CITY OF TAMPA WORKSHOPS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016
9 a.m. Session

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[ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
09:04:25 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Good morning.
We're going to call this Council meeting to order.
I yield to Councilwoman Capin.
09:04:31 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Our wonderful clerk -- City Clerk, Shirley Ann
Foxx-Knowles, has agreed graciously to lead us in
our invocation this morning.
So please stand for that and stay standing for the
Pledge of Allegiance.
09:04:52 >> Thank you, and good morning.
Dear Heavenly Father, on this last Thursday in
January 2016, we would like to once again say
thank you for the opportunity to live, work, play,
and serve in our great city.

Thank you for your grace and mercy and for all the
wonderful gifts you have provided.
Thank you for the police officer and firefighter
being honored today for their extraordinary
service.
Continue to bless them and keep them in your care
and make them excellent examples of Tampa
citizens.
Father, we ask that you also continue to provide
your protection to all of the others serving on
the front lines for our safety.
We truly thank them for their service.
Today, please bless the meetings throughout this
day as Council takes care of city matters.
Guide them in the decisions they will make today.
Let them always remember to be instruments of your
will.
These things we ask and thanks we give with humble
hearts, let us all say amen.
[Pledge of Allegiance]
09:06:17 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Roll call.
09:06:25 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Here.
09:06:25 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Here.
09:06:27 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Present.
09:06:30 >>HARRY COHEN:
Here.

09:06:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
Here.
09:06:31 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Here.
09:06:32 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Here.
All right.
It is time to go to ceremonial activities.
I yield to Mr. Miranda.
09:06:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Honorable members of Tampa City
Council, honorable Chairman Reddick, it's my
pleasure this morning to be here this morning with
Deputy Chief O'Connor to make the presentation of
the Police Officer of the Month.
The officer of the month this month is Jefferey A.
Bartlett.
I had a veterinarian named Bartlett at the
racetrack.
Hope you're not related to him.
He cost me a lot of money.
[ LAUGHTER ]
Is your father here?
I remember you, sir.
You were the captain of Donald Miller.
You were his captain.
I believe also -- I know this is your day -- but
your father one of the outstanding officers when I
was here and he worked on --

Officer, this is your month for what you have done
for the citizens of the City of Tampa and your
outstanding services.
Being a police officer is not easy.
You have to make decisions that are split second,
and then you get criticized but you have done a
wonderful thing for life.
It is very difficult to do, and to protect the
citizens and at the same time protect the rights
of the innocent.
You have a great responsibility and you have done
an outstanding job for the citizens of the City of
Tampa, and we honor you for everything that you
have done.
Chief O'Connor will make that statement known of
what you got the officer of the month for.
Thank you for what you do.
The whole department.
When you are here, you're representing not only
yourself, your family, the officers, but the whole
City of Tampa.
Really, the whole nation.
Thank you for what you do.
09:08:57 >> Good morning, Council.
As you've already heard, we are here with officer

Jefferey Bartlett this morning.
He is an 11-year veteran.
He has seamlessly stepped into the big shoes to
fill of his dad, as you know.
Captain Brett Bartlett retired after many, many
years of service.
It's hard to believe his son now has 11 years on.
Jeff is a well-rounded veteran of the department.
He is a member of our honor guard, and he serves
the department selflessly.
He is also very, very active in training of our
officers.
He is a firearms instructor.
On his off time, he's constantly helping out at
the academy and making sure that our officers are
shooting well.
He's trained in all aspects of firearms training.
He's well-rounded and we rely on him heavily.
But that's not why we're here today.
We're here today because he is a field officer.
He has a big responsibility on his shoulder of
making sure the newest recruits are trained to be
professional, hardworking Tampa police officers
that we want them to be.
He takes his investigations very seriously.

