CITY OF TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021
9:00 A.M.
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09:01:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING CITIZENS OF TAMPA.
09:01:23 THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE FIRST MEETING
09:01:26 OF THE YEAR, JANUARY 21, 2021, WILL NOW COME TO ORDER.
09:01:30 THIS MORNING, THE INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY MY GOOD
09:01:35 FRIEND AND FORMER COACHING BUDDY, PASTOR MULDROW.
09:01:40 YOUTH PASTOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHURCH OF FIRST BORN
09:01:42 IS ALSO A HUSBAND, FATHER, MENTOR, RETIRED EDUCATOR, 35
09:01:45 YEARS, AND COACH.
09:01:46 AS PRESIDENT OF SPORTSKIDS UNDERWOOD, THE FOUNDATION, IT
09:01:50 IS TO INSPIRE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS
09:01:54 AND DREAMS.
09:01:56 HE LOVES HIS FAMILY AND LOVES HIS COMMUNITY.
09:01:59 WELCOME TO THE PODIUM.
09:02:00 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:02:03 LET US PRAY.
09:02:08 GOD ALMIGHTY, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY IT.
09:02:11 YOU BLESSED US TO SEE.
09:02:13 THANK YOU FOR THIS CITY COUNCIL.
09:02:15 THANK YOU FOR THE TAMPA BAY, THE STATE, AND THE UNITED
09:02:18 STATES.
09:02:20 WE WISH YOUR BLESSINGS BE UPON US AS WE TRAVEL TO OUR
09:02:24 DESTINATIONS THAT WE WILL BE SAFE.
09:02:26 WE THANK YOU FOR OUR BLESSING FOR THIS MEETING TODAY.
09:02:30 IN YOUR NAME WE PRAY.
09:02:32 AMEN.
09:02:32 (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE)
09:02:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELCOME.
09:02:50 ROLL CALL.
09:02:52 MR. VIERA CALLED ME AND SAID HE'S HAVING TROUBLE WITH HIS
09:02:55 VEHICLE THIS MORNING BUT IS ON HIS WAY.
09:03:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:03:01 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:03:02 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:03:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:03:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA IS ILL THIS MORNING AND
09:03:07 WILL NOT BE WITH US.
09:03:09 >>THE CLERK: AND GUDES.
09:03:11 WE HAVE A FULL QUORUM PRESENT.
09:03:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: PUBLIC COMMENT, SIR.
09:03:17 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, SIR.
09:03:18 THIS MEETING IS THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY AGENCY IS
09:03:23 BEING HELD DURING COVID-19 STATE OF EMERGENCY, A HYBRID
09:03:28 MEETING, MEANING THAT IT IS CONDUCTED LIVE WITH IN-PERSON
09:03:32 FORUM PRESENT WITH REMOTE PARTICIPATION, USING WHAT IS
09:03:35 REFERRED TO BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA AS COMMUNITY --
09:03:36 COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA TECHNOLOGY. THE MEETINGS ARE HELD
09:03:42 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EMERGENCY RULES OF PROCEDURE AS
09:03:45 ADOPTED BUILT CRA LAST MONTH BY RESOLUTION 2020-2022.
09:03:52 THE PUBLIC AND THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA ARE ABLE TO WATCH
09:03:55 AND REVIEW THIS ON CABLE TV, SPECTRUM CHANNEL 640 OR
09:04:00 FRONTIER CHANNEL 15 OR LIVE VIA INTERNET, WWW.TAMPA.GOV.
09:04:09 THERE ARE VARIOUS OPTIONS OF PARTICIPATION ALLOWED,
09:04:12 OBVIOUSLY IN PERSON AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, ALSO BY THE
09:04:16 INTERNET OR WEB, BY MAIL, BY VOICE MAIL, OR BY SPEAKING
09:04:20 REMOTELY DURING PUBLIC COMMENT OR DURING THE PUBLIC
09:04:23 HEARING FOR BOTH OR PARTICIPATING IN CMT OR AT THE KIOSK
09:04:29 AT THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER.
09:04:30 PUBLIC COMMENT IS GENERALLY LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES AT
09:04:36 THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD'S DISCRETION.
09:04:38 AND THAT IN SUM IS OUR RULES REGARDING PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:04:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
09:04:45 ANY PUBLIC COMMENT THIS MORNING?
09:04:46 >> THERE'S NO REGISTERED SPEAKERS AND WE DID NOT RECEIVE
09:04:48 ANY RECORDED VOICE MAILS.
09:04:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC FOR PUBLIC
09:04:52 COMMENT?
09:04:53 SEEING NO ONE, WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG.
09:04:57 STAFF REPORTS.
09:04:57 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE WE GO INTO STAFF REPORTS, I DO
09:05:01 WANT TO MENTION A COUPLE OF MINOR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA.
09:05:04 ONE RELATIVE TO ITEM 7, YOU HAVE ON YOUR TABLE AND I HAVE
09:05:09 GIVEN TO THE CLERK A SUBSTITUTE AGREEMENT.
09:05:12 THE AGREEMENT THAT WAS PUT INTO SIRE DID NOT INCLUDE
09:05:16 EXHIBIT A.
09:05:19 THAT IS THE ONLY CHANGE.
09:05:21 I WOULD ASK THAT YOU MOVE THE SUBSTITUTE AGREEMENT THAT'S
09:05:24 ON YOUR DESK WITH THE CRA SECRETARY, AND I BELIEVE MS.
09:05:32 VAN LOAN WILL SPEAK TO THIS, BUT ITEM 8, I BELIEVE YOU
09:05:35 ACTUALLY APPROVED AT YOUR LAST MEETING, SO IT DOES NOT
09:05:41 NEED TO BE APPROVED AT THIS MEETING.
09:05:42 IS THAT CORRECT?
09:05:44 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THAT'S CORRECT.
09:05:45 WE APPROVED IT AS A WALK IN AT THE SEPTEMBER 10th CRA
09:05:49 MEETING.
09:05:49 >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE ASK THAT YOU APPROVE THE AGENDA WITH
09:05:52 THE MODIFICATION.
09:05:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVE TO APPROVE THE AGENDA?
09:05:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:05:59 >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
09:06:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO MOVED, SECOND BY MR.
09:06:05 CARLSON.
09:06:05 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:06:08 MOTION PASSED WITH NO OPPOSITION.
09:06:09 STAFF REPORTS.
09:06:10 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE'LL START OUR MORNING WITH MR.
09:06:14 THOMAS MURPHY FROM THE CENTRAL PARK CRA AS OUR COMMUNITY
09:06:18 SPEAKER THIS MORNING.
09:06:18 >> THOMAS MURPHY: CENTRAL PARK CRA, PRIMARILY THE URBAN
09:06:33 GARDEN.
09:06:34 SINCE THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE IN OCTOBER, THERE'S BEEN A
09:06:36 LOT OF -- I NEED MY SLIDES UP -- THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF
09:06:42 PROGRESS.
09:06:42 ONE OF THE BIGGEST HURDLES THAT THEY HAVE HAD TO WORK
09:06:45 WITH HAS BEEN DIGGING UP A LOT OF CEMENT FROM THE SITE
09:06:50 THAT WAS THERE BEFORE, SO THEY CAN KIND OF HOLD BACK A
09:06:53 FEW MONTHS ON THAT, BUT THEY ARE AT ABOUT A 95% CAPACITY
09:06:56 FOR ALL OF THEIR CROPS THAT ARE THERE.
09:06:59 SO THAT'S EXCITING.
09:07:00 A LITTLE BIT OF BACK STORY ON THAT.
09:07:02 I GOT THE THA AND SCHOOL BOARD HAD PROPOSED AN IDEA FOR
09:07:08 THIS URBAN GARDEN AT THAT SITE.
09:07:10 THE THREE FARMERS, STRATIS, KRISTIN AND JOE, HAD ALL
09:07:12 GOTTEN TOGETHER AND PUT IN THEIR BID FOR THIS.
09:07:14 STARTED ACTUALLY A FEW YEARS AGO, BUT COVID, THE
09:07:20 PERMITTING, LOTS OF ROADBLOCKS, BUT WE ARE ALMOST THERE.
09:07:24 THEY ARE LOOKING TO DO A FEBRUARY 9th GRAND OPENING
09:07:26 INVITING ALL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO COME.
09:07:28 I BELIEVE MAYOR CASTOR IS GOING TO BE THERE AS WELL SO
09:07:30 IT'S GOING TO BE EXCITING TO COME DOWN AND SEE IT.
09:07:32 ALL OF THESE GREENHOUSES THAT YOU SEE IN THESE PICTURES
09:07:35 RIGHT HERE ARE ALL BRAND NEW.
09:07:36 THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO HAVE A SPECIAL -- NO ONE IN TOWN HAD
09:07:47 REALLY HAD PERMITTING FOR GREENHOUSES IN THE DOWNTOWN
09:07:51 URBAN CORE.
09:07:51 THIS IS ALL STRAWBERRIES THAT THEY HAD PLANTED SO YOU DO
09:07:54 HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SLOWER SEASON RIGHT NOW BUT THEY
09:07:56 ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING TO REALLY PICK UP IN OCTOBER.
09:07:59 TONS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRODUCE, LETTUCE, ONIONS,
09:08:03 TOMATO, CABBAGE.
09:08:05 THE LIST GOES ON.
09:08:06 OUR CAC ACTUALLY HELPED THEM WITH GETTING FUNDING FOR
09:08:09 THEIR SHELTER BASICALLY, SO IT'S GOING TO BE A LARGE
09:08:13 BUILDING THAT HAS ONE SIDE FOR THEIR VEGETABLE AND FOOD
09:08:17 PREP, WASHING THE VEGETABLES AND THE OTHER SIDE IS GOING
09:08:20 TO BE A COMMUNITY STORE, SO THE PUBLIC WILL BE ABLE TO
09:08:22 COME IN AND BUY THE FRESH ORGANIC PRODUCE THAT'S GROWN ON
09:08:25 THIS SITE AS WELL AS ANOTHER FARM THAT'S IN THE AREA.
09:08:29 ALL ORGANIC AS WELL.
09:08:31 THERE WAS A THIRD FARM THAT THEY HAD PLANNED TO GET SOME
09:08:34 DIFFERENT PRODUCE, BUT SOME THINGS DIDN'T WORK OUT WITH
09:08:37 THAT.
09:08:37 SO IT'S A LITTLE TIGHT NOW WITH THE WAY THE PRODUCE IS
09:08:41 GOING BECAUSE THE WAY THEY DO THEIR FOR-PROFIT IS THROUGH
09:08:45 A CARD, THAT MEMBERS CAN PURCHASE, ALMOST LIKE A DEBIT
09:08:49 CARD, I GUESS.
09:08:50 YOU PUT $250 ON IT AND THEN YOU GET FIRST PRIORITY PICK
09:08:53 OF THE VEGETABLES AS THEY COME UP.
09:08:55 YOU CAN ORDER THEM ONCE A WEEK ON LINE AND THEN PICK THEM
09:08:58 UP ON SATURDAYS.
09:08:59 THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A STORE THERE.
09:09:01 SO REALLY HOPING TO GET THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED WITH THAT.
09:09:04 I KNOW THAT THERE'S TONS OF PEOPLE THAT WALK BY ALL THE
09:09:07 TIME AND PEEKING IN TO LOOK AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
09:09:09 ONE OF THE GREAT PROGRAMS THEY ARE GOING TO OFFER AS
09:09:11 WELL, THE NAME ON IT THERE IS THE FRESH ACCESS BUCKS
09:09:17 PROGRAM, SO SNAP AND EBT WILL DOUBLE ITS VALUE AT THIS
09:09:20 LOCATION.
09:09:20 SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S NICE AS WELL.
09:09:23 BUT THERE'S A LOT THAT'S GOING ON AT CENTRAL PARK. I
09:09:25 DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE HAS TAKEN A DRIVE DOWN THERE LATELY
09:09:28 BUT THERE'S SO MANY NEW BUILDS GOING ON DOWN THERE.
09:09:30 I THINK NORVELL IS GOING TO GO OVER A FEW OF THOSE BUT
09:09:35 IT'S CRAZY.
09:09:36 I'M EXCITED.
09:09:37 I THINK IT'S AWESOME.
09:09:38 I THINK FOR A LONG TIME THIS IS KIND OF A DESERT, AFTER
09:09:42 ALL, ON HOUSING TORN DOWN, THE SCHOOL WAS TORN DOWN, IT'S
09:09:45 JUST KIND OF NOT REALLY BEEN A DESTINATION FOR A WHILE
09:09:48 AND NOW IT'S REALLY PICKING UP AND IT'S REALLY EXCITING,
09:09:53 TO SEE THE BASKETBALL COURTS BEING USED MORE, THERE'S
09:09:56 FAMILIES DOWN THERE HAVING PICNICS, TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I
09:09:58 WOULD WALK THROUGH YOU DIDN'T SEE A THAT AS MUCH SO
09:10:01 THAT'S REALLY EXCITING AND THERE ARE A LOT MORE KIDS DOWN
09:10:04 THERE, SO IT'S REALLY NICE.
09:10:05 AND I HAD GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH THE OWNER OF W. SMITH
09:10:09 BARBERSHOP, HIS BUSINESS WAS DOWN THERE, BUT
09:10:11 UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S NOT A LOT OF FILLED COMMERCIAL
09:10:14 SPACE AT THE CENTRAL PARK ON CORE BUILDINGS SO THAT WILL
09:10:20 BE SOMETHING IN THE NEW YEAR AS WELL.
09:10:22 BUT HERE IS AN EXAMPLE THERE ON THE CORNER OF CENTRAL AND
09:10:24 I BELIEVE THAT'S ON HARRISON.
09:10:29 ONE OF THE NEW BUILDS AS WELL.
09:10:31 AND THEY ARE STILL IN THE WORKS FOR PUTTING A GROCERY
09:10:33 STORE DOWN THERE.
09:10:34 I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF GROCERY STORE.
09:10:39 I KNOW WE HAVE PEOPLE AT CHANNELSIDE WHICH IS RIGHT
09:10:41 ACROSS THE RAILROAD TRACKS, BUT WHAT THEY ARE PUSHING FOR
09:10:43 IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE MORE AFFORDABLE
09:10:46 GROCERY LIKE AN ALDAY OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES
09:10:49 BECAUSE I NOTICE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM THE
09:10:51 COMMUNITIES DOWN THERE THAT THEY ARE REALLY LOOKING TO
09:10:54 HAVE A GROCERY STORE.
09:10:55 BUT IT'S A GREAT LITTLE AREA.
09:10:57 LIKE I SAID, IT HAS A LOT OF HISTORY THAT HASN'T BEEN
09:11:00 TOLD FOR A LONG TIME.
09:11:07 AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEIR STORY TOLD BECAUSE LIKE I
09:11:11 SAID, IT'S CRAZY DOING A LOT OF THE RESEARCH ON THERE AND
09:11:14 SEEING HOW THAT WAS A DOWNTOWN AREA A LONG TIME, BLACK
09:11:18 OWNED BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAD REALLY BUILT
09:11:20 ITSELF UP, AND UNFORTUNATELY WAS TORN DOWN WITH I-4, 275,
09:11:25 ALL THOSE.
09:11:25 IT'S HEART BREAKING TO ME.
09:11:27 BUT THE PAST IS THE PAST AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN WORK WITH
09:11:30 THE CITY TO MAKE THIS A DESTINATION SPOT AGAIN.
09:11:33 I TOOK SOME PICTURES IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA, THE JACKSON
09:11:36 HOUSE, BUT I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO BE AN ADVOCATE AND GET
09:11:43 THE CITY TO PICK UP ON THIS AND A LOT OF BLACK CULTURE
09:11:46 DOWN THERE.
09:11:47 WE HAVE A FEW OF THE DIFFERENT MONUMENTS THAT SPEAK ABOUT
09:11:49 COTTON CLUB AND THE STREETS THAT WERE DOWN THERE AT ONE
09:11:52 TIME, BUT I DON'T FEEL THAT'S ENOUGH.
09:11:54 THAT'S JUST A SMALL PORTION OF THAT.
09:11:55 SO I THINK WITH THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JACKSON HOUSE,
09:11:58 GETTING, YOU KNOW, MORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR MORE PEOPLE
09:12:01 TO COME DOWN TO THE CENTRAL PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN, AS
09:12:04 THINGS START COMING UP MORE AND MORE, IT'S GOING TO BE A
09:12:07 DESTINATION, BECAUSE IT'S A FANTASTIC LOCATION RIGHT
09:12:10 THERE AT THE PEAK OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA, CHANNELSIDE, YBOR,
09:12:19 DARRYL SHY RELEASING HIS PROPOSED PLANS FOR THE TAMPA
09:12:21 PARK APARTMENTS WHICH IS A HUGE PORTION OF THE CRA IS
09:12:24 GOING TO BE REALLY EXCITING TO SEE.
09:12:30 I KNOW -- DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
09:12:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO.
09:12:36 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS REALLY WONDERFUL.
09:12:37 IT'S EXCITING TO SEE.
09:12:39 AND THANK YOU EVERYBODY THAT'S TAKEN PART IN BRINGING
09:12:42 THIS TO FRUITION.
09:12:43 BECAUSE IT'S BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY, JUST AS YOU
09:12:45 EXPLAINED.
09:12:47 HOWEVER, IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT OUR PREDECESSORS WIPED
09:12:53 OUT AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WERE BASICALLY STARTING
09:12:56 FROM SCRATCH.
09:12:57 IT'S NOT MY FAULT OR YOUR FAULT.
09:12:59 I MEAN, WE WERE BORN AFTER THE FACT.
09:13:01 BUT THE JACKSON HOUSE, I MEAN, THAT'S ONE OF THE FEW
09:13:03 STRUCTURES THAT STANDS.
09:13:05 THEN YOU HAVE THE CHURCH THAT WAS RECENTLY RESTORED.
09:13:08 I THINK IT APPEARED IN ONE OF THE IMAGES THERE IN THE
09:13:10 CORNER.
09:13:10 BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS NEW.
09:13:12 BUT, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE LEADERSHIP BEFORE US HALF A
09:13:16 CENTURY JUST WIPED EVERYTHING OUT.
09:13:19 I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THE INTERSTATE COMING THROUGH AND
09:13:21 WHATNOT.
09:13:22 BUT THE INTERSTATE IS BLOCKS UP.
09:13:24 AND YOU SEE LIKE PERRY HARVEY PARK.
09:13:26 IT'S A BIG PIECE OF LAND.
09:13:27 BUT THAT WAS ALL -- IMAGINE A BLACK YBOR CITY.
09:13:30 THAT'S HOW I DESCRIBED IT.
09:13:32 BRICK BUILDINGS AND BUSTLING BUSINESSES, AND I UNDERSTAND
09:13:35 WE HAD RIOTS IN 67, AND I TALKED TO THE MAYOR FROM THE
09:13:39 1960s FROM THAT ERA, AND I SAID, HOW CAN YOU JUST WIPE
09:13:43 OUT A WHOLE AREA?
09:13:44 YOU KNOW, HE WAS THERE WHEN THE RIOTS WERE HAPPENING AND
09:13:46 RIGHT AFTER.
09:13:47 AND HE SAID, THEY WANTED US OUT, THEY WANTED US OUT,
09:13:50 PEOPLE WERE SELLING THEIR PROPERTY.
09:13:52 BUT IT'S LIKE SOMETHING THAT A GENTLEMAN TOLD ME, AND HE
09:13:56 PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR, AND HE SAID, HE WAS FROM YBOR
09:13:59 CITY, AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAME BACK TO YBOR CITY
09:14:03 YEARS LATER, AND WE ASKED, WELL, WHAT HAPPENED?
09:14:07 THIS IS BEFORE EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN YBOR NOW.
09:14:09 AND HE SAID WE HAPPENED.
09:14:11 AFTER WORLD WAR II WE CAME BACK AND WE WANTED BETTER SO
09:14:14 WE MOVED OUT OF THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE WENT OUT TO
09:14:17 OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND THEN 50 YEARS LATER WE CAME
09:14:19 BACK AND SAID, WHAT HAPPENED?
09:14:21 YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE DON'T, HOW SHOULD I PUT IT, FOCUS
09:14:25 ON PRESERVING THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, THINGS LIKE THAT
09:14:28 HAPPEN.
09:14:28 THANKFULLY, YBOR CITY, ALTHOUGH MUCH WAS DEMOLISHED, MUCH
09:14:33 AS IT IS TODAY, BUT IN TERMS OF THE CENTRAL AVENUE
09:14:35 BUSINESS DISTRICT, AND THIS WHOLLY CENTRAL PARK AREA, IT
09:14:38 WAS WIPED OFF.
09:14:39 HOWEVER, THE POSITIVE IS, WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHAT
09:14:41 EVERYBODY IS DOING NOW IS THEY ARE BUILDING A LIVE, WORK,
09:14:45 PLAY, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY.
09:14:47 YOU ARE GOING BACK TO THOSE ROOTS WHERE YOU ARE
09:14:49 BENEFITING THE COMMUNITY, OR YOU ARE OFFERING AMENITIES.
09:14:51 WHETHER IT'S THE PUBLIC, WHETHER IT'S THE GARDEN THAT YOU
09:14:55 ARE SHOWING, AT LEAST I THINK WE ARE LEARNING FROM OUR
09:14:57 PAST MISTAKES AND FOCUSING ON SOMETHING SUSTAINABLE THAT
09:15:00 WILL LAST GENERATIONS AND BENEFIT GENERATIONS.
09:15:04 THANK YOU.
09:15:04 >> ABSOLUTELY.
09:15:05 AND I AGREE 100%.
09:15:07 I THINK ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES OF CENTRAL PARK IS YOU LOOK
09:15:09 AROUND AND YOU SEE AT ONE TIME CHANNELSIDE WAS
09:15:12 WAREHOUSES, NOW LIKE A SMALL NEW YORK CITY.
09:15:14 DOWNTOWN WAS A GHOST TOWN.
09:15:15 NOW DOWNTOWN IS GREAT.
09:15:17 TAMPA PARK APARTMENTS ARE GOING TO BE IN YBOR.
09:15:19 WE ARE LOOKING AROUND AND SEEING EVERYONE AROUND US
09:15:23 BOOMING, AND CENTRAL PARK IS STILL JUST KIND OF NOT
09:15:25 REALLY A KNOWN AREA, REALLY NOT A LOT OF COVERAGE OF
09:15:28 WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE.
09:15:29 SO I REALLY WANT TO BE A VOICE FOR THAT AND INFORM YOU
09:15:32 GUYS ON WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE AND HAVE YOU GUYS TAKE
09:15:35 THE TIME TO TAKE A WALK DOWN THERE.
09:15:37 DON'T DRIVE DOWN THERE.
09:15:38 TAKE A WALK DOWN THERE BECAUSE YOU REALLY ABSORB SO MUCH
09:15:40 MORE WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AND SEE THESE BUILDINGS.
09:15:43 AND I'M SURE ANY OF YOU THAT KNEW ABOUT THAT, WHEN
09:15:47 CENTRAL PARK WAS DOWN THERE, AND IT BREAKS MY HEART, IT
09:15:50 REALLY DOES, TO SEE THAT HAPPEN, BECAUSE LIKE THE
09:15:52 COUNCILMAN SAID HERE, IT'S LIKE IMAGINE TEARING DOWN ALL
09:15:56 OF YBOR CITY.
09:15:56 I JUST DON'T SEE HOW THAT HAPPENED.
09:15:17 AND EVEN A COUPLE OF SMALL HOMES ON SCOTT STREET THAT I
09:15:20 EXPLAINED EARLIER, AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IF THE CITY
09:15:22 COULD INCORPORATE THOSE AND MAKE IT A MUSEUM ALMOST
09:15:26 LIKE THE HOMES ARE IN YBOR CITY AND SEE HOW THE CIGAR
09:15:27 ROLLERS LIVE.
09:15:29 A HUGE PART OF TAMPA HISTORY.
09:15:31 A BIG PART OF WHAT BUILT TAMPA.
09:15:34 AND IT IS TWO OF THOSE HOMES STILL EXISTING, AND I CAN
09:15:37 SEE THEM TEARING THEM DOWN, AND THAT IS ANOTHER PART OF
09:15:38 HISTORY THAT WOULD BE GONE.
09:15:42 I AM TRYING TO ADVOCATE TO PRESERVE AS MUCH AS WE CAN
09:15:44 ABOUT CENTRAL PARK.
09:15:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:15:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING.
