Tampa City Council - CRA Meeting
Thursday, August 11, 2016
9:00 a.m.
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[Sounding gavel]
09:05:35 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Good morning.
I call this meeting to order.
We ask Shirley Foxx-Knowles to come up.
Did you want to --
09:05:47 >> It's my pleasure to introduce our city clerk for a number
of years, has done an outstanding job along with our staff,
makes sure that whatever we say gets recorded properly.
Sometimes that's kind of difficult.
And I want to introduce to all of you Shirley Foxx-Knowles,
the young lady who is a great person besides being city
clerk and we really admire you and thank you for what you do
for us, Shirley.
And please after the invocation we do the pledge of
allegiance to the flag.
09:06:20 >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES:
Thank you.
Let us pray.
Father, thank you once again for this beautiful morning here
in the City of Tampa.
We are so grateful for living in this great city.
Thank you for your grace and your mercy.
And for all the wonderful gifts that you have provided.
Continue to bless our CRA members and give them the wisdom
they need to make the best decisions for us all.
Please continue to give the gift of understanding to the
individuals who will come before this board.
As you bless our state and this country, please remember the
City of Tampa, our mayor, the administration, the employees,
and our wonderful citizens.
Keep us all in your care.
And now as we go about the worldly matters of this city, we
again say thank you for everything and ask that you continue
to bless and guide us in your way.
Make us shining examples of your love.
These things we ask with humble hearts.
Let us all say amen.
[ Pledge of Allegiance ]
09:07:51 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you, Ms. Knowles, and thank you
Councilman Miranda.
Roll call.
09:08:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Here.
09:08:06 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Present.
09:08:09 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Here.
09:08:10 >>HARRY COHEN:
Here.
09:08:12 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
Here.
09:08:13 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
We start the meeting now with Ed Busansky,
Channel District Advisory Committee chair.
09:08:23 >> good morning.
How is everybody doing today?
I think things are going really well in our CRA.
I think one of the most exciting things that's happened this
year is I think the whole point of the CRA is to kind of
bring the community together, and I think it's not just
Channelside, but kind of brought together the Ybor, the
downtown partnership and Channelside, and we now have
monthly meetings wherein we get together, talk about events,
talk about transportation, items that we really share in
common, because we really are a small part of a bigger
community and when you look at all of downtown, the core and
downtown, it's really not that big of an area.
So I am excited about that and I think Sean and Courtney
have done a great job and I hope we will connect people and
get people together and hopefully maybe even there will be
an open meeting.
We are thinking about maybe sometime in the fall of having a
network meeting whereby we get all the CRAs together so
everybody can meet each other.
I think through that great ideas will follow up and help our
community.
So I am very excited about that.
I know it was a little controversial but I was disappointed
that we not get the tiger grant, away to get some federal
money to really help out Channelside drive so hopefully in
the near future we'll continue to work on ways that we can
help out with your guidance and our advice to make that a
nicer street.
It was kind of an underutilized street as a result of the
streetscape.
I always go toward Riverwalk and that was so much prettier.
So it's one of the things up that kind of forget about.
On that note, I think the other thing that's great that's
going around the community that's great for Channelside is
the transportation.
We are very excited to support the electronic vehicle
shuttle which you all know is going to come out in August or
September.
We are very excited to see that which allows to us get
around downtown easier.
We are very excited about the zip cars, put one ment in
Skyhouse in Channelside so I think a lot of people are using
that.
That's a nice addition there.
We are excited the streetcar is extending their morning
hours sometime in September, so that hopefully will help
people decide to take it so they can get to work and get
home from work.
So we applaud that.
Then also the connection of the ferry.
Really you guys know better than me.
This great transportation, the water taxi, it's making
downtown so much more vibrant.
I moved to Channelside in 2011 and it's amazing how far we
have gone.
And it's so lively.
And I look forward to.
That just on the new construction side, we have a channel
club which we have been patiently waiting inform that to get
built and I think most of the residents are more excited
with the public.
So hopefully from talking to Ross, getting an easement done
and permit and maybe start in the fall.
So that will be exciting.
Then also as you know the properties that now have been
named the Fitzgerald on Kennedy, that is going along well.
It looks like they have pretty much completed the shell and
starting to put some stucco on the exterior.
Just an interesting point.
We really see ourselves as an advisory council, and she came
out and talked to us about the art, and that's a really
important thing.
She talked about how to tighten up the percentage that they
pay and really making sure that a lot of those buildings do
the arc they are supposed to, because I know back in 2007 a
lot of them didn't do it because the bankruptcies and other
issues and stuff like that, but she showed us the art and
the art is beautiful on the Fitzgerald, but one of the nice
things, we do kind of in the Channelside have an artistic
community, and it would be nice if -- we don't want to make
the decision, but you don't want us picking art.
That's what my girlfriend tells me.
And maybe we need to speak to Robin, instead of Robin just
making the decision, and I think she is the right person to
make the decision, but she came with us with the options, we
have a chance to take a look at them and then advise what we
thought was best for our community.
So we are always looking for ways that we can advise the
council and make sure that our community is kind of built
the way we like to.
That's really all I have.
Happy to answer any questions.
09:12:43 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Besides Robin, there's the Public Art
Committee.
And I serve on it.
So there's more than one person.
But yes, I think that's a great idea to bring it up to the
advisory board.
09:12:57 >> We'll let you know what we think would look nice in our
neighborhood and you can agree or disagree, and I'm fine
with that.
So thank you.
09:13:07 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Any questions?
09:13:10 >>HARRY COHEN:
One suggestion on that point.
You might want to have the board write the public arts
committee and Mrs. Nigh a letter to formally request to be
consulted, and that way it won't get lost in the shuffle.
09:13:23 >> That's great.
I love that.
We'll definitely do that.
Thank you.
09:13:26 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Anyone else?
Seeing none, thank you so much.
09:13:31 >> We appreciate it.
09:13:33 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
So do we.
Yes, and there he is, Bob McDonaugh.
Feeling better today?
09:13:41 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I'm feeling better.
Not quite 100%.
