TAMPA CRA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022, 9:00 A.M.
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09:02:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:02:15AM AGENCY MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER.
09:02:17AM I BELIEVE THAT COUNCILMAN GUDES HAVE OUR INVOCATION THIS
09:02:21AM MORNING.
09:02:22AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, MA'AM, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
09:02:25AM MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME APOSTLE JAMES H. HOWELL.
09:02:34AM OF THE CATHEDRAL OF CHURCH INC.
09:02:40AM HE IS A WELL-KNOWN MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL THAT BRINGS 54
09:02:44AM YEARS OF PREACHING AND PASTORAL EXPERIENCE.
09:02:46AM APOSTLE HOWELL IS MARRIED TO MARITZA, WHO IS THE ASSISTANT
09:02:54AM PASTOR, AND THE FATHER OF FOUR SONS AND SIX GRANDCHILDREN.
09:02:57AM APOSTLE HAS OVERSIGHT OVER THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER,
09:03:02AM THE SERVICE ARM OF THE MINISTRY THAT SERVES THE COMMUNITY
09:03:04AM FOR OVER 25 YEARS WITH A FOOD PANTRY READING TUTORIAL
09:03:08AM PROGRAMS AS WELL AS PARTER INNED WITH THE TAMPA HOUSING
09:03:13AM YOUTH PROGRAMS.
09:03:13AM I TELL YOU HE IS A WELL-KNOWN SERVANT IN MY COMMUNITY WHERE
09:03:19AM MY MOTHER LIVES AND.
09:03:21AM A VOTING SITE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS IN HIS CHURCH.
09:03:24AM THIS MORNING I WELCOME APOSTLE JAMES HOWELL.
09:03:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF EVERYONE WITH RISE.
09:03:35AM >> LET US PRAY.
09:03:37AM ETERNAL GOD, OUR FATHER, WE COME THIS MORNING.
09:03:42AM GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS MORNING BY MORNING, NEW MERCIES
09:03:48AM RECEIVED.
09:03:48AM ALL OF OUR HANDS NEED, THOU HAVE PROVIDED.
09:03:53AM WE COME NOW TO THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, ONE THAT WE HAVE
09:03:56AM NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND WE PRAY NOW THY BLESSINGS UPON THIS
09:04:01AM MEET THIS MORNING.
09:04:02AM WE PRAY THAT YOUR PEACE, YOUR LOVE AND YOUR HARMONY WILL
09:04:05AM ABIDE.
09:04:06AM WE THANK YOU FOR EACH COUNCILMEMBERS AND WE PRAY THAT YOU
09:04:09AM WILL BLESS THEIR HOMES AND THEIR FAMILIES.
09:04:11AM THANK YOU FOR OUR COMING IN, AND BLESS OUR GOING OUT.
09:04:16AM BLESS THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
09:04:18AM BLESS OUR LEADERS, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PLACED IN OFFICE
09:04:22AM THROUGH VOTE OR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PLACED THROUGH THEIR
09:04:26AM REFORMATION.
09:04:26AM WE THANK YOU NOW IN JESUS'S NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
09:04:30AM AMEN.
09:04:32AM AMEN.
09:04:33AM AND AMEN.
09:04:34AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:04:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:04:52AM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:04:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:04:55AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
09:04:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:04:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:04:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:04:59AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
09:05:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:05:01AM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:05:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:05:07AM MR. MASSEY, IF WE CAN REVIEW THE RULES OF PUBLIC COMMENT AND
09:05:10AM PARTICIPATION IN THE CRA MEET THIS MORNING.
09:05:12AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, MA'AM.
09:05:13AM THE SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 CITY OF TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:05:18AM AGENCY OR THE CRA HELD IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS THIRD FLOOR
09:05:24AM OF OLD CITY HALL.
09:05:25AM PUBLIC IS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING EITHER IN PERSON OR TO
09:05:29AM TO VIEW IT BY CABLE TELEVISION, SPECTRUM TABLE 640, FRONTIER
09:05:34AM CHANNEL 15 OR BY THE INTERNET VIA WWW.TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
09:05:41AM THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING FOR PUBLIC
09:05:46AM COMMENT THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER HERE IN CITY COUNCIL
09:05:49AM CHAMBERS OR VIRTUALLY THROUGH COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
09:05:53AM OR CMT.
09:05:54AM THE USE OF CMT REQUIRES PREREGISTRATION WITH THE CITY
09:05:58AM CLERK'S OFFICE.
09:05:59AM NOTICE OF PREREGISTRATION IS IN THE MEETING AGENDA.
09:06:04AM CAN I WAIVE USING COMMUNICATION MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.
09:06:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO AND
09:06:18AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:06:20AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:06:21AM MISS TRAVIS, ANY CHANGES TO OUR AGENDA THIS MORNING.
09:06:28AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, NICOLE TRAVIS, DIRECTOR OF
09:06:32AM DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
09:06:34AM INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR AND YES, THERE ARE SOME CHANGES.
09:06:39AM WE RECEIVED REQUESTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS TO CONTINUE ITEM 7,
09:06:43AM 8 AND 11.
09:06:44AM THIS REQUEST CAME BECAUSE THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ADDITIONAL
09:06:48AM DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THESE ITEMS BEFORE THEY ARE BROUGHT BACK
09:06:51AM TO THIS BOARD FOR ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION OR ACTION.
09:06:57AM AND IF THE BOARD CONCURS FOR THAT REQUEST, WE ARE REQUESTING
09:07:02AM THAT TO BE PLACED ON THE NOVEMBER 10 CRA AGENDA, PLEASE.
09:07:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:07:10AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:07:12AM I DO NEED A ROLL CALL?
09:07:17AM NO?
09:07:18AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK YOU CAN DO IT BY A VOICE VOTE.
09:07:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANKS.
09:07:24AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:07:24AM ANY OPPOSED.
09:07:27AM >>BILL CARLSON: 7, 9 AND 10.
09:07:29AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: 7, 8 AND 11.
09:07:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU A THREE HAVE BEEN MOVED TO NOVEMBER 10.
09:07:36AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MADAM CHAIRWOMAN, ITEM NUMBER 1, BUT I AM
09:07:42AM GOING TO ASK FOR A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE AS IT RELATES
09:07:45AM TO ITEM NUMBER 1 WHEN WE GET TO THAT.
09:07:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:07:49AM SO THEN WE APPROVED THE AGENDA.
09:07:54AM NOW WE ARE MOVING TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:07:56AM THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COMMENT ON ANY ITEM FOR UP TO THREE
09:07:59AM MINUTES.
09:08:02AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, IF YOU CAN STAND UP AND FORM A
09:08:04AM LINE TO YOUR RIGHT, MY LEFT.
09:08:13AM >> PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:08:15AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, SIR.
09:08:16AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:08:24AM >> MY NAME IS PASTOR WILLIAMS.
09:08:25AM LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET, PARADISE MISSIONARY BAPTIST
09:08:30AM CHURCH.
09:08:30AM AND I THANK GOD FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY.
09:08:37AM THANK GOD FOR ANOTHER DAY OF BLESSING.
09:08:39AM I AM BASICALLY HERE TO TALK ABOUT MANY THINGS, BUT I KNOW
09:08:44AM Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ONE THING.
09:08:46AM BUT THAT'S JUST ME.
09:08:48AM I AM BEING A PREACHER.
09:08:50AM I BELIEVE IN PREACHING THE TRUTH.
09:08:52AM AND THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
09:08:54AM WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT.
09:08:56AM THAT IS MY CALLING.
09:09:00AM AND I AM SO GRATEFUL TO BE HERE AGAIN TODAY.
09:09:03AM I WAS THINKING TODAY WAS THE FIRST THURSDAY.
09:09:10AM I WAS THINKING OF ALL THESE POLICEMEN AND MAYOR WILL BE HERE
09:09:14AM TODAY SO WE CAN TELL THEM SOMETHING.
09:09:15AM THEY DON'T WANT TO INVITE US IN WHEN THEY ARE HERE.
09:09:20AM THEY PUT A LOCK ON THE DOOR.
09:09:21AM AND THE POLICE TALKING ABOUT YOU CAN'T COME IN.
09:09:24AM BUT I GOT A LOT TO TELL HER, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW.
09:09:31AM IS BEING GAY OR GENDER OR NATIONALITY.
09:09:36AM CAN ONE OF YOU TELL ME?
09:09:39AM BECAUSE SHE SAY SHE IS GAY, AND I WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
09:09:43AM THAT IS.
09:09:43AM I KNOW YOU WON'T GIVE ME AN INTERPRETATION WHAT THAT IS
09:09:47AM BECAUSE IT IS NOT RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
09:09:50AM BUT ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FRANK WILLIAMS, I DON'T
09:09:53AM THINK I AM GAY.
09:09:56AM AND I GOT TO PREACH THE TRUTH.
09:09:58AM WHETHER THEY WANT TO BE GAY OR NOT, THAT IS THEIR PROBLEM.
09:10:02AM I THANK GOD I AM STRAIGHT.
09:10:04AM AND THAT IS THE WAY IT IS.
09:10:06AM I KNOW Y'ALL HATE TO SEE ME COME UP HERE.
09:10:09AM I SEE A LOT OF HEADS GOING DOWN, BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
09:10:12AM WHEN I WAS OVER HERE THE LAST TIME, SOME GUY CALLED ME ON
09:10:17AM THE PHONE AND TOLD ME, HE SAID YOU BLACK BASTARD, YOU NEED
09:10:22AM TO GO BACK HOME.
09:10:23AM GO BACK TO WHERE YOU COME FROM.
09:10:24AM HE DIDN'T GIVE ME A CHANCE TO RESPOND.
09:10:27AM HE HUNG UP.
09:10:28AM IF I AM THAT TO HIM, THEN HE MUST BE WORSER TO ME.
09:10:32AM AND THAT IS THE WAY I LOOK AT IT.
09:10:34AM BUT WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND.
09:10:37AM WE ARE PEOPLE CREATED BY GOD.
09:10:40AM NOT ONLY ARE WE CREATED BY GOD, BUT WE ARE CREATED IN HIS
09:10:43AM IMAGE AND HIS LIKENESS.
09:10:45AM WHY PEOPLE HATE US SO BAD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
09:10:48AM YOU ALL MESS -- SEE THEM IN THE CHURCH.
09:10:54AM THEY CUT MY WATER OFF AT THE CHURCH.
09:10:56AM THEY TOOK MY PARKING LOT FROM ME AT THE CHURCH.
09:10:59AM THEY DID ME SO MUCH DIRT.
09:11:02AM ONE TIME THEY SET THE CHURCH ON FIRE.
09:11:05AM THAT IS HOW NASTY PEOPLE ARE.
09:11:06AM BECAUSE YOU DON'T RESPOND THE WAY THEY WANT YOU TO RESPOND,
09:11:10AM THEY LET YOU KNOW.
09:11:11AM AND I THANK GOD THAT THEY DO LET ME KNOW.
09:11:14AM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT NOBODY SNEAKING UP ON ME STABBING ME IN
09:11:17AM MY BACK OR CHEST.
09:11:23AM I GET A LOT OF NASTY LETTERS.
09:11:26AM AND THEY ARE BASICALLY COMING FROM PEOPLE.
09:11:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:11:29AM HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
09:11:30AM >> YOU REALLY THANK ME?
09:11:32AM I DON'T THINK YOU DO.
09:11:34AM BUT I THANK GOD THAT I'M HERE.
09:11:36AM THANK GOD FOR Y'ALL BLESSING.
09:11:38AM Y'ALL BE BLESSED.
09:11:39AM AND BE BLESSED.
09:11:40AM BLESSED OF GOD.
09:11:41AM ALL OF Y'ALL.
09:11:42AM DON'T BE ASHAMED TO COME UP HERE AND SPEAK THE TRUTH.
09:11:45AM THE TRUTH IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
09:11:47AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:11:56AM YOU HAVE -- WHEN YOU BECOME AN ADULT, ANY TIME YOU SEE OR
09:12:00AM HEAR AN INJUSTICE YOU PUT IT IN CHECK RIGHT AWAY.
09:12:02AM MR. WILLIAMS, YOU CAN'T KEEP HATING -- LET PEOPLE HAVE THE
09:12:06AM RIGHT TO BE WHAT THEY WANT TO BE AND FREE FROM THOSE KINDS
09:12:08AM OF COMMENTS.
09:12:09AM THAT IS SO WRONG AND SO -- IT IS HATEFUL.
09:12:12AM WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT GOD AND THEN TALK ABOUT WHATEVER.
09:12:14AM LET A PERSON BE WHAT THEY WANT TO BE.
09:12:16AM IF THEY ARE NOT OFFENDING YOU PHYSICALLY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
09:12:19AM SLEEP WITH THEM.
09:12:20AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WITH THEM.
09:12:21AM YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SOCIALIZE WITH THEM IF YOU DON'T LIKE
09:12:25AM IT.
09:12:25AM I HOPE THIS ISN'T USING MY TIME.
09:12:28AM I WAS PERSONALLY OFFENDED BY THAT.
09:12:31AM MR. WILLIAMS, YOU REALLY GOT TO GET THAT TOGETHER.
09:12:33AM A PERSONAL HANG-UP YOU HAVE.
09:12:35AM EVERYBODY HAS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND BELIEF AND BELIEVE WHAT
09:12:39AM YOU WANT TO BELIEVE BUT THAT IS WRONG.
09:12:40AM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY WRONG.
09:12:42AM ALL RIGHT.
09:12:43AM WHAT I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON IS THE FACT THAT WHEN YOU HEAR
09:12:47AM INJUSTICE, WHEN YOU SEE IT, YOU GO THE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT
09:12:50AM IT.
09:12:50AM I HEARD IT TUESDAY WHEN THIS MAN CALLED FOR MORE POLICE AND
09:12:53AM CODE ENFORCEMENT.
09:12:54AM THAT IS RACIST.
09:12:55AM NOW THAT IS RACIST.
09:12:56AM THAT IS RACIST.
09:12:57AM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY RACIST.
09:13:00AM WHEN WHITE PEOPLE THINK THEY CAN MAKE BLACK JOKES IN OUR
09:13:03AM FACES AND BELIEVE WE ARE LESS THAN A HUMAN BEING, WE ARE NOT
09:13:06AM SUPPOSED TO CATCH ON THAT WE WERE JUST OFFENDED.
09:13:08AM WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO CATCH ON THAT WE WERE OFFENDED WHEN
09:13:11AM WHITE PEOPLE -- THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT CALL THEMSELVES ON THE
09:13:14AM OTHER SIDE, THEY SAY, HEY, LIKE, WHY DIDN'T BIDEN HAVE MORE
09:13:20AM TAX IRS PEOPLE, BECAUSE HE IS PUTTING THEM UNDER MIDDLE
09:13:24AM CLASS.
09:13:24AM WHY IS THIS WHITE MAN CALLING FOR MORE POLICE AND CODE
09:13:28AM ENFORCEMENT.
09:13:28AM BECAUSE HE IS CALLING FOR BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO AFRICAN
09:13:32AM PEOPLE.
09:13:32AM HE IS CALLING FOR BAD PEOPLE TO HAPPEN TO AFRICAN PEOPLE IN
09:13:36AM OUR FACE.
09:13:36AM IN OUR FACE.
09:13:37AM AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO ACCEPT THAT AND ALL THROUGH OUR
09:13:43AM NEIGHBORHOOD AND MEETINGS.
09:13:44AM HATEFUL.
09:13:45AM SPITEFUL.
09:13:46AM DISRESPECTFUL AND DEMEANING AND IT WAS IN OUR FACE AND NOW I
09:13:50AM AM BACK IN YOUR FACE.
09:13:51AM YEAH, WE NEED MORE POLICE OFFICERS.
09:13:53AM WE NEED A POLICE OFFICER TO GOVERN AND WATCH EVERY POLICE
09:13:56AM OFFICER, ESPECIALLY FOR WHAT THEY TO DO AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:13:58AM THEY TREAT US LIKE DIRT.
09:13:59AM THE OTHER REPRESENTATIVE TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON NOW
09:14:02AM AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND WHAT THEY ARE USING COMPANY TIME
09:14:05AM FOR.
09:14:06AM THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IT.
09:14:08AM A CROOKED CITY.
09:14:09AM CODE ENFORCEMENT IS CROOKED.
09:14:11AM CROOKED.
09:14:12AM ALL THROUGHOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
09:14:13AM CROOKED.
09:14:15AM WE DON'T GOT NO SERVICES AND THEY ARE PUTTING FINES AND
09:14:19AM CODES AND ALL THAT AND TAKING OUR FAMILIES' HOMES, TAKING
09:14:22AM OUR GRAND PARENTS' HOMES, TAKING PARENTS' HOMES, TAKING
09:14:26AM UNSUSPECTED BLACK PEOPLE'S HOMES, ALL THIS STUPIDNESS GOING
09:14:31AM ON.
09:14:31AM I KNOW IT AND FEEL IT.
09:14:34AM HITTING ME WITH MILLION OF DOLLARS OF PROPERTY FINES,
09:14:37AM PERSONAL FINES.
09:14:38AM FOR WHAT REASON?
09:14:40AM NO REASON.
09:14:41AM THEY ARE HATEFUL AND NASTY.
09:14:43AM MAN CALLING FOR MORE POLICE OFFICERS.
09:14:44AM BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT INSULT.
09:14:47AM WE SEE BLACK PEOPLE TRYING TO STAND UP IN HILLSBOROUGH
09:14:49AM COUNTY AND THE GOVERNOR TRYING TO PUT DIFFERENT PEOPLE ON
09:14:52AM THEM.
09:14:52AM WE DON'T WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT BEING WOKE.
09:14:55AM THE SAME THING THEY TALK ABOUT IN TALLAHASSEE.
09:14:58AM CAN'T SAY GAY.
09:14:59AM THAT WAS HATESFUL.
09:15:01AM THAT WAS HATEFUL WHAT YOU DID TUESDAY.
09:15:03AM >> HI, EVERYBODY, MY NAME IS CHAD FROM THE PATEL FAMILY
09:15:16AM OFFICE TO TALK ABOUT HOUSING.
09:15:17AM I KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN QUITE AN INFLUX OF RESIDENTS AND
09:15:22AM DEVELOPERS IN THE TAMPA COMMUNITY, AND IT IS KIND OF BEEN
09:15:26AM REALLY GREAT BOON FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FAIRLY HURTFUL FOR
09:15:29AM THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE HERE AS FAR AS AFFORDABILITY GOES.
09:15:32AM DR. KAREN PATEL, AS A LOT OF YOU KNOW AND DON'T KNOW IS VERY
09:15:37AM DEDICATED OF INCREASING ACCESSIBLE HOUSING IN THE TAMPA
09:15:41AM AREA.
09:15:41AM WHETHER IT IS WORK WITH WELLS FARGO OR JPMORGAN OR THIS BANK
09:15:46AM OR THAT BANK TO GIVE LYTE K-9 OR MTE CREDITS AND WE ARE
09:15:52AM DOING A VERY, VERY GOOD JOB.
09:15:53AM WE ADDRESSED A LOT OF THE FAULTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY,
09:15:58AM TRANSPORTATION, ALL THESE TRANSFORMING TAMPA'S TOMORROW FOR
09:16:01AM -- WHAT YOUR GUYS' GOALS ARE FOR HOUSING AND IT WOULD BE
09:16:05AM HELPFUL IF WE CAN COLLABORATE WITH THE CRA FOR MAYBE
09:16:09AM FOCUSING ON ACCESSIBLE HOUSING LIKE THE CENTRAL PARK CRA AND
09:16:16AM THE DAYTIME CRA.
09:16:17AM MY ASK FOR TODAY IF MAYBE WE CAN DIRECT SOME CONVERSATIONS
09:16:20AM IN THAT DIRECTION, BECAUSE I THINK WE ADDRESSED A LOT OF THE
09:16:24AM PROBLEMS.
09:16:24AM WE HAVE COME IN WITH SOME ALGORITHMS THAT THE COMMUNITY HERE
09:16:30AM THAT BUILT THE IS IT I WHICH I THINK WITHOUT PREJUDICE ONE
09:16:33AM OF THE BEST CITIES IN THE COUNTRY CAN AFFORD TO LIVE HERE AS
09:16:37AM WELL.
09:16:37AM THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
09:16:38AM THANK YOU, GUYS.
09:16:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:16:40AM >> NATASHA GOODLEY.
09:16:52AM 2075 EAST 24th AVENUE.
09:16:55AM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT BECAUSE IT WAS BROUGHT TO
09:16:58AM OUR ATTENTION THAT COMING FROM THE CRA BOARD THAT IT WAS
09:17:02AM SAID THAT THE EAST TAMPA CRA WAS UNITED TO COME AND
09:17:06AM COMPLAIN, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE TABLE OF US GETTING WORK
09:17:10AM DONE THAT IT IS NOT HAPPENING.
09:17:11AM SO I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THE COMMENT.
09:17:13AM BECAUSE WE ARE UNITED.
09:17:14AM WE ARE WORKING TO GET THINGS DONE.
09:17:17AM AND WE DO HAVE QUORUM.
09:17:20AM I THINK MAYBE TWICE WE DIDN'T AND UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE
09:17:23AM TRYING TO WORK ON THAT.
09:17:24AM SOMETHING WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON.
09:17:26AM WE DO HAVE QUORUM.
09:17:27AM WE ARE HAVING MEETINGS.
09:17:29AM WE DO MOVE FORWARD.
09:17:30AM AND WE ARE CREATING PROGRAMS.
09:17:32AM MANY OF THE PROGRAMS ARE TRYING TO BE DUPLICATED IN
09:17:36AM DIFFERENT CRAS ACROSS THE CITY.
09:17:38AM IF ANYTHING TELLS ME WE ARE A LEADER AMONGST THE CRA AND
09:17:43AM THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS WE ARE DOING.
09:17:45AM I HEARD YOU SAY LOOKING FOR 30% OF THE CRA BUDGET GOING TO
09:17:48AM HOUSING.
09:17:48AM WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT.
09:17:49AM WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS.
09:17:51AM I JUST WANTED TO DISPEL THAT RUMOR THAT EAST TAMPA CRA IS
09:17:55AM NOT GETTING ANYTHING DONE AND WE DON'T MEET AND DON'T HOLD
09:17:58AM QUORUM, BECAUSE WE DO.
09:18:00AM THANK YOU.
09:18:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:18:01AM ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THIS MORNING?
09:18:06AM OKAY.
09:18:06AM I THINK WE HAVE ONE PERSON ONLINE.
09:18:09AM NO ONE IS REGISTERED?
09:18:11AM OKAY.
09:18:11AM SO MISS TRAVIS, ARE YOU READY TO START.
09:18:21AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN.
09:18:24AM FOR ITEM NUMBER 1, I JUST WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE
09:18:30AM CRA DIRECTOR POSITION.
09:18:31AM YOU ASKED US TO START THE SEARCH FOR THE DIRECTOR POSITION.
09:18:36AM THE POSITION HAS BEEN POSTED FOR 60 DAYS.
09:18:39AM WE HAVE POST IT WITH A LOT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, THE
09:18:42AM FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, AND WE HAVE FOUR
09:18:45AM QUALIFIED CANDIDATES TO PRESENT TO YOU.
09:18:47AM SO I NEED SOME DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD THIS MORNING.
09:18:53AM OF THE FOUR APPLICANTS THAT MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS,
09:18:58AM WE ARE HOPING TO SCHEDULE INITIAL INTERVIEWS FROM MID TO
09:19:02AM LATE SEPTEMBER.
09:19:03AM I WOULD LIKE TO NARROW THE SEARCH TO THREE QUALIFIED
09:19:08AM CANDIDATES.
09:19:08AM I REALLY WANT TO PRESENT YOU WITH TWO IN CASE ONE TAKES A
09:19:13AM JOB SOMEWHERE SELLS.
09:19:14AM YOU SHOULD HAVE CHOICES AND OPTIONS.
09:19:16AM I WANT TO REMIND YOU THIS IS YOUR PROCESS.
09:19:19AM I AM JUST TRYING TO GUIDE IT -- TO DO IT BASED ON THE
09:19:23AM GUIDANCE YOU HAVE PROVIDED.
09:19:24AM AT THE LAST CRA BOARD MEETING, THERE WAS A COMMENT MADE THAT
09:19:29AM THE CRA BOARD SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS.
09:19:33AM SO IF THAT IS YOUR DESIRE, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF WAYS WE CAN
09:19:36AM DO THAT.
09:19:37AM I CAN NARROW IT DOWN TO THREE QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR YOU,
09:19:40AM AND THEN SCHEDULE SEVEN MEETINGS WITH EACH OF THE QUALIFIED
09:19:46AM CANDIDATES.
09:19:46AM AND IT WILL BE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS.
09:19:48AM IF YOU WANTED TO DO THAT OUTSIDE OF THE SUNSHINE.
09:19:51AM IF YOU WANTED TO DO ONE MEETING, WE WOULD HAVE TO PUBLICLY
09:19:56AM NOTICE THAT MEETING AND THEN WE CAN HAVE THE CANDIDATES AND
09:20:00AM TAKE TURNS DOING THAT INTERVIEW.
09:20:03AM I AM LOOKING FOR GUIDANCE FOR YOU.
09:20:06AM I AM SHOOTING FOR FINAL INTERVIEWS AND THE PUBLIC MEET AND
09:20:09AM GREET WE TOLD THIS BOARD -- IT WOULD BE OUR RECOMMENDATION
09:20:14AM THAT YOU HAVE A LOT OF CACS THAT ARE VERY ENGAGED AND YOUR
09:20:18AM CRA DIRECTOR SHOULD BE ENGAGED WITH ALL OF THE DISTRICTS AND
09:20:22AM THE CACS ARE A BIG PART OF OUR CRAs.
09:20:26AM RECOMMENDING FOR A PUBLIC MEET AND GREET.
09:20:28AM SHOOTING OCTOBER 3 -- THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 3-6, BUT HIGHLY
09:20:32AM DEPENDS ON AVAILABILITY AND CALENDARING IT.
09:20:36AM I JUST NEED SOME GUIDANCE FROM YOU ALL OF HOW YOU WOULD LIKE
09:20:39AM TO PROCEED.
09:20:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBERS GUDES, YOU HAD A -- YOU WANTED
09:20:46AM --
09:20:46AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK -- WELL, I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT
09:20:49AM SOMETHING ELSE.
09:20:49AM BUT I CAN SPEAK ON THIS LATTER PART.
09:20:52AM I MEAN, I THINK THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVIEW THE
09:21:01AM CANDIDATES.
09:21:01AM THE PUBLIC HAS A WAY OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CACS SO THEY CAN
09:21:06AM SEE WHO -- WHO ARE THE CANDIDATES AND SEE IF THAT CANDIDATE
09:21:11AM FITS IN OUR CITY AND FIT IN WITH THE CACS.
09:21:15AM I LIKE TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE HAVE DONE OTHER PLACE IT IS I AM
09:21:19AM GOING TO CHOOSE A CANDIDATE.
09:21:20AM CAN YOU KEEP MY TRAIN GOING RIGHT NOW.
09:21:22AM THAT IS THE PERSON I AM LOOKING FOR DURING THIS PROCESS.
09:21:25AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: OKAY.
09:21:26AM MOMENTUM IS -- IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
09:21:30AM THE -- LET ME JUST MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT OF THIS.
09:21:33AM I THINK GENERALLY FROM A CRA -- CRA IS TO BE OUT OF THE
09:21:39AM BUSINESS OF THE CRA.
09:21:39AM THERE SHOULD NO LONGER BE SLUM AND BLIGHT THAT A CRA IS
09:21:43AM NEEDED AND WE SHOULD BE WORKING HARD AND DILIGENTLY TO
09:21:46AM ERADICATE THE SLUM AND BLIGHT IN THE DISTRICT.
09:21:49AM MOMENTUM IS IMPORTANT.
09:21:50AM LEADERSHIP IS IMPORTANT.
09:21:51AM AND I AM TAKE THIS PROCESS VERY SERIOUSLY.
09:21:54AM WE --ALIS AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO MOVE US IN
09:21:59AM THE DIRECTION THAT THIS BOARD WANTS US TO.
09:22:01AM AND WHATEVER THIS GUIDANCE, IT IS YOUR PROCESS.
09:22:04AM AS SOON AS AS WE -- IF YOU ARE OKAY -- ONCE WE GO THROUGH
09:22:08AM THE PROCESS AND I GET YOUR CONCURRENCE.
09:22:11AM IF WE NARROW IT DOWN TO THREE CANDIDATES FOR YOU, I WILL
09:22:14AM TURN THEIR RESUMES OVER TO YOU SO YOU HAVE TIME TO REVIEW IT
09:22:18AM AND ASK ANY QUESTIONS AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO BE OF SERVICE
09:22:20AM TO YOU THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
09:22:22AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU HAVE BEEN THE INTERIM FOR HOW MANY
09:22:25AM MONTHS NOW?
09:22:26AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I HAVEN'T BEEN COUNTING.
09:22:27AM SINCE JANUARY, I DON'T KNOW, I WILL HAVE TO GO BACK AND
09:22:30AM LOOK.
09:22:31AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THIS IS WHERE I AM GOING TO GET TO, MADAM
09:22:34AM CHAIRWOMAN.
09:22:35AM MR. DRUMGO AND MISS TRAVIS HAVE BEEN DOING THIS JOB FOR
09:22:40AM SEVERAL, SEVERAL MONTHS NOW.
09:22:41AM AND HAVE TAKEN ON SEVERAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE CITY.
09:22:44AM RUNNING THE CITY AND DEALING WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER
09:22:48AM BUREAU.
09:22:48AM PEOPLE HAVE TO BE PAID FOR THEIR WORK.
09:22:50AM AND WE HAVE A BUDGET FOR CRA DIRECTOR.
09:22:53AM AND THEY NEED TO BE PAID FOR THE MONTHS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
09:22:56AM WORKING.
09:22:59AM I WANT TO PUT A MOTION ON THE FLOOR ARE FOR HR AND THE
09:23:02AM FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO GET THEM PAID FOR THE MONTHS THEY ARE
09:23:05AM WORKING.
09:23:06AM THAT IS NO MORE THAN RIGHT.
09:23:08AM I THINK MR. CARLSON HAS ALREADY SECONDED THAT SO WE CAN GET
09:23:10AM THAT ON THE FLOOR.
09:23:11AM I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE HANDLED ASAP.
09:23:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WANTING TO MAKE THE MOTION RIGHT NOW.
09:23:17AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MOTION.
09:23:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING UNTIL NOVEMBER 10.
09:23:24AM WE DON'T HAVE A CRA MEETING NEXT MONTH.
09:23:26AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: A SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT
09:23:28AM SET ASIDE FOR A CRA DIRECTOR AND SIT DOWN WITH FINANCE.
09:23:32AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I SAID HR TO COME BACK TO SEE WHAT THEY
09:23:36AM NEED TO BE PAID.
09:23:36AM THEY NEED TO BE PAID.
09:23:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM BOARD MEMBER GUDES
09:23:41AM AND A SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:23:43AM ANY DISCUSSION?
09:23:45AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK THAT IS A GREAT IDEA AND CONSIDERING
09:23:47AM THAT NICOLE IS WORKING AT LEAST THREE OR FOUR JOBS, IT IS
09:23:50AM ONLY FAIR.
09:23:50AM AND A GREAT WAY TO SAY THANK YOU.
09:23:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:23:56AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:23:57AM OKAY.
09:23:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I SAY --
09:24:04AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SHE AND MR. DRUMGO HAVE BEEN DOING WORK.
09:24:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:24:11AM >>BILL CARLSON: MISS TRAVIS.
09:24:13AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SORRY -- I MISSED IT.
09:24:18AM >>BILL CARLSON: FIRST OF ALL, THE LINE THAT YOU SAID TO PUT
09:24:21AM THE CRA OUT OF BUSINESS OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU SAID, YOU SAID
09:24:24AM IT SEVERAL TIMES.
09:24:24AM YOU SAID IT TO ME PRIVATELY.
09:24:26AM I APPLAUD THAT.
09:24:27AM THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
09:24:29AM WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO STRATEGIC PLANNING THREE AND A HALF
09:24:33AM YEARS AGO.
09:24:34AM IF WE DID, I WOULD LOVE FOR THAT TO BE OUR MISSION
09:24:37AM STATEMENT.
09:24:37AM IN THE PAST CRA WAS KNOWN AS SLUSH FUNDS FOR PET PROJECTS.
09:24:41AM AND NOT FAIR FOR THE REST OF THE CITY TO HAVE THE REST OF
09:24:44AM THE CITY SUBSIDIZED CRAS WHERE THERE IS NO SLUM AND BLIGHT.
09:24:50AM WHERE THERE IS SLUM AND BLIGHT, WE SHOULD.
09:24:53AM BUT WE NEED TO SPEND THE MONEY WISELY.
09:24:55AM THINGS LIKE ROOF PROGRAMS VERSUS FACADE GRANTS.
09:24:58AM WE NEED TO NOT JUST SPEND MONEY BECAUSE WE HAVE IT, BUT
09:25:02AM BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT KIND OF PROJECTS.
