Public comment on Green Key PACE Bayley's Bluff sewer
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Uh so now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or f future agenda item coming before the board and on other business. under the board's purview. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First we will take public comment from those who are here in person. Then we will take public comment from those who have pre-registered for WebEx Link and are currently on queue. We request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against a commissioner or a
team member. but rather directed at the issue. This provides mutual respect between board members and the public. After stating your name and address for the clerk, a three-minute timer will be activated and a green light will be shown on the podium. After two minutes a yellow light will indicate you have one minute left. When your time is up, a red light will be displayed. Three beeps will sound and you should close your comments. Webex participants will be disconnected automatically when their time is up. Before we
begin I've gotten a little word that some people are here To speak about an issue that is this afternoon. So I'm gonna have my county attorney explain how some of these rules work.
I yeah, public comment is is for business which is on the regular or consent agenda or is for a future meeting. Those items which have which are on your public hearing agenda starting at 130. the public comment for those items needs to be taken up in those meetings. Um my understanding is that there are folks signed up for the Little Road MPUD. Which has a Complant amendment as P forty three.
and the rezoning which is P fifty five. That comment is more appropriately taken this afternoon during those items.
Thank you very much. All right. Um Madam Clerk, do we have a lineup?
I would you would think so, Madam Chair, but I only have two people signed up, so I'm assuming there's more people in the audience that didn't sign up. So we'll take the two that signed up first. So we have Wanda Chasnov followed by Rachel Hobbes. And those are the two that I have signed up. Okay. And maybe we're full b from the resolution so I.
Good morning. My name is Wanda Chasnoff. I live at [address removed]. I'm here, uh I was here a few weeks ago. and I was here on the homeless people that live on Green Quay. Well, there's only been two arrests and warnings. Uh the neighbors don't feel like we're getting anywhere. They're still there six five thirty, six o'clock this morning. I was out walking the street. They was out roaming the streets and everything. Last week I got up straight out of bed at seven o'clock
in the morning and what I walk out my door and what I smell, barr. They got a fire going. I had to call the fire department. And Miss Starkey, you had put some pretty pressure on them about doing something. Jack's Secretaries are trying to do what they need to do, but we're not getting anywhere and we need to push further to get this out of there because we're gonna have a major fire. All us trying to fix our houses and everything. I just got a permit and I applied in January. I'm just starting to fix my
house. Okay. I'm dealing with the count uh the city about the Motel Six, they're lit the homeless people are beginning to to live in the Motel 6. I had Colin out there last week. I made him walk the property with me about the flooding. Pleasantville is a mobile home park in front of me. They're putting all new trailers, but we got no drainage on Green Key. It's gonna flood again. What are we gonna do? We're putting all this new money and everything on Green Key and we're all gonna flood again. We got homeless people, Roman
blood and virus. What else do we need? We need your help. Please, I'm asking. If not I'm picking up and moving. I don't know what else to do. I'm sixty seven years old. Is that is that private co
property? It's well uh so Madam Clerk to to talk I'd like David to get with her about the homeless that's in the whole area. The one parcel she's talking about that we talk about is actually in public. We're working on it right now to buy the property. We think we're gonna have an agreement coming together. It's gonna help with the drainage and the
It ain't
moving fast
enough. Here we are. Hurricane season again, and I ain't even barely started on my house. All right, um, so we'll you can't. Talk to David
Allen. If you want to talk to um Sonya, she can tell you what's going on right now. It's in real estate right now.
I've been in contact with them very prequicely
but you don't understand what's going on clearly, because we are working on buying the property. We think we're going to come to terms, so that solution is there for drainage as well as homeless for that one particular. For the rest of the homeless, I'd like to talk to David Allen, let him handle it.
Okay.
Thank you.
I just need y'all's help. I can't.
We are working on
it.
Okay,
next.
Um good morning, Chair and Commissioners. Um, my name is Rachel Hobbs. I represent Home Run Financing. We're a third-party program administrator for the Florida PACE Funding Agency. Um my address is 750 University Avenue. It's in Los Gatos, California. So I'm here before you today to provide you with the regular three-yearly report of the Florida PACE Funding Agency as required in your interlocal
agreement dated May 2019. And I have two pages, I have copies here. For yourself to to
get to each of you. Move received file.
