CITY OF TAMPA
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021
9:00 A.M.
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09:03:15
09:03:24 >>BILL CARLSON: WELCOME TO THE MAY 13, 2021 CRA BOARD
09:03:28 MEETING.
09:03:30 THIS IS MY FIRST MEETING I HAVE EVER CHAIRED SO PLEASE,
09:03:33 APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ROOKIE ERRORS I MAY MAKE.
09:03:40 WE HAVE PASTOR WILLIAM GLENN DAMES.
09:03:46 IS HE ON THE LINE?
09:03:51 DOCTOR, LET ME JUST READ A BIO.
09:03:55 DR. GLENN B. DAMES, JR. IS A SENIOR PASTOR AT ALLEN
09:04:00 TEMPLE AME CHURCH.
09:04:00 PRIOR TO ALLEN TEMPLE, HE SERVED AS THE SENIOR MINISTER
09:04:04 OF THE ST. JAMES AME CHURCH IN TITUSVILLE SINCE 2006.
09:04:09 HE IS THE LOVING HUSBAND AND HAS TWO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.
09:04:19 REVEREND DAMES, IF YOU WILL ADDRESS US, AND THEN FOR THE
09:04:23 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE -- I'M SORRY, FOR THE PRAYER, AND
09:04:27 THEN REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
09:04:30 >> DEAR GOD, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE.
09:04:33 THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT CITY.
09:04:34 THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO.
09:04:35 THANK YOU FOR OUR CITY LEADERS AND THOSE WHO MAKE UP THE
09:04:39 GREATER TAMPA BAY AREA, AND WE ASK YOUR BLESSING UPON ALL
09:04:42 OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS, ALL OF THESE FINE PEOPLE.
09:04:45 WE ASK THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BLESS US IN THE WAY THAT YOU
09:04:48 HAVE, AND WE KNOW IF WE LEAN AND DEPEND ON YOU ALL THINGS
09:04:52 WILL BE WELL.
09:04:53 THIS WE ASK IN CHRIST'S NAME.
09:04:55 AMEN.
09:04:55 [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ]
09:05:11 >>BILL CARLSON: I'M BILL CARLSON AND THE VICE CHAIR AND
09:05:14 THE CHAIR JOE CITRO IS OUT TODAY.
09:05:19 SO I AM TAKING OVER, AND ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:05:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:05:29 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:05:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:05:33 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:05:33 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:05:35 >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:05:39 >>BILL CARLSON: OUR ATTORNEY MORRIS MASSEY, AND BRYAN.
09:05:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I CAN'T HEAR HIM.
09:05:56 >>MORRIS MASSEY: DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY.
09:06:06 I HAVE HERE WITH 44 THIS MORNING BRIAN MORRISON, AN
09:06:10 ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY IN OUR OFFICE, WHO HAS A GREAT
09:06:12 BACKGROUND IN PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE, AND HAS BEEN
09:06:15 HELPING ME WITH CRA ISSUES ON THE VARIOUS CRA ISSUES OVER
09:06:19 THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
09:06:21 BRYAN CAME TO OUR OFFICE A FEW MINUTES AGO.
09:06:25 HE WILL BEGIN SITTING WITH THE BOARD.
09:06:27 I WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AS NECESSARY TO ASSIST AS WELL.
09:06:30 BUT I WANTED TO INTRODUCE BRIAN TO YOU ALL.
09:06:33 BRIAN IS GOING TO LEAD YOU AND THE PUBLIC, WHAT THE RULES
09:06:39 ARE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND WILL BE SITTING WITH YOU ALL
09:06:41 THIS MORNING.
09:06:42 SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT INTRODUCTION BEFORE I LEFT
09:06:45 THE CHAMBERS.
09:06:46 THANK YOU.
09:06:46 >>BILL CARLSON: BRIAN, DO YOU WANT TO READ YOUR
09:06:54 COMMENTS?
09:06:54 >> YES, SIR.
09:06:56 THIS MEETING --
09:06:59 >> YOUR MIKE IS NOT ON.
09:07:01 >> THIS MEETING OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY
09:07:04 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IS BEING HELD DURING THE COVID-19
09:07:06 STATE OF EMERGENCY AND WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH A LIVE IN
09:07:09 PERSON FORUM IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
09:07:13 HOWEVER, IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC MEMBERS OF
09:07:16 THE PUBLIC ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY
09:07:20 THROUGH VIDEO OR AUDIO TELECONFERENCING REFERRED TO BY
09:07:23 FLORIDA STATUTES AND RULES AS COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA
09:07:25 TECHNOLOGY.
09:07:26 THESE MEETINGS ARE HELD IN ACCORDANCE WITH EMERGENCY
09:07:28 RULES OF PROCEDURE AS ADOPTED OR AMENDED BY THE CRA
09:07:31 RESOLUTION.
09:07:34 THE PUBLIC AND CITIZENS WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH, VIEW OR
09:07:37 LISTEN TO -- OR AT TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:07:48 MEMBERS WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE BY REFERRING BY
09:07:51 FLORIDA STATUTES AND RULES AS COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA
09:07:53 TECHNOLOGY OR CMT OR BY THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVE
09:07:57 METHODS: VIA COMMENTS ON THE INTERNET OR WEB, BY WRITTEN
09:08:02 COMMENTS THROUGH E-MAIL, WRITTEN COMMENTS BY U.S. MAIL,
09:08:05 SPEAKING REMOTELY WITH USE OF CMT, OR PARTICIPATING
09:08:11 THROUGH CMT AVAILABLE AT OLD CITY HALL ON THE SECOND
09:08:14 FLOOR.
09:08:15 ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS FOR CRA MATTERS MUST BE RECEIVED NO
09:08:18 LATER THAN 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING IN ORDER TO BE
09:08:21 DISTRIBUTED IN A TIMELY MANNER TO CRA MEMBERS AND MADE
09:08:24 PART OF THE RECORD.
09:08:25 REGISTRATION FOR SPEAKING REMOTELY THROUGH THE USE OF CMT
09:08:28 MUST ALSO BE REQUESTED AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE
09:08:31 MEETING.
09:08:31 PUBLIC COMMENTS MADE REMOTELY OR IN PERSON WILL BE HEARD
09:08:35 AT THE START OF THE MEETING AT THE DIRECTION OF CRA AND
09:08:37 IT KNOLL EXCEED 3 MINUTES UNLESS ESPECIALLY ALLOWED.
09:08:41 WRITTEN COMMENTS RECEIVED BY MAIL OR E-MAIL WILL BE
09:08:44 DISTRIBUTED TO THE CRA AND.
09:08:47 ALL PUBLIC COMMENTS TIMELY RECEIVED BY MAIL, E-MAIL OR BY
09:08:50 REMOTE PARTICIPATION VIA CMT WILL BE AFFORDED EQUAL
09:08:54 CONSIDERATION AS IF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE MADE IN
09:08:56 PERSON.
09:08:56 >> MR. CHAIRMAN, POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE, BEFORE WE
09:09:04 BEGIN, I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
09:09:06 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:09:11 YEAH, MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT, I GET TO CHAIR FOR THE FIRST
09:09:13 TIME SO THANK YOU ALL.
09:09:15 BEFORE WE GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT WHICH WE WANT TO GET TO
09:09:18 RIGHT AWAY, IS THERE ANY CHANGE TO THE AGENDA?
09:09:20 WE HAVE 13 ITEMS.
09:09:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THERE WAS A REQUEST I THINK FROM MS.
09:09:35 VAN LOAN TO CONTINUE ONE OF THOSE ITEMS TO JUNE. I DON'T
09:09:38 KNOW IF YOU WANT TO HANDLE THAT NOW OR WHEN SHE MAKES
09:09:41 THAT PRESENTATION.
09:09:42 >>BILL CARLSON: THEY HAVE AN INFINITY VIDEO UP THERE.
09:09:51 UNLESS MS. VAN LOAN OBJECTS, DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO MAKE A
09:09:55 MOTION TO CONTINUE THAT TO JUNE 10, ITEM NUMBER 12?
09:09:59 NUMBER 12, MOVE TO JUNE 10th.
09:10:01 MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:10:05 SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:10:08 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:10:10 OPPOSED?
09:10:19 MR. DINGFELDER?
09:10:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES, SIR.
09:10:21 JUST AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT ONE, MICHELLE, WHEN YOU BRING
09:10:25 THAT BACK IN JUNE, YOU COULD BRING US BACK SOME DIAGRAMS,
09:10:29 OR YOU MAKE REFERENCE TO PLANS AND DIAGRAMS, AND BRING US
09:10:34 BACK SOME OF THOSE AS PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION, THAT
09:10:36 WOULD BE GREAT.
09:10:37 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:10:38 >>THE CLERK: THE ADDENDUM HAS THREE DIFFERENT CHANGES.
09:10:46 >>BILL CARLSON: DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT?
09:10:49 >> THE FIRST ONE IS TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
09:10:50 >>BILL CARLSON: IS THERE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE
09:10:53 THE MEMORANDUM FROM CHAIR CITRO REGARDING HIS ABSENCE?
09:10:57 WE HAVE A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER GUDES, SECOND FROM
09:10:59 BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:11:00 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:11:03 AYE.
09:11:03 ALL OPPOSED?
09:11:04 OKAY.
09:11:07 DOES ANYBODY WANTS TO MAKE A MOTION ON A MEMORANDUM FROM
09:11:10 SONYA HENDERSON LEGISLATIVE AIDE FOR COMMENDATION FOR
09:11:20 CHLOE CONEY?
09:11:24 MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES, SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER
09:11:29 DINGFELDER.
09:11:30 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:11:32 ANY OPPOSED?
09:11:34 THIRD, THE MEMORANDUM MORRIS MASSEY, DEPUTY CITY
09:11:38 ATTORNEY, TRANSMITTING ACTION ITEMS TO BE ADOPTED BY CRA
09:11:41 BORED.
09:11:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO MOVED.
09:11:43 >> SECOND.
09:11:44 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY GUDES.
09:11:46 SECOND BY MANISCALCO.
09:11:47 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:11:48 ANY OPPOSED?
09:11:49 ALL RIGHT.
09:11:49 THANK YOU.
09:11:50 ANYTHING ELSE, MADAM CLERK?
09:11:51 >>THE CLERK: THAT WILL BE IT.
09:11:54 >>BILL CARLSON: PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:11:55 DO WE HAVE ANYBODY DOWNSTAIRS IN PERSON FOR PUBLIC
09:11:57 COMMENT?
09:11:57 EACH PERSON HAS THREE MINUTES.
09:11:59 PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AT THE BEGINNING.
09:12:00 >>THE CLERK: BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT, WE ALSO NEED TO
09:12:10 ACCEPT THE AGENDA TO THE A DENY -- THE A DENY ADDITIONAL
09:12:15 TO THE AGENDA.
09:12:19 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY GUDES.
09:12:23 YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:12:24 PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
09:12:25 >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:12:30 I WANT TO SAY IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THIS MORNING.
09:12:35 I'M CALLING FOR THIS CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE AND MAKE A
09:12:38 SOLIDARITY STATEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE, AND WE
09:12:45 HAVE TO HAVE -- I KNOW YOU ALL LIKE TO DO YOUR
09:12:50 INVOCATIONS AND ALL THAT, WHATEVER THAT MEANS.
09:12:53 A LOT OF IT IS MEANINGLESS.
09:12:56 WHAT WE SEE RIGHT NOW TODAY, YESTERDAY, DAY BEFORE
09:12:58 YESTERDAY, AND DAYS BEFORE THAT, THAT THE PEOPLE OF
09:13:03 PALESTINE ARE BEING MURDERED AND MASSACRED BY AN
09:13:10 OCCUPIER, A FOREIGN SETTLER IN THEIR LAND, SO IT'S AN
09:13:18 EXPERIENCE THAT WE AFRICAN PEOPLE HERE IN AMERICA CAN
09:13:20 EXPERIENCE, BEING OPPRESSED, IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND LANDS
09:13:26 THAT WE WERE BROUGHT TO ALL OVER THE WORLD.
09:13:30 WE WANT THIS CITY COUNCIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CALL FOR AN
09:13:35 IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM OF THE ATROCITIES BEING COMMITTED
09:13:40 AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE, AND IT'S REAL ATROCIOUS,
09:13:44 AND THEY ARE SAYING WHAT THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE ARE
09:13:47 DOING TO RESPOND, BUT THEIR RESPONSE IS REALLY
09:13:51 NONEXISTENT.
09:13:55 AND ESPECIALLY OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN DISTRICT 5, BECAUSE
09:14:00 THAT'S A STRUGGLING DISTRICT, REALLY NEEDS TO ACKNOWLEDGE
09:14:04 THE SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE.
09:14:11 A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT THE BUT IT'S
09:14:14 REAL SUFFERING AND REAL ATROCITY AND BRINGING IT BACK
09:14:16 HERE TO THE CITY OF TAMPA WE WANT TO CALL FOR OVERTURNING
09:14:21 EXPUNGING OF ALL THE PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS THAT
09:14:24 HAVE NONVIOLENT CRIMES OR VICTIMLESS CRIMES.
09:14:29 ALL THESE MARIJUANA CRIMES, WE WANT ALL OUR PEOPLE
09:14:32 RELEASED FROM PRISON AND FROM JAIL, ALL THESE CRIMES THAT
09:14:36 THEY CALL CRIMES, WHICH ISN'T REALLY CRIMES.
09:14:38 WE WANT OUR PEOPLE TO BE RELEASED FROM THAT.
09:14:41 WE WANT TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LIVE OUR LIVES IN PEACE
09:14:45 AND IN FREEDOM AND IN HARMONY WITH ONE ANOTHER INSTEAD OF
09:14:49 ALL AGGRESSION.
09:14:50 WE WANT THIS CITY COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
09:14:53 WE WANT THIS CITY COUNCIL TO REMOVE ALL THESE CODE
09:14:56 VIOLATIONS THAT THEY HAVE AGAINST THE PEOPLE,
09:14:59 SPECIFICALLY INSIDE POOR WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES, AND
09:15:02 WHERE THEY USE ALL FORM OF KU KLUX KLAN TRICK TRY TO,
09:15:11 GOVERNMENT IS DOING IT, WHITE GOVERNMENTAL IS DOING IT
09:15:13 AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT SO IT'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT
09:15:16 NEEDS TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED.
09:15:17 BUTT THIS MORNING IN THE PARTICULAR WHEN YOU TURN ON YOUR
09:15:19 TELEVISION AND YOU SEE THE ATROCITIES BEING COMMITTED
09:15:21 AGAINST THE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE, IT CAN GIVE YOU AN IDEA
09:15:25 HOW POOR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE FEEL ALL OVER THIS WORLD.
09:15:29 AND THIS CITY COUNCIL NEED TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
09:15:32 [BELL SOUNDS]
09:15:35 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:15:36 ANYBODY ELSE IN PERSON FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:15:38 >> CHAIRMAN, ONE MORE SPEAKER.
09:15:49 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:15:50 >> PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
09:15:53 YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:15:54 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:15:57 MY NAME IS DOMINIQUE COBB, A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 5, CITY
09:16:03 OF TAMPA.
09:16:03 LAST WEEK ON THE CAC BOARD, THERE WAS A MOTION MOVED TO
09:16:11 PROVIDE MAINTENANCE FOR A BUILDING LOCATED OFF OF 22ND
09:16:14 AND LIKE STREET.
09:16:15 AS AN URBAN PLANNER AND ALSO RESIDENT OF THAT AREA, I AM
09:16:18 ASKING THE CRA TO PLEASE RETURN THAT BACK TO THE CAC SO
09:16:22 THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT A PLAN FOR THAT BUILDING.
09:16:25 AS OF RIGHT NOW, THE CAC PURCHASED THE BUILDING BACK IN
09:16:29 2019 FOR 2,500, AND $3,000.
09:16:34 THE PROPOSED MAINTENANCE IS $150,000.
09:16:38 AT THIS TIME I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE CAC SHOULD POUR
09:16:43 MORE MONEY INTO A BUILDING THAT IS DILAPIDATED TO THE
09:16:50 TEAM OF DISTRICT 5.
09:16:52 SO I AM ASKING FOR THE BOARD TO STOP PUTTING BAND-AIDS ON
09:16:54 PROPERTIES IN OUR EAR AND DEVICE A PLAN SO THAT WE CAN
09:16:58 HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS IN EAST
09:17:01 TAMPA.
09:17:02 THAT'S ALL FOR MY COMMENTS.
09:17:03 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:17:05 ANY OTHER SPEAKERS IN PERSON?
09:17:07 >> THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS.
09:17:17 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU SAID NO MORE?
09:17:18 OKAY.
09:17:19 I THINK WE HAVE TWO ONLINE.
09:17:20 >>THE CLERK: THAT'S CORRECT.
09:17:24 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:17:25 THIS IS DEPUTY CITY CLERK.
09:17:27 THE FIRST SPEAKER WE HAVE IS RANDY COEN.
09:17:33 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. COEN, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:17:35 >>RANDY COEN: HERE ON A PERSONAL MATTER.
09:17:40 I AM THE IDIOT TO LEFT THE MIKE OPEN LAST WEEK, ANSWERED
09:17:45 A PHONE CALL AND DISRUPTED THE END OF THE MEETING LAST
09:17:48 THURSDAY.
09:17:48 I AM TRULY SORRY THAT HAPPENED.
09:17:52 JUST A LITTLE CONTEXT.
09:17:54 THE COMMENTS THAT YOU HEARD WERE A NARRATIVE ON A PHONE
09:17:58 CALL THAT WAS EXPRESSING FRUSTRATION WITH THE DAY AND
09:18:03 COMMENTING ON THINGS GOING ON.
09:18:05 I NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO EACH OF YOU BECAUSE FRANKLY
09:18:09 WHOEVER HAS BEEN TALKING AT THAT POINT OF THE DAY OF THAT
09:18:12 CONVERSATION WOULD HAVE LIKELY RECEIVED THE SAME COMMENT
09:18:16 FROM ME SO I APOLOGIZE.
09:18:18 I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER
09:18:21 WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO MEET WITH ME EARLIER THIS WEEK.
09:18:27 HE LISTENED TO MY APOLOGIES AND I THINK WE PUT THAT
09:18:31 BEHIND US.
09:18:31 I WILL LET COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER SPEAK FOR HIMSELF TO
09:18:34 THAT ITEM.
09:18:34 BUT I FELT HE NEEDED AND DESERVED A PUBLIC APOLOGY.
09:18:38 AND SO THAT IS THE TRUE PURPOSE FOR MY BEING HERE THIS
09:18:42 MORNING, IS TO OFFER COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER MY EXTREME
09:18:46 APOLOGY FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN.
09:18:50 AND I DO PROMISE TO NOT BE SUCH AN IDIOT AND LEAVE MY
09:18:57 MICROPHONE ON.
09:18:59 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:18:59 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. COEN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE
09:19:04 STILL ON OR NOT, BUT RANDY AND I GO BACK -- WE GO BACK 20
09:19:10 YEARS, AND I TOTALLY ACCEPTED HIS APOLOGY.
09:19:15 WE HAD A NICE LUNCH EARLIER THIS WEEK, AND IT'S BEEN MADE
09:19:23 UP, AND I TOTALLY ACCEPT HIS APOLOGY.
09:19:27 I DIDN'T TAKE IT AS A PERSONAL ATTACK, ONCE I HEARD THE
09:19:31 CONTEXT THAT IT WAS MADE IN.
09:19:33 AND HE'S A STAND-UP GUY, ALWAYS SAID HE'S A GOOD GUY, AND
09:19:37 I'LL CONTINUE ALONG THAT LINE.
09:19:39 SO RANDY, THANKS FOR COMING ON AND EXPLAINING IT TO THE
09:19:44 REST OF COUNCIL AND TO THE COMMUNITY, AND YOU ARE A GOOD
09:19:50 MAN, DESPITE WHAT YOUR WIFE MIGHT THINK.
09:19:52 >>RANDY COEN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:19:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO THANK RANDY FOR COMING UP
09:19:59 PUBLICLY AND ALSO MEET WITH COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:20:02 IT TAKES A LOT TO DO THAT IN PERSON, APOLOGIZE, AND
09:20:06 SINCERE IN WHAT HAPPENED, AND GLAD THAT HE DID THAT.
09:20:08 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:20:09 >>BILL CARLSON: AND MR. VIERA.
09:20:11 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, I APPRECIATE IT.
09:20:14 I JUST WANTED TO THANK MR. COEN FOR COMING FORWARD AND
09:20:17 BEING SO -- EXHIBITING SUCH HUMILITY.
09:20:23 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER WHO WE ALL KNOW IS A VERY GRACIOUS
09:20:25 PERSON.
09:20:26 IF YOU EVER HAD WHAT WE CALL UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS
09:20:30 WHICH WE HAVE HAD, HE'S A VERY GRACIOUS GENT GENTLEMEN SO
09:20:33 I AM NOT SURPRISED BY THAT RESPONSE A IT ALL.
09:20:36 BUT JUST FOR MR. COEN, THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
09:20:42 WE ARE ALL FAR FROM PERFECTION.
09:20:44 I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT, I WAS LIKE, OH, DEAR
09:20:47 LORD.
09:20:47 BUT JUST THANK YOU FOR THAT.
09:20:49 >>BILL CARLSON: I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MR. COEN
09:20:53 FOR COMING AND DOING THAT.
09:20:55 AND I WANT TO PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE TO STAFF AT THE
09:20:58 MEETING WHEN THAT WAS SAID, WE WEREN'T SURE WHO IT WAS
09:21:00 AND I ASKED THE QUESTION PUBLICLY WAS IT A STAFF MEMBER?
09:21:03 IT WASN'T UNTIL JUST AFTER THE MEETING THAT WE FOUND OUT
09:21:05 IT WAS NOT A STAFF MEMBER SO APOLOGIES TO STAFF FOR
09:21:08 ANYONE WE FELT LIKE WE THOUGHT IT WAS THEM, AND I CALLED
09:21:12 CHIEF BENNETT AND AN APOLOGIZED TO HIM AND ASKED HIM TO
09:21:15 PASS IT ON TO STAFF MEMBERS AS WELL AND THANKFUL THAT IT
09:21:17 WASN'T AND WE HAVE A VERY COLLEGIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
09:21:20 STAFF SO I APPRECIATE IT.
09:21:21 OKAY.
09:21:21 WE HAVE ONE MORE ONLINE, ONE MORE PUBLIC COMMENT ONLINE.
09:21:25 >>THE CLERK: THAT'S CORRECT.
09:21:26 >>THE CLERK: I HAVE JEAN STROHMEYER.
09:21:32 SHE IS NOT LOGGED ON AT THIS TIME.
09:21:33 I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH HER.
09:21:34 I BELIEVE SHE'S HAVING A TECHNICAL ISSUE SO RIGHT NOW AT
09:21:37 THIS TIME THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION.
09:21:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CAN WE PICK UP JEAN LATER IN THE
09:21:42 MEETING?
09:21:43 >>BILL CARLSON: COULD YOU JUST LET US KNOW IF SHE POPS
09:21:48 BACK ON IN THE NEXT MINUTE OR TWO?
09:21:50 OTHERWISE WE'LL JUST GO ON WITH THE AGENDA.
09:21:52 >>THE CLERK: ABSOLUTELY.
09:21:55 >>BILL CARLSON: MS. VAN LOAN, LET'S START WITH STAFF
09:21:57 REPORTS.
09:21:58 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING.
09:22:00 FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA THIS MORNING IS OUR
09:22:03 REPRESENTATIVE FROM TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CAC, CHRIS
09:22:07 AHERN.
09:22:08 AND I BELIEVE THAT CHRIS IS ON THE LINE VIRTUALLY, AND IF
09:22:11 WE CAN START THE PowerPoint, WE'LL MANAGE THE
09:22:15 POWERPOINT FROM HERE.
09:22:25 CHRIS, ARE YOU THERE?
09:22:39 CHRIS, CAN YOU HEAR US?
09:22:40 >> I HAD TO UNMUTE MYSELF.
09:22:57 CHRIS IS ON THE WAY.
09:22:58 >> I CAN SEE THE IMAGE THERE.
09:23:05 LET'S SEE IF I CAN'T MAXIMIZE THAT.
09:23:08 >> I AM JUST NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS TICK APP BUT I WILL
09:23:26 GET THERE.
09:23:32 I AM A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAC, TAMPA HEIGHTS
09:23:35 RIVERFRONT.
09:23:36 WE HAVE A COUPLE PHOTOS TO SHOW YOU AND GIVE YOU AN
09:23:40 UPDATE SO YOU ACTUALLY SEE PROGRESS ON THE GROUND.
09:23:46 AS MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW, THE CRA, 2005, RIDGEWOOD PARK
09:23:55 WHERE I LIVE, RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS, TAMPA HEIGHTS, AND OUR
09:23:59 NEIGHBORS ARE THE WEST TAMPA DOWNTOWN RIVER ARTS,
09:24:04 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.
09:24:05 TOTAL ASSESSMENT 74,752,154.
09:24:13 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
09:24:15 SOME OF THE RECENT PROJECTS, I CANNOT QUITE SEE THAT.
09:24:21 BUT YOU ARE LOOKING AT A COMPLETED RIVERWALK SECTIONS, I
09:24:26 BELIEVE.
09:24:28 ROUNDABOUT.
09:24:29 WE HAVE TWO COMPLETED ROUNDABOUTS ONE AT NORTH BOULEVARD
09:24:32 AND PALM, WHICH IS TO BE BUILT OUT OF ASPHALT, AND SOME
09:24:38 FINAL WORKS.
09:24:44 WE HAVE NEARLY A COMPLETE ROUNDABOUT AT PALM AND NORTH
09:24:47 HIGHLAND SO WE ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS FOR THOSE.
09:24:49 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
09:24:52 R.
09:24:52 >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS RIVERWALK.
09:24:54 >> THANK YOU.
09:24:54 THE RIVERWALK SLIDE I CAN SEE.
09:24:58 QUITE ACTIVATED WATERFRONT.
09:25:00 I ACTUALLY DO WATERFRONT PLANNING FOR A LIVING, AND IT'S
09:25:03 AMAZING TO SEE HOW MUCH MORE USE THERE HAS BEEN AT THE
09:25:06 WATERFRONT.
09:25:06 AND COMING INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE CONNECTIVITY IT
09:25:09 PROVIDES FOR OUR NEIGHBORS AND PEOPLE TO COME DOWNTOWN,
09:25:13 AND VICE VERSA, COME UP INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WALK
09:25:15 THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:25:17 IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECT.
09:25:29 THIS IS BOULEVARD BRIDGE.
09:25:32 THIS IS LOOKING WEST ON THE IMAGE OF THE RIGHT IS LOOKING
09:25:35 TO THE WEST.
09:25:36 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
09:25:43 THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT -- THIS IS SOHO CAPITAL, COMPLETED
09:25:52 THE HEIGHTS AND UNION BUILDING.
09:25:54 IT IS CURRENTLY BEING -- ACTUALLY, I BELIEVE THEY ARE
09:25:58 EXPECTING SO OF THEIR FIRST TENANTS.
09:26:00 AS YOU MAY KNOW, PFIZER SIGNED AN OFFICE LEASE FOR THE
09:26:06 MAJORITY OF SPACE IN THIS BUILDING.
09:26:08 I DO NOT KNOW THE NUMBER OF SQUARE FEET OFF THE TOP OF MY
09:26:11 HEAD BUT A SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO OUR COMMUNITY AS WE
09:26:15 ARE ALREADY SEEING PEOPLE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD PEOPLE WHO
09:26:18 ARE INTENDING TO WORK IN THIS AREA LOOKING FOR HOMES.
09:26:22 THAT'S GENERALLY VERY EXCITING AND WELL RECEIVED.
09:26:26 THEY ARE CALLING IT ENABLING FUNCTION HUB IN TAMPA.
09:26:29 ONE OF SIX SUCH CENTERS WORLDWIDE.
09:26:32 SO TAMPA WILL BE AT A PRETTY HIGH NAME RECOGNITION AND
09:26:39 HOSTING THESE FUNCTIONAL HUBS.
09:26:42 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
09:26:46 RIVERWALK IN GENERAL IS COMPLETING THE PROJECT AND COMING
09:26:50 UP TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
09:26:52 WE HAVE ALREADY COVERED A LITTLE BIT OF IT, BUT IT'S BEEN
09:26:56 A LARGE BENEFIT TO OUR CRA BOUNDARIES, AND TRY TO HELP
09:27:02 AUGMENT WHAT THE CITY DOES WITH THIS PROJECT, AND WE WILL
09:27:07 BE LOOKING TO IDENTIFY WAYS TO PROMOTE.
09:27:13 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
09:27:16 AND I CAN'T READ THAT ONE.
09:27:18 WHAT DOES THAT ONE SAY?
09:27:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GENERAL MEETING.
09:27:22 >>BILL CARLSON: GENERAL MEETING.
09:27:23 >> THANK YOU.
09:27:28 GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
09:27:29 >>BILL CARLSON: THAT ONE SAYS PARKING STUDY AND CURBSIDE
09:27:36 MANAGEMENT STUDY.
09:27:37 >> THAT'S RIGHT.
09:27:38 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS HAVE
09:27:40 BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
09:27:41 THE CITY HAS STARTED AN INITIATIVE TO STUDY PARKING AND
09:27:49 HOW IS IT BEING USED, HOW MUCH OF IT IS THERE, DOES IT
09:27:52 NEED TO BE MORE ON THE PROPERTY.
09:27:55 SO THIS GROUP IS AWARE, WE HAVE HAD NEIGHBORS WHO ARE
09:27:58 TECHNICALLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARY, ALTHOUGH ONLY ON ONE
09:28:03 HALF OF THE STREET, TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC, OR
09:28:08 COMMERCIAL TRUCKS THAT ARE PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
09:28:11 COMMERCIAL TRUCKS ARE NOT DELIVERING INTO THE COMMERCIAL
09:28:18 DISTRICT.
09:28:18 THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN THE CONDOMINIUMS AND
09:28:21 THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS THAT CANNOT PARK IN THE PARKING
09:28:27 GARAGES.
09:28:27 SO WHAT WE ARE SEEING AND HAS BEEN REPORTED TO US, THE
09:28:30 CAC, IS THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC IS
09:28:34 ACTUALLY PARKING ON THE STREET IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOMES
09:28:36 IN THIS DISTRICT TO THE NORTH, AND WE HAVE SEEN A LITTLE
09:28:39 BIT OF THAT TO THE EAST IN RICHARD PARK.
09:28:45 NOW TECHNICALLY, WE AS THE CAC WILL MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
09:28:49 TO YOU ABOUT THIS, BUT THIS IS A STUDY THAT IS
09:28:51 CONTINUING.
09:28:53 WE WILL KEEP YOU ABREAST OF OUR RECOMMENDATION BUT WANTED
09:28:58 TO MAKE YOU AWARE IT'S SOMETHING THE CAC HAS BEEN
09:29:01 APPROACHED.
09:29:05 NEXT SLIDE.
09:29:06 >>BILL CARLSON: NORTH DOWNTOWN MULTIMODAL AND NETWORK
09:29:10 CONCEPTS.
09:29:11 >> THANK YOU.
09:29:12 THE MULTIMODAL CONCEPTS AND THE STUDY ALL HAVE
09:29:19 CONNECTIVITY OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND PROXIMAL FOR OUR
09:29:21 BOUNDARIES, WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN SEVERAL OF THOSE.