09:25:04AM I HOPE WE WILL GO THROUGH A PLANS PROCESS.
09:25:07AM IT CHANGES THE WHOLE MIND SET.
09:25:09AM THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO I WAS HAVING DISCUSSION WITH
09:25:11AM STAFF.
09:25:12AM AND ALMOST EVERYBODY ARGUED WITH ME OF THE REST OF THE CITY
09:25:15AM SUBSIDIZING.
09:25:15AM THE WAY THEY THOUGHT ABOUT IT, IT IS THEIR MONEY.
09:25:19AM AND IT IS NOT.
09:25:19AM IT IS THE REST OF THE CITY'S MONEY AND WE ARE CUSTODIANS OF
09:25:24AM IT.
09:25:24AM SINCE THE REST OF THE CITY HAVE NOT GETTING THEIR POTHOLES
09:25:27AM FILLED AND THEIR BENCHES REPLACED AND NOT GETTING THEIR
09:25:30AM PARKS DONE TO SUBSIDIZE THESE, WE HAVE AN EVEN GREATER
09:25:35AM STANDARD WE NEED TO MEET TO DO THIS.
09:25:38AM FOR THE NEW DIRECTOR, IF THEY HAVE A HIGH BAR OF HOW TO HIT
09:25:42AM BECAUSE WHAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE.
09:25:44AM I THINK WE NEED TO OBVIOUSLY MAKE SURE WE GET THE VERY BEST
09:25:47AM PERSON.
09:25:47AM IF YOU SHORT LISTED FOUR -- IF YOU SHORT LISTED FOUR, I HAVE
09:25:52AM CONFIDENCE THAT THEY ARE GOOD.
09:25:53AM BUT WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST AS A PROCESS.
09:25:59AM YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE A SECRET BALLOT, BUT YOU CAN GET
09:26:03AM INPUT FROM EACH OF US JUST PROS AND CONS OF EACH OF THE
09:26:08AM CANDIDATES.
09:26:08AM I SUGGEST THAT YOU GIVE US THE FOUR RESUMES AND HAVE A SHORT
09:26:12AM PHONE CONVERSATION WITH EACH OF US JUST TO GET THE PROS AND
09:26:15AM CONS.
09:26:16AM NOT TO SAY HOW WE WOULD VOTE BUT THE PROS AND CONS OF EACH
09:26:20AM AND THEN LOOK AT SHORT LISTING THREE AND SET UP THE
09:26:23AM MEETINGS.
09:26:23AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: OKAY.
09:26:25AM SO -- I CAN TOTALLY DO THAT.
09:26:27AM I WILL SCHEDULE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH YOU TO GET YOUR
09:26:31AM FEEDBACK.
09:26:32AM ONE OF THE THINGS I WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD IN THE FEEDBACK,
09:26:35AM WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT FROM THIS CANDIDATE.
09:26:37AM I PROBABLY WILL BE INTERVIEWING YOU TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE
09:26:40AM THE RIGHT FIT WITH THE CANDIDATES THAT YOU HAVE WHAT ARE YOU
09:26:45AM LOOKING FOR.
09:26:46AM WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU AND I WILL DEVELOP A LIST OF
09:26:48AM QUESTIONS FOR YOU TO USE IN YOUR INTERVIEW, WHATEVER THAT
09:26:52AM INTERVIEW PROCESS IS.
09:26:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MIGHT DO SINCE YOU ALREADY
09:26:55AM -- ALREADY PUT OUT ADS.
09:26:58AM I THINK WHAT YOU ARE MENTIONING WE SHOULD HAVE DONE A FEW
09:27:01AM MONTHS AGO AND WE DIDN'T.
09:27:02AM WHAT -- USUALLY I AM IN A PLACE TO MAKE SURE YOU GET OUR
09:27:06AM INPUT AND YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AND OBVIOUSLY WELL
09:27:09AM EXPERIENCED IN THIS.
09:27:10AM I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU GIVE US EITHER THE AD OR THE
09:27:15AM CRITERIA THAT YOU THINK AND GET OUR FEEDBACK ON IT.
09:27:19AM IN CASE WE WANT TO TWEAK THINGS.
09:27:21AM IF SOME THINGS IN PARTICULAR WE WANTS TO LOOK AT.
09:27:23AM CAN'T JUST SAY CLONE NICOLE.
09:27:30AM THE OTHER IDEA OF GOING TO THE CAC IS GOOD PUN.
09:27:37AM IN THE POLICE CHIEF SEARCH, ONE CANDIDATE WAS NOT ABLE TO
09:27:42AM ATTEND BECAUSE OF A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
09:27:43AM WE NEED TO BE SENSITIVE OF EVERYONE'S SCHEDULE EURAL AND
09:27:46AM DECIDE HOW TO DO THAT.
09:27:47AM ASIDE FROM HAVING A OPEN HOUSE, SOME OF THE CAC CHAIRS WOULD
09:27:52AM WANT TO TALK TO THEM.
09:27:53AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I AM TALKING ABOUT THE PUBLIC MEET AND
09:27:56AM GREET IS A PRESCRIBED AGENDA OR WITH A PODIUM AND A FORUM.
09:28:01AM I THINK A MEET AND GREET AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE
09:28:03AM CANDIDATES TO TALK TO THE CAC MEMBERS AND THE CHAIRS.
09:28:07AM AND THE CAC WILL PROVIDE YOU FEEDBACK BASED ON THAT
09:28:12AM INTERACTION.
09:28:12AM IT IS UP FOR -- THIS IS A VERY PUBLIC POSITION, RIGHT.
09:28:16AM SO IT WOULD BE UP FOR THEM TO DO A MEET AND GREET.
09:28:22AM I DON'T HAVE A PRESCRIBED AGENDA FOR THAT MEET AND GREET.
09:28:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:28:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
09:28:30AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:28:31AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID SOME OF THE THINGS I WAS GOING TO
09:28:35AM SAY.
09:28:35AM OPEN AND OBVIOUS.
09:28:36AM WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ALL THE INTERVIEWS COLLECTIVELY IN PUBLIC.
09:28:39AM FOR MANY REASONS I WOULD STRONGLY DISCOURAGE THAT.
09:28:42AM I THINK WHEN WE WERE HIRING OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT HART,
09:28:46AM WE GET TO KNOW THE INDIVIDUAL PRIVATELY, PHONE ALWAYS,
09:28:49AM MEETINGS, ETC.
09:28:50AM AND A PUBLIC VOTE WHERE MEMBERS CAN SHARE THEIR RATIONALE
09:28:54AM WHILE THEY ARE MAKING A SPECIFIC DECISION IF THEY SO WISH
09:28:57AM AND I THINK THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PART IS REALLY WONDERFUL,
09:29:00AM BUT I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE MEETINGS AS
09:29:03AM OPPOSED TO COLLECTIVELY BECAUSE I THINK THAT WILL
09:29:06AM POTENTIALLY SEND THE WRONG INTENTION ON MANY ACCOUNTS AND
09:29:12AM QUESTIONS TO ASK PRIVATELY AND MANY REASONS I WOULD SAY
09:29:14AM THAT.
09:29:15AM I AGREE WITH THOSE STATEMENTS.
09:29:16AM THANK YOU.
09:29:16AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:29:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:29:21AM I AM NOT DISAGREE WITH MY TWO OTHER COLLEAGUES BUT IN SOME
09:29:25AM OF THE BOARDS I SIT ON IS ALL DONE PUBLICLY.
09:29:27AM THEY MAY TALK TO YOU ON THE PHONE AND GET TO KNOW YOU, BUT
09:29:30AM AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE CAC MEETING A THE 11:00 AND 30
09:29:37AM MINUTES EACH AND HAVE A CONVERSATION SO THE PUBLIC IS
09:29:39AM INVOLVED IN TRANSPARENCY AND SEE WHAT IS GOING ON AND HOW
09:29:42AM THEY ARE CHOSEN.
09:29:43AM I THINK THAT IS A WONDERFUL THING.
09:29:45AM THAT WAY IT GIVES THE FOUR INDIVIDUALS -- OR THREE, WHATEVER
09:29:48AM IT MAY BE, THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND GREET, NOT ONLY ON
09:29:52AM THE PHONE BUT TO MEET IN PERSON SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE
09:29:57AM CONVERSATION IS ONE WAY, BUT THE ACT OF JUST SEEING A PERSON
09:30:00AM IS A DIFFERENT WAY MOUTH MAY TELL YOU ONE MESSAGE, BUT THE
09:30:10AM BODY WILL SAY ANOTHER.
09:30:11AM AND YOU HAVE A MEETING WITH THREE OR FOUR CANDIDATES.
09:30:14AM IN MY MINDS THE BEST WAY FROM 9:00 IF IT IS 3 TO 11:30.
09:30:19AM TO 10:30 AND 11:00 IF WE HAVE FOUR AND START THE CRA MEETING
09:30:25AM AFTER THAT AND COME BACK AFTER LUNCH.
09:30:27AM BUT I THINK THE INTENSITY AND THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY ARE
09:30:30AM GOING TO HAVE FOR THEM AND FOR THE CRAs AND THE GENERAL
09:30:36AM PUBLIC WILL BE FOR THEM TO COME UP.
09:30:38AM SOMETIMES WE DO THIS WHEN WE APPOINT PEOPLE TO ALL THE
09:30:41AM BOARDS THAT HAVE NOWHERE NEAR THE STRESS THAT THIS BOARD
09:30:45AM HAS, BECAUSE OF THE WORK -- THE WORK LOAD THAT THEY HAVE.
09:30:47AM SO I REALLY BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY.
09:30:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
09:30:53AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:30:54AM MISS TRAVIS, THESE CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN VESTED THROUGH THE
09:30:57AM CITY OF TAMPA.
09:30:58AM IT WOULD BE A SHAME THAT WE PICK SOMEBODY WHO WAS EXCELLENT
09:31:02AM AND FOR SOME REASON NOT OF OUR OWN THAT THE CITY MIGHT NO
09:31:05AM BE ABLE TO HIRE THEM.
09:31:07AM THEY HAVE ALL BEEN VESTED?
09:31:10AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH A
09:31:12AM BACKGROUND CHECK AND DRUG TEST CLEARANCE FOR HIRING.
09:31:18AM THEY HAVE NOT BEEN THROUGH THOSE PROCESSES YET.
09:31:22AM THEY HAVE MET -- WE DID A JOB DESCRIPTION AND TO COUNCILMAN
09:31:25AM CARLSON 'POINT OF THE MINUTE MURM QUALIFICATIONS.
09:31:28AM I IS IT TAKE THE JOB DESCRIPTION TO THE CRA BOARD CHAIR AND
09:31:32AM GAVE HER COMPARABLES OF OTHER DIRECTOR POSITIONS AND WHAT WE
09:31:36AM PUT IN THE QUALIFICATIONS.
09:31:38AM THE FOUR CANDIDATES MEET THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATION OF THE
09:31:41AM JOB DESCRIPTION.
09:31:42AM THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE ONCE YOU HAVE MADE A SELECTION MADE A
09:31:52AM TENTATIVE OFFER.
09:31:53AM CONTINGENT ON PACK GROUND AND DRUG TEST.
09:31:56AM THEN AFTER THAT, THEY ARE CLEARED TO HIRE.
09:31:59AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THE REASON WHY I AM ASKING, WE NEED THAT
09:32:01AM PERFECT PUZZLE PIECE TO GO IN THE WRONG PLACE.
09:32:07AM IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO PICK THE PERFECT PERSON AND FOR SOME
09:32:10AM REASON.
09:32:10AM THANK YOU, MISS TRAVIS.
09:32:12AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:32:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:32:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST ONE MORE THING.
09:32:17AM I OBVIOUSLY BELIEVE IN TRANSPARENCY AND DOING THINGS IN
09:32:21AM FRONT OF THE PUBLIC.
09:32:21AM I THINK CANDIDATES ALSO LIKE HAVING PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS.
09:32:25AM I AM OKAY IF WE HAD PHONE CONVERSATION WITH THEM AND
09:32:29AM IN-PERSON CONVERSATIONS AND A GROUP CONVERSATION AS BOARD
09:32:32AM MEMBER MIRANDA SUGGESTED.
09:32:33AM BUT ONE KINDS OF OTHER STEP.
09:32:35AM YOU KNOW I WAS A VOLUNTEER ADVISOR TO STEVE BURTON WHEN HE
09:32:41AM WAS CHAIR OF THE AVIATION AUTHORITY.
09:32:43AM AND WE GOT RID OF THE OLD DIRECTOR AND BROUGHT IN
09:32:47AM JOE LAPANO.
09:32:47AM AND THERE WAS GREAT SCRUTINY THERE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
09:32:51AM WHEN WE IS IT THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T THEY -- PEOPLE WERE NOT
09:32:54AM SURE THAT JOE WILL DO THE GOOD JOB.
09:32:57AM THE LAST MAYOR FOUGHT IT.
09:32:59AM BUT THE PUBLIC WANTED TO KNOW WHO THESE WERE.
09:33:07AM AT LEAST WITH STEVE, WE SCHEDULED INTERVIEWS AT TIMES WHEN
09:33:11AM THE PUBLIC KNEW WHERE THEY WERE.
09:33:13AM ANOTHER INTERIM STEP, IF WE MEET THEM IN PERSON, MEET THEM
09:33:17AM HEIFER AND SCHEDULE PUBLICLY.
09:33:18AM THEY WOULDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE PUBLICLY NOTICE BECAUSE
09:33:22AM WOULDN'T BE BREAKING SUNSHINE, BUT POST THEM PUBLICLY IF THE
09:33:25AM PUBLIC OR MEDIA WANT TO COME IN FOR THE INTERVIEWS, THEY CAN
09:33:28AM COME IN.
09:33:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I TEND TO AGREE WITH BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:33:35AM I THINK ANYTHING IN THE SUNSHINE.
09:33:37AM BUT I ALSO SEE THE POINT OF HAVING SHORT CONVERSATIONS PRIOR
09:33:42AM TO THAT.
09:33:42AM I ALSO BELIEVE THAT HAVING AN EVENT FOR CAC MEMBERS IS
09:33:48AM ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL.
09:33:49AM I DON'T THINK I WOULD BE COMFORTABLE VOTING ON ANYONE UNLESS
09:33:53AM THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO SPEND
09:33:58AM SO AS MUCH TIME, EFFORT AND ENERGY ON WHAT THEY DO.
09:34:01AM I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO SEE HOW THIS PERSON OR HOW
09:34:04AM THE CANDIDATES REACT IN A PUBLIC SPACE.
09:34:08AM BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE UP IN FRONT OF US ALL THE TIME.
09:34:11AM AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO NEED TO BE ABLE TO HOLD
09:34:16AM THEIR OWN.
09:34:18AM WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
09:34:19AM WE HAVE A LOT OF ISSUES.
09:34:20AM SO I THINK SEEING THAT FOR ME PERSONALLY IS SOMETHING THAT
09:34:25AM IS VERY CRITICAL.
09:34:25AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:34:27AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PORTION.
09:34:31AM YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD A GOOD SYSTEM TO WHERE THE
09:34:36AM CANDIDATES MET WITH THE BOARD IN A PUBLIC SETTING AND THEY
09:34:39AM HAD A SOCIAL HOUR WHERE THE PUBLIC WAS ABLE TO ENGAGE WITH
09:34:44AM THE CANDIDATES.
09:34:44AM LIKE FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM.
09:34:46AM NOT ONLY THE CITY, BUT THE PUBLIC WAS ABLE TO TALK AND MEET
09:34:50AM THE CANDIDATE AS WELL.
09:34:51AM A GOOD WAY TO HAVE THE PUBLIC EN GANGMENT.
09:34:54AM NOT ONLY THE CAC, BUT THE PUBLIC CAN ENGAGE WITH THE
09:34:59AM CANDIDATES.
09:34:59AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: ABSOLUTELY.
09:35:00AM WHATEVER THE CONSENSUS OF THE BOARD IS, I AM HAPPY TO OBLIGE
09:35:05AM THAT.
09:35:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WOULD --
09:35:07AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: LET ME JUST ADD A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT LIKE
09:35:10AM THAT.
09:35:11AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WOULD HAVE TO BE NOTICED?
09:35:14AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WILL HAVE TO BE NOTICED.
09:35:16AM THE FINAL SELECTION WHOEVER WILL BE THE CRA DIRECT WILL HAVE
09:35:20AM TO BE MADE AT A PUBLICLY NOTICED MEETING.
09:35:23AM WE WOULD CALL A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING FOR THAT PURPOSE,
09:35:27AM ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT TO BRING THE FINALIST IN TO MAKE A
09:35:29AM FINAL PRESENTATION BEFORE YOU ALL MAKE THAT FINAL DECISION.
09:35:33AM MAYBE THAT IS THE PROCESS THAT YOU HAVE THE INDIVIDUAL
09:35:37AM ENGAGEMENT AND HAVE A SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CACS IN THE
09:35:41AM PUBLIC AND A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING WHERE THE SOLE PURPOSE
09:35:45AM OF THAT MEETING TO SELECT THE CRA DIRECTOR AND MAKE
09:35:49AM PRESENTATIONS TO YOU ALL AND THEN MAKE A DECISION AT THAT
09:35:53AM POINT IN TIME.
09:35:53AM JUST THE SUGGESTION.
09:35:54AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I LOVE THAT SUGGESTION.
09:35:56AM BUT BOARD MEMBERS?
09:36:00AM ANY --
09:36:01AM >>BILL CARLSON: SHOULD WE SCHEDULE IT NOW.
09:36:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU WANT TO DEVELOP THE SCHEDULE BASED ON
09:36:08AM THE INDIVIDUALS SHE IS MEETING WITH AND YOUR CALENDARS.
09:36:11AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: IF YOU JUST CAN AGREE ON THE PROCESS THAT
09:36:15AM YOU WANT TO DO, I WILL GO BACK AND WORK -- AND PRESENT YOU A
09:36:20AM SCHEDULE.
09:36:21AM YOU CAN'T PICK A DATE WITHOUT US SPEAKING TO -- NOT YOU,
09:36:25AM RESPECTFULLY, YOUR AIDES WHO MANAGE YOUR CALENDARS AND THE
09:36:31AM CANDIDATES.
09:36:31AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BY YOUR BYLAWS, THE CHAIR HAS THE ABILITY
09:36:35AM TO CALL A SPECIALLY CALLED MEETING WITHOUT YOU -- WE WILL
09:36:41AM BOARD NEAT WITH YOUR CALENDARS.
09:36:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I SAY ONE MORE QUICK THING.
09:36:46AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY.
09:36:47AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:36:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: MISS TRAVIS, WE CAN TALK OF CRITERIA AND
09:36:52AM FEEDBACK -- I WANT TO SAY IN FRONT OF MY COLLEAGUES BECAUSE
09:36:56AM WE -- THERE ARE SOME UNIQUE QUALITIES THAT YOU HAVE.
09:36:59AM I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DESCRIBE THEM.
09:37:02AM YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE OBVIOUSLY, BUT
09:37:05AM SOMETHING ABOUT YOU -- WORDS I WILL THROW OUT MAY OR MAY NOT
09:37:08AM BE THE RIGHT WORD.
09:37:09AM INDEPENDENT THINKING, APOLITICAL, CONFIDENT.
09:37:14AM I THINK ALL OF THOSE ARE NECESSARY FOR SOMEBODY TO NAVIGATE
09:37:19AM ALL THIS.
09:37:19AM I AM ONE OF THE BIGGEST SKEPTICS UP HERE, AND I HAVE
09:37:23AM CONFIDENCE THAT NO INDIVIDUAL HERE CAN SWAY YOU.
09:37:26AM I CAN'T SWAY YOU AND NEITHER CAN ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL.
09:37:30AM SO YOU TAKE THE CONSENSUS OF IT.
09:37:32AM AND NO ONE OUTSIDE SWAYS YOU, THE MAYOR, YOU TO WHAT YOU TO
09:37:40AM DO GET THE JOB DONE AND VERY GOOD AT IT.
09:37:41AM WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS.
09:37:46AM WE NEED TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS FOCUSED ON THE COMMUNITY AND
09:37:50AM GETTING RESULTS.
09:37:51AM NOT INVOLVED IN LITTLE POCKETS OF POLITICS AND STRONG ENOUGH
09:37:54AM AND CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO PUSH THROUGH TO TELL US WHAT YOU
09:37:59AM REALLY BELIEVE.
09:38:00AM I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME ON SOMETHING,
09:38:04AM YOU WILL TELL ME.
09:38:05AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES, THANK YOU.
09:38:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE HAVE A PLAN?
09:38:09AM DOES ANYONE WANT TO ARTICULATE THAT PLAN SO WE CAN VOTE ON
09:38:12AM IT.
09:38:12AM DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON IT?
09:38:15AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:38:16AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I THINK WE PRETTY MUCH LAID IT OUT FOR MISS
09:38:19AM TRAVIS.
09:38:19AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YOU KIND OF SAID DIFFERENT THINGS.
09:38:22AM THERE WAS NO CONSENSUS.
09:38:24AM OKAY, LET'S START WITH -- LET'S START WITH THE INTERVIEWS.
09:38:28AM I THINK WHAT I HEARD -- LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I THINK I
09:38:32AM HEARD.
09:38:32AM YOU WANT ME TO SCHEDULE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH THE TIMIST
09:38:36AM SO AS YOU CAN SPEAK TO THEM NOT IN THE PUBLIC SETTING.
09:38:38AM THEN YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO SCHEDULE -- THEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO
09:38:42AM HAVE A PUBLICLY NOTICED MEETING IN CHAMBERS WITH THE
09:38:46AM FINALISTS.
09:38:47AM YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A PUBLIC MEET AND GREET.
09:38:52AM I WILL DO A SMALL 45 MINUTES WITH JUST THE CRA BOARD FIRST
09:38:56AM AND THEN THE TIME AFTER THAT WILL BE FOR ALL THE CAC
09:39:00AM MEMBERS.
09:39:00AM THEN WE WILL -- THEN -- I AM NOT GOING TO ASK YOU TO MAKE A
09:39:07AM DECISION ON THE CANDIDATE AT THE PUBLIC MEETING.
09:39:09AM THEN WE WILL FIGURE OUT THE DATE ON WHEN YOU WILL MAKE THE
09:39:12AM DECISION ON YOUR CRA DIRECTOR.
09:39:14AM IS THAT IS IT?
09:39:18AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: PERFECT.
09:39:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THE PROCESS WHICH IS
09:39:23AM THE FIRST STEP TO SOCIALIZE THE FOUR RESUMES.
09:39:26AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PROCESS YOU
09:39:29AM JUST DESCRIBED WITH THAT ADDITION.
09:39:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON HAS A MOTION.
09:39:35AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SPEAKING ON THE MOTION.
09:39:36AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE THEY WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE
09:39:40AM BOARD FOR A PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE THE VOTE IS TAKEN.
09:39:44AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES.
09:39:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:39:47AM LET'S DO A ROLL CALL VOTE FOR THAT.
09:39:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
09:39:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
09:39:52AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
09:39:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
09:39:55AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
09:39:56AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
09:39:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:39:58AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIES.
09:40:01AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GLAD I ATE BREAKFAST THIS MORNING.
09:40:04AM THANK YOU.
09:40:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ARE YOU SATELLITESFIED.
09:40:08AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I AM FINE.
09:40:09AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE I EXECUTES THE PROCESS THAT THIS BOARD
09:40:12AM WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD.
09:40:12AM ONCE I LAY OUT THAT PLAN FOR YOU, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THAT
09:40:15AM AND TAKE ANY DIRECTION WE HAVE FOR THAT.
09:40:17AM SO I AM GOOD MOVING FORWARD.
09:40:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:40:20AM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS SET.
09:40:22AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:40:24AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: MR. DRUMGO WILL INTRODUCE -- A COUPLE OF
09:40:30AM ITEMS TO TAKE TOGETHER, 2, 3 AND 4.
09:40:33AM AND HE WILL SPEAK TO THAT AND INTRODUCE EVERYONE.
09:40:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS WONDERFUL.
09:40:37AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: GOOD MORNING.
09:40:39AM GOOD MORNING, BOARD.
09:40:42AM ALIS DRUMGO, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR ECONOMIC AND
09:40:49AM COMMUNITY.
09:40:49AM AS ADMINISTRATOR TRAVIS, WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR 2, 3 AND 4
09:40:54AM COLLECTIVELY.
09:40:54AM WE HAVE REPRESENTATION FROM THE JACKSON HOUSE HERE.
09:40:59AM DR. COLLINS WILL SPOKE TO THE MOTION MADE TO ACQUIRE THE
09:41:02AM JACKSON HOUSE FOR SUFFICIENT SPACE TO ALLOW FOR THE
09:41:07AM RENOVATION, AND WE ALSO HAVE A FOLLOW-UP PRESENTATION THAT
09:41:11AM WILL COME BEFORE YOU RELATIVE TO THE RENOVATION OF THE
09:41:15AM JACKSON HOUSE, THE COST TO DO SO, AND THEN THE OVERALL
09:41:18AM VISION FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE.
09:41:20AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I TO A QUICK SET OF THESE BECAUSE I MADE
09:41:24AM THE MOTION.
09:41:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY.
09:41:25AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:41:27AM >>BILL CARLSON: A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND STORIES ABOUT THE
09:41:30AM JACKSON HOUSE AND A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE TRYING TO SAVE IT.
09:41:33AM I FIRST GOT INVOLVED NOVEMBER 2013, I MET WITH WILLIE
09:41:38AM ROBINSON AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE "TIMES" REPORTER AND
09:41:43AM JUST GOTTEN A LETTER FROM THE LAST ADMINISTRATION SAYING
09:41:46AM THEY WOULD TEAR IT DOWN IF I REMEMBER IT CORRECTLY, THE
09:41:49AM SATURDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING.
09:41:50AM I WAS PRETTY SHOCKED BY THAT.
09:41:52AM AND ALIS, IN THIS CONVERSATION, HE DIDN'T SHOW ANGER OR
09:41:58AM ANYTHING.
09:41:58AM BUT JUST TRYING TO SAVE THE JACKSON HOUSE.
09:42:01AM I MADE TWO PHONE CALLS.
09:42:02AM ONE WAS TO A GROUP THAT RAISED THE MONEY AND TRIED TO SAVE
09:42:07AM IT.
09:42:07AM THEY SHORED IT UP.
09:42:08AM THEY PUT TARPS AND THE LAST ADMINISTRATION WALKED IN AT THE
09:42:13AM END AND SAID WE WILL ESSENTIAL TEAR IT DOWN ANYWAY.
09:42:19AM THAT DEAL FELL APART.
09:42:20AM THE OTHER CALL I MADE TO LINDA SAUL-SENA.
09:42:24AM LINDA, FORMER CITY COUNCILMEMBER -- CAME INTO THIS BODY --
09:42:30AM CITY COUNCIL, NOT THIS BODY AND MR. MIRANDA MAY BE THE ONLY
09:42:35AM COUNCILMEMBER HERE -- I DON'T KNOW IF GUIDO WAS HERE OR NOT
09:42:39AM -- BUT CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO STAY THE DEMOLITION OF THE
09:42:45AM JACKSON HOUSE.
09:42:45AM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY FOR THE PUBLIC'S SAFE, CITY COUNCIL --
09:42:48AM NOT ALL OF US INDIVIDUALLY, BUT CITY COUNCIL SAVED THE
09:42:51AM JACKSON HOUSE AT THE REQUEST OF MR. ROBINSON AND OTHERS BACK
09:42:55AM IN 2013.
09:42:56AM IF NOT FOR THAT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN JUST AFTER
09:42:59AM THANKSGIVING WHEN NOBODY WAS PAYING ATTENTION.
09:43:01AM BUT SINCE THEN, IT HAS SAT.
09:43:06AM AND MANY OF US CARE ABOUT THE JACKSON HOUSE.
09:43:09AM I CARE ABOUT IT SO MUCH THAT I HAVE A PAINTING OF IT ON MY
09:43:13AM WALL IN MY HOUSE BY DEAN MITCHELL.
09:43:15AM AND IT IS -- IT IS A BUILDING THAT I THINK IS -- ORIGINALLY
09:43:20AM OWNED BY WILLIE'S FAMILY.
09:43:21AM I THINK HIS FAMILY -- HIS DAUGHTER MAY BE HERE TODAY, BUT
09:43:26AM IT'S -- IT IS REALLY A COMMUNITY TREASURE THAT TELLS NOT
09:43:30AM ONLY THE STORY OF THE PEOPLE WHO STAY THERE BUT ALSO THE
09:43:34AM STORY OF SEGREGATION AND THE LOCATION OF IT IS VERY
09:43:37AM IMPORTANT.
09:43:37AM I WOULD ABSOLUTELY NEVER BE IN FAVOR OF MOVING IT BECAUSE IT
09:43:41AM IS SO IMPORTANT TO TELL THE STORY WHERE IT IS.
09:43:43AM I WOULD LIKE -- I SAID TO MANY PEOPLE, I WOULD LIKE TO
09:43:46AM PERSONALLY BUY PIANO TO -- GO LOBBY WHEN RENOVATED.
09:43:57AM WE TALKED ABOUT IT THREE AND A HALF YEARS ON CITY COUNCIL
09:44:00AM AND THE PRIOR CITY SAVED IT FROM THE LAST ADMINISTRATION AND
09:44:05AM THING IN CRA, WE TRIED TO SAVE IT.
09:44:08AM A YEAR OR SO AGO A MAYOR HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH
09:44:15AM JEFF VINICK AND THE CHRISTINE WAS THERE TO PUT ON $1
09:44:20AM MILLION.
09:44:20AM THAT WAS THE CITY MONEY, NOT THE CRA MONEY.
09:44:23AM THE CRA IS COMMITTED AND PUT OUR MONEY WHERE THE MOUTH IS.
09:44:28AM WE OFFERED HALF THE MONEY TO TRY TO RENOVATE IT.
09:44:32AM WE RUN INTO MANY OBSTACLES WITH THAT.
09:44:34AM THE OTHER THING I WILL SAY, THE CRA -- ANYBODY THAT WATCHES
09:44:39AM THE BUDGET -- THERE IS NOT EVEN $100,000 IN THE CITY'S
09:44:42AM BUDGET BUT THE CRA DISTRICTS HAVE MONEY.
09:44:44AM AND I THINK THERE IS THE -- THE INTEREST, THE PASSION AND
09:44:49AM THE RESOURCES WITH THIS CRA BOARD.
09:44:52AM THE SAME AS CITY COUNCIL AND A TOTALLY SEPARATE ENTITY THAT
09:44:56AM STANDS ALONG WITH THE CITY AND WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO BE
09:44:59AM ABLE TO THE JACKSON HOUSE IF WE CAN WORK THROUGH ONE OF
09:45:02AM THESE ISSUES.
09:45:03AM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AT THE END OF THIS IS TO FIGURE OUT
09:45:07AM IF THERE IS SOME WAY TO PARTNER WITH THE FOUNDATION OR IF
09:45:10AM THE FOUNDATION CAN HELP US PARTNER WITH USF OR THE HISTORY
09:45:14AM CENTER TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SOL OF THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS,
09:45:17AM BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO SAVE THIS IMPORTANT STRUCTURE,
09:45:21AM RENOVATE IT.
09:45:22AM IF IT HAPPENS TO FALL DOWN, THE THIRD MOTION WHAT IT WILL
09:45:28AM NEED TO REBUILD IT.
09:45:29AM EVERYBODY NEEDS TO KNOW THAT IF IT FALLS DOWN, THAT WE
09:45:33AM INTEND TO REBUILD IT IN PLACE.
09:45:35AM THE EXAMPLE FOR THAT IS MANHATTAN CASINO IN ST. PETE THAT IS
09:45:39AM A RECONSTRUCTION BUT IMPORTANT HISTORICAL BUILDING IN ST.
09:45:44AM PETE.
09:45:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:45:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:45:48AM WHAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST I CAN TAKE YOU THROUGH YBOR CITY.
09:45:52AM MAYBE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, BUT I LOVE HISTORY AND STUDY
09:45:55AM TAMPA HISTORY.
09:45:55AM I CAN GIVE YOU A TOUR AND GO THIS IS THIS AND THIS IS A
09:45:59AM THAT.
09:45:59AM I CAN TAKE YOU THROUGH WEST TAMPA.
09:46:02AM I CAN TAKE YOU THROUGH SOUTH TAMPA.
09:46:04AM I CAN TAKE -- LIKE I DID WITH A FRIEND OF MINE ON MONDAY, IN
09:46:08AM LABOR DAY, SPENT THE DAY DRIVING AROUND EAST TAMPA AND
09:46:11AM SHOWING HIM A LOT OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURES THAT ARE STILL
09:46:13AM THERE ON HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE WHERE IT WAS A BUSIER
09:46:18AM COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR.
09:46:18AM THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, THROUGH THE CEMETERIES,
09:46:22AM THROUGH SO MANY THINGS.
09:46:23AM BUT I CAN'T TAKE YOU DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING
09:46:26AM WAS DEMOLISHED FOR THE MOST PART.
