TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2018
9:00 A.M. CRA MEETING
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8:27:31AM
9:03:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING.
9:03:48AM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS CRA MEETING TO ORDER.
9:03:51AM I YIELD TO COUNCILMAN MIKE SUAREZ.
9:03:53AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: IT'S MY GREAT PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE THE
9:03:57AM REVEREND DR. ZACHARY S. HUDSON, ONE OF MY FRIENDS, AND A
9:04:02AM GREAT PASTOR WHO IS A NATIVE OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
9:04:05AM BUT HE'S MADE TAMPA HIS HOME FOR MANY YEARS.
9:04:07AM HE RECEIVED HIS MASTER OF DIVINITY FROM MOORE HOUSE SCHOOL
9:04:10AM OF RELIGION IN ATLANTA, AND DOCTORATE ADMINISTRATIVE DEGREE
9:04:13AM FROM UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN DAYTON, OHIO.
9:04:17AM HE'S MARRIED TO MRS. FREDDIE JEAN WEST HUDSON AND HAVE THREE
9:04:23AM CHILDREN.
9:04:24AM HE'S THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
9:04:26AM OF DIRECTORS OF LEIBER CHILDREN'S CENTER WHICH IS A DAYCARE
9:04:30AM HERE IN TAMPA.
9:04:31AM HE'S THE FOUNDER AND SENIOR PASTOR OF THE REBIRTH MISSIONARY
9:04:35AM BAPTIST CHURCH AND MEMBER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY.
9:04:41AM REVEREND, PLEASE COME UP.
9:04:42AM IF EVERYONE COULD STAND FOR THE INVOCATION.
9:04:45AM >> LET US BOW OUR HEADS.
9:04:48AM FATHER, WE ARE GRATEFUL TODAY FOR THIS ANOTHER DAY.
9:04:51AM WE ASK THAT YOU WILL LEAD AND GUIDE US AND LET THE DECISIONS
9:04:55AM AND ALL OF THE ACTIONS THAT ARE TAKEN BY THIS COUNCIL BE
9:05:02AM FAIR AND JUST, BE GOOD FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
9:05:07AM BLESS EACH ONE THAT IS A RESPONSIBLE PERSON HERE.
9:05:12AM HELP THEM TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.
9:05:15AM HELP THE CITY TO APPRECIATE THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE.
9:05:20AM AND WE GIVE YOU PRAISE, HONOR AND GLORY.
9:05:22AM IN YOUR NAME.
9:05:23AM AMEN.
9:05:23AM [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
9:05:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
9:05:41AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: HERE.
9:05:43AM >>HARRY COHEN: HERE.
9:05:44AM >>FRANK REDDICK: HERE.
9:05:45AM >>YVONNE CAPIN: PRESENT.
9:05:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:05:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
9:05:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:05:50AM ALL RIGHT.
9:05:51AM [OFF MICROPHONE.]
9:05:53AM I AM GOING TO YIELD TO COUNCILMAN MIRANDA HAS A
9:05:56AM COMMENDATION.
9:05:57AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:06:06AM HONORABLE CHAIRMAN, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL,
9:06:09AM IT'S MY PLEASURE THIS MORNING TO STAND NEXT TO MR. W. WARD
9:06:14AM COX.
9:06:14AM MR. COX LIVED IN THE TAMPA AREA SINCE 1979, HAS BEEN MARRIED
9:06:19AM SINCE 1986.
9:06:20AM IN ADDITION TO HIS 21 YEARS OF NONPROFIT EXPERIENCE,
9:06:25AM INCLUDES JOURNALISM, ADVERTISEMENT, MARKETING, AND BE VIDEO
9:06:30AM PRODUCTION.
9:06:32AM NO CITY COUNCIL MEMBER YET?
9:06:35AM >> YOU DO IT MUCH BETTER THAN I WOULD.
9:06:37AM >> I FIRST MET MR. COX AT A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING AND I WAS
9:06:40AM VERY IMPRESSED BY HIS NONPROFITS AND WHAT THEY WERE DOING,
9:06:43AM AND IT'S ABOUT BEING KIND, KIND TO HIS HEART.
9:06:46AM BUT I AM GOING TO LET MR. COX TALK ABOUT THAT AND THEN I
9:06:48AM WILL MAKE THE COMMENDATION, PRESENTATION TO MR. COX ON
9:06:52AM BEHALF OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
9:06:54AM MR. COX.
9:06:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:06:57AM FIRST OF ALL, IT IS AN EXTREME HONOR TO BE STANDING BEFORE
9:07:00AM YOU HERE AS WE NEAR CHRISTMAS.
9:07:03AM I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND TO EACH OF YOU
9:07:08AM FOR YOUR EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF TAMPA DURING A
9:07:12AM RATHER CHALLENGING TIME.
9:07:14AM IN FACT, WE ARE INVOLVED IN CHALLENGING TIMES ON MANY
9:07:17AM LEVELS, AND OUR AGENCY BELIEVES THAT ONE WAY THAT WE CAN
9:07:22AM BEST MEET THAT CHALLENGE IS TO DO SO IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF
9:07:26AM KINDNESS AND GIVING.
9:07:28AM AND THIS SEASON EXEMPLIFIES BOTH OF THOSE.
9:07:32AM OUR AGENCIES INVOLVED IN AN ONGOING CELEBRATION OF A
9:07:36AM POSITIVE KINDNESS OF THE HEART IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH
9:07:40AM OTHERS TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR KINDNESS SUBMIT ONE-MINUTE
9:07:45AM VIDEOS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED FAMILY FRAME AWARD AT OUR
9:07:49AM UPCOMING FOURTH ANNUAL NATIONAL FAM AWARDS.
9:07:53AM WE JUST HAD OUR THIRD ANNUAL THE FRIDAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
9:07:56AM BUT I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU TODAY NOT JUST ABOUT KINDNESS OF
9:08:00AM THE HEART IN GENERAL BUT ABOUT THE NATIONAL DAYS OF KINDNESS
9:08:04AM IN PARTICULAR.
9:08:06AM THESE DAYS ACTUALLY COMMEMORATE THE BEGINNING OF EVERY
9:08:10AM SEASON, AND AS YOU MAY KNOW, THE FIRST DAY OF WINTER IS
9:08:13AM DECEMBER 21st, STARTING ON DECEMBER 17th WE ACTIVELY
9:08:18AM ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO UNDERTAKE AN ACT OF KINDNESS EITHER
9:08:22AM INDIVIDUALLY OR AS A GROUP, AND THEN SUBMIT THAT VIDEO, A
9:08:26AM ONE-MINUTE SMART PHONE, ALMOST A SELFIE VIDEO, FOR THE
9:08:32AM FAMILY TAMPA AT GMAIL.COM WHERE IT WILL BE PART OF OUR
9:08:37AM NATIONAL DAYS OF KINDNESS, CELEBRATION, AND EACH VIDEO WILL
9:08:40AM BE CONSIDERED FOR A FAMILY AWARD IN THE RANDOM ACTS OF
9:08:45AM KINDNESS CATEGORY AGAIN AT THE UPCOMING FOURTH ANNUAL
9:08:48AM NATIONAL FAM AWARDS.
9:08:50AM BUT I THINK THAT KINDNESS IS SOMETHING THAT DESERVES TO BE
9:08:54AM HONORED IN MANY MORE WAYS THAN SIMPLY AS A VIDEO.
9:08:58AM UNFORTUNATELY KINDNESS THESE DAYS IS UNDERTAKEN ALMOST ACT
9:09:01AM BY ACT, IN A SITUATION WHERE THE RECOGNITION AND THE
9:09:05AM APPRECIATION FOR THAT KIND ACT IS ONLY SHARED BRIEFLY AND
9:09:09AM BETWEEN THE DIRECT PARTICIPANTS, AND AT A TIME WHERE SO MANY
9:09:14AM OTHER THINGS ARE COMMEMORATED THAT ARE LESS THAN KIND.
9:09:17AM I FEEL THAT IT'S IMPERATIVE FOR KINDNESS TO BE ONCE AGAIN
9:09:22AM PUT INTO THE FOREFRONT, BECAUSE IT DEFINES WHAT COMMUNITIES
9:09:25AM ARE MADE OF, IT DEFINES THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, AND IT DEFINES
9:09:29AM THE BEST WITHIN EACH OF US.
9:09:31AM AND I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE
9:09:34AM THESE THOUGHTS WITH YOU AND TO ENCOURAGE THOSE THAT YOU KNOW
9:09:38AM TO UNDERTAKE ACTS OF KINDNESS EVEN IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE
9:09:43AM COMMEMORATED IN A VIDEO.
9:09:44AM HOPEFULLY ENOUGH OF THEM WILL BE THAT WE CAN DEMONSTRATE
9:09:47AM THAT KINDNESS IS THE STRONGEST FORCE OF ALL.
9:09:50AM AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE ON
9:09:52AM REGARDLESS OF THE DIFFERENCES THAT WE MAY HAVE IN PHILOSOPHY
9:09:56AM AND IN OPINIONS.
9:09:58AM SO AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:10:00AM I WANT TO WISH EACH OF YOU A BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND A KIND
9:10:04AM CHRISTMAS.
9:10:05AM THANK YOU AGAIN.
9:10:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ON BEHALF OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL "FOR THE
9:10:12AM FAMILY, INC," WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF EVERYTHING THAT
9:10:16AM YOU DO AND WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM NOT ONLY HERE BUT
9:10:20AM THROUGHOUT THIS REGION AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL, TO HAVE A
9:10:23AM BETTER KINDNESS IN LIFE.
9:10:26AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:10:26AM WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
9:10:27AM >> GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
9:10:29AM THANK YOU AGAIN.
9:10:30AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:10:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:10:35AM ANOTHER ITEM.
9:10:36AM THIS IS THE LAST ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA, THAT D.O.T. WAS TO
9:10:40AM PRESENT REGARDING THE TB NEXT PROJECT.
9:10:44AM WE HAVE A PRESENTATION AND MEMBERS FROM FDOT TO GIVE THAT
9:10:47AM PRESENTATION.
9:10:48AM >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
9:10:54AM WE HAVE A PRESENTATION.
9:10:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT UP.
9:10:59AM >> PERFECT.
9:11:01AM I AM WITH ED McKINNEY WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
9:11:04AM TRANSPORTATION.
9:11:06AM MERRY CHRISTMAS.
9:11:07AM I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT TODAY ABOUT THIS IS A
9:11:09AM PRESENTATION THAT SECRETARY GWYNN HAD MADE TO THE MPO AND
9:11:14AM WHY IT'S IMPORTANT IN THIS CONTEXT, THE CRA CONTEXT, SO WE
9:11:21AM ALL UNDERSTAND, WHAT IS THE DEPARTMENT'S PRIORITIES OF
9:11:23AM MOVING FORWARD WITH THE INTERSTATE PROJECTS?
9:11:26AM WE COME TO YOU AND TALKED A LOT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS, THE
9:11:31AM DOWNTOWN INTERCHANGE, THE WESTSHORE INTERCHANGE, THE
9:11:33AM CONNECTIONS IN BETWEEN, ALL OF THESE IMPACT OUR CRAs IN
9:11:37AM THE AREAS THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
9:11:39AM BUT WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO NOW IS FOCUS, AS WE ARE
9:11:43AM ENTERING INTO AN AREA WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A NEW
9:11:47AM GOVERNOR, A NEW SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION, NEW PRIORITIES,
9:11:49AM WE WANT TO SET THE TONE FROM THE START AS TO WHAT IS
9:11:52AM IMPORTANT TO THE TAMPA BAY REGION, AND WHAT IS IT THAT WE
9:11:55AM ALL CAN RALLY BEHIND AND GET BEHIND AND SUPPORT SO THAT WE
9:11:59AM CAN DEMONSTRATE TO THE LEADERSHIP IN TALLAHASSEE THAT THIS
9:12:02AM REGION IS READY FOR SOME BIG DOLLARS, READY FOR SOME BIG
9:12:06AM FUNDING, AND THIS IS A GOOD PLACE FOR INVESTMENT.
9:12:09AM AS YOU RECALL $700 MILLION WAS PULLED FROM THE TBX POT OF
9:12:14AM MONEY AND SENT TO ORLANDO.
9:12:16AM WE NEVER WANT THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
9:12:18AM AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHAT WE WANT IS REGIONS SUCH AS MIME,
9:12:21AM JACKSONVILLE AND ORLANDO TO HAVE TO GIVE MONEY BACK TO THE
9:12:24AM TAMPA BAY REGION, AND WE THINK WE HAVE A PLAN AND A PATH
9:12:27AM MOVING FORWARD THAT WE CAN ALL SUPPORT AND GET BEHIND.
9:12:30AM AND I'M EXCITED TO VENT TO YOU TODAY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
9:12:35AM THESE THINGS, AND AGAIN THESE ARE THINGS THAT WERE PRESENTED
9:12:37AM AT THE MPO MEETING.
9:12:39AM LET ME FIRST TALK ABOUT BRIGHTLINE. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT
9:12:42AM PART OF THIS CONVERSATION, BECAUSE BRIGHTLINE KIND OF
9:12:44AM THERE'S A WHOLE NEW WRINKLE INTO THIS CONVERSATION.
9:12:48AM WE HAD BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH BRIGHTLINE, AND AS YOU
9:12:51AM CAN IMAGINE, A LOT OF THESE CONVERSATIONS -- AND IT'S NOT A
9:12:54AM LOT OF FOLKS WANT TO KNOW WHERE IS IT GOING TO GO?
9:12:57AM WHERE IS IT GOING TO GO?
9:12:58AM WHAT PROPERTIES ARE THEY GOING TO ACQUIRE?
9:13:00AM AND THOSE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED
9:13:02AM BUT FROM THE DEPARTMENT'S PERSPECTIVE, IT'S MUCH MORE
9:13:05AM MICROLEVEL THAN THAT.
9:13:06AM WE NEED TO KNOW FIRST OF ALL, WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENTAL
9:13:09AM DOCUMENTS ARE GOING TO NEED TO BE COMPLETED.
9:13:12AM WHAT'S THE PROCESS?
9:13:13AM WHO TAKES THE LEAD WHEN GOING THROUGH FEDERAL HIGHWAY AND
9:13:16AM THE FEDERAL RAIL ADMINISTRATION FOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
9:13:19AM AND FOR CLEARING DOCUMENTS THAT WILL NEED TO BE CLEARED?
9:13:23AM SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE
9:13:26AM WE CAN REALLY SETTLE ON ALIGNMENTS AND PROPERTY ACQUISITION.
9:13:30AM I'M SURE BRIGHTLINE HAS BEEN MEETING WITH SOME OF THE CITY
9:13:33AM COUNCIL FOLKS AND TALKING ABOUT SOME DIFFERENT
9:13:35AM OPPORTUNITIES, BUT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, BEFORE WE REALLY
9:13:38AM START TO UNDERSTAND CLEARLY WHAT IT IS BRIGHTLINE'S GOALS
9:13:41AM ARE, THERE'S OTHER LOGISTICS THAT HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT.
9:13:47AM SO WE ARE WORKING WITH BRIGHTLINE TO WORK ON THOSE ISSUES.
9:13:50AM WE WILL BE COORDINATING WITH WASHINGTON FEDERAL
9:13:55AM ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL HIGHWAY, THEY ARE WANTING TO ACCESS
9:13:58AM THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM, AND THEY ARE PLANNING TO COME OFF THE
9:14:01AM INTERSTATE SOMEWHERE AFTER THE CONNECTOR.
9:14:04AM WHERE THAT CONNECTION IS, THEY COULD FOLLOW THE HIGH-SPEED
9:14:07AM RAIL ALIGNMENT WHICH BASICALLY KIND OF HUG IT IS INTERSTATE
9:14:11AM OR THEY COULD COME OFF SOONER THAN THAT AND POTENTIALLY LAND
9:14:14AM SOMEWHERE AROUND THE UNION STATION OR AROUND OTHER PROPERTY
9:14:19AM THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT.
9:14:20AM THESE ARE THINGS WE ARE STILL HAVING CONVERSATION WITH THEM
9:14:22AM ON, BUT THEY DRAMATICALLY IMPACT THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE
9:14:25AM ON THE DOWNTOWN INTERCHANGE.
9:14:27AM SO THAT'S WHY WE REFOCUSED OUR PRIORITIES AND I'LL TALK
9:14:31AM ABOUT THOSE NOW.
