TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:00:54AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:00:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING.
9:00:56AM I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
9:00:58AM AT THIS TIME FOR INVOCATION, WE'LL JUST HAVE A MOMENT OF
9:01:03AM SILENCE.
9:01:03AM PLEASE STAND FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND THEN KEEP STANDING
9:01:07AM FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
9:01:20AM [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
9:01:24AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:01:25AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:01:36AM ALL RIGHT.
9:01:40AM MADAM CLERK, IF YOU WOULD TAKE A ROLL CALL.
9:01:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
9:01:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:01:45AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:01:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
9:01:47AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
9:01:48AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:01:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:01:50AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:01:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
9:01:53AM MR. SHELBY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THE RULES AND PROCEDURES
9:01:56AM OF PUBLIC COMMENT?
9:01:56AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, MEMBERS
9:01:59AM OF THE PUBLIC, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
9:02:02AM I'D LIKE TO GO OVER BRIEFLY THE RULES OF DECORUM FOR THE
9:02:06AM CONDUCT OF TODAY'S MEETING.
9:02:08AM AS YOU SAW OUTSIDE, THERE ARE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT SPEAKER
9:02:13AM CARDS.
9:02:14AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO ANYTHING ON THE AGENDA OR OTHERWISE
9:02:17AM DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER
9:02:20AM CARD AND PLACE IT IN THE BOX, ONE CARD PER SPEAKER.
9:02:23AM CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL THE START OF GENERAL PUBLIC
9:02:26AM COMMENT.
9:02:27AM EACH PERSON SUBMITTING A CARD WOULD BE RECOGNIZED BY NAME BY
9:02:30AM THE CHAIR TO APPROACH AND SPEAK.
9:02:32AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES.
9:02:34AM PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY.
9:02:36AM NAMES THAT CANNOT BE READ WILL NOT BE CALLED.
9:02:39AM IF YOU ARE HERE ON AN ITEM THAT IS SET ON THE AGENDA FOR A
9:02:44AM PUBLIC HEARING, YOU WILL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WHEN
9:02:47AM THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CALLED.
9:02:49AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK AT THAT PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE USE THE
9:02:52AM SIGN-UP SHEET THAT IS ON THE PODIUM OUTSIDE THE CHAMBERS.
9:02:55AM IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE SEE CITY STAFF.
9:02:58AM NOW, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALLOWED A REASONABLE
9:03:01AM OPPORTUNITY AT THE BEGINNING OF TODAY'S MEETING TO ADDRESS
9:03:03AM ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TAKES OFFICIAL
9:03:06AM ACTION ON THE ITEM.
9:03:07AM SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE KINDLY REMINDED TO
9:03:12AM REFRAIN FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, INCLUDING MAKING VULGAR OR
9:03:15AM THREATENING REMARKS OR MAKING OR CAUSING DISRUPTIVE NOISES,
9:03:18AM SOUNDS OR DISPLAYING SIGNS OR GRAPHICS.
9:03:20AM SPEAKERS ARE ALSO REMINDED FROM MAKING PERSONAL ATTACKS
9:03:24AM AGAINST ANY CITY OFFICIAL, STAFF MEMBER, OR ANY OTHER MEMBER
9:03:28AM OF THE PUBLIC.
9:03:29AM THE CHAIR WILL RULE OUT OF ORDER ANY PERSON WHO SPEAKS
9:03:31AM WITHOUT BEING RECOGNIZED OR ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL
9:03:34AM FROM OUTSIDE THE SPEAKER AREA AT THE PODIUM.
9:03:39AM PERSONS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE RULES MAY BE RULED OUT OF
9:03:42AM ORDER BY THE CHAIR AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR MAY BE
9:03:45AM REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY'S
9:03:48AM MEETING.
9:03:48AM FINALLY, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM ENGAGING
9:03:51AM THE SPEAKER DURING PUBLIC COMMENT AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE
9:03:54AM AWARE THAT CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT TAKE QUESTIONS OR HAVE A
9:03:59AM DIALOGUE DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:04:01AM THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS YOUR POSITION.
9:04:03AM THANK YOU.
9:04:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:04:04AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM MARCH 6, 2025
9:04:08AM AND THE EVENING SESSION OF MARCH 13, 2025?
9:04:10AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:04:12AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
9:04:13AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:04:14AM AYE.
9:04:15AM ANY OPPOSED?
9:04:16AM I'LL GO THROUGH THE AGENDA.
9:04:17AM A COUPLE OF HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS.
9:04:19AM A MEMO WAS RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA REQUESTING
9:04:21AM THAT ITEM NUMBER 97 BE HEARD FIRST AFTER LUNCH AND FURTHER
9:04:25AM REQUESTING THAT THE BOONSTOPPEL FAMILY HAVE A CHANCE TO
9:04:28AM SPEAK AFTER STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
9:04:31AM IS THERE A MOTION?
9:04:33AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
9:04:34AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:04:36AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:04:37AM WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 1:30 TO RESCHEDULE 90 DUE TO A
9:04:42AM MISNOTICE.
9:04:43AM WE'LL DO THAT AT 1:30.
9:04:45AM FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE, WHIT REMER WILL SAY GOOD-BYE
9:04:49AM AND INTRODUCE US TO KAYLA CASELLI AS THE INTERIM.
9:04:53AM I'M GLAD WHIT IS COMING BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS
9:04:56AM ABOUT THE SOLAR PROGRAM ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
9:04:58AM GLAD HE'S COMING.
9:04:59AM THAT'S MY OWN THING.
9:05:01AM MEMO RECEIVED FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA REQUESTING TO INQUIRE OF
9:05:05AM THE ADMINISTRATION ANY POTENTIAL LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES
9:05:08AM PREVENTING DISTRIBUTION OF THE BUNKER GEAR AND A TIMELINE.
9:05:09AM COUNCILMAN VIERA WOULD LIKE THIS TO BE HEARD UNDER THE
9:05:12AM ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE.
9:05:13AM ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT, CHIEF BENNETT?
9:05:16AM >> I AM.
9:05:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE THAT.
9:05:17AM ITEM 96, COUNCILMAN VIERA IS GOING TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
9:05:21AM LET'S DO THAT AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:23AM ITEM NUMBER 96 WE'LL DO THAT AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:26AM ITEM 98, MEMO RECEIVED FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA CONTINUING THIS
9:05:30AM ITEM TO A FUTURE DATE.
9:05:31AM WE'LL DO THAT AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:34AM MEMO 102 CHIEF BERCAW TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM MAY 15 WITH THE
9:05:39AM FY '25 MIDYEAR REPORT.
9:05:40AM WE'LL DO THAT AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:42AM WE HAVE ITEM 103 AND 104, COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK, DID YOU
9:05:48AM WANT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 103?
9:05:50AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, YES.
9:05:51AM THESE I ACTUALLY HAD MOVED -- I REQUESTED TO HAVE MOVED TO
9:05:58AM APRIL 3rd.
9:05:58AM SO THIS IS VERY CONFUSING, WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS THERE ARE
9:06:03AM FOUR ISSUES ALL PUT TOGETHER.
9:06:05AM ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I WANT TO DO IS TO KILL AN OLD
9:06:09AM MOTION, E-2016-8 CHAPTER 21 WHICH REQUESTED AN IN-PERSON
9:06:17AM QUARTERLY STORMWATER REPORT BECAUSE NOW WE'RE DOING THEM
9:06:20AM MONTHLY.
9:06:21AM I WOULD LIKE TO RESCIND THAT QUARTERLY.
9:06:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THAT THE COHEN MOTION?
9:06:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, FROM LITERALLY 2016.
9:06:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
9:06:29AM MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:06:31AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
9:06:32AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:06:33AM AYE.
9:06:33AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN, SO THE -- THIS WAS AN ADMINISTRATION,
9:06:40AM IN-PERSON QUARTERLY REPORT PROVIDING AN UPDATE.
9:06:43AM THAT'S GONE.
9:06:43AM 103 IS NOW GONE BECAUSE WE AREN'T DOING THAT ANYMORE.
9:06:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU'LL MAKE A MOTION TO REMOVE 103.
9:06:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CORRECT.
9:06:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PERMANENT REMOVAL.
9:06:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, YES.
9:06:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:06:55AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:06:57AM CHIEF BENNETT, I SAW YOU MOVE THERE.
9:07:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I STILL HAVE MORE TO GO.
9:07:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, SIR.
9:07:04AM >>JOHN BENNETT: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:07:05AM JOHN BENNETT, CHIEF OF STAFF AND GOOD MORNING TO THE PUBLIC.
9:07:09AM I WAS INFORMED BY MS. DUNCAN'S OFFICE THAT THEY WANTED TO
9:07:13AM DISCUSS THE REPORTING SEQUENCE FOR THESE.
9:07:16AM I JUST ASK IF COUNCIL COULD WORK WITH HER OFFICE.
9:07:19AM THEY MAY HAVE ALREADY.
9:07:20AM I'M JUST NOT AWARE.
9:07:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE.
9:07:22AM THANK YOU.
9:07:22AM THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.
9:07:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND SECOND.
9:07:24AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:07:25AM AYE.
9:07:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND THEN LOOKING AT 104, SO THIS WAS THE
9:07:30AM MONTHLY IN-PERSON REPORT.
9:07:32AM I HAD SAID THAT WE COULD MOVE THIS TO APRIL 3rd.
9:07:36AM I DID THIS AT THE LAST MEETING IN THE EVENING.
9:07:40AM THIS WAS AFTER ALL THAT STUFF.
9:07:41AM I'M NOT SURE WHY IT'S ON THIS AGENDA BECAUSE I ASKED FOR IT
9:07:45AM TO BE MOVED TO APRIL 3rd. THIS NEEDS TO MOVE TO APRIL
9:07:50AM 3rd.
9:07:51AM NOW, THEIR REQUEST IS TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO MAY 22 TO A
9:07:56AM WORKSHOP.
9:07:56AM THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THAT IS THAT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A RULE
9:07:59AM THAT SAYS YOU CAN ONLY HAVE FIVE ITEMS IN A WORKSHOP.
9:08:02AM RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 6.
9:08:03AM SO WE CAN'T MOVE IT TO MAY.
9:08:06AM AND THEN THE NEXT AVAILABLE DATE IS AUGUST, WHICH IS FAR
9:08:12AM INTO THE HURRICANE SEASON.
9:08:14AM ACTUALLY, WHAT MY GOAL IS, THIS IS NOT REALLY A WORKSHOP
9:08:18AM ISSUE.
9:08:18AM I'M JUST ASKING FOR THE MONTHLY IN-PERSON REPORT TO CONTINUE
9:08:24AM TO APRIL 3rd, WE'VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND WE NEED TO HAVE
9:08:28AM THEM MONTHLY BECAUSE THE CITIZENS ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT
9:08:31AM STORMWATER RIGHT NOW.
9:08:32AM MAY IS TOO LATE.
9:08:33AM AUGUST IS TOO LATE.
9:08:34AM WE ASKED FOR THIS TO BE MONTHLY.
9:08:36AM IT SHOULD BE MONTHLY.
9:08:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DID YOU CHECK WITH THE DEPARTMENT ABOUT
9:08:39AM --
9:08:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
9:08:41AM THEY WANT TO MOVE TO MAY 22.
9:08:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT ABOUT MAY 1?
9:08:44AM THERE IS A REGULAR MEETING.
9:08:46AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AGAIN, THIS IS A MONTHLY REPORT.
9:08:48AM SO IT SHOULD BE MONTHLY.
9:08:49AM THE NEXT ONE SHOULD BE APRIL 3rd.
9:08:51AM MONTHLY.
9:08:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN WE WAIT UNTIL WE SPEAK WITH THEM?
9:08:55AM IT PROBABLY WILL COME AFTER LUNCH.
9:08:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE.
9:08:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL HOLD 104 FOR NOW UNTIL WE SPEAK TO
9:09:02AM THE DEPARTMENT.
9:09:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOWEVER, ALL --
9:09:07AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
9:09:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APOLOGIZE.
9:09:10AM THIS IS ACTUALLY -- 104 -- SEE, THIS IS WHY THIS IS
9:09:16AM CONFUSING.
9:09:16AM 104 IS A ONE-TIME AND THAT IS THE -- YEAH, LET'S WAIT
9:09:32AM UNTIL --
9:09:33AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
9:09:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APOLOGIZE.
9:09:35AM THIS IS THE ONE-TIME STORMWATER SERVICE ASSESSMENT.
9:09:39AM THIS IS NOT THE IN-PERSON MONTHLY REPORT.
9:09:42AM WE ASKED FOR IT ONCE.
9:09:44AM I'M WILLING TO HAVE IT MOVED TO MAY 1st.
9:09:47AM THIS ONE-TIME REPORT BE MOVED TO MAY 1st.
9:09:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL CONTINUE ITEM 104 TO MAY 1st.
9:09:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
9:09:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU CHECKED WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND
9:09:56AM THEY'LL WORK WITH YOU?
9:09:57AM OKAY.
9:09:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEY JUST SAID MAY 22.
9:10:00AM THEY WERE VERY INSISTENT.
9:10:01AM IF THEY WANT TO CHANGE THAT, THEY CAN COME TO ME.
9:10:04AM I THINK MAY 1st IS CLOSE TO MAY 22.
9:10:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN WE WAIT UNTIL WE GET CONFIRMATION
9:10:10AM FROM THEM?
9:10:11AM LET'S HOLD THIS UNTIL AFTER LUNCH TO BE SAFE.
9:10:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I REQUEST THAT WE TALK ABOUT IT RIGHT AFTER
9:10:16AM LUNCH.
9:10:17AM AFTER THE BOONSTOPPEL.
9:10:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT'S FAIR.
9:10:21AM THAT GIVES US ENOUGH TIME.
9:10:23AM ITEM 104 STANDS UNTIL WE GET FURTHER CLARIFICATION.
9:10:28AM ITEMS 105 AND 106 ARE WRITTEN STAFF REPORTS TO RECEIVE AND
9:10:32AM FILE.
9:10:33AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY COUNCIL MEMBER
9:10:36AM HENDERSON.
9:10:36AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
9:10:38AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:10:38AM AYE.
9:10:40AM I HAVE 93, 94, 95, WE'LL TAKE THAT AFTER CONSENT AGENDA.
9:10:52AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: COULD YOU INQUIRE IF COUNCIL MEMBERS NEED
9:10:55AM STAFF PRESENT.
9:10:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ADMINISTRATION UPDATE, WE'LL HAVE 93, 4,
9:11:02AM AND 5, DO YOU NEED STAFF PRESENT FOR THOSE?
9:11:05AM IF NOT, WE'LL TAKE THEM AFTER THE CONSENT AGENDA.
9:11:07AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: OTHERWISE IT WOULD BE THE AFTERNOON.
9:11:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY?
9:11:10AM WE'LL TAKE THAT AFTER THE CONSENT AGENDA.
9:11:14AM LET ME GO THROUGH THE STAFF REPORTS REAL QUICK.
9:11:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU DON'T WANT 95?
9:11:24AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT THEM HERE IN PERSON FOR 95,
9:11:26AM SIR?
9:11:26AM WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN ADMINISTRATION UPDATE.
9:11:33AM >>LUIS VIERA: I DIDN'T BECAUSE WE ARE DEALING ADMINISTRATION
9:11:38AM UPDATE.
9:11:38AM TO NOT BE REDUNDANT, UNLESS COUNCIL THINKS OTHERWISE.
9:11:43AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ARE YOU GOING TO HOLD 95 TILL AFTER THE
9:11:47AM ADMINISTRATION UPDATE?
9:11:49AM >>LUIS VIERA: YEAH, THAT WOULD BE SMART.
9:11:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL TAKE THAT UP AFTER THE CONSENT
9:11:52AM AGENDA.
9:11:54AM OTHER ITEMS, 95 WE'LL HOLD.
9:11:56AM 96 WILL BE RECEIVE AND FILE.
9:11:58AM NUMBER 97, THERE IS A PowerPoint PRESENTATION.
9:12:02AM WE ALREADY DISCUSSED THAT.
9:12:04AM ITEM 98, COUNCILMAN VIERA WILL CONTINUE TO A FUTURE DATE.
9:12:10AM TALK ABOUT THAT AT THAT TIME.
9:12:11AM NUMBER 99, THAT IS A YES.
9:12:14AM WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF E-MAILS ON THOSE, ON 99.
9:12:17AM WE HAVE AN IN-PERSON REPORT ON 100.
9:12:20AM 101 IS A YES.
9:12:22AM I'LL BE TAKING UP THAT DISCUSSION.
9:12:23AM ITEM 102, WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT A CONTINUANCE.
9:12:28AM ITEM 103 WE ALREADY DISCUSSED.
9:12:31AM 104.
9:12:31AM SO IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE
9:12:37AM THE AGENDA AND MEMORANDUM?
9:12:37AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND A SECOND
9:12:37AM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:12:38AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:12:39AM AYE.
9:12:40AM CEREMONIAL ACTIVITIES, WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA
9:12:44AM PRESENTING TO MR. RON ROTELLA.
9:12:47AM I'D ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE FORMER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER RUDY
9:12:49AM FERNANDEZ IS HERE, SERVED IN THE '90s.
9:12:53AM JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR PRESENCE, SIR.
9:12:56AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:13:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HONORABLE MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL,
9:13:16AM ALL OF YOU STARTING WITH CHAIRMAN GUIDO AND THE OTHER SIX
9:13:20AM THAT SERVE WITH US -- OTHER FIVE THAT SERVE WITH US ANYWAY,
9:13:23AM YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TIMES IN HISTORY THAT YOU SAY, WHAT AM I
9:13:27AM GOING TO SAY?
9:13:28AM AT THIS TIME, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY THAT.
9:13:31AM HERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WORKED FOR HOW MANY MAYORS?
9:13:33AM SEVEN.
9:13:35AM I NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE WORKING FOR SEVEN DIFFERENT MAYORS.
9:13:38AM IT STARTED BACK WHEN?
9:13:39AM 1965.
9:13:41AM YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE 50 YEARS OLD.
9:13:45AM FROM 1965 TO NOW, THAT'S 70 YEARS WHEN YOU COUNT 25 AND 35.
9:13:56AM UNBELIEVABLE.
9:13:57AM WHEN HE WORKED FOR THE CITY, WHEN HE STARTED, LET ME GIVE
9:14:00AM YOU A LITTLE EXAMPLE WHAT IT WAS LIKE 70 YEARS AGO.
9:14:04AM 606 PEOPLE LIVING IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA.
9:14:08AM YOU REMEMBER THAT.
9:14:10AM 600 WERE IN JAIL AND THE OTHER 6 WERE LOOKING TO GET IN WHEN
9:14:14AM THE FIRST 6 WERE DISMISSED.
9:14:16AM THERE WAS NOTHING IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA TO SPEAK OF.
9:14:19AM I'M NOT TRYING TO DOWNPLAY OUR CITY.
9:14:21AM YOU CAN -- PARKING GARAGE, NOT LOOK RIGHT OR LEFT, NO CARS
9:14:29AM COMING.
9:14:29AM RON ROTELLA'S HOPE AND THE MAYORS HE WORKED WITH ALL SEVEN,
9:14:34AM THESE THINGS STARTED TO CHANGE.
9:14:35AM IN DOING THAT, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO
9:14:42AM DO, MAINTAIN WHAT YOU HAVE AND THEN WORK ON THE CHANGE ALL
9:14:46AM AT THE SAME TIME.
9:14:46AM ROTELLA AND THOSE INDIVIDUALS, SEVEN MAYORS WORKED WITH,
9:14:51AM ALONG WITH I THINK AT THAT TIME WHEN I CAME IN -- NORIEGA.
9:14:57AM NORIEGA WAS DEVELOPMENT.
9:15:04AM IF IT WASN'T FOR INDIVIDUALS LIKE RON ROTELLA WHO HAD A
9:15:07AM VISION AND THE MAYORS HE WORKED WITH, LAST WAS MAYOR GRECO,
9:15:11AM I BELIEVE, THESE THINGS WOULDN'T HAPPEN.
9:15:13AM THE STREETCAR IS ONE OF THEM.
9:15:15AM AND THE EXPANSION OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE CITY, THE
9:15:20AM CHANGING OF THE OPERATION OF WE CAN'T DO IT TO WE CAN DO IT
9:15:25AM AND WE WILL DO IT.
9:15:26AM THE THINGS THAT MAKE THE CITY OF TAMPA TODAY WHAT IT IS.
9:15:30AM GOING BACK IN HISTORY, SOMETIMES WE DON'T REMEMBER
9:15:33AM EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE IT HAPPENED SO QUICKLY.
9:15:35AM 70 YEARS IS A LONG TIME IN THE CALENDAR.
9:15:37AM BUT WHEN YOU'RE TURNING A CITY AROUND AND THEY DID IT IN A
9:15:41AM LONG, LONG TIME AGO WHEN IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT, THERE WAS NO
9:15:44AM MONEY TO SPEAK OF.
9:15:46AM HAD TO GET GRANTS TO HIRE POLICE OFFICERS.
9:15:49AM HIRED 103 POLICE OFFICERS SOMETIME IN THE MID '90s WITH NO
9:15:52AM MONEY.
9:15:53AM FEDERAL GRANTS GAVE US MONEY FOR THOSE OFFICERS AS YOU WELL
9:15:56AM REMEMBER TO HIRE THEM FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN WE HAD TO
9:15:59AM PICK UP THE SALARIES UNDER THE GRECO ADMINISTRATION.
9:16:01AM IN FACT, MAYOR GRECO CALLED ME LATE LAST NIGHT SOMETIME
9:16:05AM AFTER 11 TO TELL ME HE COULDN'T BE HERE BECAUSE ONE OF THE
9:16:09AM PUPPY DOGS HE HAD TO TAKE TO THE VET.
9:16:11AM HE THOUGHT HE WAS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT.
9:16:14AM HE TOLD ME TO EXPRESS MY APOLOGIES TO ROTELLA AND HIS
9:16:19AM FAMILY.
9:16:19AM RON, IF I MAY READ THIS.
9:16:24AM I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND EVERYTHING YOU
9:16:27AM CONTINUE TO DO.
9:16:28AM IT IS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL PROFOUND PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE THE
9:16:31AM ACCOMPLISHMENT OF RON ROTELLA KNOWN AS THE GO-TO GUY IN THE
9:16:36AM CITY OF TAMPA FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS.
9:16:38AM BEGAN HIS SERVICE UNDER MAYOR DICK GRECO IN 1966 AND ENDED
9:16:41AM IN 1983 SERVING FOR MAYOR BOB MARTINEZ, RON HONED HIS SKILLS
9:16:48AM ON THE MOST DIFFICULT FINANCIAL TIMES OF THE CITY.
9:16:51AM IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS NO MONEY.
9:16:52AM THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT MAKE WHAT WE ARE TODAY, PEOPLE WHO
9:16:59AM SACRIFICED A LOT, WHO DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING SO THAT THE CITY
9:17:02AM COULD CONTINUE TO MARCH FORWARD.
9:17:05AM DESPITE THE CHALLENGES, RON ASSISTED IN DIRECTING THE CITY
9:17:08AM TOWARD THE NEW GOAL OF BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SMALL
9:17:10AM GROWTH IN THE CITY WHEN THE CITY WAS IN DECLINE.
9:17:13AM 70s AND 80s TAMPA EXPERIENCED THE LARGEST DECLINE IN
9:17:19AM POPULATION AND AD VALOREM TAXES.
9:17:21AM TAMPA EXPERIENCED CHALLENGING URBAN FLIGHTS WHICH ONLY BEGAN
9:17:25AM TO BE REVERSED IN THE MID '80s.
9:17:28AM RON WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE REBIRTH OF TAMPA AND PLAYED
9:17:31AM CRITICAL ROLES IN EACH PHASE OF THE NEW TAMPA.
9:17:33AM THERE WAS NEW TAMPA WAS JUST VACANT LAND THEN.
9:17:37AM THROUGH RON AND GRECO AND THE REST, THEY FORMED A NEW CITY
9:17:42AM IN THE CITY CALLED NEW TAMPA.
9:17:44AM I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE ALL OLD.
9:17:47AM THAT'S NEWER THAN WE ARE.
9:17:48AM THAT'S ALL.
9:17:49AM DOING ALL THOSE THINGS, HE ALSO WORKED ON BRINGING IN
9:17:55AM INDUSTRIES THAT RELOCATED TO THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT WERE
9:17:58AM CLEAN.
9:17:59AM INDIVIDUAL THAT NEVER SAID NO.
9:18:03AM HE SAYS LET'S GO DO IT.
9:18:04AM TAMPA WAS ON THE MOVE AND WAS NAMED ONE OF FIVE MEGATREND
9:18:10AM CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME THAT HE
9:18:12AM WAS HERE.
9:18:13AM RON WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF IT ALL.
9:18:18AM GRATEFUL IN APPRECIATION RON ROTELLA DEDICATION AND
9:18:21AM COMMITMENT TO THE CITY AND CITY COUNCIL'S PLEASURE TO
9:18:23AM PRESENT THIS COMMENDATION ON THE 27th DAY OF MARCH OF
9:18:27AM 2025.
9:18:28AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:18:41AM >> FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
9:18:43AM COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU.
9:18:45AM I APPRECIATE THE DISTINCTION THIS MORNING.
9:18:48AM WHEN I STARTED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA, IT WAS A DIFFERENT
9:18:51AM CITY.
9:18:52AM I STARTED WITH MAYOR NICK NUCCIO, DOWNTOWN ON THE CHANNEL,
9:18:57AM YOU HAD WOODEN DOCKS AND YOU HAD HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING
9:19:02AM UNDER THE WOODEN DOCKS, PUT IN A CONCRETE SEAWALL AND DID
9:19:10AM AWAY WITH THAT.
9:19:10AM MIRABELLA'S FISHING FLEET WAS DOWNTOWN ON THE RIVER.
9:19:14AM WE RELOCATED THE FISHING FLEET AFTER THE 22nd STREET
9:19:19AM CAUSEWAY.
9:19:19AM AND THEN ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER IN DOWNTOWN, YOU HAD
9:19:26AM HUGE GRAIN SILOS AND THEY TOOK UP THE WHOLE SIDE OF DOWNTOWN
9:19:31AM TAMPA.
9:19:31AM WE RELOCATED THE GRAIN FACTORIES TO EAST OF TAMPA.
9:19:37AM I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT THE RATS THAT VACATED THOSE SILOS,
9:19:44AM THEY WERE AS LARGE AS ALLEY CATS.
9:19:47AM THEY WERE HUGE BECAUSE THEY FED ON THE GRAIN 24 HOURS A DAY.
9:19:52AM AND PROBABLY -- I WON'T GO INTO A LOT OF PROJECTS.
9:19:59AM WE WERE VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL, BUT TALK ABOUT ONE THAT
9:20:05AM CHANGED THE HISTORY OF TAMPA.
9:20:09AM GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF JIM APTHORP, WHO WORKED FOR U.S.
9:20:12AM HOMES, BOUGHT SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES OF PROPERTY JUST OUTSIDE
9:20:16AM THE CITY LIMITS.
9:20:17AM HIS INTENTION WAS TO BUILD A NUMBER OF SUBDIVISIONS.
9:20:20AM WELL, LITTLE DID HE FIND OUT THAT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY COULD
9:20:24AM NOT PROVIDE THE WATER AND SEWER SERVICE.
9:20:27AM THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY.
9:20:29AM HE MET WITH BOB MARTINEZ AND I AND SAID, LISTEN, I WOULD
9:20:32AM LIKE YOU GUYS TO EXTEND THE WATER AND SEWER FROM THE CITY TO
9:20:35AM MY DEVELOPMENT.
9:20:37AM SO BOB WAS ABOUT TO RESPOND AND I NUDGED HIM.
9:20:40AM I SAID, LISTEN, WE'RE ASSUMING THAT OUR WATER AND SEWER
9:20:45AM DEPARTMENTS CAN MEET YOUR DEMAND, BUT LET US VERIFY THAT.
9:20:49AM LET'S MEET NEXT WEEK.
9:20:50AM WE MET THE FOLLOWING WEEK, AND JIM APTHORP WAS THERE AND HIS
9:20:56AM BOSS AND GENERAL COUNSEL FOR U.S. HOMES.
9:20:59AM JIM SAYS, WELL, HAVE YOU GUYS MADE A DECISION.
9:21:02AM HE SAID, YES, WE HAVE.
9:21:04AM WE'LL GO AHEAD AND EXTEND THE WATER AND SEWER TO YOUR
9:21:08AM DEVELOPMENT.
9:21:08AM WELL, HE DIDN'T STEP OUT OF HIS CHAIR.
9:21:12AM HE LEAPED OUT OF HIS CHAIR AND STARTED YELLING THIS IS
9:21:16AM NOTHING BUT BLACKMAIL.
9:21:17AM THIS IS DIRTY BLACKMAIL.
9:21:19AM THE GENERAL COUNSEL FINALLY SAYS, JIM, BE QUIET, SIT DOWN.
9:21:24AM HE SAT DOWN, HE SAID, SO LET ME ASK THE QUESTION
9:21:28AM STRAIGHTFORWARD.
9:21:29AM IF WE ANNEX OUR LAND INTO THE CITY OF TAMPA, THERE WILL BE
9:21:34AM NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
9:21:35AM AND BOB MARTINEZ SAYS, NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
9:21:40AM WE'LL EXPEDITE THE ANNEXATION INTO THE CITY.
9:21:42AM AND WE DID.
9:21:43AM AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED WAS ALL THE DEVELOPERS AND THE
9:21:48AM PROPERTY OWNERS NORTH OF THAT AND EAST AND WEST SAID, WELL,
9:21:52AM WAIT A MINUTE, LET'S NOT WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE TO DO AN
9:21:55AM ANNEXATION.
9:21:56AM LETS AN NEXT OUR PROPERTY INTO THE CITY NOW SO WHEN WE'RE
9:21:59AM READY TO DEVELOP THE ANNEXATION PROCESS WILL BE BEHIND US.
9:22:04AM I.E. NEW TAMPA.
9:22:06AM NORTH OF U.S. HOMES PROJECT AND THEN EAST AND WEST ALL THE
9:22:13AM WAYS UP TO THE PASCO COUNTY LINE.
9:22:15AM SO THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED.
9:22:16AM AND IT CHANGED TAMPA.
9:22:18AM I WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENDATION THIS
9:22:24AM MORNING.
9:22:25AM THANK YOU.
9:22:25AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:33AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: RON, I'M SORRY TO SAY REPRESENTATIVE
9:22:37AM KATHY CASTOR COULD NOT BE HERE BUT SHE SENT A THANK-YOU FROM
9:22:40AM THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
9:22:42AM EXTEND MY SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE DECADES OF DEDICATED
9:22:46AM SERVICE TO CITY OF TAMPA AND WESTSHORE COMMUNITY.
9:22:48AM YOUR TIRELESS ADVOCACY AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT
9:22:52AM INSTRUMENTAL IN SHAPING THE GROWTH OF OUR REGION.
9:22:55AM I CONGRATULATE YOU, THE CITY OF TAMPA FOR THIS COMMENDATION
9:22:58AM PRESENTED TO YOU TODAY.
9:23:00AM ALSO, THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE WESTSHORE ALLIANCE WHEN
9:23:03AM THEY WERE TRYING TO CREATE SOMETHING AND YOU WERE THE LEADER
9:23:07AM OF THE CREATION, LOOK WHAT HAPPENED.
9:23:09AM BECAME THE NUMBER ONE MORE LIKELY AT THAT TIME IN THE UNITED
9:23:15AM STATES OF AMERICA.
9:23:16AM EXPRESS HEARTFELT GRATITUDE FOR MANY CONTRIBUTIONS, YOUR
9:23:22AM LEGACY AND GENEROSITY TO THE CITY.
9:23:27AM BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR DEDICATION AND SERVICE,
9:23:30AM KATHY CASTOR.
9:23:32AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:23:32AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:23:32AM KATHY'S MOTHER WAS SENATOR CASTOR.
9:23:41AM JUST A QUICK STORY.
9:23:43AM WHEN WE WERE GOING TO DO THE AREA-WIDE DRI, IT HAD TO BE
9:23:47AM APPROVED BY THE STATE AND APPROVED BY THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
9:23:51AM COMMITTEE.
9:23:52AM A GUY FROM JACKSONVILLE CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE.
9:23:54AM HE WAS GOING TO BOTTLE THE BILL UP AND NOT LET IT OUT.
9:23:57AM I WAS GOING TO GET UP AND SAY SOMETHING, AND KATHY SAYS, SO
9:24:00AM I STAYED IN MY SEAT AND SHE CALLED FOR A RECESS, STEPPED
9:24:05AM OUTSIDE FOR 15 MINUTES WITH THE CHAIRMAN.
9:24:08AM SHE CAME BACK IN, SAT DOWN, AND THE CHAIRMAN WENT AHEAD AND
9:24:14AM MADE THE MOTION TO CREATE THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE AREA-WIDE
9:24:19AM DRI.
9:24:20AM I SAID TO KATHY, WHAT DID YOU DO?
9:24:23AM SAYS, RON, YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
9:24:27AM THAT'S HOW THAT HAPPENED.
9:24:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW, THE NEXT ONE, HE
9:24:34AM ALSO WORKED VERY DILIGENTLY WITH THE WESTSHORE ALLIANCE, TO
9:24:38AM ECHO WHAT HE'S DONE AND WORKED WITH, THE WESTSHORE ALLIANCE
9:24:42AM IS AN AREA, TAMPA AREA, NORTH AND WEST PART OF THE CITY THAT
9:24:49AM HAS MORE THAN 12 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF OFFICE SPACE AND
9:24:52AM 100,000 WORKERS WORK IN THAT AREA.
9:24:55AM RON WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN STARTING WORKING WITH THE FIRST
9:24:59AM INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS HIRED BY THE AREA OF THE WESTSHORE
9:25:03AM ALLIANCE.
9:25:04AM HE DID A FANTASTIC JOB, AND NOW HE'S DOING A FANTASTIC JOB
9:25:08AM OF BEING WITH HIS WIFE AND FAMILY.
9:25:10AM VERY LUCKY TO BE THE MAN THAT YOU ARE.
9:25:12AM LOVELY WIFE AND YOUR SON.
9:25:14AM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY.
9:25:16AM MOST OF ALL, WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN WITHOUT
9:25:21AM TRYING TO BE KNOWN.
9:25:22AM BECAUSE YOUR HARD WORK AND LABOR HAS REALLY, REALLY DONE
9:25:25AM WELL FOR ALL OF US.
9:25:26AM THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR BEING HERE AT CITY
9:25:29AM COUNCIL.
9:25:29AM IT WAS 400,000 PEOPLE, OVER 400,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN THE
9:25:33AM CITY OF TAMPA.
9:25:33AM HOWEVER, WE SERVE WATER FOR OVER 700,000 PEOPLE BECAUSE OF
9:25:39AM THE ANNEXATION AND AREAS AROUND THE COUNTY.
9:25:42AM HAPPENED BECAUSE YOURSELF AND SEVEN MAYORS YOU WORKED WITH.
9:25:46AM CONGRATULATE YOU FOR WHO YOU'VE BEEN AND CONTINUE TO BE.
9:25:48AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE.
9:25:50AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:25:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:25:57AM >> COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU.
9:25:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. ROTELLA, I WANTED TO THANK YOU.
9:26:02AM THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE.
9:26:05AM I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED BETTY CASTOR.
9:26:07AM YOU WORKED AT TIMES WITH JUST AMAZING NAMES HERE IN
9:26:10AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, TAMPA AREA.
9:26:11AM PEOPLE LIKE BETTY CASTOR, PHYLLIS BUSANSKY, RUDY FERNANDEZ,
9:26:18AM SO MANY OTHERS DURING THAT TIME WHO HELPED BUILD OUR AREA.
9:26:22AM OBVIOUSLY, I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED NEW TAMPA.
9:26:24AM I LIVE IN HUNTER'S GREEN, USED TO LIVE IN TAMPA PALMS.
9:26:29AM WHEN YOU ALL WENT OUT THERE AND SENT LEWIS AND CLARK OUT
9:26:33AM THERE TO BUILD THE ALASKA OF TAMPA, WE'RE BETTER FOR IT.
9:26:36AM WE'RE GLAD WE CAN HONOR YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE
9:26:39AM FOR OUR CITY.
9:26:40AM THANK YOU, SIR.
9:26:41AM >> NEW TAMPA WAS AN EXCITING ANNEXATION TO THE CITY.
9:26:47AM TELL YOU A QUICK STORY.
9:26:48AM HOME DEPOT HAD A CONTRACT ON A PIECE OF PROPERTY.
9:26:53AM WE MET WITH THEM.
9:26:54AM ONE OF THE THINGS THEY SAID, WELL, OKAY, HERE IS OUR SIGN.
9:26:58AM I SAID, WELL, THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
9:27:00AM WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
9:27:01AM WE HAVE A VERY STRINGENT SIGN ORDINANCE OUT HERE IN THE NEW
9:27:05AM TAMPA AREA.
9:27:06AM YOU'LL -- WE'RE NOT AMENDING OUR SIGN.
9:27:10AM THIS IS OUR STANDARD SIGN.
9:27:11AM WE DO IT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
9:27:13AM I SAID OKAY.
9:27:13AM ONE OF THE PEOPLE SAID, WELL, I GUESS THE MEETING IS OVER.
9:27:16AM I GOT UP AND I LEFT.
9:27:18AM THEIR GENERAL COUNSEL CAME IN AND SAID WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
9:27:22AM WELL, THE MEETING IS OVER.
9:27:24AM NO, IT'S NOT OVER.
9:27:25AM THEY ARE BLUFFING.
9:27:26AM THEY'LL GO WITH THE PROJECT.
9:27:28AM THEY'LL AMEND THEIR SIGN.
9:27:29AM DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
9:27:30AM I WENT BACK IN AND, OF COURSE, THEY WENT AHEAD AND DID IT.
9:27:34AM THE ONLY COMMENT I WANT TO MAKE, WE TREATED BRUCE B. DOWNS
9:27:37AM DIFFERENTLY THAN THE CITY TREATED DALE MABRY.
9:27:40AM NOT EVERY DEVELOPER HAD A CURB CUT IN AND OUT OF THE
9:27:44AM PROPERTY.
9:27:44AM WE HAD KEY INTERSECTIONS WHERE PROPERTY OWNERS AND
9:27:46AM DEVELOPERS HAD TO EXTEND THEIR ROADS ALONGSIDE BRUCE B.
9:27:51AM DOWNS TO THESE INTERSECTIONS TO GET IN AND OUT.
9:27:54AM SO WE DIDN'T HAVE THE TRAFFIC SNARL.
9:27:57AM WE DIDN'T HAVE THE CONGESTION.
9:27:59AM WE DIDN'T HAVE THE UGLY SIGNAGE WITH ALL THOSE BILLBOARDS.
9:28:03AM I THINK WE DID A GOOD JOB IN NEW TAMPA.
9:28:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
9:28:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. ROTELLA, GOOD MORNING.
9:28:10AM MR. ROTELLA.
9:28:12AM HI, I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOU.
9:28:15AM GOOD MORNING.
9:28:15AM I REALLY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE HISTORY LESSON.
9:28:18AM I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AS ONE OF THE NEWEST COUNCIL
9:28:22AM MEMBERS, KNOWING HISTORY ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE GOOD DECISION
9:28:25AM EVEN GOING FORWARD.
9:28:26AM DARLENE, IF POSSIBLE, I'D LOVE TO HAVE LUNCH WITH YOU AND
9:28:29AM YOU TELL A FEW MORE STORIES TO ME PERSONALLY, THAT WOULD BE
9:28:33AM WONDERFUL IF YOU HAVE THE TIME.
9:28:34AM I APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
9:28:36AM TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:28:37AM THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US THIS MORNING.
9:28:39AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:28:40AM IT WAS A DISTINCT PLEASURE FOR ME.
9:28:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE.
9:28:46AM TECHNICALLY WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK DURING THESE THINGS.
9:28:49AM SINCE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE BROKE THE RULES, I'LL BREAK THE
9:28:53AM RULE TOO.
9:28:54AM I APPRECIATE ALL THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE OVER THE YEARS.
9:28:57AM HOPEFULLY YOU ARE WRITING A BOOK OR RECORDING SOME OF THIS
9:29:00AM DONE BECAUSE WE LOST TOO MANY OF YOUR FORMER COLLEAGUES.
9:29:03AM I REMEMBER MANY THINGS OVER THE YEARS THAT YOU HELPED DO.
9:29:06AM WHEN GRECO WAS MAYOR, YOU AND ANOTHER NAME WE HAVEN'T
9:29:09AM MENTIONED WITH FERNANDO NORIEGA.
9:29:12AM THE THREE OF YOU GUYS WERE GETTING EVERYTHING DONE IN THE
9:29:14AM CITY.
9:29:15AM IT WAS REMARKABLE LOOKING AT THE CHANGE IN THE PACE.
9:29:19AM WE LOOK AT THE ECONOMY IN TAMPA IN JUST THE LAST FEW YEARS
9:29:22AM AND ALL THE CHANGES THAT HAPPENED.
9:29:24AM BUT AS YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE, MOST OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF
9:29:27AM WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAST 10 OR 20 YEARS HAPPENED BECAUSE
9:29:30AM OF WHAT YOU ALL DID IN THE '90s.
9:29:32AM THANK YOU.
9:29:33AM ALSO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID AT THE WESTSHORE ALLIANCE.
9:29:35AM WESTSHORE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND BE ANOTHER OUTSTANDING
9:29:39AM AREA BECAUSE THE VISION YOU SET IN PLACE 20, 30 YEARS AGO.
9:29:45AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THOSE RATS
9:29:46AM YOU SAVED, THEIR GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT
9:29:51AM GRANDCHILDREN ARE NOW DOG SIZE -- THEY MORPHED -- AND THEY
9:29:54AM ARE ALL LIVING ALONG BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AND HYDE PARK.
9:29:55AM IF YOU COULD HAVE GONE BACK, WE'D APPRECIATE NOT SAVING THE
9:29:59AM RATS.
9:29:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:30:01AM WE APPRECIATE YOU VERY MUCH.
9:30:12AM IN A MOMENT, COUNCILMAN VIERA PRESENTING TO CAPTAIN KURT.
9:31:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:31:11AM IT'S MY GREAT PLEASURE TO HONOR FOR HIS 30 YEARS OF SERVICE
9:31:16AM TO THE CITY OF TAMPA, TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT, CAPTAIN KURT
9:31:21AM ROJKA WHO IS HERE WITH HIS WIFE.
9:31:25AM CHIEF BERCAW IS HERE TO PAY HONOR TO THIS VERY GOOD MAN.
9:31:28AM CAPTAIN ROJKA HAS SERVED OUR CITY FOR 30 YEARS IN UNIFORM
9:31:33AM THROUGH TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:31:33AM HE IS KNOWN AS A MAN OF INTEGRITY, A MAN OF FAITH, A MAN OF
9:31:37AM COMMUNITY, AS A MAN OF FAMILY.
9:31:41AM HIS DEDICATION TO A KEY NUMBER OF PROGRAMS HERE THROUGHOUT
9:31:45AM HIS THREE DECADES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:31:46AM FIRST IS THE ISSUE OF PREVENTION OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
9:31:50AM WITH OUR YOUTH.
9:31:51AM SOMETHING THAT'S VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THIS MAN'S HEART.
9:31:54AM SOMETHING IS HOMELESS SERVICES.
9:31:56AM SOMETHING THAT THEN CHIEF BENNETT CHAMPIONED ALMOST 15 YEARS
9:32:00AM AGO IN 2012 HAS BEEN VERY, VERY CLOSE TO CAPTAIN ROJKA'S
9:32:05AM HEART.
9:32:05AM AND LAST, SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DEALT WITH HIM ON THAT I KNOW
9:32:10AM IS VERY CLOSE TO CITY COUNCIL'S HEART AND TO THE COMMUNITY'S
9:32:14AM HEART IS OUR MENTAL HEALTH UNIT HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:32:17AM SOMETHING THAT HE CHAMPIONED, THAT CAPTAIN ROJKA, CHAMPIONED
9:32:18AM IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT.
9:32:20AM HE'S BRIEFED US A FEW TIMES HERE ON TAMPA CITY COUNCIL ON IT
9:32:24AM AND VERY, VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THAT.
9:32:25AM WHAT UNITES ALL THESE THREE AREAS HE HAS CHAMPIONED WITH
9:32:29AM TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A REAL COMMITMENT TO PEOPLE, TO
9:32:34AM HUMAN SERVICES, KNOWING THAT THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME ISN'T
9:32:37AM JUST A FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENT CRIME.
9:32:39AM IT'S ALSO A FIGHT ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENT CRIME.
9:32:43AM WHEN I WAS DOING RESEARCH, I FOUND A POTENTIALLY TRAGIC
9:32:47AM INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS IN NORTH TAMPA
9:32:50AM WHERE YOU ALMOST HAD A COLUMBINE SITUATION OUT THERE.
9:32:54AM YOU HIGHLIGHTED, SIR, 2012, THE MENTAL HEALTH COMPONENT OF
9:32:57AM THAT.
9:32:58AM TIME AND TIME AGAIN WITH THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT,
9:33:01AM CAPTAIN ROJKA WOULD SEE HOW THE HUMAN ELEMENT WOULD
9:33:04AM INTERTWINE WITH CRIME.
9:33:05AM IN TERMS OF BACKGROUND, HE IS A TAMPA NATIVE.
9:33:08AM LIKE MANY OF OUR TAMPA POLICE OFFICERS AND TAMPA
9:33:10AM FIREFIGHTERS, HE IS A VETERAN, HAVING SERVED THE UNITED
9:33:13AM STATES ARMY FOR FOUR YEARS AND FOUR YEARS ALSO IN THE
9:33:17AM NATIONAL GUARD.
9:33:18AM HE IS VERY, VERY ACTIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY AS A CHURCH-GOER,
9:33:22AM GOOD SOUTHERN BAPTIST AND ALSO DOES WONDERFUL WORK WITH AN
9:33:25AM ORGANIZATION THAT I'VE SEEN HIM IN THROUGH THE CHILDREN'S
9:33:27AM NETWORK OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
9:33:29AM SOMETHING VERY CLOSE TO HIS HEART, DEALING WITH HUMAN
9:33:32AM WELFARE, ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES ADOPTION AND FOSTER
9:33:36AM PARENTING.
9:33:36AM AGAIN, THE THINGS THAT UNITE ALL OF THESE THINGS IS CAPTAIN
9:33:41AM ROJKA'S DEDICATION TO HUMAN WELFARE.
9:33:43AM SIR, FOR YOUR MANY YEARS OF SERVICE, BOTH IN THE MILITARY AS
9:33:47AM WELL AS 30 YEARS HERE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA, WE JUST WANTED
9:33:50AM TO HONOR YOU, SIR, BECAUSE WE APPRECIATE YOU.
9:33:52AM WE APPRECIATE YOUR CHARACTER, YOUR INTEGRITY.
9:33:54AM FOR THAT AND SO MUCH MORE, SIR, WE ARE HERE TO HONOR YOU,
9:33:57AM SIR.
9:33:58AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:34:00AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:34:00AM I KNOW CHIEF BERCAW WOULD LIKE TO SAY WORDS ABOUT THIS GOOD
9:34:06AM MAN.
9:34:06AM >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
9:34:07AM YOU HIGHLIGHTED SO MANY THINGS, BUT OUR WELLNESS PROGRAM,
9:34:11AM TAKING CARE OF OUR OFFICERS WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS TODAY IF
9:34:14AM IT WAS NOT FOR CAPTAIN ROJKA.
9:34:17AM MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, PHYSICAL NEEDS, FINANCIAL NEEDS, THEY
9:34:19AM ARE BETTER EQUIPPED BECAUSE OF HIS INITIATIVE IN STARTING
9:34:22AM THAT PROGRAM.
9:34:23AM THAT IS LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
9:34:25AM YOU HIT SO MANY OF THE HIGHLIGHTS.
9:34:27AM ONE THING I WANTED TO ADD.
9:34:28AM YOU TALK ABOUT ENDING YOUR CAREER ON A HIGHLIGHT, SO WE HAD
9:34:31AM TWO HURRICANES BACK TO BACK AS YOU'RE AWARE OF.
9:34:34AM WE HAD TO CALL IN RESOURCES FROM OTHER AGENCIES ACROSS THE
9:34:37AM STATE TO HELP, HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS.
9:34:39AM AND WHAT CAPTAIN CAN HELP US WITH LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE?
9:34:44AM NOT ONLY DID HE VOLUNTEER FOR IT, HE MADE IT SO IMPRESSIVE
9:34:47AM THAT ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES WERE LIKE, WOW, TAMPA HAS THEIR
9:34:50AM ACT TOGETHER, THEY ARE SO ORGANIZED AND THAT'S ALL BECAUSE
9:34:53AM OF THIS CAPTAIN HERE.
9:34:54AM YOU'VE DONE SO MUCH FOR THIS ORGANIZATION THAT WE'RE JUST SO
9:34:57AM INDEBTED TO YOU.
9:34:58AM THE IMPACT THAT YOU LEAVE WILL BE FOR LEGACIES TO COME.
9:35:02AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:35:07AM >>LUIS VIERA: ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL CITY OF TAMPA AND
9:35:10AM GRATEFUL POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE WOULD LIKE TO HONOR YOU.
9:35:20AM >> COUNCILMAN VIERA, CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU.
9:35:23AM CHIEF BERCAW, YOU AND I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, AND
9:35:27AM BOSS FOR MANY YEARS.
9:35:29AM ALWAYS BEEN A PLEASURE, SIR, TO WORK WITH YOU AND TO ALL OF
9:35:31AM OUR STAFF HERE, I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND
9:35:38AM FRIENDSHIP.
9:35:39AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:35:39AM WHEN I STARTED IN POLICING IN 1995, I HEAR MR. ROTELLA SPEAK
9:35:45AM OF NEW TAMPA, HOME DEPOT WAS NOT THERE.
9:35:49AM I THINK IT WAS HUNTER'S GREEN, PEBBLE CREEK, AND NEW TAMPA
9:35:52AM -- SORRY, TAMPA PALMS.
9:35:54AM THAT WAS IT.
9:35:55AM THERE WERE NO BUSINESSES TO SPEAK OF UP THERE AND TWO
9:35:57AM OFFICERS THAT PATROLLED REGULARLY AND THAT WAS IT.
9:36:01AM WE'VE SEEN IT DEVELOP QUITE A BIT.
9:36:03AM I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT I'VE HAD AT THE
9:36:06AM TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:36:07AM YOU HIGHLIGHTED THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH UNITS.
9:36:10AM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'M VERY PROUD
9:36:13AM OF THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT
9:36:15AM I DID WITH IT BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY THE SMALL PIECE OF IT.
9:36:18AM IT WAS THE FACT THAT THE CITY WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON THAT
9:36:21AM PROJECT AND HOUSE WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND FOR IT TO
9:36:27AM CARRY ON WITH THE LEGACY OF OTHERS WHO WILL COME BEHIND AND
9:36:30AM MAKE THAT GROW, IT'S REALLY A SPECIAL PROJECT THAT I GOT TO
9:36:35AM BE A PART OF EARLY ON.
9:36:37AM I'M ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO THE CITY TO HAVE BEEN A POLICE
9:36:41AM OFFICER HERE.
9:36:42AM IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING.
9:36:47AM PROBABLY THE BEST CAREER I COULD EVER ASK FOR.
9:36:49AM THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
9:36:50AM SIR, THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENDATION TODAY.
9:36:52AM IT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME.
9:36:53AM CHIEF, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR ME, ALL THE
9:36:56AM SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS.
9:36:57AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:36:58AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:37:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:37:06AM >> THANK YOU.
9:37:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE NEXT ITEM WILL BE TO HONOR THE
9:37:17AM PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.
9:37:41AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HONORABLE CHAIR, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL,
9:37:43AM HONORABLE MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, AGAIN, IT IS MY
9:37:45AM PLEASURE TO BE BEFORE THIS HONORABLE GROUP.
9:37:49AM TODAY IS A DAY THAT WE CALL PURCHASING DEPARTMENT STAFF
9:37:53AM DESIGNATING PURCHASING MONTH THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
9:37:55AM WE'RE SO PROUD OF WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PURCHASING
9:38:00AM DEPARTMENT.
9:38:00AM DEANNA FAGGART JUST TOOK OVER THIS ABOUT A YEAR AGO OR SO.
9:38:01AM TIME DOES FLY BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.
9:38:08AM SHE TOOK OVER FROM ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD DONE AN
9:38:11AM OUTSTANDING JOB AND HERSELF DOING THE SAME OUTSTANDING JOB
9:38:13AM FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND ALL AROUND THE OTHER
9:38:17AM COMMUNITIES.
9:38:17AM IT IS MY PLEASURE TODAY TO PRESENT THIS COMMENDATION ON
9:38:22AM BEHALF OF ALL THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND WHAT YOU
9:38:25AM CONTINUE TO DO ON A DAILY BASIS.
9:38:27AM THIS IS YOUR MONTH TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE NOT
9:38:31AM ONLY FOR THE CITY BUT ANYBODY UNDERSTANDING WHAT PURCHASING
9:38:34AM IS DOING, THE STRESS, COMMODITY, CHANGING OF PRICES, PRODUCT
9:38:39AM CHANGES AND WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?
9:38:43AM CITY OF TAMPA, CITY COUNCIL PRESENTS THIS COMMENDATION ON
9:38:48AM BEHALF OF ALL OF THE SEVEN COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OVER 400,000
9:38:51AM PEOPLE.
9:38:52AM CITY PURCHASING DEPARTMENT RECEIVE ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT OF
9:38:55AM EXCELLENCE PROCUREMENT AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL PURCHASING
9:38:57AM INSTITUTE FOR 18 CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
9:39:01AM THAT'S NOT SOMEBODY WE HIRE.
9:39:03AM THAT'S SOMEBODY THAT COMES AND CHECK ON WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
9:39:05AM WE, MEANING YOUR DEPARTMENT AND UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.
9:39:08AM WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE IS CREATE AN
9:39:12AM AMBIENCE, FUTURE AMBIENCE FOR ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS YOU THAT
9:39:16AM THOSE SHOES MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT SIZE, BUT YOU HAVE TO STEP
9:39:20AM FORWARD AND DO WHAT, THE JOB THAT ALL OF YOU DO FOR THE CITY
9:39:23AM OF TAMPA.
9:39:24AM BECAUSE YOU DON'T MAKE NOISE BUT YOU DO DO A LOT OF
9:39:27AM PURCHASING AND SAVE A LOT OF MONEY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:39:29AM WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT.
9:39:31AM CITY COUNCIL OF TAMPA, PREVIOUSLY ISSUED THIS COMMENDATION
9:39:34AM TO THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT YEARLY FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE
9:39:37AM TO THE CITY AND ALL DEPARTMENTS.
9:39:40AM YOU WORK WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY, WHATEVER THEY
9:39:43AM NEED, YOU ARE THE GO-TO PERSON, STAFF THAT DOES THE WORK AND
9:39:46AM MAKE SURE IT IS DONE AND IT'S NOT EASY.
9:39:48AM ONE DAY I WISH I COULD SHOW EVERYBODY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA
9:39:52AM WHAT YOU GO THROUGH ON A DAILY BASIS TO GET THINGS WHAT YOU
9:39:55AM REALLY NEED IN AN ECONOMY THRIVING AND NOW THE TARIFF GO UP
9:39:59AM MAYBE 25%.
9:40:01AM NOT IN TAMPA.
9:40:05AM I WANTED TO MAKE THIS COMMENDATION PRESENTED TO THE LEADER,
9:40:08AM DEANNA FAGGART, FOR OUTSTANDING STAFF AND THE WORK YOU HAVE
9:40:14AM DONE THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR THAT WE'VE HAD YOU IN CHARGE AND
9:40:17AM ALL THE MEMBERS OF YOUR STAFF.
9:40:19AM I'M SURE YOU GO A LITTLE MORE ELABORATE ON WHAT YOU DO AND
9:40:23AM HOW YOU DO IT AND HOW MUCH COSTS ARE GOING UP.
