2024 Scallop Fest sponsors volunteers resolution

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1:16:09Resolution twenty four. C A O twenty four five one six six. A resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, thanking the corporate sponsors and volunteers of the 2024 Scallop Fest in Pasco County.

1:16:29Whereas the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission extended the Pasco County scallop season to forty days in twenty twenty four, and whereas in celebration of the extended season, staff worked with the Pasco County Parks of Recreation and Natural Resources. Florida Sports Coast, and West uh West Pasco, Saratoma, to host a four-weekend scallop fest with Music Fun and Sun at Sunwah Sunwest Park. And

1:16:59whereas the 2024 Pasco Skellop Fest took place at Sunwest Park in Hudson and spanned multiple weekends from July 19th to August 10th, 2024, every Friday and Saturday. And whereas the 2024 Pasco Scallop Fest featured live music, food trucks, and fireworks every Saturday night from 5 PM to 10 P.M. The goals were to keep the event free to the general public, promote the scallop season, support

1:17:29local businesses, promote tourism, and most importantly, promote important charities that serve the members of our community. And whereas scholarships for the event totaled $128,000. Beverage and scallop plate sales totaled eleven thousand six hundred eighty-two dollars and ninety-two cents. $2,375 was paid for parking and $30,000 was raised for our three sponsored charities.

1:18:00and whereas we greatly appreciate the following sponsors for their generosity in donating to the event, including our presenting sponsor, Advent Health. Sun West, Harbor Town, BRW, HCA Florida Healthcare. Ripa construction. ReWorld, formerly Cavanta, US Water, with the Gucci River Electric Cooperative, Ways Connections, Pasco E D C, Moss Construction, Patriotic Fireworks, Florida Sports Coast, Synergy

1:18:31Ed Specialists, Chairman Ronald E. Oakley, Commissioner Jack Mariano and Commissioner Kathryn Starkey. and whereas Chasing Talent Productions coordinated stage, sound, and lighting for the event, and booked talented performers, including event MC Christopher John, Two Excited Duo, Trey DC, Uh Uh Bobby and Chris Band, twisted revolvers. Greg Billings and Stay Up Lates, Bob

1:19:01Hope Man, Bearded Brothers, Adam Stackpole Duo. Uh Firefly, Shad Effects, Fire and Ice, Nasserie, uh the Nasserie Bend the Elder Band, uh Beach Boys, The Hitmen, and the Embry Brothers. And whereas volunteers include members of West Pasco, Setoma, Steps to Recovery for Parking Assistance, Commissioner Mariano staff, Sonia Walling and Colleen Weaver, Elaine Smith and others from libraries,

1:19:31and Christina Corden and others from Parks and Recreation. And whereas due to the s success of the event, Pasco County can present checks for $10,000 to three charities, West Pasco Sotoma, Parks and Recreation Summer Camp Scholarships, and Steps to Recovery. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, the said Board hereby thanks the corporate sponsors and volunteers of the twenty twenty four Scollop Fest in Pasco

1:20:02County, done and resolved in regular session with a quorum president voting the seventeenth day of September, twenty twenty four. Move approval.

1:20:10Second.

1:20:10I got a motion and second.

1:20:12All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passed 5-0. Welcome.

1:20:17Thank you, Commissioners. Christina Cordon, Assistant Director of Parks, Recreation, and Natural Resources. As you can see, this event was a large cooperation between all the sponsors and all the volunteer agencies. So I would like to present Mr. Darrell from the West Pasco Sertoma. He'll speak a few words and hand us everyone a check.

