TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2022
9:00 A.M.
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09:00:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:00:54 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:01:05 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:01:08 HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.
09:01:12 AND OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS, HE LED MORE THAN 200 TOTALS OF
09:01:15 TAMPA'S MOST HISTORIC COMMUNITIES, AND IN 2021, IT WAS
09:01:20 NAMED THE FIRST BLACK HISTORY SPOT FOR TAMPA HISTORY CENTER.
09:01:24 WE CAN PLEASE STAND, AND HE WILL LEAD US IN THE
09:01:26 INVOCATION.
09:01:27 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:01:29 LET US PRAY.
09:01:33 HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS ASSEMBLAGE OF
09:01:34 THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
09:01:38 THANK YOU FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CRA THIS MORNING.
09:01:42 WE THANK YOU FOR THE CHAIRPERSON.
09:01:47 FOR ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP AND ALL THE SUPPORT
09:01:50 STAFF THAT WORK SO EFFICIENTLY TO CARRY OUT THE
09:01:52 BUSINESS OF THIS CITY.
09:01:55 THANK YOU FOR OUR MAYOR AND MAY YOU STRENGTHEN HER AND
09:01:58 HER ADMINISTRATION EVERY DAY WITH WISDOM AND
09:01:59 UNDERSTANDING.
09:02:02 WE ASK FOR YOUR CONTINUED BLESSINGS UPON THE RESIDENTS
09:02:06 OF THIS CITY AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO TRAVEL THIS WAY FOR
09:02:08 THEIR VARIOUS ENDEAVORS.
09:02:11 MAY WE ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
09:02:15 AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL NATIONALITIES, GENDERS,
09:02:20 RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND OTHER MANIFESTATION OF HUMAN
09:02:24 DISTINCTION, FOR IT IS YOU ALONE THAT HAS MADE US IN
09:02:28 YOUR IMAGE AS MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
09:02:29 AND FOR THAT WE ARE GRATEFUL.
09:02:33 WE PRAY THAT THIS BODY TODAY AND HENCEFORTH CONTINUES
09:02:36 TO BE GUIDED BY YOUR LOVE AND BY THE WISDOM THAT COMES
09:02:38 FROM YOUR GRACE AND MERCY.
09:02:41 AMEN.
09:02:54 [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:02:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. HERTZ, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:03:01 IT LOOKS LIKE THIS CHAMBER IS COMING BACK TO SOME SENSE
09:03:05 OF NORMALCY THE WAY WE USED TO RUN THINGS.
09:03:07 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
09:03:08 >> THANK YOU, GOD BLESS.
09:03:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL PLEASE.
09:03:13 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:03:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HERE.
09:03:15 CAN YOU HEAR ME?
09:03:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, I CAN, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
09:03:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:03:21 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:03:22 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:03:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:03:30 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:03:35 >>CLERK: WE HAVE A QUORUM.
09:03:37 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THIS IS BEING HELD WITH A LIVE
09:03:41 IN-PERSON QUORUM OF THE CITY COUNCIL PRESENT IN CITY
09:03:42 COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
09:03:46 IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 HEALTH STANDARDS AND GUIDANCE IN
09:03:49 EFFECT, MEMBERS OF PUBLIC ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE
09:03:53 VIRTUALLY THROUGH VIDEO AND AUDIO TELL CONFERENCING
09:04:00 REFERRED TO AS COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY OR CMT.
09:04:03 THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA ARE ABLE TO WATCH THIS ON CABLE
09:04:08 TV, SPECTRUM 640 AND FRONTIER CHANNEL 15 AND VIA THE
09:04:12 INTERNET, TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:04:16 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO ABLE TO VIRTUALLY
09:04:18 PARTICIPATE IN THE CRA PUBLIC MEETING BY USE OF WHAT IS
09:04:22 CALLED -- REFERRED TO BY FLORIDA STATUTE RULES AS CMT
09:04:25 AND BY THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVE MELT TODAY THIS,
09:04:28 SENDING WRITTEN COMMENTS BY INTERNET AND WEB.
09:04:30 SENDING WRITTEN COMMENTS BY E-MAIL.
09:04:33 SENDING WRITTEN COMMENTS BY U.S. MAIL OR SPEAKING
09:04:37 REMOTELY DURING PUBLIC COMMENT WITH A USE OF CMT BY
09:04:39 COMPLETING THE PRO APPROPRIATE FORMS WITH THE
09:04:42 SECRETARY'S OFFICE OR CLERK'S OFFICE.
09:04:46 PARTICIPATING BY USING CMT MADE AVAILABLE AT OLD CITY
09:04:47 HALL.
09:04:50 MADE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO DO NOT HAVE
09:04:56 ACCESS TO CMT DEVICES SO MAY HAVE THE OPTION OF
09:04:59 PARTICIPATING THROUGH THE CMT TECHNOLOGY MADE AVAILABLE
09:05:02 DURING THIS HYBRID, LIVE AND VIRTUAL MEET AGENT OLD
09:05:05 CITY HALL, 315 E. KENNEDY BOULEVARD ON THE SECOND
09:05:06 FLOOR.
09:05:09 ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS FOR CRA MATTERS MUST BE RECEIVED
09:05:13 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING TO BE TIMELY DISTRIBUTED.
09:05:18 THE CRA MEMBERS TO BE MADE PART OF RECORD.
09:05:23 REGISTRATION TO SPEAK REMOTELY SHOULD BE DONE 24 HOURS
09:05:23 PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
09:05:28 PUBLIC COMMENTS OF CRA IN PERSON SHOULD BE HEARD AT THE
09:05:29 BEGINNING OF THE MEETING.
09:05:32 SHOULD NOT EXCEED THREE MINUTES UNLESS EXPRESSLY
09:05:34 ALLOWED BY THE CRA.
09:05:38 COMMENTS THAT MAIL AND E-MAIL DISTRIBUTED TO CRA
09:05:41 MEETINGS WILL BE PART OF THE PERMANENT RECORD OF THE
09:05:41 MEETING.
09:05:44 I ASK THAT YOU ACCEPT INTO THESE -- THE NOTICE AND
09:05:50 RULES THAT I JUST READ TO YOU ALL ARE DIFFERENT THAN
09:05:52 OUR STANDARD RULES OF PROCEDURES.
09:05:56 I WOULD LIKE A MOTION WAIVING YOUR RULES AND ALLOW THE
09:06:01 MEETING IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULES JUST READ ALOUD TO
09:06:01 YOU.
09:06:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND
09:06:05 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:08 LET'S HAVE A ROLL CALL PLEASE.
09:06:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:06:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:06:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: LET'S -- A ROLL CALL VOTE.
09:06:18 >>CLERK: DINGFELDER?
09:06:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:06:22 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:06:23 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:06:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, YES.
09:06:30 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
09:06:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
09:06:39 POLICE VAN LOAN, ARE YOU DOWNSTAIRS?
09:06:46 YES, WE CAN'T SEE YOU ON OUR MONITORS HERE.
09:06:47 GO AHEAD.
09:06:50 THANK YOU, MISS VAN LOAN.
09:06:52 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE HAVE A REQUEST BEFORE WE GET
09:06:54 STARTED TO A SLIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE AGENDA.
09:06:57 WE RECEIVED A COMMUNICATION LATE YESTERDAY FROM THE
09:07:01 APPLICANT FOR THE FACADE GRANT FOR ITEM NUMBER 19 AND
09:07:02 REQUESTING THAT THE ITEM BE PULLED.
09:07:04 THEY NEED TO RE-EVALUATE THEIR SCOPE.
09:07:08 IT IS A NEW BUILDING THEY ACQUIRED AND RAN INTO SOME
09:07:11 ISSUES SO THEY WILL RESUBMIT ONCE THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO
09:07:14 WORK OUT THESE ISSUES WITH THEIR CONTRACTORS.
09:07:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:07:19 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:07:20 ROLL CALL VOTE.
09:07:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:07:28 >>CLERK: DINGFELDER?
09:07:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:07:33 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:07:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:07:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:07:39 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT
09:07:41 AT VOTE AND CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
09:07:42 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU.
09:07:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN, ANY OTHER CHANGES TO
09:07:47 THE AGENDA?
09:07:49 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO, SIR.
09:07:50 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:08:04 START WITH ITEM NUMBER 1, PLEASE.
09:08:08 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: CHAIR, I BELIEVE YOU NEED PUBLIC
09:08:08 COMMENT FIRST.
09:08:10 >>MORRIS MASSEY: SHE IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
09:08:11 ONE OTHER CHANGE TO THE AGENDA.
09:08:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ITEM NUMBER 2.
09:08:18 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COUNCILMAN CARLSON ASKED FOR THAT TO
09:08:19 BE CONTINUED.
09:08:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: PULL NUMBER TWO, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:08:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:08:26 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:08:29 DOES THAT NEED TO BE CONTINUED FOR ANOTHER DATE?
09:08:32 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WILL CONTINUE IT TO THE NEXT CRA
09:08:33 MEETING.
09:08:34 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
09:08:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
09:08:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:08:42 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:08:44 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:08:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:08:45 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:08:47 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:08:50 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
09:09:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NOW WE WILL START WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:09:15 YES, SIR.
09:09:16 >> ARE WE READY?
09:09:19 MYRON GRIFFIN.
09:09:23 BORN AND RAISED IN CLEARWATERM BUT I LIVED IN TAMPA FOR
09:09:29 OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS SO I THINK OF THIS A HOMETOWN.
09:09:32 LIKE I SAID, BORN AND RAISED IN CLEARWATER.
09:09:34 I REMEMBER AS A KID WE DROVE TO THE BIG CITY AND SAW
09:09:38 THE GRAND OPENING OF THE SEARS ON EAST HILLSBOROUGH
09:09:41 AVENUE WHICH YOU ARE TAKING A LOOK AT IT THERE BACK IN
09:09:43 1957 WHEN THIS SEARS OPENED.
09:09:44 IT WAS BIG NEWS.
09:09:47 IT WAS LIKE A MALL BEING OPENED, AND WE WERE SO
09:09:48 IMPRESSED.
09:09:52 AND I MOVED BACK TO TAMPA WHENEVER I STARTED GOING TO
09:09:54 THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA MAJORING IN FINE ARTS,
09:09:57 AND I SAW THAT EAST HILLSBOROUGH HAD CHANGED
09:09:58 DRAMATICALLY.
09:10:01 I HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
09:10:06 FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE HERE AND I STARTED A PROGRAM WAY
09:10:08 BACK WHEN CALLED "HARP."
09:10:13 H-A-R-P, THE HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE RENAISSANCE PROJECT.
09:10:16 AND I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE CONDITIONS ON
09:10:19 EAST HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE, BUT I GOT INVOLVED WITH THE
09:10:22 GREEN ARTERY.
09:10:28 LENA GREEN AND I CO-FOUNDED THE GREEN ARTERY AND TOOK
09:10:30 SEVEN YEARS OF OUR LIFE, AND WE ARE READY TO GO BUT JUST
09:10:32 LOOKING FOR FUNDING.
09:10:35 A LANDSCAPE ARTIST AND ANTIQUE DEALER, AND I RECENTLY
09:10:40 GOTTEN INVOLVED WITH THIS EAST HILLSBOROUGH PROJECT
09:10:43 WHEN ORLANDO GUDES MADE THE COMMENT THAT HE THOUGHT
09:10:44 EAST HILLSBOROUGH LOOK LIKE A DUMP.
09:10:47 THAT LIT MY FIRE AND I GOT INVOLVED, AND I MADE AN
09:10:50 APPOINTMENT TO SEE MR. GUDES.
09:10:55 AND MAURICIO ROSA AND HAVE I BEEN DILIGENTLY WORKING
09:10:58 WITH IDEAS THAT WE CAN SUBMIT TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
09:11:00 OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EAST
09:11:01 HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE.
09:11:04 WE MADE A PRESENTATION TUESDAY IN FRONT OF CEDRIC
09:11:05 MCCREA.
09:11:09 AND IT WAS, I BELIEVE, A VERY BENEFICIAL PROGRAM.
09:11:13 WE HAD A PRETTY ELABORATE LIST OF SUGGESTIONS THAT WE
09:11:15 HAD THOUGHT THAT COULD BE DONE ON EAST HILLSBOROUGH
09:11:16 AVENUE.
09:11:19 THE ONE WE WOULD REALLY LIKE THE MOST AND LIKE SUPPORT
09:11:22 ON IS WE WOULD LIKE TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE MEDIANS.
09:11:26 THE MEDIANS ON EAST HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE ARE, IN MANY
09:11:31 CASES, VERY, VERY OLD AND SOOTY, GRUNGY, AND THEY JUST
09:11:32 MAKE THE AREA OLD.
09:11:39 SO WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ALL THE RESTRIPING BE DONE ON
09:11:40 EAST HILLSBOROUGH.
09:11:45 WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MEDIANS PRESSURE WASHED.
09:11:49 AND HAVE THEM PAINTED A BRIGHT GREEN COLOR SO THEY ARE
09:11:50 MORE VISIBLE.
09:11:52 YOU CAN'T SEE THEM.
09:11:54 50 SHADES OF GREY IS THE WAY I DESCRIBED THE CONTINUES
09:11:55 ON THE HIGHWAY.
09:11:58 EIGHT LANES OF HIGH-SPEED TRAFFIC AND A MONSTROUS
09:12:02 HIGHWAY CARRYING MONSTROUS LOADS OF TRAFFIC.
09:12:04 THEY PUT IN TWO CROSSWALKS FOR PEDESTRIANS.
09:12:07 WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE.
09:12:10 WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM PAINTED AND BRIGHTENED UP.
09:12:13 A LONG LIST OF LANDSCAPING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
09:12:14 DONE.
09:12:17 PERIOD LIGHTING WILL CERTAINLY MAKE IT LOOK BETTER.
09:12:22 PERIOD LIGHTING ON GANDY BOULEVARD AND HILLSBOROUGH
09:12:28 AVENUE IS JUST AS OLD AS THOSE HISTORIC STREETS AND
09:12:30 THEY DESERVE A RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANT EAST-WEST
09:12:32 ARTERY THROUGH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:12:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
09:12:50 >> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
09:12:51 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:12:53 I AM SALLYISE LEE.
09:12:58 AND I'M HERE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THE OPENING OF THE
09:13:06 VOLUNTEER MISSIONARY SOCIETY FUNDRAISER PROGRAM AT
09:13:09 SATURDAY MORNINGS AT 7 A.M.
09:13:18 THEY ARE HAVING A FUNDRAISER, AND I WOULD LIKE FOR ALL
09:13:21 OF YOU TO BE PART OF THAT AND CONSIDER THE PENNY FUND.
09:13:23 I LEFT MY NOTES SOMEWHERE.
09:13:27 IT IS ALL ABOUT MAKING A CHANGE WITH CHANGE.
09:13:29 AND I AM THE COORDINATOR AND THE FOUNDATION.
09:13:37 I SENT YOU ALL A LITTLE PACKET SO Y'ALL HAVE A LITTLE
09:13:39 INFORMATION ABOUT ME, WHO I AM AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT I
09:13:47 MADE IN MY LIFETIME IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND I WOULD
09:13:49 LIKE FOR YOU ACTUAL CONSIDER ME AND THE MISSIONARY
09:13:51 SOCIETY FUNDRAISER.
09:14:03 DON'T FORGET SATURDAY MORNINGS AT 7 A.M. ON WPMT 1150
09:14:04 ON YOUR RADIO DIAL.
09:14:07 THAT IS WHAT I CAME TO SAY AND I HOPE YOU SUPPORT THIS
09:14:10 CENTER WE NEED SO BAD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO MAKE A
09:14:11 DIFFERENCE.
09:14:13 AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT.
09:14:16 I AM JUST GETTING STARTED BECAUSE I AM JUST REALLY
09:14:18 TIRED OF WAITING FOR MONEY.
09:14:23 SO I AM GOING TO SEE WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO DO
09:14:26 TOWARD HELPING US GETTING TO OPEN UP.
09:14:34 THAT IS THE VOLUNTEER MISSIONARY SATURDAY FUND, PO BOX
09:14:39 82466, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 3362.
09:14:44 THANK YOU, AND HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
09:14:46 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WON'T BE ABLE TO ATTEND.
09:14:48 I WILL BE IN OLDSMAR FOR THE RUNNING OF THE TAMPA BAY
09:14:54 DERBY.
09:14:56 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:14:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MISS BURTON.
09:14:59 >> GOOD MORNING, SIR.
09:15:08 YOU KNOW WHETHER IT IS 1865, 1965, OR PRESENT, ONE OF
09:15:11 THE GREATEST DEMANDS THAT AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
09:15:13 ASKING IS THAT OF EQUALITY.
09:15:20 AND THE REASON I'M HERE THIS MORNING IS BECAUSE WE
09:15:21 HAVEN'T REACHED THAT.
09:15:26 AND THE CONSTANT DEMAND FOR THE RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA
09:15:35 TO RECEIVE THEIR DUE IS BEING, IN MY OPINION, REVAMPED
09:15:38 TO DO OTHER ISSUES.
09:15:41 ON AGENDA THIS MORNING, THERE IS ABOUT TEN AGENDA ITEMS
09:15:44 DEALING WITH EAST TAMPA.
09:15:48 I WOULDN'T LAY CRITICISM TO ALL OF THEM, BUT THE MAIN
09:15:50 THING THAT THE RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA HAVE BEEN ASKING
09:15:55 FOR THAT SEEMED TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT IN SPITE OF
09:16:01 HAVING A VERY WELL-EDUCATED STAFF HERE AT THE CITY OF
09:16:04 TAMPA, AND THAT IS A RESIDENT REHAB.
09:16:08 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THESE OTHER AMENITIES, ALL
09:16:11 OF THE OTHER GRANTS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED THIS
09:16:12 MORNING.
09:16:15 FOR THINGS THAT WILL GIVE DIGNITY INTO HOUSING.
09:16:18 STABILIZE PEOPLE SO THEY CAN GO TO WORK.
09:16:20 GIVE CHILDREN COMFORT IN THE EVENING.
09:16:24 KNOWING THAT THEIR HOUSE IS NOT LEAKING.
09:16:26 THE ROOF IS BEING REPAIRED.
09:16:27 TOILETS ARE GOOD.
09:16:30 WE CAN'T GET THAT.
09:16:35 SINCE YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES, HAS BEEN FROM THE CRA
09:16:38 BOARD BEING A MEMBER, YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE
09:16:41 COMMUNITY, NOW YOU HAVE ADVANCED TO BEING ON THE CITY
09:16:43 COUNCIL, WE ARE ASKING FOR THE SAME THING.
09:16:51 WE ARE ASKING THAT MONEY, A RFP, HOWEVER IT IS WRITTEN,
09:16:54 MONIES BEING DESIGNATED FIRST.
09:16:57 FIRST CONCERNS ARE STABILIZING THE HOUSING OF THE
09:16:58 RESIDENTS IN EAST TAMPA.
09:17:01 TO NOT TAKE CARE OF THAT IS THE FIRST AND FOREMOST
09:17:04 GIVES STRONG INDICATION THAT THE RESIDENTS ARE BEING
09:17:14 DENIED THEIR TAX DOLLARS COMING BACK TO BENEFIT THEM SO
09:17:16 OTHER PEOPLE OR DEVELOPERS CAN COME IN WHEN THE
09:17:20 RESIDENTS ARE SO TIRED AND PUSHED OUT OF COMMUNITY.
09:17:25 ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING THIS MORNING IS QUESTIONABLE AS
09:17:27 TO HOW YOU PRIORITIZE.
09:17:30 THOSE WHO LIVED IN EAST TAMPA.
09:17:33 SECONDLY, I AM VERY, VERY CONCERNED THAT -- AND I TRIED
09:17:37 TO, YOU KNOW, REACH OUT -- THAT MONIES ARE BEING
09:17:41 TRANSFERRED FROM FUND TO FUND.
09:17:47 WE HAD A SPECIAL HOUSING PROJECT FUND FOR $500,000 AND
09:17:52 NOW IT IS BEING UTILIZED TO TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THESE
09:17:52 GRANTS.
09:17:53 HOUSING IS AN ISSUE.
09:17:57 WE CAN NOT AFFORD $400,000 HOMES IN EAST TAMPA.
09:18:02 AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE COURAGE OF THE COUNCIL, COURAGE
09:18:05 OF THE MAYOR IF THAT IS YOUR PLEASURE IN ENSURING THAT
09:18:08 WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE IN EAST TAMPA IS NOT PUSHED OUT.
09:18:12 BUT WE ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE HERE.
09:18:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MISS BURTON.
09:18:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:18:22 WHEN EAST TAMPA COMES UP ON THE AGENDA, I WILL ADDRESS
09:18:23 THE HOUSING SITUATION.
09:18:28 THAT HAS BOTHERED ME A LONG TIME SINCE I WAS ON THE CRA
09:18:32 BOARD, WHEN I BECAME A COUNCILMEMBER.
09:18:35 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG EITHER, MISS
09:18:35 BURTON.
09:18:38 I AM GOING TO ADDRESS THAT THIS MORNING.
09:18:41 AND HOPEFULLY STAFF CAN TELL ME WHY THIS IS TAKING SO
09:18:43 LONG.
09:18:45 I DON'T BELIEVE IT SHOULD TAKE THIS LONG AND WE WILL
09:18:46 FIND OUT WHY.
09:18:47 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:19:02 >> THANK YOU.
09:19:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MR. DANIELS.
09:19:06 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:19:07 SAY GOOD MORNING.
09:19:11 UHURU, MEANS GOOD MORNING IN SWAHILI.
09:19:16 WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE THINKING OF OUR FREEDOM.
09:19:18 YEARS OF TREATMENT THAT WE, AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE,
09:19:20 SHOULD BE THINKING OF THIS.
09:19:22 THE WORD UHURU IS VERY IMPORTANT.
09:19:25 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON IS PANDEMIC TAX
09:19:30 FORGIVENESS FOR HOMEOWNERS AND PANDEMIC RELIEF FOR
09:19:31 HOMEOWNER.
09:19:34 CONGRATULATIONS FOR CITY OF TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH
09:19:36 COUNTY PROGRAMS TO ASSIST THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
09:19:38 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY RENTERS AND OTHERS THAT HAVE
09:19:43 EXPERIENCED HOUSING INCAPACITATION IN PART DUE TO THE
09:19:51 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.
09:19:55 EVIDENTLY FOR TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY RESIDENTS WHO
09:19:58 WERE AFFECTED BY THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL
09:20:03 DEVASTATION BY THE PANDEMIC, RECOVERY HAS BEEN PAIN
09:20:06 STAKING IN SOME INSTANCES NONEXISTENT.
09:20:10 THE PROGRAM EXTENSION AND FUNDING IS RECOGNIZED BY THE
09:20:12 CITY OF TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY IS QUITE
09:20:15 HONORABLE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR A SEGMENT OF THE
09:20:21 POPULATION HOMEOWNERS EXPERIENCED THE SAME PANDEMIC
09:20:25 SINCE 2019 AND CONTINUE TO DO SO MARCH 2022, NO VIABLE
09:20:29 RELIEF PROGRAMS WERE INITIATED OR INITIATED TO
09:20:34 FACILITATE OR ACCOMMODATE THE FINANCIAL SHORTCOMINGS OF
09:20:36 CITY.TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY RESIDENTS.
