TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
5:01 P.M.
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06:04:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET AND FISCAL YEAR
06:04:40PM 2027 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN HELD TODAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2022.
06:04:45PM ROLL CALL.
06:04:46PM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
06:04:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
06:04:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
06:04:54PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE.
06:04:55PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
06:04:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I'M HERE.
06:04:57PM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
06:05:00PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:05:02PM MR. MASSEY -- EXCUSE ME, MR. MARTIN.
06:05:04PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, MEMBERS OF THE
06:05:08PM PUBLIC, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
06:05:11PM A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING OF THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL AS THE
06:05:15PM CHAIR SAID HELD ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2022 AT 6 P.M. HERE IN
06:05:19PM COUNCIL CHAMBERS ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF OLD CITY HALL 315 E.
06:05:25PM KENNEDY BOULEVARD, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERATION BY THE
06:05:28PM TAMPA CITY COUNCIL OF THE FY FISCAL YEAR 25023 MILLAGE RATE
06:05:34PM THE OPERATING BUDGET AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET FOR
06:05:37PM THE CITY OF TAMPA FOR FINAL APPROVAL.
06:05:38PM THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SPECIAL CALLED
06:05:42PM HEARING FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMMUNICATING TO COUNCIL AND
06:05:46PM REMINDER, COUNCIL, THAT THE PUBLIC IS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS
06:05:50PM MEETING IN PERSON OR VIEW IT VIA CABLE TELEVISION ON
06:05:55PM SPECTRUM CHANNEL 640 OR FRONTIER CHANNEL 15 OR BY THE
06:05:58PM INTERNET VIA WWW.TAMPA.GOV/LIVESTREAM.
06:06:05PM THE PUBLIC IS, AS I SAID, ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS
06:06:09PM MEETING DURING PUBLIC COMMENT FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES
06:06:12PM PER SPEAKER EITHER HERE OR IN PERSON IN CITY COUNCIL
06:06:15PM CHAMBERS OR VIRTUALLY BY WAY OF COMMUNICATION MEDIA
06:06:20PM TECHNOLOGY OR CMT.
06:06:22PM HOWEVER, THE USE OF CMT REQUIRES PREREGISTRATION BY THE CITY
06:06:28PM CLERK'S OFFICE.
06:06:29PM THE DIRECTIONS ARE IN THE NOTICE OF THE MEETING AND THE
06:06:32PM AGENDA.
06:06:32PM WITH THAT BEING SAID, CAN I HAVE A MOTION WAIVING COUNCIL'S
06:06:36PM RULES AND PROCEDURES TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE
06:06:39PM WITH CMT AND PARTICIPATION BY COUNCILMEMBER CARLSON.
06:06:44PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
06:06:47PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
06:06:48PM ALL IN FAVOR.
06:06:49PM AYE.
06:06:50PM ALL IN FAVOR.
06:06:52PM AND ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING FOR
06:06:57PM CONSIDERATION OF MILLAGE FY 2023 MILLAGE RATE AND OPERATE
06:07:01PM AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGETS FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA
06:07:08PM 200-06, THE FY 2023 MILLAGE RATE NEEDS TO BE ADOPTED BY
06:07:13PM SEVERAL VOICES OF VOTE.
06:07:14PM MAY -- A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
06:07:17PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
06:07:19PM ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
06:07:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
06:07:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
06:07:24PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
06:07:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
06:07:26PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
06:07:27PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
06:07:29PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
06:07:30PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
06:07:33PM >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CHAIR.
06:07:34PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
06:07:36PM >>BILL CARLSON: IF I COULD REAL FAST.
06:07:37PM I SAID AT THE LAST MEETING.
06:07:39PM I APOLOGIZE I AM NOT THERE IN PERSON.
06:07:42PM THE LAST -- OR SECOND TO LAST DAY OF MY QUARANTINE FOR
06:07:45PM COVID.
06:07:45PM I APPRECIATE YOUR ACCOMMODATION OF LETTING ME ZOOM IN
06:07:50PM REMOTELY.
06:07:51PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ROGERO.
06:07:55PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU.
06:07:57PM ACCOUNT FINANCE OFFICER, READ THE PUBLIC HEARING STATEMENT.
06:08:03PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, SECOND PUBLIC HEARING
06:08:05PM STATEMENT.
06:08:05PM THIS IS THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA
06:08:09PM FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET.
06:08:11PM THE PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE IS 6.2076 MILLS WHICH IS 9.60%
06:08:17PM MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK MILLAGE OF 5.6641 MILLS.
06:08:23PM PROPERTY TAX FUNDS ARE USED TO FOR THE GENERAL FUND
06:08:26PM OPERATING BUDGET AND COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FUNDS OF
06:08:30PM THE CITY.
06:08:30PM THE GENERAL FUND INCLUDES SUCH DEPARTMENTS AS FIRE RESCUE,
06:08:33PM POLICE, HUMAN RESOURCES, PARKS AND RECREATION.
06:08:37PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE WILL NOW HAVE AN UPDATE FROM THE CITIZEN
06:08:42PM BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILL NOW BE PROVIDED BY THE
06:08:46PM DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE, EXCUSE ME, MR. JOHNSON.
06:08:51PM >> THANK YOU, MR. CITRO.
06:08:54PM HOW ARE YOU, SIR, AND COUNCIL.
06:08:56PM SO THIS YEAR IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
06:08:59PM NOT GOING TO HAVE A NICE POWERPOINT THAT WE NORMALLY DO.
06:09:03PM WE ARE JUST GOING TO KIND OF GIVE AN UPDATE, BUT BEFORE I DO
06:09:06PM THAT, AS ALWAYS, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE MY COMMITTEE MEMBERS
06:09:09PM THAT ALWAYS MADE THE EFFORT TO ATTEND OUR COMMITTEE
06:09:16PM MEETINGS.
06:09:16PM I WILL START OFF BY RECOGNIZING VICE-CHAIR BUT INCOMING
06:09:22PM CHAIR DR. CRAIG NEWMAN.
06:09:26PM ANDY SCAGLIONE, STEPHANIE POYNOR, JOE FARRELL AND MYSELF.
06:09:35PM WE WILL GO OVER A FEW WINS, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE.
06:09:39PM AND THIS WILL START WITH 2019 AS IT PERTAINS TO MY
06:09:45PM PREDECESSOR FORMER CHAIRMAN STEVEN LYDELL.
06:09:48PM ONE OF THE THINGS HE STARTED UNDER HIS INITIATIVE WAS THE
06:09:54PM CONTINUED PARKING RATE STUDY.
06:09:55PM PRESIDENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW P-CARD PROGRAM, THE
06:10:01PM POLICE BODY CAM AND ALSO THE NORTH TAMPA EMPLOYEE HEALTH
06:10:04PM CLINIC.
06:10:05PM THOSE SEVEN SOME OF THE INITIATIVES UNDERTAKEN BY MR. LYDELL
06:10:11PM AND CONTINUED BY MYSELF GOING INTO FY '21.
06:10:15PM AS A COMMITTEE, WE WERE ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND REALLY GO OVER
06:10:22PM A LOT OF THINGS AND MEET WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
06:10:25PM IN DOING SO, WE WERE ABLE TO, UNDER MISS WYNN, WE HAVE THE
06:10:31PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT DEPARTMENT.
06:10:33PM IN THE SENSE OF, THERE WAS GOING TO BE ONE POSITION THAT WAS
06:10:38PM CREATED.
06:10:38PM BUT THEY -- THE CHIEF AND HIS STAFF WAS ABLE TO EXPAND THAT
06:10:44PM DEPARTMENT WHERE THERE IS MORE COMMUNITY OUTREACH FROM THE
06:10:47PM ADMINISTRATION.
06:10:48PM SO THAT IS ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE -- THAT WE RECOMMENDED.
06:10:53PM ALSO THE GRANTS DEPARTMENT.
06:10:55PM THE EXPANSION OF THE GRANTS DEPARTMENT WENT FROM ONE
06:10:59PM INDIVIDUAL TO NOW FIVE INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE CITY.
06:11:02PM DEPARTMENTS SCOURING FOR THOSE STATES -- STATE AND FEDERAL
06:11:06PM FUNDS.
06:11:06PM WE ALSO RECOMMENDED -- CONTINUED THE PARKING RATE STUDY.
06:11:13PM AND CONTINUED THE PARKING RATE STUDY.
06:11:15PM WE MOVED OVER INTO FY '22.
06:11:18PM AND PARKING RATES INCREASED IN ALL THE CITY OWNED PARKING
06:11:21PM LOCATIONS, WHICH NOW THE PARKING DEPARTMENT IS A TRULY
06:11:26PM FUNCTIONAL ENTERPRISE DEPARTMENT RATHER THAN BEING AUGMENTED
06:11:30PM BY THE GENERAL FUNDS.
06:11:32PM SO ALSO WORKING WITH THE BUDGET DEPARTMENT FOR FY '22, WE
06:11:40PM WERE ABLE TO -- WELL, THEY WERE ABLE TO FUND AN ADDITIONAL
06:11:45PM 18 -- ADDITIONAL 18 PLUS MILL OF STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS
06:11:50PM THAT WAS ALLOCATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
06:11:53PM SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED.
06:11:57PM AND ALSO WE LIKE TO SEE THAT THE DARE TO DREAM PROGRAM, THE
06:12:01PM WEB SITE HAS BEEN UPDATED A LITTLE MORE INFORMATIVE.
06:12:04PM PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO NAVIGATE A LITTLE BETTER, ESPECIALLY
06:12:08PM THOSE THAT -- REALLY DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE PROGRAM.
06:12:11PM AND SO THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT THIS COMMITTEE HAS
06:12:15PM DONE OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
06:12:18PM STARTING WITH MY PREDECESSOR, STEVEN LYDELL AND CONTINUING
06:12:22PM UNDER MY CHAIRMANSHIP.
06:12:24PM AND WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO CALL UP THE NEW INCOMING CHAIR,
06:12:28PM AND THAT WOULD BE MR. NEWMAN.
06:12:30PM AND I AM GOING TO PASS THE GAVEL TO MR. NEWMAN.
06:12:34PM AND ADDITIONALLY, THIS IS NOT ONLY MY LAST ACT AS CHAIRMAN,
06:12:39PM BUT ALSO AS A MEMBER OF THE BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
06:12:43PM SO IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR.
06:12:45PM IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF DISTRICT 5.
06:12:48PM AND THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AS A WHOLE.
06:12:51PM BUT IT IS TIME FOR ME TO TAKE MY LEAVE FROM THE COMMITTEE.
06:12:54PM AND DO SOME OTHER THINGS.
06:13:00PM DR. NEWMAN.
06:13:02PM >> YOU JUST TOLD ME SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW.
06:13:04PM CONGRATULATIONS.
06:13:05PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. JOHNSON, CAN YOU PLEASE COME BACK TO THE
06:13:10PM PODIUM.
06:13:10PM COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
06:13:13PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. JOHNSON, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
06:13:15PM I WATCHED THE BUDGET COMMITTEE WHEN MR. LYDELL WAS THERE.
06:13:19PM I WATCHED HIS STYLE.
06:13:20PM I WATCHED YOUR STYLE.
06:13:22PM THAT IS WHY I SELECTED YOU TO BE MY PERSON ON THAT
06:13:25PM COMMITTEE.
06:13:25PM YOU DID YOUR 2019, I GOT NUMEROUS PHONE CALLS HOW YOU
06:13:31PM PRESENTED YOURSELF.
06:13:32PM HOW YOU LOOKED AT THE PROJECT.
06:13:33PM I AM PROUD TO SAY I SELECTED YOU BECAUSE I KNEW AS A YOUNG
06:13:36PM MAN WHEN I COACHED YOU AT PAL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, MAKES ME
06:13:41PM PROUD THAT PEOPLE CAN GET UP HERE TO DO WHAT YOU DO FOR THE
06:13:45PM COMMUNITY.
06:13:45PM I AM EMOTIONAL INSIDE THAT YOU ARE LEAVING.
06:13:47PM I UNDERSTAND INJURE FRUSTRATIONS WHY YOU ARE LEAVING AND
06:13:52PM DIFFICULT CHALLENGE OF PEOPLE NOT SHOWING UP.
06:13:53PM PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTANDING FINANCE AND BUDGETS.
06:13:57PM PEOPLE SHOWING UP ON THE COMMITTEE.
06:13:59PM I HOPE WITH MR. NEWMAN'S LEADERSHIP, HE WILL GET PEOPLE TO
06:14:02PM DO WHAT THEY ASK US TO DO.
