Commissioner Moore reports budget, CRA boundaries, and fire rescue

1:50:42Right? Any other questions? Yep. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good report. Thank you. That ends all the regular items. We'll go to old business, uh Mr. Moore.

1:50:59Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll let me see if I can get through this here. Um last week um we had the honor of Governor DeSantis coming to Pasco County to uh Zephyrhills to sign the budget. What a Awesome honor for him to come to Pasco County to sign that budget. It was great. My daughter I brought one of my daughters with me. Actually Commissioner, you had one of your daughters there too. She just happened to be standing up there with the governor. Yeah, she got a pen too. Yeah. But thank you, Governor uh DeSantis. We really appreciate you coming to Pasco

1:51:30County for all the great things you've done. As well as our obviously President Wilton Simpson, Senator Burgess, Senator Hooper, Representative MAG, Representative Mariano, and Representative Zika. They all did great work this session and we're very appreciative. And I'm not gonna see anybody's thunder because I know a couple of you I think want to talk about some of the projects you work with. legislators on so I'll leave it at that. But again thank you, Governor DeSantis. We really appreciate you being them here in Pasco County. Exciting things happened last week when it came to tourism from our DMO, the Tampa Bay Pro Pro Combine, presented by Florida Sports

1:52:00Coast, was held. I had the honor and and it was really a fun time of doing the ceremonial jump ball before the first game at Wiregrass Ranch Sports Camp of Pasco County. Hundreds you know of room nights here in Pasco County. That's what tourism is all about. That's what our DMOs to why they're doing such great things is bring people to Pasco County to eat in our restaurants. you know, shop at our local mom and pops and uh buy their gas here in Pasco County and we really appreciate all the exposure. And it wasn't just

1:52:30um from people from Florida, these are future MBA stars that came from all over the country and actually all over the world. There were international players that came as well. I look forward to that um tournament I shouldn't say to that event being built upon. I think we're gonna meet with them in the next couple of weeks to help make it even bigger. and better but scouts, coaches from all over the place. Um it was great. Um Real quick, uh yeah, Port Richey's C R up C R A update. I know we've everybody's probably paying very close attention to this. They have a uh update tonight

1:53:00at their meeting on their CRA boundaries. Um we talked about this last in February, or I think in March as well. Um we talked about it where they discussed it in March. I'm not gonna go over in too much detail, but I'll just give you an example of why it's so important to call.

1:53:18Recently I was doing some due diligence and saw that a one of those homes in one of the neighborhoods we talked about that should be pulled out is actually listed on the market for 1.3 million and sale pending now. I can't obviously we don't know what that price was, could have been above or below. But uh that's definitely not a Blighton neighborhood by any means. So that's just a perfect example. So I'm I'm confident that Port Ritchie uh is going to move forward with that. I have all the confidence in the world that they'll uh be doing the right thing and pull

1:53:48that area and hopefully some more areas out of that CRA. Moving forward, I think they can actually pull that off maybe tonight. Um the last thing and this is uh very important and some of you may have received the same email, but I did want to take a moment and read it because I know we have some people from Fire Rescue here and I think the chief's back there himself today, but I received a very, very nice email from a constituent complimenting Pasco County Fire Rescue. So I did want to read that to everybody. It says, Dear Commissioner Moore, my name is Timothy

1:54:18Reid. I am a two-time Purple Hearts recipient in the United States and a United States Marine veteran. My wife, my service dog, Shadow, and I just moved into the Coil Hollow Pines neighborhood back in September of 2020. We have our very first home in this beautiful neighborhood surrounded by lovely neighbors in nature. On Monday, May 10th, 2021, an unfortunate event occurred where a brush fire blazed up behind our backyard coming from the neighbor. The fire quickly engulfed the pine trees, sped spreading so fast toward our home and the surrounding homes. We were in a

1:54:48panic. My wife was so frantic seeing our whole yard caught on fire in an instant, so we quickly and so fast we started. It's well it started fanning up because of the heavy winds and they felt helpless. Pasco County Fire Rescue 13 showed up within minutes. We heard the fire siren, we knew we were safe. Captain David Agrofalo calmly walked up in full gear and hoses, reassuring us we got this. At that moment we knew we were in good hands. It said more PC F R thirteen um firefighters

1:55:19calmly charged in, setting the water hoses up and running towards the fire, taming the angry inferno down. Pasco County Fire Rescue Departments He he said departments, but he think he meant stations. That's okay. Twenty six, thirty-eight, twenty-seven, thirteen, three, six, and four were all present. In the Florida sweltering heat, working diligently, calm and collected, and even went as far as making sure our fruit trees didn't become a casualty of the fire. These brave men and women did not hesitate one second to get the job done. Their heroism

1:55:49and professionalism saved our home and our neighbors' homes without anyone injured. We want you to know that we owe you and your brave firemen, women, an outstanding debt of gratitude. These men and women are the heart and soul of this community. We want to express our thanks and respect to you and your firemen and firewomen. Keep up the incredible work. We are also here to support you. We're one fantastic community. Please let our firemen and firewomen know how much we appreciate all of you. Sincerely, Tim, Ann and Shadda. So congratulations and I think. That's very I love when we get those letters and kudos. Yeah,

1:56:19you kidding a round of applause.

1:56:23I I shared that with Chief Cass and I think he already um got the word out and shared it amongst uh some of his captains and and team members. But uh again thank you all for everything and um I'm glad those residents and citizens are safe. So thank you. That's it for me.

1:56:38Thank you. Or