09:20:39 PLEASE PUT FORTH A POLICY OR PROGRAMMING TO FINANCIALLY
09:20:42 CHALLENGE HOMEOWNERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS THAT WILL
09:20:46 ADDRESS SUCH ISSUES AS TAX FORGIVENESS AND TAX RELIEF
09:20:54 FOR THE TAX YEARS 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 AND 2022.
09:20:57 THE SCOPE AND AMBITIONS OF THE CURRENT PROGRAMS ARE
09:20:59 CERTAINLY APPRECIATED.
09:21:02 UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH
09:21:04 COUNTY INHABITANTS THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME
09:21:07 FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS, THE HONORABLE PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT
09:21:12 TO SCRUTINY OF A DISCRIMINATORY NATURE THAT ARISES TO
09:21:14 THE LEVEL OF GENERAL DISCRIMINATION LAWSUITS AND
09:21:17 CHALLENGES IF OBSERVED AND INTERPRETED BY RATIONAL
09:21:18 PERSONS.
09:21:22 IT IS INCUMBENT UPON THE CITY OF TAMPA AND ELECTED
09:21:26 OFFICIALS AND POLICYMAKERS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO
09:21:29 ASSIST HOMEOWNERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS IN A MEANINGFUL
09:21:32 WAY THAT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE CURRENT TREND.
09:21:34 WHAT THIS LETTER WAS SUPPLIED TO CITY COUNCIL THIS
09:21:37 MORNING, THIS SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT
09:21:40 HOMEOWNERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY
09:21:44 THEIR PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME
09:21:48 PANDEMIC AS EVERYONE ELSE, WHO RENTERS, BUSINESS
09:21:52 PEOPLE, OTHER INDIVIDUALS, HAVE GOTTEN SOME FORM OF
09:21:55 RELIEF BUT HOMEOWNERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE NOT
09:22:01 GIVEN ANY RELIEF, UNEMPLOYED, UNDEREMPLOYED, OR, ONCE
09:22:03 AGAIN, DEVASTATED BY PANDEMIC.
09:22:07 WE WOULD LIKE THE CITY COUNCIL TO LOOK AT THIS LETTER.
09:22:12 LOOK AT THIS CORRESPONDENCE AND TAKE IT INTO SERIOUS
09:22:13 CONSIDERATION.
09:22:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MR. DANIELS.
09:22:29 >> COUNCIL, WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER.
09:23:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:23:02 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:23:09 MY NAME IS CAPTAIN FRANK WILLIAM LOCATED EAST SCOTT
09:23:10 STREET.
09:23:13 AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL GOOD MORNING AND HAVE A GOOD
09:23:13 DAY.
09:23:15 THANK GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY'S JOURNEY.
09:23:20 WE COME OUT HERE -- WE BASICALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE
09:23:25 CHURCH OVER IN 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET WHERE THE CITY
09:23:27 COUNCIL AND NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO WANT TO GET INVOLVED
09:23:28 IN NOTHING OVER THERE.
09:23:33 SO WE WANT TO STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS, WHETHER PEOPLE
09:23:34 LIKE IT OR NOT.
09:23:39 AND YOU KNOW THAT WE AIN'T GOT NO PROBLEM HERE.
09:23:43 PROBLEM NOW IS IN OUR -- IRAN.
09:23:46 AND THE GAS MILEAGE GOING UP.
09:23:49 GAS IS GOING UP.
09:23:52 IT IS EXTREMELY HIGH ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE HAVING A
09:23:55 MURDER SITUATION OVER THERE IN IRAN.
09:23:59 AND THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT.
09:24:03 BY EXTENDING THE GAS SO HIGH WHICH IS RIDICULOUS.
09:24:08 BUT I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU ALL THAT GOD BLESS ALL OF
09:24:08 YOU ALL.
09:24:12 AND I HOPE HEAVEN WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS US ALL.
09:24:16 AND KEEP OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN ALMIGHTY GOD.
09:24:17 EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT.
09:24:21 I ALSO HAVE A LETTER HERE I WANT TO GIVE TO EACH ONE OF
09:24:23 CITY COUNCIL.
09:24:26 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY TODAY.
09:24:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
09:24:38 >> ON ANOTHER DAY'S JOURNEY.
09:24:56 >> FINAL SPEAKER.
09:24:58 >> YOU MAY WANT TO CONFIRM WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE THAT
09:25:00 THERE IS NO ONE ONLINE.
09:25:04 >>CLERK: THERE ARE NO REGISTERED SPEAKERS.
09:25:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:25:18 MISS VAN LOAN.
09:25:19 GOOD MORNING.
09:25:24 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, CHAIR CITRO AND
09:25:25 BOARD MEMBERS.
09:25:27 MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
09:25:31 WE HAVE MR. STEPHEN BARBAS, THE CRA CHAIR FOR THE YBOR
09:25:47 CITY CRA.
09:25:50 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MR. BARBAS.
09:25:53 >>STEPHEN BARBAS: GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN CITRO.
09:25:56 THANK YOU FOR THE PLEASURE OF COMING BEFORE THE CRA
09:25:59 BOARD AND REPRESENTING THE YBOR CITY CRA AND THE YBOR
09:26:02 CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
09:26:06 IT'S ME PLEASURE TO SERVE AS THE CHAIR OF THESE
09:26:11 ORGANIZATIONS HAVING BEEN BORN AND RAISED IN YBOR CITY.
09:26:14 BORN IN GONZALEZ CLINIC.
09:26:18 NOW BEING THE CHAIR OF THIS ORGANIZATION IS VERY, VERY
09:26:18 PROUD.
09:26:21 WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM THE BOARD
09:26:24 OF MANY EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING IN YBOR CITY,
09:26:28 INCLUDING EVENTS, PROJECTS, AND DEVELOPMENT.
09:26:34 WE RECENTLY HAD A PRESENTATION BY DARYL SHAW WITH A
09:26:36 QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD AFTERWARDS LAST BEING 15
09:26:37 MINUTES.
09:26:42 THIS WAS, OF COURSE, ADDRESSING THE GAS WORX PROJECT
09:26:44 THAT WE ARE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT.
09:26:47 WE HAVE BY WAY OF PROJECTS, A GOOD AMOUNT OF PROJECTS
09:26:50 IN YBOR CITY.
09:26:54 THE COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR DREAM TEAM IS TO EXPAND ITS
09:26:57 SERVICES AND WILL SOON BE PLACED OUT TO BID.
09:27:01 THE 7TH AVENUE ARCHWAY LIGHTS ARE GETTING READY TO
09:27:01 START.
09:27:03 AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
09:27:07 BRICKING OF 7TH AVENUE HAS BEEN A TOPIC FOR A COUPLE OF
09:27:08 YEARS.
09:27:11 WE NOW HAVE A FUNDING TO DO A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THE
09:27:14 BRICKING OF 7TH AVENUE AND BIDS ARE BEING PREPARED
09:27:16 THROUGH THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
09:27:20 WITH RESPECT TO OTHER PROJECTS, THE YBOR NATIONAL
09:27:24 HISTORIC DISTRICT SIGNAGE.
09:27:26 DRAFT OF THE BID IS NOW UNDER WAY.
09:27:30 EAST GATEWAY MONUMENT AND 7TH STREETSCAPE PROJECT IS
09:27:31 NOW UNDER WAY.
09:27:35 YBOR CRA MARKETING DEPARTMENT OR MARKETING GROUP THAT
09:27:42 HANDLES THE MARKETING FOR YBOR CITY CRA AND THE YDYC
09:27:44 GAVE A PRESENTATION AND DO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND
09:27:48 MARKETING AND GAVE A PRESENTATION FOR PLANS FOR THE
09:27:48 UPCOMING YEAR.
09:27:53 WITH REGARD TO THE POLICE PRESENCE IN YBOR CITY,
09:27:55 SPEAKING AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN THAT
09:27:58 FOR THE LAST TEN OR SO YEARS WITH THE YBOR CITY
09:28:03 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND CRA, I AM VERY, VERY
09:28:05 PLEASED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA'S RESPONSE AND
09:28:08 PARTICULARLY WITH CAPTAIN BRETT OWEN.
09:28:11 WE HAVE A HOMELESS LIAISON JESSICA PIKE WHO HAS ANOTHER
09:28:15 ASSISTANT JASMINE HOUSE WHO WILL HELPING HER OUT AND IN
09:28:17 TIME REPLACING HER.
09:28:19 WITH RESPECT TO THE HOMELESS, THE BOARD RECENTLY DID A
09:28:24 TOUR OF TAMPA HOPE ON MARCH 3, AND I WILL PERSONALLY DO
09:28:27 A TOUR LATTER PART OF THIS MONTH.
09:28:34 THE YBOR CITY CRA HAS A SECURITY STRATEGY ACTION PLAN
09:28:38 PROMULGATED BY DAVE SCOTT BUSINESS OWNER IN YBOR CITY,
09:28:40 CRA AND CITY OF TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:28:45 AND THIS STRATEGIC PLAN IS ONE THAT IS VERY, VERY
09:28:46 IMPRESSIVE.
09:28:51 UPCOMING EVENTS AFTER THE PANDEMIC.
09:28:54 WE RECENTLY HAD THE SANT'YAGO NIGHT PARADE.
09:29:01 THE OUTBACK BOWL PARADE AND 75TH ANNUAL FIESTA DAY.
09:29:04 COMING UP MANY, MANY EVENTS OCCURRING.
09:29:06 TONIGHT, AS A MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF ORGANIZATIONS NEAR
09:29:10 AND DEAR TO MY HEART, THE YBOR CITY MUSEUM SOCIETY IS
09:29:13 SPONSORING ITS 10TH ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL HOP, 10, 10,
09:29:15 10.
09:29:18 MARCH 10, TEN LOCATIONS THAT THEY WILL BE VISITING FOR
09:29:20 OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY.
09:29:23 WE HAVE THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE COMING UP THIS
09:29:25 WEEKEND WITH THE ROUGH RIDERS.
09:29:28 THE TAMPA PRIDE ART FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND AND TAMPA
09:29:33 PRIDE PARADE ON MARCH 26, FOLLOWED BY THE 5K ROAR
09:29:36 THROUGH YBOR FOR THE LION'S EYE INSTITUTE TO OCCUR ON
09:29:37 APRIL 1.
09:29:41 AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS VERY ACTIVE BY WAY OF PROJECTS.
09:29:42 VERY ACTIVE BY THE WAY OF EVENTS.
09:29:44 IT IS A WONDERFUL BOARD.
09:29:50 A BOARD WE ARE VERY PROUD TO BE A PART OF AND TO CHAIR.
09:29:53 LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T
09:29:58 COMMEND THE OUTSTANDING STAFF IN YBOR CITY FOR OUR CRA,
09:30:02 COURTNEY, AND WE HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AND THE CITY HAS
09:30:05 MUCH TO BE PROUD OF AS WE HAVE MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.
09:30:06 THANK YOU.
09:30:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. BARBAS.
09:30:11 COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:30:13 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
09:30:17 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MR. BARBAS FOR HIS VERY DETAILED
09:30:18 REPORT THERE.
09:30:22 HIS LOVE FOR YBOR CITY IS SECOND TO NONE.
09:30:26 SOME OF Y'ALL MAY KNOW THIS, STEVE BARBAS TO ME IS A
09:30:27 PROFESSIONAL MENTOR.
09:30:31 I ACTUALLY CLERKED AT STEVE'S LAW FIRM WHEN I WAS 24
09:30:35 YEARS OLD ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO AND HE IS ONE OF MY
09:30:36 FAVORITE PEOPLE.
09:30:39 I KNOW HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BE PUBLICLY FLATTERED AND I
09:30:39 AM GOING TO DO IT.
09:30:41 HE IS A GREAT GUY.
09:30:45 WE JUST WANT TO THANK MR. BARBAS FOR ALL THE SERVICE OF
09:30:49 THE CITY OF TAMPA AND OVER FOUR DECADES AS AN ASSISTANT
09:30:52 CITY ATTORNEY ON WORKER COMPENSATION CASES SAVING THE
09:30:55 CITY OF TAMPA MORE MONEY THAN HE WILL EVER MAKE IN HIS
09:30:58 LIFE THROUGH THAT -- THROUGH LITIGATION OF WORKERS
09:30:59 COMPENSATION CLAIMS.
09:31:04 BUT, YOU KNOW, MR. BARBAS, FOR YOUR NEXT BOARD MEETING,
09:31:07 I WOULD LOVE TO COME AND DISCUSS SOME OF THESE ISSUES
09:31:08 WITH Y'ALL.
09:31:12 OBVIOUSLY BEFORE VOTE TIME AND WHAT NOT TO TALK ABOUT
09:31:15 -- I HAVE SOME IDEAS ON THINGS THAT THE CRA COULD BE
09:31:20 POTENTIALLY DOING IN YBOR CITY.
09:31:24 I REACHED OUT TO INSTITUTIONS, AS MUCH TALKING YOU AND
09:31:27 I DO, WE SHOULD PROBABLY TALK ABOUT THIS.
09:31:29 I WILL REACH OUT TO YOU IF I MAY, SIR.
09:31:35 BUT I WANT TO PUBLICLY SALUTE YOUR WORK AND ALL OF YOUR
09:31:38 FAMILY'S WORK IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:31:39 YOU ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE.
09:31:41 I LOVE YOU AND THE CITY LOVES YOU.
09:31:42 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:31:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:31:48 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. BARBAS, I KNOW YOU AND YOUR
09:31:53 FAMILY AND I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH MANY BARBASES OVER THE
09:31:54 YEARS.
09:31:57 SO I HAVE -- I HAVE NOTHING BUT GOOD MEMORIES.
09:32:00 WE HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY IN YBOR FOR
09:32:01 FIESTA DAY.
09:32:05 I MEAN I CAN'T -- COUNCILMAN VIERA SAID IT ALL.
09:32:09 OUR DEEP APPRECIATION TO YOU FROM ALL OF US FOR ALL THE
09:32:12 WORK YOU HAVE DONE IN YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE AND
09:32:14 COMMITMENT TO US AND YBOR CITY.
09:32:15 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:32:16 >> THANK YOU.
09:32:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:32:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GOOD MORNING, MR. BARBAS.
09:32:22 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:32:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I RECEIVED A MEMO OF THE BENCHES IN
09:32:26 YBOR CITY.
09:32:28 CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THAT WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE
09:32:29 BENCHES?
09:32:33 HAVE YOU AT CAC MET ABOUT OR TALKED ABOUT THE BENCHES?
09:32:36 >>STEPHEN BARBAS: WE BRIEFLY DISCUSSED IT AT OUR LAST
09:32:39 BOARD MEETING AND WE WILL DISCUSS IT A LITTLE BIT
09:32:39 FURTHER.
09:32:45 I RECEIVED A MEMO THAT MISS ORR WAS PREPARED TO DISCUSS
09:32:48 WITH YOU DURING THIS MEETING.
09:32:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:32:51 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:32:52 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, STEVE, FOR EVERYTHING
09:32:53 THAT YOU DO.
09:32:57 YBOR CITY IS THE ONLY PLACE IN CITY OF TAMPA THAT EVERY
09:33:01 THREE TO FOUR YEARS IT STARTS REINVENTING ITSELF.
09:33:04 IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY IT HAS BEEN REINVENTING
09:33:07 ITSELF FROM THE BEGINNING MADE FROM PEOPLE WHO HAD VERY
09:33:10 LITTLE OR NOTHING AT ALL AND IMMIGRANTS FOR ALL COLORS,
09:33:13 RACES AND ALL NATIONALITIES AND SOMEHOW THEY HAVE
09:33:21 BLENDED TOGETHER AND NEVER A PROBLEM.
09:33:24 YOU GO BACK TO THE HISTORY OF YBOR CITY, A MELTING POT
09:33:25 AND STILL IS.
09:33:28 THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU AND YOUR COMMITTEE
09:33:28 HAS DONE.
09:33:30 >> WE APPRECIATE THAT.
09:33:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. BARBAS.
09:33:36 I THANK YOU WITH THE CRA IN YBOR CITY.
09:33:39 HAVING BEEN PART OF THAT OVER THE YEARS, WE KNOW THAT
09:33:40 THINGS TAKE TIME.
09:33:45 I KNOW THAT MISS FRAN CONSTANTINO GETS VERY EXCITED
09:33:48 WHEN SHE SEES THE BRICKS BEING LAID FOR THE EAST
09:33:51 GATEWAY WHICH FIVE YEARS AGO WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT.
09:33:56 YOU MENTIONED SOME WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT HELP IN THE
09:33:57 COMMUNITY.
09:34:00 CAPTAIN OWENS.
09:34:02 THE LIAISON OFFICER.
09:34:05 TPD IS DOING OUTSTANDING WORK IN YBOR CITY, AND I DON'T
09:34:07 THINK THEY GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE.
09:34:11 YOU ALSO MENTIONED BRENDA, COURTNEY AND CORRINE.
09:34:14 WITHOUT THAT STAFF HELP, IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO
09:34:15 GET THINGS DONE IN YBOR CITY.
09:34:21 WHEN I SAW YOU AT THE FIESTA DAY, THERE WERE PEOPLE
09:34:25 WITH THEIR CHILDREN IN BABY STROLLERS.
09:34:28 AND I AM LOOKING AROUND SAYING WHERE DID THESE PEOPLE
09:34:32 COME FROM, AND THEY ARE ALL YBOR RESIDENTS.
09:34:36 YBOR CITY IS BECOMING A NEIGHBORHOOD AND I WOULD LIKE
09:34:38 TO THANK BECAUSE OF THE CRA YBOR CITY IS BECOMING A
09:34:41 NEIGHBORHOOD AGAIN WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE, WORK,
09:34:42 PLAY AND LEARN.
09:34:47 AGAIN, THANK YOU AND THANK THE CRA AND THE STAFF DOWN
09:34:49 IN YBOR CITY.
09:34:50 >>STEPHEN BARBAS: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:34:52 APPRECIATE THOSE KIND COMMENTS.
09:34:54 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:34:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HAVE A GOOD DAY ALREADY MR. BARBAS.
09:35:06 >>STEPHEN BARBAS: THANK YOU.
09:35:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN, WE HAVE CONTINUED ITEM
09:35:15 NUMBER 2 UNTIL OUR NEXT CRA MEETING NEXT MONTH.
09:35:17 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: FOR ITEM NUMBER 3.
09:35:20 KIMBERLEE CURTIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE CHAIR OF THE
09:35:24 CHANNEL DISTRICT CAC AND UNABLE LAST MINUTE TO MAKE IT
09:35:27 THIS MORNING AND ASKED JEFFREY BURTON TO COME IN AND
09:35:29 MAKE THE PRESENTATION FOR HER.
09:35:31 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:35:35 >> GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIRMAN, BOARD.
09:35:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MR. BURTON.
09:35:40 >> NOVEMBER 18 OF LAST YEAR THE BOARD MOTIONED TO
09:35:44 INITIATE THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT CAC CHAIR FOR THE
09:35:46 MARKETING CONCEPT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
09:35:50 AND IF YOU WILL LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION ON YOUR
09:35:53 SCREEN, THIS IS THE SAME PRESENTATION THAT WAS GIVEN
09:35:57 THEN.
09:36:01 AND AGAIN THE GOAL AND THE OVERVIEW TO PUT UP A RFP TO
09:36:05 HIRE A MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT FIRM TO HEAD UP THE
09:36:08 CHANNEL DISTRICT CAC'S WORK AND TO DO A NUMBER OF
09:36:15 DIFFERENT ITEMS WITH THEM IN SUPPORT OF THE CAC CRA
09:36:16 OFFICE.
09:36:20 TO BE A LIAISON WITH THE PUBLIC AND THE CRA STAFF AND
09:36:21 THE CAC MEMBERS.
09:36:24 SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT WILL BE ROLLED OUT AS A
09:36:27 DISTRICT BRAND AND MARKETING STRATEGY TO PROMOTE THE
09:36:31 CHANNEL DISTRICT AS AN ATTRACTIVE WORK, LIVE, PLAY
09:36:34 COMMUNITY, WHICH IS ALREADY IS, BUT THIS JUST
09:36:39 RE-EMPHASIZES THAT TO PROMOTE THE DISTRICT AS -- AS A
09:36:43 PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS -- TO PROSPECTIVE BUSINESSES,
09:36:45 PROVIDE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION.
09:36:50 AS YOU KNOW WITH MIXED FAMILY OR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT,
09:36:52 THE RENTS AND THE OWNERSHIP OF THE HOMES ARE USUALLY
09:36:55 THE FIRST THING TO HAPPEN AND THE BUSINESSES ARE THE
09:36:55 SECOND.
09:37:01 AND THIS WILL PROMOTE BUSINESSES TO COME IN AND FILL IN
09:37:03 THE COMMERCIAL SPACES BUILT AND ALSO STRENGTHEN
09:37:08 BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:37:12 SO SERVICES CONTINUE IN THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT HUB,
09:37:15 CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, STATUS, TIMELINE.
09:37:18 A LOT OF WORK THROUGH THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
09:37:20 BETWEEN THE CRA AND DEVELOPERS.
09:37:23 AND THAT PERSON WOULD WORK THERE AND BE COMMUNICATION
09:37:26 WITH THE PUBLIC ABOUT THOSE STREETS THAT ARE CLOSING,
09:37:30 TIME LINES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
09:37:32 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED AND UNDER WAY AS
09:37:34 NEW DEVELOPMENTS COME ONLINE.
09:37:36 THAT PERSON WOULD COMMUNICATE SOME OF THOSE TO THE
09:37:37 PUBLIC.
09:37:38 NEW RESIDENT PACKETS.
09:37:40 RESOURCES FOR BUSINESS.
09:37:43 ALSO TO BE A PART OF THE DISTRICT EVENTS AND PARK
09:37:46 PROGRAMS AND HAPPENINGS IN THE DISTRICT AND PROBABLY
09:37:51 MOST IMPORTANT FOR STAFF IS THE ADMINISTRATION AND HELP
09:37:54 WITH THE GRANTS THAT THE BOARD HAS NOW APPROVED FOR
09:37:55 THIS DISTRICT.
09:38:00 AND ALSO AS A REFERRAL TO CITY DEPARTMENTS IS NEEDED.
09:38:02 THAT IS THE PRESENTATION THAT WAS PROVIDED.
09:38:05 AND WITH ITEM NUMBER 7 TODAY, THE -- THE FIRST APPROVAL
09:38:10 OF THE CRP FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:38:13 WE WANTED TO BRING THAT BACK AND GIVE YOU THE OVERVIEW.
09:38:14 IT WAS APPROVED.
09:38:17 THE IDEA WAS APPROVED TO BE BROUGHT BACK ON NOVEMBER
09:38:20 18, 2021.
09:38:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
09:38:34 THIS WAS YOUR MOTION, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:38:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE AS I LOOK AT
09:38:42 THESE PLANS, CRA IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THE IDEAS ARE
09:38:44 FOR THAT DISTRICT, NOT THE CITY'S IDEA.
09:38:49 AND I AM GOING TO ADDRESS THE EAST TAMPA C.A.P.
09:38:52 LATER ON BECAUSE THESE PLANS SHOULD NOT MIRROR WHAT THE
09:38:54 CITY WANTS TO DO BUT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTS TO DO WITH
09:38:56 THEIR MONEY IN THE DISTRICT.
09:38:59 WHEN I LOOK AT CERTAIN PLANS, I SEE THE CITY'S IDEAS
09:39:02 VERSUS THE CITIZENS' IDEAS.
