Urban3 presentation copies and chairman report

4:55:42Uh the only thing that we'd like to mention uh just for the record and for those that are very interested in the presentation, the Urban Three presentation. Due to the way the presentation was made. The clerk's office does not have a copy. uh of the presentation and in fact the majority of his presentation was verbal. I mean it was showing um but it's not like there was a PowerPoint and and his presentation followed that. So Anyone who is wanting to get a copy of that will

4:56:12probably need to go to the YouTube or the uh board meeting in order to really get the full benefit. But normally we get a lot of calls saying we want a copy of that and in this particular case we're not gonna be able to provide that.

4:56:27I I've been pinged by a lot of people who want a copy of it and so I just told 'em to go to YouTube. I'm

4:56:33Yeah. That's it. Yes, sir. Thank you.

4:56:37Thank you.

4:56:40Now I have uh twenty items. Um which one we got here?

4:56:47So I was asked to go to the memorial out at the uh Outlet Mall. and speak uh on behalf of Gary Bradford, honoring him as one of our local heroes. Uh Very impressive, very I mean It really touches your heart when you Think about what we went through with Gary and Um He would be very thankful that Uh Ms. Yeager's here in his seat today. I can tell you that she's fulfilled

4:57:17his Not totally his shoes 'cause he's a different person, but Uh she's done a good job while in his absence, so But he he's a great great individual. Then we'll move on to the next Slide here's where we pushed in and Um September ninth we pushed in is that right?

4:57:41I don't think so. Oh, September ninth is right. That's on a Monday. We pushed in a truck a new truck there at um N station twenty five there in Zephyrhills right by the the city Courthouse city. Council officers there. And uh It was great. Thanks for all the horses that are actually in that truck. to help us push that back into that 'cause it was uphill. So There's no way we could do it like the old days. And

4:58:11the the push in a lot of people never realize the push in was uh way back in ti in history those were horse drawn tanks and things of that nature for f to fight fires. And so if they got a new tank or whatever They didn't the house is not very good at backing up. And pushing something. So They actually uh unhook the horse from the carriage and the tanker and and then push it in. That that goes back in history. That's That's historic in

4:58:41in firefighters and what they do when they get new equipment. At the same time and I didn't get a picture of it, but at the same time There was a ladder brand new ladder truck sitting outside. at that station. Uh this this one this fire truck here or Yeah, this fire truck here. It ran about nine hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. The ladder truck I believe the number was somewhere around One point six. Million

4:59:12dollars? And uh look very nice. So They really we have really a lot of good good equipment for firefighters and thanks to All all that they do to help our citizens throughout the county. So Move on to the next item. Where am I at here? Oh, this is our this is my meeting on the east side of Pasco County. I laughed about it. You weren't here. I referred to you

4:59:42several times, Mr. Starkey. I'm sure you would. I told your sister.

4:59:50Oh yeah. But no, I always pick on you, but I I certainly appreciate everything you do. So Um The fact of it is that that we discussed a lot of things and Ms. Yeager and Mm. Um Jack Mariano were both in this meeting with me, but I ended up most all the talking 'cause we're in the east Pasco. All the cities belong in District One over there, so It really um it it I And I think it's a good one. I

5:00:20couldn't remember where we had the meeting the year before, but it was out at the uh college out there at Wesley Chapel. And it was a huge room and you remember how far apart we were from talking to Well this venue here really worked out great. Where where is it? It's an IFUS building right there.

5:00:39So that's that's a great thing that's coming. So then move on to the next pictures. Here's the following officer memorial. Um I've told y'all this story several times. Um The fact of it is we went Randy Blanketship and his wife Shannon went went with me too. give a check back to uh Mulberry ball team that the couple that was looking after the Mowbray uh little league. took

5:01:10all their money out of their accounts and ran with it. They didn't get very far. Grady Judd chased 'em down and got 'em, so Um We didn't realize at the time and Randy called me and saw Grady's Uh talk about that and then we're not going to be able to do He called me, he said, I'm gonna give him my money back and I said, Okay, I said, Why don't you give 'em five thousand? I'll give 'em five thousand and We'll do it together. So that's how we got over and looked at the right-of-way. We ax started got thinking about you know, two or

5:01:40three years prior to it's like five years ago we were shown a picture of what the memorial was going to look like and all these things. And then you hadn't heard anything for two or three years. And the fact of it is We walked through Grady Judd's Memorial right in front of the Sheriff's Officer in Polk County. What a what a impression it makes. And he has actual Officers that have passed their complete uh Brian's figures of of them, even one with the dog

5:02:10and Um For the guy to kill the dog and the officer. But uh it was it was remarkable and got me sorry. I come back called Craig Lapor. I said, What's going on? Oh COVID stopped our funding. I said How much money do you need? And he said, Oh, probably sixty thousand and I said, Nope. Call me tomorrow and let me know exactly what you need. He said, Well all our funding's stopped. I mean that's I said, Let me know what you need tomorrow and he did.

