Community cleanup PACE road connect moped ordinance

2:06:30Okay, I'm trying to send some pictures here, but I I don't know if I'll make it to this today. Um let's start with uh our community cleanup. We had uh one point four I don't know what that is there, one point four tons brought to the landfill and uh ten ten uh tons, um ten and a half tons collected on the site. I told you about the all the wet mattresses, so um I attended the Pace uh breakfast there, I think uh were some of you guys there? I was there. Yeah, Lisa. Um that's always

2:07:00such a great event. Um And it's a it's a non profit founded in nineteen eighty five by Vicky Burke. Uh that first pay center was launched with ten girls in Jacksonville. And um the idea was that there were girls entering the juvenile justice system as a response to behaviors often embedded from trauma. And PACE has successfully grown to serve more than 3,000 girls annually in 25 communities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. So it's always great to honor those girls. I

2:07:31was the judge in the 16th annual water awareness poster contest with FGUA and Pasco County Utilities. And um This was the sixteenth annual one and I just wanna give a shout out to parents because You know It was pretty obvious in some of these com uh posters that Mama did it or Dad did it. I mean there's no way that a kindergartner's drawn hands with shading and fingers and all that. So we

2:08:01had to disqualify a whole bunch of posters. So um yeah, this is for the kids. You know, help with the homework, but don't draw their posters.

2:08:10This is really good first grade artwork.

2:08:13Yeah. Yeah. Some of 'em were pretty crazy. So I will be seeing those winners here shortly. And I have never been to this place. Um I only remember the name of it. But it's up there on nineteen in your district, Jack. It's the old sports authority. It's insane. I I I I videotaped the whole thing to show to my kids. Like look at look at this indoor ropes courses and Timing like uh that that ninja? S like the ninja games, uh um

2:08:42Ninja Warrior?

2:08:43Yeah. I had no idea this was there, so You know, get get on up there and have fun. Um I held my tr my third Trinity Odessa Leadership Council meeting last week. Um Swift Mud was there, did a great job. Um Code Compliance, Denise, I think I saw her here, she did a wonderful job too. Um Sheriff's Office, um, Chase also, and libraries. Um, as a matter of fact, we have to bring libraries back because we had such lengthy discussions on um Especially Swift Mud that um that

2:09:14um and code that we didn't get really to our library. So we'll Redo them. I also uh they ask a lot of budget questions. And so I said that our next one, which will be in September, we're gonna have someone come and talk about the budget. Um we we had we had to bring in chairs. I mean we had I don't know ten or twelve uh neighborhoods represented and and and more are going to join. I did the VIP tour of uh MetMins. That's why I missed some of your y'all's events. Um

2:09:44the daycare is getting ready to open, this Create Learning Center. It's gonna provide the homeless and at risk families with safe Well, Met Mint provides homeless and at risk families with safe, stable housing. And this daycare is gonna uh be on site for the residents that are there and then anything, any seats that are available, it's gonna open up to the holiday residents, which there are really no daycare facilities down there. Um so this is gonna be great for the community. It's absolutely

2:10:15adorable. I took a picture of this company of these little tables here. Uh the little the little teeny uh I don't even w remember what you call it. The li well those are low low high tables.

2:10:25Yeah

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2:10:25they're yeah but

2:10:25they're 'cause I thought they were absolutely adorable. Um and then Tim Marks was honored. He's retiring but they're gonna put a road in an interior road there is um Tim Marks Drive. And if you haven't toured this and the Derek Mitchell Welcome Center, It it it's it's amazing um opportunity that we have in the county to have such a quality facility like this. You can see the playground in the back, it isn't all the way um done yet. And that's what's keeping the daycare uh from opening up. And some of the residents

2:10:56here will be able to if they choose, get certifications to open their own daycares. So they'll be working there in the daycare center.

2:11:07Uh so my staff's always very busy and they've come up with this great idea. That why don't we Put some murals on R Utility project, utility property. These other ones are pictures. I think this bottom one here is Pinellas County. Could be Dunedin. But we've got these buildings that are just ripe for some wonderful art. So wanted to throw that out there. to our utilities department. And I you know, I think those look great. Um okay,

2:11:38this is uh something that I want to get done before I'm done being the commissioner. And um This these are like little what I what you m you might know as spite strips and we have at least three on this side of the county that I want to address and Commissioner Yeager um I have mentioned this one to you so that on the that'll be on the next page. But the first one is Amazon Drive in Anaconda. And the developer of that is Commissioner, the owner of that property is Commissioner

2:12:08Shear from Penellas County, and he is willing to give us that. So um So if you are uh someone who needs uh some kind of ambulatory or l you know, an ambulance to come to you, you would not believe how you have to drive all the way around. Because of this spite strip. Here in Amazon. And and again, c av adding connectivity keeps people off The the main roads If they want to go over here, But they live in here and they can't

2:12:38connect there. You have to drive all the way round. You have to go through fifty-four and little and and there's no reason for it. So we just need to connect those two. Then um Yeah.