9:40:25AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WHO YOU ARE.
9:40:27AM ALL OF YOU.
9:40:30AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:40:32AM >>DEANNA FAGGART: THANK YOU.
9:40:34AM DEANNA FAGGART, DIRECTOR OF PURCHASING.
9:40:37AM I AM ACCEPTING THIS COMMENDATION ON BEHALF OF THE STAFF WHO
9:40:43AM DO AN AMAZING JOB.
9:40:46AM WITH US HERE, WE'VE GOT SHERYL ALDRIDGE, THE PROCUREMENT
9:40:52AM SYSTEMS MANAGER.
9:40:53AM DAVID OUR INTERIM PROCUREMENT MANAGER AND WE HAVE THE STAFF
9:40:57AM THAT SUPPORT YOU ALL EVERY DAY HERE WITH US.
9:41:00AM THIS TEAM PUTS OUT ABOUT 200 SOLICITATIONS A YEAR.
9:41:05AM WE COME BEFORE COUNCIL I THINK ABOUT 180 TIMES A YEAR OR
9:41:09AM SOMETHING.
9:41:10AM WE'RE BUSY EVERY DAY.
9:41:13AM THIS AGENDA ALONE WE HAVE 28 ITEMS.
9:41:15AM THEY ARE A HARDWORKING STAFF.
9:41:20AM EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS IN THE SUNSHINE IS TRANSPARENT, AND
9:41:25AM WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL THAT.
9:41:27AM WE'RE WORKING HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL HAVE THAT FAITH
9:41:31AM IN US.
9:41:32AM AS CHARLIE -- EXCUSE ME, AS COUNCILMAN MIRANDA MENTIONED,
9:41:37AM ACHIEVED THE EXCELLENCE IN PROCUREMENT AWARD FROM THE
9:41:44AM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PROCUREMENT.
9:41:47AM 18 YEARS IN A ROW.
9:41:48AM EVERY YEAR THEY CHANGE THE CRITERIA FOR THAT.
9:41:51AM IT'S NOT A ONE AND DONE.
9:41:53AM YOU DON'T JUST KEEP SUBMITTING THE SAME APPLICATION.
9:41:56AM EVERY SINGLE YEAR THEY CHANGE THE CRITERIA AND THE PURPOSE
9:41:59AM OF THAT IS TO MAINTAIN THOSE BEST PRACTICES TO MAKE SURE
9:42:02AM THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THE BEST PROCEDURES AND ALL OF THAT.
9:42:06AM WE JUST APPRECIATE THE COMMENDATION.
9:42:10AM WE APPRECIATE THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PURCHASING MONTH WHICH
9:42:14AM FALLS IN MARCH EVERY YEAR.
9:42:16AM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL DO EVERY DAY TO
9:42:18AM SUPPORT US AS WELL.
9:42:19AM THANK YOU.
9:42:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:42:21AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:42:21AM CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND YOUR DEPARTMENT.
9:42:28AM EVERYBODY HERE, WITH YOU, BESIDE YOU, BEHIND YOU, THANK YOU
9:42:32AM FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK BECAUSE IT'S NOT EASY.
9:42:35AM IT'S NOT EASY AND WE APPRECIATE YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.
9:42:38AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:42:38AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:42:39AM WE'LL TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AS FOLKS STEP OUT AND WE'LL GO INTO
9:43:04AM PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:43:05AM I'LL TAKE THE THREE REGISTERED SPEAKERS FIRST.
9:43:09AM THE ON-AGENDA SPEAKERS AND THE OFF-AGENDA SPEAKERS.
9:43:13AM FIRST SPEAKER ONLINE IS MR. MICHAEL RANDOLPH FOLLOWED BY
9:43:17AM CARROLL ANN BENNETT AND MS. ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ.
9:43:21AM GOOD MORNING, MR. RANDOLPH.
9:43:23AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:43:25AM >> YES, FOR SURE.
9:43:26AM MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
9:43:29AM I'M WITH THE WEST TAMPA CDC.
9:43:31AM I'LL START OFF BY SHARING WITH YOU THAT SELECTED AS THE
9:43:39AM NEWEST MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WITH THE ENCORE
9:43:43AM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
9:43:45AM THANK YOU FOR RECOMMENDING ME.
9:43:49AM I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE CRA, REPRESENTATIVE SHARED HER
9:43:56AM EFFORTS TO EXTEND THE TIMELINE FOR PROJECTS FOR THE CRA.
9:44:02AM UNFORTUNATELY IT FAILED.
9:44:03AM WE MUST PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSING THE CRA.
9:44:06AM IN THAT EVENT, WE MUST EMBRACE THE OUT-OF-THE-BOX THINKING
9:44:13AM AND TURN TO ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVE TO -- THE COMMUNITY
9:44:21AM BENEFIT AGREEMENT KNOWN AS THE CBA.
9:44:24AM BY UTILIZING THE CBA, WE CAN DEVELOP AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
9:44:29AM EXTEND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE
9:44:33AM SOLUTIONS THAT ADDRESS OUR NEEDS.
9:44:34AM A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THIS INNOVATION IS THE WEST TAMPA CDC
9:44:39AM MODEL.
9:44:39AM THE CBA, WEST TAMPA CDC WILL ESTABLISH A WEST TAMPA
9:44:46AM TECHNOLOGY AND WEALTH BUILDING AND JOB CREATION INCENTIVE
9:44:51AM OVER 30 RESIDENT OWNED BUSINESSES AND 15 TO 20 NEW JOBS OVER
9:44:56AM THE NEXT FIVE YEARS TO INCREASE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BY
9:45:02AM INCORPORATING THIS INITIATIVE WE ENSURE THAT WE PROVIDE
9:45:09AM ASSISTANCE, ANYONE FROM THE DROPOUT TO THE COLLEGE GRADUATE.
9:45:12AM WEST TAMPA CDC UPDATE.
9:45:14AM THE WEST TAMPA CDC IS ALSO PIONEERING IN THE INTEGRATION OF
9:45:21AM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO MAXIMIZE THIS IMPACT.
9:45:23AM THIS TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH WILL ALLOW A LEAN STAFF OF
9:45:28AM THREE TO HANDLE THE WORKLOAD TYPICALLY BY TEN EMPLOYEES.
9:45:33AM BY LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WE CAN RECEIVE
9:45:37AM EXCEPTIONAL A PERFORMANCE, COST EFFICIENCY, AND OPERATIONAL
9:45:41AM IMPROVEMENTS.
9:45:42AM THIS INNOVATIVE MODEL STREAMLINES THE PROCESS, MOVES
9:45:47AM PRODUCTIVITY AND EMPOWERS COMMUNITY.
9:45:49AM FINALLY, I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO RON AND HIS SERVICES
9:45:54AM TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:45:55AM I MET RON ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO WHEN WE BOTH SERVED ON THE
9:46:00AM UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AND REAL ESTATE
9:46:05AM DEVELOPMENT.
9:46:05AM I LEARNED A LOT FROM HIM IN TERMS OF NEGOTIATION.
9:46:08AM THANK YOU.
9:46:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. RANDOLPH.
9:46:11AM CARROLL ANN BENNETT, ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ.
9:46:14AM CARROLL ANN, IF YOU ARE ON, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND GO
9:46:16AM AHEAD.
9:46:16AM IF YOU WOULD UNMUTE YOURSELF.
9:46:29AM >> HI.
9:46:30AM MY NAME IS CARROLL ANN BENNETT.
9:46:32AM I'M A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF TAMPA.
9:46:33AM FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, ALMOST EVERY COMMUNITY GATHERING I
9:46:38AM ATTENDED, WHETHER AROUND A KITCHEN TABLE, COFFEE WITH CASTOR
9:46:41AM OR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING, EVENTUALLY SOMEONE ENDS
9:46:44AM UP SAYING WE DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, SO
9:46:47AM WE HAVE TO WALK IN THE STREET.
9:46:49AM THE CODE REQUIRES THAT THE CITY CHARGES THEIR AVERAGE COST
9:46:55AM OF INSTALLING A SIDEWALK FOR THE IN LIEU OF FEE.
9:46:58AM THAT SHOULD BE AUTOMATIC, PERIOD.
9:47:01AM WE HAVEN'T RAISED THE IN LIEU OF FEE FOR 15 YEARS BECAUSE
9:47:06AM FOR SOME REASON CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO VOTE ON IT.
9:47:09AM THAT ENDS UP GETTING POLITICIZED, BACK AND FORTH, HEMMING
9:47:13AM AND HAWING, CITY RESOURCES ARE WASTED.
9:47:16AM PEOPLE'S TIME IS WASTED.
9:47:17AM THE CODE IS CLEAR ON THE INTENT.
9:47:19AM IT SHOULD JUST BE AUTOMATIC.
9:47:21AM WHEN BUILDERS SAY THAT INCREASING THE FEE TO THE CITY'S COST
9:47:26AM IS GOING TO INCREASE HOUSING, THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
9:47:30AM BUILDERS CHARGE MARKET RATE, PERIOD.
9:47:32AM IF THEY SAVE $500 ON A FEE, THEY DON'T CHARGE $500 LESS FOR
9:47:36AM THE HOUSE.
9:47:37AM IF THEY CAN REDUCE THE COST OF BUILDING A HOUSE, IT
9:47:40AM INCREASES THEIR PROFIT, PERIOD.
9:47:42AM IT'S ALL MARKET DRIVEN.
9:47:44AM WHO DO THEY THINK PAYS IF THEY DON'T?
9:47:48AM IT'S NOT SANTA CLAUS.
9:47:50AM THE CITY HAS TO PAY.
9:47:53AM WHERE DOES THEIR MONEY COME FROM?
9:47:55AM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IT IS THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE TO PAY AND
9:47:57AM MORE EXPENSIVE FOR THE CITY TO INSTALL SIDEWALKS SO
9:48:00AM RESIDENTS END UP PAYING THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICE WHEN
9:48:03AM BUILDERS DON'T INSTALL SIDEWALKS.
9:48:05AM BUILDERS JUST HAVE TO ASK THEMSELVES ONE QUESTION.
9:48:08AM IS IT MORE THAN $220 A FOOT TO INSTALL A SIDEWALK OR LESS?
9:48:13AM IF IT'S LESS, THEN THEY BUILD THE SIDEWALK AND SAVE MONEY.
9:48:16AM IF IT'S MORE THAN 220, THEY PAY THE 220 AND THEY SAVE MONEY.
9:48:20AM THEY NEVER, EVER, EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PAY HIGHER
9:48:26AM THAN WHAT IT -- WHAT THEIR COST IS TO INSTALL A SIDEWALK.
9:48:31AM TAMPA EXCELS AT KILLING OUR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS.
9:48:37AM WE'RE THE BEST AT IT.
9:48:38AM IF KILLING PEOPLE IS OUR GOAL, THEN WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING
9:48:41AM RIGHT.
9:48:42AM IF SAVING LIVES IS OUR GOAL, WE MUST CHANGE EVERYTHING WE'RE
9:48:48AM DOING.
9:48:48AM CARS AREN'T MOWING PEOPLE DOWN ON SIDEWALKS.
9:48:52AM THANK YOU.
9:48:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:48:53AM ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ IS OUR LAST ONLINE SPEAKER.
9:48:56AM THEN WE'LL GO TO THE IN-PERSON ON AGENDA ITEMS.
9:48:59AM ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ, IF YOU ARE ON, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:49:01AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:49:03AM I'D LIKE TO SPEAK THIS MORNING ON CEMETERIES.
9:49:09AM WHAT IS A CEMETERY?
9:49:11AM CEMETERY SERVES AS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THE DECEASED
9:49:15AM PROVIDING A SPACE FOR BURIAL AND REMEMBRANCE.
9:49:18AM OVER TIME, CEREMONIES IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HAVE EVOLVED
9:49:22AM INTO PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, SHOPPING CENTERS
9:49:26AM AND YES, NEW CEMETERIES.
9:49:28AM WOODLAWN CEMETERY IS UNDER THREAT OF DEVELOPMENT ONCE MORE,
9:49:31AM AS YOU ARE LIKELY AWARE.
9:49:34AM THE OWNER HAS PUT THE SAME PARCEL THAT WAS SAVED IN 2022,
9:49:39AM IT'S BEEN PUT UP FOR SALE.
9:49:41AM COUNCIL, IT'S A CEMETERY.
9:49:44AM IT'S A 40-ACRE CEMETERY.
9:49:45AM IT'S BEEN A CEMETERY SINCE 1988.
9:49:49AM TAMPE OS CONSIDERED ALL 40 ACRES TO BE A CEMETERY, WHETHER
9:49:55AM BETH ISRAEL, CENTRO ASTURIANO, IT IS ALL A CEMETERY.
9:50:02AM IN 1900, THE NORTHWEST SECTION OF THE PROPERTY WAS RESERVED
9:50:06AM FOR BLACK BURIALS.
9:50:08AM IN 1951, 63 YEARS AFTER WOODLAWN OPENED, THE NORTHWEST
9:50:13AM SECTION OF THE PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED.
9:50:18AM IF THIS PARCEL FOR SALE IS ZONED RESIDENTIAL, THEN WHY HAS
9:50:26AM SHOWMAN'S REST NOT PAID TAXES IN FIVE AND A HALF DECADES?
9:50:31AM WELL, IT IS A CEMETERY AND THEY ARE EXEMPT FROM PAYING TAXES
9:50:36AM BECAUSE IT IS A CEMETERY.
9:50:38AM ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY
9:50:47AM IN OPPOSITION TO THE REZONING OF THE PARCEL.
9:50:52AM WOODLAWN WAS SAVED, AND WE WERE SO GRATEFUL.
9:50:54AM IN 2023, THE GREEN TEAM HAD GRANDEUR ILLUSIONS OF TURNING
9:51:01AM THE PARCEL INTO A MEMORIAL PARCEL WITH BENCHES, WINDING
9:51:04AM SIDEWALKS, NEWLY PLANTED, TREES.
9:51:06AM BUT AT THE URGING OF THE COMMUNITY, THAT PROJECT HALTED
9:51:10AM SEVERAL DAYS LATER.
9:51:12AM SO HERE WE GO AGAIN, 2025.
9:51:15AM SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAD A FANTASTIC IDEA
9:51:20AM FOR THE CITY TO ALLOCATE FUNDS TO PAY FOR GROUND PENETRATING
9:51:25AM RADAR SCANS SO THAT WE WOULD ALL HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESULTS.
9:51:29AM IF BODIES ARE CONFIRMED, THE CITY WOULD PURCHASE THE
9:51:32AM PROPERTY OR LAND.
9:51:34AM PLEASE CONSIDER PURCHASING THE PARCEL AT SHOWMAN'S REST.
9:51:39AM THE CITY HAS THE MONEY.
9:51:41AM WE HAD THE MONEY FOR HANNA AVENUE, RIVERWALK, FRANKLIN
9:51:44AM STREET.
9:51:45AM THE CITY DOES HAVE THE MONEY.
9:51:47AM OUR PATH SHOULD BE AS IMPORTANT AS OUR FUTURE BECAUSE
9:51:49AM HISTORY MATTERS.
9:51:50AM IN ALL FAIRNESS TO THE OWNER WHO HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SELL HER
9:51:53AM LAND, WE'RE NOT AGAINST THE SALE OF IT, BUT WE ARE AGAINST
9:51:57AM ANY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT ON SACRED GROUND.
9:52:00AM LET'S SHOW RESPECT TO CLARIFY HENRY RUIZ, AKA TED WEBB, ALL
9:52:06AM BURIED IN THE 40-ACRE WOODLAWN CEMETERY.
9:52:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
9:52:10AM THE IN-PERSON SPEAKERS, BETH ALDEN, HUMAIRA AFZAL, STEPHEN
9:52:16AM MICHELINI.
9:52:20AM ON-AGENDA ITEMS.
9:52:22AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:52:22AM BETH ALDEN, A VOLUNTEER WITH WALK BIKE TAMPA.
9:52:26AM I HAVE A LETTER FROM THE WALK BIKE TAMPA BOARD WHICH I'LL
9:52:30AM PROVIDE TO THE CLERK.
9:52:31AM WALK BIKE TAMPA IS A NONPROFIT ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION
9:52:35AM FOCUSED ON PROMOTING SAFE, CONNECTED ROUTES FOR PEOPLE
9:52:38AM WALKING OR RIDING A BIKE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
9:52:40AM THE WALK BIKE TAMPA BOARD URGES YOU TO PASS THE RESOLUTION,
9:52:45AM NUMBER 99 IN HAD YOUR AGENDA, ESTABLISHING THE UPDATED FEE
9:52:49AM FOR PAYMENT TO THE SIDEWALK TRUST FUND WHEN INSTALLATION OF
9:52:53AM A SIDEWALK IS NOT PRACTICAL FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
9:52:55AM UPDATES TO SECTIONS 22-103 AND 22-104 OF CITY CODE MADE IN
9:53:01AM UP WITH IT, SIGNIFICANTLY STRENGTHENED BUILDER REQUIREMENTS
9:53:03AM FOR INSTALLATION OF SIDEWALKS WHICH MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES
9:53:07AM SAFER AND MORE WELCOMING TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND
9:53:10AM INCREASE PROPERTY VALUES AND HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES.
9:53:13AM BUT THE IN LIEU FEE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS TO
9:53:17AM SIDEWALK INSTALLATION FOR CHALLENGING LOCATIONS HAS NOT BEEN
9:53:19AM UPDATED SINCE 2010.
9:53:22AM AT $29 PER LINEAR FOOT, THE FEE DOES NOT REFLECT THE ACTUAL
9:53:26AM COST OF INSTALLATION OF A SIDEWALK.
9:53:29AM INSTEAD, INCREASING THE PROPOSED IN LIEU OF FEE TO $220 PER
9:53:33AM LINEAR FOOT COVERS THE CITY'S ACTUAL COSTS FOR SIDEWALK
9:53:38AM CONSTRUCTION AND WILL EXPEDITE REDUCING THE MANY MILES OF
9:53:42AM GAPS IN TAMPA'S SIDEWALK NETWORK.
9:53:44AM IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT I PERSONALLY INSTALLED A
9:53:49AM SIDEWALK WHEN I BUILT AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT ON MY
9:53:53AM PROPERTY.
9:53:53AM IT WAS PART OF THE LAST GAP ON MY BLOCK.
9:53:57AM AND AFTERWARDS, MY NEIGHBOR WHO USES A ROLLATOR, USED THAT
9:54:04AM SIDEWALK TO GET DOWN THE BLOCK TO HER BROTHER'S HOUSE BACK
9:54:08AM AND FORTH.
9:54:09AM I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT SHE WAS GOING OUT INTO THE ROAD
9:54:16AM TO GET AROUND MY PROPERTY BEFORE I INSTALLED THAT SIDEWALK.
9:54:20AM IT WAS A VERY MINOR COST AS PART OF MY OVERALL PROJECT.
9:54:24AM I'M SO GLAD TO BE PART OF COMPLETING THAT SIDEWALK GAP.
9:54:28AM WE ASK TAMPA CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE THIS FEE INCREASE TO
9:54:32AM PROVIDE THE CITY WITH THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO IMPROVE THE
9:54:35AM SAFETY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
9:54:36AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND SUPPORT OF THIS CRITICAL
9:54:39AM FINANCIAL NEED.
9:54:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:54:41AM HUMAIRA AFZAL, STEVE MICHELINI, STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:54:52AM >> HI.
9:54:52AM HUMAIRA AFZAL.
9:54:54AM I LOVE THE STORY SHE JUST TOLD.
9:54:56AM I GUARANTEE YOU THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF STORIES ALL OVER THE
9:54:59AM CITY ABOUT HOW THINGS LIKE ADDING A SIDEWALK WILL LITERALLY
9:55:03AM CHANGE SOMEBODY'S LIFE.
9:55:05AM FIRST, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ITEM 91, THE PARKING ORDINANCE.
9:55:08AM WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT, I WAS HOPEFUL THERE MIGHT BE A WAY TO
9:55:13AM INCLUDE ELEMENTS TO KEEP DRIVERS FROM PARKING IN BIKE LANES.
9:55:16AM I SENT AN E-MAIL.
9:55:17AM I DID GET PROMPT RESPONSES.
9:55:20AM UNFORTUNATELY CAN'T DO SOME OF THE THINGS DUE TO FLORIDA
9:55:22AM STATUTE.
9:55:23AM I AM FRUSTRATED THAT THE FOCUS OF THE NEW PARKING ORDINANCE
9:55:25AM IS ON CAPTURING MORE REVENUE AND THAT THERE REALLY DOES NOT
9:55:30AM SEEM THAT THERE WAS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO ALSO SEE IF THERE
9:55:33AM ARE WAYS TO MAKE TAMPA SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS
9:55:39AM IN UPDATING THAT ORDINANCE.
9:55:40AM I AM ENCOURAGED THAT SOME OF THE CITY STAFF SAID THAT THEY
9:55:43AM ARE WORKING ON SOME OTHER IDEAS TO ACHIEVE THAT, AND I LOOK
9:55:47AM FORWARD TO HEARING MORE ABOUT IT.
9:55:50AM MEANWHILE, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE SOME OF THE NEW REVENUE
9:55:53AM THAT YOU WILL GET FROM THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY IN THAT
9:55:55AM ORDINANCE, SUCH AS CAMERA ENFORCED PARKING, AND USE IT FOR
9:55:59AM THINGS LIKE ADDING MORE SIGNAGE, DON'T PARK IN THE BIKE
9:56:03AM LANE.
9:56:04AM ALSO REPLACE BOLLARDS TO KEEP CARS OUT OF THE PROTECTED BIKE
9:56:08AM LANES.
9:56:08AM I EMPHASIZE THE PROTECTED BIKE LANES BECAUSE THEY ARE AN
9:56:11AM IMPORTANT ENTRY POINT FOR BICYCLISTS AND FAMILIES.
9:56:15AM PEOPLE FEEL SAFE BIKING IN THEM.
9:56:17AM IT IS AN IMPORTANT ENTRY POINT.
9:56:19AM I BIKE ON NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS ALL THE TIME BUT I'VE BEEN
9:56:22AM BIKING FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS AND I FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING
9:56:25AM THAT.
9:56:26AM IT'S REALLY CRAZY THAT WE HAVE THESE AMAZING, PROTECTED BIKE
9:56:29AM LANES THAT ARE NOT ACTUALLY PROTECTED.
9:56:31AM BIKES, WHY ARE BIKES IMPORTANT?
9:56:33AM THEY GET CARS OFF OF THE ROAD, NUMBER ONE.
9:56:36AM THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU WILL REDUCE CONGESTION WITHOUT
9:56:40AM GETTING CARS OFF THE ROAD.
9:56:42AM FOR EVERY TIME A PERSON CAN TAKE A TRIP BY A BUS, BY A BIKE,
9:56:47AM BY WALKING, THAT IS A CAR OFF THE ROAD.
9:56:50AM THEY ARE BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
9:56:51AM THEY ARE A LOT CHEAPER THAN A CAR.
9:56:53AM MAINTAINING BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IS ALSO A LOT CHEAPER THAN
9:56:58AM BUILDING AND MAINTAINING ROADS.
9:57:01AM WITH MY BIKE FULLY LOADED WITH GROCERIES, IT'S ABOUT 150
9:57:05AM POUNDS, INCLUDING ME.
9:57:06AM THE AVERAGE MIDSIZE SUV IS ABOUT 5,000 POUNDS.
9:57:11AM WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK PUTS MORE WEAR AND TEAR ON THE ROAD?
9:57:15AM ALSO HEALTH BENEFITS.
9:57:16AM BUILDS COMMUNITY, ALL KINDS OF THINGS LIKE THAT.
9:57:19AM ITEM 99, PLEASE VOTE YES.
9:57:22AM TAMPA DESPERATELY NEEDS MORE SIDEWALKS.
9:57:25AM AGAIN, THE CITY NEEDS TO GET MORE CREATIVE IN FINDING WAYS
9:57:28AM TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM PARKING ON THE SIDEWALKS.
9:57:31AM NO POINT IN BUILDING ALL THOSE WONDERFUL NEW SIDEWALKS IF
9:57:34AM THEY ARE JUST GOING TO BE COVERED WITH CARS, BOATS,
9:57:38AM TRAILERS, PORTA-POTTIES, ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS.
9:57:43AM EXPECTING PEOPLE TO CALL IN EVERY VIOLATION, I CALL PARKING
9:57:45AM ALL THE TIME.
9:57:46AM THEY ARE VERY RESPONSIVE.
9:57:48AM EXPECTING PEOPLE TO CALL IN EVERY VIOLATION IS SIMPLY NOT
9:57:53AM GOING TO WORK.
9:57:53AM I'M SURE CITY STAFF CAN COME UP WITH CREATIVE WAYS.
9:57:57AM THINGS LIKE SIGNAGE.
9:57:59AM KEEP STUFF OFF THE SIDEWALKS.
9:58:00AM VOTE YES, THOUGH.
9:58:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
9:58:02AM STEPHEN MICHELINI, STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:58:05AM JASON --
9:58:07AM >> STEVE MICHELINI.
9:58:09AM I'M HERE REGARDING THE IN LIEU FEE REGARDING SIDEWALKS.
9:58:12AM I'VE LOOKED AT THE ANALYSIS THAT THE CITY HAD GIVEN ME
9:58:19AM REGARDING THEIR COSTS, AND THEY HAVE INCLUDED A SIGNIFICANT
9:58:23AM NUMBER OF THINGS THAT PROBABLY YOU SHOULDN'T INCLUDE.
9:58:27AM THEY ALSO ARE ANALYZING 800 LINEAR FEET ON ONE PROJECT, 1500
9:58:32AM LINEAR FEET ON ANOTHER ONE AND 1750 FEET ON ANOTHER ONE.
9:58:36AM THE IN LIEU FEE IS FOR LIKE 50-FOOT LOTS AND 60-FOOT LOTS.
9:58:42AM YOU CAN'T COMPARE THOSE COSTS.
9:58:44AM LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THE CITY ACTUALLY IS PAYING FOR
9:58:46AM SIDEWALKS.
9:58:49AM THIS IS FROM THE ANALYSIS THEY PROVIDED TO ME.
9:58:51AM THEIR ACTUAL COSTS ARE $63.25 AND 97 FOR -- $97.75.
9:59:04AM THIS CAME FROM THE ANALYSIS THAT THEY PROVIDED TO ME.
9:59:08AM HERE ARE THE LINKS.
9:59:12AM 800 LINEAR FEET, 1500 LINEAR FEET, 1750 LINEAR FEET.
9:59:19AM TYPICAL SMALL SCALE PROJECT IS 50 TO 100 FEET MAXIMUM.
9:59:24AM I ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF BIDS THAT WERE PROVIDED THAT ARE
9:59:29AM ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION BIDS.
9:59:37AM WHAT THE CITY BASED THEIR ANALYSIS ON APPEARS TO BE
9:59:40AM ESTIMATES FROM AN ENGINEERING COMPANY.
9:59:44AM BUT THESE ARE ACTUAL COSTS PER PROJECTS THAT WENT IN THIS
9:59:49AM PAST YEAR, $23 A LINEAR FOOT.
9:59:55AM AGAIN, IF YOU THINK ABOUT A LOT THAT'S 50 FEET WIDE, 20
10:00:02AM FEET, 24 FEET OF THAT COMES OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY.
10:00:05AM SO THAT REMAINS 30 FEET, NOT THESE 1500 LINEAR FEET PROJECTS
10:00:10AM THAT YOU'RE SEEING.
10:00:13AM THIS ONE IS FROM STERLING BAY.
10:00:15AM GARY BROWN, 3395 PER LINEAR FOOT.
10:00:20AM HERE IS ANOTHER ONE, $1,210.
10:00:25AM LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THEY HAVE INCLUDED IN HERE.
10:00:28AM TREE REMOVAL, CLEARING -- FIRE HYDRANTS.
10:00:37AM ANYWAY, YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK.
10:00:42AM I'VE HIGHLIGHTED THIS.
10:00:44AM THERMOPLASTIC, UTILITY FIXTURES, TREE PROTECTION.
10:00:49AM USUALLY THE TREE IN LIEU FEE IS USED WHEN YOU HAVE A GRAND
10:00:53AM TREE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT YOU CAN'T REMOVE.
10:00:56AM TRY GOING TO THE VARIANCE BOARD AND TELL THEM YOU WANT TO
10:00:59AM REMOVE A TREE BECAUSE OF A SIDEWALK, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
10:01:02AM WE NEED TO COMPARE LIKE COSTS TO LIKE COSTS.
10:01:06AM HAPPY TO WORK WITH THE CITY STAFF TO COME UP WITH AN
10:01:09AM ANALYSIS OF A REAL VALUE.
10:01:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:01:12AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:01:13AM >> DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH PASSING AND CHANGING IT.
10:01:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:01:18AM STEPHANIE POYNOR, JASON ASHTON, LINDA --
10:01:25AM >> STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:01:27AM MR. MICHELINI SHOWED YOU A BUNCH OF DEVELOPERS WHO INSTALLED
10:01:32AM SIDEWALKS.
10:01:32AM NOT MY PROBLEM.
10:01:34AM GREAT THING.
10:01:34AM THEY SHOULD ALL INSTALL SIDEWALKS UNLESS THEY CAN'T AND THEN
10:01:37AM THEY PAY THE CITY TO DO IT.
10:01:39AM KNOW WHY THE CITY HAS TO PAY MORE?
10:01:40AM BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO ALL THE CRAZY THINGS IN ORDER TO DO
10:01:43AM IT.
10:01:44AM LET'S BE REAL HERE.
10:01:45AM YOU CAN PAY THE CHEAP PRICE AND DO IT YOURSELF OR PAY THE
10:01:48AM MORE EXPENSIVE PRICE AND LET THE CITY DO IT FOR YOU.
10:01:51AM SORRY, NOT SORRY.
10:01:53AM IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
10:01:56AM OF COURSE, I PULLED THIS DATA EXACTLY FROM THE LAST TIME THE
10:01:59AM SIDEWALK STUFF CAME.
10:02:02AM WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY OUT OF POCKET, THE CITY OF TAMPA
10:02:06AM CITIZENS, THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR A NEW SIDEWALK OR
10:02:11AM NEED NEW SIDEWALKS, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WAS PAID IN
10:02:15AM AND PAID OUT WAS $1.9 MILLION THAT THE CITIZENS WOULD BE
10:02:19AM PAYING OUT OF POCKET.
10:02:20AM I FORGOT ABOUT THAT SPREADSHEET UNTIL I GOT UP HERE AND SAW
10:02:23AM MR. MICHELINI PUT HIS UP.
10:02:25AM DEVELOPMENT CAN BE DONE WELL AND CAN BE DONE HALF-BAKED.
10:02:29AM THAT'S ME PUTTING IT NICELY.
10:02:31AM NUMBER 16 AND 17 ON YOUR AGENDA ALSO SHOW HALF-BAKED
10:02:34AM DEVELOPMENT.
10:02:35AM THAT IS -- THERE ARE ALL THESE LOTS THAT ARE NOT TAKEN CARE
10:02:39AM OF BY PEOPLE WHO TORE DOWN HOMES SO THAT THEY COULD SELL THE
10:02:45AM VACANT LOTS.
10:02:46AM THEN THEY NEGLECT THE VACANT LOTS OVER AND OVER AND OVER
10:02:49AM AGAIN, THE CITY HAS TO GO OUT, MOW THEM, PICK UP GARBAGE,
10:02:53AM CLEAN UP AFTER THEM.
10:02:54AM THAT IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY THIS IS A PROBLEM.
10:02:59AM WE HAVE GREAT DEVELOPERS IN THE CITY WHO DO SIDEWALKS EVERY
10:03:02AM TIME THEY BUILD SOMETHING.
10:03:04AM THEY DO THE STUFF THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
10:03:07AM THEY WORK AROUND TREES.
10:03:09AM THEY FIGURE OUT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS.
10:03:10AM THEN DEVELOPERS WHO ARE LAZY AND WANT TO PAWN IT OFF ON THE
10:03:15AM CITY AND THE CITIZENS.
10:03:16AM WE PAY TAXES, YES, WE PAY THOSE, BUT WE NEED SIDEWALKS
10:03:20AM AROUND SCHOOLS.
10:03:20AM WE NEED SIDEWALKS IN LOTS AND LOTS OF PLACES, EVERY SINGLE
10:03:23AM DAY.
10:03:24AM I JUST SAT BACK THERE IN THE BACK ROW AND ANSWERED AN E-MAIL
10:03:27AM FROM SOMEBODY WHO I NEVER MET BEFORE WHO CONTACTED THAN
10:03:32AM BECAUSE THEY WANT SIDEWALKS.
10:03:34AM WE DON'T HAVE MONEY TO PAY FOR SIDEWALKS, THOSE THAT CAN'T
10:03:37AM PUT A -- ARE NOT PAYING IN SQUAT.
10:03:41AM LET'S GET OVER IT.
10:03:43AM LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR REALISTIC SITUATION.
10:03:46AM 290 LINEAR FEET ON COMMERCE STREET, WHICH IS WHERE WESTSHORE
10:03:52AM TURNS TO GO TO PICNIC ISLAND.
10:03:54AM 300 TRUCKS EVERY SINGLE DAY DRIVE AROUND THAT CURVE.
10:03:57AM BUT YET THE DEVELOPER WHO FILED A LIVE LOCAL, THEY CAN DO
10:04:01AM WHATEVER THEY WANT SAID, OH, WE CAN'T PUT IN SIDEWALKS
10:04:04AM THERE.
10:04:04AM WHY NOT?
10:04:06AM BECAUSE THEY KNOW, OH, YEAH, THEY MIGHT HAVE TO PAY WHATEVER
10:04:12AM MR. MICHELINI SHOWED YOU FOR THEIR SIDEWALK, BUT WE HAVE TO
10:04:15AM PAY THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS MORE.
10:04:19AM WHY DO WE GIFT THEM THEIR SIDEWALKS?
10:04:21AM WHY WOULD YOU GIVE AWAY OUR TAX DOLLARS TO THESE PEOPLE
10:04:26AM BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DO A HALF-ASSED JOB.
10:04:29AM HAVE A GOOD DAY.
10:04:30AM THANK YOU.
10:04:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JASON ASHTON.
10:04:32AM LINDA PONTICELLI.
10:04:35AM ARE YOU LINDA PONTICELLI?
10:04:49AM >> YES.
10:04:49AM SAME ITEM.
10:04:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU EACH GET THREE MINUTES.
10:04:54AM >> CAN I GO FIRST?
10:04:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
10:04:57AM LINDA PONTICELLI.
10:05:01AM >> MY NAME IS LINDA PONTICELLI.
10:05:04AM CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME OUT.
10:05:05AM I AM HERE TO PLEAD WITH YOU, ALONG WITH SOME OF MY
10:05:08AM NEIGHBORS, FOR ASSISTANCE WITH MY RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS ALLEY
10:05:12AM BETWEEN THE 800 BLOCK OF BRADDOCK AND ALFRED STREET.
10:05:15AM WHEN MY NEW HOUSE WAS BEING BUILT, MY HUSBAND AND I WERE
10:05:20AM INFORMED THAT ANY NEW BUILD WITH ALLEY ACCESS NEEDED TO HAVE
10:05:22AM A GARAGE OFF THE ALLEY.
10:05:24AM THAT WAS NOT OUR PREFERENCE DUE TO THE DIFFICULTIES AND
10:05:27AM INCONVENIENCE, BUT WE LIKE THE LOT AND WERE LED TO BELIEVE
10:05:30AM THE CITY WOULD PAVE IT LIKE ALL THE OTHER ALLEYS IN THE
10:05:32AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:05:33AM THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE ALLEY NORTH OF US WHICH CURRENTLY
10:05:39AM HAS ONE GARAGE ACCESS.
10:05:42AM THIS IS THE ALLEY SOUTH OF US, WHICH HAS TWO GARAGE
10:05:45AM ACCESSES.
10:05:46AM AND THIS IS OUR ALLEY WHICH CURRENTLY HAS EIGHT GARAGE
10:05:50AM ACCESSES.
10:05:51AM IF WE LIVED IN A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR HOME IN RURAL
10:05:59AM FLORIDA, THIS COULD BE ACCEPTABLE, BUT WE LIVE IN A MILLION
10:06:03AM DOLLAR HOME IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, AND THIS IS HOW WE HAVE TO
10:06:06AM ACCESS OUR HOUSE.
10:06:07AM I'VE TRIED FOR 20 MONTHS TO HAVE THE CITY OF TAMPA ADDRESS
10:06:12AM THIS ISSUE.
10:06:12AM I'VE CREATED TICKETS.
10:06:14AM I'VE CALLED DEPARTMENTS AND I'VE GOTTEN NO RESPONSE.
10:06:18AM WHEN WE FIRST MOVED INTO THE HOUSE, OUR ALLEY WAS ABOUT AN
10:06:23AM INCH AND A HALF TO THE TOP OF OUR DRIVEWAY.
10:06:28AM NOW IT'S ALMOST FOUR INCHES BECAUSE THIS IS ERODING DAILY
10:06:33AM WITH ALL THE TRAFFIC.
10:06:35AM THE CITY DID CREATE A SERVICE REQUEST, BUT I WAS INFORMED
10:06:39AM THAT IT IS IN REFERRED STATUS WITH NO UPDATE FOR OUR
10:06:46AM TIMELINE FOR THE WORK TO BE DONE.
10:06:49AM I ALSO WANT TO SHOW YOU THE PROGRESSION OF THE EROSION.
10:06:53AM SO THIS IS GOOGLE MAPS PICTURE OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE ALLEY
10:06:56AM IN 2023.
10:06:59AM NOT TOO BAD.
10:07:01AM THEN THIS IS THE ENTRANCE IN DECEMBER OF 2024, AND THIS IS
10:07:05AM IN MARCH 2025.
10:07:09AM SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S RAPIDLY ERODING.
10:07:12AM I ALSO WANT TO SAY MY HOME AND THE ONE NEXT DOOR TO ME WHICH
10:07:20AM JASON LIVES IN WAS BUILT ON WHAT WAS A SINGLE LOT.
10:07:24AM WE CURRENTLY PAY NEARLY FIVE TIMES THE PROPERTY TAXES OF THE
10:07:28AM OWNERS OF THE ORIGINAL HOUSE THAT WAS ON OUR LOT.
10:07:31AM BECAUSE WE FOLLOWED THE RULES, WE ARE THE ONES PAYING THE
10:07:35AM PRICE.
10:07:36AM IF YOU COULD SOMEHOW MAKE THIS A PRIORITY TO GIVE ME AND MY
10:07:41AM IMMEDIATE ALLEY NEIGHBORS THE QUALITY OF LIFE MY OTHER
10:07:46AM NEIGHBORS HAVE, IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
10:07:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:07:49AM JASON ASHTON, ROBERT PONTICELLI.
10:07:51AM CRYSTAL RICHARDSON, PASTOR WILLIAMS, MENTESNOT.
10:07:59AM >> LIKE TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR LISTENING TO US TODAY.
10:08:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: STATE YOUR NAME, SIR.
10:08:04AM >> JASON ASHTON.
10:08:05AM JUST FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT LINDA SAID.
10:08:09AM IF WE WERE IN THE SITUATION ORIGINALLY, WE WOULD HAVE ALL
10:08:12AM OPTED TO HAVE THE GARAGES IN THE FRONT.
10:08:14AM WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ORDINANCE HAS CHANGED AND WE HAVE, I
10:08:17AM THINK, EIGHT HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON OUR STREET RIGHT
10:08:20AM NOW.
10:08:20AM THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ON THE SAME SIDE WILL HAVE THE ABILITY
10:08:23AM TO PUT IN DRIVEWAYS AND GARAGES IN THE FRONT.
10:08:25AM IT DOESN'T CHANGE THEIR VISIBILITY OR THE AESTHETICS OF THE
10:08:33AM ALLEY WAY LOOKS LIKE.
10:08:36AM THE TRUCKS DOING THE BUILDING ARE COMING AND GOING EVERY
10:08:39AM DAY, AS A RESULT, THE ALLEY WAY IS CONTINUING TO ERODE,
10:08:47AM CONTINUING TO SINK AND JUST CAUSING ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
10:08:50AM IF THIS WAS AN AESTHETIC ISSUE, OBVIOUSLY, A DIFFERENT
10:08:53AM CONVERSATION, PROBABLY NOT HERE, BUT THIS IS MORE A SAFETY
10:08:56AM ISSUE.
10:08:57AM IN ADDITION TO BEING A PROBLEM FOR THE HOMEOWNERS, AS LINDA
10:09:02AM REFERENCED, OUR TAX LIABILITIES HAVE GONE UP CONSIDERABLY.
10:09:06AM AS A RESULT, WE'RE NOT GETTING WHAT I WOULD THINK IS DAY ONE
10:09:11AM MAINTENANCE OR ACCESS FOR THIS ALLEY WAY.
10:09:14AM MORE IMPORTANTLY, ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, I HAVE A TODDLER, A
10:09:16AM THREE-YEAR-OLD.
10:09:17AM EVERY TIME I OPEN THE GARAGE I'M HORRIFIED BECAUSE ANYBODY
10:09:20AM WHO HAS A TODDLER, THEY LIKE TO MOVE FAST.
10:09:24AM TRYING TO KEEP UP AND TRYING TO GET HIM TO LOOK BOTH WAYS IS
10:09:27AM IMPOSSIBLE WITH THESE LARGE TRUCKS COMING AND GOING.
10:09:30AM WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR WHAT WE WERE TOLD ORIGINALLY THAT
10:09:33AM THIS WAS GOING TO BE A MAINTAINED ACCESS ROAD, MAINTAINED
10:09:36AM ALLEY WAY, AND TO HAVE THIS THING PAVED, NOT SURE IF WE HAVE
10:09:40AM THE FUNDS AVAILABLE, BUT IF WE COULD FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH
10:09:45AM THE DEPARTMENT OF MOBILITY TO ACCESS SOME OF THE FUNDS AND
10:09:49AM GET A BASIC PAVING JOB, IF NOT DOING IT THE CORRECT WAY, IT
10:09:53AM WOULD BE NOT ONLY BENEFICIAL TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:09:56AM IT'S BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY.
10:09:58AM BECAUSE AS CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THE EROSION, AS LINDA POINTED
10:10:02AM OUT, IN JUST A YEAR, YOU'VE GOT CONSIDERABLE EROSION.
10:10:06AM THIS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM.
10:10:07AM BECAUSE IT IS CITY PROPERTY, IT'S GOING TO FALL BACK ON THE
10:10:11AM CITY, NOT TO MENTION OUR HOMES ARE GOING TO BE CONTINUED AT
10:10:17AM RISK AS THIS CONTINUES.
10:10:19AM ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO FIND THE FUNDS WOULD BE GREATLY
10:10:21AM APPRECIATED, HELPFUL.
10:10:23AM AS FAR AS I THINK A LOT OF US ARE CONCERNED, IT SHOULD
10:10:27AM HAPPEN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD WHEN WE WERE
10:10:30AM BUILDING ORIGINALLY.
10:10:32AM WE WOULD NEVER OPTED TO HAVE A DETACHED GARAGE.
10:10:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CHIEF BENNETT, WOULD YOU GET THEIR
10:10:37AM INFORMATION BEFORE THEY LEAVE?
10:10:39AM VERY GOOD.
10:10:42AM ROBERT PONTICELLI, CRYSTAL RICHARDSON, PASTOR FRANK
10:10:45AM WILLIAMS.
10:10:45AM >> MY NAME IS ROBERT PONTICELLI.
10:10:47AM MY WIFE AND I HAVE LIVED IN TAMPA FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS,
10:10:52AM DESPITE MY ACCENT, WE'VE BEEN HERE AND CONSIDER TAMPA OUR
10:10:55AM HOME.
10:10:56AM WE'VE OWNED NINE PROPERTIES IN SOUTH HOWARD AREA AND IN THE
10:11:01AM CHANNEL DISTRICT DURING THAT TIME.
10:11:02AM NINE PROPERTIES.
10:11:04AM SOME AS INVESTMENTS, SOME WE'VE LIVED AT.
10:11:07AM WE RECENTLY MOVED TO THE RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD AND
10:11:10AM BUILT THE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
10:11:13AM JUST TO MAYBE ADD A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS, ON OUR BLACK THAT
10:11:17AM FACES THE ALLEY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THERE ARE 11 TOTAL
10:11:21AM HOMES.
10:11:21AM SIX OF THEM WILL HAVE A BUILD DATE OF 2023 OR NEWER.
10:11:27AM SO THERE'S FOUR UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW, BUT SIX, THE ENTIRE
10:11:35AM RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS AREA, MY WIFE AND I EXERCISE AND WE'LL JOG
10:11:39AM AND WALK DAILY, I DON'T THINK THERE'S 6 OF 11 ON ONE SIDE OF
10:11:44AM THE STREET ANYWHERE ELSE IN RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS.
10:11:48AM WE ACTUALLY HAVE A REALLY BUSY, A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON.
10:11:52AM WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW HOMES GOING.
10:11:55AM AS I THINK MY WIFE POINTED OUT, THAT'S GOOD FROM A REVENUE
10:11:58AM STANDPOINT, SO WE'RE HOPING THAT MAYBE YOU CAN HELP FOLKS
10:12:04AM AND FIND US SOME MONEY FOR THIS.
10:12:05AM THE OTHER THING I WANT TO ADD IS WITH ALL THE NEW BUILDINGS
10:12:09AM THAT ARE GOING, EVEN THE ONES WITH THE FRONT FACING THE --
10:12:12AM THE NEW HOMES WITH THE FRONT-FACING GARAGES, WE HAVE TWO OF
10:12:16AM THE NEW ONES AND ONE OF THE EXISTING ONES HAVE AN ADU UNIT
10:12:22AM WHICH IS ON THE BACK.
10:12:23AM I'M GUESSING THAT THE ACCESS POINT, ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW,
10:12:26AM STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, IS GOING TO BE THROUGH THIS ALLEY.
10:12:30AM WE'RE THINKING THERE'S GOING TO BE A HEIGHTENED INCREASED
10:12:33AM LEVEL OF TRAFFIC.
10:12:34AM ALSO, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS REALLY CHANGING.
10:12:38AM MOST OF THE HOMES WHEN WE MOVED THERE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO
10:12:41AM WENT IN THE THREE AND FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR RANGE.
10:12:46AM RIGHT NOW, OUR HOME WAS NEARLY A MILLION WHEN WE FINISHED
10:12:49AM IT.
10:12:49AM THE CHEAP HOMES ARE LIKE A MILLION TWO.
10:12:53AM THE HOME DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM US ON THE 800 BLOCK
10:12:56AM OF BRADDOCK JUST SOLD FOR $2.4 MILLION.
10:13:01AM A HOME ON ADDERLEY THIS WEEK, WHICH IS ONE BLOCK NORTH OF
10:13:05AM US, JUST CLOSED FOR 1.4 MILLION.
10:13:08AM IT'S REALLY TRANSITIONING FROM WHAT MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE A
10:13:13AM MIDDLE-CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD MAYBE 20, 30, 40 YEARS AGO, IT'S
10:13:17AM BECOMING LIKE AN UPSCALE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:13:21AM IT'S KIND OF UNIQUE.
10:13:23AM THE OTHER THING I'D SAY, WE WERE THERE BUILDING OUR HOUSE.
10:13:26AM WE DIDN'T BUY IT PREBUILT.
10:13:29AM THE HOME NEXT DOOR WHERE JASON LIVES WAS BEING PREBUILT.
10:13:33AM I HAD AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE THAT WERE LOOKING AT THAT
10:13:36AM HOUSE.
10:13:36AM MY WIFE AND I ARE OUTSIDE WORKING A LOT IN OUR YARD, CAME TO
10:13:40AM US AND HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
10:13:43AM WE TRIED TO BE POSITIVE ON IT.
10:13:47AM AT LEAST SIX OF THEM SAID THEY COULDN'T PUT AN OFFER, EVEN
10:13:50AM THOUGH THEY LOVED THE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY WERE CONCERNED
10:13:53AM ABOUT THE ALLEY.
10:13:53AM WE'RE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT OUR PROPERTY VALUE.
10:13:58AM THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S TRANSITION.
10:14:00AM WE ACTUALLY HAVE BECOME QUITE EMBARRASSED WHEN WE HAVE THE
10:14:04AM SITTERS COME BECAUSE THEY COME AND LOOK, OH, GEEZ, YOU HAVE
10:14:09AM A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, WHEN ARE YOU FINISHING OUT BACK?
10:14:13AM IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT, AND WE'RE HOPING WITH ALL THE
10:14:17AM NEW BUILD, MORE MONEY --
10:14:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
10:14:20AM CRYSTAL RICHARDSON, PASTOR WILLIAMS, MENTESNOT.
10:14:24AM THE FINAL SPEAKER IS ROBIN LOCKETT.
10:14:28AM >> CRYSTAL RICHARDSON.
10:14:29AM TO PIGGYBACK ON THE LAST THREE, SAME SUBJECT, I AM A NATIVE
10:14:33AM OF TAMPA, BORN AND RAISED, A LOCAL REAL ESTATE AGENT.
10:14:37AM THE DEVELOPERS THAT HE WAS JUST SPEAKING ABOUT ON ADDERLEY,
10:14:40AM WE ACTUALLY REPRESENT THOSE SALES, SO VERY FAMILIAR WITH
10:14:43AM RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS AND THE GROWTH THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS.
10:14:46AM THEY HAVE LIVED HERE FOR MUCH LONGER.
10:14:48AM WE BOUGHT OUR HOUSE THIS PAST DECEMBER, AND WE BOUGHT IT
10:14:52AM BECAUSE OF THE INVESTMENT FOR THE MOTHER-IN-LAW SUITE AND
10:14:56AM HAVING THAT AS A SHORT-TERM RENTAL WHICH OUR PARKING IS ALL
10:15:00AM THROUGH THE BACK.
10:15:01AM WE'RE FIXING UP OUR SECTION BY PUTTING MULCH IN AND MAKING
10:15:05AM IT NICE AND FEASIBLE AS A PARKING AREA, BUT THE DRIVE IN
10:15:09AM FROM EITHER END, I HAVE A LOW VEHICLE THAT I WILL NOT DRIVE
10:15:16AM DOWN THAT ALLEY WAY BECAUSE OF THE POTHOLES.
10:15:18AM I THINK OUR SECTION IS PROBABLY THE WORST OF THE AREA.
10:15:22AM AS SHE SHOWED EARLIER, YOU HAVE ASPHALT ON BOTH ENDS.
10:15:26AM AGAIN, IT REALLY IS BECOMING AN ACTUAL ISSUE.
10:15:28AM WE HAVE NEW CONSTRUCTION ON BOTH SIDES.
10:15:30AM THE CONSTRUCTION TRUCKS, THERE'S CONCRETE BEING POURED
10:15:34AM TODAY.
10:15:34AM IT'S GETTING OUT OF CONTROL TO BE HONEST.
10:15:36AM I WALK MY DOG DOWN EVERY DAY AND I HAVE TO GET A FRESH PAIR
10:15:40AM OF WHITE SNEAKERS EVERY TIME BECAUSE IT IS A DISASTER.
10:15:43AM HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION.
10:15:47AM THERE ARE MORE NEIGHBORS MOVING INTO THE STREET.
10:15:50AM THERE ARE 20 PROPERTIES THAT SHARE THE ALLEY.
10:15:52AM MORE THAN HALF HAVE DRIVEWAY ACCESS.
10:15:58AM THEY ARE ALL IN TRUCKS.
10:15:59AM UNFORTUNATELY, THE CARS ARE NOT DOING WELL.
10:16:02AM HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION.
10:16:03AM THANK YOU.
10:16:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:16:06AM PASTOR WILLIAMS.
10:16:12AM >> UHURU, MENTESNOT.
10:16:17AM INTERESTING CONVERSATION.
10:16:18AM I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:16:21AM IF YOU ARE ALSO RICH AND WEALTHY AND YOU ALL GOT THESE HOMES
10:16:24AM AND WHO LIVING IN A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR HOME WHATEVER,
10:16:27AM WHATEVER, DOESN'T DESERVE CITY SERVICES, WHY DON'T YOU BAND
10:16:31AM TOGETHER AND FIX YOUR OWN HOMES, FIX YOUR OWN STREET.
10:16:34AM I FIX THINGS AROUND MY HOME AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD ALL THE TIME
10:16:38AM AND I'M NOT THAT RICH.
10:16:39AM ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
10:16:42AM WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IS NONE OF THAT STUPIDNESS.
10:16:46AM I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT.
10:16:48AM YEAH, THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, STATE OF FLORIDA,
10:16:53AM AND OTHER CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT INTRICATELY
10:16:57AM INTERCONNECTED ENTITIES ARE USING THE FEDERALLY AND/OR
10:17:01AM PRIVATELY FUNDED TITLE 4 CHILD SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR
10:17:05AM FINANCIALLY INCENTIVIZED PURPOSES BEYOND CHILD SUPPORT
10:17:08AM ENFORCEMENT, COLLECTION, RECOVERY, DISTRIBUTION, SANCTION
10:17:10AM AND PUNISHMENT.
10:17:12AM SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVE PURPOSES OF THE CHILD SUPPORT
10:17:15AM PROGRAM APPEARS TO BE LOW-LEVEL EUGENICS, ETHNIC CLEANSING,
10:17:19AM POPULATION CONTROL, REPRODUCTION DETERRENT, SELF-INDUCED
10:17:25AM NEGRO GENOCIDE BY MEANS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN UTILIZING
10:17:29AM LEGALIZED ABORTION OPTIONS AT A RATE FIVE TIMES HIGHER THAN
10:17:31AM THAT OF NORTH AMERICANS, OR WHITE WOMEN, SLOW NEGRO
10:17:35AM GENOCIDE, RACIAL SKIN COLOR DISCRIMINATION, RIGHTS
10:17:39AM VIOLATIONS, REINSTITUTION OF VARIOUS FORMS OF CHATTEL
10:17:44AM SLAVERY, INDENTURED SERVITUDE, DEBTOR'S PRISONS, BLACK
10:17:48AM CODES, JIM CROW LAWS, GRANDFATHER CLAUSES, KU KLUX KLAN,
10:17:52AM DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, BLACK LEGION, SHARE CROPPING,
10:17:55AM PEONAGE, CONVICT LEASING, BLACK DESIGNER LAWS, AND ACTIVE
10:17:59AM PARTICIPATION IN THE MODERN DAY PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
10:18:02AM CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY AND THE TITLE 4 WING OF THE --
10:18:07AM THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.
10:18:09AM THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TITLE 4, FLORIDA
10:18:13AM DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM ARE
10:18:16AM PRIME CANDIDATES FOR CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.
10:18:19AM FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
10:18:21AM PROGRAM ALONG WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA OFFICE OF THE
10:18:25AM ATTORNEY GENERAL, CLERKS OF COURT, CHIEF JUDGES, INDIVIDUAL
10:18:29AM TRIBUNAL JUDGES, HEARING OFFICERS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
10:18:34AM GENERALS AND ANY -- OPERATES WITH A DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE AND
10:18:40AM CERTAINTY, ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY NOTHING THAT ANY POOR
10:18:43AM AND WORKING CLASS DEADBEAT PARENT CAN POSSIBLY DO ABOUT
10:18:46AM THEIR FAMILY RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED.
10:18:48AM DOR BLATANT RIGHTS VIOLATION, ESPECIALLY IF MOST OF THOSE
10:18:54AM VIOLATED INDIVIDUALS, RESPONDENTS WERE NOT REPRESENTED BY
10:18:57AM LEGAL COUNSEL.
10:18:58AM THUS, GREATER POSSIBILITY THAT IF ANY LEGAL CONTRADICTION
10:19:02AM UNCOVERED IN THE FUTURE WITHIN THE CHILD SUPPORT
10:19:05AM ADMINISTRATIVE OR JUDICIAL CHILD SUPPORT CASES, NEWLY
10:19:08AM DISCOVERED VIOLATIONS, IRRESPECTIVE OF HOW GROSS, MINIMAL
10:19:13AM EFFECT ON ANY DECISIONS THE COURT ORDERS AND BARRED BY
10:19:17AM STATUTORY TIME LIMITATIONS.
