CITY OF TAMPA - CRA MEETING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2021
9:00 A.M.
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09:00:44 [GAVEL SOUNDING]
09:00:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS JOSEPH CITRO,
09:00:50 AND I AM CHAIR OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
09:00:55 FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, ON THIS DATE OF OCTOBER
09:01:02 14, 2021.
09:01:05 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, GIVE THE INVOCATION.
09:01:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:01:07 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:01:11 THIS MORNING, I AM PLEASED TO INTRODUCE PASTOR JOE
09:01:12 HARRIS.
09:01:17 PASTOR JOE IS THE SENIOR PASTOR FOR CALVARY CHAPEL OF
09:01:21 SOUTH TAMPA, AND THEY MEET AT THE FRIDAY MORNING RIGHT
09:01:24 NEXT TO GORRIE ELEMENTARY.
09:01:29 PASTOR JOEL HAS SERVING THERE FOR SEVEN YEARS AND GOT
09:01:33 MASTER'S DEGREE FROM LIBERTY UNIVERSITY IN LYNCHBURG,
09:01:33 VIRGINIA.
09:01:36 HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 19 YEARS AND HAVE
09:01:38 TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS.
09:01:42 HE LOVES THE CITY OF TAMPA AND LOVES TO BE HERE AND
09:01:46 GLAD TO SEE THE CITY PROSPER IN SO MANY WAYS AND WILL
09:01:49 LEAD US IN THE INVOCATION.
09:01:51 >>JOSEPH CITRO: PLEASE STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF
09:01:53 ALLEGIANCE AFTERWARDS.
09:01:55 >> LET'S ALL PRAY TOGETHER.
09:01:58 GOD, THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR
09:02:00 GOODNESS AND BLESSING AND HOW YOU WATCH OVER OUR LIVES
09:02:02 IN THE CITY.
09:02:05 WE THANK YOU, GOD, HOW YOU HAVE BLESSED OUR CITY IN SO
09:02:08 MANY WAYS FROM OUR SPORTS TEAMS TO THE CULTURE TO THE
09:02:10 ECONOMY.
09:02:12 WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR YOUR BLESSING.
09:02:15 WE PRAY FOR PROTECTION OVER THOSE SERVING AS FIRST
09:02:17 RESPOND ERRS AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
09:02:20 WE PRAY FOR AN END TO THIS PANDEMIC AND LESS VIOLENCE
09:02:22 AND CRIME IN OUR SCHOOLS AND STREETS.
09:02:26 TODAY, LORD, WE ASK YOU FOR WISDOM FOR THOSE IN
09:02:26 LEADERSHIP.
09:02:33 WE PRAY FOR UNITY AND GUIDANCE.
09:02:35 MAY THE DECISIONS WE MAKE TODAY HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT
09:02:39 ON THE FUTURE AND BENEFIT FOR THOSE IN THE CITY.
09:02:42 WE PRAY FOR WISDOM TO MAKE OUR CITY MORE PROSPEROUS,
09:02:45 SUCCESSFUL AND SAFER THAN EVER, AND GOD, WE PRAY THAT
09:02:49 YOU CONTINUE TO BLESS OUR CITY AND OUR NATION.
09:02:52 WE LOVE YOU GOD AND WE NEED YOUR WISDOM AND GUIDANCE.
09:02:55 I PRAY THAT YOU GIVE PEACE AND JOY TO ALL THOSE HERE
09:02:58 TODAY IN JESUS'S NAME, AMEN.
09:03:10 [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:03:13 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:03:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:03:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:03:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:03:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:03:24 >>CLERK: VIERA?
09:03:24 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:03:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:03:29 MR. MASSEY, IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE.
09:03:31 >>MORRIS MASSEY: GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIR.
09:03:33 I UNDERSTAND THERE MAY BE CHANGES TO THE AGENDA, AND
09:03:36 YOU MAY WANT TO ADDRESS THAT BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT
09:03:38 REGARDING POSSIBLE RECESS.
09:03:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WAS GOING TO LET YOU GIVE THE LEGAL
09:03:43 THINGS WE GIVE OUT OF THE WAY.
09:03:44 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN DO THAT FIRST, AND I WILL
09:03:46 GIVE THE LEGAL PARAMETERS.
09:03:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:03:52 FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, MISS PAT FRANK WILL BE HONORED
09:03:56 TODAY AT THE -- AT THE COURTHOUSE AT 10:00 FOR HER
09:03:58 WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS NOT ONLY IN POLITICS BUT IN HER
09:04:01 COMMUNITY SERVICE.
09:04:06 I WAS WONDERING IF WE ALL AS A GROUP WANT TO ATTEND
09:04:07 THAT CEREMONY.
09:04:12 IF SO, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION --
09:04:14 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:04:15 >> SECOND.
09:04:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND RETURN AT 11:00.
09:04:20 AND A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:04:23 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:04:24 ALL IN FAVOR.
09:04:25 ANY OPPOSED?
09:04:28 THANK YOU, MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS FOR THAT.
09:04:31 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT, I WANT TO GO
09:04:34 THROUGH THE LEGAL DIRECTION REGARDING PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:04:36 THIS MEETING OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY
09:04:38 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IS BEING CONDUCTED WITH A LIVE
09:04:42 IN-PERSON QUORUM OF THE CRA BOARD PRESENT IN CITY
09:04:43 COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
09:04:48 HOWEVER, IN LIFE THE CONTINUED COVID-19 ISSUED HEALTH
09:04:50 STANDARDS AND GUIDANCE IN EFFECT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
09:04:57 ARE ENCOURAGED AND ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY
09:04:59 THROUGH COMMUNITY MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.
09:05:02 THE PUBLIC AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA ARE ABLE
09:05:05 TO WATCH, LISTEN OR VIEW THIS MEETING ON CABLE TV,
09:05:10 SPECTRUM CHANNEL 640 AND FRONTIER CHANNEL 15 OR THE
09:05:13 INTERNET TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:05:17 VARIOUS METHODS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO PARTICIPATE IN
09:05:20 THIS MEETING INCLUDING SENDING WRITTEN COMMENTS BY THE
09:05:25 INTERNET OR E-MAIL OR U.S. MAIL TO THE CRA SECRETARY.
09:05:29 THEY MAY AS NOTED -- SPEAK REMOTELY DURING PUBLIC
09:05:32 COMMENT WITH THE USE OF CMT AS LONG AS THEY REGISTERED
09:05:35 IN ADVANCE OF THIS MEETING AND MAY PARTICIPATE BY USING
09:05:39 THE COMMUNITY MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE AT OLD CITY
09:05:40 HALL ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
09:05:44 IF THEY DO SO, USE OF MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
09:05:47 INSIDE THE BUILDING ARE ENCOURAGED.
09:05:50 BEFORE MOVING INTO PUBLIC COMMENT, I WOULD LIKE A
09:05:53 MOTION FROM THE BOARD TO WAIVE YOUR STANDARD RULES AND
09:05:55 PROCEED WITH THE RULES --
09:05:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:05:58 >> SECOND.
09:06:00 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:05 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:06:07 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
09:06:08 OPPOSED.
09:06:08 MOTION PASSES.
09:06:11 >>MORRIS MASSEY: OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, SIR.
09:06:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MAY WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:06:17 COMMISSIONER COHEN.
09:06:20 >> GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE BOARD MEMBERS.
09:06:22 IT IS REALLY WONDERFUL TO BE WITH YOU THIS MORNING.
09:06:24 MY NAME IS HARRY COHEN.
09:06:26 I AM ON THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AND
09:06:31 PREVIOUSLY I SERVED ON THIS BODY FOR EIGHT YEARS, SEVEN
09:06:34 OF WHICH I SERVED AS THIS BOARD'S DESIGNATED
09:06:38 REPRESENTATIVE ON THE STRAZ CENTER BOARD OF TRUSTEES
09:06:42 AND I AM NOW THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
09:06:43 REPRESENTATIVE ON THAT BOARD.
09:06:47 I WANTED TO COME TO THIS MORNING AND LEND MY VOICE IN
09:06:51 SUPPORT OF WHAT YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DO IN SUPPORT OF
09:06:53 THE STRAZ CENTER'S MASTER PLAN.
09:06:56 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY
09:07:01 EARLIER THIS YEAR TO PUT $2.5 MILLION FROM THIS FISCAL
09:07:07 YEAR'S BUDGET INTO THE STRAZ'S MASTER PLAN AS A DOWN
09:07:11 PAYMENT ON THE PROJECT AND A SIGN OF OUR SUPPORT FOR
09:07:13 THIS PROJECT.
09:07:16 IT IS CRITICALLY NORTHERN WE SUPPORT THE ARTS IN OUR
09:07:19 COMMUNITY BECAUSE THE STRAZ CENTER IS NOT JUST AN ASSET
09:07:20 TO THE CITY.
09:07:23 IT'S AN ASSET TO THE COUNTY AND TO THE REGION PROVIDING
09:07:28 COUNTLESS HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION TO
09:07:30 CITIZENS FROM ALL OVER.
09:07:33 IT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE STRAZ
09:07:37 IS AN ECONOMIC ENGINE TO THE REGION.
09:07:40 THEY FILL HOTEL ROOMS, THEY FILL RESTAURANTS, BUT MOST
09:07:43 OF ALL, THEY BRING JOY TO OUR COMMUNITY.
09:07:45 AND I WANTED TO LEND MY VOICE THIS MORNING IN SUPPORT
09:07:48 OF THIS VERY WORTHY PROJECT.
09:07:50 AND LET YOU KNOW THAT I AM GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN
09:07:54 TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
09:07:56 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY IS YOUR PARTNER IN THIS GOING
09:07:57 FORWARD.
09:07:59 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS TIME TO SPEAK.
09:08:01 I APPRECIATE IT.
09:08:02 THANK YOU.
09:08:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONER.
09:08:06 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:08:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. COHEN?
09:08:10 >> YES -- YES, SORRY.
09:08:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WANTED TO THANK YOU NOT ONLY
09:08:17 COMING DOWN THE STREET AND INFORMING US OF YOUR
09:08:21 POSITION AND THE COUNTY AGENCIES ACTION BUT ALSO OF ALL
09:08:23 YOUR HARD AND GOOD WORK THEIR DOING AT THE COUNTY
09:08:24 COMMISSION.
09:08:26 IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THE
09:08:30 GOOD WORK YOU DID HERE AT CITY COUNCIL AND THE CRA, AND
09:08:33 WE KNOW YOU ARE CONTINUING THE SAME GOOD WORK UP THE
09:08:34 STREET.
09:08:36 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE.
09:08:41 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:08:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CARLSON.
09:08:45 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE CITY
09:08:49 COUNCIL AND OF THE CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS.
09:08:51 THERE WERE QUESTIONS WHAT THE COUNTY WILL PUT IN.
09:08:55 YOU SAID $2.5 MILLION AS A DOWNPAYMENT.
09:08:57 IN THE PRIVATE CONVERSATION YOU WERE TRYING GET A
09:08:59 BIGGER NUMBER.
09:09:01 YOU CAN'T COMMIT TO THAT NUMBER, BUT MAKE IT CLEAR THAT
09:09:04 YOU ARE LOOKING TO GET A NUMBER MUCH BIGGER THAN $2.5
09:09:05 MILLION.
09:09:07 >> THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WAY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
09:09:11 COMMISSIONERS WORK AND THE CITY COUNCIL, WE DON'T HAVE
09:09:14 THE ABILITY TO MAKE THE SAME TYPE OF MULTIYEAR
09:09:17 COMMITMENT THAT THE CRA DOES, PARTLY BECAUSE WE DON'T
09:09:19 OWN THE FACILITY, BUT ALSO JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT
09:09:24 OUR FINANCES WORK, BUT WHAT I CAN ASSURE YOU IS THAT I
09:09:27 WILL BE WORKING VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SUPPORT
09:09:31 THIS PROJECT WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDS GOING FORWARD.
09:09:35 AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS THAT -- THAT
09:09:38 FUNDING CAN MATERIALIZE.
09:09:41 AND WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT OUR BOARD IN PASSING
09:09:45 UNANIMOUSLY THE INITIAL APPROPRIATION, WHICH WAS JUST
09:09:49 FROM THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, SIGNALLED ITS SUPPORT THERE
09:09:50 ARE THIS PROJECT.
09:09:54 THIS IS A FACILITY THAT IS OVER 30 YEARS OLD AT THIS
09:09:55 POINT.
09:09:58 IT DOES NEED UPGRADES AND SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL IS
09:10:02 VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO INVEST IN, BOTH BECAUSE IT IS
09:10:06 AN ECONOMIC DRIVER, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT IS SUCH AN
09:10:10 IMPORTANT CULTURAL ASSET TO THE COUNTY AND TO THE
09:10:11 REGION.
09:10:14 I WILL DEFINITELY BE IN THE FIGHT FOR MORE FUNDS GOING
09:10:14 FORWARD.
09:10:16 AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO REPORT BACK TO YOU ON OUR
09:10:20 PROGRESS AS WE CONTINUE THAT WORK.
09:10:24 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:10:25 >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. CHAIR.
09:10:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:10:30 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR WHAT WAS SAID
09:10:33 AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONER COHEN FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
09:10:37 ONE OF MY FAVORITE ELECTED OFFICIAL.
09:10:42 A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU TWO, TWO MATCH YEARS.
09:10:45 THE DIFFERENCES WE MAY HAVE ON THIS ISSUE I KNOW YOU
09:10:47 ARE PASSIONATE AND THANK YOU FOR THE PUBLIC SUBSIDIARY
09:10:49 TO THE ARTS.
09:10:53 >> I PARTICULARLY BELIEVE IN PUBLIC SUBSIDIARIES FOR
09:10:56 ARTS WHEN THEY ARE SUCH AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ENGINE
09:10:58 FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY SERVE.
09:11:00 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:11:02 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, THANK YOU, SIR.
09:11:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:11:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: COMMISSIONER COHEN, THANK YOU FOR
09:11:10 COMING HERE THIS MORNING TO GIVE YOUR TAKE ON THE
09:11:11 ISSUE.
09:11:13 I AM GLAD YOU SAID WHAT YOU SAID, BECAUSE THOSE WERE
09:11:16 SOME OF MY CONCERNS HOW MUCH WAS THE COUNTY PUTTING IN.
09:11:21 BECAUSE THIS IS A BIG DRAW THAT OUR CRA IS PUTTING IN
09:11:22 AND CAC.
09:11:25 THE CAC HAS MADE THEIR DECISION HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THE
09:11:26 PROJECT.
09:11:28 I WILL TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION THIS MORNING.
09:11:30 BUT I AM GLAD YOU ARE ABLE TO TELL US THAT THE COUNTY
09:11:32 IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THE COMMITMENTS TO PUT
09:11:35 THIS MONEY TOWARD THIS CULTURAL ASSET, BECAUSE WHAT
09:11:38 THEY ARE ASKING OUR CRA FOR IS A LOT OF CASH.
09:11:41 SO -- BUT I THANK YOU FOR COME THIS MORNING AND TELLING
09:11:42 US THAT.
09:11:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:11:46 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. COHEN.
09:11:49 A PLEASURE KNOWING YOU AND SPENT EIGHT YEARS WITH YOU
09:11:51 AND I LEARNED A LOT FROM YOU.
09:11:53 YOU ARE VERY FORWARD AND YOU SAY THE RIGHT THINGS.
09:11:54 YOU SAY WHAT YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEART.
09:11:57 AND A LOT OF US THAT GET ELECTED SOMETIMES STRAY AWAY
09:11:58 FROM THAT.
09:12:02 I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS BOARD OR YOUR BOARD, BUT IN
09:12:03 GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL.
09:12:04 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ARTS.
09:12:07 THESE ARE PUBLICLY -- LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN, THESE ARE
09:12:09 PUBLICLY OWNED BUILDINGS.
09:12:12 THIS, THE CONVENTION CENTER AND YOUR PARTICIPATION IN
09:12:14 BOTH OF THESE THINGS THROUGH YOUR EFFORTS ON THE COUNTY
09:12:18 COMMISSION ARE TO BE -- THANK YOU, AGAIN.
09:12:21 WHEN WE HAD A CONVENTION CENTER DOWNTOWN, GUESS WHAT
09:12:23 WAS LACKING?
09:12:24 A CONVENTION HOTEL.
09:12:28 WHEN WE -- WITH YOUR EFFORTS AND OTHERS, THESE THINGS
09:12:38 BECAME A PARTAY LIKE THE -- LOTTO ROLL OVER IN VALUE.
09:12:41 AS SOON AS WE PUT ONE HOTEL IN THROUGH SUBSIDIES OF
09:12:43 SOME SORT, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
09:12:47 ANOTHER ONE CAME IN WITH NO SUBSIDIARIES.
09:12:49 ANOTHER ONE CAME IN AND ADEQUATE ROOM TO HAVE A LARGER
09:12:52 CONVENTION WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY --
09:12:54 AND EVEN A FIVE-STAR HOTEL NOW.
09:12:58 SO THINGS STARTED SLOW, BUT SOMEHOW WE GOT HERE.
09:13:03 AND IT HAS BEEN A HARDSHIP BUT A WORTHY -- NOTHING THAT
09:13:06 COMES EASY IS WORTH IT.
09:13:09 YOU HAVE TO WORK TO STRUGGLE TO GET WHERE YOU ARE AT.
09:13:10 AND I MEAN INCLUDING GOVERNMENT.
09:13:15 INCLUDING THE EMPLOYEES ON OR OFF THIS DAIS.
09:13:16 ON OR OFF IN THE WORLD.
09:13:19 YOU HAVE TO GO OUT AND SCRATCH TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN
09:13:21 AND THINGS HAVE HAPPENED BECAUSE INDIVIDUALS LIKE
09:13:22 YOURSELF BEING IN GOVERNMENT.
09:13:26 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR
09:13:27 YEARS OF SERVICE.
09:13:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:13:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COMMISSIONER COHEN, YOU ARE ONE OF
09:13:34 MY FAVORITE HUMAN BEINGS, AND I LOVE YOU LIKE THE
09:13:34 BROTHER.
09:13:37 AND I HAD THE PLEASURE AND HONOR TO SERVE WITH YOU FOUR
09:13:40 YEARS ON CITY COUNCIL, AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR HARD WORK,
09:13:43 YOUR PASSION, YOUR DEDICATION HERE AT THE CITY AND NOW
09:13:44 AT THE COUNTY LEVEL.
09:13:47 I APPRECIATE YOU COMING TODAY AND GIVING US A FEW MORE
09:13:50 DETAILS WITH REGARDS TO THE COUNTY'S COMMITMENT.
09:13:52 I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE
09:13:55 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STRAZ CENTER, THE ECONOMIC IMPACT
09:14:00 TO THIS COMMUNITY WHICH YOU REALLY CAN'T PUT A DOLLAR
09:14:01 AMOUNT ON.
09:14:03 THE ARTS ARE, YOU COULD SAY PRICELESS BECAUSE OF WHAT
09:14:07 IT ATTRACTS TO THE CITY, WHAT IT DOES FOR THE CITY.
09:14:08 HOW TO PROMOTES THE CITY.
09:14:10 SO IT IS A WIN-WIN.
09:14:14 AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS KIND OF INVESTMENT,
09:14:16 ALTHOUGH LARGE, IS NOBLE.
09:14:17 AND IT IS WORTH IT.
09:14:20 WE SEE EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING DOWNTOWN.
09:14:24 WE SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING NEXT DOOR AT THE MUSEUM OF
09:14:24 ART.
09:14:31 SO THIS IS JUST AN INCREASED INVESTMENT IN OUR ARTS
09:14:32 COMMUNITY WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT TO US.
09:14:33 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:14:37 >> THANK YOU, ALL, FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND I APPRECIATE
09:14:38 IT.
09:14:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.
09:14:59 MISS VAN LOAN.
09:15:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, CHAIR AND CRA BOARD
09:15:03 MEMBERS.
09:15:05 WELCOME TO THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY.
09:15:07 THE FIRST ITEMS ON THE AGENDA --
09:15:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: DO WE HAVE -- WE HAVE NO MORE SPEAKERS
09:15:12 DOWNSTAIRS?
09:15:18 WE HAVE ONE THAT IS -- HAS REGISTERED TO CALL IN.
09:15:20 >> GOOD MORNING, SIR.
09:15:22 WE HAVE MICHAEL RANDOLPH ON THE LINE.
09:15:25 MR. RANDOLPH, IF YOU HEAR ME, PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.
09:15:27 YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
09:15:29 >> HELLO?
09:15:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HELLO, GO AHEAD.
09:15:34 GO AHEAD, SIR.
09:15:35 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:15:38 THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE
09:15:40 THE CRA COMMITTEE.
09:15:43 I AM GOING TO START WITH TWO UPDATES.
09:15:47 ONE UPDATE FOR THE GENERAL CRA AND SPECIFICALLY FOR THE
09:15:48 WEST TAMPA CRA.
09:15:53 AS YOU KNOW, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING AT THE
09:15:57 CURRENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES RELATED TO CRA THAT WAS
09:15:59 CREATED DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
09:16:02 THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE POLICY TO CHANGE IT TO REFLECT
09:16:09 MORE PEOPLE, PROGRAMS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE OF WEST
09:16:13 TAMPA CAC AND THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY COMMITTEE -- I AM
09:16:16 SORRY THE WEST TAMPA -- THE WEST TAMPA CRA.
