For more information on this project, contact Cindy Morris, Environmental Health Director, or Alexandra Fitos, PACE-EH Coordinator, at the Hillsborough County Health Department.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
October PACE EH Update
Date: Nov. 1, 2004
To: Daniel
Parker, MSP, GAL
From: Alexandra Fitos, MA
PACE EH Coordinator
Subject: PACE EH Grant Update for Palm River, October
2004.
This was our fourth PACE meeting. The meeting that was planned for
September was cancelled due to storm activity. We had the smallest
crowd yet with just six team members in attendance. This was due to
land use hearing in which several team members were actively
challenging a large-scale development from moving into an area that
was already stressed or lacking infrastructure.
Regardless of our small group we had a productive discussion on a
brownfields grant that Mary Yeargan from the EPC (Environmental
Protection Commission) brought forth for community input. Residents
showed a lot of interest in the brownfields program and gave Mary
some areas to look for potential contamination in Palm River. Mary
stated that she would look into those areas that residents mentioned
and give an up-date at a later time.
Additionally, the team was informed that the survey was being
extended to the end on October to insure the best response rate from
residents. At meeting time we had about 90 surveys returned out of
350 distributed. Surveys will be enter into an access database and
top five issues will be addressed by the PACE process. Those who
still had surveys were asked to return them as soon as possible.
The final discussion for the evening was our group discussion on
defining results of the PACE EH Process. The main objective behind
this discussion was to see what suggestions and ideas the team had
for the last part of the project. Some thoughts from the group were
to try and get other community associations together and include
them in the action planning stage of the protocol. The only problem
with this is how fragmented the community is and cooperation may be
hard to come by depending on who is at the table. Our next meeting
is on November 8, 2004 where we will discuss the final results of
the survey and a decision as to what issues will be addressed in the
action planning stage.
Past Hillsborough County Updates
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September, 2004
August, 2004
June, 2004
Media Coverage (.pdf files)
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June 12, 2004 - County
Chooses Place to Perform Area Environmental Health Study 
June 11, 2004 - State
Asks for Environmental Input
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