TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019
9:00 A.M. SESSION
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09:02:18 >>LUIS VIERA: THE MEETING IS CALLED INTO SESSION.
09:02:20 I WOULD ASK THAT MR. STEVE MICHELINI PLEASE COME UP.
09:02:23 IS STEVE HERE?
09:02:28 OKAY, THANK YOU.
09:02:29 WE'LL WAIT FOR HIM.
09:02:31 HI, STEVE.
09:02:35 GUIDO MANISCALCO SAID THERE'S A SEA OF RED AND WE ARE
09:02:39 LOOKING FOR THE RED TIE.
09:02:41 WHENEVER STEVE MICHELINI IS HERE -- WELL, MR. MICHELINI WILL
09:02:47 BE DOING THE PRAYER.
09:02:49 IF YOU COULD STAY STANDING IF YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO FOR THE
09:02:54 PLEDGE.
09:02:54 THANK YOU.
09:02:55 >>STEVE MICHELINI: GOOD MORNING.
09:02:59 OUR LORD SAID IT IS RIGHT AND JUST THAT WE SHOULD PRAY.
09:03:02 AND WE ARE HUMBLED BEFORE YOU, O LORD.
09:03:05 WE ARE REMINDED THAT MANY ARE ASKED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.
09:03:09 YOU AS ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY THE LORD'S
09:03:12 PEOPLE, AND YOU HOLD THAT TRUST TO BE GOOD, TO DO GOOD
09:03:16 THINGS AND TO BE RIGHTEOUS.
09:03:18 MAKE INFORMED AND WISE DECISIONS.
09:03:22 THROUGHOUT THE GRACE OF THE LORD, HIS SHIELD WILL PROTECT
09:03:28 YOU, HIS LIGHT WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU, HIS GRACE WILL GUIDE YOU,
09:03:31 AND WE ASK FOR YOUR BLESSINGS UPON THIS NEWLY-ELECTED CITY
09:03:35 COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR.
09:03:36 WE ASK FOR YOUR BLESSINGS UPON THE FIRST RESPONDERS.
09:03:40 THE ARMED FORCES AND TEACHERS WHO HOLD THE FAITH AND TRUST
09:03:44 IN YOUR NAME O LORD, AMEN.
09:03:46 [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
09:03:57 >>LUIS VIERA: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:04:09 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:04:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:04:16 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:04:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:04:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:04:20 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:04:22 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:04:22 ANYONE HERE MOVE FOR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA?
09:04:26 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, MR. DINGFELDER.
09:04:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I JUST WANTED TO PULL A FEW EXTRA ITEMS.
09:04:34 I APOLOGIZE.
09:04:35 ITEMS 27 AND 28 WHICH ARE TWO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ITEMS.
09:04:42 >> I WOULD LIKE TO PULL THE SAME TOO.
09:04:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND THEN ITEM 32 AND 33.
09:04:51 >>LUIS VIERA: WILE TELL YOU AS A GENERAL RULE, WE'LL PULL
09:04:54 THEM TODAY BUT STAFF NEEDS TO HAVE -- WE'LL PULL THEM IF
09:04:57 STAFF IS ABLE TO COME, BECAUSE --
09:05:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE ARE GOING TO PULL THEM NO MATTER WHAT
09:05:02 AS LONG AS WE VOTE ON IT.
09:05:03 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:05:07 STAFF NEEDS TO COME AND BRIEF US ON THOSE ISSUES.
09:05:09 SO I WOULD SAY WE CAN DO THAT TODAY BECAUSE ACTUALLY WHEN I
09:05:12 FIRST GOT ELECTED I PULLED AN ITEM TWO MINUTES BEFORE THE
09:05:15 AGENDA.
09:05:15 SO I AM NOT JUDGING BECAUSE I DID THE VERY SAME THING.
09:05:18 BUT FROM NOW OPEN LET'S TRY TO GIVE THEM 24 HOURS NOTICE IF
09:05:21 POSSIBLE.
09:05:22 CAN WE DO THAT FROM HERE ON OUT?
09:05:24 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NOT NECESSARILY.
09:05:25 BUT WE'LL TRY.
09:05:26 >>LUIS VIERA: IT WILL BE THE POLICY OF THIS CHAIR.
09:05:29 >> IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S A POLICY OF COUNCIL TO
09:05:38 REQUIRE ALL AGENDA ITEMS BE READY BY THURSDAY, AND THEN THE
09:05:41 AGENDA SHOULD BE READY ON FRIDAY.
09:05:43 WE RECEIVED THIS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON.
09:05:45 AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE AGENDA, WE NEED AS MUCH TIME AS
09:05:52 POSSIBLE.
09:05:52 I WOULD SUGGEST, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE CHAIR'S
09:05:55 AUTHORITY OR THIS BOARD'S AUTHORITY BUT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT
09:05:57 WE STICK STRICTLY TO THAT GOAL, AND NOT PICK ON ANYBODY WHO
09:06:03 BRINGS ANYTHING LATE BUT JUST THAT ANYTHING THAT'S NOT READY
09:06:06 BY THURSDAY THAT WE DELAY IT TILL A FUTURE MEETING SO THERE
09:06:10 WILL BE TIME TO DO THIS.
09:06:11 AND ALSO, SET UP MEETINGS WITH STAFF ON THIS.
09:06:15 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S A VERY GOOD MITIGATING FACTOR.
09:06:19 YES, SIR.
09:06:19 >> IS THERE SOME KIND OF STANDING RULE OR POLICY?
09:06:26 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, MR. GUDES.
09:06:29 IF I CAN.
09:06:38 RULE 7-A STATES ALL PETITIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, YOUR RULES OF
09:06:43 PROCEDURE, COUNCIL'S RULES, ALL PETITIONS, COMMUNICATIONS,
09:06:46 STAFF REPORTS, RESOLUTIONS, ORDINANCES AND OTHER MATTERS
09:06:49 INTENDED FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE CITY COUNCIL SHALL BE
09:06:52 FILED WITH THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ON OR BEFORE 2 P.M.
09:06:58 ON THE THURSDAY PRIOR TO THE MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
09:07:01 THE CLERK IN TURN SHALL ASSIGN SUCH PETITIONS,
09:07:04 COMMUNICATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, ORDINANCES AND OTHER MATTERS TO
09:07:07 THE MOST APPROPRIATE PLACEMENT ON THE AGENDA, TAKING INTO
09:07:10 CONSIDERATION THE REQUEST MADE AT THE TIME OF THE PLACEMENT
09:07:12 OF THE AGENDA.
09:07:14 ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS RELATED TO FEES ARE TO BE PLACED
09:07:17 UNDER STAFF REPORTS.
09:07:18 >>LUIS VIERA: AND WE'LL COMMUNICATE THAT OBVIOUSLY TO THE
09:07:22 ADMINISTRATION WITH REGARDS TO HAVING THE AGENDA PUT ON
09:07:25 TIME, BECAUSE THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT, COUNCILMAN CARLSON,
09:07:28 THAT IT SHOULD BE PUT ON TIME.
09:07:29 BUT WHAT I WOULD ASK AS A COURTESY TO ALL THE STAFF IF
09:07:33 POSSIBLE, IF ITEMS ARE GOING TO BE PULLED THAT THE
09:07:35 ADMINISTRATION BE GIVEN 24 HOURS NOTICE WHICH I THINK IS
09:07:38 VERY REASONABLE.
09:07:39 OBVIOUSLY THERE'S TIMES WHEN YOU GO, HEY, JUST THOUGHT OF
09:07:42 SOMETHING.
09:07:43 THAT HAPPENS.
09:07:43 BUT I WOULD JUST ASK AS A COURTESY IF I MAY.
09:07:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALSO IN REGARD TO COURTESY, I FOUND IT
09:07:54 DIFFICULT IN REGARD TO THIS PROCESS, THE MEMO RECEIVED LAST
09:07:58 WEEK, FROM THE ADMINISTRATION THAT SAYS IF WE HAVE
09:08:02 QUESTIONS, WE SHOULD ROUTE THEM THROUGH THE CHIEF OF STAFF,
09:08:05 WHICH ACTUALLY SLOWS DOWN THE PROCESS AND IS COUNTER TO WHAT
09:08:09 YOU ARE SUGGESTING. ANYWAY, WE'LL WRESTLE THROUGH ALL OF
09:08:12 THIS IN THE WEEKS TO COME.
09:08:14 THANK YOU.
09:08:14 >>CHAIRMAN: AND IF POSSIBLE, I UNDERSTAND THE LOGISTICS,
09:08:17 COUNCILMAN, AND I UNDERSTAND YOU ARE PROCEEDING IN GOOD
09:08:19 FAITH.
09:08:19 AGAIN I DID THE VERY SAME THING WHEN I GOT ON HERE AND I WAS
09:08:22 GIVEN THE SAME STATEMENT.
09:08:23 YES, SIR.
09:08:24 >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, JUST FOR COUNCIL AND NEW
09:08:28 MEMBERS INFORMATION, RULE 7-C RELATED TO THIS MATTER STATES
09:08:32 SPECIFICALLY AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL
09:08:35 WANTING TO REMOVE AN ITEM FROM THE COMMITTEE REPORT CONSENT
09:08:39 AGENDA SHOULD ATTEMPT TO DO SO A DAY OR MORE IN ADVANCE OF
09:08:42 THE MEETING BY NOTIFYING THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THE CLERK
09:08:44 AND CHIEF OF STAFF BY MEMORANDUM OR E-MAIL STATING WHETHER
09:08:48 THE MEMBER COUNCIL WISHES STAFF TO BE PRESENT TO DISCUSS THE
09:08:51 ITEM.
09:08:52 AGAIN, "SHOULD."
09:08:57 >>LUIS VIERA: SO HOPEFULLY THEY'LL ABIDE BY THEIR RULES AND
09:08:59 WE'LL ABIDE BY OURS.
09:09:01 WE'LL ASPIRE TO THAT.
09:09:03 I APPRECIATE EVERYONE --
09:09:07 >> IF I MAY, UNDER ADDENDUM, WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 4 FOR
09:09:17 USSOSCOM.
09:09:20 WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT TO NUMBER 1.
09:09:22 WE HAVE AN ACT DIFFERENT DUTY COLONEL WHO HAS TO DEFEND OUR
09:09:26 COUNTRY.
09:09:26 IF I MAY HAVE A MOTION.
09:09:28 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:09:30 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:09:32 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:09:33 ANY OPPOSED?
09:09:34 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT COURTESY.
09:09:35 I APPRECIATE IT; I WOULD ASK IF I MAY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
09:09:38 FROM THE WARRIOR GAMES TO COME UP, PLEASE.
09:09:42 WE HAVE HERE COLONEL CARY HARBAUGH, DIRECTOR OF USSOCOM'S
09:09:47 COALITION SUPPORTING SPECIAL OPERATIONS, WOUNDED, ILL AND
09:09:51 INJURED SERVICE MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILY.
09:09:53 MISS CHRISTY TOZIER, WHO IS CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER FOR THE
09:09:57 2019 WARRIOR GAMES.
09:10:00 AND WE HAVE HERE A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, WHO I LOVE DEARLY
09:10:02 AND MANY OF US KNOW, RETIRED MARINE CORPORAL SERGEANT MIKE
09:10:05 NICHOLSON, A TAMPA NATIVE AND PLANT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE WHO
09:10:09 WAS INJURED IN A BOMB EXPLOSION IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2011 THAT
09:10:11 LEFT HIM A TRIPLE AMPUTEE.
09:10:14 IN 2017 MIKE IN HIS FIRST WARRIOR GAMES WON SIX GOLD MEDALS
09:10:18 AND THIS COUNCIL HONORED HIM.
09:10:21 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:10:27 AND THE REASON WE INVITED THE GOOD FOLKS FROM THE WARRIOR
09:10:30 GAMES TO COME IS BECAUSE JUNE 21-JUNE 30 WE ARE HAVING THE
09:10:35 GREAT HONOR HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA TO HAVE THE WARRIOR
09:10:38 GAMES COME HERE TO TAMPA, 300 WOUNDED WARRIORS WILL BE
09:10:42 COMING HERE TO COMPETE WITH THEIR FAMILY FROM OUT OF TOWN.
09:10:45 AND I WANT THOSE MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES TO HAVE AN
09:10:49 ALL AMERICAN WELCOME FROM THE CITY, FROM THIS COUNTY,
09:10:52 INCLUDING OUR NEARLY 100,000 VETERANS.
09:10:56 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:10:56 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
09:10:58 THANK YOU TO ALL THE DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE CITY
09:11:00 COUNCIL, AND ALL THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:11:04 FROM MAYOR BUCKHORN'S ADMINISTRATION TO NOW MAYOR'S
09:11:14 ADMINISTRATION AND DELIVER WHAT WE HOPE TO BE THE BEST
09:11:17 WARRIOR GAMES THAT HAS BEEN PUT OUT THERE, THE DEFENSE
09:11:22 WARRIOR GAMES IS ONLY ABOUT NINE YEARS OLD.
09:11:24 IT'S GONE THROUGH SOME PERMUTATIONS BUT IT WAS 2017 THE
09:11:29 DETERMINATION THAT USSOCOM WOULD BE ONE RECOGNIZED BY THE
09:11:37 U.S. COPPING AND WE IN THAT ROTATION WOULD BRING THE WARRIOR
09:11:40 GAMES UNDER OUR LEADERSHIP.
09:11:42 NOW, THE LOCATION FOR THAT FOR US WAS EASY.
09:11:46 NOT JUST BECAUSE USSOCOM IS BASED AT MacDILL.
09:11:52 WE ARE CITIZENS OF TAMPA AS WELL.
09:11:53 WE HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH OF THIS CITY AS I HAVE
09:11:55 PERSONALLY.
09:11:56 IT'S BECOME A PLACE THAT I GUARANTEE I AM GOING TO RETIRE
09:11:58 TO.
09:11:59 AND FOR THAT REASON, WHEN GENERAL THOMAS, THE COMMANDER AT
09:12:02 THE TIME, WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME COURT SIDE AT THE 2017
09:12:06 GAMES, AND HE SAID, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BRINGING THE
09:12:10 WARRIOR GAMES ABOUT US DOING IT?
09:12:12 I SAID, SIR, TAMPA?
09:12:13 COME ON, LOOK AT IT.
09:12:14 HE GOES, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
09:12:16 THAT'S WHY GENERAL THOMAS WHO RECENTLY GAVE UP COMMAND AT
09:12:20 THE END OF MARCH HAS RETIRED TO THIS AREA AS WELL.
09:12:23 WE ARE IN LOVE WITH IT.
09:12:24 THIS TOWN WOULD POUR OUT THE SUPPORT AND THAT'S EXACTLY
09:12:27 WHAT'S HAPPENED.
09:12:28 MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHAT YOU HAVE ALLOWED US TO DO IS THE
09:12:31 BECAUSE OF THE EMBRACE OF THIS COMMUNITY AND ITS
09:12:33 GRACIOUSNESS IS THAT YOU ALSO ALLOWED US TO KEEP THE COST
09:12:36 VERY, VERY REASONABLE.
09:12:37 WE ARE GOING TO BE THE MOST AFFORDABLE GAMES IN THE WARRIOR
09:12:41 GAME HISTORY.
09:12:42 THAT'S GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THAT HELPS SET CONTEXT FOR US TO
09:12:45 PRESERVE THE GAME FOR THE LONG HAUL.
09:12:49 THE COSTS HAS TO BE SCRUTINIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
09:12:52 DEFENSE, WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS SUSTAINABLE BECAUSE IT WAS
09:12:54 GETTING VERY EXPENSIVE AND TO LOOK FOR THE RIGHT COMMUNITY
09:12:57 TO BRING IT INTO THAT WOULD BE A HOST AND CO-HOST.
09:13:01 WE HAVE THAT FROM THE OUTSET, COUNCILMAN VIERA HAS BEEN VERY
09:13:05 OUTSPOKEN, AS HAVE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS AND U.S.
09:13:09 SENATE DELEGATION FROM FLORIDA AND THE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA
09:13:11 AT THE TIME, GOVERNOR SCOTT, ALL CAME FORWARD AND MADE IT
09:13:14 CLEAR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE THAT TAMPA WAS EXCITED
09:13:16 ABOUT BRINGING THE GAMES.
09:13:17 AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING, 21 THROUGH 30 JUNE, GUYS
09:13:22 LIKE MIKE HERE WILL BE OUT HERE ON THE FIELD OF PLAY
09:13:25 COMPETING, HEY, I HAVE GOT IT.
09:13:29 BUT IT IS MY TEAM, BUT ALSO I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE WARRIOR
09:13:33 GAMES.
09:13:33 I'M CHEERING FOR THEM ALL BUT I LOVE MIKE DEARLY.
09:13:37 BUT WE WILL HAVE 315 ATHLETES OUT THERE, 200 U.S., EACH OF
09:13:42 THE FIVE PROGRAMS, THE FOUR TRADITIONAL SERVICES AS YOU KNOW
09:13:45 THEM, ALONG WITH THEN THE SOCOM TEAM AND THEN WE WILL HAVE
09:13:50 TEAMS OF 40, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE ABOUT 115 FROM FIVE
09:13:52 PARTNER NATIONS FROM THE UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND FROM
09:13:57 NETHERLANDS AND DENMARK, ALL COMING INTO THIS AREA.
09:14:00 AGAIN, I AM ANTICIPATING BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE BEEN
09:14:04 RECEIVING AND RESOURCES, OUTREACH, VOLUNTEERISM, FOR
09:14:07 INSTANCE, WE HAD REALLY THE NEED FOR ABOUT 500 VOLUNTEERS.
09:14:10 WE HAVE ALREADY GOT 1250 ON THE BOOKS.
09:14:13 IT'S THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE KNEW WE WOULD SEE OUT OF
09:14:16 TAMPA.
09:14:17 BUT YOU ARE ALL GOING TO WRAP YOUR LOVING ARMS AROUND OUR
09:14:21 ATHLETES AS THEY GET HERE, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE, WHICH
09:14:24 WILL BE A BIT OF A SEA CHANGE FOR WARRIOR GAMES, IS A LOT OF
09:14:28 PUBLIC, A LOT OF FANS IN THE STANDS IS OUR MANTRA. WE WOULD
09:14:32 LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE COMING TO THE GAMES.
09:14:36 WE START WITH GOLF IN ODESSA.
09:14:39 WE ADDED GOLF, WARRIOR GAMES SPORT THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST
09:14:42 TIME.
09:14:42 BUT WE KNEW THAT FLORIDA WOULD BE VERY CONDUCIVE TO GOLF.
09:14:46 THEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A TRACK AND FIELD EVENT IN THOSE
09:14:49 DAYS THAT COME UP.
09:14:50 THE 22ND IS OUR OPENING CEREMONY AT AMALIE ARENA.
09:14:55 TRACK AND FIELD BY THE WAY IS CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF
09:14:56 SOUTH FLORIDA.
09:14:57 THEN WE WILL BE DOING CYCLING ON SUNDAY MORNING, THE
09:15:00 23rd ON BAYSHORE DRIVE.
09:15:02 AGAIN, THANKS TO THE CITY OF TAMPA OPENING UP AND ALLOWING
09:15:06 US TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT REQUIRES SHUTTING DOWN
09:15:09 SOME ROAD FOR THE MORNING.
09:15:10 WE WILL HAVE THE OPENING CEREMONY, BY THE WAY, BACKTRACK TO
09:15:14 THE SATURDAY NIGHT PRIOR, AMALIE ARENA, JOHN STEWART IS OUR
09:15:20 MC.
09:15:21 THE GREAT SAM MOORE, FROM SAM AND DAVE, "I'M A SOUL MAN,"
09:15:25 OKAY, HE IS -- HAS DONE A SONG THAT'S BECOME THE ANTHEM OF
09:15:29 THE WARRIOR GAMES.
09:15:30 I THINK IT'S IN OUR VIDEO THAT WE ARE GOING TO SHOW TO YOU
09:15:33 VERY BRIEFLY.
09:15:34 AT THE SAME TIME, WE'LL HAVE SAM MOORE OUT THERE.
09:15:36 AND WE GOT AN ENTERTAINER, BUT I AM NOT GOING TO SAY
09:15:40 ANYTHING, BUT WE GOT A GREAT COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST THAT WILL
09:15:45 BE HERE FOR OPENING CEREMONIES AS WELL.
09:15:46 WE HOPE TO SEE AS MUCH OF THE PUBLIC COME OUT.
09:15:49 THE ONLY VENUE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES, THE ONES AT
09:15:52 AMALIE, THAT HAVE A MODEST TICKET PRICE OF $10 OR BELOW.
09:15:57 WE HAVEN'T QUITE SET THAT TICKET PRICE JUST YET BUT IT'S
09:16:00 GOING TO BE VERY AFFORDABLE FOR FAMILIES.
09:16:02 EVERYTHING ELSE AT WARRIOR GAMES IS FREE OF CHARGE.
09:16:05 SO AGAIN, GO FORWARD FROM THE OPENING CEREMONIES, TRACK AND
09:16:10 FIELD, CYCLING, AND THEN YOU ARE GOING TO SEE MOST OF THE
09:16:14 SPORTS IN THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER.
09:16:16 AGAIN THE CITY OF TAMPA, COMPLETELY ABSOLVED US OF ANY
09:16:21 RENTAL COST FOR THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER.
09:16:23 JUST AMAZING.
09:16:24 WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH.
09:16:26 WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS ONLY INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS TO RUN THE
09:16:30 INSIDE OF THE GAMES.
09:16:31 THOSE ARE NATURAL AND QUITE AFFORDABLE.
09:16:33 WE AGAIN CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH.
09:16:36 TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER FOR ABOUT A WEEK'S WORTH OF SPORTS
09:16:38 IN THERE, ALL THE COURT SPORTS, WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL, RUG
09:16:44 BY, VERY EXCITING GAMES, WATCHING THESE GAYS IN CHAIRS,
09:16:48 VERY, VERY -- IN FACT, WE ARE HEARING FROM OUR WOUNDED
09:16:53 WARRIORS THAT CAME OUT TO THE LAST THAT RUGBY WAS ADDED,
09:16:59 MAN, WE NEEDED THIS YEARS AGO.
09:17:01 WE ALSO HAVE INDOOR POWER LIFTING. AND INDOOR ROWING AND
09:17:06 POWER LIFTING AND WE WILL HAVE WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL.
09:17:10 ALL PLAY ON THESE COURTS ALONG WITH SHOOTING AND ARCHERY,
09:17:14 AIR RIFLE, PISTOL, AND BOW AND COMPOUND BOW.
09:17:21 YOU WILL SEE FOLKS THAT GOT THE DISABILITIES THAT ARE OUT
09:17:25 THERE AND ABLE TO DO SPORTS THAT YOU WOULD THINK ONLY AS
09:17:28 FULLY AMBULATORY WITH ALL OF THEIR LIMBS EXISTING WOULD BE
09:17:31 ABLE TO DO BECAUSE OF THE ADAPTATIONS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE
09:17:34 TO PUT INTO SPORTS AND THE FACT THAT THESE SPORTS ARE GREAT
09:17:37 AT HELPING OUR FOLKS GET BACK TO LIFE AND RECOVER.
09:17:41 SO ONCE AGAIN WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH.
09:17:43 MIKE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE WARRIOR GAMES
09:17:46 AND THE IMPACT?
09:17:47 >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US OUT HERE.
09:17:51 I JUST RETURNED FROM THE MARINE CAMP, AND SOCOM HAS THEIR
09:17:56 WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM, AND THEY HAD THEIR CAMP RECENTLY AS
09:17:59 WELL SO WE ARE --
09:18:01 >> SO IT'S A CHALLENGE.
09:18:02 >> A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE.
09:18:04 I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE SELECTED BACK IN 2017, GIVEN THE
09:18:10 FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE IN CHICAGO, AND IT PROFOUNDLY
09:18:15 CHANGED MY LIFE, PROFOUNDLY CHANGED HOW I VIEW THINGS,
09:18:18 MOTIVATED ME TO STAY ACTIVE AND HEALTHY.
09:18:20 AND I AM JUST ONE OF 400 ATHLETES.
09:18:24 SO THE IMPACT OF THESE GAMES, IT'S TREMENDOUS.
09:18:27 AND FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME.
09:18:32 THESE GAMES, ALLOWS THEM TO GET MORE ACTIVE IN THEIR
09:18:36 LIFESTYLE AND THEY STICK WITH THAT BECAUSE THEY REALIZE HOW
09:18:39 GOOD IT IS, HOW FUN IT IS AND HOW HEALTHY IT IS FOR THEM.
09:18:42 SO THESE GAMES HAVE A LONG LASTING IMPACT FOR OUR VETERANS,
09:18:46 OUR ACTIVE DUTY WARRIORS, AND I THINK IT'S AN HONOR FOR THE
09:18:52 CITY AND I THINK YOU GUYS ARE IN FOR A REAL TREAT.
09:18:56 YOU ARE GOING TO SEE QUITE A FEW AMAZING THINGS.
09:19:00 JUST FROM THIS MARINE CAMP, ALL THE OTHER SERVICES HAVE IN
09:19:05 STORE FOR YOU GUYS.
09:19:06 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE OF US.
09:19:08 WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
09:19:09 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:19:11 >> THE CLOSING CEREMONY, BY THE WAY, TAKES US BACK TO AMALIE
09:19:18 ARENA.
09:19:19 AGAIN WE'LL HAVE JOHN STEWART AS OUR EMCEE.
09:19:24 AND AS IT LOOKS, WE HAVE THE GREAT SIR EVANS AS OUR COUNTRY
09:19:30 MUSIC ARTIST WHO WILL BE PERFORMING AT CLOSING.
09:19:33 AGAIN WE HOPE TO SEE A LOT OF THE TAMPA COMMUNITY COME OUT
09:19:35 AND SUPPORT THAT.
09:19:37 THE TICKET ARE LIMITED TO AMALIE ARENA.
09:19:40 ONCE THE TICKETS ARE ON THE STREETS PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO
09:19:43 PURCHASE THOSE AND SET UP A TIME TO GET OUT THERE AND SEE
09:19:46 IT.
09:19:46 ALL THE OTHER SPORTS AGAIN FREE OF CHARGE.
09:19:48 COME OUT TO THE GAMES.
09:19:50 WE WANT TO SEE IT.
09:19:51 FANS IN THE STANDS.
09:19:53 FANS IN THE STANDS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE.
09:19:56 IT INSPIRES THESE GUYS TO SEE YOU SUPPORTING THEM.
09:19:59 THEY KNOW THEY HAVE YOUR SUPPORT.
09:20:07 IF WE CAN, WE HAVE A GREAT VIDEO TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE
09:20:10 INSPIRATION FOR THE MORNING.
09:20:17 ¶
09:20:31 >> I HOPE THAT GETS YOUR BLOOD STIRRED UP.
09:21:20 WE CERTAINLY HOPE TO SEE ALL THE LEADERSHIP OF TAMPA MAKE
09:21:23 THE RUN OUT TO THE GAMES FOR THE CEREMONIES.
09:21:25 BUT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY GET OUT THERE FOR THE SPORTS.
09:21:28 THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR
09:21:30 HAVING US AND RICH CLARK, COMMANDER OF USSOCOM, IS OUR
09:21:38 PRIMARY HOST AND HE IS HOPING TO SEE YOU THERE.
09:21:41 THANKS SO MUCH.
09:21:41 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:21:46 I FORGOT, I STAND FOR QUESTIONS.
09:21:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE YOU IN TAMPA.
09:21:54 I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THAT.
09:21:56 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT TEAMS AND COACHES I CAN MAKE SURE I AM
09:21:59 THERE TO WATCH THAT.
09:22:00 >> I HAVE SAID THIS MYSELF.
09:22:06 I HAVE A BIAS.
09:22:08 I HAVE BEEN IN THE WARRIOR TEAMS FOR SEVERAL YEARS SO YOU
09:22:13 KNOW WHERE MY PREDILECTIONS ARE AT.
09:22:17 HOWEVER ALL OF THEM ARE WORTHY OF OUR SUPPORT AND THE FACT
09:22:20 IS MIKE WILL TELL YOU, YOU WINGY BY GETTING OUT THERE.
09:22:24 THE FACT THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET PAST THESE DEVASTATING
09:22:27 INJURIES, ILLNESSES ON SOME.
09:22:28 WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT ALSO ON THESE TEAMS THAT HAVE
09:22:31 SUFFERED LIKE CANCER, OR STILL DEALING WITH IT BUT THE FACT
09:22:38 THEY CAN REBOUND IN LIFE, SHOW THE RESILIENCY OF OUR SERVICE
09:22:41 MEMBERS IS TREMENDOUS AND THAT'S WHY IT'S WORTH THE TIME.
09:22:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: TO PIGGYBACK ON THIS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD
09:22:49 HAVE GIVEN EACH OF US A BRANCH OF THE SERVICE AND WE CAN BE
09:22:52 THE MASCOT.
09:22:53 >> I WOULD ALLOW YOU TO ARM WRESTLE WITH THAT OVER
09:22:57 YOURSELVES.
09:22:57 BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU.
09:22:59 SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE MILITARY SERVICE IN YOUR BACKGROUND AND
09:23:02 MIGHT WANT TO GO WITH WHATEVER UNIFORM OR COLOR.
09:23:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MY DAD IS ARMY.
09:23:07 >> ALL RIGHT.
09:23:08 OUTSTANDING.
09:23:09 AND THAT IS WHERE MY SECOND HEART GOES NATURALLY, ARMY
09:23:12 OFFICER.
09:23:14 >> IF I CAN, ARE THE GOLFERS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR
09:23:21 CADDY?
09:23:22 >> YOU KNOW, SIR, THAT IS ACTUALLY FAIR AND WE WOULD TAKE
09:23:25 CADDIES.
09:23:26 WE HAVE BEEN GETTING GREAT SUPPORT WHEN IT COMES TO THE GOLF
09:23:29 EVENT.
09:23:30 OUR GOLF AMBASSADOR IS OF COURSE LIVING IN THE TAMPA BAY
09:23:34 AREA AND THAT'S SHE'S ABOUT TO BEEN DUCTED INTO THE WORLD
09:23:41 GOLF HALL OF FAME ON THE 10th OF JUNE, AMAZING WOMAN.
09:23:44 AND SHE'S AUSTRALIAN BORN BUT SHE'S A U.S. CITIZEN.
09:23:49 AND THE GOLF COURSE PROVIDED THAT FACILITY AS A TRAINING
09:23:55 GROUND FOR OUR FOLKS AND HAS BEEN PULLING IN A LOT OF LPGA
09:24:00 INTEREST IN OUR TOURNAMENT PLUS THE PGA OF AMERICA AND ITS
09:24:04 HOPE PROGRAM THAT WORKS WITH WOUNDED WARRIORS HAS BEEN VERY
09:24:07 INVOLVED.
09:24:07 WE GOT SOME COLLEGE GOLFERS.
09:24:09 I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE ONE IN MY HOME, AND THE TEAM FROM THE
09:24:12 CITADEL -- YOU CAN TELL WHERE WE TEND TO LEAN -- SHE'S GOING
09:24:16 TO BE AN ARMY OFFICER.
09:24:17 AT ANY RATE SHE'S ALSO ON THE GOLF TEAM AT THE CITADEL.
09:24:20 SHE'S THE CAPTAIN AT THE GOLF TEAM AT PLANT HIGH.
09:24:23 AND AT ANY RATE, HER GOLF MEETS ARE COMING DOWN TO CADDIE.
09:24:30 SO THEY WILL COME DOWN TO POTENTIALLY HELP OUR GOLFERS.
09:24:36 >> AND TO MOVE ONE OF OUR WOUNDED WARRIORS, YOU CAN GET THE
09:24:40 INFORMATION FROM MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE.
09:24:43 >> WELL, THANK YOU, SIR.
09:24:45 WE'LL TAKE THAT.
09:24:46 WE'LL GET THE INFORMATION TO YOU.
09:24:47 EXCITED TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
09:24:49 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:24:51 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
09:24:52 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:24:52 WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
09:24:53 >> THANK YOU FOR ADVANCING US IN YOUR AGENDA.
09:24:55 I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF IMPORTANT WORK TO DO.
09:24:58 THANK YOU FOR MOVING ON SO WE CAN GET TO OURS.
09:25:01 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:25:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:25:07 NOW WE MOVE ONTO THE NEXT ONE, WHICH WOULD BE FOR COUNCILMAN
09:25:10 MIRANDA.
09:25:10 >>MARTIN SHELBY: HONORABLE MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
09:25:31 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IT'S MY PLEASURE THIS MORNING TO
09:25:35 INTRODUCE KATHRYN WALKER, BEING RECOGNIZED TODAY, I HATE TO
09:25:41 SAY THIS, SHE'S DONE FANTASTIC WORK FOR THE CITY.
09:25:47 HER LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO THIS COMMUNITY IS FOR MANY OF US
09:25:53 TO EMULATE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
09:25:57 37 YEARS.
09:25:58 SHE TAUGHT MANY YOUTH, LIKE WHEN I WAS A KID I WAS BAD.
09:26:06 I WAS GOOD ON THE INSIDE.
09:26:08 BUT IT MY PLEASURE TO SAY THANK YOU TO A PERSON WHO IS SO
09:26:11 MANY THINGS, CREATING ART PROGRAMS, AND PERFORMED COMMUNITY
09:26:16 OUTREACH, FOR ALL THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:26:19 FOR 37 YEARS, HOW MANY MAYORS DID YOU WORK WITH?
09:26:28 MOST OF THOSE MAYORS ARE HERE.
09:26:30 AND IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU WITH YOUR SMILE AND THE WAY
09:26:34 YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE THINGS.
09:26:37 SO FOR EVERYTHING, YOU HAVE ALWAYS RESPONDED, AND A LOT OF
09:26:43 TIMES THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE, AND YOU HAVE JUST BEEN A
09:26:48 COMMUNITY ASSET FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, AND WE HATE TO SEE
09:26:51 THAT YOU ARE LEAVING, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANT TO GO
09:26:54 OUT AND JUST HELP OUT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WITHOUT
09:26:57 GETTING PAID.
09:26:58 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:27:00 THAT'S AN EVEN TRADE, I THINK.
09:27:01 IF YOU DID THAT, HOW COME WE PAID YOU?
09:27:05 I'M ONLY JOKING WITH YOU BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 37 YEARS
09:27:07 OF SERVICE.
09:27:08 IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE.
09:27:12 I HAVE BEEN HERE JUST A LITTLE LONGER THAN YOU.
09:27:17 THANK YOU FOR YOUR 37 YEARS OF SERVICE.
09:27:19 CONGRATULATIONS.
09:27:21 GOD BLESS YOU.
09:27:22 >> THANK YOU.
09:27:24 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:27:26 >> THANK YOU.
09:27:31 I JUST WANT TO THANK THE CITY OF TAMPA, AND PARKS AND
09:27:34 RECREATION FOR THE GREAT SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS.
09:27:37 WE HAD A GRASSROOTS ARTS PROGRAM.
09:27:40 AND WE INTRODUCED KIDS, ADULTS, EVERYONE TO GET IN TOUCH
09:27:44 WITH THEIR SPIRIT.
09:27:47 WE HAVE THE VISUAL ARTS, ARTS STUDIOS, OUR CREATIVE ARTS
09:27:52 THEATER, CHILDREN'S THEATER, AN OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT KIDS
09:27:58 GET TO GO TO THE STRAZ AND LEARN GUITAR AND UKULELE.
09:28:08 SO WE HAVE A WONDERFUL MANAGER THAT WILL SEE THAT ALL OF
09:28:13 THIS CONTINUES, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:28:23 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
09:28:24 NEXT, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:28:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COUNCIL, IT'S MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO
09:28:53 WELCOME THE LADIES OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY.
09:29:03 WHY DON'T YOU COME UP HERE?
09:29:05 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:29:44 MR. CHAIRMAN, IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO GIVE THIS
09:29:46 COMMENDATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE METRO ALUMNAE, TAMPA
09:29:52 IOTA, THIOTA, THIS IS DELTA DAY IN TAMPA BAY.
09:30:01 >> AT CITY HALL.
09:30:02 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:30:06 >> DEDICATION FOR OVER A CENTURY, AND THE TAMPA CHAPTER AND
09:30:16 MEMBERS FOR ALL THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT OUR
09:30:18 COMMUNITY, THE NATION, THE WORLD.
09:30:22 THE THEME "JOY IN OUR SISTERHOOD, OUR VOICE IN SERVICE AND
09:30:29 IN OUR HEART."
09:30:31 THOSE IN THE SORORITY IS FAITH IN THE COMMUNITY, EDUCATION
09:30:38 DEVELOPMENT, INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, AND
09:30:43 AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT, AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND CEO
09:30:49 TO REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT OF ACTION AND A FORCE FOR THOSE.
09:30:53 TAMPA CITY COUNCIL JOINS YOU THIS 16th DAY OF MAY 2019.
09:31:01 THANK YOU.
09:31:05 LET ME SAY THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL.
09:31:12 IT'S MY PLEASURE AND HONOR.
09:31:13 I MET WITH YOU YESTERDAY, HEARD YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE CITY
09:31:17 OF TAMPA.
09:31:18 IT WAS MY GREAT PLEASURE.
09:31:20 SO WE HAVE THE PRESIDENT.
09:31:26 >> I AM CHANELLW WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT OF DELTA SIGMA THETA
09:31:34 INCORPORATED AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING
09:31:37 US THIS MORNING AND ALLOWING US TO COME IN AND TO HAVE TO
09:31:44 SUPPORT THE COUNCIL AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE COUNCIL TO
09:31:47 SUPPORT US AS WELL.