09:39:05 BECAUSE IT IS THEIR TAX MONEY AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
09:39:08 SO I WILL CONTINUE TO VIEW AND MONITOR, BUT I THINK
09:39:12 WHAT THE CITIZENS ARE ASKING FOR IS NOT UNREASONABLE
09:39:14 BECAUSE CHANNEL IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF PLACE.
09:39:16 AND THEY DO NEED MARKETING DOWN THERE.
09:39:18 I DO UNDERSTAND THAT CONCEPT.
09:39:21 THANK YOU, MR. CITRO.
09:39:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
09:39:26 MR. BURTON, THIS INITIATIVE, WILL IT INCLUDE A
09:39:28 STOREFRONT OR OFFICE?
09:39:30 >> THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS IN THE FUTURE.
09:39:34 AS YOU WELL KNOW, SQUARE FOOTAGE IN CHANNELSIDE
09:39:37 DISTRICT IS VERY HIGH IN DEMAND AND LOW IN SUPPLY.
09:39:42 SO TO START OUT WITH WE ARE GOING TO WORK WITH THE RFP
09:39:46 TO GET IT OUT AND THEN WORK WITH THE PERSON THAT IS
09:39:49 CHOSEN, WHETHER IT IS FROM THEIR OFFICE OR FROM --
09:39:51 WHETHER THEY WORK FROM HOME OR WHETHER THEY WORK IN THE
09:39:58 CRA'S OFFICE DOWNTOWN BUT THE IDEA IS TO FIND A
09:40:00 LOCATION IN THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT.
09:40:05 WE WILL DO THAT VERY JUDICIOUSLY BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE
09:40:07 SQUARE FOOT PRICES FROM THE BENEFIT OF THE CITY OF
09:40:12 TAMPA AND THAT CAC AND THE CRA ARE VERY HIGH AND THAT
09:40:16 IS VERY GOOD.
09:40:20 AGAIN, TO REITERATE WHAT BOARD MEMBER GUDES SAID.
09:40:21 ABSOLUTELY.
09:40:23 WE FOLLOW THE CAC.
09:40:27 WE FOLLOW THE CRP AND THE SAP.
09:40:30 THE CRP IS FOUND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY'S
09:40:33 REQUIREMENTS WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, BUT IT IS THE
09:40:33 CRA.
09:40:40 IT IS NOT THE CITY SO WE WILL FOLLOW THE PLAN YOU PUT
09:40:43 BEFORE US AND FOLLOW THAT JUDICIOUSLY AND PRUDENTLY AND
09:40:49 ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BRING THE ACTIONS BACK TO THE BOARD.
09:40:50 >>JOSEPH CITRO: EXCELLENT.
09:40:53 THANK YOU, MR. BURTON.
09:40:58 >> YES, SIR.
09:41:03 CITRO.
09:41:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: OKAY, THANK YOU.
09:41:07 DO YOU NEED A MOTION ON THIS OR IS THIS JUST A
09:41:08 PRESENTATION?
09:41:11 >> THE CAC WAS LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD
09:41:12 WITH THE --
09:41:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: OKAY, I AM SORRY.
09:41:17 WELL, THAT WILL BE ITEM NUMBER 7.
09:41:20 >> NO, SIR, THAT IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CRP TO MOVE
09:41:20 FORWARD.
09:41:23 IT IS A REVIEW BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
09:41:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY ASKING YOU US TO
09:41:31 DO IS TO MAKE A MOTION SO THAT THIS PERSON THAT YOU ARE
09:41:36 GOING TO CONTRACT -- OH, I UNDERSTAND NOW.
09:41:36 >> YES, SIR.
09:41:38 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THAT
09:41:39 REQUEST?
09:41:41 I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
09:41:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN, STILL FOR ITEM NUMBER
09:41:44 7.
09:41:45 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SEPARATE FROM THIS.
09:41:47 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SEPARATE FROM THIS.
09:41:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEN I AM CONFUSED.
09:41:50 REPEAT THAT AGAIN.
09:41:52 I AM CONFUSED.
09:41:53 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT, I
09:41:56 BELIEVE, MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, THE
09:41:59 PERSON IDENTIFIED AS THE LEAD PERSON IN MAKING THE
09:42:02 CONCEPT OF WHAT THEY WANT FROM -- FROM PAPER TO
09:42:03 REALITY.
09:42:05 AND THAT IS A PERSON THAT THEY WANT TO PUT IN AND MAKE
09:42:10 SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE ACCORDING TO PLAN AND ONE
09:42:12 THING LEADS TO THE OTHER AND THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT
09:42:15 TRACK AND I MOVE THAT -- 7 IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN
09:42:17 WHAT I JUST MENTIONED.
09:42:20 IT IS REGARDING OTHER SUBJECT MATTERS BUT NOT THAT
09:42:20 PERSON.
09:42:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM CLEAR.
09:42:28 MISS VAN LOAN.
09:42:30 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO WE ARE REQUESTING THAT WE ARE
09:42:35 ALLOWED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROGRAM AND WITH THE
09:42:40 CONSULTANT TO WORK WITH THE CAC AND WORK ON BEHALF OF
09:42:41 THE CAC.
09:42:47 THE CAC DID PROGRAM THIS MONEY IN THE FY '22 BUDGET AND
09:42:50 IT WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD AS PART OF THE BUDGET OF FY
09:42:51 '22.
09:42:54 THIS HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD IN THE FALL.
09:42:57 AND THE MOTION WAS MADE TO MAKE SURE THIS IS PART OF
09:43:00 THE CRP AND PART OF THE COMMUNITY PROCESS AND THIS IS A
09:43:03 REQUEST -- A REQUEST DIRECTLY FROM THE CAC.
09:43:06 THEY HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A
09:43:06 HALF.
09:43:09 AND WE INCLUDED IT AS PART OF THE CRP PROJECT.
09:43:13 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT
09:43:16 NEEDING THAT INTERFACE AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO
09:43:20 HELP ENGENDER THAT SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND SENSE OF
09:43:23 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CRA AND THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE
09:43:24 DISTRICT.
09:43:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO THIS IS NOT RELATED TO THE REQUEST
09:43:28 FOR NUMBER 7, CORRECT?
09:43:28 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NO.
09:43:31 WHEN WE GET TO NUMBER 7, THAT WILL BE THE REQUEST TO --
09:43:35 IT IS STRICTLY TO ACCEPT THE CRP AND MOVE IT FORWARD TO
09:43:38 THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
09:43:42 YOU ARE NOT FORMALLY ADOPTING THE CRP UNTIL AFTER IT
09:43:44 COMES BACK FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
09:43:47 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED ON NUMBER 3.
09:43:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
09:43:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL VOTE.
09:43:52 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:43:54 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:43:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:43:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:44:00 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
09:44:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:44:05 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
09:44:07 >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:44:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:44:09 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, MICHELLE VAN LOAN.
09:44:17 FOR THE NEXT ITEM, WE HAVE THE WALK.
09:44:20 A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN VIERA OF HOW CAN THE CRA
09:44:22 PURCHASE THE SOUL WALK PROJECT.
09:44:26 I DO HAVE WRY ROBIN NYE WITH ME WHO IS HERE TO ANSWER
09:44:30 ANY QUESTIONS AND GO OVER THE PROGRAM.
09:44:32 WE HAVE SUBMITTED TO YOU A MEMO THAT EXPLAINS WHERE
09:44:35 THERE IS AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN THIS PROJECT AND THE
09:44:39 CRAS AND WHERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT
09:44:40 MOVING FORWARD.
09:44:46 WE ALSO SUPPLIED A BACKGROUND POWERPOINT ON THE SOUL
09:44:46 WALK.
09:44:49 AND, AGAIN, ROBIN IS HERE TO EITHER PROVIDE ANY PORTION
09:45:01 OF THAT REVIEW AND TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
09:45:02 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:45:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING.
09:45:08 >>LUIS VIERA: I WAS GOING TO SAY -- MAY I --
09:45:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SURELY.
09:45:13 >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL GO AFTER ROBIN SPEAKS, IF I MAY.
09:45:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SURELY.
09:45:16 >>LUIS VIERA: BEFORE, MAY I SAY SOMETHING.
09:45:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SURELY.
09:45:24 >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO THANK MISS NYE.
09:45:25 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
09:45:27 WE TALKED ON THIS AND OTHER THINGS AND I WANT TO SAY TO
09:45:30 THE FOLKS WATCHING THIS IS A WOMAN WHO REALLY CARES
09:45:34 ABOUT THIS ISSUE, ABOUT LOCAL HISTORY, BLACK HISTORY,
09:45:39 IGNORED HISTORY, ACUTE HISTORY, HISTORY THAT HAS GREAT
09:45:40 CIVIC RELEVANCE TO TODAY.
09:45:44 AND YOU SHARE THE VALUES OF THIS PROJECT 100%.
09:45:46 SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT PUBLICLY.
09:45:47 OUR GOOD WOMAN.
09:45:49 AND I APPRECIATE YOUR VALUES.
09:45:50 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
09:45:51 >> THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
09:45:54 I AM NOT SURE IF ANYTHING ELSE I CAN ADD TO THE REPORT.
09:45:58 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANY PART OF THE POWERPOINT, I
09:46:00 CAN CERTAINLY BRING THAT UP.
09:46:02 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
09:46:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MAY WE SEE YOUR POWERPOINT, PLEASE?
09:46:08 >> YES, SIR.
09:46:18 YES, THANK YOU.
09:46:19 THANK YOU.
09:46:22 SOUL WALK IS ACTUALLY BEEN -- IT IS A VERY SLOW PROCESS
09:46:26 BECAUSE WE ARE MOVING VERY METHODICALLY AND CAREFULLY
09:46:30 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STEP BY STEP NOT MISSING
09:46:33 ANYTHING, NOT FORGETTING ANYTHING.
09:46:38 AND IT REALLY IS INTENDED TO BE INCLUSIVE AND CAST A
09:46:45 WIDE NET AS -- MUCH OF A CAMARADERIE AS POSSIBLE.
09:46:48 AND THE HEADLINE THERE -- AND I KNOW I DON'T NEED TO
09:46:51 READ IT, BUT IT IS ACKNOWLEDGING THE IMPORTANCE OF
09:46:52 BLACK HISTORY AND PUBLIC SPACE.
09:46:56 AND AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD AND
09:46:57 GROW AS A CITY.
09:47:01 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF BENCHMARKS WE LOOKED AT.
09:47:05 I WILL SAY THIS ONE THING AT SOUL WATCH CONSENSUALLY IS
09:47:08 SOMETHING THAT IS NOT DONE ANYWHERE BECAUSE BASICALLY
09:47:10 COMBINING WASHINGTON D.C.'S HISTORIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN
09:47:14 HERITAGE TRAIL WITH SOMETHING LIKE YOU MAY SEE IN
09:47:17 MUSCLE SHOALS AND WEST VIRGINIA, IT DOES BRING IN THE
09:47:21 ARTS AND THE CULTURE BECAUSE IT REALLY IS ABOUT
09:47:24 CAPTURING THE SPIRIT AND THE JOY AND THE RESILIENCE AND
09:47:28 REALLY THE ESSENCE OF A COMMUNITY.
09:47:30 IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS THROUGH -- THAT'S WHY IT IS
09:47:33 THROUGH THE ARTS IN THAT SENSE.
09:47:37 WE ARE WORKING, AS I MENTIONED, COHESIVELY.
09:47:41 WE ARE TRYING TO WORK COHESIVELY TO WORK WITH -- ALL OF
09:47:46 OUR PARTNERS, WHETHER IT'S -- THE -- GOSH.
09:47:52 I GUESS I -- I SKIPPED UP A LITTLE BIT, BUT THE -- THE
09:47:55 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS, TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER.
09:48:00 A LOT OF THESE PARTNERS ARE WORKING WITH US COHESIVELY
09:48:04 AS WELL INTENDED WITH INTERNAL SITES AND OUR PARTNER.
09:48:07 HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND ARCHIVES.
09:48:10 PULLING EVERYONE TO WORK TOGETHER AND GROW ALL IN THE
09:48:11 SAME DIRECTION.
09:48:13 YOU CAN SEE HERE WHAT SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES HERE AND
09:48:16 THE KEY WORDS ARE "RECONNECTION" AND
09:48:22 "RESILIENCY", "RECOGNITION" AND JOY AND EMPOWERING.
09:48:24 WE WANT THIS TO BE A DESTINATION.
09:48:27 AND ALSO FOR IT TO BE THAT, IT HAS TO BE VERY GOOD.
09:48:32 FOR IT TO BE GOOD, IT HAS TO BE INCLUSIVE AND HAS TO BE
09:48:35 THOROUGH AND THAT IN ITSELF CAN TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE
09:48:38 TIME THAN WE WOULD LIKE SOMETIMES IN THE CITY, BUT IT
09:48:40 IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
09:48:48 THAT IS, AGAIN, THE CURATORIAL APPROACH TO THINK
09:48:49 THOROUGHLY.
09:48:51 CONSIDER DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART.
09:48:53 DIFFERENT WAYS TO BRING IN CULTURE.
09:48:55 AND THE ESSENCE OF WHAT A COMMUNITY MIGHT WANT.
09:48:58 IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT OR OFF THE BEATEN PATH
09:49:01 OF WHAT YOU MIGHT NORMALLY SEE IN THE PUBLIC REALM WITH
09:49:04 REGARD TO PUBLIC ART AND THAT KIND OF THING.
09:49:07 REALLY TAKE A CLEAR, FRESH VIEW AND THINK IT THROUGH.
09:49:11 SO THE HIGHLIGHTS TODAY, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE BEEN
09:49:12 WORKING ON IT FOR A WHILE.
09:49:16 AND STILL AT THIS POINT NOT QUITE READY TO GO PUBLIC.
09:49:19 BY THAT, I MEAN ROLL IT OUT IN TERMS OF COMMISSIONING
09:49:22 ARTISTS AND THAT KIND OF THING.
09:49:24 WE ARE NOT THERE YET AND LAYING THE FOUNDATION AND
09:49:27 GETTING THE SITES AND PARTICULARLY WORKING ON THE
09:49:28 MAPPING AREA OF THAT.
09:49:31 A NUMBER OF PARTNERS ALREADY SIGNED ON AND A LIST OF
09:49:33 THAT MOMENTARILY.
09:49:35 WE SUBMITTED GRANTS.
09:49:40 WE RELEASED NATIONWIDE RFQ, CALL TO ARTISTS FOR THAT.
09:49:44 AND WE ALSO HAVE COMMITTED FUNDING FROM THE ARTS
09:49:48 PROGRAMS TO WORK ON SOME COMMUNITY-BASED ART ON THE
09:49:49 BLOCK PROJECTS IN THAT.
09:49:52 AND THE OUTREACH IS GETTING UNDER WAY AND ALSO VERY
09:49:58 THOROUGH THAT INCLUDES SURVEYS.
09:50:01 WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT
09:50:03 THE HISTORY, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
09:50:04 THEY ARE HARD TO FIND.
09:50:07 YOU THINK YOU HAVE GOT IT AND THEN THE SAME
09:50:07 PHOTOGRAPHS.
09:50:11 WE ARE LOOKING FOR THAT CONTENT THAT WE KNOW ARE IN
09:50:13 SOMEBODY'S FAMILY PHOTO ALBUMS.
09:50:14 TUCKED ON THE SHELF.
09:50:17 WE WANT TO BE THOROUGH AND MAKE A GOOD TRY TO BRING
09:50:20 THEM OUT INTO THE PUBLIC REALM.
09:50:22 THERE IS A LOT OF DATA POINTS.
09:50:24 QUITE A FEW SITES AND ANOTHER REASON WE ARE MOVING
09:50:29 LITTLE METHODICALLY, 91 TO 108.
09:50:31 WE DON'T HAVE THEM QUITE NAILED DOWN YET.
09:50:34 IF YOU THREAD IT THROUGH AND THE ARTWORK AT THE
09:50:39 HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED SITES AND ARTWORK LIKE THE
09:50:42 CEMETERIES AND IN THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTIONS, YOU CAN
09:50:46 START TO EEK OUT A PORTRAIT OF A COMMUNITY AMAZINGLY
09:50:50 IMPRESSIVE, IF YOU WILL, AND REALLY, REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
09:50:53 WORKING LIST OF PARTNERS AT THE MOMENT.
09:50:58 AND AGAIN I WANT TO STRESS THAT WE ARE NOT WORKING IN
09:50:59 SILOS.
09:51:00 CROSS-FERTILIZATION.
09:51:03 SOMEBODY ELSE IN ONE OF THE INSTITUTIONS HAD A MEETING
09:51:05 WITH THE HISTORY CENTER YESTERDAY AND I HAD A DOCUMENT
09:51:08 THEY HAVEN'T SEEN SO WE SHARED IT WITH THEM AND
09:51:12 LIKEWISE IT GOES BACK AND FORTH.
09:51:16 A VERY GOOD DIALOGUE AND ABSOLUTELY COLLEGIAL.
09:51:19 SOME OF OUR PARTNERS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN IN THE PREVIOUS
09:51:22 SLIDE WERE SOME OF THE DEVELOPERS AND ABSOLUTELY KEY.
09:51:23 WE ARE WORKING AND WE HAVE WORKED.
09:51:26 WE WORKED FOR YEARS WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
09:51:33 AND WE ARE WORKING WITH RELATED AND SO ON THAT THE
09:51:36 ARTWORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHAT THEY WANT IS HIGH
09:51:39 QUALITY, VERY THIS THOROUGH AND GOOD AND WE WANT TO
09:51:43 PLAN AND NOT BE IN A REACTIONARY POSITION.
09:51:45 THIS I AM GOING TO GO THROUGH VERY QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY
09:51:47 ARE -- I KNOW ONE THING YOU HAVE A LONG AGENDA.
09:51:50 BUT, TWO, I WANT TO STRESS THIS IS STILL IN MOTION.
09:51:52 IT IS STILL VERY FLUID.
09:51:54 BUT YOU CAN START TO SEE THE CONTEXT THAT WE ARE
09:51:58 LOOKING AT HERE.
09:52:01 THERE ARE -- NOT JUST CENTRAL IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, BUT
09:52:07 WE ARE CERTAINLY LOOKING AT ALL OF THE AREAS, EVEN DOWN
09:52:09 IN PORT TAMPA AND TRY TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS.
09:52:12 I AM REALLY TRYING TO WHIP THROUGH HERE QUICKLY BECAUSE
09:52:16 I KNOW -- I DON'T WANT TO TAKE TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME.
09:52:18 BUT THIS -- THIS IS SORT OF A TIMELINE HERE.
09:52:22 AND YOU CAN SORT OF SEE WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE
09:52:22 THROUGH THIS.
09:52:26 SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE AT BASICALLY STAGE 3, WHICH, IN MY
09:52:29 OPINION, IS THE SCARIEST PART, BECAUSE IT MEANS STAGE
09:52:33 3-8, WE ALL HAVE TO RAMP UP AND DO IN A VERY
09:52:37 COORDINATED EFFORT AND TO BE VERY THOROUGH AND KIND OF
09:52:39 HIT ALL THE MARKS WE WANT TO TRY TO DO.
09:52:41 WE ARE ABOUT TO GET VERY, VERY BUSY.
09:52:44 AND WE FEEL VERY, VERY GOOD WHERE WE ARE GOING AND WHAT
09:52:46 WE HAVE GOT AND WHO WE ARE WORKING WITH.
09:52:49 WE ARE COGNIZANT WE NEED TO WORK ON CONNECTIVITY.
09:52:52 WE ARE LOOKING AT THE SIGNAGE, KIND OF OPPORTUNITIES
09:52:56 THAT CAN WORK AS AESTHETIC LINKAGE.
09:52:58 AS WAY FINDING.
09:53:01 ST. PETE HAS A REALLY NICE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
09:53:02 TRAIL.
09:53:05 IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE SIGNAGE THAT YOU SEE ON THE
09:53:09 THIRD SECTION RIGHT THERE.
09:53:11 WE CAN DO SOMETHING THAT IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ROBUST
09:53:14 AND THAT IS KIND OF A WONDERFUL CHALLENGE FOR ME.
09:53:16 EDUCATION IS ABSOLUTELY BOTTOM LINE.
09:53:18 IT IS VERY, VERY CRITICAL.
09:53:20 IF YOU THINK OF SOMETHING FROM THE JACKSON HOUSE TO
09:53:24 ZION CEMETERY, A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR A FIELD TRIP
09:53:28 FOR A FOURTH-GRADE CLASS TO LEARN ABOUT OUR
09:53:31 AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:53:34 IT IS REALLY KIND OF DRIPPING WITH OPPORTUNITY.
09:53:37 WE HAVE ALSO BEEN IN DIALOGUE WITH SOME EDUCATORS IN
09:53:41 ADDITION TO VISIT TAMPA BAY AND HOW WE CAN REALLY RAISE
09:53:42 VISIBILITY.
09:53:46 I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH -- OF COURSE THIS IS WHERE IT
09:53:51 HITS HOME, I AM SURE, FOR THIS CRA, IS THE SENSE THAT
09:53:55 SOME OF THIS IS A OPPORTUNITY TO GENERATE CATALYST
09:53:58 PROJECTS FOR OTHER IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
09:54:02 WHETHER IT IS HAVING A LITTLE GALLERY IN AN EMPTY SPACE
09:54:04 FOR ARTISTS OF COLOR.
09:54:08 I THINK THAT WILL BE ONE THAT, ONE, IS A HUGE NEED.
09:54:10 WE CAN WORK CLOSELY WITH HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, PERHAPS
09:54:13 WITH THEIR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART MUSEUM AS THAT KIND OF
09:54:16 BEGINS TO COME ON LINE AND COORDINATE THAT AND WE WANT
09:54:18 TO W WITH THAT.
09:54:20 A REAL GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF CONNECT AND
09:54:23 CERTAINLY -- IF IT IS GOOD, PEOPLE WILL COME.
09:54:25 PEOPLE COME, THEY GO INTO NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:54:30 IF THEY GO INTO NEIGHBORHOODS, IT WILL BE VERY SWELL IF
09:54:32 THEY SPENT MONEY THERE, RIGHT.
09:54:33 GOOD TO GIVE RECOGNITION FOR SOME BLACK-OWNED
09:54:39 BUSINESSES AND THAT TYPE OF ACTIVITY TO REALLY KIND OF
09:54:44 MAKE IT A CROSS-FERTILIZATION AND AN OVERALL BENEFIT
09:54:46 FOR EVERYONE IS REALLY THE IDEA.
09:54:51 SO THIS IS WRAPPING IT UP PRETTY MUCH THAT WE ARE -- WE
09:54:55 REALLY ARE WANTING TO GRAB OUR GREATEST STRENGTHS WHICH
09:54:57 IS OUR DIVERSITY AND ELEVATE THAT AND CELEBRATE THAT
09:55:02 AND TO JUST REALLY CONNECT THE DOTS.
09:55:05 THERE IS A LOT OF ARTWORK OUT THERE THAT IS ITTY-BITTY
09:55:08 STUFF, BUT IF IT IS NOT CONNECTED, IT REALLY DOESN'T
09:55:11 MEAN ANYTHING IF YOU CATCH IT ONE OFF.
