old business youth council, pavilion, Keep Pasco Beautiful, roads

1:37:01Thank you. All right, since we moved um R R fifty two to the afternoon, then we will move on to old business. And we'll start with Commissioner Oakley.

1:37:14Yeah, eight minutes.

1:37:16I'm gonna take ten. Oh.

1:37:18You can

1:37:18have

1:37:19it all.

1:37:20I um had a group come to see me and tour the historic courthouse. I believe I want to check my numbers.

1:37:35So there was the um Pasco County Youth Council with a tour to the historic courthouse uh last Thursday, which uh or On Thursday, August seventh. So but young people there. I believe there were seven of 'em involved in in this tour. Uh the advice I actually gave 'em, uh, 'cause they're all very alert, wanna know about what to do in the world and And I'm sure they're studying that, but I told them if they

1:38:05would just think about what they want to do in the world. Whether they are in line right now to um Do that right now, but never say no to what you may can do in the future. If you want to be a doctor or nurse or a lawyer or what work hard and you can be that in America. I left them with that comment, but they enjoyed the tour of the Historical Corps.

1:38:27Commissioner Oakley, are these st um students from various high schools in the county? Or is this a

1:38:33Well, they were with a group in from Zephyrhills.

1:38:36Zephyrhills, okay.

1:38:37And uh so I'm not aware of that.

1:38:42What schools each I mean they may all be from one school. I don't know the answer to that. Okay. But they were very alert and very interested in seeing what the courthouse and uh, know how the Dais had changed over the years from when they used to have court there, the Dais was on the opposite was on the north side of the building instead of the south, like it is now. and the little ladder down in our boardroom. That little circle ladder would Put the judge up right behind his desk in that

1:39:13point in time. And the fact of it is um There had to be a lot of security back in those days 'cause there was a lot of uh people that didn't necessarily care for judges.

1:39:24So

1:39:25But uh We made it through a lot of that with a lot of you know, without having a lot of issues, but Pasco County's got a very good history. to what's happening on west side and east side. We have t we have two We have one county but we have actually two ways of life. We had citrus and all that on the east side. And we still had some citrus on the west side, but there was a lot more on the coast with fishing and uh oysters and things of that nature that

1:39:55that would happen on the west side that the east side did not have. So two very good histories of careers that happened in the county. So that's all I have.

1:40:07Okay, Commissioner Weightman.

1:40:09I am uh easy today and share with Commissioner Mariano.

1:40:16You're wet?

1:40:18She hadn't got anything.

1:40:21I

1:40:21didn't I didn't catch what he said.

1:40:25You've got nothing?

1:40:26Nothing.

1:40:30Crushed Mariano.

1:40:31Yeah.

1:40:34Just the last ones I sent you, Tony?

1:40:38Yeah, those videos will wait for the afternoon. Uh had had a real good meeting down at uh Point Distory this past uh week with Congressman Belaracas. Uh Spencer was able to show uh all the great things they've been doing and Congressman Belarakis would actually uh talk about all the things going on. All right, first picture there, just this is just an idea. How cool is that? It's pretty cool. So I'm thinking down in the cove area at Sun West, right where the all the electric is the second set of bathrooms. If I did something like that, the pilings could be mounted partially in the water, which was actually on

1:41:08hard ground, and then bring it on side. Um the bit on that and just Sh just a basic stuff is only about a hundred and thirty grand. So I'm gonna gonna look at that a little bit more, get some uh input from more musicians, et cetera, to get the experts out there to find out what would be good. But we could actually put this stage out in the water instead of in a parking lot. So we could be on the beach in the lower part of the uh uh lake that we had dug out to like a four foot depth, we put two foot of sand. You can actually put your chair out there, sit in the water, watch the concert.

1:41:39But is that right

1:41:39is that in the way of the wakeboard, right?

1:41:42No, it's all away from it. So it's in the cove area. Wouldn't affect it at all. Matter of fact it makes it real easy for anybody 'cause as a natural amphitheater, you can actually take a wheelchair down and around it. and because of the height elevation, have your own chair and just kinda like look at the whole thing.

1:41:57Possibly a wedding little pavilion type area too where you could actually do some things out there with it. Anyway, I'm just getting started and I just wanted to show you a picture that was thrown to me.

1:42:05Is

1:42:05that

1:42:05gonna be privately funded?

1:42:07Uh we're not sure yet. I'm just I'm just working on an idea to get Find something that's good and then try to like make make it where I can take the next steps.

1:42:15So and

1:42:16so

1:42:16it could be

1:42:17band pavilion.

1:42:18Yeah, we we may get to that point. 'Cause one of the one of the hassles when you have when you're having a thing, an outdoor event, when the rain comes in, you've got musicians, they got their big things out front that are getting covered, they gotta cover it, then the band's gotta huddle up behind it when they're trying to cover all the things, it can't get wet. So if we had those that's like a that's two containers like put together.