09:13:45 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Madam chair, he doesn't look any better.
(Laughter).
09:13:48 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Councilman Miranda, I just didn't want to
point that out.
(Laughter).
09:13:52 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I am going to offer a truncated update
because we are going through the budget today and that will
take a little bit of time.
But some important numbers on the 29th of this month,
SPP is going to start roadwork downtown, and we are doing a
public outreach, talking to people that will be affected by
that and our public information officer will be putting out
information all the time about where we will have traffic.
Issues.
We are working on a parking plan for when we have a series
of large events that happen at the same time.
And because we have had some traffic issues.
And one of the steps that we have taken, we are entering
into a lease with the Florida Department of Transportation
for Channelside to develop that as a surface parking lot for
a temporary purpose.
But it's 30 parking spaces which will help alleviate some of
the stress.
I know that the Straz will have when it becomes a residence.
Riverwalk which is just north.
That's going to impact the amount of parking that's
available.
We are also going to be introducing the shuttle service on
the weekends wherein they have those big events because the
jail, structured parking lot is not used, so again, to
alleviate some of the pressure on the parking system,
because we have -- I think that the experts will tell you we
don't have a parking issue.
We have a walking issue.
People still want to walk.
And so we are going to offer some options.
We are working on that.
When we have something at the cheerleaders, the Straz, and
so we'll have something for the institution and the people
visiting.
09:15:59 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Mr. McDonaugh, I am glad you brought this
forward because it is an absolute mess when we have one more
than one or two events in the district, in downtown.
And what I saw, it's not only gridlock in terms of trying to
get in, it's the idea of where the parking is at.
We have a lot of people who do not live in the City of
Tampa, a lot that don't live in the downtown area, so they
are confused as to where the parking is.
What kind of proactive solutions are we going to have
besides the shuttle service to essentially identify what we
have closed off our parking garage to direct traffic in a
different way?
Because now that we have the parking garage, you know, the
Poe parking garage become, you know, because we have a
two-way street now, it becomes even more of a mess.
It's good for some aspects but now with people trying to
turn in and turn out, it can be extremely difficult.
Is there a way that we can be more proactive in terms of
turning people away from the parking garage or do we have so
of our folks in the parking division going and checking to
make sure these lots are full and what are they going to be
doing proactively to make sure that people get redirected?
And lastly, on our social media, we need to be able to
identify -- and I think that we can work with our partners,
the people that are actually doing the event to make sure
that they tweet out, they send on their social media sites,
all the information about parking immediately and that's
going to take a lot of manpower, and take a lot of effort,
but I think that would actually help solve some of the
problems.
Because people know going to the outlying lot is their only
solution, I think we'll get rid of the bottlenecks we are
having right near the main parking lot.
09:17:49 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Agreed.
Thank you very much.
09:17:51 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
That was easy, wasn't it?
You haven't answered, though.
09:17:54 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
What you are talking about is social media
and message boards.
But one of the issues that we have, and specifically
probably the biggest one we had recently there, was a very
big cheerleading function at the convention center.
And people at the convention center in their GPS, and drove
down there, and passed whatever parking was available and
ended up in a large gridlock.
So it is reaching out to those people in attendance at these
special things and giving them information ahead of time,
here are your options.
And part of the idea of putting people in these outlying
lots is to take some of the pressure off of Ashley drive as
well.
So you can come Jefferson and find these parking spaces.
09:18:34 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
And that's why the issue -- bless you -- and
what I am talking about when we look at the transportation
management service that we can actually put things on
billboards on the interstate, as people are coming in, just
like we do for any other accident or anything like that.
But we need to have that kind of coordination between what
our parking division is finding out and getting directly to
be transportation management and then, you know, sending it
out along the interstate so that people know, all right,
don't enter along Ashley street or Tampa Street, enter on
Jefferson, or come around the other side so that they have
options.
Because once you are bottled in there, there ain't no way of
getting out and that's what makes it worse for everyone
else.
And they get frustrated and then they say I am never coming
back to downtown Tampa which is the biggest problem that
have been we want to avoid.
09:19:27 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Agreed.
So we are looking at all of those solutions.
A holistic approach to that and with the partners so they
supply this information to the attendees.
Because if we don't do it until they are on their way
downtown, we are already too late.
We need to give them options to put something in their heads
before they come down.
And so yes, we are looking at that.
09:19:49 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Thank you.
09:19:51 >>HARRY COHEN:
I appreciate everything that Councilman
Suarez said and I want to add something to it.
Judy Lisi told me just last night they have been hearing
from people who told them after some of these evening
disasters they will never come back to the Straz center
again as a result of that.
And I think it's really important, particularly with an
organization like that, that gets tickets out to people in
advance, they can hand out in advance with the tickets
information on where people can park and find the shuttle,
you know, a little slip of paper with the ticket saying here
is where you go to park and how to get there and how much
time to alloy.
09:20:32 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
So that is the intention of coordinating
with our partners to Don that.
09:20:36 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Thank you, Madam Chair.
A few things.
So you mentioned the jail site, and leasing that.
I drive past that several times a day.
And the spaces underneath the interstate are always empty.
I mean, a couple -- I wouldn't even say half a dozen cars
are under there.
And that's right across from the jail site.
So why are we spending money to lease another site when we
have all that parking that's not utilized?
09:21:18 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
We are also working on a plan for the
other -- the expressway, 275.
Part of what the problem is right now is that it is not
linked to any of these trolley services, and part of that is
because there is no through-put for a trolley bus to be able
to pick people up.
We are working on a plan for that as well.
09:21:41 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
But if it's right across the street from
the jail site, I'm not understanding why we don't utilize
what we have already, to spend money on a site?
09:21:56 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I'll give you an example.
The site north of the Straz is 500 parking spaces that we
have to replace.
That's 120.
It's not enough to function for what we need, a replacement
spaces.
09:22:08 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
So when you pursue the jail site --
09:22:10 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Yes, we have a plan for that as well.
And part of that has to be the synchronization of the
lights.
Because can't run a trolley bus through there right now
because you can't get back out on Tampa Street certain tames
of the day.
