CITY OF TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022
9:00 A.M.
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09:01:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:01:44AM OUR INVOCATION WILL BE AGAIN TODAY BY NICOLE AZAR OF
09:01:50AM CHOCKY'S CAT RESCUE.
09:01:51AM AFTER YEARS OF WORKING TO RESCUE THE HOMELESS PET
09:01:56AM POPULATION.
09:01:56AM TO HUMANELY REDUCE THE POPULATION OF HOMELESS CATS IN THE
09:02:02AM CITY OF TAMPA THROUGH TRAP, NEUTER, VACCINATE AND RETURN.
09:02:05AM THIS TRAP AND RETURN POLICY IS MORE HUMANE AND PROVIDES A
09:02:08AM PUBLIC HEALTH BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.
09:02:11AM IF THE CATS ARE SOCIAL AND HAVE KITTENS, NICOLE UTILIZES
09:02:17AM LOCAL RESCUES.
09:02:18AM BY EMPOWERING PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY CATS AND TRAP, VACCINATE,
09:02:24AM NEUTER AND RETURN, CHOCOLATEY'S CAT RESCUE HELPS THE
09:02:29AM NUMEROUS CATS THAT ARE BEING KILLED IN ANIMAL SHELTER.
09:02:33AM THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
09:02:35AM >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
09:02:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE STAND FOR THE INVOCATION.
09:02:41AM >> I HAVE A BRIEF READING OF MATTHEW SKULLY REGARDING
09:02:46AM KINDNESS TO ANIMALS AND CHARITY TO ALL LIVING THINGS.
09:02:49AM IT IS TRUE AS WE ARE OFTEN REMINDED THAT KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
09:02:54AM ARE AMONG THE HUMBLER OF DUTIES OF HUMAN CHARITY.
09:02:58AM AMONG THAT REASON OF THE MOST NEGLECTED.
09:03:02AM AND IT IS TRUE THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE INJUSTICE AND HUMAN
09:03:06AM SUFFERING IN THE WORLD TO MAKE THE WRONGS DONE TO ANIMALS
09:03:08AM SMALL AND SECONDARY.
09:03:09AM THE ANSWER IS THAT JUSTICE IS NOT A FINITE COMMODITY, NOR
09:03:15AM ARE KINDNESS AND LOVE.
09:03:17AM WHERE WE FIND WRONGS DONE TO ANIMALS, NO EXCUSE TO SAY MORE
09:03:22AM IMPORTANT WRONGS ARE TO HUMAN BEINGS AND LET US CONCENTRATE
09:03:26AM ON THOSE.
09:03:26AM A WRONG IS A WRONG AND OFTEN THE LITTLE ONES, WHEN THEY ARE
09:03:29AM SHRUGGED OFF AS NOTHING SPREAD AND DO THE GRAVEST HARM TO
09:03:33AM OURSELVES AND OTHERS.
09:03:34AM THANK YOU.
09:03:35AM I KEPT IS SHORT FOR YOU.
09:03:39AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:03:40AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:03:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ROLL CALL.
09:03:59AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:04:01AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:04:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:04:08AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:04:09AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:04:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:04:12AM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:04:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO REVIEW THE RULES PERTAINING TO PUBLIC
09:04:18AM COMMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE CRA MEETING, I WILL TURN IT
09:04:22AM OVER TO MORRIS MASSEY.
09:04:24AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:04:25AM THIS IS THE AUGUST 18, 2022 MEETING OF THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:04:29AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OR THE CRA HELD IN CITY
09:04:33AM COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN THE THIRD FLOOR OF OLD CITY HALL, 315 E.
09:04:38AM KENNEDY BOULEVARD HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:04:39AM THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO ATTEND IN PERSON AND VIEW IT BY CABLE
09:04:43AM TELEVISION ON SPECTRUM CHANNEL 640 OR FRONTIER CHANNEL 15.
09:04:48AM WE ALSO BELIEVE WE HAVE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY I THINK AT
09:04:52AM LAST.
09:04:52AM SO YOU CAN ALSO VIEW IT BY THE INTERNET AT
09:04:57AM TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:04:57AM THE PUBLIC IS ALSO ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING
09:05:01AM DURING PUBLIC COMMENT FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MEN.
09:05:03AM PER SPEAKER HERE IN PERSON OR THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
09:05:08AM VIRTUALLY BY WAY OF COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY THAT I
09:05:12AM BELIEVE WE HAVE ACCESS TO NOW; HOWEVER, THE USE OF CMT
09:05:15AM REQUIRES PRE-REGISTRATION OF THE CITY CLERK OFFICE AND I
09:05:20AM DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS REREGISTERED TO SPEAK BY CMT.
09:05:23AM DIRECTIONS ARE INCLUDED IN THE NOTICE OF THE MEETING AND ON
09:05:26AM THE AGENDA.
09:05:26AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION WAIVING THE CRA RULES TO ALLOW PUBLIC
09:05:31AM COMMENT BY CMT.
09:05:32AM THANK YOU.
09:05:33AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND SECONDED
09:05:36AM BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:05:37AM ALL THIS FAVOR.
09:05:38AM OPPOSED?
09:05:39AM OKAY.
09:05:39AM SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO MISS TRAVIS, OUR INTERIM CRA
09:05:47AM DIRECTOR.
09:05:47AM TO TALK ABOUT ANY CHANGES TO THE AGENDA THIS MORNING?
09:05:52AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, CRA BOARD -- I ALMOST SAID
09:05:56AM COUNCIL.
09:05:56AM YES, MA'AM.
09:05:56AM I AM -- THERE IS A REQUEST FOR US TO CONTINUE ITEMS 1 AND 2,
09:06:02AM PLEASE, TO THE SEPTEMBER MEETING PLEASE.
09:06:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO CONTINUE ITEM 1 AND 2.
09:06:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:12AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:06:14AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:15AM OKAY.
09:06:16AM THANK YOU.
09:06:16AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: IF WE COULD MOVE THE -- THE BUDGET
09:06:24AM CONVERSATION I AM LOOKING AT -- SIX.
09:06:29AM IF WE CAN MOVE THE BUDGET PRESENTATION BEFORE NUMBER THREE
09:06:34AM PLEASE.
09:06:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:06:36AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
09:06:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:39AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:06:41AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:42AM OKAY.
09:06:42AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: PERFECT.
09:06:44AM THANK YOU.
09:06:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:06:46AM MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.
09:06:49AM >> SO MOVED.
09:06:50AM >> SECOND.
09:06:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:06:53AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:06:55AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:56AM GREAT.
09:06:57AM NOW WE ARE IN OUR PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION.
09:07:00AM THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COMMENT ON ANY ITEM FOR UP TO THREE
09:07:04AM MINUTES.
09:07:04AM IF YOU HAVE -- IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT TODAY, STAND
09:07:08AM UP AND FORM A LIFE TO YOUR RIGHT, MY LEFT.
09:07:11AM >> GOOD MORNING, CONNIE BURTON.
09:07:22AM THREE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS REAL QUICKLY.
09:07:25AM ONE.
09:07:27AM IT JUST CAME ACROSS THE NEWS COUNTER THE OTHER DAY THAT THE
09:07:31AM AQUARIUM WAS RECEIVING $40 MILLION FOR UPGRADES.
09:07:34AM AND ALTHOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT DEAL WITH THAT BUDGET, IT WAS
09:07:38AM VERY GLARING THAT WATER SEA CREATURES IS GOING TO BE
09:07:42AM AFFORDED, YOU KNOW, COMFORT DOWN THERE.
09:07:47AM TOURISTS COMING THROUGH.
09:07:49AM THE AQUARIUM IS GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL, AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF
09:07:53AM MONEY THAT IS BEING SET I ASIDE FOR THIS HOUSING BUDGET.
09:07:57AM I KNOW WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FEDERAL MONIES BEING ALIGNED
09:08:02AM WITH THAT, BUT I HAVE BEEN IN THIS CITY LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW
09:08:04AM THAT WHEN FEDERAL MONIES DO COME TO TOWN, IT DOESN'T USUALLY
09:08:10AM HIT OF THE TARGETED INTENDED PURPOSE.
09:08:12AM BY THAT I MEAN I HAVE SEEN WHERE THEATRES WERE BUILT WITH
09:08:16AM COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT MONEY.
09:08:18AM PARKING STATIONS WERE BUILT IN THE PAST.
09:08:25AM SO WE NEED TO HAVE MONEY THAT IS RESTRICTED FOR HOUSING.
09:08:29AM I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU ALL WILL COME BACK TO THE CITY, TO THE
09:08:33AM MAYOR AND MAKE A MORE DEMAND FOR AN INCREASE FOR HOUSING
09:08:37AM THAT WILL BE WAY ABOVE $5 MILLION.
09:08:40AM SECONDLY, WE ARE TALKING OF THE APPRENTICE PROGRAM.
09:08:43AM I AM LOOKING DOWN AT THE HANNA STATION.
09:08:46AM I AM DOWN THERE ALL THE TIME.
09:08:47AM I AM TRYING TO SEE PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE ME, WHERE ARE THEY
09:08:52AM WORKING AT?
09:08:53AM THEY ARE NOT DOWN THERE.
09:08:54AM I WANT TO SEE THE NUMBERS COMING BACK -- WE DIDN'T DISCUSS
09:08:59AM THAT HANNA PROJECT.
09:09:00AM HOW IN THE MIDST OF OUR COMMUNITY, BLACK FOLKS ARE NOT ABLE
09:09:06AM TO GET JOBS DOWN THERE.
09:09:07AM TELL US THE NUMBER OUTSIDE OF THE SMALL MONETARY LITTLE
09:09:12AM SET-ASIDE THAT HAS BEEN MADE FOR ONE OR TWO ENTREPRENEURS TO
09:09:15AM GET A FEW CONTRACTS.
09:09:16AM THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE ARE NONBLACK.
09:09:19AM AND THIRDLY, I SUPPORT THE WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE ABOUT
09:09:25AM THEIR BODY.
09:09:26AM I LOVE THE MAYOR'S POSITION AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AROUND THAT,
09:09:30AM COUNCILWOMAN.
09:09:31AM BUT SOMETHING IS EMERGING IN THIS CITY THAT HAS NOTHING TO
09:09:35AM DO WITH YOUR HANDS.
09:09:37AM BUT WILL HAVE DIRECT IMPACT ON BLACK PEOPLE LIVING IN THE
09:09:40AM CITY AND THAT IS THE EMERGENCE OF THE BIKING WHILE BLACK.
09:09:44AM WE DON'T CARE WHAT THE GOVERNOR IS SAYING, THIS IS YOUR
09:09:48AM CITY.
09:09:48AM AND WE WILL HOPE THAT THE MAYOR WILL MOVE AS FAST SPEED
09:09:53AM DIRECTIONS TO ALERT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, DO NOT INFRINGE
09:09:58AM ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO SATISFY THE THIRST OF THE
09:10:04AM GOVERNOR.
09:10:04AM THANK YOU.
09:10:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:10:08AM COME ON.
09:10:17AM YOU ARE NEXT.
09:10:18AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:10:28AM IT'S INTERESTING THAT -- HOW RELATIONSHIPS GET NORMALIZED
09:10:33AM AND PEOPLE SEE IT AS JUST BEING NORMAL.
09:10:35AM AND WHEN PEOPLE -- IF YOU WERE HAVING A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
09:10:38AM WITH YOUR MOTHER OR WITH YOUR SHIELD, SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT IT
09:10:43AM FROM THE OUTSIDE, AND THEY SAY, OH, MY GOSH THAT IS NASTY.
09:10:47AM SOMETHING PERVERTED ABOUT THAT.
09:10:49AM IF A MAN AND A MAN IS HAVING A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP.
09:10:52AM SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT IT SAY THAT IS NASTY, NOT IN THE BIBLE.
09:10:56AM SOMETHING IS WRONG ABOUT THAT.
09:10:57AM THEY SAY PEDOPHILIA, INCEST BEASTIALITY IF YOU HAVE SEX TO
09:11:09AM AN ANIMAL.
09:11:10AM PEOPLE ARE DOING IT IS A NORMALIZED RELATIONSHIP.
09:11:14AM HAVING A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A FIVE-YEAR-OLD AND
09:11:17AM TEN-YEAR-OLD, AFTER A WHILE IT WILL STOP HURTING AND BE A
09:11:22AM NORMAL RELATIONSHIP.
09:11:23AM THAT IS THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIP THIS CITY HAS WITH POOR AND
09:11:26AM WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE.
09:11:27AM THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIP THAT CAPITALISM HAS WITH POOR AND
09:11:31AM WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE.
09:11:33AM THEY NORMALIZE IT.
09:11:34AM THEY NORMALIZE DOING POOR AND WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE DIRTY.
09:11:38AM THEY NORMALIZE DOING AFRICAN PEOPLE DIRTY AND LOOK AROUND --
09:11:43AM THE LADY HERE GIVING THE INVOCATION THIS MORNING TALKING OF
09:11:46AM MAKING A COMPARISON -- MAKING A COMPARISON RELATIONSHIP
09:11:49AM BETWEEN HOW YOU TREAT ANIMALS AND SAY, HEY, LIKE, REALLY,
09:11:53AM JUST AS BAD AS -- WELL, THE WAY YOU TREAT HUMANS AND SO
09:11:57AM FORTH.
09:11:58AM NO, YOU SHOULDN'T LET THAT ESCAPE YOU HOW ANIMALS ARE BEING
09:12:01AM TREATED.
09:12:02AM WELL, YOU DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T LET THE WAY AFRICAN PEOPLE IN
09:12:06AM THIS CITY, POOR AND WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE IN THIS CITY, AND
09:12:09AM EVEN THE MIDDLE-CLASS PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW IN THIS CITY GET
09:12:13AM TREATED.
09:12:13AM $5 MILLION OF A $1 BILLION BUDGET TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUES
09:12:18AM AND THE PROBLEMS OF HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS, AND PEOPLE'S
09:12:23AM EXISTENCE AND FAMILY.
09:12:24AM $5 MILLION AND JUST STATED $40 MILLION FOR THE AQUARIUM AND
09:12:30AM NORMALIZED HOW THEY TREAT POOR AND WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE AND
09:12:33AM IT SEEMS LIKE, HEY, THAT IS NORMAL.
09:12:35AM THEY CAN DO THAT.
09:12:36AM THE CITY COUNCIL IS NASTY.
09:12:38AM NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE IN CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY COUNCIL ITSELF
09:12:42AM IS NASTY.
09:12:43AM AND IF YOU COME IN HERE, IF YOU WALK UP THAT STEP -- A
09:12:46AM STICKER ON THE STEP, ON THE STAIRWELL THAT HAS BEEN THERE
09:12:49AM FOR MONTHS.
09:12:50AM THEY DON'T CLEAN THE FILTHY BUILDING.
09:12:53AM THEY DON'T CLEAN THIS NASTY CARPET.
09:12:55AM IT'S NASTY.
09:12:56AM AND THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE NASTY AND THEY ARE NASTY
09:12:59AM THE WAY THEY TREAT POOR AND WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE.
09:13:02AM THEY ARE NASTY IN WHAT THEY DID.
09:13:04AM YOU SEE THE NASTY PEOPLE LINED UP BEHIND THE GOVERNOR TO SAY
09:13:08AM THEY ARE GOING TO FIRE SOMEONE, REMOVE A PERSON FROM THEIR
09:13:10AM JOB WHO THEY SAY I HAVE SOME SOLIDARITY WITH WRONG THINGS
09:13:15AM THAT ARE GOING ON HISTORICALLY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND
09:13:17AM WHAT THEY DID AND INSERTED SOMEONE IN THAT POSITION TO START
09:13:21AM TREATING BLACK PEOPLE NASTY AGAIN TO NORMALIZE THOSE
09:13:25AM RELATIONSHIPS.
09:13:26AM THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND NONE OF THEM I SPEAK OF, INCEST AND
09:13:31AM THE OTHER RELATIONSHIPS, PEDOPHILIA, THEY ARE ALL WRONG AND
09:13:36AM THE WAY AFRICAN PEOPLE GET TREATED IN THIS CITY IS 100%
09:13:41AM WRONG AND WE NEED BETTER TREATMENT AND NEED IT FOR THE CITY
09:13:44AM COUNCIL.
09:13:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
09:13:48AM >> MENTESNOT.
09:13:50AM IT MEANS ANYTHING POSSIBLE.
09:13:52AM THANK YOU.
09:13:53AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:13:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING.
09:13:58AM >> GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, CRA BOARD MEMBERS, ALISON
09:14:03AM HEWITT, EAST TAMPA RESIDENT, BUSINESS OWNER, AND CHAIRMAN OF
09:14:07AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE.
09:14:11AM SORRY ABOUT THAT.
09:14:12AM SO WE HAVE A VERY FULL AGENDA, AND I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT
09:14:16AM THE ITEMS ON THERE.
09:14:17AM FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO THANK CHAIR HURTAK AND KELLY FOR
09:14:21AM TAKING THE TOUR OF EAST TAMPA WITH MYSELF AND CHAIR TATE.
09:14:25AM WE HAVE CHALLENGES IN EAST TAMPA, BUT SO EXCITED OF THE
09:14:29AM OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE THAT ARE COMING UP WITH THE HELP AND
09:14:31AM SUPPORT OF THE CRA.
09:14:33AM AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 1.
09:14:35AM WELL, THE -- THE CRA BUDGET DRAFT PLANNING.
09:14:40AM I WANTED TO STATE THAT THIS YEAR'S PROCESS WAS VERY
09:14:43AM INCLUSIVE AND INCLUDED VERY INSIGHTFUL DEBATE WITH THE CAC
09:14:49AM MEMBERS AND THE COMMUNITY.
09:14:50AM WE WOULD LIKE TO ON AGENDA TWO, REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT OF EAST
09:14:56AM TAMPA CRP, 2004.
09:14:58AM WE NEED FOR THAT MO MOVE FORWARD.
09:15:00AM AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 3, EVEN THOUGH SIRE DID NOT HAVE THE LIST
09:15:04AM OF THE AVAILABLE LANDS IN EAST TAMPA.
09:15:06AM ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE EAST TAMPA CRA ECONOMIC SUB
09:15:11AM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED IN THEIR BUDGET A
09:15:14AM DEVELOPER CONSULTANT NOT HAVE DEVELOPMENT HAPPEN TO US BUT
09:15:18AM THE COMMUNITY WORK TO DEVELOP WHAT THE DEVELOPMENT
09:15:21AM CONSULTANT, DEVELOPMENT PLANS AND DEVELOPMENT
09:15:24AM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THOSE PROCESSES.
09:15:25AM SO THAT DEVELOPER CONSULTANT WILL BE WORKING AT THE BEHEST.
09:15:30AM CRA, THE COMMUNITY, WORKING AT THE FEASIBILITY AND THE
09:15:35AM ACTUAL MARKETABILITY FOR THOSE PROJECTS.
09:15:36AM LIKE TO ALSO REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE PREDEVELOPMENT
09:15:41AM PROGRAM.
09:15:41AM SO EXCITED IT IS HERE TODAY.
09:15:43AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:15:46AM HE RECOMMENDED THAT -- WELL, HE REQUESTED THAT WE COME UP
09:15:50AM WITH OPTIONS TO HELP MITIGATE GENTRIFICATION IN EAST TAMPA.
09:15:55AM THIS IS ONE OF THE IDEAS.
09:15:56AM THANK YOU FOR STAFF FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK TO GET US
09:16:00AM HERE.
09:16:00AM I HAVE BEFORE YOU THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS
09:16:04AM BEEN WORKING VERY HARD WITH LANDOWNERS.
09:16:06AM YOU WILL SEE THOSE LANDOWNERS.
09:16:09AM THEY HAVE OVER 90 YEARS OF OWNING THEIR PROPERTY TO BE HE
09:16:13AM WILL GIVEN FOR THIS PROGRAM.
09:16:14AM SO I AM ASKING FOR THIS PROCESS TO ALLOW THE STAFF TO HAVE
09:16:20AM FLEXIBILITY, BECAUSE, AS YOU KNOW, DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EASY
09:16:25AM SOMETIMES.
09:16:25AM TO GET TO A PROJECT YOU NEED FLEXIBILITY.
09:16:28AM I AM ASKING THAT THE STAFF HAS FLEXIBILITY WITH THIS PROGRAM
09:16:32AM TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WHO WILL COME
09:16:35AM FORWARD TO APPLY FOR THIS PROGRAM.
09:16:37AM THE LAST THING IS THE EAST TAMPA SAP.
09:16:40AM I THINK ALL OF YOU MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED AN E-MAIL FROM ME
09:16:44AM ABOUT THIS.
09:16:45AM DISAPPOINTED THAT WE HAD THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE A
09:16:52AM FANTASTIC SAP IF THEY FOLLOWED THE CONTRACT.
09:16:53AM WE HAVE A GOOD PLAN.
09:16:54AM BUT IT IS NOT WHAT THE CONTRACT ASKED FOR WHICH WOULD HAVE
09:16:58AM AGAIN US ONE YEAR AND FIVE-YEAR GOALS AND PLANS WITH SO MUCH
09:17:03AM COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.
09:17:04AM IF WE HAVE A ROAD MAP THAT YOU CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS, IT
09:17:07AM WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE HELPFUL.
09:17:09AM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
09:17:11AM I AM GLAD I GOT THROUGH IT ALL AND I WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR
09:17:15AM QUESTIONS.
09:17:15AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:17:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I BELIEVE, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:17:18AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: STICK AROUND LATER.
09:17:20AM I SEE THE PACKET.
09:17:22AM I KNOW STAFF WILL MAKE A PRESENTATION.
09:17:23AM AND I AM GOING TO HAVE QUESTIONS FOR YOU DURING THAT
09:17:27AM PRESENTATION TIME.
09:17:28AM >> I WILL BE HERE FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING TODAY.
09:17:31AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
09:17:32AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:17:36AM KEELA McCASKILL, TAMPA RESIDENT.
09:17:40AM I DON'T HAVE TO SAY MUCH.
09:17:41AM SHE TOUCHED THE PREDEVELOPMENT.
09:17:43AM THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY.
09:17:45AM I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE PREDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, BUT VERY
09:17:48AM DISAPPOINTED THAT SUBPAR SAP IS BACK AGAIN FOR DISCUSSION.
09:17:52AM I AM MORE SO DISAPPOINTED IN THE PROCESS AND HOW IT CAME
09:17:56AM BACK.
09:17:56AM THOSE CAC MEMBERS WERE WARNED OF HEARING ABOUT A SAP.
09:18:01AM THEY WERE MORE CONCERNED HOW THEY WOULD LOOK AS A COMMUNITY
09:18:04AM IF WE DIDN'T PAY.
09:18:05AM I DON'T DO THAT IN MY DAY-TO-DAY LIVING AND I DON'T WANT TO
09:18:09AM SEE IRRESPONSIBLE -- THE CAC BE IRRESPONSIBLE OR OF THE PIS
09:18:17AM POOR SUBPAR PLAN.
09:18:18AM A CONTRACT.
09:18:19AM IT WAS THE PRINCIPLE.
09:18:21AM ADHERED TO WHAT YOU WERE PAID TO DO AND THEY DID NOT DO
09:18:24AM THAT.
09:18:24AM THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED ANYWHERE ELSE BUT EAST
09:18:28AM TAMPA NOR THE PROCESS TO WEIGH THEM DOWN AND KEEP BRINGING
09:18:30AM THEM BACK WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE EITHER.
09:18:32AM I AM ASKING TO SAY NO AND SEND IT BACK AND LET THE
09:18:35AM CONTRACTOR ADHERE TO WHAT THEY ARE PAID TO DO.
09:18:38AM THE REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM -- I SUBMITTED IT TO THE ECONOMIC
09:18:41AM DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE.
09:18:42AM NOT ONLY WILL THIS PROGRAM WORK WITH SOME MEMBERS OF THE
09:18:45AM COMMUNITY THAT SERVED IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES OVER 40, SOME OF
09:18:50AM THEM 50, SOME OF THEM 60 YEARS HAVE BEEN IN EAST TAMPA.
09:18:54AM SO I WANT TO SEE -- BRING A DIFFERENT STANDARD FOR EAST
09:18:57AM TAMPA AND THE MIND SET -- OH, IT IS EAST TAMPA.
09:19:00AM SUBPAR.
09:19:01AM ACCEPTED THAT SAP.
09:19:03AM I WANT DEVELOPMENT TO BE DIFFERENT.
09:19:04AM I WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A WOW FACTOR.
09:19:07AM THIS PROGRAM WILL HELP ELIMINATE BLACKS.
09:19:10AM SOME OF THEM ARE BLIGHTED.
09:19:11AM CODE ENFORCEMENT FINES.
09:19:13AM POLICE DEPARTMENT JUST ISSUED A CITATION ALLOWING
09:19:17AM DEVELOPMENT TO TAKE PLACE AND WORK WITH THEM ON THE SOFT
09:19:20AM COST OF DEVELOPMENT WILL HELP, LIKE I SAID, ELIMINATE BLACK,
09:19:24AM AND REDUCE ECONOMIC IMPACT AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING SOME OF
09:19:28AM THEM, MIXED USE.
09:19:30AM PROVIDE HOUSE THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS.
09:19:33AM MOST OF ALL, MORE SO I AM IMPRESSED THAT, AGAIN, QUALITY IS
09:19:37AM IMPORTANT FOR DEVELOPMENT.
09:19:39AM I DON'T WANT TO SEE INEXPERIENCED DEVELOPMENT, SUBPAR
09:19:44AM DEVELOPMENT, CITY CONTRACTOR WITH FINES AND DOING BAD
09:19:47AM BUSINESS IN THE CITY.
09:19:47AM I WENT AND FOUND A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR DEVELOPER THAT IS
09:19:51AM WILLING TO GIVE BACK.
09:19:52AM THEY ARE LOCATED IN EAST TAMPA.
09:19:54AM BLACK-OWNED.
09:19:55AM BUILDING HOSPITALS.
09:19:57AM THE GRAZER MUSEUM, THEY BUILT SOME OF THE MALLS, THE
09:19:59AM AIRPORTS.
09:20:00AM THEY LITTLE BIT EVERYWHERE IN TAMPA THEY ARE LOCATED IN EAST
09:20:03AM TAMPA.
09:20:03AM THEY ARE BLACK IN EAST TAMPA.
09:20:05AM AND THEY ARE GOING TO HELP SOME OF THESE TRADES THAT CAN'T
09:20:09AM GET PAST OFFERING QUALITY PRODUCTS.
09:20:11AM THEY WILL DO TRAINING AND ALLOW THEM TO ASSIST IN THE
09:20:14AM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AS WE COLLECTIVELY TRANSFORM EAST TAMPA.
09:20:18AM I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT IS A WOW.
09:20:21AM MULTIMILLION DOLLAR DEVELOPMENT.
09:20:22AM TRAINING AND EMPOWERMENT AND OFFERING A SOLUTION TO THIS
09:20:26AM HOUSING CRISIS.
09:20:27AM I AM ASKING YOU TO LOOK AT IT AND SAY YES TO THE PROGRAM.
09:20:30AM THANK YOU.
09:20:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:20:32AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:20:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING.
09:20:44AM >> CITY OF TAMPA AND COUNCILMEMBERS.
09:20:47AM I AM RICHARD ROMEO, 1309 EAST NORTH BAY, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:20:52AM APPROXIMATELY THE 10th OF AUGUST, I WAS CLEANING UP MY
09:20:57AM PROPERTY, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT CAME BY AND SAID -- ASKED ME
09:21:04AM -- AREN'T YOU A LITTLE TOO LATE DOING THAT.
09:21:07AM AND SHOULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE ALL THIS SINCE LAST WEEK.
09:21:11AM AND HE ALSO STATED THAT WHY I WASN'T AT A HEARING LAST WEEK.
09:21:16AM MR. GONZALEZ ADVISED ME THAT I HAVE A FINE GOING ON ON MY
09:21:22AM PROPERTY WHICH I WAS NEVER NOTIFIED THAT I HAD A COURT DATE
09:21:26AM OR A HEARING.
09:21:26AM I DID NOT GET A LETTER OR -- OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE.
09:21:32AM I AFFIRMED THAT I DID NOT GET ANYTHING AT ALL, NO NOTICE, NO
09:21:37AM PHONE CALL, ANYTHING AT ALL.
09:21:39AM AND HUMBLY REQUESTING THAT BE GIVEN A FAIR OPPORTUNITY AN
09:21:44AM TIME TO CORRECT WHATEVER THE CITY ASKS ME TO DO.
09:21:48AM BEFORE THIS -- BEFORE THIS FINE ACCUMULATE.
09:21:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOUR PROPERTY IS -- YOU SAY IN
09:21:56AM COMPLIANCE.
09:21:57AM >> NO --
09:21:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BOARD --
09:22:02AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: UNFORTUNATELY THE CODE ENFORCEMENT PROCESS
09:22:04AM IS NOT ADMINISTERED THROUGH THIS BOARD.
09:22:06AM DONE THROUGH CHAPTER 162 IN THE CODE ENFORCEMENT MAGISTRATE
09:22:10AM AND THEY ARE SITTING AS A CRA BOARD, NOT EVEN CITY COUNCIL.
09:22:15AM THEY DON'T HAVE ANY AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE
09:22:18AM SPECIFICALLY TODAY.
09:22:19AM OBVIOUSLY WE CAN GET YOU -- AND MISS TRAVIS IS HERE AND
09:22:22AM OTHERS CAN GET YOU IN TOUCH WITH CITY STAFF TO TRY TO
09:22:26AM ADDRESS THE ISSUE.
09:22:27AM I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN THE PROCESS, BUT WE CAN
09:22:31AM DEFINITELY --
09:22:32AM >> WHAT CAN I DO AT THIS POINT, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID I WASN'T
09:22:35AM NOTIFIED AND FINES ARE RUNNING STARTING -- I THINK IT WAS
09:22:38AM LAST WEEK ON MY PROPERTY.
09:22:40AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SIR, THEY CAN'T HELP YOU WITH THAT.
09:22:44AM WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IS GIVE YOU MY CARD AND CALL MY OFFICE
09:22:48AM AND SEND ME AN E-MAIL AND HAVE MY ASSISTANCE WORK WITH YOU
09:22:52AM AND CONNECT YOU WITH THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICE AND GET
09:22:56AM THAT LOOKED AT AND TAKEN CARE OF.
09:22:58AM I AM GOING TO CALL -- I AM NICOLE TRAVIS.
09:23:01AM CALL THAT PHONE NUMBER -- I AM GOING TO TEXT HER TO LOOK OUT
09:23:06AM FOR A CALL FOR YOU AND CONNECTED YOU TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
09:23:08AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:23:09AM HAVE A GOOD DAY.
09:23:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:23:12AM [INAUDIBLE]
09:23:40AM SO WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE BUDGET.
09:23:42AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, COUNCIL.
09:23:51AM IF I CAN HAVE THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR THE BUDGET
09:23:55AM PLANNING.
09:23:56AM SO THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION RECENTLY AT YOUR
09:24:00AM BUDGET WORKSHOP ABOUT CRA FUNDS.
09:24:04AM AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE CACS WORK VERY HARD TO PUT
09:24:09AM TOGETHER A PROPOSAL THAT -- OR ALLOCATE FUNDS THAT MESHES
09:24:12AM WITH THEIR REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, AS WELL AS WHAT THEY ARE
09:24:16AM PROJECTED TO DO IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
09:24:19AM THERE ARE NEW REVENUES, AD VALOREM TAX REVENUES.
09:24:24AM YOU SEE $12 MILLION, YOU HAVE -- $12.6 MILLION.
09:24:29AM $10.6 MILLION THAT CAN BE ALLOCATED TO HOUSING PROGRAMS IF
09:24:33AM YOU WANT THAT.
09:24:34AM THE $2 MILLION OUT OF THAT IS ALREADY COMMITTED TO WATER
09:24:39AM STREET PROJECTS.
09:24:40AM SO I DIDN'T WANT -- THAT IS ALREADY COMMITTED.
09:24:44AM SO I AM GOING TO RUN THROUGH THE PRESENTATION REAL QUICK AND
09:24:47AM STOP ME ALONG THE WAY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
09:24:50AM SO THE TOTAL INCREMENT REVENUES FOR FISCAL YEAR '23
09:24:55AM PROJECTING AT $57,914,000.
09:24:58AM THAT IS A -- YOU WILL SEE THAT'S A 20% INCREASE OVER ALL THE
09:25:04AM DISTRICTS FROM THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR.
09:25:07AM THIS IS HOW YOUR BUDGET WAS ALLOCATED IN FISCAL YEAR '22.
09:25:19AM YOU HAD 10.3% GOING TOWARD AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES
09:25:23AM AND 33% GOING TO REDEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS, DISTRICT
09:25:27AM PROGRAMS AND SERVICES HAD ABOUT 12%, $4.5% TO OPERATIONS,
09:25:35AM AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS TOOK THE REMAINING PORTION
09:25:38AM OF THE BALANCE.
09:25:39AM BASED ON THE ALLOCATIONS WE WORKED WITH THE CACS THIS IS
09:25:43AM WHAT THAT ALLOCATION LOOKED LIKE.
09:25:45AM 3.9% FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES.
09:25:48AM REDEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS, ABOUT 20.5%.
09:25:52AM DISTRICT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES, 11.7.
09:25:55AM OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIONS, 4.2.
09:25:58AM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AROUND 60%.
09:26:02AM SO FIRST, WE ARE GOING TO TALK OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
09:26:07AM THERE IS ABOUT -- ALMOST $23 MILLION IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA
09:26:13AM EXPECTED REVENUE.
09:26:14AM AND WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS HOW WE PROJECT TO USE THAT
09:26:20AM -- ALLOCATE THOSE FUNDS.
09:26:22AM WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WORKING ON COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:26:27AM PLAN FOR 2023-2030.
09:26:30AM A PLAN FOR THE RIVERWALK AND FRANKLIN STREET OVERLAY.
09:26:35AM THE MERMAN MACY AND KID CENTER.
09:26:39AM CONTINUE THE REFINEMENT PROJECT AND CONTINUE WORKING ON THE
09:26:42AM UNION STATION REHABILITATION AND PUBLIC ART PROJECT.
09:26:49AM THERE ARE FUNDS TO FUND AN ANNUAL PUBLIC ART.
09:26:52AM FINANCIAL ALLY PREPARE FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE RENOVATION.
09:26:55AM THERE ARE IMPROVEMENTS AND UPGRADES TO LIGHTING AND TO THE
09:26:58AM BRIDGE ON -- FOR HARBOR EYE LAND BOULEVARD.
09:27:01AM PLAN THE GAS LIKES REDEVELOPMENT.
09:27:07AM THE RIVERWALK BRIDGE CONNECTION AND PLAN SELF-FUNDING WORK
09:27:12AM FORCE HOUSING PROGRAMS.
09:27:14AM AND BEGIN CONTRACTUALLY WITH THE STRAZ AND CONVENTION CENTER
09:27:19AM FUNDING.
09:27:19AM NEXT WE HAVE THE CHANNEL DES STRICT.
09:27:27AM THE CHANNEL DISTRICT HAS $10.2 MILLION.
09:27:32AM THEIR FUNDING FINISHED THE PURCHASE FOR THE GREEN SPACE.
09:27:35AM YOU PURCHASE THERV LOT GREEN SPACE AND OPEN SPACE AS PART OF
09:27:41AM THE BUDGET OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
09:27:45AM FINISH DEVELOPING THE AQUARIUM'S PARKING LOT.
09:27:49AM FINISH THE CUMBERLAND IMPROVEMENTS AND PARKING THAT IS A GMP
09:27:55AM CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE.
09:27:56AM CONTINUE THE URBAN CRA PROJECT.
09:27:59AM WASHINGTON PARK RENOVATIONS.
09:28:01AM WE WILL START THAT.
09:28:02AM AND ANNUAL FUNDING OF PUBLIC ART IN THIS AREA.
09:28:06AM ENHANCED LANDSCAPING TO THE PUBLIC REALM.
09:28:09AM CONTINUE THE GREEN AND OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT.
09:28:11AM AND CHANNEL DISTRICT MAIN STREET PROGRAM.
09:28:18AM AND SELF-FUNDING WORK FORCE HOUSING PROGRAM.
09:28:21AM SO THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA FOUGHT LESS FOR THE
09:28:38AM FUNDING $1.8 MILLION.
09:28:40AM WAY FINDING PROJECT IS A MULTIDISTRICT PROJECT AND WE WILL
09:28:43AM CONTINUE WORKING ON THAT.
09:28:46AM PALM AVENUE PUBLIC ART PROJECT.
09:28:49AM TRY TO WRAP THAT UP.
09:28:50AM AND A PLAN BASED ON COMPREHENSIVE GRANT PROGRAMS.
09:28:54AM BEGIN A PUBLIC ART PUBLICATION.
09:28:57AM BEGINNING SELF-FUNDING FOR WORK FORCE HOUSING PROGRAMS.
09:29:00AM PLANNED WATER WOR K CROSSWALK IS PART OF THIS PLAN OR BUDGET
09:29:07AM CYCLE.
09:29:07AM THE CENTRAL PARK CRA.
09:29:13AM AND BEFORE $250,000.
09:29:19AM AND CENTRAL PARK, THAT CROSS BOUNDARY.
09:29:23AM CRA ANNUALLY FUNDING PUBLIC ART AND WORKING ON WORK FORCE
09:29:34AM HOUSING PROGRAMS.
09:29:35AM PURCHASE AND SECURE PROPERTIES.
09:29:41AM THE JOHNSON HOUSING AUTHORITY ON SCOTT STREET.
09:29:44AM YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT.
09:29:46AM WE WILL MOVE INTO IT THE YBOR CITY'S CRA.
09:29:58AM IN YBOR, YOU HAVE 3.2 MILLION IN THE YBOR SEVENTH AVENUE
09:30:03AM BRICK COST FEASIBLE STUDY.
09:30:07AM SOMETHING PROGRAMMED IN THE BUDGET.
09:30:09AM ADVANCE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES FROM THE YBOR VISION 2020 PLAN.
09:30:18AM A FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
09:30:21AM INITIATIVES.
09:30:22AM AND 7TH ANNUAL LIGHT SCAPE AND ENHANCEMENT PROJECT IS PART
09:30:35AM OF THIS PROJECT.
09:30:35AM WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE YBOR CRA.
09:30:48AM DISTRICT TWO, ENCOURAGE INFILL DEVELOPMENT AND THE
09:30:52AM REHABILITATION OF HISTORIC STRUCTURES IN YBOR NEIGHBORHOODS.
09:30:55AM CONTINUE TO FUND KEY DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES TO STIMULATE
09:30:59AM PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND TO SERVE RESIDENTS NEEDS AND BOLSTER
09:31:05AM COMMUNITY AMENITIES AND TO COMPLETE THE EAST 7th AVENUE
09:31:10AM PROJECTS FOR AN EASTERN GATEWAY INTO YBOR CITY.
09:31:12AM THAT IS PROJECTED IN THE $1.4 MILLION IN THE SECOND DISTRICT
09:31:17AM OF YBOR.
09:31:18AM EAST TAMPA CRA, OUR LARGEST DISTRICT.
09:31:28AM WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
09:31:32AM OPTIONS.
09:31:32AM GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS FOR HOMEOWNERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES IN
09:31:38AM EAST TAMPA.
09:31:39AM WE CONTINUE BEAUTIFICATION ALONG BOUNDARIES.
09:31:43AM AND FISCAL YEAR 23, WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING THE -- TRYING TO SEE
09:31:49AM IF WE CAN GET A GRANT ARRIVED TO CONTINUE TO DO BILLS
09:31:53AM ASSISTANCE GRANTS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING GRANTS, ART WAY
09:31:58AM PROJECTS, GATEWAY PROJECTS AND INVESTMENT IN YOUTH
09:32:01AM PROGRAMMING.
09:32:01AM SOMETHING WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT -- SPOKEN TO YOU ABOUT
09:32:04AM SEVERAL TIMES.
09:32:05AM EAST TAMPA'S PROJECTED BUDGET IS $8.9 MILLION.
09:32:09AM NEXT WE HAVE THE DREW PARK CRA.
09:32:16AM KEY PROJECTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR '23 FOR DREW PARK IS TO
09:32:22AM MOVE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CRA-OWNED LOTS FOR AFFORDABLE
09:32:27AM HOUSING.
09:32:28AM CONTINUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT
09:32:31AM BUSINESSES, JOB CREATION AND IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE OF DREW
09:32:35AM PARK THROUGH FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS.
09:32:37AM DESIGN OF TWO IMPROVEMENTS OF TAMPA BAY BOULEVARD AND A NEW
09:32:42AM NEIGHBORHOOD PARK ALONG HUBERT AVENUE.
09:32:44AM INITIATE STREETSCAPE AESTHETICS ALONG LOIS AND GRADY AVENUE
09:32:51AM INCLUDING THE ROUNDABOUT.
09:32:52AM AND ALSO INITIATE MOBILITY, SIDEWALK CONNECTIVITY AND SAFETY
09:32:57AM IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DREW PARK CRA BOUNDARY.
09:33:00AM AND THAT IS WITHIN OUR $2.3 MILLION PROJECTED FOR FISCAL
09:33:05AM YEAR '23.
09:33:05AM THE WEST TAMPA CRA SORRY.
09:33:16AM THE WEST TAMPA CRA DISTRICT.
09:33:19AM THE KEY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES IS THAT THE CAC WANTS TO
09:33:24AM SUPPORT HOUSING, REHABILITATION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC
09:33:27AM DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.
09:33:29AM THOSE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT GRANTS ARE FOR THE PHYSICAL
09:33:32AM APPEARANCE OF THE BUILDINGS.
09:33:34AM SUPPORT THE WEST TAMPA FACADE, HAVE A LITTLE LA SHELL
09:33:40AM RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICES.
09:33:42AM UPDATE THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY CODE REVISIONS.
09:33:48AM REDEVELOPMENT SALCINES.
09:33:55AM SALCINES AND RAY PARK WITH THE PARKS AND RECREATION
09:34:02AM DEPARTMENT.
09:34:02AM THE WEST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP STUDY AND CITY AND POND AND
09:34:06AM COMPANY.
09:34:06AM SUPPORT A YEAR-ROUND MAIN STREET AREA CLEAN TEAM AND AN
09:34:11AM ALLEY IMPROVEMENT PILOT PROGRAM PROJECTED IN THE $6.6
09:34:15AM MILLION FOR THE WEST TAMPA CAC BUDGET.
09:34:18AM THE CRA BOARD APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET BOOK AND THE SERVICE
09:34:23AM LEVEL AGREEMENT COULD BE DONE ON SEPTEMBER 8.
09:34:30AM I NEED TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SERVICE LEVEL
09:34:32AM AGREEMENT BASED ON THE HIRING OF A DIRECTOR.
09:34:35AM AND SO THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DONE AT THAT BUDGET MEETING
09:34:43AM AND SOME THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING CONCURRENTLY.
09:34:45AM NONETHELESS, WE WOULD LIKE THE CRA BOARD APPROVE OR GIVE US
09:34:49AM SOME DIRECTION FROM THIS MEETING SO YOUR BUDGET CAN BE
09:34:51AM APPROVED AT NEXT MEETING.
09:34:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:34:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
09:34:57AM PRESENTATION.
09:34:57AM I KNOW WE, ON TUESDAY, TOUCHED ON A COUPLE OF PROJECTS,
09:35:01AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING BEING THE BIGGEST AND MOST CRUCIAL.
09:35:05AM OF COURSE WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSIONS AND MAKE DECISIONS AND
09:35:09AM DIRECTIONS TODAY HOW MUCH TO ALLOCATE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:35:12AM I KNOW EAST TAMPA IS THE BIGGEST CRA.
09:35:15AM AND MAY BE THE MOST EFFECTED IN REGARDS TO -- THE NECESSITY
09:35:20AM IS EVERYWHERE, BUT YOU DID SHOW NUMBERS OF AN 8.9 MILLION
09:35:24AM BUDGET FOR EAST TAMPA.
09:35:26AM MY QUESTION IS, WHAT IS AVAILABLE THERE AND IN OTHER CRAs
09:35:32AM THAT WE CAN -- AVAILABLE FUND THAT WE CAN ALLOCATE TO
09:35:36AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:35:37AM THAT IS ONE PART.
09:35:38AM AND I KNOW IT WILL BE A BIGGER DISCUSSION.
09:35:40AM SECOND -- I HAD TO GET MY GLASSES BECAUSE I COULDN'T SEE.
09:35:46AM WITH REGARDS TO DOWNTOWN, YOU MENTION THE STRAZ, BUT DID YOU
09:35:52AM MENTION THE MUSEUM OF ART?
09:35:55AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I DON'T KNOW IF I MENTIONED THE MUSEUM.
09:35:57AM I DON'T THINK IT IS PROGRAMMED FOR FISCAL YEAR '23.
09:36:00AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ALLOCATION FOR THE MUSEUM OF ART.
09:36:02AM ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL REQUEST THAT WE DO
09:36:05AM SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS PROVIDED FOR THE STRAZ.
09:36:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BUT IT WON'T BE TODAY?
09:36:11AM WON'T BE DISCUSSED TODAY?
09:36:13AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: NO.
09:36:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL LEAVE THAT.
09:36:15AM WE WILL FOCUS ON THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:36:18AM WE TALKED OF THE $36 MILLION, $37 MILLION TOTAL AND WITH THE
09:36:23AM MUCH GENERAL FUND AND CRA BUDGET SEPARATE.
09:36:26AM WHAT CAN WE DO?
09:36:28AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
09:36:28AM ONE OF THE THINGS -- I MENTIONED IT PROBABLY IN THE PREVIOUS
09:36:32AM WORKSHOP.
09:36:32AM YOU HAVE $10.6 MILLION OF NEW AD VALOREM REVENUE THAT COULD
09:36:39AM BE ALLOCATED TOWARD HOUSING IF YOU WANTED IT TO.
09:36:42AM DREW PARK WEST AND EAST TAMPA ARE THE THREE CRA DISTRICTS
09:36:47AM THAT ALLOCATED 80% OF THE NEW REVENUE TO HOUSING PROGRAMS.
09:36:51AM I WOULD SAY -- I WOULD CONTEND THAT EAST TAMPA IS PROBABLY
09:36:54AM THE ONE THAT HAS THE MOST PROGRAMMING TOWARD HOUSING
09:36:57AM ALREADY.
09:36:58AM IF YOU -- IF YOU DESIRE OF THE BOARD IS TO ALLOCATE THE
09:37:03AM $10.6 MILLION ACROSS ALL CRAs.
