Chair tourism updates and closing remarks

2:35:39Congratulations. Um Okay, me. Um so I have um some very brief Tourism Development Council updates. We've won um oh well this is the past all right Hang on a second. Um We uh have won quite a few awards, especially our our own consuelo, and I think we need to give her a resolution, so I'll work on that. Um but she has won all kinds of uh local and national awards. Um

2:36:10we won an award for the best event of the year for small markets. That was the Tampa Bay Christmas Invitational. presented by the Florida Sports Foundation. Um we've hosted all kinds of events. Um And we have with some of the marketing accomplishments. We have an email marketing campaign that has been relaunched. I'd love for you to go look at the website and see all the uh The changes have been made, we've got a company working on all those and our outreach has increased

2:36:40dramatically. And um some of the website enhancements are uh new engaging content, scalloping prep 101. the remarkable journey of base scallops and some recipes for scallops. So kind of fun. Um I attended the Pasco Leadership Luncheon like many of you and I will tell ya it was very moving um when Dewey and Becky uh spoke about their son Derek and Becky just volunteers every week over there and they just They do an amazing job

2:37:10at Metropolitan Ministries and I hope you get a chance to drive by because it's really coming out of the ground nicely. Um my staff also attended the Gary Line Ribbon Cutting. Um I I uh went to the that's those are the pellets that they use, the recycled pellets there on the left. I attended the Naco County Crossroads Symposium in California. I'm going to talk about that at the next meeting. um but learned a lot about economic development and recovery and emergency emergency management.

2:37:40I mean they lost six thousand two hundred homes in the in a couple hours. Uh so what they've got went through and what they've learned is there's some good lessons learned there. Um I want to recognize corrections, fire rescue, and public safety for another successful angel tree program. I think there may be a po yeah, there's some pictures there. Look at that. Benefiting Pasco County Foster and Adoptive Parents Association. They started this in 2018 with sponsoring 20 children. This year they were able to fulfill the wish list

2:38:10for 108 children. So that is a great job. So thank you so much. Um Commissioner Weightman forward You know when we re when we sit on these boards, especially these the the biggies, um Tampa Bay Water. Uh

2:38:29Um we need to inform the other commissioners about the big items of what's going on. So I'm gonna be asking during the commissioner items for you to just give a one or two minute update on whatever is happening of note. in in your meetings. I wasn't able to go to the T MA meeting. But in my meeting with Tania Um she mentioned that Commissioner uh Councilwoman Hurtak uh was very uh vocal against the um regional M P I

2:39:00think we need to discuss some plan of action with the Tampa City Council because I believe the mayor is for it. Um I'd hate for her to to pe topito the whole regional effort. There's possibly ways we can move forward without s Uh Tampa Um we're gonna get that information back to everybody. But I heard that um That it was a Not the best meeting. With that, I'm gonna say uh Merry Christmas to everybody. But commissioners, I'll

2:39:30see you all on Monday and and whatever staff here. Sure.

2:39:34So Chair, are you gonna Do chair appointments for the in the January meeting. And everybody everybody, if there is a December meeting for any of the boards, who's ever appointed now will

2:39:46stay. Oh there there's really when I look down the list, unless it's probably mostly gonna stay the same. I believe in continuity. Um but you know Commissioner Yeager's representing Commissioner Bradford, and there's some Maybe some changes there and and it's not uh it's not sunshine for me to talk to you about it, so I'll talk to you about some of the changes potential changes though. Anything else?

2:40:10All right. Oh oh okay. No I do have one more thing. I'm sorry. I'm doing it to myself. This morning, you know, we hear we hear issues from our constituents. And I think you know, we need to acknowledge that. And so I am very curious about Have we strayed from the mission of Connected City? Um we have asked for an update on V O P H as well. Where where are we? Because every time we approve something. We have no idea how

2:40:40it fits into the overall plan because we only see a little piece of it. So at some point, whether it's a workshop or an R item, we need an update on what was it supposed to be. Where are we now? Are we on the right path? on on these big projects. Also um I have uh A question on on Shady Hills and what's the plan and and especially if Fernando County's developing and they're using that as a connector to get through us, I I I wanna hear

2:41:10what's the plan. So that's what I called you about and I know you were busy while you're still in the meeting. So, you know, I think when we hear our citizens speaking loud like this, we need to answer them with something. Yeah. Commissioner Mariano.

2:41:24Yeah, and I think you're running the money. And we we've talked about combined roads coming. That's gonna bring even more traffic down the shady hills. The project we just committed uh uh Approved here and Dell Webb was part of a project that connects a sidewalk up to the schools. There's another one going up to Bosley that we approved today as well. So we're working on our way up the trail. That road needs to come and the sooner it comes the better. Uh I I don't know if it really caused any issues by not I think we grabbed all the right-of-way we needed well with Dell Web coming in on their side. We just gotta get it from

2:41:54the other side. So I don't know if that was a big issue. But I do wanna say the Kreller estates, I brought that I brought that up twice to the board now. Literally I've been out there on site. When they finished that development, they actually took the ponds on the biggest pond, the lowest pond, and it's n less than two feet different from the height of a yard that's gonna affect the neighborhood, when all that impervious comes in, it's gonna affect it. So as I had said, I think we need to go look at what we're doing for stormwater. What we're doing is not gonna work everywhere and on major events it's even

2:42:24granted that on a major event um it's not gonna keep everybody else from flooding because it's gonna topple over and go. So if you create that impervious, it's gonna be a factor. So I think it is something to go look at and it may be the the logic of using something like the u we have basin of special concern uh conditions, maybe we need to put that condition in everywhere.

2:42:44Okay.

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2:42:47That's up.