09:16:20 SO OUR GOAL WITH THE COMMITTEE IS TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC
09:16:24 GROWTH, PUBLIC SECTOR AND JOB CREATION.
09:16:27 THE FIRST THING THAT WE HAVE THAT WILL BE ROLLED OUT IS
09:16:33 THE WEST TAMPA CDC TECHNOLOGY JOB CREATION CENTER.
09:16:37 PART OF THE PROJECT THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
09:16:41 OUR ROLE IN THAT PROJECT IS TO CURATE BUSINESS
09:16:42 OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS.
09:16:45 NOW SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING OUT THIS
09:16:47 PARTICULAR CREATION IS WHAT WE CALL OUR "TECHNOLOGY
09:16:48 CENTER."
09:16:53 AS YOU GENTLEMEN KNOW, MOST JOBS ARE GOING AWAY TO 5G.
09:16:58 THOSE WORKING NEXT, THOSE JOBS ARE BEING TAKEN OVER BY
09:17:00 -- BY MACHINES.
09:17:04 SO OUR FOCUS IS, HOW DO WE CREATE NEW JOBS IN
09:17:04 TECHNOLOGY?
09:17:07 THAT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THE TECHNOLOGY CENTER
09:17:12 PROVIDING RESIDENTS WITH PLANNING AND HOW TO CODE, HOW
09:17:16 TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ETC.
09:17:19 THE OTHER PART OF THAT IS THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
09:17:22 CENTER THAT WE ARE GOING TO CURATE.
09:17:25 WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS IS IT IS GOING TO
09:17:29 FOCUS ON GIVING RESIDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO START THEIR
09:17:29 OWN BUSINESS.
09:17:32 WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THAT IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO
09:17:37 FOCUS ON PEOPLE THAT ARE HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING
09:17:38 INTO THE MARKET.
09:17:41 THEY MAY HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD, DISABILITIES.
09:17:43 WE WILL WORK WITH THAT INDIVIDUAL TO START THEIR OWN
09:17:46 BUSINESS AND FOCUS ON FEMALES BECAUSE THEY LOST THE
09:17:47 MOST IN THIS MARKET.
09:17:50 AND WE ARE GOING TO WORK WITH THEM IN TERMS OF STARTING
09:17:53 A HOME FITNESS.
09:17:56 THE INITIATIVE THAT IS COMING OUT OF THIS IS THE
09:18:01 HEALTHY COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL -- SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:18:05 THE INITIATIVE TO HELP WAS FOR PEOPLE FROM BIRTH TO
09:18:06 DEATH.
09:18:09 AND THEN FINALLY, THE LAST PART IS WORKING WITH THOSE
09:18:13 INDIVIDUALS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS THAT GET THEM UP TO
09:18:22 SPEED IN ORDER TO BE PART OF SOCIETY AGAIN.
09:18:24 I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY
09:18:24 TO SPEAK.
09:18:28 AND AS ALWAYS, FOR THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING TO ME, THIS
09:18:29 IS YOUR ELECTED BODY.
09:18:33 YOU NEED TO COME OUT AND SPEAK.
09:18:34 AND SHARE YOUR VOICE WITH THEM.
09:18:35 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:18:36 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
09:18:41 ON THAT NOTE, QUICKLY, IF I -- I SAW COUNCILMAN
09:18:45 DINGFELDER TODAY AT THE ROME YARD PRESENTATION.
09:18:50 IT LOOKS AS IF IT IS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
09:18:58 DEVELOPMENT OUT THERE WITH ALL SORTS OF LEVELS OF
09:19:01 HOUSING, RETAIL, GROCERY AND WHATNOT.
09:19:02 DID YOU GO ALSO?
09:19:03 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
09:19:07 YES, TIM, WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER DOWNSTAIRS?
09:19:08 >> YES, WE DO.
09:19:33 ONE SPEAKER JUST CAME IN.
09:19:36 >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:19:40 HAD TO WEAR THE STAR WARS SHIRT.
09:19:42 THEY SAID A MAN WENT INTO SPACE YESTERDAY SPENDING A
09:19:44 LOT OF THE PUBLIC'S MONEY.
09:19:46 A LOT OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY.
09:19:50 PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING IN EARTH AND PLAYING SPACE GAMES.
09:19:55 $250,000 A TRIP, $50 MILLION A TRIP, PEOPLE BACK ON
09:19:56 EARTH SUFFERING.
09:19:59 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, AND I HAVE TO SAY, POOR
09:20:00 LEADERSHIP.
09:20:02 I WANT TO BRING SOMETHING TO THE PEOPLE'S ATTENTION
09:20:07 WHICH IS THE FORCED RESIGNATION OF JON GRUDEN.
09:20:10 AND IT IS INTERESTING THAT A PERSON CAN BE FORCED TO
09:20:14 RESIGN OR RETIRE OR WHATEVER THEY WANT TO CALL IT FOR
09:20:16 HIS SPEECH, BUT YOU HAVE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE.
09:20:20 YOU GOT JUDGES RIGHT HERE THAT ARE SENDING AFRICANS FOR
09:20:24 PRISON FOR LIFE FOR MARIJUANA CHARGES AND OTHER
09:20:26 NONSENSE CHARGES.
09:20:30 AND THEY ARE WALKING AROUND LIKE -- JUST -- LIKE THEY
09:20:33 HAVE SOME SORT OF IMMUNITY AND SOME SORT.
09:20:35 SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THAT SYSTEM.
09:20:37 SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY WRONG ABOUT THAT
09:20:38 SYSTEM.
09:20:41 AND THE WAY THAT THE -- THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THEY
09:20:46 ARE TAKING JON GRUDEN'S STUFF DOWN, BUT CITY COUNCIL
09:20:51 ALL THESE YEARS SINCE 1851, 26% OR MORE OF THIS
09:20:55 POPULATION ANY KIND OF JUSTICE, NO REPARATIONS FROM THE
09:20:55 CITY.
09:20:58 SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THAT SYSTEM.
09:21:00 SOMETHING WRONG THE WAY AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN
09:21:03 THIS CITY AND THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR TREATING US
09:21:06 RIGHT TREATS US WRONG AND NOTHING HAPPENS ABOUT IT.
09:21:12 BUT SOMEONE CAN GET IN TROUBLE FOR SPEECH OF HOW SO
09:21:15 EVER THEY TALK IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR HOME AND
09:21:16 WHATSOEVER.
09:21:20 AND WHITE PEOPLE CAN MAKE TRILLION DOLLARS OF AFRICAN,
09:21:23 WHATEVER THIS, BE THIS, BE THAT.
09:21:25 AND NO CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM ON THAT.
09:21:27 IT IS A TRICK TO THAT SYSTEM.
09:21:30 IT IS A DEFINITELY TRICK TO THAT SYSTEM.
09:21:35 A TRICK TO THE SYSTEM WHEN THEY ARE -- TELLING US THEY
09:21:40 ARE BRINGING BUSINESS TO WEST TAMPA AND GENTRIFICATIONS
09:21:41 AND RUNNING AFRICANS OUTS.
09:21:42 A TRICK TO THAT SYSTEM.
09:21:44 PEOPLE ARE TO WAKE UP TO THAT.
09:21:45 WE HAVE TO WAKE UP TO THAT.
09:21:47 WE HAVE TO EXPECT MORE.
09:21:49 WE HAVE TO EXPECT MORE AND GET MORE FROM OUR
09:21:52 POLITICIANS, ARE OUR ELECTED BODIES AND ELECTED
09:21:54 REPRESENTATIVES.
09:21:56 WE HAVE TO EXPECT MORE AND GET MORE.
09:21:59 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, YOU CAN'T FIX EVERYTHING IN
09:22:02 ONE DAY.
09:22:05 BUT SOME THINGS GOT TO GET FIXED RIGHT AWAY.
09:22:09 AFRICAN PEOPLE CAN'T GET THIS TREATMENT AND THINK IT
09:22:10 CAN BE CONTINUED.
09:22:12 NO, THAT HAS TO CHANGE.
09:22:13 THANK YOU.
09:22:23 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:22:30 >> NO MORE SPEAKERS, SIR.
09:22:33 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY CHANGES
09:22:34 TO OUR AGENDA?
09:22:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, SIR.
09:22:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, PLEASE PROCEED.
09:22:39 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS A
09:22:42 RESOLUTION BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
09:22:48 BOARD AND THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, INC. FOR A
09:22:49 CONSTRUCTION AND FUNDING AGREEMENT.
09:22:54 FOR THIS ITEM I HAVE MISS JUDY LISI, THE CEO AND
09:22:59 PRESIDENT OF THE STRAZ FORMING ARTS, INC. FOUNDATION
09:23:00 AND THE NONPROFIT.
09:23:06 WE HAVE DAVID SCHER, THE BOARD MEMBER AND MISS DONNA
09:23:10 MCBRIDE AND JULIE BRITTON, AND I WILL BRING THEM UP AT
09:23:18 THIS TIME TO MAKE A FEW BRIEF REMARKS.
09:23:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MISS LISI.
09:23:21 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:23:23 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE.
09:23:28 I AM JUDY LISI, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF OUR BEAUTIFUL
09:23:31 STRAZ CENTER AND AS MICHELLE SAID WITH ME IS DAVID
09:23:36 SCHER, THE CHAIRMAN OF OUR MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE, DONNA
09:23:40 MCBRIDE AND JULIE BRITTON.
09:23:43 AND VIRTUALLY ARE BILL WEST, THE CHAIRMAN OF OUR BOARD
09:23:49 AND CHUCK SYKES, CHAIRMAN OF OUR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN.
09:23:53 TODAY I WILL GIVE A SHORT SUMMARY OF A VERY LARGE PLAN
09:23:58 AND JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT FOR THOSE
09:23:59 WATCHING AS WELL.
09:24:03 AS YOU KNOW, PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IS A PUBLIC
09:24:06 FACILITY OWNED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA AND MANAGED BY OUR
09:24:13 NOT-FOR-PROFIT, WHICH HAS MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE
09:24:14 CITY.
09:24:17 THIS BEAUTIFUL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OPENED IN 1987.
09:24:19 IT IS NOW 35 YEARS OLD.
09:24:24 WE WELCOMED MORE THAN 20 MILLION PEOPLE INTO OUR SIX
09:24:26 THEATRES AND OUR CONSERVATORY.
09:24:29 AND WE HAVE PARTNERSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE -- 50
09:24:31 PARTNERSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
09:24:34 THIS IS THE FIRST MASTER PLAN IN THAT TIME.
09:24:37 AND IT IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE NECESSARY MAJOR
09:24:40 IMPROVEMENTS AND EXPANSION FOR THE FUTURE.
09:24:44 THIS PLAN IS TOTALLY ALIGNED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA'S
09:24:45 VISION FOR THE FUTURE.
09:24:50 THE TOTAL CAPITAL PROJECT FOR THE PUBLICLY OWNED
09:24:52 FACILITY IS $80 MILLION.
09:24:56 AND THE PROJECT IS IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ALL CRA
09:25:01 CRITERIA AND THE CRA FUNDS OF $25 MILLION WHICH YOU
09:25:05 WILL VOTE ON TODAY SUPPORT THE ENTIRE PUBLIC FACILITY.
09:25:07 IT ALL GOES TO THE PUBLIC FACILITY.
09:25:12 THE STRAZ CENTER BOARD WILL MATCH ALL CRA FUNDS THROUGH
09:25:16 A PRIVATE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, WHICH LEVERAGES ALL OF
09:25:18 THESE CRA DOLLARS.
09:25:22 THE PLAN WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY THE DOWNTOWN CRA
09:25:23 COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD.
09:25:27 THE PLAN WILL INCREASE THE CENTER'S $130 MILLION
09:25:34 ECONOMIC IMPACT BY AT LEAST 20% AND HAVE A MAJOR
09:25:36 INCREASE ON OUR WORKFORCE.
09:25:39 THE DESIGN HAS BEEN PURPOSELY PLANNED TO OPEN UP THE
09:25:42 CENTER'S LOBBIES AND PUBLIC SPACES TO THE ENTIRE
09:25:45 COMMUNITY AND SERVE AS AN EXCITING AND UPLIFTING
09:25:51 EXPERIENCE FOR ALL.
09:25:54 AND TODAY, I WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT OF HOW THE PLAN
09:25:57 SUPPORTS OUR CITY'S VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND HUMAN
09:25:57 STORIES.
09:26:00 YOU KNOW SOMETIMES PLANS CAN GET LOST IN THE NUMBERS,
09:26:07 BUT THERE ARE HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE IMPACTED ON A DAILY
09:26:07 BASIS.
09:26:10 AS WE LOOK AT THE BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL OF OUR GREAT
09:26:14 CITY, WE ARE FOCUSED ON MAKING TAMPA'S PERFORMING ARTS
09:26:17 CENTER MORE SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT FOR THE FUTURE.
09:26:20 ON THIS SIDE THE GOALS FOR THE STRAZ CENTER MASTER
09:26:21 PLAN.
09:26:26 SUPPORTS THE T3 AND BRAZILIAN TAMPA PLANS TO DRIVE
09:26:28 ECONOMIC IMPACT, INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL OF OUR
09:26:31 CITIZENS AND AREA VISITORS, CONTRIBUTE TO OUR
09:26:33 NEIGHBORHOODS, ENHANCE COMPANY'S INFRASTRUCTURE AND
09:26:35 SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY'S GROWTH.
09:26:44 THE MASTER PLAN WILL HERALD TAMPA'S AMAZING TOMORROWS
09:26:48 OF FUTURE OF ARTS, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT THROUGHOUT
09:26:50 DOWNTOWN AND REGIONALLY AS WELL.
09:26:54 THE MASTER PLAN -- TOGETHER OUR INVESTMENT IN THE NEW
09:26:57 STRAZ WILL STRENGTHEN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT TO
09:27:01 EXPANDED EVENTS PENDING, INCREASED COMMUNITY BENEFITS,
09:27:09 NEW BUSINESS, NEW AMENITIES AND WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT.
09:27:13 ON THE SLIDE THE ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT AND AS I SAID
09:27:17 EARLIER WE EXPECT THIS TO INCREASE BY 20% TO 30%.
09:27:26 OUR PROGRAMS TEACH PROBLEM SOLVING AND WORK FORCE OF
09:27:29 COMPETENT SKILLS AND INVOLVE CITIZENS.
09:27:33 AND HERE IS ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY, MANY EXAMPLES WHICH I
09:27:37 HAVE, BUT I JUST -- I HAVE TIME FOR ONE TODAY.
09:27:40 KISSY SIMMONS WAS SINGING IN A CHURCH CHOIR.
09:27:43 SHE CAME TO US AND HAD SUCH TALENT, SHE WORKED WITH
09:27:46 MANY OF OUR PROGRAMS AND OUR ARTISTS.
09:27:48 SHE GAINED CONFIDENCE.
09:27:51 WE HELPED HER GET AN AUDITION IN NEW YORK AND LANDED
09:27:58 THE LEAD ROLE AS NALA IN "LION KING" FOR SIX YEARS AND
09:28:01 NOW A ROLE -- SHE IS MENTORING OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE
09:28:02 TODAY.
09:28:05 THE NEW STRAZ WILL ALIGN WITH THE TAMPA VISION OF
09:28:08 STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY SERVICES BY PROVIDING AMAZING
09:28:11 OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMMATICALLY OR THROUGH PHYSICAL
09:28:11 CHANGES.
09:28:15 OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS ARE PART OF OUR
09:28:19 ORGANIZATIONAL WISE FOR INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY
09:28:20 AND ACCESSIBILITY.
09:28:24 OUR AWARD-WINNING ARTS MIX PROGRAM ON OUR RIVER WALK
09:28:27 STAGES ARE FREE COMMUNITY ARTS EVENTS.
09:28:30 EACH EVENT EXPLORES A DIFFERENT THREAD OF TAMPA'S
09:28:34 DIVERSE CULTURAL FABRIC AND BUILDS COLLABORATIONS WITH
09:28:37 HUNDREDS OF TAMPA ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING
09:28:41 CELEBRATIONS LIKE JUNETEENTH, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING,
09:28:44 JR., VETERANS DAY AND LATIN JAZZ.
09:28:46 OUR ARTS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM SERVE MORE THAN 50,000
09:28:48 STUDENTS.
09:28:50 WE HAVE LONG WORKED WITH SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO
09:28:55 UPLIFT VULNERABLE COMMUNITY UPLIFTING ARTS LEARNING
09:28:58 WHERE THERE OTHERWISE WOULD BE NON.
09:29:02 THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS, MENTORING MANY ARE PROVIDED AT NO
09:29:05 COSTS TO REDUCE NEIGHBORHOOD DISPARITIES AND APPROACHES
09:29:08 THAT STRENGTHEN ALL OF OUR CITIZENS.
09:29:11 JACOB, A STUDENT WITH AUTISM.
09:29:16 JACOB'S DOCTORS THOUGHT HE WOULD NEVER SPEAK, BUT AT
09:29:20 OUR OBSERVATORY THEATRE CLASS, HE DEVELOPED MOTOR
09:29:25 SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE AND ACTS AND SINGS SOLO ON STAGE.
09:29:28 THAT YOUNG'S MAN'S LIFE HAS BEEN CHANGED.
09:29:33 OUR STRAZ YOUTH INITIATIVE A SPECIAL EXAMPLE AS OUR
09:29:36 PARTNERSHIP SERVES THE NEEDS OF OUR VETERANS COMMUNITY.
09:29:40 THE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED MODEL PROVIDES VETERANS AND
09:29:42 THEIR FAMILIES WITH INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES, DIALOGUE
09:29:45 AND DEDICATED RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITY
09:29:49 REINTEGRATION AND PROVEN WHO HELP ADDRESS DIFFERENT
09:29:50 TYPES OF TRAUMA.
09:29:53 PROGRAM CALLED CREATIVE FORCES.
09:29:55 A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN
09:29:58 WASHINGTON AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS AND
09:30:02 WE HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE LEADERS IN THIS
09:30:03 PROGRAM.
09:30:06 WE WILL ELEVATE ACCESS TO THE STRAZ CENTER PHYSICALLY
09:30:08 THROUGH A SPECTACULAR AND TRANSFORMATIVE STATE OF THE
09:30:12 ART DESIGN THAT EMBRACES OUR WONDERFUL POSITION ON THE
09:30:15 RIVER WALK AND WILL MEET OUR FUTURE NEEDS.
09:30:19 WE WILL PROVIDE ONE MASSIVE LOBBY THAT IS TOTALLY OPEN
09:30:21 TO THE ENTIRE PUBLIC.
09:30:25 AND EXPAND A CONSERVATORY WITH MORE CLASSROOMS AND
09:30:26 STUDIO SPACE.
09:30:29 A NEW EVENT CENTER FOR EDUCATION, COMMUNITY,
09:30:32 HOSPITALITY AND CIVIC EVENTS.
09:30:38 A TERRACE -- A RIVERWALK TERRACE, OUTDOOR BISTRO FOR
09:30:41 ALL THE PEOPLE THAT COME ON THE RIVERWALK AND NEW
09:30:46 DOCKS, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL PLAN
09:30:49 IN 1987 AND HAD TO DROP THOSE AND HOPEFULLY WILL BE
09:30:51 ABLE TO RESTORE THOSE WITH SO MUCH RIVER TRAFFIC.
09:30:55 THE MASTER PLAN CONTRIBUTES TO A THRIVING DOWNTOWN
09:30:55 NEIGHBORHOOD EXPERIENCE.
09:30:59 THE NEW STRAZ WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND
09:31:01 LIVABILITY OF OUR DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH AN OPEN
09:31:05 CAMPUS THAT WELCOMES EVERYONE WITH AN EASY GREEN
09:31:09 APPROACH ON FOOT, BOAT, BIKE, SCOOTER AND SKATES.
09:31:11 PEDESTRIANS WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO WALK FROM THE
09:31:17 RIVER WALK DIRECTLY ONTO OUR LOBBY.
09:31:20 AND ENJOY THE CHARACTER OF THE STRAZ AND ITS VIBRANT
09:31:21 CULTURE ENVIRONMENT.
09:31:24 FINALLY THE MASTER PLAN ALLIANCE WITH INFRASTRUCTURE
09:31:26 IMPROVEMENTS AND SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS.
09:31:30 IT WILL BEAUTIFY DOWNTOWN AND PROVIDE SMOOTH
09:31:33 TRANSITIONS ON TO THE PROPERTY INCLUDING EASIER ACCESS
09:31:36 AND ENTRANCE FROM TYLER, STRAIGHTER STREETS, A REAL
09:31:42 SENSE OF PLACE ON OUR ICONIC SCULPTURE BURSTING FROM
09:31:45 THE RIVER AND A NEW NORTH ENTRANCE THAT WILL IMPROVE
09:31:46 AND ADD ANOTHER ENTRANCE.
09:31:51 FINALLY, IN CLOSING, THE MASTER PLAN TRULY REPRESENTS
09:31:54 OUR BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL OF OUR WONDERFUL TAMPA.