09:55:14 IF YOU PULL IT ALL TOGETHER, YOU HAVE GOT SOMETHING VERY
09:55:18 COHESIVE AND VERY ROBUST AND SOMETHING THAT I THINK
09:55:20 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WILL GO OUT TO SEE.
09:55:24 AND IT WILL BE REALLY NICE WHICH IS WHAT WE DO TRY TO
09:55:28 BRING QUALITY WORK OUT TO THE PUBLIC REALM AND IT IS
09:55:35 FREE AND KIND OF WHAT THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MAKING IS --
09:55:36 MAKING IS POSITIVE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
09:55:39 BOTTOM LINE, THIS IS WHAT OUR GOAL IS, WHAT WE WOULD
09:55:41 LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN.
09:55:43 WHAT WE WOULD CALL SUCCESSFUL.
09:55:46 THAT IS REALLY BECOMES A DESTINATION.
09:55:48 ACTS AS A CATALYST FOR ADDITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD
09:55:50 IMPROVEMENT.
09:55:51 THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ENGAGED.
09:55:55 WE OPEN DIALOGUE OF RACE AND BECOMES A RESOURCE FOR
09:55:56 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES.
09:55:57 WE WANT SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
09:56:00 WE KNOW -- THE THING ABOUT ARTWORK -- I HAVE BEEN DOING
09:56:03 THIS FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.
09:56:04 NOT EVERYBODY WILL LIKE EVERYTHING.
09:56:06 I KNOW HE DON'T.
09:56:08 NOT MY JOB.
09:56:12 THE JOB IS TO BRING THE BEST ARTIST AND WORK FOR THE
09:56:13 SITE AND FOR THE COMMUNITY.
09:56:15 WE TRY TO HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
09:56:18 AND THIS IS WHAT WE ARE HOPING THAT THIS PARTICULAR
09:56:22 INITIATIVE BRINGS TO THE COMMUNITY.
09:56:23 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. VIERA.
09:56:25 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:56:27 AND ROBIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
09:56:30 I APPRECIATES YOUR HARD WORK AND PASSION BECAUSE YOU --
09:56:34 YOU RALEIGH BELIEVE THIS AND I APPRECIATE IT.
09:56:35 FRED AMERICANS WAS JUST HERE.
09:56:39 AND WE JUST TOOK A TRIP -- GOSH, FRIDAY TO GO TO
09:56:43 MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA AND SELMA, ALABAMA FOR THE EQUAL
09:56:45 JUSTICE INITIATIVE.
09:56:52 PORTICO AND HYDE PARK PASTOR JUSTIN LAROSA AND A
09:56:53 WONDERFUL TRIP.
09:56:54 A WONDERFUL TRIP.
09:56:56 I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE TO KNOW THAT
09:57:00 THE SO-CALLED LYNCHING MUSEUM OF THE EQUAL JUSTICE
09:57:00 INITIATIVE.
09:57:03 THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IS A MERE
09:57:07 SEVEN OR EIGHT HOUR TRIP AWAY.
09:57:09 SELMA IS AN HOUR FROM THAT.
09:57:11 MONTGOMERY IS TWO HOURS FROM THAT.
09:57:15 SO JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE, BUT A LOT OF
09:57:17 HISTORY HERE IN FLORIDA AND NEAR TAMPA THAT IS SO
09:57:18 CRITICAL.
09:57:20 AND ROBIN YOU TALKED ABOUT IT IN HISTORY THAT IS VERY,
09:57:26 VERY IGNORED.
09:57:28 WHEN I MET WITH YOU.
09:57:30 WE TALKED ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS.
09:57:33 ROBERT SAUNDERS THAT TOOK OVER THE NAACP AFTER THE
09:57:37 MURDERS ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT 1951.
09:57:39 MARTINE MASEO.
09:57:42 SO GLAD AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT LATER IN CRA.
09:57:46 ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO TALK TO OUR FRIEND STEVE
09:57:53 BARBAS ABOUT IS MARTINE MASEO.
09:57:55 THE RACE RIOTS THAT HAPPENED IN TAMPA.
09:57:58 THAT WAS HISTORICAL THAT WAS DOCUMENTED IN THE
09:58:02 COMMISSION OF '68, I THINK IT WAS.
09:58:05 I WANT TO ASK YOU, ROBIN, FOR PURPOSES OF THE PUBLIC.
09:58:09 WHEN CAN THE PUBLIC EXPECT TO SEE PHYSICAL MOVEMENT ON
09:58:11 THIS, SO TO SPEAK IF YOU CAN ANSWER.
09:58:15 IF YOU KNOW.
09:58:18 >> OUR OBJECTIVE IS MAY.
09:58:20 AT LEAST THE FIRST BOOKLET FOR PEOPLE TO SEE --
09:58:24 CONNECTING THE DOTS FROM PERRY HARVEY PARK TO JULIAN B.
09:58:25 LANE.
09:58:28 AND REALLY LOOKING AT THE HISTORICALLY BLACK
09:58:29 NEIGHBORHOODS, PARTICULARLY IN DOWNTOWN.
09:58:32 AT LEAST THAT THE GOAL AT THE MOMENT AND THEN START
09:58:40 ROLLING OUT CERTAIN COMMISSIONS OR.
09:58:42 THE ARTWORK WILL START AGAIN.
09:58:44 THE NEW COMMISSIONS -- NOT JUST WITH THE CITY BUT MANY
09:58:48 OF THEM ARE WITH OUR PARTNERS AND THE NEXT TWO OR THREE
09:58:50 YEARS WITH THAT.
09:58:52 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT IS REASONABLE.
09:58:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.
09:58:55 I WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IF THE
09:58:59 PUBLIC HAVE IDEAS ON PLACES THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN
09:59:00 THIS, WE SHOULD KNOW.
09:59:04 THE THING OF HISTORY OF MARGINALIZED AND IGNORED
09:59:04 PEOPLE.
09:59:07 A LOT OF IT NOT KNOWN.
09:59:09 TAKE MOUNT ZION.
09:59:11 HUGE, 99% OF PEOPLE.
09:59:15 THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS UNKNOWN THAT FAMILIES AND
09:59:18 COMMUNITIES KNOW ABOUT THAT THE CITY DOESN'T RECOGNIZE.
09:59:20 THAT THE WHOLE POINT WITH THIS.
09:59:22 ONE OF THE REASONS I WANTED TO GET THE CRA INVOLVEMENT
09:59:26 IN THIS IS BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THIS BE LIKE IT IS, A
09:59:38 ROBUST PROGRAM, A PROGRAM BE WITH ART AND HISTORY.
09:59:42 I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY DISNEY VERSION OF CIVIL
09:59:43 RIGHTS HISTORY.
09:59:46 IT IS A WORK OF HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT BUT A HISTORY
09:59:48 OF BLOOD AND HEARTBREAK AND TORTURE.
09:59:52 AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT KIND OF STUFF PUBLICLY.
09:59:55 BUT, AGAIN, IF THE PUBLIC HAVE ANY IDEAS ON IT -- AND
09:59:57 THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS.
10:00:01 OVER THE WEEKEND TALKING TO FRED AMERICANS.
10:00:05 DIDN'T KNOW A FREEMAN'S BUREAU PRESENCE IN HILLSBOROUGH
10:00:09 COUNTY DURING RECONSTRUCTION.
10:00:10 I WILL BE DARNED.
10:00:13 I DIDN'T NO HE THAT DURING RECONSTRUCTION.
10:00:14 YOU MENTIONED CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:00:18 THE VAST AMOUNT OF HISTORY THAT IS THERE.
10:00:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA, I FEEL YOUR PASSION.
10:00:22 I FEEL YOUR PASSION.
10:00:24 >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I FINISH.
10:00:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SURELY.
10:00:28 >>LUIS VIERA: LIKE I WAS SAYING, CENTRAL AVENUE, SO
10:00:36 MUCH THAT IS WITH REGARD TO HISTORY, THAT WE SHOULD
10:00:38 KNOW ABOUT THAT.
10:00:41 MR. LEARN TALKING OF FREEMAN'S BUREAU.
10:00:44 MY REMARKS WERE INTERRUPTED BUT I APPRECIATE IT.
10:00:44 THANK YOU.
10:00:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, ANY OTHER COUNCILMEN?
10:00:51 MADAM, I THINK IT IS YOUR ATTEMPT TO GO TO THE VARIOUS
10:00:54 CACS AND ASK FOR A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM IN THIS?
10:00:57 >> YES, SIR, ABSOLUTELY.
10:01:01 IF ONE THING IF I CAN MESSAGE SOMETHING WHAT COUNCILMAN
10:01:04 VIERA JUST SAID IS THAT IT JUST WENT LIVE ON OUR WEB
10:01:08 SITE TAMPAGOV.NET/ARTS.
10:01:11 IF ANYBODY HAS ANYTHING TO CONTRIBUTE, TO SAY, AND TO
10:01:15 GIVE US GUIDANCE BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING SOME THINGS
10:01:20 THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
10:01:23 AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPLOAD PHOTOS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO
10:01:23 THAT.
10:01:24 WE WOULD WELCOME THAT.
10:01:27 >>LUIS VIERA: MR. CHAIR, MAY I MAKE A MOTION?
10:01:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MAY I FINISH.
10:01:30 >>LUIS VIERA: YOU MAY, THANK YOU, SIR.
10:01:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: AFTER YOU HAVE TOUCHED BASE WITH
10:01:36 VARIOUS CACS, CAN YOU REPORT BACK TO US.
10:01:39 GIVE US A WRITTEN REPORT OR IF WOULD YOU LIKE TO APPEAR
10:01:42 IN PERSON AND LET US KNOW HOW THAT WENT.
10:01:44 COUNCILMAN VIERA, MAKE YOUR MOTION.
10:01:46 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:01:49 MY REMARKS WERE CUT OFF AND I WANT TO MAKE MY MOTION IF
10:01:52 I MAY, BEING SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T TAKE UP A LOT OF
10:01:55 COUNCIL'S, I WAS SURPRISED WITH THAT INCLUDING CRA.
10:01:59 IF I MAY, MAKE A MOTION TO RETURN BACK TO US IN LET'S
10:02:03 SAY, WE ARE IN MARCH -- LET'S SAY IN MAYBE FIVE MONTHS
10:02:06 TO SEE WHAT THE PLANS ARE GOING IN THAT REGARD, IF I
10:02:06 MAY.
10:02:09 I WILL BE LOOKING FOR A SECOND FOR THAT.
10:02:12 AND I ESPECIALLY WANT TO LOOK FOR THE EDUCATION
10:02:14 COMPONENT IN SCHOOLS, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WAS
10:02:18 MENTIONED AND WHAT THE CRA CAN TO DO PUSH THAT FORWARD,
10:02:26 IF I MAY.
10:02:30 I WANT TO STRESS TO THE PUBLIC WATCHING PLEASE GIVE US
10:02:32 YOUR IDEAS THAT COULD BE A PART OF THIS.
10:02:35 A LOT OF HISTORY THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
10:02:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY MR. VIERA.
10:02:39 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:02:40 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:02:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:02:48 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:02:50 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:02:54 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: DINGFELDER IS YES.
10:02:57 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA BEING ABSENT AND
10:03:01 VOTE AND CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:03:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR WONDERFUL
10:03:05 PRESENTATION AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
10:03:22 >> THANK YOU.
10:03:24 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, MICHELLE VAN LOAN
10:03:26 FOR ITEM NUMBER 5.
10:03:30 WE HAVE BROUGHT THIS CONCEPT ORIGINALLY IN JANUARY TO
10:03:34 DEVELOP AN OVERALL CRA POLICY FOR OUR GRANT PROGRAMS
10:03:39 THAT WOULD PROVIDE A BASIC OVERALL FRAMEWORK ON TERMS
10:03:43 AND CONDITIONS AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL SO WE KNOW THAT WE
10:03:48 HAVE CONFORMANCE ACROSS ALL OF THE CRAS, THE CRA
10:03:51 DISTRICTS AND THAT IT IS EQUITABLE FOR THE DIFFERENT
10:03:56 APPLICANTS FROM EACH CRA SO THEY ARE NOT ALL BEING
10:04:02 TREATED 100 DIFFERENTLY AND THE LEVEL AND TERMS THEY
10:04:05 WOULD BE GRANT RECIPIENTS OTHER WILL NOT BE SO ALL OVER
10:04:06 THE PLACE.
10:04:11 WE WERE TRYING TO DEVELOP AN OVERALL POLICY.
10:04:15 ASKED TO COME BACK WITH A DECISION MATRIX TO WALK CRA
10:04:17 BOARD THROUGH SOME OF THESE DECISIONS AND WE ARE COMING
10:04:19 BACK WITH THAT NOW.
10:04:21 IF I CAN HAVE THE POWERPOINT UP.
10:04:24 SO, AGAIN, OUR GOAL.
10:04:27 WE HAVE DEVELOPED FIVE NEW GRANTS IN WEST TAMPA, EAST
10:04:30 TAMPA, AND TODAY WE ARE BRINGING FOUR MORE OF THOSE.
10:04:38 WE EXPANDED THE FACADE GRANT PROGRAM CHANNELSIDE AND IN
10:04:40 APRIL TWO OR THREE MORE GRANT PROGRAMS FOR THE CHANNEL
10:04:43 DISTRICT.
10:04:45 GENERALLY WE WILL PROVIDE ALL YOUR PROGRAM GUIDES LIKE
10:04:47 WE DO NOW, BUT WITH ALL OF THE APPLICATION FORMS
10:04:54 SIMILAR BY WHAT YOU SEE BY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
10:04:56 DEVELOPMENT SO WE SEE THE ENTIRE PROCESS.
10:04:59 WHEN WE BRING A GRANT PROGRAM TO YOU FOR APPROVAL, AND
10:05:05 ALL THE GRANTS WILL STATE THE PURPOSE AND INCLUDING
10:05:06 THAT ALIGNMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
10:05:12 PLANNING SO EVERYTHING IS CLEARLY TIED UNDER 163 TO THE
10:05:14 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLANS AND EVERYTHING IS
10:05:15 TRANSPARENT.
10:05:18 AGAIN, WE WILL BRING ALL THOSE FORMS SO WE UNDERSTAND
10:05:21 WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR AND WHAT THE PROCESS IS.
10:05:24 EVERYTHING WILL HAVE CLEAR ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND
10:05:28 CLEARLY DEFINED PARAMETERS SO COUNCIL -- SORRY, CRA
10:05:30 BOARD KNOWS WHAT IT IS THAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH
10:05:34 AND WHAT WILL BE EXPECTED OF THE APPLICANTS.
10:05:37 AS FAR AS OUR DUE DILIGENCE, WE WILL HAVE A DEFINED
10:05:42 CHECKLIST TO GO THROUGH AS STAFF SIMILAR TO THE
10:05:44 CONSULTANT ON THE FACADE GRANT.
10:05:47 WE WILL DO ALL THE SAME VERIFICATIONS THAT WE GO
10:05:50 THROUGH WITH THE FACADE GRANT, THE PROPERTY OWNER,
10:05:53 LICENSES, CODE VIOLATIONS, MAKING SURE CONTRACTORS MEET
10:05:57 ALL THE REQUIREMENTS AS REQUIRED BY REGULAR LAW.
10:06:00 OUR LIEN WAIVERS, DETAILS RECEIPTS, WE WILL GO THROUGH
10:06:05 THE SAME ITEMIZED DETAIL PROCESS WITH ALL OF OUR
10:06:05 GRANTS.
10:06:11 SO WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOR EACH OF THESE CRITERIA.
10:06:13 FOR THE COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS GRANTS, IF IT IS
10:06:16 $15,000 OR UNDER, WE ARE ASKING FOR THAT TO BE APPROVED
10:06:19 ADMINISTER STIFFLY WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT.
10:06:23 AND -- ADMINISTRATIVELY WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT AND THIS
10:06:27 WILL BE A FUNDING AGREEMENT THAT LEGAL WILL DRAW UP FOR
10:06:29 US LIKE THE BUSINESS MICROGRANT
10:06:33 AND WE ESTABLISHED THE BUSINESS MICROGRANTS BUSINESSES
10:06:37 THAT ONLY NEEDED A DOOR, WINDOW OR AWNING, SOME SIMPLE
10:06:39 IMPROVEMENT DID NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT FULL FACADE
10:06:43 GRANT PROCESS.
10:06:47 HAVE THE RESTRICTIVE CONVENANCE REPORTED ON THEIR
10:06:49 PROPERTY FOR FIVE YEARS AND WAIT TWO MONTHS TO BE ABLE
10:06:51 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME OF THESE SMALLER.
10:06:56 AGAIN, THESE WILL BE VERY PRESCRIBED TYPES OF
10:06:57 ELIGIBILITY.
10:06:59 YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THE TWO MICROGRANT PROGRAMS.
10:07:02 ONE OF THEM IS ON THE AGENDA TODAY AND BASICALLY A
10:07:06 FACADE GRANT LIGHT WITH AN EASIER PROCESS FOR APPROVAL.
10:07:11 ANY PROGRAMS THAT GO OVER THAT $15,000 THRESHOLD WILL
10:07:13 BE BROUGHT TO THE CRA BOARD.
10:07:16 THEY WILL ALL HAVE THE FULL GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE
10:07:21 RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, AND THOSE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS
10:07:23 WILL BE ON THE LAND FOR FIVE YEARS.
10:07:28 WE HAVE AS A MINIMUM THAT NO ONE -- NO -- NO ONE
10:07:31 APPLICANT WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR THAT SAME GRANT ANY
10:07:35 MORE OFTEN THAN WITHIN A 12-MONTH PERIOD.
10:07:38 THERE WILL BE SOME PROGRAMS THAT WE ASK FOR THAT PERIOD
10:07:43 TO BE EXTENDED DUE TO VOLUME AND MAKING SURE THAT WE,
10:07:49 AT LEAST, ARE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYONE IN NEED AT
10:07:51 LEAST ONCE BEFORE WE GET TO SOMEONE REAPPLYING.
10:07:56 SO WITH THE TREE GRANT RECENTLY, WE EXTENDED THAT TO
10:07:57 THREE YEARS.
10:08:00 IN WEST TAMPA, ONE OF THE HOUSING PROGRAMS BECAUSE OF
10:08:05 DEMAND, THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THEM FIRST
10:08:08 BEFORE PEOPLE COME BACK AND IN CASE THE WORK NEEDED
10:08:09 GOES BEYOND THE MAXIMUM OF THE GRANT.
10:08:14 AT MINIMUM, NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO APPLY MORE ONCE
10:08:15 EVERY 12 MONTHS.
10:08:17 AND SOME OF THE PROGRAMS DURING VOLUME MAY HAVE A
10:08:24 HIGHER, LONGER-TERM PERIOD BETWEEN APPLICATIONS.
10:08:27 THE STACK MEANS IF THERE IS A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS
10:08:29 GRANT, IF YOU GUEST A RESTAURANT GRANT AND A FACADE
10:08:33 GRANT, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF GRANTS AWARDED WITHIN YOUR
10:08:37 12-MONTH PERIOD CANNOT EXCEED $75,000.
10:08:41 AND YOU CAN NOT EXCEED MORE THAN TWO GRANTS IN ANY
10:08:42 12-MONTH PERIOD.
10:08:44 SO IF YOU ARE A RESTAURANT WITH AN UPSTAIRS AND YOU
10:08:47 NEED A FACADE, YOU CAN NOT GET THREE GRANTS FOR THE
10:08:50 UPSTAIRS CONVERSION AND THE FACADE GRANT AND THE
10:08:51 RESTAURANT GRANT.
10:08:54 WE ARE LIMITING EACH OF THE APPLICANTS TO NO MORE THAN
10:08:58 TWO GRANTS IN ANY 12-MONTH PERIOD AND NO MORE THAN
10:09:02 $75,000 TOTAL ACROSS THOSE GRANTS.
10:09:04 ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE --
10:09:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MICHELLE, I HAVE A QUESTION.
10:09:09 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
10:09:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:09:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: PLEASE PROCEED.
10:09:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I LIKE THE IDEA WHERE YOU ARE
10:09:18 HEADED RIGHT NOW.
10:09:20 I THINK IT ALL LOOKS REALLY GOOD.
10:09:23 I AM JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT.
10:09:27 BECAUSE $75,000 ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE.
10:09:30 HAS THERE BEEN DISCUSSION ON THAT ISSUE?
10:09:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ACTUALLY IT IS AT $75,000, AND
10:09:39 RECOGNIZING THAT THE $50,000 ON SOME OF THE GRANTS THAT
10:09:41 WE HAD ARE NOT ENOUGH.
10:09:46 THAT'S WHY WE ARE ALLOWING THEM TO DUPLICATE OR STACK.
10:09:49 ONE OF THE GRANTS DOES GO AS HIGH AS $75,000.
10:09:52 OTHERS ARE UP TO $50,000.
10:09:56 SO FOR STACKING PURPOSES, AGAIN, WE ARE ALSO TRYING TO
10:10:01 NOT USE UP ANYONE'S CRA'S FUNDING RESOURCE SO AS MUCH
10:10:04 WITH ANY ONE APPLICANT SO THAT WE RUN OUT AND ARE NOT
10:10:13 ABLE TO SPREAD THAT EQUITABLY OF THE BUSINESSES IN
10:10:14 NEED.
10:10:17 WE ARE TRYING TO WALK THE FINE LINE OF HELPING ENOUGH
10:10:19 PEOPLE BUT TO HELP THEM ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
10:10:23 OUR GOAL IS NOT TO BE FULLY FUND ALL OF THEIR
10:10:26 CONSTRUCTION AND NEEDS, BUT AT LEAST TO MAKE ENOUGH OF
10:10:31 A DIFFERENCE TO BE ABLE TO HELP THAT BUSINESS THRIVE
10:10:37 AND SURVIVE OR ATTRACT THEM TO OUR CRAS.
10:10:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IN OTHER WORDS, $50,000 IS A FACADE
10:10:44 AND MATCHED, A $100,000 PROJECT.
10:10:49 THAT TYPICALLY ENOUGH TO -- TO REALLY INDUCE OR
10:10:52 ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM?
10:10:55 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO FAR TO DATE WE HAVE MORE THAN
10:10:59 1450 FACADE GRANTS SINCE 2009 AND HAS BEEN AT $50,000.
10:11:03 WE ARE STILL REGULARLY SEEING MOST OF THE PROGRAMS --
10:11:08 OR THE PROJECTS THAT GO WAY ABOVE THE $100,000 MARK ARE
10:11:10 USUALLY THE MUCH MORE HISTORIC.
10:11:17 AND IF THEY HAVE INTERIOR LIKE WEST TAMPA, THE OLDER
10:11:21 BUILDINGS, CIGAR FACTORIES, $25,000 FOR THE INTERIOR
10:11:27 REHAB AND ADD ON THE VANILLA SHELL AND OTHER GRANTS
10:11:30 THEY CAN ADD ON UP TO THE $75,000.
10:11:33 IF WE MAKE IT $75,000 OR $90,000.
10:11:38 ONCE YOU GET INTO THE MUCH OLDER BUILDINGS AND THAT
10:11:41 EXTRA LITTLE BIT WILL NOT MAKE OR BREAK A PROJECT
10:11:43 BECAUSE IT WILL REQUIRE SUCH AN INVESTMENT BY THE
10:11:45 PROPERTY OWNER.
10:11:47 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NO, I REALIZE THAT.