He takes his training very seriously.
He makes sure that his expertise is passed on to
the expertise of the recruits that he's training.
He had two very significant cases in October of
this year.
He investigated a cab -- at a local motel which
does seem relatively simple.
But after he was done unraveling the mess it
turned out to be, it ended up being a large
counterfeit ring of credit cards.
Him working with other officers, of course, they
ended up filing 50 charges on the defendants,
including possession of methamphetamine and
several counts of fraudulent credit card usage.
In October of last year, he also investigated an
aggravated assault that was very dangerous.
There were two vehicles with their windows down
shooting at each other, realized that this was --
you know, the threat of violence was continuing
throughout the city, he jumped on social media
which is obviously a very important aspect of our
investigations these days.
Was able to make an identification of one of the
suspects through Facebook but didn't end at that
point where so many of our officers in the past

would end it at that point and let the detectives
pick it up in the morning.
He took it to the next level and he made sure a
warrant was executed that night for the defendant
and got the dangerous defendant off the street.
Obviously, in the times that we're in, we want to
take firearm violence very seriously and officer
Bartlett was able to get a very dangerous person
off the street quickly.
He is truly what a TPD officer should be.
Again, extremely hardworking, professional, and he
takes the safety of our citizens as job number
one.
For that, we proudly recognize him as officer of
the month for January 2016.
Thank you.
[ APPLAUSE ]
09:11:59 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Officer, it's our pleasure to
present you this commendation of Police Officer of
the Month.
As Chief O'Connor said, I echoed earlier, very
difficult to be a police officer and you have to
make split-second decisions.
You've done an outstanding job.
09:12:12 >> Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.
[ APPLAUSE ]
09:12:22 >> Good morning, Council.
Vinny Gericitano, president of the Tampa PBA.
Joining me is Gene Haines, secretary and treasurer
of the PBA.
We're proud to say Jeff is a member of the Tampa
PBA, made up of approximately 1,000 City of Tampa
police officers.
We can see that Jeff is certainly following the
footsteps of his dad.
His dad was actually one of my first supervisors
on the job here when I first came to Tampa.
His dad affectionately calls me and used to call
me the rabble-rouser.
Hopefully you're following in the steps of your
dad, and it appears that way.
We would like to present to you, Jeff, a token of
our appreciation for you being such a good member
and a City of Tampa police officer.
09:13:27 >> Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
09:13:33 >> Good morning, Council, honorable Chairman
Reddick, Dan Mathis from Straz Center, chief of
security.

The thing I want to point out and make light of is
the fact that you use social media.
Like the chief said, a lot of officers these days
wouldn't take that extra step, and I think that's
an important tool for law enforcement to use that
and be aware of all those things that you can use
out there and criminals can't hide on social
media.
So that was very impressive.
I want to give you two tickets to opera season.
This is the first performance in our opera season.
So you and yours go and enjoy on behalf of the
Straz Center.
09:14:13 >> Thank you very much, sir.
09:14:17 >> Good morning, Council.
Mike with Stepp's Towing service.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Like to offer you a $50 gift card to bass pro
shops.
Maybe to get you to the Straz Center, take you and
your family, a night out on the company limousine
for you and eight of your friends.
I hope everybody enjoys it and thank you for
everything that you do for us.
Job well done.

09:14:45 >> Good morning, Council.
Joe Durkin on behalf of Bright House Networks.
Jeff, I had the pleasure of working with your dad
for many years.
Very proud of you.
09:14:55 >> Thank you.
09:14:56 >> All your friends at Bright House Networks
present you one month of our services
complimentary.
Make your life a little easier.
09:15:07 >> Thank you.
09:15:07 >> Good morning, Council, Jim Carson, Bill Currie
Ford.
We see many of you officers come into our
dealership day after day.
All of you guys do a great job, but you stood out
this month.
We'd like to give you a brand-new 2015 customized
die cast Mustang.
[ LAUGHTER ]
Congratulations.
09:15:27 >> Thank you, appreciate it.
09:15:34 >> Good morning, Council.
Gerard Hoeppner with Busch Gardens and Adventure
Island.

