ribbon cuttings, biosolids, scallop festival

1:43:37Uh I got a few pictures we had uh A couple of ribbon cuttings and see which we'll get to.

1:43:47That's just a picture of a uh county I was at where I suggested we did this years ago. Yeah, see these everywhere. We don't do

1:43:54it. Huh?

1:43:55Every time we should have a trash vehicle that press, there should be a recycled item next to it. And we should start with our parks, our buildings, and then let it go from there. But every s every city you kind of see, that's what they do. I've actually given John Batista at the FAC conference so as a person who had those exact things. I took a picture of the brochure, sent it over to John. He's he's working on that for us. as well to bring us something back. But I think it's something we should get back to it and incorporate that. The more intense we do with recycling, the more we save the landfill,

1:44:25the more we save the burner to make it more efficient. So we need to I think step up our game a little bit. Um and that was a picture from tw that was you see that picture? That was from twenty twenty.

1:44:36Oh wow.

1:44:37I had more recent ones, so it's not the first time I've talked about it, right? Uh next pictures. Uh there's a groundbreaking in Hudson across the HCA hospital along the trail at 5A that we just had done. Part of the reason this got funded was that trail that was like the last missing link as far as like connecting. It connects to shopping, it connects to a library, and now right along the hospital, so that was a a big trigger. That's phase one of three, and they're going all the way down to this. It's thirty percent AMI.

1:45:06Who's this again?

1:45:07Ecos.

1:45:08Uh

1:45:09McDowell uh McD McDowell Development, I think I believe it

1:45:11was. Yeah.

1:45:12Uh they partner with Truist Bank. Uh that project's been again phase one, they'll be looking at phase two and three coming up. But again, you low income people like we say you want to take care of, this is gonna take the seniors that don't have anything more than income as far as just the social security check can afford to live there. It's gonna be great. Uh next picture we had the uh Merrow Brothers, which I will tell you people that look are looking at this, uh looking at Pasco County as being brilliant for for taking this step forward. I I would say as good as the waste energy plant was, this

1:45:42is getting looked at. The biosolids used to be really expensive. We were looked at this years ago. And I tell you Merrill Brothers A family run company. Very well, very s lot of smart people. They have now got uh I think it's eighty employees down here in Pasco County, but are looking to do more of more of this around the around the state, around the nation. And the more they do it I think it's better off for everybody. But gonna show a couple more pictures. Kinda just show you the trucks they got, maybe not.

1:46:11Maybe that's all we got. Anyway, it was it was a great ground great ribbon cutting for what they were doing. They are now bagging their bio solids, so they're gonna be able to sell the Home Depot and Lowe's et cetera, which we share in that revenue and that will even cut our cost down more.

1:46:25Great picture.

1:46:26Uh coming up here we got the scallop music festival starting July twenty fourth. Uh we've got uh the American stones are kicking it off. Uh and at the same time they're there, we're gonna have point the steward there as one of the uh sponsors that'll be there. They'll have uh their own product that's out there. And if you don't recall that the hurricane rum that the Rolling Stones sell internationally is made right here in Pasco County, right near 52 and Little. Uh they got a new testi tasting room they're looking at doing should be great. We've got a beach volleyball tournament

1:46:56coming in. We've got a scallops splash race, a 5K run be going all the ra all the way around. We've got a carnival that's gonna be coming in and we've made it really economically uh to make it so it's affordable for kids to go that don't have much money. Matter of fact, Commissioner Simpson is Help would sponsor with that. Um there's gonna be a U.S. water skis uh team that's gonna be out there. They'll be out there the first Sunday and the next Friday, uh next Saturday, Sunday as well. You can see the list of sponsors. A lot of these people

1:47:26that do work in the county are giving back to make it so it's free for everybody to come. So not only a Pasco residence, but also uh free for everybody else to come in. All you do is pay as the parking and uh So we're looking forward to that to be a great kickoff as well.

1:47:42And you're getting um Starkey Seltzer's donation.

1:47:47That that strawberry lemon coming?

1:47:49Yeah.

1:47:49Oh that's the best. It's really good. Really, really good, yes.

1:47:52Put a little wine in it, make a wine spritz sets or spritzers gig.

1:48:01Uh County Administrator.