Call to order invocation pledge roll call

1:45Good morning, everyone. I would like to call to order the virtual Basco County Board of County Commissioners of May nineteenth, twenty twenty. And I would like to remind everybody to please mute your microphones unless you're speaking and also your electronic devices if you can mute those two. Um please rise for the invocation and the pledge at this time.

2:06O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we remember.

2:19Sorry.

2:24Okay, sorry, we were muted. O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen.

2:41Pledge your allegiance to the flag

2:43of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, where liberty and justice are all.

2:57It was gonna wear

2:57shorts, but you know.

3:00District One, Commissioner Oakley.

3:03Aye.

3:03District three, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District four, Commissioner Weightman. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Madam

3:10Clerk, your microphone is muted once again.

3:13No,

3:14it's

3:14red.

3:16You can start the roll call over again, please, and somebody can check the microphone.

3:28It's it's

3:28red,

3:29it's on. Yeah.

3:30And I hear it in the system.

3:34Yeah.

3:36Can you hear me now? We hear you

3:38the speaker,

3:39sir. Right. He's not hearing the comprehensive plan. Can

3:41you hear me, Commissioner? Can you hear us? Testing.

3:46Somebody please check the microphones because I'm not hearing a thing.

3:52Try now. Can you hear us now, sir? I can hear you but I cannot

3:59hear the clerk.

3:59Can you hear me now?

4:02I can.

4:02Yes? Okay, great. Looks like the microphone was fixed. Okay,

4:07great. We can start over with the wall.

4:09Yes, sir. District One, Commissioner Oakley.

4:12Here.

4:12District three, Commissioner Starkey. I am here. District four, Commissioner Weightman District Five, Commissioner Mariano.

4:19Here.

4:19District two, Chairman More.

4:22Here. Thank you so much. Uh Mr. Snyysteiner, will you please go over today's proceeding with the Board of County Commissioners?

4:28Be happy to, Mr. Chairman. On march twentieth, twenty twenty, Governor DeSantis issued Uh Executive Order 2069, which has been extended by Executive Order 2114, which suspended any Florida statute that requires a quorum to be present in person or requires a local government to meet in a specific public place. The order. allow the board to meet virtually utilizing communications media technology. The

4:59detailed a detailed advertisement was run in the Tampa Bay Times indicating the Board's intent to conduct a virtual meeting. Even with executive order twenty one twelve, the governor's Safe, smart, step-by-step order, large gatherings of over ten people are not permitted to congregate in any public space that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing. Based on this, the conduct of a regular meeting would certainly not meet the spirit or intent of the order. The

5:29process has been esta established. The process has been established by the use of technology in a in to proceed in a manner that in that in such a uh in So that the meeting is as in person as possible. The public has been afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by use of communications technology that has been provided. Uh the the board adopted resolution

6:00twenty one eighteen on April twenty-first, twenty twenty, establishing the procedural rule for virtual meetings such as the one being held today. As with any meeting that you take action, you are required to take public comment on any proposition pursuant to section one uh two eighty-six point zero one one four.

6:36Mr. Chairman Mariano.