1:42:37Oh.

1:42:37So if you could actually draw even a piece of plastic straight down around it or a glass folding doors, whatever, keep everything dry. But she you makes

1:42:44it easier.

1:42:46Yes. Make sure that we're going to be able to do that. So far all the musicians I talked to love the concept. Now we just try to do the execution. Here's something I saw I was up just up in Alexandria with my grandson. And we took him to this park. And this is reminds me of like over in Gulf Highlands where we just built that new fire station. You get the fire station that's right there and a park is like right beside it.

1:43:07I tried to do that in holiday.

1:43:09Yeah.

1:43:09I I I I think this is very smart to take that pup that extra l public land

1:43:14and

1:43:14put it for good use of the right-of-way.

1:43:16I

1:43:16mean

1:43:17so I got like three or four pictures there. So I think it's something we should take a look at, especially there.

1:43:22Yeah.

1:43:23Is Michelle having a good time with us? Uh go ahead.

1:43:26He's got big Jack. Yeah. He's grown.

1:43:29So it's it's something that's um I th I think it's worth taking a look at. And then and one of the one of the things my wife Michelle said about it was it's because it's right there, it's also safe, it doesn't get any trouble, et cetera. Um Well well respected. Uh is it that think that's it? That's it. Okay. All right.

1:43:48Oh geez. Okay. Um one minute. All right, let's try and get me down in one minute. Um keep uh Pasco beautiful. is happening on September twentieth. Um And wait, September twentieth. This says eight-twelve. Oh, from eight to twelve at several occasions. So go to Keep Pasco Beautiful to sign up. I I love I love that big cleanup. Um so hopefully I can participate in that on my schedule. Um this is

1:44:18the Back to School Bash that was held at uh J. Ben Harrell Week. contributed to that. Look at all the kids that we had there that got um filled backpacks and we had many different community members um helping to uh to fund these. So thank you to everyone who helped. And um This is the Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulf Side. Uh they partnered with T public charities. Uh For a historical project. It's one of Habitat's

1:44:49largest projects yet in the county. It included the construction of seven new homes located on Kiowa Drive and they broke ground in May and expect the homeowners to take home ownership in October. So great project. My staff uh went to the to the to the uh event. Um I have been driving on Trouble Creek uh for quite a few years. Uh last week w or two weeks ago when I was driving in the rain in the dark It's a windy two

1:45:19lane road. I literally went off the road into the uh ditch. Um so I have asked repeatedly, repeatedly if we could put some lights on Pub Creek Road. So I talked to the county administrator about that and I really, really Hope to see some action. That even if it's just in a few strategic places we put some lights. Um This is Well when uh the the folks from Green Key were speaking I I I I went and looked at some pictures of Green Key

1:45:49and some are from 2011 and some are from today. And I just dropped a pin on Google Earth. Um that's from 2011. And uh that's today. So This is a result of us, in my opinion, underfunding the Parks Department. And so we have Really, that's today's photo and it's before the hurricane, mind you. And somewhere in there is another view of that area. That's what it used to look like. We we

1:46:19need to take better pride in our public places. That is a really sad photo, in my opinion. And like I said, you're driving down the Sun Coast. You see that wooden fence that keeps people from going off the trail on the on the west side and it's missing boards all over the place, but we don't have the funding. funding to repair these things. Yes, Commissioner

1:46:44Weightman I'm in agreement with you about those things need to be better.

1:46:47Yeah.

1:46:48I've been traveling a lot of different places over the Past couple of months. The fact of it is I hate going in a place that's got so many beautiful flowers. But uh when I come back home it looks like we don't have flowers here. But I would like to see us add flowers of color around our public parks and or our public buildings to where you see 'em and they're not just

1:47:14When you drive out of this complexity, but there you go. When you drive out of this complex and you look at the parking lot, our parking lot, the courthouse parking lot, the front presentation of the government center on Ron Little Road, I want you to notice the dead trees, the lack of trees. I have been asking for years, can we not take this tree mitigation? Money and put it in our own parking lot? Sure. In our own courthouse parking lot? Well we learned the admission.

1:47:46But it it doesn't happen. So uh this is I missed asking them yesterday where's the trees in the parking lot? 'Cause I said I'm gonna ask every Monday, when are we putting the trees in? And another two Mondays have gone by since I asked you, so Yeah. I think that is Do I did I send oh yesterday I was with Congressman Bilrakis. I do not have the picture. Um but oh here I here I have it. Um let me forward these to Tony real quick. Well, I won't

1:48:16do it. Um Congressman and I um and uh the crew from PEDC, we uh met uh at the new offices of G and H, which is a British company. that uh bought um Well Miopta, which Miopta became something else and then they bought that company. So they are moving their North American headquarters here to Trinity and looking to expand Um the main business that they do here in the Trinity area is Department of Defense work. Um