Green Key flooding Live Local veterans facility

1:59:47Okay. I think I have some pictures coming up. Uh just to touch on the subject this morning coming on Green Key, just so everybody knows, we work very hard at that. We got a legislative uh budget of two point five million to improve the the workings of the uh flooding down there and we've got that one property that's along just to the side of status lane that's a ten acre process was gonna come in for development. Looks like we're gonna be buying it out. Uh It's a reasonable price. It'll tie right into the other pond that's right beside it. So there are gonna be some improvements down there that are happening. So I'm

2:00:17not sure why she was so fired up, but um literally we we're working in in getting things done there. Um there's a picture of the uh with the Coochie River Electric uh annual meeting. Um what a great turnout, what great enthusiasm. David Lambert did a great job speaking. Uh next couple of pictures will show the the event venue Simpson Farms out there, which is a great place. Uh And the Commissioner Oakley was there as well and uh what a great host and w what a great team they have out there. Uh this is a housing uh summit that uh Senator

2:00:47Jeff Brandis hosted and while that was going on Uh there was one of the speakers up there that took a shot at Pasco County. Uh and they talked about like live local about why is Pasco County so fired up about not having more affordable houses. Oh I get in, I get in.

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2:01:08And everyone who I mean you did it publicly.

2:01:10Oh, I I I I at the end of like it was the last question to to be picked up for that segment and I said, Look Pasco County has they talk about impact fee too. I says Pasco County studies impact fees, looked how they did it, we led the way, and now everybody else has fallen our way, so our taxpayers didn't take the burden. I says we have taken ourselves to make sure that we keep our taxes as low as we can. And as far as when I as we look at what job jobs are, fifty-four percent of our People in the county have to leave to go to the south to go to work. We didn't want to change we wanted to change

2:01:40that. And we set up a great plan going forward. This love local thing is gonna take our tax base and destroy it if all these apartments are giving us 75% tax breaks. We don't want to see that. We want people working in our county. We've got a plan together. So this plan I'm all for trying to help Miami do what they want to do or others, but leave us be to what we're doing because we're uh right now the third four fastest growing county in the state of Florida and the second fastest nationally commercially. So what we're doing's working. We

2:02:10just don't think this legislation works, and I think others that may want to think that we do. Let them control their own destiny. It was pretty well received. Even a j even a gentleman I was on a c a committee with him last year on the same affordable housing and we're like going toe to toe back and forth about he was opposing some of my stuff. Even that guy come up to me and shook my hand to say, great job on that.

2:02:30We gotta make sure J uh Jeff understands our position.

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2:02:37excellent. All right, anything else there?

2:02:39Uh next pictures. Um I was just at a uh uh golf tournament at Seven Springs in this cryo ease, I haven't seen it yet.

2:02:47It's amazing

2:02:48but the results are phenomenal from what I heard. These they run this tournament all to try to they treat veterans for free. What I want to do is go look at it and I talked to Barbara Hinson of it. I'm going to go down and take a look at their facility, check it out. She's going to bring someone who's a former doctor that works for other vets now, one of her nurses who was in the team, and go take a look and see how good this is. But one of the things we do is we have extra money from uh Blue Cross Blue Shield that comes out. And I think it may be good because a lot of our deputies use it, a lot of our first responders use it. Some people

2:03:18that may be stuck in workmen's comp claims may use it, and other people who just want to get better. And if that's not covered by insurance, but if we take s part of that money that we have, we can actually help with our health with our county employees. I want to go take a look at it and then maybe bring it.

2:03:35But I got the there's the flyer right there, I can get that for you too. Yeah. All right. Next picture.

2:03:41It's in your district. Yeah, I guess that I wasn't able to go. Is

2:03:44that all? Okay, that's it. Okay. All right. And um I just want wanna make a s sayment. Haven't seen the public's works here just kinda like You know, so glad that they're getting recognized for the great work they do. And I wanna say that uh work with Brantford has been phenomenal. We're working on The Hudson and Old Dixie, you saw her underwater a couple of times over the past year. Um it's like the one thing that was going on. Hudson Waterworks had a main break. was like an unl un unscripted um you know was wasn't on the map as far as the main that main broke, another main broke and our stormwater pipes that

2:04:15were there uh look like they're in good shape but the links between them are weak. So what they think is and they're gonna staff's gonna work on it, but I'm trying to look to do a uh a a lining of it. And I'm not a big fan of lining, but this lining here they think can work without hurting capacity, it could help that whole area. And I think that'll be one of the projects I talked with Mike Carbell about yesterday. That's one of those things that this may be one of those health safety things that work with the C B G D R money as well. And I want to get that looked at as far as that infrastructure goes and maybe working with the sewer

2:04:45company we have trouble with that's that's private and then and Hudson Waterworks, maybe there's a way to combine forces with the county to kind of make that situation better like we talked about doing years ago. Um And I just want to say that. Driving up the other day from uh Tampa Bay Water coming back, I come across four different intersections where I had homeless people out there. With signs, et cetera. Uh I had one where I actually stopped to get gas and a guy's at the retail station going through. Uh I've I've made this

2:05:15conversation where my mother went to Win Dixie I think last month. While she's coming out, some guy startles her, whatever, looking her for money, et cetera, gets her take her bag, whatever, and her license disappears. They found it later, but We've got to help.

2:05:32uh homeless population, the ban inland's going on and we've got to nip it. And we can't be saying we're not gonna do this. We've got to do it, we've got to go enforce it. And I think as far as code, especially my district on the on the 19th Carter, I don't need to write 'em up for this, that and the other thing so much, but I need to help them because if they got people standing out front begging, doing their thing and and pleading on people coming in and out. And they can't monitor everything. We gotta help them. So I think it's something that we need to go up and down, look at these intersections.

2:06:02And I don't care if you put one person on the duty going all day long, back and forth, but something's got to be done. We can't just say this is the way it's gonna be. It doesn't have to be, it shouldn't be. If you want to talk talk about removing blight, that's the first way to do it. I'm all for getting people help that want to get help. You know, the homeless shelter helpers that we put in place, the the rope center, the holy ground. I want to give them all help. But we can't just allow this to keep on going and going. Our people don't want it. It's not good for our look. And that's all I got.