TAMPA CITY COUNCIL CRA
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020
9:00 A.M.
TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER
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09:00:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS, STAFF,
09:00:35 COMMUNITY CITIZENS.
09:00:36 THE CRA MEETING WILL NOW COME TO ORDER.
09:00:38 WE'LL HAVE THE INVOCATION THIS MORNING PRESENTED BY MARLY
09:00:44 JONES, A 2020 GRADUATE OF FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY WITH A
09:00:53 DEGREE IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND THE ASSISTANT CHOIR
09:00:53 DIRECTOR AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE WORLD RENOWNED FAMU
09:00:55 GOSPEL CHOIR.
09:00:56 SHE'S ALSO A VALUABLE MEMBER OF THE FAMU CHAPTER OF THE
09:00:57 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN.
09:01:00 THIS FALL, SHE WILL BE MOVING TO DALLAS TO ATTEND JOHNS
09:01:04 HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE IS STUDYING TO RECEIVE HER
09:01:07 MASTERS IN EDUCATION IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION.
09:01:17 MARLY LIVES BY THE MOTTO THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH
09:01:25 GOD.
09:01:27 I WELCOME YOU.
09:01:29 >> THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO SEE A DAY WE HAVE NEVER
09:01:35 SEEN BEFORE.
09:01:36 THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE, TO
09:01:39 HEAR AND TO SEE WHAT CHANGES ARE GOING TO BE IN THE
09:01:43 COMMUNITY, GOD.
09:01:44 I PRAY THAT YOU OPEN THEIR EYES, THEIR HEARTS, AND THEIR
09:01:48 MINDS OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOD, SO THAT THEY WILL BE
09:01:51 ABLE TO PASS WHAT THEY NEED TO PASS FOR OUR CITY TO GROW
09:01:55 AND TO FLOURISH THE WAY YOU WOULD HAVE IT TO BE, LORD
09:01:58 GOD.
09:01:59 I PRAY THAT YOU WILL TOUCH THEIR HEARTS, LORD GOD, THAT
09:02:02 THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE PAST WHERE EVERYBODY IS GOING,
09:02:07 GOD.
09:02:08 WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL GIVE US A BRAND NEW SENSE OF JOY
09:02:14 RIGHT NOW.
09:02:15 IN YOUR PRECIOUS NAME WE PRAY.
09:02:17 AMEN.
09:02:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
09:02:25 [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
09:02:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL?
09:02:43 MR. VIERA WILL BE COMING ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATE.
09:02:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:02:51 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:02:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:02:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:02:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
09:02:57 WE WILL GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:02:58 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC
09:03:05 COMMENT ARE GENERALLY THE SAME AS THEY ARE FOR ANY
09:03:07 MEETING OF THE CRA OR CITY COUNCIL, THREE MINUTES PER
09:03:10 SPEAKER, THAT GIVEN THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY WE ARE
09:03:14 REQUESTING THAT EVERYONE ABIDE BY THE 6-FOOT DISTANCING
09:03:19 REGULATIONS, THERE ARE MARKERS ON THE FLOOR.
09:03:21 CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF IS HERE TO HELP REGULATE
09:03:25 THAT.
09:03:26 IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR COMMENTS AND DON'T HAVE ANY
09:03:29 BUSINESS BEFORE THE CRA, WE WOULD REQUEST THAT -- DOESN'T
09:03:35 LOOK LIKE WE HAVE THAT PROBLEM THIS MORNING -- BUT LEAVE
09:03:38 THE ROOM.
09:03:38 I WOULD REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A MEETING OF THE
09:03:41 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
09:03:42 SO WHAT THIS BODY IS ABLE TO DO IN ITS CAPACITY THIS
09:03:44 MORNING IS LIMITED TO CHAPTER 163 AND THOSE MATTERS, BUT
09:03:50 WE WELCOME ALL PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS TIME.
09:03:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
09:03:59 DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS TIME?
09:04:02 ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:04:04 GO AHEAD AND LINE UP WHERE THE APPROPRIATE MARKERS ARE.
09:04:06 >> [AWAY FROM MICROPHONE] MY NAME IS MIKE PANESSA AND I
09:04:20 SERVE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DOWNTOWN
09:04:25 ASSOCIATION. I AM FOLLOWING UP REGARDING SPECIFICALLY
09:04:29 THE LAST MONTH'S CRA BOARD IN REGARD TO HERMAN MASSEY
09:04:35 PARK.
09:04:36 THERE WAS, TO OUR UNDERSTANDING, A 6-MONTH TIME WINDOW SO
09:04:42 THAT THE REDESIGNED -- TOOK PLACE AND THAT THE FEES PAID
09:04:48 IN RELATION TO THE REDESIGN OF THE PARK.
09:04:50 AS OF THIS MORNING, AND YESTERDAY THAT THAT STILL HAS NOT
09:04:56 BEEN DONE YET.
09:04:58 AND AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE LAST MEETING SPECIFICALLY,
09:05:02 THERE HAVE BEEN ZONING CHANGE REQUESTS, PERMITTING
09:05:05 REQUESTS, NO PROOF OF FINANCING, ALL OF THE -- TO BE ABLE
09:05:12 TO GET THE PROJECT OFF THE BOARD.
09:05:14 STILL SIX MONTHS LATER IT HAS NOT BEEN PRESENTED.
09:05:18 DESPITE THE FACT OF THE COST AND TIME OF THE REDESIGN
09:05:22 ALONE, ALL OF THESE FACTORS HAVE TO BE IN PLACE BEFORE
09:05:26 THIS PROJECT CAN MOVE FORWARD, WHICH CAN TAKE YEARS TO
09:05:29 OCCUR.
09:05:31 THAT'S NOT INCLUDING THE ISSUES RELATED TO LIQUOR ZONING
09:05:35 IN THE PARK AND THE ISSUES RELATED TO THE PUBLIC SPACE OF
09:05:39 THE PARK WHICH IS A WHOLE SEPARATE ISSUE THAT WE ARE
09:05:43 LOOKING AT HERE.
09:05:44 SO I AM ASKING ON BEHALF OF THE DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD
09:05:48 ASSOCIATION THAT WE JUST MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT,
09:05:52 AND AS SUCH TIME ALL OF THESE COMPONENTS ARE IN PLACE.
09:05:55 THEN THE PETITIONER CAN GO BACK AND WE CAN RELOOK AT THE
09:06:00 PARK AT TO HOW THAT PARK WOULD BE USED.
09:06:03 SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WILL BE SPEAKING TODAY.
09:06:06 IN FACT THERE'S ONE ISSUE OF THE PRICE, THE COST OF THIS
09:06:10 SURVEY OF THIS REDESIGN.
09:06:11 WE HAVE HAD SIX MONTHS TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS.
09:06:14 AND NOW SIX MONTHS LATER, THESE MONEYS ARE STILL NOT
09:06:20 SUBMITTED TO GO AHEAD AND PAY FOR THIS REDESIGN.
09:06:22 THEREFORE WE ARE ASKING AGAIN THAT THE PROJECT MOVE
09:06:24 FORWARD, AT SUCH TIME THAT ALL OF THE STARS ARE IN
09:06:30 ALIGNMENT, THEN LOOK AT REDESIGN THE PARK SHOULD THAT
09:06:34 HAPPEN.
09:06:35 AGAIN, JUST ALSO POINTING OUT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN TERMS OF
09:06:39 THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY AND THE INVESTMENT WHICH HAS BEEN
09:06:44 WELL DOCUMENTED OF RESTAURATEURS, THE LOSS OF BUSINESS.
09:06:48 THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER ISSUE THAT HASN'T EVEN BEEN
09:06:50 DISCUSSED ON HERE.
09:06:51 AND IS THAT GOING TO IMPACT THE PROJECT?
09:06:54 SO THOSE ARE SOME ISSUES THAT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WERE
09:06:57 WROUGHT FORWARD TODAY AS YOU ALL MAKE THE DECISION
09:07:01 WHETHER OR NOT TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS PROJECT OR NOT.
09:07:03 THANK YOU.
09:07:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:07:06 ANYONE ELSE?
09:07:07 >> RESET THE CLOCK?
09:07:46 >> SHE'LL RESET IT.
09:07:47 >> OKAY.
09:07:50 BOARD MEMBERS, MY NAME IS VICTOR DYE DIMAIO, REPRESENTING
09:07:56 RICK PALARONI -- I'M SORRY, THAT'S FINE.
09:08:06 I'M HERE REPRESENTING MIKE ISAAC WHO OWNS THE BUILDING,
09:08:14 AN ENTIRE BLOCK IN NORTHERN DOWNTOWN TAMPA.
09:08:20 WE ARE VERY ANXIOUS AND ABLE TO GET STARTED.
09:08:26 THERE WAS A LAST QUESTION AT THE LAST CRA MEETING, IT WAS
09:08:29 ON ZOOM, WE WEREN'T IN ATTENDANCE, SO THERE WERE
09:08:33 QUESTIONS BROUGHT UP ON WHETHER WE ARE STILL DOING THIS
09:08:36 AND WHETHER WE ARE MOVING FORWARD AND SO FORTH, AND THE
09:08:39 FIRST DOCUMENT HERE IS THE LETTER FROM THE BANK SAYING WE
09:08:43 DO HAVE FINANCING IN PLACE THAT WE ARE READY TO GO.
09:08:46 WE HAVE RICK HALDERONE, WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH FOR TWO
09:08:53 YEARS NOW. HE'S A VERY SUCCESSFUL RESTAURATEUR. YOU
09:08:56 PROBABLY KNOW HIM FROM HULA BAY AND GREEN IGUANA, HAS
09:09:01 BEEN WITH US ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW, WANTED TO DO THIS.
09:09:03 YOU ARE RIGHT, IT IS A VERY CHALLENGING TIME FOR THE
09:09:05 RESTAURANT BUSINESS, IT'S BEEN A VERY CHALLENGING TIME,
09:09:10 BUT WE ARE STILL READY TO GO.
09:09:12 I THINK WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC BY
09:09:15 THE TIME WE GET EVERYTHING TOGETHER HERE AND THINGS WILL
09:09:17 BE UP AND RUNNING.
09:09:19 OUR CONCEPT FOR THE RESTAURANT IS MORE OF A MEDIUM PRICED
09:09:22 SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE CAN EAT THERE SEVERAL DAYS A WEEK,
09:09:26 YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT A HAMBURGER AND WINGS.
09:09:29 WE ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE BOTTLE BEING OPENED.
09:09:31 THERE'S NOT THAT MANY OPTIONS IN THAT PART OF NORTHERN
09:09:35 DOWNTOWN.
09:09:36 ALSO TWO OF THE RESTAURANTS ARE STRUGGLING, THEY ARE
09:09:39 BOARDED UP, SHUTTERED AT THE MOMENT.
09:09:41 THAT'S NOT OUR PROBLEM.
09:09:42 OUR PROBLEM IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE INITIAL COSTS,
09:09:50 IT WAS ALMOST $100,000, YOU ASKED ME TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS
09:09:54 SHE PAYING?
09:09:55 AND I WENT TO CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION AND GOT A COPY OF
09:09:57 THE BILL, AND THE DOCUMENTS, WE WENT THROUGH IT, OUR
09:10:02 ARCHITECT GIL LIVINGSTON IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
09:10:07 ABOUT THE BILL.
09:10:07 AND WE SUBMITTED A PROPOSAL BASED ON WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS
09:10:10 FAIR AND REASONABLE, AND THE CITY COUNTERED AND SAID,
09:10:17 LOOK, IF YOU AGREE TO PAY 42,800, WE'LL PAY THE REST.
09:10:21 AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHY WE ARE HERE.
09:10:23 WE ARE READY TO MOVE FORWARD, SHE HAS HER $42,800 CHECK.
09:10:31 WE WANT TO HAVE A HEARING.
09:10:32 WE WANT TO HAVE THE PLANNING MEETING.
09:10:33 WE ARE READY TO GO.
09:10:37 I, GIL AND RICK DO NOT WANT TO WASTE ANY MORE TIME ON
09:10:41 HAVING OUR HEARING TO REDESIGN A PARK TO MOVE THE CURRENT
09:10:44 PLAN, WHICH IS TO HAVE THE DOG PARK NEXT TO THE BUILDING,
09:10:48 NEXT TO THE RESTAURANT WHICH EVERYONE AGREES.
09:10:50 WE HAVE HAD THREE HEARINGS ON CITY COUNCIL ALREADY, AND
09:10:52 EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT THAT THE DOG PARK NEXT TO THE
09:10:55 RESTAURANT IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
09:10:57 SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE.
09:11:00 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DOG PARK.
09:11:01 IT'S JUST GOING TO BE WHEREVER THE SEATING AREA THAT WAS
09:11:05 PLANNED OF THE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT YOU SEE HERE IN THE
09:11:10 AREA -- (AWAY FROM MICROPHONE) WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE ANY
09:11:16 CHANGES TO THOSE.
09:11:17 WE ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT ... AND WE CAN GET THAT DONE
09:11:20 PRETTY QUICKLY AND MOVE FORWARD.
09:11:22 SO WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
09:11:26 MARTHA IS GOING TO COME UP AND SAY A FEW WORDS, AND I'M
09:11:29 HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
09:11:31 FOR US.
09:11:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO FINISH UP, MR.
09:11:35 DIMAIO.
09:11:37 >> I'M DONE.
09:11:38 AND WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BILL
09:11:41 ITSELF AND WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED.
09:11:43 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:11:44 THANK YOU.
09:11:44 >> MY NAME IS JIM DEMARO, A RESIDENT AT 1108 FRANKLIN
09:11:56 STREET, 8-STORY CONDO BUILDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
09:11:59 PARK.
09:12:00 WE ARE VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THAT BUILDING HAPPENING,
09:12:04 THAT RESTAURANT, THE OPEN SPACE TO SIT AND HAVE COFFEE IN
09:12:09 THE MORNING IF YOU LIKE.
09:12:11 IT WOULD BE A NICE ADDITION TO THE AREA.
09:12:16 I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE PLANS FOR THE PARK TO
09:12:18 ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.
09:12:20 AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:12:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:12:29 >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA BAY.
09:12:32 WE ARE HERE ON THE CRA MEETING BUT THE REALITY IS THAT A
09:12:35 LOT OF THAT CRA MONEY NEEDS TO GO DOWN TO EAST TAMPA.
09:12:40 AND IT'S GOING IN AREAS THAT REALLY DON'T NEED TO GOP IN
09:12:44 AREAS THAT LOOK REALLY GOOD, AREAS THAT WE HAVE NEVER
09:12:47 SEEN, CHILDREN HAVE NEVER SEEN AREAS THAT LOOK THAT GOOD.
09:12:51 BUT THE THING IS THAT WE ARE HERE TODAY, AND BASICALLY
09:12:56 WANT TO MAKE A GENERAL STATEMENT TO SAY WARE JUST BACK TO
09:12:59 BUSINESS AS USUAL.
09:13:00 NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
09:13:01 WE ARE SEEING WITH THE DEATH OF FLOYD GEORGE AND OTHER
09:13:05 HORRENDOUS DEATHS OF INDIVIDUALS OF AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS
09:13:09 BY THE HANDS OF THE STATE.
09:13:11 WE SEE THERE'S A CRISIS, AN ONGOING PRACTICE, A 426 YEAR
09:13:17 PRACTICE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:13:19 NOTHING CHANGED.
09:13:20 NOTHING CHANGED.
09:13:21 PEOPLE JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON.
09:13:24 RIGHT NOW THE WORD USED IS WHAT'S TRENDING.
09:13:27 WHATEVER IS TRENDING AND PEOPLE GET ON THE WAGON AND GET
09:13:30 OFF OF IT AND IT'S BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL.
09:13:33 PEOPLE MAKE TESTIMONY, THEY GIVE SERMONS, HOW THEY ARE
09:13:36 NOT RACIST, HOW THINGS NEED TO CHANGE, BUT NOTHING
09:13:39 CHANGED, BECAUSE NORMALLY WHAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH IS
09:13:43 CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS.
09:13:44 WHAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH IS CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS,
09:13:47 NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
09:13:49 AND THERE IS NO GREAT VIBE BETWEEN THEM, NO MIDDLE GROUND
09:13:54 BETWEEN THEM.
09:13:55 CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS THAT PRESENT THEMSELVES AS BUSINESS
09:13:57 LEADERS AND POLITICIANS AND CIVIC LEADERS, PREACHERS, AND
09:14:03 WHAT THEY PRESENT THEMSELVES AS, CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS,
09:14:07 RIGHT HERE IN THIS CITY OF TAMPA, YOU HAVE THE NAME JONA
09:14:11 JOSEPH AND WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT NAME, A YOUNG
09:14:15 AFRICAN MAN THAT WAS SHOT 60 TIMES BY THE TAMPA POLICE
09:14:18 DEPARTMENT.
09:14:19 THEY SWEPT IT UNDER THE RUG.
09:14:21 THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED.
09:14:23 ANDREW WARREN NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED.
09:14:25 BRIAN DUGAN NEED TO BE OUT OF THERE, THAT'S THE CHIEF OF
09:14:29 POLICE.
09:14:29 SOME TYPE OF CONSPIRACY.
09:14:31 YOU FEEL IT.
09:14:32 YOU EXPERIENCE IT.
09:14:36 BASIC CITY OF EMPLOYEES, CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS.
09:14:41 THEY GIVE YOU PARKING CITATIONS.
09:14:43 THEY GIVING YOU CITATIONS ON YOUR HOMES AND DIFFERENT
09:14:46 THINGS.
09:14:48 TALKING LIKE CRIMINAL TALK, CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS.
09:14:52 NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
09:14:54 THESE PEOPLE NEED TO GROW UP. THIS CITY NEEDS TO GROW
09:14:56 UP.
09:14:57 THIS CITY NEED TO DO AN INTROSPECTIVE AND GIVE ITSELF A
09:15:00 CHECK AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
09:15:02 CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS.
09:15:04 AND IT'S ALWAYS BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL.
09:15:07 GASPARILLA IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT.
09:15:09 RIGHT NOW THEY ARE TEARING DOWN STATUES, TAKE DOWN
09:15:12 GENERAL LEE, DO THIS, DO THAT, GENERAL BEAUREGARD, DO ALL
09:15:18 THOSE THINGS, THEY WANT TO TAKE DOWN CONFEDERATE FLAGS
09:15:21 BUT GASPARILLA IS A CELEBRATION OF SLAVERY, OF PIRACY,
09:15:28 AND THEY CHANGED THE NAME ONE YEAR AND NOW IT'S BACK
09:15:31 BIGGER THAN EVER, 700,000 SPECTATORS CELEBRATING SLAVERY,
09:15:37 CELEBRATING PIRACY, CLOWNS AND CRIMINALS.
09:15:41 ALL THESE THINGS NEED TO CHANGE. THIS CITY GOVERNMENT
09:15:44 NEED TO GET MORE SERIOUS ABOUT THE NEEDS AND THE
09:15:47 ASPIRATIONS AND THE HOPES OF THE PEOPLE, OF THE HABITANTS
09:15:51 THAT INHABIT THIS CITY, AND PEOPLE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM
09:15:56 THAT CLOWN AND CRIMINAL STATUS.
09:15:59 YOU GOT THE LAST MAYOR, A CLOWN, A CRIMINAL.
09:16:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:16:22 >> YOU KNOW ME BY NOW.
09:16:25 MY NAME IS MARTHA ISAAC.
09:16:31 I HAVE A CHECK, AND YOU HEARD FROM THE BANK, AND I WAS --
09:16:44 I'M HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO MOVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
09:16:50 AND YESTERDAY I HAD THE DISCUSSION WITH ONE FOR THE
09:16:58 RESTAURANT AND TO GET TOGETHER WITH MR. MASSEY FROM THE
09:17:02 CITY.