10:19:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
10:19:19AM HAVE A NICE DAY.
10:19:20AM PASTOR WILLIAMS.
10:19:39AM >> HELLO.
10:19:40AM MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, LOCATED -- I WAS LOCATED
10:19:47AM ON 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET -- PURCHASE MY CHURCH AND -- TRY
10:20:00AM TO SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR ME.
10:20:02AM CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, I THOUGHT I WAS.
10:20:08AM YOU KNOW WHAT, I GOT THIS IN THE MAIL.
10:20:13AM TALKING ABOUT WEST TAMPA INSTEAD OF EAST TAMPA.
10:20:18AM EAST TAMPA FUTURE.
10:20:21AM I'LL READ IT TO YOU.
10:20:22AM EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CRA IS UPDATING THE
10:20:32AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND WE NEED YOUR INPUT.
10:20:39AM THEY MUST BE TALKING ABOUT WEST TAMPA.
10:20:42AM THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US IN EAST TAMPA.
10:20:44AM WE JUST LIVE AND DIE.
10:20:45AM WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THE PEOPLE OF
10:20:51AM EAST TAMPA IS WHAT THEY DOING FOR PEOPLE IN WEST TAMPA.
10:20:59AM THE MAYOR PUTS SO MUCH MONEY IN HER BUDGET FOR WEST TAMPA,
10:21:03AM BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
10:21:08AM IN EAST TAMPA SHE WON'T PUT A DAMN THING IN THERE.
10:21:12AM JACKSON HOUSE AROUND THERE.
10:21:13AM IT AIN'T GOT THE FIRST CITATION.
10:21:19AM LET THE CODE ENFORCEMENT, TEAR IT DOWN.
10:21:24AM BUILD SOME NICE HOMES FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE, BUT WE DON'T
10:21:32AM CARE.
10:21:33AM PEOPLE ARE NOT ABLE TO PUT OUT MONEY LIKE YOU ALL ARE, DON'T
10:21:39AM HEAR NOTHING ABOUT IT.
10:21:41AM BUT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WE ARE CITIZENS AND WE ARE HUMAN
10:21:45AM BEINGS UNDER THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND WE SHOULD BE
10:21:49AM RESPECTED, WHETHER YOU ALL LIKE IT OR NOT.
10:21:52AM GOD IS THE ONE THAT CREATED, AND HE DID A GOOD JOB OF
10:21:58AM CREATING, BECAUSE DO LOOK LIKE A HUMAN BEING.
10:22:01AM AT LEAST WE AIN'T CRAWLING AROUND LIKE NO RAT.
10:22:05AM WE HAVE TO THANK GOD HAZY CREATION AND GIVE HIM ALL THE
10:22:08AM PRAISES AND THE GLORY.
10:22:10AM I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR -- WE'RE NOT TRY TO BE HARD ON
10:22:32AM YOU BUT YOU ARE HARD ON US.
10:22:34AM DON'T WANT TO DO NOTHING FOR US.
10:22:36AM EVERYTHING GOING TO WORK OUT IN OUR FAVOR.
10:22:42AM MS. JOHNSON, SHE IS A GOOD PERSON.
10:22:48AM SHE TREATS ME ROYALLY.
10:22:50AM I THANK GOD FOR HER.
10:22:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OUR LAST SPEAKER IS MS. ROBIN LOCKETT.
10:22:58AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
10:22:59AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:23:00AM >> ROBIN LOCKETT.
10:23:02AM GOOD MORNING.
10:23:04AM FIRST, I WANT TO SAY THAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE HURRICANE
10:23:08AM RELIEF PROGRAM LAUNCHED THIS WEEK, $3.2 MILLION TO HELP
10:23:13AM CITIZENS THAT WERE IMPACTED BY THE HURRICANE.
10:23:15AM I'M HAPPY THAT THAT IS UP AND GOING.
10:23:18AM SECOND OF ALL, THERE IS A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT
10:23:24AM SIDEWALKS TODAY.
10:23:24AM WE HAVE TO RESOLVE IT.
10:23:26AM ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE BUILDING
10:23:29AM AND WE HAVE CONTROL OVER, INCLUDING WHETHER A BUILDER DOES
10:23:35AM XYZ.
10:23:36AM WE DO NEED SIDEWALKS.
10:23:38AM SCHOOLS NEED SIDEWALKS.
10:23:41AM ALL THESE LARGE SUBDIVISIONS ARE GOING UP AND NO SIDEWALKS.
10:23:46AM SO THAT SHOULD BE AN AUTOMATIC THING WHEN WE'RE TALKING
10:23:50AM ABOUT ALL OF THIS BUILDING THAT WE ARE ALLOWING TO HAPPEN IN
10:23:54AM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:23:55AM I'M STILL TALKING ABOUT THE YELLOW JACKETS.
10:24:00AM I WANT THE YELLOW JACKETS TO BE MADE WHOLE.
10:24:03AM WHOLE IS IF THEY HAD TWO FIELDS IN WEST TAMPA AND A
10:24:10AM BUILDING, THEY SHOULD HAVE TWO FIELDS ACROSS FROM THAT
10:24:13AM CEMETERY AND A BUILDING.
10:24:14AM THEY HAD A CONCESSION STAND AND A BUILDING.
10:24:19AM THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
10:24:21AM I'M JUST MAKING IT REAL CLEAR.
10:24:26AM IN REGARDS TO THE COSMETIC THINGS, BECAUSE I DRIVE BY THERE
10:24:30AM AND I SEE THEY ARE DOING THINGS, BUT WE WANT A BUILDING.
10:24:35AM MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE WANTS HIS BUILDING BACK.
10:24:37AM THAT'S MAKING IT WHOLE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY HAD AT THE
10:24:41AM PRIOR FIELD.
10:24:42AM SO WHATEVER HAS TO BE DONE AND IF HE'S DOING HAND SHAKES
10:24:48AM BECAUSE HE TRUSTED THE ADMINISTRATION PRIOR TO YOU GUYS,
10:24:52AM THAT HAND SHAKE IS SAYING -- I HEARD THEM SAY IN MEETINGS
10:24:56AM THAT WE'LL MAKE THE YELLOW JACKETS WHOLE.
10:24:59AM THAT'S WHAT WHOLE MEANS TO US, THAT THEY HAVE A WORKING
10:25:03AM CONCESSION STAND AND A BUILDING OR YOU COULD PUT THE
10:25:07AM BUILDING, THEIR OFFICES ON TOP OF THAT CONCESSION STAND, BUT
10:25:11AM THEY WANT A BUILDING.
10:25:12AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
10:25:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:25:15AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:25:16AM THAT CON CLUES PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:25:18AM WE'LL NOW GO TO ANY REQUESTS BY THE PUBLIC FOR
10:25:20AM RECONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATIVE MATTERS.
10:25:21AM I SEE NO ONE.
10:25:25AM LET'S GO TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
10:25:26AM COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU HAVE PUBLIC SAFETY, 4-10.
10:25:28AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO MOVE.
10:25:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:25:31AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:25:32AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:25:33AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:25:33AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY
10:25:37AM AFFAIRS.
10:25:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BEFORE I MOVE, I WANT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 13,
10:25:41AM WHICH IS THE $103,000 FROM THE NCAA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
10:25:47AM FOR THE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT THAT'S COMING HERE.
10:25:49AM THEY ARE GOING TO UPGRADE THE EQUIPMENT AT THE FORMER BOYS
10:25:55AM AND GIRLS CLUB.
10:25:56AM CALLED THE RIVERFRONT RECREATION CENTER AT 1301 NORTH
10:26:00AM BOULEVARD ALONG WITH THE DECOR OF THE 2025 WOMEN'S FINAL
10:26:04AM FOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.
10:26:05AM SO EXCITED TO BE WELCOMING THEM TO TOWN.
10:26:08AM MOVE ITEMS 11-25 FOR NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.
10:26:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:26:12AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:26:14AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:15AM AYE.
10:26:15AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
10:26:16AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:26:17AM I MOVE ITEMS 26-47.
10:26:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
10:26:21AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:23AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:23AM AYE.
10:26:24AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:26:25AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, FINANCE COMMITTEE.
10:26:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE ITEMS 48-51.
10:26:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:31AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:32AM AYE.
10:26:32AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:26:33AM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
10:26:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: I MOVE 52-70.
10:26:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
10:26:38AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:39AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:40AM AYE.
10:26:41AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:26:41AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, MOBILITY AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.
10:26:46AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOVE ITEMS 71-74.
10:26:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM CLENDENIN AND SECOND FROM
10:26:50AM VIERA.
10:26:51AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:51AM AYE.
10:26:52AM CAN WE GET A MOTION TO MOVE 93 AND 94?
10:26:55AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, SECOND FROM COUNCIL
10:26:57AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:58AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:59AM AYE.
10:26:59AM WE NEED TO SET A FEW ITEMS FOR PUBLIC HEARING, 75, 76, 77.
10:27:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
10:27:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA
10:27:11AM SETTING 75, 76, 77, SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:27:15AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:27:15AM AYE.
10:27:16AM ANY OPPOSED.
10:27:17AM WE'LL GO TO SECOND READINGS.
10:27:20AM LET'S GET A MOTION TO OPEN THE 10:00 PUBLIC HEARINGS FROM
10:27:27AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:27:28AM SECOND FROM VIERA.
10:27:28AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:27:29AM AYE.
10:27:31AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I SEE WE HAVE SOME FOLKS FROM THE STRAZ,
10:27:33AM DO YOU WANT TO --
10:27:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE STRAZ IS ALL SET, SIR.
10:27:37AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:27:37AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO OPEN THE 10 A.M. PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:27:47AM IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK ON 78 THROUGH 87, PLEASE STAND,
10:27:52AM RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE'LL SWEAR YOU IN.
10:27:56AM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
10:28:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL START WITH ITEM 78.
10:28:04AM MS. JOHNSON VELEZ.
10:28:10AM NO.
10:28:11AM SIR, COME ON UP.
10:28:12AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:28:13AM CARL BRODY FROM LEGAL.
10:28:15AM TODAY, WE HAVE SECOND READING FOR THE EVENT ZONE FOR THE
10:28:22AM WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR.
10:28:24AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HERE.
10:28:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO
10:28:32AM SPEAK ON ITEM 78?
10:28:33AM I SEE NO ONE.
10:28:34AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
10:28:36AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:28:36AM AYE.
10:28:37AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, WOULD YOU MIND READING 78?
10:28:39AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I MOVE IT, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:28:42AM THIS IS THE FASTEST GROWING SPORT IN AMERICA, I THINK,
10:28:46AM WOMEN'S BASKETBALL.
10:28:47AM THEY TURNED THIS AROUND.
10:28:48AM ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION,
10:28:50AM AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING A PORTION OF TAMPA AS AN EVENT ZONE
10:28:54AM IN ORDER TO REGULATE ACTIVITIES FROM APRIL 2, 2025, THROUGH
10:28:57AM APRIL 7, 2025 IN PREPARATION FOR HOSTING THE 2025 NCAA
10:29:02AM WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR; DESIGNATING GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES, DATES
10:29:07AM AND TIMES FOR THE EVENT ZONE; REGULATING AND PROHIBITING
10:29:11AM TEMPORARY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES, TENTS, SIGNAGE AND COMMERCIAL
10:29:16AM PROMOTION IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY; PROVIDING FOR INSPECTIONS AND
10:29:19AM PERMITS; PROVIDING FOR FIRST AMENDMENT ZONES; PROVIDING FOR
10:29:22AM PENALTIES; PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR
10:29:24AM SEVERABILITY; REPEALING CONFLICTS; AND PROVIDING AN
10:29:29AM EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:29:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:29:31AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:29:32AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:29:39AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:29:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, I SEE YOU WERE
10:29:46AM ABSENT AT VOTE FOR 79 AND A FEW OTHERS.
10:29:50AM WERE YOU ABLE TO REVIEW THE RECORD?
10:29:52AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:29:54AM THIS WAS A DAY I HAD A MANDATORY MEETING FOR A FIELD TRIP
10:29:59AM FOR MY SON.
10:30:00AM YES.
10:30:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM 79.
10:30:02AM YES, MA'AM.
10:30:05AM >> EMMA GREGORY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
10:30:07AM WE'RE HERE FOR SECOND READING OF A PROPOSED ORDINANCE THAT
10:30:09AM WAS ACTUALLY PRESENTED IN RESPONSE TO COUNCIL'S MOTION
10:30:13AM AMENDING 15-104 TO INCLUDE THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD AREA INTO
10:30:19AM THE PERMIT PARKING ZONES.
10:30:22AM HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:30:23AM COUNCIL DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR FIRST READING.
10:30:27AM IN CASE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND.
10:30:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC FOR PUBLIC
10:30:30AM COMMENT?
10:30:31AM YES, MA'AM, COME ON UP.
10:30:41AM >> STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:30:43AM I WANT TO KNOW WHEN THERE WERE PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETINGS
10:30:46AM ABOUT THESE CHANGES.
10:30:47AM I HADN'T SEEN THEM.
10:30:49AM NOBODY I KNOW OF HAS SEEN THEM.
10:30:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:30:53AM ANYBODY ELSE HERE TO SPEAK?
10:30:54AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM CLENDENIN.
10:30:59AM SECOND FROM VIERA.
10:31:00AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:31:00AM AYE.
10:31:01AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:31:01AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:31:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND
10:31:06AM READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:31:09AM RELATING TO CHAPTER 15, PARKING, ARTICLE II, REGULATIONS,
10:31:13AM PERMIT, PENALTIES, AMENDING SECTION 15-104 RESIDENTIAL
10:31:17AM PARKING PERMIT ONLY AREA, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
10:31:21AM ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH,
10:31:24AM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:31:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY VIERA, SECOND FROM CLENDENIN.
10:31:29AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:31:33AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:31:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE CAN OPEN THE 10:30 A.M. PETITION.
10:31:41AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:31:43AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:31:44AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:31:45AM AYE.
10:31:45AM I BELIEVE WE HAD A COUPLE NEW PEOPLE WALK IN.
10:31:49AM IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM BETWEEN 80 AND 88 AND
10:31:53AM HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN IN, PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT
10:31:55AM HAND.
10:31:56AM WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE.
10:31:58AM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
10:32:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT COVERS EVERYBODY.
10:32:07AM ITEM NUMBER 80.
10:32:08AM GO AHEAD.
10:32:12AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:32:14AM >> CHRISTOPHER DEMANCHE, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:32:17AM ITEM 80 IS REZ 24-45, REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTY LOCATED
10:32:23AM AT 3807 AND 3811 SWANN AVENUE.
10:32:27AM REQUEST IS REZONE FROM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO PLANNED
10:32:30AM DEVELOPMENT ALLOWING FOR RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED
10:32:33AM USES.
10:32:33AM THIS IS BEFORE YOU FOR SECOND READING.
10:32:35AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS HAVE BEEN
10:32:39AM SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:32:40AM I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
10:32:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS? ANY APPLICANT FOR ITEM
10:32:45AM NUMBER 80?
10:32:46AM MR. MECHANIK, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:32:50AM >> MY NAME IS DAVID MECHANIK, HERE ON BEHALF OF THE
10:32:54AM APPLICANT.
10:32:56AM I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
10:32:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE
10:33:00AM GENTLEMAN?
10:33:00AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 80?
10:33:05AM YES, SIR, COME ON UP AND STATE YOUR NAME.
10:33:13AM >> GOOD MORNING, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
10:33:16AM KYLE ROSS.
10:33:16AM I'VE BEEN BEFORE YOU ONCE BEFORE ON THIS ISSUE.
10:33:19AM I'M ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS DIRECTLY ABUTTING THIS PROJECT AND
10:33:22AM ONE OF THE TOWNHOME OWNERS DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS
10:33:25AM PROJECT.
10:33:25AM WE LEFT THE LAST MEETING WHERE I SPOKE AND MULTIPLE OTHERS
10:33:29AM ABOUT MOVING THE DUMPSTER FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER WHERE IT
10:33:32AM WAS ABUTTING AGAINST THREE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES, MOVE IT TO
10:33:35AM THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:33:36AM MR. MIRANDA, YOU HAD A VERY CLEAR DIRECTIVE, MOVE THE
10:33:39AM DUMPSTER TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:33:41AM I'M SHOCKED BECAUSE I WENT ONLINE AND I LOOKED AT THEIR
10:33:45AM PLANS, IT WAS MOVED.
10:33:47AM IT WAS MOVED FROM THE NORTHEAST -- EXCUSE ME, THE NORTHWEST
10:33:51AM CORNER TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER.
10:33:53AM NOW THIS DUMPSTER IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST THING THAT PEOPLE
10:33:57AM SEE WHEN THEY ARE DRIVING DOWN SWANN AVENUE.
10:34:01AM I WAS SHOCKED TO THINK THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH DOING THAT,
10:34:05AM TO THINK WE WOULDN'T CHECK THE PLANS, THINK THEY COULD PULL
10:34:09AM THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL TO
10:34:12AM DO THAT.
10:34:12AM I THINK IT IS A SYMPTOM OF A BIGGER PROBLEM HERE.
10:34:16AM THEY DON'T HAVE RESPECT FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY ARE
10:34:17AM BARGING INTO.
10:34:19AM I WANT TO REMIND THE PANEL THAT IN 2021, DAVID WEEKLY, THEY
10:34:24AM BUILT THREE TOWNHOMES ON THE SAME SIZE PLOT OF LAND WHERE
10:34:28AM THEY ARE TRYING TO BUILD 12 UNITS.
10:34:30AM TOO MUCH ON TOO LITTLE PROPERTY.
10:34:32AM THEY CAME IN HERE LAST TIME, I RAN OUT OF TIME WHEN I WAS
10:34:35AM TRYING TO SPEAK HOW THEY DIDN'T NEED TO DO A TRAFFIC STUDY.
10:34:38AM THEY NEED TO DO A TRAFFIC STUDY.
10:34:40AM THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST BOTTLENECKS OF TRAFFIC IN THE
10:34:43AM ENTIRE CITY, IF NOT THE WORST.
10:34:46AM WHEN IT IS BLOCKED UP ON WEEKENDS ESPECIALLY, TRADER JOE'S,
10:34:50AM GRIDLOCK FROM DALE MABRY TO CLARK, CONSTANTLY PEOPLE DRIVING
10:34:53AM ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD RECKLESSLY TO AVOID THAT
10:34:56AM TRAFFIC.
10:34:57AM HERE ARE PHOTOS OF IT.
10:34:58AM HERE IS A PHOTO FROM ABC ACTION NEWS BASICALLY STANDING IN
10:35:01AM MY DRIVEWAY TALKING ABOUT IT.
10:35:03AM HERE IS A PHOTO I TOOK FROM MY BALCONY SHOWING THAT
10:35:07AM GRIDLOCK.
10:35:08AM THAT IS REGULAR GRIDLOCK.
10:35:09AM THEY ABSOLUTELY NEED TO CONDUCT A TRAFFIC STUDY.
10:35:13AM DON'T LET THEM DO A FAST ONE LIKE THEY ARE DOING WITH THE
10:35:16AM DUMPSTER AND SAY THEY DON'T NEED TO DO A STUDY FOR TRAFFIC.
10:35:20AM BIG PROJECT, BIG STRAW.
10:35:23AM IT MIGHT BREAK THE CAMEL'S BACK.
10:35:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:35:27AM ANYBODY ELSE IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK?
10:35:29AM COME ON UP.
10:35:29AM IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE AFTER THIS GENTLEMAN?
10:35:37AM >> STEVEN ALT, 3815 WEST SWANN.
10:35:39AM I JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT KYLE SAID.
10:35:41AM THE AGREEMENT WAS TO MOVE THAT DUMPSTER TO THE EAST SIDE.
10:35:44AM I THINK THE AGREEMENT WAS SPECIFICALLY TO MOVE IT TO THE
10:35:46AM REAR, THE REAR OF THE EAST SIDE ABUTTING THE COMMERCIAL
10:35:51AM PROPERTIES.
10:35:51AM AND ANOTHER DUMPSTER ENCLOSURE THAT'S THERE FOR THE
10:35:54AM BUSINESSES, THE BAGEL SHOP AND THE SMOOTHIE SHOP AND BURGER
10:35:58AM KING THAT'S THERE AND PUTTING ALL THE DUMPSTERS TOGETHER IN
10:36:02AM THE CORNER.
10:36:03AM PURE SPECULATION IS THAT THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY BEHIND
10:36:06AM THAT, RIGHT BEHIND THIS OWNED BY THE SAME GROUP THAT THEY
10:36:10AM ARE LOOKING TO DEVELOP AND THEY DON'T WANT THE DUMPSTER NEAR
10:36:13AM THAT PROPERTY TO LOWER THAT PROPERTY VALUE.
10:36:15AM THAT'S MY SPECULATION.
10:36:17AM WHETHER TRUE OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW.
10:36:19AM THE AGREEMENT WE ALL LEFT WITH AT THE LAST MEETING IS THE
10:36:22AM DUMPSTER WAS GOING TO BE IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THAT
10:36:24AM PROPERTY.
10:36:24AM THANK YOU.
10:36:36AM >> RYAN CANALIS, ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS AS WELL.
10:36:40AM MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, ENOUGH HAS BEEN SAID ON IT.
10:36:44AM WE RECONVENED HERE TO REVISIT THE SAME THING.
10:36:48AM IT'S UNFORTUNATE AND BORDER LINE INSULTING IF, IN FACT, THAT
10:36:52AM DUMPSTER WASN'T MOVED TO THE CORRECT POSITION.
10:36:55AM I WOULD LIKE US ALL TO GET BACK TO WHAT WE AGREED ON.
10:37:02AM IF NOT ALREADY, I'M SURE THEY WILL STATE THEIR CASE.
10:37:05AM I DID RUN A QUICK SEARCH.
10:37:07AM NOT A PROPERTY GOOGLE EXPERT, BUT I DID SEE THE SAME NAME ON
10:37:12AM THE PROPERTY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THAT IS AN OPEN LOT.
10:37:16AM ONCE AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE PLANNING.
10:37:18AM I HOPE THEY HAVE GOOD, SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS THERE, BUT I ALSO
10:37:22AM HOPE THEY DO IT BY RESPECTING THE COMMUNITY SURROUNDING
10:37:25AM THEM.
10:37:26AM THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
10:37:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:37:28AM NEXT SPEAKER.
10:37:38AM WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:37:39AM WHO WILL GO FIRST.
10:37:40AM OKAY, SIR, AND MS. POYNOR.
10:37:44AM >> TRAE WEINGARDT, 4119 WEST LEONA STREET.
10:37:47AM A COUPLE OF THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT HERE.
10:37:56AM THIS PROPERTY AS CURRENTLY ZONED IS ALSO PERMITTED FOR
10:37:59AM 14,000 SQUARE FOOT COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
10:38:02AM MR. COHEN HAS ACTUALLY DONE A TRAFFIC STUDY ON THIS
10:38:05AM PROPERTY --
10:38:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE YOU PART OF THE APPLICANT?
10:38:08AM >> I'M THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE APPLICANT.
10:38:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT AS PART OF REBUTTAL BECAUSE YOU ARE
10:38:15AM CONNECTED TO IT.
10:38:17AM MS. POYNOR, YOU WILL BE THE LAST PUBLIC COMMENT SPEAKER AND
10:38:20AM THEN REBUTTAL.
10:38:23AM >> STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:38:25AM I NEED TO ASK ONE SIMPLE QUESTION.
10:38:28AM WHY DO THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA NEED TO LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE'S
10:38:31AM GARBAGE?
10:38:31AM WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON THE CORNER?
10:38:37AM IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE CORNER.
10:38:38AM I WAS HERE FOR THE LAST HEARING, AND THESE FOLKS SAID THEY
10:38:42AM WOULD PUT IT ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:38:45AM DO WHAT YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
10:38:46AM I'LL REMIND EVERYBODY, YOU'RE UNDER OATH WHEN YOU STAND UP
10:38:49AM HERE.
10:38:50AM THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY.
10:38:51AM OH, GUESS WHAT, JUST BECAUSE YOU MEET WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD
10:38:56AM DOESN'T MEAN YOU LISTEN AND THIS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE.
10:38:59AM THANK YOU.
10:39:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:39:01AM MR. MECHANIK, YOU HAVE REBUTTAL HERE.
10:39:05AM MY QUESTION, AS YOU'VE HEARD REGARDING THE MOVEMENT OF THIS
10:39:09AM DUMPSTER, JUDGING FROM WHAT WAS SHOWN HERE, IS THAT DUMPSTER
10:39:13AM NOW ALONG SWANN AVENUE?
10:39:17AM >> THIS IS DAVID MECHANIK, TO THE APPLICANT.
10:39:19AM WE FILED A PLAN.
10:39:20AM I WOULD ASK YOUR STAFF TO CONFIRM THIS.
10:39:22AM WE MOVED THE DUMPSTER TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:39:25AM I HAVE THE SITE PLAN.
10:39:27AM I'M GOING TO PUT IT ON THE ELMO.
10:39:29AM THE DUMPSTER WAS ORIGINALLY ON THIS CORNER.
10:39:36AM WE MOVED IT OVER HERE, WHICH IS AS FAR INTO THE CORNER WE
10:39:41AM COULD GET.
10:39:42AM THERE'S DRAINAGE AT THE EXACT CORNER, BUT IT'S EXACTLY WHERE
10:39:47AM WE WERE TOLD TO PUT IT.
10:39:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN WE REFRAIN FROM CONVERSATIONS IN THE
10:39:54AM BACK AND THROUGHOUT THE ROOM?
10:39:55AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:39:56AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:39:56AM YES, SIR.
10:40:00AM >> CAN THE STAFF CONFIRM WE PUT THE DUMPSTER WHERE I JUST
10:40:05AM SAID IT?
10:40:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT HAS BEEN
10:40:08AM FILED --
10:40:08AM >> WHAT I HAVE ON THE ELMO IS WHAT WAS FILED.
10:40:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHERE DID THE PUBLIC GET THE INFORMATION
10:40:15AM THAT THE DUMPSTER WAS FACING --
10:40:17AM >> I HAVE NO IDEA.
10:40:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT IS IN THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF WHAT
10:40:20AM WE'RE VOTING ON NOW?
10:40:22AM >> I PUT THAT ON THE ELMO.
10:40:24AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WANT TO CONFIRM WITH STAFF SO THE
10:40:26AM PUBLIC KNOWS AND WE CAN SEE IT.
10:40:28AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:40:30AM THIS IS THE SITE PLAN THAT YOU ARE VOTING ON TODAY.
10:40:32AM THE APPLICANT DID COMPLY WITH COUNCIL'S REQUEST AND MOVE THE
10:40:35AM DUMPSTER TO THIS LOCATION IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:40:38AM WHEN IT COMES TO SECOND READINGS, THE APPLICANT PROVIDES
10:40:41AM FOUR HARD COPIES.
10:40:42AM THOSE ARE THEN CERTIFIED BY STAFF AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE
10:40:45AM CLERK.
10:40:47AM THOSE AREN'T NECESSARILY UPLOADED TO ACCELA.
10:40:51AM ONCE CERTIFIED BY THE COUNCIL CHAIR, WE ARE SCANNING THEM IN
10:40:54AM AND UPLOADING TO THE ACCELA RECORD.
10:40:55AM SO THE PLAN THAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT, IS A PLAN, AN
10:41:00AM ITERATION WELL IN THE PAST BEFORE DRC.
10:41:02AM THAT IS A VERY OLD PLAN THAT WAS SHOWN BY THE PUBLIC.
10:41:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SHOULD THIS GET APPROVAL TODAY, BEING
10:41:09AM THAT I HAVE TO SIGN THE SITE PLAN AFTER THE FACT, I'M GOING
10:41:12AM TO SEE THIS DUMPSTER IN THIS LOCATION AS YOU'RE SHOWING NOW,
10:41:16AM NOT WHAT THE PUBLIC HAD TOLD ME.
10:41:19AM AND JUST TO CONFIRM, ANY WAY AFTER WE VOTE THAT THEY CAN
10:41:22AM CHANGE ANYTHING.
10:41:24AM ARE THEY BY LAW ON RECORD AND UNDER OATH HAVE TO OBLIGE WHAT
10:41:28AM WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW WHERE THE DUMPSTER IS IN THE
10:41:31AM NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:41:32AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: YES, SIR.
10:41:33AM THIS WILL BE THE PLAN OF RECORD.
10:41:34AM THE PLAN BEHOLDEN TO BUILD TO.
10:41:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO WAY TO CIRCUMVENT IT AFTER THE FACT?
10:41:40AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.
10:41:42AM SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE TO MOVE THE DUMPSTER ANYWHERE ELSE WOULD
10:41:44AM NOT BE APPROVED.
10:41:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:41:46AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN AND HENDERSON.
10:41:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
10:41:50AM GO AHEAD.
10:41:50AM YOU SAID MY NAME SECOND.
10:41:54AM SORRY.
10:41:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S OKAY.
10:41:56AM QUESTION.
10:41:57AM I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER CHANGES.
10:41:58AM DO YOU HAVE THE SITE PLAN THAT CAME AT THE FIRST READING?
10:42:01AM AND WHAT OTHER CHANGES WERE MADE TO THAT SITE PLAN BETWEEN
10:42:04AM FIRST AND SECOND READING?
10:42:06AM >> WELL, THE CHANGES WERE LISTED IN THE STAFF REPORT AND WE
10:42:11AM MADE ALL OF THE STAFF CHANGES.
10:42:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DID YOU ELIMINATE ONE TOWN HOUSE?
10:42:15AM >> NO, WE DID NOT.
10:42:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ARE THERE ANY CHANGES TO THE DIMENSIONS OF
10:42:20AM THE TOWN HOUSES?
10:42:22AM >> NO.
10:42:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE ONLY CHANGES WERE THE RELOCATION.
10:42:24AM YOU DID SOME VISITOR PARKING CHANGES?
10:42:26AM >> NO, NO CHANGES TO THE PARKING.
10:42:29AM THERE ARE CHANGES TO THE WORDING OF THE NOTES AND THE
10:42:31AM WAIVER.
10:42:33AM THAT'S ALL.
10:42:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. THOMAS, IS THAT CORRECT?
10:42:36AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION, YES, THAT'S
10:42:38AM CORRECT.
10:42:39AM APPLICANT MADE ALL THE REVISIONS SUPPOSED TO BE MADE ON THE
10:42:41AM REVISION SHEET IN ADDITION TO MOVING THE DUMPSTER LIKE
10:42:45AM COUNCIL REQUESTED.
10:42:45AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: STILL GO ON THE RECORD AS TO MY OBJECTION
10:42:48AM IN FIRST READING.
10:42:49AM WHEN ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS PUT THE OVERHEAD OF THIS STREET,
10:42:53AM EVERY ONE OF THE SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED HOUSES OR
10:42:56AM SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ALL ARE FORWARD FACING TO SWANN.
10:42:59AM ALL THE DOORS FACE SWANN.
10:43:00AM IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET.
10:43:02AM I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFIC ISSUE BECAUSE THE
10:43:05AM TRAFFIC ISSUE IS CREATED BY THE MISTAKE OF PUTTING THE
10:43:09AM SUPERMARKET WHERE IT IS.
10:43:11AM THEY ARE THE ONES THAT CREATED THAT PROBLEM.
10:43:12AM THE FACT THAT THIS PARCEL IS ZONED TO HAVE AN OFFICE
10:43:16AM BUILDING, THE REASON THEY ARE NOT BUILDING OFFICE BUILDING
10:43:19AM IS THE MARKET HAS CHANGED.
10:43:21AM OFFICE CAPACITIES HAVE PLUMMETED.
10:43:23AM THAT IS THE REASON THEY ARE CHANGING TO A DIFFERENT MARKET.
10:43:26AM BUT THE APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN FOR THIS, OBVIOUSLY,
10:43:32AM SHOULD IT BE FORWARD FACING EITHER DETACHED OR ATTACHED
10:43:40AM SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, FORWARD FACING SWANN TO MIX THIS
10:43:43AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:43:43AM THIS IS A SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE.
10:43:45AM YOU'RE PUTTING ALLEY-STYLE HOMES, ISOLATED FROM THE
10:43:51AM NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST TO SQUEEZE WHAT WAS TWO AND A HALF LOTS,
10:43:55AM MAYBE.
10:43:56AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WOULD BE IF YOU BUILD HOUSES HERE.
10:43:59AM SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, MAYBE JUST TWO.
10:44:01AM THE APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN, AGAIN, I CAN'T GET PAST
10:44:06AM THIS.
10:44:07AM WE BUILD ON THESE THINGS TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
10:44:11AM WE LOOK AT THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THESE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT
10:44:14AM TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE FOLKS INVESTED IN THEIR HOMES, TO
10:44:20AM THE WEST OF THIS PROPERTY AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THIS
10:44:22AM PROPERTY, THEY ALL INVESTED IN A SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED,
10:44:26AM DETACHED NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A CONSISTENT DEVELOPMENT PATTERN,
10:44:29AM AND WE ARE DRAMATICALLY CHANGING THAT DEVELOPMENT IN THE
10:44:35AM NEIGHBORHOOD THEY HAVE SINGLE-MOST PROBABLY HIGHEST
10:44:38AM INVESTMENT THEY'LL EVER HAVE IN THEIR LIFE.
10:44:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:44:42AM >> MR. CHAIRMAN, AM I ALLOWED TO FINISH MY REBUTTAL?
10:44:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OF COURSE.
10:44:46AM YEAH, YOU HAVE TIME.
10:44:47AM GO AHEAD.
10:44:49AM >> YEAH, I THINK I ONLY SPOKE FOR ABOUT THREE MINUTES.
10:44:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: REBUTTALS ARE FIVE MINUTES.
10:44:56AM >> I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS TRAFFIC.
10:44:59AM FIRST OF ALL, WHATEVER CONGESTION IS OUT THERE WAS PERMITTED
10:45:02AM BY THE CITY BEFORE WE EVER CAME ON THE SCENE.
10:45:07AM WE DON'T GENERATE ONE CAR TODAY ON THAT PROPERTY.
10:45:10AM I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND COUNCIL, THIS IS THE TRAFFIC
10:45:16AM ANALYSIS THAT WE SUBMITTED PREVIOUSLY.
10:45:20AM THE BLUE BAR REFLECTS THE USE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ON THE
10:45:27AM SITE, A DAY CARE CENTER.
10:45:28AM THE RED BAR IS THE APPROVED OFFICE AND THE GREEN BAR IS WHAT
10:45:33AM WE ARE PROPOSING TODAY.
10:45:34AM WE ARE PROPOSING A SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC
10:45:44AM FOR THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF PROPERTY.
10:45:47AM AGAIN, MY CLIENT IS NOT GENERATING ANY OF THE PROBLEM.
10:45:53AM THERE MIGHT BE SOME THINGS THE CITY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO
10:45:57AM ABOUT TRADER JOE'S.
10:45:59AM I JUST RESPECTFULLY REQUEST.
10:46:02AM DON'T DENY THIS ZONING APPLICATION BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE
10:46:04AM WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH TRADER JOE'S.
10:46:07AM SO WITH THAT, I WILL CONCLUDE MY REBUTTAL.
10:46:11AM THANK YOU.
10:46:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:46:13AM ANYTHING ELSE?
10:46:13AM IF NOT, I'LL ASK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE.
10:46:16AM NO, THAT'S DONE.
10:46:17AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:46:19AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:46:20AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:46:21AM AYE.
10:46:21AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ?
10:46:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:46:25AM I MOVE FILE REZ-24-45, AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
10:46:29AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:46:31AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:46:33AM 3807 AND 3811 WEST SWANN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:46:39AM FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM
10:46:43AM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO PD
10:46:46AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY, ATTACHED,
10:46:49AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:46:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
10:46:51AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
10:46:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M GOING TO REITERATE MY NO VOTE BECAUSE OF
10:46:57AM PRETTY MUCH WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN SAID.
10:46:59AM THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT THAT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT FIT IN SCALE
10:47:03AM AND SIZE AND TO THE REST OF THE STREET.
10:47:08AM IT'S VERY DISAPPOINTING.
10:47:13AM IT'S JUST NOT WHAT WE NEED TO BE SEEING IN THE CITY.
10:47:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
10:47:17AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:47:22AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CLENDENIN AND HURTAK VOTING
10:47:25AM NO.
10:47:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:47:27AM ITEM NUMBER 81 IS NEXT.
10:47:35AM >> CHRISTOPHER DEMANCHE, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:47:37AM ITEM 81 IS REZ-24-70, REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTY LOCATED
10:47:42AM AT 3602 WEST AZEELE STREET.
10:47:45AM REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO PLANNED
10:47:47AM DEVELOPMENT ALLOWING BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL AND MEDICAL
10:47:50AM OFFICE USES.
10:47:52AM VISIONS COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS SUBMITTED TO THE
10:47:55AM CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:47:56AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
10:47:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:47:59AM SEEING NONE, DO WE HAVE AN APPLICANT FOR ITEM NUMBER 81?
10:48:03AM IS THERE AN APPLICANT FOR 81?
10:48:06AM THERE IS NO APPLICANT FOR 81.
10:48:09AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON 81?
10:48:12AM THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT FOR 81.
10:48:15AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM
10:48:16AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:48:17AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:48:18AM AYE.
10:48:19AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:48:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE FILE REZ-24-70, AN ORDINANCE BEING
10:48:28AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE
10:48:30AM REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 3602 WEST
10:48:33AM AZEELE STREET, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE
10:48:36AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT
10:48:39AM CLASSIFICATIONS PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO PD PLANNED
10:48:43AM DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL, AND MEDICAL OFFICE,
10:48:47AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:48:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM CLENDENIN.
10:48:49AM SECOND FROM VIERA.
10:48:50AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:48:55AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:48:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:48:58AM ITEM NUMBER 82, GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:49:03AM >>CHRISTOPHER DEMANCHE: FOR THE RECORD, CHRISTOPHER
10:49:06AM DEMANCHE, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:49:07AM 82 IS REZ-24-101.
10:49:11AM IT IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 8813
10:49:14AM BROOKS STREET, 8901 NORTH 13th STREET AND 8814 NORTH
10:49:19AM 14th STREET.
10:49:20AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM INDUSTRIAL GENERAL AND
10:49:23AM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY 50 TO INDUSTRIAL GENERAL.
10:49:27AM THIS IS A EUCLIDEAN REZONING REQUEST.
10:49:30AM THERE IS NO SITE PLAN ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPLICATION.
10:49:33AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
10:49:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:49:36AM NO.
10:49:37AM COME ON UP, SIR.
10:49:39AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:49:40AM >> RYAN MANASSE WITH JOHNSON POPE, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
10:49:43AM AND PLANNING, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DIVISIVE, SUITE 3100.
10:49:47AM I'M HERE FOR QUESTIONS.
10:49:49AM SHOULD YOU NOT HAVE ANY, RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL.
10:49:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:52AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:49:53AM NO.
10:49:54AM ANYBODY HERE FOR ITEM 82 TO SPEAK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
10:49:57AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:49:59AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:50:00AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:50:00AM AYE.
10:50:01AM YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
10:50:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: FILE REZ-24-101, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
10:50:08AM FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING
10:50:11AM PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 8813 BROOKS STREET, 8901
10:50:16AM NORTH 13th STREET, AND 8814 NORTH 14th STREET, IN THE
10:50:21AM CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
10:50:23AM SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION IG, INDUSTRIAL
10:50:28AM GENERAL, AND RS-50, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY, TO IG,
10:50:32AM INDUSTRIAL GENERAL, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:50:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:50:37AM HURTAK.
10:50:37AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:50:39AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:50:45AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:50:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:50:48AM ITEM NUMBER 83.
10:50:50AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:50:53AM >>CHRISTOPHER DEMANCHE: DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:50:55AM ITEM 83 IS REZ-24-102.
10:50:58AM THIS ITEM IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
10:51:01AM 3604 TEMPLE STREET.
10:51:04AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 16 TO
10:51:08AM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 18.
10:51:09AM THIS IS A EUCLIDEAN REZONING REQUEST.
10:51:12AM THERE ARE NO SITE PLANS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
10:51:15AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
10:51:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:51:17AM I SEE NONE.
10:51:18AM DO WE HAVE AN APPLICANT FOR ITEM NUMBER 83?
10:51:21AM IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON 83?
10:51:25AM I SEE NO ONE.
10:51:27AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:51:29AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:51:30AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:51:31AM AYE.
10:51:31AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:51:32AM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON, 83.
10:51:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: MOVE 83, FILE REZ-24-102, ORDINANCE
10:51:39AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE
10:51:41AM REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 3604 TEMPLE
10:51:44AM STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY
10:51:47AM DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION
10:51:50AM RM-16, RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, TO RM 18, RESIDENTIAL
10:51:54AM MULTIFAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:51:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
10:51:58AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:52:00AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:52:07AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:52:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
10:52:11AM ITEM 84.
10:52:12AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:52:14AM ITEM 84 IS REZ-24-104.
10:52:17AM THIS ITEM IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
10:52:19AM 402 SOUTH OREGON AVENUE.
10:52:21AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 12 TO
10:52:26AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED.
10:52:28AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE AND CERTIFIED PLANS HAVE BEEN
10:52:28AM SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:52:31AM RON WITH HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND MYSELF ARE AVAILABLE IF
10:52:33AM YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
10:52:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
10:52:35AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:52:37AM APPLICANT FOR ITEM NUMBER 84.
10:52:40AM >> STEVE MICHELINI, REPRESENTING THE PETITIONER.
10:52:42AM WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL.
10:52:44AM WE WERE FOUND CONSISTENT BY ALL OF THE STAFF.
10:52:48AM WE'VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT WITH THIS, BUT WE'D APPRECIATE YOUR
10:52:51AM SUPPORT.
10:52:52AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:52:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:52:53AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON 84?
10:52:55AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:52:58AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:53:01AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:53:02AM AYE.
10:53:03AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:53:04AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM 84, REZ-24-104, ORDINANCE BEING
10:53:09AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:53:11AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:53:13AM 402 SOUTH OREGON AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND
10:53:17AM MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
10:53:20AM DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-12, RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, TO
10:53:23AM PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY,
10:53:26AM DETACHED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:53:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:53:30AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:53:31AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:53:37AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO.
10:53:42AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCIL.
10:53:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM 85.
10:53:45AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:53:47AM 85 IS REZ 24-108.
10:53:50AM REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2902 MELBURNE
10:53:54AM BOULEVARD.
10:53:55AM REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 16 AND COMMERCIAL
10:53:58AM INTENSIVE TO COMMERCIAL GENERAL.
10:54:00AM SINCE THIS IS EUCLIDEAN ZONING, THERE IS NO SITE PLAN.
10:54:03AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:54:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:54:05AM MR. PRESSMAN IS REGISTERED ONLINE.
10:54:08AM IS HE ONLINE?
10:54:08AM DID HE GET SWORN IN?
10:54:12AM MR. PRESSMAN, PLEASE TURN YOUR CAMERA ON, RAISE YOUR RIGHT
10:54:16AM HAND AND WE'LL SWEAR YOU IN.
10:54:19AM >> CAN YOU HEAR ME?
10:54:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
10:54:21AM PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND, TURN YOUR CAMERA ON AND WE'LL
10:54:24AM SWEAR YOU IN.
10:54:25AM WE'RE WAITING FOR YOUR IMAGE TO APPEAR.
10:54:37AM >> IT'S COMING UP.
10:54:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THERE WE GO.
10:54:56AM RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
10:54:57AM >> DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU ARE
10:54:59AM ABOUT TO PROVIDE IS THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH?
10:55:02AM >> I DO.
10:55:02AM >>THE CLERK: THANK YOU.
10:55:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:55:05AM ANYTHING TO PRESENT ON 85?
10:55:07AM >> NO.
10:55:08AM THIS REQUEST HAS BEEN VERY POSITIVE.
10:55:11AM HAD NO OPPOSITION.
10:55:12AM RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THE SUPPORT OF COUNCIL OF UNANIMOUS
10:55:17AM DECISION ON FIRST READING.
10:55:18AM THANK YOU.
10:55:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:55:20AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN.
10:55:21AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON 85?
10:55:25AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM CLENDENIN.
10:55:26AM SECOND.
10:55:28AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:55:28AM AYE.
10:55:29AM COUNCILMAN VIERA, 85.
10:55:30AM >>LUIS VIERA: MOVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND
10:55:33AM READING AND ADOPTION, ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
10:55:35AM GENERAL VICINITY OF 2902 MELBURNE BOULEVARD IN THE CITY OF
10:55:39AM TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1
10:55:42AM FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM 16 RESIDENTIAL,
10:55:46AM MULTIFAMILY AND CI, COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO CG, COMMERCIAL
10:55:50AM GENERAL, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:55:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:55:53AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:55:54AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:55:58AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:56:00AM >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:56:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:56:04AM NEXT UP IS 86.
10:56:08AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:56:10AM AGENDA ITEM 86 IS REZ 24-110, REZONING REQUEST FOR PROPERTY
10:56:15AM LOCATED AT 622 AND 642 WEST DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
10:56:18AM BOULEVARD AND 3912, 3915, AND 3917 NORTH BOULEVARD.
10:56:25AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO
10:56:27AM COMMERCIAL GENERAL.
10:56:28AM SINCE THIS IS EUCLIDEAN REZONING THERE IS NO SITE PLAN.
10:56:31AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:56:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:56:34AM NO.
10:56:35AM DO WE HAVE AN APPLICANT?
10:56:37AM YES, SIR, PLEASE COME UP AND STATE YOUR NAME.
10:56:39AM >> STEVE MICHELINI REPRESENTING THE PETITIONER.
10:56:41AM THIS IS A REVERSAL REMOVING A PD AND TAKING IT BACK TO
10:56:45AM EUCLIDEAN ZONING.
10:56:46AM IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED LAST TIME.
10:56:48AM WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT.
10:56:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:56:51AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
10:56:52AM I SEE NONE.
10:56:53AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 86?
10:56:56AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:56:58AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:57:00AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:57:00AM AYE.
10:57:01AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, 86.
10:57:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:57:05AM I MOVE FILE REZ 24-110, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND
10:57:10AM READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
10:57:13AM GENERAL VICINITY OF 622 AND 642 WEST DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
10:57:17AM JR. BOULEVARD AND 3912, 3915 AND 3917 NORTH BOULEVARD IN THE
10:57:25AM CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
10:57:27AM SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED
10:57:30AM DEVELOPMENT TO CG COMMERCIAL GENERAL AND RS 50 RESIDENTIAL
10:57:35AM SINGLE-FAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:57:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:57:38AM HENDERSON.
10:57:39AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:57:40AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:57:48AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:57:50AM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:57:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:57:52AM ITEM NUMBER 87, OUR LAST REZONING.
10:57:55AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:57:56AM AGENDA ITEM 87 IS REZ 25-19.
10:57:59AM IT IS A REQUEST TO REZONE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3502 NORTH
10:58:03AM LINCOLN AVENUE.
10:58:04AM REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY 50 TO
10:58:07AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED.
10:58:09AM REVISIONS COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS SUBMITTED TO THE
10:58:12AM CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:58:14AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:58:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:58:16AM IS THERE AN APPLICANT HERE FOR 87?
10:58:18AM NO.
10:58:23AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
10:58:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THERE ANYBODY --
10:58:29AM >> HELLO.
10:58:29AM YES, I'M HERE.
10:58:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE CAN HEAR YOU BUT WE CAN'T SEE YOU.
10:58:34AM WE NEED TO SEE YOU ON VIDEO.
10:58:36AM IS THAT CORRECT, MADAM CLERK?
10:58:39AM >> I DO NOT.
10:58:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO
10:58:47AM SPEAK ON 87?
10:58:48AM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN WITH A MOTION TO CLOSE.
10:58:50AM SECOND FROM VIERA.
10:58:52AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, READ THIS?
10:58:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: REZ 25-19, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
10:58:59AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:59:00AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:59:02AM 3502 NORTH LINCOLN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND
10:59:05AM MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
10:59:07AM DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS RS 50 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY TO
10:59:11AM PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY,
10:59:13AM DETACHED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:59:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM CLENDENIN.
10:59:16AM SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
10:59:17AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:59:20AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:59:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM NUMBER 88 IS A PETITION TO VACATE,
10:59:34AM AND WE HAVE A PRESENTATION.
10:59:35AM YES, SIR, PLEASE SAY THE NAME.
10:59:39AM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:59:43AM VAC 25-01.
10:59:47AM CAN I ASK THE CLERK TO SHARE THIS.
10:59:50AM APPLICANT'S NAME, HUBERT AVENUE INVESTMENTS.
10:59:57AM ADDRESS TO VACATE A PORTION OF WEST CHELSEA STREET, NORTH
11:00:04AM OF ALVA STREET, SOUTH OF CAYUGA STREET, NORTH OF MANHATTAN,
11:00:11AM AND WEST OF NORTH HUBERT AVENUE.
11:00:14AM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY WAS OF SUBDIVISION PLAT.
11:00:17AM 28,086 SQUARE FEET.
11:00:22AM PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST IN YELLOW.
11:00:25AM AND APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS IN RED.
11:00:27AM HERE IS WEST CHELSEA. THIS IS THE PLAT IN WHICH IT WAS
11:00:36AM CREATED.
11:00:36AM WEST CHELSEA PROPOSED AREA IN RED.
11:00:40AM HERE IS AN IMAGE IN THE FIELD LOOKING EAST FROM NORTH
11:00:47AM MANHATTAN, AGAIN, THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION.
11:00:50AM WEST CHELSEA.
11:00:51AM THIS IS LOOKING WEST FROM N. HUBERT AVENUE.
11:00:56AM APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF WEST CHELSEA.
11:00:59AM STAFF HAS NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS VACATING REQUEST.
11:01:04AM SPECIAL CONDITIONS INCLUDE NATURAL RESOURCES AND MUST COMPLY
11:01:07AM WITH CHAPTER 27 WITH REGARDS TO TREE PRESERVATION AND SITE
11:01:11AM DESIGN, IMPROVEMENTS PLACED ADJACENT TO TREES IN THE VACATED
11:01:15AM AREA.
11:01:15AM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
11:01:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:01:20AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:01:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU PUT THE OVERHEAD SHOWING THE
11:01:23AM VACATION AS WELL?
11:01:25AM >>ROSS SAMONS: YES.
11:01:27AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:01:27AM SO THE APPLICANT ONLY OWNS THE PROPERTY TO THE NORTH.
11:01:36AM >>ROSS SAMONS: TO THE NORTH, CORRECT.
11:01:37AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH HAVE
11:01:40AM TECHNICALLY, I GUESS, IF IT WAS OPEN, WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO
11:01:44AM THIS ALLEY?
11:01:45AM >>ROSS SAMONS: IT WASN'T AN ALLEY.
11:01:47AM IT WAS ACTUALLY PLATTED AS A STREET THAT IS 50 FEET WIDE.
11:01:51AM NOW, AS FAR AS ACCESS, CURRENTLY, THERE IS A LOT OF PROPERTY
11:01:55AM OWNERS OUT THERE THAT HAVE IT INSTALLED.
11:01:59AM I GUESS THEY WERE UNAWARE AT THE TIME MAYBE.
11:02:02AM DIDN'T DO THE PROPER DUE DILIGENCE MAYBE.
11:02:06AM BUT IN THE FIELD, IT IS NOT DRIVABLE.
11:02:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY.
11:02:10AM >>ROSS SAMONS: IT HAS BEEN THAT WAY FOR SOME TIME AND IT IS
11:02:15AM AN INDUSTRIAL ZONING.
11:02:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND.
11:02:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GREAT.
11:02:19AM APPLICANT.
11:02:20AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:02:24AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:02:25AM >> MY NAME IS MARIO PENZO.
11:02:28AM I AM THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY -- ONE OF THE OWNERS OF THE
11:02:32AM PROPERTY.
11:02:32AM BASICALLY, THE NEIGHBORS -- WHAT THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER
11:02:36AM WAS AGENCY IS, THE NEIGHBORS HAVE SIGNS OFF, AND WE
11:02:39AM SUBMITTED IT IN OUR APPLICATION THAT ALL OF THEM KIND OF
11:02:42AM WANT TO DO THE SAME THING.
11:02:43AM AND THAT AREA IS GOING TO BE USED FOR WATER RETENTION, SO WE
11:02:49AM ARE NOT GOING TO DISTURB ANYTHING THAT IS THERE BASICALLY.
11:02:51AM IT IS GOING TO STAY THE SAME EXACT WAY.
11:02:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
11:02:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISHES TO SPEAK ON
11:02:58AM ITEM 88?
11:02:59AM I SEE NO ONE.
11:03:00AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:03:02AM A SECOND?
11:03:04AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:03:05AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:03:06AM WHO WISHES TO READ ITEM NUMBER 88.
11:03:13AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:03:14AM >>LUIS VIERA: ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA,
11:03:20AM CLOSING, DISCONTINUING AND ABANDONING A PORTION OF WEST
11:03:23AM CHELSEA NORTH OF ALVA STREET, SOUTH OF CAYUGA STREET, EAST
11:03:28AM OF MANHATTAN AND WEST OF HUBERT WITHIN THE PLAT OF DREW PARK
11:03:33AM AND CITY OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, MORE
11:03:36AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2 THEREOF AND COVENANTS
11:03:40AM AND CONDITION, AND ENFORCEMENT OF PENALTIES OF, PROVIDING
11:03:44AM FOR DEFINITIONS, REPEALING CONFLICTS, PROVIDING
11:03:47AM SEVERABILITY.
11:03:48AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:03:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:03:52AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:03:54AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:03:55AM OPPOSED?
11:03:58AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY, SECOND READING AND
11:04:02AM ADOPTION APRIL 17, 2025, 10:00 AT CITY COUNCIL, 315 E.
11:04:08AM KENNEDY, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33062.
11:04:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:04:12AM WE CAN NOT GO TO THE 1:30 PUBLIC HEARINGS SO WE HAVE TO WAIT
11:04:15AM ON THOSE.
11:04:16AM BUT WE CAN GO TO ITEM NUMBER 91 REGARDING CHAPTER 15
11:04:23AM PARKING.
11:04:24AM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PRESENTED BY MR. BHIDE.
11:04:28AM >>EMMA GREGORY: EMMA GREGORY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:04:31AM THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE TO CHAPTER 15 THAT WE ARE
11:04:36AM PRESENTING FOR FIRST READING THIS MORNING.
11:04:37AM THE INTENT OF THESE CHANGES IS REALLY TO MODERNIZE AND STREAMLINE
11:04:42AM THE ADMINISTRATIVE -- THE ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES
11:04:46AM APPLICABLE TO PARKING AND A PARKING DEPARTMENT.
11:04:50AM THE PARKING DIRECTOR SUBMITTED A MEMO INSIDE TALKING OF
11:04:56AM CHANGES.
11:04:57AM >> PARKING DIVISIONS MANAGER.
11:04:59AM JUST QUICK -- JUST QUICK CLARIFICATIONS.
11:05:02AM ONE, THIS IS JUST MORE ADMINISTRATIVE.
11:05:04AM WE ARE NOT ADDING ANY NEW CODE.
11:05:06AM THAT IS MORE STATE STATUTE.
11:05:08AM AND THEN ALSO, IT IS REALLY JUST UPDATING THE OLD LANGUAGE
11:05:12AM WITH THE NEW MODERN LANGUAGE.
11:05:14AM SO THE -- SO THE MEMO WAS PROVIDED AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER
11:05:20AM ANY QUESTIONS.
11:05:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:05:22AM MR. SHELBY, DO WE TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS?
11:05:25AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: PER COUNCIL'S MOTION.
11:05:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY?
11:05:28AM IF NOT, TAKE IT TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:05:30AM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK?
11:05:32AM MA'AM?
11:05:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:05:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
11:05:36AM CLENDENIN.
11:05:37AM A SECOND?
11:05:38AM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
11:05:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA SECONDED.
11:05:41AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:05:43AM CONGRESS HENDERSON WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THIS.
