TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022
9:00 A.M. MEETING
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09:03:41 >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING, THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:03:44 COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING IS CALLED TO
09:03:45 ORDER.
09:03:48 WELCOME TO EVERYONE.
09:03:52 AND IT IS TIME IF EVERYONE WOULDN'T MIND STANDING, WE
09:03:54 ARE GOING TO HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE
09:03:57 PLEDGE.
09:04:17 [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
09:04:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:04:29 [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:04:34 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:04:36 ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:04:38 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:04:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:04:40 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:04:42 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:04:43 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:04:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:04:45 >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:04:48 >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:04:52 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:04:59 MR. MASSEY, IF YOU COULD PLEASE REVIEW THE RULES OF
09:05:02 PUBLIC PARTICIPATING OF THE CRA MEETING.
09:05:04 >>MORRIS MASSEY: WILL BE GLAD TO.
09:05:09 MAY 12, 2022 OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY
09:05:14 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY 315 E. KENNEDY BOULEVARD, TAMPA,
09:05:15 FLORIDA.
09:05:19 THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO ATTEND OR VIEW IT SPECTRUM 640 OR
09:05:23 FRONTIER CHANNEL 15 OR BY THE INTERNET VIA
09:05:28 WWW.TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:05:31 THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING FOR
09:05:35 PUBLIC COMMENT MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER
09:05:40 HERE IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER OR BY COMMUNICATION MEDIA
09:05:41 TECHNOLOGY OR CMT.
09:05:46 THE USE OF CMT REQUIRES PREREGISTRATION FOR THE CITY
09:05:47 CLERK'S OFFICE.
09:05:49 DIRECTIONS ARE INCLUDED IN THE NOTICE OF THE MEETING.
09:05:54 WE HAVE ONE CRA MEMBER, MR. BILL CARLSON, WILL BE
09:05:58 PARTICIPATING IN THE MEET BIG WAY OF CMT.
09:06:02 CAN HAVE A MOTION TO ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT BY CMT AND
09:06:06 PARTICIPATING BY MR. CARLSON BY CMT.
09:06:09 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:13 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:06:14 ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:15 OPPOSED?
09:06:20 OKAY, MOTION PASSED.
09:06:30 ARE THERE ANY CHANGES -- MISS TRAVIS, OUR INTERIM CRA
09:06:30 DIRECTOR.
09:06:34 ANY PUBLISHED CHANGES TO THE AGENDA TODAY?
09:06:36 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NO MA'AM.
09:06:39 >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA?
09:06:41 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION.
09:06:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
09:06:44 >>LYNN HURTAK: ALL IN FAVOR?
09:06:46 ANY OPPOSED?
09:06:50 OKAY, MOTION PASSES.
09:06:54 THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COMMENT ON ANY ITEM FOR UP TO
09:06:55 THREE MINUTES.
09:07:00 DOES ANYONE WANT TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM TODAY?
09:07:12 PLEASE COME ON UP.
09:07:14 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:07:19 I AM A RESIDENT OF NEWLY OPENED MADISON HIGHLANDS IN
09:07:20 TAMPA.
09:07:22 IT WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED IN DECEMBER --
09:07:26 >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME?
09:07:28 >> SORRY, MY NAME IS MARILYN BAILEY.
09:07:33 AND I AM A RESIDENT OF MADISON HIGHLANDS WHICH OPENED
09:07:34 IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR.
09:07:39 WE HAVE ONLY BEEN IN THIS COMPLEX NOW -- IT WILL BE
09:07:42 FOUR MONTHS -- CORRECTION, FIVE MONTHS THIS MONTH.
09:07:44 WE GOT A NOTICE THAT OUR RENT IS GOING UP.
09:07:50 I CURRENTLY HAVE A TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT PAYING $932 A
09:07:50 MONTH.
09:07:56 AS OF JUNE 1, MY RENT WILL GO UP TO $1043.
09:08:01 THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A 55 AND PLUS SENIOR COMMUNITY.
09:08:04 AND I WANTING THE RENT TO GO UP THIS SOON.
09:08:08 WE HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN IN THE UNIT FOR ONE YEAR, AND NOW
09:08:11 EVERYBODY GOT TO RUSH AROUND TO FIND OUT HOW TO PAY
09:08:11 THAT INCREASE.
09:08:16 FOR ME, I AM LOOKING THAT I CAN PAY IT, BUT IT IS GOING
09:08:17 TO BE A STRETCH.
09:08:21 AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO US.
09:08:23 I BROUGHT NINE RESIDENTS WITH ME THIS MORNING IN
09:08:25 REFERENCE TO THIS.
09:08:28 AT 75 YEARS OLD, I DIDN'T HAVE TO EXPECT TO GO BACK TO
09:08:31 WORK, BUT I AM GOING TO HAVE TO IN ORDER TO PAY THAT
09:08:32 DIFFERENCE.
09:08:35 AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO US, AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO ANY OF THE
09:08:36 RESIDENTS THERE.
09:08:41 WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT CAN WE TO DO STOP THIS.
09:08:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:08:43 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:08:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DID SEND A MEMO TO CEDRIC MCCRAY,
09:08:53 THE MANAGER OF THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
09:08:57 HOPEFULLY WE WILL SHED SOME LIGHT ON WHAT IS HAPPENING.
09:08:59 I THINK IT IS A FEDERAL SITUATION THAT HAS OCCURRED.
09:09:02 SO I DON'T KNOW IF MISS TRAVIS CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
09:09:09 WE HAVE OUR SENIOR -- MR. MCCRAY AND MISS TRAVIS.
09:09:13 I MADE SURE I SENT THE MEMO TO MR. MCCRAY.
09:09:18 >> CEDRIC MCCRAY, CRA MANAGER.
09:09:22 I RECEIVED AN E-MAIL FROM COUNCILMAN GUDES' OFFICE OF
09:09:24 INCREASED OF RENT.
09:09:28 A RESIDENT SENT ATTACHED ARTICLES.
09:09:32 AFTER CONVERSATIONS AND WITHIN MY AGENCY, WE FOUND OUT
09:09:36 THAT THE HUD HAS INCREASED THE SUBSIDY LEVEL FOR OUR
09:09:37 HOUSING.
09:09:41 AND BECAUSE THAT COMPLEX IS A SUBSIDIZED AREA.
09:09:45 AND WHEN THE HUD SUBSIDY CHANGED, IT WAS INCREASED,
09:09:47 THOSE RENTS WERE INCREASED AS WELL.
09:09:49 NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE CITY OR WITHIN
09:09:51 THE CRA.
09:09:55 BUT AT THIS TIME, WHAT I AM BEING TOLD IS IT IS ON THE
09:10:02 FEDERAL LEVEL.
09:10:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE FEDERAL LEVEL --
09:10:05 [INAUDIBLE]
09:10:07 >> THEY INCREASED THE AMI.
09:10:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THOUGHT THEY WERE REQUIRED TO GIVE
09:10:13 A NOTICE PRIOR TO -- KIND OF SHORT NOTICE.
09:10:16 I KNOW -- I HAVE BEEN OVER THERE AND SOME OF THEM ARE
09:10:18 ON A FIXED INCOME.
09:10:21 SO DO WE HAVE ANYTHING WITHIN THE CITY THAT WE MIGHT BE
09:10:23 ABLE TO HELP SOME OF THOSE RESIDENTS THROUGH EVERYTHING
09:10:24 THAT WE HAVE?
09:10:26 >> NOT THAT I AM AWARE OF.
09:10:29 WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR HOUSING
09:10:32 DEPARTMENT TO RESEARCH AND SEE OR IF THERE IS SOMEONE
09:10:35 LOCAL WE CAN SPEAK WITH TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES OR
09:10:38 ANSWER ANY CONCERNS THAT THE RESIDENTS MAY HAVE.
09:10:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS TRAVIS.
09:10:41 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING.
09:10:42 NICOLE TRAVIS.
09:10:45 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK INTO IS TO GET THE
09:10:48 NAMES OF THE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED OR HAVE
09:10:50 THEM CALL HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
09:10:56 REMEMBER THIS COUNCIL APPROVED THE RENT MOVE-IN
09:10:58 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND WE WERE TAKING APPLICATIONS WITH
09:10:58 THAT.
09:11:01 IF THE RESIDENTS ARE INCOME QUALIFIED, WE CAN HELP THEM
09:11:04 WITH THE DIFFERENCE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR.
09:11:06 UNFORTUNATELY IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONTROL,
09:11:10 BUT THERE IS A PROGRAM THAT RECENTLY APPROVED THAT WE
09:11:12 CAN ALIGN THEM WITH OUR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
09:11:15 DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO SEE IF WE CAN HELP THEM WITH THAT
09:11:15 GAP.
09:11:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK WE HAVE A HOUSING PERSON FOR
09:11:20 THE EAST TAMPA WHO WAS HIRED.
09:11:22 I SUGGEST WE GET HER OVER THERE AND -- THEY ARE
09:11:23 SENIORS.
09:11:25 THEY DON'T KNOW A LOT TO KNOW.
09:11:28 IF WE CAN GET THAT PERSON OVER TO MADISON HEIGHTS TO
09:11:32 HEAR -- GET WITH THE MANAGER TO SEE WHO IS AFFECT AND
09:11:35 WHAT HAVE YOU AND THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE RESIDENTS.
09:11:41 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE CAN A RAINING TO VIRGINIA
09:11:45 NECESSARY IS A GET OUT THERE.
09:11:47 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:11:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:11:51 I BELIEVE I AM NOT QUALIFIED -- NOT A FEDERAL OFFICIAL
09:11:55 TO KNOW ALL THE LAWS REGARDING FEDERAL SUBSIDIES OR HUD
09:11:57 OR TAMPA HOUSING.
09:12:00 BUT IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THERE ARE A COUPLE OF TYPES
09:12:03 OF HOMES THAT THEY -- THEY QUALIFY FOR THIS.
09:12:05 SOME THAT THEY MANAGE, TAMPA HOUSING MANAGES THEMSELVES
09:12:10 AND SOME THAT ARE PRIVATE VENDOR MANAGERS AND THEY HAVE
09:12:12 -- TO MAKE THE PAYMENT.
09:12:15 I BELIEVE UNDER THOSE -- THE SECOND ONE THINK THAT JUST
09:12:18 SAID, USUALLY THERE IS A YEARLY CONTRACT.
09:12:21 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THESE GOOD FOLKS HAVE A YEARLY
09:12:24 CONTRACT ON.THE SAME DAY OF THE SAME YEAR OR STAGGERED
09:12:26 THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
09:12:26 I DON'T KNOW.
09:12:29 BUT USUALLY IT IS IN NOVEMBER, THE EARLY PART OF
09:12:32 NOVEMBER, YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THEM WHAT THE
09:12:35 QUALIFICATIONS AND WHAT THE RENT IS GOING TO BE AND
09:12:38 THEY EITHER APPROVE IT OR DENY IT.
09:12:38 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: CORRECT.
09:12:43 I AM A LITTLE CONCERNED IF THEY HAVE A CONTRACT AND
09:12:45 LEASE FOR A YEAR THAT IT IS INCREASING ON THEM.
09:12:48 WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS TO SEE IF WE CAN
09:12:51 BEST FACILITATE THAT AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
09:12:53 INFORMATION.
09:12:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:12:56 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:12:57 YES?
09:13:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CAN WE GET AN UPDATE ON THE
09:13:02 SITUATION AT THE NEXT CRA MEETING?
09:13:04 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: ABSOLUTELY.
09:13:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:13:07 ANYONE ELSE?
09:13:09 NO, PLEASE --
09:13:14 >> MY MOM LIVES IN THAT SAME HIGH-RISE --
09:13:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: GIVE US YOUR FULL NAME.
09:13:19 >> LATHESIA PATTON.
09:13:23 THE QUESTION IS BECAUSE I WAS RESEARCHING AND I SEEN --
09:13:26 SEEMED LIKE PROPERTY WITH THE SAME OWNERS INCREASES
09:13:30 FOUR TIMES WITHIN TWO YEARS.
09:13:33 SO A LOT OF RESIDENTS CAME AND SAID, WELL, IS IT GOING
09:13:34 TO BE ANY INCREASES?
09:13:35 WHAT IS GOING ON.
09:13:38 AND MANAGEMENT SAID NO.
09:13:41 SO THEIR ISSUE IS, THEY WANT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHAT IS
09:13:42 GOING ON.
09:13:46 WHEN THEY WERE SIGNING THE LEASE, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
09:13:50 CRYSTAL CLEAR THIS IS POTENTIALLY WHAT WOULD OCCUR IN
09:13:53 THE MIDST OF THE LEASE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON.
09:13:56 AND THEY WEREN'T CLEAR.
09:13:59 SO BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ON FIXED INCOMES, THEY SHOULD
09:14:02 HAVE BEEN CRYSTAL CLEAR TO MAKE THAT DECISION WHETHER
09:14:05 TO MOVE THERE OR NOT TO MOVE THERE, YOU KNOW.
09:14:09 AND PEOPLE USE A LOT OF THEIR RESERVES TO MOVE AND NOW
09:14:13 THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING UNLESS THIEF 30-DAY NOTICE IF
09:14:16 YOU WANT TO LEAVE, BUT THAT IS JUST NOT FEASIBLE.
09:14:20 SO A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED AND
09:14:23 QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED ON, YOU KNOW, THE
09:14:25 WHYS.
09:14:26 WHAT HAPPENED?
09:14:29 WHY WEREN'T THESE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED?
09:14:31 WHY WEREN'T THEY CLEAR WITH THESE RESIDENTS BEFORE THEY
09:14:32 MOVED IN.
09:14:39 SO IT IS LIKE A LIST OF THEM THAT -- THE RESIDENTS HAVE
09:14:41 A LIST OF QUESTIONS.
09:14:44 SO -- AND THEN IF THEY DO THIS INCREASE NOW AND THEY DO
09:14:48 IT AGAIN IN ANOTHER FEW MONTHS, ARE YOU ALL ABLE TO
09:14:51 ASSIST WITH THE INCREASE AND SO ON.
09:14:57 SO THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT CONCERNS, YOU KNOW --
09:14:59 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE
09:15:02 LEASE AND THE QUESTIONS THAT THE RESIDENTS HAVE AND SEE
09:15:06 IF WE CAN -- I NEED -- I NEED MORE INFORMATION TO
09:15:08 UNDERSTAND AND BE ABLE TO HELP AND TALK TO THE PROPERTY
09:15:13 MANAGEMENT AND ALSO TO SEE WHAT WE CAN TO DO FILL THAT
09:15:15 GAP WITH HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
09:15:19 SO I ASKED CEDRIC JUST NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL
09:15:21 GET HIS CARD SO WE CAN CONNECT YOU WITH OUR HOUSING
09:15:23 PERSON IN EAST TAMPA.
09:15:25 AND WE WILL WALK THROUGH IT WITH YOU.
09:15:30 >> AND THE HEADING ERRORS ON THE LEASE.
09:15:32 THE LEASE IS SO SMALL.
09:15:33 THESE ARE SENIOR CITIZENS.
09:15:35 YOU ARE READING THROUGH SO SMALL.
09:15:38 YOU HAVE VISUAL ISSUES AND SO ON.
09:15:41 AND THEN INTERPRETATION ISSUES, MEANING HOW ARE THEY
09:15:45 ABLE TO DEPICT THE CERTAIN LANGUAGES IN THIS LEASE.
09:15:49 AND THEN IF THAT IS NOT BEING ADDRESSED, ARE THEY
09:15:51 COMPETENT TO BE ABLE TO BE SIGNING THIS LEASE AND
09:15:55 UNDERSTANDING ALL THESE FACTORS THAT ARE IN THE LEASE.
09:15:57 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: UNDERSTOOD.
09:16:00 >> PROTECTIONS ON THEM AND THEIR COMPREHENSION LEVELS
09:16:01 ALSO.
09:16:02 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:16:05 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: MAKE SURE WE GET YOUR INFORMATION.
09:16:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:16:08 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:16:12 >> GOOD MORNING, CONNIE BURTON.
09:16:14 SO THAT IS THE SHELL GAME WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WHEN
09:16:18 MADISON MADE THEIR PRESENTATION TO THE EAST TAMPA
09:16:19 BOARD.
09:16:21 AND IT WAS LOW INCOME.
09:16:28 IT IS LOW INCOME FOR SOMEONE WHO IS -- HAS A HUGE SAY
09:16:31 -- SOCIAL SECURITY OR DISABILITY CHECK COMING FROM A
09:16:35 STATE THAT PAY WELL, BUT FOR RESIDENTS HERE, IT IS
09:16:37 EATING ALL OF THEIR INCOME.
09:16:41 THAT WAS THE FEAR AND NOW IT IS IN FRONT OF US.
09:16:48 SOME OF THE RESIDENTS SOME -- NOT SOME, BUT ONE, GOT R
09:16:51 3 MONEY AND PAID A FEW MONTHS AND THEN BACK TO HOW DO
09:16:53 THEY SURVIVE.
09:16:56 THE ISSUE THIS MORNING, TOO, IS AS WE ENTER INTO THE
09:17:00 SUMMER MONTHS, AND OUR COMMUNITY, WE ARE TALKING OF
09:17:01 INFLATION.
09:17:05 AND WE KNOW THAT -- AND LOW-INCOME FAMILIES, THE CHOICE
09:17:08 OF FOOD, RENT, NOW SUMMER CAMP.
09:17:13 HOW DO WE WORK AS A CITY AS WE TALK ABOUT THE
09:17:16 RESILIENCY OF HOW WONDERFUL TAMPA IS.
09:17:20 MAKE PROVISION FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND CHILDREN NOT
09:17:25 TO BE IDLED THIS SUMMER, BUT HAVE REAL RECREATIONAL
09:17:29 CAMPS INSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT GIVE THEM ACCESS TO
09:17:32 PROGRAMS THAT ATTRACTS THEM TO GOING.
09:17:36 LAST WEEK WHEN I WAS HERE, I TALKED ABOUT A WONDERFUL
09:17:40 PROGRAM THAT IS OUT IN NEW TAMPA.
09:17:42 TUMBLING, JUMPING, ALL OF THAT.
09:17:45 NONE OF THAT EXISTS INSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
09:17:49 AND LASTLY, SILVER OAKS IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY
09:17:52 WITH ALL KIND OF HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING TO THAT
09:17:56 COMMUNITY, WITH MANAGEMENT JUST MERELY THROWING PAINT.
09:17:57 SO, YES, IT IS FEDERAL.
09:17:59 YES, IT IS HOUSING.
09:18:01 MAYBE YOU NEED TO GET THE HOUSING AUTHORITY DOWN HERE
09:18:05 TO EXPLAIN SINCE WE DON'T HAVE A HUD DIVISION HERE TO
09:18:05 ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
09:18:11 AND THEY ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF MONETIZING AND
09:18:12 MONITORING THESE PROPERTIES.
09:18:16 HOW DO THEY ALLOW SUCH DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS TO EXIST
09:18:19 AND PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE THERE AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
09:18:21 DON'T HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO IT.
09:18:23 THEY NEED TO BE MADE TO COME TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES
09:18:26 AND HELP POINT US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION INSTEAD OF ME
09:18:31 CALLING ALL OVER WASHINGTON D.C. TO TALK TO PEOPLE, WE
09:18:34 NEED TO KNOW POINT OF CONTACT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF
09:18:35 SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
09:18:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:18:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR, I WAS AT THE AHAB
09:18:45 MEETING FOR THE COUNTY AND THAT WAS BROUGHT UP.
09:18:46 COUNCIL SENT A LETTER.
09:18:49 BUT ONE OF THE LADIES WHO SITS ON -- I THINK SHE IS
09:18:54 DISTRICT PERSON FOR HUD -- I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME
09:18:54 RIGHT NOW.
09:18:55 >> MISS JACKSON.
09:18:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS JACKSON.
09:19:00 SHE TOLD ME WE SHOULD BE CONTACTING HUD.
09:19:03 NOT IN REFERENCE TO TAKING THE FUNDS AWAY, BUT HAVING
09:19:07 HUD COME HERE AND DO A REAL THOROUGH INSPECTION AND TO
09:19:11 BE ABLE TO GO AND LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER PARAMETERS.
09:19:13 HER SUGGESTION THAT IT WILL NOT BE INTERFERING WITH
09:19:16 OTHER DOLLARS OF THE CITY BUT LOOKING AT THAT
09:19:18 PARTICULAR PROPERTY, DEALING WITH THOSE ISSUES.
09:19:22 SO I BELIEVE THAT -- I THINK COMMISSIONER OVERMAN WAS
09:19:25 SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE FROM HUD
09:19:32 EITHER YESTERDAY OR TUESDAY WITH A PHONE CALL.
09:19:36 BUT SILVER OAKS WAS BROUGHT UP AT THE MEETING.
09:19:38 COMMISSIONER OVERMAN AND COMMISSIONER MYERS.
09:19:40 A THAT HAS BEEN A DISCUSSION.
09:19:43 I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO GET WITH MISS TRAVIS ABOUT
09:19:43 THAT CONVERSATION.
09:19:46 AND A CONVERSATION I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BY THE END OF
09:19:49 THE WEEK TO REFERENCE TO HAVE HUD HERE.
09:19:51 I SAW SOME OF THE PHOTOS, THE PIPES.
09:19:54 EVERYBODY KNOWS I GREW UP RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER ON
09:19:58 HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE SINCE I WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE.
09:20:01 WE WALKED THROUGH THE BACK WAY.
09:20:03 I AM FAMILIAR HOW OLD THAT BUILDING IS.
09:20:05 BACK TO LIVING THERE NOW.
09:20:07 THAT BUILDING THERE IS VERY OLD.
09:20:10 SOME OF THE PROTOTYPES PROBABLY RUSTY LIKE THE CITY
09:20:11 PIPES.
09:20:14 AGAIN, I THINK MAYBE IT IS TIME TO THEY GO IN AND DO A
09:20:17 GOOD INSPECTION OF THE PROPERTY.
09:20:20 AS IT RELATES TO YOUR SUMMER PROGRAMS, I DID RECEIVE AN
09:20:26 EMAIL FROM MR. BENNETT THAT HE SENT OUT TO OUR
09:20:31 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER MISS MCKENZIE AND AN
09:20:35 EMAIL SENT AND I DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE WITH THE PARKS
09:20:37 AND RECREATION HAD SOME KIND OF EXTENSIVE PROGRAM.
09:20:38 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
09:20:41 I DO WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT.
09:20:44 I AM SO ENCOURAGED TO GET THAT EAST TAMPA CENTER UP AND
09:20:48 RUNNING TO HAVE THE AMENITIES LIKE NEW TAMPA, OTHER
09:20:51 PLACES, SOUTH TAMPA THAT HAVE GYMNASTICS AND DANCE AND
09:20:53 VITAL FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
09:20:53 THEY ARE DANCING.
09:20:55 THEY ARE MAKING MUSIC.
09:20:56 THEY ARE DOING A LOT OF THINGS.
09:20:59 HAVING A FACILITY WILL IMPACT THEM TREMENDOUSLY TO DO
09:21:01 THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
09:21:04 I AM HOPING THAT A CONVERSATION -- AND I AM SURE MISS
09:21:08 MCKENZIE CAN GIVE US INFORMATION ON WHAT THEY ARE
09:21:09 TALKING ABOUT.
09:21:11 BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT, RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE, BUSCH
09:21:14 GARDENS SPENT $1,000 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR KIDS TO
09:21:19 WORK AND PICK UP TRASH AND THESE OTHER THINGS.
09:21:24 I AM HOPING THAT A CONVERSATION WITH MR. MCCRAY AND TO
09:21:26 HAVE ANOTHER TYPE OF PROGRAM TO HELP OUR KIDS.
09:21:29 NOT BEING NICE OR NASTY.
09:21:30 PICKED UP TRASH.
09:21:35 WHEN I CAME HOME, MY DAD HAD ME WITH THE UNCLE.
09:21:36 THREW MUD.
09:21:38 THREW MUD FOR THE SUMMER.
09:21:41 WASN'T THE JOB -- AFTER THIRD MONTH, HE SAID HE GOT TO
09:21:41 GO.
09:21:42 THAT WASN'T FOR ME.
09:21:45 I UNDERSTAND THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED OTHER AVENUES
09:21:48 TO EXPAND THEIR MIND BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM WANT
09:21:51 OPPORTUNITY AND THEY DON'T WANT TO PICK UP TRASH.
09:21:55 AND FIND ANOTHER WAY -- HOPEFULLY OUR CRA WILL FIND A
09:21:59 WAY AND A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN EAST TAMPA AND
09:22:02 HOPEFULLY TO FIND A WAY TO DO SOMETHING RATHER THAN
09:22:04 NOTHING.
09:22:04 >> THANK YOU.
09:22:06 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:22:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I ECHO WHAT COUNCILMAN GUDES SAID.
09:22:13 THIS ITEM THAT WE HAVE HERE HAVE MANY MOVING PARTS.
09:22:15 AND IT WILL TAKE SOME -- SOMEONE TO REALLY GET A HOLD
09:22:19 OF ALL THE PARTS AND STOP THE WHEELS IN MOTION SO WE
09:22:22 CAN FIND OUT EXACTLY WHICH IS THE WHEEL THAT IS STILL
09:22:24 MOVING WHILE THE REST ARE STANDING STILL.