09:46:29AM YBOR CITY IS PROTECTED AS A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
09:46:32AM DISINDUSTRY STRICT.
09:46:33AM WEST TAMPA HAS A HISTORIC DISTRICT WITH CIGAR FACTORIES AND
09:46:37AM OTHER CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURES.
09:46:39AM THROUGH THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE BLACK BUSINESS DISTRICT
09:46:41AM THAT WAS THRIVING UNTIL, LET'S SAY 1967.
09:46:45AM BECAUSE WE HAD RIOTS AND THIS WAS THE CATALYST THAT CAUSED
09:46:48AM -- FROM THE WORDS OF MOSES WHITE, WE HAVE TO TEAR DOWN
09:46:52AM CENTRAL AVENUE.
09:46:53AM IF HE SAID IT OR NOT.
09:46:55AM BUT WHAT I READ AFTER THE RIOTS AND WHATNOT.
09:46:58AM THE YOYNER FAMILY AS THE COTTON CLUB, THE LAST HOLD UP SOLD
09:47:06AM IN 1974.
09:47:07AM AFTER THAT.
09:47:07AM I CAN SHOW YOU A CHURCH.
09:47:08AM I CAN SHOW YOU THE LONGSHOREMAN'S BUILDING.
09:47:12AM I CAN SHOW YOU THE KID-MASON CENTER.
09:47:14AM AND I CAN SHOW YOU WHAT IS THE JACKSON HOUSE, BUT BEYOND
09:47:17AM THAT, IF I DIDN'T TELL YOU.
09:47:20AM DRIVING THROUGH OR COMING OFF THE INTERSTATE, PEOPLE DON'T
09:47:23AM KNOW WHAT THAT USED TO BE.
09:47:25AM WE LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JACKSON HOUSE, WE UNDER
09:47:27AM STAND THAT WE ARE SAVING AND TRYING TO PRESERVE THE LAST
09:47:31AM REMNANTS OF WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT IN HISTORY.
09:47:34AM WHAT BOTHERS ME ABOVE ALL IS THE PEOPLE THAT STOOD IN THE
09:47:42AM LAST WAY FOR THE LAST DECADE TO GET THIS PLACE RESTORED.
09:47:47AM IT WAS GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED AFTER THANKSGIVING.
09:47:49AM AND NOW THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS DON'T WANT TO ALLOW THE
09:47:53AM 10-FOOT AREA AROUND FURTHER RESTORATION.
09:47:56AM YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE JEFF VINICK.
09:48:00AM PEOPLE LIKE THE CRA AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS PUT MONEY TOGETHER
09:48:04AM AND STUDYING AND PRESERVING -- STUDIES TO PRESERVE THIS
09:48:09AM HOUSE.
09:48:09AM LOOK HOW FAR IT IS NEGLECTED.
09:48:11AM I HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 2015.
09:48:13AM I HAVE VIDEO FROM 2014.
09:48:15AM ONE NIGHT I PARKED ON FRANKLIN AND WALKED THROUGH DOWNTOWN
09:48:19AM AND IT WE WALKED THROUGH THE JACKSON HOUSE TO TAKE PICTURES.
09:48:22AM THE NEGLECT BECAUSE NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE SINCE BECAUSE OF
09:48:26AM ALL THE ROAD BLOCKS TO WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE THEN UNTIL NOW,
09:48:29AM EVEN WORSE CONDITION.
09:48:30AM I TOURED THE JACKSON HOUSE, WHAT WAS IT, LAST YEAR AND A
09:48:34AM YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
09:48:35AM I TOOK PICTURES INSIDE AND SUPPORTED BY THE TRUSSES AND
09:48:41AM EVERYTHING ELSE IN THERE, BUT ANY BIG STORM CAN COME IN AND
09:48:45AM KNOCK THAT BUILDING DOWN, AGAIN, NOT BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T
09:48:48AM WANT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE STOOD IN THE
09:48:52AM WAY.
09:48:52AM CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS STOOD IN THE WAY AS THEY ARE NOW.
09:48:54AM I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
09:48:56AM I UNDERSTAND MONEY AND PROFIT.
09:49:00AM SO SOME PEOPLE IT MAY BE AN EYESORE AND THEY WANT IT OUT OF
09:49:05AM THE WAY, WE HAVE LOST SO MUCH HISTORY TO THE WRECKING BALL.
09:49:08AM WE LOST SO MUCH HISTORY TO IT THE INTERSTATE.
09:49:11AM WE LOST SO MUCH HISTORY TO GREED AND PROFIT.
09:49:15AM WHERE PEOPLE SAYS IT OLD.
09:49:17AM GET IT OUT OF THE WAY.
09:49:18AM ONE OF THE LAST CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURES TO THAT AREA.
09:49:21AM I CAN'T SHOW YOU CENTRAL AVENUE EXCEPT FOR A FEW
09:49:24AM PHOTOGRAPHS.
09:49:25AM A FILM THAT SHOWS SOME SCENES IN CENTRAL AVENUE FROM THE
09:49:29AM EARLY 1960s.
09:49:31AM BUT WE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN IN ORDER TO PRESERVE
09:49:36AM THIS HOUSE.
09:49:37AM IT FALLS DOWN.
09:49:38AM YOU CAN BUILD A REPLICA.
09:49:39AM NOT THE SAME THING.
09:49:40AM LIKE HAVING A REPLICA OF A CLASSIC CAR AND THE ORIGINAL IS
09:49:44AM WORTH $1 MILLION AND YOU BUILD THE REPLICA..NOT THE SAME
09:49:47AM THING.
09:49:47AM IT IS STILL A REPLICA.
09:49:49AM IF THE WALLS COULD TALK.
09:49:51AM THE STORY SHE IS WOULD TELL.
09:49:52AM I KNOW COUNCILMAN CARLSON IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT IT.
09:49:55AM HE ALREADY SAID EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
09:49:57AM BUT I AM GLAD WE HAVE THE STAKEHOLDERS HERE IN THE ROOM AND
09:50:00AM WE CAN HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY, WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS
09:50:03AM TO SAY, BUT MOSTLY I AM GRATEFUL TO PEOPLE LIKE MR. VINICK
09:50:11AM AND OTHERS WHO STEPPED UP AND PROVIDE IS THE FUNDING TO GET
09:50:14AM THIS DONE AND SHORED UP AND POSSIBLY RESTORED.
09:50:17AM AND SHAME ON THE INDIVIDUALS THAT KEEP STAND THE WAY.
09:50:20AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE -- THE HATRED IS TOWARD THIS HOUSE.
09:50:24AM I JUST DON'T KNOW.
09:50:25AM LET -- LET US PRESERVE THE LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY THAT IS
09:50:28AM LEFT IN THAT AREA.
09:50:30AM THANK YOU.
09:50:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
09:50:33AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
09:50:35AM AND I -- YOU KNOW, FOR ME, THE ULTIMATE IDEA IS TO USE CITY
09:50:39AM DOLLARS, CRA DOLLARS, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, TO PRESERVE THIS.
09:50:44AM IF THAT MEANS BUYING THE EASEMENT.
09:50:46AM WHATEVER -- WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO IN A LEGAL SENSE,
09:50:49AM OBVIOUSLY, WE SHOULD LOOK AT DOING.
09:50:52AM I READ DR. COLLINS LETTER FROM -- I THINK IT WAS SENT
09:50:55AM YESTERDAY AND THE FEELING THAT I GET FROM THAT
09:50:57AM CORRESPONDENCE IS THAT THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO HAVE
09:51:00AM OWNERSHIP OF -- OF THE JACKSON HOUSE IN THE PRESENT HANDS
09:51:05AM WHERE IT IS AT.
09:51:05AM I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
09:51:07AM BUT WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO
09:51:11AM PRESERVE THIS HOUSE 100%.
09:51:13AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL VISION FOR THAT AREA IN
09:51:16AM PARTICULAR.
09:51:17AM I KNOW COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAS BEEN WORKING A LOT ON UNION
09:51:22AM STATION.
09:51:22AM GOOD WILLING WHEN THIS HOUSE IS RESTORED.
09:51:25AM IMPROVEMENTS ON UNION STATION.
09:51:27AM THE RADICAL TRANSFORMATION WE WILL HAVE IN THAT AREA AND
09:51:30AM BUILT ON HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOMETHING THAT IN THE CITY
09:51:33AM OF TAMPA WE REALLY DON'T DO A GOOD JOB AT, BUT A LOT OF
09:51:37AM CITIES, A LOT OF CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES DON'T DO A GOOD
09:51:41AM JOB.
09:51:42AM A LOT -- EVERYWHERE YOU GO, THERE IS SOMETHING HISTORICALLY
09:51:46AM RELEVANT THAT HAPPENED JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, WE DEDICATED A
09:51:54AM RACIAL LYNCHING MARKER THAT DEALT WITH THE LYNCHING OF
09:51:58AM ROBERT JOHNSON IN 1934.
09:52:00AM A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HE WAS TRANSFERRED FROM CITY
09:52:03AM POLICE TO A PERSON WHO CLAIMED TO BE WITH THE COUNTY POLICE
09:52:06AM CONSTABLE OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL.
09:52:08AM EVERYWHERE THAT YOU GO SOMETHING HISTORICAL HAPPENED AND WE
09:52:18AM DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB OF TALKING ABOUT THAT.
09:52:22AM NAMES IN TAMPA ROBERT SAUNDERS.
09:52:25AM 100th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH.
09:52:28AM ONE OF THE GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS THAT TOOK OVER NAACP
09:52:32AM AFTER HARRIET MOORE WAS MURDERED.
09:52:36AM TAMPA GUY.
09:52:37AM GARLAND STEWART.
09:52:39AM SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
09:52:40AM FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, IN MY OPINION WE DON'T TALK AS MUCH AS
09:52:45AM WE SHOULD.
09:52:46AM A GREAT PART OF OUR HISTORY.
09:52:47AM THIS HOUSE STANDS FOR A LOT OF THINGS.
09:52:49AM STANDS FOR JIM CROW.
09:52:50AM STANDS FOR SEGREGATION.
09:52:52AM SEGREGATION THAT WAS FORCED THROUGH VIOLENCE, THROUGH
09:52:56AM BRUTALITY, THROUGH TORTURE AND THROUGH LYNCHING.
09:52:58AM TO ME THAT IS WHAT THIS HOUSE STANDS FOR.
09:53:01AM SO I SUPPORT DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SUPPORT THIS HOUSE.
09:53:06AM WHETHER IT IS TAKING ON THE EASEMENT.
09:53:09AM WHATEVER LEGAL OPTIONS WE HAVE FROM A MONETARY PERSPECTIVE,
09:53:15AM LET'S GET IT DONE.
09:53:16AM I SUPPORT AS OTHERS HAVE SAID THE GREAT WORK THAT MR. VINICK
09:53:22AM AND OTHERS DID IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
09:53:24AM TRULY PHILANTHROPIC WORK FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR TAKEN THE
09:53:30AM LEAD.
09:53:31AM THE CITY NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO MATCH IT, BUT KNOW THE MORAL
09:53:37AM VISION BEHIND THAT.
09:53:38AM WE TALKED IN CITY COUNCIL.
09:53:39AM WE WILL HEAR ISSUES OF MARTI MACEO IN YBOR CITY.
09:53:42AM I BROUGHT UP BEFORE THE DR. WALTER SMITH HOUSE.
09:53:45AM WE NEED TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO PRESERVE OUR HISTORY, BUT
09:53:49AM ESPECIALLY FOR GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN MARGINALIZED,
09:53:52AM BRUTALIZED AND OPPRESSED.
09:53:55AM THERE IS A REASON WHY PEOPLE WANT TO IGNORE HISTORY AND
09:53:58AM OVERLOOK HISTORY.
09:53:58AM BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE TO BE REMINDED MUCH THE UGLY THINGS IN
09:54:02AM HISTORY.
09:54:02AM WE LIKE TO BE REMINDED OF THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THIS HISTORY,
09:54:06AM BUT WE HAVE TO PRESERVE TO REMIND OURSELVES OF THAT PAINFUL
09:54:09AM HISTORY.
09:54:09AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:54:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:54:12AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
09:54:17AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YOU KNOW, HISTORY ALWAYS HAVE A WAY OF
09:54:21AM REPEATING ITSELF.
09:54:23AM ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO COLORED FOLKS.
09:54:26AM YOU KNOW, THAT PROPERTY OVER THERE IS BEING HELD UP FOR A
09:54:32AM REASON.
09:54:34AM BECAUSE SOMEBODY WANTS IT.
09:54:35AM SOMEBODY WANTS IT.
09:54:37AM WHAT IS IT GOING TO COST FOR US TO GET IT?
09:54:45AM IF WE CAN GET IT.
09:54:45AM SO I NEED FOR US TO START THINKING OF THE OTHER OPTIONS.
09:54:50AM IF WE CAN'T GET IT OR THEY WON'T SELL IT, WE GOT A STRUCTURE
09:54:59AM THAT COULD FALL DOWN TOMORROW.
09:55:02AM I AM A REALIST.
09:55:04AM I AM A HISTORY PERSON.
09:55:05AM YOU KNOW -- BUT I AM A REALIST.
09:55:07AM IF IT FALLS DOWN TOMORROW, WHAT DO WE DO?
09:55:12AM A PLAN OF ACTION NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST TWO OR THREE
09:55:16AM ALTERNATIVES.
09:55:17AM IF YOU CAN'T GET THE PROPERTY.
09:55:19AM THEY WON'T BUDGE ON THEIR EASEMENT.
09:55:21AM WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO NOW?
09:55:24AM DO WE GO AND ERECT IT THE WAY WE CAN?
09:55:27AM DO WE TEAR IT DOWN AND LOOK AT ANOTHER PLACE ON CENTRAL
09:55:31AM AVENUE AND OTHER PLACES?
09:55:32AM SO I -- I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GOING TO SPEND
09:55:36AM MONEY, WE SPEND GOOD MONEY TO GET IT DONE AND DONE RIGHT AND
09:55:40AM EVERYBODY WILL HAPPY WITH IT.
09:55:42AM SOME PEOPLE STILL WON'T BE HAPPY.
09:55:44AM BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION IN
09:55:46AM CASE THAT THING FALL DOWN TOMORROW, THE NEXT DAY.
09:55:51AM AND BELIEVE -- I THANK GOD IT IS STILL STANDING.
09:55:54AM A REASON WHY IT IS STILL STANDING.
09:55:56AM A REASON WHY IT IS STILL STANDING.
09:55:58AM WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A PLAN TO MAKE SURE WE CAN
09:56:03AM GET IT DONE.
09:56:03AM I AM NOT GOING TO TALK THAT LONG ABOUT HISTORY.
09:56:06AM BUT LET'S SEE HOW WE CAN GET IT DONE.
09:56:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:56:10AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AGREE WITH MR. GUDES.
09:56:13AM GOING FORWARD, WHERE ARE WE -- ARE THERE ANY NEGOTIATIONS AT
09:56:16AM ALL?
09:56:17AM AND WHAT ARE THEY IF THEY ARE GOING ON NOW.
09:56:21AM >> SO --
09:56:22AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HESITATION TELLS ME IT IS IN DOUBT.
09:56:25AM >> WELL, WE JUST REENGAGED ALL THIS.
09:56:28AM WE WOULD LIKE TO ALLOW FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE TO PRESENT
09:56:31AM TODAY BEFORE YOU.
09:56:32AM AND WHAT WE CAN DO IS THEN -- WE CAN CONTINUE THOSE
09:56:35AM DISCUSSIONS OUTSIDE OF THIS SESSION SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DO
09:56:39AM SO PUBLICLY OF NEGOTIATIONS OR ACQUISITIONS FOR THE ADJACENT
09:56:43AM PROPERTY.
09:56:43AM BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU WILL HEAR A LOT FROM DR. COLLINS
09:56:48AM AND THEN THE RESPECTED PRESENTERS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO
09:56:51AM PRESERVE THIS BUILDING AND PLACE AS WELL.
09:56:54AM AND IT ALLIANCE WITH MUCH WHAT HAS BEEN SAID BEFORE YOU
09:56:57AM TODAY AND WHAT YOU ALL HAVE SAID ALREADY.
09:56:59AM SO IF YOU JUST ALLOW THAT PRESENTATION, AND WE CAN TAKE ANY
09:57:02AM FURTHER ACTION THEREAFTER.
09:57:04AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.
09:57:07AM >> VERY GOOD.
09:57:07AM LET ME YIELD THE FLOOR.
09:57:09AM >> WE ARE WAITING FOR THE PDF.
09:57:36AM >> HE'S READY TO LOAD.
09:57:42AM WHILE WE ARE WAITING TO LOAD IN THE INTEREST OF YOUR TIME,
09:57:45AM THANK YOU.
09:57:45AM I AM CAROLYN COLLINS.
09:57:48AM I CHAIR THE JACKSON HOUSE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
09:57:52AM JACKSON HOUSE FOUNDATION INC.
09:57:55AM I ACTUALLY ACQUIRED THIS THAT PAY ME SO MUCH MONEY.
09:58:00AM I ACQUIRED THIS FROM NONE OTHER THAN MR. WILLIE ROBINSON.
09:58:06AM HE ENGAGED ME AND MADE ME SIT ON THE PORCH WITH HIM FOR DAYS
09:58:10AM TO TALK.
09:58:10AM HE STAYED IN THE NAACP OFFICE WHEN I WAS THE PRESIDENT TO
09:58:15AM TALK.
09:58:15AM AND HIS WHOLE CONVERSATION WAS TO LET ME KNOW HOW HARD IT
09:58:19AM HAD BEEN FOR BOTH HIS MOTHER AND SUBSEQUENTLY HIM IN TRYING
09:58:24AM TO SAVE THIS HOUSE.
09:58:25AM I GOT A CALL FROM KATHY CASTOR'S OFFICE WHEN I WAS PREPARING
09:58:32AM TO LEAVE THE NAACP, AND THE CALL WAS, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T
09:58:37AM LET THAT -- AND I GO WHY DID YOU CALL ME WITH THE NAACP.
09:58:41AM AND SHE SAID BECAUSE I KNOW IF YOU WERE COMMITTED TO
09:58:44AM SOMETHING, YOU WILL DO IT.
09:58:45AM I WANT TO SAY WHEN I AM WAITING FOR THIS, IT IS INTERESTING
09:58:50AM THAT SOMEONE IS IN THE AUDIENCE.
09:58:52AM NATASHA GOODLEY.
09:58:55AM STAND UP.
09:58:55AM NATASHA WAS ONE OF OUR VICE PRESIDENTS.
09:58:58AM WE AGREED TO TAKE ON THIS PROJECT AND I SAID TO KATHY
09:59:02AM CASTOR'S OFFICE THAT WE WILL DO THIS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
09:59:05AM BECAUSE THAT WHEN IT WAS APPROACHED.
09:59:06AM WE WILL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
09:59:07AM IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT AND WILLIE WAS ON OUR BOARD FROM
09:59:12AM OMEGA.
09:59:13AM NATASHA SAID, NO.
09:59:14AM AS A BOARD MEMBER, SHE SAID LET'S NOT TAKE IT ON FOR A
09:59:17AM MONTH.
09:59:17AM LET'S GIVE IT ABOUT A YEAR.
09:59:19AM GIVE OURSELVES MORE TIME AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
09:59:22AM THANK NATASHA FOR PURSUING.
09:59:25AM I WAS GET READY TO LEAVE THE NAACP.
09:59:29AM THEY SAID NOBODY WILL TAKE THE COMMITMENT TO DO OVER THE
09:59:32AM LAST YEAR TO DO THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE, SO THEY ASKED
09:59:35AM ME TO TAKE THIS ON AS PRESIDENT OF THE BRANCH AT THAT TIME.
09:59:37AM YOU BE THE CHAIR OF THE JACKSON HOUSE AND WHEREVER YOU GOES,
09:59:41AM IT GOES WITH YOU.
09:59:42AM AND I AM GLAD THAT HAPPENED.
09:59:43AM HAD NOT THAT HAPPENED, I MAY NOT BE WHERE I AM NOW WITH THE
09:59:47AM JACKSON HOUSE.
09:59:48AM AND IT MAY NOT BE WHERE IT IS TODAY.
09:59:50AM SO OUTSIDE OF THE NAACP.
09:59:54AM I CONTINUED -- WE HAVE A COUPLE -- I'M WAITING FOR IT TO
09:59:57AM LOAD --
09:59:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT IS UP.
09:59:59AM >> OKAY.
10:00:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH.
10:00:01AM >> I THOUGHT I SENT THE WRONG ONE.
10:00:03AM OKAY.
10:00:03AM IT'S ALL RIGHT.
10:00:05AM I HAVE BOARD MEMBERS HERE.
10:00:07AM FULL PLEASE STAND.
10:00:08AM WE HAVE TWO BOARD -- TWO -- I AM -- I DON'T KNOW PEOPLE VERY
10:00:13AM WELL.
10:00:13AM IT'S OKAY.
10:00:14AM I HAD TWO PRESENTATIONS -- I HAVE UPDATED AND AND I WILL GO
10:00:19AM THROUGH THIS ONE.
10:00:20AM THIS IS GOOD.
10:00:20AM I HAVE BOTH HERE OUR SECRETARY, MRS. MATTHEWS AND WE ALSO --
10:00:25AM AND SHE IS AWESOME SECRETARY.
10:00:27AM AND I ALSO HAVE ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS THAT WE ASKED TO
10:00:30AM COME ON BOARD WITH US BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE WHO DID THE
10:00:33AM FIRST STABILIZATION, AND THAT IS CONTRACTOR.
10:00:36AM MR. WILLIAMS.
10:00:38AM WILLIAMS.
10:00:40AM WE ACTUALLY -- WE MEET, WE GO OVER THINGS AND BEFORE I SAY
10:00:44AM ANYTHING, WE HAVE A LETTER -- I WANT TO READ THIS STATEMENT
10:00:47AM IN THE LETTER.
10:00:47AM SO IT IS VERY CLEAR.
10:00:48AM YOU HAVE THE LETTER.
10:00:50AM I AM NOT GOING TO READ THE WHOLE LETTER.
10:00:52AM TO THE PUBLIC, IF THEY WANT IT, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO SHARE IT
10:00:55AM WITH THEM.
10:00:56AM BUT I WANT TO READ THIS PARAGRAPH EXPLICITLY CLEAR.
10:01:01AM FIRST, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE JACKSON HOUSE
10:01:04AM FOUNDATION CONSIDER ANY OFFER TO SELL ITS LAND OR RELOCATE
10:01:09AM THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:01:10AM THE JACKSON HOUSE DID MORE THAN HOST THE LUMINARIES OF THE
10:01:15AM DAY.
10:01:15AM IT IS HISTORY ITSELF.
10:01:17AM THE LAND AND THE BUILDING UPON -- IT IS ONLY PHYSICAL
10:01:24AM REMINDERS THAT THE AREA THAT WAS CALLED THE HARLEM OF THE
10:01:28AM SOUTH AND A FUNCTIONAL PART OF TAMPA'S HISTORY -- AND I CALL
10:01:31AM IT DOWNTOWN HISTORY.
10:01:32AM SO IF YOU SEVERED THE BUILDING FROM THE LAND OR THE LAND
10:01:39AM FROM ITS OWNERSHIP, IT'S TO SEVER THE JACKSON HOUSE'S TIES
10:01:45AM TO HISTORY AND A SIGNIFICANT IMPORTANT LEGACY.
10:01:49AM SO I THANK YOU GUYS SINCERELY FOR INDICATING THAT.
10:01:52AM AND THE FOUNDATION -- THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE INCURRED HAS
10:02:04AM BEEN THE EASEMENT LATELY.
10:02:05AM WE WITH VINIK -- THE VINIK FOUNDATION.
10:02:11AM I TELL YOU THAT THE STATE OF FLORIDA GAVE US A MILLION
10:02:13AM DOLLAR ON THE GRANT.
10:02:14AM THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
10:02:16AM THE CITY GAVE HALF A MILLION.
10:02:18AM WE HAVE THE VINIK.
10:02:20AM WE HAVE FUNDS.
10:02:21AM WE HAVE MONEY.
10:02:22AM WE JUST HAVE SOMEONE WHO WILL NOT GIVE US A MINIMUM OF
10:02:29AM 20-FEET EASEMENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE, THE EAST OF THE
10:02:32AM WEST SO WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
10:02:34AM BUT CLEARLY I WANT TO PUT IT AT REST.
10:02:38AM WE HAVE DECIDED WE NEED THE EASEMENT BAD.
10:02:42AM IT WILL AFFORD US SO MUCH THAT WE NEED TO DO TO COMPLETE
10:02:46AM THIS BUILDING.
10:02:46AM WE HAVE TALKED WITH -- AND I WILL EVEN PUT THEIR NAME HERE
10:02:49AM SO I WILL NOT FORGET.
10:02:50AM WE HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO -- AND I HAVE BEGIN CONVERSATION
10:02:54AM WITH THE FLORIDA TRUST HISTORICAL PRESERVATION WHO CAN
10:02:58AM SOMETIMES LOOK AT -- AND MAKE DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPEN.
10:03:02AM BUT THE JACKSON HOUSE WILL BE BUILT.
10:03:04AM IT WILL BE BUILT AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION.
10:03:07AM AND YOU HEARD ME SAY THIS BEFORE WHEN WE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY
10:03:13AM BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE OPPOSITION.
10:03:15AM NOW WE HAVE MONEY, AND WE HAVE A BLOCKAGE OPPOSITION ON THE
10:03:19AM SIDE.
10:03:19AM BUT IF WE HAVE TO BUILD IT WITHOUT, IT WILL BE BUILT.
10:03:23AM THE JACKSON HOUSE WILL BE A HISTORICAL SITE THAT WILL BE
10:03:29AM MAINTAINED IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:03:31AM LET ME SEE IF I CAN DO THIS AGAIN.
10:03:33AM I AM GOING TO PRETTY MUCH GO PRETTY FAST HERE, BECAUSE MUCH
10:03:37AM OF THIS YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY DID THE PRESENTATION.
10:03:40AM AND THIS IS THE 2015 HOUSE THAT SOMEONE SPOKE ABOUT.
10:03:44AM THAT IS THE HOUSE TODAY.
10:03:47AM THAT IS THE 2022 HOUSE.
10:03:49AM THAT IS THE HOUSE THAT IS BEING HELD UP FOR A MINIMUM OF
10:03:55AM 20-FEET EASEMENT ON THE EAST AND THE WEST.
10:03:58AM IT WOULD ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH AND WOULD ONLY HAVE TO BE
10:04:02AM SACRIFICE A FEW PARKING SPACES.
10:04:04AM I WOULD SAY OF, WHAT, 10 OR 20 PARKING SPACES WILL DO FOR
10:04:09AM MANY YEARS OF HISTORY AND IMPROVING WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN OUR
10:04:12AM CITY IS JUST SIGNIFICANT.
10:04:14AM I AM NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS AND SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF
10:04:18AM TIME.
10:04:18AM I THANK MOSES JACKSON AND HIS FAMILY MADE A SIGNIFICANT
10:04:22AM CONTRIBUTION IN HISTORY TO THIS CITY.
10:04:24AM THEY KEPT THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE HOME.
10:04:25AM THEY MADE IT WAS NOT JUST A BOARDING HOME.
10:04:29AM YES, WE WILL TAKE THAT OFFER FOR THAT PIANO.
10:04:33AM THERE WERE THREE IN THE HOUSE.
10:04:34AM ONE IN THE FRONT.
10:04:35AM ONE IN THE MIDDLE HALLWAY AND ONE IN THE REAR AND ALL OF THE
10:04:38AM PERFORMERS THAT LIVED THERE HAD JAM SESSIONS.
10:04:41AM A TISKET ATASKET, I LOVERS MY YELLOW BASKET WAS ACTUALLY
10:04:47AM DONE THERE IN THAT HOME.
10:04:49AM THIS A PICTURE OF SOMEONE -- EVERYBODY SAYS THIS IS MOSES
10:04:52AM AND SARAH JACKSON.
10:04:54AM NO IT WAS NOT.
10:04:54AM SOMEONE ELSE WHO STAYED IN THAT HOUSE WE CAN'T IDENTIFY THAT
10:04:58AM TOOK A PICTURE ON THE PORCH AND ABLE TO GET TO IT.
10:05:02AM MRS. SARAH JACKSON AND WILLIE ROBINSON ARE WHAT IS KEEPING
10:05:07AM THE HOUSE FROM FALLING TODAY.
10:05:08AM THE AMTRAK TRAIN THAT YOU SEE IN THE BACKGROUNDS.
10:05:11AM AND WHAT WE SAY IS THAT WE HAVE A HISTORICAL DESIGNATION IN
10:05:15AM OUR CITY, OUR COUNTY, AND OUR STATE.
10:05:17AM WE EVEN HAVE IT IN WASHINGTON D.C. AT THE CONGRESSIONAL
10:05:20AM LEVEL.
10:05:20AM WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT SO IS THE PROPERTY THAT WE NEED
10:05:30AM WILL ASSIST NEWS BUILDING A HOUSE.
10:05:32AM WE RETAIN THE CERTIFICATION.
10:05:36AM WE MAY BE ABLE TO REBUILD IT -- PIECES ARE FALLING DOWN.
10:05:40AM SOME ARE FALLING NOW.
10:05:42AM WE NEED TO GET IT BACK.
10:05:43AM BUT THE PROCESS ALL THIS HEAR COME FROM THE EXPERTS, THEY
10:05:47AM WILL TELL YOU HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO IT AND WHAT IT WILL BE
10:05:49AM COSTING US TO DO IT, BUT THE HOUSE WILL BE REBELT.
10:05:52AM AND QUESTIONER READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROCESS AND
10:05:56AM WITH THE GRANT WE HAVE FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA, THAT GRANT
10:05:59AM SAYS YOU HAVE A TIME LIMIT, BUT WE WILL EXPAND IT FOR YOU.
10:06:03AM TELL ME WHAT THE LIMITATION IN YOUR CITY THAT IS BLOCKING A
10:06:06AM HISTORICAL PROPERTY, AND WE MIGHT EVEN BE ABLE TO HELP YOU
10:06:10AM WITH IT.
10:06:11AM THESE ARE SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO STAYED IN THE HOUSE.
10:06:14AM I DON'T WANT TO GO OVER ALL OF THAT.
10:06:16AM OF COURSE WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU BUY ITS TO DO SOMETHING
10:06:19AM BECAUSE AMTRAK TRAIN BROUGHT IN NATIVE-AMERICANS, MILITARY
10:06:23AM INDIVIDUALS PERFORMERS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE THE
10:06:29AM OPPORTUNITY TO STAY THERE.
10:06:30AM HAVE SERVICES OVER THERE.
10:06:32AM THE CENTRAL AVENUE, THEY HAVE WILLIE'S FATHER DO THE HAIR
10:06:38AM OF NAT KING COLE AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND WE WANTS TO
10:06:43AM MAINTAIN IT HERE.
10:06:44AM WE HAVE SO MANY SUPPORTERS, CITY COUNCIL, MAYORS, BELIEVE IT
10:06:48AM OR NOT.
10:06:48AM SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY DIDN'T, BUT THEY DID.
10:06:50AM WE HAD MR. VICIK BEFORE HE GAVE US A MAJOR SHOT IN THE ARM
10:06:57AM GAVE US A SHOT OF MONEY THAT OUR CONTRACTOR HERE USED MR.
10:07:01AM WILLIAMS TODAY DO THE FIRST STABILIZATION.
10:07:03AM THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA.
10:07:04AM MISS JOHNNY SANDERS AND JOHNNY IS BORN IN THE
10:07:09AM HOUSE.
10:07:09AM RAISED IN THE HOUSE.
10:07:11AM AND SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON WHO GAVE US FUNDS THAT WE
10:07:14AM NEEDED.
10:07:14AM AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS BLIND WHO
10:07:21AM WALKED PAST THE HOUSE EVERY DAY SAY HERE.
10:07:25AM GAVE ME A $100 CHECK.
10:07:27AM THE FIRST DONATION.
10:07:29AM WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO IS SAVE THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:07:33AM WE WANT TO INSPIRE THE FUTURE AND WE WANT TO ASK YOU TO
10:07:35AM LISTEN INTUITIVELY TO THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER.
10:07:39AM THE INTERACTION WE HAVE WITH THEM.
10:07:41AM AND WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH THEM.
10:07:43AM AND I WILL ASK YOU TO LISTEN AS WELL TO OUR PRESENTATION
10:07:46AM FROM RON FORD, THE CONSULTANT.
10:07:49AM WE WILL BE WORKING CONSISTENTLY WITH THEM.
10:07:53AM THE JACKSON HOUSE BOARD MEETS ONCE A MONTH.
10:07:55AM WE ARE ABOUT TO GO BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND MEET
10:07:59AM WITH THE COMMUNITY.
10:08:01AM THE HOUSE WILL BE REBUILT.