9:14:32AM SO WE HAVE BEEN OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
9:14:33AM WE WERE RECENTLY IN EAST TAMPA TALKING ABOUT THE FLORIBRASKA
9:14:38AM RAMP.
9:14:39AM CONNIE BURTON WAS THERE AT THE MEETING AND EXPRESSED SOME
9:14:42AM CONCERNS THAT WE WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS PROJECT
9:14:46AM NOT JUST BE DAMAGING OR IMPACTFUL TO THE MINORITY
9:14:50AM COMMUNITIES IN EAST TAMPA THAT WE ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING
9:14:53AM POSITIVE, AND THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO REACH OUT TO THOSE
9:14:55AM COMMUNITIES TO FUND OUT WHERE THOSE COMMON SOLUTIONS THAT WE
9:14:58AM CAN WORK ON.
9:14:59AM WHAT ARE THOSE AREAS OF AGREEMENT?
9:15:01AM AND I THINK WE CAN GET THERE.
9:15:02AM FLORIBRASKA IS A TOUGH CHALLENGE FOR US BECAUSE OF THE
9:15:08AM ISSUES AND THE ACCIDENTS THAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE.
9:15:10AM WE HAVE GOT TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS.
9:15:11AM BUT WE WILL CONTINUE AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE
9:15:14AM WORKING WITH FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY TO FIND SOLUTIONS THAT
9:15:18AM WILL WORK FOR US ALL.
9:15:20AM AND WE RECENTLY DID A TOUR, EAST TAMPA.
9:15:23AM MR. BILL ROBINSON WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE US A PERSONAL TOUR
9:15:28AM OF THE WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY, AND SECRETARY GWYNN, I DON'T
9:15:36AM KNOW IF YOU SAW THE NEWS COVERAGE.
9:15:37AM BUT WE ARE VERY EXCITED THAT MR. ROBINSON WAS WILLING TO DO
9:15:40AM THAT FOR US.
9:15:41AM THERE WE GO.
9:15:42AM SO LET'S TALK ABOUT -- LET'S START TALKING ABOUT WHERE WE
9:15:46AM ARE.
9:15:47AM AND I AM GOING TO KIND OF LEAD INTO THE DISCUSSION ABOUT OUR
9:15:49AM PRIORITIES.
9:15:50AM SO OUR FIRST FOCUS IS GOING TO BE THE OPERATIONAL
9:15:53AM IMPROVEMENTS ALONG I-275 COMING OFF THE HOWARD FRANKLAND.
9:15:58AM THOSE PROJECTS WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION EARLY 2019.
9:16:02AM IT WILL PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL LANE OF CAPACITY COMING BOTH
9:16:05AM OFF THE VETERANS, AS WELL AS COMING OFF THE HOWARD
9:16:07AM FRANKLAND.
9:16:08AM AND THIS IS IN PREPARATION OF THE HOWARD FRANKLAND
9:16:11AM CONSTRUCTION, WHICH THE PROJECT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED.
9:16:14AM IT WAS ADVERTISED DECEMBER 10th.
9:16:15AM WE EXPECT TO BE HAVING THAT BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY
9:16:20AM 2020.
9:16:21AM AND SO THAT REALLY DOVETAILS NICELY WITH THE OPERATION
9:16:25AM IMPROVEMENTS ON 275, BECAUSE YOU WON'T HAVE THESE FOUR LANES
9:16:30AM NOW COMING CONVERGING INTO TWO.
9:16:32AM THEY WILL BE FOUR LANES, ONE WILL SPLIT OFF ONTO 60.
9:16:37AM AND THREE LANES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 275 AND ACTUALLY WILL
9:16:42AM CONTINUE THAT LANE WHERE THAT YOU HAVE LOOP RAMP COMING OFF
9:16:45AM KENNEDY, ONE OF THOSE LANES ACTUALLY DUMPS OFF, THOSE TWO
9:16:48AM LANES WILL CONTINUE ONTO DALE MABRY.
9:16:50AM SO THAT WILL PROVIDE SOME RELIEF.
9:16:52AM ALSO PROVIDE BETTER FLOW THROUGH THAT AREA.
9:16:56AM SO HOW DOES THAT PLAY INTO OUR PRIORITIES?
9:16:59AM KIND OF FAST FORWARD THROUGH THIS.
9:17:01AM SO WHAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON NOW IS WESTSHORE.
9:17:05AM THAT IS OUR FOCUS.
9:17:07AM AND THE BRIGHTLINE ISSUE, IT INTRODUCES A WHOLE NEW SET OF
9:17:11AM CHALLENGES FOR THE DOWNTOWN INTERCHANGE.
9:17:13AM WE WANT TO SEE THAT CONVERSATION MATURE BEFORE WE CAN MAKE
9:17:16AM DECISIONS ON WHAT OUR PROPOSAL IS GOING TO BE FOR THAT AREA.
9:17:20AM SO WHAT WE WANT TO FOCUS ON IS WE WANT TO FOCUS ON THE
9:17:23AM WESTSHORE AREA.
9:17:24AM AND THERE'S A LOT OF REASONS FOR THAT, THAT I WILL GO INTO.
9:17:28AM LOOKING AT FUNDING PRIORITIES, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE TWO
9:17:31AM STARS, WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON THE I-275 CORRIDOR THAT WE
9:17:34AM HAVE AGREED TO NO LONGER CONSIDER EXPRESS LANES ALONG THAT
9:17:37AM AREA.
9:17:37AM THAT'S THE AREA ROUGHLY FROM MLK NORTH OF BEARSS.
9:17:42AM THAT AREA, THERE'S AN ABILITY TO ADD ADDITIONAL CAPACITY
9:17:49AM THERE WITHOUT IMPACTING ANY ADDITIONAL RIGHT-OF-WAY.
9:17:52AM AND I'LL SHOW YOU A TYPICAL FOR THAT YEAR.
9:17:55AM IF I CAN BRING IT UP.
9:18:06AM OKAY.
9:18:06AM SO THIS IS ONE OF OUR PRIORITY AREAS.
9:18:11AM WE ARE GOING TO BE COMING OUT WITH A HEARING IN FEBRUARY
9:18:16AM SHOWING THE PUBLIC, WE HAVE BEEN SHOWING THESE TYPICALS AT
9:18:19AM VARIOUS MEETINGS.
9:18:20AM AND THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IN THAT AREA.
9:18:23AM ADDING AN ADDITIONAL LANE OF CAPACITY TO THE INSIDE OF THE
9:18:27AM EXISTING 275, AND THEN ALSO ADDING A TRANSIT CORRIDOR
9:18:32AM THROUGH THAT AREA.
9:18:33AM SO AS THE REGIONAL TRANSIT STUDY CONTINUES TO EVOLVE, THIS
9:18:38AM AREA WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR TRANSIT CONNECTION.
9:18:41AM WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FLORIBRASKA, IF WE WERE TO USE THAT AREA
9:18:45AM FOR BUS RAPID TRANSIT, WE COULD.
9:18:47AM WE COULD TAKE THAT BUS RAPID TRANSIT THAT BUS SYSTEM AND IT
9:18:51AM COULD COME OFF AT FLORIBRASKA TO THE INSIDE.
9:18:54AM AND ONE THING I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
9:18:57AM CLOSING FLORIBRASKA WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RAMP, KNOW IT
9:18:59AM THE ACTUAL STREET CONNECTION.
9:19:01AM NOT WHAT WE ARE PAVING WILL STAY THERE BUT THE ACTUAL
9:19:05AM FLORIBRASKA AND THERE WILL BE ACCESSIBILITY ON MLK.
9:19:08AM IF YOU CAME OFF HEADING SOUTHBOUND AND WANTED TO GO ON
9:19:11AM FLORIBRASKA YOU COULD TAKE TALIAFERRO TO MLK AND WE COULD
9:19:17AM CONTINUE THAT CONNECTION.
9:19:19AM WE ARE ALSO GOING TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO 14th, 15th,
9:19:22AM WE'LL HAVE A RAMP THAT COMES OFF IF YOU ARE HEADING
9:19:25AM EASTBOUND, THERE WILL BE A RAMP THAT COMES OFF AND THAT
9:19:27AM CONNECTION WILL BE MADE.
9:19:28AM SO FOLKS THAT WANT TO GO INTO EAST TAMPA CAN GET OFF ON THAT
9:19:32AM RAMP AT 14th, 15th, AND CONTINUE TO 22ND, AND THEN
9:19:38AM YOU CAN HEAD NORTH ON 22ND TO BE EAST TAMPA.
9:19:41AM >>FRANK REDDICK:
9:19:43AM >>FRANK REDDICK: LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF
9:19:46AM CLOSING FLORIBRASKA?
9:19:47AM >> WHEN WE LOOK AT ACCIDENTS IN THAT AREA, THERE'S A LARGE
9:19:51AM NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS, THAT IF YOU VISUALIZE WHERE FLORIBRASKA
9:19:56AM IS, YOU HAVE GOT THREE THINGS HAPPENING IN THAT AREA THAT
9:19:59AM CREATE A LOT OF THESE ACCIDENTS.
9:20:02AM AND YOU HAVE GOT MLK.
9:20:03AM YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS THAT ARE GETTING OFF AT MLK.
9:20:07AM BUT PRIMARILY WHAT YOU HAVE IS THAT LOOP RAMP THAT PEOPLE
9:20:10AM ARE WANTING TO GO TO EASTBOUND I-4.
9:20:12AM AND THEY ARE BACKING UP OUT INTO THE FLORIBRASKA RAMP.
9:20:16AM SO YOU HAVE A SHORT DISTANCE OF TIME WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF
9:20:18AM CONVERGENCE GOING ON THERE.
9:20:20AM YOU HAVE GOT PEOPLE TRYING TO GET OFF AT FLORIBRASKA.
9:20:22AM PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO GET ON THE LOOP RAMP.
9:20:25AM YOU HAVE GOT PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING WHAT WE CALL QUEUE
9:20:29AM JUMPING THAT ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE IN AND JUMP AHEAD OF THE
9:20:32AM TRAFFIC THAT'S BACKING UP ALONG THE INTERSTATE.
9:20:36AM SO IT CREATES A LOT OF CHALLENGES IN THAT AREA.
9:20:38AM AND WHEN WE LOOK IF HE HEAT MAP OF ACCIDENTS, THAT AREA
9:20:44AM ALONE REALLY DRAWS A LOT OF ATTENTION.
9:20:46AM THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES AND ACCIDENTS THAT OCCUR THERE.
9:20:49AM AND BY CLOSING THAT RAMP, YOU ARE TAKING AWAY ONE MORE
9:20:54AM POINT.
9:20:55AM >>FRANK REDDICK: HAVE YOU DONE A STUDY ON THE RAMPS THAT
9:20:58AM YOU PROPOSE?
9:20:59AM >> SO ALL ALONG 275, YES, WE HAVE RAMP IMPROVEMENTS,
9:21:02AM INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THAT CORRIDOR THAT WILL
9:21:05AM IMPROVE SAFETY AS WELL.
9:21:07AM SO, YES.
9:21:08AM >>FRANK REDDICK: SO YOU EXPECT LESS TRAFFIC CHALLENGES,
9:21:16AM WRECKS, AS A RESULT OF THE EXIT RAMPS?
9:21:22AM >> ABSOLUTELY WE EXPECT THOSE ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS TO BE
9:21:25AM DECREASE CONSIDERABLY ONCE WE MAKE THESE IMPROVEMENTS.
9:21:29AM BUT AS THE REGION GROWS, WE'LL HAVE NEW CHALLENGES IN THE
9:21:32AM NEXT 20, 30 YEARS, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT REALLY ADDING ANY
9:21:36AM OTHER THAN THE ONE LANE OF CAPACITY ON 275.
9:21:40AM EVENTUALLY, I MEAN, THAT WILL REACH A LIFE SPAN, A LIFE
9:21:43AM POINT, TOO, WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO THINK, AND
9:21:46AM HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE ANOTHER GROUP OF FOLKS AND MAYBE
9:21:48AM AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, MAYBE NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL COME INTO
9:21:51AM PLAY.
9:21:52AM BUT GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW TODAY, AND THIS IS JUST DEALING WITH
9:21:56AM TODAY'S TRAFFIC THROUGH THAT CORRIDOR.
9:21:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN COHEN.
9:22:02AM >>HARRY COHEN: THANK YOU.
9:22:04AM SO GOING BACK TO THE BEARSS/MLK CORRIDOR, ORIGINALLY WHEN
9:22:12AM THE EXPRESSWAY PLANS WERE UNVEILED, THERE WAS TALK OF
9:22:17AM EXPRESS LANES THERE, AND THERE WAS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT
9:22:20AM RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION.
9:22:21AM THAT'S GONE NOW.
9:22:22AM BUT YOU ARE STILL SHOWING AN ADDITION OF TWO GENERAL PURPOSE
9:22:27AM LANES AND A TRANSIT ENVELOPE.
9:22:33AM YOU SAID IT'S GOING TO BE DONE WITHIN THE EXISTING
9:22:35AM EXPRESSWAY ENVELOPE.
9:22:36AM HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO DO THAT WITHOUT ACQUIRING MORE
9:22:39AM RIGHT-OF-WAY?
9:22:40AM WHERE IS THE SPACE GOING TO COME FROM?
9:22:42AM >> IT'S ACTUALLY ONE ADDITIONAL LANE OF CAPACITY.
9:22:45AM IF I SAID TWO I MEANT ONE.
9:22:47AM THEN ONE TRANSIT LANE.
9:22:49AM WHAT YOU SEE HERE, THE TYPICAL, THE LIGHT GRAY AREA IS THE
9:22:52AM EXISTING THREE-LANE CONFIGURATION.
9:22:54AM THE INSIDE DARKER LANE THERE WITH THE RED CAR, THAT WOULD BE
9:22:59AM AN ADDITIONAL LANE.
9:23:00AM AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE WHERE THE GROAN BUS IS, THE
9:23:02AM TRANSIT --
9:23:04AM >>HARRY COHEN: BUT ON THIS DIAGRAM YOU HAVE NEW LANES GOING
9:23:08AM IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
9:23:09AM >> WHEN YOU SAY TWO LANES, YEAH, ONE IN EACH DIRECTION.
9:23:12AM >>HARRY COHEN: ONE IN EACH DIRECTION.
9:23:13AM IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE THAT'S TWO ADDITIONAL LANES.
9:23:16AM AND THEY HAVE YOU HAVE GOT THE NEW TRANSIT ENVELOPE.
9:23:20AM WHERE ARE YOU FINDING THE ROOM FOR THAT?
9:23:23AM >> OKAY.
9:23:24AM SO YOU DRIVE OUT THERE NOW.
9:23:26AM IF YOU VISUALIZE IT THERE'S THAT INSIDE SHOULDER THAT'S
9:23:30AM REALLY WIDE.
9:23:30AM SO THAT EXISTS TODAY FOR ADDITIONAL CAPACITY.
9:23:33AM THEN WE ARE GOING TO BE HARDENING THE EXISTING SHOULDER, AND
9:23:36AM WE WILL BE WIDENING SOME, SO YOU ARE TAKING THE EXISTING
9:23:41AM SHOULDER.
9:23:42AM IF YOU NOTICE THE BUS LANE, THE BUS IS PRETTY MUCH HUGGING
9:23:47AM THE BARRIER WALL.
9:23:49AM AND THE FACT THAT THERE'S THE HEADWAYS WILL BE 10-15 MINUTES
9:23:53AM THAT COULD BE ACCOMMODATED EASILY.
9:23:55AM SO YOU ARE HARDENING THE EXISTING SHOULDER FOR TRANSIT.
9:23:58AM YOU ARE USING THAT ADDITIONAL CAPACITY THAT'S THERE TODAY
9:24:00AM FOR THE ADDITIONAL LANE.
9:24:01AM >>HARRY COHEN: ARE YOU COMING BACK TO THE HOWARD FRANKLAND
9:24:05AM BRIDGE?
9:24:06AM >> I CAN.
9:24:07AM >>HARRY COHEN: I JUST WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT THAT I MADE AT
9:24:09AM THE MPO BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THIS COUNCIL.
9:24:16AM YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE HOWARD FRANKLAND BRIDGE FOR A MINUTE.
9:24:19AM I THINK ALL OF US RECOGNIZE...
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9:25:12AM [NO ENCODER]
9:25:13AM >> THAT I HAVE SEEN ON 275.