06:14:04PM YOU BROUGHT A LOT OF LIGHT TO THE CITY WITH DIFFERENT ISSUE,
06:14:08PM SOMETHING WE ACTED UPON AND SOME WE DIDN'T.
06:14:10PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUE LEADERSHIP AND BRING US THE OTHER
06:14:15PM ROARS THAT AS A BODY WE DIDN'T KNOW AND NOW FIXING THOSE
06:14:19PM ERRORS THAT WE DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE TOOLS YOU NEEDED TO
06:14:22PM REALLY SUCCEED.
06:14:23PM I THINK THOSE THINGS WILL BE IN PLACE.
06:14:25PM WE MADE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND THINGS.
06:14:28PM BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS
06:14:32PM CITY.
06:14:32PM >> IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR.
06:14:34PM YOU KNOW -- SOMETIMES IT'S -- YOU KNOW, I AM VERY PASSIONATE
06:14:38PM ABOUT THE THINGS THAT I DO, YOU KNOW, AS AS A BUSINESS OWNER
06:14:48PM AND SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS AND STUDIES POLITICS EVERY DAY.
06:14:51PM I DON'T RECOGNIZE THE WORLD "POLITICS."
06:14:55PM MORE OF RECOGNIZING THE WORD AND TRY TO INSTILL LEGISLATION
06:15:00PM BACK ON THE LOCAL LEVEL, NOT JUST THE STATE BUT THE FEDERAL
06:15:03PM LEVEL.
06:15:03PM SOMETIMES POLITICS OVERSHADOWS THE MISSION THAT NEEDS TO BE,
06:15:09PM YOU KNOW, WON.
06:15:13PM AND I -- I JUST THINK THAT WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF GOOD
06:15:18PM THINGS.
06:15:18PM WE WORKED WELL WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT WHEN WE PRESS
06:15:22PM THE HARD BUTTONS, SOME THINGS JUST KIND OF -- YOU KNOW,
06:15:28PM POLITICS PREVAILS.
06:15:29PM AND I AM NOT ONE FOR THE POLITICS.
06:15:32PM SO -- BUT WE HAVE DONE SOME GOOD THINGS.
06:15:35PM AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT DR. NEWMAN AND HIS NEW COMMITTEE
06:15:40PM MEMBERS WILL HOPEFULLY PICK UP WHERE I LEFT OFF IN SOME
06:15:43PM AREAS THAT, YOU KNOW, INITIATIVES THAT I LED AND SEE IT
06:15:48PM THROUGH.
06:15:48PM BUT IT'S -- IT IS BITTERSWEET BUT THE BEST FOR ME IN LEAVING
06:15:55PM THE COMMITTEE AND LEAVING IT IN GOOD HANDS WITH DR. NEWMAN.
06:15:58PM AND I HOPE THAT GOING FORWARD THAT YOU REALLY LISTEN TO THIS
06:16:06PM BODY, COUNCIL, ALSO, ADMINISTRATION DOCTOR ADMINISTRATION
06:16:12PM HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF LISTENING AREAS THAT WE WENT OVER AND
06:16:18PM KEY RECOMMENDATIONS OVER THE YEARS BUT TIMES WHERE -- WHERE
06:16:22PM YOU PRESS HARD, SOME THINGS DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, COME TO
06:16:27PM LIGHT.
06:16:27PM BUT WITH THAT, I WILL NOT TAKE UP ANY MORE OF DR. NEWMAN'S
06:16:33PM TIME.
06:16:33PM BUT AS I SAID THE COMMITTEE WILL BE IN GOOD HANDS WITH HIM.
06:16:36PM HE HAS BEEN MY VICE-CHAIR FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.
06:16:39PM AND HE WILL BE A GREAT CHAIR.
06:16:41PM AND MR. SCAGLIONE WILL BE A GREAT VICE-CHAIR, AND GIVE
06:16:47PM EVERYBODY A GOOD FAREWELL AND WE WILL SEE YOU AROUND.
06:16:53PM >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CHAIR.
06:16:54PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
06:16:57PM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU, SIR.
06:16:59PM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, MR. JOHNSON AND ALL THE OTHER FOLKS
06:17:03PM YOU HAVE ON BOARD.
06:17:03PM THANKS TO YOUR TEAM.
06:17:05PM YOU HAVE A LOT -- A WHOLE ARMY OF PEOPLE WORKING ON THIS
06:17:09PM BUDGET OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
06:17:10PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT AND DEDICATION TO THE CITY.
06:17:13PM EVERY DOLLAR WE SAVE CAN BE SPENT ON SOMETHING LIKE
06:17:16PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
06:17:17PM WHAT YOU DID WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
06:17:19PM AND HOPEFULLY MR. -- DR. NEWMAN AND THE OTHERS WILL BE ABLE
06:17:24PM TO STEP IN THE BIG SHOES YOU LEFT.
06:17:26PM THANK YOU.
06:17:27PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:17:28PM >> WELL, THAT WAS A SHOCKER.
06:17:34PM I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT.
06:17:36PM HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING CHAIR.
06:17:39PM AND HE WAS -- HE WAS A NUMBERS GUY.
06:17:41PM AND THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT IS SAVING MONEY FOR OUR
06:17:46PM CITY AND THE PEOPLE AND THAT IS WHERE JOSEPH DID AN
06:17:54PM OUTSTANDING JOB.
06:17:55PM I HOPE TO DO AS GOOD A JOB -- THE GOOD PART IS NOW THAT YOU
06:17:59PM ARE NOT ON THE COMMITTEE, I CAN PICK YOUR BRAIN.
06:18:01PM I CAN PICK YOUR BRAIN AND WE CAN HAVE PHONE CALL
06:18:04PM CONVERSATION ABOUT IT.
06:18:05PM WE DID HAVE CHALLENGES.
06:18:06PM AND THANK YOU, ORLANDO, FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
06:18:09PM IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT WE HAD THIS PAST YEAR WE HAVE,
06:18:15PM PROBABLY FOUR MEETINGS THAT WE HAD TO CANCEL -- EITHER WE
06:18:18PM DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM OR WE DIDN'T HAVE NOTIFICATION, YOU
06:18:22PM KNOW, POSTED THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE.
06:18:25PM AND IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT IT HAS HAPPENED, BUT RIGHT NOW,
06:18:29PM WE HAVE WATCHED THE LAST SEVERAL MEETINGS WE HAD, A CHANGE
06:18:33PM IN THIS COMMITTEE, A CHANGE IN MAKING US MORE -- HAVE MORE
06:18:38PM TEETH IN IT AND HAVING US EXPRESS OURSELVES AND TRYING TO
06:18:42PM WORK A LOT MORE CLOSELY.
06:18:45PM I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO SEE THAT ONE OF THE GOALS IS TO WORK
06:18:48PM WITH CITY COUNCIL MORE CLOSELY.
06:18:49PM PUTTING TOGETHER A WORKSHOP THAT THE -- THIS COMMITTEE SITS
06:18:55PM DOWN DIRECTLY WITH CITY COUNCIL.
06:18:57PM WE SIT DOWN AND HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT IS COMING UP.
06:19:00PM WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM US AS MEMBERS.
06:19:03PM WE HAVE HAD IN THE LAST TWO YEARS FOUR REPLACEMENTS ON THIS
06:19:08PM COMMITTEE.
06:19:08PM AND ONE OF THEM WAS ON THE COMMITTEE BEFORE AND HAS BEEN
06:19:15PM GONE FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND CAME BACK AND BECAUSE WE WERE
06:19:18PM SUCH AN EXCITING COMMITTEE TO BE ON THAT HE DECIDED HE
06:19:21PM WANTED TO GET BACK ON CITY COUNCIL'S BUDGET ADVISORY BOARD.
06:19:25PM BUT ALL KIDDING ASIDE, HE -- YOU KNOW, HE IS A VITAL PART.
06:19:31PM AND WE HAVE EVERYBODY THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY.
06:19:33PM WE ARE HOPING STICKS AROUND LONG ENOUGH.
06:19:35PM BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS THAT -- THAT WE APPOINT
06:19:39PM TO THIS BOARD HAVE GOT -- REALLY WANT TO BE PART OF IT.
06:19:44PM JUST TO HAVE YOUR NAME ON THERE AS A MEMBER AND SHOWING UP
06:19:48PM OR NOT SHOWING UP.
06:19:49PM WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.
06:19:50PM AND YOU WILL BE HAVING PHONE CALLS FROM ME BECAUSE I AM A
06:19:54PM DIRECT PERSON.
06:19:55PM AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE
06:19:58PM THERE.
06:19:59PM BECAUSE IT IS AN INVOLVED COMMITTEE WITH WHAT WE HAVE TO GO
06:20:03PM OVER.
06:20:03PM THE BUDGET AS A HUGE -- A HUGE ITEM TO GO THROUGH.
06:20:07PM AND -- BUT OVERALL, WE ARE LOOKING TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.
06:20:12PM WHAT WE ARE DOING IS -- THE CITY BUDGET ADVISORY BOARD WILL
06:20:16PM BE MEETING EVERY MONTH ON THE SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
06:20:19PM BETWEEN 9:30 UNTIL 12:00.
06:20:21PM AND OUR NEXT MEETING IS OCTOBER 14.
06:20:25PM AND WE ARE GOING TO BE STARTING WITH THE BASICS.
06:20:27PM WE ARE GOING TO -- IT IS A WORKSHOP.
06:20:30PM WE ARE GOING TO -- HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH TAMPA.GOV.
06:20:34PM BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS OUT THERE THAT WE ARE TOLD
06:20:37PM IT IS ON TAMPA.GOV.
06:20:39PM YOU JUST FIND IT THERE.
06:20:40PM YOU FIND IT THERE.
06:20:41PM SOMETIMES I WILL FIND IT OR PICK UP THE TELEPHONE AND CALL
06:20:44PM MARY ON THE PHONE.
06:20:45PM AND ASK HER -- HOW I DO FIND THIS?
06:20:48PM WHAT DO I DO?
06:20:50PM CALL LISA ON THE PHONE.
06:20:51PM I NEED SOME ISSUE -- HOW DO I FIND THIS ON THE WEB SITE?
06:20:54PM SO THIS WAY EVERYBODY -- BECAUSE WE HAD NOT HAD A WORKSHOP
06:20:59PM HOW TO WORK THIS IN THE FOUR -- HOW MANY, FOUR -- FOUR OR
06:21:03PM FIVE YEARS THAT I THINK I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD.
06:21:06PM NO, HAS GOT TO BE FOUR YEARS FOR ME.
06:21:09PM FOUR TO REVIEW THE BUDGET.
06:21:11PM PAST --
06:21:13PM >> FOUR YEARS BECAUSE WHEN -- YEAH, BECAUSE WE WERE -- WHEN
06:21:16PM I GOT APPOINTED WHEN BILL CARLSON WAS ARRESTED SO FOUR YEARS
06:21:23PM AGO.
06:21:23PM BUT WE WANT TO GET INTO -- TO START TREATING THIS LIKE A
06:21:28PM COMMITTEE THAT WE ARE INVOLVED IN THIS.
06:21:31PM AND NOT JUST AN AD HOC COMMITTEE AND WE ARE INTO THIS.
06:21:37PM THERE ARE SOME RULES THAT WE ARE LEARNING AND GONE THROUGH
06:21:40PM THE SUNSHINE LAW WITH EVERYBODY.
06:21:41PM AND NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS ABOUT SUNSHINE LAW AND NOT
06:21:46PM SOMETHING YOU WOULD LEARN UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN
06:21:48PM BOARD SITUATIONS.
06:21:49PM AND I HAVE AND WILL BE FOLLOWING THAT AS WELL.
06:21:53PM WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING -- GOING BACK TO DOING SOME
06:21:56PM FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE -- DONE PREVIOUSLY
06:22:00PM TO SEE WHAT THE ASKS ARE AND WHAT THE NEEDS ARE, BUT WE ARE
06:22:04PM ALSO GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT HAVEN'T BEEN DONE SINCE I
06:22:07PM HAVE BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE.
06:22:08PM WE ARE GOING TO START MAKING -- HAVING -- OH, I FORGOT WHAT
06:22:13PM THEY CALLED IT WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
06:22:14PM WE ARE GOING -- DAY TRIPS.
06:22:19PM WE WILL DO THE WASTEWATER.
06:22:20PM THE NEW PLANTS OUT THERE.
06:22:23PM TO GET A FEEL WHAT IS GOING ON.
06:22:25PM I REMEMBER LYDELL USED TO TALK ABOUT THIS QUITE A BIT, BUT
06:22:29PM WE NEVER DID IT.
06:22:31PM TO GET MORE INVOLVED AND KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CITY,
06:22:34PM YOU GET HANDS-ON AND YOU MEET WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
06:22:36PM YOU PHYSICALLY GO OUT AND SEE IT, IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE OF A
06:22:40PM BIGGER IMPACT AND WILL BE DOING THAT MORE OFTEN AS WELL.