09:37:06AM I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND BREAK DOWN EACH ALLOCATION
09:37:09AM FOR EACH DISTRICT.
09:37:10AM IF YOUR DIRECTION IS FOR US TO USE THE $10.6 MILLION TOWARD
09:37:15AM HOUSING PROGRAMS, WE WILL GO BACK AND TAKE THAT ALLOCATION
09:37:17AM AND PUT IT IN A BUCKET FOR HOUSING INITIATIVES.
09:37:20AM ANY NEW PROGRAMMING OR HOWEVER WE ARE GOING TO SPEND THAT
09:37:24AM MONEY WILL COME BACK TO THE BOARD ANYWAY, BUT IF YOU JUST
09:37:27AM ALLOCATED FOR HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS, WE CAN
09:37:30AM DO THAT NOW.
09:37:31AM AND THAT WILL HELP YOU GET TO THE BUDGET BUDGET APPROVAL
09:37:39AM TIMELINE.
09:37:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL STOP HERE.
09:37:41AM JUST LIKE WE TRIED TO MANEUVER COVID.
09:37:43AM IT WAS A CRISIS SCENARIO AND WE TOOK IT ONE STEP AT A TIME.
09:37:48AM HERE THIS CRISIS IS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:37:50AM ARE WE GOING TO SOLVE IT?
09:37:54AM IS THERE A PERFECT ANSWER, NO.
09:37:55AM BUT I THINK WE WILL DO WHAT WE CAN AT THE MAXIMUM LEVEL AS
09:37:59AM YOU ALREADY EXPLAINED AS WE MANEUVER IN CRISIS UNTIL THINGS
09:38:03AM GET BETTER.
09:38:04AM THINGS SHOULD BE BETTER AND AS INFLATION ADJUSTS AND THE
09:38:08AM COST OF GOODS AND EVERYTHING REREGULATES ITSELF.
09:38:11AM ARE WE GOING TO SOLVE IT?
09:38:17AM DID WE DECLARE A HOUSING STATE OF EMERGENCY?
09:38:20AM NO.
09:38:20AM BUT WE ARE USING THE TOOLS THAT WE CAN.
09:38:23AM AND TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME AND TODAY IS THE DAY TO OFFER
09:38:28AM DIRECTION.
09:38:28AM YOU SAID 80%.
09:38:29AM WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER CRAs AND REWORK THE NUMBERS
09:38:33AM BUT TAKE IT TO THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF INVESTMENT WE CAN PUT IN
09:38:38AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:38:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:38:41AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SORRY ABOUT THAT.
09:38:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU MAY KNOW A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THIS
09:38:52AM BOARD PASSED A RESOLUTION TO REQUEST THAT STAFF SPEND 30% OF
09:38:59AM CRA MONEY ACROSS THE BOARD.
09:39:00AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I WAS UNAWARE THAT THERE WAS A RESOLUTION.
09:39:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: AND YOUR PREDECESSOR DIDN'T DO THAT.
09:39:07AM THAT WOULD SOLVE ONLY PART OF THE PROBLEM.
09:39:10AM NO WAY TO 50,000 UNITS IN FOUR YEARS AND MAKE UP FOR ALL THE
09:39:15AM ONES TORN DOWN IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
09:39:17AM I BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
09:39:21AM YOU KNOW CRAs BY LAW ARE MEANT TO SOLVE SLUM AND BLIGHT.
09:39:26AM NO SLUM OR BLIGHT IN DOWNTOWN OR CHANNEL DISTRICT NOW.
09:39:29AM I CAN TELL THAT YOU PEOPLE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY ARE SI
09:39:33AM DIEING THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT'S CRAs.
09:39:40AM THEY FEEL IT IS NOT OKAY THAT DOWNTOWN AND CHANNELSIDE GET
09:39:45AM MORE THAN THEY GET.
09:39:46AM CRAs THEY SAY ARE FOR LAZY POLICY PEOPLE AND WILL BE
09:39:51AM ALLOCATED MONEY IN EAST COMPANY AND NOT FORCED TO DO IT
09:39:55AM THROUGH THE CRA.
09:39:56AM AND NOT FAIR TO THINK THAT THE CRA IN EAST TAMPA WILL SOLVE
09:40:00AM EVERYTHING.
09:40:00AM CRAS GENERATE MONEY BASED ON REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENTS, AND
09:40:05AM IT ENCOURAGES GENTRIFICATION.
09:40:07AM THEY USED CRA TO GET MORE GENTRIFICATION AND USED TO
09:40:13AM SUBSIDIZE GENTRIFICATION.
09:40:15AM EXCEPT FOR DOWNTOWN AND THE CHANNEL DISTRICTS.
09:40:21AM THAT MAKES SENSE.
09:40:21AM SUCCESS WHERE THEY HAVE EXCEEDED.
09:40:25AM MOST OF THE MONEY COME FROM DOWNTOWN I THINK -- AND I CAN
09:40:29AM MAKE A MOTION NOW OR LATER, BUT I THINK WE OUGHT TO PUT A
09:40:33AM CAP ON THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT'S CRAs BEFORE THE
09:40:39AM REGULAR CONCLUSION BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SLUM AND BLIGHT
09:40:41AM ANYMORE.
09:40:41AM IF SOMEONE SUED AND SAID YOU CAN'T KEEP THESE, NOT FAIR FOR
09:40:45AM THE REST OF TAMPA TO SUBSIDIZE BECAUSE NO SLUM AND BLIGHT,
09:40:50AM WE WOULD PROBABLY LOSE THAT LAWSUIT.
09:40:51AM WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS -- FOLKS IN CHANNEL DISTRICT HAVE ASKED
09:40:55AM THAT WE LEAVE A LITTLE IN, 10% TO 20% UNTIL THE END OF THE
09:41:01AM TERM.
09:41:01AM I SUGGEST WE TAKE 80 OR 90% OF THE MONEY IN DOWNTOWN
09:41:05AM DISTRICT AND MOVE IT BACK TO THE GENERAL FUND AND REQUEST
09:41:07AM THAT CITY COUNCIL SET UP A FUND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT
09:41:12AM WOULD RECEIVE THAT MONEY.
09:41:13AM AND, OF COURSE, THE MAYOR WOULD HAVE TO COOPERATE WITH IT.
09:41:17AM BUT WE CAN'T -- THIS BOARD CANNOT CONTROL WHERE THE MONEY
09:41:20AM GOES AND CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR CAN.
09:41:22AM SO IF WE COMMIT ON THE OTHER SIDE SETTING UP THAT MONEY AND
09:41:27AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND, WE CAN MOVE THAT MONEY ANYWHERE IN
09:41:31AM THE CITY THAT WE NEED TO.
09:41:32AM WE SHOULDN'T HAVE CONCENTRATIONS OF POVERTY AND ONLY HAVE
09:41:36AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ONE NEIGHBORHOOD OR ONE AREA.
09:41:38AM AND WILL GIVE US A LOT MORE FLEXIBILITY TO BUILD AFFORDABLE
09:41:42AM HOUSE WHERE WE CAN INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR THE HIGHEST
09:41:46AM PROPERTY PRICES TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO GET TWO OR
09:41:49AM THREE TIMES MORE UNITS TO PUT THE MONEY SOMEWHERE ELSE.
09:41:52AM I WON'T MAKE A MOTION UNLESS SOMEBODY WANTS ME TO BUT WE
09:41:56AM SHOULD SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THAT.
09:42:01AM NO WAY TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR 50,000 UNITS.
09:42:04AM THAT $5 MILLION TO $10 MILLION CAN GO TO A LOT BETTER USE
09:42:10AM THAN DOWNTOWN.
09:42:10AM THANK YOU.
09:42:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:42:12AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
09:42:14AM THANK YOU FOR -- FIRST OF ALL, ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE DONE
09:42:17AM THAT VERY FEW DO.
09:42:18AM WHEN YOU HAND US A ITEM, A PAGE NUMBER, SO WE CAN FIND IT
09:42:25AM REAL EASY.
09:42:26AM MOST OF THE TIME IT DOES NOT HAVE A PAGE NUMBER AND YOU HAVE
09:42:29AM TO KEEP TURNING PAGES WHEN YOU FIND IT.
09:42:31AM WHEN YOU SEE IT ON THE BOARD, AND WHAT PAGE, IT IS EASIER
09:42:36AM FOR US TO FOLLOW.
09:42:37AM A COUPLE OF THINGS.
09:42:38AM LANDSCAPING.
09:42:39AM I KNOW WE NEED LANDSCAPING.
09:42:41AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:42:42AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHERE LANDSCAPING BECOMES -- NOT ONLY
09:42:46AM THE COST OF IT BUT MAINTENANCE, BECAUSE WE GOT TO GET
09:42:50AM FLORIDA-FRIENDLY TPD OF LANDSCAPING TO MAINTAIN THEM AT A
09:42:53AM MUCH LESSER COST TO PROMOTE MORE LANDSCAPING.
09:42:56AM ONLY A SUGGESTION.
09:42:57AM AND ON PAGE 9, THERE IS A DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CRA FOR
09:43:07AM 140,000 FOR THE FERRY.
09:43:08AM THE FERRY DOES LITTLE TO TAKE CARS OFF THE BRIDGE.
09:43:11AM WHAT IT DOES DO AN EASY $10 TO GO TO ST. PETE AND $10 TO
09:43:17AM RETURN AND TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING FOR IT.
09:43:19AM NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
09:43:20AM BUT THAT IS JUST ME.
09:43:22AM AND THE NEXT THING IS ON PAGE 40, I NOTICED SOMETHING IN
09:43:25AM THAT CRA THAT I DIDN'T NOTICE AND THE REST OF THE OTHERS AND
09:43:29AM CHECKING THEM BY PAGE NUMBERS AND MISSED ONE OR TWO OF THE
09:43:33AM CRAs, BUT PAGE 40 UNDER THE INVESTMENT -- DEVELOPMENT
09:43:37AM REDEVELOPMENT, WE HAVE RESIDENTIAL EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENT
09:43:41AM GRANTS FOR $300,000.
09:43:42AM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
09:43:44AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SO THOSE ARE YOUR OWNER-OCCUPIED -- NOT
09:43:47AM NECESSARILY OWNER, BUT SEPARATE -- IS IT --
09:43:55AM WEST TAMPA -- YEAH, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL
09:43:59AM STRUCTURES FOR TENANT OR OWNER-OCCUPIED RESIDENTIAL.
09:44:03AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IS THAT A TOTAL OR JUST ONE?
09:44:07AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THAT IS THE TOTAL FOR THE PROGRAM.
09:44:09AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APOLOGIZE, BUT I READ THAT $300,000 IN
09:44:13AM BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT AND 100,000 FOR BUSINESS FACADE, 120 --
09:44:19AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE NOT JUST ONE PARTY BUT MANY.
09:44:23AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: FUNDING FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM.
09:44:25AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APOLOGIZE, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
09:44:28AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISS TRAVIS.
09:44:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:44:32AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: DOWNTOWN -- MAKE SURE I AM READING THIS
09:44:35AM RIGHT.
09:44:35AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO YOU WANT THIS ON THE SCREEN?
09:44:38AM >>.
09:44:38AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, ON THE SCREEN.
09:44:44AM TOTAL DOLLARS THAT DOWNTOWN HAS WITH THE CRA.
09:44:48AM TOTAL DOLLARS.
09:44:49AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: 22.9 -- CAN YOU PULL UP THE SLIDE SHOW FOR
09:44:56AM ME, PLEASE.
09:44:57AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: OUT OF THE 22.9 YOU SAY THEY HAVE IN THE
09:45:09AM BANK, ALL OF THE PROGRAMS ADDING UP TO 22.9.
09:45:13AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: 22.9 IS WHAT THEY HAVE IN REVENUE AND ZERO
09:45:16AM SUM BUDGET.
09:45:17AM WHATEVER REVENUE WE GOT IN IS WHAT WE ARE ALLOCATING FOR THE
09:45:22AM PROGRAM.
09:45:22AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MY CONCERN WHEN I LOOK AT CHANNEL AND
09:45:32AM DOWNTOWN IS THE NUMBER FOR HOUSING.
09:45:34AM THAT NEEDS TO BE INCREASED, PERIOD.
09:45:36AM MR. CARLSON -- WE MADE THAT RESOLUTION A LONG TIME AGO IN
09:45:40AM REFERENCE WITH THAT BEING DONE AS FAR AS THE CRAs WITH THE
09:45:43AM HIGH NUMBERS.
09:45:44AM AND HE'S RIGHT ON THAT POINT.
09:45:47AM I MEAN HOUSING WAS A KEY POINT AND THEY HAD THAT TYPE OF
09:45:52AM MONEY -- MORE THAN THOSE CRAs GOING INTO HOUSING.
09:45:55AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO ASKED HOW MUCH
09:45:59AM INCREMENT OF EACH DISTRICT AND YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT
09:46:02AM DOWNTOWN.
09:46:02AM DOWNTOWN HAS THE CORE AND NONCORE.
09:46:04AM THEY HAVE ABOUT $5 MILLION IN NEW INCREMENT.
09:46:07AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOW MANY MILLION?
09:46:10AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: FIVE?
09:46:12AM FIVE.
09:46:12AM RIGHT.
09:46:13AM FOUR IN THE NONCORE AND 907,000 IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE.
09:46:19AM SO I -- IF THE GENERAL DIRECTION IS, SAY, YOU WANT US TOLE
09:46:25AM KATE -- I KNOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE BREAKDOWN AND NOT
09:46:28AM SEWING HOUSING.
09:46:28AM IF YOU WANT TO ALLOCATE THE NEW REVENUE TO SOME KINDS OF
09:46:33AM HOUSING PROGRAMS, WE DON'T NEED TO SOLVE WHAT THAT IS RIGHT
09:46:37AM NOW.
09:46:37AM TAKE THAT BACK AND PUT IT IN THE HOUSING INITIATIVE BUCKETS
09:46:42AM COUNCILMAN JUST TO YOUR POINT.
09:46:43AM WE WILL COME BACK AND TELL YOU HOW WE WILL WORK WITH
09:46:46AM DEVELOPERS AND TOWARD HOUSING ON THIS.
09:46:48AM WHAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON WAS TALKING ABOUT, WE WOULD HAVE TO
09:46:52AM -- I WILL DEFER TO MORRIS, BUT WE WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING
09:46:55AM WITH THE OVERALL PLAN AND SUNSETTING --
09:46:58AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT IS DOWN THE ROAD.
09:46:59AM A LOT TO DO.
09:47:00AM RIGHT NOW WE ARE IN A SITUATION --
09:47:03AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: RIGHT NOW TO YOUR POINT, WE CAN REALLOCATE
09:47:06AM THE FUNDS TRY TO REALLOCATE.
09:47:14AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: TUESDAY, WE TALKED OF ANOTHER TEAM.
09:47:16AM IMPORTANT WITH THESE DOLLARS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT TEAM
09:47:20AM INCORPORATED IN THAT IF THAT IS THE CASE TO MOVE FAST.
09:47:23AM LEAK I TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER DAY.
09:47:31AM WE HAVE A LOT OF VACANT UNITS -- WE HAVE A CRISIS, BUT WE
09:47:36AM HAVE VACANT UNITS WHICH MAKES NO SENSE TO ME.
09:47:38AM TALK OF ADDING MONEY TO HOUSING.
09:47:40AM THAT IS CRUCIAL.
09:47:43AM WE HAVE SOME SET PROGRAMS, BUT WITH THE MONEY COMING IN TAKE
09:47:47AM THE BULK OF THAT AND THROW IT INTO HOUSING.
09:47:50AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: JUST TO -- BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DO IT IN
09:47:53AM A VACUUM.
09:47:54AM WE HAVE PREVIOUS AGREEMENTS.
09:47:56AM PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES THAT YOU APPROVED THROUGHOUT THE
09:47:58AM YEAR, RIGHT.
09:48:00AM SO WE KNOW ROUGHLY WHERE THE ALLOCATION NEED TO BE, BUT
09:48:03AM WHATEVER IS NOT SPENT -- ALLOCATIONS NEED TO BE, BUT
09:48:08AM WHATEVER IS NOT SPENT IN THE FISCAL YEAR.
09:48:10AM I WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN NOVEMBER WITH REALLOCATION WHAT
09:48:14AM WAS NOT SPENT IN THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR AND REALLOCATE
09:48:18AM THOSE MONIES TO HOUSING.
09:48:20AM WE NEED TO DO A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY WHERE WE ARE SPENDING
09:48:23AM THE MONEY, WHAT COMMITMENTS WE HAVE OUT THERE.
09:48:26AM THE MUSEUM OF ART CAME UP.
09:48:28AM THE TAMPA THEATRE IS SOMETHING THAT IS HANGING OUT THERE AS
09:48:32AM WELL.
09:48:32AM SO ONCE WE TAKE ALL OF THOSE THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION, I
09:48:35AM UNDERSTAND IF THE INTENT AND DIRECTION TO THE BOARD TODAY IS
09:48:38AM TO TAKE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO DEDICATE TOWARD HOUSING.
09:48:41AM I WILL TAKE THAT CHARGE AND COME BACK TO YOU WITH THE
09:48:44AM HOUSING BUCKETS IN EACH ONE OF THE DISTRICTS AND SHOW WE
09:48:48AM WILL ALLOCATE THAT MONEY.
09:48:49AM THAT MAY INCLUDE -- I SAID THIS TO YOU AT THE WORKSHOP
09:48:57AM BEFORE.
09:48:57AM WE ARE AT CAPACITY AND IF WE ADD ADDITIONAL MONEY TOWARD
09:49:00AM HOUSING PROGRAMS, I NEED ADDITIONAL STAFF TO HELP ME --
09:49:04AM ADMINISTER THE HOUSING PROGRAMS.
09:49:08AM SO THAT WILL BE SHARED -- THAT WOULD NOT BE AT A COST OF ONE
09:49:13AM CRA.
09:49:14AM IT WILL BE SHARED AMONG THE DISTRICTS.
09:49:18AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: PREVIOUS YEARS I WENT ALONG WITH THAT
09:49:21AM BECAUSE IT WAS CRA DOLLARS AND KIND OF A SMALL BENEFIT, BUT
09:49:26AM LOOKING AT THIS NOW, I MEAN, WE COULD USE ANY DIME WE CAN
09:49:32AM GET.
09:49:32AM AND I KNOW THE FERRY IS -- MR. MASSEY --
09:49:38AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THE TIMING FOR MAKING A DECISION ON
09:49:42AM THE FUNDING OF THE FERRY.
09:49:44AM THAT IS WHY THE FERRY DISCUSSION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU IN
09:49:48AM APRIL, BECAUSE THE TIMING FOR MAKE THAT DECISION WAS IN THAT
09:49:51AM TIME FRAME.
09:49:52AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL YIELD BACK.
09:49:54AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: TO YOUR POINT IN MOVING FORWARD -- IF YOUR
09:49:57AM GENERAL DIRECTION IS TO DO LESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THAT.
09:50:01AM WHENEVER THAT AGREEMENT COMES TO PLACE, WE CAN MAKE THAT
09:50:04AM KNOWN AND START TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS MOVING FORWARD.
09:50:07AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WOULD THINK NOW GOING FORWARD -- I THINK
09:50:10AM GOING FORWARD WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT NOW WITH THE HOUSING
09:50:13AM SITUATION.
09:50:14AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO REMIND YOU WE WILL TESTIFY TO THE
09:50:17AM FERRY, THE WAY THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT IS STRUCTURED A
09:50:21AM PERIOD OF TIME -- I BELIEVE JUNE 1 THAT A LOCAL GOVERNMENT
09:50:24AM CAN DECIDE THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO FURTHER FUND THAT
09:50:27AM PROGRAM.
09:50:28AM AND IN APRIL, WE HAD THE PRESENTATION COME BEFORE YOU ALL.
09:50:32AM AND THAT WAS THE TEAM FOR YOU ALL REALLY TO DECIDE WHETHER
09:50:36AM TO CONTINUE FUNDING THE FERRY OUT OF CRA DOLLARS.
09:50:40AM THAT WILL COME BACK BEFORE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE A STANDIN
09:50:42AM MOTION TO FOR THEM TO PRESENT EVERY YEAR IN APRIL TO
09:50:45AM DETERMINE AT THAT POINT IN TIME IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
09:50:48AM YOU FEEL THAT MERITS THE SUPPORT OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA TIF
09:50:56AM DOLLARS.
09:50:57AM AND THAT'S WHERE THAT MONEY IS COME FROM.
09:50:59AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: UNDERSTOOD.
09:51:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:51:01AM COUNCILMAN CITRO.
09:51:03AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MISS TRAVIS.
09:51:05AM CAN YOU PULL UP PAGE 5 AGAIN.
09:51:08AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
09:51:09AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: SHOWS THE OUTLINE OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
09:51:11AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: PAGE 5?
09:51:15AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, MA'AM.
09:51:15AM 6.
09:51:18AM SORRY, 6, THE WHOLE SHADED AREA -- JUST FOR THE PUBLIC, IS
09:51:24AM THAT CONSIDERED DOWNTOWN CRA?
09:51:26AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES, YOU HAVE TWO -- TWO DISTRICTS ACHED
09:51:29AM YOU HAVE THE CORE AND THE NONCORE.
09:51:31AM BOTH SHADED GREEN AREAS IS THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
09:51:37AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU KNOW THERE IS -- I TEND NOT TO GIVE
09:51:39AM EVIDENCE, BUT NORTH OF CASS STREET, THERE IS A LOT OF VACANT
09:51:43AM LAND DOWN HERE.
09:51:43AM AS THIS BODY DID WITH THE OLD ARMY-NAVY STORE ON TAMPA
09:51:47AM STREET THAT WAS BOUGHT SPECIFICALLY FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING
09:51:51AM PLUS ANOTHER $5 MILLION PUT IN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE
09:51:54AM AREA.
09:51:56AM MY OPINION, THAT AREA NORTH ARE PRIME FOR AFFORDABLE
09:52:06AM WORKFORCE HOUSE WITH CRA DOLLARS.
09:52:07AM WE ARE LOOKING AT A PUBLIC-PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT SPECIFICALLY
09:52:10AM FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING AND CAN OUR DOLLARS BE USED TO EITHER
09:52:15AM PURCHASE LAND AND OR DEVELOP IT FOR AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE.
09:52:21AM THE CRA DOLLARS ARE GOING FOR SLUM AND BLIGHT IN THE
09:52:25AM DOWNTOWN AREA.
09:52:25AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES, SIR.
09:52:26AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
09:52:28AM NUMBER TWO, ALTHOUGH IT IS ONE OF THE NEWEST CRAs, SO MUCH
09:52:32AM INVESTMENT GOING INTO THAT AREA.
09:52:33AM WHY IS THERE JUST LITTLE IN THE FUND?
09:52:39AM THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.
09:52:44AM SO MUCH INVESTMENT GOING ON DOWN THERE.
09:52:46AM IT JUST SEEMS TO ME THAT IT IS NOT -- IT IS NOT UP -- IT IS
09:52:51AM NOT UP TO PAR.
09:52:55AM IS IT BECAUSE OF RECENT OPT OUTS?
09:53:00AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I WOULD HE CAN HAVE TO LOOK AT THE ROLL
09:53:03AM FROM THE PROPERTY APPRAISER.
09:53:04AM I CAN'T ANSWER THAT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW.
09:53:07AM I WILL LOOK AT THE ROLL.
09:53:10AM >> OTHER THING IN RELATION TO TAMPA HEIGHTS, WE HAVE AN
09:53:13AM AGREEMENT WITH THE CDD AND THE DEVELOPER OF TAMPA HEIGHT
09:53:20AM WHERE 90% OF THE TIF GOES FOR IMPROVEMENT.
09:53:26AM THE WHOLE AREA, STREET, GRID STRUCTURE, STORMWATER SEWERS,
09:53:30AM THE ENTIRE INFRASTRUCTURE WAS REDONE BY THE CDD.
09:53:34AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THAT IS WHERE WHY YOU ARE MONEY IS.
09:53:37AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: AN OBLIGATION BETWEEN THIS BODY AND THE CDD
09:53:41AM THAT HAS A 30-YEAR TERM.
09:53:43AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: AGAIN, I DON'T LIKE TO GIVE EVIDENCE.
09:53:45AM I AM GLAD SOMEONE ELSE DID.
09:53:47AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIR.
09:53:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON AND THEN YOU.
09:53:52AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO GO BACK TO A COUPLE OF COMMENTS MY
09:53:56AM COLLEAGUE SAID TO -- ARE WE SUPPOSED TO CALL OURSELVES
09:54:00AM COUNCILMEMBERS OR BOARD MEMBERS HERE?
09:54:02AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TECHNICALLY BOARD MEMBERS.
09:54:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: BOARD MEMBER GUDES TALKED ABOUT THE FERRY
09:54:11AM AND BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:54:14AM WE SHOULDN'T VOTE ON IT TODAY, BUT YOU ALL KNOW I SUPPORT
09:54:17AM THAT.
09:54:20AM I SUPPORT THE FERRY.
09:54:21AM BUT IF YOU ALL THINK WE COULD CUT THE FUNDING, I THINK IT
09:54:26AM WOULD BE RESPECTFUL TO GIVE THEM AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE.
09:54:29AM GIVE THEM A TIME IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE
09:54:33AM TO HAVE THEM COME BACK.
09:54:34AM I THINK THEY WILL PRESENT IT IS A MARKETING TOOL FOR
09:54:36AM DOWNTOWN THAT BRINGS PASSENGERS AND BUSINESS INTO DOWNTOWN,
09:54:39AM BUT AT THE END OF THAT PRESENTATION, IF YOU THINK IT IS NOT
09:54:42AM CONVINCING AND WE SHOULDN'T DO IT, THEN I THINK WE SHOULD
09:54:46AM INDICATE EARLY MONTHS IN ADVANCE WE ARE NOT GOING TO REFUND
09:54:49AM IT SO THEY CAN TRY TO NEGOTIATE SOMETHING ELSE.
09:54:51AM YOU SAW THE PROBLEM WITH PINELLAS WHERE THEY ALMOST DIDN'T
09:54:55AM GET THEIR FUNDING AND THE TIMELINE ON DECISION IS FAR OUT
09:54:59AM AND GOOD IF WE DID IT EARLY.
09:55:01AM SECOND THING TO BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA'S POINT OF SUSTAINABLE
09:55:05AM LANDSCAPING.
09:55:06AM I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE EVER DONE THIS BEFORE, BUT I WOULD
09:55:10AM ENCOURAGE TO YOU MAKE A MOTION TO REQUIRE THAT CRA MONEY
09:55:13AM ONLY BE SPENT ON FLORIDA OR SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING.
09:55:15AM SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
09:55:18AM IF WE ARE GOING TO SPEND MONEY THAT THE REST OF THE CITY IS
09:55:23AM SUBSIDIZING.
09:55:23AM LET'S SPEND IT ON SOMETHING WORTHWHILE AND THE REST OF THE
09:55:26AM CITY WILL SUPPORT THAT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION.
09:55:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
09:55:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
09:55:31AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MISS TRAVIS, I SAID THIS FOR A LONG TIME,
09:55:36AM IN REFERENCE TO WORKFORCE HOUSING AND THE DEFINITION OF IT.
09:55:40AM I MADE SOME DEFINITIONS.
09:55:42AM IT CAME BACK.
09:55:43AM ESSENTIAL WORKER.
09:55:44AM CAME BACK ESSENTIAL WORKER.
09:55:45AM COULD BE ANYBODY.
09:55:46AM AND OUR WORKFORCE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORK AT McDONALD'S, BURGER
09:55:53AM KING.
09:55:53AM OUR WORKFORCE IS NOT YOUR FIREMEN, POLICE, MUCH IF NURSE.
09:55:59AM BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT THEY MAKE.
09:56:01AM .USE YOU THAT WORD "WORK FORCE" ALL THE TIME.
09:56:05AM I WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE THAT IN ANY OF OUR HOUSING STUFF
09:56:08AM BECAUSE TO ME, IT SOUNDS DISCRIMINATORY.
09:56:12AM WORK FORCE.
09:56:13AM >> I SAY ATTAINABLE HOUSING.
09:56:15AM ATTAINABLE IS -- WHAT IS ATTAINABLE TO ME IS DIFFERENT THAN
09:56:19AM ATTAINABLE TO YOU.
09:56:20AM I GOTCHA.
09:56:22AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WORK FORCE, A DIFFERENT CLASS OF PEOPLE.
09:56:26AM I DON'T LIKE THAT.
09:56:27AM I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME.
09:56:29AM WE ARE GOING TO PUT MONEY INTO HOUSING EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE
09:56:33AM AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN A HOUSE, AN APARTMENT, WHATEVER WE
09:56:35AM ARE DOING.
09:56:36AM TO ME WHEN WE SAY THAT WORD, YOU THINK YOU ARE LOOKING AT A
09:56:39AM CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND
09:56:46AM TO ME, IT IS WHAT I CALL THAT GAP.
09:56:48AM THAT GAP.
09:56:49AM I AM RIGHT HERE AND BEING CLASSIFIED HERE.
09:56:52AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DIFFERENT WORD USED.
09:56:55AM JUST MY OPINION.
09:56:55AM AND MR. CITRO WAS RIGHT.
09:57:01AM WHEN YOU GO NORTH, A LOT OF PROPERTY.
09:57:04AM I TALKED TO MISS BURTON ABOUT THAT TOO.
09:57:06AM I TALKED TO THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
09:57:10AM WE NEED TO START GOING THAT WAY AND BUILDING AND WHAT WE CAN
09:57:13AM DO AS FAR AS HOUSING -- AND YOU SEPARATE THE TWO BECAUSE
09:57:18AM WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING OF HOUSING, ENTERTAINMENT.
09:57:21AM YOU HAVE ALL THIS PROPERTY UP HERE AND FIGURE OUT A PLAN TO
09:57:24AM SEPARATE IT, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE CERTAIN COMPLAINTS AND
09:57:27AM BUILD UPON WHATEVER.
09:57:29AM I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THE WORKFORCE -- THE WORD "WORK FORCE"
09:57:35AM SHOULDN'T BE THERE.
09:57:35AM A DIFFERENT WORD.
09:57:37AM ATTAINABLE.
09:57:37AM I CAN HE CAN DEAL WITH THAT.
09:57:39AM PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO ATTAIN WHAT THEY NEED.
09:57:41AM THAT ALL I AM SAYING.
09:57:43AM I DON'T LIKE THE WORD "WORK FORCE."
09:57:46AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I UNDERSTAND 100%.
09:57:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
09:57:50AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, MADAM CHAIR.
09:57:52AM TO TOUCH ON THE CROSS BAY FERRIES.
09:57:55AM THERE IS THE SOUTH BAY FERRY WHICH I AM IN SUPPORT MOVING
09:58:00AM MILITARY PERSONNEL FROM SOUTH SHORE TO THE AIR FORCE BASE.
09:58:03AM I WANT TO SEPARATE THOSE TWO THINGS UP.
09:58:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:58:08AM THEN I GET A TURN.
09:58:10AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU GET THE LAST WORD.
09:58:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS IS DIFFICULT.
09:58:17AM I DON'T KNOW HOW DO YOU IT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO JUMP IN.
09:58:19AM ANYWAY, I WILL AGREE WITH ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES.
09:58:23AM WE ABSOLUTELY -- THE THING THAT ISN'T EASY TO SEE IN THIS
09:58:28AM BUDGET IS EXACTLY WHERE THE HOUSING MONEY IS GOING AND I
09:58:30AM WILL 100% SUPPORT THE 30% FROM THE DIFFERENT CRAs GOING INTO
09:58:36AM HOUSING.
09:58:36AM BUT PARTICULARLY THE DESIRE TO LOOK VERY CLOSELY AT THE
09:58:45AM DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL CRAs.
09:58:48AM WHAT MONEY IS AVAILABLE.
09:58:51AM THE USE OF THE MONEY TO HIRE STAFF TO -- TO HELP WITH THE --
09:58:57AM TO FOCUS ON THE CRA BUT WORK WITHIN THE HOUSING.
09:59:01AM SO I -- I APPRECIATE THIS BUDGET.
09:59:04AM AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT YOU CAN BRING TO US.
09:59:06AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
09:59:09AM SO WE ARE -- WE HAVE A COUPLE OF CAC MEETINGS THAT WILL COME
09:59:14AM UP IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
09:59:16AM DOWNTOWN, CHANNELSIDE AND WEST TAMPA ARE HAPPENING WITHIN
09:59:19AM THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
09:59:19AM WE DEFINITELY WANT TO WORK WITH THE CACS.
09:59:23AM WE UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTIVE.
09:59:25AM IF THERE IS A MOTION, WE WILL TAKE THAT BACK TO THE CACS.
09:59:29AM WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUDGET FOR WHEN YOU
09:59:32AM APPROVE IT IN SEPTEMBER WHEN YOU START THE PUBLIC HEARINGS
09:59:35AM IN SEPTEMBER THAT IT IS ADJUSTED THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE.
09:59:38AM WHAT I WILL ASK IS THAT I HAVE ALSO COME BACK TO YOU IN
09:59:42AM NOVEMBER THAT WHEN WE CLOSE OUT THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, WE
09:59:45AM CAN SHOW YOU WHAT HAVEN'T BEEN USED AND ALSO TAKE THAT
09:59:49AM OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT HOW WE WANT TO REALLOCATE MONEY AND
09:59:53AM HOW TO REALLOCATE TO HOUSING AS WELL AND I WOULD LIKE TO DO
09:59:56AM THAT WITH YOU FOR SEPTEMBER AND COME BACK WITH THE CLOSE --
09:59:59AM ONCE WE CLOSE OUT THE BOOK FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR IF
10:00:02AM THAT IS OKAY WITH YOU.
10:00:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT IS THE PLEASURE.
10:00:11AM ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A MOTION?
10:00:14AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL MAKE THE MOTION TO HIS TRAVIS TO
10:00:16AM REQUEST --
10:00:18AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THE MOTION FOR ME TO PRESENT THE BUDGET TO
10:00:21AM YOU IN SEPTEMBER AT YOUR PUBLIC HEARING WITH AS MUCH HOUSING
10:00:25AM AS POSSIBLE AND COME BACK WITH REALLOCATIONS IN THE NOVEMBER
10:00:28AM MEETING WITH ANY FUN IS USED OR UNAPPROPRIATED SURPLUS FOR
10:00:35AM HOUSING PROGRAMS IN NOVEMBER.
10:00:36AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU FOR ARTICULATING MY POINT SO WELL.
10:00:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO AND BOARD
10:00:44AM MEMBER MANISCALCO SECONDED.
10:00:47AM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
10:00:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:00:52AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:00:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:00:59AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:01:03AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:01:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:01:06AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA BEING ABSENT.
10:01:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:01:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL ASK -- I WON'T MAKE A MOTION BUT ASK
10:01:19AM MISS TRAVIS.
10:01:20AM WHEN YOU COME BACK WITH THE BUDGET WITH ALL THE NUMBERS WE
10:01:24AM CAN SPEND ON HOUSING.
10:01:25AM THE BIGGEST PART IS DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:01:28AM COULD YOU ALSO PLEASE, AS AN ASIDE, SHOW US HOW MUCH WE CAN
10:01:33AM GET FOR OUR DOLLAR IF WE SPENT AN EQUIVALENT AMOUNTS OF
10:01:37AM MONEY ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY.
10:01:39AM IF IT TURNED OUT THAT THE LAND OVER BY ARMY, NAVY IS THE
10:01:43AM SAME COST PER ACRE THAN SOMEBODY ELSE AND HAVE THE SAME
10:01:47AM NUMBER OF UNITS, IT MAKES SENSE TO PUT THERE 10 TO 20%
10:01:51AM HIGHER MIGHT MAKE SENSE.
10:01:53AM ON THE OTHER EXTREME, TWO OR THREE TIMES MORE UNITS
10:01:57AM SOMEWHERE ELSE, THAT WILL MAKE THE CASE THAT WE MOVE THE
10:02:00AM MONEY BACK TO GENERAL FUND.
10:02:01AM THANK YOU.
10:02:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
10:02:08AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL SPEAK WITH MISS TRAVIS LATER.
10:02:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST RECEIVED A MEMO FROM BOARD MEMBER
10:02:14AM VIERA.
10:02:14AM THERE IS A SERIOUS TRAFFIC ACCIDENT THAT HAS SHUT DOWN
10:02:16AM PORTIONS OF THE INTERSTATE.
10:02:17AM SO HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY.
10:02:20AM HE IS REQUESTING TO CONTINUE ITEMS 3, 4 AND 9 UNTIL THE NEXT
10:02:26AM CRA SESSION.
10:02:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO CONTINUE.
10:02:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT WILL BE SEPTEMBER.
10:02:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE 3, 4 AND 9 TO THE SEPTEMBER CRA
10:02:36AM MEETING.
10:02:36AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I AM SORRY.
10:02:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:02:40AM AND SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:02:43AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T INTERFERE
10:02:47AM WITH ANY --
10:02:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE MOTIONS WERE MADE.
10:02:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T INTERFERE
10:02:53AM WITH EVERYTHING PERTINENT THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TODAY,
10:02:56AM TOMORROW.
10:02:56AM >> NO, WE ARE GOOD.
10:02:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:02:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ALL IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING THE ITEMS UNTIL
10:03:02AM SEPTEMBER.
10:03:03AM OKAY.
10:03:04AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: MADAM CHAIR, MAY I DO A COUPLE OF
10:03:08AM HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS BEFORE YOU MOVE ON.
10:03:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY.
10:03:12AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: TO YOUR AGENDA.
10:03:13AM BOARD MEMBERS, THE OCTOBER CRA BOARD MEETING IS SCHEDULED
10:03:17AM THE SAME TIME AS OUR FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
10:03:20AM CONFERENCE.
10:03:21AM THAT IS A BIG CONFERENCE THAT IS USED FOR TRAINING.
10:03:24AM A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STAFF.
10:03:27AM AND THEY ARE ALL GOING TO PARTICIPATE.
10:03:28AM JEFF BURTON IS ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRA ASSOCIATION AND
10:03:34AM WILL NOT BE HERE FOR THAT MEETING.
10:03:37AM WE DON'T HAVE ANY TIME SENSITIVE ITEMS TO PRESENT TO YOU IN
10:03:40AM OCTOBER.
10:03:42AM CITY WORK WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO LOOK AT YOUR AGENDA,
10:03:45AM YOUR EVENING AGENDA AND TRY TO RESCHEDULE IT.
10:03:48AM AND YOUR AGENDAS ARE KIND OF PACKED.
10:03:51AM MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO CANCEL THE OCTOBER CRA
10:03:54AM MEETING.
10:03:55AM BECAUSE STAFF WILL BE AT CONFERENCE STARTING OCTOBER 12-14.
10:04:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE HAVE A PUBLISHED SCHEDULE OF CRA
10:04:11AM MEETINGS.
10:04:11AM WE HAVE TO NOTICE THAT ON BOTH THE CLERK'S WEB SITE IF THAT
10:04:15AM IS THE DESIRE.
10:04:16AM I THINK WILL PROVIDE PUBLISHED NOTICE THAT WE ARE CANCELLING
10:04:20AM THE MEET GOING DOABLE FOR THE PLEASURE OF THE BOARD.
10:04:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBERS GUDES.
10:04:25AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T RECALL EVER GETTING ANY INFORMATION
10:04:27AM ABOUT THAT.
10:04:28AM DO WE HAVE -- DO WE HAVE INFORMATION OUT THERE ABOUT THIS?
10:04:34AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: ABOUT THE FRA CONFERENCE.
10:04:37AM THERE IS AND I WILL BE HOPE THAT SEND IT TO YOU.
10:04:41AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SEND IT TO ME.
10:04:43AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: LET ME KNOW.
10:04:45AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, MAKE YOU ARE SURE THAT YOU ARE
10:04:49AM REGISTERED AND YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS.
10:04:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:04:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK WE ARE AUTOMATICALLY MEMBERS.
10:04:57AM BECAUSE I HAVE ATTENDED VIRTUAL CONFERENCES WITH THEM.
10:05:00AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES.
10:05:01AM WE HAVE A MEMBERSHIP AS A CITY BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE
10:05:04AM CONFERENCE.
10:05:04AM IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE AND I WILL TELL YOU
10:05:07AM BEING A REDEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL, ONE OF THE BEST
10:05:10AM CONFERENCES IN THE STATE.
10:05:13AM GIVES YOU AN IDEA HOW OTHER CITIES ARE HANDLING
10:05:15AM REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, DIFFERENT FINANCING OPTIONS.
10:05:18AM IT'S JUST -- A REALLY INFORMATIVE CONFERENCE.
10:05:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHERE IS IT.
10:05:26AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: DAYTONA BEACH THIS YEAR.
10:05:29AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WORLD FAMOUS BEACH.
10:05:32AM
10:05:34AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY.
10:05:36AM I HAVE BEEN TO THIS CONFERENCE SEVERAL TIMES, AND IT IS A
10:05:40AM FANTASTIC TIME.
10:05:41AM A WEALTH OF INFORMATION.
10:05:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE HAVE ANY MOTION ABOUT THIS?
10:05:49AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: SO MOVED.
10:05:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
10:05:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO AND
10:05:54AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:05:56AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:05:58AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
10:05:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
10:06:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:06:01AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
10:06:03AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:06:05AM >> VIERA IS ABSENT.
10:06:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:06:10AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH ABSENT -- VIERA ABSENT AT VOTE.
10:06:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:06:19AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I HAVE ONE OTHER ITEM FOR YOU JUST AS AN
10:06:25AM UPDATE.
10:06:25AM AT THE LAST CRA BOARD MEETING, WE TOLD YOU WE PURCHASED FOR
10:06:30AM YOUR CRA DIRECTOR POSITION.
10:06:32AM WE HAVE PUBLISHED IT.
10:06:34AM WE ADVERTISED THE DIRECTOR POSITION.
10:06:36AM WE RECEIVED 30 RESPONSES AND ONE QUALIFIED APPLICANT OF THE
10:06:40AM 30 RESPONSES.
10:06:40AM AND SO PROFESSIONALLY I HAVE TO -- YES.
10:06:43AM I WILL HAVE TO RECOMMEND TO YOU THAT -- YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF
10:06:51AM OPTIONS.
10:06:52AM WE CAN CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE IT AND TRY TO MARKET IT A
10:06:54AM LITTLE MORE HEAVILY.
10:06:55AM WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ONE QUALIFIED APPLICANT FROM A
10:07:04AM PROFESSIONAL DIDN'T, I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE OPTIONS.
10:07:07AM THE ONLY THING THAT IS IMMINENT AT THIS TIME IS THE -- THAT
10:07:10AM YOU HAVE APPROVED FOR ME TO BE THE INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR
10:07:15AM UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND I WANTED TO PUT IT -- I WILL
10:07:19AM BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT JUST AS WE ARE
10:07:21AM BACKING INTO TIME, WE TOLD YOU WE WOULD DO A PUBLIC MEET AND
10:07:25AM GREET FOR YOU AND FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE CAC MEMBERS FOR
10:07:31AM -- JUST TO MEET THE FINALISTS IN THAT PROJECT.
10:07:33AM AS WE BACK INTO THAT, WE ARE RUNNING UP AGAINST THE
10:07:37AM EXPIRATION OF MY INTERIM STATUS.
10:07:41AM I AM NOT KICKING YOU TO THE CURB.
10:07:44AM I WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TIMING AND KNOW THAT YOU UNDERSTAND.
10:07:48AM I PRIDE MYSELF OF DOING WHAT I SAY I AM GOING TO DO.
10:07:50AM SO I WANTED TO PRESENT YOU WITH OPTIONS.
10:07:52AM WE WILL BE HAPPY TO CONTINUE MARKETING AND PUSHING AND DOING
10:07:58AM A BROADER OUTREACH AND PRESENT WITH YOU A FEW QUALIFIED
10:08:02AM CANDIDATES.
10:08:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
10:08:04AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THEN I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT MISS
10:08:07AM TRAVIS STAYS DIRECTOR UNTIL IT IS TIME WE FIND A -- A NEW --
10:08:12AM A NEW DIRECTOR.
10:08:13AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL RECOMMEND THAT WE ADD 30 DAYS BECAUSE
10:08:21AM WE NEED TO HAVE HR TO FIND THIS POSITION.
10:08:25AM I LIKE YOU AND I THINK YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB, BUT WE
10:08:28AM NEED THIS AS A SEPARATE ENTITY AND WE NEED A SEPARATE
10:08:32AM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
10:08:32AM THE OTHER THING I WILL SAY WHILE I HAVE THE FLOOR, OTHER
10:08:36AM BOARDS LIKE THE AIRPORT, PORT, OTHERS, BOARD MEMBERS VERILY
10:08:41AM INTERVIEWED THE PERSON.
10:08:42AM LAST TIME WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO DO THAT.
10:08:44AM CAME UP SUDDENLY.
10:08:45AM AT LEAST I WAS BLINDSIDED.
10:08:49AM I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE, BUT WE NEED ONE ON ONE TIME TO
10:08:53AM TALK TO THE FOLKS AND GIVE THEM A FAIR CHANCE.
10:08:54AM NOT JUST HAVE THEM MEET IN A PUBLIC ROUND -- REMEMBER THE --
10:08:58AM THE OF POLICE CHIEF DISCUSSION WAS LIKE THAT.
10:09:02AM IN FACT ONE CANDIDATE WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND AND VERY
10:09:05AM CONTROVERSIAL.
10:09:05AM IT WOULD BE BETTER -- SINCE THE COMMUNITY IS WATCH THIS
10:09:09AM SPEND THE APPROPRIATE TIME TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON.
10:09:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:09:14AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THERE ARE TWO GOOD POINTS HERE.
10:09:17AM I THINK MR. CARLSON IS RIGHT ABOUT EXTEND IT 30 DAYS.
10:09:21AM FOR ME, WHAT I HAVE SEEN SO FAR.
10:09:29AM I AM AN ACTION PERSON.
10:09:31AM I AM NOT A TALKER.
10:09:32AM I THINK YOU GOT A PERSON WHO IS HERE.
10:09:34AM AND THE ACTION I HAVE SEEN, WHAT I CALL YOUR RIGHT-HAND MAN
10:09:42AM HAS BEEN DOING THAT JOB.
10:09:43AM I SEE KNOWLEDGE.
10:09:51AM AGGRESSIVENESS.
10:09:52AM AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN FLIP IT OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
10:09:57AM PEOPLE ARE PAID WHAT THEY ARE WORTH.