This is our first month participating in this
great program.
Officer, we want to thank you for your bravery,
your great work and honor the work of all the men
and women that do this kind of service on our
behalf.
You are a brave guy.
I would like you to invite you and your family to
drop down 300 feet on our new drop coaster.
If that's not your thing, we have a food and wine
festival coming up with signature concerts in a
couple of weeks.
If that's not your thing, we have a family coaster
opening up in May.
Tickets in there for your family.
Your family is bigger than what's in there, give
us a call and we'll be happy to make
accommodation.
Thank you very much.
09:16:16 >> Thank you.
09:16:18 >> Good morning, Council.
Lindsey Walters with Tampa Theater.
We would like to offer you a dual membership for
you and your wife and your family and a little of
bucket of treats.

Thank you so much.
09:16:29 >> Appreciate it.
Thank you.
09:16:32 >> Good morning, everyone.
My name is -- Thomas.
I'm with the Doubletree Tampa Airport Westshore.
We would like to offer you and your family a
weekend stay.
And there is a ton of cookies in here, so if he
wants to share.
Congratulations and thank you for everything that
you do.
09:16:46 >> Thank you very much.
09:16:50 >> Good morning, City Council, my name is Linda
Hyde.
I am the office manager for the Brandon unit of
the Diversity Initiative.
On behalf of the diversity initiative, we would
like to present you tickets to the Tampa Bay
Lightning game on February 14th.
Thank you for your service and everything that you
do.
09:17:05 >> Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you very much.
09:17:09 >> Good morning, Council.

Steve Stickley representing Crockett's Towing and
transport.
On behalf of Scotty Crockett, Kirby Crockett and
Crockett family, we have a small token of our
appreciation.
We'd like to thank you for a job well done.
You can add this $50 gift card to bass pro shop.
Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
09:17:29 >> Thank you, sir.
09:17:31 >> Good morning.
You got 20 minutes?
09:17:35 >> Sure.
[ LAUGHTER ]
09:17:36 >> Well, because the Council has such a light
agenda today, I thought I would read the entire
history of the police department.
[ LAUGHTER ]
We got time for that?
How about a gift certificate for you and your
family to have your portraits taken from prestige
photos?
How about lunch or dinner at Byblos?
Do you like Middle Eastern food?
09:18:10 >> Sure.
09:18:10 >> And then your choice of, what do you want,

breakfast, lunch, dinner, at any of the Ciccio's
restaurant group restaurants.
09:18:18 >> Thank you very much, sir.
09:18:19 >> Enjoy yourself.
The history comes later.
09:18:24 >> First, I would like to thank the Council.
It's an honor to be recognized by you all.
I love this city.
You all are our leaders.
Thank you.
All these folks that presented me and my family
these great gifts, thank you very much.
It's humbling.
Chief O'Connor, Captain Flynn, I work for a
fantastic chain of command.
My chain of command, they support us in our
mission to make the city safer, and it's good to
have leadership like that.
Last but not least, my family.
I couldn't do what I do and have the motivation
and drive to do it without their support.
My mother, my grandmother, my father, my lovely
wife and the loud one is my kid.
Without them, I couldn't do it.
From the bottom of my heart and my family, thank

you very much, Council.
[ APPLAUSE ]
09:19:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Honorable chair and honorable
members of the Tampa City Council, it's my
pleasure this morning to be here to make a
presentation to the Firefighter of the Quarter.
This quarter it goes to captain Todd Alt.
And Chief Forward is here.
Like I always said, Chief, with the name of
Forward, you can never go backwards.
Captain Alt, it's my pleasure to be here this
morning for Firefighter of the Quarter.
When I first came in, I asked the Chief, I see all
this white.
Is it snowing in Tampa?
You guys do an outstanding job, all the men and
women of the Tampa firefighters.
And it's in recognition for your dedication of
exemplary services that you're here today.
And Chief Forward would make recognition of that.
Honored to be here on behalf of Tampa City Council
and all the citizens of the City of Tampa.
Chief?
09:20:16 >> Yes, sir.
Good morning, Council and thank you, Councilman

