TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020
9:00 A.M.
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09:02:05 [SOUNDING GAVEL]
09:02:13 >> CHAIRMAN LUIS VIERA: CITY COUNCIL IS IN SESSION.
09:02:14 [SOUNDING GAVEL] OKAY.
09:02:22 ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:02:25 I ALWAYS FORGET THAT.
09:02:26 WHO IS DOING THE PRAYER?
09:02:29 GO FOR IT.
09:02:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THIS MORNING I HAVE THE HONOR OF HAVING
09:02:55 PASTOR DANIELS DOING THE PRAYER FOR THE MORNING.
09:02:58 PASTOR JAMES DANIELS III IS PASTOR OF CHRIST THE
09:03:03 KING MINISTRY, HE'S A LICENSED ORDAINED MINISTER OF THE
09:03:06 COUNCIL OF JESUS CHRIST.
09:03:08 HE HAS BEEN PREACHING SINCE 2011.
09:03:17 PASTOR DANIELS IS A HUSBAND AND FATHER OF NINE,
09:03:24 GRANDFATHER OF EIGHT, PASTOR DANIELS WAS BORN IN TAMPA
09:03:28 AND RAISED IN EAST TAMPA, AND ALSO ON THE LAND IN SULPHUR
09:03:37 SPRINGS.
09:03:38 PASTOR DANIELS IS WORKING ON NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS.
09:03:41 IT'S A PROGRAM WHERE HE HELPS HOMELESS FAMILIES BE ABLE
09:03:47 TO SHOWER SO THEY CAN HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE
09:03:50 COMMUNITY.
09:03:50 I WELCOME YOU, PASTOR JAMES E. DANIELS III.
09:04:03 >> FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, FATHER.
09:04:09 WE THANK YOU FOR THESE GREAT MEN AND WOMEN THAT SERVE THE
09:04:12 CITY OF TAMPA.
09:04:14 FATHER, HELP THEM MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS THAT AFFECTS
09:04:18 THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:04:21 FATHER, WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THESE MEN AND WOMEN
09:04:24 THAT FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY -- EQUALITY ON THE TAMPA POLICE
09:04:29 DEPARTMENT.
09:04:30 FATHER, WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO GIVE THEM THE STRENGTH, TO
09:04:34 CONTINUE THE FIGHT, THE GOOD FIGHT, FATHER.
09:04:36 FATHER, WE WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT'S HERE IN THEIR
09:04:39 RESPECTIVE PLACES, FATHER.
09:04:41 BLESS THE HANDS THAT DO YOUR WILL AND YOUR WORK.
09:04:46 THESE ARE BLESSINGS WE ASK.
09:04:49 IN YOUR SON'S JESUS NAME, WE PRAY.
09:04:55 AMEN.
09:04:55 [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
09:04:59 >>LUIS VIERA: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:05:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:05:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:05:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:05:12 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
09:05:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:05:15 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:05:17 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:05:17 RAH COUPLE OF THINGS BEFORE WE MOVE TO APPROVAL OF THE
09:05:20 AGENDA.
09:05:31 NUMBER 85.
09:05:32 COUNCILMAN GUDES, IS THAT GOING TO BE WITHDRAWN AND
09:05:35 PENDING LITIGATION, SIR?
09:05:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE] FROM MARCH 5th,
09:05:44 2020.
09:05:45 >>LUIS VIERA: DO WE HAVE A MOTION?
09:05:46 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:05:48 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:05:50 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:05:51 ANY OPPOSED?
09:05:52 OKAY.
09:05:53 NEXT, YOU HAVE A STAFF REPORT YOU WANTED.
09:05:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:06:00 UNDER NEW BUSINESS.
09:06:03 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THE ONE FROM THE MEMO.
09:06:05 MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO AMEND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO,
09:06:09 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:11 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:06:12 ANY OPPOSED?
09:06:12 OKAY.
09:06:16 AND THEN ITEM NUMBER 6, I BELIEVE, IS BEING MOVED TO
09:06:19 APRIL 2nd.
09:06:20 MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO THAT EFFECT?
09:06:21 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:24 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:06:26 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:06:27 ANY OPPOSED?
09:06:28 LET'S GO VERY BRIEFLY -- AND I'M SORRY, NUMBER 87.
09:06:33 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, IS THAT STAYING ON?
09:06:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: STAFF HAS REQUESTED AND I CONCUR OF
09:06:39 MAKING A MOTION OF SIXTY DAY EXTENSION ON ITEM 87 WHICH
09:06:46 IS DISABLED PARKING DOWNTOWN.
09:06:49 >>LUIS VIERA: DO WE HAVE A DATE?
09:06:51 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU HAVE A FULL 16th OR MAY 7th
09:06:54 ARE YOUR REGULAR MEETINGS.
09:06:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: APRIL IS FINE.
09:06:57 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:07:01 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:07:03 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:07:03 ANY OPPOSED?
09:07:04 AND THEN VERY BRIEFLY HERE, LOOKING THROUGH THE STAFF
09:07:07 REPORTS, I WANTED TO JUST GO THROUGH, WHICH ONE OF THESE
09:07:10 DO WE REQUIRE -- LET'S GO THROUGH THERE'S VERY QUICKLY.
09:07:14 83.
09:07:14 DO WE REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER HERE?
09:07:16 ANYBODY WISH TO HAVE A STAFF MEMBER HERE FOR 83?
09:07:20 SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE.
09:07:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M GOOD WITH IT.
09:07:30 >>LUIS VIERA: WE ARE GOOD.
09:07:31 SO NONE.
09:07:32 84.
09:07:32 ANYBODY NEED STAFF FOR 84?
09:07:35 NOBODY?
09:07:36 OKAY.
09:07:37 88, WE HAVE SOMEONE APPEARING, CORRECT?
09:07:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT WOULD BE MINE.
09:07:48 >>LUIS VIERA: SO 88.
09:07:49 89, IN A APPEARANCE.
09:07:54 COUNCILMAN GUDES, DO YOU WANT SOMEONE FOR 89?
09:07:57 SO WE'LL DO 89 APPEAR.
09:08:00 90, YES.
09:08:03 91, YES, CORRECT.
09:08:08 92, THAT'S MINE.
09:08:10 NO, I DO NOT NEED AN APPEARANCE FOR THAT.
09:08:12 93, THAT'S MINE, YES.
09:08:14 94, THAT IS BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:08:21 A LIVE APPEARANCE, SIR?
09:08:23 >> YES.
09:08:25 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
09:08:25 95, YES.
09:08:28 96, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, LIVE APPEARANCE, YES.
09:08:33 97, THAT IS COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:08:35 LIVE APPEARANCE?
09:08:36 YES.
09:08:37 AND THEN 9 WE DON'T NEED.
09:08:39 AND -- 98.
09:08:43 ALL RIGHT.
09:08:45 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:08:49 SECONDED BID COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:08:53 ALL RIGHT.
09:08:54 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M SORRY, I SENT YOU A NOTE ON ITEM
09:08:56 28.
09:08:58 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, THANK YOU.
09:09:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'LL JUST ADDRESS 28 WHEN I GET THERE.
09:09:08 >>LUIS VIERA: NO WORRIES.
09:09:09 YES, SIR.
09:09:10 WE HAVE CEREMONIAL ACTIVITIES.
09:09:16 WE HAVE MANY, MANY WOMEN FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY THAT
09:09:19 I KNOW WHAT TO DO THEIR JOB AND DO THEIR JOB IN
09:09:23 PROTECTING US SO WE ARE GOING DO MOVE NUMBER 4 TO NUMBER
09:09:26 1 AND I WILL LEAVE THAT TO OUR FRIEND COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:10:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT'S A SPECIAL DAY.
09:10:17 COUNCIL, LET ME JUST START BY SAYING FOR ME, IT IS A
09:10:23 PLEASURE TO HAVE WHAT I CALL THE TRAILBLAZERS.
09:10:30 IN THE EARLY DAYS, YOU KNOW DISCRIMINATION WAS VERY, VERY
09:10:33 BAD.
09:10:34 AND WHEN I FIRST CAME ON, SANDY FREEDMAN GAVE ME MY FIRST
09:10:39 OPPORTUNITY WHEN SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO HAVE MORE
09:10:41 MINORITY HIRED IN THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:10:44 A LOT OF MY FRIENDS TODAY WHO HAVE RETIRED, I LOVE THEM
09:10:50 DEARLY, NOTICE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK AT THE POLICE
09:10:54 DEPARTMENT AND TO SERVE OUR CITIZENS.
09:10:55 AND WE HEAR THE STORIES FROM THE OLD TIMES, AS WE CALL
09:10:58 THEM, OF THE REAL HISTORY.
09:11:07 I GET CHILLS WHEN I THINK OF THE GENTLEMEN WHO PAVED THE
09:11:12 WAY, TO FEED MYSELF AND MY FAMILY THROUGH THE YEARS,
09:11:17 UNDERSTANDING THE GOOD TIMES AND THE BAD TIMES WITHIN THE
09:11:19 POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND MAKING SURE I FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
09:11:22 AND TO HELP OTHERS, BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT.
09:11:35 AND HELP WITH THOSE BARRIERS, BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE DON'T
09:11:37 KNOW WHAT THE BARRIERS ARE.
09:11:40 I HAD TO LEARN THAT A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
09:11:42 SO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW, YOU CAN'T REALLY HELP.
09:11:47 YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE CULTURE, PEOPLE, SOCIETY, TO MOVE
09:11:51 THINGS FORWARD.
09:12:12 HE CAME HERE AS POLICE CHIEF AND MADE THE DECISION, AND
09:12:18 YOU MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.
09:12:20 AND FOR YEARS AT THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT, I HAD TO
09:12:29 BEAT THE ODDS.
09:12:30 I KNOW WHAT THE ODDS ARE LIKE.
09:12:37 BUT THE TRAILBLAZERS, BY THE TIME THEY JOINED THE FORCE
09:12:47 IN 71, BLACKS STILL FACED DISCRIMINATION ON A DAILY
09:12:51 BASIS.
09:12:52 WE WATCHED GUYS RIDE MOTORCYCLES, AND RETIRED AS POLICE
09:13:03 LIEUTENANT, IS THAT CORRECT?
09:13:06 SPECIALIZED JOBS.
09:13:08 AND RUFUS LEWIS, FRANK GRAY, JAMES DUKES, CLARENCE
09:13:22 NATHAN.
09:13:24 YOU KNOW, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE CHIEF HAD A METHODOLOGY
09:13:35 BECAUSE HE CAME FROM A MORE DIVERSE CITY IN MIAMI, AND HE
09:13:39 CAME HERE AND IMMEDIATELY SAW THAT HE CAME IN AND CHANGED
09:13:49 IT.
09:13:51 AND WE MADE SOME STRIDES.
09:13:54 WHEN I CAME ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, I THINK THOSE
09:14:01 NUMBERS ARE MAYBE OVER 100.
09:14:03 WE.
09:14:04 REALLY MOVED THE NEEDLE.
09:14:05 I DON'T KNOW REALLY THE REASONS WHY.
09:14:08 BUT IT'S SOMETHING TO EXPLORE TO GIVE MINORITIES,
09:14:11 HISPANICS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DON'T MOVE
09:14:16 INTO COMMUNITIES THAT YOU ARE RAISED IN, YOU DON'T REALLY
09:14:19 KNOW THE CULTURE, THE SOCIETY, AND THAT BRINGS A
09:14:22 DIFFERENCE TO HAVE A DIVERSE DEPARTMENT SO PEOPLE CAN
09:14:26 UNDERSTAND ABOUT EVERYBODY.
09:14:28 I KNOW WHEN I WAS A GUY ON A SQUAD, AND NEW GUYS IN, I
09:14:38 SAID YOU NEED TO KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
09:14:45 TO UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:14:48 AND I HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE CULTURE OF PEOPLE.
09:14:54 I LIVED IN A PLACE, I DIDN'T KNOW THE CULTURE.
09:15:01 AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW HISTORY.
09:15:05 THAT'S WHY I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT IT TODAY, TO SAY
09:15:12 THANK YOU, JOB WELL DONE.
09:15:15 JOB WELL DONE.
09:15:15 WE STILL HAVE SOME CHALLENGES.
09:15:19 IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME.
09:15:20 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:15:58 FRANK GRAY, JAMES DUKE, CLARENCE NATHAN, RUFUS LEWIS.
09:16:04 TAMPA CITY COUNCIL HONORS FOUR COURAGEOUS MEN WHO PAVED
09:16:07 THE WAY FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR BLACKS, WOMEN, AND
09:16:10 OTHER MINORITY GROUPS, AND THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:16:14 IN 1974, YOU TOOK THE COURAGE AND BOLD ACTION OF SEEKING
09:16:18 JUSTICE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TO FIGHT INDIFFERENCE,
09:16:24 INTOLERANCE, DISCRIMINATION AND PROMPTED A MOVEMENT TO
09:16:27 BRING A VOICE TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT HEARD.
09:16:29 SERVING AS THE REPRESENTATIVE TO A NECESSARY CHANGE, YOUR
09:16:33 ACTIONS HELPED TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE
09:16:37 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE COMMUNITY.
09:16:39 YOU HAVE ADVANCED THE CITY OF TAMPA BY BUILDING RESPECT
09:16:42 AND CHANGING BEHAVIOR THEREBY INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES TO
09:16:46 ALL WHO ARE COMMITTED TO SERVE THAT THEY UNDOUBTEDLY
09:16:51 DESERVED.
09:16:52 YOUR COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE AND EQUALITY MADE A LASTING
09:16:57 BOND OF UNITY WITHIN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND IN THE
09:16:59 COMMUNITY.
09:17:00 YOUR PASSION AND ADMIRABLE STRENGTH HAVE BEEN A GUIDING
09:17:03 BEACON FOR PROGRESS IN OUR CITY.
09:17:05 YOUR INCREDIBLE LEGACY HAS GONE FROM GENERATION TO
09:17:10 GENERATION TOUCHING THE LIVES AND CAREERS OF MANY.
09:17:12 FOR THESE INVALUABLE ACTIONS THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL IS
09:17:15 PROUD AND HONORED TO PRESENT THIS COMMENDATION TO SUCH
09:17:19 DESERVING HEROES OF OUR COMMUNITY.
09:17:21 IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE PRESENT THIS
09:17:23 COMMENDATION ON THIS 20th DAY OF FEBRUARY 2020.
09:17:27 THANK YOU.
09:17:27 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:17:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MAY AIDE TYPED IT UP AND SHE FELT
09:17:46 SOMETHING, TOO.
09:17:47 AND SHE SAID SHE WANTS TO DO THAT.
09:17:49 I SAID, WELL -- I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FEW
09:17:58 WORDS AND ADDRESS THE COUNCIL.
09:17:59 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:18:02 TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, IT'S BEEN 45 YEARS SINCE THE FOUR OF
09:18:08 US STEPPED FORWARD TO TRY TO MAKE A CHANGE WITHIN THE
09:18:11 POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WITHIN THE CITY.
09:18:15 TODAY, I STAND AS THE OLDEST LIVING BLACK RETIRED OFFICER
09:18:20 WITH TAMPA PD.
09:18:22 I'M THE LAST ONE.
09:18:24 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:18:25 I'M THE LAST ONE TO HAVE REALLY EXPERIENCED THE
09:18:31 SEGREGATION THAT EXISTED IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN I
09:18:34 WENT ON IN 1963.
09:18:38 BUT AS THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE, WE DON'T REGRET
09:18:43 THE SACRIFICE THAT WE MADE TO BRING THINGS, HOPING THAT
09:18:49 THINGS WOULD COME TO WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
09:18:51 AS A RESULT, WE HAVE HAD TWO BLACK CHIEFS OF POLICE, WE
09:18:56 HAVE MAYOR CASTOR, CHIEF OF POLICE, AND THERE ARE MANY
09:19:00 CHANGES.
09:19:00 AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN THIS
09:19:03 OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SACRIFICE.
09:19:08 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:19:08 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:19:15 >> GOOD EVENING TO EVERYONE.
09:19:17 AND I ALSO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AS WELL.
09:19:22 I THINK FRANK GRAY SAID ENOUGH FOR US AND IT WAS AT THE
09:19:28 BEGINNING WHEN WE FIRST STARTED FOR ALL FOUR OF US.
09:19:35 BUT IT HAS BEEN A REWARDING EXPERIENCE.
09:19:37 IT'S BEEN A ROUGH ROAD, ROUGH RIDE.
09:19:39 SOME DAYS WE WERE ACCEPTED IN AND SOME DAYS WE WERE NOT
09:19:42 ACCEPTED IN, AND WE FELT THAT WAS UNFAIR.
09:19:44 AND ALL WE WERE ASKING AT THE VERY BEGINNING IS TO BE
09:19:47 TREATED FAIR.
09:19:48 IF YOU TREAT ME FAIR, I'M FINE.
09:19:52 IF YOU TREAT ME WRONG ...
09:20:00 BUT THANK GOD, HE LOOKED OUT FOR ME, AND I AM HERE TO
09:20:06 SURVIVE A LOT OF THINGS.
09:20:08 BUT I THANK THE COUNCIL.
09:20:09 I THANK YOU GUYS FOR DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
09:20:11 I SEE A FEW PEOPLE UP THERE.
09:20:12 I REMEMBER MIRANDA RIGHT THERE.
09:20:14 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:20:16 BUT WE USED TO WORK TOGETHER YEARS AGO WITH BOBBIE
09:20:21 BOWDEN, BUT WE DID.
09:20:24 AND RECOGNIZE THE DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF POLICE.
09:20:33 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:20:35 >> GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY.
09:20:46 I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING HERE, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL HEAR ME.
09:20:55 WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
09:21:01 I'M HOPING THAT YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYOR, CAN BUILD ON
09:21:06 THE LEGACY THAT WE SET FORTH.
09:21:10 WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, THE FOUR OF US, COLLECTIVELY,
09:21:14 IS TO HAVE A PERMANENT FIXTURE, STATUE OR PLACARD OR
09:21:21 SOMETHING PERMANENT TO RECOGNIZE THIS EVENT THAT WE WENT
09:21:25 THROUGH.
09:21:27 THERE WAS NOTHING TO COMPARE WHAT WE WENT THROUGH IN THAT
09:21:32 DEPARTMENT.
09:21:34 NOTHING.
09:21:37 THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE THAT I CAN REMEMBER TO COMPARE THE
09:21:43 DAYS THAT -- THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAD THAT THEY HAVE GONE
09:21:47 THROUGH.
09:21:47 THAT WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HE HAVE RECEIPTS.
09:21:55 I COMPARE WHAT WE WENT THROUGH WITH THEM.
09:21:57 AND IF YOU CAN FIND IT WITHIN YOUR HEART TO PUT SOMETHING
09:22:05 IN FRONT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ALONG THE -- SOMETHING
09:22:11 PERMANENT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS THAT WE HAVE DONE.
09:22:14 SOMETHING.
09:22:18 I APPRECIATE COUNCILMAN GUDES' EFFORTS.
09:22:21 I APPRECIATE THE PLAQUE, BUT THE PLAQUE IS TEMPORARY.
09:22:27 WE WANT SOMETHING PERMANENT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IT IS THAT
09:22:30 WE DID, NOT ONLY FOR US BUT FOR OUR GENERATIONS TO COME
09:22:37 BEHIND US, THE YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS, TO RECOGNIZE WHAT
09:22:40 IT IS, WHO IT IS THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR THEM, BECAUSE WE
09:22:49 HAD A DEBT TO PAY, THEY WILL HAVE A DEBT TO PAY TO US.
09:22:52 SO WE ASK THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THAT AND MAKE THAT PLAQUE
09:22:58 OUTSIDE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, SOMETHING.
09:23:02 COUNCILMAN GUDES CAN PROBABLY WORK WITH YOU ON THAT H.BUT
09:23:03 I AM ASKING YOU, I AM PLEADING WITH YOU, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
09:23:08 THANK YOU.
09:23:08 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:23:11 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:23:18 TO THE HONORABLE MAYOR, JOHN CASTOR, CHIEF BRIAN DUGAN,
09:23:25 COUNCILMAN GUDES, I PAUSE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE
09:23:27 OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU HAVE PRESENTED TO US.
09:23:30 THIS IS A SPECIAL INDICATION WHICH YOU ARE PROVIDING TO
09:23:34 RECOGNIZE WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED.
09:23:36 IT'S NOT JUST FROM THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT, IT'S OUR
09:23:42 CITY GOVERNMENT.
09:23:43 AND SANITATION WORKERS WERE NOT BEING PROMOTED, PUBLIC
09:23:50 WORKS WORKERS WERE NOT BEING PROMOTED, THERE WITH NO
09:23:55 BLACKS IN CITY HALL.
09:23:56 SO AFTER THIS SUIT THE ENTIRE CITY GOVERNMENT CHANGED AND
09:24:00 WE JUST PAUSE TO SAY THANK GOD FOR BEING WITH US.
09:24:02 WE CALLED OURSELVES AT THE TIME AND CONTINUE TO DO SO THE
09:24:06 FEARLESS FOUR, BECAUSE I GOT TRANSFERRED FOUR TIMES IN
09:24:12 ONE DAY WHEN THIS SUIT CAME OUT TO THE CITY.
09:24:16 AND SO WE WENT THROUGH -- I WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE FOUR
09:24:20 OF US.
09:24:21 I ONLY HAD TWO YEARS ON AT THE TIME AND I HAD A BUNCH OF
09:24:25 BABIES AND I WAS SCARED.
09:24:26 BUT THE LORD BROUGHT US THROUGH THAT, BUT WOULD YOU BE
09:24:31 REMISS IF I DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE GENTLEMEN WHO WERE
09:24:35 BEFORE US, THE ONES THAT REALLY WENT THROUGH AGONY.
09:24:41 ROMEO COLE, SR., OSCAR ALIA, JOHN LANE.
09:24:48 THE LIST IS A VERY LONG LIST OF THESE MEN, BOB CLEVELAND,
09:24:55 ALL OF THESE MEN WHO WENT FORTH BEFORE WE DID, AND THEY
09:25:00 WERE NOT ALLOWED TO RIDE IN POLICE CARS.
09:25:04 THEY WERE BEING TRANSPORTED IN THE BACK SEAT OF A POLICE
09:25:07 CAR DOWN TO THEIR BEAT ON CENTRAL AVENUE OR MAIN STREET.
09:25:10 IT COULD -- THEY COULD NOT ARREST ANY WHITE PEOPLE DURING
09:25:14 THAT TIME PERIOD.
09:25:14 THEY DID NOT MAKE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THEIR
09:25:17 WHITE COUNTERPARTS MADE AND THEY STUCK IT OUT FOR 20, 25
09:25:22 YEARS AND DID THEIR TIME AND WHEN I GOT THERE WE WERE
09:25:25 JUST GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE YOU COULD RIDE YOUR OWN
09:25:29 CAR AND I WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FIRST ONES TO BE
09:25:31 ASSIGNED TO THE DAVIS ISLAND AREA AND SOUTH TAMPA AREA,
09:25:35 AND SO IT WAS JUST A MAJOR IMPACT THAT THESE MEN SET
09:25:40 FORTH BECAUSE THEY HAD TO CHANGE CLOTHES ACROSS THE
09:25:46 STREET IN THE GARAGE.
09:25:46 THEY COULDN'T CHANGE THE UNIFORM IN THE LOCKER ROOM WITH
09:25:49 THE REST OF US.
09:25:50 WHEN ROLL CALL WAS BEING HELD, THEY HAD TO STAND OUT IN
09:25:52 THE HALLWAY.
09:25:54 THEY WASN'T ALLOWED TO SIT IN THE ROLL CALL WITH DID
09:25:57 WHITE OFFICERS.
09:25:58 SO THESE MEN ENDURED A LOT MORE THAN WE EVER DID BUT THEY
09:26:01 ALLOWED US TO STAND ON THEIR SHOULDERS TO MOVE THE BALL
09:26:03 FORWARD.
09:26:04 AND WE ARE STILL WANTING THE OTHER OFFICERS TO UNDERSTAND
09:26:10 IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE IT IS TODAY.
09:26:11 THERE WAS A TIME THAT WE WOULD FOCUS ON VERY DIFFICULT
09:26:16 MOMENTS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:26:17 BUT I STOP TO SAY THIS, TOO.
09:26:19 WE ARE NOT ALL BAD TIMES.
09:26:23 THEY WERE NOT ALL BAD PEOPLE IN THE TAMPA POLICE
09:26:25 DEPARTMENT.
09:26:25 I MADE SOME LIFE-LONG FRIENDS OF MINE BEING IN THE TAMPA
09:26:29 POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:26:30 SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS
09:26:33 RECOGNITION THIS MORNING.
09:26:35 I PRAY GOD BLESSINGS WILL BE UPON THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:26:38 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:26:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COUNCIL, YOU HEARD IT BEST FROM THE
09:26:49 PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE.
09:26:51 ALL I CAN SAY NOW IS WE MOVE FORWARD AND MAKE SURE THAT
09:26:54 WE CONTINUE TO DO, TO HAVE EQUALITY IN OUR CITY, IN ALL
09:26:59 OUR DEVELOPMENTS, WHICH I THINK THE MAYOR DOING HER BEST
09:27:03 TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
09:27:05 I KNOW THIS COUNCIL WILL ALSO HEAR WHAT OUR CITY IS
09:27:10 ABOUT.
09:27:10 WE ARE ABOUT INCLUSION.
09:27:11 PEOPLE WANT TO COME HERE.
09:27:13 THEY WANT TO LIVE HERE.
09:27:14 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THEY SEE ALL THAT TAMPA OFFERS AND
09:27:18 SEE THAT WE ARE THE BEST PLACE THAT EVERYONE IS AT THE
09:27:22 TABLE AND HAS A SEAT.
09:27:23 SO I TURN IT BACK TO YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:27:25 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:27:30 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:27:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.
09:27:32 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING DOWN HERE, BUT MORE
09:27:36 IMPORTANTLY THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR OW CITY.
09:27:42 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY
09:27:45 ATTENTION ESPECIALLY DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
09:27:48 WHEN I HEAR YOUR STORY, AND I THINK OF THE COURAGE AND
09:27:55 THE STRENGTH AND THE SACRIFICE THAT YOU MADE, GENTLEMEN
09:28:02 TALKED ABOUT HAVING YOUNG CHILDREN, YOU HAVE GOT TO WEIGH
09:28:05 THAT, WHAT HAPPENS IF I LOSE MY JOB, AND HOW CAN I FEED
09:28:08 MY CHILDREN, AND THEIR DAY TO DAY CONCERNS ON BALANCE
09:28:12 WITH MAKING SOMETHING RIGHT, YOU KNOW.
09:28:15 AND WHAT IT BRINGS MY MIND TO IS WHAT HAPPENED IN
09:28:21 WASHINGTON A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, BACK IN DECEMBER, WHEN
09:28:25 THOSE BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP, AND THEY
09:28:30 WERE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, REGULAR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
09:28:33 BUT WHEN THEY SAW SOMETHING THAT WAS WRONG, THEY STOOD UP
09:28:35 AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
09:28:37 AND HERE WE ARE AT A LOCAL LEVEL, 40-SOMETHING YEARS AGO,
09:28:42 45 YEARS AGO, YOU GUYS HAD THE BRAVERY AND THE COURAGE
09:28:45 AND THE STRENGTH AND THE SACRIFICE TO STAND UP AND SAY
09:28:51 THIS IS WRONG.
09:28:52 NOT JUST FOR YOURSELVES BUT FOR EVERYBODY THAT CAME
09:28:55 LATER.
09:28:56 AND I THINK WHOEVER SPOKE TO IT ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOU
09:28:59 NOT ONLY INFLUENCED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUT EVERY OTHER
09:29:02 DEPARTMENT BECAUSE NOW WE SEE IT ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
09:29:05 WE SEE HOPEFULLY FAIRNESS.
09:29:08 I'M SURE NOTHING IS PERFECT.
09:29:09 BUT HOPEFULLY WE SEE FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY ACROSS THE
09:29:13 CITY.
09:29:13 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS CITY.
09:29:15 THIS IS A CITY OF DIVERSITY.
09:29:18 I WAS BORN HERE, TOO.
09:29:19 THIS IS A CITY OF DIVERSITY.
09:29:21 WE ALL CARE ABOUT ONE ANOTHER.
09:29:23 WE ARE PROUD TO BE DIVERSE.
09:29:24 AND WE CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSITY THROUGH YOU.
09:29:27 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE.
09:29:28 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCIL.
09:29:32 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:29:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE IN YOUR
09:29:36 PRESENCE AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OUR CITY AND FOR SO
09:29:38 MANY PEOPLE.
09:29:39 AND WHAT WAS MENTIONED ABOUT A PERMANENT MARKER, A
09:29:43 PLAQUE, ANYTHING, BECAUSE YOU GO TO YBOR CITY AND YOU
09:29:47 HAVE THE STORY OF THE SPANISH AND CUBANS AND ITALIANS,
09:29:52 YOU GO TO WEST TAMPA YOU GET THE SAME.
09:29:54 FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY I CAN'T TAKE YOU DOWN CENTRAL
09:29:55 AVENUE BECAUSE IT'S GONE.
09:29:57 I CAN'T SHOW YOU BLACK HISTORY BEYOND THE JACKSON HOUSE
09:30:00 THAT HOPEFULLY IS RESTORED.
09:30:02 WHEN YOU SAY I WANT A PERMANENT MARKER, AND I THINK THE
09:30:05 ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING, I THINK WE SHOULD PUT
09:30:07 SOMETHING IN FRONT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:30:08 I WALK DOWN FRANKLIN STREET.
09:30:11 MORE PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE.
09:30:12 BUT THEY NEED TO STOP AND SEED THE HISTORY AND KNOW THE
09:30:15 STORY AND KNOW THE PEOPLE, YOU, THAT PAVED THE WAY AND
09:30:19 WERE TRAILBLAZERS AND DID SO MUCH OF WHAT THE FUTURE
09:30:23 GENERATIONS ARE BENEFITING FROM TODAY.
09:30:25 I HOPE THE ADMINISTRATION, THE MAYOR IS LISTENING, AND I
09:30:28 ENCOURAGE SOME KIND OF PERMANENT PLAQUE, MEMORIAL RIGHT
09:30:32 OUT THERE ON FRANKLIN STREET SO PEOPLE THAT WALK BY CAN
09:30:35 READ THOSE NAMES AND HEAR THE STORY AND THEY KNOW.
09:30:37 BECAUSE AGAIN, THE BLACK HISTORY COMMUNITY SO MUCH HAS
09:30:41 BEEN DEMOLISHED AND WE NEED TO PRESERVE EVERY BIT OF IT
09:30:44 THAT WE CAN AND CONTINUE SHARING THAT WITH OUR CURRENT
09:30:46 AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
09:30:48 THANK YOU.
09:30:48 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:30:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:30:53 >>BILL CARLSON: I ALSO WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF SOME KIND OF
09:30:55 MEMORIAL SO MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT OFFLINE.
09:30:58 BUT PEOPLE WHO CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO ARE CALLED
09:31:02 RADICALS AND DISRUPTERS OF THEIR DAY, AND THEN HISTORY
09:31:05 LOOKS AT THEM DIFFERENTLY.
09:31:07 AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
09:31:09 THANK YOU, ORLANDO, FOR BRINGING THIS HISTORY TO US AND
09:31:11 THANK YOU ALL INFORM BEING LIVING HISTORY AND FOR THE
09:31:13 SACRIFICES YOU MADE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THE COURAGE YOU
09:31:16 HAVE IN STANDING UP TO CHANGES THAT NEEDED TO BE MADE IN
09:31:20 OUR COMMUNITY.
09:31:22 I HOPE WE'LL FIND MORE WAYS TO HONOR YOU AND TELL YOUR
09:31:25 STORY THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
09:31:26 THANK YOU.
09:31:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:31:29 I AM GOING TO TRY TO BE VERY SHORT, VERY BRIEF, VERY
09:31:32 UNDERSTANDING.
09:31:33 YOU FOUR AND THE OTHERS THAT WERE NAMED EARLIER ARE THE
09:31:35 INDIVIDUALS THAT PAVED THE ROAD FOR OTHERS TO WALK ON.
09:31:39 AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT HISTORY, YOU FOUR REPRESENT WHAT
09:31:43 JACKIE ROBINSON DID FOR BASEBALL.
09:31:45 HE WAS THE FIRST ONE.
09:31:48 AND ALTHOUGH THERE WERE OTHERS MENTIONED YOU FOUR ARE THE
09:31:51 ONES THAT WERE LIVING THE LIFE THAT NO ONE UNDERSTOOD.
09:31:54 AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU AND WE APPRECIATE IT.
09:31:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:31:59 GENTLEMEN, ALONG WITH THE NIGHTSTICKS, ALONG WITH YOUR
09:32:04 WEAPONS, YOU ALSO CARRIED A HAMMER.
09:32:07 AND THAT HAMMER BROKE DOWN THE BARRIERS, AND WE THANK YOU
09:32:11 FOR THAT.
09:32:11 BUT ON YOUR RIDE HOME, GENTLEMEN, ALSO REMEMBER YOU
09:32:15 WIELDED THAT HAMMER TO HELP BUILD THIS CITY.
09:32:19 THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
09:32:21 THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
09:32:22 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:32:25 AND IN CLOSING, I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMAN GUDES FOR
09:32:29 BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
09:32:30 I REALLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS IN BRINGING
09:32:32 THIS FORWARD.
09:32:33 HISTORY IS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR YOU CITY.
09:32:35 AND WHAT COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO SAID IS RIGHT.
09:32:41 ALL OF US DON'T KNOW OUR BLACK HISTORY.
09:32:44 TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE MARKERS WE HAVE IN HILLSBOROUGH
09:32:45 COUNTY, 70% DON'T HAVE A THING TO DO WITH BLACK HISTORY.
09:32:53 ONE OF YOU MENTIONED A REAL HERO OF MINE, MEDGER FOUGHT
09:33:07 THE NAZIS IN THE UNITED STATES, HE SERVED IN THE UNITED
09:33:10 STATES ARMY.
09:33:11 YOU TALK ABOUT A TRAILBLAZER.
09:33:13 PEOPLE LIKE MEDGER EVERS, PEOPLE LIKE JERRY BELAFONTE
09:33:24 FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II.
09:33:26 I THINK PEOPLE LIKE THAT, THEY HAVE WHAT'S CALLED
09:33:29 ASPIRATIONAL PATRIOTISM WHICH IS WHAT THEY WERE SERVING
09:33:33 IN WAS SEGREGATED, THE HOMES THEY WOULD COME BACK HOME TO
09:33:36 WERE JIM CROW, BUT THEY BELIEVED IN THEIR COUNTRY TO BE
09:33:45 TRUE TO ITS IDEALS.
09:33:47 YOU ALL BY SERVING IN THE CITY OF TAMPA POLICE
09:33:49 DEPARTMENT, YOU ALL DIDN'T JUST LOOK AT A POLICE
09:33:52 DEPARTMENT FOR WHAT IT WAS, YOU ALL LOOKED AT THE POLICE
09:33:55 DEPARTMENT FOR WHAT IT COULD BE, FOR WHAT IT IS TODAY,
09:33:57 ALL THESE MEN AND WOMEN LINED UP HERE WHO PROTECT AND
09:34:00 SERVE EVERYBODY, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, NO MATTER WHAT
09:34:02 THEIR SKIN COLOR, NO MATTER WHAT GOD THEY WORSHIP, YOU
09:34:06 ALL HAVE THE COMMUNITY'S BACK AND BACK THEN THE COMMUNITY
09:34:10 DIDN'T HAVE YOU ALL'S BACK.
09:34:12 AND SO JUST GOD BLESS YOU GUYS.
09:34:14 THANK YOU.
09:34:14 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:34:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN, I KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE TO
09:34:20 BELABOR COUNCIL BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TODAY.
09:34:22 I WOULD LIKE THE GENTLEMEN TO TAKE A PHOTO WITH THE
09:34:25 COUNCIL.
09:34:26 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:34:30 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SHOULD WE COME DOWN THERE?
09:34:32 >> PROBABLY, YES.
09:34:37 [PHOTO OP]
09:36:43 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 3
09:36:50 NEXT.
09:36:54 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE YANKEES.
09:37:29 [SOUNDING GAVEL]
09:37:29 AND THE FOLKS LEAVING THE CHAMBERS DON'T MIND TO NOT SAY
09:37:32 ANYTHING WHILE YOU ARE ON THIS FLOOR SO THAT WE CAN RUN
09:37:35 OUR COUNCIL MEETINGS.
09:37:35 WE WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
09:37:37 THANK YOU, HAVE BEEN.
09:37:38 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:38:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HONORABLE MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY
09:38:18 COUNCIL, IT'S MY HONOR TODAY TO BE MAKING A PRESENTATION
09:38:22 ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
09:38:25 TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES.
09:38:26 I COULD HAVE WRITTEN OR MARY COULD HAVE WRITTEN ONE, BUT
09:38:34 BECAUSE OF TIME AND THE WAY I SPEAK SOMETIMES I'M
09:38:38 MISUNDERSTOOD.
09:38:38 HOWEVER, THE YANKEES HAVE BEEN IN TAMPA FOR 25 YEARS.
09:38:47 LET ME READ WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
09:38:49 THE CELEBRATION OF 25 SEASONS IN TAMPA, THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:38:54 RECOGNIZES THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE ASSOCIATION WITH
09:38:57 THE CITY AND OUR CITIZENS.
09:39:00 OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS REPRESENT AND IMPACT OF OVER $2
09:39:04 BILLION INVOLVING MORE THAN 3.8 MILLION FANS WALKING
09:39:09 THROUGH THE GATES OF THE GEORGE STEINBRENNER FIELD.
09:39:12 THE YANKEES EMPLOYED MORE THAN 500 RESIDENTS AND THE
09:39:16 MAJORITY LIVE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
09:39:20 THE SALARIES PROVIDED OVER $45 MILLION YEARLY.
09:39:24 FURTHER, THE GEORGE STEINBRENNER FIELD IS THE LARGEST
09:39:27 SPRING TRAINING FACILITY IN FLORIDA, COMBINATION OF FANS
09:39:31 OF OVER 10,000.
09:39:33 IF ALL THE ABOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, THE CITY ACKNOWLEDGES THE
09:39:36 FACT THAT THE NEW YORK YANKEES HAVE A GREAT PARTNERSHIP
09:39:39 IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR DECADES RAISING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
09:39:44 FOR MANY LOCAL NONPROFITS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS, AND
09:39:48 THERE IS WHERE THE LIST GOES ON FOREVER.
09:39:52 WE ARE PROUD TO SHARE THE NEW YORK YANKEES HAVE PLAYED --
09:39:56 GUESS HOW MANY SEASONS THEY HAVE PLAYED BASEBALL A YEAR.
09:40:01 117 SEASONS OR 117 YEARS FROM 1903 TO 2019 AND GUESS HOW
09:40:09 MANY GAMES THEY HAVE WON.
09:40:12 9,644.
09:40:17 THEY MADE 55 PLAYOFF APPEARANCES, WON 40 PENNANTS AND 27
09:40:22 WORLD SERIES.
09:40:25 NO WONDER THE CITY COUNCIL WISHES TO EXTEND OUR DEEPEST
09:40:28 GRATITUDE TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES AND MORE SINCERELY
09:40:32 WISHES FOR MANY MORE YEARS OF SUCCESS, PARTNERSHIP WITH
09:40:34 OUR CITY AND RESIDENTS.
09:40:36 AND TODAY, AND BELIEVE ME, THIS IS JUST A TOKEN.
09:40:40 MARY WANTS DO BRING OUT THE FULL THING, BUT THE MONEY
09:40:46 THAT THEY HAVE RAISED FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB AND
09:40:48 MANY, MANY OTHERS, METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES AND MANY
09:40:51 OTHERS, THE LIST WOULD BE FROM HERE TO ST. PETERSBURG.
09:40:55 BUT I WANT TO THANK BERN SMITH, TONY BRUNO, HOWARD, AND
09:41:03 JUDY KRAMER FOR BEING HERE TODAY WITH THE YANKEES.
09:41:06 AND, YOU KNOW, GEORGE STEINBRENNER WAS A SPECIAL
09:41:09 INDIVIDUAL.
09:41:11 HE WANTED HIS PLAYERS TO BE PUSHED TO THE LIMITS.
09:41:15 AND ONE DAY BACK HERE MANY YEARS AGO WHEN HE WON A WORLD
09:41:19 CHAMPIONSHIP, I TOLD GEORGE THIS.
