CITY OF TAMPA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021
CRA MEETING
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09:01:37
09:04:06 [SOUNDING GAVEL]
09:04:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:04:10 WE ARE READY FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR
09:04:13 FEBRUARY 11, 2021.
09:04:16 WE WILL HAVE THE INVOCATION THIS MORNING BY REV. PAUL
09:04:22 BUSTER.
09:04:23 REVEREND PAUL BUSTER IS THE PASTOR OF THE MACEDONIA
09:04:25 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH AND HE HAS SERVED SINCE 2002
09:04:30 WHERE HE HAS ESTABLISHED MANY PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE ODELL
09:04:33 GLOVER EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL
09:04:36 STUDENTS, ALSO HAS PROGRAMS TO FEED THE COMMUNITY,
09:04:38 PROVIDES CLOTHES AND HYGIENE PACKAGES, TO PREACH AND
09:04:44 TEACH AND LIVE THE GOSPEL, FOR THE SAINTS ALSO TO WORK IN
09:04:47 AND DEVELOP MINISTRIES THAT IDENTIFY TO THE BODY OF
09:04:51 CHRIST.
09:04:51 HE RESIDES IN TAMPA WITH HIS DEVOTED WIFE OF 25 YEARS,
09:04:55 HAS FIVE CHILDREN AND NINE GRANDCHILDREN.
09:04:58 GOOD MORNING, REVEREND BUSTER.
09:05:00 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:05:07 CITY COUNCILMAN ORLANDO GUDES, THANK YOU FOR THE
09:05:11 OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD THIS MEETING AND WITH A PRAYER SO WE
09:05:15 ASK YOU BOW YOUR HEAD.
09:05:17 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE DAY THAT YOU ALLOWED US TO
09:05:19 SEE.
09:05:20 WE THANK YOU, FATHER GOD, FOR THE MIND AND THE HEARTS OF
09:05:22 THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND FOR THIS MEETING, VIRTUALLY,
09:05:27 FATHER GOD, OR IN THE BUILDING.
09:05:32 FATHER, WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS ARE DONE BY YOU.
09:05:37 FATHER GOD, WHATEVER IS ACCOMPLISHED TODAY, FATHER GOD,
09:05:40 WE ASK THAT YOU LEAD US AND GUIDE US, AND WE JUST THANK
09:05:44 YOU, FATHER GOD, FOR ALL THAT IS GOING TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
09:05:48 BY YOUR WILL AND BY YOUR WAYS, AND WE GIVE PRAISE, THANKS
09:05:52 AND GLORY TO YOU FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL, EACH VISION, EACH
09:05:57 DESIRE, EACH HEART AND EACH MIND.
09:06:01 FATHER GOD, WE KNOW THAT ALL OUR WAYS ARE NOT YOUR WAYS.
09:06:06 ALL OUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS.
09:06:07 BUT WHATEVER YOUR WAYS AND THOUGHTS ARE, FATHER, WE ASK
09:06:10 THAT YOU LET US GO ABOUT YOUR WAYS AND THOUGHTS.
09:06:14 IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY.
09:06:15 AMEN.
09:06:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
09:06:20 [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
09:06:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ROLL CALL.
09:06:34 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:06:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:06:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:06:40 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:06:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:06:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:06:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:06:52 GIVE US THE PUBLIC COMMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS, PLEASE,
09:06:55 SIR.
09:06:56 >>MORRIS MASSEY: CRA BOARD ATTORNEY.
09:06:59 DURING THIS COVID-19 STATE OF EMERGENCY MEETING FOR THE
09:07:02 CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, ARE
09:07:05 CONDUCTED WITH A LIVE IN-PERSON FORUM IN CITY COUNCIL
09:07:10 CHAMBERS.
09:07:11 HOWEVER, IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS MEMBERS
09:07:13 OF THE PUBLIC ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY
09:07:16 THROUGH VIDEO TELECONFERENCING REFERRED TORE BY
09:07:19 FLORIDA --
09:07:20 >> WHOEVER IS TALKING, WE CAN'T HEAR HIM.
09:07:24 >> YOU CAN'T HEAR?
09:07:25 CAN YOU HEAR THAT?
09:07:26 >>MORRIS MASSEY: CAN YOU HERE ME NOW?
09:07:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:07:37 >>MORRIS MASSEY: DURING THE COVID-19 STATE OF EMERGENCY
09:07:39 MEETINGS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
09:07:41 AGENCY ARE CONDUCTED WITH A LIVE IN-PERSON QUORUM OF THE
09:07:45 CRA PRESENT.
09:07:46 HOWEVER, RESPONSE TO THE COVID RESTRICTIONS, CITIZENS ARE
09:07:54 ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY AS COMMUNICATION
09:07:57 MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.
09:07:59 THESE MEETINGS ARE HELD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EMERGENCY
09:08:02 RULES OF PROCEDURE.
09:08:04 THE PUBLIC AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA ARE ABLE TO
09:08:06 WATCH, LISTEN OR VIEW THIS MEETING ON CABLE TV, SPECTRUM
09:08:12 CHANNEL 640, FRONTIER CHANNEL 15, AND BY THE INTERNET,
09:08:17 TAMPAGOV.NET SLASH LIVESTREAM.
09:08:21 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY
09:08:24 IN THIS MEETING BY USING WHAT IS REFERRED TO BY THE STATE
09:08:26 OF FLORIDA AND STATUTES AND RULES AS COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA
09:08:31 TECHNOLOGY OR BY THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVE MEANS.
09:08:35 THE PUBLIC MAY SEND WRITTEN COMMENTS BY THE INTERNET OR
09:08:38 WEB, BY E-MAIL OR U.S. MAIL TO THE CITY CLERK OR THE CRA
09:08:42 SECRETARY, LEAVE VOICE MAIL MESSAGES WITH COMMENTS, SPEAK
09:08:47 REMOTELY DURING PUBLIC COMMENT WITH THE USE OF CMT OR
09:08:51 COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY TO PREREGISTER OR
09:08:56 PARTICIPATE BY USING COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
09:08:58 AVAILABLE ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF OLD CITY HALL.
09:09:01 ALL WRITTEN AND VOICE MAIL COMMENTS FOR CRA MATTERS MUST
09:09:04 BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING
09:09:07 IN ORDER TO BE DISTRIBUTED TIMELY TO CRA MEMBERS AND MADE
09:09:10 PART OF THE RECORD.
09:09:11 WRITTEN COMMENTS SHOULD NOT EXCEED 400 WORDS.
09:09:16 PUBLIC COMMENTS REMOTE OR IN PERSON DURING CMT BY USE OF
09:09:20 CMT WILL BE HEARD AT THE START OF THE MEETING AT THE
09:09:23 DIRECTION OF THE CRA BOARD AND SHOULD NOT EXCEED 3
09:09:26 MINUTES UNLESS EXPRESSLY ALLOWED BY THE CRA.
09:09:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
09:09:34 ITEM NUMBER 1, PRESENTATION TO MR. ED JOHNSON.
09:09:40 MY UNDERSTANDING IS MR. JOHNSON RECEIVED THAT AT HIS
09:09:43 HOME.
09:09:43 WE THANK MR. JOHNSON FOR ALL HIS WORK.
09:09:48 MR. VIERA, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:09:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S A SHAME.
09:09:51 I REALLY THINK THE WORLD OF ED.
09:09:53 I THINK HE'S SUCH A GREAT GUY AND HAS BEEN SUCH A
09:09:56 VALUABLE ASSET TO THIS CITY, AND WE ARE JUST APPRECIATIVE
09:09:59 FOR ALL HIS SERVICE.
09:10:01 HE IS A VERY GOOD MAN.
09:10:03 HE'S ALSO A MAN WHO IS VERY DEDICATED TO HIS FAITH.
09:10:06 I BELIEVE HE'S ROMAN CATHOLIC F.MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT HE
09:10:09 WAS ALSO HONORED BY CONGRESSWOMAN KATHY CASTOR ALONG WITH
09:10:13 MANY OF HIS FELLOW VIETNAM VETERANS FOR A WELCOME HOME
09:10:17 CELEBRATION THAT THE CONGRESSWOMAN DID TWO YEARS AGO.
09:10:20 SO ED'S SERVICE TO THIS COMMUNITY IS LONG, DEEP AND WIDE
09:10:24 AND IT'S THOUGHT FALL AND HE'S JUST ALWAYS BEEN A VERY
09:10:28 NICE GENTLEMAN AND WORKS HARD AND TAKEN A LOT OF HEAT,
09:10:31 AND I JUST APPRECIATE HIM.
09:10:32 SO THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:10:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
09:10:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. JOHNSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VALUABLE
09:10:39 ASSET TO THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA.
09:10:42 ED, IF YOU ARE MATCHING, WHICH WE HOPE YOU ARE, THANK YOU
09:10:46 VERY MUCH FOR THE YEARS AND THE DEDICATION THAT YOU PUT
09:10:49 IN, NOT ONLY TO THE CITY OF TAMPA, BUT TO THE MANY
09:10:52 CRAs, AND YOU WILL BE MISSED.
09:10:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED,
09:10:59 SIR.
09:10:59 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:11:05 ED JOHNSON IS ONE OF THOSE PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT YOU NEVER
09:11:08 FORGET.
09:11:09 I FIRST MET HIM WHEN HE WAS OVER AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY,
09:11:14 JUST ONE OF MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS JUST SAID, TAKING
09:11:20 ON THE TOUGHEST TASKS, AND I THINK PAM IORIO BROUGHT HIM
09:11:27 OVER TO THE CITY AND TO THE CRA, AND AGAIN TAKING ON THE
09:11:31 TOUGHEST TASKS.
09:11:32 I LOVE ED JOHNSON, AND WE ARE GOING TO MISS HIM DEARLY.
09:11:36 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:11:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
09:11:40 ALL RIGHT.
09:11:40 WE GO TO STAFF REPORTS.
09:11:42 ITEM NUMBER 2.
09:11:47 I'M SORRY, PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:11:49 MY MISTAKE.
09:11:51 HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE, SULING?
09:11:54 RECORDED OR IN PERSON?
09:11:56 >>THE CLERK: WE DO HAVE FIVE RECORDINGS AND NO
09:11:59 REGISTERED SPEAKERS.
09:12:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO REGISTERED SPEAKERS THIS MORNING.
09:12:03 >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THERE ANYONE ON THE SECOND FLOOR?
09:12:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND FLOOR?
09:12:08 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S NO ONE ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
09:12:11 >> THIS IS ANGEL D'ANGELO CALLING FOR THE CRA MEETING.
09:12:23 I AM CALLING OUT OF CONCERNS, IN THE COMMUNITY BUT I HOPE
09:12:30 IT'S NOT TRUE, AN ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE CRAs BY
09:12:33 ELECTED OFFICIALS.
09:12:35 I JUST WANT TO PUT IN MY OPPOSITION TO THAT, SUPPORT FOR
09:12:41 THE CRAs, WANT TO HAVE COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THOSE ROLES
09:12:46 THAT ACTUALLY LIVE IN AND REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY.
09:12:48 SO I AM JUST VOICING MY CONCERN ABOUT THIS RUMOR, AND IF
09:12:55 TRUE I WANT TO PUT ON THE RECORD I OBJECT TO ANY EFFORTS
09:12:57 TO TAKE OVER THE CRAs BY ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL,
09:13:00 GOVERNMENT BODY, OTHER THAN CURRENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS
09:13:05 THAT WE ENTRUST IN THOSE ROLES NOW.
09:13:08 THANK YOU.
09:13:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET'S GO TO RECORDINGS AND COME BACK TO
09:13:13 THOSE ON SECOND FLOOR.
09:13:14 >> I'M IN EAST TAMPA, AND IT'S COME TO MY ATTENTION SOME
09:13:26 FOLKS IN CITY COUNCIL THAT WANT TO REMOVE THE EAST TAMPA
09:13:29 CRA, AND I JUST WANT TO STRONGLY SPEAK OUT AGAINST THAT.
09:13:34 I THOUGHT THE COUNCIL SHOULD BE MORE WORKING WITH THE
09:13:38 ELECTED LEADER VERSUS AGAINST.
09:13:47 BECAUSE SOMEBODY MIGHT BE SAYING SOME THINGS THAT PEOPLE
09:13:50 DON'T LIKE THAT MUCH.
09:13:57 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER EVERYTHING COULD BE DONE THROUGH
09:14:00 THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE CRA, I THOUGHT YOU SHOULD TAKE HER
09:14:04 ADVICE AND ALSO HER OPINION AND ALSO TRY TO IMPLEMENT
09:14:06 SOME CITY POLICY TO MAKE THOSE A REALITY.
09:14:09 AGAIN, SUPPORT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ELECTED, AND PLEASE
09:14:18 DON'T, YOU KNOW, MUDDLE IT UP WITH SOME UNNECESSARY
09:14:21 POLITICS.
09:14:22 THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME.
09:14:23 HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY.
09:14:25 >> MY NAME IS BOB WHITE.
09:14:28 I RESIDE AT 5700 VANDER'S STREET, AND THIS REPORTING
09:14:38 CAN'T BE USED, I GUESS, FOR GENERAL LAND USE.
09:14:40 MY COMMENT IS SIMPLY THAT WE ARE OVERDEVELOPING IN SOUTH
09:14:49 TAMPA, EVERYTHING SOUTH OF I-275 IS JUST GETTING SO
09:14:53 CONGESTED WITH THESE LARGE CONDOS AND APARTMENT
09:14:56 COMPLEXES.
09:14:58 MY CONCERN IS SEVERAL.
09:15:02 ONE, ROAD CONGESTION, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ROAD
09:15:11 EVACUATION IN AN EMERGENCY.
09:15:15 I JUST CANNOT IMAGINE THAT WITH THE ADDITION OF ALL THE
09:15:20 LITERALLY WHAT WOULD BE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CARS COMING
09:15:24 IN WITH ALL THESE APARTMENTS THAT WE HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE
09:15:32 TO ADDRESS HURRICANES WITH THE LAST TROPICAL STORM THAT
09:15:38 CAME IN.
09:15:40 IT TURNED QUICKLY AND WAS QUITE CONCERNING TO A LOT OF
09:15:45 PEOPLE.
09:15:46 SO I JUST HOPE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL TAKES THAT INTO
09:15:49 CONSIDERATION IN TERMS OF AMENDING THE CURRENT PLAN AND
09:15:57 PUTTING IN A TEMPORARY BUT IMMEDIATE STOP TO DEVELOPMENT
09:16:02 OF CONDOMINIUMS AND APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
09:16:06 THAT'S IT.
09:16:07 THANK YOU.
09:16:07 >> HELLO.
09:16:13 MY NAME IS TOM DEGEORGE.
09:16:14 MY NUMBER IS 813-390-3587.
09:16:20 MY ADDRESS IS 2504 EAST 10th AVENUE.
09:16:28 TAMPA, FLORIDA 33605.
09:16:30 AND I ALSO AM THE OWNER OF CROWBAR IN YBOR CITY AT 1812
09:16:34 NORTH 17th STREET.
09:16:36 THIS PAST WEEK, WE HAD FAR MORE IN THE DISTRICT THAN WE
09:16:41 CAN GET -- IT WAS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
09:16:45 I VOICE CONCERNS ABOUT INCREASED CROWDS ON SPECIAL NIGHTS
09:16:52 LIKE THINGS WITH THE SUPER BOWL, AND CERTAINLY WE HAD IT
09:16:56 HAPPEN NEW YEAR'S EVE AND HALLOWEEN, AND WHEN
09:17:00 WRESTLEMANIA COMES TO TOWN.
09:17:02 IT'S VERY UNFAIR TO OUR BUSINESSES THERE.
09:17:05 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A WORKSHOP GROUP TO TALK ABOUT THIS
09:17:07 KIND OF STUFF AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF IT.
09:17:10 I ASKED TO BE A PART OF THIS PLANNING FOR QUITE SOME
09:17:13 TIME.
09:17:14 IT'S A BIG PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY CRISIS FOR OUR
09:17:18 COMMUNITIES.
09:17:19 WE CAN'T JUST PROTECT NFL EXPERIENCE AND LEAVE OUR
09:17:25 COMMUNITY TO SUFFER.
09:17:28 IT'S NOT FAIR.
09:17:29 ALL RIGHT.
09:17:30 I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
09:17:31 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:17:32 >> HELLO.
09:17:37 MY NAME IS ODISHA FLOYD AND I AM A TAMPA RESIDENT AND
09:17:42 CALLING INTO THE CRA TODAY TO OPPOSE ANY OVERTAKE OF THE
09:17:49 CRA BY THE CITY COUNCIL OR BY ANOTHER GROUP, BY ANYONE
09:17:55 THAT'S NOT CURRENT CRA.
09:18:00 I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING, OBSCENE, AND FRANKLY
09:18:09 THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
09:18:16 THERE ARE CASES LIKE THIS THAT HAVE A -- WITH MORE POWER.
09:18:25 SO, YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO CALL TO SAY ONCE AGAIN THAT I
09:18:30 OPPOSE ANY OVERTAKE OF THE CRA,
09:18:38 THANK YOU.
09:18:38 >>THE CLERK: THAT CONCLUDES THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:18:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE GO TO THE SECOND FLOOR FOR PUBLIC
09:18:56 COMMENT.
09:18:56 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:19:03 MY NAME IS CAROL RANSOM.
09:19:07 I LIVE AT 3030 REPUBLIC DE CUBA IN TAMPA, FLORIDA 33605.
09:19:16 I DO LIVE IN YBOR, AND I HAVE ATTENDED EVERY CRA AND CAC
09:19:23 MEETING SINCE OCTOBER.
09:19:27 THE REASON I CAME OUT THIS MORNING IS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE
09:19:31 COMMENTS THAT ARE CIRCULATING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT SAYS
09:19:34 THERE IS NO PARTICIPATION FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THESE
09:19:38 COMMUNITIES.
09:19:40 MY FORMER ADDRESS AND MY FAMILY STILL RESIDES AT 3507
09:19:46 EAST GENESEE STREET IN TAMPA 33610 WHICH IS CONSIDERED
09:19:50 RAINBOW HEIGHTS, IN THE OLD DAYS KNOWN AS MONTANA CITY,
09:19:55 AND SOMEBODY AT RAINBOW HEIGHTS DECIDED THAT WE NEEDED TO
09:19:58 COMBINE THE GROUP.
09:20:00 WHICH A LOT OF US STILL DON'T AGREE AND THAT'S THE REASON
09:20:02 WE DON'T SHOW UP FOR THE MEETINGS.
09:20:04 TODAY I CAME OUT BECAUSE JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THAT WE
09:20:11 ARE VERY SPECIFIC IN OUR MEETINGS, AND FOR A VERY LONG
09:20:15 TIME, THE PEOPLE IN EAST TAMPA HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSED
09:20:19 FULLY.
09:20:20 WE DO WANT TO THANK THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE US BUT WE STILL
09:20:24 HAVE A GREAT CONCERN WHICH IS BLIGHT.
09:20:31 HAD THE BLIGHT ALREADY BEEN REDUCED OR ERADICATED WE
09:20:35 WOULD UNDERSTAND WHAT CITY COUNCIL WOULD FEEL THAT THEY
09:20:37 NEED TO CHANGE THE PROCESS.
09:20:39 BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE EXTREME AMOUNTS OF BLIGHT IN OUR
09:20:44 COMMUNITY, WE BELIEVE THAT IS WHY THIS WAS SET UP THAT
09:20:48 WAY IN FAVOR OF THE CRA AND CAC STANDING THE WAY IT IS.
09:20:58 HAD THE BLIGHT BEEN REDUCED OR ERADICATED WE WOULD
09:21:01 UNDERSTAND THAT WOULD YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE PROCESS OR
09:21:04 THE PROCEDURE, BUT THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED.
09:21:08 WE ARE ASKING TODAY THAT YOU WOULD KEEP THE ESTABLISHED
09:21:12 PROCESS IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN DO THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO
09:21:16 BE DONE.
09:21:18 I'M THE CHAIRPERSON SUBCOMMITTEE HEAD FOR AESTHETICS AND
09:21:23 BEAUTIFICATION.
09:21:23 I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY E-MAILS WE SENT OUT TO THE
09:21:26 NEIGHBORHOOD, CRIME WATCH ASSOCIATION, FOR THEIR
09:21:30 PARTICIPATION.
09:21:32 NO REPLY, NO RESPONSE, NO ATTENDANCE.
09:21:35 SO WE ARE HERE TODAY AGAIN TO ASK, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
09:21:40 YOU SHOW UP, BUT IF YOU DON'T, WE DO INTEND TO MOVE
09:21:43 FORWARD TO ERADICATE OR REDUCE THE BLIGHT IN OUR
09:21:47 COMMUNITY.
09:21:48 AND I THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:21:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:21:58 ANYONE ELSE?
09:21:58 >> MY NAME IS JULIO GONZALEZ BULATERI.
09:22:41 I WANT TO GIVE OUT A SHOT TO THE LADY BEFORE ME.
09:22:45 THAT'S CALLED ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT
09:22:47 DON'T KNOW, LOOK IT UP.
09:22:49 I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF MS. CONNIE BURTON AND THE EAST
09:22:52 TAMPA CRA.
09:22:53 I FIND IT DISTURBING THAT YOU WOULD SEE EASILY SUBVERT
09:22:57 THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN AN ATTEMPT TO WREST CONTROL
09:23:01 FROM THE CURRENT CRA.
09:23:03 THEY ARE ELECTED BY THEIR COMMUNITY FOR THEIR COMMUNITY
09:23:05 FOR A TWO-YEAR TERM AND ALREADY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS
09:23:07 TO TAKE AWAY EAST TAMPA'S AUTONOMY AND
09:23:10 SELF-DETERMINATION.
09:23:11 HOW WOULD THE GENTLEMEN ON THIS COUNCIL FEEL IF YOU WERE
09:23:15 KEPT FROM REPRESENTING CONSTITUENCY YOU WERE ELECTED TO
09:23:17 REPRESENT?
09:23:19 CHALK THIS UP TO IDEALISTIC NAIVETE FOR REPRESENTING
09:23:22 INTERESTS OF THOSE WHO WERE ELECTED TO SERVE TO TAKE
09:23:24 PRECEDENCE OVER THE BUSINESS INTERESTS THAT FALL OUTSIDE
09:23:27 OF YOUR RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCY.
09:23:29 JUST SAYING.
09:23:31 I'M TOLD YOU WOULD FILL THE BOARD WITH PEOPLE WHOSE
09:23:34 INTERESTS ARE IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO THE COMMUNITY
09:23:36 STAKEHOLDERS.
09:23:37 I'M ASKING THE GENTLEMEN OF THIS COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER
09:23:40 THE CLUMSY COURSE OF ACTION YOU ARE TAKING, MORE
09:23:44 COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT IN DEALINGS WITH EAST TAMPA CRA.
09:23:48 THANK YOU.
09:23:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:24:08 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:24:10 MY NAME IS RASHINA McCOY AND WE HAVE A FAMILY HOME ON
09:24:15 GENERAL EASY RAINBOW HEIGHTS, AND SINCE THE 1980s.
09:24:20 SO I HAVE A VESTED INTEREST FOR MY FAMILY AND A LOT OF
09:24:23 THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS OUT THERE IN THE AREA.
09:24:26 SO I AM PART OF THE CRA AND COMING TO THE MEETINGS.
09:24:29 AND ALSO IN SUPPORT OF CONNIE.
09:24:32 AND I BELIEVE THAT WHATEVER HAS BEEN GOING ON, YOU KNOW,
09:24:39 THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN WORKING AS WELL, AND WE DO NEED TO,
09:24:43 YOU KNOW, MOVE FORWARD WITH CLEANING UP THE BLIGHT AND
09:24:46 MOVE FORWARD IN A MORE POSITIVE MANNER.
09:24:49 AND I HEARD A LOT OF HER TESTIMONY AND HOW SHE'S HELPING
09:24:53 IN A LOT OF THOSE AREAS AND I WANT TO KEEP THAT GOING.
09:24:56 I'M A MAJOR SUPPORTER AND EVERYTHING THAT I CAN DO.
09:24:59 AND I WANT TO CONTINUE TO SHOW SUPPORT IN THAT AREA, AND
09:25:04 I WOULDN'T LET ANYTHING STOP ME FROM IT.
09:25:06 SO THANK YOU.
09:25:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:25:28 >> MENTESNOT.
09:25:30 HURU MEANS FAMOUS IN SWAHILI AND WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE
09:25:36 SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT OUR FREEDOM AND MOVING FORDS OUR
09:25:38 FREEDOM.
09:25:38 IT'S A GARBAGE CITY COUNCIL.
09:25:40 I HAVE SAID IT IN THE PAST.
09:25:41 I HAVE SAID IT YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
09:25:44 I AM GOING TO SAY IT TOMORROW.
09:25:45 IT'S A GARBAGE CITY COUNCIL.
09:25:46 YOU HAVE GOT A GARBAGE BUILDING HERE THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN
09:25:49 GET THE SOUND RIGHT.
09:25:50 YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THE PROCEDURE RIGHT.
09:25:52 THERE'S A HUNDRED PEOPLE DOWN HERE WAITING TO TALK TO YOU
09:25:55 BUT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE PROCEDURE AND THE FORMALITIES
09:25:57 OF WHERE TO GO WITH IT AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS YOU
09:26:00 KEEP REMOVING THE GOAL POSTS, NOT ONLY THE GOAL POSTS,
09:26:04 YOU KEEP REMOVING THE GOAL POSTS AWAY FROM AFRICAN
09:26:08 PEOPLE.
09:26:08 I REMEMBER IT USED TO BE A TOWN I USED TO COME DOWN HERE,
09:26:11 PERRY HARVEY USED TO BE DOWN HERE AND TWO OTHER CITY
09:26:13 COUNCILMEN USED TO BE DOWN HERE AND THEY DON'T LIKE BLACK
09:26:17 PEOPLE TO SPEAK AND SHOW UP.
09:26:19 SO TELL YOU TO SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN, AND PUT YOU IN
09:26:22 CHAINS LIKE YOU WERE IN THE MF'ING SLAVE SHIP.
09:26:30 ORLANDO GUDES, YOU NEED TO STAND UP TO THIS AND LEAD THIS
09:26:33 THE WAY IT IS.
09:26:33 STAND UP FOR OUR PEOPLE.
09:26:34 DON'T LET THESE WHITE FOLKS PUSH YOU AROUND.
09:26:37 STAND UP FOR OUR PEOPLE.
09:26:38 STAND UP FOR OUR PEOPLE.
09:26:40 STAND UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
09:26:41 OUR COMMUNITY AIN'T SEEN NO CHANGE.
09:26:44 OBAMA TALK ABOUT CHANGE.
09:26:46 THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE SPOKE ABOUT CHANGE.
09:26:49 AND GEORGE FLOYD TALKED ABOUT CHANGE.
09:26:51 BUT OUR COMMUNITY IS SEEING NO CHANGE.
09:26:53 WE ARE SEEING NO EXCHANGE AND IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE.
09:26:55 AND CONNIE BURTON IS THE FUTURE.
09:26:59 CONNIE BURTON IS THE EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:27:03 CONNIE BURTON IS THE HOPE, THE DREAM AND THE ASPIRATION
09:27:07 OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:27:08 AND ORLANDO GUDES, YOU NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT.
09:27:11 AND THOSE WHO CHANGE THE CRA SITUATION, THIS HAS BEEN
09:27:16 GOING FOR 17 YEARS.
09:27:18 I'M THE HEART OF EAST TAMPA.
09:27:20 I'M THE KING OF EAST TAMPA CURRENT MAN, AIN'T NO M F-ING
09:27:25 THING ABOUT NO DAMN CRA.
09:27:28 WHY IS THAT?
09:27:28 BECAUSE NOW WHEN YOU COME TO THE MEETINGS AT RAGAN PARK
09:27:33 IT'S PACKED TO CAPACITY.
09:27:34 THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO GO AND GET MORE CHAIRS BECAUSE
09:27:37 THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THERE.
09:27:38 IT'S NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED.
09:27:39 IT'S NOT WHAT THEY ANTICIPATED.
09:27:41 HEY, ORLANDO GUDES, STAND UP FOR OUR PEOPLE.
09:27:44 LEAVE THIS JUST THE WAY IT IS.
09:27:47 AND WHOEVER WANTS TO CHANGE IT, WE ARE SAYING NO, THE
09:27:50 AFRICAN COMMUNITY IS SAYING NO TO THIS.
09:27:53 SISTER CONNIE BURTON IS THE EMBODIMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:27:58 OUR DEEMS DREAMS, HOPE AND ASPIRATIONS AND WE WANTS TO
09:28:02 LEAVE IT JUST THAT WAY.
09:28:04 THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD GO.
09:28:05 AND GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LET IT GO IN THAT DIRECTION.
09:28:10 AND AS STATED PREVIOUSLY, THE OFFICER PK GRAY, WHATEVER
09:28:15 HIS NAME IS, HE NEED TO BE OFF THE TAMPA POLICE
09:28:18 DEPARTMENT.
09:28:18 HE NEEDS TO BE OFF THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:28:22 THERE'S A LOT OF NONSENSE GOING ON WHERE AFRICAN PEOPLE
09:28:25 ARE BEING VIOLATED FROM THESE BICYCLE STOPS OR WHATEVER
09:28:28 ELSE THEY HAVE BEEN DOING, AND ALL THAT HAS TO CHANGE.
09:28:31 WE HAVE TO SEE SOME REAL CHANGE.
09:28:33 [BELL SOUNDS]
09:28:34 WE HAVE TO SEE SOME CHANGE AND HAVE SOME SUBSTANCE IN IT.
09:28:38 SAY HEY, IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE AND WE SEEN THE CHANGE.
09:28:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, SIR.
09:28:43 THANK YOU.
09:28:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CHAIRMAN, POINT OF ORDER.
09:29:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, MR. DINGFELDER.
09:29:03 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I BELIEVE OUR CITY COUNCIL RULES
09:29:05 STATE, AND I WOULD PRESUME THAT OUR CRA RULES STATE THAT
09:29:10 ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE
09:29:13 CRA BOARD AS A WHOLE, TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, AND
09:29:17 NOT DIRECTED TO ANY INDIVIDUALS OR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF
09:29:19 THE CRA BOARD.
09:29:23 ANYBODY WHO IS WATCHING, WE WOULD URGE YOU TO NOT DIRECT
09:29:27 YOUR COMMENTS INDIVIDUALLY TO ANYBODY BUT TO KEEP THIS
09:29:30 CIVIL.
09:29:31 THANK YOU.
09:29:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:29:34 MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:29:36 >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO SECOND THAT.
09:29:38 WE APPROVE THINGS OR DON'T APPROVE THEM AS A GROUP.
09:29:41 SO HIT US ALL BUT PLEASE DON'T HIT PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY.
09:29:49 WE ARE ALL TRYING TO CHANGE THINGS.
09:29:50 BUT BESIDES THE PUBLIC COMMENT THERE'S ALSO THE RECORDED
09:29:53 MESSAGES WHICH ARE NEW DURING THE PANDEMIC AND TEMPORARY
09:29:56 DURING THE PANDEMIC, AND THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE THAT
09:29:59 ATTACKED ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES.
09:30:01 AND I WISH WE COULD COME UP WITH SOME POLICY ON HOW TO
09:30:03 OOH DRESS THAT.
09:30:04 MAYBE WE CAN WARN PEOPLE BEFORE THEY LEAVE MESSAGES THAT
09:30:09 THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE EITHER.
09:30:11 AND I GUESS THERE ARE OTHER RULES AS WELL, BUT WE SHOULD
09:30:13 TRY TO ADDRESS THAT IN VOICE MAIL.
09:30:16 THANK YOU.
09:30:16 >>LUIS VIERA: MAYBE MY MEMORY OFF, IN GENERAL CITY
09:30:23 COUNCIL, DIDN'T I DO A MOTION TO LOOK AT THAT POLICY AND
09:30:26 RETHINK THAT POLICY, OR AM I WRONG?
09:30:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I REMEMBER.
09:30:31 >>LUIS VIERA: YEAH, YEAH, JUST BECAUSE, FROM MY
09:30:35 PERSPECTIVE ON THAT POLICY, AND I WAS MADE AWARE OF IT
09:30:38 BECAUSE I CALLED SOMEONE OUT ON IT, AND I THINK TO
09:30:41 MYSELF, THAT'S A POLICY THAT LEAVES SO MUCH DISCRETION ON
09:30:46 CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHICH IS WHEN WE ARE BEING PRAISED,
09:30:50 YOU KNOW, I WAS GOING TO BRING THAT UP, BUT THEN WHEN WE
09:30:53 ARE NOT IT CAN BE BROUGHT UP, LIKE I DID, BY THE WAY,
09:30:56 PROBABLY INCORRECTLY, LIKE I SAID BEFORE.
09:30:59 SO IF WE DO LOOK AT THAT POLICY, THERE ARE POTENTIAL
09:31:03 LEGAL ISSUES THAT ARE THERE, AND I WOULD JUST HATE FOR
09:31:06 THE CITY TO GET IN TROUBLE FROM IT, JUST MY PERSPECTIVE.
09:31:10 AND I SAY THAT AS SOMEBODY WHO AGAIN -- I THOUGHT ABOUT
09:31:16 IT AND, YOU KNOW WHAT?
09:31:18 THAT'S A POLICY THAT LEAVES A LOT OF POTENTIAL ERRORS.
09:31:21 JUST MY THOUGHT.
09:31:25 I SUPPORT MY COLLEAGUES, JUST LIKE I'M SURE MY COLLEAGUES
09:31:28 SUPPORT ME.
09:31:29 THANK YOU.
09:31:29 >> THIS MEETING IS GOVERNED BY CITY COUNCIL RESUMES OF
09:31:35 PROCEDURE.
09:31:36 THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES SINCE WE ARE IN THE COVID-19
09:31:39 SETTING.
09:31:40 WE HAVE SPECIAL EMERGENCY RULES FOR THIS BODY THAT ARE A
09:31:42 LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE CITY COUNCIL RULES, BUT
09:31:45 GENERALLY THE SAME RULES OF PROCEDURE GOVERN THIS MEETING
09:31:48 AS GOVERN CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
09:31:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
09:31:53 YOU CAN STATE YOUR NAME.
09:31:56 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:31:58 MY NAME IS MAHONEY AND I RESIDE IN THE ZIP CODE OF 33617
09:32:03 WHICH DOES MAKE ME A RESIDENT OF EAST TAMPA, SO I AM ALSO
09:32:06 HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE CRA WHICH STANDS FOR
09:32:10 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
09:32:13 AND NO ONE REALLY IS MORE OF A PILLAR IN THE COMMUNITY
09:32:18 AND KNOWS WHAT THAT REDEVELOPMENT WOULD LOOK LIKE AND BE
09:32:21 LIKE FOR THE PEOPLE OF EAST TAMPA OTHER THAN CONNIE
09:32:24 BURTON.
09:32:25 SO I AM HERE IN SUPPORT OF KEEPING MS. CONNIE BURTON AS
09:32:29 CHAIR AND TO MAKE NO CHANGES TO WHAT IS APPARENTLY BEING
09:32:35 PROPOSED OR SUSPECTED, SO LIKE I SAID I AM JUST HERE IN
09:32:41 SUPPORT OF MS. CONNIE BURTON BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF EAST
09:32:43 TAMPA, YOU KNOW, DO NEED THAT SUPPORT AND DO NEED THAT
09:32:47 REPRESENTATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LIVE IN A CERTAIN
09:32:51 AREA THAT DOESN'T HAVE A DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE IN
09:32:55 GOVERNMENTAL BODIES SUCH AS THE CITY OF TAMPA, SOMEONE
09:32:58 LIKE MS. CONNIE BURTON IS A NECESSARY PILLAR OF SUPPORT
09:33:04 THAT IS NEEDED.
09:33:05 THAT'S ALL.
09:33:05 THANK YOU.
09:33:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:33:07 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:33:38 PARIS, I SERVE ON THE EAST TAMPA CRA CAC.
09:33:43 I COME THIS MORNING BEFORE THIS BODY, FIRST RECOGNIZING
09:33:49 CHAIRMAN GUDES, AND ASKING THAT YOU ALL RECONSIDER ANY
09:33:53 EFFORT TO TAKE AWAY THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE OF EAST TAMPA
09:33:58 TO DECIDE WHO SITS ON THE CAC.
09:34:01 MY UNDERSTANDING IS FROM THE REPORT COMING ON ITEM AGENDA
09:34:05 NUMBER 6 FROM LEGAL STAFF IS A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE
09:34:08 CAC BE APPOINTED BY THE CRA BOARD.
09:34:11 EAST TAMPA IS A COMMUNITY, HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND FOR A
09:34:16 NUMBER OF REASONS, AND ONE OF THEM IS THE LACK OF
09:34:18 EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION.
09:34:19 THE CRA IS ONE OF THE ENTITIES IN WHICH THE PEOPLE
09:34:22 DIRECTLY CONTROL AND HAVE A SAY IN WHAT HAPPENS IN EAST
09:34:26 TAMPA.
09:34:26 AND FOR THE CRA BOARD TO CONSIDER ITSELF BETTER SUITED,
09:34:30 MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND EQUIPPED TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS
09:34:32 SEEMS A LITTLE PAROCHIAL TO ME.
09:34:35 I THINK THAT POLICY SHOULD BE LEFT WITH THE PEOPLE.
09:34:37 YOU ALL ARE ELECTED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, NOT TO DICTATE
09:34:39 TO THE PEOPLE OR TAKE POW AREA WAY FROM THE PEOPLE.
09:34:42 AND IF YOU WERE TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT THE CAC IS
09:34:46 APPOINTED YOU WILL BE DOING EXACTLY THAT.
09:34:48 UNDERSTAND NOW THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY GET TO MAKE
09:34:50 THAT VOTE AND LIVE WITH THAT REPRESENTATION, AND WHETHER
09:34:52 YOU THINK IT'S EFFECTIVE, BEST OR YOU LIKE THE PERSON ON
09:34:56 IT IS IRRELEVANT.
09:34:57 IT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE DECIDE AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE
09:34:59 ENTITLED TO.
09:35:00 SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THIS BODY TO RECONSIDER ANY EFFORTS
09:35:02 TO TAKE POW AREA WAY FROM THE PEOPLE BY GIVING THE CRA
09:35:06 BOARD THE AUTHORITY TO APPOINT THE CAC MEMBERS.