10:09:58AM BUT I THINK THAT -- SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN HERE, YOU HAVE BEEN
10:10:04AM ASSEMBLING A TEAM.
10:10:06AM I HAVE DON'T WANT TO BREAK THE TEAM UP.
10:10:18AM AND AS LONG AS THE TEAM IS HERE, THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP
10:10:21AM WITH THE BOARD AND THE TEAM.
10:10:22AM THAT IS MY SPIN AND I WILL LET OTHER MEMBERS CHIME IN AND
10:10:26AM YOU HAVE A TEAM AND ANOTHER PERSON WHO HAS COME IN WHO HAS
10:10:29AM REALLY MADE IT MOVE AND GREAT WHEN THEY ARE ANTICIPATE.
10:10:37AM THEY ARE ANTICIPATE.
10:10:39AM WHEN THEY SEE THINGS HAPPEN, THEY AIN'T ANGRY.
10:10:43AM SO THAT IS MY SPIEL ON THAT.
10:10:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:10:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
10:10:52AM I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS AND HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE
10:10:55AM APPLICATIONS.
10:10:56AM LET ME TELL YOU WHAT SOME OF THE PROBLEMS CAN ARISE AT.
10:10:59AM THAT INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE WORKING NOW
10:11:02AM MAY BE RELUCTANT TO GET THAT JOB OR APPLY FOR THAT JOB.
10:11:04AM I WAS ONCE FACED THAT DECISION AND TURNED MY POSITION DOWN
10:11:18AM AROUND NEEDED TO WORK IN THE '70s.
10:11:21AM THE AGREEMENT I MADE WITH THE BOSS, IF I AM DISMISSED I GO
10:11:29AM BACK TO MY REGULAR JOB.
10:11:30AM MAYBE WHY THEY ARE NOT APPLYING.
10:11:33AM I AM NOT SAYING THAT THE REASON, BUT YOU LOOK DOWN THE LANE,
10:11:37AM IF THAT DOESN'T -- I JUST MOVED HERE.
10:11:40AM I HAVE TO MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
10:11:41AM IT IS A WONDER ON THE MINDS OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE
10:11:44AM APPLYING SAYING WHAT HAPPENS IF IT DOES NOT WORK.
10:11:47AM THAT IS WHY MAYBE NO ONE HAS APPLIED FROM WITHIN.
10:11:49AM I AGREE WITH TIME FOR A DELAY BUT A TIME PERIOD AND THEN
10:12:05AM STOP THERE IS AND COPACETIC.
10:12:07AM THAT IS MY OPINION.
10:12:08AM THEY ARE NOT APPLYING MAYBE BECAUSE THEY FEEL IF THEY ARE
10:12:12AM NOT ACCEPTED LATER ON, THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO GO AND THAT IS A
10:12:16AM VERY DANGEROUS THING TO DO TO AN INDIVIDUAL.
10:12:18AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:12:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:12:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT IF THERE IS NO CANDIDATE BETTER
10:12:24AM THAN YOURSELF.
10:12:25AM I PRAISED YOU ON TUESDAY AS A SUPERSTAR AND THE TEAM YOU
10:12:29AM HAVE ASSEMBLED AS COUNCILMAN GUDES ALREADY MENTIONED.
10:12:32AM YOU ARE FANTASTIC.
10:12:33AM YOU GO ABOVE AND BEYOND.
10:12:35AM I UNDERSTAND THERE SHOULD BE A SEPARATION, BUT I THINK WE
10:12:39AM HAVE THE BEST CANDIDATE IN FRONT OF US.
10:12:41AM AND I AM SAYING THAT -- I KNOW THERE ARE 30 OTHER APPLICANTS
10:12:44AM AND ONE IS QUALIFIED, WHATEVER, MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS.
10:12:48AM BUT YOU HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB.
10:12:51AM SO THAT IS JUST MY OPINION, BUT IF THERE IS A 30-DAY
10:12:55AM EXTENSION, I GET IT, BUT I AM SATISFIED AS -- WHERE WE ARE
10:12:59AM AT NOW.
10:12:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
10:13:03AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
10:13:04AM I CAN CHANGE MY MOTION.
10:13:06AM I ONLY SAID UNTIL WHICH TIME.
10:13:08AM JUST IN CASE SOMETHING UNFORESEEABLE COMES UP AND WE HAVE TO
10:13:13AM GO A FEW DAYS LONGER OR SHORTER THAN 30 DAYS, BUT I WILL
10:13:17AM AMEND MY MOTION SO SAY 45 DAYS IF THAT SUFFICES TO
10:13:21AM EVERYBODY'S WISHES.
10:13:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:13:24AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MY ONLY PROBLEM IS I DON'T WANT TO OVERLOAD
10:13:28AM MISS TRAVIS.
10:13:28AM SHE HAS GOT A LOT GOING ON.
10:13:31AM WE ARE STILL RUNNING THE OTHER CITY PROJECTS AND YOU ARE
10:13:34AM TALKING ABOUT EIGHT CRAs.
10:13:36AM I AM STILL IN THE MIND SET SHE HAS A RIGHT HAND AND WE CAN
10:13:47AM MANEUVER THAT WHERE THE RIGHT HAND CAN HANDLE THE CRA ISSUES
10:13:51AM AND A JOINT UNIT AT THE HIP AND SOME ISSUE.
10:13:55AM AND I TONIGHT WANT HER BURNED OUT MISS TRAVIS WORK WITH THE
10:14:00AM HIRE SITUATION THAT WE HAVE.
10:14:01AM HIRE MORE PEOPLE FOR THE HOUSING SITUATION.
10:14:02AM AND STILL RUNNING OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE DEALS AND
10:14:05AM NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CITY.
10:14:05AM THAT IS MY OWN COLONEL.
10:14:08AM OFF HAND TO TWIST THAT AND MA PARTICULAR WORK.
10:14:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBERS CARLSON.
10:14:23AM >>BILL CARLSON: NICOLE AND HER TEAM DOES A GREAT JOB.
10:14:28AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:14:29AM AS BOARD MEMBER GUDES SAID, OFF WHOLE OTHER BIGGER
10:14:32AM PORTFOLIO.
10:14:33AM AS CITY COUNCIL, WE NEED FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO WORK YOUR
10:14:37AM MAGIC ON THAT PORTFOLIO TOO.
10:14:38AM WE HAVE COMPLAINTS ALMOST EVERY DAY FROM EVERYBODY FROM
10:14:46AM INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERS TO DEVELOPERS COMPLAINING OF THE
10:14:49AM PERMITTING PROCESS AND THE OTHER PROCESSES THAT YOU OVERSEE.
10:14:53AM YOU ARE GOING IN AND CHANGE THAT.
10:14:54AM YOU ARE PERSONALLY DEAL WITH PEOPLE.
10:14:57AM EVERY COMPLAINT, YOU PERSONALLY HANDLE IT.
10:15:00AM AND THE PERMITTING PROCESS IS HURTING OUR ECONOMY.
10:15:10AM WE CAN'T SLOW IT DOWN AND WE NEED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE.
10:15:17AM OTHER THING IS WE NEED TO FIX ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
10:15:19AM YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
10:15:22AM THE REASON WE HAVE A HOUSING PROBLEM BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T
10:15:24AM AFFORD IT.
10:15:25AM THE REASON THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT BECAUSE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10:15:28AM IN THE CITY HAS BEEN SUBSIDIZING BIG COMPANIES AND
10:15:32AM HIGH-PAYING JOBS AND NOT ON MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE.
10:15:35AM IF YOU CHECK THE CENSUS DATA, MIDDLE CLASS SHRANK.
10:15:43AM THE DISPARITY BETWEEN BLOCKS AND WHITES AND MEN AND WOMEN
10:15:46AM INCREASED.
10:15:51AM THE BIGGEST PROBLEM.
10:15:52AM IF YOU FIXED THAT PROBLEM WE WON'T HAVE AN AFFORDABLE
10:15:55AM HOUSING PROBLEM BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT CAN AFFORD RENT AND PAY
10:16:02AM AND BUY HOMES.
10:16:02AM I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO WORK ON ALL OF THESE THINGS BUT IF
10:16:06AM YOU CAN HELP US FIND SOMEONE REALLY GOOD TO RUN THIS, THAT
10:16:09AM WOULD BE GREAT.
10:16:09AM THANK YOU.
10:16:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:16:12AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT IS THE SALARY FOR THE CRA DIRECTOR?
10:16:19AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I KNEW YOU WOULD ASK ME THAT.
10:16:20AM I DON'T KNOW.
10:16:21AM THE TOP OF THE RANGE IS $165,000.
10:16:24AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: $165,000.
10:16:28AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I CAN OFFER A SUGGESTION -- SORRY, YOU HAD
10:16:31AM ANOTHER QUESTION?
10:16:32AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO.
10:16:34AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I WAS GOING TO OFFER THE SUGGESTION.
10:16:36AM I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID.
10:16:37AM WE HAVE -- WE DO HAVE A QUALIFIED APPLICANT AND I UNDERSTAND
10:16:45AM WHAT YOU ARE SAYING OF THE TEAM.
10:16:46AM GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK IN AND PROVIDE SOME
10:16:51AM OPTIONS TO TRY TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT AND SOME COUNTY
10:16:59AM COMMENTS THAT YOU IT MEET THE CANDIDATES AND -- I CAN'T BE
10:17:01AM CREATIVE RIGHT NOW.
10:17:02AM I AM ALSO NOT FEELING WELL.
10:17:04AM I AM NOT THINKING STRAIGHT, BUT IF YOU GIVE ME THE
10:17:07AM OPPORTUNITY, WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE THE POSITION BUT
10:17:10AM ALSO TRY TO BE A LITTLE ALLOW ME TO BE CREATIVE WHAT THE
10:17:19AM STRUCTURE WILL LOOK LIKE.
10:17:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER.
10:17:21AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: GUDES IF YOU INTERVIEW 30 AND YOU HAVE ONE
10:17:25AM THAT IS THE PRIME.
10:17:27AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE DIDN'T INTERVIEW 30.
10:17:29AM WE HAD 30 RESPONSES AND ONE, WHICH IS AN INTERNAL, MET THE
10:17:33AM REQUIREMENT -- THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE POSITION.
10:17:36AM SO I HAVE -- I AM GOING TO BE VERY CLEAR.
10:17:39AM WE HAVE MANAGERS -- THEY EXCEED.
10:17:45AM BUT THE OTHER 29 CANDIDATES DIDN'T MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS.
10:17:48AM AND YOU HAVE MANAGER FROM HOME DEPOT THAT HAVE APPLIED AND
10:17:53AM STUFF LIKE THAT.
10:17:53AM SO THAT'S WHAT I AM TELLING YOU.
10:17:55AM BUT FROM -- FROM AN EXECUTIVE POSITION, I.
10:18:00AM I ALWAYS TRY TO PRESENT WITH OPTIONS.
10:18:03AM THE BEST DECISION WITH THE INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE AND
10:18:11AM TRYING TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE.
10:18:14AM 37 AND I FEEL LIKE I WOULD BE DOING YOU A DISSERVICE IF I
10:18:18AM DIDN'T PROVIDE YOU WITH AS MANY OPTIONS AS POSSIBLE.
10:18:21AM I HEARD THE COMMENTS AND GO BACK AND TRY TO -- JUST ALLOW ME
10:18:24AM TO THINK ABOUT IT FOR A LITTLE BIT AND MEET WITH EACH OF YOU
10:18:27AM INDIVIDUALLY TO GIVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND COME BACK TO YOU WITH
10:18:30AM A PROPOSAL.
10:18:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I GUESS I WILL HAVE A MOMENT.
10:18:43AM I THINK THAT IS A GOOD IDEA.
10:18:45AM I THINK YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT HOW WE -- I THINK WHAT THAT
10:18:48AM MAKES THIS POSITION SO DIFFICULT IS THAT WE ARE ALSO LOOKING
10:18:52AM FOR PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND FLORIDA CRA.
10:18:54AM AND THAT PRECLUDES I BELIEVE A NATIONAL SEARCH.
10:18:59AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THAT'S CORRECT.
10:19:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DON'T WANT TO BE TEACHING TOO MUCH.
10:19:03AM BUT I DID SAY THAT IF THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF FINDING
10:19:07AM PEOPLE WHO HAVE FLORIDA CRA EXPERIENCE AND MOVED ON TO OTHER
10:19:10AM STATES MIGHT BE AN AREA THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND
10:19:17AM POSSIBLY MORE CANDIDATES.
10:19:19AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ONE THING I WAS JUST GOING TO MENTION IS
10:19:22AM SHE IS SERVING AS INTERIM.
10:19:27AM AND TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE WHERE SHE IS WITH THE SEARCH.
10:19:31AM WHAT ACTIONS MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR YOU ALL AT THAT TIME AND
10:19:37AM WHETHER HER TERM AS INTERIM DIRECTOR MAY NEED TO BE
10:19:41AM EXTENDED, PERHAPS, DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
10:19:58AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MY ORIGINAL MOTION UNTIL A NEW DIRECTOR IS
10:20:00AM FOUND.
10:20:03AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SAYING THAT YOU CAN HAVE TIME.
10:20:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU CAN TAKE BACK YOUR MOTION.
10:20:09AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS TRAVIS, YOU HIDE YOUR SUPERHERO CAPE
10:20:13AM VERY, VERY WELL.
10:20:14AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
10:20:15AM IS THAT IT?
10:20:20AM I AM GOING TO LEAVE YOU IN VERY GOOD AND CAPABLE HANDS
10:20:23AM TODAY.
10:20:23AM PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO CALL ME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING.
10:20:26AM I APPRECIATE YOU.
10:20:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON.
10:20:29AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
10:20:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:20:39AM I THINK WE ARE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 5.
10:20:41AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: GOOD MORNING, DRUM DRUM, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR
10:20:47AM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY.
10:20:49AM STAFF REPORTS UP FIRST.
10:20:51AM JEFF BURTON WITH THE FOUR CRAS.
10:20:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:21:04AM THERE -- NEXT SLIDE.
10:21:06AM NEXT SLIDE.
10:21:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE STUCK.
10:21:21AM >> THANK YOU, SIR.
10:21:22AM THERE WE GO.
10:21:23AM RIGHT NOW, THIS MONTH, THE DOWNTOWN CRA, WE ARE DOING -- ALL
10:21:29AM FOUR OF THE URBAN CRAs ARE DOING OF A VALIDATION OF THE
10:21:35AM BOUNDARIES USING USF PLANNING DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT
10:21:39AM ALL THE BOUNDARIES ARE WHERE THEY ARE POSITIONED TO BE.
10:21:42AM SOME OF THE PLANS ARE MUCH OLDER AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE
10:21:45AM THAT EVERYTHING IS CORRECT.
10:21:46AM WE ARE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF A WAY FINDING PLAN CONSULTANT
10:21:52AM SEARCH.
10:21:52AM WE ARE WORK WITH CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AND DOING A PICK THREE
10:21:57AM AND THAT PROCESS IS GOING ON VERY WELL.
10:21:59AM WE HAVE A TEAM OF OTHER CITY STAFFERS IN MOBILITY AND OTHER
10:22:03AM DEPARTMENTS THAT WILL BE WORKING WITH US TO GET THAT UNDER
10:22:07AM WAY.
10:22:07AM WE HAVE MONEY FUNDED THIS YEAR FOR THAT PROJECT.
10:22:10AM AND WE HAVE MONEY FUNDED IN THE BUDGET THAT YOU JUST SAW FOR
10:22:15AM THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SIGNS IN THEIR PLACEMENTS.
10:22:18AM THIS IS A TWO BUDGET ITEM.
10:22:22AM FIRST WE DO THE CONSULTING AND THEN THE ACTUAL INSTALLATION.
10:22:25AM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED --
10:22:30AM RECOMMENDED KITTELSON.
10:22:33AM THAT VOTE WAS TAKEN FOR THE DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:22:36AM THIS IS NOT AN UPDATE AND NOT TAKING THE EXISTING PLAN IS IT
10:22:43AM AND MAKING AMENDMENTS TO THIS.
10:22:45AM IN IS THE COMPLETE REWRITE.
10:22:46AM THE CAC RECOMMENDED AND VOTED UNANIMOUSLY ON THE FEE FOR THE
10:22:51AM PLAN.
10:22:52AM THE MONEY IS ALREADY IN THE BUDGET.
10:22:56AM WAITING FOR SIGNATURES FROM THE CONSULTANT.
10:23:01AM WE WANTED TO GET IT TO YOU TODAY WAIT UNTIL THE SEPTEMBER
10:23:06AM MEETING.
10:23:06AM THE CRA STAFF IS WORK WITH THE PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE
10:23:12AM STREET PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR AND AN EAST-WEST CORRIDOR THAT
10:23:16AM HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED YET.
10:23:18AM WE ARE TALK WITH MULTIPLE CITY DEPARTMENTS AND WE ARE
10:23:21AM LOOKING AT FINANCING, HOW TO MAKE THAT WORK SO IT IS
10:23:26AM COMPLETELY DONE.
10:23:27AM AND IT IS SOMETHING TO BE EXTREMELY PROUD OF.
10:23:31AM WE ALSO HAVE MONEY AND WE ARE WORK WITH ARTS AND CULTURE ON
10:23:36AM A -- ON A SCULPTURE, THE ARTWORK THAT GOES INTO THE TAMPA
10:23:40AM UNION STATION.
10:23:41AM THAT IS IN THE BUDGET.
10:23:42AM AND YOU ASK FOR AN UPDATE ON KID MASON CENTER.
10:23:47AM WE WENT AND LOOKED YESTERDAY IN ACELA, AND THEY ARE DOWN TO
10:23:53AM TWO ITEMS THAT HAVE TO BE APPROVED AND I WAS TOLD --
10:24:03AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: JEFF, GEE WHIZ.
10:24:08AM >> I UNDERSTAND AND DOWN FROM 70 AND TWO ITEMS TO WORK TO
10:24:12AM GET THEM OUT OF THE WAY AND GO TO RFP.
10:24:15AM A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE IS APPRECIATED.
10:24:18AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THOUGHT WE WENT UP FOR AN RFP.
10:24:23AM I AM LOST NOW.
10:24:24AM >>THE ARCHITECT -- THE CRA CHOSE THE ARCHITECT TO DO THE
10:24:28AM REDESIGN.
10:24:29AM THE ARCHITECT HAS BEEN WORK WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES WHEN
10:24:40AM HE GOT HERE 70 ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE PREPARED.
10:24:44AM AND ONCE THEY ARE APPROVED BY THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES THEN
10:24:51AM WE WILL BE ABLE TO GO OUT FOR A CONTRACTOR.
10:24:53AM THAT IS WHY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING ON THE PLANS AND THE
10:24:56AM PERMITS.
10:24:56AM WE ARE ALMOST THERE WITH THAT.
10:24:58AM AND WE WILL THEN TURN AROUND AND PUT IT OUT FOR BID.
10:25:02AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM GOING TO SAY -- I DON'T KNOW THE
10:25:05AM SITUATION OF WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS PARTICULAR
10:25:08AM ARCHITECT, BUT WAY UNACCEPTABLE.
10:25:09AM THIS HAS BEEN SINCE 2019.
10:25:10AM THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
10:25:13AM I AM SORRY -- IF THAT IS THE CASE THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE
10:25:16AM BEEN LET GO.
10:25:17AM THAT CONTRACT AND SHOULD HAVE WENT OUT TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
10:25:19AM NO MATTER -- I JUST SAY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
10:25:22AM I AM SORRY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAIN THAT THESE PROJECTS
10:25:29AM GET BACKLOGGED, BACKLOGGED, BACKLOGGED, AND ASK WHAT IS
10:25:35AM GOING ON.
10:25:35AM THIS CAN'T HAPPEN.
10:25:36AM I AM JUST GOING TO SAY THERE NEEDS TO BE A PUSH ON THIS.
10:25:41AM >> YES, SIR.
10:25:41AM ALSO THE MONEY IS BUDGETED FOR THAT AND WE ALSO INCLUDED AN
10:25:44AM EXTRA 250,000 OR $250,000 OR $500,000 IN THE NEXT BUDGET IN
10:25:52AM CASE WE HAVE ESCALATION IN PRICES.
10:25:53AM WE WANTED TO BE PREPARED FOR THAT BECAUSE WE SHOULD JUST
10:25:57AM EXPECT IT.
10:25:57AM WE HAVE DONE THAT BOTH FOR HERMAN MASSEY OR KID MASON.
10:26:03AM IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THE SLIDES.
10:26:05AM OKAY.
10:26:05AM CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:26:07AM WE ARE ALSO DOING THE -- THE BOUNDARY SURVEYS.
10:26:10AM DOING THEM FOR ALL FOUR.
10:26:11AM WE ARE DOING THE WAY FINDING FOR ALL FOUR.
10:26:17AM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY HAS DISCUSSED A LOCAL EMPLOYEE
10:26:20AM WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM.
10:26:21AM SO WHAT THIS IS, THIS IS TO PUT THE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK IN
10:26:28AM THE AREA WHO WORK IN CHANNEL DISTRICT AND EVEN INTO DOWNTOWN
10:26:31AM IN THE LOCATION AND TO LIVE WHERE THEY WORK.
10:26:34AM THIS THIS WOULD BE A SELF-FUNDING PROGRAM WHICH MEANS THAT
10:26:38AM WE WOULD WORK WITH DEVELOPER WHO ARE COMING ONLINE TO
10:26:44AM GUARANTEE SO MANY MARKET RATE UNITS TO THE CRA AND WORK WITH
10:26:50AM THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND WE WOULD -- I CONCUR IF WE DO
10:26:56AM THIS, WE WILL NEED TO HAVE A STAFF MEMBER BUILT INTO THE
10:27:00AM HOUSING DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE THIS TO PUT THOSE WORKERS INTO
10:27:04AM THOSE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY IN FROM SOME
10:27:09AM OTHER LOCATION.
10:27:09AM THERE WAS A SURVEY THAT WAS DONE WHEN I FIRST TO THE HERE
10:27:13AM AND SAID THE TWO BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN THE CITY WERE LACK OF
10:27:16AM HOUSING AND LONG ROUTES TO GET TO HOUSING.
10:27:20AM IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT THEY ARE THE SAME THING.
10:27:25AM EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
10:27:26AM IF WE HAVE HOUSE THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT, THEN WE
10:27:29AM DON'T HAVE THE LONG COMMUTES.
10:27:32AM THE OTHER THING IS, THE STATUTE IS VERY CLEAR.
10:27:35AM IT SAYS "SLUM AND BLIGHT."
10:27:38AM ABSOLUTELY.
10:27:38AM OR A LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSE THE AREA OR A NEED FOR CRIME
10:27:43AM PREVENTION.
10:27:43AM SO THAT IS WHAT THE STATUTE SAYS.
10:27:46AM AND IF THERE IS ONE THING I HAVE LACKED IS LACK OF WORK
10:27:54AM FORCE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:27:56AM I LIKE TO USE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DEFINITIONS BASED ON
10:27:59AM AVERAGE MEDIAN INCOME.
10:28:01AM USUALLY 120% AMI.
10:28:04AM WE WILL BE WORKING TO BRING YOU A POLICY AND EVEN A PROGRAM
10:28:06AM OF HOW TO FUND IT TO BRING THE WORKERS INTO THE AREAS WHERE
10:28:10AM THEY CAN WALK TOWARD.
10:28:11AM AND EVEN USING THE STREETCAR TO GET THEM -- SO THEY MIGHT
10:28:18AM NOT BE THAT CLOSE AND SO WE CAN USE -- WE WANT PEOPLE TO USE
10:28:22AM THE FUNDING AND MAKE IT FREE.
10:28:24AM WE NEED MORE BODIES ON THE STREET CAR.
10:28:26AM THE --
10:28:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, GO -- ANYONE?
10:28:31AM I ACTUALLY HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
10:28:33AM I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU FOCUS ON 80% OR LOWER BECAUSE
10:28:38AM 120% AMI FIVE YEARS AGO WAS SOMETHING, BUT TODAY IT REALLY
10:28:43AM ISN'T, BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A HIGHER AMI DUE TO THE
10:28:46AM BUSINESSES WE ARE GETTING.
10:28:47AM AND THE PEOPLE -- THE -- THE INCREASES IN -- IN SALARIES.
10:28:52AM SO IF YOU CAN FOCUS ON THE FOLKS WHO ARE REALLY DOING THE
10:28:58AM JOBS THAT PEOPLE IN CHANNELSIDE NEED THEM TO DO.
10:29:02AM 120 IS NOT GOING TO -- NOT GOING TO WORK.
10:29:06AM >> WE WILL BRING YOU A -- A RESULTS -- WE CAN ACTUALLY
10:29:09AM CREATE AN ADAPTIVE SPREADSHEET WHERE WE CAN PLUG IN THE
10:29:13AM RIGHT PERCENTAGE AND SEE THE DIFFERENCES AND HOW MUCH -- HOW
10:29:17AM MANY UNITS WE CAN GAIN WITH THE MONEY WE HAVE AND THEN THE
10:29:20AM BOARD CAN DECIDE.
10:29:21AM THEY MIGHT WANT TO DO BOTH.
10:29:23AM AND JUST SPREAD IT BETWEEN BOTH.
10:29:26AM SO -- BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE DOWNTOWN AND
10:29:31AM CHANNEL DISTRICT THAT MAKE 80% AMI OR LESS.
10:29:35AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THE PROGRAM NEEDS TO HAVE DETAIL
10:29:38AM AND WHAT WE NEED TO TIE IT TO IS THE STATE DEFINITION OF
10:29:41AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAVE INCOME LEVELS.
10:29:43AM 120% DOES MEET, I THINK, A CERTAIN LEVEL OF WHAT IS THEMED
10:29:49AM "AFFORDABLE" AND GRADUATE LEVELS OF MEDIUM, LOW.
10:29:53AM AND 80% ISSED MEDIUM LEVEL.
10:29:56AM AND I THINK AS WE BRING OUT THE PROGRAM, WE CAN DEFINE WHAT
10:29:59AM THE LEVELS ARE AND TO PUT THE CRA FUNDING FOR.
10:30:03AM >> ABSOLUTELY.
10:30:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:30:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU KNOW, I HAVE BEEN A BIG ADVOCATE FOR
10:30:10AM PUTTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ALL THE DISTRICTS AND TWO
10:30:13AM YEARS AGO, WE DECIDED TO PUT 30% IN AND NOTHING REALLY
10:30:17AM HAPPENED.
10:30:17AM IF -- IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO -- IN THIS PROPOSAL, I THINK WE
10:30:23AM NEED TO DO LIKE THEY SAID AND KEEP A VERY NARROW DEFINITION.
10:30:27AM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND STATE'S DEFINITION OF IT.
10:30:31AM IF WE ARE ABLE TO DO THAT COST EFFECTIVELY, AGAIN, IF WE
10:30:34AM COMPARE -- IF WE USE THE MONEY IN ANOTHER AREA IF IT IS COST
10:30:38AM EFFECTIVE, THEN PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK AND AFFORDABLE
10:30:43AM HOUSING DISTRIBUTED AND LOOK AT OPTIONS.
10:30:47AM THE REALITY NO LAND IN CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:30:50AM PAID $4 MILLION FOR POSTAGE STAMP FOR A PARK.
10:30:54AM NO LAND FOR PARAGE.
10:30:55AM THE ONLY LAND AVAILABLE IS THE WORKING PORT THAT I WILL
10:30:58AM HEAVILY DEFEND INTO DEVELOPING INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
10:31:04AM EVEN IF WE GOT THE LAND, IT WOULD BE INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE
10:31:07AM AND LAND THAT COULD BE AVAILABLE ALL THE DEVELOPERS ARE
10:31:11AM SALIVATING.
10:31:12AM WE HAVE ONE PARCEL WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PUT A FIRE STATION
10:31:15AM JUST BECAUSE A DEVELOPER IS BEING GENEROUS AND WANTS A FIRE
10:31:18AM STATION THERE.
10:31:19AM BUT OTHERWISE, THERE IS NO LAND.
10:31:21AM WE MOVED FORWARD A YEAR TO OR SO AGO TO WHY UP DATE THE PLAN
10:31:27AM OF THE CRA.
10:31:28AM THE REALITY IS WHERE, WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING THROUGHOUT
10:31:32AM THE CITY.
10:31:32AM WE HAVE PARKS THAT ARE FALLING APART ALL OVER THE CITY
10:31:34AM INCLUDING SOUTH TAMPA.
10:31:35AM WE HAVE SIDEWALKS THAT ARE FALLING APART.
10:31:38AM WE HAVE POTHOLES.
10:31:40AM WE HAVE PLACES ALL OVER THE CITY WHERE WE CAN'T PUT
10:31:44AM SIDEWALKS.
10:31:44AM AND HE THINKS OUR SIDEWALK IS AROUND $600,000 A YEAR.
10:31:49AM IF WE MOVED A MILLION DOLLARS OUT OF THIS CRA AND PUT IT
10:31:52AM INTO A SIDEWALK FUND, AND IT IS COMPLICATED TO DO THAT.
10:31:56AM IF WE DID IT, IT WOULD MORE THAN DOUBLE OUR SIDEWALK AND
10:31:59AM MAKE KIDS AND FAMILIES SAFER THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.
10:32:02AM AND I THINK WHATEVER DECISIONS WE MAKE, WE SHOULDN'T JUST
10:32:06AM MAKE THE DECISION BECAUSE WE HAPPEN TO HAVE THE MONEY THERE.
10:32:09AM WE HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION HOW TO BETTER USE THE MONEY
10:32:14AM BECAUSE WE ARE OUTSIDE.
10:32:15AM WE SOUGHT SITUATION OF SLUM AND BLIGHT.
10:32:18AM NOT LIKE 30 YEARS AGO.
10:32:25AM ROBUST COMMUNITY, WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE.
10:32:32AM A HUGE SUCCESS AND WE NEED TO SEE WHERE WE SPEND TAXPAYER
10:32:36AM MONEY AND MAKE A SENSE TO KEEP IT THERE AND HIT THAT TIGHT
10:32:39AM DEFINITION, FINE.
10:32:40AM IF NOT, WE NEED TO SERIOUSLY LOOK AT MOVING IT INTO A
10:32:43AM SIDEWALKS FUND, TO ARE IDEALLY AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND
10:32:48AM THAT WE CAN USE IN THE BEST PLACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
10:32:50AM THANK YOU.
10:33:02AM >> ALSO WORKING WITH THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND DOING
10:33:04AM IT ALL IN THE DOWNTOWN URBAN CRA TO INCLUDE CPTED AS AN
10:33:09AM ELEMENT.
10:33:11AM AS WE BRING ONLINE GRANTS.
10:33:16AM AND NUMBER DEVELOPMENTAL DESIGN OFFER GRANT MONEY --
10:33:21AM MATCHING GRANT MONEY TO STOREFRONT OWNERS AND BUILDING
10:33:24AM OWNERS TO WORK WITH THE PD TO PUT EYES ON THE STREET THROUGH
10:33:28AM CAMERAS AND OTHER USES OF CPTED.
10:33:32AM WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH PARKS AND RECREATION.
10:33:40AM WE AGREE THAT THE LAND IN CHANNELSIDE IS VERY RICH.
10:33:44AM AND WE CAN'T MOVE FAST ENOUGH EVERY TIME WE SEE A PIECE OF
10:33:48AM PROPERTY, WE ARE NOT FAST ENOUGH TO COMPETE WITH THE
10:33:52AM DEVELOPERS.
10:33:52AM BY THE TIME THEY GET TO IT, IT IS ALREADY UNDER CONTRACT AND
10:33:55AM USUALLY FOR A PRICE THAT WE FEEL THE BOARD WOULD NOT
10:33:58AM RECOMMEND -- THAT WILL HELP ANYWAY.
10:34:00AM HAVE RECREATIONAL USES ON IT.
10:34:11AM THE NEXT FOR GREEN SPACE AND OPEN SPACE.
10:34:14AM GREEN SPACE IS TOO EXPENSIVE RIGHT NOW.
10:34:16AM OPEN SPACE ON THE OTHER HAND CAN BE CREATED AND WE ARE
10:34:21AM WORKING TO GO VERTICAL IN CHANNEL DISTRICT WITH OUR
10:34:24AM RECREATION TO CREATE MORE GREEN SPACE.
10:34:27AM WE HAVE WASHINGTON STREET PARK.
10:34:29AM AND IT IS BEING -- IT IS ALREADY BUDGETED FOR PLANNING THIS
10:34:35AM YEAR AND FOR CONSTRUCTION NEXT YEAR AND WE ARE WORK WITH
10:34:38AM DICK HITE CONSULTANT TO BRING FORWARD A VERTICAL PARK SYSTEM
10:34:44AM THAT WILL ACTUALLY INCREASE THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THAT PARK,
10:34:47AM ALMOST DOUBLE IT, FOR A MUCH, MUCH LOWER PRICE THAN IF WE
10:34:51AM WERE TO PURCHASE LAND OF THE SAME SQUARE FOOTAGE.
10:34:54AM WE ARE ALSO WORK WITH PARKS AND RECREATION BECAUSE THERE IS
10:34:57AM A LITTLE BIT OF APPREHENSION THERE BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING
10:35:02AM NEW WE HAVE LOOKED AND LOOKED AND LOOKED OVER THE INTERNET
10:35:08AM TO FIND SOMETHING SIMILAR AND HAVE YET TO FIND IT.
10:35:10AM INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE.
10:35:12AM EXACTLY WHAT CRAs ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
10:35:15AM THE PLAN, ONE OF THE MAJOR PARTS IS TO CREATE NEW GREEN
10:35:19AM SPACE AND OPEN SPACE.
10:35:20AM WE ARE TRYING TO FIND YOU THE COOLEST, BEST, NEATEST, MOST
10:35:26AM CREATIVE WAY TO DO THAT AT THE BEST PRICE.
10:35:28AM THIS IS WHY WE ARE BRING THIS FORWARD.
10:35:30AM WE WILL DO CONCEPTUALS AND BRING THAT TO THE BOARD.
10:35:34AM ALSO, I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT KEN ATKINS, YOUR CITY
10:35:38AM HORTICULTURALIST.
10:35:41AM WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT ENHANCED PUBLIC LANDSCAPING AND
10:35:45AM MAINTENANCE IN CHANNEL.
10:35:46AM AND I FOUND IN HIM AN EXCELLENT PART NEAR CAN USE PRIVATE
10:35:53AM VENDORS AND CONTRACTS TO HELP US REACH THAT GOAL.
10:35:55AM WE ARE IN NEGOTIATION TO START THE NEW BUDGET YEAR.
10:36:00AM WE HAVE MONEY BUDGETED IN THIS UPCOMING BUDGET AND THAT WILL
10:36:05AM BE LANDSCAPING AND THEN ENHANCED MAINTENANCE ABOVE AND
10:36:09AM BEYOND WHAT THE CITY CURRENTLY PROVIDES AND SHOW THAT
10:36:13AM THROUGH CONTRACTS.
10:36:13AM AND TO BE ABLE TO PROVE THROUGH THE BOARD THAT WE ARE TAKE
10:36:17AM IT ABOVE -- A STEP ABOVE WHAT -- WHAT IS CURRENTLY PROVIDED
10:36:22AM THROUGH THE CITY.
10:36:22AM CENTRAL PARK AND TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:36:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ONE MOMENT.
10:36:27AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:36:28AM >>BILL CARLSON: SORRY ONE MORE THING AND THE DRUM BEAT I
10:36:33AM HAVE BEEN MAKING IT FOR NUMBER OF YEARS AND I AM SURE MY
10:36:36AM COLLEAGUES MAY BE TIRED OF HEARING THIS.
10:36:38AM BUT ALONG THAT CORRIDOR AROUND THE AQUARIUM AND AROUND THE
10:36:43AM BEND, THREE CRUISE TERMINALS -- MAYBE ABOUT TO BE ONE MORE
10:36:47AM -- AND A HUGE SHIP -- TOGETHER THEY REPRESENT A COUPLE OF
10:36:54AM HIGH PAYING THOUSAND JOBS.
10:36:56AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT LAND, OH, WE CAN JUST DEVELOP THAT AS
10:36:59AM CONDOS, ONCE A CONDO IS BUILT, THERE ARE NO MORE HIGH PAYING
10:37:04AM JOBS.
10:37:05AM WHERE ARE THE HIGH PAYING JOBS ON A CONDO BUILDING?
10:37:08AM ALL OF THE MONEY -- IF YOU LOOK AT -- IF YOU LOOK AT THE
10:37:11AM CITY AS THE BUSINESS -- YOU LOOK AT THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY
10:37:16AM FOR PROPERTY TAXES BECAUSE MOST OF THE LAND IS BY THE PORT.
10:37:25AM WHY DO WE NEED 50,000 AFFORDABLE HOMES?
10:37:29AM BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT EARNING ENOUGH.
10:37:30AM WE TAKE 1,000 JOBS WHERE PEOPLE ARE MAKING $80,000 PLUS AND
10:37:35AM GET RID OF THEM TO BUILD CONDOS, 1,000 MORE AFFORDABLE
10:37:39AM HOMES.
10:37:39AM SO PLEASE AS YOU ARE LOOKING -- EVERYBODY AS YOU ARE LOOKING
10:37:42AM AT THAT LAND, THINK ABOUT, IT'S NOT -- CAN'T BE WHAT IS
10:37:47AM SHINY, BRIGHT AND NEW.
10:37:48AM LOOKS PRETTY.
10:37:49AM AND SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE MOVE NEAR THE PORT -- THEY SAY IF
10:37:53AM WE GET RID OF THE UGLY STUFF.
10:37:54AM THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF JOBS NOT INCLUDING THE ECONOMIC
10:37:58AM IMPACT OF IT.
10:37:59AM THINK OF 50 TO 100 YEARS IN THE FUTURE, TAMPA HAS BEEN SLOW
10:38:04AM COMPARED TO OUR OTHER PORTS IN FLORIDA AND IT WILL TAKE OFF
10:38:07AM IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS BECAUSE THE OTHER PORTS ARE CROWDED
10:38:09AM OUT THE THING WE HAVE THAT OTHER PORTS DON'T HAVE IS LAND.
10:38:14AM MAKE THE MISTAKE 10 OR 20 YEARS AGO, WE NEED TO BUILD THE
10:38:19AM INNER HARBOR AND THAT HAS FAILED.
10:38:22AM THE CHANNEL, AND INNER HARBOR HAS FAILED.
10:38:26AM WE MAY NEVER GET THOSE JOBS BACK AND HAVE A DISTRIBUTION
10:38:30AM PROBLEM.
10:38:31AM ALL OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RELY ON OUR PORT.
10:38:33AM ORLANDO GETS ITS OL' AND GAS FROM US.
10:38:36AM WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO PROTECT THOSE AREAS TO MAKE SURE WE
10:38:39AM KEEP THE JOBS.
10:38:41AM WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS AS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
10:38:44AM WE NEED MORE HIGH-PAYING JOBS, NOT FEWER.
10:38:48AM AND IF WE GET THE HIGH PAYING JOBS, WE NEED HOUSING.
10:38:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AGREE.
10:38:53AM I TOOK THE PORT TOUR LAST WEEK AND IT IS AMAZING THE
10:38:57AM ECONOMIC DRIVER THAT IT IS.
10:38:59AM SO THANK YOU.
10:39:00AM >> GO BACK TO THE SLIDES.
10:39:02AM CENTRAL PARK, WHICH IS ONE OF THE SMALLEST AREAS IN THE
10:39:06AM URBAN AREA.
10:39:07AM AGAIN THE FIRST TWO ARE UNDER WAY, WORKING WITH THE OTHER
10:39:10AM CRAs.
10:39:11AM THE CAC HAVE RECOMMENDED TO BUDGET FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE
10:39:16AM PARADISE BAPTIST CHURCH AND STABILIZATION.
10:39:19AM THAT IS IN THE BUDGET WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THE
10:39:25AM FAMILY THATS THAT THAT CHURCH.
10:39:27AM NOTHING HAS COME AT IT THAT WE NEED TO GO TO REAL ESTATE AND
10:39:31AM THAT BUDGET NEEDS TO BE APPROVED BY THE BOARD PRIOR TO US
10:39:34AM DOING ANYTHING.
10:39:35AM I WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
10:39:37AM THAT PLAN STRONGLY URGES THE CRA TO PROTECT AND ENCOURAGE
10:39:43AM THE CENTRAL AVENUE HISTORY.
10:39:45AM AND THAT CHURCH IS ONE OF THE LARGEST FEW REMAINING
10:39:50AM BUILDINGS THAT STILL EXIST IN THAT AREA AND IT IS -- IT
10:39:55AM HOUSES A HUGE COLLECTION OF THEM BILL I CAN'T AND DIFFERENT
10:40:00AM TYPES OF ARTIFACTS FROM THE AREA PLUS A LOT MORE.
10:40:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:40:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM REAL HAPPY TO SEE THIS HAVING
10:40:09AM TOURED IT.
10:40:10AM COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS THERE AS WELL.
10:40:12AM PASTOR WILLIAMS HAS BEEN COMING HERE FOREVER.
10:40:15AM WHAT -- YOU KNOW, HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT BUILDING,
10:40:20AM YOU ALREADY SAID IT.
10:40:21AM WHAT CENTRAL AVENUE WAS, THE ENTIRE DISTRICT HAS A HANDFUL
10:40:25AM OF BUILDINGS THAT EXIST.
10:40:26AM WE CAN'T PROPERLY TEACH AND SHARE THE HISTORY OF THAT AREA
10:40:32AM BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST.
10:40:33AM LIKE DEMOLISHING YBOR CITY.
10:40:36AM I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS HERE.
10:40:38AM AND YOU ARE RIGHT, THE COLLECTION THAT IS HOUSED -- I DON'T
10:40:41AM WANT TO SAY DOWNSTAIRS, BUT THE BOTTOM LEVEL IS SOMETHING
10:40:46AM THAT I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS TO SEE MAYBE IN JUNCTION WITH
10:40:50AM THE HISTORY CENTER.
10:40:51AM BECAUSE IT'S -- YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE CERTAIN EVENTS IN
10:40:55AM HISTORY WE SAY NEVER FORGET.
10:40:56AM THIS IS SOMETHING ESPECIALLY WITH THE SELF-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
10:40:58AM AND ALL THE CHANGES AND THE JIM CROW ERA.
10:41:01AM WHAT IS THERE IS -- WHEN SEE IT, YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT.
10:41:05AM AND WHEN YOU LEARN ABOUT IT, YOU DON'T WANT TO FORGET IT.
10:41:09AM AND WE SHOULDN'T SO HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF AND WE
10:41:14AM SEE HOW THINGS USED TO BE AND ALSO HOW -- MAKE SURE WE NEVER
10:41:19AM GO BACK TO ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
10:41:21AM I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT.
10:41:22AM THANK YOU, SIR.
10:41:23AM >> THANK YOU.
10:41:24AM SO THAT WILL BE -- ONCE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
10:41:28AM IT WILL GO THROUGH REAL ESTATE AND GO THROUGH THE PROPER
10:41:31AM PURCHASING FOR -- THAT THE CITY USES.
10:41:34AM AND IT'S ALSO THERE.
10:41:35AM I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO REPORTING IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEAR
10:41:39AM FUTURE ON THAT MOVEMENT.
10:41:40AM THIS AREA IS WORKING ON -- THIS IS TAMPA HEIGHTS ALSO.
10:41:51AM I BEHIND THEM.
10:41:52AM ALSO WORKING ON A ROUNDABOUT THAT A CAC APPROVED -- OR
10:41:56AM RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE
10:42:00AM ROUNDABOUT ON OVER BY THE PEARL AND IT WILL BE COMING TO THE
10:42:09AM BOARD AND WORKING ON PUBLIC ART CULTURE AND FINALLY WE ARE
10:42:13AM WORKING ON -- NOT AT UNIVERSITY, BUT WORKING ON A CROSSWALK
10:42:18AM BETWEEN STETSON UNIVERSITY PARKING LOT AND THE WATER WORKS
10:42:22AM PARK ON THE CURVE.
10:42:24AM COME FIND OUT MOBILITY WAS INTERESTED AS WELL AS FDOT AND WE
10:42:30AM HOPE TO HAVING IN BACK TO YOU ON THAT AND MONEY BUDGETED ON
10:42:34AM THE PLANNING OF THAT.
10:42:35AM SIDEWALKS ON A THE STETSON SEED AND PROBABLY SOME STORMWATER
10:42:39AM BECAUSE WE WILL BE PUTTING IN IMPERVIOUS SURFACES.
10:42:42AM WE HAVE MONEY SET ASIDE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS TO DO THAT
10:42:46AM PROJECT AND WOULD PROBABLY BE SOME TYPE OF LIGHTING SYSTEM
10:42:51AM AND ON CURVE AND COULD BE A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
10:42:55AM THOSE ARE THE FOUR URBAN CRAS AT THIS TIME.
10:43:00AM I MIGHT WANT TO ADD THAT WE WOULD LIKE EVERYBODY TO ATTEND
10:43:03AM THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION.
10:43:07AM THIS YEAR I BEGGED AND BEGGED AND WE HAVE RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
10:43:12AM AS ONE OF THE SPEAKERS.
10:43:13AM HE WROTE "THE COLOR OF MONEY."
10:43:16AM -- OR THE "COLOR OF LAW."
10:43:18AM AND HE WILL BE SPEAKING AT ONE OF OUR SESSIONS.
10:43:21AM VERY WELL-KNOWN AND RESPECTED AUTHOR.
10:43:24AM THANK YOU.
10:43:24AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: UP NEXT IS JESUS NINO WITH WEST TAMPA AND
10:43:37AM DREW PARK UPDATES.
10:43:38AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:43:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING.
10:43:41AM >> IF WE CAN GET THE PRESENTATION UP.
10:43:45AM AS FAR AS WEST TAMPA.
10:43:46AM A LOT GOING ON.
10:43:47AM MANY, MANY PROJECTS.
10:43:48AM I TRY TO KEEP IT BRIEF HERE.
10:43:50AM WE CONCLUDED LAST WEEK PHASE SIX OF OUR CLEANUP FOR THE
10:43:54AM ALLEYWAYS ON THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE CRA.
10:43:57AM WE ARE ABOUT TO RELEASE AT THE END OF THE MONTH THE RFP TO
10:44:02AM GO OUT THERE AND CLEAN UP ALL THE ALLEYS ALL AT ONCE.
10:44:05AM THE REASON WE HAD IT IN IF A I TODAY LOOK AT WHAT IS AT USE
10:44:10AM AND SO FORTH.