All in favor? Aye.
Aye. Aye.
Hand it to her. You can just hand it to her.
So thank you for your time and for the opportunity to present this report to you. As I've mentioned, this is the report of the Florida PACE Funding Agency. In the paper I have for you, we have the agency email and the website as required. The inter-local agreement is dated May 2019. We're required to give you the written report, a verbal representation, sorry, verbal presentation every three years. So as a reminder, this is
an ILA that covers the unincorporated part of your county only and does not cover any of the properties within any of the city limits. The total of the assessments that have been originated until February, at the end of February this year, is $15,347,146, with the average amount of the assessment being $20,545.
This is the report only of the Florida PACE Funding Agency. It's not of any of the other PACE districts that are operating within your county. Um And I would like to mention that the Florida PACE Funding Agency is under new leadership. There is a new executive director there, Wendy Leach, and her email is the email listed for you as the uh agency email. To mention some ancillary benefits of the PACE
program is roof roof replacement, which is helping your homeowners with the ever increasing insurance issues within the state of Florida. To give you a brief update, there was major legislation at the state level last year, effective July 1st. It brought in new consumer protections, including confirmed terms calls, an ability to pay tax. It reduced the maximum term from 30 to 20 years, and it put the Florida
Auditor General as state regulator for the PACE program. It also It expanded the program to include septic to sewer conversions and flood mitigation. So at a state level it was decided that those two items would be PACE eligible from now on. And thank you very much.
We need to make sure we have the other companies doing this. This is the first time I've seen this. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else? Is there anyone online?
Um there are with one so one person signed up but they're not logged in yet.
Okay.
Is there anyone else here who wishes to speak to the BOCC? Come on up.
As you're walking up, please state your name and address for the record.
Good morning. Julie McGill, [address removed]. I come before you today to talk about Bailey's Bluff. Uh Bayley's Bluff consists of about, well, 130, 136 homes, most on the water, but all on septic. Really? Caught my attention when she mentioned that septic to sewer. Okay.
The the simple solution would be to run a sewer line down Pine View. All these septic systems are aging. A lot of those houses built in Bailey's were built in the late sixties, so we have aging septic systems which are overflowing Drain fields, there's not enough room to build a new one if old ones have gone bad. Sand Bay, on the other hand, was built in the eighties. those people were given sewer. So we weren't around in this capacity in the eighties, but why wasn't that developer made to run that
on Pine View to service not only Sand Bay, but also Bayley's Bluff. It's it's a mess. Um the problem the huge problem we have is when those septic systems When we have hurricanes or when they overflow or they have to be pumped repeatedly, not only is that pro by product of nitrogen going into our groundwater. It's also overflowing into our waterways. I walked the neighborhood and I got a lot of feedback from the neighbors. Most of them with waterfront property don't even feel
like they're they have waterfront property because nitrogen not only I'll get to the sea life in a minute. Nitrogen causes sediment buildup. They've been waiting since 2017 to have their waterways dredged so they can get their boats out. They're paying taxes on waterfront property and it's sledgefront property basically. The other problem is we have a federally protected manatease, okay? This nitrogen runoff kills the seagrass that these these animals live on. That's their main
diet. I emailed each and every one of you about an article about Indian River. Eleven hundred manatees. Eleven hundred manatees starved to death. because of nitrogen runoff that killed their main food supply. We're a ticking time bomb here in Bailey's Bluff. It's gonna happen, and I hope that this doesn't fall on deaf ears. We can already see the evidence. I have a homeowner here. that when they first moved in, they saw manatees. They don't see them anymore. The oyster beds are black in the gli lagoon. They
should be white and thriving. They're black. They're dying. We need to do this now. get this sewer run, get these people off septic or we're gonna have another Indian River on our hands. So
thank you
for bringing this
up. Well I'm going to add this right now to our C D B G D R list. Thank you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that. All right. Thank you. Um is there anyone else here who wishes to speak?