06:22:43PM BUT -- BUT I THINK WE ARE ON A GOOD COURSE.
06:22:47PM LIKE I SAID, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO -- I AM TALKING TO TIM
06:22:52PM THIS AFTERNOON.
06:22:53PM AND HE WAS -- THEY ARE GOING TO WORK ON TRYING TO GET --
06:22:57PM FIGURE OUT A TIME THAT THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE BUDGET
06:23:00PM ADVISORY BOARD CAN SIT DOWN AND DO A LITTLE WORKSHOP.
06:23:03PM THAT IS WHERE I STARTED THIS AND THAT IS WHERE I AM GOING TO
06:23:07PM END IT.
06:23:07PM I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING THE CITY COUNCIL AND PICKING YOUR
06:23:11PM BRAINS.
06:23:11PM BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING US PRESENT.
06:23:14PM GOING TO MISS YOU, BUDDY.
06:23:16PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:23:17PM MR. ROGERO.
06:23:20PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
06:23:24PM AGAIN, DENNIS ROGERO, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
06:23:29PM GOOD EVENING.
06:23:29PM BEFORE I START MY PRESENTATION, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE
06:23:32PM CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND MR. JOHNSON.
06:23:34PM I HAD ALWAYS APPRECIATED YOUR ENERGY, YOUR INSIGHT.
06:23:38PM YOU WILL BE MISSED.
06:23:39PM YOU WILL BE MISSED, I AM SURE.
06:23:40PM BUT THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY'S EFFORTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
06:23:44PM AND IF I COULD HAVE MY PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE.
06:23:48PM THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US AN OPPORTUNITY AGAIN.
06:23:59PM A VERY BRIEF RECAP.
06:24:01PM WE TALKED ABOUT MANY OF THESE AND MORE THINGS PRIOR TO.
06:24:04PM SO WE WILL TRY NOT TO BELABOR IT TOO MUCH.
06:24:08PM THERE IS THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET WE SUBMITTED TO COUNCIL.
06:24:11PM $1.866-PLUS BILLION DOLLARS.
06:24:15PM A 3.5% INCREASE OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
06:24:18PM THREE QUARTERS OF THE BUDGET AS WE DISCUSSED BEFORE,
06:24:21PM ENTERPRISE AGENCIES AND GENERAL FUND.
06:24:23PM THAT IS THE TYPICAL EMPHASIS THAT WE HAVE.
06:24:25PM YOU REMEMBER COUNCIL, WHEN WE ENTERED THIS BUDGET
06:24:34PM PREPARATION PROCESS AND INDEED THIS NEGOTIATION PROCESS WITH
06:24:37PM THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT, WE TRIED TO FOCUS ON FOUR
06:24:41PM CORE PRINCIPLES, OUR FOUR CORNERS YOU SEE UP THERE IN THE
06:24:46PM LEFT UPPER CORNER.
06:24:48PM HOUSING.
06:24:48PM EMPHASIS ON HOUSING AND PROVIDING ASSISTANCE, ESPECIALLY IN
06:24:52PM THIS ENVIRONMENT, A CONTINUED EMPHASIS.
06:24:54PM THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HALLMARK OF THE CASTOR
06:24:58PM ADMINISTRATION.
06:24:59PM TAKING CARE OF OUR VALUABLE EMPLOYEES NOT ONLY THIS PANDEMIC
06:25:03PM BUT FOLLOWING THE PANDEMIC BUT IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY
06:25:05PM INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENT.
06:25:07PM AND NEXT, REGARDING OUR FUND BALANCE.
06:25:11PM YOU HEARD US SPEAK TO THIS MANY TIMES BEFORE AND I WILL
06:25:15PM ELABORATE IN JUST A MOMENT AND MAINTAINING AND IN SOME
06:25:19PM INSTANCES EXPANDING OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE THROUGH STAFF AND
06:25:23PM PROJECTS, ETC.
06:25:24PM IF I CAN JUMP INTO JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL IN HOUSING.
06:25:28PM YOU WILL RECALL WE STARTED THIS RECOMMENDED BUDGET WITH JUST
06:25:31PM OVER $26 MILLION NUMBER NEW MONEY.
06:25:35PM BRAND-NEW, NOT CARRY FORWARD MONEY.
06:25:39PM ON THE SECOND LINE, A POTENTIAL $5.5 MILLION THAT WE
06:25:43PM DISCUSSED FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT REVENUE
06:25:45PM REPLACEMENT FUNDING FOR THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT.
06:25:49PM AND IF YOU LOOK ON THE LAST LINE THERE, WE ARE COMING BACK
06:25:52PM AS MISS TRAVIS MENTIONED EARLIER THIS NOVEMBER WITH
06:25:55PM POTENTIALLY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE IN
06:25:59PM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FUNDING BASED ON THE ACTIONS
06:26:03PM THAT THE CRA BOARD TAKES AT THAT TIME.
06:26:05PM WE THINK THAT IS A -- A VERY, VERY LARGE PACKAGE.
06:26:11PM RIGHT NOW IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET LARGER AS I MENTIONED AND
06:26:15PM EMPHASIZES THE MAYOR AND YOUR EMPHASIS ON THE HOUSING CRISIS
06:26:19PM WE ARE FACING RIGHT NOW.
06:26:20PM MOVING ON TO OUR EMPLOYEES.
06:26:23PM NINE AND A HALF PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASES FOR ALL
06:26:29PM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING MEMBERS.
06:26:31PM ALL THE APPOINTED UNCLASSIFIED, ALL THE PROFESSIONALS AND
06:26:35PM ALL THE SUPERVISORS.
06:26:36PM AGAIN AN EMPHASIS ON THE THREERs THAT YOU HEARD THE CHIEF OF
06:26:41PM STAFF MENTIONED.
06:26:41PM RECRUITMENT OF VALUABLE, VALUABLE EMPLOYEES, POTENTIAL
06:26:45PM EMPLOYEES, AND THE RETENTION AND REWARD OF THOSE ALREADY
06:26:48PM HERE.
06:26:48PM AGAIN, WORKING THROUGH COVID, FACING 40-YEAR HIGH INFLATION.
06:26:53PM AND IN THIS VERY, VERY STRONG LABOR MARKET.
06:26:58PM I WON'T GO OFF IN A TANGENT BUT YOU SEE AND READ OF THE GDP,
06:27:07PM GROSS DOMESTIC PROJECT BEGINNING TO DECLINE AND HISTORICALLY
06:27:11PM STRONG LABOR MARKET.
06:27:12PM IT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO RETAIN AND RECRUIT THE BEST
06:27:15PM AND THE BRIGHTEST ESPECIALLY NOW.
06:27:17PM AND THE THIRD CORNER, THE FUND BALANCE.
06:27:21PM WE HAVE SHARED THIS WITH YOU BEFORE.
06:27:23PM WE ARE DRIFTING BACK TOWARD OUR OUTSIDE OF THE GREAT
06:27:28PM RECESSION AND OUTSIDE OF THE COVID PANDEMIC.
06:27:31PM OUR TYPICAL -- WHAT HAS BECOME OUR TYPICAL 23% TO 24%.
06:27:36PM SPEAKS VERY, VERY WELL TO A NUMBER OF THINGS.
06:27:39PM OUR FINANCIAL RESILIENCE.
06:27:42PM OUR FINANCIAL PREPAREDNESS IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY AND
06:27:45PM THIS IS A VERY UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TIME.
06:27:49PM THIS IS A VERY NICE PICTURE AS WE COME OFF OF THE FEDERAL
06:27:52PM AND STATE FUNDING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PANDEMIC.
06:27:54PM AND OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE.
06:27:59PM BEGINNING WITH STAFFING.
06:28:01PM WE SHARED THIS SLIDE WITH YOU BEFORE.
06:28:03PM JUST OVER 70 NEW POSITIONS.
06:28:06PM AGAIN, STILL FAR BELOW WHERE WE WERE IN 2007.
06:28:10PM AND YET, OVER 70 NEW POSITIONS TO MAINTAIN SERVICES TO MEET
06:28:15PM EXISTING DEMANDS AND TO EXPAND SOME SERVICES TO MEET
06:28:19PM EXPANDING DEMANDS.
06:28:20PM THESE ARE THOSE POSITIONS BROKEN DOWN BY OUR STRATEGIC
06:28:26PM GOALS.
06:28:26PM AND THEN WE HAVE THE SAME POSITIONS BROKEN DOWN BY THE
06:28:30PM DEPARTMENTS.
06:28:30PM SO YOU CAN SEE THE EMPHASIS.
06:28:32PM 20 IN THE WATER DEPARTMENT.
06:28:34PM THEY ARE CHANGING HOW THEY OPERATE OVER THERE.
06:28:36PM HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION.
06:28:39PM NINE POSITIONS, TRANSPORTATION SEVEN, AND I WON'T READ THE
06:28:43PM ENTIRE SLIDE TO YOU, BUT, AGAIN, MAINTAINING AND EXPANDING
06:28:47PM THAT LEVEL OF SERVICE WHEN WE CAN.
06:28:55PM OF COURSE MAINTAINING THE LEVEL OF SERVICE IS NOT SIMPLY
06:29:01PM RESIGNED TO STAFF.
06:29:02PM EVEN THOUGH NEED STAFF.
06:29:03PM NOTHING HAPPENS WITHOUT THEM.
06:29:05PM BUT CONTINUING WITH OUR VERY, VERY AMBITIOUS INFRASTRUCTURE
06:29:08PM AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
06:29:10PM IT IS WHAT WE DISCUSS NOT ONLY IN OUR PRESENT BUT OUR
06:29:14PM FUTURE.
06:29:15PM I AM FOND OF SAYING YOUR FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
06:29:19PM PROGRAM IS REALLY THE CITY'S DESTINY, AND YOU SEE IT REMAINS
06:29:23PM AMBITIOUS.
06:29:23PM NEARLY $2 BILLION.
06:29:25PM THE CONTINUATION OF THE PIPES PROGRAM WITH AN EMPHASIS ON
06:29:29PM WATER AND WASTEWATER.
06:29:30PM MAJOR SOLID WASTE, NOT ONLY RENOVATIONS TO THE WASTE TO
06:29:34PM ENERGY PLANT BUT SOME OPERATIONAL CHANGES THAT ARE GOING TO
06:29:37PM HEED TO EFFICIENCIES AND BETTER SERVICE AND WE TALKED OF
06:29:44PM SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN STORMWATER.
06:29:46PM COUNCIL WILL RECALL THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, WE LED A
06:29:52PM SIGNIFICANT CONTRACT FOR THE CONTINUED SUCCESS OF OUR
06:29:55PM STORMWATER EFFORTS.
06:29:56PM IN SUMMARY, COUNCIL, AND YOU MAY HAD INFERRED THIS FROM MR.
06:30:01PM JOHNSON OR DR. NEWMAN'S PRESENTATION, BUT THIS HAS GOT TO BE
06:30:05PM ONE OF THE MOST PARTICIPATORY AND COLLABORATIVE BUDGETS I
06:30:09PM HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SINCE I GOT HERE IN 2009.
06:30:12PM AND I THINK IT SHOWS.
06:30:14PM I THINK WE HAVE GOT A VERY TIGHT, QUALITY PRODUCT BASED ON
06:30:18PM ALL OF THE DIALOGUE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE WHETHER IT WAS THE
06:30:22PM BEGINNING OF THE UNION NEGOTIATIONS IN APRIL.
06:30:24PM AND, AGAIN, WE GOT THOSE NEGOTIATIONS FINISHED PRIOR TO THE
06:30:28PM BUDGET FOR MAYBE THE FIRST TIME.
06:30:30PM MAYBE AT LEAST THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN HERE.
06:30:33PM AND THE MIDYEAR.
06:30:35PM WE TYPICALLY STARTED WITH COUNCIL AS A BANG IN MAY GIVING
06:30:40PM YOU AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE YEAR WE ARE IN.
06:30:43PM AND PREPARING US FOR THE YEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO ENTER.
06:30:47PM THING BUDGET ACCOMMODATES BOTH THE MAYOR AND YOUR
06:30:50PM PRIORITIES.
06:30:50PM AND I ALSO THINK -- I SAID THIS BEFORE AND I AM NOT THE ONLY
06:30:54PM ONE.
06:30:54PM IT IS AN ESSENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT BUDGET BECAUSE IT
06:30:58PM ACCOMPLISHES SO MANY THINGS IN THE FACE OF ALL THESE
06:31:00PM CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE HAD THAT THEY ARE NOT OF OUR MAKING.