09:17:03 HE'S HERE AND HE CAN TELL YOU THAT MR. CASTELLANO, THAT
09:17:09 HE WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD, AND MY ARCHITECT IS HERE AND HE
09:17:12 WILL BE SPEAKING SOON, AND THE THING THAT WAS -- ON THE
09:17:18 PARK, BECAUSE THE DOG PARK, WE CANNOT MOVE.
09:17:27 THIS IS WHAT'S HOLDING US UP.
09:17:31 SO I TOLD YOU THAT I WILL PAY FOR THE EXTRA PIECE OF THE
09:17:37 ARCHITECT.
09:17:38 AND I AM REPEATING, I WILL PAY.
09:17:41 BUT I HAVE TO PAY THE RIGHT PRICE, WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE
09:17:46 DONE.
09:17:46 WE FOUND OUT AFTER WE GOT THE ARCHITECT, MY ARCHITECT,
09:17:55 THAT THE OTHER ARCHITECT WANT TO BILL ME FOR EVERYTHING
09:17:59 THAT HE'S DOING FROM THE BEGINNING.
09:18:02 BUT A LOT OF THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE NEEDS TO BE
09:18:06 REDONE AGAIN BECAUSE WE ONLY WANT TO SWITCH THE DOG PARK
09:18:09 TO ANOTHER PARK.
09:18:11 SO MY ARCHITECT SAYS IT'S NOT RIGHT TO CHARGE ME AGAIN
09:18:17 FOR WHAT WAS DONE BY THE CITY, AND HE TOOK IT TO THE CITY
09:18:21 PEOPLE, AND THEY HAD SOME AGREEMENT WITH HIM TO DUPLICATE
09:18:31 THE CHARGES, AND I DON'T KNOW.
09:18:34 SO THE DECISION IS ALL UP TO YOU.
09:18:36 BUT I AM 100% COMMITTED TO DO, TO TAKE CARE OF THIS
09:18:44 RESTAURANT.
09:18:45 AND I WANT HIM TO COME UP.
09:18:55 AND AGAIN I HAVE THE CHECKBOOK HERE, AND I'M SERIOUS.
09:18:58 AND MR. MASSEY TOLD ME HE COULDN'T TAKE MONEY AT THE
09:19:04 PRESENT TIME.
09:19:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:19:12 >> MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK WILLIAM, LOCATED 1112 EAST
09:19:24 SCOTT STREET.
09:19:28 IS THE COUNCIL HERE?
09:19:30 BECAUSE I WANT TO TELL YOU TO EACH GET ONE OF THESE
09:19:33 FLYERS, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
09:19:42 AND MAKE SURE THE MAYOR GET ONE, TOO.
09:19:45 I WOULD MAIL ONE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHETHER SHE GOT ONE.
09:19:48 FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I DON'T BELIEVE
09:19:51 IN THE CORONAVIRUS.
09:19:52 I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST.
09:19:56 THAT'S MY BELIEF.
09:19:58 AND I WANT YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND WE DIDN'T THINK IT'S
09:20:03 BEING RUN TODAY, IT'S HELL.
09:20:05 I GOT TO TELL YOU FOR THE BLACK FOLKS.
09:20:08 WE DON'T HAVE NO JUSTICE HERE FOR THESE PEOPLE IN THESE
09:20:11 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
09:20:13 AND AS A BLACK MAN YOU KNOW WHAT?
09:20:15 YOU NEED TO GET BUSY AND DO SOMETHING.
09:20:18 YOU NEED TO GET BUSY.
09:20:19 YOU ARE A BLACK MAN JUST LIKE I AM.
09:20:21 AND THEY DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT US.
09:20:24 GUESS WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAY WE ARE.
09:20:26 WE ARE CHILDREN -- HE SAY THAT ON NATIONAL TV.
09:20:33 AND YOU ALL OUGHT TO TELL HIM.
09:20:36 BUT YOU ALL DON'T CARE.
09:20:42 A LOT OF PEOPLE SIT ON THINGS DOWN BELOW.
09:20:46 I HAVE MINE SET ON THINGS ABOVE, WITH JESUS CHRIST.
09:20:54 I HATE TO SAY IT BUT I GOT TO TELL THE TRUTH.
09:20:58 YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO HELL AND YOU ACT LIKE YOU DON'T
09:21:02 GIVE A DAMN.
09:21:03 BUT WE HAVE GOT TO UNDERSTAND.
09:21:04 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
09:21:08 I FILLED OUT MY CENSUS THE OTHER DAY AND I HAD A WOMAN
09:21:12 FILL IT OUT, SAID WHAT'S YOUR NATIONALITY?
09:21:17 I SAID I'M AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
09:21:19 SHE SAID, NO, I MEAN -- AND I SAID I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU
09:21:23 MEAN, I'M AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
09:21:26 YOU AIN'T A AFRICAN AMERICAN?
09:21:31 I SAID, NO, WE WAS BORN RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES
09:21:34 OF AMERICA.
09:21:35 AND WE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
09:21:38 AND WHAT THE UNITED STATES IS ALL ABOUT, IT'S NOT JUST
09:21:44 HAPPENING HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
09:21:45 IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD.
09:21:47 THE EUROPEAN, ASIAN, EVERYBODY KNOW HOW YOU ALL MISTREAT
09:21:52 US.
09:21:53 AND YOU STILL RIGHT NOW, YOU DON'T CARE.
09:21:55 YOU DON'T CARE.
09:21:57 WE CAN GO OUT THERE AND THE POLICE DO NO CHOKE HOLD ON
09:22:05 EVERYBODY.
09:22:05 YOU OUGHT TO BAN THEM FROM HAVING GUNS, PERIOD, BECAUSE
09:22:08 THEY EVIL.
09:22:09 THEY DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.
09:22:13 THOSE WEREN'T GIRLS TALKING ABOUT THEY GOT THE WRONG
09:22:17 ADDRESS.
09:22:18 AND GOD ALMIGHTY, WHEN ARE YOU ALL GOING TO STOP
09:22:24 HARASSING BLACK FOLKS, KILLING BLACK CHILDREN?
09:22:27 WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP?
09:22:28 YOU KNOW YOU AIN'T NEVER GOING TO STOP.
09:22:30 KNOW WHY?
09:22:31 BECAUSE YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN AND
09:22:33 YOU THINK YOU ARE SUPERIOR, AND YOU ARE NOT SUPERIOR OVER
09:22:37 NOBODY.
09:22:38 GOD HAS MADE US SUPERIOR.
09:22:42 HE SAID MY PEOPLE CALL OUT MY NAME.
09:22:51 THAT CORONAVIRUS AIN'T NOTHING BUT A HOAX TO ME.
09:22:55 AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS BUT I CARE ABOUT
09:22:59 JESUS CHRIST AND I AM GOING TO LOVE JESUS CHRIST.
09:23:03 WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR GOD ALMIGHTY.
09:23:07 AND YOU GOT PEOPLE KILLING ONE ANOTHER.
09:23:11 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:23:14 THANK YOU, SIR, FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:23:16 >> YEAH, I HEARD.
09:23:19 I WENT TO THE SCHOOL IN CONNECTICUT KILLING INNOCENT
09:23:23 WHITE KIDS.
09:23:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, PASTOR.
09:23:28 THANK YOU, PASTOR.
09:23:30 THANK YOU, PASTOR.
09:23:31 >> MY NAME IS GILBERT.
09:23:46 [OFF MICROPHONE.]
09:23:48 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS.
09:23:51 NUMBER ONE, ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVEN'T MOVED FURTHER
09:23:55 THAN WE HAVE IS BECAUSE THE CORONAVIRUS.
09:24:00 I SENT MY PEOPLE HOME.
09:24:02 LUCKILY WE ARE BACK UP AND WORKING AGAIN AND THAT'S FINE.
09:24:05 BUT IT LITERALLY SHUT US DOWN.
09:24:07 AS FAR AS DRAWINGS, SAID HEY, GIVE US OUR PERMIT, IT CAN
09:24:14 BE DONE IN A MONTH.
09:24:16 THAT'S STRAIGHTFORWARD.
09:24:17 THAT BEING SAID, THE OTHER THING IS IN THE PACKET, YOU
09:24:22 WERE GIVEN, IS A COPY OF THE LETTER WHERE THE CITY DID A
09:24:30 FULL ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRACT, AND 42,800 AND CHANGE IS
09:24:34 BASICALLY WHAT IT WORKS OUT TO, AS A CHANGE ORDER THAT IS
09:24:40 DONE WITH RESPECT TO THE WORK DONE, BECAUSE THAT WAS
09:24:44 ACTUALLY NOT YET DONE.
09:24:45 SO YOU WILL SEE IT DONE IN THE CHART OF THAT LETTER
09:24:52 APPLES TO APPLES.
09:24:55 BASICALLY 100 GRAND.
09:24:59 OTHER THAN THAT, WE ARE READY TO GO.
09:25:03 IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HIGH HOPES.
09:25:10 THANK YOU MUCH.
09:25:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:25:16 FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:25:17 >> CONNIE BURTON, BLACK LIVES MATTER.
09:25:32 I HAVE TO SAY ALL OF THE NAMES THAT BROUGHT THIS NATION
09:25:34 ALMOST TO ITS KNEES.
09:25:36 THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.
09:25:38 IF YOU GO NOW TO WHERE YOU USUALLY HAVE YOUR MEETINGS,
09:25:43 YOU WOULD SEE BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGNS HANGING OUT OF THE
09:25:46 WINDOWS.
09:25:48 BUT I QUESTION THAT WHEN I LOOK AT THE AGENDA.
09:25:52 AND IT SAYS KEEP ON MOVING IN THE SAME STEPS, COME DOWN
09:26:00 TO THIS PART OF TOWN, AND YOU WONDER AND QUESTION HOW
09:26:05 PEOPLE CAN STILL BE IN THE SAME CRA RULES OF BLACK.
09:26:14 I HOPE THE SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE COME TO EAST TAMPA
09:26:17 SO WE CAN SHOW THEM FOR 30-PLUS YEARS OF COMING TO THIS
09:26:22 CITY COUNCIL AND ASKING JUST FOR THE BASICS, JUST ASKING
09:26:27 FOR THE BASIC OF ACCOUNTABILITY, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE
09:26:31 WHO RECEIVE IT ARE DOING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
09:26:36 THOSE THAT ARE RECEIVING MONEY TO BUILD AFFORDABLE
09:26:39 HOUSING IS DOING IT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE, THOSE
09:26:42 WHO RECEIVE A TO OF MONEY FOR REHAB, AND WE GOT BLUE
09:26:47 TARPS EVERYWHERE.
09:26:53 WE GOT PEOPLE THAT'S LIVING IN THE WRONG WAY HOTEL OVER
09:26:58 ON 50th STREET HAS BECOME A HOUSING COMPLEX WHERE
09:27:02 PEOPLE ARE PAYING $375.
09:27:07 CAN'T COOK THERE BUT THAT'S WHERE THEY LIVE.
09:27:09 AND WE ARE BEYOND SICK AND TIRED.
09:27:12 WE COME DOWN HERE.
09:27:13 WE SAY WE CAN BUILD A MODEL OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:27:18 ALL TYPE OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW THIS CITY IS IN
09:27:26 AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND THAT'S DETERMINED BY THE MARKET.
09:27:29 WELL, THE MARKET, YOU ARE STILL BUILDING HOUSES INSIDE OF
09:27:37 EAST TAMPA THAT THE COMMUNITY CANNOT AFFORD, AND A LOT OF
09:27:41 PEOPLE ARE BEING DUMPED INTO THE COUNTY.
09:27:44 IT'S BECAUSE THE PRODUCT OF SYSTEMIC RACISM.
09:27:49 YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IT.
09:27:50 YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.
09:27:52 BUT I CAN JUST TELL YOU WE ARE MAKING ALL PREPARATION
09:27:56 WHEN THAT SUPER BOWL GETS HERE, WE ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM
09:27:58 A WORLDWIDE TOUR OF SHOWING THEM JUST WHAT IT'S LIKE TO
09:28:04 BE BLACK IN TAMPA.
09:28:06 YES, THERE'S A LOT OF FANS THERE AND YOU ARE CUTTING THEM
09:28:11 A BIG CHECK, BUT I'M TELLING YOU DOES THE COMMUNITY EVEN
09:28:19 KNOW THEM?
09:28:22 WE WOULDN'T SEE SO MUCH ABOUT IT INSIDE OF THE AFRICAN
09:28:25 COMMUNITY IF PEOPLE WERE ADDRESSING REAL NEEDS.
09:28:28 WELL, WHAT HAS HAPPENED, IT SEEMS COZY WONDERFUL
09:28:32 RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU ALL HAVE SOME BLACK FOLKS, THEY
09:28:35 COME IN HERE AND PRAY AND GET NOTICED BECAUSE THEY DO 30,
09:28:40 40 YEARS, BUT NOBODY IN THE COMMUNITY KNOW THEM.
09:28:42 OUR COMMUNITY IS HUNGRY.
09:28:43 NOW PEOPLE WANT TO BE EMPLOYED.
09:28:46 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO LIFT OUR CHILDREN UP SO THEY CAN
09:28:49 SEE A FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES.
09:28:51 AND RIGHT NOW ALL WE SEE IS POVERTY AND MISERY.
09:28:57 BLACK LIVES MATTER.
09:28:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MS. BURTON.
09:29:02 ANYONE ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:29:06 ANYONE ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:29:11 I WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:29:13 STAFF REPORTS.
09:29:17 ITEM NUMBER 1.
09:29:18 >> DAMIEN BEAL, CHAIRMAN FOR DREW PARK CRA.
09:29:33 THE COMMITTEE OF DREW PARK IS NOW FULL STAFF SO WE NOW
09:29:38 HAVE NINE MEMBERS AND WE HAVE BEEN HOLDING VIRTUAL
09:29:40 MEETINGS INTO THE PANDEMIC.
09:29:43 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO UPDATING THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
09:29:48 THE DREW PARK STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE IS IN THE DATA
09:29:51 GATHERING AND ANALYSIS PROCESS INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY TO
09:29:58 DO SOME COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, STARTING IN LATE JULY.
09:30:01 WE ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO DO THIS SAFE AND EFFECTIVELY.
09:30:05 SO WHETHER IT BE IN A MEETING LIKE THIS OR WHETHER WE DO
09:30:09 TELEPHONIC OR VIRTUAL, WE ARE EXPLORING ALL OF THOSE
09:30:14 ACTION BEINGS.
09:30:15 THE PARK IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY
09:30:18 LATE JUNE.
09:30:19 THIS PARK PROVIDES MUCH NEEDED ATTRACTIVE GREEN SPACE AND
09:30:23 RECREATIONAL SPACE AND IT ALSO COMPLETES THE SKYWALK AT
09:30:29 LOIS.
09:30:30 THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING BUT
09:30:35 HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY WHEN IT'S
09:30:38 COMPLETED.
09:30:40 THERE HAVE BEEN TWO FACADE GRANTS APPROVED SINCE JANUARY
09:30:45 OF 2020.
09:30:46 ONE WHERE THE WAREHOUSE FACILITY AND THE OTHER IN ITS ON
09:30:51 THE AGENDA TODAY.
09:30:52 IT IS THE HIGHLY VISIBLE PROPERTY ON DALE MABRY WHICH IS
09:30:55 THE FORMER SITE OF THE SELTZER HOUSE.
09:30:58 THAT IS GOING TO BE TURNED INTO A MIXED USE PLAZA FOR
09:31:01 RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES.
09:31:04 AND IT'S BEEN AN EYESORE FOR SO LONG THAT WE ARE
09:31:07 WELCOMING THE CHANGE IN THAT AREA.
09:31:12 LAST BUT NOT LEAST, EVEN THOUGH SOME BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN
09:31:17 AFFECTED BY COVID-19, IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT A LARGE
09:31:21 NUMBER IN DREW PARK HAVE BEEN AFFECTED, BUT WE ARE
09:31:25 MONITORING THAT CLOSELY.
09:31:27 AND WE ARE GETTING UPDATES TO OUR DISTRIBUTION LIST FOR
09:31:33 RESOURCES TO HELP THEM.
09:31:34 SO THOSE ARE MY UPDATES FOR THE DREW PARK CRA.
09:31:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:31:42 NUMBER 2.
09:31:43 MONTHLY REPORT OF CRA ACTIVITIES.
09:31:55 >>JEANETTE LARUSSA FENTON: INTERIM MANAGER OF THE DREW
09:31:56 PARK IN WEST TAMPA CRA.
09:31:59 HERE TO PROVIDE YOU THE MONTHLY REPORT UPDATE ON BOTH
09:32:02 THOSE CRAs.
09:32:03 ACTUALLY, I WON'T REALLY TELL YOU DREW PARK BECAUSE I
09:32:07 THINK MR. BEAL DID A GOOD JOB OF UPDATING YOU SO I WILL
09:32:11 JUST TALK ABOUT WEST TAMPA FOR A FEW MOMENTS.
09:32:14 THINGS ARE FINALLY RETURNING TO SEMI NORMAL.
09:32:17 THE WEST TAMPA CAC HAD THEIR FIRST REGULAR VIRTUAL
09:32:21 MEETING IN MAY.
09:32:23 IT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING, AND THEY ARE RESUMING
09:32:26 THEIR WORK ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES, AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
09:32:30 THE WEST RIVER PROPERTY RFQ, THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY
09:32:34 REVISIONS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:32:38 THEY HAVE DEVOTED A LOT OF TIME TO REVISIONS TO THE WEST
09:32:41 TAMPA OVERLAY, AND WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A
09:32:44 LOT OF COOPERATION FROM LACHONE DOCK IN THE PLANNING
09:32:48 DEPARTMENT STAFF AND HELPING TO REVIEW THOSE PROVISIONS
09:32:52 OF THE OVER LAY THAT MAY BE IMPEDING BUSINESSES AND
09:32:56 RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND TO MAKE THEM EASIER TO WORK
09:33:00 WITH AND MORE UP TO DATE.
09:33:02 SO THAT'S BEEN AN ONGOING PROJECT.
09:33:05 WE ARE HOPING TO BRING SOME OF THE REVISIONS BACK TO YOU
09:33:08 IN THIS CYCLE AND THEN CONTINUE WORKING ON OTHER
09:33:11 REVISIONS FOR UPCOMING CYCLE.
09:33:14 YOU APPROVED LAST MONTH A FACADE GRANT FOR $13,547 FOR AN
09:33:21 ENTERTAINMENT VENUE AT 2502 NORTH ALBANY SO WE ARE IS
09:33:26 ALWAYS VERY PLEASED WHEN WEEK HAVE FACADE GRANTS THAT
09:33:29 HELP REVITALIZE THE COMMUNITY.
09:33:31 THE RESTAURANTS IN WEST TAMPA HAVE REOPENED, AND THEY ARE
09:33:35 STARTING TO BEGIN NORMAL OR SEMI NORMAL OPERATIONS.
09:33:39 THEY HAVE HAD A VERY GOOD RESPONSE.
09:33:41 YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE LOVE OUR WEST TAMPA RESTAURANTS.
09:33:44 SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TAME WHEN THEY CAN BE
09:33:48 FULLY OPERATIONAL.
09:33:51 WE ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP THE COMMUNITY INFORMED ON
09:33:54 RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS TO
09:33:58 ASSIST THEM THROUGH THIS TIME.
09:34:02 AND FINALLY, MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE UNITY WEST
09:34:05 TAMPA EVENT THAT WAS HELD LAST YEAR IN JULIAN B. LANE
09:34:09 PARK.
09:34:09 GIVEN THE COVID ISSUES AND SOME OTHER FACTORS, AT THIS
09:34:14 TIME, THAT EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED SO NORMALLY IT WOULD
09:34:17 HAVE BEEN HELD IN SEPTEMBER, BUT THEY ARE NOW LOOKING AT
09:34:21 HOPEFULLY A NEW DATE IN 2021.
