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and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Stormwater carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, waterfowl, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County, Department of Public Works, at seven two seven eight three four three six one one.
Hi, I'm Ainsley with Pasco County Pavement Management. People always ask why can't you pave roads faster? Well, the process isn't as simple as it seems. We use two methods, which you can see here. They're called milling and paving and full depth reclamation and sol cement. What does that mean exactly? Let's break them down.
90% of our paving projects are done through milling and paving, which takes about two weeks depending on weather and the length of the road. We start by grinding and removing 2 to 3 inches of the road, then we sweep the road to remove fines. Fines are small particles of asphalt or lime rock. Next, we spray tack, which is a mixture of oil and water, onto the road surface to make sure that the asphalt bonds to the road surface. Then we apply
a layer or two of asphalt. Ever notice steam rising from the asphalt? That's because it's trucked to the work site at a whopping 325 degrees or hotter. Next, we drive a steam roller over. asphalt to make sure the surface is flat and smooth. And that's it. Now let's look at the second paving process Pasco uses, which usually takes a bit longer.
Our geotechnician team drills into the roadway at the job site and takes samples to a lab to help us determine what mix to use. Then we create a mix to use on the road from materials we salvage from the pre-existing road. A machine grinds 10 inches into the road base, feeding all that material into a giant mixing machine where it mixes with other ingredients before being Spread onto the road. The surface has to be set for a few days, and then our team returns to the site to
test the road's strength. If it gets two thumbs up, we grind two inches off the base, sweep the fines, and add the tack and lay the asphalt. So those are the two ways Pasco works to make your commute a whole lot smoother. Public Works inspectors are on every job site. To make sure there are no bumps in the roads, so to speak. We follow tough guidelines and high standards to keep our roads drivable for years to come. To learn more about Pasco County's paving process, please
visit mypascode.net and thank you for watching.
They serve, as I did, to fight for our freedoms. We here at GoPasco want to return the favor by serving you. GoPasco offers all active duty military and veterans unlimited free rides on our fixed-route buses. When you step on the bus, just show the driver one of these forms: Military ID card, DD Form 2, Valid VA card, V on your driver's license, or GoPasco Veteran ID. Go Pasco, where veterans ride free.
Hi, I'm Mary Beth Isaacson, Regional Branch Manager for Pasco County Libraries. Welcome to the Starkey Ranch Theater Library Cultural Center, currently under construction and scheduled to be completed in spring of 2021. Let's go in and take a look.
Now that the interior walls are up, you can really get a sense of the library's layout. The lobby will be the first space you enter with a cafe area and a green wall with living plants. It will be an inviting space with plenty of natural light from the skylights. The library will have comfortable seating areas for relaxing, studying, and working. There will also be a drive-up window and book return for your convenience and safety. We're very excited about the theater. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 250 and can be
set up theater style, banquet style, or classroom style. The stage is equipped with curtains, lights, and theater sound so it will be able to accommodate a wide range of performances. There are attached dressing rooms and a catering area. The enclosed courtyard also features an outdoor stage and presentation area. The library is on the same campus as Starkey Ranch K-8 School and will serve a dual purpose as the school's media center. The youth room is very large and will hold thousands of books, plus study rooms and other learning
areas, including a separate storytime room and a teen room. We look forward to having lots of kids in this space and there will be plenty of activities for students and families. Starkey Ranch will have three makerspaces. One makerspace is dedicated to ceramics with a kiln and two pottery wheels. The other two makerspaces will offer a wide range of equipment and activities, such as jewelry making, sewing and textile arts, and painting. The makerspaces will have both scheduled instructor-led classes and open hours when community
members can come work on their own projects. Watch for more videos to keep you up to date on how the Starkey Ranch Theater Library Cultural Center is progressing. Thank you!
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Welcome to Pasco County, the fastest growing county in the Tampa Bay area. The PASCO Board of County Commissioners is a high-performing organization with 2,700 employees representing 57 lines of business, serving nearly 600,000 people over 740 square miles, and we're always looking for talented people to join our team. This is your opportunity to help make your community a better place to live, work, and play. If you're ready to be part of Of a great success story,
consider a career with Pasco County government, recently recognized as a top workplace for 2021. Opportunities include careers in utilities, public works, traffic operations, solid waste, animal services, public transportation, information technology, libraries, parks, human services, recreation and natural resources, administration, senior services, Fire rescue. Nine
one one. Fleet. Building construction services, code enforcement, planning, environmental science, and so much more. Plus, our benefits package is tough to beat. We offer employee wellness centers. Health, vision, and dental benefits? Paid holidays and tuition reimbursement, just to name a few. We are local government reimagined. We're progressive. Innovative and in many areas
Pasco County is leading the way. Want to learn more about what we do and how you can be part of it? Visit mypasco.net and click on Job and Volunteer Opportunities. Our team is more than 2,700 strong. Your neighbors, friends, and even family members.