10:44:10AM THIS RFQ, GO THERE AND CLEAN IT UP.
10:44:14AM THE CAC WILL RECOMMEND TO DO IT FOUR TIMES A YEAR.
10:44:19AM A COURTESY TO OUR RESIDENTS.
10:44:21AM WE WILL EDUCATE THEM ON THEIR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY TO
10:44:25AM KEEP THE ALLEYWAYS MAINTAINED.
10:44:27AM AS FAR AS -- WE HIRED A FULL-TIME CLEAN TEAM THAT START THIS
10:44:31AM WEEK FOR MAIN STREET.
10:44:32AM THEY ARE OUT THERE CLEANING UP.
10:44:34AM I HAVE BEEN OUT THERE TALK WITH THEM.
10:44:35AM TALKING TO THE NEW COMPANY.
10:44:37AM MAKE SURE THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING
10:44:40AM AND NOT MISSING ANY AREAS.
10:44:42AM A LEARNING PROS IS FOR THEM UP-FRONT.
10:44:45AM ONCE THEY GET THE HANG OF IT, ALL THE LITTLE NOOKS AND
10:44:51AM CRANNIES.
10:44:51AM SEEMS LIKE IT IS MISSING A SLIDE AND I WILL TAKE
10:44:54AM RESPONSIBILITY MAKING SURE IT WASN'T PUT IN THERE, BUT
10:44:58AM THAT'S OKAY.
10:44:58AM BASICALLY WE HAVE -- WE DID A REQUEST OF PROPOSAL FOR RAY
10:45:02AM PARK AND SALCINES.
10:45:05AM SO WE WERE EXPECTING TO GET THAT BACK WITHIN THIS MONTH FOR
10:45:11AM DESIGN-BUILD FOR THE PARKS.
10:45:12AM WE DECIDED NOT TO GO FOR THE DESIGN BID BUILD PROCESS AND
10:45:17AM THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR US AND HAVE THE DESIGN AND
10:45:20AM WORK DIRECTLY TO THE CONTRACTOR TO GET IT DESIGNED AND GET
10:45:23AM IT BUILT.
10:45:24AM AS FAR AS OCTOBER 9, WE HAVE THE WEST TAMPA CULTURAL EVENT
10:45:31AM WHICH IS STRICTLY FOR THE CRA.
10:45:33AM CRA IS PUT IT TOGETHER AND FOR US TO GIVE US INFORMATION ON
10:45:37AM OUR PROJECTS, PROGRAMS, AND OTHER CITY SERVICES.
10:45:39AM SO NOT AN OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION THAT IS PUT IT TOGETHER FOR
10:45:43AM THE COMMUNITY THAT MUCH IS WEST TAMPA ANY QUESTIONS?
10:45:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:45:55AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW I WENT TO A FUNCTION -- A
10:45:58AM BACK-TO-SCHOOL FUNCTION.
10:45:59AM AND I KNOW WEST TAMPA ON THE BACK OF MY HAND, BUT I DID NOT
10:46:05AM KNOW ABOUT THAT PARK, JESUS.
10:46:06AM TELL THE BOARD ABOUT THAT PARK OVER THERE AND WHAT THE
10:46:09AM CHURCH IS DOING.
10:46:09AM >> FREMONT AND LINEAR PARK IS THE PARK RIGHT IN THE CENTER
10:46:13AM OF WEST TAMPA.
10:46:14AM IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR A WHILE.
10:46:15AM IT IS ACTUALLY STREETS THAT WERE CLOSED OFF BACK OVER A
10:46:19AM DECADE AGO BY POLICE, FIRE AND CITY IN GENERAL.
10:46:22AM BUT REVIVED CHURCH PUT TOGETHER AN EVENT OVER THE WEEKEND --
10:46:28AM LAST WEEKEND AT FREEMAN LINEAR PARK.
10:46:31AM I HAD PARKS AND REC GO AND CLEAN IT UP.
10:46:35AM WE MOBILIZE VERY QUICKLY AND PUT TOGETHER A BOOTH WHERE I
10:46:39AM FORM COUNCILMAN -- BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:46:42AM I THOUGHT IT WAS A SPECTACULAR EVENT.
10:46:45AM THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT IN FORCE AND ENJOYED THEMSELVES.
10:46:50AM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF WEST TAMPA.
10:46:52AM WE HAVE CONCEPT DESIGNS SALCIN ES AND WEST PARK.
10:47:02AM >> THANK YOU.
10:47:03AM >> ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
10:47:06AM FOR DREW PARK, A SUCCESSFUL LISTENING SECTION AT
10:47:10AM HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF IMPROVEMENTS WE WILL MAKE
10:47:13AM TO TAMPA BAY LINEAR PARK AND A NEW POTENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD
10:47:17AM PARK ON HUBERT AVENUE.
10:47:18AM SO IT WAS VERY WELL ATTEND FROM THE COMMUNITY USUALLY WE
10:47:25AM STRUGGLE TO HAVE QUORUMS.
10:47:27AM THIS WASN'T A CAC MEETING, A PUBLIC MEETING AND FOR
10:47:32AM LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS OWNERS, AND I
10:47:36AM THINK IT WILL MOVE FORWARD VERY WELL.
10:47:38AM WE HAVE A SECOND MEETING FOR AUGUST 30 AT HILLSBOROUGH
10:47:40AM COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND WE ARE HOPE GOING YOU WANT TO ATTEND,
10:47:44AM YOU CAN ATTEND.
10:47:44AM INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN WEST -- DREW PARK THAT WE
10:47:51AM KNOW OF, HAVE THEM WORK WITH THE EVENT.
10:47:53AM PLACE MAKER DESIGN STUDIOS AND CITY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS ON
10:47:58AM THESE PROJECTS.
10:47:58AM AS FAR AS OTHER PROJECTS WE HAVE GOING ON IN DREW PARK, WE
10:48:02AM DID HIRE A CONSULTANT OONA.
10:48:06AM OONA LAND SCAPE ARCHITECTURE TO LOOK AT LOIS AVENUE AND
10:48:11AM GRADY AVENUE TO GIVE US AN ALL IT WHAT HAS WORKED OR WHAT
10:48:14AM HAVEN'T WORKED IN THE PAST.
10:48:15AM AFTER THAT, WE WILL GO OUT AND BID IT OUT TO NEXT THOSE
10:48:20AM STREETS AND MAKE THEM SAFER.
10:48:21AM AND SHE IS ALSO GOING TO CONCENTRATE ON THE ROUNDABOUT ON
10:48:25AM TAMPA BAY BOULEVARD AND LOIS TO MAYBE PUT SOME KIND OF
10:48:29AM PUBLIC ART PIECE THERE.
10:48:31AM THAT CONCLUDES DREW PARK.
10:48:33AM ANY QUESTIONS?
10:48:36AM THANK YOU.
10:48:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:48:38AM >> GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT
10:48:52AM MANAGER.
10:48:53AM CAN I HAVE THE SLIDE.
10:48:55AM SO THE FISCAL YEAR '23 SPECIAL EVENTS CO-SPONSORSHIP GRANT
10:49:00AM PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS LOCAL NONPROFITS CELEBRATING THE ARTS
10:49:04AM AND CULTURE OF YBOR RECEIVED 26 APPLICATIONS.
10:49:07AM AND THE SEVEN-MEMBER REVIEW COMMITTEE LOOKED AT THOSE,
10:49:10AM SCORED AND EVALUATED THEM, AND IN THE END AWARDED -- OR
10:49:14AM RECOMMENDING AWARDING OF 23 OF THOSE FUNDING.
10:49:23AM WE WILL BE SEEKING APPROVAL NEXT TUESDAY'S CRA MEETING.
10:49:31AM EACH OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO REVIEW THEIR TOP PRIORITIES AND
10:49:34AM REAFFIRM WHAT THEY SELECTED AS THE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES FROM
10:49:38AM OUR VISION 2020 PLAN AND SO YOU CAN SEE LISTED THERE THAT
10:49:43AM THE COMMUNITY PRESERVATION, SUSTAINABILITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH
10:49:47AM AND MOBILITY, AND THIRDLY THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND DISTRICT
10:49:52AM OPERATIONS AGREED ON THE WORTHWHILE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES
10:49:55AM LISTED THERE.
10:49:55AM THE TOP TWO PHOTOS ON THIS SLIDE ARE CAPTURING THE
10:50:08AM CASA MARTI AT 7th AVENUE AND NUCCIO PARKWAY.
10:50:11AM 27 RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND 9,000 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL
10:50:17AM SPACE AND ANTICIPATED COMPLETION IS LATER IN 2023.
10:50:20AM WSP, THE CONSULTANT SELECTED TO WORK ON THE 7th AVENUE COST
10:50:26AM FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS ISSUED A NOTICE TO PROCEED AND A
10:50:30AM INTERNAL KICKOFF MEET WITH MOBILITY AND YBOR CRA STAFF WILL
10:50:34AM TAKE PLACE LATER NEXT MONTH.
10:50:36AM AND WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE OFFICER -- TPD OFFICER
10:50:41AM BRANDON CANE AS OUR NEW YBOR LIAISON PATROLLING 8 A.M. TO 5
10:50:48AM P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
10:50:50AM HE IS A GREAT PRESENCE ON 7th AVENUE AND AROUND THE
10:50:52AM DISTRICT.
10:50:53AM AND HE POPS INTO OUR OFFICE REGULARLY FOR UPDATES.
10:50:56AM GREAT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CRA STAFF AND POLICE.
10:51:01AM AND LASTLY WHEN YOU HAVE A CHANCE, PLEASE CHECK OUT THE
10:51:03AM FIRST WEDU PBS FROM YBOR.
10:51:11AM HIGHLIGHTING THE FAMOUS CUBAN SANDWICH AND WEDU.ORG.
10:51:18AM AND THEY WILL BE ROLLING OUT MORE SHORT-FORM EPISODES THAT
10:51:22AM WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING.
10:51:23AM THANK YOU.
10:51:24AM THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
10:51:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:51:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I SEE HERE THE CONSULTANT ALREADY WORKED
10:51:32AM ON THE 7th AVENUE BRICKING COST FEES STUDY.
10:51:37AM VERY GOOD.
10:51:38AM I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT WHILE IN YBOR LAST NIGHT ABOUT HOW
10:51:43AM MANY BEAUTIFUL THE STREET -- 7th AVENUE WOULD LOOK WITH THE
10:51:45AM BRICKS AND RESTORE IT TO WHAT IT USED TO LOOK LIKE
10:51:49AM PRE-1960s.
10:51:49AM I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE.
10:51:51AM THANK YOU.
10:51:52AM >> YOU ARE WELCOME.
10:51:53AM THAT'S IT.
10:51:59AM THANK YOU.
10:51:59AM INCH.
10:52:07AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING, CEDRIC MCRAY, EAST TAMPA CRA
10:52:11AM MAJOR.
10:52:11AM SLIDE.
10:52:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT WAS UP THERE.
10:52:30AM >> FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT EAST TAMPA CAC FOR
10:52:36AM BROOKINS TO FILL THE VACANCY THAT WAS OPENED UP BY MARTINEZ.
10:52:42AM DR. BROOKINS WAS LISTED AS A CANDIDATE ON SLATE FOR ELECTION
10:52:47AM -- THE UPCOMING ELECTION THAT WILL TAKE PLACE SEPTEMBER 13,
10:52:50AM BUT APPROVED BY THE CAC AND THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP AT
10:52:55AM THEIR MEETING LAST WEEK.
10:52:56AM AND SHE WILL BE ROLLING OFF OF THE SLATE OF CANDIDATES.
10:53:03AM NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE APPROVAL OF THE CAC FOR
10:53:10AM $85,000 FOR KABOOM! BUILD AT WILLIAMS PARK.
10:53:15AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT OPPORTUNITY.
10:53:17AM THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE CRA BOARD LAST MONTH FOR APPROVING
10:53:24AM THE EMERGENCY ROOF REPAIR PROGRAM.
10:53:26AM WITH ME I HAVE BROUGHT A -- A YARD SIGN THAT IS NOT A
10:53:29AM CAMPAIGN SIGN.
10:53:29AM I KNOW WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT SEASON.
10:53:31AM MANY OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT THAT.
10:53:33AM BUT THIS IS BE POSTED AT EACH RESIDENCE THAT RECEIVES THE
10:53:39AM SERVICES.
10:53:39AM WE HAVE AN ORIENTATION MEANING IT WILL BE TAKING PLACE WITH
10:53:45AM ALL INTERESTED CONTRACTORS AND VENDORS FOR THE ROOFING
10:53:48AM PROGRAM AND THAT WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31.
10:53:50AM AT 6 P.M. AT REAGAN PARK.
10:53:54AM FROM THAT TIME, WE WILL START -- WE HAVE -- WE HAVE SEVERAL
10:53:58AM HOMES THAT HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS AND
10:54:01AM TITLE SEARCH.
10:54:03AM AND THE LIKE.
10:54:03AM AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING FORWARD SOME TIME
10:54:09AM BEFORE THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER AND THE APPLICATIONS WILL ALSO
10:54:12AM ROLL OUT THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER FOR THE PROGRAM, BUT
10:54:14AM WE ARE GETTING CALLS DAILY AND RESIDENTS ARE VERY EXCITED
10:54:18AM ABOUT THAT -- ABOUT THAT UPCOMING PROGRAM.
10:54:20AM ALSO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN HAVING
10:54:29AM CONVERSATION WITH TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY AS IT RELATES TO
10:54:32AM SOME OF THE POLES AND THOROUGHFARES, LIKE 34.
10:54:39AM SOME OF THEM NEED TO BE REAPAINTED AND TOUCHED UP.
10:54:42AM WE ARE COMING TO THE END OF THE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION WHEN
10:54:45AM IT COMES TO RELATIONSHIP.
10:54:46AM WE ARE LOOKING TO PAINTING AND UPGRADING THE POLES AT SOME
10:54:50AM POINT TO GET BACK WITH US ON COST AND STYLES.
10:54:56AM AND WE WILL SHARE THAT WITH THE EAST TAMPA CAC AT SOME POINT
10:54:59AM AND WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE BANNERS AS WE ARE
10:55:02AM TALKING OF BRANDING EAST TAMPA, YOU KNOW, HAVING SOMETHING
10:55:05AM SIMILAR TO THE LOGO ON THE SIGN.
10:55:09AM BUT I THINK IT WILL GO A LONG WAY WITH PEOPLE COME INTO THE
10:55:13AM INTERSECTION THAT ARE CROSSING 21s, 24st, 22nd, MLK AND
10:55:19AM HILLSBORO ON THE CITY OPERATED ROADS.
10:55:23AM NEXT -- WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION OVER RECENT MONTHS AS
10:55:27AM IT RELATES TO THE OWNER-OCCUPIED REHAB PROGRAM.
10:55:31AM AND I KNOW THAT YOU ALL HAD SOME BRIEF DISCUSSION LAST
10:55:34AM TUESDAY OR THIS PAST TUESDAY ON THE PROGRAM.
10:55:36AM THE COMMITTEE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE APPLICATION
10:55:39AM OR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE COMMITTED.
10:55:48AM AND MAKING A DECISION THE NEXT STEPS AND WILL READVERTISE.
10:55:52AM THEY ARE NOT PLEASED WITH THE -- WITH THE ONE APPLICANT THAT
10:55:55AM WAS APPROVED.
10:55:56AM THROUGH THE PROCESS.
10:55:58AM AND WE WILL HAVE TO EITHER MOVE FORWARD WITH THE -- UPDATING
10:56:03AM THE RFP FOR ADVERTISING AND TO CONDUCT AND RUN PROGRAM
10:56:14AM IN-HOUSE WHICH WILL, YOU KNOW, ALSO BE DISCUSSED AND
10:56:17AM HOPEFULLY HAVE A LOT MORE TO REPORT BACK AT THE SEPTEMBER
10:56:23AM MEETING.
10:56:23AM EAST TAMPA PREDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WORKSHOP HELD ON THE 26th
10:56:30AM OF JULY.
10:56:31AM AND A LOT OF ROBUST DISCUSSION AND WE WILL BE TOUCHING TO
10:56:34AM THAN LATER
10:56:34AM SO I WILL YIELD FROM GOING TOO DEEP INTO THAT CONVERSATION.
10:56:38AM EAST TAMPA STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN WAS SUPPLIED TO ALL EAST
10:56:45AM TAMPA CAC MEMBERS, AS WELL AS THE MEMBERS OF THE CRA BOARD.
10:56:49AM HOPEFULLY YOU RECEIVED THEM IN YOUR BOX.
10:56:53AM THEY WERE DELIVERED IN HAND, AND ON AUGUST 2, THE EAST
10:56:57AM TAMPA CAC.
10:56:59AM I AM SORRY, YES, LAST WEEK VOTED TO UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO
10:57:03AM MOVE FORWARD -- NOT UNANIMOUSLY.
10:57:05AM 6-2 VOTE TO APPROVE AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE APPROVAL OF A
10:57:09AM STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN FOR EAST TAMPA.
10:57:12AM AND YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION COMING UP HERE LATER THIS
10:57:14AM MORNING AS WELL.
10:57:15AM WE DID HAVE A CONCLUSION OF THE EAST TAMPA SUMMER YOUTH
10:57:19AM PROGRAM.
10:57:19AM AND ON IT YOU SEE A PICTURE.
10:57:21AM WE HAD A CAPSTONE EVENT AND DONE PARTNERSHIP WITH HABITAT
10:57:26AM FOR HUMANITY AND THE YOUTH WORK THIS SUMMER.
10:57:29AM I THINK IT WAS TWO DAYS BEFORE THEY WRAPPED UP THE PROGRAM
10:57:32AM AT THE END OF JULY.
10:57:33AM BUILT -- PLANTER BOXES.
10:57:36AM THOSE PLANTER BOX ALSO BE PLACED AT PROPERTIES IN EAST TAMPA
10:57:40AM THAT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WILL BE DOING WORK ON THIS SUMMER
10:57:47AM AND REMAINDER OF THE YEAR AND ABLE TO DESIGN AND PAINT
10:57:50AM EXACTLY HOW THEY WANTED -- AMAZING HOW SOME OF THE YOUNG MEN
10:57:55AM AND WOMEN DID NOT HOLD A DRILL.
10:57:58AM AND IT SHOWED.
10:57:59AM SO I THINK THAT IT WAS GOOD TRAINING FOR THEM.
10:58:02AM AND ALSO TO DO SOME GOOD AND GET OUT OF THE MONOTONY WHAT
10:58:10AM THEY ARE DOING THROUGHOUT EAST TAMPA IN PARKS AND RECREATION
10:58:12AM FACILITIES.
10:58:13AM WE ARE HAVING SOME ONGOING PUBLIC ART DISCUSSION WHEN IT
10:58:17AM COMES TO MURALS IN EAST TAMPA.
10:58:20AM THE STUDIES AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE HAVE IDENTIFIED
10:58:24AM VARIOUS SITES.
10:58:26AM WE HAVE FUND THAT ARE ALLOCATED IN FY '23 BUDGET AND LOOK
10:58:31AM FORWARD TO CONTINUING THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
10:58:33AM NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION PENNY SAVER.
10:58:35AM ON THE PREVIOUS SIDE, I WILL GO BACK.
10:58:38AM I WAS -- OUR ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTIVE CURTIS WILLIAMS SHARED
10:58:42AM THAT PICTURE WITH ME A FEW WEEKS AGO, AND YOU MAY HAVE
10:58:45AM RECEIVED NOTICE THAT THE DEMOLITION WOULD BE TAKING PLEAS ON
10:58:49AM AUGUST 2410:30 A.M.,
10:58:53AM I IMAGINE IT WILL BE A GROUND SWELL IN EAST TAMPA AND SHE
10:59:02AM WILL BE THERE WITH HER HARD HAT ON AND LOOKING FORWARD TO
10:59:06AM COME INTO FRUITION AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THAT PROJECT.
10:59:08AM LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A POINT OF PERSONAL
10:59:12AM PRIVILEGE TO THANK MISS EVA HUGHES.
10:59:14AM MISS HUGHES HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE WEST TAMPA CRA OFFICE
10:59:19AM FOR NINE AND A HALF TO TEN YEARS.
10:59:20AM SHE WILL BE TRANSITIONING TO A NEW DEPARTMENT IN THE CIT
10:59:23AM BUT SHE -- IN MY RETURNING BACK TO THE CITY OF TAMPA, MISS
10:59:27AM HUGHES HAS BEEN A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT,
10:59:32AM HISTORICAL INFORMATION THAT I HAVE ASKED JUST NOT BEING HERE
10:59:39AM OR IN THE MIDST OF THE CRA PREVIOUSLY AND THANK YOU FOR ALL
10:59:43AM THE TIME, SERVICE AND RESIDENTS OF EAST TAMPA AND THE EAST
10:59:47AM TAMPA CRA.
10:59:48AM THANK YOU, MISS HUGHES.
10:59:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:59:53AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, I HAVE KNOWN MISS HUGHES A LONG TIME
10:59:57AM AND THANK YOU TO THE SERVICE FOR EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS.
11:00:01AM IT IS HARD AND I KNOW A LONG ROAD, BUT THANK HER FOR WHAT
11:00:04AM SHE HAS DONE FOR THE FOLKS AND RESIDENTS.
11:00:06AM I WANT TO THANK YOU.
11:00:09AM I RECEIVED A CALL FROM RESIDENTS AND ONE OF YOUR BOARD
11:00:13AM MEMBERS FROM THE JOB YOU DID THIS WEEK OF GOING TO A HOUSE
11:00:17AM AND A SITUATION THERE AND TAKING CARE OF THAT.
11:00:19AM MISS COPELAND PERSONALLY CALLED ME.
11:00:25AM IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE SOMETHING, SHE WILL CALL YOU.
11:00:29AM CALLED ME RIGHT AWAY AND SAID COUNCILMAN, MAKE SURE YOU SAY
11:00:34AM A GOOD WORKED CEDRIC DID A GOOD JOB.
11:00:37AM I WANT TO TELL HER I KEEP MY WORD WHAT I AM GOING TO DO.
11:00:40AM >> THANK YOU.
11:00:41AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: EAST TAMPA IS FINALLY ON THE MOVE.
11:00:43AM WE GOT THE TRAIN MOVING OUT OF THE STATION A LITTLE BIT, YOU
11:00:46AM KNOW.
11:00:46AM I AM HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
11:00:47AM THE RESIDENTS ARE HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
11:00:49AM EXCITED.
11:00:50AM THEY SEE SOME THINGS MOVING.
11:00:51AM I TELL EVERYBODY, EAST TAMPA NOW THE BOARD IS HAVING
11:00:57AM KNOWLEDGE OF PEOPLE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER ON THE CAC BOARD
11:01:01AM NOW.
11:01:02AM SO NOW THEY QUESTION THINGS, WHERE BEFORE, PEOPLE DIDN'T
11:01:06AM QUESTION.
11:01:06AM THEY SAID WHATEVER THE CITY SAID AND WENT ALONG WITH IT, AND
11:01:11AM WE CAN GET THINGS DONE.
11:01:12AM PEOPLE ARE QUESTIONING IT.
11:01:14AM YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN THIS AREA.
11:01:17AM DR. BROOKINS.
11:01:18AM A CONSERVATIVE BOARD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:01:20AM SO SHE KNOWS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER THINGS ABOUT
11:01:24AM THAT.
11:01:24AM THE KABOOM! PROJECT.
11:01:26AM EAST TAMPA ALWAYS HAS A KABOOM!
11:01:29AM PROJECT.
11:01:29AM OPINIONED WILLIAMS PARK WILL BE THE ONE COMING UP.
11:01:33AM I ASKED THE ADMINISTRATION FOR SOME TYPE OF COMMEMORATION
11:01:37AM FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLD SUNNY BELL BE PUT ON THAT KABOOM! PROJECT.
11:01:41AM TALK OF GUN VIOLENCE SO KIDS CAN SEE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT
11:01:46AM HAPPENENED.
11:01:46AM THE MIND SET OF PARENTS TAKING KIDS TO THE PARK.
11:01:50AM WE SHOULD GET A FOLLOW-UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS IN REFERENCE
11:01:53AM TO THAT REQUEST.
11:01:54AM A GREAT PROJECT AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE EXACT
11:01:57AM DATE, CEDRIC TO BE OUT THERE AND HELP BUILD THE PROJECT.
11:02:01AM I HELPED BUILD THE ONE 30th AND OSBOURNE.
11:02:03AM I WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THAT AGAIN.
11:02:05AM >> TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR A DATE IN OCTOBER.
11:02:08AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT.
11:02:09AM BUT IF YOU GET THAT TO ME, I WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT.
11:02:12AM THE ROOF REPAIR PROGRAM.
11:02:14AM I SEE THAT COMING TO A MOVE.
11:02:16AM THANK YOU, MR. ALIS TO THAT.
11:02:19AM IN EAST TAMPA, BLUE ROOF TOPS.
11:02:22AM NO ONE DRIVING A POLICE CAR, FIRE FIGHTER, CODE ENFORCEMENT
11:02:27AM THAT SEE A ROOFTOP -- BUT WRITE IT DOWN AND LET US KNOW SO
11:02:32AM WE CAN GO OUT THERE AND HELP THOSE RESIDENTS.
11:02:34AM I THINK IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING.
11:02:35AM I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO APPRECIATE THAT.
11:02:37AM WE TALKED ABOUT THE POLES.
11:02:42AM I SEE YOU WENT TO WORK WITH TECO.
11:02:44AM FOR CHRISTMAS, HAVE THINGS -- HAVE A DIFFERENT VIBE.
11:02:48AM THE ATMOSPHERE DIFFERENT LOOKING.
11:02:50AM PEOPLE MORE INVOLVED AND ENGAGED.
11:02:52AM I AM HAPPY THAT YOU DID FOLLOW UP ON THAT AND GET THAT DONE.
11:02:55AM YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, FORWARD, PLEASE.
11:02:59AM DISAPPOINTING ON THIS PLAN -- I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A LONG
11:03:05AM TIME COMING AND NOW WE ARE AT A STANDSTILL AGAIN.
11:03:08AM I AM HOMING MR. DRUMGO WE CAN KICK THAT INTO GEAR.
11:03:12AM THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
11:03:13AM BECAUSE IF YOU CAN KILL THAT BLIGHT, YOU CAN BRING ON NEW
11:03:16AM JOY.
11:03:18AM IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP SOME FAMILIES WITHOUT STRINGENT
11:03:24AM CRITERIA TO HELP OUTSIDE, THAT INSIDE THAT HOUSE STAYS THERE
11:03:28AM AND IT DOESN'T BECOME VACANT.
11:03:30AM IT DOESN'T BECOME A DRUG HOLD.
11:03:36AM OR IT DOESN'T BECOME A PLACE OF DESTRUCTION.
11:03:38AM WE GOT TO GET THAT MOVING.
11:03:40AM I THINK THAT IS CRITICAL -- CRITICAL FOR EAST -- AND FOR THE
11:03:43AM WHOLE CITY BECAUSE THERE IS HOUSING STOCK.
11:03:46AM AND THESE KIND OF PROGRAMS WILL HELP.
11:03:47AM BUT A LOT OF TIMES THE CRITERIA HINDERS PEOPLE FROM GETTING
11:03:53AM HELP OR THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE HELP.
11:03:55AM I AM HOPING WE CAN GET THAT JUMP STARTED QUICK.
11:03:57AM I KNOW YOU HAVE TO PUT OUT AN RFP OR IN-HOUSE.
11:04:02AM WE GOT TO GET THAT MOVING.
11:04:04AM IT IS VERY CRITICAL.
11:04:06AM GLAD WE GOT THE RETREAT GOING.
11:04:08AM THAT IS VERY, VERY, VERY -- I CAN'T SAY THAT WILL HELP
11:04:12AM PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW THE CAC IS SUPPOSED TO WORK, HOW THE
11:04:16AM SUBCOMMITTEES ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK.
11:04:17AM AND THAT WE WON'T HAVE THIS TURN OVER OR THIS FLIP-FLOPPING
11:04:21AM EVERY YEAR TO WHERE YOU ARE TRAINING EVERY YEAR.
11:04:23AM AND HOPING THE BYLAW ALSO CHANGE THAT TOO BECAUSE CRUCIAL TO
11:04:30AM HAVE CONTINUITY AND HAVEN'T HAD THAT IN A WHILE.
11:04:32AM GET INTO PREDEVELOPMENT, WANT TO ASK MR. DRUMGO AND -- ABOUT
11:04:39AM THAT SP CRUCIAL.
11:04:41AM THOSE BUILDINGS I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOREVER HAVE BEEN
11:04:44AM IN THERE ALL ALONG THE CORRIDORS.
11:04:46AM THE CITY SHOULD BE APPROACHING THOSE PEOPLE TO SEE HOW WE
11:04:49AM CAN GET THEM BACK IN THE CIRCULATION.
11:04:51AM TWO OF THOSE BIG BUILDINGS CAN BE USED FOR APARTMENTS.
11:04:53AM CAN BE USED FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
11:04:55AM I AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT.
11:04:57AM DETAILS ON THAT.
11:04:58AM THE STRATEGIC APPLICATION PLAN.
11:05:01AM I AM A LITTLE DISAPPOINT WITH THAT BUT WE NEED TO MOVE ON.
11:05:05AM SUMMER PROGRAM.
11:05:06AM I MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SUMMER PROGRAM.
11:05:08AM I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT COUNCILMEMBER I WANT TO MAKE SURE I
11:05:12AM CAN MEETS AN GREET THEM.
11:05:13AM AND AT THE END, DON'T HAVE IT ON THE THURSDAY WHEREAS TO THE
11:05:17AM END OF THE PROGRAM.
11:05:18AM IT IS A PIVOTAL TO ME AND TO MEET THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE
11:05:23AM OUT THERE WORKING TO GET INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION TO
11:05:27AM UNDERSTAND THE THREE Cs AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
11:05:29AM AGAIN, GOOD PRESENTATION.
11:05:31AM WE ARE LIVE AND NEED TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THE COAL BURNING
11:05:36AM IN THE TRAIN.
11:05:37AM >> THANK YOU.
11:05:37AM THE SUMMER YOUTH PRESENTATION.
11:05:40AM ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR A TUESDAY.
11:05:41AM I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT EITHER BECAUSE HERE ON THIS
11:05:45AM THURSDAY.
11:05:45AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HAVE MY HEART FOR PENNY SAVERS.
11:05:51AM RIGHT THAT DOWN.
11:05:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE?
11:05:54AM THANK YOU.
11:05:55AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:05:55AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
11:06:09AM >> ITEM NUMBER 7 ON THE AGENDA, THE BOARD REQUESTED
11:06:14AM ADMINISTRATOR TRAVIS APPEAR ALONG WITH MANAGER McCRAY TO
11:06:18AM PROVIDE A REPORT AMENDING THE EAST TAMPA CRA PLAN AND
11:06:24AM SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE GOVERNANCE WITHIN THAT
11:06:28AM PARTICULAR CAC.
11:06:29AM SO I WILL TAKE -- I WILL TAKE THOSE SLIDES, THANK YOU.
11:06:33AM HERE IS YOUR MOTION.
11:06:37AM AND JUST FOR BACKGROUND, THE CRA HAS A FORMAL BOARD POLICY
11:06:46AM REGARDING THE ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS OF THE SUSPECTED
11:06:49AM CACs
11:06:50AM CURRENTLY ONLY EAST TAMPA AND YBOR CRAs HAVE COMMUNITY
11:06:56AM REPRESENTED ORGANIZATIONS.
11:06:57AM WITH EAST TAMPA ONLY WITHOUT EX-OFFICIO.
11:07:03AM THE EAST TAMPA, THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION
11:07:08AM PARTNERSHIP.
11:07:08AM A BROAD.-BASED GROUP OF NEIGHBORHOOD CIVIC INSTITUTIONS THAT
11:07:13AM HAVE INTEREST IN EAST TAMPA OVERALL.
11:07:15AM THE CURRENT STRUCTURE OF THAT PARTICULAR CAC, THE TOTAL 13
11:07:20AM MEMBERS.
11:07:21AM FOUR OF THOSE -- FOUR RESIDENTS MINIMUM.
11:07:24AM ONE FOR PROFIT.
11:07:25AM ONE FOR BUSINESS OWNER.
11:07:26AM ONE FOR NOT-FOR OPINION PROFIT REPRESENTATIVE.
11:07:30AM ONE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE REST IS AT LARGE.
11:07:32AM AND SO, I THINK THIS HAS COME BEFORE YOU AS A BOARD SEVERAL
11:07:38AM TIMES OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS AND I WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU
11:07:44AM WITH A COUPLE OF OPTIONS OF HOW TO ADDRESS THE GOVERNANCE.
11:07:48AM THIS FINAL SLIDE HERE REALLY BREAKS DOWN THOSE THREE
11:07:51AM OPTIONS.
11:07:51AM THE FIRST OPTION IS REALLY FOR THE BOARD TO REVISE ITS
11:07:54AM POLICY ON CACs.
11:07:56AM SO WITH THAT REVISION, YOU CAN REQUEST THAT THE PARTNERSHIP
11:07:59AM AMEND ITS BYLAWS THAT ALIGN WITH SOMETHING THAT IS MORE
11:08:05AM AMENABLE TO THE -- I WOULD SAY THE REST OF THE CACs SO THEY
11:08:09AM ALL HAVE CONSISTENT AND SIMILAR STRUCTURES.
11:08:11AM THAT IS YOUR FIRST OPTION.
11:08:14AM THE SECOND OPTION WOULD BE TO UPDATE THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
11:08:23AM AND THE WAY IT IS STRUCTURED, IT IS TETHERED TO YOUR CAC.
11:08:28AM WHAT THE UPDATE COULD DO IS -- BASICALLY GO IN AND ATTACK
11:08:32AM THAT GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND MAKE SURE THOSE TWO ENTITIES
11:08:36AM COME OUT SEPARATE AND STAND-ALONE ENTITIES FROM ONE ANOTHER.
11:08:41AM THE THIRD IS REALLY FOR THE CRP TO ADVISE ITS OWN BYLAWS
11:08:47AM WHICH IT CAN DO WITH TWO THIRD-MEMBER VOTES.
11:08:50AM AND THAT WILL PROBABLY BE THE MOST CHALLENGING TO GET
11:08:55AM THE CRP TO DO THAT ON ITS OWN.
11:08:56AM WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THREE OPTIONS AND FROM A STAFF
11:09:00AM RECOMMENDATION DIDN'T, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE BEST WAY TO
11:09:03AM PROBABLY GO ABOUT IT A WHY UP DATE THE PLAN AND CHANGING OF
11:09:08AM GOVERNANCE ONE OF THOSE KEY FEATURES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE
11:09:12AM AS AN OUTCOME.
11:09:12AM YOU CAN DO THAT AND MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION.
11:09:15AM THE CAC ALREADY VOTED TO UPDATE THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN EVEN
11:09:20AM SNOW WE HAVE AN SAP UPDATE FOR YOU TODAY.
11:09:25AM AND THAT REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE AND FOCUSED ON THE CHANGE
11:09:29AM IN GOVERNANCE OR THE GOVERNING STRUCTURE CAN BE A MORE
11:09:34AM FAVORABLE I DON'T OUT COME.
11:09:37AM AND CONSULTANTS CAN TALK TO THE GROUPS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT
11:09:41AM IS AMENABLE TO THE COMMUNITY AND CAC AND TO THE COMMUNITY
11:09:44AM REALLY TO MAKE SURE REPRESENTATION IS SUFFICIENT.
11:09:46AM I WILL STOP AND ASK FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
11:09:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:09:51AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I LIKE OPTION TWO.
11:09:54AM THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY HAS SAT ON THAT BOARD AND HAD TO
11:10:00AM UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE
11:10:03AM BOARD.
11:10:06AM IT WAS TOTALLY CONFUSING.
11:10:08AM TOTALLY CONFUSING.
11:10:09AM PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLES AND WHAT LANE THEY NEED
11:10:13AM TO BE IN.
11:10:13AM WE HAVE THE SUBCOMMITTEE.
11:10:17AM TOTAL CHAOS.
11:10:19AM I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND ANYBODY BUT CHAOTIC AT TIMES.
11:10:23AM NEW PEOPLE COMING IN AND DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CHAIN OF
11:10:28AM COMMAND -- OR ASSUME OF THE CHAIN OF COMMAND.
11:10:30AM IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AND I HAVE BEEN TO SEVERAL MEETINGS AND
11:10:33AM THEY ARE GETTING BETTER, BUT THE MERE FACT OF -- THE
11:10:37AM BICKERING.
11:10:37AM A LOT OF THAT.
11:10:39AM BECAUSE YOU -- IT'S -- IT'S REALLY CONFUSING EVERYBODY.
11:10:46AM AND I THINK FOR ME I WOULD PUT A MOTION TO THAT TO LOOK THEM
11:10:49AM TO G GET TO UPDATE THE PLAN.
11:10:51AM I THINK THAT IS NEEDED.
11:10:53AM >> SECOND.
11:10:56AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: CHAOTIC -- HEY, BETTER WAY TO SAY IT.
11:11:01AM BUT PEOPLE HERE -- AND WITH -- WITH UPDATING THE PLAN AND
11:11:05AM HAVING THE RETREAT WILL BE ABLE TO GET IT ALL IN LINE.
11:11:09AM AND WITH WHY YOU ARE BYLAWS, EVERYTHING IN LINE TO WHERE IT
11:11:14AM WILL BE MORE FUNCTIONAL COMPARED TO DYSFUNCTIONAL AND HAVE
11:11:18AM PEOPLE HAPPY COMING TO THE MEETINGS THAN NOT.
11:11:21AM AND THEN -- I WILL BE CANDID, ALSO THE VOTING PROCESS AT
11:11:26AM THOSE MEETINGS.
11:11:27AM PEOPLE COMING IN LATE OR PEOPLE LEARNING EARLY BEFORE A VOTE
11:11:34AM CAN BE TAKEN AND NOW YOU DON'T HAVE A QUORUM TO VOTE ON
11:11:38AM ITEMS.
11:11:39AM THAT IS A CHALLENGE.
11:11:40AM WHAT ONE PERSON LIKES AND YOU STILL HAVE ITEMS TO VOTE ON.
11:11:44AM AND THEN SUPREME LEFT THE MEETING AND YOU CAN'T VOTE.
11:11:48AM IT IS FACTUAL.
11:11:49AM IT IS FACTUAL.
11:11:51AM I HAVE BEEN THERE AND SEEN IT.
11:11:53AM I SAT ON BOARDS WHERE IT HAS HAPPENED.
11:11:55AM I THINK THE UPDATE IS GOOD AND ALSO EN CORPORATE SOMETHING
11:12:01AM IN THERE TO HAVE A BETTER FUNCTIONING BOARD.
11:12:03AM MISS TATE IS DOING A GOOD JOB.
11:12:06AM THE OTHER CHAIR FOLKS HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB AS WELL WHO HAVE
11:12:09AM BEEN THE CHAIR, BUT YOU GOT ALL THE OTHER FORCES THAT YOU
11:12:13AM HAVE TO FIGHT WITH.
11:12:14AM AND GOING HERE AND THERE WITH NO IDEAS.
11:12:16AM I THINK IT WILL HELP THE MANAGER A LITTLE BIT BETTER AS
11:12:21AM WELL.
11:12:21AM SO I -- THE MOTION IS ON THE FLOOR.
11:12:23AM MR. CARLSON SECONDED IT ALREADY.
11:12:26AM MADAM CHAIR.
11:12:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:12:30AM >>BILL CARLSON: I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE JUST SAID.
11:12:33AM OVER THE YEARS, I HAVE BEEN ASKED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE
11:12:37AM COMMUNITY TO EITHER SIT IN AND LISTEN TO THESE MEETINGS, AND
11:12:41AM THEY WERE VERY CONFUSING.
11:12:42AM AND I THINK STAFF WAS CONFUSED.
11:12:45AM SO SOME EXTENT, STAFF DIDN'T GIVE THEM THE RESOURCES THEY
11:12:49AM NEEDED EITHER.
11:12:50AM I THINK WE HAVE FIXED THAT AND WE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE COME
11:12:54AM OUT AND COMPLAIN.
11:12:55AM WE HAD SIMILAR ISSUES IN YBOR, AND THERE IS -- THERE IS THE
11:13:00AM CONFUSION IN THE STRUCTURE.
11:13:04AM CONFUSION WHO IS IN CHARGE AND ABOUT BRAND AND IN YBOR WE
11:13:10AM HAVE MOVED THE BRAND OVER.
11:13:10AM I WISH WE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE OTHER BRAND
11:13:15AM SO NO LINGERING CONFUSION.
11:13:16AM I THINK WE SHOULD SUNSET IT AND PUT THE $20,000 FOR THE.
11:13:27AM PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT WITH THE CRA.
11:13:33AM AND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
11:13:35AM AND WE NEED LIKE THE SIGNS.
11:13:39AM AND I DON'T THINK THEY SAY CRA BIG ENOUGH.
11:13:42AM AND WE NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS IS WHERE YOUR CRA IS GOING.
11:13:47AM THIS IS HOW WE ARE SPEND IT.
11:13:48AM THE OTHER THING IS THE ELECTION PROCESS.
11:13:50AM AND THE IMPORTANT OF BOARD MEMBERS.
11:13:53AM MASSIVE CONFUSION.
11:13:54AM MASSIVE DISAGREEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY THE WAY IT HAS BEEN IN
11:13:58AM THE PAST AS I UNDERSTAND IT.
11:14:00AM ANYBODY WHO HAS ATTENDED A BOARD -- A MEETING IN THE PAST IS
11:14:04AM ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, BUT THEN THERE HAS BEEN CONFUSION WHO OWNS
11:14:07AM THE LIST.
11:14:07AM WHO QUALIFIES.
11:14:08AM WHO CAN VOTE.
11:14:09AM AND THEN CAMPAIGNING IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:14:11AM AND THERE ARE THESE FACTIONS THAT FIGHT EACH OTHER.
11:14:15AM WE SAW THEM ALL COME TOGETHER, BY THE WAY, TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
11:14:18AM HOW THE CRA WAS WORK WITH THEM.
11:14:23AM WE NEED TO END THAT AND BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER
11:14:26AM INSTEAD.
11:14:27AM AND I THINK IN WHATEVER WE DO, NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO.
11:14:30AM BUT WE NEED TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HOW PEOPLE ARE PICKED
11:14:33AM FOR THE BOARD.
11:14:34AM AND IT -- IT SHOULDN'T RESULT IN DIVISION OF THE COMMUNITY.
11:14:37AM SHOULD SOMEHOW BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
11:14:39AM AND IT SHOULD BE CLEARLY STATED THAT THE PROBLEM THE WAY THE
11:14:43AM STRUCTURE IS RIGHT NOW IS THAT -- IN THE PAST, THE STAFF
11:14:48AM MEMBERS WERE ASSISTING, BUT THEY WEREN'T IN CHARGE OF TH
11:14:51AM PROCESS.
11:14:51AM SO WE ALL GOT BLAMED FOR THE PROCESS EVEN THOUGH WE
11:14:54AM TECHNICALLY, LEGALLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
11:14:58AM SO I WANTED TO CLEAN UP THAT PROCESS AS PART OF THIS AS
11:15:02AM WELL.
11:15:02AM THANK YOU.
11:15:03AM >> MAY I --
11:15:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
11:15:06AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I JUST NEED TO PUT IN MY TWO CENTS.
11:15:10AM COMING FROM MY BACKGROUND WITH THE CRA IN YBOR CITY.
11:15:19AM WE TAKE THE ROCK -- WE KNOW THE WRESTLER, THE ROCK.
11:15:23AM WE KNOW HIS FAMOUS LINE, KNOW YOUR ROLE.
11:15:30AM I HAVE NO SENSE OF ANY CRA, BUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR
11:15:34AM ROLE IS, HOW CAN YOU COMPLETE YOUR ROLE?
11:15:36AM HOW CAN YOU ADD YOUR WISDOM, YOUR KNOWLEDGE?
11:15:39AM I GO TO SEVERAL CRA MEETINGS.
11:15:41AM I HAVE BEEN TO WEST TAMPA MEETINGS.
11:15:44AM I HAVE BEEN TO EAST TAMPA MEETINGS.
11:15:47AM I.
11:15:51AM THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT OF IDENTIFICATION ON WHAT YOUR
11:15:54AM ROLE IS, WHETHER IT IS A COMMITTEE MEMBER, WHETHER IT IS A
11:15:57AM BOARD MEMBER.
11:15:58AM WHAT TIMES YOU ARE EXPECTED TO BE THERE HOW YOU VOTE.
11:16:04AM AGAIN, IT IS JUST FROM MY BACKGROUND WITH THE CRA I WORKED
11:16:10AM WITH FOR ALMOST EIGHT YEARS.
11:16:11AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:16:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:16:15AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:16:18AM JUST FOR THE PUBLIC, I JUST GOT HERE.
11:16:20AM I GOT ON THE INTERSTATE ON I-75, 7:55 AND 8 A.M.
11:16:27AM I JUST GOT HERE.
11:16:28AM A DOUBLE FATALITY THAT AND 200 AND I WAS STUCK ON THE
11:16:34AM INTERSTATE STUCK TWO AND A HALF HOURS.
11:16:36AM NEVER HAVE THAT HAPPEN JUST TO EXPLAIN MY ABSENCE.
11:16:40AM THANK YOU.
11:16:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER -- I
11:16:45AM AM SORRY BOARD MEMBER -- CAN YOU REPEAT THE MOTION?
11:16:49AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE MOTION WILL BE TO GO WITH OPTION NUMBER
11:16:52AM TWO.
11:16:52AM ALONG WITH THE RETREAT AND BYLAWS TO BE ADDED IN THE UPDATE.
11:16:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WAS SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:17:04AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:17:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:17:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:17:09AM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM SO SORRY.
11:17:11AM I JUST GOT IN.
11:17:12AM WHAT -- CAN WE EXPLAIN --
11:17:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ON ITEM NUMBER 7.
11:17:17AM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST APPROVING.
11:17:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE ARE CHOOSING OPTION TO UPDATE THE
11:17:23AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:17:24AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: STAFF PRESENTED THREE OPTIONS FOR THE BOARD
11:17:27AM TO CONSIDER ABOUT HOW TO CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL GOVERNMENT
11:17:31AM ISSUES AND THE POSSIBLE RESTRUCTURES OF HOW THE EAST TAMPA
11:17:36AM CAC IS STRUCTURED.
