Chairman Starkey reports TDC appointments and site visits

1:44:54Okay. Now my list, sorry I have a lie. Um on the T D C uh first of all I need your approval for two new appointments, Erica Broadnacks and Antonio Perez. Absolutely. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Um so as Mr. Yeager mentioned, we had the dedication. Um we had a couple dedications. We dedicated the new kitchen and um the county administrator was there. Uh and

1:45:25then we dedicated The um you see the sign here, the Wilton Simpson Self-Sufficiency Residential Center. Uh all these signs that they were new to this to this event. Also, this Scott and Kathy Fink was Pasco Campus. So uh just uh A great morning. Um what they have done and invested in And what the west side of the county is amazing. and the community is forever grateful they are helping so many families

1:45:55to um get back on their feet. So great event. Uh let's see what oh so this is uh Scott Scott Finks No not Scott Fink. Tim Marks. Um uh retirement party. Um we had it down at the Yacht Club in Tampa and there's Mayor Castor gave him a proclamation and it was the who's who I guess of Tampa Bay. I don't know, it was quite the event. And um it was very nice send-off for Tim who did such an amazing job at Metropolitan.

1:46:27Um this is oh, so Let me say Let me cross these off because these are not in order of what's on my paper. So T D C Metmins. So as some of you know I do a couple tim a couple times a year. I I take my international CEOs on um field trips. And this was our latest field trip. So the first place we went to was the Hillsboro Pasco uh Public s P S Co public

1:46:57safety.

1:47:01Yeah. PSOC, I guess. Public Safety Operations Center. Um we went there, Commissioner Oakley, before. And um they got to to tour that and see how what government does when there is a uh an uh a declared emergency and Then we went on to the Coca-Cola plants. The gentleman there by the red Coca-Cola bottle, Leroy, is the current chair of Amskills, and he offered to give us a tour. I had eight or nine

1:47:31CEOs from the area. You see Mettler Toledo. Touchpoint, um bunch of bunch of the companies here. Pharmaworks, um the Point. Um I can't remember all the companies. And um then we toured their new state of the art distribution center, which is right around the corner. So uh at the end we went to the victory ship. Oh yeah, we had to wear these hats. Uh, in the Coca Cola plant. You know, uh they do the smart water. So

1:48:01if you're anywhere in the southeastern United States and you're buying a bottle of smart smart water, n not the one that There's a special smart water, I don't even remember what's in it. But the regular smart water it's coming from here in Tampa. Which I had no idea. Um so then we went to the American Victory Ship, Joe McGee, um Who's right behind me is uh on the board and they gave us a tour. That's the general there on the blue shirt. um Special Ops guy in the other blue shirt. uh

1:48:32but gave us a tour. And uh you know what happens on these is these businessmen talk to each other and and business gets done and Joe has a company who wants to move to Pasco County that is a I think it's a perfume company and needs a bottling plant. So he and Spencer are doing some business there. So yeah, so it's really nice to have this going on. And then you the one guy is from the

1:49:02X-Gen, X-Gen X, X I don't remember how to say his company, next to Pascal from Touchpoint. He has an amazing company here in Pasco County. We saw that. Yeah, remember? And um and he and he was plugged into everything. Everything. Okay, next picture. Get off of that one. Um oh I spoke at the um Tampa Bay Chamber public policy roundtable. Ugh, two mornings in a row I had to be in Hillsborough County like seven thirty in the morning. That was that was a little tough.

1:49:32Um so that was what that was. Um they wanted to those were the three chairs from three different counties. I also turned Set toward Saddlebrook. Look at that pool. What an improvement and the the uh clubhouse is looking beautiful. I'm very excited for them and I told them Jack that we were gonna work on getting back there for one of their meetings. It's time. Right? Okay, um next. Um Oh, so this is this is a c crazy thing that's going on. If you go

1:50:03down Little Road, this is the new Jallo car wash next to Pit Boss. Um and for some reason these two don't connect. So Jallo has a a D cell lane that goes into the car wash and then Pit Boss Is there another picture? Did they do two pictures? Oh watch this, watch this. So everyone's they don't connect. Did you see the grass? So like while I'm standing there a car pulls into Jell

1:50:33O and then drives across. Um I and I don't know I I should I had to picture that, but everyone's it's the craziest thing and I don't understand why we don't I thought we were quite here's the car. Coming in. So I thought we required interconnects. And that that just happened.

1:50:54Well, it should be that they have to.

1:50:56Usually

1:50:56it

1:50:57takes two to tango. I can't speak in this particular case,

1:50:59but it makes it out on

1:51:02site.

1:51:03Yeah, so this is uh crazy, but you know, that's what's going on there. Um I thought they were required to connect. Okay, next.

1:51:10You would think so, because you see the curb cut.

1:51:13I know. Well I did it my first time too. And and and they told me no, no, and I'd stop like what? They said no. You gotta go around and go out, back out on Little Road and come around. I

1:51:23can tell you all about it.

1:51:24Sure. David Allen, Assistant County Administrator. Yeah, this is um So Mr. Carball said it takes two to tango. We did require um as part of the the project to have that connection, however the neighboring property owner where the Pit Boss BBQ and the strip mall was unwilling to um Make it uh approve of the connection between the two and then eliminate

1:51:50customers were benefiting

1:51:52I understand that but but again it's a private property issue with with uh a private property party that was unwilling to cooperate.