09:22:27 SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, ONE OF THESE WHEELS IS MOVING
09:22:30 AND THE OTHER IS STANDING STILL SAYING I HAVE TO DO
09:22:30 THIS.
09:22:33 THAT IS WHAT IT IS CALLED FOR.
09:22:34 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CONTRACT SAYS.
09:22:36 THAT WILL BE RESOLVED.
09:22:37 WE WILL GET MORE INFORMATION TODAY.
09:22:40 AND I AM SURE MISS TRAVIS AND HER DEPARTMENT WILL FIND
09:22:44 OUT EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
09:22:48 WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IT IS IN DAYS.
09:22:50 >> BERITA ANDRE.
09:22:53 I AM A RESIDENT AT MADISON HIGHLAND.
09:22:55 TWO OF US.
09:22:56 ME AND MY HUSBAND.
09:22:57 MY HUSBAND CAN'T WORK.
09:22:59 THE DOCTOR TOOK HIM YOU HAVE A OF JOB.
09:23:00 I CAN'T WORK.
09:23:01 THEY STOPPED ME FROM WORKING.
09:23:03 IT'S HARD FOR US RIGHT NOW.
09:23:09 THAT MEANS THEY DONE ADDED A WATER BILL -- THEY TOLD US
09:23:12 THAT WHEN WE MOVED IN WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE A WATER
09:23:12 BILL.
09:23:15 AND NOW WE HAVE A WATER BILL AND I DON'T THINK THAT IS
09:23:16 FAIR TO US.
09:23:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:23:20 IF YOU CAN MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION TO
09:23:22 MISS TRAVIS AND YOUR QUESTIONS.
09:23:22 >> OKAY, THANK YOU.
09:23:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:23:26 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:23:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU MAY NOT KNOW.
09:23:30 YOU ARE JUST GETTING HERE.
09:23:34 DOES THAT GET CDBG FUNDS?
09:23:35 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I AM NOT SURE.
09:23:36 I WILL HAVE TO GO CHECK.
09:23:40 I AM NOT SURE IF IT IS GETTING CDBG FUNDS.
09:23:42 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE WILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT OUR PART OF
09:23:43 THE CONTRACT IS ON THAT.
09:23:49 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, THANK YOU.
09:23:52 >> GOOD MORNING, MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:23:55 YOU CAN'T STOP CAPITALISM.
09:23:57 YOU CAN'T STOP RENT INCREASES.
09:24:00 YOU CAN'T STOP A HOTEL ON HARBOUR ISLAND.
09:24:02 YOU CAN'T STOP HIGH GAS PRICES.
09:24:04 YOU CAN'T STOP HIGH FOOD PRICES.
09:24:07 YOU CAN'T STOP GENTRIFICATION.
09:24:09 YOU CAN'T STOP ANY OF THESE THINGS.
09:24:13 FOR US AFRICAN PEOPLE, IT HAS BEEN AN EXPERIENCE FOR
09:24:15 622 YEARS.
09:24:17 IT IS CAPITALISM.
09:24:19 IMPERIALISM.
09:24:21 COLONIALISM.
09:24:23 NEOCOLONIALISM.
09:24:23 YOU CAN'T STOP IT.
09:24:28 THE POOR WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE HAVE TO BE ORGANIZED
09:24:29 BETTER.
09:24:32 WE CAN'T KEEP COMING WEEK AFTER WEEK AND YOU ACT LIKE
09:24:33 WE DON'T KNOW THE PROBLEM.
09:24:34 IT IS ALL OVER.
09:24:39 I SEE MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING RIGHT DOWNSTAIRS THEN
09:24:41 I DO INSIDE THE REAL COMMUNITIES UNTIL YOU PUSHED THEM
09:24:45 OVER INTO NEBRASKA AVENUE AND TRINITY.
09:24:46 SO THAT'S FACT.
09:24:49 BUT RIGHT NOW I WANT TO TALK OF INAPPROPRIATE
09:24:50 RELATIONSHIPS.
09:24:52 622 YEARS, WHITE PEOPLE HAVE INTENTIONALLY FORMED
09:24:55 INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SELECTED AFRICAN
09:24:56 PEOPLE.
09:24:58 FORMED INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SELECTED
09:25:04 AFRICAN GROUPS AND SELECTIVE AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
09:25:10 COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, CAPITALISM HAS AN
09:25:13 INAPPROPRIATE WAY OF FORMING RELATIONSHIPS WITH
09:25:16 AMBITIOUS MINORITY INDIVIDUALS TO EXTRACT THE WEALTH,
09:25:19 RESOURCES AND LANDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS
09:25:22 POPULATION AND THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
09:25:26 ADVANTAGE OF WHITE PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE ONLY.
09:25:29 YESTERDAY, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TAMPA SPOKE QUITE
09:25:31 ELOQUENTLY OF THE AMBITIONS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:25:34 THE MAYOR SPOKE OF THE VISION.
09:25:36 THE VISION INCLUDED A STATEMENT ABOUT HOUSING.
09:25:40 BUT THE REALITY IS, THE HOUSING IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR
09:25:41 WHITE PEOPLE.
09:25:45 THE WHITE PEOPLE HAVE 1,000 TRICKS UP THEIR SLEEVES.
09:25:48 THE MAYOR AND ALL MAYORS IN EVERY CITY OVER 300,000
09:25:51 POPULATION NATIONWIDE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN AGGRESSIVE
09:25:57 RADICAL PROGRAMS TO DEPOPULATE ALL URBAN AREAS OF THEIR
09:25:58 BLACK POPULATION.
09:26:00 THOSE PROGRAMS ARE GOING ON ALL OVER THE WORLD.
09:26:03 NOT ONLY HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:26:04 MIAMI, FLORIDA.
09:26:05 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
09:26:09 HOW CAN THE MAYOR JANE CASTOR DEPOPULATE THE AFRICAN
09:26:11 POPULATION.
09:26:16 THE MAIN METHOD IS FORMING INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS
09:26:18 WITH AFRICANS.
09:26:22 AND COMMUNITY LEADER, COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, UNCLE TOM
09:26:28 SELLOUT, AUNT JEMIMA SELLOUT, BOOT LICKERS, PUPPETS AND
09:26:31 A HOST OF OTHER NAMES THAT DENOTE SERVICE AND
09:26:37 PATRIOTISM OF WHITE POWER AT THE DETRIMENT AND EXPENSE
09:26:39 OF THE BLACK MASTERS.
09:26:44 IT MUST BE KNOWN THAT THIS CITY, PREVIOUS MAYORS AND
09:26:47 CITY COUNCIL HAVE FORMED A RELATIONSHIP WITH MICHELLE
09:26:56 PATTY AND MICHELLE PATTY AND WPMT AN DETRIMENT AND THAT
09:26:58 RELATIONSHIP NEEDS TO BE RE-EXAMINED.
09:27:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:27:04 SIR.
09:27:07 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:27:09 I ALSO LIVE AT MADISON.
09:27:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: SPEAK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT.
09:27:15 >> SANDOR OCHOA.
09:27:17 I LIVE IN MADISON AS WELL.
09:27:19 YOU SHOULD KNOW WE DIDN'T GET COPIES OF OUR LEASE JUST
09:27:23 RECENTLY BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY WERE DOING A AUDIT AND
09:27:25 MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE IT.
09:27:29 I ALSO HAVE A -- A PROBLEM IN MY APARTMENT WITH VAPORS
09:27:31 AND SMELLS AND STUFF.
09:27:34 I HAD A PILOT COMPANY COME IN AND DO AN AIR QUALITY
09:27:40 TEST BACK IN DECEMBER OF WHICH THEY -- THEY FOUND --
09:27:43 THEY FOUND THINGS -- I CAN PROVIDE THE COURT WITH
09:27:44 DOCUMENTS.
09:27:47 BUT BECAUSE IT WAS NEW CONSTRUCTION, THEY SAID -- THEY
09:27:49 COULD SAY THAT THIS IS BECAUSE OF NEW CONSTRUCTION.
09:27:52 BUT NOT TO THE LEVELS IN MY APARTMENT IT IS.
09:27:55 THEN I GET ANOTHER ONE IN MARCH.
09:27:57 I HAD IT AGAIN BECAUSE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS TO THE
09:28:00 POINT THAT I CAN TASTE.
09:28:01 I CAN TASTE IT.
09:28:02 I CAN FEEL IT ON MY SKIN.
09:28:07 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT WAS MOTHBALL CRYSTALS,
09:28:08 HIGH LEVEL OF IT.
09:28:14 AGAIN, I CAN ALSO PROVIDE REPORTS AND MY -- MANY OF THE
09:28:17 TENANTS CAN -- I HAVE TO LEAVE MY DOOR OPEN IN THE
09:28:20 HALLWAY BECAUSE THE SMELL IS THAT BAD.
09:28:23 BUT THEY -- THEY SAID THAT -- THEY HAVE GONE TWICE AND
09:28:24 SAY THEY DON'T SMELL ANYTHING.
09:28:29 AND THE ONLY CHOICE I WAS GIVEN IS, DO YOU WANT TO
09:28:30 MOVE.
09:28:31 I DON'T WANT TO MOVE.
09:28:35 SO -- SO I -- ANYHOW, IT IS FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I HAD
09:28:37 A HEADACHE FOR THREE MONTHS.
09:28:39 I AM SICK.
09:28:41 I HAVE -- I HAVE MEDICAL ISSUES.
09:28:43 I HAD THREE HEART ATTACKS.
09:28:47 I HAVE EMPHYSEMA AND I AM HIV POSITIVE.
09:28:48 I AM SICK.
09:28:49 MY DOG IS GETTING SICK.
09:28:51 AND NO ONE IS LISTENING TO US.
09:28:53 THAT'S IT.
09:28:54 DO YOU NEED THIS?
09:28:55 >>LYNN HURTAK: SORRY, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:28:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SIR.
09:28:57 >> I AM SORRY.
09:29:00 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A COUPLE OF
09:29:00 QUESTIONS.
09:29:02 I WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND.
09:29:05 YOU HAD A PRIVATE COMPANY COME IN AND DO A TEST IN YOUR
09:29:06 HOUSE.
09:29:06 >> CORRECT.
09:29:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEY DID A TEST WITH A METER IN
09:29:12 EVERY ROOM AND-TO-FIND OUT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY FOUND.
09:29:13 >> I CAN SHOW YOU.
09:29:17 THEY PUT A METER IN THE ROOM FOR TWO HOURS.
09:29:19 I AM -- I AM ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION.
09:29:21 THEY PUT THE METER FOR TWO HOURS.
09:29:24 AND THEY DID IT IN THE RAIN ROOM -- A SMALL APARTMENT.
09:29:27 THEY DID IT IN THE BEDROOM WHERE I SAID I WAS SMELLING
09:29:28 IT THE MOST.
09:29:32 AND THE FIRST TIME THEY -- YEAH, THEY FOUND HIGH LEVELS
09:29:38 -- I DON'T REMEMBER -- WHAT THEY FOUND, BUT IT WAS THE
09:29:40 THINGS THAT HE WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT, THE SMELLS OF
09:29:43 THE PAINTS -- BECAUSE IT WAS A NEW BUILDING, THEY SAID
09:29:44 THIS IS NORMAL.
09:29:45 YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THIS.
09:29:48 AND THAT -- IT COULD LINGER ON FOR MONTHS.
09:29:50 BUT NOT TO THE LEVEL I AM GETTING IN MY APARTMENT.
09:29:55 AND I AM THE ONLY ONE COMPLAINING IN MY APARTMENT.
09:29:57 I DON'T KNOW IF OTHERS ARE.
09:29:59 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO GET BACK TO THE CAPSULES
09:30:03 THAT THEY TAKE AN AIR SAMPLE IN EACH ROOM AND SEND IT
09:30:05 OUT TO THE LABORATORY.
09:30:08 DO YOU HAVE A REPORT?
09:30:09 >> YES.
09:30:11 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF YOU TURN THAT IN.
09:30:12 >> YES.
09:30:14 IS THAT IT?
09:30:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:30:19 >> HI, MARGARET PETT.
09:30:22 I AM ALSO A RESIDENT OF MADISON HIGHLAND.
09:30:26 I WAS LIVING IN A HOTEL FOR THREE MONTHS AND I GOT THE
09:30:31 -- I GOT GRACE POINT TO TELL ME ABOUT THE BUILDING.
09:30:34 THEY SAID IT HAD TO BE IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY.
09:30:36 I SAID THAT'S GREAT.
09:30:42 BECAUSE MY SIGHT AND COMPUTER SKILLS TRYING TO GET IN
09:30:43 FLORIDA SINCE JUNE LAST YEAR.
09:30:46 I STILL HAVE NOT GOTTEN IT.
09:30:47 I WENT OVER.
09:30:49 I TOLD THEM I DIDN'T SEE WELL.
09:30:50 THEY WENT OVER THE LEASE.
09:30:55 THEY SAID YOU HAVE TO BE IN YOUR APARTMENT BY THE 27TH
09:30:56 OR 28TH.
09:30:58 YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR ELECTRICITY TURNED ON BECAUSE IF
09:31:00 NOT, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT.
09:31:04 WE NEED FULL OCCUPANCY BY JANUARY 1.
09:31:06 SO THEY WENT THROUGH THE LEASE WITH ME.
09:31:07 THIS IS WHAT THIS SAYS.
09:31:09 THIS IS WHAT THIS SAYS.
09:31:10 THIS IS WHAT THIS SAYS.
09:31:12 I DON'T WANT TO LOSE IT.
09:31:13 AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
09:31:15 OH, MY GOD.
09:31:19 AND I -- I FINAGLED, SEE WHAT I COULD DO.
09:31:21 I SPENT ALL MY MONEY IN THAT HOTEL.
09:31:23 BARELY HAD ANY MONEY LEFT.
09:31:27 GRACE POINT WAS GOING TO HELP ME, AND THEN I GUESS THEY
09:31:28 DIDN'T RECEIVE SOME OF THE FUNDS.
09:31:34 I STARTED GETTING -- I GOT AN EVICTION NOTICE.
09:31:36 THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW THROUGH WITH IT BECAUSE I WAS ABLE
09:31:38 TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE FROM
09:31:42 GRACE POINT.
09:31:45 AND -- WHILE I WAS IN THE OFFICE AND I KNOW THIS IS
09:31:46 HEARSAY.
09:31:49 I KNOW THIS ISN'T A COURT, THEY SAID WE HAVE TO BE
09:31:50 DONE.
09:31:53 WE HAVE TO HAVE FULL OCCUPANCY BY JANUARY 1 AND
09:31:56 SOMEBODY CAME IN AND GOES, WELL, THINK OF -- THIS KIND
09:31:57 OF HOUSE.
09:31:59 OH, THAT PAPERWORK IS TOO LONG.
09:32:00 GET BE ELSE.
09:32:02 I AM LIKE, WOW.
09:32:05 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T PERTAIN TO ME.
09:32:08 WHAT DOES PERTAIN TO ME IS THAT SINCE I HAVE BEEN
09:32:11 THERE, MY CAR WAS BROKEN INTO.
09:32:15 MY APARTMENT, IT WAS $150 MISSING OUT OF THERE.
09:32:18 I CANNOT PROVE THAT, WHO STOLE THE MONEY.
09:32:23 I AM JUST SAYING THAT I WANT TO JUST A SAFE, SECURE
09:32:28 PLACE TO LIVE SO I CAN LIVE OUT THE REST OF MY LIFE.
09:32:39 YOU CAN'T PLAN -- IF WHAT YOU THINK YOU HAVE FOR A YEAR
09:32:40 IS CHANGED AFTER FOUR MONTHS.
09:32:43 I COULD BARELY PAY MY RENT AS IT WAS.
09:32:45 I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ARE OUR FLORIDA.
09:32:50 I DON'T THINK THE BUILDING PASSED INSPECTION YET.
09:32:54 BECAUSE THE OCCUPANCY ON THE DOOR IS THE OCCUPANCY FOR
09:33:01 SIX MONTHS.
09:33:04 THE HALLWAYS HAVE BEEN FLOODED.
09:33:05 THREE OR FOUR TIMES.
09:33:07 I GOT CAUGHT IN THE ELEVATOR.
09:33:08 I AM FINE.
09:33:18 SO MOLD UNDERNEATH IT AND THE BUILDING IS BRAND NEW.
09:33:20 I AM JUST SAYING THINK THAT KNOW I NEVER, EVER, EVEN
09:33:24 WHEN I HAD MONEY AND WASN'T SO DESPERATE, SIGN A LEASE
09:33:29 THAT SOMEBODY CAME BACK FOUR MONTHS LATER AND TOLD ME I
09:33:30 HAD TO COME UP WITH MORE MONEY.
09:33:34 WHEN IT IS HARD ENOUGH FOR ME TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY
09:33:35 I HAVE.
09:33:35 SORRY.
09:33:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: I UNDERSTAND.
09:33:37 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:33:45 APPRECIATE IT.
09:33:46 >> HI.
09:33:47 MY NAME IS ARLENE WASHINGTON.
09:33:50 AND I LIVE AT MADISON HEIGHTS.
09:33:53 AND WHAT I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT IS NOT SO MUCH THE
09:33:57 RENT, ALTHOUGH MINE IS GOING TO GO UP, BUT I AM SECTION
09:33:57 8.
09:33:59 SO THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN ME A NOTICE YET.
09:34:01 BUT WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT IS THE SAFETY OF THE
09:34:04 BUILDING.
09:34:05 THERE IS NOBODY THERE AT NIGHT.
09:34:07 THERE IS NOBODY THERE ON THE WEEKENDS.
09:34:11 IF WE HAVE A PROBLEM, WE CAN'T CALL ANYBODY BECAUSE THE
09:34:13 MAILBOX IS FULL.
09:34:17 THE ELEVATOR SOMETIMES ACTS OUT.
09:34:19 SOMETIMES THE GARBAGE DOESN'T GET DONE RIGHT.
09:34:22 PLUS, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF THE BUILDING THAT
09:34:23 WE DON'T KNOW.
09:34:27 THEY RATTLED THE DOORS TO SEE IF THE DOOR IS UNLOCKED,
09:34:28 TO SEE IF THEY CAN GET IN.
09:34:30 CARS HAVE BEEN BROKEN INTO.
09:34:31 SOME HAVE BEEN STOLEN.
09:34:32 WE NEED SAFETY THERE.
09:34:33 WE ARE SENIORS.
09:34:35 AND IT IS LIKE THEY DON'T CARE.
09:34:37 THEY GOT US IN THE BUILDING, AND NOW WE ARE ON OUR OWN.
09:34:39 AND WE NEED HELP.
09:34:44 AND IT IS A SHAME THAT WE ARE ALL ON FIXED INCOMES.
09:34:45 THEY RAISE YOUR RENT.
09:34:47 THEY TELL YOU CAN'T DO THIS.
09:34:50 THEY LOCK THE DOORS AT 9:00 AT NIGHT.
09:34:54 IF WE COULDN'T SLEEP AND WANTED TO GO TO -- INTO THE
09:34:56 GYM, CAN HE CAN'T DO IT.
09:34:59 9:00, EVERYTHING IS LOCKED UP.
09:35:03 AND THEY DON'T OPEN AGAIN UNTIL 9:00 IN THE MORNING.
09:35:05 SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T SLEEP.
09:35:06 WE ARE SENIORS.
09:35:08 WE CAN'T SLEEP ALL THE NIGHT THROUGH.
09:35:11 SOMETIMES WE WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE GYM AND DO A
09:35:11 WORKOUT.
09:35:13 SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT.
09:35:16 THEY TREAT YOU LIKE LITTLE KIDS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T DO
09:35:16 ANYTHING.
09:35:18 AND ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
09:35:21 YOU ARE GOING TO RAISE MY RENT, BUT STILL TREAT ME LIKE
09:35:22 I AM SOME CHILD.
09:35:24 IT IS NOT SAFE.
09:35:27 AND WE DO NEED SOMEBODY THERE IN THE OFFICE ON THE
09:35:29 WEEKENDS IN CASES THERE A PROBLEM.
09:35:35 YOU KNOW YOU F USS ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE, WE NEED HELP
09:35:37 WITH THE OTHER STUFF AND I AM NOT GOING TO HOLD YOU UP
09:35:39 ANY LONGER BECAUSE SOME OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO TALK.
09:35:41 THANK YOU FOR LISTENING BUT PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT
09:35:42 IT.
09:35:43 WE ARE KIND OF TIRED NOW.
09:35:46 I AM 77 AND I AM REAL TIRED.
09:35:47 OKAY.
09:35:48 REAL TIRED.
09:35:49 >>LYNN HURTAK: COMMISSIONER.
09:35:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MCCRAY.
09:36:02 YOU CAN GET MCGREGOR, CALVIN JOHNSON, LES RICHARDSON.
09:36:05 I HEARD OF ISSUES THERE BEFORE.
09:36:07 DIDN'T HAVE AN AREA FOR FOLKS TO SMOKE AND THINGS LIKE
09:36:07 THAT.
09:36:14 GET JANELLE, LES OR GET THEM OVER THERE TO HAVE A
09:36:16 MEETING WITH THE RESIDENTS AND THE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES
09:36:18 TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO.
09:36:20 IT IS A SENIOR DEVELOPMENT.
09:36:23 TO MAKE SURE THE SENIORS ARE COMFORTABLE AND CAN HAVE
09:36:24 ACTIVITIES OVER THERE.
09:36:27 THANK YOU, SIR.
09:36:28 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:36:31 MY NAME IS KEELA MCCASKILL, AND I'M HERE REGARDING THE
09:36:33 EAST TAMPA CAC.
09:36:36 BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT HAS BEEN DORMANT,
09:36:38 PROGRESS HAS NOT BEEN MOVING FORWARD.
09:36:41 WE GOT RID OF ONE OF THE LAYERS OF THE BRICK WALL OF
09:36:41 DELAY.
09:36:45 AND I AM ASKING TODAY THAT WE TRY TO WORK ON THE NEXT
09:36:45 ONE.
09:36:49 I WANTED TO FIND OUT HOW THE CAC OR CRA CAN REPORT
09:36:53 DIRECTLY TO CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE SOME SORT OF BALANCE
09:36:55 AS FAR AS WHAT IS TO TAKE PLACE.
09:36:57 WE WON'T GET ANY PROGRESS IF THEY ARE NOT REPORTING
09:37:00 DIRECTLY TO THIS BOARD -- THOR BODY.
09:37:09 IN ADDITION, COUNCILMAN GUDES, IN JULY 2, 2022,
09:37:12 REQUESTED INFORMATION REGARDING A NONOWNER-OCCUPIED
09:37:16 REHAB WHICH IS SORT OF LIKE A RENTAL REHAB PROGRAM.
09:37:20 I SEE IT ON THE AGENDA TODAY BUT FROM WEST.
09:37:24 THIS REQUEST WAS MADE -- AND I HAVE THE VIDEO AND I
09:37:24 WILL SEND IT TO YOU.
09:37:28 A NONOWNER-OCCUPIED PROGRAM.
09:37:32 WE ARE ALREADY IN A SHORTAGE -- HAD THEY DONE THAT, HAD
09:37:34 OUR DIRECTOR DONE THAT, WE WOULD HAVE MANY UNIT
09:37:37 AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE BLIGHTED AND VACANT NOW
09:37:42 WHICH IS THE SO LE PURPOSE OF THE CRA TO ELIMINATE SLUM
09:37:43 AND BLIGHT.
09:37:45 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE REQUEST IS.
09:37:46 I SEE IT FOR WEST TAMPA.
09:37:50 I DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY STARTED WORKING ON IT, BUT THE
09:37:54 REQUEST FOR THE ORIGINAL NONOWNER-OCCUPIED REHAB WAS
09:37:58 REQUESTED JULY 2, 2021 FROM -- FROM RIGHT HERE IN THIS
09:38:00 BODY AND SEEING FROM WEST TAMPA.
09:38:03 AND THERE IS NO CONVERSATION ABOUT IT IN EAST TAMPA.
09:38:05 WHICH IS THE REASON, AGAIN, SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE
09:38:09 ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ACTIVITIES AND REQUESTS FOR EAST
09:38:12 TAMPA, BECAUSE THERE IS A DISPARITY IN WHAT HAPPENS.
09:38:14 WE ARE NOT SEEING SOME OF THE PROJECTS.
09:38:17 AND YOU HEARD IT AND I WON'T BEAT A DEAD HORSE AND I AM
09:38:18 ASKING FOR THAT.
09:38:20 I AM ASKING FOR THAT POSITION.
09:38:26 AND INITIALLY, WE WERE FORCED TO ACCEPT A PART-TIME --
09:38:27 SUBPAR.
09:38:29 WE DON'T GET THE FULL SERVICES OF A DIRECTOR.
09:38:34 AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT INTERIM AND WE WANT TO POSTED IN
09:38:35 AN EXPEDITED MANNER.
09:38:40 IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY NOW, WE WILL HAVE BE FORCED TO
09:38:43 ACCEPT FOR THE INTERIM DIRECTOR PART-TIME.
09:38:48 NO PUN INTENDED, BUT WE NEED FULL TIME.
09:38:52 MICHELLE VAN HORN WAS OVERWHELMED THE TWO YEARS.
09:38:55 THE WHOLE TWO YEARS, SHE WAS OVERWHELMED.
