City of Tampa CRA Meeting
Thursday, December 10, 2020
9:00 a.m.
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09:07:53 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE DO AND I SEE HIM ON THE SCREEN.
09:07:58 GOOD MORNING.
09:07:59 CAN YOU HEAR ME?
09:08:03 >> YES, I CAN HEAR YOU.
09:08:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: LET ME INTRODUCE YOU, AND HE WILL
09:08:09 BE GIVING OUR INVOCATION FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF
09:08:11 ALLEGIANCE.
09:08:15 AMAN SULTAN IS A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE LOCAL MUSLIM
09:08:16 COMMUNITY IN TAMPA BAY.
09:08:22 HE IS THE SON OF THE LATE SHEIK SULTAN REVERED.
09:08:24 PREVIOUSLY, A SCHOOL TEACHER AND IS THE PRESIDENT AND
09:08:28 FOUNDER OF TMC, THE MUSLIM CONNECTION, A COMMUNITY
09:08:31 ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES A SAFE SPACE FOR ALL THROUGH
09:08:34 EDUCATIONAL YOUTH ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS.
09:08:40 TMC AIMS TO ADVANCE THE PROPHETIC MISSION TO PROVIDE A
09:08:45 COMPELLING, CONVINCING CASE OF ISLAM TO MENTOR OTHERS
09:08:47 TO SHARE THE FAITH.
09:08:49 SIR, IF YOU WOULD LEAD US IN THE INVOCATION.
09:08:51 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
09:08:55 IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE MOST
09:09:01 MERCIFUL, THE MOST COMPASSIONATE, WE ASK GOD THIS EARLY
09:09:03 THURSDAY MORNING TO GRANT HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY
09:09:07 FOR ALL THE MEMBERS -- FOR ALL MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD
09:09:09 HERE IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:09:14 AND WE ASK GOD TO HELP US AND PROTECT US FROM THE VIRUS
09:09:19 AND PROTECT OUR FAMILIES AND ENABLE US TO USE WISDOM
09:09:22 AND BE CONSIDERATE OF ONE ANOTHER AND ASK GOD TO PUT
09:09:27 PATIENCE IN OUR HEARTS AND HELP GOD TO HELP THOSE WHO
09:09:30 ARE LESS FORTUNATE AND MEANS OF GOODNESS THROUGHOUT THE
09:09:30 WORLD.
09:09:33 ASK THAT THIS MEETING THAT IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE TODAY
09:09:37 THAT UNIFIES OUR HEARTS AND REMOVES ANIMOSITY, HATRED
09:09:42 AND REPLACE WITH COMPASSION, MERCY.
09:09:44 AMEN.
09:09:55 [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:09:57 >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:09:58 ROLL CALL SIR.
09:09:59 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:10:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:10:04 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:10:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:10:07 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:10:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE, SIR.
09:10:12 OPENING UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:10:14 ANY HOUSEKEEPING WE NEED MR. MASSEY?
09:10:16 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, SIR.
09:10:18 THERE IS, COUPLE OF ITEMS I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION
09:10:20 BEFORE WE GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:10:26 FIRST, NUMBER 9 ON YOUR AGENDA THIS MORNING ARE AMENDED
09:10:30 EMERGENCY RULES FOR THIS BODY THAT ALLOWS THIS HYBRID
09:10:30 MEETING.
09:10:34 WHILE THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER WAS IN EFFECT WAIVING THE
09:10:38 QUORUM REQUIREMENT, THE RULES ADDED THAT YOU MEET
09:10:41 VIRTUALLY AND AMEND THE EMERGENCY RULES TO HAVE A
09:10:45 PHYSICAL QUORUM PRESENT AND PEOPLE COULD PARTICIPATE
09:10:49 VIA COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER MEANS AND
09:10:53 THIS IS WHAT YOUR REVISED RULES WILL PROVIDE.
09:10:56 IF I COULD, I WOULD LIKE TO YOU ADOPT THE REVISED
09:10:59 EMERGENCY RULES NUMBER 9 RESOLUTION BEFORE WE PROCEED
09:11:02 WITH THIS MEETING SO WE ARE MEETING IN ACCORDANCE WITH
09:11:04 YOUR REVISED RULES.
09:11:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE.
09:11:09 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOVE NUMBER 9.
09:11:15 SECOND BY CITRO.
09:11:16 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:11:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:11:23 >> CARLSON?
09:11:25 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:11:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:11:30 >>MORRIS MASSEY: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING
09:11:33 ABSENT.
09:11:36 >>MORRIS MASSEY: OTHER ITEMS UNDER STAFF REPORT
09:11:39 PRESENTATION BY THE CRA STAFF RECORDING THE CULTURAL
09:11:41 ASSETS GRANT PROGRAM.
09:11:44 ITEMS NUMBER 13 AND 15 ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
09:11:47 AND I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE THOSE ITEMS BE CONSIDERED
09:11:52 AFTER LEGAL AND CRA STAFF MAKES THE PRESENTATION ON
09:11:53 YOUR AGENDA.
09:11:58 AND I BELIEVE THAT MISS VANLOAN WILL HAVE A WALK-ON
09:12:02 ITEM AT THE END OF THE AGENDA.
09:12:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE THAT.
09:12:07 >> SO MOVED.
09:12:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
09:12:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ROLL CALL VOTE.
09:12:12 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:12:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:12:16 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:12:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:12:19 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:12:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:12:25 >> MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
09:12:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYTHING ELSE?
09:12:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU WOULD LIKE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION
09:12:33 OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT AND MOVE INTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:12:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IF YOU CAN DO SO.
09:12:38 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE FIRST OF THE HYBRID MEETING OF
09:12:41 THE CRA IS A PHYSICAL BOARD PRESENT, AND MEMBERS OF THE
09:12:44 PUBLIC CAN BE PRESENT AND WE ALSO ALLOW PARTICIPATION
09:12:50 BY COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.
09:12:54 AND JUST ADOPTED AMENDED EMERGENCY RULES TO ALLOW FOR
09:12:55 THAT.
09:12:58 THE PUBLIC CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA CAN WATCH AND
09:13:01 LISTEN VIA CABLE TEACH OR BY THE INTERNET.
09:13:04 SINCE THE MEETING HAS THE OPTION OF COMMUNICATION MEDIA
09:13:07 TECHNOLOGY PARTICIPATION, THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVE
09:13:10 METHODS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
09:13:13 TO OFFER PUBLIC COMMENT DURING THE PUBLIC HEARINGS OR
09:13:16 PUBLIC MEETINGS IN PERSON, AT THE CONVENTION CENTER,
09:13:21 VIA THE INTERNET, BY E-MAIL, BY MAIL, BY VOICEMAIL, BY
09:13:24 SPEAKING REMOTELY DURING PUBLIC COMMENT OR DURING THE
09:13:28 PUBLIC HEARING VIA COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY OR
09:13:32 PARTICIPATING AT THE CONVENTION CENTER AT KIOSK USING
09:13:35 COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.
09:13:38 PUBLIC COMMENTS PRERECORDED LIVE WILL BE HEARD AT THE
09:13:41 START OF THE MEETING AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CRA.
09:13:44 WRITTEN COMMENTS GENERALLY MAY NOT EXCEED 400 WORDS BUT
09:13:46 ARE DISTRIBUTED TO CRA MEMBERS IN ADVANCE.
09:13:50 ALL PUBLIC COMMENT IS TIMELY RECEIVED BY MAIL, E-MAIL
09:13:55 OR REMOTE PARTICIPATION VIA CMT EQUAL PARTICIPATION AS
09:13:57 IF PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE MADE IN PERSON.
09:14:00 THAT IS REALLY IS THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR PUBLIC COMMENT
09:14:02 SECTION, AND I THINK WE ARE READY TO PROCEED WITH
09:14:03 PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:14:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:14:08 HOW MANY DO WE HAVE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT THIS MORNING?
09:14:12 >> I HAVE AN E-MAIL FROM SUE LING LUCAS THAT ONLY ONE
09:14:17 PERSON, DONNA MCBRIDE, REGISTERED TO SPEAK FOR THIS CRA
09:14:17 SESSION.
09:14:19 NO RECORDED MESSAGES TO BE MADE.
09:14:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OKAY.
09:14:22 WE CAN BEGIN, SIR.
09:14:25 I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE AT THE PODIUM IN THE AUDIENCE.
09:14:31 PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:14:34 >> I HAVE MISS DONNA MCBRIDE ON THE LINE.
09:14:35 MISS DONNA MCBRIDE.
09:14:37 IF YOU CAN HEAR ME.
09:14:38 YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:14:40 >> THANK YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
09:14:41 >> YES.
09:14:42 >> GREAT.
09:14:44 THANK YOU CRA BOARD MEMBERS.
09:14:48 THIS IS DONNA MCBRIDE WITH THE STRAZ CENTER IN DOWNTOWN
09:14:48 TAMPA.
09:14:55 FIRST, I WANTED TO THANK THE CRA BOARD, MISS MICHELLE
09:15:00 VANLOAN AND THE CITY LEADERSHIP STAFF FOR ALL THE WORK
09:15:03 YOU HAVE PUT TOGETHER TO PRESENT THIS RETROFIT GRANT
09:15:07 PROGRAM FOR THE DOWNTOWN VENUES.
09:15:13 I AM SURE BY NOW YOU KNOW HOW DESPERATELY IT IS NEEDED
09:15:19 TO RETURN OUR ECONOMIC IMPACT TO ITS IMPORTANCE AND SO
09:15:23 THAT THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND ALL OF TAMPA CAN THRIVE.
09:15:29 SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL DOWNTOWN
09:15:33 VENUES AND THE STRAZ CENTER FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THIS
09:15:36 PROGRAM AND WE PROMISE WE WILL USE THIS MONEY TO THE
09:15:40 BEST OF OUR CAPABILITY TO BRING THESE VENUES BACK AND
09:15:43 TO BRING OUR DOWNTOWN AND TAMPA -- THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:15:49 BACK TO A RESILIENT EXISTENCE AND STIMULATING OUR
09:15:53 ECONOMY AND SERVING OUR COMMUNITY AS WE HAVE DONE PRIOR
09:15:54 COVID.
09:15:57 AND WE ARE JUST HAPPY AND GRATEFUL THAT YOU HAVE PUT
09:15:57 THIS TOGETHER.
09:15:59 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:16:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:16:06 ANYBODY ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:16:09 WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE AGENDA.
09:16:13 AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, CEREMONIALS.
09:16:15 >> MR. CHAIR, I THINK YOU HAVE FOLKS IN THE AUDIENCE
09:16:16 HERE.
09:16:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING, SIR.
09:16:21 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:16:29 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT TAMPA, FLORIDA FROM ENTERING
09:16:34 INTO THIS BUILDING AND COMING TO A PUBLIC MEETING AND
09:16:38 BEING INTIMIDATED AND BULLIED BY THE POLICE AND BULLIED
09:16:42 BY INDIVIDUALS FROM IN HERE.
09:16:45 I DON'T THINK WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TO
09:16:49 EXPERIENCE THAT KIND OF BULLYING IN 2020.
09:16:54 WE COME DOWN HERE -- I WILL SAY "WE" EVEN SPEAKING AS
09:16:57 MYSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL, COMING DOWN HERE SEEKING A
09:17:01 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RIGHTS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO
09:17:05 ENJOY SINCE THE WHITE PEOPLE HAD A CONSTITUTION IN
09:17:10 1776, SINCE THE WHITE PEOPLE SAY THEY LEFT ENGLAND AND
09:17:13 OTHER PLACES, FRANCE AND SPAIN AND OTHER PLACES AND
09:17:16 CAME TO THIS WESTERN HEMISPHERE LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN
09:17:17 TYPE OF FREEDOM.
09:17:20 THEY WERE LOOKING FOR FREEDOM, AND THEY HAVE BEEN USING
09:17:24 US AS CHATTEL SLAVERY AND AS SLAVES.
09:17:27 THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER 400 YEARS.
09:17:31 AND WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING HARSH TREATMENT AND
09:17:35 DISPOSITION FOR 620 YEARS BASED ON THE COLOR OF OUR
09:17:36 SKIN.
09:17:40 AND YOU WALK IN THIS DOOR TODAY WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED
09:17:42 TO HAVE A CONSTITUTION YOU ARE GUIDED BY, AND WHEN YOU
09:17:46 SEE AFRICAN PEOPLE KNOWING THAT AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE
09:17:47 BEING OPPRESSED.
09:17:50 WHEN YOU SEE US, YOU WANT TO OPPRESS US A LITTLE MORE.
09:17:54 YOU WANT TO COME DOWN A LITTLE MORE.
09:17:55 THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT.
09:18:01 THAT IS WHY WE CAN'T ENJOY 26% OF THE POSITIVE THINGS
09:18:02 OF THIS COMMUNITY.
09:18:07 WE CAN ENJOY OR WE CAN ENDURE 80% AND 90%
09:18:13 DISPROPORTIONAL, STATISTICAL FACTOR THAT'S WE CAN ENJOY
09:18:14 IF IT IS NEGATIVE.
09:18:17 BUT IF IT IS POSITIVE, WE CAN'T ENJOY IT.
09:18:19 BECAUSE WHY?
09:18:21 BECAUSE Y'ALL HAVE A FEELING TALK PUSH BLACK PEOPLE
09:18:23 AROUND, YOU CAN BULLY BLACK PEOPLE.
09:18:25 THE POLICE DO IT.
09:18:27 THE CITY COUNCIL DO IT.
09:18:28 THE GOVERNMENT DO IT.
09:18:31 THE PARKING DEPARTMENT DO IT.
09:18:34 THE CODE ENFORCEMENT DO IT AROUND BLACK COMMUNITIES,
09:18:38 PUSHING BLACK PEOPLE AROUND, COMING ON TO OUR
09:18:40 PROPERTIES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS.
09:18:41 YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN DAVIS ISLAND.
09:18:44 YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN CONTROL.
09:18:46 YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
09:18:51 BUT YOU ARE ALL OVER DISTRICT FIVE DOING IT.
09:18:53 THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THAT.
09:18:54 AND THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE.
09:18:58 OUR REPRESENTATIVE, OUR ELECTED OFFICIAL NEEDS TO SAY
09:19:02 OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PEOPLE DESERVE 26% OF THIS CITY
09:19:02 BUDGET.
09:19:08 WE DESERVE 26% OF THE GOODNESS IN THIS CITY, NOT 60 AND
09:19:12 70 AND 80% OF THE INCARCERATION AND THE SCHOOL
09:19:15 EXPULSIONS AND THE SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS AND EVERYTHING
09:19:19 ELSE AND THE WELL FARE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, NO, THOSE
09:19:21 DAYS ARE OVER WITH.
09:19:24 AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE TO SEE A BETTER DAY WITHIN OUR
09:19:24 LIFETIME.
09:19:29 THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO SEE.
09:19:32 NOBODY -- NOBODY, THE CITY OF TAMPA, THESE CLOWNS OUT
09:19:40 HERE DRESSED IN TPD UNIFORMS CANNOT BULLY MEN TISNOT.
09:19:43 I WAS NOT MADE TO BEING PUSHED AROUND.
09:19:46 REAL AFRICAN PEOPLE DON'T GET PUSHED AROUND.
09:19:52 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND MALCOLM X, FANNY LOU HAMER
09:19:55 AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE SO
09:19:59 THEY DON'T GET PUSHED ON AND BULLIED.
09:20:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:20:01 >> THANK YOU.
09:20:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:20:08 BEING NONE, PROCEED TO SOME OF THE ITEMS AND
09:20:09 PRESENTATIONS.
09:20:47 MR. DINGFELDER, I THINK YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION, SIR.
09:20:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING.
09:20:50 GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:20:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
09:20:53 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBERS, AND
09:20:54 MEMBERS OF THE CRA.
09:20:56 GOOD MORNING, MISS GOODLEY.
09:20:57 HOW ARE YOU?
09:20:58 GOOD.
09:21:02 IT IS MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE -- OF COURSE I LEFT MY
09:21:05 GLASSES UP AT THE PODIUM.
09:21:06 LET'S SEE HOW I DO.
09:21:09 MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT YOU WITH THIS
09:21:10 COMMENDATION.
09:21:15 I THINK IT MIGHT BE THE FIRST FROM THE CRA.
09:21:21 SO YOU GOT A DOUBLE EXTRA BONUS HERE.
09:21:24 WE DO MANY COMMENDATIONS AT CITY COUNCIL.
09:21:26 THIS MAY BE THE FIRST OF THE CRA.
09:21:30 NATASHA, IN HONOR OF YOUR VOLUNTEER SERVICE TO THE
09:21:32 TAMPA COMMUNITY AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE ECONOMIC
09:21:36 ADVANCEMENT OF THE CITIZENS, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL IN ITS
09:21:37 OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
09:21:41 APPLAUDS YOU FOR YOUR TIRELESS EFFORTS.
09:21:43 AS CHAIR OF BOTH THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:21:47 AGENCY AND THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, YOU HAVE
09:21:50 CONSISTENTLY GATHERED PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE IN
09:21:54 ORDER TO BRING AWARENESS AND SUPPORT TO THE ISSUES
09:21:56 AFFECTING EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
09:21:59 YOUR WORK AS A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE HAS INSPIRED THE
09:22:03 CREATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND CREATED STRATEGIC
09:22:07 PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:22:09 YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF SO MANY
09:22:12 AND CONTINUE TO DO SO WITH A GRACIOUS HEART.
09:22:15 YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED YOURSELF TO BE AN ENTERPRISING,
09:22:18 DETERMINED AND TRUE PUBLIC SERVANT FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
09:22:20 -- IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:22:25 AND GRATITUDE FOR SUCH EFFORTS, WE PRESENT YOU WITH
09:22:28 THIS COMMENDATION ON THIS -- WELL, IT SAID THE 12TH OF
09:22:30 NOVEMBER BUT THAT IS WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO IT BUT
09:22:32 ON THIS DAY IN 2020.
09:22:35 WITH THAT, I WILL SORT OF WANDER OVER CLOSER TO YOU AND
09:22:42 GIVE YOU THE COMMENDATION.
09:22:42 [APPLAUSE]
09:22:49 AND NATASHA, WE HAVEN'T KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A LONG
09:22:53 TIME, BUT I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY IN THE TWO YEARS
09:22:57 THAT WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER, I AM EXTREMELY IMPRESSED
09:23:00 BY YOUR WORK.
09:23:03 COUNCILMAN GUDES ALWAYS HAVE GREAT THINGS TO SAY ABOUT
09:23:07 YOU AND HOW HARD YOU ARE WORKING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:23:10 I THINK YOU SHOULD RUN FOR -- FOR PUBLIC OFFICE AND
09:23:11 CITY COUNCIL.
09:23:13 JUST DON'T RUN AGAINST US.
09:23:13 [LAUGHTER]
09:23:19 ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS AND SAY A FEW WORDS AND I AM
09:23:23 SURE COUNCIL -- THE CRA WILL HAVE A FEW WORDS BACK.
09:23:29 >> THANK YOU.
09:23:33 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR IN COMMENDATION.
09:23:37 AFTER THESE PAST TWO YEARS, IT IS GREAT TO KNOW THAT MY
09:23:40 HARD WORK AND DEDICATION WAS APPRECIATED.
09:23:43 AS YOU ALL KNOW, I GOT INVOLVED IN EAST TAMPA AFTER
09:23:47 MOVING HERE IN 2011 FOLLOWING A PURCHASE OF MY FIRST
09:23:48 HOME.
09:23:51 I IMMEDIATELY NOTICED HOW DIFFERENT THINGS OPERATED IN
09:23:56 EAST TAMPA, AND I WANTED TO BRING SOME NORMALCY TO OUR
09:23:57 COMMUNITY.
09:24:00 I FOUGHT TO ELIMINATE THE SLUM AND BLIGHT IN EAST TAMPA
09:24:04 HOPING THIS WILL BRING MORE DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL,
09:24:06 GROCERY STORES AND MORE.
09:24:10 I ALSO HOPE BY ELIMINATING THE SLUM AND BLIGHT, WE CAN
09:24:13 BRING EAST TAMPA BACK TO WHAT IT WAS DECADES AGO, A
09:24:15 MIXED-INCOME COMMUNITY.
09:24:18 EAST TAMPA USED TO BE THE HOME OF MANY PROFESSIONALS,
09:24:22 BLUE COLLAR WORKERS AND LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND
09:24:25 INDIVIDUALS ALL LIVING COHESIVELY.
09:24:28 WITH THE ONSET OF INTEGRATION, THOSE WHO HAD THE MEANS
09:24:32 TO MOVE DID SO, LEAVING THE MOST IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE
09:24:33 BEHIND IN EAST TAMPA.
09:24:37 IT SEEMS ONCE THAT HAPPENED, THE POWERS-AT-BE STEPPED
09:24:40 IN TO ENSURE THAT THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND HAD NO ACCESS
09:24:41 OUT.
09:24:45 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WERE LIMITED, RETAIL VANISHED,
09:24:48 ACCESS TO FRESH, HEALTHY FOOD DISAPPEARED, AND THE ONLY
09:24:52 HOMES THAT WERE BEING BUILT WERE STARTER HOMES AND
09:24:57 HOMES WELL BELOW THE AVERAGE MARKET RATE, PLACING A
09:24:58 GLASS CEILING OVER EAST TAMPA.
09:25:01 THAT DECREASED THE OVERALL PROPERTY VALUE AND DECREASED
09:25:06 PROPERTY VALUES IN AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY SOLIDIFIES AND
09:25:09 EMPOWERS POVERTY INSTEAD OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
09:25:10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
09:25:14 I NAIVELY THOUGHT THAT THE FIRST STEP TO BRING ABOUT AN
09:25:16 EFFECTIVE CHANGE IN EAST TAMPA AND RESTORE OUR
09:25:20 MIXED-INCOME COMMUNITY WAS TO ELIMINATE THE PHYSICAL
09:25:22 SLUM AND BLIGHT.
09:25:26 YOU NOW REALIZE THAT THE FIRST STEP REMOVING THE MENTAL
09:25:29 BARRIER FIRST, AND THAT IS THE POVERTY MIND-SET.
09:25:33 THE POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU FIGHTING AGAINST ANY
09:25:35 IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE CHANGE SOUNDS
09:25:37 FRIGHTENING.
09:25:39 A POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU
09:25:43 DON'T DESERVE TO ENJOY SOME OF THE BASIC AMENITIES IN
09:25:44 YOUR COMMUNITY.
09:25:49 A POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU AFFECTING A $400,000
09:25:53 HOUSE BEING BUILT ANYWHERE IN THE CITY BUT NOT IN YOUR
09:25:54 NEIGHBORHOOD.
09:25:57 A POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU PROTESTING AGAINST
09:26:01 EFFORTS TO REMOVE SLUM AND BLIGHT BECAUSE THE SLUM AND
09:26:03 BLIGHT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF NORMALCY.
09:26:09 A POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU ACCEPTING BOARDED UP
09:26:10 HOMES FOR DECADES.
09:26:14 A POVERTY MIND-SET WILL HAVE YOU LITTERING IN YOUR OWN
09:26:18 NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEARCHING FOR GARBAGE CANS IN OTHER
09:26:19 PEOPLE'S NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:26:23 A POVERTY MIND-SET ULTIMATELY MAINTAINS POVERTY WITHIN
09:26:24 THAT COMMUNITY.
09:26:27 EAST TAMPA IS NOT THE HOME OF IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE.
09:26:30 EAST TAMPA IS AND HAS BEEN THE PREDOMINANT HOME OF
09:26:31 BLACK PEOPLE.
09:26:35 AND POVERTY IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH BEING BLACK.
09:26:38 WE WANT TO HAVE A THRIVING MIXED-INCOME COMMUNITY, AND
09:26:41 WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
09:26:45 AND BY ASSISTANCE, ASSISTANCE IS THE OPERATIVE WORD IN
09:26:46 MY LAST SENTENCE.
09:26:49 WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT OUR VOICES ARE HEARD AND WE ARE
09:26:52 PUSHING THE NARRATIVE WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE.
09:26:55 WE DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT ANYONE ELSE'S NARRATIVE FOR OUR
09:26:58 COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE ARE FULLY CAPABLE OF CREATING THAT
09:26:58 OURSELVES.
09:27:04 WE NEED YOUR HELP IN ERADICATING THE POVERTY MIND-SET,
09:27:06 NOT PACIFYING IT.
09:27:11 THUS I HOPE THAT EACH OF YOU WILL TAKE UP THE CHARGE OF
09:27:15 THE ELIMINATE CAN THE POVERTY MIND-SET INGRAINED IN OUR
09:27:19 COMMUNITY AND FOCUSING EAST TAMPA AS A FORM DABBLE
09:27:21 NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY.
09:27:24 EAST TAMPA IS AN7 ARRAY OF INDIVIDUALS, SIX-FIGURE
09:27:27 RESIDENTS, MILLIONAIRE RESIDENTS, WORKING-CLASS
09:27:32 RESIDENTS, SENIORS ON FIXED INCOMES, AND LOW-INCOME
09:27:33 RESIDENTS.
09:27:35 TIME FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS SAW THEMSELVES REFLECTED
09:27:36 IN EAST TAMPA.
09:27:38 AND I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
09:27:40 I AM NOT RUNNING FOR OFFICE EITHER.
09:27:44 I'M HERE TO SEE THE CHANGE THAT WE DESERVE IN EAST
09:27:45 TAMPA.
09:27:48 SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION.
09:27:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MISS GOODLEY.
09:27:51 [APPLAUSE]
09:27:56 ANY COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL?
09:28:00 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, AND MISS GOODLEY.
09:28:02 THANK YOU COUNCIL.
09:28:05 MAN DINGFELDER FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND FOR BRINGING
09:28:05 THIS FORWARD.
09:28:08 WE MET -- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, SIX, SEVEN
09:28:09 YEARS AGO OR SO.
09:28:13 A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T KNOW THAT NATASHA COMES FROM A
09:28:15 PROUD MILITARY FAMILY.
09:28:21 HER FATHER JOHNNY GOODLEY IS A VIETNAM VETERAN.
09:28:23 SUMTER VETERANS.
09:28:26 >> SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA VETERANS GROUP.
09:28:28 >>LUIS VIERA: THERE YOU GO AND WE WORKED TOGETHER ON
09:28:31 AN EVENT PROBABLY SIX, SEVEN YEARS AGO WITH THE
09:28:39 HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION TO HONOR MINORITY VETERAN
09:28:42 THAT'S SERVED DURING THE JIM CROW ERA.
09:28:46 AND YOUR FATHER AND YOU WERE PART OF THAT AND THE FIRST
09:28:47 TIME WE MET.
09:28:50 THE SECOND TIME WE WORKED ON SOMETHING TOGETHER WHEN I
09:28:52 WOULD RUN FOR OFFICE AND I REACHED OUT TO YOU AND I
09:28:56 SAID I WOULD LOVE TO MEET WITH THE BOARD OF THE NAACP.
09:29:00 YOU PRETTY MUCH SAID -- AND YOU ARE HERE AND YOU PRETTY
09:29:03 MUCH WHAT YOU SAID WITH REGARDS TO EAST TAMPA AND
09:29:06 BRINGING THOSE ISSUES FORWARD.
09:29:09 YOU HAVE BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR AREAS THAT PEOPLE FORGET
09:29:10 ABOUT.
09:29:12 EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOUR FATHER AND THE
09:29:14 NARRATIVE OF EAST TAMPA THAT IS ALL TOO EASILY
09:29:16 FORGOTTEN BY FOLKS.
09:29:20 WHEN YOU DON'T -- THE THINGS YOU DON'T SEE AND DON'T
09:29:23 EXPERIENCE, IT IS PRETTY DARN EASY TO FORGET ABOUT IT,
09:29:24 ISN'T IT.
09:29:29 SO INCUMBENT OF PEOPLE WITH GOOD SOCIAL CONSCIOUS THAT
09:29:33 ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DECENCY TO MAKE CHANGE.
09:29:35 THANK YOU FOR THAT AND I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR STATEMENTS
09:29:38 AND I THINK IT IS SO INCUMBENT IN OUR CITY AS ALWAYS
09:29:44 THE BENEFITS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FREE ENTERPRISE
09:29:47 PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD BENEFITS EAST TAMPA BECAUSE IT
09:29:48 HAVEN'T FOR TOO DARN LONG.
09:29:50 THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK.
09:29:50 THANK YOU.
09:29:53 I HOPE YOUR DAD IS WATCHING, BY THE WAY.
09:29:53 >> HE IS.
09:29:57 >> JOHNNY GOODLEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING.
09:29:57 GOOD TO SEE YOU.
09:30:00 I LOVE YOU, BUDDY.
09:30:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO.
09:30:04 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE IN THE
09:30:06 WORK OFF THIS DONE AND THAT YOU DO.
09:30:08 I AM A FAIRLY YOUNG GUY.
09:30:11 AND IT IS NICE TO SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN OUR AGE GROUP
09:30:14 THAT ARE GETTING INVOLVED AND YOU CERTAINLY TAKE IT TO
09:30:16 THE NEXT LEVEL BECAUSE YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST INVOLVED.
09:30:21 YOU LIVE, BREATHE AND WORK WHAT YOU DO.
09:30:24 BUT I THINK YOU -- YOU INSPIRE OTHER PEOPLE FROM OUR
09:30:28 GENERATION TO WANT TO GET INVOLVED AND TO REALLY FOCUS
09:30:31 ON AND CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY.
09:30:34 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY NOT WANT TO GET
09:30:35 INVOLVED IN POLITICS.
09:30:38 MAY NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
09:30:38 ASSOCIATION.
09:30:41 MAY NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN CIVIC AND SOCIAL
09:30:43 ORGANIZATIONS, BUT DO YOU AND I THINK YOU SERVE AS AN
09:30:46 INSPIRATION TO GET YOUNGER PEOPLE INVOLVED SO THEY
09:30:49 REALLY START FOCUSING AND CARING ABOUT THEIR
09:30:50 COMMUNITIES AND HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE THEM.
09:30:52 SO I APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO.
09:30:54 AND CONGRATULATIONS.
09:30:56 THANK YOU.
09:30:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:31:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
09:31:05 MISS GOODLEY, BECAUSE OF YOUR HARD WORK IN OUR
09:31:08 COMMUNITY, YOUR NAME IS NOW FOREVER ETCHED IN THE CITY
09:31:12 OF TAMPA BUT I PLEASE ASK THAT YOU DO NOT STOP HERE.
09:31:14 THAT YOU KEEP HELPING THE COMMUNITY AND THE CITY AS A
09:31:15 WHOLE.
09:31:18 BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF TAMPA.
09:31:21 AND YOU WILL ALWAYS DO GREAT WORK FOR THE CITY.
09:31:24 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF TAMPA, REMEMBER THE NAME
09:31:27 NATASHA GOODLEY, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE SEEING
09:31:28 MORE OF HER IN THE FUTURE.
09:31:29 I KNOW.
09:31:31 CONGRATULATIONS, NATASHA.
09:31:33 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:31:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:31:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:31:41 MISS GOODLEY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM.
09:31:45 YOU CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE
09:31:47 UNDERSTANDING OF GETTING THINGS DONE WITH THE
09:31:49 STATEMENTS YOU BROUGHT UP NOT ONLY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
09:31:52 BUT LIFE IN GENERAL AND THAT MAKES PEOPLE HOPEFUL.
09:31:55 YOU CAN'T HAVE A SUCCESS WITHOUT AT LEAST A DREAM OF
09:31:56 DOING WHAT YOU THINK YOU CAN DO.
09:31:59 AND YOU CERTAINLY OFFER THAT OPPORTUNITY AND FOR THAT,
09:32:03 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:32:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS GOODLEY, I HAVE KNOWN YOU FOR
09:32:09 ABOUT FOUR YEARS, AND I WANT TO SAY DURING THAT TIME,
09:32:12 YOU HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARY WORK THROUGHOUT THIS
09:32:14 COMMUNITY.
09:32:17 YOUR LABOR DOES NOT GO IN VAIN.
09:32:18 YOU UNDERSTAND IT.
09:32:18 YOU LIVE IT.
09:32:20 BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN EAST TAMPA.
09:32:22 AND THAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN SOMEBODY IS PART OF
09:32:23 SOMETHING THEY EXPERIENCE.
09:32:26 I ALWAYS TALK OF THIS COUNCIL, EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST
09:32:27 TEACHER.
09:32:31 A LOT OF PEOPLE WON'T AGREE, BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO
09:32:33 AGREE TO DISAGREE AND COME TO THE MIDDLE POINT AND SAY
09:32:36 LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
09:32:39 MAKE THESE CHANGES.
09:32:40 TAMPA IS CHANGING.
09:32:43 AND MY COUNCILMEMBERS HEAR ME SAY THAT EVERYONE IN EAST
09:32:44 TAMPA IS NOT POOR.
09:32:48 WE HAVE HAD DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, DOCTORS, LAWYERS,
09:32:52 SCHOOLTEACHERS, BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS.
09:32:57 YOU WOULD BE CORRECT, WE HAVEN'T HAD THE EXTRA LOVE AND
09:33:00 CARE BY OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS TO FOSTER WHAT WE TRULY
09:33:01 NEED.
09:33:04 TIME IS CHANGING AND WE HAVE NEW ADMINISTRATION, NEW
09:33:07 COUNCIL AND TRYING TO DO THOSE TYPE OF THINGS TO HAVE A
09:33:08 BALANCE IN OUR CITY.
09:33:09 IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A BALANCE.
09:33:10 THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS.
09:33:12 I KNOW WE HAVE A NEW BODY OVER THERE AND THEY ARE
09:33:16 WORKING HARD WITH A NEW STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN.