09:31:47 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:31:52 BRENDA JOHNSON, TAMPA ALUMNI CHAPTER.
09:31:56 ON BEHALF OF OUR PRESIDENT WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
09:31:59 COMMENDATION AND THE WORK WE DO ON ALL OF THESE ISSUES.
09:32:04 I APPRECIATE IT.
09:32:05 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:32:12 I'M REPRESENTING THE TAMPA IOTA CHAPTER.
09:32:15 I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR THE
09:32:21 COMMENDATION.
09:32:22 THANK YOU.
09:32:22 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:32:24 MY NAME IS CORY.
09:32:26 ON BEHALF OF THE -- CHAPTER, AND I WANT TO SAY ... THANK
09:32:35 YOU.
09:32:36 >> NOW BEING A GOOD CAPTAIN, WHEN I GOT TO MY DESK THIS
09:32:42 MORNING, I SAW THERE ARE TWO CHAPTERS.
09:32:47 I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE COMING FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
09:32:49 WE ARE GOING TO GIVE EACH CHAPTER ONE.
09:32:57 AND THE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER AS WELL.
09:33:01 YOU CAN HANG IT ON YOUR WALLS.
09:33:11 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:33:12 ANYONE FROM COUNCIL?
09:33:14 IF I MAY, I KNOW MANY OF US MET WITH YOU ALL YESTERDAY.
09:33:17 AND IT WAS A REAL PLEASURE TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES.
09:33:20 AND BEFORE I MET WITH YOU ALL, I DID SOME RESEARCH, AND I
09:33:25 THINK I TOLD SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT WERE HERE THAT I MET
09:33:27 WITH, SOME OF THE PAST MEMBERS OF YOUR SORORITY, PEOPLE LIKE
09:33:32 DOROTHY HYDES, CONGRESSWOMAN STEPHANI TUBBS, SHIRLEY
09:33:40 CHISHOLM, AND MERLIE EVERS WILLIAMS. THAT'S VERY
09:33:43 IMPRESSIVE. THOSE ARE GREAT NAMES THAT STAND BEHIND YOU,
09:33:45 AND GREAT LEGACY TO LIVE UP TO.
09:33:48 SO GOD BLESS YOU GUYS FOR ALL YOU DO.
09:33:52 THANK YOU.
09:34:01 NEXT WE GO ONWARD TO THE NEXT ONE.
09:34:04 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:34:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [OFF MICROPHONE] SHE CAME ON STRONG FROM
09:34:15 THE SCHOOL BOARD AND KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE THINGS FOR THE CITY
09:34:20 NOT ONLY IN THIS DISTRICT.
09:34:22 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:34:25 GOOD MORNING HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MR.
09:34:29 CHAIRMAN.
09:34:30 TODAY WE STARTED THE COUNCIL MEETING WITH THE PRAYER, AND
09:34:35 THEN BY ALSO HONORING OUR VETERANS, AND IT'S MY PLEASURE
09:34:39 TODAY TO PRESENT TO YOU A TRIBUTE THAT WE PRESENT ON BEHALF
09:34:46 OF THE VILA BROTHERS WHICH ARE LOCAL HOME GROWN VETERANS.
09:34:52 AND IT'S MY PLEASURE AND HONOR TO READ AND PRESENT A TRIBUTE
09:34:55 TO THE FAMILY, THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
09:35:04 IF YOU WILL INDULGE ME READING THIS INTO THE RECORD.
09:35:07 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:35:08 AND THIS IS A TRIBUTE, VILA BROTHERS PARK.
09:35:13 WHEREAS VILA BROTHERS PARK IN TAMPA IS AN IMPORTANT LANDMARK
09:35:17 OF LOCAL HISTORY AND CULTURE THAT IS NAMED AFTER SEVEN LOCAL
09:35:21 BROTHERS AND SERVES AS A GATHERING PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY
09:35:25 FOR THE HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE OF LOCAL VETERANS, AND WHEREAS
09:35:31 VILA BROTHERS PARK WAS COMMEMORATED TO JOE, WILLY, HECTOR,
09:35:37 ROBERT, BENIO AND TONY ON AND WHEREAS EACH VILA BROTHER
09:35:46 SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES SERVING IN
09:35:50 CONFLICTS FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE GULF WAR, AND WHEREAS THE
09:35:55 TWO OLDER VILA BROTHERS JOINED THE MARINES SOON AFTER THE
09:36:00 BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR AND EACH OF THEIR BROTHERS FOLLOWED
09:36:04 THEM INTO SERVICE OVER FIVE DECADE SERVING IN THE MARINES,
09:36:08 THE NAVY, AND THE ARMY, AND WHEREAS IN HONOR OF THE VILA
09:36:14 BROTHERS SERVICE, VILA PARK HOLDS A UNIQUE STATUS IN THE
09:36:19 COMMUNITY AS A PLACE OF HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL
09:36:23 VETERANS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, AND WHEREAS IN
09:36:27 ADDITION TO SERVING AS A LANDMARK OF LOCAL HISTORY, HONOR,
09:36:35 THE VILA BROTHERS PARK IS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR
09:36:38 RESIDENT AND VISITORS NOW.
09:36:41 THEREFORE BE IT RESPECTFULLY THAT VILA BROTHERS PARK IS A
09:36:47 PLACE OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE
09:36:50 RESIDENT AND VISITORS OF TAMPA, AND EXTENSIVE MILITARY
09:36:54 SERVICE OF THE VILA BROTHERS IS HONORED AND COMMENDED,
09:36:58 SIGNED BY MYSELF AS REPRESENTATIVE, SUSAN L. VALDEZ FROM
09:37:02 DISTRICT 52.
09:37:02 I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THIS IN PARTICULAR TO THE TWO VILAS
09:37:10 THAT ARE HERE TODAY.
09:37:12 HONORING OUR VETERANS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING TO DO.
09:37:18 AND WHEN WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO AND HONOR A PLACE
09:37:24 WHERE IT'S SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THAT PURPOSE, IT'S SUCH
09:37:30 AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS AND PRESENT IT TO THIS
09:37:34 DISTINGUISHED FAMILY, WHICH I KNOW IT PROBABLY IS SAYING,
09:37:38 WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
09:37:43 VERY HUMBLE PEOPLE, PEOPLE THAT AREN'T LOOKING FOR
09:37:46 RECOGNITION OR COMMENDATIONS, OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THEY
09:37:50 ARE TAMPA RESIDENTS, THEY ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY, HAVE
09:37:55 BEEN FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, AND AS WE HONOR THEM IN THEIR
09:38:00 SERVICE OF FAMILY, AND THEIR SERVICES IN THE ARMED FORCES,
09:38:05 PROTECTING US AND MAINTAINING OUR FREEDOMS, IT'S SUCH A
09:38:09 PLEASURE AND HONOR TO REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE
09:38:12 DISTINGUISHED FAMILIES STILL WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:38:15 IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE THE VILAS.
09:38:24 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:38:45 GOOD MORNING, SUSAN.
09:38:46 GOOD MORNING, FAMILY AND FRIEND.
09:38:48 ON BEHALF OF THE SEVEN VILA BROTHERS AND VILA FAMILY WE ARE
09:38:53 HONORED TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD.
09:38:55 I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE MYSELF.
09:38:56 I'M MARCH THAT VILA.
09:38:58 I WAS MARRIED TO HECHTER FOR 67 YEARS.
09:39:02 THESE TWO ARE MY BROTHER-IN-LAWS.
09:39:04 ONE DIDN'T COMB.
09:39:05 ONE DIDN'T MAKE IT.
09:39:08 THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO BROTHERS LEFT OUT OF SEVEN.
09:39:15 THEY ARE HERE TO COPY ME STRAIGHT.
09:39:17 THE VILA BROTHERS STORY CAPTURED THE HEART OF TAMPA AND
09:39:22 HOPEFULLY THIS PARK WILL GROW AND BECOME A SYMBOL OF TRUE
09:39:25 MEANING OF LOVE FOR COUNTRY AS IDENTIFIED BY THESE SEVEN MEN
09:39:28 AND SO MANY OTHERS.
09:39:31 SUSAN, ON BEHALF OF JOE, WILLIE, WILFRED, HECTOR, ROBERT,
09:39:36 DENIO, TONY, THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL COMMENDATION AS
09:39:40 BEING OF HISTORICAL VALUE TO THIS COMMUNITY, CITY AND STATE.
09:39:45 IT WILL BE TREASURED BY US.
09:39:47 THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL FOR HOSTING THIS AWARD AND YOUR
09:39:51 SUPPORT FOR THE PINELLAS PARK.
09:39:55 THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS A REALITY.
09:39:57 THANKS TO ALL OF YOU THAT SUPPORT THE PARK, AND AGAIN THANK
09:40:01 YOU, SUSAN, FOR THIS WONDERFUL TRIBUTE.
09:40:04 YOU HAVE TRULY HONORED US, AND WE ARE SINCERELY GRATEFUL.
09:40:08 MOST OF ALL, GOD BLESS ALL OF AMERICA.
09:40:13 THANK YOU.
09:40:13 >> I JUST WANT TO THANK THE CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOR
09:40:21 THE HONOR THAT THEY HAVE GIVEN US.
09:40:25 HERE IN TAMPA.
09:40:26 >> ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING FOR THIS
09:40:32 PRESENTATION TO BE AWARDED, FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE VILA
09:40:37 PARK, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THAT PARK,
09:40:47 HONORING AND LOOKING AT SOME OF OUR LOCAL HISTORY AS WELL.
09:40:49 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:40:53 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:40:56 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. VILA, DON'T THANK US.
09:41:05 WE THANK YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS FOR SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
09:41:09 WE ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE THE VILA BROTHERS AND FAMILY HERE
09:41:12 IN TAMPA.
09:41:13 WE CAN CALL YOU OUR NATIVE SONS.
09:41:15 THE PARK IS JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, FOR
09:41:18 EVERYTHING THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DID. SO WE ARE
09:41:20 ETERNALLY GRATEFUL.
09:41:22 AND THANK YOU, MRS. MARTHA VILA FOR BEING HERE.
09:41:27 YOU ARE A WONDERFUL ADVOCATE, A WONDERFUL SPOKESPERSON FOR
09:41:30 THE FAMILY.
09:41:32 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HECTOR YEARS AGO.
09:41:36 I HAD THE HONOR OF MEETING HECTOR YEARS AGO.
09:41:38 AND I'M SORRY THAT HE'S NO LONGER WITH US BUT HIS MEMORY AND
09:41:41 THE MEMORY OF ALL THE OTHER VILA BROTHERS, AND OF COURSE
09:41:47 WILL LIVE FOREVER.
09:41:48 THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.
09:41:52 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ON THE COUNCIL?
09:41:53 >> MR. VILA, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS FOR
09:41:58 YOUR SERVICE.
09:41:59 THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID AND ALSO FOR INSPIRING US IN THE
09:42:01 FUTURE.
09:42:03 MRS. VILA MENTIONED SANDY SANCHEZ.
09:42:06 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SANDY AND ALL THE GREAT NUMBER OF
09:42:09 COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THAT COMMUNITY WHO LOVE YOUR FAMILY SO
09:42:12 MUCH AND HAVE INSPIRED ALL OF US AND TOURIST US ALL THE
09:42:15 LESSONS THAT HOPEFULLY THAT WILL CONTINUE FOR GENERATIONS
09:42:18 NOW BECAUSE OF THE PARK.
09:42:19 SO THANK YOU.
09:42:22 >>LUIS VIERA: I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU OBVIOUSLY VERY
09:42:25 MUCH.
09:42:25 CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG.
09:42:28 THE VILA BROTHERS WERE ALL FIRST GENERATION AMERICANS?
09:42:31 >> YES, WE WERE BORN HERE.
09:42:34 >>LUIS VIERA: THE FIRST GENERATION?
09:42:36 >> YES, THE FIRST GENERATION.
09:42:37 WE WERE.
09:42:39 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THAT'S VERY POIGNANT BECAUSE THROUGHOUT
09:42:42 HISTORY NOW, TODAY, 100 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE ALWAYS QUESTIONED
09:42:45 THE LOYALTY OF IMMIGRANTS.
09:42:47 AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY POIGNANT.
09:42:50 IN OUR CITY WE HONOR MANY VETERANS AND MANY OF THEM CAME
09:42:53 FROM IMMIGRANT FAMILIES LIKE YOUR FAMILY, LOPEZ, AND OTHERS,
09:42:58 AND THE VILA BROTHERS NAME I THINK GOES IN THE CITY OF
09:43:00 TAMPA, WITH AL LOPEZ, ROBERT SAUNDERS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO
09:43:06 WORE THE UNIFORM AND STOOD FOR GREAT THINGS THAT WERE ALL
09:43:09 APPRECIATED.
09:43:10 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:43:10 >> THANK YOU.
09:43:14 >> HAVE A GREAT DAY.
09:43:16 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
09:43:18 NEXT WE GO FORWARD WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:43:20 ANYONE WISHES TO SPEAK, PLEASE COME FORWARD.
09:43:23 THREE MINUTES A PERSON.
09:43:24 STAND UP IF YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO, SO THAT WE CAN NOBODY WHO
09:43:28 IS SPEAKING.
09:43:29 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:43:33 MY NAME IS DIANA KLINE.
09:43:38 I AM HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF SAVE OUR NEIGHBORS IN TAMPA.
09:43:42 AND I AM HERE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE OVER 200 BABIES
09:43:48 THAT ARE MURDERED EVERY WEEK IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:43:51 WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT.
09:43:53 I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME HERE A DIAGRAM, THIS IS A BABY AT NINE
09:44:02 WEEKS.
09:44:12 AND THE BABIES ARE LITERALLY BRUTALLY MURDERED ALIVE, HEAD,
09:44:17 ARM, LEGS, DECAPITATED.
09:44:19 ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:44:21 EVERY WEEK.
09:44:23 AT THE RATE OF 300 A WEEK.
09:44:24 THIS NEEDS TO STOP.
09:44:25 AND YOU GUYS HAVE THE JURISDICTION TO BE ABLE TO STOP IT.
09:44:30 THIS IS THEY HAVE TO PUT THE BABY PARTS BACK TOGETHER TO
09:44:35 SHOW THAT THEY GOT IT ALL.
09:44:37 YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT, A BABY IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB.
09:44:43 AND IT'S HAPPENING IN TAMPA AND ACROSS THE NATION.
09:44:47 AND YOU, COUNCIL, THIS MORNING, WITH ALL THE PRAYERS, WITH
09:44:51 ALL THE HONORING OF OUR BE AMERICAN VETERANS, AND HAVING OUR
09:44:56 WOUNDED WARRIORS BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AND BEING ENCOURAGED IN
09:45:03 THEIR LIFE, YOU GUYS HAVE TO KNOW FREEDOM BEGINS IN THE
09:45:06 WOMB.
09:45:07 WITHOUT FREEDOM IN THE WOMB, WE DOESN'T HAVE FREEDOM.
09:45:11 SO IT'S UP TO YOU MEMBERS.
09:45:14 WE NEED TO START A GRASSROOTS TO END WHAT ROE V. WADE
09:45:18 STARTED AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL, SHOW ACROSS THE NATION, THIS
09:45:23 HAS TO END.
09:45:24 AND I AM WAITING FOR IT TO BE ON THE AGENDA AND I AM READY
09:45:27 TO TALK TO EACH ONE OF YOU ABOUT THIS, ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
09:45:35 IT'S NOT A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO MURDER HER BABY.
09:45:38 THERE IS LOTS OF INFORMATION.
09:45:40 I GREW UP IN A MILITARY FAMILY IN TAMPA AND I INVITE EACH
09:45:44 YOU TO GO OUT THERE AND JOIN ME.
09:45:47 YOU CAN SEE HOW HELPLESS THESE BABIES ARE.
09:45:50 AND IT'S TIME TO END THIS.
09:45:52 YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THIS.
09:45:54 AND AT A GRASS ROOTS LEVEL YOU CAN DEFY THE FEDERAL AND THE
09:45:57 STATE TO START ESTABLISHING JUSTICE.
09:46:01 MAKE TAMPA A SANCTUARY CITY FOR OUR UNBORN BABIES, OUR
09:46:06 FUTURE CHILDREN IN TAMPA AND ACROSS THE NATION.
09:46:12 I AM GOING TO BE GETTING IN TOUCH WITH EACH ONE OF YOU.
09:46:15 I EXPECT TO HAVE A MEETING WITH EACH ONE OF YOU.
09:46:20 IF YOU BELIEVE WE SHOULD END THE BLOODSHED AND TAKE A LEAD.
09:46:28 AND BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE A GIFT FROM GOD.
09:46:30 [BELL SOUNDS]
09:46:32 LIKE I SAID, I HAVE MORE ON MY WEBSITE.
09:46:36 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:46:38 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
09:46:40 NEXT, PLEASE.
09:46:40 >> MY NAME IS RICHARD FORMICA. I LIVE IN TEMPLE CREST IN
09:46:54 DISTRICT 5.
09:46:55 COUNCIL MIRANDA KNOWS ME BECAUSE WE HAVE MET IN THE PAST.
09:47:00 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER MAY REMEMBER ME FROM A PREVIOUS TOUR
09:47:04 AT CITY COUNCIL.
09:47:05 AND SOME OF THE NEW MEMBERS MAY REMEMBER SEEING ME DURING
09:47:09 THEIR CAMPAIGNING.
09:47:10 I'M HERE THIS MORNING TO TELL YOU THAT I AM -- THE CITY OF
09:47:15 TAMPA'S CITIZENS REPRESENTATIVE ON THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER
09:47:18 TECHNICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL.
09:47:20 THE COUNCIL IS COORDINATED AND MANAGED BY HILLSBOROUGH
09:47:23 COUNTY CITY PLANNING COMMISSION AND IS MADE UP OF CITIZENS
09:47:28 FROM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, TEMPLE TERRACE, CITY OF TAMPA, AND
09:47:31 PROFESSIONALS FROM LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL ORGANIZATIONS,
09:47:36 ALL TASKED WITH TAKING CARE OF OUR HILLSBOROUGH RIVER.
09:47:42 EACH MONTHLY WE REVIEW PLANNED PROJECTS ALONG THE RIVER TO
09:47:47 MAKE SURE THEY MEET ESTABLISHED STANDARD AND THE FLOW AND
09:47:51 HEALTH OF OUR ARRIVE IS MAINTAINED.
09:47:53 THIS TIME OF THE YEAR BECAUSE OF MINIMUM FLOW REQUIREMENTS,
09:47:56 ONE OF THE LATEST PROJECTS RECENTLY COMPLETED TO HELP
09:48:00 MAINTAIN FLOW DOWN THE RIVER BELOW THE DAM IS THE MINIMUM
09:48:04 FLOW CONTROL GATE.
09:48:06 THIS GATE WAS BUILT INTO THE DAM ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
09:48:10 IT IS A SLIDING GATE TYPE OF PANEL WHICH CAN BE RAISED AND
09:48:14 LOWERED UNDER THE CONTROL OF OUR WATER DEPARTMENT TO MEET
09:48:17 MINIMUM FLOW REQUIREMENTS.
09:48:22 IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION, LET ME KNOW.
09:48:24 I WILL BE HAPPY TO MEET WITH YOU AND SHARE ALL THE DETAILS
09:48:27 OF THIS AND ANY OTHER PROJECT.
09:48:31 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
09:48:32 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:48:36 NEXT, PLEASE.
09:48:37 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:48:39 MY NAME IS BISHOP MICHELLE B. PATTY.
09:48:43 I STAND BEFORE YOU ON BEHALF OF 30-PLUS CHILDREN.
09:48:47 THEY CAN'T BE HERE TODAY BECAUSE THEIR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, HIGH
09:48:52 SCHOOLS, OR ON THEIR WAY TO COLLEGE BUT THEY THOUGHT IT
09:48:55 WOULD BE ROBBERY IF WE COULD NOT THANK THE TWO COUNCIL
09:49:00 PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED THEM.
09:49:01 THEY WILL BE GOING ON A TRIP THIS SUMMER TO BLIZZARD BEACH
09:49:06 BECAUSE OF TWO OUTSTANDING COUNCIL PEOPLE.
09:49:08 SO THEY WANT TO MEET TO BRING THE CERTIFICATE TO COUNCILMAN
09:49:14 GUIDO MANISCALCO.
09:49:15 I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU.
09:49:17 ALSO TO JOSEPH CITRO.
09:49:19 THEY SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:49:21 THEY WANTED ME TO BRING THIS TO YOU GUYS.
09:49:23 THESE ARE OUR FUTURE LEADERS, THE SCHOOLS THAT SUPPORT THEM
09:49:29 SO THEY CAN GO FORWARD IN LIFE.
09:49:31 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:49:33 WE HAD A TIGHT SCHEDULE THAT NIGHT BUT GUIDO, THEY WERE
09:49:59 DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU HAD TO LEAVE SO THEY GAVE HIM A PASS
09:50:02 TO COME DOWN THIS MORNING.
09:50:05 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:50:06 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
09:50:08 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND CITRO FOR YOUR
09:50:11 GENEROSITY.
09:50:12 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:50:14 I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU GUYS FOR BEING ELECTED AND TO
09:50:17 LEAD OUR CITY TO HAVE A NEW FUTURE.
09:50:19 MY NAME IS SAM HARRIS.
09:50:20 I'M WITH SAM HARRIS COMMERCIAL REALTY AND HERE TO TALK ABOUT
09:50:26 OPPORTUNITY ZONES.
09:50:26 OUR CITY HAS OPPORTUNITY ZONES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT WE
09:50:31 CAN RESHAPE EAST TAMPA, DREW PARK, PROGRESS VILLAGE, TEMPLE
09:50:36 TERRACE, SUITCASE CITY, THROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND RECOGNITION
09:50:41 THAT THIS IS WHAT VIABLE WAY FOR US TO BUILD KNEW CAPITAL,
09:50:45 TO REBUILD THESE COMMUNITIES SO THEY ARE VIBRANT, AND THAT
09:50:49 THERE ARE MORE JOBS AND MORE STABILITY IN THOSE AREAS, 2017
09:50:56 ALLOWED FOR OPPORTUNITY ZONES TO TAKE PRIVATE CAPITAL AND
09:50:59 INVESTMENT TO THESE DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.
09:51:01 SO WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO WHAT WE CALL THE QOV
09:51:05 EXPO ON JUNE 3rd AND 4th.
09:51:08 IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE MINDED INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOURSELF,
09:51:11 CPAs, ATTORNEYS, INDUSTRY EXPERTS, COMING TOGETHER TO HELP
09:51:16 US BETTER SHAPE TAMPA IN THOSE OPPORTUNITY ZONES.
09:51:19 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONGRATULATIONS
09:51:22 ON YOUR ELECTION.
09:51:23 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR?
09:51:26 >> SIR, MAKE SURE BEFORE YOU LEAVE YOU SEE MY AIDE SO SHE
09:51:29 HAS THAT INFORMATION SO I CAN SEE ABOUT ATTENDING.
09:51:32 >> MINE ALSO, PLEASE.
09:51:34 >>LUIS VIERA: I GUESS SEND IT TO ALL OF US IF YOU COULD,
09:51:40 PLEASE.
09:51:40 YES, SIR.
09:51:41 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:51:41 NEXT, PLEASE.
09:51:42 >> CONNIE BURTON, NAACP HOUSING COMMITTEE.
09:51:54 THE HONORING THE SERVICEMEN WAS A GREAT THING THIS MORNING
09:51:58 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
09:52:07 ALWAYS SERVED THE INTEREST OF MY DISTRICT TO THE TUNE OF
09:52:13 BEING THE SEVEN TERMS.
09:52:16 BUT ONE OF MY GREATEST HEROS THAT I AM MISSING THIS MORNING
09:52:19 IS THE WORK OF A BROTHER, AND SOME OF HIS GREAT WRITINGS, HE
09:52:28 WOULD TELL US THAT WE COULD GET CONFUSED SOMETIMES BECAUSE
09:52:34 FOLKS WOULD HAVE THINGS SWITCHED AROUND IN TERMS OF MAKING
09:52:38 US THINK IT WAS OUR PROBLEMS WHEN WE SEE OUR COMMUNITIES IN
09:52:42 SUCH DISTRESSED SITUATIONS.
09:52:46 MAY 19, 1925, MALCOLM X. YES, OUR HERO.
09:52:53 SO WHEN I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS CITY IT GIVES ME TO
09:52:57 QUESTION, HOW COULD SOMEBODY THAT IS SO, END UP WITH $100
09:53:06 MILLION IN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT MONEY?
09:53:11 EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT HOW RICH HE IS.
09:53:13 AND I AM BEGINNING TO WONDER IF DISTRICT 5 -- AND I DON'T
09:53:16 KNOW, I COULD BE WRONG -- IS IT MAPPED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT
09:53:22 INCLUDES PARTS OF DOWNTOWN --
09:53:30 [NO ENCODER]
09:53:38 [NO ENCODER]
09:54:16 WE HAVE TOO MANY ISSUES INSIDE OF EAST TAMPA, AND WE NEED A
09:54:21 FULL PLANNED DISTRICT.
09:54:25 CALL IT WHATEVER YOU WANT TO.
09:54:26 BUT WE WANT TO BE LIFTED.
09:54:29 FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE SAME
09:54:31 ISSUES OF WHERE WE GET BITS AND CRUMBS AND CRUMBS. WE
09:54:36 BELIEVE IT'S A NEW DAY.
09:54:38 WE HAVE A NEW COUNCIL.
09:54:39 WE HAVE EVEN A NEW MAYOR.
09:54:41 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH MA'AM.
09:54:49 NEXT, PLEASE.
09:54:52 COUNCILMAN?
09:54:55 >> WE HAVE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS BEFORE, AND YOU SAID WE
09:54:58 HAVE GOT A NEW MAYOR AND WE HAVE GOT A NEW COUNCIL, AND WE
09:55:03 ALL SAID ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL THAT WE WANT TO WORK ON EVERY
09:55:06 PART OF THE CITY AND MAKE EVERY PART OF THE CITY POSSIBLE SO
09:55:08 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
09:55:10 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
09:55:17 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT, PLEASE.
09:55:18 >> MENTEZMAT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:55:24 YES, IT'S A NEW COUNCIL AND IT A NEW MAYOR.
09:55:27 I HAVE BEEN AROUND HERE SINCE SANDY FREEMAN, A COUPLE OF
09:55:30 GRECOS, OTHER INDIVIDUALS THAT'S BEEN DOWN HERE.
09:55:34 MAYOR POE.
09:55:35 THAT'S A LONG TIME.
09:55:37 AND BLACK PEOPLE, AFRICAN PEOPLE, GET THE SAME JERK AROUND
09:55:43 WE HAVE BEEN GETTING FOR 06 YEARS.
09:55:46 NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
09:55:48 THEY GIVE US THE SAME PROGRAMS AND MY PARENTS AND
09:55:56 GRANDPARENTS USED TO LINE UP DOWN HERE TO STAND IN LINE TO
09:55:59 DO A LOTTERY FOR A DOLLAR AND ALL THAT NONSENSE.
09:56:06 HE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
09:56:09 IT THE SAME THING IN EAST TAMPA OVER IN DISTRICT 5.
09:56:12 IT'S THE SAME THING.
09:56:14 AND THAT COMES FROM A CERTAIN KIND OF ONGOING HATRED,
09:56:18 ONGOING HATRED TOWARDS AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:56:21 AND LIKE YOU CALL THEM -- THEY DON'T LIKE TO BE LABELED WITH
09:56:31 OFFENSIVE NAMES.
09:56:32 BUT THEY ARE BUSY TO LABEL US DRUG DEALERS, CRIMINALS,
09:56:38 RADICALS, ALL KIND OF STUPID NAMES THAT WE ARE TRYING TO
09:56:42 PROVIDE, RACIALLY HATEFUL, INSENSITIVE NAMES BECAUSE WE ARE
09:56:46 TRYING TO SURVIVE.
09:56:52 AND YOU COME DOWN HERE TRYING TO REPRESENT YOUR COMMUNITY,
09:56:55 AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
09:56:56 THEN THEY ATTACK YOU PERSONALLY.
09:56:58 $3 MILLION LAWSUIT FOR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR BUILDING A
09:57:03 PERFECTLY LEGAL HOUSE.
09:57:07 ABOUT $2 MILLION ON A WALL.
09:57:12 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF CARS LEGALLY PARKED ON
09:57:16 YOUR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY.
09:57:18 IT'S A CERTAIN KIND OF HATRED FOR AFRICAN BLACK PEOPLE.
09:57:22 $2500 IN ILLEGAL FINES, PARKING TICKETS, A PERSON WHO TRADE
09:57:27 TO WALK A STRAIGHT ROAD.
09:57:30 THAT'S HATRED.
09:57:31 AND EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT NEW CITY COUNCIL, NEW MAYOR.
09:57:35 WE DON'T SEE NO CHANGES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
09:57:37 POLICE DOG THE SAME THING.
09:57:39 OH, YOU DIDN'T STOP AT THE SIGN.
09:57:42 YOUR WINDOWS ARE TINTED TOO DARK.
09:57:45 LOOKS LIKE SMOKE IN YOUR CAR.
09:57:47 LOOKS LIKE LIGHTS ON YOUR BICYCLE ARE NOT WORKING PROPERLY
09:57:50 IN THE DAYTIME.
09:57:50 A CERTAIN KIND OF HATRED.
09:57:52 AND THAT HAS TO CHANGE.
09:57:53 AND WHAT I WOULD SAY IS WHAT I AM HERE TO SAY IS TODAY, FROM
09:57:57 CHIEF DUGAN BARBARA LYNCH, CHIEF DUGAN, DETECTIVES RITA
09:58:09 BAKER, PRATT AND ERNEST MUELLER.
09:58:14 THOSE ARE SOME NAMES THAT I AM ANNOUNCING PUBLICLY THAT NEED
09:58:17 TO GET FIRED FROM THIS CITY FOR THE NONSENSE AND LEGAL STUFF
09:58:20 THEY DO.
09:58:21 [BELL SOUNDS]
09:58:22 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.
09:58:23 ANYONE ELSE?
09:58:24 YES, SIR?
09:58:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FOR YEARS I HAVE SEEN HIM COME TO COUNCIL
09:58:33 AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT ANGER THAT YOU ARE
09:58:36 POSSESSING, IT'S PASSION, BECAUSE I KNOW SOME OF THOSE
09:58:46 FOLKS.
09:58:46 BUT I WILL SAY TO YOU THIS IS A NEW COUNCIL.
09:58:48 I TRULY BELIEVE IT WILL BE A NEW DAY, AND IT WILL BE WITH
09:58:51 THE COUNCIL THAT WE NOW HAVE.
09:58:53 SO I ASK THAT YOU REACH OUT TO US, GET INVOLVED WITH US AND
09:58:56 HELP US SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND.
09:59:02 IF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE,
09:59:05 AND PEOPLE DON'T EXPERIENCE SOME THINGS, THEY DON'T BELIEVE
09:59:08 IN CERTAIN CULTURES, CERTAIN SENSITIVITY ISSUES, HOW PEOPLE
09:59:12 LIVE.
09:59:13 AND I BELIEVE YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME OF THAT.
09:59:16 SO I'M SAYING I WOULD LIKE YOU TO REACH OUT TO ME AND REACH
09:59:20 OUT TO COUNCIL AND THAT WAY GET AN UNDERSTANDING AND YOU CAN
09:59:24 HELP US HELP THOSE UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU WILL BE GOING.
09:59:28 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:59:32 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:59:33 ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:59:35 OKAY.
09:59:36 ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC RECONSIDERATION OF ANY
09:59:39 LEGISLATIVE MATTERS?
09:59:41 OKAY.
09:59:45 FOR THE ITEMS PULLED, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY HERE FROM CITY
09:59:49 STAFF?
09:59:50 TWO.
09:59:51 OKAY.
09:59:51 LET'S GO AHEAD AND COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:00:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOVE ITEMS 5 THROUGH 8.
10:00:07 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:00:08 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:00:09 ANY OPPOSED?
10:00:11 NEXT, CHAIRMAN GUDES.
10:00:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE]
10:00:19 >> 9 THROUGH 13.
10:00:21 >> SECOND.
10:00:22 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:00:31 OH, DO YOU WANT TO AMEND IT?
10:00:40 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GOOD.
10:00:42 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, I BELIEVE IT WAS.
10:00:45 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:00:46 OPPOSED?
10:00:46 NEXT, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:00:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ITEMS 14 THROUGH 16,
10:01:00 ITEMS 18 AND 19, AND ITEMS 21 THROUGH 23.
10:01:07 >> SECOND.
10:01:08 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:01:10 I'M SORRY?
10:01:12 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I WANTED TO QUICKLY COMMENT IN REGARD
10:01:14 TO ITEM 19, NOT PULLED BUT SINCE IT'S ON CONSENT TO EXPRESS
10:01:23 MY PLEASURE IN REGARD TO 19 THAT IT WAS INCLUDED AS A
10:01:26 SHELTERED MARKET FOR $331,000 TOTS ENCOURAGE MINORITY AND
10:01:34 OTHER DISABLED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
10:01:40 SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUTOUT TO THE VARIOUS
10:01:43 DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THAT.
10:01:47 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:01:49 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:01:51 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:01:51 ANY OPPOSED?
10:01:53 NEXT, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:01:54 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE ITEMS 24 THROUGH 36.
10:01:57 >> SECOND.
10:01:58 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:01:59 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:02:01 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:02:03 ANY OPPOSED?
10:02:05 NEXT, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:02:09 >>BILL CARLSON: MOVE WE PASS 29, 30, 31.
10:02:12 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:02:14 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:02:15 ANY OPPOSED?
10:02:16 AND LASTLY, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:02:18 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I MOVE ITEMS 32 AND 33.
10:02:30 >>LUIS VIERA: DID YOU PULL BOTH OF THOSE?
10:02:31 I'M SORRY.
10:02:34 MY ORIGINATING MISTAKE. WE GO NOW TO THE PULLED ITEMS WHICH
10:02:37 I BELIEVE ARE 17, 20, 32, 33.
10:02:40 >> ERIC WEISS, WASTEWATER HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON
10:03:01 ITEM 20.
10:03:02 >> AS YOU ALL KNOW WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK TO EACH OTHER
10:03:06 BECAUSE OF SUNSHINE LAWS, AND WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE
10:03:10 ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS THAT MY CONSTITUENTS, A LOT OF
10:03:13 LEADERS HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY IS THE WAY PURCHASING WAS DONE
10:03:16 IN THE PAST, EIGHT YEARS IN PARTICULAR.
10:03:19 SO IF I SEE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS ONE BIDDER, I
10:03:26 CAN'T HELP MYSELF BUT ASK QUESTIONS.
10:03:28 NUMBER 17 AND NUMBER 20.
10:03:30 I DON'T HAVE PARTICULAR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BID BUT I WOULD
10:03:35 LIKE TO ASK IN BOTH CASES HOW WIDELY WERE THEY ADVERTISED?
10:03:42 AND WHY DID WE END WITH ONE BID?
10:03:45 I THINK IN NUMBER 20 THERE WAS A PROTEST, THE OTHER BIDDERS
10:03:53 DECIDED THAT THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE BID IN SOME WAYS.
10:03:55 >> ON ITEM 20 WHICH WAS FIVE LARGE GENERATORS, THERE WAS I
10:03:59 THINK AT LEAST SIX BIDS.
10:04:01 THE FIRST TWO WERE DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE THEY QUALIFIED THEIR
10:04:06 BID.
10:04:06 THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE INDEMNIFICATION AND OTHER TERMS AND
10:04:09 CONDITIONS.
10:04:10 AND MADE THEIR BID AT ANY TIME ON THAT WHICH MAKES THEM
10:04:15 INELIGIBLE.
10:04:17 SAME PLAYING FIELD FOR EVERYBODY.
10:04:18 SO THE THIRD LOW BIDDER IS STILL WITHIN OUR BUDGET AND
10:04:22 THAT'S WHO WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOR THIS WORK.
10:04:23 >> AND 17 ALSO?
10:04:28 >> 17 IS NOT WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT.
10:04:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR JOINING US THIS
10:04:38 MORNING.
10:04:38 I HAD A LITTLE CHAT WITH MR. BAIRD AND WITH ERIC BEFORE THE
10:04:42 MEETING TODAY IN REGARD TO THIS ITEM.
10:04:45 SO SPECIFICALLY, THIS ITEM IS $488,000, A LOT OF MONEY, TO
10:04:49 HAVE A SIX-MONTH RENTAL OF SOME VERY, VERY LARGE TEMPORARY
10:04:55 STAND-BY GENERATORS TO STICK NEXT TO THE TREATMENT
10:05:00 FACILITIES OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE SURE THEY KEEP
10:05:02 WORKING IN CASE THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE.
10:05:06 THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT IT'S FOR.
10:05:09 SO MY QUESTION TO MR. BAIRD AND TO MR. WEISS, IF WE ARE
10:05:13 DOING THIS IN SEVERAL CONSECUTIVE YEARS, I KNOW WHENEVER I
10:05:17 GO TO HOME DEPOT AND I START RENTING SOMETHING LIKE WEEK
10:05:20 AFTER WEEK I THINK TO MYSELF, WHY DIDN'T I JUST BUY IT?
10:05:23 AND THAT WAS MY QUESTION TO MR. WEISS.
10:05:28 SO MY LAST QUESTION TO YOU GUYS -- AND I KNOW IT WAS SHORT
10:05:31 NOTICE AND I APOLOGIZE -- WAS WHAT IF WE HAD JUST ASKED THIS
10:05:35 COMPANY OR SIMILAR COMPANY, CAN WE JUST BUY THESE SINCE WE
10:05:40 ARE DOING THIS FOR TWO OR THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS UNTIL WE
10:05:44 CAN GET A PERMANENT SOLUTION?