09:41:21 GEORGE, THERE'S ONE THING YOU WILL NEVER DO.
09:41:23 HE SAYS, WHAT'S THAT?
09:41:25 I SAID, THAT'S FIRE ME.
09:41:27 AND HE SAID, NO, CHARLIE, THERE'S ANOTHER THING I
09:41:30 WOULDN'T DO.
09:41:30 I SAID WHAT'S THAT?
09:41:31 HE SAID, HIRE ME.
09:41:33 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:41:34 IT'S A TRUE STORY.
09:41:36 AND FOR THAT, I SAID I HAD A YANKEE HAT ON.
09:41:40 I SAID WOULD YOU SIGN IT?
09:41:41 AND HE WENT TO SIGN IT INSIDE THE BEAK SO THAT NOBODY
09:41:44 KNOWS THAT I KNOW YOU.
09:41:46 HE LIKED CHALLENGES LIKE THAT.
09:41:47 WHEN HE WAS PART OWNER OF THE RACETRACK, EVERY TIME I
09:41:51 WALK AROUND THE GROUNDS, I LOOK AROUND, AND I WOULD SAY
09:41:54 IF GEORGE WAS STILL HERE THAT PAPER WOULDN'T BE THERE.
09:41:57 HE WAS IMMACULATE CLEAN.
09:42:00 AND I AM NOT SAYING THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH TAMPA BAY
09:42:03 NOW.
09:42:03 IF HE SAW A CIGARETTE BUTT OR SOMETHING ON THE WAY OUT,
09:42:06 IF GEORGE WAS HERE THAT WOULDN'T BE HERE.
09:42:08 THAT WAS THE TYPE OF INDIVIDUAL HE WAS.
09:42:10 AND I USED TO CHALLENGE HIM WITH A LOT OF THINGS.
09:42:13 AND ONE DAY I SAID, GMS.
09:42:16 I SAID IT WAS A VITAMIN.
09:42:21 HE WOULD TELL ME, MIRANDA DOESN'T STAND A PRAYER.
09:42:25 BUT HE WAS A GREAT GUY TO DEAL WITH.
09:42:27 HE WAS A PERSON OF PERSONS.
09:42:29 YOU CAN TELL YOU ONE OTHER HISTORY THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
09:42:32 DON'T KNOW.
09:42:32 ONE DAY I'M WALKING AFTER THE RACE AND HE'S WALKING IN
09:42:36 THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
09:42:37 WHO IS THAT YOUNG MAN AHEAD OF YOU?
09:42:39 I SAID I DON'T KNOW I ONLY SEE HIS BACK.
09:42:42 HE SAID FIND OUT WHO HE IS.
09:42:43 AND I SAID, CAN I ASK YOU WHY?
09:42:45 HE SAID YES.
09:42:46 NO ONE SHOULD GO THROUGH LIFE WITH TEETH LIKE THAT.
09:42:50 THAT MAN NOT KNOWING THE PERSON PAID FOR ALL OF HIS
09:42:55 REPAIR, ALL OF THE DENTAL WORK, SO HE COULD HAVE BRACES
09:43:01 AND LOOK MUCH BETTER THAN HE DID.
09:43:03 HE WAS A GIVING INDIVIDUAL.
09:43:05 AND HE WAS A FRIEND THAT MANY PEOPLE -- EVERYBODY HE
09:43:09 TOUCHED, HE BECAME FRIENDS WITH.
09:43:11 HE HAD A VOICE, YOU KNOW THAT TV SHOW YOU SEE ONCE IN A
09:43:17 WHILE IN RERUNS, THAT WAS HIM.
09:43:20 BUT HE WANTED TO BRING YOU UP, AND HE WANTED TO TALK SO
09:43:23 THAT YOU CAN ALSO ANSWER HIM.
09:43:25 AND TO THE YANKEES, NO TEAM HAS EVER DONE WHAT THE
09:43:29 YANKEES HAVE DONE.
09:43:30 NONE.
09:43:30 AND I'M NOT ANTI ANY OTHER TEAM.
09:43:35 BUT HE REPRESENTED THE STANDARDS, IF YOU WANTED TO PLAY
09:43:39 FOR THEM, IF NOT, GO PLAY FOR SOMEBODY ELSE.
09:43:42 AND I ADMIRE THAT.
09:43:45 THEY OWN THE CLUB.
09:43:46 THEY RUN THE CLUB.
09:43:47 THEY TREAT THE PLAYERS FAIRLY.
09:43:49 AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:43:50 ON BEHALF OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO
09:43:54 RECEIVE THIS RIGHT HERE.
09:43:55 AND WE ARE GOING TO ASK YOU TO SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS.
09:43:59 THANK YOU.
09:43:59 >> GOOD MORNING, CHAIR VIERA, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, THANK
09:44:06 YOU, ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
09:44:08 THIS IS A TRUE, TRUE HONOR FOR US TO STAND HERE ON BEHALF
09:44:11 OF MY COLLEAGUE JULIE AND HOWARD, THE YANKEE ORGANIZATION
09:44:16 AND THE STEINBRENNER FAMILY.
09:44:18 I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THE COMMENDATION
09:44:22 THAT WAS DONE BEFORE, REALLY POWERFUL.
09:44:28 IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE ON THE SAME AGENDA WITH THE
09:44:31 FEARSOME FOUR, CORRECT, COUNCILMAN GUDES?
09:44:35 AND I THINK WHAT MAKES IT SO SIGNIFICANT IS WITH SUCH
09:44:43 PROUD MEMBERS OF THE STEINBRENNER FAMILY, AND THE LEGACY
09:44:47 THAT HE CREATED FOR HIS FAMILY AND THEY CONTINUE TO
09:44:49 UPHOLD IN THIS COMMUNITY, HE LOVED THIS COMMUNITY, AND
09:44:52 ONE OF THE STALWARTS OF OUR EXISTENCE, ONE OF THE
09:44:57 STALWARTS OF WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO HIM WAS LAW
09:45:00 ENFORCEMENT.
09:45:01 AND HE CREATED THE BLUE SHIELD FOUNDATION MANY YEARS AGO
09:45:05 TO PROVIDE FOR FAMILIES OF FALLEN OFFICERS, PROVIDE
09:45:09 SCHOLARSHIPS AND EDUCATION, AND THAT WAS FOR ALL
09:45:14 OFFICERS.
09:45:14 AND HE WAS A VERY INCLUSIVE MAN.
09:45:17 AND SO LAW ENFORCEMENT IS ONE OF THE BIG CALLING CARDS OF
09:45:22 OUR SUPPORT IN THIS COMMUNITY.
09:45:25 SOCIETY IT REALLY WAS HUMBLING TO BE ON THE SAME AGENDA
09:45:28 WITH THE GENTLEMAN, AND I THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES,
09:45:34 FOR BRINGING THAT AND I THINK THERE'S NO IRONY IN THE
09:45:37 FACT THAT WE ARE RECOGNIZED TOGETHER BECAUSE OF OUR LONG
09:45:40 HISTORY OF SUPPORT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
09:45:42 BUT BEYOND THAT, 25 YEARS IN THIS COMMUNITY, WE ARE VERY
09:45:45 PROUD TO BE BRING OUR WORLD RECOGNIZED BRAND TO TAMPA.
09:45:48 WE ARE PROUD OF TAMPA.
09:45:50 WE LOVE TO BE PART ITS GROWTH AND WE HOPE THAT WE ARE
09:45:55 PART OF ITS GROWTH, AS COMPANIES COME TO THIS MARKET AND
09:45:59 SEE OUR BRAND AND SEE THE WORLD RECOGNIZED BRAND.
09:46:01 WE WANT TO PLAY A ROLE.
09:46:03 WE BELIEVE WE PLAY A ROLE.
09:46:04 THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME OF YEAR, PEOPLE TRAVEL FROM ALL
09:46:08 OVER THE COUNTRY TO COME SEE OUR GAMES, AND WE ARE VERY
09:46:11 COMMITTED, AND HAVE BEEN COMMITTED TO THIS COMMUNITY, AND
09:46:14 WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING IT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS TO COME.
09:46:17 ON BEHALF OF MY COLLEAGUES, ON BEHALF OF THE YANKEE
09:46:19 ORGANIZATION AND STEINBRENNER FAMILY, WE THANK YOU FOR
09:46:22 THIS COMMENDATION.
09:46:23 AND WE ARE NOTHING BUT HUMBLED.
09:46:25 THANK YOU.
09:46:25 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME SEE THAT RING HERE.
09:46:34 I LOOK AT THIS ONE.
09:46:38 ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR APPEARING HERE.
09:46:42 I HAVE KNOWN ANTHONY, TONY BRUNO FOR A LONG TIME, AND HE
09:46:46 KNEW ME WHEN I HAD CURLS.
09:46:48 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:46:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:46:51 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:46:51 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
09:46:56 FOR 25 YEARS IN THIS COMMUNITY AND ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE
09:46:59 TALKED ABOUT, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF HONOR AND
09:47:01 REPRESENTING DISTRICT 6 WHICH IS WHERE YOUR TEAM COMES
09:47:05 DOWN FOR SPRING TRAINING AND HAS GAMES.
09:47:09 I CAN WALK DO IT STADIUM.
09:47:10 I'M NOT AFRAID TO SAY IT.
09:47:11 I KNOW BASEBALL IS A HOT TOPIC BUT THE YANKEES ARE MY
09:47:14 FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM.
09:47:15 AND JOE DIMAGGIO IS MY FAVORITE BALL PLAYER OF ALL TIMES.
09:47:19 AND IF I TALK BASEBALL, I CAN TALK ABOUT THE YANKEES
09:47:23 GOING BACK ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS BECAUSE THEY ARE SUCH A
09:47:27 SUCCESSFUL TEAM.
09:47:28 WHEN I REPRESENT THIS DISTRICT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
09:47:32 THE YANKEES COME HERE, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT.
09:47:34 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD MR. STEINBRENNER
09:47:37 CAME TO SPEAK AT MY SCHOOL AND IT WAS SUCH A BIG
09:47:40 GENTLEMEN AND THIS GROUP OF 13-YEAR-OLD KIDS, THIS MAN
09:47:43 OWNS THE YANKEES, THE NEW YORK YANKEES.
09:47:46 FAST FORWARD, THE KINDNESS OF GEORGE STEINBRENNER AND HIS
09:47:51 GENEROSITY AND SO MANY PEOPLE THAT HE HELPED, A FAMILY
09:47:55 FRIEND NAMED TONY PALIANO TOOK ME TO A RESTAURANT CALLED
09:48:00 THE REAL MALIO'S ON DALE MABRY.
09:48:04 AND I HAD MR. STEINBRENNER YELLING AT SOMEBODY AND IT WAS
09:48:09 UNBELIEVABLE.
09:48:12 I SAID, HOW CAN THIS KIND MAN BE SO TOUGH?
09:48:16 BUT HE HAD THAT REPUTATION WHERE HE WAS TOUGH, HE WAS
09:48:19 VERY TOUGH, BUT HE WAS GENTLE AND VERY KIND.
09:48:21 AND IT I WAS NEVER A HEALTHY EATER SO SOMETIMES I WOULD
09:48:26 GO TO THE IHOP ON DALE MABRY AND HENDERSON AND WHO WOULD
09:48:29 BE SITTING THERE AT 5:00 IN THE AFTERNOON EATING MY
09:48:33 PANCAKES, GEORGE STEINBRENNER, AND GET A SIRLOIN STEAK,
09:48:38 SCRAMBLED EGGS.
09:48:39 AND I WOULD SAY I SEE GEORGE STEINBRENNER EATING AT IHOP.
09:48:44 AND I SAID THAT'S HOW HE WAS.
09:48:47 AND HE DROVE THE SAME CAR THAT FOR THE WHOLE TIME I KNEW
09:48:51 HIM WITH ALL HIS MONEY, WITH EVERYTHING, HE HAD THE SAME
09:48:53 CAR, DRESSED REGULAR, JUST A REGULAR DOWN-TO-EARTH GUY.
09:48:57 AND HE PASSED AWAY TEN YEARS AGO THIS YEAR AND IT WAS ON
09:49:01 MY BIRTHDAY.
09:49:01 AND MY FATHER CALLED ME TO WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND
09:49:04 HE SAID GEORGE STEINBRENNER DIED.
09:49:06 I SAID HOW CAN A GUY LIKE GEORGE STEINBRENNER DIE?
09:49:11 LARGER THAN LIFE.
09:49:12 HE LOOKED IMPORTANT.
09:49:14 HE HAD A TOWERING PRESENCE AND PEOPLE RESPECTED HIM AND
09:49:18 RECOGNIZED HIM.
09:49:19 BUT EVERYTHING THE YANKEES HAVE DONE, THE STEINBRENNER
09:49:22 FAMILY HAS DONE WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WITH LAW
09:49:24 ENFORCEMENT, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, WE COULD NEVER
09:49:27 REPAY ANY OF YOU, THE ORGANIZATION.
09:49:30 YOU HAVE THE REPUTATION THAT YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU WIN
09:49:32 BUT BECAUSE OF THE HEART AND THE SOUL AND THE COMPASSION
09:49:36 THAT IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE YANKEES
09:49:38 ORGANIZATION.
09:49:39 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:49:40 CONGRATULATIONS.
09:49:40 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:49:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA SAID SOMETHING THAT REALLY
09:49:49 PIQUED MY GRAY EYEBROWS HERE.
09:49:51 A PERSON, COACH A LONG TIME HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH, TALKED
09:50:00 ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION.
09:50:04 TO BE A CHAMPIONSHIP YOU HAVE TO HAVE RULES.
09:50:07 SO YOU RECOGNIZE A STANDARD.
09:50:20 THEY SAID, COACH, WHY DO YOU COACHES WEAR LONG KHAKI
09:50:25 PANTS IN THE SUMMER HEAT?
09:50:27 I SAID BECAUSE WHEN THEY COME ON THE FIELD WITH THEIR
09:50:29 SHIRTS TUCKED IN AND THEIR KHAKI PANTS, THEY IMMEDIATELY
09:50:34 GET RESPECT AND ATTENTION.
09:50:37 AND THAT MAKES THE BALL CLUB PERFORM.
09:50:42 IT'S ALL ABOUT PERFORMANCE.
09:50:45 YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THE GENEROSITY OF THE HEART.
09:50:48 I ALWAYS SAY GENEROSITY COMES FROM THE HEART.
09:50:54 GENEROSITY COMES FROM THE HEART.
09:50:56 AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE STEINBRENNER ORGANIZATION, THE
09:51:01 PROGRAMS IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHEN I LOOK AT EVERY YEAR, YOU
09:51:06 HAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL COACHES EVENT, AND I'M NOT COACHING
09:51:17 HIGH SCHOOL ANYMORE, BUT THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE
09:51:21 ENJOY TO HAVE THOSE LITTLE TRINKETS, THOSE EVENTS, AND
09:51:26 TAKE CARE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
09:51:31 I REMEMBER THAT VIVIDLY YEARS AND YEARS.
09:51:34 I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION.
09:51:41 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:51:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE] THANK YOU.
09:51:45 VERY BRIEF.
09:51:47 THE THINGS THAT HE'S DONE FOR THE CITY.
09:51:49 BUT I WANT TO THANK THE ORGANIZATION FOR BRINGING
09:51:53 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO OUR CITY.
09:51:58 THANK YOU FOR HIRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
09:52:02 THANK YOU FOR ADDING TO OUR ECONOMY.
09:52:06 AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING BASEBALL HERE EVEN BEFORE WE
09:52:09 HAD THE RAYS.
09:52:11 THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS DONE
09:52:14 FOR THIS CITY.
09:52:14 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:52:17 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:52:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:52:20 OKAY, GUIDO, I HAVE MY OWN STEINBRENNER STORIES.
09:52:25 SO YOU GUYS HAVE THAT FANTASTIC BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB EVENT
09:52:30 EVERY YEAR.
09:52:31 I'M SURE YOU ARE STILL DOING IT.
09:52:33 AND MANY YEARS AGO, IT WAS THE FIRST TAME I SERVED ON
09:52:36 CITY COUNCIL BACK IN '04-05, I WAS ATTENDING, AND I HAVE
09:52:41 ALWAYS BEEN A BIG YANKEES FAN HAVING GONE TO HIGH SCHOOL
09:52:44 JUST OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK CITY.
09:52:46 I GOT TO MEET MICKEY MANTLE WAY BACK WHEN.
09:52:50 BUT -- YEAH.
09:52:52 ANYWAY, ONE OF MY FRIENDS SAID, HAVE YOU EVER MET MR.
09:52:56 STAIN BRENNER?
09:52:57 AND I SAID, I WOULD LOVE TO, YOU KNOW.
09:53:00 SO HE WALKED IN THE ROOM AND SAID, MR. STEINBRENNER, I
09:53:03 WANTED YOU TO MEET COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:53:06 AND MR. STEINBRENNER TURNED AROUND IN HIS CHAIR, AND HE
09:53:10 SAID -- I'M DOING MY BAD IMITATION -- HE SAID, YES, HE
09:53:15 SAID, I KNOW YOU.
09:53:17 HE SAID YOU'RE MY CITY COUNCILMAN.
09:53:19 I WATCH YOU ON TV AND YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB!
09:53:22 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:53:23 AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER.
09:53:25 [ LAUGHTER ]
09:53:28 BUT, ANYWAY, AND AT THAT MOMENT I FELT LIKE I WAS SIX
09:53:32 YEARS OLD, AND THE TEACHER WAS JUST TELLING ME, JOHNNY,
09:53:36 YOU ARE DOING GOOD.
09:53:37 SO THAT MEMORY WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME.
09:53:40 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.
09:53:41 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:53:44 >>LUIS VIERA: AND I ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF MY COLLEAGUES.
09:53:48 WITH THE YANKEES ALWAYS SAY THEY ARE AMERICA'S TEAM YOU
09:53:51 TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS IN YANKEE HISTORY,
09:53:54 PEOPLE LIKE YOGI BERRA'S, LOU GEHRIG.
09:54:00 WHEN I WAS A KID, YOU LOVED DON MATTINGLY, FIRST BASE
09:54:04 MAN. TO ME THERE WAS A TEAM CAPTAIN.
09:54:08 110%, 110%.
09:54:12 I REMEMBER AS A KID I FIRST STARRED LIKING THE YANKEES A
09:54:15 LOT WHEN MY GRANDFATHER SHOWED ME THE PRIDE OF THE
09:54:19 YANKEES.
09:54:20 YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT.
09:54:22 BUT THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
09:54:24 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS.
09:54:26 JUST HEARING COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, WE RECOGNIZE WHAT A
09:54:29 PLEASURE IT IS TO SERVE WITH THIS MAN.
09:54:34 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:54:34 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:54:40 NOW WE ARE GOING TO GO TO NUMBER 1, TO GO TO OUR CITIZENS
09:54:44 REVIEW BOARD.
09:54:45 SHIRLEY.
09:54:45 >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:55:34 CITY CLERK.
09:55:36 WE ARE HERE FOR THE CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD.
09:55:40 WE HAVE FOUR INCUMBENTS, AND ONE OTHER INDIVIDUAL THAT IS
09:55:47 HERE FOR THE CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD.
09:55:52 STEVEN BLAIR IS FIRST.
09:56:03 DEVON JAMES INGANDELA.
09:56:09 IRENE GUY.
09:56:14 RASHEED AQUIL.
09:56:28 >> GREETINGS, COUNCIL.
09:56:30 GOOD MORNING.
09:56:38 I STAND HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO
09:56:41 CONTINUE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY OF TAMPA BY SERVING AS A
09:56:45 MEMBER OF THE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD.
09:56:48 IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE A PART OF THE FIRST SERVING BOARD
09:56:53 WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALSO SERVING AS CHAIR.
09:56:56 DURING MY FOUR YEAR TENURE, WE LAUNCHED A CITY-WIDE
09:56:59 SURVEY TO ADDRESS COMMUNITY ISSUES AS WELL AS TPD RELATED
09:57:03 CASES AND CONCERNS.
09:57:07 WHEN THE NATION WAS REFLECTED IN THE EYES OF THE
09:57:11 MINORITY, WE RESPONDED WITH COMMUNITY FORUMS FOR ALL TO
09:57:16 ATTEND.
09:57:16 WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MEMBERS -- THEY HAD
09:57:19 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MEMBERS INCLUDING OUR TPD
09:57:22 INCLUDING THE CHIEF.
09:57:24 I BELIEVE SUCH BRINGS COMMUNITY ENFORCING TO COMMON
09:57:30 GROUND.
09:57:31 COMMON GROUND WILL ALLOW ALL TO JOIN ONE TEAM AND TO HELP
09:57:35 BRING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
09:57:38 IT IS MY BELIEF THAT OUR ATTENTION TO OTHERS AS WE WOULD
09:57:43 SPEAK AT THE GALA, ADDRESSING THE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD,
09:57:47 MEMBERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
09:57:49 WHEN I JOINED THE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD I WANTED TO
09:57:53 SUPPORT A FAST GROWING TAMPA, A MODEL CITY OF GROWTH,
09:57:57 PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
09:57:59 WITH GROWTH COMES ISSUES AND CONCERNS.
09:58:01 BUT WITH THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHES NOW TIME COULD
09:58:06 CONSTRUCT.
09:58:07 BEING A TAMPA NATIVE AND KNOWING THE HISTORY AND PEOPLE
09:58:11 GIVEN THE ADVANTAGE OF CONNECTION, SERVING AS THE VOICE
09:58:14 FOR THE VOICELESS, BEING THAT BRIDGE FOR ALL TO SHARE.
09:58:18 I LEAVE YOU WITH THE WORDS FROM MY FATHER, AND ALWAYS
09:58:25 MENTIONED, IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION THEN YOU
09:58:28 ARE SUPPORTING THE PROBLEM.
09:58:30 ALWAYS STAY INVOLVED.
09:58:31 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:58:32 [ APPLAUSE ]
09:58:35 >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: WE HAVE ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL.
09:58:43 PATRICIA MEGAN MARONEY.
09:58:47 SHE'S NOT HERE.
09:58:47 I BELIEVE WE HAVE BALLOTS.
09:58:49 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY INQUIRE.
09:58:52 I BELIEVE I KNOW, BUT WHO ARE THE INCUMBENTS?
09:58:56 FOX KNOCKS THE FIRST FOUR, SEARCH BLAIR, DEVON INGANDELA,
09:59:01 IRENE GUY, RASHEED AQUIL.
09:59:04 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:59:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE HAVE FOUR VOTES?
09:59:09 >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: YES.
09:59:32 GUDES
09:59:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: TODAY IS 02-20-20.
10:00:14 I ALWAYS THINK THAT'S KIND OF NEAT.
10:00:39 >>LUIS VIERA: I AM HERE TO PRESENT A COMMENDATION DEPORT
10:00:43 CITY OF TAMPA WOMEN'S HISTORY COMMITTEE.
10:00:45 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE JENNIFER DEETS.
10:00:50 AND WE HAVE TWO SPECIAL GUESTS, FORMER COUNCILWOMAN LINDA
10:00:53 SAUL-SENA AND MARY ALVAREZ.
10:00:55 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:00:58 IF ONE OF YOU WOULD INTRODUCE YOUR COMMITTEE AND THEN
10:01:13 HAND OFF TO YOU ALL.
10:01:14 GO AHEAD.
10:01:15 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:01:17 ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND ALLISON SMITH WHO IS THE WOMEN'S
10:01:20 HISTORY COMMITTEE PERSON, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR
10:01:22 THIS COMMENDATION.
10:01:23 WE HAVE OUR COMMITTEE HERE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US
10:01:27 UP FRONT TODAY.
10:01:28 THEY ARE A VERY DEDICATED GROUP OF WOMEN WHO ARE WORKING
10:01:30 ON PLANNING THE CELEBRATION AND OUR ANNUAL EVENT WILL BE
10:01:33 ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3rd AT THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER
10:01:36 AT 10:30.
10:01:37 AND THIS YEAR WE WILL BE HONORING THE HOWARD-STAFFORD
10:01:46 AWARD, AND THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY CLERK OF COURT.
10:01:50 WE ARE VERY EXCITED.
10:01:51 OUR THEME THIS YEAR IS VALIANT WOMEN WHO VOTE WHO
10:01:55 CELEBRATE THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
10:01:59 AND I AM SO GLAD DO SEE THE FORMER COUNCILWOMEN HERE
10:02:03 TODAY.
10:02:03 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:02:08 I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT OUR COMMITTEE HAS REACHED
10:02:10 OUT TO YOU, COUNCILWOMEN, AS A COMMENDATION AND THIS IS
10:02:15 THE FIRST DAY WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT.
10:02:18 AND WE ARE REALLY HAPPY TO HAVE YOU JOIN US.
10:02:21 SO THE LAST THING I WANT TO MENTION BEFORE I TURN IT OVER
10:02:25 TO YOU IS TO TELL EVERYONE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY --
10:02:28 ACTUALLY PARTNERING WITH FOR SUCCESS HERE AND YOU WILL
10:02:36 SEE FOR WOMEN WHO L IN THE WORKFORCE TO HAVE PEOPLE
10:02:40 DONATE PROFESSIONAL OUTFITS.
10:02:44 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:02:45 AND I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU AS WELL.
10:02:47 >>LINDA SAUL-SENA: FIRST OF ALL, IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET
10:02:57 THE VOTE BUT IT'S BEEN 100 YEARS SINCE WE HAD IT.
10:03:00 AND DID YOU KNOW THAT 70% OF WOMEN VOTE IN ELECTIONS?
10:03:06 BUT THAT MEANS 30% DON'T.
10:03:07 SO EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE WATCHING, YOUR CHILDREN,
10:03:12 GRANDMOTHERS, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET OUT AND VOTE.
10:03:15 AND I JUST WANT DO SPEAK FOR A SECOND THAT THERE ARE MANY
10:03:18 COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO JOIN US TODAY WHO
10:03:20 WERE PREVIOUS MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
10:03:23 THESE WOMEN INCLUDE JAN PLATT, POE, KATHRYN BARGA, SANDY
10:03:31 FREEDMAN, GWEN MILLER, MARY MULHERN, YOLIE CAPIN, LISA
10:03:36 MONTELIONE.
10:03:37 SO FOR ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL
10:03:39 FOR RECOGNIZING US.
10:03:41 I WANT TO THANK THIS COMMITTEE FOR DOING SUCH GREAT WORK.
10:03:44 >> MARY ALVAREZ: THANK YOU FOR INVITING US HERE TODAY.
10:03:52 AND IT'S QUITE AN HONOR TO GET A CALL FROM THE CHAIRMAN
10:03:58 AND VIERA'S OFFICE, AND FRANKLY I WAS QUITE SURPRISED.
10:04:03 BUT WE ARE GLAD TO ACCEPT AND TO BE HERE.
10:04:06 AND I'M SORRY THAT THE REST OF MY COLLEAGUES AREN'T HERE.
10:04:10 BUT WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IS 100 YEARS OLD.
10:04:15 I'M ALMOST THERE.
10:04:16 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:04:18 AND SO I HAD THE HONOR OF REPRESENTING MY DISTRICT, WHICH
10:04:24 WAS DISTRICT 6.
10:04:26 AND I CAN SEE JOHN DINGFELDER IS HERE, CHARLIE IS STILL
10:04:32 HERE.
10:04:33 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:04:39 THEY OUGHT TO HAVE A STATUE FOR HIM.
10:04:42 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:04:43 BUT I AM SO GLAD TO BE HERE AND TO TELL YOU THAT THE CITY
10:04:46 OF TAMPA WHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN, AND I AM VERY,
10:04:50 VERY PROUD OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
10:04:52 I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS COUNCIL.
10:04:53 I'M SORRY YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WOMEN ON THE COUNCIL THIS
10:04:57 YEAR.
10:04:57 BUFF MAYBE THAT WILL CHANGE IN THE COMING YEARS.
10:05:00 AND OF COURSE GO OUT AND VOTE, PEOPLE, BECAUSE IT'S VERY
10:05:03 IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A VOICE IN THESE RACES HERE.
10:05:09 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE COMMITTEE.
10:05:10 AND FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR US, FOR THE
10:05:15 WOMEN, AND GO FORWARD.
10:05:18 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:05:33 I CAN'T READ IT.
10:05:34 >>LINDA SAUL-SENA: TAMPA CITY COUNCIL COMMENDATION
10:05:37 PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF TAMPA'S 24th ANNUAL WOMEN'S
10:05:40 HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION.
10:05:42 WE ARE PROUD OF YOU ALL.
10:05:43 WE THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING -- I CAN'T SEE THAT FAR
10:05:48 WITHOUT MY GLASSES EITHER -- IT IS MY PLEASURE --
10:05:53 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:05:54 THANK YOU.
10:06:11 WE WILL BE THERE.
10:06:12 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:06:12 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:06:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: LADIES, CONGRATULATIONS.
10:06:23 THANK YOU FOR THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DO.
10:06:25 THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR CITY GREAT.
10:06:27 AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS COMMENDATION.
10:06:30 WHERE IS MS. ALVAREZ AND MRS. SAUL-SENA?
10:06:36 IF YOU DON'T MIND, I HAD THE HONOR OF LEARNING THIS CRAFT
10:06:42 FROM SO MANY WOMEN THAT CAME BEFORE ME.
10:06:46 MS. SAUL-SENA, MRS. CAPIN, SO ON AND SO FORTH.
10:06:50 MRS. MONTELIONE.
10:06:52 BUT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS
10:06:55 RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING ME HERE, IT'S THAT WOMAN RIGHT
10:07:00 THERE, MS. MARY ALVAREZ.
10:07:03 IN 1999, I WENT TO HER AND I SAID, I WANT TO BE MAYOR.
10:07:08 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:07:10 AND SHE SAID, WELL, JOE, LEARN A TRADE, GET ON BOARD, GET
10:07:15 ON COMMITTEES, GET ON COMMISSIONS.
10:07:17 KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:07:20 AND I THEN BECAME PART OF CIVIL SERVICE BOARD.
10:07:23 THEN CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD.
10:07:25 AND ONE OF THE LAST THINGS SHE SAID TO ME IN THAT
10:07:28 STATEMENT WAS, I WILL HELP YOU, BUT MAKE ME PROUD.
10:07:33 AND I HOPE I HAVE MADE YOU PROUD, MARY.
10:07:35 >> YOU CERTAINLY HAVE OF THE.
10:07:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FIRST, JENNIFER, THANKS TO YOU AND
10:07:47 YOUR COMMITTEE FOR DOING A GREAT JOB WITH THE WOMEN'S
10:07:49 AWARD AND CONGRATULATIONS.
10:07:53 I WILL DO MY BEST TO BE THERE.
10:07:54 24 YEARS IS FANTASTIC.
10:07:56 I'M SURE NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE REALLY BIG, 25 YEARS.
10:07:59 I DO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUTOUT TO MY FORMER COLLEAGUES,
10:08:03 THOUGH, LINDA AND MARY.
10:08:08 PEOPLE ASK ME, THEY SAY, JOHN, WHAT'S IT LIKE GOING BACK
10:08:11 DO CITY COUNCIL?
10:08:12 AND I LOOKED ACROSS THIS GROUP AND I SAY, IT'S WAY TOO
10:08:15 MUCH TESTOSTERONE.
10:08:17 [ LAUGHTER ]
10:08:19 AND IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, MARY, LINDA, I MISS YOU BOTH.
10:08:23 I HAVE A GREAT PRIVILEGE OF SERVING WITH BOTH OF YOU, AND
10:08:28 A WOMAN'S VOICE IS SO IMPORTANT.
10:08:31 AND I CALL ON BOTH OF YOU REGULARLY, AND ASK YOU HOW WE
10:08:35 ARE DOING AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO BETTER, AND PLEASE
10:08:38 CONTINUE TO GIVE US YOUR WISDOM, BECAUSE YOU TWO HAVE SO
10:08:43 MUCH HISTORY WITH THIS CITY, BOTH BEING NATIVES OF OUR
10:08:47 FAIR CITY.
10:08:50 AND MARY, I KNOW YOUR MOM MADE IT TO 100 AND WE ARE
10:08:53 COUNTING ON YOU, TOO.
10:08:54 >> MARY ALVAREZ: WELL, I'M ALMOST THERE.
10:09:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WITH ALL SERIOUSNESS, I MISS YOU
10:09:02 DEARLY AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE.
10:09:03 >> THANK YOU, JOHN.
10:09:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IN EVERY ORGANIZATION I HAVE BEEN IN,
10:09:11 THERE HAVE BEEN WOMEN, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.
10:09:19 I KNOW THAT SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS, THEY HAVE ALL BEEN LED
10:09:24 BY WOMEN OR SECOND IN CHARGE OF HANDLING THINGS.
10:09:28 JUST LIKE THIS MORNING YOU SAW MY AIDE SONIA.
10:09:31 SHE HAD TO CRITIQUE WHAT I WROTE AND SHE SAID, I WANT TO
10:09:35 TALK ABOUT IT TODAY.
10:09:36 SO WHEN MY TIME HAS DONE, YOU HAVE BEEN TRAILBLAZERS
10:09:42 THROUGHOUT HISTORY, YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BACKBONE FOR
10:09:45 ME AND FOR THE COUNTRY.
10:09:47 CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
10:09:49 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:09:52 ANYBODY ELSE?
10:09:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAD THE PLEASURE OF GETTING ELECTED
10:09:55 THE FIRST TIME, AND TWO OF THE MOST BRILLIANT PEOPLE I
10:10:00 HAD THE HONOR OF WORKING WITH.
10:10:01 IN 1974 THAT WAS JAN PLATT AND SANDY FREEDMAN.
10:10:04 AND THEY HAVE ALL SUCCEEDED IN DOING WHAT THEY DID.
10:10:07 AND THEY LOVED WHAT THEY DID.
10:10:09 AND OF ALL THE LIST OF WOMEN WHO SERVED, I BELIEVE THERE
10:10:13 WAS ONE THAT I NEVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF SERVING WITH,
10:10:16 THAT WAS ADDIE POE.
10:10:21 THAT WAS EDDIE CABALLERO'S JOB.
10:10:24 BUT WHEN YOU WIN OR LOSE, YOU NEVER WIN OR LOSE.
10:10:27 YOU DO WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT, AND 99% OF THE TIME YOU
10:10:31 WILL BE CORRECT IF YOU VOTE WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGHT FOR
10:10:34 EVERYBODY.
10:10:35 YOU DON'T LEAVE HERE SAYING YOU WON SOMETHING OR LOST
10:10:39 SOMETHING BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
10:10:40 YOU DO HOW YOU FEEL AND DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS A
10:10:43 DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
10:10:44 AND I HAVE HAD MEAN DIFFERENCES OF OPINION INCLUDING WITH
10:10:47 MYSELF.
10:10:48 AND ANYBODY WHO EVER GETS ELECTED YOU CANNOT SAY I LEFT
10:10:53 HERE SAYING I DID IT THE RIGHT WAY 100%.
10:10:56 YOU ALWAYS HAVE A DOUBT.
10:10:57 BECAUSE EVERYTHING CAN GO AWAY.
10:11:01 AND I QUANTITY TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO
10:11:03 SEEK OFFICE.
10:11:04 AND THE PLEASURE OF SERVING BECAUSE WHEN YOU RECEIVER,
10:11:08 YOU DON'T MANAGE ANYTHING.
10:11:09 YOU ARE IN THE HANDS OF THOSE -- AND YOU LISTEN TO THEM
10:11:14 AND MAKE THE DECISION.
10:11:16 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.
10:11:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:11:22 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CITRO TALKED ABOUT MENTORS, AND I
10:11:24 WANT TO SAY LINDA SAUL-SENA HAS BEEN ONE OF MU GREAT
10:11:27 FRIENDS AND MENTORS FOR MUCH LONGER THAN I CAN REMEMBER.
10:11:30 ALSO MARY MULHERN, YOLIE CAPIN, OTHERS.
10:11:34 BUT THE THREE OF THEM WERE PART OF MY CAMPAIGN AND HELPED
10:11:40 ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY SO I CAN NEVER THANK THEM BUFF
10:11:44 BY ALSO GOVERNMENT AND HOW TO ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS.
10:11:47 SO THANK YOU TO ALL THE FEMALE LEADERS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE
10:11:51 BEFORE.
10:11:51 ALSO, WE DON'T HAVE ANY WOMEN ON THE BOARD BUT I SHOULD
10:11:54 SAY THIS BOARD HAS BEEN VERY PRO FEMALE RIGHTS AND THANKS
10:11:57 TO MRS. SAUL-SENA, AND ALSO -- I THINK WE PASSED ONE OF
10:12:03 THE FIRST RESOLUTIONS IN THE STATE TO ASK THE STATE
10:12:05 LEGISLATURE TO SUPPORT THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND
10:12:08 THAT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:12:09 AND A WEEK OR SO AGO WE PASSED A RESOLUTION
10:12:12 CONGRATULATING LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ON THEIR 100th
10:12:15 ANNIVERSARY. SO PLEASE HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE ALL OF YOU.
10:12:18 IF YOU FIND THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING OR SHOULD BE
10:12:21 DOING, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAND UP FOR EVERYBODY'S
10:12:23 RIGHTS.
10:12:24 AND ESPECIALLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
10:12:25 AND TO THE COMMITTEE, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
10:12:27 AND EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE A WOMAN ON THE BOARD, MAYBE
10:12:29 THE SEVEN OF US CAN MAKE UP FOR THE ONE WOMAN WHO USED TO
10:12:33 BE HERE.
10:12:33 SO PLEASE LET US KNOW.
10:12:36 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
10:12:41 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:12:42 REAL QUICK, COUNCIL MEMBER SAUL-SENA, YOU HAVE ALWAYS
10:12:46 INSPIRED ME.
10:12:47 GROWING UP AS A TEENAGER, I WOULD ALWAYS WATCH YOU, AND
10:12:51 COUNCILWOMAN ALVAREZ, YOU HAVE WATCHED ME GROW UP, AND
10:12:55 YOUR HUSBAND HAS KNOWN ME SUNG I WAS A KID, YOU HAVE
10:12:58 KNOWN MY WHOLE FAMILY.
10:12:59 IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU AND COUNCIL MEMBERS MULHERN AND
10:13:02 CAPIN AND ALL THESE OTHER AMAZING WOMEN THAT HAVE COME
10:13:06 INTO MY LIFE, I WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY.
10:13:08 I KNOW I WOULD NOT BE HERE SITTING HERE TODAY.
10:13:11 BECAUSE EVERYBODY DID THEIR PART, AND I BARELY WON IN
10:13:15 2015.
10:13:15 SO EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
10:13:17 AND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE AND I APPRECIATE IT.
10:13:19 AND THANK YOU FOR NOT JUST MYSELF BUT SO MANY OTHERS.
10:13:22 AND ALL THE WORK THAT HUFF DONE.
10:13:24 WE APPRECIATE YOU VERY, VERY MUCH AND ALL THE WOMEN THAT
10:13:26 WORK IN CITY GOVERNMENT THAT DO SO MUCH DAY IN AND DAY
10:13:30 OUT.
10:13:30 WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH.
10:13:31 >> THANK YOU.
10:13:50 FORKS FOX THE INDIVIDUALS SELECTED ARE ALL OF THE
10:14:12 INCUMBENTS.
10:14:12 STEVEN BLAIR, DEVON GRAY, DEVON INGANDELA, IRENE GUY,
10:14:24 RASHEED AQUIL.
10:14:25 >>MARTIN SHELBY: MOTION TO APPROVE THAT THEN.
10:14:30 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:14:32 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:14:34 ALL RIGHT.
10:14:34 >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WILL BE PROVIDING COUNCIL WITH A
10:14:36 RESOLUTION BEFORE THE END OF TODAY'S MEETING.
10:14:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEXT UP WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 5.
10:14:42 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA TO PRESENT A COMMENDATION TO MS. KATHY
10:14:48 BECK.
10:15:07 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, HONORABLE COUNCIL,
10:15:11 SOMETIMES WE COME UP HERE AND SAY KATHY'S BACK.
10:15:18 NO, KATHY BECK.
10:15:20 YOU KNOW, KATHY'S R FIRST DAY ON THE JOB WAS ON EARTH DAY
10:15:24 IN 1974.
10:15:25 AND I JUST MENTIONED TWO OF THE SHINING STARS, AND ONE
10:15:31 BECAME MAYOR, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, MAYOR SANDY FREEDMAN.
