Moore report Port Richey CRA and solicitors

2:05:42Thank you, Madam Chairman Mariano. I'm gonna cut out a couple of things so Dave can get on his plane and get on his way after the meeting.

2:05:49Yeah.

2:05:50But uh okay, real quick, uh Port Richey City Council um in June I'm um the Port Richey Council did vote to remove another um neighborhood from the community redevelopment here area boundary. I don't know if you guys are aware of that. I mentioned back in in May that they had voted on all that The C R A B C R A board, can't even talk now, C R A board um voted on that. So same five people that are on the city council and the CR help board. Um thank you to the mayor and city council for moving that in the right direction. Really appreciate um the relationship we now have with that uh city

2:06:20council and city manager. Um greatly appreciated. Um number two US figure skating national showcase, another big event talking about tourism coming. the Pasco County, so we have a really cool event happening in August. The US figure skating national showcase will be at the Advent Health Center ICE in Wesley Chapel the first week of August. 400 figure skaters and the family from across the United States will be here to compete. Um so again, very, very um exciting times for tourism of Pasco County. So thank you to

2:06:50Champions Edge Skating Club, Center Ice and our tourism office experience Florida Sports Coast for bringing that here. You know, I say it often uh you know we are Florida Sports Coast, not just because we like sports, because It was a strategy and business decision that we all made as a TDC and a commission to bring these things here. So again, foreigner families coming to foreigner skaters and their families coming to Pasco County, eat in our hotel, eat in our restaurants, stay in our hotels, and shop in our Pasco County stores. I had a discussion

2:07:20with uh Mr. Steinschneider um in reference to door-to-door solicitors. Do we find anything? Out, Mr. Steisler.

2:07:28I have not had an opportunity to

2:07:30reason. So I will bring I will bring it back. I will bring it back. Um I don't know if you guys have or if you've heard from citizens or neighbors or friends that um it seems that the aggressive um Dorse literatures have returned. Not that they ever left, but it's becoming more and more prevalent once again, especially um I I I say my district because that's who I hear from the most, right? So Yeah. I won't talk about some of the experiences I had, but they do seem to come to my door quite often as well. Um Mr. Steinsteiner,

2:08:00we had dis and I discussed this earlier. He's gonna look I don't know maybe there's we think there may be an ordinance already on the books, we're really not sure, which requires them to register. If not, I really think we should follow through on that. And if they are already required to register, how can we um do a better job of um following through on that because You know? Some of these people they don't they come up, they don't have they don't have badges on, they don't have uniforms. They scare people sometimes, right? And I don't know how many people

2:08:31really would prefer these people to walk up into their to their door and all hours of the day and all hours of the evening. Again, I you know, most recently in my house again without getting too many details, I mean the person wouldn't leave. Literally wouldn't leave. Um but I hearing it more and more from people and I see 'em walking up and down the streets and some of these neighborhoods do have no solicitation signs. You c you could obviously um call the SO's office and and report them but it's is a process so we'll discuss it next time

2:09:01I would like to do something to uh I'll be honest with you. Run him out of the county.

2:09:07Section seventy four dash one, the Pasco County Solicitors and Charitable Solicitation Ordinance. Last adopt last modified in nineteen ninety two.

2:09:17Oh, so it's been a few years.

2:09:19It's been a few years. So

2:09:20I

2:09:21was just a young type back then.

2:09:23So Commissioner Oakley may speak on this. Yeah. So um Home solicitation, they're supposed to register with my office and we issue them credentials that they're supposed to present. Mm-hmm.

2:09:35Very good.

2:09:35I wanna let you know. That's that's great.

2:09:37I mean that's good we have that. I guess we just have to discuss. And again I don't I won't get into the weeds on it today. Let's we'll bring it back so I just want to let you know. No, no, and I appreciate it. That's that's good to know. So we maybe you and I can have a discussion. I'll have a discussion with Mr. Steinsteiner, bring something back to see if we could put a little bit more pressure on these folks. Um Sorry, I mean I mean at nine o'clock at night do you really want somebody knocking on your door, scaring the bejeebers out of you?

2:10:01Should any person post on his leased or owned real property in obvious and immediate visible place a sign stating no solicitor no solicitors, no soliciting, no trespassing, any holder of a permit issued under this section shall honor such signs and not solicit the premise.

2:10:19So the when we have that discussion So

2:10:21the

2:10:22question is

2:10:22going to be enforcement.

2:10:23Enforcement and let's look at what our current situation you know what are the fines that are you know uh instituted if they don't come get a permit. How much does that permit cost? Is it free? You know I don't it's minimal? It's minimal. It should be ten thousand

2:10:38dollars. And we do have a list of the ones that have a permit issued on our website so you can you can check.

2:10:45Yeah, I'm gonna guess that ninety nine point nine percent of them told. That's it. I'll bring it back next time so we can keep moving. Thank you.