09:33:18 PLEASE STAY INVOLVED.
09:33:21 WE NEED SOME OF YOUR WISDOM AND HELP WITH SOME OF THE
09:33:22 NEW FOLKS THAT ARE OVER THERE.
09:33:26 AND WE NEED A NEW -- A BONDING THAT EVERYONE WORKS
09:33:26 TOGETHER.
09:33:29 ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, EVERYONE.
09:33:31 I SEE MISS BURTON IS HERE.
09:33:37 GLAD SHE IS HERE WITH OUR EAST TAMPA CRC SHARE AND SHE
09:33:42 WILL DO HER BEST TO MAKE OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
09:33:45 AND DONE A GREAT JOB IN WEST TAMPA.
09:33:48 SOME OF THE THINGS THEY ARE DOING, WE ARE DOING AND
09:33:50 CROSS CONNECTING AND SO IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE
09:33:52 BENEFITTING FROM SOME OF THE LABOR.
09:33:55 AGAIN, THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TODAY -- THIS
09:33:56 MORNING.
09:33:57 >> THANK YOU.
09:34:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO.
09:34:04 MISS VANLOAN.
09:34:07 >> GOOD MORNING, CRA CHAIR AND CRA BOARD MEMBERS.
09:34:10 WE ARE SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SEE EACH OTHER AND BE BACK
09:34:14 IN PERSON AND FOR OUR ITEM NUMBER 2, I WOULD LIKE TO
09:34:19 INTRODUCE JOSEPH ROBINSON AS THE CHAIR OF THE WEST
09:34:29 TAMPA CRA AND OUR MORNING SPEAKER FOR THE MONTH.
09:34:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU CAN COME THIS WAY MR. ROBINSON,
09:34:33 IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
09:34:35 ALL RIGHT.
09:34:38 >> GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING.
09:34:43 CITY COUNCIL CRA BOARD.
09:34:46 I AM JOSEPH ROBINSON AS THE CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CRA
09:34:48 -- TAKE THIS OFF SO MAYBE YOU CAN HEAR ME A LITTLE
09:34:49 BETTER.
09:34:53 I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE.
09:34:57 THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE COVID WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
09:34:58 I APPRECIATE YOU OPENING THIS BACK UP AND LETTING
09:35:00 PEOPLE SPEAK.
09:35:04 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND CONGRATULATE -- I DON'T CARE
09:35:07 WHAT THEY SAY, YOU HAVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB.
09:35:07 OKAY.
09:35:10 YOU BROUGHT IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND KIND OF GOING TO
09:35:12 TAKE IT TO THE FAR LEVEL.
09:35:16 AND I AM JUST SAYING ON THE WEST SIDE, WE DO THINGS A
09:35:20 LITTLE DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THAT RIVER, AS I TELL THE
09:35:24 MAYOR AND EVERYBODY, YOU CROSS THE RIVER YOU NEED TO
09:35:26 CHECK IN WITH JOSEPH ROBINSON, BECAUSE WE ARE OVER
09:35:27 THERE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
09:35:31 I HAVE BEEN OVER THERE SINCE 1962, BEFORE THE CIVIL
09:35:33 RIGHTS ACT WHEN IT WAS SEGREGATED.
09:35:33 OKAY.
09:35:36 THE ONLY REASON WE GOT THIS BECAUSE OF THE SCALLIONS
09:35:44 AND ITALIAN PEOPLE THAT APPRECIATED AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
09:35:48 THAT IS -- THAT IS THE ACTUAL DEED, OKAY.
09:35:50 STEWARD TITLE GO LOOK IT UP.
09:35:54 SO WITH THAT SAID, I WANT TO SAY THAT WEST TAMPA, I
09:35:57 HAVE BEEN WAITING 50, 60 YEARS TO GET WHAT WE GOT GOING
09:35:59 ON THE WEST SIDE.
09:36:07 I MEAN, WE -- WE EVEN ARE GOING TO RIVAL CHANNELSIDE.
09:36:09 WE MAY BE THE LITTLE CHANNELSIDE.
09:36:14 LET ME START WITH THIS, IN ORDER TO HAVE SUCCESSFUL CRA
09:36:17 FOR EVERYONE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE COMMITTED STAFF.
09:36:20 YOU HAVE TO HAVE STAFF THAT IS WILLING TO WORK WITH THE
09:36:20 COMMUNITY.
09:36:24 OUR SUCCESS IS BECAUSE, ONE, WE LISTEN.
09:36:27 TWO, WE KNOW THAT CRA AIN'T THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE
09:36:29 CITY OF TAMPA WORK FOR THE CRA.
09:36:33 WE ARE INGRAINED IN OUR STAFF Y'ALL WORK FOR US AND WE
09:36:35 WILL TRY TO BE FRIENDS.
09:36:37 DON'T TELL US WHAT TO DO OR WOULDN'T BE
09:36:39 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN FROM GRASS-ROOTS UP.
09:36:42 HOW I HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS IS STARTING FROM
09:36:43 THE BOTTOM AND GOING TO THE TOP.
09:36:45 NOT THE TOP AND TO THE BOTTOM.
09:36:49 I HAVE DONE THAT AT TECO, TOP TO THE BOTTOM AND DONE
09:36:51 THAT IN CORPORATE AMERICA.
09:36:54 AND GOING FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP I HAVE BEEN
09:36:57 BUSINESS FOR 30 YEARS AS OF NOVEMBER 14 OF IN MONTH.
09:36:59 OUR STAFF IS FULLY THERE.
09:37:02 WE HAD BEEN ISSUES WITH OUR MANAGER BECAUSE SAYS ON THE
09:37:05 AGENDA -- I CAN TALK OF THINGS WE NEED IMPROVEMENT AND
09:37:07 THINGS WE SAW GOOD OR BAD.
09:37:10 THING WE DIDN'T HAVE A CONTINUOUS MANAGER AND WE HAD
09:37:12 PEOPLE COME AND GO.
09:37:16 WE HAD TO BRING ONE OF MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATES TO
09:37:17 COME TO HELP US OUT.
09:37:19 NOW STABLE.
09:37:23 MICHELLE VANLOAN.
09:37:25 THAT HAPPENED SINCE COVID.
09:37:31 MR. JESUS, OUR CRA MANAGER AND ONE OF THE FASTEST
09:37:36 MANAGERS HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND LISTENING AND DOING
09:37:38 WHAT OUR COMMITTEE WANTS TO GET DONE.
09:37:40 NO HESITATION WHATSOEVER.
09:37:43 AND I THINK THE WISDOM WHOEVER SAID WE NEED TO HAVE A
09:37:46 ANOTHER PERSON TO HELP HIM BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN
09:37:49 HANDICAPPED WITH THE CRA WHEN YOUR MANAGER DOESN'T HAVE
09:37:50 AN ASSISTANT.
09:37:53 WE PUT A BIG BURDEN ON HIM TO COME AND DO STUFF WITH
09:37:55 ALL OF THESE MEETINGS WE HAVE.
09:37:56 AND HAVING THAT STAFF.
09:37:59 THAT SECOND PERSON TO HELP THEM OUT, WE CAN GET MORE
09:38:00 DONE.
09:38:02 AND I AM TALKING ABOUT SOME ISSUES AT THE END HERE WITH
09:38:03 HOUSING.
09:38:07 AND THEN WE HAVE MISS ASHLYN SHREWSBURY.
09:38:12 BRAND-NEW ECONOMIC SPECIALIST SINCE EARLY NOVEMBER.
09:38:17 SO WE HAVE GOT A TEAM ASSEMBLED.
09:38:23 A TEAM GETTING OUR FEET WET WHO REVIEWED OUR STRATEGIC
09:38:24 PLAN.
09:38:27 THEY HAVE BEEN TO MEETINGS VIRTUALLY, NOT VIRTUALLY,
09:38:27 AND IT WORKS.
09:38:30 WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THOSE PEOPLE TO BE
09:38:35 FUNDED AND TO COME ON BOARD AND LET'S TAKE WEST TAMPA
09:38:37 TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
09:38:42 WE HAVE ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS WITH WEST TAMPA CRAS.
09:38:43 WE HAVE NINE COMMUNITY GROUPS.
09:38:46 IF YOU WERE RUNNING FOR OFFICE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TALK
09:38:47 TO US SOME TIME.
09:38:51 WE HAVE NINE MAJOR NONPROFIT COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT MAKE
09:38:55 UP OUR CRA BOARD WHICH IS GIVEN THAN OTHER CRA BOARD
09:38:57 AND THAT IS OUR SUCCESS.
09:39:02 WE DON'T HAVE INDIVIDUALS ON THE TABLE, BUT NINE CITY
09:39:07 OF TAMPA, OLD WEST TAMPA, WEST RIVERFRONT -- I DON'T
09:39:10 WANT TO SAY THEM ALL BECAUSE I MIGHT MISS ONE.
09:39:13 THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
09:39:15 WE BECOME EX-OFFICIO.
09:39:20 I AM THE EX-OFFICIO FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA CDC.
09:39:21 AND THANK YOU FOR ADVERTISING.
09:39:24 FOR SOME REASON THE BALL GOT DROPPED.
09:39:30 MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T LET OUR REPRESENTING THE CAC
09:39:31 RUN OUT.
09:39:35 RIGHT NOW NINE MEMBERS AND -- INCLUDING MYSELF.
09:39:36 I DID MY OWN AUDIT.
09:39:39 I DID MY OWN AUDIT.
09:39:41 WE GOT TO GET THAT STRAIGHT.
09:39:44 -- DON'T LIKE SERVING ON SOMETHING THAT IS NOT 100%
09:39:45 LEGIT.
09:39:49 ISN'T THAT MIGHT, MR. MASSEY.
09:39:50 WANT IT LEGIT.
09:39:53 LET'S GET NOTICE THIS TIME FOR US TO APPLY SO WE DON'T
09:39:54 RUN OUTS OF TERM.
09:39:58 I KNOW WE STAY THERE UNTIL SOMEONE IS SELECTED.
09:39:59 THAT DON'T LOOK GOOD.
09:40:03 I DON'T LIKE MAKING DECISIONS IF I AM NOT FULL-BLOWN
09:40:03 COLONEL.
09:40:06 GET THAT STRAIGHT AND BRING THAT TO THE ATTENTION OF
09:40:10 OUR NEW MANAGER AND HE JUMPED RIGHT ON IT AND MY
09:40:13 APPLICATION TO APPROVE IT FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS.
09:40:17 MY CHAIRMANSHIP.
09:40:19 CHANGE THE POLICY THE JOSEPH ROBINSON CHANGE.
09:40:24 RUN THROUGH JUNE 2021.
09:40:28 GOT GRAY HAIR -- I USED TO HAVE DARK HAIR AND I AM
09:40:31 SLIMMER -- WE NEED TO GET THE YOUNGER PEOPLE -- LIKE
09:40:33 URN SAYING MR. VIERA, TO GET THE YOUNGER PEOPLE AND
09:40:37 TAKE OVER THE LEADERSHIP AND HOPEFULLY WE HAVE SOME OF
09:40:40 THEM COMING BEHIND ME BECAUSE I AM NOT RETIRE OR GOING
09:40:42 NOWHERE FROM WEST TAMPA.
09:40:44 WHY WOULD I LEAVE WHEN SOME OF THE THINGS ARE COMING
09:40:45 THERE.
09:40:48 GET ALL OF THE BASICS DONE SO THE NEXT CHAIR WON'T HAVE
09:40:52 THE HEADACHE AND WON'T HAVE WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH
09:40:53 IN WEST TAMPA.
09:40:57 IT WILL BE HEADACHE AND THINGS TRANSITIONED AND
09:40:59 ESTABLISHED AND ALL DONE.
09:40:59 ALL VOLUNTEER.
09:41:00 NOBODY GETTING PAID.
09:41:07 ANYBODY WHO GETS PAID AT THE CAC MEETING IS THE STAFF.
09:41:08 ONLY PEOPLE GETTING PAID.
09:41:11 DIDN'T GET ONE DIME OR PAYMENT.
09:41:12 GET BEAT UP.
09:41:14 YEAH, TALKED ABOUT AND DISLIKED.
09:41:16 BUT GUESS WHAT, THAT GOES ALONG WITH LEADERSHIP.
09:41:19 AND GOOD LEADERSHIP KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THAT.
09:41:21 WE HAVE SUCCESSFUL SUBCOMMITTEES.
09:41:23 THAT HAS BEEN ANOTHER STRONG POINT.
09:41:26 WE HAVE ACTIVE, WORKING SUBCOMMITTEES, ECONOMIC
09:41:30 DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, YOU NAME IT, WE GOT IT,
09:41:30 INFRASTRUCTURE.
09:41:33 WE HAVE A -- BLESSED TO HAVE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
09:41:37 I AM A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
09:41:38 PES.
09:41:40 PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE CITY.
09:41:42 WE HAVE COMMUNITY PEOPLE THAT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.
09:41:44 WE HAVE BAKERS.
09:41:47 THE WEST TAMPA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
09:41:50 SALLY, MR. MIRANDA, MR. -- WE CAN'T FORGET OUR CHAMBER.
09:41:54 AND WE ARE TRYING TO GET THAT CHAMBER UP AND MOVING IN
09:41:57 WEST TAMPA TO MAKE IT EVEN STRONGER FOR OUR BUSINESSES.
09:42:01 THAT'S WHY WE RECENTLY LAUNCHED AND HAD THE CITY AND
09:42:03 THE USF GRADUATE STUDENTS.
09:42:05 JUST MADE A PRESENTATION.
09:42:08 HAVEN'T BEEN TWO DAYS AGO OF HOW THEY CAN SHOW US HOW
09:42:10 WE CAN IMPROVE WEST TAMPA.
09:42:12 MAIN STREET AND HOWARD.
09:42:17 THANK YOU RANDY GOERS.
09:42:19 THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THAT TOGETHER AND TAKING THAT
09:42:19 LEADERSHIP.
09:42:22 AND THANK YOU GUYS AND THE CITY FOR MAKING WEST TAMPA
09:42:27 -- I BELIEVE THEY DID -- MR. CARSON'S DISTRICT IN SOUTH
09:42:30 TAMPA -- BUT WE GOT THAT THAT THE CITY WOULD EVEN SAY
09:42:34 LET'S DO MAIN STREET.
09:42:37 WITH GUNFIRE, SHOOTING, ALL KINDS OF THINGS GOING ON IN
09:42:41 THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, SO WE PUT CAMERAS UP.
09:42:42 CUT IT DOWN SOME.
09:42:42 OKAY.
09:42:45 BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IF YOU GOT TO DEAL WITH THE
09:42:45 INFRASTRUCTURE.
09:42:49 AND YOU GOT TO DEAL WITH -- LIKE SHE SAID, POVERTY
09:42:51 MIND-SET.
09:42:56 NOW WE MAY NOT HAVE A POVERTY MIND-SET IN WEST TAMPA.
09:43:01 A GANGSTER MIND-SET, RIGHT, CHARLIE, IF WE WANT TO GET
09:43:02 SOMETHING DONE, WE GET IT DONE.
09:43:05 AND TELL THAT YOU BEFORE THE GOOD THINGS.
09:43:06 THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING.
09:43:09 MAKES US CRA VIVID.
09:43:11 THAT MAKES IT LIVELY HAVE EVERYBODY.
09:43:14 EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THEM HEAR WHAT THEY
09:43:15 GOT TO SAY.
09:43:18 YOU WOULD BE SURPRISE THAT GOD PUT A MESSAGE IN WHAT
09:43:19 PEOPLE SAY.
09:43:21 YOU CAN LEARN A LOT BY LISTENING.
09:43:22 PEOPLE SAY I DON'T LISTEN.
09:43:23 I LISTEN.
09:43:26 BUT I DON'T LISTEN TO NONSENSE.
09:43:30 THE WEST TAMPA CAC WILL LOOK FOR THE CRA FOR
09:43:32 IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BOUNDARY.
09:43:34 AND WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON.
09:43:37 ONE THING I AM GOING TO SPEAK AT THE END ON
09:43:37 IMPLEMENTATION.
09:43:40 YOU ASK ME ON THE AGENDA, I CAN BRING UP WHAT THE
09:43:43 PROBLEM IS IN OUR CRA, IMPLEMENTATION.
09:43:47 WE NEED SOMEBODY TO IMPLEMENT THAT WE DON'T APPROVE
09:43:51 $300,000 FOR 20 HOUSES FOR SENIORS FOR EXTERIOR
09:43:54 RENOVATION FOR $15,000 A HOUSE.
09:43:57 AND WE DON'T SEE ON A PIECE OF PAPER YET FOR PEOPLE TO
09:43:59 MAKE AN APPLICATION.
09:43:59 THAT IS PROBLEM.
09:44:02 WE ARE SITTING HERE WITH ALL THE MONEY AND WE CAN'T GET
09:44:03 IT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY?
09:44:06 THAT A PROBLEM, MR. GUDES, YOU EVEN SAID THAT.
09:44:08 WE NEED TO GET THIS MONEY TO WHERE IT IS AT.
09:44:13 WE DID DO SOMETHING WITH COVID WHEN WE FOUND OUT WE HAD
09:44:16 INSURANCE MONEY AND $100,000 TO THROW OUT ON THE TABLE
09:44:17 AND HELP BUSINESS.
09:44:20 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE HURTING AS YOU SEE --S A I HEAR YOU
09:44:21 SPEAKING ON TV.
09:44:22 PEOPLE ARE HURTING.
09:44:23 SO THAT HELPED, YOU KNOW.
09:44:25 THAT HELPED.
09:44:28 THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS CREATIVE.
09:44:31 THAT IS BEING THAT HAD TO BE DONE BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE TO
09:44:32 TAKE A CRISIS TO DO IT.
09:44:35 WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING IT ALL ALONG BEFORE COVID.
09:44:37 MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
09:44:41 WEST TAMPA CAC IS WORKING WITH THE BUILD -- WE HAVE
09:44:42 BEEN FOR THE FAT AND LUCKY.
09:44:45 I KNOW PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON D.C. BELIEVE IT OR NOT AND
09:44:46 THAT HELPS TOO.
09:44:50 BUT WORKING WITH THE BUILD, BETTER UTILIZE THE
09:44:53 DEVELOPMENT GRANT TEAM FOR EXTENSION OF THE WEST SIDE
09:44:53 OF THE ROAD.
09:44:57 THE BIGGEST THING SINCE TOM BRADY COMING TO THE BUCS
09:45:01 FOR $24 BILLION WEST RIVER -- HAVING A RIVERWALK BUILT
09:45:02 ON THE OTHER SIDE.
09:45:07 THE CITY ALREADY BOB DONOHUE ACQUIRED ALL OF THE
09:45:10 RIGHT-OF-WAY ALONG THE RIVER -- ON THE RIVER.
09:45:11 THAT WAS SMART.
09:45:14 THAT WAS INGENUOUS, YOU KNOW.
09:45:14 HE DID IT RIGHT.
09:45:18 JUST DIDN'T NOTIFY US ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS BUT HE DID
09:45:19 IT RIGHT.
09:45:21 NOW BRING $24 MILLION.
09:45:25 $24 MILLION AND THEN BECAUSE OF THAT -- FDOT WANTS TO
09:45:29 PUT IN TO HELP WITH TRANSIT.
09:45:33 PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT WANT TO GIVE MONEY -- I AM GOING
09:45:34 TO TELL YOU THAT.
09:45:37 I AM SEEING MORE COMING FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OF D.C.
09:45:38 GET THAT STRAIGHT.
09:45:40 LET'S GET READY TO IMPLEMENT.
09:45:44 WE DON'T WANT TO GET THIS MONEY AND SIT THERE FOR TWO,
09:45:44 THREE YEARS.
09:45:46 LET'S MOVE THE MONEY AND MOVE THE PROCESS.
09:45:49 WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM TO BRING COMMERCE AND BRING
09:45:53 PEOPLE TO WEST TAMPA HAVING THAT RIVERWALK.
09:45:54 WE HAVE RIVERFRONT PARK.
09:45:56 ALL IN THE CRA.
09:45:57 WE LOVE IT OVER THERE.
09:45:58 WE HAVE DEVELOPMENT GOING ON.
09:46:00 CRANES.
09:46:01 CRANES ARE MONEY.
09:46:04 WE HAVE BASIC SERVICE LIKE STORMWATER.
09:46:08 AIN EVEN COMING OUT OF OUR POCKET $20 MILLION TO DO THE
09:46:09 STORMWATER.
09:46:11 COME ON, CITY COUNCIL, YOU ARE DOING IT ON BOTH SIDES
09:46:15 OF THE FENCE, AS CITY COUNCIL AND A CRA BOARD.
09:46:18 YOU ARE DOING IT AND LETTING US CITIZENS HAVE INPUT AT
09:46:21 THE GRASS-ROOTS LEVEL TO SEND YOU RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
09:46:27 BUDGETING AND FOR PROJECTS AND Y'ALL LOOK AT IT AND
09:46:30 SCRUTINIZE IT UP AND TELL PEOPLE TO VOTE IT DOWN.
09:46:32 AT LEAST WE LOOK AT IT TO VOTE.
09:46:35 OVERLAY DISTRICT AND FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE
09:46:38 SUBCOMMITTEE WAS APPROVED BY THE WEST TAMPA CAC AND
09:46:40 GOING THROUGH THE CITY AMENDMENT PROCESS AND THE CITY
09:46:44 HAS BEEN MORE FRIENDLY SINCE ME AND THE MAYOR HAD A
09:46:46 COME TO JESUS MEETING, CONVERSATION.
09:46:49 THE STAFF AT THE CITY OF TAMPA IS REALLY STEPPING UP TO
09:46:54 THE PLATE AND THEY ARE CLICKING THE PHILOSOPHY NO IS
09:46:55 NOT AN ANSWER.
09:46:56 TELL ME WHAT YOU CAN DO, JOE.
09:46:57 WHAT CAN YOU DO.
09:47:00 SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE ARE HEARING COVID NEGATIVE.
09:47:02 NO, WE CAN'T DO THIS.
09:47:03 NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
09:47:06 NO YOU GOT TO WEAR THAT -- NO, THAT, THAT.
09:47:10 NOBODY -- NO.
09:47:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOW MUCH MORE TIME DO YOU NEED.
09:47:15 >> ABOUT THREE MINUTES AND I WILL --
09:47:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL GIVE YOU TWO.
09:47:18 >> I WILL TAKE TWO.
09:47:20 I WILL TAKE 30 SECONDS.
09:47:23 AND THE APARTMENTS -- RIBBON CUTTING.
09:47:26 I SAW A COUPLE OF YOU THERE.
09:47:29 THE RENAISSANCE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT.
09:47:32 ANOTHER 106 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS FOR SENIORS AND
09:47:36 RETAIL OFFICE OPPONENT IN SEPTEMBER.
09:47:40 AND MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT ON 18-ACRE CITY OWNED
09:47:46 PROPERTY IN WEST RIVER KNOWN AS THE LONG YARD AND THE
09:47:48 ANSWER TIRE RFP PROCESS AND I AM ON THE SELECTION
09:47:52 COMMITTEE AND THEY SENT ME THE THINGS AND I NEED TO
09:47:53 CONFIDENTIALITY.
09:47:58 THAT IS HISTORY HAVING A CRA COMMITTEE MEMBER SITTING
09:47:59 ON A DEAL LIKE THAT.
09:48:03 WORTH $18 MILLION LAST TIGHT WE DID THE ESTIMATE.
09:48:05 THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IS ONE OF OUR BEST PARTNERS OVER
09:48:06 THERE IN WEST RIVER.
09:48:11 AND THE METROPOLITAN TENT WE GOT THERE RIGHT NOW -- THE
09:48:15 LEASE AGREEMENT WAS MODIFIED TO LET WEST TAMPA CAC TO
09:48:16 WORK WITH COMMUNITIES EVENTS.
09:48:18 A LOOK OUT FOR THAT.
09:48:19 WEST.
09:48:24 SCHOOLS JUSTICE STEWART CONSOLIDATION MEETS WAG HELD
09:48:27 LAST MONTH AND A POSSIBLE PLAN WAS DISCUSSED AND A
09:48:30 COMMUNITY REQUESTED OVER FIVE YEARS THAT THESE TWO OLD
09:48:34 SCHOOLS BE CONSOLIDATED TO THE ONE URBAN DESIGN PRE-K
09:48:37 THROUGH 8TH GRADE CAMPUS AND WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THE
09:48:40 HEAD START THAT WE HAVE GOT BECAUSE EDUCATION IS
09:48:41 IMPORTANT.
09:48:45 ALL THIS WON'T MEAN NOTHING IF YOU DON'T HAVE EDUCATION
09:48:48 AND DEALS WITH CHILDREN AND THEY BECOME THE CRIMINALS
09:48:49 AND THE GANGSTERS.
09:48:51 THE PRISON PIPELINE.
09:48:53 WE NEED TO HELP OUR CHILDREN.
09:48:59 AND CITY AND USF GRADUATE STUDENTS MADE A FIRST
09:49:01 PRESENTATION OF THE QUARTER AND WHAT WE NEED YOUR HELP
09:49:05 ON AND I CAN SIT DOWN AND YOU CAN HAVE YOUR MIC IS WE
09:49:06 ARE DRAFTING A LETTER TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
09:49:10 AND WE ARE ASKING THEM AND REQUESTING THAT THEY
09:49:15 CONSIDER WEST TAMPA FOR AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART MUSEUM.
09:49:20 AND PREFERABLY IN THE WEST RIVER AREA.
09:49:24 THE LAST THING WE NEED TO YOU DO, CENSUS TRACT, 44.
09:49:29 MAIN STREET BETWEEN ROME AND ARMENIA IS NOT AN
09:49:30 OPPORTUNITY ZONE.
09:49:31 AND THAT IS A PROBLEM.
09:49:34 THAT WAS DONE POLITICALLY WRONG AND NEEDS TO BE
09:49:36 POLITICALLY CORRECTED UNDER THIS NEW ADMINISTRATION
09:49:39 COMING UP ON JANUARY 21, 2021.
09:49:42 AND I AM GOING TO BE PUSHING FOR THAT AS SOON AS THAT
09:49:45 OATH GO IN THAT WE NEED TO MAKE THAT -- YOU GOT OVER
09:49:50 THERE ON THE WEST SIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY ZONE.
09:49:53 EAST OF ROME IS AN OPPORTUNITY ZONE WEST RIVER BUT
09:49:55 RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HEART OF THE SLUM AND ALL
09:49:59 INCLUDING WHERE I STAY AT IN AN OPPORTUNITY ZONE.
09:50:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:50:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR.
09:50:06 CAN I ASK THREE QUESTIONS REAL QUICK?
09:50:08 THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTION OF THE PLANS OF
09:50:11 ROME AND ARMENIA ON MAIN STREET.
09:50:13 GREAT POINT MR. ROBINSON.
09:50:15 NUMBER TWO.
09:50:18 IS PARKING STILL AN ISSUE ON MAIN STREET?
09:50:19 >> ALWAYS AN ISSUE.
09:50:19 A BIG ISSUE.
09:50:25 WE NEED A PARKING GARAGE RIGHT THERE WHERE JOSELINA IS
09:50:28 AND THE PROPERTY AND THE STUDENTS PRESENT A GREAT
09:50:31 OPPORTUNITY FOR PARKING GARAGE FIRST-LEVEL RETAIL.
09:50:32 AND YOU ARE ON POINT.
09:50:35 AND BECAUSE -- BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT, THERE
09:50:38 MAY BE PEOPLE STARTING TO PURCHASE UP MAIN STREET.
09:50:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE NEED TO PREPARE OURSELVES NOW.
09:50:43 THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
09:50:47 WHEN I USED TO GO PRECOVID OF THE MEETING.
09:50:50 THE LAST QUESTION AND I HOPE FDOT IS WATCHING, HAVE YOU
09:50:53 GOTTEN YOUR HISTORIC DISTRICT SIGN ON 275.
09:50:58 >> I HAVEN'T, BUT I HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH DISTRICT 7.
09:50:59 ME AND HIM ARE BUDDIES.
09:51:03 AND HE HAS GOT A MECHANISM TO TRY TO FIND SOME, LIKE,
09:51:06 OTHER KIND OF SIGNAGE.
09:51:08 NO WE DON'T HAVE THAT SIGN.
09:51:10 THAT IS LIKE IN YBOR CITY.
09:51:12 YES, WE ARE WORKING ON IT.
09:51:15 AND ONE OF THE THINGS WAS, WE HAVE TO SHOW THAT THE
09:51:20 TRAFFIC FLOW AND THE FACILITIES INSIDE THE CRA ON THAT
09:51:23 EXIT OF HOWARD AND ARMENIA HAVE ENOUGH TRAFFIC FLOW TO
09:51:27 JUSTIFY THE SIGN AND UP TO THE CITY STAFFERS TO GIVE
09:51:27 THEM THAT INFORMATION.
09:51:29 THEY ARE WORKING ON SOMETHING.
09:51:30 NO WE DON'T HAVE IT.
09:51:34 BUT HOPEFULLY BEFORE I LEAVE JUNE 20, 2021 WE WILL HAVE
09:51:37 THAT HISTORIC MARKER BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE A
09:51:38 DESTINATION POINT.
09:51:40 THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT IN TAMPA.
09:51:43 YOU WANT TO BE A CITY OF DESTINATIONS.
09:51:47 AND BY THE WAY, YOU WANT TO SAY HAPPY KWANZAA, HAPPY
09:51:54 HONDA, FELIZ NAVIDAD, CHARLIE AND MR. GUIDO AND MERRY
09:51:57 CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
09:51:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:52:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HEY, JOE.
09:52:03 >> YES, SIR.
09:52:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANKS.
09:52:05 I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU.
09:52:08 WITH REGARD TO MAIN STREET, AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE
09:52:12 JOHNNY DOWNER AND ANYTHING, BUT THERE WERE SOME ISSUES,
09:52:16 SORT OF CRIME.
09:52:20 JUST SOME STUFF GOING ON MAIN STREET A COUPLE OF MONTHS
09:52:21 AGO.
09:52:25 WAS THAT BEING ADDRESSED BY TPD AND THE OTHER AGENCIES
09:52:26 WITHIN THE CITY?
09:52:31 >> YOU KNOW IN WEST TAMPA, WE ARE A KINDER, GENTLER
09:52:32 NATION.
09:52:38 YES, TPD -- BUT NOT HAVING TPD COME IN WITH GUESS STAFF
09:52:44 POE AND BE -- WE HAD TRASH BINS OVERFLOWING AND TPD
09:52:47 WENT AND TALKED ON EVERYBODY'S DOOR AND ASKED THEM WHAT
09:52:50 THEY THOUGHT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND BUSINESSES UP AND
09:52:56 DOWN MAIN, INCLUDING JESUS NINO AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
09:52:58 ESTABLISHED A MEETING -- THE MAN HAS SET UP A MEETING
09:53:03 WITH THE BUSINESSES AT BAY CANNON BREWERY AND A MEETING
09:53:06 NEXT WEEK TO GO OVER AND GO OVER EVERY DEPARTMENT YOU
09:53:07 NEED AND THE BUSINESS YOU NEED.
09:53:10 IT IS CALLED LIKE A ONE-STOP SHOP AND MEET WHERE YOU
09:53:12 COME IN THERE AND EVERY STAFF THAT YOU NEED -- IF YOU
09:53:15 WANT TO DEVELOP, YOU HAVE TRASH, WHATEVER YOUR ISSUE,
09:53:21 SHE HAS THAT SET UP AND ME MEET AT BAY CANYON BREWERY.
09:53:22 WE HAD SHOOTINGS.
09:53:24 WE HAD SHOOTINGS, OPEN DRUG -- EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT THE
09:53:25 DEAL IS.
09:53:27 SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THEY CAME IN.
09:53:30 THEY STARTED FORCING THEM TO GET OUT OF THE LOTTERY.
09:53:35 WE TALKED TO THE BUSINESS -- IF YOU HAVE A LOTTERY IN
09:53:38 FRONT OF JUSTICE BUSINESS, YOU AIN HELPING THE CAUSE.
09:53:42 AND ECONOMY THING AND PEOPLE STANDING AROUND UNDERSTAND
09:53:43 YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
09:53:46 YOU CAN SEE A DEFINITE IMPROVEMENT OF JUST
09:53:47 FRIENDLINESS.
09:53:48 DIRTY FROM LAST NIGHT.
09:53:52 BUT EMPTYING THE GARBAGE CANS.
09:53:53 KEEPING PEOPLE OUT OF THE PARK.
09:53:56 AND PEOPLE -- THE HOMELESS PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT IS AN
09:53:58 ISSUE KEEPING THEM MOVING.
09:54:00 IT HAS IMPROVED BUT NOT THERE YET.
09:54:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO CITY
09:54:08 STAFF AND SPECIFICALLY MISS POST AND RANDY GOERS AND
09:54:12 THEY ARE DOING A PLANNING STUDY AND WORKING WITH YOU
09:54:15 GUYS AND THE CAC AND MANY OTHER GROUPS IN WEST TAMPA.
09:54:16 I THINK THAT IS VERY EXCITING.
09:54:20 THEY ONLY PICK TWO AREAS TO START WITH, BAY TO BAY AND
09:54:21 THE MAIN STREET BUSINESSES.
09:54:24 SO I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM AND SEEING
09:54:26 WHAT THEIR WORK PRODUCT IS.
09:54:29 >> WE KNOW OFF SPECIAL INTEREST IN WEST TAMPA.
09:54:31 YOU ARE JUST TWO FEET OUT THE ZONE.