09:31:59 A PHYSICAL EXPANSE THAT TRANSFORMS OUR CITY'S TOMORROW
09:32:02 AND FUELS TAMPA'S CREATIVITY AND VIBRANCY.
09:32:05 KNOW WITH YOUR $25 MILLION OF INVESTMENT IN THIS
09:32:08 PROJECT, WE WILL NOT BE COMING BACK TO YOU WITH ANOTHER
09:32:10 CAPITAL ASK WITH OUR PLAN.
09:32:13 WE ARE PROUD TO PARTNER WITH AND RECOGNIZE IN THIS
09:32:16 INCREDIBLE PROJECT AND WE UNDERSTAND OUR COMMITMENT TO
09:32:19 MATCH YOUR INVESTMENT, AND OUR BOARD IS POISED TO
09:32:23 LEVERAGE YOUR INVESTMENT AND TO MATCH IT.
09:32:27 FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MICHELLE VAN LOAN AND
09:32:28 THE CRA TEAM.
09:32:31 THEY HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL IN GIVING US INFORMATION AND
09:32:33 GUIDING US THROUGH THIS PROJECT.
09:32:36 TOGETHER THIS BOUNDLESS EFFORT WILL LIFT TAMPA'S
09:32:42 CULTURAL IMPLICATION, OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, ECONOMY
09:32:43 AND LIFE.
09:32:48 DAVID SCHER, WHO IS CHAIRMAN OF OUR MASTER PLAN
09:32:50 COMMITTEE, WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FEW WORDS.
09:32:50 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:32:53 I WILL BE VERY, VERY SHORT.
09:32:56 JUDY GIVEN A WONDERFUL EXPLANATION OF THE MASTER PLAN.
09:32:58 I REPRESENT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ALONG WITH BILL
09:33:02 WEST, WHO IS WATCHING VIRTUALLY AND CHUCK SYKES.
09:33:06 I'M HERE TO COMMIT ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD THE RAISING
09:33:12 OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR OF OUR CAMPAIGN AND THAT IS
09:33:13 APPROXIMATELY $50 MILLION.
09:33:17 I CAN TELL YOU AS OF RIGHT NOW, WITH A VERY QUIET START
09:33:19 OF THE CAMPAIGN AFTER COVID.
09:33:23 WE HAVE ALREADY RAISED 22% OF OUR PORTION OF THIS
09:33:23 PARTNERSHIP.
09:33:25 THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD AND YOU HAVE OUR
09:33:27 BOARD'S COMMITMENT.
09:33:28 THANK YOU.
09:33:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, BOTH, VERY MUCH.
09:33:34 I'LL GO WITH ANY QUESTIONS AND START ON MY LEFT WITH
09:33:34 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:33:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:33:38 I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
09:33:41 WHEN YOU MENTIONED '87.
09:33:44 THEN GOVERNOR MARTINEZ, WHEN HE WAS MAYOR OF THE CITY
09:33:47 OF TAMPA, WAS ONE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT HE DID
09:33:51 WAS TO BRING THIS TO THE PUBLIC AND TO MAKE SURE THAT
09:33:53 THIS WAS SUCCESSFUL.
09:33:57 AND THROUGH THICK AND THIN -- BECAUSE IT HAVEN'T ALWAYS
09:33:58 BEEN EASY.
09:34:01 DOWNTOWN AT ONE TIME HAD 605 PEOPLE LIVING HERE.
09:34:04 600 WERE IN THE MORGAN STREET JAIL AND 500 WERE WALKING
09:34:06 THE STREETS.
09:34:08 AND ALL FLEW THAT, THE STRAZ ENDEAVORED THAT AND
09:34:13 THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP MUCH YOUR LEADER, OF YOUR
09:34:16 CHAIRMAN, MR. SCHER, DAVID.
09:34:18 ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORK THERE.
09:34:21 EVEN THE ONES WHO WERE THERE TO HELP YOU, YOUR
09:34:26 ATTENDANCE -- ATTEND ANTS THAT GREET YOU AT THE DOOR
09:34:30 AND WASHINGTON YOU THROUGH, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE AT
09:34:31 HOME.
09:34:34 WORKING WITH THE PATEL CONSERVATORY AND DOING THINGS
09:34:37 FOR KIDS AND REOPENING THE CENTER.
09:34:40 I IMAGINE A REBIRTH OF DOWNTOWN, YOU WILL HAVE A
09:34:44 REBIRTH OF REBIRTH WHEN THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETED
09:34:48 BECAUSE ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME LOOKING BUILDINGS AND
09:34:52 ATTENDANCE WITH MAYOR POE ACHED EVERY MAYOR THROUGH
09:34:54 THAT FOR NOW HAVE WORKED ON THE PROJECT.
09:34:58 AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT DOWNTOWN, ANY SAY THAT IS OVER
09:35:02 250,000 THAT DOESN'T HAVE A FUNCTIONAL DOWNTOWN IS, IN
09:35:04 ESSENCE, DYING, NOT LIVING.
09:35:08 WHEN THIS CITY STARTED REVITALIZING DOWNTOWN, IT
09:35:13 HELPED BECAUSE DOWNTOWN IN ANY CITY IS THE HEART OF THE
09:35:14 CITY.
09:35:16 JUST LIKE YOUR HEART OF A HUMAN BEING.
09:35:18 YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT.
09:35:22 AND, YES, AREAS OF TOWN THAT ARE ALL BEING REMODELED
09:35:26 INCLUDING WEST SHORE AND INCLUDING MIDTOWN OPENING UP.
09:35:29 LOOK AT OTHER AREAS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CITY.
09:35:31 AMAZING WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN CHANNELSIDE.
09:35:35 AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT YOU ALL DID IT, BUT YOU ALL
09:35:38 WERE HERE WHEN VERY LITTLE ACTIVITY AND STRUGGLED TO
09:35:40 GET THINGS DONE AND HAVE DONE IT AND VERY SUCCESSFUL.
09:35:42 THIS IS A PUBLIC BUILDING.
09:35:45 THOSE IN THE SPORTS AREA, LISTEN TO WHAT I AM SAYING.
09:35:48 THIS IS A PUBLIC BUILDING.
09:35:51 THEY DON'T PAY AD VALOREM TAX.
09:35:52 NEITHER DO YOU.
09:35:55 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:35:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:36:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MIRANDA MADE THAT POINT.
09:36:06 THE ARTS, I MEAN, THIS BOARD KNOWS I FOUGHT VERY HARD
09:36:08 TO GET WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO GET IN EAST TAMPA.
09:36:11 SO THE KIDS ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN CAN KNOW ABOUT THE
09:36:12 ARTS.
09:36:15 AND THEN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO A SCHOOL AND GET
09:36:21 A SCHOLARSHIP TO DANCE, GYMNASTICS, BEING PRODUCTION.
09:36:23 SO I AM IN FAVOR OF ART.
09:36:24 IT IS A PUBLIC FACILITY.
09:36:29 MY ONLY CONCERN WAS AND STILL IS, IT'S A HUNK OF
09:36:30 CHANGE.
09:36:34 AND TO MOVE THINGS, SOMETIMES YOU NEED MONEY, A LOT OF
09:36:35 IT.
09:36:37 MR. MIRANDA SAID IT BEST.
09:36:40 WHEN I TRAVELED WITH BALL CLUBS, THE FIRST THING YOU
09:36:44 LOOK AT THE SITES WHEN YOU COME INTO THE TOWN.
09:36:46 A THRIVING DOWNTOWN, IT IS A GHOST TOWN.
09:36:50 I REMEMBER THE WHOLE SOUL TRAIN ON FRANKLIN STREET.
09:36:52 IT IS A LONG TIME AGO.
09:36:56 AND IT HAS CHANGED, THE BLOCK OF FRANKLIN STREET.
09:36:58 CHANGE ALWAYS HAS TO COME.
09:37:00 TIME DOESN'T SIT STILL.
09:37:05 MY ONLY CONCERN, LIKE I SAID, WAS MAKING SURE THAT THE
09:37:07 CAC WAS ON BOARD.
09:37:11 APPARENTLY NOW THEY ARE ON BOARD, BUT STILL MY BIGGEST
09:37:14 CONCERN WHEN YOU GIVE SOMEBODY SOMETHING, AN
09:37:16 INVESTMENT, YOU HAVE TO BE APPRECIATIVE OF THE
09:37:16 INVESTMENT.
09:37:20 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CAC AND THE CRA IS
09:37:23 RECOGNIZED FOR THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THEY PROBABLY ARE
09:37:26 GOING GIVE YOU THIS MORNING.
09:37:31 SOME PEOPLE KNOW THESE DOLLARS CAME FROM, THE TAXPAYER
09:37:33 MONEY WITHIN THAT DISTRICT AND THEY KNEES TO BE
09:37:36 RECOGNIZED GIVEN THAT KIND OF CONTRIBUTION AND THAT'S
09:37:39 WHY I ASKED MR. COHEN WHAT THE COUNTY WILL BE DOING IN
09:37:40 THE FUTURE.
09:37:43 HE IS ONLY ONE, BUT HE WILL BE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
09:37:47 TO DO MORE TO GET -- TO GET MORE MONEY FOR THAT CENTER
09:37:48 OVER THERE.
09:37:51 I WILL JUST SAY, IN CLOSING, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
09:37:53 THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GIVING THE DOLLARS ARE RECOGNIZED
09:37:56 FOR THEIR EFFORTS, BECAUSE IT IS THEIR MONEY.
09:37:58 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:37:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:38:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. CHAIR, CAN I ASK YOU FOR THE
09:38:05 PRIVILEGE, SINCE I AM YOUR STRAZ REPRESENTATIVE, OF
09:38:07 GOING LAST AFTER YOU GO DOWN THE ROW.
09:38:11 I WOULD BE APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.
09:38:12 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:38:16 >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANT TO THANK MISS LISI AND THE
09:38:18 BOARD FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU PUT IN OVER THE YEAR
09:38:21 AND I CAN SAY MORE LATER, BUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
09:38:24 AROUND FOR A LONG TIME REMEMBER THAT THIS ENTITY WAS
09:38:29 NOT AS SUCCESSFUL FROM THE BEGINNING AND GOTTEN YOU AND
09:38:32 THE ENLIGHTENED BOARD MEMBERS AND PUT TAMPA ON THE MAP
09:38:34 NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.
09:38:39 A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, LIN MANUEL MIRANDA WAS AT ONE OF
09:38:41 THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.
09:38:44 CAN YOU IMAGINE PEOPLE IN TAMPA GETTING TRAINED BY HIM.
09:38:45 AND GREAT STORIES LIKE THAT.
09:38:48 I THANK YOU FOR THE DEDICATION AND APPRECIATIVE THAT
09:38:51 YOU AND THE BOARDS ARE GUIDING THIS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
09:38:55 OF SUCCESS AND OPENING SO MUCH TO THE PUBLIC.
09:38:55 THANK YOU.
09:38:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:39:00 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:39:03 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA ALREADY SAID IT WITH REGARDS TO
09:39:06 GOVERNOR MARTINEZ, THEN MAYOR OF TAMPA BEFORE THAT.
09:39:09 WE HAVE TO REMEMBER HIS EFFORTS.
09:39:13 I KNOW THERE IS A VERY LARGE PLAQUE ON THE BUILDING OF
09:39:17 WHO BROUGHT THIS TO FRUITION TO BEGIN WITH.
09:39:23 WE ARE HERE LOOKING AT INVESTING AND PARTNERING WITH
09:39:26 THE $25 MILLION, BUT WE CAN'T FORGET THE PEOPLE WHO
09:39:28 MADE THIS HAPPEN AT THE BEGINNING.
09:39:33 DURING A PERIOD IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA WHICH WAS DYING.
09:39:38 WHICH IS NOT THE DOWNTOWN THAT WE SEE TODAY BUT HAD THE
09:39:42 INSIGHT TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS
09:39:48 FACILITY WAS BUILT THERE IN THAT AREA.
09:39:51 FRUITS OF THAT INVESTMENT FROM OVER 30 SOMETHING YEARS
09:39:54 AGO AND WHAT IT HAS DONE FOR THAT ENTIRE AREA AND NOW
09:40:15 WITH THE RIVER WALK, AND THE GROWTH IN DOWNTOWN OF THE
09:40:19 IMPORTANCE OF ALL THIS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARTS.
09:40:21 I AM WHOLEHEARTEDLY GOING TO BE SUPPORTING THIS BECAUSE
09:40:25 I UNDERSTAND THE RETURN OF INVESTMENT ON THIS IS
09:40:27 IMMEASURABLE.
09:40:27 SO THAT'S IT.
09:40:28 THANK YOU.
09:40:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:40:30 COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:40:32 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
09:40:34 I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
09:40:36 I HAVE SPOKEN PUBLICLY ABOUT THIS.
09:40:39 AND MR. CHAIR, FOR CLARIFICATION, THIS IS STATEMENT
09:40:41 TIME, NOT QUESTION TIME, CORRECT?
09:40:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: QUESTION, STATEMENT, WHATEVER YOU
09:40:44 PREFER.
09:40:46 >>LUIS VIERA: JUST MAKING SURE.
09:40:47 I WILL STATE MY POSITION.
09:40:49 THIS IS MY POSITION FROM MY OWN.
09:40:52 I AM NOT TRYING TO WIN ANYBODY EVERY.
09:40:55 EVERYBODY'S VOTE IS THEIR OWN AND I RESPECT EVERYBODY
09:40:56 110% FOR THAT.
09:40:59 I DON'T BRING PEOPLE TO CITY COUNCIL ON POSITIONS THINK
09:41:01 THAT TAKE BECAUSE MY POSITIONS ARE MY OWN AND I RESPECT
09:41:08 PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME WE ARE A COLLEGIAL BODY AND
09:41:12 WHAT MAKES US A COLLEGIAL BODY THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS
09:41:15 AGREE BUT WE RESPECT EACH OTHER'S OPINIONS.
09:41:18 WE ARE IN UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF THE WONDERFUL WORK THAT
09:41:21 THE STRAZ CENTER DOES HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE
09:41:23 DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY AND ALL THE COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE
09:41:23 CITY OF TAMPA.
09:41:26 THAT IN ME IS NOT DISPUTE.
09:41:30 IT IS NOT IN DISPUTE THAT WE ALL SUPPORT THE ARTS.
09:41:32 TAMPA MUSEUM OF ARTS REQUEST FOR SURROUNDING
09:41:37 INFRASTRUCTURE WILL CONTINUE TO GET SUPPORT ETC., ETC.
09:41:41 FOR ME I HAVE BASIC PROMISE -- PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES
09:41:41 WITH THIS.
09:41:44 I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WORK VERY, VERY HARD ON
09:41:45 THIS.
09:41:49 THIS IS GOING TO PASS, IT WOULD APPEAR SO, AND I KNOW
09:41:52 IT IS IMPORTANT TO MY FRIEND AND OUR FRIEND JOHN
09:41:54 DINGFELDER WHO WORKED SO HARD ON THIS.
09:41:59 WHEN I WAS CHAIR, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF APPOINTING
09:42:04 JOHN DINGFELDER TO THE STRAZ CENTER AND I RESPECT THAT
09:42:06 WORK 110%.
09:42:10 I AM THE KIND OF FELLA IF I VOTE NO, I WANT TO GO INTO
09:42:13 THE NIGHT AND RESPECTFULLY TELL WHY.
09:42:14 VERY BRIEFLY.
09:42:15 MATHEMATICAL GROUNDS.
09:42:19 YOU LOOK AT THE MONETARY INVESTMENT THAT THE CRA -- NOT
09:42:23 THE GENERAL BUDGET BUT THE CRA -- UNLESS IF I AM WRONG,
09:42:27 CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, $8.5 MILLION IN FIVE YEARS.
09:42:31 PERCENTAGE OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA REVENUE AND BUDGET COULD
09:42:34 BE ANYWHERE FROM 30% TO 40% IF NOT MORE.
09:42:37 WHO KNOWS WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
09:42:40 THAT, TO ME, IS A CHALLENGE THAT LEADS ME TO MY NO
09:42:41 VOTE.
09:42:45 SECOND IS THE PURPOSE OF CRAS WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS
09:42:48 FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, OTHER SUPPORT IN BLIGHTED AREAS.
09:42:53 I TAKE HEAT IN MY DISTRICT FOR SUPPORTING A DOWNTOWN
09:42:53 CRA.
09:42:54 I SUPPORT IT.
09:42:57 I THINK IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE A RESIDENTIAL,
09:43:02 VIBRANT, 21ST CENTURY DOWNTOWN THAT IS 110% SOMETHING
09:43:02 THAT WE NEED.
09:43:05 AND MR. CHAIR, MAY I HAVE TWO MINUTES.
09:43:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, YOU MAY.
09:43:09 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT, SIR.
09:43:12 I SUPPORTED DOWNTOWN CRA BECAUSE I CITY THINK A LOT OF
09:43:14 WORK THAT WE GOT TO DO DOWNTOWN.
09:43:18 I DO NOT THINK, RESPECTFULLY, THAT THIS ALLOCATION AT
09:43:21 THE LEVEL THAT IT IS AT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL
09:43:24 INTENT OF DOWNTOWN CRAS.
09:43:27 IF ANYTHING, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL HAVE -- WHICH
09:43:32 I CAN TALK ABOUT LATER, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES TO THE
09:43:33 CRAS.
09:43:36 I SUPPORT CRAS.
09:43:39 I SUPPORT THE IDEA YOU TAKE BLIGHTED AREAS IN THE CITY
09:43:42 AND YOU GIVE THEM SPECIAL PREFERENCE WHEN IT COMES TO
09:43:47 REVENUE GATHERING BECAUSE THEY NEED THAT.
09:43:48 DOWNTOWN IS ONE OF THOSE AREAS.
09:43:51 I TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE MEDIA BEFORE OTHER USES YOU
09:43:52 COULD HAVE FOR THIS MONEY.
09:43:56 AND, AGAIN, WHEN I TALK OF THE OTHER USES I AM NOT
09:43:59 UNDERMINING THE RECORDS OF OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS WHO ARE
09:44:04 STELLAR 100% ON THESE KIND OF ISSUES, AFFORDABLE
09:44:11 HOUSING, STREETCAR, CURTIS HIXON PARK, ETC., SUPPORTING
09:44:15 VIBRANT RESTAURANTS IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA, SOMETHING WE CAN
09:44:18 USE THIS MONEY FOR I TYPICALLY GIVE ON CRA BECAUSE MY
09:44:19 DISTRICT HAS NO CRAS.
09:44:23 THE DISTRICT COUNCILMEMBERS, A LOT OF DIFFERENCE WHEN
09:44:26 IT COMES TO SPENDING IN AREAS ON CRAS.
09:44:30 BUT THESE ARE THINGS I THINK ALTERNATIVELY ARE SO.
09:44:33 NOBODY LIKES SAYING NO IN POLITICS.
09:44:34 IT IS NOT EASY.
09:44:37 THAT IS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST THINGS WE HAVE TO DO AS
09:44:41 ELECTED OFFICIALS AND WE HAVE TO TELL SOMEBODY, LOVE
09:44:46 WHAT YOU DO, ETC., ETC., BUT FOR THESE REASONS I WILL
09:44:48 BE RESPECTFULLY VOTING NO ON THIS.
09:44:51 THAT IS THE POSITION BECAUSE OF MY BELIEFS I FOUND
09:44:52 MYSELF IN.
09:44:54 I WILL GO WITH THAT.
09:44:56 NEVER EASY.
09:44:58 NOT EVERYTHING IS BLACK AND WHITE IN LIFE.
09:45:01 AND MY ARGUMENT AT THE VERY LEAST IS -- AT THE VERY
09:45:04 LEAST IS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF GRAY HERE AND THAT
09:45:05 LEADS ME TO ULTIMATELY VOTE NO.
09:45:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:45:09 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:45:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:45:14 THANK YOU, MR. VIERA, FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
09:45:17 NO GREAT SURPRISE THAT I AM SUPPORTING THIS
09:45:21 WHOLEHEARTEDLY, BUT I WANTED TO ENUNCIATE SOME OF THE
09:45:24 REASONS AND SOME OF THEM ARE A LITTLE BIT REDUNDANT OF
09:45:33 WHAT MISS VIZZI -- EXCUSE ME, MISS LISI.
09:45:39 WE HAVE A MISS VIZZI AROUND.
09:45:44 AND CARLSON, OF ECONOMIC ENGINE.
09:45:49 I AM NOT GOING TO CRANK OUT THE NUMBERS AND SHE HAS
09:45:50 ENLIGHTENED US.
09:45:53 A HUGE ECONOMIC ENGINE 700,000 PEOPLE THROUGHOUT DOORS
09:45:56 COMING DOWNTOWN, NOT JUST FOLKS FROM TAMPA, BUT A
09:45:57 REGIONAL ASSET.
09:46:00 A REGIONAL DRAW.
09:46:02 PLUS THE TOURIST DRAW.
09:46:04 I AM SURE MANY PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE VISITING ON
09:46:07 VACATION OR FOR THE WINTER, THEY COME AND TAKE
09:46:11 ADVANTAGE OF THIS.
09:46:13 WITH REGARD TO EDUCATION, NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT.