09:29:26 WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
09:29:29 AGAIN, TO FUND STUDY THAT ENHANCE AS A DISTRICT, AND
09:29:38 PROMOTE OUR DISTRICT AND AUGMENT WHAT THE CITY HAS
09:29:42 ALREADY PLANNED PROGRAMS, SO WE ARE AWARE OF THESE
09:29:45 PROGRAMS, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
09:29:48 THANK YOU.
09:29:48 WHOEVER DID THAT, IT IS HELPFUL.
09:29:56 THIS IS A CONTINUING PROJECT.
09:29:57 AGAIN, WE WILL BRING IT TO YOU FOR RECOMMENDATIONS.
09:30:09 I MENTIONED BOULEVARD BRIDGE BEFORE, PROBABLY THE
09:30:11 NORTHERNMOST BRIDGE AND IS NOT CURRENTLY UNDERLIT.
09:30:16 THE 275 BRIDGE IS TECHNICALLY THE ONE MOST NORTH ON THE
09:30:20 RIVER THAT IS NOT LIT.
09:30:21 BUT BOULEVARD BRIDGE HAS QUITE A PERSPECTIVE.
09:30:25 AND WE, IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CRA, ONLY HAVE ONE
09:30:33 QUARTER OF THE BOULEVARD BRIDGE IN OUR DISTRICT, IN OUR
09:30:37 BOUNDARIES.
09:30:37 SO WE HAVE APPROACHED CITY OF TAMPA LLC WHO HAS BEEN
09:30:43 DOING A MASTERFUL JOB OF LIGHTING THESE AND STARTING TO
09:30:46 TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS IN THE CRA ABOUT JOINT FUNDING ON
09:30:50 THE LIGHTING, THE BOULEVARD BRIDGE, UNDERLIGHTING
09:30:55 SPECIFICALLY.
09:30:56 WE INTEND TO APPROACH THAT COMMERCIAL DISTRICT COMPANIES
09:31:00 AND BUSINESSES TO ALSO HELP PROMOTE SPONSORING
09:31:03 UNDERLIGHTING OF THE BRIDGE.
09:31:04 WE HAVE HAD BEGINNING CONVERSATIONS.
09:31:08 WE EVEN HAVE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.
09:31:10 THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD AREA OVER THERE ON FRANKLIN STREET
09:31:14 EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THIS, JUST A CHANCE TO ENHANCE THE
09:31:16 NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE VIEW DOWN THE RIVER.
09:31:20 I BELIEVE THAT'S MY LAST SLIDE, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN.
09:31:22 >> IT IS.
09:31:25 >> THANK YOU.
09:31:28 THAT IS GENERALLY IT TODAY.
09:31:32 ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME?
09:31:34 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
09:31:36 ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, SIR.
09:31:37 >> MY PLEASURE.
09:31:39 >>BILL CARLSON: MS. VAN LOAN.
09:31:40 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF IT'S THE PLEASURE OF THE CRA
09:31:44 BOARD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE THE REGULAR STAFF REPORTS
09:31:49 TO AFTER THE PRESENTATION BY MR. WILFALK AND THE CONEY'S?
09:31:55 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYBODY WANTS TO MAKE A MOTION?
09:31:58 >> ARE MOTION FROM MANISCALCO.
09:32:00 SECOND FROM GUDES.
09:32:00 ALL IN FAVOR?
09:32:01 ANY OPPOSED?
09:32:03 OKAY.
09:32:03 SO MOVED.
09:32:04 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WITH THAT WE WOULD GO TO ITEM 3.
09:32:07 DO WE HAVE MARK WILFALK ON THE PHONE?
09:32:10 >> WE ACTUALLY HAVE JEAN STROHMEYER AVAILABLE TO SPEAK
09:32:20 FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:32:20 >>BILL CARLSON: MS. STROHMEYER, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR
09:32:27 PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:32:27 PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
09:32:28 YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:32:29 >> THANK YOU.
09:32:31 CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME?
09:32:32 >> YES.
09:32:33 >> AND I APOLOGIZE.
09:32:34 I SIGNED IN TO LAST WEEK'S MEETING.
09:32:36 MY BROTHER WAS KILLED ON TUESDAY.
09:32:41 IN A REALLY BAD CAR ACCIDENT WHILE DRIVING A CAR WITH A
09:32:44 DRUNK DRIVER ON A BIKE, ALL OVER THE NEWSPAPERS, SO IT'S
09:32:47 BEEN A LITTLE TOUGH COUPLE DAYS. ANYWAY, THAT'S WHY I AM
09:32:52 A LITTLE FRAZZLED. ANYWAY, I'M READY.
09:32:56 I JUST WANT TO MENTION, THERE'S ITEM 10 ABOUT TIMING, NOT
09:33:04 JUST THAT BUT OTHERS.
09:33:05 THEY ARE SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO TRANSFER $500,000.
09:33:08 IT SOUND LIKE A LOT TO A REGULAR PERSON LIKE ME THAT
09:33:11 DOESN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY BUT I AM JUST WONDERING
09:33:13 WHY WE CAN'T GET A POTHOLE FIXED DOWN IN SOUTH TAMPA.
09:33:17 EAST TAMPA GETS THAT $500,000 WHEN WE HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED
09:33:21 IN SOUTH OF GANDY SINCE 2006 WHICH DOESN'T SEEM FAIR. I
09:33:25 WANT TO THE KNOW WHO IS GETTING THESE TINY HOMES, WHERE
09:33:28 ARE THEY?
09:33:29 WHY CAN'T WE PUT SOME DEVELOPERS AND MICRO APARTMENTS
09:33:33 INSTEAD OF HAVING MAYBE TINY HOMES.
09:33:36 MAYBE WE COULD DO THAT HERE.
09:33:38 I KNOW PEOPLE -- I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOME KIND OF
09:33:45 ALTERNATIVE AGENDA THAT'S JUST LEAVING US HIGH AND DRY.
09:33:49 ANYWAY, SO WHO REALLY IS BENEFITING FROM THIS IS MY
09:33:52 QUESTION.
09:33:53 THERE'S ANOTHER TRANSFER FROM THE WEST TAMPA CRA FUNDS
09:33:56 FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT, THE
09:33:59 BUSINESS, WHATEVER, ANOTHER TRANSFER.
09:34:03 BUT WE CAN'T GET THESE TRANSFERS.
09:34:05 WE NEED SOME MONEY DOWN HERE.
09:34:07 WE ARE SEEING ALL THESE TRANSFERS FROM HERE TO THERE,
09:34:10 THERE TO HERE, AND THEY ARE USING -- THERE'S UNUSED
09:34:14 FUNDS, THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT DOWNTOWN.
09:34:17 WE HAD MONEY -- WE HAD MONEY DOWN HERE COLLECTED FOR 15
09:34:22 YEARS, AND IT WAS NOT USED ON THE ROAD, ANYTHING DOWN
09:34:25 HERE.
09:34:26 SO WHERE DID OUR MONEY GO?
09:34:28 WHY DOES EVERYBODY ELSE GET MONEY AND WE DON'T? SO I AM
09:34:31 JUST TRYING TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SO WE CAN
09:34:34 TRY TO GET SOMETHING FIXED DOWN HERE.
09:34:37 THANK YOU.
09:34:37 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FROM. ALL OF US, BEST WISHES
09:34:41 TO YOUR FAMILY.
09:34:42 I'M SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR BROTHER.
09:34:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CONDOLENCES AS WELL.
09:34:47 >>BILL CARLSON: MS. VAN LOAN?
09:34:50 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: DO WE HAVE MARK WILFALK YET ON THE
09:34:53 PHONE?
09:34:54 >>MARK WILFALK: YES, I AM HERE.
09:34:55 CAN YOU HEAR ME?
09:35:00 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, WE CAN.
09:35:02 >>MARK WILFALK: I APOLOGIZE.
09:35:05 I HAD MY CAMERA PLUGGED IN.
09:35:09 MAYBE IT WILL KICK IN SHORTLY.
09:35:12 GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
09:35:15 AND BEFORE I GET STARTED, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEND MY
09:35:18 CONDOLENCES TO THE LAST CALLER ON THE LINE.
09:35:26 BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO REPORT ON A REQUEST FOR FILE NUMBER
09:35:34 2019-915 AND WAS ASKED BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER TO SPEAK
09:35:40 ON THE ILLEGAL DUMPING ISSUES THAT ARE OCCURRING IN EAST
09:35:43 TAMPA, AND WHAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO TO ABATE SOME OF
09:35:49 THE ISSUES AND OFFER SOME SOLUTIONS.
09:35:55 I HAD AN OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET WITH COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER
09:35:58 A COUPLE MONTHS AGO BACK IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, AND TOSS
09:36:04 AROUND A FEW IDEAS OF OUR PLANS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES,
09:36:11 AND JUST WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT IT STILL DOESN'T
09:36:20 STOP THE TEAM FROM COMING UP WITH NEW IDEAS, INNOVATIVE
09:36:23 WAYS TO RESOLVE THESE MATTERS.
09:36:25 SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE PLAN TO DO IS REALLY ENCOURAGE
09:36:29 PEOPLE TO CALL OUR DEPARTMENT AND START REQUESTING
09:36:35 SPECIAL PICKUPS.
09:36:38 WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAS TO BE A CHARGE ASSOCIATED
09:36:42 WITH PROVIDING THE REMOVAL OF DEBRIS FROM CURBSIDE WHEN
09:36:47 WE COME OUT, BUT WE UNDERSTAND FOR SOME OF OUR FOLKS, IN
09:36:50 SOME OF THE CRAs, PARTICULARLY THE EAST TAMPA AREA,
09:36:53 THAT SOME OF THE MINIMUM AMOUNTS OF CHARGE REQUIRED TO
09:36:58 REMOVE SMALL ITEMS WOULD REALLY BE A BIT MUCH, A BIT
09:37:03 EXTENSIVE.
09:37:04 SO THE TYPICAL CHARGE FOR THE REMOVAL OF DEBRIS THAT'S
09:37:08 TRADITIONALLY NOT COLLECTED ON WEEKLY GARBAGE COLLECTION
09:37:13 PROGRAM RANGES AROUND $65.
09:37:15 AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE CHARGE A MINIMUM.
09:37:19 WELL, WHAT WE ARE PLANNING ON IMPLEMENTING IS TO REDUCE
09:37:22 THE MINIMUM DOWN TO THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF DEBRIS THAT'S ON
09:37:26 THE GROUND, SO IF A RESIDENT ACTUALLY HAS A COUCH AND TV
09:37:31 AT THEIR CURBSIDE, AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO CALL US AND
09:37:37 HAVE US REMOVE, WE WILL BEGIN TO CHARGE ONE FOR THAT
09:37:43 SERVICE WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT $16.
09:37:46 SO WE ARE HOPING THAT WE WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE
09:37:49 PALATABLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS THAT ARE OUT THERE, AND WE
09:37:53 ALSO ENCOURAGE THEM FOR A NOMINAL FEE TO REMOVE THESE
09:37:59 ITEMS FROM THE CURBSIDE AND HELP PRESERVE THE AESTHETICS
09:38:02 WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
09:38:05 THE OTHER INITIATIVES THAT WE ARE STARTING TO ADOPT AS
09:38:08 WELL, WE HAVE OUR FREE DISPOSAL PROGRAM, AND AS LONG AS
09:38:13 THE RESIDENT WHO PAYS INTO OUR SYSTEM SHOWS UP AT MACKAY
09:38:17 BAY WITH A UTILITY BILL AND A MATCHING ID, THEY CAN
09:38:21 DISPOSE OF THEIR ITEMS AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
09:38:28 WE LISTENED TO SOME OF OUR COMMERCE THAT ARE VISITING THE
09:38:31 FACILITY AND WANTS TO UTILIZE THOSE SERVICES, AND WE KNOW
09:38:33 THAT THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT LONG WAIT TIMES AT VARIOUS
09:38:37 TIMES OF THE DAY.
09:38:38 SO WE WILL BEGIN IMPLEMENTING A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS THOSE
09:38:45 FOLKS TO SKIP THE LINE.
09:38:46 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME IN AND WAIT ON
09:38:50 OUR SCALES, NOR DO THEY HAVE TO WAIT IN A LONG LINE TO
09:38:53 GET THEIR ID BACK.
09:38:55 EFFECTIVE THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, RESIDENTS WILL BE
09:38:58 ABLE TO COME IN AND JUST ANSWER A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS,
09:39:01 PRESENT THEIR ID AND MATCHING UTILITY BILL, THEY WILL NOT
09:39:04 GO THROUGH THE SCALES AND DUMP THEIR DEBRIS OUT.
09:39:09 AND SO WE ARE HOPING THAT OUR RESIDENTS AND CUSTOMERS
09:39:15 WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY THAT BENEFIT AND HOPEFULLY
09:39:18 EXPEDITE.
09:39:19 NOW, THE CITY HAS ALSO SUPPORTED THE DEPARTMENT BY A $43
09:39:25 MILLION NEW TRANSFER STATION WHICH WE EXPECT TO COME
09:39:28 ONLINE BETWEEN THE MONTHS OF SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, AND
09:39:32 ONCE THAT FACILITY GOES LIVE, I BELIEVE THAT MEMBERS OF
09:39:37 COUNCIL AS WELL AS OUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY
09:39:43 THE BENEFIT AND IMPROVE SERVICES THAT COME ALONG WITH
09:39:46 THAT.
09:39:46 NOW, WE CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THE ILLEGAL DUMPING ISSUE.
09:39:50 WE ARE ALSO WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT,
09:39:57 AND MY PARTNER CURTIS WILLIAMS IS ON AS WELL SO I WOULD
09:40:01 LIKE TO YIELD TIME TO HIM SO HE CAN EXPLAIN A FEW
09:40:05 INITIATIVES THAT WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER.
09:40:08 SO MR. WILLIAMS, ARE YOU ON?
09:40:09 >> CURTIS WILLIAMS: YES.
09:40:11 THANK YOU, MARK.
09:40:21 LIKE MARK HAS SAID, VERY GRACIOUS IN EXPLAINING THIS SIDE
09:40:31 OF THE BUSINESS WHICH IS NEW TO ME, AND THROUGH THOSE
09:40:34 MEETINGS WE RESULTED IN SOME PROGRAMS LIKE HE DISCUSSED
09:40:39 THAT I THINK WILL HAVE SOME IMPACT ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF
09:40:42 THE NEIGHBORHOOD, REDUCTION OF THE SPECIAL PICKUPS,
09:40:48 ET CETERA.
09:40:49 SOME OF THE OTHER INITIATIVES THAT I HAVE WORKED ON WERE
09:40:53 SOME PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS WITH CAMPAIGNS, ILLEGAL
09:41:02 DUMPING IN EAST TAMPA, AND CURRENTLY WORKING IN THE
09:41:11 COMPLETION OF SOME GRANTS THAT HAD PORTIONS THAT DEAL
09:41:15 WITH INVESTIGATIONS AS WELL.
09:41:21 SO ANYTIME YOU HAVE LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES UNIT, THE
09:41:27 REASON FOR THAT UNIT --
09:41:32 I WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE REALLY TRY TO WORK ON EDUCATION,
09:41:44 AS OPPOSED TO GOING OUT AND MAKING ARRESTS.
09:41:48 THANK YOU, MARK, FOR WORKING WITH ME.
09:41:52 I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:41:53 ALSO WORKING WITH SOME OF THE OTHER ENTITIES THROUGHOUT
09:41:56 THE CITY, SOME PROLIFIC ILLEGAL DUMPING AREAS.
09:42:04 SURVEYS ARE BEING DONE TO VACATE SOME OF THOSE AREAS,
09:42:10 DON'T NEED TO BE INVITING AS THEY CURRENTLY ARE TO
09:42:13 DUMPING.
09:42:15 ALSO TO WORK WITH ENVIRONMENTAL -- IN THE CITY ON
09:42:20 COLLECTING DATA ON SOME AREAS THAT WE HAD SOME LONG-TERM
09:42:28 PROBLEMS HERE IN EAST TAMPA.
09:42:30 IN FACT I HAVE A MEETING THIS AFTERNOON TO ADDRESS SOME
09:42:33 OF THOSE.
09:42:34 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
09:42:46 MR. GUDES?
09:42:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'M HOPING SOLID WASTE, MARK, CAN COME
09:42:50 UP WITH SOME TYPE OF GRANT, LOOK AT A GRANT THAT WOULD
09:42:55 HELP WHAT I CALL THE JUNKMAN AND PUT SOME PEOPLE TO WORK
09:43:01 TO WHERE IN THESE COMMUNITIES, THE JUNK MAN GOES BY AND
09:43:07 PICKS UP GARBAGE, CLEAN THE NEIGHBORHOOD UP.
09:43:10 SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH A PROGRAM AND
09:43:15 START OUT A PILOT PROGRAM IN THESE AREAS, WHAT I CALL
09:43:20 SMALL SECTOR, AND SEE IF WE CAN HAVE AN RFP DONE WITH
09:43:24 SOME TYPE OF GRANT, EMPLOY SOME OF THESE FOLKS WHO ARE
09:43:27 OUT THERE EVERY DAY WICK PICKING UP SOME GARBAGE AND
09:43:30 MAYBE ENHANCE AND HELP THE CITY AS A WHOLE CLEAN UP THE
09:43:33 CITY.
09:43:35 I SEE GUYS ALL THE TIME IN TRUCKS GOING DOWN STREETS, AND
09:43:39 I THINK THAT'S A WAY TO ALLEVIATE A LOT OF PRESSURE ON
09:43:44 OUR SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW.
09:43:47 I CAN RECALL WITHIN THE LAST TWO OR THREE MONTHS I PAID
09:43:51 PICKUP $65 SO I UNDERSTAND THE MONEY.
09:43:55 WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE COMMUNITIES, THEY DON'T
09:43:57 HAVE TRUCKS TO GET DOWN TO 34th STREET.
09:44:02 SO I JUST WISH THAT WE CAN LOOK AT POSSIBLY LOOKING AT
09:44:05 SOME GRANTS OUT THERE, AND MAYBE START A PILOT PROGRAM TO
09:44:09 EMPLOY MAYBE WHAT I CALL THE JUNK MAN, AND GO OUT AND
09:44:14 MAYBE PICK UP SOME OF THE TRASH AND HELP US OUT.
09:44:17 SO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
09:44:22 >>MARK WILFALK: WE CAN CERTAINLY TAKE THAT INTO
09:44:24 CONSIDERATION.
09:44:24 AGAIN, IT'S AN APPROACH THAT WE HAVE NEVER TRIED BEFORE,
09:44:28 BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T EXPLORE THAT AVENUE.
09:44:31 SO WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO LOOK INTO IT, SEE IF THERE ARE
09:44:34 ANY GRANT OPPORTUNITIES, AND I BELIEVE IT MAY DOVETAIL
09:44:41 THAT DETECTIVE WILLIAMS JUST SPOKE ABOUT TO SEE IF WE CAN
09:44:44 POTENTIALLY FIND SOME SUPPORT FOR THAT TYPE OF
09:44:47 INITIATIVE.
09:44:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOPEFULLY YOU CAN BRING US SOMETHING
09:44:50 BACK IN FUTURE REFERENCE TO THAT.
09:44:52 I THINK IT COULD BE A WORTHWHILE PROGRAM, AND ALSO HELP
09:44:55 SOME FOLKS WHO ARE STRUGGLING.
09:44:58 >>MARK WILFALK: ABSOLUTELY.
09:45:02 AGAIN WE ARE REALLY HOPING THAT BY COMMUNICATING, YOU
09:45:06 KNOW, SOME OF THE OPTIONS TO REDUCE THE RATE THAT IT
09:45:09 WOULD REALLY DRIVE PEOPLE AND SAYING, HEY, GOOD, I DON'T
09:45:11 HAVE TO PAY THIS $65, $70, IT'S ONLY 10 OR $15, I CAN
09:45:17 LIVE WITH THAT.
09:45:17 SO WE ARE HOPING THAT WILL BE MORE PALATABLE TO OUR
09:45:20 CUSTOMERS THAT ARE OUT THERE.
09:45:22 AND THEN ALSO WE ARE HERE TO HELP.
09:45:24 ULTIMATELY, WE WANT TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY LOOKING CLEAN,
09:45:27 WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THE AESTHETICS OF THEM.
09:45:30 SO WHERE WE CAN GO ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THOSE SITUATIONS.
09:45:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: EVEN WITH JUNKED CARS, MARK.
09:45:39 A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHO TO CALL TO GET RID
09:45:42 OF A CAR.
09:45:43 THESE PROGRAMS CAN BE VERY, VERY HELPFUL TO SOME OF THE
09:45:47 RESIDENTS AT NO CHARGE, IF WE CAN COME UP WHERE A PROGRAM
09:45:50 LIKE THAT AND REMOVE SOME OF THESE CARS BECAUSE SOMETIMES
09:45:54 THOSE CARS DO BRING SLUM AND BLIGHT TO THE COMMUNITIES.
09:45:57 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. DINGFELDER?
09:46:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:46:04 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES, AS ALWAYS FOR YOUR GOOD
09:46:07 IDEAS.
09:46:08 MARK AND CURTIS, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SOME OF THE
09:46:11 INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND CHANGES THAT YOU GUYS ARE PUTTING
09:46:16 INTO PLAY.
09:46:19 MICHELLE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, I THINK A BIG PART
09:46:22 OF IT IS MARKETING.
09:46:24 AND THIS IS NOT JUST AN EAST TAMPA ISSUE.
09:46:30 I MEAN, IT DEFINITELY HAS A POTENTIAL TO BE A CITY-WIDE
09:46:34 ISSUE.
09:46:34 OBVIOUSLY WE SEE IT WORSE IN EAST TAMPA, MAYBE ON THE
09:46:37 EAST SIDE OF YBOR CITY, AND DEFINITELY IN NORTH TAMPA.
09:46:42 ILLEGAL DUMPING AND THAT SORT OF THING.
09:46:44 SO LET'S MAKE SURE THAT, MICHELLE, THAT WE GET THE WORD
09:46:49 OUT TO THE CITY MARKETING DEPARTMENT, TO MAKE SURE THAT
09:46:54 EVERYBODY IN THE CITY KNOWS WHAT THESE CHANGES ARE, AND
09:47:00 THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE MARK WILFALK'S PHONE NUMBER IN CASE
09:47:05 THEY HAVE AN EMERGENCY.
09:47:08 ON A SERIOUS NOTE, MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A CITY-WIDE
09:47:12 EFFORT AND THAT WE DO A GOOD JOB OF MARKETING
09:47:16 INFORMATION.
09:47:17 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WILL DO.
09:47:19 >>MARK WILFALK: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, IF I CAN, THERE
09:47:23 ARE TWO MORE OBJECTIVES TO OUR SUPPORT SERVICES TEAM
09:47:27 WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
09:47:30 THAT HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED INTERESTS IN DEVELOPING A
09:47:32 GRASSROOTS EFFORTS THAT WILL AGAIN COME ON THE LINES OF
09:47:36 WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, CREATE SOME MARKETING MATERIAL,
09:47:40 A BROCHURE WHERE WE GO OUT AND TARGET THOSE AREAS WHERE
09:47:44 WE SEE THE MOST ILLEGAL DUMPING VIOLATIONS.
09:47:47 AND BY GRASSROOTS EFFORTS, I MEAN WE GET OUT THERE,
09:47:51 MYSELF INCLUDED.
09:47:52 WE GO KNOCK ON THE DOOR.
09:47:54 WE EDUCATE THOSE RESIDENTS ON WHAT THEY CAN DO TO IMPROVE
09:47:59 WHATEVER OR EDUCATE THEM ON WHAT THEY CAN DO TO GET RID
09:48:02 OF THE DEBRIS THAT THEY HAVE AT THE CURBSIDE.
09:48:05 SO WE PLAN ON GETTING OUT THERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, PUT
09:48:08 IN SOME INFORMATION IN BOTH HANDS, AS WELL AS USING OTHER
09:48:12 STREAMS OF MEDIA, TO COMMUNICATE SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS
09:48:15 IN THE PROGRAM THAT WE ARE LOOKING FAR FOR THAT AS WELL.
09:48:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YOU JUST RAISED AN IDEA THAT I HAD.
09:48:24 YOU KNOW, THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN DOING "PAINT YOUR HEART
09:48:26 OUT" FOR 30 YEARS, WE GET A GREAT TURNOUT OF VOLUNTEERS
09:48:30 AND THAT SORT OF THING.
09:48:31 BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD START A PROGRAM ALONG THE LINES OF
09:48:35 LIKE CLEAN YOUR HEART OUT AND GET A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS
09:48:40 ON A NICE COOL WINTER DAY TO HELP CLEAN UP SOME OF THESE
09:48:44 LOTS, OR TO HELP CLEAN UP THE STREETS WHERE THESE PILES
09:48:51 OF JUNK, JUST -- I KNOW YOUR PEOPLE CAN DO IT, MARK, AND
09:48:56 THEY DO IT WELL, AND CURTIS, YOUR EFFORTS ARE APPRECIATED
09:49:00 AS WELL.
09:49:01 BUT JUST TO GET THAT COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.
09:49:06 >> THE PORTION THAT DEALS WITH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND ALSO
09:49:15 MARKETING.
09:49:16 SO NOT JUST GENERAL FORMS OF PAPER MARKETING BUT PERHAPS
09:49:27 A DIGITAL BOARD FOR THE PUBLIC.
09:49:33 THERE ARE FORCES THIS GRANT THAT I AM TRYING TO ATTAIN
09:49:39 THAT DEALS WITH THOSE SPECIFIC ITEMS THAT YOU ARE TALKING
09:49:41 ABOUT MOVING FORWARD.
09:49:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I HOPE YOU KEEP US POSTED AT LEAST ON
09:49:46 AN ANNUAL BASIS.
09:49:47 WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
09:49:48 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. VIERA.
09:49:50 >>LUIS VIERA: AGAIN I WANTED TO JUMP OWN WHAT COUNCILMAN
09:49:53 GUDES AND ESPECIALLY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER GOT ON WHICH
09:49:55 IS THE IDEA THAT BLIGHT AFFECTS SO MUCH OF OUR CITY
09:49:58 INCLUDING THAT OF THE CRA.
09:50:01 I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE CITY CRA ENDEAVORS IN
09:50:06 AREAS WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN PUSHES FOR CRAs, SULPHUR
09:50:13 SPRINGS, USF AREA, MAYBE NOT A PUSH FOR THE CRA, AND
09:50:18 AREAS LIKE COPELAND PARK OR TERRACE PARK, WE DON'T HAVE A
09:50:22 CRA IN THE WHOLE CITY, RIGHT?
09:50:24 BUT IN AREAS WHERE THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF BLIGHT AND
09:50:27 ENDEAVORS LIKE THIS COULD HELP.
09:50:29 SOMETHING THAT'S VERY DISTINGUISHABLE FROM THIS, I WAS
09:50:32 TALKING ABOUT A YOUTH PROGRAM, AT RISK AREAS TO INCLUDE
09:50:37 PARTS OF THE CRA AS WELL AS SULPHUR SPRINGS AND PARTS OF
09:50:41 NORTH TAMPA, USF AREA, AND THIS IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING
09:50:44 THAT HAPPENED THERE AS WELL.
09:50:46 I THINK THE MAIN ISSUE SHOULDN'T JUST BE CRA AREAS BUT
09:50:50 AREAS THAT ARE IN NEED OF THAT.
09:50:52 SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME SORT OF CITY CRA COMBINATION
09:50:57 KIND OF LIKE WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO WITH THE YOUTH JOBS
09:51:01 PROGRAM ON THE ISSUE OF BLIGHT.
09:51:03 SO THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:51:05 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYBODY ELSE?
09:51:07 JUST ONE FINAL COMMENT FROM ME.
09:51:09 PLEASE DON'T FORGET SOUTH OF GANDY.
09:51:11 THERE'S A LOT OF ILLEGAL DUMPING THAT HAPPENS DOWN THERE
09:51:13 SO PLEASE INCLUDE THEM AS WELL.
09:51:15 I KNOW IT'S A CRA MEETING, BUT PLEASE THEY NEED HELP AS
09:51:18 WELL.
09:51:18 MS. VAN LOAN, WHAT'S NEXT?
09:51:20 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR ITEM NUMBER 4, WE ARE PLEASED
09:51:22 TO PRESENT MS. CHLOE CONEY AND ERNEST CONEY.
09:51:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: POINT OF PRIVILEGE, PLEASE, SIR.
09:51:36 I SEE THE LADY WHO WEARS MANY HATS, IF SHE WOULD KIND OF
09:51:43 COME UP TO THE PODIUM.
09:51:44 >> GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL.
09:51:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME START BY SAYING WE HAVE A REAL
09:51:54 TRAILBLAZER IN FRONT OF US THIS MORNING.
09:51:57 MS. CHLOE CONEY IS A LEADER WHO SERVES IN A SPIRIT OF
09:52:02 LOVE.
09:52:03 WHEN FEDERAL COURTS ORDERED HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY TO
09:52:05 DESEGREGATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, YOU AT AN EARLY AGE, MS.
09:52:10 CONEY, BECAME A LEADER.
09:52:11 IN 1963, SHE ALONE WITH A BRAVE FEW -- SHE ATTENDED
09:52:20 HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL WITH HONORS IN 1968 AND SHE WAS
09:52:22 ONE OF THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICANS TO GRADUATE FROM
09:52:25 HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, I BELIEVE.
09:52:29 SHE ACHIEVED A DEGREE, A&M UNIVERSITY, AND FLORIDA DEACON
09:52:40 BIBLE COLLEGE, AND HOPE BIBLE COLLEGE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:52:47 MRS. CONEY PASSIONATELY SERVES IN HER PERSONAL CAREER.
09:52:52 SHE BECAME A CAREER AS THE FIRST BLACK PROBATION AND
09:52:55 PAROLE OFFICER IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
09:52:57 SHE THEN CONTINUED WITH THE COURT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
09:53:04 AND REPRESENTATIVE FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA.
09:53:07 SHE SERVED FAMILIES AS A MANAGER OF THE LEE DAVIS
09:53:14 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER LEADING THE WAY FOR IT TO BECOME A
09:53:18 SOCIAL AND MEDICAL CENTER IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
09:53:21 THAT IS TRUE, FOLKS.
09:53:22 I WOULD LIKE TO HONOR MRS. CHLOE CONEY FOR SERVING THE
09:53:28 TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY FOR 40 YEARS, AND TOUCHING THE LIVES
09:53:32 OF EVERYONE SHE MEETS.
09:53:34 MS. CONEY, I SAY YOU HAVE BEEN A TRAILBLAZER.
09:53:38 YOU HAVE ALL OVER THE CITY.
09:53:40 YOU TRANSFORMED WHAT WE KNOW WHAT IS CALLED THE PROJECTS.
09:53:44 WE DON'T CALL IT ANYMORE, OVER IN EAST TAMPA.
09:53:53 YOU CLEARED THAT PLACE UP, AND I CAN SAY WHEREVER YOU
09:53:56 HAVE GONE, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TOUCHED, YOU HAVE MADE A
09:53:59 DIFFERENCE.
09:53:59 SO THIS MORTGAGE, MY AIDE TOLD ME SHE HAS A PLAQUE THAT
09:54:04 SHE'S GOING TO READ TO HONOR YOU.