09:15:52 I USED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE SWEETWATER GARDEN --
09:15:56 COMMUNITY GARDEN OVER THERE IN TOWN & COUNTRY, AND I
09:15:59 JUST -- I LOVED COMMUNITY GARDENS.
09:16:03 THEY ARE -- THEY ARE JUST -- THEY ARE SUCH GOOD SPIRIT
09:16:04 INVOLVED IN THEM.
09:16:07 I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE DOING -- DOING IT, AND ESPECIALLY
09:16:09 IN THE LOCATION THAT YOU ARE.
09:16:12 DID YOU HAVE A CHANCE -- DID YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GO TO
09:16:13 SWEETWATER?
09:16:15 >> YES, I AM FAMILIAR, YES.
09:16:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE FOR A COUPLE
09:16:21 OF YEARS, BUT ON SUNDAYS, WE USED TO HAVE NOT ONLY THE
09:16:24 FOOD -- THE FOOD SHARING BUT ALSO MUSIC AND THAT SORT
09:16:25 OF THING.
09:16:26 >> YEAH.
09:16:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS IN YOUR
09:16:30 PLANS, BUT THAT WHOLE COMMUNITY SPIRIT OF JUST GETTING
09:16:33 PEOPLE INVOLVED, AND LIKE YOU SAY, CREATING A FOCAL
09:16:38 PLACE AND HEALTHY LIVING AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT IS
09:16:40 FANTASTIC WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
09:16:43 >> TO PICK UP -- TO FOLLOW UP ON WHAT YOU SAID, ONE OF
09:16:47 THE ISSUES SOMEONE ELSE PROPOSED THE IDEA FOR A
09:16:50 COMMUNITY GARDEN BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD OWNED --
09:16:53 BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD DOES OWN IT AND COULDN'T HAVE
09:16:54 LIQUOR AND ALCOHOL.
09:16:57 SOMEBODY ELSE WANTED TO DO DINNER WITH WINE.
09:16:58 THAT WAS THE ONLY THING.
09:17:01 MUSIC, I AGREE 100%.
09:17:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WE USED TO HAVE AFTERNOON FOLK
09:17:07 MUSIC AND NO LIQUOR INVOLVED.
09:17:09 VERY FAMILY ORIENTED.
09:17:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:17:16 >>BILL CARLSON: CITRO WAS FIRST.
09:17:19 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CARLSON, GO AHEAD.
09:17:23 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU SAID JACKSON HOUSE WAS NOT IN YOUR
09:17:25 DISTRICT, BUT THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT.
09:17:27 CITY COUNCIL SAVED THE JACKSON HOUSE SEVERAL YEARS AGO
09:17:28 SLATED FOR DEMOLITION.
09:17:34 I THINK THE ONLY ONE OF US ON THE BOARD THEN WAS GUIDO.
09:17:38 -- AND MIRANDA AND VIERA WAS ALSO ON THERE, BUT LINDA
09:17:41 SAUL-SENA CAME BEFORE CITY COUNCIL AND PLEADED WITH
09:17:43 CITY COUNCIL TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF THE JACKSON HOUSE
09:17:44 AND IT WORKED.
09:17:46 AND THANK YOU TO THE PRIOR CITY COUNCIL.
09:17:48 THE REASON I BRING THIS UP.
09:17:51 I TALKED TO CHRISTINA PARKER AND THE HISTORY CENTER,
09:17:55 AND A COUPLE OF YOU TOOK TOURS OF THE JACKSON HOUSE.
09:18:02 TIME IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WHERE THEY CAN PEEL APART
09:18:05 THE WHOLE BUILDING AND X-RAYED IT AND SCANNED IT AND
09:18:09 TAKE THE BUILDING APART AND SCAN IT AND PUT NEW PIECES
09:18:11 FOR ONE'S THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED.
09:18:15 THE POINT I AM MAKING, THERE IS A TIME WHEN THE JACKSON
09:18:16 HOUSE WILL NOT BE THERE.
09:18:19 AND A LOT OF QUESTIONS -- CHRISTINA IS OUT THERE TRYING
09:18:23 TO RESPOND TO THEM AND IS ANYTHING HAPPENING?
09:18:23 IT IS.
09:18:26 AT SOME POINT THE JACKSON HOUSE WON'T BE THERE FOR A
09:18:27 FEW MONTHS.
09:18:30 WE ALL NEED TO BE AND THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE PART OF
09:18:32 THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS TO THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT
09:18:35 THE FACT IT IS NOT THERE IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE COME
09:18:38 BACK IN A GOOD FORM OR RENOVATED FORM.
09:18:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CITRO, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:18:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
09:18:45 I LOVE THE IDEA OF ALL THE REBUILDING OF THE COMMUNITY
09:18:46 GARDENS.
09:18:52 WE TALK OF THE DEMISE OF YBOR CITY BEING TIED INTO THE
09:18:53 INTERSTATE COMING THROUGH.
09:18:56 WHAT HURT YBOR CITY WAS THE AUTOMATION OF THE CIGAR
09:19:01 FACTORIES, AND WHEN WORK IS NOT IN A COMMUNITY,
09:19:04 COMMUNITY CANNOT THRIVE AND GROW.
09:19:08 WHAT TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, WHAT TYPE OF JOBS, WHAT TYPE
09:19:11 OF CAREERS IS THIS AREA HOPING TO GET SO THAT PEOPLE
09:19:13 WITH LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN THE SAME AREA.
09:19:15 DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS?
09:19:17 DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS, ANY THOUGHTS?
09:19:19 DOES THE COMMUNITY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS?
09:19:20 >> A GREAT QUESTION.
09:19:22 ONE IS THE GROCERY STORE.
09:19:24 THAT WILL CREATE EMPLOYMENT THERE.
09:19:28 I KIND OF MET WITH A ROADBLOCK, AND MET WITH THE
09:19:32 HOUSING AUTHORITY AND ASKED WHY THE COMMERCIAL SPACES
09:19:34 ARE VACANT, AND THEY HAVE PROPOSED PLANS TO HAVE A
09:19:39 MOVIE THEATRE AND ALONG THOSE LINES, BUT THEY HAVEN'T
09:19:40 COME TO FRUITION.
09:19:42 I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION AS FAR AS WHAT
09:19:46 WOULD BE A GOOD WORK-PLAY.
09:19:49 I TALK TO A LOT OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS DOWN THERE, AND I
09:19:52 AM TRYING TO GET, YOU KNOW, THAT BALL ROLLING AND GET
09:19:54 SUGGESTIONS FROM THEM AS WELL.
09:19:56 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THOUGHT OF THE TECH COMPANIES COMING
09:20:00 IN AND TEACH YOUNG AMERICANS HOW TO DO CODING.
09:20:01 >> YEAH.
09:20:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WHICH IS WONDERFUL WORK.
09:20:05 YOU SPEND SIX, EIGHT, TEN MONTHS LEARNING HOW TO CODE,
09:20:13 AND YOU WALK OUT AND EARN $70,000 TO $80,000 A YEAR.
09:20:17 >> A BUILDING ON GRECO ON 7TH THAT THE HOUSING
09:20:20 AUTHORITY BUILT -- BEFORE COVID HIT, THEY WERE
09:20:24 INCORPORATING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:20:29 MAYBE RESTAURANT, BACK-OF-THE-HOUSE FOOD PREP AND
09:20:34 ULTIMATELY TO GET JOB PLACEMENT IN YBOR CITY AND TO
09:20:37 HAVE CENTRAL PARK, GET YOUR TRAINING AND PLACED IN A
09:20:40 JOB PLACEMENT OF ONE OF THE RESTAURANTS IN YBOR.
09:20:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: FANTASTIC.
09:20:44 WE NEED ALL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TO MAKE SURE IT IS
09:20:45 COMPLETE.
09:20:46 >> 100%.
09:20:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:20:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. CITRO.
09:20:53 FOR ME, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THAT COMMUNITY AS A
09:20:54 MIXED LEVEL.
09:20:55 WE ARE NOT FORCING PEOPLE OUT.
09:20:58 PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO COME BACK THERE.
09:21:00 TALKED ABOUT THE WORK FORCE.
09:21:02 HE IS OF THE RIGHT OPINION WHEN YOU HAVE OPPORTUNITIES,
09:21:03 YOU STAY THERE.
09:21:05 YOU BUILD YOUR FAMILIES THERE.
09:21:08 YOU LOOK AT -- I LOOKED AT A LOT OF COMMERCIAL SPACE
09:21:15 DOWN -- AND WHEN I HEAR THAT IT IS KIND OF HIGH -- THE
09:21:15 RENT.
09:21:17 I HAVEN'T TALKED TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, BUT WHEN
09:21:20 TALKING ABOUT THE PLACE WHERE FOLKS NEED A START, MAYBE
09:21:23 NEED TO LOOK FOR A PROGRAM TO HELP SOME OF THOSE EMPTY
09:21:27 SPACES BE A START-UP FOR SOME OF -- RESIDENTS TO START
09:21:31 AND MAYBE A LITTLE CIGAR PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN LOUNGE
09:21:32 AROUND.
09:21:32 SOMETHING.
09:21:35 BUY SOME LITTLE KNICKKNACKS AND WHATEVER.
09:21:36 THOSE ARE STARTERS.
09:21:40 IF THAT'S -- A COMMUNITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE A COMMUNITY.
09:21:44 AND I AM HOPING TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT IF WHAT THEY
09:21:46 ARE SAYING THAT THE RENT IS SO HIGH, PEOPLE CAN'T
09:21:48 AFFORD TO BE THERE.
09:21:49 WE DON'T WANT THAT.
09:21:53 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO BE SURE WE HAVE SOMETHING
09:21:53 SUSTAINABLE.
09:21:57 THE HOTEL COMING ON BOARD AS WELL, RIGHT?
09:21:58 >> THERE IS ONE.
09:22:02 ONE LOT FOR A HOTEL THAT IS MORE SO THAN DOWNTOWN,
09:22:04 CORRECT.
09:22:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT YOU
09:22:06 ARE TALKING ABOUT.
09:22:07 YOU TALKED ABOUT THE KIDS.
09:22:09 I AM BIG WITH THE KIDS.
09:22:14 I WILL ASKING MISS VAN LOAN ABOUT KID MASON BECAUSE A
09:22:17 BIG THING -- I KNEW IT WOULD BE WITH CENTRAL PARK
09:22:18 COMING BACK.
09:22:21 THEY NEED A RECREATION CENTER TO GO TO, AND I WILL
09:22:22 ADVOCATE FOR THAT.
09:22:25 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, AND WE HOPE YOU STAY
09:22:28 INVOLVED LIKE YOU SAY YOU WOULD AND THIS COUNCIL -- AND
09:22:31 IF THIS BOARD CAN HELP, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY
09:22:33 IS GROWING IN THOSE COMMUNITIES.
09:22:34 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:22:38 >> THANK YOU, APPRECIATE YOU GUYS' TIME FOR INVITING
09:22:41 ME.
09:22:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER TWO, STAFF REPORTS.
09:22:50 GOOD MORNING, MISS ORR.
09:22:52 >>COURTNEY ORR: MANAGER FOR YBOR CITY.
09:23:01 I AM JUST WAITING FOR THE POWERPOINT TO COME UP.
09:23:04 POWERPOINT -- THERE WE GO.
09:23:05 YBOR CITY, PLEASE.
09:23:10 NEXT SLIDE.
09:23:13 SO THE LAST -- THE FIRST ITEM I MENTIONED IN MY LAST
09:23:17 REPORT AND THAT WAS THAT THE YBOR CAC WITH THE
09:23:20 COMMITTEE CHAIRS WHICH WE HAVE THREE COMMITTEES MET
09:23:27 WITH COUNCILMAN ORLANDO GUDES AND MAYOR JANE CASTOR,
09:23:34 AND I ANNOUNCED IT WAS HAPPENING ,AND IT TOOK PLACE AND
09:23:36 IT WAS APPRECIATIVE TO THAT GROUP.
09:23:38 WE APPRECIATE THAT PARTICIPATION.
09:23:41 THE YBOR ADVISORY GROUP LATER IN DECEMBER AND LATER
09:23:48 THIS MONTH, THIS BODY IMPROVED -- APPROVED THE STARTED
09:23:52 ON HALLOWEEN WEEKEND AND A SERGEANT AND SIX OFFICERS TO
09:23:56 PATROL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS FROM 10 P.M. TO 4
09:23:56 A.M.
09:24:02 AS REQUESTED CAPTAIN BRETT OWEN WILL APPEAR TO PROVIDE
09:24:06 AN UPDATE ON THE PROGRAM AND THE PROGRESS MADE TO DATE.
09:24:10 THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY
09:24:13 COMMITTEE IS CONVENING TO CREATE AN INNOVATIVE AND
09:24:17 COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR YBOR CITY.
09:24:21 SO FAR, WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS AND TPD AND
09:24:24 COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES WERE GATHERED TO INCORPORATE
09:24:29 INTO THE PLAN AND THEN CONSIDERATION TO REACTIVATE THE
09:24:33 FORMER TPD SUBSTATION OF CENTRO YBOR WAS SUGGESTED
09:24:36 ALONG WITH OTHER IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEMS.
09:24:39 THIS IS GOING TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE THAT
09:24:41 CONVENED AT 3:30 TODAY.
09:24:45 ONCE THE COMMITTEE IS AGREEABLE TO THE DRAFT PLAN THAT
09:24:49 IS CREATED A SIX-PAGE DOCUMENT WILL GO TO THE YBOR CAC
09:24:51 FOR APPROVAL ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 26.
09:24:59 AND THEN ON -- ON YOU EVENTUALLY.
09:25:04 WE HAVE CONTINUED WITH OUR COORDINATED QUARTERLY CRA
09:25:09 CITIZEN ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON MEETINGS, AND WE
09:25:10 HELD THAT ONE RECENTLY.
09:25:13 THE NEXT ONE WILL BE HELD IN MARCH AND LISTED ITEMS OF
09:25:19 SOME OF THE ITEMS DISCUSSED AMONG THE CAC CHAIRPERSONS.
09:25:22 STAFF -- OUR STAFF HAS ENGAGED WITH LEGAL TO DISCUSS A
09:25:24 HOST OF DISTRICT INTERESTS.
09:25:32 AND THOSE ARE LISTED HERE STAFF REVIEWED A NEW GRANT
09:25:37 PROGRAM AT 1514 EAST 7TH AVENUE.
09:25:43 AND WE -- STAFF HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH INVEST TAMPA BAY
09:25:46 WITH THE STATE OF YBOR CITY ECONOMY.
09:25:49 BY PARTICIPATING THE INTERVIEW HELPED ME TO APPRECIATE
09:25:51 REGARDLESS OUR CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE
09:25:54 ENVIRONMENT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW, YBOR HAS DONE QUITE
09:26:03 WELL WITH REGARD TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS.
09:26:11 ONE NEW EXCITING DEVELOPMENT IS THAT THE BARRIO LATINO
09:26:14 COMMISSION IN DECEMBER APPROVED A NEW DOG PARK TO BE
09:26:19 LOCATED 1804 EAST 4TH AVENUE.
09:26:22 AND LISTED ARE THE GOALS AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE
09:26:23 DEVELOPER.
09:26:27 AND THIS IS VERY KEY TO THE PROGRESS IN YBOR CITY THAT
09:26:29 WE ARE MAKING WITH -- WITH OPEN SPACE.
09:26:33 SO OPEN SPACE IS A TOP PRIORITY OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:26:37 SO THIS IS A VERY WELCOMED ADDITION.
09:26:41 I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
09:26:44 STAFF DID DECIDE TO REJECT TWO OF THE PROPOSALS THAT
09:26:47 WERE SUBMITTED FOR THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
09:26:51 DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 21ST AND 22ND STREETS OFF PALM
09:26:51 AVENUE.
09:26:56 IT WOULD HAVE INCORPORATED A VARIETY OF -- OF COUNTY
09:27:00 USES AS WELL AS OUR ENTREPRENEUR COLLABORATIVE CENTER
09:27:03 AND A VERY DESIRED PARKING GARAGE OVER ON THE EAST
09:27:04 SIDE.
09:27:06 SO FOR NOW, THAT IS NOT MOVING FORWARD.
09:27:10 THEY ARE GOING TO -- DUE TO COVID JUST RE-EVALUATE WHAT
09:27:14 IT IS THAT THEY TRULY WANT OUT OF OUR PROPOSAL AND
09:27:15 RESUBMIT EVENTUALLY.
09:27:19 I DON'T HAVE A TIMELINE ON THAT, BUT SOMETHING WE WERE
09:27:22 LOOKING FORWARD TO IS UNFORTUNATELY NOT GOING TO OCCUR
09:27:26 ANY TIME SOON.
09:27:28 WE HAVE SOME MOVEMENT ON -- MORE MOVEMENT OR MOMENTUM
09:27:32 ON THE 7TH AVENUE ARCHWAY LIGHT PROJECT.
09:27:36 SO THAT SECOND TO LAST BULLET IS ENGAGING AN ENGINEER
09:27:41 THAT WILL BE WORKING WITH US ON -- ON UNDERSTANDING THE
09:27:45 PAVER INVENTORY AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED OR
09:27:49 CORRECTED IN A SIDEWALK ENVIRONMENT WHEN THE 7TH AVENUE
09:27:53 ARCHWAY LIGHT PROJECT COMMENCES THAT WE ANTICIPATE TO
09:27:58 HAPPEN IN THE SPRINGTIME, SUMMERTIME OF THIS YEAR.
09:28:03 AND THEN PALM AVENUE MEDIAN ENHANCEMENTS PRIOR TO SUPER
09:28:06 BOWL JUST SPRUCING UP -- ONE OF THE MANY SPRUCING UP
09:28:12 PROJECTS WE ARE DOING PRIOR TO THE SUPER BOWL.
09:28:16 AND WITH REGARD TO MY EARLIER BULLET SPEAKING OF THE
09:28:19 INVEST TAMPA BAY ARTICLE INTERVIEW.
09:28:21 THESE WERE SOME OF THE BUSINESSES THAT I MENTIONED THAT
09:28:24 PROVE THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS DOING QUITE WELL IN
09:28:25 YBOR.
09:28:28 WE HAVE COPPER SHAKER THAT OPENED.
09:28:35 CEREAL HOLIC, CASA STEFANO, FOUNDATION COFFEE, HOT
09:28:39 COFFEE, BIG DADDY AND DADDY O'S PATIO.
09:28:42 THOSE ARE THE LISTED ESTABLISHMENTS THAT WILL BE
09:28:45 OPENING OR HAVE RECENTLY OPENED.
09:28:49 AND THEN WE -- LASTLY, WE ALWAYS CELEBRATE ECONOMIC
09:28:52 GROWTH OF THOSE BUSINESSES THAT THRIVE IN YBOR THAT
09:28:54 THEY ARE ABLE TO OPEN SECOND LOCATIONS.
09:28:59 SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO SUMMERLAND
09:29:03 GROVE THAT OPENED THEIR LOCATION IN SPARKMAN WHARF IN
09:29:03 THE NEAR FUTURE.
09:29:05 AND THAT ENDS MY REPORT.
09:29:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
09:29:10 >>COURTNEY ORR: YOU ARE WELCOME.
09:29:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
09:29:32 THANK YOU.
09:29:33 >>BRENDA THROWER: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:29:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
09:29:38 >>BRENDA THROWER: BRENDA THROWER, THE NEW INTERIM CRA
09:29:39 MANAGER FOR EAST TAMPA.
09:29:42 I AM GLAD TO BE WITH YOU.
09:29:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YOU ARE NEW?
09:29:44 YOU LOOK SO FAMILIAR.
09:29:46 >>BRENDA THROWER: I AM NEW.
09:29:47 I'M IN A DIFFERENT ROLE.
09:29:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: JUST ONE SECOND.
09:29:53 MADAM CLERK, NOTE THAT COUNCILMAN VIERA AND MR.
09:29:56 DINGFELDER ARE HERE ON THE DAIS.
09:29:58 >>THE CLERK: REPEAT THAT, SORRY?
09:30:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COUNCILMAN VIERA IS HERE AND
09:30:05 DINGFELDER AS WELL.
09:30:09 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
09:30:12 >>BRENDA THROWER: IT'S GOT SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT.
09:30:13 OKAY.
09:30:17 ANYWAY, GOOD MORNING, BRENDA THROWER WITH EAST TAMPA
09:30:18 CRA.
09:30:22 I COME TO YOU TODAY AS THE NEW INTERIM CRA MANAGER FOR
09:30:24 THAT CRA.
09:30:28 I AM COMING ON THE THROES OF THE RETIREMENT OF ED
09:30:31 JOHNSON WHO RETIRED AT THE END OF DECEMBER.
09:30:32 WE HAD A MANAGER TRANSITION.
09:30:35 I AM TEMPORARY, BUT I AM THERE TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.
09:30:36 I AM ENJOYING IT SO FAR.
09:30:39 I KIND OF STEPPED ACROSS THE INTERSTATE, I GUESS.
09:30:42 BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN IN YBOR SO LONG AND WORKING WITH
09:30:44 THAT COMMUNITY HAS BEEN EXCITING.
09:30:46 I HAVE BEEN THERE TWO WEEKS.
09:30:47 LET'S SEE.
09:30:48 NEXT SLIDE.
09:30:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: EXCUSE ME, MISS THROWER.
09:30:55 I RECALL YOU MADE A MOTION A WHILE BACK IN REFERENCE TO
09:30:56 COMMENDATION.
09:31:02 DO WE HAVE A SET DATE TO RECOGNIZE MRS. JOHNSON?
09:31:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHAT DO YOU GUYS KNOW, MICHELLE?
09:31:09 >> I SPOKE WITH MISS VAN LOAN, AND I BELIEVE MR.
09:31:12 JOHNSON WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FEBRUARY CRA MEETING
09:31:16 AND HAVE A COMMENDATION READY FOR HIM AND ON THE
09:31:17 AGENDA.
09:31:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE WILL HAVE THAT NOTED.
09:31:20 THANK YOU.
09:31:21 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
09:31:21 >>BRENDA THROWER: OKAY.
09:31:22 THANK YOU.
09:31:24 I WILL GIVE YOU A LITTLE REPORT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
09:31:26 EAST TAMPA.
09:31:29 NUMBER ONE, A VERY POPULAR PROGRAM WE HAVE, THE TREE
09:31:30 TRIMMING PROGRAM.
09:31:31 I KNOW YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT IT.
09:31:34 AND A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS ARE PARTAKING IN THIS
09:31:35 PROGRAM.
09:31:39 WE HAVE PROCESSED ABOUT 500 APPLICATIONS SINCE IT
09:31:40 BEGAN.
09:31:43 SO, TO ME, THAT IS A VERY POPULAR PROGRAM.
09:31:45 350 OF THESE APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN SENT OVER TO
09:31:48 CONTRACTORS AND THEY ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON IT.
09:31:52 WHEN I STEPPED INTO THE OFFICE, THIS SEEMED TO BE THE
09:31:56 AROUND-THE-CLOCK ACTIVITY THAT STAFF WAS DOING AND
09:31:59 WORKING HARD TO PROCESS THESE AND GET THE TREES
09:32:00 TRIMMED.
09:32:02 I WILL SHOW YOU PICTURES HERE -- ONE OF THEM DIDN'T
09:32:03 SHOW UP THERE.
09:32:07 THESE ARE SOME OF THE HOUSES -- TREES FOR SAFETY
09:32:08 PURPOSES, THEY ARE HANGING OVER HOUSES.
09:32:13 THEY ARE REALLY BEEN AN ISSUE WITH THE RESIDENTS AND
09:32:16 THEY ARE GET ASSISTANCE FOR IT.
09:32:19 THANK YOU FOR APPROVING AN ADDITIONAL $500.
09:32:22 SOMETIMES $2500 DOESN'T DO THE JOB AND SOME
09:32:25 CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE AN ADDITIONAL $500 COULD BE
09:32:26 WARRANTED.
09:32:29 AND WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE AS THEY COME ALONG.
09:32:33 JUST WITH ANY PROGRAM, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, THAT WE
09:32:36 WILL LOOK TO EVALUATE THIS PROGRAM.
09:32:39 YOU USUALLY DO IT AROUND THE YEAR MARK TO MAKE IT MORE
09:32:42 EFFICIENT TO LOOK HOW WE PROCESS THINGS TO MAKE IT
09:32:44 BETTER IN THE FUTURE.