10:05:46 AND HOW MUCH THAT WOULD COST AS COMPARED TO THE 488,000.
10:05:49 >> SO WE DID AN ANALYSIS. THIS IS OUR SECOND YEAR OF DOING
10:05:53 THIS.
10:05:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ANOTHER YEAR OR TWO TO GO?
10:05:58 >> YES.
10:05:59 SO THERE'S FIVE BIG GENERATORS.
10:06:01 TWO ARE IN CONSTRUCTION PHASE AND WILL BE DONE BY THE NEXT
10:06:04 RAINY SEASON.
10:06:05 AND THREE ARE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN PHASE WHICH SHOULD BE
10:06:09 DONE THE YEAR AFTER THAT.
10:06:11 WHEN WE DID OUR INITIAL ANALYSIS LAST YEAR, THE COST TO BUY
10:06:15 THESE WAS A LITTLE OVER $3 MILLION.
10:06:20 FOR THESE FIVE.
10:06:21 IF YOU BOUGHT ALL FIVE LAST YEAR.
10:06:23 KNOWING THAT WE WERE GOING TO GET RID OF TWO OF THE BIGGEST
10:06:27 ONES AFTER THIS YEAR, THEN TWO MORE AFTER THAT, IT MADE
10:06:31 SENSE TO JUST RENT THOSE.
10:06:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: EVEN THOUGH WE ARE RENTING THEM AND THEY
10:06:35 ARE SITTING THERE FOR SIX MONTHS, THAT'S STILL ONLY ABOUT A
10:06:39 FIFTH OF THE TOTAL COST?
10:06:41 AND WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE PERMANENT --
10:06:44 >> THE PERMANENT ONES ARE MORE THAN THAT.
10:06:46 BECAUSE YOU HAVE GOT TO KEEP THEM ABOVE THE 100 YEAR
10:06:51 FLOODPLAIN, FIRE INSTALLATION.
10:06:55 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
10:06:56 AND I APPRECIATE THE DUE DILIGENCE ON THAT.
10:06:58 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:07:00 ANYONE WISH TO MOVE THE ITEM?
10:07:05 >> YES, I'LL MOVE.
10:07:07 >> I'LL SECOND 20.
10:07:10 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR. GUIDO.
10:07:14 A SECOND BY MR. JOHN.
10:07:18 THIS WAS 20.
10:07:19 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:07:20 ANY OPPOSED?
10:07:21 OKAY.
10:07:22 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:07:23 OKAY.
10:07:24 IS ANYONE HERE FOR 17?
10:07:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT IS WATER DEPARTMENT.
10:07:29 >>BRAD BAIRD: PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR.
10:07:33 MR. CHUCK WEBER IS STILL IN WITH THE MAYOR RIGHT NOW, SO
10:07:37 I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ON ITEM 17.
10:07:39 >> I WAS GOING TO PULL THAT.
10:07:43 MY ONLY QUESTION AGAIN GETTING BACK TO THE PURCHASING, IT
10:07:47 SAID YOU ALL USED DEMAND STAR.
10:07:50 DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHY THAT WASN'T -- DIDN'T USE ANY OTHER
10:07:55 OUTREACH?
10:07:57 >> NO, WE DID NOT.
10:07:58 THIS IS THE ONLY COMPANY THAT MANUFACTURERS THIS LINE.
10:08:03 THERE'S NO OTHER -- LIME SLAKING.
10:08:09 WE HAD TO GO SOLE SOURCE WITH THIS ITEM.
10:08:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST AS A FOLLOW-UP, MR. CHAIR, IT WAS
10:08:16 INTERESTING TO READ THE BACKUP.
10:08:18 THE ISSUE WAS COMPATIBILITY, I THINK OF PARTS.
10:08:23 THEY CAN TAKE -- THEY HAVE ALREADY GOT ONE, AND THEY HAD
10:08:27 ANOTHER ONE THAT DIED, SO THEY CAN TAKE THIS NEW ONE AND
10:08:30 SLIP IT RIGHT IN TO WHERE THE OLD ONE WAS BECAUSE IT'S THE
10:08:34 SAME EXACT MACHINERY.
10:08:35 AND I THINK THAT WAS THE ISSUE ON THE SINGLE SOURCE.
10:08:38 >>BRAD BAIRD: THAT IS CORRECT.
10:08:40 YES.
10:08:41 SO YOU READ THE SINGLE SOURCE CERTIFICATE.
10:08:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:08:45 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:08:47 ANYONE WISH TO MOVE THE ITEM?
10:08:49 >> SO MOVED.
10:08:51 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND?
10:08:51 >> SECOND.
10:08:52 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION TO MOVE ITEM 17 BY COUNCILMAN
10:08:53 MANISCALCO.
10:08:55 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:08:58 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:08:59 OPPOSED?
10:08:59 THANK YOU.
10:09:00 MOVING FORWARD, I BELIEVE 27 WAS PULLED.
10:09:07 27 AND 28.
10:09:09 YES, MA'AM.
10:09:09 >> I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM.
10:09:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I IMAGINE IT'S PROBABLY SIMILAR TO BE
10:09:29 1806 AND 1807 ELLICOTT ACROSS THE STREET, IT APPEARS, THAT'S
10:09:34 WHAT JUMPED OUT AT ME AND PROBABLY MR. CARLSON AS WELL,
10:09:37 GIVING THE PROPERTY WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION BACK TO AN LLC,
10:09:43 AND SO THAT JUMPED OUT AT ME IN REGARD TO THAT, LOOKING AT
10:09:47 SOME OF THE BACKUP, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, SO I AM GLAD YOU ARE
10:09:50 HERE TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL ABOUT US GIVING
10:09:55 A LOT TO A COMPANY, AND SPECIFICALLY MY QUESTION IS, WHAT
10:09:59 ARE OUR ASSURANCES, WHAT KIND OF ASSURANCES AND GUARANTEES
10:10:02 DO WE HAVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD THE AFFORDABLE
10:10:07 HOUSING, HOW MUCH WILL THAT HOME ULTIMATELY SELL FOR IN THE
10:10:12 COMMUNITY, ET CETERA?
10:10:13 >> SO WE HAVE A COMPANY THAT POLICY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
10:10:18 PROJECTS WHERE THESE WILL PROVIDE THE LOTS FOR FREE TO A
10:10:21 DEVELOPER AS LONG AS THEY CAN MAKE A HOME AFFORDABLE SO WE
10:10:26 HAVE DESIGN CRITERIA THAT THEY HAVE TO MEET, THREE BEDROOM,
10:10:30 TWO BATHROOM, A MINIMUM OF 1200 SQUARE FEET, CAN'T BE SOLD
10:10:35 ABOVE $160 A SQUARE FOOT, HAS TO BE SOLD TO A LOW TO
10:10:39 MODERATE INCOME FAMILY, AND ON THE PROPERTY FOR THE
10:10:43 AFFORDABILITY.
10:10:44 THIS IS IN KEEPING WITH THE SPACE REQUIREMENTS THAT
10:10:48 COMMUNITIES MAKE LAND DEVELOPMENT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
10:10:51 AND THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE ARE GETTING OTHERS INVOLVED IN
10:10:54 HELPING US TO DEVELOP AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:10:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND WHAT IS THAT AFFORDABILITY PERIOD?
10:11:00 >> TEN YEARS.
10:11:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: TEN YEARS.
10:11:04 TEN YEARS.
10:11:05 I'M SORRY, FIVE YEARS.
10:11:06 >> IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, THE CAP WAS 226.
10:11:09 IS THAT CONSIDERED IN YOUR CRITERIA AFFORDABLE?
10:11:12 >> YES.
10:11:12 SO DETERMINING AFFORDABILITY IS ALSO STATE STATUTE AND IS
10:11:16 90% OF THE -- 90% OF THE SELLING OF HOMES IN THE COUNTY SO
10:11:25 WE HAVE TO CHECK WITH THE COUNTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE EVERY
10:11:28 YEAR TO GET THAT NUMBER.
10:11:28 >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT DO YOU ALSO LOOK AT THE IMPACT IT
10:11:31 MAY HAVE ON OTHER HOUSES IN THE AREA AND LIKE WHAT THE
10:11:34 AVERAGE COST OF THE HOUSE IS IN THAT AREA?
10:11:37 >> SO WE ARE NOT SETTING THE PRICE.
10:11:41 THE DEVELOPER, WHOEVER IS DOING IT BECAUSE THE HOUSE HAS TO
10:11:45 APPRAISE.
10:11:46 SO YOUR APPRAISAL IS GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS IN
10:11:48 KEEPING WITH, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP WITH THE
10:11:58 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:12:00 >>BILL CARLSON: WERE THERE OTHER BIDDERS ON THIS PROPERTY?
10:12:02 >> SO WE HAVE HAD THESE PROPERTIES, THESE WERE PROPERTIES WE
10:12:07 HAVE BEEN SITTING ON A NUMBER OF PROPERTIES FOR IN SOME
10:12:10 CASES BETWEEN 10 AND 20 YEARS.
10:12:13 SO THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE TAX ROLLS FOR 10 OR 20 YEARS
10:12:16 AND WE ARE NOW GETTING THEM BACK INTO ONTO THE TAX ROLLS.
10:12:24 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND THE QUESTION WAS BIDDING AND HOW
10:12:27 MANY?
10:12:29 >> WE HAVE THEM LISTED ON OUR WEBSITE.
10:12:33 SO SOMEONE MAKES AN APPLICATION, THROUGH THE APPLICATION
10:12:36 PROCESS THEY HAVE TO SHOW US THAT THEY HAVE THE MONEY TO
10:12:38 BUILD THE HOME, THEY HAVE TO SHOW US THE DESIGN PLANS, THEIR
10:12:41 MARKETING PLANS.
10:12:43 THIS PARTICULAR NONPROFIT IS WORKING TO IDENTIFY HOMEBUYERS
10:12:49 FOR THE HOMES.
10:12:50 >> MAYBE THIS IS ANOTHER DISCUSSION ON A WORKSHOP AT ANOTHER
10:12:55 TIME.
10:12:56 BUT THESE PROPERTIES ARE 20,000 EACH -- I AM MAKING UP A
10:13:00 NUMBER -- LET'S SAY THAT'S $40 THAT YOU THAT CAN BE PUT INTO
10:13:04 ANOTHER POOL FOR OTHER KIND OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:13:07 IN YOUR DEPARTMENT'S ANALYSIS IS THAT A GOOD QUAY TO HANDLE
10:13:10 THIS?
10:13:11 >> YES.
10:13:12 BECAUSE IN MOST CASES, WHEN BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WE
10:13:16 ARE SUB DECIDING THOSE PROJECTS, AND THEY ARE TYPICALLY FROM
10:13:19 ABOUT 360 TO 100 THAT YOU A PROJECT.
10:13:23 FOR THIS PROJECT, PUTTING NO MONEY IN, NEARLY MERELY
10:13:27 PROVIDING THE LOT.
10:13:28 SO THE SUBSIDY THAT HELPS THEM TO KEEP THE PRICE DOWN IS THE
10:13:31 LOT.
10:13:33 AND THEY HAVE TO SHOW US THAT THEY HAVE ALL OF THE OTHER
10:13:36 FUND.
10:13:37 SO WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT US BUILDING A THOUSAND HOMES
10:13:40 IN A YEAR, WE DON'T HAVE FUNDING TO BUILD A THOUSAND HOMES.
10:13:43 AND TRYING TO GET MORE AND MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE
10:13:46 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROCESS.
10:13:47 UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE IS A MARKET THERE, AND THAT THERE
10:13:50 IS DEMAND FOR THESE HOMES.
10:13:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THESE TWO PROPERTIES, HOW WERE THEY ACQUIRED
10:14:01 BY THE CITY?
10:14:02 WERE THEIR LIENS AGAINST THEM, CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS?
10:14:06 >> YES, SIR.
10:14:07 THESE WERE ACQUIRED -- WE WERE PICKING UP FORECLOSED,
10:14:13 DILAPIDATED PROPERTIES.
10:14:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HOW LONG WERE THEY AVAILABLE?
10:14:19 YOU SAY THEY HAD BEEN ON THE ROLLS FOR TEN YEARS.
10:14:24 ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO?
10:14:25 >> YES.
10:14:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:14:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO GO BACK WHEN YOU SAID $226,000.
10:14:31 >> AFFORDABILITY -- I'M SORRY.
10:14:36 AFFORDABILITY IS NOT THE SALES PRICE.
10:14:39 AFFORDABILITY IS THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT.
10:14:41 SO I KNOW THAT WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE SALES PRICE OF
10:14:45 HOMES, BUT THE OTHER DAY WE HAD A HOME THAT SOLD FOR
10:14:48 $183,000 AND THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT OF $746.
10:14:53 SO YOU MAY LOOK AT THE SALES PRICE, BUT THEN THERE ARE OTHER
10:14:56 PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE SUBSIDIES TO BRING IT DOWN.
10:15:00 WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT HOMES ARE BEING SOLD AT
10:15:02 MARKET.
10:15:03 AND WE AREN'T DEVALUING HOMES AND SELL THEM BELOW MARKET, WE
10:15:10 ARE CAUSING THE STRESS TO THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THOSE
10:15:12 NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:15:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MY CONCERN IS AND WHAT I HEAR IS WHEN
10:15:22 PEOPLE ARE BUILDING THESE NEW STYLE HOMES, GIGANTIC HOMES,
10:15:26 AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THERE 30, 40 YEARS, THEY GO TO A
10:15:32 DIFFERENT TAX BRACKET.
10:15:35 >> NO, THEY DON'T.
10:15:36 BECAUSE THIS FLORIDA TAX RATES CAN ONLY GO UP A CERTAIN
10:15:39 AMOUNT EACH YEAR AND YOUR TAX RATE DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU SELL
10:15:43 THE HOME FOR.
10:15:44 SO IF THEY HAVEN'T MOVED, THEIR TAXES AREN'T JUMPING ALL OF
10:15:49 A SUDDEN BECAUSE NEW HOMES WERE BUILT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:15:53 IT'S BASED ON THEIR VALUES.
10:15:55 BUT WE ARE ALLOWING THEIR VALUES TO COME UP AND CREATING
10:15:58 EQUITY AND BUILDING WEALTH IN THOSE COMMUNITIES.
10:16:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT NUMBER TO BLIGHTED
10:16:10 COMMUNITIES, THAT SCARES PEOPLE.
10:16:11 >> BUT IT'S A FALSE SCARE AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE TRYING TO
10:16:15 EDUCATE THEM AND MAKE THEM AWARE.
10:16:17 >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU CAN LET HIM FINISH, PLEASE.
10:16:23 THANK YOU.
10:16:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY
10:16:27 BLACK COMMUNITIES WHEN THEY SEE THOSE NUMBERS.
10:16:30 I KNOW THAT AREA VERY WELL.
10:16:31 AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSES IN THAT AREA, THAT SCARES
10:16:42 PEOPLE, AND AGAIN WE THROW OUT THESE NUMBERS AND YOU SAY
10:16:46 THIS IS HOW IT WORKS.
10:16:47 A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T EDUCATED, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW
10:16:55 THE MARKET WORKS AND YOU HAVE TO EDUCATE PEOPLE TO THAT.
10:16:59 WHEN I SEE THAT, THAT SCARES ME.
10:17:02 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:17:06 YES, SIR.
10:17:06 >> I'M A BIG PROPONENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:17:11 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AND HAVING YOU TELL
10:17:13 ME YOUR WHOLE PLAN.
10:17:15 I WOULD RECOMMEND WE HAVE A WORKSHOP OR SOME KIND OF
10:17:17 DISCUSSION SO WE CAN ALL TALK ABOUT THIS.
10:17:20 I THINK WE ARE ALL IN FAVOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:17:23 THIS IS KIND OF DROPPING OUT OF THE AIR FOR ME.
10:17:25 AND I AM NOT IN FAVOR IN GENERAL OF SUBSIDIES.
10:17:31 I DON'T LIKE THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT GIVING LAND TO
10:17:34 SOMEONE EVEN THOUGH IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE.
10:17:37 SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR ONE.
10:17:40 THAT MAY NOT MATTER.
10:17:41 BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING WITH YOU STRATEGY BECAUSE I
10:17:44 KNOW YOU DO A GREAT JOB AND LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING OTHER
10:17:48 THINGS THAT YOU DO IN THE FUTURE.
10:17:50 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:17:52 YES, SIR?
10:17:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I DEFINITELY CAN SUPPORT THIS.
10:18:00 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSION.
10:18:05 THAT'S WHY WE PULLED THIS ITEM.
10:18:06 AND WE HAVE HAD A GOOD ROBUST DISCUSSION ON IT.
10:18:11 YOU MENTIONED, QUICKLY, THAT I POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS AN
10:18:16 LLC BUT YOU SAID IT WAS A NONPROFIT, THIS PARTICULAR OUTFIT.
10:18:21 >> YES.
10:18:22 SO WHEN THEY ARE DEVELOPING THE HOUSING, TYPICALLY THEY WILL
10:18:25 CREATE AN LLC AND DEVELOP THE HOUSING, HOW SEVERAL DIFFERENT
10:18:32 LLCs, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
10:18:34 THEY DO THAT WHEN THEY ARE DEVELOPING THE HOUSING AND
10:18:36 IT'S --
10:18:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BUT WHO IS THE PARENT COMPANY?
10:18:41 >> I KNOW THAT THIS IS THAT DR. PATEL CREATED BECAUSE WE
10:18:47 WERE ABLE TO GET HIM INTERESTED IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:18:49 HE'S WORKED WITH HABITAT AND NOW HE'S ACTUALLY FORMED HIS
10:18:53 OWN NONPROFIT THAT IS DEVELOPING HOUSING AS WELL.
10:18:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
10:18:56 ALL RIGHT.
10:18:57 THAT SOUND LIKE MORE REASON FOR ME TO SUPPORT IT.
10:19:01 BUT I THINK IT'S A LAUDABLE PROGRAM.
10:19:03 I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS CALLED THE NSP PROGRAM CAME IN, THAT
10:19:08 WAS THE OBAMA'S, WHAT DID THEY CALL THAT?
10:19:16 >> THE NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM?
10:19:18 OH, UM --
10:19:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ANYWAY, IT DOESN'T MATTER BUT THAT WAS
10:19:23 DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME THEY WERE TRYING TO INFUSE MONEY
10:19:26 BACK INTO THE COMMUNITIES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT THE
10:19:28 BEGINNING OF THE RECESSION AND THE PROGRAM WAS VERY HELPFUL
10:19:33 TO THE CITY.
10:19:34 >> IT STARTED UNDERSTOOD GEORGE BUSH.
10:19:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OH, GOOD FOR HIM.
10:19:38 I STAND CORRECTED.
10:19:41 SO ANYWAY, BUT DR. PATEL IS GREAT BUT HE'S INVOLVED SO I CAN
10:19:45 WORK WITH IT.
10:19:46 THANK YOU.
10:19:47 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:19:48 AND YES, IF COUNCIL WISHES TO HAVE A WORKSHOP ON AFFORDABLE
10:19:53 HOUSES, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
10:19:56 I WOULD SAY THAT ONE OF THE BIG CRISES IN OUR COMMUNITY,
10:20:00 MOST OF OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE CITY
10:20:03 CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE WITHIN MOST PARTS OF THE CITY.
10:20:05 AND THAT'S A REAL ISSUE.
10:20:07 THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE OFTEN LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK,
10:20:11 CITY OF TAMPA PAYCHECKS, RAISING FAMILIES, RAISING KIDS,
10:20:14 LOOKING TO PUT THOSE KIDS THROUGH COLLEGE, GOD WILLING.
10:20:18 AND THEY CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE TO LIVE IN CITY LIMITS.
10:20:21 THAT'S A PROBLEM SO WE HAVE OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US, WITHOUT
10:20:23 A DOUBT.
10:20:24 >> I MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE A WORKSHOP?
10:20:28 >>LUIS VIERA: SURE, WE CAN DO THAT.
10:20:29 >> SECOND.
10:20:31 >>LUIS VIERA: AND WHO SECONDED THAT?
10:20:36 >> I DID.
10:20:38 >>LUIS VIERA: IN TERMS OF DATES, CLERK, DO WE HAVE -- I
10:20:41 GUESS A DATE AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT AVAILABLE WORKSHOP?
10:20:45 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE]
10:20:53 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:20:55 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:20:58 ANY OPPOSED?
10:20:58 AND THAT WAS ITEMS 27 AND 28.
10:21:01 >> I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT JUNE IS OWNERSHIP MONTH AND I
10:21:05 LOVE THE IDEA OF THANKSGIVING WORKSHOP IN JUNE.
10:21:08 >>LUIS VIERA: THERE YOU GO.
10:21:09 THANK YOU.
10:21:10 DO WE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON --
10:21:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I MOVE THE ITEMS.
10:21:15 >>MARTIN SHELBY: [OFF MICROPHONE]
10:21:25 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, DID YOU MOVE THAT, SIR?
10:21:30 AND A SECOND?
10:21:31 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:21:32 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA FOR ITEMS 27 AND 28.
10:21:36 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:21:37 ANY OPPOSED?
10:21:39 AND THEN WHO IS HERE FOR 32 AND 33?
10:21:42 I'M SO SORRY.
10:21:50 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION CARRIED WITH --
10:21:53 >>THE CLERK: CARLSON VOTING NO.
10:21:56 >>JEAN DUNCAN: WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON 32 OR 33.
10:22:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING.
10:22:03 THANKS FOR JOINING US.
10:22:04 GOOD TO SEE YOU, JEAN.
10:22:08 SO MY QUESTION ON 32 AND 33 IS SORT OF A BIG PICTURE
10:22:11 QUESTION.
10:22:13 AS YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE YEARS SINCE I SAT
10:22:17 UP HERE, AND I HAVE HEARD OR READ DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME
10:22:24 ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND INCLUDING
10:22:29 MRS. DUNCAN, I'M SURE, THAT WE LOST A LOT OF EMPLOYEES DUE
10:22:32 TO ATTRITION -- WELL, BASICALLY, I GUESS, IN RESPONSE TO THE
10:22:36 RECESSION AND IN RESPONSE TO THE TIGHT NIPPING UP THE SHIP
10:22:39 AND SURVIVING THE RECESSION, AND SOME EMPLOYEES GOT LAID
10:22:45 OFF.
10:22:47 AND I'M SURE SOME OF THOSE PROBABLY CAME OUT OF
10:22:49 TRANSPORTATION.
10:22:52 YOU CAN CORRECT ME OTHERWISE.
10:22:55 SO THAT'S WHY I PULLED THESE ITEMS.
10:23:01 AND ONE OF THEM IS STORMWATER AND THE OTHER IS
10:23:03 TRANSPORTATION.
10:23:04 SO ITEM 32 IS GOING INTO THE SEDIMENT CONTROL STRUCTURES,
10:23:09 INSPECTING THEM, MAINTAINING THEM, DIGGING THEM OUT, I
10:23:13 ASSUME DIGGING THE SEDIMENTS OUT.
10:23:16 SOUNDS LIKE THE THING WE USED TO BE DO, PERHAPS OURS WAS OUR
10:23:18 OWN EMPLOYEES.
10:23:19 AND THEN ITEM 33, SIMILARLY, IS EMERGENCY SIGN REPAIR AND
10:23:24 REPLACEMENT.
10:23:25 AND I KNOW WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS IN OUR SIGN SHOP
10:23:29 DOING THAT KIND OF WORK.
10:23:30 SO IN A VERY BIG SENSE, I'M WONDERING, ARE THESE THE KIND OF
10:23:39 PROJECTS, ITEMS, THAT WE USED TO DO OURSELVES AND WE NOW
10:23:43 CONTRACT OUT?
10:23:44 >> WELL, ON THE STORMWATER ITEM, WE DID HAVE PERSONNEL AND
10:23:52 SO FORTH, BUT THIS IS A SPECIALIZED CLEANING THAT WE DO FOR
10:23:55 THESE AS PART OF OUR EPA-REQUIRED PERMIT.
10:23:58 EVEN IF WE HAD THE STAFF, STAFF BACK TO DO THE WORK, BECAUSE
10:24:03 OF THE RECENT STORMWATER SERVICES, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT
10:24:09 EXTRA MONEY, WE WILL ALWAYS BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE ARE
10:24:13 GOING TO BE OUTSOURCING A LOT OF OUR WORK.
10:24:15 IT JUST WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE TO TRY TO DO THESE WITH ALL
10:24:21 IN-HOUSE STAFF BECAUSE WE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE THOSE
10:24:24 OUTSOURCING NEEDS BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH FUNDING NOW FOR
10:24:26 MAINTAINING THE STORMWATER SYSTEM.
10:24:29 WATCH WE TRY TO DO IS SEPARATE OUT THE MORE DIFFICULT OR
10:24:32 TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING THINGS FROM THE REGULAR ROUTINE,
10:24:38 PIPES, DITCH CLEANING AND SO FORTH, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
10:24:41 ITEMS WE WOULD LOOK TO A CONTRACTOR TO DO WITH SPECIALIZED
10:24:44 EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE FOR US.
10:24:46 SO THIS IS RENEWING AN EXISTING CONTRACT WE HAVE.
10:24:50 WE ARE HAPPY WITH THE SERVICES WE HAVE GOTTEN SOME HE FAR
10:24:52 THIS PAST YEAR WITH THIS CONTRACTOR.
10:24:54 AND IT WILL BE SOMETHING WE DO CONSISTENTLY BECAUSE WE HAVE
10:24:57 TO REPORT THE FINDINGS BACK UNDER OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT.
10:25:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I APPRECIATE THAT RESPONSE.
10:25:05 BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY, YOU HAVE BEEN HERE QUITE A WHILE, I
10:25:09 GUESS, PERHAPS WHEN I WAS HERE LAST TIME UP WEREN'T IN
10:25:13 CHARGE OF STORMWATER, BUT NOW YOU ARE.
10:25:15 BUT DO YOU KNOW IF THIS IS THE TYPE OF THING THAT WE USED TO
10:25:18 DO WITH OUR IN-HOUSE PERSONNEL?
10:25:21 >>JEAN DUNCAN: YES, WE HAVE DONE SOME OF IT.
10:25:23 BUT AGAIN WE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE THE CONTRACTOR ABILITY
10:25:28 BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE TO MEET WITH OUR PERMIT AND THE FACT
10:25:31 THAT WE HAVE GOT MORE FREQUENCY THAN IN THE PAST.
10:25:36 WE ARE ABLE TO WEREN'T ABLE TO DO THAT SOLE WITH JUST OUR
10:25:40 IN-HOUSE STAFF.
10:25:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DO WE ANALYZE MUCH OUR ABILITY TO DO
10:25:44 THIS, NOT IN TERMS OF THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE, BUT DO WE
10:25:49 ANALYZE THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF HAVING, YOU KNOW, OUR OWN
10:25:54 STAFF DOING THIS AS OPPOSED TO PAYING A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY
10:25:57 TO DO IT AND THE PROFITS THAT THEY RECEIVE OVER AND ABOVE,
10:26:02 YOU KNOW, THE REGULAR EMPLOYEES DOING IT?
10:26:05 >>JEAN DUNCAN: YES.
10:26:06 WE ONLY HAD THE SERVICE ASSESSMENT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS,
10:26:09 GETTING A LITTLE INFORMATION, BUT WE CAN FIND THAT SWEET
10:26:13 SPOT OF WHAT'S THE IDEAL IN-HOUSE STAFFING NUMBERS AND
10:26:16 WHAT'S THE IDEAL SEPARATION OF OUTSOURCING THE PERMITS, A
10:26:22 BALANCE OF BOTH.
10:26:23 SO NOW WE HAVE THE ASSESSMENT IN PLACE BUT WE HAVE THIS
10:26:27 ADDITIONAL FUNDING, WE CAN MAKE OTHER DECISIONS ABOUT IF WE
10:26:31 WANT TO EXPAND THE IN-HOUSE STAFF AND TO WHAT EXTENT WE WANT
10:26:34 TO CONTINUE TO HAVE AN OUTSOURCING OPTION.
10:26:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MAYBE YOU CAN GET BACK TO US WITH THAT
10:26:39 EVALUATION ANALYSIS.
10:26:40 AND HOW ABOUT THE SIGN REPAIR?
10:26:42 SAME ISSUES?
10:26:45 >>JEAN DUNCAN: A DIFFERENT SITUATION.
10:26:46 THIS IS BEING AT THE READY FOR THE EVENT THAT WE HAVE SOME
10:26:51 KIND OF A STORM SITUATION.
10:26:53 WE PUT THIS CONTRACT OUT BASED ON THE TYPE OF ITEMS THAT WE
10:26:57 ARE GOING TO NEED.
10:26:58 WE MAKE SURE WE ARE FDOT AND FEMA REIMBURSABLE SO IT'S A
10:27:04 ZERO DOLLAR CONTRACT BUT IT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE EVENT
10:27:08 WE HAVE A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION DIN DING KIND OF LIKE OUR
10:27:12 TRASH REMOVAL, OUR DEBRIS REMOVAL?
10:27:16 JEEP GENE YES.
10:27:17 SO WE ARE READY TO GO WITH A CONTRACTOR IN THE EVENT WE NEED
10:27:20 IT.
10:27:20 AND REFRESH THOSE NUMBERS IN A YEAR IF WE DON'T END UP USING
10:27:26 IT.
10:27:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THEY ARE IN STAND-BY MODE.
10:27:29 >> YES.
10:27:30 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: PERFECT.
10:27:31 THANK YOU.
10:27:32 >>BILL CARLSON: I DIDN'T PULL THIS ONE BUT I HAVE ONE
10:27:34 QUESTION.
10:27:34 I DON'T HAVE IN THE FRONT OF ME.
10:27:36 I APOLOGIZE.
10:27:36 IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY NUMBER 33, THERE WAS ONLY ONE
10:27:40 BIDDER.
10:27:40 COULD YOU -- I ASK THESE QUESTIONS EVERY TIME.
10:27:43 BUT COULD YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT THE PROCESS WAS TO TRY TO
10:27:46 GET OTHER BIDDERS AND WHY THERE WAS ONLY ONE?
10:27:51 >> IT WAS ADVERTISED ON DEMAND STAR AS MENTIONED A LITTLE
10:27:56 BIT EARLIER.
10:27:57 DEMAND STAR IS A NATIONWIDE BIDDING, REBIDDING PLATFORM.
10:28:07 SO WE HAVE FOUR VENDORS WHO IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS
10:28:11 PROVIDERS OF THAT COMMODITY.
10:28:12 AND THEN BLAST IT OUT NATIONWIDE.
10:28:19 >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU GO TO PEOPLE THAT QUALIFY?
10:28:23 >> WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOCAL SUPPLIER, WE CAN ADD THEM
10:28:27 IN, WE ADD THEM IN AS A SUPPLEMENTAL AND NOTIFIED BY E-MAIL.
10:28:32 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE ON THESE ITEMS?
10:28:35 OKAY.
10:28:37 PLEASURE OF COUNCIL ON ITEMS 32 AND 33?
10:28:41 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO TO MOVE ITEMS 32
10:28:44 AND 33.
10:28:45 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:28:47 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:28:47 ANY OPPOSED?
10:28:48 THANK YOU.
10:28:55 NEXT WE GO TO ITEM 34.
10:29:00 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:29:02 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:29:04 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:29:05 ANY OPPOSED?
10:29:06 OKAY.
10:29:07 NEXT WE MOVE TO OUR FIRST PUBLIC HEARING.
10:29:09 I WOULD ASK FOR A MOTION TO PLEASE OPEN OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:29:13 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:29:15 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:29:17 ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
10:29:20 THANK YOU.
10:29:20 NOW WE MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 35.
10:29:24 >>KRISTIN MORA: LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
10:29:30 THIS IS A MOTION BY CITY COUNCIL LAST YEAR TO ADD TO THE
10:29:36 PLAN LANGUAGE THAT CLARIFIES EXISTING POLICIES PROTECTING
10:29:40 SURFACE WATERS. THIS IS ON SECOND READING.
10:29:42 IT HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED TO THE STATE AND BACK.
10:29:49 AND I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS.
10:29:51 >>LUIS VIERA: QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL ON ITEM 35?
10:29:55 OKAY.
10:29:57 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:29:57 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 35?
10:30:00 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:30:02 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN
10:30:04 MIRANDA.
10:30:05 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:30:06 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:30:07 ANY OPPOSED?
10:30:08 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE ITEM NUMBER 35.
10:30:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TAMPA
10:30:15 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT PROPOSING POLICY
10:30:19 LANGUAGE -- MR. SHELBY?
10:30:25 >>MARTIN SHELBY: MOTION TO ADOPT.
10:30:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOTION TO ADOPT ON SECOND READING, AN
10:30:29 ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND
10:30:32 USE ELEMENT, PROPOSING POLICY LANGUAGE ON WHEN FILL
10:30:35 ACTIVITIES ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT,
10:30:38 PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT,
10:30:40 PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:30:42 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:30:44 ALL IN FAVOR -- I'M SORRY.
10:30:51 ROLL CALL.
10:30:52 OH, VOTE AND RECORD.
10:31:10 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:31:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ISN'T THAT PRETTY?
10:31:26 >>LUIS VIERA: WHEN IT'S SECOND READING YOU PUSH THE BUTTON.
10:31:29 HOW COULD I FORGET?
10:31:31 NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER 36.
10:31:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DID THEY ANNOUNCE THAT?
10:31:35 >>LUIS VIERA: I THINK SHE DID.
10:31:36 DIDN'T YOU?
10:31:37 ITEM NUMBER 36, PLEASE.
10:31:40 >>MORRIS MASSEY: HILL, WARD, HENDERSON, 101 EAST KENNEDY
10:31:42 BOULEVARD, SUITE 3700 HERE IN TAMPA ON BEHALF OF UNIVERSITY
10:31:46 OF TAMPA, SECOND READING OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FUTURE
10:31:49 LAND USE CATEGORY FOR BETWEEN 15 AND 16 ACRES AT UNIVERSITY
10:31:56 CAMPUS CHANGING THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORIES WHICH ARE
10:31:58 VARIOUS TO PUBLIC, SEMI QUASI-PUBLIC.
10:32:01 THE BULK OF THE CAMPUS IS ALREADY IN THE FUTURE LAND USE
10:32:04 CATEGORIES TO MAKE THE CAMPUS UNDER ONE UNIFIED FUTURE LAND
10:32:08 USE CATEGORY.
10:32:09 AGAIN SECOND READING.
10:32:10 IT'S ALREADY BEEN TRANSMITTED TO TALLAHASSEE AND WE HAVE NO
10:32:13 OBJECTIONS AND RESTATE YOUR APPROVAL.
10:32:17 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL?
10:32:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. MASSEY, DO YOU HAVE A MAP WHICH SHOWS
10:32:24 THE GENERAL AREA WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA
10:32:34 IS RISING OVER THE LAST 10 OR 15 YEARS AND WE ARE PROUD TO
10:32:38 HAVE THEM AS A PARTNER IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:32:46 SO ORIANI IS HERE.
10:32:51 >> YOU WILL SEE IN BLUE, THAT'S THE PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC
10:32:56 PORTION OF CAMPUS.
10:32:57 THESE ARE PROPERTIES THAT THE UNIVERSITY HAS ACQUIRED IN THE
10:33:00 LAST 16 YEARS, ALONG PRIMARILY ALONG THE SIDE OF KENNEDY
10:33:05 BOULEVARD.
10:33:08 THIS IS BOULEVARD RIGHT THERE TO OUR SOUTH.
10:33:14 THIS IS THE CAMPUS.
10:33:15 AND THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY.
10:33:21 WE DID STAFF DID RECOMMEND OF THAT WE DO THIS.
10:33:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO DOES THE UNIVERSITY ANTICIPATE GOING
10:33:31 FURTHER?
10:33:31 I GUESS IS THAT THE BALL FIELD DOWN THERE IN THE CORNER?
10:33:35 >> THE BALL FIELD IS RIGHT HERE.
10:33:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DOES UT ANTICIPATE GOING FURTHER UP
10:33:43 KENNEDY OR IS THAT KIND WHEREOF THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT
10:33:46 STOPPING?
10:33:46 >> THERE ARE STILL SOME PARCELS THAT THE UNIVERSITY DOES NOT
10:33:53 OWN THAT THEY ARE THINKING OF ACQUIRING IN THE FUTURE SO WE
10:33:56 MAY END UP COMING BACK BEFORE YOU ASKING FOR THOSE TO BE
10:33:59 REZONED.
10:34:01 THE UNIVERSITY ALSO ACQUIRED SOME OTHER PROPERTIES ON THE
10:34:03 OTHER SIDE OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS, BUT THAT'S WEST TAMPA,
10:34:10 NORTH HYDE PARK AREA, AND COMING FORWARD WITH A MORE FIRM
10:34:13 PLAN, WE DID NOT FEEL IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO MAKE A COMP
10:34:19 PLAN.
10:34:24 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO IN REGARD TO LIKE SOME OF THE CHANGES
10:34:27 FROM UMU 60 OR RMU 100, WHICH HAS A LARGE CAPACITY IN TERMS
10:34:35 OF 100 UNITS PER ACRE, 6 UNITS PER ACRE, BUT THEN WE GO INTO
10:34:41 SORT OF THIS NEBULOUS CATEGORY OF PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC.
10:34:44 IS THERE A DENSITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS?
10:34:49 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S PART OF THE ISSUE.
10:34:50 SOME OF THESE TRACTS ARE VERY SMALL.
10:34:53 HIGH DENSITY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.