09:54:33 BECAUSE WE DO HAVE -- BY THE WAY WE HAVE A MOVIE
09:54:39 COMPANY, A PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT I BELIEVE BOUGHT THE
09:54:39 --
09:54:44 >> SICILIAN CLUB.
09:54:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THE WRESTLING FACILITY.
09:54:49 >> THE WRESTLING FACILITY.
09:54:50 SICILIAN.
09:54:52 AND THIS IS A BIGGIE.
09:54:55 I WAITED THIS LONG CHARLIE AND GUIDO TO SEE THIS
09:54:56 HAPPEN.
09:55:00 WHEN I GO -- I NEVER -- ALWAYS BE IN WEST TAMPA.
09:55:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
09:55:04 >> THANK YOU FOR THE TIME.
09:55:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. ROBINSON.
09:55:08 MOVE CONTINUE TO ITEM NUMBER THREE.
09:55:16 >> GOOD MORNING, CRA BOARD, MICHELLE VANLOAN, COMMUNITY
09:55:18 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY DEPARTMENT.
09:55:22 AND COURTNEY ORR BEFORE WE START WITH THE YBOR
09:55:24 PRESENTATION.
09:55:29 MICHELLE MATOS FOR THE CLERK'S OFFICE FOR THE
09:55:32 INCREDIBLE SUPPORT HANDLING THE MOTIONS AND MEETINGS
09:55:35 VIRTUALLY AND KEEPING US ONLINE AS WE GET THROUGH THE
09:55:36 MEETINGS.
09:55:39 WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT THEY HAVE GIVEN US.
09:55:47 COURTNEY?
09:55:51 >> GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, YBOR DEVELOPMENT
09:55:52 MANAGER.
09:55:55 SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING IN YBOR
09:55:58 CITY RECENTLY IS A MEETING DECEMBER 1 TO BE RESCHEDULED
09:56:05 WITH MAYOR JANE CASTOR AND CRA CHAIRMAN ORLANDO GUDES.
09:56:08 WE MET WITH THEM TO DISCUSS THE PRIORITY OF OUR
09:56:10 COMMITTEES WHICH INCLUDE THE CULTURAL ARTS SPECIAL
09:56:12 EVENTS COMMITTEE, THE PLANNING INFRASTRUCTURE AND
09:56:16 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AS WELL AS THE PLANNING
09:56:20 INFRASTRUCTURE -- SORRY, THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC
09:56:21 TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
09:56:23 WE WENT OVER OUR TOP PRIORITIES.
09:56:28 AS YOU KNOW YOU APPROVED OUR 20/20 VISION PLAN IN 2019.
09:56:31 AND EACH COMMITTEE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THEIR TOP
09:56:35 PRIORITY AND ESTABLISHED WHICH ARE THE TOP TWO OF
09:56:37 PRIORITIES OF EACH OF THOSE COMMITTEES AT THE DECEMBER
09:56:38 MEETING.
09:56:40 WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
09:56:41 THANK YOU.
09:56:43 WE THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING.
09:56:48 I WILL JUMP TO NUMBER 4, 5 AND 6, LAST THREE BULLETS.
09:56:51 SAFETY IS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS WE SPOKE ABOUT AT THAT
09:56:55 MEETING AND THIS BECOMES A CONTINUOUS THEME THROUGHOUT
09:57:00 OUR COMMITTEES AND THE YCDC BOARD MEETINGS.
09:57:03 THE STAFF ATTENDED ALONG WITH ADMINISTRATION AND CITY
09:57:07 PERSONNEL AND TPD AT HOTEL AYA.
09:57:10 THE NEW HOTEL THAT OPENED IN SEPTEMBER AND NUMEROUS
09:57:14 CONCERNS WITH REGARDS TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND A MEETING, A
09:57:17 SPECIAL CALL MEETING HELD TO DISCUSS POSSIBLY
09:57:20 CONSIDERING ENHANCED SERVICE FOR THE DISTRICT ON FRIDAY
09:57:21 AND SATURDAY EVENINGS.
09:57:26 SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSE WITH TPD, ITEM NUMBER 16,
09:57:29 THAT WE WILL DISCUSS FURTHER ABOUT.
09:57:35 WE ARE VERY PLEASED THAT TPD IS SO REACTIONARY AND
09:57:37 COMING UP WITH THE PLAN THAT THE COMMUNITY IS EXTREMELY
09:57:40 PLEASED WITH, SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO POSITIVE
09:57:42 THINGS CONTINUING TO COME OUT OF THAT SECURITY ENHANCED
09:57:45 MEETING AND POLICING PLAN.
09:57:48 WE WORK WITH LEGAL WITH REGARD TO IMPLEMENTING PARKING
09:57:50 LOT PERSONNEL CODE CHANGES.
09:57:53 WE HAVE SOME -- SOME CONCERN THAT THE ORDINANCE
09:57:56 REQUIRES PERSONNEL TO BE ON-SITE UNTIL 4:00 IN THE
09:57:58 MORNING OF PRIVATE PARKING LOTS.
09:58:00 AND SOMETIMES THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
09:58:03 SO WE ARE TRYING TO WORK WITH LEGAL WITH REGARD TO
09:58:08 BEING ABLE TO FIND THOSE -- THOSE PRIVATE COMPANIES
09:58:11 THAT ARE NOT KEEPING PERSONNEL ON THE LOTS UNTIL 4:00
09:58:12 IN THE MORNING.
09:58:15 AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH TPD.
09:58:19 WE HAVE HOMELESS ISSUES JUST LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE IN
09:58:22 THE CITY, AND THEY HAVE BEEN VERY HELPFUL HELPING US
09:58:25 WITH ANY HOMELESS CONCERNS WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE
09:58:25 DISTRICT.
09:58:28 WE -- BACK UP TO BULLET NUMBER 2, WE WERE ABLE TO
09:58:31 INFUSE THE DISTRICT WITH SOME HOLIDAY SPIRIT
09:58:32 THANKFULLY.
09:58:36 AND WE WERE ABLE TO WITH THE WREATH AT THE GATEWAY
09:58:39 LAMPPOST HOLIDAY DECORATION INSTALLATIONS PRIOR TO THE
09:58:46 10TH ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING AT CENTRO YBOR.
09:58:48 THANK YOU FOR BEING ABLE TO ATTEND.
09:58:52 WE HAVE WITHIN WORKING ON THE YCDC UPGRADES SO WE HAVE
09:58:55 A SAFE REOPENING WHEN WE DO OPEN BACK UP TO THE PUBLIC.
09:58:58 WE ARE STILL NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; HOWEVER, WE ARE
09:59:02 READY WITH RETROFITS LIKE PLEXIGLASS.
09:59:06 WE HAVE A THERMOMETER STATION PUT IN AND HAND
09:59:07 SANITATION.
09:59:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DO WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT IS
09:59:10 UPLOADED?
09:59:11 I DON'T SEE IT ON THE SCREEN.
09:59:14 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:59:19 >> MR. GUDES, DEPUTY CLERK LUCAS IS RUNNING THE GO TO
09:59:23 WEBINAR MEETING.
09:59:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT THE VIEWERS AT HOME TO SEE
09:59:33 WHAT SHE IS GOING THROUGH WITH HER PRESENTATION.
09:59:35 >> AS OF NOVEMBER, WE STARTED TO HAVE MEET INFORMATION
09:59:38 PERSON THE FIRST TIME SINCE MARCH, AND WE ARE VERY
09:59:41 THANKFUL FOR GINGER CLARK.
09:59:44 SHE OPENED UNDER THE CAMPUS, THE YBOR ROOM AT THE HCC
09:59:47 YBOR CAMPUS TO ALLOW US TO HAVE SOCIALLY DISTANCED
09:59:49 MEETINGS IN PERSON THERE.
09:59:55 WE HAVE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO UTILIZE I.T. CITY PERSONNEL
09:59:58 TO HAVE THE VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON MEETINGS
10:00:01 SIMULTANEOUSLY WHICH WE CALL OUR HYBRID MEETINGS.
10:00:04 SO THOSE STARTED AS OF NOVEMBER.
10:00:06 AND ONE OF THE MEETINGS HELD WAS CULTURAL ARTS AND
10:00:09 SPECIAL EVENTS WHERE WE DISCUSSED THE NEW LAUNCHING OF
10:00:13 OUR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION PLAN, THE HEART OF
10:00:14 TAMPA.
10:00:16 AND WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE THAT LAUNCHED.
10:00:22 WE ACTUALLY PRINTED UP WINDOW CLINGS AND THIS THAT AND
10:00:27 HANDED OUT TO PUT THE WINDOW CLINGS WITH THE HEART
10:00:30 IMAGE ON THEIR FRONT WINDOWS TO HELP SUPPORT THE
10:00:30 CAMPAIGN.
10:00:35 AND WE DISCUSSED THE VISION 2020 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
10:00:39 ITEMS THAT ARE -- THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE COMMITTEE
10:00:43 WHICH INCLUDE THE FACADE GRANT PROGRAM, CONTINUING TO
10:00:45 PUSH OUT THAT FOR HISTORIC PRESENTATION.
10:00:48 WE WANT TO COME UP WITH SOME SORT OF RETAIL STRATEGY TO
10:00:51 RECRUIT THE SERVICES THAT WE ARE LACKING THE DISTRICT
10:00:55 LIKE A GROCER, PHARMACY, DRY CLEANER.
10:00:56 THOSE ITEMS.
10:01:00 SERVICES THAT THE RESIDENTS THAT WE ANTICIPATE
10:01:03 INCREASING SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE DISTRICT.
10:01:06 THOSE SERVICES WE REALLY NEED TO GET TO MAKE A LIVABLE
10:01:09 COMMUNITY.
10:01:13 WE -- WE ARE INTERESTED IN ALSO PROMOTING HEALTH.
10:01:16 WE WANT TO KEEP HEALTH IN MIND SO HEALTHY YBOR IS
10:01:20 SOMETHING WE WANT TO TRY TO PUT A FRAMEWORK AROUND.
10:01:23 WE HAVEN'T REALLY STARTED ON THAT YET, BUT IT IS AN
10:01:25 INITIATIVE OF THE COMMITTEE.
10:01:28 AND THEN WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE CITY'S
10:01:31 ARTS DEPARTMENT WITH REGARD TO ATTRACTING MORE ART AND
10:01:34 CULTURAL EVENT -- ACTIVITIES IN THE DISTRICT.
10:01:38 FOR OUR PLANNING INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC
10:01:40 DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, WE DISCUSSED, AGAIN, THE EAST
10:01:43 7TH AVENUE ARCHWAY LIGHTS.
10:01:44 WE ARE STILL MOVING FORWARD ON THAT.
10:01:48 WE ARE HOPING FOR A SPRING TIME -- SOME TIME AFTER
10:01:51 SUPER BOWL, BUT SPRING OR EARLY SUMMER LAUNCH OF THAT
10:01:52 PROJECT FINALLY.
10:01:56 AND ALSO THE STREETSCAPE MONUMENT PROJECT THAT WILL
10:01:59 INCLUDE THE 7TH AVENUE STREETSCAPE BETWEEN 24TH AND 8TH
10:02:00 STREET.
10:02:04 A BRICK STREET RESTORATION SUBCOMMITTEE BECAUSE STRONG
10:02:07 INTEREST IN THE DISTRICT OF BRINGING BRICK BACK AS MUCH
10:02:09 AS POSSIBLE IN THE DISTRICT.
10:02:15 AND OTHER ITEMS WE HAVE HELPED FUND THE BARRIO LATINO
10:02:19 COMMISSION DESIGN UPDATES.
10:02:20 THEY ARE UNDER WAY.
10:02:24 PRETTY STATED FROM THE 1980S, SO WE HELPED MOVE THAT
10:02:28 ALONG QUICKER THAN IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE IF WE DIDN'T
10:02:30 PROVIDE SOME SORT OF FUNDING.
10:02:33 AND THEN WE ARE LOOKING AT HOUSING AND RESIDENTIAL
10:02:34 GRANT PROGRAMS.
10:02:38 WE FEEL THAT THERE ARE RENTERS IN THE DISTRICT THAT
10:02:41 REALLY NEED ASSISTANCE AND WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH
10:02:43 THE CITY'S HOUSING DEPARTMENT TO MAYBE COME UP WITH
10:02:47 SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO HELP THE RENTERS THAT ARE IN THE
10:02:48 DISTRICT.
10:02:50 AND ALSO PUBLIC OPEN SPACE.
10:02:52 WE HAVE CENTENNIAL PARK.
10:02:55 HOWEVER, THE COMMUNITY DEFINITELY WANTS MORE OPEN SPACE
10:03:00 SUCH AS LINEAR GREENWAYS, A DOG PARK AND POCKET PARKS.
10:03:08 AND I ALREADY MENTIONED THE LAST TWO ITEMS THERE.
10:03:11 FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, WE
10:03:14 REVIEWED TPD'S STATS.
10:03:18 AND AGAIN THE DISTRICT ENHANCED SECURITY PLAN.
10:03:22 AND PART OF THAT DISCUSSION IS ALSO A TPD SUBSTATION AT
10:03:26 CENTRO YBOR.
10:03:28 ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS ONE FLORIDA AND THE
10:03:33 OWNERSHIP OF CENTRO YBOR WILLING TO OPEN IT UP TO TPD.
10:03:36 WE NEED A FRAMEWORK AND WHAT IS THE PURPOSE AND CONCEPT
10:03:40 OF THE SUBSTATION AND THAT IS YET TO BE DEFINED.
10:03:43 WE HAVE A TWO-HOUR MEETING YESTERDAY WITH REGARD TO A
10:03:45 DISTRICT-WIDE COMMITTEE PLAN.
10:03:48 A SUBCOMMITTEE WHO IS INTERESTED IN CREATING -- A
10:03:51 SECURITY PLAN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TPD AND THAT WAS A
10:03:56 BRAINSTORMING MEETING WE HAD WITH CAPTAIN OWEN AND WE
10:04:00 ANTICIPATE COMING BACK, CONVENING BY DECEMBER 30.
10:04:07 AGAIN JANUARY 13, JANUARY 23 AND TO THE CAC WITH
10:04:10 JANUARY 23 WITH THE PLAN AND AN AGGRESSIVE APPROACH
10:04:15 TRYING TO GET THAT MOVED ALONG AS IF AS POSSIBLE.
10:04:17 WE HAVE RECEIVED PARKING RATE CHANGES.
10:04:20 PARKING RATE CHANGES DECEMBER 1 CITYWIDE AND MORE TO
10:04:24 COME IN 2022 FOR YBOR WITH REGARD TO THE TWO-HOUR FREE
10:04:27 PARKING THAT EXISTS RIGHT NOW ON 7TH AVENUE.
10:04:31 THERE IS AN EXPECTED CHANGE COMING JANUARY 2022 ON
10:04:32 THAT.
10:04:36 AND AS FAR AS THE STRATEGIC ACTION ITEM PRIORITIES.
10:04:40 I ALREADY MENTIONED THE SUBSTATION, THE SECURITY PLAN.
10:04:43 THEY ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT A LIGHTING PLAN
10:04:46 AND LOOKING AT MAYBE A BETTER USE OF THE CITY PARKING
10:04:50 LOTS IF THERE IS SOME GROWTH OPPORTUNITY THERE.
10:04:53 NOT TO EXCLUDE PARKING, BUT TO ADD AMENITIES TO THE
10:04:57 PARKING LOTS WITH OTHER USES INCLUDING -- KEEPING
10:05:04 PARKING ON THE SITE.
10:05:09 SO SOME OF THE ITEMS WE WORKED ON IMPROVING, ENHANCING,
10:05:11 BEAUTIFICATION IN THE DISTRICT, PALM TREE REPLACEMENT
10:05:14 AT CENTENNIAL PARK.
10:05:17 BASKET LIDS.
10:05:19 TREE GREATS WERE CLEANED.
10:05:21 PARKING SIGN PURCHASES AND DELIVERED FOR INSTALLATION.
10:05:24 JUST SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE ALWAYS AN ONGOING
10:05:27 DISTRICT TO KEEP THE DISTRICT LOOKING NICE.
10:05:29 WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE OUR CITY TEAM THAT ACTUALLY
10:05:32 SPANS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY.
10:05:35 WE ARE ACTIVELY ALWAYS WORKING WITH SOLID WASTE,
10:05:36 MOBILITY.
10:05:41 SO TPD IS -- HAS REALLY BEEN ACTIVE WITH US LATELY, BUT
10:05:44 WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT TEAM MEMBERS ALL THROUGHOUT THE
10:05:47 CITY THAT ARE READY TO HELP US ALWAYS.
10:05:49 SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
10:05:52 AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE THE TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY ON
10:05:54 NOVEMBER 18.
10:05:57 THE LATINO FESTIVAL HAPPENED AND CUBAN SANDWICH
10:05:59 FESTIVAL HAPPENED.
10:06:01 THE REASON THOSE WERE ABLE TO TRANSPIRE IS THEY WERE
10:06:06 HELD ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AT CENTRO ESTERIANO.
10:06:09 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
10:06:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
10:06:15 ANY QUESTIONS, CHAIRMAN?
10:06:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIRMAN, IF I MAY.
10:06:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:06:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:06:22 YOU BROUGHT UP THE PROPOSED CHANGES THAT MAY TAKE
10:06:24 EFFECT IN 2022 WITH THE PARKING.
10:06:29 FOR YEARS, YBOR CITY GOT FREE PARKING BECAUSE MADE INTO
10:06:32 MAINTENANCE FUND FOR THE CITY PARKING GARAGES.
10:06:37 IF FREE PARKING ON 7TH AVENUE AND YBOR PROPER, WILL
10:06:40 THAT CHANGE THE MONIES ALLOTTED FOR THE CITY PARKING
10:06:45 LOT THAT YCDC PAYS.
10:06:47 >> THE PRESENTATION BY THE PARKING MANAGER KELLY
10:06:51 STEVENS SAID ONCE THAT IS OCCUR.
10:06:56 THE FREE PARKING OFF OF 7TH AVENUE, THE $50,000 WE
10:06:58 CONTRIBUTE USED BY PARKING DIVISION WILL NO LONGER BE
10:07:02 TAKEN OUT OF OUR TIF DOLLARS.
10:07:05 THE $50,000 WILL REMAIN IN THE TIF BUDGET.
10:07:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:07:08 HAVE THE BUSINESSES ALONG 7TH AVENUE EXPRESS ANY
10:07:10 CONCERN ABOUT THIS CHANGE?
10:07:13 >> THERE IS SOME CONCERN, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY GONE
10:07:14 OUT TO THE COMMUNITY YET.
10:07:18 WE KNOW WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH KELLY AND HIS
10:07:21 TEAM TO HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS.
10:07:24 HE ANTICIPATES HAVING COMMUNITY MEETINGS ABOUT THIS.
10:07:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
10:07:28 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
10:07:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER HAS A QUESTION, AND I
10:07:34 ASKED HIM TO HOLD OFF UNTIL ITEM NUMBER 16 WITH MISS
10:07:44 VANLOAN AND MR. MORRIS CAN EXPLAIN.
10:07:45 >> I WILL BE HERE FOR 16.
10:08:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, WHO IS UP NEXT
10:08:17 >> CAN WE BRING UP THE DOWNTOWN SLIDES PLEASE.
10:08:18 GOOD MORNING.
10:08:22 I AM GOING TO START WITH THE DOWNTOWN CRA REPORT.
10:08:25 PROBABLY THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE
10:08:27 FROM THIS IS PROGRESS.
10:08:31 WE ARE DOING A LOT DOWNTOWN AS WELL AS THE CHANNEL
10:08:31 DISTRICT.
10:08:33 SOME OF THE THINGS UNDER WAY RIGHT NOW ARE THE PHASE
10:08:35 THREE, WHICH IS THE FIRST PHOTO.
10:08:43 WE GOT THE INTERSECTION COMPLETED AT TYLER AND
10:08:46 MCKINNIS.
10:08:49 A LOT OF ACTIVITY AND RAISED THAT INTERSECTION BY 18
10:08:53 INCHES AND SOLVED A LOT OF STORMWATER PROBLEMS IN THAT
10:08:56 PROCESS AND DOING PHASE 4 WHICH IS THE ROAD SOUTHWARD.
10:08:59 A NUMBER OF UTILITIES THERE THAT HAD TO BE MOVED THAT
10:09:02 WERE KIND OF REMNANTS OF TECO'S FACILITIES WHEN THEY
10:09:04 SERVED THE ANNEX BUILDING.
10:09:06 SOME OF THOSE WILL BE REDONE.
10:09:10 FAIRLY LARGE STRUCTURE ALSO HAVE BE DONE TO DO THAT.
10:09:12 THE NEXT PHOTO YOU SEE IS THE COMPLETION OF THE
10:09:13 RIVERWALK.
10:09:15 CAN YOU NOT HEAR?
10:09:17 >> PULL IT OVER A LITTLE BIT.
10:09:17 >> OKAY.
10:09:20 HOW ABOUT THAT?
10:09:21 IS THAT BETTER?
10:09:22 HOW ABOUT THAT?
10:09:23 OKAY.
10:09:24 GREAT.
10:09:27 SO THE RIVERWALK HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
10:09:31 I WAS JUST DOING PUNCH LIST ITEMS NOW.
10:09:34 FINAL PIECES BEING ADDED TO THE RAILING BUT IT HAS BEEN
10:09:35 OPENED.
10:09:40 I HAVE GOTTEN GOOD COMMENTS ABOUT THE USE OF THE
10:09:41 RIVERWALK.
10:09:44 MIKE IS WORKING ON THE SIGNAGE GOING THERE THAT IS
10:09:47 BEING PROCESSED RIGHT NOW GOING UP IN A FEW WEEKS.
10:09:51 AND THE PUBLIC CAN ENJOY THE NEW FACILITY.
10:09:52 MOVING ON TO THIS.
10:09:55 ALL THIS IS SUPPOSED TO DONE MID-DECEMBER.
10:09:57 IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO BE EARLY JANUARY, ONLY
10:10:00 BECAUSE OF THESE UTILITY ISSUES TAKING A LITTLE LONGER
10:10:04 DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE RELOCATES.
10:10:08 SO THIS IS STILL A PRETTY ACTIVE CORRECT SCHEDULE.
10:10:10 OTHER THINGS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS LIST THAT ARE
10:10:14 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW THAT IS VERY EXCITING.
10:10:16 J. W. MARRIOTT IS OPEN.
10:10:18 THEY FINISHED THEIR CLEANING.
10:10:21 THEY WILL HAVE A GRAND OPENING HERE IN THE VERY NEAR
10:10:25 FUTURE AND THEY ARE READY FOR THE SUPER BOWL THAT IS
10:10:26 COMING HERE.
10:10:34 AND THE SUPER BOWL IS STILL ON TAMPA IT HAVEN'T CHANGED
10:10:36 AND WORKING WITH THE GROUPS THAT ARE PART OF THAT.
10:10:39 ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I MOVE ON TO THE NEXT.
10:10:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:10:42 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
10:10:43 >> THANK YOU.
10:10:47 CHANNEL DISTRICT, WE ARE CONTINUING ON OUR PROGRESS.
10:10:49 THAT IS WHY I WANTED TO SHOW YOU WE ARE ALMOST DONE
10:10:51 WITH ALL OF OUR DESIGN.
10:10:56 WE ARE WORKING TOWARD CONSTRUCTION AND RESOLVED THE
10:10:57 ISSUES WITH THE COURT.
10:11:00 CAME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT WILL WORK OUT VERY WELL.
10:11:02 WE WILL BRING MORE ON THAT ONCE WE WORK THROUGH THE
10:11:05 DETAIL AND CONSTRUCTION INTENDED TO START THIS MONTH
10:11:08 WITH THE HOLIDAY AND GENERALLY DECEMBER IS ONE THOSE
10:11:11 MONTHS THAT ASPHALT IS NOT AVAILABLE.
10:11:14 REAL CONSTRUCTION WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN IN JANUARY.
10:11:17 JUST TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW -- I AM NOT GOING TO GO
10:11:20 DOWN EVERY ONE OF THESE BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT A NUMBER
10:11:22 OF THESE HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE HERE.
10:11:26 SO THIS LAST ONE HERE THAT SAYS 25%.
10:11:31 THIS IS FOR THE PIECE FOR THE RV LOT THAT PORT HAD
10:11:33 SOMEONE PURCHASING THAT AND THE PURCHASE HAD FALLEN
10:11:35 THROUGH SO WE CAN CONTINUE ON WITH THAT.
10:11:41 WE SPOKE WITH THEM ABOUT THAT MOST RECENTLY.
10:11:45 ONE THE INDIRECT ACTIVITIES BUT FRUITS OF OUR LABOR OF
10:11:48 THE WORK WE DID OVER THE YEARS, WE RELOCATED A PUMP
10:11:50 STATION SO THIS SITE CAN BE DONE.
10:11:52 DANIEL CORPORATION.
10:11:54 THEY ARE CALLING IT THE CHANNELSIDE APARTMENTS.
10:11:58 AND IT WILL BE 324 UNITS 19-STORY BUILDING IN THE
10:12:04 CORNER OF 12TH AND BUILDINGS ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER.
10:12:09 AND THIS IS FEW WEEKS OLD AND LARGER RIGS OUT THERE AND
10:12:11 THEY ARE DOING THEIR FOUNDATION.
10:12:15 ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT BEFORE WE MOVE ON?
10:12:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:12:19 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
10:12:22 >> TAMPA HEIGHTS, EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING TOO.
10:12:24 THE RIVERWALK HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
10:12:26 WE DON'T HAVE ANY REAL DIRECT ACTIVITIES.
10:12:29 THE TECO ISSUE THAT'S WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A
10:12:32 NUMBER MONTHS HAVE BEEN RESOLVED.
10:12:35 AND THE LAST OF THE UTILITIES ARE COMING OFF THESE
10:12:35 POLES.
10:12:39 IN THE NEXT PHOTOS YOU WILL SEE HERE IS THE SECOND
10:12:42 ROUNDABOUT BEING DONE AT NORTH BOULEVARD AND PALM.
10:12:46 AND THEY PRETTY MUCH GOT ALL THE CURB WORK DONE, AND
10:12:49 YOU WILL SEE IN THESE PHOTOS A COUPLE OF LARGE POLES
10:12:52 THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
10:12:52 STREET.
10:12:56 THESE ARE THE ONE THAT'S TOOK TIME TO GET RESOLVED.
10:13:00 THEY ARE GETTING RESOLVE THE NOW AND WILL HAPPEN IN THE
10:13:02 NEXT TWO MONTHS.
10:13:05 NORTH BOULEVARD WITH THE MIDDLE OF THE ROUNDABOUT AND
10:13:08 THEY RAISED THE STREET AND MADE IT MUCH SAFER.
10:13:12 THE LARGE ISSUE WHEN YOU CAME OVER THE BRIDGE THERE WAS
10:13:16 A DIP IN THE BOTTOM AND CAUSED PEOPLE TO NOT BE ABLE TO
10:13:17 SLOW DOWN FAST ENOUGH.
10:13:21 NOW THIS IS A SAFER INTERSECTION, IT WILL FLOW A LOT
10:13:22 BETTER.
10:13:25 ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO CENTRAL
10:13:26 PARK?
10:13:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:13:30 YOU MAY CONTINUE, SIR.
10:13:30 >> THANK YOU.
10:13:33 CENTRAL PARK, NOT A LOT OF DIRECT ACTIVITY OTHER THAN
10:13:36 WHAT I WILL SHOW ON MY NEXT SLIDE WITH THE HOUSING
10:13:39 AUTHORITY, BUT THE MONEY THAT YOU GUYS HELPED WITH FOR
10:13:43 THE URBAN FARM, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF PROGRESS.
10:13:47 THEY HAVE STARTED SELLING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM
10:13:49 OTHER FARMS HERE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE JUST PLANTING
10:13:50 THIS ONE.
10:13:55 SO THEY ARE HAVING -- THEY ARE PLANNING TO HAVE THIS
10:13:57 SPRING BE ACTIVATED WITH ALL OF THAT.
10:14:01 THEY HAVE ACTIVATED PEOPLE TO START PLANTING AND
10:14:04 LEARNING HOW THIS USE AN URBAN FARM AND THAT PIECE IS
10:14:04 HAPPENING.
10:14:07 IT IS EXCITING TO SEE THESE THINGS MOVING ALONG.
10:14:11 THESE PHOTOS ARE TWO MONTHS OLD.
10:14:15 FORGIVE ME THAT I HAVEN'T UPDATED THEM BUT THEY HAVE
10:14:17 DONE A LOT MORE PROGRESS SINCE THIS.
10:14:21 THE EXCITING THING IN THE CENTRAL PARK, THE TAMPA
10:14:25 HOUSING AUTHORITY HAVE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS ON THIS.
10:14:27 THREAT UNDER CONSTRUCTION IS THE INDEPENDENT, THE
10:14:37 LEGACY, AND THE NEWEST ONE THE ADDERLEY.
10:14:40 THE TWO ON THE TOP ARE BEING DONE BY THE SAME
10:14:43 CONTRACTOR BUT TWO DIFFERENT DEVELOPERS AND AS OF TODAY
10:14:48 THEY ARE MOSTLY BUILT UP FOR THE WOOD STRUCTURES FOR
10:14:50 FRAMING AND HAVEN'T STARTED THE ROOF WORK.
10:14:53 VERY EXCITING AND THEY ARE DONE WITH THE CONCRETE WORK
10:14:57 THAT NEEDS HAPPEN ALONG WITH THE GARAGES.
10:15:03 THE ADDERLEY JUST GOT THROUGH PERMITTING AND MADE THE
10:15:03 ANNOUNCEMENT.
10:15:06 THEY WON'T BE DOING THE SITE FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS
10:15:09 BECAUSE USING THE SITE FOR THE LAY DOWN FOR THE OTHER
10:15:10 TWO BUILDINGS.
10:15:13 THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR CENTRAL PARK.
10:15:14 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:15:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:15:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, ROB FOR YOUR
10:15:18 PRESENTATION.
10:15:22 WITH REGARD TO THE MEACHAM URBAN FARM.
10:15:25 I -- OF COURSE WE ALL RECALL VOTING ON IT AND PUTTING
10:15:26 MONEY INTO IT.
10:15:30 I DON'T KNOW IF -- IF I AM FULLY INFORMED ON WHO IS
10:15:31 RUNNING IT.
10:15:35 YOU KNOW, I -- I ASSUME IT'S -- IT'S A COMMUNITY EFFORT
10:15:37 TYPE THING.
10:15:41 AND ALSO TO BE ABLE TO TELL PEOPLE IF THEY WANT TO BE
10:15:43 INVOLVED, WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO BE INVOLVED.
10:15:44 JUST CENTRAL PARK --
10:15:46 >> EVERYBODY IS ELIGIBLE.
10:15:48 THAT WAS THE GOOD PART ABOUT IT.
10:15:51 THE EDUCATIONAL PIECE -- NO ONE IS BEING EXCLUDED
10:15:56 DINGFELDER WHO IS ACTUALLY RUNNING IT IF PEOPLE WANT TO
10:15:56 GET INVOLVED.
10:15:59 HOW DO THEY GET IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE.
10:16:03 >> I DON'T HAVE MR. TRAVIS'S NUMBER BUT I WILL PROVIDE
10:16:04 THAT TO YOU.
10:16:07 HE MADE A PRESENTATION -- NOT LAST MONTH BUT A COUPLE
10:16:10 OF MONTHS AGO THANKING YOU FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE CASH
10:16:11 FOR THAT.
10:16:14 I WILL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION.
10:16:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHAT IS HIS GROUP CALLED?
10:16:20 >> MEACHAM URBAN FARM.
10:16:24 THEY MADE A LLC FOR THAT.
10:16:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CAN YOU BRING A REPORT -- MR.
10:16:30 DINGFELDER'S REQUEST FOR THE NEXT CRA MEETING SO WE CAN
10:16:32 GIVE THAT TO THE PUBLIC?
10:16:34 >> YES, WE CAN DO THAT.
10:16:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:16:37 >> ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
10:16:37 THANK YOU.
10:16:41 HAVE A GREAT DAY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW
10:16:48 YEAR.
10:17:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MISS VANLOAN, WHO IS NEXT?
10:17:14 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:17:19 JESUS NINO, WEST TAMPA, URBAN DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
10:17:23 IF YOU CAN BRING THE SLIDES UP PLEASE.
10:17:27 WEST TAMPA CONTINUES TO BE EXTREMELY BUSY IN A VERY
10:17:29 PRODUCTIVE WAY.
10:17:32 AS THE COMMUNITY ADVISOR COMMITTEE IS EXTREMELY ACTIVE
10:17:34 WHICH I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY.
10:17:36 IN MY ENTIRE CAREER I NEVER HAD AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
10:17:40 BE THAT ACTIVE WITH THE CITY AND WITH PROJECTS OUT
10:17:40 THERE IN THE AREA.
10:17:44 THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETINGS OUT IN
10:17:46 THE COMMUNITY VIRTUALLY IN THE PAST, BUT NOW WE JUST
10:17:49 CAME BACK TO PHYSICAL MEETINGS.
10:17:53 A VERY PRODUCTIVE ONE AT BARKSDALE CENTER ON NOVEMBER
10:17:54 24.
10:17:59 IT WAS ACTUALLY A HYBRID MEETING AND I THINK THE CITY
10:18:00 DEPARTMENT FOR THAT.
10:18:02 NO GLITCHES OR ANYTHING.
10:18:04 WE PRACTICE BEFORE THE ACTUAL MEETING SO IT WAS
10:18:06 ACTUALLY WELL PUT TOGETHER MEETING.
10:18:09 SO I TAKE TNI AGAIN FOR THAT.
10:18:12 REVISIONS FOR THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY, WHICH WERE
10:18:14 PROPOSED BY THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE AND
10:18:17 APPROVED BY THE CAC.