09:54:05 I KNOW YOU ARE BEING INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME OF
09:54:09 HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL THIS EVENING SO I WANTED TO MAKE
09:54:12 SURE THAT CITY COUNCIL GAVE YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN
09:54:13 ALSO SAY THAT THIS CITY IS PROUD OF YOU.
09:54:16 >> MS. CHLOE CONEY.
09:54:26 >> GET CLOSER TO THE MIKE.
09:54:27 >> I'M SORRY.
09:54:28 TAMPA CITY COUNCIL PROUDLY HONORS CHLOE CONEY, THE WOMAN
09:54:32 WHO WEARS MANY HATS, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AS A 40 YEAR
09:54:35 VETERAN AND ADVOCATE FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING AND UPLIFTING
09:54:39 NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:54:39 YOU HAVE NAVIGATED THE EFFORT TO RENEW A SENSE OF PRIDE
09:54:44 IN COMMUNITY IN THE TAMPA AREA.
09:54:47 MRS. CHLOE CONEY ALSO KNOWN AS THE MOTHER OF ECONOMIC
09:54:51 DEVELOPMENT, YOU TOOK BOLD ACTION TO ACHIEVE YOUR
09:54:54 STRATEGIC VISION FOR THE CORPORATION TO DEVELOP
09:54:59 COMMUNITIES OF TAMPA, TO BE A COMMUNITY BASED AND
09:55:01 COMMUNITY OWNED NONPROFIT WHOSE MISSION IS TO RAISE THE
09:55:04 ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL OF RESIDENTS IN
09:55:09 ECONOMICALLY DEPRESSED AREAS ACROSS TAMPA AND THROUGHOUT
09:55:13 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
09:55:15 MS. CONEY, YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED YOURSELF TO BE A
09:55:18 TREMENDOUS LEADER, A CHAMPION OF PUBLIC SERVICE, ONE WHO
09:55:23 IS GREATLY EXPECTED AND ADMIRED FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, AND
09:55:26 TENACITY.
09:55:28 A TRUE SERVANT TO THIS COMMUNITY AND ONE WHO DOES SO WITH
09:55:33 A GRACIOUS HEART.
09:55:34 IN GRATITUDE TO SUCH EFFORTS, TAMPA CITY COUNCIL PRESENTS
09:55:38 THIS COMMENDATION ON THIS 13th DAY OF MAY 2021 TO MS.
09:55:46 CHLOE AS THE MATRIX OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:55:51 >> I AM SO HONORED.
09:55:53 I AM SO PROUD.
09:55:54 AND I WANT TO THANK CITY COUNCIL AND COUNCILMAN ORLANDO
09:55:57 GUDES, THANK YOU.
09:55:58 THIS IS JUST WONDERFUL.
09:56:00 AND I DO LOOK FORWARD TONIGHT.
09:56:04 53 YEARS LATER BEING INDUCTED INTO HILLSBOROUGH HIGH
09:56:08 SCHOOL HALL OF FAME.
09:56:11 SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL.
09:56:13 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS WANT TO SAY
09:56:16 ANYTHING?
09:56:17 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:56:19 CHLOE, YOU KNOW WE HAVE WORKED TOGETHER ON THINGS BEFORE.
09:56:22 YOU KNOW I LOVE AND RESPECT YOU.
09:56:25 YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON.
09:56:25 WHEN I THINK OF WHAT THE CDC DOES, WITH ECONOMIC
09:56:31 EMPOWERMENT DEVELOPMENT AND OPENING UP DOORS TO FOLKS IN
09:56:34 OUR COMMUNITY, IT'S KIND OF THAT NEXT STEP IN THE CIVIL
09:56:38 RIGHTS MOVEMENT WHERE YOU HAVE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF
09:56:41 64, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, FAIR HOUSING, YOU ARE OPENING
09:56:44 UP DOORS, AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN WALK
09:56:47 THROUGH THOSE DOORS.
09:56:48 YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE COMMUNITIES ARE ACTUALLY
09:56:50 GETTING SOME OF THOSE DOLLARS FOR OPPORTUNITY, AND THAT'S
09:56:53 WHAT YOU ALL DO.
09:56:54 AND I SALUTE THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
09:56:56 BUT YOU HAVE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN SO MANY -- YOU ARE
09:56:59 SUCH A DISTINGUISHED PERSON HERE IN TAMPA.
09:57:03 WHEN OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT CAME TO TAMPA WHO INTRODUCED
09:57:11 HIM?
09:57:11 YOU DID.
09:57:12 YOU DID.
09:57:13 YOU DID.
09:57:14 THAT'S KIND OF COOL.
09:57:16 I REMEMBER ONE OF THE PROUDEST MOMENTS I HAD, AND IT WAS
09:57:20 SO EARLY IN MY POLITICAL CAREER, BUT WAS HELPING PUSH FOR
09:57:25 SPEAKING AT A RALLY.
09:57:26 I THINK COUNCILMAN GUDES THERE.
09:57:28 HE WASN'T A COUNCILMAN YET BUT WAS FOR THE CONFEDERATE
09:57:32 MEMORIAL, NOT TO KEEP IT, TO MOVE IT.
09:57:35 AND YOU WERE THERE.
09:57:35 AND YOU WERE LENDING YOUR STORY OF LENDING YOUR VOICE AND
09:57:38 TALKING ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES, AND JUST SPEAKING FROM
09:57:41 THE HEART LIKE YOU ALWAYS DO.
09:57:43 THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU SPEAK FROM THE
09:57:46 HEART.
09:57:46 SO I JUST WANTED TO SALUTE YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO,
09:57:49 MA'AM, AND JUST GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL THAT YOU DO.
09:57:52 THANK YOU.
09:57:53 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:57:54 I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:57:55 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYBODY ELSE?
09:57:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:58:00 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:58:01 >>BILL CARLSON: GO AHEAD.
09:58:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CHLOE, JOHN DINGFELDER HERE.
09:58:07 YOU KNOW WE LOVED YOU FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
09:58:14 EVERY TIME I LOOK IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION, THERE YOU ARE
09:58:17 HELPING AND LEADING IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:58:20 CHLOE, MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS
09:58:23 ENOUGH WALLS IN YOUR HOUSE FOR ALL THE AWARDS AND PLAQUES
09:58:26 THAT YOU HAVE.
09:58:27 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE -- ANYWAY, I AM JUST TEASING YOU.
09:58:34 BUT WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU AND ALL YOU HAVE DONE, AND
09:58:36 YES, I AGREE WITH YOU, WE NEED TO HONOR YOU WHILE WE ARE
09:58:41 ALL HERE TOGETHER.
09:58:42 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.
09:58:43 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:58:45 I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:58:46 >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL JUST ADD IN ALSO, THANK YOU FOR
09:58:48 YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND LEADERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO
09:58:53 COACHING ME.
09:58:54 I THINK YOU ARE A MENTOR TO ALL OF US AND YOU MEN TOWARD
09:58:57 JUST ABOUT EVERY LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:58:59 AND TO TWO OF MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED THE WORD LOVE.
09:59:03 I BELIEVE YOU LEAD WITH LOVE BECAUSE OF YOUR GENUINE CARE
09:59:06 FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, AND YOU
09:59:08 QUIETLY GUIDE A LOT MORE THAN YOU EVER GET CREDIT FOR,
09:59:11 AND YOU ARE A MENTOR TO MANY, MANY LEAD LEADERS.
09:59:16 AND SPEAKING OF THE NEXT ONE NEXT TO YOU, AND YOU BROUGHT
09:59:19 YOUR WHOLE FAMILY INTO LEADING IN THE COMMUNITY SO THANK
09:59:21 YOU FOR THAT AS WELL.
09:59:23 ANYTHING ELSE?
09:59:23 WE WILL GO ON TO YOUR PRESENTATION.
09:59:25 CONGRATULATIONS.
09:59:26 THANK YOU.
09:59:26 >> CHLOE CONEY: WOW.
09:59:32 THANK YOU AGAIN TO CITY COUNCIL, COUNCILMAN GUDES, AND TO
09:59:35 ALL THE CITY COUNCIL, AND IN THE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
09:59:38 >> COULD YOU SPEAK LOUDER INTO THE MICROPHONE?
09:59:42 >> OKAY, GOOD.
09:59:43 EVERYBODY NO, SIR KNOWS THAT I AM A WOMAN THAT WEARS MANY
09:59:46 HATS.
09:59:46 FIRST I'M HOME GROWN FROM WEST TAMPA.
09:59:49 NUMBER TWO, I'M THE FOUNDER OF CDC OF TAMPA.
09:59:56 LET'S GO TO THE SLIDES.
09:59:59 CAN YOU PUT THAT UP, PLEASE?
10:00:01 OH, THERE YOU ARE.
10:00:04 THE COMMUNITY BUILDING, NEXT YEAR CDC WILL CELEBRATE 30
10:00:13 YEARS OF PROVIDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN THE
10:00:17 COMMUNITY, WORKFORCE, SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, COMMERCIAL,
10:00:22 YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.
10:00:24 I STARTED WORKING WITH MAYOR SANDY FREEDMAN, AND TODAY I
10:00:28 AM GLAD TO BE WORKING WITH MAYOR JANE CASTOR.
10:00:33 I HAVE MY SON HERE.
10:00:35 HE'S IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING WITH CDC, SO I AM GLAD TO
10:00:39 PASS THE HAT TO HIM.
10:00:40 ALSO, I STARTED MY CONSULTING FIRM WITH SEVEN PERSONS.
10:00:47 IT'S COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE GROUP LLC.
10:00:50 THIS STARTED ABOUT A MONTH AGO WHEN I WENT BEFORE THE
10:00:55 COMMUNITY CDC, FOR THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP MEETING,
10:01:01 AND I WANT TO THANK CONNIE BURTON FOR ALLOWING ME TO GET
10:01:05 UP AND TALK ABOUT THE AGENDA 2020 IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:01:10 AND THEN I PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK COUNCILMAN ORLANDO
10:01:14 GUDES FOR INVITING ME TO SPEAK TODAY ABOUT THE ST. PETE
10:01:20 AGENDA CAN 2020 AND COMMUNITY PLAN.
10:01:22 I HAVE WORN MANY HATS AND BEEN INVOLVED WITH THOSE
10:01:26 INITIATIVES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
10:01:28 YOU WILL SEE ON A PICTURE THAT WAS APRIL THE 30th,
10:01:33 2019.
10:01:34 I INVITED CITY COUNCILMAN GUDES, JOE ROBINSON AND JANE TO
10:01:41 THE KICKOFF OF THE ONE COMMUNITY, TEN GREAT IDEAS FROM
10:01:44 THE COMMUNITY.
10:01:45 THERE WERE OVER 300 PEOPLE THERE.
10:01:49 THEY HAVE ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS OF CITY COUNCIL, COUNTY
10:01:52 COMMISSIONERS, STATE, FEDERAL, THEY HAD BUSINESSES, THEY
10:01:55 HAD RESIDENTS, THEY HAD YOUNG, OLD.
10:01:59 IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE 300 PEOPLE COMING OUT.
10:02:04 AN EXCITED ABOUT DOING SOMETHING IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
10:02:07 LAST YEAR, SEPTEMBER THE 20th, 2020, I INVITED THE
10:02:14 CEO OF ONE COMMUNITY PLAN, THE RESIDENT OF SOUTH ST. PETE
10:02:22 CRA, AND THE PRESIDENT OF DBIC, TO MEET WITH MAYOR JANE
10:02:27 CASTOR, JOHN BENNETT, OCEA WYNN, AND MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
10:02:32 AS I TOLD THE MAYOR, TO ELIMINATE POVERTY IN EAST TAMPA,
10:02:37 AND BLACK COMMUNITIES, WE MUST HAVE CITY CHAMPIONS ALL
10:02:43 WORKING ON THE SAME PROBLEM FOR THE MAYOR AND CITY
10:02:49 GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO THIS ALONE.
10:02:51 WE NEED CHAMPIONS.
10:02:53 I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THE MAYOR'S REPORT OF ECONOMIC
10:02:57 ADVISORY COMMITTEE HIGHLIGHTED POVERTY AND EDUCATION AND
10:03:01 RACIAL GAPS IN THIS CITY.
10:03:05 NOW, I HAVE A SLIDE HERE, AND JUST TOP GO ON TO PROVIDE
10:03:11 THIS, ERNEST AND I, THE FIRST THING, THEY STARTED BACK IN
10:03:14 MAY OF 2007 WITH THE 2020 PLAN, AND THAT PLAN WAS SOUTH
10:03:21 ST. PETE, AND THE MAIN GOAL WAS TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT BY
10:03:26 5,000 AND REDUCE POVERTY BY 30% IN SOUTH ST. PETE BY THE
10:03:32 2020.
10:03:33 AND THEN THE ONE COMMUNITY PLAN STARTED IN 2016 WAS THE
10:03:39 SAME LEADERS PROPOSED MAYOR RICK KRISEMAN THAT THEY
10:03:45 WANTED A COMPLETE GROWTH PLAN FOR SOUTH ST. PETE.
10:03:50 ONE THAT THEY WILL MEASURE THE EMPLOYMENT INCOME AND
10:03:55 WEALTH FOR ST. PETERSBURG AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
10:04:03 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT HERE SOME OF THE CHAMPIONS FOR THE
10:04:07 ONE COMMUNITY PLAN.
10:04:10 THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE UP THERE.
10:04:11 AND WHEN I STARTED WORKING WITH CONGRESSWOMAN CASTOR, WE
10:04:16 REPRESENTED SOUTH ST. PETE.
10:04:18 AND DURING THAT TIME, THEY HAD FIVE SCHOOLS IN THE
10:04:23 COMMUNITY AND A GOOD NUMBER OF MANUFACTURERS.
10:04:26 AND ONE THING I CAN SAY IS WHEN CONGRESSWOMAN CASTOR
10:04:29 BROUGHT SECRETARY DUNCAN DOWN, THEY HAD ONE OF THE CITY
10:04:34 CHAMPIONS, DUKE ENERGY, TO RISE UP AND THEY DONATED $1
10:04:39 MILLION TO UNITED WAY TO PROVIDE AFTER SCHOOL AND
10:04:42 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN CAMPBELL AND CHILES PARK.
10:04:47 I HOPE TECO IS HEARING THAT BECAUSE WE DO NEED SOME MORE
10:04:50 GOOD CHAMPIONS.
10:04:52 SECOND, WHEN THE CRA WAS CREATED, THAT ST. PETE CRA WAS
10:04:59 GOING TO FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE.
10:05:01 HUMAN CAPITAL, NOT INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:05:04 I KNOW PERSONALLY, I WORK WITH THEM, AND THE FIRST THING
10:05:08 THEY DID, THEY FORMED THEIR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
10:05:12 THAT IS CALLED THE MAYOR'S ST. PETE WORKS.
10:05:16 THEY BRING ALL THE NONPROFITS, THE COLLEGE, THE PTEC, AND
10:05:21 WORK WITH ALL EMPLOYEES TO DO EMPLOYMENT.
10:05:24 AND THEN ON A PERSONAL NOTE WHEN I WAS WORKING WITH FDOT,
10:05:27 AND WE STARTED OUR APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FOR THE GATEWAY
10:05:34 PROJECT, I WENT TO THAT ST. PETE WORKS, AND THEY WERE
10:05:37 ABLE TO HELP US WITH IMPROVEMENT, SANITATION, EVEN
10:05:40 PROVIDED THE MONEY FOR EQUIPMENT TO BOOST.
10:05:43 SO I KNOW CITY COUNCILMAN LUIS VIERA, AS YOU TALK ABOUT
10:05:49 APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM, WE NEED SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
10:05:55 ALSO, THE MEETING WE WENT TO FOR THE ONE COMMUNITY IDEAS,
10:06:02 THAT NIGHT THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW AFRICAN AMERICANS TO GO
10:06:09 DOWN TO THE PIER 1 WHEN IT OPENED.
10:06:12 THAT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
10:06:13 THEY PUT ALL THE RESOURCES TOGETHER, AND NINE AFRICAN
10:06:18 AMERICAN WOMEN WHEN THEY OPENED THE DOOR WAS THERE TO BE
10:06:21 AT PIER 1.
10:06:24 CITY COUNCIL BILL CARLSON, YOU ARE RIGHT, ONE OF THE
10:06:28 CHAMPIONS UP THERE IS ST. PETE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
10:06:31 THE PRESIDENT CHRIS GOES TO ALL OF THE MEETINGS.
10:06:35 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO DO, THE
10:06:40 GREENHOUSE PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
10:06:44 AND EDUCATION AND RESOURCES TO GROW THEIR BUSINESSES.
10:06:50 LASTLY, AN EXAMPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS, I GAVE A
10:06:56 TOUR, AND THE YOUNG MAN IS SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE NOW.
10:07:02 WITH HUMAN SERVICES OF ST. PETE.
10:07:04 AND I GAVE HIM A TOUR OF THE HISTORIC BLACK DISTRICT, ON
10:07:11 29th AND 22ND STREET.
10:07:13 I LITERALLY WANTED TO CRY.
10:07:15 YOU ARE RIGHT, CITY COUNCILMAN GUDES, A YOUNG OFFICER IN
10:07:22 COMMUNITY POLICING, AND WE FOR THREE YEARS PICKING UP
10:07:26 TRASH, AND FILLING UP SANITATION TRUCKS, AND WE WERE ABLE
10:07:33 TO BUILD THE LAUNDROMAT, AND THEN WE PUT ON -- SO MANY
10:07:40 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED THERE, AND WE BUILD THE CENTER
10:07:46 SENDING HUNDREDS OF KIDS OFF TO COLLEGE AND THEN OPENED
10:07:50 THE MARKET, AND PASTOR DEANS BUILT THE HOPE CENTER ON
10:07:55 29th STREET.
10:07:56 IT IS A SHAME WHEN I WENT AND I SAW THE BUILDINGS.
10:08:01 OH.
10:08:04 DILAPIDATED, FALLING APART.
10:08:05 AND NOTHING HAS BEEN BUILT ON LAKE AVENUE, 22ND STREET,
10:08:09 THAT AREA.
10:08:10 I MEAN 29th STREET.
10:08:12 AND PROBABLY 30 YEARS SINCE WE BUILT.
10:08:15 AND THEN THE SAME THING WITH 22ND STREET.
10:08:19 BUT THEN WHEN YOU CROSS THE BRIDGE AND GO TO ST. PETE, IN
10:08:24 THE SOUTH ST. PETE AREA, THEY HAVE TAKEN AND BUILT THE
10:08:27 MANHATTAN, THEY HAD RESTAURANTS THERE, I COULD CROSS OVER
10:08:32 AND GO TO CLEO CAFE, MERCY HOSPITAL, SPEARING COMMUNITY
10:08:38 COLLEGE, JOB CORPS.
10:08:40 I COULD GO OWN AND ON AND OPEN.
10:08:42 SO AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, WITH WHEN WE
10:08:47 REALLY CONCENTRATE ON ONE AREA AND BRING IN COMMUNITY
10:08:49 PARTNERS.
10:08:51 MY LAST SLIDE THERE IS A SLIDE THAT I SHOWED TO ED
10:08:56 JOHNSON, THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION
10:09:02 PARTNERSHIP MEETING, AND WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THERE
10:09:06 IS THE WORKING AND POVERTY RATES.
10:09:13 WHEN YOU LOOK HERE AS I TOLD THEM, YOU HAVE CLEARWATER,
10:09:16 WHICH HAS A CRA THERE, YOU HAVE SOUTH ST. PETE, YOU HAVE
10:09:21 UNIVERSITY NORTH, UNIVERSITY AREA.
10:09:24 I WANT YOU TO DRILL IN ON EAST TAMPA, WHERE 43% OF ADULTS
10:09:31 NOT WORKING.
10:09:32 THE POVERTY RATE AT 40%.
10:09:35 THAT'S THE HIGHEST OF ALL THOSE AREAS.
10:09:39 SO AS YOU SEE, WE HAVE WORK TO BE DONE, AND CITY COUNCIL,
10:09:43 WE NEED COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS LIKE SOUTH ST. PETE, BECAUSE
10:09:48 I CANNOT AFFORD TO COME BACK 30 YEARS FROM NOW, I TURN 70
10:09:52 THIS YEAR, I DON'T MIND, BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT WE ARE
10:09:58 DOING NOW WITH COVID, WITH TRYING TO ERADICATE THAT.
10:10:01 I'M SAYING THAT WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY IN EAST
10:10:05 TAMPA, ESPECIALLY OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
10:10:08 SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME AND TALK TO
10:10:11 YOU.
10:10:12 AND I LEAVE WITH MY FAVORITE QUOTE, TEAMWORK MAKES DREAM
10:10:16 WORK.
10:10:16 AND I'M READY TO WORK.
10:10:17 OKAY?
10:10:18 SO THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL.
10:10:19 I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE TODAY.
10:10:21 THANK YOU.
10:10:22 GOD BLESS.
10:10:23 >> ERNEST CONEY: GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL.
10:10:35 I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE.
10:10:37 REALLY GLAD TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT A COUPLE
10:10:38 OF THINGS.
10:10:39 AND I WILL KIND OF MOVIE THROUGH THE PowerPointS SLIDE
10:10:42 QUICKLY IF YOU CAN BRING IT BACK UP.
10:10:44 WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS THE FOCUS ON THE
10:10:47 HUMAN CAPITAL.
10:10:49 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOUTH ST. PETE, AND THEIR STRATEGIES,
10:10:53 THEY REALLY BEGIN TO PLACE A HEAVY STRATEGY ON THE HUMAN
10:10:55 CAPITAL.
10:10:56 AS NOW WE DO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORK, AND THAT'S ONE OF
10:10:59 THE CRITICAL COMPONENTS.
10:11:00 SO THEY HAD A PLAY PAY STRATEGY WHICH HAS COMMERCIAL
10:11:04 SPACE DEVELOPMENT, A HOUSING BASED PROGRAM AS WELL, BUT
10:11:07 THE PEOPLE PLACE STRATEGY IS WHAT DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN
10:11:13 WHAT CRAS HAVE DONE OVER HERE IN TAMPA.
10:11:18 JUST TO GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF QUICK EXAMPLES ON THE PLACE
10:11:22 BASED, THE COMMERCIAL GRANTS, FACADE GRANT, BUT THEY ALSO
10:11:26 HAVE GRANTS THAT CAN GONE INTO THE INTERIOR TO DO TENANT
10:11:31 IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS AS WELL IF THE HOMES WERE
10:11:33 DILAPIDATED.
10:11:34 AS YOU RECALL I WAS THE CHAIR OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10:11:36 COMMITTEE IN EAST TAMPA THAT CAME UP WITH THE FACADE
10:11:40 PROGRAM HERE IN EAST TAMPA WHICH WAS THEN REPLICATED
10:11:42 ACROSS ALL OF THE CITY.
10:11:45 THE PARTS THAT WE DIDN'T FINISH WAS BRINGING IN THE
10:11:49 CAPITAL TO HELP THESE SMALL BUSINESSES TO CONTINUE TO
10:11:52 GROW.
10:11:54 THE HOUSING IN PLACE, WE HAVE A LOT OF THE SAME TYPES OF
10:11:56 PROGRAMS.
10:11:57 BUT SOME OF THE PROGRAMS TULIP GO TO HELPING RESIDENTS TO
10:12:00 DO THEIR OWN IMPROVEMENTS, INCENTIVES THAT CAN ALSO GO TO
10:12:05 HELP DEVELOP BOTH SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING AND MULTIFAMILY
10:12:08 HOUSING AS WELL.
10:12:11 AND THEN THIS IS ONE OF THE DIFFERENT, HERE ON THE
10:12:18 PEOPLE, TO HELP PEOPLE CREATE THEIR OWN SMALL BUSINESS
10:12:22 PLANS, WORK WITH THE NONPROFITS TO HELP THEM DEVELOP
10:12:24 THOSE, AND THEN GIVE THEM BETWEEN 2500 TO $5,000 ONCE
10:12:28 THEY COMPLETE THAT CURRICULUM SO THEY CAN IMPLEMENT THEIR
10:12:31 BUSINESS PLAN.
10:12:32 AS WE TALK ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE COMING DOWN FROM THE
10:12:35 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND THEY ALSO INCLUDED HUMAN CAPITAL
10:12:39 AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE NEED OF THAT, CHILD CARE IS
10:12:43 ANOTHER TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY AND NEED, SO THEY ALSO
10:12:46 GIVE FUNDING TO FOLKS WHO HAVE CHILD CARE IN THEIR HOME
10:12:51 AS WELL AS TRADITIONAL BUSINESS CENTERS THAT HAVE CHILD
10:12:55 CARE AS WELL.
10:12:57 AND THEN JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK MINUTES ON THE YOUTH
10:13:01 PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY
10:13:04 HAD.
10:13:04 SO THEY PARTNERED WITH ENOCH DAVIS CENTER TO CREATE A NEW
10:13:10 PROGRAM.
10:13:10 THEIR PROGRAM IS REALLY A CRADLE TO CAREER PATHWAY FOR
10:13:14 FOOD SYSTEMS.
10:13:15 WITHIN THIS PROGRAM, YOUTH LEARN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, THEY
10:13:18 LEARN HOW TO CREATE A BUSINESS FLORIDA, HOW TO SELL, HOW
10:13:21 TO MARKET THEIR PRODUCT, HOW TO KEEP THE INVENTORY
10:13:24 CONTROL, HOW TO USE THEIR ACCOUNTS.
10:13:25 THEY ALSO LEARN JOB READINESS SKILLS.
10:13:28 THEY ALSO LEARN FOOD DISCIPLINES AS WELL AS TRAINING,
10:13:36 CERTIFICATIONS AS WELL.
10:13:36 SO WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IS IN OUR PROGRAM, WE
10:13:39 TRADITIONALLY HAVEN'T FUNDED OUR ORGANIZATION TO DO THIS
10:13:43 TYPE OF WORK.
10:13:44 THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH ENTERPRISE, I
10:13:52 FER GET THE NAME, IT USED TO BE CLEAN CITIES,
10:13:55 NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT I THINK IS MAYBE THE NAME OF IT
10:13:57 NOW, BUT EVERY YEAR THEY HIRE ABOUT 50 PEOPLE THROUGH THE
10:14:01 EAST TAMPA CRA FUNDING.
10:14:02 BUT WHAT WE HAVEN'T TAKEN THAT TO A PLACE OF THE CDC HAS
10:14:06 ALWAYS PROVIDED JOB READINESS TRAINING ON A VOLUNTEER
10:14:09 BASIS, BUT WE ALSO CAN LOOK AT THE TYPE OF TRAININGS THAT
10:14:14 THEY CAN GET CERTIFICATIONS.
10:14:15 WE CAN LOOK AT PARTNERING WITH CAREER SOURCE, SO THE CRA
10:14:20 PAYING FOR THAT, WE HAVE A PARTNER PAYING FOR THAT, SO
10:14:23 THAT'S 4 OR 500,000 AND THEN ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO
10:14:28 REINVEST BACK INTO OTHER TRAINING PROGRAMS AS WELL.
10:14:30 WE CAN ALSO EXPAND THAT PROGRAM TO DO PARKS AND REC,
10:14:34 ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPING, URBAN PLANNING, SO WE CAN
10:14:37 REALLY GROW INVESTMENTS WHERE WE PARTNER WITH THE CITY
10:14:45 AND HAVE PARTNERS PAPER FOR IT IN THE SUMMER PROGRAM.
10:14:50 ALSO THEY BEGIN TO WORK WITH PERC TO PROVIDE STRONG
10:14:56 EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROGRAMS TO HELP RESIDENTS
10:14:58 WITHIN THE CRA.
10:15:00 THIS HAS A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF
10:15:03 PROGRAMS THAT THE CITY OF ST. PETE HAS ALSO INVESTED IN.
10:15:06 A LOT OF CAPITAL FUNDING PROGRAMS THAT YOU WILL START TO
10:15:09 SEE AS WELL.
10:15:13 AND I WILL MENTION IN A SECOND THE MIDDLE SCREEN THERE.
10:15:17 THE CDC OF TAMPA IS A PARTNER IN THE COPA VISION AS WELL.
10:15:22 THERE'S FIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ON THE PARTNERSHIP WITH
10:15:25 THE CITY OF ST. PETE, AND THE CITY OF ST. PETE PURCHASED
10:15:29 THE LAND, THEY ARE ALSO PROVIDING CAPITAL TO HELP DEVELOP
10:15:33 THIS, AND THEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ABILITY TO
10:15:35 TRANSFER THE OWNERSHIP TO THESE FIVE NONPROFIT
10:15:39 ORGANIZATIONS.
10:15:42 ALSO HIRED ORIIS CONSTRUCTION, A LOCAL COMPANY IN
10:15:50 ST. PETE, THE FIRST TIME THEY HAVE EVER GOTTEN A MAJOR
10:15:52 GRANT, OR MAJOR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY OVER IN ST. PETE.
10:15:55 SO IT ALSO PROVIDES THE ABILITY TO HELP MINORITY
10:15:58 BUSINESSES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS ECONOMIC GROWTH THAT WE
10:16:01 HAVE.
10:16:04 YOU ALSO SEE THE POLICIES WHICH ARE THE APPRENTICESHIP
10:16:07 PROGRAMS BENEFIT AGREEMENTS THAT THEY REALLY PUSH AS
10:16:10 WELL.
10:16:10 AND I GO BACK TO THE TOP RIGHT.
10:16:13 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRIED TO DO AS WELL IN OUR CRA
10:16:16 WAS TRAY TO HAVE A WORKFORCE ORDINANCE, A LOCAL WORKFORCE
10:16:19 ORDINANCE.
10:16:20 WE WERE NOT ABLE TO GET THAT IMPLEMENTED HERE.
10:16:24 BUT WE TALKED ABOUT IT, BOUGHT A HOUSE THAT WAS PART OF
10:16:27 OUR EAST TAMPA CRA AT THE TIME.
10:16:30 SHE LOVED THE IDEA.
10:16:31 SHE WENT OFF TO SARASOTA TO WORK OVER IN NEWTOWN.
10:16:35 THEY WERE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT A LOCAL WORKFORCE ORDINANCE
10:16:38 DURING THE RECESSION AND TALKED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF JOBS
10:16:40 THEY WERE ABLE TO -- RESIDENTS HIRED ON PROJECTS THAT
10:16:43 THEIR CITY WAS DOING.
10:16:45 WE HAVE A HOTEL RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM US HERE AT
10:16:49 CITY COUNCIL, AND WE CAN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER
10:16:51 OF RESIDENTS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HELP ON THE CONSTRUCTION
10:16:54 TRADE SIDE, OR WHO WERE HIRED INTO THAT FACILITY AS WELL.
10:16:59 SO IT'S VERY INTENTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.
10:17:02 AND THEN JUST TO GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF OTHER QUICK
10:17:06 SLIDE.
10:17:07 $10 MILLION CAPITAL REQUEST.
10:17:09 YOU SEE ALBERT LEE THERE, TO ATTRACT ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
10:17:18 AND THEN THIS KIND OF GOES TO SHOW YOU ON THEIR BUDGET.
10:17:25 3.9 MILLION GOING INTO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND JOB
10:17:28 READINESS TRAINING PROGRAMS.
10:17:30 3.9 MILLION GOING INTO HOUSING AND REVITALIZATION AND 1.9
10:17:35 GOING INTO BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
10:17:37 OPPORTUNITIES.