09:46:15 I USED TO TEACH SCHOOL, BUT I HAD A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
09:46:16 WITH THIS.
09:46:20 MY DAUGHTER -- I DON'T THINK -- I DON'T THINK, JUDY, IF
09:46:23 YOU EVEN KNOW THIS, BUT MY DAUGHTER WAS A VIOLINIST
09:46:25 WITH THE TAMPA BAY YOUTH ORCHESTRA.
09:46:30 AND YOU HOSTED THE TAMPA BAY YOUTH ORCHESTRA FOR FREE
09:46:31 AND THEY GET TO PERFORM THERE.
09:46:34 AND THESE KIDS HAVE AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE TO REALLY
09:46:39 FEEL, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY -- FEEL THEIR MUSIC BUT TO --
09:46:43 TO BE ON THAT STAGE AND TO HAVE THEIR PARENTS THERE AND
09:46:45 THE WHOLE BIT.
09:46:49 IT HAS BEEN A LIFE-LONG THING FOR MY DAUGHTER NOW 42
09:46:52 YEARS OLD AND STILL PLAYS THE VIOLIN.
09:46:53 EQUITY.
09:46:57 EQUITY IS A BIG THEME OF EVERYTHING THIS COUNCIL HAS
09:47:00 DONE SINCE I CAME BACK TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO.
09:47:04 THIS IS A TOTALLY EQUITABLE PROPOSITION.
09:47:07 EN THE MINORITY COMMUNITY.
09:47:11 IT ALWAYS HAS AND JUDITH AND YOUR TEAM HAS BEEN AMAZING
09:47:15 WITH OUTREACH GOING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, THE MINORITY
09:47:18 COMMUNITIES OR ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND BRINGING THEM IN
09:47:19 TO PARTICIPATE.
09:47:23 AND NOW OVER THE YEARS, YOU HAVE ADDED VETERANS WHICH
09:47:26 IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:47:27 AND SPECIAL NEEDS.
09:47:31 AND I AM SURE MANY MORE THAT I AM NOT EVEN AWARE OF.
09:47:32 YOU WELCOME THE PUBLIC.
09:47:37 AND THIS PROJECT, BY THIS ARCHITECTURE, WELCOMES THE
09:47:40 PUBLIC AND I THINK THAT IS CRITICAL IN WHAT MAKES IT
09:47:40 STAND OUT.
09:47:43 IF I CAN HAVE ANOTHER MINUTE, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:47:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ONE MORE MINUTE, PLEASE.
09:47:46 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
09:47:51 LET ME RESPOND SPECIFICALLY MR. VIERA A COUPLE OF
09:47:53 THINGS THAT YOU TOUCHED ON.
09:47:57 WHEN THE CRA WAS STARTED AND MY UNDERSTANDING -- AND
09:48:00 CHARLIE CAN HELP ME OUT -- ONE OF THE REASONS IT WAS
09:48:03 STARTED NOT THE TRADITIONAL BLIGHT, BUT TO HELP FUND
09:48:08 THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER AND I WOULD SAY 80%, 90% OF
09:48:12 THE ORIGINAL CRA BUDGET WENT INTO PAYING THE BOND DEBT
09:48:17 AND PAYING THE DEBT DOWN ON THE ORIGINAL CONVENTION
09:48:18 CENTER.
09:48:21 POSITIVE EFFECTS FOR DOWNTOWN AND ALL SHIPS ROSE.
09:48:24 AND CLEARLY THIS TYPE OF INVESTMENT HAS LIKEWISE HAVE
09:48:26 INTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
09:48:29 THE INTENDED CONSEQUENCES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
09:48:32 WE BUILT THIS FACILITY 35 YEARS AGO.
09:48:33 YOU CAN'T BUILD A HOUSE.
09:48:35 WE ARE ALL HOMEOWNERS.
09:48:40 YOU CAN'T BUILD A HOUSE, AND 35 YEARS LATER, SHRUG YOUR
09:48:43 SHOULDERS AND SAY EVERYTHING IS GREAT.
09:48:46 YOU NEED TO PUT A NEW ROOF ON IT AND THOSE SORT OF
09:48:46 THINGS.
09:48:50 I WHOLLY SUPPORT AND I HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL SUPPORTS
09:48:51 IT.
09:48:54 $25 MILLION AND SPREAD OVER FIVE YEARS.
09:48:55 AN AVERAGE OF $5 MILLION A YEAR.
09:48:56 THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.
09:48:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS
09:49:03 BEFORE I ASK FOR A MOTION ON THIS RESOLUTION?
09:49:06 >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I SAY ONE MORE THING, IF I MAY.
09:49:10 I APPRECIATE COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER'S WORDS.
09:49:14 I WAS -- THE WORK THAT THE STRAZ CENTER DOES IN THE
09:49:15 COMMUNITY.
09:49:16 VETERANS HIGHLIGHTED.
09:49:17 SPECIAL NEEDS.
09:49:24 I WAS JOKING IF YOU PUT IN FIRST RESPONDERS THE LUIS
09:49:27 VIERA'S TRIFECTA.
09:49:28 I APPRECIATE THEM.
09:49:31 AND I APPRECIATE COUNCIL'S ABILITY TO DEAL WITH AN
09:49:36 ISSUE SO IMPORTANT TO A LOT OF MEMBERS IN A RESPECTFUL
09:49:37 COLLEGIAL WAY.
09:49:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
09:49:40 >> SECOND.
09:49:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION TO MOVE THE RESOLUTION BY
09:49:43 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:49:46 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:49:47 ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
09:49:48 >>LUIS VIERA: NO.
09:49:49 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:49:51 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:49:52 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:49:53 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
09:49:55 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:49:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:50:02 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA VOTING NO.
09:50:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:50:05 BOARD MEMBERS, MISS CONNIE BURTON --
09:50:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MISS LISI AND MR. SCHER,
09:50:16 I WANTED TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE ARE DONE.
09:50:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: BOARD MEMBERS, MISS CONNIE BURTON WAS
09:50:23 TO GIVE US A REPORT AND GIVE US A FINAL TALK OF
09:50:27 PRESIDENT OF THE EAST TAMPA CRA; HOWEVER, SHE CAN NOT
09:50:29 RETURN AT 11:00.
09:50:31 SHE WILL BE COMING BACK NEXT MONTH.
09:50:34 MISS BURTON IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, I THANK YOU VERY, VERY
09:50:36 MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING
09:50:38 YOUR REPORT NEXT MONTH.
09:50:42 WE ARE NOW GOING TO THE PAT FRANK CEREMONY.
09:50:45 LET'S ALL BE BACK AT 11:00.
11:08:15 WE ARE AT RECESS.
11:08:16 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
11:08:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
11:08:21 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
11:08:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
11:08:24 >>CLERK: OFF PHYSICAL QUORUM.
11:08:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: BOARD MEMBERS, I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO
11:08:30 ALLOW US TO ATTEND MISS PAT FRANK'S CEREMONY AT THE
11:08:32 RENAMING OF THE COURTHOUSE.
11:08:33 SHE IS A LOVELY WOMAN.
11:08:38 SHE IS A TRAIL BLAZER AND HAS MEANT A LOT TO NOT ONLY
11:08:41 THIS STATE, THIS COUNTY, AND THIS CITY.
11:08:45 AND THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING OUR BREAK.
11:08:49 MISS VAN LOAN.
11:08:53 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, CHAIR AND CRA
11:08:53 MEMBERS.
11:08:57 ITEM NUMBER 2, AS MENTIONED EARLIER MISS BURTON WILL
11:09:00 GO TO THE NOVEMBER CRA BUILDING.
11:09:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: TWO THINGS MISS VAN LOAN LET THE
11:09:07 RECORD SHOW THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES IS HERE.
11:09:09 MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 2 UNTIL
11:09:10 NEXT MONTH.
11:09:12 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MOTION.
11:09:13 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:09:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ALL IN FAVOR.
11:09:15 OPPOSED.
11:09:19 LET THE RECORD REFLECT IT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:09:23 EXCUSE ME WITH THE EXCEPTION OF COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:09:24 THANK YOU, MISS VAN LOAN.
11:09:26 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR ITEM NUMBER 3.
11:09:29 OUR STAFF REPORTS IN THE INTEREST OF TIME FOR ANYONE
11:09:33 LISTENING THE PUBLIC, IF YOU DO GO TO THE CITY CLERK'S
11:09:36 WEB SITE, CLICK ON THE CRA BOARD AGENDA.
11:09:38 CLICK ON ITEM NUMBER 3.
11:09:42 ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE YOU WILL SEE A PD F WHICH IS THE
11:09:43 FULL POWERPOINT.
11:09:46 THIS MORNING WE HAVE REDUCED THE POWERPOINT TO A FEW
11:09:48 SLIDES FOR EACH OF THE CRA MEMBERS JUST TO HIT THE MOST
11:09:50 IMPORTANT ITEMS.
11:09:55 SO IF YOU CAN BRING UP THE POWERPOINT I WILL BRING UP
11:09:58 MR. JESUS NINO.
11:10:00 >> THANK YOU, MICHELLE.
11:10:05 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, JESUS NINO, WEST TAMPA AND DREW
11:10:07 PARK URBAN DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
11:10:11 I WILL KEEN MINE SHORT IF POSSIBLE AS WELL.
11:10:14 THE WEST TAMPA, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE MANAGEMENT TO
11:10:17 DO A PARKING STUDY FOR THE MAIN STREET AREA.
11:10:21 CURRENTLY STAFF IS WORKING WITH THAT DEPARTMENT SO WE
11:10:23 CAN EVALUATE SOME OF THE CONSULTING FIRMS OUT THERE
11:10:27 THAT CAN DO THE WORK.
11:10:31 IN ADDITION WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY PARKS AND
11:10:35 REGENCY DEPARTMENT AND THEY CREATED CONCEPT DESIGNS
11:10:47 OVER THE AREA, SALCINES, FREMONT PARK.
11:10:48 ON REY PARK.
11:10:51 A MEETING TO DISCUSS THAT CONCEPT FURTHER.
11:10:55 YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THE PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS THERE ON
11:10:56 THE SCREEN.
11:10:59 THE NEXT ITEM WE HAVE IS -- WE ARE -- WE HAVE SELECTED
11:11:03 ANOTHER CONTRACTOR TO GO OUT THERE AND DO OM ALLEYWAY
11:11:06 CLEANUPS IN WEST TAMPA.
11:11:06 NELSON STREET COMPANY.
11:11:10 THEY WILL BE DOING A SERIES OF CLEANUPS FOR US, A
11:11:13 SERIES OF ALLEY CLEANUPS FOR US.
11:11:16 HOPEFULLY THEY CAN GET STARTED NEXT WEEK.
11:11:19 AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY ARE DOING THIS, WE WILL PUT
11:11:21 OUT SIGNS THIS WAS INITIATED BY THE CRA AND EDUCATING
11:11:25 SOME OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES.
11:11:29 CLEANUP WILL INCLUDE PICKING UP MATERIALS, LANDSCAPING
11:11:33 AND APPLYING HERBICIDE ON THE ALLEYWAYS SO THEY CAN
11:11:37 BECOME ACCESSIBLE WHOEVER NEEDS TO GET THROUGH THEM AND
11:11:39 HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE WE WILL DO MORE IMPROVEMENTS
11:11:42 WITH SOME PAVING AND SO ON WHEREVER IT MAKES SENSE.
11:11:45 AT THE SAME TIME, AS THEY ARE DOING THE CLEANUP, WE
11:11:47 WILL BE ISSUING ANOTHER BID FOR ANOTHER SERIES OF
11:11:51 ALLEYWAYS TO BE CLEANED OUT OVER IN THE WEST TAMPA
11:11:52 AREA.
11:11:55 THAT CONCLUDES -- AND WE ALSO HAVE THE CLEAN TEAM.
11:11:58 THEY STARTED CLEANING THE MAIN STREET AREA.
11:12:01 THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FOR A FEW WEEKS.
11:12:04 WE ARE STILL ADJUSTING SOME OF THE DAYS AND TIMES THEY
11:12:05 DO THAT.
11:12:09 SO FARTHER DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB AND A LOT OF WORK
11:12:12 STILL TO BE DONE WITH THAT ITEM AND WILL KEEP YOU
11:12:13 POSTED.
11:12:15 THAT CONCLUDES THE WEST TAMPA PRESENTATION.
11:12:18 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:12:19 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:12:24 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. NINO.
11:12:26 >> NEXT WE HAVE THE DREW PARK.
11:12:28 WITH DREW PARK, ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS WE ARE DOING
11:12:31 NOW -- A FEW YEARS AGO -- IF YOU CAN BRING THE SLIDE
11:12:32 BACK UP, PLEASE.
11:12:36 FEW YEARS AGO THE DREW PARK CAC AND CRA DID THE
11:12:39 STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS FOR LOIS AVENUE, JUSTICE
11:12:42 BECAUSE OF ALL THE ACTIVITY OUT THERE WITH LIGHT
11:12:44 SPRINKLE AND SO ON.
11:12:46 AND JUST THE WEATHER AND SO ON.
11:12:48 SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE SOMETHING STARTING TO DETERIORATE
11:12:52 SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CAC MEMBERS AND PARKS AND
11:12:56 MOBILITY AND OTHER DIVISIONS TO BRING IT BACK TO
11:13:01 LOOKING A LITTLE BIT BETTER SOME OF THE MEDIANS HAVE
11:13:04 BEEN RUN OVER BY SOME BIG TRUCKS.
11:13:07 LANDSCAPING AND SOME THAT THE WEATHER HAVE PUSHED OVER
11:13:11 AND SOME MAY HAVE DIED AND WE WILL REPLACE THOSE AND
11:13:14 BEAUTIFY IT BACK UP LITTLE BIT MORE.
11:13:18 MAIN ITEM FOR DREW PARK AND PRETTY EXCITING ONCE IT
11:13:20 LOOKS BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
11:13:24 THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
11:13:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:13:29 AGAIN, THANK YOU.
11:13:39 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:13:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. MCCRAE.
11:13:42 >> GOOD MORNING.
11:13:46 IN THE ESSENCE OF TIME, WE HAVE CUT DOWN ON OUR SLIDES,
11:13:48 BUT WANTED TO BRING FORWARD THE FIRST THING WOULD BE
11:13:51 THE STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE.
11:13:54 WHERE THERE WAS A PRESENTATION TO THE CAC ON SEPTEMBER
11:14:02 7 BY MR. PETE SEKLER WITH GAI CONSULTANTS AND PROJECTS
11:14:07 AND DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE TIF DOLLARS IN FUTURE YEARS.
11:14:09 AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT THE
11:14:12 PRESENTATION AND SLIDES WERE ALL UPLOADED TO THE WE ARE
11:14:19 EAST TAMPA WEB SITE FOR THEIR CONSUMPTION SECOND THING.
11:14:22 MANY OF YOU WERE AWARE WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE
11:14:23 ELECTIONS PROCESS ON SEPTEMBER 14.
11:14:27 ON THE SLIDE YOU SEE CURRENTLY WANT TO SHARE THE
11:14:28 RESULTS.
11:14:31 WE HAD A TOTAL OF OVER 100 FOLKS THAT VOTED IN THE
11:14:32 ELECTION.
11:14:36 96 OF THOSE BALLOTS WERE CAST IN PERSON.
11:14:44 12 WERE DONE ELECTRONICALLY VIA E-MAIL.
11:14:48 AND THERE YOU WILL SEAT NEW MEMBERS OR RETURNING
11:14:51 MEMBERS TO THE EAST TAMPA CAC AND THEIR TERMS WILL
11:14:56 EXPIRE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2023.
11:15:01 WE JUST HAD THE ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR.
11:15:04 THE CURRENT FAVOR IS FRAN DEBATE.
11:15:09 THE CURRENT CHAIR DOMINIQUE COBB.
11:15:12 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM AND ORIENTATION OF
11:15:19 THE NEW MECHANICS AND RETURNING CAC OCTOBER 21 AT CYRUS
11:15:21 GREENE PARK.
11:15:24 THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
11:15:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS.
11:15:28 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:15:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
11:15:34 THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A MOTION WHEN WE TALK OF NEW
11:15:37 BUSINESS THAT RELATES TO THE TREE GRANT AND THE CLEAN
11:15:37 TEAM.
11:15:41 SO I AM GOING TO MAKE THOSE MOTIONS TO GIVE YOU A HEADS
11:15:41 UP.
11:15:45 I DID TALK TO MISS VAN LOAN.
11:15:48 YOU UNDERSTAND WE ARE GETTING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS FOR
11:15:54 THE TREE TEAM.
11:15:58 AND MOVING SLOW BECAUSE MUSTER MINORITY CONTRACTS.
11:16:01 BUT I KNOW DOING THE RESEARCH, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
11:16:02 MINORITY TREE CUTTERS.
11:16:06 WE HAVE A LOT OF LAWN CARE SERVICES AND THIS HURTS IN
11:16:07 THIS PROCESS.
11:16:10 WASN'T TO GET A PARTNERSHIP WITH THESE TREE COMPANIES
11:16:16 AND FIND AN ARBORIST BECAUSE THE KEY COMPONENT AND
11:16:17 ARBORISTS.
11:16:19 E-MAIL OF TWO ARBORISTS.
11:16:23 WE NEED TO GET THAT MOVING AND I AM GOING TO MAKE A
11:16:25 MOTION THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WHILE WE ARE STILL
11:16:30 TRYING TO WORK ON HOW WE WANT TO CRITIQUE THE MINORITY
11:16:34 SIDE OF IT AND WE NEED TO GET TREES CUT BECAUSE THE
11:16:44 PILES ARE PILING MAKING A MOTION AND CLEAN TEAM.
11:16:47 WHEN WE TALK AND DRIVE AROUND THEY ARE PICKING UP OF
11:16:51 SOMEBODY'S CRASH, BUT WHEN YOU DRIVE AWAY, THE SMALL
11:17:01 DEBRIS WHICH SHOULD BE RAKED UP AND PICKING THE BIG
11:17:05 THINGS UP AND LEAVING THE LITTLE STUFF BEHIND.
11:17:07 I WILL BRING THAT UP.
11:17:08 >> THANK YOU.
11:17:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:17:13 I WANT TO THANK PEOPLE, CEDRIC.
11:17:19 OUR SUPER ADVISOR OF ELECTION CRAIG LATIMER TO
11:17:21 VOLUNTEER TALLYING THE BALLOTS.
11:17:28 WALL THE PEOPLE OF EAST TAMPA AND CAME OUT FOR THE
11:17:29 ELECTION.
11:17:33 THANK BRENDA THROWER FOR HER WORK DURING THE INTERIM OF
11:17:42 THIS AND TO CONGRATULATE THE MEMBERS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:17:45 CEDRIC, THAT ALL FOR YOUR REPORT TODAY?
11:17:46 >> YES, SIR, THANK YOU.
11:17:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:17:56 GOOD MORNING, MISS ORR.
11:17:59 >> GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT
11:18:02 MANAGER AND I WILL START ON THE THIRD SLIDE OF ALL THE
11:18:03 YBOR SLIDES.
11:18:07 THIS HIGHLIGHTS KEY RESPONSES FROM OUR THIRD ITERATION
11:18:10 OF THE YBOR CITY RESIDENT AND WORKER STUDY AND I WOULD
11:18:13 LIKE TO COMMEND OUR CAC BECAUSE THEY REALLY DO LISTEN
11:18:19 TO THE COMMUNITY AND FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET WAS
11:18:23 APPROVED AHEAD OF THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY AND MUCH OF
11:18:25 THE ITEMS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP BY THE RESIDENTS AND
11:18:28 WORKERS WERE ADDRESSED FROM FINANCIAL SUPPORT IN OUR
11:18:31 FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET.
11:18:32 AND THAT WAS GREAT NEWS.
11:18:36 ONE ITEM IN PARTICULAR ON THE SLIDE IS THAT BOTH
11:18:39 DEMOGRAPHICS, BOTH RESIDENTS AND WORKERS, STRONGLY
11:18:43 SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITY'S INTEREST THIS REBRICKING 7TH
11:18:43 AVENUE.
11:18:47 WE ARE INTERESTED IN ENGAGING A CONSULTANT OF A COST
11:18:50 FEASIBILITIES STUDY OF WHAT THAT SHOULD LOOK LIKE.
11:18:58 IF THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH REBRICKING 7TH AVENUE.
11:19:00 JUST A COUPLE OF NOTABLE EVENTS.
11:19:05 THERE IS A HEART OF YBOR -- WE HAD A CAM FEIGN LAUNCHED
11:19:07 EARLIER FOR THE HEART OF TAMPA CAMPAIGN.
11:19:11 AND OUT OF THAT, WE HAVE SEGUED TO THE HEART OF YBOR
11:19:14 COMMUNITY ART CONTEST, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED IN AUGUST.
11:19:23 AND WE ARE ACCEPTING ENTRIES THROUGH OCTOBER 22.
11:19:28 AND THEN THAT LAST SLIDE THERE BACKING UP, THERE IS
11:19:33 IMAGERY A GREAT SATURDAY TURNOUT TO CELEBRATE THE GRAND
11:19:36 OPENING OF THE TAMPA BASEBALL MUSEUM AT THE AL LOPEZ
11:19:40 HOUSE THAT FLANKS CENTENNIAL PARK IN YBOR.