9:25:16AM I'M THINKING NOW THE DALE MABRY OVERPASS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE
9:25:19AM WAY THEY HAVE DONE THOSE SAILS AND THE CONCRETE TREATMENTS
9:25:23AM ARE REALLY VERY ATTRACTIVE.
9:25:24AM AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE US TO LOOK AT WHAT THIS
9:25:28AM BRIDGE LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT -- I JUST THINK THAT
9:25:33AM IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO NOT SETTLE FOR SOMETHING THAT IS
9:25:38AM BASICALLY JUST AN EXPRESSWAY ACROSS THE LINE.
9:25:42AM >> AND SO WE ARE, COUNCILMAN, LOOKING AT OPTIONS FOR
9:25:47AM TREATMENTS ALONG THE HOWARD FRANKLAND BRIDGE.
9:25:49AM >> BALUSTRADES.
9:25:53AM >> SO THAT KIND OF LEADS INTO THE WESTSHORE INTERCHANGE
9:25:58AM CONVERSATION.
9:25:59AM AND THIS IS OUR PRIORITY.
9:26:01AM SO YOU MAY OR MAY NOT RECALL MANY PRESENTATIONS THAT WE HAVE
9:26:06AM MADE HERE, WHERE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE NEED FOR US TO
9:26:08AM RALLY BEHIND SOMETHING THAT WE ALL COULD AGREE ON AND
9:26:12AM SUPPORT TO MOVE FORWARD.
9:26:13AM WE THINK THIS IS WHERE THAT AGREEMENT COULD BE HAD.
9:26:17AM WE HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM PINELLAS COUNTY, THE MPO, THE
9:26:21AM COUNTY COMMISSION.
9:26:21AM WE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE MPO.
9:26:24AM THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN COHEN FOR GIVING US THE SUPPORT FROM
9:26:30AM THE MPO.
9:26:31AM HILLSBOROUGH MPO.
9:26:32AM WE HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
9:26:35AM COMING AND RALLYING BEHIND THE NEED FOR US TO RECONSTRUCT
9:26:38AM THIS INTERCHANGE.
9:26:39AM AND LET ME KIND OF WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE
9:26:42AM THIS INTERCHANGE A CHALLENGE AND WHY THIS IS JUST THE
9:26:45AM PERFECT AREA FOR US TO SAY, THIS IS WHERE THIS REGION NEEDS
9:26:49AM TO FOCUS.
9:26:51AM SO IT'S ABOUT A $1.5 BILLION PROJECT CURRENTLY UNFUNDED.
9:26:56AM WE DON'T HAVE 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS.
9:26:58AM WE HAVE TO GET IN LINE WITH ALL OF THE OTHER NEEDS AND ASKS
9:27:01AM THAT SECRETARIES WILL BE DOING OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WITH
9:27:04AM THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
9:27:05AM WE HAVE GOT TO BE ABLE TO GO THERE AND SHOW THIS SUPPORT AND
9:27:10AM DOCUMENTATION THAT THIS REGION IS READY FOR $1.5 MILLION AND
9:27:14AM WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET IT BACK.
9:27:16AM IT WILL BE ABOUT A 5-YEAR CONSTRUCTION.
9:27:18AM SO WESTSHORE AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, 96 THAT YOU POEM EMPLOYED
9:27:22AM THERE, AND THESE PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER.
9:27:23AM THEY COME FROM EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY, THE WEST TAMPA
9:27:27AM COMMUNITY, THEY COME FROM ALL OVER THE REGION OF TAMPA.
9:27:29AM THEY COME FROM PINELLAS.
9:27:31AM SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS DISTRICT.
9:27:33AM IT'S ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE SOUTHEAST.
9:27:35AM I BELIEVE IT'S SECOND TO ATLANTA.
9:27:38AM 15 THAT YOU RESIDENTS.
9:27:39AM 4,000 BUSINESS.
9:27:42AM 250 HOTELS.
9:27:45AM OR RESTAURANTS.
9:27:45AM 39 HOTELS.
9:27:46AM AND OF COURSE TAMPA INTERNATIONAL IS EXPECTED TO EXCEED THAT
9:27:49AM NUMBER BY 20,000 IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
9:27:52AM SO IT'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY HAPPENING IN THE ONE AREA.
9:27:56AM SO AADT, ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC, 178,000 PLUS EXPECTED
9:28:04AM TO GROW BY 260,000 BY THE YEAR 2045.
9:28:09AM AND THAT'S COME ACROSS THE HOWARD FRANKLAND.
9:28:12AM SO FROM I-275 EAST, COMING IN AND OUT OF TAMPA, YOU ARE
9:28:17AM TALKING 202,000 TODAY, WHICH FAR EXCEEDS THE CAPACITY THAT
9:28:22AM THE SYSTEM OPERATES OF THE 327,000 BY 2045.
9:28:27AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:28:29AM THOSE MODELING NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE NOW FOR 2045, THAT DOES
9:28:34AM NOT INCLUDE ANY POTENTIAL TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT MIGHT BE PUT
9:28:38AM IN PLACE AT THAT TIME.
9:28:41AM >> SO IT INCLUDES WHAT'S IN THE LONG-RANGE PLAN FOR
9:28:45AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
9:28:46AM AND IN THE LONG RANGE PLAN TODAY THERE IS TRANSIT.
9:28:50AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE LONG RANGE
9:28:53AM PLAN.
9:28:53AM WHAT DOES IT HAVE IN THERE?
9:28:54AM IS IT PRIMARILY BUS RAPID TRANSIT OR DOES IT INCLUDE RAIL OF
9:28:58AM SOME KIND?
9:28:59AM >> LIGHT RAIL.
9:29:00AM IT WAS A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM.
9:29:01AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: SO EVEN WITH LIGHT RAIL OR ANY OTHER KIND OF
9:29:06AM EXPANSIVE TRANSIT SYSTEM THESE ARE THE NUMBERS YOU ARE
9:29:09AM PROJECTING TO BE THERE IN 2045?
9:29:12AM >> THAT'S CORRECT.
9:29:13AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THANK YOU.
9:29:14AM >> JUST TO FURTHER ILLUSTRATE THE NEED FOR THIS.
9:29:17AM 211 COMING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH, NORTH TO SOUTH, ON 60.
9:29:22AM AND THAT NUMBER WILL GO UP TO ALMOST 300,000.
9:29:27AM YOU KNOW, THAT CAPACITY IS JUST ENORMOUS.
9:29:32AM AND THEN FROM THE TAMPA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FROM 57,000
9:29:35AM TODAY TO 133,000 IN THE FUTURE ALMOST TRIPLING THE NEED FOR
9:29:41AM ADDITIONAL CAPACITY THROUGH THERE.
9:29:44AM AND THEN THE WESTSHORE GROWTH HEADING ON 60, 223 TO 332,000.
9:29:51AM THIS AREA, I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU, IS GROWING AND THESE
9:29:55AM NUMBERS ILLUSTRATE THE NEED FOR US TO RALLY BEHIND THE
9:29:59AM SUPPORT FOR THE WESTSHORE INTERCHANGE AND CONSTRUCTION.
9:30:03AM SO LET ME KIND OF COME OFF THIS A LITTLE BIT.
9:30:05AM SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THE
9:30:07AM WESTSHORE AREA -- YES, SIR?
9:30:10AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: AND I APOLOGIZE.
9:30:11AM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:30:12AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THIS RIGHT.
9:30:15AM WITH THOSE NUMBERS THAT YOU JUST SHOWED US, OKAY, THAT'S AN
9:30:19AM ESTIMATE.
9:30:20AM WHERE ARE WE AT IN THE ESTIMATE?
9:30:22AM IS IT A HIGH ESTIMATE, MIDDLE, LOW ESTIMATE?
9:30:26AM IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING.
9:30:27AM >> YES.
9:30:28AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: IF WE HAVE A SUCCESSFUL TRANSIT SYSTEM THOSE
9:30:31AM NUMBERS ARE GOING TO CHANGE SOMEWHAT, I WOULD THINK.
9:30:33AM THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE ONLY BECAUSE OF POPULATION GROWTH
9:30:36AM ALONE.
9:30:36AM BECAUSE YOU HAVE GOT TO MAKE SOME CONCESSIONS AS TO WHAT
9:30:41AM PEOPLE'S HABITS WILL BE AFTER A TRANSIT SYSTEM IS THERE.
9:30:44AM IN ADDITION, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE, MY GUESS IS, IN TERMS OF
9:30:47AM WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO LIVE, AFFORDABILITY OF
9:30:51AM HOUSING AND OTHER THINGS ARE GOING TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR
9:30:53AM NOT FOLKS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY
9:30:55AM A COMMUTER RAIL COME INTO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AND THEN TAKE
9:30:59AM A LIGHT RAIL INTO A JOB IN WESTSHORE, OR, YOU KNOW, COMING
9:31:03AM FROM WEST TAMPA OR EAST TAMPA BEING ABLE TO COME ON IN
9:31:07AM EITHER ON A BUS RAPID TRANSIT OR RAIL SYSTEM OR SOMETHING
9:31:10AM ELSE.
9:31:11AM I JUST WANT TO KNOW, WHEN YOU DO THOSE NUMBERS, HOW MUCH OF
9:31:14AM IT -- I AM NOT GOING TO SAY PADDED BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
9:31:18AM IT'S GOING TO BE AN ESTIMATE.
9:31:19AM IS IT A LOW ESTIMATE PRIMARILY OR IS IT A MEDIUM OR HIGH?
9:31:22AM BECAUSE I KNOW WITH ENGINEERS THEY TEND TO HAVE THREE
9:31:25AM DIFFERENT CHOICES BECAUSE THEY HATE TO HAVE THE NUMBERS
9:31:28AM ALONE.
9:31:29AM THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF LEEWAY ON
9:31:31AM THERE.
9:31:32AM WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THOSE NUMBERS YOU JUST STATED ARE?
9:31:35AM >> I WOULD SAY THESE NUMBERS -- SO HOW THE MODEL WAS DONE,
9:31:38AM IF YOU DON'T MANED, SOAP THE MODEL TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION
9:31:41AM ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S EITHER APPROVED OR PLANNED FOR
9:31:45AM IN THAT MODEL YEAR.
9:31:47AM SO IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL -- IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL DENSITY
9:31:51AM THAT'S PROPOSED FOR THE WESTSHORE AREA, IT'S IN THE MODEL.
9:31:53AM IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL TRANSIT THAT'S IN A LONG RANGE.
9:31:56AM SO WE TAKE ALL THE PLANS, THE COMP PLANS, THE LONG RANGE
9:32:00AM PLANS, AND ALL OF THAT GETS FED INTO THE MODEL.
9:32:03AM SO THE MODEL, IT'S NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE.
9:32:07AM BUT EVEN IF YOU SAID, OKAY, THERE'S A MARGIN OF ERROR OF
9:32:11AM 10%, STILL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF
9:32:13AM VOLUME THAT WOULD BE GENERATED.
9:32:16AM AND EVEN IF YOU TOOK THE TRANSIT AND YOU TRIPLED IT, YOU
9:32:19AM KNOW, TRANSIT ON ITS BEST SYSTEM FUNCTIONS AT ABOUT -- PULLS
9:32:24AM OFF ABOUT 10%, A GOOD SYSTEM, A ROBUST SYSTEM, WITH
9:32:28AM CONNECTIONS AND TRANSIT HUBS, ABOUT 10% OF THE TRAFFIC OFF
9:32:32AM THE ROADWAY.
9:32:33AM >> THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GETTING AT.
9:32:37AM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE TALKING
9:32:40AM ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT
9:32:43AM TO BE A SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL WE ARE DOING IS THROWING MORE
9:32:45AM CONCRETE DOWN IN ORDER FOR PEOPLE TO DRIVE AS OPPOSED TO HOW
9:32:49AM DOES THIS FIT INTO A MUCH WIDER AND MORE ROBUST SYSTEM.
9:32:52AM AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS, THEY MAY LOOK LIKE
9:32:56AM ALL WE ARE DOING IS PUTTING CONCRETE DOWN.
9:32:58AM I WANT TO MIKE SURE THAT THAT PLAN INCLUDES WHAT WE ARE
9:33:01AM PROBABLY GOING TO THINK ABOUT DEPENDING ON WITH WHEN WE ARE
9:33:04AM ABLE TO START LOOKING AT THE TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS AND WHAT
9:33:08AM WE ARE GOING TO DO WITH THAT, HOW THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE THE
9:33:10AM PATTERN.
9:33:11AM BECAUSE IT MAY CHANGE IT SIGNIFICANTLY.
9:33:12AM IT MAY CHANGE IN TERMS OF LAND USE.
9:33:14AM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A 26-YEAR DIFFERENTIAL.
9:33:17AM I'M NOT COUNTING 2018, ONLY 2019.
9:33:20AM 26 YEAR DIFFERENTIAL IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE AT NOW AND
9:33:23AM WHERE WE MIGHT BE IN 2045.
9:33:25AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THE NUMBERS RIGHT IN OUR
9:33:28AM HEAD SO AS WE GO FORWARD WE ARE NOT JUST SAYING, WELL, YOU
9:33:31AM KNOW, THE GROWTH IS SO BIG THERE'S NO WAY WE ARE GOING TO BE
9:33:33AM ABLE TO PUT TRANSIT IN THERE AND BE ABLE TO MAKE A DENT IN
9:33:37AM IT.
9:33:37AM THIS IS PART OF MAKING THE DENT IN IT.
9:33:39AM >> IT IS.
9:33:40AM AND I THINK YOU MAKE A GREAT POINT.
9:33:42AM AND WHAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS AFTER WE DO THIS PROJECT,
9:33:46AM I MEAN, I CAN'T IMAGINE US BEING EVER TO DO SOMETHING THIS
9:33:51AM BIG AGAIN.
9:33:52AM IT'S JUST THE IMPACT IS ENORMOUS.
9:33:54AM I THINK YOUR POINT ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND WHAT IS COMING, AS
9:34:00AM PART OF THIS YOU ARE GOING TO SEE REDEVELOPMENT OCCUR, AND
9:34:02AM IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
9:34:03AM AND IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN REALLY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS
9:34:06AM INTERCHANGE IS GOING TO BE BUILT, WHICH IS KIND OF EXCITING
9:34:10AM BUT SCARY AT THE SAME TIME, BECAUSE WITH THAT DENSITY,
9:34:14AM INCREASED DENSITY, NOW YOU ARE LIKE, WELL, WHAT DO I DO?
9:34:18AM IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
9:34:20AM AND WITHOUT THOSE OTHER OPTIONS, TRANSIT, TECHNOLOGY, YOU
9:34:23AM KNOW, CHANGING THE WAY WE GO TO WORK, CHANGING THE WAY WE
9:34:26AM LOOK AT HOW, YOU KNOW, HOW WE GROW OUR ECONOMY.
9:34:30AM ALL THOSE THINGS NEED TO BE CONSIDERED, BECAUSE I CAN'T
9:34:33AM IMAGINE WHAT THE NEXT -- THE FOLKS THAT GOING TO BE COMING
9:34:37AM AFTER US ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHEN THIS REGION
9:34:40AM CONTINUES TO GROW, AND THE NEEDS FOR TRANSPORTATION
9:34:43AM IMPROVEMENTS CONTINUE TO GROW WITH IT.
9:34:44AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I APPRECIATE IT.
9:34:48AM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:34:49AM >> SO WE ARE LOOKING AT DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO THE AIRPORT.
9:34:53AM WE HAVE COMMITTED TO THAT.
9:34:54AM WE THINK THIS WILL PROVIDE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSIT
9:34:58AM TO COME RIGHT INTO THE AIRPORT.
9:35:01AM WE ALSO HAVE THE INTERMODAL CENTER WHICH IS SITTING AND
9:35:04AM WAITING FOR A TRANSIT PLAN IN THE AREA.
9:35:07AM AND SO WE HAVE COMMITTED TO THAT.
9:35:09AM WE HAVE COMMITTED TO RECONNECTIONS.
9:35:11AM RIGHT NOW, REALLY THE ONLY NORTH-SOUTH CONNECTION IN THE
9:35:14AM WESTSHORE AREA IS WESTSHORE BOULEVARD.
9:35:16AM SO AS PART OF THIS PROJECT --
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9:35:55AM [NO ENCODER]
9:35:56AM REMEMBER, WE CAN'T BRING TRANSIT INTO THAT AREA NO REGIONAL
9:35:59AM TRANSIT WITHOUT RECONSTRUCTING THE INTERCHANGE.
9:36:02AM THERE IS NO WAY FOR THEM TO GET THERE OTHER THAN SURFACE
9:36:04AM STREETS.
