TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2022
9:00 A.M.
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09:04:32 >>LYNN HURTAK: THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY
09:04:35 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER.
09:04:38 WE ARE GOING TO STAND FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND THE
09:04:48 PLEDGE.
09:04:58 [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
09:05:10 [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:05:11 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:05:23 ROLL CALL.
09:05:24 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:05:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:05:27 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:05:28 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:05:30 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:05:31 >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:05:35 >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL FORUM.
09:05:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: MR. MASSEY, IF YOU COULD REVIEW THE
09:05:42 RULES PERTAINING TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN
09:05:43 THE CRA MEETING.
09:05:44 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WILL BE GLAD TO.
09:05:47 JUNE 9, 2022 MEETING OF THE CITY OF TAMPA REDEVELOPMENT
09:05:53 AGENCY HELD AT CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS OLD CITY HALL, 315
09:05:55 E. KENNEDY BOULEVARD IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:05:58 THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON OR
09:06:02 REVIEW IT ON CABLE TELEVISION SPECTRUM 640 OR FRONTIER
09:06:11 CHANNEL 15 OR BY THE INTERNET BY TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:06:14 THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE WITH MAXIMUM OF THREE
09:06:19 MINUTES PER SPEAKER HERE IN COUNCIL CHAMBER OR BY WAY
09:06:22 OF COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY, CMT.
09:06:26 USE OF CMT REQUIRES PREREGISTRATION FROM THE CITY
09:06:27 CLERK'S OFFICE.
09:06:30 DIRECTION OF PREREGISTRATION IN THE NOTICE OF THIS
09:06:34 MEETING AND CAN I HEAR THE MOTION WAIVING THE RULES TO
09:06:36 ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENT BY CMT.
09:06:39 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND
09:06:41 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:42 ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:44 ANY OPPOSED?
09:06:48 OKAY.
09:06:51 MISS NICOLE TRAVIS, IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES TO THE
09:06:56 PUBLISHED -- ARE THERE ANY CHANGES TO THE PUBLISHED CRA
09:06:57 AGENDA TODAY.
09:06:58 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NO.
09:07:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION APPROVING.
09:07:05 MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND SECONDED BY
09:07:06 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:07:08 ALL IN FAVOR.
09:07:10 OKAY.
09:07:12 PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:07:14 THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COMMENT ON ANY ITEM UP TO
09:07:16 THREE MINUTES.
09:07:23 ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK TODAY?
09:07:24 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:07:27 BENJAMIN BASDIN.
09:07:31 I'M HERE IN REGARDS TO JUNETEENTH.
09:07:35 WE WERE APPROVED 5,000 TO HAVE JUNETEENTH.
09:07:36 THAT WASN'T ENOUGH.
09:07:40 WE ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO APPROVE -- TO RAISE IT.
09:07:43 UNFORTUNATELY, WE WASN'T ABLE TO DO WHAT WE WANTED TO
09:07:47 DO TO BRING THE CITY TOGETHER AS A WHOLE FOR
09:07:50 JUNETEENTH, BUT WE ARE HOPING TO MAKE IT BETTER NEXT
09:07:52 YEAR, HOPING THAT WE CAN PARTNER UP WITH THE CITY AND
09:07:56 MAKE THIS THING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE.
09:07:58 BECAUSE THIS CITY NEED THIS.
09:08:01 OUR BABIES NEED THIS AND THEIR BABIES' BABIES NEED
09:08:04 THIS.
09:08:09 THIS IS -- THIS IS A FESTIVITY THAT IS -- IT IS A
09:08:12 POSITIVE FESTIVITY FOR PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER AS A
09:08:14 WHOLE TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT EACH OTHER.
09:08:16 TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT BEING FREE.
09:08:20 THAT IS JUST SAYING YOU ARE -- NOT JUST SAYING YOU ARE
09:08:24 FREE FROM SLAVERY, NO, YOU UP THERE ARE FREE TO SAY
09:08:25 THINGS FOR THE COMMUNITIES.
09:08:27 AND MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
09:08:29 IT IS ABOUT BRINGING EVERYBODY TOGETHER.
09:08:33 IF YOU DON'T -- IF YOU DON'T HAVE UNITY INTO
09:08:36 JUNETEENTH, IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
09:08:39 PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF JUNETEENTH.
09:08:43 THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY IN IT BUT YOU WILL NOT MAKE A
09:08:46 WHOLE LOT OF MONEY IF YOU DON'T HAVE UNITY.
09:08:50 JUNETEENTH IS UNITY TO MAKE IT WORK AS A WHOLE FOR THE
09:08:53 WHOLE THING.
09:08:56 AND YOU MAKING IS HERE AND THERE BUT YOU WILL NOT MAKE
09:09:00 WHAT YOU SHOULD MAKE IF YOU DON'T BRING IT AS A WHOLE.
09:09:03 I AM ASKING THE COUNCIL TO PLEASE APPROVE THIS AND
09:09:04 RAISE THIS UP.
09:09:06 BECAUSE THE CITY NEED THIS AND IT IS GOING TO BE
09:09:10 SOMETHING GOOD FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE THAT IS IN THIS
09:09:13 THING, ESPECIALLY KIDS AND THEIR BABIES AND THEIR
09:09:14 BABIES' BABIES.
09:09:17 I ASK YOU AGAIN TO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PRETTY
09:09:18 PLEASE, TO APPROVE THIS.
09:09:24 AGAIN, I THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO HAVE JUNETEENTH
09:09:28 AND I BEG UPON YOU TO PARTNER UP WITH US.
09:09:33 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I RECEIVED SEVERAL CALLS.
09:09:36 WERE YOU ABLE TO CONNECT WITH MISS WYNN.
09:09:37 >> YES.
09:09:43 OUR PROBLEM IS THAT -- SEE, WHAT IT IS WE HAVE TO HAVE
09:09:44 MONEY.
09:09:47 WE ARE IN THE COMMUNITY -- A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE
09:09:48 COMMUNITY DON'T HAVE MONEY.
09:09:51 AND THEY SAY PULL YOURSELF FROM THE BOOTSTRAPS.
09:09:54 YOU LOOK DOWN, PEOPLE DON'T HAVE BOOTS TO PULL
09:09:56 THEMSELVES TO THE BOOTSTRAPS.
09:09:58 THE PROBLEM IS WE DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDS.
09:10:01 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DID YOU MEET -- SHE SAID SHE HAD
09:10:01 DIFFICULTY.
09:10:05 DID YOU FINALLY MEET WITH MISS WYNN.
09:10:06 >> I TALKED TO HER.
09:10:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IN REFERENCE -- TRYING TO MAKE
09:10:12 RECOMMENDATIONS US TO EARLIER WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO
09:10:13 DO WITH THAT PROGRAM.
09:10:17 I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU CONNECTED WITH MISS WYNN.
09:10:20 >> LIKE I SAID WE THINK -- AT LEAST I DO FOR SURE THIS
09:10:22 THING IS KIND OF GEARED UP KIND OF WRONG.
09:10:26 YOU HAVE TO HAVE MATCHING -- YOU HAVE TO MATCH $5,000.
09:10:31 WHO IN WEST TAMPA HAS $5,000 IN THEIR BANK ACCOUNT?
09:10:32 NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE.
09:10:35 I DON'T HAVE $5,000 IN MY ACCOUNT.
09:10:37 THE WEST TAMPA ALLIANCE.
09:10:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I UNDERSTAND THAT.
09:10:42 I WANTED TO FIND OUT IF YOU CONNECTED.
09:10:46 AND I KNOW THEY SAID THEY WILL WORK TOGETHER TO BRING
09:10:48 THINGS TOGETHER.
09:10:52 I DON'T MIND INDIVIDUALITY, BUT FEW THINGS THAT THE
09:10:56 CITY IS GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE DO SOME THINGS.
09:11:00 THANK YOU FOR REACHING OUT FOR ME AND HOPEFULLY GET IT
09:11:01 RIGHT FOR NEXT YEAR.
09:11:02 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
09:11:07 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:11:09 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:11:10 CONNIE BURTON.
09:11:16 FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MR. MCCRAY.
09:11:20 I KNOW THIS IS A CRA MEETING AND MISS TRAVIS AND HER
09:11:23 STAFF ARE JUST WORKING DILL GENTLY TO ACCELERATE THE
09:11:30 ISSUES OF EAST TAMPA, BUT.
09:11:32 THAT GENTLEMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT.
09:11:36 I WAS THINKING THIS MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1963 WHEN DR.
09:11:41 KING DID THE "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH.
09:11:43 WE ARE 59 YEARS FROM THAT SPEECH.
09:11:48 AND THE PHRASE THAT HE MADE THAT THE NEGRO -- HE CAN
09:11:52 SAY AFRICAN-AMERICANS STILL SIT ON A LONELY ISLAND OF
09:11:53 POVERTY.
09:11:57 THAT WE HAVE TO BEG AND CONTINUE TO PLEAD TO GET OUR
09:12:00 ISSUES ADDRESSED.
09:12:03 THE ISSUES OF SILVER OAKS.
09:12:06 YOU HAD THE MAYOR, CHIEF, HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT ALL
09:12:10 WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C. SOME TIME THIS MONTH.
09:12:13 YET TO COME BACK TO GIVE A REPORT TO THIS COMMUNITY AS
09:12:17 TO HOW WE ARE GOING TO ADDRESS THE UNLIVABLE CONDITIONS
09:12:19 ON THAT PROPERTY.
09:12:26 THAT THE CHILDREN THAT WE ARE EXPECTING TO GROW UP TO
09:12:30 BE PROSPEROUS CAN'T DO SO BECAUSE THEY ARE LIVING IN
09:12:30 FILTH.
09:12:31 AND WE ALL KNOW IT.
09:12:38 WE ALL USE DR. KING'S SPEECH WHEN IT IS GOOD FOR
09:12:40 ELECTION TIMES BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ACTIONS IN
09:12:44 TERMS OF HOW WE WILL ADDRESS THIS ISSUE OF POVERTY.
09:12:46 HOW ARE WE GOING TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE OF VIOLENCE.
09:12:50 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ISSUE OF YOUNG BLACK MEN DYING
09:12:53 INSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITY, IT ALL RELATES TO THE ROOT
09:13:02 CAUSE OF POVERTY NO DRUG MARCHES.
09:13:05 NO DRESSING UP IN ORANGE.
09:13:09 NO HAVING PREACHERS TO PREACH WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
09:13:13 IF PREACHING WHERE ARE THE WHITE PREACHERS TO ADDRESS
09:13:14 GUN VIOLENCE.
09:13:18 BECAUSE BACK PREACHERS ARE USED IN OUR COMMUNITY TO NOT
09:13:20 ONLY PREACH BUT TO ATTACK THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHEN WE
09:13:23 DON'T JUMP TO THESE LITTLE PHRASES THAT YOU SEE
09:13:25 SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.
09:13:28 WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SAY A DAMN THING WHEN THE POLICE
09:13:33 HAS THE BIGGEST BUDGET OF YOUR ACCOUNT TO ADDRESS THE
09:13:37 ISSUE OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND CRISIS IN OUR COMMUNITY
09:13:39 WHICH YOU HAVE NOT ADDRESSED.
09:13:42 YES, WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THAT VIOLENCE BECAUSE WE
09:13:44 ARE STILL DEALING WITH POVERTY.
09:13:46 AND I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION NOT ONLY
09:13:51 THE WORDS OF DR. KING, BUT YOU TRY TO MOUNT YOURSELF UP
09:13:54 TO BE CLOSE TO PROXIMITY TO THAT MISSION.
09:13:59 THANK YOU.
09:14:04 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:14:08 >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:14:11 THREE WEEKS, FOUR WEEKS AGO I SPOKE OF INAPPROPRIATE
09:14:13 RELATIONSHIPS AND THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE.
09:14:14 I SAID YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.
09:14:16 A DO-NOTHING CITY COUNCIL.
09:14:20 WHEN I SAY A DO-NOTHING CITY COUNCIL BE PLACED IN THE
09:14:21 RIGHT CONTEXT.
09:14:25 NOT THAT THE CITY IS ADVANCING, THE CITY IS ADVANCING.
09:14:29 A BIG BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET THAT DEALS WITH HUNDREDS OF
09:14:31 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HERE EVERY THURSDAY.
09:14:33 THE CITY IS ADVANCING.
09:14:36 LOOK AROUND, IT IS ADVANCING.
09:14:40 THE AFRICAN PEOPLE -- WHITE PEOPLE ARE ADVANCING.
09:14:44 AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE 26% OF THE POPULATION,
09:14:45 WE ARE NOT ADVANCING.
09:14:48 AND THIS CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO TAKE THAT MORE SERIOUS.
09:14:51 YOU THINK THAT CRAZY GUY COMES UP TO SPEAK AND SAY
09:14:52 WHATEVER, WHATEVER.
09:14:55 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, 26% OF THIS POPULATION IN
09:14:59 THIS CITY AND WE NEED 26% OF THE CITY BUDGET.
09:15:03 WE DON'T NEED PEOPLE LINING UP A BUNCH OF NEGRO
09:15:07 BAFOONS LINING UP BEHIND THE MAYOR TALKING ABOUT
09:15:09 STOPPING THE GUN VIOLENCE.
09:15:11 LET THE GUN MANUFACTURERS STOP THAT.
09:15:15 237 YEARS AGO, THE WHITE FOLKS IN THEIR SECOND
09:15:17 AMENDMENT SAY WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT GUNS.
09:15:20 AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SEPARATE THE WHITE FOLKS FROM
09:15:21 THEIR GUNS.
09:15:23 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT.
09:15:27 PEOPLE WHO CAN -- IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME -- THROUGH
09:15:31 GUN MANUFACTURING AND GUN POSSESSION WIPE OUT AND TAKE
09:15:34 OUT 11% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION THAT CAN TAKE
09:15:39 POSSESSION OF 100% OF THE WORLD'S RESOURCES IS THROUGH
09:15:39 WEAPONRY.
09:15:41 THEY DO IT FROM THEIR GUNS.
09:15:44 YOU SHALL NOT GOING TO ACCEPT RATE THE WHITE PEOPLE
09:15:44 FROM GUN.
09:15:49 THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY THE NEGRO FROM THE ABILITY
09:15:50 TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
09:15:53 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WHEN THIS CITY COUNCIL,
09:15:56 MAYOR, POLITICIANS LINE UP, WHAT THEY NEED TO LINE UP
09:16:00 TO DEAL WITH ARE REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:16:03 REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:16:05 NOT GUN VIOLENCE.
09:16:06 NOT SNITCH PROGRAM.
09:16:09 SNITCH ON YOUR BROTHER, SISTER AND COMMUNITY WHILE YOUR
09:16:10 COMMUNITY IS IN CRISIS.
09:16:14 LIQUOR STORE IN EVERY CORNER ON OUR COMMUNITY.
09:16:16 ALCOHOL ADVERTISING, LOTTO, TAXATION WITHOUT
09:16:18 REPRESENTATION.
09:16:21 LOTTO EVERYWHERE YOU GO THROUGHOUT YOUR COMMUNITY.
09:16:23 DISPOSSESSING OUR COMMUNITY.
09:16:24 NO, WE ARE NOT FOOLISH.
09:16:26 WE ARE NOT FOOLISH.
09:16:29 BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT FOOLISH.
09:16:31 THEY SAY 1619.
09:16:31 THE WOKE CULTURE.
09:16:37 THEY SAY WE COME HERE '19 ON A SHIP.
09:16:38 WE ARE NOT FOOLISH.
09:16:40 WE ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE.
09:16:43 THE FACT OF THE MATTER WHAT YOU SEE THE CITY COUNCIL
09:16:45 REPRESENTATIVES NEED TO LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS DOWN
09:16:48 THE HALLWAY AND THAT DRAWING AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED.
09:16:50 IT OFFENDS AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:16:52 IT OFFENDS THE EMPLOYEES IN THIS BUILDING.
09:16:55 IT OFFENDS US.
09:16:57 AND THE SENSITIVITY NEEDS TO BE TO THAT THE SAME WAY
09:17:00 THE SENSITIVITY NEEDS TO BE TOWARD REPARATIONS FOR
09:17:01 AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:17:02 THAT IS WHAT WE NEED.
09:17:04 WE NEED REPARATIONS IN THIS CITY.
09:17:07 AND THAT IS WHAT THE DISCUSSION NEEDS TO BE ABOUT.
09:17:08 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:17:09 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:17:12 ANYONE ELSE?
09:17:13 ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TODAY?
09:17:15 ANYONE ONLINE?
09:17:18 >>CLERK: YES, MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
09:17:21 MICHAEL, IF YOU HEAR ME PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF AND YOU
09:17:22 HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
09:17:24 >> HELLO.
09:17:25 GOOD MORNING.
09:17:27 MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
09:17:30 I AM WITH THE WEST TAMPA CAC.
09:17:33 TODAY I AM GOING TO BRING PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT
09:17:35 INFORMATION RELATED TO CRA.
09:17:39 AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THREE GROUPS THAT ARE MEETING TO
09:17:41 CHANGE THE CRA.
09:17:46 THAT'S THE OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER AND CURRENCY,
09:17:52 FEDERAL RESERVE AND FEDERAL -- TRADITIONALLY, THE CRA
09:17:57 HAS BEEN POSITIONED ITSELF FOR GENTRIFICATION.
09:17:58 HERE IS WHY.
09:18:02 CURRENTLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT WRONG WITH THE
09:18:04 COMMUNITY, IT IS BASED ON THEIR COLOR.
09:18:05 WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
09:18:10 IF YOU SAY THAT MINORITIES ARE INCREASING THE CRA AREA
09:18:12 AND YOU LOOK AT THAT NUMBER, IT LOOKS GOOD.
09:18:14 BUT WHEN YOU BREAK IT DOWN, YOU FIND OUT THAT THE
09:18:18 MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE WHITE FEMALES BECAUSE THEY ARE
09:18:19 MINORITY AS WELL.
09:18:24 THAT IS CAUSING A -- A MISCONCEPT IN WHICH THE CRA IS
09:18:30 ABOUT TO CHANGE.
09:18:33 THE CHANGE NOW IS GOING TO FOCUS ON RACE.
09:18:35 IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT WHETHER OR NOT A PARTICULAR
09:18:39 COMMUNITY IS REALLY MOVING UPWARD, THE CRA IS GOING TO
09:18:41 LOOK AT RACE AS A NARRATIVE.
09:18:47 AND THAT IS GOING TO DECREASE THE IMPACT OF
09:18:48 GENTRIFICATION.
09:18:51 THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT IS COMING DOWN
09:19:00 THE PIKE NOW AND THE COMMUNITY HAS TO ENGAGE.
09:19:03 AUGUST 8 IS THE LAST DAY FOR THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE THE
09:19:08 INPUT HOW THEY WANT TO DO THE CRA.
09:19:09 IT CAN BE A THING IN THE PAST.
09:19:15 NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT NOT THE NUMBERS BUT THE RACE.
09:19:17 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:19:19 IN RELATIONSHIP TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
09:19:22 WE HAVE A STRATEGY TO THAT TOO.
09:19:24 NOT THE COMMUNITY THAT WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM, IT IS
09:19:25 THE STREETS.
09:19:29 HOW DO YOU MOBILIZE THOSE PEOPLE WITH THE GUNS ON THE
09:19:31 STREETS TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE.
09:19:33 THAT IS OUR STRATEGY.
09:19:33 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:19:36 AGAIN, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT IS COMING IN THE
09:19:39 PIPELINE IS THE CRA IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
09:19:43 IF THAT CHANGES, HOUSING, CRIME, ALL THIS STUFF WILL
09:19:44 TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.
09:19:48 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:19:50 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:19:52 >>CLERK: THAT'S IT FOR REGISTERED SPEAKERS.
09:19:57 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE WANT TO SPEAK?
09:19:59 >> GOOD MORNING.
09:20:02 I WAS HERE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
09:20:04 >>LYNN HURTAK: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
09:20:07 >> MY NAME IS EDDIE ADAMS, JR.
09:20:11 I WAS HERE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND I HEARD A REPORT
09:20:15 FROM TAMPA WATER AND THEY HAD $35 MILLION IN SURPLUS.
09:20:18 AND I ALSO HEARD SOME OF THE CONVERSATION YOU GUYS HAVE
09:20:21 HAD THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
09:20:24 AND IT WAS ABOUT SILVER OAKS.
09:20:28 AND WHERE MONEY WOULD COME FROM TO HELP DO SOME
09:20:30 REPAIRS.
09:20:35 I KIND OF FIGURE -- AND HEARD THE MEETING LAST WEEK
09:20:40 WHERE JULY 1 THEY PUT TOGETHER A NEW MANAGER, BUT THAT
09:20:42 IS NOT HELPING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE NOW.
09:20:46 AND I KNOW IN POLITICS, IT IS A LOT OF WHO IS
09:20:47 RESPONSIBLE.
09:20:51 WHOSE FAULT IT IS.
09:20:54 AND HAVE YOU SOUGHT OUT WHOSE FAULT IT WAS THAT $35
09:21:01 MILLION THAT CAME FROM THE WATER -- TAMPA WATER.
09:21:04 I WONDER IF THERE IS SOME KIND OF WAY THAT THE CITY CAN
09:21:08 ASSIST THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING.
09:21:12 IN UNLIVABLE CONDITIONS AND THEY CONTINUE TO LIVE IN
09:21:18 UNLIVABLE CONDITIONS WHILE POLITICIANS POLITIC.
09:21:22 I KIND OF THINK THOSE FOLKS DESERVE A LITTLE BETTER AND
09:21:25 I KNOW -- I DON'T KNOW HOW MONEY CHANGES FROM ONE
09:21:28 DEPARTMENT TO THE OTHER, BUT ALL OF IT CAME FROM THE
09:21:30 CITIZENS OF.
09:21:41 SO IF POSSIBLE, I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT
09:21:42 THE IMMEDIATE RELIEF PROCESS.
09:21:47 IF THEY WAIT ANOTHER MONTH FOR A NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM TO
09:21:50 COME ON BOARD, THEN THEY ARE GOING TO GET ORGANIZED AND
09:21:57 IMMEDIATELY SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR.
09:22:01 THAT IS STILL PEOPLE LIVING IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS.
09:22:03 SEWAGE BACKING UP IN THE TUB.
09:22:10 YOU KNOW, RATS, ROACHES.
09:22:12 I WAS POOR WHEN I WAS YOUNG.
09:22:16 IF YOU DON'T WASH BEFORE YOU GO TO BED, THE RATS AND
09:22:19 ROACHES WILL EAT YOUR FINGER.
09:22:21 THEY WILL EAT THE DIRT OFF YOUR HAND.
09:22:25 I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE POOR AND LIVE IN HORRIBLE
09:22:28 CONDITIONS LIKE THAT AND I DON'T WISH THAT ON ANYBODY.
09:22:30 IF ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE BECAUSE THEY PROPOSED A
09:22:34 $35 MILLION OFFICE BUILDING FOR 18 PEOPLE.
09:22:35 AT LEAST WHAT I HEARD.
09:22:40 IF THAT MONEY IS AVAILABLE FOR OTHER USES SO YOU WOULD
09:22:43 HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HELP PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
09:22:51 WHO IS LIVING IN SUCH IMPOVERISHED CIRCUMSTANCES THAT I
09:22:55 WISH WOULD YOU CONSIDER SOME KIND OF WAY USE THAT MONEY
09:22:59 FOR THAT.
09:23:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CHAIRWOMAN.
09:23:03 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:23:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW I LIVED AROUND AND GREW UP
09:23:07 IN THERE.
09:23:12 I KNOW JOHNSON KIM COURT, NOT SILVER OAKS.
09:23:17 I USED TO CUT TO GO CATCH THE SCHOOL BUS ON THIRD
09:23:18 STREET.
09:23:21 IT SICKENS ME WE HAVE ALL THESE AGENCIES AND NOBODY CAN
09:23:23 SEEM TO DO A DAMN THING.
09:23:23 >> THANK YOU.
09:23:25 THAT'S WHAT I AM SAYING.
09:23:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HAVE A FEDERAL LEVEL, STATE LEVEL,
09:23:30 AND LOCAL LEVEL.
09:23:33 I DON'T WANT TO SAY PASSING THE BUCK, BUT WHO IS
09:23:34 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT.
09:23:37 I KNOW A PRIVATE COMPANY AND PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, BUT
09:23:40 RULES AND REGULATIONS BECAUSE WE CAN'T EVEN GO IN THERE
09:23:45 AS A CITY WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT TO DO ANYTHING.
09:23:49 I ASKED OUR PEOPLE TO LOOK HOW CAN WE PARTNER -- A
09:23:52 MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT TO DO SOMETHING.
09:23:55 HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING BACK.
09:23:59 I WAS ASKED NOT TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE HUD SECRETARY
09:24:02 BECAUSE THAT COULD HURT US AND JUST TO GO TO THE STATE.
09:24:04 THE PEOPLE ARE RIGHT.
09:24:07 WHAT GOOD IS A GOVERNMENT -- EVERYBODY COMES AROUND
09:24:10 DURING ELECTION TIME THAT THIS AND THAT AND WHAT THEY
09:24:10 WILL DO.
09:24:13 >> HUGGING AND KISSING BABIES.
09:24:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE CAN'T DO A DAMN THING FOR PEOPLE
09:24:16 OVER THERE.
09:24:18 WE CAN'T HEAR.
09:24:20 I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO --
09:24:23 >> MUTED, UNMUTED.
09:24:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T
09:24:26 DO.
09:24:27 WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
09:24:29 I HAVE BEEN OVER THERE.
09:24:33 PIPELINE -- THE PIPES ARE BAD UNDERNEATH THE PLACE.
09:24:35 IT IS AN OLD, OLD COMPLEX.
09:24:38 WHEN I WAS A SMALL BOY, THERE WERE BUILDING.
09:24:42 I KNOW THEY HAD MANAGEMENT COMPANIES COME IN AND OUT.
09:24:44 I AM JUST HOPING THAT THE STATE OR FEDS CAN COME IN AND
09:24:48 DO SOMETHING.
09:24:50 EVEN IF THEY COME IN THERE, THESE PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED
09:24:53 AND WHERE DO THEY GO FROM THERE?
09:24:56 WE HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS IN THE CITY ITSELF.
09:24:58 I AM JUST HOPING THAT SOMEONE WILL COME UP WITH AN
09:24:59 IDEA.
09:25:01 I AM NOT A GENIUS ON THIS THING.
09:25:04 THOSE IN HOUSING AND OTHER LEVELS HAVE GOT TO HELP
09:25:05 THOSE PEOPLE.
09:25:06 IT IS BAD OVER THERE.
09:25:08 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
09:25:11 >> THE OTHER THING --
09:25:13 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ADAMS.
09:25:15 >> THE OTHER I THINK THAT IS HORRIBLE IS THE PEOPLE
09:25:20 THEMSELVES, THEY ARE SUFFERING CONTINUOUS.
09:25:23 YOU GO BACK IN HISTORY, THESE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING
09:25:27 POVERTY LIKE -- IF YOU LIVED IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
09:25:30 UP THERE, THOSE SLUM LORDS AND EVERYBODY WAS SCREAMING
09:25:33 AND HOLLERING HOW BAD THAT STUFF WAS.
09:25:36 THIS IS THE SAME THING AND IN OUR BACK YARD AND I
09:25:40 THOUGHT WE HAD $35 MILLION THAT CAME FROM THE CITY OF
09:25:41 TAMPA RESIDENTS.
09:25:45 AND IF THERE IS SOME WAY THAT YOU GUYS COULD MANIPULATE
09:25:54 THE PROCESS, YOU CAN GET SOME HELP TO THOSE PEOPLE.
09:25:55 THANK YOU.
09:25:59 >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU STATE YOUR POINT
09:25:59 VERY WELL.
09:26:03 I WOULD LIKE TO TONIGHT MAKE A MOTION THAT WE AS A CITY
09:26:05 COUNCIL CAN WRITE A LETTER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
09:26:07 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATIONS.
09:26:11 THE CITY CODE HERE IN TAMPA CAN ONLY INSPECT HOUSING
09:26:14 THAT IS FIVE UNITS AND LESS.
09:26:17 IT'S UP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
09:26:21 REGULATIONS THROUGH THE STATE OF FLORIDA -- AND I HAVE
09:26:23 CONTACTED THEIR OFFICE.
09:26:28 I -- CONTACTED PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE WITH THEIR OFFICE.
09:26:31 NOW I THINK IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR THE CITY DOWN WRITE A
09:26:33 LETTER TO THAT DEPARTMENT.
09:26:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WE HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT, MISS
09:26:37 TRAVIS.
09:26:38 HAVEN'T WE NOT?