09:32:46 THE OTHER THING THAT IS GOING ON -- IT IS AT THE END OF
09:32:50 THE SLIDE, BUT HAVING, OF COURSE, IN-PERSON AND
09:32:53 COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
09:32:55 THESE ALL TAKE AT REAGAN PARK.
09:32:59 WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR I.T. DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE
09:33:02 THESE MEETINGS RUN SEEMINGLY AND THERE IS GOOD AUDIO,
09:33:04 GOOD VISUAL AND SO FORTH.
09:33:07 I CREATED A MONTHLY CALENDAR.
09:33:10 I THOUGHT YBOR MEANT A LOT.
09:33:12 BUT EAST TAMPA HAS A LOT OF MEETINGS.
09:33:15 THEY HAVE A LOT OF SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND CREATED
09:33:19 SORT OF A ONE-PAGE MONTHLY CALENDAR SO WE COULD SEE
09:33:21 EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON AND WHERE THESE MEETINGS
09:33:25 ARE TAKING PLACE AND GET THOSE OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
09:33:27 NEXT.
09:33:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS THROWER, IS THAT COMMUNICATION
09:33:33 READY TO GO.
09:33:34 I AM HEARING ABOUT COMMUNICATION.
09:33:36 AND ARE WE GOING TO BE READY FOR THE NEXT MEETINGS SO
09:33:40 HAD THERE ARE NO ISSUES?
09:33:40 >>BRENDA THROWER: YES.
09:33:43 ALL THE COMMITTEES -- THE PARTNERSHIP HAS EIGHT
09:33:46 COMMITTEES, AND ALL COMMITTEES WERE STAFFED WITH CHAIR
09:33:49 AND THE LAST COMMITTEE PUBLIC SAFETY CHAIR, AND WE ARE
09:33:50 WAITING FOR THE DATES.
09:33:52 I ALREADY HAVE IT READY.
09:33:53 I HAVE IT PUBLISHED.
09:33:55 IT IS AT THE OFFICE WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR COMMITTEE
09:33:58 MEETINGS AND WE WILL GET IT OUT TO EVERYONE AS WELL.
09:34:03 I WILL MAKE SURE IT IS ON THE NEXT AGENDA SO EVERYBODY
09:34:04 KNOWS.
09:34:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE
09:34:09 EQUIPMENT WITH I.T. THAT RUN THE MEETING SO PEOPLE
09:34:12 VIRTUAL CAN HEAR IT, SEE IT, AND SO FORTH.
09:34:14 >>BRENDA THROWER: WE ARE WORKING ON THAT AND THAT WILL
09:34:21 BE UP AND RUNNING BY THE FEBRUARY 2 CAC MEETING.
09:34:24 NEXT ON THE LIST IS STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
09:34:27 SUCH AN EXCITING TIME FOR EAST TAMPA.
09:34:29 IT IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS STRATEGIC ACTION
09:34:31 PLAN.
09:34:33 THEY HAD PUBLIC OUTREACH.
09:34:36 THEY DID A KICKOFF IN DECEMBER.
09:34:39 COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU WERE THERE.
09:34:41 THEY DID A ZOOM MEETING.
09:34:47 PETE SEKLER CAME LAST MEETING TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT IS
09:34:48 GOING ON.
09:34:49 TWO THINGS HAVE HAPPENED.
09:34:53 THERE HAVE BEEN SURVEYS SENT OUT BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
09:34:56 THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, THROUGH THE
09:34:58 PARTNERSHIP AND THROUGH BUSINESSES AND CHURCHES.
09:35:00 THEY ARE GETTING THESE SURVEYS BACK, AND WE ARE GETTING
09:35:01 THE DATA ON THAT.
09:35:04 THE NEXT STEP -- WELL, THE OTHER THING THEY DID WAS THE
09:35:07 WEB SITE.
09:35:12 WE HAVE WEAREEASTTAMPA.COM.
09:35:16 IT IS BEING UPDATED REGULARLY, TELLING YOU WHAT IS
09:35:18 HAPPENING, WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE AND A REALLY
09:35:22 ATTRACTIVE WEB SITE SO FOLKS CAN GET THERE AND GET ALL
09:35:22 THE INFORMATION.
09:35:26 WE HAVE THE SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING EVENTS, AND IT IS ALSO
09:35:35 IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, AND THERE SHOULD BE NO LANGUAGE
09:35:36 IMPEDIMENTS.
09:35:38 THE NEXT STEP IS WALKING TOURS.
09:35:43 NEXT WEEKEND JANUARY 20.
09:35:45 BELMONT HEIGHTS IN COLLEGE HILL WHICH WE ARE GOING TO
09:35:49 MEET AT THE TPD, THE CRA OFFICE TO START THE TOUR.
09:35:54 AND THE NEXT TOUR AT THE JACKSON -- SORRY JACKSON
09:35:57 HEIGHTS, AND WE WILL START THAT TOUR AT THE CENTER.
09:36:02 AND THE PURPOSE OF THE TOUR TO WALK A MILE TO HEAR FROM
09:36:04 THE RESIDENTS WHAT IS GOING ON IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD,
09:36:06 WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
09:36:09 YOU KNOW, KIND OF IDENTIFYING ALL THE DIFFERENT NEEDS
09:36:12 OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:36:15 SO THAT IS KICKING OFF AND MAKE SURE EACH OF YOU HAVE
09:36:16 THAT SCHEDULE.
09:36:18 IT WILL BE ON THE WEB SITE BUT WE WILL BE COMMUNICATING
09:36:20 THIS OUT.
09:36:24 WE DID A SENTINEL AD LAST WEEK -- OR THIS WEEK AND
09:36:28 ANOTHER NOTICE TO ALL THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS TO GET
09:36:29 THAT OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
09:36:33 YOU WILL SEE A PRETTY PICTURE OF THE FOLKS AT THE
09:36:34 KICKOFF.
09:36:38 THAT IS THE KIND OF EXCITEMENT WE WANT TO SEE, THE
09:36:41 PARTICIPATION, AND THE NEXT STEP, OF COURSE, ARE THESE
09:36:42 WALKING TOURS.
09:36:44 SINCE WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER, THERE SHOULD BE NO
09:36:47 PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE COMING OUT WITH IT.
09:36:49 WE ARE AVOIDING SUPER BOWL WEEKEND.
09:36:53 WE DON'T BE DOING THAT WEEKEND JANUARY 30 AND THREE
09:36:54 WEEKENDS IN FEBRUARY.
09:36:55 MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
09:36:57 THIS IS A FUN, COLORFUL CHART.
09:37:01 I WANT EVERYONE TO BE AWARE THAT THIS PROJECT BEGAN --
09:37:05 SUPPOSED TO BEGIN IN OCTOBER AND KICKED OFF MORE IN
09:37:05 DECEMBER.
09:37:07 WHERE WE ARE IN THIS CHART, THE YELLOW.
09:37:09 THE BEGINNING OF THE CHART IS YELLOW.
09:37:13 PHASE TWO WHERE WE ARE DOING ALL THE PUBLIC INPUT AND
09:37:16 OUTREACH, AND WE WILL MOVE IN AS WE GET PAST THE SPRING
09:37:19 INTO THE SUMMER MONTHS INTO PHASE THREE WHERE WE WILL
09:37:22 REALLY START BRINGING A PLAN TOGETHER.
09:37:27 AND JUST SO -- I WANT TO GET THIS OUT TO YOU ALL
09:37:31 BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP IN A LOT OF MEETINGS.
09:37:35 A LOT OF FOLKS THINK THAT SAP IS BRICKS AND MORTAR,
09:37:37 IMPROVING THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THEIR COMMUNITY,
09:37:42 BUT THIS PLAN AND ALL STRATEGIC ACTION PLANS SHOULD
09:37:44 INCLUDE ALL THE ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE
09:37:47 COMMUNITY INCLUDING QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES.
09:37:51 A LOT OF MEETINGS I HAVE BEEN SITTING THROUGH HEARING
09:37:52 ABOUT THESE ISSUES.
09:37:55 THE CONSULTANT IS BRINGING ALL THE INFORMATION
09:37:58 TOGETHER, AND WE DID THIS IN YBOR WITH OUR VISION PLAN
09:38:01 AND THE SAME EFFORT HERE WITH EVERYTHING LINED UP AND
09:38:05 THEN WE CAN PRIORITIZE WHAT IS NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND WHO
09:38:06 IS DOING WHAT.
09:38:08 THAT IS EXCITING.
09:38:12 I WILL END ON ONE ACTIVITY THAT TOOK PLACE IN -- IN
09:38:14 DECEMBER.
09:38:15 THE COMMUNITY GARDENS.
09:38:19 THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TARGET TODAY.
09:38:21 EAST TAMPA HAS A COMMUNITY GARDEN AND OPENED UP ON 22ND
09:38:25 STREET ON DECEMBER 19, AND THERE IS MORE TO COME.
09:38:27 I AM GOING TO BE MEETING WITH THIS GROUP THAT IS DOING
09:38:30 ALL THESE EXCITING COMMUNITY GARDENS.
09:38:33 AND I WILL REPORT BACK NEXT MONTH.
09:38:34 AND THAT'S IT.
09:38:37 ANY QUESTIONS?
09:38:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS?
09:38:39 >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
09:38:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE ONE.
09:38:46 MISS ORR, THE CONSULTANT WORKING ON THE SAP, BE ADVISED
09:38:48 THAT HE MAY HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT,
09:38:51 BUT I HEARD THAT THEY ARE FOCUSING ON THE SCHOOLS IN
09:38:54 EAST TAMPA, BUT KEEP IN MIND, A LOT OF THE KIDS THAT
09:38:57 LIVE IN EAST TAMPA ARE BUSED OUT.
09:39:02 SO THEY HAVE TO BE MINDFUL DOING SURVEY IN SCHOOLS THAT
09:39:03 KIDS DON'T LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY.
09:39:06 LET'S BE MINDFUL OF THE BUSING SYSTEM AND WHERE THOSE
09:39:08 KIDS ARE GOING TO SCHOOL AT SO THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
09:39:11 TO BRING THOSE ASSETS THEY THINK SHOULD BE GOOD IN
09:39:12 THEIR COMMUNITY.
09:39:15 I KNOW A LOT OF THEM GO WAY OUT TO MCCLAIN.
09:39:18 A LOT OF THEM GO OUT TO MCCLAIN.
09:39:20 YOUNG HAVE SCHOOLS THAT ARE BUSED IN.
09:39:22 KIDS DON'T LIVE THERE.
09:39:24 MAKE SURE THE CONSULTANTS ARE GETTING WITH THE SCHOOL
09:39:28 DISTRICT THE EAST TAMPA KIDS BUSED OUT NOT GOING TO THE
09:39:31 SPECIALIZED SCHOOL WITHIN EAST TAMPA.
09:39:32 >>BRENDA THROWER: VERY GOOD.
09:39:34 >> YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB FOR A ROOKIE.
09:39:36 >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
09:39:39 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN.
09:39:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY ELSE?
09:39:42 THAT'S IT?
09:40:03 BATTER UP.
09:40:03 >>JESUS NINO: GOOD MORNING.
09:40:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
09:40:08 >>JESUS NINO: JESUS NINO, THE WEST TAMPA AND DREW PARK
09:40:16 MANAGER.
09:40:18 SORRY ABOUT THAT.
09:40:21 JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE WEST TAMPA CAC
09:40:24 CONTINUES TO HOLD VERY SUCCESSFUL HYBRID MEETINGS
09:40:28 USUALLY AT BARKSDALE COMMUNITY CENTER.
09:40:32 THESE MEETINGS ARE VIRTUAL AND ALSO WE HAVE IN-PERSON
09:40:34 PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FROM THE CAC
09:40:35 MEMBERS.
09:40:37 SO WE ARE -- SO THAT'S CONTINUING TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
09:40:42 WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK ON ANY TWEAKS WE NEED TO MAKE
09:40:44 TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE LISTENING IN
09:40:46 CAN ACTUALLY HEAR US.
09:40:49 BUT SO FAR WE HAVEN'T HAD TOO MANY ISSUES SINCE WE ARE
09:40:52 WORKING CLOSELY WITH TNI STAFF.
09:40:55 REVISIONS TO THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY.
09:40:57 THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD.
09:40:58 THEY ACTUALLY WENT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
09:41:02 IT WAS APPROVED THERE TO MOVE FORWARD TO CITY COUNCIL
09:41:05 FOR FIRST READING WHICH, I THINK, WAS LAST WEEK AND
09:41:08 THAT IS MOVES FORWARD TO SECOND READING.
09:41:11 AND STAFF WILL WORK WITH THE CITY'S PLANNING STAFF TO
09:41:14 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL MAY HAVE IN
09:41:15 SECOND READING.
09:41:19 WE CONTINUE TO UPDATE THE COMMUNITY WHENEVER POSSIBLE
09:41:22 THROUGH DISTRIBUTION LIST, PHONE CALLS.
09:41:24 ONE OF THE THINGS I DO A LOT IS GO OUT THERE AND WALK
09:41:25 THE COMMUNITY.
09:41:26 I WALK DOWN THE BLOCKS.
09:41:27 WALK DOWN THE STREET.
09:41:29 LOOK AT ALLEYWAYS.
09:41:31 TALK TO INDIVIDUALS ON THE STREET.
09:41:33 I LET THEM KNOW WHATEVER IT IS THAT WE ARE DOING HERE
09:41:39 AT THE CITY.
09:41:47 RFP WHICH IS BEING LED BY ROB ROSNER IS MOVE MOVING
09:41:47 FORWARD AS WELL.
09:41:50 THE INDIVIDUALS REVIEW THE PROPOSALS HAVE ALL BEEN
09:41:52 GIVEN COPY OF PROPOSALS AND WE ARE AND ALL CODE OF
09:41:54 SILENCE.
09:41:56 ONCE THAT FIRST MEETING IS HELD, WE WILL START
09:41:59 REVIEWING THAT AND KIND OF DISCUSS THE PROPOSALS AND
09:42:01 RANK THEM.
09:42:05 TECO CONTINUES ITS WORK TO EXTEND POWER OR ADEQUATE
09:42:07 POWER TO THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT.
09:42:11 AND FROM I UNDERSTAND MINIMAL DISRUPTION TO THE
09:42:13 COMMUNITY AND IF THERE ARE ANY KIND OF COMPLAINTS, THEY
09:42:16 CAN COME TO ME AND OTHER CITY STAFF AND TALK TO THE
09:42:19 CONTRACTORS TO MAKE SURE THAT IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF,
09:42:21 ANY KIND OF DISRUPTION.
09:42:23 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I HAVE A QUESTION.
09:42:24 MR. CHAIR.
09:42:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED SIR.
09:42:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST BEFORE YOU MOVE OFF THE SCREEN
09:42:31 -- GO BACK TO THE SCREEN.
09:42:32 THERE YOU GO.
09:42:36 WITH REGARD TO THE RFP FOR THE ROOM YARD.
09:42:39 DO WE HAVE ANYBODY FROM THE CRA, PERHAPS, MICHELLE OR
09:42:44 SOMEBODY ELSE WHO IS ON THE REVIEW PANEL?
09:42:48 >>JESUS NINO: MYSELF, MICHELLE VAN LOAN AND WE ALSO
09:42:52 HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL FROM OUR CAC ON THERE AS WELL.
09:42:55 AND A BACK-UP ON OUR CAC.
09:42:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. ROBINSON, RIGHT, SIR?
09:43:01 >>JESUS NINO: YES, JOE ROBINSON.
09:43:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND -- I KNOW THAT WHILE THAT
09:43:09 PROCESS IS GOING ON, IT'S NOT TOTALLY IN THE SUNSHINE,
09:43:13 BUT PERHAPS YOU -- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE -- IF YOU
09:43:16 WERE ALREADY BUT PERHAPS YOU COULD KEEP THE CHAIRMAN
09:43:20 INFORMED, YOU KNOW, ON WHAT'S GOING ON JUST SO -- YOU
09:43:25 KNOW, THE CRA BOARD IS PLUGGED IN TO A CERTAIN EXTENT.
09:43:27 >> WE WILL MAKE SURE TO DO THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
09:43:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, I DID HAVE A MEETING
09:43:36 WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICER AND OUR GROWTH
09:43:39 DEVELOPMENT MANAGER A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO AND I DID TALK
09:43:45 ABOUT -- IT CAME UP ABOUT THE WESTFIELD PROJECT AS WELL
09:43:48 AND MADE IT CLEAR THAT DEVELOPERS -- WE HAVE A LOT OF
09:43:52 DEVELOPERS WHO ARE NOT REALLY STATIONED HERE BUT HAVE
09:43:55 SATELLITE OFFICE HERE THAT GET CITY CONTRACTS.
09:43:58 I MADE MENTION ABOUT MY NORTH THAT IN OTHER CITIES THAT
09:44:01 DO GREAT WORK IN OTHER CITIES AS WELL AND MAKE SURE WE
09:44:04 NOT LEAVE THEM OFF THE TABLE JUST BECAUSE THEY MIGHT BE
09:44:06 IN ANOTHER CITY AND THEY ARE ANOTHER CITY.
09:44:09 WE WANT THE ECONOMIC MONEY TO STAY HERE IN TAMPA.
09:44:13 YES, THAT IS TRUE, BUT THE SAME COMPANIES CAN BE A PART
09:44:16 OF TAMPA, HAVE SATELLITE PROGRAMS HERE, AND START
09:44:18 INVESTING HERE IN TAMPA WITH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
09:44:21 WITH JOBS AND SO FORTH AS WELL JUST LIKE THE OTHER BIG
09:44:22 COMPANIES.
09:44:24 I DON'T RECALL SOME OF THEIR NAMES, THAT STARTED HERE
09:44:27 BECAUSE THEY CAME SOME PLACE ELSE.
09:44:31 THEY CAN'T BE AFRAID AND PUT IT ON THE TABLE TO LOOK AT
09:44:33 THE MINORITIES IN OTHER STATES THAT MIGHT WANT TO COME
09:44:35 HERE TO DO WORK.
09:44:38 AND I AM SURE SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS WILL AGREE
09:44:40 THAT WE NEED TO GIVE OPPORTUNITY WHERE OPPORTUNITY IS
09:44:42 AVAILABLE AND THIS WILL BE A BIG PROJECT.
09:44:46 IF YOU WILL REFER TO THAT THE NEXT MEETING.
09:44:49 I AM SURE MR. DINGFELDER FEELS THE SAME WAY, BUT WE
09:44:50 MUST -- WE MUST LOOK AT THAT.
09:44:54 WE CAN'T KEEP DOING BUSINESS WITH THE SAME PEOPLE.
09:44:57 GIVE OTHER FOLKS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE IN TAMPA, TO
09:45:00 START UP HERE IN TAMPA AND LOOKS LIKE WE ARE DOING THE
09:45:01 RIGHT THING FOR EVERYBODY.
09:45:02 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:45:03 >>JESUS NINO: THANK YOU.
09:45:06 THE MAIN STREET CORRIDOR STUDY, THAT IS CONTINUING TO
09:45:06 MOVE FORWARD.
09:45:10 I THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CLOSE DOWN THEIR
09:45:14 DATA COLLECTION PHASE AND INTERVIEW PHASE AT THE END OF
09:45:14 THE MONTH.
09:45:17 FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THEY HAVE INTERVIEWED A LOT OF
09:45:18 PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:45:20 I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MANY OF THOSE INTERVIEWS TO
09:45:23 SOME OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES LOCALLY, THE BIGGER
09:45:25 INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES OUT THERE, REAL ESTATE PEOPLE,
09:45:32 RESIDENTS AND YOU NAME IT, THEY HAVE INTERVIEWED THEM.
09:45:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR.
09:45:38 >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK I AM SPEAKING TO MY COLLEAGUES
09:45:41 THAT ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T SAY IT IN THE NAME, WHATEVER
09:45:44 THEY CALL IT MAIN STREET CORRIDOR STUDY IS A RESULT OF
09:45:48 THE PROPOSAL WE MADE A YEAR AND A HALF AGO TO CREATE
09:45:50 NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS.
09:45:53 IN THE BAY TO BAY MACDILL, THEY ARE CALLING IT THE
09:45:55 NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT STUDY.
09:45:59 THIS IS THE SAME THING BUT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT NAME.
09:46:00 BUT I THINK THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
09:46:04 IDEA IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN DO
09:46:07 BECAUSE IT HELPS MAKE THE QUALITY OF LIFE BETTER FOR
09:46:08 OUR NEIGHBORS.
09:46:11 IT HELPS ENHANCE COMMUNITIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:46:15 IT HELPS TAKE TRANSPORTATION OFF -- OFF THE ROAD
09:46:18 BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE AMENITIES NEARBY, THEY CAN WALK TO
09:46:23 THEM INDEED OF -- YOU ALL SUPPORTED THIS IDEA A COUPLE
09:46:25 OF YEARS AGO AND TWICE VOTED IT.
09:46:27 INSTEAD OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION DOING IT.
09:46:30 THE CITY IS STAFFING UP PLANNING IN-HOUSE.
09:46:32 THE IDEA WOULD DO ONE IN EACH DISTRICT.
09:46:33 ONE IN SOUTH TAMPA.
09:46:35 ONE IN WEST TAMPA.
09:46:37 WE NEED TO DO ONE AT LEAST IN EAST TAMPA.
09:46:39 AND ONE IN NORTH TAMPA.
09:46:42 SO MR. GUDES AND WHOEVER, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU
09:46:46 ALL TALK TO RANDY AND CAROL AND TRY TO START ADVOCATING
09:46:49 FOR DOING THOSE BECAUSE ONCE WE HAVE ONE IN EACH
09:46:51 DISTRICTS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE THE MODEL AND PROVE
09:46:55 IT IS A GREAT WAY OF THINKING ABOUT AN INTEGRATED
09:46:57 COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF THINKING OF THE HOUSING PART OR
09:47:01 THE COMMERCIAL PART AND THINKING OF AN INTEGRATED WAY
09:47:03 HOW IT WORKS TOGETHER AND INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT ROADS.
09:47:06 TYPICALLY EACH PIECE OF INFRASTRUCTURE IS LOOKED AT
09:47:09 DIFFERENTLY, SO ROADS OR NET OR PIPES OR WHATEVER.
09:47:13 NOW THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE WHOLE THING HOW IS
09:47:15 INTEGRATES TO BUILD QUALITY OF LIFE.
09:47:18 ONCE WE GET FOUR OR FIVE OF THESE A GREAT MODEL.
09:47:21 THERE IS POTENTIALLY 130 OF THESE THROUGHOUT THE CITY
09:47:23 AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE IT.
09:47:24 THANK YOU.
09:47:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHEN WE GET TO NEW BUSINESS, YOU MAKE
09:47:33 A MOTION AND HAVE MISS VAN LOAN TO GET WITH GROWTH
09:47:38 MANAGEMENT, ABBYE AND THE CITY TO BRING BACK A REPORT
09:47:40 ON THIS.
09:47:44 >>JESUS NINO: THANK YOU AND RANDY GOERS AND FRANK HALL
09:47:47 ARE LEADING THIS PARTICULAR STUDY AND TAKING A HOLISTIC
09:47:48 APPROACH.
09:47:51 I'M PRETTY IMPRESSED OF THE APPROACH THEY ARE TAKING.
09:47:53 THEY ARE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THROUGH THEIR MARKET
09:47:56 ANALYSIS THEY ARE DOING OUT THERE AND HITTING IT FROM
09:48:00 MANY APPROACHES, SO I AGREE.
09:48:03 CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON A LOT OF
09:48:07 DIFFERENT PROJECTS OUT IN WEST TAMPA, PARTICULARLY THE
09:48:09 WEST RIVER PROJECTS, THEY ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE
09:48:09 FORWARD.
09:48:13 I WALKED AROUND THE BLOCK A FEW TIMES LAST WEEK OUT
09:48:14 THERE.
09:48:16 THESE BUILDINGS ARE JUST POPPING UP VERY QUICKLY.
09:48:18 A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS OUT THERE WORKING.
09:48:22 THEY ARE NOT REALLY DISRUPTING THE NEARBY STREETS OR
09:48:24 RESIDENTS.
09:48:27 SOME OF THE PICTURES THERE KIND OF DIDN'T COME UP,
09:48:28 THAT IS OKAY.
09:48:33 THE RENAISSANCE AT RIVER IS OPEN AND UP FOR BUSINESS.
09:48:35 INDIVIDUALS ARE MOVING IN AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE IN.
