Resolution 25-322 Keep Pasco Beautiful Cleanup Day
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Okay, we are on res three. No res
two. Res two. So um anyone here for Keep Pasco Beautiful, um please come to the podium.
This is resolution number 25-322, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring September 20th, 2025 as Key Pasco Beautiful Cleanup Day in Pasco County. Whereas Keep Pasco Beautiful Incorporated, a 501c3 Florida non-profit corporation, has hosted cleanups with assistance from the Pasco County Solid Waste Department since 1992. With the shared mission of engaging the community
in sustainable efforts to reduce litter. And whereas the mission of Keep Pasco Beautiful Incorporated is to promote better methods to reduce litter and waste, to increase recycling, and to landscape and beautify our neighborhoods for the environmental health and benefit of Pasco County. And whereas when consumer goods, often single use disposables, are littered or improperly managed, they find their way into rivers, streams and other waterways. These
ultimately empty into our oceans where trash then becomes marine debris. and whereas trash, packaging, and improperly disposed waste from sources on land are estimated to account for eighty percent of the trash found in our waters. And whereas in 2024, the Keep Pasco Beautiful Cleanup, aligned with the international coastal cleanup efforts, had 1,363 volunteers at 59 different
locations throughout Pasco County that worked for 4,787 hours picking up 62,000 pounds of trash. And whereas more than eight million metric tons of plastic trash ends up in our oceans every year. Since 1986, the International Coastal Cleanup has captured more than 380 million pounds of trash with the efforts of over 18 million volunteers. And whereas the keep the
Pasco County Board of County Commissioners encourages citizens to volunteer at the next Keat Pasco Beautiful cleanup on the morning of September 20, 2025 to help protect our waters. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares September 20th, 2025 as Keith Pasco Beautiful Cleanup Day in Pasco County and encourages all citizens to join in efforts to clean up and prevent litter from
entering our waterways. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present in voting this third day of September 2025.
Move approval. Second.
All in favor? Aye. So I was just looking through my photos real fast to um see the photo I took. I don't even know when this was. I don't know, decades ago, um, when we cleaned up a big group, S Starkey Boulevard. I think Mike Wells is in this photo and he's left now. Um add The former clerk The judges. School board members, commissioners, we all we all cleaned up Starkey Boulevard. But it says coastal cleanup
on the shirt, so was that that's the different day? Was that run through you guys too?
So we partner with Ocean Conservancy and we are part of the international coastal cleanup movement. But here in Pasco County we call it Keep Pasco Beautiful cleanup every year, every third Saturday of September.
So we we um we collected a lot of trash that day and um I we I've done it a number of times. My staff always goes out and does it. It's it's such a wonderful thing that that you guys do. Um Um and I would say that At the intersection of Decubulus and Starkey, we found one of our many missing spoons with a very distinct pattern that we know our son would throw out the window on his way to school. Yeah, so
that was one of our favorite photos of the day, is finding that spoon. So I will start with Commissioner Oakley here if you want to say a few words real quick and then we'll take a photo.
We certainly thank you for everything that you did 'cause Even though sometimes your job gets tough but the more you do and the more it it really is very appreciated by the citizens and the cleanup and things of this nature. Our our county ought to be cleaner than it is at times and your help in doing some of that is is really thankful for our citizens to be able to see that and know that we do. Maybe we can get some volunteers. Thank you.
Mr. Wait.
Thank you, Chair. Yeah, keeping keeping Pasco beautiful is definitely a full time job. It um it's also, you know, at times a thankless job. But uh anybody who gets out there and and works hard to to clean up other people's litter uh just can't appreciate those folks who do that enough. I mean one of the easiest easiest things folks can do is take their garbage and put it in a trash can. There is not a dumpster, a
garbage receptacle of some type More than probably twenty or thirty feet from you at any given time. And a little bit of a soapbox here. It drives me bonkers when you're driving down the road and you just see people chuck something out the window or there's a garbage can right there. How many times is a different event we're at? There's literally a garbage can or recycle bin arm's length away and just throw their gum wrapper on the ground. There's a lot of personal responsibility that folks need to
have and and take ownership of keeping Pasco clean and our world clean. And uh we're just glad you're there to cover that gap and to to keep keep picking up where what people are putting down. So thank you for your year after year of of of doing the work for Keep Pasco Beautiful and thank you to all the the uh sponsors uh that come in for Keep Pasco Beautiful and then the art the art uh projects you all do with the kids. Um this great organization and thank you for keeping the program going.
Okay, he did it.
Yeah, I'm gonna echo what um Commissioner Weightman said. So one of my big pet peeves is people polluting in the water. So like we love to take our boat out and I grab an extra garbage bag and we'll stop to you know, turn around and pick up the garbage because people I think it's you know, new boaters they don't realize that things fly out and things aren't secure, but we literally come back with our garbage can. our garbage bag full just from being out on the boat a day picking up garbage. So um thank you so much for what
you guys do, keeping Pasco beautiful.
Yeah. Yeah, thank you for the your great work. I mean it it's a lot to organize everybody, but I'll tell you that in the years I've done it, the energy of the citizens out there, they just love it. They get out there making their place look better and I think everybody reflects better on it and and Commissioner Weightman I'll agree. It's nothing more like heart wrenching when you see people just like just throw stuff out. Yeah. For no reason. Um Picking all that stuff up, keeping getting the waterways is great and and appreciate your year to year after year efforts. My Rotary Club, I know we sponsor it, so
we're very happy Newport Ritchie Rotary, so uh we appreciate the work you're doing.
Um, we're gonna have you talk to us a little bit about how people can get involved and but we need your name and n and uh Just
the
name. Just the name for the records. So someone someone speak to the community about how how they can get involved.
So my name is Alicia Hacker. I wanna first say thank you to everyone from the board, from the Solid Waste Department. For over thirty years you've continued to support us through collections through uh cleanup initiatives. So for this cleanup initiative you can go out to keeppascobeautiful dot org. take a minute, register through our event Bright. We've kind of moved into the new Age and register online now. I if for some reason you
can't um, register or you do it last minute 'cause the I believe it's the eighth is the last day to register. Okay. We'll always work with you. Lisa is our um contact point for the county so if if you want to reach out to her, if you want to reach out to Rochelle and recycling no matter we'll take you even if it's on the day of a cleanup, we'll fit you in somewhere because we're all passionate about doing this and as as we know you all are as well. Do you still hand out those little cleaners, those those metal
things? The grabbers. Yes. You'll have a shirt? Yes. So we're gonna get to the easy together
So thank you and and the Saw Waste Department for continuing to support us. Yeah, I love this this program.
And uh we need your last name for the record, then we'll come all come down and take a photo report.
Lisa Martello Buschala, Kip Pasco Beautiful Coordinator.
You got that?
Okay, we're gonna go to our