Come join Pasco County and make a difference every day.
Finding Rover is an application that is used both on website and smartphones, and you can download the app or use the website to upload photos of your own pet to help find them if they become lost. And the way it works best with us is that when those animals are being found as strays by our animal control officers or being brought in by another member of the community, their information is automatically being uploaded to Finding Rover system, their pictures are automatically being uploaded. And if they see their pet, they already know where they can go and find it.
I think one of the interesting things about our organization is our ability to help the public. We have so many different ways that we can do that. One of the most special ways we do that is being able to reunite pets with their owners. And anytime we can get some technology, a form of technology to help us do that is incredible. And with the Finding Rover app, we personally at Pasco County Animal Services have been able to reunite pets with their owners based on facial. Recognition technology, which that's some space stuff right there, but we make it work and we get animals back into their homes and it's absolutely incredible, not only for the animals, but for those people as well.
The application for Finding Rover is a free application for smartphones. You can use any picture that you find on your Facebook pages, on your private pictures, anywhere that you have them. If you're using your phone, it'll open up your camera roll and you can choose the photo that you'd like to use.
Hello, I'm Catherine Seebee, Branch Manager at the Centennial Park Library. We're putting the finishing touches on at your favorite branch. There are lots of changes inside and out, starting in the parking lot. It's been repaved and new sidewalks and landscaping have been installed. We've also added a bright new sign to keep you informed of events and happenings at the library at a glance. There's a covered entrance now to help you keep dry and in the shade. Inside, the flooring
is complete along with the ceilings and lighting. An expansive new front desk is the hub of the library, with friendly staff ready to assist you quickly and efficiently. The furniture, shelves, and fixtures are in place and we're preparing to deliver the books to the branch soon.
The Loft is the new makerspace devoted to studio arts such as painting and arts and crafts. There is plenty of room to conduct classes in the makerspace or to explore your artistic side on your own. We know you're anxious to enjoy the remodeled Centennial Park Library and we're eager to show it off. Follow our social media pages and PascoLibraries.org for updates and the opening dates. Thank you.
Today we're celebrating the transition of Pasco County Public Transportation to a new, more modern name, Go Pasco.
It's it's time for a change. It's uh so much brighter, so much better colors. Uh the buses look a lot better. It's
goodbye, PCPT. It
was
always hard time to remember those initials and to have Go Pasco is gonna be amazing for our citizens to remember, even for us to remember.
We've been PCPT for 25 years. Go Pasco envisions exactly what we mean. We're here. in Pasco to go where you need us to go.
I think we're looking forward to to the future. Showing that we have a lot of pride in our community. We get to the Yeah people actually liking that a lot. And they said they just like the modernizations a lot better.
It makes us more reliable. Go Pasco Tells you who we serve. We serve Pasco. With PCPT, it was tough to determine that. So that's why we went to this new new name and new brand. Again, vibrant colors help us get that message across.
Thank you to the team for putting this all together. This has been a 20-something years. We've been PCPT. Goodbye and see you on Go Pasco.
You can read a story You can go for a walk. So why not combine both? Welcome to our story walk. Here at J.B. Starkey Wilderness Park, we have installed a new story in our story walk. Check out this new seasonal themed title, The Very Last Leaf, by Steph Wade and illustrated by Jennifer Davison, where you'll learn about Lance, the Cottonwood Leaf, and how he must face his
fear of falling with the change of the seasons. The story walk consists of 18 Reading stations positioned along a 0.2 mile loop. Along the way, you'll also learn some fun facts about the changing colors of leave. The outdoor reading experience allows children, families, and people of all ages to read a story while walking along a nature trail. Head to the back left trail of the playground area, follow the purple trailblazes, and you'll be on your way. A special thank
you to all who partnered with libraries to make this project possible. Pasco County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources, the Friends of the Pasco County Library System, and AmeriCorps.