09:48:37 AS FAR AS THE RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE AT THE
09:48:40 BOTTOM, THEY STILL SEEM TO BE KIND OF VACANT BUT
09:48:43 HOPEFULLY THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY HAVE A STRATEGY
09:48:47 FOR THAT AND WILL WORK WITH THEM IF THEY WANT US TO DO
09:48:51 THAT.
09:48:54 THIS OTHER PROJECT HERE IS OVER BY HOWARD AND ARMENIA
09:48:56 IN BETWEEN BY LEMON STREET.
09:48:59 IT IS MOVING ALONG PRETTY QUICKLY AS WELL.
09:49:02 THE FOUNDRY NOHO.
09:49:04 IT IS LOOKING VERY GOOD LATELY.
09:49:06 SAME THING LIKE THE OTHER PROJECTS.
09:49:09 MINIMAL DISRUPTION TO THE COMMUNITY.
09:49:12 THIS ONE IS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO KENNEDY OVER AT THE
09:49:13 TOP.
09:49:15 IT'S THE NOHO SQUARE.
09:49:18 A VERY LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OUT THERE AND IT IS
09:49:21 POPPING UP QUICKLY AS WELL.
09:49:24 HOPEFULLY THEY CAN GET THAT DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR
09:49:26 AND THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
09:49:30 MARY BETHUNE-COOKMAN APARTMENT COMPLEX IS COMPLETE, AND
09:49:35 RESIDENTS ARE CONTINUING TO MOVE INTO THAT AS WELL.
09:49:39 THEN THIS OTHER PROJECT HERE IS A PRIVATE PRESCHOOL.
09:49:43 IT IS CALLED THE GODDARD SCHOOL.
09:49:45 CONSTRUCTION ON THAT CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD
09:49:46 SUCCESSFULLY.
09:49:50 IT SAYS MID-2021 BUT LOOKS LIKE IT POTENTIALLY MIGHT BE
09:49:53 DONE IN THE BEGINNING OF 2022.
09:49:58 THEN THE GREEN SPINE CYCLE TRACK LOOKS LIKE IT IS
09:49:59 ALMOST COMPLETE.
09:50:03 I WAS WALKING IT.
09:50:06 AND I SEE BIKERS ALREADY ON IT.
09:50:10 IN OUR SECTION, PHASE TWO AT LEAST.
09:50:11 THAT CONCLUDES WEST TAMPA.
09:50:13 ANY QUESTIONS?
09:50:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN, IN
09:50:17 REFERENCE TO WEST TAMPA?
09:50:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE SOME.
09:50:21 >>JESUS NINO: YES, SIR.
09:50:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM AN
09:50:25 ORGANIZATION, PARTNERS OF 7TH.
09:50:28 I GUESS THEY BOUGHT THE BUILDING IN WEST TAMPA.
09:50:31 I GUESS THEY SAID THEY WERE TRYING TO HAVE
09:50:36 CONVERSATIONS IN REFERENCE TO THE CRA AND REFERENCE TO
09:50:38 FACADE.
09:50:42 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU MET WITH THEM OR HAVE HEARD OF THAT
09:50:42 GROUP.
09:50:47 >>JESUS NINO: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE GROUP.
09:50:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GROVE PARTNERS.
09:50:52 >>JESUS NINO: THEY OWN THE RESTAURANT IN YBOR CITY.
09:50:53 DR. AND MRS. WRIGHT.
09:50:57 WE HAD A FEW TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS AND SENT THEM OVER
09:51:02 A FACADE GRANT AND WE ARE WORKING PRETTY CLOSELY WITH
09:51:03 THEM.
09:51:09 THEIR BUILDING HAS SPRAY PAINTED JET LIFE ON MAIN
09:51:11 STREET AND IF THEY PULL THAT OFF, IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL
09:51:12 FOR THE AREA.
09:51:15 THEY ARE PLANNING TO MOVE A PHARMACY.
09:51:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT'S CORRECT.
09:51:19 >>JESUS NINO: A RESTAURANT AND NAIL SALON AND WE ARE
09:51:21 WORKING WITH THEM VERY CLOSELY.
09:51:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE REASON I ASKED, BECAUSE IN
09:51:27 REFERENCE TO, THEY HAVE PARKING BUT A SMALL PORTION OF
09:51:30 THE PARKING IS CITY PARKING OR CITY LAND AND THEY ASKED
09:51:32 US SOME ASSISTANCE ON THAT.
09:51:36 I DID MENTION THAT TO MISS POST, BUT NEXT CRA GIVE AN
09:51:39 UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE AT AND TRYING TO OBTAIN -- IT IS
09:51:42 A VERY SMALL PIECE AND HAVE THAT PARKING FOR THE
09:51:43 PHARMACY.
09:51:45 I THINK THAT WILL BE VERY, VERY GOOD FOR THE WEST TAMPA
09:51:52 AREA TO HAVE A PHARMACY AND A CLINIC OF MINORITY
09:51:56 BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY AND I APPLAUD THEM AND THEY
09:51:59 WILL DO THE SAME IN EAST TAMPA WITH ONE OF OUR BAD
09:52:01 SITES THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO WORK WITH.
09:52:06 GIVE AN UPDATE IN THE NEXT CRA MEETING AND RUN THE
09:52:09 FACADE WITH REFERENCE TO THAT PARKING.
09:52:12 >>JESUS NINO: THE INDIVIDUAL COUPLE ARE VERY YOUNG
09:52:16 ENTREPRENEURS, GO-GETTERS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
09:52:18 THOSE ARE THE KIND OF INDIVIDUALS WE LIKE TO WORK WITH.
09:52:20 I WILL GIVE THAT YOU UPDATE.
09:52:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:52:27 >>JESUS NINO: ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON WEST TAMPA?
09:52:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
09:52:32 YOU MAY CONTINUE, SIR.
09:52:32 >>JESUS NINO: OKAY.
09:52:34 MOVING ON TO DREW PARK.
09:52:37 TAMPA BAY LINEAR PARK IS BASICALLY COMPLETE.
09:52:39 WE ARE JUST INSTALLING TWO SIGNS ON THERE THAT WILL
09:52:41 HAVE HISTORICAL LANGUAGE.
09:52:45 AND ONCE THAT IS DONE, THEN WE WILL COME SHOW YOU THE
09:52:51 PICTURE OF THOSE SIGNS.
09:52:54 WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH OUR CONSULTANT TO WRAP
09:52:56 UP OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
09:52:59 WE ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT A DRAFT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED
09:53:01 TO US A FEW WEEKS AGO.
09:53:03 STAFF IS REVIEWING IT.
09:53:06 MICHELLE VAN LOAN HAS SENT IT OUT TO THE DIFFERENT
09:53:07 DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY TO REVIEW IT.
09:53:10 OUR CAC MEMBERS ARE ALSO REVIEWING IT.
09:53:14 AND OUR NEXT MEETING FEBRUARY 2 AT HILLSBOROUGH
09:53:18 COMMUNITY COLLEGE WITH WHICH A HYBRID MEETING WILL
09:53:20 DISCUSS THE DETAILS IN THE DRAFT PLAN.
09:53:23 AND EVENTUALLY WE WILL BRING IT TO YOU AND SO WE CAN
09:53:27 DISCUSS IT IN FURTHER DETAIL WITH THE CRA.
09:53:30 INDIRECT ACTIVITY.
09:53:35 THE STATEHOUSE STEAKHOUSE OVER IN DALE MABRY, SEEMS
09:53:40 LIKE THOSE UNITS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED.
09:53:43 A SIGN WITH MANY NEW TENANTS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO MOVE
09:53:43 IN.
09:53:46 BECAUSE OF THE COVID, SOME OF THAT ACTIVITY -- SOME OF
09:53:48 THOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVEN'T MOVED IN JUST YET BUT
09:53:51 HOPEFULLY THEY DO PRETTY SOON.
09:53:53 THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
09:53:55 AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE BUSINESSES OUT
09:54:02 THERE AS WELL VERY CLOSELY ON PROJECT.
09:54:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT.
09:54:07 I WAS AT A MEETING IN MANATEE COUNTY.
09:54:10 AND I DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAME FROM MANATEE COUNTY.
09:54:11 WE GOT A STEAL.
09:54:14 THEY HATED TO HAVE YOU LEAVE.
09:54:15 BUT WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU.
09:54:16 >>JESUS NINO: THANK YOU.
09:54:18 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CHAIR, IF I MAY, I WANTED TO ALSO
09:54:22 ADD TO THAT HOW IMPRESSIVE YOU HAVE DONE, SIR.
09:54:25 BEEN IMPRESSED WITH YOU AS WELL AS OTHER FOLKS
09:54:28 RELATIVELY NEW -- I THOUGH MISS THROWER IS OBVIOUSLY
09:54:32 NOT KNEW BUT DOING A GREAT JOB IN HER POSITION AND WE
09:54:36 APPRECIATE EVERYONE SO PROFESSIONAL.
09:54:37 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
09:54:39 >>JESUS NINO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:54:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA.
09:54:42 THANK YOU FOR THAT.
09:54:44 THE CONSTITUENTS SEE THAT.
09:54:45 THEY SEE THE ENTHUSIASM.
09:54:50 THEY SEE THE ATTENTION THAT IS BEING GIVEN, NOT DELAYS
09:54:53 AND TRYING TO GET THINGS MOVING AND MAKE THESE AREAS A
09:54:54 BETTER AREA.
09:54:57 WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THE NEWCOMERS ARE DOING.
09:55:12 AND I -- JUST KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
09:55:18 >>VALERIE FARRELL: GOOD MORNING.
09:55:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING.
09:55:20 >>VALERIE FARRELL: VALERIE FARRELL.
09:55:25 THIS IS MY FIRST TIME PRESENTING SO GO EASY ON ME.
09:55:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELCOME.
09:55:28 >>VALERIE FARRELL: I AM THE NEW DOWNTOWN CHANNEL
09:55:32 DISTRICT CENTRAL PARK AND TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA
09:55:33 MANAGER.
09:55:36 AS I LIKE TO KID, I AM ROB 2.0.
09:55:41 THIS WILL BE MY FIRST TIME PRESENTING, BUT I WOULD LIKE
09:55:44 TO SHARE I AM COMING TO ALL WITH BIG IDEAS WITH A
09:55:46 COMMUNITY FOCUSED.
09:55:49 AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EACH OF YOU ON
09:55:50 EACH OF THESE FOUR AREAS.
09:55:52 BEFORE I BEGIN THOUGH, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THE
09:55:56 MONTHLY REPORTS I AM SHARING WITH YOU THIS MONTH IS
09:55:57 GOING TO BE BRIEF.
09:55:59 AND I WILL LIKE TO HEAR YOUR FEEDBACK, IF YOU HAVE
09:56:02 FEEDBACK ON CERTAIN POINTS OF INTEREST OR AREA OF
09:56:05 INTERESTS, PROJECTS, PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH MYSELF OR
09:56:09 MISS VAN LOAN SO I CAN BRING BACK SPECIFIC REPORTS OR
09:56:13 AREA OF INTEREST THAT YOU HAVE SO I CAN MAKE SURE I AM
09:56:16 BRINGING BACK INFORMATION THAT IS RELEVANT AND TIMELY
09:56:18 FOR YOUR -- FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
09:56:20 SO WITH THAT, I WILL BEGIN.
09:56:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU MAY BEGIN.
09:56:24 >>VALERIE FARRELL: INTO DOWNTOWN, OUR DIRECT ACTIVITIES
09:56:28 ARE ON CASS STREET AND TYLER STREET.
09:56:31 THE ROADWORK IN FRONT OF THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS
09:56:31 CENTER.
09:56:35 YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THAT TYLER IS OPEN TO THE STRAZ, AND
09:56:37 IT NOW HAS THE CONNECTION TO CASS.
09:56:42 CASS IS STILL PARTIALLY CLOSED; HOWEVER, THAT ROADWORK
09:56:44 IS MOSTLY COMPLETE.
09:56:48 WE HAD A PRECLOSEOUT CALL YESTERDAY AND WE ARE GETTING
09:56:51 READY TO WORK WITH THE CONTRACTORS TO PREPARE FOR CLOSE
09:56:53 OUT ON THAT PORTION OF THE ROADWORK.
09:57:00 AND YOU CAN SEE THE NEW MCKINNIS PLACE ROADWORK AND IT
09:57:03 IS EXCITING AND THAT HAVEN'T BEEN THERE AND STARTING TO
09:57:06 TAKE PLACE AND THE RIVERWALK AT THE STRAZ PERFORMING
09:57:08 ARTS CENTER IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
09:57:12 INDIRECT ACTIVITIES -- AND I AM SORRY THAT THE IMAGE IS
09:57:14 NOT LOADING THERE FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
09:57:19 BUT THE SITE OF MANY NAMES THAT HAS BEEN HIGHLY
09:57:22 ANTICIPATED ON THE RIVER WALK ON ASHLEY DRIVE KNOWN AS
09:57:23 ONE ASHLEY TOWER.
09:57:26 IT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED FOR BUILDING PERMIT.
09:57:29 IN DECEMBER, IT IS EXPECTED TO START CONSTRUCTION IN
09:57:32 MAY OF 2021.
09:57:40 IT IS A 222-KEY HOTEL WITH 230-UNIT MULTIFAMILY
09:57:43 BUILDING AND WE ARE EXCITED TO SEE THOSE PLANS BE
09:57:46 SUBMITTED AND WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE THAT THE
09:57:48 BUILDING PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FOR PERMITTING.
09:57:50 THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR DOWNTOWN.
09:57:56 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
09:57:59 REGARDING THIS OR ANYTHING ELSE DOWNTOWN RELATED?
09:58:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU MAY CONTINUE.
09:58:02 >>VALERIE FARRELL: OKAY.
09:58:05 I WILL MOVE ON TO THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:58:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU CAN MOVE ON.
09:58:07 >>VALERIE FARRELL: THANK YOU.
09:58:10 AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE HAVE AN UPDATED SCHEDULE ON THE
09:58:13 CHANNEL DISTRICT WIDE PROJECTS.
09:58:17 THIS SHOWS AN UPDATE ON A FEW DESIGN ELEMENTS AND A FEW
09:58:19 OF THE SUB CATEGORIES FOR ADDITIONAL WORK THAT HAS BEEN
09:58:21 ADDED TO THE SCHEDULE.
09:58:24 THE MAIN UPDATE HERE IS THAT CHANNELSIDE DRIVE WILL
09:58:29 BEGIN IN SPRING AND IN ACTUALITY, THAT WILL BEGIN IN
09:58:32 FEBRUARY, AND THAT WORK SPECIFICALLY WILL BEGIN SOUTH
09:58:36 OF THE INTERSECTION OF KENNEDY BOULEVARD ON THE WEST
09:58:38 SIDE OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY ON THE SOUTHBOUND SIDE OF
09:58:40 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
09:58:44 LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING TO YOU SOON.
09:58:47 AND WE ARE EXCITED TO GET THAT LARGE PORTION OF THE
09:58:49 WORK UNDER WAY VERY SOON.
09:58:53 AND THAT IS -- THAT IS STILL AN EIGHT-MONTH BUILD, BUT
09:58:57 WE EXPECT TO GET THAT MOVING VERY QUICKLY.
09:59:01 ALSO ANOTHER VERY EXCITING PROJECT LIKE EAST TAMPA AND
09:59:05 DREW PARK, CHANNEL DISTRICT WILL BE GOING THROUGH AN
09:59:08 SAP UPDATE AS WELL AS A CRP UPDATE.
09:59:11 YOU JUST APPROVED THE WORK ORDER TO GET THAT UNDER WAY,
09:59:15 SO THERE WILL BE A HUGE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH
09:59:18 PROCESS GOING ON, KICKING OFF PROBABLY IN FEBRUARY
09:59:20 THROUGH THE END OF MAY.
09:59:23 AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WILL BE CONDITIONS, ASSESSMENTS
09:59:25 AND A PRESENTATION THAT YOU WILL BE RECEIVING ON THE
09:59:26 CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:59:30 SO A VERY EXCITING TIME ESPECIALLY FOR ME BEING NEW.
09:59:33 I AM EXCITED TO REALLY GET INTO THE WORK HERE TO -- TO
09:59:37 SEE WHAT WE CAN UNCOVER IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND HOW
09:59:40 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE -- WITH THE PROGRESS AS OF
09:59:41 TODAY'S DATE.
09:59:44 SO THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:59:46 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
09:59:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
09:59:49 THANK YOU.
09:59:51 >>VALERIE FARRELL: MOVING ON TO TAMPA HEIGHTS
09:59:52 RIVERFRONT.
09:59:55 NO DIRECT ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH; HOWEVER, THE
10:00:00 ROUNDABOUT PROGRESS THAT SOHO CAPITAL HAS BEEN WORKING
10:00:03 ON IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT ON NORTH BOULEVARD.
10:00:06 YOU CAN CERTAINLY SEE THOSE ARE TAKING SHAPE.
10:00:10 SOHO CONTINUES TO FINALIZE THE HEIGHTS EXTERIOR
10:00:11 BUILDINGS.
10:00:15 IF YOU VISIT ARMATURE WORKS AND LOVELY PLACES YOU CAN
10:00:18 SEE THAT THE WORK IS PROGRESSING VERY SIGNIFICANTLY AND
10:00:22 THE RIVERWALK IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE -- I THINK IT
10:00:26 IS ACTUALLY ALMOST 100% COMPLETE OF THE WATERWORKS PARK
10:00:27 SHORT OF NORTH BOULEVARD.
10:00:31 THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT.
10:00:33 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:00:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:00:39 >>BILL CARLSON: AN IDEA FOR CHANNELSIDE AND MAYBE AN
10:00:41 IDEA FOR ALL OF THE CRA DISTRICTS.
10:00:44 ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE HAD OVER THE LAST YEAR
10:00:47 AND A HALF IS THAT THERE SHOULD -- AT LEAST I HAVE
10:00:50 SUGGESTED, THERE SHOULD BE A HIGHER BURDEN OF WHAT WE
10:00:53 SPEND CRA MONEY ON BECAUSE THE REST OF THE CITY IS
10:00:57 SUBSIDIZING THEM AND SOME AREAS WE MUST BE SUBSIDIZING
10:00:59 LIKE AREA DISTRICT IN DOWNTOWN.
10:01:03 AND AN EVEN HIGHER THRESHOLD THAT WE SHOULD THINK
10:01:03 ABOUT.
10:01:05 WE SHOULD NOT SPEND THE MONEY JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE THE
10:01:08 MONEY, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS FAIR TO THE REST
10:01:09 OF THE CITY.
10:01:12 ALONG THOSE LINES, I WAS JUST THINKING, IT IS MIGHT BE
10:01:16 USEFUL TO -- TO WORK WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEPARTMENT
10:01:20 AND HOLD A ROUNDTABLE -- A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE OF ALL
10:01:24 THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS AROUND THE CITY AND PART OF
10:01:27 THE SAP PROJECT FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT AND PRESENT --
10:01:30 MAYBE THE INITIAL FINDINGS OF THE PLAN.
10:01:33 AND JUST GET THEIR FEEDBACK ON WHAT IS BEING SPENT IN
10:01:34 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:01:37 IF THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE FINE SUBSIDIZING
10:01:39 IT, THEN THAT IS INPUT WE COULD USE.
10:01:43 IF THEY ARE NOT AND IF THEY THINK WE SHOULD SET A
10:01:46 DIFFERENT THRESHOLD, THAT WILL BE SOME GOOD INPUT AS
10:01:46 WELL.
10:01:49 YOU KNOW FROM SOUTH TAMPA TO THE REST OF THE CITY, THEY
10:01:51 ARE FALLING APART.
10:01:52 ROADS THAT ARE FALLING APART.
10:01:54 SIDEWALKS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN BUILT THAT ARE FALLING
10:01:55 APART.
10:01:58 AND THERE IS A HIGH DEMAND FOR MONEY TO FIX
10:02:00 INFRASTRUCTURE AND AMENITIES.
10:02:05 AND -- THERE SHOULD BE SOME SUBSIDIES OF CERTAIN AREAS,
10:02:09 BUT IF AN AREA IS ALREADY DOING WELL AND DOESN'T HAVE
10:02:12 SLUM AND BLIGHT, WHAT FEEDBACK FROM THE BROADER
10:02:17 COMMUNITY OF THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SUBSIDIZE AREAS THAT
10:02:19 ARE MOSTLY DOING WELL NOW.
10:02:20 THANK YOU.
10:02:20 >>VALERIE FARRELL: THANK YOU.
10:02:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:02:24 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. CHAIR.
10:02:27 GOOD ROOKIE EFFORT.
10:02:27 WELL-DONE.
10:02:29 >>VALERIE FARRELL: I HAVE ONE MORE SLIDE.
10:02:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU MAY CONTINUE.
10:02:34 >>VALERIE FARRELL: OKAY, AND TO CONCLUDE, I DIDN'T WANT
10:02:36 TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME BUT I WILL ADD SOME COMMENTS.
10:02:40 MY CHAIR, MR. MURPHY, DID AN EXCELLENT JOB AND I
10:02:44 APPRECIATE HIS EFFORTS AND HIS EXCITEMENT AND
10:02:46 ENTHUSIASM FOR CENTRAL PARK.
10:02:49 HE IS ACTUALLY A GREAT PARTNER FOR ME TO BEGIN
10:02:52 EXPLORING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AS COUNCILMAN
10:02:53 CARLSON MENTIONED.
10:02:57 AND I CAN SAY THAT I AM LEARNING A LOT OF HISTORY AND
10:02:59 CENTRAL PARK IS A GREAT PLACE TO START.
10:03:03 SO IN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS YEAR, ONE OF THE NUMBER
10:03:07 ONE THINGS THAT I SEE AS A -- AS A PRIORITY IS PUBLIC
10:03:11 ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES.
10:03:15 CENTRAL PARK IS CERTAINLY A DOUGHNUT HOLE FOR THE
10:03:17 COMMUNITIES -- THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES OF TAMPA,
10:03:20 AND I CERTAINLY WANT TO SEE HOW WE CAN DO BETTER AT
10:03:23 JUST CREATING PROGRAMS THAT HELP THAT COMMUNITY.
10:03:29 SO SOMETHING THAT OUR NEW BEES IN THE CRA IS
10:03:32 BRAINSTORMING OF PROGRAMS IN EACH OF OUR DISTRICT IF
10:03:39 THEY APPLY TO EACH CRA OR CERTAIN DISTRICTS.
10:03:42 IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL COME TO YOU SOON AS WE
10:03:45 GET FEEDBACK OF HOW TO WORKS WITH EACH DISTRICT.
10:03:48 COUNCILMAN AND CHAIR GUDES.
10:03:50 YOU MENTIONED KID MASON RENOVATION.
10:03:54 THAT IS FUNDED THROUGH DOWNTOWN AND DIRECTLY ADJACENT
10:03:59 TO CENTRAL PARK AND I HAVE A BRIEF UPDATE WITH PARKS
10:04:02 AND RECREATION, IT IS ON SCHEDULE AND PLANS ARE 95%
10:04:06 COMPLETE AND I ASKED FOR AN UPDATE ON THAT TIMELINE TO
10:04:10 RELEASE THOSE OUT FOR CONSTRUCTION BIDS AND TO MAKE
10:04:12 SURE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS A PART OF THAT.
10:04:15 AND I KNOW THE COMMUNITY USE THAT'S AND I WANT TO
10:04:19 CAPITALIZE ON THAT UTILIZATION AND MADE AWARE TO THE
10:04:22 COMMUNITY THAT THAT FACILITY IS THERE AND LIKE TO MAKE
10:04:23 SURE WE MAKE THAT CONNECTION EVEN THOUGH IT IS
10:04:26 PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS THE ROADWAY THERE AND
10:04:29 SEE HOW WE CAN BETTER UTILIZE OUR PARK SPACES ACROSS
10:04:34 NEIGHBORHOODS, EVEN IF WE HAVE HARD CRA BOUNDARIES, I
10:04:36 WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW WE CAN BETTER CROSS THOSE WITHIN
10:04:39 REASON AND WITHIN THE RULES THAT ALLOW US TO DO SO.
10:04:43 IF THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS, THAT CONCLUDES MY
10:04:44 PRESENTATION.
10:04:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GLAD YOU SAID THAT AND I LIKE
10:04:48 YOUR FORWARD THINKING ON THAT.
10:04:51 BECAUSE CENTRAL PARK IS GOING TO GROW WHICH WILL HAVE
10:04:55 FAMILIES, YOU NEED A DECENT PARK FOR THOSE KIDS TO GO
10:04:58 TO AS A RECREATIONAL FACILITY, FOR PROGRAMS.