9:36:05AM SO THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO IS SOME TYPE OF LIGHT RAIL
9:36:08AM SYSTEM OR STREET PARK EXTENSION THAT WOULD RUN ON SURFACE
9:36:12AM STREETS.
9:36:13AM BUT HOW THAT WOULD BE ACCOMMODATED, THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE
9:36:16AM TO BE WORKED OUT.
9:36:17AM BUT IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT REGIONAL TRANSIT CONNECTIVITY,
9:36:20AM THE PLAN WAS AND THE COMMITMENT AND THE ORIGINAL THE
9:36:23AM INTERSTATE STUDY DOCUMENT WAS TO PROVIDE THAT CORRIDOR ON
9:36:26AM THE INTERSTATE.
9:36:27AM THAT'S WHY 275 OUT THERE TODAY IS SO WIDE.
9:36:32AM SO THAT WAS IT.
9:36:33AM I APPRECIATE THE TIME AGAIN.
9:36:36AM GOING INTO A NEW YEAR WE ARE KIND OF EXCITED THAT THIS IS AN
9:36:40AM OPPORTUNITY FINALLY, WE COULD SAY, YOU KNOW, AS I SAID
9:36:43AM EARLIER IN OUR PRESENTATION, WE WANT TO GO TO TALLAHASSEE,
9:36:46AM AND WE WANT TO SHOW THE FOLKS UP THERE, THE LEADERSHIP IN
9:36:50AM ADMINISTRATION THAT NO LONGER IS TAMPA A FRACTION WHEN IT
9:36:54AM COMES TO TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS.
9:36:56AM WE KNOW THAT THE WESTSHORE INTERCHANGE IS A CRITICAL PART OF
9:36:59AM OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE REGION, AND EVERYBODY IN THIS
9:37:02AM AREA SUPPORTS THAT AND IS READY TO MOVE FORWARD.
9:37:04AM SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
9:37:06AM AND I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
9:37:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR?
9:37:12AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
9:37:14AM JUST ONE THING I WANTED TO MENTION AS WELL.
9:37:16AM WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT OBVIOUSLY WESTSHORE, DOWNTOWN,
9:37:19AM ET CETERA.
9:37:20AM BUSCH BOULEVARD.
9:37:21AM I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO TALK, AND MAYBE YOU CAN PREPARE FOR
9:37:24AM YOUR NEXT MEETING, I DON'T KNOW IF A MOTION WOULD BE IN
9:37:27AM ORDER, BUT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT FDOT IS
9:37:30AM PROPOSING TO DO ON BUSCH BOULEVARD.
9:37:32AM YOU TALK ABOUT AN AREA THAT IS, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY A
9:37:35AM CORRIDOR TO THE TOURIST ATTRACTIONS OF TAMPA BUT IS REALLY A
9:37:38AM CORRIDOR OF GREAT NEGLECT AS WELL AS GREAT DANGER TO THE
9:37:42AM PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.
9:37:42AM I KNOW THAT BETWEEN THE YEARS 2010 AND 2016 THERE WERE WHERE
9:37:47AM 105 SERIOUS INJURIES OR FATALITIES ON BUSCH BOULEVARD.
9:37:50AM YOU TALK TO A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AROUND BUSCH
9:37:53AM BOULEVARD AND FOLKS WITH BUSINESSES THERE AND THEY DESCRIBE
9:37:55AM IT ALMOST LIKE SOMETHING THAT'S APPROACHING AN INTERSTATE.
9:37:58AM YOU KNOW, FOLKS EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT, WITH DANGER TO
9:38:04AM FAMILIES AND RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES.
9:38:06AM I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF NEXT TIME YOU COME BEFORE US ABOUT
9:38:09AM THE THINGS YOU ARE LOOKING AT AND PROPOSING ON BUSCH
9:38:12AM BOULEVARD, SOMETHING THAT'S OF GREAT CONCERN TO THIS CITY, I
9:38:14AM THINK.
9:38:14AM >> AND COUNCILMAN, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, AND I DON'T HAVE
9:38:18AM THE EXACT NUMBERS AND DATES, BUT WE HAVE COMPLETED A STUDY
9:38:22AM ALONG THE BUSCH BOULEVARD CORRIDOR.
9:38:24AM WE ARE PLANNING FOR SOME DESIGN PROJECTS.
9:38:27AM IT WILL REDUCE LANE WIDTHS, PROVIDE SOME MEDIAN
9:38:30AM IMPROVEMENTS, BASICALLY SOME TRAFFIC CALMING THROUGHOUT THAT
9:38:34AM CORRIDOR LOOKING AT SPEED REDUCTIONS ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
9:38:38AM SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE WORKING ON.
9:38:41AM I BELIEVE WE EACH HAVE SOME RIGHT-OF-WAY PROGRAMS.
9:38:43AM THIS IS A HIGH OPERATOR FOR US AS WELL.
9:38:46AM WE RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
9:38:48AM AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS BOARD AND WE CAN GIVE A MORE
9:38:54AM DETAILED PRESENTATION ON THAT.
9:38:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
9:38:57AM I APPRECIATE IT.
9:38:58AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: IS THERE ANYONE FROM THIS DISTRICT, DISTRICT
9:39:03AM 7, ON THE TRANSITION TEAM FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE?
9:39:07AM >> NO.
9:39:08AM NOBODY FROM D.O.T.
9:39:10AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: DO YOU KNOW WHO THE NEXT CHAIR FOR THE
9:39:12AM SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE IS YET?
9:39:14AM >> I DON'T KNOW.
9:39:15AM I DO NOT KNOW.
9:39:16AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: ARE YOU ALL MAKING PLANS?
9:39:19AM YOU ARE LOOKING AT UNFUNDED DOLLARS.
9:39:23AM WE ARE OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE WE ARE ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION ARE
9:39:25AM GOING TO NEED SOME HELP FROM FDOT IN ORDER TO SOLVE SOME OF
9:39:28AM THE OTHER ISSUES THAT WE HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSIT.
9:39:31AM YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN TERMS OF ALLOWING THE
9:39:33AM STREETCAR TO BE FREE FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
9:39:36AM AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE SO
9:39:39AM THAT WITH THIS NEW GOVERNOR COMING IN, I'M SURE HE DOESN'T
9:39:42AM KNOW ANY OF US, I'M SURE HE DOESN'T KNOW TOO MANY OF THE
9:39:45AM FOLKS DOWN HERE, HE'S NEVER SERVED AS FAR AS I KNOW IN ANY
9:39:49AM REAL CAPACITY IN STATE GOVERNMENT.
9:39:51AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN GET SOME OF THE DOLLARS WE
9:39:54AM NEED IN ORDER TO SOLVE SOME OF OUR PROBLEMS.
9:39:56AM AND I WASN'T SURE WHAT RELATIONSHIP YOU ALL HAVE ANY IDEAS
9:40:02AM OF WHO THE NEW D.O.T. SECRETARY IS IN TALLAHASSEE?
9:40:05AM >> IT WOULD BE PURE SPECULATION.
9:40:07AM I WOULDN'T WANT TO --
9:40:09AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I KNOW YOU MAY NOT WANT TO SAY PUBLICLY
9:40:11AM ANYWAY BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS BECAUSE THAT IS REALLY THE
9:40:14AM NEXUS OF WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE.
9:40:18AM SOLVE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS ARE NOT ONLY JUST THE PLANS WE
9:40:21AM HAVE BUT PAYING FOR THOSE PLANS THAT MAKE SENSE IN THE
9:40:23AM COMMUNITY.
9:40:24AM AND I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT FDOT HAS A BETTER RELATIONSHIP
9:40:27AM WITH US NOW THAN THEY HAVE EVER HAD, AND I THINK THAT WE CAN
9:40:32AM SOLVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS AND MEET THOSE CHALLENGES WITH
9:40:36AM FDOT'S DISTRICT 7 OFFICE, AND WE HAVE SOME OF THE DOLLARS
9:40:40AM AND SOME OF THE ATTENTION OF THE STATE GOVERNMENTS.
9:40:43AM SO I APPRECIATE IT.
9:40:44AM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:40:45AM >>HARRY COHEN: JUST ONE QUESTION.
9:40:47AM THE 700 MILLION THAT WENT TO ORLANDO, THAT WAS THE MONEY
9:40:51AM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY IN TBX, I BELIEVE, FOR THIS PROJECT,
9:40:56AM THIS INTERCHANGE PROJECT.
9:40:58AM SO WHEN TBX DIED, OR WAS PULLED, THAT MONEY JUST
9:41:02AM AUTOMATICALLY GOT REPROGRAMMED TO ORLANDO?
9:41:05AM THERE WAS NO OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS REGION TO KEEP THE MONEY
9:41:08AM HERE EVEN THOUGH IT HAD ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED?
9:41:11AM >> IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
9:41:12AM THE STATE ROLLS OUT THEIR SIF FUND WHICH IS A STRATEGIC
9:41:18AM INTERMODAL FUND WHICH THOSE ARE DESIGNATED BY TALLAHASSEE,
9:41:22AM AND YES.
9:41:23AM >>HARRY COHEN: THIS IS WHY TBX WAS SO COMPLICATED BECAUSE
9:41:28AM WE ULTIMATELY HAD $700 MILLION THAT JUST GOT WIPED AWAY FROM
9:41:32AM US AND GIVEN TO ORLANDO.
9:41:34AM AND IT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE THAT THE SYSTEM WORKS THE WAY THAT
9:41:40AM IT DOES.
9:41:44AM IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO EFFECTUATE GOOD TRANSPORTATION
9:41:49AM PLANNING WHEN YOU ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER THE GUN OF HAVING THE
9:41:53AM MONEY PULLED OUT FROM UNDER YOU IF YOU DON'T -- BASICALLY
9:41:59AM FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE LEADERSHIP.
9:42:00AM IT'S REALLY, REALLY UNFORTUNATE IN THIS PLAN.
9:42:03AM >> AND TO FURTHER TALK ABOUT THAT, IT WASN'T 700 MILLION
9:42:08AM THAT JUST -- WE JUST DIDN'T WAKE UP ONE MORNING AND THEY
9:42:12AM GAVE US 700 MILLION. THIS WAS OVER MANY YEARS OF BASICALLY
9:42:16AM THE WAY YOU BUILD A SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
9:42:19AM WHEN WE GET 100 MILLION, WE PUT IT ON THAT PROJECT.
9:42:22AM GET ANOTHER 50 MILLION.
9:42:23AM WE WERE BUILDING UP FOR THAT 700 MILLION OVER A PERIOD OF
9:42:26AM TIME.
9:42:26AM NOW WE HAVE GOT TO DO THAT AGAIN.
9:42:29AM NOW THERE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME PUBLIC-PRIVATE
9:42:31AM PARTNERSHIP.
9:42:31AM WE COULD, YOU KNOW, EXPLORE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
9:42:34AM THE DEPARTMENT NOW HAS A BONDING CORPORATION THAT ALLOWS IT
9:42:37AM TO BOND AGAINST THIS WORK PROGRAM.
9:42:39AM SO THERE IS OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
9:42:41AM BUT I WOULD IMAGINE FROM A BIG PROJECT PERSPECTIVE, THOSE
9:42:45AM ARE LIKE ONCE EVERY FIVE TO TEN YEARS.
9:42:48AM SO WE WANT TO BE THAT NEXT BIG PROJECT.
9:42:50AM AND SO WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE FOLKS IN TALLAHASSEE
9:42:53AM THAT UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS TO KNOW WHEN THESE OPPORTUNITIES
9:42:56AM ARE GOING TO COME UP AND WHAT WE ARE HEARING IS THE 23 TO
9:43:00AM 25, THERE COULD BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR A BIG PROJECT.
9:43:04AM SO, YOU KNOW, BUT 23 TO 235 FROM A PLANNING PERSPECTIVE IS
9:43:09AM TODAY, YOU KNOW, OR ACTUALLY IT WAS YESTERDAY.
9:43:13AM THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
9:43:14AM >>HARRY COHEN: AND THERE'S ALSO THE PROSPECT OF HAVING
9:43:18AM LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP FROM THIS REGION IN THE NEXT TWO TO
9:43:21AM FOUR YEARS, AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO STRIKE WHILE THAT
9:43:24AM IRON IS HOT.
9:43:24AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: ONE LAST THING, CHAIR.
9:43:27AM YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO WHAT MR. COHEN SAID, WHICH I
9:43:30AM TOTALLY AGREE WITH, WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE WAY THE
9:43:32AM NUMBERS MOVE AND WHERE THE DOLLARS GO, I MEAN, WE WERE AT
9:43:36AM ONE POINT IN DISTRICT 7 -- CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG -- WE
9:43:38AM WERE PUTTING -- PLANNING ON SPENDING ABOUT 400 MILLION FOR A
9:43:43AM TEST TRACK FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES.
9:43:47AM THAT IS NO LONGER GOING TO BE DONE AS I UNDERSTAND IT AT
9:43:49AM THAT LEVEL.
9:43:54AM I THOUGHT WE HAD DECIDED NOT TO CONTINUE WITH THAT AT THAT
9:43:56AM LEVEL.
9:43:57AM >> I DON'T KNOW THAT.
9:43:58AM I REMEMBER THAT BUT I COULD FIND OUT.
9:44:00AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I THINK AFTER SECRETARY GWYNN TOOK OVER, AND
9:44:12AM MONEYS BECOME AVAILABLE, OR MONEYS GET LOST, BECAUSE WE ARE
9:44:15AM NOT ABLE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE
9:44:18AM TALKING ABOUT.
9:44:19AM SO I WOULD HAVE RATHER SEE INSTEAD OF 400 MILLION GOING TO
9:44:23AM AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TEST TRACK, 400 MILLION PUT INTO THIS
9:44:27AM SYSTEM SO WE COULD PROVIDE MORE SERVICE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE
9:44:29AM HERE NOW AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
9:44:32AM TECHNOLOGY.
9:44:33AM BECAUSE I THINK WE ALL KNOW AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY IS
9:44:37AM GOING TO FIND ITS PLACE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE
9:44:41AM STATE GOVERNMENT OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PUTS MONEY INTO IT.
9:44:44AM IT IS ALREADY STARTING TO GO IN THE DIRECTION WHETHER IT'S A
9:44:50AM TESLA OR GOOGLE CAR OR SOMETHING ELSE.
9:44:52AM SO I THINK THAT SOMETIMES OUR PRIORITIES GET A LITTLE BIT
9:44:54AM TWISTED BECAUSE OF EITHER PET PROJECTS OR IDEAS THAT PEOPLE
9:44:58AM HAVE.
9:44:58AM AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THOSE NUMBERS, THAT 400 MILLION IS
9:45:02AM NO LONGER GOING DIRECTLY INTO THAT LARGE OF A PROJECT.
9:45:04AM NOT SAYING THAT WE ARE NOT HAVING ANY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
9:45:08AM DOLLARS GOING IN.
9:45:08AM BUT NOT AT THAT SCALE.
9:45:10AM BECAUSE THAT WAS A HUGE PROJECT IN POLK COUNTY THAT WE WERE
9:45:13AM FUNDING THROUGH THIS DISTRICT.
9:45:15AM AND I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THAT'S NOT HAPPENING.
9:45:18AM AT LEAST I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S NOT.
9:45:20AM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:45:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MONTHLY REPORT FROM THE CAC
9:45:27AM REPRESENTATIVE, MR. JOE ROBINSON, WEST TAMPA CAC.
9:45:30AM TAKE IT AWAY, JOE.
9:45:31AM >> JOE ROBINSON: GOOD MORNING CITY COUNCIL AND OTHER
9:45:37AM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
9:45:38AM MY NAME IS JOE ROBINSON, CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CRA-CAC.
9:45:45AM ALSO, I FORGOT TO SAY AT THE MURAL DEDICATION I'M THE VICE
9:45:51AM CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CDC THAT'S BEEN AROUND SINCE 1999,
9:45:55AM AND DR. FISHER, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT MENTIONING THAT BECAUSE
9:45:58AM DR. FISHER IS OUR CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CDC.
9:46:02AM SO I JUST DON'T SAY IT WHEN I'M CHAIR.
9:46:06AM I JUST SAY THE CAC
9:46:08AM WITH THAT SAID, FIRST OF ALL, WE THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME
9:46:11AM TO COME.
9:46:11AM I THINK IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE.
9:46:13AM BUT AS YOU CAN HEAR FROM FDOT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS GOING
9:46:16AM ON WEST OF THE RIVER.