10:17:39 THEY HAVE LESS INFRASTRUCTURE ON THEIR OPERATIONS.
10:17:41 THEY ARE TOTALLY INVESTING IN THE HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE
10:17:45 PLACE BASED STRATEGY WITHIN THEIR CRA.
10:17:48 THIS KIND OF SHOWS YOU THE TREND WHICH TOOK PLACE IN
10:17:51 FISCAL YEAR 17.
10:17:54 THEY BEGAN TO REALLY INCREASE THE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
10:17:57 INVESTMENT.
10:17:59 AND YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW HERE WITH
10:18:02 THAT TYPE OF INVESTMENT AND THE PEOPLE.
10:18:06 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO THAT?
10:18:09 SMALL BUSINESSES BEGIN TO GROW, OVER 300 SMALL BUSINESSES
10:18:13 BY 2020.
10:18:15 AND THEN THE LOCAL CORRIDORS ON 22ND STREET, IN RED, MY
10:18:21 TOP LEFT, PROBABLY YOUR LEFT AS YOU ARE FACING IT, THE
10:18:25 PROJECT.
10:18:26 THERE IS ALSO THE MUSEUM THERE.
10:18:28 YOU BEGIN TO LOOK DOWN AT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENTS THAT
10:18:30 WILL TAKE PLACE ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
10:18:32 YOU ALSO SEE ST. PETE COLLEGE THERE.
10:18:35 THERE WILL BE HOUSING IN YELLOW THAT YOU SEE THERE AS
10:18:37 WELL.
10:18:37 SO THERE'S TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL
10:18:41 IN DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THEIR CORRIDORS.
10:18:43 ONE OF THE THINGS WE ALSO TALK ABOUT IS WE NEED TO HAVE A
10:18:46 MASTER PLAN SO WE DO NOT HAVE UNWANTED DEVELOPMENT WHILE
10:18:50 WE DON'T USE HIGHEST AND BEST USE IN OUR AREA.
10:18:54 THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT SUCCESS WHERE
10:18:58 POVERTY HAS GONE FROM 20,000 RESIDENTS IN ST. PETE DOWN
10:19:02 TO 8,500 RESIDENTS IN POVERTY, AND WE LOOK AT IT BY RACE,
10:19:08 AFRICAN AMERICANS, ONE OF THE GREATEST RECIPIENTS OF THIS
10:19:12 FOCUS.
10:19:13 NOW THEIR POVERTY REDUCTION IS 52% HAS BEEN REDUCED, OVER
10:19:18 TWO TIMES THE AVERAGE OF FLORIDA.
10:19:21 AND JUST CONTINUE THAT SUCCESS AND THE TYPES OF JOBS THEY
10:19:24 ARE ABLE TO ATTRACT, THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES THAT THEY
10:19:26 ARE ABLE TO ATTRACT.
10:19:27 SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY BY FOCUSING ON
10:19:30 THOSE AREAS, SO JUST EXCITED TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND
10:19:34 TO SHARE SOME OF THOSE THOUGHTS WITH YOU GUYS.
10:19:37 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:19:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I JUST WANT TO THANK THE LADY THAT
10:19:42 WEARS MANY HATS, AND HER PROTEGE, MR. CONEY.
10:19:51 I THINK FROM SOCIAL MEDIA, I JUST PUT MY HEAD DOWN AND
10:19:56 LOOK AT 29th STREET, IT'S FALLING APART.
10:20:00 IT'S GONE.
10:20:01 AS I LOOK AT LAKE AVENUE, I LOOK AT 22ND STREET, AND I
10:20:08 HAVE TOLD MS. VAN LOAN IN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS, AS A
10:20:13 COUNCIL PERSON ON THE CRA, I WANT DEVELOPMENT ON THOSE
10:20:18 CORRIDORS.
10:20:18 I DON'T WANT SCRATCH AND DENT BAND-AIDS.
10:20:21 WE DON'T NEED BUILDINGS THAT WE KNOW TO BE TORN DOWN THAT
10:20:25 HAVE LAND ASSEMBLAGE TO START REBUILDING.
10:20:28 YOU DID A GREAT JOB, MRS. CONEY, I JUST WISH WE HAD THE
10:20:32 MONEY OR THE ACTUAL CAPITAL FOR 22ND STREET.
10:20:37 THAT'S WHEREBY WE FAILED AS A COMMUNITY, WE FAILED AS A
10:20:40 CITY, NOT INVESTING IN THE URBAN SIDE BECAUSE IT IS A
10:20:43 MAJOR THOROUGHFARE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
10:20:45 SAME THING ON 29th STREET.
10:20:47 SO AGAIN, I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION.
10:20:52 I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES ARE LOOKING AT THIS, TOO, BECAUSE IF
10:20:55 SOMEBODY ELSE IS DOING IT BETTER THAN WE DO IT, THEN WE
10:20:58 BETTER BE LOOKING AT THAT.
10:21:00 THANK YOU FOR COMING.
10:21:01 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:21:03 ANYBODY ELSE?
10:21:05 IF I COULD.
10:21:07 GO AHEAD, MR. DINGFELDER.
10:21:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M SORRY.
10:21:13 YES, TO BOTH CHLOE AND ERNEST, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING
10:21:16 THIS PRESENTATION.
10:21:17 THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO ACROSS THE BAY AREA.
10:21:22 I HAD A COUPLE OF SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
10:21:24 THIS MIGHT BE TO THE CONEYS AND/OR TO MICHELLE.
10:21:29 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JUMPED OUT APT ME IN THE
10:21:32 PRESENTATION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN ST. PETERSBURG
10:21:34 HAS TO DO WITH ENCOURAGING AND HELPING SMALL BUSINESS.
10:21:41 AND I DON'T KNOW THAT OUR EAST TAMPA CRA HAS --
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10:22:02 [NO ENCODER]
10:22:15 BUT I LOVE THE FACT THAT LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE MICRO
10:22:18 LOANS TO SMALL BUSINESSES WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CRA, AND
10:22:23 I LOVE THE IDEA OF HELPING PEOPLE EITHER START OR GROW
10:22:26 THEIR CHILD CARE BUSINESS, BECAUSE AS WAS STATED, UNDER
10:22:31 THE NEW FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S
10:22:35 GOING TO BE A LOT ON CHILD CARE IN EAST TAMPA WITH THE
10:22:41 GREAT TARGET AREA FOR THAT.
10:22:49 THE OTHER PART IN TERMS MUCH WMBE, I THINK THE CITY
10:22:54 COUNCIL HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF PUSHING THE ADMINISTRATION
10:22:56 IN OUR WMBE PROGRAM.
10:22:58 BUT I THINK THAT THE CRA IN EAST TAMPA, ESPECIALLY, COULD
10:23:03 BE PARTICIPATING IN THAT MORE.
10:23:07 WE COULD HAVE PERHAPS A LITTLE INCUBATOR.
10:23:10 MAYBE IT WOULD BE WORKING WITH THE CDC TO HELP THE CDC
10:23:16 HELP BUSINESSES GET MORE INVOLVED WITH OUR CITY,
10:23:24 ESPECIALLY INCLUDING SOME OF OUR MAJOR -- WHAT DO WE CALL
10:23:32 IT, THE -- YOU KNOW, THE PIPES PROGRAM, WHICH IS BILLIONS
10:23:37 OF DOLLARS.
10:23:38 SO ANYWAY, GOING ALONG WITH IT, I'M GOING TO THROW IT
10:23:42 BACK OUT THERE FIRST TO MICHELLE AND THEN TO THE CONEY'S
10:23:46 IN TERMS MUCH, LET'S THROW IT TO THE CONEY'S FIRST AND
10:23:52 THEN MICHELLE IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE THINGS I HAVE
10:23:55 MENTIONED, ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO BUSINESSES AND
10:24:01 MICRO LOANS.
10:24:04 >> I KNOW THE EAST TAMPA CRA HAS PROVIDED FUNDING BEFORE
10:24:10 FOR SMALL BUSINESSES TO DO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRAINING
10:24:13 PROGRAMS.
10:24:13 WHEN I WAS THE CHAIR OF THE ECONOMIC COMMITTEE, WE PUT
10:24:16 SOME FUNDING TO PROVIDE THAT.
10:24:18 I THINK WE PARTNERED WITH SBIC.
10:24:23 WE ALSO WERE TRYING TO LOOK AT PARTNERING WITH CBIT,
10:24:28 BECAUSE THEY CAN HIMSELF LEVERAGE AND DO THE SPECIFIC
10:24:32 MICRO LENDING LOAN.
10:24:34 SO WE HAVE DONE THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BUT WE HAVEN'T
10:24:36 BEEN ABLE TO DO MORE OF THE MICRO-LENDING AND LEVERAGING
10:24:39 THAT PART.
10:24:40 SO I THINK THEY ARE A TREMENDOUS PARTNER WITH THAT.
10:24:46 SECOND WITH THE MINORITY BUSINESS PARTICIPATION, ONE OF
10:24:48 THE THINGS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT TRYING TO DO IS TO GET
10:24:50 A SUPPLIER DIVERSITY COUNCIL.
10:24:54 THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS ONE BUT WE NEED TO CREATE ONE
10:24:57 HERE LOCALLY.
10:24:58 SO WE HAVE BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH TAMPA BAY CDC
10:25:02 AS WELL AS THE CHAMBERS TO HELP IMPROVE THAT DIVERSITY
10:25:05 PROGRAMS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE.
10:25:06 >> CHLOE CONEY: I GUESS BECAUSE I AM THE HISTORIAN OF
10:25:14 EAST TAMPA, CDC RECEIVED THE ENTERPRISE GRANT YEARS AGO
10:25:19 WHEN I WAS THERE.
10:25:19 AND ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THEY PUT IN, THE CDC DID PROVIDE
10:25:24 THE VISION PLANNING FOR THE RESIDENTS, AND WE DID HAVE A
10:25:29 MAKE ROW LOAN PROGRAM, IT WAS 500 TO 5,000.
10:25:34 WE REALLY GOT SEVERAL SMALL BUSINESSES IN EAST TAMPA, AND
10:25:39 DON'T FORGET, WE GAVE THEM A $500 GRANT AND HE DID PAY
10:25:42 THE MONEY BACK.
10:25:43 IT WAS A LOAN.
10:25:44 AND HE STARTED HIS JANITORIAL SERVICES.
10:25:47 SO WE HAVE MANY SUCCESSES, BUT AGAIN LIKE WE SAID BEFORE,
10:25:52 AS SOON AS THE FEDERAL DOLLARS, THE GRANTS LEAVE, THE
10:25:59 SUCCESS WE HAD CEASES.
10:26:01 AGAIN THAT IS SOMETHING ST. PETE IS PUTTING IN PERMANENT
10:26:03 FUNDING TO, AND THAT'S WHAT WE DESPERATELY NEED.
10:26:06 THANK YOU.
10:26:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, CHLOE AND ERNEST.
10:26:10 >>BILL CARLSON: MS. VAN LOAN?
10:26:13 MICHELLE?
10:26:13 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING.
10:26:15 MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
10:26:17 WE HAVE SEEN LAST MONTH AND AGAIN ON THIS MONTH'S AGENDA,
10:26:20 AND YOU WILL SEE SEVERAL MORE GRANTS COMING FORWARD AT
10:26:25 YOUR JUNE CRA BOARD MEETING, CASES WE KNOW WHEN HE CAME
10:26:29 TO US BACK IN DECEMBER PRESENTED SEVEN DIFFERENT GRANTS
10:26:34 PROPOSALS, AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO THAT.
10:26:36 ONE OF THEM IS A MICRO GRANT FOR BUSINESSES FOR THEIR
10:26:41 IMPROVEMENTS, THAT IF THEY DO NOT NEED A FULL FACADE
10:26:45 GRANT PROGRAM AND ONLY NEED COMPONENTS OF THAT OR LESS
10:26:48 AMOUNTS, AND THEN IT'S A MUCH LESS RIGOROUS APPLICATION
10:26:51 PROCESS, AND IT CAN BE HANDLED ADMINISTRATIVELY INSTEAD
10:26:54 OF THE SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS THAT WE TAKE NOW FOR THE
10:26:57 PROCESS TO GO THROUGH ACTS FACADE GRANT AND BRING TO THE
10:26:59 CRA BOARD, COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS, SO WE ARE LOOKING
10:27:04 AT MICRO GRANTS.
10:27:06 I'M MEETING WITH JESUS AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING FOR THREE
10:27:10 ADDITIONAL GRANTS HE HAS BROUGHT TO US FOR COMMERCIAL,
10:27:13 FOR TO HELP A PROPERTY OWNER TO HELP THE INSIDE OF THE
10:27:19 BUILDING TO GET IT READY SO THEY MAY RENT TO THE TENANTS
10:27:21 TO LOOK AT A SECOND FLOOR ESPECIALLY WEST TAMPA WHERE YOU
10:27:25 CAN CONVERT A SECOND FLOOR COMMERCIAL SPACE TO
10:27:27 POTENTIALLY HOUSING, THAT CAN GET VERY EXPENSIVE BUT WE
10:27:30 ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE THOSE MIXED USES IN COMMERCIAL
10:27:34 CORRIDORS.
10:27:34 WE HAVE A LOT OF TWO AND THREE STORY BUILDINGS THAT HAVE
10:27:37 RETAIL ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND POTENTIALLY LIVING SPACE ON
10:27:40 THE SECOND FLOOR.
10:27:40 SO WE ARE PURSUING MANY OF THESE GRANTS.
10:27:44 THE CONEY POWERPOINT IS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO ALL OF OUR
10:27:49 STAFF AFTER THIS MEETING.
10:27:50 WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT.
10:27:51 AND WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO YOU FOUR NEW GRANT PROGRAMS
10:27:57 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
10:27:59 WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE ON YOUR AGENDA TODAY, AND WE WILL BE
10:28:03 BRINGING AT LEAST THREE MORE IN JUNE.
10:28:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO, MR. CHAIRMAN, AND THANK YOU,
10:28:07 MICHELLE, I THINK WE DO A GOOD JOB WITH BRICK AND MORTAR.
10:28:17 I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD, MATURE FACADE GRANT PROGRAM IN
10:28:22 SEVERAL OF OUR CRAS.
10:28:23 I THINK WE DO A GOOD JOB WITH THAT.
10:28:26 I THINK WHAT I AM HEARING HAPPENING ACROSS THE BAY IS A
10:28:31 LITTLE BIT MORE OF -- MY WIFE AND I LIKE TO WATCH SHARK
10:28:37 TANK, WHERE SOMEBODY HAS A GOOD IDEA AND HAS A GOOD
10:28:41 BUSINESS PLAN AND THEY NEED SOME SEED MONEY TO GET THAT
10:28:44 GOING, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S IN CHILD CARE, OR JANITORIAL,
10:28:48 OR THE NEXT NEW iPHONE.
10:28:54 WHATEVER IT IS.
10:28:57 AND I NOTICE MR. MASSEY CAN GET A LITTLE HEARTBURN IF WE
10:29:01 STRAY TOO MUCH INTO THESE OTHER PLANS, BUT I WOULD LIKE
10:29:07 TO JUST SEE US DO OTHER TYPES OF ANALYSIS, INTO THESE
10:29:16 OTHER TYPES OF MICRO LOANS THAT MIGHT NOT BE AS MUCH
10:29:21 BRICK AND MORTAR BUT STILL HELPING THE COMMUNITY.
10:29:24 AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOOT ME DOWN IMMEDIATELY.
10:29:28 YOU CAN PONDER IT.
10:29:29 GO AHEAD.
10:29:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WON'T SHOOT ANY OF THIS DOWN
10:29:35 IMMEDIATELY.
10:29:36 UNDER CHAPTER 163, THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE CRA AND USE
10:29:43 OF THE TIF FUNDS IS TO BE ADDRESS SLUM AND BLIGHT
10:29:47 CONDITIONS.
10:29:47 SO THAT'S WHY IT'S MORE BRICK AND MORTAR BECAUSE THAT'S
10:29:54 REALLY WHAT THE STATUTE AUTHORIZES.
10:29:56 IT'S NOT SET UP -- THE SOCIAL PROGRAM PER SE, BUT TALKING
10:30:04 WITH MICHELLE AND SOME OF THE FOLKS IN THE EAST TAMPA
10:30:07 GROUP, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN COMBINE PHYSICAL
10:30:12 IMPROVEMENTS WITH EFFORTS TO HELP FOLKS AND HELP DEVELOP
10:30:17 BUSINESSES AND THAT SORT OF THING, I AM OPEN TO LISTENING
10:30:20 TO AND WORKING THROUGH AND SEE IF WE CAN COME UP WITH
10:30:23 CREATIVE INNOVATIVE WAYS THAT WE CAN BE A LITTLE BROADER
10:30:26 IN HOW WE USE CRA DOLLARS.
10:30:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT, IF
10:30:30 SOMEBODY IS STARTING A NEW BUSINESS, THAT THEY MIGHT NOT
10:30:33 EVEN OWN THAT BUILDING BUT THEY MIGHT BE GETTING READY TO
10:30:36 RENT THAT.
10:30:38 SO THAT COULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT.
10:30:42 THEY DON'T OWN THE BUILDING SO THEY CAN'T MAKE PHYSICAL
10:30:45 IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT BUILDING, BUT THE MERE FACT THAT
10:30:47 THEY ARE GOING TO RENT IT AND TAKE IT, PUT IT ON THE TAX
10:30:51 ROLLS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, COULD BE CONSTRUED, I THINK,
10:30:54 AS AN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT TO THE COMMUNITY.
10:30:56 BUT WE CAN CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THAT.
10:31:00 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US CARRY OVER THIS CONVERSATION TO A
10:31:04 FUTURE DATE, MICHELLE.
10:31:05 THANK YOU, MORRIS.
10:31:07 >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT YOU MR. MANISCALCO
10:31:11 AND I HAVE SPOKEN EXTENSIVELY WITH ST. PETE CITY COUNCIL
10:31:15 MEMBERS ABOUT AND GOING BACK A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
10:31:17 I THINK THE BOTTOM LINE IS THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AT THE
10:31:20 CITY OF ST. PETE INTERPRETS THE WAY THEY CAN USE CRA
10:31:23 MONEYS DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DO.
10:31:26 I DON'T NOBODY FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE WHERE IT IS BUT
10:31:30 THESE THINGS ARE OBVIOUSLY WORKING.
10:31:31 ANYBODY ELSE?
10:31:33 ANYBODY ELSE?
10:31:34 I WILL JUST ADD A FEW OTHER QUICK COMMENTS.
10:31:37 YOU ALL MAY KNOW, OR REMEMBER, I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN
10:31:40 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGION FOR 30 YEARS OR MORE,
10:31:44 BUT BECAUSE ST. PETE HAS A VERY OPEN ENVIRONMENT, I HAVE
10:31:48 BEEN MORE INVOLVED IN ST. PETE THAN I HAVE IN TAMPA.
10:31:51 THE OLD STYLE OLD CULTURE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT
10:31:54 WENT AWAY IN MOST CITIES IN THE 80s WAS A FEW PEOPLE,
10:31:58 AND MOST OF THEM WERE WHITE, CONTROLLED ECONOMIC
10:32:00 DEVELOPMENT, AND YOU HAD TO PAY 30 OR $50,000 TO BE
10:32:03 AROUND THE TABLE, AND NOT JUST THAT BUT YOU HAD TO KNOW
10:32:06 CERTAIN PEOPLE TO GET ACCESS TO IT.
10:32:09 ST. PETE COMPLETELY BROKE APART THAT STRUCTURE ABOUT TEN
10:32:12 YEARS AGO.
10:32:13 THEY COMPLETELY BROKE IT AND THEY RELOOKED AT IT.
10:32:17 AND THE OTHER CITIES LIKE CHARLOTTE AND OTHERS THAT HAVE
10:32:20 BEEN SUCCESSFUL, THEY BROKE THAT SYSTEM APART AS WELL.
10:32:23 I THINK IT'S TIME FOR TAMPA TO HAVE DO THAT.
10:32:24 IF YOU ASK ANYBODY IN ST. PETE HOW DO THEY DESCRIBE THE
10:32:27 CULTURE, THE NUMBER ONE THING IS COLLABORATIVE.
10:32:29 THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER.
10:32:30 LOOK AT THE SLIDES THAT ERNEST AND CHLOE JUST POSTED.
10:32:34 THERE ARE LIKE 30 LOGOS AND THEY ARE MOSTLY ORGANIZATIONS
10:32:38 YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD OF BEFORE.
10:32:39 BUT THE POINT IS THAT THEY BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER, AND
10:32:41 EVERYBODY WORKS TOGETHER ON THESE ISSUES.
10:32:43 THEY ARE ALSO INCLUSIVE.
10:32:46 I HAVE LIVED IN TAMPA FOREVER.
10:32:49 MY OFFICE IS IN TAMPA.
10:32:51 AND NOW I AM ON TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
10:32:52 I AM INVITED TO EVERY SINGLE DOOR IN ST. PETERSBURG
10:32:55 BECAUSE THEY WELCOME EVERYBODY.
10:32:56 IT'S INCLUSIVE.
10:32:57 AND MINORITIES, POOR PEOPLE, OTHERS FEEL LIKE DOORS ARE
10:33:01 OPEN TO THEM.
10:33:02 AND NOT EVERY DOOR BUT MOST DOORS.
10:33:04 AND IN TAMPA, UNFORTUNATELY, STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL
10:33:07 LIKE CERTAIN DOORS ARE CLOSED TO THEM AND WE NEED TO
10:33:10 BREAK OPEN THOSE DOORS AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE A
10:33:12 COLLABORATIVE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT.
10:33:13 TO DESCRIBE ST. PETE AT GRASSROOTS, I WAS VERY INVOLVED
10:33:16 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN ST. PETE STARTING IN THE
10:33:19 MID 90s AND ST. PETE WORKED ON DEVELOPING NETWORKS OF
10:33:22 PEOPLE, NOT IN BUILDING THE BUILDINGS.
10:33:24 AND THE BUILDINGS CAME AFTER THE NETWORKS OF PEOPLE.
10:33:27 IF YOU LOOK AT OUR DOWNTOWN, WE DEVELOPED BUILDINGS BUT
10:33:30 WE DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB OF DEVELOPING THE NETWORKS OF
10:33:32 PEOPLE.
10:33:32 WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FROM A PEOPLE
10:33:35 POINT OF VIEW AND I THINK A LOT OF THE ESSENCE OF THEIR
10:33:37 PRESENTATION.
10:33:39 I GO BACK TO THIS.
10:33:41 MY COLLEAGUES ALLOWED ME TO PRESENT THE TAMPA SCORECARD A
10:33:44 YEAR AND A HALF AGO AND ALSO A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
10:33:47 THAT WAS SALIVATED BY USF AND LOTS OF TOP ECONOMISTS.
10:33:51 THOSE ARE KEY ECONOMIC MEASURES TO THAT ARE USED TO
10:33:54 MEASURE CITIES AND IT SHOWINGS THAT TAMPA IN THE LAST TEN
10:33:56 YEARS FAILED, THROUGH 2019, TAMPA FROM AN ECONOMIC POINT
10:33:59 OF VIEW COMPLETELY FAILED.
10:34:01 AND IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH OF A REASON TO BREAK OPEN THESE
10:34:06 TRADITIONAL HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES, I DON'T NOBODY WHAT
10:34:08 ELSE.
10:34:10 ST. PETERSBURG BEAT US ON ALMOST EVERY MEASURE.
10:34:13 AND LAST WEEK AFTER PRESENTING HERE, THE ST. PETE CHAMBER
10:34:17 CALLED ME AND ASKED ME TO PRESENT TO THEIR CHAMBER BOARD.
10:34:21 THEY ASKED TAMPA CITY COUNCIL TO PRESENT THE TAMPA
10:34:23 SCORECARD TO THEIR CHAMBER BOARD.
10:34:25 AND WHY?
10:34:26 NOT SO THEY COULD GLOAT ON HOW WELL THEY DID AND BEAT
10:34:30 TAMPA.
10:34:30 THEY ARE CONCERNED THAT THEY DIDN'T DO BETTER.
10:34:32 THEY NOT ONLY ACKNOWLEDGED THE NUMBERS, BUT THEY ARE
10:34:35 CONCERNED THAT THEY DIDN'T DO BETTER AND THEY WANT TO BE
10:34:38 MORE COMMITTED, THEY WANT TO DOUBLE DOWN AND WORK ON ALL
10:34:41 THESE THINGS BUT MAKE THEM EVEN BETTER.
10:34:43 THEY ARE CONTINUOUSLY LOOKING AT THE REAL NUMBERS AND
10:34:46 THEY ARE INNOVATING, THEY ARE COLLABORATING TO FIX THESE
10:34:48 PROBLEMS.
10:34:49 AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO AS A COMMUNITY.
10:34:51 WE NEED TO GET ALL THE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS IN TAMPA
10:34:54 INVOLVED.
10:34:55 WE NEED TO USE WHATEVER LIMITED MONEY WE HAVE.
10:34:58 WE NEED TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE TO REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE
10:35:00 NUMBERS, AND MAKE SURE WE COLLABORATE WITH NONTRADITIONAL
10:35:05 ORGANIZATIONS, THE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, TO GET
10:35:07 THINGS DONE.
10:35:08 THANK YOU.
10:35:08 ANYBODY ELSE?
10:35:09 ANYTHING ELSE?
10:35:11 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE CONEY'S FOR ALL YOUR WORK AND
10:35:14 FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY.
10:35:16 MS. VAN LOAN.
10:35:17 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF I CAN PIGGYBACK OFF OF SOMETHING
10:35:19 YOU JUST SAID, IN TALKING WITH THE CONEYS BEFORE THEY
10:35:23 MADE THEIR PRESENTATION, THAT THEIR GOAL TODAY IS NOT TO
10:35:27 COME TO THE CRA BOARD ALONE AND SAY WE SHOULD BE DOING
10:35:29 THIS AND YOU SHOULD BE DOING ALL OF THIS.
10:35:32 AS YOU MENTIONED THERE ARE ALL THOSE LOGOS, ALL THOSE
10:35:35 COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS.
10:35:37 ESPECIALLY MS. CONEY IS STARTING THAT CONVERSATION WITHIN
10:35:39 THE BROADER CITY OF TAMPA TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS.
10:35:43 THE CITY, OUR NONPROFITS, OUR BUSINESS CENTER, OUR
10:35:47 LENDERS.
10:35:48 AND SO THE PRESENTATION, THE GOALS ARE NOT EXPECTING CRA
10:35:52 TO DO ALL OF THIS BUT TO START THAT DIALOGUE SO THAT WE
10:35:54 ARE MORE INCLUSIVE AND COLLABORATIVE AND IT DOES BECOME A
10:35:58 CITY-WIDE INITIATIVE AND NOT SOMETHING WE JUST DO AT THE
10:36:01 CRA LEVEL.
10:36:01 SO WE ARE, IT WILL BE A BIG VITAL PART OF THIS BUT WE
10:36:05 CANNOT DO IT ALL OURSELVES.
10:36:07 >>BILL CARLSON: IF I COULD ONE LAST COMMENT SINCE I HAVE
10:36:10 THE FLOOR.
10:36:11 WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE THINGS, SOMETIMES PEOPLE IN OTHER
10:36:13 PARTS OF THE CITY ESPECIALLY MY DISTRICT SAY WHY DO YOU
10:36:16 CARE?
10:36:16 WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN EAST TAMPA OR
10:36:18 THROUGHOUT THE CITY?
10:36:19 WHY DO YOU CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO POOR PEOPLE IN THE CITY?
10:36:22 THE PROBLEM IS IT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE.
10:36:24 I MET WITH A VERY SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL REALTOR LAST
10:36:28 WEEK, AND THE FIRST COMMENT HE SAID WAS, WHY ARE YOU
10:36:31 PRESENTING THESE NUMBERS?
10:36:33 THEY MAKE TAMPA LOOK BAD.
10:36:35 AND I SAID, WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO A BIG TENANT TO WANTS
10:36:38 TO MOVE TO TAMPA, DO THEY LOOK AT THE MARKETING NUMBERS?
10:36:41 OR DO THEY LOOK AT THE REAL NUMBERS?
10:36:43 HE SAID YEAH, THEY PULL UP THEIR DATA, THEY HAVE ALL THE
10:36:46 CENSUS DATA ALREADY AND THEY LOOK AT IT ON A GRANULAR
10:36:49 LEVEL.
10:36:49 I SAID SO THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE REAL NUMBERS, RIGHT?
10:36:51 YES.
10:36:52 SO THEY ARE MAKING A DECISION BASED ON THE REAL NUMBERS.
10:36:54 THAT MEANS WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.
10:36:56 THE POINTS IS IT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE FOR THE
10:36:58 WHOLE CITY.
10:36:59 IF OUR NUMBERS DON'T LOOK GOOD WE ARE NOT GOING TO
10:37:01 ATTRACT THE BEST PEOPLE AND BEST COMPANIES.
10:37:03 THANK YOU.
10:37:04 WHAT'S NEXT?
10:37:04 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 2 WE WILL CONTINUE WITH
10:37:07 OUR CRA STAFF REPORT AND I WILL BRING UP COURTNEY ORR.
10:37:22 >> COURTNEY ORR, CRA EBB MANAGER.
10:37:47 TO START I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE FOLLOWING
10:37:49 DIRECT YBOR CITY CRA ACTIVITIES ON THIS SLIDE AND THE
10:37:52 NEXT TWO.
10:37:56 WE WILL START OUR ANNUAL YBOR RESIDENT AND WORKERS STUDY
10:37:59 HERE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, PROBABLY BY THE FIRST PART OF
10:38:03 JUNE WE ARE GOING TO BE LAUNCHING THAT WITH OUR MARKETING
10:38:06 ASSOCIATES, HBC, AND WE USE THAT AS A GUIDING TOOL FOR
10:38:12 THE BUDGET AND JUST A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES THAT WE TRY
10:38:15 TO PUT FORTH BASED ON THE INTEREST OF THE RESIDENTS AND
10:38:17 THE WORKERS OF YBOR.
10:38:21 WE HAVE AN UPCOMING ELECTION OF SOME SEATS THAT GOING TO
10:38:24 BE AVAILABLE.
10:38:25 WE HAVE FINANCE AND BANKING, WE'LL NEED TO FIND A
10:38:28 REPRESENTATIVE ON OUR CAC, AND THEN A FEW AT-LARGE
10:38:32 OPENINGS AS WELL.
10:38:33 WE WILL BE ADVERTISING PUBLICLY FOR THOSE POSITIONS
10:38:37 THROUGH THE RECENT APPLICATIONS IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
10:38:41 WE HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY WORKING ON CRA 1 AND 2, FISCAL 22
10:38:46 BUDGET.
10:38:47 WE PRESENTED THAT TO OUR CAC AND TO THE PLANNING
10:38:50 INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SO FAR,
10:38:53 AND THOSE COMMITTEES WILL BE SEEING THE DRAFTS AT LEAST A
10:38:57 COUPLE MOWER TIMES BEFORE FINAL APPROVAL.
10:39:00 THE 7th AVENUE ARCHWAY LIGHTS AND SIDEWALK
10:39:03 ENHANCEMENT PROJECT THAT WAS GO TO GO TO THE BARRIO
10:39:05 LATINO COMMISSION, I ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL, WAS CONTINUED
10:39:10 TO THE MAY 25th PUBLIC HEARING.