11:17:38AM WHAT THE CURRENT MOTION BEFORE THE BOARD IS OPTION NUMBER --
11:17:42AM OPTION NUMBER 2, TO REVIEW AND COME UP WITH SUGGESTIONS OF
11:17:46AM HOW TO REVISE THE GOVERNANCE ISSUE THROUGH THE UPDATE AND
11:17:50AM THE REWRITE OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR EAST
11:17:55AM TAMPA CRA WHICH IS WITHIN THEIR --
11:18:02AM >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL TRUST THE MAKER.
11:18:03AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CAN I SAY SOMETHING.
11:18:05AM THIS IS NOT UNIQUE.
11:18:06AM ALL OF THE CRAS ARE STRUCTURED THE SAME WAY, AM I CORRECT?
11:18:10AM TO SOME DEGREE.
11:18:13AM PEOPLE WANT TO BE BOARD MEMBERS, THEY GET VOTED IN.
11:18:18AM WE DON'T MAKE THE CHOICE.
11:18:19AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: SO YOU UNDERSTAND WE ARE TALKING OF THE
11:18:22AM CACs.
11:18:23AM THE ADVISORY COMMITTEES FOR EACH OF THE AREAS.
11:18:26AM OF YOUR EIGHT CRAs, CACs THAT YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED, BY
11:18:32AM POLICY, THE SLATE ACTUALLY COMES BEFORE YOU ACTUAL APPROVE.
11:18:37AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: RIGHT.
11:18:38AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: EXCEPT FOR -- TWO EXCEPTIONS, THE TWO
11:18:41AM EXCEPTIONS ARE EAST TAMPA AND YBOR.
11:18:43AM THE CAC FOR YBOR IS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE YDDC.
11:18:55AM AND THE CAC FOR EAST TAMPA IS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE
11:18:59AM EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP -- REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP.
11:19:02AM SO THEY ARE -- THEY ARE SELECTED TEMPORARILY.
11:19:04AM NOW YOU DO HAVE TO GIVE FINAL -- YOUR FINAL BLESSING TO
11:19:09AM SLATE OF CANDIDATES AND BOARD MEMBERS.
11:19:10AM NOT SOMETHING THAT FORMALLY COMES BEFORE YOU AND THE OTHER
11:19:17AM CACs HAVE DESIGNATED SPOTS.
11:19:19AM EX-OFFICIO FOR NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND THAT HAVE AN INTEREST
11:19:26AM IN THE AREA.
11:19:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: APPROVE VOTES NO MATTER WHAT AREA YOU ARE
11:19:31AM IN.
11:19:31AM >> YES, SIR.
11:19:32AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE SAME THING IN A WAY?
11:19:35AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IN A WAY.
11:19:36AM THIS BOARD HAS NEVER NOT APPROVED THE DIRECTION BY THE YDCD
11:19:42AM BOARD OR THE WEST TAMPA FOLKS.
11:19:44AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME ASK ANOTHER QUESTION, IF I MAY,
11:19:47AM MADAM CHAIR.
11:19:48AM WHAT I HAVE HEARD AND I HAVE BEEN SILENT, JUST LISTENING.
11:19:52AM ANYTHING ON THE RECORD IF YOU MISS SO MANY VOTES YOU ARE
11:19:55AM OUT, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:19:56AM I DON'T KNOW.
11:19:57AM THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
11:19:59AM THEY ARE ALL THE SAME
11:20:01AM >> THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
11:20:02AM BOARD MEMBER, I WILL TELL THAT YOU EAST TAMPA THEY HAVE
11:20:06AM PROVISIONS IN THERE FOR MISSING MEETINGS, BUT I WILL SAY
11:20:10AM THAT IT IS VERY SCARCE.
11:20:12AM CURRENTLY IN ORDER TO VOTE IN THE ELECTIONS, THE PARTNERSHIP
11:20:16AM MEMBERS ONLY NEED TO ATTEND TWO MEETINGS.
11:20:19AM THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION AT THE LAST CAC MEETING TO TWEAK
11:20:23AM THAT, AND PRETTY -- I WOULD CALL IT ASSERTIVE.
11:20:26AM THE FOLKS DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO SAY TEND MORE MEETINGS
11:20:29AM DESPITE THE FACT THEY HAVE 93 OPPORTUNITIES TO ATTEND THE
11:20:32AM MEETINGS.
11:20:36AM THEY ONLY HAVE TO ATTEND TWO OF THOSE TO CHOOSE THE CAC
11:20:42AM MEMBERS.
11:20:42AM 93 MEETINGS, SUBCOMMITTEE, REGULAR MEETINGS.
11:20:45AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW DO YOU SOLVE THAT WITHOUT CHANGING
11:20:49AM THE PROCESS.
11:20:52AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
11:20:53AM THE CONCEPT TO ASK THE CONSULTANTS OF A PLAN TO COME UP WITH
11:20:58AM SUGGESTIONS OF HOW THAT PROCESS COULD BE CHANGED.
11:21:02AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF WE CHANGE THE PROCESS AND HAVE THE
11:21:04AM SAME PEOPLE, WHAT CHANGES?
11:21:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK -- I THINK WHAT HAPPENS IN CASE IS
11:21:09AM THAT -- OKAY, THE OTHER CACs, SOMEBODY NOMINATES THEM AND WE
11:21:14AM APPROVE THEM AND THEY GO ON.
11:21:15AM WE HAVE DIRECT CONTROL.
11:21:17AM WHAT HAPPENS HERE IS THAT MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY, THEY
11:21:20AM DON'T HAVE TO SIT ON THE BOARD AND JUST BE MEMBERS OF THE
11:21:23AM COMMUNITY.
11:21:23AM THEY GO TO TWO MEETINGS AND ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
11:21:26AM THE COMMUNITY VOTES EVERYBODY IN AND THEN WE ARE GIVING AND
11:21:32AM THE REASON WHY WE WOULD NEVER UNDO THAT BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T
11:21:35AM WANT TO GO AGAINST THE COMMUNITY AND ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF
11:21:37AM FACTIONS AND DISAGREEMENT BECAUSE OF THAT PROCESS AND WE
11:21:41AM THINK EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE FOR US TO CLEAN
11:21:43AM IT UP SO THERE IS NO MORE ARGUING.
11:21:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:21:47AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DRUMGO.
11:21:50AM I HEARD ABOUT IT.
11:21:50AM MR. McCRAY, I HEARD ABOUT THAT.
11:21:53AM AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY MEETINGS THERE WERE.
11:21:55AM BUT I AM GOING TO TELL YOU TO HAVE 93 MEETINGS A YEAR AND
11:22:00AM ONLY ATTEND TWO?
11:22:02AM THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
11:22:04AM YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON TO BE ABLE TO VOTE
11:22:07AM GOING TO TWO MEETINGS.
11:22:09AM YOU ARE GO -- SOMEBODY WITH THE VOTE -- YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF
11:22:12AM THE WORK BEING PUT IN AND YOU ARE VOTING A CERTAIN WAY.
11:22:14AM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY TO ME.
11:22:17AM I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL NEED TO
11:22:19AM CHANGE.
11:22:20AM I JUST WON'T TOLERATE THAT.
11:22:21AM 93 MEETINGS AND ONLY ATTEND TWO AND YOU CAN VOTE TO CHANGE
11:22:25AM WHATEVER, WHATEVER.
11:22:26AM SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ON THE TABLE FROM A YEAR PREVIOUS TO
11:22:29AM -- THAT IS A PROBLEM.
11:22:30AM WILL BE MAKING THINGS -- ROADBLOCKS.
11:22:33AM I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
11:22:35AM THAT HAS GOT TO CHANGE.
11:22:36AM CONTINUITY IN PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY VESTED IN THE BOARD,
11:22:40AM VESTED IN THE PROJECTS.
11:22:41AM NOT LIKE WE WANT TO BE ON THERE BECAUSE I WANT MY WAY AND
11:22:45AM NOT GETTING THAT PROJECT DONE.
11:22:47AM YOU GOT TO HAVE PEOPLE INVESTED AND COMMITMENT.
11:22:49AM THIS COMMITMENT HERE.
11:22:50AM IF YOU MISS ANY MEETINGS.
11:22:52AM SOMEBODY WILL SAY THEY DON'T NEED TO BE ON THIS BOARD
11:22:55AM ANYMORE.
11:22:55AM I WANT SOME COMMITMENT WITH THAT.
11:22:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
11:23:00AM WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE WHO ATTEND THE MEETING SITTING IN THE
11:23:03AM BACK.
11:23:03AM POSSIBLE TO GET A 30-SECOND FEEDBACK WHETHER THEY AGREE OR
11:23:07AM DISAGREE.
11:23:08AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU WOULD WANT THAT, YOU WOULD WAIVE
11:23:10AM YOUR RULES TO ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
11:23:13AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:23:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A VOTE.
11:23:17AM DO YOU WANT TO FINISH THE VOTE AND THEN LISTEN OR STOP THE
11:23:20AM VOTE.
11:23:21AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHATEVER YOU DECIDE, MADAM CHAIR.
11:23:24AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU WANT TO STOP THE VOTE.
11:23:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY STOP THE VOTE.
11:23:28AM AND -- CAN WE DO THAT AND REVOTE?
11:23:32AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: OR YOU CAN TABLE THE MOTION UNTIL YOU HEARD
11:23:35AM FROM THE INDIVIDUAL.
11:23:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A -- I HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE BY BOARD
11:23:42AM MEMBER GUDES AND SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
11:23:45AM IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE THAT MOTION TO WAIVE --
11:23:49AM >> WAIVE THE RULES.
11:23:50AM >> SECOND.
11:23:50AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES
11:23:55AM TO WAIVE THE RULES AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:24:00AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
11:24:02AM SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT.
11:24:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: LET'S PUT A MOTION.
11:24:06AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL VOTE YES ON BOTH.
11:24:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE FORS ONE.
11:24:11AM SORRY.
11:24:11AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:24:12AM AND THE SECOND ONE, ALL IN FAVOR.
11:24:14AM AYE.
11:24:15AM >> GOOD MORNING, ALISON HEWITT.
11:24:26AM I SIT ON THE EVALUATION AND PLANNING COMMITTEE.
11:24:28AM WHEN CHARM TATE BECAME CHAIR, PUT CLINT HARRIS ANOTHER CAC
11:24:35AM MEMBER AS CHAIRMAN OF THE CAC.
11:24:37AM WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE BYLAWS.
11:24:41AM PRETTY MUCH A DISASTER.
11:24:43AM IF YOU HAVE FOLKS WHO DON'T ATTEND THE MEETING AS CAC
11:24:46AM MEMBERS, THE ONLY RECOURSE YOU HAVE IS TO BE ABLE TO SEND A
11:24:50AM LETTER SAYING PLEASE SEND THE MEETING.
11:24:52AM SO NO WARNING.
11:24:53AM NO ABLE TO RETHE -- TO REMOVE THE PERSON -- THE PEOPLE WHO
11:24:59AM MAY KEEP YOU FROM DOING A QUORUM.
11:25:01AM WE HAVE BEEN SPEND A LOT OF TIME GOING OVER THE BYLAWS AND
11:25:07AM ONE OF THE MANY CHALLENGES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DESCRIBE
11:25:10AM SOMETHING CONTINUITY.
11:25:12AM WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO HAVE THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PROJECTS.
11:25:16AM AND YOU DON'T HAVE ATTENDANCE OR YOU HAVE FOLKS TO WHO SAY
11:25:25AM WE ARE NOT GOING TO TALK OF THE PROJECTS BECAUSE OF ELECTION
11:25:28AM BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE POTENTIALLY SIX NEW PEOPLE.
11:25:30AM AND YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A PRESENTATION THAT WILL COME
11:25:35AM IN JUNE AND SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING UNTIL AFTER
11:25:38AM THE ELECTION BECAUSE A WHOLE GROUP OF PEOPLE, NEW FOLKS TO
11:25:41AM EDUCATE ABOUT THE PROCESS OR THE PROJECT.
11:25:43AM I WILL SAY THAT THE -- THAT THE EVALUATION AND PLANNING
11:25:48AM COMMITTEE IS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO -- TO WORK WITH STAFF
11:25:51AM ON CHANGING IT BECAUSE THEY ARE INCONSISTENCIES OF THE
11:26:00AM PARTNERSHIP AND THE CAC BYLAWS.
11:26:03AM THE CAC GOES TO MEETING DOESN'T HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
11:26:09AM WHICH BYLAWS ARE GOVERNING THE PROJECTS THEY ARE TALKING
11:26:13AM ABOUT.
11:26:13AM A MISUNDERSTANDING WHO GETS TO VOTE AT A PARTNERSHIP MEETING
11:26:16AM AND HOW YOU VOTE AT THE PARTNERSHIP MEETING.
11:26:19AM AND SO WE HAVE THIS SWELL OF INTEREST AND MORE PEOPLE
11:26:24AM ATTENDING MEETINGS.
11:26:25AM AS MORE PEOPLE ARE ATTENDING MEETINGS, THEY ARE GETTING
11:26:27AM FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THE RULES, THE ROLES, THE UNDERSTANDING
11:26:31AM IS UNCLEAR.
11:26:32AM SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO, AS A MEMBER OF EVALUATION AND
11:26:35AM PLANNING, OF THOSE 93 MEETINGS, I PROBABLY GO TO 80 OF THEM
11:26:41AM A YEAR.
11:26:41AM I DEFINITELY AGREE WE HAD A VERY ENERGETIC DISCUSSION AT THE
11:26:47AM COMMITTEE BECAUSE THE COMMITTEE ACTUALLY SAID EIGHT
11:26:49AM MEETINGS.
11:26:49AM AND THEN AT THE CAC WENT DOWN TO SIX AND FOUR AND YOU DON'T
11:27:00AM KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE DOING AND CAN'T ATTEND THE
11:27:03AM MEETINGS AND WE HAVE REAL WORLD ISSUES THAT WE ARE DEALING
11:27:08AM WITH AND WOULD LIKE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE AND VOTE.
11:27:10AM AND MORE THAN TWO MEET ALSO NOT GIVE YOU ENOUGH INFORMATION
11:27:13AM ON WHO WAS ACTIVE, WHO IS MAKING THE PRESENTATIONS, WHO I
11:27:17AM INVESTING.
11:27:18AM AND QUITE HONESTLY, WE HAVE CONTRACTOR WHO ARE NOT TAKING
11:27:22AM CARE OF -- OF THE PEOPLE HOUSE THAT WERE CONTRACTED THROUGH
11:27:25AM THE CITY TO DO WORK.
11:27:26AM SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE NOT PARTICIPATING.
11:27:31AM IF YOU ARE NOT LISTENING TO THE MEETINGS, YOU CAN COME IN TO
11:27:35AM THE TWO MEETINGS AND SOMEONE CAN SAY TO YOU, YOU HAVE BEEN
11:27:38AM TO TWO MEETINGS AND NEED TO YOU VOTE ON THIS.
11:27:40AM WE ARE NOT MAKING IT BASED ON TO SEE ALL THE WORK THAT
11:27:43AM PEOPLE ARE PUTTING IN.
11:27:44AM WE HAVE A GROUP OF FOLKS TO ARE THERE COMING TO COMMITTEE
11:27:48AM MEETINGS.
11:27:48AM SIGNING ON.
11:27:49AM THAT IS ONE THING I WILL SAY IF I CAN PUT A SHAMELESS PLUG.
11:27:52AM IF WE CAN ALSO PUT IN OUR BUDGET TO INVEST IN SOME
11:27:56AM TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF SENIORS WHO PARTICIPATE.
11:28:02AM AND THEY ARE NOT COMFORTABLE COMING TO THE MEETINGS AND A
11:28:06AM HARD TIME FOR THE TEAMS FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO HEAR.
11:28:08AM WE WILL HAVE EVEN MORE CONVERSATION ONCE WE CONNECT FOR OUR
11:28:14AM SENIORS.
11:28:15AM IN EAST TAMPA, WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT SENIOR POPULATION AND
11:28:20AM THANK GOD HER ACTIVE.
11:28:21AM MY 30 SECOND OR A LITTLE BIT MORE SP IEL AS A PARTNER IN THE
11:28:26AM EAST TAMPA CAC.
11:28:29AM >> GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, I AM KEELA McCASKILL AND I SERVE ON
11:28:37AM THE COMMITTEE FOR MEMBERSHIP AND OUTREACH.
11:28:40AM AND I SUPPORT THE REVISIONS AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
11:28:42AM IT IS DOWNRIGHT EMBARRASSING TO HAVE YOU AT THE MEETING AND
11:28:47AM HALF OF THEM ARE NOT THERE.
11:28:49AM YOU DON'T HAVE A QUORUM AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING.
11:28:51AM OR PEOPLE COME IN AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING.
11:28:54AM IT IS VERY CONFUSING.
11:28:55AM DRAW PEOPLE WITH INTEREST.
11:28:57AM TO SEE THAT THE PEOPLE REPRESENTING IS ALSO VESTED AND THEY
11:29:01AM ARE PARTICIPATING, ENGAGING AND KNOWLEDGEABLE AT THE SAME
11:29:03AM TIME.
11:29:03AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN TWO.
11:29:05AM YOU HAVE TO HAVE ATTEND TWO MEET INFORMATION ORDER TO VOTE.
11:29:08AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE REVISIONS.
11:29:10AM ONE THING -- MAYBE THIS IS NOT THE PLACE BUT I WILL MENTION
11:29:14AM THIS.
11:29:14AM ONE OF THE REASONS WE ARE LOSING SUCH A KEY STAFF MEMBER IN
11:29:18AM THE EAST TAMPA CAC IS BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERWORKED.
11:29:21AM I HEARD 93 MEETINGS.
11:29:24AM I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE I AM PROBABLY AT 90.
11:29:26AM I DIDN'T THINK OF THE STAFF BEING PRESENT AT EVERY SINGLE
11:29:30AM MEETING.
11:29:30AM 93 SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND THEY ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE THE
11:29:35AM REVISION RIGHT ALONG WITH THE REST OF THIS.
11:29:37AM MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE THERE.
11:29:38AM MAYBE TECHNOLOGY THAT SHE JUST MENTIONED.
11:29:41AM IF IT IS THERE AND THE MEETING IS RECORDED.
11:29:43AM WE DON'T NEED THE STAFF THERE.
11:29:44AM THEY HAVE CHILDREN.
11:29:45AM THEY HAVE LIVES.
11:29:46AM THEY DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR 93 MEETINGS.
11:29:48AM I KNOW THEY HAVE A JOB TO DO, BUT I THINK THAT IS A BIT
11:29:51AM EXCESSIVE.
11:29:52AM IF WE CAN MAKE THAT REVISION WHILE WE ARE DOING THAT, IF
11:29:55AM POSSIBLE.
11:29:55AM WE DON'T NEED STAFF OF PRESENT AT ALL 93 SUBCOMMITTEE
11:29:59AM MEETINGS.
11:30:00AM I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO HAVE 93 A MONTH -- AS MANY
11:30:03AM MEETINGS.
11:30:04AM MAY NEED TO CUT THAT IN HALF.
11:30:06AM SOMETHING TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AND ALSO THE
11:30:08AM STAFF BECAUSE THEY ARE PEOPLE.
11:30:10AM NOT ROBOTS.
11:30:11AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE REVISIONS AND I SUPPORT THE CHANGE,
11:30:15AM THANK YOU.
11:30:15AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:30:18AM THOSE 92 MEETINGS, TAKE OUT THE VACATION TIME AND HOLIDAYS,
11:30:22AM THAT IS TWO MEETINGS A WEEK.
11:30:24AM NOT ONLY THAT, YOU BREAK UP TWO DIFFERENT -- YOU HAVE
11:30:29AM SOMETIMES THREE TO FOUR MEETINGS A WEEK.
11:30:31AM I DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE CAN ATTEND
11:30:35AM 92 MEETINGS.
11:30:36AM IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A FAMILY AND LOOK AROUND WHAT IS
11:30:39AM GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND ATTEND 92 MEETINGS.
11:30:44AM ESPECIALLY YOU ARE VOLUNTEERING AND TRYING TO DO THE BEST
11:30:48AM FOR YOUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
11:30:50AM MAKE IT COME UP.
11:30:51AM SUCCESS HAS BEEN OUR FAILURE.
11:30:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WOULD YOU LIKE TO REVIVE YOUR MOTION?
11:31:01AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: IT IS CLEAR.
11:31:03AM THE UPDATE TO -- UPDATE THE COMMUNITY PLANS AND BYLAWS FOR
11:31:12AM AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORGANIZATION.
11:31:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:31:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:31:15AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES MADE A MOTION AND BOARDMEMBER CARLSON
11:31:20AM SECONDED.
11:31:21AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:31:23AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:31:24AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:31:25AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:31:26AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
11:31:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES, 92 TIMES.
11:31:29AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
11:31:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:31:32AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUS ME.
11:31:35AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I ASK STAFF -- WINS IS HE WENT INTO THIS
11:31:39AM LONG DISCUSSION OF EAST TAMPA.
11:31:40AM IT IS DIFFERENT.
11:31:41AM SHOULD MAKE A SIMILAR MOTION FOR YBOR.
11:31:44AM IF WE FIX THIS ONE, YBOR WILL BE THE ONLY OUTLIER.
11:31:49AM >> I WOULD SAY WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION WITH THE
11:31:51AM CAC FIRST IF THAT IS THE DESIRE THAT WAY.
11:31:53AM THEY CAN AT LEAST BE ABLE TO WEIGH IN SIMILAR TO THE WAY
11:31:58AM EAST TAMPA CAC WEIGHED IN ON THAT MATTER CHERYL CHERYL DO WE
11:32:03AM NEED A MOTION.
11:32:05AM >> WE WILL GO BACK AND DO IT.
11:32:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
11:32:07AM >> ALL RIGHT, ITEM NUMBER 8 ON THE AGENDA.
11:32:13AM AT OUR JUNE MEETING, I BELIEVE, THAT THE BOARD ASKED FOR A
11:32:16AM REPORT ON AVAILABLE LANDS IN EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:32:19AM THIS WAS GEARED MORE TOWARD AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:32:24AM I KNOW SOME FOLKS HAVE ASKED FOR THIS LIST AS WELL, AND I
11:32:28AM SUBMIT A KEEP OF THIS LIST FOR THE RECORD, AN UPDATED MEMO
11:32:31AM WITH A BREAKDOWN OF THE AVAILABLE LAND.
11:32:33AM YOU ALL HAVE A COPY AND I SUBMITTED A COPY FOR THE CLERK AS
11:32:38AM WELL FOR THE RECORD.
11:32:38AM I WON'T BE LONG WINDED WITH THIS.
11:32:41AM A PRETTY EXTENSIVE LIST.
11:32:43AM AND LASTER THAN JUST GIVE YOU THE PROPERTIES LISTED IN
11:32:47AM THE CRA AND EAST TAMPA.
11:32:48AM I BROKE IN DOWN IN A COUPLE OF WAYS FOR YOU.
11:32:51AM YOUR FIRST TABLE AND I DON'T HAVE IT FOR THE ELMO BUT
11:32:55AM SEVERAL SHEETS OF PAPER.
11:32:56AM BUT THE FIRST PAGE HERE THAT YOU SEE -- IT'S A LIST OF
11:33:02AM APPROXIMATELY 23 LOTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY.
11:33:04AM THEY ARE TIED WITH SOME TYPE OF H CRA FUNDING.
11:33:10AM AND YOU ALL CAN LOOK AT THE BREAKDOWN OF THOSE LOTS.
11:33:14AM IF HE CAN TIF I HAVE ITLY IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE FAR
11:33:17AM RIGHT COLUMN THAT WILL SHOW YOU IF ANY ADDITIONAL ACTION IS
11:33:20AM NEEDED ON THAT PROPERTY TO DETERMINE IF IT IS BUILDABLE.
11:33:23AM WE WANTED AN IDEA WHAT WE CAN GO OUT AND DEVELOP RIGHT NOW
11:33:26AM WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ZONING ACTION OR JUST
11:33:30AM ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OF THE SUITABILITY OF THAT PROBABILITY
11:33:32AM FOR DEVELOPMENT RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:33:34AM AND SO WESTERN YOU LOOK AT THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT TABLE, 23
11:33:40AM TOTAL PROPERTIES.
11:33:41AM NINE OF THOSE PROPERTIES WITH A NO NEXT TO THEM MEANS THERE
11:33:44AM IS NO ADDITIONAL ACTION NEEDED.
11:33:47AM THOSE PROPERTIES ARE NEEDED TO GO FOR IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENT.
11:33:50AM AND FOR SECOND TABLE ARE PROPERTIES NOT FUNDED BY THE CRA.
11:34:03AM THE LIST SHOWS YOU WHAT PROBABILITIES MAY NEED ADDITIONAL
11:34:06AM APPLICATIONS SO ALL OF THOSE THAT SAY NO.
11:34:10AM 27 LOTS THAT DON'T REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL ACTION.
11:34:14AM THOSE PROPERTIES ARE PROPERTIES THAT ARE WITHIN THE CRA BUT
11:34:16AM HAVE NO CRA FUNDING TIED TO THEM.
11:34:18AM AND THE FINAL TABLE THAT YOU SEE ARE THOSE PROPERTIES THAT
11:34:23AM WITHIN THE CRA, BUT THEY ALSO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL ACTION.
11:34:26AM TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY, BUILDABILITY OF THOSE PARCELS.
11:34:32AM AND I SEE THE BOARD MEMBER WITH HIS HAND UP.
11:34:36AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW WHAT I AM LOOKING AT A FAILURE ON
11:34:55AM OUR PART.
11:34:55AM WE HAVE THIS AMERICAN PROPERTIES AND THE CRA -- AND HOW LONG
11:34:59AM IN EAST TAMPA.
11:35:01AM WITH SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT ALL THESE PROPERTIES.
11:35:03AM THEY SHOULD BE IN CIRCULATION.
11:35:05AM I AM NOT PUTTING THE BLAME ON PAST AND WHATEVER -- THIS IS
11:35:08AM THE FUTURE NOW.
11:35:09AM WE CAN'T LET THIS GO.
11:35:10AM THIS HAS GOT TO GET IN CIRCULATION.
11:35:12AM THESE ARE A LOT OF PROPERTIES, MAN.
11:35:14AM I LOOK AT 22nd STREET.
11:35:16AM THIS IS ALL IN THE DEEP CORE THE DEEP CORE.
11:35:24AM SOME OF THEM NEED TO BE REHAB.
11:35:27AM DEMOED.
11:35:28AM IF THEY HAVE CODE VIOLATIONS.
11:35:29AM BUT THEY NEED TO BE IN CIRCULATION.
11:35:31AM THESE ARE A LOT OF PROPERTIES.
11:35:33AM AND I THINK THE CRA BOARD NEEDS TO LOOK AT THIS AND LOOKING
11:35:40AM AT HOW WE CAN HELP.
11:35:42AM WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO.
11:35:43AM THIS IS A LOT -- THESE ARE A LOT OF PROPERTIES.
11:35:45AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ARE ALL THESE PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE CITY?
11:35:49AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEY ARE ALL CITY-OWNED PROPERTIES.
11:35:51AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ALL CITY-OWNED PROPERTIES.
11:35:55AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEY ARE IN OUR CONTROL AND EAST TAMPA HAS
11:35:59AM BEEN HOLD THIS FOR MANY YEARS.
11:36:00AM WE SHOULD BE DEALING WITH REAL ESTATE AND THE CITY PORTION
11:36:02AM TO SEE HOW WE CAN GET THESE BACK INTO CIRCULATION.
11:36:05AM I STILL SAYS IT STILL UNACCEPTABLE.
11:36:08AM AND WE GOT TO MOVE ON THIS.
11:36:09AM THESE ARE A LOT OF PROPERTIES.
11:36:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:36:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DON'T CARE IF HE GOES FIRST OR I GO
11:36:23AM SECOND.
11:36:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HE WAS ASKING.
11:36:25AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS BOARD ASKED FOR THIS TWO OR THREE
11:36:28AM WEEKS AGO AND THE RESULT OF WHAT WE ASKED FOR.
11:36:30AM AND I AM JUST LOOKING AT IT.
11:36:32AM AND I AM GLAD THAT THE CRA -- THE CITY, NOT THE CITY, ABOUT
11:36:38AM -- HAS CONTROL OF SOME OF THE PROPERTIES TO BUILD ON.
11:36:40AM SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES ARE THE -- THE LOTS ARE NOT
11:36:45AM ACCORDING TO OUR ZONING CODE; HOWEVER, SOME LOTS LIKE 18 AND
11:36:49AM 19 THAT ARE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
11:36:51AM YOU CAN MAKE IT INTO ONE AND HAVE A BUILDABLE LOT.
11:36:55AM AND IN SOME CASES EVEN A SMALLER LOT YOU CAN STILL BUILD A
11:36:58AM HOUSE FOR ONE BIG ROOM AND SOME A TWO BEDROOM AND MEET THE
11:37:02AM QUALIFICATIONS TO HAVE A HOME.
11:37:03AM AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE NEED.
11:37:05AM WE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF GETTING THIS THING STARTED.
11:37:08AM AND EVEN SOME OF THESE LOTS WERE 4,000 -- OR WHATEVER.
11:37:13AM DEPENDING ON THE FIXTURE CAN'T BE TWO INCHES WIDE AND THREE
11:37:18AM MILES LONG FOR THE SIZE OF THE LOT.
11:37:19AM THOSE THAT HAVE SOMETHING COMPARABLE WHERE YOU CAN HAVE AT
11:37:22AM LEAST A SETBACK REQUIREMENT, WE CAN BUILD ON.
11:37:25AM AND BECAUSE WE NEED HOUSING.
11:37:28AM IT IS NOT GOING FOR TOMORROW.
11:37:30AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:37:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:37:33AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:37:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU SAID ALL THE PROPERTIES ON THE LIST ARE
11:37:38AM CONTROLLED BY THE CITY.
11:37:38AM EVEN IF THE CRA PAID FOR THEM, THEY ARE ALL UNDER THE CITY.
11:37:42AM >> THEY ARE ALL UNDER THE CITY'S PAYROLL, YES.
11:37:45AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE THING WE CAN DO OR YOU CAN SUGGESTED
11:37:51AM SUGGEST THAT WE ASK THE CITY IT SHALL WE CAN DO SOMETHING ON
11:37:54AM THE OTHER SIDE, ASK THE CITY TO PUT THEM IMMEDIATELY ON THE
11:37:58AM LAND TRUST AN PUT THEM OUT FOR A BID FOR 99-YEAR LEASES.
11:38:03AM IF THEY ARE DEVELOPER.
11:38:04AM IF THEY ARE EXISTING HOMES, THEN WE WOULD WANT TO RENOVATE
11:38:08AM THEM AND PUT THEM BACK ON THE MARKET AND MAYBE THE CRA CAN
11:38:12AM HELP WITH THAT.
11:38:12AM DEVELOPER FOR MORE THAN ONE UNIT, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE A
11:38:16AM BROADLY ADVERTISED RFP THAT THE CITY WILL HANDLE.
11:38:22AM AND WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST SOME RFPs PRESIDENT IN THIS
11:38:27AM ADMINISTRATION, BUT SOME RFP -- FEW YEARS AGO AN RFP FOR
11:38:36AM THREE EMPTY LOTS TO GIVE THEM AWAY FOR FREE AND ONLY ONE
11:38:39AM BIDDER AND I ASKED PEOPLE LIKE HABITAT AND CDC, THEY SAID
11:38:43AM THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT NATIONAL PRIVATE DEVELOPERS OF
11:38:47AM AFFORDABLE HOUSE WOOING LOVE TO COME IN IF THEY KNEW WHAT
11:38:51AM THE OPPORTUNITIES WAS AND BRING OPPORTUNITIES.
11:38:54AM AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF A LAND TRUST WITH A 99-YEAR LEASE AND
11:38:59AM SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE SOMEONE ELSE CAN EXTEND THEM AND WE
11:39:02AM STILL HAVE CONTROL AND MAKE IT EASIER FOR US -- EASIER FOR
11:39:06AM THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T NEED TO GO GET AS BIG OF A MORTGAGE
11:39:10AM TO PAY FOR IT.
11:39:11AM AND I DON'T KNOW, MORRIS, IF YOU -- OR MAYBE FROM THE FPRA
11:39:17AM IF CRAS HAVE A LAND TRUST.
11:39:19AM IF FOR SOME REASON THE CITY CANNOT MOVE FAST ENOUGH LOOKING
11:39:23AM AT SETTING UP A CRA LAND TRUST AND BUY PROPERTIES FROM THE
11:39:27AM CITY AND PUT THEM IN A LAND TRUST AND PUT THEM FOR A 99-YEAR
11:39:34AM LEASE.
11:39:34AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MR. DRUMGO IS LOOKING FOR CRA FOR THE CITY
11:39:39AM OR BOTH.
11:39:40AM HE IS LOOKING AT SETTING THAT UP MAKING THAT MOVE AS A
11:39:43AM POTENTIAL VEHICLE
11:39:44AM I CAN TELL YOU WHETHER WE SELL, LEASE OR CONVEY PROPERTY
11:39:48AM INTEREST.
11:39:49AM REGARDLESS WHETHER CRA MONEY WAS INVOLVED WITH THE PROPERTY
11:39:52AM OR CITY-OWNED PROPERTY WITHIN A CRA, WE ARE REQUIRED BY LATE
11:39:56AM LAW TO ADVERTISE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL.
11:39:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST AND NOT IN
11:40:02AM ADMINISTRATION, THEY WOULD ADVERTISE IN SOME SMALL AD TO
11:40:06AM MEET THE LEGAL REQUIREMENT AND OTHER DEVELOPERS DIDN'T KNOW
11:40:08AM IT.
11:40:08AM THAT IS HOW SO MUCH PROPERTY FOR YEARS SOLD UNDER MARKET AND
11:40:16AM DEVELOPERS OF ALL SIZES SAY WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT.
11:40:19AM NOT JUST REACH THE BASIC LEGAL REQUIREMENT THAT WE NEED TO
11:40:23AM PROMOTE IT.
11:40:24AM WE CAN'T JUST PUT IT ON SOME STATE LIST OR NATIONAL LIST OR
11:40:27AM ADVERTISE IT IN SOME OBSCURE PLACE.
11:40:29AM AND WE SHOULD GET A LARGER LIST OF AFFORDABLE HOME
11:40:32AM DEVELOPERS TO INCLUDE THE NONPROFITS, THE FOR PROFITS, AND
11:40:36AM OTHERS NATIONALLY THAT CAN COULD AM IN.
11:40:38AM WE NEED TO BRING EVERY RESOURCE WE POSSIBLY CAN.
11:40:41AM A RESOURCE WE ARE SITTING ON THAT CAN HELP SUBSIDIZE
11:40:47AM BUILDING MORE HOUSING FAST AND THE CRA CAN'T BUILD ALL OF
11:40:51AM THESE QUICKLY AND WE NEED TO PARTNER WITH PARTNERS OUTSIDE
11:40:56AM TO GET IT DONE.
11:40:56AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
11:40:59AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRPERSON.
11:41:01AM TO MR. CARLSON'S POINT, WE NEED MORE HOUSING.
11:41:07AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, SOME ARE A DIFFERENT SIZE THAT WILL NOT
11:41:12AM BE ABLE TO FIT IN THE BUILDABLE LOT SIZE.
11:41:14AM DREW PARK ONE 7200 SQUARE FEET.
11:41:16AM HOW CAN WE, AS A CRA BOARD, IF TALK TO PERMITTING AND TALK
11:41:23AM TO PEOPLE SO WE CAN TAKE THAT 7200 SQUARE FEET AND PUT TWO
11:41:28AM SMALLER HOUSES ON IT TO GET MORE FOR OUR BANG OR A QUAD SO
11:41:35AM WE CAN PUT MORE ON EACH.
11:41:36AM CAN YOU FIND THAT OUT FOR US AND REPORT BACK TO US?
11:41:42AM THANK YOU.
11:41:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO THROW SOMETHING IN BEFORE ANYONE
11:41:45AM MAKES MOTIONS TO -- WHAT I REALLY WANT BECAUSE I AM
11:41:49AM INCREDIBLY VISUAL.
11:41:51AM I WOULD LIKE A MAP.
11:41:53AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHERE THE PROPERTIES ARE AND THE
11:41:56AM PROXIMITY.
11:41:56AM AS YOU WERE SAYING A TON ON 22nd STREET.
11:41:59AM I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARE CONTIGUOUS, AND IF THERE ARE
11:42:03AM AVAILABLE LOTS THAT MIGHT CONNECT THOSE AND DO A BIT OF A
11:42:06AM LARGER PROJECT.
11:42:07AM AGAIN ONCE WE PUT THE RFPs OUT.
11:42:11AM UNTIL WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT.
11:42:13AM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MAP WITH THE ZONING ON EACH SQUARE,
11:42:25AM AND THEN -- WHAT ELSE.
11:42:27AM I WANT ZONING IS AND JUST TO SEE
11:42:35AM MAYBE WHATTAL COLOR NEARBY OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE VACANT AND
11:42:43AM THAT IS IT WHAT I WANTED.
11:42:45AM I WANTED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE PROPERTIES.
11:42:47AM THESE PROPERTIES.
11:42:48AM IS THERE A BUILDING ON THEM OR VACANT.
11:42:53AM THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS I WANT TO KNOW.
11:42:56AM THE ZONING FOR -- MAYBE TWO COLORS.
11:42:59AM ONE FOR VACANT OR ONE HAS A BUILDING ON IT.
11:43:02AM BUT THAT IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
11:43:04AM >> SECOND.
11:43:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN MAKE A MOTION IS I AM
11:43:17AM TAKING NOTES.
11:43:17AM I KNOW OUR HOUSING TEAM HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB OF THE
11:43:22AM INFILL PROGRAM AND IMMEDIACY OF GETTING SOME OF THE CRA
11:43:27AM PROPERTIES OUT FOR THAT.
11:43:27AM AND I DO KNOW THAT THIS WILL BE PUTTING TOGETHER AND ISSUING
11:43:32AM THAT RFP HERE WITHIN THE COMING MONTHS.
11:43:35AM SO IF YOU WOULD HIKE, WE COULD ALSO TAKE THOSE PROPERTIES
11:43:38AM THAT DON'T REQUIRE ANY ADDITIONAL ACTION AND REPORT BACK TO
11:43:43AM YOU WHAT TYPE OF DENSITY WE CAN GET OUT OF THESE PARCELS AND
11:43:47AM LET YOU KNOW LIKE, HEY, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TOO, MOVE FORWARD
11:43:51AM AND PUT THAT IN A POT AND COME UP TO A MULTITUDE OF
11:43:55AM DEVELOPERS SIMILAR TO THE LAST ROUND.
11:43:57AM AND THE OTHER THING WE ARE LOOKING AT, I THINK IF YOU TALK
11:44:01AM OF THE LAND TRUST, WE ARE WORKING TO TRY TO SPAN THAT UP
11:44:07AM RELATIVELY QUICKLY AND PUTTING THOSE PROPERTIES OUT NOW WILL
11:44:10AM BE A LITTLE BIT PREMATURE, IF YOUR INTENT IS TO ESTABLISH
11:44:16AM THE LAND TRUST IF WE HAVE A LAND TRUST.
11:44:18AM JUST THINKING OF THE TIMING OF IT ALL.
11:44:20AM WE CAN CERTAINLY GO FORWARD WITH SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES,
11:44:23AM BUT I THINK THOSE PROPERTIES THAT ALSO REQUIRE SOME
11:44:26AM ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH.
11:44:28AM MAYBE THOSE ARE THE ONES YOU WANT TO HOLD IN CONSIDERATION
11:44:31AM FOR THE TRUST.
11:44:32AM BUT THEN ALSO, THOSE PROPERTIES THAT ARE WITHIN CRA, AND
11:44:36AM OWNED AND HELD BY THE CITY THAT DON'T HAVE CRA FUNDING TIDE
11:44:40AM TO THEM, PERHAPS A WAY FOR US TO CELEBRATE THE DEVELOPMENT
11:44:43AM OF THOSE IS TO COME BACK WITH A PLAN FOR YOU AS WELL TO SAY
11:44:46AM HOW ASK WE MAXIMIZE DENSITY ON THOSE PARCELS AND ALSO TO
11:44:51AM TETHER SOME CRA FUNDING TO THOSE PUSH THAT DEVELOPMENT AND
11:44:58AM MAKE IT MORE ATTAINABLE FOR THE PRICE POINT WE ALL WOULD
11:45:01AM WANT TO SEE.
11:45:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:45:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, BOARD MEMBER GUDES OR WHOEVER MADE THE
11:45:10AM ORIGINAL MOTION.
11:45:10AM YOU MIGHT WANT TO TONIGHT SITTING IN CITY COUNCIL WANT A
11:45:14AM MONTHLY UPDATE TO UPDATE THE PROPERTIES AND THE STATUS FOR
11:45:17AM THEM.
11:45:18AM THE CITY -- THE CRA CAN SUPPORT IT.
11:45:20AM BECAUSE IT IS THE CITY.
11:45:22AM AND THAT WAY WE CAN TRACK IT FOR THE PUBLIC AND ALSO FOR
11:45:25AM OURSELVES.
11:45:25AM ONE OTHER THING -- I WILL SUGGEST -- I WON'T MAKE A MOTION
11:45:30AM -- BUT OTHER PROPERTIES THAT CAN BE CONVERTED TO HOUSING.
11:45:33AM AN EXAMPLE -- THE CHIEF OF STAFF PUT TOGETHER A WHOLE TEAM
11:45:37AM WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT TAMPA UNION STATION AND MEET WITH
11:45:40AM THE FRIENDS OF TAMPA UNION STATION -- BEHIND TAMPA UNION
11:45:42AM STATION IS A HUGE PIECE OF PROPERTY.
11:45:46AM PART OF IT IS PARKING, BUT A BUILDING THAT IS NOT A HISTORIC
11:45:51AM BUILDING AND THAT LAND CAN BE PART OF 99 YEAR FOR
11:45:55AM REDEVELOPMENT AND YOU CAN PUT SEVERAL HUNDRED UNITS IN
11:45:58AM THERE.
11:45:58AM MY POINT IS THERE IS OTHER CITY OWNED PROPERTY THAT WE CAN
11:46:02AM POTENTIALLY PUT INTO A LAND TRUST TO BUILD UNITS FASTER.
11:46:05AM A LOT OF THESE WILL BE TWO RUN, TWO, MAYBE QUADS.
11:46:10AM BUT A PLACE TO BUILD SEVERAL HUNDRED AND ADD TO AND HELP
11:46:13AM SUPPORT HISTORIC STRUCTURE, HISTORIC FACILITY, WE SHOULD
11:46:17AM LOOK AT THOSE SPACES AS WELL.
11:46:18AM THERE MIGHT BE SOME OLDER KIND OF DERELICT BUILDING THAT
11:46:23AM CITY OWNS THAT CAN BE CONVERTED TO LOTS OR OTHER KINDS OF
11:46:27AM HOUSING AS WELL.
11:46:27AM OPINIONED MY SUGGESTION IS THAT WE PUT IT INTO THE LAND
11:46:30AM TRUST, BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE IT MORE AFFORDABLE FOR
11:46:34AM EVERYONE.
11:46:34AM AND PART OF OUR SUBSIDIES.
11:46:36AM AND SOMEBODY 99 YEARS WILL RELEASE IT OR USE IT FOR
11:46:39AM SOMETHING ELSE.
11:46:39AM THANK YOU.
11:46:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:46:47AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I TALKED OF THAT LAND TRUST AND MADE THAT
11:46:49AM MOTION IN 2019.
11:46:50AM WE FINALLY HAD A WORKSHOP CONTINUE TO BECAUSE CRAS CAN HAVE
11:46:54AM A LAND TRUST.
11:46:55AM THEY CAN HAVE IT AS A NONPROFIT AND HAVE SOMEBODY OPERATING
11:46:59AM AND RUNNING IT.
11:47:00AM GLAD YOU ARE WORK ON IT.
11:47:02AM IT IS CRUCIAL WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO.
11:47:05AM I GET UPSET WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN.
11:47:08AM AND WE HAVEN'T DONE IT.
11:47:10AM I THINK NOW SINCE THE CRISIS IS HERE.
11:47:15AM WE GOT TO DO WHAT WE DO NOW AND TO HAVE IT MOVE DOWN, YOU
11:47:19AM NEED TO PUT A TEAM TOGETHER.
11:47:21AM A SEPARATE TEAM.
11:47:22AM YOU ARE HIGHLY FOCUSED.
11:47:24AM AND YOU NEED A TEAM TOGETHER TO AGGRESSIVELY GO AND MAKE
11:47:28AM THINGS HAPPEN RIGHT NOW AND WITH THE DOLLARS WE ARE GOING TO
11:47:31AM BE ABLE TO HOPEFULLY APPROVE FOR YOU WITH CRA THAT WE BUILD
11:47:36AM A TEAM, A SEPARATE TEAM.
11:47:37AM I SAID BEFORE, EAST TAMPA IS THE BIGGEST CRA.
11:47:42AM SHOULD BE IN THE QUADS.
11:47:45AM I DO WORK HERE AND JUMP OVER HERE, YOU DON'T SEE IT.
11:47:49AM CHANNEL IS A SMALL AREA.
11:47:51AM YOU ARE ABLE TO SEE THAT GROWTH.
11:47:52AM SEE IT MOVE.
11:47:53AM EAST TAMPA HAS TO BE BROKEN UP IN A QUAD, A, B, C AND D.
11:48:02AM WE HAVE SECTORS.
11:48:03AM SECTOR E AND SECTOR F.
11:48:06AM SECONDER E.
11:48:08AM 27th AVENUE TO HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE AND YOU HAVE A MAJOR THAT
11:48:15AM RUNS THAT DISTRICT AND YOU HAVE A CAPTAIN THAT RUNS E.
11:48:18AM A CAPTAIN THAT RUNS F.
11:48:20AM ALL THE UNDERLINGS BEHIND IT.
11:48:22AM I JUST THINK YOU GOT TO HAVE -- WHERE IF YOU BRING IN NEW
11:48:27AM PEOPLE.
11:48:27AM YOU HAVE A SYSTEM TO WHERE YOU HAVE SOMEBODY IN CHARGE.
11:48:30AM AND THERE ARE SECTORS TO GET THINGS MOVING.