Miranda.
It gives us great pleasure to come before you on
this day, Council, to present to you the City of
Tampa fire rescue's Firefighter of the Quarter for
the first quarter of 2016.
It's a great honor to present to you the
accomplishments of this great captain that I have
here to my left.
Captain Alt is a 14-year veteran with the City of
Tampa fire rescue.
And he has held various ranks during those 14
years.
He's been an extremely busy and ambitious
firefighter and fire professional with the ranks
of firefighter, paramedic, driver engineer, rescue
lieutenant, and now his present position as
captain at fire station 21 in New Tampa.
But during that tenure and during along those
lines, he also has accomplished and achieved so
many different areas and special -- in our
emergency response platform.
Captain Alt, he is a state certified fire
instructor 3.
He's also a live fire training instructor.
And one of the significance of the live fire

training instructor, when he's training our own
firefighters and brand-new recruits that are
entertaining the idea of becoming firefighters,
that live fire training instructor is inside those
extremely hot environments and temperatures that
exceed 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's either to consider that a firefighter does
well in that portion of the fire service, but once
they get exposed to the real fires and the real
hazards and those very, very toxic smokes and
incomplete products of combustion, which he is
actively engaged in those, it gives a whole
different parameter and a different viewpoint with
respect to that this is a profession that these
young folks would like to entertain.
Additional to that, he is also our fire safety
inspector.
He is also a hazardous materials specialist.
One of our urban search-and-rescue members
deploying all over the state and the member of
Florida task force three.
And he also, if that's not enough, coupled with
all of his professional education, he's also gone
on and taken care of his formal education as well.
He was just recently awarded a doctorate from the

Nova southeastern university in organizational
leadership and human resources development.
And that's a testimony to the type of emergency
response professional and the first responders
that the City of Tampa has in this community.
Not only are we looking at the concerns of how to
do our job better, but also how to manage the
resources and to manage our workforces better as
well.
So those things he's achieved as well.
In addition to those things, captain Alt also,
he's currently serving as a TFR, a Tampa fire
rescue safety committee member.
He's also on the Tampa fire rescue sick bank
committee, and he's also a member of this year's
leadership Tampa group as well.
Again, broadening his prospective of what it takes
to continue to make the City of Tampa the best in
the business.
He just recently, if he had any additional time,
just recently, our person that has always
coordinated for the past 20 years, the sincerely
santa program.
Many of you know that sincerely santa program
reaches out to those young kids and young children

who but for that program would not realize and
enjoy Christmas type of celebration or get the
first toy.
Even though he is involved in all these other
things, he took on that program as well to make
certain that children in our community realize and
had a very decent Christmas as well.
So that's an additional thing that captain Alt
does.
Captain Alt is very busy.
He's also invested countless hours.
He's also a member teaching at Hillsborough
Community College.
He also teaches in the Columbia southern
university safety program as well, and he's a
member of Tampa fire rescue's training division
teaching staff as well.
He's joined every day with his lovely wife,
Stephanie, and his two daughters Katlyn and Colby.
These are a few of the things that captain Alt
does in the tenure of the department and what he
does in the community.
Councilman Miranda, he plays a mean bass guitar as
well.
Led Zeppelin would be pleased with him strumming

those.
This and so many other reasons is why captain Todd
Alt has been selected as Tampa fire rescue's
Firefighter of the Quarter.
[ APPLAUSE ]
09:25:28 >> Good morning, Steve Suarez, president, local
754 Tampa firefighters along with
Secretary-Treasurer Bill Mann -- Bill Townsend,
excuse me.
Got that wrong.
He was going to hit me on the shoulder if I messed
up.
On behalf of your brothers and sisters of local
754, we are honored to offer you this plaque.
Congratulations to Firefighter of the Quarter
along with a gift certificate to the Outback
Steakhouse for you and your wife and kids to
enjoy.
09:25:55 >> Appreciate it.
Thank you.
09:26:01 >> Good morning, again, Council, captain, thank
you.
It's always an honor and a privilege to stand
before you and also your colleagues to say thank
you once again.