09:26:41 >>JOSEPH CITRO: TO BACK IT UP SAYING WHAT'S GOING ON.
09:26:42 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:26:47 >>BILL CARLSON: MR. ADAMS, AS I UNDERSTAND IT AND MR.
09:26:50 MASSEY CAN CORRECT US.
09:26:52 THE WATER MONEY IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND THAT IS TIED TO
09:26:55 CERTAIN SPECIFIC ITEMS AND WE CAN'T USE IT, FOR
09:26:57 EXAMPLE, FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:26:59 BUT MR. GUDES, IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE A MOTION TONIGHT
09:27:02 ABOUT ASKING THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO SEE IF THERE ARE
09:27:04 ANY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES UNDERNEATH THE
09:27:05 BUILDING.
09:27:07 I DON'T THINK WE CAN -- WE CAN CHECK.
09:27:11 MORRIS -- I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN CHANGE PIPES WITHIN A
09:27:13 BUILDING BUT PIPES BROKEN OUTSIDE THAT ARE NOT FEEDING
09:27:17 THE BUILDING CORRECTLY WE MAY BE ABLE TO USE WATER
09:27:18 BUDGET FOR THAT.
09:27:20 THE WATER DEPARTMENT HAS TOO MUCH MONEY.
09:27:23 I WOULD LIKE TO REDUCE THE WATER RATE WHICH -- EVEN IF
09:27:27 WE REDUCE IT BY $10 TO $20 A MONTH, THAT WILL BE A
09:27:30 SMALL RELIEF FOR PEOPLE DECIDING BETWEEN FOOD AND
09:27:33 MEDICINE, WILL HELP THEM MAYBE GET BOTH.
09:27:35 WE LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING THAT UP AGAIN LATER, THANK
09:27:36 YOU.
09:27:42 >> I HEARD THAT REPORT LAST WEEK, DESAL AND GROUNDWATER
09:27:43 AND WATER FROM THE RIVER.
09:27:46 FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, THEY ARE LOOKING FORWARD
09:27:52 TO MAKING 10, 8, 12% PROFIT FOR NEXT YEAR BECAUSE THEY
09:27:54 GAVE YOU GUYS A REPORT.
09:27:56 I HEARD THE REPORT.
09:28:00 SO I THINK -- I KNOW YOU GUYS -- THE POWER UNDER THE
09:28:06 MAYOR, BUT I THINK IT GOES A LONG WAY TO THE
09:28:09 CITIZENSHIP TO HAVE MORE FAITH AND CONFIDENCE NEW GUY
09:28:19 IT IS YOU CAN FIND SOME WAY TO THE PAIN AND AGONY,
09:28:19 THANK YOU.
09:28:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM SORRY, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:28:24 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
09:28:27 >>LYNN HURTAK: TAMPA BAY WATER WHICH IS REGIONAL AND
09:28:28 NOT TAMPA SPECIFIC.
09:28:30 I AM LEARNING ABOUT THIS TOO.
09:28:33 WE DON'T -- THAT MONEY ISN'T OURS.
09:28:35 IT IS THE REGION'S.
09:28:38 BUT MR. MASSEY TO ANSWER COUNCILMAN CARLSON'S QUESTION.
09:28:42 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COUNCILMAN CARLSON IS CORRECT.
09:28:45 THE WATER MANAGEMENT FUNDS CAN ONLY BE USED FOR WATER
09:28:45 FACILITIES.
09:28:49 WE HAVE BOND COVENANTS AND A LOT OF REGULATIONS.
09:28:52 IT IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND AND THAT MONEY CANNOT BE USED
09:28:54 BY OTHER PURPOSES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:29:00 WE WOULD RUN IN SERIOUS LEGAL ISSUES AND VIOLATION OF
09:29:02 BOND OBLIGATIONS THAT WE HAVE OUTSTANDING.
09:29:05 RELATIVE TO WHAT THE WATER DEPARTMENT CAN DO, TYPICALLY
09:29:10 THE WATER DEPARTMENT MAINTAINS AND IS REPLACING THE
09:29:12 PUBLIC FACILITIES, THE FACILITIES OUTSIDE OF THE
09:29:14 BOUNDARIES USUALLY OF THE PROPERTY.
09:29:21 TYPICALLY EVERYTHING OUTSIDE USUALLY A METER WHERE THE
09:29:25 PUBLIC FACILITIES TO THE PRIVATE FACILITY.
09:29:27 THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING ON THE PUBLIC
09:29:29 SIDE OF THE METER.
09:29:31 AND THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
09:29:34 EVERYTHING ON THE PRIVATE SIDE OF THE METER.
09:29:37 WE CAN USE FUNDS FOR PUBLIC SIDE FEEDING INTO THE
09:29:40 COMPLEX, IT WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE.
09:29:45 BUT AN ISSUE USING PRIVATE FUNDS ON THE PRIVATE SIDE.
09:29:47 >> WOULDN'T BE USED GIVING THE MONEY FOR THEM.
09:29:48 A LOAN.
09:29:51 BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS RESPONSIBLE AND EVENTUALLY YOU WILL
09:29:54 GET TO THE RESPONSIBLE PERSON BE IT FEDERAL, STATE,
09:29:55 LOCAL.
09:29:57 AT SOME POINT IN TIME, SOMEBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
09:29:57 THIS.
09:30:00 BECAUSE THEY ARE PAYING RENT EVERY MONTH.
09:30:03 AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PAYING SOMEBODY TO
09:30:04 PROPERLY MANAGE IT.
09:30:08 AND THE ISSUE IS MANAGEMENT AND EVENTUALLY IT WILL GET
09:30:12 TO WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE AND THE MONEY COMES BACK AND
09:30:15 NOT LIKE YOU ARE GIVING THE MONEY, YOU ARE USING THE
09:30:15 MONEY.
09:30:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T DO THAT IN THAT
09:30:18 WAY.
09:30:21 WE CAN LOOK FOR OTHER AREAS BUT WE CAN'T USE THE MONEY
09:30:21 THAT WAY.
09:30:23 MR. MANISCALCO.
09:30:24 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:30:26 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND
09:30:31 IS, IF SOMEONE HAS AN UNREGISTERED VEHICLE ON THEIR
09:30:35 PROPERTY, CODE ENFORCEMENT WILL COME OVER AND PUT A
09:30:38 STICKER ON THE VEHICLE AND THREATEN TO TOW IT.
09:30:41 A DROUGHT, AND THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS ON WATERING AND
09:30:45 SOMEONE RUNS THEIR LAWN OR FOUNTAIN, THEY GET A
09:30:46 CITATION FROM THE CITY.
09:30:51 BUT WHEN SOMEBODY IS LIVING IN THESE CONDITIONS, THESE
09:30:51 APARTMENT.
09:30:53 OUR HANDS ARE TIED.
09:30:55 WE CAN'T THREATEN CONDEMNATION OF A BUILDING.
09:31:00 NOT TO EVICT -- BUT TO SAY, LOOK, WE ARE GOING TO COME
09:31:02 IN FULL FORCE.
09:31:06 I REMEMBER ONE TIME -- I WITNESSED THIS ON MARTIN
09:31:06 LUTHER KING, JR.
09:31:07 ONE OF THE PILL MILLS.
09:31:13 PEOPLE LINING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE TO GET PRESCRIPTION
09:31:15 FILLED.
09:31:21 TPD, FBI, EVERYBODY CAME DOWN TO SHUT THESE FOLKS
09:31:21 DOWN.
09:31:23 PEOPLE TRYING TO LIVE IN DECENT CONDITIONS, OUR HANDS
09:31:24 ARE TIED.
09:31:32 WE CAN WRITE A LETTER BUT REMINDS ME OF A FRIEND A
09:31:34 COUPLE -- THEY WERE FIGHTING.
09:31:38 THEN GETTING A DIVORCE AND THE LAWYER WOULD OPEN UP THE
09:31:40 LETTER AND THROW IT AWAY.
09:31:42 WHAT WILL A LETTER DO?
09:31:45 WHY WE AS A CITY STEP UP AND REALLY BE FORCEFUL WITH
09:31:47 THE PROPERTY OWNERS BECAUSE PEOPLE -- PEOPLE CAN'T LIVE
09:31:51 LIKE THIS WITH RATS AND SUE AGES BACKING.
09:31:54 YOUR HOME IS SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR SAFE HAVEN.
09:31:57 WHETHER YOU RENT IT, OWN IT, YOU WANT TO BE IN PEACE.
09:32:06 AND THIS IS NOT PEACE.
09:32:10 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE ISSUE TO LAY IT OUT, A STATE
09:32:11 STATUTE.
09:32:15 THE STATE -- THE DEPARTMENT OF HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
09:32:21 ACTUALLY HAVE THE SAME AUTHORITY TO REGULATE AS
09:32:21 APARTMENT.
09:32:22 THAT IS THE WAY IT IS WRITTEN.
09:32:26 THERE ARE CASES LITIGATING THE INTERPRETATION OF THAT
09:32:28 STATUTE AND INTERPRETED THAT A LOT OF THAT AUTHORITY
09:32:31 REALLY BELONGS TO THE STATE AGENCY AND NOT TO THE LOCAL
09:32:32 GOVERNMENT.
09:32:36 WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT HOW FAR WE CAN POTENTIALLY GO.
09:32:39 VIS-A-VIS, I THINK, YOU CAN MAKE AN ARGUMENT THAT
09:32:42 STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS STILL FALL WITHIN CODE
09:32:45 ENFORCEMENT BAILIWICK.
09:32:48 SANITARY CONDITIONS UNDER THE STATE'S AUTHORITY THE WAY
09:32:51 WE READ THE CASE LAW IN THE STATUTE.
09:32:52 PART OF THE PROBLEM.
09:33:00 THIS IS THE ISSUE WITH TALLAHASSEE TAKING A LOT OF THE
09:33:03 AUTHORITY FROM THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
09:33:06 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MADAM CHAIR, EVERYTHING I HAVE SEEN
09:33:10 FROM MR. CARLSON AND MR. MASSEY AND MR. GUDES IS
09:33:11 CORRECT.
09:33:12 FOUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
09:33:14 ONE YOU TALK ABOUT WATER, WASTEWATER.
09:33:17 AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THIS
09:33:24 LOCAL GOVERNMENT WE ARE SPEAKING ABOUT IS A WATER OR
09:33:26 SEWER CONNECTION FEE.
09:33:30 ONCE IT GOES BEYOND THE METER WHOEVER OWNS THE
09:33:30 PROPERTY.
09:33:37 AND ALSO ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO WHEN WE TOOK THE
09:33:40 APARTMENTS AWAY THEY DID FIVE DOWN AND THEY ARE
09:33:44 RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING ELSE BY LAW THAT MR. MASSEY.
09:33:49 ALL THESE THINGS AND ALONG WITH MR. MASSEY SAID ONCE
09:33:51 THOSE FOUR ENTERPRISE FUND.
09:33:54 THEY ARE ONLY DIRECTED TO WHAT THEY DO BECAUSE THOSE
09:33:56 FUNDS ARE BONDED OUT.
09:34:00 PART OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER $2.5 BILLION BONDED
09:34:03 OUT COUPLE OF YEARS BACK AND THAT HAS TO BE REPAID.
09:34:07 ALL THE CITY OF TAMPA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT AND THAT
09:34:09 WILL BE PAID OFF AS WE GO ALONG.
09:34:14 47% OF THAT IS DONE BY THE TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO NOT PAY
09:34:20 AS MUCH INTEREST AND GET A BETTER DEAL FROM TAXPAYER
09:34:22 AND 33% IS FINANCE.
09:34:30 SIR, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT WHAT IS GOING ON BUT
09:34:32 THIS AUTHORITY DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO GET ON
09:34:34 THAT LAND AND DO ANYTHING.
09:34:37 BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED EIGHT, TEN YEARS AGO AND THE
09:34:40 PROJECTS THAT ARE REPLACING BY THE WATER LINES AND THE
09:34:43 SEWER LINES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE FOUR PROBLEMS
09:34:48 THAT WE HAVE WITH FOUR DEPARTMENTS TO CREATE THEIR FUND
09:34:53 TO FUND THE ABILITY TO GET IT TO THE PUBLIC.
09:34:56 IT IS COMPLICATED BUT FACTUAL.
09:34:58 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:35:03 I WALKED INTO THIS CONVERSATION IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND
09:35:04 I KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
09:35:08 WHEN WE DON'T HAVE POWER ON CERTAIN ISSUES, WE HAVE THE
09:35:12 POWER OF PUBLIC PRESSURE AND PUBLIC PERSUASION.
09:35:14 WE CAN GO ON THESE PROPERTIES.
09:35:19 I KNOW SILVER OAKS AND TIMBER FALLS AND 113TH STREET,
09:35:20 ETC.
09:35:23 WE CAN ENGAGE MANAGEMENT TO DO BETTER THROUGH THE POWER
09:35:25 OF PERSUASION AND MEDIA.
09:35:27 AND WE HAVE SEEN GAINS ON THAT.
09:35:30 NOT THE KIND OF GAINS THAT WE SHOULD BE SEEING IF WE
09:35:33 HAVE BETTER POWER, IF THE LEGISLATURE ALLOWS US TO HAVE
09:35:35 THAT POWER AND THERE HAVE BEEN GAINS.
09:35:38 FOR EXAMPLE, IN TIMBER FALLS.
09:35:39 MODEST GAINS WE HAD.
09:35:42 BUT ALSO COALITION.
09:35:47 AND IN TIMBER FALLS, THE ONE I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH.
09:35:49 COUNCILMAN GUDES HAS BEEN OUT THERE.
09:35:52 HE USED TO LIVE OUT THERE 30 YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS
09:35:53 YOUNGER.
09:35:55 I HAVE BEEN OUT THERE.
09:35:59 REPRESENTATIVE GWEN MILLER AND DIANE HART.
09:36:05 A MISSION TO DO ONE APARTMENT FACILITY TO BE BETTER.
09:36:08 WE DON'T HAVE THE DIRECT LEGAL POWER FOR PUNITIVE OR
09:36:11 ACUTE ACTION, WE HAVE THE POWER OF PUBLIC PRESSURE AND
09:36:13 POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THESE.
09:36:17 THAT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND A LOT OF ACTIVISM AND A
09:36:20 LOT OF COALITION WORK AND CERTAINLY ONE THAT WE CAN DO
09:36:27 ONE PIECE AT A TIME AS IT GOES.
09:36:28 I WANTED TO ADD THAT.
09:36:33 WE ARE PREEMPTED ON A LOT OF ISSUES BUT A VOICE BEYOND
09:36:37 BODIES AND GOES FOR PUBLIC PRESSURE FROM THE MEDIA.
09:36:41 EMILY MAHONEY WITH THE TAMPA BAY TIMES STARTED THE
09:36:44 TIMBER FALLS ONE.
09:36:48 CREATIVE LOAFING HAS DONE A GREAT JOB WITH THE SILVER
09:36:51 OAKS APARTMENTS THAT CHAIRWOMAN HURTAK WENT OUT TO.
09:36:55 A LOT OF PUBLIC PRESSURE BECAUSE THESE FOLKS LISTEN TO
09:36:55 THAT.
09:36:58 THEY DO LISTEN TO THAT BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE SCRUTINY
09:37:02 AND WE CAN APPLY THAT JUTE KNEE.
09:37:02 THANK YOU.
09:37:06 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS TRAVIS, WE HAVE A LEGISLATIVE
09:37:09 OFFICE WITHIN THE CITY, CORRECT?
09:37:11 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, NICOLE TRAVIS,
09:37:15 ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND
09:37:17 INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR.
09:37:19 YES, WE HAVE LEGISLATIVE.
09:37:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A LEGISLATIVE OFFICE WITHIN THE CITY.
09:37:27 >>NICOLE TRAVIS.
09:37:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WOULD LIKE TO GET WITH THE STATE
09:37:31 AND GET WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVE TO GET SOME LEGISLATION
09:37:34 ON THE BOOKS TO CHANGE SOME OF THIS THAT IS GOING ON,
09:37:35 NUMBER ONE.
09:37:38 NUMBER TWO, I STILL HAVEN'T HEARD A REPORT BACK IN
09:37:41 REFERENCE TO WHAT THE STATE IS DOING OF US HAVING SOME
09:37:44 TYPE OF MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT.
09:37:47 AND THIRDLY, ACTUALLY CALLING AND ASKING WHY NOT A
09:37:51 RESPONSE HERE IN -- IN SILVER OAKS FROM THE STATE?
09:37:54 WHY HAVE THEY NOT COME IN HERE AND ACTUALLY BRING THEIR
09:37:56 CODE ENFORCEMENT TEAMS.
09:37:58 THERE HAS BEEN AN OUTCRY.
09:38:01 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DON'T HAVE A TEAM TO
09:38:02 INVESTIGATE AND LOOK INTO THE MATTER.
09:38:03 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
09:38:07 I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH MARLEY AND IAN ON OUR LEGISLATIVE
09:38:11 POLICIES AND OUR LOBBYISTS TO SEE WHAT WE CAN WORK ON,
09:38:12 IN THAT REGARD.
09:38:16 THE LAST TIME -- THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS WAS
09:38:19 UNDER A CITY COUNCIL MEETING WHEN I DID A HOUSING
09:38:19 PRESENTATION.
09:38:26 I DID GET WITH MISS -- ADMINISTRATOR OCEA WYNN BY
09:38:28 GETTING AN UPDATE WHAT WE CAN DO FROM A CODE
09:38:31 ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE AND SHE WAS GOING TO GET BACK
09:38:32 AND PROVIDE AN UPDATE FOR THAT.
09:38:35 I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATE FOR YOU, BUT I THINK THAT WAS
09:38:38 TWO WEEKS AGO AND SHE WAS STILL WORKING ON IT.
09:38:42 I WILL GET WITH HER AGAIN TO SEE WHERE SHE IS ON IT.
09:38:45 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:38:46 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:38:49 WE HAVE BUILDING INSPECTORS AND SOMEONE THAT GOES OUT
09:38:53 TO SEE IF SOMEBODY GETS A CO BEFORE THEY OPERATE AND
09:38:53 OPEN.
09:38:56 WE HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT -- YOU KNOW THINGS THAT
09:39:01 PEOPLE HAVE TO GO THROUGH BEFORE THEY ARE ABLE TO
09:39:02 OPERATE.
09:39:04 COMMERCIAL OR OTHER.
09:39:08 INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME, MR. MASSEY, IF I MAKE A MOTION --
09:39:11 YOU MENTIONED STRUCTURAL ISSUE AND DAMAGE LIKE THAT.
09:39:13 THAT WE CAN SEND INSPECTORS TO THE PROPERTY TO MAKE
09:39:18 SURE THAT THE ROOF ISN'T GOING TO COLLAPSE OR THIS
09:39:19 ISN'T GOING TO FALL OVER AND ANYTHING.
09:39:24 THAT WE CAN USE OUR ABILITY SO WE ARE NOT PREEMPTED.
09:39:26 >>MORRIS MASSEY: COUPLE OF THINGS.
09:39:31 SILVER OAKS IS NOT COME UNDER A CRA.
09:39:34 IF YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TONIGHT.
09:39:35 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: IT IS.
09:39:38 THE BOUNDARY LINE CUTS THROUGH SILVER OAKS.
09:39:40 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THEN I GUESS COULD YOU ASK FOR A
09:39:41 REPORT BACK.
09:39:46 I WOULD CORRECT IT TO -- TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
09:39:55 CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE HELPS THE CODE ENFORCEMENT FOLKS.
09:39:59 AND SHE HAS BEEN ASKED TO LOOK HOW FAR WE CAN GO WITH
09:40:04 REGULATION AND HOW FAR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
09:40:07 CAN GO.
09:40:10 >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:40:13 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:40:17 I THINK A LOT OF WHAT THIS CONVERSATION IS ABOUT IS
09:40:21 VERY HEALTHY, BUT TO ENABLE THIS TO GO FORWARD BECAUSE
09:40:23 THIS BODY DOESN'T CARE, CUSTODY AND CONTROL WHAT WE ARE
09:40:24 SPEAKING ABOUT.
09:40:28 THAT WE WRITE A LETTER TO THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA -- THE
09:40:29 LEGISLATIVE OFFICIALS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AND THE
09:40:31 CITY OF TAMPA.
09:40:34 THAT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO WRITE THAT SAME LETTER
09:40:34 TO THEM.
09:40:38 THAT WAY WE CAN GET SOME ACTIVITY GOING.
09:40:40 BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE PEOPLE RESPONDING WITH EVIDENTLY
09:40:44 HAVE TOO MUCH OR HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT YET AND WHATEVER.
09:40:46 THAT WAY YOU CAN GET SOME -- OR APPOINT SOME
09:40:49 COUNCILMEMBERS TO MEET WITH THE LEGISLATIVE BODY TO GET
09:40:51 THIS GOING.
09:40:52 I THINK THAT IS WHERE WE START IT.
09:40:54 THAT IS MY OPINION.
09:40:56 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:40:58 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT.
09:41:01 IF WE DO THAT WITH YOUR MOTION HERE, THE PROBLEM WE
09:41:04 WOULD HAVE THE OTHER PORTION IS NOT IN THE BOUNDARY
09:41:04 SECTION.
09:41:08 MR. MASSEY WAS RIGHT TO GET A COMPLETE STUDY.
09:41:10 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER DONE WITH
09:41:13 YOU SITTING AT CITY COUNCIL, BUT I UNDERSTAND THEIR
09:41:17 ASKING -- MAY BE ASKING TONIGHT FOR A MOTION FOR US TO
09:41:20 SEE -- SEE WHAT THE LIMITS OF OUR AUTHORITY ARE AND
09:41:23 WHAT WE CAN DO RELATIVE.
09:41:26 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO AS NOT TO CONFUSE ANYTHING.
09:41:30 I WILL HOLD MY MOTION UNTIL TONIGHT UNDER CITY COUNCIL.
09:41:33 WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AND NOT CRA BOUNDARIES JUST TO
09:41:36 COVER OURSELVES TO SEE WHAT WE CAN WITHIN OUR SCOPE
09:41:38 LEGALLY THAT WE ARE NOT PREEMPTED.
09:41:39 I WILL TAKE IT UP THEN.
09:41:40 THANK YOU.
09:41:42 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:41:49 >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE COUNCILMAN
09:41:53 CITRO -- SORRY, SUFFERING FROM JET-LAG.
09:41:56 COUNCILMAN CITRO AND COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO PROPOSED
09:41:59 HAVING MOTIONS TONIGHT.
09:42:02 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND COUNCILMAN GUDES ALSO PROPOSED
09:42:05 SOMETHING, BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU PUT IT IN THE
09:42:06 FORM OF A MOTION TONIGHT.
09:42:09 COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU PASSED ON YOUR REQUEST TO MISS
09:42:12 TRAVIS, BUT GREAT TO HAVE IT IN A MOTION SO WE CAN ALL
09:42:14 SUPPORT THE DIFFERENT EFFORTS.
09:42:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT;
09:42:21 HOWEVER, SUBJECT MATTER THAT WE ARE SPEAKING TO ARE IN
09:42:22 THE CRA.
09:42:24 AND THIS IS A CRA MEETING, CORRECT.
09:42:27 LEGAL IF PART IT IN THE CRA AND ATTACHMENT IN THE BOTH,
09:42:30 DOES IT MAKE IT ONE OR TWO UNITS.
09:42:35 BUT I BELIEVE IN ORDER TO START THIS, YOU MUST GET A
09:42:38 LEGISLATIVE MOVEMENT BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE
09:42:40 SPEAKING TO DIRECTLY.
09:42:42 THEY ARE THE ONES THAT DEAL IN THE LEGISLATIVE
09:42:44 SESSIONS.
09:42:46 >>MORRIS MASSEY: SOUNDS LIKE WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR
09:42:49 -- AND WE CAN WORK WITH YOU ON THIS.
09:42:52 YOU CAN BRING FORWARD A MOTION TONIGHT IF YOU WOULD
09:42:52 LIKE.
09:42:55 ASKING US TO CRAFT OR GET WITH OUR LOCAL DELEGATION
09:42:59 WHAT POTENTIAL CHANGES CAN BE MADE TO THE STATE STATUTE
09:43:02 TO EXECUTE MORE AUTHORITY IN THE INSPECTION OF THE
09:43:07 SANITARY CONDITIONS OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
09:43:08 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:43:10 THANK YOU AGAIN SO MUCH.
09:43:11 APPRECIATE EVERYTHING.
09:43:14 MISS TRAVIS, DON'T GO VERY FAR AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:43:18 THE THREE MINUTES ONE MORE MOMENT.
09:43:20 >> SINCE WE STARTED CONVERSATION.
09:43:23 MY UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IS IN MICROBIOLOGY.
09:43:29 AND BECAUSE OF SANITATION ISSUES, HUMANS DON'T GET
09:43:30 ALONG VERY WELL IN OPEN SPACES.
09:43:38 A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, DIARRHEA AND OTHER DISEASES
09:43:39 BECAUSE OF THE SANITARY CONDITIONS.
09:43:43 AND THAT IS THE PART I AM MOST CONCERNED ABOUT BETWEEN
09:43:48 THE BLACK MOLD, THE SEWAGE AND COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS
09:43:49 SHOWN ON TV.
09:43:53 CHOLERA -- RATS CARRY A LOT OF DISEASES AND OTHER
09:43:53 STUFF.
09:43:56 THAT IS MY CONCERN HAVING PEOPLE LIVE IN THOSE
09:43:57 CONDITIONS.
09:43:58 BUT THANK YOU.
09:43:59 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:44:01 >>LYNN HURTAK: WELL, THANK YOU.
09:44:03 AND THANK YOU FOR THE BEGINNING OF THIS DISCUSSION.
09:44:04 BRINGING THIS BACK.
09:44:13 MISS TRAVIS, IF YOU COULD INTRODUCE STAFF REPORTS.
09:44:14 >> NICOLE: SURE.
09:44:15 GOOD MORNING, AGAIN.
09:44:19 COUNCILMEMBERS -- COUNCILMAN CARLSON, GOOD TO SEE YOU
09:44:20 BACK.
09:44:22 I AM INTERESTED IN HEARING OF YOUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
09:44:23 TRIP.
09:44:29 WE HAVE A MONTHLY REPORT AND ROTATION OF OUR CACS.
09:44:31 WE HAVE KIMBERLEE CURTIS REPRESENTING THE CHANNEL
09:44:34 DISTRICT CAC.
09:44:37 SHE WILL GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION RIGHT NOW.
09:44:39 KIMBERLEE.
09:44:43 >>KIMBERLEE CURTIS: GOOD MORNING.
09:44:45 BOARD AND MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
09:44:46 NICE TO MEET YOU.
09:44:48 I DON'T THINK I HAD THE PLEASURE YET.
09:44:51 I AM KIMBERLEE CURTIS, CHAIR FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT
09:44:55 CAC JEFF BURTON, I AM THE MANAGER.
09:44:58 >> JEFF AND I WILL TAG TEAM THIS UPDATE.
09:44:59 WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON.
09:45:03 A LOT MOVING PARTS IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND WE WANT
09:45:04 TO WORK ON THIS TOGETHER.
09:45:09 DO YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THIS.
09:45:14 AS YOU KNOW LAST YEAR WE DID A FULL OVERHAUL HAUL OF
09:45:19 OUR SAP AND CAP FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND SINCE THEN
09:45:24 WE MADE A LOT OF -- PROGRESS, A LOT OF THINGS IN THE
09:45:26 WORK THAT ARE HAPPENING.
09:45:29 NUMBER ONE THING THAT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WANTED TO
09:45:33 SEE WHEN WE DID THE WORKSHOPS MORE GREEN SPACE, PARK
09:45:34 SPACE THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
09:45:37 AS YOU KNOW A LOT OF PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS
09:45:40 HAPPENING TO MAKE IT CHALLENGING TO FIND PROPERTIES TO
09:45:45 CREATE THAT GREEN SPACE, BUT WE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS.
09:45:49 SO THE FIRST THING I AM GOING TO GO OVER IS AN UPDATE
09:45:50 ON THAT.
09:45:52 AND WHERE WE STAND ON THE PROGRESS THERE.
09:45:56 ONE OF THE FIRST STRATEGIES IN OUR SAP WAS TO WORK MORE
09:45:57 WITH THE PORT.
09:46:00 BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE AND CONTROL A LOT OF THE LAND
09:46:02 THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND WE KNOW THERE ARE
09:46:05 OPPORTUNITY THERE WHEN WE PARTNERED WITH THEM TO
09:46:09 IDENTIFY SOME SPACE TO CREATE MORE PARK AND MORE GREEN
09:46:10 SPACES.