06:31:07PM 40-YEAR HIGH INFLATION.
06:31:09PM THE PANDEMIC.
06:31:10PM IS IT OVER, IS IT NOT OVER?
06:31:12PM I DON'T KNOW.
06:31:12PM IT CERTAINLY HAD AN IMPACT AND CONTINUED TO HAVE SOMEWHAT OF
06:31:15PM AN IMPACT, JUST ASK ANYBODY WHO WORKED DURING IT.
06:31:19PM CHAIR, SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID RECENTLY KIND OF STRUCK WITH
06:31:23PM ME.
06:31:23PM YOU MENTIONED -- AND I THINK IT WAS CORRECT -- THAT THERE
06:31:27PM WAS NOBODY TO CALL AND SAY, HEY, HOW DID YOU ALL HANDLE YOUR
06:31:31PM LAST PANDEMIC?
06:31:33PM IT WAS IT.
06:31:34PM THE BACK OFFICE WE TALK ABOUT SINK OR SWIM AND BY THE WAY
06:31:36PM THE LAKE IS ON FIRE.
06:31:38PM IT WAS SOMETHING FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
06:31:40PM AND YOU HEARD THE CHIEF OF STAFF SAY, THIS IS THE BUSIEST HE
06:31:44PM HAS SEEN IT IN THE 30 YEARS THAT HE HAS BEEN HERE, AND YET
06:31:48PM WE ARE ACCOMPLISHING SO MUCH, IN MY OPINION.
06:31:51PM WE HAVE SAID IT BEFORE.
06:31:53PM SOME OF YOU HAVE SAID.
06:31:55PM WE ARE DOING AMAZING THINGS.
06:31:56PM I THINK WE WILL LOOK BACK AND WONDER AT THE AMAZING THINGS
06:31:59PM WE MANAGED TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE FACE OF ALL THESE CHALLENGES
06:32:06PM AND I THINK WHEN WE DO, THIS BUDGET WITH THE CAPITAL
06:32:08PM IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, THE SIGNIFICANT PAY INCREASES IN THIS
06:32:11PM ENVIRONMENT, THING BUDGET WILL BE COUNTED AS ONE OF THOSE
06:32:15PM AMAZING THINGS.
06:32:15PM SO THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
06:32:17PM AGAIN, THIS WON'T BE THE LAST TIME I THANK YOU.
06:32:20PM WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUING EFFORTS.
06:32:24PM THANK MY TEAM, THE FANTASTIC TEAM, AND THE DEPARTMENTS.
06:32:28PM THAT ENDS MY PRESENTATION, SIR.
06:32:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL?
06:32:32PM ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
06:32:37PM COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
06:32:39PM >>LUIS VIERA: ARE YOU SURE?
06:32:40PM YEAH, JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS IF I MAY.
06:32:44PM AND MR. CHAIRMAN, DO WE ASK QUESTIONS IN GENERAL ON THE
06:32:47PM ENTIRE BUDGET AT THIS TIME OR SHOULD WE --
06:32:50PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE QUESTIONS OF THE
06:32:53PM BUDGET AT THIS TIME.
06:32:54PM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST MAKING SURE.
06:32:55PM I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS SET -- THANK YOU.
06:32:59PM COUPLE OF ISSUES.
06:33:01PM I KNOW CHIEF TRIPP IS HERE.
06:33:03PM LOCAL 754 HERE.
06:33:05PM AND CHIEF TRIPP CAN SPEAK TO THIS LATER ON.
06:33:08PM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR TAMPA
06:33:12PM FIRE RESCUE FOR DISTRICT 7.
06:33:13PM IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG,
06:33:16PM BUT THOSE FUNDS COULD GO TO ASSISTING WITH RESPONSE TIMES IN
06:33:22PM 33647 IN NEW TAMPA, AS WELL AS DESIGN FOR THE NEXT STATION
06:33:28PM WHERE THE NEED IS THE HIGHEST.
06:33:29PM I WILL LET CHIEF TRIPP RESPOND TO THAT WHENEVER THE TIME
06:33:34PM COMES AND WHAT NOT.
06:33:35PM I KNOW THIS BUDGET INCLUDES FUNDS FOR THE RETURNING CITIZENS
06:33:39PM PROGRAM WHICH WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING WITH THE COUNTY WHICH
06:33:42PM IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR JOB TRAINING AND APPRENTICESHIP.
06:33:47PM THE GRANT FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME PEOPLE WHO LOVED ONES HAVE
06:33:51PM BEEN MURDERED AND VICTIMS OF SEXUAL BATTERY, WHAT HAVE YOU,
06:33:55PM TO HELP YOU WITH A FUND FOR TRANSITION AND WHATNOT.
06:33:59PM SOMETHING I BROUGHT UP MY FRIEND PHYLLIS GUFMAN WITH
06:34:07PM McDONALD'S TRAINING CENTER AND PARDON THE LATE NOTICE, BUT
06:34:11PM JUST CAME TO ME AT AN EVENT I WAS AT LAST WEEK, BUT IT IS A
06:34:16PM VERY SMALL ASK.
06:34:17PM A PROGRAM AND INTERNSHIP PROGRAM WITH PEOPLE WITH
06:34:21PM INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
06:34:23PM I DON'T HAVE THE BEST MATH IN THE WORLD AND I DON'T THINK IT
06:34:28PM WILL COST MORE THAN $100,000 TO $115,000 TO HAVE ONE
06:34:33PM INDIVIDUAL WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AS AN INTERNSHIP.
06:34:35PM CAN COME BACK IN SIX MONTHS BECAUSE IT TAKES TIME TO DEVELOP
06:34:39PM IT, ETC.
06:34:40PM BUT I MENTIONED IT AT THE COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT AND
06:34:43PM WHATNOT.
06:34:44PM McDONALD'S TRAINING CENTER DOES A PROGRAM ARE LOWRY PARK ZOO
06:34:49PM AND MY PART-TIME AIDE CONNOR DARKEN GRADUATED FROM IT.
06:34:54PM IT WAS -- LAST WEEK, IN FACT, IT WAS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
06:34:58PM PROGRAM THAT PUTS -- I GUESS MOVES FORWARD THE PRIOR
06:35:01PM ADMINISTRATION'S AUTISM-FRIENDLY CITY OF TAMPA PROGRAM TO
06:35:06PM HAVING A FORMAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
06:35:08PM A PAID INTERNSHIP PROGRAM OVER HERE.
06:35:11PM AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT FUNDED.
06:35:13PM AGAIN NOT IN A RUSH IN TERMS OF BRING IT BACK.
06:35:16PM WE CAN HAVE IT BROUGHT BACK IN APRIL OR SO BECAUSE THAT
06:35:22PM TAKES TIME.
06:35:22PM BUT SOMETHING I WILL PUT OUT THERE TO MAKE A MOTION TO GO
06:35:25PM THROUGH.
06:35:25PM WHEN IT COMES TO THE FIRE ISSUE, I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE
06:35:29PM CHIEF SAYS BEFORE ACTING FURTHER.
06:35:31PM JUST GENERAL COMMENTS.
06:35:32PM THANK YOU, SIR.
06:35:33PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
06:35:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET.
06:35:41PM I KNOW WE HAVE HOUSING COMING UP.
06:35:43PM I KNOW WE HAVE MISS TRAVIS TO TALK ABOUT HOUSING IN
06:35:46PM PARTICULAR.
06:35:46PM SO I WILL SAVE MY HOUSING QUESTIONS UNTIL THEN.
06:35:49PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, MA'AM.
06:35:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IN THE MEANTIME, I WANTED TO MAKE A MOTION --
06:35:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE ARE NOT TAKING ANY MOTIONS.
06:35:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: NOT AT THIS POINT.
06:36:00PM THIS IS VERY STATUTORY SET FORTH THAT WE HAVE TO PROCEED
06:36:03PM THIS WAY AT THIS POINT.
06:36:04PM IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING.
06:36:08PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, CAN MAYBE SHE ASK FOR --
06:36:12PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU HAVE TO ASK TO BE RECOGNIZED.
06:36:14PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, MR. CHAIR.
06:36:16PM MAYBE SHE CAN DO SOMETHING OF ACTING THE OPINION OF COUNSEL.
06:36:25PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. MASSEY, YOU WANT TO OPINE.
06:36:29PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
06:36:31PM YOU CAN ASK QUESTIONS.
06:36:32PM BUT MR. SHELBY PROCEDURALLY UNDER STATE LAW, THE FIRST
06:36:35PM ACTION THIS COUNCIL NEEDS TO TAKE IS TO APPROVE THE MILLAGE
06:36:39PM RATE AN THEN TAKE ACTIONS ON THE BUDGET.
06:36:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO PROBLEM.
06:36:42PM I WILL SAVE THIS FOR LATER THEN.
06:36:50PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE YOU FINISHED.
06:36:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL WAIT FOR HOUSING.
06:36:52PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WILL WAIT AS MR. MASSEY EXPLAINED.
06:36:56PM I WILL MAKE REFERENCE FOR FIRE -- FOR CHIEF TRIPP TO EXPLAIN
06:37:01PM WHAT THE PLAN IS.
06:37:02PM I WILL WAIT UNTIL WE PASS THE MILLAGE.
06:37:04PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYBODY ELSE, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, DO YOU
06:37:09PM HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME?
06:37:10PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, THANK YOU.
06:37:11PM MR. ROGERO, I MENTION THIS LAST TIME AND TO REMIND EVERYBODY
06:37:16PM THAT THE RESERVE FUND -- I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER,
06:37:20PM 112 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
06:37:22PM WHEN WE SETTED IT OUT LAST TIME.
06:37:25PM AND THE AMOUNT WE HAVE TO KEEP AS A MINIMUM IS ONLY ABOUT
06:37:30PM $14 MILLION IN THERE AND THAT IS REALLY OUR RAINY DAY FUND.
06:37:33PM I PUSHED HARD THREE AND A HALF NEARS TO MORE MONEY IN THE
06:37:37PM RAINY DAY FUND AND WE NEEDED IT BECAUSE WE WERE HIT WITH
06:37:40PM COVID.
06:37:41PM I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE HIT WITH A RECESSION AND WE MOST
06:37:47PM CERTAINLY ARE HEADED INTO A RECESSION AND MY FEAR IS THAT WE
06:37:50PM WILL BE CUTTING SERVICES.
06:37:50PM AS I MENTIONED BEFORE THE RESERVE FUND WHEN PAM EYE OR RIO
06:37:58PM --IORIO IS 150 MILLION AND MIRACLE OF THE ECONOMY IT IS $110
06:38:05PM MILLION.
06:38:05PM NOT A QUESTION BUT SHOWER WE NEED TO GET THE NUMBER BACK UP
06:38:10PM BECAUSE A SCARY SITUATION WITH A $1.8 BILLION BUDGET THAT WE
06:38:13PM HAVE TO HAVE PLUS MORE MINUS SLUSH FUND OR RAINY DAY FUND.
06:38:20PM >> THANK YOU, SIR.
06:38:21PM I APPRECIATE YOU SURFACE IT NOW.
06:38:24PM AND I APPRECIATE YOU SURFACE IT IN THE PAST AND COUNCIL'S
06:38:28PM SUPPORT.
06:38:28PM AS YOU KNOW IT IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT NUMBER TO US AND
06:38:31PM IMPORTANT NUMBER TO THE RATING AGENCIES.
06:38:33PM A VERY UNCERTAIN TIME.
06:38:35PM IF YOU WANT SIGNS OF A STRONG ECONOMY, THEY ARE OUT THERE.
06:38:38PM IF YOU WANT SIGNS OF A VERY POOR ECONOMY, OF COURSE, THEY
06:38:42PM ARE OUT THERE TOO.
06:38:43PM WE ARE COMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW WITH THE 23% TO 24%.
06:38:48PM BUT WE WILL ALWAYS MAKE AN EFFORT, AND ESPECIALLY IF THIS
06:38:53PM ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT CONTINUES TO BE SO VOLATILE, WE WILL
06:38:56PM MAKE AN EFFORT TO INCREASE IT.
06:38:58PM AGAIN, IT IS ABOVE OUR POLICY OF 20%.
06:39:01PM WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT AND KEEP IT ABOVE 20%.
06:39:04PM SO IT WILL BE FURTHER TO COUNCILMAN CARLSON'S POINTS A
06:39:10PM CONTINUED EFFORT ON OUR PART.
06:39:11PM THANK YOU SP.
06:39:12PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
06:39:14PM MR. ROGERO, I WILL OPEN THIS UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS
06:39:20PM TIME.