1:51:59Well it doesn't look like it's stopping them. Well we're all finding a way to uh do that deselling and get in there until they put something across there. Um Okay. Alright, then um I had a meeting last week or two weeks ago with my constituents regarding this. Um I don't know if Is that Panos? Who was at this meeting? Panos, were you there? No. Yeah. Okay, so if you wanna come out and explain this, and if you could Put on the map Gulf Trace Boulevard

1:52:29and Lakanto Street in San Louis. You'll see this in the big picture. These roads this road used to connect And when they when they built Gulf Trace Boulevard They put in like a they stopped the connection. And I just want you to see, you know, I'm all about connections. I want you to see why it's important. Um So but if you want to go ahead again.

1:52:58Services uh director. This was one of the connections that the board identified for us to explore back in uh I believe in uh June or earlier than that. So this is the connection between San Luis uh Road and uh Gulf Trace Boulevard. So we coordinated with the local community. We had the meeting at their clubhouse. Commissioner Starkey was there, I was there, and one of my staff was there to present

1:53:29the concept, which was shown just before. The community, there were about 15 I believe, attendees. They were very perceptive of the project, they were very positive. They themselves pointed out that that connection will improve the access to Gulf Trace Elementary and also Recreation Center, which is to the west of the connection, and also that That connection because of those access

1:53:59improvements w the property values will will be increased increased. So

1:54:04Okay. Will you uh zoom out there please? I want you to see what these people have to do. Okay, if you live Over here. on the corner, let's say of Muir and San Luis. And you wanna take your kid to baseball practice or soccer. And you get And it and it they're not walking, they're not old enough, whatever. You have to go all the way down. Zoom out more, please. You have to go all the way down, keep going to she show US nineteen. Zoom out. Zoom

1:54:35out. You gotta go all the way through all these neighborhoods. To get to US nineteen, make a left turn. Up to Gulf Trace Boulevard, way up there. Pass Sun Coast Toyota. and come around And go up golf trays. And you live

1:54:55Like, it could take you one two minutes, but instead you have to do that. Same with the elementary school. You can you see the elementary school there on Gulf Trace Boulevard. So How How we let this happen. This is an Everybody that was there was for this. I am sure we might hear we might hear from the person on the corner if it's an older person that doesn't have any kids in the park Or the school. that they don't want anyone all that traffic driving in front of their house. But For

1:55:26the m vast majority of people here, it's gonna save lives. It's gonna save

1:55:32lives. Should have been there.

1:55:33Yeah. So um there are three or four of these around the county. Um one of 'em is Pepin. Um I know we had Mrs. Osteen coming here, but Sometimes I mean this is this is just planning one on one. You must have connections. So um thank you so much for your team for coming out and uh Godspeed on getting us connected. We own the land, right?

1:55:58Yes, there's no right of way issues. We can build the road. Just now we're trying to fund it in our CIP to do the design and immediately after we can go to construction. There's no any uh impediments to to build the road with regards to right of way or utilities or anything like that. So

1:56:14thank you so much. And we'll see this um coming in front of us whenever they get the project ready and the funding. Thank you so much, Penny. Thank you. All right what's next? Is there anything else for pictures? Okay. Well, I also attended the inaugural education legislative partnership forum. Of which we had another half hour. I think it would have been great to take questions. But I I thought it was wonderful. Um did the Pit Basto, that, that, Saddlebrook. Um Okay, so um I

1:56:44wanted to um

1:56:48uh talk about Charlie Kirk. And I just wondered like many communities are doing if we wanted to think about naming a road after him. So

1:56:59I like the idea.

1:56:59Yeah. I don't know where or which one, but you know, think about it and let's maybe come back with some idea. Maybe something in front of the county government. I don't know. Um I think would be good. Um work uh a legislative legislation has been filed for um e-bikes, scooters, and pocket bikes and rocket. Whatever those things are called. Uh uh talking to a lot of commissioners from other counties. It's a problem everywhere. Actually it's a problem

1:57:30across the whole United States. So Um I wrote wrote the uh two legislators who are sponsoring the bill and offered to work with them and give them stories about things that happen in our county and um Ralph love to work with you on that and wanna make sure we stay involved in that because I wanna see something get through. Um And that then I lastly I have some very um oh I attended the A Hack workshop. That's a statewide workshop on um affordable housing.

1:58:00Um and I did the Tampa Home Talk interview. But I um I want to give you some sad news. Keith is gone I think, but those of you might r uh David um who worked on Starkey Ranch that um oh I'm gonna get all choked up that Matt Call who was so instrumental in doing such a wonderful development working for and work for Wheelock, my son's company. Um you know, last couple of years ago he developed

1:58:30pancreatic cancer and he fought a very good fight. Um but he um He did pass away this week, so Uh, they have a service for him on the twenty ninth. Unfortunately every Starkey's gonna be in Virginia, so we're gonna gonna miss the service but Um what they did with that P four I think it was the first one in the country with uh Starkey K eight and the park and the county. Um, I don't think any developer in the county