10:39:13 THERE WERE SOME INTERNAL ADDITIONAL REVIEWS TO BE DONE,
10:39:16 SO THAT WILL BE PRESENTED DEFINITELY ON MAY 25th, THE
10:39:20 MORNING, THE ARCHWAY LIGHTS PROJECT.
10:39:28 A COUPLE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS SLIDE.
10:39:30 WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO -- RETURNING TO THE STREETS OF THE
10:39:36 DISTRICT AND THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS KIND OF AN
10:39:38 INTERESTING ONE.
10:39:39 IT'S GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING ALL OF THE WEDDING VENUE
10:39:42 OPTION AS ROUND THE YBOR AREA, SO THERE'S A FEW
10:39:47 ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE COMING TOGETHER TO PULL THIS EVENT
10:39:49 OFF, A BRAND NEW ONE FOR THE DISTRICT.
10:39:51 IT WILL BE IN AUGUST.
10:39:53 AND THEN THE LAST SLIDE, THERE'S A MENTION OF THREE
10:39:56 ADDITIONAL EVENTS THAT ARE COMING TO THE DISTRICT.
10:40:01 THE SECOND TO LAST BULLET, YOU HEARD EARLIER FROM THE
10:40:05 ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME DETECTIVE IN EAST TAMPA, WE ARE
10:40:08 EXCITED ABOUT THE PROGRESS THAT THAT TEAM HAS BEEN ABLE
10:40:11 TO ACHIEVE IN THAT AREA.
10:40:13 SO WE ARE BEGINNING TO RESEARCH ON ADDING THAT AS A
10:40:17 POTENTIAL POSITION IN THE YBOR CITY AREA.
10:40:27 IN REGARD TO THE ARCHWAY LIGHTS THAT WILL BE COMING DOWN
10:40:30 THAT ARE UP THERE RIGHT NOW THAT OVERHANG 7th AVENUE,
10:40:33 THOSE WILL COME DOWN AND WE WILL ACTUALLY BE AUCTIONING
10:40:36 THOSE OFF, SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE PURCHASING
10:40:40 DEPARTMENT TO PREPARE TO DO THAT.
10:40:42 WE FIGURED INSTEAD OF JUST PUTTING THEM IN THE TRASH THAT
10:40:47 THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO FIND VALUE IN ACTUALLY
10:40:50 HAVING A PIECE OF HISTORY FROM 7th AVENUE.
10:40:52 SO WE WILL BE AUCTIONING THOSE OFF AS THEY COME DOWN AND
10:40:56 THE PROJECT STARTS.
10:40:57 WE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH THE PARKING DEPARTMENT,
10:41:02 MOBILITY STAFF, TO REVIEW ANY POTENTIAL PARKING RATE
10:41:05 CHANGES ON 7th AVENUE AND ON VARIOUS OTHER STREETS.
10:41:14 AND THEY WILL BE PRESENTING SOME OF THEIR FINDINGS HERE
10:41:16 IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS TO THE COMMUNITY AND
10:41:19 CONTINUING TO WORK WITH US.
10:41:26 THE NEXT TWO SLIDES CAPTURE STAFF'S INDIRECT ACTIVITIES.
10:41:30 THERE'S A LISTING OF WAYS WE COMMUNITY OUT TO THE PUBLIC,
10:41:34 VARIOUS LOAN PROGRAMS.
10:41:37 THE STUDY THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.
10:41:40 WE STAY VERY ACTIVE IN COMMUNICATING WITH THE COMMUNITY,
10:41:42 AND THEN CONTINUING OUR SECURITY EFFORTS THAT THE
10:41:46 COMMUNITY BROUGHT TO US, THEIR EFFORTS TO HELP IMPROVE
10:41:49 PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS.
10:41:54 AND WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO SPRUCE UP
10:41:57 THE DISTRICT.
10:41:58 TWO OF THOSE EFFORTS ARE POSTED HERE ON THIS SLIDE.
10:42:03 THERE IS A PICTURE THERE OF A GENTLEMAN PAINTING ONE OF
10:42:06 OUR FIVE HISTORIC LAMP POSTS.
10:42:10 WE HAVE BEEN PREPARING AND PAINTING THOSE.
10:42:12 THERE'S 360 IN THE DISTRICT.
10:42:14 SO THOSE ARE STARTING TO LOOK NICE AND SHINY AGAIN.
10:42:17 AND WE ALSO HAVE BEEN WORKING ON REPLACEMENT OF
10:42:21 HISTORICAL MARKERS.
10:42:23 THERE'S A PHOTO OF A COUPLE OF THE NEWER ONES THAT WERE
10:42:26 INSTALLED VERY RECENTLY.
10:42:28 SO WE ARE WORKING ON THOSE.
10:42:30 AND THEN AS I ALLUDE TOAD EARLIER LISTED HERE ARE THE
10:42:34 FIRST EVENTS TO TAKE PLACE IN OUR STREETS AND N OVER A
10:42:37 YEAR.
10:42:37 SO WE HAVE TAMPA PRIDE COMING BACK ON MAY 22ND, SUMMER
10:42:45 VIBES ON MAY 23rd, AND ROUGH RIDERS THEY CHANGED THE
10:42:48 NAME OF IT AND A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TITLE TO IT.
10:42:52 SO MAY 29th WILL BE THAT EVENT.
10:42:55 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
10:42:58 ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:43:00 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:43:01 THANK YOU.
10:43:01 >> COURTNEY ORR: THANK YOU.
10:43:16 >>BILL CARLSON: EAST TAMPA?
10:43:18 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
10:43:24 THIS IS BRENDA THROWER, THE INTERIM EAST TAMPA CRA
10:43:28 MANAGER.
10:43:29 AND I JUST WANT TO START OFF MY REPORT BY JUST THANKING
10:43:34 CHLOE CONEY AND ERNEST CONEY FOR COMING TODAY AND SHARING
10:43:37 THAT PRESENTATION.
10:43:38 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT EAST TAMPA
10:43:40 ALREADY.
10:43:42 THIS REPORT IS KIND OF HALFWAY DONE ALREADY.
10:43:45 BUT WE ARE LISTENING TO ALL OF THIS INFORMATION.
10:43:47 AND IT'S GOING TO BE VERY, VERY USEFUL AS WE MOVE FORWARD
10:43:51 WITH THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:43:56 I ALSO WANT TO THANK DOMINIQUE COBB.
10:44:00 SHE CAME EARLIER.
10:44:01 SHE IS A CAC MEMBER AND SHE TOOK TIME OUT OF HER DAY TO
10:44:04 GIVE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT THE CAC
10:44:07 IS WORKING ON.
10:44:08 WHAT I AM HEARING, AND I CONTINUE TO HEAR IN EAST TAMPA,
10:44:11 IS THAT THEY WANT A PLAN, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE DOING.
10:44:14 AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY WHAT'S GOING TO CULMINATE ALL
10:44:16 OF THESE GREAT IDEAS AND HOW THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO
10:44:19 MOVE FORWARD.
10:44:20 IN TERMS OF THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, WE HAVE HAD AS YOU
10:44:25 KNOW MANY WALKING TOURS.
10:44:28 OVER THE PAST MONTH, TWO MONTHS ACTUALLY, AND ON APRIL
10:44:32 13, WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM OUR CONSULTANT
10:44:35 PETER SECHLER WHO CAME TO THE PARTNERSHIP TO GIVE THE
10:44:39 COMMUNITY INPUT UPDATE.
10:44:42 IT WAS A VERY, VERY WELL ATTENDED MEETING, PROBABLY THE
10:44:45 MOST WELL-ATTENDED MEETING THAT I HAVE ATTENDED FOR EAST
10:44:48 TAMPA, AND VERY POSITIVE REVIEWS CAME OUT OF THAT
10:44:51 PRESENTATION.
10:44:53 OVER THAT, SINCE THEN, THERE WAS SOME OPPORTUNITY TO GO
10:44:58 OUT AND MEAT WITH ANOTHER EAST TAMPA NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH
10:45:01 WAS THE EAST HILLSBOROUGH HEIGHTS CRIME WATCH
10:45:05 NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:45:06 THEY WANTED TO HAVE A LITTLE ATTENTION FROM THE
10:45:09 CONSULTANT ON THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD TO KIND OF DO A WALKING
10:45:12 TOUR SO WE DID SCHEDULE AN ADDITIONAL WALKING TOUR ON
10:45:16 APRIL 20th.
10:45:17 AND THEN FOR THE PUBLIC OUTREACH, WE DID EXTEND THE
10:45:21 SURVEY A LITTLE INTO APRIL FOR ONLINE SO THAT WE WOULD
10:45:26 CAPTURE THOSE COMMENTS.
10:45:28 SO ALL SAID AND DONE, THROUGH OUR MARKETING, OUR
10:45:32 OUTREACH, WE REALLY HAVE DONE, I FEEL, THEY HAVE DONE A
10:45:36 REALLY GOOD JOB OF HAVING A STRONG COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
10:45:39 THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
10:45:40 YOU WILL SEE THE LITTLE PRETTY BUBBLES HERE ON THIS
10:45:43 SHEET.
10:45:44 THESE ARE JUST SOME SUMMARY DATA OF THE TYPE OF -- THE
10:45:50 NUMBERS THAT CAME OUT OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, WITH
10:45:53 WALKING TOURS, SURVEYS AND WEBSITE NEWS.
10:45:57 MOVING ALONG, A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, MAYBE TWO MONTHS AGO,
10:46:02 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER ASKED ME, WELL, WHAT DID YOU HEAR
10:46:05 ON THESE WALKING TOURS?
10:46:07 AND SO I WANTED TO SHARE THIS SLIDE WITH YOU, BECAUSE
10:46:10 THESE ARE THE THEMES, THERE ARE TEN THEMES THAT SORT OF
10:46:14 WERE ORGANIZED INTO THE COMMENTS THAT THEY HEARD AND WHAT
10:46:19 BUCKETS OF TOPICS THEY FELL UNDER.
10:46:21 SO THESE REALLY SPEAK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS AND
10:46:24 THE NEEDS.
10:46:26 THERE IS OF COURSE THE COMMENTS WERE KIND OF ALL
10:46:29 TABULATED, AND THERE'S A LOT OF CHARTS, AND ACTUALLY THE
10:46:34 PRESENTATION IS VERY COMPREHENSIVE.
10:46:37 AND IF YOU HAD NOT HAD A CHANCE TO SEE IT, IT IS POSTED
10:46:40 ON -- WE ARE EAST TAMPA.COM.
10:46:46 IT IS THE ENTIRE PRESENTATION AND ALSO THE COMMENTARY
10:46:48 THAT WENT ALONG WITH IT AND WE ACTUALLY TAPE RECORDED THE
10:46:52 MEETING AT THE PARTNERSHIP AND THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR
10:46:54 ANYONE TO SEE AND VIEW.
10:46:56 THERE'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE COMMENTS, OR ANY
10:47:01 COMMENTS YOU SEE ON THE PRESENTATION.
10:47:04 SO I WELCOME EVERYONE, THE CRA BOARD, IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD
10:47:09 A CHANCE TO VIEW IT, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY.
10:47:11 SO WHAT'S NEXT?
10:47:12 WELL, WE ARE MOVING THIS PROGRAM, THIS PROCESS, I'M
10:47:16 SORRY, INTO THE PURPLE AREA.
10:47:18 WE ARE ENTERING INTO PHASE 3.
10:47:20 AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
10:47:21 IT MEANS THAT WE ARE GOING TO START PUTTING TOGETHER A
10:47:24 MASTER PLAN AND SOME STRATEGIES FOR THE DISTRICT.
10:47:27 THERE ARE TWO, NOW THAT WE HAVE DONE THE PUBLIC OUTREACH,
10:47:30 WHAT'S LEFT IS TO DO -- WE HAVE ACTUALLY COMPLETED SOME
10:47:34 OF THOSE IN MAY, IS TO REALLY GET WITH THE DEPARTMENTS,
10:47:38 THE INTERNAL DATA, WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN THE
10:47:41 DEPARTMENT, WHAT PLANS DO THEY HAVE, WHAT DO THEY SEE
10:47:44 OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
10:47:46 WE HAVE ALREADY HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH ALL THE DEPARTMENTS
10:47:50 IN THE CITY, AND KIND OF GATHERING THEIR DATA.
10:47:55 IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE ARE NOT GOING TO LEAVE OUT CRA
10:47:57 BOARD.
10:47:58 WE WILL BE SETTING UP MEETINGS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE A
10:48:01 ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE CONSULTANTS, SO YOU CAN SHARE YOUR
10:48:04 VIEWS OF WHAT YOU SEE FOR EAST TAMPA IN YOUR VISION.
10:48:07 SO THAT WILL BE HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS
10:48:09 AND WE WILL BE GETTING WITH YOUR AIDES.
10:48:11 SO ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES, YOU KNOW, WE ARE TRYING TO
10:48:14 ALIGN PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS.
10:48:16 WE ARE KIND OF LOOKING AT THE BUDGET, TOO.
10:48:18 THEY ARE AWARE THAT WE ARE IN THE BUDGET PROCESS RIGHT
10:48:21 NOW.
10:48:21 AND THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO BE WORKING, WE ARE GOING TO
10:48:25 BE HAVING SOME BUDGET WORKSHOPS THIS MONTH.
10:48:28 SO ALL OF THIS IS SORT OF COMING TOGETHER.
10:48:30 SO IT'S REALLY A GOOD TIMING.
10:48:33 THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:48:34 THIS IS JUST THE COMMITTEES.
10:48:35 I ALWAYS GIVE YOU AN UPDATE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE
10:48:38 COMMITTEES.
10:48:38 THEY CONTINUE TO WORK EFFECTIVELY.
10:48:41 THEY ARE ORGANIZED NOW.
10:48:43 THEY ARE TACKLING TOPICS AND COMMUNITY ISSUES.
10:48:46 THEY ARE KIND OF ADDRESSING WHAT THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH,
10:48:50 WITHIN THE EXISTING BUDGET, SO-SO OF THE HIGHLIGHTED
10:48:53 PROJECTS ARE MOVING FORWARD, THE 34th STREET
10:48:56 ROUNDABOUT, THE PUBLIC ART SELECTION COMMITTEE HAS MET,
10:49:01 AND THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH AN ARTIST FOR THAT
10:49:06 PROJECT.
10:49:06 THE EAST TAMPA LEADERSHIP PROGRAM THAT YOU APPROVED, AND
10:49:11 IT IS BEING RECRUITED, ADVERTISEMENTS ARE OUT, WE ARE
10:49:16 WORKING ON GETTING A CONTRACTOR FOR THAT PARTICULAR
10:49:20 PROGRAM.
10:49:20 BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THERE ALREADY SAN RECRUITMENT FOR
10:49:23 YOUTH AND MENTORS FOR IT.
10:49:25 THE PROJECT ON 22ND STREET, I KNOW IT WAS BROUGHT UP
10:49:29 TODAY BY MS. COBB.
10:49:32 THAT IS NOT BEFORE YOU TODAY ON THIS AGENDA.
10:49:34 SO I HAVE HEARD THESE COMMENTS, AND IT ACTUALLY WAS
10:49:37 DISCUSSED WITHIN THE CAC ABOUT HAVING A BROADER PLAN.
10:49:41 SO THAT'S SOMETHING I WILL BRING BACK TO THEM AS WELL AT
10:49:47 THEIR COMMITTEE MEETING.
10:49:48 AND THEN HOUSING.
10:49:49 HOUSING IS WORKING REALLY, REALLY HARD.
10:49:51 WE HAVE A CHAIRMAN, DENISE PACE, WHO HAS REALLY WORKED
10:49:58 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, DIVE DEEP INTO SOME OF THESE
10:50:01 PROGRAMS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLAY WITH THE CITY AND THE
10:50:03 COUNTY, AND LOOKING AT TRYING TO IMPROVE, CREATE AN ART
10:50:09 PIECE FOR THE ROOF AND EXTERIOR.
10:50:11 WE HAVE PROGRAMS AND THEN THE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE
10:50:13 PROGRAM, THEY HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON THAT AS WELL.
10:50:16 AND THEN PUBLIC SAFETY IS ALSO MEETING VERY REGULARLY.
10:50:20 THEY ARE GROWING IN NUMBERS OF PEOPLE PARTICIPATING,
10:50:24 REALLY REACHING OUT TO THE CRIME WATCH GROUP WITHIN EAST
10:50:28 TAMPA, DOMINIQUE COBB WAS HERE EARLIER.
10:50:31 SHE'S R THE CHAIR OF THAT.
10:50:33 AND NOT ON THIS BUT WE WILL BE HAVING SOME BUDGET
10:50:36 WORKSHOPS.
10:50:36 WE HAVE ONE PLANNED FOR NEXT TUESDAY WHERE WE ARE GOING
10:50:38 TO BE WORKING ON ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES FOR THE BUDGET
10:50:42 FOR NEXT YEAR.
10:50:44 THAT WILL BE A FACILITATED MEETING.
10:50:47 AND THEN THERE'S A SECOND ONE PLANNED FOR THE 26th OF
10:50:49 THIS MONTH, GOING TO BE AT RAGAN PARK SO WE'LL HAVE A
10:50:56 BUDGET COMING BACK TO YOU BY NEXT MONTH.
10:51:00 AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, JUST SOME NOTABLE THINGS.
10:51:03 THERE ARE THINGS HAPPENING IN EAST TAMPA, SO PEOPLE DON'T
10:51:06 REALIZE, BUT THERE ARE AGENCIES OUT THERE DOING SOME
10:51:08 REALLY, REALLY GREAT STUFF.
10:51:10 ONE IS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
10:51:13 THEY HELD RIBBON CUTTINGS FOR TWO HOMES THAT THEY HAD
10:51:15 BUILT FOR FAMILIES, AND WE WENT TO THESE RIBBON CUTTINGS
10:51:20 AND WELCOMED THEM INTO THE EAST TAMPA NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:51:24 SO THAT CONCLUDE MY REPORT.
10:51:26 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:51:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: PUT UP YOUR LAST SLIDE, PLEASE.
10:51:35 I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK HE THE MIDDLE PICTURE THAT YOU
10:51:37 SEE THE BLUE AND ORANGE BUILDING.
10:51:41 I HAPPENED TO HEAR DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT BUILDING AT
10:51:45 THEIR CAC MEETING.
10:51:47 I WAS CONCERNED BUT I WAS GOING TO WAIT AND SEE, THIS WAS
10:51:51 COMING UP ON THE AGENDA SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT BUT
10:51:54 IT'S NOT HERE.
10:51:55 THERE WAS A MEETING REFERENCE THIS BUILDING AT THE BOARD
10:51:57 MEETING.
10:51:58 AND SEVERAL BOARD MEMBERS HAD TO LEAVE BECAUSE THEY WERE
10:52:03 INSTRUCTED THAT THE VOTE OR POTENTIAL VOTE WOULD BE
10:52:06 CONTINUED FOR MORE DISCUSSION.
10:52:09 SOME BOARD MEMBERS LEFT.
10:52:11 WELL, WHEN THE BOARD MEMBERS LEFT, APPARENTLY A VOTE CAME
10:52:14 ABOUT TO VOTE ON THIS BUILDING.
10:52:17 I WAS WAITING TO SEE HOW IT WOULD BE ADDRESSED, BUT I AM
10:52:20 GLAD IT'S OFF THE AGENDA TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE SOME
10:52:23 CONCERNS ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHY MS. COBB WAS
10:52:29 HERE, AND YIELDED CALLS IN REFERENCE TO THAT, AND A VOTE
10:52:31 WAS TAKEN AFTER THE MEMBERS WERE TOLD THAT IT WOULD BE
10:52:34 CONTINUED, AND A VOTE WAS TAKEN.
10:52:37 I THINK THAT'S UNFAIR TO SOME OF THOSE BOARD MEMBERS WHO
10:52:40 LEFT BECAUSE THEY HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THAT BUILDING.
10:52:42 LET ME TELL BUT THAT BUILDING, GENTLEMEN.
10:52:44 THAT BUILDING HAS FAILED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, DECADE.
10:52:48 THE BUILDING HAS NO PARKING.
10:52:51 THE BUILDING CAN'T THRIVE WITHOUT PARKING.
10:52:57 YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE RUMORS THAT I HEARD TO BRING A
10:53:00 RESOURCE CENTER TO THAT BUILDING WITH NO PARKING.
10:53:04 WE HAVE ABOUT FIVE OR SIX RESOURCE CENTERS WITHIN TWO OR
10:53:07 THREE BLOCKS OF THAT BUILDING.
10:53:08 YOU HAVE LEE DAVIS WHO HAS A CENTER DOWN THERE THAT IS
10:53:13 HARDLY BEING USED.
10:53:14 YOU HAVE THE COLLABORATIVE CENTER ON PALM.
10:53:16 YOU HAVE THE CENTER THAT DOES NOTARY, COMPUTERS, WHATEVER
10:53:21 AT 29th AND LINK.
10:53:23 YOU HAVE THE LIBRARY.
10:53:24 YOU HAVE SEVERAL PLACES, COLLABORATIVE PLACES THAT PEOPLE
10:53:28 CAN DO COMPUTER WORK.
10:53:30 THAT BUILDING WHICH WAS PURCHASED, AND I WAS JUST GETTING
10:53:35 OFF THE BOARD AT THE TIME, THERE WAS A PURPOSE TO BE
10:53:38 BOUGHT AND TORN DOWN AND TO BE ABLE TO START DOING
10:53:41 LANDSCAPE ON 22ND STREET THAT CORRIDOR, AND EVENTUALLY
10:53:44 GET AN RFP FOR AN URBAN PLANNER TO COME IN AND SEE HOW
10:53:51 22ND CAN BE DEVELOPED.
10:53:56 I REMEMBER TALKING ABOUT THAT EARLIER.
10:53:58 WE LOOK THESE AREAS.
10:53:59 I AM NOT FOR PUTTING MONEY INTO SOMETHING THAT'S NOT
10:54:01 GOING TO BE ABLE TO THRIVE.
10:54:04 THAT BUILDING, IN MY OPINION, I HAVE BEEN IN THERE, THERE
10:54:09 ARE OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THAT BUILDING.
10:54:11 TO JUST REHAB IT, MORE ISSUES WITH PLUMBING, A LOT OF
10:54:16 PROBLEMS WITH THAT BUILDING.
10:54:17 SO I'M HOPING THAT YOU LISTEN, THAT IT GOES BACK TO THE
10:54:23 CAC BOARD FOR ANOTHER DISCUSSION, BECAUSE AT THIS
10:54:26 PARTICULAR POINT, IF THAT WAS ON THE AGENDA TODAY, I
10:54:29 COULD NOT SUPPORT THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS
10:54:31 ABOUT THAT BUILDING THAT I JUST DON'T AGREE WITH.
10:54:34 AND YOU ARE RIGHT, THERE DOES NEED TO BE A PLAN.
10:54:37 AND THAT PLAN NEEDS TO BE CONDUCIVE TO WHERE WE ARE LAG
10:54:41 LAND ASSEMBLAGE ON 22ND STREET.
10:54:44 NOT JUST REHAB THE BILLING THAT'S NOT GOING TO THRIVE.
10:54:47 WE NEED INNOVATION.
10:54:49 WE NEED JOBS.
10:54:50 I NEED 22ND STREET BOUGHT.
10:54:53 AND THAT'S WHAT MR. MORRIS TALKS ABOUT, INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:54:56 I LOOK AT 29th AND LAKE.
10:55:00 SO WE NEED TO BE TELLING THE CDC TO BRING SOMETHING TO
10:55:04 THIS BOARD HERE IN REFERENCE TO GETTING A PERSON.
10:55:07 I TALKED TO MS. VAN LOAN ABOUT THIS ALREADY IN REFERENCE
10:55:09 TO THE RFP TO HAVE SOME MONEY TO BUILD MORTGAGE AND REAL
10:55:15 ESTATE.
10:55:18 WE NEED PEOPLE TO COME IN AND START DOING SOME OF THIS
10:55:21 WORK SO WE CAN GET THINGS MOVING IN EAST TAMPA.
10:55:23 WE ARE BEHIND THE 8 BALL.
10:55:25 WE HAVE GOT TO START MOVING.
10:55:26 AND WHAT I AM LOOKING AT IS 29th AND LAKE WHEN I
10:55:30 DRIVE EVERY WEEKEND, I SIT THERE AND I SEE NOTHING
10:55:33 MOVING, I SEE BUILDINGS JUST FALLING APART.
10:55:37 THE WHOLE AREA IS FALLING APART.
10:55:38 WE HAVE MONEY.
10:55:40 WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON BUYING THIS PROPERTY, FINDING A
10:55:44 DEVELOPER, AND TRYING TO REDEVELOP THAT COMMUNITY.
10:55:46 THAT'S MY FOCUS.
10:55:48 I LIVE THERE.
10:55:49 I UNDERSTAND IT.
10:55:51 I HAVE LIVED IT.
10:55:52 I HAVE WORKED IT.
10:55:54 AS A POLICE OFFICER, EVERY MAN I TALKED TO, 29th
10:55:58 NEEDS TO BE TORN DOWN AND REBUILT.
10:56:00 WE HAVE GOT TO GO IN THERE AND BUY THE PROPERTY IN THERE
10:56:02 TO REBUILD AND HAVE BUSINESSES, MR. DINGFELDER TALKED
10:56:08 ABOUT CLOSURE.
10:56:10 NOW WE CAN THRIVE AS A COMMUNITY.
10:56:16 LET'S CHANGE THE LOOK OF EAST TAMPA, CHANGE THE LOOK OF
10:56:19 EAST 22ND STREET, LIKE AND 29th STREET.
10:56:22 THAT'S MY FOCUS ON THIS BOARD HERE, FOR MY COLLEAGUES TO
10:56:28 UNDERSTAND WHAT MUST HAPPEN.
10:56:29 AGAIN, MS. COBB TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
10:56:34 I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH LEGAL IN REFERENCE TO SOME OF
10:56:36 THESE STORES THAT ARE HAVING ISSUES, IN OUR COMMUNITY, TO
10:56:39 CLEAN UP SOME OF THE SHOOTINGS THAT ARE GOING ON, AND I
10:56:42 BELIEVE THE BOARD IS DOING SOME GOOD WORK, BUT I HAVE GOT
10:56:46 TO PUT A LITTLE MORE FIRE SO WE CAN GET IT FUNDED.
10:56:51 BECAUSE WE HAVE MONEY.
10:56:52 WE NEED TO MOVE.
10:56:53 SO I WANT YOU TO SEND THAT STRONG MESSAGE BACK TO THE CDC
10:56:58 BOARD.
10:56:59 I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THAT.
10:57:00 I DON'T CARE HOW PEOPLE VOTE BUT I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO
10:57:03 BE DISENFRANCHISED AND NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE WHEN THE BOARD
10:57:09 WAS TOLD, MEMBERS WERE NOT THERE WAS NOT GOING TO BE A
10:57:11 VOTE, THAT IT WOULD BE ADOPTED, LEFT, AND THEN WE HAVE A
10:57:14 VOTE PUT ON THE TABLE. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
10:57:17 SO THAT NEEDS TO GO BACK.
10:57:19 I NEED A PLAN OF HOW WE NEED TO DEVELOP 22ND STREET FOR
10:57:24 THAT BUILDING.
10:57:26 MY SUGGESTION, IT NEEDS TO BE TORN DOWN.
10:57:28 WE NEED TO START -- I THINK TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO WANTS
10:57:33 TO BE INVOLVED AND HELP OUT AND WE NEED TO START LOOKING
10:57:40 AT THE ASSEMBLAGE OF 22ND STREET AND BUYING KING'S MEAT
10:57:44 MARKET, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE FOLKS BUYING.
10:57:47 AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO GO HERE, BUT LET'S
10:57:55 TALK THEM DOWN.
10:57:56 SO THAT'S MY THING ON THAT BUILDING.
10:57:59 FOR 22ND, 29th STREET.
10:58:01 THAT'S WHAT I WANT THE CDC TO UNDERSTAND.
10:58:04 THANK YOU.
10:58:04 >>BILL CARLSON: ARE YOU FINISHED?
10:58:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:58:14 >>BILL CARLSON: I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD.
10:58:15 DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE?
10:58:16 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, THAT'S IT.
10:58:18 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
10:58:20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:58:21 NEXT.
10:58:22 >> MARIE FERRILL, TAMPA RIVERFRONT PARK AND -- MANAGER.
10:58:55 I AM PRESENTING AN UPDATE ON DOWNTOWN.
10:58:57 AND WE ARE CONTINUING OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DISCUSSIONS WITH
10:59:01 THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT, DRANA, AND OUR DOWNTOWN
10:59:08 RIVER ARTS NEIGHBORHOOD AS WELL AS THE OPPORTUNITY
10:59:11 PARTNERSHIP.
10:59:12 THIS IS A DEVELOPING PROGRAM, JUST TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE
10:59:14 PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, SPECIFICALLY
10:59:23 WITH OUR NEIGHBOR CONCERNS ABOUT LOUD VEHICLES AND SOME
10:59:28 OF THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
10:59:31 WE HAVE ALSO REVIEWED A PRESENTATION THAT WILL BE GIVEN
10:59:33 TO THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, WHICH IS THE CDC
10:59:37 REGARDING THE FUNDING, THE COUNTY'S MATCH FOR THE
10:59:40 CONVENTION CENTER RENOVATIONS AND THE LONG-TERM PLAN.
10:59:43 YOU WILL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT IN MS. VAN LOAN'S
10:59:48 PRESENTATION ON THE DOWNTOWN PLANNING BUDGET.
10:59:50 THAT IS A CONTINUING CONVERSATION WITH DEVELOPMENTS
10:59:54 COMING TO YOU VERY SOON.
10:59:55 I ALSO HAD AN INTRODUCTION MEETING WITH THE VINIK SPORTS
10:59:59 GROUP AND TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING CEO REGARDING SOME AMALIE
11:00:05 ARENA PROJECTS THAT THEY WILL BE PRESENTING TO THIS GROUP
11:00:07 IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
11:00:09 THAT'S AN EXCITING DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO
11:00:11 SUPPORT AND BRING TO YOU FOR CONSIDERATION.
11:00:14 AND ALSO THERE WAS A COLLABORATION MEETING, IT'S NOT
11:00:17 NECESSARILY A NEW DEVELOPMENT, BUT NEW TO ME, WITH DR.
11:00:21 COLLINS WITH THE USF DIGITAL HERITAGE AND HUMANITIES
11:00:24 COLLECTIONS REGARDING THE JACKSON HOUSE AND THE WORK THAT
11:00:27 THEY HAVE DONE, JUST SCANNING THE BUILDING AND ENSURING A
11:00:31 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN GOING FORWARD FOR ITS RENOVATION AND
11:00:35 PRESERVATION, AND ALSO A NEW PROJECT THAT THEY ARE
11:00:37 WORKING ON WHICH IS KNOWN AS TAMPA THROUGH TIME.
11:00:42 EXCITING THINGS THERE AND HAPPY TO BEGIN THAT
11:00:47 COLLABORATION WITH DR. COLLINS AND HER TEAM.
11:00:49 SOME INDIRECT ACTIVITY.
11:00:51 THE TAMPA BUSINESS JOURNAL REPORTED THAT WATER STREET
11:00:54 RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, THE HERON, HAS SURPASSED INITIAL
11:00:59 LEASE EXPECTATIONS AND THAT OPENED EARLIER THIS MONTH, OR
11:01:03 LAST MONTH, EXCUSE ME.
