Delegation meeting scheduling and adjournment

2:15:21Oh now for the landing.

2:15:23Now now for the landing and and Ralph I I f uh you may have some follow-up housekeeping items, but I think we've we've gotten enough information here on on policy. Uh I think we can pull something together and and craft a uh uh you know a capital you know, project type assessment based on the various pods, Senate districts, etcetera. I'd like to maybe come back to the board. We wanted to bring uh bring this list back and have the board codify it on September fifth. Uh I think a regular item where we can just kind of rehash and review would

2:15:54would be appropriate and and we can discuss that on September fifth if that's good with uh the board members at least here. So that's

2:16:01it. And the so then talking about housekeeping uh then um the delegation D has not set a date yet for their delegation meeting. They are now in October, they're looking at. Uh which brings me to I heard you loud and clear, Commissioners, that you also wanted the possibility of as we've created this workshop to do a joint legislative uh workshop with our state delegates.

2:16:30That's what I thought this was.

2:16:31And our federal. So this is the the yeah, that this was the first step. So I'm running into problems by the the dates that I went out. Uh we were looking at the end of September to try to do that. Um only got back some response from one to

2:16:51four out of seven of our delegation members, uh two would not be able to participate. Uh two did. Uh so I wasn't getting good feedback. So now the next one I'm looking at would be at the end of October because there's three weeks of October that they're doing del uh uh committee meetings. Um that being said

2:17:12are they in November at all? Uh any in November.

2:17:15Yeah there are. Committee meetings? I would l I

2:17:17would look to November.

2:17:19Oh have we uh we haven't started yet to to try to get 'em there to consider but there's three uh in committee weeks there's Three in October, two in November, and two in December. Um and and then we're gonna start looking at dates. They're they're gonna start coming down on them and saying you gotta have your bill submissions in and you're gonna have to do your appropriations in by a certain date. They haven't set the gauntlet yet of when that is. The House has released their new form. The Senate has not. So once

2:17:49we start, you know, teeing up that we gotta go get sponsors for any legislation or di and definitely our funding. Um but w where I guess I'm going with that, do we continue on? Uh

2:18:01I think what Ralph's saying it has been a challenge to get a date. It has been a challenge just to get a date to get the delegation to have a delegation meeting. Meeting. I'm just

2:18:08telling you four times. So let's let's look at a different approach then. Maybe maybe it is gonna be a Tallahassee trip when they're all up there. We do something later at night. when they're down for business or in the morning before they go we Take that block of an hour at time, we just go up to there. at their place while they're in there, while they're up there, so we know we're gonna get 'em all.

2:18:26And it it may be a good thing because you're gonna get to speak to them at the delegation meeting. Yes, it's only for a few minutes, but you're th they're we're gonna see your fifty thousand foot level and maybe in the middle of session Ralph we can talk about it about things that we know are actually being filed at that time and what we oppose and what we support.

2:18:39Does this stop us from going to the legislators and getting sponsors? No. So we can work on that and uh it so if you could just give me the okay that we we maybe work on that for next year for the for that joint. The federal is going to be different. Uh I'm going to be shooting for October. You're only talking four, but we'll probably only get two and then the staff from all of them. Okay.

2:19:00Yeah. And Commissioner Starkey I was thinking the same thing. We're going to have everybody here tonight too. So but but I like this this is this was a good way to do it though. I know this allows

2:19:08but this allows the board to have a discussion.

2:19:12This is the way to do it.

2:19:16This is this is a great way to do it. I like the setup. I like the structure structural setup of everything. I think it was a great way to go about it. So I think whether if if we can't do the delegation meeting like we wanted to with everybody in one room down here in Pasco, I don't think there's anything wrong with just going up there and just picking the time to go up there up there as well. So that's it's not a not a problem.

2:19:36So when I was d when I was driving here from my Amskills board meeting, um Brad Yeager called me and I I said, Oh, I'm on my way. I'm almost there. Oh, and he said to where? I said to our legislative meeting and he said what? meeting. I said,

2:19:49What? He called me seven times.

2:19:51He said it that's why. He said, I just landed from Milwaukee. It wasn't on my calendar. I said, Oh my goodness. And I said, Well just get in your car. You'll only be forty five minutes late. And he he said, I'm in shorts and a t-shirt. I said done matter. It's better you're there than you're you know, dressed appropriately.

2:20:08Too funny.

2:20:09Yeah,

2:20:10I thought yeah,

2:20:10I

2:20:10then I found out it was just

2:20:16if I can there there is one that that has come through my office uh policy matter that um the Plart Association of County Attorney is working on it has nothing to do with public records. No um on

2:20:31pace. And we and I've emailed you on this one. Some of you have said this is okay. This is their uh the FAC is wanting the counties to go ahead and let us know that we support it so they can when we go to the uh meeting next month, it'll have every county listed. Well and this is the one That uh Senator Fasano, you know, is has been fighting on. I've teed it up. They've gotten an email. I've heard from some of them, but I haven't heard from all of you. So if you agree, then I will be sending

2:21:01an email to FAC saying our county as well supports the legislation being proposed.

2:21:09Sure. Um what is so Our tax collector for Sano think about it. Oh he's definitely for it. He's

2:21:16one of the for it. Okay. So this is this is the um if you recall we brought this issue to you, there was legisl uh there was a court case in Leon County in which the court ruled in a bond validation hearing that the PACE providers, because they were created by interlocal agreement, were basically governmental entities and so they didn't have to honor any of the tax collectors interlocal agreements. So

2:21:47there are multiple counties now that are in litigation uh either the Florida Paced suing them. or Penellus and a couple of others a have sued The pace providers, Um There was a bill that was introduced last session to reverse this court case. It got through the Senate, it's my recr recollection. Right. And it got held up in the house and so it didn't pass. Um Palm Beach County has

2:22:17said They'll push the legislation.

2:22:26They want all the all the counties that are affected

2:22:29to I'm good with it. Yep. So I guess that's a good thing.

2:22:32And some of the other commissioners that aren't here today are good with it. So if you're all good with it, then I will be sending an email to FAC saying Pasco County to support that. Thank you very much, sir.

2:22:42Yep. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, anything else?

2:22:47No, not

2:22:48okay. Well thank you all very much. Thanks for staff uh doing everything you did, showing up and and and giving us the great feedback and Mike for you and your team to coordinate this great job. Well great. Thank you sir. We're adjourned.