Public comment Rebuilding Together and wild dogs
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Here. Now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future agenda item coming before the board and on other business on the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First we'll take public comment from those who are here in person, then we'll take public comment for those who are pre-registered for an online link and currently on We request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally at a commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides mutual respect between the board members and the public. After
stating your name and address for the clerk, a three-minute timer will be activated, and a green light will be shown at the post. After two minutes, a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. When your time is up, a red light will be displayed. Three views will sign and you should close your comments. Online participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up for public comment?
Yes, we do. Would Lance Lee please come to the podium?
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Good morning. Good morning commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to speak today.
Your name and address, please?
My name is Lance Lee. I serve as the Vice President of Operations at Rebuilding Together Greater Florida. Our address is 3014 Northwest Highway. Yeah. Tampa, Florida. Thank you. We're a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping families safe, healthy, and housed by providing critical home repairs, disaster recovery, and disaster readiness services to low-income homeowners, seniors, veterans, and also people with disabilities.
Many Pasco residents are still struggling in the aftermath of Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Too many homeowners simply don't have the resources to recover on their own. And some are still living with roof damage, unsafe electrical issues, broken windows, or other storm-related hazards. Thanks to a disaster recovery grant from the American Red Cross, Rebuilding Together Greater Florida now has dedicated funding specifically for Pasco homeowners who were impacted by these storms. What I want to emphasize, all repairs
are provided at absolutely no cost to the homeowner. If a resident owns and occupies their home and they still have unmet repair needs from Hurricanes Milton or Helene, we can help. Our team handles everything: assessments, contractors, permitting, and project management. So homeowners do not have to navigate the recovery process alone. Every repair we complete keeps the Pasco County families safely in their home and strengthens long-term community resilience. On behalf of Rebuilding
Together Greater Florida, I want to thank you for your leadership and for helping us connect with the homeowners who need this support. We look forward to working together to rebuild to to rebuild, recover and keep Pasco families safe. And as I said, from this grant, we have three million dollars from the Red Cross, and we are struggling with applicants in this specific community. Uh we have a application process. You can go to our website at rtgfl.org, but we aren't getting many families from PASCO. Um
and like I said, it's a considerable amount of funds. Uh the range of home repairs can range anywhere from twenty-five thousand up to sixty-five thousand dollars. Roofs, anything involving the envelope of the home. So our thought was that we could come here and hopefully. you guy you all could help us spread the word that we have these funds and so we can uh repair more homes in Pasco community.
Thank you. Please give your information to the county administrator so we can reach out to you and we'll we'll make some contacts. But I'm sure I I know there's some help out there we can use. So thank you very much. All right, thank you. Thanks.
Lisa Mazell, please come up to the podium.
Yeah, too.
Good morning. My name is Lisa Mizel. I currently reside at [address removed]. I'm the Director of Treasury Management Sales for Florida for Republic Bank. I'm actually coming before you all today. In regards to an issue that's been going on in the community, not necessarily an agenda item. One of our neighbors have had seven cattle be killed by a pack of wild dogs. There's two separate packs. Two of the cattle We're pregnant and
she's lost four just in March. Her neighbor has had a cat killed. All of this has been caught on camera. There have been several news stories done by News Channel, Channel 13, some other news stations. It's been all over social media. And unfortunately, the county has not reached out to this neighbor. Unfortunately, she does have six donkeys, but with a pack of dogs, the donkeys are not going to protect cattle that like that. They have just recently last
week ripped off an ear of one of her cattle that is also pregnant, so that calf may not make it. Um This is thousands of dollars for these cattle ranchers, and something needs to be done. Animal Services has been called, it's been directed that they're the ones that need to deal with it. They've gone out and surveyed the area, but they've not been able to capture any of these dogs. So my ask is that the county do something more and ask that these dogs be captured and humanely euthanized because at the Point, it's
a matter of time before it's an adult or someone's child. Um, I own a farm, I have horses, I have many friends who own farms and have horses and cattle, and it's happening on Trilby, it's happening on Power Line and Christian Road. So it's very well public out there if you guys just spend a little bit of time researching it. It's been an Ongoing issue for months. So I just want to be on public record that you all are aware of this issue because if it does come down to a child or a human one day, it's it's gonna be a problem. So my ask is that this is prevented and that these
wild dogs, we're not sure if they're wild or not, they're not chips. Um animal services came and picked up one that was deceased, but We're not sure if someone owns the dogs, but they really just need to be humanely dealt with before more ranchers lose their cattle and someone loses a life at this point. So that is my ask of the county.
If you could, I'd like to have a talk to Kathy Pearson. I think Fish and Wildlife might be the appropriate agency for the state to help us out. I don't think animal control is set up to cover wild dogs, but we'd love to help trap
that for.
Uh get me the information, I'll help her help help and reach out for you too.
Okay. And who
uh Kathy Pearson's right there.
Anyone else here from the public that hasn't signed up would like to address the board?
I don't see anyone here. Anyone online?
No one online.