Pasco County birthday, census, farm share, and job retraining

1:18:49Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it. So first off, um happy birthday to Pasco County. Today is the 133rd birthday for Pasco County that was founded June 2nd, 1887. So there's some good history for you today, for all you history buffs. But happy birthday, Pasco County. Second up, if um the team can cue this up, um I'm gonna show the sports co strong video. I think some of you may have seen it, but maybe the entire public has not. So if they're watching, obviously we know the tourist

1:19:19development tax has taken a hit with the COVID-19. And our tourism team has a great plan in place to start recovering marketing efforts, including a focus on the upcoming scalloping season and some of our outdoor activities that you can do social distancing with if need be. So they put together this amazing video to go along with the hashtag Sports Co Strong in their social media campaign. Um Adam Colby and the entire team did great work on this. If we can please play queue up and play that video.

1:19:48Uh one moment sir, we're getting that video if you want to talk about something else.

1:19:52I will go ahead to the next item while we're doing so 2020 census. Just wanted to remind everybody the census is still happening. Plans to uh um adjust given the um obviously COVID 19 um things have uh changed up a little bit but still incredibly important for our community as we talk with the people in groups please remember to urge everyone they can take the census either online by phone or the mail through October 31st. I did mine online for our family. As of yesterday our response rate in Pasco

1:20:22is 61

1:20:26We're ahead of the state response rate, but we still need to make sure we do everything we can um to get that word out there because obviously our fair share of funding and representation representation over the next decade obviously depends on that. And if the state response rate is fifty-seven point nine percent. Again, ours is sixty-one point seven. Just want to throw a couple compliments out to some staff members. First of all, um Donald Carey. I know all of you probably work closely with Donald Carey. He's one of our amazing accounting employees. I just want to mention he's always

1:20:56prompt, thorough with his responses to constituents and constantly he's going above and beyond without being asked to doing things on nights and weekends. Most recently, um he actually went out to a uh what I would consider a non-emergency site visit on Memorial Day in the afternoon. on a holiday on his day off when he did not have to do that. So Donald deserves, I think, our thanks and recognition. Um obviously for the the citizens of Pasco County. Um He's doing an amazing job. Farm

1:21:27Share, uh May twentieth, uh partnered up Whoa Okay.

1:21:35Um can we turn that I'm sorry guys, can we turn this down whi whatever just happened in this room?

1:21:42We're gonna go on hold for a second, everybody.

1:21:46It sounds like the concert hall in here.

1:21:55It's very loud. Yeah. Okay. If we could keep going down with that, 'cause I don't know. Okay. You can just we can hear each other. Okay.

1:22:09That's better. Um on May twentieth, um myself and uh Representative Randy Maggard um sponsored a farm share event at the shops at Wiregrass. Farm Share obviously amazing, amazing organization. They brought in thirty-three thousand pounds of food. And we probably had over seven hundred cars that came through, sometimes multiple families in the same vehicles. Over fifty volunteers. I literally had to, um, I guess you could say turn away volunteers when they were still when people were still asking to volunteer because we had

1:22:39so many, we'd be stepping on each other's toes. And this food is amazing. When you know some of the things they brought when they had um frozen chicken breasts, fresh zucchini, tomato, cereals, um, fresh, you know, uh Potatoes, carrots, um, milk, амін. Uh number number of items, um some non-perishable um goods too. So we just want to special uh thanks again to Farm Share for their amazing, amazing works. The shops at Wiregrass for allowing us to have this event at their facility, Greg Linners. Um he's a

1:23:09professional when it comes to logistics and we have these cars moving in and out with like you wouldn't believe. Um again, a lot of um great volunteers out there. Um Wesley Chapel Rotary and the came out to help along with again major volunteers and Representative Maggard and his team. Um amazing, amazing job. Um Representative Maggart brought a box truck to help out to throw, you know, for garbage and things like that too. And brought a number of volunteers. But special um shout out to Chris Barreto Matos. Um he's from the county, he's a county employee, he's a forklifts

1:23:39operator. He came An assistant. Um again, very, very efficient, very, very nice, um, kind gentleman. Um when he wasn't you don't using the forklift, he actually without even being asked um because it wasn't his job, but he jumped right in. It was helping to bag food, um, hand out food, and um, you know, running back and forth. So thank you to Chris, Barreto, Matos. If Dan, you will ask on those special um thanks to him. I would greatly Appreciate it. So with that, are we ready for the video?

1:24:13That will mute.

1:24:17Let's make sure we have volume with that, please.

1:24:22Unfortunately, sir, the volume is not playing.

1:24:25Yeah. So we're not hearing it.

1:24:29That is correct.

1:24:46So can you stop this and start it over? And it's on mute.

1:24:53Do we have somebody there that is able to unmute that? I think the way it's in you can't can

1:25:00you?

1:25:02Can commission I see Commission Mariano, can you hear it in there? I can hear it no.

1:25:06No we can't hear it locally either, sir.

1:25:09Someone just unmuted it. So try it again.

1:25:12It was muted. No, it was unmuted.

1:25:14It it is unmuted, see this is mute. So what's

1:25:18the issue then?

1:25:19I I do not know, sir. It's just not playing the audio.

1:25:24We'll we'll test it out at lunch and if if we can get it to work we can run it later if you'd like.

1:25:30Yeah, I mean I think it'd be great for the public to see it and the any c commissioners haven't seen it yet. I mean it was they did a great job and and um you know, this was countywide this video was done and focused on um again tourism locations and destinations and restaurants throughout the county. And we'll

1:25:49can we see it on the Visit Pasco website?

1:25:52Yes, That's a great that's a great idea. Can you guys pull up the website? We can bring it back later, though I don't want to hold everybody yet. But Yeah, we do have time I guess. It's eleven twenty.

1:26:04Right, can we go on to the Visit Pasco website?

1:26:08Yeah. That's a good idea, Commissioner. So if if uh somebody in your in Date and uh Newport Rich you can just pull it up on the uh Working on it website.

1:26:32Um while that's loading, I I wanna let the board members board members know I've been working, you know, I'm the board member to Career Source and also the chair of AMSkills um 501c3. And we are working on um job retraining programs that will be um Using CARES money for uh you might have seen what Hillsborough County did. They gave 25 million towards um jobs retraining. um efforts and um so we'll be bringing that back probably

1:27:02at the June 16th meeting. I gotta get with Dan on uh again and um but they're working on proposals so I'm excited about that. Help our citizens get back into the workforce.

1:27:15Commissioner, can you have them send their proposals to me so we can review them and make sure they're compliant before we bring them to the board?

1:27:21Oh absolutely.

1:27:22Thank you.

1:27:24They're still working on it, so

1:27:26If we can can we give it one more shot? Are you able to pull this up on the No Sports Cope.

1:27:33We're trying it now, sir, and it's not doing it from the website either.