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All right, so that'll do do with the agenda. Committee reports. Commissioner Oakley.
I don't have anything.
Commissioner Weightman.
Oh. Nothing else.
We do.
Commissioner Mariano. If if I might, I just want to say thank you to the board. First of all, we're hearing you, but I also want to thank these guys behind me. There's an army of people that have been working on this nonstop the last two weeks. I can't tell you how many people have worked this hard to get this to you all. And we're hoping that some of this green space and and landscaping stuff will find its way into the code very quickly. quickly, but it's not been without acrimony. There are a lot of people trying to make products fit and make it work r
in a lot of you know, in a large county with a lot of development. So thank you to you, but I do want to say thank you to these guys 'cause they've been working their rear end off to get to today. Yeah,
you know I should have thanked you guys as well. I greatly appreciate your efforts. We're just kind of a a little bit of a busy morning this morning. Uh But uh we greatly appreciate your input. It it helps us make the right decisions. I think we're all trying to build a Great county here with the best products we can. So we appreciate your input. Thank you. Thank you very much.
No, Commissioner
Weightman. So the governor signed Senate Bill 7064, which is the Human Trafficking Bill. So thank you, Chairman Mariano.
Hopefully this will uh allow us to do better in Pasco. When it comes to uh Those businesses.
Next. So we had So we had PHS E's fiftieth anniversary over at the IPAC. And uh bunch of community leaders were there, great crowd. uh wonderful performances and it was just nice to celebrate having PHSC 50 years uh here in in Pasco and Hernando Counties. Uh next Chairman Mari I'll still hear thunder, but wonderful, wonderful sports coat stinner. I don't
know how you're gonna top that next year. Uh but great job to the staff and team. We had a great time. Uh congrats to Rhett Maggard.
And Oh who took that photo? Mm-hmm.
What's next? Oh thank you to the uh the clerk. Thank you to the clerk's office and For having the leadership Pasco panel. Thank you. Enjoyed that. That was my my first one. And um it was great to hear from from everybody who's put time and it to come and visit and see see what we do during the week. Uh next we had uh over at the crate. Uh congratulations to uh uh f Felicia and Namish Desai and Blaze Dreek
Wine. They've at the Blush Wine Room they've opened up a second crate. uh kind of a across the street for their champagne room. And so they had their grand opening on Friday. And just unique, vibrant little spaces where people come and eat and drink and have have a fun time at the crate. So
by the team there and excited to see them expanding their their footprint. And then on Saturday Harley Davidson of Wesley Chapel opened up. That is Harley Davidson did an amazing job. design designing this building. This this building and this property has the potential to be So much more than just a Harley dealership motorcycle space. It's an event space. It's space for meetings. It's entertainment. And
uh excited to have him here. And I encourage all of you if you were on it's a across the street from Pop Stroke. O Wesley Chapel Boulevard encourages every one of you to stop by and really take a look at the archit architecture of the building and and see what they've got going on going on there. So It was a Chamber of Commerce morning. We had people they were handing out Andy State all day because they gave away a Harley. And Andy was convinced that he was gonna win and he'd be
taking his wild hog ride here today, but he he he didn't. But uh it was a great way to round out the week having Harley Davidson right here in Pasco County.
Very good.
Anything else? Nope.
Uh Commissioner Starkey.
Well, um I enjoyed that that sports uh event very much as well. And um I uh also want to thank everyone who attended, you know, the the regional commissioners meeting. That that was fantastic. It's amazing that that's the first time we've all met. Um And uh I hopefully we'll have transportation and water up. uh for discussions next time. Um I thought it went really well and
it was a great meeting place. And uh It was a good meeting. Yeah, I I and and thank you so much for the administrators' help and pulling that together and I I hope that it d it's not too long before we do it again. So
we've we've discussed doing it quarterly, three times a year. We're we're making plans for the next one.
And c darn, Commissioner Kemp was sick. So we hope she can I won't I won't take the. Um
Do like Carly, let it rise.
Uh so I uh was uh out, you know, at the NACO Board of Directors meeting. And um I uh They we had a really interesting presentation. Bye. The um Border Patrol agent in charge of Yuma, Arizona. Um I didn't get to hear all of it. because I had to talk with my county attorney. Um but You know what what they're going through down
there, we can't even imagine what what those border communities are dealing with. I just God bless them. Um Then we had a uh then one of the uh speakers was someone from oh gosh. A uh a a An organization that deals with um national forests. Which I want to find out more about and I sorry I don't have my notes with me. I didn't even think we would have Commissioner Oakley today, but I want to show you a picture. This is
the forest one, the first one I sent you. And it That one that one. I'll show you that one in a second. Don't look. That's not the one I'm talking about.
You got the first one.
It won't open? No. Oh darn it. Okay, um well this is a picture I took. We had uh the board of directors of NACO and the board of directors of WIR. Um had a joint um Reception. Um, at a golf club by the hotel? And this is a good idea. We had it this it was raining. So, you know, we had to stay all and closed in. But when it stopped raining we went outside and this is what we saw. So That was amazing. Пир Пирфолла.
beautiful rainbow reflecting in the pond there. I have some other pictures but The um the picture I wanted to show you from the National Forest, which I'll email all of you. Um It's a side by side. Forest. In Montana? And the left side is managed by the feds. And the right side is managed by the private landowner. And the national forest is dying. And uh Forest on the right side is thriving. And they they were
talking about the wildfires and wildfire management And um and how poorly the federal government is managing its lands and that if they should be turning more of them over to the states and local communities. And I thought that was really, really interesting. And so um we commissioners that were there listening, we want to learn more about it because if you see what happens in California when they're not managing their their lands right and the wildfires go crazy. So um that was
good. Um Yeah and I think that's I don't think I really had much more for
much more or none.
I reserve the right to have more. As soon as I'll look at my calendar and remember what I do.
I did get the Noro virus on the way back. Am I saying that right?
The Hora?
We got diverted to San Angelo, Texas. and uh spent a couple hours in the middle of western nowhere in Texas, oil fields. And um My flight did not leave out of Dallas Fort Worth till like One in the morning.
Um Commissioner Constantine spent the night in the airport. So we had a rough time getting back. But anyway, thank you for letting me attend that conference.
No, glad you're doing it. Uh your participation there in NACO's been great. So and very effective. Uh Mikeella. Yeah.