5:02:42Well, we probably need a hundred thousand dollars. That's right. A week and a half later we gave him the money for a hundred thousand dollars from Twenty donors. And I'm probably the only one that realized what I did, but if you were there and notice Admirals Yeager. Read the donation names and it was for a reason. And my reason was I was actually honoring Her office, her her seat in her district. standing in behind

5:03:12Gary Bradford, which would be more than proud to have been there to do it himself. But in fact I was honoring him by using her to read those stamps. And a lot of people don't realize you know now, but Um I thought a lot about Gary Bradford and he would very much be proud of that 'cause His life was about law enforcement and safety and things of that nature, so I think it was fitting for her to read those names and that's why she did read 'em. She didn't understand. I didn't tell her

5:03:42that story. So but that was the purpose behind her reading name for his office. Your Class Act, Mr. Chairman Mariano.

5:03:50And thank you for that. I've

5:03:53got a consortium meeting.

5:03:55Uh you gotta do work.

5:03:57I got a golf consortium.

5:04:02And I wanna th the last thing I have is I wanna thank everybody that helped. en in being there or helping out with the staff and ever everybody that helped provide for the things I went to I mean, even uh push in of the truck. the uh cities and county meeting They're IFUS are setting up for that and IP was allowing us to be able to be there in that that setting it was very good and worked out very good. So Well it takes a l there's no IN team, it takes all of us to do the

5:04:32right kind of job for our citizens of Pasco County. So I'm very proud of our county. So All right.

5:04:39Go ahead. I have a question for David and for all of us. And I realized it again yesterday driving um around in my district. Uh um and it's seven an example that I would use today is Seven Springs Elementary School on Mitchell Old Mitchell Ranch Road. Um we have a sidewalk going along the road on both sides. I think it's on both sides. And I if you go if you drive through there, Genesis School is right across the street. A lot of

5:05:09kids are walking to school. Um And the sidewalk. The sidewalk goes to the school There's two driveways going in. Maybe you can pull it up on the on the map. And then The sidewalk continues on and goes to State Road fifty four. Well there's a lot more development that's come in around there. And um the s the school has never put in their sidewalk. And um I brought this up to Ray Gadd last year and I don't think they're doing anything

5:05:39about it, but the school The school district has a responsibility to put in their own sidewalk. So if you're walking past the school and you're gonna go to say you wanna walk to dinner across the street. Um Add um Bricks thirty three or whatever. There's no sidewalk in front of the school.

5:06:03uh it's happening in a lot of their properties around the county. They've We build the sidewalk to the school, then they they s a lot of schools they s they never put 'em in. So Old Mitchell Rasso is it's north. North.

5:06:20No, you're going the wrong way.

5:06:23It it's north and now um okay, over there to the left, west. Now north There's the school, zoom in.

5:06:36It's up in the northeast corner there. Keep moving. There it is. Zoom in to the put the s no, put the school in the middle of the screen. Your your no? No,

5:06:49go go to your left.

5:06:50Mitchell Ranch Road, where it says Mitchell Ranch Road, there there's a school. If you could zoom in.

5:06:56See the sidewalk there goes in front of the FGUA facility? I think that's theirs. It stops when it gets to the school. There's no sidewalk in front of the school and that stop starts again once you get past their property. And You know, they they talk to us about sidewalks to their schools, but they're not building their sidewalks and I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be doing theirs. So I

5:07:21don't know what David you were asking, me or Dave Engel.

5:07:26You

5:07:26okay. Um I think we need to get Brad to help answer this question because my understanding is that they are supposed to be putting inside a

5:07:36schools and so My understanding is they are treated like any other development, which is required to put a sidewalk in front of their site, but I'll let Rather

5:07:45than

5:07:46have more information that I'm not privy to.

5:07:48Yeah. But is that something we're missing on the inspect? Do we have a lot of people?

5:07:54Some of these sites may have predated

5:07:59Brad weigh in more. Okay. All right, Brad.

5:08:02Brad Tippen. Um yes, that's exactly it. I t I believe these predated uh some of the language and the interlocal agreements and other things about that infrastructure uh within the right-of-way around the school.

5:08:13So they don't have to come back in and put their sidewalks in? Who who's responsible to put that sidewalk in?

5:08:18We would do that as part of our program.

5:08:21That's not even our property. We're gonna build sidewalks on other people's property? Um So has any so they did okay, can you go to the Um what is the What is the school on Old Pasco Road? Can you pull that one up? Cypress Creek High School. Yeah. Can you pull that high school up?

5:08:43Is it high school and elementary or Middle school maybe, yeah.

5:08:48Yeah.

5:08:51And did we land that active transportation planner?

