Cybersecurity and lobbyist selection reminders

4:49:00good. All right. Uh Mr. Kabala.

4:49:04Just real quick, sir. You as as you're all aware, we take cybersecurity very seriously here at Pasco County, uh doing a lot of a lot of training and a lot of good things. And I always remind our new hires that we as individual users are sort of the weak link in that. We we don't want our government uh system here to be taken down. It would grind a lot of things to a halt. Uh so I'm really pleased to announce that our own Chief Information Officer and IT Director Todd Bailey was awarded a national level award by the Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit for

4:49:34being an outstanding collaborator and partnership with those agencies in advancing cybersecurity awareness. Just know that your IT team is certainly parrying uh cyber attacks on a daily basis. It really amazes me. Just how many entities are really trying to break in and take down our data, uh, among other things. So we're very, very proud of Todd and the leadership that he provides to our information technology team to continue to keep things cutting edge. So well done, Todd. That's all, sir.

4:50:04Very good job. Mr. Steinsteiner. I do have stuff today.

4:50:11Um this is a reminder you should have received from your purchasing department. Um the RSQ for the state lobbyist and the federal lobbyist. Um They you are acting as the selection committee yourselves rather than having an administrative um selection committee and by taking that role. You

4:50:42cannot have contact with any of the proposers once the proposal goes on the street. So you can't have Um so Those firms who are soliciting that business can't contact you, you're in the co sort of cone of silence. Um you can't have any contact with them until after a selection is made and um And if they and if Any of them do try and set up meetings

4:51:12through your Through your staffs. uh refer them back to the purchasing director. She can handle any of their questions about the solicitation and the terms.

4:51:24You

4:51:24so you can't have any contact with them? You can't have any contact with them about the proposal.

4:51:29About the proposal. It's not about the proposal. Right. Right. Yeah. Okay.

4:51:35And if they Try and slip it in, that will disqualify them. When did that go out? And what is it close?

4:51:43Like how long are we talking?

4:51:46Okay.

4:51:48Mr. Breitenbach will that up.

4:51:49Well, Ralph's back there too.

4:51:53Oh,

4:51:53he

4:51:53woke

4:51:54him up. Yeah.

4:51:55I'm sure I wrote it down after the right-of-way.

4:51:58I thought you'd already left. He's flying out.

4:52:02Okay, the federal went out at the end of last month, the s uh state went out the week after. Uh the evaluation date that you'll uh review both federal and state is October twenty-third. And then you will do interviews. And have presentations on November first. So Currently.

4:52:24Currently it's on the street. So currently you shouldn't be have you shouldn't be having a

4:52:27contact. Right. When when did we get this? I saw it but I it's uh popped up I don't see it right now. Did I come out today?

4:52:36It came out yes I think that your dates the dates that you're gonna have the meetings were put on your calendars yesterday or the day before?

4:52:44So the uh the uh Carrie sent those out today, but we had a hold. I got over your staff earlier a couple of weeks ago, and we had the hold on those dates. So they are officially now on your calendar as of today. So October twenty third and November first. You're looking at all day. For each other's. Thanks.

4:53:04Um and the second second item is just briefly in this morning's public comment, uh one of the speakers indicated that you were required to have after five o'clock hearings by state statute. Um that's a misinterpretation of the statute. Um statute that only that only applies to County initiated rezoning And

4:53:35your reason and and the changes to the land development code But even in those instances there is a provision that says That the Board of County that at least one of those two hearings can be held after what at least one of those hearings shall be held after five PM on a weekday unless the Board unless the Board of County Commissioners by majority plus one vote, elects to conduct the hearing at another time of day. You

4:54:06ha some time ago Pas uh adopted by motion. uh the that you wanted to have those hearings during your afternoon business with the with the rest of the public hearing. Um

4:54:23Even And even saying that section, the section that the normal bit the most of the business that you do Um which is applicant rezoning doesn't come under that provision at all, which is why you only have one hearing. You'd have you've y an applicant rezoning would have to have i it if this applied would have to have two public hearing and it doesn't. So I I don't And

4:54:55in fact, there has been no case that we have lost on that issue.

4:54:59What was what case was she even talking about?

4:55:02I th I believe it's it the case that she was referring to was the summary judgment in coastline, uh, which we did the litigation assessment meeting two meetings ago, I guess. Um, which the same statute was referenced, but what the court found was that we hadn't advertised it in the right section of the paper. Not that it was it was a hearing that was required to be after five o'clock. Um

4:55:33so I wanted to Yeah. Straighten the record out. Thank you. And that's all I have. Thank you. All right.