11:19:40 THANK YOU.
11:19:43 THAT CONCLUDES A QUICK YBOR HIGHLIGHT REPORT.
11:19:44 ANY QUESTIONS?
11:19:46 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:19:50 >>BILL CARLSON: PROBABLY LIKE OTHERS HERE I HAVE BEEN
11:19:53 ASKED CONSTANTLY OF THE REBRICKING 7TH.
11:19:56 ANY IDEA WHAT THE TIMELINE WILL BE?
11:19:58 >> WE WILL ENGAGE THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT TO PUT OUT --
11:20:04 NOT AN RFP BUT REQUEST FOR A CONSULTANT TO DO THE COST
11:20:07 FEASIBILITY STUDIES.
11:20:09 NOW THIS HAS COME UP IN OUR LIVE AT THE END OF
11:20:11 SEPTEMBER, I REACHED OUT TO THAT DEPARTMENT TO HELP US
11:20:14 MOVE FORWARD WITH IDENTIFYING A CONSULTANT THAT CAN
11:20:17 HELP US WITH A COST FEASIBILITY STUDY.
11:20:22 WE ARE READY AT THIS TIME AND MONEY READY IN THE FISCAL
11:20:29 '22 PROCESS TO LAUNCH THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
11:20:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:20:34 THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
11:20:35 >> YOU ARE WELCOME.
11:20:38 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, MICHELLE VAN LOAN
11:20:39 AGAIN FOR THE LAST FOUR CRAS.
11:20:43 I DID WANT TO MENTION WE POSTED THE POSITION FOR THE
11:20:47 DOWNTOWN CHANNELSIDE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA
11:20:48 MANAGER LAST WEEK.
11:20:51 IT WAS ALSO POSTED AS THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT
11:20:53 ASSOCIATION WEB SITE.
11:20:58 WE ARE GOING TO THE FRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE THE 26, 27
11:21:01 AND 28 OF OCTOBER AND WE ARE TRYING TO GET IT ON THEIR
11:21:04 CONFERENCE APP AND I WILL START RECEIVING APPLICATION
11:21:08 FROM HR FOLLOWING THE CONFERENCE IN CASE WE HAVE
11:21:11 LAST-MINUTE APPLICATIONS THAT WEEKEND AFTER THE
11:21:12 CONFERENCE.
11:21:15 WE ARE WORKING ON THIS AND THE POSITION IS POSTED.
11:21:18 WITH THAT IF WE CAN BRING --
11:21:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN, ARE YOU GOING TO BE
11:21:24 GIVING -- BRINGING BACK A REPORT OF THAT CONFERENCE?
11:21:26 THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT CONVERT?
11:21:27 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, I CERTAINLY CAN.
11:21:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WOULD LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.
11:21:31 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:21:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING.
11:21:39 I SAW YOUR CHART ON MY DESK.
11:21:41 I WAS WONDERING WITH NEVER RESIDENCE TO YOUR POSITION
11:21:44 AND THE HOUSING AND COMMUNICATION PERSON.
11:21:46 WHEN DO WE LOOK TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD.
11:21:48 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO WE -- RIGHT NOW IT IS IN THE
11:21:49 SYSTEM.
11:21:51 HR JUST IS WAITING BECAUSE WE ARE IN LINE WITH
11:21:52 EVERYBODY ELSE.
11:21:56 ONCE THEY DO ONE LITTLE TWEAK IN THE SYSTEM TO ALLOW ME
11:21:58 TO APPROVE IT, IT WILL GET POSTED.
11:22:01 WE ARE EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN IMMINENTLY.
11:22:05 AND THEN THE NEXT ONE THEY POST WILL BE THE HOUSING
11:22:09 COUNSELOR AND THE COMMUNICATIONS 1 WILL POST RIGHT
11:22:10 BEHIND THAT.
11:22:12 WE HAVE BEEN GOING IN THE ORDER OF FILLING THE
11:22:16 VACANCIES FIRST AND THE POSITIONS THAT WERE NOT
11:22:20 CUSTOMIZED IN JOB DESCRIPTIONS AS WE GO THROUGH.
11:22:24 WE DID NEED FOR EAST TAMPA TO FOCUS ON GETTING THE E.D.
11:22:30 SPECIALIST TO REPLACE MR. MARKS FILLED AS A PRIORITY.
11:22:35 WE HAVE RECEIVED ALL THOSE APPLICATIONS AND WE ARE
11:22:40 CONTINUING TO SET UP INTERVIEWS, CEDRIC AND MYSELF TO
11:22:41 GO THROUGH THAT.
11:22:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE ONLY ONE I QUESTION IS THE
11:22:44 COMMUNICATIONS PERSON.
11:22:46 OVER A YEAR, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT, AND I
11:22:48 THOUGHT IT WAS ALREADY IN THE SYSTEM.
11:22:50 I WAS IN A MEETING THE OTHER NIGHT AND TALKING OF
11:22:53 COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION WITH PROGRAMMING.
11:22:57 I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT OPTIMAL ONE, WE WOULD
11:22:58 HAVE A PERSON WORKING.
11:23:01 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I WOULD HAVE HOPED BUT BEING
11:23:05 SHORT STAFFED FOR ME, I HAVE TO PICK THE DEADLINES AT
11:23:05 TIMES FIRST.
11:23:08 YES, ALL OF THAT IS FULLY MOVING FORWARD AND WE FULLY
11:23:12 FUNDED IT IN THE FY '22 BUDGET.
11:23:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:23:18 BUT FOR ME RIGHT NOW, THE TWO MOST CRITICAL POSITIONS
11:23:20 THAT WE NEED TO GET FILLED RIGHT AWAY IS THE
11:23:23 COMMUNICATION PERSON SO THEY CAN BE ABLE TO DESIGN, GET
11:23:26 FLYERS AND STUFF OUT TO THE RESIDENTS ABOUT THESE
11:23:29 PROGRAMS BECAUSE CURRENTLY I AM E-MAILING PEOPLE ABOUT
11:23:31 GETTING THE INFORMATION IN THE COMMUNITIES.
11:23:35 THE OTHER DAY REFERENCING THE CLEAN SITUATION WITH MR.
11:23:39 MCCREA, FOUR OR FIVE ELDERLY PEOPLE ON BOOKER T. HAVE
11:23:40 NO CLUE.
11:23:42 I AM PUSHING THE COMMUNICATION.
11:23:47 AND IT IS PIVOTAL TO CHANGE THE DYNAMICS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:23:51 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: UNDERSTAND.
11:23:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I KNOW YOU ARE WORKING HARD.
11:24:00 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE I.
11:24:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:24:08 >>BILL CARLSON: THE CONSTITUENTS ARE ASKING US TO
11:24:11 COMMUNICATE WITH THEM MORE AND WE AS A CRA HAVE NO
11:24:15 COMMUNICATION APPARATUS.
11:24:18 FOR INSTANCE, WE WERE TALKING OF THE REBRICKING OF 7TH
11:24:21 AVENUE SETTING PEOPLE'S EXPECTATION IN YBOR.
11:24:24 LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THE ROAD WILL BE RIPPED UP, ALL
11:24:26 THAT STUFF, NEEDS TO BE COMMUNICATED AND NOT AN EFFORT
11:24:32 TO PROMOTE THE CRA, BUT TO KIND OF GIVE INFORMATION TO
11:24:34 THE CONSTITUENTS.
11:24:38 AND THOSE WONDER WHY WE ARE SUBSIDIZING CRAS SO WE NEED
11:24:40 TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM AS WELL.
11:24:41 THANK YOU.
11:24:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN.
11:24:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THE DOWNTOWN CRA, AGAIN, I AM
11:24:48 GOING TO HIT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT ARE PRIORITY
11:24:50 FOR THE CRA BOARD FOR THIS MONTH.
11:24:53 WE DID HOLD THE SEPTEMBER PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE FINAL
11:24:55 MASTER PLAN DESIGN SELECTION.
11:24:58 IT WAS WELL ATTENDED AND VERY GOOD DISCUSSION AND NOW
11:25:03 THAT PROJECT IS MOVING FORWARD AND WE ARE EXPECTING
11:25:08 100% CONSTRUCTION FOR KID MASON COMMUNITY CENTER IN
11:25:11 OCTOBER SO SOON AND THOSE WILL GO THROUGH REVIEW AND BE
11:25:15 ABLE TO ISSUE TO GO OUT FOR BID FOR A CONTRACTOR TO
11:25:18 THEN GET THAT CONTRACT IMPLEMENTED.
11:25:23 SO WITH THAT, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT DOWNTOWN?
11:25:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
11:25:26 DOWNTOWN CRA?
11:25:29 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISS VAN LOAN.
11:25:32 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT, KIMMONS AT
11:25:38 CHANNEL DISTRICT CAC GOING THROUGH LAST NIGHT AND THE
11:25:39 TIMING OF VARIOUS PROJECTS.
11:25:44 WE ARE FAIRLY COMPLETE WITH CHANNELSIDE DRIVE YOU ARE
11:25:49 WATCHING SOUTH OF KENNEDY AND WHITING.
11:25:53 AND CHANNEL DISTRICTS YOU ARE STARTING TO SEE WITH
11:25:56 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE, THE LANDSCAPING AND WONDERFUL PAVING
11:26:00 ON SIDEWALKS AS IT MOVES FORWARD AND LANDSCAPING GOING
11:26:00 IN.
11:26:05 WE WILL BE DONE REASONABLY SOON WITH CHANNELSIDE DRIVE
11:26:08 AND BACK UP TO TWIGGS AND SOME OF THE OTHERS,
11:26:12 CUMBERLAND -- TWIGGS, CUMBERLAND AND WHITING.
11:26:15 SORRY, I CAN'T NAME THEM AS QUICKLY OFF MY HEAD AS
11:26:19 QUICKLY AS THE CRA MANAGER DOES.
11:26:24 KIMMONS WENT OVER THIS WITH OUR CAC LAST NIGHT TALKING
11:26:30 OF TIMINGS AND TRAFFIC PATTERNS TO KEEP THE TRAFFIC AND
11:26:34 NOT IMPEDING THE BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS AS WE MOVE
11:26:36 THROUGH THE STREET PROJECTS.
11:26:38 ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT CHANNELSIDE?
11:26:40 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:26:44 QUICK COMMENT, MISS VAN LOAN, I HAVE GONE BY THE
11:26:46 CONSTRUCTION ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE FROM KENNEDY TO THE
11:26:47 ROUNDABOUT.
11:26:51 EVEN WITH THE CONSTRUCTION GOING ON, I FIND IT MOVING
11:26:52 MUCH SMOOTHER.
11:26:52 THANK YOU.
11:26:53 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU.
11:26:58 FOR TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVER FRONT, AT THE LAST MEETING OF
11:27:03 THE CRA BOARD, WE HAD THE REQUEST BY THE DEVELOPER AND
11:27:07 TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT TO HAVE A COMMUNITY
11:27:09 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TEXT AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE CULTURAL
11:27:14 ASSETS AS PART OF A PRIORITY FOR THAT CRA.
11:27:17 THE -- WE DID GO TO THE CAC.
11:27:19 THEY DID APPROVE THAT PARAGRAPH AND ADDITION TO THE
11:27:21 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:27:26 AND THAT WILL BE A RESO ON YOUR AGENDA LATER THIS
11:27:31 MORNING AND WE WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH THE APPROVAL
11:27:35 PROCESS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITIZENS AND PUBLIC
11:27:35 HEARINGS.
11:27:38 THAT IS IT FOR TAMPA HEIGHTS.
11:27:40 IF ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:27:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS OF TAMPA
11:27:43 HEIGHTS.
11:27:44 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:27:46 >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE BEGUN GOING AROUND THE CITY
11:27:49 TALKING OF ARTS PEOPLE AND DISCUSSION OF ADDING ANOTHER
11:27:53 TAMPA HEIGHTS CRA, AND I WANT TO SAY, AS I SAID BEFORE,
11:27:59 I AM TOTALLY AGAINST ADDING ADDITIONAL CRAS, BUT IF
11:28:01 THERE ARE ART ASSETS WE SHOULD PUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
11:28:04 OR THINGS WE SHOULD INVEST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE
11:28:05 SHOULD HEAR THOSE.
11:28:08 I THINK CRAS ARE FOR COMMUNITIES THAT DON'T HAVE
11:28:13 DISCIPLINE IN SPENDING MONEY ON AN AREA THAT NEED IT.
11:28:16 AND IF THERE ARE ANY THAT TAMPA HEIGHTS KNEADS NEEDS
11:28:19 OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT AREA LOOK AT THEM SERIOUSLY AND
11:28:26 COME OUT OF THE LARGER BUDGET, NOT IN A CRA.
11:28:30 BECAUSE CRAS ARE A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT THAT TAKE MONEY
11:28:33 AWAY FROM OTHER AREAS AND IF WE LOOK AT IT
11:28:37 STRATEGICALLY LIKE THE MAYOR IN THE MOBILITY AND PARKS
11:28:40 STUDY, WE WILL LOOK AT AREAS THAT ARE MOST NEEDED
11:28:42 INSTEAD OF MONEY TRAPPED IN ONE PARTICULAR AREA.
11:28:43 THANK YOU.
11:28:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:28:48 THANK YOU, MISS VAN LOAN.
11:28:48 OF.
11:28:51 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: LAST CRA IS CENTRAL PARK.
11:28:53 WE HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE YBOR SOUTH AND THE
11:28:54 DEVELOPMENT GOING THERE.
11:28:58 THEY ARE HEADED FOR THEIR FIRST HEARING ON THE ZONING
11:29:01 TO HELP MAKE THE PROJECT MOVE FORWARD NOVEMBER 18, AND
11:29:06 WE ALSO HAVE THE BUILDINGS OF THE INDEPENDENT AND THE
11:29:09 LEGACY OF THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY AT ENCORE THAT
11:29:12 WILL BE OPENING SOON ADDING 500 MORE ADDITIONAL
11:29:16 MARKET-RATE UNITS IN ADDITION TO THE AFFORDABLE AND LOW
11:29:18 INCOME SENIOR HOUSING THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN
11:29:27 ESTABLISHED AT THAT PROPERTY AND ANY QUESTIONS WITH --
11:29:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:29:30 THANK YOU, MISS VAN LOAN.
11:29:34 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER 5.
11:29:38 AT THE LAST CRA MEETING I WAS REQUESTED BY COUNCILMAN
11:29:42 CARLSON TO COME BACK TO YOU AND REVIEW OUR ORG CHART
11:29:47 AND OUR ASSOCIATED STAFF COSTS AND ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
11:29:51 ABOUT YCDC AND THE YBOR CITY CAC AND STAFF.
11:29:54 THIS IS OUR ORG CHART.
11:29:56 THIS WAS APPROVED AS PART OF OUR BUDGET.
11:30:02 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 15 POSITIONS WITH THE THREE NEW
11:30:05 POSITIONS CREATED IN THE FC '22 BUDGET OF THE 12
11:30:06 EXISTING POSITIONS.
11:30:11 TWO OF THEM ARE VACANT, BEING THE ED SPECIALIST IN EAST
11:30:16 TAMPA WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF FILLING AND REPLACING
11:30:21 VALERIE FARRELL FOR THE DOWNTOWN.
11:30:24 THE ED SPECIALIST.
11:30:30 THE OS WHICH IS EVA JACKSON WHO -- SORRY, EVA HUGHES
11:30:35 WHO SITS IN EAST COMPANY AND HAS DUTIES FOR THE
11:30:38 DEPARTMENT AND RECONCILIATION AND PROCUREMENT PROCESS
11:30:40 SHE DOES FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
11:30:41 THE HOUSING COUNSELOR.
11:30:46 THAT WILL BE FOUR POSITIONS WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:30:49 IN DREW PARK, THE CRA MANAGER AND THE SUPPORT ED
11:30:53 SPECIALIST FOR DREW PARK AND EAST TAMPA.
11:30:56 IN YBOR, THE CRA MANAGER AND TWO PROFESSIONAL
11:31:02 SPECIALISTS, ONE IS AN E.D. SPECIALIST AND ONE IS URBAN
11:31:05 PLANNING 3.
11:31:07 THREE FULL TIME POSITIONS IN THE YBOR AREA.
11:31:10 AND DOWNTOWN CHANNEL DISTRICT, TAMPA HEIGHTS AND
11:31:14 CENTRAL PARK, WE HAVE THE CRA MANAGER AND THAT URBAN
11:31:17 DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COORDINATOR AND WITH ALL OF THAT IS
11:31:21 OUR O.S. THAT IS DOWNTOWN, THAT, AGAIN, SERVING
11:31:25 PRIMARILY THE FOUR CRAS DOWNTOWN AND ADDITIONAL
11:31:31 ASSISTANCE TO THE OTHER CRAS AS NEEDED AND ALSO IS THAT
11:31:34 PRIMARY O.S. FOR DREW PARK AND WEST COMPANY.
11:31:39 FOR THE THREE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS, AN AIDE SO WE HAVE
11:31:43 AN ACTUAL AIDE IN THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE DIRECTOR.
11:31:46 THE COMMUNICATION POSITION AND ANY EXTRA HOUSING
11:31:47 COUNSELOR.
11:31:49 ANY QUESTIONS OF THE POSITIONS THEMSELVES AND THEN I
11:31:51 WILL GET MOORE DETAIL.
11:31:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:31:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS VAN LOAN, EXPLAIN WHAT THE E.D.
11:31:59 SPECIALIST IS?
11:32:01 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THAT IS WHAT I USED TO DO.
11:32:05 THE CLASSIFICATION TITLE TO THE PROCESS IMPLEMENTATION
11:32:08 STAFF.
11:32:13 THE CAC MANAGER AND THE ASSIGNED PERSON THAT HELPS WITH
11:32:14 THE GRANT.
11:32:24 WHEN I WASN'T AN E.D. SPECIALIST, ASHLYN HELPS MR. NINO
11:32:30 WRITE THE GRANTS AND PROCESSING AND THE PAPERWORK THAT
11:32:33 YOU PROCESSED AND APPROVED FOR EAST TAMPA.
11:32:35 THE FACADE, THE TREE TRIMMING GRANT.
11:32:36 THEY STAFF THE SUBCOMMITTEES.
11:32:39 THEY DO ALL OF THAT FOLLOW-UP.
11:32:46 WHEN WE DID CONSTRUCTION, 2 2ND STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
11:32:51 AND MOBILITY AND PARKS AND REC, WHEN WE PARTNER WITH
11:32:52 THEM FOR PARKS IMPROVEMENT.
11:32:56 YOUR E.D. SPECIALISTS ARE YOUR PRODUCT IMPLEMENTATION
11:33:00 PEOPLE ASSIGN.
11:33:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHY DOES THE YBOR HAVE A E.D.
11:33:06 SPECIALIST AND URBAN PLANNER.
11:33:10 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YOU HAVE STAFF OVER 20 YEARS,
11:33:12 WHERE WE HAVE HAD TURNOVER.
11:33:17 THE YBOR STAFF CARINE LONDONBRINK CAME WITH AN EXISTING
11:33:20 POSITION WITH THE CITY AND THAT WAS HER TITLE IN THE
11:33:21 EXISTING POSITION.
11:33:25 WHEN SHE WAS MOVED INTO THE YBOR CRA, THEY KEPT THAT
11:33:27 TITLE WITH HER WAY BACK WHEN.
11:33:30 SHE HAS BEEN HERE MORE THAN 20 YEARS.
11:33:33 AND THERE HAS NOT BEEN A NEED IN THE SENSE THAT HER
11:33:36 JOSH -- HER JOB TITLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE STILL IN
11:33:39 ALIGNMENT WITH THAT JOB DESCRIPTION SO IT HAS NOT BEEN
11:33:45 NEEDED TO -- TO REDO THAT CLASSIFICATION AT SOME POINT
11:33:48 WHEN SHE DOES LEAVE THE CITY AND RETIRE, WE WILL LOOK
11:33:54 AT RECLASSIFYING THAT POSITION.
11:33:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE ONLY REASON I ASK THAT EAST TAMPA
11:34:01 HAS THE LARGEST CRA AND VERSUS EAST TAMPA WHICH ONE.
11:34:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WITH EAST TAMPA, PART OF THIS HAD
11:34:05 TO DO WITH THE RECESSION.
11:34:09 WE -- EAST TAMPA USED TO HAVE TWO FULL-TIME E.D.
11:34:15 SPECIALISTS, CRA MANAGER AND THE O.S. WHICH WAS EAST
11:34:15 TAMPA.
11:34:18 AS WE WENT INTO THE RECESSION, AS OUR STAFF LEFT
11:34:23 THROUGH ATTRITION, WHEN LORNA AUSTIN LEFT, THEY HAVE
11:34:26 ELIMINATED THAT POSITION AND LEFT WITH JUST ME.
11:34:31 AS WE LOST -- LOST AN EMPLOYEE THAT WAS SUPPORTING
11:34:36 DOWNTOWN UNDER DREW PARK, THEY JUST EXPANDED MY -- MY
11:34:39 RESPONSIBILITIES AND WE ALL WENT FROM, AGAIN, THAT 19
11:34:42 DOWN TO 10 POSITIONS.