10:08:04AM AND I CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE THAT IG YOU CAN TO DO HELP US
10:08:07AM WITH THE EASEMENT, THE BOARD, THE COMMUNITY THAT IS
10:08:12AM INTERESTED AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SENT US E-MAILS AND SAY
10:08:16AM DON'T LET THAT HOUSE FALL.
10:08:17AM I AM TIRED OF LOOKING AT THAT HOUSE LIKE THAT.
10:08:22AM CAN WE DO AND I WILL SAY AND MISS MATTHEWS WILL TELL YOU
10:08:27AM GETTING LETTERS EVERY DAY FROM PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO
10:08:29AM SAY HOW CAN I VOLUNTEER?
10:08:31AM HOW CAN I HELP?
10:08:32AM WE GET MONEY ON OUR LITTLE PAY PAL THAT PEOPLE SAY HOW MUCH
10:08:36AM WILL THIS TO DO HELP.
10:08:37AM SO WE NEED THE MIDGE MUM -- I KEPT SAYING THAT BECAUSE THAT
10:08:43AM THE AGREEMENT.
10:08:44AM A MINIMUM OF 20 FEET EASEMENT ON BOTH SIDES COUNTY HOUSE SO
10:08:48AM WE CAN BUILD IT.
10:08:49AM CONTINUE TO GET GRANT FUNDS SO IT WILL NEVER GET IN THIS
10:08:53AM CONDITION AGAIN.
10:08:54AM AND TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT WHICH IS MISS IN TAMPA THAT
10:09:01AM WE CAN NEVER GET BACK.
10:09:02AM HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IT NOW.
10:09:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBERS MANISCALCO.
10:09:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. MASSEY, I HAVE A QUESTION.
10:09:08AM IF WE CAN'T GET THE EASEMENT VOLUNTARILY.
10:09:11AM CAN WE USE EMINENT DOMAIN TO TAKE IT OVER?
10:09:15AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THIS AGENCY HAS NO AUTHORITY OF EMINENT
10:09:19AM DOMAIN OVER FLORIDA LAW.
10:09:21AM NO, THIS AGENCY CANNOT.
10:09:23AM THE CITY POTENTIALLY, BUT IT WOULD HAVE TO SERVE A PUBLIC
10:09:32AM PURPOSE.
10:09:32AM WE WOULD HAVE TO TALK TO OUR OUTSIDE COUNSEL OR IMMINENT
10:09:37AM DOMAIN COUNSEL.
10:09:38AM HISTORIC PRESERVATION, THERE HAVE BEEN OCCASIONALLY SOME
10:09:41AM ACTIONS TAKEN FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION PURPOSES.
10:09:44AM USUALLY FOR THE STRUCTURE ITSELF.
10:09:47AM NOT FOR EASEMENTS PER SE.
10:09:50AM SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE TO ENGAGE OUTSIDE COUNSEL AND
10:09:52AM CONSULT WITH THE VIABILITY OF THAT OF THE CITY TAKING
10:09:56AM ACTION.
10:09:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE -- NOT IN AGENCY,
10:09:59AM TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN TO TAKE THE EASEMENT AND ONCE THE JOB
10:10:03AM IS COMPLETED TO DEED IT BACK TO THE PROPERTY OWNER?
10:10:06AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO.
10:10:06AM NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT.
10:10:08AM UNDER STATE LAW, IF WE EXERCISE EMINENT DOMAIN, WE CAN NOT
10:10:13AM CONVEY ANY INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY THAT WE CONVEY FOR A
10:10:17AM MINIMUM OF TEN YEARS.
10:10:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TEN YEARS AND THEN SELL IT BACK TO THE
10:10:21AM OWNER FOR A DOLLAR?
10:10:22AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
10:10:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
10:10:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBERS CARLSON.
10:10:27AM >>BILL CARLSON: DR. COLLINS, FOR FORKING UP HERE AND THANK
10:10:33AM FOR ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE DOING TO SAVE THE JACKSON
10:10:36AM HOUSE AND KEEP THE STORIES ALIVE.
10:10:38AM WE MADE THREE MOTIONS FOR TODAY.
10:10:41AM AND I JUST WANT, JUST FOR THE RECORD, GET YOUR
10:10:45AM CLARIFICATION.
10:10:45AM WE ARE CITY COUNCILMEMBERS BUT SITTING AS A COMMUNITY
10:10:50AM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD WHICH IS A SEPARATE ENTITY.
10:10:52AM AS MR. MASSEY JUST SAID, WE HAVE DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES.
10:10:55AM BUT THE FIRST MOTION WAS TO -- FOR THE CRA -- NOW THE CRA
10:11:00AM HAS MONEY THAT SOME OF IT IS DISCRETIONARY AND EVEN THOUGH
10:11:04AM THE CITY HAS A BIGGER BUDGET, WE MAYBE HAVE MORE
10:11:07AM DISCRETIONARY BUDGET THAN THE CITY DOES WHICH WE ALREADY
10:11:10AM MADE A COMMITMENT IF -- THE FIRST MOTION WAS THAT THE CRA
10:11:17AM WILL LOOK TO OFFER TO BUY THE 20 FOOT EASEMENT.
10:11:24AM FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE ARE YOU OKAY -- ENCOURAGE THE CRA TO
10:11:29AM TRY TO BUY THAT SO WE CAN ACQUIRE THAT ON BEHALF OF THE
10:11:32AM JACKSON HOUSE?
10:11:33AM >> MOST DEFINITELY.
10:11:35AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE THIRD ONE WAS THAT -- THAT WAS TO START
10:11:41AM THE PROCESS OF LOOKING TO REBUILD IF IT WAS -- IF IT FELL
10:11:46AM DOWN.
10:11:46AM AND AT LEAST MY GOAL IN DOING THAT IS TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE
10:11:51AM PUBLIC THAT IT IS GOING TO BE IN THE SAME PLACE, WHETHER
10:11:54AM THIS BUILDING OR A NEW BUILDING.
10:11:56AM SO ARE -- IS YOUR BOARD OKAY IF THE CRA IS SUPPORTED WITH
10:12:01AM MONETARY OR MONEY OR OTHER RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTS
10:12:05AM IN PLANNING IN CASE IT FALLS DOWN SO WE CAN DEMONSTRATE TO
10:12:08AM THE PUBLIC THAT IT IS GOING TO BE THERE ONE WAY OR THE
10:12:11AM OTHER.
10:12:11AM >> I THINK WE ARE MORE THAN OKAY WITH THAT.
10:12:13AM WE REALLY SUPPORT THAT.
10:12:16AM AND I THINK THAT IN THE FUTURE PRESENTATIONS, COUPLE OF
10:12:20AM PRESENTATIONS ABOUT TO BE MADE NOW, YOU MAY EVEN SEE HOW WE
10:12:24AM ARE LOOKING IN THAT VAIN AS WELL.
10:12:27AM I MEAN A SINCERE STABILIZED BUILDING.
10:12:30AM IT HAS BEEN STABILIZED TWICE.
10:12:32AM SO WE WON'T SEE A COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF THE BUILDING.
10:12:35AM WE HAVE SEEN WHAT THE HOUSE LOOKS LIKE NOW.
10:12:39AM WHAT WEATHER HAS DONE WITH IT.
10:12:41AM WHAT TIME HAS DONE WITH IT.
10:12:42AM YES, WE ARE IN SUPPORT OF FUNDING SUPPORT TO GET THE
10:12:46AM EASEMENT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THE HOUSE IS REBUILT WHERE IT
10:12:49AM IS AS THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:12:51AM >>BILL CARLSON: MY PERSONAL -- MAYBE YOU HEARD ME SAY THIS
10:12:54AM BEFORE.
10:12:54AM MY PERSONAL INTEREST IN KEEPING IT WHERE IT IS THAT --
10:12:57AM BESIDES ALL THE OTHER GREAT STORIES, SELLS THE STORY OF
10:13:01AM SEGREGATION BECAUSE IT IS ACROSS FROM THE TRAIN STATION.
10:13:03AM WHEN YOU -- WHEN I TAKE MY KIDS -- MY KIDS ALL KNOW THE
10:13:07AM WHOLE STORY ABOUT THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:13:08AM THEY TELL OTHERS.
10:13:09AM BUT WHEN I TAKE THEM THERE, I SAY DO YOU REALIZE THAT PEOPLE
10:13:14AM OF A CERTAIN COLOR COULDN'T STAY IN WHITE HOTELS.
10:13:16AM THEY HAD TO STAY HERE OR ONE PLACE IN WEST TAMPA.
10:13:19AM I THINK THAT STORY IS IMPORTANT TO TELL.
10:13:22AM AND I HOPE ONE DAY PLEASE REMEMBER ME.
10:13:26AM I WANT TO PERSONALLY SPONSOR THE PIANO BECAUSE I WANT TO
10:13:29AM HEAR MUSIC PLAY THERE AGAIN.
10:13:32AM THE THIRD ONE WAS TO BUY THE BUILDING.
10:13:34AM IF YOU JUST HEAR ME OUT FOR A SECOND.
10:13:36AM NOT TO -- ABSOLUTELY NOT TO MOVE IT.
10:13:38AM I WOULDN'T BE IN FAVOR OF ANY FUNDING THAT WOULD ENABLE
10:13:42AM ANYBODY TO MOVE IT.
10:13:43AM BUT I DON'T WANT TO MENTION OTHER EXAMPLES DOCTOR BUT THERE
10:13:47AM IS ANOTHER CASE WITH ANOTHER KIND OF ART HISTORY
10:13:53AM ORGANIZATION RIGHT NOW WHERE THE CITY HAD TO BUY THE LAND
10:13:56AM FROM THE FOUNDATION SO THAT THE CITY CAN FILE AN EMINENT
10:13:59AM DOMAIN.
10:14:00AM SO IF IT -- IT MAY BE POSSIBLE -- MR. MANISCALCO WAS TALKING
10:14:06AM ABOUT EMINENT DOMAIN.
10:14:07AM THIS BOARD CAN'T FILE EMINENT DOMAIN, BUT THE CITY CAN.
10:14:11AM AND -- I WOULD ASK YOU JUST TO STAY CLOSE TO THE LAWYERS OF
10:14:15AM THE CITY IN THE CASE THAT WE CAN'T PURCHASE THE LAND AND
10:14:17AM MAKE A GOOD-FAITH EFFORT TO PURCHASE THE LAND AND NOBODY
10:14:20AM WILL SELL IT, A CASE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
10:14:23AM BUT IF THE SITUATION AROSE THAT THE ONLY WAY TO FILE EMINENT
10:14:26AM DOMAIN IS FOR THE CITY OR THE CRA TO OWN IT, THEN WITH THE
10:14:31AM SUPPORT OF THE FOUNDATION, I WOULD -- I WOULD TRY TO GET THE
10:14:34AM FUNDING FROM THIS BOARD TO -- TO PUT IT -- TO HAVE THE CITY
10:14:40AM CONTROL IT JUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMMINENT DOMAIN.
10:14:43AM AS MR. MASSEY SAID, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE COULDN'T TRANSFER IT
10:14:47AM BACK FOR TEN YEARS, BUT I ENCOURAGE TO YOU TALK TO YOUR
10:14:50AM BOARD'S LAWYERS IN THE CASE THAT HAPPENS, WHAT COVENANTS YOU
10:14:54AM WOULD WANT TO PUT IN AND TALK TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF THE
10:14:57AM CRA AND THE CITY WHAT COVENANTS ARE POSSIBLE TO PROTECT THE
10:15:00AM INTEREST OF THE FOUNDATION.
10:15:02AM BUT WE WANT THINGS TO MOVE FORWARD MORE QUICKLY.
10:15:05AM THE OTHER THING I WILL TELL YOU THAT THAT THERE IS AN
10:15:09AM ELECTION IN MARCH.
10:15:11AM ALTHOUGH THE MAYOR HAS SAID SHE IS RUNNING AGAIN, BUT RUMORS
10:15:15AM OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEM TRIED TO TEAR
10:15:18AM DOWN THE JACKSON HOUSE BEFORE.
10:15:20AM AND I THINK EVERYBODY ON CITY COUNCIL IS RUNNING FOR
10:15:26AM REELECTION AND NO GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL ALL BE SITTING
10:15:28AM HERE.
10:15:29AM I FEEL SOME URGENCY TO GET SOME THINGS DONE BEFORE MARCH.
10:15:32AM THAT MIGHT NOT BE A TIMELINE THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT, BUT I
10:15:35AM ENCOURAGE YOUR BOARD TO THINK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE I
10:15:39AM THINK UNANIMOUS SUPPORT ON THIS BOARD.
10:15:41AM AND YOU ALREADY SEEN THE MAYOR'S SUPPORT AND SEEN SUPPORT IN
10:15:44AM THE COMMUNITY.
10:15:45AM ENCOURAGE US TO MOVE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO GET THINGS
10:15:49AM DONE BEFORE THE MARCH ELECTION.
10:15:51AM >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:15:52AM AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE ARE
10:15:54AM LOOKING ALSO AT THE FLORIDA TRUST FOR HISTORIC SITES AND
10:15:59AM THEY HAVE SOME CONCERNS AND THE GRANT WE HAVE FROM THE STATE
10:16:02AM OF FLORIDA.
10:16:02AM THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THEY TOLD US TO LOOK AT AS WELL.
10:16:05AM SO MY BOARD MEMBER SENT ME A NOTE AND SAID EMINENT DOMAIN
10:16:10AM THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK AND WE WERE ASKING QUESTIONS.
10:16:12AM WE ARE WIDE OPEN TO LISTEN.
10:16:14AM WE HAVE ATTORNEYS THAT HAVE BEEN KIND TO US AS PRO BONO AND
10:16:19AM AN ATTORNEY ON OUR BOARD NOW TO HELP US ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
10:16:23AM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE JACKSON HOUSE IS REBUILT.
10:16:26AM THAT IT STAYS ON THAT PARCEL OF LAND WHERE IT IS FOR
10:16:30AM HISTORICAL PURPOSES.
10:16:31AM AND WE WILL LISTEN TO EVERYTHING, BUT CLEARLY WE HAVE TAKEN
10:16:34AM A REAL HARD POSITION.
10:16:35AM THAT IS WHY THAT SECOND AND THIRD PARAGRAPH IS IN THE LETTER
10:16:39AM BUT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE WILL PUSH, MOVE, AND MANEUVER MAKE
10:16:45AM ASSESSMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO MAKE SURE
10:16:49AM THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:16:51AM WE JUST HAVE A REAL STRONG POSITION OF HISTORY IN THIS CITY
10:16:55AM WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE OFFERED TO ASSIST WILLIE AND HIS
10:16:59AM MOTHER AND IT JUST DIDN'T GO THAT WAY.
10:17:01AM AND EVERY TIME I THINK OF ANYTHING DIFFERENT, I CAN HEAR
10:17:04AM WILLY ON MY SHOULDER TELLING ME NO, NO, NO, DON'T DO THAT.
10:17:08AM THAT IS WHY WE ARE SO STRONG ON IT.
10:17:10AM WE MADE A CLEAR COMMITMENT AND I FEEL LIKE WHATEVER I DO
10:17:14AM WITH THIS BOARD FOR THIS HOUSE, WE ARE DOING IT FOR WILLIE
10:17:20AM ROBINSON AND HIS MOTHER.
10:17:21AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:17:22AM I DIDN'T SAY THIS BUT I NEED TO.
10:17:24AM WE RECEIVED LONG SUMS OF MONEY WITH THE CONTINGENCY BASED ON
10:17:29AM THE HOUSE BEING REBUILT TO CONTINUE GETTING MONEY.
10:17:31AM AND I WANT TO THANK THE CITY, THE STATE, AND THE COUNTY.
10:17:35AM WE HAVE GOTTEN EXCESSIVE MONEY.
10:17:38AM MR. VINK AND I AM TALKING HALF A MILLION UP.
10:17:43AM PEOPLE MAKE THE COMMITMENT THAT YOU GUYS JUST MADE WHEN YOU
10:17:46AM INDICATED YOU WANTED TO SEE THE HOUSE BACK.
10:17:48AM AND WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS IN THIS COMMUNITY.
10:17:50AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT CHRISTINE OVER
10:17:53AM HERE AND SHE HAS BEEN A JEWEL.
10:17:55AM AND TYLER.
10:17:56AM WE ARE ALMOST LIKE IN THE FAMILY HOW OFTEN WE ARE GETTING
10:18:00AM TOGETHER AND MEETING.
10:18:01AM I THANK THEM FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS DONE.
10:18:03AM WE ARE SERIOUS OPINION THANKS RON AND CJ HAS COME ON.
10:18:07AM WE ACTUALLY -- THE JACKSON HOUSE WILL BE BUILT AND YOU ALL
10:18:10AM WILL BE REELECTED COMING AGAIN BECAUSE YOU SUPPORT THE
10:18:13AM JACKSON HOUSE.
10:18:14AM BUT I AM JUST SIMPLY SAYING -- I AM SAYING THAT WE WILL BE
10:18:19AM MOVING THIS YEAR AND MOVING EVEN BEFORE A NOVEMBER ELECTION.
10:18:21AM BECAUSE WE ARE READY TO GO NOW.
10:18:23AM WE HAVE BEEN HELD UP ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS.
10:18:26AM THINKING WE WERE DOING SOMETHING IN GOOD FAITH.
10:18:29AM NEGLECT NEGOTIATING.
10:18:33AM YES, WE HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING AND A MONTH OR SO AGO THE
10:18:36AM NEGOTIATIONS FELL IN WHEN WE REALIZED THAT ALL THE WORK THAT
10:18:39AM HAD GONE INTO WHAT WE CALL GOOD FAITH WAS NOT GOOD FAITH.
10:18:43AM IT HAS HELD US UP AND WE SEE WHAT HAS DONE WITH THE HOUSE.
10:18:46AM WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
10:18:47AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
10:18:48AM WE SOLICIT YOUR SUPPORT AND ASK YOU TO SUPPORT US WITH IG
10:18:53AM ANYTHING COMING OUT BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE A JACKSON HOUSE IN
10:18:55AM TAMPA AND YOU WILL SEE SOME PROGRESS AND THE STATE TOLD US
10:18:59AM TO DO THAT BECAUSE A LIMITATION ON THE GRANT MONEY AND OTHER
10:19:02AM GRANT MONEY THAT IS AVAILABLE THAT THEY ALREADY TOLD ME
10:19:05AM ABOUT.
10:19:05AM THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
10:19:08AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:19:11AM APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.
10:19:12AM >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
10:19:22AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT AND
10:19:24AM YOUR SUPPORT OF HISTORY.
10:19:25AM I AM CJ ROBERTS, THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE TAMPA BAY
10:19:31AM HISTORY CENTER.
10:19:31AM JOINING ME IS RON FURTHER FROM OBT CONSULTING.
10:19:35AM THE HISTORY CENTER GOT INVOLVED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO TO
10:19:39AM RESTORE THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:19:41AM AND WE ARE PROVIDING MOSTLY IN-KIND SUPPORT.
10:19:43AM MOST OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
10:19:47AM WHETHER CURATORIAL, IF A SILLS FOLKS.
10:19:51AM WE ARE MANAGING THE VARIOUS PUBLIC GRANT FUNDS BECAUSE WE
10:19:55AM HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO DO THAT.
10:19:56AM QUITE A BIT OF EXPERIENCE DOING THAT.
10:19:58AM DR. COLLINS TOUCHED ON SOME OF THIS ALREADY AND TAKE A
10:20:02AM MOMENT AND UPDATE YOU WHERE THE PROJECT STANDS AT THIS POINT
10:20:04AM AND THEN WE WILL TURN IT OVER TO RON WHO WILL TELL YOU WHAT
10:20:07AM YOU ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH, WHAT WE NEED.
10:20:10AM SO IS THERE A POWERPOINT
10:20:14AM HERE WE GO.
10:20:15AM WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROJECT PARTNERS.
10:20:18AM GREAT PARTNERS INVOLVED.
10:20:20AM I THINK THE KEY PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE INVOLVED ARE INVOLVED.
10:20:23AM THE STRUCTURE HAS BEEN STABILIZED WITH THE INTERNAL BRACING.
10:20:26AM WE TALKED ABOUT THAT ALREADY.
10:20:27AM A SECURITY FENCE HAS BEEN INSTALLED AROUND THE HOUSE'S
10:20:31AM PERIMETER.
10:20:32AM BUILDING AND CONTENT HAVE BEEN DIGITALLY ARCHIVED BY THE
10:20:38AM HERITAGE PROGRAM.
10:20:38AM THEY DO A GREAT JOB.
10:20:40AM THE WORK WILL BE CRITICAL FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION AND THE
10:20:44AM HISTORICAL RECORD.
10:20:47AM AND KEY BUILDING ELEMENTS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE CONTENTS
10:20:50AM ARE REMOVED.
10:20:51AM THEY ARE STORED OFFSITE.
10:20:55AM AND TREATED AND READY TO INSTALL AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME BUT
10:20:58AM AS WE POINTED OUT THE BUILDING IS VULNERABLE AND TIME IS
10:21:03AM CERTAINLY NOT ON OUR SIDE.
10:21:04AM HERE IS USF DOING THEIR GOOD WORK.
10:21:07AM IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO THEIR WEB SITE, INTERESTING TO TAKE
10:21:09AM THE VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE STRUCTURE.
10:21:11AM THE VISION -- THE VISION FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE IS TO RESTORE
10:21:17AM IT AS A HISTORIC HOUSE OR A AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM.
10:21:20AM TELLING THOSE STORIES OF THE HOUSE AND AS COUNCILMAN
10:21:25AM MANISCALCO POINTED OUT, THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:21:26AM ONE OF THE LAST VESTIGES OF WHAT WAS ONCE A VIBRANT
10:21:32AM AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOTHING LEFT.
10:21:33AM TELLING THAT STORY IS KEY.
10:21:35AM THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THE LOCATION IS SO IMPORTANT
10:21:38AM SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT WAS AROUND IT.
10:21:40AM I REMEMBER STAND THE PARKING LOT WITH WILLIE ROBINSON ONE
10:21:43AM DAY AND HE WAS TELLING ME WHO LIVED HERE AND WHO LIVED
10:21:46AM THERE.
10:21:46AM WHAT BUSINESS WAS HERE AND WHAT WAS THERE.
10:21:49AM WE NEED TO DOCUMENT THAT AND SHARE THAT WITH THE PUBLIC.
10:21:52AM WE WANT TO TELL THE BROADER AFRICAN-AMERICAN STORY AS WELL.
10:21:55AM WE HAVE DONE SOME PRELIMINARY WORK WITH EXHIBIT DESIGN FOLKS
10:21:59AM TO SEE HOW THE HOUSE MEET WORK.
10:22:01AM I THINK IT LENDS ITSELF VERY WELL FOR TELLING THESE STORIES.
10:22:06AM YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE RENDERINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE HERE.
10:22:09AM WHERE ARE WE WITH REGARD TO COST ESTIMATES?
10:22:12AM WE THINK IT WILL COST JUST OVER $4 MILLION TO DO THIS
10:22:15AM PROJECT.
10:22:16AM WE HAVE $3 MILLION IN FUNDING COMMITMENTS.
10:22:18AM A MILLION FROM THE VINIK, MILLION AND A HALF FROM THE STATE
10:22:23AM AND FIVE AND A HALF FROM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AND I KNOW THE
10:22:26AM CITY IS PREPARED TO MAKE COMMITMENT.
10:22:30AM I DON'T HAVE THAT YET, BUT FINANCIALLY I THINK WE ARE IN
10:22:33AM PRETTY GOOD SHAPE.
10:22:34AM NOW FOR THE CHALLENGE.
10:22:36AM RON, YOU WANT TO WALK US THROUGH THE.
10:22:40AM >> THANK YOU, CJ.
10:22:43AM GOOD MORNING.
10:22:44AM ONLY A FEW SLIDES.
10:22:45AM WE ARE ALMOST THERE.
10:22:46AM I WANT TO LAY OUT SOME OF THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS AND THE
10:22:55AM CHALLENGE.
10:22:56AM A QUESTION OF EASEMENT.
10:22:57AM THE HOUSE STRUCTURE SITS APPROXIMATELY A FOOT INSIDE THE
10:23:00AM PROPERTY LINE ON THE EAST PROPERTY AND THREE FEET ON THE
10:23:08AM WEST SIDE.
10:23:08AM THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE IS SUCH THAT THE CHALLENGE
10:23:12AM WITH THIS SITE AND THE ADJACENT SITES, IT IS A ZERO LOT
10:23:17AM LINE.
10:23:17AM SO THERE ARE NO SETBACKS.
10:23:18AM SO THE CONSTRUCTION TYPE CURRENTLY AND WHAT WOULD BE
10:23:24AM CONSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WILL NOT MEET
10:23:32AM FIRE SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS.
10:23:34AM THE WINDOW OPENINGS.
10:23:35AM CHALLENGES THERE.
10:23:36AM WE ARE TRYING TO GET FIRE SEPARATION A FOOT AND THREE FEET
10:23:40AM AWAY FROM OUR PROPERTY LINE.
10:23:41AM BASED ON THIS.
10:23:42AM AND, AGAIN, HAVING TO RECONSTRUCT OR RENOVATE WITHIN
10:23:46AM THE CONTEXT OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT IS RELATED TO
10:23:51AM GRANT MONEY AND WHAT LEEWAY YOU HAVE WITH HOW YOU
10:23:53AM RECONSTRUCT.
10:23:54AM I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS IF IT FALLS DOWN AND
10:23:58AM WE REBUILD.
10:23:59AM TO ACCOMMODATE THAT, WE HAVE LOOKED AT IT.
10:24:02AM AND WE HAVE DONE SOME PRELIMINARY EVALUATION.
10:24:05AM AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME EASEMENT DIMENSIONS THROWN OUT HERE
10:24:10AM ALREADY THIS MORNING.
10:24:10AM A FEW DIFFERENT ONES.
10:24:12AM WHERE WE LANDED IS ON THE EAST SIDE, WE IDENTIFIED A 14-FOOT
10:24:17AM EASEMENT.
10:24:17AM AGAIN, THIS IS BASED ON THE FIRE RATING SEPARATION
10:24:24AM REQUIREMENTS NOT ONLY FOR THE MATERIAL, MATERIAL TYPES BUT,
10:24:27AM AGAIN, THE OPENINGS IN THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, MAINTAINING
10:24:31AM VISION THROUGH THOSE OPENINGS.
10:24:32AM ON THE WEST SIDE, WHAT WE HAVE DONE -- AND, AGAIN, THERE ARE
10:24:36AM IS -- THIS IS OUR THE IDEA SITUATION FOR THE RESTORATION IS
10:24:43AM WE LOOKED AT A 36-FOOT-WIDE EASEMENT ON THAT SIDE.
10:24:46AM WHAT THAT ACCOMMODATES IS AN ADA ACCESSIBLE RAMP THAT WILL
10:24:52AM BE ON THE WEST SIDE.
10:24:53AM AGAIN THE HOUSE WILL NEED IT.
10:24:55AM WE CAN'T DO IT IN THE FRONT.
10:24:57AM IT WILL TOTALLY DESTROY THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE
10:25:01AM BUILDING.
10:25:01AM ONE-WAY DRIVE LANE FROM ZACK STREET AND ADDITIONAL PARKING
10:25:15AM FOR ON-SITE PARKING.
10:25:17AM MINIMAL BUT SOME ACCOMMODATION FOR THAT.
10:25:19AM AND THAN -- THAT IS THE BROAD VIEW OF THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS
10:25:31AM AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EASEMENT.
10:25:33AM A COUPLE OF IMAGES.
10:25:34AM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THIS ALREADY.
10:25:36AM AND FLOATED AROUND.
10:25:37AM COUPLE OF PRELIMINARY IMAGES DEVELOPED BY THE ARCHITECT OF
10:25:41AM THE FACILITY AGAIN YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A GLASS, A NEW GLASS
10:25:48AM ENTRY POINT AT THE REAR TO BRING PEOPLE IN THE REAR,ND THAT
10:26:02AM IS FOR GATHERING SPACE IN THE LOBBY.
10:26:04AM SO THAT'S IT.
10:26:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:26:11AM >>BILL CARLSON: CJ, THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP ON THIS AND
10:26:14AM WORKING ON THIS.
10:26:15AM I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE ALL THE EXPERTISE OF THE
10:26:18AM HISTORY CENTER AND I KNOW RODNEY -- ONE OF YOUR KEY
10:26:21AM HISTORIANS -- HAS BEEN GATHERING ALL THE DATA HE CAN FIND
10:26:26AM ABOUT THIS.
10:26:26AM AND HOPEFULLY ANYBODY WATCHING.
10:26:31AM ONE OF THE THINGS MISS SOMETHING THE REGISTRY BOOK AND ALL
10:26:34AM THE NAMES.
10:26:34AM THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING CALL CJ AND RODNEY AND GIVE IT TO
10:26:41AM THEM.
10:26:42AM WE NEED DOCUMENTATION OF WHO STAYED THERE.
10:26:45AM LETTERHEAD OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
10:26:47AM TWO THINGS.
10:26:48AM WITH THE BUDGET YOU SHOWED $4 MILLION AND TWO AND A HALF FOR
10:26:52AM RENOVATION.
10:26:52AM JUST SO YOU KNOW IN 2013, WHEN I FIRST LOOKED AT THIS, THE
10:26:58AM BUDGET WAS ONLY $1.4 MILLION.
10:26:59AM IT HAS DETERIORATED MORE.
10:27:02AM WE LOST MORE OF THE NATURAL, ORIGINAL STRUCTURE AND
10:27:05AM MATERIALS, BUT WE ALSO -- NOW IT WILL COST $1 MILLION
10:27:09AM BECAUSE IT WAS STOPPED ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO.
10:27:12AM THE SECOND THING TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE CITY HAVEN'T OFFERED
10:27:15AM ANY MONEY, BUT THE CRA HAS.
10:27:20AM AND BECAUSE IT IS A SEPARATE ENTITY AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD
10:27:24AM ME SAY EARLIER THAT PEOPLE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY WITH
10:27:27AM THE CRAs WONDER HOW THEY SUBSIDIZED THE CRA.
10:27:32AM WANT TO KNOW THAT THE MONEY IS SPENT WISELY.
10:27:36AM WE WANT TO MAKE A BETTER EFFORT TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT THE CRA
10:27:40AM IS BEING SPENT ON.
10:27:42AM IN OUR BRANDING.
10:27:43AM WE ARE TRYING TO BRAND EVERYTHING TAMPA CRA OR SOMETHING.
10:27:46AM NICOLE CAN GIVE THAT YOU INFORMATION.
10:27:48AM BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE INVOLVEMENT -- IF THERE IS AN
10:27:51AM INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CITY.
10:27:52AM IF THE CITY IS HELPING SOMETHING AND WE SIT AT CITY
10:27:55AM COUNCILMEMBERS, BUT IF IT IS THE CRA, PLEASE, EVERYBODY,
10:27:58AM MAKE SURE YOU BRAND IT CRA WITH WHATEVER MATERIALS THAT
10:28:01AM NICOLE GIVES YOU BECAUSE WE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT THE
10:28:04AM MONEY IS BEING SPENT WISELY.
10:28:05AM THANK YOU.
10:28:06AM >> WE WILL DO THAT.
10:28:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:28:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR THE POLITICALLY CORRECT VERSION.
10:28:16AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
10:28:18AM A COUPLE OF THINGS.
10:28:19AM FUNNY WITH THE DISCUSSION ON CRAs.
10:28:21AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS UNIQUELY TAILORED FOR WHAT THE CRA
10:28:29AM SHOULD DO.
10:28:29AM I SUPPORT THE CONCEPT OF CRA AND LIVE IN THE AREA THAT
10:28:33AM SUBSIDIZES CRAs AND TELL PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AREAS THAT
10:28:37AM SUBSIDIZE CRAs THAT PHILOSOPHICALLY I DON'T MIND PAYING A
10:28:42AM LITTLE MORE IF IT GOES TO A GOOD PURPOSE AND GO TO THE
10:28:46AM COMMUNITIES LEFT BEHIND AND THAT'S ALL -- AND, AGAIN,
10:28:50AM CONTROVERSY IN SOME CRAs VERSUS OTHERS.
10:28:53AM BUT AS A GENERAL PURPOSE AND ALL SEVEN OF US AGREE WITH THE
10:28:58AM CONCEPT OF CRAs.
10:28:59AM I DON'T MIND PAYING A LITTLE BIT MORE AND SOME OF OUR
10:29:02AM CONSTITUENT DON'T AS WELL IF IT GOES TO PEOPLE WHO WERE LEFT
10:29:07AM BEHIND.
10:29:07AM IN MY OPINION, THAT IS WHAT GOVERNMENT IS FOR.
10:29:09AM THAT IS WHAT GOVERNMENT IS FOR.
10:29:11AM WE ALL AGREE THAT AN APPLICATION THAT WE CAN GET IN THE
10:29:14AM WEEDS AND WHAT NOT AND OBVIOUSLY NOT FOR TODAY, BUT GOING
10:29:17AM BACK TO THE CRITICAL ISSUE OF THE EASEMENT.