1:20:37Hello, uh Daryl Hewling. I'm president of West Pasco Sertoma. We're a small but growing community service group that was established in 1971 right here in Newport Ritchie. And for over 50 years we've done several events uh like this. So um And and that's in that's because uh over 30 years ago uh we helped fo uh start the uh Speech and Hearing Foundation, which started very small providing health hearing uh help to the local community. Uh

1:21:07but over the course of thirty years and through the leadership of Deborah Kolinski, which is here. Uh her and her staff has been a little bit more than a little bit. has really grown that foundation to be a statewide health and hearing uh services. Uh so we're very proud of that. And uh we're very proud that uh we work hard to to support their efforts. So on behalf of the club and on behalf of the foundation, we wanna uh thank uh Commissioner Mariano. for including us into his vision of Sun West

1:21:37and the Scallop Fest and everything that's involved with that, getting the community together uh for some good food, good music. and good times is always a good thing. And as a result, helping many uh charitab charitable groups is uh is only a plus. So thank you, Commissioner, for including us into all of that. My pleasure.

1:21:58Mr. Chairman Mariano. I'd like to say this was something that you know I I'll thank Mike Wells to get started with the scalloping season he got sever several years ago. Uh I tried b before that couldn't get it done. So when he got it done as a boating captain, I think that really helped a lot with fish and wildlife to to get that through. Uh when we got the thirty seven day season uh a couple of years ago, that was great, but we got it so late we could and I tried to do the scallop fest then but I couldn't pull it together. But this year Fish and Wildlife when they gave us forty, they gave it to us nice and early to to

1:22:28go work on it. And I'm gonna give a shout out because I was over at Safety Town. And uh while I was there, uh Advent Health was sponsoring an event for our firefighters and their families. and uh I got to go on stage before Ryan Quadlebaum from Advent Health. And I saw that there were a big sponsor with it. I and I said to Ryan, I said Ryan, before I get up there I says, I wanna do the scallop fest thing. I gave him a quick little thirty seconds talk about it. I says, I wanna do this here, but I says, uh would you like me to be able to announce to these people that you're gonna be able to sponsor all

1:22:58these kid all these families to be able to go there for free?

1:23:01No question.

1:23:02No pressure. And uh Ryan goes, Yeah I wouldn't have to be able to do So we did. And I tell you, you know, to help our uh our firefighters I wanted to go further with our first responders, deputies, et cetera, to go further. And so many times when you go to a certain events that you can get to the event, but then it costs more money to go in and you can't maybe you're not afford to go, et cetera. And I wanted to make this a tremendous tourism thing for the county because it is an a great opportunity for us. So I wanted to try to make this free for everybody. And I'll tell you all the sponsors that were listed down, starting with Advent Health. And when

1:23:33you get at like two hospitals sponsoring, like HCA Bayonet Point, to come behind them to sponsor two, that tells you that you get something going on that people are grabbing onto. So everybody that contributed greatly appreciated. And I want to say the way Surtoma was able to step in, and it was kind of funny, like it was a two-thing going. because I was thinking of Deborah first to go talk with her when I heard about Sir Toma could do this type of thing. And then uh Christina mentioned Elaine Smith, so between the two together, reaching out to your phenomenal, phenomenal group, I tell you, West Pasco Surtoma.

1:24:03Thanks for having me there the other night. It was so awesome that You know, you wanted to thank me and I ca I couldn't thank you enough. Uh what you guys did showing up every day, uh putting the hard labor in the hot sun and and uh just letting our law sponsors feel so welcomed. Uh I think we're gonna go on with this event because every sponsor I've talked to wants to do this again. Uh and I want to see this keep on going and and let this really be a big event and hopefully it's gonna raise good money

1:24:33for the community, create good awareness and good economic development for us. Uh Sonia Colleen. You guys are incredible every step of the way. Uh whatever had to be done, I mean now g now I I had the edge with Colleen 'cause I've seen her run big events with Green Building from many years ago, uh before I knew her in a previous life, uh and she did a phenomenal job do that. So I knew she was up to the task as stressful as it gets trying to bring it all together with A are tremendous, you know. Christina, you you and your team, Keith, what you put together with Parks, Kathy. Absolutely phenomenal the cooperation.