9:46:19AM THE WEST TAMPA CRA JUMP DATE BASICALLY WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
9:46:22AM A LOT SINCE THE LAST TIME.
9:46:25AM I HAVE ADDRESSED THIS BOARD.
9:46:27AM AND HERE IS A LITTLE SIMPLE UPDATE.
9:46:29AM I HAVE A FEW BULLET POINTS HERE.
9:46:31AM AND ONE THING THAT'S JUST RECENTLY HAPPENED AS WE MOVE
9:46:35AM FORWARD WITH.
9:46:35AM FIRST OF ALL, THE BODY APPROVED THE WEST TAMPA STRATEGIC
9:46:39AM ACTION PLAN.
9:46:40AM IT CONCLUDE ADD YEAR-LONG, ACTUALLY MORE THAN A YEAR-LONG,
9:46:44AM ACTUALLY A TWO-YEAR-LONG COMMUNITY BASED PROCESS TO IDENTIFY
9:46:48AM PRIORITIES OF WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
9:46:50AM AND NOW WE ARE WORKING TO ORGANIZE OUR SUBCOMMITTEES TO
9:46:54AM BEGIN THE WORK OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THIS BOARD ON
9:46:57AM PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS AND BEGIN THE WORK.
9:47:02AM SO WE HAVE COME THAT LONG AND THAT FAR.
9:47:04AM SO NOW WE HAVE SUBCOMMITTEES THAT CAN LOOK AT THE VARIOUS
9:47:07AM AREAS OF INFRASTRUCTURE, HOUSING, AND TRY TO COME UP WITH
9:47:11AM SOME RECOMMENDATIONS PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS TO THIS BOARD.
9:47:14AM IN OCTOBER, WE HELD THE WEST TAMPA -- HELD ITS FIRST ANNUAL
9:47:20AM UNITY CULTURAL HISTORIC AT JULIAN B. LANE RIVERFRONT PARK,
9:47:25AM AND THE PARK IS A GREAT ADDITION.
9:47:27AM THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY ELSE, TO THE WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY,
9:47:32AM AND THE PARK, AND THE RIVER CENTER IS BOOKED ALL THE WAY
9:47:37AM THROUGH EVERY WEEKEND THROUGH 2019.
9:47:40AM SO IT IS BOOKED.
9:47:42AM I HOPE THAT SOMEBODY BOOK IT NOW FOR THE SUPER BOWL IN 2021.
9:47:46AM SO THAT PARK IS VERY WELL BOOKED AND WE HAD WE HAD A GREAT
9:47:53AM EVENT OVER THERE THE OTHER DAY WITH THE AIRPORT.
9:47:55AM IT'S A GREAT SITE.
9:47:57AM THE ONLY THING THE COMMUNITY IS CONCERNED ABOUT THAT IS IT
9:48:00AM COST A LOT OF MONEY TO RENT THAT PLACE LIKE $2,000 FOR FOUR
9:48:03AM HOURS.
9:48:04AM THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
9:48:06AM BUT THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY TO
9:48:08AM RENT THAT SPACE.
9:48:09AM BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE AN
9:48:11AM EVENT.
9:48:11AM AND WE HAD A GREAT EVENT FROM THE AIRPORT WHERE THEY WERE
9:48:15AM TALKING ABOUT THEIR 470 MILLION THAT THEY ARE GOING TO SPEND
9:48:18AM ON THEIR PHASE 2.
9:48:20AM SO IN WEST TAMPA THERE'S A LOT GOING ON.
9:48:22AM THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE WEST TAMPA CAC SPECIAL EVENTS
9:48:27AM SUBCOMMITTEE CREATED THE SPECIAL EVENTS CO-SPONSORED POLICY
9:48:32AM AND WAS APPROVED BY OUR CAC, AND THE POLICY IS ON YOUR
9:48:36AM AGENDA TODAY, THIS MORNING, FOR CONSIDERATION.
9:48:41AM THE OTHER THING IS RECENTLY THIS SATURDAY, THE MURALIST TONY
9:48:50AM CROWLE WERE COMMISSIONED TO PLACE A MURAL ON THE WALL AT THE
9:48:55AM SAL SENAS PARK ON THE CORNER OF MAIN AND HOWARD.
9:49:00AM THE FINAL ART CONCEPT WAS COMMITTED, TOOK FOREVER WITH THAT.
9:49:04AM WE WENT BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH AND WE SHOULD BE
9:49:06AM UP THERE, AND WE SHOULD NOT BE UP THERE. WHAT COLOR SHOULD
9:49:10AM THIS BE?
9:49:11AM IT TOOK A WHILE.
9:49:12AM AND I WANT TO THANK MY CHAIR BOBBY WILSON FOR SPEARHEADING
9:49:16AM THAT SUBCOMMITTEE ON THAT MURAL.
9:49:19AM IT WAS A LONG TASK.
9:49:20AM A LOT OF COMMUNITY INPUT BACK AND FORTH.
9:49:23AM EVEN THE ARTISTS WERE CRYING WHEN WE STARTED GIVING OUR
9:49:26AM COMMENTS.
9:49:27AM SO WE TOLD HIM TO COME BACK IN THE ROOM AND JUST CALM DOWN.
9:49:30AM BUT THE END RESULT WAS A GREAT WORK OF ART THAT WILL BE
9:49:33AM THERE FOR YEARS, THAT DEPICTS THE COMMUNITY.
9:49:36AM AND OUR DEDICATION CEREMONY WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY TO
9:49:39AM RECOGNIZE THE MURAL AND THE HISTORY THAT IT REPRESENTS IN
9:49:43AM WEST TAMPA.
9:49:44AM AND SOME PEOPLE IN WEST TAMPA ARE GOING ON TO DO OTHER
9:49:48AM THINGS BUT WE HAVE GOT OTHER RECOGNITION MURALS THAT WE WILL
9:49:55AM DO WITHIN THE CRA.
9:49:56AM BUT THIS IS THE START.
9:49:57AM AND THIS IS THE BASE.
9:49:58AM BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE COME UP THAT INTERSTATE, WHICH
9:50:02AM WE STILL DON'T HAVE A HISTORICAL AREA IDENTIFIED BY A MARKER
9:50:08AM ON THE INTERSTATE WITH THE BROWN SIGN THAT SAYS HISTORIC
9:50:12AM DISTRICT, NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUT THEY'LL PROBABLY
9:50:15AM FIND SOMEWHERE TO PUT IT IF I HAVE TO PUT ONE UP THERE
9:50:18AM MYSELF.
9:50:18AM SO WITH THAT SAID, YOU COME OFF THE INTERSTATE, AND THERE'S
9:50:21AM THE MURAL BEAUTIFUL LIGHT THERE.
9:50:23AM SO WE NEEDED THAT TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT THERE IS PROGRESS
9:50:26AM GOING ON IN THE CRA.
9:50:27AM AND THAT THERE IS SOMETHING POSITIVE THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
9:50:29AM IN THE FUTURE.
9:50:30AM SO THAT GIVES PEOPLE A BUILDING THAT IS NOT HELPLESS,
9:50:34AM THAT -- A FEELING THAT IT IS NOT HOPELESS THAT CHANGES ARE
9:50:38AM COME TO THE AREA.
9:50:40AM THE NEW RESIDENTS DEVELOPMENT, WE HAVE A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT
9:50:42AM GOING ON IN THE CRA, PARTICULARLY THE NORTH HYDE PARK AREA,
9:50:47AM THE REDEVELOPMENT, AND THEY ARE BOTH LARGE AND SMALL.
9:50:50AM A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL AND THE LARGEST DEVELOPMENT GOING ON IN
9:50:53AM THE CRA OF WEST TAMPA.
9:50:56AM IT'S THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT BEING LED BY TAMPA HOUSING
9:50:59AM AUTHORITY, ONE OF OUR GREAT PARTNERS AND FRIENDS OF WEST
9:51:03AM TAMPA, AND REPORTS THAT THEY HAVE THREE PROJECTS TO CONFIRM
9:51:09AM FUNDING AND TWO OTHERS THAT ATTEMPTED FUNDING THAT RESULT IN
9:51:12AM TWO SENIOR PROJECTS AND THREE MULTIFAMILY STARTED
9:51:17AM CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR.
9:51:19AM ONE OF THOSE BEING THE BETHUNE HIGH-RISE WILL NOT BE KNOCKED
9:51:23AM DOWN.
9:51:23AM THEY ARE GOING TO RENOVATE IT BACK.
9:51:25AM AND THAT'S SOMETHING BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THEY ARE
9:51:27AM DOING IS THEIR APPROACH IS TO BRING THE SENIOR CITIZENS LIKE
9:51:30AM MYSELF, YOU KNOW, BRING BACK OPPORTUNITY FOR HOUSING FOR
9:51:33AM THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE DISPLACED AND THEY WANT TO TAKE THE
9:51:37AM OLDER PEOPLE AND MOVE ON TO THE REST OF THE FAMILIES.
9:51:41AM TO GET HOUSING.
9:51:42AM BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS.
9:51:44AM AND CONNIE BURTON WILL TELL YOU ONE THOUSAND TIMES, THERE
9:51:47AM ISN'T ENOUGH AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN TAMPA.
9:51:50AM SO HOPEFULLY THAT COMES BACK, AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT WILL BE
9:51:53AM SPURRED BY THAT.
9:51:56AM A WHAT THE CITY HAS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH THAT AND
9:51:59AM EVERYBODY MOVING FORWARD ALONG WITH THIS BILLION DOLLAR
9:52:02AM INTERSTATE SYSTEM THAT'S GOING TO BE BUILT WITH.
9:52:05AM SO IT'S A GREAT DAY IN WEST TAMPA WEST OF THE RIVER.
9:52:08AM THE OTHER THING IS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER, CITY
9:52:15AM COUNCIL GUYS ON THE OTHER HALF EXPANDED THE CITY'S
9:52:18AM BROWNFIELDS DESIGNATION TO INCLUDE THE WEST RIVER AREA, AND
9:52:22AM SOME PROPERTIES SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE.
9:52:24AM AND THIS PAVES THE WAY FOR OWNERS OF CONTAMINATED LAND TO
9:52:30AM SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP.
9:52:32AM AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH, WITH
9:52:36AM CERTAIN BROWNFIELD, BECAUSE OF CERTAIN AREAS IN WEST TAMPA
9:52:39AM ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT WERE INDUSTRIAL AND THERE WERE
9:52:41AM CHEMICALS AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.
9:52:43AM SO WE APPRECIATE THAT DESIGNATION BECAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR THE
9:52:46AM DEVELOPMENT TO GET SOME WAY TO REDEVELOP IT AND CLEAN UP THE
9:52:50AM ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD THAT EXISTS.
9:52:53AM OTHER ITEM IS THAT LASTLY THE CITY OF TAMPA STAFF -- AND I
9:52:57AM WANT TO THANK THE STAFF OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, MICHELLE, THEY
9:53:01AM PUT UP WITH JOE ROBINSON.
9:53:04AM THAT'S A GOOD THING.
9:53:04AM THEY PUT UP WITH ME.
9:53:06AM THEY DONE PASSED THE TEST.
9:53:08AM BUT THEY HAVE REALLY BEEN HELPFUL.
9:53:12AM CRYING SOMETIMES FELT SO BAD, BEEN SO HARD ON THEM.
9:53:15AM BUT THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY BEEN HELPFUL.
9:53:17AM AND WHAT YOU SEE BECAUSE OF ALL OF THAT, WE HAVE A GREAT
9:53:20AM PRODUCT.
9:53:20AM WE ARE APPROACHING THE WEST TAMPA CRA-CAC A LITTLE DIFFERENT
9:53:26AM THAN MOST CRA ADVISORY COMMITTEES, NOT JUST BECAUSE I'M HERE
9:53:31AM BUT BECAUSE WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE TOTAL PICTURE AND HAVE IT
9:53:34AM EXACT AND TRY TO LASER IN HOW WE WANT THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE
9:53:37AM DEVELOPED.
9:53:38AM BUT WE ALSO IMPROVE COMMUNICATIONS AND INPUT FROM EVERYONE.
9:53:42AM INPUT.
9:53:43AM IT'S VERY CRUCIAL TO LISTENING TO EVERYBODY ON THE STREET
9:53:46AM LEVEL AND EVERYTHING ELSE TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT.
9:53:50AM AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I STRESS IS LISTENING TO EVERY
9:53:53AM INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER THEY COME IN AND DON'T WANT TO SAY
9:53:58AM SOMETHING, HAVE TO CALL THE POLICE TO SAY TO GET OUT.
9:54:01AM WE LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY.
9:54:03AM THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVING A QUALITY, LIVABLE, WORKABLE
9:54:07AM PLAN IN THE COMMUNITY.
9:54:08AM AND SO WE RECENTLY, FDOT, TOOK US ON A LISTENING TOUR
9:54:15AM MEANING THEY WERE LISTENING TO US TALK, LISTENING TO US SHOW
9:54:19AM THEM WHAT'S IN WEST TAMPA BESIDES THE INTERSTATE, THAT
9:54:23AM WHENEVER THEY DO THE INTERSTATE, IT IMPACTS THE LOCAL
9:54:25AM COMMUNITY, AND WE HAVE A NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, WE HAVE
9:54:29AM CERTAIN CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND CULTURES THERE IN WEST TAMPA
9:54:32AM THAT NEED TO BE DEALT WITH.
9:54:33AM SO WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING THIS BILLION DOLLAR ECONOMIC ENGINE,
9:54:37AM WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE SOME OF THAT BILLION DOLLAR
9:54:40AM RUNOFF IN OUR IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:54:42AM AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE GOT THE LISTENING EAR.
9:54:47AM WE DEVELOPED A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH DAVID GWYNN,
9:54:51AM THE SECRETARY.
9:54:53AM IT'S VERY CRUCIAL TO HAVE THOSE TYPES OF PEOPLE LISTENING TO
9:54:56AM WHAT THE ISSUES ARE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
9:55:00AM FOR EXAMPLE THE POND THAT SITS ON MAIN STREET AND WILLOW, WE
9:55:04AM ARE RIDING BY, AND DAVID GWYNN, SAYS IS THAT INTENSIFYING?
9:55:11AM ISAIAH.
9:55:13AM SEE ALL THAT PAPER AND TRASH IN IT?
9:55:16AM THE NEXT DAY THEY WERE OUT THERE PICKING UP ALL THE PAPER
9:55:18AM AND TRASH OUT OF THE POND AND CLEANING IT UP.
9:55:21AM SO ONCE AGAIN HAVING HIM COME DOWN, COME OVER THERE BY SOUTH
9:55:25AM FLORIDA, COME DOWN TO WEST TAMPA, RIDE AROUND, GET A FEEL,
9:55:28AM SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IN GETTING STUFF
9:55:31AM DONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
9:55:33AM AND THAT'S WHAT I AM ABOUT IS CREATING RELATIONSHIPS THAT
9:55:37AM LAST FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
9:55:39AM SO WE TOOK THE DISTRICT 7 SECRETARY ALONG WITH OTHER FDOT
9:55:43AM STAFF.
9:55:44AM WE WANTED ALL THE STAFF, CHLOE, AND IT WAS SIMILAR TO THE
9:55:52AM ONE THEY DID IN EAST TAMPA, AND THEN DID ONE IN WEST TAMPA.
9:55:55AM BUT I TELL THEM IN WEST TAMPA WE DON THINGS A LITTLE
9:55:58AM DIFFERENT, RIGHT, CHARLIE?
9:55:59AM SO I TOLD THEM, YOU KNOW, IN WEST TAMPA WE WANT TO HAVE A
9:56:02AM LITTLE DIFFERENT MIX ON THE BUS, WE WANT TO HAVE A LITTLE
9:56:07AM DIFFERENT FEEL ON THE BUS, WE DON'T WANT JUST HAVE HART AND
9:56:11AM CITY STAFF AND LEROY AND OTHERS.
9:56:14AM WE WANT OTHER FOLKS AND THEY AGREED TO THAT.
9:56:16AM AND LEROY, HE PRESENTED THE EFFORTS THAT THEY ARE DOING WITH
9:56:19AM TAMPA HOUSING IN THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT, AND ALSO
9:56:23AM PRESENTED THEM INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THAT WOULD IMPACT THE
9:56:26AM COMMUNITY.