09:22:24 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Well, Marion Transit Center is right on
the other side of that.
09:22:27 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
It is.
So yes, we have a plan to utilize that as well, better use
of it.
09:22:32 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
So visit Tampa Bay is another one of
those outlets like the Straz who they are the ones who book
these large conventions.
So making sure that they are in the loop, and distributing
the information to the convention schedulers and the sales
people who work with those conventions is going to be really
important, because we don't want anybody saying to visit
Tampa Bay we are not going coming back because of the
parking.
So they are a major player.
09:23:06 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
We don't want to be a victim of our own
success.
09:23:09 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Right.
So close coordination with Visit Tampa Bay would be
something I would suggest.
And the last thing is that in Pittsburgh, I travel back and
forth there often, they have an app on local phones that --
an app on local phones called park Pittsburgh, and you can
do it in realtime or you can do it in advance time.
So if you know you are going for an event -- and, you know,
they have multiple events going on all the time during the
season -- you can look at the days you are going to travel
to Heinz and see where historically the parking is
available.
You can also see in realtime how many spaces are available
at each of the lots surrounding, and I give Heinz as an
example but there's Point park and all the other amenities
in Pittsburgh.
So we have -- the last one that took place was at the
Innovation Alliance Center.
It was about homelessness.
But I'm sure that we can get some really bright minds to
develop the same type of application that Pittsburgh uses.
I mean, we could even contact the city of Pittsburgh and
find out who developed theirs and what it cost and how it
works, and, you know, not Lee invent the wheel but utilize
what they are already using.
So for the lots that don't have, you know, a counter where
the gates go up and down, they know how many cars are in
there at any one given time, it might be a little more
challenging for our surface lots.
But at least for our parking garages, it should be fairly
simple for someone who does that kind of application
development to develop something similar to park Pittsburgh.
I mean, it's great.
I have used it a number of times.
And if I am going the next day down there, downtown
Pittsburgh, I'll look and see at that time of day what
typically, which lots, which garages are fairly open and
which ones aren't.
So we can plan ahead our trip and know we are going to take
these roads and go this direction and map that location and
not actually the one we are going to.
I'll map the garage, or I'll match where the lot faces that
I am heading to instead of the venue that I am heading to.
So it's really, really helpful.
09:25:48 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Yes, and it's part of that changing
behavior where we need to start having people look at it
ahead of time instead of when they get off the interstates
and find out when they are going to pull off.
09:26:01 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Like I said you can do it from home
before you even get in the car and you can do it a week
before and say I'm going next weekend, know, where am I
headed for those who aren't familiar and don't come downtown
very often.
But I think maybe we need to have another hack-a-thon.
09:26:17 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I believe the parking department is going
to work on.
That I'll bring you an updates on that.
I'll send an e-mail to all of you exactly where we are with
that status, and our coordination with our partners here.
09:26:29 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Because everything now, I mean, people
use smart phones and use apps.
Even grocery shopping these days.
Thank you.
09:26:37 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
I just -- this is, as we said, an unintended consequence of
our burgeoning success.
Do we have a timeline when this mate roll out, some new apps
or strategy?
09:26:57 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I will research it and e-mail it back to
you this week.
09:27:00 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Because it is true what Councilman Cohen
said, and I have heard it from people in St. Pete that they
won't come to Tampa because of that.
I have heard that come to my attention.
And they really would love to, because we have some great
things happening here.
So I'm glad we are working on it.
Thank you.
Next.
09:27:27 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Just a couple other updates.
In Ybor we are working on extending the streetscape on
7th Avenue to 26th street.
They have a couple of events coming up which is FSU season
kickoff part on the 13th and the USF party on the
20th.
We have the Shriners twilight parade on the 17th.
And there's a neighborhood issue.
Again an unintended consequence of our success, Bainbridge
apartments that they are building there backing up to the
interstate, TECO is going to have to raise the power lines
to get over that.
And so they are relatively high.
So we are having neighborhood meetings about that, because
it's again people have a sensitivity towards these power
poles.
And an update on what Mr. Busansky was saying is that
building permits for the channel club and they are doing
soil testing this week.
They hope to close by the end of the month and we should see
overall construction next month which would include the
grocery store to the Channel District which we have been
waiting for, for quite a while.
And that concludes my summary.
09:28:37 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Thank you.
Onto item 3.
The community markers.
09:28:46 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
If I may, I would like to have Jeanette
come up and talk to you a little bit.
It's a product she worked on for a while.
09:28:54 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Of course.
09:28:56 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON:
Drew Park, West Tampa, CRA
manager.
I'm delighted to be presenting this today.
It's a day I thought wasn't going to come.
As you know, you have seen in the your monthly reports and
so forth.
And we are finally here to present.
And this is informational only.
You will be getting this at City Council for actual approval
at your next meeting.
But this is for the plate agreement that FDOT provides for
us to allow us to place the Drew Park community markers
within the FDOT right-of-way.
Dale Mabry is a State Road so they do not give that
permission lightly and we have gone through, I kid you not,
working with FDOT and we have finally gotten that done.
I am pleased to present that to you today.
It's for your information and open to any questions you may
have.
09:29:47 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
Any questions?
09:29:50 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
It's been so long since you started this
process.
It's been at least four years, three our four.
And how many markers are we going to have then?
09:30:00 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON:
Four markers along Cayuga, Alva
and Osborne along Dale Mabry.
09:30:13 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you so much for getting us to this
point.
Item 4.
09:30:22 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Again, something that she's working with,
which is the North Tampa strategic action plan.
A heads up on that.
09:30:33 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON:
This again is an informational
item.
Now that the West Tampa community redevelopment area has
been formed and we have our community redevelopment plan,
our process with all the CRAs is to develop strategic
action plans that are more near term focused and provide
actual priorities of what projects and programs will be done
with the funding.
So it gives us guidance for our budgeting and so forth.
What we have today is the draft.
This is not in final form.
But I wanted to share it with you so that you will be aware
that this is what is coming down the pike.