10:05:01 YOU CAN HAVE PARKS -- SOMETIMES PARKS -- THEY HAVE A
10:05:04 LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT GO ON INSIDE THOSE FACILITIES.
10:05:05 SO I LIKE THE FORWARD THINKING.
10:05:08 I AM VERY UPSET THAT THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN TAKING THIS
10:05:10 LONG -- DRAGGING ITS FEET.
10:05:14 THIS PROJECT WAS ASKED ALMOST -- TWO YEARS AGO?
10:05:17 NOW WE ARE GOING TWO YEARS -- ON COUNCIL WE HAVE ASKED
10:05:18 FOR THAT.
10:05:20 AND I DON'T KNOW UNDERSTAND HOW WE ARE DRAGGING OUR
10:05:22 FEET ON THIS PROJECT SO LONG.
10:05:25 I AM GLAD -- I DIDN'T ASK YOU FOR A MONTHLY REPORT ON
10:05:25 THAT.
10:05:29 I AM GLAD YOU WILL BRING SOMETHING BACK TO ME IN
10:05:31 FEBRUARY, BUT THAT PROJECT IS DRAGGING ITS FEET.
10:05:32 AND IT NEEDS TO PICK UP.
10:05:34 IT REALLY NEEDS TO PICK UP.
10:05:36 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.
10:05:39 I DON'T KNOW WHAT -- WHY SO LONG BUT WE HAVE ASKED FOR
10:05:40 A LONG TIME.
10:05:43 I AM GLAD THAT YOU ARE HAVING FORWARD THINKING WITH
10:05:45 CONNECTION TO DOWNTOWN AND CENTRAL, BECAUSE YOU ARE
10:05:48 RIGHT, IT MAY NEED IMPROVEMENT FOR A CROSSWALK AND
10:05:50 WHATEVER BECAUSE KIDS ARE GOING TO BE THERE.
10:05:52 THEY ARE NOW ON THE COURTS OUT THERE.
10:05:58 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY GENTLEMEN HAVE BEEN TO KID MASON,
10:05:59 IT IS A DUMP.
10:06:02 YOU TALK OF FAIR OAKS, MR. CARLSON.
10:06:07 KID MASON IS WORSE, 20 TIMES WORSE.
10:06:08 LOOKS LIKE A PRISON.
10:06:10 THAT IS WHAT IS LOOKS LIKE.
10:06:15 I AM HOPING QUIT DRAGGING OUR FEET AND GET THE PROJECT
10:06:18 MOVING AND KIDS TO GO TO THAT PARK AND HAVE A DECENT
10:06:19 PLACE TO GO FOR PROGRAMMING.
10:06:21 THANK YOU FOR YOUR FORWARD THINKING.
10:06:23 >> ABSOLUTELY.
10:06:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE.
10:06:27 MR. CARLSON?
10:06:30 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST ONE MORE THING TO ALL OF YOU
10:06:32 STAFF -- WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
10:06:36 GETTING TO KNOW YOU, BUT OF THE KEY THINGS THAT I HEARD
10:06:40 THIS MORNING THAT REALLY SOUNDS GOOD TO ME IS -- IS
10:06:43 THAT YOU ARE THINKING OF THE PLANS AS VISION AND
10:06:47 INTERCONNECTIVITY OF PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES, NOT JUST
10:06:47 BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:06:50 I THINK IN THE PAST, THERE WAS A LOT OF FOCUS ON
10:06:56 SUBSIDIZING DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE OF THE WAY CRAS WORK.
10:06:59 AND THE -- EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE LIMITS AS TO HOW WE
10:07:02 CAN SPEND CRA MONEY, WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT HOW
10:07:06 THE COMMUNITIES WILL OPERATE, WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF
10:07:08 LIFE THAT THE COMMUNITIES NEED.
10:07:12 CHAIR GUDES MENTIONED BRINGING A PHARMACY INTO A
10:07:12 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:07:15 WE KNOW IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT, THE COMMUNITY WANTED A
10:07:15 PUBLIX.
10:07:19 SO OUR PREDECESSORS WORKED ON GETTING A GROCERY STORE
10:07:20 THERE.
10:07:23 OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WANT A PUBLIX.
10:07:25 GANDY WANTS ONE OR OTHER FOOD MARKETS.
10:07:28 AND SO THE GOOD THING IS, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE LIMITED BY
10:07:31 WHAT WE CAN SPEND ON CRA, WE NEED TO BE LISTENING TO
10:07:33 THE COMMUNITY OF THE VISION THEY WANT.
10:07:37 IN THE PAST WHAT HAPPENED IS IF WE COULD JUST -- PRIOR
10:07:40 ADMINISTRATIONS THOUGHT IF WE COULD JUST SUBSIDIZE
10:07:42 DEVELOPMENT, THEN WE WILL BRING SOMETHING IN.
10:07:45 WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS TELLING US THEY WANT A BETTER
10:07:45 QUALITY OF LIFE.
10:07:48 AND THAT MEANS THE THINGS LIKE PHARMACIES AND
10:07:50 SUPERMARKETS AND CROSSWALKS.
10:07:53 THINGS YOU MENTION EVEN THOUGH WE CAN'T DIRECTLY PAY
10:07:56 FOR IT WE NEED TO KNOW OF IT AND KNOW HOW OUR
10:07:57 INVESTMENT TIE IN.
10:08:02 THANK YOU FOR THINKING BIG LIKE THAT.
10:08:04 >> THANK YOU.
10:08:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:08:07 GOOD JOB.
10:08:11 MICHELLE, WHERE DO YOU FIND THESE PEOPLE AT?
10:08:14 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, MICHELLE VAN LOAN
10:08:15 AGAIN.
10:08:19 IF WE CAN PULL UP POWERPOINT NUMBER 3.
10:08:21 AT COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER REQUEST.
10:08:25 WE HAVE THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ON THE LINE.
10:08:27 JUDY, CAN YOU HEAR US?
10:08:28 >>JUDY LISI: YES, I CAN.
10:08:31 GOOD MORNING.
10:08:32 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING.
10:08:35 I WILL LET HER INTRODUCE HER TEAM ON THE PHONE AND THEY
10:08:37 WILL MOVE ON TO THEIR PRESENTATION.
10:08:38 >>JUDY LISI: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MICHELLE.
10:08:40 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
10:08:42 JUDY LISI.
10:08:46 I HAVE BEEN PRIVILEGED TO BE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF OUR
10:08:48 STRAZ CENTER FOR 29 YEARS.
10:08:49 EXCUSE ME.
10:08:51 AND WE ARE SO HAPPY TO BE HERE TODAY.
10:08:53 AS YOU KNOW, WE WERE HOPING TO BRING THIS PRESENTATION
10:08:55 TO YOU A YEAR AGO.
10:08:58 WE GOT SIDETRACKED BY THE PANDEMIC WHEN WE WERE FORCED
10:08:59 TO CLOSE IN MARCH.
10:09:03 AND SO WE HAD TO PUT SO MANY OF OUR ENERGIES TOWARD HOW
10:09:05 WE WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO SURVIVE.
10:09:08 BUT I AM GLAD TO REPORT WE ARE MAKING IT THROUGH.
10:09:12 WE HAVE FOUND SOME TERRIFIC FUNDING ON A FEDERAL LEVEL
10:09:13 THAT IS HELPING US.
10:09:15 AND OUR DONORS HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL.
10:09:18 THE COMMUNITY, THEIR OUTREACH TO US HAVE BEEN AMAZING.
10:09:21 SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR HELPING US GET THROUGH
10:09:23 THIS HARD TIME.
10:09:28 WHILE WE HAVE BEEN CLOSED, HOWEVER -- EXCUSE ME -- WE
10:09:31 HAVEN'T STOPPED WORKING AND WE HAVE BEEN CONTINUING
10:09:32 ASSESSING OUR MASTER PLAN.
10:09:37 THE GOOD NEWS IS WE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT OUR CLOSURE
10:09:41 AND HOW IMPORTANT OUR OUTDOOR AREAS ARE AND HOW
10:09:45 IMPORTANT AND VITAL OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE FACES ARE.
10:09:49 SO WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE OUR PLAN
10:09:50 EVEN BETTER.
10:09:57 I -- THIS MORNING WITH ME IS MR. DAVID SCHER.
10:10:00 DAVID IS A HARD-TIME WORKING MEMBER OF OUR BOARD OF
10:10:04 TRUSTEES AND CHAIR OF OUR MASTER PLANNING COMMITTEE AND
10:10:08 MR. LORRIN SHEPHERD, MY COLLEAGUE THAT WORKED SIDE BY
10:10:10 SIDE AT THE STRAZ.
10:10:12 HE IS OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND NEW PROJECT
10:10:13 DIRECTOR ON THE MASTER PLAN.
10:10:17 AND DAVID WILL SPEAK BRIEFLY AFTER THIS LIVE
10:10:19 PRESENTATION.
10:10:23 AFTER NINE YEARS OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING, WE COME TO
10:10:27 YOU TODAY WITH A BOLD MASTER PLAN FOR THE STRAZ CENTER,
10:10:30 ONE OF THE CITY'S MOST IMPORTANT ASSETS.
10:10:32 A PLAN THAT WILL MAKE THE STRAZ AN EVEN MORE VIBRANT
10:10:39 DESTINATION, FUELING ECONOMIC GROWTH, DRIVING TOURISM
10:10:42 AND IMPACTFUL SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY FOR YEARS TO
10:10:43 COME.
10:10:46 WHEN WE START THIS PROJECT, WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO
10:10:50 REIMAGINE AND UPDATE THE FACILITY FOR ITS NEXT 35 YEARS
10:10:54 TO KEEP IF STATE-OF-THE-ART AS IT WAS 35 YEARS AGO WHEN
10:10:56 IT WAS INVISIONED.
10:11:00 AS WE WORK TO MERGE FROM THIS PANDEMIC, WE COME TO
10:11:04 REALIZE THAT OUR PLAN CONTAINS SO MANY FEATURES THAT
10:11:08 ARE INCREASINGLY MORE RELEVANT FOR UNPARALLELED
10:11:09 EXPERIENCES.
10:11:12 WE DO HOPE THAT YOU WILL SHARE OUR EXCITEMENT AND
10:11:16 INSPIRED TO INVEST IN THIS TRANSFORMATIONAL PROJECTS.
10:11:17 SLIDE ONE, PLEASE.
10:11:21 IN THE 1980S, OUR CITY, HIS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS BUILT
10:11:24 THE TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AS AN ECONOMIC
10:11:28 ENGINE TO HELP MAKE TAMPA A GREAT CITY WITH A WONDERFUL
10:11:31 QUALITY OF LIFE, ATTRACTING BUSINESSES, NEW RESIDENTS,
10:11:32 TOURISM OF ALL KINDS AND MORE.
10:11:35 I THINK IF YOU LOOK TO DOWNTOWN TAMPA TODAY, IT HAS
10:11:37 BEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL.
10:11:40 TODAY OUR MISSION AND VISION ARE ALSO OUR PROMISE TO
10:11:43 THE COMMUNITY.
10:11:44 NEXT SLIDE.
10:11:45 OUR OUTDOOR RIVERS.
10:11:49 WITH THE REOPENING UNDER WAY, OUR RIVERWALK STAGE IS
10:11:53 BUSTLING WITH OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES.
10:11:56 A SMALL EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF OUTDOOR EXCITEMENT AND
10:11:59 SAFE PUBLIC GATHERING EXPERIENCE THAT THE STRAZ MASTER
10:12:01 PLAN PROMISES.
10:12:01 NEXT SLIDE.
10:12:06 FLORIDA A COMMUNITY'S DREAM AND A TRUE PUBLIC-PRIVATE
10:12:10 PARTNERSHIP, ONE OF THE NATION'S LEADING PERFORMING
10:12:12 ARTS CENTER HAS EMERGED.
10:12:17 OUR HISTORICAL IMPACT SINCE THE DOORS OPENED IN 1987.
10:12:18 NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
10:12:22 THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE BREADTH OF OUR REACH AND
10:12:24 ATTENDANCE AND YEAR-ROUND SERVICES.
10:12:28 OUR ATTENDANCE IS THE STRONG MEASURE TO ATTRACT THE
10:12:32 BEST SHOWS AVAILABLE AND SUSTAIN OUR ARTISTIC
10:12:34 EXCELLENCE.
10:12:34 NEXT SLIDE.
10:12:37 OUR ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT AND OUR GROWTH AS AN
10:12:41 INDUSTRY LEADER IN THE PERFORMING ARTS IS SIGNIFICANT.
10:12:46 WE HAVE GROWN TO BECOME FLORIDA'S LARGEST NOT-FOR
10:12:49 OPINION PROFIT FOR HOSTING EVENTS AND BEING THE
10:12:51 CULTURAL HEART AND SOUL OF THE REGION.
10:12:55 THE STRAZ CENTER IS AN ICONIC CULTURAL ASSET THAT MAKES
10:12:58 OUR CITY A MARVELOUS DESTINATION.
10:13:00 EACH YEAR WE BRING THREE TIMES THE POPULATION OF TAMPA
10:13:05 THROUGH OUR DOORS WITH MORE THAN 1600 WORLD-CLASS
10:13:07 PERFORMANCES ON OUR SIX STAGES.
10:13:07 NEXT SLIDE.
10:13:10 WE WORK YEAR ROUND TO INTRODUCE ARTS EDUCATION TO
10:13:14 CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN OUR REGION, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE
10:13:17 WHO MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES.
10:13:21 IN FACT, OUR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER WAS THE FIRST IN
10:13:23 THE NATION TO ESTABLISH A FULLY ACCREDITED TEACHING
10:13:28 CONSERVATORY WITH SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS
10:13:28 THEM.
10:13:29 NEXT SLIDE.
10:13:32 OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM LEADS OUR
10:13:35 MISSION-BASED COMMITMENT TO ENRICH OUR ENTIRE
10:13:35 COMMUNITY.
10:13:38 THROUGH VIRTUAL AND LIVE PROGRAMS, WE HAVE CONTINUED
10:13:42 OUR INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND ACCESSIBILITY
10:13:46 EVEN DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIME.
10:13:50 OUR ARTS DIVERSITY REMIX PROGRAM, RIVER STAGE
10:13:53 PERFORMANCES, OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITS AND INSTALLATIONS
10:13:58 LEVERAGE US TO A CULTURAL DESTINATION OPEN TO EVERYONE.
10:14:02 WE MAKE THE PERFORMING ARTS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL FOR
10:14:05 SUBSIDIZED TICKET PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS, MILITARY
10:14:08 FAMILIES, FIRST RESPONDER AND FINANCIALLY CHALLENGED
10:14:11 FAMILY SCHOLARSHIPS.
10:14:14 WE PARTNERED WITH THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS
10:14:17 AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE DEFENSE A MODEL ARTS
10:14:20 ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM TO HAVE VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES
10:14:23 HAVE HEALTHIER TRANSITION INTO COMMUNITY LIFE.
10:14:24 NEXT SLIDE.
10:14:29 AS A RESPONSIBLE STEWARD OF A IMPORTANT CITY ASSET, WE
10:14:31 HAVE ALWAYS TAKEN EXTREMELY GOOD CARE OF THIS AMAZING
10:14:32 FACILITY.
10:14:34 WE ARE PROUD OF OUR ADAPT I HAVE IT NATURE AND OUR
10:14:39 ABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS AND PRIORITIES OF OUR
10:14:43 CIVIC LEADER, COMMUNITY, PATRONS, STUDENTS AND ARTISTS.
10:14:46 AS SHOWN HERE, WE HAVE MADE NUMEROUS CAPITAL
10:14:49 IMPROVEMENTS, ONE PROJECT AT A TIME, TO KEEP THE STRAZ
10:14:55 CENTER START OF THE ART, EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE.
10:14:56 NEXT SLIDE.
10:14:59 HERE WE ARE ON EDGE OF A REMARKABLE OPPORTUNITY.
10:15:02 WE ARE CALLING OUR PROJECT BOUNDLESS, A VISION FOR THE
10:15:02 NEW STRAZ.
10:15:05 WE BELIEVE WE HAVE THE BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL TO CHANGE
10:15:09 THE FUTURE, TO BECOME AN EXTRAORDINARY GATHERING PLACE
10:15:13 ON OUR RIVERWALK THAT ENHANCES TAMPA'S QUALITY OF LIFE
10:15:16 AND STAND ON THE WORLD STAGE.
10:15:19 BOUNDLESS CULTURAL EXPERIENCES PLUS UNEQUALLED UNITS
10:15:22 OUTSIDE OUR THEATRES WITH FREE OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING.
10:15:25 WE ARE READY TO BLOW OUT THE WALLS, TAKE YOU TO THE
10:15:28 RIVER, SHOW OFF THE CITY, AND SEND AN INVITATION TO THE
10:15:30 COMMUNITY AND TO THE WORLD.
10:15:31 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:15:36 TO ENSURE OUR FUTURE SUCCESS, WE ARE GUIDED BY THE
10:15:39 PRINCIPLES YOU SEE HERE WITH OUR PUPPET PARTNERS AND
10:15:41 PRIVATE SECTOR CONTRIBUTORS, WE WILL CREATE A NEW
10:15:43 DIMENSION TO THE STRAZ.
10:15:47 A RENEWED PLACE THAT WILL BE EMULATED AROUND THE WORLD.
10:15:47 NEXT SLIDE.
10:15:51 AS AN EXAMPLE, HERE IS THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE -- YES.
10:15:55 A WORLD-CLASS DESTINATION THAT BEGAN, AGAIN, BEAUTIFUL,
10:16:00 ICONIC ARCHITECTURE, BUT TODAY THEY HAVE ADDED ALL THIS
10:16:03 OUTDOOR SPACE AND NOW A PUBLIC GATHERING PLACE THAT
10:16:06 DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE A TICKET OR ATTEND A
10:16:07 PERFORMANCE.
10:16:10 IT IS SIMPLY THE PLACE TO BE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR
10:16:14 VISITORS AROUND THE WORLD ANY TIME THE DAY OR NIGHT.
10:16:15 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:16:18 IN COMPARISON TO OUR PEERS AND COMPETITORS IN FLORIDA
10:16:22 THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT AFTER THE STRAZ CENTER OPENED SUCH
10:16:27 AS THE CALF VISIT AND BROWARD CENTER IN FT. LAUDERDALE,
10:16:31 THEY ALREADY HAVE THE NECESSARY EVENT SPACE THAT'S WE
10:16:33 SO DESPERATELY NEED TO CREATE.
10:16:34 NEXT SLIDE.
10:16:39 THE STRAZ CENTER MASTER PLAN WILL CREATE THE NEW STRAZ.
10:16:42 IT WILL OFFER EXCITING POSSIBILITIES FOR THE PERFORMING
10:16:45 ARTS, THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER AND DOWNTOWN TAMPA.
10:16:49 VISITORS IN THE NEW STRAZ WILL NOT NEED A TICKET.
10:16:51 LET US SHOW YOU SOME OF THE FEATURES WE HAVE PLANNED.
10:16:52 NEXT SLIDE.
10:16:57 THE WELCOMING NEW GREENS ON THE CORNER OF MCGUINESS.
10:17:00 A TAMPA-STYLE TIMES SQUARE APPEAL.
10:17:03 AND IN THAT PICTURE YOU CAN SEE THE WORK THAT YOU SAW
10:17:04 BEFORE IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:17:07 NOW YOU HAVE A DIRECT VIEW RIGHT FROM TYLER ALL THE WAY
10:17:10 DOWN TO THE WATER.
10:17:11 NEXT SLIDE.
10:17:15 OUR ARRIVAL PLAZA ON THE RIVERWALK WILL HAVE A REVIEW
10:17:19 OF TAMPA'S NEW ICONIC SCULPTURE THAT RISES FROM THE
10:17:20 RIVER.
10:17:20 NEXT SLIDE.
10:17:23 THE VIEW FROM CASS STREET BRIDGE THAT SHOWS THE FLOWING
10:17:28 NEW ARCHITECTURAL FASCIA THAT WILL GIVE THE CENTER A
10:17:32 WONDERFUL NEW FORWARD-LOOKING EXCITING LOOK.
10:17:37 A CLOSE-UP OF THE FLOAT CAN ICONIC SCULPTURE AND NEW
10:17:40 DOCKAGE FOR ACCESS BY VOTE.
10:17:43 AND THE BOAT TRAFFIC IS SO BIG.
10:17:46 WE ARE CONSTANTLY HAVING FOLKS COMING FROM THE RIVER
10:17:50 WALK STAGE AND THEY STAY THERE AND WATCH THE SHOWS.
10:17:50 NEXT SLIDE.
10:17:57 THE NEW VISTA ON THE RIVERWALK TO ENJOY CASUAL FARE
10:17:59 AND WIDE ENTERTAINMENT.
10:18:02 ACCESSIBLE AT THE TERRACE LEVEL.
10:18:05 THE GRAND TERRACE INCLUDES SHADING FROM THE NEW
10:18:08 ARCHITECTURAL FASCIA -- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE
10:18:12 THAT -- THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THAT SLIDE.
10:18:13 SORRY ABOUT THAT.
10:18:16 MAYBE WE SHOULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE BECAUSE THAT SLIDE
10:18:17 SEEMS TO HAVE A PROBLEM.
10:18:18 OKAY.
10:18:20 LET'S DO THAT.
10:18:23 I AM GOING TO GO RIGHT TO THIS NEXT ONE.
10:18:25 THIS WILL BE THE NEW LOBBY.
10:18:28 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COME TO THE CENTER NOW, OUR LOBBIES
10:18:33 ARE SMALL AND WE PUT SO MUCH INTO THEM.
10:18:34 PUT RESTAURANTS IN THEM.
10:18:37 THESE ARE ALL THINGS WE DIDN'T HAVE.
10:18:42 THESE WILL BE NEW UNCROWDED FERGUSON LOBBIES AND
10:18:45 EXPANDED AND COMBINED INTO ONE LARGE SPACE THAT MOVES
10:18:47 OUT INTO THE RIVER.
10:18:48 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:18:52 HERE IS THE PUBLIC CAFE ON THE MAIN LEVEL ON THE NORTH
10:18:54 END OF MORSANI LOBBY.
10:18:56 YOU CAN SEE THE FLOWING AND ALMOST TRANSPARENT
10:19:00 ARCHITECTURAL FASCIA AND EXTERIOR VIEW.
10:19:01 NEXT SLIDE.
10:19:03 THE NEW FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANT WILL BE OPEN, OF
10:19:08 COURSE, TO OUR STRAZ PATRONS AND TO THE PUBLIC AND A
10:19:11 WONDERFUL VIEW OF THE RIVER AND WEST SKYLINE AND
10:19:12 MULTIPLE SEATING OPTIONS.
10:19:13 NEXT SLIDE.
10:19:18 ALSO ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC -- THAT IS NOT WORKING
10:19:19 EITHER.
10:19:23 THIS WAS A PICTURE OF OUR ROOF TOP TERRACE WITH
10:19:26 SEATING, AMPLE SHADING AND A FULL BAR AND WILL BE USED
10:19:27 YEAR ROUND.
10:19:30 THE LARGEST ROOF TOP TERRACE IN TAMPA IN HILLSBOROUGH
10:19:31 COUNTY.
10:19:34 NEXT SLIDE -- THIS SHOULD BE SLIDE 23.
10:19:36 DO WE HAVE ANOTHER SLIDE?
10:19:37 YEP, HERE WE GO.
10:19:39 THIS IS THE VIEW -- WE ARE ALMOST DONE WITH THE SLIDES.
10:19:43 THIS IS THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHWEST SAID OF THE CAMPUS
10:19:47 ALONG THE RIVERFRONT WHERE THE EXPANSION WILL INCLUDE
10:19:49 NEW MULTIPURPOSE EVENT CENTER.
10:19:54 A MUCH-NEEDED EXTENSION OF THE CONSERVATORY.
10:19:57 THE NEW OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE SPACE.
10:19:59 OUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEW RIVERWALK STAGE.
10:20:02 AND THE FACT -- WHEN WE GET PAST COVID AND THERE COULD
10:20:05 BE OTHER TIMES WHEN WE HAVE TO CLOSE FOR REASONS WE
10:20:11 DON'T KNOW BUT THIS HELPS OUR STRATEGY OF OUTDOOR
10:20:11 PERFORMANCE BY CAPACITY.
10:20:12 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:20:14 THE EVENT CENTER.