10:11:50 I THINK IT HAS BEEN A GOOD PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS, JUST
10:11:54 THE LAST TWO YEARS SINCE COVID, WE HAVE -- THE PRICES
10:11:57 OF MATERIALS AND PRICES OF LABOR VIRTUALLY DOUBLED.
10:12:01 SO I JUST THINK WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AND MAKE
10:12:06 SURE THAT WE REFER THE CONSTRUCTION CITY WILL ALONG
10:12:07 THOSE LINES.
10:12:08 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:12:12 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: OVER TIME, IF WE FIND THIS ISN'T
10:12:16 ENOUGH AND RESOURCES ARE NOT INCREASING ENOUGH, WE CAN
10:12:17 ADJUST.
10:12:22 OVER THE YEARS WE HAVE ADJUSTED FACADE GRANTS AND COME
10:12:24 BACK WITH OTHER GRANTS AND ADJUSTED THOSE.
10:12:27 IF THE RESOURCES ARE SUCH THAT WE CAN GO BEYOND THE
10:12:33 $75,000 AND STILL BE ABLE TO ASSIST MULTIPLE BUSINESSES
10:12:37 THEN WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT ADJUSTING THAT IF THE
10:12:41 NEED ARISES OR THE RESOURCES ARE THERE.
10:12:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS VAN LOAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO
10:12:45 FINISH YOUR PRESENTATION?
10:12:47 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SURE.
10:12:50 ON RESIDENTIAL SIDE, SOME OF THE SAME CONCEPTS.
10:12:52 UP TO $10,000.
10:12:55 THE CRA DIRECTOR IN HOUSE CAN APPROVE IT WITH A FUNDING
10:12:57 AGREEMENT.
10:13:01 IF IT GOES OVER THAT $10,000, IT WILL STILL WITH
10:13:05 IN-HOUSE, BUT WE WILL BE USING A ZERO INTEREST
10:13:07 FORGIVEABLE MORTGAGE WITH A NOTE FOR FIVE YEARS.
10:13:11 THIS IS SIMILAR TO HOW IT IS HANDLED AT HCD.
10:13:17 HCD DOES NOT BRING THESE LARGER HOUSING GRANTS BACK TO
10:13:18 CRA BOARD EACH TIME.
10:13:21 THE PROCESSES THEY BRING YOU, ALL THE PROGRAM, ALL OF
10:13:25 THE FORMS, AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS FOR YOU TO APPROVE
10:13:29 ALL OF THAT AND THAT IS HANDLED ADMINISTRATIVELY IN
10:13:31 HOUSE.
10:13:35 THE NOTE FOR FIVE YEARS LESS THAN WHAT HDC REQUIRES FOR
10:13:38 MOST OF THE FUNDING FROM THE STATE AND THE FEDS BUT WE
10:13:44 ALSO DO NOT WANT TO ENCOURAGE THE OUR INVESTMENT SO
10:13:48 PEOPLE CAN FLIP THEIR HOMES.
10:13:50 THIS IS MEANT FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED ASSISTANCE TO
10:13:55 BRING THEIR AGING HOUSING UP TO CODE AND TO MAKE IT
10:13:59 LIVABLE AND SAFE AND THEY PLAN TO STAY INTO THEIR HOME.
10:14:01 SAME CONCEPT WITH ONE GRANT PER 12 MONTHS.
10:14:04 IF THERE IS A GRANT THAT IS A HIGH VOLUME, THE
10:14:09 INDIVIDUAL CAC MAY REQUEST A LONGER TERM TO GET ALL
10:14:13 HOMEOWNERS AT LEAST ONE GRANT BEFORE WE GO TO A SECOND
10:14:14 ROUND.
10:14:17 TWO GRANTS STACKED IN ANY PERIOD AND NO MORE THAN
10:14:19 $75,000.
10:14:24 LASTLY, THESE ARE STAND ALONE OR WHAT I CALL
10:14:25 "SUBJECTIVE GRANTS."
10:14:29 FOR THE OBVIOUS SUBJECTIVE IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITY
10:14:30 GRANTS.
10:14:33 THESE GRANTS COULD BE ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF
10:14:33 PROJECTS.
10:14:37 IT IS A VERY BROADLY WRITTEN GRANT.
10:14:40 IT IS IN SEVERAL OF OUR CRAS.
10:14:44 BUT WITH THIS, IT IS NOT A CLEAR CUT THAT STAFF CAN
10:14:49 CLEARLY DEFINE THE PARAMETERS SO THAT CRA BOARD KNOW
10:14:51 WHAT IS WE ARE APPROVING.
10:14:53 SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING THE NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITY
10:14:57 GRANTS TO CRA BOARD SO YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT TYPES
10:14:59 OF APPLICANTS.
10:15:02 YOU ALSO HAVE THAT FINAL SAY BUT, YES, THIS IS YOUR
10:15:07 INTENT AND WE HAVE THOSE UP TO $10,000.
10:15:09 AND WE HAVE THE STAND-ALONE GRANTS.
10:15:12 THE STAND-ALONE GRANTS WILL BE ANYTHING FROM THE STRAZ
10:15:16 TO THE CDC FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE AFFORDABLE
10:15:17 HOUSING.
10:15:21 AND ANY OF THOSE GRANTS THAT WE DO STAND-ALONE GRANTS
10:15:23 WILL COME BACK.
10:15:24 NO DOLLAR LIMIT.
10:15:28 THE CRA BOARD WILL SET THAT AND WE WILL HAVE THOSE
10:15:29 AGREEMENTS.
10:15:33 UNDER $10,000, A SIMPLE FUNDING AGREEMENT AND THE GRANT
10:15:36 RECIPIENTS SIGNS OFF ON THAT ARE CREATED BY OUR CRA
10:15:38 ATTORNEY AND OVER THAT, WE WILL HAVE THE DETAILED
10:15:44 CUSTOM AGREEMENT THAT GOES WITH THE SPECIFIC REQUEST.
10:15:48 SO GENERALLY, WE WOULD INTERNALLY FOR THE
10:15:50 ADMINISTRATIVE GRANTS, THESE ARE STANDARD, EVERYBODY
10:15:52 KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT IS REQUIRED.
10:15:56 THE CRA BOARD CLEARLY UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS ELIGIBLE IN
10:15:59 THOSE GRANTS, WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR THOSE GRANTS, AND YOU
10:16:02 ARE ALLOWING US TO HANDLE THOSE ADMINISTRATIVELY IN
10:16:06 ORDER TO STREAMLINE THE PROCESS AND HELP THE GRANT
10:16:08 RECIPIENTS MUCH MORE QUICKLY.
10:16:12 FOR AGENCY GRANTS THAT ARE APPROVED BY CRA BOARD, WE
10:16:15 WILL HAVE COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS THAT SUPPORT THE
10:16:18 COMPLIANCE WITH THE GRANT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS.
10:16:22 THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BURN OFF IN FIVE YEARS.
10:16:25 AS WE HAVE CURRENTLY BEEN PRACTICING, SHOULD THEY
10:16:27 TRANSFER THE PROPERTY IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.
10:16:33 WE PRORATE THAT SO THEY PAY BACK BASED ON 160TH TIMES
10:16:36 THE REMAINING MONTHS AND WE GET PAID BACK IN CLOSING.
10:16:40 IF IT IS A RESIDENTIAL THAT RECORDED A MORTGAGE WOULD
10:16:42 BURN OFF IN FIVE YEARS.
10:16:43 THERE IS NO INTEREST.
10:16:45 NO EXTRA COST TO THE RESIDENT FOR HAVING THAT.
10:16:51 BUT IT WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE A WAY TO ENSURE THAT
10:16:54 THOSE PROPERTIES ARE NOT FLIPPED, AND IF THEY ARE,
10:16:58 AGAIN, AT CLOSING, WE WOULD GET A PRORATION OF OUR
10:17:02 INVESTMENT BACK AND ANY STAND AN ALONE GRANTS OR
10:17:06 COMMUNITY GRANTS WILL COME BACK TO THE CRA BOARD.
10:17:09 AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:17:13 IF THERE ARE ANY EDIT TO THE TERMS, WE ARE HAPPY TO
10:17:15 ACCEPT THOSE BUT WE WERE ASKED TO COME BACK.
10:17:18 THESE ARE WHAT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE AS STAFF AND
10:17:19 THROUGH LEGAL.
10:17:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:17:23 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU.
10:17:24 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
10:17:27 I AM APPRECIATE IN EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO, BUT IN
10:17:30 DOING THAT, I -- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SOME OF THESE
10:17:34 THINGS ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
10:17:36 I AM SURE THEY ARE WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP AND STAFF;
10:17:38 HOWEVER, BUT HAVE YOU ENCOUNTERED ANYONE WHO APPLIED
10:17:42 FOR THESE GRANTS AT ALL THAT HAVE A REVERSE MORTGAGE ON
10:17:43 THE RESIDENTIAL?
10:17:47 >> WE HAVE NOT DONE RESIDENTIAL GRANTS YET.
10:17:52 SO I -- NOT -- I CAN CHECK WITH HCD TO SEE HOW THEY
10:17:53 HANDLED THAT.
10:17:56 WE HAVE NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT DONE RESIDENTIAL.
10:17:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE ONLY REASON I AM SAYING THAT
10:18:01 WHAT HAPPENS AND REVERSE MORTGAGE HAVE A PACE LOAN
10:18:02 THROUGH THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:18:04 AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH THOSE, THEY HAVE A SEPARATE
10:18:09 LOCATION THAT WHEN YOU DO THOSE THINGS AND I HOPE THAT
10:18:12 THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT ONCE YOU DO THESE THINGS,
10:18:16 YOU ARE IN DEBT TO THOSE YOU SHOULDN'T BE IN DEBT WITH,
10:18:17 BECAUSE OF HIGH INTEREST RATE.
10:18:21 AND WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR LIFE HERE AND GO TO HEAVEN, I
10:18:28 HOPE, THAT RESIDENT DOESN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY ELSE BUT
10:18:30 WHOEVER HOLDS THAT REVERSE MORTGAGE LOAN.
10:18:32 AND SOMETHING THAT IS REAL HIGH LIKE 12% TO 18%
10:18:33 INTEREST.
10:18:36 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T GET CAUGHT IN
10:18:39 SOMETHING THAT YOU DO A SEARCH -- I AM SURE WHEN YOU
10:18:42 HAVE THE ATTORNEYS DO THAT, IT COMES OUT AT THE TIME OF
10:18:45 CLOSING OR SHOULD COME OUT AT THE TIME OF CLOSING AND
10:18:49 THESE THINGS ARE -- VERY HARD TO DEAL WITH, BECAUSE AT
10:18:50 THE TIME THEY DO IT.
10:18:53 THEY THINK THAT IS THEIR LAST RESORT.
10:18:57 THEY ARE ASHAMED TO ASK FRIENDS OR FAMILY FOR HELP.
10:19:01 THESE ARE WHY THEY GIVE TO THESE THINGS.
10:19:05 THE NEXT THING IS, YOU TALKED ABOUT 75,000.
10:19:08 AND IT USED TO BE ARE YOU KNOW, WIN -- WHEN YOU BECOME
10:19:12 MY AGE, 18 BACKWARDS, YOU UNDERSTAND WHEN I SAW
10:19:16 $75,000 I STARTED CHUCKLING INSIDE OF MYSELF BECAUSE
10:19:21 THAT IS FIVE HOUSES THAT I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR IN 1964.
10:19:24 YOU COULD BUY A HOUSE FOR $12,500.
10:19:31 AND NOW A $75,000 LOAN SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF MONEY, AND
10:19:34 IT IS; HOWEVER, IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS AND LOOKING AT
10:19:38 REALITY THE COST OF BUILDING MATERIAL -- I THINK MR.
10:19:41 DINGFELDER ALLUDED TO THAT -- RELATIVELY THE SAME
10:19:44 AMOUNT OF MONEY THAN WHAT I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR.
10:19:47 AND THAT $75,000 AT THAT TIME WAS MUCH LESS.
10:19:50 TODAY WHEN YOU LOOK AT BUILDING -- AND YOU TALK ABOUT
10:19:53 RESTAURANTS, WHICH -- IT IS A GREAT BUSINESS IF YOU ARE
10:19:56 SUCCESSFUL, BUT MANY RESTAURANTS DON'T MAKE IT FOR FIVE
10:19:57 YEARS.
10:20:01 THE FIRST FIVE YEARS IS DO I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE
10:20:03 PAYROLL THIS WEEK.
10:20:04 WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK.
10:20:06 AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AND THE COST TODAY OF SETTING
10:20:10 UP A RESTAURANT WITH ALL THE HIGH-TECH EQUIPMENT THAT
10:20:13 YOU NEED AND ALL THE DIFFERENCE THAT EVERY CITY AND
10:20:20 COUNTY HAS, DIFFERENT AREAS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS
10:20:23 WELL TAKEN CARE OF IS VERY HIGH AND COSTLY.
10:20:26 I CAN APPRECIATE THAT -- I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE
10:20:29 SAYING AND APPRECIATE WHAT YOU AND YOUR APARTMENTS ARE
10:20:32 COMING UP WITH SO MANY ONCE EVERY 12 MONTHS AND SO
10:20:36 FORTH AND SO ON BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
10:20:39 THOSE YOU ARE TRYING TO HELP BUT HOW MANY MORE ARE
10:20:41 COMING IN TOMORROW AND YOU HAVE TO PLAN FOR WHAT IF
10:20:43 THIS DOESN'T WORK.
10:20:46 AND I APPRECIATE THE ITEMS THAT YOU GOING THROUGH AND
10:20:48 VERY DIFFICULT -- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL DUE
10:20:53 PROCESS IS NOT ON YOUR PART BUT THE SYSTEM'S PART IS
10:20:56 DONE ACCORDINGLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC IS WELL
10:20:58 PROTECTED AT THE TIME OF THE LOAN.
10:21:01 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:21:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:21:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU LOOK AT THESE GRANTS.
10:21:09 PEOPLE SAY "GRANTS," YOU LOOK AT CRITERIA.
10:21:11 AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF CRITERIA.
10:21:14 BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO
10:21:15 BE ABLE TO GET A GRANT.
10:21:19 BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WE MAKE CRITERIA WHERE PEOPLE
10:21:26 CAN'T GET A GRANT THAT WE KNOW WE NEED A GRANT.
10:21:28 HAPPENS MORE TIMES THAN OFTEN IN THE MARGINALIZED
10:21:29 COMMUNITIES.
10:21:33 I KNOW BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WE GO TO BANKS AND WE ARE
10:21:36 LIKE, HOW IN THE WORLD -- HOW DID THEY GET A LOAN AND
10:21:41 WE COULDN'T GET IT OVER HERE AND WE SUBMITTED THE SAME
10:21:43 TYPE OF PAPERWORK.
10:21:47 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IF WE ARE GOING TO DO GRANTS
10:21:49 THAT WE HAVE A SYSTEM TO WHERE -- BECAUSE THIS IS CRA
10:21:50 MONEY.
10:21:51 THIS IS NOT OTHER MONEY.
10:21:55 THIS IS PEOPLE WHO WORKED HARD BUT MAYBE ARE STRUGGLING
10:21:58 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE ABLE TO GET SOMETHING
10:22:02 RATHER THAN NOTHING.
10:22:04 BECAUSE SOMETIMES THINGS ARE BETTER IF YOU GET A JUMP
10:22:05 START.
10:22:07 YOU TALK ABOUT MINI GRANTS AND A GRANT.
10:22:16 MAKE SURE.
10:22:19 WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A GRANT.
10:22:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SILT ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
10:22:27 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
10:22:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I AM GOOD, MR. CHAIRMAN, THANK YOU.
10:22:33 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:22:35 MISS VAN LOAN.
10:22:37 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES, SIR.
10:22:39 >>JOSEPH CITRO: CAN YOU COME BACK WITH SOMETHING FOR
10:22:43 APPROVAL THE NEXT CRA MEETING?
10:22:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE ARE ASKING THAT THE CRA BOARD
10:22:48 SAY, YES, YOU APPROVE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND DIRECT US
10:22:52 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AND OUR CRA
10:22:55 ATTORNEY WOULD FORMALLY PUT THESE TERMS INTO AN ACTUAL
10:22:58 -- AND POLICY TO BRING BACK TO YOU.
10:23:01 MR. MASSEY WILL HAVE TO TELL YOU WHETHER THAT WILL BE
10:23:04 APRIL OR MAY.
10:23:06 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I BELIEVE THAT CAN BE DONE IN A
10:23:08 MONTH'S TIME IF WE ARE TO CONFORM WHAT THE
10:23:11 RECOMMENDATIONS OF STAFF ARE.
10:23:14 ONE THING I WANT TO CLARIFY TO COUNCILMAN MIRANDA'S
10:23:14 POINT.
10:23:19 WHILE THE -- WHAT WAS PRESENTED IS IN THE TERM OF A
10:23:22 LOAN AND MORTGAGE, IT TRULY IS A GRANT.
10:23:24 FOR GIVEABLE AS LONG AS THEY ARE THERE FOR FIVE YEARS.
10:23:31 WE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE PAID BACK THE MONEY.
10:23:33 AND WE ARE PUTTING MORTGAGE IN PLACE SO THEY DON'T FLIP
10:23:37 THE HOUSE TO AN INVESTOR OR SOMEONE ELSE COMING IN THE
10:23:39 COMMUNITY.
10:23:41 IT IS A NOTE TO THE MORTGAGE.
10:23:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
10:23:46 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOTION.
10:23:49 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
10:23:51 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:23:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GOING TO SAY YES, BUT I WANT TO
10:23:57 MAKE SURE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CRITERIA AND BEING ABLE TO
10:23:58 LET PEOPLE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY.
10:24:00 YES.
10:24:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:24:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:24:08 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:24:09 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:24:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:24:16 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIES WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:24:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:24:19 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: TO ADDRESS COUNCILMAN GUDES'
10:24:20 POINT.
10:24:23 OUR NEXT STEP WILL BE TO DEVELOP -- AND THIS WILL
10:24:25 HAPPEN MUCH MORE QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY ARE MUCH EASIER,
10:24:31 MANY HOUSING GRANTS JUST LIKE WE ARE DOING WITH THE
10:24:33 MINI BUSINESS GRANTS SO APPLICANTS WILL HAVE MUCH
10:24:36 EASIER CRITERIA.
10:24:41 THE PAPERWORK THAT WE NEED IN PLACE TO PROTECT AGAIN
10:24:42 THE PUBLIC DOLLARS.
10:24:45 SO IF WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHERE YOU SAY YOU WANT TO GET
10:24:48 THEM AT LEAST SOMETHING IF THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO
10:24:52 PARTICIPATE IN THE FULL PROGRAM WE WILL BE LOOKING TO
10:24:57 CREATE GRANTS ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE TO HELP THESE
10:24:59 PEOPLE WHO NEED SOMETHING TO GET IMPROVEMENTS ON THEIR
10:25:07 HOUSE AND, AGAIN, AN ABILITY TO REAPPLY EVERY FEW YEARS
10:25:11 AS WE HELP THEM AND MOVE THROUGH THE FUNDS AND VOLUME.
10:25:12 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:25:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT'S WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
10:25:20 SMALL MINI GRANT SO PEOPLE HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE ROOF
10:25:21 RIGHT QUICK.
10:25:21 THEY CAN APPLY.
10:25:24 WE CAN SEE THEY HAVE A HOLE IN THEIR ROOF.
10:25:26 THEY ARE A TAXPAYER AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:25:30 THEY CAN HELP PEOPLE ALONG AND BEAUTIFIES THE
10:25:30 COMMUNITY.
10:25:32 I AM ALL FOR THAT.
10:25:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I THANK YOU FOR EXPEDITING THESE
10:25:39 GRANTS AND FUNDS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM NOW AND
10:25:41 NOT TOMORROW.
10:25:44 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM 6, AND I
10:25:48 WILL BRING UP MR. BURTON TO START US OFF WITH THE URBAN
10:25:56 CORE CRA MONTHLY REPORT.
10:25:56 >> MR. CHAIRMAN, BOARD.
10:25:59 IF YOU WILL LOOK AT THE POWERPOINT.
10:26:01 EXCUSE ME.
10:26:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, SIR.
10:26:05 ARE YOU GOOD?
10:26:06 >> YES, SIR, I AM.
10:26:09 SO WE WILL START WITH DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:26:12 WE HAVE COMPLETED TWO OF THE COVID INFRASTRUCTURE
10:26:16 GRANTS, ONE FOR TAMPA THEATRE UP IN THE RIGHT-HAND
10:26:19 CORNER YOU SEE AN INSPECTION DONE BY ONE OF OUR STAFF
10:26:20 AT THE THEATRE.
10:26:23 THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IS COMPLETE.
10:26:26 THE DOWNTOWN MULTIMODAL TRAIL.
10:26:29 PART OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE -- WITH
10:26:33 THE DOWNTOWN CRA AND THE DEVELOPERS.
10:26:36 IT IS GOING IN TO USE NOW.
10:26:40 AND, ALSO, THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:26:44 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
10:26:47 WE NEED TO GET THIS MOVING FORWARD AND WE WILL BE
10:26:50 MOVING FORWARD ON THAT SINCE THE CHANNEL DISTRICT IS
10:26:51 NOW ON ITS WAY.
10:26:54 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CRA, MADISON STREET PARK.
10:26:58 IT RECEIVED THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP URBAN EXCELLENCE
10:27:01 AWARD FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECT.
10:27:05 EAST TWIGGS IS CURRENTLY BEING PAVED, THE PHASE ONE
10:27:06 PART OF THAT.
10:27:08 CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT
10:27:10 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.
10:27:14 ONCE IT MOVES FORWARD FROM THIS BOARD, IT WILL GO TO
10:27:17 THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND MOVE FORWARD TO THE PROCESS
10:27:18 TO BE APPROVED.
10:27:24 AND FINALLY THE RV LOT PURCHASE WAS STRICT FROM THE
10:27:27 AGENDA FOR ONE MONTH, AND IT WILL BE BACK FOR THE
10:27:29 BOARD'S APPROVAL.
10:27:32 TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT, THESE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS
10:27:39 ON LIST THAT THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CAC HAD YESTERDAY.
10:27:42 CALLAHAN AND I WENT OUT AND REVIEWED EACH AND EVERY ONE
10:27:45 OF THOSE AND WILL BE REPORTING BACK TO THE BOARD.
10:27:46 SOME OF THE THINGS NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.
10:27:48 SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF.
10:27:51 AND SOME OF THEM ARE NOT PRACTICAL TO DO.
10:27:54 AND WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE CAC ON THOSE.
10:28:00 AND THEN FINALLY, THE CENTRAL PARK CRA, MEACHAM URBAN
10:28:03 FARMS WAS ALSO SELECTED AS A TAMPA DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
10:28:06 YOU ARE BANS EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR URBAN EXPERIENCE.
10:28:11 THE CENTRAL PARKS OPEN DISCUSSION WITH TAMPA HOUSING
10:28:15 AUTHORITY IN THE CITY REGARDING RELOCATION OF THE
10:28:15 JOHNSON.
10:28:20 ONE OF THE JOHNSON HOUSES WHICH IS ON SCOTT AVENUE.
10:28:25 HAS HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE IN THE AREA.
10:28:29 AND WE ARE CURRENTLY MEETING WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
10:28:30 THIS MONTH JUST TO FIND OUT.
10:28:33 THEY ACTUALLY PURCHASE THOSE HOUSES.