10:18:19 THOSE ARE STILL CONTINUING TO MOVE FORWARD IN A VERY
10:18:22 PRODUCTIVE WAY.
10:18:26 THEY GO BEFORE THE CITY'S PLANNING COMMISSION JANUARY
10:18:27 11, 2021.
10:18:30 I WILL BE THERE FOR THAT AND I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON
10:18:32 THAT AND SEE HOW THAT GOES.
10:18:34 THE STAFF CONTINUES TO PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY WITH
10:18:37 UPDATES ON WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE AREA AS FAR AS
10:18:38 MEETINGS.
10:18:43 JUST INPUT ON PROGRAMS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
10:18:46 WE HAVE A DISTRIBUTION LIST THAT I AM CONTINUING TO
10:18:47 GROW.
10:18:50 ANY TIME ANYTHING COMES UP WE SEND IT OUT TO THEM.
10:18:54 THE CAC ALSO CONTINUES TO WORK WITH THE CITY'S BUILD
10:18:55 TEAM.
10:18:59 THEY KIND OF MADE SURE THAT THEY ARE PART OF THE WHOLE
10:19:04 PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THE COMMITTEE HAS INPUT IN THE
10:19:07 WHOLE PROCESS WHENEVER IT STARTS.
10:19:09 THIS ONE HERE -- THE LAST ONE IS VERY EXCITING THE ROME
10:19:13 YARD WHICH IS LOCATED ON ROME AVENUE BY OREGON, BY THE
10:19:17 RIVERWALK, ACROSS THE STREET FROM RICK'S AT THE RIVER.
10:19:22 THAT RFP WENT OUT OCTOBER 15 WHICH IS ROB ROSNER BEHIND
10:19:27 ME, HE IS THE CONTACT FOR THAT ONCE THE PROCESS STARTS
10:19:29 AND CONTRACTS COME IN, ANYBODY INVOLVED WILL TAKE THE
10:19:30 CODE OF SILENCE.
10:19:34 I THINK MR. ROBINSON IS PART OF THAT TEAM AND EXCITED
10:19:35 ABOUT THAT.
10:19:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CAN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT,
10:19:39 MR. CHAIRMAN?
10:19:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR.
10:19:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOING THROUGH THIS TONIGHT IN
10:19:47 PREPARATION FOR TODAY, I LOOKED AT THAT AERIAL.
10:19:51 AND MICHELLE AND ROB, YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN ON THIS
10:19:52 AS WELL.
10:19:55 WHEN I LOOK AT -- IT LOOKS LIKE A RUNNING TRACK ON THE
10:19:57 RIVER THERE.
10:20:01 AND I ASSUME THAT IS PROBABLY SCHOOL BOARD --
10:20:04 >> PART OF THE PROPERTY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.
10:20:08 MR. ROSNER CAN ANSWER BETTER THAN I CAN.
10:20:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ROB, WHICH SCHOOL IS THAT TRACK
10:20:12 FOR?
10:20:12 >> THE SCHOOL?
10:20:16 FOR STEWART.
10:20:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
10:20:22 I COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER IT LOOKS -- IT IS ALMOST THE
10:20:25 SAME SIZE AS THE PROPERTY THAT WE OWN IN THE BLUE
10:20:26 THERE.
10:20:28 AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER, WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF
10:20:33 WE COULD SWAP OUT OUR PROPERTY -- IF -- ASSUMING THAT
10:20:36 THE SCHOOL BOARD NEEDS THAT PROPERTY, IF WE CAN SWAP
10:20:40 OUT OUR PROPERTY IN THE BLUE FOR THEIR RIVERFRONT
10:20:40 PROPERTY.
10:20:43 BECAUSE TO ME, I MEAN, IT IS NICE TO HAVE A TRACK ON
10:20:48 THE RIVER, BUT IT IS SORT OF A WASTE OF AN ASSET.
10:20:51 WE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, PROBABLY A CENTURY, WE HAVE
10:20:58 WASTED RIVERFRONT AND WATERFRONT PROPERTY WITH LESS
10:20:59 THAN PRIME USES.
10:21:02 SO I AM JUST WONDERING HAS THAT BEEN A DISCUSSION WITH
10:21:07 THE SCHOOL BOARD IN TERMS OF ANY POSSIBLE SWAP?
10:21:10 AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOMETHING WE NEED TO START TALKING
10:21:12 ABOUT.
10:21:16 ABOUT 17, 18 YEARS AGO, WE DID A BIG SWAP WITH THE
10:21:19 SCHOOL BOARD DOWN BY ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL.
10:21:22 AND THEY HAD -- ACTUALLY IT WAS A SWAP WITH THE HOUSING
10:21:27 AUTHORITY AND THE REMBRANDT PROJECT WHICH EVENTUALLY
10:21:28 GOT KNOCKED DOWN.
10:21:32 ANYWAY, LONG STORY, BUT IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL LAND
10:21:33 SWAP.
10:21:33 >> YES.
10:21:36 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT IS WHAT MR. ROBINSON WAS
10:21:38 REFERRING TO WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED THOSE DISCUSSIONS
10:21:44 WITH DOING -- THEY HAVE ABOUT 27 ACRES WITH TWO SCHOOLS
10:21:44 ON IT.
10:21:47 AND WE ARE TALKING TO THEM ABOUT A SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION
10:21:51 BECAUSE STUDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL IS MORE THAN 60 YEARS
10:21:51 OLD.
10:21:54 AND THE NUMBER OF NEW FAMILIES MOVING IN HERE WILL BE
10:21:57 SIGNIFICANT.
10:22:02 SO WEST RIVER FOLKS ARE -- YOU KNOW, MOVED OUT 825
10:22:05 FAMILIES AND THEY WILL BE BRINGING BACK 1800 FAMILIES.
10:22:09 WE ARE EXPECTING THE ROME YARD PROPERTY, THE 18 ACRES,
10:22:12 WHICH THIS IS SIX ACRES THAT YOU ARE MENTIONING, TO
10:22:14 PRODUCE ANOTHER 900 UNITS.
10:22:16 THE SCHOOL -- THE TWO SCHOOLS THEMSELVES ARE ACTUALLY
10:22:18 UNDERSIZED.
10:22:21 THEIR PROCESS IS TO LOOK AT RESIZING.
10:22:23 AND WE WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO CONSOLIDATE, YOU KNOW,
10:22:27 THEIR TWO SCHOOLS ON A CLEAN SITE WHICH WE ARE COMING
10:22:31 UP WITH OPTIONS AND WHAT WILL WORK FOR THEM TO FREE UP
10:22:34 THE -- THE SPACE ON THE RIVER, BUT ALSO TO CONSOLIDATE
10:22:38 ON TO MORE URBAN TYPE SCHOOL SITE THAT MAY ONLY TAKE
10:22:41 SEVEN TO EIGHT ACRES INSTEAD OF THE 27 THEY CURRENTLY
10:22:47 HAVE AND WE WILL STILL MANAGE THE SPACE THEY NEED FOR
10:22:49 RECREATIONAL FACILITIES WHICH IS THE BASEBALL FIELD AND
10:22:52 THE FOOTBALL FIELD AND TALK THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
10:22:56 AND DURING THOSE PROCESSES, WE -- WE WILL PROBABLY COME
10:23:00 BACK WITH A SEPARATE RFP AND WE HAVE OTHER PROJECTS
10:23:03 THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT INCLUDING IN THIS ONE AND A
10:23:06 LITTLE LATE IN THE PROCESS TO ADD THAT MUCH TO IT.
10:23:11 SO I AM WORKING WITH CAROL AND RANDY AND ABBYE FOR
10:23:13 COMING UP WITH THE NEXT LEVEL OF THAT AND I WILL BE
10:23:14 MAKING THAT PRESENTATION.
10:23:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I GUESS -- I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
10:23:20 WE DON'T GET TOO FAR DOWN THE ROAD -- IF YOU CAN GO
10:23:24 BACK TO THAT SLIDE -- ON THE BLUE OUTLINE PROPERTY.
10:23:25 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD CALL THAT.
10:23:27 LOOKS LIKE A BALL FIELD.
10:23:29 THE BALL FIELD PROPERTY.
10:23:31 >> THE YELLOW JACKET.
10:23:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IF WE DON'T GET TOO FAR DOWN THE
10:23:35 ROAD ON THAT PROPERTY IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, REACHING
10:23:37 DEALS WITH DEVELOPERS, ETC.
10:23:41 IF -- YOU KNOW, IF THERE MIGHT BE SOME CHANGES COMING
10:23:44 AND ESPECIALLY THAT -- THAT RIVER FRONT.
10:23:48 I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE RIVER FRONT THERE IS FOR --
10:23:51 FURTHER SOUTH BEYOND -- BEYOND THE TRACK.
10:23:56 AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, THE VALUE OF RIVERFRONT AND
10:23:58 DEVELOPMENT, I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU --
10:24:00 >> NO DOUBT.
10:24:03 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: PROBABLY TWICE AS MUCH AS THE
10:24:04 INTERNAL PROPERTY THERE.
10:24:06 >> THAT IS PART OF OUR DISCUSSION WITH THEM.
10:24:09 SO, YES, WE HAVE ALREADY CONTACTED THE COUNTY AND THE
10:24:12 SCHOOL BOARD ABOUT THIS CONSOLIDATION PROCESS.
10:24:15 AND A NUMBER OF THINGS ARE STILL ON THE TABLE FOR THAT.
10:24:18 THAT BLUE PORTION IS PART OF THE CURRENT RFP.
10:24:22 BUT WE ALSO LOOK AT THE SITE SOUTH OF THE MLK CENTER.
10:24:25 THE SITE THAT THE CITY HAS AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY
10:24:34 TO PROVIDE -- YOU KNOW, FACILITY FOR TAMPA HEALTH AND
10:24:37 IF STARTS TO REVERT BACK TO THE CITY AND WE ARE TALKING
10:24:40 ABOUT THAT OPTION BECAUSE A SIMILAR-SIZED SITE THAT HAS
10:24:41 THE CONNECTION TO THAT.
10:24:45 AND BEING THAT IT IS NEAR RECREATIONAL FACILITY, THAT
10:24:46 IS ONE OF OUR DISCUSSIONS NOW.
10:24:49 THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS A REALLY STRONG CONNECTION FOR
10:24:52 SPRUCE STREET, WHICH WE HAVE LEARNED THAT CONNECTION
10:24:55 STILL GOES UNDERNEATH THE HIGHWAY AND CONNECTS BLAKE
10:24:56 HIGH SCHOOL.
10:24:59 BUS ROUTES AND SOME OF HOW THEY MANAGE STUDENTS IS
10:25:01 SOMETHING WE ARE ALSO CONSIDERING.
10:25:04 A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE ARE ALL LOOKING AT TO DO
10:25:04 THAT.
10:25:07 AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IS PART OF THAT BECAUSE THEY
10:25:09 OWN HALF OF SPRUCE STREET.
10:25:11 AND SO ALL THREE -- ALL THREE OF THE PLAYERS HAVE BEEN
10:25:14 MEETING AND WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE COMING UP HERE IN TWO
10:25:14 WEEKS.
10:25:16 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: EXCELLENT.
10:25:17 KEEP US POSTED.
10:25:18 >> I WILL BE HAPPY TO.
10:25:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, THAT TRACK.
10:25:22 THAT TRACK IS ACTUALLY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL, BECAUSE THE
10:25:25 MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS A SMALL TRACK TEAM, BUT THE HIGH
10:25:30 SCHOOL UTILIZES -- BLAKE USES IT.
10:25:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I AM NOT SAYING THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE
10:25:35 A TRACK BUT MAYBE NOT A RIVERFRONT TRACK.
10:25:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALSO MR. MASSEY, LET ME ASK YOU A
10:25:41 QUESTION, WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AGREEMENT.
10:25:44 I KNOW WILL BE INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE PROJECTS OVER
10:25:44 THERE.
10:25:50 THAT AGREEMENT SHOULD BE APPLIED TO ANY RFPS AS WELL.
10:25:53 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION?
10:25:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OUR COMMUNITY BUSINESS AGREEMENT AND
10:25:57 THAT PROPERTY AND A LOT OF THE PROPERTY IN THE AREA
10:26:00 FALL IN THAT CRA.
10:26:05 THE COMMUNITY AGREEMENT AND FALL WITH THE RFP.
10:26:06 >> CORRECT.
10:26:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET'S MAKE SURE OF THAT.
10:26:10 >> THANK YOU, ROB.
10:26:12 CAN YOU PUT IT BACK ON SLIDES, PLEASE?
10:26:15 I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE MORE POINT ABOUT THAT.
10:26:19 ROB'S TEAM IS MAKING SURE WE ARE STAYED IN THE LOOP AS
10:26:24 FAR AS STAFF AND WEST TAMPA CAC AND WEST TAMPA CAC
10:26:28 MEMBERS AND ANY MEETINGS THEY HAVE, THEY COME TO US AND
10:26:30 FILL US IN ON WHATEVER WE HAVE GOING ON AND GET OUR
10:26:31 OPINIONS.
10:26:37 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ROB, FOR KEEPING US IN THE LOOP.
10:26:41 THESE ARE INDIRECT ACTIVITIES IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
10:26:47 TECO CONTINUES WITH TWO PROJECTS THERE TO GET POWER
10:26:50 OVER -- BETTER POWER TO THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT.
10:26:52 A PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO.
10:26:57 ONE IS UNDERGROUND LINES ALONG ROME AVENUE AND OVER TO
10:26:58 THE WEST RIVER AREA.
10:27:01 AND PHASE TWO, WHICH WAS STARTED ABOUT -- IN THE MIDDLE
10:27:02 OF SEPTEMBER.
10:27:07 THAT IS TO REPLACE CERTAIN LINES AND POLES AT HABANA
10:27:12 AVENUE RUNNING TO ARMENIA TO CHESTNUT EXTENDING TO ROME
10:27:12 AVENUE.
10:27:15 AS FAR AS ANY DISRUPTION TO THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE, WE
10:27:17 ARE MAKING SURE THEY DON'T DISRUPT THE BUSINESSES OR
10:27:19 RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY OUT THERE TOO MUCH.
10:27:22 IF THEY DO, WE KIND OF STEP IN AND LET THEM KNOW,
10:27:25 PLEASE DO THINGS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT SO YOU DON'T
10:27:28 DISRUPT SO MUCH OUT THERE WHICH RIGHT NOW THERE HAVEN'T
10:27:29 BEEN TOO MUCH DISRUPTION.
10:27:31 SO WE ARE HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
10:27:34 THE NEXT POINT -- THIS IS A VERY EXCITING POINT.
10:27:39 THE MAIN STREET CORRIDOR STUDY LED BY RANDY GOERS AND
10:27:41 PROJECT MANAGER FRANK HALL.
10:27:44 I HAVE BEEN PRETTY IMPRESSED BY THEIR EFFORTS OUT THERE
10:27:46 TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AS FAR AS INTERVIEWING
10:27:47 INDIVIDUALS.
10:27:50 THEY ARE INTERVIEWING BUSINESS OWNERS, BANKERS,
10:27:54 RESIDENTS, PROPERTY OWNERS, YOU NAME IT, COMMUNITY
10:27:55 ORGANIZATIONS.
10:27:58 I HAVE BEEN WITH THEM ON A FEW OF THOSE VISITS TO
10:28:00 INTERVIEW INDIVIDUALS.
10:28:02 WE HAVE GONE THROUGH BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND EVEN AFTER
10:28:03 HOURS.
10:28:05 PRETTY EXCITING WHAT THEY ARE DOING OUT THERE.
10:28:08 THEY HAVE A FEW COMMUNITY MEETINGS SO FAR.
10:28:10 ONE WAS THIS TUESDAY AT 5:30.
10:28:11 A VIRTUAL MEETING.
10:28:14 AROUND 55 INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATED IN THAT AND THE USF
10:28:21 STUDENTS ALSO PARTICIPATE AS JOE ROBINSON MENTIONED.
10:28:24 THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION THAT IS GOING ON
10:28:25 AROUND WEST TAMPA.
10:28:28 ABOVE THERE, YOU HAVE THE WEST RIVER PROJECT THERE.
10:28:33 THIS IS FOR BUILDINGS A, B AND C, THAT ARE BEING
10:28:36 CONSTRUCTED AS WE SPEAK FROM OREGON TO MAIN STREET.
10:28:43 TOTAL FOR THIS PHASE IT WILL BE 371 UNITS AND AROUND
10:28:51 6603 SPACE WITH FITNESS CENTER, GAME ROOMS FOR THE
10:28:51 COMMUNITY.
10:28:56 SENIORS 62 AND ABOVE.
10:28:58 THEN BELOW THAT, WE HAVE A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THAT
10:29:03 IS GOING ON KENNEDY AVENUE CALLED THE GODDARD SCHOOL.
10:29:06 IT IS A PRESCHOOL FOR HEAD START INDIVIDUALS.
10:29:10 ONCE THIS IS COMPLETED A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO KENNEDY.
10:29:15 SHOULD BE COMPLETE BY MID-2021.
10:29:20 THEN UP HERE BY HOWARD, WE HAVE THE FOUNDRY, A
10:29:22 MULTIFAMILY PROJECT.
10:29:24 198 UNITS.
10:29:28 IT IS TWO BUILDINGS THAT ARE CONTIGUOUS TO EACH OTHER
10:29:30 OPINION THE MAIN BUILDING FOR THE RESIDENTS WILL BE
10:29:32 BUILT OUT OF WOOD.
10:29:34 THEN WE HAVE THE PRECAST CONCRETE GARAGE BEING BUILT
10:29:37 THERE AS YOU SEE IN THE PICTURE AND YOU SEE THE
10:29:39 ILLUSTRATION OF HOW IT WILL LOOK ONCE IT IS COMPLETE.
10:29:44 IT BASICALLY TAKES AN ENTIRE BLOCK OF THAT AREA BY
10:29:50 HOWARD, STATE, LEMON AND ADJACENT TO THE GLAZER FAMILY
10:29:52 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER.
10:29:55 CONSTRUCTION EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED BY MID-2022.
10:30:00 OR BEGINNING.
10:30:11 THEN HERE WE HAVE THE NOHO SQUARE APARTMENTS BY GRAY
10:30:12 STREET.
10:30:18 THIS WILL BE AROUND -- I THINK IT IS 127 ONE-BEDROOM
10:30:20 AND.
10:30:22 IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE MIDDLE OF THE CRA BOUNDARY YOU
10:30:25 SEE THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THAT IS LOOKING VERY NICE.
10:30:27 DISRUPTION TO THE AREA ISN'T THAT BAD.
10:30:32 I MAKE SURE TO DRIVE THAT AREA A LOT TO SEE HOW CARS
10:30:35 ARE NAVIGATING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND IF THERE
10:30:38 ARE ANY KIND OF ISSUES, I NOTIFY CITY STAFF ABOUT IT.
10:30:42 THEN THE BOTTOM PICTURE, BETHUNE-COOKMAN.
10:30:48 MARY BETHUNE APARTMENTS COMPLETED AS RENOVATION.
10:30:53 A GROUNDBREAKING -- RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY AS MR.
10:30:54 ROBINSON.
10:30:55 IT WAS SUCCESSFUL.
10:30:56 ELECTED OFFICIALS.
10:30:57 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
10:30:58 THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM WAS THERE.
10:31:00 VERY EXCITING MOMENT.
10:31:02 RESIDENTS ARE ALREADY STARTING TO MOVE IN.
10:31:07 SENIOR LIVING APARTMENT COMPLEX.
10:31:09 THEN THE RENAISSANCE AT WEST RIVER.
10:31:10 THAT IS COMPLETE AS WELL.
10:31:15 THAT IS 160 AFFORDABLE UNITS THERE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:31:17 IT IS ALSO FOR SENIORS 62 AND ABOVE.
10:31:18 VERY EXCITING.
10:31:19 IT IS COMPLETE.
10:31:20 IT IS LOOKING NICE.
10:31:25 SO WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH ALL OF THE CONSTRUCTION GOING
10:31:26 ON AROUND THERE.
10:31:30 CONSTRUCTION ALSO CONTINUES FOR PHASE TWO OF THE GREEN
10:31:36 SPINE CYCLE TRACK FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS
10:31:39 CONNECT EAST TAMPA TO THE RIVERWALK AND WEST TAMPA.
10:31:41 AND WE ARE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
10:31:45 THAT IS DONE CURRENTLY WITH ---ING WITH DONE
10:31:53 CONCURRENTLY WITH THE STORMWATER PROJECT OUT THERE.
10:31:55 THAT CONCLUDES FOR WEST TAMPA.
10:31:56 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:31:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:32:00 CONTINUE, SIR.
10:32:01 >> THANK YOU.
10:32:08 DREW PARK ISN'T AS BUSY AS WEST TAMPA BUT A LOT GOING
10:32:10 ON THERE.
10:32:13 BAY BOULEVARD LINEAR PARK THAT IS BASICALLY COMPLETE.
10:32:18 WE ARE WAITING ON A FEW FINISHING TOUCHES TO THE SIGNS
10:32:19 WE WILL PUT OUT THERE.
10:32:22 HISTORICAL LANGUAGE PUTTING TOGETHER BY DENNIS
10:32:23 FERNANDEZ AND HIS TEAM.
10:32:26 ONCE THAT LANGUAGE IS A COMPLETE WE WILL SEND IT TO THE
10:32:29 SIGN COMPANY SO THEY WILL PUT THAT LANGUAGE ON THE TWO
10:32:34 SIGN THAT'S WILL BE INSTALLED THERE AT THE PARK.
10:32:37 AND ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS WE ARE WORKING ON WITH DREW
10:32:40 PARK UPDATE OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
10:32:43 WE ARE WORKING WITH NEIL OSTREYO.
10:32:44 THE CONSULTANT.
10:32:46 HE IS DOING A GREAT JOB OUT THERE.
10:32:49 WE HAVE HAD A FEW MEETINGS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:32:52 THIS LAST WEEK WE HAD A MEETING AT HILLSBOROUGH
10:32:53 COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
10:32:57 I THANK DR. WITT FOR ALLOWING US TO USE THE CAMPUS.
10:32:59 A LIVE MEETING.
10:33:01 GOOD PARTICIPATION WHICH IS GOOD TO GET PARTICIPATION
10:33:04 SOMETIMES IN DREW PARK, BUT IT WAS WELL-ATTENDED
10:33:06 MEETING, VIRTUALLY AS WELL.
10:33:10 AND AT HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR ALLOWING US
10:33:11 TO USE THEIR TECHNOLOGY AS WELL.
10:33:14 VERY SUCCESSFUL MEETING.
10:33:18 THE PICTURE IN THE CORNER IS THE SURVEY FOR THE DREW
10:33:19 PARK AREA.
10:33:20 IF YOU KNOW FOR ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT KNOWS
10:33:24 ABOUT DREW PARK, WHO DOES BUSINESS OUT THERE AND DOES
10:33:25 VISITS.
10:33:29 FREE TO GO TO THE WEB SITE TO THE DREW PARK SURVEY.
10:33:33 IT WILL BE UP A FEW MORE WEEKS.
10:33:35 SOME OF THE INDIRECT ACTIVITY OUT THERE.
10:33:37 WE HAVE THE STADIUM CENTER.
10:33:40 THAT IS PROGRESSING PRETTY SMOOTHLY.
10:33:43 IT -- BASICALLY EVERY TIME I DRIVE BY, IT SEEMS LIKE
10:33:45 THEY ARE DONE ALREADY.
10:33:48 THEY JUST NEED TO MOVE IN THE TENANTS.
10:33:49 THAT'S IT.
10:33:51 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:33:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:33:55 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:33:59 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:34:04 >> GOOD MORNING, MICHELLE VANLOAN FOR EAST TAMPA CRA
10:34:06 DOING THE REPORT THIS MORNING.
10:34:10 WE HAVE FUNDED THROUGH THE CRA DEMOLITION OF
10:34:13 DILAPIDATED AND CONDEMNED HOMES.
10:34:16 69 OF THOSE HOMES HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED.
10:34:20 39 VOLUNTARILY BY THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND CRA FUNDING
10:34:22 DID NOT GO FOR THE 39 HOMES.
10:34:25 THE REMAINING HOMES WERE FUNDED BY OUR TIF CONTRACTOR
10:34:31 AND IN COORDINATION WITH OUR CONTRACT DEPARTMENT.
10:34:34 JA CONSTRUCTION HAVE GOTTEN UP THE GROUND.
10:34:37 HE WILL HAVE A BRIEF FIVE-MINUTE UPDATE ON OUR EFFORTS
10:34:42 IN EAST TAMPA WITH THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
10:34:47 JUST LIKE YOU OUR CACS HAVE A HYBRID VIRTUAL MEETING
10:34:51 AND HAVE AN IN-PERSON QUORUM AND THE REMAINDER OF THE
10:34:59 MEMBERS CAN BE VIRTUALLY AND PARKS AND REC AND HCC HAVE
10:35:03 BEEN WONDERFUL WORKING WITH US TO PROVIDE LARGER SPACES
10:35:06 FOR OUR CACS AND SUBCOMMITTEES TO MEET AND PROVIDE THAT
10:35:09 TECHNOLOGY TO STILL HAVE THAT VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION.
10:35:12 OUR TREE TRIMMING GRANT ON EVERYONE'S MIND.
10:35:15 WE HAVE PROCESSED OVER 400 APPLICATIONS.
10:35:17 300 OF THOSE HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
10:35:20 MANY OF THE SCALLIONS ARE NOT APPROVED IS BECAUSE WE
10:35:23 GET A LOT OF APPLICATIONS AND THEY MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT
10:35:26 INSIDE THE CRA BOUNDARY SO WE CAN'T HELP THEM OUTSIDE
10:35:28 THE BOUNDARY.
10:35:31 THOSE 300 HAVE BEEN SENT TO OUR CONTRACTORS.
10:35:34 WE HAVE SPENT TO DATE $173,000.
10:35:38 JANUARY 24, CRA, MARCUS MARKS WILL BE COMING TO YOU AND
10:35:41 PRESENT AN UPDATE ON THE PROGRAM.
10:35:44 ALL THE NUMBERS ON THE PROGRAM, OUR RESULTS, AND ALSO
10:35:47 LOOKING FORWARD NOW THAT HE HAS HAD A CHANCE TO REALLY
10:35:50 DIG INTO THIS PROGRAM AND REALLY START TO LOOK AT WHAT
10:35:53 IS THE BEST WAY TO CONTINUE THIS ROLLOUT -- THIS
10:35:58 PROGRAM BOTH FOR THE RESIDENTS AND THE STAFF TO BE MUCH
10:36:01 MORE EFFICIENT AND TO INCREASE THE RESPONSIVENESS OF
10:36:01 THE PROGRAM.
10:36:05 WHILE I AM ON THE TOPIC OF THE TREE-TRIMMING, TALKING
10:36:08 WITH COUNCILMAN GUDES AND MARCUS AND THE CHALLENGE IS
10:36:11 THE GRANT HAS A MAXIMUM OF 2500.
10:36:15 WE, AS STAFF, DON'T HAVE ANY WIGGLE ROOM IN THAT.
10:36:19 SO WE ARE REQUESTING THAT YOU AUTHORIZE US, AS STAFF,
10:36:24 IF THERE IS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCE THAT'S A TREE -- A
10:36:29 LARGE GRAND OAK TREE IS DEAD, DECAYING AND IS A HAZARD,
10:36:33 $2500 ISN'T ALWAYS ENOUGH TO GET THAT TREE DOWN.
10:36:37 WE WOULD LIKE THE FLEXIBILITY TO ADD UP TO $500, SO WE
10:36:41 CAN FULLY TAKE DOWN THE TREE IN A SAFE MANNER IF THE
10:36:44 CONTRACTOR DOES COME BACK AND SHOW US AND EVALUATE THAT
10:36:44 TREE.
10:36:47 THAT IT DOES NEED TO COMING DOWN.
10:36:50 AND THE REMEDY FOR THE TREE AND THE TREE IS SO FAR GONE
10:36:53 WE CAN'T DO IT SAFELY BY JUST TRIMMING IT.
10:36:57 MANY OF THE RESIDENTS DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PICK
10:36:58 UP THAT EXTRA FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS.
10:37:00 WE DIDN'T PUT THAT IN THE PROGRAM.
10:37:02 WE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THOSE ISSUES AND THESE WILL BE
10:37:08 DONE STRICTLY ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS, ADMINISTRATIVELY
10:37:10 HANDLED.
10:37:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
10:37:15 I WAS GOING TO BRING THAT UP LATER AS WELL.
10:37:18 I HAVE BEEN OUT TO A LOT OF HOMES AND VIEWED A LOT OF
10:37:19 THE TREES.
10:37:23 I HAD MADE SOME CONCERNS TO STAFF AS I WAS GOING OUT.
10:37:26 I -- KIND OF UPSET WITH THE CONTRACTORS BECAUSE I FELT
10:37:29 THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN BRINGING SOME INFORMATION BACK TO
10:37:32 STAFF AS IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE TREE THAT'S NEED TO
10:37:35 COME DOWN VERSUS JUST GOING OUT THERE AND CUTTING A
10:37:39 LIMB AND COLLECTING DOLLARS FROM US, AND STILL HAVE A
10:37:41 DECAYING TREE THAT IS STILL THERE.
10:37:42 MAKES NO SENSE.
10:37:45 THE TREE -- ONLY HAS THE TREE PORTION THAT DID COME
10:37:46 DOWN.
10:37:49 THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT WAS TO MAKE SURE THOSE WHO
10:37:53 COULD NOT AFFORD, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A GRANT PROGRAM IN
10:37:57 PLACE TO HELP THEM GET THEM DOWN -- THOSE TREES DOWN
10:37:59 AND CLEAN UP THE SLUM AND BLIGHT IN THE EAST TAMPA
10:38:01 COMMUNITY.
10:38:07 SO I WOULD LIKE TO --
10:38:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR A
10:38:09 MOTION.
10:38:12 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ASK TO SPEND THE
10:38:17 ADDITIONAL $500, WHEN NECESSARY, IN THE EMERGENCY THAT
10:38:19 IT IS NEEDED.
10:38:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. CITRO.
10:38:24 SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:38:27 ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:38:28 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:38:30 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:38:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:38:33 >>BILL CARLSON: --
10:38:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:38:35 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:38:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:38:43 >>CLERK: A MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:38:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU MAY CONTINUE MISS VANLOAN.
10:38:51 >> OUR INDIRECT ACTIVITIES, WE WILL BE GETTING READY
10:38:54 FOR THE STORMWATER PROJECT ALONG THE NEBRASKA CORRIDOR.
10:38:57 A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF HILLSBOROUGH AND A FEW BLOCKS
10:39:02 SOUTH AND WILL AFFECT OUR EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS IN THOSE
10:39:07 RELATION COMMUNITIES AS OSBOURNE AND CAUHOGA AND EXPECT
10:39:11 THAT IN CONSTRUCTION LAND START IN ABOUT THE FALL OF
10:39:12 2021.
10:39:18 AGAIN, I HAVE THEM UP IN A MINUTE TO TALK OF THE
10:39:21 ACTIVITIES IN GETTING THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN OFF THE
10:39:26 GROUND AND BEGINNING THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
10:39:31 FOR MY DEPARTMENT UPDATE, ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENT'S
10:39:33 PRIORITIES THIS YEAR HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN STAFFING.
10:39:35 STAFFING HAS COME UP SEVERAL TIMES IN THE MEETING TODAY
10:39:37 AND IN THE DISCUSSIONS.
10:39:39 WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES.
10:39:41 MORE COMING THAT I WILL ADDRESS IN A MOMENT.
10:39:44 BUT FIRST TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS SOME OF OUR
10:39:49 NEW STAFF MEMBERS AND INTRODUCE YOU TO THEM IN PERSON.
10:39:54 SO FIRST I HAVE -- YOU MET JESUS NINO AS THE CRA
10:40:00 MANAGER FOR DREW PARK AND WEST TAMPA AND ASHLYN.
10:40:01 IF YOU CAN STAND UP.
10:40:08 ASHLYN SHREWSBURY SUPPORTING JESUS WITH THE WEST PARK.
10:40:11 VALERIE FARRELL.
10:40:15 SHE IS OUR NEW CRA MANAGER IN DOWNTOWN CHANNEL DISTRICT
10:40:18 THR AND CENTRAL PARK REPLACING ROB.
10:40:21 AND MIKE CALLAHAN -- WHILE MIKE HAD 11 YEARS WITH THE
10:40:24 CITY HE HAS BEEN DOING MOST OF THE WORK IN THE PLANNING
10:40:26 AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
10:40:28 HIS FAMILIARITY WITH ALL OF THE PROJECTS AND
10:40:32 DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE CRAS HE IS NOW WORKING IN HAS
10:40:35 MADE HIM A PERFECT CANDIDATE TO SUPPORT VALERIE AND OUR
10:40:38 COMMUNITIES AND THE FOUR CRAS AS WE ARE GETTING THROUGH
10:40:39 THE DEVELOPMENT WE ARE HAVING.
10:40:45 HE HAS BEEN ON THE GROUND SINCE AUGUST 31 JUST LIKE JOE
10:40:48 ROBINSON WITH JESUS, HAS HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AT THE
10:40:51 DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS, THE CONSTRUCTION MEETINGS.
10:40:54 ON-SITE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION AND A GREAT ACT SET TO
10:40:54 THE COMMUNITY.
10:40:56 WE TALKED OF MARCUS.
10:41:00 MARCUS AND ED ARE ON THE TELEPHONE LISTENING IN.
10:41:02 WELCOME, MARCUS, TO THE TEAM.