09:34:25 THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
09:34:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:34:39 >> CAN CTTV QUEUE UP THE POWER POINT FOR ITEM NUMBER 2?
09:34:44 THANK YOU.
09:34:53 COURTNEY ORR, CRA YBOR CITY MANAGER.
09:34:58 MOST OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN VERY INVOLVED WITH HAVE
09:35:00 TO DO WITH THE COAST AND THE PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED SUCH AS
09:35:05 THE LIFT UP LOCAL AND ONE TAMPA RELIEF PROGRAM.
09:35:09 SO WE HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATING A LOT WITH THE COMMUNITY IN
09:35:13 REGARD TO THOSE PROGRAMS AND KEEPING THEM INFORMED WITH
09:35:15 ANYTHING RELATED TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS THAT OUR
09:35:21 BUSINESSES, RESIDENTS NEED TO KNOW, SO WE HAVE BEEN VERY
09:35:24 ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH COMMUNICATION EFFORTS ON THAT
09:35:26 FRONT.
09:35:27 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH SOLID WASTE, BECAUSE AS
09:35:30 BUSINESSES INCREASE, THEIR ACTIVITIES, THE SOLID WASTE
09:35:34 WILL HAVE TO BE RAMPED BACK UP BECAUSE THERE WAS A LITTLE
09:35:38 BIT OF A REDUCTION IN SERVICE DUE TO NOT NEEDING THAT
09:35:43 MUCH SERVICE AS WELL, BUSINESSES WERE CLOSED.
09:35:46 WE ARE LOOKING AT SOLID WASTE AND MAKING SURE THAT THE
09:35:49 BUSINESSES ARE BEING ADDRESSED WITH THEIR DAILY TRASH
09:35:54 NEEDS.
09:35:55 AND WE HAVE ORDERED HEXAGON AND PAVERS FOR THE 14 AND
09:36:01 1500 BLOCKS OF 7th AVENUE BECAUSE HOTEL IRA IS
09:36:05 EXPECTED TO BE OPEN IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR, AND ON THE
09:36:07 NORTH SIDE OF THE 14th, 15th BLOCK, IS GOING TO
09:36:11 LOOK REALLY NICE AND WE WANT THE SOUTH SIDE OF 7th
09:36:14 AVENUE, THAT BLOCK TO LOOK JUST AS NICE SO WE WILL BE
09:36:18 IMPROVING THAT WITH NEW HEXAGON PAVERS.
09:36:22 WE ARE CONTINUING THE STREETSCAPE DOWN TO 26th
09:36:25 STREET.
09:36:27 AS YOU MAY NOTE TODAY, ONLY THE AMENITIES IN THE
09:36:31 STREETSCAPE GO TO 24th STREET.
09:36:34 WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD UP ENOUGH FUNDING TO
09:36:36 COMPLETE THE 7th AVENUE STREETSCAPE ALL THE WAY DOWN
09:36:39 TO 26th AVENUE SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD ON THAT AND
09:36:42 HOPE THAT THAT WILL BE ABLE TO GO FORWARD IN FISCAL YEAR
09:36:47 21.
09:36:49 WE CONDUCTED A COUPLE OF SURVEYS JUST TO GET SOME
09:36:52 FEEDBACK FROM THE MERCHANTS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS IN
09:36:56 REGARD TO COVID-19, AND IT WAS NICE TO SEE THAT THE
09:37:01 RESULTS REFLECTED WHAT THE ONE-TAMPA PROGRAM ACTUALLY HAD
09:37:06 IN PLACE WHICH WAS THE UTILITY AND MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE.
09:37:09 AND WE ALSO DID AN FDOT 14th, 15th STREET EXIT
09:37:14 BUFFER ZONE ANALYSIS.
09:37:15 WE WANTED TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT SHOULD THE
09:37:18 14th-15th STREET EXIT PROPOSED BY FDOT, SHOULD
09:37:23 THAT BE PUT INTO PLACE, AND WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE
09:37:26 COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN REGARD TO ENHANCEMENTS IN
09:37:29 THE AREA.
09:37:30 AND WE HAVE PROVIDED THAT TO YOU AND TO FDOT STAFF.
09:37:34 WE CONTINUE, ALTHOUGH ACTIVITY HAS BEEN DOWN IN YBOR WE
09:37:40 HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR YBOR CITY
09:37:42 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES YES TEAM, AS THEY ARE BETTER KNOWN
09:37:46 AS, AND HAVE BEEN KEEPING THE STREETS AND ALLEYWAYS VERY
09:37:50 CLEAN, AND ALSO HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR INTENSIVE
09:37:53 PRESSURE WASHING COMPANY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE AMENITIES
09:37:58 AND THE APPEARANCE OF 7th AVENUE THROUGHOUT THE
09:38:01 DISTRICT STILL HAS MAINTAINED WHAT IT ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE.
09:38:08 WE HAVE ACTUALLY HAD A MEETING WITH TECO RECENTLY IN
09:38:11 REGARD TO OUR 7th EVE AND STREETSCAPE ENHANCEMENT
09:38:14 PROJECT WHERE WE WILL SHALL REPLACING THE ICONIC 7th
09:38:17 EVE ARCHWAY LIGHTS ALL UP AND DOWN 7th AVENUE AND WE
09:38:22 ARE WORKING ON A COMMUNICATIONS PLAN TO START REACHING
09:38:24 OUT TO GET THE COMMUNITY FULLY AWARE OF WHAT THAT PROJECT
09:38:28 WILL LOOK LIKE AND ITS TIMELINE.
09:38:31 IN REGARD TO OUR COMMITTEES, THE YCDC CULTURAL ARTS AND
09:38:36 SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE HELD A VIRTUAL MEETING, AND WE
09:38:40 STARTED TO REVIEW THE VISION 2020 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
09:38:44 ITEM SO THAT WE CAN SELECT THE TOP FIVE ITEMS THAT WE
09:38:48 NEED TO ADDRESS WITHIN THAT COMMITTEE.
09:38:50 AND WE REVIEWED OUR SPECIAL EVENTS CO-SPONSORSHIP GRANTS,
09:38:54 THAT THAT WILL BE RELEASED -- ACTUALLY, I BELIEVE
09:39:00 TOMORROW.
09:39:00 SO WE WILL BE SOLICITING APPLICATIONS FOR OUR SPECIAL
09:39:04 EVENTS.
09:39:05 THOSE EVENTS HAD TO BE CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19
09:39:10 SITUATION.
09:39:11 WE DID HOLD A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING LAST WEEK TO SEE IF
09:39:15 OUR TAMPA EVENTS WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE A DIFFERENT STYLE
09:39:18 OF EVENT TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR,
09:39:22 SO BY SEPTEMBER 30th.
09:39:25 SO A COUPLE TWO OR THREE OF THOSE EVENTS WERE APPROVED TO
09:39:28 GO FORWARD BEFORE SEPTEMBER.
09:39:31 AND WE HAD A FACADE GRANT APPLICATION APPROVAL
09:39:35 AT 2234 EAST 7th AVENUE.
09:39:40 AND THEN WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND TRANSPORTATION,
09:39:44 WE ARE STILL MOVING FORWARD WITH HELPING TO FUND SECURITY
09:39:47 CAMERAS ALONG 7th AVENUE.
09:39:52 WE HAVE OFFERED TO ASSIST FOR FINANCIAL PAYMENT FOR UP TO
09:39:56 10 SECURITY CAMERAS
09:39:58 ALONG 7th AVENUE.
09:40:00 AND THEN FOR OUR BOARD MEETING, WE REVIEWED OUR MARKETING
09:40:09 AND COMMUNICATIONS RSP.
09:40:13 WE CURRENTLY HAVE A MARKETING COMPANY ON BOARD AND THAT
09:40:15 CONTRACT IS SET TO EXPIRE IN SEPTEMBER.
09:40:19 WE HAVE WORKED WITH OUR COMMITTEE TO ISSUE LANGUAGE FOR
09:40:23 SCOPE OF SERVICES FOR A NEW RFP TO BE ISSUED SOMETIME AT
09:40:27 THE END OF THIS MONTH.
09:40:30 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
09:40:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MS. ORR, HOW WAS THE OPENING OF THE
09:40:40 BARS AND NIGHT CLUBS THIS PAST WEEK?
09:40:42 >> I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY CONCERNS AT THIS POINT.
09:40:44 I HAVE NOT.
09:40:45 I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF CONCERNS, NOT QUITE CERTAIN WHO
09:40:50 COULD OPEN, WHO COULDN'T, BUT IT SOUND LIKE TPD AND THE
09:40:55 COMMUNITY HANDLED IT QUITE WELL.
09:40:57 I DIDN'T HEAR THAT THERE WERE ANY CONCERNS OR ISSUES.
09:41:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:41:03 >> YOU'RE WELCOME.
09:41:20 >> ED JOHNSON, CRA MANAGER FOR EAST TAMPA.
09:41:23 COULD I HAVE THE POWER POINT, PLEASE?
09:41:34 I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU OUR ACTIVITIES FOR THE MONTH.
09:41:36 AS I LIKE TO REPORT ON ONGOING PROJECTS ... SORRY ABOUT
09:41:54 THAT.
09:41:54 I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO REPORT ON ONGOING PROJECTS,
09:41:59 PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS EVERY MONTH.
09:42:00 THIS MONTH, I AM GOING TO HIGHLIGHT OUR CLEAN CITY TEAM
09:42:05 AND OUR YOUTH ACTIVITIES PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE BEEN FUNDED
09:42:10 THIS PAST YEAR, TO THE TUNE OF $425,000.
09:42:16 YOU KNOW, AS PART OF THAT, THERE WAS ANOTHER AWARD OF
09:42:22 $130,000 TO BE ABLE TO HIRE FIVE PART TIME INDIVIDUALS
09:42:26 THAT ARE GRADUATES FROM OUR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS, AND
09:42:31 SINCE THIS WAS MADE WE NOW HAVE THREE PART-TIMERS THAT
09:42:35 HAVE ALREADY STARTED WORKING AND TWO OF THEM ARE STILL IN
09:42:39 BACKGROUND CLEARANCE.
09:42:40 AND SO THE WORK THAT OUR YOUNG FOLKS ARE DOING, BY THE
09:42:44 WAY, THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM ALSO STARTED THE FIRST OF
09:42:48 JUNE.
09:42:50 WE HAVE 36 YOUTH THAT ARE WORKING THE SUMMER MONTHS,
09:42:54 WHILE SCHOOL IS OUT, AND THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED WORK.
09:42:57 AND THIS REPORT OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T INCORPORATE WHAT THEY
09:43:04 STARTED SINCE LAST MONTH.
09:43:06 WE HAVE HAD TEN COMMUNITY SERVICE WORKERS THAT WORKED
09:43:08 WITH OUR CLEAN CITY FOLKS.
09:43:12 AND THEY PRODUCED OVER 80 MAN HOURS PRODUCING THE ROUTINE
09:43:18 MAINTENANCE THAT YOU SEE DISPLAYED HERE, COVERED 104
09:43:21 SQUARE MILES OF OUR MAJOR THOROUGHFARES AND RESIDENTIAL
09:43:25 CORRIDORS, CORRIDORS THAT WERE SERVICED WHICH INCLUDED
09:43:29 BUT NOT LIMITED TO MOWING, EDGING, HERBICIDE TREATMENT,
09:43:34 SNIPE SIGN REMOVAL, AND MINOR TREE TRIMMING.
09:43:37 ALSO, THEY SERVICE THE RED BRICK BUS STOP THAT'S LOCATED
09:43:43 AT COLUMBUS AND NEBRASKA DRIVE, NEBRASKA AVENUE.
09:43:48 THE ABATEMENT FOR LITTER AND TRASH THROUGHOUT EAST TAMPA.
09:43:53 WE ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT THE WASTE AND ACCUMULATION IN OUR
09:43:58 COMMUNITY, BUT THESE FOLKS ARE DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB OF
09:44:01 BEING ABLE TO REMOVE IT.
09:44:03 YOU CAN SEE ALMOST 215 TONS OF DEBRIS WAS COLLECTED.
09:44:08 AND HIGHLIGHT FROM THESE SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT THEY DO,
09:44:14 LITTER ABATEMENT ALONG NEBRASKA AVENUE, WHICH INCLUDES
09:44:19 BORRELL PARK AND THIS IS ONGOING DAILY.
09:44:24 THEY ARE CONSTANTLY WORKING WITH OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT
09:44:26 FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO KEEP BORRELL PARK POLICED UP, AS WELL
09:44:31 AS ALONG NEBRASKA AVENUE ALL THE WAY FROM I-4 BACK TO DR.
09:44:35 MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD, WHICH ENTAILS CLEANING THE
09:44:37 RIGHTS-OF-WAY, THE BUS STOPS, UNDERNEATH THE UNDERPASSES,
09:44:42 AND THEY HAVE ALSO RESPONDED TO OVER 30 SERVICE REQUESTS
09:44:45 CONSISTING OF THE ILLEGAL DUMPING OR ABATEMENT, TREE
09:44:49 CONCERNS, ALLEYWAYS, VACANT LOT MAINTENANCE.
09:44:59 ALONG WITH THE WORK THAT OUR CLEAN TEAM DOES, WE ALSO
09:45:05 HAVE ALLOTTED $100 HUE FOR DEMOLITION OF -- $100,000 FOR
09:45:14 ABATEMENT OF DILAPIDATED PROPERTIES IN EAST TAMPA AND OUR
09:45:19 PARTIES HAVE WORKED HARD IN IDENTIFYING THOSE STRUCTURES
09:45:21 AND GETTING THEM UP THERE THE PROCESS.
09:45:23 WE ISSUED TO DATE 152 STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN ISSUED
09:45:28 DEMOLITION CITATIONS WITH 54 OF THOSE STRUCTURES HAVE
09:45:32 BEEN DEMOLISHED SINCE THE END OF MAY.
09:45:35 31 OF THOSE 54 PROPERTIES WERE VOLUNTARILY REMOVED BY THE
09:45:40 EXISTING OWNERS.
09:45:42 SAVING US A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESOURCES FUNDINGWISE.
09:45:47 SO 23 OF THOSE STRUCTURES WERE DEMOLISHED BY OUR OWN
09:45:50 FUNDED CONTRACTOR.
09:45:58 AND I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME DIRECT ACTIVITY HAPPENING
09:46:02 WITHIN THE 34th STREET HAS AN ONGOING SAFETY AND ROAD
09:46:07 IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT WAS STARTED BACK IN MARCH, AND
09:46:13 THAT IS A 3.7 MILLION PROJECT AWARDED TO DAVID NELSON
09:46:19 CONTRACTORS, AND THEY STARTED WITH DEVELOPING THE
09:46:22 ROUNDABOUTS, ONE AT 34th AND 21st AVENUE, AND ONE
09:46:28 AT LAKE AVENUE THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED.
09:46:32 THEY ARE ABOUT 30% INTO THE CONTRACT.
09:46:36 THEY STARTED IN MARCH, AND THEY ARE 30% COMPLETE.
09:46:40 SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT IS SLATED FOR
09:46:42 DECEMBER.
09:46:43 AND FINAL COMPLETION SOMEWHERE AROUND FEBRUARY OF NEXT
09:46:47 YEAR.
09:46:52 ANOTHER ONE I WANTED TO KIND OF HIGHLIGHT IS ALONG
09:46:55 COLUMBUS DRIVE.
09:46:55 THIS IS A SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
09:46:59 THE SCOPE SERVICES FOR THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE STREETS
09:47:04 AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT FROM NEBRASKA RUNNING FROM
09:47:06 NEBRASKA AVENUE DOWN TO 14th STREET, WHICH INCLUDES
09:47:11 8-FOOT SIDEWALKS, CROSSWALKS AND RESURFACING OF THIS
09:47:16 RIGHT-OF-WAY.
09:47:17 AT THE BOTTOM IS KIND OF A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF EXACTLY
09:47:21 WHAT IT WILL ENTAIL.
09:47:23 THE FINAL DESIGN WAS COMPLETED IN APRIL.
09:47:25 BIDDING AND PROCUREMENT PROCESS IS STARTING THIS MONTH.
09:47:30 AND HOPE TO START CONSTRUCTION IN NOVEMBER.
09:47:34 AND THE ESTIMATED COST OF THIS PROJECT IS $2.6 MILLION.
09:47:42 ANOTHER ONE WHICH IS ALSO A COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT IS
09:47:47 GETTING READY TO START.
09:47:48 IT'S ON THE BOOKS TO START ALSO, THE SCOPE OF THIS ONE IS
09:47:53 COMPLETE STREETS, SAFETY IMPROVEMENT, RUNNING FROM TAMPA
09:47:57 STREET OVER TO 9th STREET, WHICH INCLUDES LANE
09:48:01 REALLOCATIONS, TWO-WAY TRACK, MID BLOCK CROSSWALKS,
09:48:07 RESURFACING.
09:48:09 FINAL DESIGN WAS COMPLETE, BUT SHOULD BE COMPLETED NEXT
09:48:12 YEAR WHEN CONSTRUCTION IS STARTING IN OCTOBER OF 21.
09:48:16 THE ESTIMATED COST OF THIS PROJECT IS A LITTLE OVER
09:48:19 $$2.1 MILLION.
09:48:22 AND I JUST END UP WITH SOME IDEAS OF SOME EVENTS THAT
09:48:29 HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE LAST REPORTING.
09:48:33 I RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE CONTRACTOR, OR THE DEVELOPER
09:48:37 ACTUALLY OF MADISON HIGHLAND, AFFORDABLE HOUSING
09:48:41 DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL BE CONSTRUCTED FOR 7th STREET,
09:48:49 102 UNITS OF AFFORDABLE ELDERLY APARTMENTS FOR 55 AND
09:48:57 ABOVE.
09:48:57 THEY TELL ME THAT THEY ARE CLOSING ON THEIR TAX CREDIT.
09:49:01 THEIR 9% TAX CREDIT THAT THEY ARE GETTING FROM THE STATE
09:49:04 FOR THIS PROJECT.
09:49:05 THE CLOSING IS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER.
09:49:08 THE EAST TAMPA STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, THE CONTRACT HAS
09:49:14 BEEN AWARDED, APPROVED AND FUNDED, AND THE CONTRACTOR IS
09:49:19 SLATED TO START DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY SOMETIME
09:49:25 IN THE MID MONTH OF JUNE HERE.
09:49:29 AND I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED DAILY AS A MEMBER OF THE EOC AS
09:49:33 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR ESF 18 MEMBER,
09:49:39 ALSO MEAT WITH PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPERS DISCUSSING
09:49:42 POTENTIAL HOUSING AND COMMERCIAL PROJECT CONCEPTS, AND I
09:49:47 WILL SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT, IT'S NOT FOR TOTAL
09:49:50 RELEASE YET BUT I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH TWO DEVELOPERS
09:49:55 THAT ARE RIGHT NOW CONSTRUCT A SURGICAL MASS PRODUCTION
09:50:03 COMPANY, MANUFACTURING COMPANY THAT'S GOING TO BE
09:50:06 OPERATING WITHIN OUR CRA, AND THERE WILL BE SOME PRESS
09:50:10 COMING OUT ON THAT JUST AS SOON AS THEY FINISH WITH THEIR
09:50:13 PERMITS, WHICH ARE IN THE WORKS AS WE SPEAK.
09:50:18 THEY HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE HIRING PROCESS.
09:50:21 THEY ACTUALLY HIRED 30 PERSONNEL FOR THIS COMPANY.
09:50:26 AND 19 OF THE 30 THAT THEY HIRED ARE WOMEN, AND A
09:50:31 MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS RESIDE WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
09:50:35 SO THERE WILL BE MORE COMING OUT ON THAT AS THEY FINISH
09:50:39 DEVELOPING THEIR PLAN OF ACTION.
