Call to order, invocation, pledge and roll call
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Good afternoon. I would like to call to order the Pasco County Board of Commissioner's Legislative Agenda Workshop of August 24th, 2023. At this time, please silence all electronic devices. Please rise for the invocation and pledge. Yeah.
O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature. Make us thankful for your loving providence and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts. Amen.
Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, Iraq, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.
Madam Clerk, please call the roll.
District One Commissioner Oakley.
Here.
District 2 of Commissioner Seth Weightman. District 3, Commissioner Katherine Starkey. District 4, Commissioner Gary Bradford. District 5 Chairman Jack Mariano.
Here. And uh Commissioner Bradford is not able to attend. Uh Commissioner Weightman. His family just had a baby boy last night. So priorities first. We we wish that him and Jessica well. Uh and Kathryn is on our way. Um Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to this year's legislative agenda workshop. We have pressing challenges and opportunities ahead, so I encourage you all to active actively participate, share your perspectives, and engage in constructive discussions. Through our
collaboration exchange of insights we can identify the most effective pathways forward. Let's make the most of this opportunity to drive the positive change for our community. A special thanks to the staff and more for organizing this event. Um This is some a new format for us and uh Mr. Carbell I want to thank you. I know that w years after year we go up to Tallahassee, we're kinda like running from spot to spot to spot and Um I think this year we're gonna get set up better by having this pre-meeting to co go through a few different things that are out
there, talk it through, and then uh as we progress further, we'll be able to talk to our legislative delegation a little bit better and um hopefully have even better results than we have been at. So thank you for setting this up.
Well thank you. All credit to the team for getting this going for us and we are excited and I think we've got a great uh Uh to kind of prime the pump, if you will, to to have some good good discussion on what should be our priorities as as one Pasco County going going forward with the legislature. So I'll uh turn it over here to Chief of Staff, Joanna Cheshire.