10:34:55 SOME OF THESE TRACTS WILL BE DEVELOPED SO THERE COULD BE AN
10:34:58 ISSUE ON THAT PARCEL IN PARTICULAR.
10:35:02 IT'S SPREAD OUT OVER THE WHOLE CAMPUS AND WOULDN'T BE AN
10:35:05 ISSUE.
10:35:07 WHAT WE ARE GOVERNED BY, AND THE PD, DENSITY AND STUDENT
10:35:17 POPULATION AND BUFFERING REQUIREMENTS.
10:35:19 YOU CAN'T GO OVER 120 FEET FOR A NEW STRUCTURE.
10:35:25 THERE'S A CAP OF 12,000 OR 12,500 IN THE PREPONDERANCE OF
10:35:29 THE EVIDENCE.
10:35:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO THE PD IS FOR THE WHOLE CAMPUS?
10:35:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: RIGHT.
10:35:34 AND FOR PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC.
10:35:38 AND THE PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC USE CATEGORY ALSO CONTAINS A
10:35:41 STATEMENT THAT WHILE THERE IS A DENSITY LIMITATION, ANY
10:35:46 DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THAT CATEGORY HAS TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH
10:35:48 THE AREA THAT WE ARE DEVELOPING.
10:35:50 SO THE UNIVERSITY IS BOUND BY THAT AS WELL.
10:35:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IN REGARD TO COMPATIBILITY, I THINK THE
10:35:58 UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN GREAT.
10:36:01 IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
10:36:02 I THINK THAT FENCE NEXT TO THE LACROSSE FIELD IS REALLY A
10:36:07 DETRIMENT TO KENNEDY BOULEVARD AND EVERYTHING IN THIS CENTER
10:36:10 TRADE TO DO FOR KENNEDY BOULEVARD, AND I WOULD HOPE SOME DAY
10:36:14 WE COULD HAVE SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN REGARD TO THAT.
10:36:20 100-FOOT TALL FENCE.
10:36:22 OTHER THAN THAT I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THIS ITEM.
10:36:24 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE ON COUNCIL?
10:36:26 THANK YOU.
10:36:28 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM 36?
10:36:33 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:36:35 SECOND TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:36:39 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:36:39 OF ANY OPPOSED?
10:36:40 COUNCILMAN GUDES, WOULD YOU TAKE ITEM 36?
10:36:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE] AN ORDINANCE BEING
10:36:47 PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
10:36:50 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, FUTURE
10:36:53 LAND USE MAP FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1107 AND 114 NORTH
10:36:56 BOULEVARD AVENUE, 115 NORTH EDISON AVENUE, 429, 802, 091 AND
10:37:03 909 WEST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, 108 NORTH BOULEVARD AND 1102
10:37:08 WEST NORTH B STREET FROM REGIONAL MIXED USE 100 RM 100 URBAN
10:37:12 MIXED USE 60 AND RECREATION OPEN SPACE R 01 TO MUCH PUBLIC
10:37:19 SEMI-PUBLIC PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN
10:37:22 CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
10:37:24 DATE.
10:37:25 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:37:27 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:37:28 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:37:31 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:37:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO OPEN ITEMS 37 THROUGH 50.
10:37:37 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:37:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE ARE PASSED 10:30 SO MOVE 51 THROUGH
10:37:47 56.
10:37:48 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:37:50 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:37:51 ANY OPPOSED?
10:37:52 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:37:53 OKAY.
10:37:53 IF YOU ARE COULD SWEAR IN THE WITNESSES, PLEASE.
10:37:57 EVERYONE WHO IS HERE TO TESTIFY ON THESE ITEMS, PLEASE STAND
10:38:01 AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
10:38:02 (OATH ADMINISTERED BY CLERK)
10:38:13 >> RYAN MANASSE.
10:38:28 37, 38, 39.
10:38:29 >>MARTIN SHELBY: FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE RECORD,
10:38:32 MR. CHAIRMAN, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FOUR NEWLY-ELECTED
10:38:39 MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL, AND THESE HEARINGS THAT YOU ARE
10:38:42 ABOUT TO HEAR FOR SECOND READING, THE NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL
10:38:47 MEMBERS WERE NOT PRESENT FOR.
10:38:49 MY PURPOSE NOW IS TO ASK THE NEWLY-ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBERS
10:38:52 IF THEY HAVE REVIEWED THE RECORD, AND WHETHER YOU WILL BE
10:38:57 PREPARED TO VOTE AT THE CONCLUSION OF TODAY'S SECOND
10:39:00 READING.
10:39:07 YES OR NO.
10:39:07 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:39:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES, I HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE RECORD
10:39:11 AND I AM PREPARED TO VOTE.
10:39:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:39:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HAVING SAT IN, IN THE AUDIENCE, FOR THESE
10:39:19 THREE, YES.
10:39:24 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:39:27 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU SHOULD ASK THE OLDER ONE.
10:39:28 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:39:30 >> ITEMS 37, 38 BE, 39 ARE BEFORE YOU FOR SECOND READING.
10:39:33 CERTIFIED SITE PLANS HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO THE CITY CLERK
10:39:36 AND STAFF IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
10:39:38 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:39:46 ITEM 37.
10:39:47 >> I'M THE ATTORNEY OF RECORD FOR THE PETITIONER, THE
10:39:53 APPLICANT.
10:39:53 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I AM HERE TO ANSWER THEM.
10:39:55 OTHERWISE, I THINK THAT EVERYTHING WAS COVERED AT THE
10:39:59 INITIAL HEARING.
10:39:59 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
10:40:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES, SIR.
10:40:07 I BELIEVE IT WAS ITEM 37 -- IT'S A LITTLE MICROBREWERY?
10:40:19 >> YES.
10:40:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK THAT'S KIND OF EXCITING IT LOOKS
10:40:21 LIKE RIGHT THERE ON THE SOUTH END OF TAMPA HEIGHTS NECESSARY
10:40:25 THE INTERSTATE.
10:40:26 SO THAT SOUNDS ALL PRETTY COOL, AND HIP, NEITHER OF WHICH I
10:40:32 AM.
10:40:33 BUT WHAT I WAS WONDERING, IT APPEARS THERE'S QUITE A FEW
10:40:38 WAIVERS IN TERMS OF DISTANCE SEPARATION, AND I CAN'T
10:40:42 REMEMBER, THERE ARE A FEW OTHERS, PARKING WAS A SIGNIFICANT
10:40:46 WAIVER.
10:40:46 >> A DISTANCE WAIVER AND PARKING WAIVER AS WELL.
10:40:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALTHOUGH IN THAT AREA, I THINK THAT'S A
10:40:53 GOOD AREA IN TERMS OF BEING CLOSE TO THE HART TERMINAL AND
10:40:58 THAT SORT OF THING, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF PUBLIC
10:41:00 TRANSPORTATION.
10:41:01 SO TELL ME ABOUT THAT.
10:41:03 >> WHEN WE PRESENTED THE FIRST TIME AND I WILL REITERATE
10:41:07 BECAUSE I KNOW FOUR OF YOU -- AND CONGRATULATIONS -- THERE
10:41:12 ARE TEN SPACES ON THE PREMISES.
10:41:14 THEY WANT, I BELIEVE IT WAS, ASKING FOR A 78% REDUCTION BUT
10:41:21 RELYING ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WHICH WOULD ALSO
10:41:24 INCLUDE LIFT, UBER, CLOSE TO THE RIVERWALK, THE DOWNTOWNER
10:41:28 COMES TO THIS AREA. THIS IS RIGHT WHEN YOU COME FROM
10:41:31 DOWNTOWN AND YOU GO UP -- RIGHT WHEN YOU GO UNDERSTOOD THE
10:41:35 HIGHWAY.
10:41:36 I THINK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY IS THE PARKING
10:41:40 REQUIRED.
10:41:40 WE BELIEVE THERE ARE MULTIPLE OTHER BREWERIES, BARS AND
10:41:43 RESTAURANTS IN THAT AREA THAT ARE SURVIVING.
10:41:46 RECEIVED PARKING WAIVERS, MAYBE NOT THIS BIG, BUT THEY
10:41:48 SURVIVE WITH THE AVAILABILITY OF THE UBER, THE DOWNTOWNER,
10:41:52 LIFT.
10:41:52 NOW THAT RIVERWALK IS RIGHT THERE, THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO
10:41:55 COME UP AND DOWN THE RIVERWALK.
10:41:57 WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE LARGE PARKING WAIVER, BEE DO NOT
10:42:02 BELIEVE IT IS UNREASONABLE.
10:42:03 WE DON'T BELIEVE IT WILL CREATE ANY BURDEN ON THE AREA.
10:42:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHAT WOULD THE PARKING REQUIREMENT BE IF
10:42:09 IT WERE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE, ROUGHLY? MR.
10:42:14 MANASSE CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
10:42:19 THAT'S A DISTINGUISHING FACTOR BETWEEN JUST ABOVE OR JUST
10:42:22 BELOW AND NOW THAT DOWNTOWN IS EXTENDING NORTH OF THE
10:42:24 INTERSTATE MAYBE WE NEED TO CONSIDER EXPANDING THAT.
10:42:27 >> RYAN MANASSE, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
10:42:30 FOR THIS PARTICULAR DATE IT WAS ZONED DIFFERENTLY THAN THE
10:42:33 CBD ZONING DISTRICT WHICH DOES HAVE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS
10:42:36 FOR DIFFERENT USES.
10:42:37 I BELIEVE MICROBREWERY STILL HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR PARKING.
10:42:41 IT'S NOT AS BARS OR SOME OF THE OTHER ZONING.
10:42:45 IT BUT WE HAVE TO REVIEW FOR THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS FOR
10:42:48 THAT ZONING DISTRICT.
10:42:49 THEY ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE 46 SPACES PROVIDED.
10:42:53 JUST MY CURIOSITY.
10:42:55 IF IT WAS IN THE CBD --
10:42:57 >> IT WOULD BE LESS.
10:43:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
10:43:01 ALL RIGHT.
10:43:02 THANK YOU.
10:43:02 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:43:05 ANY OTHER APPLICATION FOR THE APPLICANT?
10:43:06 ANYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 37?
10:43:13 MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:43:14 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:43:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:43:18 ALL RIGHT.
10:43:20 COUNCILMAN CITRO, IF YOU COULD READ ITEM 37.
10:43:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE] THANK YOU.
10:43:27 ORDINANCE APPROVING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT S-2 FOR ALCOHOLIC
10:43:31 BEVERAGE SALES, SMALL VENUE, CONSUMPTION ON PREMISES AND
10:43:34 PACKAGE SALES FOR OFFPREMISES CONSUMPTION, AND MAKING LAWFUL
10:43:40 THE SALE OF BEER AND WIND AT OR FROM THAT CERTAIN LOT, PLOT
10:43:46 OR TRACT OF LAND LOCATED AT 1420 NORTH FLORIDA AVENUE,
10:43:50 TAMPA, FLORIDA AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2
10:43:52 PROVIDING THAT ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
10:43:56 CONFLICT ARE REPEALED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:44:00 INCLUDING ALL WAIVER REQUESTS.
10:44:02 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO, SECOND
10:44:06 BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:44:08 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTES.
10:44:09 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:44:15 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:44:17 WE MOVE TO ITEM 38.
10:44:23 IS THE APPLICANT HERE?
10:44:23 >> I'M PATRICIA ORTIZ.
10:44:28 MY ADDRESS IS 2810 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:44:30 AND I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF ITEM NUMBER 38.
10:44:35 WE ARE PROPOSING A LIQUOR STORE AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
10:44:38 BUSCH BOULEVARD AND NORTH 30th STREET.
10:44:44 LIQUOR STORES REQUIRE A MINIMUM DISTANCE SEPARATION OF 250
10:44:48 FEET BETWEEN OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS SELLING ALCOHOL AND
10:44:52 RESIDENTIAL USES.
10:44:54 WE ARE ASKING FOR A SMALL WAIVER OF DISTANCE SEPARATION.
10:44:59 BUSCH GARDENS IS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM US BUT
10:45:06 THE ACTUAL ACCESS, LIMITED ACCESS IS ABOUT A MILE AWAY.
10:45:10 THE NEAREST RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IS 213 FEET.
10:45:17 HOWEVER, IT WOULD TAKE A PERSON TO GET FROM POINT TO POINT
10:45:23 IS GREATER THAN THE REQUIRED DISTANCE OF 250 FEET.
10:45:28 I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
10:45:30 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:45:30 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
10:45:33 OKAY.
10:45:34 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:45:34 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 38?
10:45:41 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:45:44 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:45:45 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:45:46 ANY OPPOSED?
10:45:47 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM 38.
10:45:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'LL TAKE IT BUT I THINK IT'S MR.
10:45:53 MANISCALCO HAVING TURN.
10:45:56 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND
10:45:58 READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A SPECIAL USE
10:46:00 PERMIT S-2 FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES, SMALL VENUE PACKAGE
10:46:03 SALES, OFFPREMISES CONSUMPTION ONLY MAKING LAWFUL THE SALE
10:46:07 OF BEVERAGE REGARDING ALCOHOLIC CONTENT BEER WINE AND LIQUOR
10:46:09 AT OR FROM THAT CERTAIN LOT, PLAT OR TRACT OF LAND LOCATED
10:46:12 AT 2912 AND 2914 EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD, TAMPA, FLORIDA, AS
10:46:16 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2, THAT ALL
10:46:19 ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT ARE REPEALED,
10:46:21 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:46:22 >> SECOND.
10:46:24 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER?
10:46:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS ITEM.
10:46:33 I REVIEWED IT PRIOR TO COMING TODAY.
10:46:36 AND WHEN I LOOKED AT THE STANDARDS ON THE STAFF REPORT, THAT
10:46:42 SPEAK TO -- IF I CAN REFER EVERYBODY TO PAGE 3, I WILL GO
10:46:49 THROUGH SOME OF THEM BRIEFLY.
10:46:50 THE USE WILL ENSURE THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
10:46:55 OF COURSE IT'S ALWAYS THERE.
10:46:59 ITEM 3 IS COMPATIBLE WITH CONTIGUOUS SURROUNDING PROPERTY.
10:47:03 4, A PUBLIC NECESSITY IN CONFORMITY WITH TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE
10:47:07 PLAN, WILL NOT ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT OR ENCOURAGE
10:47:10 INCOMPATIBLE USES OF THE SURROUNDING AREA.
10:47:13 I GUESS MY POINT IS, ESPECIALLY ALONG BUSCH BOULEVARD, I
10:47:20 BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES IN THE BUSCH FOWLER
10:47:32 UNIVERSITY AREA.
10:47:32 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT PACKAGE STORE IS THE SOLUTION TO THESE
10:47:36 ISSUES.
10:47:39 SPECIFICALLY, I BELIEVE THAT ITEM 5, YOU KNOW, DOING THIS
10:47:45 WILL ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT.
10:47:47 AND ADDITIONAL INCOMPATIBLE USES IN SURROUNDING AREAS.
10:47:52 THERE IS RESIDENTIAL, I THINK, WITHIN THE TESTIMONY WAS
10:47:55 SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET AWAY, SO I GUESS THEY ARE PROBABLY ON
10:47:59 THE BACKSIDE OF THIS.
10:48:02 I RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT A TOURIST AREA,
10:48:07 BUT ALSO TO ANOTHER EXTENT IT'S A RESIDENTIAL AREA, AND I
10:48:11 THINK THERE'S PLENTY OF LIQUOR PACKAGE STORES IN THE AREA
10:48:16 ALREADY.
10:48:17 AND SPECIFICALLY, THEY ARE ASKING FOR A WAIVER OF THE
10:48:20 DISTANCE SEPARATION REQUIREMENT.
10:48:23 AND OUR CODE HAS A DISTANCE REQUIREMENT, SEPARATION
10:48:26 REQUIREMENT IN THERE FOR A REASON.
10:48:28 SO WE DON'T HAVE A PROLIFERATION OF PACKAGE STORES IN THIS
10:48:32 CASE.
10:48:33 THEY ARE ASKING A REDUCTION FROM 250 FEET TO 213 FEET.
10:48:39 SO IT DOES NOT MEET THE CODE, AND I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE
10:48:42 DISCRETION, LIMITED DISCRETION, BUT DISCRETION ON OUR PART
10:48:47 TO DENY THIS PETITION.
10:48:50 THAT'S WHY I AM NOT GOING TO SUPPORT IT.
10:48:52 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:48:53 ANYONE ELSE?
10:48:54 OKAY.
10:48:54 WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:48:57 A SECOND, I BELIEVE, BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:49:13 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER AND VIERA
10:49:16 VOTING NO.
10:49:17 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:18 WE MOVE ON TO ITEM 39.
10:49:20 >> I'M MELISSA, AND WE ARE BRINGING US BACK TO DREW PARK.
10:49:33 FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER, DREW PARK HAD A LOT OF GROTTOS,
10:49:41 ACTIVITY, AND THE THEATER, AND WE HAVE A NEW LOCATION, A
10:49:49 STUDIO, AND THEREFORE WE ARE HERE TO ASK FOR YOUR APPROVAL
10:49:53 TO MOVE FORWARD OUR PROJECT.
10:49:55 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
10:49:59 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COME UP ON ITEM NUMBER 39? FOR THE
10:50:01 APPLICANT?
10:50:03 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:50:03 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
10:50:06 39?
10:50:06 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:50:08 >> SECOND.
10:50:09 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:50:11 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:50:12 ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
10:50:14 OKAY.
10:50:15 I BELIEVE WE ARE AT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:50:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [OFF MICROPHONE] NUMBER 39, AB 2-19-11,
10:50:24 ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION,
10:50:26 AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT S-2 FOR
10:50:30 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES SMALL VENUE COUPLES ON PREMISES
10:50:33 ONLY AND MAKING LAWFUL THE SALE OF BEVERAGES REGARDLESS OF
10:50:36 ALCOHOLIC CONTENT, BEER WINE AND LIQUOR, ON THAT CERTAIN
10:50:40 LOT, PLOT OR TRACT OF LAND LOCATED AT 4725 NORTH HESPERIDES
10:50:45 STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
10:50:47 SECTION 2 PROVIDING FOR ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF
10:50:50 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT ARE REPEALED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
10:50:52 DATE.
10:50:52 >> SECOND.
10:50:53 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:50:54 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:50:58 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:50:59 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:51:08 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:51:09 NEXT ONWARD TO ITEM NUMBER 40.
10:51:12 ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 40?
10:51:14 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: PLANNING COORDINATION.
10:51:21 ITEMS NUMBER 40 THROUGH 48 ARE ALL SECOND READINGS FOR
10:51:24 REZONING, SPECIAL USES FROM YOUR APRIL 11 MEETING OF CITY
10:51:29 COUNCIL.
10:51:32 FOR ITEM NUMBER 49, THE APPLICANT WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE THEIR
10:51:37 REQUIRED CHANGES IN A TIMELY MANNER.
10:51:40 SO I REQUEST AND THE APPLICANT REQUESTS THAT YOU CONTINUE
10:51:43 THAT SECOND READING TO YOUR JUNE 6th, 9:30 A.M. HEARING.
10:51:49 >>LUIS VIERA: DO WE HAVE A MOTION?
10:51:57 WHICH NUMBER IS THAT?
10:51:59 >> 49.
10:52:08 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
10:52:11 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN BE MANISCALCO.
10:52:14 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:52:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:52:17 ANY OPPOSED?
10:52:17 THANK YOU.
10:52:18 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: SO WE ARE READY TO OF PROCEED THROUGH 40
10:52:23 THROUGH 48.
10:52:25 >>LUIS VIERA: ITEM 40 IF ANYONE IS HERE FOR ITEM 40.
10:52:29 >> 2119 WEST TRASK.
10:52:39 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF 1529 WEST NORTH A STREET, TO REZONE
10:52:47 THE PROPERTY BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL ZONING FROM A PD.
10:52:52 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER? ANY QUESTIONS?
10:52:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANKS FOR JOINING US TODAY.
10:52:58 I READ THROUGH IT, AND IT'S AN INTERESTING PROCESS, YOU
10:53:03 KNOW, THINGS CHANGE, PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MIND AND THAT SORT
10:53:05 OF THING SO WE ARE GOING TOE BACK WHERE WE ORIGINALLY.
10:53:08 BUT REMIND ME, WHAT IS THE USE?
10:53:10 IS THERE ANY ACTIVE USE ON THAT PARCEL?
10:53:13 ESPECIALLY WHAT JUMPED OUT AT ME IS TO GO BACK TO IG.
10:53:17 >> WHAT IS HAPPENING, THE OWNER HAS TAKEN ON A TENANT, IT'S
10:53:23 GOING TO BE A PLACE OF WORSHIP, A NONDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH.
10:53:28 IT DIDN'T PROVE TO BE VIABLE AND IN THAT TIME THE PD LIMITED
10:53:31 THE USE OF THAT PROPERTY FOR A PLACE OF WORSHIP.
10:53:35 SO THE OWNER DECIDED TO REZONE IT BACK TO A GENERAL ZONING.
10:53:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO I WILL GO BACK AND LOOK FOR A NEW
10:53:45 TENANT THAT'S IG?
10:53:48 >> YES.
10:53:48 AND HOLD ONTO THAT.
10:53:50 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE FURTHER?
10:53:51 OKAY.
10:53:52 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:53:52 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
10:53:57 40?
10:53:57 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:53:59 >> SECOND.
10:54:00 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:54:01 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:54:03 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:54:04 ANY OPPOSED?
10:54:05 COUNCILMAN CARLSON, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM NUMBER 40.
10:54:08 >> REZ 18-126, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING
10:54:13 AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL
10:54:15 VICINITY OF 1529 WEST NORTH A STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:54:18 FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM
10:54:21 ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, PLACE
10:54:24 OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL OFFICE, TO
10:54:27 IG, INDUSTRIAL GENERAL, AND RS-50, RESIDENTIAL
10:54:31 SINGLE-FAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:54:32 >> SECOND.
10:54:34 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:54:36 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:54:38 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:54:39 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE] MOTION CARRIED.
10:54:51 >>LUIS VIERA: ITEM NUMBER 41.
10:54:52 IS ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 41?
10:54:54 >> DAVID SINGER, SHOEMAKER LAW FIRM, GRANS TO THE NEW
10:55:08 SWORN-IN MEMBERS.
10:55:09 WE ARE HERE FOR SECOND READING.
10:55:12 THIS IS BUSCH BOULEVARD AND 275.
10:55:14 MIXED USE PROJECT.
10:55:16 HOTEL, APARTMENTS, RESTAURANT, OFFICE SPACE, SOME FOOD
10:55:21 KIOSKS, NEBRASKA, FROM A SIDEWALK PERSPECTIVE.
10:55:29 WE ARE HERE FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
10:55:31 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON ITEM
10:55:32 NUMBER 41?
10:55:34 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:55:35 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
10:55:37 41?
10:55:38 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:55:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST A COMMENT, MR. SINGER.
10:55:46 I PASS BY THIS PRETTY OFTEN AND I'M VERY EXCITED.
10:55:49 I SPOKE TO CERTAIN PARTS OF BUSCH BOULEVARD.
10:55:55 OBVIOUSLY YOUR CLIENT IS TAKING A VERY BIG VISIBLE PARCEL
10:55:58 THERE AND HAS SOME EXCITING PLANS FOR REDEVELOPMENT.
10:56:01 AND I THINK THIS IS IN YOUR DISTRICT, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:56:05 SO I CONGRATULATE IN ADVANCE OF THE VOTE, OF COURSE,
10:56:10 CONGRATULATE YOUR CLIENT AND WISH THEM WELL, AND INVITE US
10:56:13 ALL TO THE RIBBON CUTTING OR WHATEVER.
10:56:15 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:56:18 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:56:20 THAN.
10:56:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DEPRESSED AREA.
10:56:24 I THINK WE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR YEARS NOW, WHAT ARE WE GOING
10:56:27 TO PUT THEREBY TO REVITALIZE THE AREA?
10:56:32 IS IT GOING TO BE A GOOD THING COMING OFF THAT INTERSTATE
10:56:35 LOOKING FOR A GOOD PLACE TO STAY AND EAT?
10:56:37 SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO HAVE.
10:56:40 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:56:43 AND OBVIOUSLY I WOULD AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS OF MY
10:56:45 COLLEAGUES.
10:56:46 I THINK THAT A LOT OF PRIVATE BUSINESSES SUCH AS YOUR CLIENT
10:56:49 ARE WAITING FOR THE PUBLIC SEC TO ARE TO STEP UP AND STOP
10:56:53 THE GENERATIONAL ABANDONMENT OF BUSCH BOULEVARD.
10:56:56 YOU TAKE A LOOK AT SOMEBODY HAD MENTIONED THE OLD SEA WOLF
10:57:01 RESTAURANT.
10:57:01 ANYBODY HERE REMEMBER SEA WOLF?
10:57:03 I THINK IT WAS 4415 EAST BUSCH.
10:57:07 WHEN I WAS A KID, I BELIEVE THAT WAS KIND OF A FANCY
10:57:10 RESTAURANT.
10:57:10 BUT WHEN YOU ARE A KID EVERYTHING IS FANCY, RIGHT?
10:57:13 IT'S VERY TRUE.
10:57:14 BUT YOU LOOK AT THAT AREA NOW, AND THERE'S NO SEA WOLF.
10:57:18 AND MAYBE GIVEN SOME OF THE THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT IT, THAT'S
10:57:20 A GOOD THING, RIGHT?
10:57:21 BE BUT IN THAN MANY WAYS THAT'S A BAD THING.
10:57:24 SO I THINK THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS WAITING ON THE PUBLIC
10:57:26 SECTOR TO STOP ITS ABANDONMENT, AND I THINK THIS IS A
10:57:30 WONDERFUL GESTURE.
10:57:31 SO THANK YOU, SIR.
10:57:32 ANYONE ELSE?
10:57:33 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:57:36 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE BY COUNCILMAN
10:57:39 MANISCALCO.
10:57:39 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:57:40 ANY OPPOSED?
10:57:41 OKAY.
10:57:43 AND WAS IT COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:57:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WOULD BE GLAD TO, REGARDING ZONING
10:57:50 19 ---820 EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD.
10:57:55 AN ORDINANCE THAN REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY
10:57:57 OF 820 EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA
10:58:01 AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
10:58:04 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION CI COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO PD
10:58:07 PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, HOTEL, RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY,
10:58:10 RESTAURANT, BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL OFFICE, PROVIDING AN
10:58:13 EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:58:14 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:58:19 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:58:21 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
10:58:22 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:58:30 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:58:34 COUNCILMAN CARLSON?
10:58:37 >>BILL CARLSON: I CAN MAKE A COMMENT AFTER WE VOTED THEN
10:58:40 IT'S NOT IN THE RECORD.
10:58:41 I JUST WANT TO GET REBECCA'S APPROVAL.
10:58:44 I WANT TO MAKE A PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENT.
10:58:46 AS I SAID ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, I TRAVELED A LOT ALL OVER
10:58:49 THE WORLD ESPECIALLY LATIN AMERICA, AND WE THINK OF DOWNTOWN
10:58:52 AS OUR FRONT DOOR, BUSCH BOULEVARD REALLY IS OUR FRONT DOOR
10:58:54 BECAUSE THERE ARE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES EVERY DAY
10:58:58 GOING TO BUSCH BOULEVARD AND WE NEED TO BE DO A BETTER JOB.
10:59:01 BUT I AM REAL EXCITED THAT THIS GATEWAY TO OUR -- OUR
10:59:06 GATEWAY TO THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE INVESTED AND HOPEFULLY
10:59:08 NO ONE WILL TAKE THE HOTDOG SIGN DOWN.
10:59:12 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:59:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE]
10:59:21 >>LUIS VIERA: I HAVE DONE THAT BEFORE, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:59:28 OKAY.
10:59:28 NEXT WE GO TO ITEM NUMBER 42.
10:59:31 ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 42?
10:59:33 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I DON'T BELIEVE THE APPLICANT IS PRESENT
10:59:41 BUT YOU CAN PROCEED WITH THE SECOND READING.
10:59:44 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS FROM CITY COUNCIL FOR 42 FOR
10:59:48 STAFF? OKAY.
10:59:49 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
10:59:51 42?
10:59:52 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
10:59:53 >> SECOND.
10:59:54 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN
10:59:55 MANISCALCO.
10:59:56 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:59:58 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:59:59 ANY OPPOSED?
11:00:00 COUNCILMAN GUDES, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM 42.
11:00:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HIGH PRESSURE ORDINANCE ON MOTION TO ADOPT,
11:00:09 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:00:11 4703 WEST LAWN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE
11:00:14 PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT
11:00:18 CLASSIFICATION RS-60 RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY TO PD PLANNED
11:00:22 DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED, PROVIDING
11:00:25 AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:00:25 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:00:28 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:00:29 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:00:30 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:00:41 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:00:42 WE MOVE NOW TO ITEM 43.
11:00:43 IS ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 43?
11:00:46 >> 2015 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE.
11:00:57 2015 CHANGE FROM RM-24 TO PD.
11:01:01 I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
11:01:02 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE FROM COUNCIL HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE
11:01:04 APPLICANT?
11:01:04 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:01:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:01:07 I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS FOR YOU OR FOR STAFF.
11:01:11 AS I READ THIS PETITION, IT'S TEN UNITS, AND I DIDN'T HAVE A
11:01:21 COPY OF THE PD IN FRONT OF ME BUT IT'S TEN UNITS AND SPEAKS
11:01:24 TO NINE PARKING SPACES?
11:01:29 >> THAT'S CORRECT.
11:01:29 FROM 16 TO NINE.
11:01:30 ONE OF THOSE IS A HANDICAPPED SPOT.
11:01:32 OUR INTENT WAS NOT PAVE THE SPACE AND KEEP THE HANDICAPPED
11:01:38 SPOT.
11:01:41 REVIEW OF HANDICAPPED HAVING A PLACE THAT IS WELCOMING TO
11:01:47 ANY LEVEL OF DISABILITY.
11:01:50 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THE ADA IS GREAT.
11:01:51 BUT I GUESS IT'S A LITTLE UNUSUAL FOR ME TO SEE TEN UNITS
11:01:58 WITH NINE SPACES OR EFFECTIVELY MAYBE EIGHT SPACES, EIGHT
11:02:02 PLUS ONE SPACE.
11:02:05 I MEAN, AT A MINIMUM I WOULD THINK THAT ANY UNIT WOULD OR
11:02:09 SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN PARKING SPACE, LOT, YOU KNOW.
11:02:14 HOW DO WE JUSTIFY NOT HAVING ONE SPACE PER UNIT?
11:02:19 >> WE WERE LOOKING AT IT AS A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AREA,
11:02:23 TAMPA HATES, BEING ABLE TO WALK DOWN TO ARMATURE WORKS.
11:02:26 WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A RISK AS THE DEVELOPER, TO NOT BE ABLE
11:02:31 TO PARK, BUT WE ARE AIMING FOR A NEW AGE OF OUR PEOPLE FOR
11:02:36 PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE VEHICLES, AND DEALING WITH PUBLIC
11:02:39 TRANSPORTATION AND WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE THAT.
11:02:43 I'M SORRY?
11:02:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NO, I INTERRUPTED.
11:02:46 >> MOST OF OUR UNITS ARE 600 SQUARE FEET.
11:02:48 AND MY UNITS ARE AIMED FOR THAT GENERATION.
11:02:51 THERE'S GOING TO BE A HORTICULTURAL ASPECT TO IT.
11:02:56 THAT TYPE OF COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE -- WE ARE GOING TO HAVE
11:03:01 BIKE RACKS AND OTHER THINGS TO ENCOURAGE THAT KIND OF THING.
11:03:04 AS A LAST RESORT, IT CAN'T COUNT BY CODE BUT THERE'S PLENTY
11:03:09 OF STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.
11:03:11 WE HAVE ALL THREE SIDES.
11:03:12 WE HAVE THE BESIDES ON OUR PROPERTY THAT PROVIDE STREET
11:03:19 PARKING.
11:03:19 AND THAT'S ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE ADDITIONAL SPOTS IF GUESTS,
11:03:25 THERE'S A PLACE FOR THEM TO PARK.
11:03:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING WITH
11:03:30 REGARD TO THE 16 THAT ARE REQUIRED MIGHT BE EXCESSIVE, IT
11:03:35 MIGHT BE MORE SUBURBAN, YOU KNOW, OR A LITTLE LESS URBAN
11:03:40 PERHAPS.
11:03:42 ARE THE NINE SPACES DESIGNATED, LIKE UNIT 1 GETS SPACE
11:03:49 NUMBER 1, ET CETERA?
11:03:51 OR ARE THEY FIRST COME FIRST SERVED?
11:03:53 >> I WOULD THINK THEY WOULD BE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.
11:03:57 AS A CONDO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY SELL A DEED TO EACH PARKING
11:04:04 SPOT.
11:04:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IN YOUR MIND ON YOUR DOCUMENTATION, THIS
11:04:10 NINE PARKING SPACES IS COMMON FROM A REAL ESTATE
11:04:13 PERSPECTIVE, WILL BE COMMON OWNERSHIP?
11:04:16 >> YES, SIR.
11:04:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NOT UNDERNEATH ANY PARTICULAR UNIT OR
11:04:20 ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
11:04:21 >> CORRECT.
11:04:22 IT WOULD BE A COMMON AREA OF THE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION.
11:04:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALL RIGHT.
11:04:27 WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES.
11:04:29 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER?
11:04:33 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:04:34 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 43?
11:04:37 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
11:04:39 >> SECOND.
11:04:39 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:04:41 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:04:44 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:04:44 ANY OPPOSED?
11:04:45 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM 43.
11:04:48 >> I HAVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING
11:04:52 AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL
11:04:54 VICINITY OF 2015 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE AND 2010 LAMAR STREET
11:04:58 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
11:05:01 SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-24
11:05:03 RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT,
11:05:06 RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:05:08 >> SECOND.
11:05:10 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:05:11 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:05:14 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:05:15 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:05:24 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:26 IS THE APPLICANT HERE FOR ITEM 44?
11:05:29 ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 44?
11:05:31 >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
11:05:39 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW MEMBERS.
11:05:44 I'M HERE FOR REZONING AT 2736 WEST SPRUCE STREET FROM PD TO
11:05:52 RS-50.
11:05:54 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:05:55 ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT ON
11:05:57 ITEM 44?
11:06:00 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM 44?
11:06:05 MOTION TO CLOSE?
11:06:07 WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:06:09 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:06:11 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:06:12 ANY OPPOSED?
11:06:13 AND I BELIEVE MR. CITRO.
11:06:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE] FILE REZ 19-20, AN
11:06:19 ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
11:06:22 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:06:25 2736 WEST SPRUCE STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND
11:06:29 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
11:06:32 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT,
11:06:35 SEMI-DETACHED SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TO RS-50,
11:06:40 RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:06:42 >> SECOND.
11:06:44 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
11:06:46 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:06:47 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:06:48 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH DINGFELDER
11:06:55 BEING ABSENT AT VOTE.
11:06:56 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:06:59 NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM 45.
11:07:01 IS THE APPLICANT HERE OR ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 45?
11:07:03 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I DO NOT SEE THE APPLICANT FOR ITEM 45.
11:07:12 HOWEVER YOU CAN PROCEED WITH THE HEARING.
11:07:14 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
11:07:15 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS OR STAFF FOR ITEM 45?
11:07:19 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 45 FOR
11:07:23 PUBLIC COMMENT?
11:07:24 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
11:07:25 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA TO CLOSE.
11:07:28 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:07:29 ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
11:07:32 OKAY.
11:07:32 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM 45.
11:07:34 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM NUMBER 45, FILE REZ 19-21.
11:07:39 AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND
11:07:42 ADOPTION.
11:07:42 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:07:46 1452 WEST BUSCH BOULEVARD IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND
11:07:49 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED MUCH IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
11:07:51 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RS-50 RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY TO
11:07:54 CG COMMERCIAL GENERAL PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:07:56 >> SECOND.
11:07:58 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:07:59 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:08:00 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH DINGFELDER
11:08:08 BEING ABSENT AT VOTE.
11:08:09 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:08:11 NEXT MOVE ONWARD TO ITEM 46.
11:08:14 ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 46?
11:08:16 >> VICTOR DIMAIO, I'M HERE REPRESENTING BERN'S STEAK HOUSE
11:08:25 AND THE EPICUREAN HOTEL.
11:08:28 THIS PARTICULAR -- WE HAD TWO ARC HEARINGS AND CITY COUNCIL
11:08:35 MEETINGS, ALL UNANIMOUS VOTES, TO PRESERVE AN HISTORIC HOME
11:08:39 THAT'S DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE EPICUREAN HOTEL
11:08:42 THAT WE ARE MOVING INTO THE HISTORIC HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD,
11:08:46 AND WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE
11:08:50 DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AS ROUND BERN'S STEAK
11:08:53 HOUSE.
11:08:53 THE OPTION IS TO TEAR DOWN THE STRUCTURES AND THE HOUSE WILL
11:09:00 BE MOVED.
11:09:04 THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH
11:09:06 HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN BEST TAMPA, AND ALSO KING HEADMAN WITH
11:09:11 WILD ARCHITECTURE, HISTORIC REMODELING OF HILLSBOROUGH HIGH
11:09:15 SCHOOL.
11:09:16 SO THESE THREE 100-YEAR-OLD HISTORIC BUILDINGS WILL BE
11:09:20 PRESERVED.
11:09:20 THE TWO HOUSES NEXT TO THIS HOUSE WE ARE MOVING WILL BE
11:09:23 RESTORED TO ITS 100 YEAR FEATURE.
11:09:25 THIS HOUSE WILL BE MOVED.