06:39:20PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
06:39:21PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR
06:39:24PM THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 MILLAGE RATE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMEN
06:39:28PM PROJECT CAN MAKE A COMMENT AT THIS TIME.
06:39:34PM IF YOU CAN FORM A LINE MY LEFT, YOUR RIGHT.
06:39:37PM AND FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
06:39:48PM >> HI, MY NAME IS SIMON ROWE.
06:39:53PM I'M HERE WITH TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE AGAIN TO
06:39:56PM TALK ABOUT THE FUNDING FOR HOUSING HERE IN TAMPA HONESTLY
06:40:02PM DISAPPOINTED IN THE ALLOCATION FOR THE BUDGET.
06:40:05PM I THINK LEAVING A LOT OF FUNDING UP TO THE FUTURE TO BE
06:40:10PM DATED IS A MISTAKE WHEN WE CAN ALREADY SEE THERE IS A
06:40:13PM HOUSING EMERGENCY NOW.
06:40:14PM I THINK WE NEED TO BE PREPARING TO ALLOCATE MORE NOW.
06:40:19PM I THINK RELYING TOO MUCH ON VERY RESTRICTIVE GRANTS FOR MOST
06:40:25PM OF THE HOUSING BUDGET IS A LITTLE WEAK.
06:40:27PM WE COULD DO MORE HERE AT THE CITY LEVEL TO FUND HOUSING IN
06:40:32PM ADDITION TO THAT.
06:40:33PM SO THE FUNDS AREN'T AS RESTRICTED.
06:40:36PM AND SO I FIND THAT ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS AGAINST FUNDING
06:40:41PM HOUSING MORE TO BE KIND OF RIDICULOUS WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT
06:40:46PM INCREASING -- LIKE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS.
06:40:51PM INCREASING RAISES FOR CERTAIN CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALS.
06:40:54PM WE UNDERSTAND THAT INFLATION IS BAD AND PEOPLE ARE BEING
06:40:57PM AFFECTED, BUT I DON'T SEE THIS APPLIED IN TERMS OF HOUSING.
06:41:00PM AND IT IS WEIRD TO BE HERE LIKE THE LAST MEETING, THE BUDGET
06:41:06PM HEARING I WENT THROUGH, HEARING IT DISCUSSED THAT WE COULD
06:41:09PM INCREASE CITY WALK -- SIDEWALK FUNDING BY TENFOLD, BUT WHERE
06:41:16PM IS THAT ENERGY FOR HOUSING WHEN IT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT
06:41:19PM ISSUE THAT IT LITERALLY ON POINT ONE ON BUDGET PRIORITIES,
06:41:24PM YOU KNOW.
06:41:25PM HONESTLY THE RAINY DAYS ARE HERE WHEN IT COMES TO THE
06:41:28PM HOUSING CRISIS.
06:41:29PM I THINK CITY COUNCIL SHOULD ACT NOW WHEN IT COMES TO THIS
06:41:35PM ISSUE.
06:41:36PM I DON'T THINK IT IS AN ISSUE THAT CAN WAIT PERSONALLY AND
06:41:38PM HONESTLY I DON'T THINK THIS IS MOST PARTICIPATORY BUDGET.
06:41:42PM I KNOW I WASN'T HERE FOR THE LAST ONE, BUT I REALLY WANT TO
06:41:46PM SEE PEOPLE FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA PARTICIPATE MORE BECAUSE,
06:41:51PM I DON'T KNOW, I FEEL LIKE COMING UP HERE AGAIN AND AGAIN NOT
06:41:55PM BEING LISTENED TO.
06:41:56PM BUT THANKS.
06:41:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:41:58PM >> HELLO, LAURA RODRIGUEZ.
06:42:04PM I AM FROM TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE, AND I'M HERE
06:42:09PM TO SAY THAT, ONCE AGAIN, THIS BUDGET IS EXTREMELY
06:42:13PM DISAPPOINTING COMING HERE AND LISTENING TO THE PRESENTATION,
06:42:16PM WATCHING ONLINE THE UPDATE ON THE 15th THAT THERE WAS ONLY
06:42:23PM MONEY ALLOCATED FROM THE -- LIKE, THE WASTE MANAGEMENT FUND
06:42:27PM OR THE -- THE ESSENTIAL SERVICES.
06:42:29PM NOBODY IN THIS LINE IS ASKING Y'ALL TO DEFUND ESSENTIAL
06:42:33PM SERVICES FOR HOUSING.
06:42:35PM WE NEED BOTH FUNDED.
06:42:36PM BOTH ARE ESSENTIAL.
06:42:37PM WE ARE ENTERING HURRICANE SEASON.
06:42:40PM SO WE DON'T NEED Y'ALL TO BE DOING THIS.
06:42:43PM LIKE WHERE MY -- WHERE MY FAMILY FROM IS FROM PUERTO RICO
06:42:49PM DEALING WITH MASSIVE FLOODING -- SORRY, VERY EMOTIONAL
06:42:52PM BECAUSE THE FIFTH-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE MARIA.
06:42:56PM WE DON'T NEED FOR YOU TO DEFUND THAT.
06:42:58PM WE NEED FOR YOU TO TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM SERVICES THAT ARE
06:43:01PM NOT PERFORM WHERE THEY NEED LIKE THE POLICE.
06:43:03PM SO WE KNOW THAT THE POLICE HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR RACIST
06:43:10PM HOUSING PROGRAMS THIS YEAR.
06:43:11PM SO WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING IS TAKING MONEY FROM THE
06:43:13PM GENERAL FUND LIKE YOU ALL WERE SAYING.
06:43:16PM YOU WERE SAYING HOUSING IS YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, YET NO
06:43:21PM MONEY IS GOING TO HOUSING.
06:43:22PM HOUSING IS ON -- NUMBER ONE FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.
06:43:26PM BUT AGAIN NO MONEY.
06:43:27PM Y'ALL CAN'T EVEN MAKE 10% FOR THAT.
06:43:33PM AND HONESTLY LIKE -- THE PERSON BEFORE ME SAID, THIS IS A
06:43:37PM RAINY DAY.
06:43:38PM LIKE WE ARE COMING IN HERE DRENCHED BECAUSE OF THE RAIN.
06:43:41PM NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT NOW.
06:43:43PM AND HONESTLY IT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED THE LAST BUDGET
06:43:49PM HEARING THAT YOU WERE WILLING TO MAKE MOTIONS TO PUSH
06:43:52PM HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INTO OTHER THINGS BUT
06:43:56PM NOBODY HAD THE GUTS TO MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE MONEY TO
06:43:59PM HOUSING.
06:43:59PM LIKE YOU ALL JUST SAID LOOK -- IT IS OUR NUMBER ONE
06:44:04PM PRIORITY.
06:44:04PM LET'S THINK OF THIS REAL HARD AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
06:44:06PM IT IS EMBARRASSING.
06:44:08PM IT IS, LIKE, LAUGHABLE.
06:44:10PM SO, YEAH, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO NOT TRUST THIS BUDGET.
06:44:14PM LIKE Y'ALL NEED TO TAKE POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT IS
06:44:17PM IN YOUR HANDS NOW.
06:44:18PM YOU CAN'T BLAME IT ON THE MAYOR'S BUDGET.
06:44:22PM IT IS ALREADY OVER HERE.
06:44:24PM YOU VOTED YES TO TAKE IT.
06:44:26PM NOW DO SOMETHING WITH IT.
06:44:27PM THANK YOU.
06:44:28PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:44:32PM >> HELLO.
06:44:36PM NOAH MEYERS, TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE.
06:44:40PM IT WAS VERY CHEEKY OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO COME OUT HERE,
06:44:44PM PUT A NEW SLIDE ON THE EXACT SAME POWERPOINT THEY MADE TWO
06:44:48PM WEEKS AGO SAYING HOUSING IS THEIR FIRST PRIORITY.
06:44:51PM I CAN'T THINK OF A BIGGER INSULT TO COME UP HERE TO TELL YOU
06:44:54PM THAT THEIR PRIORITY, THEIR FIRST PRIORITY IS HOUSING.
06:44:58PM EVERY WEEK, PEOPLE COME OUT HERE AND SAY, NOT ENOUGH MONEY
06:45:01PM FOR HOUSING.
06:45:02PM NOT ENOUGH PRIORITY BEING DONE.
06:45:05PM NOT ANY ACTION BEING TAKEN AND THEY COME OUT HERE AND
06:45:08PM PRETEND AS IF THEY ARE WORKING FOR US.
06:45:10PM I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING MORE RIDICULOUS.
06:45:14PM AND I AM SO TIRED OF THIS.
06:45:16PM SO TIRED OF THIS.
06:45:17PM YOU GUYS NEED TO PICK UP THE SLACK AND STOP THESE PEOPLE.
06:45:22PM THANK YOU.
06:45:22PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:45:24PM >> HEY, DAVID JONES, TBCAC.
06:45:35PM TALKING OF HOUSING.
06:45:37PM MORE MONEY SHOULD GO FROM THE GENERAL FOUND GO TOWARD
06:45:40PM HOUSING.
06:45:41PM I KNOW THAT A BIG CONVERSATION AROUND THE END OF LASTst LAST
06:45:46PM MEETING PUSHING WHAT 10%.
06:45:49PM MAKING THE HOUSING BUDGET 10% WHICH I FULLY AGREE WITH.
06:45:52PM WE ARE AT A TIME OF CRISIS.
06:45:54PM FOLKS ARE SAYING THAT.
06:45:56PM FOLKS HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT.
06:45:57PM YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN HEARING THAT FROM PRETTY MUCH
06:46:01PM EVERYONE IN THE CITY ABOUT HOW BIG THIS CRISIS IS, AND NOW
06:46:05PM IS THE TIME TO ACT.
06:46:05PM SO, YES, FINDING THAT MONEY IS COMPLETELY NECESSARY.
06:46:09PM FROM WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE COMPLETELY DOABLE.
06:46:11PM IN ADDITION TO THAT -- EXCUSE ME -- JUST -- YOU KNOW, WHILE
06:46:16PM I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THE CITY PROJECTS AREN'T WORKING
06:46:19PM GREAT.
06:46:21PM SOME OF THE FUNDS TOWARD THOSE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TOWARD
06:46:25PM -- I DON'T THINK THAT PULLING MONEY TOWARD WASTE MANAGEMENT,
06:46:30PM YOU KNOW, OUR PIPE SYSTEMS IS EFFECTIVE IN ORDER FOR HOUSING
06:46:35PM JUST BECAUSE THOSE THINGS ARE ALSO GOING TO FALL APART
06:46:37PM WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE YEARS.
06:46:39PM HELL, THE PIPES UP IN NORTH TAMPA ARE PLASTIC PIPE HAVE BEEN
06:46:45PM STRUGGLING AT MY NEIGHBORHOOD JUST LAST THREE MONTHS.
06:46:48PM SO THAT IS NOT THE SOLUTION AS MUCH AS IT IS PULLING FROM
06:46:52PM SOME OF THE LACKING INDUSTRIES LIKE THAT POLICE BUDGET WHICH
06:46:58PM IS TAKING UP 40%.
06:46:59PM 40% THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN TAMPA DON'T AGREE
06:47:03PM WITH OR DON'T REALLY SEE A POINT OF.
06:47:06PM YES, THANK YOU, ALL.
06:47:09PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:47:10PM >> HELLO, TAYLOR COOK.
06:47:17PM I AM OF TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE AND I'M HERE TO
06:47:22PM TALK ABOUT HOUSING.
06:47:22PM I THINK LAST TIME I WAS REALLY ANGRY.
06:47:25PM BUT NOW I AM JUST REALLY DISAPPOINTED.
06:47:27PM I THINK LAST TIME I WAS WRONGFULLY HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL GET
06:47:31PM AT LEAST 10% OF THE GENERAL FUND, AND WE CAN'T EVEN GET
06:47:34PM THAT.
06:47:34PM WE GET A POTENTIAL 5.5 MILLION DOLLARS.
06:47:39PM NOBODY WANTS A POTENTIAL $5.57 MILLION -- PEOPLE WANT ACTUAL
06:47:45PM ACTIONS, YOU KNOW.
06:47:46PM WE CAN TALK ABOUT HOW WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT PEOPLE NOT COMING
06:47:49PM TO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
06:47:50PM NOT PARTICIPATING IN THESE BUDGET HEARINGS.
06:47:52PM BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO WHEN YOU GUYS ARE NOT WORKING
06:47:57PM FOR US.
06:47:57PM THIS INCLUDES CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
06:48:00PM WHEN WE COME OUT HERE TIME AND TIME AGAIN, VOICE OUR
06:48:03PM CONCERNS AND THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT BEING HEARD.