09:38:57 SHE HAD THE VIDEOS.
09:38:58 NOTHING TOOK PLACE.
09:39:00 I DON'T WANT TO SEE A NEW EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY HIRED
09:39:04 FOR A CERTAIN POSITION BE PART-TIME AND WILL BE SUBPAR
09:39:06 AND POTENTIALLY BECOME OVERWHELMED.
09:39:11 WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY MORE DELAYS IN EAST.
09:39:13 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:39:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:39:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT REQUEST WAS MADE.
09:39:20 YOU KNOW, DURING THAT TIME, THERE WAS A LOT OF
09:39:21 TRANSITION GOING ON.
09:39:24 I BELIEVE WE DIDN'T HAVE AN EAST TAMPA PERSON.
09:39:25 SO A LOT OF MOVING PARTS.
09:39:29 WHICH IS STILL NO EXCUSE, BUT A LOT OF MOVING PARTS
09:39:31 DURING THAT TIME.
09:39:32 I DID SEE THE VIDEO.
09:39:36 AND I DID SEND THE INFORMATION TO MISS TRAVIS AND MR.
09:39:41 MCCRAY IN HOPES TO GET A RESPONSE BACK BECAUSE SOME OF
09:39:47 THE PROBLEMS THAT WEST TAMPA, EAST TAMPA NEEDS PROGRAMS
09:39:48 AS WELL.
09:39:50 THEY ARE VIABLE AND HOUSING.
09:39:53 WE HAVE THE MONEY -- WE MAY NOT HAVE THE STUFF BUT WE
09:39:54 NEED TO GET THE STAFF.
09:39:56 AS IT RELATES TO THE HOUSING.
09:39:59 A MOTION MADE COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO -- LAST MONTH IN
09:40:01 REFERENCE TO THE CRA AND I GOT HERE LATE.
09:40:05 MY FAULT THAT I DIDN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND.
09:40:08 I KNOW MISS TRAVIS IS VERY, VERY EXPERIENCED IN HER
09:40:12 EXPERTISE, BUT I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, SHE HAS A
09:40:13 BIG CITY TO RUN.
09:40:16 WE GOT EIGHT CRAS.
09:40:19 I AM JUST BEING TRUTHFUL.
09:40:21 EIGHT CRAS AND BIG CITY TO RUN.
09:40:25 I KNOW SHE CAN DO THE JOB BUT SHE WILL NEED HELP DOING
09:40:30 THAT JOB, RUNNING A CITY AND RUNNING CRAS.
09:40:32 AND I AM HOPING IN THE NEAR FUTURE THAT WE WILL BE ABLE
09:40:35 TO BRING THAT BACK TO THE TABLE.
09:40:39 AND EVEN THOUGH SHE IS THE INTERN, START -- INTERIM,
09:40:42 START LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO REPLACE HER BECAUSE THAT
09:40:43 WILL BE KEY DOWN THE ROAD.
09:40:45 I JUST THINK SIX MONTHS.
09:40:48 AND, AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS GOING.
09:40:51 YOU HAVE EIGHT CRAS THAT ARE MOVING NOW.
09:40:51 THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
09:40:55 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOSE TRACK THAT SO PEOPLE
09:40:56 GET THE SERVICES THEY NEED.
09:41:00 I KNOW MISS TRAVIS IS QUALIFIED, BUT I DON'T WANT HER
09:41:05 TO GET BURNT OUT EITHER.
09:41:08 A CITY WITH ISSUES AND EIGHT CRAS.
09:41:09 THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.
09:41:14 >> MY NAME IS MALIK MAABDELA.
09:41:18 THERE ARE MANY ISSUES THAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN OUR
09:41:23 CITY, AS WELL AS AROUND THE WORLD.
09:41:28 AND YOU ARE THE CITY COUNCIL.
09:41:34 YOU ARE ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
09:41:39 AND YOU HEAR THE COMPLAINT OF THE PEOPLE.
09:41:43 THE QUESTION IS, HOW EFFECTIVE ARE YOU ALL ADDRESSING
09:41:49 THE ISSUES OF THE PEOPLE?
09:41:53 AND I BELIEVE THERE IS A GAP HERE, A VOID HERE BETWEEN
09:42:03 YOUR REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE.
09:42:05 WHAT WE WANT TO DO AS PEOPLE IS TO GET OUR
09:42:11 REPRESENTATIVES TO HELP US WITH OUR PROBLEMS.
09:42:19 NOW WE ELECT YOU GUYS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR ISSUES
09:42:22 AND THE -- WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THEM.
09:42:26 HOWEVER, WHAT I SEE TODAY, NOT JUST TODAY, BUT IN THIS
09:42:35 TIME PERIOD, A LACK OF HELPING THE PEOPLE WITH THE
09:42:39 ISSUES, SO THE QUESTION BEGS TO BE ASKED.
09:42:43 WHAT DO WE NEED YOU FOR IF YOU DON'T HELP US TO RESOLVE
09:42:44 THESE ISSUES.
09:42:51 AND, YES, YOU GUYS GET A LOT OF ISSUES THROWN AT YOU.
09:42:58 HOPEFULLY THESE ISSUES CAN BE RESOLVE OF THE WITH
09:42:59 PROPER APPLICATION.
09:43:06 AND THE HOUSING -- THE HIGH RENT THAT IS GOING ON IN
09:43:12 OUR COMMUNITY IS AFFECTING POOR PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE
09:43:14 PARTICULARLY.
09:43:23 SO -- AND I BELIEVE FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, THE
09:43:29 WHITE ESTABLISHMENT ENJOY THIS -- THESE INEQUITIES.
09:43:34 SO IF YOU ARE REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE, THEN YOU ARE
09:43:38 RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW THESE PEOPLE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE,
09:43:42 PEOPLE OF COLOR, THESE PEOPLE OF LOW INCOME ARE
09:43:49 PROTECTED BY YOUR LEADERSHIP.
09:43:52 AND WE ASK YOU TO LEAD US IN YOUR DIRECTION TO DO THE
09:43:53 RIGHT THING FOR US.
09:43:58 SO MY QUESTION IS RIGHT AT THIS POINT WHO IS THE
09:44:00 CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD HERE.
09:44:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WOULD BE ME.
09:44:02 >> OKAY.
09:44:04 DO YOU HAVE MANY --
09:44:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WILL BE ME.
09:44:08 >> OKAY, DO YOU HAVE MANY PROBLEMS HELPING THE PEOPLE.
09:44:11 ARE WE ADDRESSING OR GETTING SOLUTIONS FROM YOU ALL TO
09:44:13 HELP THE PEOPLE IF YOU WERE NOT -- SINCE YOU ARE NOT
09:44:16 DOING IT, YOU ARE GETTING A LOT OF PROBLEM, A LOT OF
09:44:17 QUESTIONS.
09:44:19 A LOT OF ASKING FOR HELP FROM THE PEOPLE.
09:44:21 I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOU ALL TELL US HOW YOU ARE GOING
09:44:25 TO ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS AND WE TELL YOU ALL WHAT WE
09:44:27 NEED AND YOU LISTEN.
09:44:27 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:44:35 THANK YOU.
09:44:36 >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD.
09:44:38 MY NAME IS ROBIN LOCKET.
09:44:41 I AM WITH FLORIDA RISING.
09:44:45 SOME OF THOSE ELDERLY ARE MEMBERS.
09:44:50 THEY LEFT RIVER PINES AND RAN AWAY FROM RIVER PINES
09:44:55 BECAUSE OF THE CONDITION OF THAT PROPERTY, EXCITED OF
09:45:01 COMING TO A NEW PROPERTY, BRAND-SPANKING NEW.
09:45:03 AND THEY ARE DEALING WITH ALL OF THIS.
09:45:06 ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT WE SHOULD PROTECT OUR
09:45:10 CHILDREN AND OUR SENIORS.
09:45:15 CONNIE WAS UP HERE EARLIER ABOUT THE THINGS FOR THE
09:45:18 KIDS DURING THE SUMMER AND BEING CREATIVE ABOUT THAT.
09:45:21 THE SENIORS ARE UP HERE NOW, YOU KNOW, JUST
09:45:21 COMPLAINING.
09:45:28 MY CONCERN WITH THIS AS MY MIND STARTS TO WANDER, WITH
09:45:31 THIS MANAGEMENT COMPANY OR THE OWNER -- HE OWNS OTHER
09:45:35 SENIOR LOCATIONS.
09:45:40 PRAYING ON SENIORS, BECAUSE EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM HAS
09:45:43 A VALID LEASE, MEANING IT IS NOT UP, AND THEY GET A
09:45:47 RENT INCREASE WITHIN FOUR MONTHS OF THEM MOVING IN.
09:45:49 PREYING ON SENIORS.
09:45:57 JUST SO HAPPENED THESE SENIORS HAD ENOUGH WHEREWITHAL
09:45:59 TO ASK QUESTIONS, WHY?
09:46:00 AND LOOK FOR ANSWERS.
09:46:03 IMAGINE THE FOUR UNITS HE HAS -- I HEAR HE HAS FOUR OF
09:46:04 THE APARTMENTS.
09:46:07 JUST MARGE HOW MANY SENIORS WILL BE AFRAID NOT TO BE
09:46:15 KICKED OUT AND PAY -- GET A SECOND JOB, YOU KNOW.
09:46:20 WHEN SHE -- WHEN RITA TOLD ME -- I THINK IT WAS RITA --
09:46:23 TOLD ME THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND COULDN'T AFFORD -- I
09:46:26 SAID BOTH OF YOU GUYS ARE IN THE HOUSE TOGETHER.
09:46:27 COULDN'T AFFORD IT.
09:46:31 WHEN MARILYN TOLD ME SHE IS 75 YEARS OLD.
09:46:34 AND SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO GO AND LOOK FOR A JOB.
09:46:35 I AM 57.
09:46:37 SO I AM CLOSE TO BEING A SENIOR.
09:46:40 I AM VERY CLOSE.
09:46:45 BUT I WOULD WANT TO BE TREAT ME WITH DECENT -- DECENCY
09:46:48 AND RESPECT, RIGHT.
09:46:52 AGAIN, CAN YOU GUYS RESOLVE THE -- THIS RENT
09:46:53 SITUATION?
09:46:56 NOT REALLY, BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON THE MARKET.
09:46:58 I HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO KNOW THAT.
09:47:04 BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO IS PUT THINGS IN PLACE TO PROTECT.
09:47:07 TO PROTECT THE SENIORS, TO PROTECT KIDS FROM BEING
09:47:09 HOMELESS, TO PROTECT PEOPLE.
09:47:12 RENT STABILIZATION IS A PART OF IT.
09:47:13 A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.
09:47:15 A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE.
09:47:19 BUT THERE ARE ALSO OTHER PIECES THAT CAN EQUAL UP TO
09:47:20 PROTECTING PEOPLE.
09:47:22 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:47:24 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:47:27 ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK?
09:47:32 OKAY.
09:47:37 FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
09:47:40 OH, DO WE HAVE ANY ONLINE REGISTERED SPEAKERS.
09:47:43 >>CLERK: WE HAD MICHAEL RANDOLPH AND HE IS NOT LOGGED
09:47:44 ON.
09:47:50 >>LYNN HURTAK: OH, OKAY.
09:47:56 SO WE BEGIN WITH STAFF REPORTS.
09:47:57 >> YES, GOOD MORNING, AGAIN.
09:48:00 THIS MORNING, WE HAVE MR. FRED HENRY FROM THE TAMPA
09:48:05 HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO GIVE YOU
09:48:09 AN UPDATE ON THE CAC AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
09:48:12 AND SO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO HIM TO MAKE THAT
09:48:13 PRESENTATION.
09:48:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:48:20 >>FRED HENRY: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:48:20 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:48:31 I BELIEVE THERE IS A PRESENTATION HERE THAT I AM GOING
09:48:34 TO REFERENCE FOR YOU ALL.
09:48:37 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MADAM CHAIR, JUST FOR THE RECORD,
09:48:41 CRA BOARD -- NOT THE COUNCIL.
09:48:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECORD
09:48:43 IS CLEAR.
09:48:47 >> FORCE OF HABIT, SORRY.
09:48:49 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND.
09:48:50 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: CAN YOU SEE IT?
09:49:11 HERE IT IS.
09:49:15 >>FRED HENRY: OKAY.
09:49:16 GOOD MORNING.
09:49:21 I JUST -- A QUICK UPDATE WITH THE RIVERFRONT CRA.
09:49:24 WE ACTUALLY HAVE A PROJECT WE ARE WORKING ON.
09:49:26 PROPOSED PALM AVENUE ROUNDABOUT.
09:49:27 PICTURE THAT YOU SEE THERE.
09:49:31 DOING CULTURAL ARTWORK, LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING.
09:49:35 WE ARE ALSO IN THE WORKS WITH A JOINT CRA SIGNAGE AND
09:49:39 PLANNING PROPOSAL WITH THAT TO CONNECT THE CITY A
09:49:41 LITTLE BIT BETTER IN THE AREA.
09:49:44 WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT DOING SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
09:49:47 SHORELINE NEAR NORTH BOULEVARD BRIDGE.
09:49:50 THAT IS BECOMING MORE CONNECTED WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD
09:49:51 THERE.
09:49:54 AND ALSO, A POTENTIAL JOINT VENTURE WITH WEST TAMPA CRA
09:49:58 FOR THE UNDER SIDE THE NORTH BOULEVARD BRIDGE AND
09:50:00 BRINGS IT TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER BRIDGE WE HAVE IN THE
09:50:04 CITY OF TAMPA WITH LED UNDERNEATH THE BOTTOM OF IT.
09:50:06 AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW.
09:50:07 >>LYNN HURTAK: EXCELLENT.
09:50:08 ANY QUESTIONS?
09:50:09 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:50:12 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ON A VERY SMALL NOTE, ON THE SOUTH
09:50:16 ICE PORTION OF THE ROUNDABOUT, HAVE SOMEONE CHECK --
09:50:19 MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE SOMEONE TO CHECK IT.
09:50:24 BECAUSE THINGS THAT ARE UP AND LIKELY TO HIT IT AND GO
09:50:25 SOMEWHERE ELSE WITH IT.
09:50:27 >>FRED HENRY: THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT.
09:50:31 APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.
09:50:36 >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU AS WELL.
09:50:37 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
09:50:39 NEXT WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:50:41 AGENCY STAFF REPORT.
09:50:43 AND WE ARE GOING TO START WITH JEFFREY BURTON WHO IS
09:50:46 THE CRA MANAGER FOR THE URBAN CORE.
09:50:50 AND ALSO JUST TO GIVE HIM HIS KUDOS, JEFFREY RECEIVED
09:50:55 HIS DOCTORATE AND WILL GIVE YOU THE LONG TITLE.
09:50:57 JEFFREY.
09:50:59 >>LYNN HURTAK: CONGRATULATIONS.
09:51:00 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:51:03 >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT IS THE LONG TITLE.
09:51:05 >> UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND SUSTAINABLE
09:51:06 REDEVELOPMENT.
09:51:11 I AM NOT GOING TO GO INTO THE LONG DRAWN-OUT VERSION.
09:51:16 DO YOU WANT THE 287-PAGE DISSERTATION, I WILL BE HAPPY
09:51:17 TO GIVE IT TO YOU.
09:51:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I CAN'T READ FOR THAT LONG.
09:51:22 >> ALL RIGHT, SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH THE URBAN
09:51:24 CORE CRAS.
09:51:28 AND YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A DIGITAL LIBRARY
09:51:30 NETWORKING FOR EACH OF THE CRAS.
09:51:33 THIS WORKS WITH ONE NOTE WHICH IS A FREE MICROSOFT APP.
09:51:37 WHAT IT DOES IS, GIVES YOU FLORIDA STATUTE 163.
09:51:41 GIVES YOU THE CRA PLANS FOR EACH OF THE CRAS.
09:51:45 IT GIVES YOU THE NAME OF THE CAC MEMBERS, CRA STAFF AND
09:51:48 THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION.
09:51:51 IT PROVIDES ALL THE POLICIES THAT YOU HAVE APPROVED FOR
09:51:55 THE CACS, ALL OF THEIR POLICIES, AND ALSO INCLUDES
09:51:58 PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON.
09:52:03 IT BASICALLY PROVIDES FOR THE CRA BOARD, THE CAC, CAN
09:52:07 CRA STAFF AND ANY INDIVIDUAL IN THE COMMUNITY A WAY TO
09:52:10 KEEP UP WITH WHAT IS GOING ON.
09:52:13 IT IS UPDATED AS SOON AS INFORMATION IS GATHERED BY
09:52:13 STAFF.
09:52:17 AND THEN WE PLACE IS IN THERE.
09:52:20 SO IT -- IT IS VERY HELPFUL IN TWO THINGS.
09:52:24 ONE, SEARCH THING THE STATUTE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE IN
09:52:25 COMPLIANCE WITH 163.
09:52:29 AND ALSO, SEARCHING THE PLANS TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE THE
09:52:32 STATUTE SAYS IF IT IS NOT IN THE PLAN, YOU CANNOT DO
09:52:32 IT.
09:52:36 TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE BACK MATERIAL, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT
09:52:39 COMES UP TO THE CITY ATTORNEY OR THE CRA ATTORNEY SO WE
09:52:42 ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR.
09:52:44 AND ALSO KEEPS US OUT OF TROUBLE.
09:52:47 SO IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED -- WE SENT THE INVITATIONS
09:52:48 OUT.
09:52:53 IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, AND WE
09:52:54 WILL MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THAT.
09:52:57 ALSO, AS WAS MENTIONED BY MR. HENRY, WE ARE IN THE
09:53:00 PROCESS OF A WAY FINDING MISSION.
09:53:03 ALL OF THE CRAS AND THEIR PLANS STATE THEY SHOULD BE
09:53:07 DOING SOME SORT OF WAY FINDING.
09:53:11 WE HAVE GONE TO EACH OF THE CACS LAST MONTH AND ASKED
09:53:14 THEM FOR A PRORATED AMOUNT OF MONEY.
09:53:18 ALL, THAT IS DOWNTOWN, CHANNEL, HEIGHTS AND CENTRAL
09:53:22 PARK AND WE PUT AN INVITATION OUT TO THE OTHER CRAS IF
09:53:24 THEY WOULD LIKE TO JOIN IN.
09:53:27 THIS IS -- THIS IS IN ALL THE PLANS AND IF THIS IS
09:53:29 SOMETHING THAT THE CRA WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN, WE
09:53:34 ASKED THEM FOR A PRORATED $100,000 BETWEEN EACH OF THEM
09:53:39 BASED ON THE ACREAGE OF CRA TO DO A STUDY.
09:53:42 WE MET YESTERDAY WITH THE CITY AND DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
09:53:45 TO GO OVER WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST, AND WE WILL
09:53:48 BE COMING BACK IN JUNE TO BRING THIS FORWARD FOR A VOTE
09:53:55 OF THE BOARD FOR THE MONEY FROM EACH OF THE CRAS.
09:53:57 YES, SIR?
09:53:58 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN?
09:54:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS -- IT IS KIND OF LIKE I HAVE
09:54:05 BEEN SAYING BEFORE WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, WHEN ALL THE
09:54:08 CRAS COME TOGETHER, ALL THE IDEAS.
09:54:10 BECAUSE IF THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS WONDERFUL,
09:54:13 WE HEAR WHY SHOULDN'T I DOCK THAT OVER HERE.
09:54:15 I THINK IT IS A GREAT CONCEPT.
09:54:17 AND THIS WAY PEOPLE CAN SAY THAT THE PLAYING FIELD CAN
09:54:22 NOW BE EQUAL LEVEL, RATHER THAN UNBALANCED.
09:54:23 BECAUSE IT IS UNBALANCED.
09:54:26 AND WE HAVE GOT TO BRING IT IN COMPLIANCE TO GET THE
09:54:28 EAST SIDE TO MOVING.
09:54:30 THAT IS THE PRIORITY.
09:54:33 THE EAST SIDE IS THE PRIME AUTHORITY TO GET IT MOVING.
09:54:35 BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE COMPLAINING BECAUSE
09:54:36 NOTHING IS HAPPENING.
09:54:39 YOU GOT TO HAVE AWARENESS.
09:54:43 EAST TAMPA HAVEN'T HAD THE WINS YET.
09:54:46 WE NEED SOME WINS.
09:54:48 YOU I LIKE THE CONCEPT BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT
09:54:49 BEFORE.
09:54:50 THANK YOU.
09:54:51 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
09:54:53 WE HAVE SENT OUT THE INVITATION AND I BELIEVE THEY ARE
09:54:58 GOING -- WE ADD YBOR WEST, DREW AND EAST TAMPA TO -- TO
09:55:01 -- IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED.
09:55:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK IT IS GOOD BECAUSE MAY HELP
09:55:04 YBOR TOO.
09:55:08 >> YES, SIR.
09:55:09 ABSOLUTELY.
09:55:11 WE ARE IN THE PROCESS WITH THE CITY.
09:55:13 THE MAIN THING IS ONCE THEY ARE PUT IN PLACE, THE
09:55:16 MAINTENANCE OF IT, TO MAKE SURE THAT IT CONTINUES AND
09:55:19 HAS SUSTAINABILITY.
09:55:23 DOWNTOWN CRA, JUST SOME UPDATES WHERE WE ARE WITH THE
09:55:24 CRAS.
09:55:27 WE ARE CURRENTLY SOLICITING CONSULTANTS.
09:55:31 TWO CONSULTANTS WE ARE LOOKING AT TO REWRITE -- THAT IS
09:55:34 REWRITE, NOT UPDATE, THE CRA PLAN.
09:55:36 THE PLAN NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.
09:55:39 THAT'S ALL I AM GOING TO SAY ABOUT IT.
09:55:42 AND WE ARE NOT LOOKING TO DO A STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
09:55:45 NOT REQUIRED BY STATUTE BUT THE CRA PLAN IS AND NEEDS
09:55:46 TO BE UPDATED.
09:55:48 FRANKLIN STREET DISCUSSION WITH THE DOWNTOWN
09:55:49 PARTNERSHIP.
09:55:52 IT ACTUALLY HAS SPREAD OUT TO MORE OF THE DOWNTOWN, BUT
09:55:54 THEY ARE FOCUSING ON FRANKLIN STREET.
09:55:58 AND IN YOUR DOWNTOWN PLAN RIGHT NOW, FRANKLIN STREET IS
09:55:58 ADDRESSED.
09:56:01 SO WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM.
09:56:03 KID MASON COMMUNITY CENTER.
09:56:06 100% PLANS.
09:56:07 THEY ARE IN PERMITTING.
09:56:10 AND CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BEGIN -- KEEP YOUR FINGERS
09:56:14 CROSSED -- BY THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
09:56:18 HERMAN MASSEY PARK IS AT 60% PLANS.
09:56:21 WE DO NOT HAVE THE SOLID BUDGET YET, BECAUSE THEY ARE
09:56:23 AT 60% PLANS.
09:56:28 BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE DID ALLOCATE $144,000 OF
09:56:33 THE FUNDS AND WE DO HAVE TO PUBLIC ART AND CULTURE
09:56:36 BEGIN WORK ON THE PIECE OF ART THAT GOES WITH IT
09:56:38 BECAUSE WE WANT FOR IT TO COINCIDE.
09:56:41 WHEN YOU ARE AT THE RIBBON CUTTING, YOU WANT THAT PIECE
09:56:43 OF ART TO BE THERE ALSO.
09:56:48 WE ALSO, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF MATERIAL SHORTAGES AND
09:56:53 SUPPLY CHAIN AND INFLATION, WE ARE INCLUDING SOME MONEY
09:56:56 IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET FOR BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS
09:56:59 BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO BE -- TO HAVE TO COME BACK AND
09:57:00 ASK FOR MORE.
09:57:03 SO WE ARE PUTTING MONEY IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET JUST TO
09:57:05 COVER ANY ADDITIONAL EXPENSES.
09:57:09 IF THE MONEY IS NOT SPENT, IT WILL GO BACK IN THE TRUST
09:57:11 FUND AND BE USED FOR REDEVELOPMENT.
09:57:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:57:15 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:57:18 WE ARE WALKING A THIN LINE HERE BECAUSE SITTING HERE
09:57:18 CRA.
09:57:20 AND IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD CITY COUNCIL.
09:57:23 YOU MENTIONED HERMAN MASSEY PARK -- AND I AM NOT GOING
09:57:27 TO TRY TO GET THEM BOTH IN THE SAME AREAS, BUT WERE
09:57:29 THERE ANY PLANS THAT WERE CONCLUDED, FINISHED REGARDING
09:57:31 THIS PARK?
09:57:33 BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DISCUSSION OF MOVING A DOG
09:57:35 PARK FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER SIDE.
09:57:36 AND SOME PEOPLE LIKED IT.
09:57:42 SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE IT SOME OWNER OF A BUILDING
09:57:45 SAID THEY WOULD DO QUOTE, UNQUOTE SOMETHING.
09:57:46 WHATEVER THAT WAS.
09:57:49 >> I THINK I CAN UPDATE THE CRA BOARD.
09:57:51 I BELIEVE THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH THE SITE REDESIGN
09:57:54 PROCESS AND HAVE COME UP WITH AN ACCEPTABLE REDESIGN
09:57:59 FOR THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTY OWNER WHO OBJECTED AND TO
09:58:03 THAT UPTOWN RIVER -- THAT DOWNTOWN RIVERSIDE GROUP, THE
09:58:06 CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION AS WELL.