09:46:14 THE FIRST ONE THAT I AM GOING TO UPDATE YOU ON IS THE
09:46:18 RV LOT PURCHASE WHICH I KNOW COMES UP A LITTLE LATER ON
09:46:20 THIS MORNING.
09:46:23 WE CAME IN AGREEMENT WITH THE FOR THE ACQUIRE THAT FROM
09:46:24 THEM.
09:46:27 ALTHOUGH IT IS SMALL, I THINK IT DOES REPRESENT A
09:46:31 REALLY NICE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A GREEN SPACE FOR
09:46:34 MORE OF THE MIDDLE SECTION OF THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:46:37 AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PARKS.
09:46:41 WASHINGTON STREET PARK AND MADISON STREET PARK.
09:46:43 BUT WE HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO FIND A PLACE TO PUT
09:46:46 PARKS AND OPEN SPACE ON THE OTHER END OF THE DISTRICT.
09:46:48 THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
09:46:50 EVEN THOUGH IT IS SMALL, I THINK WE WILL BE ABLE TO
09:46:52 CREATE SOMETHING REALLY NICE THERE.
09:46:54 PARTNERING WHERE THE AQUARIUM ON THAT PROPERTY.
09:46:57 THEY WANT TO GET INVOLVED AND HELP US AND MAYBE DO SOME
09:47:02 EDUCATIONAL THING WITHIN THAT PARK SPACE WHERE THEY CAN
09:47:06 ENGAGE WITH US AND DO NEAT STUFF THERE.
09:47:09 I WILL LET JEFF UPDATE YOU ON THE OTHER PROPERTIES
09:47:09 THERE.
09:47:13 >> CURRENTLY WE ARE COMPLETELY REDEVELOPING THE
09:47:15 AQUARIUM PARKING LOT WHICH YOU ARE FULLY AWARE OF.
09:47:19 WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT THE BENEFICIAL BRIDGE IN RUNNING
09:47:24 THE RIVERWALK FURTHER ON TO THE EAST, INCLUDING THE
09:47:27 RIVERWALK EXTENSION WHICH YOU SAW AN ARTICLE IN THE
09:47:29 NEWSPAPER.
09:47:32 WE ARE CURRENTLY BUILDING A FIVE-YEAR PROJECTED BUDGET
09:47:35 BECAUSE THESE PROJECTS ARE QUITE LARGE AND WE WANT TO
09:47:38 MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE FINANCING IN PLACE, THE PLANNING
09:47:44 IN PLACE TO MAYBE APPLY FOR GRANTS FROM S.W.F.W.M.D.
09:47:47 OR STATE REVOLVING LOAN FUND.
09:47:50 THESE ARE SOME OF THE PROJECTS WE ARE WORKING ON UNDER
09:47:53 PART ONE OR STRATEGY ONE.
09:47:57 >> THE NEXT ONE THAT WAS A PRIORITY WAS REALLY NOT ONLY
09:48:04 CREATING GREEN SPACE BUT REALLY MAKING A SIGNATURE
09:48:04 PARK.
09:48:07 A LOT OF PEOPLE BROUGHT UP THE IDEA THAT NEW YORK HAS A
09:48:08 CENTRAL PARK.
09:48:10 WE WANTED TO CREATE A SIGNATURE FACE.
09:48:12 MADISON STREET PARK IS WONDERFUL.
09:48:13 IT IS A GREAT SPACE.
09:48:16 BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMMENTED.
09:48:20 NOT REALLY ANYTHING FOR FAMILIES WITH SMALL CHILDREN TO
09:48:20 DO THERE.
09:48:23 A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR LARGE-SCALE EVENT.
09:48:26 NO TYPE OF STAGE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT WHERE PEOPLE CAN
09:48:29 REALLY PUT ON PERFORMANCES AND ALL OF THAT.
09:48:32 A LOT OF THOSE CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED AS FAR AS
09:48:35 CREATING A SIGNATURE PARK.
09:48:37 I HAVE QUITE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN MY BACKGROUND OF
09:48:41 WORKING ON PUBLIC PARK PRODUCT IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, AND
09:48:44 I KIND OF BROUGHT SOME OF THOSE IDEAS WHAT WE DID DOWN
09:48:46 HERE AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE DISCUSSION.
09:48:48 WE NEED SOMETHING FOR FAMILIES.
09:48:52 SOMETHING FOR EVERY AGE GROUP.
09:48:56 EVERY DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
09:49:03 AND WHAT WE FOCUS ON WHEN WE WANT TO DO A SIGNATURE
09:49:08 PARK IDEALLY CENTRALLY LOCATED AND A LOT THAN THE
09:49:11 SPORTS AND A PASSIVE SPACE.
09:49:14 WE WANT IT ACTIVE FOR EVERYONE.
09:49:15 TOES IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.
09:49:18 THE CONCEPT OF THE PARK.
09:49:24 >> WE ARE LOOKING.
09:49:27 >> ANY TIME OF REAL ESTATE WEB SITE THAT HAS THE
09:49:29 INFORMATION OUT THERE, PROPERTIES THAT ARE FOR SALE.
09:50:10 TWO PROPERTIES WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT WE ARE ALSO
09:50:11 LOOKING AT LEASES WITH THE PORT.
09:50:14 THERE ARE CERTAIN PROPERTIES THAT THEY HAVE.
09:50:17 AS -- AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE, CHANNEL DISTRICT, THERE
09:50:21 ISN'T A LOT OF PROPERTY, SO WE HAVE TO GET VERY
09:50:24 CREATIVE ON HOW WE PRODUCE GREEN SPACES.
09:50:27 SO, AGAIN, I OPENED UP CONVERSATION WITH SOME FOLK AT
09:50:31 THE PORT JUST TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THEIR PROPERTIES.
09:50:47 SO SEE IF WE CAN HAVE A LONG-TERM LEASE THOSE WORKING
09:50:49 TO CONNECT ALL OF THOSE TO GO FROM ONE PARK TO THE
09:50:54 OTHER WITHOUT GETTING IN YOUR VEHICLE WHICH IS ITEM
09:50:59 TWO ENHANCE AND INCREASE OPEN SPACE AND THAT IS NUMBER
09:51:08 ONE LIST ON THE PLAN.
09:51:11 >> THE SECOND FOCUS AREA TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILE
09:51:18 DEPENDENCY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND YOU WANT TO TAKE
09:51:19 THAT ONE.
09:51:23 >> OPEN SPACES AND LINEAR TRAIL SYSTEMS.
09:51:24 WE ARE WORKING ON THOSE.
09:51:25 AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:51:31 AS YOU ARE KEENLY AWARE, CRAS ARE IN AREAS OF SLUM,
09:51:32 BLIGHT.
09:51:39 IF YOU READ THE STATUTE, SLUM, BLIGHT OR -- IT FITS
09:51:39 CHANNEL.
09:51:41 IT USED TO BE A HEAVILY BLIGHTED AREA.
09:51:42 NOW IT IS NOT.
09:51:44 BUT IT HAS A LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SOMETHING
09:51:47 THAT IS IN THE PLAN AND SOMETHING WE WILL BE TALKING TO
09:51:54 YOU LATER HOW TO DIRECT DEVELOPERS TO DO MIXED MARKET
09:51:56 DEVELOPMENTS IMPLEMENT AND CONNECTED SPACE SYSTEMS.
09:51:57 IMPROVE TRANSIT.
09:52:01 THE STREETCAR GOES THROUGH CHANNEL ALREADY AND THE CRA
09:52:05 IS HELPING TO FUND THAT, TO KEEP IT AND EXPAND IT ALL
09:52:07 THE WAY THROUGH THE HEIGHTS.
09:52:11 AND IMPROVE WALKABILITY AND ACCESSIBLE.
09:52:18 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS CURRENTLY GOING ON AS WE
09:52:19 SPEAK.
09:52:21 WE HAD MULTIPLE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS AND WE
09:52:25 REALLY WANT TO LOOK AT PEDESTRIAN AND BIKING AND HOW TO
09:52:28 FURTHER ENHANCE THAT IN OUR AREA.
09:52:31 >> THE THIRD FOCUS AREA IS TO ENHANCE PLACEMAKING
09:52:33 THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
09:52:37 SOME NUMBER MONTHS BACK, I BROUGHT BACK THE IDEA OF US
09:52:43 GOING OUT AND PUTTING A RFP -- STRUGGLED WITH THE TERM,
09:52:47 A CHANNEL DISTRICT AMBASSADOR OR A ROLE TO HELP BRING A
09:52:51 BRAND, LOGOS, IDENTITIES TO THE DISTRICT TO ENGAGE THE
09:52:52 PUBLIC MORE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
09:52:54 TO HAVE PRESENCE IN THE DISTRICT.
09:53:00 TO SERVE AS SORT OF AN OMBUDSMAN OPINION PEOPLE WHO ARE
09:53:03 LOOKING TO START BUSINESS.
09:53:06 THIS PERSON CAN HELP THEM GET THEIR GRANT APPLICATIONS
09:53:06 FILLED OUT.
09:53:09 WE HAVE A NUMBER THAT WE JUST FILLED OUT.
09:53:11 ESTABLISHING THE BRAND IS SOMETHING THAT THE PUBLIC
09:53:12 SAID WAS IMPORTANT.
09:53:14 REALLY FELT LIKE THE DISTRICT.
09:53:18 HAD ITS OWN PERSONALITY BUT DIDN'T HAVE ITS OWN
09:53:19 IDENTITY.
09:53:22 SOMETHING THAT THE PUBLIC ASKED FOR A NUMBER OF TIMES
09:53:26 IS CREATING OUR OWN LOGO, COLORS, THING OF THAT NATURE
09:53:31 TO INTEGRATE INTO NEW WAY FINDING AND AN ARTWORK AND
09:53:32 THINGS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
09:53:39 CREATING KIND OF THAT BRAND AND IDENTITY WILL BE PART
09:53:42 OF WHAT WE ARE DOING NEXT THROUGH THERE TO DO THE PLACE
09:53:44 -- ADVANCE THAT PLACEMAKING.
09:53:50 ALSO I THINK -- YEAH, BRING THAT UP SO WE ARE GOING TO
09:53:55 WORK WITH THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP TO BE PART OF THEIR
09:54:00 WAY FINDING STUDY TO IDENTIFY WHERE AND HOW TO REDO THE
09:54:01 DOWNTOWN CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:54:05 HOW TO CONNECT THE WAY FINDING A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
09:54:10 IN THE MEANTIME, WHEN WE HAVE OUR COLORS, LOGOS AND
09:54:14 BRAND ESTABLISHED WHILE THAT STUDY IS GOING ON, HAVE
09:54:17 MORE GATEWAY SIGNAGE INTO THE DISTRICT THROUGH DOWNTOWN
09:54:21 SO PEOPLE KNOW TRANSITIONING FROM ONE PART OF TOWN TO
09:54:22 THE OTHER AND THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE.
09:54:27 AND GO OVER WITH THE GATEWAY SIGNAGE AND THE OVERALL
09:54:29 PACKAGE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE
09:54:32 DOWNTOWN AREA AS WELL TO COORDINATE WITH THEM.
09:54:34 THE NEXT THING, ENHANCING LANDSCAPING.
09:54:39 WE ALSO JUST PUT OUT A RF FORBES HIRE A LANDSCAPING
09:54:44 COMPANY INDEPENDENT OF PARK AND RE C TO COME INTO THE
09:54:50 DISTRICT.
09:54:53 >> MUTED, UNMUTED.
09:54:56 >> TO COME IN AND IDENTIFY ALL THE OTHER PROPERTY
09:55:01 THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT WHERE LANDSCAPING NEEDS TO BE
09:55:02 STARTED.
09:55:04 GET RID OF DEAD STUFF.
09:55:05 PLANT NEW STUFF.
09:55:09 PET RESISTANT PLANTING THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND AN
09:55:11 ISSUE WE FACE A LOT.
09:55:15 ENHANCING LANDSCAPING IS HIGH ON THE PRIORITY LIST AND
09:55:16 WE ARE WORKING ON THAT NOW.
09:55:21 >> WILLS TO ENHANCE THE CIVIC REALM, THE GREEN SPACES.
09:55:25 THE STREETSCAPING THAT IS ALREADY UNDER WAY.
09:55:30 WE ARE CURRENTLY IN 3 AND 4.
09:55:32 4 WILL BE COMING UP THIS YEAR.
09:55:33 WE WILL MOVE THAT FORWARD.
09:55:39 THAT WILL BE CUMBERLAND AND THE ROUNDABOUT AT THE
09:55:41 AQUARIUM AND FINISHING UP SOME OF THE HARDER STREETS
09:55:44 FOR US THAT HAVE MORE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE AS THE
09:55:52 YEARS GO BY INCREASING VISIBILITY AND ENHANCED
09:55:58 AESTHETICS.
09:56:01 AND IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AS WELL AS SOME OF THE
09:56:02 OTHER AREAS.
09:56:04 ALSO IMPROVE SAFETY.
09:56:07 WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT AT ALL OF
09:56:08 OUR MEETINGS.
09:56:13 BUT WE WANT TO WORK WITH THEM TO REALLY ADDRESS SEPTED,
09:56:16 CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, TO WORK
09:56:19 WITH THEM AND INCLUDE THAT IN THE FACADE GRANTS TO HELP
09:56:22 BUSINESS OWNERS PREPARE IN CASE A CRIME MAY HAPPEN.
09:56:25 WE WANT TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN IN OUR POWER TO PREVENT
09:56:28 THAT, SO WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ENHANCING THE
09:56:36 FACADE GRANTS WITH SEPTED AND ALSO WORKING CORRECTLY TO
09:56:40 THE IMPLEMENT TO DO AN OVERALL ENHANCEMENT AREAWIDE AND
09:56:43 BE DOING THE SAME THING IN DOWNTOWN.
09:56:45 AGAIN, THAT GOES WITH SUPPORTING NEW AND EXISTING
09:56:49 BUSINESSES AND THE FACADE GRANTS IS IN NEXT YEAR'S
09:56:52 BUDGET, AS WELL AS THE SEPTED.
09:56:55 THAT WAS YOURS.
09:56:58 >> THAT'S OKAY.
09:57:00 >> THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW.
09:57:05 TODAY, YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT ALL THE FUND
09:57:09 TOGETHER FROM THE FOUR CRAS THAT ENCOMPASS THE DOWNTOWN
09:57:13 AREA FOR MULTIPLE WAY FINDING SIGNAGE STUDY.
09:57:16 THE LOT PURCHASE IS ON THE CRA AGENDA.
09:57:17 PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS.
09:57:20 CUMBERLAND BEGINS THIS FISCAL YEAR.
09:57:24 GREEN SPACE WITH THE PURCHASE OF THE RV LOT, AND
09:57:28 OPPORTUNITIES INTO THE FUTURE TO EXPAND GREEN SPACE AND
09:57:30 THEN THE SEPTED.
09:57:32 THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SEEMED
09:57:36 PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT AND WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT ALSO.
09:57:39 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE THE PLACE SAFE.
09:57:46 AND PLACE WHERE FAMILIES CAN MOVE AROUND FREELY.
09:57:47 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:57:50 ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME?
09:57:52 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:57:54 >>JOSEPH CITRO: LET ME SIGN THIS REAL QUICK.
09:57:56 THANK YOU.
09:57:59 THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
09:58:02 FOR DOWNTOWN, CHANNELSIDE AND THE WHOLE AREA DOWN
09:58:02 THERE.
09:58:03 >> AGREED.
09:58:05 >> THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH THEA.
09:58:08 THAT IS SPACE THAT IS UNDERUSED AND CAN BE USED FOR
09:58:09 MULTIPLE THINGS.
09:58:15 PICKLEBALL COURTS, DOG PARKS, BIKE TRAILS, WALKING
09:58:17 TRAILS.
09:58:19 I HEARD YOU LOUD AND CLEAR WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
09:58:20 SAFETY.
09:58:24 LIMITED THINGS THAT CRA CAN DO ABOUT A FIRE RESCUE
09:58:29 STATION OR A FIRE RESCUE SUBSTATION.
09:58:31 ANYWHERE IN THE PIPELINE HAVE YOU HEARD OF PROPERTIES
09:58:35 THAT WE CAN DO A 99-YEAR LEASE OR PURCHASE THAT WOULD
09:58:42 FIT THE USE OF FIRE RESCUE?
09:58:44 >> WE WILL KEEP THAT UNDER ADVISEMENT.
09:58:47 I WILL SAY THAT THE STATUTE IS VERY CLEAR.
09:58:49 IT DOES ALLOW FOR COMMUNITY POLICING INNOVATION
09:58:51 INCLUDING A POLICE DEPARTMENT IF IT IS IN THE PLAN.
09:58:54 AND, OF COURSE, THE CHANNEL DISTRICT, IT IS NOT THERE.
09:58:58 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS CONSIDERED
09:59:04 MUNICIPAL OR A GOVERNMENT BUILDING, THE STATUTE FROWNS
09:59:07 UPON THAT EXCEPT IN THE CASE IF THE TAXING AUTHORITIES
09:59:09 ALL AGREE THAT IT IS NECESSARY.
09:59:16 IN THE EVENT OF A FIRE DEPARTMENT, COUNTY, CITY, PORT.
09:59:18 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAVE HEARD FIRE RESCUE ASKING FOR
09:59:25 ANOTHER STATION SOMEWHERE DOWNTOWN OR WITHIN
09:59:26 CHANNELSIDE.
09:59:27 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:59:30 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:59:33 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE OF THE IDEAS I WAS GOING TO BRING
09:59:33 UP.
09:59:36 A PROPERTY OWNER WHO APPROACHED ME -- PROBABLY
09:59:37 APPROACHED ALL OF YOU.
09:59:40 BUT HAS A PROPERTY WILL BE WILLING TO PUT A FIRE
09:59:41 STATION ON.
09:59:44 NOT THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE FROM A REVENUE POINT OF
09:59:48 VIEW, BUT HE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT DISTRICT
09:59:52 DEVELOP IN THE RIGHT WHICH AND YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHAT I
09:59:53 AM TALKING ABOUT.
09:59:55 IF NOT, CALL ME LATER.
09:59:59 THE SECOND ONE -- THE SECOND ONE IS -- YOU KNOW, I
10:00:07 HAVE BEEN A BIG PROPONENT OF THE PORT THE SPORT IS A
10:00:09 HUGE ECONOMIC ENGINE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:00:12 THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, AND WHICH WE COPIED TWO OR
10:00:13 THREE TIMES.
10:00:16 HARBOUR ISLAND AND SHOPS AT CHANNELSIDE.
10:00:17 ALL THOSE FAILED.
10:00:21 WHEN THE PORT CAME OUT WITH THE QUOTE, UNQUOTE, MASTER
10:00:23 PLAN.
10:00:24 I PUSHED AGAINST DEVELOPING.
10:00:29 THEY WANTED TO BUILD AMPHITHEATRE ON THE MARITIME
10:00:30 PROPERTY.
10:00:32 LISTENING WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW, IT SOUNDS LIKE
10:00:40 COMPROMISE IN THAT COMMUNITY WILL BE TO MAYBE DEVELOP
10:00:45 THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AS A PURPOSE
10:00:48 LIKE A PARK SORE SOMETHING ELSE AND I WILL ASK YOU --
10:00:53 PLEASE INSIST THAT WE PROTECT THE WORKING PORT TOO MANY
10:00:57 HIGH-PAYING, BLUE COLOR JOBS THAT WE WILL LOSE IF WE
10:00:59 SHUT THAT PROPERTY DOWN.
10:01:02 EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE BUILDING NEW AREAS, RED WING, ETC.
10:01:05 THE CITIES WHO SHUT DOWN THEIR WORKING POOR REGRET IT
10:01:09 BECAUSE JOBS THAT CAN'T EASILY BE REPLACED AND THE JOBS
10:01:13 OF THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EASILY BE REPLACE BY
10:01:15 SOFTWARE, ROBOTS AND OTHER KIND OF THINGS.
10:01:19 WE WILL HOPEFULLY NEED THOSE JOBS FOR A LONG TIME.
10:01:22 LOOK LIKE ONE OF THE BIG PROPERTIES AT THE END OF THE
10:01:27 CHANNEL MAY BE LOST SOON.
10:01:29 AND PLEASE TRY TO PROTECT THAT.
10:01:37 IN THEIR PROPOSAL, THEY PROPOSED FILLING IN THE INLET
10:01:41 AND FILLING HALF OF IT.
10:01:51 AND YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP WATERFRONT SPACE.
10:01:56 MANUFACTURE THIS NOT ONLY RESPECTFUL OF PORT, BUT AND
10:02:03 THEN ALSO PROVIDE THE KIND OF COMMUNITY WE WANT TO LIVE
10:02:03 IN.
10:02:08 THANK YOU.
10:02:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, WE TALKED OF
10:02:14 PUBLIC SAFETY FOR A WHILE AND IT HAS GROWN.
10:02:16 EVERY DAY I SEE BUILDINGS GROWING UP.
10:02:22 I LOOK AT OTHER CITIES, THEY PARTNER WITH THOSE
10:02:27 DEVELOPERS AND MAYBE CAN HOUSE IS A STATION UNDERNEATH
10:02:28 INSIDE THE BUILDING.
10:02:31 YOU MAY NEED A FIRE ENGINE, BUT MOST OF THE PROBLEMS IN
10:02:35 THE CITY ARE MEDICAL CALLS.
10:02:46 I THINK THE CRA NEEDS TO BE LOOKING AND PARTNERING AND
10:02:51 HOW TO GET CAR AND HOUSE FOR THE FIRE FOLKS AND THERE
10:03:01 IS YOUR PUBLIC SAFETY FOR FIRE NEW YORK AND BIGGER
10:03:01 CITIES.
10:03:02 THAT IS WHAT THEY DO.
10:03:16 I SUGGEST WE LOOK AT THAT AGAIN PUT A BAY IN THERE AND
10:03:18 HOUSE EMERGENCY PERSONNEL.
10:03:20 THAT IS MY SUGGESTION.
10:03:22 >> A NOVEL IDEA.
10:03:26 AND CRA CAN HELP A DEVELOPER PUT SOMETHING INTO THEIR
10:03:26 PROJECT.
10:03:31 IT COSTS US NOTHING BUT A PAY AS YOU GO SELF-FUNDING.
10:03:44 BUT IF WE HAD A DEVELOP THEIR WAS INTERESTED IN THAT TO
10:03:53 PUT A POLICY AND OFFER IT AND GET SOMEBODY --
10:03:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS NEEDED,
10:04:02 AND WE KNOW IT IS NEEDED.
10:04:03 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:04:08 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
10:04:13 >> SHE WILL BE STAYING UNTIL THE END OF THE MEETING IF
10:04:20 YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE RV PURPOSE.
10:04:23 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL, AGAIN.
10:04:26 THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR MONTHLY STAFF REPORT AND BEFORE
10:04:29 MR. BURTON COMES RIGHT BACK UP, ONE THING I WOULD LIKE
10:04:31 TO PROVIDE FOR YOU AS AN UPDATE.
10:04:35 YOU GUYS HAVE MADE ME THE INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR UNTIL
10:04:43 THE END OF THE SERVICE AGREEMENT CONTRACT AND EXPIRES
10:04:45 AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
10:04:49 AS WE ARE GEARING UP AND WORKING ON BUDGETS.
10:04:51 ALL THE CRA MANAGERS ARE WORKING ON THEIR DISTRICT.
10:04:55 I WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK IN JULY AND MAP OUT OPTIONS
10:04:59 OF WHAT RECRUITMENT WILL LOOK LIKE AS YOU START TO
10:05:01 BUILD YOUR BUDGET FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
10:05:03 I WILL BE PREPARED IN JULY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT IF
10:05:05 YOU WANT TO TALK TO ME OFF LINE.
10:05:08 BUT I WILL TALK TO YOU IN JULY AND PRESENT A TIMELINE
10:05:17 AND PLAN AND WHAT YOU CAN ACT ON.
10:05:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: SOUNDS WONDERFUL.
10:05:20 APPRECIATE THAT.
10:05:21 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: PERFECT.
10:05:24 TURN IT OVER TO THE CRA MANAGERS TO UPDATE YOU ON THE
10:05:30 WORK THEY ARE DOING IN THEIR DISTRICT AND MR. BURTON.
10:05:35 THANK YOU.
10:05:36 >> THANK YOU.
10:05:38 OBVIOUSLY I AM NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A REPORT ON
10:05:39 CHANNEL.
10:05:40 THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.
10:05:41 DOWNTOWN.
10:05:45 THERE WE GO.
10:05:49 I AM GOING TO TAKE MY TIME ON DOWNTOWN AND TALK ABOUT
10:05:53 KID MASON PARK AND GOING TO BRING UP THE PROJECT
10:05:56 ARCHITECT, THOMAS HESTER AND THE ARCHITECT.
10:06:02 AND I DON'T SEE CHRIS THOMAS HERE TODAY.
10:06:05 WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU -- INSTEAD OF HEARING THAT FROM
10:06:08 US, WE WANTED YOU TO HEAR IT FROM THE FOLKS -- THE
10:06:10 HANDS ARE DIRTY FROM THE WORK AND LET THEM TELL YOU
10:06:11 WHERE WE ARE.
10:06:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THIS ONE
10:06:19 HERE.
10:06:20 >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:06:23 THOMAS HESSER WITH CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION.
10:06:26 I AM A PROJECT ARCHITECT BUT MORE OF A PROJECT MANAGER
10:06:29 FOR THIS PROJECT AND I WANT TO INTRODUCE OUR PROJECT
10:06:31 ARCHITECT OF RECORD.
10:06:34 >> GOOD MORNING, NICOLA JOHNSON.
10:06:36 I AM THE ARCHITECT ON THIS PROJECT.
10:06:39 >> AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING -- WE HAVE BEEN WORKING
10:06:42 VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH HER AND PARKS AND REC.
10:06:44 I KNOW A CONCERN WHERE WE ARE WITH THIS PROJECT AND
10:06:49 WHAT I WANT TO FOCUS ON IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW AND
10:06:53 HOW SOON TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THERE ARE SHOT OF
10:06:55 WHICH IS WHAT YOUR CONCERN IS.
10:06:59 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THIS PROJECT IN PERMITTING.
10:07:05 WHEN IT COMES DOWN THIS PROJECT, IT HAS -- THIS
10:07:09 COMMUNITY CENTER HAS A CHILLER ALSO, A SEPARATE CHILLER
10:07:15 PERMIT THAT NEEDS TO BE WITH THIS PROJECT.
10:07:18 WE HAD A CHILLER PERMIT THAT THEY APPROVED AND WE ARE
10:07:20 ADDRESSING ALL THE COMMENTS FROM THE LARGER BUILDING.
10:07:23 WE ARE UPLOADING THOSE THINGS AND IN A COUPLE OF WEEK
10:07:27 WE HOPE TO HAVE ANOTHER -- THAT PERMIT IN HAND ALSO.
10:07:30 ONCE WE GET THOSE TWO PERMITS IN HAND, THE NEXT STEP IS
10:07:33 TO PUT THIS OUT FOR COMPETITIVE BID.
10:07:36 AND A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER THAT THAT WE WILL HAVE OUR
10:07:38 COMPETITIVE BID.
10:07:44 AND ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THAT PROBABLY OPEN BIDS AND
10:07:53 NEXT PART OF THAT HAVE A CONTRACTUAL 90 DAYS TO AWARD
10:07:59 THIS PROJECT.
10:08:04 ONE WE AWARD IT BETWEEN 30 AND 60 DAY.
10:08:12 WE ARE CLOSER THAN WE HAVE EVER BEEN.
10:08:15 WE WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IS WHERE WE AREER RIGHT
10:08:16 NOW.
10:08:18 IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS.
10:08:20 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:08:26 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHEN WAS THIS STRUCTURE BUILT?
10:08:28 >> THE STRUCTURE WAS BUILT ABOUT -- YOU GOT TO
10:08:31 UNDERSTAND THAT THE CURRENT BUILDING -- THERE ARE TWO
10:08:32 PARTS TO IT.
10:08:37 IF YOU LOOK AT IT, A TALLER PART AND I BELIEVE WE ENDED
10:08:41 UP HAVING TO DO A HISTORICAL STUDY AND EITHER THE 40S
10:08:43 OR THE 50.
10:08:44 THE HISTORICAL PART.
10:08:48 IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUILDING UNLESS YOU ARE AN
10:08:49 ARCHITECT.
10:08:52 IT IS HARD TO SAY THAT ONE IS HISTORICAL ENOUGH.
10:09:03 ONE IS CLOSER TO THE WEST A NEWER PART.
10:09:06 WE HAD TO GO BEFORE THE HISTORICAL BOARD AND THANK GOD
10:09:09 WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO A FULL PRESENTATION AND ALL
10:09:17 ADMINISTRATIVE.
10:09:18 AND THERE IS A LOT OF THRIFT.