10:28:36 AND WE WILL BE MEETING WITH THEM TO FIND OUT WHAT --
10:28:40 WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE FOR THOSE HOUSES.
10:28:51 THE GAS WORK, WE MET WITH THEM ON PHASE 1 -- GAS WORX,
10:28:54 THAT WILL COME BACK LATER AND IS MOVING FORWARD AND IS
10:29:00 MOVING AHEAD AS WELL.
10:29:04 THAT ENDS THE FOUR CRAS THAT I MANAGE FOR THE CRA
10:29:06 BOARD.
10:29:08 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:29:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
10:29:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO SHOUT OUT -- TAMPA
10:29:15 THEATRE IN THE MID-'70S THAT A GENTLEMAN THAT I LEARNED
10:29:20 A LOT FROM LEE DUNCAN MADE A MOTION -- I BELIEVE IT WAS
10:29:25 $96,000 TO $9 7,000 TO SAVE THE TAMPA THEATRE PLANNED
10:29:31 DUNCAN WAS SPEAR HEADING THAT TO MAKE IT.
10:29:39 AND IT PASSED THE COUNCIL AT A CORE OF 4-3.
10:29:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE?
10:29:45 I HAVE ONE QUESTION, MULTIMODAL TRAILS FOR THE DOWNTOWN
10:29:49 CRA, DO WE KNOW WHAT THE RIDERSHIP IS FOR THAT?
10:29:56 >> NOT AT THIS TIME, THE CACS HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE
10:30:00 MULTIMODAL PEDESTRIAN AND NONVEHICLE COUNTS.
10:30:03 THE TYPE OF COUNTS YOU DO FOR CARS.
10:30:05 AND ONCE THAT IS IN PLACE WE WILL TELL WITH YOU SOME
10:30:10 ACCURACY PEDESTRIANS, BIKERS, SCOOTERS AND THINGS
10:30:11 LIBRARY THAT.
10:30:13 THAT IS IN THE WORKS.
10:30:14 IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS NEW.
10:30:18 AND WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT WITH THE CHANNELSIDE
10:30:24 -- THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND THE DOWNTOWN CRAS -- CACS.
10:30:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I KNOW THAT THE DOWNTOWN TAMPA
10:30:27 PARTNERSHIP HAS DONE SOMETHING ON ITS OWN.
10:30:29 I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS INCLUDED.
10:30:33 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE FUTURE IF WE CAN GET SOME
10:30:37 KIND OF RIDERSHIP COUNT OR PEDESTRIAN COUNT JUST SO
10:30:39 THAT WE CAN PROVE OUR POINT.
10:30:41 >> MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAD A TALK YESTERDAY OR THE DAY
10:30:45 BEFORE WITH THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP EXACTLY ABOUT THE
10:30:49 TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION, MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, NOT
10:30:51 ONLY THROUGHOUT CHANNEL DISTRICT AND DOWNTOWN AND ALL
10:30:58 FOUR OF URBAN AREAS AND HOW THEY WOULD INTERLINK WITH
10:30:58 EACH OTHER.
10:31:00 A PRODUCTIVE.
10:31:02 >> SHARON IS A GREAT PERSON TO WORK WITH.
10:31:05 >> AN EXCELLENT PERSON TO WITH WORK WITH.
10:31:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:31:27 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
10:31:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOOD MORNING, MR. NINO.
10:31:37 >> GOOD MORNING, JESUS NINO THE COMMUNITY RESOURCE
10:31:38 MANAGER.
10:31:40 IF WE CAN GO TO THE SLIDE.
10:31:41 THERE WE GO.
10:31:45 STAFF CONTINUES TO WORK WITH THE CONSULTANT POND &
10:31:48 COMPANY WITH A PARKING STUDY IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
10:31:51 WE TEMPORARILY PUT IT ON HOLD A LITTLE BIT.
10:31:53 THEY ARE STILL DOING A LITTLE BIT OF DATA COLLECTION
10:31:54 OUT THERE.
10:31:58 BUT WE DID EXPAND THE DATA COLLECTION AREA THAT YOU SEE
10:32:01 THE MAP BEFORE YOU HIGHLIGHTED IN THE BLACK BOX NORTH
10:32:02 OF 275.
10:32:06 WE WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:32:10 THAT FUNDING REQUEST IS COMING TO YOU TODAY.
10:32:12 ONCE WE GET ALL THAT APPROVED, WE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
10:32:15 FORWARD WITH A PARKING STUDY.
10:32:17 STAFF IS CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE CITY'S PARKS AND
10:32:21 REC DEPARTMENT FOR DESIGN-BUILD PLANS FOR THREE PARKS
10:32:25 IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA, RAY PARK, SAL SEEN HAS IN AND
10:32:27 FREMONT LINEAR PARK.
10:32:30 YOU CAN SEE HERE, A MAP THAT SHOWS ALLEYS THAT WERE
10:32:34 CURRENTLY -- THESE ARE COMPLETED CLEANING OR ABOUT TO
10:32:42 START TO BE CLEANED SO FAR WE HAVE CLEANED 90 ALLEYWAYS
10:32:43 IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
10:32:46 WE CONCLUDED 21 ALLEYS THIS TUESDAY.
10:32:51 AND NEXT WEEK, WE ARE BEGINNING ANOTHER PHASE.
10:32:53 PHASE 5 OF ALLEYWAYS CLEANUPS.
10:32:57 BY THE TIME WE ARE DONE WITH PHASE 5, OVER 100 ALLEYS
10:33:00 AND AFTER THAT, ONE OR TWO MORE PHASES AND WE WILL BE
10:33:04 DONE WITH THE ENTIRE ALLEYWAY CLEAN-UP IN WEST TAMPA
10:33:06 AND OPEN ALLEYS.
10:33:09 AS FAR AS THE CLEAN TEAM IN WEST TAMPA, WE HAD A
10:33:11 TEMPORARY CLEAN TEAM AND THEY ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THE
10:33:13 MAP IN YELLOW.
10:33:15 WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CAC AND INFRASTRUCTURE
10:33:18 SUBCOMMITTEE TO SEE IF WE CAN EXPAND THAT BOUNDARY AND
10:33:24 SEND OUT AN RFP TO HAVE A YEAR-ROUND CLEAN TEAM.
10:33:27 THAT CONCLUDES WEST.
10:33:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:33:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. NINO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON
10:33:32 THIS PROJECT.
10:33:33 THIS IS GREAT THING.
10:33:37 WHAT WAS THE COST ON THE PROJECT.
10:33:39 >> ON AVERAGE $15,000 PER PHASE.
10:33:41 EACH PHASE WAS 20 ALLEYS.
10:33:45 BY THE TIME IT WAS DONE, IT WOULD BE ABOUT $75,000 TO
10:33:49 $80,000.
10:33:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL TALK TO MR. MCCREA ABOUT THAT FOR EAST
10:33:53 TAMPA.
10:33:54 A GREAT PROGRAM.
10:33:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ALONG THE SAME QUESTION AS MR.
10:33:56 GUDES.
10:33:59 IS THIS A ONE-TIME DEAL OR MAINTENANCE ON REGULAR
10:34:00 BASIS?
10:34:06 >> THIS IS A ONE-TIME DEAL BY THE CAC AND CRA.
10:34:07 COURTESY FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS.
10:34:10 AND ALSO AN EDUCATION OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS.
10:34:12 DURING THIS PROCESS WE HAVE BEEN OUT THERE WITH CODE
10:34:15 ENFORCEMENT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THEIR
10:34:19 RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP THE ALLEYWAYS.
10:34:22 IF THE CAC WANTS TO DO AN ANNUAL THING, THAT IS FINE,
10:34:25 RIGHT NOW A COURTESY, ONE-TIME CLEANUP.
10:34:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT IS YOUR FEELING, DO YOU
10:34:29 BELIEVE THAT THE OWNERS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR
10:34:29 ALLEY?
10:34:31 >> SO FAR THEY HAVE.
10:34:33 THE ONES I HAVE SPOKEN TO.
10:34:35 THEY CLAIM THEIR PORTION OF THE ALLEYS.
10:34:38 SOME WEREN'T AWARE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO CLEAN THEM.
10:34:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SORRY, WE HAVE TO GO IN RECESS.
10:39:45 FIVE-MINUTE RECESS, PLEASE.
10:39:47 >> THIS IS JESUS NINO.
10:39:49 THAT CONCLUDED WEST.
10:39:51 ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
10:39:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
10:39:57 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WAS ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
10:39:59 I WAS GOING TO ASK THE SAME THING.
10:40:05 ALLEYS KEPT UP OR HAVE YOU NOTICED MORE ILLEGAL DUMPING
10:40:07 NOW THAT IT IS CLEANED.
10:40:08 WILL THIS HELP THE AREA.
10:40:11 I KNOW IT WILL HELP THE AREA BUT ARE WE ABLE TO
10:40:14 MAINTAIN IT FOR RESIDENTS AND THE CITY.
10:40:19 >> SORE THE EXCEPTION OF THE OF THE ALLEYS BEING SAFER
10:40:23 HAS BEEN QUOTED TO ME OF SEVERAL RESIDENTS SAYING THANK
10:40:24 YOU TO THE CRA AND TO STAFF.
10:40:28 AS FAR AS -- I HEARD FROM ONE RESIDENT -- AND I CAN'T
10:40:31 VERIFY THIS AND COMMUNICATING WITH PD TO COME UP WITH
10:40:35 ANY KINDS OF DATA TO SEE IF THE ALLEYS ARE SAFER, BUT A
10:40:38 RESIDENT IN THE AREA ON SOUTH 275 INDICATED THAT AN
10:40:40 INDIVIDUAL -- INDIVIDUALS THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY COMMITTING
10:40:44 A CERTAIN CRIME WAS APPREHENDED EASY BECAUSE PD WENT
10:40:47 THROUGH THE ALLEY THAT WAS CLEARED.
10:40:51 BUT AS FAR AS -- WE HOPE TO MAYBE CONTINUE TO DO MORE
10:40:56 CLEANUPS HERE AND THERE AND UP TO THE CDC IN THE
10:40:57 COMMUNITY.
10:41:01 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. NINO, I WANTS TO YOU KNOW THAT WE
10:41:04 RECEIVED MANY, MANY PHONE CALLS OF WEST TAMPA PRAISING
10:41:07 THE GREAT THINGS YOU ARE DOING.
10:41:08 THANK YOU AND WELL-DONE.
10:41:11 >> THANK YOU.
10:41:12 NEXT, WE HAVE DREW PARK.
10:41:17 STAFF IS WORKING WITH PLACE AKER DESIGN STUDIO LCC.
10:41:20 IT IS AN ARCHITECTURAL FIRM AND PARTNERED UP WITH THE
10:41:23 CITY'S PARK AND REC DEPARTMENT.
10:41:28 MR. TONY MONK, ONE OF THE CITY'S LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TO
10:41:31 DO CONSENSUAL DESIGN AND STUDYING FOR A NEW POTENTIAL
10:41:31 NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.
10:41:34 YOU SEE THERE ON THE MAP.
10:41:38 AND ALSO TO ACTIVATE MORE THE TAMPA BAY LINEAR PARK TO
10:41:42 MAKE IT MORE -- MORE FROM A PASSIVE PARK TO LITTLE MORE
10:41:45 ACTIVE AND THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS THERE WILL BE A CHALLENGE
10:41:48 AND THE REASON WE HAVE PLACE MAKERS TO HELP US STUDY
10:41:53 AND COME UP WITH CONCEPTS THAT ARE APPROVED BY THE CAC
10:41:54 AND CRA.
10:41:57 WE ARE TRYING KEEP THE THEME THROUGHOUT DREW PARK.
10:41:58 DREW FIELD.
10:42:00 THE BIG MARKERS THAT -- CERTAIN ENTRANCES INTO DREW
10:42:01 PARK.
10:42:07 WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THOSE THEMES THROUGHOUT WITH DREW
10:42:08 FIELD AIRPORT STUFF.
10:42:11 ALSO CURRENTLY WE ARE DOING A PHASE ONE ENVIRONMENTAL
10:42:14 ASSESSMENT FOR THE POTENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS.
10:42:17 WE ARE HOPING THAT COMES BACK CLEAN.
10:42:18 BUT EITHER WAY, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A
10:42:23 CONSULTANT.
10:42:26 WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY'S HOUSING DIVISION TO COME
10:42:29 UP WITH AN RFP THAT WILL BE ISSUED TO THE PUBLIC FOR
10:42:32 THE DISPOSAL OF TWO PROPERTIES WE HAVE THERE AND
10:42:35 SURROUNDED BY RESIDENTIAL.
10:42:40 TO -- TWO RFPS AMOUNT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:42:43 THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
10:42:44 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:42:45 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
10:42:46 THANK YOU.
10:42:59 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
10:43:03 >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOOD MORNING, MISS ORR.
10:43:08 >> COURTNEY ORR: GOOD MORNING.
10:43:13 GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, YBOR CITY CRA MANAGER.
10:43:18 I AM GOING TO SWITCH TO THE SLIDE NOW PLEASE SO WE
10:43:22 COVERED A VARIETY OF TOPICS AT FEBRUARY'S CAC MEETING.
10:43:24 ONE POINT OF INTEREST I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION IS THE
10:43:28 INTRODUCTION OF HOMELESS LIAISON OFFICER JASMINE HOUSE.
10:43:31 SHE STARTED WITH US JUST -- A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
10:43:34 AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN HER OUTREACH.
10:43:39 WE WELCOME OFFICER HOUSE TO YBOR AND DO APPRECIATE
10:43:42 OFFICER PYKE -- THE OTHER HOMELESS LIAISON OFFICER PIKE
10:43:44 PAYS TO US AS WELL.
10:43:47 WE ARE THRILLED TO SEE EVENTS, AS STEVE MENTIONED,
10:43:50 COMING BACK TO FULL SWING AGAIN IN YBOR.
10:43:58 KREWE OF SANT'YAGO NIGHT PARADE AND AS USUAL HUGE HITS.
10:44:02 AND NOW WE LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SATURDAY'S ST.
10:44:12 PATRICK'S DAY BY THE 5K ROAR THROUGH YBOR.
10:44:17 THE LAST ITEM I WILL MENTION SINCE MR. BARBAS HAS
10:44:20 PROVIDED A VERY CONCISE REPORT ON THE BULLETS HERE,
10:44:24 ARE THE PARKING ENHANCEMENTS FOR MOBILITY INCLUDING
10:44:28 RESTRIPING ON-STREET SPACES, INSTALLATION OF PAY
10:44:31 STATIONS AND SIGNAGE TO ALLOW PAY PARKING TO BEGIN
10:44:34 MARCH 14 WHICH IS THIS COMING MONDAY WITH THE TWO-HOUR
10:44:38 FREE PARKING MOVING TO THE THREE CITY SURFACE LOTS IN
10:44:43 YBOR WHICH ARE SURFACE LOTS THREE, FIVE AND SIX.
10:44:44 SO THAT IS MY BRIEF REPORT.
10:44:45 THANK YOU.
10:44:47 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:44:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
10:44:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS ORR, BENCHES.
10:44:59 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SENT TO ALL THE COUNCILMEMBERS OF
10:44:59 MEMO.
10:45:01 DID EVERYONE GET THAT?
10:45:05 IF THEY DIDN'T GET IT, CAN YOU ELABORATE?
10:45:09 BECAUSE THE PHONE CALLS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STILL
10:45:10 COMING.
10:45:13 BRIEF THE BODY ON SOLUTIONS AND WHAT THE MEMO WAS IN
10:45:14 REFERENCE TO.
10:45:17 >> YES, THE MEMO WAS IN REFERENCE OF TAKING AN ANALYSIS
10:45:20 OF BENCHES, SPECIFICALLY A COUPLE LOCATED ON 17TH
10:45:24 AVENUE ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF 17TH AVENUE.
10:45:27 THERE HAS BEEN CONCERN FROM THE -- JUST A FEW OF THE
10:45:30 SURROUNDING BUSINESSES WITH ACTIVITY CONCERNING SOME OF
10:45:33 THE ACTIVITY ON THE BENCHES.
10:45:37 SO MY RECOMMENDATION, WHICH HAS BEEN THE COURSE OF
10:45:42 ACTION IS TO -- IF A BENCH -- IF ANYONE IS REQUESTING A
10:45:45 BENCH REMOVED, WE DO NOT REMOVE BENCHES BECAUSE THEY
10:45:47 ARE THERE FOR THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC.
10:45:51 THAT THEY BE RELOCATED TO ANOTHER LOCATION.
10:45:54 THAT SEEMS MORE SUITABLE, BUT I WAS LOOKING FOR
10:45:57 DIRECTION FROM CRA BECAUSE MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO NOT
10:46:02 REMOVE THE BENCHES.
10:46:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I CONCUR SOMEWHAT TO YOUR
10:46:07 RECOMMENDATION.
10:46:10 BUT I HAVE BEEN DOWN THERE AND ONE PARTICULAR SPOT IT
10:46:12 SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE.
10:46:13 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER ONES.
10:46:17 I DON'T GET COMPLAINTS OF THE OTHER BENCHES, BUT THIS
10:46:19 ONE PARTICULAR SPOT, WE GET TONS OF COMPLAINTS.
10:46:22 I GET TONS OF COMPLAINTS.
10:46:25 MAYBE IT IS TIME THAT WE ROTATE THAT BENCH FROM
10:46:27 PARTICULAR BUSINESS WHO IS VERY COMPLAINING.
10:46:30 THAT SPOT RIGHT THERE IS A VERY, VERY BUSY SPOT WITH A
10:46:33 LOT OF BUSINESSES AND ACTIVITIES AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF
10:46:37 OUTSIDE PATRONS AND TABLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:46:41 SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MAYBE THAT PARTICULAR BENCH
10:46:44 MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS.
10:46:47 THAT PERSON MAY GO DOWN TO THE OTHER END BUT AT LEAST
10:46:50 WE DID TRY TO SOLVE SOME TYPE OF PROBLEM AT THAT
10:46:52 PARTICULAR LOCATION BECAUSE THAT LOCATION IS A BUSY,
10:46:55 BUSY LOCATION.
10:46:58 SO THAT BE LIKE THE RECOMMENDATION I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE
10:47:01 ON THAT.
10:47:03 DO WE NEED A MOTION ON THAT?
10:47:05 OR GIVE YOU DIRECTION TO MOVE THAT BENCH?
10:47:10 WHAT DO WE NEED.
10:47:13 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE MISS
10:47:15 ORR SEE WHAT CAC SAYS.
10:47:17 BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
10:47:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I CAN TAKE IT TO THE CAC, MR. CITRO,
10:47:23 BUT I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
10:47:25 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION WITH THAT PARTICULAR
10:47:27 BENCH.
10:47:28 >>COURTNEY ORR: CAN I INTERRUPT?
10:47:29 TWO BENCHES.
10:47:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE RIGHT.
10:47:31 TWO BENCHES.
10:47:35 SIDE BY SIDE, TWO BENCHES.
10:47:38 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS ORR, YOU AND I KNEW EACH OTHER
10:47:44 QUITE A LONG TIME THROUGH THE YBOR CITY CAC CRA, AND
10:47:48 THE BENCHES HAVE BEEN ONGOING BACK AND FORTH FOR MANY,
10:47:48 MANY YEARS.
10:47:51 PEOPLE AND BUSINESS OWNERS WHO DON'T WANT THEM BECAUSE
10:47:54 OF CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE PUBLIC SAYS THEY ARE
10:47:55 THERE ALSO.
10:47:58 HAS THIS BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION OVER THE LAST FEW
10:48:01 YEARS ABOUT THE BENCHES ON 7TH AVENUE?
10:48:01 >> YES.
10:48:05 THAT IS WHY IN THE MEMO I INCLUDED, I WOULD LIKE CRA
10:48:07 DIRECTION BECAUSE THIS SUBJECT HAS COME BEFORE THE
10:48:08 GROUP BEFORE.
10:48:13 AND IT ALWAYS ENDS ON THE SIDE NOT REMOVING BENCHES.
10:48:15 BECAUSE THEY ARE FOR -- THEY ARE THERE FOR THE GOOD OF
10:48:16 THE PUBLIC.
10:48:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES, MAKE YOUR MOTION.
10:48:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I MAKE A MOTION FOR THE BENCHES TO BE
10:48:25 RELOCATED TO A DIFFERENT AREA OF YBOR.
10:48:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN
10:48:30 GUDES, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:48:33 I SEE THAT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WANTS TO MAKE A
10:48:34 STATEMENT.
10:48:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DIDN'T HAVE ANY -- MAYBE I --
10:48:41 FORGET THE MEMO OR -- I DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE CALL ME ON
10:48:42 BENCHES THAT I KNOW OF.
10:48:46 AND I CAN SEE WHERE THE BENCHES ARE KNEADED WITH THE
10:48:47 ELDERLY AND THE YOUNG.
10:48:51 YOU GOT A PARENT, A MOTHER, A FATHER WITH TWO OR THREE
10:48:55 KIDS AND WANTS TO SIT THEM DOWN FOR A SECOND TO GET --
10:48:57 RELOAD HIMSELF, NOT THE KIDS.
10:48:59 KIDS HAVE ALL THE ENERGY IN THE WORLD.
10:49:02 AND AN ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL MAY WANT TO SIT DOWN.
10:49:05 YBOR CITY IF YOU WANT TO WALK ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
10:49:07 STREET, YOU ARE WALKING AT LEAST HALF A MILE FROM ONE
10:49:10 SIDE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 22ND STREET, COME BACK.
10:49:14 YOU ARE WALKING A GOOD HALF MILE.
10:49:16 I CAN SEE WHERE THERE IS A NEED FOR IT.
10:49:21 I UNDERSTAND THE PUBLIC'S -- WHOEVER THE PROPRIETORS
10:49:24 ARE MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE IT, I AM NOT FOR OR AGAINST THE
10:49:27 BENCH BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TAMPA BY
10:49:29 HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANYTHING THINK THAT KNOW OF.
10:49:31 MAYBE THEY ARE IN THE BASKET AND I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM
10:49:31 YET.
10:49:34 THAT'S ALL.
10:49:36 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE YOU HAVE THE VOTE I WOULD LIKE
10:49:38 TO CLARIFY FOR THE RECORD, THESE BENCHES ARE BENCHES
10:49:42 THAT ARE PLACED WITHIN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY BY THE CRA, SO
10:49:45 THAT THE BENCHES ARE REALLY UNDER THE CRA'S CONTROL.
10:49:48 TYPICALLY MOST STREET FURNITURE IN THE CITY IS REALLY
10:49:51 -- SOMETHING THAT THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS
10:49:51 ARE INVOLVED WITH.
10:49:53 I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
10:49:54 CITRO.
10:49:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS OR R, CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT
10:49:58 STATEMENT?
10:50:03 >> YES, THE BENCHES WERE FUNDED BY TIF DOLLARS.
10:50:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:50:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
10:50:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
10:50:15 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:50:17 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:50:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:50:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:50:25 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA VOTING NO AND
10:50:29 CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:50:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I DID HEAR COUNCILMAN CARLSON, ARE YOU
10:50:34 WITH US NOW?
10:50:39 I THOUGHT SOMEBODY ANSWERED FOR COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:50:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DON'T SAY THAT --
10:50:46 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I THOUGHT I HEARD COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:50:46 OKAY.
10:50:49 THANK YOU, MISS ORR.
10:50:52 ANYTHING FURTHER?