11:09:29 WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EXPENSE TO DO,
11:09:31 TO PRESERVE THE HOME INTO THE HYDE PARK DISTRICT ON THE
11:09:36 TRIANGULAR PIECE OF PROPERTY, PART OF THE PROJECT.
11:09:40 THERE'S CURRENTLY A DUPLEX, THAT'S GOING TO BE DONATED TO
11:09:48 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
11:09:50 THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP THE DOORS, WINDOWS, APPLIANCES AND
11:09:54 HAVING IN THE DUPLEX.
11:09:57 AND THE HOUSE, THEY ARE GOING TO REMOVE THE WINDOWS, AROUND
11:10:05 1910, AND SELL IT TO A FAMILY WHO WISHES TO BUY THE HOME.
11:10:11 THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
11:10:12 IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
11:10:15 THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT IT.
11:10:17 THE REASON WE ARE MOVING THE HOME IS BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW,
11:10:20 BERN'S STEAKHOUSE, PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO
11:10:25 VISIT BERN'S, AND NOW WE ARE FINDING THAT THEY ARE STAYING
11:10:28 AT THE EPICUREAN HOTEL, WE ARE RUNNING AT 100% OCTOBER PAN
11:10:33 CITY.
11:10:33 WE ARE TRYING TO DO AN EXPANSION WITH MORE ROOMS ACROSS THE
11:10:37 STREET.
11:10:42 THE EPICUREAN, I GUESS BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO EAT GOOD STEAKS,
11:10:47 I DON'T KNOW.
11:10:47 THE EPICUREAN HOTEL HAS DONE EXTREMELY WELL AND THIS WILL BE
11:10:51 A NICE ADDITION, AND WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE
11:10:57 NEIGHBORS.
11:10:58 THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHY WE ARE DOING IT AND THE REASON FOR
11:11:01 DOING IT.
11:11:01 AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR VOTE OF APPROVAL.
11:11:06 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:11:07 ANY COMMENTS?
11:11:10 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER?
11:11:12 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. DIMAIO.
11:11:14 JUST CURIOUS IN REGARD TO RESPONSE.
11:11:17 I'M SURE YOU HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE VARIOUS AFFECTED
11:11:20 NEIGHBORHOOD, AND ANY RESPONSE OR LACK OF RESPONSE?
11:11:24 >> PJ SUMMERALL WHO LIVES DIRECTLY BEHIND THE PROPERTY,
11:11:29 SHE'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HISTORIC
11:11:32 HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE
11:11:34 OF EVERYTHING WE ARE DOING.
11:11:36 WE ARE TRYING TO BE AS SENSITIVE AS POSSIBLE TO THE
11:11:38 NEIGHBORS.
11:11:39 AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE DOING THIS.
11:11:40 WE DIDN'T WANT TO TEAR DOWN THE THREE HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
11:11:44 WE ARE PRESERVING THEM.
11:11:45 BUT APARTMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE GOING TO BE RESTORED FOR
11:11:49 LONG-TERM RENTALS.
11:11:50 PEOPLE WANT A PLACE FOR LIVING, THEY CAN STAY OVER THERE
11:11:54 ACROSS THE STREET.
11:11:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THIS PARTICULAR STRUCTURE IS, I ASSUME,
11:11:58 IN THE DISTRICT, IT'S A PROTECTED STRUCTURE?
11:12:02 >> EXACTLY.
11:12:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: A PROTECTED DISTRICT, INSTEAD OF APPLYING
11:12:06 FOR A DEMOLITION, YOU ARE MOVING IT.
11:12:08 AND RESTORING IT.
11:12:09 >> EXACTLY.
11:12:10 AND WE CAN ONLY MOVE IT INTO THE HYDE PARK HISTORIC
11:12:13 DISTRICT.
11:12:14 WE CAN'T MOVE IT ANYWHERE ELSE IN TAMPA.
11:12:16 IT CAN ONLY BE MOVED IN THERE, AND WE HAD TO BUY THIS PIECE
11:12:20 OF PROPERTY, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE DUPLEX IS ON NOW.
11:12:24 WE WENT FROM A PD TO A PD EVEN THOUGH IT'S A SINGLE --
11:12:28 SINGLE-FAMILY HOME PD.
11:12:29 BUT WE ARE DOING IT BECAUSE IT'S A TRIANGLE SHAPE LOT AS YOU
11:12:33 CAN SEE.
11:12:34 AND IT'S VERY UNUSUAL.
11:12:35 SO WE HAD TO SQUEEZE IT IN AS BEST WE COULD.
11:12:38 AND WE ARE ACTUALLY, FOR THE NEIGHBORS, GETTING RID OF THE
11:12:41 DUPLEX AND GETTING A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
11:12:44 SO THE PROPERTY ALONE COST US OVER A HALF MILLION DOLLARS,
11:12:47 AND WE ARE TEARING DOWN -- MOVING A HOUSE INTO THAT LOT.
11:12:55 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS TO RESPECT THE
11:12:59 HISTORIC DISTRICT.
11:13:00 >> THANK YOU.
11:13:02 I APPRECIATE IT.
11:13:03 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
11:13:05 NOTHING FURTHER, ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON
11:13:10 ITEM NUMBER 46?
11:13:13 WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:13:15 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:13:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:13:17 ANY OPPOSED?
11:13:19 COUNCILMAN CARLSON, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM NUMBER 46.
11:13:23 >>BILL CARLSON: FILE REZ-1923, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
11:13:27 SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY
11:13:29 IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 2114 AND 2116 WEST JETTON AVENUE
11:13:35 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY
11:13:36 DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION
11:13:39 PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY,
11:13:44 DETACHED, TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL,
11:13:46 SINGLE-FAMILY, DETACHED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:13:48 >> SECOND.
11:13:49 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:13:51 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:13:52 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:13:55 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:14:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:14:04 NEXT WE MOVE ONWARD TO ITEM NUMBER 47.
11:14:06 IF IS ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 47?
11:14:10 >> GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL.
11:14:25 I'M HERE ON ITEM NUMBER 47.
11:14:28 THAT'S TWO PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 4001 AND 4013 NORTH
11:14:32 38th STREET.
11:14:34 THAT'S JACKSON HEIGHTS AREA.
11:14:36 THE PROPERTY AT 4001 -- 4011, WE WANT TO DO RM-24.
11:14:45 BECAUSE OF PLANNING IN THE FUTURE PLANNING TO BUILD A
11:14:48 FOUR-PLEX THERE, AND ON THE PROPERTY THAT'S 4011, THERE'S A
11:14:54 DUPLEX THERE NOW.
11:14:58 >>LUIS VIERA: AND IF WE MAY HAVE YOUR NAME.
11:15:00 >> MY NAME IS DENNIS.
11:15:02 >>LUIS VIERA: WHAT'S YOUR LAST NAME?
11:15:04 >>> AND WHAT'S YOUR SON'S NAME?
11:15:09 >> ALEX.
11:15:14 >>LUIS VIERA: HOW OLD ARE YOU, ALEX?
11:15:16 >> THREE.
11:15:18 >>LUIS VIERA: GOOD FOR YOU, BIG FELLA.
11:15:20 THAT'S GREAT.
11:15:21 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS TO THE APPLICANT ON ITEM
11:15:23 NUMBER 47?
11:15:26 YES, SIR?
11:15:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT'S UNFAIR TO US THAT YOU BRING YOUR
11:15:31 SECRET WEAPON THERE.
11:15:33 BEAUTIFUL.
11:15:34 >> HE KNOWS HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE AND EVERYTHING.
11:15:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BEAUTIFUL.
11:15:43 I HAVE A THREE-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON ABOUT THAT AGE.
11:15:45 BUT SERIOUSLY, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONCERN WHEN I WAS
11:15:48 LOOKING AT THIS MUCH PROJECT, BECAUSE IT DOES INDICATE --
11:15:54 AND I WILL RELY ON MR. GUDES, PERHAPS, I THINK IT'S YOUR
11:15:58 DISTRICT -- BUT IT DOES INDICATE, I THINK, IN THE STAFF
11:16:00 REPORT THAT SOME OF THE SURROUNDING HOMES, PERHAPS TO THE
11:16:05 SIDE AND THE BACK DOOR NEIGHBORS, IS SINGLE-FAMILY.
11:16:11 AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG OR STAFF CAN PERHAPS
11:16:17 INFORM ME A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
11:16:21 ARE WE INTRODUCING SOMETHING -- I REALIZE IT IS A LITTLE BIT
11:16:25 CLOSE TO MLK, AND THAT SORT OF THING, AND I DON'T KNOW
11:16:29 WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT PARCEL THAT'S DIRECTLY IN BETWEEN
11:16:32 YOUR PARCELS AND MLK.
11:16:34 AND I WOULD BE CURIOUS ABOUT THAT UNUSUALLY SHAPED PARCEL
11:16:40 THERE.
11:16:41 BUT ANYWAY, IT APPEARS YOU ARE INTRODUCING MULTIFAMILY,
11:16:45 QUAD, ONTO THAT PARCEL, AND IS THERE ANY PRECEDENT, YOU
11:16:53 KNOW, ON EITHER OF THOSE BLOCK FACES, NORTH BAY OR IDA, OR
11:16:59 38th, FOR THE MULTIFAMILY?
11:17:01 LET ME HEAR FROM STAFF ON THAT FIRST AND THEN YOU CAN CHIME
11:17:05 IN.
11:17:05 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: PLANNING COORDINATION.
11:17:13 THIS PROPERTY IS IN THE RS 35 LAND USE CATEGORY SO IT'S
11:17:20 SLATED FOR MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT.
11:17:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I READ THAT BUT IT'S A REZONING, AND WE
11:17:23 HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT AND COMPATIBLE, TOO.
11:17:26 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I UNDERSTAND THAT, SIR.
11:17:32 HERE IS THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND THE ZONING MAP FOR THE
11:17:36 PROPERTY.
11:17:37 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS IN PURPLE.
11:17:40 AND HIGHLIGHTED.
11:17:42 THIS IS PD 35 FROM MLK AND THEN GOES BACK, AGAIN R-35 HERE,
11:17:49 AND THIS IS THE R-10 LAND USE CATEGORY, NORTH.
11:17:54 BECAUSE HE IS REQUESTING TO REZONE TO RM-24 WHICH IS IN THE
11:17:58 EUCLIDEAN ZONING DISTRICT, ANY PROJECT THAT IS DEVELOPED
11:18:01 WILL HAVE TO MEET WITH ALL STANDARD ZONING REQUIREMENTS.
11:18:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
11:18:07 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: IN THE ZONING DISTRICT.
11:18:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MAYBE I WASN'T CLEAR.
11:18:11 IT'S HARD TO SEE ON THE AERIAL BECAUSE ALL I CAN SEE IS A
11:18:14 BUNCH OF TREES.
11:18:15 BUT WHAT I AM MORE CURIOUS ABOUT IS THE EXISTING FABRIC OF
11:18:18 THOSE STREETS AND THOSE BLOCKS, NOT THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP
11:18:21 AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT FOLKS UP THE STREET MIGHT THINK IT
11:18:26 SHOULD BE.
11:18:27 WHAT I AM ASKING IS, WHAT IS IT?
11:18:29 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER?
11:18:32 I READ SOMEWHERE THAT IN THE STAFF REPORT, IT MENTIONED THAT
11:18:36 IT'S A SINGLE-FAMILY AREA.
11:18:40 NOW, I SEE A LARGER STRUCTURE THERE.
11:18:44 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THIS IS A COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE. THIS IS
11:18:49 A MULTIFAMILY STRUCTURE.
11:18:50 MULTIFAMILY STRUCTURE.
11:18:52 AND THESE ARE SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES.
11:18:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
11:18:58 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW.
11:19:00 I COULDN'T TELL THAT FROM THE AERIAL BUT THAT'S VERY
11:19:03 HELPFUL.
11:19:03 THANK YOU.
11:19:03 >> AND THAT 38th STREET, THAT'S A DEAD-END STREET.
11:19:11 RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PROPERTY.
11:19:13 AND THAT AREA HERE, LIKE ON THE LEFT OF IT, LIKE RIGHT
11:19:23 HERE, [RUSTLING PAPERS]
11:19:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: EXCELLENT.
11:19:39 THANK YOU, CHAIR.
11:19:41 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL
11:19:44 MEMBERS?
11:19:52 >> >>ORLANDO GUDES: THIS IS A BLIGHTED AREA.
11:19:56 THE VETERANS HOME ON 39th STREET.
11:20:05 I THINK THE PROJECT IN ITSELF, BEAUTIFICATION IS EVERYTHING.
11:20:15 WE NEED HOUSING.
11:20:15 >> ON THE 38th STREET, WE ARE GOING TO BUILD THAT
11:20:22 SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES LIKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING THERE.
11:20:26 WE ARE GOING TO BUILD LIKE THAT BLOCK THERE, GOING TO BUILD
11:20:30 SINGLE-FAMILY HOME THERE.
11:20:32 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:20:33 ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
11:20:36 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:20:37 APPRECIATE IT.
11:20:38 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
11:20:41 47?
11:20:44 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:20:46 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:20:48 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:20:49 ANY OPPOSED?
11:20:51 47.
11:20:51 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, IF YOU COULD.
11:20:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IN REGARD TO REZONING ITEM 19-25, AN
11:21:01 ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
11:21:03 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:21:06 4011 AND 4013 NORTH 38th STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
11:21:09 FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM
11:21:12 ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RS-50 RESIDENTIAL
11:21:15 SINGLE-FAMILY AND RM-16 RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO RM-24
11:21:20 RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:21:23 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND?
11:21:26 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:21:28 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:21:30 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:21:31 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE] MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:21:38 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:21:40 ANYONE HERE FOR ITEM 48?
11:21:42 >> JOSEPH DIAZ, 3242 HENDERSON BOULEVARD.
11:21:57 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
11:22:00 604 WEST MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD, SEEKING TO REZONE
11:22:05 THAT PROPERTY WHICH IS AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MLK AND
11:22:10 LYNN, RS-50 TO CN.
11:22:15 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT ON ITEM NUMBER
11:22:17 48?
11:22:18 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 48?
11:22:20 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
11:22:22 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:22:24 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:22:26 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:22:27 ANY OPPOSED?
11:22:28 COUNCILMAN GUDES, DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE TAKING ITEM NUMBER
11:22:32 48, SIR?
11:22:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE] ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
11:22:38 FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING
11:22:41 PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 6074 WEST DR. MARTIN
11:22:44 LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND
11:22:47 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING
11:22:50 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RS-50 RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY TO
11:22:53 CN COMMERCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:22:56 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY MR. MIRANDA.
11:22:58 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:22:59 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:23:04 >>LUIS VIERA: WE NEXT MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 50 IS ANYONE IS
11:23:07 HERE FOR ITEM 50.
11:23:08 >> LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:23:14 I NEED TO REQUEST COUNCIL MOVE ITEM 50 FROM THE AGENDA.
11:23:20 THE ATTACHMENT IS INCORRECT.
11:23:24 AND RESUBMIT IT.
11:23:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO MOVED.
11:23:30 >> SECOND.
11:23:31 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:23:33 I BELIEVE A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:23:35 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:23:36 ANY OPPOSED?
11:23:38 OKAY.
11:23:38 NEXT WE MOVE ONTO OUR 10:30 QUASI-JUDICIAL PUBLIC HEARINGS.
11:23:43 ITEM 571.
11:23:45 AND JUST TO MAKE CERTAIN, IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM WHO
11:23:48 PLANS TO TESTIFY OR SPEAK TODAY WHO HAS NOT BEEN SWORN?
11:23:55 ONE.
11:23:56 IF YOU DON'T MIND STANDING UP.
11:23:57 (OATH ADMINISTERED BY CLERK).
11:23:58 >>STEVE MICHELINI: I'M REPRESENTING JASON ACCARDI OF.
11:24:18 THIS IS NOT READY TO MOVE FORWARD.
11:24:20 I SENT YOU A LETTER REQUESTING CONTINUANCE FOR 30 DAYS.
11:24:23 WE HAVE TO WORK OUT SOME LANGUAGE THAT HASN'T BEEN PERFECTED
11:24:26 SO WE ARE EXPECT RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING A 30 DAY
11:24:29 CONTINUANCE.
11:24:30 STAFF HAS A DATE IN MIND .
11:24:32 >>BARBARA LYNCH: LAND DEVELOPMENT.
11:24:34 6-27.
11:24:37 >>LUIS VIERA: AND ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
11:24:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: A COMMENT, MR. MICHELINI, OR STAFF,
11:24:46 EITHER ONE.
11:24:48 WHEN I LOOKED AT THE BACKUP MATERIALS, IF WE CAN SEE A
11:24:52 SPECIFIC MAP WHEN YOU COME BACK THAT SHOWS US A LITTLE
11:24:54 CLEARER.
11:24:55 I DIDN'T HAVE IT IN MY BACKUP.
11:24:56 NO BIG DEAL TODAY.
11:24:57 BUT ANY OF THESE VACATINGS WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE A VERY
11:25:02 DETAILED MAP SO -- SOME OF THEM HAVE IT.
11:25:05 SOME OF THEM DON'T.
11:25:06 I DON'T KNOW WHY.
11:25:08 MY MOTION TO CONTINUE.
11:25:10 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CONTINUE BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:25:13 I BELIEVE A SECOND BY -- OH, I APOLOGIZE.
11:25:17 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK SOLELY ON THE
11:25:20 CONTINUANCE OF ITEM 51?
11:25:25 OKAY, YES.
11:25:26 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:25:35 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
11:25:36 WE ARE CONTINUING ITEM NUMBER 51.
11:25:38 MOVING TO CONTINUE.
11:25:39 DO YOU WISH TO COMMENT ON THAT AT ALL, SIR?
11:25:41 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:25:47 >>LUIS VIERA: JUST MAKING SURE.
11:25:48 WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE.
11:25:53 6-27, I ASSUME 10:30 A.M. WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE BY
11:25:57 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:25:58 I BELIEVE A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:26:01 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:26:01 ANY OPPOSED?
11:26:02 >>STEVE MICHELINI: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:26:05 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 52.
11:26:12 >>BARBARA LYNCH: LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:26:14 I WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS AND
11:26:17 WELCOME BACK.
11:26:22 BARBARA LYNCH, LAND DEVELOPMENT.
11:26:23 AND I'M HERE FOR THE APPLICANT WISHING TO VACATE AN ALLEY
11:26:31 SOUTH OF 18th AVENUE AND RUNS FROM 15th STREET TO
11:26:37 16th STREET.
11:26:38 AND I HAVE A MAP FOR THE OVERHEAD HERE.
11:26:46 THE PROPERTY IS IN RED AND THE ALLEY TO BE VACATED IS IN
11:26:49 YELLOW.
11:26:51 IT'S AN OLD CIGAR FACTORY, I BELIEVE.
11:26:53 AND I HAVE PHOTOS OF THE ALLEY.
11:27:00 [OFF MICROPHONE] THIS IS THE ALLEY WEST OF 16th STREET.
11:27:04 AND NOTICE A CAR PARKED IN THE ALLEY.
11:27:10 THIS IS THE PROPERTY LOOKING WEST FROM 16th STREET.
11:27:13 AND THEN A SHOT OF THE SITE FROM 16th STREET.
11:27:17 STAFF HAS NO OBJECTIONS TO THE REQUEST.
11:27:22 THERE'S A CONDITION TO GIVE AN EASEMENT TO THE OWNER AT THIS
11:27:28 LOCATION,
11:27:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MS. LYNCH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORD
11:27:40 AND YOU READ MY MIND, BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS PARKING THERE,
11:27:45 NOT A TYPICAL SCENARIO, IT WAS MOVED AFTER THAT, THAT ALLEY
11:27:50 WOULD HAVE TO GET A MUCH NARROWER CAR.
11:27:53 BUT YOU GUYS HAVE TAKEN CARE OF THAT?
11:27:57 >>BARBARA LYNCH: YES.
11:27:58 ON REQUEST BY TRANSPORTATION.
11:28:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FANTASTIC.
11:28:02 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL
11:28:04 FOR STAFF ON ITEM OF 52?
11:28:07 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM 52?
11:28:23 IF SO COME FORWARD.
11:28:24 OH, I'M SORRY.
11:28:25 PETITIONER.
11:28:26 I'M SORRY.
11:28:27 GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:28:27 MY APOLOGIES.
11:28:31 >> I'M THE PETITIONER.
11:28:36 DESIGN STUDIOS.
11:28:37 I HAVE BEEN SWORN.
11:28:38 I AM HERE FOR THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY.
11:28:45 I FEEL EXTREMELY PRIVILEGED TO BE PART OF THIS, AND THEY
11:28:56 BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY ON BOTH SIDE OF THE ALLEY, SO THEY ARE
11:29:01 REDEVELOPING THE BUILDING, AND ALSO THE WHOLE PROPERTY.
11:29:06 AND WE ARE WORKING WITH TECO, FOR POWER, AND WE PURCHASED
11:29:16 THE ALLEY ON THE EAST SIDE.
11:29:17 IT WAS A LITTLE TRICKY BECAUSE OF PARKING IN THAT SPOT.
11:29:23 BUT GETTING ACROSS-ACCESS EASEMENT.
11:29:29 MY CLIENT HAS THE RIGHT TO USE THE ALLEY WHEN THEY NEED TO
11:29:32 BUT ALSO CAN USE IT AS WELL.
11:29:39 >> MY NAME IS CHARLIE ANGER, MANAGING PARTNER, PURCHASED THE
11:29:45 LAND.
11:29:48 CONGRATULATIONS.
11:29:48 THE PROJECT, THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT IS GOING TO BE ONE
11:29:53 THAT HAS A LARGE IMPACT ON THE AREA, AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE
11:29:56 A LARGE IMPACT IN A VERY POSITIVE AREA.
11:29:59 YOU PROBABLY NOTICED IT WAS A DENSE SPOT IN AN AREA THAT
11:30:03 OTHERWISE HAS A LOT OF LIFE.
11:30:05 SO THIS EASEMENT THAT WE ARE REQUESTING WITH OUR NEIGHBOR,
11:30:09 WE ARE ALLOWED TO VACATE THIS ALLEY AND IT WILL ALLOW US TO
11:30:13 USE THE LOT.
11:30:17 ANY QUESTIONS?
11:30:18 >>CHAIRMAN: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER?
11:30:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN CURIOUS ABOUT
11:30:22 THAT CIGAR FACTORY FOR MANY YEARS, AND DID YOU ALL RECENTLY
11:30:26 PURCHASE IT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS?
11:30:29 >> YES.
11:30:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE THE PRAYER OWNER
11:30:32 DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS GOING ANYWHERE.
11:30:34 AND WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?
11:30:36 IS IT RESIDENTIAL?
11:30:37 IS IT MIXED USE?
11:30:38 WHAT?
11:30:39 >> SO WE ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY --
11:30:44 >> WE DO KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO INCORPORATE RETAIL SPACE,
11:30:49 EVENT SPACE AND OFFICE SPACE.
11:30:51 AS OF RIGHT NOW WE DON'T EXPECT IT TO BE USED FOR THAT.
11:30:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SOUND VERY EXCITING.
11:30:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, MY DISTRICT, I'M WELL AWARE OF THAT
11:31:01 CORNER RIGHT THERE.
11:31:02 EAST TAMPA CRA HAS BEEN INQUIRING ABOUT THAT PROPERTY A LONG
11:31:06 TIME, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, WHAT CAN BE DONE, AND
11:31:09 ESPECIALLY THAT WATER TOWER.
11:31:12 THEY HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY CURIOUS ABOUT THAN THAT WATER
11:31:14 TOWER.
11:31:15 SOME IDEAS ABOUT THE AREA, THAT WATER TOWER.
11:31:18 ORIGINALLY, WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK INTO THAT WATER TOWER.
11:31:24 IN WEST TAMPA, YOU SEE WEST TAMPA, INTERSTATE, AND IF THIS
11:31:28 GOES FORWARD, LOOK AT REDOING SOMETHING AROUND PARTNERSHIP
11:31:32 THAT HAS AN EAST TAMPA LOGO.
11:31:34 >> AND HAPPY TO HAVE SAY THAT THE WATER TOWER, WE WERE VERY
11:31:39 CONCERNED THAT IT NEEDS TO COME DOWN AND I AM HAPPY TO SAY
11:31:41 IT DOES NOT NEED TO COME DOWN.
11:31:46 >> [OFF MICROPHONE] AND ALSO THE NEW CIGAR FACTORY IN YBOR
11:32:01 CITY.
11:32:02 IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THIS BUILDING HAD AN ADDITION THAT
11:32:05 WAS DONE IN THE LATE 1950s.
11:32:11 THAT MADE IT NOT A CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURE SO THIS BUILDING
11:32:21 IS NOT IN A HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUT IS GOING TO REDO THAT
11:32:29 PROPERTY TO INTERIOR STASHED FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
11:32:35 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:32:36 ANYTHING FURTHER? OKAY, ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL?
11:32:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT'S INTERESTING THAT IT'S NOT IN A
11:32:45 HISTORIC DISTRICT.
11:32:46 A WHILE BACK WE LOOKED AT IDENTIFYING ALL CIGAR FACTORIES
11:32:49 AND MAKING THEM HISTORIC ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS BUT WE
11:32:52 DIDN'T END UP DOING THAT.
11:32:54 BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, AND YOU DON'T NEED TO ANSWER THIS,
11:32:58 BUT PERHAPS IT'S AN OFFER FROM COUNCIL, BUT IF IT NEEDS TO
11:33:02 COME INTO OUR HISTORIC PROGRAM TO HELP WITHIN ANY TYPE OF
11:33:08 TAX ASSISTANCE OR FINANCIAL, YOU KNOW, ASSISTANCE, I KNOW A
11:33:13 LOT OF TIMES WHEN THEY ARE DESIGNATED HISTORIC STRUCTURES,
11:33:16 IT CAN HELP, YOU KNOW, WITH YOUR FEDERAL TAXES AND THAT SORT
11:33:19 OF THING.
11:33:20 JUST A THOUGHT.
11:33:20 >> WE WOULD BE EXCITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY TAX BREAKS
11:33:25 HAD.
11:33:26 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE HAVE A GREAT HISTORIC PRESERVATION
11:33:28 GROUP AND I'M SURE THEY WOULD BE GLAD TO WORK WITH YOU ON
11:33:30 THAT.
11:33:31 >> WE ALSO JUST RECENTLY APPLIED FOR THE GRANTS .
11:33:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: EAST TAMPA.
11:33:42 >> BUT IT'S A MATCHING GRANT FROM PRESERVATION.
11:33:50 WE ARE UNDERWAY TO TRY TO GET THOSE TO DO THE BEST JOB WE
11:33:53 CAN TO RETAIN THAT IMAGE.
11:33:56 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:33:59 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM 52?
11:34:02 >> I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
11:34:09 IT'S ACROSS THE STREET SO WE EXPLAINED TO HIM THIS
11:34:12 PROJECT --
11:34:13 >>CHAIRMAN: AND WE ARE SURE OF THAT?
11:34:15 >>BARBARA LYNCH: YES.
11:34:17 OKAY?
11:34:18 ALL RIGHT?
11:34:19 OKAY.
11:34:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOVE TO CLOSE.
11:34:22 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN
11:34:24 MIRANDA.
11:34:24 A SECOND BY, I BELIEVE, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:34:27 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:34:28 ANY OPPOSED?
11:34:30 ITEM NUMBER 52.
11:34:31 COUNCILMAN CITRO, IF YOU WOULD, SIR.
11:34:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:34:38 >>MARTIN SHELBY: I JUST WANT TO FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE
11:34:43 RECORD, MR. CITRO, THE SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE AND THE TITLE OF
11:34:47 IT IS ON YOUR AGENDA.
11:35:00 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:35:04 OKAY
11:35:06 FILE NUMBER VAC 19-13.
11:35:11 PUBLIC HEARING APPLICATION.
11:35:17 PGCF, LLC, TO VACATE AN ALLEYWAY LAYING NORTH OF 17th
11:35:22 AVENUE SOUTH OF 18th AVENUE EAST OF 15th STREET AND
11:35:25 WEST OF 16th STREET.
11:35:27 ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING CONSIDERATION.
11:35:29 AN ORDINANCE THAN VACATING, CLOSING, DISCONTINUING -- I'M
11:35:34 SORRY.
11:35:35 >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE TITLE AS IT APPEARS ON THE AGENDA, THE
11:35:39 SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE, IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
11:35:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
11:35:43 THE SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
11:35:45 CONSIDERATION.
11:35:46 AN ORDINANCE VACATING, CLOSING, DISCONTINUING, ABANDONING A
11:35:50 RIGHT-OF-WAY ALLEYWAY LYING NORTH OF 17th AVENUE SOUTH
11:35:54 OF 18th AVENUE EAST OF 15th STREET, WEST OF 16th
11:35:58 STREET IN SANCHEZ AND HAYA REAL ESTATE COMPANY REVISED MAP,
11:36:04 A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
11:36:06 FLORIDA, THE SAME BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1
11:36:10 HEREOF SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EASEMENT RESERVATIONS, CONVEYANCE,
11:36:17 CONDITIONS, RESTRICTIONS, MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH
11:36:20 HEREIN, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:36:20 >> SECOND.
11:36:23 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN SIT ROW. A
11:36:25 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:36:30 I GUESS ALL IN FAVOR.
11:36:31 ANY OPPOSED?
11:36:32 OKAY.
11:36:33 >>THE CLERK: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON
11:36:38 JUNE 6th, 2019 AT 930 A.M.
11:36:41 >>LUIS VIERA: WE MOVE NOW TO ITEM 53.
11:36:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DID YOU LEAVE YOUR CARD FOR MY AIDE, YOUR
11:36:56 INFORMATION WITH MY SECRETARY?
11:36:58 LEAVE YOUR CARD AND CONTACT YOU ABOUT THAT.
11:37:01 >>BARBARA LYNCH: LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:37:04 I'M HERE ON VAC 19-14 MUCH ALSO IN EAST TAMPA, A REQUEST TO
11:37:11 VACATE AN ALLEY SOUTH OF 10th AVENUE, NORTH OF 9th
11:37:15 AVENUE, EAST OF 32ND STREET AND WEST OF 33rd STREET.
11:37:25 THE PROPERTY IN RED AND THE ALLEY TO BE VACATED IN YELLOW.
11:37:34 HERE IS THE ALLEY LOOKING EAST OF 33rd STREET.
11:37:38 HERE IS THE ALLEY LOOKING WEST ON 32ND STREET.
11:37:41 AND NORTH TO 9th AVENUE.
11:37:50 STAFF HAS NO OBJECTION TO THIS REQUEST.
11:37:52 THERE IS A REQUEST FROM WEIGHT WATER.
11:37:55 >>CHAIRMAN: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
11:37:57 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:38:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE HAVE MANY OF THESE DISCUSSIONS A WHILE
11:38:03 BACK, A DECADE AGO.
11:38:07 I THOUGHT IT WAS THE CITY'S POSITION BACK THEN -- I DON'T
11:38:11 KNOW IF THAT'S CHANGED -- THAT WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL
11:38:16 CHARACTER AND GRID OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN TERMS OF HOW IT
11:38:20 WAS ORIGINALLY LAID OUT AND PLATTED.
11:38:28 IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO THE OVERALL AERIAL.
11:38:31 >>BARBARA LYNCH: I HAVE A MAP OF NORTH.
11:38:40 [OFF MICROPHONE] IN THIS GENERAL AREA, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE
11:38:44 ALLEYS ARE STILL OPEN.
11:38:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I THINK MY POINT IS -- AND I
11:38:48 RECOGNIZE THE SCENARIO IS UNDERGOING REDEVELOPMENT,
11:38:51 PROBABLY, IF IT HASN'T YET, IT WILL SOON.
11:38:58 AND THEN HAVING A REAR LOADED, ESPECIALLY IN KIND OF A
11:39:01 HISTORIC -- YOU CAN LEAVE IT UP -- IN AN HISTORIC SEMI
11:39:07 HISTORIC, VERY HISTORIC AREA, HAVING REAR-LOADED ALLEYS AND
11:39:13 THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REAR LOADING.
11:39:15 THEN YOU GET THAT NICE FRONT PORCH LOOK WITHOUT A BIG
11:39:19 GARAGE, YOU CAN PUT YOUR GARAGE IN THE REAR, YOU KNOW, THAT
11:39:23 SORT OF THING.
11:39:24 AND SO HERE YOU HAVE GOT THE PROPERTY OWNER WHOSE PETITION
11:39:31 OWNS TWO OUT OF THE 14 LOTS ON THE BLOCK.
11:39:35 NOW, IF YOU ASK EACH ONE OF THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS
11:39:38 INDIVIDUALLY, THEY GO, OH, YEAH, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AN
11:39:41 ADDITIONAL 15 FEET ON MY REAR PROPERTY.
11:39:43 I UNDERSTAND THAT.
11:39:44 AND THAT'S PROBABLY WHY NOBODY OBJECTED.
11:39:46 BUT IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM THE CITY'S PERSPECTIVE, I THINK
11:39:53 THERE'S A LOT OF ADVANTAGES -- AND YOU ARE THE EXPERT ON
11:39:56 ALLEYS, YOU HAVE DECADES OF ALLEY EXPERIENCE.
11:40:00 >> YES.
11:40:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF LANGUAGES
11:40:04 ADVANTAGES TO KEEPING ALLEYS, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT EXAMPLES
11:40:07 IN OTHER HISTORIC DISTRICTS IN HYDE PARK AND YBOR.
11:40:11 THIS IS YBOR, JUST A LITTLE PAST YBOR.
11:40:18 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGES TO HAVING AND
11:40:22 KEEPING THOSE ALLEYS, AS COMPARED TO ITS ALL ABOUT PROS AND
11:40:27 CONS, AND AS COMPARED TO THE -- NOW, IF WE GO BACK AND LOOK
11:40:32 AT THOSE PICTURES, YES.
11:40:34 IT'S NEVER BEEN DEVELOPED.
11:40:35 IT'S NOT PAVED.
11:40:36 IT'S A BIT OVERGROWN.
11:40:38 MAYBE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SHOW US SOME PICTURES OF TRASH,
11:40:41 BLAH-BLAH-BLAH.
11:40:42 BUT LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE, I DON'T KNOW.
11:40:44 I'M NOT SEEING IT.
11:40:45 >>BARBARA LYNCH: WOMEN, THESE GO TO REVIEW AND THEY GO TO
11:40:51 NOW OUR URBAN DESIGN TEAM THAT LOOKED AT IT AND THEY OKAYED
11:40:54 THIS SO THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WOULD LOOK AT WHETHER THEY
11:40:56 WANT TO KEEP THAT REAR LOADING ALLEY SITUATION.
11:40:59 AND THE ONLY OTHER THING I CAN SAY ON THIS SITUATION, I
11:41:01 THINK THE LOTS GO BY STANDARD AND THEY DON'T NEED THE
11:41:08 100-FOOT DEPTH.
11:41:10 MANY TIMES WE GET PEOPLE COMING IN TO MAKE THE LOT
11:41:13 BUILDABLE.
11:41:14 THEY DON'T MEAT THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS NOW.
11:41:17 THEY CAN MEET REZONING TOO AS WELL.
11:41:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HOW BIG ARE THOSE LOTS IN?
11:41:23 >> I CAN'T READ IT BECAUSE IT REALLY, REALLY SMALL BUT I
11:41:27 THINK 95.
11:41:29 95.
11:41:30 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: 95 CAN BE WAIVED ADMINISTRATIVELY, I
11:41:32 THINK.
11:41:33 >> NO, THEY CAN'T.
11:41:34 THEY USED TO HAVE AN 80% RULE.
11:41:38 I THINK YOU NEED A REZONING NOW.
11:41:43 >> FOR THE APPLICANT, WE DID TRY -- WE THINK THIS WOULD BE
11:41:57 THE PROPER ZONING TO DEAL WITH. THIS BUT HISTORICALLY, THE
11:42:01 BUILDABLE SIZE WAS THE 95 BY 50 OF N THIS DISTRICT.
11:42:07 IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THEY CHANGED IT TO 100 BUT WE GOT CUT
11:42:10 OFF.
11:42:10 SO WE ARE JUST TRYING TO ADOPT THAT EXTRA SPACE.
11:42:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BUT YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT THROUGH A PD?
11:42:19 >>BARBARA LYNCH: POSSIBLY.
11:42:20 >> THIS IS WHAT THE CITY RECOMMENDED.
11:42:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I UNDERSTAND.
11:42:26 >> LAND DEVELOPMENT.
11:42:39 THEY COULD REZONE THE PROPERTY TO PD TO ALLOW IT TO BE
11:42:42 BUILDABLE AT THE 95 FEET THAT'S CURRENTLY THERE.
11:42:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND IN THIS CASE IT'S TWO LOTS SO IT
11:42:50 COULD BE A LITTLE MORE COST EFFECTIVE BECAUSE YOU ARE
11:42:53 DEALING WITH TWO LOTS INSTEAD OF JUST A SINGLE LOT.
11:42:55 >> CORRECT.
11:42:58 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:43:10 >>JULIE HARDY: LEGAL DEPARTMENT. I JUST WANT TO REMIND
11:43:16 COUNCIL, SINCE THIS PETITION IS TO VACATE THIS ALLEY, SOME
11:43:20 OF THE CRITERIA THAT COUNCIL NORMALLY --
11:43:34 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHERE IS THAT?
11:43:35 >> I HAVE A MEMO FROM THE FORMER CITY ATTORNEY.
11:43:46 I CAN PASS THAT OUT IF YOU LIKE.
11:44:13 THE FIRST PAGE EXPLAINS HOW WHETHER THE VACATING ON THE
11:44:19 RIGHT-OF-WAY IS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
11:44:21 AND THAT'S THE DETERMINATION COUNCIL WOULD BE MAKING TO
11:44:26 DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT -- AND ON PAGE 2, THERE ARE SOME
11:44:35 CRITERIA.
