Chairman Starkey report with Rangeland and Grand Boulevard

3:02:58We have such great constitutionals. Okay, uh now me. I'm gonna try and rip through this real quickly. Um I wasn't at the tunnels to towers, but my staff was because Congressman Bill Rakis asked me to attend his senior town hall. I did take some pictures, but uh it was in New Port Richey and very well attended. The sheriff was there. Um a lot of different agen agencies were there, a lot of our staff so um very well attended. Um I participated in the Mitchell um H

3:03:29high school capstone presentations. Very interesting to hear our seniors with their ideas and we've got some great kids heading off to college. Attended the Pasco Corrections Quarterly Recognition Ceremony at the Starkey Library with our county administrator. He didn't mention that, but that was a very nice ceremony. Finally got to tour Hope Services. I think that's in Commissioner Weightman's district if you haven't been there. They've got an amazing program going on. This room right

3:03:59here Um this lady works for this I think it's for the state. And these are this is all different kinds of um Things that help people with special needs that they can come in and check out. And then uh if th if it works for them I think they can get them provided to them. Here all all I actually have a few of these things um in my house. Um that help you open cans and It's for people of all ages, so I'd love that thing for the back up there on the upper right. I'd put right here on this chair.

3:04:29Yeah.

3:04:30Um And they have a they have a little c um uh s they have they teach skills to people with with uh autism and others. And that's a little uh depart uh like a grocery store set up where they learn how to check out. um food. And then they go work for publics. So it's it's very very cool outfit there on uh I think it's Cornerstone, um on forty one. Um I also attended the third annual Women Uplifting Women event. There were some people in

3:05:00from here in this room that were there, sold out. People trying to get tickets and they couldn't get any. Um it was a great event. I just I'm so proud of where that group has now come to Um the speaker um Effie Santos from Maddie's Movement was amazing. She spoke at our Amskills um dinner. She her daughter, Maddie, um was killed in a car crash at nineteen and her daughter cared a lot about

3:05:31her fellow um citizens and her fellow students and kids and very much about um foster kids and so they have a wonderful foster program but um I just I thought it was outstanding. You did a great job. Thank you. You did a great job as our MC.

3:05:48I want that picture. Yeah,

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3:05:51to me? So um great event. We we need a bigger space for next year. We just we we can almost double that I think. It was awesome, right? So thank you all for coming. Um I uh hosted an early insight night uh for um John Hopkins All Children's. It was a little embarrassing. We had 40 people RSVP and 12 people showed up, but um this is Alicia, who is the CEO of John Hopkins. Um they brought a whole busload of their top executives

3:06:21up to the to to Pasco uh for the night and um gave us uh uh a wonderful um talk about what's coming. So we're very we're so very fortunate to be getting this hospital in in Pasco County. And I'm they'll be looking to stage a lot more events especially coming over to your guys' side so maybe you can work with them and they they need people to know what's coming and get out into the community. They have to fundraise quite a bit to make this hospital happen. And

3:06:51um So I hope you'll get involved. Um I attended the Rangeland Boulevard Exit Workshop Extension Workshop. and um it was very well attended. There was a line out the door to sign in. Um And uh I did give some of my comments to staff. I want uh Tina Russo and I we we do want to look at how the Sun Coast Trail is being handled at the at the Sun Coast and Rangeland ex um where they meet. Um

3:07:22I Tony, I sent you a picture of Starkey Ranch where the roads are now, Rangeland. Um Um Commissioner Yeager, that that road, rangeland, has been there since the seventies. It's been planned and for all commissioners to know that that was that was the contemplated yeah, you remember when John Gallagher was county administrator, and actually it was our family who um in in laying out uh Starkey Ranch. Wanted

3:07:52two roads. And and And frankly I think if I were doing Bexley or uh Angeline I would have done what we did. And that has not put one big road going through their development of Angeline, which is Sun Sun Lake Boulevard. It's gonna be a big road. Um We pushed for two two roads. So we have Lake Blanche Drive going east west and we have Rangeland going east west. And I think we would have tried to make the two be more

3:08:22equal, um but the developer kind of made Rangeland a little superior to Lake Blanche. But they've s really slowed it down with the traffic circles and uh

3:08:35The road needs to happen. We can't have only one east-west road in Trinity, Odessa. We already saw what happened when the the um the oil spilt on 54 and that shut the road down. Um but we have to be very mindful that communities on both sides, Commissioner Oak Bexley and in Starkey, those are walkable. Bikable communities and then they don't they don't want to lose that so safety is gonna be of utmost importance. Um but I I do think

3:09:05the roads can coexist with the neighborhood very well. Um let's see. Uh we then there was the Troy County Workshop. Um thank you all who attended. We had really great attendance from the other counties, the most we've ever had, I think. uh we're missing just a couple. Um Lat Bala from Penellas and um Um the chair.

3:09:28Canegan?

3:09:29Yeah, he

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3:09:30just returning from Europe. His son's in school and in England, so um then uh afterwards commit the two county administrators, so all three administrators went to Amskills and um a commissioner from Penellas County. And so I thought that went really, really well. And uh thank you all for for taking that time. Um on Sunday we ha hosted the annual community cleanup in Beacon Square. and um it rained in the morning so we thought we weren't gonna get a great

3:10:00turnout. But um I got there at noon and the trucks were just pouring in. I actually had a hoarder who was um, the wife of a hoarder and they were doing a good job of of getting that stuff cleared out. Apparently they got hit pretty hard in the hurricane and Ever since then the husband was just out collecting stuff. You know, people deal with things in different ways. So, um I drove through the neighborhood, there were a lot of people who should have been participating that weren't.

3:10:30Um but I I don't know the numbers. I did not maybe I got the numbers but I didn't get the numbers. to to to see uh how much they got but look you can see that pile of mattresses that were laying in someone's yard all those mattresses so you know in my neighborhoods this is why I like sweeps I I I don't want those to be out there in people's fr front yard so um let's see um oh and yesterday um the county

3:11:00administrator and Kathy Pearson and I attended and oh yeah, uh and Eric. We went through the I can't see you, Eric, so I didn't know you were even here. We we went and toured maps. I don't if you have not toured that It's the Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology and what's the S? I don't know what he has isn't. Science? We have a freaking gem. It's at Wendell Crine. He's got a five thousand square foot space when he needs

3:11:31fifty thousand because they have artifacts from all over the world. They have thousands of kids coming up there and going through. They have summer camps. They've got mummies and Like um African Mass and Just it's just like the US it's like the Museum of History, natural history up there. Um so we're gonna put our heads together figure out what we can do. I hope to help him stay here in Pasco County. We're very lucky to have

3:12:01that possible opportunity here. So thank you very much. And tomorrow night, uh six o'clock, David is the second It's Grand Boulevard. What do you call it?

3:12:13It's a um

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3:12:16its at six o'clock we have a Grand Boulevard Charrette stakeholder engagement um number two. Um it's similar to what we did in uh at Gunn Highway in 54. We want to reimagine the Elfers community and bring it back to what it was back when uh the train came through there and there was a train stop there, the Elfers Burp. And um it's got the bones for a great little community. And um and so we're help doing a planning exercise to help help