Public comment on school zone safety

3:08:15And I have something.

3:08:19Yeah.

3:08:22What's the ladies name there?

3:08:23Uh Doctor Christine Hankerson.

3:08:26Ma'am, when you come forward, I'm gonna let you speak.

3:08:30I don't know who's telling you the wrong thing, but Public

3:08:35Commons usually 130 Dr. Hankerson and could I have your name and address for the record.

3:08:40My name is Christine Hankerson. I live in [address removed]. Um I imagine you remember speaking to me about a year ago when you were coming to visit our community, which never happened. Uh ongoing problem in our community in [address removed]. Um and I spoke to Kirk Browning's office today because I wanted to check to see if our county uh was doing some of the things that were being done in other counties of the state. Uh putting cameras on the sides of school

3:09:11buses to see those that pass when the flag is up, uh, putting that model. monitoring systems at the crosswalks to show when people are speeding. The last two months of the school year I witnessed 12 people on County Line Road going through when the red flag was up and children were getting off their buses. Uh we have a little device before sand pine on County Line Road and um just

3:09:41yesterday, uh not yesterday, last week, um when school was in session, somebody went through and it flashed over 40 miles an hour and the yellow light was on, which is a fifteen mile an hour school zone. Um I have witnessed uh Couple of kids almost being hit when they were in the crosswalk. The state put up those nice red flashing lights. Child was in, crossed one part of the road, went into the next one, and he had to jump

3:10:12back with his bike because two cars went around him with the resploshi bike. We had two cars hit at the intermediate school on Mandel. last year. Thankfully they weren't killed. Although we know in Western Chapel that there's been a child killed with his bike in one of those crosswalks, a hit and gun. So when I called Kurt Browning's office they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about about

3:10:44the lights on the buses that record when people go through. The various things they put up that they catch theaters and they're finding them over a hundred dollars. Should be more if we're going uh that fast in the school board. Yeah, more than

3:10:59Yeah, one minute.

3:11:01And um so I was hoping that our county would be as progressive as other counties in the state to prevent our children from getting runovers, speeding uh through schools repeatedly, and also uh it was reported on Channel 8 News that in some communities over 600 Cars have gone by when the school bus has their flank up. So

3:11:31if any of you have children, pray every day that they make it home. Because the drivers that we have, we've even seen a police car speed, not going anywhere. I called the sheriff's office and they said they would talk to that squad car about speeding and a third. before the came out. You had told me, Commissioner, that County has given a lot of money to the Sheriff's Department. And we pay as

3:12:01our CDBs extra money to have off-duty policemen monitor our road. And just the last thing I want to say. The other day I saw a gentleman in a wheelchair, double entity. He looked like probably a vet. He gone into the crosswalk and nobody would stop for him. in the crosswalk. So I went out to the end of the street and put my arm up. Are you kidding me? You

3:12:32know? And they just kept going on. Finally somebody stopped. And this poor man in a wheelchair safely got to the other side. There's not everybody looking. And um We also were told by one of our homeowners and one of our communities that there is a drug house. in our neighborhood and they're selling drugs out of their garage. They contacted Pasco police and said, Yeah, we know it's

3:13:05Okay. Chase, you heard all that? Take care of it. So we appreciate you. Mm-hmm.