09:35:09 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE TIME TO SPEAK THIS MORNING.
09:35:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:35:12 >> YVETTE LEWIS, PRESIDENT OF NAACP, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
09:35:48 BRANCH, A RESIDENT OF EAST TAMPA, BORN AND RAISED.
09:35:53 GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL.
09:35:57 CRA BOARD.
09:35:58 HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
09:36:04 TESTIMONY TO THE MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS AS
09:36:07 RELEVANT TODAY.
09:36:09 HER TESTIMONY WAS ABOUT RESPECT FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN
09:36:12 PEOPLE.
09:36:13 HER TESTIMONY WAS ABOUT HOW AFRICAN AMERICA ENDURED
09:36:18 BEATING AND HATRED ALL FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
09:36:22 WITH FANNIE LOU HAYWARD TOOK A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO
09:36:25 REGISTER TO VOTE, SHE DISCOVERED THAT THE RULES HAD BEEN
09:36:29 CHANGED.
09:36:31 I ASK THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF WHY NOBODY NOTIFIED
09:36:37 THE RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA NOR THE CAC ABOUT THIS CHANGE
09:36:44 TODAY.
09:36:45 NOW, I WANT TO ADDRESS THE CHAIN LETTER THAT WAS SENT TO
09:36:51 EVERYONE.
09:36:53 I ASK CITY COUNCIL TO ASK EVERYONE WHO SENT THOSE
09:36:58 LETTERS, WHEN IS THE LAST TIME THEY ATTENDED A CAC
09:37:02 MEETING WITH THE NEWLY-ELECTED CAC?
09:37:05 THE CAC PEOPLE?
09:37:08 OR EVEN WITH THE PAST CAC.
09:37:13 NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN AT THE MEETING.
09:37:15 I KNOW.
09:37:16 YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AT THEIR ANSWERS.
09:37:23 FANNIE LOU HAMER.
09:37:25 SHE HAD TO FAITH FOR --
09:37:29 SHE HAD TO FIGHT BEFORE A LILY WHITE MISSISSIPPI
09:37:33 DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
09:37:34 IT IS SAD AND HURTFUL THAT MY CITY COUNCIL
09:37:38 REPRESENTATIVES DON'T EVEN KNOWLEDGE NOR SPEAK TO US
09:37:45 BECAUSE OF AN ELECTION.
09:37:47 NOW, I ASK AGAIN, IS FANNIE LOU HAMER'S TESTIMONY
09:37:57 RELEVANT TODAY?
09:37:58 MY REQUEST IS CITY COUNCIL TO GIVE THE NEWLY-ELECTED CAC
09:38:04 AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE CHANGE AND TURN EAST TAMPA AROUND.
09:38:11 IN THE WORD OF FANNIE LOU HAMER, I AM SICK AND TIRED OF
09:38:16 BEING SICK AND TIRED.
09:38:20 THANK YOU.
09:38:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:38:48 >> I'M CONNIE BURTON.
09:38:54 AND I'M JUST SO HONORED THIS MORNING BECAUSE IN MY MIND
09:38:58 AS WE MOVE IN THE SPIRIT OF AFRICAN HISTORY MONTH, THE
09:39:07 THEME SONG THAT KEEPS PLAYING IN MY MIND IS THAT IN EAST
09:39:09 TAMPA WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET ANYTHING OR NO ONE TURN US
09:39:12 AROUND.
09:39:17 WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE MISSION OF THE CRA AND WHAT IT HAS
09:39:21 STATED TO SEE TANGIBLE GOALS THAT WE CAN GET TO.
09:39:26 HOW DO WE REMOVE BLIGHT?
09:39:30 HOW DO WE INSTILL HOPE IN OUR COMMUNITY?
09:39:32 HOW DO WE REDUCE POVERTY?
09:39:34 WE DO IT ALL BY GIVING OPPORTUNITY.
09:39:37 WE DO IT ALL BY ASKING FOR THE BEST OF OUR COMMUNITY SO
09:39:42 TO STEP FORWARD AND TO SERVE.
09:39:45 HOW CAN THEY DO THAT?
09:39:47 WELL, AS THEY SAY, ELECTIONS BRING ABOUT SURPRISES, AND
09:39:52 IT WAS TO MY SURPRISE THAT THE COMMUNITY SELECTED ME
09:39:57 AMONG SIX NEW MEMBERS TO COME AND JOIN A 13-MEMBER BOARD.
09:40:04 WE HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE.
09:40:05 WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
09:40:07 WE CONTINUE TO REACH OUT TO THE STAFF TO SAY, STAFF,
09:40:12 REACH OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND BRING THEM
09:40:14 ALONG.
09:40:17 THAT IS OUR DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY.
09:40:19 AND THEN AS WE LOOK AT THE EXISTING ISSUES INSIDE OF EAST
09:40:22 TAMPA, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS THE BOARD TO SEE WHAT
09:40:27 WILL HAPPEN TO REDUCE THE DEATH THAT HAS RESONATED IN
09:40:34 EAST TAMPA BECAUSE EAST TAMPA IS PART OF 65.
09:40:39 65 CONTINUES TO HAVE THE SAME APPROXIMATE.
09:40:41 SO WE ASK THOSE PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS THAT LIVE
09:40:47 WITHIN THE NEW SEMINOLE HEIGHTS OUR COMMUNITY HAS NOW
09:40:51 BEEN EXTENDED IN YBOR CITY.
09:40:53 PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE BOARD.
09:40:56 WE HAVE EIGHT SUBCOMMITTEES, AND PEOPLE CAN BE A PART OF,
09:41:00 AND WE ARE ASKING, AND WE ARE WATCHING.
09:41:04 I DON'T FEEL THREATENED THIS MORNING, NOT AT ALL.
09:41:07 BECAUSE I KNOW AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ARE ALL GOING TO
09:41:13 GET AN EVALUATION.
09:41:14 SOME OF US ARE GOING TO BE EVALUATED AT THE POLLS AND
09:41:17 SOME OF US EVALUATED DAILY IN OUR COMMUNITY WHEN PEOPLE
09:41:20 ARE ASKING US TO HELP THEM SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS.
09:41:24 SO THE BOARD IS MOVING FORWARD, WORKING WITH THE CITY
09:41:28 STAFF, CALLING THEM CONSTANTLY, SPEAKING TO MR. BENNETT,
09:41:33 ASKING THAT WE BE ABLE TO CREATE NEW IDEAS IN THE
09:41:36 COMMUNITY.
09:41:37 WE HAVE A BUILDING OVER THERE IN EAST TAMPA.
09:41:40 WE SAY IF SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS CAN'T COME TO EAST TAMPA
09:41:46 OFFERING JOB OPPORTUNITIES, LET'S BRING THOSE PROGRAMS
09:41:51 AND BRING THOSE SYSTEMS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
09:41:53 WE WANT TO OPEN UP THE BUILDING AT 3600 LAKE AVENUE SO WE
09:41:57 CAN DO SUCH THINGS.
09:41:58 WE KNOW YOUNG PEOPLE ARE KILLING EACH OTHER.
09:42:01 WE SAY HOW CAN WE DEVOTE A LEADERSHIP TEAM INSIDE OF OUR
09:42:05 COMMUNITY?
09:42:05 THAN WE GOT IDEAS.
09:42:06 WE ARE GOING TO ACTIVATE ON THAT IDEA.
09:42:09 WE HAVE SIX MONTHS, OR ANOTHER 18 MONTHS.
09:42:13 WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE DETERRED BY ANYTHING.
09:42:15 AND ANY ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, IT
09:42:21 IS GOING TO BE NOTED -- FOR ALL OF US.
09:42:28 THANK YOU.
09:42:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU'RE WELCOME.
09:42:31 THANK YOU.
09:42:31 >> MY NAME IS ARTIE JOHNSON.
09:42:52 I LIVE AT 2119 EAST MEDVILLE ROAD.
09:42:56 FOR ME AND MY FAMILY WE ALL ARE PROFITED AT 44th IN
09:43:06 EAST TAMPA.
09:43:07 WE OWN PROPERTY OFF 22ND AND 21st, AND WE CAN'T
09:43:14 UTILIZE OUR PROPERTY BECAUSE THE THINGS THAT'S BEEN GOING
09:43:17 ON WITH THESE BOARDS, CODE ENFORCEMENT AND THINGS, AND
09:43:22 WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST, I'M HERE TO SAY THAT WHY MS.
09:43:30 CONNIE BURTON BECAME THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, YOU
09:43:34 REACHED THE GOAL POST SO FAR THAT NOBODY CAN EVEN KICK A
09:43:37 FIELD GOAL.
09:43:38 AND THAT TROUBLES ME BECAUSE I PAY TAXES OPENING A LOT OF
09:43:42 PROPERTY IN TAMPA, FOR WHAT?
09:43:43 FOR EVERY TIME WE WANT TO UTILIZE PEOPLE IN OUR
09:43:46 COMMUNITY, THE CAC, CRA, AND I GO TO THESE MEETINGS,
09:43:53 ASSOCIATION IS CONCERNED ABOUT ONE THING CRIME, AND THAT
09:43:56 IS GOOD, BUT OUR COMMUNITY THAT THE BOARD SET UP IN THE
09:43:59 CRA, WE ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG,
09:44:00 WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ECONOMIC GROWTH, PROSPERITY, AND
09:44:04 BETTERMENT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, MAKING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
09:44:07 BIGGER, BRIGHTER AND BETTER, AND THESE PEOPLE THAT I GO
09:44:10 TO THESE COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, THESE PEOPLE ARE
09:44:13 CONCERNED ABOUT CRIME, AND THERE'S A PLACE FOR THEM DOWN
09:44:16 AT THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SEE WHATEVER THEY ARE
09:44:19 GOING TO DO.
09:44:20 BUT THESE CRAs, THESE BOARDS HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE
09:44:25 PROGRESSIVE.
09:44:27 MS. CONNIE BURTON AND ALL THE REST.
09:44:30 THESE HAVE PEOPLE THAT WE CAN TRUST IS GOING TO SPEAK FOR
09:44:33 THE WILL AND THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE WHEREVER
09:44:35 THERE'S PEOPLE, THERE'S POWER, AND YOU TRYING TO CHANGE
09:44:38 THE GOAL POSTS, TRYING TO CHANGE THE GAME.
09:44:41 IT'S NOT WHOEVER YOU ARE.
09:44:44 IT'S NOTE GOING TO CHANGE WHAT WE ARE HERE TO DO, BECAUSE
09:44:48 THE VOTING SYSTEM SAYS YOU CAN VOTE NO MATTER WHO YOU
09:44:51 ARE, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE TIRED.
09:44:53 WE TIRED OF THE GOAL POSTS BEING CHANGED.
09:44:55 WE ARE TIRED OF US BEING LOOKED AT, AND WE CAN'T
09:44:59 DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
09:45:00 AND WE ARE GOING TO BE HERE TODAY AND WE ARE GOING TO BE
09:45:03 HERE TOMORROW.
09:45:04 WE ARE GOING TO BE HERE WHEN YOU ARE GONE AND WE ARE
09:45:06 GOING TO CHANGE THE COMMUNITY.
09:45:08 WITH THIS CRA, THE CAC, AND NO ONE IS GOING TO STOP THAT
09:45:12 CHANGE.
09:45:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:45:26 HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE?
09:45:27 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:45:38 MY NAME IS MS. DANA AND I AM HERE TO SUPPORT CONNIE
09:45:43 BURTON.
09:45:45 LIKE THE SONG, CHANGE HAS TO COME AND THE CHANGE CAME
09:45:48 WHEN I MET HER.
09:45:49 I JUST STARTED GOING TO THE MEETING AND I AIN'T GOING TO
09:45:52 STOP GOING.
09:45:52 I MEAN, SHE'S BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY TRYING
09:45:57 TO MAKE BETTER FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND NOW THAT Y'ALL
09:46:01 TRYING TO TAKE HER OUT OF THERE.
09:46:03 WE WANT TO HAVE BETTER.
09:46:05 CHANGE HAS CAME.
09:46:07 MS. CONNIE BURTON.
09:46:08 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
09:46:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
09:46:10 >> HOW ARE YOU ALL DOING?
09:46:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: STATE YOUR NAME FOR US, PLEASE.
09:46:42 >> IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND I --
09:46:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE
09:46:46 RECORD?
09:46:48 >> OH, JOSHUA WALKER.
09:46:50 I SAY IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND YOU ALL WANT TO MOVIE
09:46:53 MS. CONNIE BURTON, AND THAT'S VERY, VERY BAD, MAN.
09:46:57 YOU ALL REALLY, REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT US AT ALL.
09:47:00 YOU ALL DON'T CARE ABOUT US.
09:47:03 I'M GOING TO BE HONEST.
09:47:04 A LOT OF THINGS GOING IN EAST TAMPA, A LOT OF THINGS NEED
09:47:06 TO BE DONE AND I DON'T SEE NO HELP FROM NONE OF YOU GUYS.
09:47:09 I DON'T EVEN SEE YOU GUYS PASSING BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD
09:47:12 WAIVING YOUR HAND.
09:47:13 HEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING?
09:47:14 NONE OF THAT.
09:47:15 IF YOU GUYS REALLY CARE YOU GUYS WOULD BE IN EAST TAMPA.
09:47:19 LET'S SEE YOUR FACE.
09:47:20 WE DON'T SEE YOUR FACE.
09:47:22 ORLANDO, I SEE YOUR FACE, BUT THE OTHER THREE, FOUR,
09:47:25 FIVE, I DON'T SEE THEIR FACE.
09:47:26 I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY IS.
09:47:30 THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS PEOPLE LIKE ME, AND WE ARE
09:47:34 TAKING OVER, AND I MEAN GETTING VOTES TO COME IN.
09:47:37 AND ALL YOU PEOPLE ON STAFF ARE GOING TO BE GONE.
09:47:39 ZERO.
09:47:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOLD ON A SECOND.
09:47:54 HOLD ON.
09:47:55 THE GENTLEMAN'S TIME, YOU CAN'T SPEAK FOR HIM, SIR.
09:47:58 >> I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR HIM.
09:48:01 THE OTHER DAY AT THE CONVENTION CENTER YOU GAVE SOMEBODY
09:48:03 THREE MINUTES AND YOU ALL HAVE TO GET THIS RULE TOGETHER
09:48:06 AND YOU HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT.
09:48:07 >> PUBLIC COMMENT, THREE MINUTES ARE ALLOWED PER SPEAKER.
09:48:15 THERE IS NOT -- YOU DON'T HAVE A WAIVER, YOU DON'T GIVE
09:48:18 TIME, IT'S SUBJECT TO THE CHAIR AND THE BOARD'S
09:48:21 DISCRETION TO GIVE ADDITIONAL TIME IF THEY WANT TO.
09:48:24 UNLESS THEY GIVE TO THE YOU, YOU ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES
09:48:26 TO SPEAK PER SPEAKER.
09:48:28 >> TONY DANIEL: THAT'S WHY THIS MAN IS GIVING PART OF
09:48:33 HIS THREE MINUTES TO TIME.
09:48:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN'T DO THAT AT THIS TIME.
09:48:37 >> WHY WAS IT DONE --
09:48:42 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IT WAS DONE IN CONNECTION WITH ZONING
09:48:44 HEARINGS.
09:48:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MASSEY, IN THE FUTURE, CAN WE HAVE
09:48:48 A PRINTED POLICY IN THE DOWNSTAIRS AIR --
09:48:52 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, SIR, WE CAN.
09:48:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO PUBLIC COMMENT, HOW MANY MINUTES
09:48:56 THEY HAVE, IF SOMEONE IS SPEAKING, WHATEVER THE RULES
09:48:58 ARE.
09:48:58 LET'S HAVE THAT POSTED SO WE KNOW WHAT THE RULES ARE.
09:49:01 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, SIR, WE WILL BE GLAD TO DO THAT.
09:49:04 >> LIKE NEXT WEEK WITH THE NUMBER OF BLACK PEOPLE LIKE
09:49:07 ME, THAT'S WHAT --
09:49:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:49:10 >> YOU HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT.
09:49:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:49:28 ANY MORE SPEAKERS?
09:49:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL THE PUBLIC
09:49:34 SPEAKERS.
09:49:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY MORE SPEAKERS?
09:49:37 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT.
09:49:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IS THAT ALL OF THE SPEAKERS?
09:49:42 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, THAT'S THE END OF THE
09:49:44 SPEAKERS, YES, SIR.
09:49:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE MOVE ON TO STAFF REPORTS.
09:49:47 >> FOR OUR COMMUNITY SPEAKER THIS MORNING, WE HAVE ON THE
09:49:50 PHONE OUR CHAIR FROM THE YBOR CITY CAC MR. CHRIS
09:49:55 WOJTOWICZ.
09:49:56 IF YOU CAN HEAR US, PLEASE START AT YOUR LEISURE.
09:49:59 >>CHRIS WOJTOWICZ: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:50:02 I APPRECIATE THAT, MICHELLE, CHAIRMAN GUDES, BOARD
09:50:04 MEMBERS.
09:50:05 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
09:50:06 I'M CHRIS WOJTOWICZ, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE YBOR CITY
09:50:11 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
09:50:14 WE ACT AS THE CAC FOR CRA 1 AND 2 IN YBOR CITY.
09:50:19 SUNS OUR LAST REPORT BY VICE CHAIRMAN STEVE BARBAS IN
09:50:25 SEPTEMBER, WE HAVE MOVED THE BALL ON A NUMBER OF
09:50:29 INITIATIVES.
09:50:30 AND I WOULD LIKE TO HIT ON SOME OF THOSE.
09:50:32 AND THEN OF COURSE SAVE TIME FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU
09:50:35 HAVE THAT I CAN ANSWER.
09:50:39 STARTING WITH SOME STRATEGY ITEMS, THIS SUMMER, ACTUALLY
09:50:45 IN SEPTEMBER,
09:50:46 THE CRA BOARD APPROVED OUR 20-20 VISION PLAN.
09:50:50 AND IN OCTOBER THAT 20-20 VISION PLAN WON AN AWARD OF
09:50:55 MERIT BY THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION.
09:50:57 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THAT PLAN.
09:51:00 AND WE HAVE BEEN DRIVING A NUMBER OF ACTIVITY ON THAT.
09:51:03 INCLUDED THERE ARE THE PLANS IMPROVEMENTS TO 7th
09:51:07 AVENUE STREETSCAPE, EXTENDING THE 7th AVENUE
09:51:11 STREETSCAPE FROM 22ND STREET OUT TO 26th STREET INTO
09:51:16 EAST YBOR, WHICH WILL BE A VERY WELCOME ADDITION AND HELP
09:51:19 DRIVE ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AROUND EAST OF 22ND
09:51:23 STREET WHICH I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD WELCOME.
09:51:27 WE ALSO -- FUNDING HAS BEEN ALLOCATED FOR THAT PROJECT,
09:51:34 AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT IT WILL START IN THE SPRING OR
09:51:37 SUMMER.
09:51:38 ALONG WITH THAT, THE REPLACEMENT OF THE 7th AVENUE
09:51:42 ARCHWAY LIGHTS, AND EXTENSION OF THOSE LIGHTS ALL THE WAY
09:51:45 OUT 26th STREET AGAIN INTO EAST YBOR HELPING TO DRIVE
09:51:51 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA, WOULD ALSO BEGIN AT
09:51:54 THE SAME TIME.
09:51:56 ANOTHER STRATEGY ITEM THAT WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE BEEN
09:51:59 WORKING ON IS A SECURITY STRATEGY.
09:52:02 THAT SECURITY STRATEGY IS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY MS.
09:52:06 VAN LOAN AND CITY STAFF AND WILL EVENTUALLY COME TO THIS
09:52:15 BOARD FOR THEIR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
09:52:17 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SECURITY RELATED ITEMS IN THE
09:52:20 20-20 VISION PLAN THAT HAVE BEEN TIED TOGETHER SO THAT WE
09:52:24 DON'T EXECUTE ON THEM TACTICALLY BUT WE START THINKING
09:52:27 ABOUT SECURITY IN THE YBOR CRA AS A WHOLE.
09:52:30 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK VERY MUCH MAJOR GENERAL RETIRED
09:52:34 DAVE SCOTT FOR LEADING THAT SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE AND
09:52:38 HELPING US PULL THIS TOGETHER.
09:52:43 ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE SIDE, WE WORKED TO CLEAN UP AND
09:52:46 REPLACE THE LITTER BASKETS AND TREE GRATES THROUGHOUT
09:52:50 YBOR CITY, SO OVER 90 BETWEEN THEM OUR LITTER BASKETS AND
09:52:54 TREE GRATES HAVE BEEN REHABBED AND PAINTED IN PREPARATION
09:52:59 FOR MAKING YBOR LOOK A LITTLE BETTER FOR THE SUPER BOWL.
09:53:03 ALONG WITH THAT, ALONG WITH THAT, WE ALSO EXTENDED
09:53:08 ADDITIONAL TIME FOR THE YES TEAM, THE TEAM THAT DOES THE
09:53:11 CLEAN-UP IN YBOR CITY, AND OUR PRESSURE WASHING TEAM TO
09:53:14 MAKE SURE THAT YBOR CITY WAS CLEAN DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT
09:53:19 THAT EVENT.
09:53:22 ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FRONT, HOTEL HYATT HAD THAT
09:53:26 YOU ARE RIBBON CUTTING ON OCTOBER 21st AND THE NUMBER
09:53:29 OF COUNCIL MEMBERS ATTENDED THAT.
09:53:33 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:53:35 THAT 178 ROOM HOTEL REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT
09:53:38 IN YBOR CITY HISTORIC DISTRICT AND EXPECT TO SEE
09:53:43 ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE OF THAT
09:53:46 INVESTMENT.
09:53:46 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:53:49 THE INVESTORS WHO MADE THAT HAPPEN.
09:53:53 OTHER EVENTS THAT WE HAD WERE OPENING OF A NUMBER OF
09:53:56 BUSINESSES SINCE OCTOBER.
09:53:58 THE COPPER SHAKER, SERIAL HOLIC, FOUNDATION COFFEE SHOP,
09:54:07 BILL BARR, BIG DADDY CRAB, ALL OPENED SINCE OUR LAST
09:54:13 REPORT, BRINGING NEW BUSINESSES TO THE DISTRICT, DRIVING
09:54:16 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
09:54:17 I WANT TO CALL OUT SPECIFICALLY THE -- I'M SURE THAT
09:54:24 RICHARD GONZMART AND THE GONZMART IS WELL KNOWN TO THIS
09:54:29 COUNCIL, THEY REHABBED THE MACARONI FACTORY AND THAT IS
09:54:35 EAST OF 22ND STREET AND REPRESENTS I THINK THE BEGINNING
09:54:37 OF A TREND TO SEE MORE DEVELOPMENT INTO EAST YBOR, WHICH
09:54:41 I THINK WE WOULD ALL VERY MUCH WELCOME.
09:54:48 ALSO, ANOTHER EVENT THAT HAPPENED WAS THE HOLIDAY DECOR
09:54:52 THAT WE PUT UP AND THE TREE LIGHTING AND I WOULD LIKE TO
09:54:56 THANK CHAIRMAN GUDES FOR ATTENDING THAT EVENT AND HAVING
09:54:58 SOME KIND WORDS TO SAY.
09:55:00 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
09:55:03 IN TERMS OF CULTURE AND ARTS AND HOW WE ARE BRINGING MORE
09:55:07 EVENTS TO YBOR CITY, IN NOVEMBER WE LAUNCHED THE HEART OF
09:55:11 TAMPA CAMPAIGN.
09:55:12 WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CITY FOR ALLOWING US TO USE
09:55:16 THE HEART OF TAMPA FOR YBOR CITY, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU
09:55:21 WHO HAVE SEEN IT WE HAVE CREATED A VERY NICE COLLAGE IN
09:55:27 THE SHAPE OF A HEART OF YBOR CITY, ICONIC IMAGERY.
09:55:31 WE HAVE BEEN HANDING OUT THOSE HEARTS TO BUSINESSES SO
09:55:36 THEY CAN DISPLAY THEIR HEART OF TAMPA PRIDE, AND WE HAVE
09:55:39 BEEN OF COURSE MARKETING THAT CAMPAIGN THROUGH HCP OUR
09:55:43 MARKETING DEPARTMENT.
09:55:44 WE ALSO FOR THE SUPER BOWL CREATED HEART OF TAMPA MASKS
09:55:49 THAT HAVE THE LOGO PRINTED ON THEM AND GAVE THEM AWAY AT
09:55:53 THE VISITORS CENTER AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN YBOR CITY TO
09:55:56 HELP WITH THE CITY'S OUT DOOR MASK MANDATE AND ALSO
09:55:59 SPREAD THAT MARKETING CAMPAIGN.
09:56:02 ON THE SECURITY SIDE, IN PREPARATION FOR THE SUPER BOWL,
09:56:06 AND ADDITIONAL EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WINTER
09:56:09 SEASON, WE DID ADD -- THANK YOU TO CRA BOARD -- FOR
09:56:15 APPROVING ENHANCED TPD COVERAGE, IN ESSENCE 7 NEW FEET ON
09:56:20 THE STREET, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS IN THE
09:56:22 HISTORIC DISTRICT.
09:56:23 AND WE HAVE SEEN THE IMPACT OF THAT.
09:56:25 UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CAPTAIN BRETT OWEN WHO HAS BEEN A
09:56:32 GREAT PARTNER TO US THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF HIS TENURE
09:56:35 TAKING OVER AS OUR CAPTAIN.
09:56:40 ADDITIONALLY YOU HEARD PUBLIC COMMENT FROM TOMMIE GEORGE,
09:56:43 ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHER'S OF THE SAFE AND SOUND
09:56:46 INITIATIVE.
09:56:47 THAT SAFE AND SOUND INITIATIVE WENT FROM TWO ADDITIONAL
09:56:51 MEMBERS TO OVER 700.
09:56:53 THESE ARE BUSINESSES THAT VOLUNTEERED TO FOLLOW CDD
09:56:57 STANDARDS AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE KEEPING THEIR PATRONS
09:57:00 SAFE, AND THE CITY HAS HELPED WITH THIS PROCESS BY
09:57:05 CREATING STICKERS THAT WINDOW STICKERS LETTING PEOPLE
09:57:10 KNOW THAT THEY ARE SAFE AND SOUND, VOLUNTARY BUSINESS.
09:57:13 SO A GREAT INITIATIVE AND GLAD TO SEE THAT TAKING OFF SO
09:57:19 WELL IN OUR CITY AND WE APPRECIATE THE CITY'S SUPPORT OF
09:57:22 THAT.
09:57:22 I THINK THAT COVERS -- OH, SORRY, THE LAST ITEM.
09:57:29 IN EARLY DECEMBER, I MET WITH COUNCILMAN GUDES, AND MAYOR
09:57:33 CASTOR, AND DISCUSSED SOME OF THE KEY PRIORITIES FOR YBOR
09:57:37 CITY MOVING FORWARD.
09:57:38 WE TALKED VERY MUCH ABOUT HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THE
09:57:43 CITY'S PARTNERSHIP AND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE
09:57:46 SO FAR AND LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THAT PARTNERSHIP
09:57:49 INTO THE FUTURE.
09:57:49 ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT SIDE, WE TALK ABOUT
09:57:53 BRICK STREETS, FLU CHANGES, CONSTRUCTION EFFICIENCY, AND
09:57:57 LEVERAGING YBOR CITY AS A TEST CASE TO HELP MAKE THE
09:57:59 CONSTRUCTION AND PERMITTING PROCESS MORE EFFICIENT.
09:58:04 AFFORDABLE RENT.
09:58:05 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YBOR CITY SUFFERS FROM VERSUS SOME
09:58:08 OF THE OTHER CRAs IS MOST OF OUR RESIDENTS IN YBOR CITY
09:58:11 ARE NOT OWNERS OF THE HOMES OR APARTMENTS THAT THEY LIVE
09:58:15 IN, THEY ARE RENTERS.
09:58:16 HOW DO WE HELP THEM AS OPPOSED TO JUST FOCUSING ON
09:58:19 LANDLORDS?
09:58:20 WE TALK ABOUT SAFETY IN TRANSPORTATION.
09:58:22 OUR DISTRICT SECURITY PLAN WHICH WE JUST TALKED ABOUT,
09:58:26 REDEVELOPING SURFACE LOTS AND AFFORDABLE PARKING.
09:58:29 AND THEN HELP FURNISH OUR CULTURE AND STRATEGY WHICH IS
09:58:33 AN UPCOMING INITIATIVE THAT WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON,
09:58:36 PUBLIC ART AND OF COURSE THE HEART OF TAMPA CAMPAIGN.
09:58:39 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:58:39 THAT CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
09:58:41 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
09:58:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS BY COUNCIL MEMBERS?
09:58:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, IF I CAN.
09:58:47 CHRIS, GREAT REPORT.
09:58:50 THE YEARS THAT I SPENT ON THE CRA, YBOR CAC, FINALLY
09:58:56 PAYING OFF, ESPECIALLY THE 21st AND 22ND STREET WHEN
09:59:01 CITY OF TAMPA TOOK IT BACK OVER, WE DID WHAT'S CALLED A
09:59:03 STREET DIETING WHERE WE PUT IT DOWN TO TWO LANES, AND
09:59:07 WIDENED THE SIDEWALKS.
09:59:09 AND YOU ARE CORRECT.
09:59:14 STEPHENO IS JUST THE FIRST BUSINESS TO GO INTO THAT AND
09:59:20 I'M SURE THAT FRAN COSTANTINO IS DOING A HAPPY DANCE
09:59:23 BECAUSE OF THE STREETSCAPING AND THE GATEWAY AT 26th
09:59:27 STREET.
09:59:28 THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT, CHRIS.
09:59:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OTHER MEMBERS?
09:59:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIRMAN, THANKS.
09:59:41 >> MR. DINGFELDER.
09:59:42 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
09:59:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:59:47 OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF WORK YOU ARE PUTTING IN THROUGH THE
09:59:52 CAC, AND PLEASE THANK THE REST OF YOUR MEMBERS.
09:59:55 AND I NOTICED THAT OUR STAFF REPORT -- AND I AM NOT
09:59:59 SURE IF YOU BROUGHT IT UP IN YOUR REPORT OR NOT -- THE
10:00:06 SUGGESTION ABOUT REQUIRING THAT PARKING LOTS BE
10:00:11 CONTINUOUSLY ATTENDED INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS OF
10:00:16 THURSDAY, FRIDAY -- THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
10:00:20 I WOULD PRESUME THAT, TOO, IS AN ADDITIONAL SECURITY
10:00:24 MEASURE BECAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT A LOT OF UNFORTUNATE
10:00:31 ISSUES PROBABLY DO HAPPEN IN THE PARKING LOTS IN AND
10:00:33 AROUND YBOR.
10:00:35 SO I AM NOT GOING TO VOTE OR JUDGE ON THAT BECAUSE
10:00:38 OBVIOUSLY THAT IS SOMETHING THAT CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO
10:00:47 LOOK AT AS A MODIFICATION OF CHAPTER 27.
10:00:51 AND MY QUESTION TO YOU, I KNOW MAJOR PLAYERS OPERATE
10:00:55 THOSE PARKING LOTS, AND I MIGHT GUESS THERE MIGHT BE
10:00:58 SOME MINOR PLAYERS, MAYBE A FAMILY OR SOMETHING THAT
10:01:01 HAS TEN SPACES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
10:01:04 AND I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU AND STAFF REACH
10:01:10 OUT TO -- I AM SURE THE MAJOR PLAYERS ARE AWARE OF IT,
10:01:13 BUT REACH OUT TO THE MINOR FOLKS TOO AND MAKE SURE WE
10:01:16 DON'T HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THEIR BUSINESS AND
10:01:20 THEIR OPPORTUNITIES.
10:01:23 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMAN.
10:01:25 I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION AND COMMENT.
10:01:30 I WILL JUST RESPOND BY SAYING, I AM NOT AWARE OF A LOT
10:01:32 OF MINOR PLAYERS, AND YOUR COMMENT IS NOTED, AND I WILL
10:01:34 MAKE SURE THAT STAFF REACHES OUT TO THEM.
10:01:38 IN TERMS OF OUR REQUEST ON THE STAFFING OF PARKING
10:01:38 LOTS.
10:01:41 THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A REQUIREMENT.
10:01:46 THE PROBLEM IS, THERE IS NO ABILITY TO ENFORCE IT UNDER
10:01:49 THE CURRENT CODE AND THIS CHANGE WILL ALLOW FOR
10:01:53 ENFORCEMENT AND THIS WILL MEAN THAT CODE ENFORCEMENT
10:01:56 AND TPD HAVE DISCRETIONS IN THEIR ACTIONS AS WELL.
10:01:58 I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS CLEAR.
10:02:00 THAT IS CURRENTLY A REQUIREMENT.
10:02:03 EVERYONE WHO OPERATES THE LOT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE AN
10:02:07 ATTENDANT DURING THESE TIMES CURRENTLY BUT WE REALLY
10:02:10 DON'T HAVE AN ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM.
10:02:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ON A PERSONAL NOTE, CHRIS, REMIND
10:02:15 US WHAT IS YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN YBOR.
10:02:17 ARE YOU A BUSINESS OWNER?
10:02:19 A RESIDENT?
10:02:21 WHAT BRINGS THROUGH.
10:02:24 >>CHRIS WOJTOWICZ: A TERRIFIC QUESTION.
10:02:27 I AM A FULL-TIME RESIDENT OF YBOR CITY.
10:02:32 WE OWN A HOME AND BUILT IT AND BOUGHT AN EMPTY LOT IN
10:02:34 2014.
10:02:36 TOOK A FEW YEARS TO GET THROUGH THE PROCESS AND MY WIFE
10:02:40 WAS COMPLETED IN 2016 AND MY WIFE AND I ARE FULL-TIME
10:02:44 RESIDENTS IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT, AND WE LOVE LIVING
10:02:44 HERE.
10:02:46 WE DO NOT HAVE ANY BUSINESS INTERESTS OR ADDITIONAL
10:02:47 PROPERTIES.
10:02:49 WE ARE JUST FULL-TIME RESIDENTS.
10:02:50 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FANTASTIC.
10:02:57 YOU ARE URBAN PIONEERS AND WE APPRECIATE THAT GREATLY.
10:03:00 MR. CITRO AND I ARE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE YBOR CITY
10:03:04 ROTARY CLUB AND MEET AT COLUMBIA EVERY WEDNESDAY AT
10:03:04 NOON.
10:03:08 SO FEEL FREE TO COME JOIN US AS LOCAL RESIDENTS.
10:03:09 THANK YOU.
10:03:10 >>CHRIS WOJTOWICZ: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:03:11 APPRECIATE THAT.
10:03:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR.
10:03:16 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR
10:03:19 EVERYONE ON THE BOARD AND THE WORK YOU DO FOR YBOR
10:03:19 CITY.
10:03:24 YOU MENTION ONE OF THE FAVORITE PEOPLE, STEVE BARBUS.
10:03:29 HE IS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND COLLEAGUE AND ALL THE
10:03:33 WORK THAT YOU AND MR. BARBUS DID FOR YBOR CITY AND MR.
10:03:37 CITRO DID PREVIOUSLY ON THE CAC.
10:03:44 AND OUR CHAIR OF THE CRA, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:03:48 AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL CITY COUNCILMEMBERS TO STAY
10:03:50 IN TOUCH DURING THIS PANDEMIC.
10:03:54 YBOR CITY IS BEING ACUTELY HIT, AND I THINK COUNCILMAN
10:03:58 CITRO BROUGHT A MOTION A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN CITY
10:04:02 COUNCIL TO GIVE IT LIGHT THAT ENTERTAINMENT VENUES IN
10:04:06 YBOR CITY IS BEING SO -- EVERYBODY HAS BEEN ADVERSELY
10:04:11 EFFECTED BY THIS PANDEMIC AND COVID-19.
10:04:15 BUT YBOR CITY HAS TAKEN A BIG HIT BECAUSE THEY ARE
10:04:20 DISPROPORTIONATELY HIT BECAUSE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT
10:04:25 VENUE AND ALWAYS STAY IN TOUCH WITH YBOR CITY FOLKS.
10:04:30 I KNOW I SET UP A CALL WITH OUR FRIEND RICHARD GONZMART
10:04:31 TWO WEEKS AGO.
10:04:36 I JOKED THAT I DON'T LIKE TO CALL HIM EVERY FOUR YEARS
10:04:38 IF YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE
10:04:41 BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
10:04:41 YBOR CITY.
10:04:45 WE THANK YOU GUYS ESPECIALLY NOW DURING COVID WHEN
10:04:49 AGAIN YBOR CITY HAS BEEN SO DISPROPORTIONATELY HIT AND
10:04:50 ALL HANDS ON DECK.
10:04:52 I WANTED TO SAY THAT.
10:04:54 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:04:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:04:59 CHRIS, LET ME PULL OUT A FEW THINGS AND CALLS THAT I
10:05:02 RECEIVED AND HOPING THAT THE CAC WILL BE LOOKING INTO
10:05:03 THEM.
10:05:07 THE PARKING LOTS BEHIND A LOT OF THE BARS IN YBOR CITY.
10:05:12 I DID CALL THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT OF CHECKING OUT THE
10:05:13 LIGHTING.
10:05:17 SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE OF LIGHTING IN THOSE PARKING LOTS.
10:05:21 THE PARKING LOTS ARE HAVING A LOT OF ISSUES WHEN THE
10:05:25 BARS ARE CLOSING THROUGH THE CLOSING HOURS AND HOW THE
10:05:28 CAC WILL LOOK WITH MOBILITY AND COME UP WITH AN IDEA TO
10:05:31 ILLUMINATE THOSE PARKING LOTS.
10:05:34 SECURITY IN THE PARKING LOTS, CAMERAS.
10:05:37 AND A LOT OF ISSUES GOING ON AND HEARING A LOT OF CALLS
10:05:38 ABOUT THIS.
10:05:43 HOPING YOUR NEW SECURITY TEAM PUT IN MY SUGGESTION AS
10:05:47 WELL TO LOOK FOR AVENUES FOR A SAFER YBOR BECAUSE I AM
10:05:49 GETTING A LOT OF COMPLAINTS OF A LOT OF THINGS
10:05:51 HAPPENING TO THE PARKING LOTS.
10:05:54 IF YOU TAKE THAT BACK TO THE CAC BOARD, THAT WILL BE
10:05:55 APPRECIATED.