10:15:35 I WAS HONORED TO GET ELECTED WITH JAN PLATT AND SANDY
10:15:39 FREEDMAN AND THEY TAUGHT ME A LOT.
10:15:41 AND KATHY, YOU HAVE BEEN SERVING IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF
10:15:45 THE CITY.
10:15:46 YOU WERE FIRST A SITE PLAN COORDINATE OR, PERMIT TECH AND
10:15:51 DEVELOPMENT AND PERMITTING, CHIEF FORESTER EXAMINER,
10:15:55 PARKS SUPERINTENDENT WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, CURRENTLY
10:15:57 SERVE AS THE NATURAL RESOURCE COORDINATOR, AND UPLAND
10:16:00 HABITAT COORDINATOR FOR THE PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN
10:16:03 DIVISION.
10:16:03 >> YES, I DO.
10:16:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND THAT'S BIGGER THAN SERVING ON
10:16:09 CITY COUNCIL.
10:16:09 LET ME TELL YOU THAT.
10:16:10 YOU HAVE DONE SO MANY THINGS.
10:16:11 HERE AGAIN, JUST LIKE I DID WITH THE ONES WITH THE
10:16:14 YANKEES.
10:16:17 IF I PUT EVERYTHING IN THIS COMMENDATION I WOULD NEED
10:16:19 THREE OF THESE PLASTIC, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY TO PUT
10:16:22 THREE OF THEM SO WE ONLY DID ONE.
10:16:24 BUT SHE HAS SERVED IN MANY OTHER AREAS.
10:16:28 SHE HAS WORKED WITH HOW MANY MAYORS?
10:16:31 >> EIGHT MAYORS.
10:16:32 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO A NINTH?
10:16:37 >> NO.
10:16:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'M JUST ASKING.
10:16:39 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET MAD AT ME.
10:16:41 DUE TO HER EFFORTS THE CITY HAS BEEN NAMED THE TREE CITY
10:16:45 IN THE U.S. FOR 36 CONSECUTIVE YEARS BY THE ARBOR DAY
10:16:49 FOUNDATION.
10:16:49 THAT'S AN AMAZING STATISTIC.
10:16:53 KATHY'S PASSION AND COMMITMENT FOR DEDICATION IMPROVING
10:16:55 THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA ITSELF IS
10:16:58 UNMATCHED AND OVER THE YEARS SHE HAS CREATED AND
10:17:01 MAINTAINED PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS, ADVICE AND EDUCATION FOR
10:17:06 COMMUNITY ON THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS AND
10:17:08 URBAN FORESTRY.
10:17:10 YOU KNOW, WHAT DID EF HUTTON SAY?
10:17:15 LET KATHY DO IT.
10:17:21 AND WITHOUT SAYING IT, EVERY TIME I HAVE CALLED OR MARY
10:17:26 HAS CALLED TO YOUR OFFICE, I ALWAYS ADVISE MER HER, MARY,
10:17:30 IF I WAS YOU, I WOULD CALL KATHY BECK, BECAUSE I'M SURE
10:17:33 WE WILL GET A RESPONSE AND GET SOMETHING DONE.
10:17:36 AND JUST MINOR LITTLE THINGS THAT OTHERS WOULD MAYBE
10:17:40 FORGET ABOUT.
10:17:42 I REMEMBER ONE DAY DRIVING HOME ON LAKE AVENUE AND I SAW
10:17:46 A LIMB THAT WAS SO CORRODED THAT I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO
10:17:50 FALL JUST WITH A LITTLE BREEZE COMING BY AND I CALLED YOU
10:17:53 AND I CALLED OTHERS BEFORE.
10:17:55 AND WHEN I CALLED YOU, WITHIN 24 HOURS THAT WAS TAKEN
10:17:58 CARE OF, POSSIBLY SAVING THE CITY ANOTHER LAWSUIT THAT
10:18:03 THE CITY HAD BEEN NOTIFIED.
10:18:05 BUT KATHY HAS BEEN A BOARD MEMBER WITH THE CITY URBAN
10:18:09 FORESTRY COUNCIL, 2018 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SHE HAS BEEN
10:18:13 ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE MAYOR'S BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM,
10:18:16 PERSONALLY SHE HAS PLANTED MANY TREES TO RESTORE THE
10:18:19 URBAN CANOPY.
10:18:20 AND HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS SHE HAS DONE.
10:18:24 IN 2013, ISA FLORIDA CHAPTER, LAUREN WISENBERGER AWARD,
10:18:33 AWARD FOR PROTECTING THE CITY'S URBAN CANOPY OF THE
10:18:36 TREES, THE PLANNING COMMUNITY AWARD, THE TREES
10:18:41 MANAGEMENT, AND THE URBAN ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT PLAN
10:18:45 AWARD, PROMOTING TREE RIGHTS IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
10:18:50 SHE'S NEVER PLANTED A TREE IN THE WRONG PLACE.
10:18:52 >>KATHY BECK: NO.
10:18:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND KATHY WITH THE U.S. TAMPA TREE
10:19:00 ADVISORY TREE COMMITTEE, THE TAMPA PARK UNIVERSITY SQUARE
10:19:04 VISION PLAN, THE NATURAL DISASTER PREPARATION AND
10:19:07 RESTORATION PLAN, SHE HAS DEDICATED HER WHOLE LIFE TO
10:19:12 HELPING THE CITY BE A BETTER CITY.
10:19:14 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT TREES, SOMEHOW THERE'S A PART OF
10:19:22 KATHY BECK IN EVERY BARK OF THE TREE.
10:19:24 >>KATHY BECK: THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
10:19:27 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, YOU PLANT TREES, YOU MAKE
10:19:29 THINGS UP.
10:19:30 NO, BUT WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME THING TO GET THINGS DONE.
10:19:35 A SAD PART, AND I PRESENT THIS COMMENDATION, NOT BECAUSE
10:19:39 YOU DON'T DESERVE IT BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE LEAVING.
10:19:41 AND IT'S GOING TO BE SOME LONG TIME IN THE FUTURE WHEN
10:19:47 SOMEBODY CAN FIT INTO YOUR SHOES.
10:19:50 AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY.
10:19:52 YOU HAVE DONE A YEOMANS JOB FOR THE CITY OF IF AND DONE
10:19:55 IN THE A PROFESSIONAL MANNER THAT WILL BE VERY HARD FOR
10:19:58 SOMEONE ELSE TO FOLLOW.
10:19:59 WE WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS AWARD,
10:20:02 COMMENDATION TO YOU AND SAYING THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS
10:20:04 OF SERVICE TO THE CITY.
10:20:05 I THINK ONE OTHER WANTS TO MAKE A PRESENTATION.
10:20:08 MR. MICHELINI ASKED ME ABOUT THAT.
10:20:10 >>KATHY BECK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:20:12 >>STEVE MICHELINI: I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF A VARIETY OF
10:20:19 PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE KATHY'S CONTRIBUTION
10:20:22 TO THE CITY, AND ALL IT STANDS FOR.
10:20:25 FIRST TO PROVIDE HER WITH A GIFT CERTIFICATE SO SHE CAN
10:20:28 ENJOY HERSELF AT THE YUMMY HOUSE CHINA BISTRO.
10:20:32 SHE HAS TO INVITE SOMEBODY ELSE TO GO WITH HER.
10:20:35 I'M NOT TELLING HER WHO.
10:20:40 KATHY BECK HAS BEEN AN EXCEPTIONAL CITY OF TAMPA EMPLOYEE
10:20:42 FOR MORE YEARS THAN MOST PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER.
10:20:45 SHE'S BEEN A DRIVING FORCE IN ASSISTING CITIZENS AND CITY
10:20:48 EMPLOYEES ALIKE.
10:20:49 HER SELFLESS EFFORTS HAVE ENABLED HUNDREDS IF NOT
10:20:52 THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGH THE TREE AND LANDSCAPING
10:20:57 PROCESSES.
10:20:58 HER VIGILANCE, FAIR MINDED ASSISTANCE HAS ENABLED HER TO
10:21:01 NOT JUST GUIDE THE CITY BUT TO DEVELOP NEW PROGRAMS,
10:21:05 PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES TO ASSIST IN MAINTAINING THE
10:21:08 CITY'S VIBRANT AND HEALTHY TREE CANOPY.
10:21:11 SHE'S WORKED LONG HOURS YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT THROUGHOUT
10:21:14 HER TENURE WITH THE CITY.
10:21:17 KATHY IS WELL EXPECTED AMONG HER PEERS AND CITIZENS
10:21:20 ALIKE.
10:21:20 HER DEDICATION IS BEYOND COMPARE AND HER PERSONAL
10:21:23 COMMITMENT RISES TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL POSSIBLE.
10:21:26 KATHY HAS ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN AS A LEADER, A SKILLFUL
10:21:31 MENTOR, ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP AND GUIDE NEWER AND TRAIN
10:21:34 CITY EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS CITIZENS AND AS A SUPERVISOR
10:21:39 AND A FRIEND.
10:21:40 SHE WILL BE MISSED FOR ALL THAT SHE HAS DONE FOR THE CITY
10:21:42 AND ALL OF ITS CITIZENS.
10:21:44 KATHY BECK HAS LEFT HER POSITIVE MARK UPON THE CITY THAT
10:21:47 WILL LIVE LONG AFTER HER.
10:21:50 SHE TRULY EPITOMIZES THE DEDICATED SELFLESS EMPLOYEE THAT
10:21:54 MAKES THE CITY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY.
10:21:56 WHENEVER YOU ENJOY THE SHADE OF A TREE OR A TREE LINED
10:22:00 STREET OR A WELL-SHADED AND WELL-LANDSCAPED PROPERTY,
10:22:04 THANK KATHY AND HER DILIGENT EFFORTS.
10:22:06 MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, THAT WILL BE KATHY'S LEGACY.
10:22:10 KATHY HAS BEEN A FRIEND AND A FIXTURE IN THE CITY AND SHE
10:22:14 CASTS A LONG SHADOW THAT WILL LEAVE A LARGE HOLE TO BE
10:22:18 FILLED BY HER SUCCESSOR.
10:22:20 THERE ARE TOO MANY STORIES TOLD AND RETOLD ABOUT KATHY.
10:22:24 SOME YOU SIMPLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE.
10:22:29 KATHY, AND HER WORD IS HER BOND, AND HER HONESTY IS
10:22:34 BEYOND REPROACH.
10:22:35 ENJOY YOUR WELL DESERVED RETIREMENT.
10:22:38 HOWEVER, MANY OF US RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ASSIST IN HAVING
10:22:41 YOU RETURN TO CITY HALL WHENEVER YOU ARE NEEDED.
10:22:44 AND I CAN SAY THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
10:22:47 JUST IN CASE YOU GET BORED.
10:22:49 MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE I CAN SAY I AM PROUD TO CALL
10:22:51 KATHY MY FRIEND, AND A FRIEND OF SO MANY OTHERS.
10:22:54 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE OF THE.
10:22:56 >>KATHY BECK: OH, THANK YOU.
10:22:57 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:23:05 THIS HAS BEEN QUITE A MORNING SO I WILL TRY TO KEEP THIS
10:23:07 BRIEF.
10:23:08 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW IT HAS BEEN MY HONOR TO SERVE
10:23:11 THE CITIZENS AND LEADERSHIP OF THIS GREAT COMMUNITY.
10:23:14 BUT THIS PAST 45 YEARS HAS REALLY ALL BEEN ABOUT TAMPA'S
10:23:17 URBAN FOREST AND I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I THINK I WILL BE
10:23:21 LEAVING THE GOOD SHAPE OF YOUR URBAN ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
10:23:26 AND LEADERSHIP OF THIS GREAT CITY.
10:23:28 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:23:29 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:23:31 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:23:35 COUNCILMAN GUDES AND COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:23:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW.
10:23:42 WHEN I LOOK AT 46 YEARS AND I SEE MR. MIRANDA OVER THERE
10:23:47 STARTED IN 1974 AS WELL, I THINK I HEARD HIM SAY THAT,
10:23:50 THAT'S A LONG TIME TO SERVE THE CITY.
10:23:52 >>KATHY BECK: YES, SIR.
10:23:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT'S A LONG TIME TO WORK.
10:23:56 WHAT I CAME DO SAY TO YOU IS CONGRATULATIONS ON JOINING
10:24:00 THE CLUB.
10:24:02 YOU GO ENJOY YOURSELF.
10:24:04 46 YEARS IS A LONG TIME.
10:24:06 YOU GO AND ENJOY YOURSELF.
10:24:07 IF WE NEED YOU, WE'LL CALL YOU.
10:24:09 GO ENJOY YOURSELF.
10:24:11 GOD BLESS YOU.
10:24:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: [OFF MICROPHONE] I HAVE HAD THE
10:24:17 PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME, AND WHOEVER
10:24:21 SAID IT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
10:24:22 IF THERE WAS A TREE ISSUE, YOU WERE THE GO-TO PERSON.
10:24:26 AND NOT ONLY DID YOU CARE ABOUT THE TREES, BUT YOU CARED
10:24:30 ABOUT THE CITIZENS.
10:24:31 AND I HAVE TALKED TO QUITE A FEW DEVELOPERS OVER THE LAST
10:24:35 COUPLE OF WEEKS AND I SAID WHAT A SHAME IT IS THAT YOU
10:24:37 ARE NOT GOING TO BE HERE ANYMORE.
10:24:39 AND THEY ALL AGREED BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT HAD YOU WERE
10:24:41 FAIR, THAT HAD YOU WERE FAIR, AND THAT'S ALL ANYBODY
10:24:44 COULD ASK FOR.
10:24:45 AND TO GET STEVE MICHELINI A LITTLE CHOKED UP IS QUITE AN
10:24:52 ACCOMPLISHMENT THERE.
10:24:57 BUT JUST LIKE STEVE, THE REST OF US WILL MISS YOU
10:24:59 GREATLY.
10:25:00 AND PLEASE DON'T BE A STRANGER.
10:25:02 AND THE TREES THANK YOU AND WE THANK YOU, AND WE WILL
10:25:06 KEEP WORKING HARD TO PROTECT OUR URBAN FOREST IN SPITE OF
10:25:10 ANYTHING THAT TALLAHASSEE HAS TO DO.
10:25:15 >>BILL CARLSON: IT REMINDS ME, AND MY KIDS ARE WATCHING
10:25:20 DELORAX IN THE CAR TO AND FROM SCHOOL.
10:25:24 BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO THE CITY AND
10:25:27 TIME AND SERVICE YOU PUT IN AND FOR THE GREAT LEGACY YOU
10:25:31 ARE LEAVING.
10:25:32 OUR TREE CANOPY AND URBAN FOREST REALLY IS UP THERE WITH
10:25:35 THE AIRPORT AMONG THE GREAT THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE PROUD
10:25:38 ABOUT TAMPA.
10:25:38 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:25:41 YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THAT. BUT MOST
10:25:43 IMPORTANTLY, IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT I SAY.
10:25:46 I HAVE BEEN FLOODED WITH CALLS, OF PEOPLE SAD THAT A
10:25:50 COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS WHO ARE SAD THAT
10:25:53 YOU ARE LEAVING, AND YOU WERE SO MUCH A PART OF THE REAL
10:25:57 COMMUNITY OF TAMPA, AND THE GRASSROOTS EFFORTS IN THE
10:26:00 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:26:00 AND SO THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CONNECTED TO US WHO
10:26:05 THANK YOU AT THE SAME TIME.
10:26:05 >>KATHY BECK: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:26:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: KATHY, YOU APPEARED BEFORE ME IN CODE
10:26:14 ENFORCEMENT, YOU APPEARED BEFORE ME IN VARIANCE REVIEW
10:26:17 BOARD.
10:26:18 I THANK YOU FOR THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU PASSED ON TO ME.
10:26:21 I THANK YOU FOR THE HELP -- HELPING ME MAKE MY DECISIONS.
10:26:26 I WANT TO THANK YOU EVEN MORE FOR THE HARD WORK THAT YOU
10:26:30 DID WITH PEOPLE LIKE CHRISTIAN MORA, WITH THE BUILDERS,
10:26:33 WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, FOR OUR WONDERFUL,
10:26:37 WONDERFUL TREE ORDINANCE, AND YOU HAVE MY WORD THAT I AM
10:26:40 GOING TO FIGHT TALLAHASSEE PREEMPTION ON THAT.
10:26:45 THE MOST LEGALLY BINDING, MOST ECOLOGICALLY TREE
10:26:49 ORDINANCE IN THE COUNTRY AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT HELP.
10:26:51 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN THE AUDIENCE, LADIES AND
10:26:53 GENTLEMEN AT HOME WATCHING TV, IF YOU LOVE YOUR TREES,
10:26:59 THANK KATHY BECK FOR BEING HERE.
10:27:01 >>KATHY BECK: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN.
10:27:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:27:04 AND SOMETHING THAT COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER AND MARY ALSO
10:27:07 INDICATED, WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS HERE FOR THIS
10:27:09 COMMENDATION INCLUDING PARKS.
10:27:12 IF YOU ARE HERE FOR THIS COMMENDATION, COULD YOU STAND
10:27:14 UP?
10:27:14 >>KATHY BECK: I HAVE MY PARKS FAMILY.
10:27:19 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:27:22 IT'S QUITE HUMBLING AND THANK THEM ALL FOR THEIR HELP IN
10:27:32 GETTING THIS ALL DONE.
10:27:33 SO THANK YOU.
10:27:35 >>LUIS VIERA: WE THANK YOU.
10:27:35 IT'S JUST A SMALL TOKEN THAT WE CAN GIVE YOU AND ALL THE
10:27:41 WORK YOU HAVE DONE AND REALLY IS PUBLIC SERVICE BECAUSE
10:27:43 YOU PROBABLY COULD HAVE GONE INTO PRIVATE SECTOR, MADE
10:27:46 MORE MONEY, MAYBE HURT SOME PEOPLE IN THE PROCESS, BUT
10:27:49 INSTEAD YOU GO INTO PUBLIC SECTOR TO HELP PEOPLE.
10:27:52 >>KATHY BECK: THAT'S CORRECT.
10:27:53 >>LUIS VIERA: GOD BLESS YOU.
10:27:54 THANK YOU.
10:27:54 [ APPLAUSE ]
10:28:00 NOW WE ARE GOING TO TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:28:03 I USUALLY TAKE STAFF REPORTS, BUT TODAY AT 10:30 HAS BEEN
10:28:07 SUCH AN EXCEPTIONALLY LONG CEREMONIAL TIME THAT I WILL BE
10:28:11 DARNED IF WE DON'T DO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:28:13 COULD YOU PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU ARE HERE FOR
10:28:15 PUBLIC COMMENT SO I CAN HAVE AN IDEA?
10:28:16 OKAY, GOOD.
10:28:17 COME FORWARD.
10:28:20 STATE YOUR PIECE.
10:28:23 THREE MINUTES A PERSON.
10:28:29 BEFORE YOU BEGIN, TO THE ADMINISTRATION, WE WILL PROBABLY
10:28:32 BE DOING, AND TO STAFF, STAFF REPORTS AT ABOUT 10:55 OR
10:28:37 SO.
10:28:38 GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:28:38 >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:28:44 LOTS OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
10:28:47 I WANT 30 MINUTES OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
10:28:50 >>LUIS VIERA: EXCUSE ME, LET ME INTERRUPT YOU.
10:28:52 IF I MAY, WE ARE HOLDING PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:28:54 IF YOU ARE HERE PLEASE DO NOT SPEAK IN THE ROOM AS WE ARE
10:28:57 HOLDING COUNCIL MEETINGS.
10:28:58 IF YOU COULD PLEASE TAKE IT OUTSIDE SO WE CAN HEAR THE
10:29:00 SPEAKER.
10:29:00 THANK YOU.
10:29:01 GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:29:01 >> I WANT 30 MINUTES OF POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
10:29:11 AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG IN RECOGNIZING THE PAST AND
10:29:13 RECOGNIZING WHAT'S GOING TO COME IN THE FUTURE.
10:29:15 BUT THE REALITY IS, I HAVE SAID IT PREVIOUSLY AND I WILL
10:29:19 SAY IT TODAY.
10:29:22 02-20-20.
10:29:24 A GARBAGE CITY COUNCIL.
10:29:26 NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
10:29:27 DON'T EVER SPEAK TO THE ISSUES, THE REAL ISSUES.
10:29:30 THEY TELL YOU ALL THIS HISTORICAL NONSENSE BUT IT'S AN
10:29:33 INSULT TO AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:29:36 THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
10:29:37 TALKING ABOUT POLICE OFFICERS AND WHAT BLACK POLICE
10:29:39 OFFICERS AND WHAT THEY COULD DO AND COULDN'T DO AND THE
10:29:42 CHANGES.
10:29:42 BUT THE REALITY REMAINS THE SAME.
10:29:45 I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT POLICE OFFICERS IT IS.
10:29:48 THE REALITY REMAINS THE SAME.
10:29:51 IT'S AN INFLUX OF AFRICAN PEOPLE INCARCERATED.
10:29:55 PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
10:29:56 I DON'T CARE WHAT COLOR THEY ARE.
10:29:58 THEY MOVE FROM COLONIALISM TO NEOCOLONIALISM IT'S THE
10:30:04 SAME DYNAMICS FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:30:07 AND THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT, THESE
10:30:11 MILLION DOLLAR BUDGETS, AND IT'S NEVER BEEN FROM 1824, TO
10:30:16 RIGHT NOW, THERE'S NEVER BEEN 26% OF THE BUDGET FOR THE
10:30:20 AFRICAN COMMUNITY.
10:30:21 AND WE ARE 26% OF THE POPULATION.
10:30:23 AND WE CONTINUE TO BE INSULTED DAY AFTER DAY, YEAR AFTER
10:30:27 YEAR FOR 600 YEARS.
10:30:28 AND THE INSULT GO AS FAR AS THAT WHITE PEOPLE BUILT
10:30:37 SETTLEMENTS ALL OVER OUR BURIAL SITES, LIKE MacDILL
10:30:42 AIR FORCE BASE, HARBOR ISLAND, RIGHT HERE AT CHANNELSIDE,
10:30:45 ROBLES PARK, KING HIGH SCHOOL.
10:30:47 IT'S GOING ON ALL OVER THE CITY.
10:30:52 AND DID ONLY THINGS YOU HAVE FOR US IN THIS CITY IS
10:30:55 TRICKS, STUNTS AND BRUTE FORCE AGAINST THE AFRICAN
10:31:00 PEOPLE.
10:31:03 AND YOU ALL INSULT US EVERY OPPORTUNITY YOU GET.
10:31:05 IT'S AN INSULT. TWO WEEKS AGO, KNIGHT PARADE, YBOR CITY,
10:31:11 INSULT TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:31:15 WE HANG OUT AT THE BROADWAY BAR, THEY PUT BLACK PEOPLE
10:31:19 CAN'T SEE THE PARADE.
10:31:21 I CAN'T STAND TO SEE THE PARADE.
10:31:23 NOT ONLY THAT YOU ALL DON'T WANT THE N--S TO BE SEEN.
10:31:27 YOU DON'T WANT US TO BE SEEN.
10:31:29 INSULTS TO AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:31:31 WE ARE 26% OF THIS POPULATION AND WE WANT 26% OF THE CITY
10:31:35 BUDGET.
10:31:36 I DON'T GIVE A DAMN IF YOU TOOK ALCOHOL WITH IT.
10:31:41 WE WANT IT.
10:31:42 WE DESERVE IT.
10:31:42 WE ARE 26% OF THIS POPULATION.
10:31:44 AND WE WANT 26% OF THESE BIG BUDGETS YOU ALL GOT.
10:31:48 PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
10:31:48 >>LUIS VIERA: MR. DANIELS, I AM GOING DO HAVE TO ASK OUR
10:31:54 CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY MR. SHELBY TO OPINE ON WAY CONSIDER
10:31:57 TO BE DISRUPTIVE LANGUAGE.
10:31:59 IF YOU WISH TO READ THE RULE, MR. SHELBY.
10:32:00 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:32:04 COUNCIL RULE 5-G, NO ONE PRESENT DURING COUNCIL MEETING
10:32:08 SHALL ENGAGE IN DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR INCLUDING INTENTION
10:32:12 TO MAKE OR CAUSING TO BE MADE ANY DISRUPTIVE SOUND OR
10:32:15 NOISE OR DISPLAYING SIGNS OF GRAPHICS IN A MANNER
10:32:19 DISRUPTIVE TO THE PROCEEDINGS, SPEAKERS RULE 4-F, SHALL
10:32:24 REFRAIN FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR INCLUDING MAKING VULGAR
10:32:27 OR THREATENING REMARKS.
10:32:29 SPEAKERS SHALL REFRAIN FROM LAUNCHING PERSONAL ATTACKS
10:32:31 AGAINST ANY CITY OFFICIAL, CITY STAFF MEMBER OR MEMBER OF
10:32:34 THE PUBLIC.
10:32:35 AND COMMENTS SHALL BE DIRECTED TO THE COUNCIL AS A BODY
10:32:39 AND NOT TO INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS.
10:32:41 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:32:41 SO WHEN MR. DANIELS WATCHES THIS ON RERUN I WOULD ASK
10:32:44 THAT IT PLEASE BE NOTED THAT HE'S BEEN PUT ON NOTICE, AND
10:32:47 TO PLEASE CONDUCT HIMSELF ACCORDINGLY WITH REGARDS TO
10:32:50 WHAT I CONSIDER TO THE CHAIR TO BE DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR.
10:32:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IN REFERENCE TO MR. DANIELS' COMMENTS AS
10:32:57 IT RELATES TO THE KNIGHT PARADE, THAT IS UNDER NEW
10:33:00 BUSINESS SO I WILL BE ADDRESSING THAT LATER ON IN THE
10:33:04 MEETING.
10:33:05 >>LUIS VIERA: THERE YOU GO.
10:33:05 THANK YOU.
10:33:05 >> CHRISTINE ACOSTA, CITY OF TAMPA RESIDENT, AND I'M HERE
10:33:16 TO SPEAK ABOUT THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN THAT YOU ARE GOING
10:33:22 TO BE HEARING ABOUT LATER TODAY.
10:33:23 I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT RECENTLY, IN JANUARY, AT
10:33:28 THE INVITATION OF JEAN DUNCAN, A GROUP OF BICYCLISTS DID
10:33:34 GATHER TO HAVE A LISTENING SESSION WITH THE CITY'S
10:33:37 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, AND EACH OF THE ATTENDEES WERE
10:33:41 GIVEN SOME VOTING DOCS, IF YOU WILL, ON THEIR PRIORITIES.
10:33:46 I'LL SHARE WITH YOU HOW THAT HAPPENED AND WHAT WE DID.
10:33:49 I WAS ABLE TO KICK OFF OUR MEETING AND YOU USED A
10:33:54 TECHNIQUE THAT WAS SOME OF MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME, FROM
10:34:00 AMERICAN EXPRESS, AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH YEAR, WE
10:34:02 INSPIRE THE COMPANY LEADERSHIP FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
10:34:06 WITH IMAGINARY HEADLINES, AND I WILL SHARE WITH YOU MY
10:34:11 IMAGINARY HEADLINES.
10:34:19 TAMPA: LAND OF GRACIOUS DRIVERS.
10:34:20 THROUGH ROADWAY DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS AND A CULTURAL
10:34:23 CAMPAIGN, TAMPA BAY DRIVERS NOW RANK THE MOST GRACIOUS IN
10:34:28 THE NATION.
10:34:29 I'M SHARING THESE WITH YOU TO INSPIRE AND BE THINKING
10:34:32 BOLDLY WHEN YOU HEAR THE PRESENTATION ABOUT THE MASTER
10:34:35 PLAN.
10:34:40 IMAGINARY.
10:34:41 TAMPA FINDS SUCCESS PAIRING MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING WITH
10:34:45 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
10:34:47 THE MESSAGE I CONVEY TO YOU IN THIS IMAGINARY HEADLINE IS
10:34:50 THAT THERE ISN'T ANYTHING THAT YOU FACE AS LEADERS IN OUR
10:34:56 COMMUNITY WHERE ACTIVE, EQUITABLE, HEALTHY TRANSPORTATION
10:35:01 DOES NOT HELP THE ISSUE.
10:35:04 IT MAY NOT BE THE ISSUE THAT YOU ARE CONTENDING WITH, BUT
10:35:07 BY PAIRING THESE OPPORTUNITIES, YOU WILL FIND SUCCESS.
10:35:15 YOU WILL LOVE THIS ONE.
10:35:17 POLITICAL.
10:35:19 TAMPA BAY REGION IS NO LONGER AMONG THE MOST DANGEROUS BY
10:35:23 DESIGN ACCORDING TO SMART GROWTH AMERICA.
10:35:26 AND THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN.
10:35:28 POLITICAL WILL FOR SAFETY-OVER-SPEED IS THE NEW NORMAL IN
10:35:35 OUR REGION.
10:35:37 THIS IS OUR VISION AS BICYCLE AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
10:35:40 ADVOCATES.
10:35:41 ALL OF YOU WILL BE CALLED UPON WITH FUTURE ROAD DESIGN
10:35:45 IMPROVEMENTS, BUT TO TELL YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT 30 TO 90
10:35:52 SECONDS OF THEIR COMMUTE IS WORTH IT FOR THE QUALITY OF
10:35:55 LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:35:58 AND FINALLY, CITY LAB.
10:36:01 THE BECOMES THE AMSTERDAM OF THE SOUTHEAST.
10:36:04 THE CITY GOES FROM WORST TO FIRST IN BICYCLE FRIENDLINESS
10:36:08 AND TWO WHEEL TOURISTS NICKNAMED IT TAMPSTERDAM.
10:36:17 I AM GOING TO LEAVE SOME WRITTEN DOCUMENTS FROM EMILY.
10:36:21 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:36:22 WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:36:23 NEXT, PLEASE.
10:36:26 >> MY NAME IS JIM MOSBAUGH, NORTH BON AIR NEIGHBORHOOD
10:36:27 ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, AND I AM HERE TO OPPOSE THE
10:36:35 PLACEMENT OF NEW DIGITAL BILLBOARDS ON DALE MABRY NORTH
10:36:38 OF KENNEDY.
10:36:39 THIS IS FROM MY BEDROOM WINDOW.
10:36:43 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL OF THE BILLBOARDS
10:36:47 PUT UP AND THAT WOULD BE LIKE HAVING A MILLION NIGHT
10:36:52 LIGHTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, EITHER NOT TO PUT IT UP OR
10:36:54 MODIFY IT SUCH THAT THE LIGHT DOESN'T INFILTRATE IN OUR
10:36:57 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:36:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHAT'S THE CROSS STREET ON THAT?
10:37:00 >> THAT'S CHURCH AND NORTH B.
10:37:02 MY HOUSE IS JUST DOWN FROM DONATELLOS.
10:37:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I MEAN THE BIG BOARD ITSELF.
10:37:08 >> I THINK IT'S FIG AND DALE MABRY.
10:37:10 THAT'S IT.
10:37:11 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:37:20 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:37:20 GO AHEAD, MA'AM.
10:37:21 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:37:24 GERALDINE ROGERS SIMMS.
10:37:26 DR. KING SAYS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE FAIL TO HELP THE
10:37:29 CHILDREN?
10:37:31 I SUPPORT COMPLETE STREET ENHANCEMENT FOR THE 34th
10:37:34 STREET CORRIDOR.
10:37:36 HOWEVER, I DO NOT SUPPORT PUTTING ROUNDABOUTS AT THE
10:37:39 PROPOSED LOCATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH CONCENTRATION OF
10:37:42 CHILDREN, PEDESTRIANS, AND BICYCLISTS COMMUTING IN THOSE
10:37:47 AREAS.
10:37:48 I PRESENTED DATA TO YOU ON MY LAST VISIT REFLECTING THE
10:37:51 SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF TRAFFIC CRASHES OCCURRING AT THE
10:37:55 40th STREET ROUNDABOUTS IN 2018 AND 2019.
10:37:59 CHILDREN ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS IN OUR
10:38:02 COMMUNITY.
10:38:03 IS THAT THE TYPE OF DANGER YOU WANT TO EXPOSE TO OUR
10:38:06 CHILDREN, TOO?
10:38:07 THE NUMBER OF ROUNDABOUT CRASHES ON 40TH STREET SHOULD
10:38:11 ALSO BE ALARMING TO YOU AND REQUIRE STAFF TO REASSESS
10:38:16 WHETHER ROUNDABOUTS IS THE SAFEST STREET DESIGN.
10:38:19 IT IS INTERESTING HOW PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND YOUR STAFF
10:38:23 THINK THAT THEY KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR THE EAST TAMPA
10:38:26 COMMUNITY.
10:38:28 YOUR TRACK RECORD DOESN'T REFLECT OF OUR BEST INTEREST AT
10:38:32 HEART.
10:38:33 JUST TO NAME A FEW REASONS FOR CONCERN.
10:38:36 IT TOOK THE CITY OF TAMPA TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT
10:38:38 ALMOST A DECADE TO PROVIDE WALL SIGNAGE ON 40TH STREET,
10:38:44 PROVIDING INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING HOW TO DRIVE THE
10:38:47 ROUNDABOUT.
10:38:48 AND NO PEDESTRIAN CROSSING LIGHTS WERE INSTALLED.
10:38:53 SECONDLY, 40th STREET ONLY HAS ONE TRAFFIC LIGHT AND
10:38:58 ONE PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK BETWEEN HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE AND
10:39:01 BUSCH BOULEVARD.
10:39:04 40TH STREET IS A FOUR LANE HIGHWAY AND MAJOR CORRIDOR FOR
10:39:07 THE AREA, AND ESTIMATED 30,000 VEHICLES TRAVEL THAT AREA
10:39:12 DAILY.
10:39:14 THERE SHOULD BE PEDESTRIAN CROSS LIGHTS AND SIGNALS
10:39:16 THROUGHOUT THE AREA.
10:39:19 I GUESS THE CITY OF TEMPLE TERRACE IS MORE CONCERNED
10:39:21 ABOUT THEIR CITIZENS' SAFETY THAN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:39:25 I WAS TRAVELING ON 50th STREET OVER THE WEEKEND AND
10:39:29 NOTICED THEY HAD TWO PEDESTRIAN CROSS LIGHTS BETWEEN
10:39:32 FOWLER AVENUE AND FLETCHER.
10:39:34 AGAIN, WE ONLY HAVE ONE PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK FOR 40TH
10:39:39 STREET AND LIGHTS FOR A MUCH LONGER RADIUS.
10:39:44 PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS ARE BEING REQUIRED TO CROSS A
10:39:46 BUSY STREET AT THEIR OWN RISK.
10:39:49 THAT DECISION ALONE CONFIRMS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS NOT
10:39:53 YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:39:57 34th STREET WASN'T CLASSIFIED AS ONE OF THE MOST
10:40:01 DANGEROUS ROADS IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA IN 2009 BUT FOWLER
10:40:05 AVENUE AND EAST HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE, WATERS AVENUE, DALE
10:40:08 MABRY AND WATERS INTERSECTIONS, THERE HAVE BEEN NO
10:40:11 ROUNDABOUTS INSTALLED ON THOSE ROADS TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY
10:40:15 SAFETY.
10:40:15 IT MAKES ME WONDER WHAT YOUR REAL MOTIVE IS FOR INCLUDING
10:40:19 ROUNDABOUTS FOR 34th STREET PROJECT, TO RECOMMEND A
10:40:22 ROUNDABOUT REPLACE ADJACENT TO A PARK DEMONSTRATES YOU DO
10:40:26 NOT HAVE OUR CHILDREN'S BEST INTEREST AT HEART.
10:40:30 ENSURING PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD ALWAYS BE A NUMBER ONE
10:40:33 PRIORITY.
10:40:34 YOU ALLOW THE CHANNEL DRIVE COMMUNITY TO HAVE CONCEPTUAL
10:40:37 DESIGN OPTIONS FOR ROAD SAFETY MEASURES.
10:40:40 WE DESERVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO BE GIVEN SAFETY
10:40:45 ENHANCEMENTS FOR THE 34th STREET CORRIDOR.
10:40:48 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:40:49 THANK YOU.
10:40:49 >> GOOD MORNING, ANNE TAYLOR WITH WESTSHORE ALLIANCE,
10:40:57 3109 WEST DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, CONCERNING DIGITAL
10:41:03 BILLBOARDS AND ADDING DIGITAL BULL BOARDS ALONG NORTH
10:41:06 KENNEDY.
10:41:06 WE PARTICIPATED EXTENSIVELY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE ON
10:41:09 THE COUNCIL WHEN THIS ORDINANCE WAS ENACTED TEN YEARS AGO
10:41:12 ORIGINALLY.
10:41:13 ALLOWING DIGITAL BILLBOARDS.
10:41:17 WE PARTICIPATED EXTENSIVELY IN THAT PROCESS.
10:41:19 WE WERE IN MEETINGS WITH CITY STAFF, JULIA COLE AT THE
10:41:23 TIME, CITY ATTORNEY, CATHY COYLE, THE BILLBOARD
10:41:26 COMPANIES, AND AT THE TIME THEY AGREED TO EXCLUDE DALE
10:41:29 MABRY.
10:41:29 AND OUR POSITION HASN'T CHANGED.
10:41:31 WE HAVE AN OVERLAY DISTRICT FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THAT
10:41:34 AREA.
10:41:35 VISUAL BLIGHT, SIGNAGE, UTILITIES, ET CETERA, IS ONE OF
10:41:38 THE THINGS WE COMBAT EXTENSIVELY, KNOW IT JUST
10:41:42 BILLBOARDS, ON-SITE SIGNS, ILLEGAL SIGNS, TO CLEAN UP THE
10:41:46 DISTRICT.
10:41:47 THERE'S MANY ITEMS ON YOUR AGENDA TODAY, AND I HEAR YOU
10:41:50 TALKING ABOUT BEAUTIFYING 34th STREET, HOW CAN WE DO
10:41:53 THAT?
10:41:53 HOW CAN WE ADD PARK IMPACT FEES WHICH IN CASE YOU DON'T
10:41:56 KNOW EXIST IN WESTSHORE TO BEAUTIFY THE AREA.
10:41:59 HOW CAN WE WORK ON WALK AND BIKE PLANS AND MASTER PLANS
10:42:02 FOR THE CITY?
10:42:03 ALL THESE THINGS ARE QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVING OUR CITY,
10:42:05 AND WHETHER IT'S DALE MABRY, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE A STATE
10:42:09 ROAD OR ANY OTHER ROAD, I THINK WE SHOULD DO THE BEST WE
10:42:12 CAN TO BEAUTIFY AND IMPROVE ALL OF THEM.
10:42:15 AND I JUST DON'T SEE HOW ALLOWING DIGITAL BILLBOARDS IN
10:42:18 SOME OF THESE LOCATIONS THAT THEY ARE PROPOSING, WE ARE
10:42:22 MOST INTERESTED IN DALE MABRY, REALLY HELPS YOU ACHIEVE
10:42:24 THAT GOAL.
10:42:25 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:42:26 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:42:27 WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:42:28 NEXT, PLEASE.
10:42:28 >> TODD PRESSMAN.
10:42:35 450 SECOND AVENUE SOUTH IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA.
10:42:39 I'M HERE WITH CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR.
10:42:43 THERE'S BEEN A TEN-YEAR VERY POSITIVE HISTORY OF
10:42:46 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY AND WITH THE COMMUNITY AND
10:42:48 CITIZENS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
10:42:51 AND THE DIGITAL BOARDS THAT ARE PROPOSED BEFORE YOU TODAY
10:42:55 AND HAVE BEEN WITH THE HISTORY OF THE CITY FOR TEN YEARS
10:42:58 HAS OPENED UP THE USE FOR SMALL BUSINESS FOR THE FIRST
10:43:01 TIME.
10:43:02 WE ARE PROUD THAT WE HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A DIRECT
10:43:06 COMPLAINT ABOUT ANY DIGITAL BOARD, EITHER FROM INDIVIDUAL
10:43:09 CITIZENS OR TO THE CITY.
10:43:11 WHAT'S PROPOSED TODAY IS NOT A CHANGE OF ZONING
10:43:15 RESTRICTIONS OR RESIDENTIAL PROTECTIONS.
10:43:18 IT STILL HAS A TRADE-OFF OF EQUIVALENT OF TEN PAPER
10:43:22 BOARDS COME DOWN FOR ANY NEW DIGITAL BOARD.
10:43:26 THAT'S STILL IN PLACE.
10:43:27 AND CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HAS REMOVED AN EQUIVALENT OF
10:43:31 200 PAPER BOARDS IN THE CITY.