10:50:53 >> THAT'S ALL.
10:50:54 THANK YOU.
10:51:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:51:19 MR. MCCREA.
10:51:20 >> GOOD MORNING.
10:51:24 FIRST UP, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST PROVIDE AN UPDATE OF OUR
10:51:25 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
10:51:30 WE HAVE HELD VARIOUS COMMUNITY MEETINGS AT THE CAC,
10:51:33 EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP AND ANOTHER MEETING ON THE 17TH
10:51:35 AT CYRUS GREEN.
10:51:38 SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE CONSULTANT AND STAFF HEARD
10:51:41 BACK AND FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ARE LISTED.
10:51:44 AND SOME OF THEM -- CONCERN OF INTENT ON PRIORITY
10:51:47 OPINION SOME OF THE ACTIONS STATEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE
10:51:49 MORE CLEARLY STATED AND REFINED WHEN IT RELATES TO THE
10:51:52 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
10:51:55 CONSIDER THE NEED FOR GRANTS/LOANS FOR CITIZENS FOR
10:51:57 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS AND BUILDING CODES.
10:52:00 SO I THINK WE DEFINITELY ADDRESS THAT AND YOU ALL WILL
10:52:04 BE VOTING ON SOME ITEMS LATER ON THE AGENDA THAT SPEAK
10:52:07 TO THAT.
10:52:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MCCREA, BACK TO YOUR APPLICATION
10:52:12 PLAN, IF YOU DON'T MIND.
10:52:16 I AM GLAD THAT I SEE THAT WORD IN THERE.
10:52:17 APPLICATION STATEMENTS NEEDED.
10:52:20 BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I WAS MISSING IN THE ACTION PLAN.
10:52:23 BECAUSE A LOT OF IT IS REFERRED TO AS CITY OF TAMPA.
10:52:26 AND IT SHOULDN'T BE REFERRED TO.
10:52:28 BECAUSE THE CITY HAS AN OBLIGATION TO CONTINUE TO WORK
10:52:30 AND DO THINGS WITH THIS GENERAL FUND DOLLARS FOR THE
10:52:34 CITY AS A WHOLE FOR THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN.
10:52:37 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS GOES SPECIFIC FOR THE ACTION
10:52:42 PLAN OF EAST TAMPA AND GOALS OF EAST TAMPA TO MAKE SURE
10:52:44 THEY ARE AN ACTIONABLE ITEM.
10:52:47 NOT JUST FLUFF BUT ACTION ALLY TERMS TO BE MOVED ON.
10:52:50 IF WE CAN PUT A PLAN OUT TO THE PUBLIC, WE NEED TO SAYS
10:52:52 IT GOING TO MOVE AND NOT JUST YOU ABOUT THE FLUFF IN
10:52:57 THERE AND IT JUST SITS AND SITH IN THE AIR.
10:53:02 I AM LOOKING FOR -- KEY WORD ACTIONABLE ATTAINABLE
10:53:05 ACTIONS WHEN THE PLAN IS LAID OUT.
10:53:08 NOT JUST FLUFF OR THE CITY'S PLAN TRANSFORM TOMORROW.
10:53:12 THAT IS A GREAT PLAN, BUT NOT THE GOAL OF EAST TAMPA
10:53:13 CRA.
10:53:14 IT IS FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:53:17 TO TRANSFORM EAST TAMPA.
10:53:18 >> UNDERSTOOD.
10:53:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:53:22 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS OR ARE YOU GOING
10:53:23 TO PROCEED?
10:53:25 >> I AM GOING TO PROCEED.
10:53:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:53:31 >> NEXT UP WE HAVE A FACADE GRANT FOR 3800 NORTH
10:53:34 NEBRASKA THAT YOU WILL BE SEEING ON THE AGENDA THIS
10:53:35 MORNING.
10:53:40 THEY ARE PUTTING IN -- RIGHT AT AROUND $1.2 MILLION OF
10:53:42 WORK TO THAT PROPERTY.
10:53:48 MLK AND NEBRASKA RIGHT SOUTH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
10:53:48 BOULEVARD.
10:53:51 TREE TRIMMING STILL ONGOING.
10:53:53 WE ARE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AND VENDORS ARE OUT
10:53:56 WORKING DILIGENTLY TO GET TREES TRIMMED WITHIN THE EAST
10:53:59 TAMPA CRA BOUNDARIES.
10:54:01 AND ALSO THE UPCOMING GRANTS THAT YOU ALL WILL BE
10:54:04 DISCUSSING LATER ON THIS MORNING AS IT RELATES TO THE
10:54:14 TENANT READY VANILLA SHELL, BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT
10:54:18 RESTAURANT AND FOOD SERVICES GRANT AND UPSTAIRS
10:54:23 RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION GRANT WITH THE CDC THAT WAS
10:54:25 VOTED ON THIS PAST TUESDAY.
10:54:29 AND MOVING ON AS IT RELATES TO DEMOLITION, DEBRIS
10:54:30 REMOVAL.
10:54:34 WE HAD FROM MY UNDERSTANDING 15 DEMOLITIONS OF VACANT
10:54:38 PROPERTIES OR DILAPIDATED OR CONDEMNED STRUCTURES IN
10:54:46 2021 INTO 2022 AND WE HAVE REMOVED 2400 TONS OF EXCESS
10:54:49 TRASH IN AND AROUND EAST TAMPA.
10:54:54 AND WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE SERVICE PICKUP RATE
10:54:55 HAS BEEN LOWERED.
10:54:59 SO WE WANT TO -- WE WILL BE SENDING OUT SOME
10:55:04 CORRESPONDENCE AS IT RELATES TO THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT
10:55:06 RESIDENTS KNOW THAT PRICE HAS DROPPED DRASTICALLY AND
10:55:09 WE APPRECIATE SOLID WASTE AND COUNCIL WORKING WITH US
10:55:11 TO DO THAT.
10:55:14 I KNOW THAT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTIVE CURTIS WILLIAMS
10:55:19 IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND HOPEFULLY WILL HELP CURB
10:55:24 ILLEGAL DUMPING IN EAST TAMPA ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS.
10:55:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:55:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. GUDES.
10:55:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT
10:55:31 BUILDING IS, BUT THAT BUILDING HAS CAUSED A LOT OF
10:55:33 HEARTACHE TO EAST TAMPA.
10:55:36 THE OLD LIQUOR STORE THERE.
10:55:40 AND TO SEE THAT COME DOWN WAS A GREAT THING FOR THE
10:55:41 FOLKS IN EAST TAMPA.
10:55:45 I WISH WE COULD GET THE FRONT PART OF THAT BUILDING AND
10:55:48 THEN REALLY START DEVELOPING 29TH STREET AGAIN THE WAY
10:55:50 IT NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED.
10:55:53 TEARING DOWN SOME OF THESE EYESORES OR THESE BUILDINGS
10:55:58 THAT HAVE BEEN CONSTANT CRIME AREA FOR THE COMMUNITY IS
10:56:03 A GOOD THING TO BRING US SOME NEW BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
10:56:09 SO I AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT GO AND THE WORK THAT
10:56:12 DETECTIVE NEWMAN IS DOING TO BRING A DIFFERENT FLAVOR
10:56:13 TO EAST TAMPA.
10:56:15 LASTLY, TREE TRIMMING.
10:56:18 HOW IS THE ARBORIST SITUATION GOING, MR. MCCREA.
10:56:20 ARE WE THERE YET?
10:56:24 THAT IS A KEY COMPONENT TO THAT TREE TRIMMING GRANT.
10:56:24 >> YES, SIR.
10:56:29 WE PUT THE RFPS IN PRIORITY BASED ON COMMUNITY NEED AND
10:56:31 INPUT, AND WE HAVE ONE IN THE HOPPER THAT WE ARE
10:56:35 WAITING ON AS IT RELATES TO THE RESIDENTIAL REBUILD --
10:56:39 SORRY, REHAB PROGRAM AND THE NEXT ONE UP WILL BE THE
10:56:40 TREE TRIMMING.
10:56:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE REASON I ASK THAT, SIR.
10:56:45 PEOPLE SAID THEY WERE TRYING TO APPLY FOR ARBORIST JOB
10:56:47 AND THEY HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING.
10:56:49 AND I AM GETTING REALLY FRUSTRATED.
10:56:52 JOHN IF THIS IS A PROCUREMENT ISSUE OR WHAT THE ISSUE
10:56:56 BUT I AM GETTING FRUSTRATED THAT THESE RFPS ARE BEING
10:56:57 HELD UP SO LONG.
10:56:59 I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS OTHER PRIORITIES BECAUSE THE CITY
10:57:02 IS DOING OTHER PRIORITIES, BUT WE HAVE A PRIORITY FOR
10:57:03 THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN.
10:57:06 I AM GOING TO NEED UPDATES WHEN WE WILL GET THESE RFPS
10:57:10 DONE BECAUSE TAKING WAY TOO LONG FOR THE REHAB TO BE
10:57:10 DONE.
10:57:12 I MEAN WAY TOO LONG.
10:57:14 AND PEOPLE ARE GETTING ANGRY.
10:57:16 WE HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS SITUATION RIGHT NOW AND PEOPLE
10:57:18 ARE ANGRY ABOUT IT.
10:57:21 AND ASK ABOUT THE REHAB PROGRAM FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:57:24 I NEED FOR YOU TO GET AN UPDATE WHOEVER YOU GET AN
10:57:33 UPDATE FROM WHEN THERE IS A MOVE DATE FOR THAT.
10:57:34 FOR ARBORIST.
10:57:36 OTHER AREAS DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THIS LONG.
10:57:38 FOR WHATEVER REASON.
10:57:41 I AM NOT SAYING BY DESIGN, I AM JUST SAYING OTHER AREAS
10:57:43 DON'T WAIT THIS LONG AND EVERYTHING IS A WAIT FOR THE
10:57:45 EAST SIDE OF TOWN.
10:57:48 WE HAVE A STAFF OVER IN EAST TAMPA, AND I AM EXPECTING
10:57:53 THE STAFF TO SAY WE HAVE PRIORITIES AND BOSSES WE HAVE
10:57:54 TO LISTEN TO.
10:57:57 AND WE NEED ANSWERS WHEN THIS IS GOING TO BE DONE SO WE
10:58:01 CAN TELL MY CONSTITUENTS THAT WE HAVE DUE DATES AND IT
10:58:02 IS COMING.
10:58:03 DOWN THE PIPELINE.
10:58:04 DOWN THE PIPELINE.
10:58:06 IT IS FRUSTRATING TO THEM AND THAT MEANS IT IS
10:58:07 FRUSTRATING TO ME.
10:58:11 IF WE CAN GET CONCRETE DATES, THAT WILL BE APPRECIATED.
10:58:14 I GOT A CALL FROM KATHY CASTOR.
10:58:17 SHE JUST INFORMED ME FOR THE RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA
10:58:23 ABLE TO SECURE -- VOTED TO SECURE $1 MILLION FOR EAST
10:58:23 TAMPA.
10:58:27 I WANT TO YOU KNOW THAT AND THE -- SHE DID WHAT SHE
10:58:29 ASKED ME TO DO -- WHAT DID I NEED.
10:58:32 I TOLD HER I NEED SOME MONEY AND SHE CAME THROUGH FOR
10:58:35 EAST TAMPA FOR GETTING $1 MILLION FOR US.
10:58:36 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:58:36 >> THANK YOU.
10:58:42 AND AS IT RELATES TO THE REHAB RFP, IT IS IN THE REVIEW
10:58:42 PROCESS.
10:58:44 I HAVE BEEN HAVING WEEKLY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
10:58:47 PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.
10:58:50 AND IT WILL BE GOING THROUGH RISK MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL
10:58:53 FOR REVIEW, SO HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE SOME FOLLOW-UP
10:58:56 VERY SOON AND THE RFP WILL BE OUT ON THE STREET FOR
10:58:58 HOUSING REHAB.
10:59:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LOOKING FOR A DATE, SIR.
10:59:01 LOOKING FOR A DATE.
10:59:02 >> YES, SIR.
10:59:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: PLEASE PROCEED.
10:59:07 >> THANK YOU, A FEW OTHER ITEMS.
10:59:11 CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC SAFETY
10:59:14 CHAIRPERSON AND VARIOUS CONCERNS AS IT RELATES TO EAST
10:59:14 TAMPA.
10:59:17 AND ALSO I BELIEVE YOU HAVE ON THE AGENDA AS WELL, THE
10:59:24 PURCHASE OF SIX CAMERAS APPROVED BY THE CAC AND USED
10:59:27 AND MOTIONED IN VARIOUS AREAS TO COMBAT ILLEGAL DUMPING
10:59:31 AND ASSIST US IN BUILDING CASES IN EAST TAMPA TO CURB
10:59:37 SOME OF THOSE ACTIVITIES.
10:59:41 ONE OTHER ITEM THAT I WOULD LIKE TO LIFT UP THAT IS NOT
10:59:42 ON THE POWERPOINT.
10:59:48 THE EAST TAMPA HEALTH AND NUTRITION FAIR MIDDLETON HIGH
10:59:53 SCHOOL MARCH 26 FROM 10:00 TO 2 P.M.
10:59:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU FOR THAT.
10:59:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ONE MORE THING.
10:59:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:00:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MCCREA, WHEN I SEE SOMETHING GOOD
11:00:06 -- I AM TRENDSETTER, IF I SEE SOMETHING GOOD I WANT TO
11:00:07 PIGGY BACK AND LOOK AT IT TOO.
11:00:11 IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND GOING BACK TO THE CAC AND TALK
11:00:12 ABOUT THE ALLEY.
11:00:13 EAST TAMPA.
11:00:15 EVEN THOUGH IT COULD BE A ONE-TIME SHOT.
11:00:17 THEY NEED TO BE CLEARED OUT.
11:00:20 GET A SURVEY HOW MANY ALLEYS IN THAT ZONE AND KIND OF
11:00:22 MIRROR THAT PROGRAM WHERE WE CAN.
11:00:25 I THINK IT IS WELL NEEDED BECAUSE I HAVE GOTTEN CALLED
11:00:25 OUT.
11:00:29 PEOPLE TALK OF ALLEYS AND SO FORTH AND PEOPLE RUN AND
11:00:31 DUMP DEBRIS THROUGH THERE.
11:00:34 ONCE PEOPLE GET AN IDEA, HEY, THEY CAME AND DID
11:00:38 SOMETHING, THEY CAN TAKE OVER AND EDUCATE THEM AND BE
11:00:41 GOOD STEWARDS AND TAKE CARE OF ALLEYS AS WELL.
11:00:45 IF WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT, I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL.
11:00:50 LAST THING BEFORE I LET YOU GO.
11:00:54 WE TALKED OF A SITUATION YESTERDAY AND I TALKED TO MR.
11:00:55 MORRIS MASSEY TOO.
11:00:58 ABOUT THE SITUATION YESTERDAY THAT WILL FILL THE BOARD
11:00:59 ON LATER.
11:01:02 THE LAST THING I WANT TO TALK TO YOU BEFORE YOU GO, I
11:01:06 AM GETTING A LOT OF TALK OF MONEY FOR PREDEVELOPMENT.
11:01:09 SO I -- PROBABLY AT THE END I WILL BE MAKING A MOTION
11:01:15 OF A RFP, RFQ FOR PREDEVELOPMENT, SCOPE, CRITERIA AND
11:01:18 ANALYSIS TO BE DONE, REDEVELOPMENT FOR THE EAST TAMPA
11:01:20 CRA DOLLARS.
11:01:21 I THINK IT IS CRUCIAL.
11:01:25 YOU DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT OR THE EXPERTISE TO DO
11:01:25 IT.
11:01:28 WE NEED SOMEBODY ELSE WITH THE EXPERTISE TO DO IT
11:01:31 BECAUSE CRUCIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT.
11:01:34 BUILDS GOING DOWN IN EAST TAMPA AND NEED SOMEBODY TO
11:01:37 GIVE US THE SCOOP OR IDEA FOR DEVELOPMENT MONEY OR HOW
11:01:40 FOLKS WHO ARE SOME BUILDINGS THAT CAN BE REHABBED WITH
11:01:41 DEVELOPMENT MONEY.
11:01:44 SO GOING TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IS COMING FORWARD.
11:01:47 HOPEFULLY WILL GET A SECOND AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT
11:01:50 AND I WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE NOW.
11:01:50 >> THANK YOU.
11:01:52 ONE OTHER THING.
11:01:55 I HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE OF INTRODUCING MISS
11:01:57 BELIZ PARKS.
11:02:00 SHE HAS BEEN HIRED FOR THE COMMUNICATION POSITION FOR
11:02:02 THE CRAS.
11:02:05 AND I KNOW EAST TAMPA WILL BE PULLING ON HER A LOT, BUT
11:02:08 I JUST WANTED TO BRING HER UP AND ALLOW HER TO
11:02:10 INTRODUCE HERSELF.
11:02:12 THANK YOU.
11:02:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER FURTHER COMMENTS AND
11:02:15 QUESTIONS.
11:02:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: A MOTION AND A FLOOR WITH A SECOND.
11:02:19 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I AM SORRY.
11:02:21 MOTION MADE BY --
11:02:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL MAKE THE MOTION.
11:02:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECONDED BY MR. MANISCALCO.
11:02:32 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
11:02:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:02:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:02:40 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:02:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:02:45 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:02:46 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:02:50 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:02:50 YES, MA'AM.
11:02:51 >> GOOD MORNING.
11:02:54 I WANT TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE BOARD.
11:02:58 MY NAME IS BELIKS PARK.
11:03:00 THE COMMUNITY CALLS ME B.
11:03:02 THE COMMUNITY CALLS ME B.
11:03:05 I HAVE WORKED IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY FOR OVER 14
11:03:06 YEARS NOW.
11:03:12 JUST DID THE COUNT YESTERDAY AND, WOW, IT WAS 14 YEARS.
11:03:15 IN THAT CAPACITY EVERYTHING FROM GRANT MANAGEMENT TO
11:03:19 PROGRAM DELIVERY, SPECIFICALLY FOR FIRST-TIME HOME
11:03:23 BUYERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF -- OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:03:29 PREPPING HOME BUYERS TO PURCHASE HOMES AND THAT'S
11:03:36 '08, '09 AREA HELPED INDIVIDUALS SAVE HOMES THROUGH
11:03:37 FORECLOSURE SERVICE PREVENTION.
11:03:42 AND IN MY TENURE IN MY CAREER, I HAVE HOSTED AND
11:03:45 ORGANIZED MULTIPLE MARKETING EVENTS, OUT REACH EVENTS
11:03:46 IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:03:49 MOST OF MY WORK HAS BEEN IN EAST TAMPA.
11:03:52 I HAVE A SPECIAL LOVE FOR EAST TAMPA, AND I CONTINUE TO
11:03:53 WORK THERE TO THIS DAY.
11:03:57 I DID MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS WITH MARKETING
11:04:01 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT COME OUT OF THE CRAS AND THE
11:04:02 CITY OF TAMPA.
11:04:08 WHEN I WAS WORKING THE CAPACITY AT THE CITY OF TAMPA'S
11:04:09 HOUSING DEPARTMENT.
11:04:12 I AM EXTREMELY EXCITED TO JOIN THE CRA TEAM IN THIS
11:04:16 CAPACITY OF BEING THE COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR AND
11:04:17 PROJECT COORDINATOR.
11:04:21 I AM WORKING WHERE ALL OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO CARRY
11:04:25 OUT AND COMMUNICATE THOSE PROGRAMS TO THE RESIDENTS OF
11:04:28 TAMPA AND TO CONTINUE TO DO THE GOOD WORK THAT TAMPA
11:04:28 NEEDS.
11:04:32 I THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALLOWING ME TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF
11:04:35 AND I HOPE SOON TO GET TO KNOW YOU GUYS PERSONALLY.
11:04:37 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:04:45 ANY QUESTIONS?
11:04:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I CALL HER BELIX.
11:04:51 >> BELIX.
11:04:56 YOU CAN CALL ME B AS WELL IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:04:59 AND I AM GRATEFUL TO BE PART OF THE CITY OF TAMPA CRA
11:05:01 TEAM AND I LOOK FORWARD TO COMMUNICATING ALL OF THE
11:05:04 PROGRAMS AND THE GOOD WORK THAT THE CRA DOES.
11:05:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE TEAM.
11:05:09 THAT IS WHAT WE NEED COMMUNICATION SO THE RESIDENTS
11:05:11 KNOW OF THESE PROGRAMS SO THEY ARE NOT COMPLAINING WHAT
11:05:12 WE ARE DOING.
11:05:13 WE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS.
11:05:16 YOU HAVE A BIG, BIG JOB AHEAD OF YOU BEA.
11:05:19 AND I KNOW YOU CAN HANDLE IT AND I KNOW YOUR WORK AND I
11:05:21 KNOW HOW YOU DO WORK.
11:05:23 THANK YOU, AND WELCOME ABOARD.
11:05:25 >> THANK YOU, MR. GUDES.
11:05:26 HAVE A GREAT DAY.
11:05:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE?
11:05:29 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY.
11:05:29 >> THANK YOU.
11:05:43 HAVE A GREAT DAY.
11:05:46 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, MICHELLE VAN
11:05:48 LOAN, MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR AGENDA.
11:05:51 ITEM NUMBER 7 IS THE EARLIER REFERENCED COMMUNITY
11:05:54 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:05:58 YOU HAVE HAD THE DRAFT PLAN SINCE, I BELIEVE, DECEMBER.
11:06:00 AND THIS IS THE FIRST STEP.
11:06:05 THIS RESO ACCEPTS THE NEW UPDATED PLAN.
11:06:07 IT WILL REFER IT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THEM TO
11:06:11 REVIEW WITH CONFORMANCE WITH THE COMP PLAN.
11:06:15 ONCE THEY HAVE THAT REVIEW AND THEY SIGN OFF ON IF, IT
11:06:18 WILL COME BACK TO THE CRA BOARD FOR FORMER ADOPTION OF
11:06:21 THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND IT WILL GO TO THE
11:06:23 CITY COUNCIL FOR THE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION
11:06:25 OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:06:28 AND BOTH MR. BURTON AND I ARE HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY
11:06:31 QUESTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:06:34 >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST CLARIFY, THE FORMAL ADOPTION OF
11:06:37 THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN WILL ACTUALLY BE MADE
11:06:41 BY YOU ALL SITTING YOU AS CITY COUNCIL.
11:06:45 ONLY CITY COUNCIL CAN AMEND UNDER STATE LAW.
11:06:49 YOU WILL BE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO YOURSELF ONCE IT
11:06:51 COMES BACK FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
11:06:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A RESOLUTION.
11:06:54 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:06:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO MOVE THE
11:07:00 RESOLUTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND SECONDED BY
11:07:01 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:07:03 ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
11:07:03 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:07:06 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
11:07:07 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:07:08 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:07:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:07:13 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:07:15 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:07:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:07:19 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:07:21 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, SIRS.
11:07:26 NEXT ITEM NUMBER 8 IS THE CENTRAL PARK CRA COMMUNITY
11:07:27 ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
11:07:31 WE ARE RECOMMENDING A PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE CAC POLICY
11:07:34 IN THE MATRIX FOR CENTRAL PARK.
11:07:38 WE ARE REQUESTING THAT THE MEMBERSHIP BE REDUCED DOWN
11:07:39 BE FROM NINE TO SEVEN.