We have worked with the advisory committee and are working
with contract admin to put out this RFQ and we expect that
will probably will go out sometime begun the next 30 days.
And this would be for a consultant to assist us with
creating a developing strategic action master plan.
09:31:29 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
I do have something to say that came to my
attention this past weekend.
By several people in that area, was that Macfarlane Park,
and dealing with people without homes, and what's happening
there, and, you know, defecating on public property, and
what are we trying to do?
Where are we?
And how many people are out there?
I am trying to get a better grasp of this.
I really just heard about it.
I knew what was happening but I didn't know to the extent
that it was really coming to people's attention and to my
attention Saturday.
09:32:18 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON:
And it has come to mine as well.
The Macfarlane Park neighborhood association and also the
West Tampa chamber are actively trying to address this
problem.
As you know the park is not within the West Tampa CRA.
But it doesn't mean we aren't interested in it.
Certainly we are interested in it.
So it is something we are going to become more fully engaged
in with that problem.
09:32:41 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
It's not part of the CRA but it's very
important, in my opinion, my mind, Macfarlane Park and
Julian B. Lane are bookends to the whole West Tampa
redevelopment, north goes up to Howard, main street keeps
going.
So that's why I brought it up.
09:33:02 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
Since you brought that up, about a week
and a half ago I had a meeting with the West Tampa chamber,
with Macfarlane Park association and other community
stakeholders at Tampa police district 1 with the major, and
other folks, to address this issue.
You know, panhandling, homelessness, specifically issues in
the park.
So we are on top of it.
They are on top of it.
We are out there.
09:33:30 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Excellent.
09:33:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
It's in the works.
09:33:34 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
It just occurred tore me now.
Thank you so much for that.
We don't have to move anything.
It's just information.
09:33:45 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON:
This is just informational.
09:33:47 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Now we go to the budget.
Thank you.
09:33:49 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I have an update for our report.
I'm embarrassed to learn that we already have an app.
It's called Waze.
We have 20,000 people actually that subscribe to it.
And has parking information for coming to events.
Waze.
09:34:10 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
It's national.
And where is the information coming from, the transportation
management?
09:34:19 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Transportation management, parking
division.
09:34:22 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
And I know there is a parking app to pay for
things.
But Waze may not have everything that we need.
That's all I would say.
09:34:31 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Yes, and that's the direction I was
going to go.
Because I use Google maps.
I have tried Waze and it's okay.
Some people love it.
But I just don't know what it is about me, I have a mental
block against it.
I don't know.
It's not something I use.
But when you go to the app store and you search park Tampa
or Tampa parking you are going to come up with the app to
pay for the street parking at the meter.
Not everybody is going to use Waze.
So it's something, you know, I would prefer to see something
like I mentioned, Park Pittsburgh where it is specific to
your city.
I mean, Waze is great for the people who use it.
You know, there you go.
It's going to get information to those folks.
But it's not going to get information to people who are
specifically searching for Tampa.
09:35:32 >> well, the chief of staff, the chief of police, myself,
Brad Baird and a number of other folks meeting about this
perfect storm issue that comes up about 10, 12 times a
year --
09:35:50 >> Your name for the record?
09:35:50 >> Rob Rosner, Downtown, Channel District, and Central Park,
and all of them.
It's a long list.
To help with this issue, I have been meeting with Dick and
everybody else about this.
We actually subscribe to Google and we get data, share data
as well as with Waze.
Waze is ongoing.
We do have the City of Tampa app, having these apps where
you can go to City of Tampa app and get these other ones,
have some kind of connection to them so when somebody says I
going to plan a trip to go downtown and park somewhere,
this whole issue has been very active.
We have talking about it for months about how to improve
that.
And then the other part of that is to get with some of the
hardware that needs to be changed out, and like some of the
garages that would be able to tell how many people are left
in that garage at a capacity.
So if it's 500 parking garage, there's 20 left.
It doesn't say where they are in the garage but there's 20
left based on in and outs.
So those kinds of things are being coordinated and there is
some grant funding that they are pursuing, but they are
doing these things in steps.
D.O.T. has been very open in letting us do that and now we
have to just get a system in place that transfers the
information to gets them up there in a reasonable time.
That's where the chief would say when people are all coming
down to south garage and it's already full, you know, Google
maps showing them, we are trying to get those other pieces
of information in thereby so people can make a decision
early.
And if the garage is full, the police can say change all the
boards to say garage full, go west on Tampa or one of the
other streets.
09:37:51 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
But those boards seem like such an
old-fashioned 1950s technology.
09:37:56 >> Well, we have one that actually --
09:38:06 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
1970s technology?
Got it.
09:38:08 >> We are coming to agreement.
You drag them out there and they are on wheels, you know,
they are on the street.
09:38:19 >> I don't know if it can be possible or not.
Like an amber alert, saying someone is out there.
There could be a traffic alert that pops up on your phone
and say within a mile.
Just kind of an alert.
I know he's trying to get that.
09:38:37 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
If I could, Waze does not give parking
information.
So that's why I think there's confusion.
There's no parking information whatsoever for the City of
Tampa.
So that's something that we wanted to do as part of our
city's challenge that we did not get that grant, so that
doesn't have that capability, at least as far as I have seen
now.
So, you know, we need to figure out.
So Waze is not the way, Mr. McDonaugh.
We have to find another way to go to the Waze, okay?
(Laughter).
09:39:20 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I am going to have to get some
technical --
09:39:23 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
You were looking for ways.
09:39:24 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Good morning again.
This is an overview of our upcoming year's budget.
And we have chosen our new park as the front cover.
I think it's really -- words don't describe it.
You know, it's such a fun place to be.
And I think that it highlights some of the redevelopment
efforts that we have.
Excuse me for a second.
It's not on your screen.
Planning and transportation and hoping to bring this back to
you next month for approval so this will give you a month to
review and look at it.
Again, folks at home, our community redevelopment areas.
And year after year it doesn't change but I am happy to say
this year it has with the addition of West Tampa and that
large block of land.
Total TIF revenues.
And something that occurred this past year because of the
changes in downtown.