10:43:33 THAT IS A HUGE CLEAN-UP OR BEAUTIFICATION FOR THE CITY.
10:43:36 WE HAVE ALREADY RESPONDED AND MODIFIED TO SOME COUNCIL
10:43:40 MEMBERS CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED WHEN THIS FIRST CAME
10:43:43 FORWARD, AS YOU MOVE FORWARD TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION,
10:43:45 AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION FILED A STAFF FILE THE
10:43:49 PROPOSAL CONSISTENT AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS
10:43:51 SUPPORTED THAT VERY STRONGLY.
10:43:55 SO WITH RESPECT TO ANNE, WHO WE SAT AND TALKED WITH, AND
10:44:00 THE CITIZENS, THIS HAS BEEN A VERY POSITIVE PROGRAM.
10:44:03 WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING A VERY POSITIVE PROGRAM
10:44:05 WITH THE CITY.
10:44:06 THANK YOU.
10:44:07 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:44:07 NEXT, PLEASE.
10:44:08 >> MY NAME IS DR. FRANK WILLIAMS, LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT
10:44:17 STREET.
10:44:18 I COME TO YOU ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
10:44:21 AND SAVIOR.
10:44:22 AND WE THANK GOD THAT WE ARE HERE TODAY.
10:44:25 I AM GOING TO READ SOMETHING OUT OF THE -- CONGRESS SHALL
10:44:30 MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGIOUS,
10:44:35 PROHIBITING FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.
10:44:39 ABRIDGE IN THE FREEDOM OF PRESS OR THE RIGHTS OF THE
10:44:44 PEOPLE TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND TO PETITION THE
10:44:47 GOVERNMENT FOR REDRESS A GRIEVANCE.
10:44:50 I HOPE YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THE CONSTITUTION, BECAUSE I GOT
10:44:55 MY CHURCH LOCATED AT 712 EAST SCOTT STREET.
10:44:57 AND THE WAY THEY TREAT US AS BLACK PEOPLE, IF WE ARE NOT
10:45:04 WHITE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO RECOGNIZE US.
10:45:05 RIGHT NOW THEY ARE FILLING UP A RETENTION POND IN BACK OF
10:45:09 THE CHURCH, HOMELESS PEOPLE, AND YOU ALL DON'T GIVE A
10:45:17 DAMN ABOUT US, AND WE HAVE TO LET YOU ALL KNOW IT.
10:45:21 THE LAWYER, I GUESS HE JUST READ OFF SOMETHING A WHILE
10:45:25 AGO THAT WE CAN'T SAY THINGS, BUT LET ME SAY SOMETHING
10:45:29 ELSE.
10:45:29 ARTICLE 14.
10:45:30 ALL PERSONS BORN AND NATURALIZED IN THE UNITED STATES AND
10:45:35 SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF OF THE UNITED STATES
10:45:41 AND THE STATES WHEREIN THEY RESIDE.
10:45:44 NO STATE SHALL ENFORCE ANY LAW WHICH SHALL ABRIDGE THE
10:45:51 PRIVILEGE OF IMMUNITY OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES,
10:45:58 TO REQUIRE ANY PERSON OF LIFE, LIBERTY OR PROCESS WHICH
10:46:05 DENIES DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW, OR TO ANY PERSON WITHIN
10:46:09 THE JURISDICTION OF EQUAL PROTECTION.
10:46:11 I KNOW YOU ALL EXEMPT WHITE FOLKS.
10:46:18 AND TONY DANIEL, HE COME UP HERE WITH AN ATTITUDE.
10:46:21 GET A RIGHT TO HAVE ATTITUDE BECAUSE OF THE WAY YOU ALL
10:46:24 TREAT POOR BLACK FOLKS AND TREAT US LIKE WE ARE IGNORANT,
10:46:29 THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING.
10:46:31 I GOT SOMETHING ELSE I GOT TO READ.
10:46:33 I KNOW YOU ALL ARE GOING TO RING THE BELL.
10:46:35 SAVE OUR CHILDREN FROM RACIST GOVERNMENT.
10:46:38 THE GOVERNMENT TOOK PRAYER OUT OF SCHOOLS.
10:46:42 THEY DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT GOD ALMIGHTY.
10:46:47 [BELL SOUNDS]
10:46:48 SINCE WE CARE, WE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS CHILDREN OF THE
10:46:50 HOLY FATHER.
10:46:51 IF IT WASN'T FOR GOD ALMIGHTY, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE TO
10:46:55 TALK ABOUT.
10:46:56 AND STOP LOOKING AT THE COLOR OF PEOPLE'S SKIN AND
10:46:59 RESPECT PEOPLE FOR THEIR PERSON AND WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.
10:47:04 GLORY BE TO GOD ALMIGHTY.
10:47:06 I HAD A LOT OF OTHER THINGS I WANT TO SAY ABOUT BLACK
10:47:08 HISTORY BUT YOU ALL --
10:47:13 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:47:13 WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:47:14 [BELL SOUNDS]
10:47:16 NEXT, PLEASE.
10:47:17 >> TOM O'NEILL REPRESENTING CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR, 5555
10:47:22 ULMERTON ROAD.
10:47:25 THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO COME BACK BEFORE YOU.
10:47:29 I BELIEVE THERE WAS A VERY THOROUGH REVIEW IN 2009
10:47:33 ALLOWING FOR THE DIGITAL BILLBOARDS TO START IN 2010.
10:47:40 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER AND MIRANDA WERE PART OF THAT AND I
10:47:42 THINK WE ENDED UP WITH A VERY PRAGMATIC STRUCTURE AND A
10:47:46 NET GAIN, AND AS MR. PRESSMAN INDICATED, I THINK WE HAVE
10:47:51 TEN YEARS OF SUCCESS BEHIND THAT, WITH A REDUCTION IN THE
10:47:54 FOOTPRINT, AND THERE WAS A LIMITATION ON THE FRANCHISE
10:47:59 RIGHTS, AND THE ROADWAYS, AND WE ARE HERE TODAY TO JUST
10:48:02 ASK FOR A SMALL INCREASE TO THE NUMBER AND THE PERCENTAGE
10:48:06 OF BOARDS THAT CAN BE MADE DIGITAL.
10:48:08 I THINK THE PROGRAM WAS AGAIN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL, AND
10:48:13 HAS BEEN USED AS A TEMPLATE IN MANY AREAS.
10:48:17 THE REMOVAL RATIO VERY HIGH REMOVES BOARDS FROM SECONDARY
10:48:21 ROADS AND QUASI-RESIDENTIAL.
10:48:23 AGAIN I THINK THERE'S A NET GAIN.
10:48:25 I THINK SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL ROADS THAT WE HAVE ASKED
10:48:27 FOR, BESIDES PAIRING DOWN, BASED UPON THE LAST REQUEST,
10:48:30 AT THE WORKSHOP, EVEN INCLUDING THE DALE MABRY PART OF
10:48:35 THE WESTSHORE DISTRICT.
10:48:37 THE WESTSHORE DISTRICT IS IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS, TO
10:48:41 CIVIC EVENTS, PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING IN TO THE AREA.
10:48:46 YOU JUST ADD A HALF A BILLION STRUCTURE AT MIDTOWN WITH
10:48:52 HIGH-RISE HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS AND HIGH-RISE CONDOS,
10:48:57 NEW PUBLIX GOING IN AT WESTSHORE.
10:49:00 WESTSHORE AND THE DALE MABRY AREA CONTINUES TO BE A
10:49:02 THRIVING PART OF THE MUNICIPALITY, AND TO ADD A COUPLE OF
10:49:07 DIGITAL BILLBOARDS WE HOPE WON'T DO ANYTHING BUT ENHANCE
10:49:10 THE ADVERTISERS' ABILITY TO SPEAK TO THOSE FOLKS AND WE
10:49:14 FEEL THAT GOING BACK TO KATHY BECK, PROBABLY ONE OF THE
10:49:18 MOST INSTRUMENTAL PARTS WAS AN ALLOWANCE OF 65 FEET WHICH
10:49:23 ELIMINATED THE NEED TO TRIM OR REMOVE TREES.
10:49:25 I THINK THE PROGRAM IS VERY GOOD.
10:49:27 IT'S GOT BUILT-IN PROTECTION FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:49:30 THERE'S SPACING BETWEEN THE BILLBOARDS, SPACING BETWEEN
10:49:33 RESIDENTIAL, THERE'S A PROGRAM THAT DEMANDS THAT EACH
10:49:38 BOARD HAVE A LIGHT REDUCTION SCENARIO SO THAT THE BOARD
10:49:42 DIMS AS NIGHT GOES ON, AS THE NEED FOR THE BOARDS NO
10:49:46 LONGER TO BE BRIGHT.
10:49:48 AND I THINK THAT AFFECTS NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE ABILITY.
10:49:50 SO WE APPRECIATE THE CONSIDERATION MOVING FORWARD.
10:49:52 THANK YOU.
10:49:53 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:49:53 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: QUICK QUESTION.
10:49:56 I KNOW THAT WE ARE ULTIMATELY WILL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING
10:49:59 ON THIS.
10:49:59 BUT WE HAVE BEEN TWEAKING IT UP.
10:50:01 I AGREE WITH YOU, I THINK THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE TEN
10:50:03 YEARS AGO IS POSITIVE AND HEADED US IN A POSITIVE
10:50:06 DIRECTION.
10:50:07 IN THAT LITTLE STRETCH FROM THE STADIUM ON DALE MABRY
10:50:11 DOWN TO KENNEDY, I ASSUME YOU GUYS HAVE ONE OR TWO
10:50:16 BILLBOARDS ALONG THERE THAT YOU WANT TO SWITCH OUT OR
10:50:18 WHAT?
10:50:19 AND I AM ASKING MS. HEALEY THE SAME THING ON BEHALF OF
10:50:23 HER COMPANY.
10:50:24 >> WITH THE SPACING REQUIRED BETWEEN BILLBOARDS, YES, IT
10:50:27 SHOULDN'T BE MORE THAN A COUPLE.
10:50:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YOU HEARD A LITTLE BIT OF CONCERN FROM
10:50:30 THE FOLKS IN BON AIR.
10:50:32 I KNOW YOU WERE PREVIOUSLY AWARE OF THAT.
10:50:34 SO WE ARE NOT AT PUBLIC HEARING NOW BUT I JUST INCH TO
10:50:37 YOU MEET WITH THOSE FOLKS AND MAYBE WE CAN TWEAK IT UP A
10:50:40 LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:50:43 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT, PLEASE.
10:50:44 AND MRS. HEALEY, I BELIEVE, IS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR
10:50:48 PUBLIC COMMENT IF I AM CORRECT.
10:50:49 >> MARILYN HEALEY, ACKERMAN, 401 EAST JACKSON STREET
10:50:56 REPRESENTING UPFRONT MEDIA WHO IS BASED OUT OF TAMPA.
10:51:00 AND AS I LISTEN AND WAS GOING BACK THROUGH THE
10:51:05 CHRONOLOGIC EVENTS OF THIS ORDINANCE AND HOW WE FIRST
10:51:08 STARTED, IT'S BEEN LIKE ALMOST 20 YEARS.
10:51:13 AND IT WAS A STRUGGLE, I THINK, AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE
10:51:19 SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE BILLBOARDS.
10:51:21 AND WHAT I THOUGHT THE CITY COUNCIL DID AT THE TIME AND
10:51:23 OUR TWO COMPANIES REALLY WORKED HARD, BECAUSE WE DON'T
10:51:26 WANTS TO BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:51:28 THERE WAS A LOT OF STRATEGIC THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
10:51:31 AND HOW THIS BASICALLY REPLACE ORDINANCE CAME INTO BEING.
10:51:36 THEN LATER THE DIGITAL COMPONENT CAME ONBOARD.
10:51:40 EVERYBODY WAS VERY VOCAL, WE DO NOT WANT TIMES SQUARE.
10:51:46 THERE WAS A LOT OF EVIDENCE BOTH LEGAL AND TECHNICAL AND
10:51:49 A LOT OF WORKING.
10:51:51 THEY ARE NOT INTRUSIVE.
10:51:53 IF THEY ARE IN THE RIGHT LOCATION.
10:51:55 AND BACK TO WHERE WE ALL STARTED IS WE WANT A LOT OF
10:51:59 BILLBOARDS TO COME DOWN THAT AREN'T EVEN NECESSARILY
10:52:03 PROFITABLE FOR THE COMPANIES.
10:52:05 BUT THEY DO HAVE VALUE.
10:52:11 THIS IS A WAY THAT WE CAN GET ONE OR TWO MORE.
10:52:15 IT'S NOT A BIG STRETCH.
10:52:16 WE WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.
10:52:18 AND WE WILL BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION BACK.
10:52:20 AND AS ALWAYS WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE
10:52:22 COMMUNITY.
10:52:26 SO PLEASE SET THIS FOR SECOND READING.
10:52:28 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:52:30 OKAY.
10:52:31 NEXT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ONWARD TO OUR STAFF REPORTS.
10:52:34 FOR THE LIVE APPEARANCES THAT ARE NECESSITATED.
10:52:37 AND I SEE HERE IS NUMBER 88 TO BE THE FIRST ONE.
10:52:53 AND WE HAVE A REALLY ROBUST AGENDA.
10:52:55 SO I AM GOING TO INSPIRE EACH OF THESE TO GO.
10:52:57 LET'S DO 87 TO BE REALISTIC.
10:53:01 NO ONE HERE FOR 88?
10:53:03 OKAY.
10:53:03 LET'S DO THEN 89.
10:53:10 MR. DIAL.
10:53:12 >>PAUL DIAL: PAUL DIAL, PARKS AND RECREATION.
10:53:18 PAUL DIAL, PARKS AND RECREATION TO TALK TO THE POTENTIAL
10:53:23 OF AN ADVISORY COUNCIL RELATED TO THE SPORTS COMMISSION,
10:53:28 SPORTS COUNCIL, SPORTS COMMITTEE.
10:53:31 REALLY NOT TO BE DETERMINED AS FAR AS WHAT THE TITLING
10:53:34 WOULD BE.
10:53:34 BUT I KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES BROUGHT UP THE CONCEPT,
10:53:37 AND I THINK WANTED TO SEE WHERE WE WERE AT THIS TIME.
10:53:40 STAFF HAS DONE SIGNIFICANT INVESTIGATION OF THIS AS WE
10:53:43 HAVE LOOKED AT IT.
10:53:45 THE THOUGHT IS THIS REALLY COULD BE PART OF OUR MASTER
10:53:49 PLAN PROCESS.
10:53:50 I AM LOOKING AT THIS BEING PULLED IN.
10:53:52 IT'S THE CONCEPT OF LOOKING AT A SPORTS COMMISSION TO
10:53:55 SUPPORT YOUTH ATHLETICS ACROSS THE CITY WHICH WE HAVE
10:53:59 OVER 2,000 KIDS INVOLVED IN YOUTH ATHLETICS IN THE CITY.
10:54:03 AND THE THOUGHT AT THIS TIME IS TO ASK FOR THIS TO BE
10:54:06 PART OF MELDED INTO OUR PARK MASTER PLAN PROCESSED AND
10:54:11 OUR CULTS AS WELL AS WHAT WE ARE DOING, TO LOOK AT THIS
10:54:14 AND SEE IF IT HAS MERIT TO MOVE FORWARD FOR THE POTENTIAL
10:54:17 RECOMMENDATION AND HOW IT MIGHT MELD INTO OUR FUTURE
10:54:21 PLANS WITH THE CITY.
10:54:22 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. DIAL.
10:54:24 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:54:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR APPEARING TODAY.
10:54:27 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE -- I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH
10:54:31 YOUTH ATHLETICS FOR A LONG TIME AND I HAVE BEEN ALL
10:54:34 ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND I NOBODY WHAT YOUTH SPORTS
10:54:37 COMMISSIONS CAN DO TO HELP RECREATION DEPARTMENTS AND
10:54:39 CITY AS A WHOLE, A LOT OF THE INFIGHTING THAT GOES ON,
10:54:43 YOU HAVE FIELDS, A LOT OF ISSUES, BACKGROUNDS THAT THEY
10:54:47 CAN HELP WITH AND HELP TO GET THINGS MOVING AND HELP THE
10:54:51 RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
10:54:52 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT GETTING A WAY FROM THAT.
10:54:55 REGARDLESS OF THE MASTER PLAN, I WANT TO BE CLEAR I AM
10:55:01 STILL GOING TO BE PUSHING TO HAVE A SPORTS COMMISSION
10:55:04 BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS A VALID NEED AND I AM GLAD YOU
10:55:07 ADDRESS IT.
10:55:09 I'M HAPPY FOR THAT.
10:55:10 BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT HIM GOING TO BE
10:55:13 PUSHING TO MAKE SURE WE ARE LOOKING AT A SPORTS
10:55:15 COMMISSION, BECAUSE I KNOW THE NEED FOR IT, AND
10:55:18 ESPECIALLY IN OUR CITY.
10:55:19 >> UNDERSTOOD.
10:55:21 AND IT WILL DEFINITELY BE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF OUR
10:55:23 CONSULTANTS TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL AS WITH STAFF.
10:55:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:55:28 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
10:55:29 THANK YOU.
10:55:30 NOW WE GO BACK TO NUMBER 88.
10:55:33 MRS. DUNCAN?
10:55:34 I THINK SHE WAS HERE.
10:55:37 OH, THERE YOU GO.
10:55:38 88.
10:55:52 >>VIK BHIDE: STORM WATER SERVICES.
10:55:54 GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:55:56 I'M HERE FOR ITEM 88.
10:55:57 ANDS THIS WAS A STAFF REPORTS THAT I SUBMITTED RELATED TO
10:56:02 THE QUESTION ABOUT 34th STREET.
10:56:06 AND THE LANDSCAPING AND BEAUTIFICATION ON 34th
10:56:09 STREET, SUBSEQUENT DO IT STAFF REPORT.
10:56:12 I ALSO DID PROVIDE A CLARIFICATION.
10:56:16 BASICALLY THIS IS A RESURFACING PROJECT WHERE WE ARE
10:56:19 ADDING THREE ROUNDABOUTS AT 21 AVENUE, OSBORNE, AND MAIN.
10:56:27 THERE WILL BE MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL IN LINE
10:56:30 WITH OUR VISION ZERO STRATEGY.
10:56:32 AND REQUIRED BEAUTIFICATION ASPECTS.
10:56:37 THE CRA IS GOING TO WORK WITH THE ARTS PROGRAM TO
10:56:40 IDENTIFY LANDSCAPING AND BEAUTIFICATION OPPORTUNITIES AT
10:56:45 THE ROUNDABOUTS BY USING LOCAL ARTISTS AND GIVING IT A
10:56:49 LOCAL FLAIR.
10:56:52 I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.
10:56:55 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE WITH QUESTIONS?
10:56:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, SIR FOR YOUR WRITTEN REPORT
10:57:00 AND FOR YOUR REPORT HERE TODAY.
10:57:03 I JUST WANTED TO SORT OF TRIPLE STRESS THIS.
10:57:09 I HAVE BEEN IN BUREAUCRACIES BEFORE AND A LOT OF TIMES
10:57:12 EVERYBODY GOES LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW, BUT I THINK IT'S
10:57:16 REALLY IMPORTANT, AND MY POINT ON THIS WAS THAT WHEN I
10:57:19 DRIVE UP AND DOWN BAYSHORE, WHICH I DO PRETTY REGULARLY,
10:57:22 I LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL JOB THAT THE BUCKHORN
10:57:25 ADMINISTRATION DID WITH THE LANDSCAPING, AND WITH THE
10:57:29 FLOWERS.
10:57:29 IT JUST MAKES ME SMILE.
10:57:31 YOU DRIVE DOWN AND I SEE FLOWERS.
10:57:34 BUT IT SHOULDN'T JUST BE BAYSHORE.
10:57:36 THAT'S WHY I THINK THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR
10:57:40 TREMENDOUS LANDSCAPING AND FLOWERS IN THAT 34th
10:57:43 STREET CORRIDOR.
10:57:44 I DON'T CARE WHAT DEPARTMENT DOES ITSELF.
10:57:46 I THINK THAT LOTS OF DEPARTMENTS WILL HAVE TO WORK WITH
10:57:49 EACH OTHER TO GET IT DONE.
10:57:50 BUT I HOPE THIS ADMINISTRATION MAKES THAT A PRIORITY.
10:57:52 THANK YOU.
10:57:53 >>VIK BHIDE: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:57:56 I WILL KEEP THAT IN MIND.
10:57:57 AND LANDSCAPING GENERALLY IS A PRIORITY OF OURS.
10:58:00 IT TIES INTO OUR RESILIENCE GOALS AS WELL TO REDUCE THE
10:58:04 AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE.
10:58:06 AND THAT WILL BE A PERFORMANCE MEASURE FOR ALL OF OUR
10:58:10 ROADS.
10:58:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHEN I HEAR ABOUT LANDSCAPING, I THINK
10:58:13 ABOUT GREEN, OKAY.
10:58:15 I THINK ABOUT FLOWERS, I THINK ABOUT COLOR.
10:58:17 AND I WOULD JUST LOVE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT
10:58:21 WE USUALLY DO.
10:58:22 AND IT'S GOING TO BE A YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT THING, AS
10:58:25 FLORIDA IS TOUGH ON FLOWERS.
10:58:27 BUT I JUST THINK THAT IT WILL BRIGHTEN UP AND PUT SMILES
10:58:31 ON EVERYBODY'S FACE NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE.
10:58:33 THANK YOU.
10:58:33 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:58:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'M GLAD TO CALL YOU MY COLLEAGUE.
10:58:43 WHEN YOU SAY BUREAUCRACY, I KNOW THAT MEANS BEING A
10:58:46 FORMER CITY EMPLOYEE, UNDERSTAND?
10:58:48 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BAYSHORE, AND 34th STREET, WE
10:58:52 ARE TALKING TWO DIFFERENT PLACES.
10:58:57 I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT BAYSHORE HAS A PLAN, BECAUSE
10:59:00 BAYSHORE IS CONSTANTLY BEAUTIFYING.
10:59:03 CONSTANTLY.
10:59:04 NEW FLOWERS ALL THE TIME.
10:59:05 CONSTANT MEASURE.
10:59:07 SO WHEN MR. DINGFELDER TALKS ABOUT BEAUTIFICATION, AND
10:59:14 COST OF BEAUTIFICATION, I REALLY WANT TO SEE THAT
10:59:17 SOMEWHERE AROUND, BECAUSE I KNOW BAYSHORE HAS A CONSTANT
10:59:21 PROTOCOL, AND IT'S A CONSTANT MEASURE, BECAUSE THEY
10:59:24 BELIEVE THAT THAT IS A VITAL PART OF OUR CITY, BAYSHORE
10:59:30 BOULEVARD, WITH THE HOSPITAL, SOUTH TAMPA, AND SO ON.
10:59:34 SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT MR. DINGFELDER
10:59:37 IS SAYING.
10:59:37 HE'S SAYING THAT HE WANTS A BAYSHORE CONCEPT.
10:59:41 I BELIEVE BUREAUCRACY WILL TAKE HIS PLACE AND WE'LL HAVE
10:59:44 TO FIGHT WITH MR. DINGFELDER, BUT I'M HOPING THAT WHAT
10:59:47 YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE BECAUSE I KNOW FOR A FACT BEING A
10:59:50 FORMER CITY EMPLOYEE HOW THE BAYSHORE SITUATION DESIGN
10:59:55 MODEL WORKS.
10:59:56 BAYSHORE IS TO CONTINUE TO ALWAYS BE BEAUTIFIED ALL THE
11:00:00 TIME WITH CHANGING THE FLOWERS, CHANGING THE GREEN,
11:00:04 MAKING SURE IT IS A CENTRAL PART OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:00:07 CORRECT?
11:00:07 >>VIK BHIDE: OUR PLAN, TO ME THE CITY MOVES THE PROGRAM
11:00:13 IS BASICALLY TO INCORPORATE BEAUTIFICATION AS PART OF OUR
11:00:17 RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY GOALS, AND REPORT ON THAT
11:00:21 PROGRESS.
11:00:22 SO IT WON'T JUST BE A CONCEPT WE WILL BE REPORTING ON THE
11:00:28 WORK THAT WE DO, BUT 34th STREET, WE WILL WORK WITH
11:00:30 THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, AND IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES TO
11:00:35 BEAUTIFY AND INTRODUCE MORE COLOR THROUGH THE ENTIRE
11:00:41 CORRIDOR.
11:00:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
11:00:44 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:00:45 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND THE WORD REALLY ISN'T EQUALITY.
11:00:47 THE WORD IS EQUITY.
11:00:48 JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE HIGHER PAYING TAXPAYERS ON A
11:00:53 CERTAIN ROAD IN THE CITY, WHICH BAYSHORE IS A BEAUTIFUL
11:00:55 AREA, THE RES REST OF THE CITY DESERVES IT AS QUELL.
11:00:59 ONE GENTLEMAN FOR YEARS TOLD ME, WE SPEND SO MUCH MONEY
11:01:02 ON BAYSHORE BUT WEST TAMPA DOESN'T GET ANYTHING.
11:01:04 LOOK AT SOME OF OUR MAIN CORRIDORS THAT ARE BUSY.
11:01:07 WEST TAMPA DOESN'T GET ANYTHING.
11:01:08 EAST TAMPA EVEN LESS.
11:01:10 YOU DRIVE THROUGH THAT AND I TELL IT THE LAND THAT TIME
11:01:14 FORGOT BECAUSE NOTHING GOES ON BECAUSE IT'S A POOR PART
11:01:17 OF TOWN, OR CONSIDERED A POOR PART OF TOWN.
11:01:19 SO I AM GLAD YOU ARE DOING THIS FEASIBILITIES STUDY IT.
11:01:23 H BECAUSE THESE FOLKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY DESERVE BETTER.
11:01:27 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:01:27 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
11:01:29 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ALONG THE SAME LINE AS COUNCIL MEMBER
11:01:32 DINGFELDER, COUNCIL MEMBER GUDES, COUNCIL MEMBER
11:01:35 MANISCALCO, ALL OF THEM HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF GREENERY
11:01:40 OR FLOWERS OR CHAIN OF SCENERY TO YOUR EYE.
11:01:43 YOUR EYE CATCHES THESE THINGS AND THEY RUN WELL.
11:01:45 HOWEVER, WITH VERY LITTLE MONEY -- AND I SEE SOME COMING
11:01:52 UP VERY LITTLE BY LITTLE.
11:01:53 WITH VERY LITTLE MONEY YOU CAN CHANGE THE LOOK OF A LOT
11:01:55 OF THINGS IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THEM LONG ENOUGH.
11:01:58 AND WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE BARRIERS THAT ARE ABOUT SIX
11:02:00 INCHES HIGH, ABOUT THREE FEET WIDE, AND WHEN YOU MAKE A
11:02:03 TURN YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE RIGHT AND YOU HAVE THAT LITTLE
11:02:06 SIGN WITH A LITTLE THING THAT SAYS GO THIS WAY, YOU CAN'T
11:02:10 SEE THEM.
11:02:11 WHY?
11:02:12 BECAUSE THE CONCRETE THAT USED TO BE PAINTED YELLOW IN
11:02:15 THE FRONT OF THEM IS GONE.
11:02:18 BECAUSE SO MANY CARS HAVE HIT THEM.
11:02:20 AND I AM TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT I SEE THROUGHOUT
11:02:22 THE CITY.
11:02:22 NOT ONLY IN CERTAIN AREAS, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
11:02:26 AND IF SOMEBODY JUST STARTED SOMETHING TO HELP KIDS, FROM
11:02:33 DCT WHEN YOU GET OUT EARLY, AND I AM NOT BEING CRITICAL.
11:02:37 IF YOU JUST PUT A LITTLE STRIP, A REFLECTOR AT NIGHT SO
11:02:42 YOU CAN SEE IT, IF YOU CAN JUST PUT WHERE YOU HAVE A STOP
11:02:47 SIGN, SOMETHING BEFORE IT, AND THEY HAVE IT AND
11:02:52 EVERYWHERE I HAVE SEEN IT IN OTHER PLACES, NOT SO MANY IN
11:02:55 THE CITY OF TAMPA, WHERE THE SUN POWERS THE REFLECTORS,
11:03:00 STOP, STOP.
11:03:03 YOUR EYE FALSE APE ASLEEP EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE DRIVING
11:03:06 AWAKE BECAUSE YOU SEE THE SAME THING AND YOU THINK IT'S
11:03:09 ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
11:03:10 BUT THE EYE SOMETIMES FOOLS THE BODY.
11:03:14 AND YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE OUTLOOK OF THINGS TO NOTIFY --
11:03:18 AND I AM NOT BEING CRITICAL.
11:03:20 I'M JUST SAYING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
11:03:25 MR. MANISCALCO TALKED ABOUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIMES, IT'S
11:03:28 GOT TWO STREETS.
11:03:31 DRIVE NORTH WAS NOT TOUCHED AND I WONDER WHY.
11:03:34 YET COLUMBUS DRIVE SOUTH TO KENNEDY WAS DESTROYED.
11:03:39 NEIGHBORHOODS CAN'T CROSS FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER AND
11:03:41 I'M SURE THAT MR. MANISCALCO AND I GO THROUGH DIFFERENT
11:03:45 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS, WE HEAR ABOUT IT.
11:03:48 I DON'T KNOW WHY.
11:03:49 I ASKED THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IF IT WAS THEIR
11:03:52 CALL, AND THEY TOLD ME ABSOLUTELY NOT, THAT THE CITY OF
11:03:55 TAMPA ASKED FOR MONEY TO DO THAT, AND THEY GAVE A GRANT
11:03:59 FOR IT.
11:04:00 IT WAS DESTROYED.
11:04:02 THERE USED TO BE NICE TREES IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
11:04:04 GO DO IT NOW.
11:04:05 COME UP ANY STREET.
11:04:07 GO MAKE A LEFT.
11:04:08 YOU ARE GOING TO END UP GOING RIGHT ALL THE WAY TO
11:04:10 KENNEDY.
11:04:12 FOLLOW A U-TURN INTO KENNEDY BOULEVARD TO GO BACK TO THE
11:04:14 NORTH.
11:04:16 99% OF THE STREETS ARE CLOSED.
11:04:18 THE NEIGHBORHOOD BEING DESTROYED AND THE CITY DOES NOT
11:04:21 LISTEN.
11:04:23 AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE CHANGED TO MAKE THE CITY ALL LOOK
11:04:29 NICE.
11:04:30 AND I'M NOT SAYING, AGAIN, THAT WE ARE NOT TRYING.
11:04:33 WE HAVE TO HAVE A BETTER EFFORT AND A BETTER PLAN.
11:04:35 AND YOU CAN CHANGE THESE THINGS WITH VERY LITTLE MONEY.
11:04:38 THOSE CONCRETE BARRIERS ARE THERE.
11:04:41 THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T FIX THEM AND GET SOME
11:04:45 ORGANIZATIONS TOGETHER AND PRESSURE WASH IT ALL TO MAKE
11:04:48 IT LOOK -- IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE CEMENT ANYMORE.
11:04:51 IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OLD-FASHIONED GRAVEL WITH MOLD ON IT.
11:04:55 AND THAT'S NOT THE IDEA AND BY THE WAY, COLUMBUS DRIVE IS
11:04:59 ONE OF THE ENTRIES INTO THE CITY OF TAMPA FROM THE
11:05:03 AIRPORT ALTHOUGH IT HAS THREE NAMES, BOY SCOUT BOULEVARD
11:05:06 AND SO FORTH AND COLUMBUS DRIVE, BUT SPRUCE, BUSCH, YOU
11:05:09 GET OFF A PLANE, YOU ARE GOING TO GET LOST FOR TWO WEEKS
11:05:12 BECAUSE THEY GOT THREE NAMES, THE SAME STREET.
11:05:15 AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT.
11:05:17 I'M NOT SAYING TO CHANGE.
11:05:19 THAT'S YOUR JOB, NOT MINE.
11:05:20 BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD ADDRESS VERY SHORTLY
11:05:23 BECAUSE WE ARE GETTING A CITY THAT IS GOING TO HAVE MORE
11:05:26 POPULATION EVERY DAY.
11:05:29 AND YOU KNOW WHAT SOME CITIZENS ARE TELLING ME?
11:05:32 WE HAVE TO STOP THAT.
11:05:33 AND MY ANSWER IS I DON'T BUILD WALLS.
11:05:36 YOUR GRANDKIDS ARE COMING BACK FROM COLLEGE, THE KIDS ARE
11:05:38 STAYING HERE, FINDING A PLACE, MAKING THIS THEIR HOME.
11:05:41 WHAT MORE THAN WHEN THE PEOPLE LIVE HERE STAY HERE.
11:05:44 THAT'S PART OF A POPULATION INCREASING THAT WE HAVE THAT
11:05:46 WE NEVER HAD BEFORE AND IT'S THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF YOUR
11:05:49 DEPARTMENT, OTHERS THAT WE ARE GETTING THERE.
11:05:51 AND I APPRECIATE -- JUST THINK OF THE LITTLE THINGS.
11:05:54 IF YOU FIX THE LITTLE THINGS, THE BIG ONES NEVER HAVE TO
11:05:56 BE FIXED.
11:05:57 THANK YOU.
11:05:57 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:06:01 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST QUICKLY.
11:06:06 PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING TO INVEST IN OUR AREA, THEY DON'T
11:06:10 JUDGE US BY THE RICHEST NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:06:13 THEY JUDGE US BY THE POOREST NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:06:15 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE AS MY COLLEAGUES SAID WE HAVE EQUITY
11:06:19 THROUGHOUT.
11:06:19 YOU ALL ARE LOOKING AT THAT AND I APPRECIATE IT.
11:06:21 THE LAST MAYOR WAS FOCUSED ON DOWNTOWN TO THE EXCLUSION
11:06:23 OF EVERYBODY ELSE.
11:06:24 AND THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CITY IS CHANGING NOW.
11:06:28 AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE US MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS TO CATCH
11:06:31 UP WITH THE NEGLECT THAT WAS LEFT THERE.
11:06:33 WE NEED TO STAY MINDFUL OF IT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE
11:06:37 PRESENT A GOOD FACE FOR THE WORLD FOR EVERYBODY BUT MOST
11:06:39 IMPORTANTLY THAT WE PROVIDE SAFE AND BEAUTIFUL PLACES FOR
11:06:42 ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.
11:06:43 THANK YOU.
11:06:44 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:06:45 WE APPRECIATE IT, SIR.
11:06:47 NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 90 WHICH WAS CALLED BY
11:06:53 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:06:55 WIPE OUT.
11:06:56 DO I HEAR "WIPEOUT"?
11:06:58 >>MORRIS MASSEY: ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY.
11:07:02 WE ARE NOT WIPING OUT THIS MORNING.
11:07:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. MASSEY AND MS. HARDY I SEE IS HERE
11:07:11 AS WELL.
11:07:11 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WRITTEN REPORT.
11:07:16 I THINK WE HAVE GOTTEN A REPORT NOW THAT SAYS THAT PARK
11:07:20 IMPACT FEES ARE FEASIBLE, AND IN ORDER TO PROCEED
11:07:23 FURTHER, WE NEED TO DO A STUDY JUST LIKE WE DO FOR ALL
11:07:28 IMPACT FEES.
11:07:29 THAT'S A REQUIREMENTS OF STATE LAW.
11:07:32 I'M FINE WITH THAT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
11:07:35 PARKS, I THINK MR. DIAL WAS HERE, IS ON BOARD WITH
11:07:42 INCLUDING THE IMPACT FEE STUDY WITH THEIR BIG PARKS STUDY
11:07:49 THAT'S COMING SOON.
11:07:53 >>MORRIS MASSEY: AND WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT IMPACT FEES
11:07:55 AND INCLUDE THOSE WITHIN THE SCOPE.
11:07:57 IS THAT CORRECT?
11:07:59 >> PART OF THE MASTER PLAN PROCESS, I THINK THAT AS WE
11:08:01 ARE LOOKING AT COST RELATED IMPROVEMENTS, WE OUGHT TO BE
11:08:05 LOOKING AT ALL OF THE REVENUE POTENTIAL SOURCES THAT WE
11:08:08 MIGHT HAVE THROUGH THE PROCESS.
11:08:10 SO THEY WOULD BE REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED THROUGH THE
11:08:14 PROCESS AND ULTIMATELY THE CITY BEING MADE BUT WE OUGHT
11:08:17 TO PROVIDE ALL THAT INFORMATION.
11:08:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST FOR CLARITY, AND MR. MASSEY KNOWS
11:08:21 WHERE I AM COMING FROM, WE NEED TO INCLUDE THAT AS A
11:08:24 FORMAL PROCESS IN THAT STUDY, RATHER THAN CASUALLY
11:08:31 LOOKING AT IT AND COMING UP AND SAYING, YEAH, WE NEED
11:08:34 ADDITIONAL FEE SOURCES.
11:08:35 THAT'S THE INTENT OF MY MOTION.
11:08:38 AND IF I NEED TO FURTHER THAT INTENT I WILL BE GLAD TO.
11:08:42 >>MORRIS MASSEY: A COUPLE THINGS.
11:08:43 THE STATUTE, WE NOW HAVE A STATUTE GOVERNING IMPACT FEES,
11:08:46 REQUIRES THE FIRST STEP IN THE WHOLE PROCESS IS THAT WE
11:08:50 HAVE TO HAVE RECENT LOCAL DATA UPON WHICH TO JUSTIFY THE
11:08:53 LEVY OF THE IMPACT FEE.
11:08:54 THIS STUDY OBVIOUSLY WILL SATISFY THAT FIRST REQUIREMENT.
11:08:58 THE SECOND STEP -- AND WE CAN INCLUDE THIS IN THE
11:09:01 SCOPE -- IS THAT DEPENDING ON WHAT THAT DATA SHOWS US,
11:09:04 AND IF IT SHOWS WE HAVE DEFICIENCIES OR PROJECTED
11:09:08 DEFICIENCIES IN THE FUTURE AND WE NEED TO FIND SOURCES OF
11:09:10 FUNDING TO ADDRESS THAT, THEN THE SECOND STEP WILL BE
11:09:13 THEN TO GO FORWARD AND GO THROUGH THE ACTUAL ANALYTICAL
11:09:18 STEPS TO SATISFY THE NEXUS TEST.
11:09:24 I AM NOT SURE IF THE COUNCIL IS AWARE OF, IMPACT FEES CAN
11:09:28 ONLY BE SPENT ON CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
11:09:31 FOR NEW RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, FOR EXPANDING PARKS,
11:09:34 GETTING ADDITIONAL PARKS.
11:09:35 WE THINK CAN'T USE IT ON ACTUAL MAINTENANCE OR COSTS.
11:09:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE HAVE PLENTY OF CAPITAL --
11:09:43 >> WE HAVE PLENTY OF CAPITAL NEEDS BUT THERE ARE OTHER
11:09:46 NEEDS THAT FOLLOW THE CAPITAL NEEDS AS WELL.
11:09:48 I THINK THE PARK STUDY IS GOING TO LOOK AT ALL OF THAT.
11:09:51 SO IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY HOLISTIC.
11:09:53 BUT I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT OF COUNCIL IS YOU WOULD LIKE
11:09:55 US TO LOOK AT IMPACT FEES THAT INCLUDE THE NECESSARY
11:09:58 STEPS IN THAT STUDY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE IMPACT FEES.
11:10:02 IF THE NEEDS ANALYSIS BASICALLY SHOWS THAT WE ARE GOING
11:10:05 TO NEED ADDITIONAL --
11:10:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I APPRECIATE THAT, MORRIS.
11:10:09 I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK.
11:10:10 BUT THAT'S A TWO-STEP PROCESS.
11:10:12 SO WHEN YOU FINISH THE FIRST STEP, MR. DIAL, PERHAPS YOU
11:10:16 WANT TO REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL AS WE PROCEED, AND THEN I
11:10:20 HAVE NO DOUBT THE NEEDS IS GOING TO SAY, YES, WE HAVE THE
11:10:23 NEED, AND THEN WE CAN GO INTO STEP TWO AS WELL.
11:10:25 BUT I DON'T WANT TO LOSE OUT ON AN ENTIRE YEAR DURING
11:10:28 THIS PROCESS JUST TO COME BACK AND SAY, OKAY, NOW WE NEED
11:10:31 TO START AN IMPACT FEE.
11:10:33 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I UNDERSTAND.