11:34:46 AND YBOR, WHEN THEIR O.S. LEFT, THEY USED TO HAVE A
11:34:53 FULL TIME O.S., AND WHEN THAT PERSON -- LEFT THE
11:34:55 POSITION TO GO TO A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT, THAT POSITION
11:34:56 WAS ELIMINATED.
11:35:02 MUCH OF THE DOWNSIZING IS DUE TO VOLUNTARY ATTRITION OF
11:35:05 THE EMPLOYEES AND THE OTHER STAFF WERE LONG TERM.
11:35:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MY ONLY CONCERN NOW WITH THE AMOUNT
11:35:09 OF PROJECTS THAT ARE NOW GOING ON IN EAST TAMPA.
11:35:12 AND WE ARE REMOVING SOME OTHER THINGS THAT MAY BE
11:35:13 COMING ON THE HORIZON.
11:35:16 I LOOK AT THE WORKLOAD TO GET THINGS DONE AND I KNOW
11:35:18 YOU GUYS ARE WORKING VERY HARD.
11:35:22 I KNOW YOU WORK VERY, VERY HARD MICHELLE BUT I WANT TO
11:35:25 MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE STAFF TO GET THE JOB DONE SO
11:35:28 PEOPLE WHO WON'T BE WAITING FOR PROJECTS OR WAITING TO
11:35:29 HEAR BACK.
11:35:33 THAT IS MY CONCERN WHEN I SAW THE POSITION AND THE
11:35:34 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART.
11:35:36 DOES EAST TAMPA NEED MORE HELP BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
11:35:39 BIGGEST AND NOW THEY ARE GETTING MORE PROJECTS ON THE
11:35:40 TABLE NOW TO MOVE.
11:35:42 AS IT RELATES TO THAT.
11:35:50 THAT'S WHY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THESE ACRONYMS, THE YCDC.
11:35:53 I MISSED YOU ON THE -- MR. CITRO.
11:35:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SORRY?
11:36:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TO SATURDAY.
11:36:06 AND PEOPLE ARE TELLING ME OF THE YCDC AND CAC AND CRA
11:36:08 AND CONFUSING TO PEOPLE.
11:36:10 I GO TO THE PARTNERSHIP MEETING AND PEOPLE ARE
11:36:11 CONFUSED.
11:36:14 THAT IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNICATION
11:36:16 PERSON TO TELL WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE.
11:36:19 PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY KWON FUSED AND WHO HAS THE WRITE TO
11:36:20 DO THIS OR THAT.
11:36:24 AND THAT'S WHY I AM SO ADAMANT ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION
11:36:27 POSITION AND TAKING A LOOK AT ADDITIONAL PERSON WITH
11:36:30 EAST TAMPA.
11:36:32 BECAUSE I AM SAYING THE AMOUNT OF WORK AND YOU ARE
11:36:35 OVERLOADED AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOMEBODY TO HELP YOU
11:36:36 AS WELL, BUT WE NEED SOMEBODY ELSE.
11:36:42 TOO MANY THINGS GOING ON IN EAST TAMPA AND MR. MCCRAE
11:36:44 AND NEW HIMSELF AND HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYBODY THAT WILL
11:36:45 HELP HIM.
11:36:47 WE ARE LOOKING TO ADD TO BE THAT.
11:36:50 YOU GET BACK WITH US ON THAT, BUT I THINK THERE NEEDS
11:36:53 TO BE AN ADDITIONAL PERSON TO GET THESE PROJECTS
11:36:54 MOVING.
11:36:55 THANK YOU.
11:36:57 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: LATER AS I GET INTO IT, IT TALK
11:37:01 OF THAT YCDC AND PARTNERSHIP.
11:37:03 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
11:37:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:37:07 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I GET AND OTHERS
11:37:11 TOO, SOME ARE CONCERNED OF OVERHEAD WITH CRAS AND WANT
11:37:14 TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT PLANNING SOMETHING THAT THE
11:37:16 CITY SHOULD BE DOING INSTEAD OF THE CRA.
11:37:18 AND NUMBER TWO, THEY ARE WONDERING WHY WE ARE ADDING
11:37:23 STAFF AND WHY -- LIKE AT YCDC WHY WE HAVE RENT AND
11:37:24 THESE OTHER THINGS.
11:37:29 WHY CAN'T WE JUST USE MINIMAL STAFF AND LOOK AT IT AS A
11:37:30 GRANT-MAKING ORGANIZATION.
11:37:35 IS THERE -- YOU SAID -- THE -- THE STATEWIDE
11:37:36 CONFERENCE.
11:37:39 SOME SORT OF BENCHMARK OR RULE OF THUMB BASED ON THE
11:37:42 NUMBER OF PROJECTS OR MONEY ROLLING THROUGH.
11:37:45 IS IT THE PERCENTAGE OF THE MONEY IN EAST DISTRICT?
11:37:48 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WHEN WE START OUT -- THERE ARE A
11:37:50 COUPLE OF BENCHMARKS.
11:37:53 FOR US WE TRY TO LOOK AT KEEPING OUR ADMINISTRATIVE
11:37:59 COSTS VERY LOW AS A PERCENT OF EACH CRA AND YOU AS A
11:38:01 CRA AGENCY, TOTAL BUDGET.
11:38:04 SO WHEN WE DO THAT BUDGET BOOK, THAT WE GIVE YOU -- AND
11:38:08 WE ARE GETTING SOME PRINTED, RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF
11:38:11 THE OVERVIEW, WE LIST EVERY YEAR FOR YOU WHAT ARE
11:38:14 ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ARE, AND WE DON'T LEAVE IT UP TO
11:38:17 YOU LOOK AT WHAT IT WAS LAST MONTH OR LAST YEAR.
11:38:21 WE ACTUALLY POINT OUT IT WENT UP BY .2 AND IT WENT DOWN
11:38:22 AND WHAT IT HAS BEEN.
11:38:29 AND I BELIEVE THIS YEAR WE ARE AT 5 .SOMETHING PERCENT
11:38:33 AND LOOKING AT AN ORGANIZATION OF A ADMINISTRATIVE
11:38:35 COST.
11:38:36 PART OF THAT TOTAL BUDGET.
11:38:39 IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT ALLOCATING.
11:38:43 IT VARIES BY CRA.
11:38:46 SO MANY CRA EXAMPLES AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORKS AND
11:38:47 SIZES.
11:38:49 WHEN EAST TAMPA FIRST STARTED, WE HAD THE COMMUNITY
11:38:52 OUTREACH AND A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
11:38:57 AND SO MOST OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ARE HANDLED
11:39:00 BY CITY DEPARTMENTS AND OUR STAFF ATTEND THOSE MEETINGS
11:39:01 AND ARE INVOLVED.
11:39:04 WE ARE NOW EVOLVING THAT WE NOT HAVE HAD IN THE PAST OF
11:39:06 DEVELOPING MORE AND MORE PROGRAMS AND GRANT PROGRAMS
11:39:11 WHICH WITH MUCH MORE PROCESS INTENSIVE AND TIME
11:39:15 CONSUMING TO MANAGE ALL OF THAT AND TO TAKE THE TIME TO
11:39:19 PROVIDE GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE TO THE APPLICANTS AND
11:39:21 WALK THROUGH THAT.
11:39:24 UNTIL WE GOT TO THIS YEAR, MOST OF OUR GRANTS WERE --
11:39:27 WERE GRANTS THAT WE PIGGY BACKED OFF OF AND SUPPORTED
11:39:30 HCD AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND MORE OF A MATTER OF US
11:39:35 KEEPING UP TO DATE AND A BUDGETING TRAFFICKING.
11:39:38 WE HAD OUR FACADE GRANT WHICH IS OUR BIGGEST AND EVEN
11:39:40 IN YBOR TWO SMALLER GRANTS.
11:39:44 THEY HAD ONE EACH AND A SPONSORSHIP GRANTS.
11:39:47 NEW GRANTS WITH THE TREE-TRIMMING GRANTS, WE WILL BE
11:39:50 NEEDING MORE STAFF SO WHAT WE WILL LOOK AT AS
11:39:54 INCREASING STAFF, AND THAT IS WHY I DID NOT ASK FOR
11:39:57 MORE UNTIL WE SEE WHAT THAT WORKLOAD IS, UNTIL WE SEE
11:40:01 WHAT WE DO AS FARMING OUT THE ADMINISTRATION OF SOME OF
11:40:03 THE GRANTS AND WHAT WE DO IN-HOUSE.
11:40:07 SO I WOULD LIKE TO GET EAST TAMPA STAFF TO SEE WHERE WE
11:40:07 ARE.
11:40:08 WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
11:40:18 AND IF WE NEED TO ADD SOMEONE MIDYEAR OR IN THE FY '23
11:40:19 BUDGET.
11:40:22 DOWNTOWN, PER MANAGING FOUR CRAS.
11:40:27 AND WAS LESS ACTIVITY, AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND
11:40:31 COMMUNITY BECOMES MORE ENGAGED WE WILL LOOK TO EVALUATE
11:40:36 STAFF CAPACITY IN THE -- AND IN THE COMING YEARS AND
11:40:39 SEE IF WE NEED TO ADD SUPPORT THERE ALSO.
11:40:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:40:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I RESPECT WHAT MR. CARLSON IS SAYING
11:40:49 BUT THE BIGGEST PICTURE THAT THE CONSTITUENTS ARE TIRED
11:40:52 OF WAITING FOR THE PROJECTS TO GET DONE.
11:40:54 THEY ARE TIRED OF THE APPLICATIONS NOT BEING PROCESSED
11:40:58 AND SO MANY AND ONLY ONE PERSON TRYING TO HANDLE SUCH A
11:40:58 BIG JOB.
11:41:02 THAT'S WHY I THINK WE NEED TO OUTSOURCE SOME OF THAT.
11:41:04 BUT IT HAS GOT TO MOVE BECAUSE -- THE PROGRAM IS
11:41:06 WORKING, GENTLEMEN.
11:41:10 IT IS WORKING AND WE GOT TO GET IT MOVING BECAUSE WE
11:41:12 ARE TALKING ABOUT ALMOST 400 PEOPLE AND PEOPLE ARE
11:41:15 TRYING TO APPLY ON TOP OF THAT FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
11:41:19 WE ARE GETTING WAY, WAY BEHIND AND PEOPLE ARE GETTING
11:41:22 ANTSY AND THAT'S WHY I AM TALKING OF THE STAFF, MR.
11:41:23 CARLSON.
11:41:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:41:29 >>BILL CARLSON: I AGREE WITH YOU ON EAST TAMPA.
11:41:32 THE QUESTIONS I GET MOSTLY IS ON YBOR.
11:41:35 BUT WORKLOAD AND PERCENTAGE, SOME ANSWER WE CAN GIVE TO
11:41:39 THE PUBLIC AND HAVE THE BENCHMARK TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
11:41:41 LOOKING AT IT CORRECTLY.
11:41:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU ARE CORRECT TO
11:41:46 YOUR POINT.
11:41:48 IT IS WORKING SO WELL THAT MORE AND MORE RESIDENTS
11:41:51 WOULD LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HOW WELL THIS IS
11:41:52 WORKING.
11:41:56 AND WITHOUT THIS CRA, IT WOULDN'T WORK.
11:42:01 SO -- YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE YING AND YANG OF -- IT IS
11:42:04 SO GOOD THAT WE NEED TO BRING IN MORE STAFFING FOR IT.
11:42:05 SO YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR.
11:42:07 MISS VAN LOAN, PLEASE.
11:42:11 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YING AND YANG.
11:42:13 HAVEN'T HEARD THAT.
11:42:18 HECHT AND CHONG BUT YING AND YANG.
11:42:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MY LANGUAGE, I WILL TALK IT.
11:42:21 I WILL SPEAK IT.
11:42:24 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO IF WE CAN HAVE THE POWERPOINT
11:42:25 AGAIN, THANK YOU.
11:42:26 ACTUAL COSTS.
11:42:31 THESE ARE THE SALARY COSTS AND A FEW THINGS THAT GO
11:42:32 INTO THE SALARY COST BY CRA.
11:42:35 THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AND THEIR LEVEL AND
11:42:36 CLASSIFICATION.
11:42:41 IN EAST TAMPA, THEY HAVE FOUR POSITIONS AND A LITTLE
11:42:44 BIT HIGHER THAN YBOR AND SOME OF THAT IS DRIVEN BY THE
11:42:49 FACT THAT WITH THE NEW E.D. SPECIALIST AND NEW HOUSING
11:42:53 COUNSELOR, THEY WILL BE STARTING AT MORE OF A LOWER TO
11:42:57 MID GRADE SALARY AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, EVA
11:43:04 HUGHES, EAST TAMPA BAY, ONLY 60% OF HER SALARY AND THE
11:43:09 REST IS DIVIDED UP OF SOME OF THE OTHER CRAS THAT SHE
11:43:10 ASSISTS.
11:43:14 IN YBOR, TWO OF THE STAFF PEOPLE ARE TOPPED OUT AT THE
11:43:16 COST OF THEIR PAY RANGE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN HERE SO
11:43:19 MANY YEARS AND YOUR STAFFING COSTS ARE DICTATED THAT
11:43:23 THE LONGER PEOPLE ARE HERE.
11:43:27 THEY GET BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT WITH THEIR JOBS AND
11:43:30 HANDLE MORE WORK WHEN THEY GET MORE EFFICIENT IN THEIRS
11:43:36 JOBS AND THEY ALSO HAVE THE EXTRA COST OF PAYING PEOPLE
11:43:39 TEN PLUS YEARS VERSUS A YEAR OR TWO.
11:43:43 YBOR HAD A MUCH MORE AS I MENTIONED EARLIER STABLE
11:43:46 WORKFORCE JUST IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS SO THEY HAVE
11:43:51 NOT SEEN THAT REDUCTION AND IN THERE STAFFING COST
11:43:57 BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT HAD AN INFLUX OF NEW EMPLOYEES.
11:43:59 ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SALARIES?
11:44:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:44:03 PLEASE PROCEED.
11:44:06 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS WHAT
11:44:08 COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID ABOUT OVERHEAD.
11:44:15 SO YBOR PAYS RENT BECAUSE THEY USED TO BE AT THE GAC.
11:44:21 AND BACK IN '07, EVERYBODY WAS AT THE GAC.
11:44:23 YBOR -- THE GERMAN-AMERICAN CLUB.
11:44:27 I APOLOGIZE AND WHEN EAST TAMPA HAD THE D-3 STATION
11:44:31 THAT WAS BUILT, WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD OURSELVES SET OF
11:44:35 SUITES AND A MEETING ROOM AS PARTS OF THAT FACILITY SO
11:44:38 WE COULD BE IN THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
11:44:43 AT THE SAME TIME, THE CRA BOARD AND THE DEPARTMENT'S
11:44:47 ADMINISTRATION WANTED TO MOVE THE OFFICES FOR YBOR OUT
11:44:49 INTO THE COMMUNITY SO THEY WERE MORE ACCESSIBLE JUST
11:44:52 LIKE YOU HAVE THAT FOCUS ON COMMUNITY POLICING, THEY
11:44:56 HAVE THE FOCUS OF US BEING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY
11:44:59 ACCESSIBLE WHERE THE BUSINESSES ARE HAPPENING TO ACCESS
11:45:02 US REGULARLY AND THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CAN BE MUCH
11:45:05 MR. ORGANIC THAN COMING TO AN OFFICE BUILDING AND
11:45:09 COMING UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE
11:45:13 DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS AND HAVE SPICE FOR OUR
11:45:14 MEETINGS.
11:45:17 ORIGINALLY THAT IS THE DECISION TO PAY RENT.
11:45:21 AT SOME POINT IF THE CRA BOARD DOES NOT WANT TO PAY
11:45:23 RENT, WE WILL HAVE TO FIND -- WORK WITH THE
11:45:26 ADMINISTRATION TO FIND A CITY FACILITY THAT WE CAN PUT
11:45:28 THEM IN.
11:45:33 WE ARE LIMITED A IN CITY FACILITIES WITHIN THE YBOR CRA
11:45:33 DISTRICT.
11:45:36 AND THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE A DISCUSSION WHERE WE WOULD
11:45:39 COME BACK TO YOU AND SAY HERE ARE SOME OPTIONS AND WHAT
11:45:46 IS THE TRADE-OFF AS TO NOT HAVING THAT RENT EACH YEAR
11:45:48 OR NOT HAVING THEM IMMEDIATELY IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:45:51 IF THAT IS SOMETHING THE CRA BOARD CAN PURSUE, WE CAN
11:45:54 HAVE THAT DISCUSSION IN THE COMING YEAR AS THAT AT
11:45:58 LEAST HAS ANOTHER EIGHT MONTHS OR A YEAR -- I THINK IT
11:46:00 EXPIRES APRIL '23.
11:46:03 UNTIL THEN, WE ARE IN THAT LEASE.
11:46:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:46:08 >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK THERE IS A THIRD OPTION TO
11:46:11 SHARE SPACE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE AND THE PROPOSAL I HEARD
11:46:13 IS YBOR CHAMBER.
11:46:17 >> IF WE SHARE SPACE, THEY HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE 20 TO 30
11:46:21 PEOPLE SHOWING UP TO A CAC MEETING AND PARKING IN AN
11:46:22 ADJACENT AREA.
11:46:25 THE CHAMBER HAVEN'T APPROACHED US OF SHARE SPACE.
11:46:29 IF THE CRA BOARD WILL LIKE US TO LOOK AT THAT.
11:46:31 WE WERE LOOKING AT OTHER OPTIONS WHEN WE KNEW THAT THE
11:46:34 LEASE WAS COP COMING UP.
11:46:34 THAT IS DISCUSSIONS.
11:46:38 WE LOOKED AT THE OTHER CASITAS AND TALKED TO THE CITY
11:46:42 AS THEY LOOK AT THEIR CASITAS ON CENTENNIAL PARK AND
11:46:45 THIS IS MEETING SPACE SO NOT JUST OFFICE SPACE.
11:46:48 HOW DO WE ACCOMMODATE THE CAC MEETINGS.
11:46:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:46:55 MISS VAN LOAN.
11:46:58 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO, AGAIN, MOST OF THE CONFUSION
11:47:02 LATELY THAT WE GET IS FROM THE YCDC AND WHAT IT IS AND
11:47:04 WHAT IT IS VERSUS OUR STAFF.
11:47:06 AND WE DID TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS BACK IN
11:47:12 FEBRUARY ON A RELATED MOTION THAT WAS MADE ABOUT OUR
11:47:15 CDC MEMBERSHIP.
11:47:18 I WANT TO CLEAR UP FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING THE LISTENING
11:47:20 PUBLIC ABOUT THE YCDC.
11:47:27 THE YCDC IS A NONPROFIT STAND-ALONE ORGANIZATION.
11:47:34 PER NOT THE YCDC YOUR CA C.
11:47:37 THEY DO NOT RECEIVE ANY FUNDING FROM THE CRA.
11:47:41 WE DO THE NO PAY THEM ANY MONEY FOR STAFFING, FOR
11:47:43 OPERATIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE.
11:47:44 THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY STAFF.
11:47:49 WITH THAT SAID, WHAT THEY DO DO IS RECEIVE REVENUES
11:47:54 THROUGH THE PAVER ENGRAVER AND THEY GET DONATIONS.
11:47:57 SEVERAL FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THEY GET
11:47:58 DONATIONS.
11:48:02 THEY ARE AT A TABLE AND THEY USE THOSE DONATIONS FOR
11:48:07 SMALL COMMUNITY-FOCUSED EXPENDITURES AS I NOTE BEFORE.
11:48:10 THEY HAVE AN AVERAGE OF $20,000 THAT GOES UP AND DOWN
11:48:14 DEPENDING ON THE PAVER PROGRAM AND THEIR DONATIONS AND
11:48:16 THEY HAVE A SMALL BUDGET THROUGH THEIR CHECKING
11:48:17 ACCOUNT.
11:48:25 THEIR EXPERIENCES FOR THE PAVER PROGRAM 37 WE USE THEM
11:48:30 AS A CRA FOR A PASS-THROUGH FOR THE GRANTS.
11:48:34 NO FEE OR ADMINISTRATIVE FEE THAT GOES THROUGH THEIR
11:48:35 CHECKING ACCOUNT.
11:48:38 STAYS WITH THE YCDC CHECKING ACCOUNT.
11:48:43 WE PAY THE YCDC THE EXACT AMOUNT FOR THE GRANT THAT IS
11:48:45 PAID OUT TO THE GRANT APPLICATION.
11:48:49 THERE WAS AN ANNUAL CIGARS FOR SOLDIER PROGRAM SO EVERY
11:48:54 YEAR, THEY SPEND $500 TO BUY SOME CARS AND SHIP THEM
11:48:56 TO OUR SOLDIERS THAT ARE OVERSEAS.
11:48:59 BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY COMING IN, WHETHER THE
11:49:03 AMBASSADORS OR ANYONE COMING IN, THEY PAY FOR WATER
11:49:06 COOLER AND THE WATER BOTTLES AT THE OFFICE.