10:05:56 >> THANK YOU, CHAIR.
10:05:57 I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:06:00 IF I CAN MAKE ADDITIONAL COMMENT ALONG THAT LINE AND
10:06:03 TALKING TO TPD AND WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING
10:06:06 TEN ADDITIONAL CAMERAS TO GIVE THEM GREATER VISIBILITY
10:06:12 WITHIN THEIR CENTRAL DEMAND CENTER OF YBOR CITY.
10:06:15 THE COVERAGE OF THE PARKING LOT HAS COME UP, AND IT IS
10:06:17 SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO ADDRESS.
10:06:21 TPD IS ALSO TAKING IN A STRATEGY OF CLOSING THE
10:06:24 NORTH-SOUTH STREETS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS ON A
10:06:28 SET SCHEDULE WHICH WILL HELP -- WHICH WILL PUT SQUAD
10:06:32 CARS AT THOSE INTERSECTIONS ON THE NORTH-SOUTH STREET
10:06:35 MUCH CLOSER TO THOSE LOTS AND HOPEFULLY WILL SEE SOME
10:06:36 IMPROVEMENTS THERE.
10:06:39 YOUR SUGGESTION OF WORKING WITH MOBILITY ON LIGHTING
10:06:43 AND ALSO WORKING ON CAMERA PLACEMENT IS NOTED, AND WE
10:06:46 WILL WORK WITH STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE THAT
10:06:46 FORWARD.
10:06:48 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
10:06:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO, SIR.
10:06:53 THAT CONCLUDES YOUR REPORT.
10:06:56 NUMBER THREE, STAFF REPORT.
10:07:00 MISS VAN LOAN.
10:07:01 YOUR TURN.
10:07:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SORRY.
10:07:03 NOISE.
10:07:05 I COULDN'T HEAR AS QUICKLY ON THE SOUND.
10:07:10 FOR ITEM NUMBER 3, WE HAVE OUR MONTHLY STAFF REPORT AND
10:07:14 BRING UP VALERIE FARRELL WITH HER REPORT ON THE
10:07:15 DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:07:26 VALERIE.
10:07:28 >>VALERIE FARRELL: GOOD MORNING.
10:07:29 HOW IS EVERYONE?
10:07:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
10:07:31 >>VALERIE FARRELL: GOOD.
10:07:39 I WOULD LIKE TO SAYS IT A GREAT WEEK TO BE IN CHAMP-A
10:07:40 BAY.
10:07:42 WE HAD ALL OF THE CELEBRATIONS IN ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY
10:07:46 AND THE ECONOMIC IMPACT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE ARE
10:07:48 EXCITED TO HAVE MEASURE AND SEE REPORTED ON.
10:07:51 IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOWCASE ALL OF OUR
10:07:54 COMMUNITIES EVEN THOUGH WE DO RECOGNIZE WE STILL HAVE
10:07:55 WORK TO DO.
10:07:58 THE WORLD WAS WATCHING AND THEY CERTAINLY LOVED TAMPA.
10:08:01 I AM PROUD TO BE HERE TO WORK ALONGSIDE ALL OF YOU.
10:08:04 IF WE CAN PULL UP THE POWERPOINT.
10:08:07 THANK YOU.
10:08:09 I WILL GET STARTED WITH DOWNTOWN.
10:08:12 DIRECT ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH WAS THE COMPLETION MOSTLY
10:08:16 AROUND CASS STREET AND TYLER STREET.
10:08:21 THE ROADWORK AT THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IS
10:08:24 MOSTLY COMPLETE AND THE RIVERWALK AT THE STRAZ
10:08:27 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IS COMPLETE AND THE NEW SECTION
10:08:32 AT MCKENIS CONNECTING CASS AND TYLER STREET ARE MOSTLY
10:08:33 COMPLETE.
10:08:35 YOU CAN SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHS HERE IN THE PRESENTATION.
10:08:42 ALSO THAT KIND OF CARVES OUT THAT NEW BLOCK FOR THE AER
10:08:44 TOWER WHICH IS ABOUT TWO TO THREE MONTHS FROM PULLING
10:08:46 THEIR BUILDING PERMIT.
10:08:53 THAT IS JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, THAT IS 275 UNITS, 26
10:08:58 STORIES WITH 11,600 SQUARE FEET OF RESTAURANT RETAIL
10:09:01 SPACE, AND THEY WILL BE PROVIDING 476 PARKING SPACES
10:09:03 WITHIN THEIR BUILDING.
10:09:08 SO IT'S -- THE ROADWORK AND ALL OF THAT FROM WORK
10:09:11 AROUND THAT SITE IS VERY COMPLETE.
10:09:16 I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME CONES AND BARRICADES THERE
10:09:19 BUT NEAT TO SEE THAT SITE TOGETHER TO START THAT
10:09:23 CONSTRUCTION ON-SITE VERY SOON.
10:09:27 NEXT, ANOTHER DIRECT ACTIVITY IS THE HARBOUR ISLAND
10:09:28 BOULEVARD BRIDGE.
10:09:32 THIS IS EXCITING FOR US AND ALL OF OUR RESIDENT
10:09:35 NEIGHBOR FRIENDS AT HARBOUR ISLAND.
10:09:39 THE FLOWERS WENT IN JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO ACTUALLY.
10:09:44 SO THESE BEAUTIFUL SNAPDRAGONS ARE INSTALLED IN ALL THE
10:09:48 LITTLE MEDIANS -- SORRY, IN THE FLOWER BEDS GOING OVER
10:09:48 THE BRIDGE.
10:09:52 THIS, OF COURSE, IS A SHORT-TERM SOLUTION TO HELP US
10:09:54 GET READY FOR OUR BIG EVENT, SUPER BOWL, OF COURSE.
10:09:59 WE DO HAVE PLANS IN THE WORKS FOR A LONG-TERM SOLUTION.
10:10:02 WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE CONVENTION
10:10:06 CENTER AND OF COURSE OUR PRIVATE PARTNERS WITH SPP AND
10:10:10 THE MARRIOTT -- THE WATER STREET MARRIOTT, TO MAKE SURE
10:10:14 WE CAN CONVINCE -- RATHER COME UP WITH A LONG-TERM
10:10:18 SOLUTION TO HELP US MAINTAIN THOSE ISLANDS AND KEEP
10:10:21 THEM OPERATION -- IN OPERATION FOR A LONG-TERM
10:10:23 SOLUTION.
10:10:31 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DOWNTOWN?
10:10:32 >> NO QUESTIONS.
10:10:32 >>VALERIE FARRELL: OKAY.
10:10:33 I WILL MOVE ON.
10:10:38 IN CHANNEL DISTRICT, THIS IS OUR CONTINUOUS SCHEDULE.
10:10:40 OUR WORK SCHEDULE FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT
10:10:41 IMPROVEMENTS.
10:10:44 AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE ARE WORKING ON A FEW SETS OF
10:10:47 PLAN THAT'S NEED COMPLETION, BUT MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, WE
10:10:49 ARE GETTING READY FOR THE CHANNELSIDE DRIVE
10:10:53 CONSTRUCTION WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO START NEXT WEEK.
10:10:56 SO YOU WILL BE SEEING A LOT OF MOBILIZATION AND
10:10:58 CONSTRUCTION CREWS OUT ON THE SCENE.
10:11:01 THEY ARE STARTING SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF KENNEDY
10:11:05 BOULEVARD ON THE WEST SIDE OF THAT RIGHT-OF-WAY WHICH
10:11:06 IS TECHNICALLY SOUTHBOUND.
10:11:10 THAT CONSTRUCTION, THAT ENTIRE BUILD, WILL TAKE ABOUT
10:11:11 EIGHT MONTHS.
10:11:15 AND WE ARE STILL FINALIZING SOME OF THE ROUNDABOUT
10:11:15 DESIGN.
10:11:18 SO THAT IS GOING TO BE THE LAST PORTION OF THAT
10:11:22 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE
10:11:26 PORT, TAMPA BAY AND AQUARIUM ON THEIR NEW ACCESS, WHICH
10:11:31 WILL BE -- RIGHT TO THE EAST OF THAT ROUNDABOUT.
10:11:35 SO THAT IS EXCITING, OF COURSE, TO SEE THE CONSTRUCTION
10:11:36 BEGIN VERY SOON.
10:11:38 AND THIS TRIGGERS SEVERAL SETS OF PROJECTS.
10:11:40 WE ARE TRYING TO WORK WITH THE CONTRACTOR AND OUR
10:11:44 DESIGN TEAM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE STAGING THOSE
10:11:45 APPROPRIATELY.
10:11:49 BUT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE SCHEDULE, A LOT OF THOSE
10:11:51 WILL BE HITTING VERY QUICKLY THROUGH THE SPRING, SUMMER
10:11:53 AND FALL OF THIS YEAR.
10:11:56 SO IT IS VERY EXCITING TIME TO SEE CHANNELSIDE KICKING
10:12:01 OFF THAT SET OF PROJECTS IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:12:05 AND NEXT WE HAVE THE CRP, SAP UPDATE.
10:12:08 THE STAFF HAD AN INTERNAL KICKOFF MEETING WITH THE
10:12:09 CONSULTANT.
10:12:13 WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO BEGIN COORDINATING DATA AND
10:12:15 ANALYSIS THAT THEY WOULD NEED RESOURCES TO BEGIN
10:12:20 REVIEWING AND WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR CAC MEMBERS TO
10:12:22 HAVE A KICKOFF MEETING WITH THEM AS WELL.
10:12:25 AND AFTER THOSE TWO ITEMS ARE PUT TOGETHER AND
10:12:29 ASSEMBLED, WE WILL BEGIN ROLLING OUT A PUBLIC
10:12:30 ENGAGEMENT PLAN.
10:12:34 AND PLEASE STAY TUNED, WE HOPE TO ENGAGE THE CRA BOARD
10:12:37 AS WELL AND THAT WILL INCLUDE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND
10:12:38 STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS.
10:12:41 ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO AN INVITATION FOR THE GRAND
10:12:44 OPENING OF MADISON STREET PARK, THOUGH CONSTRUCTION
10:12:47 WILL BE DONE FOR QUITE SOME TIME, COVID HAS PUT A LOT
10:12:51 OF THOSE EVENTS ON HOLD, SO OUR PARKS AND RECREATION
10:12:55 TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY TO SCHEDULE A RIBBON
10:12:59 CUTTING, AND I BELIEVE THAT DATE WILL BE MIDMARCH.
10:13:01 LOOK FOR THAT COMING SOON.
10:13:03 WE HOPE YOU ALL CAN ATTEND.
10:13:05 ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:13:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:13:08 YOU MAY PROCEED.
10:13:10 >>VALERIE FARRELL: THANK YOU.
10:13:14 NEXT WE LOOK AT TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT.
10:13:17 ALTHOUGH WE DIDN'T HAVE DIRECT ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH.
10:13:19 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF INDIRECT ACTIVITIES.
10:13:24 MOSTLY BECAUSE OF MY PART AND NEW ROLE AND KNOW THE
10:13:25 COMMUNITY.
10:13:27 I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH FRIENDS OF
10:13:29 THE RIVERWALK IN ADDITION TO THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
10:13:32 HOW WE HAVE SOME OVERLAPPING ACTIVITIES THERE.
10:13:36 THE FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK ARE TRYING TO -- AS THEY
10:13:39 ALWAYS DO -- MAKE SURE THEY HAVE EVENTS ACTIVATING THE
10:13:43 RIVERWALK AND MAKING A CONNECTION TO DOWNTOWN.
10:13:46 THEY HAD SOME EVENTS OVER THE HOLIDAYS, AND IN THAT
10:13:50 PROCESS, WE HAVE BEEN BRAINSTORMING HOW TO CONTINUE TO
10:13:51 DO SO SAFELY.
10:13:56 A LOT OF THAT WAS VIRTUAL ACTIVATION, THE PARTNERSHIP
10:13:59 AND FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK WERE DOING THE SAME GOALS
10:14:02 AND DOING THEIR ANNUAL REPORT AND UPDATING THEIR
10:14:05 DOWNTOWN MAP, THE RIVERWALK MAP.
10:14:09 I HAVE BEEN WORKING ALONGSIDE MARY BETH WILLIAMS AND
10:14:12 THE DOWNTOWN STAFF AND THAT GOES ACROSS THREE
10:14:15 DISTRICTS, THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT, DOWNTOWN AND
10:14:16 CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:14:19 IT HAS BEEN A LEARNING PROCESS AND VERY COHESIVE
10:14:23 PROCESS TO SEE HOW IT TOUCHES ALL THREE OF OUR CRAS
10:14:24 HERE.
10:14:27 LASTLY THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAS
10:14:28 RECONVENED.
10:14:31 THEY MADE ELECTIONS TO OUR NEW BOARD.
10:14:34 I AM EXCITED TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE WITH THEM JUST
10:14:36 BECAUSE IT IS A GREAT CONNECTION BETWEEN TAMPA HEIGHTS
10:14:41 AND THE RIVER FRONT WHICH IS TYPICALLY OUR CRA BOUNDARY
10:14:44 AND ALSO CONNECTING INTO DOWNTOWN BECAUSE THE CIVIC --
10:14:47 EXCUSE ME THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION REALLY
10:14:50 HAS AN ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN BOTH THE COMMUNITIES
10:14:52 HERE.
10:14:56 SO, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING WITH THEM AND
10:14:59 PLAYING AN ACTIVE ROLE SEE WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE WITHIN
10:15:02 THE CRA BOUNDARIES THAT I SERVE.
10:15:05 ANY QUESTIONS FOR TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT?
10:15:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:15:09 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
10:15:11 >>VALERIE FARRELL: LASTLY CENTRAL PARK CRA.
10:15:14 THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY RECENTLY HELD THE GRAND
10:15:17 OPENING FOR THE MEACHAM URBAN FARM.
10:15:20 AND THAT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS.
10:15:22 IT IS GOING TO BE OPEN ON SATURDAYS.
10:15:25 A REALLY SPECIAL PLACE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:15:29 I THINK THAT OVERALL WE CAN ALL AGREE THIS IS A SPECIAL
10:15:30 PLACE.
10:15:33 THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND MANY OTHER COMMUNITIES WOULD
10:15:36 LIKE TO SEE HOW IT CAN BE REPLICATED IN MORE URBAN
10:15:37 NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:15:39 I AM WORKING WITH THE FARMERS WHO WERE ABLE TO BUILD
10:15:43 THIS ON THEIR OWN, WHICH IS QUITE IMPRESSIVE, HOW TO
10:15:46 WRITE A BEST PRACTICES GUIDE AND OFFER IT TO OTHERS WHO
10:15:49 ARE INTERESTED IN DOING IT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND
10:15:51 IN THEIR COMMUNITIES THAT WE CAN HELP OTHERS THAT HOPE
10:15:54 TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS A SUSTAINABLE, ORGANIC FARM
10:15:57 THAT CAN HELP SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES.
10:16:00 ALSO JUST EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING AT THE CENTRAL PARK
10:16:01 CAC.
10:16:04 THERE IS A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS AND BRAINSTORMING ON
10:16:08 ACTIVITIES THAT WE CAN PLAN WITHIN OUR CURRENT FISCAL
10:16:11 YEAR INCLUDING NEW GRANTS AND PROGRAMS AND THE
10:16:13 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CENTRAL PARK AREA.
10:16:17 SO WE ARE EXCITED TO COLLABORATE WITH THEM ON THAT.
10:16:21 INDIRECT ACTIVITIES WITH THE CRA INCLUDING ENCORE'S
10:16:25 CONTINUING OF CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR MARKET-RATE
10:16:28 APARTMENTS AT LEGACY AND INDEPENDENCE.
10:16:31 AND THEIR DESIGN IS 50% COMPLETE AT THE ADDERLEY WHICH
10:16:35 IS THE GROCERY STORE LOCATION AND THE 50/50 MIX OF
10:16:40 AFFORDABLE AND MARKET-RATE APARTMENTS ON THE MOST
10:16:43 EASTERN SIDE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT SITE AND YOU SEE THE
10:16:45 SITE PLAN THAT POINTS TO THAT LOCATION.
10:16:48 ANY QUESTIONS FOR CENTRAL PARK?
10:16:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:16:55 GENTLEMEN, LET ME SAY I ATTENDED THE MEACHAM EVENT.
10:16:59 IT IS A SIGHT TO SEE LOOKING AT FRESH FRUITS AND
10:17:03 VEGETABLES TO BE SOLD TO COMMUNITIES AND SOME OF THE
10:17:06 INCENTIVES THEY HAVE TO COME OUT THERE AND PURCHASE TO
10:17:09 GIVEAWAYS TO FAMILIES IN THAT AREA.
10:17:11 THE AREA IS REALLY, REALLY GROWING.
10:17:15 IT HAS A TREMENDOUS TRANSFORMATION AT THIS TIME.
10:17:17 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
10:17:21 THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM AND OUR FOLKS IN
10:17:23 THE CITY TO WORK TO GET THIS PROJECT GOING AND THOSE
10:17:26 FOLKS WERE ALL INVOLVED.
10:17:29 GREAT PROJECT FOR MEACHAM.
10:17:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIR --
10:17:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:17:37 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:17:38 TWO THINGS.
10:17:43 NUMBER ONE, WITH REGARD TO THE ADDERLEY AND THE
10:17:47 POTENTIAL GROCERY, I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A LITTLE
10:17:52 SKEPTICAL BECAUSE ONCE THE PUBLIX WENT IN CHANNELSIDE,
10:17:59 WHICH IS WONDERFUL, TO SERVICE CHANNELSIDE, HARBOUR
10:18:00 ISLAND, ETC.
10:18:04 I WAS SKEPTICAL IF IT WAS REALISTIC FOR A FULL-BLOWN
10:18:08 GROCERY TO GO RIGHT UP THE STREET ON NEBRASKA THERE.
10:18:12 DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE -- SENSE OF THAT?
10:18:16 ARE THEY MAKING ANY HEADWAY WITH A FULL-BLOWN GROCERY?
10:18:19 OR ARE WE LOOKING AT PERHAPS A SMALLER -- SMALLER
10:18:20 STORE.
10:18:21 THAT IS NUMBER ONE.
10:18:23 NUMBER TWO.
10:18:26 I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU PERSONALLY A SHOUT OUT AND
10:18:29 THANK MICHELLE.
10:18:32 MICHELLE HIRED THREE OR FOUR NEW PEOPLE INCLUDING
10:18:33 YOURSELF.
10:18:38 AND YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE ALL HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.
10:18:39 AND YOU ARE DOING GREAT.
10:18:41 THANK YOU, MICHELLE.
10:18:45 AND THANKS TO YOU AND THE OTHER NEWCOMERS, YOU KNOW,
10:18:49 FOR JUMPING RIGHT IN, YOU KNOW, AND YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE
10:18:52 A GOOD SENSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
10:18:52 >>VALERIE FARRELL: THANK YOU.
10:18:53 THANK YOU.
10:18:55 I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE.
10:18:58 WITH REGARDS TO THE GROCERY STORE, I HAVE TALKED TO
10:19:00 THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THEY RECOGNIZED THAT THE
10:19:05 SPACE AND THE DEMAND FOR THE FULL-SIZE -- FULL-SERVICE
10:19:08 GROCERY STORE MAY NOT BE REALISTIC IN THEIR SPACE SO
10:19:12 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A SMALLER SCALE, MAYBE A
10:19:13 NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET.
10:19:18 AND THEY ARE NEGOTIATING WITH SEVERAL OF THE NAME-BRAND
10:19:23 GROCERS THAT COULD FIT.
10:19:26 AND THEY ARE RECOGNIZE THEIR MARKET SIZE AND THE MARKET
10:19:30 MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE WHAT IS ALREADY IN --
10:19:34 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND THE GREENWISE OPENING ON WATER
10:19:35 STREET.
10:19:38 THEY ARE NEGOTIATING WITH SMALLER GRANTS TO SEE WHAT
10:19:41 CAN WORK WITH THEIR STALL INNER BUILDING FOOTPRINT.
10:19:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD.
10:19:45 I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE HOUSING
10:19:45 AUTHORITY.
10:19:48 CHARLIE AND I WERE ON COUNCIL YEARS AGO WHEN THEY
10:19:53 DECIDED TO TEAR DOWN CENTRAL PARK AND BUILD ENCORE.
10:19:57 A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE UPSET ABOUT IT AND THIS AND THAT.
10:20:00 ULTIMATELY I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT IDEA BECAUSE
10:20:04 CENTRAL PARK HAD TURNED INTO A PRETTY -- PRETTY
10:20:08 HORRIBLE PLACE.I USED TO TEACH THE KIDS THROUGH -- WHO
10:20:09 WERE THRIVING.
10:20:11 AND IT IS NOT A GOOD PLACE.
10:20:15 AND I THINK THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS DONE A GREAT JOB
10:20:20 WITH THIS NEW PROGRAM OVER THERE.
10:20:23 AND -- AND I AM GLAD TO SEE THEY ARE INCLUDING, YOU
10:20:29 KNOW, MIXED USE -- MIXED USE HOUSING FOR EVERYBODY.
10:20:31 SHOUT OUT TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
10:20:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RIGHT.
10:20:36 SOMETIMES CHANGE IS HARD FOR FOLKS SOMETIMES.
10:20:38 BUT YOU LOOK AT THE FORWARD THINKING OF IT AND LOOK
10:20:39 WHAT WE HAVE DOWN THERE.
10:20:43 IT TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT PLACE AND.
10:20:45 THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS.
10:20:48 YOU MAY CONTINUE.
10:20:50 >>VALERIE FARRELL: THAT CONCLUDES MY FOUR DISTRICTS.
10:20:52 IF NO OTHER QUESTIONS TO ME TURN IT OVER TO COURTNEY,
10:20:56 WHO IS PRESENTING VIRTUALLY.
10:20:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TAKE AWAY, COURTNEY.
10:21:00 >>COURTNEY ORR: HI, THANK YOU.
10:21:01 GOOD MORNING.
10:21:05 COURTNEY ORR, YBOR DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR YBOR CITY
10:21:10 AND FOR THE DIRECT ACTIVITIES IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
10:21:14 THE YBOR CAC HELD ITS MONTHLY MEETING AND RECEIVED A
10:21:16 PRESENTATION BY HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOL
10:21:18 SUPERINTENDENT ADDISON DAVIS.
10:21:21 WE COVERED THE 7TH AVENUE LIGHTS AND SIDEWALK
10:21:24 ENHANCEMENT PROJECT WITH TECO REPRESENTATIVES.
10:21:28 AND WE REVIEWED AND APPROVED THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE
10:21:31 PUBLIC SAFETY SUBCOMMITTEE DISTRICT SECURITY PLAN.
10:21:34 ADDITIONAL TOPICS COVERED INCLUDED THE SAFE AND SOUND
10:21:38 INITIATIVE WHICH WAS FOUNDED NOVEMBER 2020 BUT NOW HAS
10:21:41 APPROXIMATELY 750 MEMBERS AND ENDORSED BY THE CITY OF
10:21:42 TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:21:47 WE ALSO APPROVED THE HOTEL CAC APPLICATION FOR HOTEL
10:21:51 HYATT GENERAL MANAGER PABLO MOLINARI.
10:21:55 AND APPROVED FUNDING REALLOCATIONS TO MAKE POSSIBLE THE
10:22:00 LAUNCH OF THE 7TH STREETSCAPE WITH MONUMENTS.
10:22:03 THE YBOR CITY PARKING LOT CODE CHANGES WERE SUPPORTED
10:22:04 BY THE GROUP.
10:22:09 AND HERE ON THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE IN DETAIL WHAT
10:22:12 THOSE CHANGES ENTAIL.
10:22:15 THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:22:19 ADDITIONAL ORDINANCE REVIEWS ARE OCCURRING WITH LEGAL
10:22:21 AND APPROPRIATE CITY STAFF DEPARTMENT.
10:22:24 THESE ITEMS ARE LISTED HERE.
10:22:28 AND STAFF IS IN THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS
10:22:32 TO MEET WITH MOBILITY DEPARTMENT STAFF TO DISCUSS
10:22:34 UPCOMING PARKING RATE CHANGES.
10:22:40 MOBILITY HAS BEEN INVITED TO GIVE TO THE CAC OF SWITCH
10:22:45 TO ON-STREET PARKING IN JANUARY 2022.
10:22:48 COVERED THE PREVIOUS ITEMS IN THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:22:52 SO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:22:56 THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING INCLUDED
10:22:59 THE FOLLOWING TOPICS, OFF-DUTY TPD REQUIREMENTS OF
10:23:05 WHICH CITY LEADER REQUIRED A MEMO FOR CLUBS AND VENUES
10:23:12 THAT ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE OFF-DUTY TPD OFFICERS.
10:23:17 AND WELCOME OFFICER JESSICA CAMPBELL, ONE OF THE TWO
10:23:25 OFFICERS THAT STARTED THIS PAST SUNDAY.
10:23:28 OKAY.
10:23:32 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:23:37 WE ARE THRILLED NOW TO BE HOLDING COORDINATION MEETINGS
10:23:41 WITH THE SELECTED CONSULTANT AS WE GEAR UP FOR THE 7TH
10:23:44 AVENUE STREETSCAPE REHABILITATION PROJECT.
10:23:48 AND THAT WILL HELP US TO REPLACE ADOBE BRICK AND THE
10:23:54 HEXAGON PAVERS DURING THAT PROJECT AND WILL REALLY
10:23:56 SPRUCE UP 7TH AVENUE.
10:23:59 HERE WE HAVE LISTED PRESUPER BOWL SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENT
10:24:04 PROJECTS AND A BRICKELL MEETING.
10:24:07 AND A MEETING HOSTED TO THE COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE
10:24:10 INFORMATION ON SUPER BOWL DEPLOYMENT PLANS PRIOR TO THE
10:24:11 BIG EVENT.
10:24:14 NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
10:24:19 STAFF ATTENDED THE RIBBON CUTTING OF SERIAL HALL CAFE
10:24:23 AND BAR AND OFFERS AN ATMOSPHERE FOR ALL AGES.
10:24:24 A PRETTY FUN PLACE.
10:24:31 I REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU -- REALLY ENCOURAGE TO YOU GO
10:24:32 CHECK THAT OUT.
10:24:35 IT OFFERS AN UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.
10:24:41 AND WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE OUR CHILDHOOD IN THE '80S WILL
10:24:44 HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF THE DECOR THAT THE OWNER HAVE
10:24:46 SELECTED IN THE SPACE.
10:24:50 1909 NORTH 15TH STREET.
10:24:54 AND LASTLY, TAMPA BAY SOCIAL MEDIA TO GIVE AWAY HEART
10:24:59 OF TAMPA FACE MASKS ON INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, AND PICK UP
10:25:03 AT THE COLUMBIA GIFT SHOP AND VISITOR INFORMATION
10:25:03 CENTER.
10:25:07 AND YOU CAN SEE PICTURE OF WHAT THOSE MASKS LOOK LIKE,
10:25:09 AND WE ARE STILL CONTINUING TO HAND THEM OUT FREE FOR
10:25:14 THOSE WHO POP INTO THE YBOR CHAMBER TO PICK ONE UP.
10:25:17 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
10:25:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
10:25:22 ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:25:26 MISS VAN LOAN, WHO IS NEXT.
10:25:30 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: QUEUING UP JESUS FOR THE WEST
10:25:31 TAMPA REPORT.
10:25:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:25:34 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:25:36 GOOD MORNING CRA MEMBERS.
10:25:40 THIS IS MY REPORT FOR THE WEST TAMPA CRA AREA AND AFTER
10:25:41 THAT WILL BE THE DREW PARK.
10:25:45 THE CAC CONTINUES TO HAVE PRETTY SUCCESSFUL HYBRID
10:25:46 MEETINGS.
10:25:49 OUR LAST MEETING WAS OVER AT THE MLK CENTER.
10:25:52 THE TECHNOLOGY THERE WASN'T THE BEST, BUT WE MADE DO.
10:25:55 AND OUR NEXT MEETING HOPEFULLY HAVE IT AT THE BARKSDALE
10:25:57 SENIOR CENTER.
10:26:00 WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD SUCCESS AS FAR AS WITH HYBRID
10:26:02 MEETINGS.
10:26:06 I AM ON IT AND WORK CLOSELY WITH THE CAC AND
10:26:07 SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS.
10:26:10 MR. JOE ROBINSON.
10:26:13 I AM VERY CLOSE WITH HIM NOW, AND WE WORK ON PROJECTS
10:26:14 TOGETHER VERY CLOSELY.
10:26:18 AS FAR AS THE REVISIONS TO THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY FOR
10:26:22 CERTAIN DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS OUT THERE THAT WAS PASSED
10:26:27 BY CITY COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 4 ON SECOND READING.
10:26:30 AS FAR AS SOME OF THE INDIRECT ACTIVITIES THAT ARE
10:26:32 GOING ON IN THE CRA AREA.
10:26:36 TECO CONTINUES WITH HIS TWO PROJECTS TO EXTEND POWER TO
10:26:37 THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT.
10:26:39 PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO.
10:26:41 AS STAFF CONTINUES TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE
10:26:45 CONTRACTOR AND CITY STAFF TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTION TO THE
10:26:48 COMMUNITY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
10:26:53 THE MAIN STREET CORRIDOR STUDY.
10:26:56 THE STAFF HAVE COMPLETED THEIR INTERVIEW STAGE.
10:26:59 THEY ARE STILL DOING INTERVIEWS WHENEVER THE RESIDENT
10:27:00 WANTS TO TALK TO THEM.
10:27:04 BUT FOR THE MOST PART COMPLETED THE INTERVIEW STAGE AND
10:27:07 DATA COLLECTION PHASE AND MOVE TO THE NEXT PHASE OF
10:27:11 ANALYZING THAT DATA TO PRODUCE A DRAFT REPORT.
10:27:13 CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES FOR THE THREE SEVEN-STORY
10:27:19 BUILDINGS BUILT IN THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND AGAIN
10:27:21 STAFF CONTINUES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH THOSE CONTRACTORS
10:27:25 AND TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY TO MAKE SURE IT IS MINIMAL
10:27:29 DISRUPTION.
10:27:34 CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES FOR THE FOUNDRY NOHO, A
10:27:37 MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY THAT IS CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN LEMON
10:27:44 AND STATE OVER BY HOWARD AND ARMENIA.
10:27:46 THIS ONE IS A PRETTY BIG PROJECT.
10:27:49 IT IS RIGHT NEAR KENNEDY, BY ROME.
10:27:51 IT IS NOHO SQUARE.
10:27:52 CONSTRUCTION HAS CONTINUED ON THAT AS WELL.
10:27:55 THESE BUILDINGS ARE VERTICAL NOW AND BEING TOUCHED UP
10:27:58 ON THE OUTSIDE FOR AESTHETICS AND THEY ARE STILL
10:28:00 WORKING ON THE INTERIOR UNITS.
10:28:03 LIKE OTHER PROJECTS, WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THOSE
10:28:06 CONTRACTORS AND CITY STAFF JUST TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING
10:28:08 RUNS SMOOTHLY.
10:28:11 AND MARY BETHUNE APARTMENTS.
10:28:13 RESIDENTS STILL CONTINUING TO MOVE INTO THAT BEAUTIFUL
10:28:15 REDEVELOPMENT.
10:28:19 THEN OVER ON HOWARD, WE HAVE THE TAMPA VETERINARY
10:28:22 HOSPITAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
10:28:25 I AM NOT GOING TO RELOCATE THE ROAD NEAR THE HOSPITAL,
10:28:29 BUT THIS ONE IS BEING CONSTRUCTED ON HOWARD.
10:28:34 THE GREEN SPINE WHICH IS PHASE TWO IN OUR AREA OF WEST
10:28:37 TAMPA, THAT CONTINUES VERY SMOOTHLY.
10:28:40 AND I WAS OUT THERE AND IT IS BASICALLY COMPLETE EXCEPT
10:28:43 FOR SOME BEAUTIFICATION WITH LANDSCAPING THAT IS BEING
10:28:47 USED HEAVILY USED NOW BY BICYCLISTS AND INDIVIDUALS
10:28:48 WALKING OUT THERE.
10:28:50 THEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE $35 MILLION CYPRESS STREET
10:28:55 STORMWATER PROJECT IS STILL CONTINUING AS WELL.
10:28:58 HOPEFULLY ONCE IT IS COMPLETE, FLOODING IS REDUCED BIG
10:29:00 TIME OUT THERE IN WEST TAMPA.
10:29:04 AND THE GODDARD SCHOOL, THAT IS STILL UNDER
10:29:07 CONSTRUCTION ON KENNEDY.
10:29:09 THAT CONCLUDES FOR WEST TAMPA.
10:29:10 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:29:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:29:14 MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:29:16 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:29:20 AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
10:29:24 TWO -- ONE QUESTION, ONE COMMENT.
10:29:28 YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE UNDERGROUNDING OF POWER LINES
10:29:32 AND I THINK I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, BUT REMIND ME --
10:29:35 REMIND US ON WHAT THE MECHANISM WAS TO PAY FOR
10:29:41 UNDERGROUNDING ALONG MAIN STREET AND INTO THAT NEW --
10:29:45 YOU KNOW, INTO THAT NEW PROJECT OVER THERE.
10:29:48 DID THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OR THE PRIVATE DEVELOPER PAY
10:29:50 FOR IT?
10:29:53 DID TECO SHARE IN THAT EXPENSE AT ALL?
10:29:55 HOW DID THAT WORK?
10:29:57 THAT IS NUMBER ONE.
10:30:01 NUMBER TWO, ON A LIGHTER NOTE, 1954 WHEN OUR FAMILY
10:30:06 MOVED TO TAMPA, WE HAD A DOG NAMED GIGI.
10:30:11 AND WE WENT TO DR. AVERY IN TAMPA VETERINARY HOSPITAL
10:30:14 ON KENNEDY AND IT IS STILL THERE.
10:30:17 I AM SORRY TO SEE IT MOVING, BUT I KNOW THAT THEY NEED
10:30:19 TO UPGRADE BECAUSE THAT FACILITY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR
10:30:22 MANY, MANY, MANY DECADES.
10:30:25 ANYWAY, GOING BACK TO THE UNDERGROUNDING.
10:30:29 >> I THINK THAT SHARED COST BETWEEN TECO AND THE
10:30:31 DEVELOPMENT OVER THE RELATED GROUP AND TAMPA HOUSING
10:30:31 AUTHORITY.
10:30:35 AND THE CITY MAY BE CHIPPING IN AS WELL.
10:30:38 I AM NOT SURE OF THE EXACT DETAILS ON THAT PROJECT, AS
10:30:41 FAR AS THE FUNDING.
10:30:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MAYBE NEXT MONTH IN YOUR REPORT
10:30:45 JUST GIVE US A LITTLE MORE UPDATE ON THAT.
10:30:48 JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER PARTS OF TOWN THAT
10:30:51 EXPRESSED INTEREST IN UNDERGROUNDING.
10:30:53 >> I WILL BRING IT BACK.
10:30:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:30:59 >>BILL CARLSON: ISN'T EXACTLY CRA.
10:31:02 BUT MR. DINGFELDER, YOU OR SOMEBODY ELSE PASSED A
10:31:07 MOTION MORE THAN A YEAR AGO TO ASK STAFF TO REPLICATE
10:31:10 THE COUNTY ORDINANCE OF UNDERGROUNDING SO NEIGHBORHOODS
10:31:11 CAN PAY FOR IT.
10:31:13 I HAVEN'T HEARD AN UPDATE.
10:31:16 I HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS ASKING ME ALMOST EVERY WEEK ABOUT
10:31:17 IT.
10:31:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WAS WONDERING THE SAME THING, MR.
10:31:22 CARLSON, WHEN I ASKED THE QUESTION OF WEST TAMPA.
10:31:25 I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF.
10:31:27 I WAS THINKING WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT ORDINANCE WE WERE
10:31:28 WORKING ON?
10:31:32 I KNOW OUR TECO REPRESENTATIVE HAS CHANGED IN THE
10:31:37 MEANTIME I AM SURE WE HAVE SOMEBODY IN LEGAL --
10:31:42 >> THIS WILL BE MORE APPROPRIATE TO TALK WITH IN CITY
10:31:44 COUNCIL BUT WORKING WITH TECO AND THE CITY OF TAMPA
10:31:49 DEPARTMENTS ON A PILOT PROJECT ON SAN MIGUEL FOR THE
10:31:52 UNDERGROUNDING OF TECO FACILITIES IN THAT AREA AS A
10:31:57 MODEL UPON WHICH TO DEVELOP AN ORDINANCE TO BRING BACK
10:31:57 TO COUNCIL.
10:32:00 BUT I CAN MAKE SURE THAT MY COLLEAGUES WORKING ON THAT
10:32:03 PROJECT ARE AVAILABLE AND CAN ADDRESS YOU ALL AND
10:32:10 UPDATE YOU WHEN YOU SIT ON CITY COUNCIL ON THAT ISSUE.
10:32:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:32:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MORRIS.
10:32:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
10:32:19 YOU MAY CONTINUE, SIR.
10:32:23 >> THIS NEXT REPORT IS FOR DREW PARK IF IT IS UP ON
10:32:23 SCREEN.
10:32:24 I AM NOT SURE.
10:32:27 TAMPA LINEAR PARK CONSTRUCTION BASICALLY COMPLETE.
10:32:29 THE PARK IS LOOKING VERY NICE.
10:32:32 I SEE HERE AND THERE INDIVIDUALS WALKING AROUND ON THE
10:32:33 SIDEWALK THERE.
10:32:35 WE ARE STILL MAINTAINING THE GRASS THERE AND MAKING
10:32:37 SURE IT IS NICE AND MOWED.
10:32:40 WE HAVE TWO SIGNS THAT WILL BE POPPING UP PRETTY SOON
10:32:44 AND THAT WILL ADD THE FINAL FINISHING TOUCHES TO THAT
10:32:45 PARK.
10:32:49 THEN OVER AT HESPERDES, WE HAVE A SMALL SIDEWALK
10:32:53 PROJECT THAT IS BEING COMPLETED NOW TO KIND OF NIL SOME
10:32:58 OF THE GAPS THERE.
10:33:01 AS FAR AS SOME OF THE OTHER DIRECT ACTIVITIES WE HAVE,
10:33:06 WE ARE CONCLUDING OUR DRAFT OF THE UPDATE OF STRATEGIC
10:33:08 PLAN FOR DREW PARK.