11:10:33 THE INTENT IS YOU DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO GO OUT AND
11:10:35 HAVE AN ADDITIONAL STUDY DONE ON TOP OF THE INITIAL
11:10:39 STUDY.
11:10:39 I THINK THAT CONCEPT IS THIS CONSULTANT AND THIS STUDY
11:10:42 CAN BE EXPANDED AND THE SCOPE CAN BE EXPANDED OR CAN
11:10:45 INCLUDE THE WHOLE IMPACT FEE ANALYSIS.
11:10:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
11:10:52 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:10:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RIGHT, WE HAVE A
11:10:56 LOT OF THINGS TO BE TALKING ABOUT, WITH OUR PARKS AND
11:11:01 RECREATION.
11:11:05 WE HAVE A LOT.
11:11:09 AND WE HAVE THIS MASTER PLAN STUDY.
11:11:10 I JUST WANT TO NOTICE WHERE WE ARE GOING TO FULLY GET
11:11:13 THIS RFP READY TO GO AND THE TIME FRAME.
11:11:17 PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS.
11:11:18 PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY.
11:11:19 WE NEED TO MOVE.
11:11:20 I DON'T WANT TO DRAG AND DRAG AND DRAG.
11:11:22 I WANT TO FIND SOMEBODY TO GET IT DONE SO WE CAN START
11:11:25 MOVING.
11:11:25 >> ACTUALLY, A FIRM HAS BEEN SELECTED AT THIS POINT
11:11:28 APPROVED BY THE MIRE, AND WE ARE IN THE PROCESS NOW OF
11:11:31 DEVELOPING THE SCOPE SO THE TIMING SUBPOENAING VERY GOOD
11:11:34 WITH THIS.
11:11:35 DEVELOPING THE SCOPE, AND WE ANTICIPATE HAVING THEM
11:11:40 STARTING THE PROCESS THIS SPRING.
11:11:43 SO WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE PROCESS BEGINNING.
11:11:47 WE ALSO PUT TOGETHER A TIMELINE FOR US FOR THE ENTIRE
11:11:49 PROCESS SO WE WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO WHEN YOU SHOULD
11:11:53 SEE DRAFT DOCUMENTS AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
11:11:55 BUT WE ARE IN THAT NEGOTIATION PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
11:12:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHEN IT'S ALL WRAPPED UP CAN YOU GIVE US
11:12:03 AN UPDATE OF THAT MASTER PLAN SO WE CAN KNOW WHAT THE
11:12:06 FIRM IS SAYINGS, HOW WE WANT TO PRO PROCEED?
11:12:13 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THERE'S A REQUIREMENT NOW UNDER STATE
11:12:14 LAW THAT WE HAVE TO GIVE A NINETY DAY NOTICE BASICALLY TO
11:12:17 THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, IN ADVANCE OF IMPOSING FACT
11:12:20 FEES.
11:12:21 SO WE WILL HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU IN ADVANCE AND SAY,
11:12:24 YES, WE NEED THE IMPACT FEES, THIS IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO
11:12:27 DO IT, AND THAT HAS TO BE DONE, THERE'S A 90-DAY PERIOD
11:12:33 BUILT INTO IT.
11:12:34 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:12:35 WE APPRECIATE IT.
11:12:36 I JUST WANT TO SAY ON THE IDEA, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, I
11:12:39 ABSOLUTE YOU FOR BRINGING THERE FORWARD.
11:12:40 IT'S SOMETHING THAT I STRONGLY SUPPORT LOOKING AT.
11:12:42 THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:12:43 THANK YOU.
11:12:44 NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 91.
11:12:53 BROUGHT BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:12:54 >> COUNCILMAN GUDES ASKED THE STATUS OF THE NFL.
11:12:59 THERE IS A SYNTHETIC TURF FASTBALL FIELD THAT'S
11:13:02 MULTI-PURPOSE FIELD THAT IS THERE.
11:13:06 WE HAVE HAD SOME INCIDENCES IN THE PAST OF SOME VANDALISM
11:13:09 THERE.
11:13:10 I WILL TELL YOU THAT I DID CHECK WITH STAFF ON THE TIMING
11:13:13 OF WHEN THE MOST RECENT WAS.
11:13:14 IT'S BEEN ABOUT A YEAR SINCE THE LAST INCIDENT THAT WE
11:13:17 HAVE HAD THERE ON THE SIN THEY YOU CAN TURF FIELD.
11:13:20 WE DO HAVE SOME COUNCIL VANDALISM THERE, BUT NOTHING THAT
11:13:24 HAS BEEN MAJOR SINCE ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
11:13:27 HOWEVER, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING
11:13:29 WITH TPD, AND DOING SOME MORE SITE STOPS AT THE LOCATION,
11:13:36 ALSO OUR SECURITY AS WELL.
11:13:38 IF WE DEEM FROM THAT THAT WE ARE NOT GETTING THE RESULTS
11:13:40 THAT WE FEEL THAT WE NEED FROM THIS, WE'LL LOOK AT SO
11:13:44 OTHER OPTIONS OF CAMERAS AND MORE LIGHTING, AND
11:13:47 POTENTIALLY FENCING IN THE FUTURE.
11:13:49 ALL THOSE THAT CAN BE LOOKED AT AND WE WOULD PUT A
11:13:53 REQUEST ON FUNDING IN FY 21 IF NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING
11:13:57 SUBSTANTIAL AT THAT POINT.
11:13:59 BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITY
11:14:01 TRAVELING THROUGH THAT AREA.
11:14:02 AND THROUGH THE NFL CENTER.
11:14:05 SO WE LIKE TO WORK WITH SECURITY AND TPD TO TRY TO
11:14:09 RESOLVE THIS AT THIS TIME.
11:14:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT'S AN OPTION.
11:14:16 BUT A PERSON WHO FREQUENTS THAT ON A FREQUENT BASIS AND
11:14:21 KNOWS HOW TO UTILIZE THAT FIELD IS, BECAUSE THAT'S LIKE
11:14:26 THE ONLY -- BEST THING WE HAVE IS THAT LITTLE TURF FIELD.
11:14:33 AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO UTILIZE IT.
11:14:42 THAT HOLD A LOT OF EVENTS.
11:14:43 AND MY CONCERN WHEN YOU LOOK TO THE WEST OF THE FIELD,
11:14:47 WHERE THE GATE IS CONSTANTLY BEING CUT, BECAUSE WE HAVE A
11:14:51 SMALL KHAN, THE BACK FENCE TO THE SOUTH -- THE NORTH, MY
11:14:58 CONCERN IS FOR YEARS WE TALKED ABOUT FENCING AND -- I
11:15:07 DON'T KNOW BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IT
11:15:10 WAS BUDGETED.
11:15:11 PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT OR WHAT
11:15:14 MONEY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
11:15:16 IT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO START CLEARING UP SO PEOPLE
11:15:20 UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MONEY, WHERE DOES THAT
11:15:22 MONEY COME FROM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A CITY BUDGET, AND
11:15:25 THIS COUNCIL APPROVES THIS BUDGET TO THEN FOR THE MAYOR
11:15:27 TO GO AND THEN YOU MAY HAVE AN INTERNAL BUDGET, SO WE
11:15:33 NEED TO START CLARIFYING, LET'S BUDGET MONEY.
11:15:37 THAT'S THE ONLY THING WE HAVE OVER THERE RIGHT NOW THAT
11:15:40 IS THE BEAUTIFICATION WE HAVE.
11:15:43 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.
11:15:45 BECAUSE I KNOW THE TURF WAS TORE AT ONE TIME AND THEY HAD
11:15:48 TO COME BACK AND FIX THAT THING.
11:15:50 BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.
11:15:52 BECAUSE PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THE FENCING BECAUSE THEY
11:15:54 THOUGHT FENCING SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUT UP THERE TO KEEP OUT
11:15:57 SOME OF THE UNDESIRABLES, THAT KIND OF GRAVITATE TO IT,
11:16:04 AND USE IT AT NIGHT TIME, CRITTERS WANT TO JUMP THE GATE
11:16:09 AND DO THINGS OVER THERE.
11:16:10 I AM GLAD YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE EXTERNAL POLICE CONTROL.
11:16:14 BUT THAT'S HARD TO GET A CONTROL SOMETIMES, BECAUSE THAT
11:16:18 HUB, AND THEY ARE PRETTY BUSY RIGHT THERE.
11:16:21 I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THE SECURITY TEAM WITHIN THE
11:16:23 PARKS DEPARTMENT, GET EXTRA PATROLS.
11:16:25 I AM SAYING WE HAVE REALLY GOT TO LOOK AT CAMERAS TO THE
11:16:28 BACK OF THAT BUILDING COMING OFF.
11:16:31 THE BACK IS ONE.
11:16:33 AND ALSO A MAJOR FENCING THAT WILL KEEP THOSE
11:16:36 UNDESIRABLES FROM CUTTING THE FENCE.
11:16:38 AND ESPECIALLY TO THE WEST SIDE WHERE THE APARTMENT
11:16:41 COMPLEX IS COMING THROUGH.
11:16:42 SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT.
11:16:44 >> DIAL: IT HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION BEFORE.
11:16:48 IT WAS AN APPROVED BUDGET ITEM BUT I WILL DEFINITELY TAKE
11:16:52 THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
11:16:53 BOTTOM LINE WE'LL SOLVE IT AND WE'LL COME BACK IF NEED BE
11:16:56 IN OUR BUDGET REQUEST.
11:16:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AS NOW IT TAKES A LOT OF MONEY TO FIX
11:17:01 THE TURF.
11:17:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:17:03 WE APPRECIATE IT SIR.
11:17:05 92, WE WILL DEAL WITH THAT LATER AS I AM JUST GETTING
11:17:09 A -- GIVING A REPORT ON THAT. WE'LL DO THAT AN AT
11:17:13 APPROPRIATE TIME.
11:17:14 93.
11:17:14 >> NICK LOCICERO.
11:17:24 COUNCILMAN VIERA, I AM HERE TODAY TO FOLLOW UP ON OUR
11:17:26 JANUARY MEETING, AND YOU HAD A REQUEST TO ELABORATE ON
11:17:31 THE AMOUNT AND LEVEL OF RESPONSES IN THE FIRE STATION 13
11:17:35 AREA, AND WHAT OPTIONS FOR RELIEF THAT PERHAPS MIGHT BE
11:17:41 PENDING FOR THAT OR WHAT WE CAN DO.
11:17:43 SO HERE WE ARE.
11:17:46 WE HAVE LOOKED.
11:17:47 WE ALWAYS LOOK AT DATA.
11:17:49 WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT DATA IN A MYRIAD OF LEVELS FROM
11:17:53 THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO THE FIRE DISTRICT TO THE FIRE
11:17:56 STATION RESPONSE.
11:17:57 SO THERE ARE SEVERAL LEVELS THAT WE ABSOLUTELY LOOK AT.
11:18:00 IN EVERY ASPECT RELATING TO YOUR QUESTION, THERE IS NO
11:18:05 QUESTION THAT THAT STATION IS EXTREMELY BUSY.
11:18:08 THAT WHOLE SURROUNDING AREA, THAT DISTRICT IS BUSY.
11:18:11 IT ADJOINS ANOTHER BUSY DISTRICT, DISTRICT 4.
11:18:14 AND TOGETHER THEY MAKE A FORMIDABLE PROCESS FOR US TO TRY
11:18:20 TO MITIGATE UNDERSTAND DENTS WHEN THEY HAPPEN.
11:18:22 WITH THAT SAID, THERE'S NO SAYING THAT IT'S NOT BUSY.
11:18:27 THAT LEADS ME TO SAY THAT AS EARLY AS 2015, WE IDENTIFIED
11:18:34 THAT HEAVY USE AREA.
11:18:36 HENCE, YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE PEAK UNITS THAT WE DID
11:18:40 ESTABLISH BACK FROM 2015 AND WE CONTINUE RUNNING TO THIS
11:18:43 DATE TO HELP AUGMENT THAT.
11:18:45 BUT TO YOUR END, THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS CERTAINLY, IF
11:18:48 YOU LOOK AT 13, THE STATION ITSELF, IF YOU LOOK JUST TO
11:18:54 THE SOUTH, JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST, AND JUST DIRECTLY TO
11:18:56 THE EAST, THERE ARE SOME HEAVY POCKETS OF USE OVER THERE,
11:19:00 OKAY.
11:19:01 AND THE PEAKS HAVE HELPED.
11:19:04 BUT TO YOUR QUESTION, WHAT WE WOULD SUR MYSELF TO DO IS
11:19:08 TO -- WE WILL ADD A SECOND RESCUE UNIT TO STATION 13,
11:19:14 OKAY.
11:19:14 THIS WILL BE ON A 24-HOUR PERIOD.
11:19:18 OKAY.
11:19:18 24-HOUR PERIOD.
11:19:20 [ APPLAUSE ]
11:19:21 AND THAT COVERAGE WILL GO FOR SIX MONTHS.
11:19:28 IT DOES A COUPLE OF THINGS WHEN WE DO THAT.
11:19:30 AND I DON'T MEAN TO SAY THAT -- THE REASON THAT WE ARE
11:19:35 DOING THAT, IT CURRENT ALIGNS WITH THE BUDGET PROCESS
11:19:38 THAT ALL OF US WILL BE ADHERING TO.
11:19:40 IT CURRENTLY WILL ALIGN THE USAGE AND BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS
11:19:44 THAT MAY NEED TO OCCUR, WILL NEED TO OCCUR FOR THAT.
11:19:46 BUT IT GIVES US A BIT OF -- I CAN SAY WITHIN ABOUT TWO
11:19:52 WEEKS, WITHIN TWO WEEKS, WE CAN CERTAINLY INSTITUTE THAT
11:19:54 SERVICE TO DO THAT.
11:19:57 I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY THAT I HAVE BEEN HIGHLY
11:19:59 ENCOURAGED BY DIALOGUE WITH THE MAYOR, CHALLENGES NEED TO
11:20:03 COME UP WITH DIFFERENT AVENUES OF RESPONSE AND DEPLOYMENT
11:20:07 AND WHICH I AM GRATEFUL TO DO.
11:20:09 SO WE KEEP MOVING FROM THAT.
11:20:11 AND ALSO, I DON'T WANT IT TO BE LOST THAT IN THE WHOLE
11:20:15 LITANY OF TIME THAT HAS RECENTLY GONE BY, WE HAVE, I
11:20:19 BELIEVE, IMPROVED THE PROCESS AND THE COVERAGE FOR THE
11:20:22 CITIZENS WITH BETTER AREAS OF RESPONSE FOR THE NEW TAMPA
11:20:27 CONTRACT, STATION'S AREA, AND NOW STATION 13 AREA.
11:20:32 SO I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS.
11:20:34 WE DIDN'T GET INTO IT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.
11:20:36 WE WON GET OUT OF IT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.
11:20:39 BUT WE ARE MAKING FORWARD PROGRESS.
11:20:41 THAT IS MY REPORT TO YOU.
11:20:42 >>LUIS VIERA: AND I APPRECIATE THAT 110%.
11:20:44 WHEN I LOOK AT STATION 13, AND I LOOK AT FIRST --
11:20:48 SOME REAL SERIOUS ROBUST HELP LIKE YOU JUST DISCUSSED AND
11:20:55 LIKE YOU FIRST COMMITTED TO, FIRST I WANT TO THANK YOU,
11:20:57 CHIEF, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:20:59 I APPRECIATE THAT 110%.
11:21:00 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, I WANT TO GO OVER SOME OF
11:21:02 THE STATISTICS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND ON STAKES
11:21:06 13 JUST TO SHOW THE NORTH TAMPA COMMUNITIES OUT THERE
11:21:08 THAT THE MANY COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SERVED BY THIS.
11:21:12 THAT INCLUDES HARRIS PARK, BUSCH BOULEVARD, FOREST HILLS,
11:21:15 COPELAND PARK, ALL OF NORTH TAMPA, JUST WHAT A BUSY
11:21:19 STATION THIS ONE REALLY IS.
11:21:20 IT'S A VERY ACUTE ISSUE AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT
11:21:23 RESPONSE TO THAT.
11:21:25 FOR LAST YEAR THIS WAS THE BUSIEST RESCUE, I BELIEVE, IN
11:21:28 THE CITY OF TAMPA WITH 10.89 CALLS A DAY, AN ENGINE 14.69
11:21:36 AVERAGE CALLS A DAY, MOST ALARMS FOR AN ENGINE, ALMOST A
11:21:39 LITTLE OVER 5300 WITH THE NEXT HIGHEST BEING JUST OVER
11:21:44 4,000.
11:21:44 SO IN OTHER WORDS THIS IS A VERY, VERY, VERY BUSY
11:21:47 STATION.
11:21:48 WE HAVE THE NATIONAL RUN SURVEY FROM 2018 SHOW SHOWING
11:21:53 THAT STATION 13 WAS THE 54th BUSIEST STATION IN THE
11:21:57 UNITED STATES WITH ALMOST 10,000 RUNS AND 13 WAS ALSO THE
11:22:01 13th BUSIEST ENGINE, AND FOR YEARS BEFORE THAT, IT
11:22:04 CONTINUED TO BE HIGH UP.
11:22:06 SO THIS IS A STATION THAT REALLY, REALLY NEEDS HELP AND I
11:22:09 REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR COMING FORWARD AND WORKING
11:22:11 WITH THE ADMINISTRATION TO GET THE HELP OF THESE
11:22:14 COMMUNITIES NEED.
11:22:15 WE TALK ABOUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN LOCAL
11:22:17 GOVERNMENT AND I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE ON THE FACT THAT
11:22:19 PUBLIC SAFETY IS THE NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY OF US
11:22:24 SEVEN OF UP.
11:22:25 IT'S THE NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR MAYOR.
11:22:27 WE HAVE A MAYOR WHO SERVED AS A FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE,
11:22:30 OUR CHIEF OF STAFF WAS THE FORMER HEAD OF SWAT.
11:22:33 I WON'T LECTURE THEM ON PUBLIC SAFETY BECAUSE THEY KNOW
11:22:36 110% IT.
11:22:38 SOMETHING THAT I HOPE WE CAN MOVE ON, WE TALKED A LOT UP
11:22:41 HERE TODAY ABOUT A MASTER PLAN FOR OUR PARKS AND
11:22:44 RECREATION. I WANT TO SEE A MASTER PLAN FOR PUBLIC
11:22:47 SAFETY.
11:22:47 I WANT TO SEE THE NUMBERS IN TERMS OF WHAT ALL PARTS OF
11:22:50 THE CITY OF TAMPA, WHAT THEIR PERCENTAGES ARE, WHAT THEIR
11:22:54 STANDARDS ARE WITH REGARDS TO PUBLIC SAFETY, WHENEVER IT
11:22:57 COMES TO FIRE, WHENEVER IT COMES TO EMERGENCY, EMS,
11:23:00 WHENEVER IT COMES TO POLICE, ET CETERA, SO THAT WE CAN
11:23:03 KNOW, NUMBER ONE, WHERE OUR DEFENSE IT'S YOU ARE, AND
11:23:06 THEN NUMBER TWO HOW TO BUILD A BRIDGE TO GET THERE TO
11:23:08 REMEDY THOSE DEFENSE AT THIS TIME IS.
11:23:10 SITS.
11:23:10 THAT'S INFORMATION WE NEED TO HAVE AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS
11:23:12 THAT ALL OF US DO SO THAT WE DON'T COME UP WITH PATCHWORK
11:23:16 TYPE WORK, OH, LET'S LOOK AT EAST TAMPA, LET'S LOOK AT
11:23:18 NORTH TAMPA.
11:23:19 NO, LET'S HAVE ALL OF THE FACTS ON PUBLIC SAFETY COME
11:23:22 BEFORE US, BECAUSE THAT'S OUR MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE HERE.
11:23:26 SO I KNOW I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY CONSTITUENTS, SIR, WHEN
11:23:29 I SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:23:31 WE LOOK FORWARD TO HOPEFULLY SEEING THAT IN THE BUDGET.
11:23:35 NOW, A QUESTION FOR YOU.
11:23:36 I BELIEVE IT WAS FAIR STATION 16, THAT HAD THE MANPOWER
11:23:41 TO TAKE CARE OF THE ADDITIONAL VEHICLE THAT WAS THERE.
11:23:45 THERE WILL REQUIRE MORE MANPOWER, CORRECT?
11:23:47 >> IT WILL.
11:23:48 IT WILL.
11:23:49 IT WILL REQUIRE MORE PERSONNEL, AS I LIKE TO SAY, AND IT
11:23:53 WILL DO THAT.
11:23:54 BUT THROUGH THE OPEN DIALOGUE WITH THE MAYOR AND THE
11:23:58 CHIEF OF STAFF, THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE WILL
11:24:00 HAVE TO BE IN AN OVERTIME STATUS.
11:24:04 BUT WE ARE WILLING TO COMMIT TO DO THAT, TO SHOW THE
11:24:08 HIGHER LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THAT AREA,
11:24:10 AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADJUST THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
11:24:14 HENCE, AGAIN, THE SUCTION-MONTH PERIOD FOR EVALUATION TO
11:24:17 SEE WHERE THOSE GAPS REALLY MIGHT LIE.
11:24:21 >>LUIS VIERA: SO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TO CONFIRM A
11:24:23 FULL-TIME RESCUE CAR, CORRECT?
11:24:26 [BELL SOUNDS]
11:24:27 >> YOU WILL NOT HAVE A NEW.
11:24:29 WE WILL TAKE ONE OF THE RESCUES FROM STOCK CURRENTLY.
11:24:32 AND YES, IT WILL BE 24/7.
11:24:36 ON THE LOCATION.
11:24:36 YES.
11:24:37 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
11:24:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME FIRST SAY, THERE WAS AN INCIDENT
11:24:45 WITH MY FATHER THE OTHER NIGHT.
11:24:48 GUYS FROM RESCUE 11 RESPONDED, ENGINE 18, DID A HECK OF A
11:24:53 JOB.
11:24:56 THERE'S NO MONEY WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT LIVE, WHEN
11:25:03 YOU ARE WAITING FOR THAT AMBULANCE TO GET THERE, AND YOU
11:25:06 HAVE GOT FAMILY AROUND, NEIGHBORS ARE COMING OUT.
11:25:09 THERE'S JUST NO WAY THEY CAN DO THAT.
11:25:12 SO I AM GLAD THAT WE HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION, RETIREES,
11:25:19 POLICE DEPARTMENT, CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE MAYOR.
11:25:23 WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE TRENCHES FOR THOSE SITUATIONS,
11:25:25 AND YOU HAVE HAD TO WORK ON PEOPLE, YOU UNDERSTAND A
11:25:30 LITTLE BIT MORE THAN MAYBE DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATIONS.
11:25:34 YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO WORK ON SOMEBODY OR TO
11:25:36 WAIT FOR THE CAR.
11:25:40 WE SHOULDN'T HAVE CITIZENS WAITING FOR A CAR.
11:25:43 13 IS BUSY.
11:25:44 WE KNOW IT'S BUSY.
11:25:45 I THINK MR. CHAIRMAN IS RIGHT ON LOOKING AT THE MASTER
11:25:48 PLAN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:25:51 THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THE MOST.
11:25:53 WHEN SOMEONE IS HURT THEY WANT TO KNOW WHEN ARE YOU
11:25:57 GETTING HERE?
11:25:57 WHY AREN'T THEY HERE YET?
11:25:59 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH THIS, FOR NINE AND A
11:26:02 HALF MONTHS WE HAVE BEEN HERE ON THESE RESCUE CARS TO GET
11:26:07 WHAT'S NEEDED FOR OUR CITIZENS.
11:26:09 AND AGAIN IF YOU WILL TAKE THAT MESSAGE BACK TO THE GUYS
11:26:11 AT RESCUE 11 AND MY FAMILY THANKS THEM FOR THE SERVICE
11:26:16 THEY RENDERED THE OTHER NIGHT.
11:26:18 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
11:26:19 WE CERTAINLY WILL.
11:26:20 MAY I ADD ONE ITEM JUST BECAUSE BOTH OF YOU MENTIONED IT.
11:26:24 I WILL CHANGE THE TERMINOLOGY.
11:26:25 BUT IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
11:26:27 AND WE DO GO THROUGH AN ACCREDITATION PROCESS AT THE
11:26:30 DEPARTMENT.
11:26:31 AND WHILE IT'S NOT CALLED A MASTER PLAN, WE HAVE A
11:26:34 DOCUMENT THAT SPECIFIES AND OUTLIES ALL THOSE QUESTIONS
11:26:39 THAT YOU JUST ASKED.
11:26:40 WE HAVE STARTED THAT PROCESS NOW.
11:26:42 SO WE WILL HAVE THAT.
11:26:43 IT'S NOT CALLED A MASTER PLAN BUT IT IS CALLED A STANDARD
11:26:46 OF COVER.
11:26:47 AND CERTAINLY THAT CAN BE PROVIDED.
11:26:48 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU CHIEF.
11:26:51 APPRECIATE IT.
11:26:51 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, THE
11:26:55 NEW ADMINISTRATION.
11:26:56 OUR CITY IS GROWING RAPIDLY.
11:26:58 WE SEE THE POPULATION INCREASE FOR THE LAST DECADE AND
11:27:01 PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD BE OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.
11:27:04 IT'S A HUGE CHUNK OF OUR BUDGET.
11:27:06 OBVIOUSLY WE ARE INVESTING IN IT.
11:27:08 BUT YOU CANNOT INVEST ENOUGH.
11:27:10 AS COUNCIL MEMBER GUDES SAID, WHEN SECONDS COUNT, POLICE
11:27:15 ARE MINUTES AWAY, EMS IS MINUTES AWAY, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T
11:27:18 BE OVERWORKED AND UNDERUTILIZED WHEN IT COMES TO LIFE AND
11:27:26 DEATH SITUATIONS.
11:27:26 SO MAKING THIS A FULL-TIME ITEM IS OF COURSE A NECESSITY.
11:27:31 THERE ARE WANTS AND NEEDS AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE
11:27:34 INCENTIVE -- DEFINITELY NEED TO BE INVESTING IN.
11:27:36 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:27:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CHIEF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOU
11:27:42 AND ALL YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY AND EVERYONE IN YOUR
11:27:44 FIRE DEPARTMENT, ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF 754.
11:27:48 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CITY -- AND I'M SURE THAT YOU HAVE
11:27:51 STATISTICS JUST LIKE POLICE, THE NUMBERS, THEY CAN TELL
11:27:54 YOU ALL THE CALLS THEY MADE JUST LIKE YOURSELF AND YOUR
11:27:57 DEPARTMENT.
11:27:57 WHAT I LIKE TO SEE, AND I AM SURE MORE THAN LIKELY YOU
11:28:00 HAVE ONE ALREADY, AND I MAY BE SPEAKING -- WE ARE GOING
11:28:03 TO HAVE AN ENORMOUS INCREASE IN POPULATION.
11:28:06 WE ALREADY STARTED HAVING ENORMOUS INCREASE FROM
11:28:09 POPULATION.
11:28:10 WHEN YOU SEE THE BUILDINGS GOING UP, THEY ARE NOT GOING
11:28:13 UP TO BE EMPTY.
11:28:14 THEY ARE GOING UP BECAUSE THOSE ARE PUTTING THEIR MONEY
11:28:17 AND HARD WORK INTO IT FEEL THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A
11:28:19 NEED TO HAVE THAT FOR WHAT'S COMING.
11:28:23 AND CERTAINLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT TEN YEARS, IN THE
11:28:26 NEXT 20 YEARS, YOU LOOK AROUND, AND YOU SAY, WOW, WHAT'S
11:28:31 HAPPENING HERE?
11:28:33 AS YOU WELL KNOW, TAMPA WAS THE NUMBER ONE CITY FOR
11:28:38 LIVABILITY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN POPULATION AND
11:28:41 GROWTH.
11:28:41 THE ONLY BEHIND ONE CITY IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY, AND THAT
11:28:44 WAS PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
11:28:46 WE FINISHED SECOND IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY IF I RECALL.
11:28:48 ALONG THOSE LINES, IT LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, WHY
11:28:53 DO PEOPLE COME HERE?
11:28:55 WELL, THE ONES THAT ARE COMING AND GOING TO SCHOOL WERE
11:28:59 NOT COMING BACK.
11:29:00 DAB, THANKS TO THE FAMILY, AND THE CITY, MOST OF THEM ARE
11:29:04 COMING BACK AND MAKING THEIR HOME WHERE THEY STARTED
11:29:06 THEIR CHILDHOOD LIVING HERE.
11:29:08 SO, HOWEVER, IT'S NOT BECAUSE JANE CASTOR IS THE MAYOR OR
11:29:13 YOU ARE THE CHIEF OR THE SEVEN CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT
11:29:17 THEY ARE COMING, BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE TWO SEASONS HERE,
11:29:20 AND YOU HEARD ME SAY IT BEFORE, SUMMER AND LOOK AT TODAY,
11:29:24 AND THIS IS FEBRUARY, AND LOOK AT JANUARY, AND LOOK AT
11:29:27 DECEMBER.
11:29:28 AND CHRISTMAS.
11:29:29 AND REPEAT.
11:29:30 THAT YOU ONLY HAVE SUMMER AND CHRISTMAS.
11:29:32 THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO SEASONS YOU HAVE.
11:29:34 WHEN YOU LOOK UP NORTH TODAY YOU LOOK AT THE WEATHER,
11:29:39 RICHMOND, PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON, D.C., WHO WANTS TO DO
11:29:43 ALL OF THAT?
11:29:44 WHO WANTS TO LIVE LIKE THAT WHEN YOU CAN HAVE THE SUN AND
11:29:49 A LITTLE AIR CONDITIONING, DO ALL RIGHT.
11:29:51 HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE SOME PROBLEMS.
11:29:52 WE MUST BE READY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS IN PREPARATION OF
11:29:56 WHAT YOUR DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AND HOW MANY
11:29:59 MEN AND WOMEN YOU ARE GOING TO NEED AND HOW MUCH MONEY
11:30:01 YOU NEED IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO
11:30:04 HAVE TO EXPAND YOUR STATION, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
11:30:07 EXPAND.
11:30:08 AND THESE THINGS AREN'T CHEAP.
11:30:09 I SEE WHERE A PUMPER IS 732,000 AND AMBULANCE OR RESCUE
11:30:16 SQUAD IS 360,000 OR SO AND THOSE THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE.
11:30:20 THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS TO BE READY
11:30:22 FOR.
11:30:22 NOT FOR TODAY.
11:30:24 AND I USED TO SAY ONE DAY, IT WAS YESTERDAY, TODAY,
11:30:27 TOMORROW AND FOREVER.
11:30:28 THAT'S THE MOTTO YOU ARE GOING TO NEED BECAUSE GOING
11:30:32 FORWARD, YESTERDAY DOESN'T COUNT FOR TODAY, TODAY
11:30:34 COULDN'T COUNTED FOR TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW HAS GOT TO GO
11:30:36 INTO THE FUTURE.
11:30:37 AND YOU HAVE GOT TO HAVE YOUR PLAN PLAYED TOO MAKE SURE
11:30:39 THAT YOU HAVE PROTECTION LIKE ALL THE OTHER COUNCIL
11:30:41 MEMBERS WHO HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, THE FIRST
11:30:45 PRIORITY, NOT ONLY IN THIS CITY BUT IN THE WHOLE UNITED
11:30:47 STATES.
11:30:48 AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU.
11:30:50 AND WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED.
11:30:51 I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE AND GOOD WORK.
11:30:54 I APPRECIATE BORROWING YOUR FATHER'S CALL WHEN I WAS A
11:30:58 TEENAGER.
11:30:59 >> THAT WAS MY UNCLE'S CAR.
11:31:01 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I REMEMBER.
11:31:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: CHIEF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
11:31:07 SERVICE AND EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR US.
11:31:08 STATION 9.
11:31:10 ALL STATIONS ARE MY FAVORITE.
11:31:12 STATION 9 IS A FLEET MAINTENANCE STATION, ISN'T IT?
11:31:16 >> YES, SIR, IT IS.
11:31:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE WE GOING TO COME TO A POINT WHERE WE
11:31:20 ARE GOING TO NEED ANOTHER STATION LIKE STATION 9?
11:31:24 >> YES, SIR.
11:31:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COULD YOU ALSO ADVISE US ON THAT?
11:31:29 BECAUSE IF WE CAN'T KEEP THESE VEHICLES MOVING, RUNNING,
11:31:33 THERE IS NO POINT.
11:31:34 SO PLEASE KEEP US ADVISED, IF WE ARE GOING TO NEED
11:31:38 ANOTHER STATION LIKE STATION 9, GOING TO NEED FLEET
11:31:41 MAINTENANCE.
11:31:41 >> YES, SIR.
11:31:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, CHIEF.
11:31:44 >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU HAD A QUICK QUESTION, GO AHEAD.
11:31:49 JUST QUICK.
11:31:50 AND LET'S MOVE BRISKLY BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT.
11:31:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MY DISTRICT HAS A LOT OF BUILDINGS
11:31:56 THERE.
11:31:57 HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS.
11:31:58 AND MY CONCERN IS, I THINK WE NEED TO START TALKING TO
11:32:02 THESE DEVELOPERS WHEN THEY ARE GETTING READY TO BUILD TO
11:32:06 SEE ABOUT HAVING A PORTION OF THAT BUILDING WHERE FIRE
11:32:10 RESCUE.
11:32:11 I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
11:32:14 YOU LOOK AT OTHER CITIES.
11:32:16 MAYBE WE CAN GET SOME PARTNERSHIPS WITH SOME OF THESE NEW
11:32:19 DEVELOPERS THAT BUILDING THESE BIG BUILDINGS.
11:32:21 HEY, CAN WE HAVE THAT GROUND FLOOR AS A FIRE STATION OR
11:32:24 WHATEVER?
11:32:25 IN OTHER PLACES, TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD, BECAUSE
11:32:32 THERE ARE SOME HUGE BUILDINGS UP THERE.
11:32:33 DO WE HAVE THE EQUIPMENT THAT IS READILY AVAILABLE RIGHT
11:32:36 THERE TO HELP GET A FIRE OUT IN THOSE BIG BUILDINGS?
11:32:40 SO I AM HOPEFUL WE CAN LOOK IN THE FUTURE TO LOOK AT NEW
11:32:43 DEVELOPMENT.
11:32:44 MAYBE THE CITY, CAN DO THINGS LIKE THAT TO MOVE THINGS
11:32:48 ALONG FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:32:49 >> ABSOLUTELY, YES, SIR.
11:32:51 THANK YOU.
11:32:52 >>LUIS VIERA: AND A QUICK QUESTION.
11:32:53 THE VEHICLE THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, WHEN DO YOU THINK
11:32:56 IT WILL IN PLACE ROUGHLY?
11:32:57 >> I WOULD SAY LESS THAN TWO WEEKS.
11:33:00 A WEEK OR TWO.
11:33:01 I THINK SOONER THAN LATER.
11:33:03 >>LUIS VIERA: MARVELOUS.
11:33:04 THAT WILL BE FUNDED IN THE FORTHCOMING BUDGET?
11:33:07 >> THAT'S SIX MONTHS AND DELIBERATION THAT -- YES,
11:33:11 HOPEFULLY, IN THE BUDGET, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT THE
11:33:14 RUNS ARE GOING TO GET ANY LESS.
11:33:15 BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE A STRATEGY, THE TACTICS WILL BE
11:33:21 APPLIED.
11:33:21 WE REVIEW THE INFORMATION.
11:33:23 THEN WE MAKE THE ADEQUATE DECISION AT THE MAYOR'S LEVEL.
11:33:26 AND IN CONCERT WITH YOU.
11:33:27 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR FOR YOUR LEADER SHIP.
11:33:30 AND ALSO FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO FOR ALL THE MEN AND
11:33:34 WOMEN OVER AT 754 WHO ARE HERE TODAY FOR THIS AND A
11:33:37 LITTLE CONTRACT THEY WANT TO APPROVE AS WELL.
11:33:40 WE APPRECIATE IT.
11:33:40 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:33:41 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EACH ONE OF YOU.
11:33:44 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT WE MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 94.
11:33:47 >>VIK BHIDE: TRANSPORTATION, STORM WATERS.
11:33:56 THIS IS RELATED TO A REQUEST BY COUNCIL OF CREATING A
11:33:59 CITY WIDE COMPREHENSIVE SIDEWALK PLAN.
11:34:05 >>LUIS VIERA: AND I APOLOGIZE.
11:34:07 PARDON ME.
11:34:09 WE ARE COMING ON 11:30.
11:34:13 WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
11:34:15 WE HAVE FIVE INCLUDING THIS ONE STAFF REPORTS.
11:34:19 MY ASPIRATION IS TO GET OUT OF HERE BY 12:30.
11:34:22 NOT FOR EVERYTHING.
11:34:23 BUT WITH STAFF REPORTS FINISHED AND CONSENT AGENDA, AND
11:34:26 THEN NUMBER 6, I BELIEVE IT WAS, THAT WOULD BE ABOUT SIX
11:34:32 MINUTES OR SO FOR EACH OF THESE.
11:34:39 I'M OPTIMISTIC, IF I WILL ONLY SHUT UP.
11:34:42 >> I THINK WE SHOULD COMBINE THE NEXT TWO.
11:34:47 >>LUIS VIERA: 94, 95.
11:34:48 >>VIK BHIDE: AND THEY ARE VERY RELATED.
11:34:50 THE ONE ITEM WAS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN FOR
11:34:53 SIDEWALKS.
11:34:54 AND THE OTHER ITEM IS RELATED TO A COMPREHENSIVE BICYCLE
11:35:00 LANE PLAN.
11:35:00 I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE HAVE VARIOUS STAGES OF
11:35:07 DEVELOPMENT.
11:35:08 ON THE SIDEWALKS.
11:35:08 AND BOTH ARE VERY CRITICAL TO OUR VISION ZERO INITIATIVE.
11:35:13 THEY ARE ALSO VERY CRITICAL FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
11:35:19 SO ON THE SIDEWALKS, WE HAVE A GIS-BASED PLAN THAT LAYS
11:35:23 OUT EXISTING GAPS IN OUR SIDEWALKS, AND COMPLETE NEED FOR
11:35:30 SIDEWALKS ON EITHER SIDE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, CURRENTLY
11:35:35 IS ABOUT 1270 MILES.
11:35:39 WE HAVE IDENTIFIED OUR TOP PRIORITY LOCATIONS, ENHANCED
11:35:44 CONNECTIVITY ON THE BASIS PRIMARILY OF EQUITY AND
11:35:47 OPPORTUNITY, AND THAT'S ABOUT 27 MILES OF SIDEWALK
11:35:54 NEEDED.
11:35:54 OUR BUDGET CURRENTLY IS AROUND $870,000 FOR SIDEWALKS,
11:36:00 ONE MILE OF SIDEWALK, AND A LOT OF THAT BUDGET IS SPENT
11:36:04 ON MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING SIDEWALKS.
11:36:06 SO PRESERVATION IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT NEED AND HAS BEEN
11:36:11 IDENTIFIED AS SUCH AS WELL.
11:36:13 BUT SPEAKING TO THE EQUITY PIECE ON SIDEWALKS, WE LOOK AT
11:36:17 EQUITY, NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF INCOME, NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF
11:36:21 ABILITY, NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF OPPORTUNITY BUT A
11:36:27 COMBINATION OF THEM.
11:36:27 SO PROXIMITY TO SCHOOLS IS VERY HIGH ON OUR EQUITY
11:36:30 CONSIDERATIONS.
11:36:32 INCOME IS VERY HIGH UP THERE.
11:36:35 PROXIMITY TO TRANSIT FACILITIES, WHICH ALSO TIES TO
11:36:38 OPPORTUNITY, ACCESS TO JOBS, ADA GOALS, WHICH IS PEOPLE
11:36:45 OF ALL ABILITIES BEING ABLE TO UTILIZE OUR FACILITIES,
11:36:48 AND LOCATION APPROXIMATE TO VERY HIGH-VOLUME CORRIDORS.
11:36:54 AND FINALLY OF COURSE, EASE OF CONSTRUCTION AND BENEFIT
11:37:00 OVER COST IN TERMS OF THE MONEY THAT WE SPEND ON IT.
11:37:03 SO THAT SIDEWALK, ON THE BICYCLES, WE DO HAVE A
11:37:09 COMPREHENSIVE BIKE WALK PLAN AS WELL.