06:48:05PM YOU KNOW THIS IS REALLY INCREDIBLY DISHEARTENING,
06:48:10PM UNDEMOCRATIC, AND NOT FAIR FOR PEOPLE TO SPEND TIME AWAY
06:48:13PM FROM THEIR FAMILIES, COME STRAIGHT FROM AFTER WORK TO COME
06:48:16PM TO THESE MEETINGS JUST FOR NOTHING TO BE DONE.
06:48:18PM THAT IS WHAT I WANTED TO SAY.
06:48:20PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:48:21PM >> GOOD EVENING.
06:48:23PM MY NAME IS PEYTON HOEY WITH THE TAMPA'S TENANT UNION.
06:48:27PM WE ARE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE THE WORKING PEOPLE OF TAMPA HAVE
06:48:30PM BEEN SUFFERING AND YOU HOUSING EMERGENCY FOR ALMOST TWO
06:48:33PM YEARS AND JANE CASTOR'S 2023 YEARLY BUDGET FAILS THE PEOPLE
06:48:37PM AND FAILS TO ADDRESS THIS HOUSING CRISIS.
06:48:39PM WE SEE A $15 MILLION INCREASE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
06:48:43PM BUDGET FROM 2021, WHILE THEY CONTINUOUSLY BRUTALIZE AND HARM
06:48:49PM OUR COMMUNITY.
06:48:49PM $199 MILLION FOR THE POLICE IS A CRIME.
06:48:52PM THIS IS MONEY THAT COULD BE USED FOR EDUCATION, CITY-OWNED
06:48:56PM PUBLIC HOUSING, RIGHT-TO-COUNSEL AND SEVERAL OTHER PROGRAMS
06:49:01PM THAT BENEFIT THE PEOPLE.
06:49:02PM RIDICULOUS THAT THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS BEING
06:49:04PM INVESTIGATED FOR EGREGIOUSLY RACIST CRIME-FREE MULTIHOUSING
06:49:09PM PROGRAM KNOWN AS RENTING WHILE BLACK, YET THEIR BLOATED
06:49:12PM BUDGET CAN CONTINUE TO GROW AND GROW REPRESENTING A THIRD OF
06:49:16PM THE GENERAL FUNDS.
06:49:16PM THE PUBLIC IS STILL FACING THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS RENTING
06:49:20PM WHILE BLACK PROGRAM, WHERE ENTIRE FAMILIES WERE ARRESTED OVER
06:49:24PM THE ARREST OF ONE MEMBER.
06:49:27PM THE SAME POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT NOT ONLY ALLOWED BUT
06:49:30PM DISCOURAGED THE REPLACEMENT OF BLACK AND BROWN FAMILIES ARE
06:49:35PM BEING AWARDED FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
06:49:37PM THE PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FEDERAL
06:49:40PM DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR BEING RACIST.
06:49:42PM AGAIN, THIS IS THE BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE DOJ AND NOT
06:49:47PM INCLUDING THE BIKING WHILE BLACK PROGRAM THAT CONTINUES TO
06:49:50PM RAVAGE THE COMMUNITY OF TAMPA WITH 90% OF THOSE BEING
06:49:53PM STOPPED ARE BLACK.
06:49:54PM THIS PROGRAM IS CLEARLY RACIST, BACKWARDS AND UNACCEPTABLE
06:49:58PM AND CONTINUES TO GO WITHOUT THE CITY TO EVEN PRETEND TAKING
06:50:02PM ACCOUNTABILITY.
06:50:03PM THE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING RIGHT NOW.
06:50:04PM BUT WILL YOU LISTEN TO US?
06:50:06PM WE DON'T NEED NEW POLICE CARS.
06:50:08PM WE DON'T WANT $190 MILLION IN POLICE FUNDS AND WE CAN NOT
06:50:12PM CONTINUE TO REWARD THESE CROOKED COPS.
06:50:14PM WE NEED MONEY FOR CITY-OWNED HOUSING.
06:50:18PM UNIVERSITY RIGHT TO COUNSEL FOR THOSE FACING EVICTIONS.
06:50:21PM INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC TRANSIT AND EDUCATION.
06:50:23PM TENANT UNION DEMANDS 40 MILLION FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE
06:50:28PM PLAN TO GO TO THE TAMPA MOVE-IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
06:50:31PM CITY COUNCIL, IT IS NOT TOO LATE.
06:50:33PM VOTE NO TO THIS BUDGET AND ONE THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS YOUR
06:50:36PM CONSTITUENTS.
06:50:37PM THANK YOU.
06:50:38PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:50:40PM >> HI, MY NAME IS ROBERT EWING WITH THE TAMPA TENANTS UNION.
06:50:47PM AND I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE OTHER SPEAKERS.
06:50:50PM BUDGET IS DISAPPOINTING.
06:50:53PM NOT ONLY DISAPPOINTING BUT CRIMINAL.
06:50:55PM WORKING PEOPLE AND TENANTS IN THE CITY ARE STRUGGLING,
06:50:59PM NORTHWEST ABLE TO AFFORD THEIR RENT, LIVING IN UNSAFE LIVING
06:51:02PM CONDITIONS AND THIS BUDGET DOES NOT PUT EVEN LIKE A FRACTION
06:51:06PM OF THE MONEY NECESSARY TOWARD ADDRESS THE UNPRECEDENTED
06:51:11PM HOUSING CRISIS THAT WE ARE IN AT THIS MOMENT.
06:51:14PM MORE MONEY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN FROM THE GENERAL FUND, FROM THE
06:51:17PM BLOATED POLICE BUDGET, TO ACTUALLY START TO REALLY ADDRESS
06:51:22PM THESE PROBLEMS AND PUT FORWARD REAL SOLUTION LIKE UNIVERSAL
06:51:26PM RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND PUBLIC HOUSING.
06:51:29PM SO, THANK YOU.
06:51:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:51:35PM >> SPELL LOW, ALI CATER.
06:51:38PM I AM A NEW RESIDENT OF TAMPA AND THE FIRST TIME TO MAKE IT
06:51:41PM TO A CITY HALL MEETING.
06:51:42PM I WORK 9 TO 5:00, AND I CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS
06:51:46PM WHEN PUBLIC COMMENT TAKES PLACE DURING THE WORKING DAY.
06:51:49PM BUT I'M HERE.
06:51:51PM AND I WANT TO SAY IT SURPRISES ME THAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS
06:51:56PM THIS BODY AT AN EARLIER TIME DECLARED IT TO BE HOUSING STATE
06:52:00PM OF EMERGENCY.
06:52:01PM AND ALTHOUGH AT THE TIME, IT REFUSED TO LET PEOPLE VOTE ON
06:52:07PM RENT CONTROL, NOW WHEN THIS BUDGET COMES IN AND THERE IS NO
06:52:11PM ACTUAL CONCRETE MONEY GOING TOWARD HOUSING, JUST PROMISES OF
06:52:15PM FUTURE MONEY, POTENTIAL MONEY COMING IN, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE
06:52:19PM ARE JUST GOING TO ACCEPT THIS WHEN WE HAVE DECLARED THAT WE
06:52:22PM ARE IN A HOUSING STATE OF EMERGENCY.
06:52:24PM IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
06:52:25PM IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU THINK OF IT FROM THE
06:52:29PM PERSPECTIVE ISN'T GOVERNMENT SUPPOSED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE.
06:52:31PM I WANT TO THANK TAMPA COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE AND TAMPA
06:52:35PM TENANTS UNION FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT AND DECLARING THAT.
06:52:39PM I WANT TO SAY THE REASON THAT ALL OF US CAME OUT HERE TODAY
06:52:42PM BECAUSE PEOPLE STILL TAKE THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL SERIOUSLY.
06:52:46PM PEOPLE STILL TAKE THE MAYOR'S OFFICE SERIOUSLY.
06:52:48PM WE WANT TO SEE YOU GUYS TAKE ACTION.
06:52:50PM WE WANT TO SEE YOU GUYS ALLEVIATE THE HOUSING CRISIS.
06:52:54PM SOME REAL GOOD POLICY POINTS THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW,
06:52:57PM BROUGHT INTO ACTION, RIGHT TO COUNSEL FOR TENANTS FACING
06:53:03PM EVICTION.
06:53:04PM THIS HELPED MANY, MANY NEW YORK RESIDENTS STAY IN THEIR
06:53:08PM HOMES WHEN THEY WERE BEING EVICTED.
06:53:10PM BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY NOW HAD A CHANCE TO CHALLENGE THEIR
06:53:13PM LANDLORDS IN COURT.
06:53:15PM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO HERE IN TAMPA.
06:53:18PM THIS IS SOMETHING CONCRETE THAT CAN BE USED TO HELP THE
06:53:21PM RENTERS OF TAMPA BAY.
06:53:22PM BUT IT SEEMS MORE AND MORE CLEAR TO ME EVERY DAY THAT, YOU
06:53:28PM KNOW, THE MAYOR AND A LARGE PORTION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT
06:53:32PM DOES NOT SEEM TO ACTUALLY BE INTERESTED IN HELPING TO SERVE
06:53:35PM THE PEOPLE OF TAMPA -- THE WORKING PEOPLE OF TAMPA INSTEAD,
06:53:39PM THEY SEEM VERY INTERESTED IN HELPING THE DEVELOPERS.
06:53:44PM YOU KNOW THE DEVELOPERS WHO BACKED JANE CASTOR'S CAMPAIGN IN
06:53:48PM HELPING TO BOOST UP PROPERTY TAXES IN TAMPA.
06:53:51PM THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BENEFITS THE WORKING-CLASS OF
06:53:54PM TAMPA, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT BENEFITS THE DEVELOPERS, THE
06:53:57PM PEOPLE WHO OWN PROPERTY.
06:54:01PM AND THAT IS ULTIMATELY WHAT IT ALL SEEMS ABOUT.
06:54:05PM IF YOU WANT CONSIDER BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY, PLEASE TAKE
06:54:10PM ACTION.
06:54:10PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:54:11PM >> HELLO, MY NAME IS LAY, I AM THE TAMPA COMMUNITY ACTION
06:54:21PM COMMITTEE HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT HOUSING.
06:54:23PM THIS BUDGET AS EVERYBODY HAS SAID BEFORE IS REALLY
06:54:26PM DISAPPOINTING IN TERMS OF THE MONEY ALLOCATED TO HOUSING.
06:54:29PM AND WE DO WANT MORE MONEY FOR HOUSING BUT WE DON'T WANT
06:54:34PM MONEY TAKEN OUT OF OTHER ESSENTIAL SERVICES.
06:54:36PM WE HAVE -- WE ARE IN A TIME OF CRISIS AT THIS POINT.
06:54:40PM AND WE KEEP HEARING ABOUT THIS RAINY DAY FUND.
06:54:44PM WELL, I MEAN, WE ARE HEADED INTO A RECESSION -- WE ARE IN A
06:54:47PM RECESSION.
06:54:48PM FOLKS CAN'T AFFORD RENT.
06:54:50PM I MEAN NOW IS THE TIME TO PUT SOME OF THAT MONEY TO USE AND
06:54:55PM NOT, YOU KNOW, TAKE MONEY FROM ESSENTIAL SERVICES THAT WE
06:54:58PM ACTUALLY NEED.
06:54:58PM PEOPLE COME IN HERE EVERY THURSDAY.
06:55:01PM AND YOU HEAR ABOUT TIMBER FALLS, YOU HEAR ABOUT SILVER OAKS.
06:55:05PM PLACES LITERALLY FALLING APART.
06:55:07PM AND $5.5 MILLION ISN'T GOING TO FIX ONE PLACE LET ALONE
06:55:13PM BUILD NEW PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO LIVE IN.
06:55:15PM GIVE MORE ASSISTANCE FOR FOLKS WHO ARE GOING TO BE
06:55:20PM OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, CAN'T AFFORD RENT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
06:55:22PM AND WE HEAR TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE -- FINDING PEOPLE TO WORK FOR
06:55:26PM THE CITY.
06:55:27PM I MEAN, IF PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING-CLASS FOLKS CAN'T AFFORD
06:55:32PM TO LIVE IN THE CITY.
06:55:34PM CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY RENT IN THE CITY.
06:55:36PM FOLKS ARE MOVING OUT OF TAMPA, ALL OVER THE OUTSKIRTS OF
06:55:40PM TAMPA.
06:55:40PM PEOPLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WORK IN THE CITY.
06:55:42PM SO WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS MORE MONEY FOR HOUSING AND NOT ALL
06:55:46PM THIS RUNNING AROUND AND TRYING TO GET TOGETHER SCRAPS FROM
06:55:53PM OTHER PLACES THAT WE ALSO REALLY NEED MONEY FOR SO THANK
06:56:00PM YOU.