10:09:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHERE IS THE MURAL IS AT.
10:09:23 THAT PART AND ART DECO CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE FRONT
10:09:28 ENTRANCE.
10:09:43 OF THE CENTRAL AVENUE BUSINESS AREA.
10:09:52 OVER IN ENCORE THEY HAD THE TWO HOUSES THAT THE PART OF
10:09:55 THE SCRUB -- WHATEVER THEY IT.
10:09:57 THE FAMOUS JACKSON HOUSE.
10:09:59 THE LONG SHOREMAN'S BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET AND
10:10:04 THIS, THE CHURCH, I THINK -- THERE IS ONE OF FIVE OR
10:10:13 SIX ORIGINAL STRUCTURES WHAT WAS CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:10:15 JUST FOR MY OWN KNOWLEDGE.
10:10:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:10:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM LOOKING FOR A ROBUST OF THIS
10:10:23 BUILDING.
10:10:25 YOU GO, AND IT A DUMPED IN THERE.
10:10:27 LET'S PUT IT THE WAY IT IS.
10:10:28 IT IS HORRIBLE IN THERE.
10:10:30 THE WALLS, THE STRUCTURES, IF WE NEED TO COME BACK
10:10:35 WITH MORE DOLLARS, I WANT THE BUILDING TO LOOK LIKE
10:10:38 SOMETHING AND THE INSIDE LOOK LIKE A NICE PLACE.
10:10:49 NOT SCRATCH AND DENT REPAIRS AND SAID WE DID SOMETHING
10:10:51 THAT CENTRAL AVENUE WAS.
10:10:54 IT NEEDS TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE GO THERE AND GO
10:10:54 WOW.
10:11:02 I ALWAYS TALK OF THE WOW FACTOR.
10:11:11 AND YOU GET A BACK AREA I WANT FOR THAT PLACE TO BE A
10:11:14 WOW FACTOR AND ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT GOING UP THERE WITH
10:11:28 THE CENTRAL PARK WITH THE KIDS OVER THERE.
10:11:33 NOT A PLACE THAT IS JUST A SCRATCH AND DENT REPAIR.
10:11:38 THE REASON I SAY THAT, A LOT OF PLACES HAVE A LOT OF
10:11:41 MONEY, IF IT HAS TO COME BACK HERE BECAUSE WE NEED TO
10:11:43 DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
10:11:47 WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR THAT PLACE.
10:11:52 >> NI COLA CAN TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN IN
10:11:53 THE MIDST OF IT.
10:11:58 >> AT THE KICKOFF OF THE PROJECT, WE MET AT THE KID
10:11:58 MASON CENTER.
10:12:03 WHAT WE NOTICED ON THE WINDOWS WERE BARS AND GRILLES
10:12:05 THAT WERE UNATTRACTIVE.
10:12:06 BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY DOWN.
10:12:09 THE FIRST THING WAS TO REMOVE THOSE BARS.
10:12:10 REPLACE THE WINDOWS.
10:12:17 UPDATE THE EXTERIOR TO STEP FORWARD IN TERMS OF ENERGY
10:12:18 CONSERVATION.
10:12:22 INSIDE THE SPACE, IF NEEDS SERIOUS REPAIR.
10:12:25 THEY TOOK THE MAIN AREA CALLING THE COMPUTER ROOM THAT
10:12:27 HAD A BUNCH OF BOARDS THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE WALLS
10:12:30 WITH SOME BRACKETS.
10:12:35 THE CHAIRS THAT DIDN'T QUITE MEET THE PROPER HEIGHT.
10:12:40 AND REVAMPED THE SPACE AND REDID THE BATHROOMS TO MAKE
10:12:42 SURE THEY ARE ADA COMPLIANT.
10:12:45 CHILDREN IN THE AGE OF 5-14 IN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
10:12:48 TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BATHROOMS ACCOMMODATE THE KIDS IN
10:12:53 BOTH AGE GROUPS AND THEN APPLIED TWO UNI SEX BATHROOMS
10:12:59 ON THE BACK OF THE MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING SO ADULTS
10:13:04 WOULD HAVE SEPARATION FROM THE KIDS.
10:13:08 AND THE MAIN ROOM OF THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM.
10:13:10 REVAMPED THE SPACE.
10:13:13 NEW FURNITURE LAYOUTS, NEW COMPUTER STATIONS THAT ARE
10:13:17 PROPER HEIGHTS AND ADJUSTABLE SO KIDS THAT ARE TALLER
10:13:19 -- YOU CAN ACCOMMODATE THE TALLER KIDS.
10:13:22 WE CAN ACCOMMODATE ALL THE ADA REQUIREMENTS.
10:13:26 AND THE KITCHEN IS ALSO BEING REVAMPED AND WE TALKED TO
10:13:30 THE STAFF AND ONE OF THEIR CONCERNS IS BEING ABLE TO
10:13:32 HAVE PROPER SUPERVISION.
10:13:36 WE SET UP THE MAIN READING ROOM AND WILL BE SUPERVISED.
10:13:39 ONE PERSON, ONE FACILITY DIRECTOR ISN'T IN THE ROOM
10:13:43 EVEN FROM THE KITCHEN, STILL HAVE ACCESS TO SEE WHO IS
10:13:45 COMING, WHO IS GOING AND WHERE THE KIDS ARE INSIDE OF
10:13:48 THE SPACE.
10:13:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE BACK MULTITURN.
10:13:54 YOU GO TO THE BACK AND THE DOOR AND THE OPENING, WHAT
10:13:56 ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT?
10:13:58 >> IN THAT SPACE WE ARE USING PART OF THAT FOR THE
10:14:00 MECHANICAL SYSTEM.
10:14:04 WE OPENED UP THAT ROOM TO INCORPORATE A FITNESS CENTER
10:14:09 CONTROLLED FOR A FOB CENTER FOR CITY FACILITY AND CITY
10:14:11 MANAGERS BY FOB.
10:14:13 BUT WE ALSO OPENED UP THE OTHER HALF.
10:14:16 THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING AS A GAME ROOM, SO WE CONTINUE
10:14:19 TO USE THAT SIDE AS A GAME ROOM.
10:14:24 THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR OPEN
10:14:24 SPACE.
10:14:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: REMODELING ALL OF THAT, CORRECT.
10:14:30 >> EVERYTHING WILL GET NEW FLOORINGS, NEW WALLS, NEW
10:14:31 WINDOWS.
10:14:33 AN EXTENSIVE RENOVATION.
10:14:35 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:14:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:14:38 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUST TO WRAP UP.
10:14:41 IT IS A SMALL BUILDING, BUT IT IS A HISTORICALLY
10:14:47 SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURE.
10:14:53 YOU KNOW I AM LOOKING HERE AT THE SLIDE AND WE HAVE THE
10:14:55 MURAL WITH SIGNIFICANT NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS LIKE
10:14:59 SENATOR ARTHENIA JOYNER WHO HAS BEEN IN THESE CHAMBERS.
10:15:01 MOSES WHITE.
10:15:02 THE WHITE FAMILY.
10:15:04 THE CONTRIBUTIONS THEY HAVE MADE.
10:15:06 REMEMBER THAT CENTRAL AVENUE WAS ESSENTIALLY COMPLETELY
10:15:09 DEMOLISHED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO.
10:15:16 THE COTTON CLUB THAT THE JOYNERS EARNED WAS IN '74.
10:15:18 BEFORE I WAS BORN.
10:15:20 IMAGINE DEMOLISHING YBOR CITY.
10:15:24 WIPING OUT 7TH AVENUE AND -- YBOR CITY WAS A MAJOR
10:15:26 VICTIM OF URBAN RENEWAL.
10:15:29 CENTRAL AVENUE WAS ESSENTIALLY TOTALLY WIPED OUT.
10:15:32 AGAIN, THE KID MASON CENTER IS ONE OF THE LAST
10:15:32 STRUCTURES.
10:15:36 WE ARE TALKING OF PRESERVE CAN OUR HISTORY AND TOO LATE
10:15:37 TO THE GAME.
10:15:38 WE WEREN'T THERE.
10:15:42 CITY OF TAMPA DIDN'T HAVE A URBAN RENEWAL INFORMS UNTIL
10:15:43 1974.
10:15:47 THE URBAN RENEWAL WAS TO AGGRESSIVE IT THANK IT WIPED
10:15:48 THOUGHT NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:15:50 WHY IS THIS BUILDING SO IMPORTANT?
10:15:53 BECAUSE ONE OF THE LAST OF THE SMALL HANDFUL OF THE
10:15:54 HISTORY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:15:57 I AM TOTALLY IN SUPPORT AND COUNCILMAN GUDES HAS BEEN
10:15:59 TALKING KID MASON SINCE HE GOT ELECTED.
10:16:02 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO SUPPORT, THAT I
10:16:04 SUPPORT, THAT I AM GLAD WE ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS
10:16:15 BENEFICIAL AND RESPECTFUL AND WE PRESERVING THE PAST
10:16:18 AND VERY LITTLE HISTORY THAT IS PHYSICALLY STANDING
10:16:18 THERE TODAY.
10:16:21 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK AND I AM VERY HAPPY TO HEAR
10:16:22 OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE DOING.
10:16:29 THANK YOU.
10:16:31 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
10:16:32 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
10:16:36 >> JUST SO YOU KNOW IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, WE HAVE PUT
10:16:42 SOME EXTRA FUNDS ASIDE BECAUSE OF INFLATION AND SUPPLY
10:16:44 SHORTAGES, THE WHOLE -- I AM SURE YOU ARE AWARE OF
10:16:44 THAT.
10:16:50 WE ALSO PUT MONEY ASIDE FOR MASSEY PARK A LITTLE EXTRA
10:16:53 MONEY THERE AND THAT WILL BE COMING FORWARD.
10:17:08 THE NEXT TIME WE TALK BRING THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:17:16 THIS IS OUR DOWNTOWN PRESENTATION AND DO THE SAME WITH
10:17:17 JACKSON AND MASSEY.
10:17:28 CENTRAL PARK, THE JOHNSON HOMES.
10:17:33 NEGOTIATING WITH CENTRAL PARK CRA TO DO ENHANCEMENTS TO
10:17:35 BRING THE HOUSES BACK.
10:17:39 LEAD OR FORTIFY THROUGH THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY TO MAKE
10:17:47 THOSE HOUSES EVEN BETTER THEN WHAT THEY COULD BE WITH
10:17:56 THE FLORIDA BUILDING CODE TALKING WITH CULTURE AND ARTS
10:17:57 IN THE ROUNDABOUT.
10:18:00 I DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE A LOT OF YOUR TIME BECAUSE OF
10:18:03 CHANNEL AND DOWNTOWN AND OUR REPORT FOR THE DOWNTOWN
10:18:09 AREA.
10:18:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: TELL ME ABOUT THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:18:13 I AM LOST.
10:18:14 WHERE ARE WE AT WITH THAT?
10:18:23 >> COUNCILMAN, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON KID MASON AND
10:18:26 DIGGING TO DO ON JOCK SAN AND WE HAVE IDEAS.
10:18:29 >> ONE OF THE THINGS WE CHALLENGE WITH THE JACKSON
10:18:40 HOUSE IS THE, YOU GUYS ARE AWARE OF THAT.
10:18:44 I GOT AN UPDATE NEGOTIATING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER TO
10:18:47 -- THE JACKSON HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION IS THE ONE THAT
10:18:48 HAS BEEN WORKING THROUGH THIS.
10:19:00 AND THE CITY HAS SOME RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:19:05 VACATE AN ALLEY AND A PORTION OF IT -- IT IS SUPER
10:19:06 COMPLICATED.
10:19:09 VACATE THE PROPERTY, DO LAND SWAPS SO THEY CAN HAVE THE
10:19:26 SPACE AROUND THE JACKSON HOUSE WE WERE AT A STALEMATE
10:19:29 NOT WANTING TO GIVE THE EASEMENTS AND WE ARE WORKING
10:19:30 HARD ON THAT.
10:19:36 GIVE YOU AN UPDATE AND HOPEFULLY NEXT MONTH.
10:19:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM PRAYERFUL THAT WE DON'T GET A
10:19:42 BAD, BAD STORM.
10:19:44 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: EVERY TIME WE GET A SERIOUS RAINSTORM
10:19:47 GOING INTO HURRICANE SEASON, I AM PRAYING.
10:19:52 BUT I GOT THAT UPDATE YESTERDAY AND HOPEFULLY HAVE MORE
10:19:55 AND AGGRESSIVELY WORKING ON GETTING THAT EASEMENT THAT
10:20:03 THEY NEED TO UPDATE TO DO THE RENOVATIONS TO THAT YES.
10:20:06 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:20:08 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU MENTIONED THE TWO HOMES AND
10:20:10 THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:20:12 AGAIN THOSE TWO STRUCTURES, JOHN IF ONE AFFORDABLE
10:20:15 HOUSING, BOTH AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:20:16 YOU KNOW.
10:20:26 I THINK WE SHOULD DEDICATE ONE CIVIL RIGHTS OR BLACK
10:20:28 HISTORY MUSEUM FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
10:20:31 IDEALLY, I THOUGHT OF THE JACKSON HOUSE RESTORING IT
10:20:40 AND HAVING A SMALL EVENT SPACE ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR
10:20:42 THINK OF ALL THE MUSICIANS THAT WALKED THERE.
10:20:46 AGAIN, ARE ONE OF THE FEW STRUCTURES STILL REMAINING IN
10:20:47 THAT AREA.
10:20:51 WE HAVEN'T DONE MUCH AND I DON'T BLAME ANYBODY IN THIS
10:20:55 ROOM AND GOINGS BACK HALF A CENTURY TO SHOWCASE THE
10:20:55 BLACK COMMUNITY.
10:21:02 A FEW WEEKS AGO I WENT TO A GENTLEMAN'S CHURCH, PASTOR
10:21:02 WILLIAMS.
10:21:06 HE COMES HERE MANY, MANY TIMES AND TOLD ME WHAT HE HAS
10:21:09 ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR.
10:21:10 I HEARD ABOUT THIS PLACE.
10:21:13 HE HAS PHOTOS AND ITEMS I HAVE NEVER SEEN.
10:21:16 JIM CROW AREA, SEGREGATION.
10:21:17 WHATNOT.
10:21:19 ITEMS THAT SHOULD BE SHOWED AND DISPLAYED TO THE PUBLIC
10:21:28 SO THEY KNOW THE HISTORY OF THIS AREA OF WHAT WAS HERE
10:21:34 BECAUSE SO MUCH WAS WIPED OUT AND DEMOLISHED.
10:21:35 JACKSON HOUSE.
10:21:36 I PARK.
10:21:37 BY INSIDE.
10:21:38 I TAKE GOOD PHOTOS.
10:21:40 A COLORFUL PLACE INSIDE.
10:21:44 ALL THE LAYERS OF PAINT AND A VERY UNIQUE SPOT.
10:21:47 AND AGAIN IT IS DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT.
10:21:48 NOT BLAMING EVERYBODY HERE.
10:21:54 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
10:21:58 WHEN I FIRST GOT ELECTED THE FIRST CONVERSATION WITH
10:22:00 THE PREVIOUS MAYOR WHAT ABOUT THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:22:02 FIRST WORDS OUT OF MY HOUSE BECAUSE HISTORIC
10:22:10 PRESERVATION IS SO IMPORTANT FOR ME.
10:22:13 SHE SAW IT UP CLOSE AND SHE SAID HOW IS IT STANDING.
10:22:17 THE STRUCTURE AND THE TRUSSES THAT ARE HOLDING IT UP.
10:22:25 COUNCILMAN GUDES SAY NOTHING LIKE A BAD STORM -- WE ARE
10:22:28 IN A TROPICAL CLIMATE AND BUSTED-OUT WINDOWS.
10:22:30 THE HUMIDITY IS THE WORST.
10:22:31 IT IS ALL WOOD.
10:22:34 IF WE WORK WITH THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS THAT
10:22:48 SOMETHING WILL COME FOR IT I LOVE HISTORY AND MUSEUMS.
10:22:52 SHOW CURRENT AND POPULATIONS SHOWING SOMETHING OTHER
10:22:53 THAN A BOOK.
10:22:57 AND PEOPLE MENTIONED DOLBYVILLE AND ROBERT CITY AND THE
10:22:59 CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:23:00 ALL THESE PLACES DON'T EXIST.
10:23:05 WE HAVE TO PRESERVE WHAT IS HERE AND RIGHT THE WRONGS
10:23:08 OF THE PAST THAT WERE VERY AGGRESSIVE THROUGH URBAN
10:23:09 RENEWAL.
10:23:09 IT IS OLD.
10:23:10 DEMOLISH IT.
10:23:13 I APPRECIATE THE UPDATE, BUT WE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING
10:23:16 POSSIBLE TO PRESERVE THESE STRUCTURES TO PROTECT THEM
10:23:18 FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS, THANK YOU.
10:23:20 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:23:22 >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, THANK YOU ALL.
10:23:26 I THINK THE TWO PROJECT MANAGERS LEFT THE ROOM BUT
10:23:28 THANK YOU FOR FOCUSING ON THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE
10:23:30 OF THE CENTRAL AVENUE AREA.
10:23:36 WE ALL HAVE HEARD SO MANY STORIES FROM PEOPLE AND MANY,
10:23:40 MANY OTHERS WHAT USED TO BE THERE AND A SHAME IT WAS
10:23:46 ALL TORN DOWN.
10:23:49 I THOUGHT FOR SURE WE WOULD HAVE THE JACKSON HOUSE
10:23:54 RESTORED, AND IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO WILLIAMSBURG, 90% OF
10:23:57 THE BUILDINGS WERE BUILT IN THE 1910S OR 1920S.
10:24:05 THEY ARE ALL RESTORATIONS, RE-CREATIONS.
10:24:06 IT IS IMPORTANT TO TELL THE STORY.
10:24:08 THE JACKSON HOUSE IS IMPORTANT NOT BECAUSE OF THE
10:24:12 FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO STAYED THERE BUT PROXIMITY TO TAMPA
10:24:14 UNION STATION WHICH THIS BOARD HAS WORKED TO PROTECT
10:24:15 AND WORKING WITH STAFF.
10:24:19 AND THE FACT THAT AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARRIVING NO MATTER
10:24:19 WHO THEY WERE.
10:24:27 FAMOUS ACTORS AND MOVIE STARS AND MUSICIANS, THEY WOULD
10:24:30 WALK ACROSS TO JACKSON STREET BECAUSE COULDN'T STAY IN
10:24:31 WHITE HOTELS.
10:24:34 I WANT TO PERSONALLY OR THROUGH MY FIRM SPONSOR THE
10:24:37 PIANO GO IN THE LOBBY OF THE JACKSON HOUSE AND I WANT
10:24:40 TO BE THERE WHEN MUSIC IS PLAYED THERE FOR THE FIRST
10:24:40 TIME.
10:24:43 YOU ALL MAY REMEMBER I WAS INVOLVED IN AN EFFORT 2015
10:24:44 AND 2016.
10:24:48 LINDA SAUL-SENA AND I SET UP A MEETING WITH WILLIE
10:24:49 ROBINSON.
10:24:50 I MET WITH HIM.
10:24:54 HE HAD JUST GOTTEN A LETTER FROM THE LAST MAYOR TO SAY
10:25:02 THAT THE CITY WAS GOING TO TEAR DOWN THE JACKSON HOUSE
10:25:05 ABOUT TEN DAYS LATER, THE SATURDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING.
10:25:09 I CALLED LINDA -- THAT WAS ON A WEDNESDAY.
10:25:12 AND SHE CAME THE NEXT MORNING AND THREE OR FOUR OF YOU
10:25:16 HELPED SAVE THE JACKSON HOUSE FROM BEING TORN DOWN FROM
10:25:17 THE LAST ADMINISTRATION.
10:25:18 THANK YOU FOR DOING.
10:25:25 HURDLES AND OBSTACLES TO SAVE IT WERE SQUASHED.
10:25:27 SEVERAL EFFORTS WERE SQUASHED.
10:25:30 THANK THE PROPERTY OWNER ADJACENT AND WORK WITH US TO
10:25:36 TRY TO SAVE THIS IMPORTANT STRUCTURE AND I WILL END
10:25:40 WITH CHRISTINA PARKER SAID DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH
10:25:42 ANYONE WANTS NOT TO BE THERE, IT WILL BE THERE AT THAT
10:25:45 LOCATION AND NOT MOVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
10:25:53 IF WE HAVE TO USE ONE PIECE OF WOOD FROM ONE JACKSON
10:25:54 HOUSE.
10:25:57 PLEASE EVERYBODY WHO IS SLOWING DOWN THE PROCESS HELP
10:26:09 US FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS FASTER.
10:26:13 APART OF OUR CITY AND CULTURE.
10:26:16 WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO PRESERVE IT.
10:26:18 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:26:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, THE CHURCH WAS
10:26:24 ALLEN TEMPLE.
10:26:27 ONE OF THE TOP ECONOMY METHODIST CHURCHES IN THE AREA.
10:26:27 OF COURSE.
10:26:34 I DON'T KNOW -- PASTOR WILLIAMS IS ELDERLY AND IT NEEDS
10:26:34 WORK.
10:26:36 ESSENTIAL DISTRICT CRA.
10:26:42 I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN TO DO ASSIST HIM IN THAT
10:26:49 CHURCH TEMPLE.
10:26:52 I KNOW IT IS A HISTORICAL CHURCH.
10:26:55 I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS IN THE REGISTRY OF THE CITY,
10:26:57 STATE OR HISTORICAL CHURCH.
10:27:04 THE NAME WAS CHANGED AND THE BUILDING IS HISTORICAL.
10:27:13 TO HELP WITH THE BUILDING.
10:27:15 I KNOW HE HAS SOME ISSUES.
10:27:15 HE IS ELDERLY NOW.
10:27:17 HE CAN'T -- HE CAN'T DO IT.
10:27:21 SO WE GOT TO SEE IF WE CAN LEND A HELPING HAND IF WE
10:27:21 CAN.
10:27:24 WE HAVE GOT TO LOOK INTO THAT AND APPRECIATE THAT.
10:27:35 >> WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET IN THE CHURCH.
10:27:40 AND WE WILL HAVE DENNIS FERNANDEZ GIVE US A LIST OF THE
10:27:42 BUILDINGS STILL IN EXISTENCE.
10:27:45 ON KID MASON I ASKED THOMAS ONCE WE HAVE A CONTRACTOR
10:27:48 CHOSEN THROUGH THE CITY PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE A
10:27:50 GROUNDBREAKING IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
10:27:55 HAVE IT -- THE CRA FOR THE GROUNDBREAKING AND AREA IS
10:27:59 FUNDING THE PROJECT AND PUT UP CONSTRUCTION SIGN ON THE
10:28:08 SITE THAT WILL INCORPORATE OUR NEW CRA LOGO TO
10:28:12 COORDINATE AND HAVE WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE PROJECT.
10:28:13 ONE -- TWO LAST THINGS.
10:28:17 BY THE WAY, ALL THESE PROJECTS WE ARE DOING, I AM GLAD
10:28:18 THAT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA IS BACK.
10:28:32 WE WILL NOT BE USING TAMPA UNION STATION.
10:28:35 THE FUNDS FROM IN PLACE AND GIVE ADRI PROPS BECAUSE I
10:28:38 WENT TO THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT WITH A
10:28:41 START-UP SHEET AND FOUND SHE ALREADY BEAT ME TOO IT FOR
10:28:54 TAMPA STATION FOR AN ARCHITECT TO TALK TO CULTURAL AND
10:29:03 ARTS TO SET UP ON THE MONUMENT GOING THERE ALSO AND
10:29:05 TIMED PROPERLY.
10:29:08 WE HAVE A BASIC TIMELINE THAT WE WILL BE FILLING OUT A
10:29:10 LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:29:14 WE HAVE ARTS INVOLVED WITH THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
10:29:17 INVOLVED IN THAT TIMELINE YET.
10:29:19 WE ARE BRINGING IT BACK TO YOU.
10:29:20 THE MONEY IS THERE.
10:29:22 THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE IN PLACE.
10:29:23 WE NEED TO STAY ON TOP OF IT.
10:29:27 AND, AGAIN, THANKS TO THE BOARD FOR KEEPING, -- YOU
10:29:31 KNOW, IT'S NICE TO BE ABLE TO USE THE BOARD AS A STRONG
10:29:33 ARM THAT GETS THINGS MOVING WHEN THE BOARD ASKS THESE
10:29:35 QUESTIONS.
10:29:36 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:29:38 >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO SAY THE SAME THING.
10:29:40 THANK THIS BOARD.
10:29:48 YOU ALL LOVED THE UNION STATION AND SEE THE OPPORTUNITY
10:29:48 WITH IT.
10:29:51 BECAUSE YOU SUPPORTED IT MULTIPLE TIMES, NICOLE AND
10:29:54 CHIEF OF STAFF, PUT TOGETHER A MEETING OF TEN STAFF
10:29:55 PEOPLE.
10:30:02 CRA FACILITY AND THE CRA IS FUNDING IT AND GOT TO TAKE
10:30:06 A TOUR WITH THEM A MONTH AGO AND WENT THROUGH EVERY
10:30:13 PIECE FROM THE BROKEN WINDOWS TO LEAKS TO TERMITES AND
10:30:18 FREE WI-FI AND COFFEE SHOP WOULD GO AND EXPAND, ETC.
10:30:22 THANK YOU NICOLE AND CHIEF OF STAFF FOR PARTICIPATING
10:30:23 IN THAT.
10:30:25 IF WE DO EVERYTHING WE TALKED ABOUT, IT IS BE
10:30:26 FANTASTIC.
10:30:29 DENNIS FERNANDEZ IS ONE THAT WENT ALSO.
10:30:32 AND FRIEND OF THE TAMPA UNION STATION.
10:30:35 >> SO THAT IS MY PRESENTATION.
10:30:38 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WHILE JESUS IS COMING UP TO GIVE YOU
10:30:40 THE WEST TAMPA.
10:30:43 JEFF TOUCHED ON IT ABOUT PUTTING A SIGN SO THAT THE CRA
10:30:46 BOARD, PEOPLE KNOW IT IS A CRA PROJECT.
10:30:49 I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO WORK ON IT.
10:30:52 WE ARE WORKING ON A LOGO FOR A TAMPA CRA AND ALL OF
10:30:55 YOUR PROJECTS THAT YOU ARE FUNDING AND THAT YOU ARE A
10:30:55 PART OF.
10:31:02 WE ARE GOING TO PUT THE LOGO ON THEM AND OTHER PROJECTS
10:31:05 IN PARTNERSHIP THAT ARE POWERED BY THE CRA SO EVERYBODY
10:31:10 KNOWS THAT THE CRAS ARE IN PARTNERSHIP.
10:31:16 AND MAKE SURE THAT SIGNAGE AND THIS BRANDING, THAT THE
10:31:18 CRA BOARD IS PARTICIPATING -- ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN
10:31:19 ALL OF THE PROJECTS.
10:31:21 I WANTED TO GIVE YOU THAT UPDATE THAT WE ARE DOING IT
10:31:24 NOT JUST FOR THIS NEW PROJECT, BUT EXISTING PROJECTS AS
10:31:31 WELL ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
10:31:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:31:36 MR. NINO.
10:31:40 >> GOOD MORNING, JESUS NINO, DREW PARK URBAN
10:31:41 DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
10:31:43 IF WE CAN BRING UP THE PRESENTATION, PLEASE.
10:31:46 I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS
10:31:48 WE HAVE GOING ON IN WEST TAMPA.
10:31:51 YOU SEE ON THE PRESENTATION, SALCINES PARK.
10:31:54 THAT IS MOVING FORWARD.
10:31:57 THE CAC AT THE LAST MEETING REVIEWED A FINAL DETAILS OF
10:32:00 REQUEST OF QUALIFICATION OF DESIGN-BUILD FOR THE PARK.
10:32:04 SO THAT WILL BE ADVERTISED HOPEFULLY EARLY JOLT.
10:32:07 AND THEN WE CAN GET HER OUT THERE AND RECEIVE PROPOSALS
10:32:14 SO WE CAN REVIEW.
10:32:19 WE DID CONTACT RETIRED JUDGE SAL SIN NIECE AND THEY
10:32:22 WILL BE INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT MOVING FORWARD.
10:32:26 COINCIDENCE I SAW MOSES WHITE ON ONE OF THE SLIDES.
10:32:31 MAIN STREET IS KNOWN AS MOSES WHITE BOULEVARD OF
10:32:31 BOULEVARD.
10:32:33 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NORTHWEST TO INTERRUPT YOU.
10:32:37 GLAD TO SEE SALCINES PARK IMPROVEMENTS.
