Commissioner reports and updates

2:19:45Okay, um we are on commissioner items. So um Commissioner Oakley.

2:19:50Um Uh enjoyed being um The chairman this past year and I appreciate everything everybody did to help me. And all the staff? Appreciate everyone that's a little bit more than that. Does there part of this county that make things work? And really quite exciting year if you go back through all the things we've done and And especially all the storms have never seen Hello? don't have we s we've still got EOC

2:20:18active, right? Well, Well we're doing active recovery. We're not in obviously level one. Are we still

2:20:25pumping out on the east side or are we done with that?

2:20:28Uh I'll have to turn to Brantford to give us the East side. We have a number of operations that are still underway. Yes, sir. All right.

2:20:35But I appreciate everybody's help. So I that's all

2:20:39I've got. You got this fire rescue graduation?

2:20:43Yes, I did attend that. I had um I'm trying to th We had twenty? Uh new firemen we put on. It's been working very well. We have another hundred and Thirty four plus or minus, I guess, to add on to get all the firemen we need for D shift, I believe. Isn't that right? J J. Does that sound right? Okay. But uh very good program. Uh

2:21:13the new chief was there and And Glory and did a good job. Um It really and and this uh Location of this seem to be nicer. It's uh not as big as the one over on fifty four, but it's uh

2:21:32High school there, that That seemed to fit it a lot better. It's nice. It's it's big uh and it's plenty big for doing this and it it did work out pretty well. So Really appreciate being there.

2:21:45Okay, um Commissioner Weightman?

2:21:54Thank you. Can you hear me? Just wanna congratulate Chair Oakley on having a successful year in his chairmanship and uh congratulations to uh Starkey and Mariano on uh Uh also want to thank the planning staff, Brad Tippen and his team for our town hall meeting with folks on Aaron Cutoff. yesterday and uh appreciate everybody taking the time to listen and understand folks' concerns with flooding and And

2:22:24the impact and the impact of that and um That's about it. Just wanna wish everybody a very Merry Christmas. And uh Happy New Year.

2:22:34Thank you, Commissioner. Uh Commissioner Yeager.

2:22:37Okay, I will go through these slides super quick. We had a we had a busy Um couple weeks. So this was Pasco County's fourth annual adoption day. So this little cutie and um her mama, she adopted seven kids. So it was absolutely beautiful and amazing.

2:22:55At one time?

2:22:56Oh boy, her story. She just kept adding 'em. All right. So the next was Habitat for Humanity. These were two home dedications, the Oliviera family and the Van Patten family. They were right next to each other. They went through the program together and now they've built their a friendship and they live next to each other. So that was really exciting. Okay, so this this next one was um Moon Lake. We had um Trinity Women's League come in and sponsor food. So we were in

2:23:27there serving food and visiting with the residents. And we uh also partnered with Grace's Food Pantry and provided 167 frozen turkeys from public. Wow, nice. Yep. And next slide, I also attended the graduation, so I won't speak on that. But congratulations to all the cadets. And then my last slide. The reason I asked to um have this slide up, I want to recognize Jeremy Blevins

2:23:57from the Parks and Recreation. Uh he stayed late, and this was not the first time he stayed late, and he was helping us clean up. We had a a huge food donation go out to Moon Lake Park yesterday. And we we had to serve probably 150 families last night with um fresh meat, vegetables, fruit, breads. It was it was an amazing it was an amazing thing. And um the the girls and I and even even Jeremy said

2:24:27um we're changing this community. So the park is becoming just a great place to hang out and everybody gets along. But I just wanted to give a shout out to Jeremy because he stayed super late and um this is like the second time he's done it. So very thankful for that. And that's all. Commission Mariano.

2:24:46Thank you.

2:24:51uh s uh leisure beach they're very happy to See that the things were progressing well. They were very thankful. Actually first time I I've ever gone to a Civic associates meeting what they had, she had a cake to say thank you. And it was it was pretty cool. So th there was a very celebratory mode. They were very appreciative of everything we've done. Uh one of the things that came up with these units. Um You know, they can put an R V out there, they're allowed to by law, state law. We

2:25:22had a problem at a a leisure beach meeting, frankly, where we had someone complaining that they were seeing sewage. uh fecal matter in the canals. So we wanted to make sure that we made sure all these RVs are hooked up one way or the other. So they've gone around they've made s a lot of uh request for that, clarifications for it, but uh JP I want to work real close with staff. They did a good thing going out there to create the awareness to what and why. Um there's one guy that couldn't actually find

2:25:52his hookup. hookup, but he I and I'm not sure what it means and Commissioner Oakley might know better, but there's like a honey pot thing you could actually use as well. So I want to work with these people to make sure they're they're safe. They had some requirements they were talking about not being put in the right-of-way. Some of these lots are so small, it's gotta be in the right away.