09:50:45 THE LAST COUPLE OF THINGS, I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
09:50:49 WE HAVE BEEN CONTINUOUSLY MEETING WITH OUR ADVISORY
09:50:53 COMMITTEE AND THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES VIRTUALLY.
09:50:56 WE HAVE HELD SEVERAL MEETINGS SINCE THE LAST TIME WE
09:50:59 REPORTED.
09:51:02 THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY WORKING ON DEVELOPING PROJECT AND
09:51:05 PROGRAM IDEAS FOR THE UPCOMING FY 21 BUDGET PROCESS TO BE
09:51:10 ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT.
09:51:19 I THINK IT'S OOH LITTLE OVER $5 MILLION SLATED FOR FY 21
09:51:24 FOR EAST TAMPA CRA.
09:51:25 SO THE GROUP HAS BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON COMING UP AND
09:51:28 DEVELOPING PROJECTS TO BE ABLE TO DISBURSE ALL OF THAT $5
09:51:34 MILLION DESIGNATED PROGRAMS PROJECTS AND YOU WILL BE
09:51:38 HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE YEAR.
09:51:41 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO REPORT TODAY.
09:51:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: QUESTION.
09:51:46 I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GET WITH SPRING PARK.
09:51:51 I WAS INVITED TO A MEETING LAST WEEK WITH DIANE HART
09:51:56 UNDERSTOOD THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM WHERE WE HAVE
09:52:04 MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES THAT DEAL WITH ROOFING AND
09:52:08 LANDSCAPING.
09:52:09 WE ARE LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE CHALLENGES WITH SOME OF
09:52:17 THEIR BACKGROUND.
09:52:18 WE THINK THAT IF WE ARE ABLE TO PROCESS SOME GRANTS WE
09:52:24 ARE ABLE TO GET SOME OF THESE PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY
09:52:26 WHO HAVE THESE TYPE OF BUSINESSES TO WHERE THEY CAN
09:52:29 EMPLOY SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUAL TO CLEAN UP EAST TAMPA.
09:52:31 I ASKED AT MY LAST CRA BOARD MEETING, I ASKED THAT THE
09:52:38 BOARD TRY TO COME UP WITH AN IDEA ABOUT A TASK FORCE IN
09:52:42 REFERENCE TO ZONES, EAST TAMPA, I AM STILL LOOKING FOR
09:52:46 THAT TO BE DONE, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE TO
09:52:49 CORDON OFF THESE SECTIONS IN ORDER TO MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT
09:52:52 SO PEOPLE CAN SEE SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING.
09:52:54 SO I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GET WITH MR. BART AND MEET WITH
09:52:59 THE CDC OF EAST TAMPA, HE HAS A PROGRAM, TO HELP GET SOME
09:53:06 DOLLARS TO BE ABLE TO START EMPLOYING SOME OF OUR YOUNG
09:53:10 KIDS TO HELP GET THEM OFF THE STREETS.
09:53:14 ECONOMICS IS A PROBLEM.
09:53:15 IF THEY ARE WORKING, THEY ARE WORKING, THEY AIN'T PLAYING
09:53:20 AROUND.
09:53:20 SO MY PLAN IS TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM.
09:53:23 WE HAVE DOLLARS NOW TO BE ABLE TO PUT IN EAST TAMPA TO
09:53:27 WHERE YOU HAVE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE ROOFING COMPANIES,
09:53:33 PAINTING COMPANIES, LANDSCAPING, TO BE ABLE TO HELP THAT
09:53:37 COMMUNITY SURVIVE, STRIFE, AND GET THE BLIGHT OUT.
09:53:41 WE HAVE GOT TO GET RID OF THE GARBAGE AND TRASH.
09:53:44 AND MY OPINION IS WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE SITTING OUT, WE
09:53:49 SHOULD BE ABLE TO PUT THEM TO WORK WITH SOME OF THESE
09:53:51 SMALLER COMPANIES AND SO FORTH TO GET THE MONEY, AN
09:53:56 ENTREPRENEURSHIP, WORKING WITH SOME OF THESE COMPANIES TO
09:53:59 GET THEM TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
09:54:02 EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
09:54:05 THEY HAVE GOT SOME CHALLENGES, BUT I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOME
09:54:08 DOLLARS NOW THAT CRA CAN PURCHASE SOME TYPE OF PROGRAM.
09:54:14 WE HAVE DONE THAT WITH SOME CODE ENFORCEMENT JOBS THAT
09:54:17 CRA HAS GIVEN THEM.
09:54:18 BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE, WHO CAN'T
09:54:23 PASS A BACKGROUND.
09:54:24 BUT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO GET ON A JOB CREW WITH A LOCAL
09:54:28 PAINTER, A LOCAL ROOFER, LOCAL LANDSCAPING COMPANY.
09:54:33 WE HAVE GOT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW THEM TO GET THEM TO BE
09:54:36 SUCCESSFUL.
09:54:37 SO I AM ASKING YOU TAKE THAT BACK TO YOUR CDC BOARD, GET
09:54:41 WITH FREDDY BARTON IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE, AND WE ALL PUT
09:54:50 UP SOME MONEY UP FRONT ALREADY.
09:54:54 THAT'S WHY WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR THAT CRA TO DO.
09:54:57 WE HAVE MONEY NOW.
09:54:58 WE NEED TO GET KIDS EMPLOYED AND GET THEIR MINDS SET ON A
09:55:02 GOAL.
09:55:03 SO I WANT YOU TO DO THAT.
09:55:05 >> ED JOHNSON: I WILL REACH OUT TO MR. BARTON TODAY OR
09:55:13 TOMORROW AND SEE WHAT POSSIBLE COLLABORATION WE COULD
09:55:18 MAKE.
09:55:19 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO PUT ON THE RECORD THAT OUR ADVISORY
09:55:21 COMMITTEE AND THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING NOW IN TRYING
09:55:24 TO DEVELOP NEW IDEAS AND NEW PROGRAMS, AN EXAMPLE IS THE
09:55:31 YOUTH, THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN
09:55:35 EXISTENCE HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND WE
09:55:38 HAVE 36 KIDS THAT ARE ACTUALLY OUT THERE WORKING RIGHT
09:55:41 NOW ON THE STREETS.
09:55:42 SO OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS LOOKING AT EXPANDING THE
09:55:46 NUMBERS FROM 36, MAYBE DOUBLING THAT NUMBER FOR NEXT
09:55:49 YEAR, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF EVEN HIRING SOME OF THESE
09:55:54 INDIVIDUALS ON A PART-TIME BASIS THAT WILL ALSO GIVE THEM
09:55:58 THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ADVANCEMENT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
09:56:02 THAT MIGHT COME UP IN THE CITY.
09:56:05 WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH OUR SUMMER YOUTH
09:56:07 PROGRAM OVER THE YEARS.
09:56:09 SEVERAL OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES THAT ARE NOW WORKING FOR
09:56:13 THE CITY CAME THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.
09:56:15 SO WE DO KNOW IT WORKS.
09:56:18 AND WE HAVE THE RESOURCES AND WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO
09:56:21 TRY TO EXPAND THAT.
09:56:22 SO MAYBE WHAT MR. BARTON HAS, THE TYPE OF PROGRAM HE HAS,
09:56:28 MAYBE WE CAN FORM A COLLABORATION OF TYPE TO BE ABLE TO
09:56:33 ADVANCE THAT.
09:56:34 WE'LL LOOK INTO IT.
09:56:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I UNDERSTAND.
09:56:37 THAT THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND I AM GRATEFUL
09:56:39 THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ADD MORE KIDS TO THAT.
09:56:41 BUT AGAIN, THOSE KIDS ARE IN A TO ECHELON GROUP.
09:56:47 >> I UNDERSTAND.
09:56:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM TALKING ABOUT THOSE KIDS ON THAT
09:56:50 BOTTOM TIER.
09:56:52 THAT'S WHO WE HAVE TO GET OPPORTUNITY AS WELL.
09:56:56 I HAVE 18 KIDS NOW WHO ARE STILL WAITING FOR THEIR
09:56:59 BACKGROUND CHECKS.
09:57:01 I WENT THROUGH THE ORIENTATION LAST WEEK.
09:57:03 I TALKED ABOUT THE -- I UNDERSTAND THAT LEVEL OF KIDS.
09:57:09 BUT I HAVE TO SAVE ALL KIDS AND THAT BOTTOM PER SEN TAIL.
09:57:16 WE ARE CHANGING THAT WORD "AT RISK" POSSIBLY.
09:57:20 IT'S A NEGATIVE WORD IN ITSELF.
09:57:22 SO I UNDERSTAND.
09:57:24 I'M GRATEFUL WE DO.
09:57:27 THAT BUT WE STILL HAVE SOME CHALLENGES.
09:57:30 AND WHAT I AM ASKING AS BOARD CHAIRMAN IS THAT YOU TAKE
09:57:32 THAT MESSAGE BACK TO YOUR CDC BOARD OF EAST TAMPA BECAUSE
09:57:35 I THINK WE CAN STILL HELP MORE KIDS IN THAT BOTTOM AREA
09:57:40 UNDERSTOOD THOSE TREES WHO ARE HANGING OUT AT THOSE
09:57:43 CONVENIENCE STORES, BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO GET
09:57:48 DOLLARS.
09:57:49 AND PLEASE GET THAT MESSAGE OUT.
09:57:54 >> WILL DO.
09:57:57 ALSO, REMEMBER, THE ANSWER TO THAT IS HAVING COMPANIES
09:58:01 THAT ARE WILLING TO OPEN THEIR DOORS TO BE ABLE TO HIRE
09:58:04 SOME OF THESE KIDS ONCE THEY GO THROUGH SOME TYPE OF
09:58:06 TRAINING TO GET THEM PREPARED FOR IS THAT AT THE END OF
09:58:09 THE DAY THEY HAVE TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO.
09:58:12 SO WE HAVE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO GET THE ATTENTION OF
09:58:15 BUSINESS OWNERS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO HIRE SOME OF THESE
09:58:18 KIDS ONCE THAT HAPPENS.
09:58:21 SO THAT'S THE SUPPORT WE ARE GOING TO NEED.
09:58:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I UNDERSTAND.
09:58:25 I UNDERSTAND.
09:58:26 I AM NOT SAYING WHAT WE CAN'T DO.
09:58:28 I'M SAYING WHAT WE CAN DO.
09:58:30 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU KNOW, A YEAR AGO, WE TALKED ABOUT
09:58:36 OTHER KIND OF SERVICE PROGRAMS, AND WE COULDN'T DO THAT
09:58:42 EXACTLY.
09:58:50 BUT JUST BUILDING ON WHAT MY COLLEAGUE SAID, ANYTHING
09:58:52 THAT YOU ARE ASKING, ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN THINK ABOUT
09:58:57 AND WORK WITH THE CDC ON THAT WOULD INVOLVE TRAINING, WE
09:59:00 WOULD USE CRA MONEY FOR, BUT ALSO ANYTHING THAT CAN HELP
09:59:05 BUILD ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ANY DIRECT SUPPORT THAT CAN HELP
09:59:09 DO THAT.
09:59:11 AND THE BOSTON COMMUNITY MODEL, THEY BUY REAL ESTATE THAT
09:59:17 HAS HOUSING AND SHOPS IN IT AND THEN THEY SUBSIDIZE THE
09:59:20 SHOPS AS AN INVESTMENT IN THE COMPANIES.
09:59:24 AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE CAN DO.
09:59:27 IT'S FOR ANOTHER CONVERSATION.
09:59:29 BUT ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP NOT ONLY PROVIDE SKILLS
09:59:34 BUT TO INSPIRE ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
09:59:36 MR. JOHNSON, TO YOUR POINT ABOUT COMPANIES, IF YOU HAVE A
09:59:39 PROBLEM TRYING TO MATCH PEOPLE WITH COMPANIES, LET ME
09:59:41 KNOW.
09:59:41 I AM HAPPY TO GO TO ANY OF THE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND
09:59:45 BE AN ADVOCATE FOR THAT.
09:59:47 I THINK BROACHING THOSE GAPS CAN HELP FILL THOSE
09:59:51 POSITIONS QUICKLY.
09:59:52 >> THANK YOU.
09:59:54 THAT WILL DEFINITELY HELP.
09:59:55 >>MORRIS MASSEY: REAL QUICKLY.
09:59:57 AND OBVIOUSLY WE WILL WORK CREATIVELY TO FIND WHAT WAYS
10:00:02 WE CAN ASSIST.
10:00:02 BUT YOU ARE CORRECT.
10:00:03 GENERALLY IN A COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT WE ARE LIMITED
10:00:07 IN WHAT WE CAN PROVIDE.
10:00:10 IT'S PRIMARILY IN REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THAT WE WILL
10:00:12 OBVIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS AS CREATIVELY AS POSSIBLE AND SEE
10:00:16 WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP.
10:00:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. JOHNSON.
10:00:36 >>ROB ROSNER: DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR DOWNTOWN.
10:00:40 COULD WE PUT UP THE SLIDE, PLEASE?
10:00:45 TO START OFF WITH, I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT ABOUT THE
10:00:47 BUILDING WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW, THE TAMPA CONVENTION
10:00:49 CENTER, THE RFQ PROCESS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN MARCH
10:00:54 AND MAY AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S BEEN PUSHED OFF.
10:00:55 THE INTERVIEW PROCESS FOR THE ONES THAT WERE SELECTED, IT
10:00:59 WILL BE IN JULY.
10:01:00 AND THAT'S BEING HANDLED THROUGH BRAD BAIRD AND CONTRACT
10:01:05 7 AND THAT PROCESS WILL BE HAPPENING THROUGH JULY.
10:01:10 SO MOVING FORWARD WITH THE RIVERWALK IMPROVEMENTS,
10:01:14 PERMITTING IS JUST ABOUT COMPLETE.
10:01:15 THE LAST OF THE FINAL COMMENTS WERE BUTT IN YESTERDAY AND
10:01:18 WE ARE WRAPPING THOSE UP TODAY AND TOMORROW.
10:01:21 THIS PHASE 2 THAT I WILL REPORT ON IN A LITTLE BIT IS
10:01:26 STARTING THE NEXT PROCESS AND RIVERWALK IMPROVEMENTS WILL
10:01:28 BE DONE IN THIS NEXT PHASE.
10:01:34 INDIRECT ACTIVITY, AS YOU KNOW, THE LIFT-UP HAS BEEN
10:01:42 SOMETHING VERY SUCCESSFUL FOR DOWNTOWN.
10:01:43 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ACTIVITY FOR THAT.
10:01:46 MOSTLY, THE STREET CLOSURES THAT HELPED THE BUSINESSES BE
10:01:50 ABLE TO EXPAND FOR THE COVID HAS RECEIVED A LOT OF
10:01:53 NATIONAL ATTENTION AND I COMMEND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR
10:01:56 MOVING FORWARD WITH THOSE, AND A LOT OF DOWNTOWN FOLKS
10:02:00 FELT THAT WAS A POSITIVE THING TO DO.
10:02:03 MOVING ON TO WATER STREET TAMPA, JW MARRIOTT CONTINUES TO
10:02:08 BE ON SCHEDULE.
10:02:09 THEY BELIEVE THEY WILL BE OPEN IN DECEMBER, AND
10:02:12 OPERATING, SO THEY WILL BE READY FOR SUPER BOWL.
10:02:15 AND THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
10:02:18 815 WATER STREET, THE TWO TOWERS THAT ARE THERE, THEY
10:02:21 HAVE TOPPED OUT AND ARE CLOSING THEIR BUILDING AND
10:02:24 BEGINNING INTERIOR RENOVATIONS AS WE SPEAK.
10:02:28 ONE OF THE TWO CRANES IS NOW BEING DISMANTLED AND ARE
10:02:32 WORKING THROUGH THE M.O.T. TO CLOSE STREETS TO DO THAT.
10:02:37 THE BUILDING NEXT TO MORSANI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HAS
10:02:45 CLOSED OUT.
10:02:46 THERE'S A RESIDENTIAL TOWER CALLED THE H-1 BLOCK AHEAD OF
10:02:50 SCHEDULE BECAUSE THE COVID HAS BEEN ABLE TO SPEED ALONG
10:02:53 AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HIRE PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST
10:02:56 JOBS.
10:02:56 SO THEY ARE SEEING A BENEFIT FROM REHIRING PEOPLE THAT
10:03:03 HAVE BEEN UNDEREMPLOYED.
10:03:07 PLANNERS ARE WORKING ON PHASE 3.
10:03:10 THAT'S THE NEXT PIECE OF IT.
10:03:11 WE ARE FINISH UP THE END OF PHASE 1 WHICH HAD MULTIPLE
10:03:15 STAGES WITHIN IT.
10:03:16 THIS IS THE AREA THAT IS NORTH OF CUMBERLAND.
10:03:19 THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THAT NEXT PLANNING PROCESS FOR
10:03:22 WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO WITH THE MILL SITE?
10:03:28 AND THEN THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP IS PROVIDING $50,000
10:03:32 WORTH OF LOCAL GRANTS TO DEVELOP BUSINESSES AND THOSE
10:03:34 HAVE ALL BEEN DISTRIBUTED IN THE FORM OF $25 EACH, I
10:03:38 BELIEVE.
10:03:39 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I MOVE ON TO CHANNEL
10:03:41 DISTRICT?
10:03:47 GREAT, THANK YOU.
10:03:51 FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT, WE ARE MEETING REGULARLY AND WE
10:03:53 HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR EACH OF THESE
10:03:56 DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
10:03:56 MANY OF THEM ARE AT 30 OR 60%, AND WE ARE MOVING THROUGH
10:04:03 WORKING WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, WATER,
10:04:06 TRANSPORTATION, SEWER, REVIEWING THE PLANS THAT AT THIS
10:04:12 POINT WE ARE REALIZING SOME OF THESE AREAS NEED MORE
10:04:14 WATER LINE WORK THAN EXPECTED AND SOME OF THOSE COSTS
10:04:17 WILL CHANGE.
10:04:18 BUT THE BEST TIME TO DO IT NOW AS WE TEST THESE THINGS SO
10:04:21 WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THOSE.
10:04:22 I AM NOT GOING TO GO UP THERE EACH ONE OF THESE BUT YOU
10:04:26 CAN SEE WE ARE KEEPING A REGULAR LIST OF THINGS AND WHERE
10:04:28 THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS.
10:04:30 AND WE HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH THESE STAKEHOLDERS USING
10:04:33 VIRTUAL MEETINGS, AND OWN A FEW CASES WE MEET ON-SITE.
10:04:38 WHEN WE DO THAT WE WOULD SOCIALLY DISTANCE PROPERLY AND
10:04:41 ALSO HAVE FACE COVERINGS.
10:04:44 MADISON STREET PARK HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND WE ARE STILL
10:04:48 PLANNING TO HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING WITH YOU ALL.
10:04:51 WE DID DO A SOFT OPENING, I BELIEVE THAT WAS ABOUT TWO
10:04:56 WEEKS AGO THAT WE DID THAT.
10:04:57 THE NEIGHBORHOODS REALLY WANTING TO USE THE PARK AND
10:05:00 WANTED A SOFT OPENING, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH
10:05:03 THAT.
10:05:06 AND I APPLAUD PAUL FOR DOING THAT.
10:05:08 WITH THAT I WILL MOVE ONTO THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:05:16 SPARKMAN WHARF, THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH DONE WITH THE
10:05:18 OFFICES AND RETAIL SPACES AND PRETTY MUCH WRAPPING UP A
10:05:24 FEW THINGS AND PLANNING A RIBBON CUTTING.
10:05:26 I AM SURE YOU WILL BE HEARING SOMETHING THROUGH THE
10:05:29 MAYOR'S OFFICE OR YOUR OFFICES.