Hi, I'm Ainsley with Pasco County Pavement Management. People always ask why can't you pave roads faster? Well, the process isn't as simple as it seems. We use two methods, which you can see here. They're called milling and paving and full depth reclamation and solid semen. What does that mean exactly? Let's break them down.
90% of our paving projects are done through milling and paving, which takes about two weeks depending on weather and the length of the road. We start by grinding and removing 2 to 3 inches of the road, then we sweep the road to remove fines. Fines are small particles of asphalt or lime rock. Next, we spray tack, which is a mixture of oil and water, onto the road surface to make sure that the asphalt bonds to the road surface. Then we apply
a layer or two of asphalt. Ever notice steam rising from the asphalt? That's because it's trucked to the work site at a whopping 325 degrees or hotter. Next, we drive a steam roller over the asphalt to make sure the surface is flat and smooth. And that's it. Now let's look at the second paving process Pasco uses, which usually takes a bit longer.
Our geotechnician team drills into the roadway at the job site and takes samples to a lab to help us determine what mix to use. Then we create a mix to use on the road from materials we salvage from the pre-existing road. A machine grinds 10 inches into the road base, feeding all that material into a giant mixing machine where it mixes with other ingredients before being Spread onto the road. The surface has to be set for a few days, and then our team returns to the site to
test the road's strength. If it gets two thumbs up, we grind two inches off the base, sweep the fines, and add the tack and lay the asphalt. So those are the two ways Pasco works to make your commute a whole lot smoother. Public works inspectors are on every job site. To make sure there are no bumps in the roads, so to speak. We follow tough guidelines and high standards to keep our roads drivable for years to come. To learn more about Pasco County's paving process, please
visit mypasco.net and thank you for watching.
The purpose of these gates was to provide residential and roadway flood reduction in the Trinity Oaks and the Thousand Oaks neighborhoods.
The whole idea was to automate the process of opening and closing of floodgates and reading the water levels during storm events.
So once we push the button, we could actually see the gate opening. We could tell that there's no blockages. We could tell that there's been no debris buildup. So it gives us real perspective from the office. So as before, we would have a crew of workers that would have to go out to each site, manually hand crank the actuator wheels. It was very laborious, time consuming task.
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SCADA is an acronym for Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition System.
I call this very transformative. In many other municipalities or counties, they have this system.
If we know that a major storm is imminent, we can open the gates in advance. What this does is this will allow the water in those watersheds to recede. This gives us information. It's very insightful. It allows us to make decisions here in the office. It's it's I think it's a very handy tool to have that capability from from the public works office.
So now we can um uh electronically monitor the levels of the water and so we know way ahead of time now if we have an issue or if we've reached that level where we can go ahead and open that gate. Before we would have had to send someone out, sometimes in really bad weather, um, to go see um what's happening at each gate.
It's going
to
be reduced to maybe one or two people who can read these things in our offices. That means that these other people will now have something else to do in in our operations.
I can see this kind of technology spreading throughout the county as we tackle each different area. This kind of technology will bring comfort and and assurance to um our community that we're gonna get those floodwaters out in a timely manner.
The average shelter return to owner rate for cats is less than 2%. That means if you bring a community cat to our shelter, it's not likely they'll end up being returned to their caregivers. Cats in our communities often have one or more caregivers, and they usually hang up in their home area. The best thing to do for these cats is to leave them be. Share that message, and you too can help battle pet overpopulation.
If you are concerned the kittens have really been orphaned, meaning they haven't been moved or you're sure mom hasn't been back in at least eight consecutive hours, then you can step in and care for the kittens. Animal Services offers resources on our website about kitten fostering, span neuter services, trap rentals, and vaccinations. Whether you have a single community cat or a bunch of kitties, we encourage you to contact. us at 813-929-1212 or through our website
for more information on our SNP Trap Neuter Vaccinate Release Program. This means healthier and fewer community cats in your neighborhood. Healthier because we can prevent diseases like rabies and fewer because all of the cats that we treat are also spayed and neutered. Cats are eligible for the program at eight weeks old. Casco County is a strong and growing community, and through our combined efforts, we can help save lives with three simple words. Leave them be.
I mean they've helped me keep my home. Uh raising my two grandboys. Uh if it wasn't for them I wouldn't uh I don't know where we would be.