10:33:10 WE HAVE CITY STAFF REVIEWING IT.
10:33:13 WE HAVE THE CONSULTANT REVIEWING IT.
10:33:16 THE CAC IS REVIEWING IT TOO.
10:33:19 AND HOPEFULLY, WE WILL RECEIVE COMMENTS FROM THE
10:33:22 COMMUNITY AND HOPEFULLY INCORPORATE THAT IN THE DRAFT
10:33:25 AND HAVE A FINALIZATION VOTE OF THE CAC AND BRING IT
10:33:30 BEFORE THE CRA BOARD TO CONCLUDE THAT PROJECT.
10:33:33 IT WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT IN DREW PARK FOR THE NEXT FEW
10:33:33 YEARS.
10:33:36 HOPEFULLY WE GET IT RIGHT AND DOING OUR PART TO MAKE
10:33:39 SURE WE REVIEW IT EXTREMELY CLOSELY.
10:33:41 AS FAR AS INDIRECT ACTIVITY.
10:33:44 THE FINAL RENOVATIONS FOR SOME OF UNITS AND SITE
10:33:51 BEAUTIFICATION WHICH IS THE OLD STEAKHOUSE WHICH IS THE
10:33:54 BIG COWS OUT THERE ON DALE MABRY IS BASICALLY COMPLETE.
10:33:57 SOME OF THE TENANTS HAVEN'T MOVED IN YET EVEN THOUGH
10:34:00 THEY HAVE SIGNED LEASES FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND BUT WE
10:34:05 HAVE THE GUIDE WELL DOCTOR -- OR LITTLE EMERGENCY
10:34:08 DOCTOR THERE THAT IS UP AND RUNNING.
10:34:10 WE ARE HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
10:34:14 AND THIS CONCLUDES FOR DREW PARK, IF YOU HAVE ANY
10:34:17 QUESTIONS.
10:34:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:34:21 YOU MAY CONTINUE, SIR.
10:34:22 >> THAT'S IT.
10:34:23 THANK YOU.
10:34:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS VAN LOAN.
10:34:27 WHO IS UP NEXT?
10:34:29 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IN ONE SECOND BRINGING UP BRENDA
10:34:47 THROWER ON EAST TAMPA.
10:34:49 >>BRENDA THROWER: HELLO, GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
10:34:51 MY NAME IS BRENDA THROWER.
10:34:55 THE INTERIM CRA MANAGER FOR EAST TAMPA AND I AM HAPPY
10:34:56 TO BE WITH YOU TODAY.
10:34:59 I'M HERE TO GIVE YOU A REPORT WHAT IS HAPPENING ON EAST
10:34:59 TAMPA.
10:35:04 SO LET ME START THE SLIDES.
10:35:07 THE FIRST THING I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ALL ABOUT
10:35:09 IS CREATED A MEETINGS UPDATE.
10:35:11 I STARTED IN EAST TAMPA IN JANUARY.
10:35:14 AND I HAVE BEEN THERE ABOUT SIX WEEKS AND I REALIZED
10:35:17 ALL THESE MEETINGS TAKING PLACE AND WHERE IS ONE SHEET
10:35:20 OF MUSIC THEY COULD LOOK TO AND HAVE EVERYTHING ON ONE
10:35:20 PAGE.
10:35:24 I CREATED THIS AT-A-GLANCE MEETING CALENDAR THAT
10:35:28 SUMMARIZES ALL THE MEETINGS INCLUDING THE CAC MEETING,
10:35:30 THE PARTNERSHIP MEETING, AND ALL THE EIGHT
10:35:31 SUBCOMMITTEES.
10:35:34 AND HAPPY TO NOTE THAT ALL THESE MEETINGS ARE TAKING
10:35:35 PLACE.
10:35:38 ALL THE SUBCOMMITTEES DO HAVE CHAIRS AN EITHER TAKING
10:35:42 PLACE AT REAGAN PARK OR TPD DISTRICT 3 IN THE COMMUNITY
10:35:43 CONFERENCE ROOM.
10:35:46 THIS HAS BEEN A USEFUL TOOL AND KIND OF AN INITIAL
10:35:49 COMMUNICATION PIECE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:35:52 NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL WHAT IS
10:35:55 HAPPENING WITH THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
10:35:58 THIS IS, OF COURSE, AN EXCITING PROCESS THAT IS GOING
10:36:02 ON IN THE COMMUNITY, AND REALLY AN EFFORT TO REACH OUT
10:36:05 TO THE ENTIRE EAST TAMPA CRA DISTRICT INCLUDING ALL THE
10:36:07 NEIGHBORHOODS AND EVERYBODY -- ALL THE 14 NEIGHBORHOODS
10:36:09 THAT ARE A PART OF IT.
10:36:12 WE STARTED SOMETHING CALLED "WALKING TOURS."
10:36:17 WE SUCCESSFULLY HAD OUR FIRST WALKING TOUR IN JANUARY,
10:36:18 THE END OF JANUARY, JANUARY 30.
10:36:22 WE COVERED THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF JACKSON HEIGHTS AND
10:36:23 BELMONT HEIGHTS.
10:36:26 AND WE HAD REALLY GREAT ATTENDANCE AND INPUT FROM AREA
10:36:28 RESIDENTS.
10:36:31 THESE TOURS ARE CONDUCTED WITH OUR CONSULTANT FIRM, THE
10:36:36 GIA CONSULTANTS, AND REALLY MEANT TO BE CONVERSATIONAL
10:36:39 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO ENGAGE WITH THE
10:36:42 CONSULTANT, WALK THE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND REALLY SHARE
10:36:45 WHAT IS GOING ON AND THE NEEDS AND THE ISSUE THAT'S
10:36:47 THEY SEE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE EITHER
10:36:50 IMPROVEMENTS ON OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
10:36:53 THE PART -- THE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION FOR THE
10:36:58 PROJECT IS ALSO -- EVERYTHING IS ON A WEB SITE.
10:37:02 SO WEAREWESTTAMPA.COM.
10:37:04 PRESS RELEASES.
10:37:07 SENTINEL ADS.
10:37:08 E-MAIL BLASTS.
10:37:11 A LOT OF OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY TO LET THEM KNOW
10:37:13 THESE WALKING TOURS ARE GOING ON.
10:37:15 THIS IS EXCITE.
10:37:18 WE ARE MOVING INTO -- WE TOOK A BREAK FOR SUPER BOWL
10:37:21 AND KNEW WE COULDN'T GET GOOD PARTICIPATION LAST
10:37:26 SATURDAY, BUT MOVING FORWARD FOR FEBRUARY 13, 20, AND
10:37:27 27.
10:37:29 THIS WEEKEND WE WILL BE HAVING THREE TOURS.
10:37:33 WE WILL BE HANDLING THE SOUTHEAST SEMINOLE HEIGHTS
10:37:36 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING AT GIDDENS PARK.
10:37:40 WE WILL THEN BE MOVING TO THE YBOR HEIGHTS
10:37:40 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:37:42 WE WILL MEET UP AT REAGAN PARK.
10:37:48 AND THEN WE WILL ALSO BE DOING THE YBOR AND NORTH YBOR
10:37:54 NEIGHBORHOODS AND WILL BE MEETING THERE AT CUSCADEN
10:37:54 PARK.
10:37:56 ALL OF THESE ARE CONCURRENT TOURS.
10:37:58 YOU MEET UP AT 10:00.
10:38:00 YOU DON'T NEED A RESERVATION.
10:38:02 YOU SHOW UP AND COME ON OUT AND WALK A NEIGHBORHOOD
10:38:06 WITH A CONSULTANT AND TEAM AND GIVE US YOUR INPUT.
10:38:12 THIS RIGHT HERE, AS YOU KNOW, IS AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF
10:38:20 THE ADS IN THE SENTINEL AND THE LA GACETA AND TRYING
10:38:22 TO GET THE INFORMATION AS BEST WE CAN.
10:38:25 HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF THE ACTIVITY DURING THESE
10:38:28 WALKING TOURS WHERE PEOPLE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS
10:38:29 WITH THE CONSULTANT.
10:38:32 WE HAVE A PICTURE IN THE RIGHT CORNER SHOWING A REAL
10:38:36 ACTIVE JACKSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CAME OUT AND
10:38:37 PARTICIPATED.
10:38:40 AND JUST SHOWING YOU AN EXAMPLE WHAT FOLKS GET.
10:38:41 THEY GET A FACE MASK.
10:38:42 THEY GET WATER.
10:38:49 THEY GET A MAP.
10:38:52 WE TRY TO MAKE SURE WE ARE COVID SAFE DURING THESE
10:38:56 TOURS PROVIDING SAFETY VESTS AS WE WALK.
10:38:59 MOVING ALONG THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHART AND I LOVE TO
10:39:01 LOOK AT TIMELINES.
10:39:03 WE ARE ON SCHEDULE WITH THE SAP.
10:39:04 WE ARE IN THE YELLOW AREA.
10:39:06 WE ARE IN THE JANUARY-FEBRUARY.
10:39:10 WE ARE -- IT IS DURING THE PUBLIC INPUT PART OF THE
10:39:11 SAP.
10:39:14 AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE DOING THE FIGHTS ON THE STREETS
10:39:17 RIGHT NOW WITH THE WALKING TOURS.
10:39:20 MOVING ALONG THE TREE TRIMMING.
10:39:23 I WANT TO MENTION THIS PROGRAM IS ONGOING.
10:39:24 IT IS STILL POPULAR.
10:39:28 WE ARE DOING VERY WELL ON GETTING APPLICATIONS
10:39:31 PROCESSED NOW AND ALSO JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE ARE KIND OF
10:39:34 REACHING SOMEWHAT OF THE BUDGET.
10:39:35 WE ARE ABOUT 80%.
10:39:38 AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THIS GRANT PROGRAM, WE WILL
10:39:42 BE COMING BACK TO YOU IN THE FUTURE ON REPLENISHING
10:39:45 THAT PROGRAM FUND AND KEEP IT -- KEEP IT GOING IF THE
10:39:50 COMMUNITY -- AS THE COMMUNITY WANTS IT.
10:39:53 ALSO, WE ARE LOOKING TO EVALUATE IT AND WE WILL DO THAT
10:39:56 AS WELL AND WE ALREADY STARTED THE CONVERSATIONS.
10:39:59 LASTLY, WE HAVE JUST A NOTABLE EVENT -- AND ACTUALLY IT
10:40:02 IS FUNNY, THIS EVENT DIDN'T REALLY TAKE PLACE FEBRUARY
10:40:05 6, BUT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY IN EAST TAMPA TO GET A
10:40:07 LITTLE PIECE OF THE SUPER BOWL.
10:40:09 A COMMUNITY FAIR WAS SET UP.
10:40:10 IT WAS POSTPONED.
10:40:15 IT WILL TAKE PLACE IN ON MARCH 13 AT REAGAN PARK.
10:40:19 THIS IS A COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR TO CONNECT RESIDENTS
10:40:20 TO COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
10:40:23 THIS WAS A SANCTIONED SUPER BOWL EVENT.
10:40:27 AND ALTHOUGH THE EVENT DIDN'T TAKE PLACE, ACTIVITY THAT
10:40:31 IS ALREADY GOING ON IN TAMPA AND EAST -- AND EAST TAMPA
10:40:34 PARTICULAR LIE WITH THE RENOVATION OF SOME OF THE LOW
10:40:38 INCOME HOUSING -- HOUSING FOLKS THERE THAT WERE ABLE TO
10:40:40 APPLY FOR SOME OF THESE GRANTS.
10:40:43 THAT PRETTY MUCH CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
10:40:44 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:40:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I SAW MR. DINGFELDER'S HAND.
10:40:50 RECOGNIZED, SIR.
10:40:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:40:53 THANK YOU, BRENDA.
10:40:55 I THINK THE WALKING TOUR SOUND REALLY NEAT.
10:40:59 I AM GOING TO TRY ATTEND ONE UPCOMING.
10:41:02 BUT JUST CURIOUS -- AND I KNOW YOU WILL GIVE US A FULL
10:41:05 REPORT ALONG WITH THE CONSULTANT AS WE MOVE INTO THE
10:41:09 SPRING, BUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT SORT OF FEEDBACK ARE SOME
10:41:14 OF THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, GIVING IN EAST TAMPA AS WE
10:41:16 STROLL THROUGH -- THROUGHOUT NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:41:20 ANYTHING OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD?
10:41:21 >>BRENDA THROWER: YOU KNOW, IT IS VERY INTERESTING.
10:41:25 YOU SEE A COMMUNITY TOTALLY DIFFERENT WHEN YOU ARE
10:41:25 WALKING IT.
10:41:29 THEY POINTED OUT ALL SORTS OF ISSUES EVERYTHING FROM
10:41:32 STREET SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
10:41:35 THERE IS BEEN POINTING OUT OF IMPROVEMENTS THEY WANT TO
10:41:36 SEE MAYBE TO PARKS.
10:41:41 THEY WANT TO SEE PROGRAMS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:41:42 VACANT LOTS.
10:41:45 OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC
10:41:47 INVESTMENT.
10:41:50 HAS REALLY BEEN ACROSS THE BOARD AND WHAT IS
10:41:52 INTERESTING, ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS -- WE HAVE ONLY DONE
10:41:55 TWO, BUT I SUSPECT AS WE MOVE THROUGH THESE
10:41:58 NEIGHBORHOODS THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT AND ALL THE
10:42:00 NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENTS HAVE TOLD US BECAUSE WE HAD A
10:42:02 LITTLE MEETING WITH THEM BEFORE THEY COME, THAT MY
10:42:04 NEIGHBORHOOD IS DIFFERENT THAN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND
10:42:06 SEE THIS AND THAT.
10:42:10 IT IS JUST TOO EARLY TO TELL -- GIVE A SYNOPSIS OF ALL
10:42:13 THE COMMENTS BUT PRETTY TYPICAL THAT YOU WILL FIND
10:42:17 FOLKS WALKING AROUND AND SHARING THEIR NEEDS.
10:42:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT IS IRONIC BECAUSE I KNOW OVER
10:42:24 THE YEARS, YOU KNOW, MR. JOHNSON AND THE REST OF THE
10:42:27 TEAM HAD WORKED ON THESE ACTUAL ISSUE THAT'S WE ARE
10:42:28 SPEAKING TO.
10:42:30 WE PUT A LOT OF SIDEWALKS IN.
10:42:34 WE IMPROVED PARKS AND OTHER TANGIBLE THINGS LIKE THAT
10:42:38 OBVIOUSLY IN SUCH A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA LIKE EAST
10:42:43 TAMPA AND EAST TAMPA CRA, A LONG-TERM -- IT IS A
10:42:47 LONG-TERM DEAL AND EXPENSIVE DEAL TO BE ABLE TO -- YOU
10:42:50 KNOW, TO ADDRESS THESE IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT'S NEED
10:42:53 ADDRESSING ALL ACROSS.
10:42:59 SO I WILL BE CURIOUS TO HEAR THE FINAL REPORT FROM THE
10:43:00 COMMUNITY INPUT.
10:43:01 THANK YOU.
10:43:02 >> YOU ARE WELCOME.
10:43:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:43:06 COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:43:10 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANTED TO SHARE SOME FEEDBACK FOR YOU,
10:43:11 MISS THROWER.
10:43:14 I WAS TALKING TO SOME FOLKS IN EAST TAMPA ON SOME
10:43:16 ISSUES AND YOUR NAME CAME UP.
10:43:18 I SAID HOW IS SHE DOING?
10:43:21 SHE SEEMS TO BE DOING VERY WELL AND THE FEEDBACK WAS
10:43:23 VERY POSITIVE.
10:43:23 >> THANK YOU.
10:43:24 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
10:43:27 I WANTED TO PUBLICLY SALUTE YOU FOR THAT.
10:43:30 THANK YOU, MA'AM, FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
10:43:30 >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:43:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:43:35 MISS THROWER, FEW CONCERNS.
10:43:38 FOR THE RECORD -- I WANT TO PUT IN THE RECORD THAT I
10:43:41 DID RECEIVE AN E-MAIL FROM THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT
10:43:43 ASSOCIATIONS THAT ATTENDED THE WALK.
10:43:47 AND THEY WERE VERY PLEASED THAT IS OCCURRING.
10:43:49 THEY HAD A LOT OF SUGGESTIONS.
10:43:52 THEY TALKED WITH PETE ABOUT, WHO IS THE SAP PERSON WHO
10:43:54 IS DOING IT -- THE PLAN.
10:43:58 AND WANTED TO INDICATE THIS LETTER IN THE RECORD WHAT
10:44:00 THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:44:01 AGAIN, THE ASSOCIATION IS KEY.
10:44:06 AND LIKE MR. DINGFELDER SAID, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T
10:44:09 UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU SAY EAST TAMPA, NOT THE MIDDLE
10:44:10 SECTION.
10:44:12 EAST TAMPA IS WIDE WITH THE CRA.
10:44:22 IT HAS A LOT OF MILEAGE, NORTH YBOR, HOLLAND PINES.
10:44:27 YOU HAVE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF EAST TAMPA AND DIFFERENT
10:44:29 ASSOCIATIONS AND THEY HAVE NEEDS THAT THEY WANT HEARD
10:44:32 AND THAT IS THE GIST OF THIS THING.
10:44:35 I WILL ENTER THIS INTO THE RECORD IN REFERENCE TO THE
10:44:37 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN AND THE WALK TO THE CLERK.
10:44:40 I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE ENTERED.
10:44:42 AND ALSO I HAD A LOT OF PHONE CALLS THE OTHER NIGHT
10:44:43 ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP MEETING.
10:44:49 I THINK THAT IS A PARK ISSUE AS WELL THAT NEEDS TO BE
10:44:53 CLARIFIED WITH OUR CRA DIRECTOR TO HAVE A MEMORANDUM OF
10:44:59 WHAT THE CAC'S IS AND THE PARTNERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY.
10:45:01 I HOPE WE WILL GET INTO THAT LATER BECAUSE THE OTHER
10:45:06 NIGHT MORE LIKE A CAC MEETING THAN PARTNERSHIP MEETING.
10:45:09 THE PARTNERSHIP FEELS THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR SAY AND I
10:45:12 GOT TO MANY CALLS -- MY OFFICE HAD ASKED THAT THE
10:45:16 TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, I.T. MAKE SURE THAT THE
10:45:18 TECHNOLOGY WAS READY TO GO FOR THIS PARTICULAR MEETING.
10:45:20 THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
10:45:23 YOU COULD BARELY HEAR IT.
10:45:27 NO ONE LOOKING TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY
10:45:28 AND CHATS.
10:45:29 AND THAT IS THE ISSUE.
10:45:32 I ASKED THAT THESE THINGS BE PREVIOUSLY LOOKED AT
10:45:33 BEFORE THIS MEETING.
10:45:36 AGAIN I AM GOING TO ASK THAT AGAIN THAT YOU HAVE I.T.
10:45:40 GO OUT THERE -- NOT THE DAY OF, BUT PRIOR TO A COUPLE
10:45:43 OF DAYS, WEEK BEFORE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE PROPER
10:45:45 EQUIPMENT, THE PROPER TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE SURE THAT
10:45:47 THOSE MEETINGS.
10:45:50 THAT THE CAC MEETINGS CAN BE HEARD AND THE PARTNERSHIPS
10:45:51 CAN BE HEARD.
10:45:56 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A LOT OF DISSENSION IN THE COMMUNITY
10:45:58 RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF GOOD
10:46:00 COMMUNICATION GOING ON AND YOU HAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD
10:46:03 ASSOCIATIONS THAT, IN MY OPINION, I DON'T CARE WHAT
10:46:05 ANYBODY SAYS, THEY ARE THE HEART OF THOSE COMMUNITIES.
10:46:10 A LOT OF PEOPLE ON OUR CAC BOARDS WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS
10:46:11 OF NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
10:46:14 I REPEAT WHO ARE NOT AND WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO
10:46:17 CONSIDERATION THE PEOPLE, THE PROPERTY TAX OWNERS.
10:46:21 AND PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE CRA MONEY COMES
10:46:22 FROM PROPERTY TAXES.
10:46:24 IT DOESN'T COME FROM POTATO CHIPS.
10:46:27 DOESN'T COME FROM COLD SODAS.
10:46:29 IT COMES FROM PROPERTY TAXES.
10:46:31 BUSINESS TAXES OF PROPERTY.
10:46:34 AND THOSE FOLKS HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY SOMETHING.
10:46:36 AND I AM SAYING THEY DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO DO THAT.
10:46:40 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE GOING FORWARD WE MAKE SURE WE
10:46:41 HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION.
10:46:45 THAT THE CRTP HAS COMMUNICATION LINES TO BE ABLE TO
10:46:49 TALK TO THE CAC SO THE CAC KNOWS WHAT THE COMMUNITY
10:46:49 WANTS.
10:46:53 NOT WHAT CERTAIN STAKEHOLDERS WANT FOR THEIR OWN
10:46:55 INTERESTS, BUT WHAT THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WANT.
10:46:57 AND AGAIN, WE HAVE DIFFERENT ASSOCIATIONS IN THOSE
10:46:57 NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:47:00 AND I THINK IT IS KEY THAT ALL THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS BE
10:47:03 ABLE TO SAY WHAT THEY WANT AND COME UP WITH A COHESIVE
10:47:07 PLAN AND THE CAC MAKE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE TO
10:47:08 THE BOARD FOR THE APPROVAL.
10:47:11 I DO WANT TO ENTER INTO THE RECORD, THE NEIGHBORHOOD
10:47:14 ASSOCIATION THAT'S ATTENDED YOUR FIRST WALK.
10:47:17 AND THEY WERE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE THAT WALK TO BE ABLE
10:47:20 TO SHOW AND POINT OUT THE THINGS THEY BELIEVE ARE
10:47:26 NEEDED FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:47:31 IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE
10:47:33 RECOGNIZED.
10:47:35 >>BILL CARLSON: IF I CAN ADD TO THAT REAL FAST.
10:47:40 I TRIED LISTEN TO TWO OR THREE OF THOSE EAST TAMPA CAC
10:47:43 MEETINGS ONLINE AND I LISTENED TO COUPLE OF OTHERS.
10:47:47 THE VIRTUAL ONES, THE ONES COMPLETELY VIRTUAL IN OTHER
10:47:49 AREAS I AM ABLE TO HEAR FINE, BUT THE ONES IN EAST
10:47:52 TAMPA, I COULDN'T HEAR AT ALL.
10:47:56 ONE OF THEM -- SOMEBODY I GUESS FROM THE CITY PUT THEIR
10:48:00 PHONE ON HOLD AND THERE WAS A RECORDING OF THE MAYOR
10:48:04 PROMOING ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON FOR MORE
10:48:05 THAN 30 MINUTES.
10:48:08 AND I THINK THAT ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED, BUT IF I WAS
10:48:10 A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY, I WOULD FEEL THAT SOMEBODY
10:48:11 WAS TRYING TO EXCLUDE ME.
10:48:14 WE SAW IN THE LETTERS AND E-MAIL THAT'S WE GOT THAT
10:48:18 PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T HEAR.
10:48:21 ONE OF TWO OF THEM I DROVE IN TO SEE WHAT THE
10:48:22 TECHNOLOGY LOOKS LIKE.
10:48:25 I RAN TO ORLANDO AND COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING -- AND
10:48:27 COULDN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER.
10:48:30 BUT A LITTLE PHONE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG ROOM AND
10:48:34 EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO SOCIALLY DISTANCE.
10:48:37 AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE CAN'T HEAR REMOTELY.
10:48:40 I THINK FOR ACCESSIBILITY ESPECIALLY DURING COVID, WE
10:48:43 SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE CACS HAVE THE RIGHT
10:48:44 TECHNOLOGY.
10:48:45 >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:48:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ONE MORE THING, MISS THROWER.
10:48:50 >>BRENDA THROWER: YES.
10:48:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON WITH THE
10:48:56 PARTNERSHIP AND THE CAC BOARD, BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS.
10:49:02 WHAT DEFINES A RUMOR, TALK OR OPINION WIDELY WITH NO
10:49:05 DISCERNIBLE SOURCE.
10:49:07 CAUGHT KNOWN AUTHORITY FOR ITS TRUTH.
10:49:11 SO TO DISPEL THESE RUMORS IN EAST TAMPA.
10:49:14 WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY.
10:49:17 FOR THE RECORD, I WENT TO TALK TO MR. MASSEY ABOUT
10:49:18 THAT.
10:49:20 FOR THE RECORD SEVERAL OTHER MESSAGES THAT WERE NOT
10:49:24 PLAYED DUE THEY DIDN'T GET IT UNDER THE TIME
10:49:25 CONSTRAINTS.
10:49:27 I WANT THE RESIDENTS TO KNOW WE RECEIVED THOSE CALLS
10:49:29 AND COULD NOT PLAY THEM BECAUSE OF THE RULES.
10:49:32 I WANTED PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE DID RECEIVE THOSE
10:49:34 CALLS, BUT WE COULD NOT PLAY THEM BECAUSE OF THE
10:49:38 CURRENT RULES, BUT I DO HAVE A BUNCH OF E-MAILS THAT
10:49:41 WERE SENT IN REFERENCE TO A LOT OF THE ISSUE FOR THE
10:49:42 PARTNERSHIP.
10:49:45 HOPEFULLY MISS THROWER WILL GET THEM AND GIVE THEM TO
10:49:49 THE CAC BOARD TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT
10:49:51 THE COMMUNITY WAS SAYING BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO
10:49:56 BE HEARD AND I ALSO WILL ENTER THIS IN TO THE CLERK.
10:49:59 I FORGET TO DO THAT.
10:50:00 MADAM CLERK.
10:50:05 WITH THE PARTNERSHIP AND CAC AND HOPEFULLY NUMBER 6,
10:50:07 MISS VAN LOAN WILL GIVE MORE INSIGHT TO THE BOARD
10:50:08 MEMBERS WHAT IS GOING ON.
10:50:11 I DON'T BELIEVE -- I LOOKED AT THE RECORD AS WELL.
10:50:13 I DON'T BELIEVE ANY COUNCIL/BOARD MEMBER HERE TALKED
10:50:19 ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE CRA -- CAC CURRENT BOARD
10:50:20 MEMBER.
10:50:23 NOBODY IS TALKING OF GETTING RID OF MISS BURTON OR ANY
10:50:26 BOARD MEMBER THAT WAS CURRENTLY ELECTED BY THE CITIZENS
10:50:28 DURING THAT ELECTION.
10:50:30 EACH BOARD MEMBER HAS A YEAR OF SERVICE.
10:50:35 AND AT THE END OF THAT YEAR OF SERVICE, THINGS CHANGE.
10:50:37 I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO THOSE CITIZENS OUT IN THE
10:50:41 COMMUNITY SUPPORTING MISS BURTON OR SUPPORTING CURRENT
10:50:43 BOARD MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO DO NOT, CERTAIN RULES IN
10:50:48 PLACE AND THIS BODY CANNOT, I REPEAT, CANNOT, REMOVE
10:50:50 MISS BURTON AT THIS TIME BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ELECTION
10:50:52 THAT WAS HELD.
10:50:57 THIS BODY PER OUR RULES AND PER THE CAC CANNOT REMOVE
10:50:59 MISS BURTON UNDER OUR CURRENT RULES.
10:51:04 SHE WILL BE IN PLACE FOR THE DURATION OF HER TERM ALONG
10:51:05 WITH THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS.
10:51:10 LET THIS KNOWN FOR THE CITIZENS.WEST TAMPA.
10:51:13 AND A TIME WHEN -- HOW THIS BOARD MAY LOOK DOWN THE
10:51:16 ROAD FOR SUGGESTION OF IMPROVEMENT, BUT AT THIS CURRENT
10:51:19 TIME, MISS BURTON AND HER BOARD ARE THE CURRENT BOARD
10:51:22 THAT SERVE THE EAST TAMPA CAC BOARD.
10:51:28 WE CAN MOVE ON IF YOU NEED TO, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING
10:51:33 ELSE.
10:51:39 >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:51:43 MISS THROWER, ARE YOU FINISHED -- MISS VAN LOAN.
10:51:44 I SEE YOU ON THE SCREEN.
10:51:45 THANK YOU.
10:51:48 ARE WE DONE WITH ALL THE REPORTS, MISS VAN LOAN.
10:51:51 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, WE ARE, SURE.
10:51:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:51:56 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR ITEM NUMBER 4, HOPEFULLY FROM
10:52:01 CAPTAIN BRETT OWEN ON PHONE CALL FOR THE PILOT PROGRAM
10:52:03 THAT YOU APPROVED FOR THE ADDITIONAL POLICE PRESENCE IN
10:52:05 THE YBOR CRA.
10:52:06 ARE YOU THERE, CAPTAIN?
10:52:09 >>BRETT OWEN: YES, MA'AM.
10:52:11 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
10:52:14 I WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME TO SEE WHAT WE ARE
10:52:16 GOING ON WITH YBOR CITY.
10:52:19 WE CONTINUE TO STAFF THE SIX OFFICERS AND A SUPERVISOR.
10:52:23 WE JUST COMPLETED 30 PHYSICAL WORKDAYS IN DISTRICT.
10:52:27 WE HAVE TWO MONTHS LEFT UNDER THE AGREEMENT.
10:52:32 SO WITH THAT IN MIND, WE HAVE ROUGHLY 400 TRAFFIC
10:52:33 STOPS.
10:52:36 88 OF THOSE RESULTED IN A NOISE VIOLATION.
10:52:42 113 WRITTEN WARNINGS, 28 MISDEMEANOR ARRESTS AND 11
10:52:44 FELONY ARRESTS.
10:52:47 YOU KNOW IT IS GOOD PRODUCTIVITY FOR SIX OFFICERS AND
10:52:50 ONLY BEING OUT THERE TWO NIGHTS A WEEK.
10:52:52 SO I'M PRETTY SATISFIED WITH THAT.
10:52:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CAPTAIN, LET ME STOP YOU ONE QUICK --
10:52:57 OKAY.
10:52:58 MR. CITRO IS BACK.
10:52:59 WE CAN CONTINUE.
10:53:01 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:53:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAD TO LEAVE THE ROOM.
10:53:03 I'M HERE.
10:53:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU CAN CONTINUE, CAPTAIN.
10:53:10 >>BRETT OWEN: ALL RIGHT, WE ARE REVIEWING THE PLAN FOR
10:53:13 YBOR CITY KNOWING THAT WE ONLY HAD TWO MONTHS LEFT WITH
10:53:15 THESE OFFICERS WHO WERE LOOKING TO BACKFILL THAT ON OUR
10:53:16 OWN SIDE.
10:53:19 GOING FORWARD, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE A
10:53:23 LAPSE IN COVERAGE EVEN THOSE THESE OFFICERS ARE GOING
10:53:24 AWAY CURRENTLY UP FOR REVIEW.
10:53:28 I HAVE SPOKEN WITH KELLY STEVENS OF GETTING CAMERAS IN
10:53:29 THE CITY PARKING LOTS.
10:53:33 WE ARE LOOKING AT STAFFING SOME OF THE PARKING LOT LIKE
10:53:36 YBOR LOT 5 AND 6 ALONG 8TH AVENUE.
10:53:38 THINGS LIKE THAT ADDRESSING SOME OF THE CONCERNS WE
10:53:40 HAVE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT WE SAW THIS PAST
10:53:45 WEEKEND AND LOOKING AT THAT AS WELL.
10:53:48 DO YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:53:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:53:53 MR. CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR.
10:53:55 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS.
10:53:59 WE HAVE HEARD LOTS OF COMPLIMENTS ON WHAT THE CITY AND
10:54:01 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS DONE TO HELP THE SITUATION IN
10:54:02 YBOR.
10:54:06 THIS IS MORE OF A COMMENT MAYBE FOR MICHELLE, BUT FOLKS
10:54:12 IN YBOR WONDER WHY ISN'T THIS INCLUDED IN THE CITY
10:54:16 BUDGET AND WHY -- WHY THE YCDC BUDGET OR THE CRA
10:54:18 BUDGET HAVE TO BE USED?
10:54:21 >>BRETT OWEN: THIS WAS AN AGREEMENT THAT WE MADE
10:54:24 THROUGH THE YCDC BOARD.
10:54:27 WE LOOKED AT WHAT WE COULD DO GIVEN THE FACT THAT SO
10:54:31 MANY BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN CLOSED DURING COVID, AND ONCE
10:54:34 THEY REOPENED, EVERYBODY CAME OUT AND THE BUSINESSES
10:54:36 DIDN'T SUPPORT THE CAPACITY WITH THE REDUCTIONS THAT
10:54:38 THEY HAVE THROUGH THE COVID RESTRICTIONS.
10:54:41 SO A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST BEGAN TO PARTY IN THE PARKING
10:54:43 LOTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:54:45 WE DIDN'T HAVE THE STAFFING TO MANAGE THAT AND SOME OF
10:54:47 THE THINGS THEY REQUESTED.
10:54:50 SO ORIGINALLY WE WERE LOOKING AT A 90-DAY PROGRAM WHICH
10:54:52 WOULD HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.
10:54:54 WHEN WE PRESENTED THAT, THE BOARD ACTUALLY VOTED TO
10:54:57 CARRY IT ON THROUGH APRIL TO GET THROUGH SPRING BREAK.
10:55:01 THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION OF THEIR OWN.
10:55:04 >>BILL CARLSON: SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
10:55:07 PEOPLE ARE APPRECIATIVE THAT THEY HAVE THIS AS AN
10:55:07 OPTION.
10:55:09 MORE OF A QUESTION FOR THE OTHER BUDGET FOR THE CITY
10:55:10 FOLKS AND YBOR.
10:55:13 WHY CAN'T WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME?
10:55:16 WHY CAN'T THIS BE A REGULAR PART OF THE POLICE BUDGET
10:55:18 INSTEAD OF USING CRA MONEY.
10:55:21 JUST -- IF YOU HAVE AN ANSWER, GREAT.
10:55:24 OTHERWISE, MAYBE DISCUSSION WILL BRING UP WITH OUR
10:55:25 OTHER HATS ANOTHER TIME.
10:55:27 THANK YOU.
10:55:31 >>BRETT OWEN: THANK YOU.
10:55:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
10:55:39 CAPTAIN, I DID EARLIER WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF -- WHEN
10:55:42 PRESIDENT OF CAC YBOR WAS ON THERE.
10:55:44 I DIDN'T MENTION THE TREES BACK THERE AS WELL.
10:55:48 I NEED TO -- I THINK I DID TALK TO VIK ABOUT THAT BUT
10:55:51 MAKING SURE THE PARKING LOT TREES ARE APPROVED.
10:55:53 THAT IS THE ISSUE WITH THE LIGHTING AS WELL AND I SEE
10:55:55 WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE REPORT ABOUT THE CAMERAS.
10:55:58 WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE AVENUES
10:56:00 AND GREATLY APPRECIATED.
10:56:03 >> WE LOOKED AT THOSE PARKING LOTS PRIOR TO THE SUPER
10:56:04 BOWL.
10:56:05 THEY HAVE GOOD LED LIGHTING.
10:56:08 WE HAD ISSUE WITH THE TREE COVERAGE AND SOME OF THAT
10:56:11 WAS TRIMMED UP PRIOR TO THE SUPER BOWL AND PUT COUPLE
10:56:14 OF CAMERA TRAILERS AND THEY HAVE SINCE BEEN REMOVED.
10:56:17 WE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE PERMANENT OPTIONS FOR THAT.
10:56:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:56:20 ANYONE ELSE?
10:56:21 THANK YOU FOR COMING.
10:56:23 >>BRETT OWEN: YOU ARE WELCOME.
10:56:24 >> ITEM NUMBER 5.
10:56:28 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 5 IS THE STAFF UPDATE
10:56:30 ON THE KID MASON COMMUNITY CENTER.
10:56:34 AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE BRAD SUDER AND HIS STAFF FROM THE
10:56:36 PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENT ON THE PHONE TO PROVIDE THIS
10:56:37 UPDATE.
10:56:40 BRAD, ARE YOU THERE.
10:56:44 >>BRAD SUDER: GOOD MORNING, BRAD SUDER.
10:56:48 GLAD TO BE WITH YOU TODAY TO GIVE YOU A STATUS UPDATE
10:56:50 ON THE KID MASON RENOVATION PROJECT.
10:56:52 THE TIMING IS REALLY GOOD.
10:56:55 WE RECEIVED THE 60% CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS LAST NIGHT
10:56:59 AND WE WILL BEGIN TO REVIEW THOSE DRAWINGS AND MOVE
10:57:01 FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT.
10:57:06 PREVIOUSLY, WE HAVE MET WITH THE DESIGN DISTRICT REVIEW
10:57:09 STAFF TO GO OVER THE SITE PLANS AND THE OTHER
10:57:12 REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR BUILDING IN THIS
10:57:14 AREA.
10:57:18 THE PROJECT WAS RECEIVED FAVORABLY.
10:57:20 AND WE ARE ADJUSTING THEIR COMMENTS CURRENTLY.
10:57:25 MOST OF THOSE COMMENTS PERTAIN TO THE STREETSCAPE AND
10:57:29 SITE CONDITIONS THAT SURROUND THE BUILDING AS IT IS
10:57:32 BORDERED ON THREE TIMES WITH ROADWAYS.
10:57:38 WE HAVE ALSO INITIATED AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY REQUIRED
10:57:41 BY CITY CODE.
10:57:43 THAT IS ONGOING.
10:57:45 MOVING FORWARD, OUR SCHEDULE.
10:57:51 WE ANTICIPATE 90% CDS IN ABOUT FOUR WEEKS.
10:57:56 AFTER WE TAKE CARE OF THESE 60-DEGREE CLEANUPS AND THEN
10:57:59 THREE TO FOUR WEEKS AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE 100% CDS
10:58:03 WHICH TAKES US REALLY INTO LATE APRIL.
10:58:06 THE BID PROCESS WILL THEN COMMENCE WHICH WILL TAKE US
10:58:11 THROUGH THE SUMMER WITH -- WITH CONSTRUCTION AWARD AND
10:58:14 CONSTRUCTION TO START PROBABLY LATE FALL.
10:58:19 WE ANTICIPATE NINE-MONTH CONSTRUCTION DURATION.
10:58:23 AND THAT WILL -- WE ARE TARGETING HOPEFULLY AN OPENING
10:58:25 IN THE SUMMER OF 2022.