11:05:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I MOVE FILE NUMBER E 2025-8 CHAPTER 15,
11:05:51AM ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING CONSIDERATION.
11:05:54AM ORDINANCE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, DELETING IN ITS
11:05:58AM ENTIRETY THE CITY OF TAMPA CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 15,
11:06:01AM PARKING, ADOPTION, A REVISED CHAPTER 15 PARKING PROVIDING
11:06:06AM FOR SEVERABILITY.
11:06:07AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:06:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:06:10AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
11:06:12AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:06:13AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:06:14AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:06:16AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:06:17AM >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:06:19AM >>THE CLERK: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION APRIL 17, 2025 AT 10:00
11:06:24AM A.M. IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 315 E. KENNEDY, THIRD FLORIDA, 33602.
11:06:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TO YOU HAVE ANYTHING?
11:06:34AM DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING?
11:06:38AM COME UP TO THE LECTERN.
11:06:40AM WHAT'S GOING ON?
11:06:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
11:06:43AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:06:44AM RIGHT, I WAS JUST GOING TO SUGGEST IF THERE WAS ANY STAFF
11:06:47AM REPORTS THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO GET TO NOW, THAT WAY WE CAN GO
11:06:51AM AHEAD AND STILL, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOME THINGS TO DISCUSS AFTER
11:06:56AM LUNCH.
11:06:56AM SO LET'S GET TO -- LET'S TRY TO GET THROUGH THESE OTHER
11:06:59AM STAFF REPORTS THAT WE CAN, AND THEN WE WILL COME BACK.
11:07:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO TO THE SIDEWALK ITEM.
11:07:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: KELLY WAS TRYING TO RESCHEDULE IN THE
11:07:13AM BACKGROUND.
11:07:14AM CAN YOU GO SEE --
11:07:16AM >> FOR YOUR MOTION AS SOON AS YES, WE HAVE.
11:07:17AM AND YES -- I WOULD LIKE TO HOLD THAT UNTIL AFTER -- UNTIL WE
11:07:22AM GET TO STAFF REPORTS AFTER LUNCH.
11:07:24AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW ABOUT THE SIDEWALK IN LIEU OF FEE.
11:07:30AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: STAFF PRESENT AND REQUIRED FOR THAT.
11:07:33AM I BELIEVE MISS GREGORY.
11:07:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE YOU READY TO PRESENT ON THE
11:07:38AM SIDEWALK?
11:07:39AM >>EMMA GREGORY: EMMA GREGORY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:07:43AM I WOULD ASK BRANDON CAMPBELL IS ON HIS WAY.
11:07:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TAKE TEN-MINUTE RECESS TO GET HERE.
11:07:50AM WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME UNTIL 12.
11:07:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE 100 AND 101 WE CAN TALK ABOUT.
11:07:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
11:08:00AM 101 I WANT TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER LUNCH.
11:08:03AM I DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD MOVE THIS QUICK.
11:08:06AM SO -- SO ITEM NUMBER 95, WE ARE WAITING ON THAT, BECAUSE IT
11:08:11AM IS IN CONNECTION WITH SOME OTHER STUFF AS WE MENTIONED
11:08:14AM EARLIER.
11:08:15AM ALL RIGHT.
11:08:16AM SO LET'S SEE -- 98 IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED.
11:08:24AM DO WE HAVE A FUTURE DATE?
11:08:26AM >>LUIS VIERA: LET ME LOOK AT THAT, IF I MAY.
11:08:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THERE HE IS.
11:08:31AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HE DIDN'T RUN.
11:08:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE STOPPED TO GET COFFEE.
11:08:37AM [LAUGHTER]
11:08:40AM FACTS.
11:08:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BRANDON CAMPBELL.
11:08:47AM STATE YOUR NAME EVEN THOUGH I JUST SAID IT.
11:08:49AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:08:50AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: GOOD MORNING, BRANDON CAMPBELL, MOBILITY
11:08:56AM DEPARTMENT, TO TALK OF ITEM 99.
11:08:58AM WE UPLOADED A STAFF REPORT AS WELL AS A DETACHED DRAFT
11:09:02AM RESOLUTION THAT REFLECTS THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF
11:09:05AM SIDEWALKS FOR OUR CITY PROJECTS.
11:09:08AM I DID BRING A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW ON
11:09:12AM THE ELMO, IF I MAY.
11:09:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:09:17AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I THINK YOU SAW IT EARLIER TODAY, THE
11:09:23AM $225 FIGURE WAS CALCULATED LOOKING AT THE SIDEWALK PROJECTS
11:09:26AM THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE LAST QUARTER'S -- QUARTERLY
11:09:30AM SIDEWALK UPDATE IN DECEMBER.
11:09:31AM FIVE PROJECTS IN THAT REPORT.
11:09:33AM AND -- AND I LOOKED AT THE -- THE COSTS OF THOSE FIVE
11:09:38AM PROJECTS IN A FEW DIFFERENT WAYS.
11:09:40AM AND MY PRESENTATION TO THE TAMPA BAY BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.
11:09:44AM JUST TO -- TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GIVING A FAIR LOOK.
11:09:49AM OF THOSE FIVE PROJECTS, ONE WAS A FAIRLY SIMPLE PROJECT.
11:09:54AM BARBADOS AVENUE HAD VIRTUALLY NO GRADING AND WOULD NOT
11:09:59AM NECESSARILY BE A TYPICAL SIDEWALK PROJECT.
11:10:01AM SO THAT COST WAS -- WAS FAIRLY LOW AT $12.98 PER LINEAR
11:10:08AM FOOT.
11:10:08AM GLENN AVENUE WAS MORE EXPENSIVE PROJECT BECAUSE IT HAD
11:10:12AM SIGNIFICANT DITCH INFILL AND PIPING.
11:10:15AM AND THAT CAME OUT AT $635 A LINEAR FOOT.
11:10:20AM BOTH OF THOSE NUMBERS SEEMED TO ME REASONABLE TO EXCLUDE IN
11:10:24AM ORDER TO GET A MORE TYPICAL PROJECT.
11:10:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT, JUST A MOMENT.
11:10:28AM I WANT T&I TO KNOW -- NOT ON THE PUBLIC SCREEN.
11:10:33AM WE CAN SEE IT HERE, BUT THE SLIDE ON THE OVERHEAD, WE WOULD
11:10:36AM LIKE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN.
11:10:38AM WE WILL JUST WEIGHT A SECOND HERE.
11:10:40AM BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF FIGURES AND I WANT THE PUBLIC TO
11:10:43AM SEE IT.
11:10:43AM THERE WE GO.
11:10:51AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:10:52AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT.
11:10:55AM I DID TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT
11:10:59AM WAYS.
11:10:59AM IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THE MOST REASONABLE WAY TO DO SO WAS TO
11:11:05AM ELIMINATE THE OUTLIERS AND LOOK THE THREE PROJECTS TYPICAL
11:11:09AM FOR CITY SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION.
11:11:11AM I ALSO BROUGHT ANOTHER SLIDE FROM THAT SAME PRESENTATION I
11:11:19AM SHARED WITH THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.
11:11:21AM AND IF WE FIGURED ALL OF THE COSTS ALL FIVE OF THOSE, IT
11:11:27AM SHOWS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SLIDE, THOSE AVERAGES WERE
11:11:29AM PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY SKEWED BY THE ONE PROJECT THAT WAS JUST
11:11:33AM MORE COMPLETE OF COMPLEX.
11:11:34AM AND SO IT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT FOR US TO PEG AN EXACT
11:11:39AM UNIT COST TO OUR SIDEWALK PROJECTS.
11:11:42AM AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE WIDE VARIATIONS AND COMPLEXITY OF
11:11:46AM THOSE PROJECTS.
11:11:49AM SO FOR THAT REASON, IT MADE BETTER SENSE TO SORT OF LOOK AT
11:11:52AM THAT MIDDLE RANGE OF WHAT IS TYPICAL.
11:11:54AM THE ITEM THAT WAS UPLOADED TO THE AGENDA TODAY, I THINK, I
11:11:59AM MENTIONED TO MOST OF YOU HAVE INDIVIDUALLY THAT IT IS A
11:12:02AM DRAFT RESOLUTION.
11:12:04AM I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY OR MAY NOT BE AN OPTION FOR YOU
11:12:09AM TO ADOPT THAT RESOLUTION HERE AND NOW, BUT CERTAINLY WANTED
11:12:12AM TO GIVE IT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE DISCUSSED IN FRONT OF YOU
11:12:15AM ALL.
11:12:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYTHING ELSE?
11:12:18AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: NO, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
11:12:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BEFORE I GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE
11:12:24AM NUMBERS YOU ARE SHOWING US ON THE PROJECT LIST ON THE
11:12:27AM PREVIOUS SLIDE, YOU SHOWED 219.80 PER LINEAR FOOT WHICH WAS
11:12:33AM THE AVERAGE.
11:12:34AM THESE ARE BIG PROJECTS.
11:12:35AM WOULD THIS APPLY TO SOMEBODY ELSE BUILDING A SINGLE-FAMILY
11:12:39AM HOME BEING A RS-50 LOT AND ONLY SO MANY FEED.
11:12:44AM DO THEY HAVE THE SAME COST AS SOMETHING THAT IS 1700 LINEAR
11:12:49AM FEET OR 800 LINEAR FEET SUCH A SMALL DRIVEWAY AND A LITTLE
11:12:54AM BIT OF SIDEWALK.
11:12:55AM IS IT FAIR TO STILL THEM, WE ARE PAYING $219 ON AVERAGE BUT
11:13:00AM REALLY FOR A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, IT CAN BE LESS, CONSIDERING
11:13:03AM IT IS SUCH A -- A MUCH SMALLER PROJECT AND AN INDIVIDUAL
11:13:06AM PIECE, NOT A BIG STRETCH OF ROAD.
11:13:09AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.
11:13:12AM TWO THINGS THAT COME INTO PLAY IN RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION.
11:13:14AM FIRST IS, THE COST TO THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR MOBILIZED AND
11:13:19AM CONSTRUCTING A HOME.
11:13:20AM WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THEIR DIRECT COSTS IF THEY ARE DOING
11:13:24AM INSTALLATION TO BE LOWER THAN OUR COSTS IN PART BECAUSE IT
11:13:27AM IS AN ANCILLARY ITEM TO THE OTHER CONSTRUCTION ON SITE.
11:13:31AM CERTAINLY THAT NUMBER IS SLOWER.
11:13:33AM THE OTHER PART OF MY RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION IS WHEN WE
11:13:36AM ARE LOOKING AT LARGER PROJECTS, GENERALLY WHAT WE SEE WE GET
11:13:40AM AN ECONOMY OF SCALE BY DOING LONGER PROJECTS.
11:13:43AM WE, IN FACT, HAS A PROJECT THAT WE ARE IN PURSUIT RIGHT NOW
11:13:47AM OF -- OF A CONTRACT ON.
11:13:49AM IT IS GOING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NEXT QUARTERLY REPORT.
11:13:52AM BUT IT IS A $2 MILLION UPSET LIMIT TO -- TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
11:13:57AM OF THE BUDGET ALLOCATION THAT YOU ALL PROVIDED SPECIFICALLY
11:14:01AM FOR SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION.
11:14:02AM AND DOING ONE LARGER DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT.
11:14:06AM AND WE EXPECT OUR UNIT COSTS FOR THAT PROJECT SPECIFICALLY
11:14:09AM TO BE LOWER THAN WHAT IS TYPICAL.
11:14:11AM SO WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO ONCE THE SCOPE AND FEE AND THE
11:14:16AM PROJECT CERTAINTIES ARE IN PLACE ON THAT, WE WOULD BE HAPPY
11:14:20AM TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AS WELL AND SAY, HEY, IS THERE A NEED
11:14:23AM TO ADJUST AGAIN WHAT THE IN LIEU FEE IS?
11:14:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO I KNOW WE HAVEN'T VISITED THIS ITEM
11:14:31AM IN YEARS AND THE COST OF SIDEWALKS HAVE GONE UP.
11:14:33AM I REMEMBER WITH THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, I HAD REQUESTED
11:14:36AM FOR A SIDEWALK TO BE PUT IN ON A ROAD ALONG WEST TAMPA ALONG
11:14:41AM RIVER AND BECAUSE OF SPEEDING AND TRAFFIC.
11:14:43AM JUST THE WHOLE STORY.
11:14:44AM AND HE REMEMBER IT BEING A $100,000 PROJECT.
11:14:48AM BUT IT SPANNED SEVERAL BLOCKS.
11:14:51AM I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT COSTS TODAY.
11:14:54AM WE -- WE HAVE LOST A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES OF SIDEWALKS BEING
11:14:57AM BUILT.
11:14:57AM WE ARE NOT CATCHING UP WITH THE RISING COST OF EVERYTHING.
11:15:01AM BECAUSE, AGAIN, WHEN I ASK FOR THIS ITEM I MAY SAY 2017, WE
11:15:06AM CAN BUY A HOUSE IN WEST TAMPA FOR $180,000.
11:15:09AM NOW $450,000.
11:15:10AM ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING UP.
11:15:12AM I THINK WE SHOULD VISITED THIS AND DONE AN INCREASE OVER THE
11:15:20AM YEARS GOING -- WHAT IS IT NOW, LIKE A 900% INCREASE?
11:15:24AM I THINK $30 TO $220, WHATEVER IT IS.
11:15:27AM JUST -- MY RANDOM NUMBERS HERE.
11:15:34AM WE HAVE THE -- THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT I GET IS, PLEASE PAVE
11:15:39AM THE ROADS.
11:15:40AM SECOND BIGGEST COMPLAINT, WE NEED SIDEWALKS.
11:15:43AM THERE IS A PUBLIC DEMAND.
11:15:44AM A PUBLIC SAFETY DEMAND.
11:15:46AM WE HAVE PEOPLE -- I EXPECTED HOURS OF PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY
11:15:49AM BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF E-MAILS WE HAVE GOTTEN FROM
11:15:52AM INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS, PEOPLE I KNOW PERSONALLY.
11:15:55AM A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYBODY BECAUSE OF THE DEMAND FOR
11:15:58AM SIDEWALKS.
11:15:58AM SO I WILL WAIT TO HEAR WHAT OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS SAY, THANK
11:16:03AM YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
11:16:04AM I BELIEVE IT WAS CLENDENIN, HURTAK.
11:16:05AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:16:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:16:08AM SO CAN YOU JUST CONFIRM, WHEN THE CITY ASSESSES THESE TIMES
11:16:13AM OF FEES, IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CAN RECRUIT THE
11:16:16AM ACTUAL COST, WHICH WE ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED NOT JUST TO
11:16:19AM RECOUP THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION BUT ENGINEERING, DESIGN,
11:16:24AM EXCAVATION, UTILITY WORK, AND THAT WILL BE IN LEGAL
11:16:27AM COMPLIANCE WITH THE FLORIDA STATUTE, CORRECT?
11:16:29AM THE ACTUAL COST REIMBURSEMENT.
11:16:31AM WHATEVER THE ACTUAL COST OF THE PROJECT IS.
11:16:35AM >>EMMA GREGORY: THIS IS GOVERNED BY OUR ORDINANCE.
11:16:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SETTING FEES.
11:16:42AM THE ORDINANCE OF FLORIDA STATUTE SETTING FEES.
11:16:45AM >>EMMA GREGORY: OUR FEE IS SET PER OUR ORDINANCE.
11:16:50AM A CALCULATION IN THE ORDINANCE AND IT IS --
11:16:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND AND A REGULATION BY THE STATE
11:16:57AM OF FLORIDA THAT MAN DATES THE CITY -- -- WE CAN'T MAKE A
11:17:02AM PROFIT ON FEES.
11:17:02AM FLORIDA STATUTES.
11:17:04AM >>EMMA GREGORY: TIED TO ACTUAL COST.
11:17:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN INCLUDE ENGINEERING, UTILITIES.
11:17:11AM WHAT I AM GETTING AT IS, THIS IS A BARGAIN BECAUSE WE ARE
11:17:14AM NOT ASKING FOR REIMBURSEMENT ON ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT
11:17:18AM COULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE PROJECTS, CORRECT?
11:17:21AM IS THIS THE ACTUAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION?
11:17:23AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: ACTUAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION WHICH
11:17:27AM INCLUDES THE ANCILLARY LIKE GRADING, RAMPS AND IF THERE
11:17:32AM HAPPENS TO BE A TREE REMOVAL AS PART OF THE CONSTRUCTION
11:17:35AM COST.
11:17:35AM DOES NOT INCLUDE THE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING.
11:17:37AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DOES NOT INCLUDE STAFF TIME.
11:17:39AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: CORRECT.
11:17:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THING IS A BARGAIN.
11:17:44AM THE -- I CONCUR WITH OUR CHAIRMAN OF THE NEED OF THE CITY.
11:17:48AM RAN ON IT.
11:17:52AM MOST PEOPLE -- WE HAVE BEEN BEATING THIS DRUM AND GETTING
11:17:56AM BEAT OVER THE HEAD FROM OUR CITIZENS ABOUT THE POTHOLES,
11:17:59AM CONDITIONS OF THE RODE AND LACK OF SIDEWALKS.
11:18:01AM I LOST TWICE AND SECOND TIME AND WON THAT ONE ON IT.
11:18:06AM BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING OF SIDEWALKS.
11:18:08AM I WANT TO DRIVE THE POINT HOME THAT IF THESE IN LIEU FEES
11:18:15AM ARE NOT PAYING FOR THE SIDEWALKS.
11:18:17AM THEN OUR TAXES PAYING FOR THE SIDEWALKS.
11:18:19AM INSTEAD OF THE DEVELOPER OF THE -- OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION
11:18:22AM WHICH IS CREATING THIS IMPACT AND THIS GROWTH AND THESE
11:18:25AM ISSUES, INSTEAD OF THEM PAYING FOR IT, THE SENIOR CITIZEN
11:18:29AM THAT IS PAYING PROPERTIES OR ANYBODY ELSE IN THE CITY OF
11:18:33AM TAMPA IS PAYING -- IS -- SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO PAY FOR IT.
11:18:37AM THESE THINGS ARE NOT BEING PUT IN FOR FREE.
11:18:39AM NO SIDEWALK FAIRY IS COMING IN AND INSTALLING SIDEWALKS.
11:18:44AM SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR IT.
11:18:45AM AND THIS IS NOT A QUESTION FOR YOU, BUT -- BUT WHY WOULD I
11:18:51AM ASK SOMEBODY ON A FIXED INCOME OR, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO
11:18:55AM LIVES SOME PLACE ELSE TO PAY FOR A SIDEWALK THAT SHOULD BE
11:18:59AM PAID FOR BY THE IMPACT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE CITY OF
11:19:05AM TAMPA.
11:19:05AM JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
11:19:07AM IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
11:19:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND THEN COUNCIL
11:19:12AM MEMBER VIERA -- MIRANDA?
11:19:14AM OKAY.
11:19:14AM YES, MA'AM.
11:19:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:19:16AM I AM SURE YOU ALL SAW THERE WAS A CYCLIST KILLED THIS
11:19:18AM MORNING ON 50th STREET.
11:19:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:19:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I KNOW WE HAVE TO DO BETTER FOR OUR
11:19:24AM COMMUNITY WHO -- PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE CARS.
11:19:27AM IMPROVING OUR SIDEWALKS IS A BIG PART OF THAT.
11:19:30AM MOST OF THE SIDEWALK BUILDING ISN'T BUILDING SIDEWALKS IN
11:19:34AM FRONT OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES LIKE ONE HOME.
11:19:37AM THESE ARE LARGER PROJECTS, AS YOU TALKED ABOUT.
11:19:40AM AND BECAUSE WE -- WE -- WE ARE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR MONEY
11:19:43AM AND WE TRY FOR ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN
11:19:47AM TALKING ABOUT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO ME.
11:19:49AM I LIVE IN A HOUSE WHERE I AM THE ONLY HOUSE IN THE STREET
11:19:52AM WITH A SIDEWALK.
11:19:52AM BECAUSE I HAVE THE NEWEST CONSTRUCTION ON THE BLOCK.
11:19:56AM MY HOUSE WAS BUILT AFTER THE RULE OF YOU GOT TO BUILD A
11:20:00AM SIDEWALK.
11:20:00AM BUILDING A SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE WAS VERY
11:20:03AM COMPLICATED BECAUSE I HAVE AN OAK TREE.
11:20:05AM THEY HAVE TO GO AROUND IT.
11:20:06AM IT WAS NOT CHEAP.
11:20:07AM I WOULD HAVE TO IMAGINE THERE WAS EXTRA COSTS INVOLVED, BUT
11:20:12AM THEY CHOSE TO BUILD IT ANYWAY.
11:20:14AM NOW I HAVE A SIDEWALK TO NOWHERE, BUT IT IS THERE, AND IT IS
11:20:17AM THE BEGINNING OF WHAT COULD BE MORE SIDEWALKS.
11:20:19AM THE THING THAT -- THAT REALLY SELLS THIS TO ME IS THAT
11:20:26AM BUILDERS CAN SIMPLY BUILD A SIDEWALK INSTEAD OF PAYING INTO
11:20:29AM THE FUND.
11:20:29AM THERE IS NO RULE THAT SAYS YOU HAVE TO PAY INTO THE FUND.
11:20:32AM BUILD A SIDEWALK.
11:20:33AM AS BUILDER -- AS IT HAS BEEN SHOWN, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE
11:20:37AM A CONCRETE TRUCK COMING ALREADY THE COST IS SIGNIFICANTLY
11:20:45AM CHEAPER FOR THE DEVELOPER.
11:20:46AM SO THAT -- AND, YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK I HAVE SEEN SO MUCH
11:20:52AM PASSION ABOUT AN ISSUE EXCEPT FOR PURE.
11:20:54AM POSSIBLY THE PURE THING.
11:20:56AM BUT WE HAVE RECEIVED SO MUCH PERSONAL E-MAIL WITH STORIES.
11:21:00AM PEOPLE'S STORIES ABOUT SIDEWALKS THAT HAVE BEEN REALLY,
11:21:05AM REALLY JUST SHOWS THE ABSOLUTE DESIRE FOR US AS A CITY TO
11:21:12AM BUILD MORE SIDEWALKS.
11:21:13AM SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.
11:21:15AM I APPRECIATE ALL THE TIME AND EFFORT YOU PUT IN THIS TO DO
11:21:20AM THIS.
11:21:21AM AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING ABLE TOO SUPPORT IT.
11:21:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MIRANDA, VIERA AND CARLSON.
11:21:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE AN E-MAIL SOMEONE INCENTIVE ME
11:21:29AM BACK THAT SAID I HATED SIDEWALKS.
11:21:31AM I DON'T RECALL EVER SAYING THAT, BUT I GOT THE E-MAIL.
11:21:34AM SO I AM SAVING IT.
11:21:35AM JUST IN CASE I NEED IT.
11:21:37AM AND THAT IS NUMBER ONE.
11:21:39AM NUMBER TWO, WHAT MISS HURTAK -- COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK WAS
11:21:44AM SPEAKING ABOUT, AND MAYBE NOT DIRECTLY TO THAT POINT, BUT
11:21:47AM ANOTHER POINT, A LOT OF AREAS IN THE CITY THAT HAVE DITCHES.
11:21:51AM SO SOME OF THOSE DITCHES ARE VACANT LAND.
11:21:54AM SO IF YOU CAN NOT PUT A SIDEWALK, AND YOU BUILD A HOUSE,
11:21:59AM FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR SOMEBODY
11:22:03AM ELSE'S SIDEWALK.
11:22:04AM AM I CORRECT?
11:22:07AM >>EMMA GREGORY: WELL, THERE WILL BE -- ORDINANCE REQUIRES
11:22:11AM THAT SIDEWALKS BE BUILT.
11:22:12AM IN THE EVENT A SIDEWALK IS FOUND TO NOT BE PRACTICAL, THERE
11:22:17AM IS A CERTAIN NUMBER OF INSTANCES WHERE THE TRANSPORTATION
11:22:22AM MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE CAN MAKE A FINDING THAT IS NOT
11:22:26AM PRACTICAL.
11:22:27AM IN THE EVENT THAT THE SIDEWALK IS NOT PRACTICAL, THEN THE
11:22:30AM SIDEWALK IN LIEU FEE CAN BE PAID INTO THE SIDEWALK IN LIEU
11:22:37AM FEE FUND.
11:22:37AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE TO INTERRUPT YOU.
11:22:41AM CAN'T BE OR HAVE TO BE.
11:22:42AM WHICH ONE -- YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH.
11:22:44AM >>EMMA GREGORY: YOU MEAN -- OKAY, IF A SIDEWALK IS FOUND TO
11:22:53AM NOT BE PRACTICAL, YOU HAVE TO PAY.
11:22:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO HAVE
11:22:57AM A SIDEWALK.
11:22:58AM >>EMMA GREGORY: YOU PAY INTO THE SIDEWALK IN LIEU FEE FUND
11:23:05AM AND THAT MONEY CAN BE USED FOR PROJECTS.
11:23:08AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT PERSON WOULD NEVER HAVE A SIDEWALK?
11:23:12AM >>EMMA GREGORY: I MEAN NOT IN THAT --
11:23:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM BRINGING UP THINGS THAT ARE NOT
11:23:18AM GOING TO HAPPEN.
11:23:18AM CITY CAN DO IT.
11:23:19AM COVER A DITCH AND SIDEWALK ON TOP OF WHAT THEY COVERED.
11:23:22AM WHY DON'T THE CITY -- IF THEY REALLY WANT TO DO A JOB RIGHT,
11:23:26AM THEY SHOULD TIE THAT LAND WITH THE INDIVIDUAL PAYING FOR A
11:23:30AM SIDEWALK, HAS A SIDEWALK.
11:23:31AM I THINK IT WOULD BE LOGICAL.
11:23:33AM BUT WE, OURSELVES, DON'T WANT TO SPEND MONEY FOR THAT ONE
11:23:36AM INDIVIDUAL -- I AM JUST GOING TO SAY ONE INDIVIDUAL IN THE
11:23:39AM WHOLE CITY WHICH I KNOW I AM WRONG IN.
11:23:41AM I JUST WANT CLARITY, BECAUSE THE SAME THING -- I HAVE A
11:23:44AM HOUSE AND I ADD TO THE HUES WITHOUT A PERMIT AND I SELL IT
11:23:47AM TO YOU IT, THEY COME AFTER YOU FOR WHAT I DID.
11:23:51AM THIS IS ALSO -- I CAN'T SWALLOW THAT.
11:23:55AM BUT THAT IS A LAW WE HAVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:23:57AM SO NOW WE ARE GOING TO CHARGE SOMEBODY WHO CANNOT GET A
11:24:00AM SIDEWALK.
11:24:01AM WHAT ABOUT IF YOU HOLD THAT MONEY IN RETENTION?
11:24:04AM IT PAY INTO A FUND AND YOU HOLD IT SO HE CAN GET A SIDEWALK
11:24:08AM WHENEVER THE SIDEWALK IS PUT IN.
11:24:10AM >>EMMA GREGORY: IT IS SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO, BUT I DON'T
11:24:16AM THINK IT WOULD BE FEASIBLE PERSONALLY.
11:24:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IT WOULD BE FAIR.
11:24:20AM >>EMMA GREGORY: IF PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO PAY THE IN LIEU FEE.
11:24:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEY HAVE A SIDEWALK BUT A DITCH IN FRONT
11:24:29AM OF THEIR HOUSE.
11:24:30AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE TO FILL IN THAT
11:24:34AM DITCH AS PART OF THE REDEVELOPMENT.
11:24:35AM SOMETIMES THOSE THINGS ARE -- THEY ARE REASONS FOR WHICH AN
11:24:39AM APPLICANT DOES PAY INTO THE IN LIEU FEE.
11:24:43AM LIKE -- THE PROJECT I MENTIONED WHERE WE DID EXACTLY THAT.
11:24:46AM IT WAS $663 -- OR $635 PER LINEAR FOOT FOR US TO DO SO.
11:24:56AM IN THAT CASE FOR A DEVELOPER OR HOMEOWNER, IT BECOMES A VERY
11:25:01AM EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION AND LESS LIKELY THAT UPSTREAM AND
11:25:05AM DOWNSTREAM OF THAT THAT THE PROJECT WOULD CONTINUE.
11:25:07AM THAT IS THE REASON --
11:25:10AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE CITY PAID FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL TO HAVE
11:25:12AM A SIDEWALK OR WHATEVER.
11:25:13AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I AM SORRY WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
11:25:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ARE YOU COMMITTING TO THE SAME.
11:25:21AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: NO WE ARE NOT.
11:25:24AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IN LIEU OF.
11:25:27AM WHICH I AGREED WITH.
11:25:29AM I'M NOT DISAGREEING WITH YOU, SIR.
11:25:32AM BUT IF YOU DID IT FOR ONE, YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOR EVERYBODY
11:25:35AM ELSE IN THE CITY.
11:25:35AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I UNDERSTAND.
11:25:38AM I WOULD SAY WE DO BUILD SIDEWALKS AS I MENTIONED WITH A OUR
11:25:45AM UPCOMING $2 MILLION PROJECT.
11:25:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE --
11:25:50AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: SIDEWALKS ON REDEVELOPMENT.
11:25:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MIRANDA I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAS
11:25:58AM THE SAME PLAN THAT YOU ARE GIVING UP.
11:25:59AM IF YOU HAVE A DITCH, YOU CAN STILL BUILD A SIDEWALK?
11:26:03AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL.
11:26:04AM YES.
11:26:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHO WILL BE PAY FOR THE PIPING?
11:26:08AM ON THE CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:26:09AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: PART OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:26:13AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST WANT THIS COMMITMENT.
11:26:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:26:18AM >>LUIS VIERA: OBVIOUSLY, I WILL SUPPORT THIS.
11:26:19AM THIS IS A VERY GOOD PRO NEIGHBORHOOD MEASURE.
11:26:23AM EVERYBODY IS RIGHT THAT WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT SIDEWALKS FROM
11:26:25AM PEOPLE.
11:26:25AM AND YOU KNOW THERE IS ALWAYS AN IDEA THAT ONE PART OF THE
11:26:32AM CITY HAS GREAT SIDEWALKS, THE OTHER ONE DOESN'T.
11:26:34AM GO THROUGH CITY OF TAMPA, SOUTH TAMPA, WEST TAMPA, NORTH
11:26:38AM TAMPA.
11:26:38AM SIDEWALKS ARE EQUALLY MISERABLE THROUGHOUT PARTS OF TAMPA.
11:26:46AM PART OF THE FRUSTRATION THAT I HAVE AND THAT A LOT OF US
11:26:51AM THINK THIS IS GREAT, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT A FEW YEARS AGO,
11:26:54AM LEFT IN CITIES LIKE TAMPA AND COMMUNITIES IN HILLSBOROUGH
11:26:58AM COUNTY DOING PATCHWORK SOLUTIONS TO SIDEWALKS WHICH ARE A
11:27:01AM BASIC NEIGHBORHOOD NEED WHEN 2018, VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY
11:27:07AM PASSED A LAW FOR TRANSPORTATION ABOUT 60% INCLUDING WELL
11:27:11AM OVER 60% IN NEW TAMPA, FOR EXAMPLE, THE SUBURBS.
11:27:16AM PENDING A SALES TAX THAT WOULD HAVE GONE TO SIDEWALKS
11:27:20AM BECAUSE PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH ABOUT IT.
11:27:21AM I GO BACK TO 2018 SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY ARE SO
11:27:25AM FRUSTRATED WITH ISSUES INVOLVED WITH MOBILITY, INCLUDING
11:27:27AM SIDEWALKS THAT THEY GO WE WANT TO TAKE MORE HARD-EARNED
11:27:31AM MONEY AND PAY IT SO WE CAN ADDRESS THIS BASIC LIFE NEED.
11:27:36AM SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS -- THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE LEFT
11:27:39AM HAVING TO DO IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE LEGAL ISSUES AFTER
11:27:45AM 25018.
11:27:46AM LEGAL ISSUES THAT PREEMPT A VOTE IN 2022.
11:27:50AM NOT TALKING OF THE MERIT OF THOSE CASES AT ALL, BUT THE
11:27:53AM COMMUNITY, I STILL BELIEVE IN 2025, DOES WANT ROBUST
11:27:59AM SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES LIKE THIS.
11:28:00AM AND THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WHICH IS A BIG STEP
11:28:04AM FORWARD.
11:28:04AM THIS IS A GREAT THING.
11:28:05AM BUT WE ARE -- WE -- WE WANTED THE.
11:28:11AM WE WANTED A HOLISTIC SOLUTION AND WANTED -- THE SONG.
11:28:15AM JOHNNY CASH.
11:28:16AM ONE PIECE AT A TIME.
11:28:17AM WE ARE DOING ONE PIECE OF A TIME RIGHT NOW.
11:28:19AM AND EVERY PIECE IS IMPORTANT.
11:28:21AM THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE.
11:28:23AM AND THE COMMUNITY DEMANDS THAT HOLISTIC SOLUTION, I BELIEVE.
11:28:26AM BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK IN GETTING THIS ONE
11:28:31AM PIECE AT A TIME.
11:28:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IN THE SONG ONE PIECE OF A TIME AND
11:28:34AM DIDN'T COST ME A DIME.
11:28:35AM THIS IS GOING TO COST MONEY, BUT IT IS A NECESSITY.
11:28:37AM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
11:28:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, THANK YOU.
11:28:41AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COME UP SEVERAL TIMES SINCE I HAVE
11:28:44AM BEEN IN COUNCIL THE LAST SIX YEARS AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO
11:28:47AM GO FORWARD FOR AFTER REASON IN THE PAST.
11:28:49AM LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THIS APPROVED TODAY.
11:28:54AM THE FORTUNATE FACT THAT GOVERNMENTS TYPICALLY GET HIGHER
11:29:00AM PRICES THEN THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR VARIOUS REASONS AND WE
11:29:04AM HAVE TO PASS ON THE ACTUAL COST OF IT.
11:29:06AM AND NOT MARKING IT UP WITH SOME KIND OF PENALTIES AND THE
11:29:12AM ACTUAL COST OF WHAT THE CITY HAS TO PAY.
11:29:14AM AND THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO BUILD ON THEIR OWN.
11:29:18AM $30 A FOOT.
11:29:20AM AND IF THEY CAN, THEY CAN PAY INTO THE FEE.
11:29:23AM THIS IS -- AS OTHERS SAY A SMALL PIECE IN A LARGER ISSUE.
11:29:27AM WHAT FOLKS TALKED ABOUT RUNNING A PLATFORM WHEN I RAN IN
11:29:32AM 2019, SIDEWALKS WERE AN IMPORTANT ISSUE.
11:29:36AM SHORTLY AFTER I GOT ELECTED I MADE A MOTION, TWO MOTIONS
11:29:40AM WHICH COUNCIL APPROVED AND SUPPORTED, WHICH WAS, ONE, TO
11:29:42AM CREATE A SIDEWALK PLAN -- A REVISION FOR A SIDEWALK PLAN FOR
11:29:46AM THE CITY AND NUMBER TWO, TO CREATE A BICYCLE PLAN AND VISION
11:29:50AM FOR THE CITY.
11:29:51AM AND THE ADMINISTRATION SHOVED IT ASIDE.
11:29:53AM WHETHER THE PUBLIC IS ASKING FOR NOW IS LEADERSHIP IN THE
11:29:57AM MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:29:58AM AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO BE COMMITTED
11:30:00AM TO SUPPORTING THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:30:02AM THE ATTEMPTS TO PASS NEW TAXES FAILED MULTIPLE TIMES.
11:30:08AM THAT MONEY.
11:30:12AM AND NOT COMING SOON.
11:30:14AM IF IT IS LIKE THE ONES IN THE PAST IT WILL FAIL LIKELY AS
11:30:17AM WELL.
11:30:17AM IN THE MEANTIME, WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR POTENTIAL NEW
11:30:22AM FUNDING SOURCES.
11:30:22AM OUR PUBLIC DOESN'T WANT TO STREETS TO FALL APART.
11:30:27AM FOLKS IN WHEELCHAIRS WANT TO GET BY AND FOLKS WITH THE STROLLERS
11:30:31AM DON'T WANT TO WALK IN THE STREETS.
11:30:33AM THE POTHOLES AND ROAD REPAIR ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE
11:30:36AM SOME OF THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
11:30:39AM IF ANYBODY DOESN'T BELIEVE IT COULD GO TO SEPARATE
11:30:44AM BEAUTIFUL.
11:30:45AM THE ROADS THERE ARE JUST HORRIFIC.
11:30:47AM ALL WE HEAR ARE EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES.
11:30:51AM ASKED THE ADMINISTRATION PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY TO STEP UP
11:30:56AM TO FIX THESE SYSTEMIC ISSUES.
11:30:58AM CALVARY IS NOT COMING IN.
11:31:00AM WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO RESOLVE OURSELVES.
11:31:02AM THANK YOU.
11:31:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK WILL BE THE FIRST
11:31:06AM SPEAKER ON THE SECOND ROUND AND THEN MIRANDA.
11:31:08AM LET ME ASK YOU, $219.80 A LINEAR FOOT.
11:31:13AM WHAT DOES ON AVERAGE, IF YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT AFFECT A
11:31:17AM SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
11:31:21AM IF THERE IS A NEW CONSTRUCTION AND PERSON BUILDS A HOUSE ON
11:31:24AM A RS-50 LOT.
11:31:26AM WHAT IS THE INCREASE THEY ARE PAYING NOW AS OPPOSED TO THIS
11:31:34AM PROPOSAL.
11:31:34AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I LOOKED AT THE IN LIEU FEE PERMIT
11:31:41AM APPLICATIONS AND THERE HAVE BEEN 44 OF THEM IN THIS CALENDAR
11:31:44AM YEAR.
11:31:44AM THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF -- OF -- OF SIDEWALK THAT WAS USED TO
11:31:49AM CALCULATE THAT WAS 71 FEET.
11:31:51AM SO A LOT OF THESE ARE A LITTLE LARGER LOTS.
11:31:54AM BUT THE AVERAGE COST FOR 71 FOOT IN LIEU CONTRIBUTION WILL
11:32:02AM BE JUST UNDER $15,000.
11:32:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
11:32:07AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:32:08AM BEING THIS IS A STAFF REPORT BUT IT MENTIONS HERE TO CREATE
11:32:11AM A RESOLUTION.
11:32:12AM MR. SHELBY, WE ARE NOT VOTING ON ANYTHING TODAY?
11:32:15AM WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT --
11:32:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION.
11:32:19AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR AGENDA, ITEM 99 IS NOT
11:32:23AM STATED AS PRESENTING A RESOLUTION FOR COUNCIL ACTION
11:32:27AM SPECIFICALLY.
11:32:28AM WHAT IT DOES SAY FOR STAFF TO CREATE A RESOLUTION TO ADJUST
11:32:32AM THE SIDEWALK IN LIEU FEE AND WAS STATED POSTED AS A DRAFT.
11:32:39AM THE MEMORANDUM STATED AS A DRAFT.
11:32:42AM MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT YOU PUT IT ON AS A MOTION TO
11:32:44AM TAKE ACTION UNDER YOUR CONSENT AGENDA OR UNFINISHED BUSINESS
11:32:52AM PRESENTING A RESOLUTION FOR ACTION.
11:32:54AM AND I TELL YOU THIS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE --
11:32:58AM THIS IS NOT AN ORDINANCE.
11:32:59AM IT DOESN'T COME BACK FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
11:33:03AM NOT JUST READINGS.
11:33:04AM THIS IS ONE AND DONE.
11:33:06AM THE OPPORTUNITY, NEW INFORMATION GIVEN AND A PRESENTATION TO
11:33:10AM MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT IT IS PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA SO
11:33:14AM PEOPLE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THIS BEING A DRAFT COULD
11:33:17AM HAVE BEEN AMENDED IN SOME FORM AND FASHION AND PRESUMPTION
11:33:23AM THERE WOULDN'T BE ACTION BASED ON THE WAY THE ORDINANCE WAS
11:33:27AM STATE AND MY STRONG RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU PUT IT ON THE
11:33:29AM AGENDA FOR FUTURE ADOPTION.
11:33:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
11:33:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR WHAT HE JUST SAID.
11:33:34AM I HAVE A QUESTION.
11:33:37AM FILE NUMBER CM 24-2533 STATES, CITY STAFF TO CREATE A
11:33:42AM RESOLUTION TO ADJUST THE SIDEWALK IN-LIEU FEE FOR THE ACTUAL
11:33:47AM COSTS OF BUILDING SIDEWALKS.
11:33:48AM SO THAT -- IF WE WERE TO MOVE THAT, THAT WOULD REQUIRE CITY
11:33:56AM STAFF TO COME BACK WITH A RESOLUTION SITTING IN LIEU OF
11:34:00AM FEES.
11:34:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEY DID THAT.
11:34:02AM WE HAVE THE DRAFT RESOLUTION.
11:34:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BUT THE WAY THIS IS PUBLISHED -- BUT THE
11:34:08AM WAY THIS IS PUBLISHED, WE MOVE THIS THE WAY IT IS, THEY ARE
11:34:12AM GOING TO COME BACK WITH THE RESOLUTION SET SOMETHING THE
11:34:14AM FEES.
11:34:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:34:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BECAUSE OF THE WAY THIS IS PUBLISHED.
11:34:28AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF COUNCIL ACCEPTS IT, ANY ACTION OF
11:34:30AM COUNCIL SUBSEQUENT TO THIS?
11:34:33AM OR DOES THIS SET THE FEE AND AT THIS POINT AFTER THE TIME
11:34:37AM COUNCIL MOVES THE RESOLUTION.
11:34:38AM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT IT.
11:34:40AM THAT IS CORRECT?
11:34:43AM >>EMMA GREGORY: YES, WE BROUGHT IT TO COUNCIL THIS WAY AS
11:34:46AM PART OF THE STAFF REPORT.
11:34:48AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES.
11:34:49AM >>EMMA GREGORY: IN ANTICIPATION THERE WILL BE DISCUSS OF THE
11:34:54AM FEE.
11:34:54AM SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T PLACE IT ON THE AGENDA.
11:34:59AM YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
11:35:02AM A MOTION AS A FULLY FLUSHED-OUT RESOLUTION FOR --
11:35:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOUR INTENT IS TO AM BACK WITH A FULL ME
11:35:10AM FLUSHED-OUT RESOLUTION.
11:35:12AM >>EMMA GREGORY: THAT'S WHAT I AM HEARING.
11:35:15AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: EXCUSE ME, THE MOTION WILL BE TO BRING IT
11:35:18AM BACK.
11:35:18AM BUT THE RESOLUTION -- THE DRAFT, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND HERE
11:35:21AM IN COUNCIL, IS THAT IT WILL BE ACCEPTED AS IS AND YOU WON'T
11:35:25AM MAKE ANY CHANGES, THAT'S CORRECT?
11:35:27AM >>EMMA GREGORY: UNLESS DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL TO CHANGE
11:35:32AM SOMETHING IN THE RESOLUTION, I DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY CHANGES.
11:35:36AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT IS READY TO BE ROCK AND ROLL.
11:35:38AM ONLY DIFFERENCE A PRESENTATION AND SLIDES ATTACHED.
11:35:41AM I SUSPECT FINDS OF FACT BUT NOT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO
11:35:45AM ADDRESS THE THINGS PRESENTED TODAY.
11:35:48AM THIS BEING A RESOLUTION NOT AN ORDINANCE WITH TWO READINGS.
11:35:50AM MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO PUT IT ON A FUTURE AGENDA.
11:35:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND MIRANDA.
11:35:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:35:56AM I REALLY WANT TO GO AHEAD AND SET THAT FOR APRIL 17.
11:35:59AM I MOVE THAT WE.
11:36:03AM >> SECOND.
11:36:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SET THE RESOLUTION FOR APRIL 17 ON THE
11:36:06AM CONSENT AGENDA.
11:36:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:36:10AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HE SECONDED THE MOTION.
11:36:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON ANYTHING?
11:36:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NOT THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
11:36:15AM I AM FINE WITH THAT.
11:36:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO SPEAK WHETHER WE BRING IT BACK.
11:36:19AM DO YOU WANT TO MOVE THIS FIRST.
11:36:21AM I WANT TO GET DIRECTION ABOUT THIS FIRST.
11:36:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION ON
11:36:25AM THE FLOOR?
11:36:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION.
11:36:28AM GO AHEAD AND SPEAK ON THE MOTION.
11:36:30AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU ALL -- BECAUSE I
11:36:32AM BELIEVE THE FIGURES THAT YOU CREATED WAS JUST BASED ON ONE
11:36:39AM QUARTER.
11:36:39AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: THREE DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
11:36:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU KNOW WHAT QUARTERS --
11:36:51AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I THOUGHT YOU SAID CORRIDOR.
11:36:55AM THESE FIVE PROJECTS WERE COMPLETED OVER TWO QUARTERS, THE
11:36:59AM LAST TWO QUARTERS.
11:37:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS IT POSSIBLE JUST -- TO GET MORE DATA
11:37:04AM POINTS.
11:37:04AM IS IT POSSIBLE COULD YOU BRING YOU WITH THE DATA OVER A
11:37:09AM PERIOD OF FOUR CONSECUTIVE QUARTERS.
11:37:13AM THE -- HOPEFULLY THE LAST FOUR CONSECUTIVE QUARTERS ABOUT
11:37:17AM HOW MUCH THESE PROJECTS COST?
11:37:19AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: YES.
11:37:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I CONCUR WITH YOUR ANALYSIS WITH THROWIN
11:37:25AM OUT THE OUTLIERS.
11:37:26AM IF THEY CAN REFLECT THAT IN THE DATA THEY BRING, SHOW US
11:37:30AM THOSE OUTLIERS AND AMORTIZE THAT OUT WITH THAT FIGURE.
11:37:34AM I THINK MORE DATA POINTS IS BETTER AND I THINK MAYBE WILL
11:37:37AM BUILD SOME COMFORT WITH SOME OF THE NAYSAYERS ABOUT THIS.
11:37:40AM TO SHOW -- WELL, I THINK IT REPRESENTS IT -- SO I WOULD LIKE
11:37:48AM TO SEE THE DATA POINTS.
11:37:49AM THANK YOU.
11:37:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:37:52AM A MOTION AND A SECOND, COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:37:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NOT ON THAT MOTION.
11:37:57AM I WANT TO SPEAK AFTER THAT.
11:37:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU HAVE MORE, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK?
11:38:02AM OKAY.
11:38:02AM MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:38:03AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE?
11:38:04AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:38:06AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:38:06AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:38:09AM WE ARE NOW DOING OUR OWN PAVING OF ROADS, AM I CORRECT.
11:38:13AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: MIRANDA YES.
11:38:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT THREE AND FOUR AND
11:38:23AM INSTEAD OF STAYING WHAT THEY ARE CHARGING US, DO OUR OWN
11:38:27AM SIDEWALK PROGRAMS.
11:38:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE.
11:38:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE ARE DOING OUR OWN AND COSTS THAT MUCH
11:38:31AM MONEY?
11:38:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH.
11:38:32AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I WILL SAY OUR OPS TEAM HAVE BUILDING
11:38:38AM THOSE PROJECTS.
11:38:39AM THESE PROJECTS WERE CONTRACTED OUT.
11:38:42AM I DON'T KNOW THAT WE ARE READY FOR LARGE-SCALE SIDEWALK
11:38:45AM CONSTRUCTION BUT WE ARE WORKING THAT DIRECTION.
11:38:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THOUGHT YOU HAD TWO TEAMS.
11:38:50AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: THAT IS PAVING.
11:38:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT IS IN-HOUSE PAVING.
11:38:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD ADD IN A SEPARATE MOTION THAT
11:38:59AM MOBILITY COMES BACK APRIL 17 IF THEY HAVE TIME FOR THIS -- I
11:39:02AM AM NOT TRYING TO PRESSURE YOU.
11:39:04AM WHAT WOULD BE THE ACTUAL COSTS FOR THE CITY TAKING OVER THE
11:39:07AM TOTAL SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT OF CITIES IN DISTRICTS 4, 5, 6
11:39:13AM AND 7.
11:39:14AM AND THAT -- AS TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOWER THE COST.
11:39:17AM AND I THINK WE CAN GET A MUCH BETTER PRICE IF YOU DO NOT SUB
11:39:21AM IT OUT.
11:39:22AM YOU DO IT YOURSELF.
11:39:23AM IF YOU SUB IT OUT, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE THE CONTRACT TO DO
11:39:28AM IT.
11:39:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW DO YOU WANT THAT?
11:39:32AM A SEPARATE STAFF REPORT.
11:39:34AM CLENDENIN.
11:39:39AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM GOING TO ASK MOBILITY IF THEY CAN DO
11:39:41AM THAT.
11:39:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT UNTIL NEW BUSINESS.
11:39:44AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 7 DOESN'T NEED THAT BECAUSE THEIR
11:39:47AM SIDEWALKS ARE ALREADY PAVED IN GOLD.
11:39:49AM [LAUGHTER]
11:39:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU KNOW WHAT -- THAT IS WHY I WANT IT.
11:39:54AM THE ONLY PART OF THE SIT THAT IS NEW, VACANT LAND AND
11:39:58AM DEVELOPED AS A PART OF IT WHICH WAS NOT NEW AND ALREADY
11:40:01AM DEVELOPED.
11:40:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. CHAIR.
11:40:05AM SORRY, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A POINT.
11:40:07AM SOME OF THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA'S
11:40:11AM OBSERVATIONS.
11:40:11AM I KNOW THESE ARE NOT IMPACT FEES, BUT WE TALK OF IMPACT FEES
11:40:15AM ALL THE TIME AND HOW -- WHEN YOU -- WHEN YOU REDEVELOP OR
11:40:18AM DEVELOP, YOU ARE IMPACTING THE CITY AND SO A LOT OF THAT --
11:40:22AM THAT IS KIND OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOW WE ARE DEVELOPING
11:40:27AM THE CITY.
11:40:29AM IT LANDS THE WAY IT IS RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING
11:40:36AM THE CHANGE THAT PROVOKES THAT FEE SO SOMEBODY IS TAKING
11:40:40AM ACTION AND BUILDING SOMETHING WHICH IS BRINGING ANOTHER
11:40:43AM STRESS POINT TO THE CITY AND WE ARE TRYING TO BUILD A BETTER
11:40:45AM CITY HIGHLIGHTED BY THE CITY.
11:40:52AM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND THE PRICE DISCREPANCY.
11:40:56AM CITY PAYS LIVING WAGES.
11:40:58AM CITY PAYING RETIREMENT.
11:41:00AM THE CITY PAYS HEALTH CARE.
11:41:02AM WE TREAT OUR EMPLOYEES AS WELL.
11:41:04AM I CAN'T TELL YOU WITH SOME OF THE CONTRACTORS WHAT THEY ARE
11:41:06AM USING, WHETHER THEY ARE CERTIFIED PEOPLE OR TRAINED PEOPLE,
11:41:10AM I DON'T KNOW.
11:41:10AM BUT I WILL STAND BEHIND THE CITY EMPLOYEES AND QUALITY OF
11:41:16AM WORK AND THE TRAINING THEY BRING TO TABLE AND WHAT PETITION
11:41:20AM PROVIDE TO THE CITY'S EMPLOYEES AND GUESS WHAT, THAT COSTS
11:41:23AM MONEY.
11:41:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE PROVIDE A PLAN AND THE EMPLOYEES
11:41:30AM PARTICIPATE IN THE PLAN NOT PAYING THE COST.
11:41:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOING TO HOME DEPOT
11:41:34AM TO PICK UP A DAY LABORER TO PURE CON SECRETE THEN HAVING
11:41:40AM WELL QUALIFIED, WELL-TRAINED EMPLOYEES.
11:41:42AM IT WILL COST MONEY.
11:41:43AM YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
11:41:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:41:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MIRANDA?
11:41:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM LOOKING AT CAMPBELL.
11:41:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I CHANGED ALREADY.
11:41:55AM >>BILL CARLSON: I SAY FOR THE SCHEDULE, RON WIGGINTON IS
11:41:59AM HERE.
11:41:59AM NUMBER 100 WE CAN KNOCK OUT IN TEN MINUTES.
11:42:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT WILL BE THE NEXT ONE.
11:42:04AM WE ARE GOOD ON THAT AND YOU WILL HAVE A MOTION UNDER NEW
11:42:08AM BUSINESS --
11:42:09AM >>BRANDON CAMPBELL: I WANT TO POINT TO WHEN YOU MAKE THE
11:42:15AM MOTION AND GIVE US 90 DAYS OR SCHEDULING IT AT A WORKSHOP.
11:42:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 90 DAYS?
11:42:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL GO BY THE CALENDAR.
11:42:24AM MR. WIGGINTON, ITEM 100.
11:42:27AM AFTER MR. WIGGINTON, DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND BREAK?
11:42:33AM >> YES.
11:42:36AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I SET THIS UP REAL QUICK.
11:42:37AM THANK RON AND HIS COLLEAGUES.
11:42:40AM THEY HAVE DONE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF RESEARCH ON THIS.
11:42:44AM NEIGHBORS IN DAVIS ISLAND DISCOVERED THAT COMMERCIAL
11:42:48AM CONTRACTORS WERE PULLING A DOCK ALONGSIDE THE SEAWALL ON
11:42:52AM DAVIS ISLAND NEXT TO A ROAD.
11:42:53AM AND THEN THEY WERE BRINGING UP PER COMMERCIAL TRUCKS IN
11:42:58AM FRONT OF HOUSES AND CONDOS AND LOADING HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND
11:43:03AM HEAVY SUPPLIES FROM THE ROAD TO THE BARGE AND MOVING ON TO
11:43:07AM SOMETHING ELSE.
11:43:07AM SOME SET US ON A WHOLE JOURNEY AND HE TALKED TO SEVERAL
11:43:11AM DIFFERENT AGENCIES TO SEE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT.
11:43:14AM ALSO INCREDIBLY LOUD.
11:43:18AM WORRIED OF THE BADGE TO THE SEAWALLS AND.
11:43:24AM >>RON WIGGINTON: RON WIGGINTON, LET DEPARTMENT.
11:43:28AM ITEM 100 FOR THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO CREATE AN ORDINANCE OF
11:43:34AM COMMERCIAL USAGES OF SEAWALLS OR DOCKS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS
11:43:37AM EXCEPT IN LOCATIONS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR COMMERCIAL USE
11:43:40AM AND FURTHER THAT ANY POSSIBLE ORDINANCE WOULD ALSO REGULATE
11:43:43AM THE TYPE OF USAGE, HOURS OF OPERATION, SOUND REQUIREMENTS
11:43:46AM AND ANY NEED FOR A PERMIT.
11:43:48AM SO THE SHORT ANSWER TO THOSE QUESTIONS ARE YES.
11:43:51AM THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR AN ORDINANCE.
11:43:53AM AND, YES, THERE IS A NEED FOR A -- A PERMITTING PROCESS;
11:43:58AM HOWEVER, IT IS COMPLICATED AND MIGHT REQUIRE A BROADER
11:44:03AM DISCUSSION AMONG ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS.
11:44:05AM I WILL MENTION THAT IN A MOMENT.
11:44:07AM BUT THE -- THE REASON WHY IT IS COMPLICATED.
11:44:09AM I SEE THIS FROM FOUR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
11:44:11AM FIRST IS THE SEAWALL PERSPECTIVE.
11:44:13AM I RESEARCHED SEVEN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS SIMILARLY
11:44:19AM SITUATED TO US AND FOUND ONLY ONE CODE SECTION THAT MAY
11:44:22AM COMPLY TO THE SITUATION WHICH IS FOUND IN MIAMI SECTION
11:44:28AM 50-157 WHICH IS A SECTION THAT ADDRESSES PUBLIC PROPERTY OF
11:44:32AM ABUTTING WATER AND THE USE RESTRICTION THEREOF.
11:44:35AM THAT CODE SECTION, THAT IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR ANY CITY-OWNED
11:44:39AM PROPERTY ABUTTING WATER FOR CITY MARINAS AND AUTHORIZED BY
11:44:43AM CITY MANAGERS.