1:25:03Those guys were just out there every day. Whether it was helping Sertoma, helping the shelf sit get up for the scallops, whatever, the teamwork that went in, the cooperation, which is everybody just pulling together. day after day and and just hanging there through the tough rains we would have here and there. I I just can't tell ya how awesome it was. Thanks.

1:25:23Thank you, Jack. If I could say a word just uh quickly, I'm Harvey Reinhardt, I'm the Secretary Treasurer of West Pasco. And We have a fourth check. Because all we do is our fundraisers when whatever we get, we give seventy five percent of it to the foundation. For the kids to hear. Right. So we'll be presenting that check to Deborah too. Be good. Very good.

1:25:50Is there a check? Is there a check?

1:25:52Yes, we have like four four checks to go.

1:25:55No the the board. What's are the boards for

1:25:59What is that?

1:26:02Yeah, just gonna re read the what the checks are for.

1:26:05All right. I did make some uh large checks up there.

1:26:08Yeah, that's good.

1:26:11But uh we have a check for the Pasco Board of Commissioners uh that is for summer camp sp scholarships for ten thousand dollars. Wow.

1:26:28We have a check for steps to recovery for ten thousand dollars.

1:26:38Check to West Pasco for ten thousand dollars. Sir

1:26:40Thomas.

1:26:44Seventy five hundred of that's already spent. For a good cause. For a good cause for Setoma Speech and Hearing Foundation of Florida. Okay.

1:26:58Anyone else wanna do that?

1:27:00Can we uh do can we do this more often? Well when we finish with A. It pays off if you do the right thing. So I appreciate everything y'all have done. I mean, you've really walked to the forefront and j with Jack's pushing and all that the scallop season and all and I know you gotta get out and get scallops and be out in the open air and Sunshine and all that. I tend to not do that so much and I go by publics and get my scholars. But

1:27:31uh I don't enjoy all those activities you share with a lot of people and that that's very much an active uh item in what you do and A lot of people love being out there, so It it means a lot to our west coast and in Pasco County and our citizens here.

1:27:51Oh. So we love scalloping and uh I it was just really neat that you know, it stinks that it was shut down for a little bit, but you guys totally adapted and uh adjust and got scallops from where did you get them from?

1:28:04The Atlanta Coast.

1:28:05Okay, the Atlanta Coast. And uh well I mean I knew it wasn't from here, right? So uh commercial season. Right. So and um I look forward to going next year. So

1:28:16that'd

1:28:17be great.

1:28:18And and and I wanna say great job to all of you. I mean Amazing. I hope are are you gonna show pictures or I've seen some pictures but it it uh I'm just so happy for the success of the park at Sun West. It's a great addition. to the uh community and I appreciate all of you stepping up and I I'm sure this is gonna be annual and and it's just gonna grow and just get better and better. So um great job. Congratulations.

1:28:45Yeah. Congratulations.

1:28:49Sure. Well

1:28:53Huge congratulations to everybody and thank you for all your hard work and thank you for giving back. No, there's a pictures up there.

1:29:00Awesome.

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1:29:07Yeah, wonderful. That was a lot of bang.

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1:29:10nice. Mm-hmm.

1:29:11Oh yeah. And that's it.

1:29:16What kind of crowd did you have out there?

1:29:18We had a nice little we had a nice little Starkey blueberry seltzer there by the way. They ba everybody loved that.

1:29:23Oh great. Or Jack, you wanna go down and take a picture there and we'll stand up here behind you. So

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1:29:47folks, right?

1:29:50Why have we given the photo?

1:29:57I'll just tease it.

1:30:01We have some very tall citizens in the county.

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1:30:15Can you see the phone? I want to make sure he's in the photo.

1:30:21That's great.

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1:30:46Congratulations.

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1:30:58Congratulations. Great job. Yes.

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1:31:34Please leave out. Let's go in the restroom.

1:31:38Hey Mr. Chairman Mariano. Yes

1:31:39sir.

1:31:40So one of the gentleman just walking by me just says, Do you many kids you've just helped? So thank you. Thank you all. Appreciate it.