11:44:45 BASED ON THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED, COUNCIL WILL DETERMINE IF
11:44:50 THAN IT'S IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, IN THE GENERAL WELFARE OF
11:44:55 THE PUBLIC TO VACATE, OR ALLEVIATE MAINTENANCE TO THE
11:45:02 RIGHT-OF-WAY, OR ALLEVIATE PUBLIC NUISANCE, AND WILL FOSTER
11:45:09 THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE ABUTTING PROPERTY.
11:45:30 I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
11:45:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER?
11:45:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: [OFF MICROPHONE] THE URBAN -- WHAT DO
11:45:40 THEY CALL IT, THE REVIEW STAFF?
11:45:43 >> UH-HUH.
11:45:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HAVE LOOKED AT THIS?
11:45:46 I THINK THERE ARE SOME PROS AND CONS.
11:45:48 WHEN I LOOK AT THESE QUESTIONS 1 THROUGH 4, RELIEVE THE
11:45:53 PUBLIC FROM COST OF MAINTAINING THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:45:56 WELL, NO, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT MAINTAINING IT.
11:45:58 WILL IT ALLEVIATE PUBLIC NUISANCE SUCH AS DUMPING OR
11:46:02 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY?
11:46:04 THERE'S BEEN NO EVIDENCE OF EITHER.
11:46:05 WILL IT FOSTER REDEVELOPMENT?
11:46:07 YES, HE INDICATES IT WILL HELP HIM REDEVELOP THE PROPERTY.
11:46:11 WILL ABUTTING ACCESS BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF?
11:46:16 NO.
11:46:16 SERVE THE PUBLIC INTEREST?
11:46:17 THAT'S PROBABLY A BIG QUESTION THAT WE ALL HAVE TO WRESTLE
11:46:20 WITH OURSELVES.
11:46:21 THEN THE LAST ONE, ITEM 4 IS NOT REALLY APPLICABLE.
11:46:24 IT'S NOT A CUL-DE-SAC SITUATION.
11:46:28 BUT I THINK TO ME WHAT IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO -- AND I
11:46:31 WOULD LOVE TO SEE US DEFER THIS FOR TWO WEEKS, AND HAVE THE
11:46:34 URBAN FOLKS LOOK AT IT AND COME BACK IN PERSON AND TALK TO
11:46:38 US ABOUT IT, NOT SPECIFICALLY AS RELATED TO THIS BIG BLOCK,
11:46:43 BUT IN THE BIG PICTURE BECAUSE OF THE PRECEDENCE THAT IT
11:46:47 ESTABLISHES.
11:46:48 AND I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THESE VACATINGS, SOMETIMES WE
11:46:52 KIND OF DID THEM BECAUSE NOBODY SHOWED UP, BUT THIS IS
11:46:55 PUBLIC LAND.
11:46:56 THIS IS PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:47:00 AND I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL, BECAUSE ONCE WE HAVE
11:47:04 GIVEN IT UP, IT GONE FOREVER.
11:47:06 >> VERY TRUE.
11:47:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO WHENEVER, MR. CHAIRMAN, WOULD LIKE TO
11:47:15 ENTERTAIN A MOTION, I WOULD SEEK TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS,
11:47:18 WHENEVER IT'S APPROPRIATE.
11:47:18 >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:47:23 IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE REPORTS ON THIS, COULD WE ALSO HAVE
11:47:25 ANY REPORTS FROM CODE ENFORCEMENT AS TO ANY KIND OF ILLEGAL
11:47:29 DUMPING OVER, SAY, THE LAST YEAR OR SO, AND OR TPD REPORTS
11:47:32 ON ANY TYPE OF CRIME THAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE ALLEY?
11:47:36 THANK YOU.
11:47:36 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:47:42 >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WOULD PREFER THAT YOU HAVE THE
11:47:43 OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT.
11:47:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OH, YES, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR IT.
11:47:49 >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND SPEAK TO THE CONTINUANCE.
11:47:53 >> I MEAN, WE OBVIOUSLY PREFER TO HAVE THIS RULED IN OUR
11:47:56 FAVOR TODAY.
11:47:59 TO THE ILLEGAL DUMPING AND NUISANCE, I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT
11:48:04 OF ILLEGAL DUMPING AS YOU FIND, A LOT OF HOMELESS TRAFFIC,
11:48:11 THE PEOPLE THAT DO HAVE HOMES ALREADY PUT UP FENCES TO
11:48:15 MITIGATE THOSE FACTORS.
11:48:28 AS WE BEGIN TO DEVELOP THIS AREA, IT'S PRETTY BLIGHTED.
11:48:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:48:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IS TWO WEEKS APPROPRIATE?
11:48:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DO YOU HAVE IT?
11:48:44 >>MARTIN SHELBY: [OFF MICROPHONE] TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK.
11:48:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: INCLUDING WHAT MR. CITRO ASKED?
11:48:57 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES.
11:48:57 YOU UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE CONTINUANCE.
11:49:01 DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO THAT?
11:49:02 >> WHEN YOU SAY FROM STAFF, THESE PEOPLE PRODUCED THE
11:49:06 REPORT.
11:49:06 THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO PUT TOGETHER THIS REPORT.
11:49:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WELL, I'M ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL STAFF TO
11:49:13 COME AND TALK TO US ABOUT IT.
11:49:14 >> OKAY.
11:49:17 >> I WANT TO REMIND COUNCIL THAT THIS PROPERTY IS NOT CITY
11:49:22 OWNED.
11:49:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I UNDERSTAND.
11:49:28 LEGAL SEMANTICS BUT BOTTOM LINE IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S USABLE BY
11:49:34 THE PUBLIC AS A PUBLIC EASEMENT.
11:49:39 IS THAT BETTER STATED BE?
11:49:41 >> I COULD SPEAK?
11:49:42 MY NAME IS ANNE ALLISON, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PROPERTIES
11:49:45 THAT OWN THESE PROPERTIES.
11:49:46 AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND THE CITY THAT YOUR HONORS
11:49:51 THAT AN EASEMENT OR RIGHT-OF-WAY DOES NOT MAKE THE CITY AN
11:49:56 OWNER.
11:49:57 WHAT YOU HAVE IS YOU HAVE THE SUBSERVIENT ESTATE, THE
11:50:03 SUBSERVIENT ESTATE WHICH IS THE PROPERTY OWNER, AND THEN THE
11:50:07 CITY HAS A RIGHT-OF-WAY TO USE IT FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE,
11:50:13 AND THEY ARE THE DOMINANT ESTATE.
11:50:16 SO TECHNICALLY MY CLIENT OWNS THE PROPERTY.
11:50:18 THE PROBLEM IS WHEN THE CITY CHANGED THE SIZE REQUIREMENTS,
11:50:23 IT ELIMINATED HIS ABILITY TO BUILD.
11:50:27 SO THEY ARE NOT BUILDABLE.
11:50:28 SO TO SOME EXTENT IT'S A BURT HARRIS TYPE ACT OR TAKING OF
11:50:34 SOME SORT, BUT THEY JUST WANT TO USE THESE ALLEYS FOR
11:50:39 SETBACK, AND THEY REALIZE THERE'S STILL, I GUESS, SEWER
11:50:44 UNDERNEATH THE PROPERTY, AND THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE ACCESSED.
11:50:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: RIGHT.
11:50:49 AND I SUGGESTED AN ALTERNATIVE, BECAUSE BURT HARRIS DOES
11:50:52 SPEAK TO REASONABLE ALTERNATIVES, AND REASONABLE
11:50:55 ALTERNATIVES COULD BE A PD, A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, AND IF WE
11:50:59 HAVE THE POWER, I WOULD BE IN SUPPORT OF WAIVING THAT FEE
11:51:05 BECAUSE I DO KNOW THERE'S A FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PD.
11:51:07 SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THAT AUTHORITY.
11:51:09 BUT IF WE DID, UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES IT WOULD BE PRO
11:51:13 COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE TO WAIVE THAT FEE.
11:51:15 BUT ANYWAY, ALL I AM SAYING IS WE'LL GET MORE INFORMATION
11:51:19 TWO WEEKS FROM NOW IF THAT DATE IS APPROPRIATE,
11:51:21 MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:51:22 AND THAT WILL BE MY MOTION.
11:51:24 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THANK YOU.
11:51:25 AND I CAME IN THE MIDDLE.
11:51:26 I GOT A CALL FROM PRIVATE SECTOR WORK AND I APOLOGIZE.
11:51:29 ANY DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL ON THE CONTINUANCE?
11:51:33 >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THAT WITHOUT OBJECTION?
11:51:36 OR DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A VOTE UP OR DOWN TODAY?
11:51:39 >> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A VOTE IF POSSIBLE.
11:51:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY QUESTION TO COUNCIL.
11:51:51 THE PETITIONER HAS A RIGHT TO SAY NO, OR I WANT TO HAVE A
11:51:54 VOTE ON THIS TODAY.
11:51:55 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S BINDING.
11:52:01 IF THEY WISH TO PROCEED IN SPATE OF IF WE SHOULD HAVE A
11:52:05 PREFERENCE OF CONTINUANCE, THAT'S BINDING ON US, IS THAT
11:52:08 CORRECT?
11:52:08 >>MARTIN SHELBY: WELL, IF THE PERSON OBJECTS, THEN MY
11:52:11 SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO MOVE FORWARD.
11:52:13 YOU DO UNDERSTAND WHAT COUNCIL IS REQUESTING?
11:52:15 THE CITY COUNCIL?
11:52:17 REQUESTING A TWO WEEK CONTINUANCE TO TAKE ADDITIONAL
11:52:19 TESTIMONY FROM STAFF BEFORE MAKING A DECISION.
11:52:22 WHETHER YOU WISH TO AGREE TO THAT OR NOT IS YOUR DECISION.
11:52:25 YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK A VOTE TODAY.
11:52:27 BUT WHATEVER VOTE YOU DO HAVE TODAY WOULD BE BINDING.
11:52:30 >> WELL, WE HAVE HE WE BELIEVE WE HAVE MET ALL THE CRITERIA
11:52:35 BE THAT IS REQUIRED TO DEVELOP A NOTICE.
11:52:38 WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY RESPONSE FROM ANYONE.
11:52:41 THE CITY ITSELF DOES NOT OBJECT.
11:52:43 AND WE ARE WILLING TWO TO CONDITIONS OF THE TREES, AND THE
11:52:49 WASTEWATER CRITERIA THAT THE CITY IN ITS REPORT SUGGESTED OR
11:52:58 REQUIRED.
11:52:59 SO BASED ON PROCEDURALLY WHERE WE HAVE GIVEN EVERYONE
11:53:04 NOTICE, AND SUBSTANTIVELY WHERE NOBODY HAS OBJECTED, AND IF
11:53:12 YOUR HONORS VOTE ON THE EVIDENCE AT HAND, WE WOULD, I
11:53:19 SUPPOSE, TAKE THE VOTE.
11:53:21 YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, THE FACT THAT WE
11:53:24 HAVE MET ALL THE NOTICE CRITERIA, AND THE FACT THAT THERE'S
11:53:28 BEEN NO OBJECTIONS INCLUDING BY THE CITY.
11:53:30 >>MARTIN SHELBY: I ALSO NOTE FOR THE RECORD THIS IS ON
11:53:34 FIRST READING CONSIDERATION SO IF COUNCIL DOES MOVE FORWARD
11:53:37 ON THIS, THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ADDITIONAL
11:53:39 TESTIMONY AT SECOND READING.
11:53:42 BUT THEN AGAIN, IF COUNCIL DOES DENY THIS, THEN THERE IS NO
11:53:46 OPPORTUNITY FOR RECONSIDERATION.
11:53:47 >> SO WE WANT OUR CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO.
11:53:52 [ LAUGHTER ]
11:53:54 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT, MR. SHELBY, IS AT
11:53:56 SECOND READING WE CAN HAVE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY, I WOULD
11:53:59 THINK.
11:53:59 >>MARTIN SHELBY: ESPECIALLY IF STAFF IS ON NOTICE THAT HE
11:54:03 WISHES A PARTICULAR SUBJECT MATTER BE BROUGHT UP.
11:54:11 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
11:54:13 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER IS RECOGNIZED.
11:54:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ONE QUESTION, ONE COMMENT.
11:54:18 CITY ATTORNEY, I THE CITY ATTORNEY IS HERE, AND DO YOU
11:54:25 CONCUR WITH MR. SHELBY THAT IF THE PETITIONER, QUOTE,
11:54:29 DEMANDS A VOTE -- AND THIS IS A BIG PICTURE QUESTION, NOT
11:54:32 JUST RELATED TO THIS ITEM, BUT IF THEY DEMAND A VOTE IN THIS
11:54:37 QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE ARE IN, THAT
11:54:42 THEY GET A VOTE REGARDLESS OF COUNCIL'S DESIRES.
11:54:47 AND I'M NOT SAYING I SPEAK FOR THIS COUNCIL, BUT I AM
11:54:50 LOOKING AT A BIG PICTURE QUESTION ON THAT.
11:54:52 >>SAL TERRITO: CITY ATTORNEY.
11:54:54 I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE FLOOR BASICALLY IS YOU ARE
11:54:56 TRYING TO GET A CONTINUANCE, AND THERE WAS NO VOTE TAKEN ON
11:54:59 THE CONTINUANCE.
11:55:00 MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE SEE IF YOU CAN GET A SECOND AND A
11:55:02 VOTE ON THE CONTINUANCE.
11:55:03 A FINANCED NOT YOU ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD ON YOUR FIRST
11:55:06 READING.
11:55:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S NOT MY QUESTION.
11:55:07 IT'S A BIG PICTURE QUESTION FOR FUTURE PROCEDURAL
11:55:10 SITUATIONS.
11:55:11 MR. SHELBY SORT OF OPENED THE DOOR AND SAID IF THEY WANT A
11:55:14 VOTE, THEY CAN PUSH US TO -- OR THEY CAN DEMAND A VOTE
11:55:18 TODAY.
11:55:19 I AM NOT SURE I AGREE WITH THAT, BUT YOU ARE THE CITY
11:55:22 ATTORNEY AND I'M NOT.
11:55:23 >>SAL TERRITO: I THINK IT IS WITHIN YOUR OPTION TO MOVE
11:55:28 THIS THING OR NOT MOVE IT.
11:55:30 IT IS NOT UP TO THEM.
11:55:31 IT IS UP TO YOU.
11:55:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
11:55:33 AND I'M SORRY, MR. SHELBY.
11:55:35 I GUESS WE CAN ALL DIFFER ON THAT.
11:55:39 BUT WITH THAT SAID, I LIKE WHAT MR. CHAIRMAN SAID, I LIKE
11:55:43 WHAT MR. SHELBY SAID, TO MOVE IT FORWARD ON FIRST READING
11:55:46 TODAY, BECAUSE WE CAN HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AT SECOND
11:55:50 READING.
11:55:52 I AM NOT SAYING I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THAT BUT I'M OKAY.
11:55:54 I WITHDRAW MY MOTION TO CONTINUE.
11:55:56 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:55:57 ANYTHING FURTHER FROM THE APPLICANT IN THE TIME YOU HAVE
11:55:59 ALLOTTED?
11:56:00 >> NO.
11:56:01 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:56:03 ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL BEFORE THE PUBLIC
11:56:05 COMMENT?
11:56:06 OKAY.
11:56:07 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 53?
11:56:11 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
11:56:13 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN SIT ROW. SECOND
11:56:15 BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:56:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:56:17 ANY OPPOSED?
11:56:18 >> NO.
11:56:19 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM
11:56:21 NUMBER 53, SIR.
11:56:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM 53.
11:56:27 >>LUIS VIERA: AND I APOLOGIZE.
11:56:29 OKAY.
11:56:29 I WAS GOING TO SAY, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE?
11:56:32 I WAS GOING TO SAY, OKAY.
11:56:34 I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN.
11:56:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM NUMBER 53.
11:56:38 FILE VAC 19-14.
11:56:41 MOVE AN ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING CONSIDERATION,
11:56:43 AN ORDINANCE THAN VACATING CLOSING DISCONTINUING ABANDONING
11:56:48 A RIGHT-OF-WAY ALLEYWAY LYING NORTH OF EAST 9th AVENUE
11:56:52 SOUTH OF EAST 10th AVENUE AND EAST OF NORTH 32ND STREET
11:56:57 AND WEST OF NORTH 33rd STREET IN POWELL'S ADDITION TO
11:57:01 EAST YBOR, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH
11:57:03 COUNTY FLORIDA THE SAME BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN
11:57:07 SECTION 1 HEREOF SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EASEMENT RESERVATIONS,
11:57:10 COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS MORE PARTICULARLY SET
11:57:13 FORTH HEREIN PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:57:15 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:57:17 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:57:18 ANY OPPOSED?
11:57:18 >> MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER AND CARLSON -- VOTING NO
11:57:24 [RUSTLING PAPERS] SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD
11:57:27 ON JUNE 6th, 2019 AT 9:30 A.M.
11:57:30 >> [OFF MICROPHONE] SECOND READING, WE REQUEST THAT STAFF
11:57:36 FROM THE URBAN DESIGN FOLKS BE PRESENT AND REVIEW THIS
11:57:42 PETITION CAREFULLY AS WELL AS PERHAPS WRITTEN REPORTS FROM
11:57:47 TPD AND CODE ENFORCEMENT THAT MR. CITRO ASKED FOR.
11:57:51 >>LUIS VIERA: AND WILL THAT BE IN THE FORM OF A MOTION?
11:57:56 >> I WILL DO IT IN THE FORM OF A MOTION.
11:57:57 >>LUIS VIERA: WHY NOT?
11:57:58 AND WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:58:01 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
11:58:03 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:58:04 ANY OPPOSED?
11:58:09 >> CHARLIE MIRANDA: A MOTION FOR 30 MORE MINUTES FOR THE
11:58:10 MEETING.
11:58:11 I DON'T THINK WE ARE GOING TO NEED IT.
11:58:14 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA FOR 30 MORE
11:58:16 MINUTES.
11:58:17 FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE, EVERYBODY OKAY GOING SOME MORE
11:58:20 TIME?
11:58:21 OKAY.
11:58:21 JUST MAKING SURE.
11:58:23 WE MOVE TO ITEM 54.
11:58:25 >>BARBARA LYNCH: LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:58:29 THIS REQUEST IS A CITY INITIATED VACATING, AND IT'S IN WEST
11:58:33 TAMPA, AND IT'S FOR A PORTION OF GRACE STREET THAT IT'S
11:58:41 SOUTH OF NASSAU, NORTH OF CYPRESS, EAST OF CLARK AND WEST OF
11:58:45 I-275.
11:58:46 IT DEAD-END AT THE INTERSTATE.
11:58:49 AND FDOT IS ACTUALLY THE ABUTTING OWNER IN RED ON THIS MAP.
11:58:53 AND GRACE STREET IS IN YELLOW.
11:58:55 AND THIS IS A REQUEST BY THE CITY ON BEHALF OF FDOT.
11:59:00 THEY ARE ASKING TO BE VACATED BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE
11:59:03 CONSTRUCTING A PARKING LOT HERE AND THE PURPOSE OF THE
11:59:07 PARKING LOT IS TO HAVE ALLOWED PARKING FOR PEOPLE TO USE
11:59:10 CYPRESS POINT PARK, AND EVENTUALLY CONNECT TO COURTNEY
11:59:15 CAMPBELL TRAIL, AND SKYWAY PARK.
11:59:24 THIS IS A PICTURE OF GRACE STREET LAG EAST.
11:59:28 PROPERTY ON THE OTHER SIDE IS A DEAD-END ROAD.
11:59:30 THIS IS LOOKING WEST TOWARD THE DEAD-END.
11:59:33 IT'S ALL BEEN CLEARED.
11:59:34 SO THIS IS THE PROPERTY ON THE NORTH AND THE PROPERTY ON THE
11:59:36 SOUTH.
11:59:37 AND HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE PLANNED PARKING LOCALITY.
11:59:42 AND THEN THEY WILL TURN THAT OVER TO THE CITY.
11:59:46 AND THE CITY IS THE APPLICANT.
11:59:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
11:59:50 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
11:59:53 OKAY.
11:59:53 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:59:55 IS THE APPLICANT HERE?
11:59:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CITY OF TAMPA.
12:00:00 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:00:01 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 54?
12:00:04 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
12:00:07 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
12:00:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SORRY, MR. SHELBY AND I WERE CONFERRING
12:00:10 ABOUT A LEGAL ISSUE.
12:00:12 BUTT WHEN I LOOKED AT THIS, YOU KNOW, IT'S OBVIOUSLY HAS NO
12:00:16 PURPOSE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, BUT WHY IS THE CITY DOING
12:00:20 THIS?
12:00:21 >> THE CITY ON BEHALF OF FDOT.
12:00:24 THE FDOT IS WORKING WITH THE CITY TO BUILD A PARKING LOT.
12:00:28 THEY OBTAINED THE PROPERTY.
12:00:30 THEY WILL BE VACATING THE STREET.
12:00:31 THEN THEY ARE GOING TO MOVE OUT ALL THE UTILITIES, CONSTRUCT
12:00:33 THE PARKING LOT AND THEN TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY.
12:00:36 THAT'S GOING TO BE USED BY PEOPLE THAT GOING TO BE USING
12:00:38 CYPRESS POINT PARK AND EVENTUALLY THE SKYWAY TRAIL.
12:00:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: VERY SCHOOL, VERY COOL.
12:00:43 THANK YOU.
12:00:43 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
12:00:45 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
12:00:48 54?
12:00:49 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:00:51 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:00:53 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:00:55 ANY OPPOSED?
12:00:56 COUNCILMAN CARLSON, IF YOU COULD TAKE ITEM 54.
12:01:01 >>BILL CARLSON: [OFF MICROPHONE] AS BEING PRESENTED FOR
12:01:03 FIRST READING CONSIDERATION, ORDINANCE VACATING CLOSING
12:01:05 DISCONTINUING ABANDONING A PORTION RIGHT-OF-WAY KNOWN AS
12:01:09 GRACE STREET, LYING NORTH OF CYPRESS STREET, EAST OF CLARK
12:01:12 AVENUE, WEST OF I-275 AND NORTH OF NASSAU STREET IN
12:01:17 BELVEDERE PARK, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
12:01:20 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA, THE SAME BEING MORE FULLY
12:01:22 DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 HEREOF, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EASEMENT
12:01:26 RESERVATIONS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS MORE
12:01:30 PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
12:01:32 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON, SECOND
12:01:35 BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:01:36 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:01:37 ANY OPPOSED?
12:01:37 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE] SECOND READING AND ADOPTION
12:01:41 WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 6, 2019 AT 9:30 A.M.
12:01:46 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:01:47 WE MOVE ON TO ITEM 55.
12:01:49 BEFORE WE BEGIN, COUNCILMAN CITRO WANTS TO MAKE A STATEMENT.
12:01:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HAVING SPOKEN WITH OUR COUNSEL AND HAVING
12:01:55 BEEN ON THE VRB BOARD, I HAVE TO RECUSE MYSELF FROM THIS
12:01:59 AGENDA ITEM.
12:02:00 >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND I'LL PREPARE THE PAPERWORK FOR YOU AND
12:02:09 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FILE IT WITH COUNCIL NEXT WEEK.
12:02:14 COUNCIL MEMBER DINGFELDER, YOU WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THIS
12:02:14 PARTICULAR ITEM? IS THAT CORRECT? I BELIEVE THAT'S BEEN
12:02:14 VERIFIED.
12:02:15 >>KRISTIN MORA: LEGAL DEPARTMENT. THAT'S CORRECT, HE WAS
12:02:17 NOT INVOLVED IN THIS ITEM.
12:02:20 >> JOHN DINGFELDER: RIGHT. EVEN THOUGH I SERVED ON THE VRB
12:02:23 AT THE TIME, I WAS NOT HERE AT THAT PARTICULAR EVENING.
12:02:26 I WAS NOT SELECTED AS THE ALTERNATE ON THAT PARTICULAR
12:02:28 EVENING.
12:02:29 >>KRISTIN MORA: YES, THAT IS CORRECT.
12:02:35 COUNCIL, I AM NOT AWARE THAT THE APPLICANT IS HERE.
12:02:38 I DO NOT SEE HER IN THE AUDIENCE.
12:02:40 AND I HAVE NOT SEEN HER IN THE AUDIENCE HAVING CHECKED THREE
12:02:45 TIMES.
12:02:46 SO UNLESS SOMEONE COMES RUNNING IN, I WOULD SAY TO COUNCIL
12:02:52 IF THE APPLICANT IS NOT HERE, IT IS YOUR PLEASURE HOW YOU
12:02:54 WISH TO PROCEED.
12:02:55 BUT TYPICALLY IN THESE SITUATIONS WOULD YOU GRANT A
12:02:57 CONTINUANCE TO SEE IF THEY APPEAR AT THE NEXT HEARING.
12:03:00 >> AND I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM COUNCIL.
12:03:05 ANY COMMENTS?
12:03:06 >> I PREFER THAT THE APPLICANT BE HERE SO WE CONTINUE IT AND
12:03:10 THERE'S NO LEGAL ISSUE AND WHATNOT.
12:03:16 MAKE A MOTION FOR --
12:03:21 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.
12:03:24 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM
12:03:25 TO OUR NEXT REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING, JUNE 6th.
12:03:30 >> WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:03:34 >> 10:30.
12:03:39 >>LUIS VIERA: WITH A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:03:41 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:03:42 ANY OPPOSED?
12:03:43 THANK YOU.
12:03:43 >>KRISTIN MORA: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
12:03:46 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM 56 AND I DO BELIEVE
12:03:48 THERE'S A MOTION TO RESCHEDULE.
12:03:50 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO RESCHEDULE TO AUGUST 1st,
12:03:55 2019 AT 10:30 A.M.
12:03:58 >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:03:59 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:04:00 ANY OPPOSED?
12:04:01 OKAY.
12:04:03 WE HAVE ALREADY DEALT WITH THE ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
12:04:06 NOW WE MOVE ONWARD TO ITEM NUMBER 57.
12:04:10 MS. LITTLE.
12:04:16 >>SONYA LITTLE: REVENUE AND FINANCE.
12:04:23 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BEFORE YOU TO PRESENT
12:04:27 THE FY 2019 MIDYEAR REVIEW.
12:04:31 I ALSO WANT TO THANK EACH ONE OF YOU FOR ALLOWING THE US
12:04:35 TIME ON YOUR CALENDAR TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INDIVIDUAL
12:04:38 BRIEFING.
12:04:39 AND WITH THAT, IF YOU DON'T MANED, I WOULD LIKE TO JUMP
12:04:42 RIGHT INTO THE PRESENTATION.
12:04:44 AND WE HAVE SLIDES, IF YOU WILL ALLOW THAT I CAN WALK YOU
12:04:49 THROUGH.
12:05:02 THE MIDYEAR REVIEW WILL CONTAIN AN ECONOMIC UPDATE.
12:05:08 IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE YOU AND WALK YOU THROUGH OUR FORECAST
12:05:12 FOR THE FY 19 MAJOR REVENUES AND MAJOR EXPENDITURES, AND
12:05:16 ALSO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EACH
12:05:20 OF OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
12:05:25 STARTING OUT, AS I MENTIONED TO EACH ONE OF YOU IN OUR
12:05:29 INDIVIDUAL BRIEFINGS, THE WAY THAT WE PROVIDE OUR FORECAST
12:05:35 FOR HOW WE ARE GOING TO END, HOW WE ARE PROJECTING THAT WE
12:05:38 WILL END OUR FY 2019 BUDGET YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30th
12:05:45 IS WE START OUT OBVIOUSLY WITH THE ADOPTED BUDGET FOR 2019,
12:05:49 BUT KEEPING IN MIND THAT THE DATE OF THAT WAS -- DATA IS NOW
12:05:57 USUALLY A YEAR AND A HALF OLD SO THIS MIDYEAR REVIEW IS
12:06:01 PRETTY CRITICAL TO GIVE COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC AN INDICATION
12:06:03 OF HOW THE CITY IS PERFORMING WITH THE OVERALL CITY BUDGET.
12:06:06 TO DO THAT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT ECONOMIC DATA THAT WE RECEIVE
12:06:11 FROM ECONOMISTS FROM A GLOBAL LEVEL, A NATIONAL LEVEL, STATE
12:06:16 LEVEL, AND ALSO THE REGIONAL LEVEL, SPECIFIC TO THE TAMPA
12:06:19 BAY METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA OR THE TAMPA BAY MSA.
12:06:26 SO STARTING OUT, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT A COUPLE OF THE KEY
12:06:30 ECONOMIC INDICATORS THAT WE FOCUS ON, AND THEN WE'LL TIE IT
12:06:35 ON YOU WILL INTO WHAT THAT MEANS TO US AS WE PROVIDE OUR
12:06:39 ECONOMIC FORECAST.
12:06:43 SO STARTING OUT WITH THE MOST POPULAR THAT WE ALWAYS HEAR
12:06:47 ABOUT IN THE NEWS, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT WHICH MEASURES THE
12:06:51 COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND PROVIDES THE VALUE OF GOODS
12:06:54 AND SERVICES PRODUCED IN THE U.S.
12:06:57 SO IT BASICALLY GIVES US AN INDICATION OF HOW FAST THE
12:07:02 ECONOMY IS GROWING.
12:07:03 IT IS THAT YOU SEE ARE THE RATE OF CHANGE YEAR OVER YEAR.
12:07:09 SO IN THE CASE OF 2019, THE RED LINE BEING FOR FLORIDA, IT'S
12:07:14 EXPECTED THAT IT WILL BE A 3.3% INCREASE OVER THE PRIOR
12:07:18 YEAR, 2018.
12:07:21 AND BASICALLY, THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR FLORIDA IS THE
12:07:28 SLIGHTLY OUTPACING THE NATIONAL GROWTH.
12:07:30 BUT WE WILL EXPECT TO SEE A DECREASE IN 2020 AND 21.
12:07:35 WHAT YOU SEE HERE, THE YEAR OVER YEAR INCREASE IS LARGELY
12:07:39 DUE TO CONSTRUCTION AND POPULATION GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT
12:07:47 AND EMPLOYEES.
12:07:51 AS IT RELATES TO JOB GROWTH, FLORIDA JOB GROWTH SHOULD
12:07:55 OUTPACE NATIONAL JOB GROWTH DUE TO INCREASES IN
12:07:58 CONSTRUCTION.
12:08:00 AND PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR.
12:08:04 IN PARTICULAR, FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES, CONSTRUCTION AND MINING
12:08:07 AND PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES FOR THE TAMPA BAY MSA ARE
12:08:11 LEADING THE CHARGE AS FAR AS JOB GROWTH IS CONCERNED.
12:08:17 I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE DATA THAT WE ARE
12:08:19 PROVIDING YOU WITH, THE SOURCE IS AS OF MARCH 2019, THE
12:08:25 QUARTERLY RELEASE FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC
12:08:28 COMPETITIVE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA.
12:08:31 WE USE THIS SOURCE FREQUENTLY BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE
12:08:35 INFORMATION NOT JUST GLOBALLY AND NATIONALLY BUT INFORMATION
12:08:40 SPECIFIC TO OUR REGION, THE TAMPA BAY MSA.
12:08:43 SO WE FIND THAT INFORMATION TO BE VERY, VERY HELPFUL AS WE
12:08:46 FORMULATE OUR FORECAST.
12:08:48 THAT COUPLED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA'S ACTUAL PERFORMANCE.
12:08:54 UNEMPLOYMENT, FLORIDA CONTINUES TO OUTPACE THE REST OF THE
12:09:02 NATION IN THE LABOR MARKET.
12:09:04 AND AGAIN CONSTRUCTION IS ONE OF THE DRIVING FACTORS.
12:09:10 AND IN THE COMING YEARS, WE ARE EXPECTED TO SEE THAT SORT OF
12:09:13 LEVEL OFF, PRIMARILY DUE TO PROJECTIONS FOR CONTINUING
12:09:19 INTEREST RATE INCREASES OUT STARTING IN 2020.
12:09:27 NEW HOUSING STARTS REALLY IMPORTANT TO US.
12:09:29 AND THIS WAS AN INTERESTING ONE BECAUSE YOU WILL SEE IN 2018
12:09:34 FOR THE TAMPA BAY MSA, THERE WAS A NEGATIVE DECLINE.
12:09:37 SO WHEN WE DID OUR RESEARCH TO FIND OUT THE CONTRIBUTING
12:09:40 FACTORS THERE, WE FOUND THAT THERE WAS A SLOWDOWN FOR THE
12:09:43 TAMPA BAY MSA LARGELY DUE TO HURRICANE IRMA.
12:09:48 SO THE NEW HOUSING START CONSTRUCTION SHIFTED FROM NEW
12:09:53 CONSTRUCTION TO RECOVERY AND REPAIR DURING THAT YEAR, THE
12:09:58 BACKUP INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVED.
12:09:59 SO WHEN YOU SEE CORRESPONDINGLY THE INCREASES OR THE SPIKE
12:10:03 IN THE SUBSEQUENT YEAR FORECAST, THAT IS A RESULT OF
12:10:07 ADDRESSING THOSE DELAYS IN THE NEW CONSTRUCTION, NEW-START
12:10:13 CONSTRUCTION.
12:10:13 SO THE REBOUND WILL ACCELERATE, AND THEN AGAIN START TO
12:10:17 LEVEL OFF AS FAR AS OUR EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW HOUSING
12:10:21 START.
12:10:28 PERSONAL INCOME INCREASES IN HOUSING PRICES, IMPROVING JOB
12:10:35 MARKET, AND A BOOMING STOCK MARKET, WHICH RECENTLY AS YOU
12:10:41 KNOW THERE HAS BEEN SOME VOLATILITY.
12:10:43 THERE ARE FACTORS THAT ARE OUT OF OUR CONTROL AS WE ALL KNOW
12:10:45 AT THE GLOBAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL.
12:10:47 WE ARE ALL HEARING A LOT OF CHATTER AS IT RELATES TO THE
12:10:53 TARIFF AND THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS TO OUR U.S. ECONOMY.
12:10:59 WE WATCH THAT INFORMATION VERY CLOSELY TO SEE HOW THAT WILL
12:11:03 TRICKLE DOWN AND IMPACT SPECIFIC TO THE CITY OF TAMPA,
12:11:06 BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE CARE ABOUT FOR THESE BUDGETING
12:11:09 PURPOSES.
12:11:10 SO THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC DATA THAT WILL BE
12:11:14 PROVIDED.
12:11:16 THE MONTH OF JUNE IS GOING TO BE BIG FOR US AS FAR AS OUR
12:11:19 FORECASTS ARE CONCERNED.
12:11:20 SO AS I WALK YOU THROUGH OUR FORECAST, JUST KEEP IN MIND
12:11:23 IT'S VERY FLUID, AND THAT WE ARE EXPECTING ADDITIONAL
12:11:27 INFORMATION TO COME OUT REGARDING THE MARKET AFTER ECONOMIC
12:11:31 INDICATORS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL AND MAY.
12:11:37 THE FED IS HAVING A MEETING IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THAT WILL
12:11:41 CAPTURE A LOT OF THE MORE RECENT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND MAY
12:11:45 HAVE SOME IMPACT ON THE FORECAST.
12:11:47 >> A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THIS.
12:11:52 >> I KNOW IT'S STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT BUT WHY DO YOU
12:12:01 THINK THE FLORIDA NUMBERS ARE GREATER THAN THE TAMPA BAY
12:12:03 NUMBERS?
12:12:04 >>SONYA LITTLE: JUST FLORIDA CAPTURING MORE DIVERSITY AT
12:12:13 THE STATE AS OPPOSED TO JUST THE REGION AS FAR AS THE NUMBER
12:12:17 OF INDUSTRIES THAT WILL BE CAPTURED TO INCREASE THAT.
12:12:21 SO IT'S A MORE DIVERSE BUCKET, IF YOU WILL, OF INDUSTRIES
12:12:25 THAT WILL BE CAPTURED UNDER FLORIDA, THEREBY DRIVING UP THAT
12:12:30 PERCENTAGE INCREASE.
12:12:40 POPULATION GROWTH CONTINUES TO BE SLOW TO MODERATE.
12:12:47 AGAIN POINTING OUT THAT THE PERCENTAGE ISSUES YOU SEE THERE
12:12:50 ARE THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE OVER THE PRIOR YEAR SO IT'S A
12:12:53 RATE OF CHANGE.
12:12:55 INDICATION.
12:12:56 AND WE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR MANY, MANY YEARS NOW THAT
12:12:59 POPULATION GROWTH, ESPECIALLY FOR THE TAMPA BAY MSA IS
12:13:03 EXPECTED TO BE SLOW TO MODERATE.
12:13:05 SO EVEN THOUGH IT TENDS TO TAPER OFF A LITTLE BIT
12:13:10 COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING, THERE'S NOT A LARGE DIP, IF YOU
12:13:14 WILL, BUT STILL CONTINUES SLOW TO MODERATE GROWTH.
12:13:26 INFLATION.
12:13:29 IN THE MAY 1st COMMENTARY MADE BY CHAIRMAN POWELL WITH
12:13:33 THE FEDERAL RESERVE AS IT RELATES TO THE SUMMARY OF THE
12:13:38 FED'S OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE, THE FED STILL IS TARGETING A 2%
12:13:44 INFLATION RATE.