10:05:30 THE WILLIAMS OIL SITE IS BEING DONE BY ACI IN PARTNERSHIP
10:05:37 WITH MERCURY ADVISORS, AND THAT PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG.
10:05:41 THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THE PERMIT PROCESS AND THEY ARE
10:05:43 WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THE AGREEMENTS THAT GO ALONG WITH
10:05:46 THE BONUS DENSITY AND THOSE THINGS SO YOU WILL SEE THAT
10:05:50 LATER IN THE MONTH ON COUNCIL AGENDAS.
10:05:52 ACROSS THE STREET FROM THAT THE DANIEL CORPORATION, THEY
10:05:54 HAVEN'T NAMED THEIR PROJECT YET BUT IT'S THE PARCEL THAT
10:05:59 WE MOVED THE LIFT STATION THAT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT
10:06:03 PARCEL. WE MOVED THAT A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO TO MAKE THIS
10:06:07 PARCEL BUILDABLE AND TO UPGRADE THE LIFT STATION TO ALL
10:06:10 THE NEED OF THE AREA.
10:06:11 SO THAT PROJECT I SPOKE WITH HIM JUST YESTERDAY, AND THEY
10:06:16 ARE EXCITED ABOUT GETTING INTO THE GROUND, AND N LATE
10:06:20 AUGUST TO START DOING FOUNDATION PERMITS AND GETTING THAT
10:06:23 WORK DONE.
10:06:24 THERE IS SOME REMEDIATION WORK THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT.
10:06:29 I HAVE HAD DAN FAYHE TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE TAKING
10:06:35 ADVANTAGE OF THE BROWNFIELD GRANT PROCESS AND SOME OF THE
10:06:39 THINGS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:06:43 SO OTHER ACTIVITIES.
10:06:45 I'M SORRY, ANY QUESTIONS?
10:06:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH A LETTER THAT WAS
10:06:52 SENT OUT FROM THE ABC ASSOCIATION OF BUILDING CONTRACTORS
10:06:58 REGARDING BONUS DENSITY DOWN IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT?
10:07:01 I GOT THIS LETTER THAT WAS RECEIVED, SENT TO THE MS. VAN
10:07:05 LOAN.
10:07:05 >> THAT DEALS WITH THE ZONING CODE, CHAPTER 27.
10:07:11 HE'S ASKING FOR A CHANGE POTENTIALLY IN THAT CODE
10:07:14 PROVISION SO IT'S SOMETHING YOU ALL TAKE UP IN YOUR
10:07:17 CAPACITY AS CITY COUNCIL, NOT A CRA BOARD.
10:07:21 I BELIEVE A WORKSHOP ON THE BONUS DENSITY PROGRAM IS
10:07:25 GOING TO COME BEFORE YOU ALL, I BELIEVE THE END OF JULY,
10:07:29 SO IT WILL BE DISCUSSED IF NOT AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
10:07:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:07:40 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BUT THAT WAS THE ANSWER TO YOUR
10:07:43 QUESTION.
10:07:43 >>ROB ROSNER: TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT.
10:07:47 WE DON'T HAVE ANY DIRECT ACTIVITIES FROM THE CRA ITSELF
10:07:50 BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME HIATUS AS MOST.
10:07:54 WE HAVE BEEN MEETING AS A CAC.
10:07:57 WITH WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IN THE MEANTIME IS
10:07:59 MAKING THE FIRST PAYMENT TO THE CDD FOR THE PAYMENT AND I
10:08:03 AM MENTIONING HEARING THE QUALIFIED DEBT WHICH IS THE
10:08:06 PORTION THAT IS MENTIONED IN THE AGREEMENT WHICH IS OUR
10:08:10 CRA PLAN FOR THE 74%.
10:08:12 SO THEY ARE SUBMITTING ALL THE BOND WORK AND ALL THE
10:08:15 PIECES TO APPROVE THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE OR HAS BEEN
10:08:19 BONDED, AND WE ARE PROCESSING THAT PAYMENT AS WE SPEAK.
10:08:22 SO REVENUE AND FINANCES AND CALCULATE THE FINANCIALS FOR
10:08:26 THE PAST 7 YEARS.
10:08:27 THAT HAS BEEN WRAPPED UP AND IS APPROPRIATE NOW.
10:08:32 AND ABOUT THIS TIME EACH YEAR, WE WILL BE MAKING THE 74%
10:08:37 PAYMENT PER THE AGREEMENT.
10:08:40 SO I WANT TO REPORT THAT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING
10:08:43 THAT VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH SPP LAST YEAR AND
10:08:47 AROUND THIS TIME EACH YEAR FOR SETTLING UP FOR THOSE.
10:08:51 SOHO CAPITAL HAS BEEN KEEPING VENDORS ENGAGED AT THE
10:08:58 HEIGHTS MARKET.
10:08:59 AND THE FIRST OF THE TWO ROUNDABOUTS IS UNDERSTOOD
10:09:03 CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.
10:09:04 WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM RIGHT NOW FOR SOME WATER ISSUES
10:09:07 TO TIE IN AND OBVIOUSLY SOME SURVEYS DONE, TO SHOW REAL
10:09:13 CONDITIONS.
10:09:13 THEY SHOW BEST CONDITIONS AT THE TIME.
10:09:16 SO WITH WORK ON SEWER TO TACKLE THE ISSUES AS THEY COME
10:09:20 UP.
10:09:31 SO INDIRECT, SOME SWITCH GEARS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR SOME
10:09:40 OF THE OVERHEAD UTILITIES AS WE ARE DOING IN MANY OF OUR
10:09:44 CRAs.
10:09:45 ALSO WORKING WITH THEM ON SOME NECESSARY APPROVALS AND
10:09:48 PERMITTING AND HAVE BEEN IN REGULAR CONVERSATION WITH
10:09:50 ADAM AND HIS GROUP.
10:09:52 THEY ARE ALSO COORDINATING WITH THE UTILITY COMPANIES.
10:09:56 TECO HAS BEEN MOST CHALLENGING BECAUSE A LOT OF WORK HAS
10:09:58 BEEN WANTING TO BE UNDERGROUND.
10:10:03 AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE RETIRING THIS YEAR
10:10:06 AND THEY ARE TRYING TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS BACK WITH NEW
10:10:08 PEOPLE, SO THEY ARE AGING OUT WITH SOME OF THEIR FOLKS.
10:10:13 SO THEY ARE TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH US AND THERE'S A LOT
10:10:16 GOING ON IN DOWNTOWN.
10:10:19 AND TAMPA HEIGHTS AS WELL.
10:10:20 AND THEN THE HEIGHTS UNION BUILDING, IF YOU GUYS HAVE
10:10:24 BEEN AT PALM AND TAMPA, YOU HAVE SEEN IT'S ALMOST ALL
10:10:27 GLASSED IN, VERY GOOD.
10:10:29 THE GARAGE LOOKS CLOSE TO COMPLETE AT LEAST FROM THE
10:10:32 OUTSIDE.
10:10:33 I'M SURE THERE ARE SOME STRUCTURAL THINGS THEY ARE STILL
10:10:35 WORKING ON BUT THAT PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG VERY
10:10:39 SMOOTHLY.
10:10:39 ANY QUESTION BEFORE I MOVE ON TO CENTRAL PARK?
10:10:44 SO CENTRAL PARK, WE HAD SOME CAC ACTIVITY.
10:10:48 WE HAD A REQUEST FOR DEMOLISHING A BUILDING.
10:10:53 THERE'S A BUILDING AT 1526 NEBRASKA AVENUE, A SMALL
10:10:57 BUILDING ACROSS FROM THE SAUNDERS LIBRARY THAT I WILL
10:11:01 SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF IN A MINUTE.
10:11:03 IT'S A CITY-OWNED PROPERTY.
10:11:04 WE ARE LOOKING TO DEMOLISH THAT.
10:11:06 AND IT'S A VERY REASONABLE COST, SO THEY VOTED TO PAY FOR
10:11:11 THAT THROUGH CRA FUNDS FOR DEMOLITION OF THAT BUILDING
10:11:15 AND THEN WE CAN GET THAT PARCEL SOLD OR PUT BACK INTO THE
10:11:18 TAX ROLL FOR SALE.
10:11:22 ENCORE, A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVELOPER HAS BEEN GOING
10:11:26 QUITE WELL.
10:11:30 RETAIL OFFICE AND HAD A LOT OF GOOD CONVERSATIONS GETTING
10:11:33 INVOLVED WITH TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY AND JEANETTE JASON
10:11:38 WHO IS REPRESENTING THOSE PROPERTIES.
10:11:40 SO VERY GOOD ACTIVITY THERE.
10:11:43 JUST TO MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS WHERE THAT
10:11:47 PARCEL IS AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF THE BUILDING THAT'S
10:11:50 GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED.
10:11:52 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:11:52 >>BILL CARLSON: WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S TAKEN SO LONG FOR
10:12:01 ENCORE TO BE DEVELOPED THAT?
10:12:03 BUILDING HAS BEEN SITTING THERE MAYBE TEN YEARS.
10:12:05 >>ROB ROSNER: TALKING ABOUT -- THIS BLUE BUILDING IS
10:12:13 NEARBY.
10:12:13 >>BILL CARLSON: THEIR BUILDING IS KIND OF THE NORTH OF
10:12:17 THE PARCEL AND THERE ARE A BUNCH OF EMPTY SPACES ON THE
10:12:20 SOUTH.
10:12:20 >> SO WHERE THE PIN MARK IS ON THIS IS RIGHT ACROSS FROM
10:12:26 THE LIBRARY.
10:12:27 >> TO THE NORTH.
10:12:30 >> OH, I'M SORRY.
10:12:31 >>BILL CARLSON: TALKING ABOUT THE PROPERTY THE ENCORE IS
10:12:34 ON.
10:12:34 >> YES, THERE'S A NUMBER OF LOTS THERE.
10:12:36 THEY DID HAVE A MASTER PLAN FOR THAT AND THEY ARE TRYING
10:12:39 TO STICK WITH THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE GROCERY, HOTEL AND
10:12:42 MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL.
10:12:44 >>BILL CARLSON: THE BUILDINGS THAT WERE BUILT WERE BUILT
10:12:47 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO.
10:12:49 >> NO, THOSE HAVE ALL BEEN BUILT IN THE PAST SIX YEARS.
10:12:53 >>BILL CARLSON: IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IN A BOOMING ECONOMY
10:12:58 SOMETHING WOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT SOUTH OF THAT.
10:13:01 >> YES, AND ALL THE BUILDINGS ALONG CASS STREET ARE
10:13:04 ACTUALLY IN DOWNTOWN, AND THERE'S A LINE THERE FOR WHERE
10:13:08 THAT IS.
10:13:09 ACTUALLY, ONE OF THE LOTS, I THINK LOT 10 -- AND FORGIVE
10:13:12 ME IF I GET MY NUMBERS WRONG -- IS HALF IN DOWNTOWN AND
10:13:17 HALF IN CENTRAL PARK.
10:13:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, IF I MAY.
10:13:24 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:13:24 MR. ROSNER, YOU MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THOSE BUILDINGS WERE
10:13:28 BUILT RECENTLY.
10:13:30 IS THAT BUILT OR REBUILT?
10:13:32 >>ROB ROSNER: WELL, THE CENTRAL PARK APARTMENTS, IT USED
10:13:35 TO BE ON THE SITE OF ENCORE.
10:13:38 ALL OF THAT WAS BEING REDEVELOPED IN 2011 THROUGH 2012.
10:13:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: LET ME REPHRASE MY QUESTION.
10:13:45 HAS THE BUILDING BEEN REBUILT?
10:13:47 >>ROB ROSNER: NOT REBUILT.
10:13:49 THEY HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE CONTRACTOR AND HAD TO
10:13:51 NEGOTIATE AND GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO FINISH THE BUILDING.
10:13:55 BUT I WOULD HAVE TO READ MORE TO GIVE YOU MORE SPECIFICS
10:13:58 ON THAT.
10:13:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. ROSNER.
10:14:01 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
10:14:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CONTINUE, MR. ROSNER.
10:14:05 >>ROB ROSNER: THANK YOU.
10:14:17 >> GIVE ME ONE SECOND.
10:14:18 I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT ALL OF OUR LITTLE MOTIONS UP
10:14:20 HERE ARE MAKING LOTS OF NOISE.
10:14:22 SO I AM TRYING TO BE LIKE A MOUSSE.
10:14:26 MICHELLE VAN LOAN, CRA DEPARTMENT.
10:14:29 I WANTED TO FINISH UP WITH OUR DEPARTMENT UPDATES.
10:14:33 QUICKLY WANTED TO RESPOND TO CHAIR GUDES' COMMENT ABOUT
10:14:36 YOUR MOTION LAST MONTH.
10:14:37 THAT WAS REFERRED TO THE EAST TAMPA CAC AND THEIR
10:14:41 SUBCOMMITTEES TO HANDLE THAT.
10:14:43 THAT YOU HAD ASKED ABOUT FOR HOUSING AND GOING THROUGH TO
10:14:45 TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNEW WHAT PROGRAMS WERE
10:14:52 AVAILABLE SO THEY COULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT SO THAT
10:14:55 WAS REFERRED BACK TO THE CAC TO WORK ON THAT.
10:14:58 A COUPLE OF UPDATES FOR US DEPARTMENT-WISE VERSUS
10:15:01 SPECIFIC FOR ANY OF THE ONE CRA STAFFING.
10:15:05 WE ARE DOWN TO A HANDFUL ABOUT THREE CANDIDATES FOR THE
10:15:09 PAST WEEK, TEN DAYS, OUR STAFF AND OUR HR HAVE BEEN A
10:15:13 LITTLE BIT PREOCCUPIED AS MOST OF US HAVE BEEN SO WE HAVE
10:15:17 GOT A LITTLE BIT DELAYED.
10:15:19 THEY HOPE BY THE END OF JUNE, I WILL BE SENDING YOU ALL
10:15:23 AN E-MAIL LETTING YOU KNOW THE DIRECTION WE HAVE GONE AND
10:15:27 ARE GOING WITH THE WEST TAMPA MANAGER, AND ALSO WITH
10:15:31 REPLACING MY POSITION.
10:15:33 WITH THAT IT WAS RECENTLY BROUGHT UP SHOWED IF IMBALANCE
10:15:38 OF HOW WE CURRENTLY LOOK LIKE WE ARE STAFFED.
10:15:40 WHEN I STARTED IN 2012 WORKING IN EAST TAMPA, EAST TAMPA
10:15:45 HAD FOUR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES DEDICATED JUST TO EAST
10:15:48 TAMPA.
10:15:49 YBOR HAD FOUR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES DEDICATED JUST TO EAST
10:15:53 TAMPA.
10:15:54 WEST TAMPA ALSO HAD WEST TAMPA, DREW PARK HAD A STAFF
10:15:58 PERSON DEDICATED TO ASSISTING MS. FENTON IN THE SAME ROLE
10:16:03 THAT BRENDA THROWER AND I DID IN OUR OTHER SERIES ALONG
10:16:06 WITH FIVE OFFICE STAFF THAT WORKED DOWNTOWN ALONGSIDE THE
10:16:11 CRA MANAGERS.
10:16:12 WE ARE NOT LOOKING TO AT ANY POINT GET BACK TO 18.
10:16:16 I BELIEVE IT WAS AS HIGH AS 23 AT ONE TIME.
10:16:19 WE HAVE BEEN AT ABOUT 10.
10:16:21 AS WE START BUILDING INTO OUR REVENUES, I'LL START
10:16:25 GETTING WITH YOU UP WITH ON ONE AND SHOWING YOU THAT OUR
10:16:27 REVENUES ARE HIGHER NOW THAN THEY WERE WHEN I STARTED IN
10:16:30 2012, IN 2008 EVEN AT THE HEIGHT.
10:16:34 AND WE HAVE BEEN DOING ALL OF THIS WORK WITH TEN
10:16:36 EMPLOYEES.
10:16:37 EAST TAMPA FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS OR EVEN LONGER, THEY
10:16:41 HAVE BEEN COMMENTING THAT HAVING A PROJECT PERSON
10:16:44 STRETCHED OUT ACROSS SO MANY CRAs, THAT AS CRA BOARD AS
10:16:49 MENTIONED, THE TIMELINESS OF GETTING STUFFED ROLLED OUT,
10:16:52 OUT TO THE STREET, WHEN WE CAN'T FOCUS DIRECTLY, AND NOW
10:16:56 WITH OUR INCREASED REVENUES, AS WE GO THROUGH OUR
10:16:59 BUDGETING PROCESS, YOU WILL SEE A LOT MORE LINE ITEMS
10:17:01 SHOWING UP ON THESE BUDGETS WITH PROGRAMS.
10:17:04 EVERY TIME WE ADD A PROGRAM, THAT REQUIRES STAFF TIME TO
10:17:07 DEVELOP AND MANAGE AND OVERSEE THAT, MARKET THAT, AND OUR
10:17:11 CURRENT CAPACITY, WE ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT TOO LOW.
10:17:15 SO I WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU TO LOOKING BACK TO HAVING
10:17:19 DEAD OKAYED STAFF FOR EAST TAMPA, AND THEN WEST TAMPA AND
10:17:22 DREW PARK, THE EAST TAMPA CAC HAS ALREADY SUPPORTED THAT,
10:17:26 AND THEY ARE HAPPY TO DO THAT, BECAUSE AGAIN, THE
10:17:30 IMPORTANCE OF HAVING STAFF IS TO GET THESE PROGRAMS
10:17:32 ROLLED OUT AND ON THE STREET.
10:17:34 SO AS I TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET IN A SECOND, WE'LL TALK
10:17:36 ABOUT TIMING, AND I WILL BE HAVING AND ARRANGING ONE ON
10:17:40 ONES WITH YOU ON THAT.
10:17:41 SO WITH STAFFING LIKE I SAID BY THE END OF JUNE, I HOPE
10:17:44 TO HAVE DECISIONS MADE.
10:17:45 I WILL INFORM YOU OF ALL OF THAT AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT
10:17:48 THAT DIRECTION, WHERE WE ARE GOING, AT THE JULY 23rd
10:17:51 MEETING WHEN WE MEET AGAIN, WE HOPE TO HAVE ALL THE NEW
10:17:54 STAFF HERE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE
10:17:59 CRA BOARD, AND WE'LL START GETTING THEM OUT IN THE
10:18:02 COMMUNITY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
10:18:03 WE WILL ALSO POSSIBLY HAVE SOME OTHER TRANSITIONS.
10:18:06 WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT OUR DEPARTMENT NOT JUST EACH YEAR
10:18:09 AND EACH BUDGET, BUT WHERE ARE WE HEADING AS AN
10:18:13 ORGANIZATION OVER THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS.
10:18:15 SO OVER THE NEXT TWO TO THREE WEEKS, WE'LL BE COMING BACK
10:18:18 AND TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHERE WE BELIEVE WE ARE HEADED
10:18:21 AND WHAT THAT ORGANIZATION COULD LOOK LIKE.
10:18:23 SO WE WILL BE HAVING MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT.
10:18:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND WEST TAMPA MANAGER AND TWO PROJECT
10:18:30 MANAGERS, ONE FOR EAST AND ONE FOR WEST?
10:18:33 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THAT'S MY HOPE.
10:18:37 SO THAT'S WHERE OUR STAFFING.
10:18:40 ON OUR BUDGET CYCLE FOR FY 21, I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME
10:18:44 DATES.
10:18:44 OUR CACs HAVE BEEN MEETING THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF
10:18:47 JUNE.
10:18:47 WE STILL HAVE SOME MORE CAC MEETINGS THAT WILL BE
10:18:50 HAPPENING.