11:49:09 IF THEY SEND OUT FLOWERS FOR CONDOLENCES OR ILLNESS
11:49:14 THEY COME OUT FOR THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND OUR CITY
11:49:15 DOESN'T PAY FOR THAT.
11:49:21 YOU SEE FLOWERS OF ANYONE FROM THE CITY, THE CITY STAFF
11:49:24 IS PUTTING TOGETHER MONEY TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WE
11:49:28 APPRECIATE THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAD THIS PERSON AND WE
11:49:29 BELIEVE WE HAVE RECOGNITION.
11:49:33 IN YBOR THEY HAVE THIS FUND THAT CAN HELP PAY FOR THAT.
11:49:36 YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY THAT MANY OF HAVE YOU ATTENDED.
11:49:40 THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE HOLIDAY PARTY IS FUNDED
11:49:43 THROUGH DONATIONS AND SOMEONE WHO IS HOSTING AND
11:49:46 BRINGING THE FOOD OR PARTY FAVORS.
11:49:53 THE CRAS TO NOT PAY FOR FOOD AND GAP IN DONATION OF THE
11:49:57 HOLIDAY PARTY AND OVER TIME, ONE-TIME GRANT REQUESTS BY
11:50:01 THE HISTORIC NONPROFITS OF 1,000.
11:50:03 BUT THAT WAS, LIKE, ONE TIME.
11:50:07 AND THE YCDC HAS BEEN ABLE TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
11:50:11 SO, OVERALL, THIS IS A VERY SMALL, EXCUSE ME, NONPROFIT
11:50:14 AND THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT THEIR BUDGET IS
11:50:15 USED FOR.
11:50:21 WITH THAT, WHEN THE CRA BOARD ESTABLISHED THE CACS, IT
11:50:29 IS IN YOUR CAC POLICIES THAT OUR TAMPA AND EAST TAMPA
11:50:35 STAFF, STAFF THOSE COMMUNITY GROUPS AND PART OF THE
11:50:39 REASON BEHIND THAT IS THE IMPORTANT OF KEEPING THE
11:50:42 ENGAGEMENT AND THE COMMUNICATION AND ALIGNMENT BETWEEN
11:50:46 THE GROUPS AND ALSO NOT HAVING MULTIPLE COMMUNITY
11:50:51 GROUPS THAT ARE THE CONNECTION TO THE CRA BOARD AND
11:50:53 SPEAKING FOR THE COMMUNITY.
11:50:58 OUR STAFF IN THAT CAPACITY BOTH IN YBOR AND EAST TAMPA,
11:51:01 OUR STAFF DOES THE LOGISTICS.
11:51:04 SENDS OUT THE NOTICES, TAKE THE MINUTES AND COORDINATE
11:51:05 WITH SPEAKERS.
11:51:10 OUR OFFICE IS THE PRIMARY CONNIE BURTON TAX FOR BOTH OF
11:51:11 THE GROUPS.
11:51:18 OUR STAFF PARTICIPATION AND FOLLOW-UP FOR THE CAC, WE
11:51:21 WILL HANDLE AND THE BROADER COMMUNITY IN YCDC AS A
11:51:22 NONPROFIT.
11:51:26 THEY HAVE AN AUTHORIZED AGENT THAT HAS BEEN THE CRA
11:51:27 MANAGER.
11:51:30 THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE THE CRA HAS A PHYSICAL
11:51:40 LOCATION AND THE CD -- YCDC DOES NOT AND WILL CHANGE
11:51:42 EVERY TIME THE OFFICER CHANGED.
11:51:48 ACTING AT OUR CAC, WE HAVE TURN OVER IN THE BOARD OF
11:51:53 THE YCDC THAT IN ALIGNMENT.
11:51:56 MOST BOARDS DO NOT HAVE TURNOVER THE WAY THAT WE DO.
11:51:59 BECAUSE OF THAT CONTINUAL TURNOVER AND BECAUSE OF THE
11:52:05 ALIGNMENT WITH THE CAC MEMBERSHIP, EASY TO HAVE THE
11:52:08 MANAGER FOR THE AGENT OF OPERATIONS.
11:52:15 WHILE THE CRA MANAGER ACTS AS TREASURER, NONE OF OUR
11:52:16 STAFF SIGNS THE CHECKS.
11:52:25 EVERYTHING WE HANDLE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE YCDC SIGNS
11:52:28 THE CHECK AND CLEARS UP THE RELATIONSHIP OF WHAT THAT
11:52:29 IS.
11:52:32 SOUNDS LIKE EARLIER COMMENTS, I WILL TAKE A QUICK
11:52:33 MINUTE TO RUN THROUGH THIS.
11:52:37 BACK IN FEBRUARY, AS I MENTIONED, WE WERE ASKED TO TALK
11:52:40 ABOUT THIS WITH THE YCDC.
11:52:43 YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL GOAL AND PURPOSE THAT IS IN THEIR
11:52:48 BYLAWS AND THEY ARE IN EXISTENCE WELL OVER 25 YEARS AND
11:52:51 THEIR GOAL ALONG WITH OUR CRA, THE SAME TYPE, HELP TAKE
11:52:55 THE ACTIVITIES THAT FACILITATE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE
11:52:57 YBOR AREA.
11:52:59 IT IS PART OF THE CAC POLICY.
11:53:01 IT SETS OUT ALL THE MEMBERSHIP.
11:53:07 AND THE CURRENT POLICY OF THE CRA BOARD TO USE THE YCDC
11:53:11 BOARD MEMBERS AS YOUR CAC MEMBERS AND THEY HAVE THE
11:53:14 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS AND ALL OF THAT GOES THROUGH THAT
11:53:18 PROCESS AND WE PRESENT THAT TO THE CRA BOARD.
11:53:20 THE PROCEDURES -- BECAUSE THIS QUESTION HAS COME UP
11:53:21 AGAIN.
11:53:26 HOW DO WE SELECT MEMBERS FOR THE YCDC.
11:53:30 AGAIN, IT COMES THROUGHOUT BOARD FIRST, THE YCDC IS THE
11:53:35 YCDC BOARD AND COLLECT ALL THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE DO
11:53:38 FOR ALL OF OUR CAC MEMBERS.
11:53:41 THEY GO THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS -- VETTING PROCESS
11:53:43 THAT THE CACS GO THROUGH.
11:53:46 DO THEY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS IN THE CAC POLICY.
11:53:48 AND ONCE EVERYONE HAS BEEN VETTED THAT THEY ARE
11:53:49 ELIGIBLE.
11:53:52 THEY LOOK AT THE CATEGORIES THAT ARE SET OUT.
11:53:56 AND THEY MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE EVERYONE FOR EACH
11:53:56 CATEGORY.
11:53:59 IF THEY HAVE MORE APPLICANTS, THEN THEY HAVE SEATS OR
11:54:03 SEATS AND CATEGORIES, THEN THAT -- THEN THAT NOMINATING
11:54:06 COMMITTEE WILL ACTUALLY THEN MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO
11:54:14 THE -- TO THE YBOR CAC/YCDC BOARD AS THEY RECOMMEND BE
11:54:15 THE NEW MEMBERS.
11:54:18 CURRENTLY THE SELECTION IS JUST VOTED ON BY THE
11:54:22 CAC/YCDC BOARD.
11:54:27 AND THEN WE PRESENT THAT NEW BOARD TO THE CRA BOARD.
11:54:30 AS I MENTIONED IN FEBRUARY, THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE HAD
11:54:35 AS IT IS BROUGHT UP, THE CONFUSION BETWEEN YCDC AND THE
11:54:44 CAC, AND UNTIL 2021, NO IDENTITY FOR THE YBOR YCDC FOR
11:54:47 THE CRA.
11:54:50 EVERYTHING WITH THE LEGAL ENTITY DOING THE WORK HAS
11:54:54 BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT, TALKED ABOUT AND PROMOTED AS YCDC.
11:54:57 ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID BACK IN FEBRUARY -- AND I HAVE
11:55:00 BEEN WORKING WITH STAFF WITH -- BECAUSE OF A LOT OF
11:55:04 THIS CONFUSION ARE IS TO TRY TO VERY MUCH SEPARATE AND
11:55:08 BE VERY SPECIFIC IN YOUR LANGUAGE THAT WHEN IT IS YCDC,
11:55:10 YOU SAY YCDC.
11:55:15 WHEN IT IS THE CAC OR CRA AND OUR ACTIVITIES AS A CRA
11:55:20 AND OUR FUNDS AS A CRA, SPECIFICALLY REFER TO AS THE
11:55:23 YBOR CRA OR THE YBOR CAC.
11:55:29 BACK IN FEBRUARY AGAIN A CONCERN THIS WAS THE ONLY CRA
11:55:32 THAT CHOSE ITS OWN MEMBERS AS OPPOSED OF HAVING THE CRA
11:55:34 IN THE PROCESS.
11:55:37 WITH THAT I CAME BACK TO YOU AND THE LAST SLIDE BACK IN
11:55:40 FEBRUARY THAT YOUR OPTIONS WAS TO KEEP THE PROCESS AS
11:55:40 IS.
11:55:43 WE RECOMMENDED SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN MAKE.
11:55:46 EVERYTHING IN BLUE, WE HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE THE FIRST
11:55:49 OF THE YEAR, BUT ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS WAS TO LOOK AT
11:55:54 HOW THE CAC MEMBERSHIP WAS CHOSEN AND ONE OPTION IS TO
11:55:58 FOLLOW THE EAST TAMPA MODEL THAT ONCE A SLATE OF
11:56:01 CANDIDATES IS PUT FORTH.
11:56:05 IT WILL COME TO THE CAC REPORT FIRST AND AFFIRM THAT
11:56:07 SLATE OF CANDIDATES AND OFFICIALLY REPORT THEM AND GO
11:56:09 BACK TO THE GROUP FOR A VOTE.
11:56:15 LASTLY, YOU CAN ESTABLISH A CAC SEPARATE FROM THE YCDC
11:56:19 BOARD AND FOLLOW THE REMAINING OF THE OTHER SIX CACS
11:56:25 THAT ALL OF THE CAC MEMBERS ARE DIRECTLY APPOINTED BY
11:56:28 THE CRA BOARD AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS.
11:56:33 THIS IS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT FOR YOU IN FEBRUARY.
11:56:37 WE TOOK THE ACTIONS AS WE COULD AS A STAFF ON OUR OWN.
11:56:41 AND THIS IS THE END OF THE INFORMATION, AND I AM HAPPY
11:56:43 -- AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS VERY COMPLICATED.
11:56:47 IT IS CONFUSING FOR US TOO.
11:56:50 YBOR FOR SO MANY YEARS -- AS WE KEPT LOOKING AT OUR
11:56:52 DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE, ALL OF OUR
11:56:58 COMMUNICATIONS, THE INTERTWINING AND NOT BEING SPECIFIC
11:57:01 AND DESCRIPTIVE IN OUR LANGUAGE HAVE CONTRIBUTED
11:57:06 IMMENSELY TO THE CONFUSION AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT AND
11:57:09 ALL OF OUR DOCUMENTATION, EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN DO
11:57:12 THROUGH THE COMMUNICATION CONSULTANT WE HAVE IN YBOR TO
11:57:15 MAKE SURE WE ARE VERY DELIBERATE IN HOW WE DESCRIBE WHO
11:57:16 IS DOING WHAT.
11:57:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:57:19 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:57:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GENTLEMEN, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING
11:57:19 ABOUT.
11:57:19 THERE'S NO CONTINUITY.
11:57:21 YOU HAVE OTHER PEOPLE DOING OTHER THINGS VERSUS THE OTHER
11:57:24 HAND.
11:57:24 AT SOME POINT, WE HAVE TO REEL IN TO WHERE WE'RE ALL ON
11:57:27 THE SAME PAGE.
11:57:29 WE'RE NOT.
11:57:32 IT'S CONFUSING EVEN WHEN YOU GO TO DESCRIBE IT, MS. VAN
11:57:36 LOAN, IT'S STILL CONFUSING.
11:57:38 AT SOME POINT, YOUR OFFICE EITHER GOING TO MAKE A
11:57:41 DECISION TO BRING TO THIS BOARD, OKAY, WE HAVE TO STOP
11:57:43 THE CONFUSION.
11:57:44 HERE ARE OUR FINAL ONE, TWO RECOMMENDATIONS AND THIS
11:57:47 BOARD NEEDS TO MAKE A DECISION.
11:57:49 IT'S TOO CONFUSING.
11:57:50 THAT PARTNERSHIP DEAL IN EAST TAMPA, IT'S TOTALLY
11:57:52 CONFUSING.
11:57:53 I'M JUST SAYING THAT IF IT'S CONFUSING TO ME WHO SITS
11:57:57 HERE AND YOU HAVE A BOARD CONFUSED, YOU HAVE CONSTITUENTS
11:57:59 WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO TURN TO FOR THE RIGHT
11:58:03 INFORMATION.
11:58:06 MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT YOU COME BACK TO THIS BOARD
11:58:11 WITH FINAL THOUGHTS TO PUT ON PAPER TO GET SOME
11:58:13 CONSISTENCY, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT CONSISTENCY.
11:58:14 I YIELD BACK, SIR.
11:58:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
11:58:16 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:58:17 >>BILL CARLSON: I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUE.
11:58:20 I THINK IT'S VERY CONFUSING, ESPECIALLY TO MEMBERS OF THE
11:58:23 PUBLIC.
11:58:24 I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YBOR IN PARTICULAR JUST BE A CAC,
11:58:32 AND THEN WHOEVER RUNS YCDC CAN DECIDE TO DO WHAT IT WANTS
11:58:37 WITH IT.
11:58:37 MY IMPRESSION IN THE PAST IS YCDC DID OTHER THINGS AND
11:58:42 BIGGER THINGS.
11:58:43 IF IT'S ALWAYS BEEN JUST THE HOLDING TANK FOR THE CAC,
11:58:47 IT'S VERY CONFUSING.
11:58:50 I APPRECIATE ALL THE VOLUNTEERS.
11:58:52 A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THAT BOARD, BUT ALL
11:58:56 THAT WOULD HAPPEN IS THE TITLE WOULD CHANGE.
11:58:58 IT WOULD JUST MORE EXPLICITLY BE THE CAC AND EVERYTHING
11:59:04 WOULD BE CLEAR AND EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.
11:59:06 WE DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT THE NAMES.
11:59:09 AND IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF LEGAL STRUCTURE.
11:59:12 AND WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE ANY KIND OF FORMAL ARRANGEMENT
11:59:15 WITH ANOTHER GROUP LIKE THAT.
11:59:17 NOW, THEY CAN STILL PARTNER IF THE YCDC CONTINUES, THEY
11:59:21 CAN PARTNER WITH YCDC, PARTNER WITH CHAMBER, PARTNER WITH
11:59:25 ROTARY OR ANYTHING ELSE.
11:59:27 AND THEY SHOULD PARTNER WITH ALL OF THEM.
11:59:28 BUT JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS IS AN ADVISORY BOARD
11:59:31 TO THE CRA, I WOULD SUGGEST WE DO IT THAT WAY.
11:59:34 THANK YOU.
11:59:36 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:59:38 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:59:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SAME THING FOR THE PARTNERSHIP, TOO.
11:59:41 IT NEEDS TO BE DEFINED.
11:59:44 THANK YOU.
11:59:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AS WE BROUGHT UP AND MR. MASSEY
11:59:48 BROUGHT UP WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS EARLIER IN THE YEAR, IN
11:59:51 ORDER TO EFFECTUATE THAT CHANGE, THERE WILL BE A WHOLE
11:59:54 SERIES OF DOCUMENTS AND THE PLANS AND YOUR POLICIES THAT
11:59:58 WE WILL HAVE TO UPDATE IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE THAT
12:00:04 CHANGE.
12:00:04 WE'LL COME BACK WITH ALL THAT DETAIL AND JUST WHAT AN
12:00:08 IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
12:00:11 >>MORRIS MASSEY: REAL QUICKLY, I BELIEVE WE CAME FORWARD
12:00:13 WITH A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION BACK IN FEBRUARY.
12:00:15 WHAT WE'LL DO PROBABLY IS REPEAT IT.
12:00:17 WHAT COMPLICATES WITH THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP, IT IS
12:00:20 WRITTEN INTO YOUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT THAT
12:00:22 WILL ACT IN SOME OFFICIAL CAPACITY.
12:00:24 WE MAY HAVE TO ADDRESS THE PLAN AS WELL.
12:00:30 I WOULD BE HAPPY TO COME BACK TO THE CRA BOARD WITH THAT
12:00:35 FOR YOU TO LOOK AT AGAIN.
12:00:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
12:00:38 MS. VAN LOAN, WILL YOU BRING THAT BACK UNDER ADVISEMENT
12:00:41 OR DO YOU NEED A MOTION?
12:00:43 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE'LL COME BACK EITHER WAY.
12:00:45 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE A MOTION, I
12:00:46 THINK, AND MAYBE GIVE US -- I THINK IT'S MOSTLY
12:00:46 REPETITIVE OF WHAT WE DID IN FEBRUARY, BUT IT MAY BE
12:00:46 HELPFUL TO DO IT A COUPLE OF MONTHS FROM NOW TO MAKE SURE
12:00:59 WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME AND WE CAN WORK THROUGH ANY OTHER
12:01:00 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT CAME UP TODAY.
12:01:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO MOVE MR. MASSEY'S RECOMMENDATION.
12:01:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:01:05 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
12:01:06 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:01:07 ARE THERE ANY OPPOSED?
12:01:10 LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT IT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY WITH
12:01:13 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT.
12:01:15 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AND FOR CLARIFICATION, A COUPLE OF
12:01:17 MONTHS, WE CAN COME BACK IN DECEMBER?
12:01:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: DECEMBER CRA MEETING IN DECEMBER.
12:01:23 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: PERFECT.
12:01:24 THANK YOU, SIR.
12:01:24 WITH THAT, WE ARE FINISHED WITH OUR STAFF REPORTS.
12:01:28 I'M READY TO GO TOWARDS THE REQUIRED APPROVALS.
12:01:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ITEM NUMBER 6.
12:01:38 GO AHEAD.
12:01:38 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 6, THIS, YOU APPROVED
12:01:40 THE ACTUAL REFUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT AT THE SEPTEMBER
12:01:45 MEETING.
12:01:46 THIS IS AROUND THE AMALIE ARENA.
12:01:48 THERE ARE PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN
12:01:51 RECOMMENDED THAT THEY BE MADE TO THE ARENA OR TO ANY OF
12:01:55 US FOR THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AS THEY LEAVE THE ARENA AND
12:01:59 ARE INTERACTING NEAR THE STREETCAR.
12:02:02 NORMALLY WE WOULD JUST AS A CRA GO AHEAD AND DO THESE
12:02:05 IMPROVEMENTS, BUT DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE EVENTS AROUND
12:02:08 AMALIE ARENA AND THE TIMELINE TO GET THEM DONE, WE ARE
12:02:12 LOOKING TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT SO THAT THE ARENA CAN
12:02:16 HANDLE THEM, GET THEM DONE QUICKLY SO THAT THEY WILL NOT
12:02:20 CAUSE PROBLEMS AS THEY START TO HAVE MORE AND MORE
12:02:23 EVENTS.
12:02:23 AGAIN, YOU DID APPROVE THE MONEY.
12:02:25 THE AGREEMENTS, THE FUNDING AGREEMENT ITSELF WAS NOT
12:02:29 FINALIZED AT THE LAST MEETING, SO WE'RE NOW BRINGING THE
12:02:32 AGREEMENT.
12:02:32 AND THE AGREEMENT DOES INCLUDE THAT THEY DO HAVE TO MEET
12:02:35 ALL PERMITTING AND ALL THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS JUST LIKE
12:02:37 WE WOULD TO BUILD THAT PROJECT.
12:02:40 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE
12:02:42 RESOLUTION.
12:02:43 THERE'S BEEN A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:02:45 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:02:47 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:02:48 ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
12:02:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:02:55 >> DINGFELDER?
12:02:56 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:02:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:02:57 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:02:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:03:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:03:01 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:03:03 AT VOTE.
12:03:04 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEMS NUMBER 7 AND 8 ARE TWO FACADE
12:03:07 GRANTS.
12:03:08 THE FIRST FACADE GRANT IS 5112 NORTH 22nd STREET.
12:03:13 THIS IS FAST LANE.
12:03:14 HE WAS ONE OF OUR FIRST PARTNERSHIPS FOR LAND AND FACADE
12:03:17 AND GETTING A NEW BUSINESS.
12:03:19 AND THE NORTH 22nd CORRIDOR.
12:03:21 AND NOW AFTER 14, 15 LANES, HIS BUILDING IS IN NEED OF A
12:03:26 LITTLE REFRESH.
12:03:27 SO HE'S REQUESTING A GRANT FOR 8,161.
12:03:30 ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE THE CDC OF TAMPA.
12:03:32 THEY HAVE LIKE AN INCUBATOR SMALL BUSINESS STRIP
12:03:35 BUILDING.
12:03:36 IT IS A FOR-PROFIT BUILDING THAT DOES PAY TAXES.
12:03:39 IT IS LOCATED AT 2705 EAST DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
12:03:44 DRIVE, AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR 26,700.