We no longer get the Port Authority or children homes fund.
So it was a slight difference in the parks of downtown which
affected the overall.
Again you can see healthy increases in all of the areas.
East Tampa has the greatest increase.
Again the downtown -- and that was the oh occurrence of the
dropping off of the children's home and the Port Authority's
contribution.
So again very healthy increases.
Again, where the dollars are going, and one percent is
charter administration.
Trying to keep it as lean as we possibly can but the
majority share on capital improvement budget.
Downtown.
Of what we are looking at in the top left corner is the
project that's being developed on Franklin Street, 915, by
Carter and Associates out of Atlanta.
We have our new segregated bike Lane that runs along Cass
Street.
And the Poe Garage which certainly improved the look of it
but doesn't make the people who are waiting to get in and
out any happier.
So we are going to find a solution.
We need to do a better job.
Some of our objectives for this year again, probably the
biggest overall will be the work done by SPP with our
assistance.
And the medical school.
We have several projects that are either getting ready to be
in construction or are in construction right now.
Support the shuttle program.
Again we should start seeing that next month.
And I think that's going to be a big addition.
And that last mile, which we keep talking about in public
transportation.
Whether that's the shuttle bus for the electric carts or the
zip car.
But again adding some options to people so they aren't
necessarily tied to their car.
Downtown.
And 15 with the county in there and 17 by itself.
Our upcoming budget.
Remaining balances.
A lot of that money has been spent.
It just has not been drawn down.
So those moneys are generally obligated.
And I should have an update for you next month on where we
are with the quite zone, which is something that people
would like to find out about with the trains.
The lions share of this capital improvement project money
will be roads and sidewalks and streets.
And again, that project begins or commences on the 29th
of this month.
And as City Council, you approved the ability for us to move
forward to start negotiations on the Cumberland crossing
which is again another important piece of work for our
downtown network.
The Channel District.
The channel club and they are doing soil borings right now.
You should have a groundbreaking for that early next month
is my hope.
On the bottom, that is Florida sugars project on Kennedy at
11th and 12th.
A nice addition to the Channel District.
Some of the key projects we have going on is 12th street
segment C.
Again almost all the infrastructure has been completed in
there.
And we have to have been take soils before we build the
park.
We will not build the park until most of the construction is
done on the adjacent building.
Don't want to get the street and the park torn up.
The wastewater pump station, we have those two projects --
the Channel Club and the Publix.
Continuously CRA support of our creational cultural events.
And coordinating with the proposed Tampa Bay Express
project.
TIF revenue.
And probably, as Mr. Busansky says, I think we will be
coming to you in the not-too-distant future to start talking
about plans in Channelside Drive which is in need of a face
lift.
It's time to start work on that.
We kind of waited until we wanted to get the Cumberland
thing moving along because that's an important part of that
network.
So here is our proposed budget for the Channel District.
Again, we have some line items there.
Infrastructure engineering analysis management,
infrastructure neighborhood improvement.
Those can be shifted around during the year.
Hopefully more money being spent on actually structure than
actually engineering.
But these are placeholders until we know exactly what we are
going to do.
The Heights.
I believe I have told you that those projects are in for
permitting right now.
We are already close to issuing permits for both than the
improvements on the armature works.
The Pearl we have some issues with the capacity at the
current lift stations so some engineering is being done.
And hopefully we will be able to satisfy that shortly and
issue those permits.
The structure materials are starting to show up.
Again we want to support SoHo capitals.
And again this is an important neighborhood for the
involvement with the Tampa Bay Express project.
And if I may, I will have a more thorough report to you next
month.
The CRA managers went and talked to each of the CRAs.
First we had a meeting with D.O.T. to find out the exact
impact on each of the neighborhoods if there is going to be
more land taken.
Then the CRA managers went and talked to their prospective
boards, and to the one most of them came back with, yes,
it's something we would like to support but can you give us
an idea of how much it's going to cost? So we are also in
the process of finishing writing the scope of services which
we'll bring back to you to be see if indeed that meets what
you were thinking of.
We'll get a rough price and then go back to the CRA boards.
And get their acquiescence so we can move forward with that
project during the economic social study on the impact of
these roadways on these various neighborhoods.
So we have the conversations with the neighborhoods.
We have had conversations with D.O.T.
We had conversations with contract management.
And we are going to bring it back so we can speak to you
with a better tie to what kind of dollars we think are going
to be necessary and the scope of services we are going to be
looking for.
So we are but suing that.
09:48:17 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Thank you, chair.
I'm not sure -- and there may be something in our budget
document that I haven't seen yet that takes care of this,
but how much dollars -- and this is for both this CRA and
also for West Tampa being one that is essentially
reactivated and one that is brand new, how much money that
the city is going to put in that the CRA is obligated to
repay as part of any activities that are put in?
Because obviously we don't have any money coming in yet in
terms of from the base year to the additional amount, very
small amounts, we want projects to be done, the city is
going to have to put that money out but we'll pay it back, I
assume.
09:49:02 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
We have done that in the past.
A very good example is Curtis Hixon park.
And as soon as we identify certain things that have to be
done immediately, we'll have that conversation.
09:49:12 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Okay.
But there's no cost that we have already borne that are
pulled back by CRA?
09:49:21 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
No.
09:49:22 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Because I have seen the growth.
I want to make sure that's a real number and not a number
that says deficit in terms of what we have to pay back to
the city.
09:49:32 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
We have been very cautious about incurring
costs.
And we have had this conversation about labor and some of
the other things.
09:49:37 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Sure.
09:49:39 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Because I don't want to do a CRA to be
burdened.
And things like that we have done in the past.
I believe in pay as you go.
I'm a very strong proponent of that.
And I think we are just about have been -- the last one
which is Central Park still has encumbrance but the other
ones do not.
And that would be my attention.
09:49:57 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
That's my point that Central Park did have
that and I wanted to make sure we weren't going along that
same line what the budget actually are so going forward we
nobody exactly how much money to spend in each one of those
districts.
09:50:11 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Correct.
These are not previously encumbered.