10:18:51 AND HOPE TO HAVE ALL OF OUR DRAFT IDEAS AND PROJECTS AND
10:18:55 BUDGETS FROM OUR CAC, THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES HAVE BEEN
10:18:59 MEETING, AND FILTERING UP THEIR PRIORITIES, AS YOU HEARD
10:19:02 FROM YBOR, THE WEST TAMPA SUBCOMMITTEES FILTERING THAT
10:19:05 ALL UP TO THE MAIN CAC TO THEN COME UP WITH THE PROGRAMS
10:19:09 THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADOPTED IN THE FY 21 BUDGET.
10:19:12 MY GOAL THEN IS TO TAKE THEIR BUDGETS AND DURING THE
10:19:17 MONTH OF JULY, BETWEEN JULY 13th AND JULY 24th
10:19:21 WHEN YOU COME BACK FROM YOUR BREAK OVER THE SUMMER AND
10:19:25 YOUR CONFERENCES, I WILL BE SCHEDULING WITH ALL OF YOU
10:19:27 ONE ON ONES TO DISCUSS THE CAC BUDGETS TO DISCUSS YOUR
10:19:32 PRIORITIES, STRATEGIC PLANNING WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO
10:19:35 GO, BE ABLE TO TAKE ALL THAT INFORMATION FROM ALL OF YOU,
10:19:38 AND THEN COME BACK AT OUR AUGUST 20th MEETING WITH
10:19:41 WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE AS I ASSIGN THE PRIORITIES OF
10:19:45 THE CRA BOARD MEMBERS AND OUR CACs.
10:19:49 OF COURSE, WHEN I SAY I, MEAN MYSELF, ALL THESE PEOPLE
10:19:54 BEHIND ME, FISCAL OFFICER THAT SUPPORTS US DILIGENTLY IN
10:19:57 THE BUDGET OFFICE.
10:19:58 AND THEN WE WOULD COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER WITH A DIRECT
10:20:03 BUDGET BOOK AFTER WE HAVE THAT BIGGER DISCUSSION IN
10:20:06 AUGUST, AND THEN AGAIN FINALIZED BUDGET IN THE OCTOBER
10:20:10 8th CRA BOARD MEETING.
10:20:12 SO THAT'S ABOUT THE TIMELINE THAT WE ARE AT RIGHT NOW.
10:20:15 ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUDGET PROCESS?
10:20:17 OKAY.
10:20:19 AND THE NEXT PAGE, OUR PRELIMINARY BUDGET REVENUES.
10:20:22 OUR PROPERTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE GIVES US NUMBERS TWICE
10:20:25 OVER THE SUMMER.
10:20:27 THEY GIVE THEM TO US AROUND JUNE 1st, MAY 30th,
10:20:30 AND THEN THE END OF JUNE.
10:20:33 THESE ARE PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR THE CRAs.
10:20:35 WE WILL HAVE FINAL NUMBERS AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.
10:20:38 I WAS IN A HURRY TO SHARE GOOD NEWS WITH YOU.
10:20:41 SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IF THESE NUMBERS STAY WITHIN A FEW
10:20:45 PERCENTAGES, OUR CRAs WILL BE AVERAGING A 17.57%
10:20:50 INCREASE IN PROPERTY REVENUE, PROPERTY VALUES AND
10:20:52 REVENUE, FOR THE FY 21 BASED ON CURRENT PROPERTY VALUES.
10:20:58 THE CITY AS A WHOLE HAD ABOUT 8% INCREASE IN THAT
10:21:03 REVENUE.
10:21:03 SO WE ARE WELL AHEAD OF THE CURVE.
10:21:06 A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOK AT OUR NUMBERS AND THEY LOOK AT THE
10:21:09 BIG DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT COME OUT OF DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL
10:21:11 DISTRICT.
10:21:12 SO IF WE TOOK OUT DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT, THE
10:21:14 GROWTH OF THE REMAINING CRAs WOULD ACTUALLY BE AT
10:21:17 22.46%.
10:21:19 SO I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU SHOW YOU THE HEALTH OF OUR
10:21:22 CRAs AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
10:21:25 AGAIN WE WILL BE ABLE TO TRUE UP THESE NUMBERS AT THE END
10:21:27 OF JUNE SO AS WE GO INTO THOSE JULY BUDGET DISCUSSIONS
10:21:31 WE'LL HAVE THOSE EXACT DOLLAR NUMBERS.
10:21:34 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE NUMBERS?
10:21:36 >>BILL CARLSON: FORGIVE ME IF YOU SAID THIS AND I MISSED
10:21:45 IT BUT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ONE TAMPA AND THE
10:21:49 ADVERTISING ON THAT CRA TIME, WE HAVEN'T USED ALL THAT
10:21:52 ONE TAMPA MONEY YET, AND ALTHOUGH I THINK IT'S A REALLY
10:21:55 GOOD PROGRAM, BY SUPPORTING IT, I THINK AT SOME POINT WE
10:22:01 HAVE TO PUT AN END TO IT BECAUSE YOU SEE THE COMMUNITY
10:22:03 COMING BEFORE US TELLING US ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE
10:22:06 NEED TO INVEST IN, AND THE CRA IS ONE OF THOSE BUCKETS OF
10:22:10 MONEY THAT DURING A RECESSION WE MIGHT STILL BE ABLE TO
10:22:13 MAKE INVESTMENTS THAT WILL HELP IN COMMUNITY AND OTHER
10:22:15 WAYS BESIDES THAT.
10:22:17 I THINK YOU TOLD ME THAT THERE IS KIND OF A SUNSET TO IT,
10:22:21 CORRECT?
10:22:22 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES.
10:22:23 WHEN I GET TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I WILL FILL YOU IN ON THAT
10:22:26 DEADLINE AND HOW THE BALANCE OF THOSE FUND WILL BE BACK
10:22:29 INTO THE FUNDS OF ALLOCATION FOR FY 21.
10:22:34 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET?
10:22:37 OKAY.
10:22:39 SO AS COUNCILMAN CARLSON SO ASTUTELY POINTED OUT, AS
10:22:46 CAROLE POST REPORTED TO YOU LAST WEEK IN HER UPDATE, OR
10:22:50 THE WEEK BEFORE, FOR CITY COUNCIL, ROUND ONE WAS NOT
10:22:53 QUITE THE RESPONSE THAT WE HAD HOPED FOR IN OUR ABILITY
10:22:56 TO GET MONEY OUT ON THE STREETS TO OUR BUSINESSES.
10:22:59 WE GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM OUR BUSINESSES, A LOT OF
10:23:02 FEEDBACK FROM THE PROCESSORS OF THOSE BUSINESS
10:23:05 APPLICATIONS, AS TO WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO TO TWEAK THE
10:23:09 PROGRAM.
10:23:09 SO AS MS. POST ANNOUNCED WE ARE COMING OUT WITH ROUND TWO
10:23:14 BUT I DID WANT TO SHOW YOU A REPORT FOR THE CRA DOLLARS,
10:23:19 WE ARE USING JUST SHY OF $21,000.
10:23:23 THAT COMES OUT TO 21 GRANTS.
10:23:25 OF THE 21 GRANTS WE ARE ABOUT 50%.
10:23:27 THE CRAs WERE ABOUT 50% OF THE GRANTS ISSUED.
10:23:33 SO I AM HAPPY TO KNOW THAT DESPITE THE LIMITED NUMBERS
10:23:35 THE MARKETING DID REACH OUR COMMUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE THAT
10:23:38 DID APPLY.
10:23:39 SINCE THEN, FOR ROUND TWO, AGAIN I AM JUST FOLLOWING UP
10:23:44 ON WHAT MS. POST TOLD YOU A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, THIS WAS
10:23:48 LAUNCHED AGAIN JUNE 1st.
10:23:50 WE DID ROUND TWO.
10:23:51 WE LESSENED THE RESTRICTIONS THAT WE HAD FOR BUSINESS
10:23:55 REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY FOR ROUND ONE.
10:23:58 AGAIN THEY REDUCED THE OPERATING FROM TWO YEARS TO ONE
10:24:02 YEAR.
10:24:02 THEY INCREASED THE REVENUE FROM 250 TO 350,000 AND WE
10:24:08 COMPLETELY DID AWAY WITH THE REQUIREMENT OF HOW MANY
10:24:11 EMPLOYEES AS A MAX YOU WERE ALLOWED TO HAVE IN ORDER TO
10:24:15 QUALIFY.
10:24:15 SO IF YOU ONLY HAVE A MAXIMUM REVENUE OF 350,000 AND IF
10:24:19 YOU EMPLOYED THREE PEOPLE OR FIVE PEOPLE OR 15 PEOPLE, IF
10:24:23 YOU HAVE MORE PART TIME PEOPLE SHIFT WORK, YOU WOULD
10:24:26 STILL QUALIFY FOR THAT ROUND TWO GRANT.
10:24:29 THAT GRANT WAS SUPPOSED TO -- THE APPLICATION PERIOD
10:24:35 EXPIRES TOMORROW AT NOON.
10:24:36 AGAIN, DURING THE EVENTS OF THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS,
10:24:39 MANY OF OUR BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY RIGHTLY SO HAVE
10:24:43 BEEN DISTRACTED AND FOCUSING THEIR ENERGIES IN OTHER
10:24:47 PLACES AND SLIGHTLY MORE BIGGER AND IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR
10:24:51 OUR COMMUNITY AND WE DO NOT WANT TO PENALIZE OUR
10:24:54 BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS OWNERS WHO HAVE BEEN OUT THERE
10:24:56 ENGAGED IN THEIR COMMUNITY FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS.
10:24:58 SO WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE.
10:25:00 THE CITY IS PUTTING ALL THAT INFORMATION SO YOU ARE
10:25:03 HEARING IT HERE FIRST, ALL THE WAY TO JUNE 30th.
10:25:07 ONCE THE JUNE 30th DEADLINE HAPPENS FOURTH CRAs,
10:25:10 ANY APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY JUNE 30th, THAT IS THE
10:25:14 EXTENT OF ANY CRA PARTICIPATION.
10:25:16 SO IF THE CITY MOVES FORWARD WITH ANY ADDITIONAL
10:25:19 PROGRAMS, THAT WILL NOT INCLUDE CRA PARTICIPATION, WE'LL
10:25:23 HAVE AN IDEA THEN IN JULY HOW MUCH OF THAT MONEY WILL BE
10:25:26 COMING OUT OF THE CRA FUNDS, AND THAT REMAINING BALANCE
10:25:30 AS I GO THAT TALKED ABOUT THE INTEREST, WE WILL BE ABLE
10:25:33 TO USE ALL OF THAT INTEREST AGAIN TO USE INTO THE
10:25:37 RESPECTIVE CRA BUDGETS.
10:25:40 AS THEY TALKED ABOUT, THEY HAVE AGAIN LEARNED A LOT FROM
10:25:43 ROUND ONE, WE ARE ALREADY AT OVER 250 APPLICATIONS THAT
10:25:48 ARE IN THE HOPPER BEING PROCESSED.
10:25:51 AND AGAIN, FOR OUR CRAs, 163 OF THOSE APPLICATIONS AND
10:25:57 THIS IS OUR INFORMATION AS OF LAST WEEK, SO DISBURSAL,
10:26:05 YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF WHERE THEY ARE
10:26:07 COMING OUT OF OUR CRAs, SEEING A NICE CROSS SECTION
10:26:10 ACROSS OUR CRAs AND WILL HAVE UNTIL JUNE 30 TO GET THAT
10:26:16 APPLICATION AND TO QUALIFY.
10:26:17 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS FROM THE CRA SIDE?
10:26:22 AND AS WE GET MORE NUMBERS TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH,
10:26:25 WE WILL BE SENDING YOU OUT E-MAILS TO SEND YOU
10:26:30 INFORMATION.
10:26:31 OUR LAST UPDATE FOR OUR DEPARTMENT IS ON OUR INTEREST.
10:26:40 OUR INTEREST HAS BEEN COLLECTING OVER THE YEARS, AS WE
10:26:44 HAVE DISCUSSED OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AS WE HAVE
10:26:46 BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE INTEREST FOR US, THIS INTEREST WAS
10:26:49 OUR RAINY DAY FUND.
10:26:51 I MENTIONED A COUPLE OF CRA BOARD MEETINGS AGO FOR EAST
10:26:56 TAMPA HAD WE NOT SAVED CONSTRUCTION COST DOLLARS DURING
10:27:00 THE RECESSION WHEN WE BUILT 22ND STREET.
10:27:03 WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE USED THAT INTEREST MONEY TO GET
10:27:07 US THROUGH THOSE TWO TO FOUR YEARS OF SEVERE REDUCTION IN
10:27:10 OUR REVENUES.
10:27:12 SO WE WENT ZERO FOR TWO YEARS.
10:27:15 ONE YEAR WE WERE AT 32,000.
10:27:18 WE HAD THREE OR FOUR YEARS OF BASICALLY NO REVENUE COMING
10:27:21 IN.
10:27:22 WE WERE ABLE TO USE THE $2 MILLION OF SAVINGS FROM THE
10:27:25 CONSTRUCTION COSTS FROM 22ND STREET.
10:27:27 BUT HAD WE NOT BEEN ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM -- AND I HATE TO
10:27:33 USE THE WORD BENEFIT, BUT BECAUSE OF RECESSION THE
10:27:35 PROJECT WAS ESTIMATED BEFORE THE RECESSION HIT.
10:27:37 WE ACTUALLY BID THE PROJECT DURING A RECESSION.
10:27:40 AND IT CAME IN AT $2 MILLION LESS OF COST.
10:27:43 SO OVER THAT TIME WE WERE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT $2
10:27:47 MILLION OF SAVINGS.
10:27:48 BUT HAD WE NOT HAD THAT, WE WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO USE THIS
10:27:51 INTEREST TO SUPPLEMENT THE SALARIES AND OPERATIONS OF
10:27:54 STAFF DURING THAT TIME FOR THE CRA.
10:27:56 SO THAT INTEREST MONEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOING BACK TO THE
10:27:59 IORIO ADMINISTRATION.
10:28:01 OUR RAINY DAY FUND.
10:28:03 ON YOU'RE QUARTERLY REPORTS, THE FRONT PAGE OF THE REPORT
10:28:07 IS PROVIDED BY EACH CRA.
10:28:09 ON THE FRONT SUMMARY PAGE OF EACH CRA, THAT INTEREST HAS
10:28:12 BEEN THERE.
10:28:12 SO WE ARE LOOKING TO DO, DUE TO DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS
10:28:18 BY CRA BOARD MEMBERS, IS WE ARE PROPOSING THAT WE NOW
10:28:24 ALLOCATE THAT INTEREST ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
10:28:27 WE ARE PROPOSING AGAIN LINING UP WITH WHAT WE KNOW OUR
10:28:31 REVENUES, THAT AS OF JUNE 30 OF EACH YEAR WHEN WE KNOW
10:28:35 WHAT THE EARNINGS ARE UP TO THAT DATE, WE WILL THEN TAKE
10:28:39 THAT AMOUNT AND WE WILL INCLUDE IT WITH THE BUDGETS THAT
10:28:42 WILL THEN BE REPROGRAMMED STARTING OCTOBER 1st, WHERE
10:28:46 IT IS DESIGNATED AS PART OF THE BUDGET BUILDING PROCESS
10:28:49 DURING EACH YEAR'S BUILDING CYCLE.
10:28:51 FOR THE QUARTERLY REPORTS, AS INTEREST THEN IS REEARNED
10:28:56 THROUGH THE UPCOMING YEAR, EACH QUARTERLY REPORT, WE WILL
10:29:00 PUT RIGHT AFTER THE TABLE OF CONTENTS AN INTEREST SUMMARY
10:29:04 PAGE SO THAT YOU WILL SEE BY CRA EACH QUARTER WHAT THE
10:29:09 CURRENT BALANCES ARE OF THE INTEREST FOR EACH QUARTER AND
10:29:14 AS THEY ACCUMULATE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
10:29:16 WITH THAT, IF THERE IS ANY BALANCES THAT ARE NEEDED, AT
10:29:21 ANY TIME YOU CAN REPROGRAM THAT INTEREST TO GO TOWARDS A
10:29:24 PROJECT.
10:29:25 SO IF THERE WAS A PROJECT AND YOU NEEDED MORE MONEY, AND
10:29:28 WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING OF OUR ANNUAL BUDGETS AND
10:29:32 FUND BALANCES, YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE ACCESS TO WHAT THAT
10:29:35 INTEREST BALANCE IS, AND IT CAN BE REPROGRAMMED LIKE ANY
10:29:37 OF OUR OTHER LINE ITEMS AT ANY TIME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
10:29:42 SO THAT'S OUR PROPOSAL TO YOU ON HOW TO HANDLE THE
10:29:45 INTEREST BASED ON THE MOTION FROM OUR LAST CRA BOARD
10:29:48 MEETING.
10:29:49 AND DENNIS ROGERO IS HERE.
10:29:52 AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR ADJUSTMENTS YOU
10:29:57 WANT TO MAKE TO THE PROPOSAL.
10:29:57 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CHAIR.
10:30:03 SO AS I SPOKE WITH YOU YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE, THE
10:30:10 WAY I UNDERSTAND NOW, THE RULES ARE, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE
10:30:14 FOR CRA TO SET UP A RESERVE FUND PER SE, WHICH IS WHY YOU
10:30:20 ALL KEPT IT AS THE INTEREST ACCOUNT.
10:30:25 I THINK FOR TRANSPARENCY, I DON'T KNOW IF MY COLLEAGUES
10:30:30 UNDERSTOOD THAT WAS A RESERVE.
10:30:32 MAYBE IT'S MY IGNORANCE.
10:30:33 BUT I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU AND MR. ROGERO AND
10:30:37 OTHERS DID TO TRY TO MOVE IT.
10:30:39 I THINK THAT PROVIDES A LOT MORE TRANSPARENCY FOR THE
10:30:42 PUBLIC BECAUSE I THINK THE PUBLIC WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT
10:30:45 THAT WAS THE LINE ITEM WAS A RESERVE ACCOUNT.
10:30:51 THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
10:30:52 DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION ON THAT?
10:30:55 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE'LL JUST ADOPT IT AS PART OF OUR
10:30:58 BUDGET PROCESS IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE BUT THAT'S THE
10:31:01 DIRECTION WE ARE GOING TO GO IN, IF THAT'S ACCEPTABLE TO
10:31:04 YOU.
10:31:04 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
10:31:06 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES OUR STAFF
10:31:09 REPORT, AND THAT WE CONCLUDED INTEREST TOPIC WHICH IS
10:31:12 ITEM NUMBER 3 ON YOUR AGENDA.
10:31:14 SO CHAIR, WE ARE READY FOR ITEM NUMBER 4 WHENEVER YOU
10:31:16 ARE.
10:31:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:31:24 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I SENT A MEMO TO AROUND TO EACH OF YOU
10:31:28 WITH REGARD TO MASSEY PARK UNDER PUBLIC COMMENT, AND I
10:31:31 BRIEFLY WANTED TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ABOUT THAT.
10:31:34 I WILL REMIND THE BOARD ON DECEMBER 12TH OF 2019, THIS
10:31:39 BOARD PASSED A MOTION ENCOURAGING CONSIDERATION OF THE
10:31:41 REDESIGN OF HERMAN MASSEY PARK TO ADDRESS CONCERNS RAISED
10:31:46 BY MS. ISAAC AND THE REPRESENTATIVE MR. DIMAIO, AND PART
10:31:52 OF THAT MOTION WAS CONDITIONED ON HER PAYING FOR THE COST
10:31:55 OF THAT REDESIGN, AND AS WAS EXPLAINED THIS MORNING,
10:31:59 THEIR CONSULTANT HAS LOOKED AT WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS A
10:32:01 REASONABLE COST FOR THAT REDESIGN AND THEY BELIEVE THAT
10:32:04 SHOULD BE $42,860.
10:32:08 OUR CONSULTANT HAS ESTIMATED THAT IT WILL BE MUCH HIGHER
10:32:10 THAN THAT.