12:03:47 AGAIN, FOR THE FACE-LIFT, THE PARKING LOT, AND YOU HAVE
12:03:51 PICTURES IN YOUR PACKET ON THAT ONE.
12:03:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE NUMBER 7 FIRST.
12:03:55 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN
12:03:56 MIRANDA.
12:03:57 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:03:58 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:03:59 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:04:01 >> DINGFELDER?
12:04:02 CARLSON?
12:04:03 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:04:03 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:04:05 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:04:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:04:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:04:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:04:10 >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING
12:04:12 ABSENT AT VOTE.
12:04:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE NUMBER 8.
12:04:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:04:16 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:04:17 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:04:19 ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:04:20 >>THE CLERK: CARLSON.
12:04:22 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:04:23 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:04:23 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:04:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:04:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:04:27 >> DINGFELDER?
12:04:28 GUDES?
12:04:29 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER ABSENT AT
12:04:31 VOTE.
12:04:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MS. VAN LOAN, DID YOU WANT TO DISCUSS
12:04:37 ITEM 9 FIRST?
12:04:38 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I DON'T NEED TO DISCUSS THEM.
12:04:40 YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION.
12:04:41 FACADE GRANTS IN YBOR.
12:04:43 BUT YOU'VE GOT ALL THE INFORMATION.
12:04:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:04:45 MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:04:47 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:04:49 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:04:50 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:04:52 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:04:53 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:04:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:04:55 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:04:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:05:00 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:05:00 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:05:03 AT VOTE.
12:05:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO,
12:05:09 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:05:10 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:05:11 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:05:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:05:14 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:05:16 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:05:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:05:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:05:21 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:05:21 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:05:24 AT VOTE.
12:05:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 11 IS THE RESOLUTION
12:05:27 THAT I REFERENCED EARLIER FOR THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
12:05:29 RIVERFRONT DOING THE TEXT AMENDMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY
12:05:32 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
12:05:35 THIS RESO STARTS THE PROCESS SO THAT WE CAN NOW MOVE IT
12:05:38 FORWARD TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL
12:05:40 PUBLIC HEARING DATE.
12:05:41 >> SO MOVED.
12:05:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:05:44 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:05:46 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:05:48 ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:05:52 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:05:52 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:05:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:05:55 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:05:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:05:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:05:59 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:06:01 AT VOTE.
12:06:03 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 12 AT THE SEPTEMBER
12:06:05 MEETING, YOU APPROVED THE COMMUNITY GARDEN BY THE URBAN
12:06:08 PROGRESS ALLIANCE.
12:06:09 MR. ANDRE HILL CAME AND PRESENTED.
12:06:11 WE JUST DID NOT HAVE THE REPROGRAMMING.
12:06:13 SO THIS IS THE REPROGRAMMING OF $45,011 TO FUND THAT
12:06:17 PROGRAM THAT YOU APPROVED LAST MONTH.
12:06:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
12:06:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:06:24 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:06:26 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:06:27 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:06:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:06:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:06:30 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:06:31 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:06:35 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:06:37 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:06:38 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:06:40 AT VOTE.
12:06:42 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 13 IS AN APPOINTMENT TO
12:06:44 A VACANT POSITION, A MR. DAVID BAILEY, TO THE YBOR CAC.
12:06:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
12:06:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
12:06:50 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:06:52 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:06:54 IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
12:06:55 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:06:57 >> DINGFELDER?
12:06:58 CARLSON?
12:06:59 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:06:59 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:07:00 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:07:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:07:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:07:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:07:04 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:07:07 AT VOTE.
12:07:08 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AND IF THE CRA BOARD WOULD INDULGE
12:07:10 ME, WE HAVE PROVIDED YOU WITH A DRAFT LETTER OF SUPPORT
12:07:15 AND PARTICIPATION AND A PROPOSED GRANT APPLICATION THAT
12:07:19 HAS COME UP THROUGH THE FEDERAL EDA.
12:07:23 AND THIS GRANT, IF APPROVED, THROUGH PHASE ONE AND PHASE
12:07:27 TWO COULD INFUSE INTO THE EASTERN MANUFACTURING
12:07:31 WAREHOUSING DISTRICT OF EAST TAMPA 20 TO 25 MILLION INTO
12:07:37 SMART MANUFACTURING, ALONG WITH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOR
12:07:41 OUR RESIDENTS AND CUSTOMIZED FOR THE SMART MANUFACTURING
12:07:46 WITH THE GOAL OF MAKING AN ACTUAL MANUFACTURING HUB FOR
12:07:51 SMART MANUFACTURING AND GETTING THAT FOCUSED IN EAST
12:07:54 TAMPA.
12:07:55 ALSO, I HAVE TONY BROWN OF THE EDC HERE SHOULD YOU HAVE
12:07:58 ANY MORE SPECIFIC DETAILED QUESTIONS I CAN'T ANSWER.
12:08:00 THIS WOULD BE PARTICIPATING -- THE FIRST PART IS A PHASE
12:08:03 ONE GRANT OF 500,000, THAT THE EDA WILL SUPPLY SO THAT
12:08:09 APPLICANTS HAVE THE RESOURCES TO REALLY PUT THE TIME INTO
12:08:13 DEFINING THE APPLICATION FOR PART TWO, WHICH WOULD BE FOR
12:08:16 THE ACTUAL THEN IMPLEMENTATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF YOUR
12:08:21 PROJECT, IF AWARDED PHASE TWO.
12:08:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: BEFORE I ENTERTAIN A MOTION, I KNOW
12:08:26 COUNCILMAN GUDES IS ITCHING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
12:08:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, EVERYONE KNOWS I'M TRYING TO MOVE
12:08:32 A NEEDLE IN EAST TAMPA.
12:08:33 AND TO MOVE IT, WE HAVE TO FIND AREAS THAT WE CAN MOVE.
12:08:36 THERE ARE A LOT OF POCKETS THAT WE CAN MOVE.
12:08:39 I'M GLAD THAT MR. BROWN HAS COME ABOARD WITH OVER THERE.
12:08:46 IT'S SOME EXPERIENCES THAT WE'VE TAKEN DRIVES ALL
12:08:49 THROUGHOUT EAST TAMPA.
12:08:50 HIS BACKGROUND IS CRA.
12:08:52 HE'S BEEN A CRA DIRECTOR, SO HE UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS THE
12:08:56 PARAMETERS OF CRAs.
12:08:57 HIM AND HIS WHOLE STAFF AND HIS BOSS, WE TOOK A DRIVE ALL
12:09:01 THROUGHOUT EAST TAMPA.
12:09:02 WE FOUND SOME POCKETS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT.
12:09:05 ONE BEING ON COLUMBUS DRIVE.
12:09:07 I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS SITTING
12:09:12 THERE.
12:09:12 THEY NEED TO PUT SOME PEOPLE TO WORK THERE.
12:09:15 I'M GLAD THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND THIS PARTICULAR GRANT AND
12:09:17 TRY TO PARTNER AND GET US INVOLVED SO WE CAN BRING A
12:09:20 VIBRANT AREA TO THAT LOCATION BECAUSE HOPEFULLY WE CAN
12:09:24 GET THE GRANT AND GET AWARDED, BUT I THINK IF WE GET IT,
12:09:27 I BELIEVE THAT IT WILL BE A GAME CHANGER.
12:09:31 YOU LOOK AT THE ACTION PLAN, WHEN HE TALKED TO ME, IT'S
12:09:36 THERE.
12:09:37 I LOOK AT A COUPLE AND I SAY, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
12:09:40 PROPERTIES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ON HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE,
12:09:44 THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE CAN BRING A DIFFERENT GAME
12:09:47 CHANGER.
12:09:47 I'M HAPPY FOR THIS PROCESS.
12:09:49 I HOPE THAT THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON IT.
12:09:52 SUPPORT IT.
12:09:53 BUT I THINK IT IS A GAME CHANGER FOR EAST TAMPA FOR US.
12:09:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE TO AGREE WITH MR. GUDES.
12:09:58 I THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AND LIVE CLOSE TO
12:10:03 WHERE YOU WORK AND CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE TRAFFIC WHERE
12:10:07 YOU CAN WALK TO WORK, POSSIBLY, OTHER THAN
12:10:10 TRANSPORTATION.
12:10:12 WE KNOW WE'RE GROWING.
12:10:14 EVERYTHING BECOMES MUCH HIGHER AND MUCH QUICKER.
12:10:17 AND IF YOU LIVE CLOSE TO WHERE YOU WORK, IT MAKES IT MUCH
12:10:20 BETTER.
12:10:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE?
12:10:22 FINAL STATEMENT FROM ME.
12:10:28 THIS IS AN OVERUSED TERM, BUT THIS IS A GAME CHANGER,
12:10:32 WITHOUT A DOUBT.
12:10:33 IT COVERS ALL THE BASES: EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION,
12:10:37 ENTREPRENEURIALSHIP.
12:10:38 THIS WILL HELP THE COMMUNITY IN ALL THOSE ASPECTS, AND I
12:10:43 SEE NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS COMING FROM THIS GRANT
12:10:46 OPPORTUNITY.
12:10:46 I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
12:10:48 DO YOU NEED A MOTION, MS. VAN LOAN?
12:10:50 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, PLEASE.
12:10:51 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
12:10:52 A MOTION IS MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:10:53 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:10:55 ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:10:57 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:11:00 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:11:00 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:11:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:11:03 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:11:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:11:05 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:11:08 AT VOTE.
12:11:08 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, SIR.
12:11:10 THAT IS ALL FOR STAFF.
12:11:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TONY BROWN.
12:11:16 I THINK HE'S SITTING IN THE BACKGROUND.
12:11:18 PEOPLE CAN GET FAMILIAR WITH HIM -- IN THE NEAR FUTURE
12:11:24 MEET WITH EVERYONE.
12:11:24 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AS I INTRODUCE TONY, I WANT TO ALSO
12:11:27 MENTION THAT THIS POSITION THAT HE FILLS AT THE EDC WAS
12:11:31 SPECIFICALLY CREATED TO COME UP WITH A TRANSFORMATIONAL
12:11:35 PROJECT.
12:11:35 AS SOON AS HE STARTED, HE REACHED OUT AND MET WITH ME,
12:11:38 AND WE TALKED, AND I WAS ABLE TO BRING HIM INTO EAST
12:11:41 TAMPA AND SELL HIM ON EAST TAMPA.
12:11:44 AND USF, AS I MENTIONED IN MY E-MAIL TO YOU, HAD ALREADY
12:11:47 BEEN LOOKING AT THIS KIND OF INSTITUTE.
12:11:49 AND TONY, THROUGH HIS WORK, HAS REALLY GOTTEN THEM TO
12:11:53 FOCUS AND AGREE TO BRING THIS TO EAST TAMPA.
12:11:56 WITH THAT, THIS IS TONY BROWN.
12:11:58 >> THANK YOU.
12:11:59 TONY BROWN, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE
12:12:01 TAMPA BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
12:12:04 MR. CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I WANT TO THANK YOU
12:12:07 FOR YOUR LETTER OF SUPPORT.
12:12:10 WE ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY.
12:12:13 IT ACTUALLY CREATES FOR US UP TO A $75 MILLION
12:12:19 OPPORTUNITY.
12:12:19 AND WE WANT TO GIVE A LOT OF THANKS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
12:12:22 SOUTH FLORIDA.
12:12:23 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GO BULLS.
12:12:25 >> TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOR THEIR SUPPORT
12:12:29 BECAUSE THEY, FOR MANY YEARS, HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND
12:12:32 FUNDING TO DEVELOP A FACILITY THAT THEY CAN SUPPORT SMALL
12:12:38 AND MEDIUM MANUFACTURERS TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE
12:12:41 THEIR EFFICIENCY.
12:12:43 SO WE ASKED IF THEY WOULD JOIN US.
12:12:45 NOT ONLY DID WE ASK IF THEY WOULD JOIN US, WE ASKED IF
12:12:49 THEY WOULD PUT THIS MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FACILITY INTO
12:12:51 EAST TAMPA.
12:12:52 THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO GROW A PARTICULAR
12:12:57 INDUSTRY, AND WE ARE PROPOSING TO GROW OUR MANUFACTURING
12:13:01 BASE, OUR CLUSTER OF MANUFACTURING BASE.
12:13:04 AND SO THIS FACILITY, BEING IN THE HEART OF EAST TAMPA
12:13:09 THAT IS OF CLOSE PROXIMITY TO OUR HIGHWAYS, TO THE PORT.
12:13:14 AND IN A 30-MINUTE DRIVE AT THE HUB OF EAST TAMPA, YOU
12:13:18 HAVE ACCESS TO 900 COMPANIES AND OVER 20,000 JOBS.
12:13:24 THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE COMMUNITY OF EAST TAMPA SHOULD
12:13:29 BE ONE OF OUR POOREST, HIGHEST POVERTY AREAS.
12:13:32 WE HAVE A MAJOR WORKFORCE COMPONENT TO OUR PROGRAM.
12:13:37 THAT INCLUDES THE CAREER SOURCE OF TAMPA BAY.
12:13:39 THE CAREER SOURCE OF PINELLAS COUNTY.
12:13:42 WE HAVE RECEIVED OVER 35 LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM
12:13:47 COMPANIES, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AS PART OF THIS
12:13:50 APPLICATION.
12:13:51 IT IS A NATIONAL COMPETITION OF A COALITION OF
12:13:56 ORGANIZATIONS TO TALK ABOUT HOW TOGETHER WE CAN IMPROVE
12:14:00 OUR COMMUNITY.
12:14:02 AND SO AS COUNCILMAN GUDES SAID, WE WANT TO THANK HIM.
12:14:05 HE HAS TAKEN US AROUND EAST TAMPA ON A NUMBER OF
12:14:09 OCCASIONS TO FIND WHERE CAN WE CREATE A PLACE-MAKING
12:14:13 OPPORTUNITY.
12:14:14 AND I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF OUR ORGANIZATION AND MR.
12:14:17 RICHARD TO TELL YOU THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE GROWTH
12:14:21 AND ECONOMIC VITALITY OF EAST TAMPA AS IT RELATES TO THE
12:14:24 INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR.
12:14:25 ANY QUESTIONS?
12:14:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
12:14:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TONY, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE MEETING WITH
12:14:33 YOU AND THE TEAM OVER THERE.
12:14:34 YOU CALLED ME.
12:14:35 YOU HAD THE INTEREST.
12:14:36 YOU WENT AROUND.
12:14:38 WE INTRODUCED YOU TO MICHELLE AND SOME OF THE OTHER GOOD
12:14:41 CONSTITUENTS IN THAT COMMUNITY THAT REALLY WANT TO SEE IT
12:14:45 MOVED AND CAN GIVE GOOD LEADERSHIP.
12:14:47 YOU'VE MET SOME OF THOSE.
12:14:49 YOU'VE ALREADY SHOWN YOUR LEADERSHIP BEING AT THE KIOSK
12:14:52 PRESENTATION ON THE 22nd, MULTITUDE OF THE 14
12:14:56 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS THAT WERE THERE.
12:14:57 YOU SAW ABOUT GETTING SOMETHING THERE.
12:15:02 THE BUSINESSES CAN PUT THEIR FOOT ON.
12:15:05 GLAD THAT I WAS ABLE TO PARTNER WITH THIS AND GET THAT.
12:15:09 THANK YOU FOR GETTING THE SUCCESS AND GETTING THIS TRAIN
12:15:12 MOVING.
12:15:12 >> THANK YOU.
12:15:12 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
12:15:13 ANYBODY ELSE?
12:15:14 MR. BROWN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISION.
12:15:16 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.
12:15:17 AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GAME CHANGER FOR EAST TAMPA.
12:15:23 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:15:24 LET'S GO TO INFORMATION REPORTS AND NEW BUSINESS.
12:15:28 COUNCILMAN VIERA?
12:15:29 >>LUIS VIERA: I HAVE NOTHING.
12:15:31 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO?
12:15:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:15:34 IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT TODAY IS NATIONAL
12:15:37 DESSERT DAY.
12:15:38 AND UNTIL 2:00 ACROSS THE STREET AT LYKES-GASLIGHT PARK,
12:15:43 THERE ARE $1 ICE-CREAM CONES IN CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL
12:15:47 DESSERT DAY AND SWEET MAMA'S ICE CREAM AND THEIR GRAND
12:15:51 OPENING.
12:15:52 YOU KNOW I LIKE ICE CREAM.
12:15:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THIS ISN'T DIET.
12:15:57 THIS ISN'T SLIMMING ICE CREAM.
12:15:58 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S A DOLLAR CONE.
12:16:01 THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN THAT IS THE 50-CENT CONE AT
12:16:04 BURGER KING.
12:16:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: OH, MAN.
12:16:06 NEVER MIND.
12:16:07 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
12:16:08 >>BILL CARLSON: NO, SIR, THANK YOU.
12:16:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:16:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TWO ITEMS.
12:16:12 MS. VAN LOAN, I STILL SEE YOU THERE.
12:16:14 LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TREE GRANT.
12:16:16 I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT MS. VAN LOAN'S OFFICE
12:16:21 RESEARCH AND BRING ABOARD SOME ARBORISTS.
12:16:24 IT'S KEY FOR THIS PROGRAM.
12:16:26 ALSO HAVE AN AGGRESSIVE APPROACH TO -- TREE PROJECTS.
12:16:32 AND THAT WAY, THE REASON I SAY ABOUT THE ARBORIST, WE
12:16:35 HAVE OUR OWN ARBORIST, IT CAN HELP WITH THE SPEED OF THE
12:16:40 PROGRAM BECAUSE NOW WE WON'T GET GOUGED, BECAUSE PEOPLE
12:16:43 WERE GOUGING, AND IT WILL HELP WITH THE COST FACTOR.
12:16:47 BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE, SAY -- I THINK HAVING THAT PERSON
12:16:53 ABOARD WITH US AND BEING ABLE TO FACILITATE WILL MOVE
12:16:56 THIS PROJECT ALONG.
12:16:57 AGAIN, AND CAN WORK ON THE MINORITY PROCESS.
12:17:01 WORK RIGHT NOW AN AGGRESSIVE APPROACH TO GET THOSE TREES
12:17:04 CUT.
12:17:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN
12:17:06 GUDES.
12:17:07 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:17:09 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
12:17:12 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:17:12 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:17:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:17:15 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:17:16 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:17:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:17:20 >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
12:17:22 AT VOTE.
12:17:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MS. VAN LOAN, IF YOU NEED TO DO ANY
12:17:29 REPROGRAMMING FOR MORE MONEY TO GET THE ARBORIST AND GET
12:17:31 THESE TREES CUT, BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL AND WE CAN
12:17:35 GET IT REPROGRAMMED.
12:17:35 I DON'T THINK COUNCIL WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT
12:17:35 BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS PROGRAM IS WORKING.
12:17:35 TWO, MAKE A MOTION TO GET A REPORT ON THE CLEAN TEAM, THE
12:17:39 NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT TEAM.
12:17:41 WANT TO SEE HOW THEY ARE CLEANING.
12:17:43 WANT TO KNOW IF SOLID WASTE IS HELPING THEM.
12:17:46 BECAUSE, AGAIN, AS I TALK, THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE IS THEY
12:17:49 MAY COME GET SOME BULK, BUT THE TRASH IS STILL THERE.
12:17:52 WHEN I GO DOWN LAKE AVENUE LAST NIGHT, UNFORTUNATELY, WE
12:17:55 HAD A SHOOTING DOWN THERE.
12:17:57 WHEN I DRIVE DOWN LAKE AVENUE, I'VE GOT TRASH ALL ALONG
12:18:00 THAT FENCE LINE ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, ON LAKE AVENUE.
12:18:03 OUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE HAS CALLED AND COMPLAINED TO ME
12:18:06 AND ASKED, WHAT ARE OUR TEAMS DOING?
12:18:09 I KNOW IT IS A BIG AREA WE HAVE TO CLEAN.
12:18:11 WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO KEEP THE AREA CLEAN,
12:18:15 ESPECIALLY THE CORRIDOR AREAS, WE NEED TO DO.
12:18:18 GET A REPORT ON THAT ON HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND OPERATE.
12:18:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I'M CONTEMPLATING MYSELF.
12:18:28 ARE WE ABLE TO PUT A CAMERA OUT THERE?
12:18:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YEAH, I BELIEVE -- WELL, YBOR HAS
12:18:35 CAMERAS.
12:18:35 IF THE CAC BUYS THEM, THEY CAN PUT THEM UP THERE.
12:18:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IT'S JUST A THOUGHT.
12:18:42 IF THE GARBAGE GETS TAKEN AWAY AND IT GETS REPEATED, A
12:18:47 CAMERA MAY HELP.
12:18:48 JUST A THOUGHT, MS. VAN LOAN.
12:18:49 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:18:50 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST WANT TO SECOND THE MOTION.
12:18:53 WE HAVE TO HAVE AS CLEAN AS POSSIBLE ANYWHERE AND
12:18:56 EVERYWHERE.
12:18:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AND NOTHING FROM ME.
12:18:59 MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:19:01 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
12:19:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE FROM
12:19:03 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:19:03 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:19:05 ALL IN FAVOR?
12:19:05 ANYTHING ELSE?
12:19:09 [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
12:19:09 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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