09:58:09 I THINK IT HAS GONE THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP AND THROUGH
09:58:11 THIS DOWNTOWN CAC.
09:58:14 SO THEY ARE DEVELOPING THE MORE CONCRETE PLANS FOR THE
09:58:18 REDEVELOPMENT OF THE PARKS AND THE SCHEMATICS HAVE BEEN
09:58:18 --
09:58:21 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND AND ALSO SOME
09:58:25 DISCUSSION WITH PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE IN THE HIGH-RISE
09:58:27 BUILDING THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN HAD A BEAUTIFUL AREA AND
09:58:29 NOW THEY HAVE TO LOOK AT DOGS.
09:58:31 I AM NOT SURE ABOUT ALL OF THAT.
09:58:33 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THAT HAS BEEN RESOLVED.
09:58:37 THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER ISSUES THAT COME BACK WITH THE
09:58:38 PARK LATER ON.
09:58:41 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WILL QUIET MYSELF.
09:58:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:58:45 >>LYNN HURTAK: MR. GUDES.
09:58:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: KID MASON.
09:58:49 100% PLANS.
09:58:51 WE HAVEN'T FOUND THE CONTRACTOR DO THE WORK.
09:58:54 >> ONCE THE PLANS ARE COMPLETED AT 100%, THEY GO OUT TO
09:58:58 PURCHASING AND GO OUT TO BID AND THEY COME BACK.
09:59:01 BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PLANS AT LEAST -- AT LEAST AT
09:59:04 80% TO 90%.
09:59:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THOUGHT WE HAD THE CONTRACT AND
09:59:09 SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE CONTRACT AND THE PLANS.
09:59:12 I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION -- NOW WE SAY WE ARE 100%
09:59:15 WITH THE PLAN AND ITS NO CONTRACTOR.
09:59:19 AND POTENTIALLY -- WHAT 2023 -- LATE 2023 FOR
09:59:19 COMPLETION?
09:59:22 >> I WILL HAVE TO LOOK THAT UP FOR YOU.
09:59:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT'S FRUSTRATING AGAIN BECAUSE THESE
09:59:28 -- EVEN THOUGH IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK
09:59:34 AT IT, THIS THING HAS BEEN SITTING ON IT SINCE 2019.
09:59:37 AND TO THE COMMUNITY, IT IS LIKE, WHAT ARE WE DOING.
09:59:41 I HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT JUST -- IT LOOKS BAD.
09:59:44 SO I AM GLAD THAT THE PLANS ARE COMPLETE, BUT WE NEED
09:59:47 TO KICK IN DOWN THE ROAD AND GET THAT MOVING.
09:59:49 >> I AGREE.
09:59:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:59:52 >> YES, SIR.
09:59:53 >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM SORRY.
09:59:54 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
09:59:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WHILE YOU WERE THERE ON CHANNELSIDE, I
10:00:01 -- I CONGRATULATE YOU AT YOUR PRESENTATION AT THE
10:00:03 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP MEETING.
10:00:04 VERY INFORMATIVE.
10:00:08 I ALSO WANT TO SAYS THERE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DOWNTOWN
10:00:15 CRA, PARKS AND RECREATION AND THE -- EXCUSE ME THE LEE
10:00:21 ROY SELMON ABOUT UNDERUSED AREAS UNDERNEATH THE SELMON.
10:00:25 AND I AM HOPING THAT COMES TO FRUITION.
10:00:29 PICKLEBALL COURTS, DOG PARKS, MINIATURE SOCCER FIELDS.
10:00:33 THAT CAN BE USED FOR SO MANY -- WALKING, BIKING, THAT
10:00:37 CAN BE USED FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS AND I AM
10:00:42 HOPING THAT ALL THREE, PARKS AND RECREATION, DOWNTOWN
10:00:47 CRA AND CROSSTOWN -- EXCUSE ME SELMON EXPRESSWAY CAN
10:00:51 SHOW THE UNDERUSED LANDS USED PROPERLY.
10:00:54 >> WE HAD A MEETING TWO WEEKS AGO, MIKE CAL LAN AND I,
10:00:57 AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:01:00 AND YOU WILL HAVE TO FORGIVE ME FOR NOT HAVING THE
10:01:02 INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE, BUT APPARENTLY THERE HAVE
10:01:07 BEEN ISSUES IN THE PAST WITH THEA.
10:01:09 THE NEW CHAIRMAN -- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, I AM SORRY, WE
10:01:11 HAD AN EXCELLENT MEETING WITH THEM.
10:01:14 WE WENT IN ASKING FOR THREE DIFFERENT ITEMS.
10:01:17 THEY WERE AMENABLE TO ALL THREE.
10:01:21 SOME OF THOSE INCLUDED EXERCISE EQUIPMENT ON MERIDIAN,
10:01:25 ON THE WALKWAY.
10:01:28 SOME PUBLIC ART ON SOME OF THEIR PROPERTY IN THE
10:01:28 CHANNEL.
10:01:37 AND THEY EVEN TALKED TO US ABOUT UNDERNEATH THE ACTUAL
10:01:39 EXPRESSWAY AND WHAT WE CAN DO WITH IT.
10:01:42 WE HAVE HIGH HOPES THAT THIS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR --
10:01:44 AND YOU MENTIONED AT THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP MEETING
10:01:49 HE GAVE A SPEECH ON HOW COMMUNITY-MINDED HE IS.
10:01:51 WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH HIM.
10:01:52 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:01:55 THIS CITY IS RUNNING RAPIDLY AND WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF
10:01:58 LAND AND PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE DOWNTOWN CHANNELSIDE
10:02:01 AREAS ARE LOOKING FOR PARKS AND GREEN SPACES AND THING
10:02:03 IS GOING TO BE A GREAT PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA
10:02:06 AND THE EXPRESSWAY AUTHORITY.
10:02:08 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRMAN.
10:02:09 >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
10:02:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, COUNCILMAN CHARLESTON.
10:02:15 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND BOARD FOR
10:02:18 ALLOWING ME TO WORK REMOTELY TODAY.
10:02:22 I WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE OF QUICK COMMENTS.
10:02:25 I MET WITH THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THEA A COUPLE
10:02:26 OF WEEKS AGO.
10:02:30 A GOOD PART OF THE ROAD GOES THROUGH MY DISTRICT AND
10:02:33 IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN ALL OF OUR
10:02:33 NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:02:37 ONE THING I DID ASK HIM ABOUT, MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER
10:02:41 NEW RAMP GOES -- GOES OVER BY TAMPA UNION STATION DOES
10:02:44 NOT GO IN FRONT OF TAMPA UNION STATION BECAUSE IT IS
10:02:48 IMPORTANT HISTORIC BUILDING AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE
10:02:51 THAT WE ALL PLEAD WITH THEM FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO NOT
10:02:54 COME CUT IT OFF.
10:02:57 UNION STATION IS THE BACK DOOR AND FRONT DOOR TO THE
10:03:02 GAS WORX PROJECT AND A IMPORTANT TRANSPORTATION HUB.
10:03:05 AND HOPEFULLY A BUSINESS INCUBATOR.
10:03:08 TO OUR INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MISS TRAVIS.
10:03:12 YOU HEARD SOME OF THE CONVERSATION BEFORE, BUT WE HAD A
10:03:16 HARD TIME OF IT LAST THREE YEARS TO DIFFERENTIATE
10:03:18 BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CRA.
10:03:22 AND IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE --
10:03:33 LOOK AT THEIR PARKS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND THEIR BENCHES
10:03:38 ARE FALLING APART AND ROTTING AND WHY NO LAND SCAPE IS
10:03:43 DONE AND SIDEWALKS IN THEIR DISTRICT.
10:03:47 THE CITY IS NOT DECIDING TO ARBITRARILY TO GO FROM ONE
10:03:49 NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE OTHER.
10:03:55 IF IT SAYS CITY OF TAMPA 3.
10:03:56 IT NEEDS TO SAY CRA.
10:03:59 BRANDING THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE BEFORE THE
10:04:02 TRANSITION AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO EXPLAIN WHERE THE
10:04:04 BUCKETS OF MONEY IS COMING FROM AND ALSO IN THE
10:04:09 DISTRICT WE SEE ON THE CACS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS WANT
10:04:11 TO KNOW ALSO HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT.
10:04:16 AND IN PARTICULAR IN EAST TAMPA AND OTHER AREAS TOO.
10:04:18 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVEN THOUGH WE MAY BE PARTNERING
10:04:22 WITH THE CITY THAT SOME SIGN POPS UP, A CRA PROJECT IN
10:04:26 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY, THEA WHOMEVER.
10:04:31 AND ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT IS IN THE PAST, WHEN JOE
10:04:35 CITRO WAS CHAIR AND MAYBE BEFORE, THE CHAIR WAS NOT
10:04:38 INVITED TO PRESS CONFERENCES FOR THE CRA.
10:04:44 A MINUTE AGO, THE SENATOR TALKED OF PUBLIC ART AND
10:04:48 OTHER HIGH PROJECTS THAT MAY GO FORWARD.
10:04:53 WHEN CITRO WAS CHAIR AND ASK WITH MISS HURTAK IS CHAIR.
10:04:56 AT THE VERY LEAST THE CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR SHOULD BE
10:04:59 INVITED TO PRESS CONFERENCES AND THE PRESS CONFERENCES
10:05:02 SHOULD BE BUILT AROUND THEM.
10:05:04 NOT FOR THEIR SELF-PROMOTION BUT TO EXPLAIN TO THE
10:05:08 PUBLIC WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM, WHAT IT IS, AND
10:05:12 TO EXPLAIN TO MY CONSTITUENT DISTRICT THAT THE MONEY IS
10:05:15 WELL SPENT EVEN THOUGH PARTS OF THE CITY HAVE
10:05:20 SUBSIDIZING THESE DISTRICTS.
10:05:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:05:24 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:05:26 THERE IS A POINT THAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON MADE THINK
10:05:28 THAT COULD NOT AGREE WITH HIM MORE.
10:05:30 AND I MENTIONED THIS SEVERAL TIMES.
10:05:34 EACH TIME A PROJECT IS BEING WORKED ON AND OR
10:05:38 DEVELOPED, THERE NEEDS TO BE A HUGE SIGN THERE THAT
10:05:44 SAYS YOUR CRA DOLLARS HARD AT WORK.
10:05:48 WITH A QUESTION UNDERNEATH THAT SAYS HOW CAN WE HELP
10:05:50 YOU.
10:05:52 SO COUNCILMAN CARLSON, I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE
10:05:53 ON THAT.
10:05:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:05:55 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:05:57 MISS TRAVIS.
10:05:59 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:06:02 I 100% AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU STATED.
10:06:04 WE ARE STILL CONTINUING THAT WORK ON THE MARKETING AND
10:06:08 BRANDING PIECE, NOT JUST FOR EACH CRA, BUT REALLY NEEDS
10:06:12 TO BE FOR THE CRA AS AN AGENCY COLLECTIVELY.
10:06:16 AND SO, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL HAPPEN.
10:06:20 IT WILL SAY THAT IT IS POWERED BY THE CRA AND WE CAN DO
10:06:24 QR CODES AND SUFFICIENT TO GIVE THEM MORE INFORMATION.
10:06:28 AND 100% AGREE THAT THAT INITIATIVE IS MOVING FORWARD
10:06:31 AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT.
10:06:33 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:06:34 ANYONE ELSE?
10:06:36 >> ALL RIGHT, CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:06:40 WE ARE NEARING THE END OF PHASE FOUR OF CHANNELSIDE
10:06:40 DRIVE.
10:06:44 AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR A LONG
10:06:44 TIME.
10:06:46 IT WILL CONTINUE TO GO ON AS WE CONTINUE TO MAKE
10:06:51 IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:06:56 ALSO, THE AQUARIUM PARKING LOT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
10:06:58 TWIGGS STREET IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
10:07:03 THE REST OF TWIGGS IN GMP 5 AND 6.
10:07:07 AGAIN, WE ARE DOING A JOINT CRA JOINT FINDING MISSION.
10:07:10 AND THAT INCLUDES BRANDING FOR EACH OF THE CRAS, COLOR,
10:07:15 IMAGES, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE BRANDING METHODOLOGY THAT
10:07:16 GOES ALONG WITH IT.
10:07:18 THE FONT.
10:07:23 THE RV LOT, THE CONTRACT IS PENDING AND HEADED TO
10:07:24 COMPLETION.
10:07:28 LANDSCAPING AND PUBLIC MAINTENANCE, RFPS IN PROGRESS.
10:07:32 WE ARE WORK WITH THE CAC AND THE CITY ATTORNEY ON THAT.
10:07:35 PRESSURE WASHING IS ALSO IN PROGRESS.
10:07:40 CHANNEL DISTRICT AMBASSADOR APPROVED BY THE BOARD IS IN
10:07:41 THE PROCESS.
10:07:42 ALL THOSE ARE IN THE PLAN.
10:07:48 AND THE GREENWAY MERIDIAN PROPOSAL IS IT WITH THEA AND
10:07:50 WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A CONCEPTUAL PLAN.
10:07:53 UPDATING THE CRA REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TO THE PLANNING
10:07:54 COMMISSION WENT FORWARD.
10:07:54 IT WAS APPROVED.
10:07:58 NOW IT COMES BACK TO THE CITY OF TAMPA SO WE CAN
10:08:02 CONCLUDE WITH THE NEW CRA PLAN AND GET THAT UP AND
10:08:03 ROLLING.
10:08:04 >>LYNN HURTAK: WAIT.
10:08:04 THANK YOU.
10:08:07 ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS PARTICULAR --
10:08:09 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIR.
10:08:11 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:08:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WHEN THERE WAS TALK OF CHANGING OR
10:08:18 ROADS IN CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
10:08:21 THERE WAS TALK OF SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC TO A STANDSTILL
10:08:22 WITH THE CRUISE SHIPS.
10:08:26 DO YOU HAVE ANY ON HOW THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTED?
10:08:29 >> I CAN TELL YOU IN TALKING WITH MR. CALLAHAN WHO HAS
10:08:32 BEEN INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH THAT THAT THE PORTIONS OF
10:08:39 THE ROAD THAT ARE IN THE CITY'S CONTROL HAVE BEEN AND
10:08:44 ARE CHANGING ALONG THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO GET PEOPLE
10:08:47 INTO THE AQUARIUM AND ALSO THE CRUISE SHIPS HAVE BEEN
10:08:50 DIVERTED AND CHANGED TO GET THEM OFF OF THE ROAD.
10:08:56 THERE HAVE BEEN RECENTLY AS EARLY AS THIS LAST WEEK.
10:08:58 WE HAD TO MAKE SOME CHANGES TO THE PLANS ON THAT.
10:09:00 THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING THOSE CHANGES.
10:09:04 THERE IS ALSO A PART OF CHANNELSIDE THAT IS OWNED BY
10:09:10 FDOT AND THAT IS F DOT.
10:09:13 UNLESS WE WORK WITH THEM, WE CAN'T CHANGE THEIR ROAD.
10:09:15 IT IS IN PROGRESS.
10:09:18 IT HAS BEEN MADE MORE OF A COMPLETE STREET WITH WIDER
10:09:20 SIDEWALKS.
10:09:25 A LOT OF LANDSCAPING AND A LOT OF GOOD WORK.
10:09:29 A LOT OF THOUGHTFUL WORK HOW TO GET PEOPLE OFF THE ROAD
10:09:33 AND INTO THE AQUARIUM AND INTO THE CRUISE SHIP AREA
10:09:35 WITHOUT BLOCKING CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
10:09:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: FANTASTIC.
10:09:39 CUMBERLAND IS NOW COMPLETELY OPEN.
10:09:42 >> CUMBERLAND -- IT'S FUNNY NOT ON THE LIST BUT IT
10:09:53 SHOULD BE CUMBERLAND IS GMC 4.
10:09:56 AND IT IS A VERY SIMPLIFIED PROJECT.
10:10:00 NOT A LOT OF UTILITIES UNDER THE CONTROLLED ROAD.
10:10:03 WE ARE MOVING IT FORWARD AT ABOUT $1.3 MILLION.
10:10:05 WE WANT TO MOVE -- WE WILL BRING IT TO THE BOARD FOR
10:10:06 THE CHANGE.
10:10:10 WE WILL BE MOVING MONEY OVER SO WE CAN BEGIN CUMBERLAND
10:10:18 NOW AND DEBT IT OUT OF THE WAY CUMBERLAND IS OPEN AND
10:10:25 THE ROUNDABOUT AND PLAN ON MOVING THAT FORWARD BECAUSE
10:10:31 SUCH A SIMPLIFIED PROCESS AND TWIGGS HAS ENVIRONMENTAL
10:10:34 ISSUES AND WE WILL MOVE THINGS AROUND TO GET MORE WORK
10:10:42 DONE SOONER AND CUMBERLAND IS 100% DONE AND WE ARE NOT.
10:10:44 WE ARE MOVING THINGS AROUND SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE
10:10:48 THE CHANNEL DISTRICT RESIDENTS UPSET WITH ALL THE
10:10:58 CONSTRUCTION GOING ON UNTIL IT IS DONE.
10:11:02 >>LYNN HURTAK: GM 34.
10:11:03 >> MAXIMUM PRICE.
10:11:07 DOING TO WORK TO GUARANTEE THE
10:11:10 MAXIMUM PRICE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION NOT INCLUDING ANY
10:11:13 TYPE OF AMENDMENTS OR ADDITIONS.
10:11:15 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:11:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WANT TO THANK YOU.
10:11:19 CUMBERLAND AND THE CITY, HAVING DRIVEN THAT.
10:11:23 I AM NOTICING LESS AND LESS TRAFFIC ON CHANNELSIDE IN
10:11:29 FRONT OF SPARKMAN'S WHARF AND THE ARENA THAT IS MAKING
10:11:33 IT MUCH MORE BETTER -- MUCH BETTER?
10:11:37 MUCH BETTER FOR THE WALKING AND BIKING AND CALMED THE
10:11:38 TRAFFIC DOWN.
10:11:43 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:11:46 >> MY ENTIRE LIFE USED TO MAKE IT TO DOWNTOWN TAMPA
10:11:48 BASED ON LANDMARKS.
10:11:51 THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE CRA HAS REALLY MESSED THAT UP
10:11:52 FOR ME.
10:11:55 I HAVE TO LEARN ALL NEW LANDMARKS.
10:11:58 NEXT IS THE HEIGHTS WHICH YOU ALREADY HEARD.
10:11:58 I WILL ADD THIS.
10:12:01 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK THAT THE
10:12:04 NORTH BOULEVARD BRIDGE, ALL THE BRIDGE ARE GOING
10:12:06 THROUGH A CITY REVIEW.
10:12:10 AND WE TALKED WITH THE PUBLIC ARTS AND IN CULTURE
10:12:12 YESTERDAY IN FACT.
10:12:18 AND WE ARE GOING TO WAIT FOR ANY WORK ON THAT BRIDGE
10:12:21 UNTIL THEY ARE FINISHED WHERE THEIR REVIEW.
10:12:28 AND, AGAIN, THE -- THE WEST SIDE THE BEST CRA AND THE
10:12:31 HEIGHTS CRA ARE ON BOTH SIDES OF IT.
10:12:34 AND WE PLAN ON PARTNERING WITH THEM TO HELP WITH
10:12:35 WHATEVER HAPPENS WITH THAT BRIDGE.
10:12:40 I LIKE THE IDEA OF PARTNERING WITH OTHER CRAS BUT WE
10:12:43 HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS BALANCE IN CASE WE
10:12:45 GET AUDITED.
10:12:50 EXPLAIN HOW MUCH MONEY COMES FROM ONE AND HAVE A
10:12:51 METHODOLOGY FOR THAT.
10:12:56 CENTRAL PARK CRA, THE FIRST CRA TO SEE THE BENEFIT OF
10:12:57 GASWORX.
10:13:00 THE FIRST PHASE IN CENTRAL PARK CRA.
10:13:01 WE ARE TRYING TO FINDS SOMETHING.
10:13:05 A SMALL CRA THAT WILL NOT LAST VERY LONG BECAUSE OF GAS
10:13:06 WORX.
10:13:10 WE ARE TRYING TO FIND THING TO DO LOW HANGING FRUIT TO
10:13:11 GET THINGS GOING.
10:13:14 AND LUCKILY, WE SAT DOWN WITH THE TAMPA HOUSING
10:13:16 AUTHORITY, LEROY MOORE.
10:13:21 AND THEY PURCHASED THE JOHNSON HOMES WHICH ARE ON SCOTT
10:13:26 STREET OBVIOUSLY TO THE NORTH OF THE ALL THE TAMPA
10:13:27 HOUSING AUTHORITY PROJECTS.
10:13:30 AND THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT HISTORICALLY PRESERVING ONE
10:13:33 AND RENOVATING ANOTHER UP TO THE BUILDING CODE AND
10:13:37 PUTTING IT ON THE MARKET FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:13:40 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PARTNERING ON THIS PROJECT.
10:13:45 WHATEVER THEY DO, WE WOULD LIKE TO AUGMENT ABOVE AND
10:13:50 BEYOND TO EITHER TAKE IT TO A LEAD CERTIFICATION OR IN
10:13:52 TAMPA, THERE IS AN INSTITUTE CALLED THE INSTITUTE FOR
10:13:53 BUSINESS AND HOME SAFETY.
10:13:56 THAT IS RUN BY THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY.
10:13:59 THEY HAVE A SUPER CODE CALLED THE FORTIFIED CODE.
10:14:02 WE CAN WORK WITH THEM ON THAT WHICH WILL GIVE US A LOT
10:14:04 OF GOOD PRESS NATIONWIDE THROUGH THE INSURANCE
10:14:05 INDUSTRY.
10:14:09 AND THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF A FLORIDA HOUSING
10:14:14 SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM OR SUSTAINABLE CODE THEY HAVE
10:14:15 ALSO.
10:14:18 I HAD A GOOD TALK WITH THEM YESTERDAY AT THE STATE OF
10:14:18 THE CITY ADDRESS.
10:14:21 AND WE ARE MEETING WITH THEM A THIRD TIME TO BEGIN A
10:14:24 TIMELINE WHEN THAT WILL BEGIN.
10:14:27 >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST ONE MOMENT, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:14:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
10:14:32 BUT GLAD YOU BROUGHT THE JOHNSON HOMES UP.
10:14:36 I KNOW AN ARTICLE IN THE NEWSPAPER WRITTEN BY PAUL
10:14:38 GUZO.
10:14:41 THESE ARE THE LAST TWO HOMES, NOT INCLUDING THE JACKSON
10:14:45 HOUSE WHICH WAS A GROOMING US.
10:14:46 SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
10:14:51 LAST FEW KNOWN AS THE AREA KNOWN AS THE SCRUB OR
10:14:51 CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:14:57 AS YOU MENTIONED ONE MAY BE REHABILITATED TO BE USED AS
10:14:58 AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:15:02 I THINK THE OTHER SHOULD BE RESTORED AND PERHAPS THE
10:15:04 MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:15:07 AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE THIS AREA IS WHAT
10:15:10 I CONSIDERED LIKE A BLACK YBOR CITY, RIGHT.
10:15:14 BUT YBOR CITY IS THERE AND WE CAN WALK DOWN 7TH AVENUE.
10:15:18 BUT BECAUSE OF URBAN RENEWAL, A LOT WAS DEMOLISHED AND
10:15:19 WHATNOT.
10:15:22 YBOR CITY EXISTS TODAY AND CENTRAL AVENUE DOES NOT.
10:15:25 I THINK BY THE MID-1970S.
10:15:30 IT WAS DEMOLISHED TO THE POINT OF WHAT WE SEE TODAY BUT
10:15:34 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PERHAPS A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO
10:15:35 CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:15:38 WE HAVE A MURAL OUTSIDE OF KID MASON WHICH IS FINE.
10:15:42 BUT WHEN YOU DRIVE BY.
10:15:44 PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
10:15:47 I DRIVE BY BECAUSE I RESEARCHED IT.
10:15:50 WE LOST SO MUCH HISTORY AND THESE TWO ARE THE LAST
10:15:51 SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
10:15:53 AND WE SHOULD PUT ONE TO GOOD USE.
10:15:56 I DON'T THINK IT IS BIG ENOUGH TO BE A COMMUNITY
10:15:58 CENTER, BUT SOME KINDS OF MUSEUM.
10:16:01 SAUNDERS LIBRARY HAS A LITTLE DISPLAY, BUT THIS AREA
10:16:05 DESERVES MORE CONSIDERING THAT THE WHOLE AREA WAS WIPED
10:16:05 OUT.
10:16:11 SO I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO
10:16:15 PROPOSING IN THE NEAR FUTURE SOME TYPE OF
10:16:18 HISTORY-RELATED MUSEUM, WHATEVER IT IS BECAUSE I WANT
10:16:21 THIS GENERATION AND NEW GENERATIONS TO KNOW WHAT USED
10:16:22 TO BE THERE.
10:16:24 AND THAT IS NOT FORGOTTEN.
10:16:25 THANK YOU, SIR.
10:16:27 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:16:30 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:16:34 REGARDING LEED.
10:16:37 YOU TALKED ABOUT THE LEED PROGRAM.