11:01:04 THE STRAZ RELEASES ITS NEW BROADWAY SEASON, AND SHOWS.
11:01:09 THE ROCK THE PARK RETURNS TO CURTIS HIXON EARLIER THIS
11:01:13 MONTH.
11:01:13 THE SAIL PLAZA AT THE CONVENTION CENTER IS UNDER
11:01:17 RENOVATIONS AND THEY EXPECT TO BE COMPLETED VERY SOON
11:01:19 ACTUALLY.
11:01:20 AND I JUST WANT TO STATE THIS IS A COMMON THING, THAT
11:01:30 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ARE RETURNS RETURNING.
11:01:32 SO THE COMMUNITY IS REOPENING SLOWLY AND SAFELY.
11:01:35 RESIDENTS AND VISITORS ARE COMING BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY
11:01:38 IN PUBLIC SPACES.
11:01:40 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT PEOPLE ARE BACK AND READY TO
11:01:44 RELAX.
11:01:45 IT'S BEEN A TOUGH YEAR.
11:01:46 WE ARE HAPPY AND READY FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO COME BACK TO
11:01:49 LIFE.
11:01:50 ONE EVENT THAT WAS HOSTED IN APRIL THAT WE ARE VERY
11:01:53 EXCITED TO SEE THE SQUARE OPEN IN GASLIGHT PARK.
11:01:59 IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE SPACE IT'S VERY INVITING,
11:02:02 WELCOMING EVEN WITH THE SUMMER APPROACH.
11:02:05 IT'S A VERY NICE SPACE UNDER THE SHADE TREES.
11:02:10 GASLIGHT SQUARE PARK.
11:02:12 IT GIVES THE PARTNERSHIP, OF COURSE, HAS THE ABILITY FOR
11:02:15 YOU TO GIVE FEEDBACK THROUGH ITS SURVEY.
11:02:17 YOU CAN TAKE A PICTURE OF THE UR CODE AND ENJOY THE
11:02:22 SPACE.
11:02:23 EVEN IF YOU HAVE FEEDBACK ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE SPACE.
11:02:25 THEY ARE SEEKING THAT FEEDBACK.
11:02:27 IT IS A TEMPORARY POP-UP TYPE IMPROVEMENT.
11:02:30 AND THEY ARE SEEKING THOSE TYPES OF COMMENTS TO MAKE SURE
11:02:33 THEY COULD PROVIDE THAT FEEDBACK TO THE CITY AS WELL.
11:02:41 WE ARE IN FULL FORCE IN EFFECT OF GOING THROUGH OUR CRP
11:02:47 AND REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN FOR
11:02:49 THOSE LISTENING IN AND NOT UNDERSTANDING THE ACRONYMS I
11:02:52 KEEP DROPPING.
11:02:53 WE HAVE COMPLETED -- THE CONSULTANT HAS COMPLETED OUR
11:02:57 EXISTING CONDITIONS AND ANALYSIS DRAFT.
11:02:59 IT'S BEING REVIEWED AT THIS TIME BEFORE WE RELEASE IT.
11:03:02 I PLAN TO SHARE SOME OF THOSE FINDINGS WITH YOU ALL NEXT
11:03:06 MONTH AS WELL
11:03:17 OUR FIRST STAKEHOLDER MEETING IS THIS EVENING.
11:03:19 THE INFORMATION IS HERE ON THIS SLIDE.
11:03:21 WE HAVE SENT IT OUT VERY DILIGENTLY THROUGH THE
11:03:26 COMMUNITY.
11:03:26 PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND AND GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK.
11:03:29 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PROCESS, AS BRENDA
11:03:32 GAVE AN UPDATE ON EAST TAMPA, AND THEIR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
11:03:35 IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REACH OUT TO THE
11:03:38 COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AND GET THEIR FEEDBACK ON HOW THEY
11:03:42 WANT TO SEE THE COMMUNITY GROW.
11:03:44 SO THIS IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT STEP, AND WE HOPE TO
11:03:47 SEE A LOT OF YOU TONIGHT.
11:03:51 MOVING TO OUR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
11:03:54 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE IS THOROUGHLY UNDERWAY.
11:03:56 THE MAJORITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION SHIFTED TO THE
11:03:59 NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC SIDE WHICH IS ON THE EAST SIDE OF
11:04:02 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE, WITH PHASES 1 AND 2, WHICH IS CREATING
11:04:07 THAT NEW TURN LIKE TO YORK STREET.
11:04:11 OUR CAC IS ACTIVELY PURSUING INITIATIVES FOR NEW PARK,
11:04:15 NEW GRANT PROGRAMS, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
11:04:18 AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY VERY AGGRESSIVE IN WANTING TO
11:04:22 CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THOSE SPACES IN CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:04:26 INDIRECT ACTIVITIES, AGAIN JUST SHOUTING OUT TO SPARKMAN
11:04:31 WHARF, THEY ARE VERY ACTIVE, THEY ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS,
11:04:33 AND I BELIEVE THE BUSINESS JOURNAL ALSO REPORTED ON THEIR
11:04:38 NEW LEASES WITHIN JUST THIS YEAR, SINCE JANUARY THEY
11:04:42 SIGNED SEVEN NEW LEASES WITHIN THEIR SPACES.
11:04:45 YOU HEARD EARLIER FROM CHRIS AHERN ON TAMPA HEIGHTS
11:04:49 RIVERFRONT.
11:04:51 WE HAVE A VERY ACTIVE AND ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
11:04:54 DEVELOPER AND OWNERS OF SOHO CAPITAL AND THEY CONTINUE TO
11:04:57 WORK ON THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DISTRICT.
11:04:59 INDIRECT ACTIVITIES THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN HIS REPORT
11:05:03 ARE OF COURSE THE STETSON UNIVERSITY, RECEIVED A $10
11:05:07 MILLION DONATION TO ESTABLISH A NEW SCHOLARSHIP FUND, AND
11:05:12 BUDDY BREW ON AN ADDITIONAL LOCATION AT ARMATURE WORKS.
11:05:17 I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO SAY THAT WHAT HAPPENS WITH
11:05:19 OUR PARTNERS IS A BENEFIT TO ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS AND
11:05:22 NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:05:24 CENTRAL PARK CAC, THEY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP COMMUNITY
11:05:27 ENGAGEMENT PLAN, AND THIS IS A DEVELOPING TOPIC.
11:05:31 THEY ARE WORKING ON A SURVEY FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS
11:05:33 OWNERS, BUSINESS AND PROPERTY OWNERS, AND WE ARE WORKING
11:05:36 WITH THE PROPERTY MANAGERS WITHIN ENCORE RESIDENTIAL
11:05:39 BUILDINGS TO PARTICIPATE AND PROMOTE MAYBE CREATION OF A
11:05:44 RESIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION THAT WILL CONNECT EVERYONE TO
11:05:46 CITY RESOURCES, COMMUNITY RESOURCES, AND ALLOW THEM TO
11:05:49 HAVE A UNIFIED VOICE IN REPRESENTING WHAT THE COMMUNITY
11:05:53 NEEDS ARE AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
11:05:56 AND LASTLY, THIS IS A BROADER TOPIC.
11:05:58 I AM JUST REPRESENTING WHAT OUR FRIENDS AT THE TAMPA
11:06:01 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP HAVE RECENTLY RELEASED.
11:06:05 MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE SURVEY THAT THEY DO
11:06:09 BIANNUALLY, AND WHAT I WANT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS
11:06:13 GRAPHIC IS THE PRESUMPTION OF DOWNTOWN IS MUCH BROADER
11:06:17 THAN WHAT WE VISUALIZE AS A CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.
11:06:20 IT'S ACTUALLY A CONNECTION OF SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS, THE
11:06:24 HIGH HEIGHTS, DOWNTOWN RIVER PART ART, DOWNTOWN IF,
11:06:27 CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:06:28 EACH NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE FABRIC AND IDENTITY
11:06:31 AND WE WORK TO PRESERVE AND HIGHLIGHT THOSE FEATURES BUT
11:06:34 EVEN WITHIN THESE NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILES THERE'S A VERY
11:06:37 UNIQUE FEATURE AS THE SURVEY IDENTIFIES HERE.
11:06:45 SOME KEY TAKE AWAY, HIGHLIGHT SOME OPPORTUNITIES, ARE
11:06:48 PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH THE MAYOR'S P-3 PRIORITIES AND
11:06:50 WITH CITY INITIATIVES THAT ARE UNDERWAY, HIGHLIGHTING
11:06:55 INTRACITY MOBILITY, THAT RELATES TO A LOT OF OUR
11:06:58 TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES AND HOME OWNERSHIP AND
11:07:00 MOBILITY TIES IN WITH AFFORDABILITY.
11:07:03 I THINK THOSE ARE VERY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE
11:07:04 PRIORITIES ARE WITHIN OUR CITY OVERALL.
11:07:07 AND LOOKING AT FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES, WE CERTAINLY AGREE
11:07:10 THAT HAVING THE ABILITY TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE CAN GROW AND
11:07:17 CONTINUE TO INVEST IN IS IMPORTANT.
11:07:19 YOU WILL HEAR PRESENTATIONS FROM MS. VAN LOAN ON THE
11:07:23 DOWNTOWN PLANNING BUDGET.
11:07:24 WE HAVE WORKED GENTLY ON BALANCING SEVERAL KEY PROJECTS
11:07:27 AND WE NEED YOUR INPUT TO UNDERSTAND THE PRIORITIES FOR
11:07:31 DOWNTOWN AS IT CONTINUES TO GROW.
11:07:34 WE THANK THE PARTNERSHIP FOR THEIR COLLABORATION.
11:07:37 IT'S REALLY CRITICAL TO OUR SUCCESS.
11:07:39 AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION UNLESS THERE ARE ANY
11:07:42 QUESTIONS.
11:07:42 >>BILL CARLSON: QUESTIONS?
11:07:46 ANY QUESTIONS?
11:07:47 OKAY.
11:07:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MS. VAN LOAN?
11:07:52 THANK YOU.
11:07:53 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION.
11:07:56 JUST A FEW QUESTIONS.
11:08:02 THE POP UP, I WALKED BY IT.
11:08:05 I FOUND AREAS THAT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS WELL DONE AND I
11:08:07 COMPLIMENT THE PARTNERSHIP FOR DOING THAT IN A CREATIVE
11:08:11 WAY.
11:08:11 MY CONCERN HAS ALWAYS BEEN IF I WAS A RESTAURANT ALONG
11:08:17 FRANKLIN STREET OR WHATEVER, AND DURING COVID AND ALL OF
11:08:22 A YOU HAD SUDDEN A QUASI-GOVERNMENT AGENCY SORT OF DOES
11:08:26 ALL OF THIS AND DOES A POP-UP THAT'S IN COMPETITION WITH
11:08:30 ME FOR LUNCH OR DINNER OR WHATEVER TIME THEY ARE OPEN,
11:08:35 PROBABLY JUST LUNCH, BUT THAT CONCERNS ME A LITTLE BIT.
11:08:41 I HAD DISCUSSION WITH AMONG STAFF OR WITH THE CAC.
11:08:46 THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION.
11:08:47 MY SECOND QUESTION IS, I WAS YESTERDAY IN DOWNTOWN
11:08:57 ST. PETERSBURG, AND MILES AND MILES STARTING AT THE BAY
11:09:00 AND ALL THE WAY UP INTO THE EDGE DISTRICT, ET CETERA, AND
11:09:05 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SEE THAT THEY ARE DOING IS THEY
11:09:08 HAD COVID OUTDOOR SEATING, AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE -- IT
11:09:19 LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE CONTINUING TO ALLOW THAT COVID
11:09:22 OUTDOOR SEATING, WHICH REALLY FEELS ALMOST EUROPEAN, YOU
11:09:26 KNOW, WITH ALL -- WHEN YOU GO TO EUROPE AND IT HAS LOTS
11:09:31 OF OUTDOOR DINING, AND IT ALWAYS GIVES SUCH AN OPEN
11:09:35 PLEASURABLE FEEL, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR CLIMATE BEING
11:09:38 CONDUCIVE TO THAT AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR.
11:09:44 I AM JUST WONDERING IF WE ALLOW THAT, WOULD LOOK INTO
11:09:47 CONTINUED OUTDOOR DINING LIKE WE DID DURING COVID, SAFETY
11:09:55 AND THAT.
11:09:56 THOSE ARE MY TWO QUESTIONS.
11:09:57 >> YES, THANK YOU.
11:10:01 THOSE ARE VERY GREAT POINTS THAT YOU BRING UP.
11:10:03 AND RELATING TO THE POP-UP SPACE AND THE COMPETITION, SO
11:10:09 TO SPEAK, I THINK THE MORE AVAILABILITY OF RESTAURANTS
11:10:12 AND DINING OPTIONS ARE ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE THEM
11:10:15 CONCENTRATED IN ONE AREA.
11:10:17 AND GOING BACK TO THE DOWNTOWN SURVEY, ONE OF THE KEY
11:10:21 COMPONENTS THAT CAME UP AS AN OPPORTUNITY WAS CONSUMER
11:10:24 GOOD OPTIONS, AND THE RESIDENTS AND WORKERS DOWNTOWN
11:10:28 WANTED TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE MORE VENDING AND
11:10:31 ACTIVATION WITHIN PARKS AND LONGER HOURS OF OPERATIONS
11:10:35 FOR BUSINESSES.
11:10:37 AND EVEN RETAIL OPTIONS.
11:10:38 SO IT'S NOT JUST TO HAVE THE AVAILABILITY FOR FOOD AND
11:10:41 HAVE THAT CONVENIENCE STOP AND GO LUNCH TYPE OPTION.
11:10:46 I KNOW THAT FOR THE SQUARE, THEY ARE DOING 45 DAYS OF THE
11:10:50 BRUNCH -- I'M SORRY, THE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH OPTION, AND
11:10:53 THEN THEY ARE GOING TO SWITCH TO A LUNCH EARLY DINNER
11:10:56 OPTION.
11:10:56 SO THEY WANT TO SEE AND FEEL WHAT THE COMMUNITY ENJOYS
11:11:00 AND RESPONDS TO.
11:11:01 BUT HAVING THAT CONVENIENCE ITEM IS SOMETHING THAT THE
11:11:04 SURVEY YIELDED OR RESULTS THAT WERE HIGHLY FAVORABLE.
11:11:08 AND THEN TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT HAVING MORE
11:11:10 OUTDOOR CAFE TYPE SEATING, LOCAL WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN
11:11:16 ALLOWING SOME OF THAT TO BE EXPANDED DOWNTOWN, AND WITHIN
11:11:19 OUR NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORHOODS TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
11:11:23 SO THE PARTNERSHIP ALSO ADVOCATED FOR CONVERTING SOME
11:11:26 PARKING SPACES INTO EXTENDED OUTDOOR SEATING AND CAFES.
11:11:31 BUT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT IF WE WANTED TO EXPAND
11:11:33 ON THAT AND ALLOW LONGER TERM, WE WOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH
11:11:36 THE CITY AND OUR CODE REQUIREMENTS TO MAKE IT A MORE
11:11:39 PERMANENT INSTALLATION, AND THAT WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK
11:11:42 TO COUNCIL.
11:11:43 BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT.
11:11:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF
11:11:49 COUNCIL FEELS.
11:11:50 I SUSPECT MR. CARLSON WOULD BE A BIG SUPPORTER OF THAT
11:11:55 INASMUCH AS HE'S TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD.
11:11:59 AND KNOWS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
11:12:03 I DON'T KNOW IF I NEED TO DO IT BY MOTION OR JUST LET YOU
11:12:06 GUYS CONTINUE TO LOOK INTO IT.
11:12:09 I KNOW IT WOULD INVOLVE CITY STAFF, AND KNOW THAT IT
11:12:12 MIGHT INVOLVE SOME CODE ISSUES, BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY
11:12:17 WORTHWHILE.
11:12:18 I ENCOURAGE ANYBODY LISTENING TO TAKE A CRUISE UP AND
11:12:22 DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE IN ST. PETERSBURG AND SEE WHAT I AM
11:12:24 TALKING ABOUT.
11:12:26 IT'S JUST THRIVING.
11:12:27 AND THAT WAS ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
11:12:31 AND IN REGARD TO THE POP-UP DOWN ON THE SQUARE, I AGREE
11:12:37 WITH YOU 100% THAT THE CITIZENS, THE RESIDENTS, I'M SURE
11:12:41 ARE THRILLED.
11:12:42 I'M JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT THE BUSINESS
11:12:46 COMPETITION, YOU KNOW, WITH THE OTHER RESTAURANTS.
11:12:51 LET'S PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY ON THAT.
11:12:53 WE DON'T WANT TO BE PERCEIVED AS COME PETITIONING WITH
11:12:56 THE FOLKS THAT ARE THERE.
11:12:58 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYTHING ELSE?
11:13:02 ANYBODY ELSE?
11:13:03 ALL RIGHT.
11:13:03 THANK YOU.
11:13:05 NEXT?
11:13:05 >> GOOD MORNING.
11:13:32 WEST TAMPA DREW PARK CRA MANAGER.
11:13:38 BRING THE PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE.
11:13:41 I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE WEST TAMPA CAC
11:13:45 CONTINUE TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL MEETING OUT THERE.
11:13:47 WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DISCUSSING OUR BUDGET FOR
11:13:51 PROGRAMS AND BUDGETS FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
11:13:54 IN ADDITION WE ARE GOING THROUGH SEVERAL LITTLE GRANT
11:13:58 PROGRAMS SO WE CAN IMPLEMENT OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:14:02 THE CAC HAS BEEN GETTING VERY INVOLVED WITH TRAINING, BUT
11:14:05 THAT THE CRA HAS BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER FOR THEM,
11:14:09 PARLIAMENTARY TRAININGS AND STRATEGIC ACTION PLANS, AND
11:14:12 CRPs SO THEY CAN MAKE SURE THEY ARE IN LINE WITH THOSE.
11:14:16 OUR SUBCOMMITTEES, THEY ARE STILL VERY ACTIVE.
11:14:20 OUR NEW ARTS SUBCOMMITTEE IS GETTING A VOICE WITHIN OUR
11:14:25 SUBCOMMITTEES, SO WE ARE HOPING THEY PRODUCE VERY GOOD
11:14:30 PROJECTS FOR THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
11:14:33 IN ADDITION OUR INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE, THEY ARE
11:14:35 PLANNING A COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
11:14:42 HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THAT IMPLEMENTED FAIRLY QUICKLY AND
11:14:44 GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN THAT.
11:14:46 AS FAR AS THE WEST TAMPA INDIRECT ACTIVITIES, WHICH ALSO
11:14:50 ADDRESS ACTIVITIES SINCE WE ARE VERY INVOLVED WITH MAIN
11:14:53 STREET CORRIDOR STUDY, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT BEING LED
11:14:57 BY RANDY GOERS AND FRANK HALL ARE UNDERTAKING THAT
11:15:02 CORRIDOR STUDY.
11:15:03 A LOT OF GRANT PROGRAMS HAVE COME BECAUSE OF THE MEETINGS
11:15:07 WE HAVE HAD WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, REALTORS, DEVELOPERS,
11:15:11 COMMUNITY RESIDENTS, SO WE KIND OF FOUND OUT WHAT SOME OF
11:15:14 THE IMPEDIMENTS ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:15:16 WE ARE TAILORING THESE GRANT PROGRAMS AFTER THE
11:15:20 INTERVIEWS.
11:15:26 I WILL KIND OF GOING THROUGH INDIRECT ACTIVITY.
11:15:30 THESE ARE ONGOING CONTINUING PROJECTS THAT ARE OCCURRING
11:15:33 IN WEST TAMPA.
11:15:34 TECO, THEY ARE CONTINUING THE EXTENSION OF POWER OVER TO
11:15:36 THE WEST RIVER.
11:15:37 THIS HAS BEEN VERY MINIMAL DISRUPTION TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:15:42 ALSO, THE WEST RIVER PROJECT, THEY ARE STILL UNDER
11:15:46 CONSTRUCTION, DRIVING DOWN 275, YOU CAN SEE THAT.
11:15:49 THEY ARE GOING UP QUICKLY, AND NOW SOME OF THE DECORATIVE
11:15:53 FEATURES STARTING TO BE INSTALLED ON THE BUILDINGS.
11:15:58 AS FAR AS OTHER PROJECTS ON HOWARD, ARMENIA, OVER BY
11:16:02 STATE AND LEMON, THAT CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD AS WELL.
11:16:08 THESE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT NORTH OF
11:16:12 KENNEDY, AND IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA AND THE WHOLE SQUARE,
11:16:16 246 SQUARE UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX.
11:16:18 THAT'S GOING UP SMOOTHLY.
11:16:20 WE STILL HAVE ROME CLOSED OFF TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:16:24 BUT THE COMMUNITY SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO NAVIGATE AROUND
11:16:26 THAT BARRIER FAIRLY SMOOTHLY.
11:16:29 AND ANY ISSUES THAT ARISE THEY CAN GIVE ME A CALL, OR
11:16:32 GIVE THE CITY A CALL AND WE CAN TALK TO DEVELOPERS AND
11:16:36 CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES OUT THERE.
11:16:43 HOWARD, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE OPEN VERY SOON.
11:16:46 IT'S MOVING VERY QUICKLY, AT THE VETERINARY HOSPITAL ON
11:16:51 HOWARD.
11:16:52 THEN THE SPINE CYCLE TRACK IS MOVING, I DON'T KNOW WHEN
11:17:01 IT'S GOING TO BE COMPLETE BUT HOPEFULLY FAIRLY SOON.
11:17:04 SAME THING WITH CYPRESS STREET OUTFALL STORMWATER
11:17:09 PROJECT.
11:17:10 WITH SUMMER AND A LOT OF RAIN COMING, THIS PROJECT IS
11:17:13 GREAT FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND IT'S ALLEVIATING A LOT OF
11:17:17 FLOODING OUT THERE.
11:17:20 IT CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON KENNEDY.
11:17:22 IT'S KIND OF A SLOW PROJECT BUT IT IS MOVING FORWARD, THE
11:17:25 GODDARD SCHOOL.
11:17:26 THAT CONCLUDES FOR WEST TAMPA, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:17:29 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:17:32 NO?
11:17:32 OKAY, NEXT.
11:17:33 >> THANK YOU.
11:17:35 DREW PARK, WE JUST CONCLUDED OUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
11:17:38 WE THANK YOU FOR APPROVING THAT LAST MONTH.
11:17:40 SO OUR CAC, WE ARE STARTING TO MEET TO STRATEGIZE ON OUR
11:17:45 BUDGET SO WE CAN START IMPLEMENTING THAT ACTION PLAN.
11:17:48 AND WE HAVE A MEETING SET UP FOR NEXT WEEK SO WE CAN MOVE
11:17:51 THAT FORWARD.
11:17:53 IN ADDITION SOME OF THE STREET PROJECTS, THE SIDEWALK
11:17:55 PROJECTS OUT THERE BEING COMPLETED, AND IT'S ALSO ON OUR
11:17:59 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
11:18:01 WE ARE GOING TO START DISCUSSING CONNECTIVITY AND
11:18:04 SIDEWALK PROJECTS FOR THE DREW PARK AREA, IN ADDITION TO
11:18:08 MANY OTHER PROJECTS.
11:18:17 SOME OF THE OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT WE ARE DOING OUT THERE
11:18:20 WHICH ARE KIND OF INDIRECT ACTIVITIES, WE ARE STARTING TO
11:18:25 LOOK AT BEAUTIFICATION FOR CERTAIN AREAS AROUND THE AREA,
11:18:34 THE JAFET CENTER IS ALREADY MOVING IN TENANTS SO WE ARE
11:18:39 STARTING TO LOOK AT PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE AREA.
11:18:41 THIS ONE IS A VERY INTERESTING PROJECT.
11:18:43 THIS ONE IS LED BY THE ARTS CENTER AND WE HAD ONE OF THE
11:18:47 COUNCIL MEMBERS WAS THERE LAST MONTH, ALSO ON OUR CAC,
11:18:55 STARTING TO INITIATE THE DOCUMENT RIP FOR DREW PARK.
11:18:59 VERY INTERESTING.
11:19:00 WE HAVE A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS FROM THE COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN
11:19:03 OUT THERE FOR SOME 40 YEARS.
11:19:06 SOME OF THOSE STORIES ARE VERY INTERESTING.
11:19:09 MARTIZA ASTORQUIZA.
11:19:17 IT'S BEING LED AND FUNDED BY OUR ARTS CENTER.
11:19:19 THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
11:19:21 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:19:22 MR. GUDES?
11:19:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THIS MIGHT BE A MS. VAN LOAN QUESTION.
11:19:29 I SEE ALL THE STRATEGIC ACTIONS ARE GOING TO BE COMING
11:19:33 BACK SOON.
11:19:33 IS EACH INDIVIDUAL CRA GOING TO HIRE TO DO SOMEBODY TO DO
11:19:36 THEIR PLAN OR DO YOU PLAN ON HIRING A PERSON?
11:19:40 I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THAT.
11:19:41 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: DUE TO THE COST AND PURCHASING
11:19:46 REQUIREMENTS WE HAVE TO GO OUT FOR RFP.
11:19:48 SO UNLESS EVERYBODY IS ON THE EXACT SAME TIME, AND THAT
11:19:51 WOULD BE A REALLY LARGE PROJECT FOR ANY ONE PLANNING
11:19:54 COMPANY TO DO, BUT EACH ONE TO GET SENT OUT FOR AN RFP
11:19:59 INDIVIDUALLY BECAUSE OUR PURCHASING REQUIREMENTS.
11:20:01 ALSO, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME OF THE MANAGERS HANDLING MORE
11:20:04 THAN ONE CRA IT WOULD BE A LOT OF WORK FOR THEM TO TRY
11:20:07 AND DO TWO SAPs FOR THE SAME TIME.
11:20:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK IN THE PAST WE DIDN'T HAVE
11:20:14 ANYBODY MONITORING THE ACTION PLAN IN THE PAST.
11:20:16 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: JUST OUR STAFF.
11:20:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
11:20:25 I DON'T WANT TO SEE US SPEND THIS MONEY ON ACTION PLAN
11:20:28 FOR THE CITY AND NOT BEING FOLLOWED THROUGH.
11:20:30 SO WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK AND MAKING SURE THAT THE
11:20:34 CRAs, A PERSON HIRED TO MAKE SURE THEY FULFILL THE
11:20:39 REQUIREMENTS.
11:20:39 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ALL OF THE CACs AT THE END HAVE A
11:20:43 SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
11:20:44 AND THEN OUR NORMAL COURSE OF ACTION AS A CRA MANAGER
11:20:47 THEN WORKS WITH THE CAC TO ASSIGN THOSE INITIATIVES AND
11:20:50 THE PRIORITIES TO THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES, AND TO PUT THEM
11:20:53 THROUGH THEIR CRA BASED ON THEIR PRIORITIES TO GET THOSE
11:20:59 INITIATIVES MOVED FORWARD.
11:21:00 I THINK A LOT OF ISSUES MANY OF OUR SAPs HAVE BEEN
11:21:04 SINCE 2009 AND A LOT OF THINGS DATED AND FIZZLED AFTER
11:21:08 THE RECESSION, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MONEY TO WORK
11:21:11 WITH.
11:21:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I KNOW WE HAVE MONEY NOW, AND SOME OF
11:21:15 THE OTHER CRAs ARE THRIVING, BUT I KNOW A COUPLE IN
11:21:18 PARTICULAR AREN'T THRIVING.
11:21:19 I KNOW THEY ARE SAYING COME BACK, AND LOOK AT THESE
11:21:23 PROJECTS, BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE IF WE HIRE SOMEBODY,
11:21:26 THAT THEY NEED TO BE ON FIRE GETTING THOSE PROJECTS DONE,
11:21:29 SO WE CAN SEE THE REAL RESULTS.
11:21:33 THAT'S MY BIGGEST THING, MAKING SURE WHEN IT COMES BACK,
11:21:38 READY TO GO.
11:21:40 THANK YOU.
11:21:40 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. DINGFELDER.
11:21:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:21:45 MR. GUDES, GOOD POINT.
11:21:48 IN REGARD TO THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, THE DEVELOPMENT
11:21:52 OF A NEW ONE, I THINK I SAID THIS IN THE PAST, IS I THINK
11:21:58 IT'S FANTASTIC THAT THE CONSULTANT GOES OUT AND
11:22:03 COMMUNICATES WITH THE COMMUNITY AND CAC, BUT I ALSO WANT
11:22:11 TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CIRCLE BACK AND TALK TO EACH
11:22:14 INDIVIDUAL CRA MEMBER ABOUT THE SAPs THAT THEY ARE
11:22:18 WORKING ON, YOU KNOW, TO SEE -- I MEAN, JOE CITRO SAT ON
11:22:23 SELF, COUNCILMAN GUDES IS INTIMATELY INVOLVED, MR.
11:22:28 CARLSON, ET CETERA.
11:22:34 THERE MIGHT BE REALLY UNIQUE INPUT THAT EACH
11:22:37 COUNCILMEMBER PAST CRA BOARD MEMBER MIGHT HAVE IN THE SAP
11:22:44 PROCESS, EARLY IN THE SAP PROCESS.
11:22:47 SO MICHELLE, UNLESS SOMEBODY DISAGREES, OR YOU DISAGREE,
11:22:54 I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO TELL THE CONSULTANT TO GET IN
11:22:58 TOUCH WITH US AND INCLUDE US IN THEIR SURVEY EITHER
11:23:01 VERBALLY OR WRITTEN.
11:23:03 IN REGARDS TO THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, COUNCILMAN
11:23:06 GUDES, I THINK WHAT HAPPENED IS WE JUST HIRE THEM TO
11:23:13 START THE PLAN AND DO THE PLAN, HAND US THE PLAN, AND
11:23:15 THEN THEY ARE DONE.
11:23:16 SO IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE PLANS,
11:23:20 THAT FALLS TO STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY AND US.
11:23:24 SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY IT.
11:23:26 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: QUICKLY TO RESPOND TO YOU,
11:23:30 COINCIDENTALLY BRENDA WAS ASKING FOR PROTOCOL FOR
11:23:33 REACHING OUT TO ALL OF YOU TO SET UP YOUR ONE-ON-ONE
11:23:35 MEETINGS WITH PETE SECHOR FROM EAST TAMPA SO YOU WILL BE
11:23:43 HEARING FROM THEM NEXT WEEK TO GET THOSE MEETINGS SET UP.
11:23:47 LASTLY IN BE MY REPORT I WILL TALK ABOUT THE STAFFING
11:23:49 THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES IS REFERRING TO.
11:23:50 >>BILL CARLSON: IS THAT ALL THE REPORTS?
11:23:59 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR THE MONTHLY REPORT, YES.
11:24:01 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE QUICK COMMENT OR SUGGESTION.
11:24:06 I THINK A COUPLE YEARS AGO YOU SEPARATED DIRECT IMPACT
11:24:11 FROM INDIRECT IMPACT.
11:24:13 I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE SPEND TWO THIRD OR THREE QUARTERS
11:24:16 OF THE TIME ON THE DIRECT IMPACT AND IT'S OKAY TO LIST
11:24:19 THE INDIRECT BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE INDIRECT HAS TAKEN
11:24:22 OVER HALF OR MOST OF THE PRESENTATION.
11:24:24 IT'S GOOD TO KNOW BUT I THINK WITH THE CRA HAT, TALKING
11:24:27 ABOUT CRA, AND WITH THE CITY HAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE
11:24:30 CITY.