10:32:13 THE LAST TIME CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AND EXPLAINED TO YOU
10:32:15 ALL THAT ISSUE, AND THE COMMITMENT THAT WE HAD RECEIVED
10:32:18 FROM MR. DIMAIO THAT THEY WOULD PAY THE 42,860 PROVIDED
10:32:26 THAT THE BOARD COVERS THE DIFFERENCE IF THERE IS ONE.
10:32:29 A MOTION WAS MADE BY THE BOARD LAST MONTH THAT REALLY,
10:32:35 YOU FELT COMFORTABLE COMMITTING TO THAT UNLESS YOU KNEW
10:32:38 THE PROJECT WAS A REAL PROJECT, AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF
10:32:42 THE REASONS MR. DIMAIO AND HER ARCHITECT ARE HERE THIS
10:32:47 MORNING TO TRY TO SATISFY THE BOARD ON THAT CONCERN.
10:32:50 AND AS YOU HEARD FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD THERE'S CONCERNS
10:32:53 THAT WE ARE KIND OF CAUGHT IN A HOLDING PATTERN HERE
10:32:56 WHERE WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD WITH THE REDESIGN OF THE
10:32:59 PARK, IF THAT IS THE DESIRE OF CITY COUNCIL AND THE BOARD
10:33:02 TO DO SO, UNTIL WE HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO COVER THAT
10:33:05 COST.
10:33:05 AND SO THAT POSITION THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO GET
10:33:11 RESOLVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE KNOW WHETHER, NUMBER
10:33:13 ONE, THE PARK IS GOING TO BE REDESIGNED, AND IF SO, HOW
10:33:16 THAT WILL BE PAID FOR.
10:33:20 THAT'S STONE NUMBER ONE.
10:33:21 AFTER THAT PARK DESIGN CURSE, THEN OBVIOUSLY THE ISSUE OF
10:33:24 POTENTIALLY, I THINK THERE'S SOME INTEREST OF LEASING A
10:33:27 PORTION OF THE PARK FOR MS. ISAAC AS WELL BUT THAT WOULD
10:33:30 HAVE TO BE HANDLED AFTER THE PARK REDESIGN IS TAKEN CARE
10:33:32 OF.
10:33:33 BUT WE NEED TO DECIDE IF THE PARK REDESIGN IS GOING TO
10:33:36 MOVE FORWARD, AND IF SO HOW THAT WILL BE PAID FOR.
10:33:39 THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AT F.NOT, WE ARE STILL IN
10:33:42 KIND OF A DEFINITE HOLDING PATTERNS, WHICH IS FRUSTRATING
10:33:45 I THINK TO A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS IN THAT PART OF
10:33:48 DOWNTOWN.
10:33:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MASSEY, YOU ARE ASKING FOR A MOTION
10:33:53 TO PROCEED ON THIS PROJECT?
10:33:54 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES.
10:33:55 AND OBVIOUSLY, BUT CARL RICE FROM THE PARKS DEPARTMENT
10:34:01 ARE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR CONSULTANTS'
10:34:05 ESTIMATE.
10:34:05 I SHOULD HAVE PUT THAT ON THE RECORD FIRST.
10:34:08 BUT YES, WE ARE LIKE I SAID IN A HOLDING PATTERN NOW.
10:34:11 AND SO UNLESS THIS BOARD IS WILLING TO PROCEED FORWARD
10:34:19 WITH PAYING FOR THAT BALANCE OR UNLESS MS. ISAAC IS
10:34:23 WILLING TO PAY FOR THAT BALANCE, THE DIFFERENCE THINKS IS
10:34:28 A FAIR PRICE AND WHAT OUR CONSULTANT THINKS, WE ARE KIND
10:34:33 OF AT AN IMPASSE NOW.
10:34:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION ON THE
10:34:39 COMMENTS FROM MR. MASSEY.
10:34:40 NO DISCUSSION?
10:34:41 I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
10:34:42 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN IN
10:34:49 AND OUT OF BOTH CITY COUNCIL AND OUR BOARD HERE TODAY FOR
10:34:55 NOT MONTHS BUT OVER A YEAR.
10:34:57 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME MOVEMENT, AND TRYING TO
10:35:03 FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE MOVEMENT GOING.
10:35:07 THE HOLDING PATTERN TODAY COULD LAST FOR FOREVER.
10:35:12 AND AS I READ THE THING, WHAT I GOT TODAY, AND THE
10:35:17 PROBLEM IS I HAVE TO AGREE WITH BOTH PARTIES, BUT WHO
10:35:20 KNOWS WHAT THE FACTS -- I AM NOT QUALIFIED TO SAY ONE
10:35:23 DEVELOPER OR ONE ARCHITECT OR ONE IS THE ONE THAT IS
10:35:27 RIGHT ON THE NUMBERS.
10:35:29 SO ALTHOUGH I GOT SOMETHING OF A NOTICE FROM A BANK, IT
10:35:35 REALLY DOESN'T SPECIFY -- AND I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY.
10:35:38 I WILL SAIL THAT RIGHT NOW.
10:35:39 BUT AS I READ THIS DOCUMENT THAT I GOT FROM THE BANK, IT
10:35:42 ONLY STATES THAT UPON CERTAIN RECEIPTS OF SATISFACTION,
10:35:48 REVIEW OF THE PROJECT PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS ALONG WITH
10:35:50 OTHER CUSTOMERS CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY THE
10:35:55 BANK, WE WILL THEN PROVIDE SO-AND-SO WITH THE FINANCING
10:35:57 PROPOSAL.
10:35:59 WELL, THAT'S FINE.
10:36:02 IT DOESN'T SAY THEY HAVE AGREEMENTS SIGNED EVEN WITH THE
10:36:06 BANK.
10:36:07 AND I UNDERSTAND, WE ARE IN A HOLDING PATTERN, THIS BANK
10:36:13 OR ANY BANK IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO HELP THIS
10:36:15 DEVELOPER GET THE FUNDS THEY NEED TO GET THIS PROGRAM
10:36:18 STARTED.
10:36:18 SO I READ THIS, AND I TELL MYSELF, WHAT DO I DO WITH IT
10:36:24 NOW?
10:36:24 IT'S LIKE HAVING A TOOTHACHE AND NOT HAVING A DENTIST.
10:36:30 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
10:36:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM, IF I CAN
10:36:36 INTERRUPT, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, THEY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE OR
10:36:40 UNABLE TO FINALIZE ALL THEIR DESIGN PLANS AND GET THEIR
10:36:43 FINANCING IN PLACE UNTIL THEY HAVE AT LEAST A PORTION OF
10:36:49 THE PARK AND THE PARK HAS BEEN REDESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE
10:36:51 A LEASE OF THAT AREA.
10:36:52 SO UNFORTUNATELY, I AM NOT SURE THEY ARE AT THIS POINT
10:36:56 ABLE TO PROVIDE THE DOCUMENTATION WE WOULD NORMALLY
10:36:59 TYPICALLY WANT TO HAVE TO SHOW THAT THEY HAVE GOT
10:37:02 EVERYTHING LINED UP AND THE ARCHITECT DID SAY THIS
10:37:05 MORNING THAT HE WOULD HAVE PERMIT DRAWINGS DONE FAIRLY
10:37:08 QUICKLY.
10:37:09 BUT THE PARK AS DESIGNED SHOWS THAT THE DOG PARK WILL BE
10:37:14 NEXT TO THAT BUILDING, WHICH AFFECTS THEIR ABILITY TO
10:37:17 MOVE FORWARD WITH THEIR PROJECT.
10:37:18 AND I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT THAT'S REALLY
10:37:22 KIND OF WHAT PART OF THE ISSUE HAS BEEN.
10:37:25 SO THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FINALIZE ALL THEIR PLANS
10:37:28 AND COME UP WITH A FINANCIAL PLAN AT THIS TIME BECAUSE WE
10:37:30 HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH REDESIGN OF THE
10:37:34 PARK AND DECIDE WE ARE ABLE TO --
10:37:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT AND THAT'S
10:37:41 EXACTLY WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES.
10:37:42 DO WE STAY LIKE THAT FOREVER OR DO WE SAY --
10:37:46 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THE OPTIONS ARE TWO-FOLD.
10:37:48 WE CAN GO FORWARD WITH THE PARK AS CURRENTLY DESIGNED AND
10:37:51 IF THEY COME FORWARD AT A LATER TIME WE CAN TALK TO THEM
10:37:54 ABOUT THE COST OF MOVING THE DOG PARK AND REDOING THINGS,
10:37:57 ALTHOUGH THAT SEEMS LIKE A WASTE OF EFFORT IF THAT'S WHAT
10:38:00 WE DO.
10:38:01 OR, SECONDLY, WE CAN TRY TO REDESIGN THE PARK NOW, PAY A
10:38:06 PORTION OF IT, NOT ALL OF IT, IT APPEARS, IF THAT'S THE
10:38:09 DESIRE OF THE CRA BOARD, CITY COUNCIL TO DO THAT.
10:38:12 AND THEN PUT THE DOLLARS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A LEASE YET
10:38:17 SO THAT WOULD COME AT A LATER TIME.
10:38:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEN AS A BOARD MEMBER, AND I GUESS
10:38:22 WHAT DO WE DO THEN?
10:38:24 IF WE DO THAT, IF THERE WAS NO ONE THAT WANTED TO BUILD A
10:38:30 HOTEL WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DESIGN ANYTHING, CORRECT?
10:38:33 >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
10:38:35 WE PUT THE BURDEN ON THEM AND THEY COME BACK AND SAY THEY
10:38:38 ARE WILLING TO PAY A PORTION OF IT BUT NOT ALL OF IT.
10:38:41 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, BECAUSE WE
10:38:44 HAVE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES THAT WANT SOME ANSWERS.
10:38:47 AND I AM NOT BLAMING YOU, MR. MASSEY, AT ALL.
10:38:49 BUT WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS ON BOTH SIDES TRYING TO SOLVE THE
10:38:53 PROBLEM.
10:38:54 AND THE WAY I LOOK AT THE PROBLEM NOT BEING SOLVED.
10:38:56 SO WE ARE EITHER GOING TO SAY YAY OR SAY NAY.
10:38:59 ONE OF THE TWO.
10:39:00 >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
10:39:05 I DON'T KNOW IF THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OUR
10:39:07 PARKS DEPARTMENT ABOUT THE COST, OR ANY REPRESENTATIVES
10:39:10 AT ALL.
10:39:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:39:13 >>LUIS VIERA: I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT I WILL ACCEPT YOUR
10:39:18 OFFER.
10:39:20 >> MR. DOCK.
10:39:25 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:39:32 I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A LITTLE HISTORY WITH THIS.
10:39:35 I JUST DO WANT TO NOTE THAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH A PUBLIC
10:39:38 PROCESS AND SUBMITTED -- AND SPOKE ABOUT BEFORE WITH THE
10:39:44 MASTER PLAN THAT WE WENT THROUGH AT THAT TIME THAT HAD
10:39:47 SEVERAL PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT TOOK PLACE AND GOT COMMUNITY
10:39:51 INPUT ORIGINALLY.
10:39:53 IF AT THIS POINT THAT WE WOULD BE GOING THROUGH THIS
10:39:55 PROCESS AGAIN FROM HISTORICALLY WE WOULD GO THROUGH THAT
10:40:00 PUBLIC PROCESS AGAIN AND HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE
10:40:05 CHANGES THAT ARE THERE AS WELL.
10:40:07 SO A LOT OF THE THINGS WITH THIS REALLY DO HAVE TO BE
10:40:10 DUPLICATED AGAIN TO GIVE YOU THE PROCESS SIMPLY BECAUSE
10:40:15 WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THOUGHT THE PARK WAS GOING
10:40:17 TO BE A CERTAIN DESIGN.
10:40:18 IF THAT CHANGED, WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE
10:40:21 PUBLIC WAS AWARE AND GOT THEIR COMMENTS RELATED TO THOSE
10:40:24 DIFFERENCES.
10:40:27 AS FAR AS THE SPECIFICS OF OUR ESTIMATE FROM OUR
10:40:31 CONSULTANT, CARLA PRICE WORKED ON THIS PROJECT, WORKED ON
10:40:35 IT WELL OVER A YEAR WITH THAT AND SOME OF THE SPECIFICS
10:40:38 RELATED TO THAT, I THINK SHE CAN SPEAK TO.
10:40:40 >> CARLA PRICE, PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
10:40:49 IT'S KIND OF AN UNUSUAL SITUATION WITH THE PARK DESIGN.
10:40:52 WHEN A CONSULTANT PUTS TOGETHER A PROPOSAL, IT'S REALLY
10:40:55 KIND OF THEIR BEST GUESS OF WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO
10:40:58 ACCOMPLISH THE WORK AT HAND.
10:41:01 WITH THIS PROJECT, OUR CONSULTANT HAS ALREADY DONE THE
10:41:04 WORK.
10:41:04 SO TO COME UP WITH A PROPOSAL FOR THE REDESIGN, THEY WERE
10:41:08 ABLE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE ACTUAL HOURS AND THE
10:41:11 ACTUAL TIME AND TASKS IT TOOK TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT.
10:41:16 AND NOW WHAT WE ARE ASKING THEM TO DO IS TO GO BACK AND
10:41:19 RETHINK THE DESIGN OF THE PARK AGAIN.
10:41:22 HAVING TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS, THEY HAVE TO SET UP FOR
10:41:26 THOSE.
10:41:26 THEY HAVE TO PREPARE FOR THOSE.
10:41:30 COMING UP WITH CONCEPTS, THOSE CONCEPTS HAVE TO BE
10:41:32 REVIEWED BY US AND MET WITH US.
10:41:35 SO THE TASKS AT HAND TO GET AGAIN TO ANOTHER DESIGN
10:41:39 HASN'T CHANGED A WHOLE LOT FROM WHAT THEY DID IN THE
10:41:41 BEGINNING.
10:41:42 THAT'S WHY THEIR PRICE IS CLOSE TO WHAT THEIR ORIGINAL
10:41:47 PRICE WAS.
10:41:48 SO THERE WAS SOME SAVINGS, TOO.
10:41:51 I DON'T KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAYBE HASN'T BEEN
10:41:54 TALKED ABOUT WITH THE CRA IS THAT OUR CURRENT PARK DESIGN
10:41:58 HAS SEATING IN IT, HAS SEATING THAT THE RESTAURANT PEOPLE
10:42:02 COULD USE, THEIR PATRONS.
10:42:07 THE DOG PARK AND PUTTING SEATING THERE MAKES THE SEATING
10:42:10 ONLY 50 FEET CLOSER.
10:42:13 IT'S A VERY SMALL PARK.
10:42:16 SO SOME OF THOSE THINGS MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE
10:42:19 GAINING A WHOLE LOT IN MOVING THE PARK, MOVING THE DOG
10:42:23 PARK.
10:42:24 MAYBE THOSE THINGS NEED TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION.
10:42:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION.
10:42:31 AND I HAVE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT CONSTRUCTION COSTS, AND
10:42:33 OUR CONSULTANT COSTS WITH THE CITY, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE
10:42:36 EVERYONE INFLATES THE PRICE.
10:42:39 BUT I HAVE TO LOOK AT A CITIZEN WHO HAS HAD A BUILDING
10:42:42 THERE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
10:42:45 SO WHY SHOULD THEY IT BE CUT OUT OF BEING A PARK WHEN
10:42:51 THEY HAVE BEEN THERE A LONG TIME?
10:42:54 BUT I LOOK AT THE COST TO COME BACK FROM THEIR
10:42:57 CONSULTANT, WE HAVE THE COST FROM MY CONSULTANT, WHICH I
10:42:59 KNOW ARE ALWAYS INFLATED.
10:43:01 I DON'T SEE HOW WE DON'T COME TO A COMPROMISE OR HOW WE
10:43:04 DON'T LOOK AT WHAT'S DIFFERENT IN THE WHOLE DESIGN PLAN?
10:43:09 WHY IS THE CONSULTANT COSTING THIS MUCH MORE MONEY?
10:43:11 YOU HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN THE DESIGN.
10:43:13 YOU ARE JUST MAKING A FEW CHANGES IN THE DESIGN POSSIBLY.
10:43:15 >> IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE.
10:43:18 IT'S NOT MOVING LINES.
10:43:21 YOU KNOW, MR. ISAAC TALKS ABOUT MOVING THE DOG PARK TO
10:43:28 THE NORTH SIDE.
10:43:29 IN MY OPINION, IT DOESN'T WORK TO MOVE IT TO THE NORTH
10:43:32 SIDE.
10:43:33 THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PARK IS THE NICEST AREA TO GO AND
10:43:35 SIT.
10:43:36 WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS A RAISED PATIO TYPE AREA WHERE
10:43:41 CAFE LIGHTS AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THAT AWAY AND
10:43:44 MAKE IT A DOG PARK, NOW?
10:43:46 SO THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO THE DOG PARK AND TALK THIS
10:43:51 THERE.
10:43:51 YOU MOVE THE DOG PARK, YOU ARE MOVING WATER LANES, YOU
10:43:54 ARE MOVING IRRIGATION LINES, YOU ARE MOVING LIGHTING.
10:43:57 SO NOW THEY HAVE GOT TO BRING IN THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND
10:44:00 THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, ALL OF OUR PERMITS HAVE TO BE
10:44:05 UPDATED, NEW CALCULATIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE CHANGED MANY
10:44:08 IMPERVIOUS SURFACES, WE HAVE CHANGED MAYBE WHERE LIGHTING
10:44:12 GOES AND WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE, TYPE OF LIGHTING.
10:44:15 SO IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE.
10:44:18 I GUESS EVERY PERMIT HAS TO BE RESUBMITTED.
10:44:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND I GET THAT.
10:44:22 I UNDERSTAND.
10:44:25 I HAVE TO LOOK AT IT ALL.
10:44:28 AND I HAVE TO ALSO LOOK AT THEIR INTEREST AS WELL AND THE
10:44:31 INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY.
10:44:33 BUT WHEN I SEE A COST HERE AND A COST OVER HERE AND I
10:44:36 KNOW HOW THE COST GOES TO THE CITY, IT RAISES MY EYE
10:44:39 BROWS ALL THE TIME.
10:44:41 BUT I UNDERSTAND IT MAY BE MOVING SOME LINES, BUT I JUST
10:44:46 LOOK AT THE COST FACTOR.
10:44:47 AND THAT'S MY BIGGEST POINT WITH THIS.
10:44:50 IF THEY CAN COME IN WITH A LEGITIMATE CONSULTANT OR FIRM
10:44:54 AND WHO IS CREDIBLE, AND HAVE THIS NUMBER, BUT WE HAVE
10:44:58 THIS FIRM HERE THAT DOES WORK WITH THE CITY AND THOSE
10:45:00 NUMBERS ARE UP.
10:45:01 THAT'S MY BIG CONCERN.
10:45:02 I AM GOING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
10:45:04 THE NUMBERS.
10:45:04 >> CARLA PRICE: I UNDERSTAND.
10:45:08 THEY ALSO HAVE AN ARCHITECT REVIEWING NUMBERS FOR
10:45:12 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, TWO PROFESSIONS, TO TWO DISCIPLINES.
10:45:21 THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF HAVING THAT GOES INTO THAT.
10:45:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MS. PRICE.
10:45:26 ANYTHING ELSE?
10:45:28 MR. MASSEY, ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MOTION BE PUT ON THE
10:45:31 FLOOR?
10:45:32 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES.
10:45:33 WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE IF THE CRA IS SUPPORTIVE OF
10:45:37 BASICALLY SAYING THE DIFFERENCE IN THE COST BETWEEN THE
10:45:40 42,860 THAT MS. ISAAC IS WILLING TO PAY AND PAYING FOR
10:45:49 THE REDESIGN OF THE PARK AND FAILING THAT WHETHER THE CRA
10:45:52 IS SUPPORTIVE OF REDESIGN OF THE PARK, BECAUSE WE HAVE
10:45:56 GOT A POTENTIAL GAP THERE.