9:56:27AM AND IN ADDITION ON THE BUS, I BROUGHT THE HILLSBOROUGH
9:56:30AM COUNTY NAACP PRESIDENT, MR. LEWIS, AS PART OF THE FDOT
9:56:36AM LISTENING TEAM BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN TOTAL INCLUSION IN THE
9:56:38AM COMMUNITY, AND THEY ARE A VITAL PARK TO MAKING SURE THAT THE
9:56:41AM COMMUNITY OF COLOR HAS INPUT AND BEING INVOLVED IN WHAT WE
9:56:46AM DO IN WEST TAMPA, BECAUSE WE ARE AN ECLECTIC MIX AND VERY
9:56:52AM DIVERSE AREA IN WEST TAMPA AND I ALWAYS KEEP THAT IN
9:56:56AM CONSIDERATION.
9:56:57AM ONCE AGAIN, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT HAS COME ABOUT IS
9:57:01AM THE WEST TAMPA MULTIMODAL BIKE LANES, SIDEWALK, COMPLETE
9:57:08AM STREETS STUDY THAT WAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED I BELIEVE IN
9:57:11AM SEPTEMBER.
9:57:12AM SO WE HAVE GOT THAT AND REAR VIEWING IT BECAUSE THEY GOT A
9:57:15AM BIG ROUNDABOUT THEY WANT TO PUT AT THE BASE OF COLUMBUS
9:57:17AM DRIVE AND ROME AVENUE.
9:57:20AM THEY WANT TO TAKE BEACH STREET ALL THE WAY FROM THE CITY'S
9:57:23AM PROPERTY AND HAVE IT RUN STRAIGHT THROUGH ALL THE WAY DOWN
9:57:26AM PAST THE DALE MABRY BIKE LANES, BIKE WHAT HAVE YOU.
9:57:31AM THERE'S A LOT OF COMPLETE STREETS ON MAIN.
9:57:36AM JUST A WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS ARE IN THAT STUDY THAT WE ARE
9:57:38AM GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT.
9:57:40AM IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME IT'S BEEN PRODUCED BUTCH THAT WILL
9:57:42AM BE THE FIRST TIME OF THAT WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT SO THAT'S TO
9:57:46AM KIND OF HELP SOMEONE, I GUESS THE MPO COME OVER AND EXPLAIN
9:57:49AM THAT TO US AND HAVE A LITTLE DIALOGUE.
9:57:51AM BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I TRY TO DO IS BRING PEOPLE TO OUR
9:57:54AM MEETINGS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, WE BROUGHT THINKERS, WE
9:58:00AM BROUGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE ARE BRINGING DIVVIED AGENCIES SO
9:58:03AM WE CAN HAVE A COMPLETE IDEA OF WHAT CAN GO ON TO DEVICE THE
9:58:07AM SO-CALLED SLUM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
9:58:11AM ONE OF THE MOST RECENT THINGS -- AND I TELL BOB BUCKHORN,
9:58:17AM CON LECHE IN THE CUP WHEN THE REPORTER FROM CHANNEL 10 NEWS
9:58:22AM WANTED TO TALK ABOUT STREETLIGHTS.
9:58:24AM BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR IS
9:58:26AM STREETLIGHTS, BECAUSE THAT'S AN EASY TO DO, IT ALREADY BEEN
9:58:30AM FUNDED, AND TECO HAS BEEN TALKING AND THE CITY HAS BEEN
9:58:34AM TALKING AND EVERYBODY IS TALKING, AND YOU CAN'T PUT UP
9:58:38AM LIGHTS WITHOUT A DESIGN BEING, BEING AN ENGINEER I KNOW
9:58:41AM THAT, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT CRIME IS RAMPANT AND I KNOW THAT
9:58:45AM STREETLIGHTING DOES SOMEWHAT DECREASE IF NOT ELIMINATE CRIME
9:58:49AM IN CERTAIN AREAS, AND IF YOU HAVE A CAMERA YOU CAN SEE
9:58:52AM WHAT'S ON THE CAMERA IF YOU HAVE GOT ADEQUATE LIGHT.
9:58:55AM SO TECO CAME IN, CITY CAME IN, THEY MADE PRESENTATIONS.
9:58:59AM SO I SAID, OKAY, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, LET'S GET THE PUBLIC
9:59:02AM INVOLVED.
9:59:03AM SO THERE'S A STORY DONE WHERE THE LADY WANTED TO SHOW HER
9:59:07AM THE STREETLIGHT ISSUES WHICH WE DID.
9:59:09AM AND BECAUSE OF THAT TECO ON CAMERA SAID THAT 2019, WE ARE
9:59:13AM GOING TO BE IN WEST TAMPA INITIATING THE L.E.D. LIGHTS IN
9:59:17AM WEST TAMPA.
9:59:18AM ALL THE OLD SODIUM, ALL THE OLD LIGHTS COME OUT, AND THEY
9:59:22AM ARE GOING TO PUT IN THESE NEW WHAT THEY CALL HIGH KELVIN
9:59:26AM LIGHTS THAT ARE MORE EFFICIENT AND A LOT -- LAST LONGER, AND
9:59:30AM THEY ALSO BEAUTIFY THE AREA, AND GIVE YOU WHAT'S CALLED
9:59:35AM WHITE LIGHT SO YOU CAN SEE BETTER.
9:59:38AM THAT'S ONE BIG THING THAT I AM HOPING, PROBABLY BEFORE ANY
9:59:41AM OF THE HOUSING, ANY OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS, IS THE
9:59:44AM STREETLIGHTING.
9:59:44AM YOU GET STREETLIGHTING JUST IN THE CRA AREA OF WEST TAMPA,
9:59:49AM YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE IMMEDIATELY.
9:59:51AM AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHAT TECO IS DOING IS THEY ARE AS YOU
9:59:56AM CALL FOR LIGHT BEING OUT, THEY COME IN AND PUT AN L.E.D. BUT
10:00:00AM IT'S NOT THE FINAL L.E.D.
10:00:03AM SO IF YOU GO DOWN RIGHT NOW CHARLIE, AND YOU LOOK DOWN
10:00:06AM OVER -- AND MR. MANISCALCO, YOU LOOK DOWN MacDILL, I WAS
10:00:11AM THERE THE OTHER NIGHT AND THEY ALREADY HAVE SOME L.E.D.'S ON
10:00:14AM MacDILL.
10:00:15AM YOU CAN JUST SEE THEM BY ST. JOSEPH, MY OLD SCHOOL.
10:00:19AM YOU CAN JUST SEE THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES ON MacDILL.
10:00:22AM AND THAT'S JUST A TEST.
10:00:23AM THEY ARE REPLACING THAT.
10:00:25AM IT PROBABLY NOT THE FINAL KELVIN BE LED LIGHTS.
10:00:34AM AND OF COURSE THE TREE TRIMMING THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT
10:00:37AM BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST LATE BUT IF IT DOESN'T GET
10:00:40AM DOWN TO THE LEVEL WHERE THE PERSON IS IT DOES NO GOOD.
10:00:43AM SO WE HAVE A LOT OF CANOPY OAKS IN WEST TAMPA.
10:00:47AM FINALLY, I JUST WANT TO SAY I APPRECIATE EVERYONE,
10:00:52AM ESPECIALLY THIS BOARD WORKING WITH US, WHERE YOU GUYS PRETTY
10:00:58AM MUCH GIVE US APPROVAL AFTER DISCUSSION, AND A FEW COMMENTS.
10:01:02AM AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT BEING THAT THIS IS THE END OF
10:01:05AM THE YEAR, HAPPY HANUKKAH, MR. COHEN, MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY
10:01:11AM HOLIDAY, AND CHARLIE AND GUIDO, FELIZ NAVIDAD.
10:01:20AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:01:20AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE BOARD?
10:01:22AM NO?
10:01:22AM MR. MCDONAUGH?
10:01:23AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: GOOD MORNING.
10:01:27AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
10:01:28AM JUST A COUPLE OF OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE OTHER CRAs.
10:01:33AM YBOR IS PREPARING TO UPDATE THEIR VISION PLAN.
10:01:36AM AGAIN YOU HAVE SEEN THIS WITH VIRTUALLY ALL OF OUR CRAs.
10:01:38AM SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE PLANS THAT ARE SEVERAL YEARS OLD, SO
10:01:42AM THEY ARE UPDATING TO MAKE SURE IT REFLECTS CURRENT
10:01:45AM CONDITIONS.
10:01:49AM WE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL SNOW ON 7th.
10:01:51AM THEY HAVE SELECTED A VENDOR FOR THE UPGRADE TO THE
10:01:53AM CENTENNIAL PARK SOUND SYSTEM.
10:01:55AM SO YOU WILL SEE THOSE BEING INSTALLED SHORTLY.
10:01:59AM UNDERTAKING OF A VARIETY OF MAINTENANCE ISSUES THERE IN THE
10:02:01AM DISTRICT.
10:02:04AM VERY BUSY SEASON RIGHT NOW IN DOWNTOWN.
10:02:07AM I THINK WE SAW THAT WITH THE BIKE RIDE LAST WEEKEND.
10:02:10AM THAT REALLY TIGHTENED THINGS UP.
10:02:13AM FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, THEIR HOLIDAY POPS IS AT THE STRAZ THIS
10:02:17AM WEEKEND.
10:02:18AM AMALIE ARENA HAS EVENTS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT COMING UP THE
10:02:22AM NEXT FEW WEEKS.
10:02:24AM ON THE 22ND FOR FOLKS THAT LIKE TO GET OUT TO BE SEE
10:02:27AM SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS THE LIGHTED BOAT PARADE, AND A GREAT
10:02:29AM PLACE TO WATCH IT FROM WILL BE THE CONVENTION CENTER.
10:02:33AM EAST TAMPA IS CONTINUING TO WORK WITH REAL ESTATE
10:02:35AM TRANSPORTATION FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION FOR THE 34th
10:02:38AM STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
10:02:41AM AND THE TREE LIGHTING IN EAST TAMPA IS TOMORROW NIGHT.
10:02:44AM IN THE HEIGHT THEY ARE CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY, THE
10:02:46AM OFFICE BUILDING IS UNDERWAY.
10:02:49AM COMPLETION OF THE RIVERWALK IS DONE.
10:02:50AM AND I THINK YOU HAVE SOMETHING COMING TO COUNCIL WHERE THE
10:02:53AM CDD IS LOOKING TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT FOR STREETLIGHTS,
10:02:58AM THAT ENTIRE PUD
10:03:00AM DREW PARK, WORKING WITH CONTRACT MANAGEMENT TO HIRE A
10:03:04AM CONTRACTOR FOR THE PARK.
10:03:06AM AND THEY ARE ALSO WORKING TO UPDATE THE STRATEGIC ACTION
10:03:09AM PLAN AS WELL.
10:03:10AM AND IN WEST TAMPA --
10:03:16AM >>FRANK REDDICK: MR. MCDONAUGH, WHEN DO YOU PREDICT THAT
10:03:21AM WORK WILL BEGIN?
10:03:26AM >> HONESTLY I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED THE
10:03:29AM COMPLETION BUT I WILL GET THAT DATE FROM TRANSPORTATION.
10:03:32AM I KNOW IT HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE PROJECT.
10:03:34AM AS A MATTER OF FACT I THINK ON THIS NEXT AGENDA, CITY
10:03:36AM COUNCIL APPROVES A COUPLE OF PARCELS SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT.
10:03:42AM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
10:03:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. MCDONAUGH.
10:03:47AM ITEM NUMBER 3 IS A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE TAMPA BAY RAYS
10:03:52AM STADIUM THAT APPARENTLY IS NOT GOING TO BE BUILT IN YBOR
10:03:54AM CITY.
10:03:56AM MR. MIRANDA?
10:03:57AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, IF YOU SAY IT'S NOT GOING
10:03:59AM TO BE BUILT, YOU KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW.
10:04:02AM BECAUSE ALL THE MEDIA SAYS IT'S A GAME OF PING-PONG, AND WE
10:04:05AM ONLY SEE IT ON NEWSPAPER, TELEVISION AND HEAR IT ON THE
10:04:09AM RADIO.
10:04:09AM AND IT'S LIKE LOOKING AT A SPORTS VENUE WITH THE TV ON AND
10:04:15AM NO PICTURE BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
10:04:18AM AND I THINK WE ARE ENTITLED TO KNOW THINGS LIKE WHAT THE
10:04:21AM REAL FUNDING IS, THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING, IS IT GOING TO
10:04:28AM BE A PUBLIC VOTE?
10:04:29AM IS IT GOING TO BE A PUBLIC VOTE?
10:04:31AM IT WILL BE A VOTE JUST BY ELECTED OFFICIALS.
10:04:33AM NO ONE KNOWS.
10:04:34AM NO ONE SAYS.
10:04:36AM A LOT OF PEOPLE CARE.
10:04:37AM IT AN ELECTION TIME COMING.
10:04:39AM AND I THINK THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, ALL THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL
10:04:41AM SHOULD KNOW EVERYTHING FROM ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS RUNNING
10:04:45AM FOR CITY COUNCIL AND RUNNING FOR MAYOR SO THAT THEY CAN
10:04:47AM EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC WHAT THEIR FEELINGS ARE.
10:04:50AM DON'T TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
10:04:52AM TELL ME HOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT.
10:04:53AM AND MOST OF ALL TELL ME HOW YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT.
10:04:56AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: AND THERE HAS BEEN LOTS OF TALKS AND
10:05:05AM DISCUSSION ABOUT THE BASEBALL STADIUM.
10:05:06AM THE RAYS SPENT A LOT OF TIME LOOKING FOR A SITE AND SPENT A
10:05:09AM LOT OF TIME WITH A DESIGN.
10:05:11AM AND THEN FINALLY CAME UP WITH EXACTLY HOW MUCH IT WAS GOING
10:05:14AM TO COST.
10:05:15AM AND SO THEY HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH ACTUALLY THE CITY
10:05:22AM AND THE COUNTY AND HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR FINANCIAL
10:05:24AM ADVISORS AND A LAWYER WHO IS WELL VERSED IN THIS AND LOOKED
10:05:29AM AT THE VARIOUS TRAUNCHES OF POTENTIAL FUNDING AND HENCE THIS
10:05:37AM LETTER THAT WAS DEVELOPED BY MIKE MERRILL.
10:05:39AM THERE HAVE BEEN IN OPEN NEGOTIATION WAS THE RAYS.
10:05:42AM THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THERE'S BEEN SOMETHING PUT DOWN
10:05:45AM IN PAPER SAYING THAT THIS IS KIND OF A BROAD LOOK AT IT, AND
10:05:49AM I THINK YOU SAW THE RESPONSE IN THE NEWSPAPER.
10:05:52AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE RESPONSE
10:05:55AM WAS.
10:05:56AM BUT BEING IN PUBLIC OFFICE FOR A LONG TIME, THAT DOESN'T
10:06:00AM MEAN -- BECAUSE THAT CAN CHANGE.
10:06:05AM I THINK THAT'S A PLOY OF SOME SORT.
10:06:08AM NOT TO SAY ANY BAD MANNERISM.
10:06:11AM IT A BUSINESS TOOL TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU CAN GET THE BEST
10:06:13AM DEAL.
10:06:13AM AND NOT FOR THE PUBLIC'S SAKE, BUT IN MY OPINION, BUT YOU
10:06:17AM COMPARE THIS CITY WITH ST. PETERSBURG, AND WE ARE REALLY ONE
10:06:22AM UNIT, ONE CITY, ONE AREA.
10:06:24AM WE DO BUSINESS WITH ST. PETE, CLEARWATER, AND WE ARE A
10:06:27AM METROPOLITAN AREA.
10:06:27AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT TRANSPORTATION, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CITY OF
10:06:29AM TAMPA.
10:06:30AM IT'S ABOUT ALL OF US IN TRANSPORTATION.
10:06:32AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT DIFFERENT THINGS IT'S ABOUT ALL OF US.
10:06:35AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT FUNDING OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, THAT'S WHAT
10:06:38AM THIS IS.
10:06:40AM IT'S HARD TO SWALLOW THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE SOMETHING TO
10:06:43AM SOMEBODY -- NOT YOU, SIR, DON'T GET ME WRONG WHEN I SAY
10:06:46AM THAT -- YOU MEANING US -- THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THE
10:06:51AM POSSIBILITY OF GOING INTO DEBT FOR OVER A BILLION DOLLARS,
10:06:53AM WHEN THE CITY DEBT IS APPROACHING $900 MILLION.