10:29:19AM TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
10:29:21AM IS AS A GENERAL PURPOSE, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
10:29:27AM JUST LOOK AT THE HOUSE.
10:29:29AM RIGHT.
10:29:30AM TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
10:29:32AM I LITTLE TO NO INTEREST IN EMINENT DOMAIN.
10:29:39AM I HAVE NO INTERESTED IN DOING THAT BY THE WAY.
10:29:42AM I KNOW IT TAKES TIME.
10:29:43AM IF A GOVERNMENT MAKES AN ACTION, THEN THAT PROPERTY OWNER
10:29:46AM HAS REDRESS AND THERE ARE CERTAIN RIGHTS THAT THEY HAVE,
10:29:48AM ETC.
10:29:48AM THAT CAN TAKE A LOT OF TIME.
10:29:50AM THAT CAN TAKE A LOT OF TIME.
10:29:52AM LITIGATION TAKES A LOT OF TIME.
10:29:53AM VERY STRESSFUL.
10:29:57AM ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.
10:29:59AM I WANT TO LOOK FOR THE FASTEST SOLUTION.
10:30:01AM MAY NOT BE THE CHEAPEST SOLUTION, BUT FOR ME WHEN IT COMES
10:30:04AM TO THIS HOUSE, MONEY -- WITHIN REASON, OF COURSE, IS NOT THE
10:30:08AM ISSUE.
10:30:08AM TIME IS THE ISSUE.
10:30:10AM I WANT TO LOOK FOR THE FASTEST -- DON'T GET ME WRONG, WE
10:30:13AM SHOULD EXPLORE ALL OPTIONS.
10:30:14AM THAT IS INCUMBENT ON THE CITY AND STAFF, ETC.
10:30:18AM THE WAY I SEE IT THE MOST REASONABLE OPTION THAT WE HAVE
10:30:20AM THAT MANAGES COST AND TIME AND THEN REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
10:30:25AM IS TO HAVE MONETARY DISCUSSIONS ON THE EASEMENT TO GET THAT
10:30:29AM DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
10:30:30AM AGAIN, WE CAN LOOK AT ISSUES LIKE EMINENT DOMAIN.
10:30:34AM NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT AND THAT WILL TAKE A WHILE.
10:30:38AM THERE IS NO LIKELIHOOD.
10:30:39AM NO ASSURANCES OF SUCCESS ON THIS ISSUE FROM MY KNOWLEDGE,
10:30:44AM ETC., ETC.
10:30:44AM BUT, AGAIN, GOOD REPORT.
10:30:47AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:30:48AM THANK YOU.
10:30:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:30:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
10:30:54AM I NEVER HAVE SEEN RENDERING OF WHAT THIS JACKSON HOUSE
10:30:58AM RESTORED COULD LOOK LIKE.
10:30:59AM I LIKE, FIRST, THAT IT LOOKS ORIGINAL.
10:31:01AM I KNOW THE WINDOWS ARE UP TO AS THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE TO
10:31:06AM CODE AND WHATNOT.
10:31:08AM AND THE BACK PART WHICH IS A MESHED SCREENED-IN AREA.
10:31:12AM FROM WHAT I SEE IS STEEL AND GLASS.
10:31:16AM SOME CELESTE GIBBONS-PEOPLES SAY, IT MAKES IT NOT LOOK
10:31:20AM TOTALLY ORIGINAL, BUT IN OTHER BUILDINGS -- FOR EXAMPLE, THE
10:31:24AM OFFICERMAN-AMERICAN CENTER IN NEBRASKA.
10:31:29AM THEY HAVE GOING LIKE THIS MODERN WITHIN THE ORIGINAL AND
10:31:32AM LOOKS GREAT.
10:31:32AM EVEN TEXAS AT THE DEPOSITORY WHICH IS A MUSEUM NOW, THEY
10:31:37AM ADDED A STRUCTURE LIKE THIS WHILE MAINTAINING THE
10:31:40AM ORIGINALITY OF IT.
10:31:41AM BUT THIS LOOKS GREAT.
10:31:42AM EVEN -- WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE.
10:31:47AM WE HAVE SEEN IT IN THE STATE OF DETERIORATION, BUT -- YOU
10:31:50AM KNOW, THIS WOULD BE -- THIS IS SUCH AN ASSET AND CONTINUED
10:31:54AM TO BE SUCH AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY, IT IS A SHAME THAT IT
10:31:58AM HAS GOTTEN TO THIS POINT.
10:31:59AM AGAIN, TO PRESERVE THE LITTLE BIT OF PHYSICAL HISTORY WE
10:32:03AM HAVE LEFT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE SO MUCH IS GONE.
10:32:05AM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
10:32:08AM I AM REALLY HAPPY TO SEE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING OF WHAT IT
10:32:11AM WOULD LOOK LIKE.
10:32:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
10:32:14AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:32:15AM GENTLEMEN, IF YOU HAD A CASH REGISTER FULL OF MONEY, IF YOU
10:32:20AM HAD JUST FLOWING OUT OF YOUR POCKETS, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THE
10:32:25AM INVESTMENT WOULD BE TO REBUILD THIS BUILDING?
10:32:31AM >> WELL, I THINK -- I THINK THE RESOURCES WE HAVE IDENTIFIED
10:32:34AM ARE ADEQUATE FOR NOW.
10:32:38AM IF WE CAN NOT GET THE EASEMENT AND BUILD THE BUILDING
10:32:41AM DIFFERENTLY, THE BUDGET GOES WAY UP.
10:32:42AM AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT --
10:32:45AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: GIVE ME SOME FORM OF BALLPARK, $4 MILLION,
10:32:48AM $5 MILLION?
10:32:51AM >> MAYBE DEFER TO CAROLYN ON THAT.
10:32:54AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: DOCTOR, I SHOULD HAVE ASKED YOU WHILE YOU
10:32:58AM WERE UP HERE.
10:32:58AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:32:59AM >> I AM GOING TO GO BY THE EXPERTS.
10:33:03AM IF IT HAS GONE UP THIS MUCH WHEN I HAVE BEEN SAYING 2.3, 2.5
10:33:09AM AND 4.5, I WILL SAY DOUBLE IT.
10:33:11AM IF I HAVE MONEY FLOWING I WOULD SAY DOUBLE IT.
10:33:14AM I SAT IN MEET WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT.
10:33:16AM I SAT IN MEET WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
10:33:18AM THEY HAVE COME IN.
10:33:19AM MET AT CITY HALL WITH CITY OFFICIALS AND ALL THEY ARE
10:33:24AM SELLING US THE MATERIAL THAT IS NEEDED TO MAINTAIN THE
10:33:26AM HISTORICAL DESIGNATION.
10:33:28AM WE WENT TO THE STATE AND I MADE THE PRESENTATION FEBRUARY 24
10:33:31AM BEFORE THE STATE, THEY CLEARLY TOLD ME WE DO NOT WANT THE
10:33:35AM KIND OF WINDOWS THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO PUT ON THE
10:33:38AM SIDE.
10:33:40AM CHRISTINE AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT -- WE WILL PUT IN
10:33:44AM DUMMY WINDOWS.
10:33:45AM YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOOK OUT.
10:33:47AM YOU WILL SEE HISTORY OF JACKSON HOUSE IN THE WINDOWS THAT WE
10:33:50AM MAY BE -- WHEN I SAID THAT BEFORE THE STATE, THEY SAID GO
10:33:53AM BACK.
10:33:53AM NO.
10:33:54AM WE WANT THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS IF WE HAVE TO GO IN THERE AND
10:33:57AM OVERRIDE YOUR CODE ENFORCEMENT.
10:33:59AM THIS IS A HISTORICAL PROJECT AND WE WANT THE HOUSE TO STAY
10:34:02AM THAT WAY.
10:34:03AM SO THE COST THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO INVEST IN ORDER TO USE THE
10:34:08AM MATERIALS AND TO STILL MAINTAIN CODE ENFORCEMENT LITERALLY I
10:34:13AM SAID TO SOME PEOPLE, THAT KIND OF COST WILL TRIPLE.
10:34:16AM SO I WILL DO THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT AND IF THE CASH IS
10:34:19AM RUNNING OUT GIVE IT TO ME DOUBLE WHAT WE ARE SAYING NOW.
10:34:22AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, MA'AM, I -- I UNDERSTAND THE ITALIAN
10:34:27AM CLUB THROUGH HISTORIC STUFF DID THE SAME THING AND WOUND UP
10:34:31AM COSTING THEM ALMOST TWICE AND MUCH.
10:34:33AM WE ARE JUST -- BALL PARK FIGURE.
10:34:36AM GO AHEAD, I AM SORRY, DOCTOR.
10:34:38AM >> I WAS GOING TO SAY -- THE OTHER THING ABOUT THE BACK,
10:34:41AM INDICATED HOW THAT LOOKS GREAT.
10:34:42AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE STATE HAS OKAYED WITH US AND WE
10:34:46AM TALKED.THE BACK PORTION OF THE HOUSE WAS ADDED ON BY
10:34:49AM WILLIE'S FATHER.
10:34:49AM IT WAS NOT PART OF THE HISTORICAL DESIGNATION WHICH GIVES US
10:34:53AM THE FEASIBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING
10:34:57AM DIFFERENT IN THE BACK PART.
10:34:58AM THAT IS WHY WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT.
10:34:59AM THE STATE WAS TELLING US YOU CAN DO THE RAMP, BUT MAKE SURE
10:35:02AM IT DON'T TOUCH THE HOUSE.
10:35:05AM >> COULD I ADD ONE THING.
10:35:08AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES, SIR.
10:35:09AM >> YOU PROBABLY ARE NOT GETTING A COST BECAUSE FRANKLY WE
10:35:12AM HAVEN'T GONE DOWN THAT PATH.
10:35:13AM AND THE OTHER UNDERLYING FACTOR IS THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
10:35:17AM AND AS DR. COLLINS SAID.
10:35:21AM WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS.
10:35:22AM THE STATE HAS PUSHED BACK.
10:35:24AM WE TALKED OF BUILDING A WALL TO MEET FIRE RATING FOR A ZERO
10:35:28AM LOT LINE BUT TOTALLY DESTROYS THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE
10:35:32AM BUILDING AND STARTS TO EFFECT GRANT MONEY.
10:35:34AM SO THERE'S -- THERE IS DIFFERENT CONSTRAINTS.
10:35:38AM IN AN IDEAL WORLD, WE HAVE OUR SPACE ON EITHER SIDE AND
10:35:42AM BUILD IT PACK THE WAY IT IS.
10:35:44AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I AM NOT TRYING TO GO DOWN A RABBIT HOLE OR
10:35:47AM SET ANYTHING IN STONE.
10:35:48AM I AM GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS.
10:35:50AM >> I JUST WANTED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT PIECE THAT IS
10:35:53AM DRIVING THE DECISION RIGHT NOW AS WELL TOO.
10:35:56AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THIS BUILDING NEEDS TO BE SAVED AND
10:35:58AM RESTORED.
10:35:58AM MISS TRAVIS.
10:36:00AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: HELLO.
10:36:09AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I DON'T WANT TO GO TOO FAR IN THE WEEDS.
10:36:12AM THIS IS STILL PART OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:36:16AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES, SIR.
10:36:17AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: BEFORE THE DOWNTOWN CRA SUNSETS AND LOSES
10:36:21AM THE VALUE FOR THE CRA.
10:36:23AM THIS PROJECT NEEDS TO BE FUNDED IN MY OPINION.
10:36:26AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YES.
10:36:27AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE ARE ASKING AS A BOARD FOR THE DOWNTOWN
10:36:31AM CRA TO PUT 30% OF ITS MONEY INTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:36:35AM AFTER THAT 30%, HOW MUCH MONEY IS LEFT IN THAT DOWNTOWN CRA?
10:36:42AM TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?
10:36:44AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE.
10:36:45AM I HAVE NOT DONE THAT 30% ALLOCATION YET BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN
10:36:50AM DOING THE WORK I MENTIONED TO YOU.
10:36:52AM AND THE DAYS ARE RUNNING TOGETHER.
10:36:55AM ONE OF OUR MEETINGS.
10:36:56AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR BANK
10:36:59AM ACCOUNT.
10:36:59AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: FOR FISCAL YEAR '23, ABOUT $23 MILLION TO
10:37:05AM BE PROGRAMMED IN THE BUDGET.
10:37:06AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: 30% WOULD BE $7 MILLION.
10:37:10AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YEP.
10:37:11AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: LOOKING AT $14 MILLION THAT DOWNTOWN CRA
10:37:17AM STILL HAS?
10:37:18AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I CAN'T CONFIRM THAT BECAUSE --
10:37:21AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: SOMEONE OUT THERE SHAKING THEIR HEAD NO.
10:37:24AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: BECAUSE SEVERAL COMMITMENTS MADE.
10:37:27AM AND YOU HAVE -- DEBT OBLIGATIONS, PROJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY
10:37:31AM BEEN PROGRAMMED IN THE BUDGET.
10:37:33AM AND SO -- SO --
10:37:36AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: EVEN WITH ALL THAT STUFF.
10:37:37AM EVEN IF IT WAS HALF OF THAT ABOUT $7 MILLION.
10:37:40AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: YOU -- YOU ARE ASKING FOR A -- IF YOU ARE
10:37:47AM ASKING TO MEET THE 30% SET ASIDE WOULD BE $ MILLION.
10:37:50AM I DON'T KNOW IF THE DOWNTOWN CRA CAN MEET THAT 30%.
10:37:53AM IT IS ASPIRATIONAL, BUT BASED ON THE COMMITMENTS AND
10:37:57AM PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN -- THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE BY
10:38:01AM THIS BOARD.
10:38:02AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS LEFT YET.
10:38:04AM I PLAN TO BRING THAT BACK TO YOU IN NOVEMBER.
10:38:06AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT -- THAT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND WITH
10:38:10AM YOUR BUDGET.
10:38:10AM YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE ALLOCATIONS AT A DIFFERENT TIME.
10:38:16AM IF YOU HAVE SET ASIDE MONEY.
10:38:18AM IF YOU SET ASIDE THE $7 MILLION AS REQUESTED FOR THE -- FOR
10:38:22AM THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY PIECE.
10:38:25AM IF THAT MONEY IS SITTING THERE AND WE ARE DOING IT THROUGH
10:38:29AM -- WE ARE INCENTIVIZING THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
10:38:32AM INSTEAD OF CASH, YOU CAN GO BACK AND REALLOCATE FOR
10:38:35AM SOMETHING ELSE.
10:38:36AM IN THIS IS STANCE, SOMEWHERE -- I AM WEARING MY
10:38:41AM ARCHITECTURAL HAT RIGHT NOW, $4 MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH TO
10:38:43AM REBUILD IT.
10:38:44AM I CAN JUST GOING TO TELL YOU.
10:38:45AM THE COST OF MATERIALS AS STATED RIGHT BEFORE US IS -- IT IS
10:38:49AM GOING UP SIGNIFICANTLY.
10:38:50AM AND IF YOU ARE DOING -- TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORICAL INTEGRITY
10:38:54AM OF A BUILDING.
10:38:55AM IT JUST COSTS MORE TO DO THAT.
10:38:57AM AND SO IN BUDGETING -- IF YOU WANT TO SET ASIDE -- ONCE THIS
10:39:01AM GOES UNDER CONSTRUCTION, YOU CAN PUT THAT -- YOU CAN STATE
10:39:05AM YOUR INTENT, AND WE CAN REALLOCATE FUNDS, BUT WE NEED TO GO
10:39:10AM AND LOOK AT THIS BASED ON COMMITMENTS.
10:39:12AM IT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE FOR ME TO STAND HERE AND SUGGEST
10:39:15AM TO YOU TO CALL OFF A LINE ITEM RIGHT NOW WITHOUT LOOKING AT
10:39:19AM THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT YOU HAVE COMMITTED TO AT A
10:39:21AM PREVIOUS BUDGET.
10:39:22AM SO IF YOU ALLOW ME SINCE MY -- IN MY ITEM NUMBER 12, I AM
10:39:28AM COMING BACK TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT BUDGET.
10:39:30AM AND I AM REQUESTING THAT THIS BOARD ALLOW ME TO COME BACK TO
10:39:33AM YOU IN NOVEMBER WITH THOSE HOUSING ALLOCATIONS BECAUSE ALIS
10:39:37AM HAS BEEN GOING TO ALL THE CRAS MAKING -- HAVING THOSE
10:39:41AM CONVERSATIONS.
10:39:42AM I CAN SEE WHAT MONEY IS AVAILABLE DOWNTOWN OUTSIDE OF THE
10:39:45AM COMMITMENTS THAT CAN PRESUMABLY BE USED TO FURTHER SUPPORT
10:39:49AM THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:39:49AM I DO KNOW THAT YOU GUYS MAKE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO
10:39:55AM NEGOTIATE OUR REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.
10:39:58AM I AM JUST TELLING YOU THAT BECAUSE HARD TO DO NEGOTIATIONS
10:40:01AM ON REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN A PUBLIC FORUM.
10:40:04AM BUT THE BOARD, IF I AM CORRECT, MADE A DECISION TO ALLOCATE
10:40:09AM $1 MILLION TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT.
10:40:11AM AND I WOULD -- I WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR TO YOU GIVE ALIS AND
10:40:17AM I THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AND COME BACK AND
10:40:20AM REPORT TO YOU BACK IN THE NOVEMBER MEETING.
10:40:22AM AND I WILL ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE BUDGET TO YOUR
10:40:25AM QUESTIONING, SIR, AND YOU CAN DIRECTLY OF HOW TO REALLOCATE
10:40:29AM AT THAT POINT.
10:40:30AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS TRAVIS, AGAIN, YOU ARE A SUPERHERO.
10:40:33AM I WASN'T TRYING TO PIN ANYTHING DOWN.
10:40:35AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I KNOW.
10:40:36AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: TO AN AMOUNT, BUT, AGAIN, THERE IS TALK OF
10:40:39AM SUNSETTING CRAS.
10:40:41AM AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THE FUNDS, THAT WE CAN HAVE IT.
10:40:45AM THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE ARE BRICKING IT UP NOW.
10:40:48AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: A GOOD POINT BECAUSE A CONVERSATION YOU HAD
10:40:50AM THIS MORNING ABOUT WHERE THERE IS NO BLIGHT.
10:40:52AM AND ONCE THIS -- THE WORK OF THE CRA IS DONE.
10:40:55AM BUT IT PARTICULARLY IN DOWNTOWN, THERE ARE FINANCIAL
10:40:58AM COMMITMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE.
10:41:00AM SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE CRA, WHAT THOSE
10:41:03AM FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS ARE, HOW MUCH IS LEFT OVER, AND WHAT
10:41:07AM WORK IS LEFT TO BE DONE.
10:41:08AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MISS TRAVIS.
10:41:10AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:41:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL -- THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:41:14AM MISS TRAVIS, YOU TOOK A LOT OF WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK AT
10:41:19AM THE END, THE LAST SENTENCE.
10:41:20AM SQUARE FOOT.
10:41:23AM THAT MEANS SOMETHING THAT COSTS TODAY NOT DOWN THE ROAD WHAT
10:41:26AM IT WILL BE.
10:41:26AM THAT IS NUMBER ONE, THE CRA SAYS $20 MILLION IN THERE.
10:41:32AM AND WOULD YOU IMAGINE THE ANTICIPATED REVENUE YEAR AFTER
10:41:37AM YEAR.
10:41:37AM I AM FORGETTING WHEN NRA WAS SUPPOSED TO END.
10:41:41AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: '43.
10:41:45AM 2043.
10:41:46AM IT WAS EXTENDED.
10:41:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: '43.
10:41:49AM I WILL STILL BE HERE AT 103.
10:41:51AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORK WITH YOU ON THIS
10:41:54AM COUNCIL THEN
10:41:54AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME GET THAT OUT OF THE WAY.
10:41:57AM WHAT THE COST IS TODAY IS ONLY ON TODAY.
10:41:59AM TOMORROW'S COST AND THE FUTURE COST IS MUCH DIFFERENT.
10:42:02AM THEY MENTIONED THE WINDOWS.
10:42:04AM ARE THE WINDOWS GOING TO BE WOOD, ALL THE WAY WOOD OR
10:42:07AM OUTSIDE ALUMINIUM BECAUSE --
10:42:11AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WILL NOT BE ALUMINIUM.
10:42:12AM I AM NOT EVEN ON THEIR PROJECT TEAM AND I AM TELLING YOU IT
10:42:15AM WON'T BE ALUMINIUM.
10:42:17AM [LAUGHTER]
10:42:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: GOT TO BE MAINTAINED -- WHAT YOU PUT THIS
10:42:21AM IS GOING TO STAY THE WAY IT IS.
10:42:23AM AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT SOMEONE DOWN THE ROAD WHEN THERE MAY
10:42:28AM NOT BE A CRA AND THE WINDOW AND OTHER THINGS THAT YOU PUT ON
10:42:31AM TODAY WILL COST AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO PUT I AM USE
10:42:39AM THIS BUILDING AS AN EXAMPLE.
10:42:40AM THINGS YOU WILL FACE NOT ONLY TODAY BUT 20 YEARS FROM NOW
10:42:44AM WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN IT WHEN THERE IS NO CRA.
10:42:48AM THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
10:42:50AM THOSE ARE THE THINGS I WANTED TO ASK AND YOU HAVE TO BE
10:42:52AM COGNIZANT OF THE FACT THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
10:42:56AM AND PRICES CHANGE.
10:42:57AM AND PEOPLE CHANGE.
10:42:59AM AND OPERATIONAL MONIES CHANGE.
10:43:02AM YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHAT WE PLAN FOR.
10:43:03AM SOMETHING THAT HAS GOT TO BE STABLE AND LASTS FOR A LONG,
10:43:11AM LONG TIME.
10:43:12AM THANK YOU.
10:43:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:43:14AM >>BILL CARLSON: ARE THERE ANY MORE PRESENTATIONS OR IS THAT
10:43:18AM IS IT?
10:43:19AM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: I THINK THAT IS IT FOR THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:43:21AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO WHAT MY COLLEAGUE SAID, I REMEMBER
10:43:24AM THE LAST PRESENTATION WE HAD ON ALL THE PROJECTS GOING
10:43:27AM THROUGH.
10:43:28AM YOU KNOW ONE IS -- THERE WAS A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO A BIG
10:43:32AM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, AND I THINK THAT IS REDUCING OR GOING
10:43:34AM TO SUNSET AT SOME POINT SOON.
10:43:37AM AS THAT TAPER ITS OFF, $5 MILLION TO $10 MILLION.
10:43:41AM AND WE HAVE ADDED IN SEVERAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND HISTORIC
10:43:47AM ORGANIZATIONS.
10:43:47AM AND NOT ALL OF THOSE TO MY COLLEAGUES -- NOT ALL OF THEM ARE
10:43:55AM NAMED AND SOME ARE SENSITIVE PAUSE OF LEGAL ISSUES
10:43:59AM ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
10:43:59AM I URGE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T TALKED TO NICOLE PRIVATELY OF ALL
10:44:03AM THE DIFFERENT LINE ATERMING THAT ARE THERE.
10:44:05AM AND TO -- AND TO -- TO BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND BOARD MEMBER
10:44:13AM CITRO'S POINTS, I THINK THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF PROJECT
10:44:16AM THAT A CRA SHOULD FUND.
10:44:17AM AND BEFORE WE SUNSET AND PUT SOME KIND OF CAP ON THE
10:44:23AM DOWNTOWN CRA, ABSOLUTELY WE SHOULD TO THAT.
10:44:26AM MY ORIGINAL THOUGHT TEN YEARS AGO WAS THAT WE SHOULD REBUILD
10:44:31AM SOME OF THE IMPORTANT BUILDINGS THAT WERE IN CENTRAL AVENUE.
10:44:37AM TALKED TO CHLOE CONEY AND.THEIR FAMILIES' BUILDINGS.
10:44:42AM BUT NOW IT IS NOT POSSIBLE WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE
10:44:45AM PROPERTY AROUND, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE RETAIN THE
10:44:48AM HISTORY OF CENTRAL AVENUE IN ADDITION TO THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:44:50AM LAST THING I WILL SAY.
10:44:52AM IS DR. COLLINS STILL HERE.
10:44:54AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET UP.
10:44:56AM BUT JUST TO LET'S YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS -- WHEN LINDA
10:45:00AM SAUL-SENA AND I WERE PARTNERING WITH WILLIE TEN YEARS AGO,
10:45:05AM HE LET A FRIEND OF MINE, AMY MARTS.
10:45:08AM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE EVER MET HER.
10:45:10AM SHE IS IN ARCHITECTURE AND A FINE ARTS PHOTOGRAPHER.
10:45:13AM HE LET HER WALK IN AT THE TIME.
10:45:16AM USF -- SHE WALKED IN AT THAT TIME AND I DON'T THINK WILLIE
10:45:21AM WALKED IN WITH HER.
10:45:22AM BUT ANYWAY, HE KINDS OF TOLD HER -- SHE WENT IN AND
10:45:26AM DOCUMENTED THE WHOLE THING.
10:45:27AM IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HER PICTURES, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND WE
10:45:32AM WILL GET THEM TO YOU.
10:45:32AM I WILL CONNECT YOU TO HER.
10:45:34AM BUT THE OTHER THING IS WE NOW HAVE IN OUR CITY COUNCIL
10:45:38AM HALLWAY ONE OF THE PICTURES THAT AMY TOOK.
10:45:41AM AND I THINK WILLIE TOLD HER ABOUT IT.
10:45:43AM THAT'S HOW SHE KNEW ABOUT IT.
10:45:45AM I THINK IT WAS THREE HAND PRINTS ON THE WALL.
10:45:48AM WILLIE AS A CHILD AND HIS PARENTS.
10:45:50AM SHE TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH OF THAT AND CREATED AN ABSTRACT BIG
10:45:54AM PHOTO.
10:45:54AM AND THAT PHOTO IS JUST INSIDE THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER
10:46:00AM DOORS.
10:46:00AM IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT OR ANYBODY IN WILLIE'S FAMILY HAVEN'T
10:46:03AM SEEN.
10:46:03AM MAKE SURE YOU ALL SEE THAT.
10:46:05AM BUT WE HAVE -- WE ALL HAVE A LOVE FOR THE BUILDING AND THE
10:46:09AM HISTORY OF TAMPA AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY OF TAMPA.
10:46:11AM AND WE WANT TO HELP YOU AND PARTNER WITH YOU.
10:46:16AM >> MAY I, JUST TWO POINTS.
10:46:17AM A COMMENT AND I AGREE WHAT IT WILL BE IN THE FUTURE.
10:46:20AM THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORICAL DESIGNATION
10:46:24AM IN THE RECONSTRUCTION NOW SO WE WILL GO BACK AND GET
10:46:28AM REOCCURRING HISTORICAL GRANTS AND THAT IS IT WHAT THE STATE
10:46:31AM ESSENTIAL URGE ASKING US TO DO.
10:46:32AM THAT IS WHY THAT IS IMPORTANT.
10:46:33AM THAT HAND PRINT ON ONE WALL WAS WILLIE'S GRANDFATHER.
10:46:37AM HE ACTUALLY PLASTERED IT AND PUT HIS HANDS THERE AS A
10:46:43AM DESIGN.
10:46:43AM YEARS LATER WILLIE'S FATHER DID THE OTHER WALL AND WANTED TO
10:46:50AM MATCH WHAT WILLIE'S GRANDFATHER AND HE HAND PRINT THIS.
10:46:53AM AND WILLIE DID IN ON BOTH WALLS.
10:46:56AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:46:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO DO WE HAVE ANY MOTIONS REGARDING THIS?
10:47:02AM DO WE HAVE ANY ACTION?
10:47:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK IT IS ALREADY IN THE BUDGET.
10:47:07AM AND WE ASKED FOR A MONTHLY UPDATE ON THIS, RIGHT.
10:47:10AM PLEASE DR. COLLINS AND EVERYONE ELSE KEEP US POSTED ON WHAT
10:47:15AM YOU THINK WE SHOULD TO DO HELP.
10:47:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:47:18AM >> THANK YOU.
10:47:19AM THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS AN UPDATE FROM THE TAMPA
10:47:24AM POLICE DEPARTMENT.
10:47:24AM MAJOR DeFELICE WILL BE PROVIDING THAT STAFF REPORT.
10:47:29AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:47:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MORNING.
10:47:39AM >> MAJOR ERIC DeFELICE, TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT, DISTRICT
10:47:46AM 3.
10:47:47AM TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE FROM THE LAST MEETING YOU REQUESTED.
10:47:51AM WE ARE DISCUSSING HOW THE CRA AND TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT
10:47:54AM ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIME IN OUR
10:47:57AM COMMUNITY.
10:47:57AM SO WE HAVE CONTINUED CREATING PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE EAST
10:48:02AM TAMPA COMMUNITY THAT WILL ASSIST WITH THE REDUCTION OF
10:48:05AM VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:48:06AM PARTICIPATING IN THE YOUNG VOICES, YOUNG CHOICES PROGRAM
10:48:10AM CREATED BY THE TAMPA BAY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
10:48:14AM HOSTED BY PASTOR WALKER AS ONE OF THOSE INITIATIVES.
10:48:17AM AND IN ITS INFANCY.
10:48:19AM BRINGING FORWARD A PROGRAM THAT IS INVOLVED IN TAKING YOUTH
10:48:23AM FROM EAST TAMPA AREA AND PUTTING THEM IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT.
10:48:27AM GETTING SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SOME CLERGY, AS WELL AS
10:48:31AM POLICE OFFICERS TO SIT DOWN, HAVE JUST A DISCUSSION ON HOW
10:48:35AM YOUTH VIEW THE STATE OF AFFAIRS, THE VIOLENCE IN THEIR
10:48:38AM COMMUNITY.
10:48:38AM WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER, AND JUST SET THE COURSE AND GIVE THEM
10:48:43AM A VOICE.
10:48:44AM THAT PROGRAM IS IN THE INFANCY, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT DATES
10:48:48AM AND SUCH TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
10:48:50AM BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL VERY MUCH LIKE TO BE A
10:48:53AM PART OF.
10:48:53AM TODAY, OUR OFFICERS HAVE REMOVED 501 GUN FROM DISTRICT 3,
10:49:00AM WITH I IS UP APPROXIMATELY 85 GUNS FROM THE SAME TIME PERIOD
10:49:03AM LAST YEAR.
10:49:04AM THAT IS SIGNIFICANT.
10:49:05AM TAMPA SHOWS THE COMMITMENT THAT WE HAVE TO ERADICATING
10:49:08AM VIOLENT CRIME IN OUR COMMUNITY.
10:49:10AM OUR OFFICERS ARE WELL AWARE OF THE VIOLENCE AND THE CRIMES
10:49:14AM THAT ARE COMMITTED, NOT ONLY WITH THE GUNS BUT THE CRIMES
10:49:17AM LEADING UP TO GUNS.
10:49:18AM OUR FOCUS HAS BEEN ON CRIME IN GENERAL.
10:49:20AM WE TAKE SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTO BURGLARY WHERE THESE GUNS ARE
10:49:26AM COMING FROM AND IF WE MAINLY FOCUS ON GUNS AND VIOLENT
10:49:30AM CRIME, WE ARE MISSING A BIG PART OF THIS PICTURE.
10:49:34AM CRIME IN GENERAL, A LOT OF THESE GUNS ARE TAKEN FROM
10:49:38AM UNLOCKED AUTO BURGLARIES AND FOCUSED ON THAT TOO.
10:49:42AM BY HAVING THAT APPROACH, THAT HOLISTIC APPROACH, WE ARE
10:49:45AM SEEING A GREATER NUMBER OF GUNS TAKEN OFF THE STREET AND
10:49:49AM GOOD TO REDUCE THE VIOLENT CRIME IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:49:52AM OUR STAY AND PLAY PROGRAM HAS ENDED SINCE SCHOOL IS NOW BACK
10:49:55AM IN SESSION.
10:49:55AM BUT THE FEEDBACK WAS FREIGHT.
10:49:57AM IT WAS POSITIVE.
10:49:58AM ATTENDANCE RATES WERE HIGH.
10:50:00AM AND CONTINUOUS INTERACTION BETWEEN THE OFFICERS AND THE
10:50:03AM PARTICIPANTS WAS GREAT AND STRENGTHENS THAT BOND BETWEEN THE
10:50:09AM YOUTH AND OUR OFFICERS.
10:50:10AM WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
10:50:11AM OUR STRATEGIC ENFORCEMENT ORSE UNITS.
10:50:18AM AND PLANS ARE IN PLACE FOR TRUNK OR TREAT EVENT THAT WE ARE
10:50:23AM PUTTING ON WHICH IS A GREAT.
10:50:27AM A GREAT IDEA AND HAS A SAFE LOCATION FOR CHILDREN TO ENJOY
10:50:31AM THE HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY.
10:50:32AM OFFICERS PARTICIPATING AS WELL.
10:50:34AM MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITIES.
10:50:35AM OFFICERS WILL BE ABLE TO DECORATE THEIR TRUNKS AND HAND OUT
10:50:38AM CANDY TO A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND PROVIDE THAT SAFE
10:50:41AM PLACE, THAT SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE KIDS.