10:58:29 THAT IS VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW.
10:58:31 IT'S SIMPLY A RENOVATION PROJECT.
10:58:34 WE ARE NOT DOING A LOT TO THE BUILDING.
10:58:35 IT IS HISTORIC.
10:58:37 SO WE ARE BEING CAREFUL WITH THAT AND COMPLYING WITH
10:58:40 ALL OF THOSE REVIEWS AS WELL.
10:58:41 BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:58:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS, GENTLEMEN?
10:58:48 MR. VIERA, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:58:52 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO THANK MR. SUDER FOR ALL HIS
10:58:52 WORK.
10:58:55 ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HAVE HIM HERE BEFORE CITY COUNCIL
10:58:56 AND WHAT NOT.
10:59:00 I WORKED WITH MR. SUDER IN MANY PROJECTS IN NORTH AND
10:59:03 NEW TAMPA AND I WANTED TO THANK YOU, BRAD, FOR ALL YOUR
10:59:05 WORK BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE A NICE GENTLEMAN.
10:59:08 AND THANK YOU FOR OUR WORK ON KID MASON.
10:59:10 WE ALSO HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER ON -- IT HAS NOT
10:59:14 BEEN WITH COUNCIL, BUT ON PARKS AND RECREATION
10:59:20 IMPROVEMENTS FOR -- FOR DISABILITY ACCESS WHICH COULD
10:59:24 POTENTIALLY INCLUDE -- I KNOW THERE IS WORK WITH KID
10:59:29 MASON WITH THE LATE MIKE PHILLIPS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO OUR
10:59:32 FRIEND KAREN CLAY'S LATE SON WHO DIED, GOSH, ABOUT A
10:59:34 YEAR AGO.
10:59:37 THANK YOU, FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
10:59:38 >>BRAD SUDER: YOU ARE WELCOME.
10:59:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. SUDER, I APPRECIATE THE
10:59:51 RECREATION AND WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG FOR THE PROJECT
10:59:52 GO DOWN THE ROAD.
10:59:53 TWO AND A HALF TO THREE YEARS.
10:59:56 THE PROCESS -- SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO DO
10:59:57 TO MOVE THESE PROJECTS ALONG?
11:00:00 BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS A VERY, VERY LONG TIME TO
11:00:02 GET THESE PROJECTS MOVING.
11:00:06 I THOUGHT THEY WERE AT 60% FOUR, FIVE, SIX MONTHS AGO.
11:00:10 I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT IS IT THAT WE NEED TO DO IF
11:00:17 ANYTHING TO MOVE THIS PROCESS ALONG MUCH FASTER.
11:00:19 >>BRAD SUDER: I THINK IT IS MORE COMMUNICATION AND
11:00:21 COORDINATION WITH CONTRACTED ADMINISTRATION.
11:00:24 THIS SCHEDULE THAT I PRESENTED TO YOU HAVE SLIPPED JUST
11:00:28 A LITTLE BIT FROM THE INITIAL SCHEDULE THAT WE
11:00:34 COMMENCED WITH WHEN WE GOT THE CONSULTANT ON BOARD.
11:00:38 DDR PROCESS REQUIRED FEW ADDITIONAL DRAWINGS AND FEW
11:00:42 ELEVATIONS AND STUDIES AND A COUPLE OF EXTRA MEETINGS
11:00:47 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL THE
11:00:51 DOWNTOWN CODES FOR STREETSCAPE.
11:00:53 JUST LIKE IF WE WERE A DEVELOPER.
11:00:56 NO SPECIAL FAVORS HERE.
11:01:01 WE ASKED FOR VARIANCE FOR COUPLE OF ITEMS.
11:01:04 JUST FOR AN EXAMPLE ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS WAS STREET
11:01:08 TREES, AND WE DIDN'T REALLY WANT A STREET TREE AS
11:01:11 REQUIRED TO BE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MURAL ON THE EAST
11:01:12 SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
11:01:16 WE PUT IN THAT REQUEST TO HAVE A VARIANCE ON THAT.
11:01:19 THE SIDEWALKS NEED TO BE EXPANDED.
11:01:22 THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA WORK TO PUT THAT INTO.
11:01:25 BECAUSE THAT AFFECTS SOME OF OUR OUTDOOR SPACE THAT WE
11:01:28 WERE TRYING TO RESERVE FOR THE KIDS TO PROVIDE SOME
11:01:33 PLAYGROUND AREA ON NORTH JEFFERSON STREET AREA.
11:01:35 SO IT IS REALLY A PROCESS.
11:01:40 WE HAVEN'T SLIPPED A LOT, BUT WE HAVE SLIPPED SOME ON
11:01:41 THE SCHEDULE.
11:01:46 BUT WE ARE MOVING ALONG AND WE WILL JUST CONTINUE TO
11:01:49 HAVE THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND YOUR
11:01:53 FRUSTRATION, AND WE ARE KEEPING THE FIRE TO THE
11:01:57 GRINDSTONE SO TO SAY.
11:01:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I APPRECIATE YOU BEING CANDID AND
11:02:02 TELLING ME THOSE THINGS AND MAYBE A CONVERSATION FOR
11:02:03 CONTACT SERVICES.
11:02:05 MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS WE HAVE A LOT OF COMPLETED
11:02:07 PROJECTS COMING ON BOARD ACROSS THE STREET.
11:02:10 A LOT OF FAMILIES NOW.
11:02:20 AND THAT'S -- THAT WILL BE A PREMIERE LITTLE PLAYGROUND
11:02:23 CENTER IN PROGRAM FOR KIDS TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET
11:02:30 AND THAT'S WHY I WAS PUSHING SO HARD FOR KID MASON.
11:02:32 YOU CAN GO BY AND SEE IT NEEDS A LOT OF WORK.
11:02:34 REALLY A LOT OF WORK.
11:02:37 AND WE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED INTO TEARING IT DOWN.
11:02:37 WE DIDN'T DO IT.
11:02:39 WE LOOKED AT RENOVATION.
11:02:43 I AM HOPING WE CAN MOVE THIS PROJECT ALONG AS BEST YOU
11:02:48 CAN AND STAY ON IT AND GIVE US UPDATES AND CENTRAL PARK
11:02:51 CAC TO GIVE US EVERY COUPLE OF MONTHS AN UPDATE ON THE
11:02:51 PROJECT.
11:02:53 THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
11:02:54 MR. VIERA.
11:02:55 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:02:59 AND TO BUILD ON IT, SOMETIMES IT CAN BE FRUSTRATING, I
11:02:59 KNOW.
11:03:03 I REMEMBER IN OCTOBER OF 2017, WE PASSED THE
11:03:07 IMPROVEMENTS OF THE NEW TAMPA RECREATION CENTER AND GOT
11:03:14 GROUNDBREAKING IN FEBRUARY 2017 JUST BEFORE MY
11:03:17 REELECTION, BY THE WAY, AND A RIBBON CUTTING IN ABOUT A
11:03:17 MONTH.
11:03:20 SOME OF THESE THINGS DO TAKE A WHILE, BUT IT IS
11:03:25 IMPORTANT FOR THE COUNCILMEMBERS -- ALL OF US TO STAY
11:03:25 ON THESE PROJECTS.
11:03:29 I THINK OF -- I LITERALLY MAYBE AN HOUR AGO WROTE MY
11:03:32 ASSISTANT TO ASK FOR INQUIRIES AND UPDATES ON THE
11:03:34 FOREST HILLS IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL AS THE DISABILITY
11:03:38 PARK WE GOT PASSED JUST TO SEE WHERE WE ARE ON THAT
11:03:40 BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE TO STAY ON THAT.
11:03:43 I KNOW SOMETIMES IT CAN BE FRUSTRATING AND WHAT NOT.
11:03:48 SO I GET IT, BUT SOMETIMES THESE PROJECTS, THEY TAKE A
11:03:48 WHILE.
11:03:49 THEY JUST DO.
11:03:53 BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.
11:03:57 AND YOU ALWAYS RUN INTO A BUNCH OF HICCUPS AND IT CAN
11:04:00 BE FRUSTRATED AND WE ALSO HAD COVID WHICH PROBABLY
11:04:02 SLOWED THING DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT.
11:04:03 AND I GET IT.
11:04:06 ESPECIALLY FOR KID MASON.
11:04:08 COUNCIL, I HAVE BEEN THERE.
11:04:08 YOU ARE RIGHT.
11:04:13 THAT IS AN AREA AND A CENTER THAT NEEDS A LOT OF TLC.
11:04:17 A LOT OF -- A LOT OF TENDER LOVE AND CARE AND SWEET
11:04:19 LOVING, BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES NEED IT.
11:04:21 SO I AGREE WITH YOU.
11:04:27 AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:04:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY ELSE?
11:04:28 ALL RIGHT.
11:04:29 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:04:31 WE APPRECIATE IT.
11:04:34 ITEM NUMBER 6, HOT TOP OF THE DAY.
11:04:35 MISS VAN LOAN.
11:04:38 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, MICHELLE VAN
11:04:40 LOAN, COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
11:04:43 WE MOVE TO STAFF REPORT ON ITEM NUMBER 6.
11:04:45 AND I BELIEVE THAT MR. MASSEY WOULD LIKE TO START US
11:04:48 OFF?
11:04:53 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, MISS VAN LOAN HAS A SLIDE
11:04:57 PRESENTATION LAND GO INTO DETAIL OF THE YBOR CAC ISSUE
11:05:00 AND POTENTIAL OPTIONS FOR THIS BOARD TO CONSIDER.
11:05:03 I DID -- GIVEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT THIS MORNING WANTED
11:05:07 TO GIVE YOU ALL SOME BACKGROUND AND A LEGAL FRAMEWORK
11:05:11 NOT ONLY FOR YOU ALL -- I KNOW PROBABLY MOST OF YOU
11:05:13 REALIZE THIS -- BUT FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.
11:05:15 THERE IS ONLY ONE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IN THE
11:05:19 CITY OF TAMPA, AND THAT IS YOU ALL, THIS BOARD.
11:05:21 YOU ARE THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
11:05:26 THERE ARE NOT SEPARATE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENTS AGENCY
11:05:27 FOR THIS AREA.
11:05:31 ALL DECISIONS ARE MADE BY YOU RELATIVE TO THE CRA.
11:05:36 WHAT -- WHAT WE HAVE INSTITUTED BY WAY OF POLICY
11:05:41 ADOPTED BY THIS BOOR YEARS AGO, WE CREATED CACS OR
11:05:44 COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEES FOR EACH OF THE SEPARATE
11:05:47 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENTS AREAS IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
11:05:50 THE PURPOSE BEHIND THIS WAS SO THAT YOU HAVE A VEHICLE
11:05:54 TO GET MEANINGFUL INPUT FROM THOSE COMMUNITY
11:05:57 STAKEHOLDERS IN THE AREAS THAT ARE BEING.
11:06:00 DESIGNATED COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
11:06:04 SO BY POLICY YOU CREATED THE CACS IN EACH OF THE
11:06:11 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND POLICY SETS FORTH HOW
11:06:14 THOSE MEMBER ARE SELECTED AND THE CRITERIA OF THE
11:06:18 MEETINGS AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE CONDUCTED.
11:06:21 WHILE THERE IS VARIATIONS FOR ALL OF THE CACS FRANKLY,
11:06:24 THERE ARE SOME COMMON DENOMINATORS WITH THE WAY THE
11:06:27 CACS ARE SELECTED IN MOST OF THE COMMUNITY
11:06:28 REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
11:06:31 AND MOST OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS IN THE
11:06:35 CITY OF TAMPA, THE WAY THE CACS ARE SELECTED IS THAT WE
11:06:39 HAVE IDENTIFIED WHAT WE CALL EX-OFFICIO GROUPS AND
11:06:43 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS AND THESE ARE INSTITUTIONS OR FORMER
11:06:46 STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA WHICH
11:06:49 WE RECOGNIZE ACTUALITY HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE AT THE
11:06:58 CAC THE DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP HAS A DESIGNATED SPOT ON
11:06:59 THE CAC.
11:07:01 WEST TAMPA, SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
11:07:08 RECOGNIZED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT HAVE A DESIGNATED
11:07:11 SPOT ON THE CAC, DREW PARK CAC.
11:07:15 THE WEST SHORE ALLIANCE HAS A DESIGNATED SPOT ON THE
11:07:16 CAC.
11:07:19 THESE GROUPS HAVE A VESTED INTEREST AND OUGHT TO HAVE A
11:07:25 SEAT AT THE TABLE TO PROVIDE YOU INPUT AND
11:07:26 RECOMMENDATIONS.
11:07:31 THE OTHER ARE GENERAL MEMBERS FOLKS WHO RESIDE AND HAVE
11:07:33 SMALL BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT INTEREST IN THAT
11:07:38 REDEVELOPMENT AREA AND THEY MAKE AN APPLICATION TO YOU
11:07:41 ALL TO BE SELECTED AS A MEMBER OF THE CAC AND
11:07:44 ULTIMATELY YOU DECIDE IF THEY ARE GOING TO BE MEMBERS
11:07:50 OF THE CAC.
11:07:52 THE WAY THEY ARE SET UP AND HOW WE SELECT THE MEMBERS
11:07:54 OF THE CAC.
11:07:56 EAST TAMPA AND TAMPA.
11:08:02 THE YCDC, THEIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS SITS AS THE CAC FOR
11:08:03 YBOR CITY.
11:08:09 EAST TAMPA IS THE EAST TAMPA REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP
11:08:12 BIRTHDAYS AND SIT AT THE CAC.
11:08:15 PART OF THE REASON FOR THIS IS FRANKLY, I THINK,
11:08:16 HISTORIC.
11:08:25 IN YBOR AND EAST TAMPA, BUT IN YBOR, THE YCDC WAS FOR
11:08:29 THE YBOR COMMUNITY NUMBER TWO AND LIKEWISE IN EAST
11:08:30 TAMPA.
11:08:32 THE PARTNERSHIP WAS A GROUP THAT PULLED TOGETHER AND
11:08:38 REALLY LOBBIED FOR THE CREATION OF THE EAST TAMPA CRA
11:08:41 AND VERY HEAVILY INVOLVED IN ADOPTION OF THE COMMUNITY
11:08:43 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR EAST TAMPA.
11:08:46 YOU HAVE HISTORICALLY RECOGNIZED THAT THOSE GROUPS AND
11:08:50 THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WOULD SIT AS THE CAC.
11:08:53 MISS VAN LOAN WILL GO TOGETHER IN HER SLIDES AND DETAIL
11:08:56 SOME OF THE ISSUES WITH THAT DIFFERENCE AND SOME
11:09:01 OPTIONS FOR YOU ALL TO CONSIDER RELATIVE TO THESE TWO
11:09:02 CACS.
11:09:08 I WOULD JUST KIND OF OVERARCHING ISSUES, LEGAL AND
11:09:11 STAFF WOULD IDENTIFY FOR YOU ACTUAL CONSIDER RELATIVE
11:09:15 TO BOTH OF THOSE CACS.
11:09:20 EAST TAMPA AND YBOR, THE YCDC AND PARTNERSHIP ARE LEGAL
11:09:24 ENTITIES THAT HAVE A PURPOSE AND FUNCTION THAT GO
11:09:25 BEYOND BEING THE CAC.
11:09:27 SOMETIMES THERE IS A CONFUSION WHEN THEY MEET WHETHER
11:09:35 THEY ARE MEETING WITH THEIR CAC HAT ON OR C PARTNERSHIP
11:09:36 HAT ON.
11:09:37 YOU CAN APPRECIATE THAT.
11:09:40 YOU ARE SITTING AT THE CRA BOARD AND ADDRESSING CRA
11:09:44 ISSUES SOLELY, BUT TONIGHT YOU WILL BE SITTING AS CITY
11:09:44 COUNCIL.
11:09:46 YOU WILL BE SITTING WITH TOTALLY DIFFERENT HATS AND
11:09:49 YOUR FUNCTION AND PURPOSE ARE DIFFERENT.
11:09:55 AN REASON FOR A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE THAT THEY BE KEPT
11:10:00 DISTINCT AND FROM A PUBLIC PERCEPTION PURPOSE THAT THEY
11:10:03 BE KEPT DISTINCT.
11:10:09 THE OTHER ISSUE THAT COMES WITH THIS IS THE LARGE
11:10:13 GEOGRAPHIC SIZE AND POPULATION AND VERY DIVERGENT
11:10:17 ISSUES AND DIVERGENT GROUPS THAT EXIST IN THAT
11:10:19 COMMUNITY IS WHETHER OR NOT THAT BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
11:10:23 THAT GROUP IS REFLECTED OF ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS AND
11:10:26 DIFFERENT VIEWS NEEDED ON THE CAC AND THAT IS, AGAIN,
11:10:31 SOMETHING FOR YOU ACTUAL CONSIDER AND DISCUSS AND ONE
11:10:33 THINGS WE WANT YOU ALL TO CONSIDER THIS MORNING AND
11:10:34 GRAPPLE WITH.
11:10:38 NONE OF THIS IS DIRECTED TO ANYONE INDIVIDUALLY OR HOW
11:10:42 THESE THINGS -- HOW THESE BOARDS OR THE CACS ARE
11:10:46 CURRENTLY OPERATING, BUT THESE ARE ISSUES THAT ARE
11:10:54 SYSTEMIC AND HAVE EXISTED WELL BEFORE THIS ING TODAY
11:10:57 AND REASONS WHY THIS MOTION CAME TO YOU ACTUAL LOOK OUT
11:11:08 THE CACS ARE SELECTED AND HOW THE MEMBERSHIP EXIST FOR
11:11:09 THEM.
11:11:20 >> ULTIMATELY AGAIN THESE CACS EXIST AS A MATTER OF CRA
11:11:20 BOARD POLICY.
11:11:26 ANY CHANGE TO THE CACS NEED TO BE DICTATED BY YOU AS
11:11:27 MAKING CHANGES TO THE POLICY.
11:11:30 I HOPE THAT HELPS RELATIVE TO THESE ISSUES.
11:11:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
11:11:34 MISS VAN LOAN.
11:11:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, AGAIN.
11:11:40 YOU DO WANT TO AGAIN TAKE A LITTLE LIBERTY SINCE WE
11:11:42 HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WATCHING.
11:11:45 WE STILL CONTINUE TO GET QUESTIONS OF PRESENT IN PERSON
11:11:50 VERSUS VIRTUAL AND TAKE THIS MOMENT TO POINT OUT TO OUR
11:11:54 CACS AND CAC MEMBERS WHO MAY BE WATCHING IF YOU LOOK AT
11:11:58 PARTICIPATION OF THE CAC BOARDS AND OUR CACS ARE A
11:12:01 SUBSET AND A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE CRA BOARD AND YOU LOOK
11:12:04 AT HOW IT IS BEING MANAGED TODAY.
11:12:08 WE HAVE AN IN-PERSON QUORUM OF AT LEAST FOUR CRA BOARD
11:12:12 MEMBERS AND TWO MEMBERS PARTICIPATING VIRTUALLY.
11:12:15 ONCE THE QUORUM WAS ESTABLISHED IN PERSON, ALL OF YOU
11:12:18 THEN ARE EQUALLY PARTICIPATORY MEMBERS AND ALL OF YOU
11:12:23 ARE ABLE TO VOTE ON YOUR MOTIONS AS FULL-FLEDGED CRA
11:12:26 BOARD MEMBERS REGARDLESS IF YOU ARE SITTING WHY
11:12:29 UPSTAIRS IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OR PARTICIPATING
11:12:31 VIRTUALLY.
11:12:34 AGAIN OUR CACS NEED TO FOLLOW AND FOLLOW THE SAME
11:12:38 PROCEDURES THAT CRA BOARD FOLLOWS AND WATCHING YOU ALL
11:12:42 TODAY IS A VERY GOOD, EASY EXAMPLE OF HOW THAT WORKS.
11:12:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS VAN LOAN.
11:12:47 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
11:12:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SPEAKING THAT -- WHEN MR. CITRO WENT
11:12:54 OUT I WAS GOING TO STOP THE MEETING FOR LACK OF A
11:12:56 QUORUM FOR PARTICIPANTS.
11:12:58 ALSO WHEN YOU ARE VOTING, THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE VIRTUAL
11:13:00 HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE AS WELL.
11:13:03 MR. DINGFELDER AND MR. MIRANDA, THEY ARE NOT HERE WITH
11:13:05 US PHYSICALLY, BUT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE.
11:13:08 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND AND START
11:13:11 GETTING POLICIES SO THESE BOARDS CAN UNDERSTAND HOW
11:13:12 THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO OPERATE.
11:13:15 AND I THINK WE WILL GET MORE INTO REFERENCE TO OUR
11:13:21 MEETING AND PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES TO BE ENACTED AND
11:13:23 A GOOD SUGGESTION FROM LEGAL THAT WE MAYBE LOOK AT SOME
11:13:26 OF OUR YOUNGER ATTORNEYS BE AT SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS
11:13:29 TO BE ABLE TO HELP FOSTER AND TO BE ABLE TO GUIDE THE
11:13:32 BOARD OF THINGS THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND SHOULD NOT BE
11:13:32 DOING.
11:13:35 SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
11:13:36 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:13:40 IF WE CAN PULL UP THE POWER POINT.
11:13:43 SO FIRST, WE DO WANT TO START WITH WHAT THE MOTION WAS.
11:13:47 WE ARE HERE TODAY AS A STAFF REPORT AND RESPONSE TO A
11:13:50 MOTION BY CRA BOARD TO COME BACK WITH RECOMMENDATIONS
11:13:55 FOR STANDARDIZING THE MEMBERSHIP.
11:13:56 AND MEMBERSHIP PROCESSES.
11:14:00 WE WERE NOT ASKED ABOUT ANY OTHER RECONFIGURATIONS OF
11:14:02 THE CACS.
11:14:04 WE ARE NOT ADDRESSING THAT AND WE CERTAINLY WILL
11:14:09 RESPOND TO ANY FOLLOW-UP REQUIRED BY STAFF AFTER
11:14:10 TODAY'S DISCUSSION.
11:14:14 TODAY IS A VERBAL REPORT UNDER STAFF'S REPORTS.
11:14:16 FROM THE STAFF'S PERSPECTIVE, WE WERE NOT BRINGING
11:14:19 FORWARD ANY PROPOSAL TO BE VOTED ON TODAY, ANY MOTIONS
11:14:23 OR DECISIONS THAT CRA BOARD SHOULD MAKE.
11:14:26 THAT IS AT YOUR DISCRETION DURING YOUR DISCUSSION.
11:14:30 BUT FOR STAFF, WE ARE RESPONDING UNDER STAFF REPORTS TO
11:14:33 A MOTION TO COME BACK TO VERY SPECIFIC INFORMATION.
11:14:35 WE ASSUME THAT THIS WILL BE THE FIRST OF SEVERAL
11:14:41 DISCUSSIONS AS WE MOVE FORWARD AMONG THE CRA BOARD
11:14:42 STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY.
11:14:47 SO WITH THAT AGAIN, OUR TASK WAS VERY NARROW, AIMED AT
11:14:51 STANDARDIZING HOW THE OTHER CACS WORK, HOW DO THESE TWO
11:14:54 CACS WORK AND HOW TO ELIMINATE SOME OF THE CONFUSION
11:15:01 AND HAVE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
11:15:03 SO JUST AS A REMINDER.
11:15:03 WE HAVE.
11:15:08 YOU HAVE A CAC BOARD POLICY -- SORRY, I HAVE A
11:15:10 DIFFERENT SLIDE ON MY SHEET.
11:15:13 THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DOUBLE SIDED PRINT
11:15:14 THINGS.
11:15:16 TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS.
11:15:19 EAST TAMPA REVITALIZATION AND REFER TO IT AS THE
11:15:23 PARTNERSHIP AND THE YCDC.
11:15:29 AS CHAIRMAN GUDES STAYED IT WAS ESTABLISHED PRIOR TO
11:15:32 THE YCDC AND THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:15:34 A COMMUNITY GROUP THAT HELPED ESTABLISH THE EAST TAMPA
11:15:36 CRA.
11:15:39 THE ACTIVE ASSOCIATION AT THE TIME WAS A GOOD PART OF
11:15:41 THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP AND BRINGING IT
11:15:44 TOGETHER AND BRINGING INFORMATION BACK TO THEIR
11:15:47 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS ABOUT WHAT A CRA WAS,
11:15:51 PROVIDING INPUT, BRINGING PEOPLE TO OUR WORKSHOPS.
11:15:57 IN THE YCDC, AN ACTUAL 501-C-3.
11:16:00 ITS OWN SEPARATE LEGAL ENTITY.
11:16:03 THE TWO BIG THINGS THEY ARE NOT CITY OF TAMPA
11:16:05 GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.
11:16:09 THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE DISTINCT GROUPS AND OVER TIME THE
11:16:15 CRA BOARD HAS SET A POLICY CRA STAFF WILL HELP TO
11:16:17 FACILITATE AND STAFF THESE GROUPS.
11:16:20 IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE WORK FOR THESE GROUPS BUT WE
11:16:21 HELP SET THE MEETINGS.
11:16:24 WE HELP GET THEIR NOTICE OUT.
11:16:25 WE HELP TAKE MINUTES.
11:16:28 BUT THE BUSINESS THEY CONDUCT AS A PARTNERSHIP AND AS A
11:16:32 YCDC IS SEPARATE AS THEY MEET WHEN THESE TWO DISTINCT
11:16:36 GROUPS FROM WHAT THE CAC DOES.
11:16:40 THEY FILTER INFORMATION TO THE CAC AND THE CRA BUT
11:16:45 SEPARATE AND DISNEY INSTINCT GROUPS FROM THE CRA AND
11:16:46 THE CAC.
11:16:49 THE CRA POLICY THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2008.
11:16:53 THE CRA BOARD DECIDED THEY CHOSE TO HAVE SUBCOMMITTEES
11:16:55 BASICALLY ALONG LINES OF EACH CRA.
11:16:58 NOT ALL CRAS DO THIS ACROSS THE STATE.
11:17:01 WE DO A BROAD MIX WHERE THE CRA IS THE ONLY
11:17:05 DECISION-MAKING BODY AND USE THE FACTOR THIS THE
11:17:08 ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW WHAT THEIR
11:17:10 CONSTITUENTS WANT.
11:17:13 ALWAYS A POLL SOUTHEAST CRA BOARD TO HAVE YOUR
11:17:18 SPECIFIED SUBCOMMITTEES OUT THERE IN YOUR RESPECTIVE
11:17:21 CRAS TO HELP BRING YOU THE VOICES AND NEEDS IN THE
11:17:21 COMMUNITY.
11:17:25 YOUR CAC POLICY SET UP WHAT THE CAC MEMBERSHIP LOOKS
11:17:27 LIKE, WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS.
11:17:28 WHAT ARE THE TERMS.
11:17:30 WHAT ARE THE MEETING POLICIES.
11:17:36 AT THE TIME THIS POLICY WAS ADOPTED IN '08, ADOPTED BY
11:17:42 THE FIRST PAGE OF THE POLICY THAT THE YCDC BOARD EXISTS
11:17:45 AND THEY HAD THE GOVERNING BODY.
11:17:47 AT THAT TIME THEY CHOSE TO USE THE TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE
11:17:49 AS THEIR CAC.
11:17:53 AGAIN, PEOPLE WHO WEAR TWO HATS LIKE MR. MASSEY
11:17:55 MENTIONED ALL OF YOU DO.
11:17:57 YOU THE CITY AS CITY COUNCIL.
11:17:59 YOU DO CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS.
11:18:04 YOU SIT AS AT CRA BOARD AND YOU DO CRA BUSINESS.
11:18:08 THE CAC MEETS TO DISCUSS CRA ISSUES AND THE PARTNERSHIP
11:18:11 MEETS TO TALK OF THE LARGER, BROADER COMMUNITY ISSUES
11:18:15 AND SHARE INFORMATION BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS.
11:18:19 SO THE REMAINING MEMBERS, ALL OF OUR OTHER CACS.
11:18:21 WE HAVE EIGHT CACS.
11:18:22 THOSE ARE TWO OF THEM.
11:18:26 THE REMAINING SIX FOLLOW THE CAC BOARD POLICY FOR THEIR
11:18:27 CACS.
11:18:31 AS MR. MASSEY MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE TWO DIFFERENT
11:18:32 GROUPS OF MEMBERSHIPS.
11:18:36 I DO WANT TO CLARIFY, BECAUSE EX-OFFICIO MEANS
11:18:37 DIFFERENT THINGS FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
11:18:42 AND IN THIS CONTEXT, AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER IS A FULL
11:18:44 VOTING MEMBER OF THE CAC.
11:18:48 SO WHEN WE LOOK AT WHETHER YOU HAVE 12 OR 13, AND IN
11:18:52 WEST TAMPA, FOR EXAMPLE, OFF 12 MACHINE MEMBER GROUP.
11:18:54 NINE EX-OFFICIOS.
11:18:59 THOSE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS ARE FULL VOTING MEMBERS.
11:19:04 AND ALL 12 MEMBERS INCLUDING EX-OFFICIOS HOLD THE SAME
11:19:05 RIGHTS AS THOSE GROUPS.
11:19:10 THE ORGANIZATIONS CHOSEN AS EX-OFFICIOS ARE CHOSEN BY
11:19:12 THE CRA BOARD.
11:19:17 IN WEST TAMPA WHEN IT WAS CREATED IN 2015, THE CRA
11:19:21 BOARD APPROVED SEVERAL MEETINGS IN THE WEST TAMPA
11:19:24 COMMUNITY AND CRA BOARD WHICH ORGANIZES WOULD BE
11:19:27 DESIGNATED AS EX-OFFICIOS.
11:19:32 THE PROCESS FOR ALL EX-OFFICIOS OF ALL CACS THAT THE
11:19:38 EX-OFFICIO TAKES ACTION TO DECIDE WHO THE DESIGNEE WILL
11:19:38 BE.
11:19:41 WEST TAMPA, YOU HAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
11:19:44 THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION THEN SENDS A SPECIFIED
11:19:49 DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE TO SIT ON THE CAC AND THAT
11:19:52 APPLICATION DOES GO THROUGH THE CRA BOARD AND THE CRA
11:19:54 BOARD DOES SIGN OFF ON THAT REPRESENTATIVE.
11:19:57 THE REMAINING MEMBERS ARE AT LARGE.
11:20:01 FOR THE REMAINING SIX CACS.
11:20:05 YOU AS BOARD MEMBERS WILL VOTE ON AS YOU DO TODAY TO
11:20:07 APPOINT THOSE REMAINING AT-LARGE MEMBERS.
11:20:13 AND SOME CACS SUCH AS YBOR AND EAST TAMPA, EVEN, WE
11:20:14 HAVE SPECIFIC CATEGORIES.
11:20:16 SHOULD THEY BE RESIDENTS?
11:20:19 SHOULD THEY BE BUSINESSES?
11:20:21 SOME CACS ARE AT-LARGE.
11:20:24 NO GOALS OTHER THAN EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS.
11:20:28 THAT IS HOW EVERYBODY ELSE WORKS OUTSIDE OF EAST TAMPA
11:20:32 AND YBOR.
11:20:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS VAN LOAN, BACK TO THANK THAT
11:20:36 SLIDE.
11:20:40 THE EX-OFFICIO IS A DESIGNEE.
11:20:47 LET'S SAY YOU ARE 13 IN AN EAST TAMPA ZONE AND THIS
11:20:51 BODY SAYS PUT NINE OR 12 AS EX-OFFICIO AND THE REST
11:20:55 WILL BE AT-LARGE MEMBERS TO BE VOTED UPON.
11:20:55 IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
11:20:59 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: PICK THE EAST TAMPA BUSINESS AND
11:21:04 CIVIC ASSOCIATION OR RAINBOW HEIGHTS OR VM YBOR, THEIR
11:21:08 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WILL CHOOSE WHO THEIR DESIGNEE
11:21:13 WILL SIT IN THAT SEAT AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THAT
11:21:15 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
11:21:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
11:21:19 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AGAIN, THIS IS JUST OUR CURRENT
11:21:20 PROCEDURES.
11:21:21 THIS IS HOW IT WORKS.
11:21:24 WHAT YOU DECIDE TO DO IN THE FUTURE IS WHAT THE
11:21:26 DISCUSSION FROM TODAY AND FORWARD IS.
11:21:32 SO CURRENTLY IN OUR EAST TAMPA CAC.
11:21:35 AS WE MENTIONED OUR CAC MEMBERS ARE ELECTED TO THE CAC
11:21:37 BY A VOTE OF THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:21:41 SO WE HOLD AN ELECTION EVERY YEAR AND IN SEPTEMBER AT
11:21:44 THE PARTNERSHIP, AND PRIOR TO THAT ELECTION, EVERYONE
11:21:46 FILLS OUT AN APPLICATION.
11:21:51 THEY ARE VETTED BY AN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE
11:21:53 THEY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
11:21:59 OF THE BYLAWS OF THE PARTNERSHIP AND ALSO THE CRA-CAC
11:22:00 POLICY.
11:22:03 RIGHT NOW THE ONLY REQUIREMENTS IN EAST TAMPA THAT WE
11:22:08 HAVE A MINIMUM OF FOUR RESIDENTS AND HAVE A NONPROFIT
11:22:11 BUSINESS, A FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS, A PROPERTY OWNER AND
11:22:13 EVERYBODY ELSE IS CONSIDERED AT-LARGE.
11:22:16 WHEN WE STARTED OUT IN EAST TAMPA FOR THE CAC, WE HAD
11:22:20 -- AND THE PARTNERSHIP'S GOVERNING BOARD IT WAS EIGHT
11:22:22 MEMBERS AN WENT TO NINE MEMBERS.
11:22:25 IN '07 WE HAD NINE MEMBERS ON OUR CAC.
11:22:29 WHEN THE CRA BOARD FINALLY VOTED ON AND ADOPTED THEIR
11:22:32 CAC POLICY IN '08.
11:22:36 AT THAT LAST BOARD MEETING, I BELIEVE IT WAS COUNCILMAN
11:22:39 REDDICK WHO WANTED A MINIMUM OF FOUR RESIDENTS THAT WE
11:22:42 CURRENTLY HAVE TODAY AND OUR MEMBERSHIP WENT FROM NINE
11:22:45 MEMBERS TO 13 MEMBERS.
11:22:48 THE CRA BOARD CHANGED THAT AT THEIR MEETING AND THE
11:22:50 PARTNERSHIP CHANGED THE BYLAWS AFTER THAT CHANGE
11:22:55 HAPPENED AT THE CRA BOARD.
11:22:59 IN ORDER FOR ANYONE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT ELECTION AT
11:23:01 THE PARTNERSHIP PER THE BYLAWS OF THE PARTNERSHIP,
11:23:04 BECAUSE THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP ELECTION.
11:23:08 THE -- YOU MUST HAVE ATTENDED AT LEAST TWO MEETINGS OF
11:23:08 THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:23:10 THOSE COULD BE REGULAR MEETINGS OR SUBCOMMITTEE
11:23:11 MEETINGS.
11:23:15 SO SOME OF OUR CHALLENGES -- AND THIS HAS BEEN AN
11:23:18 ONGOING CHALLENGE THAT EAST TAMPA HAS 35,000 PEOPLE.
11:23:22 AND THE ONLY WAY THESE 35,000 PEOPLE OR ANYONE WHO
11:23:27 WANTS TO PARTICIPATE CAN CONTRIBUTE AND VOTE FOR A CAC
11:23:31 MEETING IS TO SHOW UP IN PERSON IN SEPTEMBER AND VOTE
11:23:34 FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE SLATE.
11:23:38 AND YOU MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE PARTNERSHIP IN ORDER TO
11:23:39 BE ELIGIBLE TO BE VOTING.
11:23:44 OVER THE PAST DECADE, WE HAVE SEEN PARTICIPATION IN OUR
11:23:47 PARTNERSHIP GROUP REDUCED, NOT JUST BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:23:49 ASSOCIATIONS BUT ALSO BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
11:23:52 AND ALSO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL.
11:23:54 PART OF THAT IS THAT SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:23:57 ASSOCIATIONS AND RESIDENTS, SOME OF THEIR NEEDS WERE
11:23:57 MET.
11:24:00 SOME OF THE PROBLEMS AND THE MORE SEVERE CHALLENGES
11:24:03 THAT THEY FELT THEY HAD BEEN ADDRESSED.
11:24:05 SOME OF THEM PARTICIPATE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:24:07 ASSOCIATIONS AND ESPECIALLY AFTER THE RECESSION, EAST
11:24:13 TAMPA DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH MONEY OR ZERO MONEY AND A
11:24:15 LOT OF PARTICIPATION FELL OFF WHEN WE DIDN'T HAVE VERY
11:24:17 MUCH FUND OR DECISION TO BE MADE.
11:24:20 EVERYBODY TALK OF THE FIVE MILLION WE HAVE NOW, BUT
11:24:23 THREE YEARS AGO ONLY HAD $1 MILLION COMING IN AS
11:24:24 REVENUE.
11:24:26 THE LARGE REVENUE COMING BACK NOW OR THE LARGER
11:24:30 REVENUES ARE A RECENT PHENOMENON IN THE PAST TEN YEARS.
11:24:35 WE HAVE NOT HAD A LOT TO VOTE ON OR DECISIONS TO MAKE
11:24:38 TO EXCITE PEOPLE TO COME AND DO THE PARTICIPATION THAT
11:24:39 THEY USED TO.
11:24:42 WHEN WE DO HAVE ELECTIONS AT THE PARTNERSHIP IF YOU
11:24:46 LOOK AT THE NUMBER VOTES CAST OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS,
11:24:50 GENERALLY THOSE CAC MEMBERS HAD BEEN VOTED BY 25
11:24:55 MEMBERS TO 75 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT SHOW UP TO
11:24:56 THE PARTNERSHIP TO VOTE.
11:24:59 THAT IS THE SYSTEM THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE RIGHT NOW.
11:25:05 BEFORE WE GO INTO THE ITEMS ON THE, AGAIN, I WANT TO
11:25:09 REITERATE THAT OUR COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE TO
11:25:12 HELP SET THE STAGE FOR A DISCUSSION OF CRA BOARD
11:25:12 MEMBERS.
11:25:16 ANY OF THIS -- I USE APPROXIMATELY OR HOW THIS COULD
11:25:17 USE IT.