10:32:42 I GET CALLS AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK AND YOU MENTION MOSES
10:32:45 WHITE RIGHT OFF THE SLIDE IS WHERE MOSES WHITE MOVED
10:32:48 HIS RESTAURANT ON CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:32:49 THE COZY CORNER RIGHT THERE.
10:32:52 THERE IS MOSES WHITE HISTORY GOING WHAT WE DISCUSS WITH
10:32:54 CENTRAL AVENUE AND THIS.
10:32:55 SO GOOD.
10:32:57 SORRY.
10:32:58 >> IT'S MOVING FORWARD.
10:33:01 WE DO HAVE A MOBILE HOT SPOT UNIT JUST LET YOU KNOW
10:33:04 THAT WE ARE STARTING TO MOBILIZE FOR MAIN STREET TO
10:33:06 HELP OUT WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ISSUES THAT ARE
10:33:08 HOMELESS OR OTHER ISSUES.
10:33:15 SO WE ARE GOING TO GET THEM OUT THERE A I THINK A THIRD
10:33:16 TIME TO HELP MORE INDIVIDUALS.
10:33:19 VETERANS, YOU NAME IT.
10:33:20 WHO NEED ASSISTANCE.
10:33:23 AS FAR AS 2101 WEST MAIN STREET.
10:33:26 IS ANOTHER ITEM ON THE AGENDA HERE A LITTLE BIT.
10:33:31 WE ARE MOVING FORWARD HOPEFULLY IF THE CRA AND CITY
10:33:33 COUNCIL APPROVE US TO CLOSE ON A PROPERTY.
10:33:38 CURRENTLY IT IS A PRIVATE PARK OWNED BY MR. JOE REDNER.
10:33:42 HE HAS AGREED TO SELL IT TO THE CRA FOR 200,000.
10:33:45 BECAUSE WE FOUND OUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION ON THE
10:33:49 PROPERTY, HE REDUCED THE PRICE FOR $185,000 AND
10:33:54 DESIGNATE THE PROPERTY AFTER WE CLOSE ON IT TO A BROWN
10:33:55 FIELD.
10:33:58 THAT IS GOING TO ALLOW US TO CLEAN UP THE PROPERTY.
10:34:00 COST APPROXIMATELY $200,000.
10:34:04 A BROWN FIELD PROGRAM WILL BE ABLE TO GO AFTER THE
10:34:06 VOLUNTEER CLEANUP TAX CREDITS.
10:34:08 WE RECEIVE 75% OF IT BACK.
10:34:11 AT THE END OF THE DAY HOPEFULLY IF APPROVED.
10:34:15 TOTAL COST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND THE
10:34:18 PROPERTY $250,000 AND IT WILL REMAIN A PUBLIC PARK
10:34:23 AFTER WE DO ALL THE WORK.
10:34:26 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO THIS PARCEL, I MIGHT BE WRONG,
10:34:29 WAS THE SITE OF THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL FOR THE CITY OF
10:34:30 WEST TAMPA.
10:34:32 >> GOOD HISTORY, YES, SIR.
10:34:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO WE ANNEXED THE CITY OF WEST
10:34:43 TAMPA AND IT IS COMING BAG -- COMING BACK TO OUR
10:34:47 OWNERSHIP AFTER A CENTURY -- I THINK FOR THE CITY HALL.
10:34:49 THEN IT WAS A FIRE STATION.
10:34:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GET YOU TEACHING SCHOOL.
10:34:52 [LAUGHTER]
10:34:57 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM GIVING CLASS TODAY.
10:34:58 >> MOVING TONIGHT NEXT SLIDE HERE.
10:35:02 WE CURRENTLY HAVE A TEMPORARY CLEAN TEAM OUT ON MAIN
10:35:06 STREET FROM HOWARD OVER TO FREMONT.
10:35:09 IT COVERS THE ENTIRE AREA SHOWN HERE BEFORE YOU ON THE
10:35:09 MAP.
10:35:14 AT THE LAST CAC MEETING, WE KIND OF EVALUATED THE
10:35:17 CURRENT CLEAN TEAM AND ADJUST SOME OF THE DAYS.
10:35:21 INSTEAD OF MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY.
10:35:25 IT WILL BE MONDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAYS FOR CLEANUP.
10:35:30 AND RFP, A FULL-TIME YEAR-ROUND CLEAN TALK AND EXPAND
10:35:32 IT OVER TO ARMENIA.
10:35:36 AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WE HAVE THIS OUT IN
10:35:39 THE PUBLIC FOR ADVERTISEMENT.
10:35:41 THAT CONCLUDES WEST TAMPA.
10:35:47 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:35:51 AS FAR AS DREW PARK, DREW PARK WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
10:35:55 FORWARD WITH PLACE MAKER DESIGN STUDIOS TO HELP US
10:35:59 ACTIVATE THE PARK WE HAVE IN TAMPA BAY BOULEVARD IN
10:36:06 ADDITION TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK WE ARE HOPING TO FOR
10:36:08 THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE.
10:36:12 WE ARE PARTNERING OUT WITH HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY
10:36:16 COLLEGE TO PUT TOGETHER A CHARETTE IN JULY, LATE JULY
10:36:19 AT THE HCC CAMPUS AND ONCE THAT EXACT DATE IS FIGURED
10:36:22 OUT, WE WILL SEND IT OUT TO ALL OF YOU INCLUDING THE
10:36:26 REST OF THE COMMUNITY AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN ALL
10:36:29 PARTICIPATE TO MAKE THESE PARKS GOOD AS SETS FOR DREW
10:36:38 PARK.
10:36:41 WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH A CONSULTANT TO GIVE US AN
10:36:45 AUDIT ON THE LANDSCAPING ON GRADY AND LOIS AVENUE.
10:36:49 ONCE WE GET THE AUDIT BACK AND RECOMMENDATIONS HOW TO
10:36:52 MAKE IT BETTER, SAFER AND MORE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING,
10:36:57 WE WILL GO AFTER ANOTHER COMPANY TO HELP US GO AHEAD
10:37:00 AND BEAUTIFY GRADY AND LOIS AVENUE.
10:37:03 AND THEN WE ARE ALSO GOING AFTER ANOTHER CONSULTANT TO
10:37:06 HELP US FILL IN SOME OF THE SIDEWALK GAPS WE HAVE
10:37:09 THROUGHOUT DREW PARK TO KIND OF HELP US FIGURE OUT MORE
10:37:18 STRATEGIES FOR MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR DREW PARK.
10:37:21 RIGHT HERE FOR DREW PARK, WE WILL USE THIS THEME
10:37:23 THROUGHOUT DREW PARK.
10:37:25 THE AIR FIELD THEME.
10:37:27 YOU SEE HERE IN THE PHOTO ABOVE, YOU SEE THAT IS ONE OF
10:37:36 THE POTENTIAL AREAS WE CAN PUT A SIDEWALK THE COMMUNITY
10:37:39 BUILT THEIR OWN SIDEWALK GOING TO WORK OR WHEREVER THEY
10:37:40 ARE GOING.
10:37:42 THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
10:37:44 DREW PARK, I AM VERY PROUD OF THEM.
10:37:46 THEY ARE GETTING ACTIVE LATELY.
10:37:47 A LOT OF WORK.
10:37:51 A LOT OF PROJECTS INTO ACTIVATION AND YOU WILL SEE A
10:37:54 LOT OF CHANGE IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS OR SO.
10:37:54 THANK YOU.
10:37:55 ANY QUESTIONS?
10:37:57 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:37:59 >>BILL CARLSON: ONE THING BACK TO WEST TAMPA FOR A
10:38:02 SECOND AND I THINK I MENTIONED MAYBE A LITTLE BIT
10:38:05 BEFORE, BUT I WAS TOLD BY A FORMER CITY EMPLOYEE THAT
10:38:11 BACK IN THE 70S, THERE WAS NO FEDERAL MONEY FOR
10:38:15 HISTORIC PRESERVATION BUT MONEY FOR PARKS.
10:38:20 THIS CITY INSTEAD OF SAVING -- WAS IT SAL SIN NIECE
10:38:23 PHARMACY -- GENERAL STORE.
10:38:26 INSTEAD OF SAVING THE BUILDING, THE CITY GOT $25,000
10:38:28 FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BUILD A PARK THERE.
10:38:32 AS YOU ARE COMING OFF -- AND I THINK -- THE PLANNING
10:38:35 DEPARTMENT IS WORKING ON A NEW MASTER PLAN, THE
10:38:37 NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT WE PROPOSED FOR THAT
10:38:38 AREA.
10:38:45 BUT AS YOU ARE COMING OFF THE INTERSTATE IMPORTANT WHAT
10:38:46 YOU SEE WHEN YOU COME IN.
10:38:51 I WOULD RATHER SEE US SEE US REBUILD THE GENERAL STORE
10:38:54 BUILDING LIKE WE HAD INSTEAD OF RENOVATING A PARK.
10:38:58 A LOT OF SPACE AND EMPTY LOTS TO BUY PARKS.
10:39:02 AND THIS SPACE IS VERY IMPORTANT AS A GATEWAY
10:39:06 ENTRANCEWAY AND A BETTER TRIBUTE TO THE SAL SIN NIECE
10:39:06 FAMILY.
10:39:13 I KNOW WE ARE PROBABLY -- THE SALCINES FAMILY.
10:39:17 AND PAY THE GOVERNMENT BACK $25,000 AND BUILD A
10:39:20 BUILDING OR THE PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE.
10:39:23 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:39:25 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: INTERESTING CONCEPT, AND MEETING
10:39:28 SPACE AND WHAT ABOUT RAY PARK.
10:39:31 WHAT ABOUT THE BARKSDALE CENTER IN MACFARLAND PARK.
10:39:35 THAT WILL BE EITHER LIKE A WEST TAMPA CULTURAL CENTER
10:39:36 OR COMMUNITY CENTER OR SOMETHING.
10:39:38 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COST WILL BE.
10:39:42 I AM JUST -- PICKING UP WHAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID.
10:39:45 BUT, YEAH, HISTORICALLY, THAT WAS -- THERE ARE PHOTOS
10:39:47 YOU CAN PULL UP OF WHAT IT WAS.
10:39:50 IT WAS A BUSINESS, BUT PERHAPS -- SOMETHING TO CONSIDER
10:39:51 MAYBE INSTEAD OF A PARK.
10:39:54 YOU MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN USE
10:39:57 FOR MEETING SPACE, FOR EVENT SPACE.
10:40:01 I KNOW THERE IS A TPD SUBSTATION AROUND THERE.
10:40:03 SO MANY OPTIONS.
10:40:05 >> I WILL TAKE IT UP WITH THE CAC.
10:40:09 ONE MORE THING PARTICULAR ON WEST TAMPA --
10:40:11 >>BILL CARLSON: PARTICULAR ADD REAL FAST.
10:40:14 YOU SEE CITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT ARE REBUILDING.
10:40:17 IF ANYBODY HAS EVER BEEN TO WARSAW, THEY HAVE THIS
10:40:22 BEAUTIFUL, LIKE 14TH CENTURY OLD TOWN.
10:40:25 BUT DURING WORLD WAR II IT WAS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BY
10:40:28 THE GERMANS AND EVERYTHING THAT WASN'T DEMOLISHED WAS
10:40:31 DEMOLISHED BY THE SOVIETS AND THEY COMPLETELY REBUILT
10:40:33 IT FROM PICTURES.
10:40:39 I WAS JUST IN CROATIA AND BOSNIA, SAME THING.
10:40:40 BUILDING THAT WERE DESTROYED.
10:40:43 THEY HAVE ALL BEEN RE-CREATED BECAUSE OF WAR.
10:40:50 AND CENTRAL AVENUE, COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BECAUSE OF --
10:40:52 AND OTHER BUILDINGS TO GET FEDERAL FUNDING FOR A PARK
10:40:53 INSTEAD OF BUILDINGS.
10:40:56 AND THOSE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS THAT ARE THERE ARE REALLY
10:40:59 IMPORTANT AND IF WE TURN THEM INTO A PARK BUILDING OR
10:41:02 FLIP THEM AND SELL THEM AT A PROFIT, THERE IS
10:41:07 TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL TO -- TO REBUILD THE HISTORIC
10:41:11 LOOK, CHARM AND ACTIVATION OF WHAT USED TO BE WEST
10:41:16 CENTRAL TAMPA AVENUE.
10:41:19 >> ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND REAL QUICK MAY
10:41:22 BE ON THE DEDICATED PARKS LIST THAT MAY RESTRICT WHAT
10:41:24 WE CAN AND CAN'T DO WITH THE PROPERTY.
10:41:26 ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO LOOK INTO POTENTIALLY WITH
10:41:27 THOSE IDEAS.
10:41:30 I AM NOT SAYING IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, BUT A FACTOR TO
10:41:31 LOOK AT.
10:41:34 >> WE ARE LOOKING INTO THAT, MORRIS.
10:41:35 THAT'S IT.
10:41:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:41:47 >> THANK YOU.
10:41:55 >> GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, YBOR CITY CRA MANAGER.
10:41:59 THE CRA RECOMMENDED THE DRAFT BUDGET AS WELL AS THE
10:41:59 THREE SUBCOMMITTEES.
10:42:04 THEY DID APPROVE IT AND A FINALIZED DRAFT BUDGET FOR
10:42:07 FISCAL YEAR '23 FOR YBOR CITY.
10:42:10 AND -- AND IT COVERS A LOT OF THE PRIORITY PROJECTS
10:42:12 LIKE YOU HEARD OF IN THE PAST.
10:42:16 FOR INSTANCE, THE COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR AND
10:42:17 ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN TEAM PROGRAM.
10:42:19 A PROGRAM THAT WE ARE COMBINING.
10:42:23 WE HAVE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AND THE CLEAN TEAM PROGRAM
10:42:26 AND INTERESTED IN COMBINING THE TWO AND HIRING A
10:42:30 PROFESSIONAL COMPANY THAT WOULD BE THE OVERSIGHT ARM OF
10:42:31 THAT PARTICULAR CONTRACT.
10:42:35 SO WE DID RECEIVE ONE SUCCESSFUL PROPOSER THAT WE DID
10:42:37 REVIEW YESTERDAY WITH THE REVIEW COMMITTEE AND WE WERE
10:42:40 PRETTY IMPRESSED WITH THEIR RESPONSE, SO WE ARE GOING
10:42:43 TO FOLLOW UP WITH SOME QUESTIONS TO THAT POTENTIAL
10:42:47 CONTRACTOR TO SEE IF WE CAN SOLIDIFY THE SCOPE OF
10:42:51 SERVICE A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER AND POSSIBLY PROCEED WITH
10:42:55 THAT NEW CONTRACTOR.
10:42:58 STRONGLY ENCOURAGING BUSINESSES AND RESIDENT
10:43:02 PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:43:04 THE NOISE ORDINANCE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND WE HAVE TWO
10:43:06 MORE ON THE RECORD.
10:43:12 WE HAVE TWO MORE AND SOCIAL MEDIA BLITZ AND DOOR TO
10:43:13 DOOR AMBASSADOR.
10:43:15 INFORMATION PROVIDED AND TRYING TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE
10:43:22 THERE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
10:43:26 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS ORR, YOUR LAST SLIDE.
10:43:28 I HAD FOUR DIFFERENT MEETINGS.
10:43:31 AND TELL ME HOW YOUR COMMUNITY BENEFITS -- HOW IT IS
10:43:33 GOING BECAUSE I RECEIVED FOUR COMPLAINTS THAT THOSE
10:43:36 MEETINGS AREN'T GOING WELL AT ALL.
10:43:40 I RECEIVED COMPLAINTS THAT I GUESS THE FIRST ONE WITH
10:43:45 THE MEDIA AND INPUT.
10:43:47 PEOPLE COULDN'T GET IN.
10:43:51 QUESTIONS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ASKED OR BEING
10:43:52 ADDRESSED.
10:43:54 I AM JUST HEARING THAT IT IS NOT GOING WELL.
10:43:57 I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT HAVING PROBLEMS.
10:44:00 THE LAST FOUR PEOPLE I SPOKE WITH SAY THE COMMUNITY
10:44:02 MEETINGS ARE NOT GOING WELL.
10:44:06 >> ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE NOISE ORDINANCE MEET?
10:44:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT THAT
10:44:11 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND
10:44:14 SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING VERSUS THE NOISE ORDINANCE?
10:44:17 >> TWO SEPARATE -- TWO SEPARATE TOPICS.
10:44:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I APOLOGIZE.
10:44:21 I SAW THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT AND THROUGH ME
10:44:23 INTO ANOTHER PLACE.
10:44:24 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT
10:44:29 MEETINGS -- THE FIRST ONE, THEY DID HAVE TECHNOLOGY HE
10:44:33 CHALLENGES WITH -- I WAS WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET
10:44:37 THAT UP, AND THEN WE HAD THE NEXT TWO COMMUNITY BENEFIT
10:44:39 AGREEMENT MEETINGS THAT WENT VERY WELL.
10:44:43 BUT THE FIRST ONE -- THERE WAS CHALLENGES.
10:44:45 THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH -- WITH THE TECHNOLOGY.
10:44:46 PEOPLE COULDN'T HEAR.
10:44:47 THEY COULDN'T PARTICIPATE.
10:44:50 SO WE MADE SURE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INVITED TO
10:44:57 THE FIRST ONE THEY WERE INVITED IN THE SECOND AND THIRD
10:45:01 ONE AND THEY PARTICIPATED IN THOSE TOO.
10:45:04 WE REACHED OUT TO DEVELOPERS AND GOT COMMENTS BACK.
10:45:08 JUNE 16 CITY COUNCIL MEETING YOU WILL GET AN UPDATE ON
10:45:10 THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT.
10:45:12 THE FIRST ONE WAS A CHALLENGE AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A
10:45:14 PROBLEM WITH THE SECOND AND THIRD ONE.
10:45:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
10:45:19 THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY.
10:45:22 WE DID WITH THE CRA AND NOW -- IT IS HERE.
10:45:25 AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY'S INPUT WHAT
10:45:29 THEY WANT TO SEE AND THINGS WE CAN DO IS IN THERE SO --
10:45:31 >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON THAT AS WELL,
10:45:38 BECAUSE I WAS JUST WITH THE EAST TAMPA -- EAST YBOR
10:45:42 NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP AND THEY SAID THE FIRST ONE DIDN'T
10:45:42 GO WELL.
10:45:46 AND THE SECONDS ONE THEY WEREN'T INVITED TO.
10:45:48 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW.
10:45:50 THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE INVITED -- ALL PUBLIC.
10:45:52 ALL THE SAME MEETING.
10:45:54 NO NEW INFORMATION WAS SHARED.
10:45:55 THE TOPIC.
10:46:00 JUST DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS AND DIFFERENT
10:46:03 PLATFORMS AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE INVITE.
10:46:04 NEWS TO ME.
10:46:04 THANK YOU.
10:46:07 >>LYNN HURTAK: THE UNDERSTANDING -- THEY THOUGHT THAT
10:46:16 WAS FOR DEVELOPERS ONLY.
10:46:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR UPDATE.
10:46:20 WILL BE THERE FUTURE MEETINGS.
10:46:23 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE DID THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND A
10:46:27 OPEN INVITATION FOR DEVELOPERS TO RESPOND TO -- WHAT WE
10:46:29 WILL BRING BACK TO YOU WHAT WE HEARD IN THE COMMUNITY
10:46:32 BENEFIT AGREEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS AND THAT WILL COME
10:46:36 BACK TO YOU ON THE 16TH.
10:46:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY, THANK YOU.
10:46:39 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE NOISE ORDINANCE THAT YBOR WAS
10:46:44 VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN THAT AND I THINK WE HAVE TWO MORE
10:46:51 PUBLIC MEETINGS AN WILL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU IN
10:46:56 OCTOBER.
10:47:01 THE STREET MONUMENT LANDSCAPE PROJECT IS NEARING
10:47:02 COMPLETION.
10:47:05 WE HAD SOME SUPPLY ISSUES THAT HELD UP THE PROJECT
10:47:09 SLIGHTLY, BUT WE ANTICIPATE A TIME FRAME OF SEPTEMBER,
10:47:12 AUGUST -- OR SEPTEMBER FOR THE FINAL SEGMENT OF THE 7TH
10:47:15 AVENUE STREETSCAPE TO BE COMPLETED WITH THE MONUMENT.
10:47:19 AND THEN -- VERY IMPORTANT ECONOMIC DRIVER AS YOU KNOW
10:47:21 ARE OUR SPECIAL EVENTS IN THE DISTRICT.
10:47:25 SO WE WILL -- IN MAY, HOSTED HOME RUNS AND HISTORY.
10:47:30 SUMMER CAR SHOW AND THE CUBAN SANDWICH FESTIVAL AND
10:47:32 LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING NEW APPLICATIONS IN FOR OUR
10:47:37 SPECIAL EVENTS CO-SPONSORSHIP GRANT PROGRAM THAT WILL
10:47:39 BE OPENING THIS MONTH ON JUNE 17.
10:47:41 AND IT WILL CLOSE ON AUGUST 1.
10:47:43 A DEADLINE OF AUGUST 1.
10:47:53 WE USUALLY FUND 15 SPECIAL EVENT DISTRICT PROGRAM.
10:47:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I SENT YOU AN E-MAIL WITH THE
10:47:56 GENTLEMAN ON 7TH AVENUE.
10:47:58 HAVE YOU GOTTEN WITH HIM?
10:47:59 >> I MESSAGED HIM.
10:48:01 I DID NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE YET.
10:48:04 I REACHED OUT TO GROWTH -- PLANNING AND GROWTH
10:48:08 MANAGEMENT TO SEE IF ANYTHING IS ON FILE OR HAS BEEN
10:48:09 FILED.
10:48:09 NOTHING HAS BEEN.
10:48:13 I AM TRYING TO GET TO THE ISSUE OF WHAT THE ISSUE IS.
10:48:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
10:48:16 >> YOU ARE WELCOME.
10:48:19 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, CONGRESSMAN CARLSON.
10:48:21 >>BILL CARLSON: I WAS CATCHING UP LAST NIGHT AND
10:48:25 READING LA GACETA AND PATRICK'S COLUMN.
10:48:31 HE WROTE THAT -- THAT -- HE HOPED THAT THE EFFORT TO
10:48:35 REBRICK 7TH AVENUE WAS NOT JUST ANOTHER WASTE OF TIME.
10:48:36 IF I READ IT CORRECTLY.
10:48:41 I WONDER, HAVE WE EVER OFFICIALLY TAKEN A VOTE OR
10:48:45 STRAW VOTE WHETHER WE ARE IN FAVOR OF REBRICKING 7TH
10:48:45 AVENUE.
10:48:48 KNOW WE NEED TO GET THE PRICE, BUT DO YOU KNOW IF WE
10:48:58 HAVE -- DO YOU ALL THINK WE SHOULD?
10:49:03 >>BILL CARLSON: COULD I MAKE A MOTION FOR A STRAW
10:49:03 VOTE.
10:49:06 >>MORRIS MASSEY: UNTIL YOU HAVE A REAL PROJECT TO
10:49:08 FINANCE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE VOTE WILL ACCOMPLISH.
10:49:10 IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO SAY IF THERE ARE FUNDS
10:49:14 AVAILABLE THE CRA WILL BE IN FAVOR OF SUPPORTING THAT,
10:49:17 I DON'T NECESSARILY SEE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT NOT A
10:49:23 REAL PROJECT FOR YOU TO SUPPORT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
10:49:27 >> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION, MADAM CHAIR THAT THIS
10:49:30 BOARD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY FINDS
10:49:34 THAT WE WILL BE IN FAVOR OF REBRICKING 7TH AVENUE.
10:49:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:49:39 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:49:41 THERE ARE SOME COMMENT?
10:49:42 MR. MANISCALCO.
10:49:43 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: REAL QUICK.
10:49:49 I ASKED ABOUT THIS MAYBE FIVE -- FIVE YEARS AGO OR SO.
10:49:52 AND I REMEMBER JEAN DUNCAN WAS IN THE ROOM AND WHEN I
10:50:00 MENTIONED IT BECAUSE OF THE COST SO WHAT I WAS TOLD THE
10:50:05 EN CITY OF TAMPA PAVING BUDGET, NOT A SET COST, BUT I
10:50:07 MEAN THE ENGINEERING.
10:50:09 SO THE BRICKS, THE COST OF THE BRICKS.
10:50:12 I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ENOUGH BECAUSE SO MANY WAS SOLD
10:50:16 TO OTHER MUNICIPALITIES OVER THE YEARS OR USED FOR
10:50:24 OTHER PROJECTS OR GIVEN AWAY.
10:50:25 I WOULD SUPPORT IT.
10:50:28 IT IS A NATIONAL DISTRICT.
10:50:31 THE BRICKS WERE THERE AND PART OF WHAT YBOR CITY WAS.
10:50:33 THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.
10:50:34 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:50:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOW MANY BLOCKS ARE WE TALKING.
10:50:42 >>LYNN HURTAK: NUCCIO TO 26TH.
10:50:44 >> 13 BLOCKS.
10:50:47 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 7TH AVENUE.
10:50:48 >> NUCCIO TO 26TH.
10:50:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHERE THEY ARE STOPPING THE
10:50:52 CONVICTION AT RIGHT NOW?
10:50:52 >> CORRECT.
10:51:02 THAT IS THE BOUNDARY OF OUR CRA ONE AND TWO.
10:51:04 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST IN CONCEPT.
10:51:07 MOST OF YOU OR ALL OF HAVE YOU BEEN PROMOTING THIS BUT
10:51:11 I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE PUBLIC.
10:51:12 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:51:14 ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
10:51:15 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:51:17 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:51:18 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:51:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:51:20 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:51:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:51:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:51:28 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
10:51:29 THANK YOU.
10:51:38 >> THANK YOU.
10:51:43 >> GOOD MORNING, CEDRIC MCCRAY, EAST TAMPA CRA MANAGER.
10:51:48 FIRST OFF, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE OUR WEEKLY MEETINGS WHEN
10:51:50 IT COMES TO THE SUBCOMMITTEES.
10:51:53 WE HAD BUDGET WORKSHOPS, OVERLAY DISCUSSIONS AND
10:51:56 DISCUSSED TREE TRIMMING AND DOWN PAYMENT PROGRAMS FOR
10:51:58 EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS.
10:52:00 NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT ACTUALLY DID A PRESENTATION ON
10:52:06 BEHALF OR THE REQUEST OF OUR CHAIR, MISS FRAN TATE AND
10:52:09 PROVIDED A QUESTION AND ANSWER FOR RESIDENTS IN EAST
10:52:12 TAMPA WHO HAD CONCERNS OF ILLEGAL DUMPING, INOPERABLE
10:52:14 VEHICLE AND THE LIKE.
10:52:17 ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT ON YOUR AGENDA TO APPROVE THIS
10:52:22 MORNING IS THE PROPERTY LOCATE AT 3621 NORTH 22ND
10:52:26 STREET.
10:52:29 FOR THOSE OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE BUILDING
10:52:35 AFFECTIONATELY ENTITLED GATOR BUILDING PURCHASED IN 20.
10:52:38 AND WE WANT TO ASSEMBLE PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH FOR A
10:52:41 FUTURE PROJECT AND THAT IS THE NEXT ONE WE RECEIVED A
10:52:41 CONTRACT ON.
10:52:45 ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE JC NEWMAN CIGAR
10:52:46 FACTORY.
10:52:48 WE RECEIVED A TOUR.
10:52:50 THEY HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK AND THEY ARE OPENING UP
10:52:52 THE BUILDING SO SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
10:52:54 AND COMMUNITY GROUPS TO USE FOR MEETING SPACE AND
10:52:58 POTENTIALLY THEY MAY BE COMING TO US IN THE FUTURE FOR
10:53:01 FACADE GRANT FOR THE PROPERTY THEY OWN ACROSS THE
10:53:03 STREET ON COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:53:08 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
10:53:11 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DID YOU FINISH YOUR PRESENTATION?
10:53:13 >> I HAVE ONE MORE SLIDE.
10:53:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FINISH THE SLIDE.
10:53:17 I HAVE FOUR THINGS I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT.
10:53:18 >> OKAY.
10:53:22 NEXT, WE HAVE CONCLUDED OUR CRA BUDGET FOR THE EAST
10:53:23 TAMPA.
10:53:25 LAST WORKSHOP ON JUNE 2.
10:53:30 WE ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT AROUND $8.9 MILLION THAT IS
10:53:33 ESTIMATED TO BE WITH THE TIF.
10:53:36 YOU MAY HAVE RECEIVED SOME CALLS OR CONCERNS IN RECENT
10:53:40 WEEKS AS IT RELATES TO REAGAN PARK AND THE POND.
