Adjourn meeting and new meeting at 5:15

5:15:31We will can we adjourn now? You you would

5:15:39advertise a separate meeting for so yeah. So it would be you adjourn this meeting, you'll have a new meeting at five fifteen.

5:15:46We'll adjourn this meeting and uh have a new meeting at 515.

5:16:31Pasco County waterways and wildlife depend on you to keep them healthy. Excess fertilizer, grass clippings, trash, oils, and pet waste wash into gutters and storm drains when it rains. Stormwater carries these pollutants directly into our lakes and rivers, creating an unhealthy environment for fish, waterfowl, and other aquatic animals. Storm drains are meant for clean rainwater. Most other discharges are illegal. If you suspect an illicit discharge, please contact Pasco County Department of Public Works at seven two seven eight three four three six one one.

5:19:19Today we're out here with PCPT and we are training um our dogs, our puppies, to enter and ride a bus. We are on the paratransit bus and the regular buses. We've learned about ramps and stairs and lifts and um each of our puppies had an opportunity to go up and down and into the bus and ride one. For some of them it's the very first time.

5:19:43There

5:19:43are

5:19:44a lot of sounds and feels of a bus. Like our fixed route. You can feel the ground shaking. There's a lot of movement. You hear braking. Sometimes you brake a little quicker. There's a lot of noise with other riders on the bus. A lot of people getting on and off. So there are a lot of distractions. And this is a great Way to teach the guide dogs how to interact with customers and also to get used to the noises and

5:20:14feel they may have on the bus. So

5:20:16this is Andy. Andy is an eight-month-old Labrador Retriever. It's very rewarding for us as a family to take part in this. It shows my daughter a lot of responsibility and how to kind of give back to the community not only your time but an animal that's going to help somebody with a disability.

5:20:31These dogs have many career choices ahead of them and they're the ones that choose the career. We try and introduce as many opportunities to them as possible, but ultimately it is the dog that will um choose the career. It is very difficult to find opportunities where you have a group of ten dogs that can go on and off buses and um PCPT really uh gave us that opportunity today and we appreciate it so much.

5:21:21Finding Rover is an application that is used both on website and smartphones, and you can download the app or use the website to upload photos of your own pet to help find them if they become lost. And the way it works best with us is that when those animals are being found as strays by our animal control officers or being brought in by another member of the community, their information is automatically being uploaded to Finding Rover system, their pictures are automatically being uploaded. And if they see their pet, they already know where they can go and find it.

5:21:49I think one of the interesting things about our organization is our ability to help the public. We have so many different ways that we can do that. One of the most special ways we do that is being able to reunite pets with their owners. And anytime we can get some technology, a form of technology to help us do that is incredible. And with the Finding Rover app, we personally at Pasco County Animal Services have been able to reunite pets with their owners based on facial. Recognition technology, which that's some space stuff right there, but we make it work and we get animals back into their homes and it's absolutely incredible, not only for the animals, but for those people as well.

5:22:18The application for Finding Rover is a free application for smartphones. You can use any picture that you find on your Facebook pages, on your private pictures, anywhere that you have them. If you're using your phone, it'll open up your camera roll and you can choose the photo that you'd like to use.

5:23:43We get on scene. Um there's a man stuck in the hole. It's uh the hole's probably I'd say ten feet around. He's in the middle of it. We started rigging systems to attach him so we could secure him from sinking any further into the into the hole. Me and firefighter Watson, we jump in a brush

5:24:01truck and we head over. Uh we get to the scene and we see just a A guy, you know, chest up in the dirt and mud. We see Captain Dieters, Captain or Firefighter Suarez digging away, just trying

5:24:14to save this guy's life. At that point, we started doing buckets, five-gallon buckets.

5:24:30Reassured the guy that he's gonna be okay and then you know we just started digging and rigging. I don't think he knew this the seriousness of the situation initially until he started seeing a lot more people show up. The Florida sand crushing on them, the water rising and lowering. Once we got the vacuum truck in there we were able to keep the water pretty constant level about his waist deep.

5:24:50Shoring up the the hole from collapsing on us, securing the excavator that was there, it all came into

5:24:57play like clockwork. When it collapsed into him, he ended up being basically in the kneeing position or the praying position um in the hole. So he'd had no leverage to to move his legs at all. We all wanted to be

5:25:09in there to save this guy. And That's just the firefighter mentality. We we want to be there when it happens.

5:25:15It it just seemed like the the amount of work that we were doing, we weren't gaining any ground. Basically everything that we were pulling out of there, the walls were just creeping back to to where he was. There was

5:25:25times where you start, you know, thinking, Wow man, it's getting dark. It might start raining, Florida thunderstorms, that could be a disastrous.

5:25:34It was good to see the Relief on his face. Once his first leg came free, you could you could see that he knew that we got

5:25:41we got him free. The the whole neighborhood was around, everybody cheering, screaming, just joy, just complete joy. We immediately put him on a stretcher and uh Bay Flight got him out of there quickly. We're constantly out training, trying to improve our skills amongst our own agency and multi-agencies. We're we constantly go to different counties. I mean municipalities to train. And it it all came into effect and it worked out. We saved this guy's life.

5:26:13Here in Florida, we're no stranger to rain, and Pasco County Public Works wants to show you how we're working to improve drainage along your roads. Our crews work hard to keep your roads in great shape, and you'll notice after a heavy rain, we often see ponding or standing water on the road that doesn't easily drain away. Ponding can be a problem for a couple reasons. Most importantly, it can be a safety issue, because when you drive through standing water, you can start to hydroplane

5:26:44and lose control.

5:26:47So why does ponding happen? In most cases, it's because the shoulder doesn't slope away from the road, so the water doesn't have anywhere else to go. Pasco crews are always on the lookout for these problem areas and have a relatively easy way to fix them. Most Pasco roads that have water ponding problems have a sod curb where the grass grows right up next to the road. Our crews use this colour.