11:25:20 BECAUSE IT IS MUCH MORE HARD IF WE GET UP HERE AND LOOK
11:25:27 AT YOU ALL AND KAY, OKAY, CRA BOARD, WHAT DO YOU WANT
11:25:27 TO DO.
11:25:31 WE TRY TO GIVE YOU REACTIONS AND FACILITATE YOUR
11:25:33 DISCUSSION WHAT WAY YOU WANT TO GO.
11:25:37 TRUE OF THE EAST TAMPA RECOMMENDATIONS AS THE YCDC.
11:25:41 OBVIOUSLY ANY OPTION OFF THIS IS KEEP IT AS IS.
11:25:41 DON'T DO ANYTHING.
11:25:44 THAT IS ONE END OF THE SPECTRUM.
11:25:47 AGAIN THAT IS ONLY IN REF CONCURRENCE TO CAC MEMBERSHIP
11:25:49 AND MEMBERSHIP PROCEDURES.
11:25:52 THE OTHER OPTION IS TO ADJUST THE MEMBERSHIP TO ALIGN
11:25:56 WITH THE CRA BOARD POLICY TO TRY TO REDUCE CONFUSION.
11:26:00 WE USE WEST TAMPA AS A SUGGESTED MODEL BECAUSE IT IS
11:26:04 THE MOST RECENT CAC TO BE CREATED AND CRA BOARD TO BE
11:26:06 CREATED.
11:26:10 AND TO MR. ROBINSON'S CREDIT, EVERY TIME HE COMES TO
11:26:14 TALK TO YOU, HE IS VERY PROUD OF HOW WELL HIS CAC
11:26:17 OPERATES AND HOW WELL HIS CAC REPRESENTS HIS COMMUNITY.
11:26:19 AGAIN THAT IS ONE COMMUNITY'S EXAMPLE.
11:26:23 IT WOULD BE UP TO CRA BOARD TO DECIDE IF IT IS THE
11:26:25 RIGHT EXAMPLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH EAST TAMPA.
11:26:30 IF WE USE THAT AS A MODEL, RIGHT NOW AT THE LATEST
11:26:33 INFORMATION REGARDING NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WITHIN
11:26:38 EAST TAMPA BOUNDARY, WE HAVE NINE CURRENT NEIGHBORHOOD
11:26:42 ASSOCIATIONS WITH ACTIVE REPRESENTATIONS AND THREE MORE
11:26:47 IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CREATED AND GETTING ORGANIZED,
11:26:51 AND THEY DO HAVE DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVES WHO IS
11:26:55 TAKING THE REINS OF HELPING TO CREATE THOSE.
11:26:58 AT A MINIMUM YOU HAVE NINE AT THE MOMENT.
11:27:00 COULD YOU HAVE UP TO 12.
11:27:05 IF YOU CHOSE TO GO THIS ROUTE, IT WOULD THEN BE BACK
11:27:09 WORKING WITH MORAY AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS TO
11:27:12 DECIDE IF YOU WANT 9, 10, 11, 12.
11:27:16 WHAT IS YOUR CRITERIA WHICH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
11:27:19 WOULD HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE AS A EX-OFFICIO MEMBER.
11:27:22 IF YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP THE 13 MEMBERS OR YOU COULD GO UP
11:27:26 TO 14 OR 15, BUT IF YOU HAVE NINE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:27:29 ASSOCIATIONS AND WENT WITH WHAT IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE YOU
11:27:33 COULD HAVE FOUR AT-LARGE MEMBERS VOTED IN BY THE
11:27:34 PARTNERSHIP.
11:27:37 I WANT TO REITERATE BASED ON SOME OF THE E-MAILS I WAS
11:27:38 INCLUDED IN.
11:27:43 PLEASE NOTE THE SLIDE SAY HAVE AT-LARGE MEMBERS VOTED
11:27:44 IN BY THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:27:47 IF YOU HAVE THE CURRENT 13 MEMBERS AND THREE ARE VOTED
11:27:51 AT-LARGE, THE PARTNERSHIP WILL STILL HAVE 23% OF THE
11:27:53 REPRESENTATION ON THE CAC.
11:27:56 BUT, AGAIN, THAT WOULD BE UP TO CRA BOARD.
11:27:57 DO YOU WANT 9?
11:27:58 DO YOU WANT 12?
11:28:02 DO YOU WANT TO HAVE IT FLEXIBLE OVER TIME?
11:28:03 THAT WOULD BE DISCUSSIONS TO COME.
11:28:06 WE DO NOT RECOMMEND MAKING ANY CHANGES PRIOR TO OCTOBER
11:28:09 1, WHETHER THIS IT 2021 OR 2022.
11:28:13 BECAUSE GENERALLY THE EAST TAMPA CHANGES HAPPEN ON
11:28:14 OCTOBER 1.
11:28:17 SO JUST FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE OF UNDERSTANDING AND GIVING
11:28:23 STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY TIME TO ROLL OUT ANY POTENTIAL
11:28:27 CHANGES, WE DO ASK THAT NOTHING BE CHANGED PRIOR TO
11:28:27 THAT DATE.
11:28:30 YOUR LAST OPTION IS THE OTHER EXTREME.
11:28:32 ONE ENDS SAY KEEP AS IS.
11:28:36 ON THE OTHER END, YOU CAN COMPLETELY SEPARATE THE CAC
11:28:37 FROM THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:28:40 WHAT THIS MEANS THAT THE PARTNERSHIP WOULD STILL VISIT
11:28:41 ELECTION.
11:28:43 IT WOULD STILL HAVE ITS GOVERNING BOARD.
11:28:45 THEY WOULD STILL RUN THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:28:50 CITY STAFF, UNLESS CRA BOARD DECIDES THAT, WILL STILL
11:28:56 FACILITATE THEIR MEETINGS, HELP THEM WITH REAGAN PARK.
11:28:58 HELP THEM WITH MINUTES.
11:29:00 HELP THEM WITH ADVERTISING THE MEETING.
11:29:03 AND DO THE SAME STAFFING REPORT WE DO NOW; HOWEVER,
11:29:09 WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN, DESIGNATE A SEPARATE BOARD OF CAC
11:29:13 MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE CRA BOARD AND SOME MIX OF
11:29:18 EX-OFFICIOS AND PEOPLE THAT SUBMIT APPLICATIONS AND
11:29:24 VOTED ON BY THE CRA BOARD SIMILAR TO HOW THE OTHER CACS
11:29:26 OPERATE IF YOU GO THAT ROUTE.
11:29:29 A CONTINUED INTERACTION BETWEEN THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE
11:29:30 CAC.
11:29:34 WE WOULD NOT WANT TO CHANGE ANY OF THAT.
11:29:37 RIGHT NOW WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND
11:29:41 SEVERAL OF OUR OTHER POLICIES, WE DESIGNATE THAT THE
11:29:44 PARTNERSHIP SHOULD HAVE FEEDBACK AND BE ABLE TO REVIEW
11:29:48 OUR ANNUAL CRA BUDGET.
11:29:51 AND WE WOULD STILL BRING BACK IF COUNCIL OR CRA BOARD
11:29:54 WENT THIS DIRECTION, WE WOULD STILL BRING BACK THE
11:29:58 PROPOSED DRAFT BUDGET THAT THE CAC PUTS TOGETHER.
11:29:59 BRING IT BACK TO THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:30:04 AND DO A PRESENTATION AND TAKE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AS
11:30:09 THE CRA BOARD DOES WHEN YOU HOLD WORKSHOPS ON THE
11:30:12 BUDGET AND PART OF OUR SYSTEM AND WE ARE NOT
11:30:13 RECOMMENDING THAT CHANGE.
11:30:15 AS YOU MENTIONED WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE
11:30:17 PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO CHOOSE
11:30:19 THEIR MEMBERS JUST AS THEY DO NOW.
11:30:23 THEY STILL EXIST AS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE ENTITY AND
11:30:27 ANY CHANGES BY THE CRA BOARD WILL NOT CHANGE ANY OF THE
11:30:31 EXISTING PROCESSES, PROCEDURES AND BYLAWS OF THE
11:30:32 PARTNERSHIP.
11:30:36 AND BEFORE BY ON TO YBOR, DID -- I DON'T KNOW IF THE
11:30:39 CRA BOARD WANTED TO TALK OF YBOR AND COME BACK TO
11:30:43 DISCUSSION OR DISCUSSION EACH ONE -- ONE AT A TIME.
11:30:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY SUGGESTION, GENTLEMAN?
11:30:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I SUGGEST ONE AT A TIME.
11:30:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE?
11:30:53 MR. VIERA?
11:30:55 >>LUIS VIERA: QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
11:30:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: QUESTIONS, COMMENTS?
11:30:58 >>LUIS VIERA: I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:31:01 I COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE COMMENTS BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY
11:31:02 QUESTIONS, NO.
11:31:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO?
11:31:06 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WITH REGARD TO EAST TAMPA.
11:31:07 I WOULD KEEP IT AS IT IS.
11:31:11 I UNDERSTAND THE ARGUMENT ON BOTH SIDES.
11:31:15 IF IT ISN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IS HOW I WOULD SEE IT.
11:31:15 LEAVE IT THERE.
11:31:17 THAT'S -- THANKS.
11:31:19 I GUESS I WILL --
11:31:21 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY -- MAY I?
11:31:22 THANKS.
11:31:25 YEAH, I -- YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I THINK ALL OF HUSBAND
11:31:28 DISCUSSIONS WITH FOLKS ON THIS.
11:31:33 I -- THE TAKING A LOOK AT THE WEST TAMPA MODEL IS NOT
11:31:37 AN UNREASONABLE THING FOR JUST HYPOTHETICALLY FOR ONE
11:31:41 DAY; HOWEVER, REALLY WHAT BOTHERS ME -- AND I AM GOING
11:31:42 TO BE BLUNT.
11:31:45 THE PERCEPTION THAT -- BY THE WAY I DON'T THINK THIS IS
11:31:47 TRUE THAT ANYBODY IS TRYING TO PUSH ANY KIND OF CHANGE
11:31:51 TO PUSH IT TO A PARTICULAR BOARD, BUT THAT A PARTICULAR
11:31:54 BOARD WOULD FEEL DISRESPECTED THROUGH PERSPECTIVE
11:31:56 CHANGES, BUT I JUST THINK THAT WE HAVE TO BE AWARE OF
11:31:57 THAT.
11:31:58 AND WHAT NOT.
11:32:02 I LOOKED FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT MY COLLEAGUES THINK ON
11:32:03 THIS.
11:32:08 YOU KNOW, I -- I HATE TO SEE SOME OF THE -- THE CAUSTIC
11:32:12 BACK AND FORTH AND SOME OF THE ACUTE BACK AND FORTH.
11:32:15 I KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES, AND THEY ALL AGREE ON
11:32:19 THIS, WORKS VERY, VERY HARD FOR EAST TAMPA AND WHAT
11:32:19 NOT.
11:32:23 I HATE TO SEE SOME OF THE BACK AND FORTH.
11:32:26 I THINK THAT MAKING CHANGES RIGHT NOW, SOME SUBSTANTIAL
11:32:30 CHANGE, WILL SEND THE WRONG MESSAGE, WHETHER
11:32:33 INADVERTENTLY OR ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
11:32:37 COULD POTENTIALLY SEND A WRONG MESSAGE IN TERMS OF THE
11:32:41 BOARD AND WANTING TO GET THINGS DONE AND HAVING SOME
11:32:42 CHANGE, ETC.
11:32:45 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT -- THAT ON THIS ISSUE,
11:32:48 THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF DIALOGUE, A LOT OF COMMUNITY
11:32:49 INPUT.
11:32:52 WE HAVE A LOT OF -- A DECENT NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOW UP
11:32:55 TODAY THAT IS VERY, VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE
11:32:59 AND I THINK IT IS VERY CLEAR IF THIS IS A CHANGE WE ARE
11:33:04 LOOKING TO MAKE WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR, TWO YEAR, FOUR
11:33:07 YEAR, WHATEVER IT MAY THAT BE NUMBER ONE, WE NEED TO
11:33:10 MAKE SURE THAT THE PRESENT BOARD FEELS THERE IS EQUITY
11:33:11 AND RESPECT IN THE PROCESS.
11:33:13 I THINK THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
11:33:15 I THINK THAT MEANS THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THEIR WORK
11:33:17 AS THEY SEE FIT.
11:33:19 AS THEY WERE ELECTED UNDER THE RULES.
11:33:20 I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT.
11:33:21 BUT THE GOING FORWARD HERE OUT.
11:33:24 IF WE ARE LOOKING TO MAKE CHANGES FROM THE NEXT FEW
11:33:28 YEARS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF DIALOGUE AND A LOT OF TALK
11:33:30 THAT NEEDS TO BE HAPPENING.
11:33:33 BECAUSE -- JUST BECAUSE OF THE SENTIMENTS WE HEARD AT
11:33:34 PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:33:37 I WAS MOVED BY SOME OF THE SENTIMENTS.
11:33:41 THEY -- AGAIN, THEY KIND OF CONNECTED WITH ME AND I
11:33:43 THINK THAT WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN THAT REGARD.
11:33:45 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:33:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
11:33:49 MR. DINGFELDER.
11:33:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:33:57 GOOD COMMENTS ALL THE WAY AROUND.
11:34:00 FIRST, I WANT TO START OFF BY SAYING THAT MISS BURTON
11:34:05 AND MISS PATTY AND OTHER FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED
11:34:07 -- YOU KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN OUR COMMUNITY.
11:34:13 THEY HAVE BEEN A VERY GOOD AND POSITIVE VOICE FOR --
11:34:19 FOR THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND I
11:34:22 AM GLAD THEY ARE PART OF THE SYSTEM AND WORKING ON THE
11:34:28 CAC AND LEADING THE CAC TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE
11:34:30 COMMUNITY AND I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THAT.
11:34:33 THE FLIPSIDE IS, IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS ARE
11:34:37 LOOKING TO HAVE A STRONGER VOICE ON THE CAC, I THINK
11:34:39 THAT IS FANTASTIC TOO.
11:34:45 AND I DON'T SEE THOSE -- THOSE TWO ISSUES NECESSARILY
11:34:48 AS CONFLICTING.
11:34:53 YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF WOULD BE LIKE -- IN SOUTH TAMPA,
11:34:56 RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE SOME STRONG VOICES COMING FROM SOUTH
11:34:57 OF GANDY.
11:35:01 BUT DAVIS ISLAND ALSO HAVE STRONG VOICES.
11:35:04 EVERYBODY NEEDS TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE SOUTH TAMPA A
11:35:05 BETTER PLACE.
11:35:07 EAST TAMPA IS THE SAME THING.
11:35:11 WE CAN HAVE LOTS OF STRONG VOICES AND -- AND -- AND
11:35:17 CARRY OUT ALL OF THIS, YOU KNOW ULTIMATELY FOR THE
11:35:19 BETTERMENT OF EAST TAMPA.
11:35:21 I DON'T SEE THOSE AS CONFLICTED.
11:35:24 PERHAPS ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN LOOK INTO.
11:35:29 AND, AGAIN, I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:35:31 WE SHOULDN'T DO ANYTHING URGENTLY BECAUSE IT WOULD SEND
11:35:35 A BAD MESSAGE LIKE WE ARE TRYING TO REDUCE SOMEBODY'S
11:35:37 ROLE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:35:43 BUT ULTIMATELY, I THINK THE NEIGHBORHOODS COULD -- WE
11:35:47 CAN MAKE MORE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:35:48 ASSOCIATIONS.
11:35:49 SOME OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS HAVE BEEN
11:35:52 AROUND FOR A LONG TIME AND THEY ARE VERY STRONG AND
11:35:56 ACTIVE AND I HAVE BEEN TO SOME OF THEIR MEETINGS AND
11:35:59 THEY PUT OUT 15, 20 PEOPLE TO A REGULAR MEETING.
11:36:02 IT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE AND THEY ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT
11:36:04 WHAT THEY NEED AND WHAT'S GOING ON.
11:36:07 SO I DON'T SEE ANY HARM IN ADDING SOME ADDITIONAL
11:36:11 EX-OFFICIO SEATS AT THE TABLE.
11:36:15 AND IF WE HAVE TO GO BEYOND 13 MEMBERS TO DO THAT, YOU
11:36:19 KNOW, THEN MAYBE THAT IS THE WAY WE CAN LOOK AT IT.
11:36:22 JUST ADD -- GO UP TO 15 AND ADD SOME NEIGHBORHOOD --
11:36:26 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OR
11:36:27 SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:36:31 BUT, AGAIN, I DON'T SEE ANY NEED TO DO ANYTHING
11:36:32 URGENTLY.
11:36:34 MAYBE IT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE EFFECTIVE NEXT
11:36:38 OCTOBER, AFTER THE -- AFTER THIS NEXT SET OF ELECTIONS
11:36:42 OR WHAT HAVE YOU AND COINCIDING TO THE NEXT SET OF
11:36:44 ELECTIONS AND I DON'T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD FEEL
11:36:45 THREATENED WITH THAT.
11:36:48 I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL THING
11:36:50 WHEN WE HAVE MORE AND MORE VOICES IN THE COMMUNITY
11:36:53 WANTING TO GET INVOLVED.
11:36:54 AND THIS -- THAT IS FANTASTIC.
11:36:57 THAT IS THE WAY THE CACS SHOULD RUN.
11:37:01 AS MR. MASSEY SAYS, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ARE THE
11:37:01 CRA.
11:37:05 WE ARE ELECTED TO BE THE COUNCILMEMBERS AND THE CRA.
11:37:08 AND THE BUCK STOPS WITH US.
11:37:14 SO WE GET GREAT ADVICE FROM THE CACS AND THAT IS
11:37:15 FANTASTIC.
11:37:18 BUT THE END OF THE DAY THE DECISIONS WHAT PROJECTS MOVE
11:37:22 FORWARD AND WHAT PROJECTS DON'T ARE FROM US AND MR.
11:37:26 MASSEY MADE THAT CLEAR OUT OF THE FLORIDA STATUTE.
11:37:27 THANK YOU.
11:37:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYBODY ELSE?
11:37:30 MR. CARLSON IS RECOGNIZED.
11:37:35 >>BILL CARLSON: I GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM FOLKS IN
11:37:36 THE COMMUNITY.
11:37:38 E-MAILS WENT OUT TO EVERYBODY.
11:37:40 I SAT IN TWO OR THREE OF THE MEETINGS RECENTLY BECAUSE
11:37:42 I COULDN'T LISTEN ON LINE.
11:37:44 I WENT IN PERSON AND I SAT QUIETLY.
11:37:45 I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
11:37:46 I JUST OBSERVED.
11:37:48 I DIDN'T EVEN ANNOUNCE THAT I WAS THERE.
11:37:52 ONE OF THE COMMENTS FROM -- IN AN E-MAIL WAS THAT
11:37:55 CONNIE BURTON IS NOT A GOOD CHAIR.
11:37:56 SO I OBSERVED THAT.
11:37:57 I ACTUALLY WAS SHOCKED.
11:37:59 I DON'T KNOW HER VERY WELL.
11:38:02 I KNOW HER MAINLY WHEN SHE SPEAKS IN FRONT OF US AND
11:38:04 THE ACTIVIST THAT I SEE HERE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
11:38:10 THAN THE PERSON I SAW FACILITATING THE MEETINGS.
11:38:13 I WAS SURPRISED SHE KNOWS ROBERTS RULES.
11:38:15 COORDINATING GIVING PEOPLE TIME TO SPEAK.
11:38:18 SHE SAID WE WELCOME THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS TO COME.
11:38:22 I SAT IN ONE OF THE MEETINGS BEFORE WHERE NATASHA WAS
11:38:25 IN CHARGE AND I THOUGHT SHE ALSO DID A GOOD JOB.
11:38:27 I THINK SOMEHOW WE NEED TO BRING THE COMMUNITY
11:38:27 TOGETHER.
11:38:31 I KNOW MY COLLEAGUE, MR. GUDES, HAS BEEN TRYING HARD TO
11:38:33 SHOW LEADERSHIP.
11:38:35 AND WE TRIED TO SUPPORT HIM IN THAT EFFORT.
11:38:38 YOU ALL DON'T LIKE IT WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT WE HAD EIGHT
11:38:41 YEARS OF NEGLECT IN EAST TAMPA AND THE REST OF THE
11:38:41 CITY.
11:38:45 WHEN FOLKS IN SOUTH TAMPA SAY WHY DO WE PAY SO MUCH
11:38:49 TAXES AND OUR SIDEWALKS ARE FALLING APART AND THE PARKS
11:38:52 ARE FALLING APART A $12 MILLION BOAT HOUSE DOWNTOWN.
11:38:53 ISN'T THAT NICE.
11:38:55 THE SAME THING IS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:38:58 THE PROBLEM IS WITH EIGHT YEARS OF NEGLECT, IT WILL
11:39:00 TAKE US SEVERAL YEARS TO CATCH UP.
11:39:03 AND I THINK WE HAVE GOOD LEADERSHIP OF ALL KINDS THAT
11:39:04 WE NEED TO MAKE IT INCLUSIVE.
11:39:06 WE NEED TO HAVE FOLKS INVOLVED.
11:39:13 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM MR. GUDES AND OTHERS
11:39:14 HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT.
11:39:17 IN YBOR THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT -- I ONLY SAT IN ONE OR
11:39:20 TWO OF THOSE MEETINGS BEFORE AND I HEAR THAT IT IS NOT
11:39:21 ALWAYS INCLUSIVE.
11:39:23 THAT SOME VOICES ARE NOT BEING HEARD.
11:39:25 AND ALSO THAT THE OVERHEAD IS TOO MUCH.
11:39:29 I TALK TO MISS VAN LOAN AND SHE SAID WE ONLY GIVE
11:39:35 $30,000 DIRECTLY BUT WE SUBSIDIZE IT THROUGH -- THROUGH
11:39:38 THE -- THROUGH STAFF AND OTHER METHODS.
11:39:42 AN A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE COMPLAINED THAT THE MONEY WE
11:39:45 SPEND ON OVERHEAD SHOULD BE USED ON PROJECTS.
11:39:48 IN BOTH OF THOSE, WHATEVER THE STRUCTURE IS WE END UP
11:39:50 -- WHILE I HAVE THE FLOOR TO MENTION THE OTHER PLANS
11:39:51 THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED.
11:39:56 I THINK THAT -- ONE OF MY COMPLAINTS ABOUT CRAS THAT IT
11:39:57 CAN ONLY BE SPENT ON INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:39:59 AND WHAT WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO DO IS COMMUNITY
11:40:00 BUILDING.
11:40:03 AND I THINK THAT -- AS WE DO THESE STRATEGIC ACTION
11:40:07 PLANS AND UPDATE AND LOOK AT THEM, SOMEHOW WE NEED TO
11:40:08 BRING THEM OFF THE TABLE.
11:40:12 I READ EVERY WORD FROM THE ONE FROM YBOR THAT CAME OUT
11:40:13 A YEAR OR SO AGO.
11:40:14 AND IT HAS A GREAT LIST.
11:40:17 BUT NOTHING THAT JUMPS OFF THE TABLE THAT EXPLAINS WHAT
11:40:19 DO WE WANT YBOR TO BE IN THE FUTURE.
11:40:22 AS WE GO THROUGH THE EAST TAMPA ONE, WE NEED TO
11:40:26 DESCRIBE IN WORDS, WHAT IS OUR VISION FOR YBOR -- I
11:40:27 MEAN FOR EAST TAMPA.
11:40:30 WHAT IS THE VISION THE COMMUNITY HAS FOR THEIR OWN
11:40:30 COMMUNITY.
11:40:32 THE LAST ADMINISTRATION LOOKED AT IT AS MANY PEOPLE IN
11:40:38 FLORIDA DO LET'S GENTRIFY AND SUBSIDIZE DEVELOPERS TO
11:40:40 CHANGE EVERYTHING AND WE ARE LOOKING AT THESE AREAS AS
11:40:44 COMMUNITIES, THRIVING RICH COMMUNITIES WITH HISTORY AND
11:40:47 CULTURE WE NEED TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR
11:40:48 EFFORTS TO TRY TO DEVELOPMENT.
11:40:51 WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT NOT JUST A LIST OF PROJECTS BUT
11:40:55 ALSO HELP IDENTIFY AND DEFINE AND WORDS AND PICTURES
11:40:57 IDEALLY WHAT THE COMMUNITIES WILL BE LIKE IN THE
11:40:59 FUTURE.
11:41:00 THANK YOU.
11:41:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
11:41:06 ALL RIGHT, LET ME SAY THIS.
11:41:11 AS A PERSON WHO HAS WORKED IN THE CITY AND WORKED IN
11:41:16 EAST TAMPA, WORKED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STREET OF
11:41:17 HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE.
11:41:20 THE SOUTH SIDE OVER TO THE CITY LIMITS.
11:41:22 NOBODY CAN TELL ME ABOUT EAST TAMPA.
11:41:27 I BUILT PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:41:30 I SENT KIDS TO COLLEGE FROM EAST TAMPA.
11:41:33 SOME PLAY IN THE NFL TODAY.
11:41:35 NO ONE CAN TELL ME ABOUT EAST TAMPA.
11:41:37 I LIVED THERE.
11:41:38 WORKED THERE.
11:41:39 PLAY THERE.
11:41:43 THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE THERE IS THAT PEOPLE TALK TODAY --
11:41:45 THE BLACK MAN.
11:41:49 THE BLACK MAN WHO HAS LIVED THERE AND UNDERSTANDS IT.
11:41:50 THERE IS CONFUSION.
11:41:52 THERE IS DISTRESS IN MY COMMUNITY.
11:41:56 AND THE COMMUNITIES ARE CHANGING.
11:41:57 THEY ARE CHANGING.
11:42:01 THE ONE TIME THE OTHER PORTION OF 15TH STREET -- THIS
11:42:04 IS ALL -- EVERYTHING IS EAST TAMPA.
11:42:09 CALLED SOUTHEAST SEMINOLE HEIGHTS NOW.
11:42:11 YBOR, NORTH YBOR.
11:42:14 YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO MOVED THERE AND LIVED THERE AND
11:42:17 FOUND ANOTHER SECTION OF EAST TAMPA TO LIVE IN.
11:42:20 AND EVERYBODY WANTS THEIR OWN VOICE.
11:42:23 THAT'S WHY I SAY THE MIDDLE OF EAST TAMPA WITH THE
11:42:29 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN HAS TO HAVE A WOW THAT EVERYBODY
11:42:30 FROM ALL THE COMMUNITIES CAN GO TO.
11:42:32 YOU TALK ABOUT MARKETS.
11:42:38 YOU TALK ABOUT A HUB LIKE SOHO, YBOR, THE NEW SIDE OF
11:42:41 THE BEST COMPANY SIDE.
11:42:44 GOT NEIGHBORHOODS WHO ARE MAD ABOUT ELECTIONS.
11:42:47 YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WERE ELECTED.
11:42:50 YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT ATTENDED A NEIGHBORHOOD
11:42:51 ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.
11:42:55 SO YOU HAVE ALL KIND OF CHAOS IN MY DISTRICT AS IT
11:42:57 RELATES TO THE MIDDLE CORE OF THE DISTRICT.
11:42:59 LIKE A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD TO ME.
11:43:01 SO I HAVE TO BE THE FIXER.
11:43:04 HOW I DO MAKE THEM ALL COME TOGETHER TO WORK TOGETHER
11:43:08 FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF EMPOWERMENT.
11:43:13 YOU KNOW, GUYS, I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT EMPOWERMENT.
11:43:14 YOU HAVE TO EMPOWER THE PEOPLE.
11:43:18 LOOK AT THE MODELS BECAUSE I SIT ON THE CAC BOARD.
11:43:21 NOBODY CAN TELL ME HOW IT OPERATES.
11:43:23 IT OPERATES WITH CONFUSION, BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW
11:43:25 WHAT THE PARTNERSHIP DOES.
11:43:29 THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CAC DOES.
11:43:32 AND I LOOK AT THE LAST ADMINISTRATION.
11:43:34 THE LAST ADMINISTRATION WOULD GO TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:43:37 ASSOCIATION MEETING TO BRING BACK THE INFORMATION, OR
11:43:39 TELL THEM TO BE AT THE PARTNERSHIP MEETING A SECOND
11:43:45 TUESDAY OF THE MONTH.
11:43:51 THERE ARE A LOT BLACK BROTHER COMMUNITY AND LEARN TO
11:43:52 FORGIVE AND MOVE ON.
11:43:57 NOBODY IS ASKING FOR MISS BURTON OR THE CURRENT BOARD
11:43:58 TO BE FIRED OR GONE.
11:43:59 TEMP THIS VOTED IN.
11:44:01 THEY DO THEIR JOB.
11:44:04 AND THEIR RECORD STANDS AT THE END OF THE DAY.
11:44:06 THEY HAVE A ONE-YEAR PROCESS.
11:44:09 AND THERE IS AN ELECTION.
11:44:13 BUT I THINK MOVING FORWARD, WE HAVE TO BRING EVERYBODY
11:44:14 TOGETHER.
11:44:16 LIKE MR. DINGFELDER SAID, EVERY ASSOCIATION HAS A SEAT
11:44:20 AT THE TABLE A VOICE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND I THINK WE
11:44:23 NEED TO KEEP WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
11:44:27 I THINK MISS VAN LOAN AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD MORAY AND
11:44:31 JENELLE NEED TO SPEAK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND BRING
11:44:33 THEM TOGETHER AND COME BACK WITH THE MODELS THAT WE
11:44:35 HAVE AND IT COMES BACK TO US.
11:44:39 BUT I THINK THE CURRENT MODEL AS IT SPEAKS, GENTLEMEN,
11:44:42 I SIT ON THE BOARD, IT DOESN'T REALLY WORK.
11:44:45 MR. MANISCALCO, IT DOESN'T REALLY WORK, SIR.
11:44:48 WE CAN KEEP IT AS IT IS NOW, BUT EVENTUALLY IT IS GOING
11:44:51 TO HAVE TO CHANGE BECAUSE THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
11:44:55 CHANGING WITH DIFFERENT WHO WANT EMPOWERMENT AND
11:44:56 HOMEOWNERS.
11:44:59 NOW THEY ARE MORE INVESTED THAN BEFORE.
11:45:00 THEY WANT CHANGE TOO.
11:45:02 THEY WANT CERTAIN CHANGE.
11:45:05 THEY WANT TO SEE CERTAIN THINGS.
11:45:06 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THAT TREE GRANT.
11:45:10 MAN, I TELL YOU THE MOST -- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING
11:45:13 THAT THE COMMUNITY IS LOVING, JOHN.
11:45:15 THEY WANT TO ENCOURAGE -- EVERYBODY WANTS THAT BECAUSE
11:45:17 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT BEFORE.
11:45:20 THEY ARE GLAD THAT THE HOUSES ARE BEING DEMOLISHED.
11:45:25 THE OLD CRACK HOUSES AND DILAPIDATED HOUSES TO BRING IN
11:45:26 NEW DEVELOPMENT.
11:45:27 ALWAYS TALK OF THE REHAB.
11:45:30 WANT MONEY AND TALK ABOUT THAT AT THE END OF A MOTION
11:45:33 OF MAKING THE CAC UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO MOVE
11:45:34 FORWARD.
11:45:37 WE HAVE TO BE NUMBER ONE OF OUR COMMUNITIES.
11:45:40 AND I EXPECT THAT, MR. CHAIRMAN, BECAUSE I HOLD ALL OF
11:45:45 THE CRAS IN MY DISTRICT AND I EXPECT WE HAVE TO BE DONE
11:45:47 BECAUSE THE CITY DOES NOT WORK FOR EVERYBODY.
11:45:50 TOO MUCH MONEY IS LEFT BEHIND.
11:45:55 WE HAVE MONEY RIGHT NOW ON OUR -- IN THE CRA FOR REHAB,
11:45:56 REAL REHAB.
11:46:00 BRING IN THOSE NONPROFIT GROUPS AND DEVELOPING A
11:46:03 PROGRAM TO START CLEANING OUR COMMUNITY UP WITH THE
11:46:05 SLUM AND BLIGHT.
11:46:08 I AM ABOUT THE PROPERTY OWNERS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
11:46:10 INVESTORS AND THEY HAVE TO LIVE THERE DON'T WANT MISS
11:46:11 FRANKIE CALLING ME.
11:46:14 I CALLED THE MAYOR AND I CALLED EVERYBODY AND I STILL
11:46:18 HAVE THESE GUYS ON THE CORNER AND THESE HOUSES NEEDING
11:46:19 TO BE DESTROYED.
11:46:20 THAT'S WHAT I'M ABOUT. I'M ABOUT THOSE LEADERS AND THOSE
11:46:21 PEOPLE WHO WORK EVERY DAY WHO ARE TAKING A CHANCE.
11:46:24 ALL OF THE FOOLISHNESS GOING ON, WHO WAS ELECTED, I COULD
11:46:28 CARE LESS ABOUT THAT.
11:46:29 I CARE ABOUT PROGRESS, SOLUTIONS.
11:46:31 IF YOU ARE NOT ON BOARD WITH THAT, I'LL TELL YOU, I WANT
11:46:34 YOU TO WORK ON A SOLUTION AND PROGRESS.
11:46:37 BUT NOT FOOLISHNESS.
11:46:41 I WON'T TOLERATE FOOLISHNESS FROM ANYBODY.
11:46:45 ABOUT I WANT PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER, AND I SAY, OKAY,
11:46:49 WHEN IT'S YOUR TIME YOU MAKE SURE YOU GET ON THERE AND
11:46:51 YOU MAKE SURE CHANGING THE RULES TO BE AN EX-OFFICIO A
11:46:56 REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
11:46:57 BUT WHAT I DO TELL YOU, GENTLEMEN, TIMES HAVE CHANGED,
11:47:00 PEOPLE HATE CHANGES AT TIMES, BUT CHANGE WILL HAVE TO
11:47:04 COME IN.
11:47:05 IT MAY NOT BE RIGHT NOW, BUT I AM GOING TO HAVE MRS. VAN
11:47:12 LOAN, TALK WITH THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT BECAUSE THEY
11:47:15 ARE ANGRY AND THEY ARE VOCAL AND THEY DO A LOT OF WORK IN
11:47:18 THOSE COMMUNITIES.
11:47:19 AND THEY ARE WORKING HARD.
11:47:22 THEY HAVE CHALLENGES.
11:47:22 BUT MY THING IS THEY CAN'T GO BACKWARD.
11:47:25 THESE ARE ALREADY ON THE TABLE.
11:47:26 THEY NEED TO MOVE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ON THE TABLE NOW,
11:47:29 LET THOSE THINGS MOVE, AND THEY KEEP ADDING ON, NOT TRY
11:47:33 TO REDRESS.
11:47:34 WE CAN'T GO BACK.
11:47:35 SO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ON THE TABLE NEED TO MOVE
11:47:39 FORWARD, THEY NEED TO MOVE FORWARD NOW.
11:47:41 ANYTHING ON TOP OF THAT IS A CARROT ON THE CAKE.
11:47:46 THAT'S MY DIRECTION, MR. CHAIRMAN, AS A PERSON, DISTRICT
11:47:49 PERSON FOR DISTRICT 5 IS FOR MOVING A SOLUTION, BUT
11:47:53 EVENTUALLY WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME CHANGES ON EAST
11:47:56 TAMPA CRA, BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE MOVING INTO
11:47:59 THE COMMUNITY, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ASSOCIATIONS, AND THEY
11:48:01 WANT DIFFERENT THINGS.
11:48:03 AND I THINK THAT'S THE WAY WE NEED TO GO IN THE FUTURE,
11:48:06 AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ON THAT.
11:48:08 AND I THINK FURTHER DISCUSSION WILL BE NEEDED.
11:48:10 BUT I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED WITH THE BOARD,
11:48:14 CURRENT BOARD, AND DISCUSS IT WITH MS. HOLMES, MR.
11:48:19 McGREGOR, MS. VAN LOAN, AND THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY
11:48:23 ASSOCIATIONS, AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AS A GROUP,
11:48:26 CAC BRING IT ALL TOGETHER, BRING THOSE IDEAS BACK TO THIS
11:48:30 BOARD, SO EVERYBODY IS TOGETHER AS ONE, AND NOW WE CAN
11:48:32 MAKE OUR DECISION HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AS ONE.
11:48:35 AND THAT'S WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR.
11:48:37 AND THAT'S THE WAY I WANT TO BE SEE IT DEALT.
11:48:39 ANYONE ELSE?
11:48:41 MR. VIERA.
11:48:42 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
11:48:46 I APPRECIATE YOUR WORDS.
11:48:47 AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE ALL RECOGNIZE THAT FOR YOUR
11:48:51 SEAT IN TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, JUST YOU HAVE SO
11:48:56 MANY CRAs IN THERE, AND JUST THE MANY DIFFERENT
11:48:59 COMMUNITIES THAT YOU REPRESENT, YOU HAVE GOT DOWNTOWN,
11:49:01 YOU HAVE GOT TAMPA HEIGHTS, YOU HAVE GOT EAST TAMPA, YOU
11:49:03 HAVE GOT YBOR CITY, YOU HAVE CHANNELSIDE, YOU HAVE GOT
11:49:06 SULPHUR SPRINGS, YOU HAVE SOME OF BUSCH BOULEVARD AND
11:49:09 THAT COMMUNITY.
11:49:11 THERE'S A LOT THERE OBVIOUSLY FOR YOU TO HANDLE.
11:49:14 AND I THINK I SPEAK FOR ALL OF US WHEN I SAY WE ALL WANT
11:49:17 TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT
11:49:20 REPRESENTATION THAT YOU HAVE DONE, AND I THINK IF I AM
11:49:23 FEELING CONSENSUS ON THIS BOARD ON THIS ISSUE, IT'S THAT
11:49:27 WE CERTAINLY ARE SENSITIVE TO WHAT WAS SAID TODAY AT
11:49:31 PUBLIC COMMENT WITH REGARDS TO ANY PERCEPTIONS ON THIS
11:49:34 BOARD.
11:49:34 I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS ANY INTENT TO -- THE BOARD
11:49:43 RIGHT NOW AS IT EXISTS BUT SOME DIALOGUE FOR SOME CHANGE
11:49:46 FOR REPRESENTATION OF OTHER COMMUNITIES IN EAST TAMPA AND
11:49:50 IT SHOULD BE HELD AND IS PART OF A LONGER PROCESS THAT IT
11:49:52 WILL HAVE NO BEARING WHATSOEVER ON THE PRESENT BOARD, BUT
11:49:56 IT'S JUST PART OF A LONGER TERM PROCESS.