10:06:57AM AND THESE ARE THE THINGS, AND YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS IN THE
10:07:00AM CITY OF TAMPA THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED, LIKE THE LINES OF
10:07:04AM WATER UNDERGROUND, THE LINES TO TERTIARY PLANT, THAT IN MY
10:07:10AM OPINION, IT'S MY OPINION, IT'S A BILLION DOLLARS EACH TO
10:07:12AM REPLACE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO.
10:07:15AM AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO FUND ALL OF THAT AND HOW ARE WE
10:07:17AM GOING TO FUND -- WATER DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.
10:07:21AM WHAT DO WATER DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS MEAN?
10:07:23AM HOW DOES SOMEBODY WHO BOUGHT SOMETHING FOR 40 MILLION AND
10:07:27AM THAT'S WHAT YOU PAY, YOU OWE 160 MILLION.
10:07:31AM ASSUME THE DEBT.
10:07:32AM SOMETHING THAT'S GROWN IN VALUE FROM 200 MILLION TO OVER A
10:07:34AM BILLION DOLLARS, ASK FOR MONEY FROM THE GENERAL TAXPAYERS?
10:07:39AM I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND ALL THAT.
10:07:41AM MAYBE I'M NAIVE.
10:07:42AM >> NOBODY EVER CALLED YOU NAIVE.
10:07:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, THEY HAVE CALLED ME NAIVE WITHOUT
10:07:50AM HAIR.
10:07:50AM BUT WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IT'S JUST UNDERSTANDABLE,
10:07:54AM UNDERSTANDABLE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE THINGS, AND
10:07:58AM NO ONE HAS EXPLAINED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC WATER DEVELOPMENT
10:08:01AM RIGHTS.
10:08:01AM THE PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS ARE.
10:08:04AM YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN ASSUMPTION OF WHAT THEY ARE.
10:08:07AM AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO THE GENERAL FUND?
10:08:09AM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO ALL THE FUNDS?
10:08:11AM AND IN MY OPINION, JUST MY OPINION -- MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAY
10:08:17AM THIS, BUT WHATEVER CROSSES MY MIND I SAY IT -- THEY NEVER
10:08:22AM HAD THE INTENTIONS OF COMING HERE.
10:08:23AM IT WAS ANOTHER CAN PLOY TO GET A BETTER DEAL SOMEWHERE ELSE
10:08:26AM LIKE IN PORTLAND, OREGON.
10:08:28AM AND WORKING ON THE THINGS AND DEVELOPING THE THINGS SO THEY
10:08:30AM CAN SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:08:32AM I WAS TURNED DOWN.
10:08:33AM YOU WEREN'T TURNED DOWN.
10:08:34AM YOU WERE TOO GREEDY TO BE TURNED DOWN, SO YOU WERE TURNED
10:08:37AM DOWN.
10:08:38AM THAT'S JUST MY OPINION, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:08:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS?
10:08:42AM I JUST FOLLOW THE NEWS ON WHAT'S HAPPENED THIS WEEK FROM THE
10:08:45AM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COMMISSIONER AND HIS RESPONSE.
10:08:48AM BUT AS MR. MIRANDA SAID, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S
10:08:51AM HAPPENING.
10:08:51AM WE SEE WHAT THE PUBLIC SEES.
10:08:54AM BUT GOING OUT TO THE DISTRICT I REPRESENT, PEOPLE DON'T ASK
10:08:57AM ME ABOUT BASEBALL.
10:09:00AM THEY ASK ABOUT WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THE STREETS?
10:09:03AM THAT'S THE MAIN CONCERN ON THEIR MIND, IS HOW IS YOUR
10:09:06AM INVESTMENT IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?
10:09:07AM SO THAT'S IT.
10:09:08AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:09:09AM ALL RIGHT.
10:09:09AM WE WILL NOW GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:09:12AM INDIVIDUALS WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK ON ANY MATTER
10:09:15AM ON THE AGENDA.
10:09:16AM MR. MARTIN.
10:09:17AM >>JORGE MARTIN: THE CRA OPERATES UNDER THE SAME RULES AS
10:09:22AM THE CITY COUNCIL.
10:09:25AM 30 MINUTES ARE MADE AVAILABLE FOR COMMENTS FOR PUBLIC
10:09:31AM SPEAKING ON ITEMS NOT SET FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
10:09:35AM IF IT'S A MATTER SET FOR A PUBLIC HEARING YOU WILL HAVE AN
10:09:37AM OPPORTUNITY LATER DURING TODAY'S MEETING TO SPEAK ON IT.
10:09:42AM SPEAKERS ADDRESSING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA WILL BE GIVEN
10:09:46AM REFERENCE TO CITIZENS SPEAKING ON NONAGENDAED MATTERS.
10:09:51AM EACH SPEAKER IS GIVEN THREE MINUTES.
10:09:52AM PLEASE BEGIN YOUR PRESENTATION BY STATING YOUR NAME AND FOR
10:09:55AM THE RECORD IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOUR COMMENTS NOT BE
10:09:59AM DIRECTED PERSONALLY TO A CRA MEMBER OR STAFF MEMBER BUT
10:10:03AM RATHER INTRODUCED DIRECTLY TO CRA AS A BODY.
10:10:09AM THE CRA APPRECIATES YOUR COOPERATION IN MAINTAINING ORDERLY
10:10:13AM CONDUCT AND PROPER DECORUM.
10:10:15AM THANK YOU.
10:10:15AM >> I AM WORLDWIDE GLOBAL DESPOT SOVEREIGN JOHNNY BERNARD
10:10:25AM BOOTH.
10:10:29AM I AM EVERYBODY'S LEADER, EVERYBODY'S KING, EVERYBODY'S, ALL
10:10:37AM HOUSES ARE IN MY HOUSEHOLD.
10:10:39AM NOW, IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH TO JANUARY TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THIS.
10:10:45AM TRUMP, SPLENDOR, ESOL, JESUS IF YOU WANT TO CALL HIM BY HIS
10:10:51AM REAL NAME, BECAUSE HE'S APPEARING AS CAUCASIAN BUT THAT'S MY
10:10:55AM BROTHER, AND I TOLD YOU THAT YOU BE MY BROTHER.
10:10:58AM OKAY.
10:11:00AM STOP HARRASSING OUR PEOPLE. IF YOU CONTINUE WITH YOUR
10:11:05AM VIOLENCE AND YOUR RACISM AND YOUR HATE TOWARDS THE PEOPLE.
10:11:08AM STOP IT.
10:11:10AM ALL RIGHT.
10:11:11AM PEOPLE STOP HARASSING DONALD TRUMP.
10:11:13AM YOU HAVE GOT TO UNDERSTAND, HE JUST BROUGHT YOU OUT OF YOUR
10:11:17AM SLAVERY PREDICAMENT.
10:11:18AM YOU HERE AT CITY HALL, YOU HEAR TALKING ABOUT -- TRUMP IS
10:11:26AM THE ONLY ONE THAT'S GOING TO EVER CLEAR ANY OF THOSE DEBTS
10:11:29AM AND FREE YOU FOR ANYTHING.
10:11:32AM ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE ARE PLANNING ON KEEPING YOU LOCKED
10:11:36AM DOWN FOREVER AND ARE.
10:11:39AM AND THAT'S TRUE.
10:11:39AM YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
10:11:42AM FUNDING IS BELOW ZERO, ZERO, ZERO, ZERO, ZERO R NEGATIVE.
10:11:46AM WE ARE POSITIVE.
10:11:48AM YOU CAN'T EVEN REACH UP HERE.
10:11:54AM WE AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
10:11:56AM WE ARE APPROVED 14 TRILLION UNLIMITED.
10:11:59AM UNLIMITED.
10:12:00AM THAT CASH AIN'T GOING NOWHERE.
10:12:03AM AND THEN WE HAVE REAL FUNDING, NO DEBT TERM NOTES.
10:12:11AM SOVEREIGNS ALLOWED.
10:12:13AM REAL MONEY.
10:12:15AM SO COME JANUARY, TAMPA IS GOING TO SUSTAIN REAL MONEY, AND I
10:12:21AM SAID IT THAT WAY BECAUSE TAMPA BAY IS THE FIRST REINSTATED
10:12:24AM AMERICAN SOUL.
10:12:25AM YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND.
10:12:25AM THIS ISN'T JUST COMMERCIAL TAMPA.
10:12:27AM THIS ISN'T JUST TAMPA.
10:12:29AM BUT THIS ISN'T JUST HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:12:31AM BUT THIS IS TAMPA, T-A-M-P-A.
10:12:35AM THE SOVEREIGN LAND.
10:12:38AM AND THIS IS COMMERCIAL TAMPA BAY.
10:12:44AM BUT SOVEREIGN FIRST.
10:12:45AM BE KINGS AND QUEENS FIRST.
10:12:47AM [BELL SOUNDS]
10:12:56AM THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE MESSIAH CHRIST.
10:13:00AM THAT'S WHY WE KNOW WHAT SERVANTS DO BUT WE ARE LEADERS THAT
10:13:02AM DON'T MIND GETTING OUR HANDS DOWN AND GETTING THE WORK DONE
10:13:06AM OTHER THAN LIKE OTHERS WHO WOULD NOT DO NOTHING.
10:13:10AM DONALD TRUMP AIN'T EVER LIED TO ANY OF YOU.
10:13:14AM YOU JUST LACKED INFORMATION.
10:13:17AM UNEDUCATED.
10:13:18AM THANK YOU.
10:13:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:13:21AM NEXT SPEAKER.
10:13:22AM >> CONNIE BURTON.
10:13:28AM GOOD MORNING.
10:13:29AM I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON -- WELL, THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
10:13:34AM TRANSPORTATION RELATIONSHIP AS IT RELATES TO THE AFRICAN
10:13:38AM COMMUNITY IS HISTORIC.
10:13:40AM ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A VIBRANT CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:13:45AM AND AS A RESULT OF NOT NO ONE PARTICULAR PERSON BEING CALLED
10:13:51AM OUT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PLAN OF HOW IT WAS GOING TO ADVANCE
10:13:56AM TAMPA, THEN THAT MEANT THAT AN ENTIRE AFRICAN BUSINESS
10:14:01AM DISTRICT WAS WIPED OUT.
10:14:03AM ONLY TO BE REPLACED WITH A PARK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
10:14:07AM AND SO WHEN WE LOOKED AT NOW OUR PLAN TO IMPROVE
10:14:14AM TRANSPORTATION, I CAN ONLY THINK ABOUT HOW EAST TAMPA'S
10:14:19AM ECONOMICALLY DRAINED BECAUSE OF HAVING LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY
10:14:25AM TO TRAFFIC THAT'S BLOWING THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
10:14:29AM I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW 40th STREET WAS SHUT DOWN.
10:14:32AM AND NOW PEOPLE ARE SAYING FLORIBRASKA.
10:14:35AM I WOULD THINK A BETTER AND HONEST DISCUSSION SHOULD BE, SAY
10:14:38AM WE JUST NEED IT BECAUSE.
10:14:40AM NOT BECAUSE OF FLORIBRASKA.
10:14:46AM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MANEUVERING GOING THROUGH THAT JUNCTION
10:14:50AM EVEN BEFORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS CAME UP.
10:14:53AM SO THE BRUNT OF ADVANCEMENT FOR OH FDOT MEANS THAT THE
10:14:59AM AFRICAN COMMUNITY AGAIN HAS TO TOTE THE LOAD FOR THIS CITY
10:15:03AM WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED OUT OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
10:15:06AM I HOPE YOU ALL TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION MOVING FORWARD.
10:15:08AM 26 YEARS FROM NOW, YOU KNOW, I WILL BE BACK HERE, PROBABLY
10:15:12AM WON'T BE DOWN HERE, BUT THE LEGACY OF WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR
10:15:15AM DECISIONS WILL HAVE A GREAT IMPACT.
10:15:19AM IN TERMS OF THE CRA, I WANT TO SAY THIS.
10:15:21AM I PROBABLY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RENT ANYTHING IN RIVERFRONT
10:15:25AM PARK.
10:15:26AM I THINK THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS.
10:15:28AM AS PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY THAT WOULD LIKE TO DO
10:15:31AM SOMETHING, KNOWING THAT IT WAS TAXPAYERS MONEY THAT IMPROVED
10:15:34AM THAT PARK, AND NOW YOU NEED ABOUT $3,000 TO GET IN THERE.
10:15:40AM THE CRA THAT EXISTS IN EAST TAMPA FOR THE LAST FROM 09 TO 14
10:15:47AM HAD ABOUT $25 MILLION.
10:15:48AM LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THAT COMMUNITY.
10:15:52AM WE HAVE HAD ONE LOAN CITY ENGINEER THAT HAS LED THE TRAIN.
10:16:00AM THEY KEEP IT BLIGHTED.
10:16:01AM THEY KEEP IT HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT WHEN THEY CAN SHOW YOU A
10:16:04AM LITTLE TON OF STATISTICS TO SHOW IT HAS SOME JOB TRAINING
10:16:08AM OPPORTUNITIES.
10:16:09AM WE HAVE NO REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THAT COMMUNITY.
10:16:12AM WE DO NOT HAVE A HOUSING SPOT.
10:16:13AM PEOPLE THAT IS DEVELOPING IN THAT COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW TELL
10:16:16AM YOU THEY WON'T BUILD A HOUSE UNDER $200,000.
10:16:20AM WHILE THE BULK OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY
10:16:22AM WORK AT WALMART, EATERIES.
10:16:28AM SO WE DON'T HAVE A PLAN.
10:16:29AM WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP AS IT RELATES TO, A, NUMBER ONE, FROM
10:16:33AM THE CRA SUPPORTING THAT, THAT HAS A VISION FOR MOVING OUR
10:16:38AM COMMUNITY FORWARD.
10:16:39AM THANK YOU.
10:16:40AM >>FRANK REDDICK: CONNIE, YOU KNOW, YOU BROUGHT UP
10:16:45AM SOMETHING.
10:16:45AM I FORGOT ABOUT THAT.
10:16:46AM THE 40TH STREET.
10:16:47AM THEY CLOSED 40TH STREET OFF.
10:16:50AM SO YOU GOT AN OPTION TO GO ALL THE WAY TO 50th.
10:16:53AM OR YOU HAVE GOT TO GO TO 21st AND GET ON.
10:16:58AM AND NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT FLORIBRASKA.
10:17:02AM I HOPE D.O.T. WILL RECONSIDER THAT CLOSING THAT FLORIBRASKA
10:17:07AM EXIT, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT BEING FAIR TO THE COMMUNITY THAT
10:17:14AM CONNIE IS DISCUSSING AND TALKING ABOUT.
10:17:16AM BECAUSE YOU ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR US.
10:17:21AM I USED TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE DOWN 40th AND GET ON.
10:17:23AM NOW I CAN GO ALL THE WAY TO 50th STREET JUST TO GET ON
10:17:27AM THE INTERSTATE.
10:17:29AM AND THAT'S NOT FAIR.
10:17:33AM AND YOU ARE GOING TO DO THE SAME THING WITH FLORIBRASKA.
10:17:36AM YOU ARE GOING TO BE ASKED TO WAIT.
10:17:38AM SO I HOPE D.O.T. WILL RECONSIDER THE PLAN ABOUT CLOSING THAT
10:17:43AM RAMP.
10:17:46AM FIND AN ALTERNATIVE RAMP TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT.
10:17:50AM BECAUSE AS HAS BEEN STATED BEFORE, AS YOU JUST SAID, WE IN
10:17:58AM THE BLACK COMMUNITY ARE TIRED BEING ABUSED.
10:18:05AM AND THIS IS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS.
10:18:07AM YOU ARE GOING TO LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN.
10:18:08AM AND IT'S NOT FAIR TO US WHO DRIVE AUTOMOBILES, HAVE TO GO
10:18:15AM OUT OF OUR WAY JUST TO GET ON THE INTERSTATE.
10:18:19AM AND IT WAS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY ON 40TH STREET.
10:18:25AM SO I WOULD HOPE, YOU ALL GIVE GREAT CONSIDERATION NOT TO
10:18:29AM CLOSE FLORIBRASKA RAMP.
10:18:31AM THANK YOU.
10:18:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:18:34AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
10:18:35AM >> GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS SABBATH VEGA.
10:18:41AM I DON'T THINK IT'S RIGHT FOR MY PARENTS NOT TO BE ABLE TO
10:18:44AM PRESS CHARGES.