10:45:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'LL PASS THE GAVEL TO MR. CARLSON AND
10:46:02 I'LL MAKE A MOTION.
10:46:06 I'LL MAKE THE MOTION THAT THE CAC BOARD APPROVE THE
10:46:17 FUNDING FOR FUNDING OF THE PETITIONER TO MOVE THE PROJECT
10:46:24 FORWARD.
10:46:25 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL SECOND THAT.
10:46:27 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY CHAIRMAN GUDES.
10:46:29 SECOND BY MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:46:36 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:46:38 OPPOSED?
10:46:43 ROLL CALL.
10:46:43 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:46:53 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:46:55 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:46:56 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NAY.
10:46:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NAY.
10:47:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:47:01 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA AND CITRO
10:47:07 VOTING NO AND DINGFELDER ABSENT.
10:47:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME SAY THIS.
10:47:11 I JUST WANT TO QUALIFY I'M NOT VOTING AGAINST ANYTHING.
10:47:14 I JUST DON'T HAVE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO KNOW WHO IS
10:47:17 CORRECT.
10:47:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIRMAN, IF I MAY, THERE'S TOO MANY
10:47:23 IFs STILL INVOLVED IN THIS AND THAT IS MY REASON FOR
10:47:26 VOTING NO.
10:47:26 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I APPRECIATE THE MOTION FROM THE CRA
10:47:31 BOARD.
10:47:32 WE WILL BRING FORWARD AN AGREEMENT FROM MS. ISAAC AND THE
10:47:35 CRA RELATIVE TO THE REDESIGN OF THE PARK.
10:47:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVING TO ITEM 4.
10:47:47 >>ROB ROSNER: ROB ROSNER AGAIN TO REPORT ON THIS.
10:47:54 CAN WE BRING UP THE SLIDE?
10:47:59 SO YOU REQUESTED AN UPDATE ON THE AER TOWER, AND I AM
10:48:03 GOING TO DESCRIBE THE PROJECT AS IT IS.
10:48:06 IT'S GOING THROUGH FOUR PHASES, THROUGH CONSTRUCTION, IN
10:48:09 ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE, KEEP TRAFFIC OPEN DURING THAT
10:48:12 PROCESS.
10:48:13 SO THIS FIRST PHASE HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE.
10:48:18 IF YOU CAN SEE HERE, THERE'S THE NEW ROAD THAT'S RIGHT IN
10:48:21 FRONT OF THE STRAZ AND THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT AT THE
10:48:24 INTERSECTION THAT WILL RECEIVE PAVERS THIS WEEK.
10:48:27 SO THAT'S THE END OF THE FIRST PHASE OF WRAPPING THAT UP.
10:48:30 PHASE TWO ACTUALLY STARTS TODAY WHICH WILL MOVE ON TO
10:48:33 THIS.
10:48:34 THIS IS THE EXTENSION THAT TURNS SOUTH AND RECONNECTS
10:48:38 WITH CASS STREET, AND I HAVE OUTLINED IT HERE ON THIS RED
10:48:42 BOX.
10:48:43 SO THE RIVERWALK IMPROVEMENTS WILL BEGIN AT THE SAME
10:48:46 PHASE BECAUSE THIS PORTION OF ROADWAY WORK HAPPENS, THIS
10:48:48 IS ONE WE CAN GET BACK TO WHERE THE RIVERWALK WORK CAN BE
10:48:52 DONE AND STILL NOT HAVE ANY DISTURBANCE TO CASS STREET.
10:48:56 SO SINCE THIS AREA IS GOING TO BE CLOSED ANYWAY FOR NEW
10:48:58 CONSTRUCTION, WE THOUGHT THIS WAS THE BEST TIME TO BUILD
10:49:01 THE RIVERWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
10:49:03 SO THIS IS EXPECTED TO LAST APPROXIMATELY TWO MONTHS.
10:49:06 AND WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT IS PHASE 3, WHICH IS THE
10:49:10 INTERSECTION OF TYLER AND MACINNES PLACE.
10:49:19 THAT WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSED ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF
10:49:22 BECAUSE THE INTERSECTION IS BEING RAISED 17 INCHES, 18
10:49:27 INCHES.
10:49:27 THE FIRST ONE THERE, WAS A SLOPE TO USE IN THE MEANTIME,
10:49:30 AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE PHASE FOUR WHICH
10:49:33 IS THE REST OF THE WORK FOR MACINNES WHICH IS WHERE THE
10:49:38 AN E USED TO BE.
10:49:40 PHASE FOUR WILL COME UP AFTER PHASE THREE AND THE STRAZ
10:49:44 WILL HAVE ACCESS THE ENTIRE TIME.
10:49:46 SO IN THIS PROCESS, WE HAVE HAD THE STRAZ STAFF ON OUR
10:49:52 WEEKLY MEETINGS, AND WE HAVE EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, WE
10:49:55 HAVE BEEN KEEPING UP WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT
10:49:58 COME UP.
10:50:01 DURING THE PROCESS OF DOING THIS WE DID RUN INTO SOME
10:50:03 OTHER ISSUES THAT WILL BECOME OVERAGES FOR THIS AND PER
10:50:08 THE AGREEMENT WE WILL HAVE TO COME UP WHERE WE GATHER UP
10:50:11 ALL THOSE AVERAGE ANSWER, SO NEXT MONTH YOU WILL SEE AN
10:50:15 AMENDMENT, AND WE ARE STILL WRAPPING UP THE
10:50:17 TECHNICALITIES OF WHAT THOSE ARE.
10:50:19 WE HAVE SOME ELECTRIC LINES THAT WERE NOT SHOWN OR OUR
10:50:23 PLANS THAT WE HAD TO MOVE SOME SEWER FOR ADJUSTING FOR
10:50:26 THAT.
10:50:27 AND THEN SOME OF THE COSTS FOR THE RIVERWALK WALL IS A
10:50:30 LITTLE HIGHER, JUST DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT BEING RIGHT
10:50:35 AT THE SEAWALL AND ACCESS TO GETTING TO THAT.
10:50:38 SO WE ARE GOING TO FIND THAT IN THE NEXT PHASE IN JULY
10:50:40 BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IT'S RIGHT NOW GETTING THOSE COST
10:50:43 TOGETHER.
10:50:44 FOR THE MOST PART IT'S GOING TO BE AN EXCELLENT PROJECT.
10:50:46 THEY ARE ON SCHEDULE TO BREAK GROUND IN LATE FALL, EARLY
10:50:51 WINTER FOR BUILDING.
10:50:52 AND THIS PROJECT FOR THE ROADWAY WORK SHOULD BE DONE
10:50:55 BETWEEN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER.
10:50:57 IDEALLY EARLY OCTOBER.
10:51:00 COVID HELPED US WITH THE SCHEDULING BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
10:51:03 HAVE TO DO AS MUCH MAINTENANCE OF TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE HAVE
10:51:06 BEEN ABLE TO WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY.
10:51:11 WE ARE HOPING TO STAY ON SCHEDULE OR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
10:51:14 THAT'S OUR HOPE.
10:51:16 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:51:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA, MR. CITRO.
10:51:19 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAVE NONE.
10:51:26 THANK YOU.
10:51:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MIRANDA?
10:51:29 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
10:51:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE MOVE ON NOW TO NUMBER 5.
10:51:34 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NUMBER 5 IS THE REPROGRAMMING OF
10:51:38 THE $10,000 THAT WE SHOWED YOU FOR THE DEMOLITION OF THAT
10:51:43 PROPERTY AT 1526 NORTH NEBRASKA.
10:51:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. CHAIR, WHAT WAS THAT BUILDING AT
10:51:52 ONE POINT?
10:51:53 A REGULAR STOREFRONT?
10:51:55 >> BAR.
10:51:56 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT WAS A BAR?
10:51:58 MOVE TO APPROVE.
10:51:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:52:03 SECOND?
10:52:04 MOTION BY CITRO. DISCUSSION?
10:52:07 DISCUSSION?
10:52:09 NO DISCUSSION, ALL IN FAVOR?
10:52:11 ALL OPPOSED?
10:52:15 MADAM CLERK?
10:52:16 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
10:52:18 ABSENT.
10:52:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 6.
10:52:22 >> ITEM 6 IS FOR THE YBOR CRA.
10:52:24 WE ARE POINTING THOMAS ST. JOHN FROM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE
10:52:28 AS AN EX-OFFICIO POSITION REPRESENTATIVE TO THE YCD
10:52:33 BOARD.
10:52:35 MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:52:37 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
10:52:39 DISCUSSION?
10:52:42 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:52:43 ALL OPPOSED?
10:52:44 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
10:52:48 ABSENT.
10:52:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CLERK.
10:52:52 MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:52:54 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE THEIR CACs HAVE OPENINGS RIGHT NOW
10:52:59 STILL?
10:53:00 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: OPENINGS FOR?
10:53:09 OH, WE ARE ALL FULL.
10:53:10 EAST TAMPA NOW I BELIEVE HAS 17 APPLICATIONS TO FILL 6
10:53:13 SEATS FOR UPCOMING CYCLE.
10:53:15 SO I THINK RIGHT NOW AFTER ALL THE EXTRA EFFORTS WE WENT
10:53:18 THROUGH LAST FALL, ALL THE APPOINTMENTS YOU HAVE MADE
10:53:22 FILLING UP TO THE YEAR, NOW IT'S JUST AS TERMS EXPIRE.
10:53:25 I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY VACANCIES.
10:53:27 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:53:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 7.
10:53:31 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THE FACADE GRANT FOR WEST TAMPA.
10:53:38 MOTION TO APPROVE BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:53:41 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
10:53:45 DISCUSSION?
10:53:46 DISCUSSION?
10:53:46 >>BILL CARLSON: I AM GOING TO VOTE NOW JUST BECAUSE OF
10:53:50 FACADE GRANTS.
10:53:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL IN FAVOR?
10:53:54 ALL OPPOSED?
10:53:55 MADAM CLERK?
10:53:57 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO AND
10:54:00 DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT.
10:54:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 8.
10:54:04 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THE FACADE GRANT OUT IN DREW PARK
10:54:07 AND JUST AS AN ITEM OF INTEREST, IN CASE SOMEONE ASKS,
10:54:10 THIS USED TO BE THE LANDERS STEAKHOUSE.
10:54:13 IT IS NOW GOING TO BE A SERIES OF RETAIL STOREFRONTS AND
10:54:17 UPGRADING SO IT LOOKS A LITTLE MORE PRESENTABLE FROM DALE
10:54:20 MABRY.
10:54:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE?
10:54:26 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU HAVE A SUBSTITUTE AND GRANT
10:54:29 AGREEMENT.
10:54:30 THIS IS AN INTERESTING SITUATION.
10:54:36 THE PARTY WHO IS ACTUALLY REDOING THE BUILDING OR
10:54:41 REQUESTS THE GRANT HAS A 70 YEAR GROUND LEASE FOR THE
10:54:45 PROPERTY SO THE CRA IS AGREEING TO THE AGREEMENT AS WELL.
10:54:47 THEY JUST WANT THE TERMS OF THAT AGREEMENT CLARIFIED SO
10:54:50 THAT IT WAS CLEAR THAT IT WAS COMPLYING WITH THE TERMS OF
10:54:56 THE GRANT AGREEMENT.
10:54:58 SO THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE SUBSTITUTION.
10:55:01 >> MOVE THE SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION.
10:55:05 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
10:55:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. CITRO. SECOND BY MR.
10:55:09 MANISCALCO.
10:55:10 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:55:11 OPPOSED?
10:55:14 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:55:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THIS IS GOING TO BE LONG OVERDUE.
10:55:18 THAT BUILDING HAS BEEN IN DISARRAY FOR AT LEAST FOUR
10:55:22 YEARS NOW.
10:55:24 AND IT'S TIME.
10:55:26 THANK YOU.
10:55:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CLERK, THE VOTE?
10:55:30 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO AND
10:55:32 DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT.
10:55:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:55:35 WE OPEN IT UP FOR INFORMATION REPORTS.
10:55:38 ANY NEW BUSINESS?
10:55:40 MR. MIRANDA.
10:55:40 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE SIR.
10:55:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NOTHING TODAY, MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU.
10:55:45 >>BILL CARLSON: YES, JUST TO -- I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE
10:55:52 QUICK ONES OR NOT.
10:55:53 YOU ALL KNOW THAT FOR MONTHS WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
10:55:56 THE FACT THAT DOWNTOWN CHANNELSIDE, WE HAVE SLUM AND
10:56:00 BLIGHT AND ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO OTHER AREAS IN THE
10:56:04 OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, IN PARTICULAR SOUTH TAMPA
10:56:06 SUBSIDIZING THE CRAs BECAUSE THE WAY THE CRAS ARE
10:56:11 CONSTRUCTED THEY DON'T PAY FAIR SHARE FOR REGULAR
10:56:15 SERVICES.
10:56:15 I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO MS. VAN LOAN.
10:56:19 CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG.
10:56:19 CHANNEL DISTRICT LINE WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR THE CRA IF
10:56:24 THEY APPLIED TODAY.
10:56:25 AND I UNDERSTAND ALSO THAT THE MAYOR HAS EVEN MENTION
10:56:28 MENTIONED IN A SPEECH THAT SHE WAS LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY
10:56:32 SHUTTING DOWN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CRA.
10:56:34 SO UNLESS YOU WANT TO CORRECT ME, I WILL MAKE A MOTION.
10:56:37 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE STAFF CREATE A PLAN
10:56:40 TO BEGIN DRAWING DOWN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CRA FUND FOR
10:56:44 FISCAL YEAR 2021 AND TO COMPLETE THE DRAW-DOWN OF FISCAL
10:56:49 YEAR 2022.
10:56:50 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CRA WOULD THEN SHALL RETIRED.
10:56:53 MONEY THAT WOULD HAVE COME INTO THAT CRA DISTRICT WOULD
10:56:57 THEN BE PART OF THE GENERAL FUND AND COUNCIL WOULD ASK
10:57:01 THAT IT BE DIRECTED TOWARD INVESTMENTS IN SULPHUR
10:57:04 SPRINGS, EAST TAMPA AND THE UPTOWN INNOVATION DISTRICT TO
10:57:09 RELIEVE SLUM, BLIGHT AND HOUSING SHORTAGE.
10:57:12 STAFF ARE ASKED TO REPORT AT THE JULY 23rd, 2020 CRA
10:57:17 MEETING.
10:57:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:57:21 DISCUSSION?
10:57:22 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANTED TO THANK COUNCILMAN CARLSON FOR
10:57:27 HIS BRINGING FORTH THIS ISSUE.
10:57:31 IT'S SOMETHING HE'S VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THAT.
10:57:33 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
10:57:34 I WANT TO SUPPORT THIS.
10:57:35 I THINK THERE'S QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE ANSWERED
10:57:38 IN TERMS OF THE POTENTIAL LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS, AND WE CAN
10:57:44 TALK WITH ATTORNEYS AND STAFF ON IT, BUT I CERTAINLY
10:57:47 THINK THAT THE SENTIMENT IS CERTAINLY ONE THAT I CAN
10:57:49 CERTAINLY GET BEHIND ON.
10:57:51 THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF UNKNOWNS IN THE FUTURE IN
10:57:53 TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENS.
10:57:55 INCLUDING CHANNELSIDE AND DOWNTOWN SO WE HAVE TO HAVE A
10:57:59 DISCUSSION ON THIS. BUT I WILL CERTAINLY VOTE YES IN
10:58:01 MOVING THIS FORWARD.
10:58:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE FOR DISCUSSION?
10:58:05 >> TO CLARIFY FOR THE RECORD, THAT ONCE THE CRA IS
10:58:13 TERMINATED, AND THEN THEY CAN COME BACK INTO THE GENERAL
10:58:18 REVENUE STREAM, WHAT OUR SHARE WOULD BE.
10:58:20 SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH A REGULAR BUDGETARY
10:58:24 PROCESS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
10:58:28 >>BILL CARLSON: THE WAY IT'S WORDED HERE IS THAT YOU
10:58:31 WOULD ASK THAT.
10:58:32 AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND CITY COUNCIL, BUT IT SHOWS OUR
10:58:35 INTENT ANYWAY THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO REDIRECT IT TO AREAS
10:58:38 THAT HAVE SLUM AND BLIGHT.
10:58:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. CARLSON.
10:58:44 SECONDED BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:58:46 ALL IN FAVOR?
10:58:47 ALL OPPOSED?
10:58:50 CLERK?
10:58:53 CALL THE ROLL.
10:58:54 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
10:58:57 ABSENT.
10:58:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON.
10:59:00 >>BILL CARLSON: THEN THE SECOND ONE IS THE DOWNTOWN ONE.
10:59:03 AND IT'S MORE COMPLICATED BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF
10:59:07 CURRENT OBLIGATIONS AND ANTICIPATED OBLIGATIONS.
10:59:10 AND I DID TALK TO AT LEAST ONE OF THE MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS
10:59:15 THERE.
10:59:15 AND I THINK IF THE CITY GOES THROUGH CITY STAFF WORKING
10:59:19 ON BEHALF OF CRA, GOES THROUGH A THOROUGH ANALYSIS TO TRY
10:59:22 TO ANTICIPATE WHAT THE FOUGHT EXPENSES MIGHT BE, NOT JUST
10:59:26 THE ONES THAT ARE OBLIGATED TODAY BUT THE ONES THAT MIGHT
10:59:29 BE OBLIGATED IN THE FUTURE, THEN WE COULD PUT A CAP ON
10:59:34 IT.
10:59:34 AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT CRA STAFF
10:59:38 ANALYZE THE POSSIBILITY OF PLACING A CAP ON THE DOWNTOWN
10:59:41 CRA.
10:59:43 THIS CAP WOULD BE SET TO EXCEED CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED
10:59:47 OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE A BUFFER, THAT EXCEED MONEY WOULD
10:59:50 BE PLAYED IN THE GENERAL FUND AND WOULD BE REDIRECTED
10:59:53 INTO EAST TAMPA, SULPHUR SPRINGS AND THE UPTOWN
10:59:55 INNOVATION DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSE OF RELIEVING SLUM,
10:59:58 BLIGHT, PROPERTY AND THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHORTAGE,
11:00:01 STAFF ARE ASKED TO REPORT AT THE JULY 23rd, 2020
11:00:05 MEETING.
11:00:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECONDED BY MR. MANISCALCO.
11:00:10 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:00:11 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THAT PROVIDING
11:00:13 IT'S LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE.
11:00:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, I AM ALSO.
11:00:21 HOWEVER I HOPE THIS TYPE CAN WORK WITH WORKFORCE
11:00:24 AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICT.
11:00:27 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:00:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE FOR DISCUSSION?
11:00:31 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:00:32 ALL OPPOSED?
11:00:32 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
11:00:36 ABSENT.
11:00:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
11:00:40 ALL RIGHT.
11:00:43 SEEING NO OTHER BUSINESS --
11:00:49 >>MORRIS MASSEY: DOES BOARD MEMBER MASKS OR VIERA HAVE
11:00:52 ANY NEW BUSINESS?
11:00:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'M SORRY, THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
11:00:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, NOTHING FURTHER.
11:01:01 >>LUIS VIERA: I HAVE NOTHING, MR. CHAIR.
11:01:03 FIRST GREAT LIVE MEETING.
11:01:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AGAIN, THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
11:01:07 I APPRECIATE THE COOPERATION, ALL THE WORK FROM THE
11:01:10 STAFF.
11:01:16 WITH THAT BEING SAID, MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO TO RECEIVE
11:01:19 AND FILE.
11:01:20 SECOND BY MR. CITRO. ALL IN FAVOR?
11:01:22 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
11:01:24 ABSENT.
11:01:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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