10:50:43AM AND THIS EVENT IS BEING CORDINATED BY OUR SC UNITS.
10:50:49AM WE ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN HOSTING A THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION
10:50:52AM AT OUR DISTRICT 3 STATION.
10:50:54AM THIS EVENT IS PUT ON AND COORDINATED BY MISS TONYA LEWIS WHO
10:51:00AM WAS HONORED HERE A FEW DAYS AGO.
10:51:02AM SHE PARTICIPANTER INS WITH US, AGAIN, TO CREATE THAT BOND IN
10:51:06AM OUR COMMUNITY.
10:51:07AM HELD AT OUR DISTRICT LOCATION.
10:51:11AM LAST YEAR SERVED 500 TO 600 PEOPLE, NOT ONLY POLICE OFFICERS
10:51:18AM BUT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
10:51:19AM A GREAT PROGRAM AND A GREAT PROGRAM AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
10:51:22AM MAKE THAT AN ANNUAL EVENT.
10:51:24AM DETECTIVE CURTIS WILLIAMS, HE ALSO RECEIVED AN AWARD FOR HIS
10:51:27AM ACTIONS.
10:51:27AM HE CONTINUES TO BE A HUGE ASSET COMBATING QUALITY OF LIFE
10:51:31AM ISSUES.
10:51:31AM EFFORTS HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF REDUCING VIOLENT CRIME IN
10:51:36AM EAST TAMPA.
10:51:37AM AS WE STATED OR AS I STATED BEFORE ADDRESSING ALL CRIME THAT
10:51:41AM LEADS TO VIOLENT CRIME.
10:51:42AM HE DOES THAT.
10:51:43AM HE ADDRESSES SLUM AND BRIGHT MAKING SURE THAT PROBLEM AREAS
10:51:47AM ARE ADDRESSED OR HANDLED.
10:51:49AM THE BOARD.
10:51:52AM THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AND ADDRESS THAT ARE VACANT LOTS
10:51:56AM ARE BEING ADDRESSED SO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHEN THEY
10:51:58AM CALL IN KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A VOICE FOR THESE
10:52:02AM QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES AND SOMEBODY WILL GO OUT THERE AND
10:52:04AM TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
10:52:05AM HE DOES A GREAT JOB AND HE IS A GREAT ASSET AND HELPS --
10:52:09AM MAYBE NOT SO MUCH DIRECTLY WITH THE VIOLENT CRIME, BUT ALL
10:52:13AM THE ANCILLARY CRIMES THAT WOULD LEAD TO IT.
10:52:16AM HE IS WONDERFUL.
10:52:16AM THE DEPARTMENT IS STILL WORK WITH OUR FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS
10:52:21AM CREATING WORKFORCE SYNERGY TO ENGAGE VIOLENT CRIME IN THE
10:52:25AM COMMUNITY.
10:52:25AM WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE ARE TAKING CASES FEDERAL WITH OUR
10:52:28AM PARTNERS.
10:52:29AM WE ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ENHANCE CRIMES FOR THOSE
10:52:33AM RECIDIVISTS.
10:52:35AM WHAT WE SEE IS A FALSE SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION WHO IS
10:52:38AM RESPONSIBLE FOR A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE CRIME.
10:52:40AM WE ARE LOOKING FOR ANY OR ALL ALTERNATIVES TO NOT ONLY HOLD
10:52:47AM THOSE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, GET APPROPRIATE SENTENCES.
10:52:51AM ON THE FLIPSIDE, IF OUR DIVERSIONARY PROGRAMS ARE
10:52:54AM APPROPRIATE, WE WILL LOOK INTO THAT TOO.
10:52:56AM RECENTLY WE HAD A CASE WHERE JUVENILES WERE INVOLVED AND
10:53:01AM MULTIPLE JUVENILE OFFENDER.
10:53:03AM ONE JUVENILE OFFENDER SCORED OUTS BECAUSE OF THE CRIMES HE
10:53:08AM WAS INVOLVED IN THE PAST.
10:53:10AM HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO WT EDWARDS IN SECURED DETENTION.
10:53:15AM ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE HE WAS RELATIVELY NEW AND DIDN'T HAVE A
10:53:18AM HISTORY WAS OFFERED OUR DIVERSIONARY PROGRAM.
10:53:20AM GOES ON TO SHOW THAT YOU WE ARE NOT JUST HEAVY HANDED ON OUR
10:53:24AM APPROACH.
10:53:24AM WE ARE LENIENT WHEN DICTATED OR WHEN THE NECESSITY IS THERE.
10:53:30AM MOVING ON TO YBOR.
10:53:31AM CAPTAIN THEO AND I PARTICIPATED IN REGULAR STAKEHOLDER
10:53:35AM MEETINGS TO ADDRESS CONCERNS AND CURRENT CONDITIONS.
10:53:38AM CAPTAIN THEO HAS BEEN WONDERFUL MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE
10:53:42AM STAKEHOLDERS IN THAT AREA AND WE ARE HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS
10:53:47AM OF THOSE MEETINGS.
10:53:48AM THEY INVOLVE MANY PEOPLE, THE PLAYERS, AND ALLOW US TO TALK
10:53:51AM ABOUT WHAT IS WORKING WITH WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN THE FUTURE
10:53:55AM AND SET AND MANAGE EXPECTATIONS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
10:53:59AM THE COLLABORATION IN THESE MEETINGS IS GREAT.
10:54:02AM IT FOSTERS TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNICATION WHICH IS KEY TO
10:54:06AM HAVE SUCCESS IN THAT AREA.
10:54:10AM OUR YBOR LIAISON POSITION.
10:54:12AM WE REINSTITUTED THAT.
10:54:13AM OFFICER BRYE BRANDON GAIN, HIS NAME WAS BROUGHT UP AS AN
10:54:18AM OFFICER THAT TOOK A VESTED INTEREST IN THE AREA.
10:54:20AM EVERYONE THAT WE SPOKE HOW THAT BRANDON OR RICHIE MACADO AND
10:54:26AM OBTAINED BRANDON TO PUT HIM IN THE POSITION AND SO FAR HE IS
10:54:30AM DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB.
10:54:33AM AMAZE WHAT ONE PERSON COMMITTED TO THE CAUSE CAN DO IN THAT
10:54:36AM AREA.
10:54:37AM WE ARE SEEING GREAT RESULTS.
10:54:39AM HE IS BENEFICIAL TO OUR MISSION AND PROVED TO BE A VALUABLE
10:54:43AM ASSET EVERY DAY TO OUR YBOR AREA.
10:54:45AM IN ADDITION, THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM IS COMING ONLINE.
10:54:50AM WE READ ABOUT IT AND SEE IT.
10:54:55AM THEY HAVE THAT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AND I SAW IT,
10:54:58AM UNFORTUNATELY, WORK RIGHT IN FRONT.
10:54:59AM ME HANDLE THE SITUATION WITHOUT POLICE INVOLVEMENT.
10:55:08AM AND QUIETED DOWN THE SITUATION AND GOT IT MO MOVE ON AND
10:55:13AM EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT HERE.
10:55:14AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING THAT COMING ONLINE.
10:55:17AM THE CCDC PROGRAM HAS RESUMED.
10:55:22AM PUT MORE OFFICERS IN OUR ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT TO DEAL WITH
10:55:26AM THE PROBLEMS WE ARE HAVING.
10:55:27AM THE YBOR CAMERA PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG.
10:55:32AM CAMERAS TO BE ADDED TO THE SYSTEM TO BOLSTER THAT.
10:55:37AM WE ARE UPDATING THE CAMERAS BECAUSE OUR DEPARTMENT, THE
10:55:40AM PEOPLE WHO ARE PUT IT IN, HAVE IDENTIFIED AN ISSUE OF THE
10:55:43AM CAMERA AND THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT MORE COMPATIBLE WITH
10:55:46AM THE WIRELESS SYSTEM IN THE FUTURE WILL REDUCE COST AND
10:55:50AM PREVENT ISSUES OF TAKING THEM DOWN AND PUTTING THEM UP
10:55:54AM LATER.
10:55:55AM JUGGLING THE PROJECT WITH THE LIGHTING ARCHWAY PROJECTS
10:55:59AM SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE IN NOVEMBER.
10:56:00AM WE OBVIOUSLY DON'T WANT TO PUT UP CAMERASES THAT MAY OR MAY
10:56:04AM NOT ARE PUT UP BY THE ARCHWAY PROJECT IN THE FUTURE.
10:56:08AM WORKING HAND IN HAND TO MAKE THAT PROJECT A SUCCESS.
10:56:12AM FINALLY RECENTLY CONTACTED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:56:15AM OR THE CITY OF ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT.
10:56:18AM AND THEY REACHED OUT BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY HEARD WE WERE
10:56:21AM DOING GREAT THINGS IN OUR ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT,
10:56:23AM SPECIFICALLY THE YBOR AREA.
10:56:25AM WE NOW HAVE A MEETING -- RIGHT NOW A VIRTUAL MEETING WITH
10:56:29AM MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITY AND STAFF, THE MAYORAL STAFF, TO
10:56:32AM DISCUSS THE POLICIES, PROCEDURES THAT WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED
10:56:37AM IN YBOR TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THAT A SAFER ENVIRONMENT.
10:56:40AM AND WHAT WE WILL DO IS EXCHANGE INFORMATION AND FOSTER A
10:56:43AM PEER REVIEW WHERE THEY CAN COME AND SEE IT.
10:56:45AM YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IT ALL DAY AND I CAN EXPLAIN IT..BUT YOU
10:56:49AM ARE OUT THERE AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING AND YOU SEE HOW WE
10:56:52AM CLEAR THE STREETS IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.
10:56:54AM FROM HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TO STRAGGLERS, QUITE IMPRESSIVE.
10:56:57AM WE ARE HOPING THAT THEY WILL TAKE THE TIME TO COME HERE AND
10:57:00AM WE CAN GO THERE TO LEARN THEIR BEST PRACTICES AS WELL.
10:57:03AM THAT IS THE UPDATE I HAVE FOR YOU.
10:57:05AM ANY QUESTIONS?
10:57:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:57:06AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
10:57:08AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SINCE YOU MENTIONED ORLANDO, I WAS THERE A
10:57:12AM COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO.
10:57:14AM WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WITH THEIR ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS.
10:57:17AM A GREAT CIGAR BAR.
10:57:19AM THEY HAVE BLOCKED IT OFF BECAUSE THEY HAD SEVERAL SHOOTINGS
10:57:23AM IN THAT MAIN STRIP.
10:57:24AM SEVEN, EIGHT PEOPLE SHOT, YOU KNOW.
10:57:27AM THEY PUT UP METAL DETECTORS.
10:57:29AM AND YOU -- THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN COME THROUGH THERE IS TO BE
10:57:33AM SCREENED AND CHECKED.
10:57:34AM AND MOST OF THE BARS HAVE THEM THERE.
10:57:36AM HAS GOT TO BE KIND OF EXPENSIVE, BUT SINCE YOU MENTIONED
10:57:41AM THAT, I KIND OF WANTED TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE DOING OVER
10:57:44AM THERE.
10:57:44AM AS IT RELATES TO YBOR.
10:57:46AM I FREQUENT IT A LOT.
10:57:47AM THAT IS MY DISTRICT.
10:57:48AM I AT THAT YOU CAN TO THE OWNERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
10:57:50AM THERE IS AN UPTICK BECAUSE STUDENTS HAVE RETURNED --
10:57:54AM RETURNED TO SCHOOL.
10:57:55AM A LOT -- ALWAYS A LOT OF UNDERAGED DRINKING IN YBOR.
10:57:59AM I THINK WE NEED SOMEBODY TO COVER PEOPLE WHO GO IN THERE AND
10:58:02AM PUT TO A HALT OF A LITTLE BIT OF IT.
10:58:05AM I HAVE SEEN YOUNG KIDS THERE SINCE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN BACK
10:58:08AM THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKENDS.
10:58:09AM >> SO WE HAVE -- WE DID THAT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER.
10:58:12AM I SEE THE NEED OF IT NOW SINCE THE KIDS ARE BACK TO SCHOOL
10:58:16AM THAT WE WORKED WITH.
10:58:17AM THE TOBACCO -- OR ATF -- THEY PUT UNDERCOVERS IN TO
10:58:25AM MAKE SURE NO UNDERAGED DRINKERS.
10:58:27AM SOMETHING WE DO AND TO KEEP THEM HONEST.
10:58:32AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SOME OF THE BAR OWNERS ASKED ME ABOUT THAT.
10:58:35AM I GUESS THE BIGGEST PART IS THE EAST -- THE MIDDLE PORTION.
10:58:38AM YOU MENTION A LOT OF PROGRAMS.
10:58:39AM I LIKE PROGRAMS.
10:58:40AM BUT SOME OF THE PROGRAMS I SEE AREN'T HITTING THE TARGET
10:58:45AM PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO HIT.
10:58:46AM I GO TO A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS, I SEE A LOT OF OUR SMALLER
10:58:49AM KIDS.
10:58:50AM THAT IS GREAT AND WE WANT TO EDUCATE THE SMALLER KIDS, BUT
10:58:54AM THE KIDS WE NEED TO BE TOUCHING ARE THE ONE THAT ARE DOING
10:58:58AM THINGS AND GETTING READY TO DO THINGS.
10:59:00AM AND WE ARE NOT TOUCHING THOSE.
10:59:02AM FREDDIE IS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE AND I SAY THE SAME THING
10:59:05AM WHEN I GO TO SOME OF THESE MEETINGS.
10:59:07AM I SEE KIDS -- WHY IS THAT KID HERE?
10:59:09AM I NEED PROGRAMS THAT WILL TARGET THOSE ARE RIGHT IN THE FIRE
10:59:13AM RIGHT NOW.
10:59:14AM I THINK THAT IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING.
10:59:16AM WE GOT TO FIND SOME MONEY TO HAVE SOME -- TO GET PEOPLE OFF
10:59:23AM OUR THE STREET.
10:59:24AM I KNOW THE CONGREGATION OF LAKE AVENUE AND 29th.
10:59:30AM IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR YEARS.
10:59:32AM I AM HOPING THAT WE CAN HAVE MISS TRAVIS AND THE CAC LOOK AT
10:59:36AM SOME OF THOSE PROPERTIES TO START REDEVELOPING THAT.
10:59:38AM THAT WILL BE A KEY TO THAT.
10:59:40AM BUT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I GET.
10:59:42AM I SEE MISS TATE IS HERE AND OTHERS.
10:59:44AM THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WE HAVE IS THE LOITERING ON LAKE AVENUE.
10:59:48AM JUST BEHOOVES ME THAT WE HAVE A HOUSING AUTHORITY -- I DON'T
10:59:53AM KNOW THE COOPERATION YOU ARE GETTING OR NOT, BUT TO HAVE A
10:59:56AM HOUSING AUTHORITY.
10:59:57AM I HAVE PEOPLE OUT ACTUALLY GAMBLING RIGHT THERE ON THE
11:00:00AM PROPERTY ON THE HOUSING AUTHORITY ON LAKE AVENUE IN FRONT OF
11:00:04AM THE POLICE STATION.
11:00:05AM THAT JUST BOTHERS ME.
11:00:07AM JUST BOTHERS ME.
11:00:14AM THE CONSTITUENT SEE THAT AND KING STREET FOR YEARS.
11:00:19AM I DON'T KNOW HOW WE COMBAT THAT, NUISANCE ABATEMENT.
11:00:23AM WE HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT AND HOLD SOME OF THESE PEOPLE
11:00:26AM ACCOUNTABLE WHAT THEY ARE ALLOWING ON THEIR PROPERTIES.
11:00:28AM I HOPE WE CAN STEP THAT UP A LITTLE BIT MORE BECAUSE THAT
11:00:31AM THE MAJOR PART OF COMPLAINTS THE AREAS WITH PEOPLE JUST
11:00:35AM HANGING OUT.
11:00:36AM I KNOW WE HAVE THE OTHER KINGS HOUSE RIGHT ACROSS, AND THE
11:00:40AM LIQUOR STORE.
11:00:40AM A PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WELL, BUT THE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE THAT
11:00:45AM ARE OUT THERE.
11:00:46AM THE RESIDENTS -- THEY ARE STARTING TO WAKE UP NOW.
11:00:48AM CRIME WATCHES IN THE AREA NOW.
11:00:50AM WE HAVE GOOD PEOPLE AND NOW THEY ARE SAYING, WHAT ARE WE
11:00:53AM GOING TO DO.
11:00:53AM YOU BEING THE NEW GUY, I HOPE YOU FIND A NEW STRATEGY.
11:00:58AM SOMETIMES OTHER PEOPLE HAVE A DIFFERENT STRATEGY.
11:01:01AM SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT STRATEGY TO HELP SOME OF
11:01:04AM THAT.
11:01:04AM BUT I WANT TO FIND A PROGRAM THAT WE CAN TOUCH THE HOT KIDS.
11:01:09AM THAT IS WHAT I NEED THE HOT KIDS.
11:01:11AM AND THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, I HAVE SEEN IT IN MIAMI AND
11:01:15AM OTHER PLACES.
11:01:15AM THAT COULD WORK, BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME AMBASSADORS --
11:01:19AM WHAT I CALL THE DIRTY, DIRTY, TALK THAT LONG TO HELP THAT.
11:01:24AM A PROGRAM GEARED TO GET THOSE GUYS.
11:01:26AM BECAUSE WHAT I CAN SAY TO THEM -- MAYBE IMPACT MAYBE SOMEONE
11:01:31AM ELSE SAY HE DON'T KNOW MY STRUGGLE OR PLIGHT.
11:01:37AM TO HAVE THOSE GUYS THAT CAN DEAL WITH THOSE YOUNG MEN AND
11:01:40AM SOME WOMEN TOO.
11:01:41AM THAT IS WHAT I AM HOPING TO SEE IN THE FUTURE, THOSE TYPE OF
11:01:45AM PROGRAMS.
11:01:45AM AND US FINDING SOME OF THIS MONEY OR SOME OF MONEY WE GET
11:01:49AM FROM COMPLICATED STUFF TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND FIND
11:01:54AM THOSE U-HAULS COMING IN SELLING THESE GUNS.
11:01:56AM BECAUSE THERE -- THAT IS TRUE.
11:01:58AM HOPEFULLY YOU WILL LOOK AT SOME STRATEGIES.
11:02:01AM THANK YOU.
11:02:01AM >> SO THE -- IF I MAY.
11:02:04AM THE PROGRAM I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IS A PROGRAM THAT IS
11:02:06AM ADDRESSING JUST THAT.
11:02:07AM BECAUSE THE TARGET AUDIENCE FROM 14 TO 24.
11:02:10AM TYPICALLY WE SEE IT STOP AT 18 YEARS OLD WHEN SOMEBODY IS AN
11:02:13AM ADULT.
11:02:14AM AND THE AMBASSADORS THEY ARE USING FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE FROM
11:02:17AM THE CITY.
11:02:18AM MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT.
11:02:21AM THAT LIVE THERE.
11:02:22AM THAT KNOW.
11:02:22AM PARTICULARLY, WE ARE WORKING ON AN AREA PROBABLY BELMONT
11:02:26AM HEIGHTS TO GET A VESTED INTEREST IN THAT AREA AND HAVE
11:02:31AM PEOPLE AND MEMBERS FROM BELMONT HEIGHT AS WELL AS STUDENTS
11:02:34AM THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FROM THESE AMBASSADORS THAT ARE HAND
11:02:37AM SELECTED FROM THE COMMUNITY TO -- NOT THE KIDS THAT ARE
11:02:39AM ALREADY DOING WELL, BUT THE KIDS WHO MIGHT BE IFFY OR THEIR
11:02:43AM RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POLICE MIGHT NOT BE WHAT IT SHOULD BE.
11:02:46AM SOME THAT PROGRAM SPOKES TO WHAT YOU ARE -- SPEAKS TO WHAT
11:02:49AM YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT GREAT.
11:02:51AM AND WE ARE HOPING THAT KNEES FIRST TWO CLASSES OR PROGRAMS
11:02:54AM THAT THIS WILL CATAPULT US FORWARD AND GO THROUGH IT AND
11:03:00AM MAKE CHANGES TO THIS AND THIS IS A SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOR.
11:03:04AM BUT IN REGARDS TO LAKE AVENUE, I THINK THAT BEING THE NEW
11:03:07AM GUY, YES, I WAS THERE AS A LIEUTENANT.
11:03:10AM AND I THINK THAT THE BIGGEST THING WE NEED IS THE COMMUNITY
11:03:14AM SUPPORT.
11:03:15AM BECAUSE I HEAR WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE LOITERING AND HOW BAD
11:03:19AM IT LOOKS.
11:03:20AM I PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN THERE AND RUN THE PEOPLE OFF.
11:03:22AM I HAD A CONVERSATION.
11:03:23AM WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SIT HERE.
11:03:24AM WHY CAN'T YOU GO THERE.
11:03:26AM IT IS WELL -- I GET ALL KIND OF REASONS.
11:03:28AM AND WE KEEP DOING THE SAME THING.
11:03:30AM GROUNDHOG DAY AND DO IT OVER AND OVER.
11:03:34AM WE DO THAT THAT SAME COMMUNITY WILL NOT SUPPORT US IN THE
11:03:37AM CAUSE THAT WE HAVE.
11:03:37AM COMMUNITY SUPPORT.
11:03:38AM KNOWING THAT WE ARE THERE NOT BECAUSE WE ARE TRYING TO BE
11:03:42AM OVERBEARING, BUT BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING US TO BE
11:03:46AM THERE FOR THEM.
11:03:47AM YOU KNOW, THAT SUPPORT WILL BE GREAT.
11:03:49AM IF WE CAN GARNER THAT SUPPORT WILL HELP US IN THE MISSION.
11:03:52AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEY HEAR YOU.
11:03:55AM THEY ARE HERE.
11:03:56AM THREE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS IN THAT AREA WHO ARE STRONG
11:03:59AM AND VOCAL ABOUT IT.
11:04:00AM MEET WITH THEM AND GETTING THEIR FOLKS OUT THERE.
11:04:04AM THAT WAY THEY GOT YOUR BACK.
11:04:06AM I THINK THAT WILL TAKE A LOT OF STRAIN YOU.
11:04:09AM WE DON'T WANT -- BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE HAVE TO
11:04:12AM DO SOMETIMES TO ERADICATE A PROBLEM.
11:04:14AM AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE SOUTH SIDE THE STREET ON LAKE, THAT
11:04:20AM AIN'T NOBODY'S PROPERTY.
11:04:21AM THEY JUST HANG OUT THERE.
11:04:22AM I JUST LOOK -- I SUPPORT IT AND I AM ALWAYS VOCAL ABOUT
11:04:26AM THAT.
11:04:26AM YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT.
11:04:27AM I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLACK OR WHATEVER -- I CARE OF CLEANING
11:04:31AM THAT AREA UP SO THE RESIDENTS CAN BE SAFE BECAUSE THEY ARE
11:04:34AM COMPLAINING.
11:04:34AM THEY WOKEN -- THEY ARE WOKEN AND COMPLAINING NOW.
11:04:38AM WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO.
11:04:39AM YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT ON THAT.
11:04:40AM >> YES, SIR, THANK YOU.
11:04:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:04:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: THREE QUICK QUESTIONS.
11:04:45AM ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HEARD A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT IN
11:04:49AM YBOR ARE PEOPLE HANGING OUT IN PARKING LOTS.
11:04:52AM AND I THINK YOU MAYBE ANSWERED THIS BEFORE, BUT COULD YOU
11:04:56AM JUST CONFIRM.
11:04:57AM YOU ALL ARE SHUTTING THEM DOWN AT 3:00 OR SHOOING PEOPLE ON.
11:05:04AM >> AT 3 A.M. WHEN WE CONDUCT OUR SWEEP, WE DIRECT THE
11:05:08AM TRAFFIC TO ONE DIRECTION AND USUALLY TOWARD 15th AND WE SEE
11:05:11AM A INFLUX OF PEOPLE GOING ON 15TH, 7th, 8th AND 5th.
11:05:17AM YES, WE HAVE OUR OFFICERS THERE AND THEY WILL BE IN THE
11:05:19AM PARKING LOT WITH THEIR LIGHTS ON SO YOU SEE THE VISIBILITY
11:05:22AM VEHICLE THERE HAVE AS WELL AS A LARGE NUMBER OF OFFICERS.
11:05:25AM WE MOVE THEM WHEN WE SHIFT DOWN WITH THE PEOPLE.
11:05:27AM WE TAKE THOSE OFFICERS THAT ARE ON 7th AVENUE AND FLOW WITH
11:05:31AM THEM ON TO THE PARKING LOT AREAS AND GET CLEARED OUT QUICKLY
11:05:35AM SO WE DON'T HAVE THE CONGREGATING AND LOUD MUSIC, ETC.
11:05:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: AND HONEST QUESTION -- WHAT IS THIS CALLED.
11:05:43AM SHOT STOPPER.
11:05:44AM >> SHOT SPOTTER.
11:05:49AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE PAY $250,000 A YEAR FOR IT.
11:05:52AM HAVE YOU SEEN -- I KNOW YOU ARE JUST TALKING OF TWO AREAS OF
11:05:56AM THE CITY, BUT HAVE YOU SEEN SPECIFIC CRIMES THAT WERE
11:05:59AM PREVENTED OR SOLVED BECAUSE OF THAT?
11:06:03AM AND OR DO YOU THINK WE CAN APPLY THAT $250,000 IN A
11:06:07AM DIFFERENT WAY LIKE HIRING TWO OR THREE MORE OFFICERS OR
11:06:10AM SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:06:11AM >> MY BELIEF THAT THIS PROGRAM IS BENEFICIAL, BECAUSE THE
11:06:14AM VAST MAJORITY OF THE SHOTS THAT GO ON ARE UNREPORTED.
11:06:18AM SOMETHING RIDICULOUS LIKE 80% OF THESE CALLS ARE UNREPORTED.
11:06:23AM IF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THIS
11:06:26AM VIOLENCE DO NOT REPORT THE CRIME, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT
11:06:30AM IT BEFORE WE HAVE THIS SYSTEM.
11:06:31AM NOW THAT WE HAVE THE SYSTEM, ALLOW FOR BETTER RESPONSE
11:06:34AM TIMES.
11:06:34AM BETTER RECOVERY OF EVIDENCE ON SCENE THAT CAN LEAD TO
11:06:38AM HELPING TO SOLVE CRIMES THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PERPETRATED.
11:06:41AM MAYBE A MURDER OR SOMETHING WASN'T DONE THERE --
11:06:45AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU KNOW OF ANY -- SORRY TO PUT YOU ON
11:06:49AM THE SPOT.
11:06:50AM SPECIFIC CRIMES THAT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED OR SOLVED BECAUSE
11:06:54AM OF THAT.
11:06:54AM >> YES.
11:06:55AM I HAVE STATS RIGHTS HERE.
11:06:56AM NOTABLE CASES I CAN PROVIDE IT TO YOU.
11:06:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: MAYBE E-MAIL IT TO ALL OF US.
11:07:00AM AND LAST QUESTION IS, IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN TO DO SUPPORT
11:07:05AM YOU AND YOUR TEAM?
11:07:08AM FOR EXAMPLE, PARKING LOTS.
11:07:09AM I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS POSSIBLE, BUT IF WE PUT A CURFEW ON
11:07:13AM PARKING LOTS IN YBOR.
11:07:14AM IS THERE ANYTHING -- I THREW THAT OUT AS AN EXAMPLE.
11:07:17AM ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO AS CITY COUNCIL OR CRA TO SUPPORT
11:07:21AM YOU?
11:07:22AM >> I THINK AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE OF SOMETHING OF THE FACT
11:07:25AM THERE HAS TO BE A PARKING LOT ATTENDANT AT A PRIVATE LOT.
11:07:28AM WE AT THE CITY WE HAVE -- I DON'T KNOW, LIKE NINE SECURITY
11:07:33AM OFFICERS THAT PATROL OURS.
11:07:34AM I AM NOT SURE IF WE ARE SEEING THAT SAME LEVEL OF SECURITY
11:07:37AM FROM THE PRIVATE LOTS.
11:07:38AM THAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE FACED.
11:07:41AM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE GOING TO REVISIT THAT, WE
11:07:46AM COULD TALK ABOUT THAT OR DISCUSS IT THAT SOMEBODY WOULD BE
11:07:48AM THERE AND VISIBLE ON THE PROPERTY ARIZONA A DETERRENT
11:07:52AM BECAUSE A LOT OF WHAT GOES ON.
11:07:54AM PEOPLE LEAVE THE CLUB EARLY.
11:07:55AM HANGING IN THE PARKING LOT.
11:07:57AM SMOKING MARIJUANA.
11:07:58AM DRINKING IN THEIR VEHICLES.
11:07:59AM PLAYING LOUD MUSIC BECAUSE A BARREN LANDS WITH EMPTY CARS.
11:08:03AM HAVING A VISIBLE DETERRENT, EVEN IF IT WAS A SECURITY GUARD.
11:08:07AM AND THERE ARE OPTIONS THAT WE CAN DISCUSS -- WOULD BE GREAT
11:08:10AM TO HELP US IN THE CRIME FIGHT.
11:08:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF YOU HAVE IDEAS, LET US KNOW CITY THING A
11:08:18AM CITY COUNCIL, WE WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT YOU.
11:08:20AM MULTIPLE EFFORTS TO TURN YBOR BACK INTO A COMMUNITY AND
11:08:25AM PEOPLE WILL ONLY DO THAT IF THEY FEEL SAFE.
11:08:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER CITRO.
11:08:29AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING
11:08:32AM THAT UP.
11:08:32AM EVEN BACK WHEN I WAS ON THE -- EAST TAMPA CAC, THERE WAS
11:08:37AM ALWAYS TALK OF THAT.
11:08:38AM MOST OF THESE PARKING LOT ATTEND DANTS.
11:08:41AM ONCE THE PARKING LOT GETS FULL, THEY ARE GONE.
11:08:45AM AND I THINK OUR CITY NEEDS TO ENFORCE THAT RULE THAT A
11:08:50AM PARKING LOT ATTENDANT MUST BE THERE THE WHOLE TIME.
11:08:52AM ALSO DURING MY TIMES ON THE YBOR CITY CAC, WHAT TIME IS
11:09:01AM SHIFT CHANGE FOR TPD AT NIGHT?
11:09:04AM OR EARLY MORNING?
11:09:05AM >> WE HAVE MULTIPLE.
11:09:06AM IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE DAY.
11:09:08AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: EVEN THOUGH THE BARS CLOSE AT 3:00, THERE
11:09:12AM ARE THOSE WORKERS.
11:09:13AM AND A LOT OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE FEMALE WALKING TO THEIR CAR.
11:09:16AM AND I AM HOPING THAT THE AMOUNT OF POLICE OFFICERS DOWN IN
11:09:20AM YBOR CITY DOESN'T DECREASE SO THAT THOSE EMPLOYEES CAN FEEL
11:09:24AM SAFE WALKING TO THEIR CARS.
11:09:25AM >> THERE ARE -- THE SHIFT THAT WOULD HANDLE THAT LEAVES
11:09:28AM BETWEEN 3:30 AND 4:00 IN THE MORNING.
11:09:31AM SO TYPICALLY BY THAT TIME, IT IS REALLY CLEARED OUT IN YBOR
11:09:35AM CITY BUT THOSE WORKERS DEPENDING ON HOW LONG THE AMOUNT OF
11:09:38AM OFFICERS WILL DECREASE BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE WOULD GO HOME.
11:09:41AM BUT THE PEOPLE LEFT IN YBOR CITY IS VIRTUALLY NOTHING AT
11:09:45AM THOSE SHOWERS.
11:09:46AM BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE -- WE HAVE OUR MIDNIGHT SHIFT UNITS
11:09:49AM THAT DON'T GET OFF UNTIL 7:00 IN THE MORNING AND ZONE UNITS
11:09:52AM -- POSSIBLY TWO ZONE UNITS ASSIGNED TO THAT AREA THAT WILL
11:09:56AM BE THERE IF NEEDED.
11:09:57AM I HAVEN'T HEARD OF ANY INSTANCES.
11:09:59AM BUT THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINITELY REVISIT TO MAKE SURE
11:10:03AM THOSE WORKERS ARE TAKEN CARE OF WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO AND
11:10:07AM FROM.
11:10:07AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:10:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:10:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR THE
11:10:14AM FINE WORK YOU ARE DOING AND THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT IS DOING.
11:10:17AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
11:10:17AM THE 501 GUNS THAT WERE BROUGHT IN THROUGH YOUR EFFORTS, A
11:10:22AM LARGE AMOUNT AND MORE THAN LIKELY 5,000 NOR THAT CAN BE
11:10:26AM GIVEN AT ANY GIVEN PLACE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
11:10:28AM ALONG THOSE LINES WHEN YOU SEE A YOUNG KID THREE YEARS OLD
11:10:32AM WITH A GUN IN HIS HANDS SHOOTING A FIVE-YEAR-OLD FAMILY
11:10:36AM MEMBER -- A THREE-YEAR-OLD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND
11:10:39AM LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT THE GUN WAS EVIDENTLY LEFT
11:10:43AM SOMEWHERE REAL LOW LOADED FOR A THREE-YEAR-OLD TO CARRY A
11:10:46AM GUN AND SHOOT THE GUN, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE UNLES
11:10:50AM SOMEBODY JUST LEFT IT THERE.