5:08:58Okay. Yeah. We're actually putting in part of that sidewalk. That's what I spoke to earlier about. The uh widening the road that we put in a sidewalk that was served by the school.

5:09:10Okay, so go go to the road? Zoom in on the road. Where's their sidewalk?

5:09:23That's brand new. Yeah that's a good thing. Isn't that the um

5:09:34That's not the college.

5:09:35No, that's the that is the school board that is the school district property and there's no sidewalk. So I don't know who's supposed to be checking off on these things. But so it ain't Commissioner Starkey.

5:09:47Keep keep this picture up 'cause I'd like to discuss something while we've got the schools. You know, Since school started back, we've had a lot of issues with traffic and children and and roads not being able to handle all the cars. 'Cause more than not in the older schools They're not allowed to walk the student to the up to the door of the school to go in. Parents ha can't do that. They're required to drive 'em to the front door. And it's created

5:10:17more cars, more cars and there's less children riding buses now. than have been in the past. But the older schools like on Centennial Road or San Antonio They do not have a traffic pattern. that lines up cars to stack to where Just doesn't create a problem with the road. This school, particular school. is one of the newer schools and it does have stacking of cars. But it should

5:10:46have a sidewalk in the front,

5:10:47right?

5:10:51Um That's the difference and that's what you're hearing about a lot with traffic call. at Centennial School, my daughter works there, teach uh kindergarten. The principal walks up to her and says I know who you are and I know who your dad is. I need him to fix my road. Well the fact of it is That's not our place to fix his road. And he's one of the older schools. that are living with this traffic issue which is really terrible in the morning and in the evening. And it actually

5:11:22m flows out into Three oh one out. Out before you turn on Centennial going into that school.

5:11:28Can you um

5:11:29this particular this particular has stacking

5:11:32but still can you if you could zoom out, I am a curious how these kids on this side of the street get to the school. So there's so okay, there's a sidewalk into there and then So They have to come out of their neighborhood And Cross is there a light there?

5:11:54Yeah. Yes. Yes.

5:11:55Okay. All right. And can you can you go south again?

5:12:01There's an odd

5:12:02job. Keep going. Oh that's kinda crazy. All right. Well anyway, that school district's supposed to put in the sidewalk, I'm positive. So that used to be on the side.

5:12:14This is a Brad and maybe even a Nick question, but There have been instances where if the county's about to Do you construct a road and put a sidewalk in as part of a County Road Project that we won't make the school board do it because you're gonna tear it up.

5:12:34That makes sense. This is a section of Old Pasco Road that I believe that is widened.

5:12:40Yeah. Okay, so we're

5:12:41building our sidewall kin along with

5:12:43uh

5:12:44again that's that's a Nick or Brad question, but there are there are times when we don't have the school board do it for that reason.

5:12:50Okay. Yes, Brad Tippen again, yes, that is exactly the reason. Uh there's a ten foot trail across the street where the actual residential homes are that gets them to a safe crossing at a signal to get across the street. That was the interim condition. Uh while we're waiting on this road to be

5:13:06wiped. Right. All

5:13:06right,

5:13:06um Brad, what's going on with their s parking lot that doesn't have a shade structure for every ten cars?

5:13:16They don't follow under your code, they follow under SRF. Yes. So they don't have to?

5:13:24Yes. Having done this for thirty years, that would be my guess. Yes,

5:13:29because of uh uh potential security issues and other things, we don't actually apply our code to their interior of their site. They actually use SRES standards and those aren't the same standards.

5:13:39Okay. Now one other thing and I got not about to you, Brad. Um Another thing that came to my attention yesterday I had individuals reaching out to us on email about the condition of Mitchell High School. They're not able to drop kids off anymore and the the gates are locked, secure. And have to be to a certain time. because you don't have personnel there. to when a gate's open, it's gotta have security and personnel there to handle that. and those gates have to be open and shut.

5:14:10fr and that was that was brought on after I'd answered the guy and was looking in to call in the school, the principal actually came out and sent out an email of exactly what had to take place. 'Cause the they were I think the guy's problem is is his job starts about the time he's gotta drop his kid off. And if he's there a few minutes early he can't get kid in. So but they have specific regulations for opening those gates and you know, doors to the school. And

5:14:41there's gotta be a officer or someone there taking care of being able to walk around and watch kids in that school. So But That's school regulations. That's like all the time we get questions about What do we do about this school or that problem or issue and actually it's school board issues, so Uh we have a very good

5:15:01working relationship with the school board and we've been able to handle some of those logistical issues as well.

5:15:07And I try to handle them as best I can and Yeah. Ray Gad usually ends up on my phone in the past. Yeah, not anymore. I'm missing. So I don't know who took his place. Anyone know that?

5:15:21Yeah. Um

5:15:22Ms. Kuhn? It's uh yeah, Betsy Coon. Oh Betsy Coon. She's very good. Okay. Yeah. Anything else?