10:41:04 THE ECONOMIC SPECIALIST IN EAST TAMPA.
10:41:07 LASTLY BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS MEET JUST THE CRA MANAGERS
10:41:08 WHEN YOU COME IN.
10:41:15 I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT CORINE LENNONBRINK OUR
10:41:19 PROJECT PERSON IN YBOR HELPING COURTNEY AND THE OTHER
10:41:21 DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST FOR YBOR.
10:41:25 LASTLY MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT ED -- I SENT OUT A MEMO
10:41:29 EARLIER -- EARLIER THIS WEEK, ED JOHNSON AFTER 17 YEARS
10:41:32 WITH THE CRA AS THE FIRST AND ONLY CRA MANAGER IN EAST
10:41:35 TAMPA HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT AT THE END OF
10:41:36 DECEMBER.
10:41:40 SO IN THE MEANTIME, I AM GOING TO BE WORKING WITH HR
10:41:44 TO GET THAT POSITION POSTED VERY QUICKLY.
10:41:47 WE DO HAVE TO UPDATE THAT JOB DESCRIPTION SINCE THE
10:41:51 TITLE STILL REFLECTS HIS ORIGINAL JOB POSTING FROM WHEN
10:41:54 HE WAS WORKING WITH HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WHEN
10:41:57 PAM IORIO FIRST HIRED HIM.
10:42:00 WE WANT TO CALL IT A CRA MANAGER AND WANT TO ADD SOME
10:42:02 OF THE PRIORITIES AND SKILLS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
10:42:05 IN EAST TAMPA, ESPECIALLY AN EMPHASIS ON AFFORDABLE
10:42:06 HOUSING EXPERIENCE.
10:42:09 WE ARE QUICKLY UPDATING THAT AND WE HOPE TO GET THAT
10:42:10 ADVERTISED VERY QUICKLY.
10:42:13 WE WILL MOVE VERY FAST ONCE WE HAVE OUR LIST OF
10:42:15 APPLICANTS TO TRY TO GET SOMEONE HIRED.
10:42:19 IN THE MEANTIME, MARCUS HAS BEEN ON THE JOB FOR ABOUT
10:42:19 THREE MONTHS.
10:42:23 HE IS NEW TO CRAS AND THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN EAST
10:42:24 TAMPA.
10:42:28 AND HE IS KNEE-DEEP IN THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN UPDATE
10:42:31 PROCESS AND THE TREE TRIMMING THAT I DON'T WANT TO
10:42:34 LEAVE HIM BY HIMSELF IN EAST TAMPA ALONE.
10:42:38 I AM APPOINTING BRENDA THROWER FROM YBOR WHO IS ABOUT
10:42:42 TO HAVE HER 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THE CRA IN YBOR.
10:42:47 AND I AM ASKING HER TO COME OVER AND ACT AS AN ACTING
10:42:51 EAST TAMPA CRA MANAGER TO SUPPORT MARCUS, AND SUPPORT
10:42:54 EVA AND HELP FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS.
10:42:56 SHE KNOWS ALL OF OUR CRA PROCESSES IS.
10:42:59 SHE KNOWS ALL OF THE PLAYERS AND WILL MEET A LOT OF THE
10:42:59 PLAYERS.
10:43:03 I THINK HER PERSONALITY WILL FIT VERY WELL WITH EAST
10:43:05 TAMPA RIGHT NOW AND I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER FIT TO
10:43:07 SUPPORT US THROUGH THIS TRANSITION.
10:43:10 I DO HAVE TO HAVE AN OUT.
10:43:14 I ASKED JEANETTE FENTON AND NOW IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME
10:43:17 FOR HER TO COME OUT AND RESCUE US AGAIN.
10:43:20 BRENDA WILL BE FILLING THAT ROLE THE FIRST WEEK OF
10:43:22 JANUARY AND SHE HAS BEEN WORKING THIS WEEK AND SITTING
10:43:25 IN WITH MEETINGS WITH MARCUS AND ED JOHNSON.
10:43:29 I AM EXCITED THAT SHE DID AGREE LATE SUNDAY NIGHT TO
10:43:32 TAKE ON THAT POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY.
10:43:34 >> EXCELLENT CHOICE.
10:43:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:43:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:43:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SPEAKING OF ED JOHNSON.
10:43:45 THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY WHETHER IT IS THE NEXT MEETING OR
10:43:49 WHEN ED AGREE TO JOIN US HOPEFULLY IN PERSON, I WOULD
10:43:52 LIKE FOR THIS BODY TO GIVE HIM A COMMENDATION.
10:43:54 I WOULD MOVE FOR THAT.
10:43:55 >> I WILL SECOND THAT.
10:43:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. DINGFELDER.
10:43:59 SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
10:44:01 ALL IN FAVOR.
10:44:03 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE WILL COORDINATE A DATE WITH YOU
10:44:04 AND ED.
10:44:10 >> IF I CAN HAVE THE OVERHEAD REALLY QUICK.
10:44:14 SINCE WE -- SINCE WE TALKED SO MUCH ABOUT HOUSING
10:44:17 INITIATIVES, OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY OF
10:44:21 TAMPA HAS ROLLED OUT A RENTAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
10:44:25 I WANTED TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A HEADS-UP THAT IT IS OUT
10:44:25 THERE.
10:44:27 THE INFORMATION ON THE OVERHEAD.
10:44:30 THIS WILL PROVIDE UP TO $10,000 PER UNIT TO ASSIST
10:44:34 MULTIFAMILY RENTAL UNIT OWNERS THE ABILITY TO GET
10:44:37 ASSISTANCE WITH REHABBING THEIR UNITS, DEPENDING ON THE
10:44:41 BASE -- THEIR RESOURCES AND ABILITY TO MATCH THE FUNDS.
10:44:43 THEY CAN GET HIGHER AMOUNTS OF FUNDING.
10:44:45 UP TO $100,000.
10:44:49 THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO HAVE ANY MATCH AND IT IS A
10:44:52 REQUIREMENT TO REMAIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TEN YEARS
10:44:57 THEY HELD AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING RENTALS THAT LOAN
10:44:58 AMOUNT WOULD BE FORGIVEN.
10:45:02 HIGHER MATCH POINT UP TO $2 AUTO,000 OR EVEN UP TO
10:45:03 $500,000.
10:45:06 PLEASE SEE THE WEB SITE AND THE CITY'S INFORMATION ON
10:45:09 THIS PROGRAM AND IT IS ANOTHER GOOD -- IT IS A GOOD
10:45:13 SEGUE FOR ME TO SAY WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION, JESUS HAS
10:45:17 TALKED ABOUT IT, JOE ROBINSON HAS TALKED ABOUT IT.
10:45:20 THIS ADMINISTRATION.
10:45:21 CARROLL POST.
10:45:25 ABBYE FEELEY, REALLY WORKING WITH OUR CRAS.
10:45:27 WE HAVEN'T BEEN OUT THERE ON OUR OWN TO ADDRESS MOST OF
10:45:34 THE COMMUNITY'S ISSUES AND MARI HOLMES TALKING TO OUR
10:45:35 COMMUNITY.
10:45:37 WE APPRECIATE HOW MUCH THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS GOTTEN
10:45:43 OUT WITH STUDIES AND COMMUNICATION AND LOOKING AT
10:45:47 INITIATIVES IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND NOT JUST THE CRAS TO
10:45:48 HANDLE THESE.
10:45:51 WE WELCOME THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE COMMUNITY IS
10:45:54 RECEPTIVE TO THESE INITIATIVES.
10:45:56 LASTLY, ON THE NOVEMBER UPDATE IF I HAD BEEN HERE LAST
10:46:01 MONTH, I WOULD TELL YOU I WAS VERY THANKFUL IN 2020 FOR
10:46:02 ALL OF YOU.
10:46:04 IT HAS BEEN A VERY CHALLENGING YEAR WITH COVID.
10:46:07 AND WE KNOW THAT SOME OF OUR COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES,
10:46:11 OUR TIMELINESS OF SOME OF OUR WORK DURING COVID AND
10:46:15 DURING 2020 HAS DEMANDED YOUR PATIENCE WITH US.
10:46:19 AND WE HAVE GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU WILL OF YOU
10:46:22 STOOD BY US DURING THAT TIME AS WE ALL SORT OF FOUND
10:46:25 OUR WAY DURING THESE INDIVIDUAL TIMES AND VIRTUAL TIMES
10:46:29 AS WE TRY READJUST OUR PROCESSES AND GET GEARED UP.
10:46:32 FOR THIS MONTH IN DECEMBER, I JUST WANT TO SAY, I DON'T
10:46:34 BELIEVE WE SHOULD LOOK BACK.
10:46:37 THANK GOODNESS 2020 IS ON THE WAY OUT, BUT I DO WANT TO
10:46:38 LOOK FORWARD.
10:46:42 MOVING INTO 2021, WE HAVE TWO MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR OUR
10:46:42 DEPARTMENT.
10:46:46 COMMUNICATION WILL BE A BIG ONE.
10:46:48 THE BRINGING ON THE NEW PERSON FOR THE COMMUNICATION
10:46:51 AND PROJECT COORDINATION.
10:46:54 I BELIEVE BRINGING BRENDA A COUPLE OF MONTHS INTO EAST
10:46:58 TAMPA WILL HELP SPUR THE BEGINNING OF THE COMMUNICATION
10:47:01 IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPPORT MARCUS AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON A
10:47:02 LOT OF THESE INITIATIVES.
10:47:06 COMMUNICATION WITHIN -- INTERNALLY WITHIN US WITH THE
10:47:08 CITY WITH ALL OF YOU AND OUT WITH OUR COMMUNITIES.
10:47:13 AND WE ALSO NEED TO TELL OUR CRA STORY BETTER.
10:47:16 WE ARE HOPING ONCE WE GET INTO 2021 AND HAVE THAT
10:47:19 POSITION, WE WILL BE MUCH MORE FOCUSED ON HOW WE
10:47:22 COMMUNICATE OUR STORY, OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND THE
10:47:28 STORIES OF OUR COMMUNITIES THEMSELVES.
10:47:31 AND THEN MORRIS, WE HAVE A LIST OF THINGS THAT WE ARE
10:47:34 LOOKING ON DOING -- HE IS SMILING -- THAT WE WILL BE
10:47:36 COMING BACK TO YOU PROBABLY IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS AS
10:47:39 WE WORK THROUGH OUR LIST OF ALL THESE ISSUES.
10:47:42 WE HAVE REALIZED WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THEM OVER THE PAST
10:47:43 YEAR.
10:47:45 THEY HAVE BEEN ON OUR TO-DO LIST ONCE WE HAVE BEEN
10:47:49 FULLY STAFFED SO WE CAN MORE FULLY FOCUS ON THOSE
10:47:52 ISSUES AND BEING MUCH MORE STRATEGIC.
10:47:55 STRATEGIC IS THE SECOND PRIORITY FOR OUR DEPARTMENT.
10:47:59 HOW DO WE STRATEGICALLY WORK FORWARD WITH OUR
10:48:00 COMMUNITIES.
10:48:03 THREE STRATEGIC ACTION PLANS TO BE UPDATED AND
10:48:06 COMPLETED DREW PARK, EAST TAMPA AND CHANNEL DISTRICTS
10:48:09 AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND ONE OF OUR MAJOR
10:48:11 FOCUSES DURING 2021.
10:48:15 LASTLY, I WISH EVERYONE A VERY SAFE AND HAPPY COVID --
10:48:18 COVID-FREE '21.
10:48:22 WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES MY DEPARTMENT REPORT.
10:48:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS VANLOAN, I HAVE -- YOU WERE
10:48:26 MOVING SO QUICK.
10:48:29 I DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO CHIME IN ABOUT MR. JOHNSON.
10:48:30 WHAT I AM GOING TO DO.
10:48:35 THE MOTION HAS BEEN PASSED TO RECOGNIZE MR. JOHNSON FOR
10:48:36 HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
10:48:39 ASK MR. DINGFELDER'S OFFICE FOR ALL OF HIS
10:48:42 ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO BE PART WHEN THAT COMMENDATION COMES
10:48:47 BACK TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW WHAT ALL HE HAS DONE FOR
10:48:50 THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY AND THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:48:52 IF YOU CAN HANDLE THAT, WE APPRECIATE THAT, SIR.
10:48:56 SECONDLY, SOME FOLKS HAVE CONTACTED MY OFFICE IN
10:48:59 REFERENCE TO OUR CRA BOARDS AND COMMITTEES.
10:49:03 AND THEY MADE A VALID SUGGESTION TO ME ABOUT RUNNING
10:49:06 MEETSINGS.
10:49:09 AND I AM HOPING IN 2021 WE CAN GET SOME TYPE OF
10:49:14 TRAINING OR INCORPS -- INCORPORATE WITH ROBERT RULES
10:49:17 AND ORDERS AND KEY TO RUNNING A MEETING AND KEEPING A
10:49:20 BALANCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A
10:49:22 MEETING AND ASK PEOPLE TO BE MORE INVOLVED AND GAUGE --
10:49:26 AND MAKE SURE WE ARE PREPARING THEM TO BE ABLE TO RUN
10:49:31 AN ORGANIZED MEETING TO GET THIS PROCESSED.
10:49:35 AND WE WILL BLOCK THAT AND SEE FOR THE CRA CHAIR --
10:49:37 CHAIRPERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO RUN
10:49:41 THE ORGANIZED MEETING.
10:49:42 THAT WILL MOVE THINGS ALONG.
10:49:44 WITH MY REQUEST WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE
10:49:48 DOING, HOPEFULLY IN 2021 WE WILL LOOK AT YOU BRINGING
10:49:50 BACK SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A BALANCE OF HOW
10:49:52 ALL THE CAC BOARDS OPERATE.
10:49:56 I THINK THAT IS KEY THAT I AM HEARING THAT AS WELL.
10:49:59 SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A BALANCE AND MR.
10:50:03 MORRIS CAN WORK WITH YOU ON THAT FOR A BALANCE WITH
10:50:08 CRCS ACROSS THE BOARD AND HAVE A MODEL.
10:50:11 IT DOESN'T FIT EVERYBODY ALL THE TIME, BUT WE HAVE A
10:50:13 BASIC MODEL THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS BOARD
10:50:15 NEEDS TO DO TO HELP THOSE BOARDS.
10:50:18 SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS.
10:50:21 AND ANY OTHER GENTLEMEN HAVE ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE
10:50:24 MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 4?
10:50:27 WITH THAT BEING SAID, ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:50:29 MISS VANLOAN, THE STAFF REPORT.
10:50:33 >> ITEM NUMBER 4 IS RESPONDING TO THE MOTION MADE BY
10:50:35 CRA BOARD REQUESTING THAT STAFF AND LEGAL COME BACK TO
10:50:38 YOU AND DEVELOPMENT A GRANT PROGRAM IN CHANNEL DISTRICT
10:50:41 AND DOWNTOWN TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF SOME OF OUR
10:50:47 CULTURALING A SETS THAT EXIST IN THE TWO CRAS TO HELP
10:50:49 WITH THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS THEY NEED IN ORDER TO
10:50:53 OPEN BACK UP SAFELY TO THE PUBLIC.
10:50:57 THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COSTS CAN BE QUITE EXPENSIVE SO
10:51:00 THEY CAN OPEN SAFELY AND REQUIRE A LOT OF RETROFIT TO
10:51:01 THEIR FACILITIES.
10:51:04 SO WE CAME BACK TO YOU WITH THIS PROGRAM.
10:51:06 IT WAS UPLOADED IN NOVEMBER.
10:51:09 FOR THIS MONTH, THE ONLY CHANGE I HAVE CREATED FROM THE
10:51:12 DOCUMENT THAT YOU RECEIVED IN NOVEMBER VERSUS DECEMBER,
10:51:17 WAS DUE TO THE MONTH DELAY AND IMPROVING THE PROGRAM
10:51:20 AND HAVING TO POSTPONE IT UNTIL DECEMBER, I REMOVE THE
10:51:23 ONE STATEMENT THAT SAID IF YOU ORDERED ITEMS OR MADE --
10:51:26 HAD ALREADY STARTED ANY OF THE CONSTRUCTION, WE WOULD
10:51:28 NOT REIMBURSE FOR IT.
10:51:31 IT IS VERY EASY IN THEIR PRESENTATION AND SUBMIT THEIR
10:51:34 APPLICATIONS AND THE TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION THEY ARE
10:51:36 ASKING TO BE REIMBURSED FOR.
10:51:40 WE CAN TELL THESE ARE IN RESPONSE TO COVID AND WE FELT
10:51:44 COMFORTABLE REMOVING THAT REQUIREMENT THAT BOUGHT TIME
10:51:46 SO THEY WEREN'T WAITING UNTIL THIS MONTH SINCE SOME
10:51:49 MUCH THEIR PROJECTS IS PARTIALLY BEING FUNDED BY THE
10:51:52 CARES ACT WHICH REQUIRES THAT THEY SPEND THE MONEY BY
10:51:55 THE END OF THE YEAR OR SUBSTANTIALLY SPEND THAT MONEY.
10:51:59 TO WORK WITH THEM AND NOT HAVE THEM LOSE OUT WITH THE
10:52:02 ABILITY TO PARTNER AND LEVERAGE FUNDING WITH THE CARES
10:52:02 ACT.
10:52:06 THAT IS THE ONLY THING I CHANGED WITH THE PROGRAM.
10:52:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:52:10 >> ANY OTHER QUESTIONS WHAT IS IN THE PROGRAM GUIDE?
10:52:12 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THE CRA --
10:52:16 >> THE CRA BOARD, TO REMIND YOU THE ACTUAL PROGRAM
10:52:20 DETAILS ARE UNDER ITEM 13.
10:52:23 AND ITEM 15 IS THE ACTUAL ITEM THAT WILL MOVE THE MONEY
10:52:27 FOR THE -- FOR THOSE PURPOSES, I BELIEVE.
10:52:30 IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE IF YOU ALL WANT TO MOVE THOSE
10:52:32 TWO ITEMS AT THIS TIME.
10:52:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DO YOU WANT TO BE RECOGNIZED, SIR?
10:52:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YEAH.
10:52:39 ON ITEM 13, MICHELLE.
10:52:46 SO DO WE HAVE -- DO WE HAVE A SUBSTITUTE RELATED TO --
10:52:49 >> NO, THE ITEM UPLOADED AND GIVEN TO YOU FOR THIS
10:52:52 MONTH HAD THAT STATEMENT REMOVED THAT THEY WERE NOT
10:52:54 ALLOWED TO START THE WORK BEFORE THE PROGRAM WAS
10:52:56 APPROVED.
10:52:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
10:53:00 >> THE CURRENT VERSION THAT YOU ALL GIVEN AS PART OF
10:53:02 THIS AGENDA IS CURRENT.
10:53:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I APPRECIATE HOW QUICKLY YOU AND
10:53:10 YOUR STAFF HAVE RESPONDED TO THIS REQUEST AND THIS
10:53:11 NEED.
10:53:13 OBVIOUSLY WE HAD A LITTLE BUMP IN THE ROAD BECAUSE OF
10:53:17 THE NOVEMBER MEETING, BUT I WILL MOVE ITEMS 13 AND 15.
10:53:18 >> SECOND.
10:53:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. DINGFELDER.
10:53:22 SECOND BY MR. MIRANDA.
10:53:23 ANY DISCUSSION?
10:53:25 TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:53:26 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:53:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:53:28 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:53:30 >>BILL CARLSON: --
10:53:31 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:53:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:53:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:53:41 >> MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:53:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVE ON ITEM NUMBER 5.
10:53:47 >> ITEM NUMBER 5 KEN STOLTENBERG WITH THE CHANNEL
10:53:51 DISTRICT THE CAC CHAIR AND HE IS ASKING TO MAKE A
10:53:54 PRESENTATION TO YOU AND WE WILL BRING HIM UP TO THE
10:53:57 CENTER PODIUM AND LET HIM INTRODUCE HIMSELF AND HE HAS
10:54:08 A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR YOU.
10:54:10 >> GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.
10:54:13 TODAY I AM GOING TO TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND TALK ABOUT
10:54:16 AN OPPORTUNITY WHICH I BELIEVE IS A WONDERFUL
10:54:18 OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT TO
10:54:23 EXPAND THIS SUCCESSFUL MADISON STREET PARK.
10:54:25 IF I CAN HAVE THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:54:28 OUTLINED IN YELLOW, YOU WILL SEE THE POTENTIAL
10:54:30 EXPANSION.
10:54:33 THE CURRENT PARK IS LOCATED RIGHT BELOW IT OR TO THE
10:54:34 SOUTH.
10:54:39 AND THAT IS POTENTIAL 34,125 SQUARE FEET.
10:54:41 LOCATED TO THE LEFT ON THE SLIDE, YOU WILL SEE A RATHER
10:54:43 TALL BUILDING.
10:54:47 THAT IS CHANNEL CLUB, WHICH IS A 324-UNIT APARTMENT
10:54:51 COMPLEX THAT HOUSES THE PUBLIX THAT I DEVELOPED AND
10:54:52 HAVE AN INTEREST IN.
10:54:55 MOST OF YOU WERE AT THE GRAND OPENING.
10:54:56 SO YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER THAT.
10:55:00 TO THE SOUTH ACROSS MADISON STREET IS GRAND CENTRAL AT
10:55:00 KENNEDY.
10:55:04 A PROJECT I DEVELOPED 392 UNITS.
10:55:06 19,000 SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL.
10:55:08 TO THE EAST OF THE PROPERTY YOU SEE A COUPLE OF VACANT
10:55:11 LOTS AND A COUPLE OF CARS.
10:55:14 THAT IS THE JH WILLIAMS TANK FARM THAT YOU RECENTLY
10:55:20 VOTED TO REZONE FOR A 353-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT I
10:55:22 AM WORKING TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROUP.
10:55:26 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:55:29 THIS BACKS OUT A LITTLE BIT SO WHAT YOU CAN SEE,
10:55:34 GENTLEMAN, IS THAT THERE ARE -- THERE ARE ONE, TWO,
10:55:40 THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX -- SIX, SEVEN EXISTING AND ONE
10:55:41 PLANT COMPLEX.
10:55:45 ONE IS THE DANIEL PIECE THAT MR. ROSNER TALKED ABOUT
10:55:48 AND THE LAST THE JH WILLIAMS PIECE.
10:55:50 RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL OF THIS IS THE POTENTIAL
10:55:52 LAND THAT THE CRA COULD ACQUIRE.
10:55:55 IT IS THE LAST PIECE OF LAND THAT IS AVAILABLE IN THIS
10:55:57 DISTRICT.
10:55:59 THIS QUADRANT OF THE DISTRICT THAT COULD BE USED FOR
10:56:02 PARK SPACE.
10:56:05 AND THERE ARE OVER 2400 UNITS EITHER PLANNED OR THERE
10:56:07 RIGHT NOW.
10:56:12 AND THAT MEANS OVER -- BETWEEN 4500 PEOPLE LIVE THERE
10:56:15 RIGHT NOW AND THEY USE THE MADISON STREET PARK ALL THE
10:56:15 TIME.
10:56:19 IT IS VERY BUSY AND CAN CERTAINLY USE EXPANSION.
10:56:20 IT'S SUCCESSFUL.
10:56:22 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:56:26 THAT IS A RENDERING OF THE DANIELS PROJECT.
10:56:28 NEXT SLIDE.
10:56:33 THAT IS A RENDERING OF THE FUTURE JH WILLIAMS WHICH HAS
10:56:35 A NAME CALLED PARK MADISON.
10:56:37 NEXT SLIDE.
10:56:40 LITTLE BIT ON THE ECONOMICS.
10:56:45 THE KEY HERE IS THE LINE ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT,
10:56:47 WHICH IS THE END FUNDING BALANCE.
10:56:50 YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH MONEY THE CRA HAS AT THE END OF
10:56:51 EACH YEAR.
10:56:56 SINCE 2015, QUITE A BIT OF MONEY HAS COME INTO THE CRA
10:56:57 AND IT IS STILL THERE.
10:57:01 WHAT I DIDN'T PUT ON HERE WAS 2020, ANOTHER $8 MILLION
10:57:05 THAT WILL COME IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO.
10:57:08 SO THERE IS ABOUT $25 MILLION OF MONEY SITTING THERE
10:57:14 RIGHT NOW THAT COULD BE USED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
10:57:16 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:57:19 THE NEXT TWO SLIDES ARE E-MAILS FROM THE ACTUAL
10:57:22 LANDOWNERS TO SAY, HEY, WE WILL SELL OUR PROPERTIES AT
10:57:23 THIS PRICE.
10:57:26 I JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE THAT, YES, THESE PEOPLE
10:57:28 ACTUALLY NEW AT IN WRITING.
10:57:30 NEXT SLIDE.
10:57:36 NEXT, FROM -- FROM SANDRA DICKIE'S SON, MATT, ON THE
10:57:37 OTHER ONE.
10:57:37 NEXT SLIDE.
10:57:42 THE CONCLUSION IS PRETTY SIMPLE, THE STRATEGIC ACTION
10:57:48 PLAN CONTEMPLATED SPENDING $37.5 MILLION TO UPFIT
10:57:48 PARKS.
10:57:52 TO BUY LAND AND UPFIT, $30 MILLION TO BUY PARKS AND BUY
10:57:53 LAND.
10:57:56 ONLY 10% OF THAT HAS BEEN SPENT IN THE PAST 16 YEARS.
10:58:01 THE CITY HASN'T KEPT UP WITH THE CONTEMPLATED AMOUNT AS
10:58:03 FAR AS ACREAGE FOR DOLLARS IN THIS -- IN THIS
10:58:04 PARTICULAR LINE ITEM.
10:58:07 IT WAS THE LARGEST SINGLE LINE ITEM IN THE STRATEGIC
10:58:10 ACTION PLAN AND THEREFORE THE MOST IMPORTANT; HOWEVER,
10:58:14 I AM NOT HERE TO CRITICIZE ANYBODY INCLUDING STAFF.
10:58:20 WHAT I'M HERE TO SAY IS THIS CAN CATCH UP.
10:58:23 IT CAN TAKE THAT LINE ITEM WHICH WE ARE WILLING TO
10:58:30 SPEND 10% OF THE MONEY AND WHICH WAS 50% WHICH WAS
10:58:32 CONTEMPLATED.
10:58:36 2400 TO BE CONSTRUCTED UNITS WITHIN 250 FEET OF THE
10:58:37 AREA.
10:58:40 GENTLEMEN, THIS IS THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREA IN
10:58:43 THE ENTIRE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:58:47 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CAC VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO BRING
10:58:50 THIS ITEM TO YOU AND TO RECOMMEND THAT YOU INSTRUCT
10:58:55 STAFF TO HAVE THE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT GO TO TRY TO
10:58:58 ACQUIRE THESE PROPERTIES.
10:59:02 AND IF THEY SAY THEY WILL SELL THEM, THAT'S FINE.
10:59:05 THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR AND WE HOPE THAT WOULD
10:59:06 YOU LISTEN TO UP.
10:59:10 THIS IS A TOP PRIORITY FOR THE CAC.
10:59:14 WE HAD A VOTE FOLLOWING THE PROPER PROCEDURES THAT WAS
10:59:16 UNANIMOUS.
10:59:20 ONE LAST THING, IF I MAY.
10:59:25 I GOT A CALL AT 5:30 LAST NIGHT FROM A GUY WHO SAID HE
10:59:27 WAS A CITY ATTORNEY WHO TOLD ME I SHOULDN'T COME HERE
10:59:28 TODAY.
10:59:29 I SAID, NO.
10:59:31 AND HE WARNED ME.
10:59:34 HE SAID YOU -- OFF CONFLICT OF INTEREST BECAUSE OF THE
10:59:37 OTHER PROPERTIES THAT I JUST TOLD YOU THAT WE OWN, MY
10:59:40 PARTNER AND I, IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:59:41 NO SECRET.
10:59:42 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT.
10:59:45 I HAVE GONE ON THE RECORD AND SAID, HEY, WOULD THIS
10:59:49 PARK EXPANSION POTENTIALLY BENEFIT SOME OF THE
10:59:52 PROPERTIES THAT ARE IN THIS GENERAL AREA?
10:59:56 YEAH, DO I OWN A FEW OF THEM OR HAVE AN INTEREST IN
10:59:56 THEM?
11:00:00 YEAH, THE OTHER 12 PROJECTS THAT HE JUST TALKED ABOUT
11:00:03 WILL PROBABLY DO THE SAME THING ONCE THEY ARE DONE.
11:00:05 I NEVER HAD A CONVERSATION LIKE THAT.
11:00:07 I DIDN'T LIKE HOW IT WENT.
11:00:11 I GOT THE GUY'S NUMBER ON THE PHONE AND TALKED TO HIM
11:00:12 FOR FIVE MINUTES.
11:00:15 WHAT I SAID BY TELLING YOU WHAT I JUST TOLD YOU, I
11:00:18 COULD BE FINED AND THROWN OFF THE CAC.
11:00:22 I DIDN'T MUCH APPRECIATE THAT.
11:00:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DO YOU HAVE THE NAME OF THE PERSON
11:00:24 THAT CALLED.
11:00:27 >> LET ME RESPOND BECAUSE I WAS THE PERSON WHO CALLED
11:00:30 AND LET ME INFORM YOU ALL ABOUT THE CONVERSATION AND MY
11:00:30 CONCERN.
11:00:35 AND I APOLOGIZE IF THAT -- THAT HE FELT OFFENDED BY THE
11:00:38 CONVERSATION.
11:00:42 THERE IS A POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ISSUE.
11:00:43 IT IS NOT CLEAR.
11:00:48 GENERALLY WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT REAL ESTATE ISSUES,
11:00:51 IF A PERSON DOES NOT HAVE THE DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTEREST
11:00:55 IN IT AND THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM, BUT THERE IS SOME
11:00:59 COMMISSION AND ETHICS OPINION THAT'S STATE WHERE YOU
11:01:02 GOT -- IF YOU WERE A PROPERTY OWNER AND YOU OWN SO MUCH
11:01:05 PROPERTY AROUND OR IN THAT VICINITY, THERE COULD BE A
11:01:12 POTENTIAL ETHICS ISSUE AND THAT IS WHY MR. STOTENBERG.
11:01:13 I WAS WARNING HIM.
11:01:15 I WAS NOT TELLING HIM NOT TO COME TODAY BUT I DID
11:01:18 WANTED TO WARN HIM THAT WAS A POTENTIAL ISSUE AND THAT
11:01:20 IS ALL I WANTED TO TO DO.
11:01:25 I APOLOGIZE IF HE THOUGHT I WAS TRYING TO STIFLE HIM.
11:01:28 AND I SAID I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO COME FORWARD AND I
11:01:31 WASN'T GOING TO STOP HIM AND I WASN'T GOING TO SAY
11:01:32 ANYTHING ABOUT THIS.
11:01:36 BUT THAT IS THE ISSUE AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
11:01:41 WAS CLEAR FOR THE RECORD.
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11:01:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YEAH, MR. STOLTENBERG, I APPRECIATE
11:01:42 MR. MASSEY'S COMMENTS, AND HIS APOLOGY.
11:01:45 I HAVE KNOWN MR. MASSEY FOR 30-SOMETHING YEARS, AND HE'S
11:01:49 NOT THAT KIND OF GUY.
11:01:50 SO, YOU KNOW, PERHAPS IT'S JUST HOW IT CAME ACROSS OVER
11:01:54 THE TELEPHONE.
11:01:55 BUT I AM GLAD YOU ARE HERE.
11:01:57 I AM GLAD -- I APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE FOR MANY, MANY
11:02:01 YEARS TO THE COMMUNITY, AND TO CHANNELSIDE.
11:02:06 MR. MASSEY, OBVIOUSLY I AM NOT GOING TO GIVE A LEGAL
11:02:08 OPINION, BUT I THINK A LOT OF TIMES IN THESE ETHICS
11:02:11 ISSUES, DISCLOSURE IS AN IMPORTANT PART, AND CLEARLY WE
11:02:16 ALL KNOW, YOU KNOW, MR. STOLTENBERG'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE
11:02:20 AREA, YOU KNOW, CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT, AND HE'S BEEN
11:02:24 READILY DISCLOSED THAT NOW AND OVER THE YEARS.
11:02:28 SO FOR THE RECORD, WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR BUILDINGS
11:02:36 COULD BENEFIT, BUT THE ENTIRE AREA COULD BENEFIT.
11:02:40 I THINK IF WE ACCEPT YOU AS THE CAC CHAIR, THEN WE HAVE
11:02:44 TO TAKE ALL THAT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.
11:02:46 BUT ANYWAY, IN REGARD TO THE SPECIFIC ISSUE, KEN, I THINK
11:02:51 THAT IN LOOKING AT THE AERIAL, CAN SOMEBODY PUT THAT
11:02:55 AERIAL SHOT BACK UP, THE ONE THAT'S DEAD OVER THE TOP?
11:03:03 THE NEXT ONE.
11:03:05 YES.
11:03:06 THAT PICTURE, I MEAN, KIND OF SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS.
11:03:10 I THINK YOU SAID IT'S A LITTLE SHORT OF AN ACRE, THREE
11:03:13 QUARTERS OF AN ACRE IN THE YELLOW SURROUNDING AREAS,
11:03:17 OBVIOUSLY ADJACENT TO A PARK THAT WE ALREADY PUT A LOT OF
11:03:20 MONEY INTO IN TERMS OF ACQUIRING A BUILDING.
11:03:23 WHEN WE GO OUT TO THE BROADER PICTURE, IT'S CLEARLY
11:03:28 CENTRAL TO A LOT OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW
11:03:32 RESIDENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE THERE NOW OR IN THE
11:03:35 FUTURE.