10:16:40 OF ANY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE GOING TO BUILD TO PUT SOLAR
10:16:42 FOR HEAT.
10:16:45 AND STOP PLAYING AROUND WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.
10:16:46 YOU SEE THE FIRES THAT ARE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND
10:16:51 THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE BAYS.
10:16:51 EVERYWHERE.
10:16:53 AND WE ARE SITTING BACK AND WATCHING.
10:16:55 WE MUST DO SOMETHING AND MUST DO SOMETHING NOT
10:16:57 YESTERDAY BUT THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY BECAUSE IT IS
10:17:01 CATCHING UP US TO REALLY, REALLY QUICK.
10:17:04 ANY ONE OF THE CRAS HAVE ANY PLANS AT ALL TO YOUR
10:17:07 KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PUTTING UP PROGRAM WHERE YOU GET SO
10:17:09 MUCH -- IF YOU DO SO MUCH.
10:17:13 AND IN SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT.
10:17:17 >> THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IS A GREAT IDEA FOR
10:17:19 CRAS TO GET INVOLVED WITH.
10:17:21 IT IS VERY SUSTAINABLE.
10:17:24 IT IS VERY ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.
10:17:27 I HAVE SEEN PROGRAMS THAT HAVE AUGMENTED THE PACE
10:17:30 PROGRAM, WHICH IS A FEDERAL PROGRAM THAT HELPS
10:17:34 HOMEOWNERS PUT SOLAR ENERGY ON THEIR HOMES.
10:17:37 IT IS ACTUALLY A PART OF THE MORTGAGE.
10:17:43 AND THE CRA COULD WORK WITH THE PACE PROGRAM TO HELP
10:17:49 HOMEOWNER BASICALLY GET OFF THE GRID AND SOMETHING WE
10:17:49 CAN LOOK AT.
10:17:53 BUT AT THIS TIME, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, AS FAR AS I
10:17:54 KNOW --
10:17:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME SAID -- YOU SAID A WORD AND
10:18:01 DANDRUFF CAME BACK TO MY HEAD AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY
10:18:01 HAIR.
10:18:03 PACE.
10:18:05 THAT IS THAT THE PACE THAT CHARGES INTEREST AND PUTS IT
10:18:06 --
10:18:08 >> THAT IS THE PROGRAM HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
10:18:10 THEY PUT IT ON YOUR TAX BILL.
10:18:12 WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT HERE AND THAT HAS NOT BEEN
10:18:13 APPROVED.
10:18:17 AS WE -- YOU KNOW A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY PLANS ARE MANY
10:18:18 YEARS OLD.
10:18:21 WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEGINNING TO UPDATE THEM.
10:18:25 AREAS WE CAN LOOK AT, PERHAPS, UPDATING, BUT IT WILL BE
10:18:28 A STAND ALONE PROGRAM SINCE WE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN
10:18:28 THAT.
10:18:32 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I ONLY SPEAK TO 1/7 OF THIS
10:18:33 CHAMBER.
10:18:35 IF I EVER SEE PACE, I WILL SUE THE HELL OUT OF
10:18:36 EVERYBODY.
10:18:38 BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING AWAY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CAME
10:18:42 HERE TODAY ABOUT THEIR RENT -- NOT YOU, SIR.
10:18:44 BUT THE SYSTEM IS TAKING CARE OF HOLDING PEOPLE
10:18:45 HOSTAGE.
10:18:47 THEY SAID THEY ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING.
10:18:48 THEY DO IT ALL RIGHT.
10:18:52 BUT THE INTEREST RATE IS -- THE FIRST LIEN OVER THE
10:18:52 MORTGAGE HOLDER.
10:18:57 LET'S UNDERSTAND MY JUDGMENT AND MAYBE I AM WRONG, I
10:18:58 DON'T BELIEVE I AM.
10:19:00 I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH PACE, PERIOD.
10:19:03 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER SIX.
10:19:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN.
10:19:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OFF SECOND WITH ME.
10:19:12 PACE IS A BAD FOUR-LETTERED WORD.
10:19:13 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA IS RIGHT.
10:19:17 IT IS PREDATORY AND WILL HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE.
10:19:18 100%.
10:19:19 SENIORS HERE.
10:19:22 THE FIRST TO BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF WITH PROGRAMS LIKE
10:19:23 PACE.
10:19:25 THAT HAS COME OVER AND OVER THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND
10:19:30 NO, NO, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
10:19:31 2/7.
10:19:33 TWO OUT OF SEVEN IN AGREEANCE.
10:19:35 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED.
10:19:38 THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:19:42 WHAT I AM LOOKING AT IS SOMETHING NEW THAT YOU CAN'T
10:19:47 JUST SAY -- I AM NOT TALKING OF YOU IN ANY WAY.
10:19:51 TO BE DISRUPTIVE OF THE NATURE OF WHAT YOU DO.
10:19:52 AND YOU DO IT VERY WELL.
10:19:55 COME OUT OF THE BOX AND THINK WHAT IF.
10:20:01 WHAT IF COMING IN, THEY WILL PAY A HIGHER RATE -- SAME
10:20:05 RATE OF TAXATION BUT HIGHER RATE OF MONEY BECAUSE THE
10:20:07 BUILDINGS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE.
10:20:10 WHAT IF IT IS LEGAL TO COME IN AND DO A PROPOSAL.
10:20:15 IF YOU PUT SO MUCH IN FOR FIVE YEARS OR WHATEVER YEARS,
10:20:19 CRA WILL GIVE YOU A BENEFIT OF YOUR INVESTMENT IN THE
10:20:22 PROPERTIES TO MEET THE DEMAND THAT WE HAVE TO CLEAN
10:20:24 THIS EARTH.
10:20:28 AND WHAT I AM SAYING IS, LET'S SAY $5,000, THE TAXES
10:20:33 AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AD VALOREM TAXES.
10:20:39 FOR FIVE YEARS WE GOT TO REDUCE 3500.
10:20:43 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO -- IN ORDER TO GET THE CREDIT, WHAT
10:20:46 IT DOES IS GIVE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT OWN THAT PROPERTY
10:20:50 A BENEFIT NOT ONLY IN SECURING AND HELPING THE
10:20:51 ENVIRONMENT, BUT A FINANCIAL ONE.
10:20:54 BUT A FINANCIAL ONE AT THE END IS WILLING TO PAY
10:20:59 BECAUSE THEY ARE WILLING TO GET SOMETHING BACK FOR IT.
10:21:00 I AM SAYING NUMBERS.
10:21:02 NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO DO THAT.
10:21:06 AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS, YOUR
10:21:11 PROPERTY IS WORTH X -- NOT ONLY X, BUT X PLUS Y EQUALS
10:21:13 COMPLETE ACT TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT TO GIVE YOU A
10:21:14 BREAK.
10:21:18 BUT IN ESSENCE, YOU WILL PAY BACK FOR IT AGAIN BECAUSE
10:21:21 YOUR HOUSE IS AT A HIGHER RATE BECAUSE YOUR
10:21:21 IMPROVEMENT.
10:21:23 MORE EASIER TO SELL.
10:21:26 YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT THOSE HOUSES AND THOSE BUILDINGS
10:21:29 MINUS THE ONES THAT DON'T HAVE IT.
10:21:31 WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ON ANOTHER LEVEL ASIDE FROM
10:21:32 THAT.
10:21:34 THAT IS JUST ME THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
10:21:39 I AM A WHAT IF TYPE OF INDIVIDUAL BUT I AM ANTI-PACE
10:21:43 1,000%.
10:21:43 >> UNDERSTAND.
10:21:45 I WON'T MENTION IT AGAIN.
10:21:51 WE CAN LOOK AT A PROGRAM WHERE THE CRA, AS LONG AS IT
10:21:55 IS IN THE PLAN, SO I CAN MAKE THE ATTORNEY HAPPY, WHERE
10:22:01 THE CRA HELPS THE HOMEOWNER AND WE CAN PUT A -- WHEN
10:22:04 YOU SELL, YOU CAN PAY IT BACK UNLESS IT IS SO MANY
10:22:07 YEARS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT SO MANY IMPROVING THEIR
10:22:10 HOME AND TURNING AROUND AND SELLING IT AND TAKING
10:22:11 ADVANTAGE OF THE CRA.
10:22:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND.
10:22:17 >> THAT WAY THE HOMEOWNER DOESN'T PAY UNTIL THE HOUSE
10:22:20 IS SOLD AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY SAVE ON THEIR
10:22:21 ENERGY BILLS.
10:22:24 >>MORRIS MASSEY: SOMETHING WE SHOULD TAKE UP ON
10:22:25 ANOTHER DAY.
10:22:28 WE HAVE GRANT PROGRAMS AND BECOMING A GRANT TYPE OF
10:22:28 AGENCY.
10:22:31 AS LONG AS IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PLAN WE CAN
10:22:38 FASHION A GRANT PROGRAM SIMILAR TO THE FACADE GRANTS TO
10:22:40 HELP INCENTIVIZE.
10:22:42 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME TELL YOU WHY I SAY THAT.
10:22:46 I COME FROM THE CONDOMINIUMS OF TAMPA.
10:22:48 THERE WAS NO WORD CONDOMINIUM.
10:22:50 IT HAVEN'T BEEN INVENTED.
10:22:51 BUT REALLY THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY.
10:22:54 HOWEVER, THAT TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY, GUESS WHAT YOU
10:22:56 HAD BACK IN THE '50S.
10:23:03 YOU HAD A PANEL FOR HOT WATER THAT WILL CREATE YOUR HOT
10:23:05 WATER WITHOUT USING ANY ELECTRICITY OR ANY GRASS.
10:23:08 ONCE IN A WHILE YOU MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE TOO MUCH SHADE.
10:23:12 IT WON'T BE EXACTLY HOW YOU WANTED IT ON THE COOL SIDE,
10:23:13 BUT THAT WAS FINE.
10:23:15 THOSE THINGS YOU HAVE BACK IN THE 50S.
10:23:22 AND HERE YOU ARE 70 YEARS LATER AND STILL TRYING TO
10:23:24 USE SOMETHING ALREADY INVENTED IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
10:23:27 WE HAVE TO THINK IF WE DO SOMETHING ON A SMALL THING --
10:23:28 AND JUST THROWING THIS OUT.
10:23:31 I AM NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO DO THIS AND THAT.
10:23:33 BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LAWS ARE.
10:23:35 BUT IF YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I THINK IT WOULD BE
10:23:39 AN ALERT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA WOULD JOIN
10:23:41 IN AND DO SOME OF THAT THEMSELVES.
10:23:43 AND IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A CITY THAT EVERYBODY REALLY
10:23:50 CARES TO COME TO, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU GIVE THEM OTHER
10:23:54 THAN YOU GOT THE MOST SUN EVER.
10:23:58 AND YOU HAVE THE PROPOSAL THERE THAT YOU CAN USE IT,
10:24:00 WHY NOT USE IT.
10:24:01 >> YES, SIR.
10:24:03 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE.
10:24:05 I GOT INVOLVED WITH THAT IN MY OWN HOME.
10:24:09 MY WATER BILL LAST MONTH WAS $25.25.
10:24:12 SO WHAT I AM TELLING YOU IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO
10:24:14 UNDERSTAND IF YOU PUT THE INVESTMENT, YOU ARE GOING TO
10:24:16 GET THE MONEY BACK IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
10:24:17 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:24:20 SORRY TO TAKE SO MUCH OF YOUR TIME, MADAM CHAIR.
10:24:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: NO WORRIES, THANK YOU.
10:24:26 >> SO THE LAST THING IS, ONCE WE ARE FINISHED WITH THE
10:24:28 DOWNTOWN PLAN AND THE PROCESS REQUIRED BY THE STATUTE,
10:24:32 WE WILL START LOOKING TO CENTRAL PARK TO UPDATE THEIR
10:24:33 PLAN OR TO REWRITE IT.
10:24:38 AND THAT WILL BE GOOD BECAUSE AT THAT POINT GAS WORX
10:24:40 WILL BE COMING ONLINE WITH THE FIRST PHASE AND WILL
10:24:46 BEGIN TO SEE THE FIRST RESPONSE TO THE INCREMENT
10:24:47 REVENUE FOR THAT PROGRAM.
10:24:50 YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO ANOTHER PLAN BEING UPDATED.
10:24:54 SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO JESUS, AND HE CAN
10:25:00 TALK.
10:25:01 >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
10:25:03 HOPEFULLY YOU CAN HEAR ME HERE.
10:25:06 I KNOW I STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT TO PROJECT MY VOICE, SO
10:25:08 I HAVE TO SCREAM A LITTLE BIT.
10:25:11 BEFORE YOU HERE WE HAVE -- I AM GOING TO KEEP IT BRIEF
10:25:12 AS WELL.
10:25:15 THE PARKING STUDY THAT WE HAVE INITIATED FOR THE WEST
10:25:16 TAMPA AREA.
10:25:20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR APPROVING THE FUNDING FOR THAT.
10:25:22 INCLUDING WITH YOUR OTHER HAT AS CITY COUNCIL.
10:25:25 THAT WILL PROGRESS PRETTY SMOOTHLY, HOPEFULLY.
10:25:30 IN ADDITION WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY PARKS AND
10:25:32 RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE
10:25:41 IMPROVEMENT OF PARKS, RAFF PARK AND SALCINES PARK.
10:25:44 SALCINES, A COURTYARD STYLE.
10:25:47 THIS WILL CHANGE ONCE WE GET THE DESIGN BUILT
10:25:52 CONSULTANT WORKING WITH PARKS AND REC TO GET THAT FIRM
10:25:56 IN PLACE TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE INPUT FROM THE
10:25:56 COMMUNITY.
10:25:59 ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS SLIDE?
10:26:02 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU SAID -- SALCINES PARK.
10:26:03 >> YES, SIR.
10:26:05 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIR.
10:26:11 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:26:16 MR. NINOS, WHERE HAVE THE PARKING STUDY LEAD TO?
10:26:18 BEFORE YOU CAME ALONG THERE WERE YEARS AND YEARS AND
10:26:21 YEARS OF DISCUSSION OF IT.
10:26:23 HOW FAR ALONG ARE WE IN THE STUDY.
10:26:25 >> THE STUDY JUST STARTED AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD TO
10:26:28 COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE WE HAD TO ADD FUNDING
10:26:31 THAT WENT ABOVE $100,000.
10:26:35 WE ARE IN THE VERY BEGINNING STAGES OF DATA COLLECTION.
10:26:37 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO FIND
10:26:39 PARKING AROUND THERE OR TO BUILD PARKING.
10:26:45 HARDLY ANYTHING LEFT ALONG GREEN STREET AND VERY LITTLE
10:26:47 LEFT ON MAIN STREET.
10:26:48 GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
10:26:50 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:26:52 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:26:56 >> AS FAR AS THE ALLEYWAYS, WE HAVE CLEANED UP OVER 120
10:26:57 ALLEYWAYS.
10:27:01 WE DID TAKE A BREAK FOR A FEW WEEKS AND WE ARE TO GET
10:27:04 STARTED AGAIN AND WRAP UP THE REMAINING ALLEYS AND GO
10:27:07 BACK TO THE OLD ALLEYS TO CLEAN THEM UP AND TOUCH THEM
10:27:07 UP.
10:27:10 THIS IS A PICTURE OF AN INDIVIDUAL HOLDING SOME OF OUR
10:27:14 SIGNS THAT WE PUT UP AFTER WE CLEANED UP THE ALLEYWAYS
10:27:15 AND SOME OF THE WORKERS THERE.
10:27:19 SO IT IS VERY TIME CONSUMING AS FAR AS MYSELF.
10:27:21 BECAUSE I MAKE SURE TO ACTUALLY WALK THESE ALLEYS
10:27:24 BEFORE THEY CLAIM THEM.
10:27:26 AND AFTERWARDS AS WELL.
10:27:27 SO IT IS FUN.
10:27:30 AT LEAST I GET TO GET OUT THERE AND SEE WHAT IS GOING
10:27:30 ON.
10:27:32 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:27:35 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY, THE COMMUNITY
10:27:36 THANKS YOU.
10:27:40 I HEARD NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND
10:27:42 ESPECIALLY YOUR HELPING HANDS IN THIS.
10:27:49 SO I THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATE YOU ON THIS PROJECT.
10:27:52 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:27:52 >> CLEAN TEAM.
10:27:56 WE HAVE A TEMPORARY CLEAN TEAM CLEANING UP THE AREA
10:27:59 FROM HOWARD, FREMONT, GREEN TO UNION.
10:27:59 IT IS TEMPORARILY.
10:28:03 WE ARE ABOUT TO RFP FOR A FULL-TIME CLEAN TEAM.
10:28:06 WE LEARNED OUR LESSON FROM A TEMPORARY ONE AND EXPAND
10:28:12 OUR AREA OVER TO ARMENIA, KEEP IT TO FREMONT, UNION AND
10:28:13 GREEN STREET.
10:28:16 CHANGE THE DAYS AROUND A LITTLE BIT TO MAKE IT WORK.
10:28:18 LITTLE BETTER FOR US.
10:28:21 I THINK RIGHT NOW MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS AND
10:28:25 CHANGE IT TO MONDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAYS.
10:28:28 AND WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA DAYS JUST IN CASES
10:28:35 THERE SOME KINDS OF EVENT AND WE WILL GET IT OUT THERE.
10:28:39 AND IT IS NOT ON THE SLIDES HERE, BUT I DID WANT TO SAY
10:28:42 THANK YOU TO ANY ONE OF YOU INDIVIDUALS THAT HELPED OUT
10:28:47 WEST TAMPA GET -- HISTORIC WEST TAMPA DISTRICT SIGNS ON
10:28:51 INTERSTATE 275 ON EXIT 42.
10:28:54 MR. JOE ROBINSON.
10:28:57 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIR.
10:28:58 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:29:02 >>JOSEPH CITRO: JOE AND I ARE ASKING YOU TO CONTACT
10:29:05 D.O.T. TO HALT ALL TRAFFIC TO GET A PICTURE IN FRONT OF
10:29:07 THAT SIGN.
10:29:08 >> GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
10:29:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:29:12 >> THAT CONCLUDES WEST TAMPA.
10:29:12 ANY YES, SIR?
10:29:16 THANK YOU.
10:29:18 WE WILL PURSUE OVER TO DREW PARK.
10:29:21 DREW PARK IS GETTING A LOT OF ACTION LATELY AS FAR AS
10:29:22 SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS.
10:29:25 SOME OF THE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE COMMUNITY STARTING
10:29:28 TO BECOME VERY ACTIVATED WITH TRYING TO IMPROVE DREW
10:29:30 PARK.
10:29:32 FOR INSTANCE, WE WERE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE
10:29:35 COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE WITH TAMPA BAY LINEAR PARK TO MAKE
10:29:39 IT FROM A PASSIVE PARK TO AN ACTIVE PARK AND WORKING
10:29:41 WITH THE COMMUNITY TO HOPEFULLY CREATE A NEIGHBORHOOD
10:29:41 PARK.
10:29:44 YOU SEE THERE WITH THE PARCELS THERE OUTLINED.
10:29:46 1.97 ACRE.
10:29:50 WE HAVE A CONSULTANT PLACEMAKER DESIGN STUDIOS LCC THAT
10:29:53 WILL COME UP WITH CONCEPT AND ESTIMATE PRICES FOR THESE
10:29:55 IMPROVEMENTS.
10:30:00 ONCE WE HAVE THAT IN PLACE, WE WILL DO THE APPROPRIATE
10:30:03 REPROGRAMMING AND BRING IT BACK TO THE CRA FOR
10:30:04 APPROVAL.
10:30:09 ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS SLIDE?
10:30:14 SAME THING WITH LOIS AND GRADY.
10:30:17 WE COMPLETED INTERVIEW WITH CONSULTANTS.
10:30:20 HOPEFULLY WE CAN SELECT ONE VERY SOON TO HAVE THEM GIVE
10:30:25 US AN AUDIT OF GRADY, LOIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF HOW
10:30:27 TO MAKE THEM BETTER, MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY, SAFER
10:30:31 FOR THE COMMUNITY AND MORE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING.
10:30:33 AS FAR AS -- WE ARE WORKING WITH CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
10:30:38 WITH ANOTHER CONSULTANT FOR DREW PARK AREAWIDE TO HELP
10:30:41 IDENTIFY MOBILITY AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.
10:30:42 THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
10:30:45 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:30:48 THANK YOU.
10:30:56 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:31:00 >> GOOD MORNING, CEDRIC MCCRAY, EAST TAMPA MANAGER.
10:31:03 I WILL BE STANDING IN FOR MISS COURTNEY ORR ON HER
10:31:05 PORTION OF PRESENTATION.
10:31:07 A FEW THINGS SHE WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT FOR THE MONTH
10:31:11 OF APRIL IS THE CRA SUBCOMMITTEES ARE DEVELOPING THEIR
10:31:13 FY '23 BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:31:16 AND WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET ON
10:31:17 MAY 24.
10:31:21 TPD DID SPEND SOME TIME AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS THAT
10:31:26 RELATES TO THE CAPTAIN BRETT OWEN BEING MOVED TO
10:31:27 DISTRICT THREE.
10:31:33 AND CHIEF O'CONNOR HELD A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION
10:31:38 WITH THE CRA MEMBERS.
10:31:43 THE CAC DESIGNATED PETER WRIGHT TO SERVE ON THE YBOR
10:31:47 COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR AND CLEAN TEAM RFP SELECTION
10:31:51 COMMITTEE AND THAT BID WILL BE OPENING -- OR HAS OPENED
10:31:52 ALREADY ON MAY 5.
10:31:55 AT THE BOTTOM THERE, THERE HAS BEEN INFORMATION
10:32:00 PROVIDED CONCERNING THE NEW PARKING -- ON-STREET
10:32:03 PARKING AND THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS OF THOSE FEES AND
10:32:08 WHAT THE USAGE TIMES.
10:32:10 >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE DID HAVE A QUESTION OF THE
10:32:15 HOMELESS LIAISON OFFICER REPORTS.
10:32:15 >> YES.
10:32:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANY SORT OF -- CAN YOU ELABORATE AT
10:32:20 THAT AT ALL?
10:32:24 >> I DID NOT RECEIVE ANY BACKGROUND FROM MISS ORR AS IT
10:32:27 RELATES TO THE INFORMATION, BUT I CAN GLADLY SPEAK WITH
10:32:27 HER.
10:32:29 >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WILL BE GREAT BECAUSE I AM GETTING
10:32:32 A LOT OF COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THAT
10:32:33 PARTICULAR --
10:32:37 >> I KNOW THERE WERE CONCERNS PREVIOUSLY -- IN PREVIOUS
10:32:41 MONTHS OF A BENCH OR SEATING AREA AND THAT HAS BEEN
10:32:43 TAKEN CARE OF, TO MY UNDERSTANDING.
10:32:46 >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM SORRY, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:32:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVEN'T HAD ANY MORE COMPLAINTS
10:32:48 ABOUT THAT.
10:32:50 BUSINESSES ARE VERY, VERY HAPPY NOW.
10:32:55 AND, AGAIN, NOT TO DISRESPECT THE HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO
10:32:57 ARE THERE, BUT SEVERAL BUSINESSES THERE ANDER.
10:32:59 LOSING BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE COULD NOT ENJOY TO SIT
10:33:01 DOWN BECAUSE OF THE BENCHES.
10:33:04 THE BENCHES ARE GONE.
10:33:10 AND GIO ASH, AND THEY ARE VERY HAPPY THEY ARE GONE.
10:33:12 TELL THEM THANK YOU FOR GETTING THAT DONE.
10:33:13 >> YES.
10:33:17 I WILL RELAY THE MESSAGE.
10:33:21 ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE, 7TH AVENUE, ENTRY MONUMENT AND
10:33:25 STREETSCAPE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND ESTIMATED TIME OR
10:33:28 DATE OF COMPLETION IS AUGUST 21, 2022.
10:33:33 7TH AVENUE BRICK COST FEASIBILITY STUDY.
10:33:37 A SHORT LIST AND CONSULTANT AND DEVELOPING A CONTRACT
10:33:38 CURRENTLY.
10:33:41 ALSO, THE YBOR SIGN FABRICATION INSTALLATION AND
10:33:45 MAINTENANCE CONTRACT WILL BE ADVERTISED STARTING ON MAY
10:33:47 6, WHICH WAS LAST WEEK.
10:33:51 AND THE BID WILL BE OPENING ON MAY 20, 2022.
10:33:54 THE OTHER THING THINK THAT WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT AND
10:33:59 HIGHLIGHT IS THE CENTRO YBOR PARKING GARAGE.
10:34:02 WINDOW ART PROJECT WITH PARTICIPATION FROM LOCAL
10:34:04 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THIS
10:34:07 SUMMER.
10:34:08 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:34:10 >>JOSEPH CITRO: IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIR.
10:34:11 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:34:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THE GATEWAY IS BEING CONSTRUCTED AND
10:34:20 FRAN CONSTATINO IS A HAPPY WOMAN.
10:34:21 >> YES.
10:34:25 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK THE YBOR CRA FOR GETTING THESE
10:34:27 SIGNS CHANGED.
10:34:29 THEY ARE LOOKING A LITTLE RAGGED.
10:34:30 >> WILL DO.
10:34:32 NOW WE WILL MOVE ON TO EAST TAMPA.