11:44:44AM GOES ON TO SAY THAT CITY-OWNED PROPERTIES THE END OF
11:44:49AM STREETS, ROADS, PUBLIC WAYS AND PARK LAND THAT ABUTS THE
11:44:53AM WATER.
11:44:53AM I DID NOT SEE ANY REFERENCE IN THAT CODE ABOUT A PERMITTING
11:44:56AM PROCESS.
11:44:57AM I AM NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THE "AUTHORIZED BY CITY MANAGER"
11:45:01AM MEANS.
11:45:01AM I DO BELIEVE THAT A PERMITTING PROCESS WILL BE VERY
11:45:04AM EFFECTIVE HERE THOUGH.
11:45:05AM BUT IT DOES REQUIRE THE ANALYSIS OF MANY DIFFERENT FACTORS
11:45:13AM TO CONSIDER.
11:45:13AM TO ENFORCE A NEW PERMITTING PROCESS THAT REQUIRES
11:45:17AM COORDINATION AND INPUT FROM MULTIPLE CITY DEPARTMENTS OF
11:45:20AM MOBILITY/PARKING, PARKS AND REC, TPD/MARINE PATROL.
11:45:27AM BUSINESS IMPACT STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED COST TO THE CITY
11:45:30AM AND THE BUSINESSES THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THE ORDINANCE.
11:45:32AM BOTH OF WHICH WOULD TAKE SUBSTANTIAL TIME ACCUMULATING AND
11:45:36AM COMPILING.
11:45:36AM YOU ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU AVOID UNINTENDED
11:45:41AM CONSEQUENCES IF YOU GO AND PROVIDE FOR EQUAL TREATMENT OF
11:45:45AM THE LAW.
11:45:45AM FROM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERSPECTIVES, A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN
11:45:48AM THE SEAWALL.
11:45:49AM WE HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY.
11:45:51AM YOU CAN REGULATE PARKING WITHOUT ORDINANCE.
11:45:56AM THAT TYPE OF REGULATION WILL INCLUDE POTENTIALLY RESTRICTING
11:46:01AM THE TYPES OF USES, ESTABLISHING FREIGHT ZONES, HOURS OF
11:46:05AM OPERATIONS, ETC.
11:46:05AM HOWEVER, THIS ALSO MAY HAVE SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
11:46:10AM WHEN YOU HAVE A BASEBALL FIELD RIGHT NEXT DOOR THAT IS USED
11:46:13AM AND PARKING WILL BE SURROUNDING THAT AREA.
11:46:15AM THE THIRD PERSPECTIVE IS THE WATER SIDE PERSPECTIVE, BUT
11:46:21AM UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS THE MOST COMPLICATED AREA BECAUSE YOU
11:46:24AM ARE DEALING WITH PROTECTED AND NAVIGABLE WATERS.
11:46:27AM AND A LOT OF PREEMPTION AND STATEMENT REGULATION ON THESE
11:46:31AM WATERWAYS OPINION YOU DEAL WITH SUB MERGED LANDS, THE
11:46:35AM MORNING FIELDS.
11:46:36AM ANCHOR LIMITATION FEEDS THAT ARE OPTIONS AND ANCHOR
11:46:42AM LIMITATION FIELDS ARE NOT WHAT OF THE IT SOUNDS LIKE, NOT A
11:46:45AM PROHIBITION OF ANCHORING.
11:46:47AM I HAVE CONTINUE TO A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THE WATER
11:46:52AM RIGHT-OF-WAY ACCESS AND ONLY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE.
11:46:54AM I DO FEEL IT IS NECESSARY TO CONSIDER BECAUSE WHAT WE ARE
11:46:56AM DEALING WITH ARE VESSELS ON WATER.
11:46:58AM AND MANY TIMES MAYBE THE ONLY ENFORCEMENT YOU CAN DO IS FROM
11:47:02AM THE WATER.
11:47:02AM SO I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER.
11:47:04AM AND THEN FINALLY, THE NOISE PERSPECTIVE.
11:47:07AM AND I WANTED TO BRIEFLY ADDRESS THAT, BECAUSE THAT WAS PART
11:47:10AM OF THE MOTION.
11:47:10AM AND WE DO HAVE CHAPTER 14 THAT ADDRESSES EXCESSIVE NOISE
11:47:15AM BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THAT REALLY MENTIONS -- THAT MENTIONS
11:47:18AM NOISE COMING FROM PROPERTY OR THE AIRSPACE ABOVE THAT
11:47:21AM PROPERTY.
11:47:21AM DOESN'T MENTION ANYTHING OF WATER PROPERTY.
11:47:24AM SO I THINKD THAT CHAPTER 14 WOULD NEED TO BE MODIFIED TO
11:47:28AM MAYBE INCLUDE THIS TYPE OF SITUATION AND THIS WOULDN'T BE
11:47:34AM TOO DIFFICULT TO DO.
11:47:34AM SO FOR ALL THESE REASONS, I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE
11:47:38AM TO SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP MEETING BECAUSE A LOT OF DIFFERENT
11:47:42AM PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED.
11:47:42AM YOU HAVE DOCK COMPANIES, TAXI COMPANIES, OTHER ENTITIES THAT
11:47:47AM ARE TRANSPORTING PERSONNEL ON AND OFF FROM THE BOAT, AND YOU
11:47:51AM HAVE MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT ALL MAY BE INVOLVED OR
11:47:54AM IMPACTED BY THIS.
11:47:55AM AND I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE
11:47:58AM ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOICE THEIR
11:48:02AM OPINION AND COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.
11:48:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND THEN COUNCIL
11:48:12AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:48:12AM CLENDENIN.
11:48:14AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL HAVE TO GO TO RON'S RECOMMENDATION IF
11:48:19AM WE CAN PUT TOGETHER AN ORDINANCE.
11:48:20AM BASED ON HIS RECOMMENDATION, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO
11:48:24AM SCHEDULE FOR A WORKSHOP.
11:48:26AM SEPTEMBER?
11:48:29AM SCHEDULE IT FOR THE SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP.
11:48:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:48:33AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:48:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I JUST -- IS THIS A ONE-OFF THING?
11:48:38AM I MEAN, WE GOING TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY WHEN WE
11:48:41AM SHOULD BE DOING A LOT OF OTHER STUFF?
11:48:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE OTHER INTERESTING THING IS, PIRATE TAXI
11:48:49AM ALSO PULLS ALONGSIDE THERE.
11:48:50AM AND THE NEIGHBORS LIKE PIRATE TAXI BECAUSE IT IS AN AMENITY.
11:48:55AM WE CAN'T TREAT PEOPLE UNFAIRLY.
11:48:57AM AND LIKE WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ON YOUR SHOW THE OVER DAY
11:49:00AM USING THE WATERWAY, WHAT HAPPENS IF WE HAVE -- WHAT -- HE
11:49:04AM WAS ON A PODCAST I WAS LISTENING TO.
11:49:05AM IF -- IF WE SUDDENLY HAVE TRANSIT UP AND DOWN THE RIVER, AND
11:49:10AM -- AND THAT WAS TAKING PEOPLE PLACES, WE WOULD NEED TO BE
11:49:14AM ABLE TO REGULATE IT IN AN APPROPRIATE WAY.
11:49:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WATER REGULATION IS REALLY COMPLICATED.
11:49:19AM THERE IS SO MUCH PREEMPTION AND SO MANY PEOPLE WITH FINGERS
11:49:23AM IN THIS PIE.
11:49:24AM YEAH, SO -- GOD, THIS SEEMS LIKE A CAN OF WORMS.
11:49:29AM I --
11:49:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:49:32AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO JUST SAY THIS.
11:49:35AM I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE TRANSPORTING.
11:49:37AM IF THIS IS A ONE TIME DEAL OR DOING IT WITH REFRIGERATORS UP
11:49:43AM NORTH AND UP THE RIVER AND PUTTING IT IN A JURISDICTION --
11:49:47AM WHO HAS A HOUSE ON THE RIVER AND LOADING IT UP ON A BOAT,
11:49:49AM TAKING IT NORTH?
11:49:50AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
11:49:51AM >>RON WIGGINTON: I AM NOT EXACTLY SURE THE EQUIPMENT THEY
11:49:54AM ARE TRANSPORTING FROM LAND TO SEA.
11:49:56AM OBVIOUSLY WOULD INVOLVE DOCK REPAIRS AND DOCK CONSTRUCTIONS.
11:49:59AM SOME WHATEVER THAT MAY ENTAIL.
11:50:03AM AS FAR AS THE FREQUENCY OF IT, IT IS SPORADIC AND REGULAR.
11:50:06AM MULTIPLE COMPANIES THAT ARE OPERATING FROM THERE.
11:50:08AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NOT A ONE-TIME DEAL, BUT A REGULAR DEAL.
11:50:14AM >> NOT CONSTANT, SPORADIC.
11:50:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHERE IS THIS AT.
11:50:21AM >>RON WIGGINTON: IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE AS COUNCIL MEMBER
11:50:25AM CARLSON, JULIAN B. LANE -- -- NO, IT'S MARJORY PARK IN DAVIS
11:50:30AM ISLAND NEXT BASEBALL FIELDS.
11:50:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE MARINA.
11:50:36AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHERE THE CLUBS ARE.
11:50:37AM ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE POOL.
11:50:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: RIGHT IN THAT AREA.
11:50:41AM >>BILL CARLSON: STORIES THAT MAYBE IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR
11:50:46AM 20 YEARS BUT THE NEIGHBORS AROUND THERE SUDDENLY STARTED TO
11:50:49AM COMPLAIN AND GOT ORGANIZED ABOUT IT AND THAT'S HOW THIS CAME
11:50:53AM UP.
11:50:53AM THERE IS A RISK IN ANY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, PEOPLE --
11:50:57AM COMPANIES COULD START OFF LOADING THINGS.
11:50:59AM AND BROUGHT UP A REALLY INTERESTING QUESTION.
11:51:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS ISN'T A ONE-TIME THING.
11:51:05AM I HEARD SOMETHING LIKE THIS FROM A DAVIS ISLAND RESIDENT IN
11:51:08AM 2019 MAYBE.
11:51:09AM AND IT WAS -- SO THIS ISN'T A ONE-TIME BRAND-NEW THING.
11:51:15AM A MOTION AND A SECOND TO SET THIS FOR A WORKSHOP.
11:51:19AM >>RON WIGGINTON: PLEASE.
11:51:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:51:21AM SEPTEMBER 25.
11:51:22AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:51:23AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:51:25AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:51:25AM WE ARE IN RECESS UNTIL 1:30.
11:51:28AM >>RON WIGGINTON: THANK YOU.
01:36:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS CITY COUNCIL
01:36:22PM MEETING BACK TO ORDER.
01:36:24PM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
01:36:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
01:36:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
01:36:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HERE.
01:36:29PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
01:36:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
01:36:32PM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
01:36:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUMP INTO 103 AND 104.
01:36:39PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD WITH THAT
01:36:41PM DISCUSSION.
01:36:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAD A VERY PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION WITH
01:36:47PM MISS DUNCAN DURING LUNCH BREAK.
01:36:50PM WE THINK WE HAVE IT SOLVED.
01:36:52PM A LOT OF STUFF.
01:36:53PM I APOLOGIZE.
01:36:56PM IT IS CONFUSING.
01:36:57PM WE GOT RID OF THE 103, THE QUARTERLY REPORT THAT WE ARE NO
01:37:02PM LONGER DOING.
01:37:02PM THAT IS GONE ALREADY.
01:37:04PM MOVED ON TO ITEM 104.
01:37:07PM AGENDA ITEM 104, CM 25-12002 WILL BE CONTINUED TO MAY 1 AS A
01:37:14PM ONE-TIME IN-PERSON STAFF REPORT.
01:37:16PM >> SECOND.
01:37:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THIS IS A ONE-TIME AND THEN WE WILL
01:37:22PM GO BACK TO --
01:37:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS IS -- YES, YES.
01:37:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS INFORMATION ALREADY AVAILABLE
01:37:28PM ONLINE?
01:37:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABOUT STORMWATER SERVICE ASSESSMENT.
01:37:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY 1, THAT'S CORRECT?
01:37:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S CORRECT.
01:37:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
01:37:36PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:37:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY, NEXT.
01:37:38PM CM 25 -- I HAVE THIS FOR YOU, I THINK, THAT KELLY ALREADY
01:37:43PM GAVE YOU A COPY, BUT IF NOT, I HAVE ANOTHER ONE.
01:37:45PM CM 2512001, THE MONTHLY STORMWATER MAINTENANCE REPORT
01:37:51PM CURRENTLY SCHEDULED AS AN IN-PERSON REPORT FOR APRIL 3, THE
01:37:56PM REPORT ITSELF WILL NOT BE LOADED INTO ON BASE UNTIL, BUT THE
01:38:01PM PRESENTATION WILL GO ON AS SCHEDULED.
01:38:03PM APRIL 3.
01:38:04PM ALREADY ON THE SCHEDULE.
01:38:06PM ALREADY MOVED.
01:38:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE INFORMATION WILL BE ONLINE BY THEN?
01:38:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, IT WILL BE ONLINE AFTER TO PROVIDE THE
01:38:13PM MOST UP-TO-DATE SITUATION.
01:38:15PM IF THEY DON'T, THEY HAVE TO HAVE IT TWO WEEKS PRIOR.
01:38:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JEAN IS OKAY WITH THAT.
01:38:22PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEY DID IT LAST TIME LAND OTHER REPORTS.
01:38:25PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:38:26PM OPPOSED?
01:38:29PM MISS DUNCAN, ANYTHING TO ADD?
01:38:32PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: IF YOU NEED FOR ME TO WEIGH IN.
01:38:35PM WE ARE PUBLISHING THIS REPORT MONTHLY ON OUR WEB SITE.
01:38:39PM THE REASON WE GO ON AFTER, BECAUSE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE,
01:38:43PM WE DON'T HAVE TIME -- TO GET IT IN ON BASE BEFORE.
01:38:48PM THESE REPORTS ARE ON OUR WEB SITE EVERY MONTH FOR ANYONE TO
01:38:51PM ACCESS AT ANY TIME.
01:38:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, MA'AM.
01:39:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NEXT MONTHLY REPORT MAY 1 MOVED TO THE MAY 25
01:39:04PM WITH CM 25-222012 STORMWATER MOTIONED BY COUNCIL MEMBER
01:39:14PM CARLSON.
01:39:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE ORIGINAL ITEMS.
01:39:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ONLY FOR 25-12-001.
01:39:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DOES THAT WORK FOR TO YOU PUT THAT TO
01:39:24PM THE WORKSHOP IN MAY?
01:39:26PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: YES, OBVIOUSLY OUR PREFERENCE IS TO SIGH IT
01:39:29PM ONCE.
01:39:29PM BUT WE WANT TO BE ACCOMMODATING.
01:39:31PM SO WE CAN DO THAT, YES.
01:39:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
01:39:34PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
01:39:35PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
01:39:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
01:39:39PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:39:40PM OPPOSED.
01:39:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: 13-46, THE TWO ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT I
01:39:45PM MOTIONED TO BE -- WHICH ARE -- NUMBER ONE, WHICH WOULD
01:39:48PM ASSIST THE STORMWATER DEPARTMENT FACILITIES CREW MORE
01:39:51PM ADDITIONAL FTE OR CONTRACTOR ASSISTANCE AND TWO, WHICH IS
01:39:55PM MOST COST EFFECTIVE FOR PARADE ROUTE BARRIERS AND STORMWATER
01:40:00PM STAFF AND CONTRACTOR ALSO BE MOVED TO THE MAY 25, 2025
01:40:07PM WORKSHOP WITH CM 25-22-12 STORMWATER PRESENTATION.
01:40:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
01:40:13PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
01:40:15PM A SECOND.
01:40:15PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
01:40:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A QUESTION.
01:40:18PM I KNOW -- IT IS MAY 22, BY THE WAY --
01:40:21PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SORRY, MAY 22, 2025.
01:40:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO QUESTION FOR YOU.
01:40:26PM I KNOW MISS DUNCAN HAD ASKED TO CONSOLIDATE THIS.
01:40:30PM WOULD THAT JUST BE A NONSTARTER TO HAVE THEM IN THAT
01:40:36PM WORKSHOP?
01:40:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, THE OTHERS -- THIS IS THE LAST ONE,
01:40:40PM FIRST OF ALL.
01:40:40PM THE OTHER IS A MONTHLY REPORT AND WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT
01:40:43PM UNTIL THE END OF MAY.
01:40:44PM CITIZENS ARE KIND OF CURIOUS OF STORMWATER.
01:40:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM -- I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS
01:40:51PM FOR A WHILE AND MAYBE NOT THIS.
01:40:52PM I AM NOT GOING TO PUSH IT ON THIS ONE.
01:40:55PM INTUITIVELY, I THINK THAT WE -- I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY KEEP
01:40:59PM TRACK OF ALL OF THESE THINGS.
01:41:00PM GENERATE THESE REPORTS AND -- LIKE A MACHINE.
01:41:03PM AND --
01:41:06PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WHY I AGREED WITH WHAT THEY SAID AND
01:41:09PM CONSOLIDATED TWO OF THEM AND MOVED THEM TO THE 22nd.
01:41:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: LIKE I SAID.
01:41:13PM I AM GOOD WITH THIS AND JEAN IS GOOD WITH THIS.
01:41:15PM GENERALLY AS A COUNCIL, WE HAVE TO SOMEHOW FIGURE OUT A WAY
01:41:19PM TO WRANGLING THIS UNDER CONTROL AND BE MORE STRATEGIC OF
01:41:24PM HAVING STAFF REPORTS LIKE ONE TIME.
01:41:26PM AND NOT BURDEN THEM AS MUCH --
01:41:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AGREE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, I DON'T HAVE
01:41:32PM NEARLY AS MANY STAFF REPORTS AS OTHERS.
01:41:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW.
01:41:34PM I AM NOT SAYING IT DIRECTLY TO YOU.
01:41:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM THE LOWEST.
01:41:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW WHO WE ARE LOOKING AT.
01:41:43PM [LAUGHTER]
01:41:45PM >>LUIS VIERA: I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE.
01:41:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS THE LAST
01:41:50PM FEW MONTHS BECAUSE I HAVE --
01:41:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: A GREAT TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT DURING OUR --
01:41:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WILL DISREGARD MY CONVERSATION.
01:41:57PM PLEASE ERASE THE LAST CONVERSATION AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT IT
01:42:00PM A LITTLE BIT LATER.
01:42:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
01:42:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
01:42:05PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:42:06PM 103 AND 104.
01:42:08PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISS DUNCAN.
01:42:11PM THAT COMPLETES THAT?
01:42:12PM THANK YOU, MA'AM.
01:42:13PM ALL RIGHT.
01:42:18PM LET'S KEEP GOING.
01:42:19PM SO IF WE CAN OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING TO DO THIS CONTINUANCE.
01:42:25PM A MOTION TO OPEN THE 1:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING FROM
01:42:30PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
01:42:31PM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:42:33PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:42:34PM OPPOSED?
01:42:35PM OKAY.
01:42:35PM WE HAVE A -- WE HAVE A RESCHEDULING REQUEST FOR THE REVIEW
01:42:40PM HEARING TO BE RESCHEDULED TO MAY 15, 2025 FOR ITEM NUMBER
01:42:45PM 90.
01:42:45PM IT WILL NOT BE HEARD.
01:42:46PM IT IS MISNOTICED.
01:42:47PM CAN I GET A MOTION TO SET ITEM THE 0 FILE NUMBER SU
01:42:55PM 1-24-98-C FOR MAY 15, 2025, 1:30, 315 EAST KENNEDY
01:43:02PM BOULEVARD.
01:43:02PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON AND SECONDED BY COUNCIL
01:43:06PM MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:43:06PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:43:07PM OPPOSED?
01:43:08PM ALL RIGHT.
01:43:08PM YES, SIR.
01:43:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL MOVE ITEM 98 TO MAY 1 OF 2025.
01:43:15PM THAT IS ON THE FEDERAL GRANT COMING TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
01:43:19PM AND ALSO JUST -- IT APPEARS THAT IS GOING TO BE GOING
01:43:23PM THROUGH WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY ALL THE CHAOS IN THE
01:43:26PM FEDERAL LEVEL, BUT SO SEE HOW MUCH OF IT WE ARE GOING TO GET
01:43:30PM AND ONE OF THE BIG INCREASES HOW MUCH WE USE FOR
01:43:33PM INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW MUCH OF IT CAN WE ALSO USE FOR
01:43:36PM HOUSING ASSISTANCE.
01:43:36PM SO IF I MAY, MOVE THAT TO MAY 1.
01:43:39PM THAT IS A TIME WHEN WE HAVE FOUR ITEMS, I BELIEVE, WHICH IS
01:43:43PM PURSUANT TO THE RULES.
01:43:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
01:43:48PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:43:49PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
01:43:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT SETTLES THAT.
01:43:52PM ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE.
01:43:54PM I DON'T SEE MR. REMER THERE.
01:43:56PM WE WILL WAIT FOR THAT COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, ARE THEY A FEW
01:44:03PM MINUTES AWAY?
01:44:03PM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM UNSURE.
01:44:05PM I WOULD REQUEST TO WAIT A LITTLE BIT FOR THE PARENTS,
01:44:08PM COUNCIL.
01:44:09PM I APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.
01:44:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHIT IS PART OF ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE,
01:44:21PM BUT HE IS NOT THERE.
01:44:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I COULD IF CHIEF BENNETT CAN TALK.
01:44:25PM I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT DISCUSSION WILL TAKE.
01:44:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CHIEF BENNETT, DO YOU WANT TO TALK OF
01:44:31PM BUNKER?
01:44:32PM I KNOW WE HAVE ITEM 95 TIED INTO IT.
01:44:34PM AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU WOULD NEED FOR THIS ITEM.
01:44:38PM >>JOHN BENNETT: GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL, PUBLIC, JOHN
01:44:42PM BENNETT, CHIEF OF STAFF.
01:44:43PM IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING CHIEF TRIPP IS COMING IN TO SPEAK
01:44:46PM ABOUT 95 AS A PROCUREMENT PIECE.
01:44:49PM IF THERE IS ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT BUNKER, HE WILL BE HAPPY
01:44:53PM TO TRY TO --
01:44:56PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, THANK YOU.
01:44:57PM THANK YOU, CHIEF BENNETT.
01:44:59PM SO OBVIOUSLY A LETTER FROM ED KELLY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE --
01:45:05PM I AM GETTING A CALL FROM THE PARENTS.
01:45:07PM SOMEBODY WANTS TO KEY THIS UP --
01:45:12PM >>JOHN BENNETT: I WILL COME BACK.
01:45:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
01:45:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CHIEF BENNETT, I HAVE A QUESTION.
01:45:22PM NOT TO OPEN UP A CAN OF WORMS.
01:45:23PM BUT I HAD A MEETING YESTERDAY WITH PARKLAND ESTATES FOLKS
01:45:27PM AND BERN'S AND EPICURION.
01:45:30PM IT WAS IN REFERENCE TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA -- THE SOUTH HOWARD
01:45:34PM FLOOD PROGRAM.
01:45:35PM >>JOHN BENNETT: OKAY.
01:45:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW WE PASSED -- THERE ARE COUNCIL
01:45:41PM PASSED THE DESIGN PHASE OF THIS.
01:45:44PM MY QUESTION IS -- AND LISTEN TO THEIR PRESENTATION.
01:45:49PM AND I SUGGEST THIS BECAUSE -- AND I REMINDED COUNCIL THAT WE
01:45:53PM DON'T NEGOTIATE CONTRACTS.
01:45:55PM WE JUST APPROVE THEM OR DENY THEM.
01:45:57PM THEY HAD A PROPOSAL WHICH, YOU KNOW, SEEMED EXTRAORDINARY
01:46:05PM REASONABLE.
01:46:06PM AND THIS IT WOULD GO DO YOU KNOW SWANN, USE THAT SOFTBALL
01:46:12PM COMPLEX AND THE DITCH OWNED BY THE CITY THAT PARALLELS THE
01:46:15PM CROSSTOWN ALL THE WAY DOWN.
01:46:16PM INTUITIVELY, IT KIND OF LOOKED AND SOUNDED GOOD.
01:46:25PM I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT YOU SPEAK WITH THE MAYOR AND TALK OF
01:46:29PM REOPENING OR AN ADDENDUM OF THE CONTRACT TO AT LEAST EXPLORE
01:46:33PM IT AND HAVE THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER.
01:46:36PM A LOT OF PUBLIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS.
01:46:38PM AT LEAST THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE THAT.
01:46:47PM I DON'T WANT TO SLOW THINGS DOWN.
01:46:50PM THE DESIGN SPACE HAVEN'T STARTED YET.
01:46:52PM I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO BRING BACK THE IDEAL OF
01:46:58PM AMENDING THE CONTRACT INCLUDING LOOKING HARD AT THAT OTHER
01:47:01PM PROPOSAL.
01:47:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:47:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HAVE YOU TALKED TO STORMWATER ABOUT THAT?
01:47:07PM BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING THAT.
01:47:08PM CONTRACTORS -- FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THE CONTRACTORS
01:47:11PM ARE DOING THE CONTRACT WORK AND OUR STAFF IS LOOKING A THREE
01:47:14PM OTHER POSSIBILITIES.
01:47:14PM HAVE YOU ASKED THEM IF THAT IS THE POSSIBILITY THEY ARE
01:47:17PM LOOKING FOR?
01:47:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK -- KIMMINS IT IS DOING IT.
01:47:20PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, THEY ARE NOT.
01:47:21PM OUR STAFF IS DOING IT.
01:47:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK WE NEED TO AMEND THE CONTRACT WITH
01:47:26PM KIMMINS.
01:47:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHY CAN'T OUR STAFF DO IT.
01:47:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOT DOING THE THREE.
01:47:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE PUBLIC DOESN'T TRUST THE PROCESS.
01:47:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BECAUSE I THINK THE EXPERTISE THAT A
01:47:38PM CONTRACTOR BRINGS IS DIFFERENT.
01:47:39PM I AM NOT -- OUR STAFF IS GOOD AND CAN DO ALL OF THAT, BUT I
01:47:46PM TELL PEOPLE, WHY DON'T WE DO THIS.
01:47:48PM STAFF ALREADY HAS FULL-TIME JOB.
01:47:52PM NOT LIKE WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE SITTING AROUND DOING
01:47:55PM NOTHING WAITING FOR US TO GIVE THEM ASSIGNMENTS.
01:47:57PM FOR ENGINEERING, OUR STORMWATER PEOPLE ARE BUSY TOO.
01:48:01PM AND THEIR CAPACITY IS ONLY SO MUCH.
01:48:06PM SEEMS TO ME THAT IT WILL BE A VERY DIFFERENT IS SOLUTION TO
01:48:09PM HAVE AN ADDENDUM TO THAT CONTRACT TO PURSUE LOOKING AT
01:48:14PM ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK, IT DOESN'T WORK,
01:48:18PM IF THE NUMBERS ARE NOT THERE.
01:48:19PM IF IT IS UNREALISTIC.
01:48:21PM AND THE CAPACITY IS NOT THERE.
01:48:22PM WHEN I SAW THE LENGTH OF THAT DITCH ALONG THE CROSSTOWN.
01:48:27PM AND HOW LESS DISRUPTIVE THAT WOULD BE AND I FROM THE
01:48:33PM BEGINNING FELT THAT SWANN AND A PORTION WAS ON HERE BECAUSE
01:48:38PM IT WAS SO WIDE.
01:48:40PM AND DO THAT WITH LESS CONSTRUCTION.
01:48:42PM I WOULD LIKE FOR TO YOU TALK ABOUT IT.
01:48:44PM >>JOHN BENNETT: I WILL SHARE WITH WHAT WE KNOW.
01:48:46PM THE MAYOR HOSTED THE SAME GROUP YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT TO
01:48:49PM DISCUSS ALTERNATIVES.
01:48:50PM SEVERAL PRESENTED FROM THIS GROUP.
01:48:52PM ONE OF THEM SEEMED TO HAVE SOME TRANSACTION TO LOOK AT AND I
01:48:59PM BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE, THAT THEY ARE LOOKING
01:49:01PM AT THIS AS AN ALTERNATIVE, BUT IN-HOUSE.
01:49:05PM AS COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SPOKE OF.
01:49:08PM BUT ALSO THE NEXT LEVEL WAS TO TALK TO KIMMON ABOUT THE
01:49:11PM FEASIBILITY.
01:49:12PM I THINK SOME OF THIS -- I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATE, BUT I THINK
01:49:15PM IT HAS BEEN ENERGIZED THAT WAY.
01:49:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS GOING TO CALL YOU OFFLINE AND YOU
01:49:21PM WERE STANDING THERE AND I THOUGHT I WOULD ASK YOU NOW.
01:49:23PM EITHER THAT OR I WILL START SING SOMETHING.
01:49:25PM EITHER WAY.
01:49:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.
01:49:28PM [LAUGHTER]
01:49:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
01:49:32PM >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE SPOKEN TO CHIEF BENNETT ABOUT THIS.
01:49:36PM I HAVE CONCERNS HOW THIS WHOLE PROCESS WAS MADE.
01:49:38PM ONE OF THE WORST POLITICAL PROCESS THAT WE HAVE SEEN.
01:49:42PM SO BAD THAT THE SOUTH TAMPA AND PARKLAND ESTATE THE
01:49:47PM ADMINISTRATION PITTED NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR.
01:49:49PM IT WAS HORRIBLE THE WAY IT WAS DONE.
01:49:51PM I THINK WE NEED TO RESTART.
01:49:56PM KIMMINS WITH HARBOUR ISLAND, MacDILL 48.
01:50:00PM AND THEY GET HIGH REMARKS IN ALL THE PROJECTS THEY DO.
01:50:03PM BUT THIS ONE THIS ONE WAS INCREDIBLY DIVISIVE BECAUSE
01:50:06PM SOMEBODY DECIDE THIS WOULD BE THE ROUTE AND THIS IS WHAT WE
01:50:09PM ARE GOING TO DO.
01:50:12PM BUSINESS GROUPS AND NEIGHBORHOOD TALKED TO STAFF.
01:50:15PM AFTER THE BUSINESS GROUPS SPENT 250,000 LOOKING AT THE OTHER
01:50:19PM ALTERNATIVES.
01:50:20PM STAFF SAID WE WILL NOT LOOK AT ANY OF THE NEW ALTERNATIVES
01:50:23PM AND GO BACK TOWARD ANYONE THAT WE ALREADY DID.
01:50:27PM THAT GROUP MET WITH THE MAYOR AND SAID WOULD GO DOWN HOWARD
01:50:30PM AVENUE.
01:50:31PM SECOND HAND, IF THE MAYOR DISAGREES.
01:50:34PM THE POINT IS THEY ARE NOT LOOKING AT ANY OTHER ALTERNATIVE
01:50:40PM AND THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
01:50:41PM KIMMINS WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND THEY WANT TO MAKE IT
01:50:47PM WORK.
01:50:48PM WE NEED LEADERSHIP AND STOP THE DIVISIVENESS.
01:50:51PM AFTER 65 MILLION PLUS -- $65 MILLION OR SO IN INTEREST THIS
01:50:57PM WILL NOT STOP FLOODING PROBLEM IN PARKLAND AND PALMA CEIA.
01:51:02PM WE NEED TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON ON THE ENTIRE THING.
01:51:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
01:51:06PM ALL RIGHT.
01:51:06PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON, I JUST DON'T LIKE
01:51:10PM -- AGAIN, WE JUST BROUGHT THIS UP TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF.
01:51:16PM SAID THAT THE MAYOR AND HIM WILL HAVE TALKS AND WILL
01:51:18PM CONTINUE TO HAVE TALKS.
01:51:20PM I THINK PROBABLY A DECISION POINT THAT WHAT YOU SAID IS
01:51:24PM ACCURATE THAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT REVISITING THIS AGAIN.
01:51:29PM AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVISIT
01:51:35PM THIS.
01:51:35PM NOT BECAUSE IT WAS A DECISION POINT.
01:51:40PM THERE WAS A MOMENT IN TIME COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.
01:51:43PM BUT I THINK THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE THAT WE PIVOT AND I
01:51:46PM THINK WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM THE CHIEF OF STAFF IS HE WILL
01:51:49PM GO IN AND THE MAYOR ALREADY HAD THE ONE CONVERSATION AND
01:51:52PM WILL TALK AGAIN AND OPEN THIS BACK UP.
01:51:54PM AND STAFF WAS LOOKING AT IT AND LET'S LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
01:51:59PM I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO CLOSE THE DOOR BECAUSE THIS WAS
01:52:03PM THE DECISION MOMENT YESTERDAY IS THE SAME POINT WE ARE AT
01:52:07PM TODAY.
01:52:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:52:09PM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I HAVE A SECOND BITE OF THAT SINCE YOU
01:52:11PM GOT THE SECOND BITE.
01:52:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HE DIDN'T HAVE THE FIRST BITE.
01:52:14PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS.
01:52:17PM HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS THING?
01:52:20PM WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT BEFORE?
01:52:23PM I FEEL LIKE QUITTING RIGHT NOW.
01:52:24PM JUST GETTING THE HELL OUT OF HERE.
01:52:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PLEASE, CHARLIE.
01:52:28PM PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.
01:52:29PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I FEEL LIKE GETTING THE HELL OUT OF HERE.
01:52:32PM WE CAN'T MAKE THE DECISION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
01:52:36PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I THOUGHT WE ALREADY DECIDED THIS.
01:52:38PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND I AM NOT JOKING.
01:52:40PM THIS IS THE MOST DISCONTENT IF INDIVIDUAL GROUP -- NOT
01:52:43PM INDIVIDUALLY BUT GROUP THAT I EVER WORKED WITH.
01:52:46PM >>BILL CARLSON: UNFORTUNATELY, THE VOTERS ELECTED THE MAYOR
01:52:49PM AND PICKED HER STAFF AND THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THE PROBLEMS
01:52:52PM THAT WE ARE HAVING.
01:52:52PM WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A LITTLE WHILE.
01:52:54PM MAY I JUST RESPOND TO THAT?
01:52:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WANT TO END THE DISCUSSION BECAUSE IT
01:52:58PM IS NOT EVEN ON THE AGENDA.
01:52:59PM I JUST LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT.
01:53:02PM LET'S END THE DISCUSSION.
01:53:04PM >>BILL CARLSON: IF HE GOT A SECOND BITE.
01:53:06PM >>JOHN BENNETT: WE WILL DO THE NEXT PUN WITH COUNCIL'S
01:53:09PM PLEASURE FOR THE NEXT ITEM.
01:53:13PM >>BILL CARLSON: HOW COME I GOT SET UP AND NO ONE ELSE ON A
01:53:16PM SECOND BITE.
01:53:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOT EVEN ON THE AGENDA.
01:53:19PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL TAKE 30 SECONDS.
01:53:21PM MORE TIME --
01:53:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.
01:53:24PM >>BILL CARLSON: BUT THE CHAIR IS SUPPOSED TO GIVE A SECOND
01:53:26PM ROUND.
01:53:27PM ISN'T THAT OUR PROTOCOL.
01:53:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 30 SECONDS AND THE DISCUSSION ENDS.
01:53:32PM >>BILL CARLSON: TO RESPOND TO COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
01:53:34PM I SPOKE WITH CHIEF OF STAFF JUST BEFORE THE BREAK, AND THE
01:53:37PM LAST CONVERSATION I HAD WITH HIM, HE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE, I
01:53:39PM THINK, I PLEADED WITH HIM.
01:53:40PM PLEASE HAVE THE MAYOR STAND UP AND SAY I DECIDED TO
01:53:44PM RE-EVALUATE THIS AND LOOK AT THE OTHER OPTIONS.
01:53:47PM AS OF THAT MEETING, THE MAYOR HOME RUN NOT DECIDED TO DO
01:53:50PM THAT.
01:53:50PM IF THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN THE LAST TWO DAYS, I HOPE THE
01:53:54PM MAYOR WILL TALK ABOUT IT.
01:53:55PM I AM NOT TALK ABOUT DOING NOTHING.
01:53:58PM AN HONEST PROCESS THAT WILL HAVE SOLUTIONS.
01:54:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, ANY UPDATES?
01:54:06PM >>LUIS VIERA: WILL BE HERE VERY SOON.
01:54:08PM DO MR. REAMER.
01:54:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHIT IS HERE.
01:54:14PM >>JOHN BENNETT: IF I CAN INTRODUCE CHAIRMAN, THE COUNCIL AND
01:54:16PM THE PUBLIC.
01:54:16PM IF YOU WANT TO WOMAN UP.
01:54:18PM SO WHIT JOINED US OBVIOUSLY WHEN THE ADMINISTRATION KICKED
01:54:21PM IN WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY AND
01:54:25PM RESILIENCE WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR INTERGENERATIONAL THINGS
01:54:29PM THAT WE ALL KNOW.
01:54:30PM WE KNOW COUNCIL WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE SURE
01:54:34PM THAT OUR FUTURE IS STRONG IN THAT SPACE.
01:54:38PM THING THAT DRAWS US -- I TRAVELED TO AMSTERDAM AND LOOKED AT
01:54:42PM THEIR WATER USAGE.
01:54:44PM PEOPLE LOOK AT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF SOLID WASTE AND IT ALL
01:54:47PM TIES TOGETHER.
01:54:48PM WHAT ENAMORED US ABOUT WHIT, IS THE FACT THAT HE DID WANT TO
01:54:53PM NOT WANT TO BUILD A PLANNED AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
01:54:56PM HE WANTED TO SEE IT LIMITED.
01:54:57PM AFTER MULTIPLE PLANS, WE HAVE A LOT OF TRACTION IN PLACE TO
01:55:02PM KEEP THE CITY MOVING FORWARD.
01:55:03PM I REMEMBER MY FIRST REAL STRONG ITERATION WHEN THE STORMS
01:55:08PM AND OVER THE NORTH END, AND I TURNED AROUND AND SHE WAS THERE
01:55:12PM VOLUNTEERING ON HER DAY OFF TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY
01:55:14PM WAS GET WHAT THEIR NEEDS WERE.
01:55:17PM I WILL TURN IT OVER TO WHIT TO MAKE COMMENTS AND INTRODUCE
01:55:22PM KAYLA AND MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.
01:55:23PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, WHIT THE REAMER, SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE
01:55:29PM NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
01:55:30PM I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE NOT ONLY THE
01:55:34PM ADMINISTRATION'S SUPPORT IN CREATION OF THIS POSITION, BUT
01:55:38PM COUNCIL'S SUPPORT.
01:55:39PM WE HAVE DONE SOME REMARKABLE THINGS MY TENURE, INCLUDING
01:55:44PM SIGNIFICANT FEDERAL AND STATEMENT GRANT MONEY FOR RESILIENT
01:55:50PM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
01:55:50PM WE STARTED TAMPA'S GREEN TEAM WHICH I KNOW VISIT YOUR
01:55:55PM DISTRICTS TO HELP PLANT TREES AND PICK UP TRASH.
01:55:58PM THAT IS AN AMERICORP PROGRAM TO HOPE CONTINUE WITH SOME
01:56:05PM FEDERAL THREATS OF CUTTING THAT PROGRAM.
01:56:08PM AND WE CREATED OUR VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT A STATE REQUIRED
01:56:13PM DOCUMENT RELEASING IN COUPLE OF WEEKS THAT HONES ON THE
01:56:18PM ASSETS THAT PEOPLE LOOK LOOKING FOR.
01:56:22PM PUMPS, PIPES, WORK THAT THE OFFICE HAS DONE.
01:56:32PM WE HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL GETTING GRANT MONEY TO
01:56:35PM SUPPORT OUR PLANS THAT WE HAVE WRITTEN.
01:56:37PM AND I HAVE THE FULL CONFIDENCE WHO IS STEPPING IN WILL
01:56:44PM CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RESULTS FOR YOU ALL, FOR THE
01:56:46PM ADMINISTRATION FOR THE GREAT PEOPLE OF TAMPA.
01:56:49PM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING MOOING ME THIS PRIVILEGE.
01:56:52PM I LOVE THE CITY OF TAMPA.
01:56:54PM I AM NOT GOING FAR AND WILL BE STAYING HERE WITH MY FAMILY
01:56:57PM AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AROUND TOWN.
01:56:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
01:57:01PM YES, MA'AM, YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
01:57:04PM >> KAYLA CASELI.
01:57:06PM IN THE INTERIM, AS WHIT MOVES ON WITH HIS TRANSITION, I
01:57:10PM WANT TO THANK HIM ON BEHALF THE CITY.
01:57:12PM HE HAS BEEN A HUGE ASSET TO SET THE FOUNDATION FOR THE WORK
01:57:16PM THAT THAT WE WILL BE CONTINUING TO DO AND WORKING WITH
01:57:20PM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
01:57:21PM A TEAM OF -- WHEREAS THREE, NOW TWO FOR A LITTLE BIT.
01:57:24PM AND SO WE DEFINITELY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF
01:57:27PM EVERY SINGLE CITY STAFF MEMBER IN DIFFERENT COMPARTMENTS AND
01:57:35PM TO CONTINUE THE COURSE THAT WE ARE ON A GREAT PATH LAND
01:57:38PM CONTINUE TO DO THIS WORK.
01:57:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WELCOME.
01:57:41PM MR. REMER, COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC.
01:57:48PM I HAD MENTIONED I WANTED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION OF SOMETHING
01:57:51PM I HAVE SEEN.
01:57:51PM WENT OUT TO THE CITY OF TAMPA RESIDENTS OF THE SOLAR
01:57:57PM PROGRAM.
01:57:57PM THERE IS LINK.
01:58:00PM I WENT TO THE WEB SITE.
01:58:02PM THEY SAID I HAVEN'T HEARD.
01:58:05PM IT REAL OR LEGIT?
01:58:07PM >> IT IS LEGIT.
01:58:07PM THE LETTER SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY A TARGETING
01:58:11PM MAILINGS.
01:58:12PM SOME GOT OUTSIDE THE COUNTY AND WORK WITH THE VENDOR ON
01:58:15PM THAT.
01:58:15PM WE WORK WITH A SOLAR NONPROFIT CALLED SOLAR UNITED
01:58:21PM NEIGHBORS.
01:58:21PM THEY PUT TOGETHER CO-OPS THAT ARE NEIGHBORS THAT ALL WANT TO
01:58:25PM THINK ABOUT INSTALLING SOLAR TOGETHER AND ISSUE AN RFP
01:58:30PM TOGETHER AND ULTIMATELY HAVE PRICING DISCOUNTS.
01:58:38PM CHARLIE MIRANDA WENT THROUGH THE PROGRAM AND WAS VERY
01:58:41PM HAPPY WITH IT.
01:58:42PM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT PROGRAM AND THE MAIL, AN ADVERTISING
01:58:45PM PARTNERS THAT SENT OUT THESE MAILERS.
01:58:47PM I TOTALLY ADMIT THEY LOOK LIKE KIND -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY
01:58:51PM SOLICITATIONS BUT STRONGLY ENCOURAGING FOLKS TO LOOK AT THIS
01:58:56PM AND WORKWITH THOSE PARTNERS TO MAKE SURE THEY LOOK AS
01:59:02PM OFFICIAL AND LEGIT.
01:59:03PM AND THE CITY OF TAMPA SPONSORED PROGRAM AND HOPE PEOPLE WILL
01:59:08PM GO TO THE WEB SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
01:59:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, VIERA, MIRANDA
01:59:13PM AND CARLSON.
01:59:14PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR
01:59:16PM LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
01:59:19PM SOMEONE WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU IN THE BOOK STORE 48 HOURS
01:59:23PM AGO.
01:59:23PM AND WE TALKED ABOUT 22nd STREET AND THE EAT STUDY AND THE
01:59:27PM GRANT YOU WORKED A LONG TIME ON THAT WE RECEIVED JUST -- AND
01:59:33PM CREATING THE DREAM TEAM BY I LOVE SEEING THEM -- ESPECIALLY
01:59:37PM IN MY DISTRICT.
01:59:41PM I WANT TO SAY JOB WELL-DONE.
01:59:43PM YOU LEFT IT BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT.
01:59:45PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN.
01:59:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VIERA, MIRANDA AND CARLSON.
01:59:51PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK FROM TAMPA.
01:59:54PM CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, DO YOU WORK AT ACKERMAN?
01:59:58PM >> NO, SIR.
01:59:58PM >>LUIS VIERA: WHERE DID I GET THAT FROM?
02:00:00PM I KNOW YOU ARE AN ATTORNEY.
02:00:01PM WHAT WHIT -- I DON'T KNOW WHERE I GOT ACKERMAN LIMIT WITH
02:00:05PM YOU.
02:00:06PM BUT I VALUE HIGHLY ATTORNEYS WHO GO INTO AT THAT PUBLIC
02:00:13PM SERVICE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER
02:00:14PM MISS JOHNSON-VELEZ, THE FORMER HEAD PRESIDENT OF HILLSBOROUGH BAR
02:00:22PM ASSOCIATION WHICH AFFIRMS THAT.
02:00:24PM I THINK ATTORNEYS HAVE AN UNIQUE PROPENSITY TO GO INTO
02:00:28PM PUBLIC SERVICE.
02:00:29PM EQUAL ON IN PROPENSITY TO DO THAT.
02:00:31PM BUT THAT IS ONE YOU TOOK.
02:00:33PM I THINK YOU OUGHT TO BE PROUD OF THAT AS A MEMBER OF THE
02:00:36PM FLORIDA BAR.
02:00:36PM THANK YOU FOR THEIR.
02:00:37PM >> AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO SERVE AS A PUBLIC SERVICE.
02:00:43PM HIGHEST ESTEEM OF FLORIDA BAR.
02:00:45PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:00:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND CARLSON.
02:00:49PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
02:00:50PM APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
02:00:52PM THINGS COMING OUT THAT AFTER YOU LEAVE, YOU HAD YOUR
02:00:56PM FOOTPRINT AND FINGERPRINT ON IT.
02:00:58PM WHOLE THING WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA TO DO OR NOT DO.
02:01:03PM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
02:01:07PM AND WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD BUT WE CAN'T EVEN SAVE
02:01:12PM OURSELVES.
02:01:12PM BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE IS HURRICANE SEASON COMING BY AND THE
02:01:20PM PROBLEM IS WE CAN DRAW, FIX, PROGRAM SOMETHING IF WE NEED TO
02:01:24PM FIX IT NOW.
02:01:25PM BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS COMING BECAUSE NOW IT DOESN'T
02:01:28PM EXIST.
02:01:28PM YEAH, IF HURRICANE SEASON IS COMING I DON'T KNOW WHAT SIZE,
02:01:34PM STRENGTH OR WHERE IT IS GOING TO HIT.
02:01:36PM I HAVE BEEN SAYING IT FOR A WEEK, THE BAY IS THREE DEGREES
02:01:41PM WARMER THIS TIME THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR.
02:01:44PM WE THINK THERE WILL BE A DECLINE IN STRENGTH, YOU ARE WRONG.
02:01:48PM YOU GOT TO PRAY THAT IT GOES SOMEWHERE ELSE.
02:01:51PM AND WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE THAT IS
02:01:57PM BRIGHT.
02:01:57PM WE ARE ANTI BEING OURSELVES AND SAVING OURSELVES.
02:01:59PM WE TRY TO SAVE SOMETHING IS THAT DOES NOT EXIST.
02:02:02PM WE ARE NOT PREPARED FOR IT.
02:02:03PM WE KEEP DOING SAME DAMN THING ALL OVER AGAIN.
02:02:08PM KEEP REPAIRING THE HOUSES LIKE THEY WERE 1,000 YEARS AGO AND
02:02:15PM DO NOT RESTRAIN WATER COMING IN THE HOUSE SAND TOTAL LOSS
02:02:21PM EVEN IF THEY ARE STANDING.
02:02:22PM WE KEEP DOING IT THE SAME WAY.
02:02:24PM AND WHAT A GREAT JOB WE HAVE DONE.
02:02:25PM NOT YOU, SIR.
02:02:27PM SO WE HAVEN'T CHANGED ONE DAMN BIT.
02:02:33PM I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE.
02:02:34PM I VOTED FOR IT AND I WILL CALLS SUPPORT SOLAR PANELS AND
02:02:38PM DOESN'T TAKE 19, 20, 21, OR 40 YEARS TO PAY BACK.
02:02:43PM I CAN TELL YOU THAT I FIRST TALKED HOW THIS AND SENT ME IN
02:02:47PM THE RIGHT WAY WITH THE CO-OP.
02:02:50PM HE WAS ONE OF THE TEN.
02:02:51PM COST OF THAT -- IT WAS YEARS AGO $14,400.
02:02:56PM AND MY ELECTRIC BILL LAST MONTH -- I WILL TURN IT INTO THE
02:03:00PM CLERK FOR PUBLIC RECORD.
02:03:01PM I AM.
02:03:02PM THAT AND THE WATER BILL ALSO.
02:03:04PM MY DRUNKEN DRIVING WHICH I DON'T HAVE ANY.
02:03:07PM JUST TO SHOW YOU THAT I DO WHAT I SAY AND I SAY WHAT I DO.
02:03:10PM IT IS GETTING TO A POINT THAT WE TALK A LOT.
02:03:14PM AND AMERICA IS GOING TO HELL AT THE SAME TIME.
02:03:16PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:03:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
02:03:17PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND THEN CLENDENIN.
02:03:20PM >>BILL CARLSON: I SAID THIS TO YOU PRIVATELY AND I WANT
02:03:24PM TONIGHT SAY IT PUBLICLY, I THINK ONE COUNTY BIG THOUGHT
02:03:27PM LEADERS IN OUR REGION.
02:03:28PM I KNEW YOU WHEN YOU WERE AN ACTIVIST.
02:03:30PM AND I HAVE RESPECT FOR YOU THEN.
02:03:31PM YOU ARE ALWAYS PUSHING THE LIMITS OF MAKE SURE PEOPLE
02:03:35PM UNDERSTOOD WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
02:03:36PM IT WAS FUN TO WORK LIKE THAT.
02:03:40PM I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON THE OUTSIDE.
02:03:42PM WHATEVER THINGS YOU ACCOMPLISHED HERE I HOPE YOU CAN DO EVEN
02:03:46PM MORE BEING A LEADER ON THE OUTSIDE WORKING WITH THE
02:03:48PM COMMUNITY TO GET THINGS DONE AND THE EXTENT TO HELP YOU
02:03:56PM FULFILL THAT VISION, LET US KNOW.
02:03:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:03:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS VERY SAD TO HEAR YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT
02:04:03PM THAT YOU ARE DEPARTING.
02:04:04PM BUT EXCITING.
02:04:05PM DOORS -- YOU CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND YOU AND THE DOOR YOU WALK
02:04:09PM IN THE NEXT DOOR, AND YOU DON'T LOOK BACK AND KEEP GOING.
02:04:12PM I HAD MANY OF THOSE EXPERIENCES WITH NO REGRETS.
02:04:14PM AS YOU MOVE FORWARD IN LIFE, ALWAYS NEW CHALLENGES.
02:04:17PM WHAT AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA TO START
02:04:20PM SOMETHING FROM GROUND ZERO AND BUILD SOMETHING AND SEE WHAT
02:04:26PM YOU HAVE DONE.
02:04:27PM I ECHO -- I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO SAID THAT.
02:04:30PM A COUPLE OF YEARS YOU WILL LOOK BACK AND SEE THE SEEDS THAT
02:04:33PM YOU SOWED AND WHAT WILL BECOME OF THEM.
02:04:37PM EXCITED FOR YOU.
02:04:38PM AND I APPRECIATE ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR THE CITY.
02:04:41PM ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF PUBLIC SERVANT STAND YOUR
02:04:45PM DEDICATION FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN AND ADMIRABLE.
02:04:49PM >> THANK YOU, VERY KIND.
02:04:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OUR GREAT GUY.
02:04:52PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU ARE NOT AT GREAT GUY.
02:04:55PM GET OUT OF HERE.
02:04:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I APPRECIATE YOU INVITE ME TO MEET WITH
02:04:59PM THE GREEN TEAM AND SPEAK WITH THEM.
02:05:01PM WONDERFUL PROGRAM.
02:05:02PM GREAT PEOPLE.
02:05:02PM THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY IS BRIGHT WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE YOUNG
02:05:05PM PEOPLE INVOLVED AND HOW MUCH THEY CARE AND WHAT THEY DO.
02:05:08PM IT GIVES ME HOPE.
02:05:09PM THERE WERE LEADING THEM.
02:05:13PM UP CAN'T SAY ANYTHING BUT GOOD THINGS ABOUT YOU MY RESPECT
02:05:18PM AND THE RESPECT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE AND LUCKY TO HAVE YOU
02:05:20PM HERE.
02:05:20PM BEST OF LUCK FOR YOU FOR YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS.
02:05:23PM YOU WILL BE MISSED.
02:05:25PM >> APPRECIATE IS VERY MUCH.
02:05:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
02:05:29PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:05:29PM ITEM NUMBER 97.
02:05:31PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MRS. BOONSTOPPEL IS HERE.
02:05:35PM MISS VAN LOAN, IF YOU WISH, YOU MAY.
02:05:38PM GO AHEAD, MAN THANK YOU.
02:05:46PM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBERS
02:05:49PM AND THE BOONSTOPPELS.
02:05:52PM I AM MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
02:05:53PM I WILL BE MORE BRIEF THAN I USUALLY AM BECAUSE THE FAMILY IS
02:05:56PM HERE AND WE WILL HAVE A LOT MORE THINGS TO SAY OF THE YOUNG
02:06:01PM HARRISON BOONSTOPPEL THAT MEANS MORE COMING FROM THEM.
02:06:04PM IF WE CAN HAVE THE POWERPOINT.
02:06:08PM TODAY HONORING NAMING REQUEST TO HONOR LIFE OF HARRISON
02:06:13PM BOONSTOPPEL, WHOSE BRIEF LIFE STANDS AS AN SHINING EXAMPLE OF
02:06:18PM PERSEVERANCE AND A FINE YOUNG ADULT WHILE OVERCOMING
02:06:21PM PHYSICAL CHALLENGES SINCE BIRTH AND THE RESULTING
02:06:23PM DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES DURING HIS LIFETIME.
02:06:27PM HARRISON GRADUATED FROM PEPIN ACADEMY IN 2022 HIGHLIGHTING
02:06:32PM HIS GROWTH ACADEMICALLY AND SOCIALLY.
02:06:34PM HARRISON GREW INTO A STRONG, INDEPENDENT YOUNG MAN AND
02:06:39PM DESPITE HIS CHALLENGES HAD A JOB, WORKING AND TAKING COLLEGE
02:06:43PM COURSES TO ADVANCE HIMSELF THROUGH LIFE.
02:06:46PM HARRISON SYMBOLIZES ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH HARD WORK.
02:06:49PM POSITIVE -- VERY POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE AND SUPPORT OF
02:06:53PM FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
02:06:53PM HARRISON'S SUCCESS IS THE TESTAMENT OF THE INDOMITABLE
02:06:58PM SUPPORT OF HIS PARENTS EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE.
02:07:01PM THE HONORARY NAMING REQUESTING TO NAME THE NEW TAMPA ALL
02:07:05PM ABILITIES PARK AT THE NEW TAMPA COMMUNITY PARK IN HONOR OF
02:07:09PM THE LIFE OF THE YOUNG HARRISON BOONSTOPPEL.
02:07:13PM TO QUOTE THE TAMPA PALMS OWNERS ASSOCIATION.
02:07:16PM IN PART OF THE HONORING NAMING, HARRISON'S NAME WILL BE A
02:07:20PM BEACON FOR THE PURPOSE THIS PARK WAS CREATED THAT OF
02:07:23PM CELEBRATING AND ADVANCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL ABILITIES
02:07:30PM OF ALL PEOPLE.
02:07:31PM THANK YOU.
02:07:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:07:33PM YES, MA'AM.
02:07:33PM IF COULD YOU PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE BOARD.
02:07:39PM >> YES, BRUCY BOONSTOPPEL.
02:07:44PM I WILL HAVE TO READ IT.
02:07:46PM I'M HERE TO SHARE MY MESSAGE OF HARRISON, I NOW AND WILL
02:07:51PM ALWAYS BE HIS MOTHER.