10:53:44 THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DUCKS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY AND
10:53:45 HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
10:53:49 THANK YOU TO SOLID WASTE AND THE PARKS AND REC STAFF
10:53:51 FOR WORKING TOGETHER TO RECTIFY THAT.
10:53:55 WITH THAT A ASK FROM THE YBOR HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD
10:53:57 ASSOCIATION TO PUT SIGNAGE OUT BECAUSE FOLKS THAT WERE
10:54:09 FEEDING THE DUCKS WE HAVE STEINS THAT ARE PUT IN PLACE
10:54:12 TO TRY CURB SOME OF THAT ACTIVITY.
10:54:17 AND WE HAD A MEETING WITH DISTRICT 3 WITH REGARDS TO
10:54:18 PUBLIC SAFETY.
10:54:20 WE ARE SCHEDULED TO COME BACK IN JULY TO FORMALLY
10:54:24 PRESENT AND COUNCILMAN GUDES AND COUNCILMAN CARLSON
10:54:26 LAST MONTH ADDRESSED CONCERNS AND THINGS THAT ARE GOING
10:54:30 ON IN EAST TAMPA AND YBOR CITY SO WE WILL HAVE A FORMAL
10:54:37 PRESENTATION IN JULY AS IT RELATES TO THAT.
10:54:40 KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS AT THE FAIR OAKS
10:54:40 MEETING.
10:54:42 I THOUGHT IT WAS FAIRLY PRODUCTIVE.
10:54:45 AND MISS TRAVIS WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE, AS WELL
10:54:48 AS THE OTHER CITY STAFF WHAT THE FUTURE PLANS ARE AND
10:54:50 WHERE WE ARE WITH SOME NEGOTIATIONS WITH TEN RELATES TO
10:54:55 COUPLE OF THE PARCELS IN AND AROUND THE PARK.
10:54:58 AS IT RELATES TO THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, WE BELIEVE
10:55:01 WE HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION AND WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE
10:55:03 REVISION PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
10:55:07 ANOTHER DRAFT THAT WAS PROVIDED BY GAI, THE CONSULTANT
10:55:08 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH.
10:55:16 AND WE WILL TRY HAVE THAT BACK TO OUR CAC SOME TIME IN
10:55:18 JULY AND YOU ALL WILL RECEIVE COPIES FOR YOU TO REVIEW
10:55:21 AT YOUR CLOSURE AND SOME POINT IN AUGUST, WE WILL BE
10:55:30 ABLE TO BRING IT TO YOU FOR APPROVAL.
10:55:35 AS IT RELATES TO ELECTIONS, WE WILL BE MEETING AT
10:55:38 DISTRICT 5 CONFERENCE ROOM.
10:55:40 SIX APPLICATIONS.
10:55:44 ALL SIX OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE TERMS WERE EXPIRING
10:55:47 HAVE DECIDED TO REAPPLY AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE
10:55:48 ON THAT PROCESS.
10:55:52 AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE DID RECOGNIZE COMMUNITY HERO
10:55:55 IN EAST TAMPA MISS BETTY BELL.
10:55:57 A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF FOLKS WHO WERE PRESENT TO
10:56:00 APPLAUD HER EFFORTS IN EAST TAMPA.
10:56:02 SHE IS NO STRANGER CITY HALL, BECAUSE I KNOW -- I
10:56:10 BELIEVE SHE SPOKE A COUPLE OF WEEK AGO AS IT RELATES TO
10:56:13 HER MISSION TO GET A SENIOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY IN
10:56:15 EAST TAMPA.
10:56:18 SO WITH THAT, I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:56:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET'S TALK OF THE GATOR BUILDING.
10:56:21 >> YES, SIR.
10:56:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I MADE IT VERY CLEAR AND I WANT YOUR
10:56:27 BOARD TO UNDERSTAND I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF DOING ANYTHING
10:56:30 -- ANY SCRATCH AND DENT WORK TO THAT BUILDING.
10:56:32 THAT BUILDING NEEDS TO BE TORN DOWN.
10:56:35 THAT BUILDING HAS SEVERE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE INSIDE, IN
10:56:36 -- WHERE IT SITS.
10:56:39 THAT IS WHY IT HAS NEVER BEEN SUCCESSFUL WHERE IT SITS
10:56:40 ON THAT CORNER.
10:56:41 NO PARKING.
10:56:44 IF YOU PUT PARKING, IT IS STILL NOT GOING TO BE
10:56:45 SUCCESSFUL.
10:56:48 I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF ANYTHING COMING BEFORE ME IN
10:56:51 REFERENCE OF DOLLARS TO BE SPENT OF DOING A REHAB TO
10:56:52 THAT BUILDING.
10:56:55 IT DOES NOT FIT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ANY LONGER OF WHERE IT
10:57:04 SITS ON THAT CORNER NOT STRUCTURALLY SOUND.
10:57:08 WE BOUGHT IT ACHED I AM GLAD WE BOUGHT IT AND BUILT TO
10:57:11 BE DEMOLISHED FROM THAT WHOLE STRIP FROM LAKE AND 22ND
10:57:19 GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 20 -- 26 OR 20 -- 24TH.
10:57:23 NOT IN FAVOR OF THAT AT ALL.
10:57:25 WHAT IS YOUR BUDGET.
10:57:28 I AM GOING TO SCRUTINIZE THAT BUDGET AND YOU NEED TO
10:57:31 HAVE MONEY IN THERE WHEN YOU TALK OF BUYING PROPERTY.
10:57:34 WE NEED TO BUY NORTH EAST TAMPA TO SLOW YOUR
10:57:38 GENTRIFICATION DOWN AND HOLD ON TO THE PROPERTY AND WE
10:57:40 CAN CONTROL IT.
10:57:43 YOU HAVE BUILDINGS, THE OLD HOUSE THAT SITS IN BACK
10:57:45 THAT STORE, THE OLD STORE RIGHT THERE.
10:57:47 WE ARE LOOKING TO TRY TO BUY THAT.
10:57:50 WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY THAT BLOCK RIGHT THERE TO HAVE
10:57:51 REAL DEVELOPMENT.
10:57:53 22ND STREET IS A HUB STREET.
10:57:55 YOU NEED TO HAVE DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE IT MOVE.
10:57:58 WHEN PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THEY FEEL
10:57:58 DIFFERENT.
10:58:01 THEY DO DIFFERENT THINGS.
10:58:03 SO I AM STRONGLY TELLING THAT YOU WE NEED TO LOOK AT
10:58:03 THAT.
10:58:07 PUTTING MONEY TO ACQUIRE ACQUISITION FOR PROPERTIES IN
10:58:08 EAST TAMPA.
10:58:11 THAT WILL BE THE CORNERSTONE FOR US REALLY MOVING EAST
10:58:13 TAMPA.
10:58:15 NUMBER TWO, PREDEVELOPMENT.
10:58:18 I THINK BE COUNCIL -- I ASKED ABOUT STUFF COMING BACK.
10:58:21 I KNOW I HAVE BEEN HEARING TALK OF URBAN PLANNER IN
10:58:22 YOUR BUDGET.
10:58:25 TO ME, URBAN PLANNER HAS A DIFFERENT CONCEPT IF YOU
10:58:28 WERE TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT OR AN ACTUAL DEVELOPER
10:58:31 TO BE A PART TO LOOK AT HOW YOU CAN DEVELOP EAST TAMPA.
10:58:35 SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE HOWEVER YOU DESCRIBE IT, THAT
10:58:39 DOLLARS -- YOU CAN HAVE SOMEBODY THAT WILL HELP YOU TO
10:58:43 REDEVELOP AND ACQUIRE SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES TO REDO
10:58:44 EAST COMPANY.
10:58:46 YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT TO MAKE THE CHANGE.
10:58:49 CHANGE IS COMING SLOW AND WE CAN BE AGGRESSIVE IF WE
10:58:52 PUT THE DOLLARS AND OUTDOORS THE PARTICULAR PEOPLE TO
10:58:57 GET THAT WORK DONE.
10:58:59 AS IF RELATES TO REHAB PROGRAM.
10:59:02 SINCE YOU AND MISS TRAVIS ARE BOTH HERE, HAVE THE RFP
10:59:06 CHANGE FROM THE REHAB PROGRAM THAT WOULD BE FOR EAST
10:59:09 TAMPA INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR.
10:59:13 I AM HEARING RIGHT NOW THE EAST TAMPA RFP IS FOR
10:59:18 EXTERIOR AND ACD WILL GO INTERIOR.
10:59:18 I AM HEARING THAT.
10:59:22 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN GET THAT CLARIFIED ON THE
10:59:22 RECORD.
10:59:25 >> AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO, IT HAS NOT CHANGED.
10:59:33 NO, AND ACD DOES HAVE -- THEY HAVE DOLLARS FOR REHAB AS
10:59:34 WELL.
10:59:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT TO MAKE SURE BECAUSE I WAS
10:59:37 HEARING THAT.
10:59:41 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RFP HAS NOT CHANGED THAT
10:59:45 EAST AT THAT POINT HAS A INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
10:59:49 COMPONENT TO DO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO AGGRESSIVELY.
10:59:51 WHEN IS THAT COMING BACK, SOON?
10:59:56 >> THE ACTUAL RFP FOR THE THIRD-PARTY VENDOR TO
11:00:00 FACILITATE THE PROGRAM CLOSED -- YESTERDAY AT 3 P.M.
11:00:04 HAD A MEETING WITH PROCUREMENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
11:00:09 WE -- AND I HAVE GIVEN MISS GIBBONS' PEOPLE WITH
11:00:13 PROCUREMENT A LIST OF EAST TAMPA PEOPLE TO SIT ON THE
11:00:13 REVIEW COMMITTEE.
11:00:15 MISS BURTON.
11:00:22 CHAIR TATE, VICE-CHAIR DOMINIQUE COBB AND THEY WILL BE
11:00:23 SERVING ON THE REVIEW COMMITTEE FROM THE COMMUNITY
11:00:26 ALONG WITH MYSELF AND SOME OTHER CITY STAFF.
11:00:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I KNOW THESE THINGS TAKE TIME, BUT WE
11:00:32 ARE IN A CRUNCH, BECAUSE I NOT ONLY HAD CITIZENS, BUT
11:00:35 CITY EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN CONTACTING ME BECAUSE THEY
11:00:39 CAN'T EVEN BE ABLE TO QUALIFY TO GET SOME OF THEIR
11:00:40 THINGS DONE AS WELL.
11:00:45 AND THIS IS BOTHERSOME -- SOME OF OUR OWN EMPLOYEES WHO
11:00:48 ARE WORKING AT CERTAIN SALARIES CAN'T SEEM TO QUALIFY
11:00:52 FOR SOME OF OUR REHAB PROGRAMS THAT LIVE IN EAST TAMPA.
11:00:55 THAT IS SAD FOR ME TO HEAR A EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY WHO
11:00:58 SAY I CAN'T QUALIFY, AND I WORK FOR THE CITY.
11:01:00 WE NEED TO LOOK AT SOME OF THESE THINGS.
11:01:03 THAT IS WHY THE EAST TAMPA -- IF YOU LOOKED AT IT EAST
11:01:07 TAMPA, IF THE CRITERIA ISN'T SO HARD, THEY WILL BE ABLE
11:01:12 TO HELP AND HOPEFUL LOVELY -- IF THEY CAN'T QUALIFY
11:01:14 WITH THOSE DOLLARS FROM THE CITY, THE EAST TAMPA
11:01:17 DOLLARS WILL BE ABLE TO CARRY OVER TO GET THEM OVER THE
11:01:17 HUMP.
11:01:19 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE PROGRAMS THAT WILL BE ABLE
11:01:22 TO HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW HURRICANE SEASON IS
11:01:22 COMING.
11:01:25 RAIN -- I HAD THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ROOFS.
11:01:29 ONE OTHER YOUNG LADY WITH THE CITY WILL SEND SOMETHING
11:01:33 OUT WITH N REFERENCE TO HER HOUSE AND PLUMBING.
11:01:36 I WANT TO HAVE PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE -- LOW-HANGING FRUIT
11:01:38 TO GET THING DONE.
11:01:43 I KNOW WE HAVE THE CONTRACTOR AND -- I AM HOPING THAT
11:01:47 WILL BE ABLE TO HELP AS WELL TO REALLY GET THINGS
11:01:48 MOVING.
11:01:51 >> WE ARE LOOKING AT A FEW OTHER CREATIVE WAYS TO MOVE
11:01:54 WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE PROCESSES TO
11:01:57 ASSIST SOME RESIDENTS.
11:02:02 I HAD CONVERSATION WITH MISS TRAVIS AS IT RELATES TO
11:02:02 THAT.
11:02:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU TWO ON THE
11:02:06 SPOT, WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME.
11:02:09 I HAVE TO SAY FOR THE RECORD, WHAT WE DOING SO PEOPLE
11:02:11 KNOW AND MAKE THINGS MOVE.
11:02:14 >> COUNCILMAN, FOR THE RECORD, I UNDERSTAND.
11:02:15 I HAVE BEEN BACK THERE.
11:02:16 I HAVE TAKEN THOSE CALLS.
11:02:18 I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND.
11:02:24 I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO LAND -- $2.5 MILLION THAT IS
11:02:29 SLATED IN THE FY '23 BUDGET FOR LAND ASSEMBLAGE.
11:02:33 WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE COVERINGS WITH OUR CAC AS
11:02:36 IT RELATES TO THE PURCHASE OF VARIOUS PROPERTIES.
11:02:40 PREDEVELOPMENT, $600,000 THAT WAS ALLOCATED IN THAT
11:02:48 LINE ITEM FOR -- BY THE CAC AT THE --
11:02:51 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IS IT -- WHAT IS IT NAMED?
11:02:54 >> I BELIEVE WE PHRASED IT SOMETHING ELSE WHEN WE SPOKE
11:02:57 WITH MISS GOBBLE.
11:03:00 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WANT TO MAKE SURE THE CONCEPT.
11:03:03 >> BUT 600,000 ALLOCATED FOR THAT.
11:03:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: KIND OF LOW THOUGH.
11:03:08 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SO -- DON'T MOVE.
11:03:13 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSE JUST TRYING TO MOVE
11:03:15 THINGS FORWARD AND MOVE THE NEEDLE FOR -- WHEN YOU SEE
11:03:23 THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CAME FROM THE CAC, THEY
11:03:27 SPENT AN AMOUNT OF TIME TO APPROVE AND ALLOCATE MORE
11:03:28 DOLLARS.
11:03:31 YOU SPOTLIGHT DOLLARS IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, WHATEVER IS
11:03:34 NOT EBB EXPENDED BY THE FISCAL YEAR.
11:03:38 THE INTENT IS TO ROLL IT OVER NOT LINE ITEM SO THESE
11:03:40 PROGRAMS CONTINUE.
11:03:43 IF WE GET TO A POINT WHERE A PROGRAM IS SUCCESSFUL AND
11:03:46 DELIVERING THE RESULTS THAT WE NEED, WE CAN ALWAYS COME
11:03:51 BACK TO COUNCIL OR THE CRA BOARD TO REAPPROPRIATE OR
11:03:54 REALLOCATE MONEY IN YOUR BUDGET.
11:03:57 MR. MCCRAY TALKED OF LOW-HANGING FRUIT AND WORKING WITH
11:03:59 THE CONTRACTORS.
11:04:03 THE CONTRACTOR PIECE IS ONE PIECE LONG TERM, BUT MR.
11:04:12 DRUMGOLD AND MR. MCCRAY ARE WORKING TO EXPEDITE WITH
11:04:14 OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO FIX ROOFS.
11:04:16 ALL HANDS ON DECK.
11:04:20 WE ARE TRYING TO EXPEDITE AS FAST AS WE CAN AND USE
11:04:22 SOME OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PURCHASING PROCESS THAT ALLOW
11:04:25 US TO ACCELERATE THAT.
11:04:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU HAVE TREE MONEY?
11:04:28 >> WE DO.
11:04:30 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A HOT PROGRAM.
11:04:35 >> WE INDUSTRIAL A GOOD AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT YOU ALL
11:04:36 APPROVED.
11:04:37 >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOW ABOUT THE LIST?
11:04:39 HOW ARE WE DOING WITH THE LIST?
11:04:43 >> I THINK RIGHT NOW WE ARE DOWN TO ABOUT 70.
11:04:46 60 OR 70 ACTIONS IN THE HOPPER.
11:04:51 MR. BURKE HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB AND -- YES, WE ARE.
11:04:58 WE ARE MOVING AS FAST AS WE CAN AND WE BROUGHT ON
11:05:01 ADDITIONAL VENDORS THINK THAT SHARED IN MY REPORT LAST
11:05:04 MONTH AND THEY ARE ASKING US FOR MORE APPLICATIONS TO
11:05:04 DO.
11:05:08 WE HAVE ANOTHER BATCH THAT WILL BE GOING OUT NEXT WEEK.
11:05:09 >> LASTLY THE COMMUNICATION.
11:05:12 WHEN WE ASK TO HIRE -- HEARD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THAT
11:05:12 TODAY.
11:05:16 WHERE ARE WE WITH THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNICATION PERSON.
11:05:19 I THINK THAT WAS IN THEIR BUDGET TO HIRE A PERSON FOR
11:05:21 EAST TAMPA.
11:05:24 AND MR. CARLSON IN REFERENCE TO HAVING A CRA
11:05:28 COMMUNICATION PERSON, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN.
11:05:32 >> SO MISS PARKS IS OUR -- IS OUR COMMUNICATION PERSON
11:05:36 AND SHE CAME ON IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR NOW IN OUR BUDGET
11:05:37 WORKSHOP.
11:05:39 THERE WAS CONVERSATIONS.
11:05:45 AND THERE IS SOME CONCERNS AND THE CAC WOULD LIKE TO
11:05:48 HIRE AND CONTRACT OUT A MARKETING PERSON FOR SPECIFIC
11:05:53 SPECIFICALLY THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:05:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I GUESS NOW TO TURN TO -- I KNOW MISS
11:05:59 VAN LOAN, BEFORE SHE LEFT, WAS ALLOCATED FOR A POSITION
11:06:01 -- AN ASSISTANT FOR HER.
11:06:03 I GUESS WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT WITH THE UPCOMING
11:06:06 BUDGET REFERENCE THE POSSIBLE NEW DIRECTOR AND THAT
11:06:09 POSITION, I WOULD ASSUME.
11:06:12 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THERE IS A VACANCY RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE
11:06:14 DOING ACTIVE RECRUITMENT FOR -- THERE ARE TWO
11:06:16 VACANCIES.
11:06:19 SUPPORT PERSON FOR THE DIRECTOR.
11:06:21 THAT IS VACANT.
11:06:25 BUT ALSO AN OFFICE SUPPORT SPECIALIST THAT IS VACANT.
11:06:27 SHE TOOK A PROMOTION TO A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT.
11:06:37 AND SO THOSE THAT WORK HAS BEEN REDIRECTED AND WE ARE
11:06:37 ACTIVELY.
11:06:40 ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE FINDING OUT, AN OFFICE SUPPORT
11:06:44 SPECIALIST AND ALMOST LIKE YOU NEED LIKE A JUNIOR
11:06:47 PROJECT MANAGER TO RUN DOWN SOME OF THESE PROJECTS AS
11:06:48 WELL.
11:06:51 SO JUST FOR THE LEVEL OF WORK THAT WE ARE REQUIRING IN
11:06:56 THAT POSITION, IT MAY MEAN US LOOKING AT THE JOB
11:06:57 DESCRIPTION.
11:06:59 AND I THINK THEY HAD LIKE THREE OR FOUR ROUNDS OF
11:07:06 INTERVIEWS SO THE MARKET -- IT IS DIFFICULT TO HIRE
11:07:09 PEOPLE AND WE ARE ACTIVELY RECRUITING TO HIRE FOR THOSE
11:07:10 POSITIONS.
11:07:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:07:16 >>BILL CARLSON: FIRST, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
11:07:17 CEDRIC.
11:07:20 DESPITE ALL THE CRITICISM WE HAVE GOTTEN IN THE LAST
11:07:20 FEW MONTHS.
11:07:24 WE ARE STANDING AND LISTENING HARD TO THE COMMUNITY AND
11:07:26 KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO A GOOD JOB.
11:07:28 LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY THAT WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF
11:07:32 PEOPLE LINING UP TO SAY THANK YOU FOR A GOOD JOB.
11:07:33 >> THANK YOU, SIR.
11:07:35 >>BILL CARLSON: SAME THING FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU.
11:07:38 AND COMMUNICATION FOR EVERYBODY THAT IS WATCHING.
11:07:41 THE COMMUNICATION IS NOT TO PROMOTE US, BUT TO
11:07:42 COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC.
11:07:43 LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC.
11:07:45 TALK TO THE PUBLIC WHAT IS GOING ON.
11:07:48 FOLKS IN EAST TAMPA, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THINK WE ARE NOT
11:07:51 SPENDING ANYTHING, AND WE ARE SPENDING MONEY, SLOWER
11:07:53 THAN WE SHOULD BE, BUT TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT WHAT WE
11:08:00 ARE SPENDING MONEY ON COMMUNITY MEETING TO PROMOTE THE
11:08:03 COMMUNITY MEETINGS SO PEOPLE SHOW UP AND HAVE FEEDBACK.
11:08:09 THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE CRA TO PUT THE MONEY TO GOOD USE.
11:08:12 AND THE LAST THING I WANT TO BRING UP, COUNCILMAN
11:08:15 GUDES USED SEVERAL TIMES THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP
11:08:19 ISSUE AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN ELECTION IS, BUT PROBABLY
11:08:19 IN THE FALL.
11:08:23 AND MAYBE WE ARE DOING SOMETHING ON THIS, BUT ANYTHING
11:08:25 IN MOTION ABOUT SEPARATING THE CAC FOR EAST TAMPA
11:08:27 PARTNERSHIP.
11:08:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK THEY ARE WORKING ON
11:08:29 SOMETHING.
11:08:31 I THINK THEY WILL TRY -- I DON'T KNOW THE LAST -- WE
11:08:35 ASKED TO COME BACK AND UPDATE EXACTLY HOW TO DO THAT
11:08:38 AND HOW THAT WOULD WORK.
11:08:40 >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO AVOID THE KIND
11:08:43 OF FIGHTS WE HAD THAT THE DIFFERENT SIDES OF COMMUNITY
11:08:46 ARE ARGUING OVER THE LOGISTICS OF HOW IT IS PUT
11:08:48 TOGETHER.
11:08:50 SINCE WE DON'T CONTROL THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP, IT
11:08:53 MAKES THIS BOARD FEEL BAD.
11:08:56 AND WE RESOLVE THAT SINCE WE ONLY MEET ONCE A MONTH.
11:09:00 IT IS BETTER THAT RESOLVE THIS BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION
11:09:02 SO IT GOES SMOOTHLY.
11:09:04 >> THE LINKS WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER.
11:09:07 THE NEW -- THE ELECTIONS WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER.
11:09:08 THE NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN OCTOBER.
11:09:11 THE FIRST COMMITTEE MEETING IN OCTOBER AS IT STANDS
11:09:12 RIGHT NOW.
11:09:13 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL BE ABLE TO
11:09:17 SOLVE IT BEFORE OCTOBER, BECAUSE THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
11:09:19 SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:09:22 SO THE PARTNERSHIP HAS TO EXIST BECAUSE OF OUR
11:09:24 REDEVELOPMENT -- THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:09:28 WHEN WE UPDATE THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, WE PROBABLY CAN
11:09:31 LOOK AT CHANGES -- I AM LOOKING AT MR. MASSEY.
11:09:34 BUT THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN SPECIFICALLY CALLS OUT THE
11:09:40 PARTNERSHIP AS THE ADVISING BODY.
11:09:42 >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IDENTIFIES THE
11:09:44 PARTNERSHIP AS REALLY THE INCIDENT TEE THAT WILL MAKE
11:09:47 RECOMMENDATIONS TO THIS BODY RELATIVE TO THE
11:09:51 EXPENDITURE OF CRA FUNDS WITHIN THE EAST TAMPA CAC.
11:09:54 AND THE LINK BETWEEN THE PARTNERSHIP.
11:09:57 AND WHY THE PARTNERSHIP BOARD HAS SERVED AS THE CAC FOR
11:10:04 EAST TAMPA HISTORICALLY.
11:10:08 TO DECOUPLE THE TWO, WE WOULD HAVE TO AMEND THE PLAN AS
11:10:10 YOU KNOW IT.
11:10:12 WE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS AND LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
11:10:15 WHETHER THAT SHOULD BE DONE, HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE, HOW
11:10:19 TO IMPACTS EXISTING CAC MEMBERSHIP.
11:10:24 THOSE ARE ALL COMPLICATED FACTS OR FACTORS AND I DON'T
11:10:28 THINK THERE IS A FORMAL DECISION WHAT TO DO WITH THAT.
11:10:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT'S JUST WEIRD.
11:10:34 IT IS JUST WEIRD -- THE PARTNERSHIP DOESN'T VOTE, BUT
11:10:37 THE CAC -- IT IS JUST WEIRD.
11:10:37 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: RIGHT.
11:10:40 ONE OF THE THING I RECOMMENDED TO THE CAC AND I BELIEVE
11:10:43 I RECOMMENDED IT TO THIS BODY A WHILE BACK IS FOR US TO
11:10:48 HAVE A RETREAT WITH THE CAC PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS.
11:10:51 GROUND LEVEL GOVERNANCE WORK.
11:10:53 TAKE THEM OUT TO A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT AND TALK
11:10:56 THROUGH WHAT IS THE GOVERNANCE THAT WILL WORK FOR THE
11:10:57 ORGANIZATION.
11:10:59 HOW IS IT WORKING IN PRACTICE RIGHT NOW.
11:11:02 AND FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE, YOU HAVE YOUR
11:11:04 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT IS ADOPTED.
11:11:05 IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.
11:11:09 ONCE WE GET THE SAPS ADOPTED, WE WILL START FOCUSING ON
11:11:13 THE PROCESS TO UPDATE THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:11:17 LAY THAT FOUNDATION AND COVERING WITH THEM AT THE
11:11:20 RETREAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE WITH THE NEW BOARD MEMBER.
11:11:23 WE DIDN'T WANT TO DO A RETREAT WITH AN ELECTION COMING
11:11:26 UP, BUT IT IS POLICY DECISIONS AND ADOPTIONS OF PLANS
11:11:29 AND STUFF THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO
11:11:33 RESOLVE -- I KNOW WE DON'T BE ABLE TO RESOLVE IN TIME.
11:11:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU ARE ON THE BOARD AND TALKING TO
11:11:36 THEM.
11:11:38 IT IS WHAT IT IS AT THIS POINT.
11:11:41 I HAVEN'T HEARD TOO MUCH TICKLE IN THE AIR OF ELECTIONS
11:11:41 RIGHTS NOW.
11:11:44 I THINK WE MIGHT BE SAFE RIGHT NOW.
11:11:46 >> IT'S COMING.
11:11:47 >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT'S COMING?
11:11:51 OH, GOSH.
11:11:55 >>BILL CARLSON: COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO
11:11:58 PUT ON THE AGENDA AT SOME POINT THAT WE TALK ABOUT IT
11:12:05 JUST TO MOVE FORWARD SEEMS TO ME IT WILL BE A COPY AND
11:12:08 REPLACE IN THE PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT WE SUBMIT TO THE
11:12:09 STATE, RIGHT.
11:12:12 DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT WILL THAT BE COMPLICATED, BUT
11:12:14 WHATEVER IT IS, IT SEEM LIKE THE LAST TIME WE TALKED
11:12:17 ABOUT IT WE HAD CONSENSUS HERE.
11:12:21 JUST TO ALLAY NAY FEARS THAT WHOEVER WAS ELECT WOOD
11:12:24 TRANSFER OVER TO THE CAC OR SIMULTANEOUSLY IF WE CAN'T
11:12:27 DO IT BEFORE THE NEXT LINK.
11:12:30 APPOINT THEM TO THE SAME POSITIONS OF THE CAC TO BE
11:12:31 EASE FAUX TRANSITION.
11:12:34 I CAN SEE NO MATTER WHAT WE CHANGE BETWEEN NOW AND
11:12:37 THEN, WE WILL HAVE SOME SORT OF FIGHT.
11:12:44 BECAUSE IT IS CONFUSING AS TO WHO IS IN CHARGE.
11:12:47 INSTEAD OF SPENDING TIME CHANGING THE EAST TAMPA
11:12:51 PARTNERSHIP, CHANGE CAC OR REPLACE IT.
11:12:53 THE WAY IT IS SET UP NOW IMPLIES THAT THE PARTNERSHIP
11:13:02 HAS A SEPARATE ROLE AND SAME THING FOR YBOR CITY.