06:56:00PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:56:01PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCILMEMBERS.
06:56:08PM PHYLLIS GUNMAN.
06:56:12PM AS WE APPROACH OCTOBER WHICH IS DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT MONTH,
06:56:16PM WE AS McDONALD TRANING CENTER THANKS COUNCILMAN VIERA FOR
06:56:21PM HIS CONTINUED SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY OF PEOPLE WITH
06:56:25PM DISABILITIES.
06:56:25PM WE APPRECIATE HIS COMMITMENT AND THAT OF THE COUNCIL TO
06:56:29PM PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES FOR
06:56:34PM FULL INCLUSION.
06:56:34PM AT McDONALD TRANING CENTER, WE ARE COMMITTED TO TRAINING
06:56:39PM PROGRAMS AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES THAT HE IS SUGGESTING
06:56:41PM THAT CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PERSON HAVING A
06:56:44PM CAREER RATHER THAN LIFETIME OF ENTRY LEVEL JOBS.
06:56:51PM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
06:56:53PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:56:55PM >> GOOD EVENING, ANDREW CARTER, FIRE FIGHTERS 754 PRESIDENT.
06:57:04PM I'M HERE WITH MATT AND JEFF, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND
06:57:09PM TREASURER.
06:57:09PM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE 700-PLUS
06:57:14PM MEMBERS OF TAMPA FIRE FIGHTERS FOR COLLECTIVELY APPROVING
06:57:18PM THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT ABLE TO ROLL IN AT THE
06:57:23PM BEGINNING OF THE FISCAL YEAR NOT BE NEGOTIATING IN FEBRUARY
06:57:27PM AND MARCH.
06:57:28PM I WANT TO REMIND YOU GUYS THAT THE BUDGET YOU GUYS ARE
06:57:31PM APPROVING IS THE VEHICLE THAT ALLOWS US TO RECEIVE THE
06:57:33PM BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE NEGOTIATED AND YOU GUYS HAVE
06:57:36PM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED.
06:57:37PM ALL OF THE CITY EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE COUNTING ON
06:57:40PM THAT.
06:57:42PM I AM CERTAIN IF THE NEED ARISES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR,
06:57:46PM THAT THE FIRE CHIEF, THE CHIEF OF STAFF, THE MAYOR AND CITY
06:57:50PM COUNCIL CAN FIND WAYS TO FACILITATE US WITH MIDYEAR ROLLING
06:57:55PM STOCK, STATION DESIGNS, EMPLOYEES.
06:57:57PM WE NEED TO ALSO START WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPERS, ALL THE
06:58:00PM LAND USE THAT YOU GUYS APPROVE NEEDS TO COME WITH SOME
06:58:04PM CAVEATS AS TO CREATING SOME BRICK AND MORTA R AND THE CITY
06:58:10PM SUPPLIES THE EMPLOYEES AND THE ROLLING STOCK FOR THOSE
06:58:14PM ASSOCIATIONS.
06:58:15PM THANK DENNIS ROGERO AND HIS STAFF BEING WIZARDS FOR THE
06:58:20PM BUDGET AND THANK ALL THE EMPLOYEES.
06:58:22PM ATU STEVE SIMON IS UNABLE TO BE HERE AT A FIRE CONVENTION
06:58:28PM AND YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR FIRE AND POLICE.
06:58:30PM THANK YOU.
06:58:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:58:32PM >> DARLA PORTMAN, POLICE BENEVOLENT AND HERE WITH VICE
06:58:40PM PRESIDENT BRANDON BARKLEY.
06:58:41PM I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU AT CITY COUNCIL TO RATIFY
06:58:46PM ALL THREE UNION CONTRACTS LAST SUMMER.
06:58:48PM YOU GUY DID A GOOD NOBODY.
06:58:50PM PPI IAFU WORKED HARD TO MAKE OUR CONTRACTS NEGOTIATED,
06:58:56PM SIGNED AND READY FOR CITY COUNCIL BEFORE THE BUDGET WAS SET.
06:58:59PM I BELIEVE THAT BASS THE FIRST TIME IN CITY'S HISTORY THAT
06:59:01PM ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND IT WAS THANKS TO CHIEF BENNETT
06:59:06PM AND CFO ROGERO TO MAKE SURE THAT TOOK PLACE.
06:59:08PM THE EMPLOYEE OF OUR GREAT CITY LOOK FORWARD TO A SMOOTH
06:59:11PM TRANSITION ON OCTOBER 1; HOWEVER, WE CAN ONLY DO THAT IF
06:59:15PM CITY COUNCIL PASSES THE SECOND READING OF THE BUDGET.
06:59:17PM I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO VOTE UNANIMOUSLY YES TODAY SO THE
06:59:23PM CITY CAN MOVE FORWARD IN EFFICIENCY TO THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
06:59:27PM THANK YOU.
06:59:28PM APPRECIATE IT.
06:59:29PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
06:59:32PM ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS TIME?
06:59:35PM DO WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT ONLINE?
06:59:39PM MISS POYNOR, ARE YOU THERE?
06:59:43PM >> YES, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
06:59:44PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
06:59:46PM >> I KNOW YOU GUY HAVE MISSED ME IF I DIDN'T SHOW UP.
06:59:48PM ALL THE VOICES WHO ARE HERE SPEAKING ABOUT MORE MONEY FOR
06:59:52PM PUBLIC HOUSING OR FOR HOUSING PERIOD NEED TO LEAN INTO THIS
06:59:59PM ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION TAX.
07:00:00PM THE ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION TAX NEEDS TO BE PASSED.
07:00:03PM IT IS CURRENTLY -- THE CURRENT COST OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE
07:00:07PM CITY OF TAMPA IS 18%.
07:00:09PM WHICH IS DOUBLE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.
07:00:11PM IF WE CAN GET THE TRANSPORTATION COSTS DOWN, THEN WE CAN
07:00:16PM CERTAINLY MAKE HEADWAY IN OTHER AREAS.
07:00:19PM SO THAT MONEY CAN BE USED TO BE MOVED TO OTHER AREAS.
07:00:24PM TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU ARE HAVING YOUR NEXT
07:00:27PM MEETING, FOLKS.
07:00:28PM WE HAVE TO EXAMINE ALL THE FUNDING SOURCES.
07:00:32PM AND WE NEED MORE PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING.
07:00:35PM WE NEED IMPACT FEES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
07:00:38PM WE NEED MORE FIRE STATIONS.
07:00:39PM WE NEED MORE EMS.
07:00:42PM WE NEED THE ABILITY TO HAVE MORE EMS WORKERS TO COME.
07:00:46PM AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIEND FUNDING SOMEWHERE.
07:00:49PM WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE MARKET AS A FILTER AND
07:00:54PM PROPERTY MANAGER, THE MARKET IS BEGINNING TO SHIFT.
07:00:57PM YOU ARE SEEING MORE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT ARE OFFERING A
07:01:00PM FREE MONTH.
07:01:01PM YOU ARE SEEING MORE APARTMENT COMPLEXES COME ONLINE.
07:01:04PM WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF UNITS IN THE CHUTE TO COME IN ONLINE IN
07:01:09PM THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO AND THEY WILL IMPACT THE MARKET.
07:01:12PM A LOT OF OUR PROBLEM IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS HAVE BEEN DUE TO
07:01:16PM SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
07:01:17PM WE HAD LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE MOVING HERE AND WAY MORE
07:01:22PM COMPETITION FOR ANY UNITS THAN WE POSSIBLY HAD AVAILABLE.
07:01:25PM SO I JUST WANT US TO CONSIDER THAT.
07:01:29PM I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE MY $6.6 MILLION WENT FOR THE
07:01:33PM TYSON PROJECT.
07:01:34PM THERE WAS $7.1 MILLION LAST YEAR AND NOW $731,000.
07:01:40PM IF ANYONE FIGURES OUT THE ANSWER TO THAT, THAT WOULD BE
07:01:43PM GREAT.
07:01:43PM I AM REALLY, REALLY DISTURBED THAT JOE JOHNSON HAS RESIGNED
07:01:48PM FROM OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE BECAUSE HE WAS REALLY ON POINT.
07:01:52PM THANK YOU.
07:01:52PM HAVE A GOOD DAY.
07:01:53PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
07:01:54PM IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS TIME?
07:02:01PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN, CAN I SAY SOMETHING THAT
07:02:04PM PUBLIC COMMENT HAS ENDED.
07:02:08PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL OPEN UP CITY COUNCIL'S COMMENTS AND
07:02:11PM QUESTIONS FOR ROUND TWO.
07:02:12PM COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
07:02:14PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN FOR THAT.
07:02:16PM YOU KNOW, AS I SIT BACK AND LOOK AT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE OUT
07:02:20PM HERE IN THE AUDIENCE, IT REMINDS ME OF ON SUNDAY WHEN MY
07:02:26PM DAUGHTER CALLED ME.
07:02:27PM SHE SAID, DAD, SHE SAYS, DON'T Y'ALL HAVE SOME KIND OF RENT
07:02:33PM CAP IN YOUR CITY.
07:02:34PM I SAID, HUH?
07:02:37PM I SAID WHAT DID YOU SAY.
07:02:39PM SHE SAID DAD, DO YOU HAVE A RENT CAP IN THE CITY.
07:02:42PM SHE SAID MY WENT WENT UP $450.
07:02:46PM I SAID, DARLING, WELCOME TO THE CROWD.
07:02:48PM I SAID WE TRIED THAT.
07:02:50PM BUT THAT DIDN'T -- THAT DIDN'T PASS.
07:02:53PM SO BEN I HEAR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE COME HERE AND TALK -- MY
07:02:59PM DAUGHTER HAS THREE KIDS.
07:02:59PM I KNOW I AM GOING TO HAVE TO HELP HER.
07:03:01PM SOME DON'T THINK IT GOES ON DEAF EARS, YOUNG PEOPLE.
07:03:06PM I HEAR YOU.
07:03:07PM I FEEL YOU.
07:03:08PM JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I AM GOING TO BE ABLE TO HELP YOU
07:03:11PM BECAUSE I TRIED TO HELP YOU ONCE, BUT I COULDN'T GET THERE.
07:03:14PM TO ME IT IS THE PEOPLE'S MONEY.
07:03:15PM THE PEOPLE'S VOICE
07:03:16PM I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT.
07:03:18PM WE COULDN'T GET IT THERE.
07:03:20PM WE TRIED TO TAKE A VOTE THE LAST TIME.
07:03:22PM AND I AM SORRY FOR THAT.
07:03:23PM FOR WHATEVER REASON -- MR. MIRANDA SAID YOU CAN'T GET UPSET
07:03:29PM THE WAY PEOPLE VOTE.
07:03:30PM HE IS RIGHT.
07:03:31PM BUT I WAS UPSET.
07:03:32PM I HAD TO GET OVER.
07:03:33PM I HAD TO MOVE ON.
07:03:34PM BEHAVIOR HAPPENS TODAY, I ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT I LISTEN TO A
07:03:39PM SONG EVERY MORNING.
07:03:40PM IT SAYS, THE STORM.
07:03:43PM THE STORM COMES, BUT IT DOES GO.
07:03:46PM YOU KEEP THE FAITH NO MATTER HOW THIS BODY VOTES TODAY.
07:03:50PM YOU KEEP YOUR FAITH.
07:03:51PM YOU STAY STRONG.
07:03:52PM YOU DO WHAT YOU MUST DO.
07:03:54PM DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW IS WRONG.
07:03:56PM BUT HE ALWAYS COMES THROUGH WHEN YOU THINK HE DOESN'T.
07:04:00PM HE ALWAYS COMES THROUGH.
07:04:01PM I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT TO YOU, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND IT,
07:04:05PM BECAUSE IT AFFECTS MY FAMILY PERSONALLY.
07:04:07PM I DO UNDERSTAND.
07:04:08PM SO I SAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
07:04:10PM AND HOWEVER THIS OUTIS, WHATEVER WE DO.
07:04:14PM I WILL KEEP THE FIGHT.
07:04:15PM EVEN IF I AM THE LONE RANGER.
07:04:18PM KEEP THE FIGHT.
07:04:19PM GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
07:04:20PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
07:04:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WAS WITH YOU.
07:04:25PM I AM GOING TO SAY WITH YOU.
07:04:26PM WE ARE GOING TO KEEP WORKING ON THIS.
07:04:29PM AND I DO APPRECIATE GREAT THE ENERGY AND EFFORT, BECAUSE IT
07:04:34PM DOES REMIND ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND LIVED IN GAINESVILLE
07:04:39PM AND I DID THE VERY SAME THING.