02:07:52PM HARRISON WAS 20 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS TAKEN FROM US BEGIN
02:07:58PM VIOLENCE.
02:07:58PM MY SON, HARRISON, AND HIS TWIN SISTER, AVA, BORN PREMATURELY
02:08:05PM IN 2003, WELCOMED INTO THE FAMILY MY HUSBAND, CARL, THEIR BIG
02:08:09PM BROTHER NICHOLAS, LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY AND A COMMUNITY OF
02:08:12PM FRIENDS.
02:08:13PM THE PATH AHEAD WASN'T ALWAYS THE EASY FOR HARRISON.
02:08:16PM HE BARELY SURVIVED OF THE FIRST FEW MONTHS IN THE NICU AS HE
02:08:22PM CONTRACTED A STAPH INFECTION WITH THE BREATHING TUBE FOR HIS
02:08:28PM UNDERDEVELOPED LUNGS.
02:08:30PM DOCTORS WERE NOT SURE HE WILL MAKE IT.
02:08:33PM AFTER A MONTH IN THE NICU, HE WENT IN SEARCH FOR A FEEDING
02:08:38PM TUBE FOR ALL HIS EATING NUTRITION FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS
02:08:43PM POP TO LEARN HOW TO WALK, HE WAS FITTED WITH LEG BRACES AT AGE
02:08:48PM 3, AND HE HAD SEVERE MEMORY LOSS PROBABLY CAUSED BY THESE
02:08:52PM ANTIBIOTICS.
02:08:52PM AT AGE FIVE, HARRISON WAS SURGICALLY FITTED WITH A COCHLEAR
02:08:58PM IMPLANT THAT ALLOWED HIM TO HEAR AND GRASP LANGUAGE WHICH IS
02:09:03PM PRETTY RESEARCH THE FIRST TIME.
02:09:04PM WE DIDN'T KNOW IN THE BEGINNING THAT HE COULDN'T HEAR.
02:09:07PM INCLUDING FIVE THERAPIES A WEEK -- SPEECH, OCCUPATIONAL,
02:09:11PM PHYSICAL, AND EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMS AT ROOSEVELT
02:09:15PM ELEMENTARY BEGINNING AT AGE WHERE HE HAD TWO EXCEPTIONAL
02:09:19PM TEACHERS MISS CASEY AND MISS ANDREA THAT SHAPED EVERYTHING
02:09:22PM IN HARRISON'S WORLD WITH KINDNESS.
02:09:24PM FROM FIFTH GRADE UNTIL GRADUATION IN 2022, HARRISON ATTENDED
02:09:29PM PEPIN ACADEMIES WHICH NURTURED HIM DAILY WITH KINDNESS.
02:09:35PM KINDNESS IS THE MOTIVATION OF THE PEOPLE WE ARE TALKING
02:09:41PM ABOUT HERE AND THE -- SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
02:09:43PM THIS IS THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALWAYS WORKING TO MAKE THIS
02:09:47PM WORLD BETTER FOR THOSE LESS FORTUNATE.
02:09:51PM HARRISON'S LIFE WAS IN MANY WAY A BEAUTIFUL SHOOTING STAR
02:09:57PM PASSING THROUGH A LIFETIME IN A FEW SHORT YEARS.
02:10:00PM CRAMMED MORE EXPERIENCES, MORE ADVENTURES AND CERTAINLY MORE
02:10:04PM ENERGY IN EVERY DAY OF THE LIFE THAN MANY OF US CAN DO AND
02:10:06PM HE HAD A SMILE THAT MELTED HEARTS PERHAPS BECAUSE OF HIS
02:10:14PM EXPERIENCES WITH HIS CHALLENGES, HE COULD BE QUIET AND
02:10:19PM EVEN SHY IN NEW SITUATIONS.
02:10:20PM ONCE HE BECAME AT EASE HIS FLOODGATES WOULD OPEN AND LOVE
02:10:25PM FOR LIFE AND UBERANCE WOULD OPEN WIDE AS HIS AMAZING SMILE.
02:10:30PM HARRISON WAS GIFTED WITH A CAPACITY OF EMPATHY
02:10:35PM AND COMPASSION.
02:10:36PM A QUALITY VERY, VERY APPEALING TO THOSE WHO MAY HAD THEIR
02:10:39PM OWN STRUGGLES WITH SHYNESS AND UNCERTAINTY AND CERTAIN DRAWN
02:10:48PM OTHERS TO HIM.
02:10:48PM HARRISON HAD A PASSION FOR ADVENTURE, MOTION AND SPEED.
02:10:51PM A BOY DISCOVERING THE JOYS OF SKATEBOARDING HE PUSHED
02:10:55PM DISABILITY TO THE UTMOST, WHEN SOMETHING CAUGHT HIS
02:10:58PM ATTENTION AND INTEREST, HE HAD A STRONG FOCUS AND STARTED
02:11:00PM RESEARCHING AND LEARNING EVERYTHING -- EVERYTHING HE COULD
02:11:05PM OF ALL DETAILS INVOLVED.
02:11:08PM PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HAD NO PROBLEM WARMING UP TO HARRISON.
02:11:13PM AT OXFORD EXCHANGE, HE WAS HARD-WORKING, DILIGENT AND KIND
02:11:19PM COLLEAGUE DURING THE TWO YEARS HE WORKED THERE.
02:11:21PM MANAGER SAID HE WAS A QUIET BOY AND THEN TWO WEEKS ON THE
02:11:25PM JOB THEY SPOKE AND HARRISON HAD A HAWKS SMILE AND THEN JUST
02:11:31PM LIKE THAT.
02:11:31PM HARRISON'S CHALLENGE MAY HAVE MEANT THINGS SIMPLE FOR OTHER
02:11:35PM KIDS WOULDN'T AS EASY FOR HIM, BUT DIDN'T DISCOURAGE HIM
02:11:40PM SEEING LIFE AS AN ADVENTURE.
02:11:42PM HE LOVED CAMPING TRIPS, HIKING, SKATEBOARDING
02:11:47PM WITH FRIENDS, HE BIKED.
02:11:49PM WHEN OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE PICKED OUT A BRIGHT BLUE SUBARU WX
02:11:53PM THAT HE ALSO LOVED.
02:11:54PM HE WAS A SOURCE OF LAUGHTER AND LOVE FOR ALL THOSE WHO KNEW
02:11:57PM HIM AND HE WAS WELL-KNOWN FOR HIS KINDNESS AND BEAUTIFUL
02:12:00PM SMILE, AND HARRISON'S LIFE ENDED OCTOBER 9, 2023.
02:12:06PM HE AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE GONE OUT AFTER A USUAL EVENING OF
02:12:10PM DRIVING.
02:12:11PM YOU KNOW THE 360 APP TO KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF MY CHILDREN.
02:12:16PM YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
02:12:17PM HARRISON'S DAILY MAPPING HISTORY LOOKED LIKE A SPIDER
02:12:27PM WEB AND AFTER HIS FUNERAL, A CAR PARADE WITH HIS FRIENDS
02:12:30PM THROUGH DAVIS ISLAND, BAYSHORE AND DOWNTOWN.
02:12:34PM WENT TO YBOR CITY TO WATCH PEOPLE DRESS UP FOR HALLOWEEN.
02:12:37PM HE WAS ONLY THERE TEN MINUTES GOING UP 7th AVENUE AND THEN
02:12:41PM BACK AGAIN TO THE GARAGE WHERE THEY HAD PARKED.
02:12:43PM 18 PEOPLE HAD THEIR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER THAT DAY.
02:12:46PM HARRISON WAS KILLED WITHIN SECONDS OF THE SHOOTING.
02:12:51PM MY SON, AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER STANDING THERE WAS KILLED BY A
02:12:58PM 14-YEAR-OLD BOY.
02:12:59PM HIS LOSS HAS BROKEN THE HEARTS OF OUR FAMILY AND EVERYONE
02:13:02PM WHO KNEW HIM.
02:13:03PM THAT MOMENT TOOK AWAY MY BRIGHT.
02:13:06PM BEAUTIFUL SON BUT HAS LED TO THE RECOGNITION OF KINDNESS AND
02:13:13PM HIS LEGACY, LET KINDNESS WIN.
02:13:15PM THE COMPANIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUPPORTIVE ARE COMPANIES WE
02:13:19PM HAVE KNOWN THROUGH HIS LIFE.
02:13:20PM HE HAS BEEN A PART OF PEPIN FOUNDATION.
02:13:22PM THE RONALD McDONALD TRAINING CENTER.
02:13:26PM HE STAYED THERE FOR A WHILE.
02:13:28PM KAREN CLAY.
02:13:29PM TAMPA PALMS OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATION AND JUST ALL THESE
02:13:37PM ELEMENTS MAKE ME JOYOUS TO THINK HIS NAME WILL BE ON THAT
02:13:45PM PART.
02:13:46PM MORE FORTUNATE THAN OTHERS AND DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WOULD WALK
02:13:57PM OR TALK.
02:13:57PM EVEN THE GUYS AS THE NEUROLOGIST SAID THEY WEREN'T SURE IF
02:14:00PM HE WOULD BE ABLE TO TALK.
02:14:01PM HE MAY HAVE TO TALK THROUGH A COMPUTER.
02:14:03PM NOPE, EVEN AFTER FIVE YEARS BEFORE HEARING, HE DID IT ALL
02:14:08PM AND THAT BRINGS STUFF WITH IT.
02:14:10PM LIKE I SAID PEPIN AND ALSO I WAS GOING TO SAY TOO.
02:14:15PM I AM PROUD OF HARRISON AND PROUD OF HIS SISTER, AVA AND THE
02:14:18PM REST OF MY FAMILY, NICHOLAS.
02:14:21PM WHEN HARRISON WAS LITTLE, HE WAS REALLY PETITE.
02:14:23PM SO SOME KIDS DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY WITH HIM BECAUSE THEY
02:14:26PM THOUGHT HE WAS A BABY.
02:14:27PM AND HE DIDN'T TALK THAT WELL.
02:14:29PM BUT HE WAS THE ONE WHEN AVA AND HE WOULD GO TO THE PARK, AND
02:14:36PM HE WOULD BE PUSHING THE SWING WITH THE LITTLER KID.
02:14:39PM I MEAN HE JUST CARED ABOUT EVERYBODY.
02:14:44PM TO ME, THAT IS AN AMAZING LEGACY AND IT IS AN AMAZING LEGACY
02:14:49PM OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.
02:14:51PM BY THIS UNFORTUNATE GUN VIOLENCE.
02:14:54PM BUT THE REALITY IS -- IS MY LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO AND FUELED
02:15:03PM BY THE ACTIONS THAT YOU GUYS CAN DO.
02:15:05PM IT IS A CRAZY WORLD RIGHT NOW, BUT HE IS THE PRODUCT MUCH
02:15:14PM PEOPLE CARING ABOUT HIM.
02:15:15PM AND UNDERSTANDING OF HIM WHETHER HE NEVER WALKED OR
02:15:20PM ANYTHING.
02:15:20PM SO THIS IS A REAL THRILL FOR US TO BE PART OF THE HANDICAP
02:15:26PM PARK.
02:15:28PM AND I JUST APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH.
02:15:31PM AND I WANT MY SON'S BEAUTIFUL PICTURE TO BE AT THE PARK --
02:15:37PM OH, IS THAT IT?
02:15:39PM OKAY.
02:15:39PM HE JUST REALLY WAS SOMETHING THAT I THINK ALSO IN THE
02:15:45PM GENERAL SCOPE OF THINGS OUR CHILDREN DON'T HAVE THAT.
02:15:50PM SO BEATEN DOWN AND SO.
02:15:53PM I WANT THIS TO BE A STORY NOT ABOUT THE GUNS BUT ALL THE
02:15:59PM THINGS HE OVERCAME AND ALL THE QUALITIES AND PEOPLE -- EVEN
02:16:07PM KIDS EVEN WITHOUT HANDICAP AND SPECIAL NEEDS, THEY ARE
02:16:10PM BROKEN.
02:16:12PM AND SO I LOVE THE PARK TO HAVE A SPACE AND SAY LET KINDNESS
02:16:19PM WIN AND INSPIRE OTHERS.
02:16:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, MRS. BOONSTOPPEL, IT WILL BE
02:16:26PM MY HONOR TO SUPPORT THIS.
02:16:28PM THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR STORY.
02:16:30PM I REMEMBER WHEN THAT HAPPENED, WHEN THE NEWS CAME OUT.
02:16:34PM I WAS UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND FIRST THING I SAW,
02:16:38PM MASS SHOOTING IN YBOR CITY.
02:16:39PM WITH THE CHIEF HE WAS SO DILIGENT WITH HIS TEAM, WALKING
02:16:42PM THROUGH YBOR CITY.
02:16:44PM VISITING WITH PEOPLE.
02:16:46PM INCREASING THE POLICE PRESENCE.
02:16:47PM WE WERE OUT TOGETHER ONE NIGHT.
02:16:49PM MY WIFE WAS WITH US.
02:16:50PM AND, YOU KNOW YOUR STORY ABOUT YOUR SON IS SO -- SORRY, I
02:16:58PM CRY -- NOT THE FIRST TIME.
02:17:00PM BUT, HE IS AN EXAMPLE OF -- WHAT WE SHOULD BE.
02:17:05PM >> YES.
02:17:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND THESE -- IN THESE TERRIBLE -- YOU
02:17:11PM KNOW POLITICS IS CRAZY.
02:17:12PM THE WORLD IS CRAZY, BUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID IS SO
02:17:16PM INSPIRATIONAL.
02:17:16PM AND I CAN'T IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH.
02:17:20PM AND I CAN -- I CAN OFFER MY CONDOLENCES ON OUR BEHALF.
02:17:26PM YOU KNOW, HIS NAME WILL LIVE ON AND HE WILL BE REMEMBERED
02:17:35PM AS, AS A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING, SO -- YEAH.
02:17:38PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
02:17:41PM AND I -- I WAS HOLDING BACK TEARS JUST LISTENING TO YOU,
02:17:45PM BRUCY, AND COUNCIL MEMBER CHAIRMAN MANISCALCO, NOT A DAMN
02:17:52PM BAD THING ABOUT CRYING.
02:17:53PM I AM HOLDING BACK TEARS RIGHT NOW.
02:17:54PM YOU KNOW, THAT PARK IS ABOUT EMPATHY, COMPASSION, TOLERANCE
02:18:01PM AND DECENCY AND THE LEGACY OF HARRISON.
02:18:04PM 100%.
02:18:05PM AND I -- I -- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY HAS TO BE SAID
02:18:09PM IS THE COURAGE IT TAKES YOU TO COME UP HERE.
02:18:13PM YOU HAVE BEEN IN MANY FORUMS, ON GUN VIOLENCE, DISABILITIES,
02:18:18PM VICTIMS OF CRIME AND SO FORTH TO BEAR -- DAMN IT, JUST YOUR
02:18:25PM -- THE WORST PAIN A PERSON CAN HAVE AND TO TALK ABOUT THAT
02:18:29PM PUBLICLY TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE.
02:18:31PM THAT -- THAT IS AN ACT OF HEART AND LOVE THAT -- THAT IS
02:18:36PM GREAT COURAGE.
02:18:39PM SO, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE COMING HERE AND TELLING THIS STORY OF
02:18:43PM HARRISON.
02:18:43PM I MEAN I -- LIKE THE FIRST YEAR NOT KNOWING IF HE IS GOING
02:18:47PM TO LIVE.
02:18:47PM I THINK IT WAS GOING TO MIDDLE SCHOOL WEIGHING 60 POUNDS
02:18:52PM BEING A GRADUATE OF PEPIN ACADEMY.
02:18:55PM >> HE WAS A LITTLE DUDE.
02:18:56PM >>LUIS VIERA: WITH A BIG HEART.
02:18:58PM AND THAT STORY, THINGS LIKE THAT DON'T HAPPEN BY THEMSELVES.
02:19:01PM THEY -- THEY HAPPEN WITH A MOM AND A DAD WITH PARENTS, A
02:19:06PM FAMILY AND WITH PEOPLE THAT LOVE THEM.
02:19:08PM THAT IS WHAT Y'ALL DID AND YOU WILL STILL LOVE HIM AND WILL
02:19:12PM LOVE HIM FOREVER.
02:19:13PM HIS STORY, WE CAN -- YOU KNOW, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AT THAT
02:19:17PM THE PARK.
02:19:17PM BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS ABOUT.
02:19:19PM >> I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY BEAUTIFUL.
02:19:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
02:19:22PM >> HIS LIFE WAS A VICTORY.
02:19:24PM THE UNFORTUNATE OF WHERE WE ARE LIVING IN THIS WORLD IS THAT
02:19:32PM AND WE KNOW IT IS THERE.
02:19:33PM MEANWHILE KEEP KIDS AFLOAT AND MYSELF AFLOAT.
02:19:36PM EVERY TIME I DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THIS POURS IN THE
02:19:42PM STRENGTH, LOVE AND FUEL THAT I NEED TO GO FORWARD.
02:19:45PM SO, YEAH, EVERY DAY IT IS WITHOUT HIM.
02:19:47PM BUT EVERY TIME I DO SOMETHING OR TALK TO SOMEBODY -- I TALK
02:19:52PM TO EVERYBODY ABOUT HARRISON.
02:19:54PM AND IT'S -- IT IS UPLIFTING FOR ME.
02:19:57PM IT'S UPSETTING TO GET THERE, BUT AFTER IT JUST SHOWS ME ALL
02:20:02PM THE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD THAT ARE FEELING THE SAME WAY, YOU
02:20:08PM KNOW, SO, YEAH.
02:20:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU TALK ABOUT IS JUST MOURNING
02:20:14PM -- TRYING TO BE STRONG IN BROKEN PLACE BUS COMMEMORATING
02:20:18PM DECENCY.
02:20:19PM THAT'S IT.
02:20:20PM DECENCY.
02:20:21PM >> THAT IS WHAT HIS LEGACY IS GOING TO BE ABOUT.
02:20:24PM ABOUT KINDNESS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN THIS WORLD.
02:20:27PM THERE IS A LOT OF REASONS FOR IT, BUT THE FACT IS, HE JUST
02:20:34PM ALWAYS DID THAT.
02:20:34PM AND WHEN HE WAS LITTLE AND GROWING UP AND EVEN IN HIGH
02:20:43PM SCHOOL, HIS FRIENDS -- THE PARENTS TOLD ME HE WAS LIKE THE
02:20:46PM CHEER LEADER.
02:20:46PM YOU COME TO THE HOUSE WITH THE LOUD CAR MOTOR GOING AND HIS
02:20:50PM FRIEND WOULD SAY, OH, HARRISON IS HERE, AND THE MOM WILL
02:20:54PM SAY, HARRISON IS HERE!
02:20:56PM EVERYBODY WOULD KIND OF GET READY BECAUSE HE CAME IN WITH
02:20:58PM THAT POSITIVITY AND STUFF.
02:21:00PM AND HE BECAME THE ONE THAT A LOT OF HIS FRIENDS CONFIDED IN
02:21:08PM HIM WHEN THEY WERE HAVING ISSUES.
02:21:10PM HE WOULD BE THE ONE HE WOULD WANT TO TALK TO.
02:21:12PM COACHING ON.
02:21:13PM THE BOY THAT WENT THROUGH ALL THIS STUFF ALREADY.
02:21:15PM I THINK THAT IS AN IMPORTANT EDUCATION PROCESS TOO FOR A --
02:21:19PM ALONG WITH THAT IS JUST MAKING KIDS FEEL LIKE THEIR LIFE IS
02:21:24PM NOT PREDETERMINED.
02:21:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: AMEN.
02:21:27PM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
02:21:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE NEED AN OFFICIAL MOTION?
02:21:31PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I -- UNLESS ANYONE ON COUNCIL WANTS TO --
02:21:36PM WHAT I WANT TO DO, IF I MAY, YOU HAVE MENTIONED THIS
02:21:38PM PICTURE.
02:21:38PM SO I WANTED TO MAKE A MOTION AND A COUPLE OF THINGS.
02:21:41PM MISS VAN LOAN, WHAT MOTION DO WE NEED TO MAKE TO BRING THIS
02:21:44PM BACK TO A VOTE TO MAKE THIS OFFICIAL?
02:21:47PM AND HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU ALL NEED?
02:21:49PM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
02:21:51PM YOU WOULD MAKE A MOTION FOR FIRST READING IF IT IS THE
02:21:54PM PLEASURE OF COUNCIL.
02:21:55PM MAY 15 OR ANY DATE AFTER THAT.
02:21:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: SWELL.
02:21:59PM IF I MAY, MAKE A MOTION FOR FIRST READING FOR THE NAMING OF
02:22:03PM THE ALL ABILITIES PARK TO HARRISON BOONSTOPPEL AND TWO OTHER
02:22:08PM ATTACHMENTS THAT CITY STAFF WORK WITH A PLAQUE OF THIS
02:22:13PM PHOTOGRAPH ON THERE THAT CAN WORK WITH YOUR FAMILY.
02:22:15PM WHAT GOES THERE.
02:22:16PM AND THAT THERE WILL BE A SIGN AT THE ACTUAL PARK AND THEN ON
02:22:21PM NEW TAMPA BOULEVARD ON THE PARK BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO A
02:22:26PM WHILE AWAY TO GET TO THE ACTUAL PARK SO FOLKS WILL KNOW THAT
02:22:29PM -- THEY WERE WORKING ON THAT ANYWAY FOR THE ALL PARK.
02:22:34PM BUT TWO SIGNS, IN THE BEGINNING WITH THE NEW TAMPA REC
02:22:37PM CENTER AND GOING INTO THE PARK.
02:22:38PM I DID WANT TO MENTION ON -- ON BACKGROUND THAT, AGAIN, THIS
02:22:44PM -- THIS -- HARRISON'S LIFE FITS INTO WHAT THIS PARK IS ALL
02:22:51PM ABOUT.
02:22:52PM THAT IS MY MOTION, IF I MAY.
02:22:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN
02:22:58PM HENDERSON.
02:22:58PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:22:59PM OPPOSED.
02:23:00PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:23:01PM THANK YOU, MA'AM.
02:23:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEXT UP, GO BACK TO THE BUNKER GEAR AND
02:23:09PM CHIEF TRIPP.
02:23:10PM BEFORE WE BEGIN, COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, WE HAVE TO VOTE ON
02:23:13PM 95.
02:23:13PM 96, CAN WE RECEIVE AND FILE THAT?
02:23:16PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, THAT IS ON -- YES, SO THAT IS --
02:23:25PM IN-PERSON REPORTS AND THEN QUARTERLY IN-PERSON REPORTS AND
02:23:29PM MONTHLY WRITTEN REPORTS AND, YES, I LIKE IN THERE THAT I SAW
02:23:32PM THE MEMO SAID THEY WERE TRYING TO ACCELERATE EVERYTHING
02:23:35PM WHICH I KNOW IS THE HEART OF CHIEF TRIPP ON THIS AND ON THE
02:23:38PM UNION.
02:23:38PM AND NICHOLAS STOCCO.
02:23:40PM I NEED TO GET NEW GLASSES, BY THE WAY, AND EVERYBODY HERE.
02:23:45PM SO WHEN IS THE --
02:23:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: APRIL 17 IS THE NEXT MONTHLY WRITTEN
02:23:52PM REPORT.
02:23:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY BE THE FIRST LIVE REPORT?
02:24:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY 15.
02:24:01PM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER
02:24:05PM MIRANDA.
02:24:05PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:24:06PM ONE OF TWO.
02:24:07PM REQUESTING THAT SAID ITEM BE CONTINUED TO A DATE AND TIME
02:24:11PM WITH THE FY '25 MIDYEAR REPORT.
02:24:14PM DO YOU HAVE A DATE FOR THEIR?
02:24:17PM >>LUIS VIERA: WHEN IS THE REPORT, LET'S SEE HERE.
02:24:19PM MAY 15.
02:24:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CONTINUE TO MAY 15, 2025.
02:24:26PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:24:27PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:24:29PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:24:30PM NOW WE HAVE TO DISCUSS ITEM NUMBER 95.
02:24:35PM AND CHIEF TRIPP IS HERE.
02:24:36PM IS SHE HERE TO SPEAK OF 95 AND THE BUNKER GEAR?
02:24:40PM >>LUIS VIERA: THERE IS THE ITEM ITSELF, 95 THE
02:24:45PM ADMINISTRATION REPORT OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE ON IT.
02:24:48PM I DON'T KNOW IF CHIEF BENNETT OR CHIEF TRIPP -- WHEN I DID
02:24:51PM THAT MEMO, I MADE TO PUT ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE A LOT OF
02:24:55PM TIME IT COULD BE PURCHASING OR ONE DEPARTMENT AUTOMAKERS I
02:24:58PM DON'T WANT TO MAKE THAT ASSUMPTION.
02:25:02PM ANOTHER REASON.
02:25:03PM WE HEARD A LOT ON THIS ISSUE, ED KELLY WITH THE PRESIDENT OF
02:25:07PM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS WRITE HIS
02:25:09PM CORRESPOND DENSE.
02:25:10PM CHIEF TRIPP WROTE A RESPONSE TO THE CORRESPONDENCE.
02:25:15PM AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, FROM MR. KELLY TO THE IAFF TO
02:25:19PM JIMMY PETRONIS OR THE CFO IN THE STATE OF THE FLORIDA AND
02:25:24PM INCUMBENT AS TO THE STATUS AND GET AN UP-FRONT PICTURE FOR
02:25:31PM EVERYBODY GIVEN THAT LETTER OF SCRUTINY, WANT TO KNOW AND
02:25:36PM THANK YOU, CHIEF, FOR BEING HERE.
02:25:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM, THANK YOU, CHIEF TRIPP.
02:25:42PM TAKE IT AWAY.
02:25:43PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: BARBARA TRIPP, CHIEF FOR FIRE RESCUE.
02:25:46PM IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 95.
02:25:48PM WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE AMOUNT FIRST AND THEN GO INTO OTHER --
02:25:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT IS FINE.
02:25:53PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: -- OTHER SITUATIONS.
02:25:55PM BUNKER GEAR IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FIRE FIGHTERS IS
02:25:58PM OUT THERE AND, OF COURSE, WITH YOU CAN YOU GUYS' APPROVAL,
02:26:02PM TO APPROVE THE BUNKER GEAR.
02:26:04PM LAST CONTRACT, WE APPROVED FOR EVERYONE TO GET A SECOND SET
02:26:08PM OF BUNKER GEAR THAT HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE AND SUPPOSED TO BE
02:26:13PM DONE OVER INCREMENT.
02:26:14PM WE ARE TALKING OF MONEY AND NOT ISSUE ALL AT ONCE.
02:26:19PM WE HAVE EMPLOYEE THAT WILL GET THE SECOND SET OF BUNKER
02:26:24PM GEAR.
02:26:25PM AND WITH THE MANUFACTURERS.
02:26:26PM WE TALKED OF THE LETTERS GO TO THIS AMOUNT.
02:26:30PM THIS AMOUNT IS SPACED OUT ON BUNKER GEAR THAT WILL BE
02:26:34PM EXPIRED.
02:26:35PM WE ALSO INCLUDE BUNKER GEAR FOR NEW HIREES, HIRES.
02:26:40PM AND ANY BUNKER GEAR BECAUSE WE NEED A CERTAIN PERILS DAMAGE
02:26:44PM OF LONER -- PERCENT OF LONER GEAR.
02:26:49PM YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS AND THROUGH 2028.
02:26:53PM I WILL CONFIRM THE DATE.
02:26:55PM DON'T QUOTE ME ON IT.
02:26:56PM THAT IS WHY THAT AMOUNT IS WHAT IT WILL NOW.
02:26:58PM THAT TAKES CARE OF 95.
02:27:00PM AS FAR AS THE LETTERS THAT ARE GOING ALL OVER THE UNITED
02:27:03PM STATES.
02:27:03PM AS I SPOKE WITH LOCAL 754 AND I TOLD MY DIRECT REPORT WITH
02:27:08PM THE MAJOR, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ISSUING THAT BUNKER GEAR
02:27:13PM NOT THAT WE ARE TRYING TO HOLD IT FOR ANY PARTICULAR REASON.
02:27:16PM WE GO TO THE MANUFACTURER AND SAY WE NEED BUNKER GEAR AND
02:27:19PM END UP WITH THE JACKET AND NOT THE PANTS.
02:27:21PM PANTS COME LATER.
02:27:22PM WE HAD TO SEND SOME OF THAT BUNKER GEAR BACK TO GET A
02:27:26PM DIFFERENT KIND OF HARNESS THAT WE ARE RECEIVING THAT.
02:27:29PM AS I SPEAK AND MY LETTER THAT WENT TOP MR. KELLY.
02:27:32PM I ADVISED HIM THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DISTRIBUTING IN
02:27:36PM BUNKER GEAR -- WHEN THE INDIVIDUALS COME IN, WE CAN'T DO IT
02:27:40PM AT ONCE.
02:27:41PM WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS -- IT IS FITTED
02:27:43PM RIGHT MAKE ANY ADJUSTMENTS OR CHANGES.
02:27:47PM IT IS A PROCESS AND SOMETHING TRYING TO DO FOR TAMPA FIRE
02:27:52PM RESCUE, FOR THE TECHNOLOGY.
02:27:54PM WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD INVENTORY SYSTEM.
02:27:56PM EVERYTHING IS PAPER SO IT TAKES LONGER.
02:27:58PM ONCE WE GET THIS NEW SUPPLY AND FLEET FACILITY WILL HELP OUT
02:28:02PM WITH BEING ABLE TO DO A LOT OF THINGS AND WITH INVENTORY AND
02:28:08PM DO ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PLANS I KNOW THE INFORMATION IS OUT
02:28:13PM THERE THEY ARE IN UNCLEAN BUNKER GEAR.
02:28:16PM THAT IS NOT TRUE.
02:28:17PM WE HAVE S.O.G. POLICY THAT TALKS OF CONTAMINATED EXPOSED
02:28:21PM GEAR AND WHAT NEEDS TO DONE BE.
02:28:24PM WE KEEP A CERTAIN NUMBER OF LONER GEAR IF AN INDIVIDUAL GOES
02:28:28PM TO A FIRE OR WHEREVER THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO, COME BACK AND BE
02:28:34PM DONE WITH THIS EQUIPMENT AND GET THAT GEAR WASHED.
02:28:36PM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
02:28:37PM I HAVE NORTHWEST BEEN TOLD OF ANY INDIVIDUAL THAT WENT TO
02:28:40PM GET REPLACEMENT DEAL.
02:28:41PM AND NOT HAVING THAT GEAR AVAILABLE.
02:28:45PM I DON'T KNOW.
02:28:45PM NO ONE HAS COME TO TELL ME I DON'T KNOW WITH THE E-MAILS
02:28:49PM GOING BACK THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE UNDER CLEAN GEAR.
02:28:54PM UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL IF THEY HAVE GEAR TO GET IT PLACED.
02:28:59PM WE HAVE IT WASHED AND CLEAN AND BY THEIR DEW POINTY DATE.
02:29:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
02:29:04PM ANYTHING ELSE, COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA?
02:29:07PM >>LUIS VIERA: WHAT I SUBJECT WE DO, COUNCIL, BECAUSE, AGAIN,
02:29:10PM WE -- AND I HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ON
02:29:13PM THIS.
02:29:13PM AND EVERYTHING IS THAT YOU KNOW GETTING A LETTER FROM ED
02:29:19PM KELLY AND ME LEAD RESPONDED AND SO FORTH.
02:29:22PM I HOLD -- I HOLD MR. KELLY IN HIGH REGARD ON A PROFESSIONAL
02:29:27PM BASIS, I GUESS, IF YOU WILL.
02:29:32PM WHAT I SUGGEST WE DO, COUNCIL.
02:29:34PM MAYBE IN FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS TO DO AN UPDATE TO WITH A MOTION
02:29:39PM TO SEE WHERE WE ARE AT IS THIS.
02:29:40PM LET ME ASK YOU, CHIEF, IF I MAY.
02:29:42PM HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE TO HAVE WHAT MR. KELLY
02:29:45PM EXPRESSES IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE GETTING DONE?
02:29:48PM TO HAVE ALL THE BUNKER GEAR WE HAVE DISTRIBUTED AND APPROVED
02:29:52PM IN THE LATTER HALF OF 2023 IF I RECALL CORRECTLY AND I THEY
02:30:05PM MANUFACTURING ISSUE AUTOS.
02:30:07PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: WHAT MY DIVISION HAVE DONE IS SEPARATING THAT
02:30:11PM GEAR.
02:30:11PM HAVE BARBARA TRIPP HAVE HER TOP, BOTTOM AND HER HARNESS.
02:30:15PM ONCE ALL OF THAT -- HA COMPLETE SET.
02:30:17PM WE DON'T WANT TO ISSUE INCOMPLETE SETS.
02:30:19PM WE DON'T WANT BARBARA TRIPP TO GET A PAIR OF MONTHS AND NOT
02:30:22PM HAVE HER JACKET.
02:30:22PM RIGHT NOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THEY ARE ACTUALLY GATHERING
02:30:25PM ALL OF THAT.
02:30:26PM SEPARATING IT BY DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW AND SHIFTS AND
02:30:30PM DISTRIBUTING THAT INFORMATION AS WE SPEAK.
02:30:31PM TIME-WISE, ALL DEPENDS ON PERSONNEL BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN THE
02:30:35PM INDIVIDUAL HAS TO TRY IT ON.
02:30:36PM IF THEY ARE OFF DUTY ANNUALLY AND THEN THEY ARE NOT AT WORK.
02:30:45PM MAN POWER PLAY AS BIG ROLE IN IT AND I USE THE WORD
02:30:51PM "LOGISTICS" AS FAR AS THE TECHNOLOGY.
02:30:53PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
02:30:55PM I SEE THE NEXT AVAILABLE DATE WOULD BE APRIL 1.
02:30:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THAT ENOUGH TIME, CHIEF?
02:31:02PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: YES, SIR.
02:31:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL HAVE A MOTION.
02:31:04PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:31:06PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD AFTERNOON, CHIEF TRIPP, HOW ARE YOU?
02:31:11PM TRIM TRIPP GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:31:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY COMPLETE SETS THAT HAVE BEEN
02:31:15PM DISTRIBUTED?
02:31:16PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: SOME HAVE.
02:31:18PM I DON'T HAVE A NUMBER, BUT I CAN GET TO YOU.
02:31:24PM THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED.
02:31:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THIS PROCEDURE OF THE UNCLEANLINESS OF
02:31:29PM THE GEAR.
02:31:30PM THERE IS A PROCEDURE IN PLACE FOR A FIRE PERSON TO COME IN
02:31:34PM AND SUBMIT THAT GEAR OR HAVE IT CLEANED.
02:31:37PM DOES THAT HAPPEN?
02:31:39PM ANYONE EVER DONE THAT?
02:31:41PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: YES AND NO.
02:31:42PM VARIES ON THE INDIVIDUALS.
02:31:43PM OUR S.O.G. --
02:31:47PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
02:31:49PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: STANDARD OPERATING GUIDELINES.
02:31:51PM IF ANYTHING IS GOING ON WITH THAT AND YOU HAVE TO DECON HOW
02:31:55PM YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT REPLACED.
02:31:57PM SOME STATIONS WHICH WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO GET
02:32:00PM WHAT WE CALL DISTRACTERS WHERE THE INDIVIDUALS CAN WASH
02:32:04PM THEIR GEAR.
02:32:04PM THIS IS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE PEOPLE STATIONS ARE OLDER AND
02:32:09PM DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT RECEPTACLES TO PUT THAT EQUIPMENT IN.
02:32:13PM WE HAVE PROCEDURES AND THE STANDARD OPERATING GUIDELINES
02:32:17PM SECTION 503 HOW TO GO AND DECON THE EQUIPMENT AND TAKE TO
02:32:22PM THE IS UP FLY WHERE THEY WASH THE GEAR AND RETURN IT BY THE
02:32:25PM NEXT DUTY DATE.
02:32:25PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE EVER DONE THAN.
02:32:29PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: WE HAVE HAD SOME.
02:32:30PM I HAVEN'T GOTTEN PHONE CALLS.
02:32:33PM WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF GEAR BECAUSE WE HAD 100 PEOPLE COME IN
02:32:37PM AND REPLACE THEIR GEARS.
02:32:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ONLY NEGATIVE REPORTS.
02:32:41PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: I TELL MY SUPPLY DIVISION IF THEY RUN INTO
02:32:44PM ANY KIND OF CHALLENGES, THEY SHOULD FORWARD THAT UP TO
02:32:48PM ADMINISTRATION TO LET US KNOW IF THERE HAVE PROBLEMS OF GEAR
02:32:52PM NOT AVAILABLE OR IF THEY HAVE ISSUES WITH CERTAIN GEAR.
02:32:56PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST SAYS TO ME WHOEVER IS PUTTING OUT
02:33:01PM THERE THAT THE BUNKER GEAR IS DIRTY.
02:33:05PM LEAST FOR ME AS A COUNCIL MEMBER.
02:33:08PM THEY FOLLOWED THE PROCEDURE AND GOT IT BACK STILL DIRTY.
02:33:13PM MEANS THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE FIRST GET THAT
02:33:16PM CLEAN.
02:33:16PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: YES, MA'AM.
02:33:18PM THAT IS WHAT I WANTED TO EXPLAIN WITH THE INFORMATION OUT
02:33:21PM THERE AND PUTTING INFORMATION OUT THERETO THAT IS REALLY NOT
02:33:23PM TRUE.
02:33:23PM IF THEY GO AND TURN THEIR GEAR IN.
02:33:26PM THEY SAY WE CAN'T GET YOUR GEAR BACK AND NOTHING FOR
02:33:30PM REPLACEMENT, NOW A PROBLEM AND ADMINISTRATION HAS A PROBLEM.
02:33:33PM I HAVEN'T HAD THAT BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION TO SAY, HEY,
02:33:36PM INDIVIDUALS ARE GOING TO REPLACE THEIR GEAR AND THE GEAR IS
02:33:41PM NOT AVAILABLE.
02:33:42PM WE HAVE REPAIRS AND INDIVIDUAL SWITCH-OUT GEAR IN A CAR
02:33:46PM DURING THE EXTRICATION AND BOTH HAVE COATS AND GO OUT FOR
02:33:51PM REPAIRS.
02:33:51PM THE SAME PROCEDURES.
02:33:54PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR 754 PROVIDE INFORMATION THAT THE
02:33:59PM PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED.
02:34:00PM AND IT IS STILL NOT BEING DONE.
02:34:04PM ..CHIEF TRIPP: YES.
02:34:06PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT WOULD BE FAIR?
02:34:08PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: THAT WOULD BE FAIR.
02:34:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: INSTEAD OF SAYING THAT THE FIRE
02:34:12PM DEPARTMENT IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB
02:34:14PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: EXACTLY.
02:34:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE TO READ THROUGH THIS.
02:34:17PM EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT.
02:34:19PM YOU ARE IN THE LEADERSHIP POSITION AND THEY ARE IN THE
02:34:20PM UNION.
02:34:21PM SO IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO KEEP UP WITH IT.
02:34:23PM I DON'T LIKE READING THINGS ON THE SURFACE.
02:34:25PM THE 754 FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THESE PROCEDURES.
02:34:32PM S.O.G.s.
02:34:35PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: THEY GOT A HAND DELIVERED COPY.
02:34:38PM ANY CHANGES WE MAKE, THEY GET A COPY OF THAT AS WELL.
02:34:40PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM YOU AT THIS POINT?
02:34:44PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: I DON'T KNOW HONESTLY I DON'T KNOW.
02:34:50PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT.
02:34:52PM JUST AS I WANT TO GET RID OF THE GEAR, I WANT TO GET RID OF
02:34:56PM IT.
02:34:56PM STEPS AND PROCEDURES THAT NEED TO BE DONE.
02:34:59PM I CAN'T DROP OFF 20 SETS OF GEAR AT A STATION AND
02:35:04PM INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT THERE.
02:35:05PM THEY ARE EXPENSIVE SO EVERY ONE HAS TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR.
02:35:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE ARE COMPLETE SETS AVAILABLE.
02:35:13PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: COMPLETE SETS AVAILABLE WE ARE ISSUING OUT.
02:35:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
02:35:17PM IF IT IS NOT, THAT IS THE REPORT I WOULD WANT, THE REPORT TO
02:35:24PM EXIST TO SAY THIS NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE
02:35:29PM TO RECEIVE THE FULL BUNKER GEAR BECAUSE PANTS ARE MISSING OR
02:35:34PM NOT THE RIGHT SIZE OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
02:35:37PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: OKAY.
02:35:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT IS WHAT I WOULD WANT.
02:35:40PM THAT WOULD SAY THEY FOLLOWED THE PROCEDURE, S.O.G. TO GET TO
02:35:43PM THAT POINT.
02:35:44PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: WE DO HAVE INDIVIDUALS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE
02:35:47PM BEEN MEASURED, BUT HAVE NOT ORDERED THEIR SECOND GEAR
02:35:51PM BECAUSE WE HAD TO WAIT FOR THIS FUNDING TO COME THROUGH.
02:35:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST -- YOU SHOULD CONSIDER USING THAT
02:36:00PM DATA AS WELL TO DOCUMENT EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF
02:36:04PM WHAT YOU FACE ON A REGULAR BASIS AS THE CHIEF OF THE FIRE
02:36:06PM DEPARTMENT.
02:36:06PM BUT THANK YOU.
02:36:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:36:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YEAH, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE WEEDS
02:36:14PM ON SOME OF THIS BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS IS -- IS -- YOU AND I
02:36:21PM HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST AND I HAD THE
02:36:23PM CONVERSATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 754 AS WELL.
02:36:31PM THIS ISSUE ISN'T NECESSARILY ABOUT BUNKER GEAR.
02:36:34PM THIS IS A BREAKDOWN OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR IN THE UNION.
02:36:37PM A BREAKDOWN OF RELATIONSHIPS.
02:36:39PM WE CAN TRY TO POINT I THINK IF PERCENT ALL DAY LONG, BUT I
02:36:42PM -- WE HAVE HAD -- I THINK BETWEEN YOU AND THE PRESIDENT AND
02:36:45PM THE LEADERSHIP OF -- YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AND THE
02:36:49PM PRESIDENT'S LEADERSHIP TEAM.
02:36:50PM SOMEHOW Y'ALL HAVE GOT TO GET DOWN -- SEPTEMBER DOWN AND -
02:36:57PM SIT DOWN AND THINK OF HOW MUCH TIME IS WASTED OF YOUR
02:37:02PM PRODUCTIVITY.
02:37:03PM AND WHAT THE UNION IS DOING.
02:37:04PM I KNOW YOU ARE CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE THE BUNKER
02:37:08PM GEAR WHICH WE ARE KINDS OF AT COMPLIANCE OF THAT RIGHT NOW.
02:37:10PM THAT WAS A BUDGET -- LAST YEAR WE WERE CONTRACTUALLY
02:37:14PM OBLIGATED.
02:37:15PM >> CONTRACT DON'T END UNTIL SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR.
02:37:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNEW IT WAS LAST YEAR, I DIDN'T REALIZE
02:37:23PM SEPTEMBER 2.
02:37:25PM OBVIOUSLY, I AM A LABOR GUY AND ON BOTH SIDES.
02:37:29PM I HAVE BEEN IN MANAGEMENT AND LABOR DEALING WITH THESE KINDS
02:37:31PM OF ISSUES.
02:37:32PM I KNOW WHEN THESE KINDS OF ISSUES RISE UP, A BREAKDOWN OF
02:37:36PM RELATIONSHIPS.
02:37:37PM IF WE CAN FIX THAT RELATIONSHIP, WE WILL SAVE YOU TIME,
02:37:41PM AGGRAVATION.
02:37:42PM SAVE THEM TIME AGGRAVATION AND THE CITY OF TAMPA TAXPAYER
02:37:49PM MONEY BECAUSE ALL OF THIS COSTS MONEY.
02:37:50PM I URGE TO YOU DIG DEEP AND FIGURE OUT AT WAY TO REBUILD THE
02:37:54PM KIND OF RELATIONSHIPS TO -- SO THAT WHEN THESE KIND OF
02:37:57PM THINGS COME UP THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN A FORMAL WAY AND HAVE
02:38:00PM THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU CAN SIT DOWN AND SAY, HEY, HOW DO
02:38:04PM WE CREATE -- MAYBE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT YOU FEEL
02:38:07PM LIKE, THE ROLE OF MANAGE.
02:38:09PM THE AND LABOR.
02:38:10PM BUT SIT DOWN AND SAY HOW CAN WE DISTRIBUTE LIKE YOU SAID
02:38:15PM PIECEMEAL.
02:38:16PM I IF IT CAN'T HAPPEN, IT CAN'T HAPPEN AND HERE YOU ARE.
02:38:22PM WE NEED TO REASON IT TO DO BUSINESS LIKE THIS.
02:38:24PM IDEALLY NOT THE BEST WAY TO DO BUSINESS.
02:38:26PM I THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.
02:38:28PM YOU AND I HAVE THE CONVERSATION.
02:38:30PM AND HOPEFULLY THE 7574 CAN BEND SOME AND YOU CAN FIGURE OUT
02:38:37PM A BETTER WAY FORWARD.
02:38:38PM >> I AGREE WITH YOU.
02:38:39PM IF I CAN COMMENT ON THAT.
02:38:40PM RESPECT IS OWED TO EVERYBODY.
02:38:42PM AND THE AMOUNT OF RESPECT THAT IS RECEIVED, YOU KNOW TOWARDS
02:38:47PM ME IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
02:38:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HEAR YOU.
02:38:50PM AND I THINK -- I THINK THE SAME THING.
02:38:52PM I BET IF I ASKED THEM, THEY WOULD SAY THE SAME THING.
02:38:56PM DISRESPECT OF THE UNION.
02:38:57PM UP WOULDN'T TAKE YOU GUYS OUT OF THIS OF THIS.
02:38:59PM BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN IN THIS WORLD IN A WHOLE DIFFERENT
02:39:02PM ENVIRONMENT.
02:39:02PM I KNOW HOW THESE THINGS BREAK DOWN AND HOW THE RELATIONSHIPS
02:39:05PM FALL APART.
02:39:06PM AND -- WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT THE LOWEST POINT WHAT WE DID
02:39:13PM WAS GO OFF-CAMPUS AND DONE SOME TEAM BUILDING AND TRIED TO
02:39:17PM REBUILD THAT RESPECT AND THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
02:39:20PM I THINK THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE IF -- BUT IT HAS
02:39:24PM TO BE BOTH OF YOU GUYS OPEN TO DO IT.
02:39:26PM THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE TO TRY TO REBUILD THOSE
02:39:29PM RELATIONSHIPS SO OTHERWISE -- I FEEL BAD FOR ALL OF Y'ALL,
02:39:33PM BECAUSE WHAT A PAIN IN THE BUTT FOR YOU AND A PAIN IN THE
02:39:36PM BUTT FOR THE UNION AND THE UNION -- AND LIVING IN THIS KIND
02:39:44PM OF ENVIRONMENT AND MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AND I WISH
02:39:47PM THAT FOR YOU ALL BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE YOU MUCH MORE HAPPY IN
02:39:50PM YOUR -- IN YOUR PROFESSION AL LIVES.
02:39:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND THEN I
02:40:00PM HAVEN'T SPOKEN YET.
02:40:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE MORE I LISTEN, THE MORE CON FUSED I
02:40:04PM GET.
02:40:04PM RAID SOMETHING IN THE NEWSPAPER, "TAMPA BAY TIMES" THAT THE
02:40:10PM FIRE FIGHTER WENT TO SOME FIRE AND NO BUNKER GEAR AVAILABLE.
02:40:13PM I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS FACTUAL OR NOT.
02:40:18PM MAYBE I DREAMT IT, I WILL BE HONEST WITH YOU.
02:40:21PM WHEN THE EQUIPMENT COMES IN, YOU HAVE TO DISTRIBUTE IT OUT.
02:40:25PM YOU HAVE 24 FIRE STATIONS, CORRECT?
02:40:28PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: YES, SIR.
02:40:29PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SEVEN DAY AS BIKE AND 307 DAYS ON THE
02:40:32PM CALENDAR.
02:40:32PM WHEN IT COMES IN -- I AM NOT TRYING TO TELL YOU OREGON THE
02:40:36PM UNION WHAT TO DO.
02:40:37PM DISTRIBUTION SHOULD BE AT THE STATION WHERE THEY ARE AT.
02:40:40PM DELIVER THEM TO THEM.
02:40:42PM I WOULD IMAGINE SOMEBODY KNOWS WHAT IS SIZE THEY WEAR AND IT
02:40:46PM WAS ORDERED THAT WAY IT.
02:40:47PM SOMETIMES YOU ORDER A SUIT.
02:40:48PM A LITTLE TIGHTER OR LOOSER THAN WHAT YOU NEED.
02:40:57PM I UNDERSTAND THAT.
02:40:58PM AND I DON'T SEE DISTRIBUTION BEING A BIG DEAL I DON'T SEE IT
02:41:04PM FROM YOUR SIDE OR FROM THE UNION SIDE.
02:41:07PM I AM SPEAKING AS GUY NEXT DOOR.
02:41:09PM I DON'T THINK IT IS A BIG DEAL.
02:41:11PM HOW MANY OF THE FIRE STATION.
02:41:13PM 10, 12.
02:41:14PM PUT THEM ON AND SEE IF THEY FIT.
02:41:19PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: THAT WILL BE PERFECT IF IT WAS UNISEX, ONE
02:41:24PM SIZE FITS ALL BUT IT IS MEASURED.
02:41:26PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I SAID DIFFERENT SIZES.
02:41:28PM THEY CAN TRY THEM OUT THERE.
02:41:30PM I JUST -- I DON'T KNOW.
02:41:32PM I MEAN I DON'T THINK IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE THE
02:41:38PM DISTRIBUTION.
02:41:39PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: IT IS NOT.
02:41:40PM BUT ONCE AGAIN, EVERYBODY HAS TO TRY THE GEAR IN.
02:41:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THREE SHIFTS FOR THREE DAYS.
02:41:45PM YOU ARE NOT GET THEM ALL, BUT THE PREPONDERANCE OF THEM.
02:41:48PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: WE ARE DEFINITELY DISTRIBUTING THAT GEAR.
02:41:52PM THANK YOU.
02:41:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
02:41:54PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM KIND OF AT A LOSS OF WORDS.
02:42:04PM I WAS LISTENING TO COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:42:06PM AND REALLY THERE IS UNFORTUNATELY SOME PROBLEMS THAT YOU ARE
02:42:13PM NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE.
02:42:15PM MAYOR JANE CASTOR APPOINTED YOU OF THE CHIEF OF FIRE AND
02:42:20PM RESCUE, A WOMAN, A BLACK WOMAN, AND THERE IS A LOT BEHIND
02:42:24PM THAT THAT IS NOT BEING SPOKEN TODAY.
02:42:26PM AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
02:42:27PM YOU JUST GOT TO SAY PRAYED UP.
02:42:29PM THAT IS ALL I AM GOING TO SAY.
02:42:32PM SOME OF THIS -- IF YOU ALREADY EXPRESSED THERE IS A
02:42:35PM PROCEDURE IN PLACE.
02:42:36PM LIKE I SAID, THE DOCUMENTATION, IF THEY DON'T HAVE IT, BASED
02:42:40PM ON WHAT -- WHAT YOU HAVE IN PLACE AS THE LEADER, BUT I WOULD
02:42:44PM LIKE TO SEE THAT DATA, YOU KNOW, JUST READING THAT THE
02:42:48PM BUNKER GEAR IS DIRTY AND THEY DON'T HAVE IT, BUT YET THE
02:42:51PM PROCEDURES HAVEN'T BEEN FOLLOWED.
02:42:54PM I AM -- I JUST -- I AM NOT LISTENING TO THE NOISE.
02:43:00PM I FEEL LIKE YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB.
02:43:03PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: THANK YOU.
02:43:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MAYBE SUPPORT ABOVE YOU AND BELOW YOU TO
02:43:11PM DO YOUR JOB EFFECTIVELY.
02:43:13PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
02:43:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:43:17PM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOTION TO COME BACK WITH THE STATUS OF THE
02:43:19PM BUNKER GEAR ON MAY 1.
02:43:21PM >>CHIEF TRIPP: YES, SIR.
02:43:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: SOME RESOLUTION BEFORE THAT WE CAN TAKE IT OFF
02:43:27PM THE DOCKET, THAT IS GREAT.
02:43:28PM WE DO THAT SO WE CAN KEEP AN EYE ON THIS.
02:43:32PM GIVEN THAT CORRESPONDENCE WE NEED SCRUTINY.
02:43:37PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
02:43:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:43:39PM OPPOSED.
02:43:40PM ITEM NUMBER 59, GO AHEAD AND MOVE IT.
02:43:42PM >>LUIS VIERA: SO MOVED.
02:43:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FOR ITEM 95, SECOND BY COUNCIL
02:43:49PM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:43:49PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:43:50PM WE HAVE A REVIEW HEARING.
02:43:51PM ITEM NUMBER 89, FILED BY TOM HANKS -- NOT THAT TOM HANKS.
02:43:58PM BUT, I DON'T KNOW, ARE YOU TOM HANKS?
02:44:06PM YES, MA'AM.
02:44:08PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, SUSAN
02:44:11PM JOHNSON-VELEZ, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
02:44:12PM COUNCIL MEMBERS, ITEM NUMBER 89 REVIEW HEARING FOR IF HE OF
02:44:16PM REVIEW VRB 24-56.
02:44:19PM PETITIONER AS YOU NOTICED IS MR. THOMAS HANKS.
02:44:22PM THERE WERE TWO VARIANCES REQUESTED IN THIS APPLICATION.
02:44:24PM FIRST IS A REQUEST TO REDUCE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE FRONT
02:44:29PM MACHINE YARD SETBACK FROM 06 FEET DOWN TO 1 FOOT.
02:44:32PM SECOND REQUEST TO REDUCE THE BACK-UP GIVES STANCE FROM TEN
02:44:36PM FEET TO ONE FOOT FOR A TWO-CAR PARKING STRUCTURE.
02:44:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MA'AM, BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, I NEED TO
02:44:42PM SWEAR EVERYBODY IN.
02:44:43PM RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK.
02:44:46PM MR. HANKS.
02:44:48PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: STEVEN EYSTER.
02:44:54PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HE IS ON LINE.
02:44:55PM [SWEARING IN]
02:44:58PM >> YES.
02:44:59PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: IF I MAY, MR. CHAIR, I WILL CONTINUE.
02:45:09PM PETITIONER -- THE APPLICATION IS WITHIN YOUR STAFF REPORT IN
02:45:13PM THE PACKETS THANK YOU DISTRIBUTED TO YOU.
02:45:14PM THE -- THAT WERE DISTRIBUTED TO YOU THE PETITIONER CITED
02:45:19PM THREE REASONS FOR HIS REQUEST OR THREE JUSTIFICATIONS.
02:45:22PM HIS PROPERTY BEING NARROW AND NOT HAVING ENOUGH SPACE ON
02:45:25PM EITHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE TO DRIVE A VEHICLE TO THE BACK OF
02:45:28PM THE HOUSE.
02:45:28PM THERE BEING NO OTHER OPTION FOR PLACEMENT OF A CARPORT.
02:45:33PM AND FINALLY, ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF A CARPORT FOR GROUND
02:45:37PM EROSION AND SOLAR PROTECTION.
02:45:39PM TRANSPORTATION FOUND IT INCONSISTENT AND THE CODE REQUIRES
02:45:43PM THAT THE STRUCTURAL EDGE TO THE VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO A
02:45:46PM TWO-CARPORT BE SET BACK MINIMUM OF TEN FEET.
02:45:51PM MELANIE CALLOWAY WITH THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS HERE.
02:45:55PM COUNCIL HAS QUESTIONS OF TRANSPORTATION FINDINGS.
02:45:58PM VRB DETERMINED THAT THIS REQUEST DID NOT MEET THE VARIANCE
02:46:04PM FOR 27-80 AND, THEREFORE, DENIED THE APPLICATION.