11:03:35 SO I THINK IT DOES SEEM LIKE AN IDEAL SPOT.
11:03:38 WHAT JUMPS OUT, WHAT JUMPED OUT AT ME IS THE $400 PER
11:03:43 SQUARE FOOT PRICE TAG AND I'M SURE IT JUMPED OUT AT YOU
11:03:46 AS WELL, SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN BUYING LAND IN THAT AREA,
11:03:49 AND I DOUBT YOU HAVE BEEN PAYING $400 --
11:03:54 >>KEN STOLTENBERG: NO, YOU ARE DEFINITELY OVERPAYING FOR
11:03:56 THE LAND.
11:03:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: LET ME FINISH AND THEN I WOULD LIKE
11:03:59 TO HEAR FROM YOU AND THEN MS. VAN LOAN OR ANYBODY SHE
11:04:02 WANTS TO PUT UP TO THE MICROPHONE.
11:04:06 JUST THIS ONE MEMBER UP HERE, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO
11:04:11 DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD TO EXPLORE THIS, TO EXPLORE
11:04:15 IT, YOU KNOW, AND DO WHAT WE ALWAYS DO, IS DIRECT OUR
11:04:19 REAL ESTATE FOLKS TO PERHAPS ENTER INTO SOME NEGOTIATIONS
11:04:23 WITH THESE FOLKS, PERHAPS MAKE AN OFFER IF IT IS IN FACT
11:04:30 AVAILABLE, AT THE FAIR MARKET VALUE.
11:04:33 THE CITY IS NOT IN THE BUSINESS AND NOT IN THE HABIT OF
11:04:36 PAYING MORE THAN THE FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR LAND.
11:04:41 AND OBVIOUSLY THAT INVOLVES LOOKING AT COMPS AND FIGURING
11:04:45 OUT WHAT THE FAIR MARKET VALUE IS.
11:04:47 I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAID, THAT THIS IS A UNIQUE
11:04:50 OPPORTUNITY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE CAN'T LET PEOPLE
11:04:53 HOLD THAT OVER US AND BEAT US TO A PRAISE, BECAUSE AT THE
11:04:57 END OF THE DAY IT'S TAXPAYERS MONEY.
11:05:00 AND YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORS HAVE PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR
11:05:06 US TO BUILD UP THIS NICE CHEST THAT WE HAVE IN
11:05:10 CHANNELSIDE, BUT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL AND PRUDENT WITH
11:05:12 THAT.
11:05:13 AND I'M SURE YOU WOULD AGREE.
11:05:14 >>KEN STOLTENBERG: I WOULD.
11:05:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIRMAN, IT'S YOUR MEETING BUT I
11:05:18 THINK WE SHOULD HEAR FROM STAFF, AND MR. STOLTENBERG.
11:05:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS GOING TO GO TO MS. VAN LOAN
11:05:26 MYSELF. YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
11:05:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ALTHOUGH I WANT TO SEA MORE GREEN SPACE
11:05:33 DOWNTOWN AND THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING TO
11:05:35 ME ABOUT GREEN SPACE DOWNTOWN.
11:05:36 NOT MORE THAN 2001 WEEKS AGO, WE HAD FAIR RESCUE IN HEAR
11:05:44 THAT WERE SAYING THAT TO BRING THE AMOUNT OF FIRE
11:05:47 STATIONS UP TO WHAT THE POPULATION IS, THEY WOULD NEED 17
11:05:51 NEW STATIONS, WITH THE PROPERTIES DWINDLING IN DOWNTOWN
11:05:55 TAMPA, I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE THIS AS A LAND FOR FIRE
11:06:00 STATION.
11:06:00 I DON'T KNOW IF CRA CAN SPEND MONEYS ON LAND, BUT I WOULD
11:06:07 MUCH RATHER SEE A FIRE STATION DOWN THERE.
11:06:10 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:06:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE
11:06:15 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, ALONG WITH MR. DINGFELDER'S
11:06:17 COMMENTS, I ALSO READ AND REALIZED THAT $400 A FOOT, AND
11:06:24 I WAS NOT TAKEN ABACK, I JUST DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT
11:06:27 WHAT THE VALUE OF THE LAND.
11:06:29 I'M NOT AGAINST RECREATION OR ANY TYPE OF AMENITIES TO
11:06:32 ANY PART OF THAT AREA OR ANY PART OF THE AREA IN THE
11:06:35 WHOLE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:06:36 HOWEVER, I THINK THAT WHAT WAS DISCUSSED BY MR.
11:06:41 DINGFELDER AND I GUESS IN THE MIND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF
11:06:43 THIS BOARD IS TO HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION IN WORKING WITH
11:06:47 THE CRA, I SHOULD SAY, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMPARABLE
11:06:51 PRICE -- THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE WILLING TO SELL FOR.
11:06:55 THAT MEANS I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BEEN NEGOTIATED.
11:06:57 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
11:06:59 AND $400 A FAT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BUILDINGS ARE
11:07:03 SELLING FOR WITH LAND OF THAT SIZE DOWNTOWN.
11:07:06 I CAN TELL YOU THAT LAND HAS GONE UP, EVEN ALL OVER THE
11:07:10 CITY.
11:07:10 A LOT USED TO BE $20,000 YEARS AGO NOW IS $125,000 AND
11:07:16 THAT'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE WITH TRYING TO FIND ANYTHING
11:07:18 THAT'S CONSIDERED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:07:21 THE LAND IS THE PROBLEM.
11:07:26 SO I DON'T KNOW THE FACTS OF IF SOME BUILDING WERE TO BE
11:07:29 FOR SALE, COMPARABLE LAND SIZE WITH A COMPLETE BUILDING
11:07:33 BUILT, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S 400 OR 200 OR A THOUSAND
11:07:36 DOLLARS A SQUARE FOOT BUT I'M SURE THERE'S BEEN SOME
11:07:39 PROPERTIES SOLD IN THE CITY THERE AND DOWNTOWN AND HARBOR
11:07:41 ISLAND INCLUDED THAT WE COULD GET SOME TYPE OF
11:07:44 UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE.
11:07:47 I'M NOT OPPOSED TO BUYING PROPERTY.
11:07:50 JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BANK DOESN'T
11:07:52 MEAN YOU HAVE TO SPEND MORE THAN THE VALUE.
11:07:54 I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S CORRECT EITHER.
11:07:56 BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THE RIGHT THING
11:07:59 AT THE RIGHT TIME.
11:08:00 AND I AM NOT OPPOSED TO THIS GENTLEMAN COME HERE AND
11:08:03 MAKING WHAT HE SAID.
11:08:04 I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THE ATTORNEY TELLING HIM THE
11:08:06 POSSIBILITIES OF SOMETHING.
11:08:06 I THINK THAT'S A CORDIAL THING BETWEEN TWO ENTITIES, AND
11:08:09 THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE.
11:08:11 CERTAINLY IF I AM DOING SOMETHING AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL
11:08:14 AND AN ATTORNEY CALLS ME, I APPRECIATE THE CALL.
11:08:16 I'M SURE YOU APPRECIATE THE CALL.
11:08:18 AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I SEE.
11:08:20 SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MR. DINGFELDER'S STATEMENT THAT
11:08:26 THE CRA MAKE CONCERTED EFFORT AND FIND OUT THE VALUE OF
11:08:29 PROPERTIES DOWNTOWN, AND YOU CAN BUY A BUILDING COMPLETE
11:08:35 WITH 400 RESIDENTS IN IT.
11:08:37 I DON'T KNOW THE VALUE THAT WAY.
11:08:39 I AM NOT IN THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.
11:08:41 I DAB IN IT A LITTLE ONCE IN A WHILE BUT THE VALUES
11:08:44 CERTAINLY HAVE CHANGED, AND THEY CONTINUE TO CHANGE EVERY
11:08:46 DAY.
11:08:47 WHAT SEEMS TOO HIGH TODAY, IN TEN YEARS FROM NOW IS GOING
11:08:50 TO SAY, I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THAT PROPERTY, IT WAS A
11:08:53 BARGAIN, BECAUSE PEOPLE KEEP MOVING AND TAMPA IS THE
11:08:59 NUMBER ONE LOCATION FROM WHAT I HEARD FROM THE AREA OF
11:09:02 NEW YORK AND THE GREAT NEW ENGLAND STATES.
11:09:06 VALUE IS NOT GOING TO GO DOWN.
11:09:08 I HEAR SOME NEIGHBORHOODS COMPLAINING ALL THE TIME.
11:09:10 AND I APPRECIATE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.
11:09:13 HOW CAN YOU HAVE THIS HOUSE BE BUILT, THE VALUE -- I TELL
11:09:18 MYSELF THE VALUES ARE NOT GOING TO GO DOWN.
11:09:19 THE VALUES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE BECAUSE THE
11:09:22 DEMAND IS LESS DEMANDING AREA TO BUY THAN THE PEOPLE
11:09:26 COMING IN, SO THEREFORE YOU WANT TO BUY SOMETHING OF
11:09:30 VALUE, AND THERE'S NOT MANY MORE BEING BUILT, THE VALUE
11:09:33 OF THAT SOMETHING IS GOING TO GO UP.
11:09:35 SO IS THE VALUE OF LAND.
11:09:36 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:09:37 I AGREE WITH MR. DINGFELDER.
11:09:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
11:09:41 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANTED TO OPINE ON JUST 2001 THINGS.
11:09:44 FIRST I REALLY WANTED TO THANK COUNCILMAN CITRO FOR HIS
11:09:47 BRINGING UP THE ISSUE OF FIRE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN THIS
11:09:49 AREA.
11:09:50 I AGREE WITH THAT SENTIMENT.
11:09:51 I THINK WE ALL DO.
11:09:53 I DON'T WANT THERE TO BE A CONFLICT.
11:09:54 I DON'T THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE BUT I DO AGREE WITH THAT
11:09:57 SENTIMENT 100%.
11:09:59 AND AS AN ATTORNEY MYSELF, LIKE COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER IS
11:10:02 AN ATTORNEY FOR 17 YEARS, I ALWAYS JOKE WITH PEOPLE,
11:10:06 THERE'S A 5% CHANCE OF SOMETHING HAPPENING.
11:10:09 I AM GOING TO SPEND 100% OF MY TIME TALKING ABOUT THAT 5%
11:10:13 BECAUSE LAWYERS LEARN TO BE OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE A LITTLE
11:10:17 BIT, AND YOU KNOW HOW WE DO THAT, BY WATCHING OTHER
11:10:20 PEOPLE'S MISTAKES OR MAYBE BY LEARNING FROM OUR OWN
11:10:22 MISTAKES.
11:10:23 SO MY OPINION ON THAT, WHICH IS AGAIN, IF THERE'S A 5%
11:10:28 CHANCE OF SOMETHING HAPPENING, WE ARE GOING TO KNOWINGLY
11:10:30 TALK ABOUT IT 100% OF THE TIME FOR A TIME.
11:10:33 SO JUST MY EXPERIENCE.
11:10:35 BUT I REALLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS AND FOR EVERYTHING
11:10:37 YOU ARE DOING, SIR.
11:10:38 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:10:38 >>KEN STOLTENBERG: CAN I JUST SAY ONE THING?
11:10:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME SEE, MR. MANISCALCO, DID YOU
11:10:46 HAVE ANY COMMENTS?
11:10:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, SIR, THANK YOU.
11:10:49 >>KEN STOLTENBERG: I UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE VALUE
11:10:51 ARGUMENT.
11:10:52 AND THE WAY TO LOOK AT THIS FOR BOTH OF THESE PROPERTIES,
11:10:56 YOU HAVE GOT BUILDINGS, ANY OF THE COMPS YOU ARE GOING TO
11:11:01 LOOK AT ARE JUST FOR THE LAND, BECAUSE WHAT'S THEREBY NOW
11:11:04 WOULD BE TORN DOWN.
11:11:06 THE FOLKS THAT OWN THESE PROPERTIES, ANY APPRAISAL WOULD
11:11:12 HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE TO GO
11:11:15 BUILDING AND BUILDING SOMEWHERE ELSE, AND BUY LAND
11:11:18 SOMEWHERE ELSE.
11:11:18 YOU CAN'T JUST COMPARE IT TO SOMETHING THAT'S SOLD DOWN
11:11:21 THE STREET.
11:11:25 IT'S HARD TO SAY.
11:11:27 THE OTHER THING WAS THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN ITSELF
11:11:31 CONTEMPLATED $30 MILLION IN LAND FOR PARKS.
11:11:36 THAT'S AT A TIME WHEN THE DISTRICT WAS VALUED UNDER 100
11:11:45 MILLION, THE WHOLE DISTRICT, SO NEVER THOUGHT A THIRD OF
11:11:49 THE LAND WOULD BE BOUGHT FOR PARKS, BUT CERTAINLY YOU MAY
11:11:51 HAVE TO STRATEGICALLY OVERPAY.
11:11:56 WHAT I AM SAYING -- AND I DIDN'T COME HERE TO CRITICIZE
11:12:00 ANYBODY.
11:12:00 WHAT YOU DO SAY IS, GEE, 2008, 2009, 2010, WE COULD HAVE
11:12:06 BOUGHT A LOT OF STUFF REALLY CHEAP.
11:12:08 BUT THAT'S BEHIND US.
11:12:11 THERE'S NO SENSE LOOKING BACK.
11:12:12 BUT MR. MIRANDA IS RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING, THE LAND VALUES
11:12:17 ARE NOT GOING TO GO DOWN.
11:12:21 IF WE DON'T LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE AS THEY
11:12:24 PRESENT THEMSELVES, THERE WON'T BE A LOT MORE GREEN SPACE
11:12:26 IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE 47
11:12:30 ACRES.
11:12:30 THAT'S WHY I WOULD LOVE TO PUT THE FIRE STATION, MR.
11:12:34 CITRO, BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BUNCH OF LAND THAT'S PARKING
11:12:37 LOTS RIGHT NOW.
11:12:38 MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE, ALMOST A THIRD OF THE DISTRICT.
11:12:40 AND IT COULD SERVE THAT PURPOSE.
11:12:42 SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO THE CAC MEMBERS.
11:12:49 THIS IS MY FIRST TIME BEFORE YOU.
11:12:52 I WAS APPOINTED, I THINK, IN MARCH.
11:12:54 GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THEN.
11:12:56 I HOPE TO COME BEFORE YOU OFTEN.
11:12:58 AND I HOPE TO RUN THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY
11:13:02 HAVE IN THE PAST.
11:13:03 AND I LOOK AT IT AND THE CAC, WE ARE THE REPRESENTATIVES
11:13:06 OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:13:10 MANY LIVE IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT INCLUDING MYSELF AND MY
11:13:12 WIFE.
11:13:13 SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT, WE
11:13:17 ARE GOING TO TELL YOU.
11:13:18 AND WE MAY NOT ALWAYS AGREE WITH STAFF.
11:13:21 THAT'S FINE.
11:13:23 BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS NOT JUST ME.
11:13:27 IT'S ALL THE MEMBERS CARE ABOUT.
11:13:28 AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
11:13:32 IN THE CURRENT PLAN THAT WE HAVE, AND I KNOW WE ARE GOING
11:13:34 TO UPDATE THE PLAN, AND I THINK IT WILL BE MORE IMPORTANT
11:13:38 THEN.
11:13:38 MY SENSE IS THAT THIS IS A STRATEGIC PLAY THAT CAN BE
11:13:43 MADE AND IF WE DON'T MAKE IT -- HAVE A SHOT AT IT.
11:13:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME HEAR FROM STAFF, MS. VAN LOAN.
11:13:58 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: STAFF IS AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY
11:14:02 QUESTIONS CRA BOARD MAY HAVE ABOUT ANY OF THE INFORMATION
11:14:04 YOU HEARD.
11:14:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AS IT RELATES TO -- AND I HAVE LISTENED
11:14:13 TO MR. STOLTENBERG AND MS. FORD, AND WE HAVE SOME
11:14:19 CHALLENGES, AND I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT
11:14:21 OF DEVELOPMENT HAS GONE ON, AND MAYBE WE SHOULD BE
11:14:24 LOOKING AT WHERE SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT HAS GONE ON,
11:14:27 LOOK AT FIRE STATIONS.
11:14:28 THAT'S KEY.
11:14:29 WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT WILL BE LIVING
11:14:32 DOWN THERE, AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OPTIONS DOWN THERE AS
11:14:35 WELL.
11:14:36 SO AS CAC CHAIRPERSON, LOOKING AT THAT CRA AREA IN
11:14:45 REFERENCE TO FIRE STATIONS, THAT'S VERY KEY.
11:14:50 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT A PLAN.
11:14:52 WELL, WE HAD A PLAN, AND WE SAY WE DIDN'T DON WHAT WE
11:14:57 WERE SUPPOSED TO DO.
11:14:57 SO THAT'S A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD RIGHT NOW.
11:15:00 WE HAD A MEETING.
11:15:02 WE DIDN'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AT THE TIME.
11:15:04 SO HOW DO WE BALANCE IT?
11:15:06 I THINK WE BALANCE IT IS THAT WE START LOOKING AT
11:15:09 OPTIONS, AND SEEK SOME HELP WITH OPTIONS, FIRE STATION
11:15:15 LOCATION WITH CITY FUNDS AS WELL, AND THEN WE LOOK AT --
11:15:18 AS MR. DINGFELDER SUGGESTED, IF HE'S GOING TO MAKE A
11:15:24 MOTION, LOOK AT NEGOTIATIONS OR HOW WE CAN DEAL WITH
11:15:27 GETTING THAT PRAISE DOWN, $400 A SQUARE FOOT, YOU GUYS
11:15:32 KNOW I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT HOW PEOPLE JUST REALLY POKE THE
11:15:35 CITY BECAUSE THE CITY HAS DOLLARS, LOOK AT CONSTRUCTION,
11:15:40 SOME OF THE OTHER SERVICES, AND WE JUST GET, LIKE I SAID,
11:15:44 POKE, POKE, POKE, AND IT'S NOT RIGHT FOR THE TAXPAYER
11:15:48 BECAUSE WE ARE USING TAXPAYERS MONEY, AND SOMETIMES
11:15:53 SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ARE OVER-APPRAISED, AND IT HURTS
11:15:57 THE CITY AS A WHOLE AND IT REALLY STOPS A LOT OF
11:15:59 PROGRESS, I BELIEVE.
11:16:00 SO AGAIN, THAT'S MY TAKE ON IT.
11:16:02 JUST WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY, MS. VAN LOAN,
11:16:07 AND MR. DINGFELDER IS PROBABLY GOING TO MAKE A MOTION.
11:16:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MAY I ASK A QUESTION?
11:16:13 I APOLOGIZE.
11:16:15 MAY I ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS?
11:16:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:16:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: DOES THE CRA HAVE THE MONEYS TO PURCHASE
11:16:20 THIS WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK, AND/OR SUPPORTING OTHER
11:16:23 PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE QUEUE NOW?
11:16:26 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, WE DO NOT.
11:16:28 CAN YOU BRING UP THE OVERHEAD?
11:16:41 I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TINY NUMBERS.
11:16:43 ON THE LEFT SIDE IS WHAT WE RECEIVED FOR OUR OCTOBER
11:16:47 31st BALANCE.
11:16:48 THIS IS YOUR BUDGET AND ROLLOVER BUDGET.
11:16:51 THIS IS AVAILABLE FUNDS.
11:16:52 THIS IS WHAT IS NOT SPENT, NOT ENCUMBERED, AND YOU WILL
11:16:55 SEE THAT IT IS ABOUT $18.7 MILLION.
11:16:58 ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, ONCE WE SUBTRACT THE 740,000 YOU
11:17:04 JUST APPROVED FOR THE COVID CULTURAL ASSETS GRANT, OUR
11:17:07 OPERATING COSTS, OUR PROGRAM COSTS AND THOSE PROJECTS AT
11:17:10 THE BOTTOM THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDERDESIGNED THAT ROGERS
11:17:13 REPORTED ON, BUT CONSTRUCTION HAS NOT STARTED YET AND
11:17:17 MONEY FOR THOSE PROJECTS HAS NOT BEEN ENCUMBERED YET,
11:17:20 RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE A BALANCE, IF NONE OF THOSE
11:17:22 CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS GO OVER BUDGET IN ANY WAY, YOU HAVE
11:17:25 A BALANCE TODAY OF ABOUT $9.5 MILLION.
11:17:31 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MS. VAN LOAN, DO YOU OR YOUR STAFF KNOW
11:17:35 THE AVERAGE COST OF PROPERTY SELLING PER SQUARE FOOT IN
11:17:40 DOWNTOWN?
11:17:41 OR IN THIS AREA?
11:17:41 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AS A REMINDER, WE ALL JUST BOUGHT
11:17:48 THAT 4.5-ACRE LOT IN DOWNTOWN, AND WE WERE QUESTIONED
11:17:51 ABOUT THE $157 A SQUARE FOOT THAT WE PAID FOR THAT LAND
11:17:56 THAT WE WERE LOOKING TO DEVELOP INTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
11:17:59 AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GOING FORWARD WITH THAT PURCHASE
11:18:02 CONTRACT.
11:18:04 AS YOU CAN SEE, FOR OUR TWO PARKS, WE PAID $40 A SQUARE
11:18:09 FOOT AND $39 A SQUARE FOOT.
11:18:11 WE HAVE ALSO RECEIVED SOME OF THE LAND AS DONATED THAT WE
11:18:14 HAVE USED FOR OUR PARKS IN DOWNTOWN, OR IN CHANNEL
11:18:17 DISTRICT, AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS WITH
11:18:21 THE LAND COST-WISE FOR THE CHANNELSIDE APARTMENTS THAT IS
11:18:25 THE DANIEL CORPORATION PROPERTY.
11:18:27 THEY PAID ABOUT $93 A SQUARE FOOT.
11:18:31 PAID 103.
11:18:32 WE JUST HAD THE ICON HARBOR ISLAND LUXURY APARTMENTS OVER
11:18:36 ON HARBOR ISLAND.
11:18:37 THE ENTIRE BUILDING OF LUXURY APARTMENTS JUST SOLD FOR
11:18:40 $240 A SQUARE FOOT FOR THE ENTIRE BUILDING.
11:18:43 SO AS MR. STOLTENBERG POINTED OUT, THERE ARE BUSINESSES
11:18:47 ON THIS PROPERTY, AND THE COST THAT YOU ARE GETTING IS
11:18:50 NOT SO MUCH FOR THE LAND AS MUCH AS IT IS TO TRY AND
11:18:55 INDUCE TWO BUSINESSES TO MOVE.
11:18:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WHAT TAPE OF BUSINESSES ARE THEY?
11:19:02 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ONE IS AUTOMOTIVE, AND THE SECOND
11:19:05 ONE MAY HAVE MULTIPLE TENANTS BUT IT IS A DESIGN FIRM, I
11:19:08 DO BELIEVE.
11:19:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE THEY ACTUALLY FOR SALE AT THIS TIME?
11:19:14 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THEY ARE NOT, AS I UNDERSTAND, THE
11:19:16 PROPERTY IS NOT ON THE MARKET, AND IN THE E-MAIL THAT MR.
11:19:18 STOLTENBERG FIRST SENT US WHEN HE ASKED US TO LOOK INTO
11:19:22 THIS, HE INDICATED THAT THEY WERE NOT INTERESTED
11:19:24 GENERALLY IN MOVING OR SELLING, BUT THAT THIS WAS THEIR
11:19:29 NUMBER THAT IT WOULD TAKE TO INDUCE THEM TO MOVE.
11:19:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HAS THIS REQUEST COME FROM THE FULL
11:19:34 BOARD?
11:19:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YOU MANY CAC?
11:19:37 YES, THEY VOTED ON IT AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING TO BRING IT
11:19:39 TO THE CRA BOARD FOR A REQUEST TO PURCHASE THE PROPERTY.
11:19:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MS. VAN LOAN.
11:19:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MS. VAN LOAN.
11:19:49 CAN WE PUT THE SLIDE BEFORE US BACK, PLEASE?
11:19:54 THE COST, YOUR BALANCE.
11:20:00 NOW, I ALWAYS SAY ABOUT COMMUNICATION, AS YOU ARE TALKING
11:20:04 ABOUT DOLLARS AND CENTS.
11:20:05 HAS THIS BEEN SHOWN OR INDICATED TO THE CAC BOARD OF WHAT
11:20:09 THEIR BALANCE IS?
11:20:10 >>ROB ROSNER: WE HAVE NOT SHOWN IT TO THEM IN THIS EXACT
11:20:21 FORM BUT SUMMARIZED IT HERE.
11:20:23 BUT YES, WE TOLD THEM THAT THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE
11:20:26 CONTEMPLATED, THOSE WERE GOING TO ENCUMBER THE BALANCE
11:20:30 THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING.
11:20:31 AND WE TOLD THEM WHAT THOSE BALANCES WOULD BE.
11:20:34 WE ACTUALLY DID A PLANNING BUDGET I BELIEVE THAT MICHELLE
11:20:37 HAS PRESENTED TO YOU WHEN MR. CARLSON MADE THE MOTION
11:20:40 BACK IN JULY FOR CHANGES IN THE SUNSETTING.
11:20:44 SO THOSE HAVE ALL BEEN BROUGHT TO THE COMMUNITY AND
11:20:47 TALKED ABOUT.
11:20:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: JUST ONE QUESTION, MR. ROSNER.
11:20:51 I KNOW YOU SAY IT WAS TOLD TO THEM.
11:20:54 BUT I GUESS I AM A VISUAL PERSON MYSELF.
11:20:56 SO WHEN MS. VAN LOAN THROWS THIS ON THE SCREEN AND MR.
11:21:00 STOLTENBERG SAYS AS LONG AS WE HAVE THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY,
11:21:04 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE EXCESS MILLION DOLLARS MONEY COMING
11:21:07 IN, BUT WE ACTUALLY PUT A PLAN UP AND YOU HAVE YOUR HEAD
11:21:13 HIGHLIGHTED AREAS AND YOU SEE A DECREASE IN DOLLARS, I
11:21:15 TAKE IT THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THAT DOLLAR FIGURE IS
11:21:19 ACTUALLY GOING TO DECREASE, CORRECT?
11:21:21 I THINK I WOULD BE -- THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO THE
11:21:25 CAC BOARD ON THIS PROJECT, TO FULFILL WHAT NEEDED TO BE
11:21:30 FULFILLED.
11:21:31 >>ROB ROSNER: OKAY, I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
11:21:39 QUESTION IS NOW.
11:21:40 SO OUR NORMAL BUDGETING PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH, WE
11:21:44 MAKE WHAT IS PRIORITIES FOR THAT AND WHAT OUR CURRENT
11:21:47 BALANCES ARE AND WE UPDATE WHERE WE ARE BASICALLY
11:21:51 QUARTERLY.
11:21:53 WHEN WE GO THROUGH THAT PLANNING PROCESS, WHICH WE WILL
11:21:56 START AGAIN HERE IN THE SPRING, WE TELL THEM HOW MUCH WE
11:21:59 SPENT, THIS IS HOW MUCH WILL BE COMING AVAILABLE, THIS IS
11:22:02 WHAT WE EXPECT THE TIF TO BE THIS COMING YEAR BASED UPON
11:22:06 NUMBERS THAT WE GET FROM THE PROPERTY APPRAISER, AND WE
11:22:09 SHARE WITH WHAT THAT OPEN BALANCE WOULD BE.
11:22:12 AND SO WHAT WE SHARE WITH THEM IS OUR ESTIMATE WAS AROUND
11:22:16 7 TO $8 MILLION OF UNENCUMBERED BECAUSE WE EXPECTED THE
11:22:19 PROJECTS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO COST WHAT WE DID.
11:22:23 WE DID DO A SIMILAR VERSION OF THIS, JUST NOT THE EXACT
11:22:26 SAME FORM.
11:22:27 BUT YES, WE SHARED THAT WITH THEM, AND WE HAVE BEEN
11:22:29 KEEPING THEM UP TO DATE WHAT THOSE ARE, WHEN THOSE GMPs
11:22:34 WILL BE COMING IN, THE 1.8 MILLION THAT GOT APPROVED OVER
11:22:37 THE SUMMER.
11:22:38 THAT'S JUST NOW GETTING STARTED.
11:22:40 OBVIOUSLY WE ARE WANTING TO GET THAT STARTED LONG BEFORE
11:22:42 COVID STARTED AND THEN --
11:22:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO MAKE ONE COMMENT, AND THEN
11:22:48 MR. DINGFELDER.
11:22:49 I THINK, AGAIN, I'M A VISUAL PERSON.
11:22:52 IF I SIT ON THE BOARD I LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING IN FRONT OF
11:22:56 ME SO I KNOW WHERE I AM AT, BUT VISUAL IS DIFFERENT.
11:22:59 I WOULD ASK THAT YOU TAKE THIS BACK, AND EXPLAIN TO THE
11:23:03 CAC BOARD WHERE THEY ARE ACTUALLY ARE AT ON THE PROJECT,
11:23:06 SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY SEE FOR THEMSELVES, AND IT MAY BE A
11:23:11 CHANGE OF, OKAY, LET'S SEE WHERE WE WILL BE IN THE FUTURE
11:23:14 OR LET'S LOOK AT WHATEVER THE MOTION MAY BE TO COINCIDE
11:23:17 WITH THIS TO HAVE A BALANCE OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO OR HOW
11:23:21 WE NEED TO DO IT.
11:23:22 >>ROB ROSNER: SURE.
11:23:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
11:23:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CITRO, I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE
11:23:34 CHAIRMAN, AND YOU HAVE BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT
11:23:38 THE YEARS, THAT WE NEED TO LISTEN TO OUR CACS, AND SO IT
11:23:47 WAS VERY SIGNIFICANT TO ME THAT I'M HEARING FROM STAFF
11:23:50 AND MR. STOLTENBERG THAT THE CAC -- I DON'T KNOW THAT
11:23:55 THEY TOLD -- I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MINUTES THAT THEY TOLD US
11:23:59 TO BUY THIS.
11:24:00 I THINK THEY JUST PERHAPS ARE ASKING US TO EXPLORE IT.
11:24:03 BUT REGARDLESS, I'M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD HIDE IT AT AN
11:24:09 EXORBITANT PRICE.
11:24:10 TO THE CONTRARY I'M JUST SAYING WE SHOULD EXPLORE IT.
11:24:13 IT LOOKS LIKE AN INTERESTING IDEA.
11:24:14 BUT I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION TO STAFF.
11:24:18 MICHELLE.
11:24:20 IN REGARD TO PROCESS, AS I RECALL, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS
11:24:24 OF UPDATING THE ACTION PLAN FOR CHANNELSIDE.
11:24:28 IS THAT CORRECT?
11:24:31 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, WE ARE.
11:24:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND THERE ARE PROBABLY AT LEAST TWO
11:24:35 KEY COMPONENTS TO THAT ACTION PLAN IN TERMS OF WHERE WE
11:24:38 GO FORWARD WITH CHANNELSIDE, ONE VERY WELL MIGHT BE
11:24:42 FOUGHT PARK NEEDS, AND I UNDERSTAND YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME
11:24:45 ALTERNATIVES THAT WE CAN GET INTO ANOTHER DAY ABOUT, YOU
11:24:48 KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES.
11:24:52 THAT MIGHT BE LESS EXPENSIVE.
11:24:55 AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, JOE, IS FIRE STATION, WHETHER OR
11:25:00 NOT THAT FIRE STATION ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE RIGHT THERE IN
11:25:03 CHANNELSIDE OR NEARBY.
11:25:06 WE DON'T KNOW YET.
11:25:07 BUT I WOULD HOPE THAT WHOEVER IS PUTTING TOGETHER THE
11:25:10 NEXT ACTION PLAN IS GOING TO ADDRESS THOSE FIRE NEEDS,
11:25:13 WHICH OBVIOUSLY ARE LIFE, SAFETY AND VERY CRITICAL.
11:25:18 SO, ANYWAY, MR. CHAIRMAN, IF YOU WANT A MOTION, I DON'T
11:25:22 KNOW IF YOU WANT ME TO DO IT NOW.
11:25:25 >> MAY I BE RECOGNIZED FOR REBUTTAL?
11:25:29 YOU ARE CORRECT, EXPLORATION.
11:25:30 ANY PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY IS THE NECESSARY.
11:25:34 THE PUBLIC SAFETY IS NUMBER ONE.
11:25:36 SO IF WE ARE GOING TO EXPLORE GREEN SPACE, I WOULD LIKE
11:25:40 TO ALSO EXPLORE THIS PROPERTY FOR A FIRE STATION.
11:25:45 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:25:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I'M TOTALLY AMENABLE TO THAT.
11:25:49 I THINK WE NEED TO BE FLEXIBLE AND BE OPEN MINDED.
11:25:52 SO ANYWAY, MR. CHAIRMAN, DID YOU WANT A MOTION NOW OR
11:25:55 LATER?
11:25:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU CAN DO YOUR MOTION, SIR.
11:25:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO MY MOTION WOULD BE TO DIRECT STAFF
11:26:03 TO EXPLORE THIS, NOT SPEND A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME ON IT
11:26:08 BUT TO EXPLORE IT IN TERMS OF DETERMINING WHAT THE FAIR
11:26:11 MARKET VALUE IS, AND I THINK OUR REAL ESTATE STAFF, WE
11:26:17 HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE EXERCISE RECENTLY WITH THE
11:26:19 ARMY NAVY STORE SO THAT'S PROBABLY MOST OF THE WORK
11:26:22 ANYWAY.