10:20:17 THE PREFUNCTION SPACE OF THE MULTIPURPOSE EVENT CENTER,
10:20:20 THE LARGE COMPONENT OF THE MASTER PLAN THAT WILL
10:20:25 ADDRESS OUR NEEDS IN THREE AREAS: PROGRAMMING, ARTS,
10:20:27 EDUCATION AND HOSPITALITY.
10:20:29 THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:20:32 EVENTS CENTER TO ACCOMMODATE COMMUNITY MEETINGS,
10:20:36 CONFERENCES, GALAS, AND FUNCTION AS A CABARET-STYLE
10:20:37 PERFORMANCE SPACE.
10:20:39 IT WILL ALSO STRENGTHEN OUR CAPACITY FOR CONVENTION
10:20:42 BUSINESS AND WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VISIT TAMPA BAY AND
10:20:45 THE CONVENTION CENTER AS OVERFLOW SPACE FOR THEIR
10:20:46 EVENTS.
10:20:47 NEXT SLIDE.
10:20:50 THE EVENTS CENTER CAN BE USED FOR ART EDUCATION CLASSES
10:20:53 AND DIVIDED TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT SIZES.
10:20:56 FINALLY, THE NEW NORTH ENTRANCE WILL HELP DIVERT
10:20:58 TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE
10:21:04 CONSERVATORY EVENTS CENTER AND MORSANI LOBBY, A WELCOME
10:21:07 CENTER PROVIDING CUSTOMER SERVICE TO PATRONS AND CAN
10:21:09 SERVE AS AN INFORMATION CENTER.
10:21:11 NEXT SLIDE.
10:21:12 AS YOU CAN SEE.
10:21:16 OUR MASTER PLAN CREATES BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL THAT WILL
10:21:18 INVITE THE COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD TO A VIBRANT
10:21:19 CULTURAL DESTINATION.
10:21:24 OUR UNEQUALLED GUEST AND HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCES
10:21:28 LEVERAGE OUR SIGNIFICANT RIVERFRONT OPPORTUNITIES,
10:21:30 ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR TAMPA CONVENTION AND TOURISM
10:21:33 BUSINESS, EXPAND FACILITIES FOR OUR INNOVATED
10:21:38 INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM AND
10:21:40 TRANSFORM THE STRAZ CENTER EXPERIENCE FOR A NEW
10:21:40 GENERATION.
10:21:45 AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DAVID TO CONTINUE THE
10:21:45 PRESENTATION.
10:21:52 DAVID?
10:21:53 IS DAVID HERE?
10:21:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DAVID, YOU ARE MUTED.
10:21:59 >>DAVID SCHER: I WAS MUTED.
10:22:02 AND CAN WE ADVANCE TWO SLIDES PLEASE?
10:22:03 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:22:08 THANK YOU.
10:22:14 >> OKAY, DAVID.
10:22:18 >> DAVID, THERE IS A MENU ON THE -- ON YOUR SCREEN.
10:22:32 WHERE YOU CAN UNMUTE YOUR MIC.
10:22:37 >> WELL, DAVID, IF YOU ARE NOT -- IF HE IS NOT ABLE TO
10:22:39 -- DAVID?
10:22:40 OKAY.
10:22:41 WHY DON'T I CONTINUE.
10:22:43 WE DON'T WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME, OF COURSE.
10:22:45 OKAY.
10:22:48 THESE WERE -- THINK OF ME AS DAVID RIGHT NOW.
10:22:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S SCARY.
10:22:53 >>DAVID SCHER: I GOT IT, I THINK, JUDY.
10:22:56 >>JUDY LISI: GOOD, DAVID.
10:22:58 >>DAVID SCHER: EVERYBODY HEAR ME NOW?
10:22:58 >> WE CAN HEAR.
10:23:01 >>DAVID SCHER: SORRY ABOUT THAT, EVERYBODY, I GOT -- A
10:23:04 SENIOR MOMENT IN TECHNOLOGY.
10:23:09 SO YOU HAVE HEARD TODAY ARE THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND WHY
10:23:11 WE ARE LAUNCHING THIS MASTER PLAN.
10:23:17 AND WHY YOU -- WHY WE BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOULD JOIN US.
10:23:20 THE FOUR KEY COMPONENTS ARE THAT THE STRAZ DRIVES AN
10:23:24 ENORMOUS ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR DOWNTOWN AND OUR ENTIRE
10:23:24 REGION.
10:23:27 THINK OF THREE TIMES THE POPULATION OF THE CITY OF
10:23:31 TAMPA COMING THROUGH OUR DOORS AND VISITING OUR SIX
10:23:33 STAGES EVERY YEAR.
10:23:37 THE PLAN IS PERFECT FOR OUR TIME.
10:23:40 IT IS A POST-COVID PLAN WITH FEATURE THAT'S WILL
10:23:45 ENHANCE OUR PERFORMING ARTS EXPERIENCE AND ADDRESS
10:23:46 RELEVANT PRIORITIES.
10:23:50 WE NEVER ASKED FOR FUNDING OF THIS MAGNITUDE FROM THE
10:23:53 CITY BUT WE BELIEVE IT IS AN INVESTMENT FOR THE FUTURE
10:23:54 OF THE OF TAMPA.
10:23:56 THIS IS A CITY OF TAMPA PROPERTY.
10:23:59 TODAY WE ARE ASKING THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE DOWNTOWN
10:24:02 CRA TO INVEST IN THE STRAZ CENTER, ONE OF THE CITY'S
10:24:04 MOST IMPORTANT ASSETS.
10:24:05 THIS IS OUR ASK.
10:24:08 WE ARE RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR COMMITMENT TO $5
10:24:12 MILLION PER YEAR FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS BEGINNING WITH
10:24:17 FISCAL YEAR 2022 FOR THE STRAZ MASTER PLAN.
10:24:20 AND WE ARE ASKING THE CRA BOARD TODAY TO DIRECT CITY
10:24:24 STAFF TO WORK WITH THE STRAZ CENTER TO ACHIEVE A
10:24:27 SIMILAR AGREEMENT STRUCTURE AS BEING AFFORDED TO OTHER
10:24:29 APPLICANTS IN THE PAST AND THAT BOTH PARTIES WITH BE
10:24:31 COMFORTABLE WITH.
10:24:36 THE PUBLIC SECTOR WILL SUPPORT AND INSPIRE AND LEVERAGE
10:24:39 THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAMPAIGN WHICH IS ALSO ALREADY IN
10:24:41 PLACE AND READY TO GO.
10:24:43 TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE AND CREATE
10:24:45 SOMETHING SMART AND MEANINGFUL.
10:24:50 THE NEW STRAZ WILL LIFT TAMPA'S CULTURAL REPUTATION,
10:24:53 OUR REGION'S ECONOMY, OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, OUR
10:24:56 COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
10:24:59 WE ARE READY TO DO SOMETHING BOUNDLESS, ARM IN ARM WITH
10:25:02 THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE CRA.
10:25:05 WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU TO LAUNCH THE
10:25:06 NEXT ERA.
10:25:12 THANK YOU.
10:25:18 I THINK WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.
10:25:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:25:24 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, MR. DINGFELDER.
10:25:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
10:25:29 THANK YOU, JUDITH AND DAVID AND LORRIN.
10:25:33 LORRIN, I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU HAD ANYTHING TO ADD TODAY.
10:25:38 YOU HAVE BEEN THERE, I THINK, AS LONG AS JUDITH AND
10:25:39 DOING GREAT WORK.
10:25:41 >> THANK YOU, JOHN.
10:25:45 IT -- IT'S EXCITING TO BE ABLE TO -- TO CONTINUE OUR
10:25:47 DISCUSSIONS ON THIS MASTER PLAN.
10:25:50 AND I APPRECIATE OVER THE YEARS ALL THE TIME THAT MANY
10:25:56 OF YOU HAVE TAKEN TO -- TO DELVE INTO THE PROJECT AND
10:25:58 UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHAT WE ARE SEEING FOR
10:26:00 THE FUTURE.
10:26:03 I AM JUST VERY EXCITED TO HAVE THIS ACTIVE.
10:26:08 PARTICULARLY CONSIDERING THE TIMES THIS WE ARE IN NOW.
10:26:11 I REALLY DO THINK IT IS A GREAT TIME TO MOVE FORWARD,
10:26:12 THANK YOU.
10:26:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DAVID -- MR. CHAIRMAN IF I COULD
10:26:15 FOLLOW UP.
10:26:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR, GO AHEAD.
10:26:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DAVID, JUDITH MENTIONED IT AND
10:26:23 PROBABLY YOU DID AS WELL, BUT I THINK IT IS WORTH
10:26:27 STRESSING THAT THIS IS A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC
10:26:27 PARTNERSHIP.
10:26:32 SO CAN YOU EXTRAPOLATE THAT LITTLE BIT IN REGARDS TO
10:26:38 THE TOTAL COST ANTICIPATED WITH THIS VERY MASSIVE
10:26:44 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AND WHAT THE PRIVATE COMPONENT OF
10:26:47 THAT IS ANTICIPATED.
10:26:48 >>DAVID SCHER: SURE.
10:26:51 WE EXPECT THE PROJECT PARTICIPATION TO BE APPROXIMATELY
10:26:54 50%.
10:26:58 THE PLAN, DEPENDING ON THE ALTERNATIVES WE MOVE FORWARD
10:27:03 WITH AND WE HAVE BEEN EXAMINING THE PLAN VERY CAREFULLY
10:27:04 POST COVID.
10:27:08 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE REALLY INADVERTENTLY PRODUCED A
10:27:12 POST-COVID PLAN PRECOVID.
10:27:16 SO WE HAVE DONE SOME TWEAKING AND MAY ADDED A FEW
10:27:18 DOLLARS TO THE PLAN, BUT I THINK IT IS WELL WORTH IT.
10:27:22 WE ARE LOOKING AT A PLAN OF ABOUT $80 MILLION.
10:27:26 AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO LOOK AT
10:27:29 HALF OF IT.
10:27:34 AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE THE PUBLIC -- SORRY, THE PUBLIC
10:27:36 SECTOR TO COMMIT TO HALF OF IT.
10:27:39 AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE GOTTEN THAT COMMITMENT, WE WILL
10:27:43 MOVE FORWARD VERY SERIOUSLY WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
10:27:45 WE WILL ALREADY HAVE OUR CABINET IN PLACE.
10:27:49 OUR CAMPAIGN CABINET THE BOUNDLESS CAMPAIGN.
10:27:52 AND WE HAVE LITERATURE IN PLACE THAT WE HAVE STARTED
10:27:56 VERY QUIETLY A PRIVATE CAMPAIGN PRIOR TO COVID.
10:28:01 AND IN THE NEXT QUARTER, WE PLANNING TO RAMP THAT UP.
10:28:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
10:28:07 MR. CHAIRMAN, I -- I HAVE A MOTION BUT I WILL HOLD IT
10:28:09 IN CASE THERE ARE ANY OTHER BOARD COMMENTS.
10:28:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
10:28:14 MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:28:17 >>BILL CARLSON: YES, MY COLLEAGUES AND I THINK THE
10:28:19 PUBLIC WILL KNOW I TRIED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO OR TRIED
10:28:23 OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO TO PUT A CAP ON THE DOWNTOWN
10:28:27 CRA BECAUSE I THINK THAT IF -- IF THE REST OF THE
10:28:31 COMMUNITY IS SUBSIDIZING SOMETHING, THEN IT SHOULD
10:28:35 ADDRESS WHAT THE -- WHAT THE LAW SAYS ABOUT SLUM AND
10:28:36 BLIGHT.
10:28:37 I DIDN'T HAVE SUPPORT FOR THAT.
10:28:40 SO IF WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THE MONEY IN DOWNTOWN, IF WE
10:28:44 ARE GOING TO SUBSIDIZE DOWNTOWN AND IT HAS BEEN A
10:28:47 SUCCESS IN THE PAST, MY POINT IS THAT THE REST OF THE
10:28:49 CITY REALLY NEEDS MONEY ALSO.
10:28:51 IF WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THAT MONEY IN.
10:28:54 WE NEED TO SET A HIGH THRESHOLD HOW TO USE THAT MONEY.
10:28:56 NUMBER ONE, IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THE WHOLE CITY
10:28:57 CAN ENJOY.
10:29:01 IF THE REST OF THE CITY IS GOING TO SUBSIDIZE THE CRAS,
10:29:05 ESPECIALLY ONE THAT'S DON'T HAVE SLUM AND BLIGHT,
10:29:08 SOMETHING THAT THE WHOLE COMMUNITY CAN ENJOY AND THE
10:29:11 STRAZ CENTER IS ONE OF THOSE PREMIERE VENUES THAT
10:29:14 PEOPLE CAN ENJOY AND ALSO PARTICIPATE FROM THE SHOWS OF
10:29:19 ALL LEVELS TO THE PATEL CONSERVATORY AND THE OUTDOOR
10:29:20 EVENTS.
10:29:23 NUMBER TWO, IT NEEDS TO BE AN ECONOMIC ENGINE.
10:29:27 AND CLEARLY THE ARTS ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST ECONOMIC
10:29:29 ENGINES ANYWHERE.
10:29:33 IF YOU THINK ABOUT BACK IN THE 80S AND -- AND EARLY
10:29:37 90S, THAT YBOR CITY HAD LOTS OF ARTS GROUPS AND PEOPLE
10:29:40 THOUGHT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF GENTRIFICATION.
10:29:42 THE BEGINNING OF RENEWAL.
10:29:46 BUT THEN WHEN YBOR TURNED INTO A BAR DISTRICT, THAT
10:29:47 ARTISTS LEFT.
10:29:49 AND A LOT WENT TO ST. PETE.
10:29:52 THEY MOVED TO DOWNTOWN ST. PETE AND THEY GOT PUSHED OUT
10:29:52 OF THERE.
10:29:55 THEY WENT TO THE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT, THEY WERE JUST
10:29:58 ABOUT TO GET KICKED OUT OF THERE.
10:30:00 THEY WERE ABLE TO BUY THEIR OWN DISTRICT.
10:30:02 THE POINT IS MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT THE ARTS IS THE
10:30:05 BEGINNING OF LIFTING UP AND DEVELOPING THE AREA.
10:30:08 THE FACT IS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE AND WORK NEAR THE
10:30:08 ARTS.
10:30:12 ONE REASON THE STRAZ CENTER HAS BEEN SO HELPFUL TO THE
10:30:13 COMMUNITY OVER THE YEARS BECAUSE OF THAT.
10:30:16 THE ARTS ARE A FANTASTIC ECONOMIC ENGINE.
10:30:19 PROBABLY SECOND MAYBE ONLY TO UNIVERSITIES.
10:30:20 WE NEED TO SUPPORT THEM.
10:30:23 THEY HAVE BEEN UNDERFUNDED.
10:30:26 MOST OF THE BUDGET OF THE ARTS HAVE BEEN CUT IN THE
10:30:27 LAST TEN YEARS.
10:30:30 IN A WAY WE ARE DOING CATCH-UP AND WE ARE LOOKING
10:30:31 FORWARD TO FUND THIS.
10:30:35 AND ALSO I THINK -- YOU KNOW, ANOTHER -- THE FIRST TWO
10:30:36 TESTS ARE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:30:40 BUT THE OTHER TEST IS, IS THE ORGANIZATION RUN AS WELL.
10:30:45 WE KNOW WITH JUDY LISI,DAVID SCHER AS PREDECESSORS AND
10:30:47 CHAIRS AND THE BOARD THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE DONE A
10:30:49 FANTASTIC JOB.
10:30:51 THIS CENTER IS KNOWN WORLDWIDE.
10:30:55 YOU KNOW, JUDY IS VERY WELL KNOWN IN BROADWAY AND IN
10:30:59 LONDON AND THE ARTS CENTERS OF THE WORLD.
10:31:02 HAS PUT TAMPA ON THE INTERNATIONAL MAP THAT ATTRACTS
10:31:05 BUSINESSES AND HIGH-QUALITY PEOPLE HERE TO HELP DRIVE
10:31:07 OUR ECONOMY.
10:31:10 WELL RUN AND AN AMENITY FOR THE CITY AND A HUGE
10:31:15 ECONOMIC ENGINE WAY BEYOND THE PEOPLE WHO EAT AT
10:31:16 RESTAURANTS.
10:31:18 WITH ALL THAT SAID, I WILL BE HAPPY TO SECOND THE
10:31:21 MOTION AND SUPPORT IT IN ANY WAY THAT I CAN BECAUSE IT
10:31:22 IS ESSENTIAL AND VITAL.
10:31:25 ONE LAST THING, JUDY HOPEFULLY WILL BE HERE ANOTHER 20
10:31:29 YEARS BUT EVENTUALLY WE WON'T HAVE HER AND THE GOOD
10:31:32 THING HER BRILLIANCE AND EXPERTISE LOOKING OVER THE
10:31:34 OTHER EXPERTS PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
10:31:37 I FEEL HONOR THAT WE HAVE THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO
10:31:38 PUSH THIS PROJECT FORWARD.
10:31:39 THANK YOU.
10:31:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:31:47 MISS VAN LOAN, COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
10:31:52 QUESTION NUMBER ONE, LEGALITIES.
10:31:55 CAN THE CRA SUPPORT THIS PROJECT?
10:32:00 AND TWO, CAN THE DOWNTOWN CRA FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE
10:32:03 PROJECT FOR THE EXTENSIVE PERIOD OF TIME WHEN ASKING
10:32:05 FOR $5 MILLION A YEAR?
10:32:06 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I WILL START WITH THE SECOND
10:32:08 QUESTION FIRST.
10:32:13 AS WE DISCUSSED OVER THE SUMMER, THIS -- AND INTO THE
10:32:16 FALL, THIS QUESTION HAS COME UP SEVERAL TIMES.
10:32:19 AS PER FUNDING WE DID INCLUDE IT IN OUR PLANNING BUDGET
10:32:22 FOR -- AS WE HAVE DISCUSSED OVER SOME OF THE WORKSHOPS
10:32:24 AT $5 MILLION FOR THREE YEARS.
10:32:28 WE WILL HAVE TO GO BACK AND WORK WITH THE BUDGET OFFICE
10:32:32 AND HAVE VALERIE UPDATE HER PLANNING BUDGET TO LOOK AT
10:32:35 WHAT $5 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS WILL DO FOR THE BUDGET
10:32:37 AND IF WE WILL HAVE THE CAPACITY WITH THE CURRENT
10:32:38 BUDGET AND PROJECTIONS.
10:32:42 WE WILL CERTAINLY BE ABLE BY FEBRUARY TO COME BACK AND
10:32:45 SAY, YES, WE CAN DO 15 OR 25 OVER THE THREE TO FIVE
10:32:45 YEARS.
10:32:47 I KNOW AT A MINIMUM, WE HAD PLANNED FOR THE $15
10:32:51 MILLION, BUT WE WILL HAVE TO COME BACK AND REDO THE
10:32:53 ANALYSIS FOR THE $25 MILLION.
10:32:57 AS FAR AS LEGALLY, I WILL LET MORRIS CORRECT ME IF I'M
10:33:00 WRONG, BUT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS SINCE LAST
10:33:03 SUMMER WHEN THIS FIRST CAME UP.
10:33:06 OUR CIP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN DOES
10:33:09 RECOGNIZE OUR CULTURAL ASSETS AND THE ARTS AND THOSE
10:33:11 TYPE OF FACILITIES AS AN IMPORTANT DRIVER FOR OUR
10:33:14 ECONOMIC ENGINE AND THE IMPORTANCE TO THE REDEVELOPMENT
10:33:16 OF DOWNTOWN.
10:33:19 WE WERE ABLE TO INVEST IN OUR COVID RETROFIT GRANT
10:33:22 BECAUSE OF THE ABILITY TO INVEST IN SOME OF THESE
10:33:24 FACILITIES.
10:33:27 SO -- AND MORRIS AND I TALKED ABOUT HOW TO MOVE FORWARD
10:33:29 FROM HERE AND WHAT NEXT STEPS ARE.
10:33:32 SO, YES, WE CAN LEGALLY DO THIS WITH THE CRA DOLLARS.
10:33:36 OUR NEXT STEPS -- ONE OF THE COMMENTS WAS TO HAVE THE
10:33:39 SAME KIND OF AGREEMENT AS THE CRAS HAVE DONE IF IN THE
10:33:40 PAST.
10:33:43 WE HAVE NOT DONE AN AGREEMENT LIKE THIS IN THE PAST, SO
10:33:45 ONE OF THE NEXT STEPS WILL BE FOR OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT
10:33:49 AND MORRIS AND BRIAN TO WORK WITH THE STRAZ AND WITH
10:33:54 THEIR STAFF AND CORE TEAM TO LOOK AT, FIRST, THEIR FULL
10:33:57 BUDGET, SO WE CAN DEVELOP CRITERIA.
10:34:01 ALL OF THE PAST AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE DONE FOR PUBLIC
10:34:05 RIGHT-OF-WAY -- INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, THE
10:34:08 TAMPA HISTORY CENTER, TAMPA THEATRE AND THE AQUARIUM,
10:34:11 WE ARE NOT REQUESTING FOR THE BUILDING DIRECTLY LIKE WE
10:34:12 ARE ASKING FOR THIS ONE.
10:34:15 WE HAVE NOT HAD THAT KIND OF AGREEMENT WITH THE CRA
10:34:19 BEFORE BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY SPENDS 2021 READY FOR THAT
10:34:23 FY '22 BUDGET TO HAVE THAT AGREEMENT IN PLACE BY THE
10:34:24 TIME THE FUNDING IS READY.
10:34:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I KNOW CERTAIN COUNCILMEMBERS WILL
10:34:30 PROBABLY WANT TO PUT A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS, BUT I
10:34:33 WOULD HOPE UNTIL WE GET THE GENERAL INFORMATION BACK
10:34:36 FROM MISS VAN LOAN TO SEE IF WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH
10:34:38 THIS BEFORE THE MOTION TO DO IT.
10:34:42 THAT WOULD BE MY -- MY WISH TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE
10:34:46 ARE AT IN THE PROCESS WITH THE STRAZ TO UNDERSTAND HOW
10:34:49 IT NEEDS TO WORK TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS.
10:34:50 I AM FOR THE ARTS.
10:34:54 BUT I AM ALSO -- WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN BE FINANCIAL
10:34:56 RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE IT TO DO IT.
10:34:59 I DON'T WANT TO SAY DO SOMETHING AND THEN NOW WE COME
10:35:01 BACK WE CAN'T DO IT.
10:35:05 GO SUCK SOME MONEY FROM SOME PLACE ELSE THAT MAY NEED
10:35:06 SOMETHING DONE.
10:35:10 SO, AGAIN, MY THING IS MAKING SURE WE HAVE IT TO DO IT.
10:35:12 THAT IS THE KEY RIGHT NOW WITH THINGS GOING ON WITH
10:35:16 COVID AND THE ECONOMY AND YOU KNOW, THEY MAY HAVE TO
10:35:17 HALT THEIR PROJECT.
10:35:19 WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
10:35:22 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE SOUND WITH THAT, NUMBER ONE.
10:35:25 NUMBER TWO -- MR. CARLSON MADE A POINT.
10:35:28 EVERYONE LIKES THE ARTS AND MAKING SURE THAT WHEN WE
10:35:31 HAVE PROGRAMS THAT COME TO THE STRAZ THAT THEIR
10:35:34 PROGRAMMING FOR ALL CULTURES ALL OVER THE CITY.
10:35:36 IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT WHEN YOU ARE MAKING THIS
10:35:40 KIND OF INVESTMENT THAT EVERYONE IS INCLUSIVE OF GOING
10:35:41 TO THE STRAZ.
10:35:44 AND EVERYONE CAN BE ABLE TO PARTAKE IN SHOWS OF
10:35:47 DIFFERENT CULTURES AND DIFFERENT MAGNITUDES.
10:35:48 I KNOW THEY HAVE DONE THIS THING.
10:35:50 YOU ARE PUTTING THIS TYPE OF INVESTMENT -- WHAT I SEE
10:35:52 ON THE PROJECT THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE MAKING.
10:35:56 THIS IS A -- THIS IS A HUGE PROJECT THAT HAS A LOT OF
10:35:57 ACTIVITIES.
10:35:59 SO WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE INCLUSIVE TO
10:36:02 ALL COMMUNITIES AND EVERYBODY WHEN WE DO A PROJECT LIKE
10:36:05 THIS ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SPEND TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
10:36:11 THIS MAGNITUDE OF TAX DOLLARS OVER THESE YEARS.