02:46:07PM AS PART OF COUNCIL'S PACKET, I PROVIDE YOU A COPY OF 27-880,
02:46:12PM WHICH IS THE APPLICATION OF THE VARIANCE POWER.
02:46:15PM ITCH LIVE PROVIDED YOU THE REVIEW HEARING PROCEDURES IN
02:46:20PM 27-61-J-2.
02:46:22PM I PROVIDED YOU THE TWO CODE SECTIONS THAT THE REQUEST -- THE
02:46:27PM VARIANCE REQUEST APPLIES TO SECTIONS 27-290 REGARDING
02:46:31PM ACCESSORY STRUCTURE SETBACKS.
02:46:33PM AND SECTION 27-156-C WHICH ADDRESSES THE STRUCTURAL EDGE OF
02:46:39PM THE TWO-CAR CARPORT BEING SET BACK TEN FEET FROM THE
02:46:43PM PROPERTY LINE.
02:46:43PM THE FINAL PAGE IN YOUR PACKAGE ARE SAMPLE MOTIONS FOR
02:46:48PM COUNCIL.
02:46:48PM AND I WANTED TO REMIND COUNCIL THAT WHEN -- IN THESE REVIEW
02:46:53PM HEARS COUNCIL HAS DE NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW THAT COUNCIL
02:46:58PM MAY TAKE NEW EVIDENCE, TAKE PUBLIC TESTIMONY AND DETERMINE
02:47:01PM IF THE PETITION MEETS THE VARIANCE CRITERIA ACCORDING TO THE
02:47:05PM CITY CODE.
02:47:06PM COUNCIL MUST ALSO, THOUGH, FOLLOW THE APPLICABLE ORDINANCE
02:47:10PM AND 27-80 WITH THE VARIANCE APPLICATION.
02:47:20PM HARDSHIP IS ONE OF THE CRITERIA WHAT THE VARIANCE REVIEW
02:47:27PM BOARD MUST MIND A HARDSHIP BEFORE BEING AUTHORIZED WITH CODE
02:47:30PM TO GRANT A VARIANCE.
02:47:32PM STEVEN EYSTER FROM STAFF IS HERE.
02:47:36PM COUNCIL MAY AFFIRM DECISION BY THE VRB AND UPHOLD THE DENIAL
02:47:42PM OF THIS APPLICATION OR COUNCIL MAY OVERTURN THE DECISION BY
02:47:45PM THE VRB AND APPROVE IT A REQUEST FOR A VARIANCE.
02:47:48PM IF COUNCIL HAS ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM
02:47:53PM BUT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MR. EYSTER.
02:47:56PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
02:47:59PM YOU ARE MUTED, SIR.
02:48:00PM >>STEVEN EYSTER: MY NAME IS STEVEN EYSTER, URBAN PLANNER 2
02:48:10PM WITH PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT.
02:48:12PM MAY I HAVE PER MISSION TO SHARE MY SCREEN?
02:48:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUST A MOMENT AND WE WILL BRING IT UP.
02:48:17PM >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN SEE MY SCREEN.
02:48:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT IS COMING.
02:48:29PM THEY ARE MAKING IT BIGGER AND TAKE UP THE WHOLE SCREEN AND
02:48:33PM WE WILL SEE THE POWERPOINT.
02:48:34PM CAN YOU MAKE IT BIGGER ON YOUR SCREEN?
02:48:43PM LET'S SEE IF I CAN SWITCH MY SCREEN MANISCALCO OKAY, THERE
02:48:58PM YOU GO.
02:48:58PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
02:48:59PM >> OKAY.
02:49:00PM GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
02:49:01PM SO IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY IS VRB 24-56-C WHICH IS 8406 NORTH
02:49:16PM EDISON AVENUE.
02:49:17PM THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY.
02:49:19PM HILLS NAME IS THOMAS HANKS.
02:49:21PM 8406 NORTH EDISON, PROPERTY ADDRESS.
02:49:25PM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY RS-50.
02:49:27PM THE REQUEST TO REDUCE THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE FRONT-YARD
02:49:31PM QUARTERBACK FROM 50 FEET TO EVERYONE FEET AND REDUCE THE
02:49:34PM BACK-UP FROM TEN FEET TO ONE FEET FOR A TWO-CAR PARKING
02:49:40PM STRUCTURE.
02:49:41PM 27-290, SCHEDULE AREA HEIGHT, BULK AND PLACEMENT NOR
02:49:47PM ACCESSORY STRUCTURES.
02:49:48PM SETBACKS ARE 06 FEET FROM THE FRONT.
02:49:50PM THREE FEET FROM THE REAR AND THREE FEET FROM THE SIDES.
02:49:52PM THE OTHER SECTION IN REFERENCE IS SECTION 27-156, TABLE 4-2
02:50:01PM STRUCTURAL EDGE OF THE TWO-CAR DRIVE TEN FOOT FROM THE
02:50:06PM PROPERTY LINE AND PREVIOUS ACTION C.O.D.-23-4161 WHICH WAS
02:50:11PM CONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PERMITS.
02:50:12PM THESE ARE THE STANDARDS FOR THE VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD THAT
02:50:18PM THEY BASED THEIR DECISION OFF OF.
02:50:19PM THIS IS THE SAME DOCUMENT THAT LEGAL PROVIDED YOU A COPY OF.
02:50:26PM THIS IS THE VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD DETERMINATION.
02:50:29PM THE VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD HEARD THE CASE, DECEMBER 10, 2024.
02:50:34PM AFTER TESTIMONY DENIED THE REQUEST 5-0.
02:50:36PM DENIED BOTH REQUESTS TO REDUCE THE ACCESSORY STRUCTURE,
02:50:40PM FRONT-YARD QUARTERBACK FROM 06 FEET TO ONE FEET AS WELL AS
02:50:43PM THE -- TO REDUCE THE BACK-UP DISTANCE FROM TEN FEET NO ONE
02:50:47PM FOOT FOR TWO-CAR PARKING STRUCTURE.
02:50:52PM A MAP OF THE SITE.
02:50:53PM YOU CAN SEE THE PARKING STRUCTURE LOCATED IN THE FRONT YARD,
02:50:56PM AND WE WILL GET INTO MORE DETAILED PHOTO IN A MINUTE.
02:51:00PM SITE PLAN TO THE SITE, AND BLUE BOX IS THE HIGHLIGHTED
02:51:07PM CONCERN WHICH BLOWN UP ON THE SLIDE.
02:51:10PM LARGE ALUMINIUM AWNING.
02:51:13PM 20 X 15.3 FEET.
02:51:17PM AND SITS ONE BACK FROM THE PROPERTY LINE IN THE FRONT.
02:51:20PM THESE SOME HISTORICAL PHOTOS OF THE SITE.
02:51:27PM THE PROPERTY IN 2007.
02:51:29PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY IN 2018. THIS IS THE PROPERTY IN 2019
02:51:36PM AND HERE IS THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY WHICH ALSO ADDRESSES --
02:51:40PM SHOWS THE COMMENT BY TRANSPORTATION OF IT OF THE ASPHALT IN
02:51:43PM THE FRONT YARD, JUST SO YOU GUY COULD SEE A VISUAL OF THAT.
02:51:47PM THESE THE DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEW.
02:51:56PM FOUND IT CONSISTENT.
02:51:58PM TRANSPORTATION FOUND IN INCONSISTENT WITH CONDITIONS.
02:52:00PM AND TRANSPORTATION FINDS THE SITE PLAN INTENT WITH CHAPTER
02:52:04PM 27-156-C, TABLE 2-4.8.
02:52:10PM VEHICLE ENTRANCE OF A TWO-CAR GARAGE AND STORAGE AREA MUST
02:52:15PM BE SET BACK A MINIMUM OF TEN FEET.
02:52:18PM PROPOSED CARPORT IS ONLY ONE FOOT OPINION AT THE TIME OF
02:52:22PM PERMITTING MUST MEET THE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL STANDARDS.
02:52:26PM UNCOMMITTED ASPHALT COVERING MOST OF THE FRONT YARD WILL
02:52:29PM NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND REPLACED WITH
02:52:35PM GRASS.
02:52:35PM AND JONATHAN'S CONTACT INFORMATION PROVIDED BEFORE.
02:52:38PM WASTEWATER FOUND IT CONSISTENT.
02:52:39PM WATER FOUND IT CONSISTENT WITH CONDITIONS.
02:52:41PM RIGHT-OF-WAY FOUND IN IT INCONSISTENT DUE TO PLATTED REAR
02:52:45PM EASEMENT THAT DOES NOT AFFECT THE OVERALL -- WHAT IS BEING
02:52:50PM PROPOSED ON THIS VARIANCE SITE PLAN.
02:52:52PM A SHED IN THE REAR YARD OUTSIDE THE PURVIEW OF THIS REVIEW
02:52:57PM AND NOTE SO THOMAS COULD MOVE THE SHED OUT OF THAT EASEMENT.
02:53:01PM STORMWATER FOUND IN IT CONSISTENT, AND TECO H NO COMMENT AT
02:53:07PM THE TIME OF THE REVIEW.
02:53:08PM I WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS IF YOU
02:53:11PM GUYS HAVE ANY.
02:53:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME?
02:53:17PM MISS SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ, CALL UP THE APPLICANT AT THIS I'M.
02:53:20PM MR. HANKS, IF YOU WILL COME UP.
02:53:22PM HOW LONG DOES HE HAVE FOR A PRESENTATION?
02:53:24PM 15 MINUTES?
02:53:25PM YOU HAVE TOUCH 15 MINUTES.
02:53:26PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE ALL THAT TIME IF YOU DON'T WANT TO AS
02:53:30PM WE WILL DISCUSSED, AND YOU WILL HAVE REBUTTAL TO RESPOND TO
02:53:34PM ANYTHING WE SAY.
02:53:34PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
02:53:35PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
02:53:36PM MY NAME IS THOMAS HANKS.
02:53:38PM I HAVE RESIDED AT THE PROPERTY.
02:53:41PM IT IS MY HOMESTEAD.
02:53:43PM MY ONLY HOUSE.
02:53:44PM THE CARPORT THAT IS IN QUESTION RIGHT THERE, IT HAS BEEN
02:53:50PM THERE IN EXCESS OF 206 -- OF 20 YEARS.
02:53:56PM I GOT MARRIED AND I HAD MOVED THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET --
02:53:59PM OR WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET AND WE HAD A RV.
02:54:03PM WE PUT -- AND CONSEQUENTLY BECAUSE I HAVE A HIGH-TOP VAN.
02:54:09PM AND WE MOVED IT ACROSS THE STREET AND THE MOTHER-IN-LAW
02:54:15PM LIVED ON MY PROPERTY RIGHT THERE.
02:54:18PM EXCUSE ME.
02:54:19PM AND THEN WHEN WE GOT A DIVORCE, THEN I JUST -- I DID THE
02:54:26PM EGYPTIAN AND PULLED IT RIGHT BACK ACROSS THE STREET.
02:54:28PM AND THANK IS WHERE IT SAT.
02:54:29PM LIKE I SAID PUT IT THERE IN PROBABLY 2001 AND 2002.
02:54:38PM IT HAS BEEN THERE THAT LONG AND ACROSS THE STREET.
02:54:40PM THAT IS WHY YOU DIDN'T SEE IT IN THAT PHOTO RIGHT THERE.
02:54:44PM AT THE SAME TIME, THERE ARE MULTIPLE CAR PORTS CLOSER TO THE
02:54:47PM ROAD THAN MINOR MY HOUSE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
02:54:49PM AND THE REASON THAT THIS IS EVEN AN ISSUE BEFORE YOU GUYS IS
02:54:58PM THERE IS A GUY AT THE END OF THE BLOCK THAT HE O.D.ED.
02:55:04PM SOME KIND OF DOPE GUY.
02:55:05PM AND HE PUSHED ME DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH A
02:55:08PM BACK PACK BLOWER ON.
02:55:10PM AND I AM SURVIVING COLON CANCER RIGHT NOW.
02:55:14PM AND I HAD A COLOSTOMY BAG AND HE PUSHED ME DOWN AND CRACKED
02:55:19PM MY RIBS.
02:55:20PM I CALLED THE POLICE UP.
02:55:21PM AND WHATEVER THEY DID TO HIM, I DON'T KNOW.
02:55:24PM BUT THAT -- THAT WAS LIKE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
02:55:27PM MONDAY MORNING, I HAD THE STICKER.
02:55:29PM AND THE LADY, SUZETTE RODRIGUEZ GAVE ME THE NAME OF THE GUY
02:55:36PM WHO FILED AGAINST ME AND IT WAS THAT GUY.
02:55:40PM SINCE THEN, YOU KNOW, HE O.D.ED.
02:55:43PM AND ALL THE DRUG STUFF HAS STOPPED BECAUSE IT WAS -- IT WAS
02:55:48PM -- IT WAS A SHOW OVER THERE.
02:55:52PM AND HE IS DEAD NOW, AND I STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS.
02:55:55PM AND I HAVE GOT A PICTURE OF MY PROPERTY.
02:55:57PM AND.
02:56:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PUT IT ON THE OVERHEAD, THE PROJECTOR
02:56:04PM THERE.
02:56:04PM RIGHT TO YOUR RIGHT.
02:56:05PM >> OH, OKAY.
02:56:07PM AND ALSO I GOT A NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST SECTS OF THE
02:56:14PM PEOPLE THAT OWN THE -- SIGNATURES OF THE PEOPLE THAT OWN TH
02:56:20PM PROPERTY.
02:56:20PM I GAVE THEM THE PIECE OF PAPER AND THE CARPORT DOES NOT
02:56:23PM OFFEND ANYONE.
02:56:24PM HERE IS THE PICTURE AND THIS RIGHT FENCE THERE I PUT THAT.
02:56:35PM I PUT THAT THERE WHEN I PUT THAT CAR PORT THERE 27 SOMETHING
02:56:40PM YEARS AGO IT STAYS THERE.
02:56:43PM AS TO THE ASPHALT, NOBODY WANTS TO ADMIT TO THE FACT BUT
02:56:53PM STORMWATER BECAUSE I COMPLAINED.
02:56:55PM I LIVED THERE A LONG TIME.
02:56:56PM I COMPLAINED TO STORMWATER ABOUT THIS, THAT ALL THAT DIRT
02:57:00PM WAS ERODING DOWN -- THERE IS A DRAIN OUT OF THIS PICTURE
02:57:04PM RIGHT HERE AND WHEN THE MAILMAN OR EVERYBODY GOES BY THE
02:57:13PM DUST BIN AND THE SEWER IS LOWER THAN THE STREET AND PULLING
02:57:17PM THE DIRT OUT.
02:57:18PM I TOLD THAT TO STORMWATER.
02:57:20PM THEY CAME AND FIX IT.
02:57:21PM I WAS ELATED.
02:57:22PM AND NOW IT SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM.
02:57:24PM AND CONSEQUENTLY THE STORMWATER PEOPLE UP HERE A LITTLE
02:57:30PM WHILE AGO WASTING TIME AND EFFORT, THEY USED TO COME ON A
02:57:33PM WEEKLY BASE WITH THE BIG VACUUM CLEANERS TO SUCK THE DRAINS
02:57:40PM OUT BECAUSE SO FULL WITH DIRT.
02:57:41PM THEY HAVEN'T BEEN HERE ONE TIME SINCE THAT HAPPENED.
02:57:44PM I MEAN IT IS ACTUALLY SAVED THE CITY MONDAY.
02:57:50PM STORMWATER DID IT.
02:57:52PM NOBODY WANTS TO ACCEPT IT.
02:57:55PM THEY SAY THAT GUY DOESN'T WORK HERE ANY LONGER.
02:57:58PM SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME?
02:58:01PM AND I LIVE BY MYSELF WITH MY DOG AND THAT IS THE -- THE
02:58:07PM CARPORT IS THERE FOR MY TRUCK AND MY CAR.
02:58:09PM I AM A VERY GOOD STEWARD OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
02:58:12PM LIKE I SAID, TO BE THERE SUCCESSFULLY FOR 26, 27 YEARS, YOU
02:58:19PM KNOW, YOU GOT TO BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.
02:58:22PM SO -- AND LIKE I SAID, I HAVE SIGNATURES OF ALL THE FOUR
02:58:28PM OWNERS, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST OF MY PROPERTY AND THEN
02:58:33PM I HAVE GOT UP FROM MISS CASTOR -- THIS RIGHT THERE.
02:58:38PM SHE MAILED THIS TO ME.
02:58:39PM SHOULD I TURN IT AROUND?
02:58:43PM HERE WE GO.
02:58:44PM AND BEING ON DISABILITY BECAUSE I AM ON MEDICATION.
02:58:50PM AND MY GUTS ARE JUST BAD NEWS, YOU KNOW.
02:58:55PM LIKE I SAID, I AM SURVIVING.
02:58:58PM YOU KNOW -- UNDERLINE IT SAYS ONE OF THESE HAS TO PERTAIN TO
02:59:08PM MY DISABILITIES BEING GRANTED.
02:59:10PM AND I BELIEVE -- ENJOYING MY HOUSEHOLD.
02:59:14PM I COULD NOT ENJOY IT.
02:59:15PM BECAUSE MY HOUSE STAYS TO THE EAST IN BLATANT DEAD SUNSHINE.
02:59:21PM AND IT IS -- I JUST HAD CATARACT SURGERY AS WELL.
02:59:25PM AND IT IS JUST -- IT IS.
02:59:29PM IT IS SO NECESSARY FOR THAT CARPORT.
02:59:31PM LIKE I SAID OTHER CAR PORTS, MULTIPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
02:59:34PM THAT ARE CLOSER TO THE ROVED THAN MINE, YOU KNOW.
02:59:37PM I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I AM BEING PICKED ON 21 OR 22 YEARS
02:59:42PM AFTER THE FACT.
02:59:43PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.
02:59:50PM I THINK I HAVE SAID EVERYTHING.
02:59:51PM UNLESS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SIGNATURES OF THE PEOPLE --
02:59:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SURE.
02:59:56PM GIVE THEM UP TO THE ATTORNEY HERE AND WE WILL LOOK AT THEM.
02:59:59PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
03:00:01PM ANYTHING ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD?
03:00:08PM >> IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT I KEEP IT.
03:00:11PM IT JUST -- IT IS MY LIFE.
03:00:12PM WHERE I SIT WITH MY DOG EVERY DAY.
03:00:14PM ALL DAY MOST DAYS.
03:00:16PM UP KNOW, THAT IS WHERE I SIT.
03:00:19PM AND, ALSO, THE LEAVES INUNDATING -- BOTH OF MY FEET HAVE
03:00:26PM BEEN BROKEN.
03:00:26PM I AM NOT AGILE AS I USED TO BE.
03:00:29PM AND WHEN THE LEVELS COME DOWN, IT AIN'T NOTHING BUT A
03:00:33PM TRIPPING HAZARD, SLIPPING HAZARD.
03:00:35PM AND THE RAIN JUST ERODES EVERYTHING.
03:00:39PM IT'S -- LOSING PROPERTY EVERY TIME IT RAINS.
03:00:44PM ANY TIME THERE IS A WIND STORM, THE WIND JUST BLOWS DOWN THE
03:00:48PM STREET AND TAMPA DOESN'T BLOW UP IN MY FACE.
03:00:50PM AND IT IS WONDERFUL.
03:00:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
03:00:55PM ANY QUESTIONS?
03:00:56PM IF NOT I WILL ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:00:58PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
03:01:01PM NOBODY PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:01:03PM ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL?
03:01:05PM IS THERE -- WELL, THERE IS NO REBUTTAL -- THERE IS REBUTTAL
03:01:09PM IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING ELSE, BUT NOBODY MENTIONED
03:01:13PM ANYTHING.
03:01:13PM SO IF NOT -- BE.
03:01:15PM >> MY DOG IS BLACK, SO SHE CAN'T SIT IN THE SUNSHINE.
03:01:19PM POOR GIRL.
03:01:20PM SHE JUST -- IT IS TOO HOT FOR HER.
03:01:23PM AND ME AS WELL.
03:01:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
03:01:27PM IS THERE A MOTION TO CLOSE.
03:01:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO CLOSE.
03:01:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILWOMAN
03:01:32PM HENDERSON.
03:01:32PM A SECOND?
03:01:33PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:01:34PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:01:35PM WHAT IS THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL SOMEBODY IN DO WE UPHOLD OR
03:01:43PM OVERTURN?
03:01:48PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:01:49PM GO AHEAD.
03:01:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE AFFIRM THE VRB'S DECISION TO DENY
03:01:55PM THE REQUEST IN THE APPLICATION NUMBER VRB 4-56 FOR THE
03:02:00PM PROPERTY AT 8406 NORTH EDISON AVENUE DUE TO FAILURE OF THE
03:02:04PM PETITION ARE FOR BURDEN OF PROOF OF COMPREHENSIVE TENT AND
03:02:08PM SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD AT THIS PUBLIC HEARING OF
03:02:11PM THE UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP AND PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY WHEN
03:02:13PM CONSIDERING THE FIVE HARDSHIP CRITERIA SECTION 27-80 OF THE
03:02:18PM CITY CODE, SPECIFICALLY THAT THE HARDSHIPS TO IDENTIFY WOULD
03:02:25PM NOT BE RESOLVED JUST BY THE CONTINUED USE OF THAT CARPORT BY
03:02:28PM THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU SUGGESTED.
03:02:29PM JUST -- HAVING THAT -- THOSE CONDITIONS THAT -- SITTING.
03:02:33PM YOU CAN SEPTEMBER IN OTHER AREAS OF THE HOUSE, AND TO AVOID
03:02:37PM THE SUN.
03:02:38PM I UNDERSTAND BUT, YOU KNOW -- THERE IS -- THE SIGNATURES
03:02:49PM THAT YOU BROUGHT -- IF THEY HAD COME AND TESTIFY IT WOULD
03:02:52PM HAVE BEEN MORE OF A WEIGHT OF THAT EVIDENCE THAT WOULD HAVE
03:02:55PM BEEN HEAVIER, BUT THAT IS NOT THE COMPETENT SUBSTANTIAL AM
03:03:00PM EVIDENCE WE ARE WORKING FOR TO REACH THESE HARDSHIP CRITERIA
03:03:08PM TO OVERTURN.
03:03:09PM AND NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS.
03:03:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:03:14PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL SAY YOU SHOULD STICK TO SECTION 27-80
03:03:18PM WHICH TALKS OF THE REASONING.
03:03:19PM AND THE HARDSHIP FOR PRACTICAL DIFFICULTY DOES NOT RESULT
03:03:24PM FROM THE ACTIONS.
03:03:25PM IT IS A SELF-CREATED HARDSHIP BY PUTTING IT THERE.
03:03:28PM AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE TO CONSIDER THE PROPERTY AND NOT
03:03:33PM HEALTH ISSUES.
03:03:35PM UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A LOT OF STUFF THAT COMES IN FRONT OF
03:03:37PM THE VARIANCE BOARD THAT HAS TO DO WITH HEALTH, BUT NOT ABOUT
03:03:43PM HEALTH BUT ABOUT YOUR PROPERTY AND WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT
03:03:46PM DO ON THE PROPERTY.
03:03:46PM SO IT AND THE VARIANCE IS NOT IN HARMONY AND SERVES THE
03:03:53PM INTENT AND PURPOSE OF THIS CHAPTER AND THE ADOPTED TAMPA
03:03:59PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
03:03:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:04:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE ALLEGED HARDSHIP IS NOT UNIQUE AND
03:04:04PM SINGULAR WITH RESPECT TO THE PROPERTY.
03:04:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:04:09PM A ROLL CALL VOTE.
03:04:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
03:04:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
03:04:15PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
03:04:17PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
03:04:18PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
03:04:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
03:04:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
03:04:21PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
03:04:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
03:04:28PM THAT'S IT.
03:04:29PM HEARING IS OVER.
03:04:30PM >> IT IS NOT APPROVED.
03:04:32PM MY MENTAL HEALTH IS NOT PART OF THE HEALTH CRITERIA.
03:04:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:04:37PM THE HEARING IS OVER, SIR.
03:04:39PM >> IS IT IN MY FAVOR OR NO?
03:04:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, NOT IN YOUR FAVOR, SIR.
03:04:44PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:04:45PM >> HOW ABOUT THE REMEDY.
03:04:46PM WHAT IS THE REMEDY?
03:04:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IF SOMEONE ON THE LEGAL SIDE GO AHEAD,
03:04:57PM SIR.
03:04:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: NOT TO GIVE -- STOP ME IF NEED BE.
03:05:02PM I WOULD -- WITH WHOM DID YOU SPEAK FOR SETTING THIS UP?
03:05:08PM WHO DID YOU SPEAK TO SET THIS HEARING UP, SIR?
03:05:14PM >> IT WAS -- IT WAS A WOMAN DOWN -- CORENZIA AND ERIC COTTON
03:05:21PM AND -- AND LISA MIDDLETON.
03:05:26PM I HAVE BEEN -- AND MR. EYSTER.
03:05:30PM I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THEM.
03:05:31PM AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SEEMED TO BE ON MY SIDE BUT SEEMS LIKE
03:05:39PM SOMEBODY ISN'T.
03:05:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. SHELBY, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG,
03:05:46PM I WOULD FOLLOW UP YOU WITH THEM WHAT THE RESPECTED STEPS
03:05:48PM WOULD BE.
03:05:49PM THE HEARING UNFORTUNATELY IS OVER.
03:05:50PM BUT I WOULD FOLLOW UP WITH THEM FOR THAT.
03:05:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:05:55PM >>LUIS VIERA: WE ARE SORRY.
03:05:56PM I MEAN THAT.
03:05:57PM >> SORRY IS ME.
03:05:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
03:06:00PM NEXT ITEM OR THE LAST ITEM, MY ITEM REGARDING DECORUM AND
03:06:07PM EFFICIENCY.
03:06:07PM I TOOK A FEW NOTES HERE.
03:06:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOTES?
03:06:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTES.
03:06:12PM I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY TRAIN OF THOUGHTS.
03:06:15PM ALL RIGHT.
03:06:16PM CAN I GET A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE 105 AND 106?
03:06:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO MOVED.
03:06:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
03:06:24PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
03:06:26PM WE ALREADY SISTER?
03:06:27PM OKAY, NEVER MIND.
03:06:28PM TAKE THAT BACK.
03:06:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, DO WE HAVE NEW
03:06:42PM BUSINESS, SIR?
03:06:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: REAL QUICK.
03:06:44PM LET'S SEE HERE.
03:06:56PM I HAD ORIGINALLY INVITED A KAREN DAY IT CLAY TO COME ON MAY
03:07:01PM 15 TO SPEAK ON HER NEW 501-C-3.
03:07:05PM BUT EVERY YEAR WE HAVE GOLD STAR PARENTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY
03:07:08PM AND I WANTED TO MOVE -- AND I ALREADY ACQUIRED MISS CLAY'S
03:07:14PM PRESENTATION FOR JUNE 26 WHERE WE HAVE A CLERICAL LANDER IF
03:07:18PM I MAY.
03:07:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
03:07:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:07:22PM OPPOSED?
03:07:23PM THANK YOU.
03:07:24PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
03:07:24PM INVITE GOLD STAR FAMILIES MAY 15 TO SPEAK ON THE MEMORIAL
03:07:30PM DAY HOLIDAY WHICH IS 12 DAYS AFTER THAT.
03:07:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:07:33PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:07:36PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:07:37PM OPPOSED.
03:07:38PM >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT MOTION FOR A WRITTEN STAFF REPORT ON
03:07:41PM MORRIS BRIDGE ROAD.
03:07:42PM YOU HAVE BEEN DOWN MORRIS BRIDGE ROAD A COUNTY ROAD, BUT A
03:07:49PM LOT OF MORRIS BRIDGE ROAD OF THE CITY, THE COUNTY, AND
03:07:54PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AND PASCO COUNTY.
03:07:56PM MORRIS BRIDGE ROAD IS TREATED AS A RURAL ROAD AROUND
03:08:00PM ANYTHING BUT.
03:08:00PM NEIGHBORHOODS OUT THERE.
03:08:02PM AND COREY LAKE AISLES.
03:08:04PM A LOT OF DIFFERENT HOUSES OF WORSHIP.
03:08:06PM SIKH HOUSE OF WORSHIP AND ISLAMIC TEMPLE AND A COUPLE OF
03:08:12PM CHURCHES AND SO FORTH.
03:08:13PM I WANTED FOR MOBILITY TO WORK WITH THE APPROPRIATE
03:08:16PM GOVERNMENT ENTITIES ON WHAT IMPROVEMENTS THAT GOVERNMENTS
03:08:19PM CAN MAKE ON MORRIS BRIDGE ROAD WORKING TOGETHER AND TO
03:08:21PM REPORT ON THAT IN THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE OF THIS YEAR.
03:08:25PM JUST A WRITTEN REPORT AND BASED ON THAT, WE CAN SEE IF ANY
03:08:29PM ACTION CAN BE TAKEN.
03:08:31PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "IMPROVEMENT?"
03:08:34PM >>LUIS VIERA: IMPROVEMENTS WITH SPEED LIMIT --
03:08:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU WERE NOT SPECIFIC.
03:08:38PM I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT.
03:08:39PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM, THANK YOU.
03:08:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:08:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
03:08:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:08:44PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S IT, THANK YOU CORE COUNCIL.
03:08:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I DON'T HAVE ANY NEWS BUSINESSES.
03:08:50PM OFFER CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF FRANCES ENRIQUEZ.
03:08:55PM MANY OF YOU KNOW HER MANY DON'T KNOW.
03:08:58PM FIRST WOMAN CLERK FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA AND WORKED AND SPENT
03:09:03PM 39 YEARS IN THE CITY.
03:09:04PM PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 19 OF THIS YEAR.
03:09:07PM TRULY A TRAILBLAZER.
03:09:08PM AND I JUST WANT TO OFFER MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND
03:09:13PM RECOGNIZE HER FOR EVERYTHING THAT SHE DID HERE IN OUR CITY.
03:09:18PM BEGAN HER EMPLOYMENT IN 1954.
03:09:23PM IMAGINE DIFFERENT TIMES AND 1963 APPOINTED DEPUTY CITY CLERK
03:09:29PM FROM MAYOR JULIAN LANE.
03:09:32PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FIRST FEMALE.
03:09:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY.
03:09:36PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:09:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A FEW.
03:09:38PM LET'S SEE.
03:09:39PM LET'S KNOCK THE EASY ONE OUT FIRST.
03:09:42PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENT A COMMENDATION FOR
03:09:45PM THE 2025 TAMPA PRIDE CELEBRATION ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29,
03:09:49PM 2025.
03:09:50PM THIS WEEKEND.
03:09:51PM COMMENDATION WILL BE PRESENTED OFF-SITE AT THE CUBAN CLUB
03:09:55PM OFFSITE.
03:09:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:09:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL COME TO YOU.
03:10:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: VOTED I WAS THE PRETTIEST --
03:10:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT'S YOUR -- [ LAUGHTER ]
03:10:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO.
03:10:10PM I HAVE BEEN KNEE-DEEP IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GARAGES.
03:10:13PM MY NEW FAVORITE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION OUTSIDE THE STREETCAR.
03:10:18PM SO SPEAKING WITH STAFF, WE NEED TO CLARIFY.
03:10:21PM SO I SPOKEN WITH STAFF AND REVISE AND CLARIFY THE MOTION
03:10:24PM FROM FEBRUARY 20, 2025 TO INCLUDE CHANGES IN THE LAND
03:10:28PM DEVELOPMENT CODE TEXT AMENDMENT CYCLE RELATING TO
03:10:30PM RESIDENTIAL OFF-STREET PARKING AND TANDEM PARKING.
03:10:34PM REVISE THE MOTION THAT WE ASK STAFF TO AMEND THE CODE IN THE
03:10:37PM JULY 2024 CYCLE RELATED TO SINGLE-FAMILY AND RESIDENTIAL
03:10:41PM TOWN HOME CARPORT STANDARDS INCLUDED AN INCREASE IN THE
03:10:44PM SETBACK FOR GARAGES TO 18 FEET, WHERE THE PARKING IS
03:10:47PM PROPOSED TO BE IN THE STRUCTURE.
03:10:50PM SO THE EXPLANATION OF THAT BULLET POINT IS IF THEY ARE USING
03:10:55PM THE GARAGE FOR -- AND A CARPORT TO BE PARKING MINIMUMS, YOU
03:11:02PM HAVE TO 18 FOOT TO PARK YOUR CAR IN THE CARPORT AND WHY WE
03:11:06PM HAVE TO DO THAT FOR THE SETBACKS AND MEET THE MINIMUM IF
03:11:10PM THEY ARE USING THE PARKWAY FOR THAT PURPOSE.
03:11:12PM NUMBER TWO, INCLUDE NEW LANGUAGE SPECIFYING THE WIDTH AND
03:11:17PM DEPTH OF ONE OR TWO-CAR GARAGES.
03:11:19PM I MENTIONED 20 FEET WIDE AND 24 DEEP.
03:11:22PM THAT INFORMATION HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN OUR BRIEFINGS WITH
03:11:26PM STEVEN BENSON IN THE CITY.
03:11:27PM AND SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATIONS, I THINK, WE ARE STILL GOING TO
03:11:32PM WORK THROUGH THIS, THE DEPTH PART OF IT.
03:11:34PM IF THERE WAS A RIGHT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT GARBAGE HAS
03:11:39PM TO BE HIDDEN OR SHIELDED.
03:11:42PM ONE OF THOSE METHODS IS THEY BUILD THESE GARAGES AND -- AND
03:11:46PM USING THE GARAGE TO SHIELD IT.
03:11:47PM WHEN THAT IS THE CASE A LOGICAL DEPTH FOR THE GARAGES.
03:11:53PM IF THEY ARE SHIELDING IT IN ANOTHER FASHION, 22 FEET WOULD
03:11:56PM BE A REASONABLE DEPTH.
03:11:57PM SO I AM STILL WORKING WITH STAFF TO RESOLVE THAT IN THE
03:12:01PM FINAL LANGUAGE TO IT BE INCLUDED.
03:12:03PM WE ARE GOING TO SPECIFY THAT THE TANDEM PARKING INSIDE A
03:12:07PM GARAGE IS PROHIBITED AND CLARIFY NO WAIVER FOR SINGLE-FAMILY
03:12:10PM PARKING STANDARDS.
03:12:11PM THAT IS FOR THE SINGLE-FAMILY.
03:12:13PM SO JUST TWO.
03:12:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU HAVE A DATE?
03:12:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS WAS TO CLARIFY THE MOTION FROM
03:12:19PM FEBRUARY 20, 2025.
03:12:21PM THIS IS JUST TO GIVE STAFF SOME CONFIRMATION THAT WE ARE
03:12:27PM MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION ORDINANCE MANISCALCO MOTION
03:12:28PM AND A SECOND.
03:12:29PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:12:30PM ANY OPPOSED?
03:12:31PM ANYTHING ELSE?
03:12:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THOUGHT I HAD SOMETHING ELSE.
03:12:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:12:37PM DO YOU HAVE NEW BUSINESS?
03:12:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, I DO.
03:12:39PM I WAS A LITTLE BIT TRIGGERED TODAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN CHIEF
03:12:42PM TRIPP WAS STANDING BEFORE US.
03:12:45PM I HAVE A MOTION.
03:12:45PM I NEED TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INVOLVED WITH FIRE.
03:12:48PM THAT IS WHAT MY SPIRIT IS TELLING ME.
03:12:51PM I WANT UPDATES ON A REGULAR BASIS MONTHLY ABOUT STATION 24.
03:12:55PM AND I WANT HER TO COME BEFORE US AND DO THAT, IN PERSON.
03:12:57PM AND ALSO ON A MONTHLY BASIS IN WRITING, I WANT A WRITTEN
03:13:02PM MONTHLY DATA REPORT ON BUNKER GEAR.
03:13:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:13:07PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU NEED CLARIFICATION?
03:13:10PM >> NO, I HAVE A QUESTION.
03:13:11PM IF I MAY.
03:13:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: FOR DISCUSSION.
03:13:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:13:15PM >>LUIS VIERA: WE ALREADY GET MONTHLY WRITTEN REPORTS.
03:13:18PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ON BUNKER GEAR?
03:13:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: ON STATION 24.
03:13:22PM AND WE GET IN PERSON QUARTERLY REPORTS ON STATION 24, SO I
03:13:27PM DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S --
03:13:29PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT SEEMS THAT WE DO, BUT THE PUBLIC NEEDS
03:13:35PM TO HEAR IT FOR THEMSELVES.
03:13:37PM THEY DON'T GO DIGGING LOOKING FOR INFORMATION THE WAY WE DO
03:13:41PM ON STATION 24 JUST HER COMING BEFORE US ALLOWS US TO ASK
03:13:46PM QUESTIONS REGARDING WHAT IS IN THE REPORT EVEN THOUGH THEY
03:13:49PM COME OUT IN WRITING ON A QUARTERLY BASIS.
03:13:55PM THAT IS WHY I AM ASKING.
03:13:56PM TODAY WHAT IS PRESENTED TODAY BASED ON THE OTHER INFORMATION
03:14:00PM WRITTEN BY OTHERS THAT, YOU KNOW, SEEM TO BE SUPPORTED AND
03:14:04PM UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE THEY ARE EXPERTS AND WHATEVER THEY MAY
03:14:07PM BE.
03:14:07PM I JUST FEEL LIKE IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE US THE DATA SO
03:14:16PM WE WON'T BE DISTRACTED WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUNKER GEAR IN
03:14:20PM PARTICULAR.
03:14:21PM I CAN SEPARATE THAT -- IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR FROM
03:14:23PM BARBARA TRIPP, CHIEF TRIPP ON A MONTHLY BASIS IN PERSON
03:14:27PM ABOUT STATION 24.
03:14:28PM BECAUSE STATION 24 HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SO LONG, YOU KNOW.
03:14:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:14:39PM YES?
03:14:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A SUGGESTION.
03:14:41PM WOULD COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA BE UP TO MOVING THE WRITTEN
03:14:46PM REPORT TO IN-PERSON REPORTS?
03:14:50PM >>LUIS VIERA: SURE, LOOK WAIT A SECOND.
03:14:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT A SECOND.
03:14:57PM WHEN IT COMES TO 24, MAKING THEM IN PERSON.
03:15:00PM I THINK THAT WILL BE A WASTE OF OUR STAFF'S TIME.
03:15:02PM I THINK DOING IT IN WRITING AND THEN QUARTERLY IN PERSON, WE
03:15:09PM GET THE SAME BENEFIT FROM THAT.
03:15:10PM I WILL HAVE NO OBJECTION TO THAT ARE THEN AGAIN --
03:15:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT IS FAIR.
03:15:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SEEMS LIKE STATION 24 HAS BEEN A PART OF
03:15:18PM MY LIFE THE WHOLE TIME I HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL AND EVEN
03:15:22PM BEFORE THEN.
03:15:23PM AND I DON'T KNOW -- I THINK FOR ME -- SORRY, WAS I
03:15:25PM RECOGNIZED BECAUSE I KNOW CAN TALKING OF DECORUM NEXT.
03:15:29PM I AM LEARNING IN THE PROCESS OF ADJUSTING THE TIME TABLE OF
03:15:35PM THINGS.
03:15:36PM IT IS JUST HOW DO WE.
03:15:39PM AND EXPEDITE IS A VERY SOFT WORD BUT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO
03:15:46PM MOVE THINGS ALONG.
03:15:47PM HEARING IT FACE TO FACE, WE GET TO TALK ABOUT IT TOGETHER UP
03:15:51PM HERE.
03:15:52PM AND THAT IS THE PART THAT YOU CAN'T GET FROM THE WRITTEN
03:15:55PM REPORT.
03:15:55PM YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING.
03:15:57PM I GET TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS AND OUR OPEN TIME TO TALK ABOUT
03:16:01PM IT.
03:16:01PM AND THAT IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS THAT YOU CAN'T BREAK
03:16:07PM SUNSHINE, SO I GET TO HEAR EVERYBODY'S THOUGHTS UP HERE, AND
03:16:11PM WE CAN DECIDE TOGETHER THROUGH A MOTION, YOU KNOW, HOW TO
03:16:15PM PUSH STATION 24 ALONG BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN AN TOPIC EVERY
03:16:20PM SINCE I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS AMAZING COUNCIL THAT
03:16:24PM CHARLIE STILL WANTS TO BE A PART OF, I HOPE.
03:16:27PM AND THAT IS -- THAT IS MY LOGIC BEHIND IT.
03:16:30PM AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY I MADE THE MOTION I WAS JUST
03:16:35PM TRIGGERED TODAY.
03:16:35PM I DIDN'T COME AND PLAN WITH THAT.
03:16:38PM I KNOW THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THE BUNKER DATA MONTHLY
03:16:42PM REPORT FOR SURE.
03:16:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SURE.
03:16:45PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I CAN SEPARATE THAT OUT.
03:16:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: QUARTERLY IN PERSON.
03:16:48PM AND THEN MONTHLY WRITTEN.
03:16:50PM >>LUIS VIERA: SAME THING.
03:16:51PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
03:16:52PM I CAN KEEP IT TOGETHER AND THE DATA -- MONTHLY REPORT --
03:16:58PM >>THE CLERK: I NEED CLARIFICATION.
03:17:02PM A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA WITH MONTHLY AND
03:17:08PM QUARTERLY REPORT FOR STATION 4.
03:17:10PM ASKING FOR THAT CONSTITUTION THAT 24 TO BE IN PERSON
03:17:13PM MONTHLY.
03:17:14PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO QUARTERLY.
03:17:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: STAYS THE SAME.
03:17:17PM THAT IS FINE.
03:17:18PM AS LONG AS --
03:17:20PM >>THE CLERK: MAKE A MOTION JUST FOR THE BUNKER GEAR.
03:17:22PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CORRECT, CORRECT.
03:17:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: RESTATE YOUR MOTION?
03:17:25PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SURE, I MOVE THAT WE HAVE A WRITTEN
03:17:28PM MONTHLY REPORT ON SPECIFIC DATA REGARDING BUNKER GEAR FOR
03:17:33PM ALL STATIONS.
03:17:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND WITH A QUESTION.
03:17:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A SECOND.
03:17:37PM YES, MA'AM?
03:17:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THAT TO BEGIN.
03:17:42PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EFFECTIVE APRIL -- I WANT APRIL.
03:17:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THERE IS APRIL 17.
03:17:49PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: END OF APRIL.
03:17:50PM YOU KNOW I DON'T MAKE A LOT OF MOTIONS, SO WHAT NOW?
03:17:54PM >>THE CLERK: YOU JUST MADE A MOTION TODAY ON UPDATE OF BUNKER
03:17:59PM YEAR ON MAY 1.
03:18:00PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: START WITH MAY 1 AND THEN A MONTHLY BASIS
03:18:06PM SHELBY HILLARY CLINTON IS I'M JUST SAYING.
03:18:08PM YES, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
03:18:11PM ARE YOU IN EFFECT AMENDING COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA'S MOTION TO
03:18:14PM EXPAND IT TO BE MONTHLY?
03:18:17PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WRITTEN.
03:18:18PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WRITTEN MONTHLY.
03:18:20PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SO WE WON'T LET IT GO.
03:18:23PM IS THAT OKAY.
03:18:25PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. CHAIRMAN -- YES, ABSOLUTELY.
03:18:31PM MY BIG THING ON THAT WAS TO KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THAT AND
03:18:34PM LEVEL THE SCRUTINY REQUIRED ON THAT AND IF YOU WANT TO MAKE
03:18:38PM IT MONTHLY.
03:18:39PM >> I DON'T WANT IT LOST IN TRANSITION AND WE ARE READING ALL
03:18:42PM THESE NEGATIVE E-MAILS.
03:18:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:18:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HIT ON THIS EARLIER TODAY AND STILL
03:18:49PM SOMETHING GNAWING ON ME.
03:18:52PM I AM NOT DIMINISHING THE NEED.
03:18:54PM I WILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS.
03:18:56PM WITH THAT BEING SAID, KIND OF COUNTER TO MY GUT AND MAYBE WE
03:19:00PM WILL TALK ABOUT THIS NEXT TOO.
03:19:01PM I AM REALLY EMPATHETIC WITH CITY STAFF AND HOW MUCH WORK WE
03:19:07PM ARE GENERATING AS FAR AS WITH CHIEF TRIPP, IS SHE
03:19:16PM DISTRIBUTING BUNKER GEAR?
03:19:18PM HOW MUCH TIME SPENDING DOING ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE ASKING
03:19:21PM THEM TO DO.
03:19:21PM I DON'T KNOW, BUT SOMETHING TELLING ME THAT WE ARE ASKING AN
03:19:25PM AWFUL LOT OF OUR CITY STAFF TO GENERATE A LOT OF QUOTES.
03:19:30PM A LOT OF IN PERSONS.
03:19:31PM I KNOW THEY ARE ALL GLUED TO THE TV EVERY THURSDAY.
03:19:34PM I KNOW I HAVE BEEN HERE ON WEEKENDS AND CITY STAFF HERE ON
03:19:38PM WEEKENDS WORKING ON REPORTS THAT WE ASKED THEM TO GENERATE
03:19:42PM BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN THE WEEK TO DO IT.
03:19:44PM AND MAYBE THE SOLUTION.
03:19:47PM I THINK WE PROBABLY KEEP DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW.
03:19:50PM BUT THING WE HAVE TO ASK THE CHAIR OR CREATE A WORK GROUP OF
03:19:57PM PEOPLE OF -- I KNOW THE CLERK'S OFFICE HAVE TO TRACK ALL
03:20:01PM THIS STUFF.
03:20:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL ITEM 101 WITH EFFICIENCY.
03:20:07PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WITHOUT USING AI, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO
03:20:11PM IT.
03:20:11PM WE HAVE GOT TO SOMEHOW FIGURE OUT A WAY OF CONSOLIDATING THE
03:20:14PM STUFF AND LOOKING AT IT, BECAUSE I THINK IF WE LOOKED AT ALL
03:20:17PM THIS ON FRONT OF US ON ONE BIG SHEET, WE WOULD BE AGHAST OF
03:20:22PM HOW MUCH IS ACTUALLY OUT THERE.
03:20:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LET'S TALK AT THIS ON 101.
03:20:32PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: HAGAR KOPESKY.
03:20:37PM UNIQUE NATURE OF FIRE STATION 24 IS ONE OF THE -- EXCUSE ME
03:20:42PM -- PROJECTS THAT THEY RECENTLY SELECTED A THIRD PARTY TO
03:20:45PM ACTUALLY MANAGE THE PROJECT FOR THEM.
03:20:46PM AND GENERALLY THAT PROCESS OF MANAGEMENT OF THAT PROJECT
03:20:51PM WILL COME WITH THE COST OF THAT TO HELP WITH OTHER PROJECTS.
03:20:54PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BEAUTIFUL.
03:20:55PM I LOVE HEARING THAT.
03:20:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE YOUR MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:20:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST TO RESPOND TO CLENDENIN IS TO REDUCE
03:21:07PM THE GASLIGHTING AND HAVE GOOD INFORMATION I THINK WILL SERVE
03:21:12PM THE CHIEF WELL.
03:21:14PM AND REDUCE A LOT OF THE DISTRACTERS THAT ARE OUT THERE
03:21:18PM REGARDING, YOU KNOW -- WHAT IS BEING SAID.
03:21:22PM THAT IS MY LOGIC BEHIND IT.
03:21:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND APPEAR SECOND.
03:21:27PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:21:28PM OPPOSED?
03:21:29PM THANK YOU.
03:21:29PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, CARLSON AND THEN MIRANDA FOR NEW
03:21:33PM BUSINESS.
03:21:33PM YES, MA'AM.
03:21:33PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM ASKING COUNCIL APPROVAL TO PRESENT AN
03:21:38PM OFF-SITE COMMENDATION TO HOMEGROWN HILLSBOROUGH FOR
03:21:42PM PROMOTING FOOD WASTE PREVENTION WEEK APRIL 7-13.
03:21:45PM I WILL PRESENT THE COMMENDATION ON APRIL 12 AT A COMMUNITY
03:21:49PM EVENT AT MEACHAM URBAN FARM.
03:21:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
03:21:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:21:54PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:21:54PM CLENDENIN WAS THE SECOND.
03:21:56PM YES, MA'AM.
03:21:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE TO CONTINUE THE FOLLOWING STAFF REPORT
03:22:00PM TO APRIL 17, 2025, AND TO CHANGE IT FROM AN IN-PERSON TO A
03:22:04PM WRITTEN REPORT.
03:22:05PM THE MOTION WAS STAFF TO WORK HAGAR KOPESKY CITY COUNCIL
03:22:12PM BUDGET ANALYST TO CREATE AND PROVIDE AN UPDATED LIST OF THE
03:22:15PM NEW FOR MAT TO SHOW PURCHASES LESS THAN $2 YOU00,000 AND THE
03:22:23PM WAY TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC MONTHLY.
03:22:25PM AT THE ASK OF MISS KOPESKY.
03:22:29PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SECOND.
03:22:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CITYWIDE.
03:22:31PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, AN ORIGINAL MOTION.
03:22:33PM IT WAS COMING BACK APRIL 17.
03:22:36PM AND NO LONGER IN PERSON BUT SIMPLY WRITTEN.
03:22:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:22:43PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:22:43PM YES, MA'AM.
03:22:44PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND THEN ON MARCH 6, 2025, CFO DENNIS ROGERO
03:22:50PM PROVIDED AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE UNAUDITED FY '24
03:22:56PM GENERAL FUND FINANCIAL OPINION MR. ROGERO SAID OF FUND
03:23:02PM BALANCE AT 23% LEVEL, REMAINING WAS $25.8 MILLION.
03:23:06PM HE SHARED A SHORT LIST OF PRIORITIES AND RISKS FOR COUNCIL
03:23:09PM TO CONSIDER.
03:23:10PM YOU CAN BUT NO DECISIONS WERE MADE.
03:23:14PM IN AN EFFORT TO FINALIZE HOW THIS BALANCE WILL BE ALLOCATED,
03:23:17PM A MOTION FOR COUNCIL TO VERY VIEW THAT LIST OF PRIORITIES
03:23:19PM AND RISKS AND BE PREPARED TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO
03:23:23PM -- ON HOW THE 25.8 MILLION SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED AT EITHER
03:23:28PM THE APRIL 24 WORKSHOP SESSION OR THE MAY 1st REGULAR
03:23:36PM MEETING.
03:23:37PM DP NOT KNOW IF WE NEEDED BIG CONVERSATION ABOUT IT IF WOULD
03:23:42PM YOU RATHER HAVE THIS AS A WORKSHOP ITEM ASK COUNCIL MEMBER
03:23:47PM CARLSON IF HE MAY MOVE ONE EYE TERM FOR ME.
03:23:49PM IF NOT, WE CAN DO IT AT THE MAY 1 REGULAR MEETING.
03:23:53PM WHAT IS Y'ALL'S PLEASURE.
03:23:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MORE A WORKSHOP.
03:23:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY TO MOVE THE INDIAN ROCKS BEACH RENTAL.
03:24:03PM >>BILL CARLSON: INCLUDE THAT --
03:24:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL MAKE THE MOTION AND HE CAN MAKE A
03:24:07PM SEPARATE MOTION TO MOVE THAT.
03:24:11PM WE ARE WORKING ON THE INDIAN ROCKS BEACH THING.
03:24:14PM MY MOTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE APRIL 24 WORKSHOP FOR THE
03:24:19PM PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION OF THE REMAINING BALANCE FOR REVENUE
03:24:23PM WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE FUNDED THROUGH THE FY '26 BUDGET
03:24:28PM PROCESS AND SO IMPORTANT WE DO IT BEFORE -- OR AS SOON AS
03:24:31PM POSSIBLE.
03:24:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
03:24:33PM A SECOND?
03:24:34PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:24:35PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:24:36PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON WILL FOLLOW UP WITH A MOTION
03:24:39PM REGARDING HIS WORKSHOP ITEM.
03:24:41PM ANYTHING ELSE, MA'AM?
03:24:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S IT.
03:24:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND THEN CLOSE
03:24:48PM OUT WITH MIRANDA.
03:24:48PM >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT DATE?
03:24:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: APRIL 17 -- 27.
03:24:53PM >>BILL CARLSON: MOVE THE INDIAN ROCKS BEACH FROM APRIL --
03:24:57PM WHATEVER IT WAS.
03:24:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 4th.
03:24:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: TO THE SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP.
03:25:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SEPTEMBER 25.
03:25:05PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: QUESTION FOR COMMISSIONER -- COUNCIL MEMBER
03:25:10PM CARLSON.
03:25:10PM DOES THAT HAVE TO BE A WORKSHOP ITEM.
03:25:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WAS IT ON THE WORKSHOP BEFORE.
03:25:19PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I CAN'T IMAGINE A LENGTHY DISCUSSION IF IT
03:25:22PM IS WORTHY OF A WORKSHOP.
03:25:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: PUT IT ON THE JUNE 5 REGULAR SEASON.
03:25:27PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU HAVE TIME ON THE MAY 1.
03:25:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: MOVE TO THE JUNE 5 REGULAR SESSION.
03:25:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND -- DO WE
03:25:36PM HAVE A SECOND.
03:25:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
03:25:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:25:40PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:25:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
03:25:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER --
03:25:45PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A CLARIFICATION QUESTION, IF YOU DON'T
03:25:47PM MIND.
03:25:47PM WHEN YOU SAID TO CARLSON I KNOW YOU ARE STILL WORKING ON THE
03:25:52PM INDIAN ROCKS BEACH THING OPINION HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THAT IN
03:25:55PM TERMS OF -- -- HOW WE COMMUNICATE, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I AM
03:25:59PM SAYING?
03:26:00PM IF I WANT YOU TO ACTUALLY KNOW IN ADVANCE WITHOUT BREAKING
03:26:03PM SUNSHINE --
03:26:03PM >>LYNN HURTAK: A GREAT QUESTION.
03:26:05PM I DON'T KNOW THAT HE IS WORKING ON IT, BUT I HAVE READ
03:26:08PM STORIES THAT INDIAN ROCK BEACHES HAS BEEN WORKING ON LEGAL
03:26:11PM ISSUES AND PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING AIR B&Bs SO I ASSUMED --
03:26:17PM MAYBE THAT IS WRONG OF ME -- BUT TO SAY THAT I KNOW THERE
03:26:20PM ARE LEGAL STUFF GOING ON ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW.
03:26:22PM AND CURRENTLY THE LEGISLATURE IS LEGISLATURING.
03:26:26PM WHO KNOW WHAT IS WILL HAPPEN NEXT.
03:26:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM JUST CURIOUS.
03:26:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: A VERY VALID QUESTION --
03:26:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEWS STORIES YESTERDAY AND THE DAY
03:26:37PM BEFORE.
03:26:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I GET THAT POINT, BUT THAT WITH AS NOT
03:26:41PM HOW IT WAS PRESENTED.
03:26:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:26:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: REGARDING THE BUDGET, MR. CHAIRMAN.
03:26:46PM IT WILL BE REAL QUICK.
03:26:47PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO
03:26:49PM PRESENT THE FISCAL YEAR BUDGET 2025 MIDYEAR REVIEW DURING
03:26:54PM THE MAY 15, 2025 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL.
03:26:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL
03:26:59PM MEMBER VIERA.
03:26:59PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:27:00PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
03:27:02PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND OF ALL OF, MAKE A MOTION FOR MAYOR
03:27:05PM JANE CASTOR FOR THE 2025-'26 FISCAL BUDGET AT THE JULY 25,
03:27:13PM 2025 TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA.
03:27:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:27:17PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:27:18PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIRDLY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO HAVE A
03:27:22PM SPECIALLY CALLED WORKSHOP FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026 ON MONDAY, AUGUST
03:27:28PM 42025 AT 9 A.M.
03:27:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:27:33PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NUMBER FOUR, MAKE A MOTION FOR A
03:27:36PM ADMINISTRATION TO AM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 OPERATING
03:27:41PM BUDGET ON MONDAY AUGUST 18, 2025 AT 9 A.M.
03:27:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION.
03:27:45PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
03:27:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
03:27:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:27:48PM OPPOSED.