10:34:34 OKAY, JUST A FEW UPDATES.
10:34:38 THE SUBCOMMITTEES HAVE BEEN MEETING MONTHLY AND SOME
10:34:42 BIWEEKLY AS IT RELATES TO THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.
10:34:45 WE DID HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE ON THE OVERLAY
10:34:48 DISCUSSION TO MOVE FORWARD AS IT RELATES TO EAST TAMPA
10:34:50 AND THE OVERLAY.
10:34:52 AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS THAT
10:34:54 TOOK PLACE SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
10:34:59 AND WHEN WE HAD TO CHANGE IN THE -- THE CHAIR AND SOME
10:35:04 OF THE NEW LEADERSHIP ON THE SUBCOMMITTEES.
10:35:08 WE DECIDED TO PICK THAT BACK UP AND THEY VOTED TO MOVE
10:35:09 FORWARD IN THAT PROCESS.
10:35:11 TREE TRIMMING, IT'S MOVING.
10:35:12 VERY MUCH SO.
10:35:13 A LOT OF CALLS.
10:35:19 AND MR. BURKES HAS TAKEN THAT ON FROM ME AND IS DOING A
10:35:22 FABULOUS JOB PROVIDING A EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE TO
10:35:24 THE RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA.
10:35:26 WE HAD A LOT OF MOVEMENT IN THE DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE
10:35:28 WITH HCD.
10:35:32 SO DOLLARS ARE BEING EXTENDED TO US FOR RESIDENTS FOR
10:35:35 THEIR DOWNPAYMENT FOR PROPERTIES WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA
10:35:37 CRA BOUNDARIES.
10:35:41 A SPECIAL CALLED WORKSHOP WITH THE CRA BOARD AND EAST
10:35:45 TAMPA CAC, AND ALL OF YOU PARTICIPATED IN THAT.
10:35:50 WE HAD A NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT PRESENTATION THAT
10:35:54 TOOK PLACE THIS PAST TUESDAY AT THE REQUEST OF THE
10:35:57 CHAIR AND THE CAC AND SEVERAL UPDATE, CONCERNS THAT
10:36:00 CAME UP AND THEY WERE ALL ADDRESSED AS IT RELATES TO
10:36:02 SOME OF THE CONCERNS IN EAST TAMPA AND NEIGHBORHOOD
10:36:05 ENHANCEMENT/CODE ENFORCEMENT.
10:36:08 WOULD LIKE TO LIFT UP AND HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF
10:36:12 COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE WITH FDOT ON APRIL 19.
10:36:15 AND VIRTUAL PRESENTATION THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE 21ING.
10:36:19 FDOT IN OUR CONVERSATIONS AND WANTED TO HAVE
10:36:23 COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD
10:36:24 LIKE TO SEE.
10:36:29 I KNOW HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF
10:36:32 DISCUSSION AS IT RELATES TO TRAFFIC CALMING AND OTHER
10:36:36 AREAS, ARTERIAL ROADS THAT CUT THROUGH EAST TAMPA.
10:36:38 AND THEY WILL BE REPORTING PACK AT SOME POINT LATER
10:36:41 THIS YEAR WITH THE REPORT FROM THE SURVEYS THAT THEY
10:36:47 HAVE COLLECTED AND HOW THEY WILL BE MOVING FORWARD WITH
10:36:49 THE WORK THAT IS TO BE DONE.
10:36:52 WE CONTINUED TO -- IN EAST TAMPA, HAVE ONE ON ONE
10:36:57 MEETINGS WITH CAC MEMBER AND THE EAST TAMPA CRA STAFF.
10:37:01 THERE HAVE BEEN A SURVEY PERIOD WITH FIFTH THIRD BANK.
10:37:05 MANY OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW THAT THE CDC OF TAMPA HAS
10:37:10 RECEIVED FUNDING FOR -- FOCUSED ON EAST TAMPA AND SOME
10:37:12 OF OUR CAC MEMBER HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE SURVEY
10:37:15 PANELS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
10:37:17 DID GET AN E-MAIL BACK YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE
10:37:21 THANKING US FOR HELPING FACILITATE THAT WITH OUR CAC
10:37:23 MEMBERS THAT PARTICIPATED AND THEY GOT A LOT OF GOOD
10:37:27 INFORMATION AND COMMENTS FROM FOLKS IN EAST TAMPA.
10:37:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MCCRAY.
10:37:30 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:37:32 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOPING THAT MONEY FROM FIFTH THIRD --
10:37:35 A LOT OF MONEY -- UTILIZED FOR PREDEVELOPMENT IN EAST
10:37:39 TAMPA, NOT JUST FOR INVESTORS, BUT ACTUAL BUSINESS
10:37:43 OWNERS TO BE ABLE TO KEEP THEIR PROPERTY AND BE ABLE TO
10:37:47 REINVEST AND STAY THERE AND BE ABLE TO BE AN OWNER OF
10:37:47 THE PROPERTY.
10:37:51 NOT JUST OUTSIDE ENTITIES THAT ARE CONTROLLING IT, BUT
10:37:54 TO HAVE THOSE FOLKS THAT WILL BE GENTRIFIED THAT THEY
10:38:00 CAN STAY THERE, A PART OF THE REDEVELOPMENT.
10:38:01 THE OWNER IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:38:05 AND OUTSIDE PEOPLE OR PEOPLE COMING IN CONTROLLING THE
10:38:05 PROPERTY.
10:38:08 SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT MONEY WILL BE UTILIZED
10:38:11 IN A PROPER WAY THAT THOSE FOLKS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
10:38:15 THAT MONEY AND NOT JUST OTHER END TEASE CONTROLLING THE
10:38:17 MONEY BUT CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE.
10:38:19 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A PART OF THAT MAKING SURE THE
10:38:23 PEOPLE AND RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO UTILIZE THE MONEY FOR
10:38:26 THE PROPERTY, TO CONTROL THEIR PROPERTY, AND DOESN'T GO
10:38:27 BACK TO SOMETHING ELSE TO CONTROL IT.
10:38:31 SO I WANTED TO BE CLEAR AND I WANT TO BE WATCHING THAT
10:38:35 TO MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT HAPPEN.
10:38:39 >> POINT TAKEN AND I HAD COMMUNICATION WITH THE CDC OF
10:38:42 TAMPA TO COME AT A LATER DATE AND DISCUSS THE OVERALL
10:38:42 --
10:38:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CHICAGO HAS A GOOD PROGRAM FOR
10:38:46 REDEVELOPMENT WITH THAT.
10:38:48 THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD PROGRAM WITH THAT.
10:38:50 I DON'T WANT TO SEE.
10:38:52 THEY ARE IN CONSTANT REDEVELOPMENT.
10:38:55 CHICAGO IS A GOOD MODEL THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO STAY
10:38:59 THERE AND HAVE CONTROL OF THEIR PROPERTY AND INVEST.
10:39:02 SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT -- I KNOW A LOT OF GROUPS
10:39:05 THAT WANT TO GET THEIR HANDS ON IT AND THAT IS FINE,
10:39:08 BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE A PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS
10:39:12 ABLE TO STAY AND BE AN OWNER OF THEIR PROPERTY AND NOT
10:39:14 HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE CONTROL THEIR PROPERTY.
10:39:19 >> UNDERSTOOD.
10:39:23 AS MOST OF THE CRAS, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING
10:39:27 IT OUT FOR FY '23.
10:39:29 WE HAD A FAIRLY GOOD MEETING ON APRIL 26.
10:39:33 THE NEXT ONE SCHEDULED FOR MAY 19 AND ANOTHER DATE JUNE
10:39:37 2, AND TAKEN PLACE AT RAVEN PARK COMMUNITY CENTER AND
10:39:41 TIME IS 6 P.M.
10:39:45 WE ARE STARTING TO HAVE SOME APPLICATIONS BECAUSE OUR
10:39:46 ELECTION CYCLE IS STARTING FOR THE EAST TAMPA
10:39:48 PARTNERSHIP.
10:39:53 AND APPLICATIONS ARE TRICKLING IN AND WE HAD A COUPLE
10:39:56 THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON TERMS, AND THEY HAVE REAPPLIED.
10:39:59 I JUST RECEIVED TWO APPLICATIONS AS OF YESTERDAY.
10:40:02 AS IT RELATES TO THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE THAT IS BUILT
10:40:03 OUT.
10:40:06 WE HAVE COMMITMENTS FROM FIVE TO SEVEN PEOPLE THAT WILL
10:40:10 FORM THAT COMMITTEE AND MR. HAROLD JACKSON WILL BE
10:40:13 SERVING AS THE CHAIR FOR THE AD-HOC NOMINATING
10:40:15 COMMITTEE FOR THE PARTNERSHIP.
10:40:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: IF YOU DON'T MIND, IF YOU CAN GO BACK
10:40:21 AND TALK OF THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.
10:40:22 >> YES.
10:40:23 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:40:24 >> YES.
10:40:25 SO RECEIVED AN UPDATE.
10:40:28 WE CONDUCT A SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.
10:40:32 WE PARTNER WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT AND THE CLEAN
10:40:33 TEAM.
10:40:36 WE HAVE 21 -- RECEIVED ABOUT 21 APPLICATIONS AS IT
10:40:39 RELATES TO THAT SUMMER PROGRAM.
10:40:41 AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONVERSATIONS.
10:40:46 I DID SHARE THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE PARTNERSHIP THIS
10:40:49 PAST TUESDAY AND THEY REQUESTED THAT WE DO AN
10:40:50 ADDITIONAL BLITZ.
10:40:53 I THINK THE DEADLINE WAS MARCH 16 WAS THE APPLICATION
10:40:53 DEADLINE.
10:40:59 I DID SPEAK WITH MISS SLATON WITH NEIGHBORHOOD
10:41:02 ENHANCEMENT TO SEE IF WE CAN EXTEND THAT TO YIELD MORE
10:41:04 APPLICATIONS AND IT WAS EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER TWO OR
10:41:11 THREE WEEKS AND I AM GETTING CALLS AND E-MAILS AS IT
10:41:13 RELATES TO EXTENDING IT FURTHER AND COMING UP TO THE
10:41:17 END OF THE MONTH HERE AND THE OVERALL PROGRAM IS SLATED
10:41:19 TO START ON JUNE 6.
10:41:22 SO WE WILL HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH MISS SLATON.
10:41:25 I ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO HER THIS MORNING AND HR TO
10:41:28 SEE WHAT WE CAN TO DO EXTEND IT, IF POSSIBLE.
10:41:33 >>LYNN HURTAK: AND -- SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS
10:41:40 IS JUST A CLEANUP PROGRAM.
10:41:42 >> YES, PRIMARILY IN THE PAST THERE HAVE BEEN
10:41:45 RIGHT-OF-WAY CLEANUP DUTIES AND THEY ARE OUT WITH THE
10:41:47 CLEAN TEAM DURING THE SUMMER.
10:41:52 I HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH MISS SLATON AND SHERISHA
10:41:53 HILLS WITH PARKS AND RECREATION.
10:41:57 SOME OF THE YOUTH WILL BE DESIGNATED TO PARKS AND
10:41:59 RECREATION SO THEY CAN GET OTHER SKILLS WHEN IT RELATES
10:42:04 TO AQUATICS, GROUNDS, FIELD, MAINTENANCE AND THE LIKE,
10:42:05 WITHIN THE PARKS AND REC PROGRAM.
10:42:13 AND THEY WILL BE PLACED AT LOCATIONS WITHIN EAST TAMPA.
10:42:15 >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD REALLY LOVE FOR NEXT SUMMER WE
10:42:18 COULD COME UP WITH SOME ALTERNATIVE THINGS THAT
10:42:22 CHILDREN -- THAT OUR YOUTH COULD BE DOING.
10:42:25 OTHER THAN THAT.
10:42:28 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS SHOULD REALLY BE HELPING THEM
10:42:32 TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
10:42:37 AND WHILE I DO UNDERSTAND THAT CLEANUP IS A GREAT
10:42:40 THING, BUT THAT IS PROBABLY PART OF THE REASON YOU ARE
10:42:45 NOT GETTING THE ACTIONS BECAUSE -- YOUTH DON'T SEE THIS
10:42:46 AS A FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.
10:42:47 SOMETHING THEY ARE LEARNING ABOUT.
10:42:54 SO I REALLY HOPE THAT STARTING SOON WE CAN START
10:42:56 TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR NECK SUMMER.
10:43:03 I DON'T WANT THIS TO GO BY THE WAYSIDE.
10:43:05 >> YES, MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE FOLLOW THE TRADITIONAL
10:43:08 PROCESS THAT THEY HAVE DONE EVERY SUMMER.
10:43:10 I KNOW MOVING FORWARD WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE SOME
10:43:14 ADJUSTMENTS TO THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
10:43:16 >>LYNN HURTAK: THE ACTIVITY PROCESS TOO.
10:43:18 SO I WOULD LOVE IF YOU COULD BRING SOMETHING BACK MAYBE
10:43:21 IN SEPTEMBER ABOUT THAT.
10:43:22 PLEASE.
10:43:25 JUST -- WHAT OTHER OPTIONS ARE OUT THERE.
10:43:29 WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES AND MAYBE WHAT OTHER CRAS AND
10:43:34 OTHER ACTIVITIES BECAUSE -- THANK YOU.
10:43:35 >> YES, MA'AM.
10:43:36 >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I MAKE A MOTION.
10:43:38 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, MA'AM.
10:43:40 >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO BRING THAT BACK
10:43:42 IN SEPTEMBER.
10:43:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
10:43:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM CHAIRWOMAN HURTAK.
10:43:50 SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CITRO.
10:43:51 ALL IN FAVOR.
10:43:52 OPPOSED.
10:43:54 ALL RIGHT.
10:43:55 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:43:58 YOU ALL ARE SO HELPFUL.
10:44:02 ANYONE ELSE?
10:44:03 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:44:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW OF THE VIOLENCE IN EAST
10:44:06 TAMPA.
10:44:07 >> YES, SIR.
10:44:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE TALK ABOUT CRIME REDUCTION, BUT WE
10:44:11 HAVE A LOT OF VIOLENCE.
10:44:13 PEOPLE COME BY THE FUNERAL HOME.
10:44:14 THEY COME BY THE HOUSE.
10:44:19 I GET CALLS AT NIGHT.
10:44:22 RECENTLY MISS FRANKIE'S SON JUST GOT SHOT.
10:44:24 SHE IS VERY UPSET BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT
10:44:27 THAT FOREVER.
10:44:30 I HAVE SOME IDEAS, AND I THINK -- YOU KNOW, I THINK
10:44:33 EAST TAMPA HAS SOME MONEY THAT WE CAN LOOK AT.
10:44:35 WE KNOW THE HOT SPOTS.
10:44:39 WE NEED TO GET TO TPD AND SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY MONEY IN
10:44:40 THAT POLICE FUND.
10:44:43 EAST TAMPA HAS MONEY IN OUR BUDGET TO LOOK AT CAMERAS
10:44:50 IN THE HOT SPOT AREAS TO PUT THEM UP.
10:44:53 SOME DON'T LIKE IT, BUT THE FOLK THAT LIVE THERE, THEY
10:44:54 WANT TO BE PROTECTED.
10:44:57 THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT ANYMORE.
10:44:59 THEY WANT TO ELEMENT GONE.
10:45:02 CHELSEA, I THINK IT IS COURTLAND, I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS
10:45:04 CITY PROPERTY, THAT BACK LOT.
10:45:06 WE NEED TO FENCE IT OFF.
10:45:09 IF THAT IS OUR PROPERTY, WE NEED TO FENCE IT OUT.
10:45:10 ACTIVITIES IN THAT LOT.
10:45:13 A COUPLE OF HOUSES IN CHELSEA ON THAT STREET THAT HAVE
10:45:15 A LOT OF ACTIVITY.
10:45:17 I AM NOT AFRAID TO SAY IT.
10:45:19 IT IS WHAT IT IS AND PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING
10:45:20 TREMENDOUSLY.
10:45:22 LAKE AND 15TH.
10:45:25 I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE SPOTS WE NEED TO
10:45:28 PUT CAMERAS UP SO PEOPLE CAN KNOW IT IS BEING MONITORED
10:45:31 TO LET THE RESIDENTS FEEL SAFE, THE BUSINESS OWNERS
10:45:35 FEEL SAFE, AND THAT ELEMENT GOES SOMEWHERE INSIDE THE
10:45:36 HOUSE AND WHATEVER.
10:45:38 IT IS BECOMING A PROBLEM.
10:45:41 AND WE HAVE MONEY IN THE BUDGET.
10:45:47 THAT COULD BE UTILIZED UNDER THE STATUTE FOR SAFETY AS
10:45:48 FAR AS THAT ISSUE.
10:45:52 AND, AGAIN, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION IN
10:45:55 REFERENCE TO THAT BOARD TO GET TO MOVED VERSUS GOING
10:45:56 BACK TO THE CAC.
10:45:57 A SAFETY ISSUE.
10:46:00 WE HAVE VIOLENCE AND SHOOTINGS AND IT NEEDS TO BE
10:46:01 HANDLED.
10:46:03 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECONDS.
10:46:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A MOTION TO GET TPD AND ALLOCATION OF
10:46:10 PARTNERS TO PUT CAMERAS IN PARTICULAR HOT SPOTS WITHIN
10:46:13 THE CITY OF EAST TAMPA TO COMBAT THE GUN VIOLENCE.
10:46:15 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:46:17 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:46:22 ALL IN FAVOR.
10:46:25 >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO CLARIFY, WHAT IS ALLOWED IN
10:46:27 THE STATUTE AND THE PLAN IS COMMUNITY POLICING TYPE OF
10:46:28 TECHNIQUES.
10:46:31 SO WE WOULD HAVE TO GET WITH TPD TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
10:46:34 USING IN THAT MANNER THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH BOTH THE
10:46:35 STATUTE AND THE PLAN.
10:46:38 I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT.
10:46:40 >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR --
10:46:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE NEED TO GET ON THAT ASAP.
10:46:46 MISS FRANKIE -- SHE HAS BEEN ON THAT SINCE DAY ONE.
10:46:49 AND NOW ONE OF HER BOYS GOT SHOT.
10:46:52 MISS FRAN, THE RICE UP FOR PEACE GROUP.
10:46:56 I THINK NOW WE GOT TO BE LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE NOW IN
10:47:00 OUR TACTICS FOR THOSE ACTUAL RESIDENTS NOW.
10:47:02 CAN'T WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT CAMERAS, BUT
10:47:05 THE RESIDENTS ARE COMPLAINING, CHILDREN ARE BEING SHOT.
10:47:08 STRAY BULLETS.
10:47:14 WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
10:47:16 >> I SPOKE TO MISS JONES BEFORE I LEFT THE OFFICE.
10:47:19 AND WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD CONVERSATION.
10:47:22 COUNCILMAN, YOU TALKING CHELSEA --
10:47:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
10:47:27 I DON'T KNOW IF THE LOT BEHIND IT IS OURS OR NOT, BUT
10:47:30 IF IT IS, WE NEED TO FENCE IT OFF TO KEEP THAT ELEMENT
10:47:31 OUT OF THERE.
10:47:35 SO, YOU KNOW, YOU PRETTY MUCH KNOW THE HOT SPOTS WE ARE
10:47:37 TALKING ABOUT IN THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN THAT WE NEED TO
10:47:39 PUT SOME CONTROL ON IT.
10:47:41 >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
10:47:43 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:47:46 >>BILL CARLSON: BOARD MEMBER GUDES, WOULD YOU MINDS
10:47:49 EITHER AMENDING YOUR MOTION OR JUST MAKE A SECOND ONE
10:47:54 OR I CAN MAKE IT, IF YOU WOULD WANT, BUT YBOR CITY HAS
10:47:57 SHOOTINGS GOING ON AND THREATENED SHOOTINGS.
10:48:00 AND I THINK -- LOOK AT EAST TAMPA AND YBOR, BUT THE
10:48:04 SECOND THING IS, I THINK WE NEED TO GET A REPORT BACK
10:48:08 FROM MAYBE THE POLICE CHIEF AND OR STAFF THAT WILL LOOK
10:48:11 AT THIS IN A MONTH OR TWO JUST TO LET US KNOW WHAT
10:48:13 THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE AND HOW THEY ARE WORKING WITH
10:48:16 STAFF.
10:48:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T MIND AMENDING IT.
10:48:20 BUT TO GET A REPORT BACK.
10:48:23 BUT I PRETTY MUCH ALREADY KNOW THE HOT SPOTS ON THE
10:48:24 EAST SIDE.
10:48:31 I KNOW YBOR HAS -- MOST OF THE YBORS ARE INCIDENTAL
10:48:33 AFTER THE BARS LET OUT.
10:48:36 I THINK YBOR ALREADY HAS CAMERAS.
10:48:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: MR. MASSEY.
10:48:40 >>MORRIS MASSEY: PERHAPS MISS TRAVIS HAS MORE
10:48:40 INFORMATION.
10:48:44 I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN ONGOING CONVERSATIONS IN YBOR
10:48:48 WITH THE CAC AND TPD OF HOW TO DEAL WITH SAFETY ISSUES
10:48:49 IN THAT AREA.
10:48:52 THERE MAY BE A SIMILAR EXERCISING GOING ON IN EAST
10:48:55 TAMPA, BUT THAT CONVERSATION, I KNOW, HAS AT LEAST
10:49:00 BEGUN IN YBOR AND THEY ARE UNDERTAKING.
10:49:02 >>BILL CARLSON: I ATTENDED A COUPLE OF THOSE MEETINGS
10:49:06 WITH THE FORMER POLICE CHIEF AND OTHERS -- INTERIM
10:49:09 POLICE CHIEF AND CHIEF OF STAFF, BUT STILL FRUSTRATION
10:49:12 IN THE COMMUNITY AND STILL SHOOTINGS HAPPENING AND I
10:49:14 KNOW A SENSE OF URGENCY IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:49:16 EVERYBODY IS WORKING HARD TO GET IT DONE.
10:49:18 I GUESS MY -- THE THING I WOULD LIKE TO DO.
10:49:21 AND I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A SEPARATE MOTION IF I DON'T
10:49:22 HAVE TO.
10:49:25 BUT IF WE CAN SOMEHOW INCLUDE YBOR AND GET AN UPDATE.
10:49:28 BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THINGS ON THE AGENDA AND
10:49:29 THEY NEVER HAPPEN.
10:49:32 BOARD MEMBER GUDES, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE REQUEST
10:49:36 AN UPDATE 30 OR 60 DAYS FROM NOW.
10:49:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT
10:49:41 I KNOW EAST TAMPA HAS AN ISSUE NOW.
10:49:45 30 TO 60 DAYS IS TOO LONG FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:49:46 MAYBE YBOR.
10:49:50 I THINK MAYBE -- MAYBE SUGGEST YOU HAVE THE YBOR MOTION
10:49:53 SECOND AND THE EAST TAMPA NEEDS TO BE NOW.
10:49:55 WE HAVE A LOT OF ISSUES.
10:49:59 WE NEED CAMERAS IN THOSE AREAS AND GET IT UP NOW.
10:50:01 >>BILL CARLSON: MY POINT IS NOT TO MAKE IT LAST LONGER
10:50:04 BUT TO MAKE SURE SOMETHING HAPPENS WITHIN TO 30 TO 60
10:50:05 DAYS.
10:50:09 WE SEEN THAT AS DISCUSSED EARLIER WITH HOUSING.
10:50:13 TWO YEARS LATER AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING.
10:50:15 I NEED TO MAKE SURE IT MOVES FORWARD.
10:50:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL AMEND IT THAT RECOMMENDATIONS
10:50:21 COME BACK WITHIN 30 TO 60 DAYS OF ACTION TO THOSE
10:50:24 ISSUES THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:50:25 >>LYNN HURTAK: IS THERE A SECOND.
10:50:28 A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
10:50:29 MIRANDA.
10:50:31 ALL IN FAVOR.
10:50:33 ANY OPPOSED?
10:50:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MCCRAY, I NEED FOR YOU TO START
10:50:41 WORKING ON IT NOW, THOSE ISSUES WITH THE EAST SIDE WITH
10:50:43 THE FOUR OR FIVE HOT SPOTS.
10:50:43 >> YES.
10:50:46 I AM COMMITTED TO SPEAKING WITH MAJOR JOHNSON AS SOON
10:50:49 AS I GET BACK IN THE OFFICE.
10:50:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE ONE MORE MOTION IN REFERENCE.
10:50:56 WE JUST TALKED OF DEVELOPMENT.
10:50:58 I KNOW BACK -- LAST YEAR I MADE THAT MOTION ABOUT
10:50:59 PREDEVELOPMENT.
10:51:02 I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON.
10:51:07 AND I WENT WANT -- LOOKED BACK AT THE MOTION AND WHAT
10:51:11 WE FORGET -- AS CARLSON SAID, I NEGATED TO PUT THE DATE
10:51:12 TO COME BACK.
10:51:14 NOW I AM ASKING NOW THAT MOTION THAT WAS MADE IN
10:51:21 REFERENCE TO THE STAFF FOR AN RFP TO OBTAIN A
10:51:24 CONSULTANT ARE PREDEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH THE
10:51:28 EAST TAMPA CRA TO ASSIST WITH FUNDING FOR PROPERTIES IN
10:51:30 EAST TAMPA FOR BUILDINGS THAT ARE COMING DOWN AND
10:51:33 PROPERTY OWNERS IN NEED OF REPAIR AND I WANT THAT
10:51:40 BROUGHT BACK -- WILL JULY 14 BE ENOUGH TIME FOR YOU?