10:36:13 THAT IS MY REQUEST.
10:36:14 MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED?
10:36:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:36:19 >>LUIS VIERA: REAL QUICK.
10:36:20 I RECEIVED YOUR PHONE CALL.
10:36:22 I CALLED YOU BACK AND I DIDN'T LEAVE A MESSAGE.
10:36:24 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I DIDN'T IGNORE IT.
10:36:26 NOW YOU KNOW.
10:36:29 >> THANK YOU.
10:36:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME GET MR. MASSEY AND THEN JOHN
10:36:34 AND THEN JOSEPH CITRO.
10:36:40 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GO TO CITRO FIRST.
10:36:43 >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO REPEAT WHAT MISS VAN LOAN WAS
10:36:45 SAYING IF THE MOTION IS PASSED WITH THE CRA BOARD THAT
10:36:48 WE WORK WITH AN STRAZ ON THE AGREEMENT.
10:36:50 THIS WILL BE A COMPLICATED AGREEMENT.
10:36:53 ONE OF THE THINGS -- TYPICALLY THE WAY WE FUNDED AND
10:36:58 ASSISTED PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT AND GIVE YOU A MORE SIMPLE
10:37:03 EXAMPLE THAT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH.
10:37:03 THE GRANTS.
10:37:06 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO IS LOOK AT THE OVERALL
10:37:09 BUDGET FOR THAT PROJECT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE GOT
10:37:12 THE MONEY THERE TO DO THE COMPLETE PROJECT.
10:37:16 AND WE ARE FUNDING APPROXIMATELY 50% -- UP TO 50% OF
10:37:17 THAT WORK.
10:37:19 IT IS SOMEWHAT A SIMILAR IDEA HERE.
10:37:22 WE -- I THINK OUR PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
10:37:27 AND THIS, YES, IN CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT IS A KEY
10:37:29 COMPONENT OF THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:37:32 THIS IS A CITY OWNED FACILITY.
10:37:33 THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT TIE INTO THE
10:37:35 REDEVELOPMENT ACT.
10:37:38 SO I DO THINK IT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE ACT AND THE
10:37:40 DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:37:42 I THINK LEGALLY WE CAN WORK WITH THE STRAZ ON SUCH A
10:37:45 PROJECT AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STRUCTURE IT IN
10:37:49 SUCH A WAY THAT THE PUBLIC DOLLARS ARE USED IN A MANNER
10:37:52 THAT IS APPROPRIATE AND WE ARE NOT GETTING AHEAD OR
10:37:56 PREFUNDING THINGS THAT REALLY THE PRIVATE SIDE NEEDS TO
10:37:59 COME IN AND ALSO BE PARTICIPATORY AND WE NEED TO MAKE
10:38:02 -- THAT IS SOME OF THE DETAILS THAT WE HAVE TO WORK OUT
10:38:04 IN -- IN THIS TYPE OF AGREEMENT.
10:38:08 SO ANYWAY.
10:38:10 >>DAVID SCHER: CAN I RESPOND THAT VERY QUICKLY?
10:38:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR.
10:38:15 >>DAVID SCHER: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR INTENT IS.
10:38:20 THAT WE WOULD -- WE WOULD NOT LOOK TO SPEND THE MONEY
10:38:22 TODAY BEFORE WE HAVE FINISHED OUR CAMPAIGN.
10:38:25 BUT THAT THE COMMITMENT WOULD BE THERE ONCE WE ARE
10:38:28 SUCCESSFUL WITH OUR CAMPAIGN.
10:38:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CITRO, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR.
10:38:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
10:38:38 IF THIS CITY IS GOING TO INVEST IN PROFESSIONAL SPORT,
10:38:41 WE NEED TO SERIOUSLY INVEST IN THE CULTURE WITH THE
10:38:41 CITY.
10:38:48 IF ANYTHING ELSE, MISS LISI PUT IT CORRECTLY, THIS IS A
10:38:52 ECONOMIC DRIVER WITHIN THE CRA AND WE ARE THERE TO HELP
10:38:56 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CRAS.
10:38:59 I WILL BE FOR THIS, BUT I DO AGREE WITH YOU, MR. CHAIR,
10:39:01 LET'S HEAR THE STUDY.
10:39:03 AND THEN MOVE ON FROM THERE.
10:39:05 AND MISS LISI, PLEASE.
10:39:08 I SAW THE PICTURE IN THERE THAT REMINDED ME OF THE
10:39:13 PARKS AND RECREATION, WHAT I CALL THE BABY TUTU RECITAL
10:39:16 AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THOSE AGAIN.
10:39:19 MR. CHAIR, I AGREE WITH YOU ON -- LET'S LOOK AT THE
10:39:26 DIRECTION THAT'S WE ARE GOING TO GO.
10:39:28 >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE A SMALL COMMENT.
10:39:29 GO BEFORE OR AFTER YOU.
10:39:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OFF COMMENT.
10:39:32 NO, GO AHEAD.
10:39:33 I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION.
10:39:37 >>BILL CARLSON: BASED ON WHAT CHAIR GUDES SAID, JUDY
10:39:41 AND DAVID, CAN YOU ADDRESS WHAT YOU DO WITH PATEL WITH
10:39:44 SCHOLARSHIP AND SCHOOL OUTINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:39:47 WHAT -- THE BROAD PARTICIPATION OF THE COMMUNITY, YOU
10:39:51 KNOW, REGARDLESS OF WELCOME AND ATTRIBUTES.
10:39:54 >>JUDITH LISI: ABSOLUTELY, COUNCILMAN.
10:39:58 WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OUTREACH -- EDUCATION
10:40:00 OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTRY.
10:40:05 WE HAVE 52 PARTNERSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, IN
10:40:06 SCHOOLS AND IN AGENCIES.
10:40:10 AND EVERY YOUNG PERSON WHO APPLIES TO THE CONSERVATORY
10:40:17 WHO -- WHO WANTS TO STUDY THERE, WILL BE SCHOLARSHIP.
10:40:21 WE RAISED HALF A MILLION TO A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO
10:40:22 SCHOLARSHIP.
10:40:25 AND I WILL TELL YOU SOME OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE
10:40:28 GONE ON TO DO AMAZING THINGS.
10:40:30 IT WAS THEIR BRIDGE TO GET THEM TO WHERE THEY NEEDED TO
10:40:31 GO.
10:40:34 AND VERY OFTEN, IT IS OUR 52 PARTNERSHIPS IN THE
10:40:37 COMMUNITY THAT WE LEARN ABOUT THE TALENT THAT IS OUT
10:40:37 THERE.
10:40:41 AND WE ARE ABLE TO BRING THEM INTO THE CONSERVATORY FOR
10:40:46 THEIR PREPROFESSIONAL TRAINING.
10:40:48 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:40:52 >> WE BRING 50,000 YOUNG PEOPLE A YEAR TO ALL OF OUR
10:40:55 OTHER LIVE PERFORMANCES AS WELL THROUGH HILLSBOROUGH
10:40:59 COUNTY SCHOOLS.
10:41:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:41:04 AND THANK YOU, JUDITH.
10:41:09 ALL OF YOUR STAFF, THE BOARD MEMBERS, AND I AM HONORED
10:41:14 TO SERVE WITH YOU ON THE BOARD, LED BY GARY SASSO AND
10:41:16 EVERYBODY DOES A GREAT JOB.
10:41:19 DAVID, THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK OVER THE YEARS.
10:41:23 BILL, I APPRECIATE YOU ASK THAT REALLY IMPORTANT
10:41:27 QUESTION BECAUSE THE STRAZ DOESN'T JUST SIT THERE
10:41:32 STATICALLY ON THE RIVER, YOU KNOW, CATERING TO THE
10:41:36 CROWD THAT COMES TO IT.
10:41:40 THE STRAZ -- AND I THINK JUDITH MENTIONED -- DOES A
10:41:43 HUGE AMOUNT OF OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY BOTH IN TERMS
10:41:48 OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROGRAMMING, ETC.
10:41:50 AND I THINK THAT IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT MR.
10:41:55 CHAIRMAN AND I AM GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
10:41:59 THE -- I DID WANT TO STRESS, AND THIS GOES TO MISS VAN
10:42:09 LOAN'S COMMENT OVER IN THE SPV VINICK PROJECT, THE CRA
10:42:12 INVESTED AND CONTINUES TO INVEST IN A LOT OF MONEY IN
10:42:14 THE CITY OWNED ASSET OF THE STREET.
10:42:18 IN THIS CASE, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT
10:42:21 BECAUSE THE STRAZ FOLKS DO SUCH A GOOD JOB OF
10:42:24 MAINTAINING THEIR OWN -- THE PROPERTY.
10:42:28 BUT THEY ARE MAINLY A TENANT, A 100-YEAR TENANT IN A
10:42:30 CITY-OWNED BUILDING.
10:42:33 IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, MR. MASSEY.
10:42:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S CORRECT.
10:42:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I SEE IT AS PRETTY SIMILAR.
10:42:43 THIS IS A CITY-OWNED ASSET FOR THE LAST 30-PLUS YEARS.
10:42:47 YOU KNOW THE CITY CONTRIBUTES PERIODICALLY BUT NOT A
10:42:50 WHOLE LOT, BUT THE STRAZ FOLKS RAISE, YOU KNOW, $30
10:42:54 MILLION TO DO MAINTENANCE AND UPGRADES OVER THE YEARS.
10:42:58 THEY ARE VERY GOOD -- THEY ARE THE KIND OF TENANT THAT
10:43:01 EVERY LANDLORD WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, BUT THE TIME COMES
10:43:05 PERIODICALLY WHEN THE LANDLORD NEEDS TO KICK IN AND
10:43:07 HELP DO MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS.
10:43:12 AND MR. SCHER HAS POINTED THOUGHT IS VERY MUCH A
10:43:14 PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP.
10:43:18 ON THE PUBLIC SIDE, EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE CIRCLING
10:43:20 BACK TO THE COUNTY, AS WELL AS THE STATE AND MAYBE EVEN
10:43:24 THE FEDS, WE HOPE, TO GET -- TO GET SOME ADDITIONAL
10:43:30 FUNDING FOR THIS TOTAL, YOU KNOW, $80 MILLION PROJECT.
10:43:34 BUT THE CITY BEING THE LANDLORD BEING THE OWNER OF THE
10:43:39 PROPERTY, I FEEL TOTALLY COMFORTABLE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE
10:43:42 -- THAT WE WOULD KICK IN, AS LONG AS, MR. CHAIRMAN, IT
10:43:46 IS FINANCIALLY PRUDENT.
10:43:51 AND -- AND ALSO I THINK WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S
10:43:55 NOT NECESSARILY TAXES THAT ARE COMING FROM OTHER PARTS
10:43:58 OF THE CITY TO SUBSIDIZE DOWNTOWN.
10:44:04 IT IS THE DOWNTOWN TAXES THAT ARE BEING KEPT WITHIN THE
10:44:07 DOWNTOWN TO SUBSIDIZE THESE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENTS.
10:44:11 SO ANYWAY, WITH ALL THIS SAID, MR. CHAIRMAN, I AGREE
10:44:14 WITH YOU TOTALLY, WE TAKE THIS IN BABY STEPS.
10:44:18 AND THE FIRST THING THAT I -- BY MOTION, WHAT I WOULD
10:44:24 LIKE TO DO IS DIRECT OUR LEGAL AND CRA STAFF TO WORK
10:44:27 WITH THE STRAZ FOLKS AND THEIR ATTORNEYS AND
10:44:33 REPRESENTATIVES TO INVESTIGATE THIS, TO LOOK -- TO LOOK
10:44:36 ON OUR OWN SIDE IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR BUDGETS LOOK LIKE
10:44:38 FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
10:44:41 AND ALSO TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE STRAZ
10:44:47 REPRESENTATIVES TO DRAFT -- MERELY DRAFT, NOT APPROVE
10:44:52 TODAY BUT MERELY DRAFT SOME TYPE OF FUNDING AGREEMENT.
10:44:56 IN WHATEVER DOCUMENTS GO WITH THAT.
10:44:59 AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT SORT OF TIME, MR. MASSEY, MISS
10:45:01 VAN LOAN, YOU WOULD --
10:45:03 >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
10:45:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: -- YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK ON
10:45:09 THAT OR IF -- IF DAVID, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE A
10:45:12 TIME TABLE AS WELL.
10:45:12 >>DAVID SCHER: RIGHT.
10:45:15 OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD LIKE TOO GET STUFF DONE AS QUICKLY
10:45:19 AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE ONCE WE HAVE THE AGREEMENT IN
10:45:22 PLACE, WE CAN REALLY PUSH TO OUR OTHER SOURCES OF
10:45:24 FUNDING.
10:45:27 AND SINCE IT IS A PARTNERSHIP.
10:45:28 BUT I LIKE THE MOTION.
10:45:32 I THINK THAT IT GIVES US IMPETUS.
10:45:36 IT -- IT OPENS THE DOOR FOR US TO LOOK AT ALL THE --
10:45:39 THE THINGS THAT COME UP IN AN AGREEMENT AND MR. MASSEY
10:45:43 IS RIGHT, YOU KNOW, IT IS IN THE DETAILS AND GETTING
10:45:45 EVERYTHING SORTED OUT.
10:45:49 AND WE, AS AN ORGANIZATION, WILL PUT THE TIME AND DROP
10:45:53 EVERYTHING ELSE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
10:45:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. MASSEY, DO OFF TIME TABLE ON MY
10:45:57 MOTION?
10:46:00 >>MORRIS MASSEY: DIFFICULT TO TELL YOU EXACTLY BUT WE
10:46:02 CAN GIVE YOU REGULAR REPORTS IF WOULD YOU LIKE MONTHLY
10:46:08 WHERE WE ARE ON THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE STRAZ.
10:46:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK THAT SOUNDS APPROPRIATE.
10:46:14 IT WILL BE -- IT WILLING AN EVOLVING PROCESS AND
10:46:15 EVOLVING DOCUMENTS.
10:46:18 SO MY MOTION WOULD STAND DIRECTING LEGAL AND STAFF TO
10:46:22 WORK WITH THE STRAZ FOLKS AND EXPLORE THIS ISSUE.
10:46:26 START DEVELOPING THE VARIOUS AGREEMENTS NECESSARY.
10:46:29 AND REPORT BACK US TO MONTHLY.
10:46:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION FROM MR. DINGFELDER.
10:46:34 >> SECOND.
10:46:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CLERK.
10:46:40 >>CLERK: VIERA --
10:46:43 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:46:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ENTHUSIASTICALLY YES.
10:46:47 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:46:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:46:54 AND GUDES.
10:46:58 VIERA BEING ABSENT AT VOTE AND MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
10:47:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: RECOGNIZED.
10:47:03 >> MISS VAN LOAN FOR THE PUBLIC WATCHING GOING THROUGH
10:47:07 THE BUDGET FOR THE FIRST TIME, CAN YOU GIVE EVERYONE A
10:47:11 GENERAL IDEA -- WON'T HOLD YOU TO THE EXACT NUMBER BUT
10:47:13 THE GENERAL IDEA WHAT THE BUDGET WILL BE IN THE -- IN
10:47:17 THE DOWNTOWN CRA OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OR MAYBE --
10:47:19 YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WHAT IT WILL BE IN THE FIFTH YEAR
10:47:23 AS COMPARED TO $5 MILLION?
10:47:26 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GENERALLY WE WORK ON -- SORRY I
10:47:28 DIDN'T BRING THE PLANNING BUDGET WITH ME.
10:47:34 WE WORK ON 5% -- ASSUME A 5% EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF SOME
10:47:37 OF OUR BUILDINGS THAT ARE COMING ONLINE OVER THE NEXT
10:47:38 COUPLE OF YEARS.
10:47:41 A LOT OF THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE COMING ON LINE, WE
10:47:44 HAVE INCREASED THAT BY -- I BELIEVE ABOUT A MILLION
10:47:47 DOLLARS A YEAR ON THREE YEARS ON TOP OF THAT 5%.
10:47:50 SO AS YOU LOOK AT THE FIVE, WOULD YOU ADD EACH YEAR ONE
10:47:53 ADDITIONAL ON TOP OF THAT SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT IN ADDITION
10:47:56 TO THE 5% AS A STANDARD THE BUDGET OFFICE USES IN THE
10:47:58 PLANNING BUDGET.
10:48:01 WE GET EACH YEAR'S ACTUAL REVENUE.
10:48:06 LOOKING OUT AT ABOUT FOUR YEARS, I WOULD EXPECT TO BE
10:48:09 TO THE NINE, TEN MILLION AND I WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE
10:48:10 PLANNING BUDGET.
10:48:13 >> CERTAIN COMMITMENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE.
10:48:17 POINT IS THAT NOT LIKE STRAZ IS TAKING ALL THE MONEY.
10:48:19 OTHER MONEY FOR OTHER PROJECTS AND I SAID IN THE
10:48:23 BEGINNING, IF I HAD A CHOICE I WOULD PUT A CAP ON THIS
10:48:26 AND MOVE THE MONEY TO OTHER AREAS THAT DESPERATELY NEED
10:48:29 IT, BUT UNLESS WE DO THAT, WE NEED TO SPEND IT ON
10:48:31 SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ENGINE
10:48:34 AND BENEFITS THE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
10:48:37 AND THERE WERE MORE -- I KNOW AFTER THIS, WE WILL GET
10:48:40 LOTS OF CALLS FROM PEOPLE WHO ALSO WANT PROJECTS, BUT
10:48:43 THE ARTS HAVE BEEN UNDERFUNDED AND UNFUNDED, DEFUNDED
10:48:45 IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
10:48:47 AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO SUPPORT IT.
10:48:49 THANK YOU.
10:48:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:48:52 ALL RIGHT.
10:48:53 WE THANK YOU, FOLKS.
10:48:57 AND WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:48:58 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:48:59 >> THANK YOU.
10:49:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:49:04 BELIEVE ME, YOU -- WE WILL -- WE WILL DO SUCH A GREAT
10:49:06 JOB FOR THIS CITY.
10:49:07 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:49:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MISS LISI.
10:49:15 >> IF WE CAN ASK THE STRAZ FOLKS TO SAY ON THE LINE
10:49:18 NUMBER 5 WILL THE COVID GRANT THAT WILL BE COMING UP IN
10:49:19 TWO ITEMS.
10:49:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS LISI, STAY ON THE LINE PLEASE.
10:49:26 >> YOU WANT ME --
10:49:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: STAY ON THE LINE.
10:49:32 MISS VAN LOAN -- LET'S DO NUMBER 5 AND GO COME BACK TO
10:49:33 NUMBER 4.
10:49:37 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NUMBER 5 IS THE BRAND-NEW
10:49:42 CULTURAL ASSET GRANT FOR COVID-RELATED ITEMS AND ON
10:49:45 CITY OF TAMPA PROPERTY IN THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL
10:49:45 DISTRICT AREA.
10:49:49 WE RECEIVED TWO GRANTS SINCE WE APPROVED THIS GRANT
10:49:50 PROGRAM IN DECEMBER.
10:49:53 AND THE FIRST ONE IS THE STRAZ.
10:49:57 THEY DID RECEIVE 500,000 FROM CARES FUNDING TO HELP
10:50:01 THEM ADDRESS MOST OF THE HVAC IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE
10:50:04 NEEDED IN ORDER TO ADDRESS AIR QUALITY AND FRESH AIR
10:50:07 WITHIN THE BUILDING AND PART OF THIS GRANT THAT IS
10:50:13 REQUESTED FOR $677,737 WOULD ADDRESS THEIR VARIETIES TO
10:50:18 COMPLETE THE HVAC WORK AND CREATE TOUCHLESS SYSTEMS
10:50:21 WHEN THEIR PUBLIC COMES BACK IN THE BUILDING SUCH AS IN
10:50:25 THE REST ROOMS, TOUCHLESS DOORS, FIXTURES, WATER
10:50:28 FOUNTAINS AND ANY INTERFACES WITH THE PUBLIC TO LIMIT
10:50:32 AND REDUCE MULTIPLE PEOPLE TOUCHING VARIOUS ITEMS
10:50:35 THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY.
10:50:38 SO THE REQUEST IS $677 AND CHANGE FOR THIS.
10:50:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE.
10:50:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
10:50:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SECOND.
10:50:45 >> MOTION BY MR. CITRO.
10:50:47 SECOND BY MR. DINGFELDER.
10:50:49 ANY DISCUSSION?
10:50:51 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST --
10:50:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:50:54 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST FOR THE PUBLIC.
10:50:57 THE STRAZ CENTER IS COMING UP TWICE HERE.
10:51:02 BUT IF YOU HAPPENED TO HEAR MISS LISI'S PRESENTATION A
10:51:03 COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.
10:51:06 BECAUSE OF COVID AND SHUTDOWN THEY ARE USING $8 MILLION
10:51:11 TO $10 MILLION OR MORE IN OPERATING EXPENSES AND WE AS
10:51:14 CRA CANNOT FUND THAT BUT WE CAN HELP WITH PHYSICAL
10:51:20 INFRASTRUCTURE RELATED THAT IS IN THE STATUTE.
10:51:23 ANDS PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED PHYSICAL CHANGES TO MAKE
10:51:27 THE FACILITY SAFER SO THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME BACK THEY
10:51:29 DON'T HAVE TO TOUCH THINGS AND MAKE IT SAFER.
10:51:33 AS MR. DINGFELDER SAID, IT IS A CITY-OWNED FACILITY.
10:51:35 I THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO APPROVE THIS.
10:51:36 THANK YOU.
10:51:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE FOR DISCUSSION?
10:51:44 >>THE CLERK: VIERA --
10:51:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:51:48 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:51:49 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:51:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:51:56 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA AND VIERA BEING
10:51:56 ABSENT.
10:52:01 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:52:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:52:05 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:52:09 THE TOTAL PROJECT FOR HVAC SYSTEM IS $612,000.
10:52:13 THEY RECEIVED 228,000 AND CHANGE FROM THE CARES ACT AND
10:52:18 SO THEY ARE ASKING THE BALANCE OF $383,598.
10:52:21 AGAIN TO HELP PURIFY AND CLEAN THE AIR AND ADD MORE
10:52:24 FRESH AIR INTO THE BUILDING WHEN THE PUBLIC IS AGAIN
10:52:24 USING THE BUILDING.
10:52:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
10:52:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
10:52:32 >> SECOND.
10:52:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CITRO AND MANISCALCO.
10:52:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WANT TO ADD THAT -- AND OTHER
10:52:49 FACILITY WITH REGARD TO THE TAMPA THEATRE.
10:52:52 MR. MANISCALCO, I KNOW YOU ARE ON THE BOARD AND THEY DO
10:52:53 GREAT WORK OVER THERE.
10:52:57 THANK YOU.
10:53:06 >> I AM GOING TO VOTE YES BUT I CAN'T WAIT FOR A
10:53:08 CULTURAL BUILDING TO OPEN UP AFTER THIS PANDEMIC
10:53:13 CEASES.
10:53:18 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIES WITH MIRANDA AND VIERA
10:53:20 BEING ACT SENT.
10:53:23 >>BILL CARLSON: TO ADD TO THAT, TAMPA THEATRE IS ONE
10:53:25 OF THE FEW REMAINING THEATRES IN THE COUNTRY AND A
10:53:28 FACILITY THAT WE ALL TAKE PRIDE IN.
10:53:31 IT LITERALLY IS A SYMBOL OF TAMPA.
10:53:33 IT IS A PLACE THAT HAS THE ARTS AND TRAINING PROGRAM
10:53:34 FOR KIDS.
10:53:37 MY KIDS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN VIDEO-MAKING PROGRAMS.
10:53:41 YOU KNOW, EVERY KID WANTS TO BE A YOUTUBER NOW AND THEY
10:53:43 HAVE ALL KIND OF PROGRAMS WHEN THEY ARE OPEN.
10:53:46 TAMPA THEATRE AMONG THE OTHER ARTS GROUPS DOWNTOWN IS
10:53:50 AN ECONOMIC ENGINE AND ADDS TO THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY
10:53:53 AND HAS SERIOUS CAPITAL NEEDS.
10:53:57 AND THEIR BUDGET HAS BEEN -- WAS CUT OVER THE LAST TEN
10:53:59 YEARS SEVERELY AND I HOPE THAT THEY COME BACK TO US
10:54:03 SIMILAR TO THE STRAZ CENTER WITH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
10:54:06 BECAUSE WE NEED TO ONCE AND FOR ALL PROTECT AND SUPPORT
10:54:07 THAT INSTITUTION.