11:26:23 BUT IT'S TO EXPLORE, SEE WHAT THE FAIR MARKET VALUE IS,
11:26:27 TO SEE IF EITHER OF THOSE PROPERTIES, EITHER OF THOSE
11:26:32 PROPERTY OWNERS ARE INTERESTED IN SELLING, AND THEN NOT
11:26:36 ONLY FOR STAFF TO LOOK INTO THE VIABILITY OF THIS FOR A
11:26:43 PARK, BUT ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS AS A FIRE STATION
11:26:48 OR SOME COMBINATION THERETO.
11:26:52 AND THEN FINALLY -- AND I KNOW YOU DO THIS ANYWAY -- TO
11:26:57 MAKE SURE THAT THE ACTION PLAN INCLUDES THESE EXPLORATORY
11:27:04 ACTIONS.
11:27:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. DINGFELDER.
11:27:07 SECOND BY MR. MIRANDA.
11:27:09 DISCUSSION?
11:27:11 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:27:13 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:27:20 >> YES.
11:27:21 >> YES.
11:27:21 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:27:24 >> GUDES:
11:27:25 >> THE MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:27:29 >>LUIS VIERA: MR. CHAIR, I WANT TO REMIND I BELIEVE IN
11:27:33 MARCH CITY STAFF IS COMING BACK ON THE MASTER PLAN FOR
11:27:36 PUBLIC SAFETY INCLUDING FOR FIRE, AND I DON'T RECALL IF
11:27:39 IT WAS COUNCILMAN CITRO OR COUNCILMAN GUDES WHO ALSO HAD
11:27:43 REQUESTED THAT CRA STAFF COME BACK AS WELL FOR THIS VERY
11:27:47 ISSUE.
11:27:48 SO IT KIND OF INTERTWINES.
11:27:51 THANK YOU FOR THAT, COUNCILMAN CITRO.
11:27:53 THANK YOU.
11:27:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM 6.
11:27:58 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER 7.
11:28:00 IT IS BEING RESCHEDULED FROM NOVEMBER.
11:28:03 THIS IS OUR SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
11:28:06 TAMPA AND THE CRA BOARD.
11:28:08 THE CHAIN FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT YOU HAD -- I'M
11:28:12 SORRY, GAI.
11:28:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 6.
11:28:21 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO WE HAVE PETITION DOING A VERY
11:28:25 QUICK FIVE MINUTE UPDATE ON WHERE THEY ARE WITH EAST
11:28:27 TAMPA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND AFTER HE INTRODUCES
11:28:31 HIMSELF, WE'LL BRING UP THE POWER POINT FOR NUMBER 6.
11:28:34 THANK YOU.
11:28:34 >> GOOD MORNING.
11:28:40 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.
11:28:42 IT'S BEEN VERY INTERESTING TO LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATIONS
11:28:45 ABOUT THE OVERALL CRA PROGRAM AND ALL THE DIFFERENT
11:28:49 PLACES AROUND THE GREATER DOWNTOWN WHERE SO MUCH PROGRESS
11:28:52 IS HAPPENING, AND I THINK KIND OF MY FIRST EMOTIONAL
11:28:58 REACTION IS THAT IT'S EXCITING, AND WE HOPE TO BRING
11:29:04 PROGRESS IN WHATEVER FORM THAT MEANS TO THE EAST TAMPA
11:29:07 COMMUNITY, THOUGH THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:29:09 IT'S TIME FOR THAT TYPE OF ENERGY AND THOSE TYPES OF
11:29:14 OPPORTUNITIES TO FIND THEIR WAY TO EAST TAMPA, AND OUR
11:29:19 JOB IS TO HELP BE THE CATALYST AND THE CONDUIT FOR THAT
11:29:23 COMMUNITY DISCUSSION AND ULTIMATELY TO THOSE OUTCOMES.
11:29:25 SO THAT'S WHY I AM HERE TODAY.
11:29:26 LET ME GO AHEAD AND JUST GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF SLIDE
11:29:29 QUICKLY.
11:29:30 WE HAVE OUR LOGO.
11:29:32 WE ARE EAST TAMPA.
11:29:34 CRA ACTION PLAN 2021.
11:29:37 I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO HIT OUR WEBSITE.
11:29:40 WE ARE EAST TAMPA.COM.
11:29:41 WE JUST PUT IT UP ABOUT A WEAK OR TEN DAYS AGO.
11:29:44 IT'S ALREADY HAD ABOUT 600 DISTINCT VIEWERS, WHICH IS
11:29:47 EXCITING.
11:29:48 GO AHEAD.
11:29:50 THIS IS JUST A MOMENT ON OUR TEAM.
11:29:53 I LEAD A GROUP WITH GAI CONSULTANTS.
11:29:56 I'M BASED -- WE HAVE A TAMPA OFFICE BUT I AM BASED IN
11:29:59 ORLANDO, AND I RUN A STUDIO WITHIN GAI CALLED THE
11:30:04 COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS GROUP SO WE ARE URBAN PLANNERS,
11:30:07 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, ECONOMISTS, LAND USE FOLKS, AND
11:30:10 THEN WE HAVE THE OTHER COMPONENTS OF GAI WHICH INCLUDE
11:30:13 OTHER ENGINEERING AND SO FORTH.
11:30:17 SO WE ARE LEADING THE THE TEAM AND I PERSONALLY AM
11:30:20 LEADING THE GROUP BUT WE HAVE GOT SOME KEY PEOPLE THAT
11:30:22 GOING TO BE ON THIS PROJECT.
11:30:24 BLAKE DRURY LEADS OUR URBAN DESIGN PLANNING PRACTICE,
11:30:29 SHEBA WEST IS ONE OF OUR SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL
11:30:32 DESIGNERS AND SHE'S GOING TO BE ENTERING THIS AS WE START
11:30:34 TO LOOK AT DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES. PATRICK PANZA HAS BEEN
11:30:37 HEAVILY INVOLVED SO FAR AS A PLANNER.
11:30:39 HE DEALS WITH GIS AND PLANNING DATA BASES AND ANALYTICS.
11:30:42 TOM KOHLER IS SORT OF AN EMERITUS STATUS CRA PERSON IN
11:30:49 THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
11:30:49 HE WAS ORLANDO'S DOWNTOWN CRA DIRECTOR FOR 25 YEARS
11:30:52 BEFORE ENTERING PRIVATE PRACTICE.
11:30:54 CHRISTINA NEWCOMB IS HERE IN TOWN AS A CIVIL ENGINEER,
11:31:00 AND I WORK WITH CHRISTINA, AM WORKING WITH HER NOW ON A
11:31:02 COUPLE OF ASSIGNMENTS WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:31:04 THEN STEVEN MCDONALD LEADS OUR ECONOMICS GROUP.
11:31:07 THEN YOU CAN SEE IN THE LOWER RIGHT, WE HAVE GOT A GROUP
11:31:10 OF SUBCONSULTANTS WHICH HELP US COVER LOCAL CIVIL
11:31:15 ENGINEERING. I'VE KNOWN DEREK GIL FOR YEARS AND YEARS,
11:31:19 HAS A WONDERFUL PRACTICE OUT OF YBOR CITY, HAS WORKED IN
11:31:21 EAST TAMPA.
11:31:22 FRED HEARNS. THOMAS HUGGINS, WHO I THINK YOU ALL KNOW,
11:31:31 ARE HELPING COORDINATE OUR PUBLIC OUTREACH AND HOW WE ARE
11:31:31 GOING TO ACTUALLY GET PEOPLE ENGAGED AND GET THE MESSAGE
11:31:34 OF THE PROJECT TO PEOPLE AND GAIN INPUT.
11:31:36 THEN FINALLY KERRICK WILLIAMS IS GOING TO HELP US
11:31:40 DOCUMENT THE PROJECT AND HE'S ALREADY RECORDED QUITE A
11:31:43 BIT OF DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE AREA AND STARTED TO EDIT AND
11:31:47 WE ARE GOING TO BE USING THAT FOOTAGE OVER THE COURSE OF
11:31:50 THE PROJECT.
11:31:50 I WON'T GO DEEP INTO THIS BUT THE MISSION OF THE PROJECT
11:31:53 IS TO UPDATE THE FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN.
11:31:55 THE CURRENT PLAN YOU HAVE DATES TO 2009.
11:31:59 OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE TWAIN.
11:32:03 SO YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE WHAT SOME OF THE KEY KIND OF
11:32:08 STRATEGIC COMPONENTS WERE OF THAT PLAN.
11:32:11 I THINK THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF THIS THAT'S ABOUT
11:32:14 VALIDATING SOME OF THOSE OLD PREMISES, BUT FRANKLY, I
11:32:18 THINK IT'S A NEW DAY AND I THINK MOST OF THIS PROJECT IS
11:32:21 ABOUT LOOKING FORWARD.
11:32:22 SO WE REALLY WANT TO SET THE DIRECTION FOR THE NEXT FIVE
11:32:24 YEARS AND BEYOND WITH THIS PLAN.
11:32:27 GO AHEAD.
11:32:30 THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE TO DATE, AND
11:32:33 THESE ARE SOME OF THOSE ITEMS.
11:32:35 I AM JUST GOING TO -- IT'S FOR ME TO SEE MY OWN SLIDE.
11:32:44 OOPS.
11:32:44 DISCONNECTED.
11:32:45 SORRY.
11:32:50 WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS A LIST OF ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE
11:32:53 INITIATED WITH STAFF, AND THEN ATTENDANCE AT VARIOUS
11:32:58 DIFFERENT CAC MEETINGS, INTERACTION WAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:33:02 ASSOCIATION, AND THEN MOST RECENTLY THE KICKOFF EVENTS
11:33:05 THAT WE HELD LAST WEEK.
11:33:07 ONE WAS ONLINE, VIA ZOOM, AND THE OTHER WAS IN PERSON AS
11:33:12 SORT OF AN OPEN AIR, OPEN HOUSE MEET-AND-GREET EVENT AT
11:33:16 RAGAN PARK.
11:33:17 I APOLOGIZE.
11:33:22 SO WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO GET A LOT OF TRACTION.
11:33:25 IT WAS VERY EXCITING TO HEAR THE COMMENDATION FOR NATASHA
11:33:33 GOODLEY EARLIER.
11:33:34 I ACTUALLY MET HER AT RAGAN PARK ON SATURDAY.
11:33:37 COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS THERE.
11:33:39 A LOT OF FOLKS CONNECTED TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WERE THERE.
11:33:41 SO WE WANT TO BUILD ON THAT FOUNDATION GOING FORWARD INTO
11:33:44 JANUARY.
11:33:44 NEXT SLIDE.
11:33:48 THESE ARE JUST A HANDFUL OF IMAGES OF SOME OF THESE
11:33:51 ENGAGEMENTS.
11:33:52 YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE OF THE MEETINGS THAT WE WERE AT.
11:33:54 WE DID ATTEND THE OCTOBER CAC MEETING WHICH WAS ACTUALLY
11:33:58 THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL GATHERING AS A NEWLY-ELECTED CAC SO
11:34:03 THEY ARE STILL GETTING TO KNOW THEIR LANES AND HOW TO
11:34:07 KIND OF OPERATE AS A COLLECTIVE BODY, AND THEY ARE COMING
11:34:11 TOGETHER.
11:34:12 MS. BURTON HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN THOSE MEETINGS.
11:34:17 WE CAME BACK LATER AND SHOWED THEM SOME INITIAL WORK,
11:34:20 SOME CONCEPTS FOR THE WEBSITE, FOR THE LOGO, FOR HOW TO
11:34:23 ROLL THE PROJECT OUT.
11:34:24 THEY GAVE US SOME INPUT.
11:34:25 WE RESPONDED TO THE INPUT.
11:34:27 AND THEN USED THAT AS WE LAUNCHED INTO EVENTS LIKE WHAT
11:34:30 YOU SEE HERE AT RAGAN PARK.
11:34:33 GO FORWARD.
11:34:34 YOU CAN SEE DOMINIQUE IN THAT IMAGE, BEFORE, YOU CAN SEE
11:34:38 COUNCILMAN GUDES IN THAT IMAGE BEFORE, CHERYL CRAW SO IN
11:34:43 THE UPPER LEFT, FRED HEARNS AND THOMAS HUGGINS.
11:34:48 YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS A LOT OF GOOD INDIVIDUAL
11:34:52 INTERACTION, HARD LINE AS WELL AS HARD-COPY SURVEYS THAT
11:34:56 COME IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
11:34:58 THERE'S SURVEYS THAT ARE GEARED TOWARDS RESIDENTS,
11:35:00 TOWARDS BUSINESS OWNERS AND ALSO TOWARDS YOUTH.
11:35:03 SO THOSE PLATFORMS ARE ALL UP.
11:35:05 AND I THINK WE HAVE STARTED TO SEE SOME REAL ENERGY ON
11:35:08 THE PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
11:35:10 WHAT YOU SEE IN THE LOWER RIGHT IS A GROUP OF FOLKS FROM
11:35:14 THE JACKSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAD ALREADY SORT OF
11:35:18 SELF-ASSEMBLED AND SELF-ORGANIZED, A CANVASSING CAMPAIGN
11:35:22 TO GO DOOR TO DOOR WITHIN THEIR AREA TO GET THE SURVEYS
11:35:25 OUT AND START TO GET THAT PRELIMINARY INFORMATION BACK TO
11:35:27 US.
11:35:29 GO FORWARD.
11:35:30 I WILL SAY THAT JUST AS A SIDE BAR, MY FAVORITE PART OF
11:35:33 THE WHOLE THING WAS HAVING SOME STUDENTS WITH MIDDLETON
11:35:36 HIGH SCHOOL SHOW UP.
11:35:37 WE HAD A FEW REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR DRUM LINE, A FEW
11:35:40 REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR DANCE TEAM.
11:35:41 I THINK IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM.
11:35:44 I HAVE KIDS THAT ARE IN MUSIC AND ARTS, AND THERE JUST
11:35:48 AREN'T A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES RIGHT NOW FOR THESE KIDS TO
11:35:50 PERFORM.
11:35:51 SO I THINK THEY HAD A LOT OF FUN PERFORMING.
11:35:53 THE COMMUNITY HAD A LOT OF FUN SEEING THEM.
11:35:55 AND AS ANOTHER SIDE BAR I HAPPENED TO BE A DRUMMER OF
11:35:58 40-PLUS YEARS, SO I GOT TO INTERACT WITH THEIR DRUMMERS A
11:36:02 LITTLE BIT AND THEY ARE VERY SWEET KID.
11:36:05 IT WAS ACTUALLY VERY REWARDING JUST TO HAVE THAT
11:36:08 INTERACTION WITH THEM.
11:36:10 GO FORWARD.
11:36:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I CAN TELL BY THE WAY YOU WERE
11:36:13 HOLDING YOUR STICKS THAT YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING.
11:36:17 >> THERE'S ACTUALLY A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS, IN ANOTHER
11:36:20 CONVERSATION.
11:36:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND IT'S JAZZ YOU PLAY.
11:36:24 >> I PLAY JAZZ SWELL MANY OTHER THINGS.
11:36:26 FOR THE RECORD I WAS ON THE LINE AT OHIO STATE IN COLLEGE
11:36:32 AMONGST VARIOUS OTHER THINGS AND I STILL PLAY TODAY IN MY
11:36:35 CHURCH, A CONTEMPORARY SERVICE.
11:36:37 THAT KEEPS MY SKILLS UP.
11:36:40 SO IT'S WONDERFUL AND I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE KIDS LIKE
11:36:43 THIS WANTING TO GET OUT AND EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
11:36:46 SO THAT WAS A GREAT MOMENT AND A LOT OF FUN.
11:36:49 THE NEXT SLIDE.
11:36:52 SO KIND OF WHAT'S NEXT.
11:36:54 I THINK THIS IS SORT OF A SO WHAT?
11:36:56 WE HAVE GOTTEN THE PROJECT OFFER THE GROUND.
11:36:58 IT'S OUT THERE.
11:36:59 WE HAVE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF LOCAL MEDIA GOING.
11:37:01 COUNCILMAN GUDES AND MS. BURTON HAVE BEEN ON THE RADIO.
11:37:07 WE HAD A COUPLE OF SPOTS IN THE SENTINEL.
11:37:10 OR A NEWSPAPER SPOT.
11:37:12 WE ARE TRYING TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE AWARE AND ONBOARD AND
11:37:16 ENGAGED WITH THE PROJECT BEFORE THE HOLIDAY BREAK.
11:37:19 SO IT WAS KIND OF A SPRINT TO TRY TO GET SOMETHING DONE
11:37:22 BEFORE EVERYBODY KIND OF SHUTS DOWN FOR THE HOLIDAY, IF
11:37:25 YOU WILL, BECAUSE WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO IN JANUARY
11:37:28 AND FEBRUARY IS KIND OF REALLY LAUNCH OUR INVESTIGATION
11:37:33 INTO THE COMMUNITY ON TWO FRONTS.
11:37:36 ONE IS KIND OF THE TECHNICAL FRONT.
11:37:38 THE NORMAL THINGS THAT ENGINEERS AND PLANNERS AND
11:37:42 ECONOMISTS DO WHEN THEY START TO CRAFT THE TECHNICAL
11:37:47 ASPECTS OF THE CRA PLAN.
11:37:48 WE HAVE ALREADY BEGUN GATHERING DATA ON INFRASTRUCTURE
11:37:50 AND UTILITIES AND SOCIOECONOMICS, AND ALL OF THOSE TYPES
11:37:54 OF BACKGROUND THINGS.
11:37:56 SO WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING ON THAT, THE BACKGROUND.
11:37:58 BUT IN THE FAR GROUND, WE REALLY WANT TO LAUNCH A PROGRAM
11:38:03 THAT PUTS OUR FEET ON THE STREET, IN SMALL TEAMS, COVID
11:38:10 SAFE, IN EACH OF THE TEN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU SEE ON
11:38:12 THIS SLIDE.
11:38:12 WE REALLY FEEL LIKE FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE
11:38:16 NEIGHBORHOOD, FOR US TO REALLY GET DIALOGUE WITH THE
11:38:19 FOLKS THAT LIVE AND WORK IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND TO
11:38:22 SEE THE NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGH THEIR EYES, AND TO LET THEM
11:38:25 TALK TO US PLAINLY ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON, WE NEED TO FIND
11:38:29 A WAY TO PHYSICALLY BE THERE.
11:38:31 SO WE ARE GOING TO ORGANIZE A SERIES OF WHAT WE CALL
11:38:36 WALKING AUDITS OR WALKING WORKSHOPS.
11:38:39 THE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL BE INVITED.
11:38:41 TYPICALLY WHEN I DO THESE, IT TEND TO BE ABOUT ANYWHERE
11:38:45 FROM, SAY, 15 TO 30 PEOPLE WILL COME OUT.
11:38:48 AND IF WE GET THAT KIND OF TURNOUT IN EACH NEIGHBORHOOD I
11:38:51 WILL BE THRILLED.
11:38:52 WE USUALLY DO ABOUT A 45, 60-MINUTE WALK THAT'S A LITTLE
11:38:56 BIT OF A PREPLANNER ROUTE SO WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING,
11:39:00 SO WE'LL TAKE SIDE BARS AND LOOK AT THINGS PEOPLE WANT US
11:39:04 TO LOOK AT.
11:39:05 AND THAT WILL BE, IN MY EXPERIENCE, WHICH I HAVE BEEN
11:39:07 DOING THESE THINGS FOR 15 YEARS PLUS AS PART OF MY
11:39:11 PRACTICE, SO JUST DOING URBAN PLANNING, AND NEIGHBORHOOD
11:39:14 DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, THESE ARE EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTS,
11:39:18 BECAUSE YOU REALLY DO SORT OF GET YOUR FINGERNAILS AND
11:39:23 YOUR SENSES INTO HOW PEOPLE ARE REALLY PERCEIVING THEIR
11:39:27 ENVIRONMENT, WHERE THOSE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES ARE, WHERE
11:39:30 THOSE CRITICAL PROBLEMS ARE.
11:39:33 YOU REALLY GET TO THE BOTTOM OF SOME OF THAT.
11:39:35 AND WE CAN SHARE SOME IDEAS TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, ON THE
11:39:39 STREET CORNER AND TALK ABOUT WHAT WE SEE AND WHAT'S GOING
11:39:42 ON AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT, EITHER POSITIVELY OR
11:39:45 CONSTRUCTIVELY OR FROM A REPAIR POINT OF VIEW.
11:39:49 SO I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO.
11:39:51 THAT WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP A FEW SATURDAYS TO DO THIS.
11:39:54 WE'LL CONDUCT THEM ON SATURDAY MORNINGS FOR THE MOST PART
11:39:57 BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO BE DOING THIS AT NIGHT.
11:39:59 AGAIN, WE WILL HAVE COVID PIP OR PPE PROTOCOLS IN PLACE.
11:40:05 WE'LL HAVE SAFETY VESTS ON.
11:40:06 WE RAN THESE PROGRAMS YEARS AGO WHEN I HELPED RUN THE
11:40:18 EFFICIENCY PROJECT SO I THINK WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN
11:40:21 TAMPA DOING THAT.
11:40:24 NEXT SLIDE.
11:40:25 THIS IS ABOUT MAINTAINING AND ADDING CONTENT TO THE
11:40:28 WEBSITE AS WE KEEP GOING.
11:40:29 IT'S ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WALKING TOURS.
11:40:31 IT'S ABOUT COLLECTING SOME TECHNICAL INFORMATION.
11:40:33 IT'S ABOUT BE COORDINATING, CONTINUING TO COORDINATE WITH
11:40:36 THE EAST TAMPA CAC, AS WELL AS THE OTHER ADVISORY GROUPS
11:40:43 AND NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS WITHIN THE AREA.
11:40:45 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME STAKEHOLDER GROUP INTERVIEWS.
11:40:48 AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO BE COLLECTING AND PROCESSING
11:40:51 SURVEY DATA SO THAT WE CAN START TO GET INFORMATION BACK.
11:40:54 WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE MOST OF THE SURVEY WORK DONE BY THE
11:40:56 END OF JANUARY SO THAT WE REALLY CAN START LOOKING AT THE
11:41:00 DATA AND LOOKING AT WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT SO THAT
11:41:03 WE CAN ANALYZE IT AND ALLOW THEM TO TELL US WHAT THAT
11:41:07 MEANS.
11:41:07 SO I THINK THAT GETS TO MY FINAL POINT FOR THIS MORNING'S
11:41:10 PRESENTATION, WHICH IS THAT I TALKED ABOUT TWO TRACKS,
11:41:13 KIND OF A TECHNICAL INFORMATION TRACK AND AN -- ANECDOTAL
11:41:19 TRACK WITH THE COMMUNITY.
11:41:20 WE WANT TO BRING THIS TO A POINT IN MARCH WHERE WE CAN
11:41:24 RECONVENE THE COMMUNITY SO IT'S IN PERSON AND ONLINE AND
11:41:28 SAY, HERE IS EVERYTHING THAT WE THINK WE HEARD, HERE IS
11:41:31 EVERYTHING THAT WE THINK WE LEARNED, LET'S TALK ABOUT
11:41:34 FIRST OF ALL DID WE HEAR YOU CORRECTLY?
11:41:37 AND THERE MAY BE SOME THINGS THAT WE DIDN'T HEAR
11:41:39 CORRECTLY ONCE WE TRY TO FEED THAT INFORMATION BACK TO
11:41:42 THE COMMUNITY.
11:41:42 BUT ONCE WE HAVE KIND OF CLARIFIED WHAT WE THINK WE HAVE
11:41:45 HEARD AND LEARNED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND CHARACTERIZED IT
11:41:48 INTO SOME BROAD KIND OF STRATEGIC AREAS OF FOCUS, THEN WE
11:41:53 CAN REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT THE
11:41:56 DIRECTION OF THE PLAN SHOULD BE.
11:41:58 SO TO ME THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT REFLECTION POINT IN ANY
11:42:02 LARGE-SCALE PLANNING ASSIGNMENT, IS FOR A WHOLE CADRE OF
11:42:07 PEOPLE WITH A WHOLE RANGE OF PERSPECTIVES AND
11:42:10 EXPERIENCES, TO GET EVERYBODY TO AGREE ON WHAT THE
11:42:12 QUESTIONS ACTUALLY ARE THAT THE PLAN IS TRYING TO
11:42:16 ADDRESS.
11:42:17 SO TO ME, THIS POINT THAT WE ARE BUILDING TOWARDS IN
11:42:20 MARCH IS ACTUALLY THE CRUX OF THE WHOLE PROJECT, IS TO
11:42:23 REALLY AGREE ON WHAT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES WE WANT
11:42:27 THE PLAN TO ADDRESS, AND THEN WE CAN START WORKING ON HOW
11:42:30 TO DO THAT, AND WE WILL HAVE HOPEFULLY BUILT UP A LOT OF
11:42:35 BELIEF AND TRUST IN THE PROCESS AND IN THE PLAN BECAUSE
11:42:40 OUR GOAL IS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO SEE THEIR INPUT IN THE
11:42:46 PLAN THAT WE -- THEMES OF THE PLAN THAT WE BRING BACK TO
11:42:50 THEM.
11:42:50 WE WILL COURSE CORRECT BASED ON THE RESPONSE.
11:42:52 THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PROMOTION AND VALIDATION FORWARDS
11:42:55 AND BACKWARDS, WITH THE IDEAS, BUT ULTIMATELY WE ARE
11:42:58 GOING TO LAND ON SOME STRATEGIC THINGS THAT WE BELIEVE
11:43:01 REALLY REFLECT THE INPUT OF THE COMMUNITY, AND THAT WILL
11:43:04 DICTATE THE PLAN WHICH WILL CARRY THROUGH THE SPRING, AND
11:43:06 HOPEFULLY BE BACK TO YOU FOR ADOPTION IN THE LATTER PART
11:43:09 OF THE SUMMER.
11:43:10 AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
11:43:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:43:19 I HAVE A FEW.
11:43:20 YOU HAVE A GIFT AND EXPERTISE IN STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
11:43:23 I HAVE A GIFT AND EXPERTISE IN -- BUT WOULD YOU PUT THAT
11:43:28 SLIDE BACK UP THAT HAS ALL OF EAST TAMPA?
11:43:32 >> PETER: YES.
11:43:33 THERE WE GO.
11:43:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A HUGE AREA OF EAST
11:43:37 TAMPA.
11:43:38 AND IF YOU LOOK TO THE LEFT, SEMINOLE HEIGHTS, THAT USED
11:43:43 TO BE INCLUDED IN EAST TAMPA AS WELL.
11:43:45 MY NEIGHBORS IN SOUTHEAST, IT'S ALL EAST TAMPA.
11:43:49 IT'S VERY EASILY LOST.
11:43:54 LARGEST IN THE STATED PROBABLY.
11:43:55 >> THE LARGEST IN THE STATE.
11:43:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE.
11:43:59 YOU HAVE ROUGHLY ONE HIGH SCHOOL, THREE MIDDLE SCHOOLS,
11:44:03 PROBABLY SEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
11:44:06 WE WANT TO BE SURE TO INCLUDE THOSE SCHOOLS AS WELL.
11:44:08 WE HAVE FOUR MAJOR PARKS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:44:11 GOING TO THOSE PARTICULAR PARKS WHERE THOSE KIDS SHALL TO
11:44:13 GET THEIR IDEAS, AND THEY ARE THE FUTURE AS WELL.
11:44:16 ALSO, MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
11:44:19 FAQ, INSTAGRAM, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE YOUNG
11:44:21 GENERATION, THE MIDDLE AGED KID, ADULTS.
11:44:24 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT RADIO, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU
11:44:27 UNDERSTAND IT.
11:44:28 WTMP HAD A CERTAIN AUDIENCE, HAS A CERTAIN AUDIENCE. IT
11:44:32 IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN STATION BUT ONLY A CERTAIN
11:44:38 AUDIENCE. IT IS A GREAT RADIO STATION.
11:44:40 BUT YOU NEED TO LOOK AT 95.7, 95.1, THOSE ARE FM DIAL
11:44:45 STATIONS, WHICH ARE YOUNGER PEOPLE AND ADULTS. THEY
11:44:47 MOSTLY TUNE IN TO THOSE STATIONS.
11:44:49 SO I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A COMMUNICATION PERSON COMING
11:44:52 ABOARD.
11:44:53 I WANT TO TELL YOU IT'S GOING TO BE A KEY OF
11:44:55 COMMUNICATION TO THE PEOPLE.
11:44:56 BUT I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO YOUR GROUP IS THAT YOU
11:45:00 HAVE SO MANY NEIGHBORHOODS, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
11:45:03 TOUCHING EACH ONE OF THEM WITH THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
11:45:05 AND MAKING SURE THEY ARE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS.
11:45:07 WHAT I DON'T WANT TO HEAR WHEN IT'S DONE, OUR GROUP
11:45:11 DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED.
11:45:12 >> PETER: RIGHT.
11:45:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT.
11:45:17 I WANT TO HEAR, WE DID THIS, WE DID THAT.
11:45:20 WHY WEREN'T YOU AT THE TABLE?
11:45:21 I DON'T KNOW BUT WE DID THIS, WE CAME THERE, WE MET WITH
11:45:23 YOUR GROUP, THAT COMMUNITY, THAT WE KNOW WE CAN SAY THAT
11:45:27 THIS BOARD DID NOT GIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR STAFF TO MAKE
11:45:33 SURE WE ARE TOUCHING EVERYBODY IN THAT EAST TAMPA GROUP.
11:45:36 PERIOD.
11:45:37 SO THAT'S JUST MY EXPERTISE, WHO LIVED THERE, WORKED
11:45:41 THERE AS A POLICE OFFICER, UNDERSTANDS THAT COMMUNITY.
11:45:43 THAT'S MY LITTLE PET PEEVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE DOING
11:45:46 EVERYTHING WE CAN FOR COMMUNICATION TO TOUCH EVERYONE WE
11:45:49 CAN TOUCH AND MAKE SURE WE MOVE.
11:45:51 >> PETER: ABSOLUTELY.
11:45:54 I THINK WE ARE OFF ON A GOOD FOOT.
11:45:56 I THINK THE INITIAL WEBINAR CONFERENCE CALLS SPECIFICALLY
11:46:01 WITH THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTS WAS A SUCCESSFUL FIRST
11:46:05 STEP.
11:46:06 I'M VERY HOPEFUL THAT THE WALKING AUDITS WILL BE ANOTHER
11:46:09 IMPORTANT STEP.
11:46:10 BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE AND EVERY DAY, EVERY MONTH, YOU
11:46:14 KNOW, IT'S ABOUT BUILDING TRUST, IT'S ABOUT BUILDING
11:46:17 COMMUNICATION, AND IT'S ABOUT GETTING TO WHERE YOU ARE
11:46:19 REALLY SHARING IDEAS, AND IT'S A GROUND GAME.
11:46:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS GOING TO ASK MS. VAN LOAN AND HER
11:46:26 GROUP, THE COMMUNICATION, HOW THAT'S MOVING.
11:46:29 WE NEED TO KNOW HOW THAT'S MOVING.
11:46:31 IT'S GOING TO BE VERY KEY TO THIS WHOLE PROCESS.
11:46:33 >> PETER: YES.
11:46:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT,
11:46:38 MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:46:39 I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS PART OF OUR COMMUNICATIONS
11:46:41 STRATEGY, AND IT SEEMS SO RUDIMENTARY AND BASIC.
11:46:45 BUT I NOTICE THE COUNTY, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, WHEN THEY
11:46:47 HAVE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND THAT SORT OF THING, THEY PUT OUT
11:46:52 THESE BIG OL' POSTERS OUT ON THE MAJOR CORNERS.
11:46:56 AND, ANYWAY, SO IF WE HAVE THE BUDGET FOR THAT, I THINK
11:47:02 IT'S A GOOD IDEA, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT MISS PEOPLE HEAR AND
11:47:05 THERE, BUT WHEN YOU GET TO A STOPLIGHT AND LOOK OVER AT
11:47:10 THAT THING.
11:47:10 AND LIKE YOU SAY, AT LEAST WE CAN SAY WE TRADE EVERYTHING
11:47:14 TO GET THE WORD OUT.
11:47:15 AND SOMETIMES I THINK THE BASIC LITTLE POSTER ON THE
11:47:19 CORNER --
11:47:22 >> PETER: THAT'S EXCELLENT.
11:47:25 AND LET ME RESPOND TO THAT.
11:47:26 IF I RESPOND TO SOME OF THESE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, IT'S
11:47:29 NOT BECAUSE I AM TRYING TO SAY, OH, WE ALREADY THOUGHT OF
11:47:33 THAT, TRY TO SAY, YES, THAT'S A GREAT COMMENT, AND IF WE
11:47:37 HAVE GOT SOMETHING THAT'S COOKING ON THE STOVE, I WANT
11:47:41 YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
11:47:42 A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT ARE COOKING.
11:47:44 ONE IS THAT WE ARE DEVELOPING PLACARDS NOW THAT ARE GOING
11:47:48 TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN A LOT OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES, IN
11:47:51 THE SHOPS, SO AS PEOPLE COME INTO THOSE SHOPS, THEY ARE
11:47:55 ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE THAT PLACARD.
11:47:57 SO WE THINK THAT CAN BE HELPFUL.
11:47:58 I THINK THE IDEA OF SOME MORE OPENLY VISIBLE KIND OF
11:48:03 POSTERS OR BANNERS OR SOMETHING THAT CAN GO IN SOME KEY
11:48:07 PUBLIC LOCATIONS WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO SEE THEM IS A
11:48:10 GREAT IDEA.
11:48:11 ANOTHER THING I WOULD MENTION --
11:48:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THEY HAVE GOT A PROGRAM OUT AT DREW
11:48:15 PARK RIGHT NOW THAT'S GOING ON, BUT THEY ARE ASKING FOR
11:48:20 PUBLIC INPUT ABOUT SCHOOLS AND ALL.