11:07:43 AND THEN FORMALLY ADOPT TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY AS AN
11:07:52 EX-OFFICIO AS ONE OF THOSE -- EX-OFFICIO.
11:08:03 AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN USE AT THAT TIME.
11:08:07 IN PRACTICE, HAVE BEEN USED BY TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY
11:08:11 AND WE WOULD LIKE TO CODIFY THAT AND THE COUNTY HAS
11:08:14 CONFIRMED THAT THEY WOULD NOT WANT TO HAVE A COUNTY
11:08:21 DESIGNATED ON -- CAP -- SORRY, TOO MANY ACRONYMS IN
11:08:23 CENTRAL PARK.
11:08:26 WE ARE ASKING THAT WE CAN MORE EFFECTIVELY CONDUCT
11:08:31 MEETINGS AND MEET QUORUMS THAT WE REDUCE NINE DOWN TO
11:08:32 SEVEN.
11:08:33 I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
11:08:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:08:37 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:08:38 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:08:39 ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
11:08:43 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:08:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:08:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:08:51 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:08:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:08:56 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:08:58 VOTE AND CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:09:02 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: NUMBER 9 IS A REPROGRAMMING OF
11:09:06 1,080,000 FOR UNION STATION.
11:09:09 THIS WAS APPROVED BY THE CAC LAST FALL.
11:09:11 THE MILLION DOLLAR PORTION IS FOR THE WINDOWS AND
11:09:12 REPAIRING.
11:09:15 THERE IS A LOT OF WATER INTRUSION THROUGH THE WINDOWS
11:09:16 AND LEAKAGE.
11:09:20 THE WATER LEAKING HAS DAMAGED MUCH OF THE PLASTER AND
11:09:24 INTERIOR AND WE NEED TO UPGRADE THE PLUMBING.
11:09:27 THIS MONEY BEING REPROGRAMMED NOW BEFORE WE HAVE THE
11:09:32 BIDS AND SCOPE OF WORK FLESHED OUT HELPS US TO APPLY
11:09:36 FOR GRANTS AND SHOW THIS MONEY AS A MATCH TO GRANTS AT
11:09:39 THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL SO WE CAN TRY TO GET
11:09:45 ADDITIONAL DOLLARS FOR UNION STATION BUT 80,000 ONCE WE
11:09:50 START MEETING WITH OUR LOGISTICS AND ASSET FOLKS, MIGHT
11:09:53 ISSUES AND THE FIRST THING WE HAVE TO ADDRESS BEFORE
11:09:56 ANYTHING IS REMEDIATING THE TERMITES.
11:09:58 WE WILL HAVE TO TENT THE BUILDING FOR FOUR DAYS AND
11:10:02 PROVIDE RELOCATED SERVICES FOR AMTRAK TO CONTINUE THEIR
11:10:05 SERVICE DURING THOSE FOUR DAYS.
11:10:14 REQUESTING $1,080,000 INTO A UNION STATION LINE ITEM.
11:10:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION.
11:10:17 AND SECOND.
11:10:18 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:10:20 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
11:10:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: QUESTION ON THE MOTION.
11:10:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, YOU ARE
11:10:25 RECOGNIZED.
11:10:28 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:10:31 MICHELLE, I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT BECAUSE I
11:10:34 KNOW YOU ARE KIND OF BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD SPACE,
11:10:37 BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION TO YOU, MICHELLE, AND TO
11:10:45 EVERYBODY IS, THIS WAS A CITY ASSET.
11:10:49 HAS BEEN A CITY ASSET FOR 30 PLUS YEARS.
11:10:52 WHY IS IT THAT THE CITY LET THIS ASSET GO AS FAR AS
11:11:07 WINDOWS AND OTHER ISSUES, TERMITES NOW ETC.
11:11:11 SO WE HAVE ANYTHING FROM REAL ESTATE OR MR. MASSEY HAS
11:11:13 ANYTHING.
11:11:16 BOTHERS ME A LITTLE BIT THAT THE CITIES A SIT THAT HAS
11:11:17 GONE IN DECLINE.
11:11:20 ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET IN TERMS OF BEING
11:11:28 HISTORICAL WHAT HAS HAPPENED THE LAST 10 TO 15 YEARS TO
11:11:31 LET IT GO UNDER DISREPAIR.
11:11:33 >>MORRIS MASSEY: ONLY THING I WOULD MENTION,
11:11:36 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, IS THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A
11:11:38 PRESENTATION EARLIER TODAY FROM FACILITIES REGARDING
11:11:41 TAMPA UNION STATION.
11:11:44 COUNCILMAN CARLSON ASKED THAT BE DELAYED SINCE HE
11:11:45 WASN'T PRESENT TODAY.
11:11:48 YOU KNOW, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DELAY THIS ITEM SINCE IT
11:11:51 IS TIED TO TAMPA UNION STATION TO THAT PRESENTATION.
11:12:00 REALLY RIGHT A CITY-OWNED ASSET AND REPAIRS AND WHAT
11:12:06 THE CITY CAN DO BELONGS TO YOU MORE IN CONTEXT OF ACT
11:12:09 AS CITY COUNCIL AND THIS IS WHAT MISS VAN LOAN IS
11:12:12 BRINGING TO YOU THIS MORNING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE SOME
11:12:20 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, BUT IT IS A CITY BUILDING IF YOU
11:12:23 WANT TO HOLD THAT UNTIL YOU HEARD THE PRESENTATION FROM
11:12:25 CITY STAFF, THAT IS DOABLE.
11:12:27 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: IF I MAY.
11:12:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: GO AHEAD.
11:12:30 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: WE ARE TRYING TO APPLY FOR GRANTS
11:12:32 AND THIS WILL HELP US LEVERAGE THAT.
11:12:34 SECONDLY -- NOT TO PRESUME TO SPEAK FOR THE
11:12:39 ADMINISTRATION, BUT AS THE CITY COUNCIL HAS SEEN, WE
11:12:44 OWN -- THE CITY OWNS A LOT OVER TIME AND THERE HAS TO
11:12:45 BE PRIORITIES.
11:12:48 WHETHER IT HAS BEEN AGING COMMUNITY CENTERS, AGING
11:12:52 FIREHOUSES, THE CITY HAS BEEN SLOWLY TRYING TO CATCH UP
11:12:54 IN ADDRESSING THAT BACKLOG.
11:12:57 THEY CAN NOT ADDRESS ALL OF IT IN A TIMELY MANNER AND
11:13:02 SEVERAL ISSUES IF IT IS ROADWAYS THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN
11:13:10 ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH.
11:13:14 MOST OF EAST TAMPA AND MOST OF DREW PARK, FACILITY
11:13:16 ALSO THAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CITY AND WOULD
11:13:19 NOT HAVE HAPPEN IN A TIMELINE TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE
11:13:23 NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND UNION STATION IS THE SAME.
11:13:28 THE CITY BUDGET DOES NOT HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL TO FIX
11:13:32 EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE AND WHERE WE CAN STEP IN AS A
11:13:37 PRIORITY WITHIN THE CRAS AND COME IN AND HELP AND
11:13:42 ADDRESS AN ISSUE BEFORE IT GETS TOO LATE.
11:13:44 HOW DO YOU DECIDE BETWEEN UNION STATION, A COMMUNITY
11:13:46 CENTER AND FIREHOUSE.
11:13:48 THE COMMUNITY HAS STEPPED UP.
11:13:50 THE UNION STATION IS SPECIFICALLY CALLED OUT AS A
11:13:54 HISTORIC STRUCTURE WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY
11:13:56 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE
11:14:03 SUPPORTED BY THE CRA.
11:14:05 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:14:08 I DON'T -- I DON'T HAVE ANY INTEREST IN DELAYING THIS
11:14:13 IF THE DOWNTOWN CORE OR NONCORE HAS THE MONEY.
11:14:16 WE SHOULDN'T DELAY IT BECAUSE THE TERMITES WILL KEEP
11:14:18 EATING IT.
11:14:20 SO IT NEEDS TO GET DONE.
11:14:24 IT BOTHERS ME A LITTLE BIT THIS HAS SORT OF BEEN
11:14:26 DEFERRED MAINTENANCE WITH REGARD TO THE CITY.
11:14:29 LIKE I SAY, IT IS ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE HISTORIC
11:14:33 ASSETS.
11:14:36 LIKE MR. MASSEY INDICATED WE CAN TAKE THIS UP -- TAKE
11:14:40 THIS BIGGER ISSUE UP NEXT MONTH WHEN FACILITIES COMES
11:14:42 IN AND OR AT CITY COUNCIL.
11:14:45 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:14:47 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER FURTHER DISCUSSION.
11:14:49 ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
11:14:50 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:14:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:14:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:15:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:15:02 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:15:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:15:08 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:15:13 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, SIR AND THE CACS THANK
11:15:13 YOU.
11:15:17 ITEM NUMBER 10, THE ANNUAL REPORT THAT NEEDS TO BE
11:15:18 TURNED IN TO THE STATE.
11:15:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NOTION APPROVE.
11:15:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:15:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MOVED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND
11:15:27 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:15:29 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:15:30 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:15:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:15:34 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:15:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:15:41 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:15:43 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:15:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:15:47 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:15:48 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I WILL COME BACK TO ITEM NUMBER
11:15:51 11 BECAUSE IT IS SLIGHTLY OUT OF ORDER.
11:15:54 SO I DON'T WANT TO REPROGRAM THE MONEY UNTIL YOU HAVE
11:15:56 APPROVE THE ACTUAL PROGRAMS.
11:16:00 SO ITEM 12 IS EAST TAMPA GRANT PROGRAM FOR RESTAURANT
11:16:04 AND FOOD SERVICES THAT IS, AGAIN, A DUPLICATE OF WHAT
11:16:07 WE HAVE -- THAT YOU APPROVED LAST SUMMER IN WEST TAMPA.
11:16:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIR.
11:16:13 IF THEY ARE ALL EAST TAMPA, CAN WE TAKE 11-19 -- 18?
11:16:16 >>JOSEPH CITRO: JUST FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LISTENING
11:16:20 AND FOR THE COMMUNITY, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO BRIEFLY,
11:16:22 MISS VAN LOAN, JUST GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
11:16:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: SO FOR -- I CAN DESCRIBE ALL FOUR
11:16:27 OF THEM ALL AT ONCE VERY QUICKLY.
11:16:30 ITEM NUMBER 12 IS THE RESTAURANT AND FOOD SERVICES
11:16:30 GRANT.
11:16:33 THAT WILL PROVIDE A MATCHING GRANT FOR AN EXISTING
11:16:36 RESTAURANT THAT NEEDS TO EXPAND, UPDATE OR ATTRACT A
11:16:40 NEW RESTAURANT OR FOOD SERVICES BUSINESS INTO EAST
11:16:41 TAMPA.
C 11:16:47 TENANT READY GRANT IF A VACANT STOREFRONT OR A TENANT
11:16:51 LEFT A STOREFRONT AND IT IS NOT IN GREAT SHAPE AND THE
11:16:55 LANDLORD NEEDS ASSISTANCE TO HELP REFRESH THAT SPACE SO
11:16:59 IT DOES NOT REMAIN VACANT FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME.
11:17:02 THE UPSTAIRS RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION GRANT.
11:17:04 WHERE YOU HAVE A TWO-STORY BUILDING COMMERCIAL AND
11:17:05 RETAIL ON THE FIRST FLOOR.
11:17:06 SPACE ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
11:17:11 IN ORDER TO SUPPORT MORE RENTAL HOUSING WITHIN THE CRA,
11:17:15 WE WILL HELP SUPPORT THE LANDLORD IN CONVERTING
11:17:19 SECOND-STORY SPACES INTO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS.
11:17:23 LASTLY THE BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT MICROGRANT.
11:17:28 THE ONE I MENTIONED EARLIER, A FACADES GRANT.
11:17:34 A SMALLER GRANT UP TO $10,000 AND MEANT SO THAT WE CAN
11:17:37 APPROVE THESE GRANTS A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND
11:17:38 HELP THE BUSINESS.
11:17:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WERE BOTH THE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS
11:17:42 OWNERS IN EAST TAMPA.
11:17:44 ARE THESE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW OR WAITING FOR
11:17:47 THIS PROCESS TO BE HANDLED?
11:17:50 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ONCE YOU APPROVE IT, YOUR PROGRAM
11:17:52 GUIDES INCLUDE THE FULL APPLICATION SO AS THOSE
11:17:54 APPLICATIONS ARE READY TO HIT THE STREETS AND PEOPLE
11:17:56 CAN START APPLYING WINS YOU APPROVE IT.
11:17:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA, BUSINESS
11:18:00 OWNERS OF EAST TAMPA.
11:18:02 YOU HEARD IT.
11:18:06 MR. MASSEY, CAN WE DO 12, 13, 14 AND 15 ALL IN ONE
11:18:07 VOTE?
11:18:08 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES.
11:18:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NOTION ADOPT.
11:18:11 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:18:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:18:16 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:18:19 RALE ROLL CALL DISCUSSION.
11:18:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:18:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:18:23 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:18:25 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:18:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:18:27 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:18:32 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:18:35 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: DESCRIBE 11, 15, 17 AND 18 ALL
11:18:35 TOGETHER.
11:18:40 11 A REQUEST TO REPROGRAM $100,000 INTO THE BUSINESS
11:18:42 ENHANCEMENT MICROGRANT.
11:18:46 NUMBER 16 IS A REQUEST TO REPROGRAM 250,000 INTO THE
11:18:48 RESTAURANT AND FOOD SERVICE GRANT.
11:18:52 NUMBER 17 IS A REQUEST TO REPROGRAM FUNDS OF $100,000
11:18:55 INTO THE UPSTAIRS RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION GRANT.
11:19:00 AND NUMBER 18 IS A REQUEST TO REPROGRAM $100,000 INTO
11:19:04 THE TENANT READY GRANTS.
11:19:06 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:19:07 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE ARE LOOKING AT THE BUILDINGS
11:19:10 WITH A RESTAURANT DOWNSTAIRS AND LIVABLE SPACE
11:19:12 UPSTAIRS.
11:19:16 WHAT IS THE -- YOU TALK TO THE LANDOWNER.
11:19:20 WHAT IS HE OR SHE PUTTING IN?
11:19:25 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: MOST OF THESE ARE 50/50 GRANTS.
11:19:28 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN IN
11:19:29 EXISTENCE.
11:19:31 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: HOLD ON A SECOND -- HOW LONG YOU
11:19:33 REQUIRE FOR A BUSINESS TO BE IN EXISTENCE?
11:19:36 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO KNOW FOR MYSELF.
11:19:38 >> EXISTING RESTAURANTS FIVE YEARS.
11:19:41 IF YOU ARE A NEW BUSINESS COMING INTO AN AREA, YOU
11:19:45 WOULD HAVE TO BE A RESTAURANT FIVE YEARS SOMEPLACE
11:19:46 ELSE.
11:19:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: GOOD LUCK -- I WILL VOTE FOR IT,
11:19:53 AND GOOD LUCK.
11:19:55 >> AS YOU MENTIONED NEW RESTAURANTS DON'T TEND TO --
11:19:57 THEY DON'T HAVE A GREAT TRACK RECORD.
11:20:01 A DIFFICULT BUSINESS TO GET INTO AND GET GEARED UP.
11:20:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT'S WHY I SAID GOOD LUCK.
11:20:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CLARIFICATION.
11:20:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO MOVED.
11:20:13 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I AM SORRY, COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
11:20:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:20:16 CLARIFICATION ON THE MOTION.
11:20:20 I READ THE BACKGROUND, MICHELLE, FOR ALL THESE ITEMS,
11:20:23 BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT ON THE RECORD THAT THE -- ALL
11:20:28 THESE ITEMS HAVE HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE -- OF THE --
11:20:32 THE EAST TAMPA CAC IT LOOKS LIKE AT THEIR MARCH 1
11:20:34 MEETING?
11:20:34 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YES.
11:20:39 ALL OF THE PROGRAMS WERE APPROVED BY THE CAC AND
11:20:43 REPROGRAMMING -- EACH OF THE REPROGRAMMING HAD ONE KNOW
11:20:48 AND OTHERWISE ALL YESES.
11:20:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
11:20:50 THANKS FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
11:20:52 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:20:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:20:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECONDED ALREADY.
11:20:56 I WILL SECOND IT.
11:20:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SECONDS IT.
11:21:00 ANY DISCUSSION NOW?
11:21:01 THANK YOU.
11:21:05 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:21:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:21:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:21:10 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:21:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:21:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:21:14 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:21:17 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIES WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:21:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:21:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, SIR.
11:21:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TENANT READY AND RESIDENTIAL
11:21:24 CONVERSION.
11:21:27 A LOT OF THOSE BUILDINGS CAN BE CONVERT FLOOD
11:21:28 APARTMENTS FOR HOUSING.
11:21:30 I AM DEFINITELY FOR THAT.
11:21:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SOME OF THE BUILDINGS WHY THE OWNERS
11:21:36 CAN'T AFFORD TO BUILD OUT THE STOREFRONT ON BOTTOM.
11:21:41 IN WILL HELP THEM GET IT READY FOR THEM.
11:21:46 THESE BUILDINGS LONG ABANDONED -- EXCUSE ME, UNDERUSED
11:21:49 CAN BE USED AND HELP THE ECONOMY OF EAST TAMPA.
11:21:50 YOU ARE CORRECT.
11:21:52 SKIPPING OVER 19 AND GOING OVER 20.
11:21:57 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: 20 IS A FACADE GRANT IN EAST
11:22:02 TAMPA, 3800 EAST NEBRASKA.
11:22:04 TAKES UP THE WHOLE BLOCK.
11:22:09 FOOD AND PROGRAMMING AND BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPING AND WE
11:22:11 ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.
11:22:14 THEY HAVE BEEN PARTICIPATING THE GASPARILLA ARTS
11:22:16 FESTIVAL AND GASPARILLA BEFORE THAT.
11:22:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOVE TO ADOPT.
11:22:18 >> SECOND.
11:22:20 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: -- BEFORE THEY ARE DONE WILL
11:22:23 INVITE OUT TO RIBBON CUTTING.
11:22:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND
11:22:29 SECONDED BY MIRANDA.
11:22:30 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:22:32 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:22:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:22:36 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES,
11:22:38 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:22:41 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:22:45 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM 21 FOR CHANNEL DISTRICT,
11:22:47 REPROGRAMMING MONEY OUT OF A COMPLETED PROJECT JUST TO
11:22:53 CLOSE OUT THAT LINE ITEM.
11:22:53 >> MOTION.
11:22:55 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:22:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY DISCUSSION.
11:22:58 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:22:59 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:23:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:23:07 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:23:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:23:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:23:15 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:23:18 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 2 IS EAST TAMPA
11:23:22 REPROGRAMMING FOR AFOREMENTIONED SIX CAMERAS AND IN
11:23:25 SUPPORT OF OUR URBAN CRIME UNIT.
11:23:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO,
11:23:30 SECOND BY MR. MIRANDA.
11:23:31 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:23:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DISCUSSION.
11:23:38 MISS VAN LOAN, PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S CIVIL
11:23:40 LIBERTIES.
11:23:44 >> THE CAMERAS -- WE HAD HAD TRAIL CAMERAS THAT DON'T HAVE
11:23:46 VERY GOOD RESOLUTION.
11:23:48 THEY HAVE BEEN SET UP TO ADDRESS THE ILLEGAL DUMPING
11:23:52 WHERE WE HAVE CHRONIC ISSUES, WHERE PEOPLE USE AREAS
11:23:55 THAT ARE NOT VERY LIT OR TREED.
11:23:59 WE END UP HAVING TO CLEAN IT UP WHETHER THE CRA OR THE
11:23:59 CITY.
11:24:02 WE HAVE BEEN USING CAMERAS IN THE PAST AND WE WOULD
11:24:05 LIKE TO UPDATE THE CAMERAS THAT WILL BE HARD-WIRED INTO
11:24:10 SOME OF THE CHRONIC AREAS THAT WE HAVE AND EXPERIENCING
11:24:11 THIS.
11:24:14 SO WE CAN PURSUE THE ILLEGAL DUMPSTERS TO MAKE SURE
11:24:18 THAT THE ACTIVITY CEASES.
11:24:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:24:22 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:24:23 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:24:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:24:27 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:24:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:24:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:24:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:24:37 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT OF.
11:24:40 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: ITEM NUMBER 23 FOR WEST TAMPA IS
11:24:45 A PROGRAMMING OF $39,000 OF EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE
11:24:49 PROPOSED PARKING STUDY.
11:24:50 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
11:24:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
11:24:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY DISCUSSION?
11:24:53 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:24:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:24:58 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:25:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:25:07 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:25:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:25:12 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:25:13 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
11:25:18 JENNETTE FENTON TO WEST TAMPA, PETER WRIGHT TO THE YBOR
11:25:24 CAC, AND JULIO PIAZA TO THE DREW PARK CAC.
11:25:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SAITH MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO,
11:25:27 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:25:29 ANY DISCUSSION?
11:25:30 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:25:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:25:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES.
11:25:37 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:25:38 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:25:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:25:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:25:43 THREE GREAT PEOPLE.
11:25:46 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:25:48 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SILT THREE GREAT PEOPLE ADDED TO THIS
11:25:50 CAC.
11:25:51 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:25:55 THAT IS ALL THE REQUESTS OF OUR CRA STAFF.
11:25:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE ARE DONE.
11:25:58 WE ARE FINISHED?
11:26:01 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: YOU WANT ME TO TALK LONGER, I
11:26:02 CAN?
11:26:02 [LAUGHTER]
11:26:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: INFORMATION AND REPORTS.
11:26:09 COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:26:10 [INAUDIBLE]
11:26:14 >>LUIS VIERA: I DIDN'T -- LET ME ASK MISS VAN LOAN, IF
11:26:15 I MAY.
11:26:18 AND WE ARE -- IT'S 11:30.
11:26:19 WE ARE FINISHED?
11:26:20 OKAY.
11:26:21 THERE YOU GO.
11:26:27 SO WITH -- I -- I WAS SPEAKING WITH YOU REGARDING THE
11:26:31 DISTRICT ONE AND THAT JESSIE MADSEN MEMORIAL.
11:26:35 THAT WILL BE OUTSIDE OF CRA?
11:26:38 >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THE SOUTH SIDE OF TAMPA BOULEVARD
11:26:41 IS OUTSIDE OF CRA BOUNDARY.
11:26:42 AND IT IS ONLY TO THE NORTH OF THAT.
11:26:45 THE NORTH SIDE OF ROADWAY.
11:26:47 >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL BRING IT UP AT COUNCIL.
11:26:48 JUST MISSED IT.
11:26:52 APPRECIATE IT, MARCH, ALL YOUR HARD WORK.
11:26:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IS THAT IS IT, COUNCILMAN VIERA?
11:27:01 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING.
11:27:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:27:06 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:27:09 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SAY THANK YOU TO THE PRESIDENT OF
11:27:10 UKRAINE.
11:27:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: TO BE NAMED THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
11:27:16 PERIOD.
11:27:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY LEADER THAT DOES NOT RUN AND STAYS
11:27:21 TO FIGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY, YES, SIR.
11:27:23 AND NOTHING FROM ME.
11:27:26 I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
11:27:30 >>MORRIS MASSEY: RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:27:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:27:32 SECONDED BY MIRANDA.
11:27:34 ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:27:39 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
11:27:40 5:01.
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