11:10:51AM >> YES, SIR.
11:10:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AT A VERY LOW -- NOT HIGH -- WHERE A
11:10:56AM THREE-YEAR-OLD COULDN'T REACH IT.
11:10:57AM HAVE WE EVER DONE -- I AM SURE YOU HAVE.
11:11:01AM BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY STATISTICS WHY PEOPLE SHOOT PEOPLE
11:11:04AM WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE.
11:11:05AM AND NOTHING -- NO MODUS OF OPERATION OF WHAT THE THOUGHT
11:11:09AM PROCESS ARE.
11:11:10AM MOST OF THEM ARE YOUNG PEOPLE.
11:11:11AM THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE MUCH OLD THEIR DO THAT.
11:11:14AM BUT A HOBBY?
11:11:15AM A SPORTSMANSHIP?
11:11:16AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR.
11:11:20AM YOU ARE TALKING REGULAR SHOT THATTINGS IN GENERAL?
11:11:23AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES, SIR.
11:11:24AM I AM BOTHERED FOR.
11:11:25AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THEY ARE MAD.
11:11:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM BOTHERED BY -- THE GUN DID THE
11:11:30AM THING.
11:11:31AM DON'T GET ME WRONG.
11:11:33AM THE GUN SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
11:11:35AM MENTAL CAPACITY OF SOMEBODY TO SHOOT SOMEBODY AT THAT TIME
11:11:38AM SHOW THEY HAVE NO FEELING OF LIFE FOR THEMSELVES.
11:11:40AM BECAUSE THE REPERCUSSION IS A LONG LIFE SENTENCE AT LEAST
11:11:44AM FOR LIFE.
11:11:44AM SO WHAT IS THE -- DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY THESE KIDS ARE DOING
11:11:50AM THESE THINGS?
11:11:52AM IS IT SOMETHING THAT IS A HOBBY?
11:11:54AM THEY SEE SOMETHING HAPPENING SOMEWHERE AND THEY WANT TO DO
11:11:57AM HERE.
11:11:57AM THEY SEE IT HERE AND THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.
11:12:00AM I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS HUNTING SEASON ON HUMANS BECAUSE
11:12:03AM EVIDENTLY WE ARE HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AS A SOCIETY.
11:12:07AM WE HAVE MORE KILLINGS IN THIS COUNTRY THAN THE NEXT 15
11:12:11AM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE SAME TYPE OF GOVERNMENTS THAT WE HAVE
11:12:13AM COMBINED.
11:12:14AM MORE PEOPLE GET KILLED BY GUNS AND IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS OF
11:12:19AM YOUTH.
11:12:20AM AND ALL THOSE STATISTICS IS JUST OVERBEARING THERE HAS GOT
11:12:24AM TO BE A PSYCHOLOGICAL REASON WHY THESE KIDS DO THAT.
11:12:27AM WATCHING VIOLENCE AT THE HOME.
11:12:29AM WATCHING VIOLENCE ON TV.
11:12:31AM WATCHING VIOLENCE ON THE COMPUTER?
11:12:32AM I DON'T REALLY KNOW.
11:12:33AM BUT GOT TO BE SOME MIX OF SOMETHING THAT IS TRIGGERING ALL
11:12:37AM THESE YOUNG KIDS TO DO WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
11:12:39AM I AM NOT A PSYCHIATRIST OR ANYTHING NEAR THAT, BUT GOT TO BE
11:12:44AM A REASON, MIND SET AT THE TIME THAT THAT THEY DO IT.
11:12:47AM GIVEN UP HOPE ON LIFE.
11:12:55AM DO THEY WANT TO BECOME FAMOUS.
11:12:51AM I DON'T REALLY KNOW.
11:12:52AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MUSE, INC.
11:12:55AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE JUST VIOLENT.
11:12:57AM AND I THINK IT IS DONE IN THE SPIRIT OF A MOMENT.
11:12:59AM THEY CAN DO SOMETHING.
11:13:00AM SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN EVER FIND OUT.
11:13:03AM DO YOU HAVE ANY CAPACITY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
11:13:08AM LIKE YOU SAID, WE ARE NOT PSYCHOLOGISTS EITHER AND A
11:13:12AM MULTITUDE OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU MENTIONED FEED INTO IT.
11:13:14AM THIS VIOLENT SOCIETY THAT WE HAVE GOT.
11:13:16AM IT IS NOT GOOD AND WE DEFINITELY NEED TO TURN IT AROUND.
11:13:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
11:13:22AM APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
11:13:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:13:25AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
11:13:27AM AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
11:13:29AM YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS SAY IS THAT FOR ME,
11:13:33AM VIOLENT CRIME AND WHERE IT POPS UP IN COMMUNITIES IS ALSO A
11:13:37AM JUSTICE EVERYBODY EWE.
11:13:37AM AND THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL DISAGREE WITH ME ON
11:13:41AM THAT.
11:13:42AM BUT IT IS VERY EASY FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE -- I SEE THIS
11:13:48AM A REPORT ON EAST TAMPA AND YBOR CITY.
11:13:51AM WE CAN TALK OF AREAS IN WEST TAMPA, SULPHUR SPRINGS.
11:13:56AM WE DON'T SHOOTINGS IN HUNTER GREENS, TAMPA PALM, BAYSHORE
11:14:00AM AND PALMA CEIA.
11:14:02AM IT IS REALLY EASY FOR PEOPLE NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT WHO
11:14:05AM HAVE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE SUFFERING LIKE THIS TO PUT YOUR HEAD
11:14:09AM IN THE SAND AND NOT SEE THAT SUFFERING, RIGHT.
11:14:12AM IT IS SUFFERING THAT IS DONE BY COMMUNITIES THAT IS LEFT
11:14:24AM BEHIND.
11:14:24AM A JUSTICE ISSUE.
11:14:26AM THAT IS WHERE I STAND.
11:14:27AM A JUSTICE AND EQUITY ISSUE.
11:14:28AM AND YOU POLICE OFFICERS ARE ALWAYS ON THE FRONT LINE PUTTING
11:14:31AM YOUR LIVES AND BODIES AT RISK TO PROTECT THOSE VULNERABLE
11:14:35AM COMMUNITIES.
11:14:35AM RIGHT.
11:14:36AM AND WE ARE VERY, VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
11:14:42AM VERY, VERY THANKFUL.
11:14:43AM I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT.
11:14:50AM I ALWAYS SAYS IT EASY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND WHEN YOU
11:14:53AM ARE IN A GATED COMMUNITY IN PARTS OF EAST TAMPA, BORCHELLER
11:14:57AM OR SULFUR SPRINGS.
11:14:58AM GOT TO BE AN OBLIGATION THAT WE ALL SHARE BY SUPPORTING THE
11:15:03AM POLICE.
11:15:03AM SUPPORTING VICTIMS RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND GOING TO RALLIES
11:15:08AM AND BEING OUR BROTHER AND SISTER'S KEEPER.
11:15:10AM PEOPLE ARE DYING AND WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN VIOLENT
11:15:13AM CRIME AND NOT HAPPENING IN GATED COMMUNITIES.
11:15:15AM BUT IT IS INCUMBENT ALL OF US TO HAVE EACH OTHER'S PACK JUST
11:15:21AM AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
11:15:22AM JUST THANK YOU.
11:15:23AM >> THANK YOU.
11:15:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:15:26AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA, YOU MADE A GOOD POINT, BUT THE
11:15:29AM KICKER IS, YOU TALKED OF THOSE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.
11:15:32AM LET'S LOOK AT THOSE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.
11:15:34AM THEY HAVE RESOURCES THEY HAVE NICE THINGS.
11:15:40AM SO ONE WOULD SAY IF I WANT TO CHANGE THE WHOLE PARADIGM
11:15:44AM OVERALL, THAT'S WHERE MONEY NEEDS TO GO TO THOSE PLACE THAT
11:15:48AM ARE UNDERSERVED.
11:15:49AM IF I FEEL BETTER.
11:15:51AM I DO BETTER.
11:15:52AM IF I LOOK GOOD.
11:15:53AM AND NOW I HAVE THE BETTER STANDARD OF LIVES.
11:15:58AM IF WE CAN JUST -- JUST RESET AND PUT THOSE THINGS IN REAL
11:16:04AM PRACTICALITIES.
11:16:05AM WE WOULDN'T HAVE A LOT OF GUN VIOLENCE.
11:16:07AM WE WOULDN'T HAVE A LOT OF THIS -- THE CHILDREN THAT HAVE TO
11:16:11AM FEED THEMSELVES.
11:16:12AM CHILDREN OR PARENTS WHO -- WHO -- SINGLE HOUSE HOLD FAMILIES
11:16:20AM AND THINGS LIKE THAT IF WE CAN JUST SHIFT SOME RESOURCES.
11:16:23AM AND WE TALK ABOUT EQUITY AND EQUALITY.
11:16:27AM SOMETIMES DON'T HAVE BALANCE -- YOU HAVE TO BALANCE TO GET
11:16:32AM THE SAME AMOUNT FROM HERE OVER HERE.
11:16:36AM I TAKE YOUR POINT.
11:16:37AM BUT WHAT YOU SAID PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THAT AND PUT THE
11:16:40AM DOLLARS WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO AND WE WON'T HAVE A LOT OF
11:16:42AM PROBLEMS IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
11:16:44AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY?
11:16:46AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:16:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: OBVIOUSLY I AGREE WITH THAT.
11:16:50AM YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THINGS THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS PASSED.
11:16:53AM THINGS LIKE THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM.
11:16:55AM TO ME NOT JUST A MATTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
11:16:59AM BUT ANTI-CRIME IDEA.
11:17:00AM YOU HAVE KIDS FROM SCHOOLS, WHETHER KING, MIDDLETON,
11:17:05AM JEFFERSON, WHO KNOW THEY HAVE A FUTURE THAT THE MIDDLE-CLASS
11:17:09AM LIFESTYLE CAN BE WITHIN THEIR REACH AND A WORKING-CLASS
11:17:13AM LIFESTYLE THROUGH THE SKILL TRADES.
11:17:14AM THAT WILL FIGHT HOPELESSNESS.
11:17:16AM RETURNING CITIZENS.
11:17:16AM YOU KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS IN
11:17:20AM CITY COUNCIL.
11:17:20AM THAT IS AN ISSUE THAT GOES TO THAT.
11:17:22AM I THINK WE ARE ALL UNITED AND I AGREE 110%.
11:17:25AM CRIME IS NOT JUST ABOUT.
11:17:29AM A CRIME HAS MANY DIFFERENT FEATURES AND TOUGH ON VIOLENT
11:17:34AM CRIME AND TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF VIOLENT CRIME.
11:17:37AM I GO BACK TO THE STATEMENT I MADE EARLIER.
11:17:39AM THAT IS WHY I BELIEVE IN GOVERNMENT, POLITICALLY,
11:17:43AM PHILOSOPHICALLY.
11:17:44AM GOVERNMENT CAN BE A RESOURCE OF PROMOTING JUSTICE.
11:17:47AM AND I COME FROM THE IDEA I DON'T MIND PAYING MORE.
11:17:50AM I SUPPORT PAYING MORE IF IT MEANS INSTITUTING JUSTICE AND
11:17:53AM EQUITY IN OUR CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY.
11:17:56AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:17:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:17:59AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MY SECOND BITE OF THE APPLE.
11:18:01AM I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING AGAIN.
11:18:02AM IN FACT, MR. VIERA, WHEN HE MENTIONED SOME THINGS.
11:18:06AM MOST OF THE CRIMES THAT HAPPEN IN CERTAIN AREAS OF HIGHER
11:18:09AM INCOME, THE HOMEOWNER IS LIABLE FOR SOME OF THE FAULT.
11:18:13AM 70% OF THOSE CRIMES, THE DOOR TO THE CAR IS NOT LOCKED.
11:18:18AM THE WINDOWS ARE DOWN.
11:18:19AM AND THE KEYS OR THE CLICKER TO THE GARAGE IS IN THE CAR.
11:18:24AM 70% FROM THE LATEST STATISTICS THAT I SAW SOME YEARS BACK.
11:18:30AM SO IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE TO TRAIN THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
11:18:32AM THERE ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CAR IS LOCKED.
11:18:35AM NOT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK INTO THE WINDOW OR
11:18:38AM SOMETHING.
11:18:38AM BUT AT LEAST THE ALARM WILL GO OFF.
11:18:41AM THE ALARM WILL NOT GO YOU HAVE WHEN THE DOOR IS NOT LOCKED.
11:18:46AM WE HAVE TO TRAIN NOT ONLY THE ONE WHO ARE DOING IT.
11:18:48AM BUT THE ONES WHO ARE BECOMING THE VICTIMS BECAUSE GOT TO BE
11:18:53AM TOLD THE STORY TO THEM DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
11:18:55AM YOU HAVE TO YOU DO IT THREE TIMES, SEE IT, READ IT AND
11:18:59AM UNDERSTAND IT.
11:19:00AM THAT IS WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND I APPRECIATE IT VERY
11:19:04AM MUCH.
11:19:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM GOING TO HAVE THE LAST WORD AND SAYS IT
11:19:08AM ALL ABOUT THE HOUSING, FOLKS.
11:19:09AM ALL ABOUT THE HOUSING.
11:19:10AM THAT DOES A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE COMMUNITIES SAFER.
11:19:14AM I WANT TO SAY --
11:19:16AM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY --
11:19:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY -- I AM FINE WITH WHATEVER.
11:19:23AM BUT I DO JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE INCREDIBLY
11:19:28AM DETAILED REPORT WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN AN AREA THAT REALLY
11:19:32AM NEEDS A LOT OF ATTENTION AND I APPRECIATE HOW NOT ONLY WERE
11:19:35AM YOU ABLE TO GIVE SUCH A DETAILED PRESENTATION BUT ABLE TO
11:19:38AM ANSWER QUESTIONS WITH STATISTICS.
11:19:40AM AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
11:19:42AM IT SHOWS JUST THE GREAT WORK YOU ARE DOING.
11:19:45AM AND IN THE NEW JOB YOU HAVE.
11:19:47AM CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU.
11:19:48AM BOARD MEMBER GUDES, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED TO
11:19:55AM MOVE FORWARD?
11:19:56AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:19:56AM HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
11:19:58AM >> THANK YOU, APPRECIATE IT.
11:19:59AM >> UP NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS CHAIRWOMAN FRAN TATE WITH A
11:20:10AM REPORT FROM THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:20:12AM WE HAVE A POWERPOINT WE NEED TO PULL UP.
11:20:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT'S UP.
11:20:27AM >>FRAN TATE: GOOD MORNING, CRA CHAIRWOMAN LYNN HURTAK AND
11:20:40AM BOARD MEMBERS.
11:20:41AM I AM TATE TATE, THE -- FRAN TATE, THE CRA SHARE OF EAST
11:20:49AM TAMPA.
11:20:49AM GLAD TO BE HERE THIS MORNING, AND I WILL PROVIDE OUR EAST
11:20:56AM TAMPA CRA UPDATES.
11:20:57AM THE UPDATE WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LISTED ITEMS -- PLEASE
11:21:03AM FORGIVE ME.
11:21:04AM I WANT TO FIRST COMMEND ALL OF YOU FOR THE PREVIOUS
11:21:07AM DISCUSSION.
11:21:07AM IT IS SO MUCH NEEDED.
11:21:10AM GUN VIOLENCE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA.
11:21:13AM PLEASE KEEP UP THE DISCUSSION AND ALLOW US TO DISCUSS IT
11:21:17AM WITH YOU.
11:21:18AM WE HAVE TO KEEP THAT DIALOGUE GOING.
11:21:20AM BECAUSE IT IS REAL.
11:21:22AM IT IS HAPPENING.
11:21:22AM AND IT NEEDS TO END.
11:21:24AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:21:28AM THE UPDATES WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LISTED ITEMS -- AS
11:21:35AM CHAIR OF THE EAST TAMPA CAC, I HAVE COME BEFORE YOU TWICE.
11:21:39AM ONCE AT THE JANUARY 20 CRA MEETING AND THEN AGAIN IN APRIL
11:21:48AM 19 AT A JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE CRA AND THE CAC BOARD.
11:21:53AM AT BOTH MEETINGS, A SIGNIFICANT CONCERN WAS EXPRESSED.
11:21:56AM ABOUT THE INABILITY OF THE EAST TAMPA CAC BOARD, THE EAST
11:22:03AM TAMPA CRA TO MOVE ANY PROJECTS FORWARD IN EAST TAMPA.
11:22:06AM I WAS VERY PROUD TO STAND WITH THE TWO FORMER CHAIRS AND THE
11:22:16AM CAC MEMBERS AS WELL AS THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
11:22:18AM WE CAME UNITED IN OUR COMMENTS AND REQUESTS.
11:22:25AM NOT SO AS MUCH COMPLAINTS, BUT COMMENTS, REQUESTS.
11:22:28AM BRINGING ON WEARINESS.
11:22:30AM ASKING YOU TO ASSIST US IN MOVING OUR PROJECTS FORWARD.
11:22:38AM WE HAD AN EVENTFUL YEAR, AND IN THIS PRESENTATION I WILL
11:22:42AM SHARE THE HIGHLIGHTS AND FUTURE EVENTS.
11:22:47AM I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I HAVE ONE OF THE CAC
11:22:52AM CHAIRMEMBERS -- COMMITTEE MEMBERS -- EXCUSE ME, COMMITTEE
11:22:57AM MEMBERS WITH ME TODAY AND I WOULD LIKE HER TO STAND.
11:23:00AM NATASHA GOODLEY IS IN THE AUDIENCE.
11:23:04AM NEXT.
11:23:05AM WALT DISNEY ONCE SAID THE WAY TO GET STARTED IS TO QUIT
11:23:12AM TALKING AND BEGIN DOING.
11:23:14AM WITH THIS QUOTE IN MIND, WHEN I WAS ELECTED CHAIR,
11:23:17AM ACTIVELY RECRUITED CHAIRS TO THE EAST TAMPA SUBCOMMITTEE.
11:23:27AM EACH SUBCOMMITTEE HAS SUCCESSFULLY PROPOSED DEVELOPED,
11:23:32AM DEBATED EXCELLENT PROGRAMS FOR THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:23:36AM NEXT.
11:23:37AM AS YOU CAN SEE, THE SUBCOMMITTEES ARE VERY ENGAGED.
11:23:43AM AESTHETICS AND BEAUTIFICATION IS CHAIRED BY MISS DENISE
11:23:48AM JAMES.
11:23:48AM THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION IS CHAIRED BY CURRENT
11:23:52AM CHAIRWOMAN RHONDA ELLIS.
11:23:54AM THE FORMER CHAIR WAS CHRIS GALLAGHER.
11:23:57AM CHRIS HAD TO STEP DOWN DUE TO WORK CONFLICTS.
11:24:03AM OUR CURRENT HOUSING IS MY VICE-CHAIR DOMINIQUE COBB.
11:24:09AM THE FORMER CHAIR WAS PLEASES VANESSA McCLEARY AND WE THANK
11:24:16AM HER FOR HER SERVICE.
11:24:17AM NEXT.
11:24:18AM THE CHAIR OF HEALTH EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES IS MR.
11:24:22AM HAROLD JACKSON.
11:24:24AM AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A PREVIOUS EVENT THAT HAROLD
11:24:30AM AND HIS SUBCOMMITTEE PUT TOGETHER.
11:24:31AM IT WAS THE FIRST ANNUAL EAST TAMPA HEALTH AND COMMUNITY
11:24:37AM FAIR.
11:24:37AM IT WAS WELL ATTENDED BY THE COMMUNITY.
11:24:39AM WE HAD A PLETHORA OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES PROVIDERS
11:24:44AM THAT CAME OUT AND OFFERED FREE SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:24:56AM HAVING THE SECOND HEALTH FAIR AND WE INVITE YOU ALL TO
11:25:02AM ATTEND WHEN IT IS DEVELOPED.
11:25:03AM THE CHAIR OF LAND USE IS MISS KIMBERLY HEADLAND.
11:25:13AM OUR ATTORNEY IS CLINTON PAN IRS.
11:25:16AM HE SITS ON THE CAC BOARD.
11:25:18AM THE CHAIR OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS NO STRANGER
11:25:23AM TO ANY OF YOU MISS ALISON HEWITT.
11:25:26AM AND THE CHAIR OF THE MEMBERSHIP AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH IS
11:25:30AM MISS KEELA McCASKILL.
11:25:32AM I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT MISS KEELA McCASKILL'S
11:25:37AM DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY UNSUNG HERO AWARD.
11:25:41AM THIS AWARD IS GIVEN TO A COMMUNITY MEMBER OR MEMBERS WHO GO
11:25:45AM ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY TO SHOW THE MEMBERS OF THE
11:25:56AM COMMUNITY.
11:25:56AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA HAS A PLETHORA OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE
11:26:05AM COMMITTED TO COMPLETE SUCCESS.
11:26:06AM AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, I AM PLEASED TO
11:26:10AM REPORT THE EAST TAMPA CRA IS NOW MOVING FORWARD.
11:26:15AM SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR DISTRICTS 5 COUNCILMAN ORLANDO
11:26:28AM GUDES WHO LED THE CHARGE IN THE SENIOR CENTER PROJECT.
11:26:31AM ANOTHER SPECIAL THANK YOU MRS. NICOLE TRAVIS AND
11:26:37AM MR. ALIS DRUMGO FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK TO FINALLY GET THIS
11:26:40AM PROJECT MOVING.
11:26:41AM THE COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FORWARD IN PARTICIPATING IN THE
11:26:45AM PLANNING AND THE DESIGN OF THE MULTICULTURE AND THE SENIOR
11:26:50AM CENTERS.
11:26:50AM STAY TUNED.
11:26:55AM WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE CONTINUED REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN
11:27:01AM EAST TAMPA.
11:27:02AM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO OUR CONCERNS.
11:27:10AM THE CHARGE -- SORRY, THE CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED
11:27:15AM BEGIN -- BEGIN TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD IN EAST TAMPA.
11:27:20AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA CAC REQUESTS THAT AS YOU SELECT THE NEW
11:27:27AM CRA DIRECT REMEMBER, PLEASE MAINTAIN THE FOCUSED ASSISTANCE
11:27:31AM TO THE -- DIRECTOR, PLEASE MAINTAIN THE FOCUSED ASSISTANCE
11:27:36AM TO THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
11:27:38AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA CAC WANT STRONG CONTRACT MANAGEMENT OF
11:27:44AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA CRP UPDATE.
11:27:48AM WE HAD A ROCKY START, BUT ONCE AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK
11:28:00AM THE CRA BOARD, YOU ALL.
11:28:02AM THE NEW CRA LEADERSHIP.
11:28:05AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA STAFF.
11:28:09AM MR. McCRAY, AND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE
11:28:15AM EAST TAMPA CRA AND THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
11:28:19AM THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT THIS MORNING.
11:28:21AM THANK YOU.
11:28:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:28:24AM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:28:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:28:27AM MISS TATE, YOUR REPUTATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
11:28:30AM YOU ARE A LEADER IN THIS COMMUNITY.
11:28:31AM AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE WITH YOU.
11:28:33AM THAT DASH IS THAT, ALISON AND KEELA ARE ALL LEADERS IN THE
11:28:38AM COMMUNITY.
11:28:38AM I OFTEN SAID THAT EAST TAMPA IS THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
11:28:44AM >> YES.
11:28:45AM >> BECAUSE ON DECADES THEY WERE ON THE BACK BURNER IF EVEN
11:28:49AM ON THIS BURNER.
11:28:49AM AND THE REST OF THE CITY WAS PROSPERING AND EAST TAMPA WAS
11:28:55AM STAYING BEHIND.
11:28:57AM A GREAT COUNCIL MEMBER WITH COUNCILMAN GUDES AND PRESS SES
11:29:02AM ER COUNCILMEMBER REDDICK.
11:29:09AM A LOT HATCHING IN EAST TAMPA AND MOW MOAN TUM AND THIS IS
11:29:13AM JUST THE BEGINNING.
11:29:14AM THESE PROJECTS ARE GOING TO TRICKLE DOWN INTO INSPIRING MORE
11:29:17AM TO HAPPEN TO THIS COMMUNITY WHERE EAST TAMPA NO LONGER IS
11:29:21AM THAT LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
11:29:23AM THE CITY LIMITS DON'T STOP AT THE INTERSECTION.
11:29:25AM THEY GO ALL THE WAY TO THE END.
11:29:28AM AND WHAT WAS IT, THE HEALTH FAIR.
11:29:33AM THE FIRST ANNUAL.
11:29:34AM >>FRAN TATE: YES.
11:29:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE THEM THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF
11:29:38AM TAMPA OR EVENTS SIMILAR TO IT.
11:29:40AM WEST TAMPA, SOUTH TAMPA.
11:29:41AM WHATEVER IT IS.
11:29:42AM BUT THE FIRST ANNUAL IN EAST TAMPA.
11:29:44AM BASIC THINGS THAT BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER THAT CONNECT
11:29:47AM PEOPLE TO THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED.
11:29:49AM STUFF LIKE THIS IS WHAT WORKS AND WHAT INSPIRES FOR OTHER
11:29:54AM PROGRAMS AND EVENTS TO TAKE PLACE LIKE THIS.
11:29:57AM SO EAST TAMPA HAS THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND TOGETHERNESS
11:30:01AM KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER AND WE ARE
11:30:04AM ALL GOING TO LIFT EACH OTHER UP.
11:30:05AM THE PRESENTATION -- YOU KNOW, IT SPOKES TO ITSELF BECAUSE
11:30:10AM YOU HIGHLIGHTED SO MANY THINGS.
11:30:11AM WHEN PEOPLE SAY NOTHING IS HAPPENING IN EAST TAMPA, YOU
11:30:15AM SHOWED -- THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE.
11:30:17AM BECAUSE A LOT GOING ON.
11:30:18AM THESE ARE BIG THINGS.
11:30:20AM COUNCILMAN GUDES WAS A LEADER FOR THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND A
11:30:27AM HUGE WIN AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT TO COME TO FRUITION.
11:30:30AM BUT EVERYTHING ELSE BIG AND SMALL THAT IS HAPPENING THERE,
11:30:33AM THE CATALYST THAT IS GOING TO MOVE EAST TAMPA FORWARD IN
11:30:39AM WAYS THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN THE PAST AND NEW DAY FOR THE
11:30:42AM COMMUNITY AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
11:30:49AM WE ARE ON THE APPETIZER.
11:30:51AM WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE MAIN COURSE.
11:30:53AM THANK YOU AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:30:56AM >>FRAN TATE: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:30:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GOOD MEMBER GUDES.
11:31:01AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: LIKE I SAID AND I SAID IT ALL THE TIME, YOU
11:31:04AM HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THINGS TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING TO MAKE
11:31:06AM THINGS MOVE.
11:31:07AM YOU HAVE TO HAVE PEOPLE IN POSITION WHO KNOW THE SUBJECT
11:31:14AM MATTER.
11:31:15AM AS YOU CAN SEE YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN EAST TAMPA ON THE BOARD
11:31:18AM SUBJECT MATTER PEOPLE WHO CAN'T KNOW -- THEY CAN'T BE BSED
11:31:23AM NO MORE.
11:31:24AM WHEN SOMEONE TELLS THEM KNOW, THEY ASK WHY.
11:31:27AM AND BRING UP FACTS SAYING YES, WE CAN.
11:31:30AM BECAUSE RULES IN PLACE THAT SAY WE CAN DO IT.
11:31:32AM NOT THAT WE EXPECT DO IT.
11:31:34AM I AM GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE IN POSITION WHO HAVE THE
11:31:39AM INTELLIGENCE TO QUESTION WHY AND WHY NOT AND WE ARE MOVING.
11:31:46AM I AM THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE A BOARD WHO UNDERSTANDS AND WE
11:31:50AM HAVE VOTES TO GET THINGS MOVING.
11:31:52AM YOU THANK THEM FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ME
11:31:55AM ASKING TO GO EXPERIENCE AND LOOK AND SEE FOR THEMSELVES THE
11:31:59AM -- KID MASON WHEN WE GOT THAT APPROVED BECAUSE THAT PLACE IS
11:32:02AM HORRIBLE.
11:32:03AM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON AND TO HAVE LEADERSHIP TO
11:32:08AM MOVE.
11:32:08AM YOU KNOW, WE HAD -- MISS GOODLEY.
11:32:14AM MISS BURTON.
11:32:16AM WE HAVE YOU MISS FRAN THAT YOU QUESTION.
11:32:19AM BEFORE THEY WANTED TO GO ALONG TO GET ALONG.
11:32:24AM TO BE ON A BOARD SAYING I AM SERVING WHICH IS GOOD.
11:32:27AM BUT TO SERVE, YOU HAVE TO SERVE WITH A PURPOSE.
11:32:29AM YOU HAVE TO SERVE WITH A PURPOSE AND GOALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
11:32:34AM IN MIND.
11:32:35AM LIKE I TELL PEOPLE IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I AM REELECTED OR
11:32:38AM NOT.
11:32:38AM I CAN WALK AWAY WITH MY HEAD JUST HIGH SAYING I SERVED MY
11:32:43AM COMMUNITY NO MATTER WHAT.
11:32:44AM IF THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE ME, FINE.
11:32:47AM THOSE WHO DO, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO
11:32:49AM SERVE.
11:32:50AM BY DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE SMALL THINGS BUT THE BIG THINGS
11:32:52AM THAT WILL GET THE COMMUNITY MOVING.
11:32:54AM WE HAVE MR. DRUMGO AND MISS TRAVIS HERE.
11:32:57AM I TELL PEOPLE, THEY GET IT BECAUSE I AM SURE THEY HAVE LIVED
11:33:00AM IT BEFORE AND THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING
11:33:03AM SOMETHING MOVE.
11:33:06AM THEY UNDERSTAND IT.
11:33:07AM AND THEY ARE NOT AFRAID, BECAUSE LIKE I TOLD A PERSON THE
11:33:12AM OTHER DAY.
11:33:12AM I SAID, IF MISS TRAVIS WAS TO EVER PUSH BACK ON THE
11:33:17AM ADMINISTRATION, THERE WOULD BE 20 OR 30 PHONE CALLS SAYING
11:33:22AM WE WILL TAKE YOU.
11:33:23AM 20 TO 30 CALLS, WE WILL TAKE YOU BECAUSE WE KNOW SHE CAN GET
11:33:26AM THE JOB DONE.
11:33:27AM AND THAT'S ALL WE ASK.
11:33:33AM IF IT DOESN'T FIT, IT DON'T FIT.
11:33:36AM SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:33:37AM AND, AGAIN, FOR YOUR BOARD.
11:33:39AM I KNOW YOU ARE NOW COMING TOGETHER.
11:33:41AM CHANGES COMING AROUND WITH THE RECREATE COMING UP.
11:33:44AM AND NOW MORE AND BETTER COMING.
11:33:47AM AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:33:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:33:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: MUCH HAPPIER TO SEE YOU SMILING THIS MORNING
11:33:58AM THAN BEFORE.
11:33:58AM AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
11:34:00AM THANK YOU TO MISS GOODLEY FOR HER LEADERSHIP.
11:34:03AM MISS BURTON AND ALL YOUR BOARD MEMBERS.
11:34:06AM ALSO KEELA AND ALISON AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO IS HERE TODAY.
11:34:10AM YOU HAVE THE -- YOUR EAST TAMPA -- YOUR -- YOUR CRA
11:34:18AM DISTRICT.
11:34:18AM YOU HAVE 100% SUPPORT ON THIS BOARD.
11:34:20AM AND I AM SORRY THAT IT TOOK SO LONG FOR US TO BE ABLE TO
11:34:25AM DELIVER THE SERVICES WE NEED.
11:34:27AM WE WERE ALL UNITED AND TRYING TO DELIVER IT.
11:34:30AM AND IT -- AND UNFORTUNATELY IT TOOK -- TOOK THE VOICE OF
11:34:37AM THREE CHAIRS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
11:34:39AM BUT THAT VOICE WAS LOUD AND CLEAR.
11:34:40AM AND WE ARE GETTING THINGS DONE.
11:34:42AM BUT PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO CONTINUE TO
11:34:46AM SUPPORT YOU.
11:34:46AM AS MY COLLEAGUES SAID, THIS AREA HAS BEEN NEGLECTED FOR TOO
11:34:49AM LONG.
11:34:50AM THIS AREA HAS AN IMPORTANT RICH CULTURE AND WE NEED TO BE
11:34:56AM SUPPORTIVE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN DETERMINING
11:35:01AM THEIR OWN DESTINY GOING FORWARD.