11:48:23 SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT --
11:48:26 >> WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
11:48:28 WE NEED TO KNOW EVERY TOOL IN THE TOOLKIT THAT WORKS.
11:48:31 WE HAVE MADE THE CONNECTION WITHIN THE SCHOOL BOARD, AND
11:48:34 WE ARE SETTING UP A MEETING FOR TOMORROW FOR ALL THE
11:48:38 PRINCIPALS FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS, WITH THEIR COMMUNICATION
11:48:43 LIAISON PERSON, WHO HAS ACCESS TO ALL THE E-MAILS.
11:48:48 WE ARE GOING TO WORK THROUGH THAT CHANNEL TO BASICALLY
11:48:53 E-MAIL, DISTRIBUTE, THE SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES AND OTHER
11:48:58 PROJECT INFORMATION TO ALL OF THE SCHOOLCHILDREN'S HOME
11:49:04 E-MAIL ADDRESS, SO THEIR PARENTS WILL BE AWARE OF THE
11:49:06 PROJECT.
11:49:07 THEY WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE.
11:49:10 AND THE STUDENTS WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE.
11:49:14 SO WE ARE WORKING ON THAT CHANNEL NOW.
11:49:16 AND I AM HOPING FOR A SUCCESSFUL PHONE CALL TOMORROW ON
11:49:19 HOW TO DEPLOY THAT BUT I THINK WE HAVE IT FIGURED OUT.
11:49:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND MY LAST THING BEFORE YOU CONCLUDE,
11:49:25 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AGAIN, THE MAP AGAIN, PLEASE?
11:49:36 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS ON SATURDAY.
11:49:43 YOU HAVE GOT TO HAVE -- AND YOU LOOK AT ALL THESE
11:49:46 DIFFERENT -- THERE'S GOT TO BE -- RETAIL BUSINESS,
11:49:52 SOMETHING, SAY WE HAVE A WOW JUST LIKE THE NEW TAMPA
11:49:58 GROUP HAS THE WOW GOING UP THERE, WE HAVE THE MIDTOWN,
11:50:01 SOHO, YBOR HAS A WOW.
11:50:04 THAT'S WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN HERE TO MAKE THIS IMPACT AND
11:50:08 RESIDENTS TO MAKE THAT ENGINE DRIVE.
11:50:11 WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT WOW NEEDS TO BE.
11:50:14 THAT'S MY LAST THING.
11:50:15 ANYBODY ELSE?
11:50:17 ANYTHING ELSE?
11:50:18 WE THANK YOU, SIR.
11:50:19 >> THANK YOU.
11:50:20 AND WE ARE EVENTUALLY GOING TO DRAW THINGS.
11:50:23 AND WHEN WE DO WE ARE GOING TO FIND SOME PLACES FOR SOME
11:50:26 WOWS.
11:50:27 THANK YOU.
11:50:27 YOU ALL HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON.
11:50:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
11:50:33 YOU TOO.
11:50:33 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: DUE TO THE TIME IF IT'S ALL RIGHT
11:50:36 WITH ALL OF YOU, CAN WE SKIP TO ITEM NUMBER 16?
11:50:39 WE HAVE THE CAPTAIN FROM TPD HEAR TO BE AT YOUR SERVICE
11:50:42 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ON THIS ISSUE.
11:50:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK WE CAN GET THROUGH THE AGENDA
11:50:51 BY AT LEAST 12:15 OR 12:30.
11:50:55 MOTION TO EXTEND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
11:50:57 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
11:51:01 DO WE NEED TO DO A ROLL CALL?
11:51:04 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN DO THAT YOU THAT BY
11:51:06 AFFIRMATION.
11:51:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL IN FAVOR?
11:51:09 MOTION APPROVED.
11:51:10 GO TO 12:30.
11:51:13 MS. VAN LOAN, NUMBER 16?
11:51:16 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, BECAUSE THEN I CAN FINISH
11:51:18 EVERYTHING QUICKLY AFTER THAT.
11:51:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I FIGURED THAT.
11:51:22 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I WILL BRING UP COURTNEY ORR AND
11:51:26 CAPTAIN BECK FROM TPD.
11:51:27 THANK YOU.
11:51:27 >> COURTNEY ORR, YBOR CITY MANAGER.
11:51:39 ITEM 16 IS A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A MAXIMUM $120,000
11:51:43 FROM OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS LINE ITEM TO MOVE IT INTO
11:51:45 A LINE ITEM TITLED TPD ENHANCED SERVICES, TO COVER A
11:51:51 COMMUNITY'S REQUESTED COVERAGE.
11:51:54 JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY ON THIS ITEM, IN 20 IS
11:51:56 IT, WE HAD STARTED DISCUSSIONS WITH TPD IN REGARD TO
11:52:00 OFFERING ENHANCED SERVICE FOR COMMUNITY POLICING IN THE
11:52:04 YBOR AREA.
11:52:07 WHEN COVID HAPPENED, AFTER OUR DISCUSSIONS OF 2019 AND
11:52:11 PROGRESSING TO A POSSIBLE PLAN, COVID HAPPENED, OBVIOUSLY
11:52:16 LESS ACTIVITY WAS HAPPENING IN THE DISTRICT SO THAT PLAN
11:52:19 WAS PUT ON HOLD, DISCUSSIONS OF THAT PLAN, THEY WERE PUT
11:52:22 ON HOLD FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
11:52:24 WHEN THE BARS REOPENED RECENTLY, AND THE BARS WERE FULLY
11:52:29 REOPENED AND OPERATING, THAT REQUEST RESURFACED AND WE
11:52:33 WERE HOPING TO GET SOME QUICK ACTION ON THAT REQUEST.
11:52:38 SO ENTER COUNCILMAN -- CAPTAIN OWEN WHO HAD BEEN TERRIFIC
11:52:50 SINCE DAY ONE, AND FAIRLY NEW AS DISTRICT 3 CAPTAIN, AND
11:52:53 HE PROVIDED TO US A COMMUNITY PILOT PROGRAM FOR THREE
11:52:57 MONTHS.
11:52:58 IT WAS RECEIVED SO WELL THAT OUR CAC SAID THEY WOULD WANT
11:53:02 TO GO LONGER THAN THREE MONTHS AND ACTUALLY DOUBLE IT TO
11:53:05 SIX MONTHS.
11:53:06 SO CURRENTLY THE PLAN IS THAT TPD AND THE YBOR CITY WOULD
11:53:15 SPLIT THAT COST FOR AN INITIAL $76,000,
11:53:25 AND THE PILOT PROGRAM THAT CAPTAIN OWEN RECOMMENDED.
11:53:31 SO THE FACT THAT CACs AND YBOR CAC WANTED TO EXTEND TO
11:53:35 THE FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH MONTH WHICH WOULD COVER
11:53:39 APRIL, COVER SPRING BREAK, THE YBOR CAC COULD COVER THAT
11:53:44 AT 100%.
11:53:45 SO BASICALLY DUE TO NOT KNOWING WHO WOULD TAKE THOSE
11:53:48 ASSIGNMENTS, WE HAD TO TAKE THE $76,000 TIMES TWO AND
11:53:54 BUMP IT UP A LITTLE BIT TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD
11:53:56 SIGNIFICANT -- SUFFICIENT, EXCUSE ME, SUFFICIENT FUNDING
11:54:01 TO COVER THE ENTIRE SIX MONTHS DEPENDING ON WHO FILLED
11:54:04 THOSE POSITIONS, ON THE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS,
11:54:08 WHICH COVERED 10-P.M. TO 4 A.M.
11:54:11 SO AGAIN THAT'S THE REQUEST THAT WE ARE ASKING APPROVAL
11:54:13 FOR TODAY IS UP TO $120,000 TO COVER SIX MONTHS ENHANCED
11:54:18 SERVICE WITH TPD.
11:54:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
11:54:27 MR. DINGFELDER.
11:54:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, COURTNEY.
11:54:30 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
11:54:34 MY CONCERN ON THIS IS NOT SPECIFIC.
11:54:37 IT'S MORE BROAD AND PHILOSOPHICAL.
11:54:40 IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HAD ISSUES IN YBOR OFF AND
11:54:47 ON FOR DECADE IN TERMS OF WHEN THE CLUBS GET GOING, AND
11:54:51 THE KIDS GET GOING, YOU KNOW, TOO MUCH, AND TPD RESPONDS.
11:54:56 AND I REMEMBER BEING DOWN THERE, AND THERE WAS AN
11:55:00 INCIDENT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I SAW 30 COPS.
11:55:03 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY WERE HOLED UP BUT THEY GOT THERE
11:55:09 PRETTY QUICK AND I WAS GLAD TO SEE. SO I GUESS JUST
11:55:12 PHILOSOPHICALLY, I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT -- AND I AM
11:55:15 NOT PICKING AT YOU, SIR -- BUT I AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
11:55:18 WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CRA WOULD NEED TO CONTRIBUTE,
11:55:21 EVEN THOUGH IT PASSED, WHY IT WOULD CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING
11:55:25 TO DOING A SERVICE THAT I WOULD EXPECT TPD TO NORMALLY
11:55:29 DO?
11:55:30 >> CAPTAIN: NORMALLY WE WOULD HANDLE IT AS WE HAVE DONE
11:55:34 IN THE PAST.
11:55:35 GIVEN COVID AND THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COOPED UP FOR MONTHS
11:55:39 AS THE BARS WERE CLOSED AND THEY HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO,
11:55:42 WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE SHOW UP, AND THE BARS DON'T HAVE THE
11:55:44 CAPACITY TO LET THEM IN. SO WE ARE GETTING PARTIES IN
11:55:47 PARKING LOTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT
11:55:51 BROUGHT THIS CONVERSATION BACK TO THE TABLE, SO I AM
11:55:54 TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THAT.
11:55:56 WE HAVE PULLED RESOURCES FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY,
11:56:00 WE'VE PULLED SQUADS FROM OTHER DISTRICTS, WE'RE DEPLETING
11:56:01 RESOURCES ELSEWHERE, JUST TO HANDLE YBOR CITY.
11:56:03 SO WE ARE LOOKING TO HAVE A PARTNERSHIP FOR A SHORT TIME,
11:56:07 GET THE COMMUNITY BACK ENGAGED AND LET THEM KNOW THE
11:56:10 CITIZENS KNOW WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T DO AND TRY TO SOLVE
11:56:13 THOSE PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY BECOME A BIGGER ISSUE LATER
11:56:16 DOWN THE ROAD WHICH IS WHY I INITIALLY PROPOSED THE 90
11:56:22 DAY PROGRAM, AND THE GROUP LIKED IT SO MUCH THEY WANTED
11:56:25 TO EXTEND IT THROUGH SPRING BREAK WHICH IS ANOTHER ISSUE
11:56:28 THEY HAVE HAD IN THE PAST AS WELL.
11:56:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO THIS PROGRAM, IT'S NOT OFF-DUTY
11:56:32 OFFICERS, IT'S ON-DUTY?
11:56:34 >> CORRECT.
11:56:35 THIS WOULD BE OVERTIME POSITIONS.
11:56:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WELL, I GUESS JUST AS LONG AS WE ARE
11:56:38 LOOKING AT IT AS SORT OF A BAND-AID AND A SHORT-TERM
11:56:42 PROGRAM, AND WE ARE GOING TO BRING IT BACK, TO REVISIT IT
11:56:49 WHEN?
11:56:50 >> THAT WOULD BE UP TO YOU IF YOU ARE GOING TO REVISIT.
11:56:53 RIGHT NOW IF WE GAINED APPROVAL ON IT TODAY IT WOULD GO
11:56:55 THROUGH APRIL 2021.
11:56:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO I AM SURE THAT WE'LL GET A REPORT
11:57:00 AT THAT POINT IN TERMS OF HOW IT WENT, WHAT THE FUTURE
11:57:03 MIGHT BE.
11:57:05 >>THE CLERK: JIM CREW, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.
11:57:09 IF THE CAPTAIN COULD PUT HIS NAME ON THE RECORD.
11:57:12 >> CAPTAIN BRETTO -- DISTRICT 3.
11:57:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND I AM GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP ABOUT
11:57:20 THE PARTIES IN THE PARKING LOT BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA,
11:57:23 YBOR CITY HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH CERTAIN AREAS THAT WITHIN
11:57:26 A MATTER OF 20 TO 30 MINUTES YOU WOULD HAVE 250 PEOPLE NO
11:57:30 PARKING LOT COMPLETE WITH BARBECUE AND ALCOHOL DRINKING
11:57:36 THAT HAS BEEN PLAGUING YBOR CITY FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE
11:57:39 KNOWN, FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH YBOR
11:57:41 CITY.
11:57:41 THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
11:57:42 AND I AM HOPING THAT THIS EFFORT WILL HELP CONTROL THAT.
11:57:47 THANK YOU.
11:57:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:57:50 I AGREE WITH OF THE GOOD CAPTAIN WHEN HE WAS TALKING
11:57:53 ABOUT, POLICE OFFICERS THAT ARE COVERING THE CITY, IN ALL
11:57:59 AREAS OF THE CITY AT THAT TIME.
11:58:00 AND THE EVENTS THAT ARE GOING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THESE
11:58:04 THINGS, I TALKED TO SOME OF THE BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEY
11:58:07 ARE HAVING PARTIES WITHIN PARTIES IN THEIR OWN PARKING
11:58:09 LOT, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES -- AND AFTER CLOSING HOURS,
11:58:13 THEY CONTINUE TO STAY THERE, AND THEY WANT TO PARTY.
11:58:15 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND HOPE THEY ARE HAVING GOOD
11:58:19 CLEAN FUN.
11:58:20 BUT THE CAPTAIN IS RIGHT.
11:58:21 YBOR CITY NEEDS SOME ATTENTION.
11:58:23 AND IT SHOULD BE GRANTED IN SOME FORM.
11:58:25 AND THIS IS A WAY FOR A THREE-MONTH PILOT PROGRAM, WE CAN
11:58:30 SEE IF IT WORKS.
11:58:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
11:58:34 >>LUIS VIERA: JUST PREPARED TO OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT THIS.
11:58:36 I THINK IT ALSO GOES TO THE QUALITY OF SERVICE THAT OUR
11:58:40 CONSTITUENTS DESERVE AND EXPECT WHENEVER IT COMES TO
11:58:43 PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:58:44 AND I THINK THIS SPEAKS TO THAT.
11:58:45 SO THANK YOU.
11:58:47 CAPTAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
11:58:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
11:58:51 >> SECOND.
11:58:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION?
11:58:55 >> NO, SIR.
11:58:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
11:58:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK THIS WILL HELP.
11:59:07 I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF ISSUES GOING ON.
11:59:08 YOU CAN'T GET OFFICERS TO WORK.
11:59:10 OFFICERS -- THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS ONE OF THOSE
11:59:17 ORGANIZATIONS WE FOLLOW ORDERS.
11:59:19 THIS IS ANOTHER WAY OF GETTING POLICE TO BE ABLE TO BE A
11:59:22 PART OF THAT.
11:59:26 YOU SAY EXTRA DUTY.
11:59:27 IT'S HARD FOR THE GUYS TO WORK EXTRA DUTY ESPECIALLY
11:59:29 YOUNGER TROOPS NOW.
11:59:30 THEY WANT THEIR REGULAR HOURS, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO DO
11:59:33 A LOT OF EXTRA.
11:59:35 I STRUGGLED SO I WORKED EXTRA DUTY A LOT.
11:59:37 SO THAT'S A BIG KEY COMPONENT BY MAKING A SQUAD, SELECT
11:59:42 SOME GUYS.
11:59:45 >> SIX OFFICERS.
11:59:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SOLD THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME GUYS
11:59:51 WHO WILL WORK, AND THESE GUYS WILL BE A SQUAD TO TACKLE
11:59:59 SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
12:00:00 BUT THAT'S JUST FOR THE OVERTIME AND SAYING YOU ARE GOING
12:00:05 TO WORK EXTRA DUTY, AND BARS CAN'T GET PEOPLE TO WORK.
12:00:09 SO I AM GOING TO SUPPORT IT.
12:00:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHT ON THAT.
12:00:14 IT'S WASN'T AWARE OF THAT.
12:00:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALSO JUST FOR THE RECORD, YEARS OF
12:00:20 WATCHING, MR. MASSEY, WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT ISSUE AS TO
12:00:24 HOW WE ARE ABLE TO DO AS A CRA BOARD TO GRANT THAT?
12:00:27 BECAUSE IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST ABOUT SERVICES,
12:00:33 GENERAL FUNDS SERVICES.
12:00:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: UNDER THE CRA STATUTE, WE ARE ALLOWED
12:00:37 TO USE CRA FUNDS FOR POLICING STRATEGIES, INNOVATIONS.
12:00:42 SO THAT WOULD FALL UNDER THIS.
12:00:44 AND INNOVATION AND DESIGN BY REDUCING OPPORTUNITIES FOR
12:00:50 AND INCREASING THE RISK OF ENGAGING IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
12:00:53 THROUGH THE VISIBLE PRESENCE OF POLICE IN THE COMMUNITY.
12:00:57 SO THIS WOULD ADD TO PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF THE POLICE.
12:01:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK MR. MIRANDA MOVED THE MOTION.
12:01:11 SECONDED BY MR. CITRO.
12:01:12 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:01:14 ROLL CALL.
12:01:16 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:01:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:01:20 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:01:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:01:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:01:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:01:25 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:01:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND CAPTAIN, HOPEFULLY WE CAN ALSO LOOK
12:01:33 AT ILLEGAL PARKING.
12:01:35 ON THE -- SHOP OWNER SAID THANK YOU.
12:01:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MS. VAN LOAN.
12:01:43 I'M READY.
12:01:43 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM 7.
12:01:46 WE ARE HERE.
12:01:48 THIS IS OUR SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT.
12:01:51 THIS IS THE CONTRACT BETWEEN CRA BOARD AND THE CITY OF
12:01:53 TAMPA.
12:01:55 IT IS BEING AMENDED TO UPDATE THE FUNDING FOR IT TO
12:01:58 INCLUDE THE EXTRA FUND FOR FULL TIME CRA MANAGER.
12:02:02 WE THOUGHT WE WOULD HAVE THE EXCESS TO A LITTLE BIT MORE
12:02:06 OF SERVICES IN DOWNTOWN CHANNEL DISTRICT FOR A LITTLE
12:02:09 LONGER PERIOD OF TIME, SO WE DID NOT FUND THE POSITION
12:02:13 FOR THE FULL YEAR.
12:02:13 SO THE UPDATED AGREEMENT INCLUDES THAT FULL FUNDING.
12:02:17 >> MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
12:02:21 >> SECOND.
12:02:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MIRANDA, SECOND BY CITRO.
12:02:26 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:02:27 ROLL CALL.
12:02:27 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:02:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:02:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:02:33 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:02:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:02:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:02:39 >> THE MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:02:43 >> ITEM 8 IS A FACADE GRANT AGREEMENT IN WEST TAMPA FOR
12:02:44 34,909 AND IS LOCATED AT 1723 WEST KENNEDY.
12:02:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
12:02:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVED BY MR. DINGFELDER.
12:02:52 SECONDED BY MR. MANISCALCO.
12:02:53 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:02:54 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:02:55 ROLL CALL.
12:02:56 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:03:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:03:01 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:03:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES IRONED.
12:03:04 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:03:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:03:06 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:03:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE ALREADY DEALT WITH ITEM 9.
12:03:14 NUMBER 10.
12:03:15 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: REPROGRAMMING IN EAST TAMPA,
12:03:17 REPROGRAMMING $35,000 TO REPLACE HISTORIC SIGNS ON
12:03:21 COLUMBUS BETWEEN NEBRASKA AND 14th STREET.
12:03:23 AND THIS WAS VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE BY CAC.
12:03:27 >> SO MOVED.
12:03:28 >> SECOND.
12:03:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MIRANDA.
12:03:30 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
12:03:31 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:03:33 ROLL CALL, MR. CLERK.
12:03:35 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:03:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:03:38 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:03:39 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:03:40 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:03:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:03:43 >> MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:03:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM 11 IS REPROGRAMMING IN CHANNEL
12:03:49 DISTRICT FOR A TECO RELOCATION AGREEMENT FOR TRANSMISSION
12:03:53 LINES THAT ARE MOSTLY IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY BUT ALSO
12:03:55 ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
12:03:57 THERE ARE TWO THIRD-PARTY AGREEMENTS WITH THE PRIVATE
12:04:00 PROPERTY OWNERS TO REIMBURSE US FOR THEIR PART OF THE
12:04:02 WORK AND YOU AS CITY COUNCIL ALREADY APPROVED THE ACTUAL
12:04:06 AGREEMENT SO THIS IS REPROGRAMMING OF THE FUND.
12:04:09 >> MOVE 11.
12:04:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MIRANDA.
12:04:13 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
12:04:15 DISCUSSION?
12:04:17 ROLL CALL.
12:04:49 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:04:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:04:53 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:04:55 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:04:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:04:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:04:20 >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING
12:04:25 ABSENT.
12:04:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 12 IS A CLEAN-UP
12:04:30 RESOLUTION TO REPROGRAM FOR FUNDS WITHIN DOWNTOWN.
12:04:32 IT'S TAKING THE LEFTOVER FUNDS FROM SIX LINE ITEMS FOR
12:04:36 PROJECTS ALREADY COMPLETED AND WE ALLOCATING THEM INTO
12:04:39 EXISTING LINE ITEMS.
12:04:42 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
12:04:43 >> SECOND.
12:04:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MIRANDA.
12:04:46 SECOND BY MR. CITRO.
12:04:47 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:04:49 ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:04:49 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:04:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:04:53 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:04:55 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:04:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:04:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:04:59 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:05:01 >> ITEM NUMBER 13 WAS TAKEN CARE OF EARLIER.
12:05:05 ITEM 14.
12:05:05 >> THE REPROGRAMMING FOR THE FULL YEAR SALARY FOR THE
12:05:10 MANAGER FOR DOWNTOWN DISTRICT CENTRAL PARK AND ACROSS
12:05:13 THOSE FOUR CRAs.
12:05:16 >> SO MOVED.
12:05:17 >> SECOND.
12:05:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE BY MIRANDA, SECOND BY
12:05:22 MANISCALCO.
12:05:23 DISCUSSION?
12:05:24 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:05:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:05:26 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:05:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:05:29 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:05:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:05:31 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:05:34 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM 17 IS THE WALK-ON ITEM FOR
12:05:39 JANUARY, OUR CRA BOARD IS NOT BEING HELD, OUR MEETING IS
12:05:43 NOT BEING HELD UNTIL JANUARY 21st AND YOU ARE MEETING
12:05:46 AS COUNCIL ON JANUARY 14th.
12:05:48 AT THAT TIME ON JANUARY 14th WE PLAN ON BRINGING YOU
12:05:50 THE CONTRACT FOR THE SAP UPDATE IN CHANNEL DISTRICT BUT
12:05:55 WE WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK TO YOU
12:05:58 SHOULD WE NEED ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
12:06:00 SO THIS IS A STOP GAP MEASURE THAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO
12:06:03 REPROGRAM AN ADDITIONAL 30,000 BECAUSE WE HAVE THE OPTION
12:06:06 TO GO UP TO $200,000.
12:06:09 WE ARE STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS.
12:06:10 I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THAT NUMBER WILL LAND BUT I WON'T
12:06:14 HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK TO YOU AND ASK FOR THE
12:06:16 FUNDS BEFORE WE ARE READY TO GO TO CONTRACT.
12:06:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOVE THE WALK-ON RESOLUTION.
12:06:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND BY MANISCALCO.
12:06:24 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:06:27 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:06:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:06:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:06:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:06:31 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:06:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:06:34 >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING
12:06:35 ABSENT.
12:06:36 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: STAFF THANKS YOU FOR YOUR TIME
12:06:40 TODAY.
12:06:41 >>LUIS VIERA: WE GO TO INFORMATION REPORTS AND NEW
12:06:43 BUSINESS.
12:06:43 MR. VIERA.
12:06:44 >>LUIS VIERA: NOTHING SIR.
12:06:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO.
12:06:49 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
12:06:51 LEADERSHIP TODAY, SIR.
12:06:52 IT'S NOT A MOTION BUT JUST A COMMENTARY, AS WE ALL KNOW,
12:06:56 WE RECEIVED CONTINGENT ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH
12:07:00 TRANSPORTATION, MONEY TO EXPAND AND MODERNIZE THE
12:07:03 STREETCAR SYSTEM.
12:07:04 WHICH IS WONDERFUL BECAUSE I LOVE THE STREET CAR.
12:07:06 IF YOU LOOK AT THE RENDERINGS AND THE DISCUSSION THAT I
12:07:08 HAVE HEARD, IT'S A MODERNIZED SYSTEM.
12:07:11 I WAS IN DALLAS TWO YEARS AGO TO CHECK OUT THE DART
12:07:16 SYSTEM AND THEY HAVE THE MODERNIZED STREET CAR SYSTEM
12:07:19 WHICH WORKS GREAT, FOR $6 I WENT ALL OVER THE CITY,
12:07:23 WITHOUT ANY ISSUE.
12:07:26 BUT WE HAVE THE HISTORIC STREETCAR.
12:07:28 WE HAVE A SPECIFIC DESIGN.
12:07:29 AND THAT STREETCAR GOES THROUGH YBOR CITY.
12:07:31 THAT STREET CAR GOES THROUGH DOWNTOWN.
12:07:34 THAT STREET CAR PASSES BUILDINGS THAT ARE BRICK STREETS
12:07:37 THAT ARE BRICK, GRANITE CURBS, HISTORIC ITEMS WE HAD FOR
12:07:42 WELL OVER A CENTURY.
12:07:43 SO MY SUGGESTION IS JUST A COMMENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION
12:07:46 OR WHOMEVER IS LISTENING IS THAT WE DO HAVE THIS MONEY
12:07:49 HOPEFULLY COMING IN, BUT THEY HOPEFULLY SPEAK UP AND
12:07:54 MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE EXISTING
12:07:57 STREETCAR SYSTEM BECAUSE I THINK THAT ADD TO THE
12:07:59 CHARACTER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, HISTORICALLY TO WHAT YBOR
12:08:02 CITY AND TAMPA WAS, AND AS WE EXPAND THAT, I WANT TO SEE
12:08:07 THE EXISTING STREET CAR GOING THROUGH TAMPA HEIGHTS,
12:08:10 GOING THROUGH YBOR, THOSE BRICK STREETS AND GRANITE CURBS
12:08:15 AND EVERYTHING I ALREADY MENTIONED.
12:08:17 I WANTED TO BRING THAT UP.
12:08:18 BUT WHOEVER IS LISTENING I HOPE THAT RESONATES WITH THEM.
12:08:22 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:08:25 IT MAINTAINS THAT LOOK LIKE SAN FRANCISCO DOES, LIKE NEW
12:08:28 ORLEANS DOES, YOU KNOW, THE CHARACTER OF THE
12:08:30 NEIGHBORHOOD.
12:08:32 THAT'S IT.
12:08:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER.
12:08:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE.
12:08:40 TRYING TO SAY THAT FOR THE LAST YEAR, ABOUT THIS UPGRADE.
12:08:44 AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IT'S UPGRADED.
12:08:48 I THINK ITSELF IMPORTANT THAT IT MOVES FASTER, ETC.
12:08:50 BUT IT DOES BOTHER ME WHEN I LOOKED AT THAT RENDERING AND
12:08:54 IT'S KIND OF LIKE JETSON LOOKING.
12:08:56 LITERALLY THEY SHOWED THE RENDERING IN FRONT OF AN YBOR
12:09:00 BUILDING, STRANGELY IRONIC.
12:09:03 SO, ANYWAY, I THINK WE JUST NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT,
12:09:08 BE VIGILANT AND LET OUR FEELINGS BE KNOWN.
12:09:11 ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY MENTION YBOR AT THE CEREMONY, LIKE
12:09:18 GENOWINE AND THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS, THE HISTORIC STREET
12:09:23 CAR. ANYWAY, MR. CHAIRMAN, TWO THINGS.
12:09:26 ONE, I WANTED TO MENTION ESPECIALLY TO THE COMMUNITY BUT
12:09:30 ESPECIALLY TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, THAT THIS EVENING
12:09:33 THERE IS A MENORAH LIGHTING FOR HANUKKAH AT 5 P.M. AT
12:09:41 CITY HALL AND I WAS HONORED THE MAYOR ASKED ME TO
12:09:44 PARTICIPATE.
12:09:44 I THINK THAT INCLUDES GETTING UP ON ONE OF THOSE LIFTS,
12:09:48 YOU KNOW.
12:09:50 AND I'M NOT SURE IF SHE'S TRYING TO GET RID OF ME.
12:09:53 BUT ANYWAY --
12:09:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT TIME IS THAT?
12:09:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT'S 5 P.M.
12:09:59 I AM GOING TO BE A FEW MINUTES LATE COMING BACK TO CITY
12:10:01 COUNCIL BUSINESS.
12:10:02 THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION WHICH WAS DEFINITELY
12:10:04 A CITY-WIDE ISSUE, AND I THINK WE PROBABLY ALL GOT IT ON
12:10:08 OUR PHONE, BUT THE BOIL WATER ORDER HAS BEEN LIFTED.
12:10:14 SO ANYBODY WHO IS LISTENING, THE CITY STAFF AWARDED --
12:10:20 THE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED QUICKLY WHEN A CONTRACTOR HIT
12:10:23 OUR WATER MILE-PER-HOUR WHICH CAUSED THIS PROBLEM FOR THE
12:10:25 LAST TWO OR THREE DAYS, AND THE WATER DEPARTMENT
12:10:28 RESPONDED, PATCHED UP THE PAPER IMMEDIATELY, BUT UNDER
12:10:32 STATE LAW OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION WEIGHED TO BOIL
12:10:36 WATER.
12:10:37 FOR THE LAST 48-PLUS HOURS.
12:10:41 BUT I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ON BEHALF OF THE CITY THAT
12:10:45 AT LEAST I HOPE I AM RIGHT, BUT I READ IT ON MY PHONE A
12:10:48 MINUTE AGO THAT THE BOIL WATER --
12:10:52 >>> IT'S GONE AND THE WATER HAS BEEN TESTED MULTIPLE
12:10:54 TIMES, SO IT'S SAFE TO DRINK.
12:10:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S IT.
12:10:58 AND LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING MR. JOHNSON HERE WITH THAT
12:11:00 COMMENDATION SOON.
12:11:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
12:11:05 VERY QUICKLY, I AGREE WITH BOTH COUNCIL MEMBERS
12:11:08 MANISCALCO AND DINGFELDER.
12:11:10 MY CONVERSATION WITH MR. VIK BHIDE YESTERDAY, IN CHARGE
12:11:14 OF MOBILITY, ASKED HIM IF THE ORIGINAL STREETCARS ARE
12:11:19 VINTAGE STREETCARS THAT ARE GOING TO BE TAKEN OUT OF
12:11:21 SERVICE, AND HE SAID NOT COMPLETELY.
12:11:23 SO I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN EAST
12:11:25 TAMPA AND DOWNTOWN THAT WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
12:11:29 I THINK TWO PEOPLE SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED ON THEIR HARD
12:11:34 EFFORT IN TAKING CARE OF THE WATER MAIN BREAK THAT WAS
12:11:37 BROKEN BY ANOTHER PARTY, AND THAT'S MR. BRAD BAIRD AND
12:11:41 MR. CHUCK WEBER.
12:11:43 BRAD BAIRD IS THE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, AND CHUCK WEBER
12:11:47 IS DIRECTOR OF THE WATER DEPARTMENT.
12:11:48 BOTH OF THEM ACTED VERY, VERY QUICKLY AND GOT THIS JOB
12:11:52 COMPLETED EFFICIENTLY, EFFECTIVELY, AND IN RAPID TIME.
12:11:56 SO CONGRATULATIONS GOES OUT TO BOTH OF THEM.
12:11:59 AND AGAIN HAPPY HANUKKAH TO EVERYONE.
12:12:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE SIR.
12:12:06 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:12:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO SAY HAPPY HANUKKAH, MERRY
12:12:11 CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU, TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
12:12:14 A LOT OF INFORMATION, A LOT OF THINGS COMING TO BOTH
12:12:19 CRAs.
12:12:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I HAVE ONE OTHER ITEM.
12:12:25 I JUST SAW IT.
12:12:27 EXCUSE ME, GUIDO.
12:12:34 I HAD A REQUEST FROM THE STRAZ TO ADD AN AGENDA ITEM ON
12:12:38 THE JANUARY AGENDA FOR THE CRA TO DISCUSS FUTURE
12:12:43 POSSIBILITIES WORKING WITH THE STRAZ AND THE CRA.
12:12:48 SO THAT'S A LITTLE VAGUE RIGHT NOW BUT WE'LL PROBABLY
12:12:50 MEET UP IN JANUARY.
12:12:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DO YOU HAVE A DATE?
12:12:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THE CRA MEETING.
12:12:58 >> MOTION BY MR. DINGFELDER. SECOND BY MR. MIRANDA.
12:13:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL IN FAVOR?
12:13:07 MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
12:13:10 >>> SO MOVED.
12:13:11 >> MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY MR. MANISCALCO.
12:13:13 SECONDED BY MR. DINGFELDER.
12:13:15 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:13:16 MOTION CARRIED.
12:13:16 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
12:13:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE 60 REGISTERED SPEAKERS FOR
12:13:21 TONIGHT, JUST AN FYI. SIXTY.
12:13:25 SO DON'T MAKE ANY PLANS FOR TOMORROW.
12:13:26 (MEETING ADJOURNED.)
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