11:13:05 MY UNDERSTANDING THAT YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT GETS
11:13:08 $25,000 SEPARATE FROM THE CITY.
11:13:12 AND I KNOW WE SPENT THE LAST YEAR OR SO TRYING TO
11:13:15 DECOUPLE THOSE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT AND OUGHT TO MAKE IT
11:13:20 UNIFORM AND CONSISTENT AND UNDERSTANDABLE TO EVERYBODY.
11:13:23 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I MEAN, IF THE CRA BOARD WANTS TO
11:13:26 MOVE IN THIS DIRECTION, WHAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT IS AMEND
11:13:29 THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO RENEW THAT LANGUAGE.
11:13:32 THE WAY THE CACS ARE ESTABLISHED, THEY ARE ESTABLISHED
11:13:33 BY YOUR POLICY.
11:13:37 A POLICY THAT STATES HERE ARE THE C ACS AND WHO ARE --
11:13:45 HOW THE MEMBER ARE DESIGNATE, FOR INSTANCE, THE WEST
11:13:47 TAMPA CAC.
11:13:55 DESIGNATE A CERTAIN EX-OFFICIO SLOTS THAT ARE IN WEST
11:13:55 TAMPA.
11:13:59 IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE MODEL FOR EAST TAMPA, YOU CAN
11:13:59 DO THAT.
11:14:01 WE HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT.
11:14:07 I AM NOT SURE THAT WE REALLY REACHED THAT THERE HAS
11:14:10 BEEN A FORMAL DECISION ABOUT THAT AND THAT HAS BEEN
11:14:13 SOMEWHAT CONTROVERSIAL.
11:14:14 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT IS THE LINK?
11:14:15 >> SEPTEMBER.
11:14:17 I BELIEVE SEPTEMBER 13.
11:14:20 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I KNOW MISS TRAVIS TALKED ABOUT THE
11:14:23 RETREAT, BUT I WOULD SAY NEXT -- MAKE A MOTION NEXT
11:14:23 MONTH.
11:14:26 YOU BRING BACK A PLAN THAT YOU THINK WE NEED TO MOVE
11:14:27 IT.
11:14:29 I KNOW WEST TAMPA HAS A GOOD CONCEPT.
11:14:33 AND THAT WAY YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET WITH YOUR
11:14:36 CAC BEFORE -- BEFORE YOU COME BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING,
11:14:41 I WOULD ASSUME AND GIVE YOU A SUGGESTION OF HOW IT GOES
11:14:45 AND THEN WE WILL DECIDE IF WE WANT TO GO THAT ROUTE
11:14:46 BEFORE THE LINK.
11:14:49 >>MORRIS MASSEY: FRANKLY IN ORDER OTHER TO AMEND THE
11:14:50 PLAN, THERE IS A PROCESS.
11:14:53 GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND SET PUBLIC HEARINGS.
11:14:54 I DON'T THINK IT CAN HAPPEN.
11:14:56 >>ORLANDO GUDES: OKAY, ALL RIGHT.
11:14:59 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK WE ARE LOOKING AT NEXT YEAR.
11:15:02 IF THAT IS DIRECTION YOU WANT TO MOVE IN, WE CAN
11:15:04 IMPLEMENT THAT TO DO THAT FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
11:15:07 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE UPDATE
11:15:11 THE CRA PLAN, WE CAN AMEND IT.
11:15:15 YOU EXPRESSED YOUR INTENTION, AND WE CAN MOVE DOWN THAT
11:15:16 PATH.
11:15:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MAKE A MOTION THAT MISS TRAVIS AND
11:15:24 MR. CEDRIC MCCRAY WORK ON THAT PLAN AND BRING
11:15:25 SUGGESTIONS BACK IN AUGUST.
11:15:27 >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THAT WOULD BE FINE.
11:15:30 FRANKLY, THEY DO NEED TO HAVE DISCUSSION WITH THE
11:15:34 EXISTING CAC AND MAY HAVE INPUT ON HOW THAT TRANSITION
11:15:36 SHOULD OCCUR AND WHAT THAT MEMBERSHIP WOULD BE FOR THE
11:15:39 EAST TAMPA CAC.
11:15:41 THEY WOULD -- YOU PROBABLY --
11:15:44 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AUGUST CRA DATE.
11:15:47 >>CLERK: AUGUST 18, 2022.
11:15:49 9 A.M.
11:15:51 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:15:54 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:15:57 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:15:58 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:15:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:16:00 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:16:01 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:16:03 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:16:04 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:16:05 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:16:08 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:16:09 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
11:16:12 MR. MCCRAY, ONE MORE THING.
11:16:15 MISS FRANKIE DID CALL ME -- THAT NIGHT, SHE DID CALL
11:16:16 ME.
11:16:20 THAT LOT I AM TALKING ABOUT IS RIGHT BEHIND THE BLUE
11:16:20 STORE.
11:16:21 SHE SAID CONSTRUCTION.
11:16:24 IT IS DOWN THE STREET -- IF WE CAN CLARIFY IF THEY ARE
11:16:28 GETTING READY TO CONSTRUCT THE HOUSE BEHIND THE BLUE
11:16:31 STORE AND OUR PROPERTY OR WHOSE PROPERTY.
11:16:32 IF IT IS OURS.
11:16:35 THEY ARE CONGREGATING BEHIND THAT PROPERTY RIGHT --
11:16:40 DIRECTLY BEHIND THE STORE COURTLAND AND CHELSEA.
11:16:45 IF WE CAN FIND AND CLARIFY -- I SEE MR. WILLIAMS IN THE
11:16:46 BACK NODDING HIS HEAD.
11:16:47 IDENTIFY WHOSE PROPERTY.
11:16:51 IF IT IS OURS AND FENCE IT OFF TO KEEP THE UNDESIRABLES
11:16:52 OUT OF THERE.
11:16:52 THAT IS A HUB.
11:16:57 AND, OF COURSE, THE HOUSE ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER THAT
11:17:00 IS WHERE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE CONGREGATE EVERY DAY.
11:17:03 I DRIVE THERE.
11:17:05 THEY ARE IN THE STREETS.
11:17:07 MY PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE.
11:17:09 PEOPLE DON'T CONGREGATE IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS TO DO
11:17:11 WHAT THEY DO IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:17:13 I LOOK AT 30TH STREET.
11:17:14 IT IS DISGUSTING.
11:17:16 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEAL WITH THAT IS.
11:17:19 I TALKED TO THE MAYOR BEFORE.
11:17:21 BUT THAT IS A PROBLEM FOR ME.
11:17:22 I AM SORRY.
11:17:26 YOU CAN'T GO -- NOBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY -- A WHOLE
11:17:28 BLOCK AND EVERYBODY IS OUT THERE.
11:17:29 THESE LOTS.
11:17:30 TRASH IS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
11:17:32 THAT IS A PROBLEM FOR ME.
11:17:36 WE MAKE IT A BETTER COMMUNITY, WE CAN'T WORRY BECAUSE
11:17:37 THEY ARE BLACK FOLKS.
11:17:38 IT IS WHAT IT IS.
11:17:40 IF IT IS WRONG, IT IS WRONG.
11:17:42 WE HAVE TO DEALING WITH WHAT IS WRONG AND MAKE RIGHT.
11:17:45 IF IT AIN'T RIGHT, 30TH STREET WHERE EVERYBODY IS BLOCK
11:17:46 THE STREET.
11:17:47 TRASH IS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
11:17:52 IT AIN'T RIGHT AND AIN'T RIGHT IN CHELSEA BECAUSE THE
11:17:57 FOLKS ARE -- AND THEY ARE TIRED OF THAT SITUATION ON
11:17:58 CHELSEA STREET.
11:18:01 THE DAY CARE AT THE CORNER THERE.
11:18:05 GOD FORBID IF A BULLET WENT INTO THE SCHOOL OR THE
11:18:07 PLAYGROUND, WE WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM.
11:18:09 PEOPLE ARE TIRED.
11:18:10 THOSE ELDERLY PEOPLE.
11:18:13 THEY WANT -- THEY WANT AN ENVIRONMENT THEY CAN WIN IN
11:18:17 AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY OF GUNFIRE OR GUNSHOTS.
11:18:22 IF WE CAN I THAT PROPERTY AND LOOK AT CLEANING UP THAT,
11:18:24 30TH STREET AND CHELSEA.
11:18:27 >> YES, HAVING HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHAT WITH THE NEW
11:18:29 MAJOR, THEY HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY HERE WITH EVERYTHING
11:18:30 GOING ON.
11:18:33 BUT I WILL DEFINITELY BRING THAT UP.
11:18:39 AS IT RELATES TO THAT LOT, IT IS MY UNDER STANDING THAT
11:18:42 THERE WAS WE REACHED OUT TO THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY
11:18:45 AND HE HAS PLANS TO BUILD ON THAT LOT.
11:18:49 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG HE PLANS TO
11:18:52 BUILD BUT PUT SOMETHING AROUND HIS LOT BECAUSE THAT IS
11:18:54 PROBLEM.
11:18:59 >> DETECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES OF EAST TAMPA.
11:19:00 THE PROPERTY IN CHELSEA.
11:19:03 I WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT -- THERE WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING.
11:19:05 ONE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
11:19:08 I CAN'T PICTURE IT BUT I WILL GO OUT THERE PERSONALLY
11:19:10 AS SOON AS I LEAVE HERE.
11:19:11 I AM FAMILIAR WITH 30 SHORT.
11:19:14 THE OWNER MY CAT GREEN HAS BEEN FINED -- HAS DAILY
11:19:18 FINES GOING AND STILL CONTINUES TO IGNORE THOSE THINGS.
11:19:19 IT IS ON MY RADAR.
11:19:21 I WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.
11:19:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:19:24 >> YEP.
11:19:25 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE.
11:19:26 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:19:38 >> THANK YOU.
11:19:41 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: PARTICULAR HAVE CCTV SWITCH OUT THE
11:19:43 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.
11:19:44 NUMBER THREE ON THE AGENDA.
11:19:47 WE HAVE -- WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR STAFF TO REPORT ON
11:19:51 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AS IT RELATES TO THE CITY AND CRA
11:19:52 WORKING ON IT.
11:19:56 I HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION FOR YOU ABOUT COMMUNITY OR
11:19:57 LAND TRUST.
11:20:06 AND SO WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL WORKSHOPS TALKING ABOUT OUR
11:20:08 HOUSING CHALLENGES AND SOME OF THE INITIATIVES THAT WE
11:20:09 ARE DOING.
11:20:11 I WANTED TO LAY OUT THE HOUSING CHALLENGE BEFORE YOU.
11:20:13 AS YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE.
11:20:16 YOU KNOW THAT THE TAMPA METRO AREA REALLY HAS A
11:20:19 SIGNIFICANT INFLUX OF HOUSEHOLDS SINCE THE PANDEMIC.
11:20:24 WE JUST -- OUR POPULATION IS EXPLODING.
11:20:25 AND ALSO WHAT IS WHAT'S HAPPENING THAT EXPLOSION IS
11:20:33 THAT OUR FAMILY NORTH CAROLINA -- MEDIUM INCREASED FROM
11:20:37 $53,000 TO $82,000 BETWEEN 2012 AND 2022.
11:20:40 THIS GROWTH AT A 14% GROWTH.
11:20:45 MORE THAN WE HAVE SEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME, YOU THE
11:20:48 INCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SOMETHING YOU KNOW WELL AND
11:20:49 KNOWING FOR THE COMMUNITY.
11:20:52 IT HAVEN'T INCREASED FOR EVERYONE, AND PARTICULARLY
11:20:54 BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR.
11:20:59 THE MEDIAN INCOMES FOR BLACK HOUSEHOLDS SIT BELOW
11:21:06 $35,000 ANNUALLY.
11:21:10 NEW HOUSEHOLDS WITH HIGHER INCOMES HAVE LOW INTEREST
11:21:12 RATES WHICH HAS ACCELERATED THIS HOUSING CRISIS THAT WE
11:21:13 ARE IN.
11:21:17 34% INCREASE YEAR-OVER-YEAR.
11:21:21 THE SALES -- THE MEDIAN SALES PRICE IS ALMOST $400,000
11:21:24 AS OF APRIL 2022.
11:21:28 THE LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HOME HOMEOWNERSHIP
11:21:31 IS REALLY WHAT IS DRIVING UP THE RENTAL INCREASES AS
11:21:32 WELL.
11:21:35 WE ARE SEEING 30% YEAR-OVER-YEAR INCREASE IN RENTS.
11:21:38 SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT
11:21:47 REALLY AFFECTS OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION THAT IS
11:21:50 FACING HOUSING INSECURITY.
11:21:55 SINCE MARCH OF 20 20, WE HAD 27,000 EVICTION FILINGS.
11:21:58 >> THAT IS NOT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN EVICTED BUT FILINGS
11:22:02 WHERE THE LANDLORD HAS FILED TO HAVE THE EVICTIONS
11:22:03 OCCUR.
11:22:05 EVEN THOUGH THAT IS A VERY HIGH NUMBER, IT IS STILL
11:22:08 NOT AS HIGH AS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
11:22:11 BUT THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT DURING
11:22:18 THE PANDEMIC THAT THERE WERE PROP TEXAS PUT IN PLACE SO
11:22:20 EVICTION COUNTS OCCUR.
11:22:24 THE NUMBERS ARE NOT AS HIGH AS BEFORE AND SOME KIND OF
11:22:29 REGULATION THAT IS TAKING PLACE.
11:22:32 AND SO WE TALKED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS OF HAVING
11:22:36 COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING STRATEGY.
11:22:38 YOU HAVE BEEN UPDATED ON PROGRAMS.
11:22:42 FIRST-TIME HOME BUYER, RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT YOU
11:22:46 COUNCIL HAS APPROVED $5 MILLION OF GENERAL FOUND GO
11:22:46 FORWARD.
11:22:48 THE REPLACEMENT OF HOMES.
11:22:51 IF THEY ARE DAMAGED TOO MUCH FOR REPAIR.
11:22:52 REPLACE THOSE HOMES.
11:22:54 AND REALLY WE ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT HOUSING
11:22:58 STRATEGIES AND WORKING ON INFILL PROGRAM.
11:23:04 WE DID 17 HOMES.
11:23:07 IN THE SECOND PHASE PUTTING OWL A RFP FOR THE THIRD
11:23:08 INFILL PROGRAM.
11:23:12 ONE OF THE STRATEGIES, WHEN WE TALK OF HOUSING STRATEGY
11:23:14 THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING
11:23:15 ABOUT.
11:23:18 WE HAVE BEEN MORE RESPONSIVE TO THE RENT, BUT WE
11:23:22 HAVEN'T TALKED A LOT ABOUT LONG-TERM AFFORDABLE
11:23:27 HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY AND WHAT YOU WILL GET IN THE
11:23:29 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AND THE LAND TRUST PROGRAM.
11:23:34 MAYOR CASTOR MADE A GOAL OF 10,000 AFFORDABLE HOMES BY
11:23:35 2027.
11:23:38 WE ARE FOLLOWING UP WITH A NEW REQUEST FOR US TO REALLY
11:23:42 STUDY WHAT THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY FROM OUR HOUSING
11:23:43 NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
11:23:44 WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT.
11:23:47 AND WE SET SOME ANNUAL TARGETS WITH THE DIFFERENT
11:23:52 PROGRAMS WE HAVE IN HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUR
11:23:57 RESIDENTS GET 100 FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS INTO HOUSES
11:24:01 AND ALSO CAPPED ON THE HOUSE OF THE PRICE.
11:24:02 AND THE ABILITY OF STOCK.
11:24:06 OWNER-OCCUPIED REHAB AND TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE THROUGH
11:24:10 RENTAL-BASED ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY DEPOSITS.
11:24:13 SO REALLY WHAT WE HAVE WHEN WE TALK OF A COMPREHENSIVE
11:24:18 HOUSING STRATEGY IS A TWO-PRONG AND STRATEGY.
11:24:21 A DUAL STRATEGY.
11:24:24 TAMPA LAND TRUST EVERYTHING WE DO WITH THE INFILL.
11:24:28 INFILL PROGRAM ACTIVATING THE LAND BANK PROGRAM AND
11:24:32 WITH 99-YEAR GROUND LEASES PUTTING DEED RESTRICTIONS ON
11:24:35 THOSE PROPERTIES WE DID IN THE INFILL HOMEOWNERSHIP
11:24:43 PROGRAM AND TRANSFERRING MULTIFAMILY TO QUALIFIED.
11:24:45 WE IDENTIFIED SOME MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES THAT WE WILL
11:24:48 TRANSFER INTO A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:24:52 THE AREA THAT I -- THINK THAT BELIEVE THIS COUNCIL
11:24:55 WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
11:24:58 COMPONENT AND THE SECOND PART OF THIS -- OF THIS
11:25:00 STRATEGY.
11:25:03 WHEN TALK OF COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, WE SPENT SOME TIME
11:25:05 RESEARCHING BEST PRACTICES.
11:25:13 HOW DO THEY WORK YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT
11:25:16 NONPROFIT FOR ORGANIZATION TO RUN THE COMMUNION LAND
11:25:16 TRUST.
11:25:19 A LOT OF OVERHEAD AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT THAT HAPPEN FOR
11:25:20 THOSE LAND TRUST AS WELL.
11:25:25 AND LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL NONPROFITS,
11:25:27 PHILANTHROPY.
11:25:31 THROUGH PHILANTHROPY TO MAKE THEM SUSTAINABLE AND
11:25:35 GROUND LEASING ON SMALL PARCELS FOR SINGLE-FAMILY
11:25:37 HOMEOWNERSHIP.
11:25:41 GOING TO GET INTO WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT OPTION WE ARE
11:25:43 MOVING FORWARD WITH A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:25:47 TO DATE, THE TAMPA LAND TRUST APPROVED A DEVELOPMENT
11:25:54 AGREEMENT WITH ROME YARD AND 900-PLUS UNITS.
11:25:59 687 UNITS ARE AFFORDABLE AND DID THAT THROUGH A
11:26:03 99-YEAR GROUND LEASE FOR THAT CITY-OWNED PROPERTY.
11:26:06 WE ALSO ALLOCATED $60 MILLION OF AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN
11:26:08 MONEY.
11:26:11 $14 MILLION OF THAT IS DEDICATED TO ACQUISITION AND
11:26:14 DEVELOPMENT WHERE LONG-TERM AFFORDABILITY IS
11:26:16 PRIORITIZED.
11:26:20 LONG-TERM AFFORDABILITY IS ANYTHING UPWARDS OF 30 YEARS
11:26:22 SECURING THAT THAT PROPERTY STAYS IN THAT AFFORDABLE
11:26:29 RANGE MOVING FORWARD.
11:26:31 WE TALK OF COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:26:32 AND THERE ARE THREE OPTIONS.
11:26:37 WE HAVE BEEN VETTING THESE THREE OPTIONS TO SEE WHAT IS
11:26:38 THE OPPORTUNITY FOR -- WHAT IS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO
11:26:40 WORK FOR OUR COMMUNION.
11:26:46 OPTION ONE IS -- PICKING A -- A NONPROFIT THAT WOULD BE
11:26:50 ABLE TO -- THEY COULD BE SELECTED THROUGH RFP.
11:26:52 A LOT OF RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
11:26:55 AND WE ALSO DON'T HAVE A SINGLE NONPROFIT THAT HAVE THE
11:27:02 CAPACITY TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW SO PROS AND CONS OF ALL
11:27:03 THREE.
11:27:05 THE MODEL THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH IS DOING THE
11:27:13 MULTIPLE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO TAKE ON THE
11:27:14 COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS.
11:27:17 IN DOING THAT NONE OF OUR NONPROFITS THAT WE HAVE IN
11:27:19 PLACE MANAGE A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:27:23 OUR GOAL IS TO WORK WITH THE NONPROFIT EXISTING AND
11:27:24 BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
11:27:29 BUILD UP OUR CAPACITY, TRAIN THEM, GET THE COMMUNITY
11:27:32 LAND TRUST WORKING SO WE CAN DISTRIBUTE THE PROPERTY
11:27:35 AND THEY WILL MANAGE MULTIPLE PROPERTIES INSTEAD OF
11:27:41 HAVING A SINGLE NONPROFIT TO DO THIS.
11:27:45 ALLOWS US TO DO THIS CITYWIDE.
11:27:49 OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY AND CR A TOOK PARTNER ON THIS.
11:27:54 I DO BELIEVE THAT IT IS LABOR INTENSIVE AND COST
11:27:59 PROHIBITIVE FOR ONE AGENCY TO DO THAT.
11:28:03 ED AGAINST ONE ENTITY DOING A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ALL
11:28:04 BY ITSELF.
11:28:10 WE SHOULD TO DO IT IN PARTNERSHIP.
11:28:12 DELRAY BEACH, THEY HAVE A LAND TRUST.
11:28:15 THEY HAVE A VERY SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AND
11:28:18 THEY WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEIR CRA.
11:28:23 WHERE THIS PRIMP IS MARRIED IS WHERE YOU TALKED EARLIER
11:28:27 OF STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES.
11:28:31 DO YOU THAT THROUGH THE CRA, WORKING WITH WHOEVER THE
11:28:38 COMMUNITY BENEFIT -- COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION IS,
11:28:39 THAT NONPROFIT.
11:28:43 WHERE THE CRA CAN PARTNER -- HELPING WITH THE
11:28:46 ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AND ACQUISITION.
11:28:49 IN DELRAY, WHAT THEY DID THE CRA PURCHASED THE PROPERTY
11:28:53 AND PROVIDED ONGOING ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR THE CITY'S
11:28:54 LAND TRUST.
11:28:59 IT IS VERY SUCCESSFUL AND VISITED AS -- WHEN WE WERE
11:29:02 WORKING IN LAKELAND AT LEAST TWICE AND THEY HAVE A
11:29:03 STRONG MODEL.
11:29:08 LOOKING TO FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION TO SEE WHICH ARE
11:29:08 SUCCESSFUL.
11:29:12 PARTNERING WITH ORGANIZES WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITY TO
11:29:15 BUILD THEM UP TO TRAIN THEM HOW TO DEAL WITH COMMUNION
11:29:22 LAND TRUST AND GETTING THEM READY TO TAKE ON THE
11:29:24 OPERATION OF THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:29:27 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MAD DANIEL CHAIRWOMAN.
11:29:28 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:29:31 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THAT
11:29:35 CONCEPT IS THAT WE NEED SOMEBODY EXPERIENCED TO GET IT
11:29:37 KICKED OFF.
11:29:40 SO, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND YOU WANT TO LET EVERYBODY
11:29:42 SHARE THE WEALTH.
11:29:43 NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
11:29:44 I AM ON BOARD WITH THAT.
11:29:46 BUT I THINK IN THE BEGINNING, YOU NEED TO HAVE SOMEBODY
11:29:49 WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO BE ABLE TO TEACH THOSE AT THE
11:29:52 BOTTOM HOW TO RUN IT AND RUN IT EFFECTIVELY.
11:29:56 THAT IS WHY I WENT TO THAT CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO AND
11:30:00 LEARNED ABOUT THIS AND CAME BACK TO MAKE A MOTION IN
11:30:01 REFERENCE TO THIS.
11:30:04 AND RESEARCH ON DELRAY BEACH, I BELIEVE IT IS ANOTHER
11:30:05 OPPORTUNITY FOR US.
11:30:08 I BELIEVE WE NEED TO GET SOMEBODY WHO IS EXPERIENCED.
11:30:09 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THAT IS THE THING.
11:30:11 WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW.
11:30:12 THAT IS THE HARD PART.
11:30:15 WE ARE TRYING TO WORK WITH A NONPROFIT THAT CAN BE
11:30:22 CREATED THAT CAN POSSIBLY BE THE STARTER FOR US BUT WE
11:30:25 ARE IN A HOUSING CRISIS SO WE ARE TRYING TO DO A
11:30:26 MULTIPRONGED APPROACH.
11:30:30 WE ARE TRYING TO GET A NONPROFIT THAT MAY HAVE SOMEBODY
11:30:31 THAT HAS EXPERIENCE.
11:30:32 BUT THAT DOESN'T EXIST RIGHT NOW.
11:30:40 SO WE ARE STILL FOCUSING ON THAT WHILE WE BUILD OUR
11:30:46 EXISTING NONPROFIT.
11:30:48 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NOBODY WITH EXPERIENCE.
11:30:50 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NOT IN OUR REGION TO DO THIS.
11:30:52 WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING.
11:30:54 WE HAVE PROPERTY THAT WE ARE HOLDING TO PUT IN A
11:30:55 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:30:58 AFTER STRIVING TO VET THROUGH WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS TO
11:31:03 GO THROUGH, WE CAN BE A GAB FORWARD WITH ONE AND THEN
11:31:06 DOWN THE LINE EXPAND TO THE MULTIPLE, BUT THAT STILL
11:31:07 OPTION 3.
11:31:11 JUST BECAUSE -- WE ARE NOT PUTTING OUT A SINGLE RFP
11:31:20 JUST FOR ONE -- FOR ONE NONPROFIT TO THE CL.
11:31:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I UNDERSTAND.
11:31:24 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:31:26 >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, CONSIDERING THIS ENTITY MAY END
11:31:29 UP HOLDING A LOT OF PROPERTY -- WORTH LOTS OF MONEY
11:31:32 THAT IS GOING TO KEEP GOING UP.
11:31:35 I THINK WE OUGHT TO REALLY THINK CAREFULLY OF THE
11:31:39 GOVERNANCE OF IT AND FIGURE OUT -- HOW WE MAINTAIN IT
11:31:42 FOR THE LONG RUN.
11:31:45 AGED HATE TO KEEP BRINGING UP, IN.
11:31:48 >> I THINK FOR EVERYTHING IS A 99-YEAR LEASE AND THE
11:31:51 GOVERNMENT HAS AN ENTITY THAT CONTROL THESE THINGS.
11:31:54 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT HAS -- WHATEVER THE BOARD LOOK
11:31:57 LIKE THEY HAVE COMPLETE OVERSIGHT, TRANSPARENCY BECAUSE
11:32:01 IT COULD BE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THERE
11:32:03 EVENTUALLY AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE START WITH THE
11:32:05 IDEA THAT IT IS REALLY BIG.
11:32:08 THE SECOND THING, WE NEED TO SEPARATE ROLES -- THE
11:32:10 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, IN MY OPINION.
11:32:14 ONLY HOLD LAND AND ONLY SIGN LEASE.
11:32:17 IT SHOULD NOT BE A DEVELOPER.
11:32:23 SO THE CITY OR THE CRA WANT TO SEPARATELY ENGAGE OR
11:32:28 INCENTIVIZE DEVELOPER, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT LIKE IF
11:32:30 YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, THEY ARE THE CONDUIT
11:32:33 FOR THE FEDERAL AND STATE MONEY AND ALSO A DEVELOPER
11:32:36 AND A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THOSE TWO RELATION.
11:32:39 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: 100%.
11:32:41 >>BILL CARLSON: IN THIS CASE WE NEED TO KEEP THEM
11:32:41 SEPARATE.
11:32:44 IF YOU LOOK AT BOSTON COMMUNITY CAPITAL, AT LEAST THE
11:32:45 WAY THEY USED TO RUN IT.
11:32:52 THEY WOULD BUILD WHAT WOULD CALL SHOP HOUSES, RETAIL
11:32:55 SPACE DOWNSTAIRS AND LIVING SPACE UPSTAIRS.
11:32:58 A LOT OF TIMES THE DOWNSTAIRS WILL BE SURPLUS TO HELP
11:33:01 FUND THE OTHER ACTIVITIES AND SOMETIMES THEY WOULD
11:33:05 THROUGH A NONPROFIT TAKE SWEAT EQUITY IN THE BUSINESSES
11:33:07 THAT WERE OPERATING DOWN THERE.
11:33:12 AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED EAST TAMPA IS TO PROMOTE
11:33:21 ENTREPRENEURIALSHIP AND AGAIN THE LAND TRUST INCLUDED
11:33:25 BE PROMOTING MIXED USE.
11:33:30 AND WE NEED TO CREATE JOB THAT PEOPLE CAN USE TO AFFORD
11:33:33 HOMES TOO.
11:33:35 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: 100%.
11:33:39 GOT IT.
11:33:42 ONE LAST -- I ALREADY SAID IT.
11:33:43 NEVER MIND.
11:33:45 THAT'S IT FOR ME.
11:33:50 ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON THAT?
11:33:51 >>LYNN HURTAK: I BELIEVE.
11:33:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:33:57 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: UNDER AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 4, YOU HAD
11:34:01 MR. NINO TALK OF THIS PROPERTY 2101 WEST MAIN STREET.
11:34:03 THIS CONTRACT IS REDUCING THE PURCHASE PRICE FROM
11:34:08 $200,000 TO $185,000.
