Public comments on traffic, solid waste, boat ramp
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Okay, so we will move on to public comment. Maybe one second here. So now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this public comment section. Um and I apologize. Let me go back because this is a special meeting day. I want to have Mr. Steinsnyder go over the proceedings today. I apologize.
My pleasure. Uh on March 20th, 2020, Governor DeSantis issued Executive Order 2069, which has recently been extended by Executive Order 2193, which suspended any Florida statute that requires a quorum to be present. In person or requires a local government entity to meet in a specific public place. However, the Board has chosen to hold this board meeting with a quorum physically present. Utilizing communications media technology for the public and team members to
participate. A detailed advertisement was run in the Tampa Bay Times indicating the Board of County Commissioners' intent to conduct a hybrid virtual meeting. Even with Executive Order 2112, the governor's safe, smart, step-by-step order, large gatherings of over fifty people are not recommended to can congregate. in any public space that does not readily allow for appropriate social distancing. The state's Attorney Gener or Surgeon General on july twentieth, twenty twenty,
issued a public health advisory indicating that individuals should refrain from participation in social or recreational gatherings of more than ten people. Based on this, the conduct of a regular meeting with the public present, would certainly not meet the spirit or intent of the order. The public has been afforded an opportunity to make public comments either in writing or by the use of communications technology that has been provided. The Board has adopted Resolution 2182 on June 30th, 2020, establishing
procedural rules for hybrid 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 pursuit. to section 286.0114, Florida statutes. I'm available for any questions.
Okay, thank you, Mr. Steinschneider. Now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any item coming before the board during this public comment section. The board also takes public comment on items to be placed on a future board agenda or other business under their purview. Due to COVID-19 operation, to safeguard the well-being and safety of all of our citizens and staff, today's public comment will be handled differently. First, we will take public comment from those that have pre-registered for a WebEx link and are currently on queue. After we will read into public record all the comments, documents, PowerPoints, or videos that have been identified by members of the public to be read
out loud, played at their meeting, or received and followed. Filed. Finally, we'll take public comment from those currently signed up at the kiosk station. Comments are not to exceed three minutes. This new format does not prove that the request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against any commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides a mutual respect between the board members. And the public. For WebEx and kiosk participants, please, after stating your name and address for the clerk, the timer will be activated. We'll start a countdown. After two minutes, one beep will sound, letting you know that only one minute remains. After
the time is up, two beeps will sound, indicating that three minutes are up, and you should close your comments at that time. WebEx participants will be disconnected when their time is up, and kiosk participants will be asked to move away from the kiosk. Madam Clerk, do we have anybody pre-registered to speak or any emails to be read into the record or received in file this morning?
Chairman, we have one individual who signed up via WebEx and we have one individual that asked for an email to be read into the record and another individual who asked to play a video. My understanding is that we have the video but unable to play it. We can receive and file that video.
Okay. So let's go ahead before we move to the kiosk. Um whoever's on in Q and WebEx, or we could please bring that person up. Mr. Park, go ahead. Name and address for the record, please.
[address removed]. I'm deporting you to express that there's too much traffic on air and cut off. You have amended the twenty twenty five comprehensive plan to allow increased residential housing without considering the increased traffic the amended residential housing brings. At the June 30th BCC meeting, I challenged the validity of ordinance nineteen twenty. I received a reply to my challenge in the form of an
inter office memorandum stating that my reference to non-existent roads was not part of the decision process for approving ordinance 1920. And that was all. No mention of the pages of the statistics in the exhibits about the impact of the traffic on air and cutoff, which was the basis of my challenge. the collector road which collects traffic and carries the traffic toward arterial roads. Air and cutoff intersects and
ends at Arterial Road US forty one and state road fifty-two. They're in order in the twenty twenty five comprehensive plan discur. Through on collector roads that connect arterial
Urged then future building of one acre home sites will be discouraged as no one is going to build on a high traffic road. Aaron Cutter has numerous sharp curves that are not set for the speed of the vehicular traffic, not familiar with the road, nor the size of the trucks using the road. Ordinance eighteen twenty has allowed a development that is unlike any development on air and cutoff. Well I am looking again. will certainly encourage more traffic. I
urge to take action to reduce the traffic on air and cutoff.
Thank you. Now I have another I don't know if it's all part of this. I have comments on your addendum, C two, C three.
Um you have three minutes total, so please move forward. Go ahead. Amazing.
All right, I would like to suggest that you abandon this project. You
are
six million dollars just for the privilege of creating a shortcut. In addition, the attorney fees for the project are being increased by another quarter million dollars. Apparently the shortcut is not wanted. Stop with shortcuts. What do the residents near where the RV camp is located think about turning Old Pasco Road into a highway? By the time this project is finished, another school is going to be needed. Just build a second school on the east side of the interstate instead. You'd be saving the taxpayers a
considerable amount of tax money. Taxpayer money would be better spent on an overpass at US forty one and state road fifty two. This way the county will not repeat the disaster at the intersection of US forty-one and state road fifty-four. Right.