11:48:32AM I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
11:48:36AM I AM HOPING YOU GO IN THAT DIRECTION, BECAUSE TO ACCELERATE
11:48:39AM WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
11:48:40AM BUT I AM JUST TELLING YOU FOR THIS MEETING, YOU ARE TELLING
11:48:44AM ME YOU HAVE ALL THESE PROPERTIES WITHIN THE CITY AND THE CRA
11:48:48AM HAVEN'T APPROACHED THE CITY WHICH I THINK MISS JULIE USED TO
11:48:53AM DO THAT WHEN SHE BECAME -- IN THE CRA.
11:48:56AM SOMETIMES WE ARE HESITANT -- MR. CARLSON ASKED FOR IN 2019,
11:49:02AM IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, IN REFERENCE TO ALL THE PROPERTIES.
11:49:05AM WE ARE JUST NOW GETTING IT NOW.
11:49:07AM I AM SURE THIS IS NOT EVERYTHING.
11:49:09AM WE HAVE OTHER PROPERTIES IN THE CITY, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
11:49:12AM SEE WHAT WE REALLY HAVE AS A COUNCIL, IN THIS CITY SO WE CAN
11:49:17AM BUILD THIS TEAM.
11:49:17AM SO I KNOW -- I CAN TRUST YOU AND MISS TRAVIS TO WILL GET
11:49:21AM TOGETHER BUT WE HAVE TO BUILD A TEAM QUICKLY TO MAKE IT
11:49:27AM MOVE.
11:49:27AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
11:49:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE OTHER THING I WILL ADD THAT SO MANY
11:49:34AM PROPERTIES ON 27th STREET WHICH IS A BUSINESS COO ARE DOOR
11:49:38AM IN SOME AREAS AND ALSO INTERESTING TO SEE HOW ALL THESE COME
11:49:41AM TOGETHER BECAUSE IS JUST PUTTING HOUSING THERE A GOOD USE OF
11:49:45AM FUNDS OR SHOULD WE DO SOME TYPE OF MIXED USE WHERE STORES ON
11:49:49AM THE BOTTOM.
11:49:50AM HOUSING ABOVE.
11:49:51AM SO I -- I THINK THAT IF WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE IT AND THE --
11:49:58AM HOW IT ALL -- HOW SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES ARE CLOSE TO ONE
11:50:03AM ANOTHER.
11:50:03AM HOW THEY CONGREGATE AND RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER.
11:50:06AM THAT WILL ALSO HELP US A LOT IN THAT.
11:50:08AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
11:50:12AM YOU BROUGHT IT UP.
11:50:13AM YOU LOOK AT THE LIST AND YOU SEE THE ADDRESSES.
11:50:15AM YOU SEE IT.
11:50:16AM BACK IN 2018, 2019, THE CHAIR AT THAT TIME OF THE CAC BEGGED
11:50:22AM THAT THOSE PROPERTIES -- PROPERTY WAS THERE NOT BE BUILT
11:50:27AM UPON WITH HOMES BECAUSE IT WAS THE CORRIDOR OF THE DISTRICT
11:50:31AM OR BUILD RETAIL WITH HOUSING ON TOP.
11:50:34AM THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
11:50:35AM FELL ON DEAF EARS WITH THE CITY AND BUILD HOUSES AND THEY
11:50:39AM MESSED UP THE INTERTWINING OF 26th STREET BACK TO -- BACK TO
11:50:43AM 18th AVENUE WHERE IT COMES UP.
11:50:45AM NO NOW YOU KILLED IT BECAUSE A GROCERY STORE COULD HAVE BEEN
11:50:49AM PUT THERE.
11:50:49AM A GROCERY STORE COULD HAVE BEEN PUT THERE.
11:50:52AM THE NUMBERS ARE THERE FOR A GROCERY STORE.
11:50:55AM MAYBE HELP THEM, ENTICE THEM TO COME UP.
11:50:58AM THE NUMBERS WERE THIS.
11:51:00AM I AM NOT BLAMING DOMAIN HOMES.
11:51:03AM THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY AND BUILT THOSE HOMES.
11:51:06AM IT MESSED UP THE WHOLE CORRIDOR.
11:51:07AM NOW COME BACK TO WHERE MISS WHITE'S HOME NEAR NORTH 22nd, WE
11:51:13AM WOULD BE BUYING ALL OF THAT AND THEN TALKING OF PUTTING
11:51:16AM RETAIL ON THE BOTTOM AND TALK OF GOING UP A LITTLE BIT --
11:51:20AM DENSITY UP A LITTLE BIT TO HAVE 22nd STREET CORE.
11:51:24AM SAME THING ON 29th.
11:51:32AM GOING UP TO ML KING.
11:51:42AM PEOPLE TALK ABOUT A PLANNER.
11:51:44AM A PLANNER CAN'T DO THAT.
11:51:45AM YOU NEED TO HAVE A GUN OR DEVELOP TO COME IN AND DEVELOP.
11:51:49AM PLANNER CAN'T DO THAT.
11:51:52AM I SAW IT IN THE BUDGET AND I GOT TO QUESTION THAT TOO.
11:51:56AM THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE DONE.
11:51:58AM IT NEEDS TO BE A DEVELOPER.
11:51:59AM HIRING A DEVELOP TO COME IN TO DEVELOP YOUR COMMUNITY.
11:52:03AM NOT A PLANNER.
11:52:03AM THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.
11:52:05AM THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
11:52:06AM WE TALKED ABOUT THAT EXTENSIVELY AND THEY DID WHAT THEY
11:52:09AM WANTED TO DO IT AND WE HAVE A MESS OVER THERE.
11:52:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYBODY WANT TO MAKE A MOTION OF BRING THIS
11:52:15AM BACK AT A SPECIFIC TIME.
11:52:16AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU NEED MR. DRUMGO.
11:52:20AM I KNOW IT IS A LOT OF WORK.
11:52:21AM >> I AM LOOKING AT IT AS A COMBINATION OF TASKS.
11:52:24AM WE BREAK IT DOWN IN A COMBINATION OF TASKS.
11:52:26AM I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A REQUEST FOR US TO COME BACK WITH A
11:52:29AM STRATEGY ON THE PERSONNEL AND ON THE FUNDING OF AFFORDABLE
11:52:34AM HOUSING THROUGHOUT THE CRAS AND STUFF.
11:52:36AM I WILL ASK YOU TO LET US HANDLE THAT TASK FIRST AND WE WILL
11:52:40AM CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE TRUST AND EXTENDING THE TRUST AND
11:52:43AM ALSO REALLY UNDERSTANDING, I THINK, SEPARATE AND APART FROM
11:52:47AM THAT THE MAPPING PIECE.
11:52:48AM WE NEED TO GO BACK AND TALK TO OUR TEAM OF HOW TO PROPERLY
11:52:51AM MAP THESE AND HOW TO GET THE CODING ACCURATE TO MAKE SURE WE
11:52:55AM STRATEGIZE ON THAT.
11:52:57AM I AM HEARING A LONG-TERM PLAN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR WITH
11:53:02AM REGARD TO MORE ACQUISITIONS.
11:53:04AM WE WOULDN'T WANT TO COME BACK AND SHOW YOU THE LIST PUBLICLY
11:53:08AM OF WHAT WE ARE LOOKING TO ACQUIRE AND THAT CHANGES THE PRICE
11:53:11AM POINT ON THINGS.
11:53:12AM BUT WE CAN PUT ON A LIST KIND OF BEHIND THE SCENES TO
11:53:16AM POTENTIALLY SHARE AND DISCUSS ONE ON ONE ON ONE OF THE
11:53:19AM PROPERTIES PRIME FOR ACQUISITION FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
11:53:23AM BUT THEN ALSO, I AM HEARING WITH THAT MAPPING, THE ANALYSIS
11:53:27AM OF THE MIX OF USES.
11:53:29AM AND I DO KNOW THAT YOU CAN PUT COMMERCIAL PROPERTY INTO A
11:53:33AM TRUST AND I DON'T THINK THERE WILL BE IN I CONFLICT HAVING
11:53:36AM MIXED USE ALONG THE CORRIDOR WITH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL
11:53:38AM AS WELL.
11:53:39AM SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST ASK THAT WE GET A LITTLE BIT OF TIME
11:53:43AM ON THAT.
11:53:44AM COME BACK WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS OR SO ABOUT THE
11:53:48AM STRUCTURE AND STAFFING PIECE AND MAYBE A MONTH OR SO TO
11:53:51AM REPORT BACK.
11:53:52AM WE WON'T HAVE A MEETING IN OCTOBER.
11:53:54AM IF WE COULD, COME BACK IN NOVEMBER WITH THE MAPPING, THE
11:53:57AM CODING TO GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THAT JUST TO PROVIDE YOU
11:54:00AM WITH AN UPDATE.
11:54:01AM ALSO, PROVIDE WITH YOU AN UPDATE ON THE -- ON THE LAND TRUST
11:54:07AM PROGRESS AS WELL.
11:54:08AM AND COUNCILMAN, SINCE YOU ARE ASKING FOR THAT TO BE A -- IF
11:54:18AM YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE, LET ME KNOW.
11:54:20AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK YOU COVERED IT ALL.
11:54:22AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE POSSIBILITY OF A LAND TRUST WITHIN THE
11:54:24AM CRA.
11:54:25AM IF IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IF THE CRA CAN MOVE FASTER THAN THE
11:54:29AM CITY, IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A SEPARATE ONE.
11:54:32AM YOU WILL LOOK AT THE WHOLE THING AND COME BACK.
11:54:35AM BY THE WAY, I LIKE THE IDEA OF SHOP HOUSES, HAVING RETAIL
11:54:38AM UNDERNEATH AND ANTICIPATING THE DENSITY OF THE FUTURE.
11:54:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:54:44AM SO THEN DO WE -- DOES ANYONE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION ABOUT
11:54:49AM THAT?
11:54:51AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DRUMGO, CAN I TRUST YOU ON THAT --
11:54:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MAY BE NECESSARY TO HAVE A MOTION AND AN
11:54:59AM UPDATE ON THE MAP AND LAND TRUST CONCEPTS COME FORWARD AT
11:55:03AM YOUR NOVEMBER CRA MEETING.
11:55:04AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WHAT IS THE NOVEMBER DATE, MICHELLE?
11:55:16AM >>CLERK: NOVEMBER 10 AT 9 A.M.
11:55:20AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR NOVEMBER 10 FOR MR.
11:55:22AM DRUMGO TO COME BACK FOR THOSE ITEMS LISTED ON THE REPORT.
11:55:26AM MAPPING, LAND TRUST -- I DID MISS ONE, SIR?
11:55:35AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:55:38AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: RENOVATION OF PROPERTY AND ACQUISITION.
11:55:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES AND SECONDED BY
11:55:47AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:55:48AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:55:49AM OKAY.
11:55:51AM >> THANK YOU.
11:55:52AM WE CONTINUED ITEM NUMBER 9 --
11:55:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MAY I?
11:55:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:55:59AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, I CONTINUED THAT BECAUSE I DIDN'T
11:56:02AM KNOW I WOULD BE HERE BY 2 A.M. GIVEN HOW TRAFFIC WAS, BUT
11:56:06AM MAY I JUST MAKE A MOTION ON NUMBER 9 TO HAVE THAT GO FROM --
11:56:10AM I THINK WE CONTINUED IT UNTIL NEXT MONTH AND TO HAVE A
11:56:15AM FOLLOW-UP TO RESCIND THAT SINCE I'M HERE SO WE DON'T CLOG UP
11:56:19AM THE AGENDA FURTHER.
11:56:20AM AND TO SPEAK ON IT VERY BRIEFLY, MAY I?
11:56:25AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SO MOVED.
11:56:26AM >> SECOND HURTAK WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT.
11:56:31AM A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES AND SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER
11:56:35AM CITRO.
11:56:35AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:56:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH CRA BOARD MEMBERS AND
11:56:40AM CHAIRWOMAN.
11:56:41AM JUST VERY BRIEFLY I SAW THE REPORT AND I APPRECIATE THE HARD
11:56:44AM WORK IN THE REPORT.
11:56:45AM IT APPEARS SEVERAL MILLIONS DOLLARS NECESSARY TO GET THERE.
11:56:48AM I THINK IT IS A VERY, VERY WORTHY INVESTMENT AND YOU GUYS --
11:56:53AM I APPRECIATE I BROUGHT THIS UP LAST MINUTE.
11:56:56AM IF YOU GOT TO LOOK AT THE REPORTS AND NEED TO DO THAT, THAT
11:57:00AM IS TOTALLY COOL.
11:57:01AM BUT TO GO BACK TO THE RESPECTIVE CAC AND REPORT BACK TO US,
11:57:07AM IS THAT CORRECT?
11:57:08AM >> THAT IS ACCURATE.
11:57:08AM IF THAT IS THE DESIRE OF THE BOARD.
11:57:10AM WE WILL DISCUSS THE PARKING OR UPGRADES WITH THE CACS SO
11:57:15AM PRIORITIZE WHICH IMPROVEMENTS OR PARKS WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
11:57:18AM THIS HAPPEN IN.
11:57:19AM I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE PARK STAFF WAS VERY -- STILL HAS TO
11:57:23AM BE PLANNED, I THINK, FROM A STAFFING PERSPECTIVE.
11:57:25AM AND SO EVEN IF THEY HAD THE FULL $3 MILLION TO UPGRADE ALL
11:57:30AM THE PARKS, RIGHT NOW THEY ARE AT A 15 TO 20-YEAR BASE
11:57:34AM RELATIVE TO THE CURRENT ALLEGATIONS TO DO IT BUT WANTED TO
11:57:40AM BRING DOWN THE TIMELINE TWO TO FIVE YEARS AND WORK WITH THE
11:57:43AM PARK STAFF AND THOSE CACS TO PRIORITIZE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS
11:57:47AM AND KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU ARE HAVING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
11:57:50AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS WELL.
11:57:51AM SO WHEN YOU TALK OF THOSE PARK UPGRADES, YOU KNOW, WE ONLY
11:57:54AM HAVE SO MUCH MONEY IN THE BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THINGS
11:57:57AM AROUND.
11:57:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:57:58AM AGAIN, I DON'T THINK ANYONE ON THIS COUNCIL WANTS TO BE DONE
11:58:03AM -- PUSH IT IMMEDIATELY.
11:58:05AM ONE PIECE AT A TIME, SO TO SPEAK.
11:58:08AM DOWNTOWN IF I RECALL $600,000.
11:58:10AM AND A LOT OF PEOPLE COME FROM DOWNTOWN TO ALL PARTS OF THE
11:58:14AM CITY OF TAMPA.
11:58:15AM I SAW 1.6 MILLION FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:58:18AM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT DONE.
11:58:19AM WEST TAMPA, ETC.
11:58:20AM LET ME ASK YOU IF WE WERE TO BRING THIS BACK LET'S SAY IN
11:58:24AM FEBRUARY GIVE YOU ENOUGH TIME TO SPEAK TO THE CACS AND HAVE
11:58:28AM A GOOD CLEAR PICTURE WHERE WE ARE AT OR DO YOU NEED MORE
11:58:31AM TIME.
11:58:34AM >> I THINK THAT IS SUFFICIENT.
11:58:35AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY HAVE A MOTION TO COME BRING IT BACK
11:58:39AM --
11:58:39AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I THINK -- IF WE PUT THIS FOR SEPTEMBER,
11:58:41AM WE GOT TO TAKE THE SEPTEMBER VOTE OUT AND THE MOTION TO TAKE
11:58:45AM -- TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER THE ONE WE HAD BEFORE.
11:58:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THOUGHT WE DID THAT?
11:58:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE DID?
11:58:51AM OKAY.
11:58:52AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: QUESTION.
11:58:54AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:58:59AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I MET WITH THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES AND
11:59:02AM MET WITH SEVERAL PLAYGROUND PEOPLE.
11:59:04AM AND A COUPLE CAUGHT MY EYE, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK OF
11:59:07AM ACCESSIBILITY EQUIPMENT.
11:59:10AM I DID HAVE A SHORT MEET WITH MISS HILLS, I WANT TO SAY LATE
11:59:14AM TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
11:59:15AM GAVE HER A PAMPHLET.
11:59:18AM I WAS IMPRESSED WITH ONE COMPANY -- MR. VIERA WOULD PROBABLY
11:59:22AM ENJOY THIS.
11:59:23AM THEY HAD -- YOU KNOW SOME OF THE KIDS OR ADULTS, ACCIDENTS
11:59:29AM HAPPENED OR THEY ARE BORN WITH CERTAIN DISABILITIES AND THEY
11:59:31AM HAVE TO USE WHEELCHAIRS.
11:59:32AM AND SOME OF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT WAS DULY EQUIPPED FOR
11:59:39AM EVERYDAY HEALTHY PERSON AND WHEELCHAIR PERSON.
11:59:42AM I AM TALKING ABOUT THE LIFT TO GET THEIR BODY RESTRAINED OR
11:59:46AM LEGS.
11:59:46AM AND THERE WAS A PRESENTATION.
11:59:49AM I AM SURE IF YOU FOLLOW UP SHE MAY MENTION THAT AND I WILL
11:59:52AM TELL HER TOO BECAUSE THAT IS CRITICAL IN SOME OF OUR AREAS
11:59:56AM AND COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEY CAN'T
11:59:58AM REALLY ENJOY THE PARK BECAUSE THEY CAN'T DO A MONKEY BAR OR
12:00:01PM DO SOME THINGS.
12:00:03PM I THINK THAT WAS A NEAT ADDED ATTRACTION TO SOME OF OUR
12:00:03PM PARKS.
12:00:04PM THANK YOU, SIR.
12:00:06PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT, COUNCILMAN
12:00:08PM GUDES.
12:00:09PM I KNOW YOU ALWAYS HAD A HEART ON THAT ISSUE.
12:00:11PM THANK YOU FOR THAT AND YOUR WONDERFUL PASSION ON THAT.
12:00:15PM IF I MAY, I WOULD MOTION TO HAVE THIS BACK TO US IN FEBRUARY
12:00:19PM OF 2023.
12:00:21PM >>THE CLERK: FEBRUARY 9?
12:00:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, PLEASE.
12:00:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
12:00:27PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:00:28PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:00:31PM >> AYE.
12:00:31PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, AND THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY AREAS THAT
12:00:34PM ARE NOT CRA.
12:00:35PM THIS IS PUTTING ON COUNCIL HAT.
12:00:37PM SO TONIGHT, I'LL ASK THE ADMINISTRATION TO ALSO LOOK AT THAT
12:00:41PM AS WELL.
12:00:41PM I WANTED TO DO THIS UNDER CRA SO WE COULD EXPEDITE THIS AS
12:00:46PM MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND FOR THE MANY OTHER AREAS AND I'LL LEAVE
12:00:49PM THAT AT THE DISCRETION, INCLUDING FOR THE DIFFERENT COUNCIL
12:00:53PM DISTRICT MEMBERS, ET CETERA, BUT FOR A GENERAL MOTION FOR
12:00:55PM THAT BECAUSE THAT'S VERY, VERY PIVOTAL.
12:00:58PM I KNOW NEW TAMPA IS GETTING AN ALL-ACCESS PARK AS PART OF
12:01:01PM THE EAST TAMPA RECREATION IMPROVEMENTS.
12:01:03PM THAT'S ALSO GOING TO BE AN ALL-INCLUSIVE PARK, MY
12:01:06PM UNDERSTANDING, SO THAT'S WONDERFUL STUFF.
12:01:08PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:01:09PM APPRECIATE IT.
12:01:09PM THANK YOU.
12:01:13PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: ITEM NUMBER 10 IS EAST TAMPA PREDEVELOPMENT
12:01:16PM PROGRAM.
12:01:16PM WE HAVE TWO LEVELS TO THAT PROGRAM.
12:01:17PM THESE PROGRAMS WERE APPROVED BY THE EAST TAMPA CAC.
12:01:21PM MR. McCRAY WILL BE PRESENTING THESE TWO PROGRAMS.
12:01:31PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING OR GOOD AFTERNOON, AT THIS
12:01:33PM POINT.
12:01:34PM CEDRIC McCRAY, TAMPA'S CRA MANAGER.
12:01:37PM IF I COULD HAVE THE ELMO ON, PLEASE.
12:01:40PM OKAY.
12:01:42PM I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS RELATES TO
12:01:48PM PREDEVELOPMENT AND ULTIMATELY THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN DISCUSSED
12:01:51PM TO SPUR DEVELOPMENT ALONG OUR COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS IN EAST
12:01:56PM TAMPA, NORTH AND SOUTH.
12:01:58PM SO WE'RE PRIMARILY LOOKING AND DISCUSSING 15th STREET,
12:02:02PM 22nd, 29th, AND 34th.
12:02:06PM AND THIS IS A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
12:02:12PM LEVEL 1, AS MR. DRUMGO SAID, WE HAVE TWO LEVELS.
12:02:16PM LEVEL ONE WAS TO -- DESIGNED TO PROVIDE UP TO $15,000 FOR
12:02:21PM APPLICANTS AND LEVEL TWO IS A LOAN TO GRANT PROGRAM DESIGNED
12:02:26PM TO PROVIDE UP TO $300,000 OR NO MORE THAN 15% OF THE OVERALL
12:02:30PM PROJECT VALUE IN REIMBURSABLE LOAN TO GRANT FUNDING.
12:02:35PM IT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE A FORGIVABLE LOAN.
12:02:38PM ELIGIBLE SERVICES FOR THE $15,000, IT WOULD BE -- OWNERS
12:02:46PM WOULD EITHER HAVE TO OWN THE PROPERTY OR PRODUCE THAT THEY
12:02:48PM ARE RENTING OR TENANTS OF THAT SPECIFIC PROPERTY OR ADDRESS.
12:02:56PM ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTING WOULD BE COVERED IN HAD THAT AMOUNT.
12:02:59PM PRELIMINARY DESIGN CONCEPT, SKETCHES AND THE LIKE, ALSO A
12:03:02PM DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCOPE OR PARTICULAR PROJECT.
12:03:07PM ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REACH THAT POINT AND PRODUCE
12:03:11PM THAT INFORMATION AND HAVE BEEN REIMBURSED, THEN IF THEY SO
12:03:16PM CHOOSE, THEY CAN GO ON TO LEVEL 2.
12:03:19PM THOSE ELIGIBLE SERVICES WOULD BE ULTIMATELY SCHEMATIC DESIGN
12:03:26PM AND OTHER BASIC ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES.
12:03:29PM MECHANICAL, PLUMBING, ENGINEERING, AND I.T.
12:03:35PM LANDSCAPING AND PURCHASE OF SITE CONTROL WOULD BE INCLUDED
12:03:40PM IN THAT AS WELL.
12:03:41PM OVERALL SCOPE OF SERVICES, ANY RENDERINGS OR DRAWINGS FOR
12:03:45PM FINAL REVISION AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD BE
12:03:48PM NEEDED FOR THE PERMITTING PROCESS.
12:03:50PM THEY ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE TO BE SIGNED AND SEALED BY A
12:03:53PM REGISTERED ARCHITECT OR OTHER APPLICABLE PERSONNEL.
12:03:56PM THE GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR LEVEL 2 APPLICANTS THAT RECEIVE
12:04:05PM THE FUNDING, THE BUSINESS PREDEVELOPMENT LOAN TO GRANT
12:04:09PM PROGRAM ARE ELIGIBLE FOR ONE BUSINESS PREDEVELOPMENT GRANT
12:04:13PM PER EVERY FIVE-YEAR PERIOD APPLICANTS WHO RECEIVE FUNDING
12:04:18PM MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF ALL FINAL WORK PRODUCTS TO WHICH GRANT
12:04:23PM FUNDS ARE APPLIED.
12:04:24PM AND THESE WILL BE FOR PUBLIC RECORD.
12:04:26PM ALL PROJECTS WILL DISPLAY SIGNAGE SIMILAR TO THE SIGN THAT I
12:04:31PM SHOWED EARLIER THIS MORNING.
12:04:33PM AS IT RELATES TO THE PROJECT, RECEIVE EAST TAMPA FUNDING
12:04:37PM FROM THE CRA SPECIFICALLY.
12:04:42PM APPLICANTS ALSO HAVE TO AGREE TO BE PART OF PUBLICIZING THE
12:04:47PM FACT THAT THEY DID BENEFIT FROM CRA DOLLARS AS WELL.
12:04:51PM EAST TAMPA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CONSIDER EXEMPTIONS TO
12:04:55PM THESE POLICIES AND GUIDELINES ON A CASE BY CASE DISCRETION.
12:05:02PM DURING THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS, THERE WERE
12:05:06PM SEVERAL RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CAME OUT.
12:05:07PM AND THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THEM THAT WE THOUGHT WERE
12:05:11PM IMPORTANT.
12:05:11PM IT WAS MENTIONED TO PARTNER WITH VARIOUS AGENCIES AND
12:05:15PM NONPROFITS TO ASSIST SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS OR HELP IN
12:05:20PM BUILDING OUT THEIR IDEAS.
12:05:21PM SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT MAY BE COVERED WOULD POSSIBLY BE ABLE
12:05:25PM TO BE CONDUCTED AND DO A LITTLE MORE HOLDING OF THEIR HAND
12:05:31PM THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
12:05:31PM SO THERE ARE SOME ENTITIES THAT ACTUALLY DO THAT HERE IN THE
12:05:35PM CITY OF TAMPA AND WOULD WELCOME HAVING SOME CONVERSATIONS
12:05:39PM WITH THEM AS WELL.
12:05:39PM THE IDEA OF A FIRST STEP MEETING TO MANAGE THE WORK
12:05:43PM ASSIGNMENT AND THAT WILL BE KIND OF STARTED AND CONDUCTED BY
12:05:48PM OUR STAFF INTERNALLY.
12:05:49PM AND THIS IS JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE DELIVERABLES THAT
12:05:52PM THEY ARE REQUESTING HAVE BEEN SOLIDIFIED BEFORE ANY
12:06:00PM COMPENSATION IS APPROVED.
12:06:00PM THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION BY STAFF FOR LEVEL 1 TO GO UP TO
12:06:04PM $10,000, FOLLOWING THE WORKSHOP DISCUSSION, WE WENT UP TO 15
12:06:09PM AND FOR LEVEL TWO, IT WAS -- WE STARTED $100,000 AND IT WENT
12:06:15PM UP TO $300,000.
12:06:16PM AS IT RELATES FOR THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS FOR LEVEL 2.
12:06:21PM THEY WOULD ALSO -- THE SUGGESTION WAS MADE THAT WE INCLUDE A
12:06:25PM BUDGET AND PRO FORMA WHEN FINANCING PLAN, ULTIMATELY THE
12:06:30PM BUSINESSES GOING THROUGH THIS PLAN OR PROGRAM WOULD HAVE A
12:06:33PM PACKET OF INFORMATION THAT IF THEY NEEDED TO SEEK ADDITIONAL
12:06:36PM FUNDING FROM A LENDING SOURCE, THEY WOULD HAVE ALL OF THAT
12:06:39PM IN HAND WHEN THEY WENT TO MAKE THAT REQUEST.
12:06:42PM WE ALSO DID INCLUDE A RUBRIC OR SCORING APPLICATION, AND I
12:06:47PM THINK ULTIMATELY EACH ORGANIZATION ON A HUNDRED-POINT SCALE,
12:06:50PM THEY WOULD HAVE TO SIMPLY GET 60 POINTS TO MOVE FORWARD FOR
12:06:56PM THE NEXT STEP OF APPROVAL.
12:07:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
12:07:02PM MR. McCRAY, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA BASICALLY HOW MANY YOU
12:07:08PM THINK ARE GOING TO BE FROM THAT 10 TO 15 AND 100 GOING TO --
12:07:13PM AND PART D WOULD UNDER 10, 15, IS IT 50% INCREASE IN THE
12:07:19PM AMOUNT OF MONEY, BUT WHEN YOU GO TO ONE, IT'S A 300%
12:07:23PM INCREASE OF MONEY.
12:07:24PM CAN YOU TELL US WHY?
12:07:25PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: ULTIMATELY THE SCOPE OF SERVICES WOULD BE
12:07:27PM MORE EXPENSIVE DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT.
12:07:32PM WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE OTHER PROGRAMS AROUND THE STATE AS A
12:07:36PM STAFF, YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT THAT THE 10,000 WAS ABOUT RIGHT
12:07:41PM AND THEN SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE LOOKED AT, THEY WERE A
12:07:44PM LITTLE LESS THAN A HUNDRED.
12:07:45PM WE KNEW THAT WE WANTED TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE SO THAT'S WHY
12:07:48PM WE MOVED IT UP TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
12:07:50PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT YOU JUST SAID, CAUGHT MY OTHER EAR,
12:07:53PM LEFT EAR, THAT YOU HAD SOME A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED.
12:07:56PM HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE OVER 300?
12:07:57PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NONE CURRENTLY.
12:07:59PM WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY FORMAL CONVERSATIONS OR ADVERTISE THE
12:08:03PM PROGRAM.
12:08:05PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'M NOT CONCERNED, BUT THE NUMBERS DON'T
12:08:08PM MATCH.
12:08:08PM ONE GOING UP 50%, THE OTHER 300%.
12:08:14PM I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT THE 300%.
12:08:17PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YEAH, THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM
12:08:19PM STAFF AND THEN WE HAD ONGOING CONVERSATIONS, WORKSHOP WITH
12:08:22PM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE.
12:08:23PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEY OVERRULED YOU GUYS, IS THAT IT?
12:08:26PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NOT EXACTLY.
12:08:28PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, I UNDERSTAND A VOTE IS A VOTE.
12:08:30PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WE AGREED.
12:08:32PM IT WAS A FEW STICKING POINTS THAT CAME UP.
12:08:36PM AND ULTIMATELY WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, YIELD TO THE CRA BOARD
12:08:43PM FOR UNDERSTANDING.
12:08:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, I UNDERSTAND, BUT I DON'T
12:08:48PM UNDERSTAND.
12:08:51PM >> IF I MAY, I WANT TO SUPPORT WHAT MR. McCRAY IS SAYING.
12:08:56PM WE DID.
12:08:57PM WE HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS.
12:08:58PM LOOKED AT BOTH IN STATE FOR BEST PRACTICES AND OUT-OF-STATE
12:09:02PM PROGRAMS.
12:09:03PM HE OMITTED SOME OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF OUR PROCESS AND A
12:09:08PM LITTLE BIT OF THE BACK AND FORTH.
12:09:10PM IN THE CLOSED-DOOR SESSION WITH STAFF, WE LOOKED AT THE
12:09:12PM NUMBERS.
12:09:13PM WE WANTED TO GO FOR LOWER THRESHOLDS.
12:09:16PM I MEAN, THIS IS A RISK.
12:09:18PM WE WOULDN'T BE FORTHCOMING AND DOING OUR JOBS IF WE DIDN'T
12:09:23PM TELL YOU IT IS A RISK.
12:09:26PM THERE'S A CHANCE SOME PROJECTS WILL GO FORWARD AND SOME
12:09:29PM WON'T.
12:09:29PM AT THE END OF TODAY'S MARKET VALUES AND SCALE OF PROJECTS
12:09:34PM THAT NEED TO OCCUR IN EAST TAMPA AND THE SUPPORT THAT THOSE
12:09:37PM PROJECTS WOULD NEED, WE THOUGHT THAT WE PROBABLY NEEDED TO
12:09:42PM MOVE ALONGSIDE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CAC.
12:09:46PM WANTED THE $300,000 IN THERE.
12:09:48PM BUT HE IS CORRECT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU ARE THE BOARD
12:09:51PM AND YOU CAN RECOMMEND A LOWER THRESHOLD OR YOU CAN GO WITH
12:09:55PM THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CAC.
12:09:57PM ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT WE CAN PILOT THIS FOR A YEAR.
12:10:01PM WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THESE NUMBERS EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE.
12:10:04PM WE CAN START AT A CERTAIN NUMBER AND ADJUST UP OR DOWN
12:10:08PM DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS THAT WE GET.
12:10:11PM CURRENTLY, I THINK THE RECOMMENDATION IS $600,000 TO KICK
12:10:14PM OFF THIS PROGRAM, WHICH WOULD ENCOMPASS BOTH THE LEVEL ONE
12:10:18PM AND LEVEL TWO, AND WE WOULD HOPE TO SEE A LOT OF
12:10:21PM PARTICIPATION THAT DOESN'T EXCEED OR MAX OUT THE $300,000.
12:10:27PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MAY I CONTINUE?
12:10:28PM SO YOU'RE TELLING US THAT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONIES YOU
12:10:30PM HAVE 600,000?
12:10:33PM >> FOR THE FISCAL YEAR.
12:10:34PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE HAVE TWO 300,000, YOU HAVE MORE MONEY.
12:10:38PM >> THAT IS ACCURATE.
12:10:40PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DON'T LIKE THAT SO MUCH.
12:10:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
12:10:44PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WAS LOOKING AT THAT, TOO, BECAUSE I'M
12:10:47PM LOOKING, ASK MS. HEWITT, I KNOW SHE WORKED WITH STAFF A
12:10:54PM LITTLE BIT ON THIS PROJECT, WHICH IS GOOD THAT WE HAVE
12:10:56PM OUTSIDE PEOPLE THAT CAN WORK WITH STAFF AND GET THINGS
12:11:00PM MOVING.
12:11:00PM IF YOU CAN COME UP, MS. HEWITT.
12:11:03PM WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THE LAND PROJECTS, SOME OF THESE ARE
12:11:06PM MONUMENTAL PLACES.
12:11:07PM I LOOK AT JACKSON STORE, WHICH IS 3402, THEY HAVE A LOT OF
12:11:13PM PROPERTY OVER THERE.
12:11:14PM I MEAN, A LOT OF PROPERTY OVER THERE.
12:11:15PM WHERE THAT STORE IS AND BEHIND IT.
12:11:21PM I LOOK AT NEBRASKA AND LAKE, 3705.
12:11:29PM THAT COULD BE A HUGE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
12:11:32PM SOME OF THE PROJECTS I'M LOOKING AT COULD BE A GAME-CHANGER
12:11:37PM IN EAST TAMPA AND TAKE A LOT OF BLIGHT AWAY.
12:11:39PM I WANT TO THANK MS. HEWITT FOR HEARING WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING
12:11:45PM AND MADE A MOTION TO STAFF.
12:11:47PM I GUESS SHE WENT BACK TO HER COMMITTEE AND GOT TO WORK ON
12:11:50PM THIS.
12:11:51PM I WANT TO THANK HER FOR THE EFFORTS TO WORK WITH STAFF TO
12:11:55PM MOVE THIS.
12:11:56PM I WANT TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON SOME OF THE PROJECTS TALKING
12:11:58PM ABOUT AND THE THRESHOLD MR. MIRANDA WAS TALKING ABOUT.
12:12:00PM >> THANK YOU.
12:12:01PM ALISON HEWITT.
12:12:03PM THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:12:04PM YES, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS OVER A YEAR NOW.
12:12:10PM THE INITIAL REQUEST FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
12:12:14PM WAS 300,000.
12:12:15PM THAT WAS BASED ON THE FLORIDA HOUSING FINANCE HAS A
12:12:19PM PREDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM THAT IS IN FLORIDA STATUTE THAT
12:12:22PM OUTLINES ELIGIBLE USES OF TAX DOLLARS TO BE ABLE TO HELP DO
12:12:27PM THE PREDEVELOPMENT SOFT COSTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
12:12:31PM AND WHAT IS NEEDED, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE POTENTIAL PROJECTS
12:12:36PM THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS A VERY STRONG SOFT-COST
12:12:41PM BUDGET THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO HAVE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT
12:12:46PM THEY CAN -- BECAUSE THESE FOLKS WILL NOT HAVE JUST ON THEIR
12:12:50PM OWN THE MONEY TO DEVELOP THIS.
12:12:51PM SO THEY ARE GOING TO NEED TO HAVE A PLAN THAT THEY CAN TAKE
12:12:54PM TO INVESTORS.
12:12:56PM THEY CAN TAKE TO BANKS.
12:12:57PM AGAIN, THIS WILL ALSO REQUIRE BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE DISTRICT
12:13:00PM THAT WE ARE, A LAYERING OF FINANCING.
12:13:03PM NEW MARKET TAX CREDITS, OPPORTUNITY ZONES, BROWNFIELDS.
12:13:07PM SO TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMEONE TO HELP THEM GO THROUGH THAT
12:13:13PM PROCESS, TO HAVE SOMEONE TO PAY THOSE SOFT COSTS -- AND I
12:13:16PM WILL SAY THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PAYING THEIR TAXES FOR
12:13:19PM LONGER THAN WE'VE HAD A CRA.
12:13:23PM SO THEY HAVE INVESTED ALREADY IN THE MONEY, IN THIS POT OF
12:13:27PM MONEY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKING THAT YOU CONSIDER THAT
12:13:30PM WE USE.
12:13:30PM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THE WORKSHOP IS DMS AT
12:13:38PM MyFlorida.com, THEY HAVE A FREE GUIDE TO CALCULATE
12:13:43PM ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES.
12:13:44PM SO I DID SHARE THAT MY CONCERN WITH 15,000 FOR THE PHASE ONE
12:13:48PM MAY BE A CHALLENGE.
12:13:51PM JUST TO BE ABLE TO GET YOU TO PHASE TWO TO BE ABLE TO DO THE
12:14:00PM SCHEMATIC DRAWINGS, WE CANNOT CONTINUE IN EAST TAMPA TO HAVE
12:14:03PM TO GO TO GET THE DISCOUNTED RATES BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING
12:14:07PM TO FUND A GASWORX FOR THEM TRYING TO GET DISCOUNTED RATES
12:14:12PM FOR THEM TO BRING YOU THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO KNOW TO
12:14:14PM BUILD A GASWORX, TO BUILD THE THINGS THEY ARE BUILDING OVER
12:14:17PM IN SOUTH TAMPA.
12:14:18PM I DO HAVE A CHALLENGE, THAT'S WHY MY PUBLIC COMMENTS, I ASK
12:14:21PM FOR FLEXIBILITY IN THIS BECAUSE THE SCHEMATIC DRAWINGS AND
12:14:25PM EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO GET YOU TO PHASE TWO I HAVE A
12:14:30PM CONCERN THAT YOU WON'T GET TO PHASE TWO BECAUSE YOU WON'T BE
12:14:33PM ABLE TO GET WHAT YOU NEED WITH THE POTENTIAL PROJECTS FOR
12:14:39PM $15,000.
12:14:40PM BUT IF WE DO AND WE GET TO THE 300, TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY
12:14:44PM PUT TOGETHER A DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT HAS A PRO FORMA SO THAT
12:14:49PM THESE FOLKS WHO OWN THE PROPERTY WILL KNOW HOW MUCH THEY
12:14:53PM NEED TO CHARGE PER SQUARE FOOT FOR THE COMMERCIAL AND HOW
12:14:56PM MUCH THEY NEED TO CHARGE AND HOW MUCH THEY NEED TO KEEP
12:14:59PM RENTED FOR THEIR HOUSING.
12:15:00PM SO THESE FOLKS HAVE HAD THESE BUSINESSES FOR LIKE A COMBINED
12:15:05PM 90 YEARS.
12:15:06PM SO THEY ARE COMMITTED TO THIS AREA.
12:15:09PM THEY ARE GOING TO STAY IN THE AREA.
12:15:11PM THEY LIVE IN THE AREA ALREADY.
12:15:13PM SO AS MUCH AS THEY SAY IT'S A RISK, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY
12:15:20PM DISAGREE BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THESE PEOPLE LIVE AND HAVE
12:15:23PM RAISED FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS, AND THEY WANT TO BE A
12:15:28PM BETTER PARTNER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST TAMPA.
12:15:30PM IF YOU HAVE A STRONG DEVELOPMENT PLAN AT THE END OF THAT
12:15:35PM PHASE 2, BECAUSE, EXAMPLE, THE JACKSONS, RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO
12:15:42PM WHERE WE'RE GOING TO KNOCK DOWN AND DO THE COMMUNITY CENTER,
12:15:45PM ESPECIALLY, THEY WANT TO DO SENIOR LIVING THERE.
12:15:48PM SO YOU HAVE SECTION 202 THAT THEY CAN APPLY FOR, FOR HUD TO
12:15:53PM BE ABLE TO FUND THAT.
12:15:57PM WHEN HUD SEES, WHEN YOU APPLY FOR THAT, YOU ARE MORE
12:16:00PM COMPETITIVE WHEN THEY SEE, ONE, YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT
12:16:02PM SENIOR POPULATION, BUT, TWO, YOU ARE NOW RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO
12:16:06PM THE SERVICES AND THE SENIOR CENTER TO BE ABLE TO FUND THAT
12:16:09PM PRODUCT.
12:16:11PM UNFORTUNATELY OR FORTUNATELY WITH THIS PROGRAM AND WITH THE
12:16:14PM ACCESS TO THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE
12:16:17PM TO WALK THESE PROPERTY OWNERS THROUGH THIS PROCESS SO THAT
12:16:21PM ONCE THEY HAVE A PLAN AND ONCE THEY ARE FINANCED, THEY ALSO
12:16:24PM HAVE A MANAGEMENT PLAN TO MAINTAIN IT AT THE LEVEL THAT WE
12:16:27PM WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT IN EAST TAMPA.
12:16:29PM SO I THINK THAT WE MIGHT HAVE SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE
12:16:33PM 15,000.
12:16:33PM I'M NOT QUITE SURE THAT WE CAN GET ALL THE SCHEMATIC DESIGNS
12:16:38PM WE NEED FOR THAT PRICE TO MOVE IT FORWARD, BUT THAT'S WHAT
12:16:43PM WE WERE ABLE TO GET THROUGH WITH STAFF.
12:16:47PM I THINK THE PHASE TWO, AS LONG AS WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE SURE
12:16:49PM THAT WE CAN CREATE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND A FINANCING PLAN
12:16:52PM FOR THESE PROJECTS, YOU WILL SEE THOSE PROJECTS COME TO
12:16:55PM FRUITION.
12:16:56PM I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO MEET WITH EACH ONE OF THOSE
12:16:58PM PROPERTY OWNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, THEIR BROTHERS, THEIR
12:17:01PM SISTERS, THEIR MOMS.
12:17:02PM ONE OF THEM IS 80 YEARS OLD AND SHE RUNS THE FAMILY WITH AN
12:17:06PM IRON GLOVE AND SHE SAYS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS BEFORE I'M
12:17:09PM NOT HERE ANYMORE.
12:17:10PM BUT THESE FOLKS ARE PUTTING THE MONEY ASIDE.
12:17:14PM THEY ARE FIXING THEIR CREDIT.
12:17:15PM SO THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO BECOME BANKABLE AS
12:17:20PM WELL.
12:17:21PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
12:17:22PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, I THINK NOTHING IS NO GREATER THAN A
12:17:26PM TRY.
12:17:26PM I THINK YOU CAN START IT AS A PILOT BECAUSE I KNOW ALL THESE
12:17:32PM PROPERTIES HERE AND THEY ARE JUST ROTTING.
12:17:38PM WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
12:17:39PM I GET CALLS SOMETIMES WHEN FOLKS COME HERE, ESPECIALLY FROM
12:17:44PM OTHER COMMUNITIES, THEY DON'T HAVE THE BIG-TIME LAWYERS THAT
12:17:47PM COME HERE AND KNOW THE ZONING RULES AND REGULATIONS AND HOW
12:17:51PM TO SAVE THIS AND HOW TO SAVE THAT.
12:17:53PM THEY GET LOST IN THE SHUFFLE AND THEN THEY DON'T GET THEIR
12:17:56PM PROJECTS DONE OR THEY SAY I HEAR ALL THIS STUFF BUT I DON'T
12:17:59PM KNOW HOW TO DO ALL THAT, SO THEY DON'T GET IT DONE.
12:18:02PM I THINK, BOARD MEMBERS, IT'S A CRAFT TO SAY HOW CAN WE HELP
12:18:06PM THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW TO KNOW TO GET HELP TO MOVE
12:18:12PM FORWARD.
12:18:13PM IF WE CAN GET THEM OVER THE HUMP A LITTLE BIT, I THINK THAT
12:18:16PM WOULD BE GOOD TO WHERE IF THEY HAVE AN ARCHITECT OR SOMEONE
12:18:19PM WHO CAN DO THE ZONING, WHO CAN DO THE PLANS, I THINK THAT IS
12:18:24PM JUST A GREAT INCENTIVE TO GET SOME BLIGHT OUT OF EAST TAMPA.
12:18:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
12:18:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, THIS CITY AND THE COUNTY, BUT THE CITY
12:18:34PM SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HUNDREDS OF
12:18:36PM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE YEARS SUBSIDIZING BIG
12:18:38PM COMPANIES, BIG DEVELOPERS.
12:18:39PM SOME OF THEM DIDN'T ASK FOR IT AND PRIOR ADMINISTRATION JUST
12:18:42PM GAVE THEM MONEY.
12:18:43PM I THINK THE COMMUNITY OVER THE YEARS THOUGHT THAT MONEY
12:18:48PM COULD BE MUCH BETTER SPENT.
12:18:49PM WE KNOW FROM THE NUMBERS THAT ALL OF THAT MONEY FAILED.
12:18:51PM IT MADE A FEW PEOPLE RICHER, BUT IT HURT THE COMMUNITY BY
12:18:55PM SHRINKING THE MIDDLE CLASS AND MAKING THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE
12:18:58PM IN POVERTY HIGHER AND INCREASING DISPARITIES.
12:19:01PM WHAT WE NEED IS REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
12:19:03PM I THINK THIS KIND OF PROGRAM IS REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
12:19:05PM IT'S HELPING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
12:19:06PM YOU HAVE THE BIOS DESCRIBED IN IT, THAT IT'S HELPING REAL
12:19:09PM PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY TO INVEST IN PROPERTIES IN THE
12:19:12PM COMMUNITY.
12:19:12PM WHEN WE STARTED, THERE WAS A LOT OF MONEY BEING BANKED IN
12:19:16PM THE EAST TAMPA DISTRICT AND IT LOOKED LIKE LAST
12:19:21PM ADMINISTRATION WAS TRYING TO LAND BANK MONEY FOR MASSIVE
12:19:24PM GENTRIFICATION.
12:19:25PM INSTEAD OF SPENDING MONEY ON A BIG PROJECT, SOME BIG PROJECT
12:19:28PM WITH ONE BIG DEVELOPER WHO IS NOT FROM EAST TAMPA, I'D MUCH
12:19:31PM RATHER SEE THE MONEY SPENT IN SMALLER BUCKETS TO HELP
12:19:34PM FAMILIES TO BUILD WEALTH AND MULTIGENERATIONAL EQUITY
12:19:40PM INSTEAD OF SUBSIDIZING SOMEBODY FROM OUTSIDE JUST TO KICK
12:19:44PM EVERYBODY OUT.