03:27:49PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO SET A
03:27:52PM FIRST PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET FOR
03:27:55PM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, AT 5:01 P.M.
03:28:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WEDNESDAY?
03:28:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THOUGHT WE DO IT TUESDAYS.
03:28:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SEPTEMBER 3, 2025, 5:01.
03:28:18PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: OBVIOUSLY THE SHARE OF THE FINANCE
03:28:20PM COMMITTEE HAS GOT THE DATE.
03:28:22PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT.
03:28:23PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE SCHEME OF THINGS OF THE HIERARCHY WHO
03:28:27PM GETS TO SET REAL DATES.
03:28:29PM THE CITY OF TAMPA IS NOT NUMBER.
03:28:31PM YOU ONE.
03:28:32PM THEY HAVE TOE YIELD WHERE THE WHERE THE SCHOOL BOARD SITS
03:28:38PM AND.
03:28:38PM THAT IS THE AVAILABLE DATE.
03:28:40PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE GIVEN ME.
03:28:44PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MY SUGGESTION THAT IS THAT HAS BEEN
03:28:47PM CLEARED.
03:28:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SEPTEMBER 3 AT 5:01.
03:28:49PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AGAIN, A WEDNESDAY.
03:28:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND A REGULAR SESSION NEXT MORNING.
03:28:56PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NUMBER 6, MAKE A MOTION FOR THE SECOND
03:29:00PM PUBLIC HEARING FOR BUDGET FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT
03:29:04PM 5:01.
03:29:05PM >>LUIS VIERA: A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
03:29:11PM VIERA.
03:29:11PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:29:12PM YOU HAVE YOUR MIC ON AND THEN VIERA.
03:29:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WAS WONDER GOING WE SHOULD -- SINCE THE
03:29:19PM MAYOR'S BUDGET PRESENTATION TENDS TO BE LONG WHICH ISN'T A
03:29:22PM BAD THING, THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF STAFF
03:29:25PM REPORTS THAT DAY.
03:29:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SURE.
03:29:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: RIGHT NOW WE ONLY HAVE ONE.
03:29:30PM SO MAYBE JUST -- MAYBE FOUR OR FIVE.
03:29:33PM DOES ANYBODY HAVE A SUGGESTION?
03:29:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOUR IS A GOOD NUMBER.
03:29:39PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LEAVE IT AT FOUR.
03:29:41PM TWO NOW.
03:29:42PM OUT OF RESPECT FOR MY BIRTHDAY WEEK AS WELL.
03:29:44PM [LAUGHTER]
03:29:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN I MOVE THAT WE LIMIT THE NUMBER OF STAFF
03:29:50PM REPORTS ON JULY 17, IN-PERSON STAFF REPORT TO FOUR.
03:29:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:29:55PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:29:56PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:29:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
03:29:58PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, ONE OF THE DATES.
03:30:00PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON AND I HAD HAVE A HART BOARD MEETING
03:30:02PM AT THIS TIME.
03:30:03PM SO -- SO, YEAH, IF I MAY, BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO BE HERE,
03:30:09PM PERHAPS -- AND I AM FINE WITH KEEPING IT ON THERE NOW, BUT
03:30:13PM PERHAPS LOOK FOR AN ALTERNATIVE DATE.
03:30:15PM AUGUST 3, THE FIRST MONDAY.
03:30:17PM AUGUST 4, YES, SIR.
03:30:24PM WE DON'T REASON IS TO GO THROUGH CALENDAR -- BECAUSE I CHAIR
03:30:28PM THE HART MEETINGS, AND I DO LIKE TO BE AT THEM OBVIOUSLY SO
03:30:32PM WE CAN LOOK AT THAT.
03:30:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THINK OF THAT BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT WEEK.
03:30:35PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
03:30:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES?
03:30:38PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE BEEN THINKING.
03:30:39PM AND -- I DON'T KNOW AND I HAD A DISCUSSING WITH HAGAR ON
03:30:45PM THIS, THE BUDGET ANALYST.
03:30:47PM I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE CAN OPERATE WITHOUT -- I DON'T KNOW HOW
03:30:50PM SHE GETS INFORMATION AND WHERE TO GO.
03:30:52PM I FEEL SORRY FOR HER.
03:30:54PM I REALLY DO.
03:30:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM SORRY.
03:30:56PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I COULDN'T DO THE JOB THAT WAY.
03:30:57PM SO I HAVE TO SEE IN BUSINESS-WISE HOW YOU HANDLE IT WITH
03:31:01PM SEVEN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE YOUR BOSS AND YOU HAVE TO
03:31:05PM COMMUNICATE WITH ALL SEVEN OF THEM.
03:31:06PM I LIKE TO SET UP A SYSTEM WHERE IF WE ARE GOING TO DO
03:31:09PM SOMETHING ANY ONE OF OUR SEVEN, WE GO TO THE CHAIR AND SEND
03:31:16PM A MEMO AND WE CAN VOTE ON THAT.
03:31:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE THIS IN THE NEXT ITEM I WANTED TO
03:31:21PM DISCUSS.
03:31:21PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU HANDLE IT THEN.
03:31:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM BRINGING THIS UP.
03:31:25PM ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS?
03:31:26PM I WILL GO TO 101.
03:31:28PM AND THAT IS THE LAST ITEM OF THE DAY.
03:31:31PM THIS IS ABOUT COUNCIL DECORUM AND EFFICIENCY AND I AM
03:31:36PM THINKING HOW I WANT TO START OFF THIS DISCUSSION.
03:31:38PM THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
03:31:43PM I THINK WE ARE A VERY GOOD CITY COUNCIL.
03:31:45PM I THINK WE ARE PROBABLY THE HARDEST-WORKING CITY COUNCIL
03:31:49PM BODY THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH.
03:31:52PM AND HISTORICALLY -- WELL, A LOT OF GREAT CITY COUNCIL
03:31:57PM MEMBERS.
03:31:57PM BUT THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS CHANGED.
03:31:59PM WE HAVE GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY.
03:32:01PM THERE IS A LOT GOING ON.
03:32:02PM IF NOT THROUGH THE GREAT RECESSION ANYMORE, AT LEAST NOT YET
03:32:05PM FOR PART TWO.
03:32:06PM THERE ARE COUNCIL MEETINGS THAT WERE VERY, VERY SHORT.
03:32:09PM EACH COUNCIL MEETING IS QUITE THE ADVENTURE.
03:32:11PM WE ARE VERY BUSY.
03:32:12PM I SEE HOW EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER WORKS GOES OUT IN THE FIELD.
03:32:16PM THE BOARDS THEY ARE ON.
03:32:18PM EVERYTHING THEY DO.
03:32:19PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK WORKS NONSTOP.
03:32:21PM COUNCILMAN VIERA IS EVERYWHERE.
03:32:22PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON DOES SO MANY THINGS AND QUICK ON AND
03:32:26PM ON.
03:32:26PM WE ARE VERY BUSY.
03:32:27PM STAFF IS VERY BUSY.
03:32:28PM A LOT GOING ON IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
03:32:30PM THERE IS A LOT OF GROWTH.
03:32:31PM YOU SEE HOW THESE AGENDAS ARE, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND MAYBE
03:32:36PM SOCIAL MEDIA, MAYBE JUST THE SIGN OF THE TIMES.
03:32:37PM AND I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT COUNCIL DECORUM, COUNCIL
03:32:43PM EFFICIENCY.
03:32:44PM I SPOKEN WITH THE MAYOR.
03:32:46PM I MADE THE MOTION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH.
03:32:49PM TAKEN TO THE MAYOR AND THE CHIEF OF STAFF AND MY WIFE TO GET
03:32:54PM -- I DID SPEAK WITH MY MOM.
03:32:55PM I DID SPEAK WITH MY MOM.
03:32:57PM BUT -- SO AS CHAIRMAN, YOU KNOW, I TOOK A COUPLE OF NOTES
03:33:00PM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
03:33:02PM I WANT TO HAVE A CIVIL AND PRODUCTIVE AGENDA.
03:33:05PM AND, BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE ARE ALL VERY BUSY AND A LOT ON OUR
03:33:08PM PLATES.
03:33:08PM I MADE THIS MOTION TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS.
03:33:10PM LIKE I SAID, I HAVE SPOKEN WITH THE MAYOR AND OTHER PEOPLE.
03:33:15PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE RESPECTFUL OF EACH OTHER, OF
03:33:18PM STAFF AND THE PUBLIC.
03:33:19PM AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE UNDER A LOT OF STRESS.
03:33:21PM SOME ARE THEY.
03:33:22PM I KNOW THAT CONVERSATION CONSCIOUS GET HEATED.
03:33:25PM WE AGREE WITH THINGS.
03:33:26PM WE DISAGREE WHERE THINGS BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE NEED
03:33:30PM TO BE RESPECTFUL.
03:33:31PM THIS WEEK MARKS TEN YEARS, APRIL 1, SINCE I WAS SWORN IN.
03:33:35PM FIRST PEEPS OF ADVICE I GOT MARCH 27 OR MARCH 28 IN 2015,
03:33:40PM ONLY PIECE OF ADVICE I GOT THAT DAY I WENT INTO ORIENTATION
03:33:44PM TO MEET EVERYBODY BEFORE I WAS SWORN IN.
03:33:46PM IT WAS DON'T YELL AT STAFF.
03:33:49PM STAFF WORKS VERY HARD.
03:33:51PM IF YOU NOTICE -- THIS IS JUST ME.
03:33:53PM I DON'T -- I DON'T MAKE A LOT OF MOTIONS.
03:33:55PM I DON'T ASK FOR STAFF REPORTS VERY OVEN.
03:33:57PM I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I DID.
03:33:59PM MAYBE I AM WRONG.
03:34:00PM I LIKE PICK UP THE PHONE AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS.
03:34:02PM IF I HAD AN ISSUE WITH MAYOR BUCKHORN, WE DISAGREED ON A LOT
03:34:07PM OF STUFF STARTING WITH THE DECEMBER 2015 WITH THE CIVILIAN
03:34:10PM REVIEW BOARD.
03:34:10PM I WOULD PICK UP THE PHONE AND TALK TO HIM.
03:34:12PM I WOULD MAKE COMMENTS PUBLICLY, BUT IF I HAD AN ISSUE WITH
03:34:17PM HIM, I WOULD PICK UP THE PHONE AND HE WOULD USUALLY MEET
03:34:19PM WITH ME.
03:34:19PM I TRIED TO DO THAT WITH THIS MAYOR.
03:34:21PM I TRY DO THAT WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS.
03:34:23PM BECAUSE I WANT TO BE CIVIL AND RESPECTFUL.
03:34:27PM BECAUSE THEY HAVE LIVES TOO.
03:34:28PM THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS.
03:34:33PM SING MOVING FORWARD.
03:34:35PM I HAVE BEEN HITTING THE GAVEL HARDER THAN USUAL.
03:34:37PM PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED ON THAT.
03:34:39PM IF CONVERSATIONS GET OUT OF LINE AND I AM CALLING ORDER AND
03:34:42PM IT JUST KEEPS GOING.
03:34:44PM I AM GOING TO CALL FOR A RECESS AND WASTE EVERYBODY'S TIME.
03:34:47PM IF THERE IS A SPECIFIC CONCERN THAT WE CAN AVOID, YOU KNOW
03:34:51PM STAFF IS BUSY.
03:34:52PM WE TALKED ABOUT THAT REGARDING STAFF REPORTS AND THEY HAVE A
03:34:55PM LOT ON THEIR PLATE AND MONTHLY REPORTS.
03:34:57PM I LIKE TO PICK UP THE PHONE.
03:34:59PM I HAD A QUESTION WITH CHIEF BENNETT.
03:35:01PM HE PICKS UP THE PHONE.
03:35:02PM I HAD AN ANSWER.
03:35:03PM I DIDN'T NEED A STAFF REPORT.
03:35:05PM CHIEF OF POLICE BERCAW -- THIS WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE
03:35:09PM END OF THE DATE.
03:35:09PM I GOT AN ANSWER.
03:35:10PM ROGERO, I GOT AN ANSWER.
03:35:13PM I CAN GO ON AND ON.
03:35:15PM I DON'T WANT TO WASTE OUR TIME OR THEIR TIME BECAUSE A LOT
03:35:18PM GOING ON OR THE MAYOR.
03:35:19PM CHIEF OF STAFF AND EVERYBODY.
03:35:21PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL VOICES ARE HEARD.
03:35:23PM WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
03:35:25PM WE -- WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:35:27PM THE PUBLIC HAS OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEAK.
03:35:29PM STAFF HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND AS WELL.
03:35:32PM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT IS RESPECTFUL.
03:35:35PM I ASK THAT PEOPLE DON'T INTERRUPT.
03:35:37PM WE GET PASSIONATE UP HERE AND THE DISCUSSIONS AND THIS IS
03:35:41PM THE ONLY TIME WE CAN TALK.
03:35:44PM WE SHOULD WEIGHT UNTIL WE ARE RECOGNIZED.
03:35:47PM I WAS WANT TO KEEP TO BE CIVIL.
03:35:49PM WE DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT OR APPEAR THAT WE ARE FIGHTING.
03:35:52PM AGAIN, AS FAR AS EFFICIENCY, THAT IS THE EASY PART, I THINK.
03:35:55PM AS FAR AS EFFICIENCY.
03:36:00PM 70 A SPECIAL DISCUSSION MAY 8 AFTER CRA.
03:36:04PM MEET IN THE SISTER ROOM.
03:36:06PM PUBLICLY NOTED.
03:36:07PM WE WILL HAVE OUR ATTORNEY PRESENT.
03:36:09PM WE HAVE DONE THIS IN THE PAST.
03:36:11PM I HAVE DONE THAT UNDER THE SUAREZ, COHEN COUNCIL.
03:36:14PM A GOOD MEETING AND AIRED OUT OUR GRIEVANCES COULD YOU SAY
03:36:18PM AND A CIVIL CONVERSATION AND A DIFFERENT TIME, EVEN
03:36:21PM POLITICALLY.
03:36:21PM IN THE MEANTIME, I THINK WE NEED TO BE PATIENT WITH STAFF.
03:36:28PM SOME BOGGED DOWN WITH WORK.
03:36:31PM I HEARD THEY SPEND TWO DAY AS WEEK RESPONDING TO CITY
03:36:36PM COUNCIL.
03:36:36PM A CHART OF ALL OF OUR MOTIONS OPINION I KNOW WE GET A LOT OF
03:36:42PM PRESSURE.
03:36:42PM WE ARE THE FRONT LINE.
03:36:44PM STOPPED AT THE GROW GROCERY STORE AND IN THE HALLWAY.
03:36:47PM WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:36:48PM MAYOR DOESN'T HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT EVERY THURSDAY -- WHEN WE
03:36:51PM HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT IT IS TOUGH AND HAS TO WEAR
03:36:57PM PSYCHOLOGICALLY BECAUSE A LOT GOING ON.
03:37:00PM THE HURRICANES, TERRIBLE TIME AND A LOT OF PRESSURE AND CITY
03:37:05PM COUNCIL MEMBERS TO BE RESPONSIVE TO ITS CONSTITUENCY.
03:37:10PM I TAKE STAFF BRIEFING.
03:37:11PM I GET AN AGENDA REVIEW -- AS CHAIR YOU WILL GET AN AGENDA
03:37:14PM REVIEW.
03:37:15PM I GET A STAFF BRIEFING USUALLY THE DAY BEFORE.
03:37:17PM AND THE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE ONLINE.
03:37:20PM I ASK ALL MY QUESTIONS.
03:37:21PM I GO THROUGH THE AGENDA.
03:37:23PM I MAKE MY NOTES AND THAT'S IT.
03:37:25PM I DON'T WANT TO WASTE OUR TIME.
03:37:26PM I DON'T WANT TO WAS THEIR TIME.
03:37:31PM I DON'T KNOW IF COUNCIL MEMBERS GET BRIEFING OR NOT.
03:37:35PM IF DO, GREAT.
03:37:37PM BUT I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE IT.
03:37:40PM SO WE ARE NOT LOST IN MISCOMMUNICATION AND TRANSLATION.
03:37:43PM RECORDING MISS KOPESKY.
03:37:47PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA SAID IT.
03:37:50PM I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT BECAUSE DO YOU A FANTASTIC JOB.
03:37:54PM A COUNCIL MEMBER ASKS SOMETHING OF MISS KOPESKY AND MAKE IT
03:37:59PM INTO A MOTION.
03:38:00PM IF SHE IS ASKED TO GO TO THE ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF TO GET
03:38:04PM INFORMATION SO WHEN SHE COMES UP TO PRESENT, WE HAVE THE
03:38:06PM INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, AHEAD OF TIME AND WE ARE READY.
03:38:10PM WHATEVER ANSWERS YOU HAVE MISS KOPESKY, SUBMIT IT IN THE
03:38:14PM MEMO.
03:38:15PM IN THE NAME OF BEING OUT IN THE SUNSHINE SO WE DON'T FEEL
03:38:18PM SURPRISED -- I DON'T WANT TO USE THE WORD "AMBUSH" BUT JUST
03:38:22PM SO WE KNOW.
03:38:23PM ANY OTHER POINTS --
03:38:24PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXECUTION ME BECAUSE IT IS MOO MY BRAIN.
03:38:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
03:38:29PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SHE GETS TO DO THINGS THAT I MAY NOT KNOW
03:38:32PM ABOUT?
03:38:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I DON'T KNOW.
03:38:33PM I AM NOT MAKE CAN ANY ASSUMPTIONS.
03:38:36PM I WANT INFORMATION.
03:38:37PM INFORMATION FROM MISS KOPESKY, FOR EXAMPLE.
03:38:40PM I MAKE THAT UNDER COUNCIL MEMBER AND NEW BUSINESS.
03:38:43PM OUT OF RESPECT FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
03:38:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN IT BE A MEMO TO ALL OF US.
03:38:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IF I WANT HER TO TELL ME BE THE
03:38:55PM DEPARTMENT.
03:38:55PM IF SHE CAN SEND THE RESPONSE AND I WILL MAKE THE MOTION
03:38:59PM FORMALLY.
03:38:59PM AND YOU CAN RESPOND BY MEMO AND SEND IT UP TO YOU COUNCIL
03:39:05PM MEMBERS AND ALL SEE IT.
03:39:05PM IT IS PUBLIC RECORD.
03:39:07PM THAT IS REALLY -- THAT IS REALLY IT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I
03:39:12PM THINK WE ARE A VERY GOOD CITY COUNCIL.
03:39:14PM WE WORK VERY, VERY HARD.
03:39:16PM PUTTING POLITICS ASIDE, YOU KNOW, I THINK APPRECIATE EACH
03:39:22PM AND EVERY PERSON HERE, AND I THINK THE PUBLIC DOES TOO.
03:39:25PM I AM GLAD THAT WE HAVE THIS KIND OF ENGAGEMENT.
03:39:28PM AND THE PUBLIC TOO.
03:39:29PM BECAUSE WE HAVE A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC HERE IS VERY, VERY
03:39:33PM ACTIVE AND I APPRECIATE THAT, BECAUSE IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE
03:39:36PM THAT.
03:39:37PM I REMEMBER EARLY COUNCIL -- EARLY BUDGET MEET WITH COUNCIL
03:39:40PM MEMBER MIRANDA, WE WOULD BE DONE IN 30 MINUTES AND A BILLION
03:39:43PM DOLLAR BUDGET.
03:39:43PM NOW WE ARE DIGGING INTO THINGS.
03:39:45PM AND I THINK WE ARE REALLY DOING THE WORK THAT ARE EXPECTED
03:39:51PM OF US.
03:39:51PM AND --
03:39:54PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I MAY INTERRUPT.
03:39:55PM ALSO WHEN YOU SAY THAT, YOU HAVE TO SAY WHEN WE ADVERTISE
03:39:57PM THAT ALL OVER THE CITY.
03:40:00PM MAYBE ONE PERSON FROM THE COMMUNITY WOULD COME.
03:40:02PM SOMETIMES NONE.
03:40:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, ONE PERSON FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:40:06PM IN IS LIKE THE 5016 BUDGET.
03:40:09PM NOW WE ARE HERE FOR A LONG TIME.
03:40:10PM I TRY NOT TO DO ANYTHING.
03:40:11PM BOOK ANYTHING FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, BECAUSE IT IS
03:40:14PM BUDGET.
03:40:14PM AND NOW HURRICANE SEASON.
03:40:15PM SO WE ARE BAGGED DOWN AND THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANTED TO SAY.
03:40:21PM IT IS VERY SIMPLE.
03:40:22PM I HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR THIS BOARD.
03:40:23PM I HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR THE DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT COME
03:40:29PM HERE.
03:40:30PM NOT AN EASY JOB.
03:40:31PM POLITICS IS NOT EASY.
03:40:33PM I WAS IN CHURCH FOR ASH WEDNESDAY.
03:40:34PM AND THEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SERVICE, A GENTLEMAN APPROACHES
03:40:38PM ME AND SAYS, HEY -- AS I AM PRAYING.
03:40:40PM HEY, I MADE -- I TURNED ON CITY COUNCIL TODAY.
03:40:43PM I DON'T KNOW HOW Y'ALL DO IT.
03:40:44PM SO IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED, BUT IT WILL A VERY -- IT IS A
03:40:49PM VERY STRESSFUL JOB.
03:40:50PM AND THAT'S IT.
03:40:51PM IF ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS WANT TO SAY ANYTHING -- YES,
03:40:55PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:40:55PM IF NOT, I WILL MAKE THE MOTION WE SET UP THIS SPECIAL
03:40:58PM DISCUSSION PUBLICLY NOTICED AT THE END OF THE CRA MEETING
03:41:03PM IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CRA MEETING MAY 8 IN THE SISTER
03:41:07PM CITIES ROOM WHICH SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE.
03:41:11PM ALL RIGHT.
03:41:12PM THAT IS MY MOTION.
03:41:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
03:41:17PM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
03:41:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM CHAIRMAN MANISCALCO
03:41:25PM AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:41:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DISCUSSION.
03:41:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DISCUSSION AND I HAVE A COUPLE OF
03:41:32PM OBSERVATIONS.
03:41:32PM ONE ON THE HAGAR ISSUE --
03:41:35PM EXCUSE ME, I SAY THAT EVERY TIME.
03:41:37PM I HAVE -- I AM NOT NECESSARILY IN SUPPORT OF THAT.
03:41:40PM ONE, I VERY RARELY -- I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF WORK --
03:41:44PM GOING INTO THE BUDGET SEASON, I WILL.
03:41:47PM I THINK THERE ARE TIMES -- AND I MAY BE DIGGING -- I DON'T
03:41:50PM -- I AM THINKING THROUGH THINGS NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING
03:41:55PM FULLY FLUSH OUT.
03:41:56PM I DON'T THINK I WRITE A MEMO TO COUNCIL AND HAVE PUBLIC --
03:42:01PM COME OUT TO PUBLIC AND SAY WHAT I HAVE ASKED FOR AS FAR AS
03:42:04PM INFORMATION.
03:42:04PM BECAUSE -- LIKE I SAID, I AM THINKING THROUGH THINGS.
03:42:07PM AND I GET YOUR INTENT.
03:42:10PM MAYBE I DON'T BECAUSE I DON'T GET WHAT THE ISSUE IS THERE.
03:42:13PM BUT I DON'T -- I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL
03:42:20PM RELATIONSHIPS AND EXPECTATIONS.
03:42:21PM AND TO BE ABLE TO WORK ONE ON ONE, AND THEN MAYBE IN THE
03:42:26PM GREATER PICTURE, I GET IT.
03:42:27PM IF IT IS A BIG COMPREHENSIVE KIND OF THINGS.
03:42:31PM I AM LOOK INTO DIGGING INTO SOMETHING AND RELATIVE TO
03:42:36PM FUNDING STREETCAR TAMPA CAN YOU TELL US WHAT IS HAPPENING
03:42:38PM WITH THIS PARTICULAR FUND.
03:42:39PM I NEED TOE HAVE A MOTION BEFORE COUNCIL OR SOMETHING.
03:42:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT'S FAIR.
03:42:44PM IF YOU WANT YOUR OWN PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU SAY I WANT TO
03:42:47PM MAKE A MOTION AND DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, STREET CAR FUNDING OR
03:42:51PM WHATEVER IT IS THAT I TALKED TO MISSION KOPESKY ABOUT AND
03:42:56PM BRING IT HERE.
03:42:56PM I GUESS THAT --
03:42:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I JUST DON'T THINK -- I DON'T THINK THAT
03:43:04PM -- SHE IS AN EMPLOYEE OF EACH ONE US ON COUNCIL.
03:43:07PM FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, SHE REPORTS TO THE CHAIR.
03:43:11PM BUT WHEN WE ARE HIRING THE JOB -- IN THE JOB POSITION
03:43:16PM DESCRIPTION, IT CLEARLY DELINEATED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EACH
03:43:22PM COUNCIL PERSON AND BOARD MEMBER OF THAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP
03:43:25PM AND RESOURCE AND SITTING IN ALL THE MEETINGS.
03:43:29PM SO I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD INHIBIT THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
03:43:32PM EACH COUNCIL MEMBER.
03:43:40PM AND I WANT TO BRING IT.
03:43:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM NOT DONE YET.
03:43:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I DON'T HAVE THE GAVEL.
03:43:52PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE THE FLOOR.
03:43:54PM MY SECOND THING IS ON -- I REALLY APPRECIATE SCHEDULING THAT
03:43:58PM MEETING.
03:43:59PM I THINK THAT IS A GREAT IDEA.
03:44:00PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVEN'T VOTED.
03:44:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM SAYING I THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA.
03:44:05PM I AM SAYING I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THAT IDEA.
03:44:07PM I THINK WE NEED TO COME WITH THE RIGHT TOOLS.
03:44:09PM AND WITH CITY STAFF.
03:44:13PM I THINK WE SEE THESE THINGS IN FRONT OF US.
03:44:16PM ALL THE STAFF REPORT AND WORKLOAD.
03:44:17PM A THAT WHEN WE GET THERE, WE SEE IT THROUGH OUR OWN EYES --
03:44:22PM GET IT.
03:44:23PM IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DIGEST -- IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO IT
03:44:26PM JUST LIKE THAT.
03:44:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COME IN MY OFFICE, IT IS EVERYWHERE.
03:44:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE I SHOULD.
03:44:32PM TO BE ABLE TO SEE -- SEE AND HAVE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION
03:44:35PM FROM STAFF AND HOW MUCH -- HOW MUCH MAN AND WOMAN HOURS WE
03:44:41PM ARE CONSUMING GENERATING THIS AMOUNT OF WORK.
03:44:43PM AND THEN KIND OF FIGURE OUT OF THE HOW TO CONSOLIDATE AND BE
03:44:48PM MORE EFFICIENT.
03:44:50PM UNLESS THANK YOU BRIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND PARSED DOWN.
03:44:55PM WE NEED TO BE CHASING OUR TAILS.
03:44:57PM TO HAVE THE INFORMATION.
03:45:00PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIR PRO TEM, MAY BE RECOGNIZED.
03:45:06PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WILL RECOGNIZE THE ATTORNEY.
03:45:08PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN, WITH YOUR SPECIAL DISCUSSION
03:45:11PM MEETING, I WOULD RESPECTFUL LEAVE REQUEST THAT THE
03:45:14PM ADMINISTRATION BE REPRESENTED THERE AND THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT
03:45:16PM BE REPRESENTED THERE.
03:45:17PM AND I AM REMINDED OF MISS ZELMAN'S MASTER MOTION LIST WHICH
03:45:24PM IS MANUALLY COMPILED AND ADJUSTED BY STAFF ON A -- I DON'T
03:45:31PM KNOW A DAILY BASIS OR A SIGN, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT
03:45:39PM WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND WHAT THEY HAVE TOE TO DO PROVIDE
03:45:44PM YOU WITH THE INFORMATION.
03:45:45PM >> OUR ATTORNEY HAS MADE A SUGGESTION TO THE MAKER OF THE
03:45:49PM MOTION.
03:45:49PM WOULD THE MAKER OF MOTION LIKE TO ADOPT THOSE IN THE
03:45:53PM DISCUSSION.
03:45:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE
03:45:55PM MOTION?
03:45:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, LET'S FINISH WHERE EVERYBODY
03:45:57PM SPEAKS.
03:45:58PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE CAN HOLD THAT THOUGHT FOR A SECOND.
03:46:00PM LASTLY, THE LAST THING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS AND THEN I
03:46:04PM WILL LET EVERYBODY ELSE.
03:46:05PM REFERENCE -- HAVE THERE BEEN TIMES ON COUNCIL THAT I HAVE
03:46:09PM BEEN UNCOMFORTABLE OR THINGS WORK, YES.
03:46:12PM YOU KNOW -- THIS IS POLITICS.
03:46:14PM YOU HIT IT HARD.
03:46:15PM YOU HIT IT EXACTLY RIGHT.
03:46:16PM A LOT OF TENSION.
03:46:17PM THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
03:46:19PM WE ARE GETTING POUNDED WITH OUR -- OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
03:46:23PM BEING FLOODED IN FOREST HILLS OR SOMEBODY IS COMPLAINING OF
03:46:26PM THE TRASH ISN'T PICKED UP.
03:46:28PM A LOT OF GRIEF AND AGGRAVATION.
03:46:30PM STAFF IS OVERWORKED.
03:46:32PM WE ARE TENSE.
03:46:33PM EVERYBODY IS TENSE.
03:46:34PM THIS IS A POLITICS.
03:46:37PM ARE PEOPLE GOING TO CROSS THE LINE, YES.
03:46:39PM BUT HAVEN'T BEEN THAT MANY.
03:46:45PM I THINK GENERALLY THIS COUNCIL WORKS EFFECTIVELY TONIGHT AND
03:46:48PM WORKING THROUGH A LOT OF REALLY COMPLEX ISSUES.
03:46:50PM I KNOW EVERYBODY PROBABLY THINKS OF THEMSELVES.
03:46:55PM AND THE ISSUE WE ARE HAVING TO DEAL WITH AND WE SAID THIS
03:46:59PM OTHER DAY.
03:46:59PM I DIDN'T REALIZE TWO DAYS AGO WATER EXPERT.
03:47:02PM AND SEWER EXPERT AND TRASH EXPERT.
03:47:07PM AND ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE HAVING TO LEARN AND BE AN EXPERT
03:47:12PM AT.
03:47:12PM I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE GRANTED A LITTLE BIT OF GRACE
03:47:15PM WHEN IT COMES TO THE HEATED MOMENTS AND THE POLITICAL ARENA.
03:47:18PM AND WITH THAT WHO IN NEXT ON THE.
03:47:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HENDERSON.
03:47:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR JUST ABOUT
03:47:28PM THE DATE MAY 8.
03:47:29PM SOME IF WE CAN JUST VOTE ON THAT FIRST.
03:47:32PM AND THEN, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE WITH THE DISCUSSION ABOUT
03:47:35PM DECORUM.
03:47:35PM THAT WILL BE HELPFUL.
03:47:37PM I ALSO DON'T LIKE TO LIMIT THE MEETING.
03:47:40PM SO THAT WE CAN TAKE MEDICATION, EAT LUNCH AND DO THOSE OTHER
03:47:44PM THINGS, YOU KNOW, THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
03:47:47PM WE -- THE CRA MEETING MAY BE -- LOW PRESSURE PROBABLY GET
03:47:51PM OUT IN A DECENT TIME, BUT WE DON'T NEED TO SPEND SEVERAL
03:47:55PM HOURS IN SISTER CITY ROOM AND BE BACK HERE AT 5 P.M.
03:47:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LIMIT IT FOR AN HOUR.
03:48:01PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LIMIT IT FOR AN HOUR I WOULD LIKE TO
03:48:04PM RECOMMEND THAT WE DO AND VOTE ON THE MAY 8 AND FINISH THE
03:48:07PM DISCUSSION.
03:48:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT BEING OFFERED BY
03:48:10PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:48:11PM CHAIRMAN MANISCALCO, DO YOU ACCEPT THAT FRIENDLY AMENDMENT
03:48:15PM TO LIMIT IT TO AN HOUR?
03:48:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I CAN DO IT IN TEN MINUTES.
03:48:18PM BUT AN HOUR IT FINE.
03:48:20PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO MORE THAN AN HOUR.
03:48:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR HAVING THIS MEETING
03:48:24PM AND LIMITING IT TO ONE HOUR IN THE SISTER CITY ROOM.
03:48:27PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION?
03:48:30PM ALL THOSE IN THE FAVOR OF THE MOTION SAY AYE.
03:48:32PM OPPOSED SAY NAY.
03:48:35PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU CAN HAVE THE GAVEL BACK.
03:48:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:48:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HAGAR, WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOUR SYSTEM SO
03:48:50PM THAT WE CAN BE ACCOMMODATING TO YOU IN THIS ROLE.
03:48:52PM >> OKAY.
03:48:54PM WELL, I THINK IF I CAN JUST KIND OF -- I THINK PART OF THIS
03:48:58PM IS BECAUSE OF SUNSHINE, THERE IS AN ATTEMPT TO TRY TO MAKE
03:49:03PM SURE THAT IF I AM DOING WORK FOR ONE PERSON, YOU ALL MAKE AN
03:49:09PM AGREEMENT WHEN AND IF IT IS.
03:49:13PM AND YOU KNEELED TO BE UNDERSTOOD.
03:49:15PM AND THE CHAIR IS ADDRESSING IN THE INITIAL REQUEST, OKAY.
03:49:21PM FOR ME I WOULD SAY FOR MOST PART, IT IS JUST IMPORTANT THAT
03:49:27PM THE REQUEST TO HAVE A SPECIFIC UNDERSTANDING SOMEONE I WILL
03:49:33PM BE WORKING WITH STAFF, THAT THERE IS A DEADLINE RELATED TO
03:49:37PM IT THAT IS CLEAR.
03:49:39PM BUT REALLY FOR ME, THIS WAS LARGELY AROUND ENSURING THAT THE
03:49:43PM EXPECTATION AMONGST THIS GROUP WOULD POSSIBLY BE THAT THERE
03:49:48PM ARE GOING TO BE PROJECTS OF A NATURE THAT ARE GOING TO BE
03:49:51PM BEST SERVED TO BE AWARE TO ALL OF YOU AND THERE ARE LIKELY
03:49:56PM TO BE SOME SORT OF SMALL THINGS THAT COME UP AD HOC THAT --
03:50:00PM AS IT IS CURRENTLY BETWEEN MYSELF AND THE COUNCIL PERSON.
03:50:11PM SOMETIMES THERE ARE A PEAK AND SOME ISSUES WITH VOLUME.
03:50:14PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOUR JOB INVOLVES OTHER PEOPLE.
03:50:18PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: YES.
03:50:19PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IF THE COUNCIL MEMBER IS GOING TO MAKE
03:50:21PM THAT MOTION.
03:50:22PM ISN'T IT FAIR FOR TO YOU KNOW IN ADVANCE THAT THEY ARE GOING
03:50:25PM TO MAKE THAT MOTION SO YOU CAN AT LEAST GET TO -- DETERMINE
03:50:28PM THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I AM GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO AND THIS
03:50:30PM IS THE TIMELINE THAT IS --
03:50:35PM >> MY IMPRESSION TO GET UNIFORMITY.
03:50:38PM WITH MANY CASES WITH SOME OF YOU, I NOTIFY AHEAD OF TIME
03:50:42PM THAT WILL HAPPEN.
03:50:43PM OTHER TIMES A SHOOT FROM THE HIM KINDS OF THING.
03:50:46PM ALL I AM SAYING IS, THE DIRT -- THE SPECIFIC QUESTION YOU
03:50:50PM HAVE IS WILL I GET NOTICE AHEAD OF TIME.
03:50:52PM I WOULD ABSOLUTELY LIKE TO KNOW.
03:50:54PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK PEOPLE.
03:50:56PM SO THE TIMELINE THEY MAKE IN THEIR MOTION MAY BE STRESSFUL.
03:50:59PM THAT IS THE WHOLE THING ABOUT THE DECORUM AND REDUCING
03:51:03PM STRESS.
03:51:03PM IT MAY TAKE -- SOMETIMES A MONTH TO GET ON THE CALENDAR.
03:51:09PM SO IT IS FULL ALREADY.
03:51:10PM SO THAT'S WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS THAT YOU SHOULD BE --
03:51:14PM YOU SHOULD AT LEAGUES BE --
03:51:27PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: I THINK THE ACTIVITY WILL BE WHO WILL BE
03:51:31PM INVOLVED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION SIDE AND JUST A REASONABLE
03:51:35PM TIME FRAME THAT WORK GETS DONE.
03:51:37PM REST OF THIS DISCUSSION IS REALLY BETWEEN ALL OF YOU TO
03:51:40PM DETERMINE WHAT EACH OF YOU EXPECT IN TERMS OF INDIVIDUAL --
03:51:46PM INDIVIDUAL WORK PRODUCTS I AM DOING ON BEHALF OF ONE.
03:51:48PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
03:51:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:51:53PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT DOES A BUDGET ANALYST MEAN TO YOU?
03:51:56PM WHAT DOES THE WORD "BUDGET ANALYST" MEAN TO YOU.
03:51:59PM ONLY TWO WORDS IN THIS THING, BUDGET AND ANALYST.
03:52:03PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: I FOCUS ON THE ANALYST BECAUSE A YEAR-LONG
03:52:06PM JOB.
03:52:06PM NOT JUST RELATED TO THE BUDGET CYCLE.
03:52:09PM THAT WOULD BE -- -- COULD BE WEEKLY PROBLEM SOLVING.
03:52:12PM IT CAN BE PROCESS.
03:52:13PM SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA FOR THE WEEK.
03:52:15PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IT MEANS STRICTLY ON THE BUDGET OR AN AID
03:52:19PM FOR CHARLIE MIRANDA?
03:52:23PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: YOU ARE ASKING MCSO, IT DOES NOT STRICTLY
03:52:25PM RELATE TO THE FISCAL YEAR ANNUAL BUDGET.
03:52:27PM ALSO THE EXECUTION OF THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
03:52:30PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I TELL YOU WHAT.
03:52:31PM I AM NOT AFRAID TO SAY IT. IT.
03:52:33PM I DON'T BLAME YOU AT ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS YOU GAVE US THE
03:52:36PM OTHER DAY ON SOLAR IS WRONG.
03:52:39PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: I KNOW YOU INTO HE WILL THAT WAY.
03:52:40PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SOMEBODY ELSE GAVE YOU HAVE THOSE
03:52:43PM NUMBERS.
03:52:43PM THAT IS WHAT I AM SAYING.
03:52:46PM I KNOW WHAT I AM.
03:52:48PM I AM LETTING YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW THEY ARE INCORRECT.
03:52:50PM THAT IS NOT YOUR FAULT
03:52:52PM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT --
03:52:53PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT IS WHAT I AM GETTING -- I WANT TO
03:52:56PM GET YOU OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT TO DO YOUR JOB.
03:52:58PM THAT IS ALL I WANT.
03:52:59PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING WHO YOU ARE.
03:53:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA AND THEN CARLSON.
03:53:03PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
03:53:04PM ONE THING I WOULD SUGGEST, AND WE HAVE A CARVE OUT FOR
03:53:08PM WITH HAGAR WHO DOES A GREAT JOB.
03:53:12PM ONLY WAY TO DESCRIBE IT IS LIKE POLICE DEPARTMENT CAL WORK
03:53:14PM PRODUCT WHERE SOMETIMES I COME TO YOU -- POLITICAL WORK
03:53:18PM PRODUCT.
03:53:19PM WHERE I SOMETIMES COME TO YOU SAYING I AM THINKING OF DOING
03:53:22PM THIS AND THAT.
03:53:23PM IS IT FEASIBLE? EVERYBODY COMES ON COUNCIL SAND SAYS, HEY,
03:53:28PM IT IS POLITICS, RIGHT.
03:53:29PM I WISH THERE WAS A POLITICAL CARVE-OUT CLAUSE, RIGHT.
03:53:33PM JUST TO THINK ABOUT THAT IF WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING
03:53:36PM LIKE THAT.
03:53:36PM WE CAN SEEN LOOK -- WHEN WE ARE TALKING OF DECORUM WHEN IT
03:53:42PM TALKS ABOUT THE TIME OF STAFF.
03:53:43PM WE CAN LOOK AT THINGS, LIMITS ON MOTION TIME.
03:53:47PM LIMIT ON PER COUNCIL MEMBER STAFF REPORTS.
03:53:50PM I DON'T THINK ANYBODY GOES OVER THIS.
03:53:57PM THREE PER WEEK TO LOOK AT THAT THE THAT WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE
03:54:01PM THINGS.
03:54:02PM AGAIN I AM NOT GOING TO DIVE INTO THE WEEDS.
03:54:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND HURTAK.
03:54:09PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO THE POINT OF MISS KOPESKY.
03:54:14PM COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND CITY COUNCILS THAT DON'T OF DON'T
03:54:17PM HAVE AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH, ALL THE STAFF OF STAFF REPORTS TO
03:54:25PM IT THE BOARD MEMBERS ALREADY.
03:54:27PM IF WE WERE THE COUNTY, DIDN'T HAVE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, ALL
03:54:30PM THE STAFF WILL REPORT TO ALL OF US.
03:54:31PM A NORMAL THING IN AN ORGANIZATION LIKE THE COUNTY.
03:54:34PM I THINK I ONLY REQUESTED MISS KOPESKY FOR THREE QUESTIONS
03:54:38PM SINCE SHE HAS BEEN ON BOARD.
03:54:39PM I LIKE THE RESULTS SHE HAS GOT FOR OTHER PEOPLE.
03:54:42PM AND I TRY NOT TO LOAD HER UP.
03:54:44PM THE CHALLENGE IS BECAUSE WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH, SHE
03:54:48PM HAS TO INTERFACE WITH THEM TOP OF GET THE INFORMATION THAT
03:54:54PM WE NEED.
03:54:54PM AND LIKE THE OTHER DAY I ASKED HER FOR CONFIRMATION AND SAID
03:54:59PM CONSIDER ARE YOU JUST GET FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, WHAT IS THE
03:55:03PM TOTAL NUMBER OF THE DEBT OF THE CITY.
03:55:04PM THE TOTAL DEBT.
03:55:05PM THAT IS SITTING ON MY DESK, $277 BILLION.
03:55:09PM WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT NUMBER LATER.
03:55:10PM BUT ANYWAY.
03:55:11PM I JUST ASKED A SIMPLE QUESTION.
03:55:13PM TO GET THAT, SHE HAS TO GO -- SHE HAS ACCESS TO SOME
03:55:17PM INFORMATION AND GO OUT -- SEEMS TO ME THAT THE LINE SHOULD
03:55:20PM NOT BE NOT US INFORMING EACH OTHER, BUT GIVING HER THE
03:55:28PM AUTHORITY FOR GO TO THE ADMINISTRATION AND ASK FOR
03:55:31PM SOMETHING.
03:55:31PM SOME IF -- I -- SHE CAN PUSH BACK ON THIS AND GIVE US HER
03:55:36PM SUGGESTIONS, BUT IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT SEEMS TOO POLITICAL
03:55:40PM FOR HER AS SHE IS CARRYING IT OVER AND SEEMS LIKE POLITICAL
03:55:43PM QUESTION.
03:55:43PM I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE NOW.
03:55:45PM SOMEBODY ASKING A POLITICIZED QUESTION.
03:55:47PM SHE WOULD SAY -- SHE COULD TELL US 101, WEIGHT OF COUNCIL AS
03:55:53PM A WAY TO VOTE TO ASK FOR THIS.
03:55:55PM THE OTHER ONE WOULD BE, IF IT IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF TIME
03:55:59PM OF STAFF BECAUSE SHE IS NOT DOING IT HER OWN.
03:56:02PM I WOULD RATHER HAVE A PROCESS IF THE ISSUE REALLY IS HE
03:56:05PM ABOUT HOW -- IF SHE HAD THE INFORMATION READY, SHE WOULD
03:56:08PM EASILY GIVE IT TO US.
03:56:10PM BUT IF IT WILL TAKE A LOT OF STAFF TIME AND IF ITS GOING TO
03:56:14PM BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD ALARM THE ADMINISTRATION, THEN --
03:56:18PM THEN I THINK INDIVIDUALLY SHE SHOULD PUSH BACK AND ASK US TO
03:56:21PM GET THE WEIGHT OF COUNCIL TO REQUEST HER TO TAMPA.
03:56:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:56:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
03:56:26PM WHEN WE GO TO THE MAY MEETING, I WOULD LIKING TO HAVE AN
03:56:35PM AGENDA.
03:56:35PM I DON'T HAVE HOMEWORK TO TAKE WITH ME TO BE PREPARED FOR
03:56:38PM THIS MEETING.
03:56:39PM I DON'T WANT TO GO AND SIT FOR AN HOUR.
03:56:46PM STAND. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING AND WHAT QUESTIONS
03:56:48PM WILL WE BE ASKING?
03:56:49PM AS FAR AS KEEPING CALENDAR, THAT IS EACH OF OUR
03:56:52PM RESPONSIBILITY.
03:56:52PM AND MY AIDE AND I GO THROUGH THIS CALENDAR, LOOK AT OUR
03:56:57PM OPTIONS, LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE ON HERE.
03:57:00PM JUST, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE SOMETHING COMING UP.
03:57:03PM WE HAVE THE BIMONTHLY REPORT ON THE PARKING COMPLIANCE.
03:57:09PM JUST THIS WEEK, WE WERE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO ASK
03:57:16PM YBOR IF THEY LIKE THIS AND IF WE NEED TO DO THIS ANYMORE.
03:57:19PM WE ARE FOLLOWING UP ON OUR MOTIONS IN OUR OFFICE AND I
03:57:22PM EXPECT THAT OTHER PEOPLE DO THAT AS WELL.
03:57:24PM IF YOU ARE NOT, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I CAN SOLVE FOR YOU.
03:57:27PM BUT ADDITIONALLY, IT IS REALLY UP TO EACH OF US TO FIGURE
03:57:33PM OUT OUR MOTIONS.
03:57:34PM WE SHOULD COME KNOWING WHAT OTHER MOTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE
03:57:38PM ALREADY.
03:57:38PM IF WE NEED TO MODIFY OTHER PEOPLE'S MOTIONS.
03:57:42PM I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.
03:57:44PM I JUST HAVE TO HAVE -- I HAVE TO HAVE SOME -- SOME
03:57:49PM PARAMETERS ON WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE DOING A THIS
03:57:51PM MEETING AND NOTHING IS BEING PRESENTED TO ME.
03:57:55PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT IS SUCH A GOOD POINT.
03:57:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. SHELBY, WORK WITH MY OFFICE AND YOUR
03:58:00PM AIDE TO PUT AN AGENDA OF HOW THE LAY-OUT OF THE MEETING FOR
03:58:04PM MAY?
03:58:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES.
03:58:07PM I WOULD SEE THAT AGENDA AND BACK-UP INFORMATION, IF ANY,
03:58:10PM GETS TO COUNCIL AT LEAST A WEEK IN ADVANCE.
03:58:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.
03:58:14PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WHAT?
03:58:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COMING FORWARD AND SAYING I WANT TO HAVE THIS
03:58:18PM MEETING.
03:58:19PM HERE IS THE AGENDA NOW.
03:58:20PM LET'S ALL TALK ABOUT WHAT THE AGENDA MIGHT BE.
03:58:23PM I WANT TO PUT THIS ON.
03:58:24PM WHY DON'T WE TALK ABOUT THIS.
03:58:26PM WE -- SHOULD COME BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING DURING UNFINISHED
03:58:30PM BUSINESS WHERE WE HAVE AFTER DRAFT AGENDA, AND WE ALL GET TO
03:58:36PM TALK ABOUT WHAT ELSE WE WANT TO PUT ON IT.
03:58:38PM THAT WAY WE ARE ALL TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING WE WANT TO TALK
03:58:41PM ABOUT.
03:58:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WILL BE GREAT FOR APRIL 17.
03:58:45PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: EXCUSE ME, I ASSUMED THAT WOULD BE THE CASE
03:58:48PM AT THE SPECIAL DISCUSSION MEETING WHERE THAT HAPPENS.
03:58:52PM I WILL GIVE YOU -- I WILL GIVE YOU A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
03:58:56PM IF COUNCIL -- THIS IS A JUST FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES.
03:58:59PM IF COUNCIL WANTS TO HAVE MORE IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS AT
03:59:06PM WORKSHOP BECAUSE STAFF REPORTS HAVE EVOLVED BEYOND STAFF
03:59:12PM REPORTS, INFORMATIONAL REPORTS THAT TOOK FIVE MINUTES AND
03:59:15PM SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE WILL
03:59:17PM RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT TO SOME DEGREE, EACH ITEM IS AN
03:59:25PM EFFECTIVE WORKSHOP ITEM AND HARD TO PREDICT HOW LONG ITEMS
03:59:29PM WILL TAKE.
03:59:29PM THAT BEING THE CASE, IF COUNCIL WANTS TO INVEST MORE TIMES
03:59:32PM IN WORKSHOPS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE WHEN WE LOOK AT
03:59:37PM THE CALENDAR, FIVE MONTHS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE WORKSHOPS.
03:59:40PM SEVEN WORKSHOPS AND A HALF DAY FOR THE COMING YEAR.
03:59:45PM COUNCIL MAY WANT TO CONSIDER IF THEY WANT AN ALL-DAY
03:59:48PM WORKSHOP.
03:59:49PM WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO HAVE WORKSHOPS ONCE A MONTH.
03:59:52PM ADDRESS ITEMS IN YOUR CALENDAR, YOU MAY HAVE TO DO THAT.
03:59:55PM AND EVERYTHING IS INTERRELATED.
03:59:57PM SO I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT TO ASSIGN AN HOUR TO
04:00:04PM THE DISCUSSION ON MAY 8 BOO BE PRELIMINARY IN FACT.
04:00:07PM WE COULD PUT TOGETHER AN AGENDA.
04:00:08PM IF YOU WANT TO HAVE -- AND.
04:00:10PM MY OTHER SUGGESTION IS, DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS DURING A
04:00:12PM REGULAR MEETING WHERE WE HAVE THIS TELEVISED WHERE WE HAVE
04:00:18PM STAFF PRESENT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
04:00:20PM AND YOU -- AND YOU ARE ALL TALKING HERE OPPOSED TO FACING --
04:00:24PM OUTWARDLY FACING RATHER THAN TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER.
04:00:28PM HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO IT.
04:00:29PM I WILL TELL YOU THE CHAIR HAS BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN THIS.
04:00:39PM ADMINISTRATION IS INVOLVED IN THIS AND CERTAINLY WANTS TO BE
04:00:41PM AN IMPORTANT PARTICIPANT IN THIS FRANKLY WITH ALL YOU.
04:00:46PM YOU ARE THE LEGISLATIVE BODY AND RELY ON THE
04:00:56PM SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS.
04:00:57PM HOWEVER COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IT.
04:01:00PM FROM MY PERSPECTIVE TO MAKE YOU EFFECTIVE, YOU HAVE MY FULL
04:01:05PM SUPPORT AND I KNOW THE CLEAR AND MISS EDWARD IS VERY MUCH ON
04:01:08PM BOARD IN PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL LEADERSHIP THAT IS
04:01:15PM NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT.
04:01:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
04:01:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL SIMPLY SAY COME UP WITH AN AGENDA ON
04:01:23PM AUGUST 8.
04:01:23PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MAY.
04:01:25PM IT IS MAY.
04:01:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY 8.
04:01:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SORRY.
04:01:30PM I DON'T KNOW WHY I WROTE AUGUST.
04:01:32PM I AM NOT GOING TO MAY 8 WITHOUT AN AGENDA.
04:01:34PM WE ARE NOT DOING IT.
04:01:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL BRING SOMETHING BY APRIL 17
04:01:37PM INFORM.
04:01:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS NOT WHAT I HEARD HIM SAY.
04:01:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GIVES MORE TIME TO SIT DOWN AND DO IT
04:01:44PM AND PRESENTED TO COUNCIL.
04:01:48PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: APRIL 17.
04:01:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NOT THE 3rd.
04:01:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: APRIL 17 TO GIVE US TIME TO CRUNCH
04:01:55PM EVERYTHING.
04:01:55PM PRESENTED APRIL 17 AT THE END OF THE AGENDA.
04:01:58PM SO YOU CAN SEE WE CAN ALL BE PREPARED AND GIVES US WEEKS IN
04:02:01PM ADVANCE BEFORE THE MAY 8.
04:02:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN I HAVE JUST HAVE ONE THING TO SAY ABOUT
04:02:07PM -- WE ARE EACH DISTINCT INDIVIDUALS WITH DISTINCT
04:02:17PM PERSONALITIES.
04:02:17PM I DON'T BELIEVE WE CAN BE ABLE TO ORGANIZE OUR WAY OUT OF
04:02:21PM PERSONALITIES.
04:02:22PM AND I DON'T MEAN THAT -- I MEAN, WE ARE WHO WE ARE.
04:02:25PM WE JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT WHO WE ARE.
04:02:27PM AND I AM JUST REALLY CURIOUS WHAT THIS AGENDA IS ABOUT,
04:02:34PM BECAUSE I SEE WHAT -- I SEE IT AS WE ARE TRYING TO STOP
04:02:40PM BEING PEOPLE WHO THEY ARE.
04:02:42PM SOME OF US TALK MORE THAN OTHERS.
04:02:43PM SOME OF US MAKE A LOT OF MOTIONS.
04:02:45PM WE ARE ALL -- WE ARE ALL PART OF A QUIRKY FAMILY.
04:02:48PM AND SO I AM JUST -- THAT IS WHY I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE
04:02:53PM AGENDA, BECAUSE I JUST -- WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
04:02:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
04:02:56PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:02:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
04:02:59PM TWO THINGS I WANT TO ADD TO THAT AND I AM GLAD COUNCILWOMAN
04:03:03PM HURTAK SAID THAT.
04:03:03PM PEOPLE ARE -- I HAVE MY WAY OF DOING THINGS.
04:03:06PM OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THEIR WAYS OF DOING THINGS AND RESPECT NOT
04:03:10PM JUST THE WILL OF THE VOTERS.
04:03:12PM AND I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, YOU CAN'T CHANGE WHO YOU ARE BUT
04:03:16PM CONTAIN YOUR EXCESSES.
04:03:17PM WHEN I SHOW MY EXCESSES, HELP ME CHANGE THEM.
04:03:21PM WE ALL HAVE THEM.
04:03:22PM WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
04:03:23PM WE ALL LOOK AT THINGS DIFFERENTLY IN TERMS OF OUR
04:03:26PM PERSONALITIES AND SO FORTH.
04:03:27PM YOU KNOW ONE THING -- I WAS GOING -- I WILL SAY THIS AND I
04:03:33PM DON'T WANT A DISCUSSION ON THIS.
04:03:34PM I CAN'T MANDATE ANYTHING.
04:03:36PM BUT THERE ARE ELEPHANTS IN ROOMS THAT WHICH, FOR EXAMPLE, IN
04:03:40PM '23, WE HAD ONE OF THE CRAZIEST CAMPAIGN SCENES I EVER SEEN
04:03:44PM IN THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
04:03:46PM I FOLLOW POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME AND TO IGNORE THAT WITH
04:03:50PM THE EFFECT ON COUNCIL AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
04:03:54PM THAT IS RELEVANT IN EVERYTHING.
04:03:55PM BUT I AM GLAD COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK MENTIONED THAT.
04:03:58PM BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE ALL ARE DIFFERENT AND GO ABOUT THINGS
04:04:01PM DIFFERENT WAYS.
04:04:02PM AND I THINK ALL SEVEN OF US -- NUMBER ONE, WE WERE ALL
04:04:06PM ELECTED.
04:04:06PM AND ALL OF US FACED A LOT OF POLITICAL ADVERSITY AT ONE TIME
04:04:10PM OR THE OTHER.
04:04:11PM AND WE ALL GET A LOT OF THINGS DONE, BUT DO IT DIFFERENTLY.
04:04:14PM AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO RESPECT OUR
04:04:16PM DIFFERENCES ON.
04:04:17PM SO I APPRECIATE THAT.
04:04:22PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
04:04:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
04:04:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:04:28PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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