10:18:44AM BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL MY MOM WAS ATTACKED ON THE SIDE OF THE
10:18:47AM STREET AND IT WAS SHOWN ON VIDEO AND SHE WAS NOT
10:18:50AM EVEN HOLDING UP A SIGN.
10:18:52AM AND THE LADY THAT TRIED TO HURT HER EVEN TRIED TO PUSH HER
10:18:57AM IN THE STREET WITH ONGOING CARS IN MOTION.
10:18:59AM PLUS THE LADY WAS NOT AT THE SIGN SO THERE WAS NO REASON AT
10:19:04AM ALL FOR THE LADY TO START HITTING MY MOM.
10:19:06AM NOT ONLY THAT BUT SHE DID NOT EVEN START THE FIGHT.
10:19:08AM AND AFTER THE INCIDENT, MY MOM CALLED THE COPS, AND 15
10:19:12AM MINUTES LATER THEY ARRIVED, AND IT SHOULD HAVE HAD NOT HAVE
10:19:17AM TAKEN THEM THAT LONG BECAUSE THE POLICE STATION WAS ONE TO
10:19:22AM THREE BLOCKS AWAY AND THERE WAS A COP ACROSS THE STREET AT
10:19:28AM UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA WHICH COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT MY
10:19:30AM PARENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PRESS CHARGES.
10:19:33AM BUT BEFORE ALL OF THAT STUFF HAPPENED, MY DAD HAD BEEN
10:19:37AM HOLDING UP A SIGN.
10:19:39AM WHEN THE LADY CAME AND FIRST HIT HIM, CUT HIS EYE AND THEN
10:19:44AM BUSTED HIS LIP AND HE WAS TRYING TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
10:19:48AM AND WHEN THEY WERE DONE THEY THREATENED TO GO TO THE CAR AND
10:19:52AM PULL OUT A WEAPON.
10:19:54AM SO THEN MY DAD WAS FORCED TO HIT HER AND STOP HER FROM
10:19:57AM GETTING THE WEAPON SO HE COULD PROTECT MY MOM AND HIMSELF
10:20:01AM FROM DANGER.
10:20:03AM WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL WE HAVE IF PEOPLE JUST GO AROUND
10:20:08AM CRITICIZING OTHERS ABOUT WHAT THEY DO OR WHAT THEY WEAR AND
10:20:15AM JUST START BEATING EACH OTHER UP?
10:20:18AM SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO START HITTING MY DAD.
10:20:20AM EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXERCISE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL
10:20:22AM RIGHTS.
10:20:23AM MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME TO KEEP MY HANDS TO MYSELF AND OFF
10:20:26AM OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY.
10:20:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:20:32AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
10:20:33AM >>FRANK REDDICK: BEFORE YOU SPEAK, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF
10:20:39AM THAT CASE?
10:20:40AM >> TONY DANIEL: WELL, THE STATUS IS THAT --
10:20:48AM >> NAME FOR THE RECORD.
10:20:49AM >> METEZMAT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:20:51AM THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CONTINUED PRESSING CHARGES, AND
10:20:56AM THAT'S THE STATUS OF THE CASE.
10:20:57AM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT WAS
10:21:01AM GENERATED BY A PARENT.
10:21:06AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE CHILD HIMSELF, THE WAY HE SEE
10:21:09AM REALITY, THE WAY HE SEE REALITY.
10:21:12AM AND WHEN I COME BEFORE THIS BOARD AND SPEAK AND SAY NOT EVEN
10:21:17AM FOR MYSELF BUT HOW MY WIFE WAS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED, VICIOUSLY
10:21:21AM ATTACKED, ALL ON VIDEO, AND THE CROOKEDNESS THAT'S GOING ON
10:21:25AM WITH IT, WITH BRIAN DUGAN OVER AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
10:21:31AM ANDREW WARREN, SERITA BAKER THAT CAME RIGHT HERE AND GOT AN
10:21:37AM AWARD A FEW WEEKS AFTER, THEY DOCTORED THE REPORT.
10:21:40AM AND ALL THE EVIDENCE IS THAT'S NO WAY TO TREAT HUMAN BEINGS.
10:21:43AM BUT THAT'S HIS VERSION OF IT.
10:21:45AM BUT ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT ALL OUR KIDS, EVERY LAST
10:21:48AM ONE OF THEM, FROM THE OLDEST TO THE YOUNGEST, ONE THING
10:21:52AM THEY'LL TELL YOU DOWN TO THE TWO-YEAR-OLD, KEEP YOUR HANDS
10:21:55AM TO YOURSELF, KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF.
10:21:58AM THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.
10:22:01AM AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE TEACH THEM IS TO BE GOOD.
10:22:04AM BE GOOD TO YOURSELF AND BE GOOD TO OTHERS.
10:22:07AM STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS, ALCOHOL, TOBACCO.
10:22:11AM STUPID THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:22:16AM BUT THAT'S IMPORTANT.
10:22:17AM BUT ANYWAY, 40TH STREET.
10:22:22AM THERE ARE MANY 40th STREETS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES.
10:22:25AM THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
10:22:26AM WHEN THEY GENTRIFY PLACES THEY CLOSE OFF THE AFRICAN
10:22:31AM COMMUNITY BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE DON'T WANT INTERSTATES
10:22:34AM THROUGH THEIR COMMUNITIES.
10:22:34AM SO THE PLAN IS BY KEEPING OPENING THE INTERSTATE EXIT RAMP
10:22:40AM OPEN OR CLOSED, THEY SAY THE COMMUNITY IS TRANSFORMING, IT'S
10:22:43AM BEING GENTRIFIED, AND WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT INTERSTATES
10:22:47AM RUNNING THROUGH THEIR COMMUNITIES.
10:22:48AM PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
10:22:49AM IT'S GOING ON IN MIAMI AND JACKSONVILLE AND ORLANDO AND
10:22:52AM VARIOUS PLACES.
10:22:53AM IT'S TAKING PLACE IN ORLANDO RIGHT NOW.
10:22:56AM THE GOOGLE MAP IS SO SMART, THEY SEND YOU OUTSIDE BECAUSE
10:23:01AM THE EXIT ISN'T CLOSED, AND SEND YOU OUTSIDE 30 MINUTES.
10:23:05AM YOU HAVE GOT TO GO AROUND.
10:23:07AM AND IT'S THE EXIT RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
10:23:08AM WHY THEY DON'T WANT TO YOU GO TO THAT EXIT?
10:23:11AM BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT WHITE PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THE BLACK
10:23:14AM COMMUNITY, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THEY DON'T WANT WHITE PEOPLE
10:23:16AM GOING THROUGH THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
10:23:17AM SO UNTIL THEY CAN CLOSE IT OFF GOOGLE MAPS AND OTHER MAPS
10:23:21AM SEND YOU 30 AND 40 MINUTES AROUND IT.
10:23:23AM THEY NASTY.
10:23:24AM AND WHAT THE CITY, WHAT THE URBANITES HAVE DONE IS LET
10:23:27AM PEOPLE LIKE ADAM PUTNAM AND TOM LEE AND OTHERS GO TO
10:23:30AM TALLAHASSEE AND TRICK THEM OUT OF ALL THE CITY RESOURCES.
10:23:33AM WE PAY THE TAXES HERE IN THE CITY BUT ALL THE MONEY IS OUT
10:23:36AM IN THE RURAL AREA.
10:23:37AM THEY DROP THE INTERSTATE ALL THE WAY OUT THERE INTO BRANDON
10:23:40AM SO ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE OUT THERE GET THE RICH, ALL THE NEW
10:23:44AM BUSINESS OWNERS GET RICH.
10:23:46AM WASN'T HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
10:23:47AM I WANT TO SAY SHOUT OUT TO FREDDIE SHELMAN, GREAT AFRICAN
10:23:51AM PERSON, DID A LOT FOR THE COMMUNITY, RECENTLY PASSED.
10:23:54AM I WANT TO SAY ABOUT DOING GOOD.
10:23:56AM I NEED TO SAY THE CITY OF TAMPA NEED TO FIRE ERNEST MUELLER.
10:24:00AM THEY NEED TO FIRE HIM ALONG WITH SOME OTHER PEOPLE.
10:24:03AM AL PERRARA.
10:24:05AM SERITA BAKER, THEY NEED TO FIRE HER, LOOK AT THE VIDEO.
10:24:11AM NEED TO FIRE HER.
10:24:12AM CAN'T BE ON NO COMPANY JOB AND DOING THE THINGS THEY DO.
10:24:16AM [BELL SOUNDS]
10:24:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:24:18AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
10:24:19AM >> MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK R. WILLIAMS, LOCATED 1112 EAST
10:24:29AM SCOTT STREET.
10:24:30AM I USED TO COME DOWN HERE QUITE FREQUENT BUT I FOUND OUT I
10:24:33AM COULDN'T GET NOTHING DONE THROUGH YOU ALL BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T
10:24:37AM CARE WHAT A BLACK MAN HAS TO SAY.
10:24:41AM IT'S A RACIST CITY IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:24:49AM NOW YOU ARE TRYING TO CUT OFF THE INTERSTATE AND PEOPLE FROM
10:24:51AM EXITING OFF INTO A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:24:53AM I MEAN, SO MUCH HATRED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
10:24:56AM AND NOW WE GOT A MAN THEY CALL TRUMP.
10:24:59AM I DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT ELECTED TO BE PRESIDENT, BUT HE'S AN
10:25:03AM EVIL MAN AND DON'T WANT TO DO NOTHING TO HELP NOBODY BUT
10:25:06AM HIMSELF.
10:25:06AM AND WE HAVE GOT TO UNDERSTAND BE PEOPLE.
10:25:09AM GOD CREATED US.
10:25:10AM YOU ALL DIDN'T HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU ALL BEING CREATED
10:25:13AM WHITE OR BLACK.
10:25:14AM GOT CREATED ALL MANKIND
10:25:17AM AND WE MUST BE OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD.
10:25:20AM I CAME DOWN HERE ONE TIME AND I OPENED MY BIBLE GETTING
10:25:23AM READY TO READ IT.
10:25:24AM FRANK REDDICK TOLD ME I COULDN'T READ IT AND HE CALLED THE
10:25:27AM POLICE ON ME.
10:25:28AM AND USHERED ME OUT OF HERE.
10:25:30AM BUT YET HE'S SITTING UP THERE RIGHT NOW AND WHAT I HEARD ON
10:25:35AM THE TV IS RIDICULOUS, AND YET YOU ALL GOT HIM SITTING UP
10:25:38AM THERE.
10:25:41AM SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE THAT DO RIGHT AND HE'S DOING WRONG
10:25:44AM HIMSELF.
10:25:44AM A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:25:46AM AND I THANK GOD THAT I'M HERE TO WITNESS WHAT'S GOING ON.
10:25:50AM MY BROTHER FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II.
10:25:52AM AND WHEN HE CAME OUT OF WORLD WAR II CAME BACK HERE TO THE
10:25:56AM STATES, HE HAD TO GO THROUGH BACK DOORS, SOME STORES HE
10:25:59AM COULDN'T EVEN GO INTO.
10:26:02AM MOTELS, HE COULDN'T GO AND TAKE A NAP AT NIGHT.
10:26:04AM BECAUSE THEY WERE SO PREJUDICED IN THE UNITED STATES.
10:26:07AM COLOR AND WHITE SIGN.
10:26:08AM THAT CAME UP.
10:26:09AM I WORKED RIGHT DOWNTOWN.
10:26:12AM I'M THE ONE WHO CLEANED OUT FOR COLORED AND WHITES.
10:26:16AM AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:26:17AM THEY DON'T HAVE A SIGN, BUT THEY BEATING US DOWN MENTALLY
10:26:22AM AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GIVING IN TO THAT FOOLISHNESS.
10:26:25AM BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BEAT ME DOWN,
10:26:28AM BECAUSE MY TRUST IN GOD ALMIGHTY AND MY BELIEF IS IN JESUS
10:26:33AM CHRIST AND I WILL SURVIVE.
10:26:34AM AND WE SUPPORT ALL ONE ANOTHER, NOT HATE ONE ANOTHER.
10:26:40AM BUT HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA WE ARE TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO
10:26:45AM HATE AND THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
10:26:46AM AND I'M FED UP WITH IT.
10:26:49AM MY CHURCH LOCATED RIGHT THERE IN CENTRAL PARK, BEEN THERE
10:26:54AM SINCE 1902.
10:26:56AM AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:26:57AM THEY DONE CLOSED UP MY RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:27:00AM I CAN'T GET TO THE BACK OF THE CHURCH TO PARK MY CAR.
10:27:02AM IT'S ONLY BECAUSE I'M A BLACK MAN.
10:27:05AM YOU ALL CALL ME A BLACK MAN BUT I'M NOT REALLY A BLACK MAN.
10:27:08AM I'M AN INDIAN.
10:27:09AM GOT MORE INDIAN IN ME THAN ANYBODY.
10:27:12AM AND WE LIVED HERE BEFORE YOU ALL GOT HERE.
10:27:15AM MY DAD AND MY GRANDMOTHER, THEY WERE NATIVE INDIAN.
10:27:18AM THANK GOD.
10:27:19AM YOU ALL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND.
10:27:22AM TRIBES TREAT EVERYBODY EQUAL.
10:27:24AM QUIT SITTING ON YOUR BUTT COLLECTING MONEY AND THAT'S WHAT
10:27:27AM IT'S ALL ABOUT.
10:27:28AM [BELL SOUNDS]
10:27:29AM IT'S ABOUT US DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR OWL ALL PEOPLE
10:27:32AM ESPECIALLY FOR OUR LITTLE CHILDREN.
10:27:34AM LORD HAVE MERCY.
10:27:37AM GOD BLESS Y'ALL.
10:27:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE WISH TO SPEAK?
10:27:43AM NO?
10:27:44AM SEEING NONE, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO APPROVALS.
10:27:49AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: IF THE BOARD PLEASE CO-WE DO AN APPROVAL
10:27:53AM ON NUMBER 5 WHICH IS ACTUALLY WEST TAMPA STARTING THEIR
10:28:03AM SPECIAL EVENTS PROGRAM, LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER CR As HAVE?
10:28:10AM >> SO MOVED.
10:28:11AM >> MOTION BY COUNCILMAN REDDICK. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
10:28:14AM MIRANDA.
10:28:15AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: ITEM 4 IS ACTUALLY MOVING MONEY TO FUND
10:28:19AM THAT PROGRAM.
10:28:20AM >> MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:28:21AM SECOND BY COUNCILMAN COHEN.
10:28:23AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:28:24AM MOTION PASSES.
10:28:25AM ITEM NUMBER 6.
10:28:27AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: ITEM NUMBER 6 IS THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO
10:28:31AM FOLKS TO THE CENTRAL PARK CRA ADVISORY BOARD.
10:28:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW MANY VACANCIES?
10:28:43AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: WE HAVE MORE VACANCIES THAN THAT.
10:28:44AM WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO FUND THAT.
10:28:46AM >> MOTION BY COUNCILMAN COHEN, SECOND BY COUNCILMAN REDDICK.
10:28:50AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:28:51AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: AND THEN WE HAVE THE DOWNTOWN ADVISORY
10:28:59AM COMMITTEE.
10:29:00AM WE HAVE AN APPOINTMENT FOR THAT.
10:29:02AM >> SO MOVED.
10:29:03AM >> SECOND.
10:29:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN
10:29:06AM REDDICK.
10:29:07AM SECOND BY COUNCILMAN COHEN -- [RUSTLING PAPERS]
10:29:10AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:29:11AM >>BOB MCDONAUGH: THAT CONCLUDES THE BUSINESS FROM TODAY.
10:29:13AM THANK YOU.
10:29:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: INFORMATION REPORTS AND NEW BUSINESS BY
10:29:16AM CRA MEMBERS.
10:29:17AM >>LUIS VIERA: NONE.
10:29:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE.
10:29:20AM >>YVONNE CAPIN: NONE.
10:29:22AM >>FRANK REDDICK: NONE.
10:29:23AM >>HARRY COHEN: NONE.
10:29:24AM >>MIKE SUAREZ: NONE.
10:29:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOT A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
10:29:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
10:29:31AM >> SECOND.
10:29:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE ARE FINISHED.
10:29:34AM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
10:29:35AM THANK YOU.
10:29:36AM >> MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
10:29:45AM >> SECOND.
10:29:46AM >> MOTION BY COUNCILMAN COHEN.
10:29:50AM SECONDED.
10:29:53AM (MEETING ADJOURNED)
10:29:57AM
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