12:19:44PM I'M VERY IN FAVOR OF THIS.
12:19:47PM MY ONLY QUESTION, SORRY IF I MISSED THIS EARLIER, FOR STAFF
12:19:49PM IS THERE SOME KIND OF RESTRICTION, LIKE IF THEY SELL IT IN
12:19:57PM TEN YEARS, THAT THEY HAVE TO PAY US BACK?
12:20:01PM >> YES.
12:20:01PM >>BILL CARLSON: BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T WANT SOMEBODY JUST TO
12:20:04PM FLIP IT AND THEN WE CAN KEEP THE FUND GOING.
12:20:06PM IF THEY MAKE $100,000 PROFIT AFTER DOING THIS, THEN THEY CAN
12:20:09PM AFFORD TO PAY THE $15,000 BACK, RIGHT?
12:20:12PM >> CORRECT.
12:20:12PM THANK YOU.
12:20:15PM THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND I WOULD LOVE TO REITERATE A
12:20:18PM COUPLE OF THINGS.
12:20:19PM ULTIMATELY, THE CRA BOARD WOULD REVIEW AND APPROVE ANY OF
12:20:23PM THE LEVEL 2 APPLICATIONS BEFORE THEY ARE TO RECEIVE FUNDING.
12:20:27PM AS I STATED EARLIER, LOAN TO GRANT PROGRAM, SO FOR 20 YEARS
12:20:35PM -- SORRY, NOT 20 YEARS, 20% FOR EVERY FIVE YEARS.
12:20:38PM EVERY FIVE-YEAR PERIOD, 20% WOULD BE FORGIVEN.
12:20:42PM THE POSSIBILITY OF THEM, IF THEY CLOSE THE DOORS AFTER TWO
12:20:46PM YEARS, THEN THEY WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING BACK THE
12:20:49PM REMAINDER.
12:20:50PM >>BILL CARLSON: SAME THING IF THEY SELL.
12:20:52PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CORRECT.
12:20:53PM >>BILL CARLSON: IF THEY SELL, THEY HAVE TO PAY.
12:20:55PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CORRECT.
12:20:56PM YES.
12:20:57PM THE $15,000 FOR LEVEL ONE IS ULTIMATELY FOR SCHEMATICS, AND
12:21:01PM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE BEFORE THE PROJECTS MOVE ON THAT THEY
12:21:03PM ARE ACTUALLY VIABLE BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE A TON OF FOLKS THAT
12:21:09PM WOULD BE SEEKING FUNDING TO ASSIST THEM THROUGH THAT
12:21:12PM PROCESS, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO
12:21:15PM SUSTAIN AND MOVE ON TO THAT SECOND LEVEL.
12:21:21PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO ONE IS TRYING TO STYMIE DEVELOPMENT.
12:21:24PM THE PROBLEM IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, 50% VERSUS 300%
12:21:29PM -- 15% VERSUS 300%.
12:21:32PM THEN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, YOU DON'T HAVE 60 MILLION
12:21:34PM AVAILABLE, YOU'VE GOT WHAT?
12:21:36PM 600,000 AVAILABLE.
12:21:37PM SO IT COULD BE TWO PROJECTS AND THAT'S THE END OF IT.
12:21:41PM THE LITTLE ONE, THE LITTLE PERSON WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING
12:21:44PM WITH THE 15,000, HE OR SHE IS OUT OF LUCK.
12:21:49PM TRYING TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE OF IT.
12:21:50PM A AND B.
12:21:51PM NO ONE THAT HAS 2.7 ACRES -- AND I DON'T KNOW THE PEOPLE.
12:21:54PM I'M SURE THEY ARE GREAT, WONDERFUL PEOPLE -- NO ONE THAT HAS
12:21:59PM THAT CAN'T GO AND GET THEIR OWN FINANCING IN A BANK,
12:22:01PM INCLUDING THE BIG DEVELOPERS.
12:22:03PM THE BIG DEVELOPERS AND THE LITTLE DEVELOPERS ARE ALL THE
12:22:06PM SAME BECAUSE SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE, SOMEBODY STARTED SMALL.
12:22:09PM NOBODY STARTED BUILDING A THOUSAND-UNIT APARTMENTS, COMPLEX
12:22:12PM SOMEWHERE UNTIL YOU HAD THE FUNDS AND THE CAPABILITY OF
12:22:17PM HANDLING IT.
12:22:17PM WHAT I'M SAYING, I WANT TO BE ULTRAFINE THAT THE 600,000 IS
12:22:21PM NOT TAKEN SO THAT THE LITTLE GUY WITH 15,000 DOESN'T GET
12:22:24PM ANYTHING.
12:22:24PM THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING AT NOW.
12:22:27PM HOW MANY 15,000, YOU GET INTO 300,000?
12:22:30PM A LOT.
12:22:31PM THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.
12:22:33PM SO YOU'RE GOING TO CUT OUT SOMEBODY THAT COULD DO MUCH MORE
12:22:36PM BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS TO FUND THE LITTLE ONE.
12:22:40PM YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE IT ALL.
12:22:41PM THIS IS ONE, SO YOU ONLY GOT ONE MORE LEFT AND YOUR WHOLE
12:22:45PM BUDGET IS GONE.
12:22:46PM THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING AT.
12:22:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:22:54PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I SAY WE MOVE AND APPROVE IT BUT AS A
12:22:57PM ONE-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM.
12:22:58PM ISN'T THAT WHAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, TREATED AS A PILOT
12:23:09PM PROGRAM?
12:23:09PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THAT IS ACCURATE.
12:23:11PM YOU CAN TREAT IT AS A PILOT PROGRAM.
12:23:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
12:23:16PM WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, SECONDED
12:23:22PM BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
12:23:23PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:23:29PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:23:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:23:33PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:23:35PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:23:37PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
12:23:41PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HAVE A QUESTION.
12:23:47PM THE DOLLAR AMOUNT YOU CAME UP, 600,000, HOW DID YOU ROUND UP
12:23:51PM FOR THE 600,000?
12:23:52PM I'M CURIOUS.
12:23:53PM MR. MIRANDA SAYING, MAYBE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT
12:23:57PM MORE.
12:24:00PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THAT IS IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR CAC,
12:24:03PM DEVELOPING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL CYCLE.
12:24:06PM THEY DETERMINED THE 600,000 AND CREATED THE POT OF MONIES
12:24:09PM SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE SHOULD WE DEVELOP THE PROGRAM.
12:24:11PM WE WENT OUT AND DEVELOPED THE PROGRAM TO PAIR WITH THE
12:24:13PM FUNDING AVAILABLE OR MADE AVAILABLE.
12:24:16PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: A PROGRAM LIKE THIS TO START OUT, SHOULD AT
12:24:18PM LEAST HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR A PROGRAM LIKE THAT.
12:24:21PM IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT -- MR. MIRANDA SAID SOME SMALLER
12:24:25PM PROPERTIES, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM.
12:24:28PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK BEFORE YOU AND
12:24:30PM REALLOCATE FUNDING.
12:24:31PM WE REPROGRAM FUNDS AS WELL.
12:24:34PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT LATER ON THIS
12:24:37PM FISCAL YEAR IF YOU WANTED TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM.
12:24:39PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
12:24:41PM I UNDERSTAND WHY HE VOTED NO BECAUSE YOU'RE UNDERFUNDED.
12:24:46PM IT'S A PILOT, MR. MANISCALCO SAID.
12:24:48PM IF IT STARTS TO TAKE OFF, BY ALL MEANS I WANT YOU TO COME
12:24:52PM BACK BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES HERE WILL BE A
12:24:54PM REAL WOW, ESPECIALLY THAT ONE AT NEBRASKA AND LAKE.
12:24:58PM ALL RIGHT.
12:25:01PM I WILL VOTE YES ON IT.
12:25:07PM >>THE CLERK: HURTAK?
12:25:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:25:09PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH MIRANDA VOTING NO.
12:25:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION, ACTUALLY, THAT YOU
12:25:17PM COME BACK IN SIX MONTHS WITH AN UPDATE JUST TO LET US KNOW
12:25:24PM HOW IT'S GOING.
12:25:24PM THAT WAY WE CAN FIND OUT IF THE 600,000 IS ADEQUATE.
12:25:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM CHAIRWOMAN HURTAK.
12:25:31PM SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
12:25:33PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:25:34PM >> AYE.
12:25:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SIX-MONTH REPORT REGARDING THE STATUS OF
12:25:39PM THE PILOT PROGRAM.
12:25:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I CAN'T DO THE MATH.
12:25:44PM JUST A POINT BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER, IT IS ALMOST 12:30.
12:25:49PM HOW DOES EVERYONE FEEL?
12:25:51PM WE HAVE QUITE A FEW MORE THINGS, ALTHOUGH I THINK SOME OF
12:25:53PM THEM WE COULD APPROVE PRETTY QUICKLY.
12:25:55PM WHAT ARE FOLKS' THOUGHTS?
12:25:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I SAY WE GO THROUGH.
12:26:01PM I DON'T SEE ANYTHING CONTROVERSIAL.
12:26:04PM WE'VE DISCUSSED SO MUCH.
12:26:06PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
12:26:07PM THEN WE'RE GOING TO AIM FOR 12:45.
12:26:13PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THE NEXT ITEM UP IS THE EAST TAMPA SLATE OF
12:26:16PM CANDIDATES BEING SET FORTH FOR APPROVAL.
12:26:18PM MR. McCRAY HAS THAT.
12:26:22PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD AFTERNOON, AGAIN.
12:26:23PM YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A SPREADSHEET.
12:26:27PM WE HAD 12 APPLICANTS THAT WERE APPROVED BY THE EAST TAMPA AD
12:26:30PM HOC COMMITTEE.
12:26:32PM ONE OF THEM, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, DR. SONJA BROOKINS WAS
12:26:36PM APPOINTED LAST MONTH TO FILL A VACANT SEAT.
12:26:40PM NOW WE HAVE 11 CANDIDATES THAT WERE LISTED IN TOTAL.
12:26:46PM I BELIEVE FIVE OF THOSE CANDIDATES WERE ALL MEMBERS THAT ARE
12:26:49PM CURRENTLY SERVING ON THE EAST TAMPA CAC THAT ARE SEEKING
12:26:52PM REAPPOINTMENT OR ELECTION.
12:26:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
12:26:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
12:27:00PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: GOING BACK TO WHAT WE ASKED EARLIER, ARE
12:27:03PM THEY ALL AWARE OF THE OBLIGATIONS THAT THEY HAVE BY TAKING
12:27:07PM ON THIS POSITION?
12:27:09PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
12:27:09PM AND WITH THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING THE RETREAT THAT WE'LL
12:27:14PM BE HAVING ON SEPTEMBER 30th AND OCTOBER 1st, WE WILL
12:27:18PM BEGIN TO LET THEM KNOW AND REMIND THEM WHAT THE LEVEL OF
12:27:25PM INVOLVEMENT IS AND REQUIRED AND BE FULLY ACTIVE ON THE EAST
12:27:29PM TAMPA CAC.
12:27:31PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
12:27:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
12:27:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO,
12:27:37PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
12:27:38PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:27:41PM >> AYE.
12:27:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO I NEED TO DO ROLL CALL FOR THAT?
12:27:49PM IT IS REQUIRED.
12:27:50PM THANK YOU.
12:27:51PM INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M DOING SOMETHING.
12:27:54PM >>THE CLERK: GUDES?
12:27:54PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:27:55PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:27:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:27:56PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:27:58PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:27:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:28:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:28:01PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
12:28:08PM >> THE NEXT ITEM IS A GRANT REQUEST FOR THE WELLNESS HUB.
12:28:13PM MR. McCRAY WILL GIVE YOU BACKGROUND ON THAT PROJECT.
12:28:15PM THE CAC DID APPROVE THIS PROJECT FOR FUNDING.
12:28:18PM WE WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU WITH A FUNDING AGREEMENT
12:28:21PM AFTER YOUR APPROVAL TODAY.
12:28:27PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THE WELLNESS HUB IS A PHARMACY.
12:28:32PM THEY ARE LOOKING TO PURCHASE -- NOT PURCHASE -- THEY ALREADY
12:28:35PM OWN IT, TO REHAB A NIGHTCLUB ESTABLISHMENT ON 40th STREET.
12:28:40PM CURRENTLY GOES BY THE NAME OF 1828.
12:28:43PM HAD SOME ONGOING CONVERSATIONS IN RECENT MONTHS AND THEY
12:28:48PM HAVE COME WITH A REQUEST TO THE EAST TAMPA ECONOMIC
12:28:52PM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND IT WAS APPROVED LAST MONTH BY THE
12:28:57PM EAST TAMPA CAC TO FUND UP TO $300,000.
12:29:01PM I THINK THEIR INITIAL REQUEST WAS 350.
12:29:04PM BUT ULTIMATELY, THEY WILL BE A FULL-SERVICE PHARMACY IN EAST
12:29:08PM TAMPA ON 40th STREET.
12:29:10PM THERE WILL BE FOCUSES ON PEDIATRIC MEDICAL SERVICES,
12:29:14PM IN-HOUSE INSURANCE SPECIALISTS AND ALSO THEY HAVE A DELIVERY
12:29:18PM SERVICE AS IT RELATES TO PHARMACEUTICALS.
12:29:23PM IT'S A HUSBAND AND WIFE OWNED.
12:29:27PM DR. WRIGHT IS THE PRIMARY PERSON THAT MADE THE REQUEST FROM,
12:29:34PM AND THEY ALSO ARE RESIDENTS AND HAVE OWNED THE CURRENT
12:29:37PM BUSINESS ON 50th STREET, WHICH IS RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE CRA
12:29:40PM BOUNDARIES AND NOW WOULD LIKE TO BRING IT A LITTLE CLOSER IN
12:29:44PM TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THE BENEFITS THAT WE
12:29:47PM HAVE AS IT RELATES TO THE EAST TAMPA CRA AND THE FUNDING.
12:29:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
12:29:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
12:29:56PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA.
12:29:59PM MS. REGINA WILL BE HAPPY WITH THAT.
12:30:02PM IT'S RIGHT BEHIND THAT RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
12:30:04PM THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE, JUST LIKE WITH THE STRAZ WHEN WE
12:30:09PM GAVE MONEY AWAY, A GRANT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THIS AMOUNT OF
12:30:13PM MONEY, WHAT ARE WE RECEIVING?
12:30:15PM HOW ARE WE BENEFITING AS WELL?
12:30:17PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WELL, ACTUALLY THAT LOCATION, COUNCILMAN
12:30:21PM GUDES OR BOARD MEMBER GUDES, AS YOU KNOW, HAS A HISTORY.
12:30:25PM THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NOISE, ABOUT
12:30:31PM SOME OF THE ACTIVITY THAT HAS GONE ON IN YEARS PAST.
12:30:34PM NOW I BELIEVE IT'S ONLY CURRENTLY OPEN FOR SMALL OR SPECIAL
12:30:39PM EVENTS DURING THE DAY.
12:30:41PM THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO HAVE PHASED OUT I BELIEVE AT THE END
12:30:44PM OF THIS MONTH.
12:30:44PM NOW THEY ARE LOOKING TO CONVERT THAT LOCATION INTO A FULL
12:30:49PM SERVICE PHARMACY.
12:30:51PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: LIKE WE DO WITH THE STRAZ, WITH THIS TYPE
12:30:54PM OF MONEY, PUBLICATION THAT EAST TAMPA CAC WAS A CONTRIBUTING
12:31:00PM FACTOR TO HELP TO MOVE SO THE COMMITTEE KNOWS -- THEY ARE
12:31:06PM HELPING TO BUILD THE COMMUNITY.
12:31:07PM A LOT OF SENIORS OVER THERE AS WELL.
12:31:08PM PHARMACY WILL BE CLOSE.
12:31:10PM OUR PLACE IS CLOSE BY AS WELL.
12:31:12PM I THINK IT'S A GOOD AVENUE.
12:31:13PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE HELPED
12:31:15PM CONTRIBUTE TO HELP GET THIS THING MOVING.
12:31:17PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, SIR.
12:31:18PM I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE'VE HAD SOME CONTROVERSIAL
12:31:20PM CONVERSATIONS WHEN THERE HAVE BEEN REQUESTS MADE.
12:31:23PM THIS WAS UNANIMOUS ACROSS THE BOARD AS IT RELATES TO THE
12:31:29PM SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE CAC.
12:31:30PM EVERYONE FELT VERY POSITIVE AND THEY DID AN EXCELLENT
12:31:36PM PRESENTATION.
12:31:37PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: -- THE PARTNERSHIP AND CAC HELPED PROVIDE.
12:31:43PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, SIR.
12:31:44PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:31:47PM I MET THIS DOCTOR WHO OWNS THE PHARMACY SEVERAL YEARS AGO,
12:31:51PM CANDY LOWE, BLACK BUSINESS BUS TOUR.
12:31:54PM SHE IS VERY BRIGHT.
12:31:55PM SHE IS HELPING THE COMMUNITY.
12:31:56PM I THINK IN THE NEW LOCATION SHE'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO
12:32:03PM PROVIDE MUCH MORE TO THE COMMUNITY.
12:32:05PM THANK YOU.
12:32:06PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST LIKE ON THE LAST ONE, I THINK THIS IS
12:32:09PM THE KIND OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
12:32:11PM KIND OF THING I WAS ASKING FOR THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO.
12:32:14PM WE SHOULD BE HELPING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
12:32:16PM BRINGING ASSETS AND RESOURCES TO THE COMMUNITY, MAKING THE
12:32:18PM COMMUNITY MORE LIVABLE INSTEAD OF FUNDING GENTRIFICATION AND
12:32:23PM OUTSIDE PEOPLE TO COME TEAR DOWN EVERYTHING.
12:32:25PM IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE REPLACING A USE THAT'S NOT POPULAR
12:32:27PM WITH ONE THAT WILL BE POPULAR.
12:32:29PM MY ONLY QUESTION FOR THE PUBLIC, WHAT PROTECTIONS DO YOU
12:32:33PM HAVE IN THE CONTRACT?
12:32:34PM IS THERE LIKE A FIVE-YEAR BURNOUT PERIOD LIKE ON THE OTHER
12:32:37PM ONE?
12:32:37PM ANY OTHER PROTECTIONS?
12:32:39PM IF THEY CHANGE THE USE OF IT, THEY CAN'T JUST TAKE THE MONEY
12:32:42PM AND CONVERT IT BACK TO A NIGHTCLUB.
12:32:46PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: DEFER TO MR. MASSEY.
12:32:48PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: -- BEFORE THIS IS FINALIZED THAT SPELLS OUT
12:32:50PM HOW THAT WILL BE PROTECTED.
12:32:52PM THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WILL HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED.
12:32:54PM THEY ARE ASKING FOR YOUR GENERAL AUTHORIZATION -- WITH THE
12:32:58PM GRANT CONCEPT, BUT THERE WILL HAVE TO BE AN AGREEMENT THAT
12:33:00PM SPELLS OUT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
12:33:02PM SO IF THEY DO CONVERT IT BACK, FRANKLY, THERE PROBABLY WILL
12:33:07PM BE A PAY-BACK PROVISION.
12:33:09PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST AS YOU'RE WRITING DE NOVO CONTRACTS, I
12:33:13PM WOULD SUGGEST WE GO AT LEAST TEN YEARS BECAUSE WE WANT SOME
12:33:16PM PROTECTIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO IT SHOULD INCLUDE A
12:33:18PM CHANGE OF USE ALSO.
12:33:20PM IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RESTRICTED TO A PHARMACY NECESSARILY,
12:33:23PM BUT THAT WITHIN WHATEVER TYPE CONFINES IT CAN'T BE CONVERTED
12:33:30PM BACK TO A BAR OR WHATEVER.
12:33:31PM THE ONLY REASON TO DO THAT IS WE'VE SEEN PAST, NOT IN EAST
12:33:35PM TAMPA, BUT IN OTHER PLACES WHERE SOMEBODY BOUGHT A PROPERTY
12:33:39PM BECAUSE IT WASN'T ADVERTISED PROPERLY BY THE CITY AND THEN
12:33:42PM THEY TURNED AROUND AND FLIPPED IT AND MADE MILLIONS OF
12:33:45PM DOLLARS.
12:33:46PM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROTECTING IN EVERY
12:33:49PM NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE BOARD PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY'S
12:33:50PM MONEY HERE.
12:33:51PM AS MY COLLEAGUE SAID, IT IS A LOT OF MONEY.
12:33:53PM THANK YOU.
12:33:55PM >> MOVE TO APPROVE.
12:33:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY BOARD MEMBER
12:33:59PM MANISCALCO.
12:34:00PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
12:34:02PM ROLL CALL.
12:34:05PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:34:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:34:10PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:34:13PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:34:16PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:34:17PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:34:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:34:20PM >>THE CLERK: UNANIMOUS.
12:34:21PM THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
12:34:28PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THE NEXT ITEM IS A REPROGRAMMING FOR YBOR CRA
12:34:32PM FOR STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
12:34:36PM TAMPA CRA AND TAMPA CONTRACTING SERVICES.
12:34:40PM THIS AMENDMENT IS CHANGE ORDER FOR APPROXIMATELY $47,000,
12:34:45PM WHICH REPRESENTS A 3.5% INCREASE ON THAT CONTRACT.
12:34:48PM STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.
12:34:51PM >> SO MOVED.
12:34:51PM >> SECOND.
12:34:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER
12:34:55PM MANISCALCO.
12:34:55PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:34:57PM ROLL CALL.
12:34:59PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
12:34:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:35:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:35:01PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:35:02PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
12:35:04PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:35:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:35:06PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
12:35:09PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE EAST TAMPA
12:35:11PM STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
12:35:12PM WE HAVE A FINAL DRAFT AND A REPRESENTATIVE FROM GAI IS HERE,
12:35:16PM PETE SECHLER, HAS A PRESENTATION FOR THE BOARD.
12:35:21PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
12:35:22PM IT'S NOW THE AFTERNOON.
12:35:24PM APPRECIATE BEING HERE TODAY.
12:35:27PM WE HAVE TWO DOCUMENTS.
12:35:32PM THE ACTUAL STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN AND THEN THERE IS A
12:35:36PM COMPANION DOCUMENT.
12:35:37PM I NOTED YOUR COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT MAPS.
12:35:40PM THERE IS A COMPANION DOCUMENT THAT'S MAYBE LESS EXCITING TO
12:35:43PM LOOK AT, BUT IT'S THE APPENDIX.
12:35:45PM THIS INCLUDES ALL OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.
12:35:47PM IT INCLUDES THE ENTIRE ECONOMIC AND TIF ANALYSIS AS WELL AS
12:35:52PM OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC DATA FOR THE AREA.
12:35:55PM BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES OVER 35 MAPS THAT WE HAVE GATHERED FROM
12:36:05PM VARIOUS SOURCES AT THE CITY.
12:36:07PM IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALL IN ONE
12:36:09PM PLACE, BUT WE NOW HAVE A FREE-STANDING GIS DATABASE WITH 40
12:36:17PM OR 45 DATA POINTS, INCLUDING VACANT PROPERTIES, ALL IN ONE
12:36:22PM CONSOLIDATED GIS FILE THAT IS SPECIFIC TO EAST TAMPA THAT
12:36:26PM CAN ACTUALLY BE MANAGED BY ONE OF THE STAFF MEMBERS WITH
12:36:29PM EAST TAMPA, WHICH IS ACTUALLY PRETTY EXCITING.
12:36:32PM SO SOMETIMES THIS STUFF ISN'T VERY EXCITING TO TALK ABOUT,
12:36:37PM BUT THERE'S A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL TOOL HERE TO YOUR POINT
12:36:40PM EARLIER.
12:36:41PM HOW DO WE BRING THE SLIDES UP?
12:36:45PM THERE IT GOES.
12:36:57PM JUST LIKE THAT.
12:36:58PM GREAT.
12:36:58PM LET ME JUST -- WHAT I WANT TO DO IS TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND
12:37:02PM KIND OF WALK THROUGH WHAT'S IN THE PLAN AND KIND OF HOW TO
12:37:07PM READ THE PLAN AND THEN MAYBE A COUPLE OF CLOSING COMMENTS
12:37:10PM ABOUT THE PROCESS AND KIND OF WHAT THE OUTCOMES ARE.
12:37:13PM SO THIS FUNDAMENTALLY IS A PLAN.
12:37:17PM WE STARTED IN A PLACE -- MR. GUDES MENTIONED EARLIER MAYBE
12:37:24PM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, SOME CHAOS, SOME DIFFICULTIES IN SORT OF
12:37:28PM MANAGING THE CRA, AND WE STARTED THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF
12:37:31PM COVID, WHICH KIND OF DOUBLED DOWN ON ALL OF THOSE ISSUES.
12:37:35PM AND THEN WE BEGAN IN A PROCESS WHERE THE MANAGER ACTUALLY
12:37:39PM RESIGNED. SO WE REALLY WERE IN A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION
12:37:44PM STARTING THIS PROCESS IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY CONTINUITY.
12:37:47PM AND THE MISSION OF THE PROJECT AT THE END AND WHAT I BELIEVE
12:37:50PM THE REPORT CONVEYS, IN THE BIG PICTURE IS THAT THERE IS A
12:37:55PM LOT OF COMMON GROUND ABOUT WHAT THE COMMUNITY ASPIRATIONS
12:38:01PM ARE AND ABOUT WHAT THE REALISTIC POSSIBILITIES ARE FOR EAST
12:38:05PM TAMPA AND THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT, AND IT'S TIME FOR EAST TAMPA
12:38:11PM TO TAKE PRIDE IN OWNERSHIP IN THAT, WHICH I THINK IS WHAT
12:38:14PM YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THE OPPORTUNITIES
12:38:17PM AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES.
12:38:17PM AND ALSO FOR THE OUTSIDE WORLD IN TERMS OF THE GENERAL CITY,
12:38:23PM OTHER ENTITIES THAT ARE IN AND AROUND THE GREATER TAMPA
12:38:27PM AREA, THAT THIS IS THE TIME.
12:38:29PM SO THIS IS ABOUT TELLING A STORY ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND PLACES
12:38:32PM OF EAST TAMPA, RENEWED POSSIBILITIES.
12:38:35PM IT'S ABOUT PUTTING SOME INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS OUT THERE TO
12:38:39PM HELP PEOPLE MAYBE SEE EAST TAMPA IN A NEW WAY, IN WAYS THAT
12:38:43PM KIND OF ARTICULATE THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE TOLD US IN THE
12:38:47PM FIELD.
12:38:48PM THAT DRIVES TOWARDS SOME SPECIFIC THEMES AND STRATEGIES,
12:38:51PM WHICH I THINK BECOME KIND OF THE NORTH STAR FOR FUTURE
12:38:55PM OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY COME TO EAST TAMPA AND COME TO YOU,
12:38:58PM YOU CAN GO TO THE THEMES AND STRATEGIES AND SAY, THE
12:39:01PM DECISION THAT'S BEFORE US TODAY, IS IT CONSISTENT WITH THE
12:39:05PM SPIRIT OF THE THEMES AND STRATEGIES AND SORT OF THE MISSION
12:39:08PM STATEMENT THAT'S IN THE THEMES AND STRATEGIES?
12:39:11PM AND THEN FINALLY, I THINK IT'S REALLY A CALL TO ACTION.
12:39:13PM WE'VE SAID THE TIME FOR EAST TAMPA IS NOW.
12:39:16PM THINGS ARE ON THE MOVE.
12:39:17PM SO WE'RE TRYING TO SORT OF REENERGIZE NOT JUST EAST TAMPA
12:39:22PM BUT ALSO THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
12:39:23PM THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ATTENTION ON THESE OTHER ISSUES.
12:39:26PM TAMPA HEIGHTS, WE KNOW ALL THE HEADLINES ABOUT ALL THESE
12:39:28PM OTHER AREAS.
12:39:29PM WELL, NOW IT'S EAST TAMPA'S TIME AND EVERYBODY SHOULD BE
12:39:33PM PAYING ATTENTION AT ALL LEVELS.
12:39:35PM WE WENT THROUGH A PROCESS REALLY STARTING IN THE LATE FALL
12:39:43PM OF 2020.
12:39:44PM WE DID THE BULK OF OUR WORK THROUGH 2021, AND THEN
12:39:51PM PRESENTING A DRAFT MASTER PLAN IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR,
12:39:56PM 2022, AND THEN WE'VE BEEN REFINING AND EDITING AND WORKING
12:40:01PM WITH STAFF, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, ADDITIONAL PUBLIC
12:40:04PM MEETINGS, ADDITIONAL REVISIONS TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE NOW.
12:40:08PM YOU KNOW THAT IT IS A LARGE AREA.
12:40:11PM THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES.
12:40:12PM IT IS THE BIGGEST CRA.
12:40:14PM BUT WE WENT INTO EVERY SINGLE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WALKED THE
12:40:18PM NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE FOLKS THAT LIVE AND WORK AND ARE
12:40:22PM RAISING FAMILIES AND INVESTING IN NEW BUSINESSES.
12:40:25PM SO WE WALKED EVERY ONE OF THESE NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS TO REALLY
12:40:29PM TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
12:40:32PM THERE TO SEE SOME OF THE BIG PROBLEMS BUT ALSO THE BROKEN
12:40:36PM SIDEWALKS AND SOME OF THE LITTLE ISSUES.
12:40:40PM WHAT I WOULD SAY ABOUT THIS PROCESS IS THAT JUST THIS
12:40:44PM MORNING I'VE WRITTEN DOWN SOME NOTES, AND I'LL GO THROUGH
12:40:46PM THESE SUPERFAST.
12:40:48PM I'VE HEARD JUST IN THE CONVERSATION TODAY, WHICH HAS BEEN A
12:40:52PM BIG EAST TAMPA CONVERSATION, HOUSING, HOUSING PROGRAMS,
12:40:57PM ACQUISITION OF DIFFICULT PROPERTIES OR SORT OF PROBLEM
12:41:00PM PROPERTIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BEAUTIFICATION GRANTS,
12:41:03PM MARKETING THE CRA, GOVERNANCE OF THE CRA, CRA ENGAGEMENT.
12:41:07PM NEW HOUSING TYPES TO GET MULTIPLE, MAYBE MULTIPLE UNITS ON
12:41:12PM CERTAIN KEY LOTS.
12:41:13PM HOW WE THINK ABOUT CORRIDORS, HAVING A MAPPING SYSTEM.
12:41:17PM 15th STREET CORRIDOR PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, CORRIDOR
12:41:21PM FUNDING GRANTS.
12:41:22PM SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE, ASSIGNING THE MANAGEMENT OF WORK
12:41:26PM RESPONSIBILITIES, CONCIERGE SERVICE FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS
12:41:30PM THAT NEED HELP.
12:41:32PM AND EDUCATIONAL RETREAT SESSION FOR CAC MEMBERS.
12:41:38PM ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE ALL THINGS THAT REALLY CAME OUT OF
12:41:40PM THE PLAN AND ARE NOW BEING DISCUSSED AS THIS IS THE MISSION
12:41:45PM AND THESE WERE ALL THINGS THAT WERE VERY MUCH SORT OF ILL
12:41:48PM DEFINED OR UP IN THE AIR OR NOT REALLY DISCUSSED.
12:41:51PM AND I THINK THE POINT ABOUT HAVING BROAD REPRESENTATION IN
12:41:56PM REALLY THINKING ABOUT THAT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, THESE ARE
12:41:59PM IMPORTANT IDEAS.
12:42:01PM I THINK THE PLAN HAS SUSSED THE ISSUES OUT AND IT RECORDS
12:42:03PM THEM SO THEY ARE ON PAPER.
12:42:05PM YOU CAN COME BACK TO THEM IN THE FUTURE.
12:42:10PM THERE ARE TEN COMMUNITY THEMES.
12:42:12PM RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION, COMMUNITY HEALTH
12:42:14PM AND SAFETY, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, LIVABLE STREETS AND
12:42:19PM TRANSPORTATION, PARKS AND RECREATION, COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL
12:42:23PM SERVICES.
12:42:24PM COMMUNITY-BASED COMMERCIAL SERVICES.
12:42:26PM EMPLOYMENT AND JOB CREATION, CULTURE AND HOW WE MARKET
12:42:32PM OURSELVES AND THEN ULTIMATELY LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, AND
12:42:35PM THE CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE STAFF AND OF THE CAC.
12:42:41PM THESE ARE THE BIG THEMES.
12:42:43PM I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IN
12:42:45PM DETAIL BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME.
12:42:47PM I'M SURE MANY OF YOU HAVE READ THE REPORT PROBABLY IN FULL,
12:42:51PM BUT AS YOU READ THE REPORT, I THINK THE THINGS TO SORT OF BE
12:42:55PM LOOKING FOR AS YOU GO THROUGH THE SECTIONS, IS THAT WE'RE
12:42:59PM TRYING TO SORT OF TALK TO MULTIPLE AUDIENCES AT DIFFERENT
12:43:03PM ALTITUDES IN THE REPORT BOTH INTERNAL TO EAST TAMPA AS WELL
12:43:06PM AS EXTERNAL TO EAST TAMPA.
12:43:09PM THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IS MEANT TO BE AN EIGHT-PAGE BRIEF
12:43:12PM THAT JUST PUTS THE BIG IDEAS OUT THERE, EXPLAINS THAT THIS
12:43:15PM WAS A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY PROCESS, AND IT WAS A REALLY
12:43:19PM KIND OF A RESET FROM THE GROUND UP FOR THE COMMUNITY AND
12:43:21PM THAT THERE IS A LINKAGE BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY INPUT, THE
12:43:25PM THEMES, THE WAY PROPERTY WAS ANALYZED TECHNICALLY, THE WAY
12:43:30PM PROPERTY HAS BEEN ENVISIONED IN TERMS OF POSSIBILITIES IN
12:43:33PM THE UPPER RIGHT AND ULTIMATELY HOW THAT COMES DOWN TO WHERE
12:43:36PM WE SEE YOUR POTENTIAL TIF REVENUES GOING AND HOW YOU CAN
12:43:40PM START TO ARTICULATE A FLEXIBLE BUDGET THAT YOU CAN ADJUST
12:43:43PM OVER TIME BASED ON HOW THINGS GO.
12:43:45PM AND I THINK PILOTING THINGS IS ABSOLUTELY A CORE TENET OF
12:43:49PM THIS PLAN.
12:43:51PM LET THINGS -- GIVE THINGS A CHANCE AND SEE HOW THEY GO AND
12:43:54PM THEN ADJUST.
12:43:55PM THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
12:43:56PM THERE IS A SECTION ABOUT THE SORT OF BACKGROUND OF EAST
12:44:00PM TAMPA.
12:44:01PM FIRST OF ALL AS A COMMUNITY, DATING ALMOST BACK TO ITS
12:44:06PM ORIGINS, NOT ORIGINALLY BEING PART OF THE CITY.
12:44:08PM WHICH IS WHY SOME OF IT DOESN'T HAVE ACTUAL FIXED STORMWATER
12:44:12PM AND URBAN SERVICES.
12:44:14PM BUT THEN SPECIFICALLY KIND OF TALKING ABOUT THE MOVEMENT TO
12:44:18PM ENGAGE EAST TAMPA AS A COLLECTED CRA AND GETTING THAT KIND
12:44:22PM OF DOCUMENTED SO THAT WE UNDERSTAND, SO THAT THE REPORT
12:44:26PM MAKES REFERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL TOPICS OF THE CRA, WHICH I
12:44:29PM THINK ARE STILL VERY MUCH IN PLAY, JUST IN DIFFERENT
12:44:32PM FORMATS.
12:44:33PM BUT THOSE ORIGINAL TOPICS ALL STILL MATTER.
12:44:36PM WE ALSO MAKE A COUPLE OF POINTS ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT HAVE
12:44:39PM HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS OF THE CRA.
12:44:41PM FIRST OF ALL, THE POINT MADE MANY TIMES IS THAT THIS IS THE
12:44:43PM BIGGEST CRA.
12:44:44PM YOU CAN PUT ALL THE OTHER CRAs IN THIS AREA AND YOU STILL
12:44:47PM HAVE ROOM TO SPARE.
12:44:50PM AND THE OTHER POINT BEING THAT THIS CRA WAS PARTICULARLY
12:44:54PM HARD HIT DURING THE RECESSION, AND THERE'S SOME LOST TIME.
12:44:59PM IT'S NOT JUST LOST MONEY.
12:45:01PM IT'S LOST TIME AND LOST SENSE OF MOMENTUM AND LOST COMMUNITY
12:45:05PM COHESION.
12:45:06PM SO YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH THIS INFORMATION AT A LATER
12:45:10PM DATE, BUT WE'RE SORT OF LAYING A BASIS HERE FOR THE POSSIBLE
12:45:15PM CONSIDERATION IN 2034, WHEN THIS CRA SUNSETS, THAT YOU MAY
12:45:20PM WANT TO EXTEND THE CRA.
12:45:22PM UNDER SOME NEGOTIATED TERMS AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE
12:45:26PM DISCUSSED TODAY.
12:45:27PM WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO LAY THE PREDICATE FOR THAT.
12:45:29PM THIS IS A BIG, COMPLICATED AREA.
12:45:31PM IT'S BEEN THROUGH SOME TOUGH TIMES.
12:45:34PM HOWEVER, DESPITE THAT, WE ALSO DOCUMENTED AN ENORMOUS NUMBER
12:45:37PM OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
12:45:38PM IT'S JUST HARD TO SEE THEM ALL.
12:45:40PM BECAUSE AS YOU SAID EARLIER, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING OVER HERE
12:45:42PM AND YOU DON'T NOTICE IT OVER HERE.
12:45:44PM SO THERE HAS BEEN A LOT ACCOMPLISHED BY THE COMMUNITY, BUT
12:45:48PM WE NEED TO UP OUR GAME AND CONTINUE TO ADVANCE, AND WE NOW
12:45:52PM ARE REALLY GOING TO HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT.
12:45:54PM THAT'S REALLY THE POINT OF THAT SECTION TALKING ABOUT THE
12:45:58PM BACKGROUND AND HISTORY.
12:46:00PM THE PUBLIC INPUT IS SIMPLY TO SAY THAT THERE WAS A VERY
12:46:03PM DIVERSE, MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO PUBLIC INPUT.
12:46:08PM WE HAD TO DO A LOT OF THINGS KIND OF OUT OF THE BOX AND ON
12:46:11PM THE FLY, RESPONDING TO THE COVID SITUATION, AND WE DID THOSE
12:46:15PM THINGS.
12:46:15PM AND EVERY SINGLE WORD THAT WAS WRITTEN DOWN ON ONE OF OUR
12:46:20PM SURVEYS THAT WERE HANDED OUT ONLINE OR IN PERSON WAS
12:46:24PM TABULATED, ORGANIZED, AND BROUGHT INTO THE LANGUAGE THAT'S
12:46:28PM USED IN THE THEMES.
12:46:29PM SO THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE THEMES ARE EITHER DIRECT
12:46:34PM QUOTES OR THEY ARE DIRECT PARAPHRASES OF COMBINATIONS OF
12:46:37PM THINGS THAT PEOPLE TOLD US.
12:46:39PM ALL OF THE IDEAS ESSENTIALLY CAME FROM THE COMMUNITY IN ONE
12:46:43PM MANNER OR ANOTHER, EITHER ON THE WALKS, IN MEETINGS, OR
12:46:46PM THROUGH THE SURVEYS.
12:46:47PM SO LOTS OF POINTS OF INPUT ON THIS PROJECT I THINK IS THE
12:46:50PM POINT.
12:46:51PM WE WANT TO HAVE THAT IN THE REPORT KIND OF FOR THE RECORD.
12:46:54PM THE OTHER POINT THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR THIS BODY AND
12:46:57PM OTHER BODIES WITHIN THE CITY IS SIMPLY TO SAY THAT ALL THIS
12:47:03PM COMMUNITY INPUT CAME IN AND WE STARTED TO FORMULATE THESE
12:47:06PM THEMES AROUND THAT INPUT AND AS WE STARTED TO LOOK AT WHAT
12:47:10PM -- AND WE INTERVIEWED EACH OF YOU, MINUS ONE, WE INTERVIEWED
12:47:14PM EACH OF YOU A YEAR AGO SUMMER TO SORT OF TALK ABOUT YOUR
12:47:18PM THOUGHTS ABOUT THE AREA, AND WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT I THINK
12:47:24PM IS REALLY ALIGNMENT BETWEEN WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING,
12:47:28PM WHAT YOU ALL ARE INTERESTED IN AND, FRANKLY, WHAT A LOT OF
12:47:31PM ASPECTS OF THE MAYOR'S T-3 PROGRAM ARE.
12:47:34PM SO I FELT LIKE IT WAS WORTH IT TO TAKE A MOMENT IN THE
12:47:38PM REPORT AND MAKE THAT COMMENT BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S
12:47:41PM BEEN THE CASE IN THE PAST.
12:47:43PM AND IT IS THE CASE TODAY.
12:47:44PM I THINK WE HAVE REAL OPPORTUNITY TODAY THAT WASN'T THERE IN
12:47:47PM PAST YEARS, PAST ADMINISTRATIONS, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO
12:47:50PM CONTEXTUALIZE THAT.
12:47:52PM YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME TYPES OF ISSUES.
12:47:54PM YOU'RE USING MAYBE SOME DIFFERENT WORDS, BUT THE TIME IS
12:47:58PM NOW.
12:47:58PM THE TIME TO ALIGN TAMPA MOVES TO WHAT THE KEY STREETS ARE IN
12:48:02PM EAST TAMPA AND PARTNER MONEY AND WORK TOGETHER.
12:48:09PM THE DOMINOES ARE SET UP FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.
12:48:12PM SO TALKING ABOUT THE THEMES.
12:48:13PM I MENTIONED THE TEN THEMES BEFORE WE PRESENTED THEM
12:48:16PM INITIALLY IN APRIL OF 2021, REFINED A LITTLE BIT WITH THE
12:48:21PM COMMUNITY.
12:48:22PM WE BROUGHT THEM BACK IN SEPTEMBER WITH SOME PRETTY
12:48:25PM SUBSTANTIAL WORK ON WHAT THOSE THEMES MEAN IN TERMS OF
12:48:28PM ACTIONS AS WELL AS SOME ADMINISTRATIONS OF WHAT IT MIGHT
12:48:31PM LOOK LIKE IF YOU PUT THOSE ACTIONS INTO MOTION.
12:48:33PM YOU'VE SEEN THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE REPORT, AND THAT WE'VE
12:48:36PM BEEN REFINING AND WRITING THE REPORT AND DEALING WITH BUDGET
12:48:39PM AND STUFF EVER SINCE.
12:48:41PM HERE IS THE KEY POINT HERE.
12:48:42PM AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS SECTION, WE ACTUALLY PAIRED UP THE
12:48:49PM INPUT AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE INPUT THAT WE TOOK IN THE FIELD
12:48:53PM WITH THE COMMUNITY.
12:48:54PM WE PAIRED THEM UP ONE FOR ONE WITH WHAT SORT OF THE INITIAL
12:48:59PM ACTIONS ARE.
12:48:59PM SO THERE'S SORT OF A SET OF ISSUES AND THERE'S SORT OF A
12:49:04PM RESPONSE, AND THEY ARE PAIRED UP IN THAT WAY INTENTIONALLY
12:49:06PM SO THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT THE IMAGES ON THE INPUT THEMATIC
12:49:13PM SIDE AND SOME OF THOSE CAPTIONS, AND THEN YOU CAN LOOK AT
12:49:15PM THE VERY NEXT PAGE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THIS BUT WE
12:49:19PM WANT MORE OF THIS OR WE WANT TO START THINKING ABOUT THIS OR
12:49:22PM WE WANT THINGS TO MOVE IN THIS DIRECTION.
12:49:25PM SO THAT'S THE WAY ALL TEN THEMES ARE SET UP AND DESCRIBED.
12:49:29PM AND THEN THEY ARE TRANSPOSED -- I'M JUST SHOWING THEME ONE,
12:49:33PM WHICH WAS REALLY ONE OF THE BIG DRIVERS, OBVIOUSLY, HOUSING.
12:49:34PM BUT THEN FOR EACH OF THE THEMES, THEY ARE ALL IDENTIFIED IN
12:49:39PM TERMS OF PROJECTS, PROGRAMS, AND PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE
12:49:46PM BUDGET.
12:49:46PM SO EACH THEME IS -- OR EACH ACTION IS IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE
12:49:50PM BUDGET AND THEN THERE IS A RUN OUT OF MONEY OVER TIME THAT
12:49:53PM YOU CAN ALLOCATE AND BE FLEXIBLE OVER TIME IN TERMS OF HOW
12:49:56PM YOU APPLY THOSE DOLLARS.
12:49:58PM THEN WHAT WE FELT LIKE WAS IN CHAPTER 4, WE FELT LIKE --
12:50:04PM I'VE WORKED ON DOZENS OF CRA PLANS FOR ALL DIFFERENT SIZE
12:50:08PM SITUATIONS, DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND EVERYTHING.
12:50:11PM AND WHAT WE REALLY FELT LIKE IN THIS CASE WAS WE REALLY
12:50:16PM NEEDED TO LITERALLY ARTICULATE WHAT SOME OF THE
12:50:19PM POSSIBILITIES ARE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT
12:50:23PM THE WORDS MEAN BECAUSE A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
12:50:27PM BUT ALSO TO REALLY MAYBE SHOW EAST TAMPA IN A NEW LIGHT, IN
12:50:31PM A WAY THAT MAYBE PEOPLE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED IT BEFORE, THAT
12:50:34PM THERE ARE SPECIAL TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT REALLY ARE
12:50:36PM AVAILABLE HERE, AND IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT IT THROUGH THESE
12:50:40PM LIGHT.
12:50:40PM SO WE STARTED SMALL.
12:50:42PM EAST TAMPA WAS A PLACE THAT HAD AN INORDINATE NUMBER OF
12:50:46PM STORMWATER PONDS.
12:50:47PM AND THERE'S REALLY KIND OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY QUESTION
12:50:50PM HERE.
12:50:50PM I MEAN, YOU WOULDN'T JUST GO INTO HYDE PARK AND SAY WE HAVE
12:50:53PM A DRAINAGE PROBLEM.
12:50:54PM LET'S GO BUY A BLOCK, TEAR DOWN THE HOUSES AND PUT A
12:50:57PM STORMWATER POND IN, RIGHT?
12:50:58PM THAT'S ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY.
12:51:00PM NOW, THOSE ARE DECISIONS FROM DECADES AGO.
