58:57Welcome to Pasco. So

1:58:59Thank

1:58:59you. Appreciate it. You got a very important job to make sure everything falls in line like it should first is a very important job.

1:59:06And I will do my best to serve you well.

1:59:09Thank you for being here.

1:59:10Thank you. And thank

1:59:11you.

1:59:11Thanks so much.

1:59:12That's it.

1:59:13That's it.

1:59:14All right, I think I got a picture or two up there. Maybe. There we go. I spoke at the uh new health department building over in Hudson and um I always bring this up, but this new facility offers a lot of services to our citizens of Pasco County and Uh just couldn't be any more prouder of of the team there that they have and The training's done a great job and uh taken over there

1:59:44for the health department and done the good work for all of us. But it's very important that office serves a lot of people with very low means to be able to do some of the health things they get to do. I mean for they cover that for them. But the fact of it is I've all over our county. We have many different hospitals and clinics and doctors' offices coming in our county and always speak to that and the fact of it is the benefactor of all these hospitals and the clinic here with

2:00:14with the Pasco County Health Department all. They're all the benefactor is the citizens of Pasco County and I thank all of them for all they do to have the best health we can for our citizens in Pasco County.

2:00:27So Mr. Chairman Mariano. I want to thank you all you commissioners for showing up for that one. I couldn't make that one. It was a family family wedding it was at, so I couldn't make it. But thank you for showing. A really big thing of if you start on the agenda in the agenda earlier today we had the selling of the old building for the health department too. So that money goes back into the county to go for other things.

2:00:47That's good. All right, and uh what else we got here? Oh this one here we have the uh attend the Pinellas and Hillsboro County public safety operations centers. I can tell you uh Ms. Starkey missed Pinellas County, but it was a much newer facility that actually uh I say much newer, I think it's been in operation about ten years, but very very fresh, very new. They built in Pine Else they built

2:01:18for their future needs. So they had room to grow and and have dormitory and that type thing 'cause when you're in this building then those operations go on twenty four seven so people had to be able to be housed in there and then also they have area for food prep and things of that nature for 'em while they're there. And then um we went over to Hillsburg County, very well run. uh office there also the same as the same as Pine Else County. The fact of it

2:01:48is they're they're fixing they're busting at the seams because they built theirs more on uh n what their needs were at the time and not so much out in the future and now they're having to Have to make some changes and improvements. I know I wasn't supposed to but I did tell a few of the firemen there that they could come to Pasco County, so That's a normal I d I can't help it. I just have to do that every now and then. So Well we have a lot of public safety and fire people

2:02:19joining in more classes in October we'll have another class and it's growing. Yeah. We're getting more and more people come to uh Pasco County for in in the past three or four years, not last year but the past three or four years we'd lost seventy public safety people. And so we'd always hire to catch back up after you're losing seventy a year to other other departments and counties nearby. The fact of it is, last

2:02:49year we only lost three. And so we've we made up that three and added a twenty-nine additional with a class of thirty-two. And then since then we've had a class, I think it was twenty-seven, the last class. So these are all new employees coming into Pasco and looks like to me we're in a a different scenario than we have been in the past and we're able to keep our employees and that's thank all the board members for all they do to help get the right things for

2:03:19the public safety and and all of our folks. you know, to be able to stay and work for us and they can live and work here and play. So it's a great thing to see 'em not leaving Pasco County. We've had 'em go the opposite way. Um Then I um got to speak at the Citizens Academy with uh public safety, the Sure of Fire Rescue on Wednesday Ox august twenty eighth and uh great group of people and

2:03:49and they really um they really are very interested in what happens as the citizens advisory group that they come and they um they're interested and they're I'm telling you they're finding out a lot of a lot of information. They actually did showed us a demonstration with the SWAT team and and uh with a canine and I don't it was practice but they had a muzzle on that

2:04:19dog, but that dog. He took that guy down pretty quick and uh It's a good thing he had the muscle that guy would have been eaten up. But I did explain some of the issues about our new paving way assessment to the advisory group. That a lot of them didn't understand the gentleman afterwards, he was here today on the front row. He came up to me afterwards and says, you and I really didn't understand, but I understand now about our paving assessment, how it works. And uh it's