Purpose of human services is to see how we can best meet the needs of the Pasco County citizens. There are various needs, um housing, food, medical needs, various things, mental health. At both offices we have four core programs. One is the eHeap program. Which is the Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program. We help with Pasco electric bills for that. In addition, we have something called the Cremation Burial Service. We can help indigent families in Pasco County bury their
loved ones if they are not able to afford cremation and burial. We have a program called Hickra. So if someone from Pasco County has emergency services provided to them outside of the county, we can help assist them in paying for. those bills. We also have something called a roundup. So we could pass pay help pay for past due um water bills.
to come here when they have the funding, they will do everything in their power to help you.
If we don't have the funding or the ability to help them, we try to create connect them with agencies around the county that can help them with um
whatever they need. But we're a group of ten very friendly, helpful, willing to support our citizens as best we can. We're very resourceful. So if you want to reach out You can go to mypasco.net. You can also call the offices or stop in. We're happy to help. We want you to come and
you know see us.
Welcome to Pasco County, the fastest growing county in the Tampa Bay area. The Pasco Board of County Commissioners is a high-performing organization with 2,700 employees representing 57 lines of business, serving nearly 600,000 people over 740 square miles, and we're always looking for talented people to join our team. This is your opportunity to help make your community a better place to live, work, and play. If you're ready to be part Of a great success
story, consider a career with Pasco County government, recently recognized as a top workplace for 2021. Opportunities include careers in utilities, public works, traffic operations, solid waste, animal services, public transportation, information technology, libraries, parks, human services, recreation and natural resources, administration, senior services, Fire rescue. Nine
one one Fleet. Building construction services, code enforcement, planning, environmental science, and so much more. Plus, our benefits package is tough to beat. We offer employee wellness centers. Health, vision, and dental benefits? Paid holidays and tuition reimbursement, just to name a few. We are local government reimagined. We're progressive. Innovative, and in many areas,
Pasco County is leading the way. Want to learn more about what we do and how you can be part of it? Visit mypasco.net and click on Job and Volunteer Opportunities. Our team is more than 2,700 strong. Your neighbors, friends, and even family members.
Come join Pasco County and make a difference every day.
Hi, I'm Mary Beth Isaacson, Regional Branch Manager for Pasco County Libraries. Welcome to the Starkey Ranch Theater Library Cultural Center, currently under construction and scheduled to be completed in spring of 2021. Let's go in and take a look.
Now that the interior walls are up, you can really get a sense of the library's layout. The lobby will be the first space you enter with a cafe area and a green wall with living plants. It will be an inviting space with plenty of natural light from the skylights. The library will have comfortable seating areas for relaxing, studying, and working. There will also be a drive-up window and book return for your convenience and safety. We're very excited about the theater. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 250 and can be
set up theater style, banquet style, or classroom style. The stage is equipped with curtains, lights, and theater sound so it will be able to accommodate a wide range of performances. There are attached dressing rooms and a catering area. The enclosed courtyard also features an outdoor stage and presentation area. The library is on the same campus as Starkey Ranch K-8 School and will serve a dual purpose as the school's media center. The youth room is very large and will hold thousands of books, plus study rooms and other learning
areas, including a separate storytime room and a teen room. We look forward to having lots of kids in this space and there will be plenty of activities for students and families. Starkey Ranch will have three makerspaces. One makerspace is dedicated to ceramics with a kiln and two pottery wheels. The other two makerspaces will offer a wide range of equipment and activities, such as jewelry making, sewing and textile arts, and painting. The makerspaces will have both scheduled instructor-led classes and open hours when community
members can come work on their own projects. Watch for more videos to keep you up to date on how the Starkey Ranch Theater Library Cultural Center is progressing. Thank you!
Trails have so many purposes to them. They connect you to places. They get you outside in the fresh air and then you can exercise and you can be with friends when you're out using trails. We're a Pasco family and we walk together. We're real mindful in Pasco County that all the new neighborhoods need to have a trail system and they need to have a way for the residents who want to walk out of their community or cycle out of the community
to have a way to connect to a trail system.
Hi, I work for the MPO as a transportation planner and I plan multi-use pathways.
I think uh our residents love the trails and I hear about it all the time and they they do want them to be safe. and safer. Soon we'll be building some of our first overpasses in the county, pedestrian overpasses, which will help a
lot. One of the reasons that I moved to Pasco County two years ago was for the numbers of trails, pathways that I could walk on. I'm a frequent walker. I try to walk two to three miles a day for health and fitness. My
name's Tina Russo. I work for Pasco County. I'm a cyclist and I love to ride for my health and just to be outside in the great outdoors of Florida.