09:50:16 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Pay as you go is great but sometimes
leveraging for return on investment --
09:50:21 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Absolutely.
09:50:22 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
So here we go.
Anyone else?
Thank you.
09:50:25 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
An example, when we built the underground
vault in the Channel District, we went out and got a
commercial loan to be do that because it's then taking
advantage of that.
So yes.
But we are being conservative in what we are doing.
09:50:39 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Conservative is good.
Thank you.
Next.
09:50:42 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Tampa Heights again with a nominal
increase and I think we are going to see some tremendous
increase it is next few years.
Again hourly budget for that.
Central Park CRA.
And they had some property under contract for some
commercial development which did not come to fruition, and
they are back on the marketplace.
And I'm pointing some people in that direction, specifically
hotel and office.
And I think in the current market environment, I think they
will be successful in attracting that type of use, which
again will pay dividends.
And a nominal increase that we will see, I believe, larger
increases in the not-too-distant future in that market.
Again, I think if memory serves me correctly this is the
last of the encumbrance from Central Park and the strategic
plan.
Ybor City.
The streetscape work that we talked about, extending 7th
Avenue to 26th.
The warehouse into an office space which is going to bring
150 bodies to Ybor during the day, which is a great
infusion.
One of the things that I am sure City Council will be seeing
in the not-too-distant future is working on that a allowance
on 21st and 22nd.
It the roadway has to be completed and turned over to the
city before we can do that.
That is the last step and that I think is a real game
changer because it makes it more pedestrian friendly.
The improvements along 21 and 22, they are going to be
great.
And Richard talking about doing those two restaurants on the
other side of 22nd street which will again be a link to
pedestrians.
That artificial barrier which has existed for so many years
is going to go away, which expands the district.
Again we are seeing increases in both the Ybor 1 and Ybor 2.
Again 21st and 22nd.
And Sean Robinson is here to talk about something else but
in getting engaged and bringing that to some of the public
structures, adding some life to some vacant windows and
doors in places.
Ybor 2, substantial increase for them.
Their budget.
And we are pretty close, I think, to working out an
agreement with TECO for the replacement, restoration of the
historic 'n arches and the lighting.
And it's been a little bit of slow go.
There's engineering involved because again you have to meet
with code.
It was a welder, and now it has to be engineered.
But I think we are pretty close to an agreement so we'll
have the restoration of those arches which everybody really
seems to think is important.
And again, the champion for bringing the most money up, and
here is something that shows you why that's not a surprise.
There's a lot of construction going on.
A lot of new projects.
And up on the right is the community center that is being
built there, and that was CRA land that was put into that to
spur that.
And a couple other projects that are going on.
So we are going to see continuously increase in there.
Single-family homes.
09:54:44 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
When you went back to the other photo, just
real quickly, one of the things that started, and I think it
was 2010 or sooner actually when Fifth Third Bank went in
there, and they discovered what everyone knew, it's a
working class neighborhood that works and banks and, you
know, spends their dollars, and that's what you are seeing
here, is that everyone else came along and said, oh, yeah,
this is a place to be.
09:55:14 >> Fifth Third all of a sudden having deposits made a heck
of a lot of sense.
Exactly.
09:55:21 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
That's not a plug for Fifth Third. (Laughter)
09:55:31 >> They were there when other banks were not.
We will give them a plug for that.
They supported the neighborhood.
09:55:38 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
That's right.
09:55:40 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Again from zero to a million 153 is a
pretty nice chunk in three years.
And again, you know, outside of not just neighborhood
infrastructure but there's a lot of programs that are
supported in there.
09:55:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I'll tell you one thing, madam chair.
The Mayor came in a couple of weeks ago, he couldn't get
nothing to work. Bob McDonaugh comes in, everything works,
so I know where the power is at now, Mr. McDonaugh.
09:56:10 >> well, no, That's because I went in and begged.
09:56:10 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
09:56:15 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Drew Park.
Again we talked about those markers.
And, you know, we are seeing investment there because of the
infrastructure improvements that we have done.
The FDOT money, City of Tampa money, improve Wallace and a
couple of other streets, we are seeing a lot of things going
on there and this is a neighborhood that I think you can
readily find lots of examples of the facade improvement
grant.
It made a big difference in the neighborhood.
09:56:44 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Very good.
Drew Park.
Blowing out at the seams.
It's a home grown success story.
Nice to see.
Drew Park again with be a modest increase in fund.
All of them have been trending up which is a positive thing.
And then West Tampa.
Again, JCC which is also spurring other investment.
You are looking at a fairly large development.
You go along Cass and Cypress, all of the in-fill projects
that are going on there, that neighborhood in that North
Hyde Park is really changing dramatically.
You know, what was quasi industrial area we are starting to
see a lot more residence.
There was a long-standing community there, and now it's
being supplemented.
So we have the old and the young.
It's kind of interesting.
So we are seeing some retail follow in there, which hasn't
happened in a long time.
So we have the Julian Lane park, which is the big deal, West
River, and relocations are still going on there.
I believe related with the choice, a partner in that.
We'll find out hopefully in the next few months what the
federal government is going to do with the choice
neighborhoods grant which will help kick start that project.
A nice first year.
I like it a lot better than East Tampa's 2014 number.
And again, these are funds that can be invested in the
community.
The plan and other things without starting out in a negative
plan.
Again there's the bottom line.
And you all have more copies of this.
I would be more than happy to sit down and talk with you if
you have suggestions, changes.
But that is our proposed budget.
09:58:58 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you for that.
Any questions?
Mrs. Montelione.
09:59:06 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
My back is killing me today so I'm
sorry.
A little distracted.
Than the current question is the movement of the park from
one CRA to another.
09:59:22 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
That's actually on there.
09:59:24 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
Well, in discussing the budget, we
didn't touch on that.
So I want to make sure you cover the implications if there
are any.
09:59:31 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Right now it's $12,000.
Is what they are currently paying in property taxes.
There is actually Courtney coming up to talk about it.
That's actually the next agenda item to talk about.
Because if I recall, last month, the board asked, what is
the YCDC, exactly what do you want to see happen?