12:51:03PM THERE'S NOBODY IN THIS ROOM THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT BUT
12:51:07PM THAT HAPPENED.
12:51:07PM AND IT HAPPENED IN EAST TAMPA.
12:51:09PM AND IT'S TIME NOW -- WELL, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
12:51:13PM WELL, THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION TO SAY WE KNOW THAT WE WANT
12:51:16PM BETTER PARKS AND RECREATION.
12:51:19PM THAT'S A THEME.
12:51:19PM WE KNOW THAT WE WANT BETTER LOCAL WALKABILITY AND MOBILITY.
12:51:22PM THAT'S A THEME.
12:51:23PM WE KNOW THAT WE WANT OUR STORMWATER AND OUR PHYSICAL
12:51:27PM ENVIRONMENT TO LOOK BETTER.
12:51:28PM THAT'S A THEME, APPEARANCE, RIGHT?
12:51:30PM BUT WHAT IF WE COULD PUT THOSE TOGETHER?
12:51:34PM THERE ARE LOCATIONS WHERE WE CAN COME IN AND INTERVENE WITH
12:51:38PM A VERY LIGHT TOUCH ON THESE PONDS AND COME IN AND PROVIDE A
12:51:41PM NEIGHBORHOOD PARK THAT'S OPERATING ON MULTIPLE LEVELS,
12:51:44PM MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS.
12:51:45PM AND SO AGAIN I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ALL OF YOUR TIME.
12:51:51PM YOU'VE HAD A BIG MORNING.
12:51:53PM I REALLY WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU.
12:51:55PM THERE IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF THOUGHT THAT HAS BEEN PUT
12:51:58PM INTO THE WORDS SELECTED FOR THE THEMES AND THE ACTIONS AND
12:52:01PM THE IMAGERY THAT IS IN THESE DRAWINGS, WHICH I PERSONALLY
12:52:05PM DREW THESE DRAWINGS MYSELF.
12:52:09PM AND THE LABELS THAT ARE ON THESE DRAWINGS ARE REFERRING TO
12:52:14PM SPECIFIC IDEAS.
12:52:15PM AND WHAT WE REALLY DID WITH THESE IS WE TRIED TO TAKE -- YOU
12:52:19PM KNOW, YOU CAN'T DO A DRAWING OF EVERY STREET CORNER IN A
12:52:22PM 4500-ACRE AREA, RIGHT?
12:52:24PM BUT WHAT WE TRIED TO DO IS IDENTIFY SOME ARCHETYPAL
12:52:31PM SITUATIONAL THINGS THAT ARE COMMON IN EAST TAMPA AND DEAL
12:52:35PM WITH THEM AND DEAL WITH THEM IN A WAY PEOPLE COULD
12:52:38PM UNDERSTAND, SO THE STORMWATER DEPARTMENT, MOBILITY
12:52:41PM DEPARTMENT, EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS.
12:52:43PM THE FUTURE LEADERS CAN SORT OF UNDERSTAND THE SPIRIT OF WHAT
12:52:47PM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.
12:52:48PM 22nd STREET WAS MENTIONED EARLIER AS AN IMPORTANT MAIN
12:52:52PM STREET.
12:52:52PM WE WANTED TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT WE SHOWED ON THE
12:52:55PM RENEWAL OF 22nd STREET.
12:52:57PM WE DIDN'T NECESSARILY WANT TO PICK A PRIVATELY OWNED
12:53:00PM BUILDING AND SAY THIS BUILDING SHOULD BE ACQUIRED AND TAKEN
12:53:03PM AWAY AND SOMETHING SHOULD GO BACK.
12:53:05PM BUT WE KNOW WHERE THOSE PROPERTIES ARE AND THE CRA KNOWS
12:53:10PM WHERE THE TARGET PROPERTIES MIGHT BE AND WHERE SOME DEALS
12:53:13PM MIGHT BE HAD.
12:53:14PM WE TOOK A BUILDING THAT WE OWNED, WHICH IS THE BUILDING
12:53:16PM KNOWN AS THE GATOR BUILDING, AND WE SHOWED A REPURPOSING OF
12:53:20PM THAT BUILDING FOR RETAIL START-UP, COMMUNITY USE, COMMUNITY
12:53:25PM BENEFIT, NEW STREETSCAPE AND AN ENLIVENING OF THAT STREET AS
12:53:30PM A WAY TO GESTURALLY SAY WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE
12:53:34PM HISTORIC MAIN STREET ON 22nd.
12:53:36PM WE LOOKED AT THE BARRIO AREA, AND THIS IS OBVIOUSLY 15th
12:53:40PM AND COLUMBUS.
12:53:41PM AND THERE'S A WHOLE SET OF IDEAS HERE THAT HAVE TO DO --
12:53:44PM SOMEONE MENTIONED EARLIER A GROCERY STORE.
12:53:46PM I THINK IT WAS COUNCILMAN GUDES.
12:53:48PM I WANT TO TELL YOU, WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THOSE PROPERTIES
12:53:51PM ON 26th WHERE 22nd AND 21st SPLIT, THAT TRIANGLE
12:54:01PM PIECE, THAT WAS A KNIFE THROUGH THE HEART.
12:54:03PM BECAUSE I WANTED TO DRAW THAT DRAWING FOR A SMALL GROCER TO
12:54:06PM GO ON THAT PROPERTY BUT THAT TRAIN HAD SAILED.
12:54:08PM IT WAS ALREADY OUT.
12:54:09PM IT WAS GOING TO BE SINGLE-FAMILY.
12:54:11PM WHERE IS ANOTHER SPOT THAT'S LIKE AN IMPORTANT KIND OF MAIN
12:54:14PM AND MAIN LOCATION WHERE YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO RECRUIT A SMALL
12:54:18PM GROCER?
12:54:20PM I THINK THERE'S ONE -- AND THIS IS KIND OF AN OUT-OF-THE-BOX
12:54:23PM IDEA -- BUT I THINK THERE'S ONE AT THE CORNER OF COLUMBUS
12:54:27PM AND 15th.
12:54:28PM RIGHT NOW, YOU'VE GOT THAT TRIANGLE FLAT IRON SITE.
12:54:31PM I UNDERSTAND THAT.
12:54:31PM AND WE WENT AHEAD AND DREW SOME PLANS FOR HOW THIS ENTIRE
12:54:35PM AREA COULD BE IMPROVED.
12:54:37PM BUT THERE'S A COUPLE OF THESE PLANS WHERE WE DID SOME
12:54:40PM SET-ASIDE DRAWINGS.
12:54:41PM AND WHAT YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT IS KIND OF A BOLD IDEA.
12:54:44PM IF COLUMBUS WAS TWO-WAY AND THERE IS A SERIOUS CONVERSATION
12:54:49PM ABOUT TWO-WAYING THE ONE-WAY PAIRS.
12:54:51PM THEY DON'T NEED TO BE ONE WAY.
12:54:53PM YOUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT.
12:54:55PM IF COLUMBUS WAS TWO-WAYED, THERE'S REALLY NO REASON TO HAVE
12:54:59PM THAT PROPERTY COMING THROUGH ON THAT TRIANGLE.
12:55:02PM IF YOU COULD PUT ALL THAT TOGETHER, I TOOK AN ABSOLUTE, YOU
12:55:05PM KNOW, THE 1A STANDARD, YOU KNOW, 15,000 SQUARE FOOT GROCERY
12:55:11PM STORE THAT, YOU KNOW, 8 DIFFERENT GROCERY STORE COMPANIES
12:55:17PM PUT ON THE GROUND, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, AND I PUT
12:55:20PM IT ON THAT SITE AND SAID YOU COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN
12:55:23PM THE FUTURE.
12:55:23PM THE POSSIBILITY FOR THAT IS THERE IF YOU WANT TO GET
12:55:26PM SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN A PROMINENT LOCATION THAT WOULD BE
12:55:30PM FROM A GROCER'S PERSPECTIVE WOULD BE MEANINGFUL TO REGIONAL
12:55:34PM TRAFFIC, CONNECTED TO YBOR, CONNECTED TO EAST TAMPA,
12:55:38PM ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
12:55:39PM WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THOSE.
12:55:40PM AGAIN IT KILLED ME WHEN I HEARD THAT PROPERTY WAS GOING TO
12:55:43PM BE -- I SAW THAT PROPERTY RIGHT AWAY, MR. GUDES.
12:55:46PM WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE CORRIDORS.
12:55:51PM THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NOTE.
12:55:52PM AGAIN, CONNECTING ISSUES THAT ARE ABSTRACT WITH ISSUES THAT
12:55:56PM ARE PHYSICAL.
12:55:57PM A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NEED TO, QUOTE, CLEAN UP AND
12:56:02PM IMPROVE BORRELL PARK.
12:56:04PM AND WE KNOW THAT'S ON THE PARK SYSTEM'S PLAN TO DO THAT
12:56:08PM WORK, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME INHERENT PROBLEMS
12:56:11PM ON NEBRASKA THAT ARE DRIVING THE CHALLENGES IN BORRELL PARK.
12:56:16PM AND THIS WAS PROBABLY THE ONE INSTANCE WHERE WE DID ACTUALLY
12:56:20PM PICK A SPECIFIC PRIVATE PROPERTY AND SAY, THESE ARE THE
12:56:22PM KINDS OF PROPERTIES THAT YOU NEED TO GO AFTER, WHETHER PENNY
12:56:26PM SAVER OR WHATEVER IT IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WALKED THE
12:56:31PM NEIGHBORHOOD, WHAT WAS PROFOUND TO ME, THE NEIGHBORS ALL
12:56:33PM KNOW WHERE THE PROBLEM SITES ARE, RIGHT?
12:56:37PM IT'S TIME TO START INTERVENING.
12:56:42PM I FRANKLY THINK WHETHER YOU WANT TO WAIT FOR THE MARKET TO
12:56:45PM DO IT, BECAUSE THE MARKET WILL DO IT, OR IF YOU WANT TO GET
12:56:48PM MORE PROACTIVE.
12:56:49PM BUT I THINK THAT THAT HOTEL PROPERTY THAT'S ADVERTISING
12:56:53PM ESSENTIALLY HOURLY RATES, THAT SHOULD BE ACQUIRED.
12:56:56PM AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR TOWNHOMES, SOMEONE MENTIONED
12:56:59PM EARLIER, WHERE YOU CAN ASSEMBLE PROPERTIES AND PUT TOGETHER
12:57:03PM MAYBE LARGER PIECES OF PROPERTY TO HAVE SMALLER LOTS TO GET
12:57:06PM THINGS IN AT A DIFFERENT PRICE POINT, DIFFERENT HOUSING
12:57:09PM CHOICE.
12:57:10PM WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW THAT IN THIS DRAWING.
12:57:13PM THE CORRIDORS ARE THE PLACES TO DO THAT, NOT THE HEART OF
12:57:15PM THE SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS.
12:57:18PM AND THEN, OF COURSE, HUMANIZING AND EVEN SHOWING THE BANNERS
12:57:21PM AND SO FORTH AND TURNING NEBRASKA INTO AN ADDRESS.
12:57:25PM SO THESE ARE VERY MULTIDIMENSIONAL DRAWINGS THAT REALLY ARE
12:57:29PM TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS AT THE SAME TIME, BUT THEY ARE
12:57:34PM ALL THINGS FIRMLY EMBEDDED IN THE TEN COMMUNITY THEMES.
12:57:37PM AGAIN, COLUMBUS DRIVE.
12:57:41PM THIS IS A VERY, VERY DIVERSE AREA.
12:57:43PM IT'S GOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT LAND USE TYPES.
12:57:46PM I THINK THE COLUMBUS DRIVE AREA WAS JUST SORT OF SEEN AS THE
12:57:49PM BACK.
12:57:50PM IT WASN'T REALLY A FOCUS, FRANKLY, FOR THE COMMUNITY.
12:57:53PM WE WANTED TO SAY WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT
12:57:56PM DRIVES.
12:57:57PM WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT EMPLOYMENT.
12:57:58PM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT CAN CREATIVE
12:58:02PM DOLLARS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT CAN GENERATE REVENUE BACK
12:58:05PM INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
12:58:06PM THIS COMMERCIAL -- THIS MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL AREA
12:58:11PM ALONG COLUMBUS DRIVE IS AN UNBELIEVABLE RESOURCE TO THE CRA,
12:58:15PM BOTH FINANCIALLY AS WELL AS JOBS AND EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
12:58:20PM TRAINING, AND WE NEED TO CAPITALIZE ON THAT.
12:58:24PM THERE ARE NOW WHEELS IN MOTION TO START TO EXPLORE THAT AS
12:58:26PM SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW.
12:58:27PM WE ALSO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT -- WE'VE GOT THESE OTHER LARGE
12:58:33PM CORRIDORS LIKE HILLSBOROUGH.
12:58:35PM THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR WHAT I WOULD CALL SORT OF
12:58:41PM MORE CONTEMPORARY SUBURBAN RETROFIT DEVELOPMENT, MID-RISE
12:58:45PM DEVELOPMENT WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMERCIAL.
12:58:48PM WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE IS THIS IS THE FLEA MARKET SITE IN THE
12:58:51PM LOWER RIGHT AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
12:58:57PM IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO IT IN THE OLD SEARS BUILDING.
12:59:00PM AND WHAT WE SAID IS, OKAY, LOOK, THE PLACE FOR MID-RISE
12:59:04PM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT IN THE HEART OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
12:59:06PM BUT THESE CORRIDORS THAT ARE JUST COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS, THEY
12:59:10PM ARE UNDERPERFORMING, AND IT IS A SLAM-DUNK TO COME IN ON
12:59:15PM THESE PROPERTIES AND DO A DIFFERENT TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT
12:59:19PM THERE IS AN AUDIENCE FOR AND PUT THESE PROPERTIES INTO
12:59:23PM MOTION.
12:59:24PM AND THE FACT THAT YOU NOW HAVE THE CITY'S EMPLOYMENT CENTER
12:59:28PM GOING TO BE RIGHT NEAR HERE, EVEN DOUBLES DOWN ON THAT
12:59:31PM PREMISE.
12:59:32PM SO WE DID A DRAWING THAT SAID WELL MAYBE OVER TIME WE NEED
12:59:36PM TO THINK ABOUT THESE CORRIDORS IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
12:59:38PM SO WE DREW SOMETHING HERE THAT WAS URBAN.
12:59:40PM IT'S WALKABLE.
12:59:41PM IT HAS BLOCKS THAT ARE INTERCONNECTED WITH SIDEWALKS.
12:59:47PM IT DOES PUT RETAIL UP ON HILLSBOROUGH BUT STARTS TO TREAT
12:59:50PM HILLSBOROUGH AS A PARKWAY ROAD WITH TREES AND PROPER TRANSIT
12:59:55PM OPPORTUNITIES AND SO FORTH.
12:59:56PM BUT THEN IT STARTS TO BREAK DOWN AS IT GOES BACK TO THE
1:00:00PM NEIGHBORHOOD INTO SORT OF A TOWNHOME KIND OF A CONCEPT THAT
1:00:03PM CAN START TO RELATE TO THE EXISTING SINGLE-FAMILY BEHIND.
1:00:06PM AND THEN TO THE LEFT, YOU SEE EVENTUALLY -- I MEAN,
1:00:11PM EVENTUALLY THAT'S THAT -- THAT SEARS BUILDING WILL BECOME
1:00:14PM OBSOLETE.
1:00:15PM ONE COULD ARGUE IT IS OBSOLETE NOW.
1:00:19PM THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW TECH CAMPUS THAT CONTINUES
1:00:22PM THE TRADITION OF MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION
1:00:26PM IN THAT SPACE.
1:00:27PM THERE COULD ALSO BE OTHER OFFICING, MAYBE BUSINESS INCUBATOR
1:00:31PM SITES THERE, MAYBE A BUSINESS CLASS HOTEL COULD GO INTO THAT
1:00:35PM SITE.
1:00:35PM SO ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES.
1:00:38PM WE WANTED TO TACKLE WHAT'S IN YOUR FRONT YARD WHICH IS THAT
1:00:41PM UGLY STORMWATER POND.
1:00:43PM THIS IS A BIG AREA AND WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE VALUE AND
1:00:47PM THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE LARGE CORRIDORS, TOO.
1:00:50PM IT'S ALL PART OF THE SAME PICTURE OF EAST TAMPA.
1:00:52PM FINALLY, WE ENDED ON THIS KIND OF MORE DRAMATIC SKETCH OF
1:00:57PM THE POND ON 26th.
1:00:59PM THERE IS OPPORTUNITY AND YOU MENTIONED AGAIN PUTTING
1:01:02PM PROPERTIES TOGETHER.
1:01:03PM WE ARE SHOWING IN THIS DRAWING OPPORTUNITIES TO COME IN AND
1:01:07PM DO INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING HOMES AND ON VACANT
1:01:10PM LOTS WE'RE SHOWING TOWNHOMES AND INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT.
1:01:14PM YOU TALK ABOUT OTHER BUILDERS THAT WOULD WANT TO COME IN AND
1:01:17PM DO THIS.
1:01:18PM WE'RE SHOWING INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT, EVEN ENCROACHING INTO
1:01:22PM THE POND.
1:01:23PM WE DID ENGINEERING ANALYSIS WITH SUBCONSULTANT, WE THINK WE
1:01:27PM CAN ENCROACH A LITTLE BIT IN THE POND AND BUY SOME LAND BACK
1:01:30PM AND GET SOME EYES ON THE POND IN TERMS OF FRONT DOOR
1:01:34PM TOWNHOMES AND THEN TURN THE POND INTO AN ENVIRONMENTAL
1:01:36PM AMENITY, AN EDUCATIONAL AMENITY, A COMMUNITY GARDENING
1:01:39PM AMENITY AND ULTIMATELY SOMETHING THAT PROVIDES VALUE FOR THE
1:01:42PM NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND ENHANCE
1:01:46PM QUALITY OF LIFE.
1:01:48PM THEN I GET TO TECHNICAL INVENTORY, I DON'T WANT TO BORE YOU
1:01:52PM WITH THIS.
1:01:52PM IRONICALLY, THIS IS THE MAP AND EVERYTHING IN PURPLE IS
1:01:56PM VACANT AND PUBLICLY OWNED.
1:01:59PM WE DID SOME MAPS AND AGAIN, THIS WOULD BE A WHOLE OTHER
1:02:03PM DISCUSSION.
1:02:04PM BUT THERE'S A WHOLE SERIES OF MAPS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
1:02:06PM DRAWINGS.
1:02:07PM WE DID THE 40 OR 45 SORT OF INVENTORY THINGS THAT ARE IN
1:02:12PM GIS, BUT THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE THAT IN A
1:02:16PM WAY THAT MAKES ANY SENSE?
1:02:17PM SO WE DID SOME DIAGRAMS IN THERE THAT TALK INCREMENTAL ABOUT
1:02:23PM THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF COMMUNITY AND WHY NEBRASKA IS
1:02:26PM DIFFERENT FROM HILLSBOROUGH, IS DIFFERENT FROM THE COLUMBUS
1:02:30PM DRIVE CORRIDOR, AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE ARTERIALS,
1:02:36PM THERE ARE THREE ARTERIALS BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY VERY
1:02:38PM DIFFERENT.
1:02:39PM 40th, HILLSBOROUGH, NEBRASKA, ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
1:02:41PM AND THAT THOSE ARE ACTUALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE HISTORIC MAIN
1:02:45PM STREETS WHICH YOU SEE IN THE LIGHTER PINK RUNNING
1:02:48PM NORTH-SOUTH THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF EAST TAMPA.
1:02:51PM THESE ROADS LIKE 34th AND 15th AND 22nd AND SO FORTH
1:02:55PM AND SO ON, THAT'S THE PLACE TO REINVEST IN THIS INCREMENTAL
1:03:01PM SORT OF LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESS, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF MIX
1:03:05PM USE IF YOU CAN GET LIVE OVER WORK.
1:03:07PM THAT'S THE PLACE TO THINK ABOUT THE THINGS.
1:03:08PM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW IS COMPLETING A NEW LOOK
1:03:11PM AT THE ZONING REGULATIONS TO BETTER ENABLE THIS TYPE OF
1:03:14PM DEVELOPMENT ON 15th AS A CASE STUDY THAT COULD BE APPLIED
1:03:18PM TO OTHER AREAS.
1:03:20PM ALSO IN THE TECHNICAL SECTION IS THE WHOLE TIF GENERATION
1:03:23PM THING.
1:03:24PM WE TRIED TO BE PRETTY CONSERVATIVE WITH THE TIF GENERATION.
1:03:28PM EVERYTHING THAT WE DID IN OUR BUDGETING WAS BASED ON THE LOW
1:03:31PM PROJECTION AND WE SET A COMMON LOW PROJECTION, RECOGNIZING
1:03:35PM WE DREW NUMBERS FROM A YEAR AGO WHEN WE DID THIS, WE SET THE
1:03:38PM LOW PROJECTION FOR THIS YEAR, WHERE YOU'VE GOT WELL OVER $8
1:03:42PM MILLION, WE SET IT AT 7.8 ACROSS THE BOARD AND THAT WE --
1:03:46PM THEN WE STARTED DOING OUR PROJECTIONS FROM THERE.
1:03:49PM I THINK REALITY FOR YOU IS CONSERVATIVELY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
1:03:53PM LOW AND MEDIUM AND THE POTENTIAL IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MEDIUM
1:03:56PM AND HIGH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE COMING YEARS.
1:03:59PM HOWEVER, FOR THE PURPOSES OF BUDGETING FOR THE DOCUMENT, WE
1:04:02PM COMPLETELY STUCK TO THE LOW PROJECTION.
1:04:06PM WE REALLY FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT THAT IS, AGAIN, UNLESS
1:04:09PM THERE'S A MAJOR DISRUPTION IN THE WORLD IN THE WAY THAT
1:04:13PM THERE WAS IN 2009, WE FEEL VERY SOLID ABOUT THOSE LOW
1:04:18PM PROJECTIONS AS BEING THE FLOOR.
1:04:20PM SO TO SUMMARIZE, I'M SORRY, PART SIX, WE'VE GOT THESE TEN
1:04:27PM THEMES.
1:04:27PM WE BROKE DOWN SORT OF WHAT SOME OF THE INITIAL FIRST STEPS
1:04:31PM ARE ALONG WITH SORT OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL MISSION STATEMENT.
1:04:35PM THEY ARE BAKED INTO THE BUDGETING SPREADSHEET.
1:04:38PM AND I THINK THIS BECOMES A TOOL, AGAIN, FOR THE COMMUNITY TO
1:04:42PM THINK ABOUT WHAT EAST TAMPA IS IN A NEW WAY AND BE ABLE TO
1:04:48PM MORE THOUGHTFULLY AND IN A MORE HOLISTIC WAY THINK ABOUT
1:04:52PM OPPORTUNITIES IN EAST TAMPA THAT CAN REALLY ELEVATE
1:04:55PM OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS PLAN IS
1:04:57PM ABOUT.
1:04:58PM THANK YOU.
1:05:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE?
1:05:03PM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:05:08PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:05:10PM I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR PRESENTATION.
1:05:13PM THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THAT COMMUNITY CAN COME
1:05:16PM BACK WHAT IT WAS ONCE.
1:05:18PM WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT 15th AND 21st STREET, 21st
1:05:23PM AVENUE I SHOULD SAY, USED TO BE A GROCERY STORE THERE.
1:05:28PM ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE WAS A SERVICE STATION THERE FOR MANY
1:05:32PM YEARS CALLED CUSCADEN PARK SERVICE.
1:05:36PM YOU HAVE THE PARK CUSCADEN, I THINK THE ONLY PARK THAT HAS
1:05:41PM TWO HALL OF FAME BASEBALL PLAYERS THAT COME FROM ONE PARK,
1:05:45PM WHICH IS A RARITY.
1:05:46PM WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY PAST AND PRESENT TO MAKE IT WHAT IT
1:05:51PM IS TODAY.
1:05:52PM SO THERE'S SOME SPARK THERE.
1:05:54PM IT NEEDS A LITTLE ENERGY TO CATCH ON AND BE A FANTASTIC
1:05:57PM AREA.
1:05:57PM ALL THOSE HOMES ACROSS FROM 15th STREET, THERE WAS SORT OF
1:06:02PM A SEMI HOUSE WHERE YOU COULD GO IN AND BUY A BEER BUT BUY
1:06:07PM GROCERIES AT THE SAME TIME.
1:06:08PM IT WAS A WALKABLE COMMUNITY.
1:06:10PM YOU COULD WALK ALL OVER THE PLACE.
1:06:12PM 15th AND 26th AVENUE, THERE WAS A LITTLE PLACE CALLED --
1:06:18PM BEFORE THAT IT WAS OF ALL THINGS FEED STORE, FEED FOR HOGS
1:06:24PM AND CATTLE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
1:06:26PM THEN IT BECAME IDEAL SUNDRIES.
1:06:30PM THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD BY NAME, BY PERSON, WHERE THEY LIVED
1:06:34PM BECAUSE I WAS BORN THERE.
1:06:35PM I'M NOT TRYING TO BRAG.
1:06:38PM THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED THERE.
1:06:42PM I UNDERSTAND THE REST OF THE PARK AND WHAT YOU SAID IS TRUE.
1:06:45PM YOU COULD TURN SOMETHING NOT SO GOOD TODAY WITH THE NEW
1:06:49PM TECHNOLOGY TO SOMETHING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
1:06:50PM I COMMEND YOU FOR IT.
1:06:51PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:06:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
1:06:53PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DRUMGO, 14 AND 15, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT
1:07:03PM THE --
1:07:08PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THERE ARE TWO ITEMS.
1:07:10PM THE FIRST IS THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE SAP ITSELF, WHICH WAS
1:07:14PM VOTED 6-2 BY THE CAC.
1:07:16PM THE SECOND ITEM IS THE ADDITIONAL SERVICES, APPROXIMATELY
1:07:19PM $60,000 THAT WERE ADDED ON FOR SOME ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY
1:07:23PM MEETINGS.
1:07:24PM IT'S AN ADDITIONAL SCOPE.
1:07:26PM I BELIEVE THAT IN PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS THE GOAL WAS TO GET
1:07:31PM THROUGH THE PLAN ITSELF, HAVE THE PLAN ADOPTED AND ACCEPTED
1:07:34PM AND THEN AGREED TO THAT ADDITIONAL SCOPE OF SERVICES AS A
1:07:37PM CLOSEOUT.
1:07:37PM SO THAT IS ITEM NUMBER 15.
1:07:40PM THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE ITEMS BUT THEY ARE BOTH RELATED TO
1:07:43PM YOUR STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN.
1:07:44PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU'RE GETTING READY TO DO A REDEVELOPMENT
1:07:46PM PLAN AGAIN, CORRECT?
1:07:48PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THAT IS ACCURATE, COUNCILMAN.
1:07:50PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I JUST HAVE A FEW THINGS AND WE CAN GET OUT
1:07:53PM OF HERE.
1:07:54PM YOU HAVE A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN COME UP.
1:07:56PM SO THAT'S GOING TO SUPERSEDE THIS SAP, CORRECT?
1:08:00PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: WELL, I'LL SAY YES, BUT TO SOME DEGREE, THERE
1:08:05PM MAY BE SOME SLIGHT AMENDMENTS TO THE SAP AS WELL BASED UPON
1:08:09PM THE CAC'S DESIRE, IT SOUNDED LIKE THIS BODY'S DESIRE TO SEE
1:08:14PM THAT REDEVELOPMENT PLAN BE UPDATED.
1:08:17PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE CONCEPT IS, THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN
1:08:20PM IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MORE SPECIFIC WAY TO IMPLEMENT THE
1:08:23PM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MORE
1:08:26PM BROAD-BASED PLAN WHERE YOU HAVE BROADER CONCEPTS, SO IT'S
1:08:31PM MUCH LIKE THE COMP PLAN.
1:08:34PM THIS IS MORE LIKE THE ZONING TO IMPLEMENT THE COMP PLAN IN
1:08:37PM SOME WAYS.
1:08:37PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I'M GOING TO SUPPORT BOTH ITEMS TODAY
1:08:41PM HESITANTLY.
1:08:44PM WHEN I LOOK AT THE PLAN, I WAS LOOKING FOR ACTIONABLE ITEMS.
1:08:49PM I WAS LOOKING FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT THE CONTRACT ASKED
1:08:51PM FOR.
1:08:53PM I DIDN'T SEE A LOT.
1:08:54PM SOME THINGS WERE MISSING.
1:08:55PM I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE $60,000, BUT
1:08:59PM WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ON.
1:09:00PM I CAN'T LET THIS HOLD US BACK FROM MOVING ON.
1:09:04PM I'LL SUPPORT TO PAY GAI TO GET THEM DOWN THE ROAD SO WE CAN
1:09:08PM MOVE FORWARD AND DO THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO TO GET THESE
1:09:11PM ACTIONABLE THINGS MOVING.
1:09:13PM THE COMMUNITY HAS SPOKEN.
1:09:15PM I'M READY TO KICK IT DOWN THE ROAD.
1:09:18PM LET GAI MOVE DOWN THE ROAD AND WE MOVE SO WE CAN GET DOWN TO
1:09:22PM SOME REAL WORK.
1:09:23PM THAT'S WHERE I STAND.
1:09:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:09:25PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST QUICKLY, THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT DETAIL
1:09:30PM IN HERE.
1:09:31PM WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY HEARS ABOUT IT.
1:09:34PM I PRESUME THAT THE 60,000 WE'RE PAYING FOR IS WORK THAT'S
1:09:36PM ALREADY BEEN DONE.
1:09:38PM >> THAT'S ACCURATE.
1:09:40PM >>BILL CARLSON: WHETHER IT'S THIS CONSULTANT OR STAFF,
1:09:43PM IDEALLY STAFF, I THINK WE OUGHT TO MAYBE AS A SEGUE TO THE
1:09:47PM NEXT PLANNING PROCESS IS HAVE A BIG COMMUNITY TOWN HALL TO
1:09:52PM TALK ABOUT THIS AND IT WOULD BE LED BY THE CRA BOARD AND
1:09:58PM PROBABLY THE CRA CHAIR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER GUDES' HELP.
1:10:02PM BUT IT NEEDS TO BE A WELL-ADVERTISED AND PROMOTED EVENT AND
1:10:07PM IDEALLY WHAT IT WOULD DO IS AT THE END OF IT, WE WOULD ASK
1:10:10PM FOR COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE WHERE PEOPLE COULD VOLUNTEER TO
1:10:14PM HELP WITH CERTAIN PARTS OF IT AND WHATEVER NONPROFITS, OTHER
1:10:20PM COMMUNITY GROUPS OUT THERE ALREADY COULD HAVE A LIST OR
1:10:24PM TABLES TO GET PEOPLE TO SIGN UP TO SUPPORT.
1:10:27PM WE HAD THAT HOUSING FAIR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND HARDLY
1:10:33PM ANYBODY SHOWED UP.
1:10:34PM IT NEEDS TO BE WELL ADVERTISED AND NOT IN THE CONVENTIONAL
1:10:38PM WAYS IF WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
1:10:38PM BUT THE COMMUNITY WANTS US TO TRY TO BRING EVERYBODY
1:10:42PM TOGETHER AND RALLY.
1:10:43PM A LOT OF GREAT WORK HAS BEEN DONE.
1:10:44PM WE NEED TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW ABOUT IT AND GET PEOPLE TO
1:10:47PM RALLY AROUND IT AND ALSO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY CAN DO TO
1:10:49PM SUPPORT THIS.
1:10:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE NUMBER 14.
1:10:53PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
1:10:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A -- I'M SORRY.
1:10:59PM I'M HUNGRY.
1:11:00PM WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO AND A SECOND BY
1:11:04PM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:11:06PM ROLL CALL.
1:11:07PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
1:11:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
1:11:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
1:11:10PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
1:11:11PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
1:11:12PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
1:11:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
1:11:14PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:11:19PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOTION TO --
1:11:22PM FOR NUMBER 15.
1:11:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
1:11:26PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
1:11:28PM ROLL CALL.
1:11:29PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
1:11:30PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
1:11:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
1:11:32PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
1:11:33PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
1:11:34PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
1:11:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
1:11:36PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:11:47PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: RELATIVE TO ITEM 16, THIS IS THE COMMUNITY
1:11:50PM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN REWRITE FOR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
1:11:54PM YOU ALL -- THIS HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO YOU ALREADY.
1:11:57PM IT CAME TO YOU SEVERAL MONTHS AGO FOR PROCESSING.
1:12:00PM IT'S BEEN TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
1:12:01PM THEY FOUND IT CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,
1:12:04PM WHICH IS A REQUIREMENT UNDER CHAPTER 163.
1:12:07PM IT'S COMING BACK TO YOU IN YOUR CAPACITY AS CITY COUNCIL
1:12:10PM NEXT THURSDAY TO ACTUALLY APPROVE IT BECAUSE ONLY CITY
1:12:14PM COUNCIL CAN APPROVE AN AMENDMENT OR CHANGE TO THE COMMUNITY
1:12:17PM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
1:12:18PM UNDER STATE LAW YOU IN YOUR CAPACITY AS THE CRA MUST
1:12:23PM RECOMMEND ITS APPROVAL TO YOURSELF AS CITY COUNCIL.
1:12:26PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
1:12:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOVED BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO, SECONDED BY
1:12:33PM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
1:12:34PM ROLL CALL.
1:12:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
1:12:36PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
1:12:37PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
1:12:38PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
1:12:39PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
1:12:41PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
1:12:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
1:12:43PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:12:44PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THEN ITEM NUMBER 17 IS A CONSENT AND
1:12:48PM RELEASE AGREEMENT THAT THE COLUMBIA OPERATING COMPANY HAS
1:12:51PM EXECUTED IN FAVOR OF THE CITY TO ALLOW US TO MOVE FORWARD
1:12:55PM WITH THE STREET LIGHTING AND ARCHWAY PROJECT IN YBOR CITY.
1:13:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:13:04PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
1:13:05PM ROLL CALL.
1:13:06PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
1:13:07PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
1:13:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
1:13:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
1:13:10PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
1:13:11PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
1:13:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
1:13:13PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:13:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
1:13:17PM ANY INFORMATION?
1:13:20PM DOES ANYONE HAVE REPORTS?
1:13:21PM COUNCILMAN -- I'M SORRY, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:13:25PM >>BILL CARLSON: QUICKLY.
1:13:26PM ANOTHER STORY ABOUT THE JACKSON HOUSE.
1:13:28PM THIS BOARD HAS SUPPORTED THE JACKSON HOUSE OVER THE YEARS
1:13:31PM AND WE KNOW THE ISSUES AND FRUSTRATED BY IT.
1:13:33PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THREE QUICK MOTIONS.
1:13:35PM NUMBER ONE, THAT THE CRA BOARD ASK STAFF TO ASK THE ADJACENT
1:13:45PM PROPERTY OWNERS FOR A PROPOSAL TO BUY SUFFICIENT SPACE
1:13:50PM ADJACENT TO THE JACKSON HOUSE TO ALLOW FOR RENOVATION.
1:13:53PM AND THEN REPORT BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING.
1:13:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL HESITANTLY SECOND THAT, BUT I WISH
1:13:59PM THIS WASN'T NECESSARY AND PEOPLE COULD JUST ACCOMMODATE
1:14:02PM CONSIDERING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JACKSON HOUSE AND THE
1:14:05PM EXORBITANT COSTS TO RESTORE THIS.
1:14:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, SECONDED
1:14:12PM BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
1:14:13PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:14:15PM >> AYE.
1:14:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE HAVE A DATE ON THAT THAT YOU WANTED
1:14:17PM THAT?
1:14:17PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE NEXT, WHATEVER -- SEPTEMBER MEETING.
1:14:21PM THE SECOND, AND SITTING WITH THE CITY -- MORRIS WON'T LET ME
1:14:26PM TALK ABOUT THIS -- THE HAMMER OPTION IS EMINENT DOMAIN BUT
1:14:30PM WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT NOW.
1:14:31PM THAT'S WHY I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER TO OFFER IN ADVANCE.
1:14:35PM IN CONNECTION WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A SECOND
1:14:38PM MOTION THAT THE CRA BOARD REQUEST THAT STAFF ASK THE JACKSON
1:14:43PM HOUSE FOUNDATION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF BUYING THE JACKSON
1:14:47PM HOUSE AND THE LAND AND THEN REPORT BACK TO US NEXT MONTH
1:14:51PM ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY OF THAT.
1:14:54PM THE REASON WOULD BE, AS I UNDERSTAND THE LAW, IT WOULD BE
1:14:58PM EASIER FOR US TO WORK ON OTHER SOLUTIONS IF WE CONTROLLED
1:15:01PM THE LAND.
1:15:03PM I CAN TALK ABOUT IT MORE IF YOU WANT.
1:15:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:15:08PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
1:15:10PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:15:11PM >> AYE.
1:15:14PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE THIRD ONE WOULD BE TO ASK FOR THE CRA
1:15:18PM BOARD TO ASK STAFF -- BY THE WAY, THE LAST ONE WAS REPORT
1:15:22PM BACK IN SEPTEMBER ALSO -- THIS ONE WOULD BE CRA BOARD WOULD
1:15:27PM ASK THE CRA STAFF TO ASK USF, THE HISTORY CENTER AND THE
1:15:33PM JACKSON HOUSE FOUNDATION, TO TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD
1:15:40PM TAKE TO REBUILD THE JACKSON HOUSE IN THE CASE THAT IT FALLS
1:15:45PM DOWN AND THEY REPORT BACK IN SEPTEMBER.
1:15:46PM YOU ALL MAY KNOW MANHATTAN CASINO, SIMILAR IMPORTANT AFRICAN
1:15:51PM AMERICAN BUILDING IN ST. PETERSBURG.
1:15:52PM IT WAS NOT SALVAGEABLE SO THEY REBUILT THE WHOLE THING.
1:15:55PM YOU ALL KNOW I BELIEVE THAT THE LOCATION OF THIS IS
1:16:00PM IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY TELLS THE STORY OF PEOPLE THAT
1:16:03PM WERE THERE BUT TELLS THE STORY OF SEGREGATION OF TAMPA AND I
1:16:05PM THINK IT'S IMPORTANT IT STAY THERE.
1:16:07PM SO THE MOTION WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD ASK STAFF TO COME BACK
1:16:11PM TO REPORT ON WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO START PLANNING REBUILDING
1:16:16PM IT IN THE EVENT THAT IT FALLS DOWN.
1:16:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:16:21PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:16:23PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:16:25PM >> AYE.
1:16:25PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THESE MOTIONS ARE FINE, BUT MOST OF THEM
1:16:30PM WILL HAVE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BY CITY STAFF AND NOT CRA
1:16:32PM STAFF.
1:16:33PM CITY STAFF WILL BE THE ONE THAT WOULD HAVE TO APPROACH ABOUT
1:16:35PM THE POSSIBILITY WITH THE REAL ESTATE POSSIBILITIES ARE
1:16:39PM THROUGH OUR REAL ESTATE STAFF.
1:16:41PM I WANT TO MAKE YOU ALL AWARE THAT WHEN THE REPORT COMES BACK
1:16:45PM THROUGH, MR. DRUMGO OR MS. TRAVIS, IT'S GOING TO BE FOLKS,
1:16:49PM THE CITY DEPARTMENTS WILL HAVE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO
1:16:52PM THEM.
1:16:52PM WE'LL SEE WHERE WE ARE IN SEPTEMBER.
1:17:02PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
1:17:04PM HIS BIRTHDAY WAS ON THE 10th.
1:17:07PM [ APPLAUSE ]
1:17:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
1:17:09PM I DON'T THINK YOU WANT US TO SING, BUT WE CAN.
1:17:12PM [ LAUGHTER ]
1:17:12PM ANYTHING?
1:17:17PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S
1:17:20PM TAKING SO LONG IN REFERENCE TO THE LOGO FOR THE EAST TAMPA
1:17:24PM OR THE CRA, BUT FOR ME IT -- THE LAST ONE I SAW, I ADMIT IT
1:17:33PM WAS HORRIBLE.
1:17:34PM IT WAS HORRIBLE.
1:17:34PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG.
1:17:37PM ALSO THE SIGNAGE, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY
1:17:41PM WITH THE HOUSE THING, I THINK THE SIGN NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE
1:17:43PM BIGGER.
1:17:45PM NOBODY CAN SEE IT AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS.
1:17:47PM WE NEED TO HAVE A SIGN THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE AND SEE WHAT'S
1:17:51PM GOING ON.
1:17:54PM >> IF I MAY, ON THE MARKETING PIECE AND THE LOGO, IT DOES
1:17:57PM TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF WORK.
1:17:58PM THERE'S PROCUREMENT AND WE DO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT
1:18:00PM PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER A PACKAGE TO PROCURE THOSE
1:18:03PM SERVICES.
1:18:03PM INITIALLY, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHEN I SENT OUT COMMUNICATION
1:18:07PM TO EACH OF YOU SEPARATELY ON THE PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED LOGO
1:18:11PM THAT HAD BEEN WORKED ON, AHEAD OF MY ARRIVAL HERE, THE
1:18:15PM FEEDBACK WAS NOT GREAT.
1:18:16PM SO WANTED TO GO THROUGH THE CYCLE OF TALKING ABOUT BRANDING
1:18:19PM AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU AS A BOARD.
1:18:22PM IT WILL TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
1:18:24PM I WILL TELL YOU THAT FROM THE MARKETING PERSPECTIVE, WE WANT
1:18:27PM TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT THERE.
1:18:30PM I DO.
1:18:30PM I REALLY NEED SOME APPROVAL ON A TEMPORARY LOGO, A
1:18:34PM PLACE-HOLD THAT WILL ALLOW US TO GET IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA
1:18:38PM SPACES SO WE CAN GO OUT AND PUT THE WORD OUT THERE WHILE WE
1:18:41PM WORK ON THE PROCESS OF GOING THROUGH BRANDING AND HAVING
1:18:45PM THOSE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH EACH OF YOU.
1:18:48PM IT'S MORE THAN JUST --
1:18:52PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. DRUMGO, WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, CITY
1:18:56PM ASIDE, WE DON'T HAVE A DESIGN AREA IN THE CITY.
1:19:02PM WE HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE AND PAY TO HAVE A LOGO DONE.
1:19:05PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: SCOPE OF SERVICES IN MY IN-BOX NOW.
1:19:08PM WE COULD DO AN EXERCISE WITH YOU TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU'D
1:19:11PM LIKE, AGAIN, PROCESS-WISE, I JUST THINK THAT IT'S BENEFICIAL
1:19:15PM TO HAVE SOME PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE -- THAT WE HAVE DO IT.
1:19:19PM IF YOU'D LIKE TO, MS. PARKS HAS BEEN GREAT ABOUT JUMPING IN
1:19:23PM ON THE CRA WORK AND WORKING ON THE MARKETING AND BRANDING
1:19:28PM AND WE CAN CERTAINLY SET UP INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS TO TAKE
1:19:30PM FEEDBACK FROM EACH OF YOU AND DESIGN SOMETHING BASED UPON
1:19:32PM THAT FEEDBACK.
1:19:33PM AGAIN, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE MARKETING PROFESSIONALS DO
1:19:37PM THAT WITH YOU.
1:19:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:19:38PM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS SOMETHING I DO IN MY DAY JOB.
1:19:41PM THERE IS A LONG PROCESS AND SHORT PROCESS.
1:19:44PM ONE THING THAT WOULD HELP IS IF EACH OF US WOULD SEND
1:19:49PM SOMEBODY ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU THINK THE CRA
1:19:52PM IS AND THEN FIVE WORDS THAT ARE ATTRIBUTES YOU THINK
1:19:56PM DESCRIBE IT.
1:19:57PM THE PROBLEM WITH WHAT THEY SENT IS THAT THERE'S NO OBJECTIVE
1:20:03PM CRITERIA TO DECIDE WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR NOT.
1:20:06PM I THINK SEVERAL OF US HAD THE SAME REACTION.
1:20:08PM SOMETHING ULTIMATELY SUBJECTIVE HAS TO BE DESCRIBED BY
1:20:11PM OBJECTIVE WAYS.
1:20:12PM IF THE BRIEF IS THAT, IF YOU'RE BUYING CLOTHES AND THE BRIEF
1:20:16PM IS SOMEBODY NEEDS BUSINESS ATTIRE SO THEY CAN GO TO A
1:20:18PM MEETING FULL OF LAWYERS, WE WOULD ALL HAVE EXPECTATIONS
1:20:20PM ABOUT WHAT IT IS.
1:20:22PM IF THE BRIEF IS, PLEASE BUY CLOTHES, SOMEBODY COULD SHOW UP
1:20:24PM WITH A BATHING SUIT ON.
1:20:26PM WE NEED TO HAVE SOME CRITERIA TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT SHOULD
1:20:29PM BE.
1:20:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO DO THAT?
1:20:32PM >>BILL CARLSON: I TALKED TO SOMEBODY ABOUT IT.
1:20:35PM I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE PROCESS THEY ARE LOOKING AT.
1:20:37PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: SURE.
1:20:38PM I'VE GIVEN DIRECTION TO TALK TO YOUR AIDES AND SCHEDULE TIME
1:20:44PM TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
1:20:45PM AGAIN, WE CAN DO A TEMPORARY PLACE-HOLD WHILE WE WORK
1:20:48PM THROUGH THAT PROCESS, BUT THE INSPIRATION WOULD BE GREAT AND
1:20:50PM HELP MOVE US TOWARDS A LOGO SOONER.
1:20:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYTHING ELSE?
1:20:56PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: IT'S A BIG DECISION.
1:20:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: TALKED ABOUT LANDSCAPING, HAVE MARY GIVE
1:21:02PM THE CLERK'S OFFICE PROPER FORMS, REGARDING LANDSCAPE TO THE
1:21:08PM CRA BOARD, WHAT TYPE OF LANDSCAPING WE CAN USE IN THOSE
1:21:12PM AREAS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
1:21:13PM AND THAT THAT BE FLORIDA FRIENDLY, THAT THE FLORIDA FRIENDLY
1:21:17PM WOULD BE AMENABLE TO THE EYESIGHT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THAT
1:21:20PM IT BE A LOW-COST MAY NOT.
1:21:22PM THAT'S IT.
1:21:24PM I'LL GIVE THAT TO YOU.
1:21:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA
1:21:29PM AND SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:21:32PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:21:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
1:21:36PM >> SECOND.
1:21:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
1:21:39PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
1:21:41PM SEE YOU TONIGHT.
1:21:43PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
1:21:46PM
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