11:37:11 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE MPO SINCE 2011 TO DEVELOP
11:37:15 THE SAME MANY ASPECTS OF OUR BICYCLE FACILITY, AND THEN
11:37:19 BIKE PLANS ARE ALREADY DEPLOYED.
11:37:22 YOU SEE PARKS.
11:37:24 OF THE GREEN ARTERY AND THE GREEN SPINE BEING DEPLOYED.
11:37:28 ONE PART OF IT WAS CASS STREET.
11:37:30 ANOTHER PART OF IT IS BEING BUILT ON 34th STREET.
11:37:34 AND WE PUT IN LIKE OVER 100 MILES OF BICYCLE FACILITIES
11:37:40 OF VARIOUS TYPES FROM PREMIUM THAT ARE MEDIAN SEPARATED
11:37:45 AND COMPLETELY SAFE AND COMFORTABLE TO SHARE ROADS OR
11:37:50 SHAG LANE MARKINGS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
11:37:52 THE DOT ADDED ANOTHER 46 MILES IN OUR AREA AS WELL.
11:37:57 SO WE CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS IN BOTH BICYCLE AND
11:38:02 PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES.
11:38:04 THEORY KEY COMPONENTS OF ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND
11:38:06 STUDIES SHOW THAT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE BUICK
11:38:12 FACILITIES HAVE BETTER OUTCOMES, THEY CONSUME LESS ENERGY
11:38:15 AS WELL, SO WE CONSTANTLY EXAM THE NEXUS OF ENERGY HELP
11:38:20 AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.
11:38:21 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DID YOU GIVE YOUR NAME BEFORE YOU
11:38:24 SPOKE?
11:38:25 >> YES, SIR, I WILL REPEAT IT.
11:38:28 VIK BHIDE, TRANSPORTATION STORMWATER.
11:38:33 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
11:38:34 I HAVE LOOKED THROUGH TONS AND TONS OF DOCUMENTS THAT YOU
11:38:36 HAVE ABOUT ALL OF THIS AND APPRECIATE IT.
11:38:39 I THINK THERE WERE TWO PERSPECTIVES.
11:38:41 AND THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING IT.
11:38:43 MAYBE 3 PERSPECTIVES.
11:38:45 ONE IS THAT WE WERE ANTICIPATING THAT TRANSPORTATION
11:38:49 WOULD GO THROUGH SO YOU MENTIONED YOU BASICALLY HAVE A
11:38:51 BUDGET TO DO REPAIRS AND A FEW NEW SIDEWALKS A YEAR.
11:38:56 I MIGHT HAVE THE NUMBERS SLIGHTLY OFF.
11:38:58 ABOUT BUT IF THAT MONEY CAME THROUGH, WHICH IT MAY NOT
11:39:00 KNOW, IT'S LIKE 6 MILLION A YEAR.
11:39:02 WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS, IT'S A MUCH BIGGER NUMBER.
11:39:05 AND I THINK THAT'S JUST FOR SIDEWALKS.
11:39:06 AND SO I THINK A BIG PART OF THIS WAS TO TRY TO FIGURE
11:39:10 OUT IF YOU HAD ALLOWED MORE MONEY, WOULD YOU USE THE SAME
11:39:14 PLAN, ACCELERATE IT?
11:39:15 OR WOULD YOU CREATE A NEW PLAN?
11:39:18 >>VIK BHIDE: WE WOULD USE THE SAME PLAN BECAUSE IT IS A
11:39:20 PRIORITIZED PLAN BASED ON THE CRITERIA WE MENTIONED.
11:39:23 WE WOULD JUST BE ABLE TO DO A LOT MORE.
11:39:29 AND MEET THAT NEED GETTING EVERYTHING UP TO DATE WITHIN
11:39:32 30 YEARS.
11:39:32 WE WOULD MAKE A 30 YEAR PLAN.
11:39:36 >>BILL CARLSON: THE SECOND THING WAS, THERE'S A LOT OF
11:39:38 DOCUMENTS.
11:39:39 I'M A COMMUNICATION PERSON.
11:39:40 I WISH THERE WAS A VERY SIMPLE DOCUMENT, THAT IN YOUR
11:39:44 MEMO OF FEBRUARY 11th, THERE'S -- I AM TRYING TO PULL
11:39:49 IT UP HERE -- THERE'S A CHART THAT'S KIND OF A SUMMARY
11:39:52 CHART OF THE VISION.
11:39:56 I DON'T NOT IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE IT. ANYWAY, IT IS A
11:39:59 CITY-WIDE MAP AND IT HAS DIFFERENT COLORED CODINGS AND
11:40:02 HAS PHASES.
11:40:04 I THINK PICTURES ARE VERY HELPFUL TO PEOPLE TO TRY TO
11:40:07 FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PLAN LOOKS LIKE, AND MAYBE WE CALL IT
11:40:11 VISION DOCUMENT INSTEAD OF PLAN BECAUSE ENGINEERS
11:40:14 THINKING ABOUT PLANNING DIFFERENTLY.
11:40:15 ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HAVE SIMPLE DRAWINGS AND MAPS, AND
11:40:19 MAYBE A BICYCLE ONE AND SIDEWALK ONE AND THEN OVERLAY
11:40:23 COMBINED, AND HOWEVER YOU WANT TO COLOR CODE IT.
11:40:26 BUT SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT WE COULD GIVE TO NEIGHBORHOOD
11:40:29 ASSOCIATIONS AND TALK TO NEIGHBORS ABOUT WOULD BE SUPER
11:40:32 HELPFUL, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF DISCUSSIONS LIKE BAY TO
11:40:34 BAY, YOU KNOW, AS I TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST
11:40:40 THE PROPOSED PLANS FOR BAY TO BAY, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE
11:40:44 WHO DON'T LIKE BICYCLES, AT ALL IN THE STREET, AND THEY
11:40:48 ARE AFRAID OF EVERY ROAD TURNING INTO A BICYCLE PATH.
11:40:52 AND THAT'S NOT IN THE PLAN.
11:40:54 AND SO AS I TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT, IF THEY KNEW WHAT THE
11:40:57 PLAN WAS, THEN THEY WOULD MAYBE NOT OPPOSE THE FEW ROADS
11:41:01 THAT WOULD HAVE DEDICATED LANES.
11:41:02 AND THE THIRD POINT IS THAT KRISTIN COSTA WHO SPOKE
11:41:06 EARLIER SEND ME A LONG MEMO WHICH OTHER ACTIVISTS HAVE
11:41:10 SENT ME MEMOS.
11:41:11 THEY ARE REALLY EAGER TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
11:41:13 I KNOW YOU ARE, TOO, IF WE GET MONEY.
11:41:16 BUT THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO
11:41:18 ADD.
11:41:18 ONE OF THE CRITICISMS FROM THE LAST EIGHT YEARS WAS THAT
11:41:21 THERE WAS A MEASURE OF BIKE LANE MILES, NOT IN PROTECTED
11:41:25 LANES OR LANES THAT ARE USABLE, AND SO I THINK WE HAVE TO
11:41:29 BE SMART ABOUT WHAT THE GOALS ARE AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT
11:41:31 HOW TO FOLLOW THAT H.BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR FOLLOWING UP
11:41:34 AND LET US KNOW IF WE CAN HELP YOU.
11:41:36 [BELL SOUNDS]
11:41:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:41:41 THANKS, VIK.
11:41:44 WE TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:41:45 AND I THINK SIDEWALKS AND BIKE LANES DEFINITELY ARE A
11:41:48 HUGE PART OF THAT.
11:42:03 IF THE COURTS STRIKE DOWN TRANSPORTATION, THEN WE WILL
11:42:06 PUT IT BACK ON THE BALLOT AGAIN, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
11:42:09 BIG THINGS THAT WE WILL USE IT FOR.
11:42:11 I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR TO THE
11:42:13 COMMUNITY THAT IF THAT HAPPENS, WE MIGHT HAVE ONE STRIKE
11:42:17 AGAINST US.
11:42:18 WE ARE GOING TO SAY AT BAT AND KEEP SWINGING UNTIL THIS
11:42:23 IS DONE RIGHT.
11:42:24 SO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.
11:42:25 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:42:27 COUNCIL MEMBER CITRO.
11:42:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE] WHEN I WAS OUT IN THE
11:42:32 COMMUNITY AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT SIDEWALKS, ESPECIALLY
11:42:35 TO AND FROM SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY WHEN MOTHERS HAVE TO PUSH
11:42:39 THEIR BABY STROLLERS IN THE ROAD, FIRST THING PEOPLE ASK
11:42:42 ME, WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SIDEWALK FUND?
11:42:46 HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE IN THAT?
11:42:47 DO YOU KNOW OFFHAND?
11:42:49 >> 870,000 A YEAR.
11:42:51 THAT'S OUR FY 20 BUDGET.
11:42:55 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND TELL ME SOMEBODY THAT'S REBUILDING A
11:42:57 HOUSE, 51% AND THEY HAVE TO PUT A SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF
11:43:00 THEIR HOUSE.
11:43:01 AND THEY CHOOSE NOT TO AND PAY IT INTO THE SIDEWALK FUND?
11:43:03 WE ARE ONLY GETTING 800 THAT YOU --
11:43:07 >>VIK BHIDE: YES, THERE IS A NEW MECHANISM.
11:43:12 THE 870 IS ACTUALLY OUR BUDGET MAINLY FROM THE GAS TAX.
11:43:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AGAIN I GO BACK TO WHERE OUR SIDEWALK
11:43:22 FUND IS AT.
11:43:23 >>VIK BHIDE: I NEED TO FIND OUT THE DETAILS AND I WILL
11:43:30 GET BACK TO YOU.
11:43:36 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SINCE COUNCILMAN SAUL-SENA AND COUNCILMAN
11:43:39 DINGFELDER STARTED THIS THING, SHOULDN'T WE HAVE A FEW
11:43:41 BUCKS THERE?
11:43:42 I'M JUST ASKING.
11:43:43 CAN YOU PROVIDE THAT FOR ME AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS?
11:43:45 I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.
11:43:46 >>VIK BHIDE: SURE.
11:43:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [OFF MICROPHONE] THANK YOU.
11:43:52 WHAT IS A FOOT FOR SIDEWALK NOW?
11:43:57 EACH FOOT?
11:43:59 >>VIK BHIDE: I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT.
11:44:01 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I REMEMBER ONE TIME IT WAS IN THE
11:44:03 HIGH 40s.
11:44:04 THEN SOMEHOW WE FINALLY GOT IT TO 29.
11:44:07 I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S AT NOW.
11:44:09 AND I DON'T WANT TO MISLEAD ANYBODY.
11:44:12 WHAT WE DID IN THE PAST SOMETIMES WAS ABSOLUTELY
11:44:14 INCORRECTO.
11:44:16 AND LET ME EXPLAIN Y.YOU HAD A STREET.
11:44:20 YOU HAD A DITCH.
11:44:20 AND YOU WANT TO PUT A SIDEWALK.
11:44:22 AND THE PEOPLE GOING TO JUMP OVER THE DITCH TO WALK ON A
11:44:27 SIDEWALK FOR 60 FEET AND THEN GO BACK ON THE STREET TO
11:44:32 WALK HOME.
11:44:33 NO ONE DOES THAT.
11:44:34 I'M NOT BLAMING YOU.
11:44:36 NO ONE DOES THAT.
11:44:37 I CAN SHOW YOU NOW THE CITY OF TAMPA AT LEAST 50 PLACES
11:44:41 WHEN YOU BUILT A SIDEWALK AND YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND THE
11:44:47 TREE, GET BACK ON THE SIDEWALK.
11:44:48 SO IT NEVER HAPPENED THAT WAY.
11:44:50 I CAN SHOW YOU PLACES WHERE YOU WALK ON THE SIDEWALK, AND
11:44:53 THERE'S A ROADBLOCK BECAUSE THERE'S A CONCRETE FENCE AND
11:44:57 THE SIDEWALK STOPS THERE.
11:44:59 I CAN SHOW YOU WHERE YOU HAVE A TELEPHONE POLE OR
11:45:01 ELECTRIC POLE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK, AND BRING
11:45:08 OUT THE NEGATIVE.
11:45:09 THERE'S A LOT OF APPROXIMATES BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE
11:45:11 DO IT WITHOUT THINKING WE ARE GOING TO PUT A SIDEWALK,
11:45:13 AND SAY WE HAVE A SIDEWALK, WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK.
11:45:16 THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING.
11:45:17 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:45:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:45:21 WHEN OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION CAME UP, I ENDORSED IT
11:45:24 EARLY ON AND I WAS GOING INTO REELECTION A FEW MONTHS
11:45:27 AFTERWARDS AND PEOPLE REQUEST TELLING ME, YOU ARE GOING
11:45:30 FOR REELECTION BUT YOU ARE SUPPORTING RAISING TAXES.
11:45:33 THAT'S NOT VERY WISE.
11:45:35 REGARDLESS IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO BE DO.
11:45:37 BECAUSE BEFORE I GOT ELECTED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT WEST TAMPA
11:45:39 SPECIFICALLY ASKED ME YESTERDAY, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO
11:45:43 PAVE THE ROADS, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO ADD BIKE LANES,
11:45:46 MOST IMPORTANTLY WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO ADD SIDEWALKS, NOT
11:45:49 JUST FOR KIDS TO GET TO SAFELY BUT FOR THE ELDERLY AND
11:45:52 FOLKS THAT RELY ON WALKING AND UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES
11:45:54 FRUSTRATING THAT NOW WE ARE TIED UP IN LITIGATION, WE
11:45:57 DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE
11:45:59 SPOKEN OVERWHELMINGLY.
11:46:01 AND THAT MONEY WOULD HAVE HELPED US SIGNIFICANTLY.
11:46:03 I MEAN, YOU TOLD US WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE WHAT WE HAVE
11:46:06 BUDGETED UNDER A MILLION DOLLARS FOR NEW PROJECTS.
11:46:08 I KNOW WHAT IT COSTS TO PAVE A LITTLE STRETCH OF ROAD.
11:46:11 I KNOW WHAT IT COSTS TO BUILD A LITTLE STRETCH OF
11:46:13 SIDEWALK.
11:46:13 AND WE HAVE A BIG CITY AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
11:46:16 NEED TO GET AROUND OF THE
11:46:18 YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT THE COURTS RULE IN FAVOR OF WHAT
11:46:21 THE PEOPLE SAID.
11:46:23 SHOULD IT BE STRUCK DOWN AND WAVE TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE
11:46:26 BALLOT, WHATEVER, THAT'S ANOTHER THING.
11:46:28 WHATEVER THE COUNTY COMMISSION SAYS.
11:46:29 BUT THAT FUNDING IS SO DESPERATELY NEEDED.
11:46:31 WE TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY WITH POLICE AND FIRE.
11:46:33 BUT THESE ARE BASIC NECESSITATES.
11:46:35 BASIC ESSENTIALS.
11:46:37 IF YOU LOOK HOW CITIES WERE BUILT BEFORE, FOR EXAMPLE,
11:46:39 DOWNTOWN, THERE WAS A BOND AGREEMENT, WHATEVER, BACK OVER
11:46:44 100 YEARS AGO TO FUND CITY HALL AND TO LAY DOWN MODERN
11:46:48 INFRASTRUCTURE INFORM DOWNTOWN TAMPA WHICH INCLUDED
11:46:50 SIDEWALKS, AND THE GRID PATTERN THAT WE HAVE HERE.
11:46:52 WE WERE ORGANIZED AT ONE POINT.
11:46:54 BUT AS WE GREW AND YOU HAD DEVELOPMENT HERE AND A HOUSE
11:46:57 BUILT THERE AND THINGS CHANGED AND WHATNOT, SO WE HAVE
11:47:00 PATCHY SIDEWALK DESIGN.
11:47:01 WE DON'T HAVE BIKE LANES BECAUSE THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE
11:47:03 HAVE HAD IN THE LAST DECADE.
11:47:05 PEOPLE THAT WANT BLAKE SAFETY.
11:47:08 WE HAD CHRISTINE SPEAK EARLIER REGARDING BIKE LANES.
11:47:12 WE ARE ONE OF THE WORST PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES OF
11:47:14 THE AND I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE AND SO MANY
11:47:16 DIFFERENT CITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND HERE, DO THINGS
11:47:19 DIFFERENTLY.
11:47:19 BUT WITHOUT THAT CRITICAL FUNDING, IT'S UP TO A JUDGE, UP
11:47:26 TO THE COURTS.
11:47:26 NOW WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE
11:47:29 BECAUSE WE SEE HOW UNDERFUNDED WE ARE.
11:47:31 SO THANK YOU.
11:47:32 AND I HOPE THE COURTS RULE FAVORABLY SO THAT WE CAN
11:47:36 EXPAND THIS.
11:47:37 I MEAN, THAT BUDGET IS NOTHING.
11:47:39 I SEE HOW A MILLION DOLLARS IS PEANUTS IN A BUDGET AS
11:47:44 LARGE AS WE HAVE.
11:47:45 THAT'S IT.
11:47:46 THANK YOU.
11:47:47 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE ELSE?
11:47:48 THANK YOU.
11:47:48 I WANT TO ECHO THOSE COMMENTS.
11:47:50 YESTERDAY I WENT TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION.
11:47:51 THEY WERE GOING TO SPEAK ON THE IDEA OF HAVING A BACKUP
11:47:55 PENNY SALES TAX INITIATIVE.
11:47:56 I WENT AND SPOKE IN FAVOR OF IT AND I DID THAT FOR THE
11:47:59 SAME REASONS THAT I ENDORSED TRANSPORTATION WHEN IT CAME
11:48:02 UP IN 2018 BECAUSE THIS IS COMMON SENSE AND IT'S
11:48:05 SOMETHING THAT ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE GOT TO BE ON THE
11:48:07 FOREFRONT OF, BECAUSE I ALWAYS JOKE WITH PEOPLE, WE WERE
11:48:10 NOT ELECTED NECESSARILY TO GET REELECTED.
11:48:12 WE WERE ELECTED TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND THEN HOPE AND
11:48:15 PRAY THAT WE GET REELECTED BECAUSE WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT
11:48:18 THING.
11:48:18 AND ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION AND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO
11:48:21 NOW IN THE EVENT THAT WE HAVE TO GO FOR ANOTHER
11:48:23 REPLACEMENT PENNY IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
11:48:26 IT DOESN'T GET US LUXURY, IT GETS US TO WHERE WE NEED TO
11:48:30 BE AS A CITY AND AS A COMMUNITY.
11:48:32 AND THAT'S A SAD STATEMENT ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND FOR MANY
11:48:38 YEARS IN OUR CITY THAT WAVE TO DO THIS BUT WE ARE, AND
11:48:41 LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN.
11:48:42 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:48:42 APPRECIATE IT.
11:48:43 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:48:44 NEXT WE MOVE TO ITEM 96.
11:48:50 THAT WAS 94 AND 95.
11:48:53 AND COUNCILMAN CARL SOP, TAMPA BAY WATER.
11:48:56 >>CHUCK WEBER: WATER DEPARTMENT.
11:48:59 HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
11:49:06 >>BILL CARLSON: MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC DIDN'T SEE THE
11:49:07 MEMO.
11:49:08 DO YOU WANT TO GIVE A 30 SECONDS ON WHAT THE MEMO SAID?
11:49:11 >>CHUCK WEBER: THERE WAS AN ERROR IN THE ORIGINAL
11:49:13 TRANSMISSION THAT CONTAINED A STATEMENT THAT DESCRIBED A
11:49:15 GRAPH FROM LAST YEAR'S.
11:49:18 WE SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THAT STATEMENT TO REFLECT THE
11:49:20 DIRECTION WE ARE HEADING.
11:49:21 SO WE HAVE SINCE CHANGED THAT STATEMENT AND SUBMITTED THE
11:49:25 CORRECTION.
11:49:27 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
11:49:28 I HAD A COUPLE CLARIFICATIONS.
11:49:34 BY CHANGING THAT LANGUAGE, DO THE DEMAND FORECASTS
11:49:39 CHANGE?
11:49:39 I THINK THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THAT REPORT.
11:49:41 >>CHUCK WEBER: THE DEMAND FORECAST HASN'T CHANGED.
11:49:47 >>BILL CARLSON: IN YOUR FORECAST OF WHAT YOU MIGHT BUY
11:49:49 FROM TAMPA BAY WATER, DID THAT CHANGE SO THAT BEFORE YOU
11:49:52 SAID YOU ARE NOT GOING TO -- THE WRONG STATEMENT SAID WE
11:49:56 WOULDN'T BE BUYING ANYTHING FROM TAMPA BAY WATER BUT NOW
11:49:59 IN OUR FORECAST FOR THE FUTURE, ARE WE GOING TO BE BUYING
11:50:01 IT?
11:50:02 DID WE CHANGE THAT CHART?
11:50:03 >>CHUCK WEBER: WE DID NOT CHANGE THE CHART, NO.
11:50:06 IT SHOWS THE PURCHASES GOING TO ZERO, I BELIEVE, IN 2027
11:50:13 OR FARTHER OUT.
11:50:14 AND RATHER THAN CLICKING THAT BACK AND FORTH UNTIL WE
11:50:18 RESOLVE ANY QUESTIONS WE HAVE ABOUT THE DIRECTION WE ARE
11:50:20 HEADING WITH REUSE, WE CLOSE TO LEAVE THAT THE SAME.
11:50:25 >>BILL CARLSON: IS THERE A DANGER BECAUSE WE ARE NOT IN
11:50:27 THEIR PROJECTIONS, I THINK THEY ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO
11:50:30 SUPPLY WATER TO THE REGION. IF WE SAY THAT WE ARE NOT
11:50:33 GOING TO BUY ANY WATER FROM THEM, IN LIEU OF US HAVING
11:50:36 SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE, IS THAT OUR ONLY -- ISN'T THAT
11:50:39 OUR ONLY OPTION?
11:50:40 I MEAN, COULD THEY NOT HAVE ENOUGH WATER FOR US IN THE
11:50:44 FUTURE IF WE DON'T TELL THEM THAT WE MIGHT BE BUYING
11:50:46 SOME?
11:50:47 >>CHUCK WEBER: I AM HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT WITH TAMPA BAY
11:50:51 STAFF.
11:50:52 I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM SINCE I SUBMITTED THE ORIGINALS
11:50:56 OR THE CORRECTION.
11:50:57 BUT I'M HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT WITH THEM.
11:51:02 >>BILL CARLSON: RIGHT NOW THAT'S OUR BACKUP PLAN, RIGHT?
11:51:04 I THINK CURRENTLY YOU SENT OUT A NOTICE IN DECEMBER TO
11:51:07 RATE PAYERS THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE BUYING WATER FROM
11:51:09 THEM.
11:51:10 SO IN LIEU OF HAVING SOME OTHER PLAN, THAT'S WHAT WE
11:51:14 WOULD BE BUYING, RIGHT?
11:51:16 >>CHUCK WEBER: THAT IS THE CURRENT PLAN TO PURCHASE
11:51:18 WATER FROM TAMPA BAY WATER, YES.
11:51:22 >>BILL CARLSON: SHOULDN'T WE UPDATE THE DEMAND FORECAST?
11:51:25 UNTIL WE GET SOME OTHER OPTION APPROVED, SHOULDN'T WE
11:51:27 UPDATE THAT FOR THE FUTURE TO TELL THEM THAT IN LIEU OF
11:51:30 THIS, WE MAY BE BUYING?
11:51:34 >>CHUCK WEBER: I'M CERTAINLY HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT WITH
11:51:36 THEM.
11:51:37 IN THE PAST WHEN WE SUBMITTED THE EXHIBIT, NO MATTER
11:51:41 WHAT, WE HAVE PROJECTED FOR USAGE.
11:51:43 THEY HAVE ALWAYS BUDGETED 6 MGD.
11:51:46 I BELIEVE THAT'S THEIR CURRENT PLAN.
11:51:51 >>BILL CARLSON: AND THEN IN LIGHT OF THAT WHEN WE SPOKE
11:51:53 THE OTHER DAY, YOU HAVE BEEN BUYING WATER FROM THEM FOR A
11:51:57 COUPLE MONTHS, I THINK, AND YOU SAID THAT YOU CALL IT
11:52:02 WATER QUALITY.
11:52:02 THEY CALL IT PH BALANCE DIFFERENCE OR DIFFERENT METHODS
11:52:06 OF TREATMENT.
11:52:07 THEY ALSO SAY THAT ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THE
11:52:10 QUOTE-UNQUOTE QUALITY PROBLEM IS THAT IF YOU DON'T USE IT
11:52:13 REGULARLY, THE WATER THAT BACKS UP IN THE PIPE MAY HAVE
11:52:18 SOME OTHER SUBSTANCES AND ONCE YOU START USING IT
11:52:20 REGULARLY THEN IT'S BETTER.
11:52:22 BUT CAN YOU JUST TELL THE PUBLIC, HAVE YOU HAD MANY
11:52:25 COMPLAINTS SINCE THAT HAPPENED AND FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE,
11:52:29 YOU SAID THE QUALITY OR THE DIFFERENCES IS NOT AS MUCH AS
11:52:33 IT WAS BEFORE.
11:52:34 >>CHUCK WEBER: THAT IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.
11:52:36 SINCE I RAISED THAT ISSUE OF THE QUALITY THIS TIME
11:52:38 AROUND, IT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
11:52:40 WE WORKED WITH TAMPA BAY WATER.
11:52:41 NORMALLY, WHEN WE HAVE PURCHASED WATER FROM TAMPA BAY
11:52:44 WATER IN THE PAST, IT'S BEEN DURING THE DROUGHT SEASON.
11:52:47 AND WE WOULD HAVE TO -- OR THEY WOULD RAMP UP THE
11:52:52 WELLFIELD, MARSH FIELD WELLFIELD, AND THE WATER QUALITY
11:52:57 THAT COMES OUT OF MORRIS BRIDGE WELLFIELD IS
11:52:59 SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THE SURFACE WATER WE HAVE
11:53:01 FROM OUR OWN TREATMENT PLANT.
11:53:02 SO WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO BECAUSE WE ARE NOT NO DROUGHT
11:53:07 SITUATION, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THEY HAVE MORE WATER
11:53:09 AVAILABLE FROM THEIR SURFACE WATER PLANT.
11:53:11 SO THIS TIME AROUND WE GOT WATER FROM THEIR SURFACE WATER
11:53:15 PLANT WHICH IS MORE SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE COMING OUT OF
11:53:18 OUR OWN TREATMENT PLANT.
11:53:19 AND WHEN YOU BLEND THOSE TWO WATERS TOGETHER, WE DIDN'T
11:53:21 HAVE ANY WATER QUALITY COMPLAINTS OR ISSUES THIS TIME
11:53:25 AROUND.
11:53:25 SO HOPEFULLY MOVING FORWARD, IF WE ARE ABLE TO GET THAT
11:53:29 KIND OF WATER QUALITY, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY ISSUES WHEN
11:53:33 WE PURCHASE WATER.
11:53:38 >>BILL CARLSON: I HEARD A LOT OF KUDOS FOR YOU AND THE
11:53:40 DEPARTMENT FOR ADDING TAMPA INTO I THINK IT'S CALLED THE
11:53:43 WATER REGIONAL DEMAND CONSERVATION PROGRAM.
11:53:47 MAYBE YOU COULD EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS AND --
11:53:51 >>CHUCK WEBER: I WOULDN'T AWARE WE GOT ANY KUDOS.
11:53:55 >>BILL CARLSON: MAYBE IT'S ALL IN PRIVATE.
11:53:56 BUT IN TERMS OF REGIONALISM, I THINK THAT IF IT WAS
11:54:01 TREATED, THE CITY HAS REJOINED THAT.
11:54:03 THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION.
11:54:05 IT'S A SIGNAL TO THE REGION THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO
11:54:09 COLLABORATE IN THE REGIONAL PLANNING EFFORT.
11:54:11 >>CHUCK WEBER: CERTAINLY WE ALWAYS WANT COLLABORATIVE
11:54:14 AND PARTICIPATE IN THE REGIONAL EFFORTS.
11:54:16 TAMPA OPTED OUT OF THE DEMAND MANAGERS PROGRAM THAT THEY
11:54:20 ARE JUST STARTING.
11:54:21 IT ISN'T FULLY IMPLEMENTED YET.
11:54:24 THE WAY THEY STRUCTURE THE PROGRAM IS THAT ALL THE MEMBER
11:54:28 GOVERNMENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY OPTED IN, UNLESS WE SEND A
11:54:32 LETTER OPTING OUT.
11:54:33 SO THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY TO SEND A LETTER TO OPT OUT IS IN
11:54:38 JUNE.
11:54:39 I DON'T BELIEVE AT THIS POINT WE ARE INTENDING TO DO THAT
11:54:42 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT DECISION HAS BEEN MADE BY THE
11:54:44 ADMINISTRATION YET.
11:54:46 SO MOVING FORWARD, PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF BEING PART
11:54:50 OF THAT DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IS SUPPLYING AND
11:54:54 SENDING THE BILLING INFORMATION FOR ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS
11:54:57 ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
11:54:59 SO WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED A UTILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND
11:55:03 WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING REPORTS SO THAT WE
11:55:06 CAN PROVIDE THAT DATA.
11:55:07 SO WE ARE NOT IN A GOOD POSITION TO PROVIDE THAT DATA AS
11:55:10 WE WERE GOING IN BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT SYSTEMS FOR OUR
11:55:14 UTILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND THE DEMAND MANAGEMENT
11:55:17 PROGRAM THAT THEY WERE BUILDING REALLY WASN'T ROLLED OUT
11:55:19 YET AS WELL.
11:55:21 >>BILL CARLSON: AND JUST THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT, WHAT
11:55:23 THAT IS, IS A PROGRAM TO HELP THE CITY AND THE REGION
11:55:27 HELP INDIVIDUALS TO MANAGE THEIR OWN WATER BETTER AND IF
11:55:31 THERE ARE SPIKES OR WHATEVER, THEY CAN MANAGE THEIR WATER
11:55:34 USAGE INTERNALLY.
11:55:35 [BELL SOUNDS]
11:55:36 BUT THAT LADIES TO THE QUESTION AND THE MAIN FORECAST, I
11:55:39 THINK MONTHS AGO I WAS TOLD THAT IF WE WERE A PART OF
11:55:43 THAT PROGRAM, RATHER THAN MORE AGGRESSIVE CONSERVATION
11:55:46 PROGRAMMINGS, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SAVE FOUR OR FIVE MGD.
11:55:49 SO DOES THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOW PART OF THAT AFFECT YOUR
11:55:53 DEMAND FORECAST OR YOUR SUPPLY FORECAST?
11:55:56 >>CHUCK WEBER: WELL, CERTAINLY CONSERVATION IS A BIG
11:55:58 PART OF MAKING SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH WATER.
11:56:01 AND SINCE WE STARTED OUR OWN CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AT THE
11:56:04 CITY OF TAMPA, WE HAVE REDUCED DEMAND BY 41%.
11:56:08 [BELL SOUNDS]
11:56:09 AND THERE ARE VOLUNTARY EFFORTS LEFT.
11:56:11 BUT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH.
11:56:13 IF I HAD MORE TIME I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TALK ALL DAY ABOUT
11:56:16 IT.
11:56:17 >>LUIS VIERA: AND COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, THEN COUNCILMAN
11:56:21 MIRANDA.
11:56:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CARLSON, YOU WERE DONE?
11:56:24 >>LUIS VIERA: OH, I'M SORRY.
11:56:25 YOU WERE, CORRECT?
11:56:27 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:56:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:56:29 I'M GLAD WE GOT INTO A BRIEF DISCUSSION ABOUT
11:56:31 CONSERVATION.
11:56:32 WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS.
11:56:33 WE NEED TO KEEP IT UP AND PURSUE IT VERY AGGRESSIVELY.
11:56:38 I KNOW ON OCCASION, IT DOES CONFLICT WITH OUR REVENUE
11:56:41 EXTREME.
11:56:41 BUT WE JUST HAVE TO SUCK THAT UP.
11:56:44 NO PUN INTENDED, BUT THE ACTUAL WATER AND CONSERVING THE
11:56:47 WATER IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR BOTTOM LINE ON THE
11:56:52 WATER.
11:56:52 BECAUSE PRETTY SOON, AS ALL OF YOUR STUDIES INDICATE,
11:56:56 OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I'M SURE WE ARE GOING TO ADD
11:56:59 ANOTHER 100,000 PEOPLE TO OUR SYSTEM.
11:57:07 CHUCK, YOU AND I SPOKE ON THE PHONE YESTERDAY ABOUT
11:57:10 THOSE, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IN ADDITION TO THE
11:57:12 LIST THAT MR. BAIRD PRESENTED TO US, AND I THINK HE HAD
11:57:16 FOUR OR FIVE OPTIONS THE LAST TIME WEIGHED THIS
11:57:19 DISCUSSION --
11:57:21 >>CHUCK WEBER: IN AUGUST I BELIEVE WE PRESENTED FIVE OR
11:57:23 SIX DIFFERENT OPTIONS, YES.
11:57:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FIVE OR SIX OPTIONS.
11:57:27 BUT IT'S WANT TO THE BRING UP TWO POINTS.
11:57:28 NUMBER ONE IS THE STATE LEGISLATURE AS YOU AND I
11:57:31 DISCUSSED IS STRONGLY WRESTLING WITH THE IDEA THAT WITHIN
11:57:34 THE NEXT SIX YEARS, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW ANY
11:57:37 MUNICIPALITY OR WATER AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE TO DUMP
11:57:41 TREATED WATER INTO A BODY SUCH AS THE BAY, IF THEY PASS
11:57:45 THAT LAW THIS YEAR.
11:57:47 OR IF THEY PASS IT NEXT YEAR.
11:57:50 YOU ARE NOT SHAKING YOUR HEAD.
11:57:52 >>CHUCK WEBER: I'M SORRY, WAS THERE A QUESTION IN THERE?
11:57:55 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK THAT'S A CORRECT STATEMENT IN
11:57:56 TERMS OF LEGISLATION THAT'S PENDING RIGHT NOW?
11:57:58 >>CHUCK WEBER: YES, I BELIEVE THAT IS THE GIST OF THE
11:58:01 LEGISLATION.
11:58:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT CONCERNS ME GREATLY BECAUSE JUST
11:58:03 LIKE SO MANY OTHER THINGS, MR. CITRO, AS YOU KNOW, THEY
11:58:07 TAKE THAT CONTROL AWAY FROM US.
11:58:09 WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S A GOOD THING OR A BAD THING ON THIS
11:58:12 PARTICULAR ITEM DEPENDS ON WHICH SIDE OF THE EQUATION YOU
11:58:16 ARE ON.
11:58:17 BUT THAT MIGHT BECOME A REALITY. IF THAT BECOMES A
11:58:20 REALITY, THEN WE DO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A PLAN.
11:58:23 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THE WASTEWATER THAT YOUR
11:58:28 COHORTS ARE TREATING A FEW MAILS FROM HERE AND PUTTING IN
11:58:31 THE BAY?
11:58:33 LEGISLATURE SAYS YOU CAN'T PUT IT IN THE BAY ANYMORE.
11:58:35 THEN WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
11:58:37 EITHER WE NEED TO PUT IT ON YARDS, YOU KNOW, PUT IT OUT
11:58:41 ON PEOPLE'S YARDS INSTEAD OF POTABLE WATER, WHICH I DO
11:58:45 THINK IS ONE OF THE OPTIONS THAT WE LOOKED AT, OR
11:58:47 POSSIBLY ANOTHER ONE THAT YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT BRIEFLY
11:58:49 YESTERDAY, WHICH IS ACTUALLY INSTEAD OF INJECTING IT UP
11:58:52 THERE NECESSARY THE DAM TO ACTUALLY PUT IT INTO THE WATER
11:58:58 ABOVE THE DAM.
11:58:59 I'M NOT SAYING I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT SCIENCE, BUT I
11:59:02 DO THINK THAT THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER POSSIBLE OPTION.
11:59:05 THE INJECTION PART IS ALWAYS CONCERNING ME GREATLY
11:59:08 BECAUSE ONCE YOU START INJECTING THINGS INTO THE AQUIFER,
11:59:13 I THINK IT CREATES A LOT MORE UNKNOWNS.
11:59:15 IF YOU TREAT THAT WATER TREMENDOUSLY LIKE WE CURRENTLY
11:59:18 DO, AND WE WOULD PROBABLY EVEN ADD SOME ADDITIONAL
11:59:21 TREATMENTS, AND THEN PUT IT INTO ANOTHER SURFACE WATER,
11:59:26 LIKE THE CANALS AND/OR ABOVE THE DAM, THEN AT LEAST IF
11:59:31 SOMETHING GOES WRONG, YOU CAN PERHAPS TURN OFF THAT
11:59:34 SPIGOT TEMPORARILY UNTIL YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX
11:59:38 IT.
11:59:39 BUT IF YOU HAVE INJECTED THAT INTO THE GROUND, THEN IT'S
11:59:41 A LOT HARDER TO FIX.
11:59:43 I KNOW THESE DISCUSSIONS AREN'T COMPLETELY IN FRONT OF US
11:59:46 TODAY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO THROW OUT THAT ADDITIONAL
11:59:49 OPTION AS SOMETHING THAT I HOPE WE CONTINUE TO EXPLORE.
11:59:52 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:59:53 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:59:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WAS WAITING FOR ANY KIND OF NOD OR
12:00:01 SMALL OR ANYTHING.
12:00:01 >>CHUCK WEBER: I DIDN'T REALLY COME PREPARED TO DISCUSS
12:00:05 ALL THE OPTIONS IN DETAIL BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
12:00:07 DISCUSSION AND WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A LOT OF DID YOU
12:00:09 HAVE OPTIONS TO DISCUSS.
12:00:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
12:00:12 AND THAT MIGHT BE ONE ADDITIONAL OPTION THAT WE MIGHT
12:00:14 LOOK AT.
12:00:14 >>CHUCK WEBER: I THINK IT COULD BE, YES.
12:00:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
12:00:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE ONE OF THE FEW
12:00:25 WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AT HOWARD CURREN, AM I
12:00:28 CORRECT?
12:00:29 AS FAR AS GOING INTO THE BAY, SINCE 1950 WHEN ALL THE
12:00:32 DISRUPTION OF THE BAY CAME ABOUT THROUGH POLLUTION,
12:00:35 THROUGH INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES AND EVERYBODY ELSE
12:00:40 THROWING ALL OF THESE INTO THE WATER, THROUGH OUR
12:00:42 ADVANCED WATER TREATMENT PLANT AT HOWARD CURREN, WE ARE
12:00:45 NOW -- UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES MUCH MORE STABLE, THE
12:00:50 ENVIRONMENT ON THE WATER THAN IT WAS IN 1950.
12:00:54 EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT OF RESTORATION,
12:00:57 CORRECT?
12:00:58 >> YES.
12:01:00 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEN WE HAVE OTHER CITIES THAT ARE
12:01:02 PUTTING IN, AM I CORRECT?
12:01:03 >> YES.
12:01:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE DO HAVE SOME LEAKS AT TIMES AND
12:01:06 THAT'S UNEXPECTED, HOWEVER DUE TO THE PAPERS PROGRAM THAT
12:01:09 WE PASSED COUNCIL 2.8 OR 2.9 BULLION WE SHOULD CORRECT
12:01:15 THAT 100%, CORRECT?
12:01:17 >> YES.
12:01:19 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET'S TALK ABOUT WATER.
12:01:20 CITY OF TAMPA IS THE ONLY OTHER MEMBER OF TAMPA BAY WATER
12:01:23 THAT CAN SUPPLY WATER THROUGH SOME LARGE AMOUNT.
12:01:25 AM I CORRECT?
12:01:26 >> YES.
12:01:27 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND I HAVE NO SCRIPT ABOUT THIS AND I
12:01:29 HAVEN'T TALKED TO CHUCK WEBER ABOUT ANY OF THIS.
12:01:31 HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CITY OF TAMPA, WE COULD
12:01:35 SAVE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO OTHER CITIES AND
12:01:39 ENTITIES AT TAMPA BAY WATER BUT SOMEHOW WE DON'T GET
12:01:41 ENOUGH VOTES TO SUPPLY MORE THAN 82 MILLION GALLONS DAILY
12:01:47 AVERAGE.
12:01:48 AM I CORRECT?
12:01:49 >> THERE WAS A STUDY THAT INDICATED THAT, YES.