And then we take action.
And so that is Courtney.
And Mr. Robinson.
10:00:08 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Are you done?
10:00:09 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
I am.
10:00:10 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you so much for your presentation and
your hard work.
Is it Dr. Robinson coming up?
Yes, thank you.
For YCDC report on the CRA.
10:00:24 >> Sean Robinson, YCDC chair, and thank you very much.
Good morning.
The last time I was here, the request was made to go back to
YCDC to make sure that you all understood what we wanted as
a request from you as a CRA board.
Planning infrastructure committee did meet.
And as I told you we would.
And then I made a recommendation to the full board and it
was approved unanimously that we would request only the Gas
Worx parcel be transferred from the downtown CRA to Ybor 2
CRA.
And that was proposed in the motion that we made.
Anything additional to that, we would not favor going forth
with other than the request of the -- regarding the opinions
from the other group.
10:01:27 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Repeat?
Oats than?
10:01:33 >> Last time there were some discussions about expanding the
CRA larger than just the Gas Worx parcel.
The YCD voted just to go with the Gas Worx parcel out of the
transfer and nothing else to expand Ybor, one CRA or two
CRA.
10:01:51 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Okay, thank you so much.
Councilman Reddick.
10:01:55 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you, Madam Chair.
My question, it's my understanding the last time we had this
discussion was that you were supposed to send a letter prior
to this meeting.
Has that been done?
Is it possible that -- I haven't received a copy of it.
I don't know if anybody else has.
Is it possible that we receive a copy of that?
Okay.
How soon can we get the copy?
10:02:26 >>SAL TERRITO:
You can get it today.
[Off microphone.]
I have not received a response yet.
10:02:32 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Well, let me request that each council
member receive a copy of the letter and once you get a
response that we also receive a copy of the response.
Instead of having to hear from you when we come to a
meeting.
10:02:48 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Is that a motion so that we can put it on
the record that we want the copy?
10:02:57 >>SAL TERRITO:
[Off microphone.] if you want to do it in a
motion it's up to you but I have direction.
You will get it today.
10:03:07 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
We're good.
We're good.
10:03:11 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you.
10:03:13 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Anyone else?
Okay.
Seeing none, we move forward.
Thank you for the report.
And we come to public comments.
Three minutes per speaker.
On any matter on the agenda.
10:03:27 >> Okay, I'm Ed, Ed Tillou, Sulphur Springs.
Okay.
The thirst thing I want to talk about in item 6, it's about
the third meeting I meant to speak about it.
I keep forgetting it.
But another very important factor on this which I bring to
your attention as an environmental engineer, when you hear
Gas Worx -- by the way, I don't know, somebody was
mentioning soil samples being taken.
I looked up and it was item 2.
Well, you might want to take soil samples of the Gas Worx
site because all of a sudden it will go from being a
desirable thing that everybody wants to being something
nobody wants.
So, anyway, that's inserted now.
Okay.
West Tampa was mentioned.
And, well, I didn't want to get to that first, because here
is today's road rage.
Now why do people put up with this?
And the answer to this is they put up with it because of
Hart.
Hart is not aggressively marketing themselves.
Now, I recently learned over the Board of Trustees, but he
just took a powder.
Okay.
You have a saying that goes, if someone isn't part of the
solution they are part of the problem.
So maybe that's where the buck stops, because one of your
number uses the buses, and I do.
So he and I are first class citizens but the rest of you,
you are declared fourth class citizens because you are
destroying the environment.
You are playing Russian roulette with the climate that's
leading to enough food for half of the people on the planet.
Now it will take 50 years for it to happen but you are
talking about a major change in the infrastructure and
things like that.
And that takes longer than 50 years. Anyway, after 50
years, it will stabilize it an inch a year.
And Tampa has about 100 and nothing you do is going to
change that.
Tampa will be underwater in 150 years.
So anyway, so much for that.
The person who is a first class citizen and also rides the
buses unlike most of the people here, but here is an
interesting thing.
You give out all these little goodies to the Police Officer
of the Month.
They can ride the bus for free.
But none of them do.
Now, the thing is maybe a prerequisite for being Police
Officer of the Month is that he has to ride the bus in
uniform three oar four times a month, you know?
Think about be that.
Because there are things that happen on the buses that are
undesirable people don't want to use them.
Okay.
This was something that came up.
And it was predicted by Derek Chamblee, and he's come up
with actually three or four good things.
You need to be concerned about the global warming leading to
larger hurricanes.
But in any case, this was brought up.
And you really do need to get a handle on it.
And safety.
That was brought up as something that wasn't an issue.
(Bell sounds)
But now people --
10:07:29 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
10:07:33 >> It's come to an issue.
It really has.
And I say that as a safety engineer.
10:07:39 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
Next, please.
I am sovereign citizen worldwide global prince king.
I am a North American native indigenous people of the land.
I have been doing like a lot of researching in the law
library, statutes and limitations and restrictions and
everybody's jobs in my country and stuff like that.
Now I understand my job a little bit more as far as
maintaining peace and amenity and making sure none of my
citizens rights are trampled over, every citizen worldwide,
because I happen to be a citizen of earth and happen to be
an ambassador of the earth and the heavens.
So that means I am going to be watching everything that's
going on on the worldwide level.
That means all of your governments, International, federal,
local and states.
And as I gain more comprehension and understanding on what I
and what I am supposed to be do.
I am going to pay more attention.
And I am also reading up on police so I understand finance
you guys have a policy also.
That's not meaning you have to know the rules that you have
to follow.
That's not natural.
It's not cool at all.
Because we expect our positions in the right way and help
our country out of their little mess that they don't even
know they are in.
And that's a good situation, and we are in a bad situation
in another way, because we still got a lot of our public
that is uneducated.
We have got an education system but it ain't doing much if
anything for our children.
We got a policing system, but only thing the policing is
what do you call it?
Blue collar crime, white collar crime that gets brushed
under the rug no one hears about because you don't hear it
but still under the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no
evil," but that doesn't work anymore.
And it's all around us.