11:34:12 THAT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS CONTAMINATION FOUND ON THE
11:34:12 SITE.
11:34:15 THE INTENTION -- THE ONE THING I NEED FOR YOU TO
11:34:17 UNDERSTAND JUST BECAUSE THE CONTRACT PRICE IS BEING
11:34:23 REDUCED IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ABSOLVES ALL OF OUR -- IT
11:34:27 WILL COST MORE TO REMEDIATE THE SITE, BUT AS MR. NINO
11:34:31 REITERATED EARLIER WE WILL GO OVER TAX CREDITS TO
11:34:34 RECOUP THE MONEY.
11:34:36 WITH THE TAX CREDIT.
11:34:38 THIS CONTRACT IS BEFORE FOUR APPROVAL.
11:34:42 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
11:34:42 >> SECOND.
11:34:44 >>LYNN HURTAK: THE MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:34:49 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN --
11:34:53 >>JOSEPH CITRO: JUST SO THE PUBLIC IS AWARE.
11:34:55 THE CONTAMINATION DOESN'T GO VERY DEEP.
11:34:57 IT IS NOT A DEEP CON TAM ANYTHING THAT.
11:35:00 A CLEANING OFF OF FOUR OR FIVE INCHES OF DIRT.
11:35:03 NOT A DEEP CONTAMINATION.
11:35:08 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I AM NO EXPERT IN EPA, BUT --
11:35:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. NINO, YOU ARE RUSHING UP.
11:35:12 >> THANK YOU, NICOLE.
11:35:15 BASICALLY WE AGREED IF WE CLOSE ON THE PROPERTY WE WILL
11:35:19 HAVE TO MOVE TWO FEET OF SOIL FROM THE ENTIRE PROPERTY,
11:35:21 THAT INCLUDES ALL THE CONCRETE THAT IS THERE RIGHT NOW.
11:35:25 THAT WILL MAKE IT SAFE ONCE WE REPLACE THAT SOIL FOR A
11:35:26 PUBLIC PARK.
11:35:29 >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WANTED THE PUBLIC TO KNOW NOT A DEEP
11:35:32 CONTAMINATION AND NO FEAR OF GOING INTO OUR WATER.
11:35:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:35:36 >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE.
11:35:39 OKAY.
11:35:40 ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:35:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:35:44 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:35:47 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:35:48 >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:35:49 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:35:50 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:35:51 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:35:56 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:35:59 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
11:36:04 THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM WE HAVE IS A PURCHASE CONTRACT
11:36:05 AGAIN.
11:36:08 MR. CEDRIC MCCRAY PRESENT THIS TO YOU.
11:36:11 THIS A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT IS ADJACENT TO THE GATOR
11:36:12 BUILDING.
11:36:16 THE PURCHASE PRICE IS $125,000 PLUS CLOSING COST WHICH
11:36:19 WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL $6,000.
11:36:22 THIS PURCHASE IS FOR FURTHER REDEVELOPMENT OF THIS --
11:36:26 THAT STRATEGIC ACQUISITION THAT WE ARE DOING IN EAST
11:36:26 COMPANY.
11:36:27 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
11:36:28 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
11:36:30 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND
11:36:33 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:36:35 ROLL CALL.
11:36:39 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:36:40 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:36:41 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:36:43 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:36:43 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:36:45 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:36:48 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:36:50 VOTE.
11:36:52 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU, ITEM NUMBER 6, A FACADE
11:36:57 IMPROVEMENT GRANT WITH RESCINDING OF PREVIOUS AWARD TO
11:36:59 A GRANT TO THE CAC.
11:37:02 THEY PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT.
11:37:06 THIS IS JUST TO DO SOME SITE WORK ON THEIR PROPERTY.
11:37:09 THE BIDS CAME IN HIGHER AND RESCINDING THE PREVIOUS
11:37:12 FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT AND REPLACING IT WITH THIS ONE
11:37:18 IN THE AMOUNT OF $41,415, LOCATED AT 2705 EAST DR.
11:37:20 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AVENUE.
11:37:21 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
11:37:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
11:37:26 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:37:28 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:37:29 ROLL CALL.
11:37:30 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:37:32 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:37:34 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:37:35 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:37:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:37:37 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:37:40 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:37:42 VOTE.
11:37:44 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
11:37:46 COUNCILMEN AND WOMEN.
11:37:49 ITEM NUMBER 7 IS A PURCHASE CONTRACT FOR THE CHANNEL
11:37:51 DISTRICT.
11:37:55 810 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE IN THE AMOUNT OF $3.8 MILLION FOR
11:37:59 THE USE OF A PARK IN THIS AREA.
11:38:02 CLOSING COSTS WILL BE ANOTHER $40,000.
11:38:07 THIS CONTRACT IS BETWEEN THE PORT AUTHORITY AND WOULD
11:38:10 BE BETWEEN THE CITY SHOULD YOU APPROVE THAT.
11:38:14 I HOPE YOU READ THE MEMO FOR THIS.
11:38:18 YOU HEARD FROM THE CAC EARLIER FOR THE NEED AND DESIRE
11:38:21 TO HAVE A MORE GREEN SPACE IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:38:24 IN THE CHANNEL -- THE CHANNELSIDE COMMUNITY
11:38:27 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, IT DOES CALL FOR ADDITIONAL GREEN
11:38:28 SPACE.
11:38:33 THIS IS ALLOWED BY -- BY THEIR CRP.
11:38:36 THEY HAVE THE FUNDING TO DO THAT AND WERE SUPPORTED
11:38:40 UNANIMOUSLY BY THE CAC FOR THE PURCHASE PROPERTY.
11:38:43 THE ONE THING I NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT
11:38:46 YOU ARE VOTING ON IS A SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT IS
11:38:49 A LITTLE LESS THAN 20,000 SQUARE FEET.
11:38:51 AND IT IS KNOWN AS THE RV LOT.
11:38:55 THIS PROPERTY IS OWNED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY, AND THE
11:38:58 CONTRACT THAT IS BEFORE -- ONCE WE ENTERED INTO THE
11:39:01 CONTRACT OR BEFORE WE ENTERED INTO THE CONTRACT, WE GOT
11:39:03 APPRAISAL ON THE PROPERTY.
11:39:06 WITH THE DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENT ON THAT PIECE OF
11:39:08 PROPERTY, THE PROPERTY APPRAISED FOR OVER $3 MPO
11:39:11 MILLION.
11:39:13 BECAUSE WE ARE USING THIS AS A PARK AND PART OF THE
11:39:17 CONTRACT, THE PORT AUTHORITY GETS TO RETAIN THE
11:39:20 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS OR ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE PROPERTY.
11:39:24 AND SO WITH -- WITH LEARNING THAT INFORMATION, WE FELT
11:39:31 IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO GET ANOTHER APPRAISAL OF THE
11:39:33 PROPERTY SINCE NO DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.
11:39:37 THAT APPRAISAL CAME IN AROUND $300,000.
11:39:41 THERE IS A DIFFERENT IN THE APPRAISAL WITH THE
11:39:42 ENTITLEMENT.
11:39:45 STRATEGIC TO FILL THE NEEDS OF THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN,
11:39:47 BUT I NEED FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PURCHASE
11:39:50 PRICE IS OVER THE APPRAISED VALUE AND WILL REQUIRE A
11:39:54 SUPERMAJORITY VOTE BY THIS BODY AND BY CITY COUNCIL IF
11:39:58 IT WERE TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT I WANT TO REALLY OUTLINE
11:40:00 FOR YOU WHAT YOU ARE VOTING ON.
11:40:04 OTHER PROPERTIES THAT YOU JUST APPROVED HAVE THE
11:40:07 ENTITLEMENT THAT COMES ALONG WITH THE PROPERTY.
11:40:08 THIS DOES NOT.
11:40:11 THE ENTITLEMENTS OF THE PROPERTY DOES STAY IN -- I AM
11:40:13 GETTING SUPER TECHNICAL.
11:40:16 DOES STAY IN THE DRI AREA.
11:40:23 THERE IS A BOUNDARY OF THOSE ENTITLEMENT.
11:40:26 SPARKMAN'S WHARF, SOME OF THE PROPERTY BY THE AQUARIUM
11:40:30 WILL STAY IN THAT AREA AND WILL BE DEVELOPED IN THE
11:40:32 FUTURE THAT COULD GENERATE TAX BASE.
11:40:35 BUT THE PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY DOES NOT INCLUDE THE
11:40:37 DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENT.
11:40:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION GUDES DISCUSSION.
11:40:44 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO AND SECONDED
11:40:48 BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:40:49 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:40:52 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM JUST WONDERING -- AND I KNOW IT
11:40:56 IS IN THEIR PLAN FOR GREEN SPACE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
11:41:01 MY PROBLEM IS HOW DO WE GET OUT -- HOW DO WE NOT GET
11:41:05 THE RIGHTS.
11:41:07 I AM CONFUSED ON THAT PORTION.
11:41:11 IF I AM PAYING THAT KIND OF MONEY, WHY DON'T WE GET THE
11:41:13 RIGHTS.
11:41:15 >> NICOLE: THE PORT WAS INTERESTED IN KEEPING THE
11:41:17 RIGHTS FOR THE PROPERTY TO BE USED IN THE REST OF THE
11:41:18 DRI.
11:41:22 SPARKMAN'S WHARF, IF IT WAS EVER TO DEVELOP INTO
11:41:26 SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THOSE ENTITLEMENTS GO INTO THAT
11:41:27 AREA.
11:41:30 THE STICKING POINT FOR THE PORT AUTHORITY AND THE
11:41:33 INTENT OF THE PURCHASE IS FOR IT TO BE USED AS PARK
11:41:35 SPACE.
11:41:35 GREEN SPACE.
11:41:37 WE WOULD NOT BE DEVELOPING THAT PROPERTY.
11:41:41 THIS IS A NOT A STRATEGIC ACQUISITION FOR FUTURE
11:41:45 DEVELOPMENT AS OPPOSE ODD TO THE CONVERSATION IN EAST
11:41:46 TAMPA.
11:41:50 THIS STRATEGIC ACQUISITION IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF A
11:41:50 PARK.
11:41:54 THE THOUGHT WE ARE KEEPING IT AS A PARK.
11:41:56 THE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS DIDN'T NEED TO GO WITH THE
11:41:57 PROPERTY.
11:42:00 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:42:01 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO FOLLOW ON THAT.
11:42:05 I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED AND WANT TO MAKE SURE -- THAT
11:42:07 THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS.
11:42:09 IF THE PORT TEN YEARS FROM NOW WANTED TO BUILD IN THE
11:42:13 AIR RIGHTS ABOVE THIS PROPERTY, THEY COULD DO THAT.
11:42:14 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THIS IS NOT FOR AIR RIGHTS OF THE
11:42:16 PROPERTY.
11:42:18 IN A --
11:42:19 >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE
11:42:21 PROPERTY ACCEPT FOR THIS PARCEL.
11:42:23 THEY WILL NOT HAVE -- THEY WILL NOT RETAIN ANY
11:42:25 DEVELOPMENT RIGHT FOR THIS PARCEL.
11:42:26 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THAT'S CORRECT.
11:42:27 THIS IS GREEN SPACE.
11:42:29 THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY AIRSPACE.
11:42:31 THIS IS FOR DEVELOPMENT.
11:42:37 THERE -- DRI IS A DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL IMPACT AREA --
11:42:41 >>BILL CARLSON: JUST FOR THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY THEY
11:42:44 DON'T RETAIN ANY AIR RIGHTS.
11:42:46 >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO THEY DON'T AND WE DON'T GET
11:42:47 DEVELOPMENTAL RIGHTS.
11:42:50 A DEFINED GEOGRAPHIC AREA.
11:42:54 AND WHAT THIS DEAL IS SAYING IS THAT THE PORT IS
11:42:57 KEEPING THE DEVELOPMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE OTHER PORTION
11:43:00 OF THE DRI, AND WE CAN'T --
11:43:02 >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO BE CLEAR OF THIS PARTICULAR
11:43:10 -- THEY CAN'T BUILD A PARKING LOT OVER IF.
11:43:14 WE CAN'T JUST PUT ANYTHING ON THAT.
11:43:17 >>BILL CARLSON: WE LOOK AT PARTS OF THE CITY THAT ARE
11:43:18 SUBSIDIZING THESE.
11:43:21 PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING ATTENTION ARE VERY CONCERNED OF
11:43:22 THESE KIND OF PRICES.
11:43:26 I MET WITH SOME OF THE CONSTITUENTS AND ANOTHER PARK
11:43:30 THAT THAT IS EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THIS.
11:43:34 I TOLD MY CONSTITUENTS THAT LOOK WE ARE TALKING TO THE
11:43:36 STAKEHOLDERS IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND I WANT TO
11:43:39 BRING AN EARLY CONCERNED TO THIS CRA, EVEN IF IT IS BY
11:43:43 A YEAR OR TWO, BUT HOPEFULLY A LOT MORE THAN THAT.
11:43:47 AN F NOT AN EARLY END, WE CAN ALLOCATE SOME PORTION,
11:43:51 10% TO 20% THAT IS STILL THERE AND USE THE REST OF IT.
11:43:55 SOUTH TAMPA, WHEN WE HAVE PARKS THAT ARE FALLING APART
11:43:57 AND POTHOLES AND THINGS THAT WE NEED TO FILL.
11:44:02 PEOPLE ASK, WHY ARE WE SUBSIDIZING AN EXPENSIVE LITTLE
11:44:04 POCKET PARK IN CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:44:09 THE IDEA OF THE CRA WAS PUT IN A LONG TIME AGO AND WE
11:44:13 ARE FULFILLING THE PROMISE, BUT I WILL GO ALONG WITH
11:44:17 THIS JUST WITH THE CAVEAT THAT ANYBODY WHO IS LISTENING
11:44:19 WHO CARES ABOUT THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:44:21 I WILL VOTE FOR THIS ONLY BECAUSE I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY
11:44:24 WANTS IN CHANNEL DISTRICT IS IN THE NEW STRATEGIC
11:44:28 ACTION PLAN AND WE CAN -- ONCE THAT IS ALL COMPLETELY
11:44:30 PUT TO BED.
11:44:33 WE CAN TALK OF SUNSETTING IT EARLY BECAUSE THE REST OF
11:44:36 THE CITY DOESN'T THINK IT IS FAIR THAT ALL THESE VERY
11:44:39 EXPENSIVE AMENITIES ARE GOING IN ONE PART OF THE TOWN
11:44:41 AND THE REST OF THE CITY HAS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS
11:44:42 FALLING APART.
11:44:44 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:44:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE TO THE PUBLIC ON --
11:44:53 SPOKE -- WAS 300 AND THEN SECOND APPRAISAL AT 303.
11:44:54 3.3?
11:44:56 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: FIRST APPRAISAL INCLUDED THE
11:44:59 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AT $3.3 MILLION.
11:45:02 WHEN WE -- WHEN WE REALIZED THAT THE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
11:45:04 WERE NOT STAYING WITH THE PROPERTY AND THEY COULD USE
11:45:08 IT ELSEWHERE, FROM A TRANSPARENCY PERSPECTIVE, I FELT
11:45:12 THE NEED TO HAVE A SECOND APPRAISAL DONE WITHOUT THE
11:45:18 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND CAME IN AT 300,000.
11:45:20 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
11:45:21 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:45:25 >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS LEERY AT FIRST UNTIL I REALIZED
11:45:26 WHAT THIS DRI WAS.
11:45:28 I AM GOING TO SUPPORT IT TODAY.
11:45:31 A LOT OF MONEY FOR A SMALL PIECE OF PROPERTY.
11:45:37 BUT, AGAIN, THE CRA'S TIF DOLLAR FOR THAT COMMUNITY AND
11:45:39 THEIR DOLLARS GO TO THAT COMMUNITY.
11:45:42 IT IS THEIR MONEY AND THEY DESERVE THE RIGHT TO SPEND
11:45:46 THEIR MONEY -- WISELY, OF COURSE -- BUT THEY HAVE BEEN
11:45:48 WANTING PARKS AND THINGS IN THAT AREA AND STARTING TO
11:45:52 BE A FAMILY COMMUNITY THAT AREA.
11:45:52 I WILL SUPPORT IT.
11:45:55 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:45:57 >>BILL CARLSON: TO FOLLOW UP.
11:46:01 NOT THEIR MONEY AND TAX MONEY BEING GENERATED IN THAT
11:46:02 DISTRICT.
11:46:05 I SAID THIS BEFORE AND FOR EVERYBODY WATCHING, IF YOU
11:46:07 LOOK AT THE STARTING TAX BASE AT $5 MILLION.
11:46:10 HALF OF THAT IS GOING TO POLICE AND FIRE AND HALF IS
11:46:12 GOING TO THE GENERAL FUND.
11:46:12 TWO AND A HALF MILLION.
11:46:13 TWO AND A HALF MILLION.
11:46:16 THEY GO UP TO TEN MILLION.
11:46:19 ONLY TWO AND A HALF MILLION TO POLICE AND FIRE AND TWO
11:46:20 AND A HALF MILLION TO THE GENERAL FUND.
11:46:26 WHO IS SUBSIDIZING THE OTHER MILLION.
11:46:29 AND THE CITY IS SUBSIDIZING IT.
11:46:33 EAST COMPANY AND WEST TAMPA, IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE, BUT
11:46:36 AMENITIES THAT ARE EXPENSIVE AND NICER THAN OTHER PART
11:46:37 OF THE CITY.
11:46:41 THE OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY SAY WHY ARE MY TAXES GOING
11:46:43 UP AND WE CAN'T FIX BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:46:46 I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE REST OF THE CITY IS
11:46:50 SUBSIDIZING THESE AND OTHERS WHO ARE REPRESENTING OTHER
11:46:51 PARTS OF THE CITY ARE SUPPORTING IT.
11:46:55 I AM SUPPORTING IT WITH THE CAVEAT THAT WE ASK THE FOLK
11:47:02 -- GOOD FOLKS IN C AC OR WHO OWN PROPERTY.
11:47:04 THOSE WHO DON'T SEE SLUM AND BLIGHT.
11:47:07 AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE SUBSIDIZING
11:47:08 THESE THINGS.
11:47:10 >>ORLANDO GUDES: POINT WELL TAKEN.
11:47:12 >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUESTION OF THE AMOUNT OF
11:47:13 PARKLAND THAT IS AVAILABLE.
11:47:17 I KNOW HE THE AQUARIUM PARKING LOT RIGHT ACROSS THE
11:47:18 STREET.
11:47:19 >> YES.
11:47:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: NO WAY OF RECONFIGURING.
11:47:23 I MEAN, WE OWN THAT.
11:47:27 ANY WAY TO RECONFIGURE THAT PARKING LOT TO PROVIDE SOME
11:47:31 PARK SPACE THAT WOULDN'T COST $3.8 MILLION.
11:47:33 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I HAD RECENT COVERINGS -- RECENT
11:47:35 BEING A FEW MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE AQUARIUM.
11:47:40 AND THEY ARE IN TALKS OF MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN
11:47:43 EXPANSION -- THAT IS NOT BEFORE ME RIGHT NOW.
11:47:50 I DID NOT TALK TO THEM ABOUT RECONFIGURING AND TRYING
11:47:51 TO CLAW PARK.
11:47:55 WEB YOU TALK OF PARK SPACE IN GENERAL IN THE AREA, I
11:48:01 CAN GET WITH SHERISHA MILLS, OUR PARKS DIRECTOR OF THE
11:48:02 PROXIMITY OF PARK.
11:48:03 WHAT EXISTS.
11:48:07 I KNOW THERE ARE SMALL NODE PARK SPACE IN THE CHANNEL
11:48:07 DISTRICT.
11:48:09 BUT THEY ARE REALLY SMALL.
11:48:15 JUST TO LOOK WHERE THE PROXIMITY IS AND THE SIZE OF
11:48:16 THEM.
11:48:17 I CAN BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK TO YOU.
11:48:21 BUT AS FAR AS RECONFIGURING FOR THE PARKS, THAT IS
11:48:23 SOMETHING I WOULD HAVE TO GO LOOK -- WHERE HE MIGHT OWN
11:48:26 THE PROPERTY BUT A LEASE THAT MAY --
11:48:29 >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE HAVE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE
11:48:32 AQUARIUM THAT WOULD COMPLICATE THINGS.
11:48:34 >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST FEEL THIS IS A HUGE AMOUNT -- I
11:48:41 UNDERSTAND THAT -- BUT -- AND, AGAIN, MAYBE -- IT JUST
11:48:46 SEEMS THAT GETTING A STUDY OF HOW MUCH PARK SPACE AND,
11:48:49 YOU KNOW, PER ACRE, PER PERSON, WHOEVER THAT IS
11:48:51 MANAGED.
11:48:57 I KNOW THAT THE GOAL IS TO HAVE PARK SPACE WITHIN A
11:49:00 TEN-MINUTE RADIUS OF EACH HOME.
11:49:04 I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE STUDY IF
11:49:14 WE HAVE ANY ROOM IN THIS -- THIS CONTRACT TIME-WISE.
11:49:15 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: A TIMING PERSPECTIVE, WE CAN ALWAYS
11:49:17 ASK FOR AN EXTENSION.
11:49:22 WE ARE NOT IN CONTRACTS UNTIL YOU APPROVE THE CONTRACT.
11:49:24 WE ARE NOT IN CONTRACT.
11:49:26 PORT HAVE INCLUDED THE CONTRACT.
11:49:29 IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ADDITIONAL STUDY OR INFORMATION, IT
11:49:33 SEEMS LIKE IT MAY PASS TODAY, BUT IT HAS TO COME BACK
11:49:34 BEFORE CITY COUNCIL.
11:49:37 IF THERE IS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU WOULD LIKE
11:49:40 FOR ME TO PROVIDE BY THE TIME IT COMES BACK TO CITY
11:49:43 COUNCIL, I CAN DO THAT FOR YOU, BUT WE ARE NOT IN
11:49:45 CONTRACTS UNTIL YOU APPROVE THE CONTRACT.
11:49:47 >>MORRIS MASSEY: IT WILL HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU ON
11:49:50 THE 16TH SITTING AT CITY COUNCIL.
11:49:53 IT IS BEFORE YOU TODAY BECAUSE CRA FUNDS ARE GOING TO
11:49:56 BE ALLOCATED FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE PARK, BUT BECAUSE
11:49:59 IT IS GOING TO BE A PARK, IT HAS TO TITLED IN THE NAME
11:50:02 OF THE CITY AND THE CONTRACT WILL BE BETWEEN THE CITY
11:50:03 AND THE PORT AUTHORITY.
11:50:07 WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU A WEEK FROM TODAY FOR FORMAL
11:50:11 APPROVAL OF CITY COUNCIL TO MOVE FOR TODAY.
11:50:13 >>LYNN HURTAK: WILL THAT BE ENOUGH TIME? MAGICIAN MAST
11:50:19 MAY BE AN INSPECTION PERIOD UNDER THE TERM OF CONTRACT.
11:50:20 I WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT.
11:50:22 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE CAN EXPLORE OTHER THINGS.
11:50:25 >>MORRIS MASSEY: EXPLORE OTHER THINGS WITH THE PORT
11:50:25 AUTHORITY.
11:50:28 IF IT IS DRAFTED THE WAY MANY OF OUR CONTRACTS ARE
11:50:36 DRAFTED, A RIGHT TO TERMINATE FOR ANY REASON.
11:50:38 >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
11:50:40 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:50:45 >>BILL CARLSON: IF YOU SIT DOWN WITH THE PEOPLE FROM
11:50:47 THE DISTRICT THEY WILL SHOW YOU WHAT IS ALLOCATE AND
11:50:48 WHAT PARCELS.
11:50:52 UNLESS WE GO ACROSS CHANNELSIDE DRIVE -- THIS IS NOT
11:50:57 WORKING MARITIME, IF IT WAS, I WOULD BE AGAINST IT.
11:51:00 BUT IF YOU LOOK AT A MAP, THEY CAN SHOW NEW TWO MINUTES
11:51:04 WHY WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND SECURE THESE POCKET PARKS.
11:51:05 THERE IS NO LAND LEFT.
11:51:08 IF YOU GO ACROSS THE STREET, IT MIGHT WORTH GETTING THE
11:51:12 PORT AND MARITIME ASSOCIATIONS IN HERE TO TALK OF THE
11:51:14 IMPORTANCE OF THE MARITIME LAND.
11:51:17 BUT PIECES OF LAND SOUTH OF THE PORT BUILDING AND NORTH
11:51:22 OF IT WHERE WE CAN POTENTIAL LEGAL -- FULL-TIME PORT
11:51:25 AUTHORITY COULD WORK WITH US, WE COULD BUILD SOME PARKS
11:51:29 THERE AND ANOTHER DISCUSSION FOR ANOTHER DAY.
11:51:30 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:51:31 ANYONE ELSE?
11:51:34 OKAY.
11:51:37 ROLL CALL VOTE, I BELIEVE.
11:51:39 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:51:41 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:51:42 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:51:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:51:45 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:51:46 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:51:49 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:51:53 VOTE.
11:51:59 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NEXT ITEM IS DREW PARK CRA -- CRA CAC
11:52:03 APPOINTMENT.
11:52:05 FOR MARITZA ASTORQUIZA.
11:52:07 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
11:52:07 >> SECOND.
11:52:09 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND
11:52:14 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:52:15 ROLL CALL.
11:52:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:52:17 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:52:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:52:20 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:52:21 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:52:22 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:52:25 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:52:25 VOTE.
11:52:29 SORRY, I DON'T HAVE HER LAST NAME PULLED UP.
11:52:36 FOR THE CAC -- SORRY?
11:52:38 I KNEW I DIDN'T HAVE IT RIGHT.
11:52:42 NUMBER 9, DREW PARK FISCAL 2022 PROGRAM CHANGE.
11:52:44 THIS IS JUST REPROGRAMMING OF FUNDS.
11:52:49 INITIALLY YOU HAD MONEY ALLOCATED FOR -- ALLOCATED SOME
11:52:51 MONEY FOR COVID-19 BUSINESS ASSISTANCE.
11:52:54 WE DIDN'T NEED TO USE THAT MONEY BECAUSE OF THE FEDERAL
11:52:58 MONEY WE HAD, SO WE ARE REALLOCATING THAT MONEY IN TO
11:53:01 $150,000 TO BE REPROGRAMMED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
11:53:03 SERVICES.
11:53:04 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO MOVED.
11:53:05 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:53:07 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: PROGRAM FOR NEIGHBORHOOD
11:53:08 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT.
11:53:12 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:53:13 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:53:14 ROLL CALL.
11:53:15 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:53:17 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:53:19 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:53:20 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:53:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:53:23 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:53:27 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:53:27 VOTE.
11:53:30 >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE LAST CRA MEETING YOU HEARD FROM
11:53:33 JEFF OF THE WAY FINDING STUDY THAT WE ARE MOVING
11:53:34 FORWARD WITH.
11:53:36 HE PRESENTED THAT TO YOU THIS MORNING.
11:53:40 THIS IS AN ALLOCATION OF FUNDING FROM DOWNTOWN NONCORE
11:53:44 CHANNEL DISTRICT CENTRALITY PART RIVERFRONT CRAS TO
11:53:49 FUNDS THE WAY FINDING SIGNAGE.
11:53:50 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION TO APPROVE.
11:53:51 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:53:54 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
11:53:56 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:53:56 ROLL CALL.
11:53:58 >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:53:59 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:54:00 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:54:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:54:03 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:54:04 >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:54:07 >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT AT
11:54:07 VOTE.
11:54:08 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:54:09 NEW BUSINESS.
11:54:11 INFORMATION, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:54:13 >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:54:18 I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO ARTS GROUPS IN YBOR AND THERE IS
11:54:22 A REQUEST THAT I WOULD PASS ALONG IN A MOTION TO ASK
11:54:26 THE -- THE CAC IN YBOR ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY -- TO
11:54:32 REPORT BACK TO US ON AUGUST 18 ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF
11:54:41 SETTING UP A DEDICATED ART FUND WITHIN THE -- THE YBOR
11:54:42 CRAS.
11:54:44 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:54:46 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:54:49 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:54:51 ALL IN FAVOR.
11:54:53 >> AYE.
11:54:55 >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:54:56 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING AT THIS TIME.
11:55:00 >>JOSEPH CITRO: NOTHING TODAY, MADAM CHAIR.
11:55:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: A REFRESHER COURSE, REMEMBER THE
11:55:03 TWO WORDS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.
11:55:04 THEY WILL SOON BE COMING BACK.
11:55:06 >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:55:08 MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:55:09 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION.
11:55:12 >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
11:55:15 SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:55:16 ALL IN FAVOR.
11:55:19 SEE YOU ALL AT 5:01.
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