2:26:12Well how do how do first responders get around it? Can they?

2:26:15Well if it's n so right there at the end of the driveway. Oh. The pitch right there? That's the right away. So they're saying they don't want him out there. So to if it's too close to the property line. So I need to work with your team not only for this but for all around the county to make sure we take care of that.

2:26:32You do bring up a really good idea. Issue if this is like a fifth wheel and so w someone brought it there for them, how are they cleaning out their suits? So they gotta transport it. It's not

2:26:44a little bit. Yeah they l let 'em hook right up.

2:26:46Hook right up to what?

2:26:48The sewage.

2:26:49The old the houses so

2:26:52they're going into the

2:26:54regular sewer system.

2:26:55Or there's a truck that comes by. Well we just gotta make sure that that people

2:27:00did a good job going through and they are checking them out. We gotta we can't go by any rules as far as if it's on their property line. We gotta let it be because these lots are so tight up there um that's I mean keep mind, they got to live there while they're getting the construction done. So we've got to be flexible to not Not go to what we're we're used to doing. Longs are hooked up, we're good uh to go forward from there. Do you have the Gary Land plastic pictures? So Gary Lines Plastic, I mentioned earlier today, what

2:27:31a phenomenal facility this is. They've got pr uh plastics that come in. They there's pipelines that go up and around. Uh these people here was like so ecstatic to be working in a nice clean new environment, having work here locally. Um Uh I tell you to to stand out at the podium and kind of address the people and just see everybody there going forward. Now the great thing about this company too is they came from New Jersey. Tom Ryan did a great job with EDC going up there, soliciting the business, got

2:28:01them to come down here. And the one fear where they had, will we have enough workers? And I will tell you they are so ecstatic that we could give them all the workers they need and then some. The enthusiasm haven't come out there. The company that this company here makes a lot of plastics, they make frisbees, water bottles, all sorts of different things. The company that's right beside them, talk about like when you build one core industry, another one comes, we're right beside them is the uh uh Hyde Company, I think they call it. They're right beside 'em and they take their materials that are built and they go and

2:28:31sell 'em. So what I see happening with them is that we can get them in contact with all our local people. When they go buy the products, they will go buy it through the distribu distribution company, but they can know they're buying products right from here in Basco County. Exactly. Instead of China comes right here. So I'm very excited about helping them not only locally but regionally uh to do a lot of great things in here.

2:28:52Is there something my staff went there too. Um is there something we could do to help get the plastics to them from our Recycling?

2:29:01Great question. So their suppliers right now that they have uh supply them. But I actually asked them to reach out to do just that, to go reach out to who supplies them with the plastics. Go take a look at what we have on our way. Exactly. And that's what that was one of the things. Like the parents that started this thing 61 years ago who were there, uh they talked about how uh the dad got up and spoke. And when he spoke, he talked about how he he started. And one of the things he wanted to do was take recycled plastic and use it. And that's what they've been doing.

2:29:33I says we got space here, I got an industrial park coming in. We could bring you right down there, make it cheaper and easier for you, save you money and let you b make even more money. Hire more people. So yeah, I I they they like that that idea as well. Great great thinking. Um so anyway, so they're so excited. I think uh there might be a picture with the ribbon cutting itself or right before with the family. That's all the EDC folks that were there, full full team.

2:29:57Is that all you got? Okay. There's the owner right there. And again, it's just a family company. Th his parents started this thing sixty one years ago, uh and then now this the son took it over, brought all brought the whole business down here and you know Amazing building they got and they brought all their family grandkids to work on there down too. So family business growing here and now expanding in Pasco County. So all that said, I want to say Merry Christmas to everybody and I want to thank uh our whole team. I want to say,

2:30:28no matter where I've gone to talk about how we've gone through this storm. People are super, super appreciative. They know the work, the cooperation every step. They know the tricky step we're taking right now with the damage assessment phones. But I tell you what. One of the things we did is after just being up at FAC, and I want to give staff credit especially for the leadership to go and waive the fees. We're not every county's done that.

2:30:51Yeah.

2:30:52I mean I and I push that. I said, You guys, it's the greatest thing to go do is your people know that you're trying to help them get through something. So that is I think radiating through the state right now. You may see more of that coming up, but leading the way in so many things, uh and and getting the work done, I think. I want to say just thank you all for all the great work you've done.