Leadership Pasco and CDBG support letter

2:22:31So my last item is um last week on Thursday. I um co-facilitated uh government day for leadership Pasco along with Sean Foster and Kimberly Thompson and there was a Board of County Commissioners panel. I know you weren't able to make it, that's all right, but I just want to tell you a thank you for the I think you guys were a hit. The class really enjoyed the day and Commissioner Oakley was able to help. Lunch with the class as well. So that was really nice. I just wanted to say thank you for your support and participation. It was

2:23:00a pleasure. Thank you. Yeah. That's always

2:23:01so much fun.

2:23:02You do a great job and Um You can see

2:23:08mind shift in their understanding. And uh it's always glad when folks take the time out of their day to learn about

2:23:16Pasco County government. Right. Um I had one thing that I besides console I wanted to bring up. I just um I s I sent this to the county administrator. I may or may not sent to everybody, but um NACO is very concerned about this and Uh maybe we should talk about it with other others at the at your next meeting. Go ahead and talk about it. Um that there is a proposal in Washington to get to do away with C D B G funding, EDA funding and a whole bunch of other funding

2:23:46that we ship and and others that we rely on. Um so Um I d I'm Yeah, you know, I'm I don't know where the Congress is on it, but I think that C D B G funding does a lot of good in the communities and And I support that that funding. Um so Um I think we spend our C D B G money very wisely. And if we wanna talk about it with the full board or

2:24:16with um Marcy and others, I think we sh I think we should and see if we wanna say something.

2:24:25Yeah.

2:24:26I mean I I'm comfortable having uh the board draft a letter of support for C D B G and

2:24:34Have the chair sign it and let it go. The sooner the better. Yeah,

2:24:37I mean that's not money that I mean we vet those very, very well and we watch every penny. And we put it all to good work. Yeah.

2:24:46Well I'll make a motion we draft a letter to show support for C D B G to NACO and our

2:24:51EDA. Do you want to just leave it at C there do you do you have the text I sent you by I I Yeah, I don't have I it I didn't list all the different ones that he's off uh suggesting, but um

2:25:05Even if we d I think it's C D B G, E D A and SHIP. Which is the it's the money that's used to help with workforce housing. Um

2:25:17I I would recommend, you know, if the board's supportive of it we can do that. And we can draft up some success stories as well. I mean some of our C D B G projects have won awards. So I think that there's

2:25:26there's our veterans ones and Yeah, I mean yeah, let's let's especially me mention how we're using it to house homeless veterans. So move. So Uh roll cover.

2:25:40District One, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman. District four, Commissioner Yeager. District five, Commissioner. sorry. Thank you. District five, Commissioner Mariano. District three, Chairman Starkey. Aye.

2:25:54Thank you very much. And Chair, before we

2:25:56adjourn.

2:25:59So I just have to give you a shout out, uh, Ronelle, for sitting here all day long. So Ronelle Shirley with BLight Mission Service Center met her last night at the uh C BG acronym s the Storm Money event at Ports Campus. And so it sounded like you showed up for tonight's evening but got the show of the commission uh in action today. So thank you for sitting through and hearing our meeting. But would

2:26:29encourage you to meet my fellow commissioners and share with them what you do. Ronel on a mission to try to to help with us and she heard your comments, Commissioner Oriado, and she's read about my comments uh about our homeless and how we need to figure out come up with a policy something because we don't have anything concrete today. So uh enjoy speaking with you and thank you for coming today and um She's earn earned a shout out for sitting through this today. So thank you, Ronel.

2:26:57I did hear that we're getting ready to transition Pasco Hope from The um storm Sheltered folks to the Homeless, unsheltered folks, so good.

2:27:10Yes, you had two consent items that Solidified that.