I'm not happy with the candidates or the ones we got in the
white house that you keep hearing things about with all of
the citizens and everybody worldwide.
That's not cool and that's not funny at all.
Now, United States, you guys operate on your own without the
help of the people.
So don't put the people in trouble when we are not the ones
doing the dirt.
We are trying to make sure that we can rise the kings and
queens that are in America that you know this is a sovereign
country, and I don't blame that on the teachers.
The teachers are only there to provide with you the tools to
go into the library and educate yourself.
We are Americans.
That means we are stronger and smarter than the rest of us
that don't do it like that.
You all need to rise up.
(Bell sounds)
10:10:47 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Next.
10:10:50 >> [Off microphone.]
10:11:04 >> I'm Italian and Spanish.
My name is Rick Fernandez.
2906 north Elmore Avenue, Tampa 33602, Tampa Heights.
I'm the president of the Tampa Heights Civic Association.
I'm here to just offer a couple of -- Heights Civic
Association.
I'm here to offer a couple of comments on the issue that Mr.
McDonaugh addressed in the budget presentation.
This has to do with the hiring of a consultant to do a study
on the economic impact of TBX.
I personally have visited the CACs for Tampa Heights,
YCDC, East Tampa, downtown, and Channelside, West Tampa.
It will be later this month.
All of those except for Channelside are directly affected by
the TBX project, and one would assume would have some
financial stake in the retention decision.
All of them, again Tampa Heights, Ybor City, East Tampa,
downtown, and Channelside have all indicated their support
of the initiative in votes of their CAC group.
Actually, the interactions were certainly positive.
I learned a lot about the individuals the CAC is going to
visit and I appreciate the hospitality that was extended to
me.
At three of the meetings, fortuitously the Department of
Transportation through Debby Hunt was actually present, just
coincidental, but D.O.T. made their presentations in advance
of my public comment.
So those were Tampa Heights, downtown and Channelside.
So all three of those were well advised and well versed on
the issues regarding the TBX project at least from FDOT's
perspective before the presentation regarding the
independent consultant and economic issue was presented.
So I do hope that this initiative will move forward.
It sounds like city staff is currently involved in preparing
the RFP for the consultancy, and we certainly look forward
to seeing their work product and the consultants that might
be interested.
I have made a recommendation in writing by e-mail to each of
you regarding the Florida center for community design and
research out at USF.
They being the organization that actually facilitated the
community outreach project.
Regarding TBX.
They were very well versed on the issue and Karen Sabian in
particular is very well versed.
I have spoken to her, and I understand that they are
interested in the project, and I hope that they will be
bidding as well.
So that said, I appreciate again your courtesy as always,
and I thank you for your attention.
10:13:53 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Okay, anyone else?
Seeing none -- yes.
Councilman Reddick.
10:14:09 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Mr. McDonaugh, I guess you can answer this
question.
Who is paying for the independent study?
10:14:15 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
That we were talking about?
It was supposedly split among the various CRAs that are
impacted by that.
10:14:22 >>FRANK REDDICK:
And the study is supposed to consist of
what, economic impact?
Is that what it is?
10:14:30 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
Yes, actually writing a scope for it now.
But what kind of actual impacts happen to a neighborhood
from the widening of the interstate, whether that be
financial or the value of the properties, that type of
thing.
Yes, sir.
10:14:43 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Do you know how much the final budget
total cost is?
10:14:49 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
We do not.
As I explained earlier we are writing a scope right now and
we'll get an estimate from the contract management coach.
Because several of the CRAs said yes, sounds like a great
idea.
But before I say yes, I would like to know how much it's
going to cost.
So, yes, we want to have a ballpark.
First scope and then a ballpark cost.
And then get acquiescence of each.
10:15:12 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Thank you.
10:15:14 >>SAL TERRITO:
[Off microphone.] the vice chair is the last
person who served as chair, if you want to make a motion.
10:15:22 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
Okay.
I am going to go back, because I am concerned that we had to
ask for a copy of the letter that we requested.
If it is not a policy I would like to make a motion that
anything that this body has, letter or otherwise, that
copies be sent to this body immediately at the same time as
being sent out to the entity we asked.
We should not have to ask.
And that bothered me that we had to ask for it.
So do I need -- I'm wondering, is that in the form of a
motion, or policy?
So I would make a motion -- I am going to make a motion that
we receive copies of everything, motions, and ask for
every -- every time, both coming and going, what's being
received as a response, what's being sent out on everything
that we ask for.
So that's my motion.
10:16:37 >> Second.
10:16:38 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
10:16:40 >>FRANK REDDICK:
Motion by Mrs. Capin.
Second by Mr. Cohen.
Any discussion on the motion?
All in favor say aye.
Opposed?
Motion carried.
10:16:48 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
Yes, Mr. McDonaugh.
10:16:52 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
The last piece of business, we are asking
for ratification of some members of the Tampa CAC.
They are having an election and are asking for ratification
of the CRA board of the people they have selected.
10:17:10 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
So moved for the slate.
I looked at the applicants and they are very well suited for
the position.
10:17:14 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Moved by Councilman Miranda.
Seconded by Councilman Maniscalco.
All those in favor?
Opposed?
Passes.
Thank you.
10:17:24 >>BOB McDONAUGH:
That concludes my report.
10:17:27 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you, Mr. McDonaugh.
Thank you for coming to this meeting.
Information.
We are going to move on to information reports and new
business.
Councilman Miranda.
10:17:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
None, Madam Chair.
10:17:40 >>FRANK REDDICK:
None.
10:17:42 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
None at this time.
10:17:43 >>HARRY COHEN:
None, thank you.
10:17:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO:
No.
10:17:47 >>LISA MONTELIONE:
[Off microphone.]
No, ma'am.
Thank you very much.
10:17:58 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Well, thank you.
That being taken care of --
10:18:02 >>MIKE SUAREZ:
Move to receive and file.
10:18:03 >> Second.
10:18:04 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
All in favor?
We are adjourned.
6:00 tonight.
6:00.
(The CRA meeting adjourned.)
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