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Published agendas and the dispositions the approved minutes recorded. Twelve years, whether or not a camera was running.
Approved minutesApproved the proposed millage rates as 7.607 in the Pasco County Commission Operating, 1.8036 in the Pasco County Municipal Fire Service Unit, and to set the first public hearing on September 8, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in Dade City provided the date did not conflict with the hearing for the Pasco County School Board.
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Unidentified speaker Thank you, County Commissioners, and thank you for having us here today and bringing this resolution up to put on the ballot. Just to kind of refresh your memory, I know many of you know it quite well. Uh I can't believe it's been uh almost four years already, but approximately three three years ago, uh this board uh uh ratified a resolution from our school board to put on the ballot uh a resolution in order to use local millage money to Enhance our teachers' salary. Uh state statutes require it to be re to come up to if it's to be renewed, it must be renewed every four years. So we are here in 2026 to place it back on the ballot with uh with uh your approval here today. Um just to give you a little overview of where we are and where we've come from, uh if this uh if this referendum were not to go into effect. act were not to be passed, uh, it would result into a net cut of our teacher salary and support personnel across the board of approximately 12%. So approximately
Unidentified speaker um, but we were. We were able to attract teachers from Hillsborough and Pinellas and our our principals are telling us that they were recruiting and we were being successful and having individuals that we're perhaps were living in Pasco but were teaching across the county line. They were coming home. coming home to where they belong here in Pasco, But since that time, Hillsboro last year and Hillsboro and Penales both have uh uh added uh a a millage and have increased their teachers' salaries. We are concerned that if this resolution were not to be adopted by you and the voters come November, it would put us at a real competitive disadvantage where our neighbors to the South would be once again poaching our teachers. But this is not just about putting teachers or bodies in a classroom. Because we are able to make gains, we are now able to increase the quality of our teachers. We're
Jack Mariano Oakley. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Uh this is another I think a good thing that we're taking care of an issue that was lingering for a long time as far as the funding goes. I know we're working with Swift MUD in our plan. Uh and I several times I've asked about we're waiting for boring tests to be done to find out what could be done with the soils up and around and Mike if you want to talk about where we stand with that situation. I know we're still working it, but Love to hear from the front
Mike Carballa board. Certainly, yeah. Mike Carbala, Assistant County Administrator of Public Infrastructure. With regards to the Maggie Valley project, yes, soil sampling is complete. There is some arsenic in in some of the soils, a lot of the soils actually. But when we get into construction, what we'll what we'll typically do is we will legally dispose of the contaminated soils. Additional soil that comes out that's needed to balance the soil. site. Uh you know, we're we're working with parks on a few things there, so that would be the next priority, followed by um, you know, possibly doing an additive alternate or a bid item to where we could uh pay the contract or have the contractor pay us to to handle the soil, sell it, do something like that to help offset the costs to those citizens when we come back. So those are the things that we typically look for in a lot of jobs, but particularly so in this matter.
Jack Mariano Okay. And Mike, thank you very much for talking. I would have talked with him early on this, but as this would come out in the holiday, whatever, I'd be talking ahead of time. But thank you very much. And I'll move approval. Second.
Unidentified speaker So Commissioner Fitzpatrick, this is not the creation of the assessment district. This is the preliminary assessment. My my opinion is that it is a large enough area that you should not have a voting conflict given that it's not the creation. If you would like me to confirm that with the Commission on Ethics before this comes back, uh this is the preliminary role, I'll be happy to. But I think you can my my opinion is you can vote on this.
Mike Carballa idea. Yeah, just real quick the um the idea here was Uh that to to implement a program that um you know our our IT team went and did some market analysis based on our our current spending habits, right? And and took a look at uh the current statewide government contract that were perfectly legal legally uh able to take advantage of through a procurement aspect, but decided that going on our own contract would actually save money. And so in fact by by not relying on that global contract, we're saving approximately $400 per year on I'm sorry, $400 per computer purchase. So with that, that's allowed us to save upwards over the last for this contract about two million dollars or half a million dollars a year which you know when we when we looked at the millage rate going going through to the budget hearing was was one of the reasons we were able to give that money back to the taxpayers uh because we didn't need it because we've we've done things to make our our IT department more efficient in terms of how we How we rely on our computers as
Mike Carballa well as how long we hold on to them. We we also made some changes in terms of our useful life. So rather than cycling computers out every three years, we would have decided to cycle them out every four years. And just those subtle efficiency changes made a huge impact and we were like I said, we were able to uh this board was able to I was able to make a Recommendation of the board to cut the millage in order to realize they're safe with faculty taxpayer. So we're very proud of the team of them doing that. And then on the side, it's just gravy, they they implemented a uh an employee buyback program uh for computers.