2:12:49And when that was built it was designed to connect, correct?

2:12:51Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We've got another one here. Now, this one did connect and my predecessor, Commissioner Hildebrand, unconnected it. But when I got elected, these residents came to me and said, could you please reconnect us? This is at Gulf Trace Boulevard and I don't even know the name of the the street, but if you um if you could go to Google Earth and pull that intersection up. Um you wouldn't believe what the residents have to do. The res to go to the park. Yeah.

2:13:22That's crazy. They have to they they live right behind Um the Holiday Lake Recreation Center. But They have to drive. All the way out to nineteen. go down, make a U turn and come in Gulf Trace Boulevard to go t for their kids to go to baseball practice or soccer at the park. So crazy. Um So yeah, zoom out a little bit. A little bit more. Okay, so up here in the upper left corner You you

2:13:52see um the elementary school. The elementary school's here. Uh the upper left corner. You see where they don't connect, right? So if you live on that street, you're driving all the way in front of all these people to go all the way out to nineteen You gotta come down, make a U turn, and come back up to go to that park. Or if you want to drive your kid to school because it's raining. You gotta All these people, so I would really like us to reconnect that one. The next one is Osteen.

2:14:23Yeah. Do I do we not have a picture of Osteen? Okay.

2:14:25I think we're working on that.

2:14:27Yeah, so this was connected. But um misses Osteen who used to live there somehow got it unconnected when they built Ridge Ridgewood High School. So Pepin is now there. And this is another one. It it's if you so the first one is a close-up of Pepin Academy. The second one where I have all the X's, that's Marchman, that's the elementary school, and that's now Wendell Crine, and then you got Pepin over on the right. To get into any of these complexes

2:14:57you have to come up Um what's I think it's Congress though when you get over there or Rowan, whatever, and you come down Orchid Lake in front of all these houses and then you and then you um go into the school complex or if you're going to uh Pepin, which is, you know, the special needs school, you gotta drive in front of all those houses to get over there. When it should just connect to Massachusetts.

2:15:20Agreed.

2:15:22So um we gotta we gotta get that one connected.

2:15:26I got one more for you if you

2:15:27want. Yeah, bring it on.

2:15:28Right near where you are, where Orchid Lake goes across, there's a connection that can actually come right out here. I think it might be Blueberry.

2:15:35And I showed that to them too. Yeah. So um I sent that to staff. So if you see where Pen is and you look just north of there, right there. Yep. It's just a little space right there. um where they should connect and come they will come out to Little Road. There you go. The more connections you have, the less everyone is inconvenienced. And the safer it is for our residents.

2:15:57I I'm gonna make a motion that we look to do all those connections to bring a bring a agenda item to the board.

2:16:02I don't have to run again. All in favor.

2:16:07Okay. Um the last thing I have and I see we're here at lunchtime, um, is um you all were given this flyer. This is from Orange County. So I've been dri I go drive down Starkey Boulevard and I see these kids I my staff told me what they're called. Hot rockets or something. They're like little tiny motorcycles. And they are they were going I videotaped it, they were going forty five miles an hour on the a trail on Starkey Boulevard. And they do it every day. At least they're wearing helmets.

2:16:38I was just gonna ask you, hopefully they're wearing helmets.

2:16:40They're wearing hell helmets. So we started looking up the ordinance and we we don't have one that controls how our multi-use paths should be Um regulated or whatever. Um so I want to uh propose that we would would that we look With work with the Sheriff's Office and to create an ordinance regarding mopeds, go peds, pocket bikes, and motorized scooters. And um and then bring it back to us for discussion. Oh,

2:17:11and then lastly, this is um this is a road in um Starkey Ranch. The road has been conveyed to us. I can't remember the name of it, Longspur. People businesses are using this as a place to park all their business equipment. On our road. There's boats, there's trailers, there's the parts of uh long haul trucks E every time I drive here I there's it's just amazing what people are parking on our road. So I think our staff is working on a solution, but we need to br you know,