12:01:52 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO THEN WE HAVE THROUGH THIS PARADOX
12:01:54 SOME THINGS, AND THE CONES SUBSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
12:01:58 STATES OF AMERICA WAS SOMEHOW CHANGED MANY TAMES, 14 OR
12:02:04 15 TIMES, OR 12 TIMES, THE 20 TIMES, BUT IT WAS AMENDED.
12:02:08 I AM NOT ASKING YOU TO CORRECT ME BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S
12:02:10 BEEN AMENDED, BUT I AM NOT TELLING YOU TO SAY YEAH,
12:02:13 MIRANDA, YOU ARE RIGHT BECAUSE I MAY BE WRONG.
12:02:15 SO WHAT I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU IS THAT HERE WE SIT IN A
12:02:19 GROWING AREA, THE HIGHEST POPULATION EXPLOSION, IS IN
12:02:22 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY BETWEEN PINELLAS, PASCO AND
12:02:25 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
12:02:26 AM I CORRECT?
12:02:29 >> HILLSBOROUGH AND PASCO ARE GROWING QUICKLY.
12:02:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: PINELLAS HAS HAD THEIR GROWTH.
12:02:38 NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
12:02:39 SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE THINGS AND YOU SAY WHAT ARE WE
12:02:42 DOING, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT WE ARE DOING.
12:02:43 AND I AM GOING TO SAY SOMETHING.
12:02:45 I DON'T CARE WHO IS IN THE AUDIENCE.
12:02:46 I DON'T CARE HOW MANY CRITICIZE ME.
12:02:48 I AM GOING TO SAY IT. IF THAT AGREEMENT CHANGED IN THE
12:02:52 NEXT FIFTY YEARS OR SO THE CITY OF TAMPA WILL NOT HAVE A
12:02:56 WATER DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THE POPULATION COMING IN, AND
12:02:59 YOU CAN'T MEET THAT POPULATION GROWTH EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN
12:03:02 PROVIDE THE WATER, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED BY STATE
12:03:04 REGULATION, AND THOSE OTHERS ENTITIES THAT WANT TO THE
12:03:08 SAY, NO, THIS IS MAIN, MY BABY, I WANT TO HOLD IT.
12:03:11 WELL, YOU DON'T PRODUCE A DAMN THING.
12:03:13 WE DO.
12:03:13 SO WHAT I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU IS JUST BECAUSE OF THAT,
12:03:16 THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS TO BUY WATER TODAY, AND WHEN WE
12:03:20 HAVE -- LET ME GO BACK TO CONSERVATION FOR A MINUTE.
12:03:23 I'LL COME BACK HERE.
12:03:24 THE CITY OF TAMPA WAS ONE OF THE FIRST IN THE STATE TO
12:03:26 HAVE CONTROL, BRING DOWN THE AMOUNT OF WATER YOU ARE
12:03:32 USING EVERY DAY.
12:03:33 WE HAVE RESTRICTIONS.
12:03:34 WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST THAT STARTED WITH INSTRUCT
12:03:37 RESTRICTION RS.
12:03:38 WE DIDN'T WANT TO.
12:03:38 WE GOT CRITICIZE IT BY A LOT BUT WE GAVE OUT A LOT OF
12:03:42 WATERING TICKETS AND WE STILL HAVE THAT ENFORCED TO SOME
12:03:45 DEGREE.
12:03:46 AM I CORRECT?
12:03:48 >>CHUCK WEBER: YES.
12:03:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO WE ARE PLAYING AGAINST OURSELVES
12:03:51 AND OUR OWN MIND BY SAYING EVERYTHING IS ROSY AND
12:03:53 BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS TELLING YOU SOMETHING.
12:03:56 THAT'S NOT CORRECTS.
12:03:57 I'LL TELL YOU THAT RIGHT NOW.
12:03:58 IF THE CITY OF TAMPA DOES NOT HAVE THE PLAN GOING
12:04:00 FORWARD, WHERE THE STATE -- WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT
12:04:07 THAT'S NOT ALLOWED TO SAVE THIS SITUATION, BECAUSE OUR
12:04:10 PLAN CAN ONLY DO 82 MILLION GALLONS A DAY ON AVERAGE BY
12:04:13 STATE LAW.
12:04:14 THAT'S WHAT OUR PERMIT SAYS.
12:04:16 AM I CORRECT?
12:04:18 >> THE PLAN IS CAPABLE OF TREATING MORE.
12:04:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: RIGHT.
12:04:24 BUT THE CITY OF TAMPA, YOU HAVE TO PRODUCE 120 MILLION
12:04:26 GALLONS OF AVERAGE FOR A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE
12:04:29 SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED, BECAUSE IT'S NOT BUILT FOR THAT.
12:04:31 AM I CORRECT?
12:04:33 >>CHUCK WEBER: I'M SORRY, SIR?
12:04:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: COUNTY DO 120 MILLION ON EMERGENCY.
12:04:38 SOMEBODY'S WATER SYSTEM GOES OUT IN ANOTHER AREA AND THIS
12:04:41 THREE-IT COULD AREA, WE CAN PRODUCE MORE WATER IF NEEDED.
12:04:44 AM I CORRECT?
12:04:45 >>CHUCK WEBER: YES.
12:04:47 >> SO WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM BUT
12:04:50 YET WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND MY VOICE
12:04:53 MAY BE RAISED BECAUSE I AM GETTING ANGRY AND I KNOW I AM
12:04:57 CORRECT.
12:04:58 YOU LIKE THAT ONE.
12:04:59 SO WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH
12:05:02 ALL OF US HEAR THAT YOU SOUND LIKE WE ARE WATCHING NBC,
12:05:06 AND THIS IS NOT ABOUT DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS, IT'S
12:05:09 ABOUT SOLVING A PROBLEM, THE SAME PROBLEM THEY HAVE WE
12:05:11 HAVE.
12:05:12 AND I DON'T WANT TO COMPARE MYSELF WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
12:05:15 SO WE ARE HERE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, AND YES, IT IS WE
12:05:18 ARE STICKING NOT MY NECK, NOT YOUR NECK, NOT THE MAYOR'S
12:05:21 NECK, BUT SOMEBODY WANTS TO CUT IT OFF THROUGH THE SYSTEM
12:05:25 THAT WE HAVE IN FORCE THAT YOU CAN'T DO A DAMN THING
12:05:28 ABOUT IT.
12:05:29 THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN.
12:05:30 WHETHER I LIKE IT OR DON'T LIKE IT, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL
12:05:32 ABOUT.
12:05:33 SO INSTEAD OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA
12:05:35 CAN, WE ARE GOING TO BE BUYING WATER, PAYING MORE, AND
12:05:44 HAVING THESE BEAUTIFUL 2.9 BILLION GALLONS OPERATION
12:05:48 UNDERGROUND TO CLEAN THE WATER AND DO WHAT WITH IT?
12:05:54 I REALLY BELIEVE -- AND I SAID IT BEFORE -- YOU CAN HAVE
12:05:59 TWO WATER PLANTS BECAUSE A CATASTROPHE COULD HAPPEN AT
12:06:03 ANY TIME TO THAT PLANT, TO THEIR PLANT, TO IF HOWARD
12:06:06 CURREN PLANT WITH A COUPLE OF TWO OR THREE CHANGES IN IT.
12:06:10 ANYTIME YOU TALK ABOUT WATER, CLEANING WATER IS VERY
12:06:13 COSTLY.
12:06:15 THE DO-GOODERS SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT?
12:06:18 I DON'T WANT THAT WATER.
12:06:20 LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE RIVER.
12:06:22 THERE'S MANURE IN THE RIVER FROM HUMAN WASTE AND FROM
12:06:26 COWS.
12:06:27 THERE'S URINE IN THE WATER FROM HUMAN WASTE AND THE COWS.
12:06:31 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF OIL.
12:06:32 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF FUEL THAT'S BEEN DUMPED SOMEWHERE.
12:06:35 THERE'S ALL KINDS OF CONTAMINANTS.
12:06:37 THERE'S ALL KIND OF EVERYTHING THAT TYPICAL EVERYTHING
12:06:40 THAT GOES IN THAT, YOU HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP.
12:06:42 YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS GOT TO CLEAN IT UP.
12:06:44 AM I CORRECT?
12:06:44 >>CHUCK WEBER: YES, SIR.
12:06:45 BEEN DOING THAT FOR DECADES.
12:06:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND THE WATER QUALITY YOU HAVE AT WHAT
12:06:50 GREAT, RIGHT AT THE TOP?
12:06:52 >>CHUCK WEBER: YES, SIR.
12:06:54 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AT AND NOBODY
12:06:56 WANTS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
12:06:57 I REALLY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE.
12:06:59 I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE CITY OF TAMPA HELPING SOMEBODY
12:07:01 ELSE.
12:07:02 BUT YET WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.
12:07:04 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:07:05 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
12:07:06 ANYONE ELSE?
12:07:08 >>BILL CARLSON: THIS LARGER DISCUSSION IS FOR ANOTHER
12:07:09 DAY, BUT JUST SO THE PUBLIC KNOWS, THERE IS NO SHORTAGE
12:07:13 OF WATER.
12:07:14 THERE IS A REGIONAL PACK THAT'S 20 YEARS OLD CALLED TAMPA
12:07:18 BAY WATER THAT SIX GOVERNMENTS IN THE REGION COLLABORATE
12:07:21 WITH AND THEY HAVE A 30 YEAR PLAN FOR WATER AND A TEN
12:07:23 YEAR SUPPLY THAT THEY UPDATE EVERY YEAR.
12:07:25 THIS PARTICULAR PLAN HAS NEVER BEEN CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE
12:07:28 SUPPLIES OF THE REGION BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE SAFEST
12:07:31 CHEAPEST ALTERNATIVE BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF WATER SOURCES,
12:07:34 MOST OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, BUT
12:07:36 THERE ARE LOTS OF WATER SOURCES.
12:07:38 21 YEARS AGO ST. PETE AND THE OTHER PARTNERS PUT THEIR
12:07:40 WATER SUPPLY INTO THE REGIONAL COLLABORATIVE, THE IDEA
12:07:44 BEING THAT WE WOULD WORK REGIONALLY.
12:07:46 AND THE ONLY -- SO IF TAMPA WATER WANTS WATER, THERE IS A
12:07:50 30 YEAR PLAN.
12:07:51 WE CAN JUST HAPPEN TO IT -- TAP INTO IT LIKE WE ARE NOW.
12:07:54 THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS.
12:07:56 ONE, SHOULD WE BE PART OF THE REGIONAL COLLABORATIVE?
12:07:59 THERE WAS A PHILOSOPHY OVER THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE PART OF
12:08:02 THE REGIONAL COLLABORATIVE WHICH I THINK IS A MISTAKE FOR
12:08:05 MANY REASONS.
12:08:06 THE SECOND REASON IS WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS WATER AND IF
12:08:08 THE STATE FORCES US TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT, WE CAN PUT
12:08:12 IT INTO PIPES, WE CAN PROCESS IT AND USE IT IN SOME WAY.
12:08:16 BUT I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY PROJECTION THAT SAYS IN THE
12:08:19 NEXT TEN OR TWENTY YEARS THAT WE ARE GOING TO NEED 60
12:08:23 MILLION MORE GALLONS A DAY OF WATER.
12:08:25 WHEN YOU CONVERT THAT TO POTABLE WHAT YOU IT'S GOING TO
12:08:28 BE 30 MILLIONS A DAY PLUS OR MINUS AND WE DON'T NEED 30
12:08:33 MILLION A DAY IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS EITHER.
12:08:36 SO IF IT'S NOT PURPLE PIPES, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SELL
12:08:39 ITSELF TO SOMEBODY IN SOME WAY.
12:08:40 SO THERE ARE VERY COMPLICATED ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO GO
12:08:43 THROUGH TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW BEST TO MAINTAIN A
12:08:47 REGIONAL PACK THAT'S WORKED THAT'S MADE OUR REGION
12:08:51 COHESIVE AND ECONOMICALLY VIOLENT WHILE HAVING SATISFYING
12:08:55 THE NEEDS OF TAMPA COMMERCE, AND THEN FOLLOWING WHATEVER
12:08:57 WE NEED TO DO WITH THIS REUSED WATER.
12:09:00 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
12:09:01 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S COMMENTS,
12:09:05 EVERYBODY'S CONVERSATION ON THIS.
12:09:06 AND CITY OF TAMPA THAT I KNOW OF HAS NEVER SAID DIDN'T
12:09:10 WANT TO BE TAMPA BAY WATER.
12:09:12 ON THE RECORD OR OFF THE RECORD.
12:09:14 MAYOR IORIO DIDN'T TELL ME THAT.
12:09:15 MAYOR BUCKHORN HASN'T TOLD ME THAT H.MAYOR CASTOR HAS
12:09:20 NEVER TOLD ME THAT.
12:09:21 THAT'S THE ONLY THREE MAYORS THAT HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE
12:09:23 IT STARTED.
12:09:23 NONE OF THEM HAVE EVER GIVEN ME ANY INDICATION AT ALL
12:09:26 THAT TAMPA DID NOT WANT TO BE A REGIONAL CORPORATION IN
12:09:29 THE CITY.
12:09:30 WITH TAMPA BAY WATER.
12:09:32 OR WITH ANYONE ELSE.
12:09:35 WHAT I SEE AND WHAT MY SENSES TELL ME IS THAT THE CITY OF
12:09:38 TAMPA IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM
12:09:42 REGIONALWISE, SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BEING
12:09:45 ADDITIONAL PLANTS BEING BUILT, MORE DESAL AND MORE OTHER
12:09:49 THINGS, WHICH IS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FLYING UM
12:09:51 TALKING ABOUT.
12:09:52 ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO ME TO IT, I DON'T GAMBLE AND I'LL
12:09:55 BET ON IT.
12:09:57 THAT'S HOW MUCH I KNOW OR HOW LITTLE I KNOW.
12:09:59 I WOULD BE A FOOL TO BET MONEY IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S
12:10:02 GOING ON.
12:10:02 I'M WILLING TO TAKE ON ANY WAGER FROM ANYBODY ON THAT IN
12:10:06 ANY AMOUNT.
12:10:07 CITY OF TAMPA CAN PRODUCE WATER CHEAPER THAN DESAL.
12:10:13 CHEAPER AND BETTER FOR THE UNIT OF THIS WHOLE AREA.
12:10:18 HOWEVER, SOME, QUOTE-UNQUOTE, I DON'T WANT TO DRINK THAT
12:10:23 WATER.
12:10:23 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
12:10:24 HAVE YOU BEEN TO ATLANTA?
12:10:25 HAVE YOU BEEN TO WASHINGTON, D.C.?
12:10:26 HAVE YOU BEEN TO CALIFORNIA?
12:10:27 HAVE YOU BEEN TO AUSTRALIA?
12:10:28 HAVE YOU BEEN IN NEW ZEALAND, IN ISRAEL?
12:10:32 YOU DRANK THAT WATER.
12:10:33 AND NONE OF YOU ARE DEAD.
12:10:37 NOT ONE LIVING MICROBE COMES OUT OF THAT WATER.
12:10:42 NOT ONE LIVING MICROBE COMES OUT OF WATER THAT COMES FROM
12:10:46 RECLAIMED WATER.
12:10:48 I DIDN'T SAY THAT.
12:10:49 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SAID THAT.
12:10:54 AND I AM GOING TO BRING THEM BACK IF I CAN AND I BROUGHT
12:10:57 THEM BACK ONCE ALREADY.
12:10:59 FIRST TIME, I PAID FOR THE AIRFARE OUT OF POCKET MYSELF.
12:11:04 SOMEBODY PAID FOR THE HOTEL.
12:11:05 SOMEBODY PAID FOR THE FOOD.
12:11:06 I'M WILLING TO DO IT AGAIN.
12:11:07 AND LET'S TALK ABOUT IT THE RIGHT WAY.
12:11:09 I'M NOT AFRAID OF SCIENTISTS.
12:11:10 I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
12:11:13 IT'S ALL GOOD FOR THE WELL-BEING OF ALL OF US.
12:11:16 YOU WELCOME THE DISCUSSION WITH ALL OF IT ABOUT WHAT'S
12:11:18 COMING.
12:11:19 IF THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT GO INTO ANY TYPE -- AND I'M NOT
12:11:25 TALKING ABOUT TAMPA, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FLORIDA, THE
12:11:27 WHOLE COUNTRY DOESN'T SEE WHAT'S COMING, YOU ARE GOING TO
12:11:32 SEE DISASTER UNTIL YOU DON'T ANY WATER.
12:11:36 YET THIS COUNCIL VOTED NOT TO PASS THE CITY OF TAMPA'S 20
12:11:40 YEAR PLAN, OR WHATEVER IT WAS, WHICH IS FEIGN WITH ME.
12:11:43 I CAN ONLY VOTE FOR ONE.
12:11:44 AND SOMETIMES I'M NOT RIGHT.
12:11:46 SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS, I UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING.
12:11:50 I DON'T HAVE THE EXPERIENCE THAT YOU HAVE OR BRAD BAIRD
12:11:54 OR ANY OTHER DIRECTOR.
12:11:55 IN FACT, I WILL SAY IT AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN.
12:11:58 NO ELECTED OFFICIAL WHO SITS ON THE BOARD OF TAMPA BAY
12:12:02 WATER.
12:12:03 THE ONES THAT SIT THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS, WATER DIRECTORS
12:12:06 FROM ALL THE AREAS, BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND IT MUCH MORE
12:12:09 THAN WE DO.
12:12:10 JUST LIKE I'M NOT AN ENGINEER, I UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING
12:12:14 ON TO SOME DEGREE, BUT MUCH MORE THAN ME IS THOSE
12:12:18 INDIVIDUALS THAT WORK ON IT EVERY DAY FOR THEIR CITY OR
12:12:20 THEIR COUNTY.
12:12:21 THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD BE THERE, NOT I, AND NOT
12:12:24 THE OTHER EIGHT MEMBERS.
12:12:26 THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL FEELING.
12:12:27 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:12:28 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:12:29 NO ONE ELSE? OKAY.
12:12:30 THANK YOU, SIR.
12:12:30 WE MOVE ONWARD TO ITEM NUMBER 97 AND THEN WE HAVE
12:12:34 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:12:35 LET'S TRY TO REALLY, REALLY KEEP THESE AT FIVE MINUTES
12:12:38 BECAUSE WE HAVE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE BY 12:30 WITH THE
12:12:41 CONSENT AGENDA DONE.
12:12:42 GO AHEAD, SIR.
12:12:43 >>CHUCK WEBER: WATER DEPARTMENT.
12:12:45 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE.
12:12:46 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THAT'S COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
12:12:51 97.
12:12:52 TAKE YOUR TIME.
12:12:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: 97, I WOULD LIKE TO DEFER THAT FOR 90
12:13:01 DAYS UNTIL MAY 21st.
12:13:04 >> SECOND.
12:13:05 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:13:11 ALL RIGHT.
12:13:12 AND 98.
12:13:13 YOUR FENCE ISSUE.
12:13:14 >>VIK BHIDE: TRANSPORTATION STORMWATER.
12:13:18 I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE CONCERN AND THE ISSUE AROUND
12:13:23 BROADWAY BAR IMPACT AND THE CONCERN WAS RELATED TO
12:13:32 FENCING THAT WE HAVE WITH SCREENS ON IT.
12:13:34 THESE ARE SIX FOOT FENCES THAT WERE PLACED IN FRONT OF
12:13:37 THE BUSINESS.
12:13:40 THIS IS STANDARD PRACTICE.
12:13:41 WE USE THIS TYPE OF FENCING ON ALL TYPES OF PARADE
12:13:46 ROUTES.
12:13:47 AND THE REASON FOR THAT FENCING IS REALLY TO ESTABLISH A
12:13:51 BOUNDARY TO INDICATE THE END OF THE PARADE ROUTE SO THAT
12:13:58 FLOATS CANNOT CONTINUE TO GO EAST AND THEY GET A VERY
12:14:01 CLEAR VISUAL VIEW AS TO THE END OF THE PARADE OF THE
12:14:06 HAVING SAID THAT WE DO ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND THE
12:14:08 CONCERN ABOUT POTENTIAL VISIBILITY TO THE BUSINESS,
12:14:15 ACCESS TO THE BUSINESS.
12:14:17 AT NO POINT WAS IMPACTED BECAUSE OF THE FENCING.
12:14:22 AND WE WILL BE MORE MINDFUL IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATIONS
12:14:25 WITH NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES.
12:14:27 WE'LL WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS AT SPECIAL EVENTS, AND
12:14:31 POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND CONSIDER BETTER OPTIONS.
12:14:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT GOT ALL MY CONCERNS.
12:14:41 BASICALLY, GENTLEMEN, YOU DON'T KNOW IF THE BOARD HAS
12:14:44 RECEIVED ANY CALLS BUT I RECEIVED SEVERAL CALLS FROM MY
12:14:48 CONSTITUENTS IN THE DISTRICT AS IT RELATES TO THE PARADE.
12:14:52 WHERE THE PARADE ROUTE STARTS AND ENDS, WHERE THE SMALLER
12:14:59 FENCING FOR THE CITIZENS ON THE EASTERN PORTION OF 22ND
12:15:05 STREET TOWARDS YBOR, 7th AVENUE, AND THEN THE
12:15:11 HIGH-RISE FENCE.
12:15:14 AND THE CONCERN, PEOPLE THOUGHT THOSE BUSINESSES THAT ARE
12:15:18 CONSIDERED ON THE EASTERN SIDE, THAT PEOPLE FEEL THAT IT
12:15:21 IS A BLIGHTED AREA, SO LET'S COVER THAT AREA UP.
12:15:27 THAT'S ONE OF THE CONCERNS I HEARD FROM PEOPLE.
12:15:30 WHERE THE PARADE ENDS, PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THE PARADE ENDS
12:15:32 BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO TO 22ND STREET STOPLIGHT AND 7th
12:15:36 AVENUE, A FEW STEPS DOWN, I GUESS PEOPLE FEEL, WELL, IF
12:15:42 THE PARADE ENDS RIGHT THERE THAT THE PEOPLE ON THE
12:15:45 EASTERN PORTION DON'T BENEFIT FROM THE PARADE.
12:15:48 THE PARADE IS ONLY FOR THE WESTERN PORTION FROM 22ND
12:15:51 STREET TO 7th AVENUE BACK.
12:15:53 SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A CITY SPONSORED EVENT, IF IT
12:15:57 IS A PARADE SPONSORED EVENT FOR A GROUP, BUT THE CONCERNS
12:16:01 ARE PEOPLE FELT THAT IT WAS SOME KIND OF SLIGHT BECAUSE
12:16:05 THEY FEEL BECAUSE OF THE EASTERN PORTION OF 7th
12:16:09 AVENUE, ISN'T THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
12:16:14 AND THEN WE HAVE THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE THERE, THE
12:16:15 BROADWAY BAR AS YOU MENTIONED.
12:16:18 SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE LET THE CITIZENS KNOW WHO IS
12:16:22 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FENCES.
12:16:25 IS IT THE CITY, IS IT SOME OTHER GROUP?
12:16:30 AND WHY WAS IT DONE?
12:16:31 AND MAKING SURE THAT WE MAKE SOME COLLECTIONS IN THE
12:16:34 FUTURE SO THE PEOPLE ON THE EASTERN PORTION OF 7th
12:16:36 AVENUE DON'T FEEL THAT THEY ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED
12:16:40 AGAINST BECAUSE THEY FEEL THAT'S THE BLIGHTED AREA.
12:16:42 SO IF THE PARADE IS TO START AND END AND THERE IS NO MORE
12:16:47 PATRONS OR PARADE VISITORS AT THE CORNERS OF 22ND STREET
12:16:52 AND 7th AVENUE THEN MAYBE THE PARADE NEEDS TO END
12:16:55 RATED THERE WITH NO FOLKS RIGHT THERE, IT JUST ENDS AT
12:16:58 22ND STREET WEST VERSUS GOING A LITTLE FURTHER, MAYBE A
12:17:03 HALF OF A BLOCK ON THE CORNER RIGHT THERE.
12:17:05 AND I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONCERNS, AND I THINK
12:17:08 WHEN YOU GO THE PARADE ROUTE, WE HAVE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY
12:17:11 OF PEOPLE.
12:17:11 BUT WHEN YOU GET TO 22ND STREET AND 7th AVENUE, THEY
12:17:15 ARE MOST AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE AT THAT POINT.
12:17:18 I AM GOING TO MUTT IT OUT THERE.
12:17:19 AND THOSE ARE THE CALLS THAT I GOT, THAT THE PARADE STOPS
12:17:23 RIGHT THERE AT THE CORNER, AND ALL OF THE VISITORS GOING
12:17:27 DOWN 7th AVENUE.
12:17:28 SO I THINK THAT'S A CONCERN THAT THE TASK FORCE AND
12:17:32 WHOEVER MONITORS THE PARADE NEEDS TO LOOK AT, THE YCDD,
12:17:36 AND OTHERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLKS IN THOSE
12:17:38 COMMUNITIES DOWN THERE KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING
12:17:40 DISCRIMINATED AGAIN, IT'S A FENCE FOR SAFETY OR EXPANDING
12:17:43 THE AREA, BUT AT LEAST BE CLEAR WHAT'S GOING ON SO THAT
12:17:47 PEOPLE DON'T FEEL THAT IT'S BECAUSE THAT AREA DOESN'T
12:17:49 LOOK AS WELL AS THE WESTERN PORTION OF 7th AVENUE AND
12:17:52 22ND STREET.
12:17:53 >>VIK BHIDE: UNDERSTOOD.
12:17:56 AND WE'LL CONVEY THESE CONCERNS TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS
12:17:59 INVOLVED.
12:17:59 IT IS A TEAM EFFORT.
12:18:01 AND WE'LL CERTAINLY TAKE IT INTO CONSIDERATION.
12:18:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WOULD LIKE A REPORT FOR THE FUTURE
12:18:09 PARADE COMING UP.
12:18:10 I KNOW IT DOESN'T COME -- IT TURNS AT 19th STREET AND
12:18:14 GOES TO PALM. BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A KNIGHT PARADE
12:18:17 GOING DOWN THAT WAY, THEN MAKE SURE WE LOOK AT A PLAN SO
12:18:20 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND KNOW AHEAD TIME WHERE RITZ GOING TO
12:18:22 STOP AT VERSUS LET IT STOP RIGHT THERE AT 22ND AVENUE,
12:18:27 AND THE LITTLE CURVE RIGHT THERE AND JUST MOVE DOWN.
12:18:30 [BELL SOUNDS]
12:18:32 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU SUR.
12:18:32 NO ONE ELSE?
12:18:34 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:18:34 WE APPRECIATE IT.
12:18:35 LET'S ROLL THROUGH REALLY FAST AND WE WILL PULL ONE ITEM
12:18:39 THAT COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.
12:18:41 LET'S JUST ROLL THROUGH THE CONSENT AGENDA REAL FAST.
12:18:48 COUNCILMAN CITRO, PUBLIC SAFETY.
12:18:50 OH, AND 28 FOR DINGFELDER.
12:18:51 SO WE'LL EXCLUDE THAT.
12:18:53 GO AHEAD.
12:18:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I MOVE ITEMS NUMBER 8 THROUGH 14.
12:18:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
12:18:59 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
12:19:01 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA. ALL IN FAVOR?
12:19:05 ANY OPPOSED?
12:19:06 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:19:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE] ITEM NUMBER 15 THROUGH
12:19:11 26.
12:19:11 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:19:14 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:19:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:19:16 ANY OPPOSED?
12:19:17 COUNCILMAN CARLSON FOR COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER EXCLUDING
12:19:21 ITEM NUMBER 28.
12:19:26 >>BILL CARLSON: LIKE TO MOVE ITEMS NUMBER 27 THROUGH 4000
12:19:31 US 28.
12:19:33 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
12:19:33 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
12:19:35 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:19:37 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:19:38 ANY OPPOSED?
12:19:42 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE ITEMS 41 THROUGH 43.
12:19:45 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:19:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: BIG CONTRACTS.
12:19:49 VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT.
12:19:50 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
12:19:53 NUMBER 43 WHICH IS THE TAMPA FIRE CONTRACT.
12:19:56 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:19:58 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:19:59 ANY OPPOSED?
12:20:00 OKAY.
12:20:02 43 IS PASSED.
12:20:03 [ APPLAUSE ]
12:20:07 A LOT OF HAPPY INDIVIDUALS.
12:20:08 COUNCILMAN CARLSON, BUILDING ZONING PRESERVATION.
12:20:12 >>BILL CARLSON: MOVE 44 THROUGH 61 AND SUBSTITUTE FOR 54.
12:20:18 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
12:20:19 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:20:21 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:20:22 ANY OPPOSED?
12:20:23 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:20:24 TRANSPORTATION.
12:20:25 >> 62 THROUGH 65.
12:20:28 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:20:29 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:20:30 ANY OPPOSED?
12:20:31 OKAY.
12:20:32 AND NOW WE GO TO ITEM NUMBER 70.
12:20:39 >>MARTIN SHELBY: WITH REGARD TO THE STAFF REPORTS, THERE
12:20:40 ARE SOME ITEMS THAT STAFF WAS PRESENT THAT REQUIRE
12:20:43 RESOLUTIONS BEING MOVED.
12:20:45 >>LUIS VIERA: DO YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THOSE?
12:20:47 LET'S DO THEM.
12:20:47 >>MARTIN SHELBY: I BELIEVE ITEMS NUMBER 83.
12:20:51 >>LUIS VIERA: WHO IS GOING TO MOVE 83?
12:20:56 MANISCALCO, SECONDED BY GUDES.
12:20:59 WHO IS GOING TO MOVE 84 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:21:02 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:21:04 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:21:05 ANY OPPOSED?
12:21:06 >>MARTIN SHELBY: LASTLY NUMBER 98.
12:21:08 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS GUY HAS THE SAME NAME AS YOU.
12:21:14 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
12:21:16 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:21:17 ANY OPPOSED?
12:21:18 OKAY.
12:21:19 THEN FOR ITEM NUMBER 292 JUST A NOTE.
12:21:22 I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO TAN A LOOK AT THAT REPORT
12:21:24 FOR THE NEW TAMPA AUTISM PARK BY MOVING IT TO A DIFFERENT
12:21:27 LOCATION AWAY FROM TAMPA PALMS.
12:21:32 WE HAVE SAVED APPROXIMATELY 65, 70% OF THE COST FOR THAT
12:21:36 PARK SO IT'S A REALLY GREAT ENDEAVOR AND I THANK PARKS
12:21:39 AND REC FOR WORKING WITH ME.
12:21:40 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR THREE YEARS EVER SINCE
12:21:42 WE GOT FUNDING IN 2017 FOR DESIGN.
12:21:46 SO HOPEFULLY IT COMES THROUGH AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE
12:21:51 ON 98.
12:21:53 I APPRECIATE IT.
12:21:53 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU ARE A NICE GUY.
12:21:55 >>LUIS VIERA: I TRY.
12:21:56 AND COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, WE PULLED ITEM 28 FOR YOU SIR.
12:22:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WILL LET IT RIDE.
12:22:02 I WILL MACH A MOTION AT THE END.
12:22:04 >>LUIS VIERA: ARE YOU OKAY WITH US VOTING ON IT?
12:22:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:22:10 DID YOU GUYS DO ALL THE REST?
12:22:13 >>LUIS VIERA: EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE.
12:22:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOVE 28.
12:22:17 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:22:18 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:22:19 NOW WE MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 7.
12:22:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M FINE.
12:22:28 I'LL MOVE THE ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING.
12:22:30 YOU DON'T NEED TO ME TO READ IT?
12:22:32 MOVE AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA RELATING
12:22:34 TO BILLBOARDS CITY TAMPA OF -- ORDINANCES CHAPTER 27
12:22:41 ZONING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT AMENDING SECTION 27-2989.15
12:22:45 BULL BOARD SIGNS REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF
12:22:48 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH PROVIDING FOR
12:22:51 SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
12:22:52 AND I WANT TO RESPOND TO THE CONCERN STATED BY NOT ONLY
12:22:55 THE WESTSHORE FOLKS BUT ALSO THE GENTLEMAN FROM BON AIR
12:22:59 THAT I HAVE ASKED THE TWO BILLBOARD COMPANIES TO MEET
12:23:02 WITH BOTH OF THOSE GROUPS TO POSSIBLY ADDRESS THAT
12:23:05 SECTION OF DALE MABRY THAT WAS OF CONCERN.
12:23:09 I ASKED LEGAL.
12:23:10 THEY SAID THAT IF WE NEED TO TWEAK THIS FURTHER WE CAN DO
12:23:14 THAT BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING OVER THE NEXT TWO
12:23:19 WEEKS.
12:23:19 SO THERE'S STILL A POSSIBILITY TO TWEAK THAT AND SHRINK
12:23:24 THAT DISTRICT DOWN.
12:23:27 YES, CATE?
12:23:30 >>CATE WELLS: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
12:23:31 IN THE EVENT THAT THE ORDINANCE IS REVISED BETWEEN FIRST
12:23:35 AND SECOND READING, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE AREAS
12:23:38 TO WHICH BILLBOARDS COULD BE RELOCATED TO WOULD BE
12:23:41 SMALLER NOT GREATER.
12:23:43 SO BECAUSE THAT IS NOT CONSIDERED A SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE TO
12:23:46 YOUR ORDINANCE IT WOULD NOT BE FLARE TO RENOTICE IT WHICH
12:23:48 IS WHY WE CAN MAKE THOSE AMENDMENTS BETWEEN FIRST AND
12:23:51 SECOND READING.
12:23:52 >> SECOND.
12:23:54 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY DISCUSSION?
12:23:54 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
12:23:56 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO. ALL IN FAVOR?
12:23:59 ANY OPPOSED?
12:23:59 >>THE CLERK: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON
12:24:03 MARCH 19th, 2020 AT 9:30 A.M.
12:24:08 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
12:24:10 LET'S ROLL THROUGH, JUST SETTING THIS REALLY FAST, FOR 66
12:24:14 MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO SET A DATE?
12:24:17 AND IT'S SPECIFIED HERE ON --
12:24:20 >>> MARCH 5th AT 9:30 A.M.
12:24:22 >>CHAIRMAN: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:24:24 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:24:26 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:24:27 ANY OPPOSED?
12:24:28 YES, SIR, GO AHEAD.
12:24:29 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [OFF MICROPHONE] AT 10:30 A.M.
12:24:37 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY MIRANDA, SECONDED BY GUDES. WE
12:24:41 HAVE A MOTION AND THEN BREAK VERY BRIEFLY.
12:24:43 WHAT TIME DO YOU WANT TO COME BACK AT?
12:24:47 1:45?
12:24:48 >> MAKE IT 2:00.
12:24:50 >>LUIS VIERA: WE NEED AN HOUR AND A HALF?
12:24:52 DOES EVERYBODY NEED -- OKAY.
12:24:59 IS 2:00 OKAY WITH THE BOARD?
12:25:03 OKAY.
12:25:04 WE SHALL COME BACK AT 2:00.
12:25:06 (MEETING IN RECESS.)
12:25:12 (TAMPA CITY COUNCIL RECONVENES.)
14:02:43 (ROLL CALL)
14:02:47 >>LUIS VIERA: CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC
14:02:48 HEARING?
14:02:50 OKAY.
14:02:50 WE GO FORWARD NOW TO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS TO NUMBER 68.
14:03:03 >>JUSTIN VASKE: LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
14:03:03 HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
14:03:05 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:03:06 OKAY.
14:03:06 THANK YOU, SIR.
14:03:07 WE APPRECIATE IT.
14:03:08 IS ANYBODY HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
14:03:11 68?
14:03:11 IF SO PLEASE COME FORWARD.
14:03:12 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
14:03:14 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:03:17 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:03:21 COUNCILMAN GUDES, WOULD YOU MIND READING NUMBER 68?
14:03:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FILE E-2020-8 CH 2, ORDINANCE BEING
14:03:34 PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE
14:03:39 OF THE CITY OF TAMPA FLORIDA AMEND CITY OF TAMPA CODE
14:03:43 CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATIVE CHARLES V, DIVISION III,
14:03:47 PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS SECTION 2-280 SAID AMENDMENT
14:03:51 BEING NECESSARY TO INCREASE THE THRESHOLD AMOUNT FOR
14:03:54 WHICH WORK ORDERS ARE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL AND
14:03:58 PROVIDING FOR SAID WORK ORDER OR FOR PROFESSIONAL
14:04:03 SERVICES AS DEFINED IN SECTION 287.055 FLORIDA STATUTES
14:04:11 PROVIDING FOR ORDINANCES IN CONFLICTS PROVIDING AN
14:04:13 EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:04:13 >> ROLL CALL.
14:04:15 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER ABSENT AT
14:04:23 VOTE.
14:04:24 >>LUIS VIERA: WE GO ONWARD TO ITEM NUMBER 69.
14:04:27 >> ITEM NUMBER 69 IS A PLAN AMENDMENT, AND CAME BACK
14:04:39 BEFORE YOU ON JANUARY 30th.
14:04:41 I AM AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
14:04:43 >>LUIS VIERA: I'M SORRY, IF YOU DON'T MIND, YOUR NAME.
14:04:48 >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION.
14:04:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
14:04:50 IS ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER
14:04:53 69?
14:04:53 IF SO, PLEASE COME FORWARD.
14:04:55 THE MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:04:58 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:05:00 ANY OPPOSED?
14:05:02 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
14:05:04 FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
14:05:07 THE IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE
14:05:10 ELEMENT FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY
14:05:13 LOCATED AT 3702 WEST CORONA STREET AND OTHERWISE KNOWN AS
14:05:18 CORONA PARK FROM COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 AND RESIDENTIAL
14:05:23 10 TO RECREATIONAL SPACE PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
14:05:27 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY
14:05:29 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:05:31 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:05:33 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:05:35 ROLL CALL.
14:05:46 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER ABSENT AT
14:05:50 VOTE.
14:05:50 >>LUIS VIERA: ITEM NUMBER 70.
14:05:54 >>JENNIFER MALONE: ITEM NUMBER 70 IS ANOTHER PLAN
14:05:57 AMENDMENT THAT WAS ALSO TRANSMITTED TO THE STATE.
14:05:59 IT CAME BACK BEFORE YOU ON JANUARY 30th.
14:06:01 I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
14:06:03 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:06:04 ANYBODY HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER
14:06:06 70?
14:06:09 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:06:11 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:06:14 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:06:15 OPPOSED?
14:06:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND
14:06:19 READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE IMAGINE
14:06:25 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE LEGALITY,
14:06:29 FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED AT
14:06:35 4007 WEST PALMETTO STREET AND OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LINCOLN
14:06:38 GARDENS PARK FROM RESIDENTIAL 10 TO RECREATION OPEN SPACE
14:06:44 PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
14:06:46 PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:06:47 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:06:51 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:06:53 PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
14:06:56 OH, I'M SORRY.
14:06:56 >> ITEM 71 WAS READ RATHER THAN 70.
14:07:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MY APOLOGIES.
14:07:05 MY BAD.
14:07:06 I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU WERE ALERT.
14:07:08 I AM NOW.
14:07:09 >> YOU PASSED THE TEST.
14:07:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IF I MAY, AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
14:07:17 FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
14:07:19 THE IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND
14:07:23 USE ELEMENT, FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY
14:07:26 GENERALLY LOCATED AT 4505 EAST 21ST AVENUE AND OTHERWISE
14:07:31 KNOWN AS HIGHLAND PINES PARK FROM LIGHT INDUSTRIAL LI TO
14:07:36 RECREATION OPEN SPACE ROS PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
14:07:40 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY,
14:07:43 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:07:43 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:07:47 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:07:48 ROLL CALL VOTE.
14:07:56 >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
14:08:00 ABSENT AT VOTE.
14:08:04 >>LUIS VIERA: 72 PLEASE.
14:08:06 I'M SORRY.
14:08:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SORRY, I THREW YOU OFF.
14:08:12 >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION.
14:08:15 ITEM 71 IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE PARKS AMENDMENT TRANSMITTED
14:08:18 TO THE STATE, BEFORE YOU ON JANUARY 30.
14:08:21 I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
14:08:22 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON
14:08:24 ITEM NUMBER 71?
14:08:26 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:08:28 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:08:29 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:08:30 ANY OPPOSED?
14:08:32 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:08:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
14:08:39 SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
14:08:43 IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE
14:08:47 ELEMENT, FUTURE LAND USE MAP, FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY
14:08:49 LOCATED AT 4007 WEST PALMETTO STREET AND OTHERWISE KNOWN
14:08:54 AS LINCOLN GARDENS PARK FROM RESIDENTIAL 10 R-10 TO
14:08:58 RECREATIONAL OPEN SPACE ROS PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
14:09:05 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY,
14:09:07 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:09:07 >> SECOND.