Worked side by side with you guys for many years,
but never had the opportunity to stand before you,
hear some of the awards and accolades that you
have done for our community.
Once again, you can join our brother police
officer at the first opera performance of the year
at the Straz Center.
Hopefully you'll get another limo ride.
But on behalf of the Straz Center.
Thank you.
09:26:36 >> Thank you very much.
Thank you.
09:26:41 >> Good morning, Council.
Joe Durkin on behalf of Bright House Networks.
Congratulations.
Normally we give three months complimentary
service of all Bright House services.
You don't live in our area.
You have two options.
You can either move --
[ LAUGHTER ]
Or we can have a conversation and see what we can
do for you and the crew at station 21.
09:27:04 >> Great.
Appreciate it.

09:27:08 >> Good morning, Council.
Frank representing Bill Currie Ford and the Currie
family.
It's our pleasure to take part in the ceremony
that honors a captain like yourself who does so
much for the City of Tampa.
We'd like -- first responder, this is a first
response Mustang.
And it's all ready to go.
Thank you so much for everything you do.
09:27:33 >> Appreciate it.
Thank you.
09:27:36 >> Good morning again, City Council.
Linda Hyde from the diversity initiative.
Sir, on behalf of the diversity initiative, we
would like to present you some Tampa Bay Lightning
ticket games for the game of February 23rd.
Thank you for your service and thank you for
everything that you do.
09:27:51 >> Thank you.
Appreciate it.
09:27:54 >> Good morning, captain.
Well, if I would have known how busy you were, I
would have gotten her a gift card.
So maybe she can take a limo to the Straz Center,

but enjoy our limo -- a night in our company limo
on behalf of Stepp's Towing service and the
Stepp's family and make some time for yourself.
Go to bass pro, find something cool for yourself
and just enjoy it.
09:28:19 >> Thank you very much.
Thank you.
09:28:22 >> Good morning again, Council, Gerard Hoeppner,
Busch Gardens.
Captain Alt, I appreciate and honor your service
and invite you and your beautiful family out to
Busch Gardens.
Tampa fire rescue is important to us.
Great partner for many, many years.
I know we serve as a base for fast-water rescue in
our Congo River Rapids, and you have helped us
also with high-altitude evac.
We can't operate a safe park and host the millions
of guests without the partnership of Tampa fire
rescue.
We hope you come out and enjoy the day.
09:28:55 >> Thank you very much.
09:28:58 >> Good morning.
Doubletree Tampa airport Westshore.
Your certificate is coming and your cookies are

coming.
I will bring enough cookies.
Here is your card.
Make sure you e-mail me the contact information.
I'll make sure by tomorrow you have enough for
everybody.
09:29:15 >> Thank you.
09:29:24 >> I can tell you, you know, the camera for this
family portrait is kind of big, but it's not big
enough for this whole line.
It's good that they are out here supporting you.
Prestige portraits is going to provide with you a
family portrait for you and your family.
Ciccio's restaurant group is providing you with
your choice of breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I can guarantee, I know about firefighters, and I
know that they love to eat, but they are not going
to feed all of you.
You can have some guests but not the whole team.
And then from Byblos cafe, they'll provide you
with your choice of lunch or dinner.
You can go and enjoy yourself if you can get
everybody in the limousine.
Congratulations.
09:30:10 >> Thank you.

Thank you very much.
09:30:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Now it's your turn to speak.
Again, here is your commendation presented by the
Tampa City Council, signed by all seven Council
members of how appreciative we are for everything
you have done and you and your whole department.
Thank you very much for your services.
Men and women of the city and the whole state.
Thank you.
09:30:35 >> Thank you.
I'd like to say I'm humbled.
I'm very proud.
Taken back actually for being nominated because I
don't stop and reflect on that I guess.
I would like to thank the people that I work with
day in and day out for their professionalism and
their support and for nominating me.
This is impressive here.
Whoo!
I believe in surrounding yourself with good
people.
All those people I work with day in and day out.
The professionalism that they display.
Even the firefighter or the Police Officer of the
Month.