11:49:59 I THINK THAT'S A GOOD SUMMARY, I THINK.
11:50:02 THANK YOU, SIR.
11:50:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GOING TO TAKE A POINT.
11:50:11 PUT A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DIRECT STAFF AND ALSO OUR
11:50:14 NEIGHBORHOOD LIAISON, MR. McGREGOR, MS. HOLMES, TO
11:50:19 JOINT GET TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH A PLAN TO GET WITH
11:50:23 OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THE CAC BOARD FOR IDEA
11:50:27 ON SOLUTIONS TO BRING BACK TO THE BOARD TO FURTHER THE
11:50:33 EAST TAMPA AND POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:50:39 >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND FROM CITRO.
11:50:41 DO WE NEED TO DO ROLL CALL?
11:50:43 A ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:50:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, A ROLL CALL.
11:50:48 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]
11:50:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'M ASKING THAT CRA STAFF AND MARIE
11:50:58 HOLMES GET TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH AN ACTION PLAN TO GO
11:51:00 OUT, MEAT WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, ALSO THE
11:51:03 CAC, COME BACK -- [OFF MICROPHONE] IN REFERENCE TO THE
11:51:13 NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT THEY REALLY WANT.
11:51:14 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY OTHER DISCUSSION?
11:51:18 ALL RIGHT.
11:51:18 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
11:51:19 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:51:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:51:23 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:51:26 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:51:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:51:28 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:51:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:51:31 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:51:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN.
11:51:42 MS. VAN LOAN?
11:51:43 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: BEFORE WE LEAVE THE TOPIC OF EAST
11:51:45 TAMPA, AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
11:51:47 PRESENTATION, IT WAS INTENDED TO BE THE FIRST STEP IN A
11:51:50 DIALOGUE, AND IN ORDER FOR -- WE HEARD A LOT OF THE
11:51:55 PASSIONATE VOICES TODAY, A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS, CONCERNS
11:51:58 AND FEARS OVER THE PAST 48 HOURS, AND ONCE THE AGENDA
11:52:02 CAME OUT, SO I DO WANT TO PUT OUT THERE SO THAT EVERYONE
11:52:07 WILL PARTICIPATE AND FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING WITH STAFF
11:52:10 AND WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND WITH THE CAC.
11:52:13 IF YOU ASK ME RIGHT NOW WHAT SUCH A ROLL-OUT, WHATEVER
11:52:17 THE DETAILS WERE, WOULD LOOK LAKE, AS I MENTIONED, EVERY
11:52:20 OCTOBER WE HAVE AN ELECTION IN EAST TAMPA.
11:52:22 WE HAVE SOME MEMBERS THAT WILL BE TERM LIMITED OFF, SOME
11:52:26 MEMBERS DON'T COME BACK, SOME MEMBERS MAY CHANGE, BUT WE
11:52:30 COULD DO A PHASE ROLL-IN THAT AS PEOPLE ARE TERM LIMITED
11:52:34 OFF OR WE HAVE VACANCIES, WE CAN FILL THOSE VACANCIES
11:52:38 WITH DESIGNATIONS FROM WHICHEVER NEIGHBORHOOD
11:52:40 ASSOCIATIONS AND PHASE IT IN SO THAT IN A CURRENT MEMBERS
11:52:43 WOULD AGAIN AS FEARED THIS MORNING BE KICKED OUT OF THEIR
11:52:49 SEAT OR OFF THEIR MEMBERSHIP BUT YOU CAN THROUGH
11:52:51 ATTRITION AND NOT THROUGH AFFECTING ANY CURRENT MEMBERS,
11:52:54 IF THAT WOULD JUST HELP EVERYBODY WHO HAS SPOKEN TODAY OR
11:52:57 IS LISTENING TO UNDERSTAND, THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANY
11:53:00 INDIVIDUAL EXISTING CAC MEMBER.
11:53:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MS. VAN LOAN, FOR EXPRESSING
11:53:06 AND THIS THAT AND SAYING THAT.
11:53:07 I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR REPORT WITH THE REST THAT YOU ARE
11:53:11 GOING TO BRING TOGETHER.
11:53:13 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF WE CAN COME BACK TO THE
11:53:14 PowerPoint.
11:53:19 FOR WEST TAMPA, WE AGAIN HAVE CAC MEMBERS WHO ALSO SERVE
11:53:24 AS A BOARD MEMBER TO AN ACTUAL NONPROFIT, AND THEY ALSO
11:53:28 SIT AS THE YBOR CRA CAC.
11:53:31 THEY DO HAVE A NOMINATING COMMITTEE THAT IS MADE UP OF
11:53:35 THE MEMBERS OF THEIR YCDC BOARD.
11:53:39 AGAIN, THEY FOLLOW THE SAME PROCESS THAT WE HAVE WHERE
11:53:41 EVERYONE FILLS OUT AN APPLICATION, THOSE APPLICATIONS GO
11:53:44 TO THEIR NOMINATING BOARD WHO THEN VETS THEM FOR
11:53:49 ELIGIBILITY AND THEY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE
11:53:51 ENTIRE -- WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS THE YCDC BOARD OR THE
11:53:56 CAC AND THEN THEY ARE VOTED AS THEIR MEMBERS.
11:53:59 THIS IS A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED BECAUSE AS ONE
11:54:04 GROUP, YOUR CAC MEMBERS ARE ALSO SERVING AS A BOARD OF AN
11:54:08 ACTUAL ORGANIZATION THAT IS A NONPROFIT.
11:54:10 SO ANY SEPARATION, UNLESS YOU CREATE A COMPLETELY
11:54:15 DISTINCT CAC FROM THE YCDC BOARD, ANY CHANGES MADE WOULD
11:54:20 MORE LIKELY BE PROCEDURAL SO THAT WE ARE LEGALLY MEETING
11:54:24 THE NEEDS OF THE YCDC BOARD AND ALSO LEGALLY MEETING THE
11:54:28 NEEDS OF THE CAC AS YOUR RECOMMENDING BODY ON CRA.
11:54:32 AND SOME OF THESE CHANGES WE WOULD MAKE PROCEDURALLY
11:54:34 REGARD LUGS OF CRA BOARD DISCUSSION AND TRACES TO MOVE
11:54:40 FORWARD, SO WE DO NEED TO WORK ON SEPARATE AGENDAS,
11:54:43 SEPARATE NOTIFICATIONS BUT STILL CAN MEET AT THE SAME
11:54:46 TIME, CAN MEAT -- SORRY, I JUST HAD A SENIOR MOMENT --
11:54:51 ONE RIGHT AFTER THE OTHER CONCEPTUALLY -- BUT WE DO NEED
11:54:57 TO HAVE A LOT MORE CLARIFICATION IN YBOR.
11:55:01 AS COUNCILMAN CARLSON MENTIONED, THERE'S OVERHEAD FOR THE
11:55:04 YCDC.
11:55:05 THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT IS THE YCDC AND
11:55:09 WHAT IS THE CAC THAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS THE YCDC
11:55:15 DOING AND WHAT IS THE CAC DOING.
11:55:18 THERE ARE OVERHEAD FOR THE CAC BOARD THAT WE PAY FOR AN
11:55:22 OFFICE THERE, RENT, UTILITIES, AND STAFF THERE.
11:55:25 WE DO NOT DIRECTLY FUND THE YCDC.
11:55:27 THE YCDC'S BUDGET COMES FROM THE FUNDRAISING THROUGH THE
11:55:32 PAVERS.
11:55:33 BUT BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION ABOUT WHO THE YCDC
11:55:38 IS AND WHO THE CAC IS, VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE
11:55:41 DIFFERENCE.
11:55:41 EVEN STAFF THEMSELVES, YOU HEAR THEM SAY, YCDC STAFF OR
11:55:47 YCDC MANAGER AND IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
11:55:50 BUT NOW THAT THERE'S MUCH MORE ENGAGEMENT BY THE
11:55:52 COMMUNITY, MUCH MORE ENGAGEMENT, MORE RESIDENTS, MORE
11:55:56 PEOPLE PAYING ATTENTION, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE MUCH MORE
11:55:58 PRESTRIP TIFF IN HOW WE TALK ABOUT OUR GROUPS, HOW OUR
11:56:04 AGENDAS ARE SET OUT AND HOW WE MEET.
11:56:06 SO I HAVE SET OUT ON THIS SLIDE WHAT THE CURRENT
11:56:08 REPRESENTATION IS WITHIN THE EXISTING, THAT'S WHY THE
11:56:12 EAST TAMPA SLIDE DID NOT HAVE LISTS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT
11:56:16 COULD POTENTIALLY BE -- THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT EXISTS
11:56:19 CURRENTLY IN THE YCDC/CAC MAKEUP.
11:56:23 WE DO HAVE THOSE EX-OFFICIOS SO ALL OF THOSE GROUPS
11:56:26 LISTED UNDER THAT TITLE HAVE DESIGNATED REPRESENTATION ON
11:56:30 THE CAC FOR YBOR.
11:56:32 THEN WE HAVE CATEGORIES TO MAKE SURE THAT REMAINING UP TO
11:56:37 15 MEMBERS AT LEAST ONE MEMBER COMES FROM THESE VARIOUS
11:56:40 SEGMENTS OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC WITHIN THE YBOR CRA AND YCDC.
11:56:47 SO I THINK THIS IS MORE OF AN ISSUE AND CHALLENGE WITH
11:56:50 PERCEPTION, HOW ARE PEOPLE CHOSEN, IF THE CRA BOARD SHOWS
11:56:54 YOU COULD CHANGE THE PROCESS WITH HOW THEY ARE SELECTED.
11:56:58 AGAIN, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT THE FACT THAT
11:57:01 THE YCDC ITSELF SELECTS ITS OWN MEMBERS AND VOTES THEM
11:57:05 IN.
11:57:05 BECAUSE IT IS A LARGER GROUP, IT IS UP TO 25 MEMBERS.
11:57:09 I CAN SAY THAT MOSTLY EVERYBODY WHO APPLIES GETS ON.
11:57:13 THERE'S ONLY BEEN A VERY FEW INSTANCES WHERE WE HAD ONE
11:57:16 EXTRA APPLICATION THAN WE HAD SLOTS ON THE BOARD.
11:57:20 SO WHILE IT MAY APPEAR THAT THEY ARE HAND SELECTED,
11:57:23 EVERYONE WHO DOES APPLY FOR THE MOST PART DOES GET
11:57:25 APPOINTED TO BE ON THE CAC/YCDC BOARD.
11:57:31 WITH THAT I AM HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:57:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL GO FIRST AS PART OF THE YCDC
11:57:42 BOARD.
11:57:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: JUST HAVING BEEN ON THE YBOR CITY CAC,
11:57:49 CRA, CRA-1, IT HAS A LOT OF BUSINESSES INVOLVED.
11:57:53 HENCE THE REASON WHY THE DIFFERENT MEMBERS ARE PART OF
11:57:57 THE YCDC/CAC.
11:58:02 THE BUSINESSES ON 7th AVENUE CONSIST OF A LOT OF THE
11:58:07 EX-OFFICIOS AND THE -- EX-OFFICIOS AND THE MEMBER
11:58:11 CATEGORY.
11:58:12 THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE YBOR CITY CAC/CRA, ESPECIALLY CRA
11:58:18 1, SO DIFFERENT, AND THAT IS WHAT I WAS HOPING THAT WE
11:58:21 COULD ESTABLISH AND STANDARDIZE, MS. VAN LOAN -- EXCUSE
11:58:27 ME, I AM NOT TALKING PROPERLY TODAY -- WAS MENTIONING.
11:58:31 MS. VAN LOAN, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF CRA 1 IN YBOR
11:58:35 CITY, THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE THESE DIFFERENT
11:58:38 CATEGORIES AS EX-OFFICIOS AND CATEGORIES.
11:58:43 AM I SPEAKING CORRECTLY?
11:58:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
11:58:46 AND YOU ALSO HAVE YOUR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS SO SOME OF
11:58:49 THE MORE RESIDENTIAL AREAS ARE ALSO REPRESENTED THROUGH
11:58:52 THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
11:58:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
11:58:54 AND NOT TO CRICKET WHAT COUNCILMAN GUDES SO ELOQUENTLY
11:59:00 SAID ABOUT THE CITIZENS AND HOW THE PROCESS WORKS, THE
11:59:06 PUREST FORM OF DEMOCRACY, WHERE THE CITIZENS SPEAK, THEN
11:59:10 GO TO THE CAC, THEN COME TO THIS BOARD.
11:59:13 IT'S NOT A TOP-DOWN DECISION THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT.
11:59:16 IT'S FROM THE ACTUAL CITIZENS.
11:59:19 AND AGAIN, THE PUREST FORM OF DEMOCRACY.
11:59:24 BUT I AM GOING TO LOOK, COUNCILMAN GUDES -- AND THERE ARE
11:59:28 BUSINESSES AND BUSINESS OWNERS WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CRA
11:59:34 AND -- CAC, AND I AM HOPING THAT THOSE PEOPLE ALSO CAN BE
11:59:38 A VOICE WITHIN THE CRA.
11:59:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I BELIEVE MS. VAN LOAN IS GOING TO DO
11:59:44 THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE
11:59:47 PROPERTY FOLKS.
11:59:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:59:49 THAT WAS ACTUALLY MY BACKING OF WHAT MS. VAN LOAN IS
11:59:53 TRYING TO ACHIEVE IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF CRA AND CAC.
11:59:58 I'M SORRY, MS. VAN LOAN, PLEASE CONTINUE.
12:00:00 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FOR US.
12:00:06 AGAIN, IF THE CRA BOARD CHOSE TO MAKE ANY CHANGES OUT OF
12:00:09 CONCERNS OUT OF THE YBOR CRA, WE CAN LOOK AT THE PROCESS.
12:00:15 IN EAST TAMPA AS YOU MENTION WE HAVE AN ELECTION BUT WE
12:00:18 DO BRING THOSE CANDIDATES TO THE CRA BOARD FIRST, TO YOU
12:00:21 ALL IN THE SUMMER AFFIRM THE SLATE OF CANDIDATES EVERY
12:00:24 YEAR, BEFORE IT ACTUALLY GOES FOR ELECTION.
12:00:26 YOU COULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR IN YBOR, BUT BEFORE THE
12:00:30 YCDC/CAC VOTES ON THOSE MEMBERS, YOU COULD BRING THEM TO
12:00:33 BE AFFIRMED BY THE CRA BOARD OR YOU COULD TAKE A MORE
12:00:36 ACTIVE ROLE.
12:00:37 THERE COULD AGAIN ALSO BE A HYBRID.
12:00:40 SO DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU FEEL THE CONCERNS ARE, YOU NEED
12:00:42 TO ADDRESS.
12:00:44 WE CAN LOOK AT COMING BACK WITH RECOMMENDATIONS AND TALK
12:00:48 WITH THE YBOR FOLKS ABOUT WHAT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ALSO
12:00:52 MIGHT BE, AGAIN BECAUSE THEY ARE 501(C)3. IF WE KEEP
12:00:56 THEM AS A JOINT MEMBERSHIP WHERE ONE SET SERVES AS BOTH
12:01:01 HATS, AGAIN I WOULD BE WORKING WITH COURTNEY ORR, THE
12:01:05 MANAGER OVER THERE, TO SEPARATE OUT SO IT IS VERY TWO
12:01:08 DISTINCT GROUP WITH TWO DISTINCT AGENDAS SO WE KNOW WHOSE
12:01:11 BUSINESS WE ARE DEALING WITH FOR EACH AGENDA, BUT BEYOND
12:01:14 THAT IF YOU DO WANT TO RETAIN THE SAME SET OF INDIVIDUALS
12:01:17 SERVING IN EACH ROLE, WE CAN LOOK AT IF THERE'S A TRUE
12:01:22 CONCERN HOW THE APPOINTMENT OF THOSE MEMBERS MIGHT BETTER
12:01:25 SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY AND THE CRA BOARD
12:01:28 ALONG WITH THE YCDC BOARD.
12:01:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CARLSON.
12:01:35 >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE HEARD FROM FOLKS WHO COULDN'T GET
12:01:38 ON THE BOARD, AND YOU JUST SAID THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY
12:01:41 GETS ON THE BOARD, SO THAT ALMOST MAKES IT WORSE THAT BE
12:01:43 IF I WAS ONE OF THOSE FOLKS WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT AND I WAS
12:01:47 WATCHING THIS, I WOULD GET UPSET BY THAT.
12:01:49 BUT ANYWAY WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THE BOARD IS
12:01:54 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BROADER COMMUNITY AND THAT IT'S
12:01:56 FAIR WOULD BE APPRECIATED, AND THEN IT'S PROBABLY A
12:01:59 SEPARATE ISSUE BUT TO THE POINT ABOUT THE BUDGET AND THE
12:02:02 OVERHEAD, IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO LOOK AT THAT ANOTHER TIME
12:02:05 AS WELL.
12:02:06 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THERE ARE MANY INSTANCES EVEN AS
12:02:13 YOU ALL VOTE ON POINTING CAC MEMBERS, NOT EVERYONE WHO
12:02:18 APPLIES GETS IN, EVEN IN EAST TAMPA. IN THE LAST
12:02:21 ELECTION WE HAD 12 CANDIDATES AND ONLY SIX SLOTS SO IT'S
12:02:24 NOT AS COMMON ACROSS THE CACS WHETHER VOTED ON BY THE CRA
12:02:29 BOARD OR IN EAST TAMPA OR YBOR, AND THAT'S THOUGHT
12:02:34 UNUSUAL OR JUST TO YBOR.
12:02:35 BUT BECAUSE AGAIN THEY HAVE SUCH A LARGE MEMBERSHIP, IT'S
12:02:39 EASIER TO BE MORE FULLY INCLUSIVE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER
12:02:42 SMALLER CAC MEMBERS.
12:02:44 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE OTHER THING, COUNCILMAN GUDES
12:02:51 MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN YOU
12:02:54 MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS HAVE A WRITTEN SET OF RULES SO
12:02:58 THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THE RULES ARE WHEN THEY COME
12:03:00 IN, AND THIS IS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE IDEA, BUT I STOLE
12:03:04 PART OF HIS IDEA.
12:03:05 I WONDER IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR ALL THE CAC
12:03:09 MEETINGS, IN PARTICULAR WITH THESE TWO WHERE FOLKS ARE
12:03:11 WEARING TWO HATS, WHERE WE COULD HELP FOLKS, ESPECIALLY
12:03:16 ATTENDING FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CAC IS
12:03:20 AND HOW IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER HAT THEY MIGHT WEAR
12:03:23 OR CAC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CAC IS, WHAT IT DOES.
12:03:30 LIKE MORRIS MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, IT SERVES AS AN
12:03:33 ADVISORY ROLE, AND WHAT I REALLY WOULD LIKE, AND WE
12:03:39 SHOULD ALSO EXPLAIN THEY ARE WORKING OFF A STRATEGIC
12:03:41 ACTION PLAN, WE SHOULD EXPLAIN BRIEFLY WHAT THEY CAN AND
12:03:44 CAN'T SPEND MONEY ON BECAUSE FOLKS WHO COME FOR THE FIRST
12:03:47 TIME WANT US TO DO JOB TRAINING AND OTHER KINDS OF
12:03:50 SERVICES THAT YOU ALL TOLD US WERE WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO
12:03:53 DO.
12:03:53 AND THEN ANOTHER THING THAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO
12:03:56 MENTION IN THERE IS THAT -- AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SAY
12:03:59 IT IN THESE HARSH WORDS -- BUT THESE MONEYS THAT ARE
12:04:02 BEING SPENT ARE A SUBSIDY COMING FROM THE REST OF THE
12:04:06 CITY.
12:04:07 AND OBVIOUSLY IN A PLACE LIKE EAST TAMPA WE REALLY NEED
12:04:12 IT BUT IN PLACES LIKE CHANNELSIDE AND DOWNTOWN, I THINK
12:04:15 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND, THIS IS NOT
12:04:18 QUOTE-UNQUOTE THEIR MONEY, EVERYBODY IN THE CITY PAYS TAX
12:04:22 MONEY, BUT A WAY TO DESCRIBE IT MIGHT BE THAT THE CITY
12:04:26 HAD DECIDED, THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY HAD DECIDED THAT
12:04:32 FOLKS IN THAT GEOGRAPHIC AREA DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEIR
12:04:36 FULL SHARE OF TAXES FOR REGULAR SERVICES, SO THAT THEY
12:04:41 CAN USE THAT MONEY ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT THEY WANT,
12:04:44 OR WHATEVER DIPLOMATIC WAY WE CAN DESCRIBE IT.
12:04:47 THANK YOU.
12:04:47 >> TO RESPOND SOME TO SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS, WE DO HAVE
12:05:00 TRAINING FOR ALL NEW CAC BOARD MEMBERS AT THIS TIME, AND
12:05:03 WE CAN LOOK AT ADJUSTING SOME OF THE MATERIALS THAT WE
12:05:07 HAND OUT TO TRY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUES.
12:05:09 BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT TRYING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THIS IN
12:05:14 ORIENTATION --
12:05:16 >>BILL CARLSON: ESPECIALLY IN THE ONLINE ONES THERE ARE
12:05:19 A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE LISTENING IN AND THE IN-PERSON ONES,
12:05:23 AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE AND THE
12:05:25 COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY WANT CONSISTENT TIMES FOR
12:05:27 PUBLIC INPUT, BUT BEFORE THEY GET PUBLIC INPUT IT WOULD
12:05:30 BE GOOD ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE
12:05:33 THAT THERE'S SOME KIND OF HANDOUT.
12:05:35 IT SHOULDN'T BE MORE THAN ONE PAGE.
12:05:36 BUT JUST SO THEY YOUR HONOR THE CONTEXT OF WHAT A CAC IS,
12:05:40 AND MONEY CAN AND CAN'T BE SPENT, WHERE THE MONEY IS
12:05:43 COMING FROM.
12:05:43 >>MORRIS MASSEY: ALL RIGHT.
12:05:45 THANK YOU.
12:05:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I SEE YOUR POINT, MR. CARLSON.
12:05:49 I THINK JUST LIKE MR. MORRIS DOES WHEN PUBLIC COMMENT
12:05:52 COMES ON, HE EXPLAINS THE RULES OF PUBLIC COMMENT, AND
12:05:56 SOMETIMES YOU ARE RIGHT, I THINK PEOPLE JUST SHOW UP, AND
12:05:59 THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW, SO MAYBE AT THE BEGINNING OF A
12:06:04 CAC MEETING OR MEETING THERE'S A LITTLE BRIEF DESCRIPTION
12:06:07 OF WHAT THE CHAIR OR STAFF READS OUT SO PEOPLE WILL KNOW.
12:06:12 >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE'LL TRY TO WORK ON SOMETHING THAT WE
12:06:14 CAN HAND OUT.
12:06:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AS IT RELATES TO YBOR, YBOR IS
12:06:22 CHANGING, TOO.
12:06:24 PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ME SAYING IT'S AN ENTERTAINMENT
12:06:27 DISTRICT, BUT TO ME YOU HAVE ENTERTAINMENT DOWN THERE.
12:06:29 TO ME IT'S AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.
12:06:32 I KNOW FOLKS DON'T LIKE THAT WORD BUT THAT'S WHAT IT
12:06:34 REALLY IS.
12:06:34 YOU HAVE ACTIVITIES DOWN THERE THAT PEOPLE COME TO
12:06:37 SOCIALIZE, BARS, CLUBS OF ALL KIND OF ICE CREAM PARLORS
12:06:42 AND RESTAURANTS.
12:06:43 IT'S A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE GO FOR ENTERTAINMENT, TO DINE.
12:06:47 IT IS WHAT IT IS.
12:06:48 BUT YOU ALSO NOW HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN YBOR, SO
12:06:53 AGAIN, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T LIKE CHANGE, BUT WHEN YOU
12:06:57 LOOK AT THE CITY AS A WHOLE, AND YOU LOOK AT YOUR HOUSE,
12:07:05 THE COLOR ON THEIR HOUSE CHANGES.
12:07:07 YOU KNOW, THE LOOK CHANGES.
12:07:14 SO WE CAN'T BE AFRAID OF CHANGE, BUT WE HAVE TO EMBRACE
12:07:17 THE CHANGE.
12:07:19 I THINK THE SAME WITH YBOR.
12:07:20 YOU HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE LIVING DO I KNOW THERE.
12:07:23 THERE SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE INCLUSIVE OF THOSE
12:07:25 FOLKS.
12:07:26 IF YOU WANT TO SAY THE CAC BOARD OR THE YCDC,
12:07:32 THOSE DISCUSSIONS NEED TO HAPPEN TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE --
12:07:37 SAYING THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE SO EVERYBODY FEELS
12:07:40 INVOLVED.
12:07:40 SO I AM HOPING THAT COUNCILMAN CITRO, ALWAYS TALK ABOUT
12:07:44 ARE EXPERIENCE, AND HE HAS BEEN ON THAT BOARD A LONG
12:07:47 TIME, AND I HAVE LIVED IN EAST TAMPA, I UNDERSTAND IT SO
12:07:51 I HOPE YOU HAVE A LITTLE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THAT BUT ALSO
12:07:56 LOOKING AT CHANGE AND MAKE WHOLE GROUP CHANGE.
12:07:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, IF I MAY.
12:08:02 THE CHAIR IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE LAST WORD.
12:08:04 BUT YOU JUST INSPIRED ME.
12:08:07 THANK YOU.
12:08:09 CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN THE UNIVERSE.
12:08:13 EVERY DAY WE WAKE UP AND THERE IS CHANGE.
12:08:17 AGAIN, I HATE SAYING THESE WORDS, BUT BACK WHEN I WAS ON
12:08:22 THE YBOR CITY CRA, IT WAS OUR GOAL TO TRY AND MAKE YBOR
12:08:29 CITY REFLECTIVE OF WHAT IT WAS, WHERE PEOPLE LIVED
12:08:35 TOGETHER, WHERE THERE WAS RETAIL, WHERE THERE WAS
12:08:38 SHOPPING, AND, YES, WHERE THERE WAS ENTERTAINMENT.
12:08:41 AND I WILL JUST MAKE THIS LAST STATEMENT, THAT THE EAST
12:08:45 TAMPA CRA WAS DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB, AND THEN COVID HIT.
12:08:52 AND SOMETHING CHANGED SOMEWHERE.
12:08:54 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT YBOR CITY WILL REGAIN WHAT
12:09:00 IT ONCE WAS, THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE LIVE.
12:09:06 RAISED FAMILY, SHOPPED, WERE ABLE TO WALK TO EVERYTHING,
12:09:11 AND THIS CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE YBOR CITY CRA/CAC.
12:09:17 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
12:09:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANYONE ELSE?
12:09:24 MS. VAN LOAN?
12:09:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AS WE MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 7, IF
12:09:28 WE ARE DONE WITH THE STAFF REPORT, IF I CAN HAVE THE
12:09:30 OVERHEAD FOR ONE QUICK SECOND.
12:09:36 MAYBE?
12:09:37 WE HAVE A FACADE GRANT FOR YBOR CRA.
12:09:40 IT IS A PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1514 EAST 7th STREET, OR
12:09:45 7th AVENUE.
12:09:46 IT IS A $150,000 FACADE GRANT.
12:09:49 LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER HISTORIC BUILDINGS YOU CAN SEE ALL
12:09:52 THE WINDOWS, THE SOFFITS AT THE ROOF, STOREFRONTS, A LOT
12:09:57 OF BRICK WORK, SO THEY WILL BE COMPLETELY REDOING ALL OF
12:10:00 THE STOREFRONTS, THE WINDOWS, THOSE ENTRANCE, REPLACING
12:10:05 OUT THOSE WINDOWS SO WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL ON
12:10:07 THIS FACADE GRANT.
12:10:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE YOU GOING TO GO AHEAD?
12:10:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU SAID THE SECOND FLOOR WAS GOING
12:10:19 TO BE REDONE OR JUST THE WINDOWS?
12:10:22 I KNOW THERE HAD BEEN A FIRE THERE AND IT HAD BEEN
12:10:25 UNTOUCHED FOR YEARS AT THIS POINT.
12:10:28 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IT ONLY COVERS THE EXTERIOR BUT IT
12:10:31 IS PART OF A MUCH LARGER REHABILITATION OF THE BUILDING.
12:10:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD, BECAUSE FOR MANY YEARS SITTING
12:10:36 AT KING CORONA ACROSS THE STREET WE OFTEN REMARKED WHY
12:10:40 DOES NOTHING HAPPEN TO THIS BUILDING SO I AM GLAD TO SEE
12:10:42 THE MOVE FORWARD.
12:10:43 THANK YOU.
12:10:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
12:10:47 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:10:49 THIS $50,000 IS A GRANT.
12:10:53 HOWEVER, IT IS A MATCHING GRANT, CORRECT?
12:10:57 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
12:10:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SO THEN THE SKIN IN THE GAME IS THAT OF
12:11:01 THE OWNER ALSO.
12:11:03 SO THEY ARE PUTTING IN THEIR OWN MONEY.
12:11:05 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
12:11:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MS. VAN LOAN.
12:11:08 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU ALL KNOW THAT I AM AGAINST FACADE
12:11:12 GRANTS BECAUSE I THINK THE MONEY SHOULD BE USED ON OTHER
12:11:15 THINGS, EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
12:11:17 [ LAUGHTER ]
12:11:20 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS YOUR SECOND OR THIRD
12:11:22 EXCEPTION.
12:11:22 >>BILL CARLSON: IT'S ALWAYS AN EXCEPTION FOR HISTORIC
12:11:25 BUILDINGS.
12:11:25 BUT IN PARTICULAR I SAID KING CORONA AND I WANTS TO SEE A
12:11:29 BETTER VIEW ACROSS THE STREET, TOO.
12:11:31 [ LAUGHTER ]
12:11:34 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I ASSUME YOU ALL ARE SITTING AT
12:11:36 KING CORONA SEPARATELY, RIGHT?
12:11:38 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE DO NOT SPEAK.
12:11:43 MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
12:11:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
12:11:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
12:11:50 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:11:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:11:53 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:11:55 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:11:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:11:57 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:11:58 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
12:11:59 >> ITEM 8.
12:12:04 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM 8 IS A REPROGRAMMING FOR THE
12:12:06 YBOR CITY CRA.
12:12:08 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS PROJECT PREVIOUSLY, AND THIS MOVES
12:12:10 THE MONEY FROM THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
12:12:13 SAVING THE MONEY UP OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS TO BE
12:12:16 ABLE TO FUND THE STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS THAT GO ALONG
12:12:20 WITH THE NEW MONUMENT CHANGES AND PROJECTS.
12:12:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVED BY CITRO, SECONDED BY MANISCALCO.
12:12:32 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:12:33 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEMS 9 THROUGH 12 ARE YOUR
12:12:40 APPOINTMENTS TO THE VARIOUS CACS AND I BELIEVE LAST TIME
12:12:44 YOU WERE ABLE TO APPROVE THEM AS A GROUP.
12:12:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:12:48 SO MOVED.
12:12:49 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
12:12:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MANISCALCO, SECOND BY CITRO.
12:12:57 ANY DISCUSSION?
12:12:58 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:13:00 ANY OPPOSED?
12:13:03 MOTION CARRIES.
12:13:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YOUR LAST ITEM FOR THE AGENDA, THE
12:13:08 EAST TAMPA CAC WOULD LIKE TO ESTABLISH A WEEKLY RADIO
12:13:14 SHOW, AN HOURLY SHOW ON SATURDAY.
12:13:17 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR CRA ATTORNEY TO FIND OUT
12:13:21 UNDER WHAT PARAMETERS, GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA SUCH A
12:13:25 PROJECT COULD BE FUNDED BY THE CRA.
12:13:27 IF IT IS DONE AS WHAT WOULD BE A CONSIDERED A PUBLIC
12:13:33 SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT AS WE TALK WHAT ARE THE PROMISE, HOW
12:13:35 CAN YOU GET FUND, WHAT TYPES OF ACTIVITIES, WHAT THE CRA
12:13:39 IS, SOME OF THE SAME INFORMATION THAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON
12:13:42 TALKED ABOUT A MINUTE AGO, TO HELP GET THAT INFORMATION
12:13:44 OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
12:13:46 IT WOULD NOT BE A CALL-IN SHOW THERE.
12:13:48 WOULD NOT BE MORE THAN ONE CAC MEMBER EVER PARTICIPATING
12:13:51 IN EACH MONTH'S SHOW.
12:13:54 THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR WEST TAMPA CRA TO PARTICIPATE.
12:13:58 THEY HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO HEAR THAT YET.
12:14:00 BUT EAST TAMPA CAC HAS REQUESTED THAT THE CRA BOARD
12:14:04 APPROVE THIS PROGRAM FOR THE REMAINDER OF FY 21 FOR AN
12:14:09 HOUR SHOW ON SATURDAY.
12:14:10 AGAIN UNDERSTANDING THERE COULD SHALL A POTENTIAL
12:14:13 PARTNERSHIP WITH WEST TAMPA.
12:14:14 THE CURRENT COST ONE NOT EXCEED $24,000 FOR ONE YEAR OF
12:14:18 THE PROGRAM.
12:14:20 AND I BELIEVE WE SENT YOU ALL A MEMO EXPLAINING THEIR
12:14:23 SCOPE AND REQUEST FOR IT.
12:14:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ANY QUESTIONS?
12:14:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUST A COMMENT.
12:14:30 BACK IN THE DAY THERE WAS A MAN NAMED WALTER CRONKITE AND
12:14:34 WE GIVE THE NEWS AND WE SIGN OFF AND THAT WAS IT.
12:14:37 NOW, WHEN THERE'S NEWS, IT'S A LOT OF COMMENTARY INSTEAD
12:14:43 OF FACTS.
12:14:44 IS THIS GOING TO BE COMMENTARY OR IS IT GOING TO BE --
12:14:47 THERE'S GOING TO BE A MEETING THIS DAY, WE ARE INVITING
12:14:51 THE COMMUNITY TO THIS.
12:14:52 YOU SAID IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A CALL-IN SHOW BUT IS IT
12:14:56 JUST AN ANNOUNCEMENT SHOW, JUST STATE THE FACTS?
12:14:58 OR IS IT GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, BACK AND FORTH
12:15:02 DISCUSSION, POTENTIAL CRITICISM?
12:15:05 WHAT IS IT GOING TO REALLY BE LIKE?
12:15:08 BECAUSE I'M WONDERING WHY DOES THE CRA HAVE TO FUND A
12:15:12 RADIO SHOW?
12:15:15 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO THAT,
12:15:17 COUNCILMAN.
12:15:19 THE RADIO SHOW, ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE WERE SAYING, IS
12:15:23 NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A COMMENTARY OR DEBATE ABOUT CRA
12:15:26 ISSUES OR RAISING ISSUES THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE PARAMETERS
12:15:29 OF THE CRA.
12:15:30 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE INFORMATIONAL ONLY, THE CAC IS
12:15:34 MEETING ON THIS DAY.
12:15:36 OUR SUBCOMMITTEE IS MEETING THAT DATE.
12:15:38 WE HAVE A TREE TRIMMING PROGRAM.
12:15:40 WE HAVE A FACADE GRANT PROGRAM.
12:15:42 THIS IS WHO YOU SHOULD CONTACT IN ORDER TO APPLY FOR
12:15:44 THOSE GRANTS.
12:15:45 HERE ARE THE CRITERIA FOR SATISFYING THAT.
12:15:49 IF IT GOES BEYOND THAT -- AND I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS
12:15:51 WITH SOME MEMBERS OF THE CAC FOR EAST TAMPA.
12:15:54 IF IT GOES BEYOND THAT, THEN IT'S INAPPROPRIATE, AND THE
12:15:59 CAC WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FUND IT.
12:16:01 SO THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE I WANT TO ADD, IF YOU ALL VOTE
12:16:06 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, ANY SORT OF ARRANGEMENT WE
12:16:08 HAVE WITH ANY RADIO, SO IT NEEDS TO BE CANCELABLE,
12:16:13 BECAUSE IF THEY DO GO BEYOND THOSE PARAMETERS, IT WILL BE
12:16:17 CANCELED.
12:16:18 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VERY GOOD.
12:16:19 THANK YOU.
12:16:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER HAD HIS HAND UP.
12:16:23 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:16:24 AND COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP.
12:16:26 I WAS GOING TO INQUIRE ON THAT, BECAUSE WHEN YOU PUT --
12:16:31 LET'S DO THIS. IF WE PASS THIS, I WILL BE LOOKING AT CRA
12:16:35 STAFF ON THIS ISSUE, AND I DON'T WANT THIS TO COME BACK
12:16:38 TO US IN AN EMBARRASSING OR ADVERSE LIGHT OR WHATEVER IT
12:16:43 COULD BE, BECAUSE THIS IS MY BIG CONCERN, THAT WHEN YOU
12:16:47 HAVE A RADIO SHOW -- AND MIND YOU, THE IDEAS PRESENTED IS
12:16:50 FINE AND YOU HOPE THAT WEST TAMPA CAN ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE
12:16:53 OF THIS.
12:16:53 BUT THE IDEAS PRESENTED COULD WIND UP WITH A CONFLICT
12:16:57 WHERE CERTAIN COMMENTS ARE MADE ON THE RADIO, AND THEN
12:17:02 THE CITY, THE CRA HAS TO INTERVENE AND THEN YOU HAVE
12:17:07 CONTENT RESTRICTIONS ON A RADIO SHOW WITH CRA A GOVERNING
12:17:10 BODY, AND WHERE DOES THAT LEAD US? THAT COULD LEAD TO US
12:17:14 LEGAL CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES.
12:17:16 SO IN OTHER WORDS THIS HAS GOT TO BE SOMETHING THAT HAS
12:17:18 GOT TO BE, AS COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO WISELY PUT, JUST THE
12:17:22 FACTS, ET CETERA, BECAUSE AGAIN, I DON'T WANTS THIS TO
12:17:25 COME BACK TO US WITH SOMETHING THAT DEVIATES FROM WHAT IS
12:17:29 PROMISED.
12:17:30 AND I WOULD ALSO LIKING TO SEE WEST TAMPA BE ABLE TO TAKE
12:17:33 ADVANTAGE OF THIS AS WELL.
