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Harry Cohen
Commissioner
District 1
Hillsborough County, FL
Statements in public meetings
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at 1:19I pledge allegiance to the plight of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
at 1:50Father, as a special blessing, as our budget is being presented today, go with our county administrator and Kevin as they present the information to us on behalf of the citizens of Hillsborough County.
at 9:05Do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
at 1:01:32second commissioner miller uh please record your vote motion carried five to zero next time commission
at 6:19Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth,
at 10:50And, um, this, the city here is meant to show that many anthropogenic activities can lead to, uh, contamination of waters, um, you know, about sewer breaks, for example, um, there's always lift station overflows, all sorts of activities, um, even, um, stormwater runoff, and then agricultural, uh, activities also, where you have animal waste, um, and in the rural area, you have septic systems that can contribute.
at 14:12So, when we design a field study for microbial source tracking, and you can imagine that a lot of, a lot of lab work went into developing these, these DNA markers that we use for microbial source tracking, but now we have, we have quite a few that we can use with, with good confidence in, in Florida, and so, when we design a field study, we think about, see the animals up there, so what kind of animals do we have aro…
at 2:38Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth,
at 1:38:08Was to support the applicant in support of the motion failed three to four with commissioner bowls miller cohen and most of voting no
at 37:19That was an excellent presentation, and I have a million questions, and I think this is, you know, technology that could potentially change the world.
at 37:28But I just want to ask you one thing about when you roll out in a city like Tampa, is there any manual override at all of the system?
at 32:12So if we, um, move to accept the variances as they're all presented, yes, that would actually remove the blacktop requirement in it, included in it, correct?
at 36:15And so if there's been daily parking, correct me if I'm not wrong, um, on the Southern lot for many years, I don't think the traffic has actually increased that much.
at 1:12:49Um, if you drive down 275, there is, there are enough shoulders there to be restriped to create an extra lane without ever having to do any additional construction, number one.
at 1:13:18I agree with all of the points that were made by the public, but I wanted to add that because one of my primary reasons for feeling this way about it is that all of the people that lived along that route have, have suffered from noise, various different issues with air pollution, just the general inconvenience that goes with this kind of construction.