Mr. Chairman, if I may, Mr. Stein,
go ahead, please.
That the imminent domain settlements that are on your agenda are for overpass road, not For whatever Mr. Parks is talking about.
Right. They are for overpass with a new interchange, so I I'm with ya. Anybody else um sign up for WebEx? If not, I'll let you go ahead with the email on the record, then we'll go to the kiosk.
Very good. Um for the record we have an email from Michael Gilding, no um address provided for um receive and file and Greg Armstrong at [address removed] has the video remarks for a homeless program proposal. Um that will also be for receive and file.
Seth.
So the um email to be read is from Alexandra, and I don't know how to pronounce the last name, Friday or Friday. From Saint Petersburg College Public Policy BA program, public comment and recommendation. According to Human Trafficking Hotline, Florida ranks number three in human trafficking cases reported by states. The reason being that Florida has a large immigration population, which has made it a prime environment for forced labor and other forms of modern-day slavery. There has been a rapid
growth of human trafficking in Tampa Bay areas, 70% of the victims being women and 30% being children. Although it is vitally important to recognize Behaviors and signs to help put a stop to human trafficking. It is not enough to leave it at that and hope for the best. Efforts have been made by task forces in Pasco County, including the Human Trafficking Commission, to help combat human trafficking in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. It is Pasco County's goal to the health and safety of the people in our community through awareness, education, the advocacy efforts, so
that no one is compelled to work. Or participate in any commercial act against their will. The resolution confirming the necessity of gathering of local data pertaining to human trafficking in Tampa Bay and surrounding cities will aid in the research our community needs, which it will in turn help with identifying the signs and behaviors and further efforts to help end human trafficking. Though there is not enough one, there is not just one single solution. To end human trafficking in our community, there is room for significant research to
be conducted as well as potential strategies to take to decrease the occurrence of human trafficking in Pasco County. I feel that both continued awareness and research is key to decreasing labor and sexual trafficking in Pasco County. Some achievable recommendations I have for the Human Trafficking Commission in Pasco County include encouraging civilians. Within the community to program the 24-hour human trafficking national hotline number into their cell phones so that if they suspect someone is being trafficked, they can
readily call the hotline or the local police department to report it. Another recommendation is to encourage Pasco County Rabbit Rec residents to become educated on common signs and behaviors of potential labor and sexual. Sexual trafficking victims. My last recommendation is to encourage local schools and school districts to include human trafficking awareness in their curriculum and to develop protocols for identifying and reporting a suspected case of human trafficking for responding to a potential victim. The human trafficking awareness also Learning
how The Human Trafficking Awareness also learning how to recognize traffickers' recruitment tactics, how to safely navigate out of a suspicious or uncomfortable situation, and how to reach out for help at any time. I hope Pasco County can continue to work together through deepened research, awareness, and strategies to ensure community our community is safe.
Thank you, ma'am. Do we have anybody at the kiosks?
Yes we do.
Okay, how many do we have?
One.
Okay, we'll go ahead that person can go ahead, name and address of the record, please.
Good morning once again. Victor Rodriguez, [address removed]. I just want to touch real quick on the P5 item that we talked about earlier. Based off your comment, Mr. Moore, you said that it's significantly more to transport the trash. Article that was published last year, 2019, states that we spend $600,000. To transport um trash out of the county
on a yearly basis. Uh knowing my math, uh it's about 116 or 189,000 plus homes. Uh it's roughly about a little over 1.3 million dollars with a seven dollar increase uh for this year. I'm not against Um doing what you guys plan on doing, but I just don't think this year is probably the year to do it based off of those numbers. Pushing it back a year probably wouldn't be bad. Uh that's just based off of this article that was published
last year, numbers given from Pasco County. Um the second thing I want to talk about is the boat ramp at uh Hudson Beach there. We spent five hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars on this boat ramp and it's swallowing up vehicles. As you guys know, you've seen on the news, it swallowed up, I believe, a $70,000 Sheriff's Department truck. What are we going to do to make sure that this does not continue to happen? I had a lot of constituents
reach out to me about this, and it's a big concern of theirs. I spoke to the gentleman that actually pressure washed the boat ramp, and he states that he can pressure wash that boat ramp for $200 a month. Now it probably doesn't need to be done every month, maybe every other month, but seems like a good investment to me if we're losing seventy thousand dollar company vehicles in the water. The next thing I want to touch on is there's an article that I seen
that was sent to Governor DeSantis. So my question to the board is, is this a collective agreement that was sent out or is this just solely one person and is everybody behind moving to phase three of opening? That's all I got. Thank you.
Thank you.
Come up and that will
in detail um that's why
Solid Weight will reach out to him and give him the the whole study behind
what we're doing and why we're doing it. So if need be That information is available through Solid Waste. That's why they did say the cost would be more over the years. Which is true. Okay, um do we have anybody else signed up at the kiosk? Nope.