10:51:44 >> YOU WANT US TO HAVE A RFP OR DEVELOP THE PROGRAM?
10:51:49 GUDES I THINK YOU WILL HAVE TO REQUEST AN RFP -- FOR A
10:51:50 CONSULTANT TO DEVELOPMENT THE PROGRAM.
10:51:53 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE PROGRAM HAS -- THE FRAMEWORK OF
10:51:56 THE PROGRAM HAS ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED SOMEWHAT.
10:51:57 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OKAY.
10:51:59 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: IF YOU WERE MAKING THE MOTION TO DO
10:52:04 THE RFP, WE CAN REPORT BACK WRITING THE RFP AND ISSUING
10:52:07 THAT, BUT THAT WILL SLOW US DOWN -- WE ALREADY HAVE A
10:52:10 FRAMEWORK THAT MISS ALISON HEWITT STARTED TO WRITE ON
10:52:11 THAT PROGRAM.
10:52:13 SHE SENT THAT TO US.
10:52:16 THE PREDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND TALKED WITH HER
10:52:17 SUBCOMMITTEE ABOUT IT.
10:52:19 IF I AM THINKING THIS IS THE SAME PROGRAM, THE SAME
10:52:22 PREDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, SHE ALREADY MET WITH HER
10:52:23 SUBCOMMITTEE ON IT.
10:52:27 SHE HAS PROVIDED IT TO CEDRIC AND I FOR FEEDBACK.
10:52:31 WE ADDRESSED IF AT THE LAST CAC MEETING WE WOULD REVIEW
10:52:34 THE FRAMEWORK OF THE PROGRAM AND THE APPLICATION AND
10:52:37 HAVE COMMENTS BACK WITH THE CAC AT THE NEXT CAC
10:52:38 MEETING.
10:52:40 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM NOT AWARE OF THAT.
10:52:42 SO -- IN THAT CASE, WHAT TIME DO YOU THINK YOU CAN
10:52:45 BRING THAT BACK TO DISCUSS THAT?
10:52:47 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE INTENDS TO TALK AT THE NEXT CAC
10:52:50 MEETING -- I BELIEVE IT IS JUNE 7.
10:52:52 WE WERE --
10:52:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: JUNE 9.
10:52:56 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: JUNE 9, THANK YOU.
10:52:58 TALK OF THE PROGRAM WITH THE CAC.
10:53:01 GET THEIR ENDORSEMENT AND COMMENTS.
10:53:04 ONCE THAT IS PACKAGED WITH THE CAC COMMENTS, WE WILL
10:53:07 BRING IT BACK TO YOU IF NOT FURTHER DISCUSSION WITH THE
10:53:08 CAC.
10:53:10 A FRAMEWORK ALREADY PRESENTED TO A SUBCOMMITTEE THAT
10:53:13 HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO STAFF.
10:53:18 SO I DON'T -- GUDES SOUR SAYING JUNE 9 YOU CAN BRING
10:53:22 THAT BACK AND ADDRESS THAT.
10:53:26 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NOT THE CRA MEETING, THE CA C.
10:53:29 IT HAS TO GO TO THE CAC FOR COMMENTS.
10:53:31 I CAN PROVIDE YOU FOR THE UPDATE OF THE COMMENTS AT THE
10:53:33 CAC --
10:53:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE YOU UNTIL JULY 14.
10:53:41 >>LYNN HURTAK: 21ST IS THE CRA NICK ANYTHING I THINK
10:53:42 WE SHOULD BE --
10:53:44 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I THINK WE SHOULD BE FINISHED WITH AT
10:53:48 THAT POINT.
10:53:51 >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I ADD AN AMENDMENT?
10:53:54 IF I CAN AMEND -- YES, WE WOULD LOVE AN UPDATE AT THE
10:53:56 NEXT MEETING.
10:53:58 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: UPDATE AT THE NEXT MEETING AND
10:54:02 SHOOTING FOR THE JULY CRA MEETING FOR APPROVAL AT THE
10:54:05 JULY MEETING.
10:54:07 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND THE AMENDMENT.
10:54:09 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:54:12 I DIDN'T CATCH THE SECOND.
10:54:13 SECOND IS COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:54:15 ALL IN FAVOR.
10:54:17 ANY OPPOSED?
10:54:17 OKAY.
10:54:23 MOTION CARRIES.
10:54:28 >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WAS THE END.
10:54:29 OKAY.
10:54:31 GREAT.
10:54:33 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: BEFORE WE MOVE TO ACTION ITEMS.
10:54:38 CAN I GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON KID MASON PROJECT THAT
10:54:39 COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS TALKING ABOUT.
10:54:41 THE PROJECT IS ALMOST THROUGH PERMITTING.
10:54:44 WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE THE BIDS ISSUED IN JUNE AND THE
10:54:49 EXPECTED CONSTRUCTION COMPLETE DATE IS EARLY TO MID
10:54:51 2023.
10:54:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:54:58 COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK -- BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:55:00 SWITCHING HATS.
10:55:02 UNDER REQUIRED APPROVALS, YOU HAVE THE CHANNEL DISTRICT
10:55:06 ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS.
10:55:09 I BELIEVE YOU HAVE FIVE ACTIONS TO CONSIDER AND OUR
10:55:12 CITY CLERK WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
10:55:27 THANK YOU.
10:55:34 >> GOOD MORNING, CRA MEMBERS, SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES,
10:55:35 CITY CLERK.
10:55:39 WE HAVE FIVE APPLICANTS, AND I WANT TO NOTE THEY HAVE
10:55:41 TWO MINUTES TO MAKE THEIR PRESENTATION.
10:55:49 THEY INCLUDE BRENT HILL, MICHAEL LEEDS, ANDY SCAGLIONE,
10:55:56 JOE VALDELEZ, AND MARK FARRELL.
10:55:59 ALSO I WANTED TO NOTE THAT AFTER YOU VOTE, I WILL
10:56:06 ANNOUNCE THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS WHO VOTED AND THEIR
10:56:06 VOTES.
10:56:16 WE WILL START OFF WITH MR. BRENT HILL.
10:56:19 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST HAVE A QUESTION OF MR.
10:56:20 CARLSON --
10:56:21 >>MORRIS MASSEY: MR. CARLSON UNFORTUNATELY -- WHAT IS
10:56:25 BEING PROPOSED, MR. CARLSON, A BALLOT HANDED OUT FOR
10:56:26 THE MEMBERS PRESENT.
10:56:28 THEY WILL MARK THE BALLOT.
10:56:34 SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES WILL READ THE CRA MEMBER AND WHO
10:56:36 THEY VOTED FOR.
10:56:40 UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE -- WE WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO
10:56:42 VERBALIZE WHO YOUR SELECTION IS.
10:56:45 THAT IS HOW WE WILL HAVE TO DO THE SELECTION.
10:56:47 AND THEN THE CLERK WILL TABULATE THE VOTES AFTER YOU
10:56:49 ANNOUNCE YOUR VOTE.
10:56:55 AND THEN WE WILL DETERMINE WHO --
10:56:57 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN ANNOUNCE IT YOURSELF IF YOU
10:56:57 PREFER.
10:56:59 WE CAN ALL DO IT THAT WAY.
10:57:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:57:03 >>BILL CARLSON: MICHELLE ALSO E-MAILED ME THE BALLOT.
10:57:06 BETTER TO HAVE SOME OF KIND OF RECORD OR DO IT
10:57:07 VERBALLY.
10:57:09 >>MORRIS MASSEY: EITHER WAY WORKS.
10:57:13 IT HAS TO BE ANNOUNCED WHO EACH MEMBER HAS VOTED FOR TO
10:57:14 MEET SUNSHINE.
10:57:17 OKAY.
10:57:17 >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:57:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
10:57:21 >> I AM BRENT HILL.
10:57:24 HAPPY TO BE HERE IN PERSON TO KIND OF GO OVER THIS.
10:57:25 I AM EXCITED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
10:57:28 I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO OVER HOW I ENDED UP HERE
10:57:32 BECAUSE I AM A LITTLE YOUNGER -- YOUNGEST APPLICANT
10:57:36 HERE WHY I AM QUALIFIED AND BEING AN ASSET TO THE CRA
10:57:36 BOARD.
10:57:39 I GRADUATED INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2015.
10:57:41 MOVED RIGHT INTO THE FINANCIAL SPACE.
10:57:43 LAUNCHED A FINANCIAL ADVISING FIRM.
10:57:46 GREW THAT PRETTY SUCCESSFULLY OVER TWO YEARS AND MONEY
10:57:50 IS GREAT, BUT UNLESS YOU ARE HAVING AN IMPACT, NOT ALL
10:57:52 IT IS PUT UP TO BE.
10:57:56 AT THAT POINT IN TIME SOLD THAT PRACTICE AND LAUNCHED
10:57:57 TWO SOFTWARE COMPANIES.
10:58:00 CREATING AN IMPACT IN THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
10:58:04 ONE IN CORPORATE WELLNESS AND OTHER HELPING GYMS AND
10:58:07 ATHLETES DRAW THEIR ONLINE COMMUNITY.
10:58:10 I AM ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY AND WE GREW THAT TO A GLOBAL
10:58:11 SCALE.
10:58:14 2020 FROM THAT SUCCESS, ABLE TO ASSESS WHERE I TRAVELED
10:58:17 THROUGH THE SOFTWARE SALES AND ALL THIS GOOD STUFF AND
10:58:19 FOUND OUT THAT TAMPA IS KIND OF MY HOME.
10:58:20 I LOVE TAMPA.
10:58:21 SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
10:58:26 SOMETHING OF THE ENERGY, THE GROWTH OF THE COMMUNITY.
10:58:26 SO I MOVED DOWN.
10:58:30 MOVED TO HYDE PARK AND I WANTED TO FIND WHERE TO PLANT
10:58:30 MY ROOTS.
10:58:32 CHANNELSIDE SPOKE TO ME.
10:58:33 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
10:58:36 SOMETHING ABOUT THE VIBE AND YOU COULD FEEL IT IS ON
10:58:38 THE NEXT UP AND COMING LEVEL.
10:58:42 AT THAT POINT FOUND A BUILDING THAT WAS REALLY PERFECT.
10:58:45 ELDER BUILDING 114 SOUTH 12TH STREET.
10:58:48 I AM SURE SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE OF IT.
10:58:52 HAD ITS CHALLENGES.
10:58:57 NOT IS NECESSARILY A LAND USE GUY AND LEARNED A LOT AND
10:58:59 WANT TO SHAPE THE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN THE
10:59:01 CHANNELSIDE AREA.
10:59:02 WHY I FEEL I AM QUALIFIED.
10:59:05 I WAS ABLE TO CHECK ALL THE BOXES ON THE APPLICATION.
10:59:08 AND AT THE END OF THE DAY I THINK MY YOUTH, MY ENERGY,
10:59:10 MY EXPERIENCE OF BOTH FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
10:59:13 ESPECIALLY AS WE GROW AND ADAPT TO THE FASTEST GROWING
10:59:16 CITY IN THE COUNTRY NOW CAN BRING A LOT OF BENEFIT.
10:59:19 AS A BUSINESS OWNER, GOING THROUGH THE PACES, AS A LOT
10:59:21 OF YOU KNOW, BRINGING THAT FORTH TO ANYBODY WHO IS
10:59:24 TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING IN THE CHANNELSIDE
10:59:25 DISTRICT.
10:59:27 I THINK I CAN CREATE A LOT OF BENEFIT.
10:59:28 THANK YOU.
10:59:32 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:59:38 >> THE NEXT CANDIDATE IS MR. MICHAEL LEEDS.
11:00:02 MOVING ON TO MR. ANDY SCAGLIONE.
11:00:03 >> GOOD MORNING.
11:00:08 ANDY JOE SCAGLIONE, BORN IN TAMPA.
11:00:11 MY MOM'S SIDE FROM WEST TAMPA.
11:00:13 MY DAD'S SIDE IS FROM YBOR CITY.
11:00:19 I HAVE BEEN HERE ALL MY LIFE, JUNE 17, 1983, 39 --
11:00:22 GOING ON 39 YEARS AGO, FIRST COMMERCIAL PROPERTY I
11:00:26 BOUGHT WAS ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
11:00:29 BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN CHANNELSIDE THROUGHOUT ALL THE
11:00:30 YEARS.
11:00:31 I LOVED CHANNELSIDE.
11:00:32 VERY SPECIAL TO ME.
11:00:35 I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE RENAMING WHEN IT USED TO BE
11:00:37 CALLED 13TH STREET.
11:00:39 NOW CALL CHANNELSIDE.
11:00:42 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WILL TELL YOU, THERE WAS MORE RATS
11:00:46 THAN PEOPLE AT THE TIME, OKAY.
11:00:48 OLD DILAPIDATED WAREHOUSES.
11:00:52 WHERE WE ARE AT TODAY IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE.
11:00:54 THEREFORE I HAVE A LOT OF INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE THAT
11:00:58 I THINK CAN BE VERY, VERY HELPFUL TO CHANNELSIDE.
11:01:00 MY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BACKGROUND WILL BE VALUABLE
11:01:05 BECAUSE WE HAVE HIGHEST AND BEST USE ISSUES COMING UP
11:01:07 WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE PORT AND THE
11:01:09 LORDEN PROPERTY.
11:01:12 I SEE CURRENTLY THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE BEING
11:01:14 DISCUSSED THERE.
11:01:22 I AM EXCITED REGARDING THE -- THE NEW -- THE AQUARIUM.
11:01:23 OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM.
11:01:25 THEY HAVE BEEN FANTASTIC WITH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
11:01:26 THERE.
11:01:32 AND TRYING TO OPEN UP THE -- AROUND TERMINAL 2, THE
11:01:33 RIVER WALK.
11:01:36 I AM EXCITED BY THEA, THE PARTNERSHIP THERE WE HAVE.
11:01:41 I AM EXCITED BY OUR NEW CRA DIRECTOR JEFF BURTON.
11:01:45 ALL ABOUT EXECUTION AS COUNCILMAN GUDES SAYS.
11:01:46 IT IS ABOUT WINS.
11:01:47 EXECUTION.
11:01:48 GETTING RESULTS.
11:01:50 EVERYTHING ELSE DOESN'T MATTER.
11:01:52 I KNOW THAT YOU ALL KNOW THAT I TAKE MY COMMITMENTS
11:01:54 VERY SERIOUS.
11:01:57 YOU KNOW OF MY WORK ETHIC.
11:01:59 AND I COME PREPARED.
11:02:00 I DO MY HOMEWORK.
11:02:03 AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I DO THE RIGHT THING.
11:02:04 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:02:14 AND I APPRECIATE YOUR CONFIDENCE IN ME.
11:02:16 >>CLERK: THANK YOU.
11:02:23 MR. JOE VALDELEZ.
11:02:28 >> GOOD MORNING, JOE VALDELEZ, CURRENT CAC
11:02:33 MEMBER, UP FOR MY SECOND TERM AND PRESIDENT OF THE
11:02:37 501-C-3 IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT RECOGNIZED BY THE CITY
11:02:38 OF TAMPA.
11:02:41 IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN IN THE SEAT AS
11:02:44 A CAC MEMBER, WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT.
11:02:47 THAT INCLUDES BOTH THE MADISON STREET PARK DEVELOPMENT,
11:02:50 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE ROAD IMPROVEMENT, THE PORTLAND
11:02:55 ACQUISITION FOR HOPEFULLY FEATURE GREEN SPACE.
11:02:59 UPDATING THE SAP AND CRP.
11:03:03 FUTURE TPD CAMERAS BEING INSTALLED APPROXIMATELY 16 OF
11:03:03 THOSE.
11:03:05 WE ARE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF THAT.
11:03:08 AND ALSO FUNDING FOR THE WASHINGTON STREET PARK REHAB
11:03:12 WHICH IS OUR ICONIC PARK ON 12TH STREET.
11:03:15 FOR MY SECOND TERM, SOME OF MY GOALS INCLUDE ALONG WITH
11:03:19 THE TEAM IS UPHOLDING THE SAP AND CRP.
11:03:22 COMPLETION OF THE NEW AND REHABBED GREEN SPACE.
11:03:24 THEA PARTNERSHIPS.
11:03:25 ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
11:03:28 ADDITIONAL ART INSTALLATIONS AND STRATEGIZING ON
11:03:30 WORKFORCE GRANTS IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:03:33 AS MR. MIRANDA SAID, MAYBE LOOKING AT SOLAR
11:03:34 OPPORTUNITIES.
11:03:36 A BRILLIANT IDEA AND I LOVE THAT.
11:03:38 THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE CONSIDERATION.
11:03:40 A FUN TWO YEARS AND HOPEFULLY LOOK TO CONTINUE ANOTHER
11:03:43 TWO YEARS WITH THE CAC AND TAKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE
11:03:44 NEXT LEVEL.
11:03:51 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:03:52 >>CLERK: THANK YOU.
11:03:58 THE NEXT CANDIDATE MR. MARK FARRELL.
11:04:02 >> GOOD MORNING, MARK FARRELL, 210 SOUTH 12TH STREET.
11:04:13 2015, I PURCHASED A 1923 WAREHOUSE BY THE RAILROAD.
11:04:17 ON YOUR POINT, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, I PUT 10 KILOWATTS
11:04:20 OF SOLAR ON THE ROOF AND I AM OFF THE GRID AT THE SAME
11:04:21 TIME.
11:04:23 I AM REGISTERED CIVIL ENGINEER.
11:04:27 I OPERATED, OWNED AND OPERATED A CIVIL ENGINEERING FIRM
11:04:29 FOR 25 YEARS AND JUST RETIRED FROM THAT.
11:04:30 I AM A FORMER PHYSICIAN.
11:04:35 I WAS THE ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SOUTHWEST
11:04:36 FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.
11:04:41 ANDS OF THE NORTHDALE MAINTENANCE DISTRICT WHEN I LIFT
11:04:42 IN NORTH DALE.
11:04:45 I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE ON
11:04:48 THIS BOARD, AND IT IS A GREAT BOARD.
11:04:51 WHO UNDERSTANDS THE COMPLEXITIES OF DESIGNING
11:04:54 COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL AREAS, MEETING CODE, GREEN
11:04:56 SPACES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
11:04:58 THAT IS WHAT MY BUSINESS HAS DONE FOR 25 YEARS.
11:05:00 I HAVE BEEN VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
11:05:03 I BOUGHT INTO THIS AREA BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE
11:05:05 CHANNELSIDE AREA.
11:05:05 IT IS GROWING.
11:05:08 IT HAS GOT GREAT ARCHITECTURE.
11:05:11 THAT IS WHY I TOOK THIS BUILDING AND DIDN'T KNOCK IT
11:05:12 DOWN.
11:05:13 I RESTORED IT.
11:05:14 IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL.
11:05:19 IT LOOKS LIKE 1923 AND UPDATED.
11:05:22 I APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION OF YOUR TIME.
11:05:24 I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THIS AND ADVISING THIS
11:05:27 BOARD ON CHANNELSIDE.
11:05:28 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:05:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:05:43 >> CRA BOARD, YOU WILL VOTE FOR THREE APPLICANTS AND I
11:06:19 WILL TALLY THE VOTE.
11:06:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY, SO WE WILL MOVE ON AND COME BACK
11:06:29 WHEN MISS FOXX-KNOWLES IS FINISHED TALLYING.
11:06:32 >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR, SHOULD I TELL MINE
11:06:34 VERBALLY.
11:06:36 >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN RIGHT NOW AND SHIRLEY CAN ADD
11:06:37 THAT TO THE TALLY.
11:06:40 SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO ANNOUNCE EACH MEMBER AND WHO
11:06:45 YOU ALL VOTED FOR BEFORE SHE ANNOUNCES THE WHO THE TOP
11:06:46 THREE SELECTIONS ARE.
11:06:50 >>LYNN HURTAK: SHOULD WE WAIT UNTIL SHE ANNOUNCES AND
11:06:52 THEN WE ANNOUNCE THEN.
11:06:56 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT FEELS MORE APPROPRIATE SO WE CAN
11:06:58 ALL DO IT TOGETHER.
11:07:01 WE WILL WAIT UNTIL SHE FINISHED THE TALLY AND HAVE YOU
11:07:04 ADD YOUR VOTE BEFORE SHE GOES THROUGH EVEN ONE OF THE
11:07:07 MEMBERS OF THE BALLOTS, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, AND ADD
11:07:17 YOUR VOTE IN TO THE TALLY AS WELL.
11:07:19 >> HELLO, AGAIN.
11:07:22 ALL RIGHT, NEXT ON YOUR AGENDA, OFF RESOLUTION BEFORE
11:07:26 YOU FOR FACADE GRANT NOT TO EXCEED $50,000.
11:07:31 THIS IS FOR A HISTORIC BUILDING IN WEST TAMPA.
11:07:34 2301 NORTH ALBANY AVENUE.
11:07:37 IMPROVING THE SUBORDINATION OF THE NOTICE OF THE FACADE
11:07:40 GRANT AGREEMENT AND ALL ITS COVENANTS.
11:07:44 THIS IS A CIGAR FACTORY AND OVER $1 MILLION OF WINDOW
11:07:48 REPLACEMENT SO THE $50,000 GRANT IS BEFORE YOU FOR
11:07:49 CONSIDERATION.
11:07:51 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION --
11:07:54 >>MORRIS MASSEY: MOVE YOU MOVE THE RESOLUTION, I
11:07:59 HANDED OUT A SUBSTITUTE RESOLUTION.
11:08:00 THE ONLY CHANGE IS THE CHAIR'S NAME.
11:08:05 MR. CITRO WAS THE CHAIR OF THE CRA BOARD AND NOW MISS
11:08:06 HURTAK IS.
11:08:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SUBSTITUTE THAT TO REFLECT THE
11:08:11 CHAIRPERSON'S NAME.
11:08:13 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I MAY FOR THE RECORD, BRIEFLY
11:08:16 TELL THE PUBLIC WHAT IT IS ABOUT AND HOW IT IS DONE AND
11:08:19 MAKE SURE THAT IT IS DONE CORRECTLY.
11:08:20 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
11:08:22 WHEN YOU HAVE A FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT, WHAT WE ARE
11:08:26 LOOK FOR ARE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FRONT FACING OF THE
11:08:27 BUILDING.
11:08:30 IN THIS CASE, THIS IS A CIGAR FACTORY THAT THE OWNER IS
11:08:34 INVESTING $2.3 MILLION IN REHABBING THE BUILDING.
11:08:41 THIS BUILDING HAS THREE STREET FACADES.
11:08:44 FACES ON ALL THREE SIDES OF THE STREET.
11:08:46 AND REPLACING THE WINDOWS ON ALL FLOORS OF THE
11:08:47 BUILDING.
11:08:50 ANY TIME OFF PROPERTY OWNER TO REINVEST, THE CRA CAN
11:08:54 COME ALONGSIDE THEM AND SUPPLEMENT SOME OF THAT
11:08:56 EXPENSE.
11:08:57 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:08:57 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:09:01 A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND SECONDED BY
11:09:02 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:09:04 ALL IN FAVOR.
11:09:05 SORRY.
11:09:10 THERE WAS -- SORRY, THIS IS A ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:09:11 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:09:12 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:09:14 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:09:15 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:09:16 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:09:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:09:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:09:22 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:09:24 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GREAT, THANK YOU.
11:09:29 NUMBER 5 IS EAST TAMPA CRA FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022,
11:09:31 REPROGRAMMING SOME DOLLARS FOR A TRAFFIC VARIABLE
11:09:36 MESSAGE BOARD.
11:09:42 THESE MOVABLE MESSAGE BOARDS THAT YOU SEE DOT USING
11:09:43 THAT HAVE THREE OR FOUR LINES.
11:09:46 EAST TAMPA WANTED TO GET THE WORD OUT ON CERTAIN
11:09:49 ACTIVITIES OF THEIR CAC MEETING AND NOT HAVE TO BORROW
11:09:50 IT FROM ANOTHER AGENCY.
11:09:53 THIS IS JUST REPROGRAMMING SOME FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO
11:09:58 PURCHASE TWO THAT WILL RESIDE IN EAST TAMPA.
11:10:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: QUESTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:10:03 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I BELIEVE WE SAW THOSE GOING
11:10:07 THROUGH EAST TAMPA AND I WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE -- THERE
11:10:07 THEY ARE RIGHT THERE.
11:10:09 HOW THAT WAS BROUGHT ON.
11:10:12 NOBODY CANNOT SAY THAT IT IS NOT ADVERTISED.
11:10:13 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:10:16 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THOSE WERE BORROWED.
11:10:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:10:21 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:10:22 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:10:24 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:10:24 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:10:26 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:10:27 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:10:28 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:10:29 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:10:30 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:10:32 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:10:33 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
11:10:39 ITEM NUMBER 6 IS YOUR DOWNTOWN NONCORE CRA.
11:10:41 A PROGRAMMING CHANGE FOR UNION STATION.
11:10:45 WE HEARD COUNCIL LOUD -- SORRY, CRA BOARD LOUD AND
11:10:49 CLEAR AND IN YOUR COUNCIL MEETINGS THAT YOU WANTED TO
11:10:52 EXPEDITE THE REHABILITATION OF THE TAMPA UNION STATION.