I actually was at their wedding and they were just
at my house a few weeks ago for Christmas.
So you surround yourself with good people and
that's how that comes into play there, I guess.
My family, I was actually thinking on the way here
today, the last time I was at a ceremony getting
recognition was when I was promoted to captain.
And this one was just a baby at the time.
And she was trying to steal the thunder from Mayor
Iorio at the time.
Luckily Mayor Iorio has a daughter named Katlyn as
well so she was understanding.
Thank you very much.
My parents are here, and my sister.
Thank them.
[ LAUGHTER ]
Basically, I mean, everything I do, I do for them.
My work ethic and everything like that.
I'm sorry I'm getting all choked up.
All right.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I'm proud to work for the City of Tampa, and I'm
grateful to be a member of Tampa fire rescue.
Thank you.

[ APPLAUSE ]
09:32:21 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Mr. Suarez.
09:32:25 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Captain, you're not going to get
off that easy.
Can I ask you a question.
A couple of things, one, what did you get your
doctorate in?
09:32:33 >> Education with major in organizational
leadership.
09:32:36 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
What comes first?
Is it you having organizational skills to do all
the stuff you do in addition to getting a Ph.D.,
or does the Ph.D. help for you to do all the
other stuff?
09:32:47 >> Definitely is a time management thing and
balancing everything.
09:32:50 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
There's no doubt, the balancer is
here.
She's balancing two children and making sure that
everything runs smoothly.
Congratulations.
You are a wonderful testament to the hard work
that you've put in and a great symbol of Tampa
fire rescue.
We really appreciate everything you've done.

09:33:06 >> Thank you, sir.
09:33:06 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Thank you.
[ APPLAUSE ]
09:33:20 >>FRANK REDDICK:
All right, at this time we'll go
to public comments.
We'll go to public comments at this time.
Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward.
09:34:40 >> Okay.
I'm Ed Tillou, Sulphur Springs.
Something I forgot to mention at the last meeting,
which was two weeks ago because of the county is
this.
Here's the problem.
There was a meeting about four or five weeks ago,
and the chairperson had to sit through items 1, 3,
and 4 and then appended items 9 and 10.
So those of us waiting to speak, we were about
till 11:15 or so.
But it's good that the chairperson did that
because items 1, 3, and 4 were just blabber.
Blab, blab, blab, blab.
And items 9 and 10.
And, in fact, so much blabber that two of you got
up and left and didn't listen to us during public
comment.

9 and 10, 10 was Tampa police.
And Tampa police identified that 18 pedestrians
have died in Tampa.
This is the Hillsborough County figure.
So in other words, 18 of them they said it will
probably be 20 by the end of the year, which you
can check.
But there was no answer to what the problem was,
and that's because you didn't ask the right
questions.
In the same way you're not alone.
Here was the byline on this article.
Katlyn Johnson, I have a cousin Katlyn, never
heard of it now, but now everyone seems to be
named Katlyn.
And she says something about there's no pattern to
the carnage.
But there is a pattern.
You see, she was totally lacking in investigative
journalism and here's what it is.
Transportation engineer.
And I'm a pedestrian.
Now, if you can find somebody other than one in a
million who is a transportation engineer and also
a pedestrian, great, because I don't think you

can.
And here's what the problem is.
The problem is turning cars, turning cars, turning
cars.
It was turning cars that killed Admiral Colins and
it's turning cars that I think if you ask Tampa PD
to come up with the figures, I think 10 or 12 of
those pedestrians that were killed were killed by
turning cars.
I saw it so bad that a car making a turn off bird
drifted across three lanes and hit a car on
Nebraska.
That's how bad this problem is.
So you've got to do something about this.
The other stuff, this was a wonderful article, so
I ran it off for you, because this, I think, gets
to the truth of the thing, which actually by her
following up on the Democrat, Barack Obama's
concerns, about guns, kids being killed, something
did seem to get done.
But anyway, here are these articles, and you can
read them at your leisure.
09:37:52 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you very much.
09:37:53 >> Get to Patrick Henry next and militias.
09:37:56 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you very much.