11:24:32 OKAY, NEXT.
11:24:33 THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS.
11:24:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM NUMBER 5 AND 6.
11:24:40 AND I WILL BE HANDLING THAT.
11:24:42 JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON YOUR COMMENT FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE,
11:24:45 BASED ON SOME OF THE DISCUSSION WE HAVE BEEN HEARING, WE
11:24:49 WILL BE CHANGING UP JUST FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE OUR
11:24:51 MONTHLY REPORT, AND WE WILL BE GIVING YOU A TWO-YEAR LIST
11:24:56 OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
11:24:57 SO IT WILL NOT BE JUST THE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MONTH WHEN
11:25:01 WE COME TO YOU IN JUNE.
11:25:02 EACH CRA MANAGER WILL BE COMING BACK TO HAND YOU A LIST
11:25:05 OF SINCE YOU ALL ELECTED MAY 1st IN 2019, UNDER THE
11:25:09 PURVIEW AS ALL OF YOU AS OUR CRA BOARD, WHAT HAS THE CRAS
11:25:14 ACCOMPLISHED?
11:25:15 SO WE WILL BE COMING FORWARD WITH A TWO-YEAR REPORT OF
11:25:18 OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER YOUR GUIDANCE ON JURISDICTION,
11:25:22 AND OUR MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE.
11:25:24 WITH THAT I WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 4, WITH I IS MY
11:25:27 REPORT.
11:25:28 I APOLOGIZE IF I WAS HAVING YOU IN A PRIVATE ROOM AND WE
11:25:32 WERE ALL DOING A REGULAR TEAMS MEETING.
11:25:33 I WOULD HAVE YOU ALL GET UP AND WALK AROUND AND GET YOUR
11:25:37 BLOOD FLOWING FOR THIS LAST 45 MINUTES OF OUR MEETING SO
11:25:39 HOPEFULLY YOU ARE STILL WITH ME.
11:25:41 SO REAL QUICKLY LAST MONTH, WE HAD THE EAST TAMPA DOWN
11:25:44 PAYMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT THAT IS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:25:47 THIS IS THE PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS OUR RESIDENTS TO GET
11:25:50 ADDITIONAL DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
11:25:53 WHEN WE FIRST BROUGHT THIS TO YOU A COUPLE YEARS AGO IT
11:25:55 INCLUDED THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE HOMEOWNER EDUCATION
11:25:58 CLASSES, THERE WAS A SECOND SET OF CLASSES ADDED A
11:26:02 REQUIREMENT IN EAST TAMPA TO GET THE EAST TAMPA MONEY.
11:26:04 HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, LATOSHA HICKS HAS BEEN
11:26:11 HAVING CLASSES.
11:26:13 CDC ASKED IF WE COULD ELIMINATE THE DUPLICATION OF
11:26:17 CLASSES.
11:26:17 COUNCILMAN GUDES BROUGHT UP SOME CONCERNS WHEN WE BROUGHT
11:26:19 THIS FORWARD AT OUR LAST CRA BOARD MEETING.
11:26:23 SINCE THEN WE HAVE TALKED TO COUNCILMAN GUDES AND ABBYE
11:26:25 FEELEY AND HENDERSON DID TALK ABOUT THE CLASSES, WHAT
11:26:31 HAPPENS, THE FOLLOW-UP, AND HIS CONCERNS.
11:26:35 KAYAM AND ABBEY PROVIDED TO THE COUNCILMEN, THE CLASSES
11:26:45 THAT ARE HANDLED BY THE FOUR COUNSELING AGENCIES, THAT
11:26:48 HDC USES, ARE A MANUAL, AND MRS. HICKS WAS ALSO FOR THE
11:26:55 EAST TAMPA USING THAT SAME EXACT MANUAL IN THE CLASSES
11:26:58 THAT WE WERE REQUIRING THE EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS TO TAKE.
11:27:01 SO THE EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS WERE BASICALLY TAKING AND
11:27:04 RECEIVING THE SAME INFORMATION FROM THE SAME MANUAL
11:27:07 TWICE.
11:27:08 MANY OF THE RESIDENTS, I SIGNED OFF I THINK ON 6 OR 7 OF
11:27:13 THOSE RESIDENTS THAT RECEIVED THE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE
11:27:16 FROM EAST TAMPA, I BELIEVE ALL OF THEM WERE SINGLE WOMEN.
11:27:20 ALL OF THE NAMES I SIGNED OFF ON WERE WOMEN'S NAMES.
11:27:23 AND HE HAVE TIME, AND MANY OF THEM ARE SINGLE MOTHERS.
11:27:26 SO WHEN THEY COME TO THESE CLASSES THEORY HAVING TO GO
11:27:29 GET DAYCARE, HAVING TO FIND SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR
11:27:32 KID.
11:27:32 SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES BROUGHT UP
11:27:34 WERE ISSUES NOT WITH THE COUNCIL SERVICES THEMSELVES AND
11:27:40 INFORMATION OF CLASSES BUT THE INFORMATION THAT COMES TO
11:27:42 THESE POTENTIAL HOMEOWNERS AFTER THE CLASSES, AFTER THE
11:27:45 DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE, AFTER THEY BECOME HOMEOWNERS, OR
11:27:48 TO HELP THEM BECOME HOMEOWNERS IN THAT PROCESS ONCE THEY
11:27:51 LEAF THE CLASSES.
11:27:54 HCD IS WORKING WITH HOUSING COUNSELORS TO PROVIDE THE
11:27:57 SERVICES AND THAT IS SEPARATE THAN THE ACTUAL CLASSES
11:28:00 THESE.
11:28:01 THEY ARE AWARE OF THAT GAP.
11:28:02 THEY APPRECIATED THE FEEDBACK.
11:28:04 BUT THE INFORMATION THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES IS CONCERNED
11:28:07 WITH WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN THOSE CLASSES THAT WE
11:28:11 WERE DOING AS A REQUIREMENT AS PART OF THE EAST TAMPA
11:28:14 MONEY.
11:28:14 SO WE ARE AGAIN REQUESTING THAT THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE
11:28:17 DUPLICATION OF THOSE EDUCATIONAL CLASSES BE DROPPED FROM
11:28:21 OUR REQUIREMENT FOR THE EAST TAMPA FUND.
11:28:24 AND I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
11:28:27 >>BILL CARLSON: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:28:28 ALL RIGHT.
11:28:29 NEXT.
11:28:29 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF I COULD HAVE A MOTION BECAUSE
11:28:33 THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM WAS ADOPTED WITH THAT REQUIREMENT.
11:28:37 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION FROM MR. GUDES.
11:28:39 SECOND FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
11:28:40 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:28:41 DO WE NEED TO DO ROLL CALL?
11:28:46 DO WE NEED TO DO ROLL CALL?
11:28:48 ALL IN FAVOR?
11:28:49 YAY.
11:28:49 ANY OPPOSED?
11:28:51 OKAY, MOTION CARRIED.
11:28:52 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:28:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHEN THEY ADOPT THE NEW RULES AND
11:28:58 REGULATIONS, HOME OWNERSHIP AND SO FORTH,LET MAKE SURE I
11:29:09 GET A COPY.
11:29:09 I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
11:29:11 GENTLEMEN, THE REASON I DID, FOLKS DON'T GO TO CLASSES
11:29:15 BUT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW, IF SOMETHING BREAKS, THERE'S A
11:29:22 LOT OF STUFF INTERTWINED, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT
11:29:29 STUFF THAT FOLKS AREN'T ABLE TO GET, OR SHOULD GET TO BE
11:29:33 SUCCESSFUL.
11:29:33 SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE SUCCESSFUL IN HOME
11:29:37 OWNERSHIP.
11:29:38 THANK YOU AGAIN TO MRS. FEELEY AND CAROL AND MS. VAN LOAN
11:29:43 FOR ASSISTING.
11:29:44 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR ASKING THE QUESTIONS, TOO.
11:29:47 NEXT.
11:29:47 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF I CAN HAVE THE PowerPoint
11:29:50 BACK.
11:29:50 THANK YOU.
11:29:51 SO THE MAIN PART OF MY DISCUSSION THIS MORNING IS THE
11:29:54 DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:29:56 WE HAVE BEEN SINCE JANUARY, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
11:30:00 THE DOWNTOWN AND CULTURAL ASSETS.
11:30:04 SINCE THE STRAZ CAME AT THE JANUARY CRA BOARD MEETING AND
11:30:07 REQUESTED $25 MILLION FROM THE CRA.
11:30:10 SO I WANTED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH ALL OF YOU FOR
11:30:15 THOSE WATCHING AT HOME AND FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, I WILL
11:30:17 NOT BE GOING THROUGH THE FULL SPREADSHEET.
11:30:19 I AM JUST PULLING IT UP TO POINT OUT CERTAIN ITEMS.
11:30:22 SO I WANTED TO PROVIDE CONTEXT AND SHOW YOU WHAT IS
11:30:26 POSSIBLE.
11:30:27 AND SOME OF THE RIPPLE EFFECTS FROM THAT JANUARY CRA
11:30:30 BOARD MEETING.
11:30:31 >>BILL CARLSON: WE HAVE TO PAUSE FOR A MINUTE BECAUSE WE
11:30:34 DON'T HAVE -- WHY DON'T WE TAKE A QUICK FIVE-MINUTE
11:30:39 BREAK?
11:30:42 WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO 12.
11:30:43 I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN FINISH BEFORE 12 BUT IF WE CAN GET
11:30:47 BACK QUICKLY.
11:30:48 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I PLAN TO FINISH BY 12.
11:30:52 >>BILL CARLSON: GREAT.
11:30:54 THANK YOU.
11:30:54 WE ARE ON BREAK.
11:30:57 [ CITY COUNCIL RECESS ]
11:36:08 >>BILL CARLSON: WE ARE BACK.
11:36:09 THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR GETTING BACK SO QUICKLY.
11:36:12 ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
11:36:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
11:36:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
11:36:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
11:36:20 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
11:36:21 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
11:36:23 >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A FISCAL QUORUM.
11:36:26 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
11:36:30 SO THIS SLIDE AGAIN, I AM NOT GOING INTO DETAIL.
11:36:35 I JUST WANTS TO SHOW WITH THIS SLIDE THAT IF WE DO FUND
11:36:38 CULTURAL ASSETS AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR CULTURAL
11:36:40 ASSETS THAT ALL OUR CURRENTS COMMITMENTS WOULD CONTINUE
11:36:43 TO BE FUNDED SO THAT WOULD BE THE CONVENTION CENTER
11:36:47 PROJECTS, IT WOULD BE THE CURRENT LOAN FOR THE CONVENTION
11:36:52 CENTER, IT WOULD BE THE REMAINDER OF OUR COMMITMENT TO
11:36:57 THE WATER STREET STRUCTURE, THE ANNUAL STREET CAR
11:37:00 OPERATIONS, AND A FEW SMALL CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE
11:37:04 COMMITTED TO OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
11:37:07 I WANTED TO FOCUS IN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHART.
11:37:10 SINCE THE STRAZ CAME TO US AND ASKED FOR THE REQUEST FOR
11:37:13 CAPITAL PROJECTS, TALKING ABOUT 5 MILLION FOR 3 YEARS, 5
11:37:19 MILLION FOR 5 YEARS, THINKING WE WOULD NEED TO SPREAD THE
11:37:22 MONEY OVER, BUT WE HAVE THE CAPACITY IF WE CHOOSE TO FUND
11:37:25 THIS, TO DO IT WITHIN THEIR ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION YEARS.
11:37:28 SO SINCE JANUARY, WE HAVE PUT ON THIS CHART THE OTHER
11:37:33 REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME TO US, SEVERAL CRA BOARD MEMBERS
11:37:37 ARE SENT SOME OF THE CULTURAL ASSETS TO US.
11:37:41 WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AND ANTICIPATING REQUESTS THAT MAY
11:37:44 COME TO US IN THE FUTURE, AND ALL OF THESE EXCEPT FOR
11:37:48 JACKSON HOUSE ARE ON PROPERTY THAT THE CITY HAS AN
11:37:50 OWNERSHIP INTEREST.
11:37:51 SO WITH THE STRAZ, THEY ASKED FOR 25 MILLION.
11:37:56 THEIR CONSTRUCTION YEARS WOULD BE FY 23-24.
11:37:59 IF IT WAS APPROVED FOR FUNDING WE COCK BREAK IT UP AS 15
11:38:03 AND 10 MILLION AS SHOWN.
11:38:05 JACKSON HOUSE HAS NOT REQUESTED FUNDING BUT JUST IN CASE
11:38:09 IT WAS NEEDED WE COULD PUT IN THE BUDGET, AND OF THAT
11:38:13 AMOUNT WE COULD PUT IN THE ANY OF THE FISCAL YEARS AS
11:38:15 KNEED.
11:38:16 UNION STATION AT CITY COUNCIL, YOU HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING
11:38:20 REACTIVATING UNION STATION.
11:38:21 YOU RECEIVED A REPORT ON THE AMOUNT OF WORK IT WOULD TAKE
11:38:24 TO REPLACE OUT THE WINDOWS AND MAKE SOME OF THE OTHER
11:38:26 REPAIRS AND ADDITIONAL RESTROOM AND PLUMBING FACILITIES
11:38:30 TO ACCOMMODATES MORE PEOPLE AT THE FACILITY.
11:38:32 AGAIN IF THAT REQUEST CAME TO US AS A CRA WE WANTED TO
11:38:35 MAKE SURE THAT WE ACCOMMODATED AND LOOKED AT THE BUDGET
11:38:39 BASED ON THAT.
11:38:39 WE HAVE HAD TWO ADDITIONAL CULTURAL ASSETS.
11:38:42 THEY HAVE COME TO TALK TO US ABOUT REQUESTS.
11:38:45 I WILL REFER TO THEM AS B AND C FOR THE MOMENT.
11:38:48 ONE IS REQUESTING 8 .75 MILLION.
11:38:51 THIS WOULD BE PHASE 1 OF THEIR THREE PHASE PROJECT.
11:38:54 THEY ARE ONLY REQUESTING FUNDING FOR PHASE 1 BECAUSE THEY
11:38:57 WANTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF COVID AND HAVING LIMITED OR
11:39:00 NO CAPACITY AT THE MOMENT WITH PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT
11:39:04 THEIR BUILDING.
11:39:05 AND SOAP IF THEY CAN KNOCK OUT THE PHASE 1 WHICH WOULD
11:39:08 ADDRESS ALL THE MAJOR PUBLIC AREAS OF THEIR FACILITY,
11:39:11 THEN THEIR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CAN HANDLE PHASE 2 AND 3, AND
11:39:16 THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE OPENED BY THE EARLY CALENDAR YEAR
11:39:19 FY 22.
11:39:21 THE THIRD CULTURAL ASSETS IS LOOKING FOR A 12.5 MILLION
11:39:25 REQUEST.
11:39:25 THAT IS PHASE 3 OF A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN, AND
11:39:30 THEY WOULD FUND FULLY FUND THROUGH THEIR OWN PRIVATE
11:39:33 FUNDRAISING PHASE 1 AND 2.
11:39:36 SO I AM JUST SHOWING ALL OF UP IF WE DID THIS, COULD THE
11:39:40 BUDGET HANDLE IT AND WHAT WOULD OUR BUDGET BALANCES BE AT
11:39:43 THE END OF THE YEAR?
11:39:45 WE CONTINUES TO USE A FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE FOR
11:39:49 REFUSE NEWS, AS WE DO NOT HAVE OUR REVENUE ESTIMATES FROM
11:39:52 THE COUNTY YET, AND WE WON'T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS UNTIL
11:39:56 ABOUT JUNE 7th TO 10th.
11:39:58 SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE USING ADAPTIVE PLUS 5% EVERY YEAR
11:40:03 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FY 22, 23 AND 24 BUT WE DID ADD A
11:40:07 LITTLE MORE REVENUE KNOWING THAT WEIGHED SOME LARGE
11:40:09 BUILDINGS COMING ONLINE AND COMING OTHER THAN THE TAX
11:40:13 ROLLS.
11:40:14 LASTLY, I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE
11:40:17 ALL OF THIS HAPPEN, WE WOULD BE FUNDING THE $32 MILLION
11:40:22 CONTRACT FOR THE NEW RECRUITMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION
11:40:26 CENTER WITH A LOAN.
11:40:27 RIGHT NOW, I JUST PUT IN 6-YEAR LOAN.
11:40:29 IF YOU WERE TO FUND ALL OF THESE REQUESTS.
11:40:32 OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU FUND LESS OF THESE REQUESTS, WE COULD
11:40:35 FUND THE CONVENTION CENTER WITH A SHORTER TERM LOAN.
11:40:39 SO AGAIN MY PURPOSE IN BRINGING THIS TO YOU IS SO THAT
11:40:42 YOU CAN SEE CONTEXT, AS I HAVE DISCUSSED AT PREVIOUS
11:40:45 MEETINGS FOR UNDERSTANDING, HERE IS THE REQUESTS THAT ARE
11:40:48 COMING TO YOU.
11:40:50 IT COULD HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON OUR BUDGET IF WE LOOKED AT
11:40:53 THEM ALL AS SINGULAR EVENTS OR REQUESTS.
11:40:56 I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WHITE SECTION,
11:40:59 YOU SEE NEIGHBORHOOD INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, 3
11:41:02 MILLION.
11:41:02 AND THEN IN FY 25 AT THE BOTTOM I HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW
11:41:06 THE 2.1 MILLION.
11:41:07 THOSE APPROXIMATELY A LITTLE OVER $5 MILLION WOULD BE
11:41:13 YOUR WIGGLE ROOM IF REFUSE NEWS CAME IN EXACTLY AS
11:41:15 PROJECTED AND THERE WERE NOT ADDITIONAL REVENUES OR
11:41:18 ADDITIONAL INCREASE ABOVE OUR CONSERVATIVE PROJECTIONS.
11:41:21 SO YOU STILL HAVE SOME MONEY WITHIN THE BUDGET, WITHIN
11:41:24 THE NEIGHBORHOOD INFRASTRUCTURE, AND YOUR FUND BALANCE,
11:41:27 SHOULD OTHER ITEMS COME UP.
11:41:30 IF YOU LOOKED AT DECIDING THAT THE CRA WOULD FOCUS ON OUR
11:41:36 CULTURAL ASSETS AND SPEND THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS TO
11:41:39 REALLY INVEST IN OUR CULTURAL ASSETS AS A DISTRICT, IT
11:41:44 WOULD GET YOU BY 2025 THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR PUBLIC
11:41:49 ASSETS AND OUR BIG ATTRACTING PUBLIC ASSETS AND SOME OF
11:41:52 OUR LARGER PUBLIC ASSETS WOULD ALL BE UPGRADED AND ALL BE
11:41:56 FULLY OPENED TO THE PUBLIC BY THE END OF FY 25 OR
11:42:00 APPROXIMATELY FY 25.
11:42:02 THIS GIVES YOU A ARTS AND PERFORMANCE ALL AT ONCE VERSUS
11:42:08 PIECEMEALING IT ALL THE TIME AND DOWNTOWN WOULD BE ARTS
11:42:11 AND PERFORMANCE DISTRICT FOR FLORIDA'S WEST COAST.
11:42:14 ON THE OTHER HAND, IT WILL LIMIT YOUR ABILITY, AND I USE
11:42:16 THE WORD LIMIT, WON'T PREVENT YOU BUT WILL LIMIT YOUR
11:42:20 ABILITY FOR THE CRA TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT OTHER PROJECTS
11:42:22 UNTIL OUR FY 26 BUDGET.
11:42:25 SO IF THERE IS ANY ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
11:42:29 THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, ANY ADDITIONAL ROADWAYS, WE COULD
11:42:32 BEGIN THE DESIGN, WE COULD DO SOME SMALL PROJECTS, BUT
11:42:35 WITH A LITTLE OVER 5 MILLION BALANCE WE WOULD NOT HAVE
11:42:38 ANY CREDIBLE CAPACITY TO DO LIKE THE FULL CONSTRUCTION OF
11:42:43 A ROAD PROJECT.
11:42:44 ANY TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS THAT WOULD START CONSTRUCTION
11:42:47 BEFORE FY 26, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COME TO THE CRA TO
11:42:51 ASK THEM TO PARTICIPATE.
11:42:52 SO WHETHER THAT IS A STREETCAR EXTENSION OR ANY OF THE
11:42:55 OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE OUT THERE IN SORT OF CONCEPTUAL
11:42:59 PHASE RIGHT NOW, WE WOULD BE IN A HEALTHY POSITION
11:43:01 STARTING IN FY 26 TO PARTICIPATE, BUT WE WOULD BE RATHER
11:43:05 LIMITED BEFORE THAT, AND ANY OTHER LAND ACQUISITION
11:43:08 OPPORTUNITIES, OR ANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDING.
11:43:12 SO AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IN A
11:43:16 LONGER IS JUST ABOUT THE STRAZ AND A ONE-TIME, ONE-ASSET.
11:43:21 IT IS WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY FOR MOVING FORWARD, AND DO
11:43:24 YOU WANT TO FOCUS AS THE CRA AGENCY, AND REALLY TRY AND
11:43:28 KNOCK OUT YOUR CULTURAL ASSETS?
11:43:31 OR DO YOU WANTS TO TAKE A MORE LIMITED APPROACH AND COME
11:43:33 UP WITH MAYBE PORTIONS, AND DO SMALLER AMOUNTS.
11:43:41 >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU JUST NEED FEEDBACK OR A MOTION?
11:43:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, TODAY WE ARE JUST LOOKING FOR
11:43:47 FEEDBACK BECAUSE THE CULTURAL ASSET, IF THE CRA BOARD
11:43:50 DOES NOT SEEM INCLINED TO GONE IN THIS DIRECTION, THEY
11:43:53 ARE NOT GOING TO -- COME OUT AND PUBLICLY ASK FOR THE
11:43:57 MONEY, AND WE ALSO NEED TO KNOW SINCE WE HAVE BEEN TASKED
11:44:01 TO COME UP WITH A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE STRAZ,
11:44:03 WHICH DIRECTION YOU WANT TO GO, AND WITH THAT I AM GOING
11:44:06 TO QUICKLY TURN IT OVER TO MORRIS.
11:44:07 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, DID YOU HAVE
11:44:11 SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO ADD BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING?
11:44:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IF YOU ARE TALKING ON THE SAME ISSUE,
11:44:15 I'LL WAIT.
11:44:16 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, I AM.
11:44:21 I AM WORKING ON A TERM SHEET THAT I SHARED A GRAPH THIS
11:44:24 MORNING WITH DAVID SINGER, THE COUNSEL FOR THE STRAZ,
11:44:27 ABOUT A FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR UP TO $25 MILLION.
11:44:32 WHAT'S A LITTLE CHALLENGING OR DIFFERENT FOR US IS
11:44:35 TYPICALLY PER OUR PAST AGREEMENT, TYPICALLY IN THE PAST,
11:44:40 THE CITY HAS BEEN THE CONSTRUCTING INSTITUTE FOR THE
11:44:44 STRAZ.
11:44:46 SO IN THIS CASE, WE WOULD NOT BE LEADING THE CHARGE.
11:44:51 WE ARE CONTRIBUTING.
11:44:52 BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR MONEY IS USED FOR HARD
11:44:56 COSTS ONLY, AND THAT THE STRAZ HAS, AND WILL HAVE, AND
11:45:03 WILL HAVE AT THE TIME NECESSARY, SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO
11:45:05 COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SO IT'S DONE
11:45:08 APPROPRIATELY.
11:45:09 SO THAT'S REALLY THE FOCUS OF WHAT THE TERM SHEET IS
11:45:13 ABOUT.
11:45:14 BUT HOW DO WE DO THAT, WHAT CONDITIONS WILL WE ATTACH THE
11:45:21 CRA MONEY, WHAT OTHER TYPES MUCH CONDITIONS WE ARE
11:45:23 LOOKING AT, INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT GOALS,
11:45:29 WHETHER WE EXPECT THE STRAZ TO WORK TOWARDS MEETING SOME
11:45:35 OF THE SAME MINORITY BUSINESS GOALS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO
11:45:38 THIS BODY, THESE SORTS OF THINGS.
11:45:42 THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO NAIL DOWN AND
11:45:44 NEGOTIATE WITH THE STRAZ.
11:45:47 THAT'S WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
11:45:48 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW WE ARE ONLY
11:45:52 TALKING ABOUT DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:45:58 >>MORRIS MASSEY: RIGHT.
11:45:58 >>BILL CARLSON: AND IT'S 10 MINUTES TILL 12.
11:46:05 CAN I ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF IT'S OKAY TO GO TILL 12:15?
11:46:10 THANK YOU.
11:46:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:46:13 THANKS, MICHELLE AND MORRIS FOR THAT UPDATE.
11:46:16 MICHELLE, I THINK IT'S GREAT, THE SPREADSHEET THAT YOU
11:46:22 HAVE SHOWN.
11:46:24 WE HAVE ALL BEEN GETTING PHONE CALLS FROM THESE VARIOUS
11:46:27 CULTURAL ASSETS, A, B AND C, AND NOW D, E and F.
11:46:34 But they are all worthwhile projects, all worthwhile
11:46:41 entities.
11:46:41 SOME ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS BUT ALL WORTHWHILE IN THEIR
11:46:44 OWN RIGHT.
11:46:45 AND OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU ARE FIXING UP AND REDOING AND
11:46:48 UPDATING A HUGE FACILITY LIKE THE STRAZ, IT TAKES A LOT
11:46:51 OF MONEY.
11:46:53 OUR 25 MILLION IS I THINK ABOUT A THIRD OF THE TOTAL
11:46:57 PRICE TAG WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, AND THE STRAZ, AND
11:47:01 SIMILARLY THE OTHER TWO FACILITIES.
11:47:03 IT'S NOT LIKE THE CRA IS PAYING THE WHOLE THING BUT I
11:47:07 THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THE CRA, AS LONG AS WE HAVE
11:47:09 THE MONEY RIGHT NOW, OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THAT WE
11:47:13 ARE NO POSITION TO HELP.
11:47:14 I LIKE THE SPREADSHEET.
11:47:17 I THINK -- MR. CHAIRMAN, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO
11:47:25 CONCEPTUALLY THAT WE ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT
11:47:29 SPREADSHEET.
11:47:32 IT'S NEITHER HEAR NOR THERE, NOT BINDING OR ANYTHING
11:47:35 ELSE, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY HARM IN IT.
11:47:38 AND I THINK IT DOES TELL EVERYBODY INVOLVED THAT YOU ARE
11:47:43 NOT WASTING YOUR TIME AND CONCEPTUALLY THE CRA BOARD IS
11:47:46 WILLING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE WORTHWHILE PROJECTS.
11:47:51 >>BILL CARLSON: LET ME GET FEEDBACK FROM EVERYBODY AND
11:47:55 THEN COME BACK TO YOUR MOTION.
11:47:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK MR. DINGFELDER KIND OF ANSWERED
11:48:01 THE QUESTION WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THESE CULTURAL ASSETS,
11:48:05 A AND B AS ANY CULTURAL PROGRAM WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:48:10 IS THAT RIGHT?
11:48:10 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THESE WERE AGAIN, EXCEPT FOR THE
11:48:13 JACKSON HOUSE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE GRANT PROGRAM, YOU
11:48:16 ALL ADOPTED FOR THE COVID, WE HAD TARGETED THOSE CULTURAL
11:48:20 ASSETS THAT WERE ON CITY PROPERTY OR CITY HAD OWNERSHIP
11:48:23 IN THE PROPERTY.
11:48:24 SO ALL OF THESE THAT ARE ON THIS LIST, AGAIN EXCEPT FOR
11:48:27 THE JACKSON HOUSE, ARE ONES THAT ARE UNDER OWNERSHIP BY
11:48:30 THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:48:32 AND SO WE WERE LOOKING IN THAT SAME VEIN THAT THEY WOULD
11:48:36 BE LIMITED.
11:48:36 AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, THAT WE
11:48:39 WOULD LIMIT ANY POTENTIAL FUNDING TO THOSE CULTURAL
11:48:41 ASSETS THAT ARE TIED TO CITY LAND USE AND CITY OWNERSHIP.
11:48:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THIS IS A BUDGET ITEM, A LOT OF
11:48:52 DOLLARS, AND WE ARE MISSING SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS.
11:48:55 I DO KNOW IF YOU MIGHT WANT TO HOLD OFF.
11:48:58 BUT WE ARE MISSING TWO, AND A LOT OF DOLLARS IN THE
11:49:03 BUDGET.
11:49:03 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. VIERA?
11:49:05 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:49:08 YEAH, I KIND OF AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:49:10 THIS MOTION, I GUESS IT SAYS THAT WE ARE WILLING TO DATE
11:49:15 THE IDEA BEFORE WE PUT A RING ON IT SO TO SPEAK AND I
11:49:18 DON'T WANT TO GIVE ANYONE THE WRONG IMPRESSION, SO TO
11:49:21 SPEAK, AND NOUN IT'S SOMETHING I WOULD BE FAVORABLY
11:49:24 INCLINED TOWARDS, BUT, I MEAN, MAYBE WE CAN GET AN
11:49:28 INDIVIDUAL ONE ON ONE SENSE OF COUNCIL, WHICH IT APPEARS
11:49:32 GOOD, BUT THERE'S MORE VETTING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE,
11:49:36 MORE COUNCIL MEMBERS, ET CETERA.
11:49:37 IN OTHER WORDS, I THINK A MOTION AT THIS POINT MAY VERY
11:49:40 WELL BE PREMATURE.
11:49:42 I WOULD BE WILLING TO SUPPORT IT WITH THAT QUALIFICATION,
11:49:45 BUT AGAIN, I JUST LIKE TO BE CAREFUL OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE
11:49:50 OF CAUTION.
11:49:51 SO THE MOTION IS VERY WELL TAKEN, BUT I JUST THINK
11:49:54 THERE'S SOME MINOR CHALLENGES THERE, IN MY OPINION.
11:49:57 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK WE ARE JUST TRYING TO --
11:50:04 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK WE ARE JUST TRYING TO GET SOME
11:50:05 INPUT FROM THE CRA BOARD TODAY.
11:50:09 MRS. VAN LOAN AND I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE OF WHERE
11:50:12 WE ARE HEADED AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE IMPACT HOW WE
11:50:15 PROCEED FURTHER ALONG HOW THAT AFFECTS YOUR BUDGET FOR
11:50:17 THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:50:21 SO YOU ALL ARE AWARE.
11:50:22 AND WE CAN PROCEED, I THINK, CONTINUING WORKING ON THESE
11:50:26 VARIOUS PROPOSED GRANTS, BECAUSE IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME
11:50:32 TO NEGOTIATE SOME OF THE ISSUES AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
11:50:36 BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU ALL TODAY.
11:50:39 >>BILL CARLSON: IF NOBODY ELSE HAS ANY COMMENTS I WILL
11:50:42 WEIGH IN ON MINE.
11:50:43 I THINK WE ALREADY INDICATED, IF WE DIDN'T VOTE,
11:50:47 SUPPORTED SUPPORT FOR THE STRAZ CENTER SO IT'S AN ISSUE
11:50:51 OF QUESTION THEY WOULD GET PAID, AND I'M OKAY WITH THE
11:50:54 PROPOSAL THAT YOU PUT FORWARD ABOUT WHEN THEY WOULD GET
11:50:56 PAID, AS LONG AS THEY ARE OKAY WITH IT.