11:10:55 IF YOU WERE TO DO THAT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO IT WITH
11:10:58 CRA FUNDS WHILE WE APPLY FOR GRANTS TO HELP AUGMENT THE
11:10:59 COST OF THAT.
11:11:06 SO THE CAC VOTED TO REPROGRAM $1.5 MILLION FOR THE
11:11:07 REHABILITATION OF UNION STATION.
11:11:10 THAT WILL COME BACK TO YOU WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT WILL
11:11:14 SAY IF WE RECEIVE ANY FUNDING OR GRANT FUNDING, WE WILL
11:11:18 REIMBURSE THE CRA FOR THOSE EXPENSES AND THIS WILL
11:11:25 ALLOW US TO ACCELERATE THE RENOVATIONS OF THE BUILDING.
11:11:27 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:11:29 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
11:11:31 ROLL CALL.
11:11:31 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:11:32 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:11:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:11:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:11:36 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:11:37 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:11:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:11:43 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:11:46 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE NEXT ITEM IS THE EAST TAMPA CRA
11:11:49 CONSTRUCTION FUNDING FOR THE SKILLS CENTER.
11:11:55 AT THE LAST CRA MEETING, THIS COUNCIL -- EXCUSE ME THIS
11:11:59 BOARD VOTED TO SEND THE SKILL CENTER BACK TO THE CAC
11:12:01 FOR THEM TO HAVE ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION.
11:12:06 THERE WERE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT AT THE CAC
11:12:06 MEETING.
11:12:12 THE CAC VOTED BACK ON APRIL 5 AT A VOTE OF 10-1 TO
11:12:14 SUPPORT THE $500,000 GRANT.
11:12:17 THE DISCUSSION THAT WAS HAD RECENTLY AT THE CAC MEETING
11:12:21 WAS THAT THEIR VOTE REPRESENTED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE
11:12:23 PROJECT AND THEY WERE BRINGING IT BACK -- NOW WE ARE
11:12:28 BRINGING IT BACK FOR ACTION BY THIS BODY.
11:12:30 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR VOTE, I WANT TO
11:12:33 MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU ARE MERELY ENDORSING THE
11:12:33 CONCEPT.
11:12:35 IT IS SUBJECT TO THE NEGOTIATION OF A FUNDING AGREEMENT
11:12:39 THAT SPELLS ALL THE GRANT TERMS, THE CONDITIONS.
11:12:41 SO THAT WILL HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU ALL BEFORE THE
11:12:44 GRANT IS FORMALIZED AND THE MONEY -- THE GRANT IS
11:12:47 ACTUALLY MADE FOR THE SKILL CENTER.
11:12:49 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:12:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK EVERYBODY IN EAST TAMPA
11:12:53 SUPPORTS THE SKILL CENTER.
11:12:56 LET'S PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
11:12:58 I DON'T THINK NOBODY DOESN'T SUPPORT IT.
11:13:00 PEOPLE THINK OF THE PROCESS.
11:13:03 GOING FORWARD, I WILL ASK THAT THERE BE A PROCESS.
11:13:05 BECAUSE NOW PEOPLE ARE SEEING THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE ON
11:13:11 THAT EAST TAMPA BOARD WHO UNDERSTANDS DEVELOPMENT AND
11:13:14 ECONOMICS AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO SEE IF THE TAXPAYER
11:13:18 DOLLARS ARE FITTING IN WHERE THEY NEED FITTING IN WHEN
11:13:20 YOU TALK OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS.
11:13:24 I THINK THE SKILL CENTER IS A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH.
11:13:27 I THINK IT WILL BE VALUABLE, I AM HOPING THE FUTURE
11:13:29 WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD BE HAPPENING WITH THE SKILL
11:13:33 CENTER BEING DEVELOPED, YOU HAVE THE VERY, VERY EASTERN
11:13:34 PORTION OF THAT BUILDING.
11:13:37 AND I THINK THE CRA DOLLARS COULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY
11:13:41 UTILIZED OR IN THE FUTURE TO HELP WITH WORK FORCE
11:13:43 DEVELOPMENT ON THE SECOND SIDE OF THAT BUILDING.
11:13:45 NOW OFF VIABLE IMPACT AND THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE
11:13:46 THINKING.
11:13:49 THE SKILL CENTER SEEK BASKETBALL AND THEY ARE LOOKING
11:13:52 AT SOCIAL SERVICES AND SOME OF THE MONIES TO BE
11:13:55 UTILIZED TO HELP REDIRECT AND REHAB THE BUILDING.
11:13:58 I THINK THAT WAS NOT DISCUSSED AND PEOPLE ARE
11:14:01 UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY ARE USING THAT $500,000 FOR.
11:14:05 AND THAT NEEDS TO BE PUT IN THERE SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND
11:14:07 NOT USED FOR SOCIAL SERVICE.
11:14:11 AND THAT IS THE KEY FUNCTION THAT PEOPLE ARE UPSET
11:14:12 ABOUT AND UNDERSTAND.
11:14:14 BECAUSE THEY ARE SPECIFIC DOLLARS.
11:14:17 AND I THINK WE WILL COME BACK AND THE BOARD KNOWS WHAT
11:14:20 THE GUIDELINES ARE.
11:14:25 PEOPLE CAN UNDER STAND WHY THE VOTE WAS WHY THE
11:14:28 CONFUSION AND DISCUSSION WAS BEING HAD, THE PROCESS.
11:14:31 I THINK NOW WITH PEOPLE SEEING THAT YOU HAVE FOLKS WHO
11:14:37 ARE TRYING TO MOVE EAST TAMPA, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME
11:14:42 DOWN AND ASKING FOR THE BIG PARTS OF MONEY.
11:14:44 AND MOVING FORWARD.
11:14:46 AND THE SUB ECONOMY.
11:14:48 WHEN THEY COME TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND VET THE PROGRAM
11:14:50 FOR THE NEEDS OF EAST TAMPA.
11:14:55 I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT THEY ARE SAYING NOW.
11:14:57 MOVING FORWARD, I HOPE THAT WE WILL COME UP WITH A
11:15:03 PROCESS FOR APPLICATION THAT CAN GO UP TO THE BOARD AND
11:15:05 PROCESS IN PLACE.
11:15:09 AND NOW KNOW THAT THEY HAVE -- THEY HAVE A PROCESS
11:15:10 HERE.
11:15:14 >> SURE, FOR THE CAC MEETING, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY
11:15:15 CORRECT, THE DISCUSSION THAT TOOK PLACE IS REAFFIRMING
11:15:19 THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE SKILL CENTER, BUT A LOT OF ISSUE
11:15:22 WITH THE PROCESS OF HAVING AN APPLICATION.
11:15:26 WHAT I TOLD THE CAC THAT WE WILL DO IS CREATE SOME KIND
11:15:30 OF FORM THAT WE CAN CAPTURE ALL OF THAT INFORMING, THE
11:15:32 ECONOMIC IMPACT.
11:15:35 EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING USED -- THE FUND ALSO BE USED FOR
11:15:40 A COVER SHEET AND CONSISTENT ACROSS ANY ASK.
11:15:41 ANY ASK.
11:15:45 PEOPLE CAN ASK AS MATCH AS THEY WANT TO.
11:15:49 AND MEET THE GOALS.
11:15:51 AND LEGALLY NOT FUNDED.
11:15:55 AND EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T HAVE A COVER APPLICATION FOR
11:15:59 THIS THE FUND AGREEMENT WILL OUTLINE THE LEGAL
11:16:01 ENVIRONMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND WE
11:16:06 ARE GOING TO -- I ASSURE THE CAC THAT WE WILL CREATE AN
11:16:11 APPLICATION FORM TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCESS AND ALL
11:16:16 THE APPLICATION FOR THE CAC TO MAKE SURE THEY SUPPORT A
11:16:18 PROJECT IS CAPTURED IN THAT FORM AND WE ARE WORKING ON
11:16:19 THAT.
11:16:22 >> THAT WILL BE VERY GOOD AND CUT DOWN THE CHATTER TO
11:16:26 SEE WHAT IS GOING ON AND SUPPORT THE SKILL CENTER BUT I
11:16:32 THINK GOING FORWARD, I THINK WE LOOK AT -- AT THAT
11:16:33 MECHANIC.
11:16:35 AND BODY SHOP THAT MAYBE WE CAN CAPTURE TO HELP THEM.
11:16:38 BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE SEEING A REAL ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR
11:16:39 ACTUAL JOBS.
11:16:42 REAL JOBS, PEOPLE CAN MAYBE UTILIZE THAT AS FAR AS THE
11:16:45 WORKFORCE AND A BUSINESS.
11:16:47 SO I WAS HOPING THAT A PARTNERSHIP CONTINUES, BUT
11:16:50 MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN HELP THEM IN THAT WAY SO WE CAN
11:16:52 REALLY HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE THE -- WHEN YOU LOOK
11:16:55 AT THE PHOTO OF IT.
11:16:57 IT WILL BEAUTIFY 22ND STREET.
11:17:00 LET'S CAPTURE IT ALL IN THE FUTURE AND COME BACK WITH A
11:17:07 PLAN AND THE CAC CAN HELP THEM WITH THAT.
11:17:09 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILMAN
11:17:10 MANISCALCO.
11:17:11 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:17:13 ROLL CALL.
11:17:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:17:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:17:16 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:17:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:17:21 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:17:23 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:17:26 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
11:17:28 CORRECTION, CITRO.
11:17:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:17:36 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:17:40 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NEXT OWN THE AGENDA THE WEST TAMPA
11:17:46 EXTERIOR RESIDENTIAL RENTAL REHABILITATION GRANT
11:17:48 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM.
11:17:51 THIS IS BEING ADMINISTERED BY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
11:17:54 DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
11:17:57 THE WEST TAMPA CAC AND THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES HAVE VETTED
11:18:02 WHETHER THEY WANTED TO INCLUDE RENTAL REHAB TO THIS.
11:18:09 AND TIE THAT SUPPORT THAT WE ARE GOING TO REHAB THESE
11:18:12 BUILDINGS TO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPONENT AND TOOK
11:18:13 TIME TO WORK THAT OUT.
11:18:30 AND THE PROGRAM THAT ALREADY EXISTED IN WEST TAMPA AND
11:18:34 STAND-ALONE PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY HOUSING AND
11:18:36 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND A LOT OF CONVERSATION WHEN I
11:18:39 FIRST GOT HERE OF THE OWNER-OCCUPIED REHAB PROGRAM IN
11:18:44 EAST TAMPA AND WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT.
11:18:48 SEPARATE FROM THIS VOTE, THAT RFP IS ISSUED THIS FRIDAY
11:18:52 AND THE DIFFERENCE -- THE RFP ISSUE THIS FRIDAY IS FOR
11:18:56 A THIRD-PARTY ADMINISTRATOR AND THIS PROGRAM IS BEING
11:18:59 ADMINISTERED BY HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND I
11:19:01 CAN ANSWER ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
11:19:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GLAD THAT THAT RFP IS MOVING
11:19:06 BECAUSE THE TALK OF THE TOWN.
11:19:10 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO DO IT.
11:19:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE BIGGEST ISSUE AND I TALKED ABOUT
11:19:13 THE SAME THING.
11:19:16 YOU HAVE MISS JONES WHO IS 77 YEARS OLD.
11:19:19 SHE IS -- MAYBE SHE HAS A HOUSE THAT IS PAID FOR BUT
11:19:22 HELPING MR. JONES OUT DOWN THE STREET WITH A PLACE
11:19:25 WHERE SHE CAN FIX THAT UP.
11:19:28 BECAUSE DOESN'T HAVE THE MONEY.
11:19:33 AND, AGAIN, I TALKED ABOUT THAT IN WEST TAMPA HAS DONE
11:19:33 THAT.
11:19:36 SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS NEED TO BE DUPLICATED AND OTHER
11:19:39 PLACES ARE HAVING THESE KIND OF ISSUES.
11:19:43 HOPEFULLY WILL BRING THAT OVER TO EAST TAMPA TO TALK
11:19:45 ABOUT THAT HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD.
11:19:49 THAT OCCUPIED REHAB HAS TO MOVE -- AGAIN, I THINK -- I
11:19:53 KNOW WE WANT TO TRY TO DO IT WITH ACD, BUT I THINK THEY
11:19:55 HAVE A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON.
11:19:58 I THINK WE CAN SEE HOW TO WORK THE THIRD PARTY.
11:20:00 AND I KNOW THEY HAVE A LOT GOING ON.
11:20:04 HOPEFULLY IT WILL WORK AND I THINK WITH THE EAST
11:20:09 PORTION, LETTING THEM MOVE, GIVES THEM A FIN AND
11:20:11 LOOKING AT THIS RENTAL AS WELL.
11:20:13 AND I THINK THEY WANT THAT TOO.
11:20:18 MAYBE A CONVERSATION THAT MR. MCCRAY CAN HAVE WITH THEM
11:20:21 TO SEE IF THIS IS ALREADY EXISTING AND MOVE FORWARD
11:20:21 WITH THAT AS WELL.
11:20:24 AND NOW WE ARE GETTING ALL THE WHEELS TURNING.
11:20:29 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: IN ORDER FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH
11:20:30 THE SAME PROGRAM IN EAST TAMPA.
11:20:33 THAT IS COUNTER TO PUTTING OUT THE RFP AS A THIRD
11:20:33 PARTY.
11:20:38 I THINK TO YOUR POINT, IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR US
11:20:41 TO JUST LOOK IN SIX MONTHS ONCE A PROGRAM IS OUT ON THE
11:20:45 STREETS OR -- SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR ANALYSIS TO SEE HOW
11:20:45 IS IT WORKING.
11:20:48 HOW IS IT FLOWING AND HOW ARE WE CAPTURING THE
11:20:48 INFORMATION.
11:20:53 AND MR. NINO IS THE ONE WORKING HARD WITH THE WEST
11:20:57 TAMPA CAC AND MONTHS IN THE MAKING.
11:20:58 AND VETTED.
11:21:00 AND I WILL LET HIM ADD THINKING.
11:21:02 >> SHE DID A WONDERFUL JOB.
11:21:05 AND THIS IS SEPARATE FROM THE CITY'S HOUSING DIVISION.
11:21:08 WE WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THEM, BUT THIS WAS CREATED BY
11:21:11 THE CRA SUBCOMMITTEE IN WEST TAMPA FOR MONTHS NOW.
11:21:14 AND THEIR CAC TOOK IT BACK AND FORTH TO THEIR
11:21:15 SUBCOMMITTEE.
11:21:18 AND WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE HOUSING DIVISION
11:21:22 BUT UNIQUE TO WEST TAMPA FOR SINGLE-FAMILY DUPLEXES.
11:21:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AGAIN, THEY CAN'T STILL LOOK AT WHAT
11:21:28 YOU GOT GOING ON AND SEE HOW IT IS WORKING.
11:21:30 SO IDEAS ARE ON THE TABLE.
11:21:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
11:21:33 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:21:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BROUGHT BY COUNCILMAN
11:21:38 MANISCALCO.
11:21:40 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:21:41 ROLL CALL.
11:21:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:21:44 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:21:45 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:21:46 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:21:48 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:21:49 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:21:50 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:21:54 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:22:00 >>LYNN HURTAK: MISS FOXX-KNOWLES, I BELIEVE YOU ARE
11:22:00 READY.
11:22:04 >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE YOU ANNOUNCE COUNCILMAN
11:22:07 CARLSON TO ANNOUNCE HIS VOTE AND YOU ADD THAT TO THE
11:22:08 TALLY.
11:22:12 MR. CARLSON, WHO ARE YOUR THREE SELECTIONS SO SHE CAN
11:22:14 ADD THAT TO HER TALLY.
11:22:16 >>BILL CARLSON: THANKS TO ALL THE APPLICANTS AND
11:22:20 APOLOGIES TO THE TWO I COULDN'T PICK.
11:22:43 BRENT HILL, ANDY SCAGLIONE AND JOE VALDELEZ.
11:22:48 >> AS MR. CARLSON NOTED, HE VOTED FOR MR. BRENT HILL,
11:22:55 MR. SCAGLIONE AND MR. VALDELEZ.
11:23:01 MR. GUDES VOTED FOR MICHAEL LEEDS, ANDY SCAGLIONE, AND
11:23:03 JOE VALDELEZ.
11:23:12 MISS HURTAK VOTED FOR ANDY SCAGLIONE, JOE VALDELEZ AND
11:23:14 MIKE FARRELL.
11:23:20 MR. CITRO VOTED FOR MICHAEL LEEDS, ANDY SCAGLIONE AND
11:23:23 JOE VALDELEZ.
11:23:31 MR. VIERA VOTED FOR MICHAEL LEEDS, ANDY SCAGLIONE AND
11:23:33 JOE VALDELEZ.
11:23:40 MR. MIRANDA VOTED FOR ANDY SCAGLIONE, JOE VALDELEZ AND
11:23:43 MARK FARRELL.
11:23:49 MR. MANISCALCO VOTED FOR ANDY SCAGLIONE, JOE VALDELEZ
11:23:58 AND MARK FARRELL.
11:24:06 WE HAVE MR. ANDY SCALIONE AND JOE VALDALEZ BOTH
11:24:08 RECEIVED SEVEN VOTES.
11:24:09 BRENT HILL, ONE VOTE.
11:24:13 MICHAEL LEADS THREE VOTES.
11:24:17 AND MARK FARRELL, THREE VOTES.
11:24:23 SO IT IS BETWEEN MICHAEL LEEDS AND MARK FARRELL.
11:24:27 WE NEED ANOTHER VOTE.
11:24:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: EACH MEMBER OF THE CRA AND HAVE YOU
11:24:31 ALL VOTE.
11:24:34 YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAND OUT ANOTHER BALLOT, I DON'T
11:24:36 THINK.
11:24:43 A VERBAL VOTE BETWEEN MR. LEEDS AND MR. FARRELL.
11:24:45 >> YES.
11:24:48 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU WANT TO START.
11:24:56 MADAM CLERK.
11:24:59 >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU WANT A ROLL CALL.
11:25:03 >>BILL CARLSON: MICHAEL LEEDS.
11:25:08 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MARK FARRELL.
11:25:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LEEDS.
11:25:13 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. LEEDS.
11:25:17 >>LYNN HURTAK: MR. FARRELL.
11:25:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LEEDS.
11:25:42 >> THE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING THE MOST VOTES WOULD BE MR.
11:25:49 LEEDS.
11:25:50 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:25:53 SO WE HAVE OUR THREE MEMBERS.
11:25:57 >> THE THREE MEMBERS WOULD BE ANDY SCAGLIONE, JOE
11:26:03 VALDELEZ AND MICHAEL LEEDS.
11:26:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: CONGRATULATIONS.
11:26:13 THANK YOU FOR ALL THE APPLICANTS AND ALL THE TIME THAT
11:26:25 EVERYONE PUT INTO THIS.
11:26:28 >> KEEPING THE THEME OF CAC APPOINTMENTS.
11:26:30 NEXT ON YOUR AGENDA, CENTRAL PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE
11:26:36 APPOINTMENT THAT IS UNCONTESTED.
11:26:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
11:26:40 >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE HAVE A NAME?
11:26:42 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I WAS TRYING TO FLIP PAGES FAST
11:26:43 ENOUGH.
11:26:47 YOU HAVE AN APPLICATION FROM MR. NEVILLE EVANS.
11:26:52 REAPPLYING FOR THE OPEN SEAT AT THE CAC IN CENTRAL PARK
11:26:55 CRA.
11:26:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
11:27:00 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:27:06 SECONDED BY.
11:27:07 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:27:08 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:27:10 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:27:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:27:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:27:15 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:27:19 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: LASTLY, A VACANCY ON TAMPA HEIGHTS
11:27:22 RIVERFRONT CAC.
11:27:26 ONE OF THE NINE SEATS ARE OPEN AND MR. MATTHEW
11:27:30 SOKOLOWSKI HAS APPLIED FOR THAT OPEN SEAT.
11:27:32 HE IS UNCONTESTED.
11:27:34 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
11:27:35 >> SECOND.
11:27:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: APPROVAL BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND
11:27:42 SECONDED BY.
11:27:44 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:27:45 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:27:46 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:27:49 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:27:51 >> MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:27:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: QUESTION.
11:28:03 MR. MCCRAY, I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO GET IN TOUCH WITH A
11:28:04 MISS BROWNING.
11:28:08 SHE LIVES AT 3605 EAST CARACAS.
11:28:10 I HAVE HER NUMBER AND E-MAIL.
11:28:12 AND LIKE YOU TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HER AND SOMEBODY FROM
11:28:17 ACD TO TALK WITH HER IN REFERENCE TO HER HOME.
11:28:20 SHE HAS LOST SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY AND SHE MAY
11:28:23 NEED SOME DOLLARS TO HEN FINISH THE COMPLETION OF THE
11:28:24 HOME.
11:28:26 IF WE CAN FIND SOME DOLLARS TO HELP HER.
11:28:30 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROCESS -- BUT, YOU KNOW, SHE IS
11:28:34 ABOUT 77 SOMETHING YEARS OLD AND SHE GOT TAKEN AND I
11:28:37 THINK IF WE CAN HELP HER, SHE DOES HAVE SOME VALUE.
11:28:40 SO YOU HAVE HER NUMBER AND E-MAIL.
11:28:44 BUT GET IN TOUCH WITH HER WITH ACD AND HAVE A MEETING
11:28:45 WITH HER.
11:28:48 I WENT OUT TO THE HOME YESTERDAY AND I PROMISED I WOULD
11:28:49 MAKE MENTION TO THAT.
11:28:52 >> YES, I -- WITHIN THE LAST MONTH, I HAVE BEEN IN
11:28:56 CONTACT WITH HER SON-IN-LAW ABOUT THAT SITUATION AND I
11:28:58 KNOW THERE WAS A NEWS STORY THAT RAN ON MONDAY AND I
11:29:01 ALSO GOT A TEXT MESSAGES YESTERDAY THERE WAS FOUL PLAY
11:29:02 IN THE HOME.
11:29:07 AND I BELIEVE FOLKS AT TPD HAVE GOTTEN INVOLVED AND I
11:29:10 WILL FOLLOW UP WITH MISS BROWNING DIRECTLY.
11:29:12 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANY OTHER NEWS?
11:29:14 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:29:19 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO COMPLIMENT ON YOUR JOB AS
11:29:20 CHAIRPERSON.
11:29:21 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:29:23 GETTING MY SEA LEGS AS THEY SAY.
11:29:25 COUNCILMAN CITRO, ANYTHING?
11:29:28 >>JOSEPH CITRO: WELL-DONE.
11:29:29 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GREAT JOB OPINION.
11:29:31 >>LUIS VIERA: GREAT JOB.
11:29:32 I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION.
11:29:34 I WAS SPEAKING WITH OUR STAFF YESTERDAY.
11:29:37 I WOULD LIKE A REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF ANY CRA
11:29:41 MONETARY SUPPORT THAT CAN BE GIVEN.
11:29:44 AND I KNOW LEGAL ISSUES AND IT IS A REPORT ON
11:29:48 FEASIBILITY ON MEMORIAL CEMETERY IN TERMS OF -- COULD
11:29:51 BE -- AND I AM NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE ISSUES THERE.
11:29:55 BUT JUST ANY -- THE FEASIBILITY OF CRA SUPPORT FOR
11:30:00 MEMORIAL CEMETERY WHICH IS IN DIRE STRAITS, IF I MAY.
11:30:02 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:30:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA, MR. MCCRAY IS ON THAT.
11:30:11 HE HAD A MEETING WITH MISS HENDERSON AND THE CEMETERY
11:30:12 SOCIETY, I BELIEVE.
11:30:16 I KNOW THAT THE -- I KNOW THAT THE NORTHERN PORTION OF
11:30:21 THE CEMETERY, THE CRA, THEIR FEN OPINION I KNOW HE
11:30:22 WANTED THE OTHER PORTION.
11:30:27 BUT HE IS WORKING ON THAT ALREADY, SIR.
11:30:28 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
11:30:30 IF I MAY -- THANK YOU FOR THAT, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:30:38 I JUST WANTED TO FORMALIZE THAT FOR SPECIFICALLY CRA SO
11:30:41 WE CAN HAVE SOME CONTROL AND DISCRETION ON THAT ISSUE
11:30:44 TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE.
11:30:46 >>MORRIS MASSEY: TIME FRAME FOR US TO COME BACK.
11:30:47 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
11:30:50 WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED MR. MASSEY?
11:30:51 >>MORRIS MASSEY: 30.
11:30:53 60 DAYS.
11:30:55 >>LUIS VIERA: HOW ABOUT 60.
11:30:59 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, JULY 21.
11:31:00 >>LUIS VIERA: SOUNDS GOOD, THANK YOU.
11:31:03 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:31:06 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:31:09 I THINK THIS IS -- ALL IN FAVOR.
11:31:11 ANY OPPOSED?
11:31:12 OKAY.
11:31:13 MOTION CARRIES.
11:31:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:31:17 >> SECOND.
11:31:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:31:20 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
11:31:22 ALL IN FAVOR.
11:31:23 OKAY.
11:31:24 WE ARE ADJOURNED.
11:31:26 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.
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