Board agreed to fund partner agencies
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Do I need to hit some things? Okay. I clicked it a few times. Oh it's staying. Okay. All right. So now what you see here is um Items where the board over the years has agreed to fund um some of our partner agencies. These are not state mandates, this is at the board's discretion. So Premier Healthcare, Museum Support, Human Trafficking Coalition, and the United Way.
We to let's touch on that just a little bit as well. So Premier Healthcare helps our low income. people as well. And they've done a phenomenal job of the expanded Wanna you wanna try about that a little bit too, Paula? Um 'Cause if they don't get health care, what happens?
So once again Pallar called the support services. So Premier Healthcare provides v uh medical services and dental services for very low income population. This is under the low income pool program uh that is run through the state of Florida. essentially these dollars and then match with the state funding to bring back additional federal dollars to our community to be able to expand services for those that are underinsured.
Um in the United Way, I think one of the reasons we use them is because they can help with people that are come across bad situations, could become homeless, can't pay utility bills, something else may happen. That United Way, without having the government bureaucracy involved, can actually take care of things very economically feasible and feasibly with a great Board of directors that actually can oversee it.
That is correct. In fact, uh when the hurricanes happened, we relied a lot on the United Way to be able to do that rapid response of services for our most uh vulnerable, in addition to that cold weather shelter uh effort that they help us run at the community level uh to be able to respond quickly to the needs uh as they come.
I just want to piggyback on that because um I'll I'll help families and the first thing the county says is let me reach out to United Way. Correct. So they are an amazing partner and I think it's really important that we keep funding
And I know you can see that once we go on the storm of breeders.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Yeah and museum support, that's a that's a choice. Um and also human trafficking. What we can do to help. So
Yeah. Chair. With with museum support, I think there needs to be a budget amendment. Um and if it's possible to move out of the tourist. Development tax. Um Since that is a piece of sports coach and bringing people in and and things for people to do. I don't know if that would qualify or not, but I think that the funding for museums should come off the general fund and Figure
out a way to assume what qualify under the the Torres development tax. if that's possible.
I think it's a very good idea. And especially like the other three, I I think you can justify all day long.
Museums are part of tourism, drives an attraction to it. So I think that's something That's that's a very appropriate thing to do and especially at this point in time probably a very good thing to do is take it out.
Commissioner Oakley Chairman M That was put in back about ten years ago. We put in helped to both museum on the west side and and the one here on the east side, Pioneer Museum. Uh the reason for it being put on there was the fact that they both tell the story of Pasco County and both tell there was two actually different sides. One was all citrus and cattle and the other had the uh area out on water and fishing and things of that nature. That there was a different
way of life there near the coast than it was over in east Pasco. So that was the reason I put that in way back uh to support both and actually it was it's been at ten thousand dollars apiece. So this right here is telling me they've cut that in half, I guess, uh five each, uh But um so no it's thirty.
Oh yeah, no it's thirty thousand, so it's
fifteen. Oh thirty. All right. These old eyes can't see right. But anyway it's uh it's I think it's very worthwhile that we support both those museums. So they do a lot for our our community and tell people that come in the community more about how Al Pasco Brew to be what it is today. No,
I think Commissioner Oakley when you brought that up was a great thing to do and again if not for these budget times as we're getting everything so scrutinized that I think it is a good time to pull it out so I think as Commissioner Weightman, I think we all agree that's a that's a good thing. But I
wouldn't stop it. I don't mind pulling it out if it it fits in that area that we could do that, then I don't have a problem with with that. I I I would want to make sure we do something to to help them approve.
I'm I'm good to keep the funding the same and I'm I'm sure there's other T D Cs doing the same type of thing elsewhere, so I think it's file. If we gotta change the ordinance, so be it. But I think I think it's a warrant that.
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