10:54:10 THEY DID A GREAT JOB ON THEIR ENTRANCEWAY AND WITH THE
10:54:14 SEATS AND OTHER THINGS RESTORING THE HISTORIC LOOK AND
10:54:14 FEEL.
10:54:17 BUT THE MAJOR PART OF THE THEATRE THAT WE ALL LOVE IS
10:54:18 REALLY IN DANGER.
10:54:21 AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PROTECT IT.
10:54:23 THANK YOU.
10:54:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 6.
10:54:28 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WILL ADDRESS THAT, CHAIR.
10:54:30 THIS IS A REVISION TO YOUR EMERGENCY RULES AND
10:54:34 PROCEDURES TO RECOGNIZE THAT NEXT MONTH YOU ALL WILL BE
10:54:36 MEETING BACK AT CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
10:54:41 AND SO IT IS CLARIFYING THAT WE ARE TAKING COMMENTS VIA
10:54:43 VOICEMAIL.
10:54:46 THAT WASN'T CLARIFIED IN THE LAST ADDITION TO THIS.
10:54:49 AND ALSO ENCOURAGING FOLKS TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY
10:54:54 GIVEN THE -- THE SIZE OF THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND
10:54:59 MAKING THEM AWARE OF THE -- IF THEY DO WANT TO COME TO
10:55:03 CITY COUNCIL, TO CITY HALL FOR THE MEETING, THERE WILL
10:55:07 BE FACILITIES AVAILABLE ON THE SECOND FLOOR FOR THEM TO
10:55:07 PARTICIPATE.
10:55:11 THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ITEM NUMBER -- THE PURPOSE OF
10:55:15 NUMBER 6, EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.
10:55:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:55:18 ANYONE MOVE THE RESOLUTION,
10:55:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
10:55:22 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
10:55:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND BY MANISCALCO.
10:55:27 >>THE CLERK: VIERA --
10:55:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:55:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:55:30 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:55:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:55:35 >>THE CLERK: MIRANDA?
10:55:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:55:40 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIES WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT
10:55:42 AND MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
10:55:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NUMBER 7, A SUBSTITUTE.
10:55:48 >>MORRIS MASSEY: LET ME BRIEFLY ADDRESS THAT AND
10:55:52 REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL, INC. ARE
10:55:56 HERE AND MAY WANT TO ADDRESS THE CRA BOARD BRIEFLY.
10:56:00 YOU ALL WILL RECALL THIS SUMMER A MOTION MADE BY THE
10:56:04 CRA CODE OF MUCH DISCUSSION OF HERMAN MASSEY PARK.
10:56:11 THE CONCERN THAT THE -- THAT THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL
10:56:14 FOLKS EXPRESSED WITH THE DESIGN APPROVED BY THE PARKS
10:56:17 DEPARTMENT FOR THE RENOVATION OF THAT PARK LOCATED A
10:56:20 DOG PARK NEXT TO THEIR PROPERTY AND LOOKING TO RENOVATE
10:56:26 THAT BUILDING PERHAPS PROVIDING ACCESS TO THE PARK.
10:56:29 AND IT MAY BE INCORPORATING AND COMING INTO SOME
10:56:32 POTENTIAL FUTURE ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CITY RELATIVE TO
10:56:32 THAT.
10:56:38 AND SO YOU ALL WERE SUPPORTING AN EFFORT TO REDESIGN
10:56:41 THE PARK AND TO LOOK AT MOVING THE DOG PARK TO ANOTHER
10:56:46 AREA WITHIN THAT RELATIVELY SMALL PARK.
10:56:51 BUT IT WAS ESTIMATED TO COST ABOUT $85,000 BY THE CITY
10:56:54 STAFF.
10:57:00 THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL FOLKS HAVE FUNDED APPROXIMATELY
10:57:06 -- [INAUDIBLE]-- AND TO HELP REFUND THE REDESIGN.
10:57:15 THIS AGREEMENT ADDRESSED -- FOR THE REDESIGN MOVING
10:57:18 FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE
10:57:23 DISCUSSION REGARDING THE -- THAT THEY HAVE A COPY OF
10:57:27 THE PROPOSED REDESIGN OF THE PARK AND MOVE THE DOG
10:57:28 PARK.
10:57:35 IT ALLOWS THEM TO --
10:57:35 [INAUDIBLE]
10:57:44 -- AND BECAUSE AND CONSTRUCT THE PARK AND COME BACK TO
10:57:46 THE CRA.
10:57:48 THAT IS WHAT IS --
10:57:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:57:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
10:57:55 THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
10:57:57 MY QUESTION IS TWO FOLD.
10:58:03 AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE I SAW THIS ON HERE ON THE
10:58:08 DOCUMENT I WAS READING THIS MORNING.
10:58:14 BUT IT MENTIONS ABOUT COMING BACK TO THE CRA BUT I
10:58:19 DIDN'T SEE WHERE IT MENTIONED ABOUT COMING TO THE CAC.
10:58:21 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I DON'T -- I DON'T NECESSARILY
10:58:23 SEE THE CAC.
10:58:26 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THE CAC WILL BE INVOLVED IN
10:58:27 THE WHOLE DESIGN EFFORT.
10:58:31 AND -- AS I UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE WHOLE DESIGN EFFORT
10:58:35 MOVES FORWARD, AND THE FUNDING OF THE PARK -- THE
10:58:40 REDESIGN EFFORT AND THE CRA'S PARTICIPATION IN THE
10:58:42 IMPROVEMENT OF THE PARKS I THINK HAD -- AND ALREADY
10:58:43 GONE TO THE CAC.
10:58:49 THE CAC IS ALREADY PHILOSOPHICALLY ENDORSED IT.
10:58:52 BUT AS I UNDERSTAND THE WAY THIS EFFORT IS DONE BY THE
10:58:55 PARKS DEPARTMENT, THEY HAVE -- THEY HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD
10:59:01 MEETING WHERE THEY INVITE EVERYONE IN THAT GEOGRAPHIC
10:59:04 AREA WHICH INCLUDES MEMBERS OF THE CAC, TO PARTICIPATE
10:59:08 AND REVIEW THE DESIGN PLANS AND GIVE THEIR INPUT INTO
10:59:11 HOW THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PARK REDESIGN AND
10:59:12 RECONFIGURED.
10:59:15 I BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT IT IS PART OF THE DESIGN
10:59:16 EFFORT.
10:59:20 THE CAC WILL ALSO BE A CONSULTANT AND PART OF THE
10:59:23 PROCESS BEFORE THE DESIGN IS FORMALLY APPROVED AND
10:59:27 MOVES FORWARD FOR CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS.
10:59:28 WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
10:59:31 AND I AM JUST TRYING TO GET US OUT OF THE DESIGN PHASE.
10:59:34 WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A DESIGN THAT WAS -- HAS -- WAS
10:59:35 APPROVED.
10:59:37 THERE IS ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS THAT HAVE
10:59:41 ALREADY BEEN PREPARED, SO, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE WAS READY
10:59:46 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HERMAN MASSEY PARK REDESIGN WITH
10:59:50 THE DOG PARK CLOSE TO THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL PROPERTY
10:59:53 BECAUSE THE CONCERN OF THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL FOLKS,
10:59:56 WHAT WE ARE DOING IS MOVING BACK TO BASICALLY SQUARE
11:00:01 ONE AND -- AND LOOKING -- AND ASKING OUR CONSULTANTS TO
11:00:03 REDESIGN THE PARK.
11:00:04 SPECIFICALLY TO TRY TO MOVE THE DOG PARK ELSEWHERE WITHIN
11:00:04 THE PARK SO IT'S NOT ABUTTING THE TAMPA ALLEN HOTEL
11:00:08 PROPERTY.
11:00:08 AND THEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IT WOULD BE -- I WOULD ASSUME
11:00:12 GO BACK TO THE CAC FOR APPROVAL AND OBVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTION
11:00:15 CONTRACT WITH THE FUNDING COMING FROM THE CRA, THAT FUNDING
11:00:18 WOULD HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY THIS BOARD.
11:00:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
11:00:21 MR. CHAIRMAN, AND I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE US REWRITE
11:00:26 THIS CONTRACT THE LAST MINUTE.
11:00:27 BUT WITH MR. MASSEY AND MS. VAN LOAN'S ASSURANCES THAT THE
11:00:31 CAC, AS MR. CITRO OFTEN POINTS OUT, THAT THIS IS A BOTTOM-UP
11:00:37 ORGANIZATION, AND THE CAC NEEDS TO BE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN
11:00:41 THIS AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE BUILDINGS THAT ARE
11:00:44 DIRECTLY IMPACTED.
11:00:45 SO I'M SURE, MS. VAN LOAN, YOU AND YOUR STAFF WILL MAKE SURE
11:00:48 THAT HAPPENS WITH THE CONSULTANT, CORRECT?
11:00:51 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
11:00:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
11:00:53 AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I HAD WAS DOWN ON PAGE 3, AT THE
11:00:56 BOTTOM UNDER 3D, AND MR. MASSEY AND I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS
11:01:02 BRIEFLY, SO BASICALLY, IF THE CONSULTANT COMES -- CONCLUDES
11:01:07 THAT THERE'S AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN AND THEN HE WOULD PRESENT
11:01:15 THAT ALTERNATIVE PLAN, AND THEN IT SORT OF GOES ON TO SAY
11:01:18 THE CITY WILL PROCEED TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS CONSISTENT WITH
11:01:21 THE MODIFIED PLAN.
11:01:23 AND I ASSUME THAT WHEN IT SAYS "THE CITY," IT ALSO
11:01:27 IMPLICITLY MEANS THE CRA WOULD FUND IT.
11:01:31 AS MODIFIED.
11:01:33 IS THAT THE INTENT, MR. MASSEY?
11:01:35 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE INTENT WAS TO TRY TO GET US OUT OF THE
11:01:39 DESIGN PHASE PROCESS.
11:01:40 BUT THE CONSTRUCTION MONEY FOR THIS PROJECT WILL HAVE TO BE
11:01:45 APPROVED AS PART OF YOUR BUDGET AND BE APPROVED BY THIS
11:01:47 BOARD.
11:01:48 SO IF YOU ALL STILL HAVE CONCERNS WITH THE DESIGN AFTER THE
11:01:52 DESIGN EFFORT, THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE A STOPGAP
11:01:55 THERE, IF THAT'S YOUR CONCERN.
11:01:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALL RIGHT.
11:01:59 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:02:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYTHING ELSE, MR. MASSEY, MS. VAN LOAN?
11:02:10 >> SO MOVED.
11:02:11 >> SECOND.
11:02:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
11:02:12 SECONDED BY MR. CITRO.
11:02:14 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:02:14 ROLL-CALL VOTE.
11:02:17 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:02:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:02:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:02:22 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:02:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:02:27 >>THE CLERK: MIRANDA?
11:02:29 GUDES.
11:02:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:02:32 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
11:02:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 8 WAS REMOVED.
11:02:34 WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER 9.
11:02:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEMS 9 THROUGH 14 ARE YOUR ANNUAL
11:02:39 APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS TO THE VARIOUS CACs.
11:02:42 THIS WILL COVER MOST, AS YOU NOTICED IN YOUR MEMOS, IT DOES
11:02:45 SAY WE WILL STILL HAVE REMAINING OPENINGS AS SOME OF THE EX
11:02:49 OFFICIO GROUPS AND THE COMMUNITY GROUPS WITHIN OUR CRAs
11:02:53 CHANGE WHO THE REPRESENTATIVES ARE AND SOME OF OUR AT-LARGE
11:02:57 MEMBERS HAVE EXPIRED AFTER TWO TWO-YEAR TERMS.
11:03:00 SO WE ARE STILL SOLICITING AND WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU IN
11:03:03 FEBRUARY WITH MORE APPOINTMENTS TO MORE FULLY FILL OUT THE
11:03:07 FULL COMPLEMENT OF CAC MEMBERS.
11:03:09 YOUR FIRST ONE FOR NUMBER 9 IS TO REAPPOINT TWO MEMBERS TO
11:03:15 THE DOWNTOWN CAC.
11:03:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIRMAN, CAN WE MOVE -- OR MR.
11:03:19 MASSEY, CAN WE MOVE 9 THROUGH 14 AS ONE?
11:03:24 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I BELIEVE, IF THERE'S NO ISSUES WITH THEM,
11:03:27 I THINK YOU COULD DO A MOTION, IF YOU WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND
11:03:32 MOVE THEM ALL AT ONE TIME.
11:03:34 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL SECOND THAT.
11:03:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: UNLESS ANYBODY HAS AN OBJECTION OR
11:03:39 QUESTIONS.
11:03:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO TO MOVE ITEMS 9
11:03:42 THROUGH 14.
11:03:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SECOND.
11:03:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECONDED BY MR. DINGFELDER.
11:03:45 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:03:46 ROLL-CALL VOTE.
11:03:47 >>THE CLERK: VIERA?
11:03:49 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:03:50 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:03:50 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:03:51 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:03:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:03:55 >>THE CLERK: MIRANDA?
11:03:56 GUDES?
11:03:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:03:57 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
11:04:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL RIGHT.
11:04:02 WE'RE DOWN TO INFORMATION REPORTS AND NEW BUSINESS.
11:04:05 MR. VIERA.
11:04:05 >>LUIS VIERA: NOTHING, SIR.
11:04:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO?
11:04:08 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING.
11:04:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DID WE VOTE ON NUMBER 8?
11:04:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NUMBER 8 WAS REMOVED, SIR.
11:04:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT WAS STRICKEN.
11:04:18 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU ACTUALLY APPROVED THAT IN DECEMBER.
11:04:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NOTHING.
11:04:22 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:04:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON?
11:04:24 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST QUICKLY TWO THINGS, ONE PER YOUR
11:04:27 SUGGESTION.
11:04:27 I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK THE CRA STAFF TO ASK THE --
11:04:34 EACH CAC TO COME BACK WITH THEIR TOP CHOICE FOR A
11:04:40 RECOMMENDED AREA THAT WOULD BE INCLUDED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
11:04:46 COMMERCIAL DISTRICT STUDY.
11:04:47 UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE MIGHT NOT HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY, BUT AT
11:04:50 LEAST WE WILL HAVE FEEDBACK FROM THE CACs AS TO WHERE THEY
11:04:53 THINK THE TOP PRIORITY WOULD BE FOR THEIR DISTRICT.
11:04:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. CARLSON.
11:04:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CLARIFY THE MOTION.
11:05:00 I'M SORRY.
11:05:01 >>BILL CARLSON: REMEMBER EARLIER I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE
11:05:03 NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT PLANS, THAT WE HAD
11:05:05 SUPPORTED A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
11:05:06 NOW TWO OF THEM ARE UNDERWAY.
11:05:08 ONE IN WEST TAMPA AND ONE IN SOUTH TAMPA.
11:05:10 CRA BOARD ONLY HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE CRA DISTRICTS, AND
11:05:14 SO WE CAN'T AFFECT AREAS OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT IN THIS FORM.
11:05:19 WHAT I SUGGEST IS THAT WE ASK STAFF TO ASK THE CACs, EACH
11:05:25 CAC, WHAT THEIR TOP RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE FOR A -- FOR AN
11:05:31 AREA THAT WOULD BE INCLUDED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL
11:05:35 DISTRICT PLAN.
11:05:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO WE STILL WOULD HAVE TO ADDRESS NEW
11:05:40 TAMPA OR NORTH TAMPA AS A CITY ITEM, I GUESS, INSTEAD OF A
11:05:45 CRA ITEM.
11:05:46 >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, AND ANY OTHER PLACE IN SOUTH TAMPA,
11:05:49 TOO.
11:05:50 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CORRECT.
11:05:51 OKAY.
11:05:51 SECOND.
11:05:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. CARLSON.
11:05:54 SECONDED BY MR. DINGFELDER.
11:05:56 ANY MORE DISCUSSION?
11:05:56 ROLL-CALL VOTE.
11:06:00 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:06:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:06:01 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:06:02 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:06:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:06:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:06:06 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
11:06:10 >>BILL CARLSON: THE SECOND THING IS, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO,
11:06:12 BEFORE MS. VAN LOAN MOVED UP INTO THIS POSITION, WE VOTED TO
11:06:18 CREATE A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE CRA, NOT THE CACs OR THE
11:06:23 DISTRICT, BUT THE CRA.
11:06:24 WE NEVER FINISHED THAT.
11:06:27 I GUESS I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ASK STAFF TO
11:06:30 FINISH THAT PROCESS.
11:06:31 AND THE REASON IS THAT, THINK ABOUT -- BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE
11:06:38 SET UP -- BECAUSE OF THE LAW AND THE WAY WE SET UP THE CRA,
11:06:43 WE AS THE BOARD HAVE RESPONSIBILITY, POWER AND
11:06:47 RESPONSIBILITY NOW FOR THE CRA DISTRICTS.
11:06:51 AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY DOCUMENT OR GUIDELINES FOR MICHELLE
11:06:57 AND HER STAFF TO FOLLOW.
11:06:58 SHE HAS THE PLANS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL CACs, BUT SHE
11:07:02 DOESN'T HAVE ANY PLAN FOR US.
11:07:04 THERE'S NO WAY FOR US TO OBJECTIVELY MEASURE HER SUCCESS OR
11:07:08 HER STAFF SUCCESS.
11:07:10 AND I THINK WE NEED TO FINISH THAT PROCESS SO THAT WE CAN
11:07:13 GET A CONSENSUS ABOUT HOW WE WOULD -- HOW WE VIEW THE CRA
11:07:18 DISTRICT OR THE CRA OVERALL.
11:07:20 SO THE MOTION IS THAT WE ASK STAFF TO CONTINUE WITH AND
11:07:26 FINISH THE CRA PLANNING PROCESS.
11:07:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. CARLSON.
11:07:30 DO I HAVE A SECOND?
11:07:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:07:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CAN WE MODIFY THAT, BILL, SLIGHTLY, TO
11:07:36 ASK MICHELLE TO COME BACK AND REPORT TO US ABOUT WHAT'S
11:07:39 INVOLVED IN THAT, HOW MUCH IT COSTS, WHAT THE SCOPE OF THAT
11:07:42 WOULD BE, ET CETERA?
11:07:43 I MEAN, BECAUSE TYPICALLY, LIKE I KNOW FOR EAST TAMPA, WE
11:07:46 HAD TO PAY A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE OUTSIDE
11:07:49 CONSULTANT TO DO THAT.
11:07:51 >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
11:07:53 PROBABLY IT SHOULD BE AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT.
11:07:55 MICHELLE HAS EXPERTISE IN DOING IT AND SHE WAS DOING IT
11:07:58 HERSELF LAST TIME.
11:07:59 NOW SHE HAS MORE RESPONSIBILITY AND MAY WANT TO OUTSOURCE
11:08:01 IT.
11:08:02 I'LL MODIFY MY MOTION TO SAY THAT WE WOULD ASK STAFF TO LOOK
11:08:09 INTO FINISHING THE CRA PLANNING PROCESS AND TO REPORT BACK
11:08:14 TO US ON WHAT STEPS OR BUDGET WE NEED TO COMPLETE THAT.
11:08:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SECOND.
11:08:22 >>BILL CARLSON: IS THE NEXT CRA MEETING OKAY OR TWO CRA
11:08:26 MEETINGS?
11:08:28 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: BECAUSE JANUARY, OUR CURRENT MEETING IS
11:08:31 SO LATE IN THE MONTH AND WE MEET IN THREE WEEKS FOR THE
11:08:33 FEBRUARY, I WOULD REQUEST THAT IT BE MARCH.
11:08:35 >>BILL CARLSON: OKAY.
11:08:36 SO IN THE MARCH MEETING, PLEASE.
11:08:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SECOND.
11:08:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CRA MEETING WILL BE MARCH 11.
11:08:41 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
11:08:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MARCH 11.
11:08:43 MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. CARLSON, MARCH 11 UPDATE FROM
11:08:47 MS. VAN LOAN.
11:08:48 I THINK IT WAS SECONDED BY MR. DINGFELDER.
11:08:50 ANY MORE DISCUSSION?
11:08:52 ROLL-CALL VOTE.
11:08:54 >>THE CLERK: VIERA?
11:08:55 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:08:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:08:58 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:08:59 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:09:00 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:09:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:09:03 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA BEING ABSENT.
11:09:06 >>BILL CARLSON: THAT'S ALL I HAVE, THANK YOU, SIR.
11:09:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NOTHING TODAY, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:09:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
11:09:11 I JUST HAVE ONE ITEM.
11:09:13 MS. VAN LOAN, I RECEIVED -- AND I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS
11:09:16 TO YOU TUESDAY AT OUR AGENDA REVIEW, I RECEIVED PHONE CALLS
11:09:19 OF SOME OF THE EAST TAMPA BOARD MEMBERS IN REFERENCE TO, I
11:09:23 GUESS, NOT KNOWING PREVIOUS THINGS THAT ARE ON THE WAY TO BE
11:09:27 DONE IN EAST TAMPA, THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BEFORE.
11:09:31 WHAT ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE PIPELINE.
11:09:36 I FEEL THERE'S NO CLEAR UNDERSTANDING.
11:09:38 I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE LAST MEETING AND I HEARD SOME
11:09:40 QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT -- I THINK SOME THINGS ALREADY
11:09:43 APPROVED THAT MEMBERS DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE APPROVED.
11:09:44 I WOULD ASK THAT YOU GET ON THE NEXT AGENDA THE PAST CHAIR
11:09:53 AND MAYBE CAN COME IN AND UPDATE THE NEW CHAIR AND THE BOARD
11:09:57 OF THE PREVIOUS ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN MOVED ON AND PASSED SO
11:10:01 THEY'RE AWARE OF WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE VERSUS NOT KNOWING
11:10:04 WHAT'S GOING ON OR WHAT THE STAFF IS ALREADY DOING.
11:10:07 I THINK -- I HEAR FROM A LOT OF CAC, WHEN YOU GET A NEW
11:10:12 BOARD, ESPECIALLY THESE TYPE OF LAY BOARDS, I THINK IT'S
11:10:15 GOOD THAT IT SHOULD BE A TRANSITION MEETING, THAT WAY THEY
11:10:18 KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
11:10:19 WHOLE NEW BOARD OVER THERE.
11:10:22 THEY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON, HOW IT WORKS
11:10:26 AND OPERATES.
11:10:27 I THINK IT EVENTUALLY -- MR. CARLSON, GLAD YOU SAID THAT --
11:10:31 IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT THIS HAPPENS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE
11:10:33 AN EDUCATIONAL PORTION BECAUSE I SIT ON THE CAC BEFORE, AND
11:10:37 I SEE HOW SLIMMED DOWN THE EDUCATIONAL PORTION IS OF KNOWING
11:10:40 ABOUT THE CAC AND WHAT THEIR ROLES ARE AND WHAT THEY CAN DO,
11:10:44 WHAT THEY CAN'T DO.
11:10:45 I THINK EVENTUALLY WE'VE GOT TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF -- WHEN
11:10:48 YOU GET A NEW BODY COMING, IN ESPECIALLY LAY BOARDS, THERE
11:10:51 NEEDS TO BE A TRANSITION PERIOD THAT THE NEW CHAIR, OLD
11:10:54 CHAIR SIT DOWN SO THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON SO KNOW ONE IS
11:10:57 IN -- I DIDN'T KNOW THIS OR I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
11:11:01 I THINK THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
11:11:03 DEFINITELY RIGHT NOW FOR EAST TAMPA, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE
11:11:05 THE PAST CHAIR GO IN, GIVE A -- WHAT WAS DONE PREVIOUS.
11:11:12 WHAT IS IN THE PIPELINE SO PEOPLE CAN BE UPDATED.
11:11:14 I THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE TO DO.
11:11:15 I'D LIKE TO GET THAT DONE AT YOUR NEXT MEETING, IF POSSIBLE,
11:11:19 IF THE CHAIR -- PAST CHAIR IS AVAILABLE OR WHATEVER, SHE CAN
11:11:22 BECOME AVAILABLE.
11:11:23 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE WILL REACH OUT TO HER.
11:11:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
11:11:25 ANYTHING ELSE, GENTLEMEN?
11:11:26 AGAIN, I THANK YOU.
11:11:28 GREAT MEETING TODAY FOR OUR FIRST MEETING BACK.
11:11:33 >>MORRIS MASSEY: CAN I GET A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
11:11:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
11:11:38 SECONDED BY MR. CITRO.
11:11:39 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:11:40 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
11:11:42
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