11:35:02AM THANK YOU.
11:35:03AM >> ABSOLUTELY, THANK YOU.
11:35:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANT TO SAY -- TO ECHO WHAT MISS
11:35:10AM GOODLEY SAID EARLIER THE FACT THAT THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU ALL
11:35:13AM HAVE INSTITUTED IN THE EAST TAMPA CAC, A LOT OF THEM ARE NOW
11:35:19AM BEING LOOKED AT AND POSSIBLY REPLICATED IN THEIR OWN WAY BY
11:35:23AM OTHER CRAs IN THE CITY AND YOU SHOULD BE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF
11:35:28AM THAT.
11:35:28AM WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT ENOUGH.
11:35:30AM AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HAVING -- WE ARE HAVING THIS
11:35:33AM DISCUSSION ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:35:34AM AND YOU ALONG WITH THE WEST TAMPA CRA HAS PUT MONEY TOWARD
11:35:42AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:35:43AM SOMETHING YOU HAVE DONE AS PART OF WHAT YOU DO.
11:35:45AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:35:47AM OTHERS HAVE PUT SOME MONEY IN, BUT IT HAS BEEN A FOCUS OF
11:35:51AM YOUR COMMUNITY AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:35:53AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:35:55AM >>FRAN TATE: THANK YOU.
11:35:57AM THANK YOU.
11:35:57AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:35:58AM >> BEFORE WE MOVE ON, MADAM CHAIR, MISS GOODLEY HAS BEEN
11:36:10AM ASKED TO MAKE A COMMENT.
11:36:11AM WE TYPICALLY DON'T HAVE COMMENTS DURING STAFF REPORT, BUT IF
11:36:15AM YOU WOULD ALLOW.
11:36:16AM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
11:36:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:36:21AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:36:23AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:36:24AM ANY OPPOSED.
11:36:25AM OKAY.
11:36:34AM >> I KIND OF WANTED TO TIE IN TO THE JACKSON HOUSE AS I WAS
11:36:37AM MENTIONED DURING THAT TIME AS WELL AS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN
11:36:40AM EAST TAMPA.
11:36:40AM AND I KNOW I AM PREACHING TO THE CHOIR BECAUSE EVERYONE SAYS
11:36:44AM EAST TAMPA HAS BEEN NEGLECTED AND WE NEED -- WE NEED TO DO
11:36:48AM MORE TO MOVE THE COMMUNITY FORWARD BUT BLACK HISTORY HAS
11:36:53AM BEEN ERASED IN EAST TAMPA.
11:36:56AM AND PRETTY MUCH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:36:58AM AND SO I WOULD REALLY, REALLY HOPE THAT NOT JUST YOU --
11:37:02AM BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE SAID YOU SUPPORT IT -- BUT THAT WE CAN
11:37:05AM GET THE SUPPORT OF THE CITY TO MOVE THINGS IN A BETTER
11:37:09AM DIRECTION FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
11:37:10AM OUR CEMETERIES HAVE BEEN BUILT OVER.
11:37:13AM MARKERS AND MANY OF THESE CEMETERIES HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN.
11:37:17AM 30th STREET AND SLY HAS A MARK THEIR SAYS IT WAS A HISTORIC
11:37:22AM BLACK CEMETERY.
11:37:23AM THE COLLEGE HILL CEMETERY WHICH LITERALLY ABUTS THE END OF
11:37:27AM MY STREET AND THE ITALIAN CLUB CEMETERY USED AS THEIR
11:37:31AM PARKING LOT FOR YEARS.
11:37:32AM KING HIGH SCHOOL BEING BUILT OVER A CEMETERY.
11:37:36AM ROBLES PARK BEING BUILT OVER A CEMETERY.
11:37:40AM AND RECENTLY I WAS APPROACHED BY SOME INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE
11:37:43AM TRYING TO DISCOVER MR. MIDDLETON'S GRAVE IN MEMORIAL PARK
11:37:48AM AND HOW WE CAN HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL NAMED AFTER SOMEONE AND WE
11:37:51AM DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE HIS GRAVE IS.
11:37:53AM WE JUST KNOW IT IS LOCATED IN THE CEMETERY.
11:37:56AM WE HAD BUILDINGS TORN DOWN.
11:37:57AM WE HAD OUR NEIGHBORHOODS DISMANTLED AND DESTROYED.
11:38:01AM THE INTERSTATE CHOKED US FROM THE REST OF THE CITY AND KIND
11:38:05AM OF CHOKED THE LIFELINE OUT OF US.
11:38:09AM EAST TAMPA HAS NEVER BEEN PLACED ON THE CITY BUDGET AND I
11:38:12AM UNDERSTAND BECAUSE ONCE IT IS PLACED ON THE BUDGET, THE CRAS
11:38:16AM CAN'T SPEND THE MONEY IN THE DOLLARS.
11:38:19AM IF YOU LEAVE US OFF THE BUDGET, IT LEAVES THE CRA TO TAKE
11:38:22AM CARE OF THOSE ITEMS.
11:38:23AM WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO SOME OF THE MOST BASIC WORK THAT
11:38:27AM TYPICALLY COMES FROM A CITY ANYWAY.
11:38:28AM AND WHEN I SAY THE MOST BASIC WORK, I MEAN, WE LEVERAGED
11:38:33AM FUNDS TO RESURFACE STREETS, SIDEWALKS, CURBS.
11:38:35AM THOSE ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY IS SUPPOSED TO DO, NOT
11:38:39AM THE CRA.
11:38:40AM THE CRA IS TO SUPPLEMENT AND ELIMINATE SLUM AND BLIGHT, BUT
11:38:44AM WE ARE INSTITUTING ACTUAL ITEMS FROM THE CITY.
11:38:46AM AND THE PROOF IS IN THE CITY.
11:38:50AM AND WE STOP LEVERAGED THOSE FUNDS WHEN I WAS CHAIR.
11:38:54AM AND ONCE WE STOPPED LEVERAGING THE FUNDS, NO STREETS HAVE
11:38:57AM BEEN RESURFACED.
11:38:59AM NO SIDEWALKS HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN.
11:39:00AM NO CURB HAVE BEEN PLACED.
11:39:02AM IF DON'T PAY FOR THE UPKEEP OF OUR COMMUNITY, IT DOES NOT
11:39:08AM HAPPEN.
11:39:08AM WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FINALLY DO THE RIGHT THING AND
11:39:12AM SAVE A PART OF BLACK HISTORY IN THIS CITY.
11:39:14AM AND THAT IS WITH THE JACKSON HOUSE.
11:39:16AM I ALWAYS SUPPORTED IT.
11:39:18AM I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A FIRM BELIEVER IN IT.
11:39:20AM BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
11:39:23AM BECAUSE AS COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO SAID, CENTRAL PARK, GONE.
11:39:29AM YOU GO THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY.
11:39:30AM EVERYTHING IS GONE.
11:39:31AM WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
11:39:32AM WE HAVE LITTLE BITS AND PIECES.
11:39:34AM AND THAT IS, LIKE, THE LAST PIECE THAT WE HAVE.
11:39:38AM AND WE REALLY NEED TO SAVE IT.
11:39:40AM WE CAN'T -- WE CAN -- WE CAN PLACE MARKERS FOR THE CEMETERY
11:39:45AM BUT NOBODY EVEN HAS REALLY ANY CLUE WHO IS UNDER THAT.
11:39:49AM WE TONIGHT KNOW.
11:39:50AM ANY TIME I SEE A FUNERAL AND CARS PARKED THERE, IT JUST
11:39:54AM HURTS ME, BECAUSE HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF WE PARKED OVER YOUR
11:39:58AM GRANDMOTHER'S GRAVE.
11:39:59AM DOWN THE ROAD WE PARK OVER YOUR GRAVE AND WE JUST DON'T
11:40:02AM CARE.
11:40:02AM SO, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP US SAVE THE JACKSON HOUSE.
11:40:06AM BUT ALSO HELP US WITH THE EAST TAMPA CRA BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE
11:40:13AM ARE PAYING FOR THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE PAYING FOR.
11:40:17AM WE SHOULD BE SUPPLEMENTING.
11:40:19AM WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RESURFACE OUR STREETS AND PAVE ROADS
11:40:23AM AND DO THOSE TYPE OF THINGS AND FIX PLUMBING ISSUES.
11:40:26AM SO THANK YOU.
11:40:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:40:29AM [APPLAUSE]
11:40:32AM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:40:34AM MANISCALCO YOU JUST MENTIONED THE GRAVE OF MR. MIDDLETON.
11:40:38AM WHAT WAS THE NAME.
11:40:39AM >> GEORGE S. MIDDLETON.
11:40:42AM MIDDLETON HIGH SCHOOL.
11:40:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THEY CAN'T FIND A GRAVE.
11:40:47AM >> A TEAM OF US THAT WILL START LOOKING FOR HIS GRAVE.
11:40:50AM I BELIEVE IT STARTED IN 1933.
11:40:53AM AND THE SCHOOL -- I WILL LOOK FOR IT.
11:40:55AM I KNOW IT IS WEIRD.
11:40:56AM I AM GOOD AT FINDING GRAVES.
11:40:58AM I ACTUALLY FOUND AN UNMARKED GRAVE OF -- OF A HISTORIC --
11:41:02AM NOT A POSITIVE HISTORICAL FIGURE IN TAMPA, BUT -- BUT LET'S
11:41:08AM SEE, IF THERE IS A MARKER.
11:41:09AM EVEN IF IT IS OVERGROWN OR SUNKEN, I WILL LOOK.
11:41:14AM YOU KNOW, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
11:41:17AM BY THE CEMETERY, THE ITALIAN CLUB.
11:41:21AM THE ARMWOOD FAMILY IS THERE.
11:41:22AM ANOTHER SCHOOL, BLANCHE ARMWOOD WITH A BUST ON THE
11:41:26AM RIVERWALK.
11:41:26AM WE KNOW WHERE SHE IS AT, BUT MIDDLETON, WHICH -- I MEAN HOW
11:41:30AM MANY ALUM DO WE HAVE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ATTENDED THERE.
11:41:34AM YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE GENTLEMAN IS BURIED.
11:41:38AM I WILL GO OUT AND LOOK FOR IT.
11:41:39AM I KNOW YOU ALL ARE, BUT IF I FIND IT FIRST, I WILL LET YOU
11:41:43AM KNOW.
11:41:43AM >> THANK YOU.
11:41:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANKS.
11:41:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:41:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE POINT YOU MENTIONED A BUNCH OF GOOD
11:41:51AM POINTS.
11:41:52AM BUT ONE WAS THAT -- THAT SHOULD SUPPLEMENT CITY BUDGET AND
11:41:56AM NOT REPLACE IT.
11:41:57AM I JUST HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH MISS TRAVIS YESTERDAY.
11:41:59AM AND I ASSUME MY COLLEAGUES HAVE AND WE HEARD IT FROM LOTS OF
11:42:04AM PEOPLE AND IT IS AN IMPORTANT THING.
11:42:06AM AND UNFORTUNATELY THE BUDGET IS ALLOCATED FOR ROADS ARE
11:42:10AM NOTHING THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CITY.
11:42:11AM I THINK THE WHOLE CITY SIDEWALK BUDGET IS $600,000.
11:42:16AM WE ARE HEARING COMPLAINTS EVERYWHERE ON THAT.
11:42:19AM ALL OF OUR TRANSPORTATION GOES THROUGH, WE NEED TO PLEASE
11:42:22AM MAKE SURE WE SIT DOWN AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERY PART OF THE
11:42:25AM CITY IS AT LEAST TREATED EQUALLY.
11:42:27AM BUT THAT WE -- WE FIX THE LONG NEGLECT THAT IS IN SOME
11:42:33AM AREAS.
11:42:34AM BUT THE OTHER THING THAT YOU MENTIONED IS BLACK HISTORY.
11:42:38AM WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT JACKSON HOUSE WHICH IS
11:42:42AM EVEN ONE SMALL PART.
11:42:43AM I CAN MAKE A MOTION OR MR. GUDES CAN MAKE A MOTION.
11:42:47AM IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HAVE YOU COME BACK OR SOMEBODY TO
11:42:51AM COME BACK AND MAKE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS TO THE CRA BOARD
11:42:54AM OR CITY COUNCIL BOARD IN WORKSHOP WHAT THE CRA BOARD OR CITY
11:43:01AM COUNCIL CAN TO DO HELP SUPPORT BLACK HISTORY.
11:43:03AM I KNOW THERE IS AN EFFORT -- COMMISSIONER MEYERS HAVE AN
11:43:08AM EFFORT TO CREATE A MUSEUM.
11:43:09AM AND THERE ARE EFFORTS TO SET UP GALLERIES AND OTHER SPACES
11:43:14AM FOR BLACK ARTISTS.
11:43:16AM A LOT OF DIFFERENT MOVEMENTS GOING ON.
11:43:18AM BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CAPTURE THE HISTORY THAT IS OUT
11:43:21AM THERE.
11:43:21AM AND JUST ONE IDEA THAT DIDN'T COST VERY MUCH.
11:43:25AM I WORKED SEVERAL YEARS WITH THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES.
11:43:28AM AND I PUT A JOSE MARTI TRAIL IN YBOR.
11:43:30AM WE GOT GARY MORMINO, A HISTORIAN OF EFOR AND A CUBAN HAND
11:43:37AM AMERICAN ACTOR WHO PORTRAYED JOSE MARTI.
11:43:41AM IT WAS ONLY $5,000.
11:43:42AM AND EVERYBODY CAN GO TO YBOR CITY AND GET A FREE WALKING
11:43:46AM TOUR OF THE HUMANITIES COUNCIL AND AMONG 30 OF THE WALKING
11:43:51AM TOURS.
11:43:52AM AND LISTEN OF JOSE MARTI OF THE PLACES HE VISITED AND WORKED
11:43:56AM IN YBOR.
11:43:57AM JUST A SMALL IDEA OF BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE.
11:44:00AM WE NEED -- I KNOW THERE ARE SOME GREAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN
11:44:03AM ME TOURS OF EAST TAMPA.
11:44:04AM AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT ANGLES TO
11:44:08AM MAINTAIN IT.
11:44:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION?
11:44:11AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PUT ON THE
11:44:14AM NOVEMBER CRA -- IF YOU WERE WILLING --
11:44:17AM >> I AM WILLING.
11:44:18AM >>BILL CARLSON: TO HAVE MISS GOODLEY COME BACK AND GIVE US
11:44:22AM SUGGESTIONS ON HOW THE CRA BOARD COULD SUPPORT TEACHING AND
11:44:31AM REMEMBERING BLACK HISTORY.
11:44:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON AND A
11:44:38AM SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER GUDES.
11:44:40AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:44:40AM OKAY.
11:44:41AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:44:42AM THAT IS NOVEMBER 10.
11:44:44AM >> WE ARE ASKING TO HEAR ITEMS 9 AND 10 TOGETHER, MADAM
11:44:57AM CHAIR.
11:44:57AM BOTH ARE -- ITEM NUMBER 9 IS A REPORT FROM ROBIN.
11:45:05AM BUT TO REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF THE CRA PARTICIPATION.
11:45:09AM I THINK WE CAN COVER THOSE COLLECTIVELY AND SHE WILL PROVIDE
11:45:12AM THE INITIAL REPORT AND HAVE INITIAL DISCUSSION.
11:45:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
11:45:15AM START WITH THE REPORT AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION.
11:45:17AM >> TURN IT OVER TO MISS NYE.
11:45:22AM >>LUIS VIERA: WHEN SHE IS DONE, CAN I ASK A QUESTION.
11:45:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE WILL HEAR THE REPORT AND THEN HAVE
11:45:29AM DISCUSSION.
11:45:30AM >> WE DO HAVE A PRESENTATION ON THIS ONE AS WELL.
11:45:32AM IF THEY CAN PULL THAT UP.
11:45:34AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:45:45AM A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
11:45:46AM AND I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT ITEMS NUMBER 8 AND
11:45:51AM 9.
11:45:51AM AND EVEN THOUGH I KNOW YOU HAVE SEEN SOME TIME AGO THIS
11:45:57AM PRESENTATION, IT IS UPDATED AND I HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE
11:45:59AM INFORMATION ABOUT IT TO SHARE WITH YOU AND EXPLAIN ABOUT OUR
11:46:03AM EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT TO IT.
11:46:05AM SOUL WALK IS IN DEVELOPMENT.
11:46:09AM IT WILL BE TAMPA AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND HERITAGE
11:46:14AM TRAIL.
11:46:14AM IT IS REALLY UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT I HAVE SEEN WITH REGARDS
11:46:17AM TO LOOKING AT DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROJECTS HERE.
11:46:22AM SORRY.
11:46:24AM AND I ALSO WANT TO STRESS WHY THE TERM SOUL.
11:46:29AM IT COMES OUT OF THE UPMOST DEEPEST RESPECT FOR CULTURAL
11:46:33AM TRADITIONS.
11:46:34AM IT IS INTENDED TO HONOR OUR ANCESTORS.
11:46:41AM THE ANCESTORS WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND BEYOND AND TO
11:46:45AM OPEN THE DOOR WITH DIALOGUE WITH OUR NEIGHBORS.
11:46:47AM THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN IN DEVELOPMENT AS I AM SURE
11:46:52AM YOU ARE AWARE OF FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.
11:46:54AM SLOW AND METHODICAL BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH AND WE TAKE IT
11:47:01AM SERIOUSLY AS A HEAVY LOAD OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE HEAR
11:47:04AM EVERYTHING THAT WE SHOULD HEAR.
11:47:05AM TALK TO EVERYBODY.
11:47:06AM THAT WE BRING IN THE TALENT THAT WE KNOW IS HERE TO HELP US
11:47:10AM SHAPE IT.
11:47:12AM TELL THE STORY AND WE TRY TO HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
11:47:15AM WE HAVE LOOKED AT A LOT OF BENCHMARKS IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT
11:47:20AM TYPES OF TRAILS.
11:47:20AM THE ONES THAT WE THINK IS -- THAT REALLY HAVE A LOT TO
11:47:26AM OFFER.
11:47:26AM THERE ARE TWO HERE THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT IF YOU ARE
11:47:30AM INTERESTED IN TAKING A DEEPER LOOK AT.
11:47:32AM ONE IS WASHINGTON D.C.'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAIL.
11:47:36AM BEAUTIFULLY DONE.
11:47:37AM IT IS THEMED.
11:47:38AM A WONDERFUL WEB SITE THAT GOES TO IT.
11:47:40AM IT IS TIED IN TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHICH I THINK IS
11:47:43AM CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO GET INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SUCH.
11:47:46AM IT IS -- JUST VERY, VERY THOUGHTFULLY DONE.
11:47:53AM IT INCLUDES THE MUSEUMS AND SIMILAR TO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING
11:47:56AM AT.
11:47:57AM MUSCLE SHOALS IS ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
11:48:04AM AREA.
11:48:04AM AND LOOKS BROADLY AT CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HOW TO EXPERIENCE
11:48:09AM AND IT MOVE FORWARD WITH CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM.
11:48:13AM WE LOOK AT A NUMBER OF PROCESSES AND EXAMPLE AND SO ON AND
11:48:17AM REALLY WHAT WE WANT THE PROGRAM TO DO.
11:48:19AM WE WANT THE COMMUNITIES AND WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO TOUCH
11:48:22AM EVERY -- AS MANY NEIGHBORHOODS AS POSSIBLE WE ARE -- WE WANT
11:48:28AM TO CREATE A FEELING OF RECONNECTION, RESILIENCY,
11:48:32AM RECOGNITION.
11:48:33AM I KNOW I DON'T NEED TO READ THIS, BUT SO IMPORTANT THAT WE
11:48:36AM MOVE -- DO IT RIGHT AND DO IT THROUGH THE ARTS AND PROVIDE
11:48:41AM ACCESS FOR PEOPLE TO CONNECT.
11:48:42AM SOME OF RECENT ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE DONE.
11:48:47AM I BELIEVE AS I REPORTED TO YOU LAST, I AM NOT SURE THAT WE
11:48:51AM RECEIVED WORD YET OF THE NEA GRANTS THAT WE HAD APPLIED FOR.
11:48:55AM WE HAVE RECEIVED BOTH NEA GRANTS THAT I AM PROUD TO SAY.
11:49:02AM A TEMPORARY MEMORIAL AT ZION CEMETERY.
11:49:05AM THE ARTIST -- WE HAVE AN ARTIST THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED.
11:49:10AM SHE WILL BE IN TOWN IN NOVEMBER AND MEETING WITH THE HOUSING
11:49:15AM AUTHORITY AND THE ZION CEMETERY NONPROFIT BOARD.
11:49:18AM WE ARE SLOWLY MAKING PROGRESS AND OUR OBJECTIVE THERE IS TO
11:49:22AM HAVE SOME TYPE OF A PROPOSAL OR CONCEPT WE ALSO HAVE A
11:49:33AM LARGER GRANT TO CONNECT WITH THE BROADER ASPECTS OF SOUL
11:49:37AM WALK.
11:49:37AM WE DID AN OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS SO WE HAVE A PREQUALIFIED
11:49:41AM POOL.
11:49:41AM WE ARE ALSO VERY MUCH DIGGING INTO AND VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE
11:49:45AM CITY'S DEI INITIATIVES.
11:49:47AM SO WE ARE VERY COGNIZANT IN REACHING OUT TO REGIONAL
11:49:51AM ARTISTS, PARTICULARLY ARTISTS OF COCHLEAR.
11:49:54AM IT HAS BEEN -- BEEN A SLOW PROCESS AS I MENTIONED BUT
11:49:58AM EXTREMELY REWARDING TO DATE AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT
11:50:02AM CONTINUES.
11:50:02AM WE WILL HAVE PERIODIC ACTIVES THAT CONTINUE THROUGH THE
11:50:06AM YEARS COMING UP THAT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE THE
11:50:11AM COMMUNITY AND TALK TO THE PUBLIC AND SEE WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS
11:50:14AM ARE, OF WHAT WE CAN DO AND BRING SOME OF THEIR VISIONS AND
11:50:18AM STORIES TO LIFE.
11:50:19AM AND TO KEEP IT IN -- FOR LONGEVITY.
11:50:24AM SO -- THE MAP RIGHT NOW -- THE MAP IS -- I WILL SHOW YOU
11:50:29AM WHERE WE ARE ON THAT IN A MOMENT.
11:50:30AM IT IS COMING ALONG.
11:50:33AM THIS SAYS 130, BUT REALLY MORE LIKE 149, NOT TO BE PRECISE,
11:50:39AM DATA POINTS RIGHT NOW.
11:50:40AM AND ALL OF IT, THAT INCLUDES ARTWORK THAT IS PLANNED AND
11:50:44AM WHAT IS EXISTING OUT THERE.
11:50:45AM YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED LOCATIONS,
11:50:50AM HISTORIC MARKERS AND THE OTHER SITES OF INTEREST WHICH
11:50:53AM INCLUDE, OF COURSE, THE CEMETERIES AND MUSEUMS AND OTHER
11:50:57AM AREAS AS WELL.
11:50:58AM SIGNATURE PROJECTS WITH THE CITY IN TERMS OF ART AT THE
11:51:02AM PUBLIC REALM AND PUBLIC ART COMPONENT OF IT.
11:51:05AM SOME OF THOSE ARE ALREADY UNDER WAY.
11:51:07AM I MENTIONED ZION ALREADY AND ALSO HANNA AVENUE AND THE --
11:51:11AM THE UNDERPASS AS WELL AND THE CONVENTION CENTER.
11:51:15AM THIS IS TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THE MAP.HOW IT IS
11:51:22AM BREAKING OUT.
11:51:23AM THE EAST AND THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER AND LOOKING AT
11:51:25AM CREATING GUIDE BOOKS WHERE WE WILL HAVE THAT AND WOULD LIKE
11:51:29AM TO HAVE A GOOD PORTION DOCTOR THE FIRST GUIDE BOOK DONE
11:51:32AM IDEALLY IN JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR BECAUSE IN WORKING WITH
11:51:37AM VISIT TAMPA BAY, QUITE A FEW CONVENTIONS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN
11:51:41AM CONVENTIONS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS MATERIAL
11:51:44AM AVAILABLE TO THEM AS WELL.
11:51:46AM AND SO THE CURATORIAL APPROACH.
11:51:51AM THIS HAS NOT CHANGED.
11:51:52AM THIS IS THE SAME IMAGE THAT I PRESENT A COUPLE OF MONTHS
11:51:55AM AGO.
11:51:55AM BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE LISTEN BEFORE ANY
11:51:58AM ACTION.
11:51:58AM THAT WE HEAR THE TYPE OF ART.
11:52:00AM BECAUSE COULD BE SOMETHING VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.
11:52:02AM AND SOMETIMES ART MAKE SOMETHING MORE COMMUNITY BUILDING AND
11:52:05AM IT IS ABOUT CONNECTING AND HEARING STORIES.
11:52:08AM SO WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO PULL THAT IN AND TO USE IT AND TO
11:52:13AM KEEP IT AND TO SHARE IT MOST IMPORTANTLY.
11:52:15AM THERE IS, AGAIN, WE ARE IN OUR OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT.
11:52:21AM WE ARE -- WE DON'T WANT -- WE DON'T -- OUR EGOS AREN'T -- IT
11:52:26AM IS NOT ONE PERSON.
11:52:27AM IT IS A LOT OF US THAT ARE PULLING TOGETHER WITH THIS.
11:52:29AM AND I HAVE A LIST OF THE SPONSORS MOMENTARILY OR PARTNERS AT
11:52:35AM THE END.
11:52:35AM BECAUSE MICK IS INVOLVED.
11:52:36AM WE TALK TO EVERYBODY.
11:52:37AM EGOS AREN'T AT THE TABLE.
11:52:39AM WE ALL WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
11:52:40AM PART OF IT IS WHEN WE -- FOR INSTANCE, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
11:52:44AM LIBRARIES, THEY HAVE A WONDERFUL ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM.
11:52:48AM WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THOSE ORAL HISTORIES.
11:52:52AM WE CAN TAKE THOSE ORAL HISTORIES.
11:52:53AM LET THE LIBRARY HAVE THOSE ORAL REQUIREMENTS AND LET'S SHARE
11:52:57AM THAT THE SCHOLARS OF USF HAVE THOSE AND THEY ARE AWARE OF
11:53:01AM IT.
11:53:01AM A CROSS FERT LITTLIZATION.
11:53:04AM AND WHAT WE CAN GETS AND THEY CAN HAVE, IT IS NOT ABOUT
11:53:06AM POWER HERE.
11:53:07AM IT'S -- OR A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER.
11:53:10AM MAYBE IT IS ABOUT EMPOWERING.
11:53:12AM THE EDUCATION COMPONENT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
11:53:15AM AND, AGAIN, WE ARE WORKING -- A TRUE PARTNER WITH THE TAMPA
11:53:20AM BAY HISTORY CENTER AND WITH THAT, IT OPENS UP A LOT WHERE WE
11:53:24AM WILL APPLYING.
11:53:25AM WE RECEIVED A FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL GRANT WHAT WE DID
11:53:31AM AT PERRY HARVEY PARK AND WE ARE LOOKING TO DUPLICATE THAT
11:53:35AM SUCCESS.
11:53:35AM IN ADDITION WITH WORK WITH OTHERS.
11:53:38AM THE SMITHSONIAN.
11:53:38AM WE ARE HOPING TO BRING THEM IN AS A PARTNER.
11:53:41AM THEY ARE PARTNERS WITH THE HISTORY CENTER AND IT MAKES A LOT
11:53:44AM OF SENSE AND DIRECTOR OF THE SMITHSONIAN KEVIN YOUNG IS A
11:53:49AM POET.
11:53:49AM HE UNDERSTANDS THE SPIRIT OF THE ART OF HOW THAT CAN TEACH,
11:53:53AM INSPIRE AND CONNECT WITH HISTORY.
11:53:54AM WE ARE IN DISCUSSION WITH -- WE ARE LOOKING AT PHONE APPS
11:53:59AM AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
11:54:00AM TNI HAS BEEN AMAZING IN BUILDING THE MAPS THAT WE HAVE IN
11:54:07AM THOSE DATA POINTS.
11:54:08AM BLOOMBERG.
11:54:09AM WE PROBABLY PULL UP THEIR APP SO THIS WILL GO NATIONAL.
11:54:12AM AND CERTAINLY OFFER A LOT OF -- OF OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT
11:54:18AM WITH IT AT LEAST.
11:54:19AM NOW ONE OF THESE ALSO VERY MUCH IS GROUNDED IN ECONOMIC
11:54:23AM DEVELOPMENT WHERE WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE
11:54:27AM COMMUNITY TO DO PROJECTS TO CONNECT TO IT.
11:54:30AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, AGAIN, NOT BEING -- NOT THE EGO TO
11:54:33AM DRIVE IT AND TO OWN IT, BUT TO CONNECT IT.
11:54:36AM AND IF PEOPLE WANT TO -- YOU KNOW, THE OLD BUSINESSES.
11:54:43AM HISTORIC BARBECUES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:54:46AM THEY SHOULD BE INCLUDED AND ENCOURAGED TO GO AND EXPERIENCE
11:54:50AM THAT.
11:54:50AM IF WE CAN HELP WITH THAT, THAT IS VERY MUCH WHAT WE WANT TO
11:54:53AM DO.
11:54:53AM WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT WAYS THAT WE CAN OURSELVES SPIN OFF
11:54:57AM IN TERMS OF OUR PROGRAMMING THAT COULD INCLUDE MENTORING
11:55:01AM PROGRAMS WHERE OUR -- TALKING TO AN ARTIST HOW SHE IS
11:55:06AM MENTORED OR CAN MENTOR.
11:55:08AM AND LOTS OF WAYS TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE WANT TO STRENGTH.
11:55:12AM AND -- AND WANT TO DO THAT.
11:55:17AM AND TO FEEL PROUD AND THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE WHY ON THE
11:55:23AM MOMENT.
11:55:23AM IT IS ON THE MOMENT.
11:55:24AM AND I HAVE TO SAY ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES IS MARTIN LUTHER
11:55:27AM KING, JR.'S QUOTE HERE ABOUT SOUL FORCE, BECAUSE TALKS ABOUT
11:55:30AM THE SPIRIT CAN REALLY PUSH IT THROUGH AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.
11:55:33AM AND THAT SO MUCH WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
11:55:35AM WE ARE -- THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OF COLOR CITY.
11:55:41AM WE OUGHT TO EMBRACE IT.
11:55:42AM CELEBRATE IT.
11:55:43AM ENJOY IT.
11:55:44AM ROLL AROUND IN IT.
11:55:46AM JUST LOVE IT.
11:55:47AM BECAUSE IT JUST MAKES US STRONGER AND MAKES US BETTER.
11:55:50AM SO WE ARE VERY MUCH CONNECTED.
11:55:57AM AND TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING IN THAT SENSE.
11:56:01AM WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
11:56:03AM WELL, PEOPLE WHO GET CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS.
11:56:06AM THERE ARE A LOT OF -- WE HAVE OUR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
11:56:09AM THERE DOING SOME SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL PROJECTS DOWNTOWN, BUT
11:56:12AM THAT IS NOT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:56:13AM AND IT DOESN'T GET TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:56:16AM SO WHY CAN'T WE DO SOME TYPE OF CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE
11:56:21AM PROGRAMMING THAT BRINGS IT TO THEM IN A WAY THAT IT IS PART
11:56:24AM OF THEIR HOME AND PART OF THEIR LIFE.
11:56:26AM FIGURING OUT WAYS TO DO THAT FOR VISITORS AND RESIDENTS
11:56:29AM ALIKE.
11:56:30AM AND, OF COURSE, IT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A
11:56:33AM GOOD DIALOGUE ABOUT RACE.
11:56:35AM IT IS ON THE MOMENT.
11:56:37AM IT HAS BEEN GREAT ACTUALLY SITTING IN HERE TODAY.
11:56:40AM BECAUSE THE CONVERSATIONS, EVERY ONE OF THEM HAVE REINFORCED
11:56:46AM WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE AND GIVES ME STRENGTH TO MOVE FORWARD
11:56:49AM BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU HAVE THOSE MOMENTS OF DOUBT.
11:56:51AM AND, AGAIN, JUST TO STRESS, IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY.
11:56:54AM IT IS ABOUT PRESERVING OUR HISTORY.
11:57:00AM DEI, STRENGTH IN INCLUSION AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS.
11:57:04AM SO IN SUMMARY, I THINK I PRETTY MUCH HAVE REPEATED MYSELF A
11:57:08AM BIT HERE, BUT WE REALLY WANT TO JUST CELEBRATE TAMPA STORY,
11:57:13AM PARTICULARLY OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO ME IS WHAT
11:57:18AM EVERY CITY'S STORY IS IN THE SENSE THAT HOW IT IS
11:57:22AM MARGINALIZATION AND ERASURE AND JUST TIMELY INITIATIVE AND
11:57:29AM PROJECT TO DO.
11:57:30AM LASTLY -- I WILL SHOW YOU A LIST OF PARTNERS.
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