14:09:09 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:09:11 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
14:09:14 ROLL CALL.
14:09:19 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
14:09:25 AT VOTE.
14:09:26 >>LUIS VIERA: 72 PLEASE.
14:09:27 >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION. ONCE AGAIN THIS
14:09:31 WAS TRANSMITTED TO THE STATE, CAME BACK JANUARY 30th.
14:09:34 I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
14:09:36 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:09:37 OKAY.
14:09:37 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO SPEAK ON 72?
14:09:41 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:09:43 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:09:44 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:09:45 ANY OPPOSED?
14:09:47 COUNCILMAN CARLSON, WOULD YOU READ ITEM 272?
14:09:52 >>BILL CARLSON: SHOULD I READ 73?
14:09:53 JUST KIDDING.
14:09:54 FILE NUMBER PA 19-07-D.
14:09:58 ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND
14:10:00 ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA
14:10:02 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, FUTURE LAND
14:10:06 USE MAP, FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED AT 5215 EAST
14:10:11 15th AVENUE AND OTHERWISE KNOWN AS OAK PARK FROM
14:10:14 RESIDENTIAL 20 R-20 TO RECREATION OPEN SPACE ROS
14:10:19 PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT,
14:10:23 PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:10:24 >> SECOND.
14:10:26 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
14:10:29 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:10:31 ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
14:10:38 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
14:10:41 AT VOTE.
14:10:42 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAME.
14:10:43 73, PLEASE.
14:10:43 >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION. ITEM NUMBER 73
14:10:47 WAS A PLAN AMENDMENT, PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE
14:10:53 PROPERTY OWNED BY USF, ALSO TRANSMITTED TO THE STATE,
14:10:56 CAME BACK ON JANUARY 30th, AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY
14:10:58 QUESTIONS.
14:10:59 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS ON 73
14:11:01 IS NONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM 73?
14:11:06 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:11:08 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:11:09 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:11:10 ANY OPPOSED?
14:11:12 COUNCILMAN GUDES, WOULD YOU READ 73?
14:11:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FILE PA 19-08, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
14:11:19 FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
14:11:21 THE IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND
14:11:25 USE ELEMENT, FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED
14:11:28 AT 3802 SPECTRUM BOULEVARD FROM SUBURBAN MIXED USE 6
14:11:33 SMU-6 TO PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC BSP PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF
14:11:38 ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY,
14:11:40 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:11:40 >> SECOND.
14:11:42 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:11:46 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:11:48 ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
14:11:51 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
14:11:57 AT VOTE.
14:11:58 >>LUIS VIERA: 74 PLEASE.
14:12:04 >>JENNIFER MALONE: A SMALL SCALE MAP AMENDMENT SO IT WAS
14:12:08 NOT TRANSMITTED TO THE STATE BUT YOU DID STILL HEAR IT ON
14:12:11 JANUARY 30.
14:12:12 I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
14:12:14 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS ON 74? ANYONE FROM THE
14:12:16 PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM 74?
14:12:18 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:12:20 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:12:21 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:12:22 OPPOSED?
14:12:23 IF YOU DON'T MIND, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:12:25 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND
14:12:27 READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE IMAGINE
14:12:30 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT
14:12:35 FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED AT
14:12:39 1806 EAST 3rd AVENUE FROM GENERAL MIXED USE 24 TO
14:12:43 URBAN MIXED USE 60 PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES
14:12:47 IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY PROVIDING AN
14:12:49 EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:12:50 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCIL COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO
14:12:54 MIRANDA.
14:12:55 ROLL CALL PLEASE.
14:12:56 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
14:13:02 AT VOTE.
14:13:03 >>LUIS VIERA: AND YES, SIR.
14:13:07 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM A TRUSTEE OF PROPERTY ADJACENT
14:13:13 TO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY SO I WILL BE ABSTAINING FROM THE
14:13:15 VOTE.
14:13:15 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
14:13:18 THANK YOU VERY MUCH COUNCILMAN.
14:13:19 AND I WANTED TO ALSO GIVE A SHOUTOUT.
14:13:22 I BELIEVE THESE WERE THE PARKS PROTECTIONS THAT THE PRIOR
14:13:28 COUNCIL PASSED AND I WANT TO ABSOLUTE IN PARTICULAR
14:13:31 COUNCILMAN MIKE SUAREZ WHO IS A FRIEND OF MINE WHO
14:13:34 BROUGHT THIS FORWARD.
14:13:35 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO MY DISTRICT
14:13:37 INCLUDING BABE ZAHARIAS AND OTHER PARKS IN THE CITY OF
14:13:43 TAMPA SO JUST A SHOUTOUT TO COUNCILMAN SUAREZ AND OUR
14:13:47 PRAYER COUNCIL.
14:13:48 NOW WE ARE GOING FORWARD WITH QUASI-JUDICIAL PUBLIC
14:13:51 HEARINGS.
14:13:51 IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON SPEAKING IF YOU DON'T MIND, PLEASE
14:13:54 STANDING UP IF YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO AND PREPARE TO BE
14:13:57 SWORN IN.
14:13:57 (OATH ADMINISTERED BY CLERK)
14:14:00 OKAY.
14:14:08 ITEM 75.
14:14:17 >>CATE WELLS: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
14:14:18 ITEM 75 IS A CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING FROM FEBRUARY 6,
14:14:21 2020. THIS WAS ORIGINALLY HEARD BY COUNCIL ON JANUARY
14:14:23 6th WHEN IT WAS APPROVED ON FIRST READING.
14:14:29 SUBSEQUENT TO THE 15th OF JANUARY THE NOTICE OF
14:14:34 REQUIREMENT HAD BEEN UPLOADED INTO ACCELA BUT NOT FILED
14:14:37 WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE SO IT IS OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT
14:14:40 TODAY'S HEARING REVERT BACK TO THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING.
14:14:43 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
14:14:51 ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR 75?
14:14:54 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: PLANNING, DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
14:14:59 COORDINATION.
14:15:01 JUST TO CLARIFY YOUR RECOLLECTION, AND THE APPLICANT IS
14:15:05 PRESENT BEHIND ME.
14:15:06 ITEM NUMBER 75 IS REZ 19-97, A REZONING REQUEST FOR
14:15:11 PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 1104, 1106 AND 1202 NORTH HOWARD
14:15:16 AVENUE, 2306, 2321 AND 2323 BEST NASSAU STREET AND 2311
14:15:23 AND 2315 WEST GRACE STREET REZONING FROM PLANNED
14:15:28 DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO PLANNED
14:15:30 DEVELOPMENT AND CI FOR A HOTEL, WITH ASSOCIATED PARKING
14:15:43 LOT.
14:15:46 TO THE SOUTH.
14:15:47 I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
14:15:49 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS ON ITEM 75?
14:15:52 OKAY.
14:15:52 THANK YOU.
14:15:52 >> BRIAN SYKES, 4923 WEST CYPRESS STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA
14:16:02 33607.
14:16:04 SORRY, LOSING MY VOICE.
14:16:06 BEEN IN BED FOR THE LAST THREE DAYS WITH THE FLU AND
14:16:08 FUNNEL GOT A FEVER TO BREAK AND FEELING A LITTLE BETTER
14:16:12 BUT HERE TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THIS PROJECT AS WE
14:16:14 DISCUSSED LAST TIME.
14:16:15 THIS IS A REZONING THAT'S AFFECTED TO NUMBER ONE REZONE
14:16:21 THE PROPERTY PD TO PD TO ACCOMMODATE A HOTEL USE, AND
14:16:24 NUMBER TWO, TO BRING IN AN ADDITIONAL PARCEL FOR PARKING
14:16:27 THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL PD, AND THEN NUMBER
14:16:30 3, TO TAKE OUT A PARCEL THAT WAS INCLUDED AS PART OF THE
14:16:34 ORIGINAL PD BACK TO CGCI.
14:16:37 THE USE WILL BE COMPLIANT WITH ALL OF THE CITY OF TAMPA'S
14:16:40 ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION REQUIREMENTS.
14:16:44 WE HAVE GONE THROUGH ONE READING ALREADY WITH THE
14:16:47 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOLKS.
14:16:48 WE HAVE THEIR SUPPORT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
14:16:51 WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH GETTING A CERTIFICATE OF
14:16:53 APPROPRIATENESS ON IT.
14:16:55 THE PROJECT WILL BE A RESTORATION OF THE BALBIN BROTHERS
14:17:03 CIGAR FACTORY.
14:17:03 WE WILL BE KEEPING IT IN ITS HISTORICAL VOCABULARY, IF
14:17:07 YOU WILL, BUT REPOINTING THE BRICK, REPLACING THE ROOF,
14:17:10 AND ADDING SOME ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES WHICH WILL BE IN
14:17:13 KEEPING WITH THE STYLE AND DESIGN OF THE ORIGINAL
14:17:15 FACILITY.
14:17:16 WE ARE REQUESTING A PARKING WAIVER THAT WAS OUR ONE MAJOR
14:17:19 WAIVER.
14:17:20 HOWEVER, WE DID SUBMIT AS DEFICIENCY OF PARKING ON-SITE
14:17:25 WITH TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS ANALYSIS.
14:17:28 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I AM AVAILABLE.
14:17:29 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
14:17:42 HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER.
14:17:43 IN HERE ON ITEM 75?
14:17:46 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES, SECONDED BY
14:17:50 COUNCILMAN CITRO, I BELIEVE.
14:17:51 >>MARTIN SHELBY: THIS IS NOW ON FOR FIRST READING
14:17:54 CONSIDERATION.
14:17:55 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, THANK YOU.
14:17:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: [OFF MICROPHONE] FILE REZ 19 ---I'M
14:18:05 SORRY, 19-97.
14:18:07 AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND -- FIRST READING,
14:18:09 EXCUSE ME, REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
14:18:14 1104, 1106, 1202 NORTH HOWARD AVENUE, 2306, 2321, 2323
14:18:23 WEST NASSAU STREET AND 2311 AND 2315 WEST GRACE STREET IN
14:18:30 THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY
14:18:32 DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT
14:18:34 CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, Z-07-63, AND
14:18:40 COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, HOTEL,
14:18:44 AND CI, COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
14:18:46 DATE.
14:18:46 >> SECOND.
14:18:52 >> THE APPLICANT HAS MET THE BURDEN OF PROOF AND THE
14:18:55 DEVELOPMENT HAS SHOWN THE SITE PLAN MEETS THE PURPOSE OF
14:18:57 THE DEVELOPMENT REZONING.
14:19:00 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:19:02 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:19:03 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:19:04 ANY OPPOSED?
14:19:07 >>JOSEPH CITRO: INCLUDING THE WAIVER.
14:19:08 >> FIRST READING.
14:19:11 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE] MARCH 19, 2020.
14:19:22 >>LUIS VIERA: AND MR. MIRANDA ABSTAINED.
14:19:27 THANK YOU.
14:19:27 76.
14:19:28 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: PLANNING, DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
14:19:31 COORDINATION.
14:19:32 ITEM NUMBER 76 IS AB 2-19-25.
14:19:36 THIS RECEIVED FIRST READING A APPROVAL AT YOUR EVENING
14:19:39 HEARING ON JANUARY 30, REQUIRED CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE
14:19:42 AND THE COPIES OF THE CERTIFIED SITE PLAN ARE AT THE
14:19:46 CLERK'S OFFICE.
14:19:47 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
14:19:48 APPLICANT, ANYTHING IF AT ALL?
14:19:49 >> FOR THE APPLICANT.
14:19:54 AS MARY STATED WE MADE THE REVISION TO THE SITE PLAN FOR
14:20:00 THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED UPON US AT FIRST READING.
14:20:02 I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD.
14:20:04 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, HAPPY TO ANSWER.
14:20:06 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
14:20:08 BEING NONE IS THERE ANYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO SPEAK
14:20:10 ON 76?
14:20:12 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:20:13 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:20:15 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:20:16 ANY OPPOSED?
14:20:19 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, WOULD YOU TAKE NUMBER 76.
14:20:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FILE NUMBER AB 2-19-25, AN ORDINANCE
14:20:27 BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN
14:20:29 ORDINANCE APPROVING A SPECIAL USE S-2 FOR ALCOHOLIC
14:20:31 BEVERAGE SALES SMALL VENUE CONSUMPTION ON PREMISES ONLY
14:20:34 AND MAKING LAWFUL THE SALE OF BEER AND WINE AT OR FROM
14:20:37 THAT CERTAIN LOT, PLOT OR TRACT OF LAND LOCATED AT 4813
14:20:41 AND 4815 NORTH GRADY AVENUE, TAMPA, FLORIDA AS MORE
14:20:45 PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2 AND PROVIDING THAT
14:20:48 ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT ARE
14:20:51 REPEALED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
14:20:55 >> SECOND.
14:20:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: INCLUDING THE SITE PLAN AMENDED TO
14:21:01 INCLUDE A PROVISION SPECIFIED BY LACHONE DOCK, PLANNING,
14:21:05 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY -- THIS
14:21:10 IS THE TIME THAT I THINK WE SETTLED, MONDAY THROUGH
14:21:13 WEDNESDAY, 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M., THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY,
14:21:16 10 A.M. TO 11 P.M., SUNDAY 11 A.M. TO 8 P.M., NO OUTDOOR
14:21:22 AMPLIFIED SOUND, LIGHTING WILL BE DIRECTED AWAY FROM
14:21:24 ADJACENT RESIDENTIAL USE AND FENCING WILL BE INSTALLED ON
14:21:28 THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN BORDERS OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
14:21:31 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:21:35 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:21:36 ROLL CALL PLEASE.
14:21:37 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER ABSENT AT
14:21:50 VOTE.
14:21:50 >>LUIS VIERA: 77.
14:21:53 >>BARBARA LYNCH: LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
14:21:56 I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
14:21:57 APPLICANT IS HERE.
14:22:07 >> 3901 NORTH BRIDGE AVENUE.
14:22:19 WE ARE HERE TO VACATE THE ALLEY.
14:22:25 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:22:25 OKAY.
14:22:26 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
14:22:27 IS ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM 77?
14:22:31 >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
14:22:32 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:22:34 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:22:36 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:22:37 ANY OPPOSED?
14:22:38 >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST A REMINDER, NUMBER 77 IT WAS
14:22:41 BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION A SCRIVENER'S ERROR, AN ORDINANCE
14:22:43 BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
14:22:45 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
14:22:50 COUNCILMAN CARLSON VOTED NO.
14:22:53 COUNCILMAN GUDES, DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE READING THIS,
14:22:55 SIR?
14:23:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: [OFF MICROPHONE] PRESENTED FOR SECOND
14:23:04 READING CONSIDERATION.
14:23:06 AN ORDINANCE VACATING DISCONTINUING A BEGAN DONG A
14:23:10 PORTION OF ALLEYWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY LYING SOUTH OF ORIENT
14:23:13 STREET NORTH OF VIRGINIA AVENUE EAST OF RIDGE AVENUE AND
14:23:17 WEST OF OAK DAVE, I WANT TO SAY OAKDALE AVENUE, IN MAP OF
14:23:22 NORTH RIVERSIDE, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
14:23:25 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA THE SAME BEING MORE FULLY
14:23:28 DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 HEREOF SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EASEMENT
14:23:33 RESERVATIONS, COVENANTS,A CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
14:23:36 MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
14:23:37 DATE.
14:23:39 >>LUIS VIERA: A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:23:44 ROLL CALL.
14:23:45 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO AND
14:23:52 DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT AT VOTE.
14:23:54 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT WE GO ONWARD TO OUR NEXT ITEM, 78.
14:23:57 >> MELANIE CALLOWAY, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, HERE FOR
14:24:06 THE BRICK REMOVAL.
14:24:14 THIS IS BETWEEN TAMPA STREET, FRANKLIN, TYLER, THESE TWO
14:24:19 PARCELS.
14:24:20 IT'S ONLY THIS PORTION OF THE BRICK BEING REMOVED IN THE
14:24:22 HIGHLIGHTED AREA.
14:24:27 THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW.
14:24:28 YOU CAN SEE IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH.
14:24:29 IT IS GOING TO BE REBUILT, HOWEVER, AND THE DEVELOPER HAS
14:24:36 NUMBER 79 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT.
14:24:38 SO WE ARE ASKING THAT THEY CAN REMOVE THAT PORTION OF THE
14:24:41 BRICK FOR THAT IMPROVEMENT.
14:24:48 ANY QUESTIONS?
14:24:50 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:24:51 >> 79 IS THE DEVELOPER AGREEMENT FOR HARRISON STREET.
14:25:08 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
14:25:08 ANY QUESTIONS?
14:25:09 OKAY.
14:25:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT.
14:25:16 I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO RESTORE HARRISON STREET TO
14:25:19 MAKE IT BRICK AGAIN.
14:25:20 >> THAT'S RIGHT.
14:25:21 THIS BRICK HERE IS HISTORIC BRICK.
14:25:23 WE ARE GOING TO REMOVE IT.
14:25:24 WE CAN EITHER TRY TO INCORPORATE IT BACK --
14:25:27 >>> BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IT WILL BE A BRICK STREET.
14:25:30 >> YES.
14:25:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND I KNOW OUR BRICKS ARE ORIGINAL
14:25:33 FROM OUR BRICK SUPPLY.
14:25:34 >> CORRECT.
14:25:41 THEY WILL TALK ABOUT THAT IN NUMBER 79.
14:25:43 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
14:25:45 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
14:25:46 THANK YOU.
14:25:46 >> TYLER HUDSON, NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
14:25:55 78 AND 79 ARE VERY MUCH RELATED AND ESSENTIALLY ACT
14:26:00 TOGETHER.
14:26:01 WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE BRICKS OUT AND PUT THEM BACK
14:26:03 PURSUANT TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT WE'LL TALK
14:26:05 ABOUT IN THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
14:26:07 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
14:26:08 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:26:09 OKAY.
14:26:10 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
14:26:10 IS ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM
14:26:14 NUMBER 78?
14:26:15 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:26:17 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:26:18 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:26:19 ANY OPPOSED?
14:26:21 >> MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
14:26:24 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA MOTIONS.
14:26:25 SECONDS BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:26:28 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:26:29 ANY OPPOSED?
14:26:30 OKAY.
14:26:33 THANK YOU.
14:26:39 >>CATE WELLS: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
14:26:40 ON ITEM NUMBER 79 THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED
14:26:44 PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL FLORIDA DEPARTMENT AGREEMENT, IN
14:26:47 CHAPTER 163 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTE.
14:26:50 AS SUCH IT REQUIRES TWO SEPARATELY NOTICED PUBLIC
14:26:52 HEARINGS.
14:26:53 TODAY IS THE FIRST OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ASSUMING IT
14:26:56 GETS APPROVED.
14:26:57 THE SECOND HEARING WILL BE ON MARCH 5 AT 9:30 IN THE
14:27:01 MORNING.
14:27:02 SECTION 163.3227 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES SETS OUT THE
14:27:06 REQUIREMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS, AND I HAVE
14:27:11 REVIEWED AND WORKED WITH MR. HUDSON ON NEGOTIATING THE
14:27:14 AGREEMENT.
14:27:15 IT DOES ADDRESS THE STATUTORY CRITERIA. I CAN GO THROUGH
14:27:19 THAT IN DETAIL IF YOU WISH.
14:27:21 IF NOT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MR. HUDSON SO HE CAN
14:27:23 ADDRESS IT AS WELL.
14:27:25 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS OF MS. WELLS?
14:27:27 THANK YOU.
14:27:27 MR. HUDSON.
14:27:28 >> TYLER HUDSON, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
14:27:33 FIRST OF ALL, WANT TO THANK STAFF, INDICATE WELLS,
14:27:36 MELANIE CALLOWAY AND ROB ROSNER, AND VERY EAGER AND HAPPY
14:27:44 TO BE HERE NOW.
14:27:47 I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF
14:27:49 LAY OF THE LAND ABOUT WHERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
14:27:52 THIS IS JUST SOUTH OF THE OLD FLY BAR SITE BETWEEN
14:27:55 FRANKLIN AND TAMPA, CURRENTLY AN EMPTY LOT.
14:28:00 WHAT'S BEEN APPROVED THROUGH THIS DVR PROCESS IS AN
14:28:04 8-STORY HOTEL WITH SOME GROUND-LEVEL PADS, ONE FOR
14:28:09 RESTAURANT, ONE RETAIL SITE, 157 TOTAL, STRUCTURED
14:28:12 PARKING IN THE MIDDLE, AND REDEVELOPMENT RIGHT THERE.
14:28:22 THIS IS WEST HARRISON STREET, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW AS
14:28:25 YOU ARE LOOKING WEST.
14:28:28 AND THEN A LITTLE BETTER FROM THE WEST LOOKING BACK EAST,
14:28:32 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STREET.
14:28:33 AND A QUICK RENDERING, GENERALLY OF WHAT THE CONCEPT IS
14:28:37 GOING TO LOOK LIKE, SPRING HILL SUITES.
14:28:40 SO THE REASON WE ARE DOING THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS
14:28:43 BECAUSE LONG STORY AND SHORT STORY.
14:28:45 THE SHORT STORY IS THIS PART OF HARRISON STREET IN TERMS
14:28:48 OF THE OWNERSHIP OF THE PROPERTY AND THE LAND THAT'S
14:28:51 AFFECTED IS A BIT OF A MESS.
14:28:54 THIS IS REALLY SORT OF THE UPPER EDGE OF WHAT WAS THE
14:28:56 ORIGINAL PLAT OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, DOWNTOWN.
14:28:59 SO THERE'S THE DOMINOES WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED RECENTLY,
14:29:04 AND THE LITTLE PIECE OF LAND THAT NEEDED TO BE DEEDED TO
14:29:07 THE CITY TO BECOME PART OF HARRISON STREET, THE CITY OF
14:29:09 TAMPA OWNS IN FEE SIMPLE.
14:29:11 THE MAJORITY OF WHAT SHOULD BE HARRISON STREET IN THIS
14:29:13 LITTLE CONNECTION, AND MY CLIENT DYNAMIC ALSO OWNS A
14:29:17 LITTLE PIECE OF WHAT SHOULD BE HARRISON STREET.
14:29:19 SO THE REASON WE ARE DOING A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS
14:29:21 THAT WE CAN GIVE TO THE CITY THE PIECE OF LAND THAT WE
14:29:25 OWN THAT WILL BE REQUIRED TO MAKE HARRISON STREET
14:29:27 CONNECTED BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND TAMPA, AND ALSO WE ARE
14:29:30 GOING TO BUILD THE STREETS.
14:29:31 WE ARE GOING TO MAKE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY IMPROVEMENTS.
14:29:33 IT'S GOING TO BE BRICK.
14:29:35 THERE WAS SOME DISAGREEMENT, BUT THERE WAS A QUESTION
14:29:38 WHETHER ASPHALT OR BRICK.
14:29:40 IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE CITY, THE NEIGHBORS, TWO OF WHOM
14:29:44 ARE HERE, FOR BRICK, WE WANT TO MAKE YOU HAPPY SO WE ARE
14:29:48 GOING TO DO BRICK, AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO GET IN
14:29:50 EXCHANGE FOR THAT, WILL BE WRAPPED INTO THE DEVELOPMENT
14:29:53 AGREEMENT, IS WE ARE GOING TO GET MULTIMODAL IMPACT FEE
14:29:56 CREDITS IN EXCHANGE FOR THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY WE ARE
14:29:58 GIVING TO THE CITY AND ALSO IN EXCHANGE FOR THE COSTS OF
14:30:01 CONSTRUCTION THAT WE WILL INCUR TO DO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
14:30:05 IMPROVEMENTS.
14:30:05 SO THAT'S REALLY IT.
14:30:07 WE ARE NOT SEEKING ANY REAL FAVORS THAT YOU SOMETIMES SEE
14:30:10 IN DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF
14:30:13 INFRASTRUCTURE GOING ON.
14:30:13 THIS ONE IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
14:30:15 BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MIGHT
14:30:17 HAVE.
14:30:18 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS ON ITEM 79?
14:30:22 THANK YOU, SIR.
14:30:22 WE APPRECIATE IT.
14:30:24 IS ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM 79?
14:30:26 IF SO COME FORWARD.
14:30:30 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:30:32 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:30:34 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:30:35 ANY OPPOSED?
14:30:35 >>MARTIN SHELBY: PUBLIC HEARING, MR. CHAIRMAN.
14:30:44 >>LUIS VIERA: AND HOW IS THIS MOVED FORWARD?
14:30:46 >>MARTIN SHELBY: BASICALLY YOU CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING
14:30:47 AND ANNOUNCE THE SECOND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING DATE
14:30:50 AND TIME OF THAT.
14:30:50 AND THAT WILL BE IT.
14:30:52 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
14:30:53 >>THE CLERK: [OFF MICROPHONE]
14:31:00 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAME.
14:31:02 OKAY.
14:31:06 THE NEXT ITEM 80.
14:31:08 >> RON WEAD, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
14:31:11 ITEM 80 IS THE FLY BAR RESTAURANT FOR THE ADDRESS AT 442
14:31:19 WEST KENNEDY BOULEVARD.
14:31:20 THE REASON WHY WE ARE HERE ON PUBLIC HEARING IS IT FALLS
14:31:23 OUTSIDE OF THE COMMERCIAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, YBOR CITY
14:31:25 AND CHANNELSIDE.
14:31:26 OTHERWISE, IT WOULD JUST GO BY THE PERMIT APPLICATION.
14:31:29 WE HAVE JOHN MARSH TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION AND I'M
14:31:32 AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
14:31:34 THANK YOU.
14:31:34 >> JOHN MARSH, URBAN PLANNER, SIDEWALK CAFES, STAFF
14:31:42 RECOMMENDATIONS ADDITIONAL APPROVAL OF CASE 20-04 TO
14:31:48 PLACE TABLES, CHAIRS AND A FUTURE RAIL FOR SIDEWALK CAFE.
14:31:52 SIDEWALK CAFE WILL BE INSIDE PART OF THE PUBLIC
14:31:54 RIGHT-OF-WAY, ALSO KNOWN AS SNOW PARK.
14:31:56 THIS PERMIT HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY
14:31:58 TRANSPORTATION, MANAGEMENT, PD TPD, FIRE, URBAN DESIGN,
14:32:03 LEGAL AND PARKS.
14:32:04 STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:
14:32:08 ONE, THAT THE FINAL SIDEWALK CAFE PERMIT WILL NOT BE
14:32:10 ISSUED UNTIL RISK MANAGEMENT APPROVES THE CERTIFICATE OF
14:32:13 INSURANCE.
14:32:15 THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED THE TIMING OF THIS CONDITION.
14:32:18 TWO, THAT ANY FUTURE RAILING IN THE PARK MUST ADHERE TO
14:32:21 THE CONDITIONS BY URBAN DESIGN AND THE ALREADY APPROVED
14:32:25 DESIGN EXCEPTION 1-20-38 FOR HEIGHT.
14:32:29 ITEM 3, THAT ANY FUTURE RAILING IN THE PARK IS SUBJECT TO
14:32:32 THE APPROVAL OF A RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT AS REQUESTED BY
14:32:35 LEGAL AND TRANSPORTATION.
14:32:37 AND I AM HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS AND I BELIEVE THE
14:32:42 APPLICANT IS ALSO HERE.
14:32:43 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS?
14:32:44 OKAY.
14:32:45 IF THE APPLICANT WISHES TO SAY ANYTHING, IF ANYTHING AT
14:32:48 ALL.
14:32:49 OKAY.
14:32:50 LET THE RECORD REFLECT NO -- OKAY.
14:32:55 ANYBODY HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM 80?
14:32:59 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:33:00 SECONDED FIRST I THINK BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:33:04 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:33:05 ANY OPPOSED?
14:33:06 >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE CORRECT ACTION TO ACCEPT THE
14:33:16 APPLICATION WITH THE CONDITIONS.
14:33:23 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WITH CONDITIONS AS ACCEPTED.
14:33:25 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:33:27 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:33:28 OPPOSED?
14:33:29 THEN ITEM 81 I BELIEVE IS WITHDRAWN.
14:33:31 >> MOTION TO REMOVE 81.
14:33:35 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
14:33:36 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:33:38 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:33:43 ANY OPPOSED?
14:33:44 I KNOW MR. SINGER.
14:33:52 >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
14:33:53 WE RECEIVED A REQUEST YESTERDAY FROM THE NEW
14:33:55 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PROPERTY, 1220 BROADWAY LLC,
14:34:00 INDICATING THAT THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN THEIR
14:34:02 AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE AND ALSO REQUESTING A
14:34:05 CONTINUANCE.
14:34:05 UNDER THE CODE, YOU CAN GRANT UP TO TWO CONTINUANCES ON
14:34:11 REVIEW HEARING AND THEN AT YOUR DISCRETION MAY DISMISS
14:34:15 AFTER THAT.
14:34:15 THIS IS THE SECOND REQUEST, THE FIRST ONE BEING IN
14:34:18 NOVEMBER.
14:34:19 SO IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO RESCHEDULE THE HEARING.
14:34:22 >>LUIS VIERA: WHAT TIME?
14:34:23 >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN INQUIRE, MR. CHAIRMAN.
14:34:28 THE QUESTION IS, IS IT APPROPRIATE BECAUSE THE -- THE
14:34:35 PETITIONER IS NOT PRESENT TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE.
14:34:37 BUT THE QUESTION IS, IS IT APPROPRIATE THEN FOR THE NEW
14:34:42 PETITIONER'S REPRESENTATIVE TO PROPERLY RENOTICE THIS,
14:34:46 AND WOULD THEY NEED SUFFICIENT TIME, LET'S SAY WOULD
14:34:49 APRIL 16th BE TOO MUCH TIME?
14:34:52 IS THERE A RECOMMENDATION BY THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT?
14:34:55 >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: I THINK THAT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT
14:34:57 TIME.
14:34:57 >>MARTIN SHELBY: SUFFICIENT TIME.
14:34:59 AND WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE FOR COUNCIL THEN TO REQUEST
14:35:01 AS PART OF THAT TO BE RENOTICED WITH THE NEW PETITIONER'S
14:35:09 REPRESENTATIVE?
14:35:11 >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: I DO BELIEVE SO.
14:35:12 AND I HAVE AN E-MAIL FROM THE NEW REPRESENTATIVE.
14:35:17 >>MARTIN SHELBY: SO IF IT'S COUNCIL'S PLEASURE, THEN IT
14:35:22 WOULD BE THE REQUEST TO CONTINUE THIS TO APRIL 16th,
14:35:27 2020, 10:30 A.M., AND IF COUNCIL WOULD SO BE INCLINED TO
14:35:32 REQUIRE THAT THE NEW PETITIONER REPRESENTATIVE PROPERLY
14:35:35 RENOTICE THIS APPEAL REVIEW HEARING.
14:35:37 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY I HAVE A MOTION?
14:35:40 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO WITH A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
14:35:44 MIRANDA.
14:35:45 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:35:46 ALL RIGHT.
14:35:46 I GUESS THAT BRINGS US TO THE END OF OUR AGENDA.
14:35:48 >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, MAY I JUST PRESENT TO THE
14:35:52 CLERK FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE CHAIR THE RESOLUTION
14:35:58 APPROVING RATIFYING CONFIRMING THE APPOINTMENTS, THE
14:36:01 REAPPOINTMENTS THAT WERE MADE BY CITY COUNCIL TODAY, TO
14:36:05 THE REVIEW BOARD?
14:36:06 >> MOVE THE APPROVAL.
14:36:13 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:36:16 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:36:17 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:36:18 ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?
14:36:19 WELL, THAT TAKES US TO NEW BUSINESS.
14:36:25 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
14:36:27 >>BILL CARLSON: I MADE A MOTION A WEEK OR SO AGO TO HAVE
14:36:30 BETTY CASTOR BUT SHE SAID THE COUNTY ALREADY MOVED
14:36:34 FORWARD ON WHAT WE WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT, SO I WOULD
14:36:36 LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO RESCIND THE MOTION MADE ON
14:36:39 FEBRUARY 6, 2020 TO HAVE BETTY CASTOR APPEAR BEFORE CITY
14:36:43 COUNCIL.
14:36:45 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:36:48 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:36:49 ANYTHING ELSE?
14:36:52 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:36:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO
14:36:56 PRESENT A COMMENDATION TO SHERRI PACK, REVENUE
14:37:00 COORDINATOR, WHO WILL BE RETIRING IN MARCH.
14:37:04 I DON'T KNOW WHAT DATE IN MARCH.
14:37:07 37 YEARS OF SERVICE.
14:37:08 THIS WILL NOT BE PRESENTED IN CITY COUNCIL.
14:37:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO. ALL IN
14:37:13 FAVOR?
14:37:16 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO
14:37:17 PRESENT A COMMENDATION TO TERESA ROGERS, DISABILITY
14:37:22 SPECIALIST WHO WILL BE RETIRING IN MARCH WITH 35 YEARS OF
14:37:25 SERVICE AND ALSO WILL NOT BE IN THE CHAMBERS IN THE
14:37:27 COUNCIL.
14:37:28 >> SECOND.
14:37:28 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WITH
14:37:32 A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:37:34 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:37:35 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
14:37:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, I HAVE A MOTION TO HAVE STAFF
14:37:39 REPORT REGARDING THE CLOSURE OF CASS STREET AND ITS
14:37:43 IMPACT ON LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND IF I COULD, HAVE THAT ON
14:37:47 MARCH 5, 2020.
14:37:50 >>LUIS VIERA: SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:37:53 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:37:53 ANY OPPOSED?
14:37:55 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ONE MORE, A MOTION TO HAVE MPO,
14:37:58 METROPOLITAN PLANNING STAFF, PRESENT THE MPO SCHOOL
14:38:01 SAFETY STUDY FINAL REPORT REGARDING THE DANGER OF
14:38:06 INADEQUATE SIDEWALKS AND SAFETY MEASURES AROUND SCHOOLS
14:38:10 WITHIN CITY LIMITS OF TAMPA ON APRIL 2nd, 2020.
14:38:15 THAT WILL BE FOR TEN MINUTES.
14:38:17 AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT DURING PRESENTATIONS.
14:38:20 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:38:22 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:38:23 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:38:24 ANY OPPOSED?
14:38:25 ANYTHING ELSE?
14:38:28 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:38:28 ANYTHING SIR?
14:38:30 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOT AT THIS TIME.
14:38:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU FOR THIS MORNING'S
14:38:36 DELIGHT AND KIND WORDS TO OUR FOUR I CALL HEROS OF THE
14:38:42 CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
14:38:43 THEY REALLY MADE THE WAY FOR MINORITIES AND OTHER
14:38:47 MINORITY ORGANIZATIONS.
14:38:51 SO KEEPING WITH THE SPIRIT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION
14:38:54 TO REQUEST ADMINISTRATION TO HAVE A PERMANENT HISTORICAL
14:38:57 MARKER FOR THE FOUR PIONEER POLICE OFFICERS, LEWIS, GRAY,
14:39:03 DUKES, AND NATHAN, AND ALSO OFFICERS THAT CAME BEFORE
14:39:04 THEM IN THE ERA OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR PAVING THE
14:39:08 WAY TOWARDS EQUALITY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA POLICE
14:39:10 DEPARTMENT.
14:39:11 I ASK THAT ADMINISTRATION PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE
14:39:13 CITY COUNCIL UNDER STAFF REPORTS AT OUR REGULAR SESSION
14:39:16 OF CITY COUNCIL ON APRIL 2nd, 2020.
14:39:18 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
14:39:21 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY DISCUSSION?
14:39:22 THANK YOU FOR THAT, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:39:23 I APPRECIATE THAT 110%.
14:39:26 THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF LOCATIONS WHERE IT COULD BE PUT AT.
14:39:28 I WOULD LOVE TO SEE -- I RECENTLY WENT TO THE FLORIDA
14:39:32 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN ST. PETERSBURG AND THE THIRD FLOOR, I
14:39:36 BELIEVE IT IS, HAS A SECTION ON CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY AND
14:39:39 HAS A SECTION ON THE ST. PETERSBURG POLICE OFFICERS OVER
14:39:41 THERE.
14:39:42 AND I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE IN OUR TAMPA BAY OR ROBERT
14:39:47 SAUNDERS LIBRARY SOMETHING ADDITIONAL TO THAT EFFECT, SO
14:39:50 THOSE GENTLEMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE ALL THE
14:39:52 RECOGNITION WE CAN GIVE THEM, AND WE OUGHT TO BE
14:39:55 CONSISTENTLY AWARE OF THAT.
14:39:56 SO I APPLAUD KNEW THAT REGARD.
14:39:58 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:40:01 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:40:02 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:40:03 OPPOSED?
14:40:03 ANYTHING ELSE?
14:40:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LAST ONE, SIR.
14:40:08 ROBERTSON HIGH SCHOOL WHICH IS IN THE DISTRICT IN PORT
14:40:12 TAMPA, I WAS A RESOURCE OFFICER THERE FOR A WHILE.
14:40:15 MY COLLEAGUE MR. DINGFELDER TAUGHT THERE.
14:40:22 MR. PETERSON, COACH, TEACHER, FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND
14:40:26 FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY, HE PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY.
14:40:29 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO GIVE A COMMENDATION
14:40:35 POSTHUMOUSLY. HIS SERVICES WILL BE THIS SATURDAY AT 4
14:40:39 P.M.
14:40:41 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR THAT, SIR, AND GOD REST HIS
14:40:43 SOUL AND MEMORY.
14:40:44 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
14:40:46 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:40:50 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:40:51 ANY OPPOSED?
14:40:53 THANK YOU.
14:40:53 AND JUST VERY BRIEFLY, IF I MAY.
14:40:55 I MOTION FOR A JOINT WORKSHOP WITH THE BOARD OF COUNTY
14:40:57 COMMISSIONERS, MAYOR JANE CASTOR, AND THE TAMPA CITY
14:41:01 COUNCIL TO DISCUSS POPULATION PROJECTIONS AND
14:41:03 IMPLICATIONS FOR GROWTH IN THE COMMUNITY ON MARCH
14:41:05 25th FROM 1:30 TO 3 TESTIMONY AT THE BOARD OF COUNTY
14:41:09 COMMISSION.
14:41:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY CHAIRMAN VIERA WITH A
14:41:15 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
14:41:17 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:41:18 >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I MAY JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
14:41:20 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION, THEIR INVITATION MY
14:41:22 UNDERSTAND WAS TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THE -- I WANT TO BE
14:41:28 SURE ONCE THE MOTION HAS BEEN MADE WILL BE POSTED ON THE
14:41:30 CITY'S WEBSITE AND DOWNSTAIRS IN CITY HALL.
14:41:34 >>LUIS VIERA: THEY WILL BE PROVIDING US WITH FOOD AND
14:41:38 HI-Cs.
14:41:39 I'M JOKING.
14:41:40 I MOTION FOR A COMMENDATION BY SHIRLEY RISSLER FOR THE
14:41:44 CITY OF PARKS AND RECREATION THE FOREST HILLS APRIL
14:41:49 23rd WORKSHOP.
14:41:50 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM CHAIRMAN VIERA
14:41:52 WITH A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:41:56 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:41:59 >>LUIS VIERA: YESTERDAY THE COUNTY COMMISSION BEGAN TO
14:42:00 TAKE UP WHAT WILL BE CALLED A SAFETY NET TAX FOR THE
14:42:05 TRANSPORTATION TAX.
14:42:06 AND IF WE DO NEED TO GO FORWARD REQUEST THAT I WOULD JUST
14:42:09 ENCOURAGE ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE SPOKE SUPPORT
14:42:12 YOU'VE AND WILLING TO BE AGGRESSIVE AND FORWARD ON THIS
14:42:15 ISSUE TO BE SO, AND WE WILL PROBABLY BE LOOKING AT
14:42:19 RESOLUTION OR JOINT LETTER OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE,
14:42:21 IF WE NEED TO GO THERE.
14:42:23 ANYTHING ELSE FROM COUNCIL?
14:42:25 MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
14:42:27 MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
14:42:28 SECONDED I THINK BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
14:42:31 ALL IN FAVOR?
14:42:33 ANY OPPOSED?
14:42:33 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
14:42:35 THANK YOU EVERYONE.
14:42:37 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
14:42:39 (MEETING ADJOURNED)
14:42:40
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