11:50:59 BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY TEN YEARS AGO, AND BECAUSE OF THE
11:51:03 CHANGE IN DIRECTION, AFTER THAT, THE ARTS WERE NOT
11:51:07 FUNDED, THEY WERE UNFUNDED FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS, AND
11:51:13 ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, I SHOULD SAY WE OWN THE BUILDINGS,
11:51:16 AND WE ARE NOT KEEPING THEM UP, AND I DON'T WANT TO TALK
11:51:18 ABOUT SOME OF THE SPECIFICS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT READY TO
11:51:25 GO PUBLIC YET, BUT THERE ARE FACILITIES THAT ARE IN GREAT
11:51:29 NEED OF RESTORATION AND PROTECTION, AND EITHER THE CITY
11:51:37 OR CRA OR COUNTY NEED TO STEP UP AND HELP WITH THAT,
11:51:41 BESIDES WHATEVER THE PRIVATE SECTOR MAY DO.
11:51:43 AND IF WE LOST THESE IMPORTANT ASSETS, BECAUSE OF
11:51:46 CONTINUED UNDERFUNDING, IT WOULD BE A BIG DRAIN ON OUR
11:51:50 COMMUNITY.
11:51:51 AND ALSO I TALKED ON AND ON ABOUT THE ECONOMIC IMPACT AND
11:51:57 THE ECONOMIC ENGINE THAT THE ARTS ARE, AND A PLACE WHERE
11:52:03 OUR CHILDREN AND PEOPLE GO TO THE ARTS, NOT JUST TO SEE
11:52:07 THEM BUT TO PARTICIPATE, AND WE NEED THAT TO ATTRACT
11:52:09 THEM.
11:52:10 AND THE OTHER THING, IF WE ARE GOING TO FUND SOMETHING IN
11:52:13 AN AREA THAT DOESN'T HAVE SLUM AND BLIGHT ANYMORE, I
11:52:17 THINK WE SHOULD FUND ASSETS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE BY THE
11:52:20 ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
11:52:20 YOU HEARD JEAN STROHMEYER THIS MORNING SAYING WHY CAN'T
11:52:23 YOU FIX OUR POT HOLES?
11:52:25 I HEAR THAT EVERY DAY IN SOUTH TAMPA.
11:52:27 WHY CAN'T YOU FIX OUR POTHOLES, GET THE MONEY OUT OF THE
11:52:31 DOWNTOWN CRA OR OTHER PLACES.
11:52:32 AND WE CAN'T DO THAT.
11:52:34 I THINK WE OUGHT TO SPEND IT ON PLACES THAT ARE
11:52:38 ACCESSIBLE BY EVERYBODY THROUGHOUT THE CITY SO THAT THEY
11:52:40 HAVE EQUAL AS ACCESS, AND THINGS THAT ARE WELL RUN.
11:52:46 THANK YOU.
11:52:47 ANYTHING ELSE?
11:52:47 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES.
11:52:48 BECAUSE I AM APPLES THE LAST SPEAKER, I ALWAYS POSTPONE
11:52:52 MY INFORMATION FOR YOU.
11:52:54 SO I NEED TO GET CAUGHT UP THIS MONTH.
11:52:57 SO I JUST WANTED TO UPDATE YOU.
11:52:58 WE DID DO THE APPARENTLY TRAINING.
11:53:01 WE CONDUCTED THREE SESSIONS.
11:53:03 WE HAD OVER 50 CAC MEMBERS ATTEND THOSE.
11:53:07 THE SESSIONS WERE RECORDED. SO IF ANY OF THE CAC MEMBERS
11:53:10 WHO COULD NOT ATTEND WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT, WE CAN PROVIDE
11:53:13 THAT TRAINING TO THEM.
11:53:14 AND IF ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE
11:53:17 LINK TO THAT VIDEO, IT'S ONLY AN HOUR AND A HALF, AND WE
11:53:20 WOULD MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO YOU ALSO.
11:53:24 WE'LL GET THAT TO YOU.
11:53:26 ALSO, BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK, AND I DON'T
11:53:28 KNOW WHAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD, WE HAVE BEEN
11:53:32 TALKING ON AND OFF FOR ABOUT FIVE OR SIX MONTHS NOW ABOUT
11:53:35 THE EAST TAMPA CAC MEMBERSHIP, AND THE NEXT COUPLE OF
11:53:39 WEEKS I WILL BE HOSTING A WORKSHOP WITH MUCH THE CAC AND
11:53:41 THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NEIGHBORHOODS TO TALK ABOUT
11:53:44 A PROPOSAL TO PHASE IN WITHOUT CURRENT CAC MEMBERS BUT
11:53:50 ALSO CREATING A MORE INCLUSIVE AND A FORMAL
11:53:53 REPRESENTATION BY THE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE CAC, BUT WE
11:53:56 WILL HAVE SOME OPENINGS OPEN FOR ELECTIONS DURING THIS
11:54:00 UPCOMING YEAR.
11:54:01 SO WE DID HAVE TO START THAT PROCESS.
11:54:03 THERE WILL BE 7 OPENINGS.
11:54:05 THAT'S FIVE CURRENT MEMBERS HAVE THE OPTION TO RUN FOR A
11:54:08 SECOND TERM.
11:54:09 WE WON'T KNOW YET FOR A FEW WEEKS HOW MANY OF THOSE WILL
11:54:12 ACTUALLY BE INTERESTED IN RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM, BUT
11:54:16 AT A MINIMUM WE WILL HAVE TWO VACANCIES THAT WE COULD
11:54:18 POTENTIALLY DEDICATE TO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION,ISM
11:54:22 LOOKING AT A PHASED-IN APPROACH.
11:54:24 AND WE WILL NOBODY BY THE END OF JULY THEN AND HAVE TO
11:54:28 HAVE ALL THIS WORKED OUT BEFORE WE GO TO THE ELECTION IN
11:54:30 SEPTEMBER.
11:54:31 IT HAS COME UP SEVERAL TIMES TODAY ABOUT OUR STAFFING.
11:54:34 ALL OUR CURRENT VACANCIES WILL BE FILLED BY JUNE.
11:54:37 AND SEVERAL NEW POSITIONS AND CRA BOARD MEMBERS TO OUR
11:54:41 MEETINGS HAVE BEEN ASKING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FUND THIS
11:54:43 AND THAT WE HIRE SOMEONE TO DO SOME OF THESE POSITIONS.
11:54:46 WE ARE LOOKING AT DOING THAT, INCLUDING FOR THE EAST
11:54:48 TAMPA SAP AND IMPLEMENTING THOSE INITIATIVES, AND THEY
11:54:52 WILL ALL BE CREATED IN THE FY 22 BUDGET AS PART OF THAT
11:54:56 BUDGET PROCESS.
11:54:57 BECAUSE ALL OF OUR SALARIES AND OUR POSITIONS ARE TIED TO
11:55:00 OUR SERVICES AGREEMENT, BETWEEN THE CRA BOARD, IT IS A
11:55:04 LITTLE BIT MORE OF A PRODUCTION FOR US TO EDIT AND AMEND
11:55:07 ALL THOSE DOCUMENTS, AND WE ARE GETTING TOWARDS THE END
11:55:10 OF THE FISCAL YEAR ANYWAY, SO WE WILL JUST INCORPORATE
11:55:14 THOSE REQUESTS INTO OUR BUDGET REQUESTS WHEN WE COME TO
11:55:18 YOU IN JULY AND AUGUST.
11:55:19 AND WE WILL MAKE SURE TO POINT OUT THOSE.
11:55:21 LASTLY, FOR OUR COMMUNICATIONS PERSON, WE HAVEN'T BEEN
11:55:25 WAITING FOR THAT PERSON TO COME ONLINE IN JUNE.
11:55:28 WE HAVE STARTED TALKING ALREADY ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN
11:55:33 SEEING.
11:55:33 WE NEED IN OUR CRAs, ONE OF OUR CRA STAFF HAS ALREADY
11:55:38 BEEN WORKING WITH THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT AND
11:55:40 THEIR NEW ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN FOR ADDRESSING
11:55:43 COMMUNICATION NEEDS ACROSS THE CITY INCLUDING THE CRAS.
11:55:46 WE HAVE STARTED TO OUTLINE IDENTIFIED POTENTIAL
11:55:49 STRATEGIES THAT WE WILL WANTS TO WORK ON.
11:55:51 SOME OF WHICH ARE REINSTATING THE CRA ANNUAL PROGRESS
11:55:54 REPORT.
11:55:54 NOT THE REPORT REQUIRED BY THE STATE, BUT AGAIN WE ARE
11:55:57 TALKING ABOUT DOING IN OUR PowerPoint NEXT MONTH IS TO
11:56:00 TRULY PUT OUT A LIST OF IN A LITTLE REPORT OF HERE IS
11:56:06 WHAT THE CRA HAS DONE IN THE PAST YEAR.
11:56:08 WE REALIZE THAT WE PUT TOGETHER ALL OF OUR FLYERS AND SO
11:56:12 FORTH, WE DON'T HAVE A LOGO FOR OUR CRA.
11:56:14 WE DON'T HAVE A DEPARTMENT LOGO.
11:56:15 WE DON'T HAVE A LOGO FOR THE AGENCY.
11:56:18 SEVERAL OF THE DIFFERENT CACs HAVE ADOPTED ONE OVER
11:56:21 TIME.
11:56:21 SO WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THAT.
11:56:23 WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF MEDIA THAT THE DIFFERENT CRAs ARE
11:56:26 USING DIFFERENT STANDARDS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION, SOCIAL
11:56:29 MEDIA AND DIFFERENT TYPE OF COMMUNITIES OUTREACH.
11:56:31 WE WOULD LIKE TO BRING ALL THE CRAs TO A MINIMUM
11:56:35 STANDARD OF OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATIONS.
11:56:37 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON RADIO PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN BE
11:56:40 PREPARED IN-HOUSE WHAT OUR STAFF RESPONSIBILITY IS, WHAT
11:56:43 WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE, HOW DO WE WORK WITH OUR CACs, THE
11:56:48 SUBCOMMITTEES AND DEVELOPING THE CONTENT OF TOPICS AND
11:56:51 DEVELOPING THE POTENTIAL GUEST LIST OF SPEAKERS THAT ARE
11:56:54 TALKING ABOUT OUR GRANTS AND PROGRAMS.
11:56:56 SO WE ARE WORKING ON ALL OF THAT EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T
11:56:58 HAVE THE T COMMUNICATIONS PERSON YET.
11:57:00 WITH THAT, I AM READY TO GO TO THE AGENDA.
11:57:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT THEY ARE DOING, TO CHIME IN ON,
11:57:12 TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET AND IS THE NEW POSITION, MS. VAN
11:57:16 LOAN USED TO BE MCDONAUGH RIGHT HAND PERSON DURING THAT
11:57:21 TIME.
11:57:21 SHE DOESN'T HAVE A RIGHT HAND PERSON THIS TIME.
11:57:24 SO I ASKED HER TO THINK ABOUT, AND WANT TO LET THE BOARD
11:57:28 KNOW, THAT SHE'S OVERWORKED.
11:57:30 SHE'S DONE A LOT OF RFPs, HAS DONE A LOT OF -- SHE'S
11:57:34 OVERWORKED.
11:57:36 I'M THINKING IT MAY BE TIME TO GET HER AN ASSISTANT IN
11:57:40 HER OFFICE, BECAUSE SHE'S DOING A LOT.
11:57:45 THERE'S A LOT ON THE RADAR.
11:57:46 SHE MAY COME AND ASK FOR THAT POSITION.
11:57:48 I MAY MAKE A MOTION IN THE BUDGET TO GET HER AN
11:57:54 ASSISTANT.
11:57:55 EVERY CRA, DOING ALL THE RFPs, ALL THE EXTRA THINGS,
11:58:00 GOING TO MEETINGS.
11:58:01 I DON'T WANT TO BURN HER OUT BECAUSE SHE'S DOING A GREAT
11:58:04 JOB.
11:58:11 ALSO, MS. VAN LOAN, I THINK EAST TAMPA CRA, A LOT OF
11:58:18 ASSOCIATIONS, MOST ALL THE OTHER CRAs HAVE A PART-TIME.
11:58:25 A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAIN THAT THE MEETINGS ARE GOING
11:58:29 LONG.
11:58:29 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE TO GET BACK TO WORK OR MISS WORK FOR
11:58:31 THESE MEETINGS.
11:58:32 SO I WANT TO MAKE A SUGGESTION THAT YOU TALK TO THE BOARD
11:58:34 TO LOOK AT CHANGES IN THE HOURS OF THE EAST TAMPA CRA AND
11:58:40 UNDERSTAND MOST OF THEM, EITHER 5, 6:00, BUT THEY ARE
11:58:45 COMPLAINING NOW THAT HAVING WEEKS IN THE MORNING, THE
11:58:50 AFTERNOON, AND A LOT OF THEM ARE HAVING PROBLEMS SO WE
11:58:55 NEED TO LOOK AT CHANGING THE ACTUAL MEETING TIMES.
11:58:57 I THINK IT'S BETTER FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO
11:59:01 VOLUNTARY BECAUSE THEY WORK FOR THE CITIZENS.
11:59:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT.
11:59:07 EAST TAMPA IS THE ONLY CAC THAT MEETS IN THE MORNING.
11:59:10 THE OTHERS ARE 4 P.M. AND 5:30.
11:59:12 SO WE CAN CERTAINLY TALK WITH THEM ABOUT THAT, YES.
11:59:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE DID TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THE CURRENT
11:59:20 HOUSING SITUATION IN THE EAST TAMPA AREA.
11:59:22 TWO YEARS AGO, THERE WAS AN RFP PUT OUT FOR ABOUT 30
11:59:31 PROPERTIES FOR EAST TAMPA.
11:59:32 WE HAD A FEW FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITIES WHO DIDN'T AGREE
11:59:35 WITH TAMPA PROCESS, AND MS. FEELEY WAS THE CHAIRPERSON AT
11:59:38 THE TIME, AND DECIDED TO CANCEL THE RFP.
11:59:42 WE ARE GOING INTO OUR THIRD YEAR.
11:59:47 WE HAVE TO GET THOSE HOMES BUILT.
11:59:51 WE HAVE THE LOTS.
11:59:52 THEY NEED TO BE BUILT UPON.
11:59:54 SO I THINK MS. VAN LOAN IS ALREADY WORKING ON THAT, BUT
11:59:59 WE ALREADY HAVE THE RFP ALREADY THAT I BELIEVE WE CAN
12:00:03 UPDATE THAT RFP, MAKE SURE THAT IT IS INCLUSIVE, MAKING
12:00:08 SURE THAT WE HAVE MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO MAY BE ABLE TO BE
12:00:13 AWARDED A BID TO BUILD THOSE HOMES.
12:00:18 AND I THINK WE NEED TO GET THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO
12:00:21 SHOW THAT HOUSING IS AN ISSUE, AND NEED TO GET THAT BACK
12:00:24 ON TRACK.
12:00:25 I DON'T THINK THE PROCESS WAS FLAWED THE LAST TIME BUT WE
12:00:32 NEED TO GET THAT BACK ON TRACK NOW, GET THAT MOVING, SO
12:00:34 WE CAN GET THOSE LOTS BUILT UPON.
12:00:36 IT'S IMPORTANT.
12:00:37 SO IF YOU WORK ON THAT.
12:00:39 I WILL MAKE A MOTION, I WON'T MAKE A MOTION.
12:00:43 I KNOW YOU ARE WORKING ON THAT BEHIND THE SCENES.
12:00:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WILL DO.
12:00:49 ITEM NUMBER 7.
12:00:51 YBOR HAD AN OPENING ON THEIR CAC AND WE HAVE ONE
12:00:54 APPOINTMENT TO THEIR CAC.
12:00:55 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
12:01:00 SECOND BY MR. VIERA.
12:01:02 DO WE NEED TO DO ROLL CALL?
12:01:04 NO.
12:01:04 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:01:07 ANY OPPOSED?
12:01:08 MOTION APPROVED.
12:01:10 NEXT.
12:01:10 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 8 IS FOR EAST TAMPA.
12:01:13 IT IS A PROGRAM CHANGE OF $50,000 FOR THE YOUTH
12:01:17 LEADERSHIP PROGRAM THAT APPROVED LAST MONTH.
12:01:19 THIS IS THE MONEY TO FUND THE PROGRAM.
12:01:21 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
12:01:26 SECOND BY MR. VIERA.
12:01:27 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:01:30 AYE.
12:01:31 ANY OPPOSED?
12:01:31 MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
12:01:32 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 9 IS FOR THE JACKSON
12:01:36 STREET PARKING LOT.
12:01:37 THERE WAS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES WITH THAT PROPERTY,
12:01:40 AND WE WERE REQUIRED TO DO SOME FOLLOW-UP, MONITORING AND
12:01:44 TESTING, AND THIS IS JUST TO FUND THAT ENVIRONMENTAL
12:01:48 WORK, I BELIEVE ABOUT $84,000 SO THAT WE COULD HANDLE
12:01:51 THAT.
12:01:52 >> SO MOVED.
12:01:53 >> SECOND.
12:01:54 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
12:01:56 SECOND BY MR. VIERA.
12:01:57 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:01:58 AYE.
12:01:58 ANY OPPOSED?
12:01:59 MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
12:01:59 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NUMBER 10, I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING
12:02:04 CALLED A TINY HOME PROGRAM.
12:02:06 IN EAST TAMPA BACK IN FEBRUARY THE CAC VOTED TO TAKE THE
12:02:09 $500,000 THAT HAD BEEN REPROGRAMMED FROM THE INTEREST
12:02:13 MONEY TO A CANER HOME PROJECT, AND THE CONTAINER HOME
12:02:18 PROJECT RIGHT NOW, IT'S UNDER DISCUSSION, AND IT'S A
12:02:22 CONCEPT RIGHT NOW AT 2801 CAYUGA STREET, AND CITY COUNCIL
12:02:27 AND THE CITY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT MODES OF
12:02:30 CONSTRUCTION FOR HOUSING, AND ALTERNATE HOUSING
12:02:34 CONSTRUCTION OPTIONS, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF HAVING
12:02:36 CONTAINER HOMES.
12:02:37 THE CHALLENGE IS THAT MANY BANKS ARE NOT GENERALLY
12:02:41 INTERESTED IN PROVIDING MORTGAGES FOR NONTRADITIONAL HOME
12:02:44 CONSTRUCTION.
12:02:45 THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN IN DISCUSSION ON AN OFF SINCE 2018
12:02:50 WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CRA AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS, AND
12:02:53 RIGHT NOW THE CAC IS WORKING OUT SOME OF THE DETAILS TO
12:02:57 FINALIZE THE PROJECT.
12:02:58 THE PROJECT PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD PROPOSE A PROJECT FOR
12:03:01 THE RECENTLY HOMELESS SO THIS IS NOT ADDRESSING THE
12:03:04 CHRONIC HOMELESS.
12:03:05 WE BOW LOOK AT HOMELESS MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN OR YOUNG
12:03:09 ADULTS AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE, TO STABILIZE FAMILIES
12:03:12 AND BREAK THE HOMELESS CYCLE FOR THE YOUNG IN THEIR
12:03:16 LIFETIME SO THEY DO NOT GROW UP IN AN ENVIRONMENTS OF
12:03:19 REGULAR HOMELESSNESS.
12:03:20 THE 2801 OKAY AUGUST PROPERTY COULD ACCOMMODATE AT LEAST
12:03:26 3 CONTAINER HOMES FROM 89,000 TO 09,000 PER HOME, NOT
12:03:30 500,000 FOR ONE HOME.
12:03:32 THE HOMES WOULD BE RENT TO ONLY AS OPPOSED TO
12:03:34 TRANSITIONAL AND THE PROJECT WOULD INCLUDE PARTNERSHIPS
12:03:38 FOR WRAP AROUND SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE
12:03:41 IN THOSE HOMES AND STABILIZING THEIR LIVES AND EMPLOYMENT
12:03:44 OPPORTUNITIES ESPECIALLY WHERE THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ARE
12:03:46 INVOLVED.
12:03:47 AT THIS TIME, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ITEMS WITH THE
12:03:50 PROPOSAL THAT THEY ARE STILL HAMMERING OUT.
12:03:52 SO THE EAST TAMPA REQUESTED THAT WE POSTPONE AN ACTUAL
12:03:56 ACTION ON THIS UNTIL JUNE 10th BUT WE WANTED TO GIVE
12:03:59 YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD BE AND WHAT WHATS
12:04:02 COMING AND WHAT WILL BE ON THE AGENDA ON JUNE 10th.
12:04:05 SO WE ARE JUST ASKING THAT IT BE POSTPONED ONE MORE
12:04:08 MONTH.
12:04:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: QUESTION.
12:04:13 MS. VAN LOAN, WE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS, THE TINY
12:04:17 HOMES AND CONTAINER HOMES SITUATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN EAST
12:04:20 TAMPA.
12:04:22 I LIKE THE CAC BOARD TO LOOK AT MAYBE MANUFACTURED, THE
12:04:27 HOMES ARE WOOD, WOULD FIT IN PROBABLY BETTER IN THE
12:04:32 NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE ACTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE
12:04:35 NEIGHBORHOODS WON'T BE SO AGAINST CONTAINER HOMES OR TINY
12:04:38 HOMES.
12:04:42 REFERENCE TO THEIR PROPERTY SIZE.
12:04:44 TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, THE BANKS WILL NOT FINANCE THE
12:04:47 CONTAINER HOMES.
12:04:49 THEY WILL NOT.
12:04:50 BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FIND PEOPLE TO FIX THOSE THINGS.
12:04:53 THERE ARE A LOT OF CHALLENGES WITH THOSE.
12:04:54 TINY HOMES, I WILL BE HONEST WITH YOU, IF THERE'S A TRACT
12:05:00 OF LAND AND YOU HAVE A TINE HOME COMMUNITY, IT MIGHT BE A
12:05:03 GOOD CONCEPT.
12:05:04 BUT DON'T JUST PUT SMALL TINY HOMES MIXED INTO THE
12:05:07 RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY, WE ARE GOING TO GET SOME PUSHBACK
12:05:11 FROM A LOT OF PROPERTY OWNERS.
12:05:12 WE WANT TO HELP EVERYBODY.
12:05:14 BUT I LOVE THE CONCEPT OF THE HOMELESS, OR PREGNANT MOMS,
12:05:19 OR WHATEVER.
12:05:20 I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT MAYBE MANUFACTURED HOMES.
12:05:23 WE HAD A COUPLE HOUSES THAT BURNED, A COUPLE RESIDENTS
12:05:25 WERE FORCED OUT BECAUSE IT WAS BURNED, HOUSING WAS
12:05:30 SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THIS MANUFACTURING DEAL.
12:05:32 SOMETHING HAPPENED.
12:05:33 THEY ARE BACK ON TRACK TO GET THOSE HOMES BUILT.
12:05:36 I LIKE THE CAC TO MAYBE GET IN REFERENCE TO MAYBE
12:05:42 MANUFACTURED HOMES, BUT A LITTLE CHEAPER AS WELL, AND I
12:05:45 THINK IT WILL BRING A CONCEPT TO THE COMMUNITY VERSUS THE
12:05:48 TINY, TINY HOME CONCEPT.
12:05:50 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. DINGFELDER?
12:05:53 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN GUDES, A
12:05:57 LITTLE BIT OF EXPERIENCE IN REAL ESTATE, AND IT DOES
12:06:01 CONCERN ME.
12:06:02 AND YOU HAVE ZONING ISSUES, TOO.
12:06:05 YOU ARE GOING TO NEED -- SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE DO A PD
12:06:09 REZONING IF YOU ARE GOING TO CRAM A BUNCH OF SMALLER
12:06:11 HOUSES ON A SINGLE PARCEL.
12:06:14 BECAUSE I AM SURE THE CURRENT ZONING DOESN'T ACCOMMODATE
12:06:16 THAT.
12:06:18 SO MY BIGGER QUESTION IS, IS THIS ORLANDO -- IS THE CITY
12:06:31 GOING TO BE BUILDING THESE, THAT THE CITY IS GOING TO BE
12:06:33 RUNNING THESE AND OPERATING THESE?
12:06:35 OR WOULD WE BE USING NONPROFITS TO DO THAT?
12:06:39 WHAT'S THE THOUGHT PROCESS?
12:06:42 I DON'T KNOW THAT THE CITY WANTS TO BE GETTING INTO THAT
12:06:45 BUSINESS OF ACTUALLY BUILDING AND MANAGING, RUNNING,
12:06:49 OWNING THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES.
12:06:50 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE THAT THE
12:06:53 CRA WOULD HELP PUT UP THE FUNDING SO THAT THE HOUSES
12:06:56 COULD BE BUILT.
12:06:57 IT WOULD BE AN RFP WITH A GOAL OF USING, WE KNOW AGAIN
12:07:02 CHANGING THE TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION, BUT IT WOULD USE
12:07:05 MINORITY BUILDERS WHERE WE COULD TO HELP BUILD THEM AND
12:07:08 WE WOULD PARTNER.
12:07:09 THERE'S ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSIONS HOW OVER AT THE COUNTY
12:07:13 AND WITH SOME OF THE OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS WITHIN THE
12:07:15 AREA WHERE WE COULD PROVIDE WRAP AROUND SERVICES THROUGH
12:07:18 THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS, NOT THAT WE WOULD GET INTO
12:07:21 THAT BUSINESS OURSELVES.
12:07:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
12:07:25 I THINK I HAVE ALLUDED TO, BY COUNCILMAN GUDES, EVEN IN
12:07:30 JUNE I MIGHT BE VERY HESITANT TO VOTE FOR SORT OF A
12:07:34 BLANKET $500,000 AUTHORIZATION WITHOUT HAVING A LOT MORE
12:07:39 DETAILS HASHED OUT.
12:07:40 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THOSE DETAILS NEED TO BE AVAILABLE BY
12:07:44 AS EARLY AS A MONTH FROM NOW.
12:07:48 SO MAYBE AN AGENDA ITEM THAT JUST IS AN UPDATE THAT
12:07:53 DOESN'T HAVE A DOLLAR THAN TIED TO IT, I MIGHT HAVE MORE
12:07:58 SUPPORT.
12:07:58 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: TODAY I DON'T NEED A MOTION.
12:08:01 I JUST NEED YOU TO KNOW SINCE IT WAS LISTED UNDER
12:08:04 APPROVALS THAT WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR APPROVAL TODAY.
12:08:07 >>BILL CARLSON: OKAY, THANK YOU.
12:08:08 NEXT.
12:08:08 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NUMBER 11, YOU HAVE A COPY.
12:08:11 THESE ARE A MICRO GRANT FOR BUSINESSES.
12:08:14 THIS IS WHAT I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER THAT IS SORT OF A
12:08:17 FACADE GRANT WITH A LOT LESS PAPERWORK, A LOT LESS
12:08:21 CUMBERSOME FOR THE BUSINESS OWNERS AND ALLOWS THEM IF
12:08:25 THEY HAVE JUST SMALL PROJECTS, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE
12:08:28 NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP SPECIAL PROJECTS GRANTS THAT ALSO
12:08:30 NEEDED TO BE FUNDED.
12:08:32 I'M SORRY, I DON'T NEED THE PowerPoint.
12:08:35 THANK YOU.
12:08:36 SO THIS IS THE REPROGRAMMING OF MONEY TO FUND THE
12:08:40 PROGRAMS THAT WERE APPROVED.
12:08:41 >>BILL CARLSON: YOU NEED A MOTION?
12:08:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES PLEASE.
12:08:49 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY MANISCALCO, SECONDED BY VIERA.
12:08:53 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:08:54 MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
12:08:55 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: LASTLY NUMBER 13 WAS JUST A
12:08:58 QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT.
12:08:59 YOU HAVE THAT AND I BELIEVE IT'S JUST A RECEIVE AND FILE
12:09:01 UNLESS ANYONE HAS QUESTIONS.
12:09:04 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE REPORT BY
12:09:06 MR. MANISCALCO, SECOND BY MR. VIERA.
12:09:08 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:09:10 ANY OPPOSED?
12:09:11 MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
12:09:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN, I THINK WE HAVE A
12:09:15 MEMORANDUM FOR ACTION FROM MR. MORRIS MASSEY?
12:09:19 >>BILL CARLSON: MORRIS, IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED
12:09:24 TO DO?
12:09:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IT'S REGARDING THE COMMUNITY
12:09:27 BENEFITS AGREEMENT.
12:09:28 >> RIGHT.
12:09:30 >>BILL CARLSON: OKAY, I HAVE THAT.
12:09:31 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU ALL PASS A MOTION FOR THE
12:09:45 AGREEMENT POLICY
12:09:56 >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:09:57 SECOND BY MEMBER VIERA.
12:10:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: QUESTION ON THE MOTION.
12:10:02 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. DINGFELDER.
12:10:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
12:10:07 IS THIS AN ITEM THAT WAS ON THE AGENDA OR IS THIS A
12:10:10 WALK-ON?
12:10:13 >>BILL CARLSON: IT'S AN ADDENDUM TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA
12:10:16 WAS APPROVED THIS MORNING.
12:10:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
12:10:25 I CAN'T VOTE ON SOMETHING WITHOUT HAVING SEEN THE ACTUAL
12:10:30 TEXT OF WHAT WE ARE VOTING ON.
12:10:32 WAS IT IN THERE LAST NIGHT, MORRIS?
12:10:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES.
12:10:35 AND THE TEXT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
12:10:38 NO ONE EVER VOTED IT UP OR DOWN.
12:10:45 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ADOPTING IT A COMMUNITY BENEFITS
12:10:50 POLICY.
12:10:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: COMMUNITY BENEFITS POLICY.
12:10:53 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COMMUNITY BENEFITS POLICY.
12:11:00 WHY DON'T WE PUT IT ON THE AGENDA NEXT MONTH?
12:11:02 BRYAN WILL BE PREPARED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO YOU ALL
12:11:06 AND WE CAN VOTE IT UP OR DOWN THEN.
12:11:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THOUGHT WE VOTED ON IT.
12:11:18 >>BILL CARLSON: DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON IT NEXT TIME OR
12:11:22 JUST PUT IT THERE?
12:11:23 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE CAN DO IT.
12:11:24 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:11:28 PULL THAT VOTE BACK.
12:11:31 IT'S NOT RINGING A BELL FOR ME.
12:11:36 >>BILL CARLSON: I GUESS WE NEED MR. MANISCALCO TO
12:11:38 WITHDRAW YOUR MOTION.
12:11:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WITHDRAW IT.
12:11:41 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYBODY ELSE ON THE AGENDA? NEW
12:11:44 BUSINESS?
12:11:45 MR. VIERA?
12:11:48 >>LUIS VIERA: YOU SAID IT WAS YOUR FIRST MEETING.
12:11:51 YOU DID A GOOD MEETING.
12:11:52 I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF PUSHING SO YOU DID VERY WELL.
12:11:55 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. MANISCALCO?
12:11:59 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, SIR.
12:12:00 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. DINGFELDER?
12:12:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M GOOD.
12:12:05 SEE YOU ALL TONIGHT.
12:12:05 >>BILL CARLSON: ANYBODY WANT TO MOVE TO RECEIVE AND
12:12:08 FILE?
12:12:09 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:12:10 OKAY.
12:12:10 MEETING ADJOURNED.
12:12:11 THANK YOU ALL.
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