Commissioner reports on flowers and community events

41:31I agree. Anything else for Adam? Well keep up the good work, sir. Thank you. Thank you. And now we go to committee reports. Commissioner Oakley? Oh See if I got some.

41:47I have um well I'd like to ask everybody a question to begin with. Does everybody uh notice anything different around the courthouse here at Dade City? The uh Historic courthouse, if you'll notice by the entryways and all, we've added flowers. And uh been working at that and some of 'em are absolutely gorgeous and some need a little more attention but uh the the thought is it's coming. So

42:18we'll get it right one day and it'll be beautiful on every spot. But then we got a few that the weather we had this year or not very well for uh for flowers and plants like this because I plants my house. Most of them got killed, I had to pull and replant new plants around my place. So but I you see some of that damage here around the courthouse, but we're working at making it More attractive as we go. And the citizens and people that come here

42:48and visit here in this community and all visit our. courthouses on this side and on the west side. Need to see that. We have beautiful things here. We have a welcome it's like a welcome mat that you put out to invite people to be a part of your community. Uh the other thing we had on you see the pictures up now that the uh fallen awesome memorial we had last Friday went off very, very well. Very w well done. um some of our folks

43:18that spoke. Uh I know um Normita uh from city commissioner over here that she did a great job in her her talk that morning and also uh uh different ones but just a great thing to see and and um it really with the memorial being set and all it it really worked out great for our fallen officer memorial so So a lot of praise go out for their officers and everything and their families

43:49uh during this time. So that's all I have. Thank you. Mr. Weightman. Thank

43:54you. Yeah, I think I'd like to make a motion. Um this building needs its resident chaplain for the number of weddings that we have on the front and I'd like to nominate Commissioner Oakley to get his notary That way he can officiate all the weddings that we have right outside his door. He can come in, go out, come back in. I'm just

44:18Well they give me that opportunity, but I mean the clerk takes care of it for me, so

44:23No. Um other impression, uh we had a a beautiful ceremony for the fallen law enforcement memorials, great weather, uh National Day of Prayer coming up here at seven thirty uh Thursday morning. But most importantly, uh heartfelt congratulations uh to Austin and Lauren and the Mariano family for baby Benjamin. Yeah. How special is that? Yeah. And um congratulations and many blessings to the Mariano's as you guys continue to

44:53grow for the next generations to come.

44:58Oh there we go. Oh my goodness. There he is. Oh he definitely looks like his mama. Thank goodness.

45:03Oh

45:05look at that face. Happy times. Happy times.

45:10We need a baby holding day.

45:11That's precious. All right, Commissioner Yeager.

45:15Okay. I don't know what's first, Gina. Okay, so we um this was the Moonlight Cleanup and we went from a hundred tons to two hundred and twelve hundred tons. So that was amazing. And next year I um I wanna I want to break the record, but wait men, what do you think about this? I want a trophy. I want a trash trophy. Okay, and whoever gets

45:45the most tons in the cleanup gets the honor of having the trophy.

45:50Well, now I'm gonna start gambling. Knowing Moon Lake and having done donated many of d many of roll-off over the years to that. I think it's a fun it'd be a fun tradition to start. But uh I think certain diff districts need well like I think I'd win an e waste competition.

46:14He'd probably win the AG award. General garbage it might be a toss up. between uh That side of the day is so but yeah, no I think it'd be fun.

46:25Anyway, I was super proud of of the team. They they just crushed it this year and next year we're willing we wanna

46:32You know how many tons you cut you captured?

46:35Uh huh. huh.

46:35Do you know how many tons you captured?

46:37Yeah, two hundred and twelve.

46:38Two hundred and twelve. Wow. Two

46:40hundred and

46:40twelve what? Tons.

46:42All right, next slide. Uh

46:44after we do that a couple of years, doesn't that take care of where that's all cleaned up and we don't have to keep picking up that much?

46:52So this was um the grand opening of the New Port Richey um firehouse and this was their first house their first their first twelve new firehouse in how many do you remember Mike? Is it like seventy years or something? It was crazy. So it was much needed. All right, next slide. So we um participated in Arbor Day and we gave seven trees to uh Moon Lake Elementary. And this

47:22group that we were out with, they were the GFWC, the General Federation of Women's Club. So every year they would like to do two schools. So I think I believe they did Ankload as well. So they'd like to hit all the elementary schools in the county. So that was great. And this was the Marjorie's Hope uh waiters event and they had four hundred and ten people attend and they raised sixty-five thousand dollars. Great. So and that goes to at risk students. Um they get

47:52backpacks, haircuts, clothes, they have a store, they can shop anytime they want to. It's a great, great cause. They gave scholarships away, so that was that. And then um this was the Operation Stand Down. So I spent the day there Saturday volunteering and it's it's just an amazing event if no one's ever been there. I saw um Commissioner Weightman and I heard I just missed you, um, Commissioner Mariano. But the veterans get free dental care. I mean they'll do dentures right on the spot there. They have nurses and

48:23doctors and most of all they get all the supports uh um that they need and and deserve. So that was a great day and that's all I have.

48:32Yeah the the denture the denture thing is pretty impressive.

48:35I tell you what my uh our our Richard Rotary Club was a sponsor of that. Yeah. That was very well received. And you know, so so many veterans they don't get dental care. So that is something that was vital to it. But I would say I'll reach out to Pada Temple. She did a phenomenal job. Yeah. Getting it all together to see it. The happiness of everybody there, having something to go look at and then get some help. It was really a great move going to the concourse. Yes. You know, compared to what's Veterans Park, which was great, but that is the ultimate location because again everybody undercover. Yep. It

49:06worked very well. But she did a phenomenal job. So um County Administrator, Mike.