12:13:45 AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE CITY OF TAMPA BECAUSE IT ALSO
12:13:48 GIVES US AN INDICATION OF THE COST FOR OUR PURCHASING POWER
12:13:53 FOR EACH DOLLAR THAT THE CITY ANTICIPATES SPENDING, SO THE
12:13:58 FED HAS INDICATED THAT THEY ARE COMMITTED TO THE 2% TARGET
12:14:01 RATE, AND THAT THEY ARE ALSO COMMITTED TO AN OVERARCHING
12:14:07 GOAL TO USE THEIR MONETARY POLICY TO SUSTAIN ECONOMIC
12:14:10 EXPANSION AND A STRONG JOB MARKET WITH STABLE PRICES.
12:14:15 SO IF THE FED IS ABLE TO CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR ECONOMY
12:14:19 GROWING, EVEN AS THE SLOW TO MODERATE PACE IT IS, OBVIOUSLY
12:14:22 THAT'S APPRECIATED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA.
12:14:29 SO TO HOLD THE DATA IN PERSPECTIVE AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE
12:14:35 SPECIFIC BUDGET DISCUSSIONS OR UPDATES AS TO WHERE WE ARE
12:14:38 FOR FY 2019, BECAUSE WE ARE LIMITED IN OUR CONTROL OBVIOUSLY
12:14:45 OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET, THERE'S A LOT OF
12:14:47 CHATTER ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN CHINA AND EUROPE STILL
12:14:54 DEALING WITH BREXIT, THE CHINA TRADE WARS ESPECIALLY ABOUT
12:14:59 THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, OUR POSTURE IS THAT
12:15:03 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THOSE TYPES OF THINGS
12:15:07 THAT WE ARE REALLY, REALLY CLOSELY MONITORING THE CITY OF
12:15:10 TAMPA'S PERFORMANCE.
12:15:11 SO AS I WALK THROUGH WITH YOU AND SHOW YOU HOW WE ARE
12:15:14 ADJUSTING OR MAKING OUR FORECAST FOR THE SEPTEMBER 30th
12:15:17 YEAR-END 2019, FULL, JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT WE HAVE ACTUAL
12:15:25 PERFORMANCE FOR THE CURRENT BUDGET YEAR THROUGH MARCH
12:15:29 31st OF 2019.
12:15:32 SO THAT COUPLED WITH ALL OF THE ECONOMIC DATA, COUPLED WITH
12:15:37 OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AS
12:15:41 FAR AS PLANNED CONSTRUCTION, PERMITS AND SO FORTH, ALL OF
12:15:47 THOSE FACTORS ARE COMBINED TO COME UP WITH OUR CURRENT
12:15:50 FORECAST AS WE STAND TODAY.
12:15:53 SO JUST TO RECAP, WHEN COUNCIL ADOPTED THE BUDGET, JULY --
12:15:59 SEPTEMBER OF 2019, THE BUDGET WAS DEVELOPED WITH SEVERAL
12:16:04 BUDGET OBJECTIVES, AND WE HAVE LISTED THEM HERE, AND THEY
12:16:07 HAVE BEEN THE BUDGET OBJECTIVES OF THE CITY FOR THE LAST
12:16:11 SEVERAL BUDGET CYCLES.
12:16:16 AND BASICALLY IN 2019, THE TOTAL CITY-WIDE BUDGET IS 1
12:16:20 BILLION 28 MILLION DOLLARS.
THE BUDGET YEARS 16 AND 17, THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO START
ADDRESSING A LOT OF THE CITY'S DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. SO
THERE WERE MORE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THOSE
TWO BUDGETS, WHEREAS THE CURRENT BUDGET YEAR, IT WAS MORE
GEARED TOWARD MAINTAINING ALL THIS CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT
WERE COMING ONLINE.
SO THERE WEREN'T A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW CAPITAL PROJECTS IN
THE '19 BUDGET.
MORE FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING WHAT THE CITY HAD TRIED TO
ADDRESS IN THE PRIOR TWO FISCAL YEARS.
THAT BEING SAID, THE PIE CHART IN FRONT OF YOU SHOWS YOU THE
BREAKDOWN BY THE MAJOR CATEGORIES OF WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE
CITY'S BUDGET.
THE LARGE BLUE PART OF THE PIE, 40% OF THE TOTAL CITY-WIDE
BUDGET RELATES TO THE GENERAL FUNDS.
SO WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BALANCING THE BUDGET, THIS
BASICALLY IS WHERE WE ARE GOING TO CONCENTRATE OUR
DISCUSSION.
BECAUSE THE LARGE GREEN PART, OR 40% OF THE CITY'S TOTAL
LINE BUDGET RELATES TO OUR ENTERPRISE FUND, OUR WATER,
WASTEWATER, PARKING, SOLID WASTE, AND OUR GOLF COURSES.
THERE WEREN'T A LOT OF NEW CAPITAL PROJECTS. THE PIE CHART
IN FRONT OF YOU SHOWS THE CATEGORIES OF WHAT'S INCLUDED IN
THE BUDGET. 40% RELATES TO THE GENERAL FUND. THIS IS
BASICALLY WHERE WE ARE GOING TO CONCENTRATE OUR DISCUSSIONS.
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12:17:38 THE CITY CHARGES A FEE TO CUSTOMERS WHO RECEIVE SERVICES IN
12:17:41 OUR ENTERPRISE DEPARTMENT, AND THOSE FEES AND SERVICES ARE
12:17:46 GEARED TOWARD SELF-SUPPORTING EACH ONE OF THOSE RESPECTIVE
12:17:50 DEPARTMENTS.
12:17:51 SO WHEN WE WALK YOU THROUGH NEXT MONTH THE TOTAL BUDGET
12:17:57 WE'LL GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MEANS TO OUR
12:17:59 ENTERPRISE DEPARTMENT.
12:18:00 BUT RIGHT NOW, AS FAR AS OUR FORECAST IS CONCERNED, WE ARE
12:18:05 GOING TO PROVIDE YOU WITH HOW WE CHANGED OUR FIGURES IN SOME
12:18:10 CASES RELATED TO THE LINE ITEM IN THE GENERAL FUND.
12:18:13 SO IF YOU TAKE THAT BLUE PIECE OF THE TOTAL CITY BUDGET,
12:18:20 AND WE GO TO THE GENERAL FUND DISCUSSION, IT'S SUPPORTED BY
12:18:35 PROPERTY TAXES, OUR LARGEST REVENUE FOR US FOR THE GENERAL
12:18:37 FUND, BUT ALSO BUSINESS TAX BE UTILITY SERVICES TAXES AND
12:18:47 VARIOUS CHARGES FOR SERVICES WHICH ALSO INCLUDE CONVENTION
12:18:50 CENTER, PARKS, EMS AND SO FORTH.
12:18:55 IT'S A BUCKET OF REVENUES THAT SUPPORT GENERAL GOVERNMENT
12:18:58 FUNCTION.
12:18:59 AND THOSE GENERAL GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS INCLUDE OBVIOUSLY
12:19:03 PUBLIC SAFETY, WHICH MAKES UP 63% OF OUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET
12:19:09 AT 260 MILLION.
12:19:12 THEN WE HAVE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET PARKS
12:19:15 AND REC, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS THE ADMINISTRATION,
12:19:24 OTHER EXAMPLES INCLUDE CITY COUNCIL, HR, REVENUE AND FINANCE
12:19:29 PURCHASING, MAYOR'S OFFICE.
12:19:30 SO ALL OF THOSE BACK OFFICE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE INCLUDED IN
12:19:36 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WHICH MAKES UP 10% OF THE OVERALL GENERAL
12:19:39 FUND BUDGET.
12:19:43 PUBLIC WORKS WHICH A LARGE MAJORITY OF IT IS FACILITIES AND
12:19:47 CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH
12:19:51 INCLUDES PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, PRIMARILY, AND -- I THINK
12:19:58 I HIT THEM ALL.
12:20:03 SO BECAUSE PUBLIC SAFETY IS SUCH A LARGE COMPONENT OF THE
12:20:06 GENERAL FUND BUDGET MAKING UP 63%, WE TYPICALLY TRY TO PUT
12:20:10 THAT INTO PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE IT'S A LARGE PORTION OF WHAT
12:20:14 WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE BRING FORTH TO YOU THE
12:20:20 OPTIONS FOR BALANCING THE 2020 BUDGET.
12:20:23 SO HERE IN THIS CHART, YOU WILL SEE THAT TO THE RIGHT, THE
12:20:27 PIE CHART, I ALREADY MENTIONED, I BELIEVE, THAT OUR PROPERTY
12:20:30 TAX REVENUES ARE ROUGHLY 204 MILLION-DOLLAR.
12:20:35 OF THOSE TOTAL REVENUES COMING INTO THE CITY 21.8 OF THEM
12:20:39 ARE DESIGNATED FOR USE WITHIN OUR CITY-WIDE CRAS.
12:20:46 SO IN ESSENCE THERE'S A NET PROPERTY TAX REVENUE AMOUNT OF
12:20:52 $178.6 MILLION.
12:20:53 THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR GENERAL FUND
12:20:57 EXPENDITURES.
12:20:59 AND THIS CHART CLEARLY SHOWS THAT PUBLIC SAFETY BEING AT
12:21:03 $248.5 MILLION, THAT OUR PROPERTY TAXES DON'T EVEN COVER OUR
12:21:07 PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS.
12:21:09 SO OUR BUDGET PROCESS, WE ARE VERY -- WE HAVE REALLY DONE A
12:21:16 LOT TO IMPROVE OUR EFFICIENCIES BY IMPROVING OUR MODELING
12:21:21 CAPABILITY.
12:21:23 WE HAVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, AND OUR DEPARTMENTS DO AN
12:21:26 EXCELLENT JOB, INCLUDING OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT, AS
12:21:30 FAR AS MANAGING THEIR EXPENSES.
12:21:33 EACH ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS IS ASSIGNED A BUDGET ANALYST WHO
12:21:37 WORKS WITH THEM ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS WHEN WE PROVIDE
12:21:41 RECORDING AND UPDATES ON HOW THEY ARE PERFORMING.
12:21:45 ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN THE CURRENT BUDGET YEAR.
12:21:47 SO THAT IF WE CAN HEAD SOMETHING OFF EARLY, THAT'S OUR GOAL.
12:21:52 BUT OUR MAJOR GOAL IS TO KEEP OUR DEPARTMENTS INFORMED AND
12:21:56 TO ASSIST THEM IN STAYING ON TRACK OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL
12:22:00 BUDGET.
12:22:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO THE PIE, THAT'S REAL MONEY.
12:22:07 THAT'S ALL REAL MONEY IN THE POCKET.
12:22:08 >>SONYA LITTLE: YES, SIR.
12:22:10 THAT'S REAL MONEY, COUNCILMAN.
12:22:13 EVERY DOLLAR COMING IN AND EVERY DOLLAR GOING OUT FOR THE
12:22:15 CITY OF TAMPA.
12:22:22 SO THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES WE ARE TOUCH ON SOME MAJOR
12:22:25 REVENUES IN THE GENERAL FUND, AS WE MENTIONED PROPERTY TAX
12:22:28 BEING OUR LARGEST SOURCE OF REVENUE.
12:22:31 IT MAKES UP ABOUT 35% OF THE GENERAL FUND REVENUES COMBING
12:22:36 INTO THE CITY.
12:22:40 WHEN WE STARTED THE BUDGET PROCESS IN 2018, WE HAD TO MAKE
12:22:43 CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS AS FAR AS THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUES TO
12:22:46 BE RECEIVED BASED ON INFORMATION WE RECEIVED FROM THE TAX
12:22:51 COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, AND THEN MAKING CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS
12:22:55 ABOUT PROPERTY OWNERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DISCOUNT RATE.
12:22:59 YOU KNOW, IF YOU PAY EARLY ENOUGH YOU GET A 4% DISCOUNT.
12:23:03 SO OUR EARLY PROJECTIONS AT 204 MADE CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS
12:23:12 ABOUT PROPERTY OWNERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DISCOUNT
12:23:14 BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A LARGE REVENUE, WE NEED TO BE
12:23:18 CONSERVATIVE, FEWER PROPERTY OWNERS THAN EXPECTED OF THE
12:23:23 DISCOUNT BE SO WHEN THEY PAY, THEY PAY MORE.
12:23:25 SO THAT MEANT THAT WE COULD INCREASE OUR PROJECTIONS,
12:23:30 PROPERTY TAX REVENUES, JUST OVER $2 MILLION.
12:23:39 THE CITY'S ELECTRIC FRANCHISE FEE, WHICH BACK IN 2012 WAS AT
12:23:44 4.6% OF THE REVENUES CHARGED BY ELECTRIC UTILITY.
12:23:51 IN 2012, THE CITY INCREASED IT TO THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE OF
12:23:56 6%.
12:23:57 AND IT'S BEEN SOMEWHAT STEADY.
12:24:00 SINCE THAT TIME, AND WE FEEL BASED ON THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE
12:24:06 FROM OCTOBER 1 TO MARCH 31st, THAT WE NEED TO JUST SIT
12:24:12 TIGHT AT THE 31.6 PROJECTION.
12:24:15 OF YOU SEE THE GREEN DOT THERE.
12:24:18 THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT OTHER THAN THAT PARTICULAR LINE ITEM.
12:24:23 OUR HALF CENT SALES TAX, ON THE OTHER HAND, BASED ON THE
12:24:29 ACTUAL PERFORMANCE, WE FEEL COMFORTABLE IN INCREASING THAT
12:24:32 BE SLIGHTLY ROUGHLY $500,000.
12:24:36 AGAIN THAT'S BASED ON THE ACTUAL COLLECTIONS THROUGH MARCH
12:24:40 31st.
12:24:42 AND WE FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT EVEN WITH THAT INCREASE STILL
12:24:47 FEEL CONSERVATIVE AND REALISTIC INCREASE.
12:24:53 UTILITY SERVICES TAX, WHICH IS A TAX ON THE UTILITY BILL,
12:25:00 FOR ELECTRIC PARTICULARLY, PRIMARILY, ONE OF OUR MAJOR
12:25:04 FUNDING SOURCES, BASED ON PERFORMANCE AS WE DID WITH THE
12:25:09 PRIOR SLIDE, BASED ON PERFORMANCE, WE SEE A TREND THAT WOULD
12:25:12 DICTATE DECREASES, SO IT WOULD DECREASE IT SLIGHTLY SO THE
12:25:19 RED BLOCK SHOWS THE 200 THAT YOU DECREASE IN THAT PROJECTION
12:25:23 AND WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THAT CLOSELY.
12:25:25 AND IF JUDGMENTS ARE NEEDED AS WE FORMULATE THE 2020 BUDGET,
12:25:30 AND POSSIBLY WHEN I COME BACK TO YOU IN JUNE TO GIVE YOU
12:25:34 MORE UPDATED INFORMATION RELATED TO THE BUDGET, WE MAY HAVE
12:25:38 SOME UPDATES THERE.
12:25:40 THE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TAX, WHICH IS A TAX THAT THE
12:25:44 CITY IS ALLOWED TO CHARGE LAND LINES, PRIMARILY, IN THE CITY
12:25:49 OF TAMPA, WE ALL KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING RID OF LAND
12:25:54 LINES.
12:25:55 SO THIS ONE, WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING FOR SOME TIME.
12:25:58 JUST TO PUT OF THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, MAYBE A LITTLE LESS THAN
12:26:01 TEN YEARS AGO, THIS REVENUE EXTREME WAS ROUGHLY $30 MILLION.
12:26:06 WE STARTED OUT THE BUDGET PROCESS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT CELL
12:26:13 PHONES ARE TAKING OVER AND PEOPLE ARE CONTINUING TO GET RID
12:26:16 OF LAND LINES.
12:26:17 WE STARTED OUT EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE WITH THAT ONE, BECAUSE
12:26:21 IT'S OBVIOUS -- AN OBVIOUS ONE THAT WOULD POSSIBLY CHANGE.
12:26:26 BUT BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE TO DATE, WE ARE GOING TO KEEP
12:26:30 IT AT OUR BUDGET AT MIDYEAR.
12:26:35 SO THOSE ARE THE MAJOR REVENUES.
12:26:39 NOW, WE DO THIS PROCESS WITH HUNDREDS OF LINE ITEMS
12:26:42 THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET.
12:26:43 BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW THIS PROCESS WORKS, IN
12:26:47 THE MOST IMPACTFUL REVENUES AND THE MOST IMPACTFUL EXPENSES,
12:26:51 NOW WE'LL SHIFT OVER AND START TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE
12:26:54 EXPENDITURES FOR THE GENERAL FUND, MAJOR ONES, HIGHEST ONE
12:27:00 OBVIOUSLY IS THE CITY'S PERSONNEL COSTS.
12:27:04 WE HAVE INCREASED THAT PARTICULAR LINE ITEM UPWARD JUST OVER
12:27:09 $2 MILLION.
12:27:12 THE CAUSATIVE FACTOR THERE IS THE TREND HAS BEEN MORE
12:27:16 OVERTIME AND MORE EXTRA DUTY THAN ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED.
12:27:20 SO WE WILL FEEL THE NEED TO PROJECT THAT PARTICULAR LINE
12:27:23 ITEM UP AN ADDITIONAL 2 MILLION-PLUS-DOLLARS.
12:27:28 >> SOMETIMES CHARTS DON'T SHOW THE WHOLE PICTURE.
12:27:34 WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IN 2008 OR 2007?
12:27:39 >>SONYA LITTLE: I CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION.
12:27:42 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOWER.
12:27:44 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOWER.
12:27:45 BECAUSE THAN WHAT IS CAPTURED HERE COMING FROM OVER THE
12:27:48 YEARS WOULD BE THE ANNUAL INCREASES, AND PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY
12:27:53 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT CONTRACT.
12:27:56 >> THANK YOU.
12:27:58 >>SONYA LITTLE: UH-HUH.
12:28:04 TWO OF OUR OTHER LARGE GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES THAN, WE
12:28:08 ARE AWARE THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS TWO PENSION FUND, ONE
12:28:11 FOR FIRE AND POLICE, THE OTHER FOR GENERAL EMPLOYEES.
12:28:16 WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE IN THAT EVEN DURING THE DIFFICULT
12:28:21 TIME WHEN THE MARKET WAS OFF AND THE CITY WAS EXPERIENCING
12:28:27 THE IMPACT OF THE RECESSION, THAT THE CITY HAS NEVER TAKEN A
12:28:31 PENSION HOLIDAY.
12:28:32 THE CITY HAS ALWAYS MADE 100% OF ITS PENSION FUND
12:28:36 CONTRIBUTIONS AS DICTATED BY AN INDEPENDENT ACT ACTUARIAL
12:28:42 ACCOUNTANT.
12:28:42 ONE FOR FIRE AND POLICE AND ALSO ONE FOR GENERAL EMPLOYEES
12:28:47 PENSION FUND.
12:28:50 AS IT STANDS TODAY, THE FUNDED RATIO FOR FIRE AND POLICE IS
12:28:56 96%, WHICH WHEN YOU COMPARE TO OTHER LIKE PENSION FUND, IT'S
12:29:01 VERY, VERY STRONG.
12:29:06 WE HAVE ADJUSTED UPWARD OUR ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE CITY'S
12:29:10 CONTRIBUTE CONTRIBUTION WILL BE, TIED BACK INTO THE INCREASE
12:29:13 OVER TIME AND EXTRA DUTY, SO THAT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT, WE
12:29:18 BELIEVE, ON THE REQUIRED CONTRIBUTIONS.
12:29:20 BUT AGAIN, THIS IS MARKET DRIVEN, AND ALSO --
12:29:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHEN YOU SAY EXTRA DUTY, ARE WE SAYING
12:29:30 EXTRA DUTY TO THE CITY ON TOP?
12:29:33 OR ARE WE SAYING COMING IN --
12:29:35 >>SONYA LITTLE: THANK YOU.
12:29:36 FOR BUDGETARY PURPOSES, FOR THAT PARTICULAR LINE ITEM -- AND
12:29:40 I WAS GOING TO -- YOU ARE RIGHT ON TARGET THERE.
12:29:42 I WAS GOING TO BRING THAT.
12:29:43 IT'S DOUBLE SIDED.
12:29:45 SO THE REVENUE SIDE GOES UP, BUT THE EXPENDITURE GOES UP
12:29:51 ALSO.
12:29:52 IT IS A PASS-THROUGH, BUT IT ALL GETS COUNTED IN THE BUDGET.
12:29:56 SO AS THE NUMBERS GO UP AND DOWN IT WILL GO UP ON THE
12:29:59 REVENUE SIDE AS WELL AS THE EXPENSE SIDE BECAUSE WE RECEIVE
12:30:01 MONEY IN FROM THE OUTSIDE, BECAUSE EXTRA DUTY EXPENSES, BUT
12:30:06 FOR RECORDING PURPOSES AND BUDGETARY PURPOSES, IT'S SORT OF
12:30:10 A WASH.
12:30:18 >>BILL CARLSON: SO YOU SAID WE ARE AT 96%.
12:30:22 USUALLY WHEN THE MARKET IS HIGH, THESE FUNDS ARE AT A HIGHER
12:30:25 PERCENT.
12:30:26 DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF WHERE IT MATE GO?
12:30:28 AND WHAT WAS THE LOWEST IT WAS AT FROM A PERCENTAGE POINT
12:30:32 DURING THE GREAT RECESSION?
12:30:34 >>SONYA LITTLE: I CAN SHOW YOU AND COME FULL CIRCLE TO YOUR
12:30:40 QUESTION.
12:30:44 GENERAL EMPLOYEES IS AT A FUNDED RATIO OF 90.8 OR 91%.
12:30:52 FOR AT LEAST THE LAST TEN YEARS.
12:30:55 BOTH FUNDS HAVE BEEN IN THE 90% RANGE.
12:30:58 AND I ALWAYS SAY THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA IS ONE OF THE
12:31:03 PREMIER PENSION FUNDS UNDER MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES.
12:31:09 AND IN MANY CASES, WE HAVE BEEN PENALIZED BY THE BAD
12:31:13 BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS TO BE QUITE FRANK.
12:31:18 BACK THEN, 2017, I BELIEVE IT WAS, THE MORTALITY TABLES --
12:31:28 IF YOU LOOK AND YOU SEE IN 2017 WHERE THERE'S A BUMP OR AN
12:31:32 INCREASE, THE STATE OF FLORIDA MANDATED THAT ALL PUBLIC
12:31:36 PENSION FUNDS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA ADOPT THE SAME
12:31:40 MORTALITY TABLES.
12:31:41 SO THAT IMPACTED THE CITY OF TAMPA TREMENDOUSLY DURING THAT
12:31:45 TIME BECAUSE WE COULDN'T USE OUR OWN MORTALITY TABLES.
12:31:50 AND THAT INCLUDES THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION BECAUSE THE
12:31:53 MORTALITY TABLES THAT WE ADOPT HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT.
12:31:59 SO THAT BEING SAID, THE 90% RANGE HAS BEEN WHERE WE HAVE
12:32:05 BEEN AT LEAST FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS.
12:32:08 WE COULD GO BACK BEYOND THAT.
12:32:10 BUT AT LEAST --
12:32:12 >>BILL CARLSON: DURING THE GREAT RECESSION IT WAS 90%?
12:32:15 >>SONYA LITTLE: THAT'S CORRECT.
12:32:17 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU AND I TALKED BEFORE ABOUT THAN THE SBA
12:32:19 PROBLEM AND ALL THAT AND HATS OFF TO YOU ALL FOR MANAGING
12:32:22 IT.
12:32:23 JUST TRYING TO THINK AHEAD.
12:32:24 I WANT TO END UP IN A SITUATION LIKE JACKSONVILLE.
12:32:28 >>SONYA LITTLE: WE ARE WAY FAR AWAY FROM THAT.
12:32:31 AND LIKE OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, THE CITY HAS NEVER TAKEN A
12:32:34 PENSION HOLIDAY.
12:32:38 EVEN IN THE ROUGH TIMES.
12:32:40 IT WAS PAINFUL BUT NEVER TOOK A HOLIDAY.
12:32:48 THE ANNUAL HEALTH CARE COST, ANOTHER MAJOR GENERAL FUND
12:32:53 EXPENDITURE, IN CALENDAR YEAR 2019, AND AN INDEPENDENT
12:33:02 ENTITY TO PUT TOGETHER, GALLAGHER, TO PUT TOGETHER A SURVEY.
12:33:06 WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW WE STACKED UP TO THE COUNTRY, IF YOU
12:33:11 WILL, THE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TRENDS.
12:33:12 ONE THING WE KNOW FOR SURE, HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE GOING UP.
12:33:16 THE ONE THING THAT WE CAN DO IS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO
12:33:19 MITIGATE OR LOWER THOSE COSTS, AND RELIEVE A BURDEN ON THE
12:33:24 CITY'S CONTRIBUTION AND THE PREMIUM PAYMENTS THAT ALL OF OUR
12:33:27 EMPLOYEES MAKE.
12:33:30 AND TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE, BECAUSE THE CITY OF TAMPA IS
12:33:34 SELF-SHARD, WE HAVE OUR OWN WELLNESS CENTERS, WE HAVE OUR
12:33:38 OWN WELLNESS PROGRAMS WHERE WE PROVIDE SEMINARS, WE PROVIDE
12:33:42 WEBINARS AND CLASSES.
12:33:45 OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO A NURSE WHO ASSISTS WITH
12:33:49 HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT, AND OTHER ABILITIES TO GO ONLINE AND
12:33:54 ACTUALLY GET HEALTH CARE INFORMATION AND MANAGE INDIVIDUAL
12:33:58 EMPLOYEE AND FAMILY HEALTH CARE.
12:34:02 SO ALL OF THOSE MEASURES THAT THE CITY HAS TAKEN ON FOR THE
12:34:06 PAST TEN YEARS HAVE BEEN QUANTIFIED AND WE'LL COME BACK TO
12:34:11 YOU AT A LATER DATE WITH INFORMATION TO SHOW YOU HOW THE
12:34:15 HEALTH CARE METRICS WITH OUR EMPLOYEES ARE IMPROVING OVER
12:34:18 TIME AS A RESULT OF OUR SELF-SHARD PLAN AND THE ACCESS THAT
12:34:23 OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE TO HEALTH CARE.
12:34:24 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE BOTTOM LINE, WE HAVE DONE REALLY
12:34:29 WELL AS FAR AS DRIVING THE COST ITSELF DOWN, AND AS SHOWN ON
12:34:37 THIS CHART BY A COMPARISON TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
12:34:40 TRENDS.
12:34:40 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANOTHER 30 MINUTES.
12:34:50 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:34:53 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:34:54 ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
12:34:56 >>SONYA LITTLE: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:35:03 SO WHAT DOES ALL OF THAT MEAN?
12:35:06 YOU HAVE SEEN THE HIGHLIGHTS ON THE MAJOR REVENUES, THE
12:35:08 MAJOR EXPENDITURES, AND THE UP-AND-DOWN, AND STAYING FLAT IN
12:35:12 SOME CASES.
12:35:16 THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET, OR IN THE CASE
12:35:18 OF GENERAL FUND, $400 MILLION GENERAL FUND BUDGET.
12:35:23 SO THE CURRENT BUDGET AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW ANTICIPATES
12:35:27 THAT AFTER ALL THE REVENUES COME IN AND ALL THE EXPENDITURES
12:35:30 GO OUT THAT WE WOULD HAVE IN EXCESS OF $350,000 THAT WOULD
12:35:36 FLOW TO THE BOTTOM LINE OR TO THE BALANCE.
12:35:40 BASED ON THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE ARE MAKING THROUGH OUR
12:35:44 FORECAST, WE NOW ARE FORECASTING THAT IN THE YEAR
12:35:49 $3.8 MILLION AHEAD WHERE OUR REVENUES AT OUTPACE
12:35:55 EXPENDITURES ABOUT $3.8 MILLION.
12:35:57 SO THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SETS AS WE START TO DEVELOP
12:36:01 THE 2020 BUDGET IT SETS THE FRAMEWORK, AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE
12:36:06 CONTINUE TO ADDRESS OUR DEFERRED MAINTENANCE, HOW WE ARE
12:36:09 GOING TO ADDRESS OUR EXPENSES, OUR OPERATING EXPENSES
12:36:15 ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONNEL AND HEALTH CARE COSTS.
12:36:21 AS COSTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE.
12:36:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANTICIPATING WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, DOES
12:36:32 THAT GO INTO RESERVE?
12:36:33 HOW DO WE OPERATE THAT?
12:36:36 >>SONYA LITTLE: WE WILL KNOW BETTER.
12:36:39 WE ARE HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS, COUNCILMAN.
12:36:41 JUNE IS GOING TO BE A PRIME MONTH FOR US.
12:36:44 SO UNTIL WE GET TO JUNE AND UNTIL WE HAVE MORE DISCUSSIONS
12:36:47 ON WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE THE NEW ADMINISTRATION, I
12:36:50 WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ANSWER JUST YET.
12:36:56 WHEN WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION AND DO THE 2020 BUDGET
12:36:58 WORKSHOP IN JUNE.
12:37:02 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU MAY BE ANSWERING THIS ON ANOTHER SLIDE,
12:37:05 AND I'M SORRY IF I GOT THE TERM WRONG, BUT WHAT THE GENERAL
12:37:10 FUND RESERVE WAS IN 2011 AND WHAT IT IS NOW?
12:37:13 AND WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE IF WE ARE GOING IN A
12:37:17 RECESSION IN A YEAR OR TWO BE?
12:37:20 WHAT I MEAN IS RESERVES THAT ARE NOT TIED TO ANY SPECIFIC
12:37:25 BOND COVENANTS THAT WOULD NOT CHANGE OUR BOND RATINGS IF WE
12:37:28 HAD TO USE THEM.
12:37:30 LIKE A RAINY DAY FUND.
12:37:31 >>SONYA LITTLE: YOU ARE RIGHT, IT ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
12:37:39 SO THE CITY OF TAMPA GENERAL FUND HAS A 20% RESERVE POLICY,
12:37:44 AND IT'S 20% OF GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES.
12:37:49 THAT IS A GAUGE FOR A HEALTHY CITY OF OUR SIZE.
12:37:54 THE CHART HERE SHOWS YOU HISTORICALLY WHAT THE PERCENTAGE
12:38:00 GENERAL FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGE HAS BEEN YEAR OVER YEAR FOR
12:38:05 THE LAST SEVERAL BUDGET CYCLES.
12:38:08 AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, COUNCILMAN, BACK IN THAN 2011,
12:38:12 THE FUND BALANCE, THIS IS THE UNENCUMBERED FUND BALANCE,
12:38:18 $127 MILLION.
12:38:21 DURING THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD THAT WE WERE EXPERIENCING THE
12:38:26 RECESSION, I THINK IT WAS 2011, 12, 13 AND 14 IN PARTICULAR,
12:38:30 WE WERE FORCED TO TAP THE RESERVES IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE
12:38:36 BUDGET, WITH THE GOAL OF PROVIDING CITIZENS THE SAME LEVEL
12:38:39 OF SERVICE WITHOUT MAKING ADDITIONAL CUTS TO PERSONNEL,
12:38:43 BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE SAVINGS WAS DURING THOSE TEN YEARS,
12:38:49 CUT PERSONNEL.
12:38:50 AND THE CITY HAD PREVIOUSLY ALREADY ELIMINATED 700
12:38:53 POSITIONS.
12:38:54 SO THE DECISION WAS -- AND WE MAXED OUT OUR PLAN BECAUSE AS
12:38:59 YOU MENTIONED IT'S IMPORTANT FROM A CREDIT PERSPECTIVE TO
12:39:02 THE ^ CITY TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY RESERVES, AND WE ARE A
12:39:07 GROWING CITY.
12:39:09 SO THE EXPECTATIONS WERE CONSTANTLY CHASING WHAT THAT FUND
12:39:13 BALANCE SHOULD LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE AS WE GROW, THAT 20%
12:39:17 POLICY MAY NOT BE SUFFICIENT.
12:39:19 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE HAVING OPEN DISCUSSIONS
12:39:21 ABOUT AND WORKING ON VERY CLOSELY.
12:39:25 WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE EVEN DURING THE TIME
12:39:28 THAT WE TAPPED OUR RESERVES IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
12:39:31 IS THAT WE HAD A PLAN, AND THE PLAN WAS MAPPED OUT AND WE
12:39:38 WERE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CITY WAS LIVING WITHIN ITS
12:39:41 MANES DURING THOSE TOUGH TIMES.
12:39:43 AND YOU WILL SEE LATER ON WHEREAS OTHER GOVERNMENTAL
12:39:49 ENTITIES WERE BEING DOWNGRADED AND UNDERSTANDABLY SO DURING
12:39:52 THE RECESSION, THE CITY OF TAMPA WAS RECEIVING UPGRADES.
12:39:55 SO RIGHT NOW THE PROJECTION FOR THE 2019 FUND BALANCE WOULD
12:40:00 BE $100.2 MILLION.
12:40:07 SO THAT'S AN OVERVIEW OF THE GENERAL FUND.
12:40:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: [OFF MICROPHONE] SO YOU MENTION ABOUT THE
12:40:30 700 POSITIONS REDUCTION, AND I IMAGINE SOME WERE JUST
12:40:35 ATTRITION, WHICH IS FINE, AND THE OTHERS WERE ACTUAL
12:40:37 LAYOFFS, WHICH IS LESS FINE, BUT EARLIER IN THE AGENDA, I
12:40:43 BROUGHT UP A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY APPEARED
12:40:46 TO ME WOULD PROBABLY DO SOME OF THAT IN-HOUSE AND NOW WE ARE
12:40:51 CONTRACTING OUT.
12:40:52 DOES YOUR DEPARTMENT, OR ANYBODY ELSE UNDERSTOOD YOUR
12:40:58 PURVIEW, LOOK AT THOSE ISSUES IN TERMS OF, OKAY, NOW WE ARE
12:41:05 PAST TV RECESSION, WE ARE PROBABLY CONTRACTING OUT SOME OF
12:41:08 THESE POSITIONS, OR SOME OF THESE TASKS, AND ENCOURAGE THE
12:41:13 DEPARTMENT TO ANALYZE THAT?
12:41:18 WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, BE ABLE TO SAVE SOME MONEY BY DOING SOME
12:41:21 OF THOSE TASKS IN-HOUSE AGAIN, AS OPPOSED TO -- NOTHING
12:41:25 WRONG WITH PRIVATE SECTOR, BUT I THINK IF AT ALL POSSIBLE WE
12:41:29 SHOULD BE EXPLORING THOSE QUESTIONS.
12:41:30 >>SONYA LITTLE: ABSOLUTELY.
12:41:32 AND THAT'S PART OF OUR BUDGET PROCESS WHEN WE WORK WITH EACH
12:41:35 ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS, AND BE THEY DEMONSTRATOR THAN
12:41:39 ARTICULATE THE NEEDS FROM A PERSONNEL OR CONTRACTUAL BASIS.
12:41:44 AS WE START TO COME OUT OF THESE ISSUES -- AND THAT'S ONE OF
12:41:48 THE REASONS WHY THE STARTING POINT THAT $3.8 MILLION IS
12:41:52 GOING TO BE IMPORTANT AS WE START TO PLAN OUT 2020, BECAUSE
12:41:56 THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE AS THE CITY CONTINUES TO GROW, THERE
12:42:00 IS GREATER NEED FOR BODIES TO CARRY OUT THESE TASKS.
12:42:08 SO THAT BEING SAID, THERE IS A PROCESS IN PLACE THAT IN
12:42:13 ORDER TO PROVIDE A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR ALL THE
12:42:17 SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE THROUGH THE CITY OF TAMPA, THERE IS
12:42:22 AN ALLOWANCE OF WHETHER OR NOT THE CITIZENS WOULD BE BETTER
12:42:27 SERVED FROM A SERVICE -- A LEVEL OF SERVICE PERSPECTIVE AS
12:42:31 WELL AS A FUNDING PERSPECTIVE IN-HOUSE VERSUS OUTHOUSE, OUT
12:42:37 OF THE CITY.
12:42:39 SO THE ANALYSIS.
12:42:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HOW MUCH OF A MICROLEVEL DOES THAT
12:42:50 QUESTION GET DOWN TO?
12:42:52 IN OTHER WORDS, ONE OF THE ITEMS WE HAD EARLIER, I THINK IT
12:42:55 WAS A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR CLEANING OUT THE
12:42:59 STORMWATER, SOMETHING OR OTHER, DOES THAT ANALYSIS GET DOWN
12:43:04 TO THAT LEVEL IN TERMS OF A CONTRACT, OR IS IT SORT OF A
12:43:11 BROADER BRUSH APPROACH TO LOOKING AT THOSE ISSUES?
12:43:16 >>SONYA LITTLE: IT'S A COMBINATION OF BOTH.
12:43:18 AND I DIDN'T SEE THE CONVERSATION THAT WAS GOING ON ABOUT
12:43:22 THAT PARTICULAR CONTRACT, BUT I'LL USE STORMWATER AS AN
12:43:29 EXAMPLE.
12:43:29 WHEN THE STORMWATER PROGRAM WAS BEING DEVELOPED, WHERE ALL
12:43:32 THE MASTER PLANNING WAS DONE AND SO FORTH, THERE WAS A GREAT
12:43:36 DEAL OF ANALYSIS FOR EVERY COMPONENT OF THE PROGRAM TO
12:43:39 DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE CITY -- THE CITIZENS WOULD BE
12:43:45 BEST SERVED WITH THE CITY DELIVERING THE SERVICE OR
12:43:48 CONTRACTING OUT.