12:17:34 SO AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT OF PROMISE, AND THIS IS ALSO, BY
12:17:38 THE WAY, PART OF THE EXCITEMENT.
12:17:39 I MEAN, I HAVE HAD PEOPLE TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS AND
12:17:42 THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT THIS.
12:17:43 THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT GOING, HEY, WE ARE
12:17:46 GOING TO HAVE A RADIO INFORMATION, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE A
12:17:50 RADIO SHOW, IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT GOES, HEY,
12:17:52 LISTEN, HERE IS WHAT'S HAPPENING, HERE IS HOW YOU CAN GET
12:17:55 INVOLVED, AND COME ALL YE FAITHFUL.
12:17:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
12:18:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WILL BE GLAD TO DEFER THIS TO
12:18:07 MIRANDA IF HE WOULD RATHER GO FIRST.
12:18:10 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HIS GLASSES ARE A LITTLE BIT LARGER
12:18:13 THAN MINE.
12:18:14 [ LAUGHTER ]
12:18:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OKAY THEN.
12:18:19 ALL RIGHT.
12:18:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THIS IDEA IS KIND OF MOOT, BECAUSE
12:18:29 ABOUT A YEAR AGO, WE TALKED TO MICHELLE OF DOING MORE
12:18:34 PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR ALL OF THE CRAS, FOR THE CRA
12:18:39 CONTENT.
12:18:43 FOR THE ENTIRE CITY.
12:18:44 WE ARE NOW, WHAT IS IT, $25 MILLION TOTAL ANNUAL BUDGET.
12:18:50 OBVIOUSLY SOME ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS.
12:18:53 BUT WHAT I MIGHT SUGGEST IN LIEU, MR. CHAIRMAN, WHAT YOU
12:18:57 WERE TALKING ABOUT CONCERNING WEST TAMPA, I THINK THIS IS
12:19:03 A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
12:19:04 COUNCILMAN GUDES POINTS OUT THAT ALL OF THE CRAs ARE
12:19:07 ACTUALLY TOTALLY OR AT LEAST IN PART IN HIS DISTRICT,
12:19:13 DISTRICT 5, BUT MAYBE -- WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE RADIO
12:19:18 STATION.
12:19:18 BUT WHY DON'T WE ENLARGE THIS TO INCLUDE ALL THE CRAS?
12:19:22 SO ON ANY GIVEN SATURDAY OR WHATEVER DAY THEY ARE GOING
12:19:25 TO DO IT, IT WOULD ROTATE AROUND, SO ONE SATURDAY THE
12:19:31 COMMUNITY WOULD HEAR ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON DOWNTOWN.
12:19:34 NEXT SATURDAY, THE COMMUNITY WOULD HEAR ABOUT WHAT'S
12:19:37 HAPPENING IN THE EAST TAMPA CRA, AND IT WOULD JUST ROTATE
12:19:41 AROUND.
12:19:41 AND THEN THAT WAY ALL THE CRAS WOULD PARTICIPATE, AND
12:19:49 INCLUDING EAST TAMPA, WEST TAMPA, AND THE REST OF THEM.
12:19:52 I THINK IT'S A NEAT IDEA, BUT I THINK WE COULD ACTUALLY
12:19:57 FARM IT OUT EVEN SO NOBODY WOULD FEEL LEFT OUT.
12:20:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA.
12:20:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE SOME APPREHENSION THAT THE
12:20:05 ORIGINAL IDEA OF CRA WOULD SPEND THE MONEY IN THAT
12:20:09 DISTRICT AND GET IT DONE TO BRING THAT DISTRICT TO BE
12:20:12 BETTER STANDARDS, AS IT WAS BEFORE THE CRA STARTED.
12:20:17 SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I AM GOING TO NOT BE ABLE TO
12:20:19 SUPPORT THIS.
12:20:20 THANK YOU.
12:20:20 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALSO REAL QUICK, WHO APPROVES THE
12:20:24 AGENDA AND THE SCRIPT, YOU KNOW?
12:20:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ALL THE OTHER CRA BOARD MEMBERS -- FIRST
12:20:34 OF ALL, I WANT TO ASK, IS THIS RADIO STATION WITHIN
12:20:38 EITHER ONE OF THE CRAs?
12:20:40 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IT IS LOCATED I BELIEVE WITHIN THE
12:20:42 WEST TAMPA CRA.
12:20:43 >> I DON'T THINK SO.
12:20:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NO, IT'S NOT.
12:20:46 >> WTMP IS ON THE CORNER OF SPRUCE --
12:20:56 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DALE MABRY BUT
12:20:59 THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.
12:21:02 WILL THIS CAUSE ANY TYPE OF ECONOMIC IMPACT TO EITHER ONE
12:21:08 OF THE CRAS?
12:21:10 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE WOULD CONSIDER THIS UNDER
12:21:12 MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS VERSUS A REINVESTMENT PROGRAM.
12:21:16 SO THAT'S WHY THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY WE WOULD BE
12:21:19 ALLOWED TO FUND IT.
12:21:21 AND THAT'S WHY I STARTED OUT DESCRIBING IT AS ALMOST LIKE
12:21:24 A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE OF SHOW WHERE WE CAN
12:21:27 TALK ABOUT HERE IS WHAT WE DO, AND IT WOULD FALL UNDER
12:21:30 MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS.
12:21:32 SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT KIND OF IMPACT,
12:21:34 ECONOMIC IMPACT, MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS HAVE OR
12:21:37 COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
12:21:38 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SOMEONE SAID WHEN WE DO THE SURVEYS,
12:21:41 THAT THAT IS NOT AN ECONOMIC IMPACT.
12:21:46 NEITHER WAS THE SURVEY COMPANY THAT WE HAD USED WITHIN
12:21:49 EITHER OF THE CRAs.
12:21:50 I UNDERSTAND THAT BUT WE ARE GETTING INFORMATION FROM
12:21:53 PEOPLE WITHIN THE CRA.
12:21:55 $24,000 IS ONE HECK OF A LOT OF MONEY.
12:21:58 AND IF THIS IS GOING TO BE A PSA OR DESIGNED TO BE A PSA,
12:22:03 BECAUSE NOBODY IS CALLING IN, AND THE CRAS AND CACS ARE
12:22:09 NOT GIVING OPINIONS, COULDN'T THE SAME THING BE ACHIEVED
12:22:13 BY GOING TO WTMP, THE SOUL OF TAMPA BAY, TO BE ABLE TO
12:22:18 GET PSAs TO PUT OUT THAT INFORMATION FOR THE CRAS AND
12:22:23 CAC?
12:22:25 MR. CHAIR, I AM JUST MAKING COMMENTS HERE, ASKING SOME
12:22:27 QUESTIONS, BUT TRYING TO ALSO FIT OURSELVES WITHIN THE
12:22:30 GUIDELINES OF CRAS AND CAC.
12:22:33 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
12:22:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OKAY, MR. DINGFELDER, SIR.
12:22:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I DON'T DOUBT THAT $24,000 IS A LOT
12:22:49 OF MONEY.
12:22:49 I THINK THE YBOR DISTRICT SPENDS, I DON'T KNOW, $100,000
12:22:53 ON ITS MARKETING EFFORTS, AND CHANNELSIDE HAS A MARKETING
12:22:57 BUDGETS THAT'S PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AS WELL.
12:23:00 SO I THINK THERE IS SOME VALID CONCERNS EXPRESSED.
12:23:09 MR. VIERA INDICATED HE DOESN'T WANT TO CROSS THE FIRST
12:23:13 AMENDMENT LINE IN TERMS OF RESTRAINTS AND CONSTRAINTS,
12:23:16 BUT I THINK IF STAFF IS INVOLVED, AND IT'S MORE LIKE A
12:23:19 30-MINUTE PSA, BUT I DON'T THINK INAPPROPRIATE.
12:23:23 I THINK THAT PART OF THE REASON THERE'S SO MUCH CONFUSION
12:23:27 IN THE CITY ABOUT THE CRAs THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT
12:23:32 IT AND UNDERSTAND IT.
12:23:33 I THINK IF WE HAD A ONE-YEAR EFFORT, $24,000, THAT
12:23:37 INCLUDED ALL THE CRAS AND WHAT'S GOING ON AND THAT SORT
12:23:40 OF THING, I THINK IT MIGHT BE A RED FLAG.
12:23:46 SO I'M OPEN MINDED TO LISTEN TO OTHER STUFF, BUT I THINK
12:23:48 IF WE DO IT, WE SHOULD DO IT FOR ALL THE CRAS.
12:23:54 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I DID WANT TO POINT OUT TO THE CRA
12:23:56 BOARD RELATIVE TO THIS DISCUSSION THAT YOU RECENTLY
12:23:58 APPROVED THE FUNDING OF A MARKETING FIRST ---
12:24:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS GOING TO GET THERE, MR. MASSEY.
12:24:06 >>MORRIS MASSEY: AND THAT IS COMING ON BOARD AND MAYBE
12:24:10 THE CONCEPT OF THIS RADIO PROGRAM IS CONSIDERED IN THE
12:24:13 WIDER CONTEXT OF THAT EFFORT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ARE
12:24:17 ALLOWED TO SPEND MONEY ON.
12:24:18 WE ARE ALLOWED TO SPEND MONEY ON THE ACTIVITY, NOT HAVING
12:24:25 A DEBATE FORUM.
12:24:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR, ONE LAST THING.
12:24:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA WAS NEXT.
12:24:35 >>LUIS VIERA: HE CAN GO FIRST.
12:24:36 >>JOSEPH CITRO: JUST TO YOUR POINT, COUNCILMAN VIERA,
12:24:39 BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE INFORMATIONAL, AND IT WILL
12:24:43 NOT HAVE CONVERSATION, WHO IS GOING TO LOOK AT THE
12:24:48 SCRIPT?
12:24:50 WILL IT ACTUALLY BE THE CRA/CAC BOTH IN EAST TAMPA, WEST
12:24:54 TAMPA?
12:24:55 WILL IT BE US?
12:24:57 WHO IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL OR SHALL I SAY MANAGE
12:25:02 THE CONTENT OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE PUT ON THE RADIO SHOW?
12:25:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GOING LET MR. VIERA GO AND THEN I
12:25:09 WANT TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS IN REFERENCE TO MONEY WE HAVE
12:25:12 ALREADY ALLOCATED.
12:25:13 >>LUIS VIERA: AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
12:25:18 AND IT MAY BE THAT WE ARE OVER ANALYZING THIS, BECAUSE
12:25:22 THIS HASN'T COME UP SO EXPLICITLY BEFORE, MONETARILY.
12:25:27 I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT WHAT WE ARE SPENDING IN OTHER
12:25:29 SIMILAR SITUATIONS TO SEE IF WE ARE OVERLY ANALYZING THIS
12:25:33 WHICH COULD VERY WELL BE.
12:25:35 THERE'S CONTENT ISSUES ON ALL ADVERTISING, AND I THINK
12:25:39 THAT'S IMPORTANT.
12:25:40 SO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION TO BE QUITE
12:25:43 FRANK.
12:25:44 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER TALKING ABOUT ALL CRAs BEING USE
12:25:50 ON THE RADIO.
12:25:51 I THINK THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA, OBVIOUSLY.
12:25:53 SO I DO THINK THAT I WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT,
12:25:57 THE CONTENT ISSUE BOTHERS ME.
12:25:59 HOWEVER, IF WE ARE DOING THAT ADVERTISING, THEN THAT --
12:26:03 IN OTHER WORDS, ARE WE OVERLY ANALYZING IT?
12:26:06 COULD BE.
12:26:06 WHO KNOWS?
12:26:07 SO JUST MORE INFORMATION.
12:26:08 THAT'S ALL.
12:26:09 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. GUDES IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIS
12:26:14 MOTION AND THE THINGS THAT HE PUT FORWARD WHICH I
12:26:17 APPRECIATE.
12:26:19 MY OTHER JOB IS I'M A COMMUNICATION PERSON, AND I THINK
12:26:21 THAT THE CRA COMMITTEE, THE DISTRICTS AND THE CRA BOARDS,
12:26:28 ALL NEED BETTER COMMUNICATION.
12:26:29 WE NEED MORE CONSTITUENT COMMUNICATION, AND WE NEED TO BE
12:26:32 ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT WE DO.
12:26:37 IF THAT PERSON IS STILL COMING ON BOARD, WE NEED TO
12:26:39 FIGURE OUT HOW TO BREECH THAT, WHO THEY ARE GOING TO
12:26:44 REPORT TO.
12:26:44 IT'S NOT JUST A RADIO PROGRAM.
12:26:46 HOW DO WE COME UP WITH PROTOCOLS?
12:26:48 WILL EACH OF THESE CACs BE SEPARATELY BRANDED? HOW
12:26:52 WILL THE CRA BE BRANDED?
12:26:54 RIGHT NOW ANYTHING THAT GOES OUT, ANY PRESS RELEASES THAT
12:26:58 GO OUT ON THE CITY'S LETTERHEAD THAT SAY CITY OF TAMPA,
12:27:01 MAYOR JANE CASTOR TRANSFORMING TAMPA'S TOMORROW, THE
12:27:05 MAYOR HAS BEEN VERY GRACIOUS TO ALLOW US TO SEPARATE,
12:27:09 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND ALL THAT STUFF, FIGURE OUT THE
12:27:11 LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION, AND WE DO SOMETHING THAT THE
12:27:14 MAYOR DOESN'T LAKE, AND IT'S ON HER LETTER SED HEAD, SHE
12:27:17 MIGHT NOT LIKE THAT.
12:27:18 IF IT'S SOMETHING SHE LIKES AND WE ARE PARTNERING WITH
12:27:20 THE CITY SHE CAN ALWAYS SAY IT.
12:27:22 BUT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF
12:27:24 COMMUNICATION, AND IN PARTICULAR IF WE CAN BUILD AN
12:27:26 AUDIENCE OF FOLKS WHO ENGAGE IN EACH OF THESE COMMUNITIES
12:27:29 AND COMMUNICATE WITH THEM REGULARLY, I THINK THAT WOULD
12:27:32 BE BENEFICIAL. IN REGARD TO THE RADIO PROGRAM ITSELF, I
12:27:34 HEARD THAT THIS IS A METHOD TO REACH OUT TO THAT
12:27:38 PARTICULAR COMMUNITY.
12:27:39 I DON'T OBJECT TO IT AS LONG AS IT HAS GUARDRAILS AND A
12:27:42 CONSOLATION IN IT AS AN EXPERIMENT.
12:27:45 BUT AS WE GET A COMMUNICATION PERSON TO COME UP WITH A
12:27:48 BETTER PLAN.
12:27:49 THANK YOU.
12:27:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GENTLEMEN, I HEARD EVERYBODY.
12:27:53 I PUT MY TWO CENTS IN.
12:27:55 I AM NOT SUPPORTIVE OF A RADIO SHOW.
12:27:57 I'M SUPPORTIVE THAT WE HAVE A MARKETING DIRECTOR, WHO HAS
12:28:02 BEEN HIRED.
12:28:02 MY UNDERSTANDING, MS. VAN LOAN, IS THAT CORRECT?
12:28:05 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE ARE STILL WORKING ON IT BECAUSE
12:28:07 A BRAND NEW POSITION HAD TO BE CREATED.
12:28:09 SOMETHING LIKE THIS DIDN'T ALREADY EXIST.
12:28:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK WE NEED TO WAIT FOR THAT
12:28:14 MARKETING DIRECTOR IS ON BOARD.
12:28:16 YOU TALK ABOUT HAVING A RADIO SHOW OR ADVERTISEMENT, AND
12:28:19 THAT MARKETING DIRECTOR COULD BE ABLE TO BE THE DIRECTOR
12:28:22 IN CHAMPION OF THOSE DIFFERENT CRAS AND THAT INFORMATION,
12:28:26 THEN MAYBE GET OUT ON THE RADIO AND BE ABLE TO HAVE
12:28:30 ADVERTISEMENTS OR WHATEVER ABOUT THE DIFFERENT CRAs,
12:28:33 BUT I AM JUST NOT IN FAVOR OF THE CRA GETTING ON A RADIO
12:28:37 SHOW.
12:28:37 I THINK YOU HAVE TO HAVE A STRATEGY, AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE
12:28:40 A PERSON IN CHARGE OF THAT, LOOKING AT WHAT IS GOING OUT.
12:28:52 THE MAYOR MAY NOT LIKE PUTTING SOMETHING OUT THERE.
12:28:55 SO I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL THOSE AVENUES, YOU
12:28:57 KNOW, AND I'M WISHING MR. WARD AND HIS HEALTH, I TALKED
12:29:04 TO HIM A COUPLE DAYS AGO, WISHING HIM A GOOD RECOVERY,
12:29:09 BUT I THINK WTMP, THE VOICE OF THE BAY, PEOPLE LISTEN BUT
12:29:17 NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE.
12:29:19 IF YOU ARE A POLITICIAN, MAYBE TEN PEOPLE LISTEN.
12:29:23 A LOT OF COMMUNITIES YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE LISTEN TO
12:29:27 HISPANIC RADIO. WE HAVE A HISPANIC COMMUNITY IN EAST
12:29:30 TAMPA AS WELL.
12:29:31 MY FOLKS LIVE IN EAST TAMPA.
12:29:33 SO COMMENTS I HEARD, SOME OF THE COMMENTS, THEY TALKED
12:29:37 ABOUT THAT.
12:29:38 HOW DID THAT BENEFIT MY COMMUNITY?
12:29:40 I DON'T LISTEN TO WTMP.
12:29:44 I THINK IT'S A GOOD AVENUE FOR SOME BUT NOT FOR ALL.
12:29:46 I THINK THAT WTPM IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
12:29:51 I ALSO THINK WE HAVE TO BE SMART IN WHAT WE ARE DOING
12:29:54 WITH THE PEOPLE'S MONEY.
12:29:55 I THINK IF WE HAVE ALREADY ALLOCATED MONEY --
12:30:00 >> I HAVE TO GO TO LUNCH.
12:30:02 [ LAUGHTER ]
12:30:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA, YOU ARE RIGHT.
12:30:09 MY OPINION IS I THINK WE NEED TO WAIT UNTIL THAT
12:30:12 MARKETING PERSON IS ON BOARD, AND GO FROM THERE,.
12:30:18 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, SIR.
12:30:21 WHY DON'T -- I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO GET A
12:30:24 MARKETING PERSON ON BOARD BUT CONTINUE THIS UNTIL SUCH
12:30:26 TIME AS HE OR SHE CAN LOOK AT IT AND THE EAST TAMPA CAC
12:30:31 LEADERSHIP CAN DISCUSS IT WITH HIM OR HER AT THAT TIME.
12:30:34 BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE ARE READY TO GET RID OF THIS
12:30:36 IDEA.
12:30:37 I JUST THINK WE NEED MORE INFORMATION, IF I AM READING
12:30:39 THE BOARD RATE, TO KEEP THIS ALIVE.
12:30:42 MAYBE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ON THIS, IN MY
12:30:46 OPINION.
12:30:47 BECAUSE I AM NOT AGAINST IT.
12:30:49 I THINK IT'S FINE.
12:30:51 I'M FOR IT.
12:30:52 BUT WE JUST NEED SOME MORE INFORMATION ON IT.
12:30:54 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL SECOND THAT.
12:30:56 >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS A MOTION BUT IF
12:31:02 NOT I WILL MOVE THAT WE BRING THIS BACK UP IN THE NEXT
12:31:06 CAC -- CRA MEETING.
12:31:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. CARLSON, SECONDED BY MR.
12:31:13 VIERA.
12:31:13 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:31:16 DISCUSSION, COMMISSION -- COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
12:31:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE BUT
12:31:24 WHY DON'T WE DEFER THIS UNTIL WE HAVE THE MARKETING
12:31:26 PERSON ON BOARD?
12:31:28 THEN THE MARKETING PERSON WORKING WITH MICHELLE COME TO
12:31:31 US WITH A COMPLETE PLAN, AND MAYBE THIS WILL BE PART OF
12:31:33 THAT PLAN.
12:31:34 >>BILL CARLSON: WE CAN ALWAYS DEFER IT AGAIN NO MONTH,
12:31:38 BUT HOPEFULLY SINCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN APPROVAL ON THE
12:31:41 POSITION, HOPEFULLY THE POSITION WILL BE FILLED AND WE
12:31:43 CAN GET TO WORK RIGHT AWAY.
12:31:46 I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS PERSON IS GOING TO WORK RIGHT AWAY,
12:31:48 BECAUSE AS I WAS TELLING MICHELLE OFFLINE, WHO IS GOING
12:31:51 TO APPROVE THE PRESS RELEASE?
12:31:54 ARE THEY GOING TO TALK TO EACH OF THE SEVEN OF US
12:31:56 INDIVIDUALLY, OR IS THE CHAIR GOING --
12:32:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK IT'S UP TO THE MARKETING
12:32:03 DIRECTOR.
12:32:04 >>BILL CARLSON: BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO GIVE THAT DIRECTION.
12:32:09 SO THEN WE HAVE TO GIVE MICHELLE THE DIRECTION.
12:32:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEY CAN WORK OUT THAT QUESTION.
12:32:17 >>MORRIS MASSEY: WHAT THE STATUTE ALLOWS US TO SPEND CRA
12:32:22 MONEY ON IS THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ABOUT
12:32:27 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.
12:32:29 IT'S NOT ABOUT TRYING TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT TO THE
12:32:31 COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING.
12:32:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION ON THE FLOOR IN REFERENCE TO --
12:32:38 YOU STAND BY YOUR MOTION, MR. DINGFELDER, MR. CARLSON?
12:32:43 DO YOU WANT TO PUT AN AMENDMENT TO THAT, MR. DINGFELDER?
12:32:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'LL LEAVE IT STILL.
12:32:50 IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN NEXT MONTH, THAT'S FINE
12:32:53 BUT I JUST THINK IT'S A LITTLE PREMATURE.
12:32:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL IN FAVOR?
12:32:59 ALL OPPOSED?
12:33:03 APPROVED BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT.
12:33:05 >>MORRIS MASSEY: 6 TO 1, MR. MIRANDA VOTING NO.
12:33:07 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA VOTING NO.
12:33:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ALL RIGHT.
12:33:14 WE MOVE RATE ALONG.
12:33:15 AND WE WILL MOVE TO INFORMATION REPORTS.
12:33:17 MR. CITRO.
12:33:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WELL, MR. CHAIR, YOU KNOW, I REALIZE
12:33:24 WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK FOR HERE IS BETTER WITH CITY
12:33:28 COUNCIL BUSINESS.
12:33:30 SO IF COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO WOULD LIKE TO SAVE THAT FOR
12:33:35 TONIGHT, HOPEFULLY HE WILL CALL ON ME FIRST.
12:33:37 NOTHING.
12:33:38 BUT I WENT TO A PLAY AT THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER,
12:33:43 SOCIALLY DISTANCED, IT WAS A GREAT PLAY.
12:33:46 THERE WAS -- HOW CAN I PUT IT? -- A RELATIVELY REASONABLE
12:33:55 WAY THAT RUMORS, HOW THEY START AND WHAT THEY CAUSE.
12:34:02 AND A PREACHER TOLD A WOMAN THAT SHE WAS STARTING RUMORS,
12:34:08 AND SHE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PREACHER WAS TRYING
12:34:11 TO SAY.
12:34:12 THE PREACHER SAID GO UP TO THE ROOF, CUT OPEN A PILLOW
12:34:16 AND LEAVE IT THERE.
12:34:20 WHEN SHE DID THE FATHER SAID, COME BACK TO ME TOMORROW
12:34:25 AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT ELSE TO DO.
12:34:27 THE PREACHER SAID THE NEXT DAY, NOW, I WANT YOU TO GO AND
12:34:30 COLLECT ALL THOSE FEATHERS THAT FELL OUT OF THE PILLOW.
12:34:34 AND SHE SAID, HE CAN'T, THE WIND BLEW THEM EVERYWHERE.
12:34:38 AND HE SAID THAT'S WHAT A RUMOR IS.
12:34:40 ONCE IT GETS OUT, YOU CAN'T GET IT BACK.
12:34:42 AND WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HEAR, WHO IT'S COMING
12:34:47 FROM, AND THE REASON WHY IT WAS STARTED.
12:34:50 AND BELIEVE ME, I HEARD SO MANY RUMORS OVER THE LAST WEAK
12:34:55 OR SO.
12:34:56 MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO MAKE THAT
12:34:59 STATEMENT.
12:34:59 AND NOTHING FROM ME TODAY.
12:35:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA.
12:35:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
12:35:06 NO, I MEAN, NOTHING DIRECTLY FOR CRA, BUT THIS EVENING I
12:35:10 AM GOING TO BE MAKING A REQUEST, OUR FRIEND AND OUR
12:35:14 FORMER COLLEAGUE WHO I THINK THE WORLD OF, HARRY COHEN,
12:35:18 MADE A MOTION AT THE COUNTY COMMISSION ON INQUIRING ON
12:35:22 THE STATUS OF FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION, THAT'S RELEVANT
12:35:26 TO CRA, JUST INQUIRE WITH CITY LEGAL ON THEIR CONTINUED
12:35:30 POSITION ON THIS.
12:35:31 IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE THAT CASE WENT UP TO OUR FRIEND IN
12:35:34 THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT, AND JUST MAKING AN INQUIRY IN
12:35:39 THAT REGARD, A VERY FRIENDLY INQUIRY ON WHAT THE
12:35:41 ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON THAT.
12:35:43 YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS SOMEWHAT RELEVANT TO CRA.
12:35:46 MAYBE I'LL MAKE A MOTION ON IT THIS EVENING.
12:35:49 BUT YESTERDAY, A LOT OF US WERE AT THE TAMPA BAY
12:35:55 BUCCANEERS, THE VICTORY BOAT PARADE WHICH WAS WONDERFUL.
12:35:59 AND I THINK IT WAS A LOT OF GOOD SENTIMENTS THERE FROM
12:36:03 THE COMMUNITY HERE IN TAMPA, THE TAMPA BAY AREA AND
12:36:07 WHATNOT.
12:36:08 I HOPE THAT WHEN THIS COVID-19 IS BEYOND US AND WE ARE
12:36:14 ALL VACCINATED AND THAT WE CAN BE FREER, ET CETERA, TO GO
12:36:18 AROUND, AND TO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVITIES AS WE
12:36:22 TRADITIONALLY DO, THAT WE CAN SEE A PARADE LIKE THAT,
12:36:25 EXCEPT TEN TIMES BIGGER, FOR WHAT I CALL COVID HEROS.
12:36:31 I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT YESTERDAY AS I WAS SEEING ALL
12:36:34 THE BOATS.
12:36:34 I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE CITY OF TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH
12:36:36 COUNTY PARADE WITH SIMILAR BOATS, WITH OUR POLICE
12:36:40 OFFICERS, WITH OUR FIREFIGHTERS, WITH OUR EMS WORKERS,
12:36:44 WITH OUR FRONT LANE CITY AND COUNTY WORKERS, THE MEN AND
12:36:48 WOMEN WHO WORK IN SANITATION, AND SO MANY OTHER FRONT
12:36:51 LINE COMMUNITIES.
12:36:52 PEOPLE THAT WORK, I MEAN, JUST THINK ABOUT GOING TO A
12:36:56 WALMART OR TO A CVS TO PICK UP PRESCRIPTIONS THAT YOU MAY
12:36:59 NEED OR MAYBE FOR YOUR DOLLARS KIDS OR MAYBE FOR A LOVED
12:37:02 ONE OR SENIOR CITIZEN.
12:37:03 THINK ABOUT THE FOOD THAT YOU EAT, THAT PEOPLE IN THE
12:37:07 FIELDS, FARM WORKERS, MIGRANT WORKERS, ET CETERA, THOSE
12:37:11 ARE FRONT LINE WORKERS.
12:37:12 I REALLY HOPE THAT AFTER ALL OF THIS IS OVER THAT WE CAN
12:37:18 HAVE A SIMILAR FESTIVITY FOR THOSE FOLKS, BECAUSE I KNOW
12:37:22 THAT EVERYBODY WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
12:37:24 IT WOULD BRING US TOGETHER.
12:37:26 WHENEVER I GO TO THE DOCTOR THESE DAYS, WHETHER IT'S TO
12:37:28 GET COVID TESTED OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, SOMETIMES I'LL
12:37:32 TALK TO THE NURSES THERE AND MAYBE THE CNAs, ET CETERA,
12:37:37 AND I'LL TELL THEM, LOOK, DID YOU SEE YOURSELF A YEAR AGO
12:37:41 BEING ON THE FRONT LINE OF A MEDICAL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY
12:37:44 THAT HAS TAKEN THE LIVES OF ABOUT HALF A MILLION
12:37:47 AMERICANS? IT'S JUST QUITE REMARKABLE, IT GOES WITHOUT
12:37:52 SAYING.
12:37:53 BUT MY SENTIMENTS IN THAT REGARD AND WHATNOT, BUT JUST
12:37:55 WANTED TO MENTION THAT.
12:37:56 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
12:37:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MANISCALCO.
12:38:00 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING, SIR, BUT I HAVE A 12:45
12:38:03 POINT, SO I AM GOING TO STEP OUT.
12:38:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR MR. CARLSON.
12:38:08 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST IN RESPONSE TO WHAT MR. VIERA SAID,
12:38:13 ONE OF THE REMEDIES I'M HEARING BACK CHANNEL THAT THE
12:38:16 SUPREME COURT MAY CONSIDER REGARDING ALTERNATE
12:38:19 TRANSPORTATION WOULD BE, SO THE QUESTION IS, IF THEY RULE
12:38:24 AGAINST, WHICH EVERYBODY IS HOPING THEY WON'T, BUT IF
12:38:27 THEY RULE AGAINST, THEN HOW WOULD THEY REFUND THE PUBLIC?
12:38:30 AND THERE'S NO EASY MECHANISM TO DO THAT.
12:38:33 BUT ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT I HEARD BACK CHANNEL THINKING
12:38:37 ABOUT IS INSTEAD OF JUST ROLLING THE TAX BACK TO 7.5%
12:38:40 THAT THEY WOULD ROLL IT BACK TO 6.5% UNTIL AN EQUIVALENT
12:38:44 AMOUNT OF TAX MONEY WAS SAVED.
12:38:46 IF THAT HAPPENED, I'M SORRY TO SAY THIS PUBLICLY, BUT
12:38:50 THAT'S WHAT'S BEING SAID PRIVATELY, IF THAT HAPPENED AND
12:38:53 SUDDENLY ALL THAT MONEY THAT'S THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE
12:38:55 USED FOR THE NEXT YEAR, WHERE WE WOULD BE GETTING LESS
12:38:58 INCOME, SO ANYWAY, SOMETHING WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT.
12:39:02 THE OTHER THING IS, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHEERING IN THE
12:39:07 LAST FEW DAYS AND CONGRATS TO THE BUCS AND OTHER GREAT
12:39:10 SPORTS TEAMS.
12:39:12 HOPEFULLY ALL OF YOU READ THE TAMPA TIMES EDITORIAL THE
12:39:15 OTHER DAY THAT TALKED ABOUT CHAMPA BAY BUT WHAT IT SAYS
12:39:18 AFTER THE FIRST PARAGRAPH, WE NEED TO CELEBRATE ALL THESE
12:39:20 VICTORIES WE HAVE BUT WE NEED TO ALSO GET BACK TO THE
12:39:23 MORE BORING WORK OF LOOKING AT HOW BAD OUR NUMBERS ARE IN
12:39:27 THE REGION.
12:39:28 AND WE TALKED ABOUT THEM A YEAR AGO WHEN I PRESENTED THE
12:39:30 TAMPA SCORECARD.COM, THE TAMPA BAY PARTNERSHIP, OUR
12:39:36 POVERTY NUMBERS ARE SOME OF THE WORST IN THE STATE, HOME
12:39:39 OWNERSHIP ONE OF THE WORST IN THE STATE, BY RACE AND
12:39:42 GENDER, SOME OF THE WORST IN THE STATE.
12:39:44 AND SO THESE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE ARE HAVING IN THE CRA
12:39:48 AND ALSO CITY COUNCIL ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, AND SOME OF
12:39:51 IT TO THE PUBLIC MAY SEEM BORING, BUT WE HAVE GOT TO MOVE
12:39:54 THOSE NUMBERS.
12:39:55 AND BECAUSE OF COVID THEY ARE MOVING IN THE WRONG
12:39:57 DIRECTION.
12:39:57 SO WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LOOK AT EVERYTHING,
12:40:01 LOOK AT HOW EVERY DOLLAR IS BEING SPENT, LOOK AT HOW WE
12:40:04 CAN CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THIS SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO
12:40:07 MOVE THOSE NUMBERS GOING FORWARD.
12:40:09 SO THEN WE CAN CELEBRATE AND HOPEFULLY THE TEAMS WILL
12:40:11 KEEP WINNING, BUT IF WE TURN OUR NUMBERS AROUND
12:40:14 ECONOMICALLY THEN WE WILL BE A SUCCESS IN EVERY WAY.
12:40:16 THANK YOU.
12:40:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA.
12:40:19 MR. MIRANDA, ANYTHING, SIR?
12:40:29 DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING, SIR?
12:40:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NOTHING AT THIS TIME.
12:40:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DINGFELDER.
12:40:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SHOUTOUT TO THE BUCS.
12:40:42 WHAT A GREAT WIN, WHAT A GREAT PARADE, WHAT A GREAT CITY,
12:40:46 COMMUNITY, CHAMPA BAY.
12:40:51 AS FAR AS THE CRA IS CONCERNED, I WAS ASKING MICHELLE, I
12:40:57 KNOW I MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT LINDA SAUL-SENA
12:41:00 BEING HONORED IN THE CHANNELSIDE AREA.
12:41:02 SHE WAS REALLY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE CHANNELSIDE
12:41:04 DISTRICT AND THE CHANNELSIDE CRA, AND I THINK WE ALL
12:41:07 AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO NAME ONE OF THE
12:41:09 PARKS AFTER HER.
12:41:11 I ASKED MICHELLE IF THAT WAS MOVING FORWARD, AND SHE
12:41:13 SUGGESTED THAT PERHAPS A MOTION WAS IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY
12:41:18 SOLIDIFY THAT.
12:41:19 SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CRA AND SPECIFICALLY THE
12:41:25 CRA STAFF WORK WITH THE CITY THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE
12:41:29 PROCESS, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S THROUGH THE CITY AND/OR THE
12:41:34 CRA, BUT I WILL LET MICHELLE WORK WITH PARK STAFF AND THE
12:41:39 MAYOR'S OFFICE TO FIND AN APPROPRIATE PARK.
12:41:45 >>MORRIS MASSEY: REALLY THE NAME OF THE PARK ISSUE IS
12:41:47 MORE OF A CITY COUNCIL TYPE OF ISSUE.
12:41:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I KNOW, I KNOW, BUT IT'S ALSO IN THE
12:41:53 CRA AND IF IT INVOLVES SOME MONEY, MAYBE THE CRA CAN DO
12:41:56 IT.
12:41:58 MR. MASSEY, I DON'T --
12:42:01 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE IF
12:42:05 YOU ALSO DID IT AT THE CITY COUNCIL LEVEL TO WORK WITH
12:42:07 THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE REALLY THAT'S WHERE YOU
12:42:10 NEED TO MOVE THROUGH.
12:42:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GUDES DO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT FOR THE
12:42:17 CITY AND WORK WITH THE CRA?
12:42:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK WHAT I WILL DO, MR. CHAIRMAN,
12:42:21 IS I WILL DOUBLE UP AND DO IT ON BOTH, BECAUSE I THINK
12:42:25 THERE COULD BE SOME CRA MONEY POSSIBLY INVOLVED DOWN THE
12:42:28 ROAD.
12:42:29 SO I WILL JUST MOVE THAT WE ASK MICHELLE TO INITIATE THAT
12:42:34 DISCUSSION WITH CITY STAFF, WHICH I DON'T THINK IS A
12:42:37 PROBLEM, MR. MASSEY, AND THEN I WILL COME BACK WITH OUR
12:42:41 CITY HAT ON, ASK CITY STAFF TO WORK WITH MICHELLE TO GET
12:42:45 IT DONE, BECAUSE I HAVE SORT OF BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR
12:42:49 ABOUT A YEAR.
12:42:50 ANYWAY, THAT'S MY MOTION, TO HONOR MS. SAUL-SENA WITH A
12:42:53 PARK.
12:42:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION BY MR. DINGFELDER.
12:42:56 SECOND BY MR. CARLSON.
12:42:57 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:42:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:43:03 SEE YOU TONIGHT.
12:43:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE JUST ONE THING, GENTLEMEN.
12:43:08 YOU GUYS KNOW I HAVE BEEN TALKING FOR A LONG TIME, CRA
12:43:14 HAS MONEY SET ASIDE FOR REHAB.
12:43:16 IT'S NOT MOVING.
12:43:17 A LOT OF FOLKS CALL MY OFFICE DAILY ABOUT REFS AND ALL
12:43:21 KIND OF REHABS, AND I REFER THOSE TO THE CITY PROGRAM AND
12:43:27 IT'S ALWAYS A NO.
12:43:28 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
12:43:30 I THOUGHT I DID IT BEFORE.
12:43:32 BUT I REITERATE THE MOTION THAT THE CAC LOOK AT A POLICY,
12:43:38 TO CREATE A POLICY, BE IT OUTSOURCE, TO LOOK AT HOW COME
12:43:44 UP WITH A POLICY FOR THE CRA MONEY FOR REHAB, START REHAB
12:43:49 PROJECTS WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA DISTRICT.
12:43:52 IT'S VITAL.
12:43:53 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION FROM CHAIR GUDES.
12:43:57 SECOND FROM CITRO.
12:44:00 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:44:02 ANY OPPOSED?
12:44:05 DINGFELDER, SORRY.
12:44:06 GO AHEAD.
12:44:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST SO THERE'S NO CONFUSION IN THE
12:44:13 COMMUNITY, JUST A CLARIFICATION.
12:44:16 CHAIRMAN GUDES, REHABILITATION OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES I
12:44:23 THINK IS THE STATED INTENT OF THE MOTION, CORRECT?
12:44:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR, YES, SIR.
12:44:28 >>BILL CARLSON: I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT -- ALL
12:44:32 RIGHT.
12:44:32 SO MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
12:44:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
12:44:40 >> SO MOVED.
12:44:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CITRO, SECOND BY MIRANDA.
12:44:45 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:44:46 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
12:44:48 (MEETING ADJOURNED)
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