09:37:58 >> Not Patrick Henry -- I gave you a handout on
that.
09:38:03 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Next speaker.
09:38:13 >> Derek Chamblee.
Google D-E-R-E-K-C-H-A-M-B-L-E-E.
Google Derek Chamblee federal lawsuit.
Google Derek Chamblee new city.
Google Derek Chamblee Jeb Bush, Prescott Bush,
Adolf Hitler, Nazi party, Republican party,
derogatory.
On my walk into downtown today on west Kennedy
Boulevard over the Kennedy bridge, over the river,
beautiful view, beautiful view.
Of course, being careful to listen behind me for
bicyclists that might come pretty close to me,
skateboarders, but not usually in the morning.
And I was thinking and, of course, crossing any
intersections to watch out for turning cars, as ed
was speaking of.
And to be dutiful to check the lights that I'm not
walking against a red light.
A couple of weeks ago, I observed and questioned
Major Rocky Ratliff, who is a major over downtown
and Ybor City in the midst of a whole group walk
against the red light on Franklin and Madison.

And I ran after them.
I guess I do that kind of thing.
I said Mr. Major, is this the new policy?
You walked against a red light.
He said, well, I looked and there were no cars
coming.
When I was organizing in Milwaukee and Mayor Henry
Myer and police chief briar were there, one thing
you'll notice, you'll have to go back in the
tunnel of time, they were so disciplined that the
people, the pedestrians observed the walk signals.
It would have been very, very difficult for the
Milwaukee police to issue, for instance,
jaywalking ticket or something of that sort.
At any rate, there seems to be a point where we
should look at limiting automobile traffic in
parts of downtown, because the people that work
downtown and live downtown and whatnot are not
observing these red light, don't walk signs.
Nor are the motorists observing the proper rules.
As I was walking over the bridge, I thought about
Councilman Miranda once again, that when he was
Chairman, he gave me one right, and that was the
right to remain silent.
Thank you very much.

09:41:23 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you.
Information reports?
Ms. Montelione.
09:41:28 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Thank you.
I would have one thing.
I would like to ask Council for permission to use
the city seal and materials for an upcoming town
hall meeting that I'm having in February.
09:41:42 >> Second.
09:41:43 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Thank you.
09:41:45 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Got a motion from Ms. Montelione.
Second by Mr. Cohen.
Any discussion of the motion?
09:41:52 >> What will it be used for?
I'm kidding.
09:41:55 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Mailings and invitations and
such.
Promotional materials.
09:41:59 >>FRANK REDDICK:
All those in favor of the motion,
aye.
Opposed?
Anything else?
09:42:03 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
No, sir.
09:42:05 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Maniscalco.
09:42:06 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
Today is the 30th

anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle
disaster so we remember those who perished, and I
think it's also the Skyway Bridge, 1980.
Same day.
09:42:24 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Mr. Cohen.
09:42:25 >>HARRY COHEN:
Nothing now.
Will we have new business again tonight?
Okay.
Thank you.
09:42:29 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Ms. Capin.
09:42:30 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
The pirates are in town, and I
understand they went and tried to kidnap our
Mayor, but they brought him back.
I think it's thank you maybe.
09:42:47 >> I didn't mean to laugh so loud.
09:42:49 >> We all got a kick out of that one.
09:42:51 >>FRANK REDDICK:
What a way to go to workshop.
09:42:54 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
To reiterate what Ms. Capin said,
the parade is on Saturday for Gasparilla.
It is a very large parade.
There are places in which drinking is allowed.
There are places in which drinking is tolerated.
Just remember, it's not a drinking contest.
So be careful out there whenever you're having
fun.

Enjoy Gasparilla.
Thank you.
09:43:18 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Mr. Miranda.
09:43:19 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I just want to say the rocket
concert was on Saturday.
I saw a couple of Council members there doing the
rock 'n' roll.
Councilman Harry Cohen and our lady Councilman
Capin, and I saw them dance.
Let me tell you, they still got some moves on
them.
I danced a couple of fast songs with Pat Frank,
and she can outdance me.
09:43:49 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you.
If there is no other business, we stand adjourned.
09:43:53 >> Move to receive and file.
09:43:59 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Did we receive anything?
09:44:03 >> Yes, we did.
09:44:04 >>FRANK REDDICK:
All in favor of the motion say
aye.
We stand adjourned.