12:43:49 SO FROM A LARGE PROGRAM LIKE THAT, AND AS WE MOVE INTO
12:43:54 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE WATER AND WASTEWATER PROGRAM, THERE
12:43:57 WILL BE A GREAT DEAL OF ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE IF THE CITY IS
12:44:02 BETTER SERVED TO HAVE IT BROUGHT IN-HOUSE, WHICH MEANS WE
12:44:06 EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE TO INCREASE OUR HEAD COUNT,
12:44:10 AND HOW DO WE PARSE THAT OUT BASED ON SALARY, BENEFIT AND
12:44:16 PENSION, COMPARED TO GETTING THE SAME LEVEL CONTRACTING OUT.
12:44:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHEN I HEARD THE NUMBER 700, IT KIND OF
12:44:27 BLEW MY MIND BECAUSE HOW MANY GENERAL EMPLOYEES ARE THERE TO
12:44:29 START WITH, 2,000 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
12:44:34 >>SONYA LITTLE: IT'S ABOUT 3.
12:44:35 THREE THOUSAND.
12:44:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I HAVE TO GUESS WE DIDN'T LAY OFF
12:44:41 POLICE AND FIRE, WHICH IS GOOD.
12:44:43 SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT 700 OUT OF 3,000, 3 OR 4,000 WHICH IS
12:44:49 WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY, THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT CHUNK.
12:44:52 >>SONYA LITTLE: RIGHT.
12:44:54 IT'S SOMETHING -- I HAVE ONE MORE THING, COUNCILMAN, AS PART
12:44:58 OF THAT ANALYSIS.
12:44:59 IT'S NOT ONLY JUST A HEAD COUNT OF WHAT THAT MEANS.
12:45:02 I CALL IT FULLY LOADED, IF YOU WILL.
12:45:04 THAT MEANS THE SALARY, THE BENEFITS, PENSION COSTS AND MANY
12:45:09 OTHER ASSOCIATED COSTS, IF WE HAVE TO BUY ANY TYPE OF
12:45:13 APPARATUS, OR EQUIPMENT AND SO FORTH.
12:45:16 SO A FULLY LOADED COMPARISON IS DONE IN-HOUSE VERSUS NOT.
12:45:23 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SURE.
12:45:24 AND THAT MAKES SENSE, APPLES TO APPLES.
12:45:26 >>SONYA LITTLE: AND THE OTHER THING THAT'S CONSIDERED AS
12:45:29 THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT AND OUR DEPARTMENT DO THAT ANALYSIS,
12:45:33 IT IS, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE HAVE TO BUY EQUIPMENT TO CARRY OUT
12:45:38 OR PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION, HAVING THAT EQUIPMENT
12:45:43 AND INVENTORY FOR ONE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, WE BUY IT AND CAN
12:45:48 ONLY USE IT ONE TIME OR CAN WE REDEPLOY?
12:45:51 ALL OF THAT IS IN THE ANALYSIS.
12:45:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I GUESS AS A TAG ONTO COUNCILMAN
12:46:00 DINGFELDER, I GUESS MY CONCERN IS KIND OF LIKE AN
12:46:05 ORGANIZATION THAT I AM TREASURER AND ASK FOR SOMETHING TO BE
12:46:08 BUILT AND WE COME BACK AND ASK THE NUMBER OF A PRICE.
12:46:12 MY CONCERN IS, WAIT A MINUTE, WHERE DO WE GET THAT NUMBER?
12:46:18 YOU ARE SAYING IT BATHROOM.
12:46:22 AND WE SAY A BATHROOM, IT'S LIKE $250 FOR A SMALL BATHROOM.
12:46:27 WHO QUESTIONS THAT?
12:46:29 I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT SAYING A $250 PROJECT FOR A SMALL
12:46:34 BATHROOM WHEN I CAN BUILD A HOUSE OF THAT MAGNITUDE.
12:46:37 SO HAS ANYBODY LOOKED AT THAT, QUESTIONED THOSE ITEMS? AND
12:46:41 SAY, HEY, THAT'S WAY TOO OUT THERE.
12:46:44 AND MAYBE SOMEBODY IS GETTING FAT OFF OF THAT.
12:46:46 >>SONYA LITTLE: YES, SIR.
12:46:48 AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I AM REALLY PROUD OF MY TEAM,
12:46:51 BECAUSE LONG BEFORE I EVEN HEARD THE COSTS, MY TEAM HAD
12:46:55 FLAGGED IT AND CONTACTED THE RESPONSIBLE CONTRACT ADMIN
12:47:00 FOLKS TO FIGURE OUT WHY IS THE PROJECT -- USING THIS
12:47:04 PARTICULAR EXAMPLE, AT THIS COST.
12:47:08 A AND WHEN THE EXPERT EXPLAINED TO MY DEPARTMENT WHY THOSE
12:47:12 COSTS -- I MEAN, WE ARE NOT THE EXPERTS, BUT WE CAN SEND UP
12:47:16 A RED FLAG AND QUESTION THINGS.
12:47:17 THERE WAS A VIABLE EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THE COST WAS
12:47:22 OTHERWISE.
12:47:23 SO THIS HAPPENS ACROSS THE BOARD, NOT ONLY WITH JUST OUR
12:47:27 CONSTRUCTION, BUT LEASE AGREEMENT, AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND
12:47:30 OTHERS CAN TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE TO SIGN OFF ON EVERYTHING
12:47:35 BEFORE IT COMES TO THE MAYOR, BEFORE IT COMES TO CITY
12:47:38 COUNCIL.
12:47:39 SO WE DO FLAG A LOT TO GET THE BACKUP INFORMATION, RELYING
12:47:45 ON THOSE DEPARTMENTS.
12:47:46 THEY ARE THE EXPERTS.
12:47:48 WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS CONSIDERED,
12:47:50 BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SPENDING CITY MONEY
12:47:56 APPROPRIATELY.
12:47:56 THAT'S PART OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
12:48:01 >>BILL CARLSON: I'M SORRY, IF I CAN GO BACK TO THE LAST
12:48:03 SLIDE JUST FOR A SECOND.
12:48:07 YOU TALKED ABOUT THE GENERAL FUND RESERVES THAT WERE 20 OR
12:48:14 $30 MILLION HIGHER BEFORE WE WENT INTO THE GREAT RECESSION.
12:48:17 I THINK ECONOMISTS ARE PREDICTING THAT THIS NEXT RECESSION
12:48:20 WILL BE LESS.
12:48:21 AND YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT, TOO, LESS MAYBE THAN THE
12:48:24 LAST ONE.
12:48:25 BUT IN YOUR OPINION, AND LET ME SAY THIS, ALSO, WE
12:48:29 DESPERATELY NEED SERVICES AND NEED TO FIX SOME OF THE THINGS
12:48:32 THAT ARE IN THE CITY, BUT WHAT WOULD BE YOUR PROFESSIONAL
12:48:37 OPINION LOOKING AT WHERE THE RESERVES WERE, THE GENERAL FUND
12:48:41 RESERVES WERE BEFORE THE LAST RECESSION, AND WHERE DO YOU
12:48:45 THINK OUR TARGET SHOULD BE?
12:48:46 DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE JUST ABOVE THAT 20% OR DO YOU
12:48:49 THINK WE SHOULD BE SAVING MORE, KNOWING THAT THERE'S SOME
12:48:52 DOWNTURN GOING ON?
12:48:53 BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, WORST CASE WOULD BE WE GET ANOTHER
12:48:56 RECESSION AND HAVE TO LAY OFF A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE AGAIN
12:48:59 AND SERVICES ARE EVEN WORSE THAN BEFORE.
12:49:01 >>SONYA LITTLE: RIGHT.
12:49:02 TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE NOW WE ARE AT 22%, I THINK.
12:49:07 PRIOR TO THE 2008 CRASH THE CITY WAS UP 32% AND THANKFULLY
12:49:12 SO.
12:49:14 IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION, I'M A LITTLE BIT RELUCTANT TO
12:49:18 CHANGE OUR POLICY OR REQUEST THAT WE CHANGE OUR POLICY RIGHT
12:49:21 NOW FROM THE 20%.
12:49:22 HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE CONVERSATION, WE DO HAVE PRESSURE THAT
12:49:27 WE NEED TO REBUILD.
12:49:28 SO IF YOU GO BACK THE LAST THREE BUDGET CYCLES, WE HAVE BEEN
12:49:32 PUTTING ANY WHERE FROM $1.8 MILLION BACK INTO THE RESERVE.
12:49:38 I BELIEVE, AND MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION, WE NEED TO DO MORE,
12:49:42 BECAUSE HEAVEN FORBID WE DO HAVE A HUGE CRISIS IN THE
12:49:45 ECONOMY.
12:49:47 AND TO YOUR POINT FINANCE WE WANT TO CONTINUE PROVIDING THE
12:49:49 SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE, WE DON'T HAVE THE CUSHION, IF YOU
12:49:55 WILL, THAT WE DID BACK IN 2008.
12:49:58 SO WE REALLY NEED TO STRIVE TO REBUILDING OUR RESERVES.
12:50:03 FOR A CITY OF OUR SIZE THAT'S GROWING AT THE RATE THAT WE
12:50:05 ARE GROWING.
12:50:08 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
12:50:10 >>LUIS VIERA: AND WE'LL LET MRS. LITTLE FINISH THEN.
12:50:15 WE EXTENDED ANOTHER 30 MINUTES AND WE ARE ABOUT 15 MINUTES
12:50:18 AWAY FROM THAT.
12:50:19 >>SONYA LITTLE: AND SINCE I MET WITH YOU INDIVIDUALLY I CAN
12:50:22 KIND OF DO THE HIGHLIGHTS, IF YOU WILL ALLOW.
12:50:25 ON OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS STARTING OUT WITH PARKING, I JUST
12:50:28 WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THIS PRESENTATION IS A LITTLE
12:50:33 DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR ENTERPRISE FUND, WE START
12:50:36 GAUGING CASH FLOW AT THIS POINT.
12:50:38 SO IN 2019, ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM LINE, AND THIS IS THE
12:50:43 SAME CASE THAT THE AS THE BE SUBSEQUENT SLIDE.
12:50:47 THE 200,000 INCREASE RELATED AFTER WE PAY -- AFTER WE
12:50:52 RECEIVE ALL OF THE REVENUES, WE PAY ALL THE OPERATING
12:50:55 EXPENSES FOR THE DEPARTMENT, WE PAY THE DEBT SERVICE RELATED
12:50:59 TO THE PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT, AND ALL OF THE CAPITAL
12:51:02 PROJECTS, WE WERE ESTIMATED TO HAVE ABOUT $200,000 TO BE
12:51:07 USED FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
12:51:11 SINCE THE BUDGET WAS ADOPTED, COUNCIL HAS ALREADY AUTHORIZED
12:51:16 A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO FUND COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS STATIONS,
12:51:23 GAS STATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT, AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK
12:51:26 TO YOU AS IT RELATES TO CONSTRUCTION FUNDING FOR MACKAY BAY.
12:51:33 SO IF YOU GO OVER TO THE PROJECTION, WE HAVE INDICATED --
12:51:39 I'M SORRY, I WENT TO SOLID WASTE.
12:51:41 I WENT STRAIGHT TO SOLID WASTE.
12:51:43 LET ME BACKTRACK THAT.
12:51:46 KEEP THAT IN MIND AND I WON'T REPEAT IT WHEN I GET TO SOLID
12:51:49 WASTE.
12:51:50 PARKING.
12:51:53 PARKING, WE SOLD THE PARKING LOT, JACKSON STREET PARKING LOT
12:51:58 RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM US WHERE THE CONSTRUCTION IS
12:52:01 GOING UP.
12:52:02 THE PROCEEDS TAKEN FROM JACKSON STREET THAN IS ABOUT $4
12:52:07 MILLION.
12:52:07 THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THE INCREASE IN FUND BALANCE.
12:52:10 ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, A YEAR AGO, THE CITY UNDERWENT A
12:52:15 PARKING FACILITIES STUDY WHERE THEY ACTUALLY DID A STUDY
12:52:18 RELATED TO ALL OF OUR PARK WILLING GARAGES AND ALL OF OUR
12:52:21 PARKING LOTS.
12:52:22 THIS IS TAMPA BRICKS AND MORTAR.
12:52:27 WE HAVE ABOUT $12 MILLION IN NEED.
12:52:29 SO IT WAS ONLY THE CITY.
12:52:31 NOW THAT PARKING SYSTEM IS FINALLY SELF-SUPPORTING AS FAR AS
12:52:35 ITS OPERATIONS ARE CONCERNED -- THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE
12:52:39 GENERAL FUND WAS SUBSIDIZING THE PARKING SYSTEM DURING THE
12:52:42 RECESSION.
12:52:43 ABOUT $6 MILLION A YEAR.
12:52:46 SO WE ARE PLEASED TO SEE -- AND THERE'S SOME ROOM FOR
12:52:49 IMPROVEMENT, PROBABLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
12:52:56 CHARGING APPROPRIATE RATES FOR THE PARKING SYSTEM.
12:52:58 BUT THEY ARE COVERING THEIR OPERATIONS.
12:53:00 WE HAVE SOME WORK TO DO ON THE CAPITAL SIDE TO DO REPAIRS
12:53:03 WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
12:53:05 BUT FOR NOW WE ARE TAKING THE $4 MILLION FROM THE SALE OF
12:53:08 THE JACKSON STREET PARKING LOT, KEEPING THOSE PROCEEDS IN
12:53:12 THE CITY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CAPITAL NEEDS.
12:53:19 I ALREADY DID THE SOLID WASTE.
12:53:21 WE TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSFER STATION, AND THE COMPRESSED
12:53:26 NATURAL GAS.
12:53:29 WATER, WASTEWATER.
12:53:30 IF YOU WILL ALLOW, I WILL MAKE THIS BRIEF.
12:53:32 BECAUSE WE INTEND ON COMING BACK TO YOU AT YOUR JUNE 6th
12:53:36 MEETING TO GIVE YOU A FULL-BLOWN OVERVIEW OF THE $3 BILLION
12:53:44 IN NEED, THE 20-YEAR MASTER PLAN FOR THE WATER AND
12:53:44 WASTEWATER SYSTEMS.
12:53:49 WE ARE SCHEDULED TO BE ON YOUR CALENDAR FOR A WORKSHOP WHERE
12:53:52 WE'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE ENGINEERING, THE CONSTRUCTION
12:53:55 NEEDS, AND THE FUNDING SOLUTIONS RELATE HE HAD TO THAT
12:54:00 WASTEWATER.
12:54:03 I TOUCHED ON THIS BEFORE, AND COUNCILMAN, THIS TOUCHES ON
12:54:08 YOU ASKING ME MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION.
12:54:10 AGAIN, DURING THE RECESSION EVEN THOUGH WE HAD CHALLENGES
12:54:19 WITH THE BUDGET, WE LAID OUT PLANS, WE DID EXACTLY WHAT WE
12:54:22 SAID WE WERE GOING TO, DO AND FORTUNATELY WE WERE REWARDED.
12:54:26 THE BOND RATINGS ARE A REALLY GOOD INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE
12:54:31 CITY'S FINANCIAL CONDITION.
12:54:34 THE TOP LANE, THE ISSUE OF CREDIT RATING IS THE OVERALL
12:54:38 FINANCIAL CONDITION OR WELL-BEING OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, AND
12:54:41 WE ARE AAA BY S&P WHICH IS THE HIGHEST RATING A GOVERNMENT
12:54:48 CAN RECEIVE, AND THE DOUBLE-A 1 AND DOUBLE-A PLUS IS JUST
12:54:54 BELOW.
12:54:54 THAT SO WE ARE A HIGHLY RATED GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY.
12:54:57 AND THE LINE ITEMS BELOW THAT SHOW YOU OUR BOND RATINGS FOR
12:55:01 EACH OF OUR OUTSTANDING BONDS PROGRAM.
12:55:05 SO BASED ON ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I RECEIVED DURING OUR
12:55:09 BRIEFING, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO PROVIDE THIS SO
12:55:12 THAT COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC HAS AN IDEA OF WHERE WE ARE AS
12:55:20 FAR AS THE CITY'S OUTSTANDING DEBT.
12:55:22 AND THIS CHART SHOWS THE PRINCIPLE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING.
12:55:27 THE BLUE LINE IS THE CITY'S GOVERNMENTAL DEBT.
12:55:31 GREEN LANE IS THE ENTERPRISE DEBT.
12:55:34 IT MEANS IT'S FUNDED FROM THE REVENUES COLLECTED FOR
12:55:36 PROVIDING SERVICES, YOU KNOW, THE UTILITY BILLS, FOR
12:55:40 EXAMPLE, HAVE BEEN PAY FOR THAT DEBT.
12:55:45 THE GOVERNMENTAL DEBT IS PAID BY REVENUES THAT WE TALKED
12:55:48 ABOUT EARLIER.
12:55:50 ANYTHING LEFT OVER, THAT'S NOT ENTERPRISE FUND MONEY, AFTER
12:55:57 WE PAY FOR OPERATIONS, IT GOES TOWARD PAYING THE DEBT.
12:56:02 AND YOU WILL SEE THAT ACTUALLY THIS IS THE OPTIMAL STRUCTURE
12:56:08 IN THAT WE ARE PAYING DOWN THE CITY'S OUTSTANDING DEBT OVER
12:56:11 TIME, AND A GENERAL RULE OF THUMB IS THAT TO BE A GOOD
12:56:18 TARGET IS TO HAVE 50% OF YOUR OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL PAID OFF
12:56:22 WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
12:56:26 AND THE CITY OF TAMPA IS AT 65% PAID OFF IN THE NEXT TEN
12:56:31 YEARS FOR GENERAL GOVERNMENT, AND 64% PAID OFF.
12:56:36 SO WE ARE EXCEEDING THE BEST PRACTICE OF HOW YOU PAY DOWN
12:56:40 YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT OVER TIME.
12:56:47 THE NEXT SLIDE IS VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU AN
12:56:50 INDICATION OF OUR DEBT OBLIGATION OUT THROUGH 2046.
12:56:57 THIS IS THE ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE.
12:56:58 IF YOU TAKE OUGHT OF OUR BONDS OUTSTANDING, ALL OF OUR DEBT,
12:57:02 OUR BANK LOANS, EVERYTHING, IT'S INCLUDED ON THIS TABLE TO
12:57:05 SHOW YOU HOW MUCH WE PAY ON AN ANNUAL BASIS IN DEBT SERVICE.
12:57:09 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN THIS TABLE IS YOU SEE THE OUTER YEARS.
12:57:13 SO IF THE CITY CONTINUES TO GROW, OUR NEEDS FOR CAPITAL
12:57:22 FUNDING CONTINUES TO GROW.
12:57:24 IT'S IMPORTANT TO SEE THAT WE HAVE TO T CAPACITY SHOULD THE
12:57:27 CITY WISH TO UNDERTAKE MAJOR PROJECTS BE.
12:57:32 CAPACITY OUT IN THE LONGER YEARS.
12:57:33 SO WE ARE VERY MINDFUL THAT WHEN WE COME TO YOU, IF WE HAVE
12:57:37 TO, IF WE CAME TO AVOID HAVING THE ISSUE OF DEBT BUT IF WE
12:57:42 NEED FUNDING TO CARRY OUT SOME OF THE GOALS OF THE CITY,
12:57:49 THEN WE WILL SHOW YOU THE IMPACT ON THE CITY'S COVERAGE
12:57:54 LEVEL WHICH WILL INCLUDE REVENUES MINUS OPERATING EXPENSES
12:57:58 AND HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO PAY FOR DEBT, AND YOU WILL SEE HOW
12:58:01 MUCH MORE WE HAVE IN THE WAY OF CAPACITY FOR FUTURE YEARS.
12:58:06 SO JUST TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE AND SHOW YOU HOW THIS IS
12:58:10 ALL MAPPED OUT, AND THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT GO FORTH BECAUSE
12:58:15 WE HAVE SOME HUGE PROGRAMS THAT WE'LL HAVE TO COME BACK AND
12:58:19 TALK TO YOU ABOUT, WATER AND WASTEWATER BEING THE MAJOR
12:58:21 ONES.
12:58:28 MR. CHAIRMAN, THE LAST THING I WILL GO THROUGH VERY QUICKLY.
12:58:35 THE BUDGET CALENDAR.
12:58:37 AS I MENTIONED, I WILL BE COMING BACK BEFORE YOU FOR A
12:58:41 WORKSHOP ON JUNE 13 TO PROVIDE YOU WITH WHATEVER INFORMATION
12:58:46 WE CAN ON HOW WE ARE FORMULATING THE 2020 BUDGET .
12:58:52 AND THE MAYOR, WE ARE GOING TO TARGET AN AUGUST 1st
12:58:56 WHERE SHE WILL COME AND DELIVER THE PROPOSED 2020 BUDGET.
12:58:59 AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE WILL HOLD TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS AFTER
12:59:03 THAT, ONCE WE CAN GET THEM SCHEDULED, BECAUSE THERE ARE
12:59:08 OTHER FACTORS THAT APPLY WHEN WE CAN SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC
12:59:12 HEARING.
12:59:13 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR YOUR DETAILED PRESENTATION.
12:59:16 LET'S GO DOWN THE LINE IN CASE THERE ARE ANY ADDITIONAL
12:59:19 COMMENTS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
12:59:21 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER? QUESTIONS AT ALL?
12:59:24 >> NO.
12:59:25 I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTING THIS.
12:59:33 ON A PERSONAL LEVEL YESTERDAY AND WE HAD A GOOD Q AND A
12:59:38 YESTERDAY.
12:59:38 SO THANK YOU.
12:59:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE PEOPLE'S MONEY
12:59:48 SAFE.
12:59:48 THAT'S A GOOD SIGN.
12:59:53 THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT I WILL HOLD BACK.
12:59:55 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, SIR.
13:00:02 >> THANK YOU FOR YESTERDAY'S MEETING.
13:00:04 WE HAD TOUCHED ON THREE MEMBERS HERE WERE PART OF THE
13:00:06 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE, AND WE HAD AN AMENDMENT THAT WENT
13:00:10 TO THE VOTERS AND IT WAS APPROVED THAT WE CHANGE OUR
13:00:13 INVESTMENTS AROUND.
13:00:14 HOW IS THAT GOING TO AFFECT OUR BUDGET?
13:00:17 HOW IS THAT GOING TO AFFECT OUR SAVINGS? HOW IS THAT GOING
13:00:20 TO AFFECT THE CITY WITH OUR ABILITY TO CHANGE OUR
13:00:23 INVESTMENTS?
13:00:24 >>SONYA LITTLE: THANK YOU FOR THAT, SIR.
13:00:27 WE ARE PLEASED WITH THIS CHANGE, BECAUSE FOR A CITY OF OUR
13:00:31 SIZE, WITH THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE
13:00:35 UNDER THE PRIOR STRUCTURE, WE WERE GREATLY IMPAIRED AS FAR
13:00:37 AS THE INTEREST EARNINGS THAT THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE.
13:00:42 TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE QUICKLY, IN 2008, ON AN AVERAGE
13:00:47 PORTFOLIO OF ABOUT $500 MILLION THE CITY WAS RECEIVING
13:00:51 ALMOST $24 MILLION IN INTEREST EARNING ALONE.
13:00:55 SO IMAGINE WHAT WE COULD DO WITH $24 MILLION.
13:00:58 AT OUR LOW, OUR INTEREST EARNINGS FELL TO 3% -- I'M SORRY,
13:01:08 TO $3 MILLION.
13:01:10 FROM 24 MILLION TO 3 MILLION, THAT'S A HUGE SWING.
13:01:15 OVER A TEN-YEAR PERIOD THE CITY LOST INTEREST EARNING
13:01:20 OPPORTUNITIES OF ABOUT $133 MILLION.
13:01:23 A LOT OF THAT WAS DRIVEN BY THE MARKET OVERALL.
13:01:27 BUT WE WERE HIT DOUBLY HARD BECAUSE OF OUR VERY, VERY
13:01:31 CONSERVATIVE INVESTMENT POLICY, WHICH ONLY ALLOWED US TO
13:01:36 INVEST IN BANK CDs, GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS, AND U.S.
13:01:42 TREASURY NOTES AND BONDS.
13:01:44 AND AT ONE POINT, WHERE WE HAD BEEN IN 2012, WE DROPPED ALL
13:01:53 THE WAY DOWN TO .95% IN INTEREST EARNINGS, BECAUSE WE WERE
13:01:58 SO RESTRICTED.
13:02:00 SO NOW, BECAUSE OF THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
13:02:04 RECOMMENDATION, AND THE VOTERS APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO OUR
13:02:08 POLICY, ADOPT A POLICY THAT MIRRORS THE STATE OF FLORIDA'S,
13:02:14 UNDER FLORIDA STATUTE POLICY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CITY
13:02:18 CANNOT -- WHICH WAS THE WHOLE CAUSE OF THE DOWNFALL.
13:02:23 SO WE ARE VERY EXCITED THAT THAT WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL
13:02:26 FLEXIBILITY, BUT KEEPING IN MIND THE CITY'S APPROACH TO
13:02:31 EVERYTHING IS CONSERVATIVE.
13:02:33 SO EVEN IF THE EXPANDED INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES, WE WILL LA
13:02:37 TO PRESERVE OUR PRINCIPAL, AND REALLY, REALLY HAVE
13:02:46 FLEXIBILITY AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
13:02:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
13:02:51 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR YOUR UPDATE OF YOUR
13:02:53 PROJECTIONS, AND I BELIEVE ITEM NUMBER 24, A PROCESS THAT
13:03:00 GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO INVEST WISELY.
13:03:03 >>SONYA LITTLE: YES, SIR.
13:03:04 AND MR. CHAIRMAN, IF I MAY, I KIND OF TOUCHED ON THIS A
13:03:09 LITTLE BIT.
13:03:10 I HAVE IN REVENUE AND FINANCE AN AWESOME TEAM.
13:03:13 AND EACH OF YOU MET OUR BUDGET OFFICER IN OUR BRIEFING.
13:03:19 WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER.
13:03:20 AND WE ARE VERY PROUD OF OUR TEAM.
13:03:22 AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, OUR DEPARTMENTS ARE AWESOME.
13:03:26 THEY WORK VERY HARD TO KEEP THE COSTS DOWN.
13:03:28 THEY COMMUNICATE VERY, VERY EFFECTIVELY AND CONTINUOUSLY
13:03:33 WITH MUCH THE REVENUE AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
13:03:35 SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
13:03:37 IT'S REALLY A TEAM EFFORT.
13:03:38 AND THEY DO A FINE JOB.
13:03:40 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
13:03:43 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TWO POINTS.
13:03:44 I SECOND THE NOTION THAT WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE YOU.
13:03:47 I HAVE ONLY MET YOU A COUPLE OF TIMES BUT I AM VERY
13:03:49 IMPRESSED WITH YOUR MIX OF FINANCE, ACCOUNTING AND ALSO
13:03:53 ECONOMICS, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR ADVICE AND HELP.
13:03:57 IN ADDITION TO THAT, I WOULD LOVE AT SOME POINT -- I AM NOT
13:03:59 PROPOSING ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR RIGHT NOW BUT I WOULD LOVE
13:04:01 AT SOME POINT FOR US TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN BY
13:04:06 DIVERSIFYING, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN ONE OF THE CHARTS, SO
13:04:09 WE CAN AT LEAST BE MAYBE ON PART WITH THE GROWTH RATE OF THE
13:04:12 STATE OR OTHER CITIES THAT WE COMPARE OURSELVES AGAINST.
13:04:16 I WOULD LOVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW DIVERSE OUR ECONOMY CAN HELP
13:04:20 ADD TO THE REVENUE STREAMS.
13:04:23 A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION FOR ANOTHER TIME, BUT THERE'S
13:04:29 CITIES GET SO MUCH MONEY FROM IT AND THAT FLORIDA IN THE TEN
13:04:35 OR 12 YEAR BUST CYCLES, AND MY FEAR IS WE ARE HEADING TO
13:04:41 ANOTHER ONE AND WE NEED TO DIVERSIFY OUR ECONOMY.
13:04:44 AND I WAS VERY HEARTENED TO SEE AFTER WE WENT THROUGH OUR
13:04:47 INAUGURATION WE ALL CAME INTO THIS CHAMBER, BUT OUR NEW
13:04:50 MAYOR WENT TO AN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT THAT WAS
13:04:53 GOING ON. SO THAT GIVES ME HOPE THAT ALL OF US ARE
13:04:56 INTERESTED IN DIVERSIFYING THE ECONOMY.
13:04:58 I WOULD LOVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU ARE MODELING WITH HOW THE
13:05:01 INCREASED REVENUES RELATE TO TALL OF THAT.
13:05:03 THAT'S FOR ANOTHER DAY.
13:05:04 BUT THANK YOU.
13:05:05 >>LUIS VIERA: AND AGAIN THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.
13:05:08 I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH YOU FOR ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
13:05:11 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PLEASURE.
13:05:12 WE SPOKE YESTERDAY ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES.
13:05:14 I CONTINUE TO TAKE WHAT I CALL A MODEST CONSERVATIVE
13:05:16 APPROACH WITH REGARDS TO THE BUDGET, WHICH IS THAT THE
13:05:19 ECONOMY BE RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT 3.5% UNEMPLOYMENT IS NOT GOING
13:05:23 TO LAST FOREVER.
13:05:24 I WAS TALKING YESTERDAY ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES THEY'VE
13:05:26 SEEN IN OUR ECONOMY INCLUDING THE FACT THAT ONE OUT OF EVERY
13:05:28 FOUR OF OUR FEDERAL DOLLARS IN FEDERAL BUDGET DOLLARS IS
13:05:31 FROM A BUDGET DEFICIT, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A ROARING
13:05:36 ECONOMY.
13:05:36 THAT MAKES NO SENSE.
13:05:37 WE ARE SPENDING ABOUT 1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN MONEY
13:05:41 WE DON'T HAVE AND A $20 TRILLION GDP ECONOMY.
13:05:46 THAT'S NOT GOOD.
13:05:46 SO EVEN THOUGH THE ECONOMY IS VERY GOOD, I THINK THERE IS
13:05:51 CERTAIN JUSTIFICATION FOR BEING VERY CONSERVATIVE WITH THAT.
13:05:54 THAT BEING SAID, WE CANNOT OBVIOUSLY -- I KNOW WE ALL AGREE
13:05:57 ON THIS -- IGNORE THE NEEDS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
13:06:00 JUST DAP IN THIS COUNCIL MEETING WE HEARD FROM OUR FRIENDS
13:06:02 AT VILA BROTHERS PARK, AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 BUDGET, IN
13:06:08 2017 WE HEARD ABOUT BUSCH BOULEVARD, AN AREA THAT NEEDS
13:06:12 TREMENDOUS DEVELOPMENT.
13:06:12 I KNOW COUNCILMAN GUDES SINCE DAY ONE HAS BEEN VERY
13:06:16 PASSIONATE ABOUT INVESTING MORE IN EAST TAMPA.
13:06:18 WE SHARE THAT PASSION 110%.
13:06:20 SO WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS TOUGH DECISIONS AND
13:06:23 BUILD ON THE SUCCESSES AND BUILD ON THE TOUGH DECISIONS THAT
13:06:26 THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL HAS INCLUDING 2017 WITH THE BUDGET VOTE
13:06:30 THAT WE TOOK.
13:06:31 THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
13:06:33 WE HAVE TO TIGHTEN OUR BELT.
13:06:35 BUT WE CAN'T TIGHTEN SO MUCH THAT WE IGNORE THE NEEDS OF OUR
13:06:38 NEIGHBORHOODS.
13:06:38 WE CAN'T DRIVE 16 OR 14 BUT WE SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE
13:06:42 DRIVING 45 MILES PER HOUR.
13:06:43 MAYBE WE SHOULD DRIVE 40.
13:06:45 I GUESS THAT'S MY MESSAGE.
13:06:47 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
13:06:47 >>SONYA LITTLE: THANK YOU.
13:06:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
13:06:54 THANK YOU.
13:06:56 OKAY.
13:06:57 NOW WE GO TO INFORMATION REPORTS AND MOTIONS BY COUNCIL.
13:07:00 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
13:07:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M GOOD.
13:07:03 THANK YOU.
13:07:06 [NO ENCODER] [OFF MICROPHONE] I'M SORRY, MR. CHAIRMAN.
13:07:15 I MAKE A MOTION, ACCOMMODATION TO JAMES WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF
13:07:19 THE YELLOW JACKETS LITTLE LEAGUE, AND CONTINUES SERVE THE
13:07:22 COMMUNITY.
13:07:22 MR. WRIGHT WHO IS A LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL ICON, THE
13:07:28 COMMENDATION WILL BE PRESENTED TO HIM AT A LATER DATE.
13:07:32 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
13:07:34 ALL IN FAVOR?
13:07:35 OPPOSED? ANYTHING FURTHER?
13:07:37 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING, THANK YOU.
13:07:39 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
13:07:40 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENT A COMMENDATION TO A
13:07:44 YOUNG MR. EVAN WILSON ON JULY 18th FOR ACHIEVING HIS
13:07:49 EAGLE SCOUT.
13:07:50 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
13:07:52 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
13:07:54 ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
13:07:57 NAY. JUST KIDDING.
13:07:58 [ LAUGHTER ]
13:08:04 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
13:08:06 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENDATION TO MR. CHAIRMAN LEE
13:08:09 HOFFMAN WHO IS RETIRING AFTER 16 YEARS WITH BE THE CITY OF
13:08:12 TAMPA.
13:08:12 HE SERVED IN THE CITY BEST KNOWN FOR THE CITY RIVERWALK, IN
13:08:20 2016 AGREED TO BECOME A TRAINING MANAGER FOR THE CITY HUMAN
13:08:23 RESOURCE OFFICE.
13:08:24 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THAT COMMENDATION TO HIM ON MAY
13:08:27 23rd, 2019.
13:08:29 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
13:08:30 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
13:08:32 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
13:08:34 ALL IN FAVOR?
13:08:35 ANY OPPOSED? ANYTHING FURTHER?
13:08:39 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I APOLOGIZE.
13:08:41 ON THE 18th WE DO HAVE A WORKSHOP.
13:08:43 SO THAT COMMENDATION YOUNG MR. EVAN WILSON WILL BE IN THE
13:08:47 EVENING SESSION.
13:08:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THERE YOU GO.
13:08:49 AND AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO. SECOND
13:08:52 BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
13:08:54 ALL IN FAVOR?
13:08:55 ANY OPPOSED? OKAY.
13:08:59 JUST VERY BRIEFLY IF I MAY.
13:09:00 I MOVE THAT NEXT WEEK, WHICH IS THE WEEK BEFORE MEMORIAL
13:09:02 DAY, THAT CRAIG GROSS, A GOLD STAR PARENTS WHOSE SON DIED IN
13:09:08 AFGHANISTAN, MAKE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON WHAT MEMORIAL DAY
13:09:10 MEANS TO THE FAMILIES OF FALLEN SOLDIERS, ON MAY 23rd AT
13:09:15 9:00 A.M. UNDER CEREMONIAL ACTIVITIES.
13:09:18 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: (OFF MICROPHONE) SECONDED BY
13:09:20 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA -- [OFF MICROPHONE]
13:09:24 >>LUIS VIERA: THIS PAST SATURDAY, COUNCILMAN GUDES, AND
13:09:27 COUNCILMAN CITRO AND I, WHO ARE LAUGHING ALREADY, WENT TO A
13:09:30 FIRE TRAINING SESSION WHICH WAS JUST AWESOME.
13:09:32 I MEAN, I SHOWED MYSELF TO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A
13:09:36 FIREFIGHTER, CLEARLY.
13:09:38 BUT IT WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
13:09:40 AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY UP HERE IF YOU CAN TO MAKE
13:09:43 IT TO NEXT YEAR, AND ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL TO SEE THIS,
13:09:47 BECAUSE AS MUCH OF AN APPRECIATION WE HAVE FOR FIRST
13:09:51 RESPONDERS, AND WE KNOW COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS ALMOST 30 YEARS
13:09:54 WITH TPD, THIS JUST GIVES YOU .1% OF WHAT THEY GO THROUGH,
13:10:00 REALLY INCREASES AWARENESS OF WHAT THEY DO.
13:10:02 LASTLY, ON A PERSONAL SENTIMENT, PUT MY SUPPORT, I KNOW CITY
13:10:06 COUNCIL PREVIOUSLY VOTED ON THIS ON THE STATE LEVEL, BUT THE
13:10:10 U.S. HOUSE IS GOING TO BE VOTING ON THE EQUALITY ACT THAT
13:10:12 DEALS WITH DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL
13:10:15 ORIENTATION, AND I KNOW THAT WE STRONGLY SUPPORT THAT, AND I
13:10:18 HOPE THAT IF IT DOES GET TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
13:10:20 STATES, I DOUBT IT WILL GO IN THE SENATE, BUT I HOPE THAT
13:10:25 BEN DIAMOND OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA HAS BEEN TRYING TO PASS.
13:10:28 THAT JUST A PERSONAL NOTE.
13:10:29 >>SAL TERRITO: I HAD A LITTLE DISCUSSION WITH MY STAFF ON
13:10:34 THE QUESTION OF WHETHER SOMEONE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO MOVE
13:10:37 FORWARD OR NOT.
13:10:38 WE DID SOME MORE RESEARCH.
13:10:39 IT'S IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.
13:10:41 RATHER THAN A DEFINITIVE ANSWER, WE WOULD LIKE TO GET A
13:10:45 CLEARER CLARIFICATION FOR YOU AND WE'LL GET TO BE THAT TO
13:10:48 YOU AS SOON AS WE CAN.
13:10:49 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
13:10:51 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
13:10:53 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
13:10:54 ALL IN FAVOR?
13:10:55 OF ANY OPPOSED?
13:10:56 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
13:10:56 [SOUNDING GAVEL]
13:11:01 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU ARE ADJOURNED?
13:11:03 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
13:11:05
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