07:04:40PM I WAS INVEST ACTIVE AND DID A LOT WITH POLITICS BEFORE I
07:04:45PM MOVED TO TAMPA I DO APPRECIATE YOUR VOICES AND THEY AREN'T
07:04:48PM UNHEARD.
07:04:49PM I DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT A FEW THINGS THAT I THINK DO HAVE
07:04:53PM AN IMPACT ON THIS BUDGET.
07:04:55PM AND IT'S 9.5% RAISES FOR STAFF.
07:05:01PM I THINK THAT IS CRITICAL BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY
07:05:05PM HELPING.
07:05:05PM I KNOW OF SEVERAL STAFF MEMBERS WHO COME AND -- HAVE HAD
07:05:11PM TROUBLE FINDING HOUSING, WHETHER THEY ARE LIVING IN A CAR OR
07:05:15PM ARE ABOUT TO GET KICKED OUT OF AN APARTMENT AND WHAT DO THEY
07:05:19PM DO.
07:05:19PM SO BY -- BY APPROVING THIS 9.5% RAISE, WE ARE HELPING OUR
07:05:26PM EMPLOYEES KEEP THEIR HOUSING AND KEEP THEIR STAY -- STAY
07:05:31PM WHERE THEY ARE.
07:05:32PM HELP THEIR FAMILIES.
07:05:33PM I ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS CURRENTLY A
07:05:38PM PILOT PROJECT FOR EVICTIONS DEALING WITH LAWYERS FOR
07:05:43PM EVICTIONS, SO THAT PILOT PROJECT IS BEGINNING SOON.
07:05:48PM I BELIEVE MISS TRAVIS CAN TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN SHE COMES UP,
07:05:52PM BUT I DID WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WE DID HEAR YOU AND WE ARE
07:05:55PM WORKING ON THAT.
07:05:56PM AND ALSO TO PLEASE ATTEND -- I BELIEVE IT IS THE ABILITY --
07:06:01PM NOT 27th, BUT MAYBE 14th MEET WHERE MISS TRAVIS IS GOING TO
07:06:05PM GIVE US AN UPDATE ON HOW THE HOUSING ADVISORY OFFICE IS
07:06:09PM GOING -- ADVOCACY OFFICE.
07:06:11PM NO, IT IS NOT THEN?
07:06:14PM I THOUGHT I HAD IT ON MY CALENDAR FOR THAT.
07:06:17PM MAYBE IT IS -- NOT A CRA MEETING.
07:06:21PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
07:06:23PM NICOLE TRAVIS, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY.
07:06:26PM YES, MA'AM, YOU HAVE IT FOR THE TENANT ADVOCACY OFFICE OR
07:06:31PM TENANT SERVICE FOR AN UPDATE, BUT THAT OFFICE ISN'T STOOD UP
07:06:35PM UNTIL OCTOBER 1.
07:06:36PM I WILL NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO PROVIDE YOU, BECAUSE THAT -- AS
07:06:40PM A PART OF THIS BUDGET INCLUDES THE $400,000 THAT YOU
07:06:43PM ALLOCATED FOR THE TENANT SERVICES TEAM TO START DOING THAT.
07:06:47PM SO WE -- THAT OFFICE ISN'T GOING TO BE UP IN TIME.
07:06:51PM SO THE REASON I AM SAYING NO, IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF WANTING
07:06:54PM TO REPORT.
07:06:55PM I CAN REPORT ON ANYTHING ELSE HOUSING RELATED THAT YOU WANT
07:06:58PM TO, BUT REGARDING THE TENANT SERVICES TEAM, WE WOULD NOT
07:07:02PM HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT AT THAT I'M.
07:07:04PM IT IS TOO CLOSE TO WHEN WE SEEK FUNDING.
07:07:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
07:07:09PM THAT GOES FORWARD TO OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
07:07:12PM WITH THIS BUDGET.
07:07:14PM IN THAT MY GOAL WAS TO GET TO 10%.
07:07:16PM IN -- IN CLOSER FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH THE HOUSING
07:07:25PM DEPARTMENT, MISS TRAVIS SPECIFICALLY, MR. ROGERO ALSO.
07:07:30PM IT CONCERNS ME IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2022, WE ALLOCATED $5
07:07:35PM MILLION, BUT BECAUSE OF GETTING EVERYTHING STARTED.
07:07:39PM GETTING THINGS UP AND RUNNING, ONLY $1.3 MILLION WAS
07:07:42PM ALLOCATED -- OR I AM SORRY, WAS SPENT.
07:07:48PM THANK YOU.
07:07:49PM LET'S LOOK FOR THE SIMPLE VERB HERE.
07:07:51PM SPENT.
07:07:52PM SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE $3.6 MILLION LEFTOVER THAT WILL ROLL
07:07:57PM OVER.
07:07:57PM SO INSTEAD OF JUST LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS FOR ME, IT IS -- I
07:08:01PM AM GOING TO BE LOOKING AT HOW THIS MONEY IS SPENT.
07:08:03PM SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM PROPOSING -- AND I DON'T
07:08:07PM THINK I CAN DO IT YET, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I WILL BE
07:08:10PM PROPOSING IS REQUESTING A QUARTERLY BUDGET UPDATE
07:08:17PM AROUND THESE FIVE HOUSING BUCKETS AND MISS TRAVIS I KNOW
07:08:20PM WILL TALK ABOUT THIS IN A MINUTE, HOMELESSNESS SERVICE,
07:08:23PM PUBLIC SERVICES, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, ACQUISITION AND REHAB
07:08:28PM THAT INCLUDES FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR THE FULL YEAR, EXPENDED
07:08:31PM DURING THE CORNER, ENCUMBERED DURING THE QUARTER AND LEFT
07:08:35PM AVAILABLE SO WE CAN ALL TALK ABOUT THIS AS A COMMUNITY AS
07:08:38PM THE YEAR GOES ON, TO FIND OUT -- TO NOT JUST SAY, OKAY, WE
07:08:42PM ARE ALLOCATING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING
07:08:45PM WITH THE MONEY.
07:08:45PM HOW IS ITTING USED.
07:08:47PM IF NOT BEING USED, WHY NOT.
07:08:49PM WHAT ARE THE ROAD BLOCKS AND HOW CAN WE HELP STAFF.
07:08:55PM ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO HELP STAFF, IS WE ARE HIRING NINE
07:08:58PM NEW PEOPLE IN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND MISS TRAVIS WILL
07:09:01PM CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT THOSE PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN HIRED
07:09:04PM YET BECAUSE NOT OCTOBER 1.
07:09:05PM WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS OF HIRING.
07:09:08PM NOT TRYING TO MAKE EXCUSES.
07:09:09PM JUST TRYING TO EXPLAIN THE SYSTEM AND HOW WE ARE GOING.
07:09:13PM HOW THIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO OCCUR.
07:09:15PM THE $5.5 MILLION FROM SOLID WASTE, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU
07:09:19PM DON'T WANT TO TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM ANOTHER PROJECT, BUT THIS
07:09:22PM IS REALLY WHERE WE ARE GETTING THE MONEY FROM AT THIS POINT.
07:09:25PM WE ARE PUTTING A TON OF MONEY INTO PREPARATION AND
07:09:30PM RESILIENCE.
07:09:31PM SO IF YOU LOOKED AT THOSE BUDGETS.
07:09:33PM IF YOU PUT THE BUDGET UP OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
07:09:36PM IMPROVEMENTS, WE HAD THE MOST MONEY GOING TOWARD WATER AND
07:09:39PM STORMWATER AND THAT IS OUR PIPES PROJECT AND REPLACEMENT OF
07:09:43PM PIPES PROJECT OR RATHER STORMWATER PROJECT AND THIS MONEY
07:09:46PM WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO SOLID WASTE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REBUILD
07:09:48PM OUR ENTIRE SOLID WASTE.
07:09:49PM I REALLY APPRECIATE THE MAYOR'S THOUGHT TOWARD THIS.
07:09:53PM AND HOW WE ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON THE FUTURE, WHICH HAVEN'T
07:09:57PM BEEN DONE IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS.
07:09:59PM HAVEN'T BEEN DONE FOR MANY YEARS.
07:10:01PM AND WE ARE MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME, BUT IT DOES NOT -- IT
07:10:04PM MEANS WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF MONEY FOR THIS.
07:10:08PM SO WHAT I AM LOOKING AT IS THE $26.4 MILLION, I DON'T JUST
07:10:13PM LOOK AT THAT -- I AM LOOKING AT THE $3.6 MILLION THAT IS
07:10:17PM LEFT OVER.
07:10:18PM LOOKING AT THE $5.5 MILLION FROM SOLID WASTE THAT AGAIN WE
07:10:22PM WILL BE LOOKING AT QUARTERLY.
07:10:24PM THE HALF-YEAR MARK.
07:10:25PM LET'S SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
07:10:27PM HOW WE ARE USING THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE AND $5.1 MILLION.
07:10:31PM IS IT TIME -- IF WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE STUDY.
07:10:34PM DOES IT WORK?
07:10:35PM CAN WE MOVE THE MONEY?
07:10:38PM CAN WE USE THE MONEY IN THE FISCAL YEAR BECAUSE THAT IS THE
07:10:40PM PART THAT IS CONCERNING ME MOST OF ALL, WE HAVE MONEY IN
07:10:43PM THIS FUND WE WEREN'T ABLE TO EXPEND.
07:10:45PM THAT WILL REALLY BE MY FOCUS THIS NEXT YEAR, THE 10.6 WE ARE
07:10:51PM POSSIBLY GETTING FROM THE CRA IF YOU MESSED THE MEETING -- I
07:10:55PM GUESS IT HAS BEEN TWO HOURS NOW, BUT THE 5:00 MEETING, WE
07:10:59PM HAD QUITE A LENGTHY DISCUSSION OF HOW WE ARE GOING TO ASK
07:11:02PM THE CRAS TO PAY FOR -- OR TO STEP IT UP AND GIVE MORE MONEY
07:11:06PM TOWARD MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOW THAT MIGHT LOOK AND
07:11:10PM HOW IT IS NOT GOING TO LOOK THE SAME IN EVERY CRA.
07:11:12PM SOME OF IT WILL BE ACQUISITION, A BUYING LAND.
07:11:15PM SOME OF IT WILL BE TOWARD HOME OWNERSHIP GOALS, SOME TOWARD
07:11:19PM RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
07:11:20PM I WISH I COULD TELL YOU THIS ISSUE IS AS CUT AND TRY AS I
07:11:24PM WANT IT TO BE.
07:11:25PM LIKE YOU I WANT TO THROW MORE MONEY TO IT, AND NOT AS EASY
07:11:29PM AS THAT.
07:11:30PM WHEN I ADD ALL THAT UP, $46.129 MILLION WHICH IS NOT $55
07:11:37PM MILLION, BUT I FEEL LIKE WE CLAWED SOME MONEY.
07:11:42PM AND I HOPE YOU CAN SEE THAT -- THAT WE ARE CLAWING THE
07:11:46PM MONEY.
07:11:46PM I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THOSE NINE FULL-TIME HOUSING EMPLOYEES
07:11:50PM ARE GOING TO COST, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THROW THAT MONEY IN
07:11:53PM THERE TOO, BECAUSE THAT MONEY WOULDN'T -- WE WOULDN'T BE
07:11:56PM HIRING NINE MORE HOUSING PEOPLE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A HOUSING
07:11:59PM CRISIS.
07:12:00PM SO I REALLY DO WANT TO APPRECIATE -- SAY THANK YOU TO NICOLE
07:12:03PM TRAVIS AND HER TEAM FOR DOING WHAT THEY CAN.
07:12:06PM BUT MY PROMISE IS THIS.
07:12:08PM THIS IS NOT A FINISHED BUDGET.
07:12:10PM IT IS NOT DONE AND WE ARE FINISHED TONIGHT.
07:12:12PM WE ARE GOING TO KEEP AT IT.
07:12:13PM I AM GOING -- WE ARE GOING TO HAVE QUARTERLY UPDATES.
07:12:16PM AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE PUBLIC -- I AM GOING TO ASK AT
07:12:20PM LEASE.
07:12:20PM I HOPE MY BRETHREN -- BUT THAT WILL BE OUR MOTION TO SIT
07:12:24PM DOWN AND TALK ABOUT THIS.
07:12:25PM WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?
07:12:27PM HOW IS IT BEING ALLOCATED?
07:12:29PM WHERE IS IT NOT BEING SPENT?
07:12:30PM AND HOW CAN WE HELP IT TO BE SPENT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
07:12:35PM THAT IS MY GOAL.
07:12:37PM MISS TRAVIS WILL TALK MORE ABOUT HOUSING NOW.
07:12:39PM BUT I FELT I NEEDED TO SAY THAT NOT CUT AND DRY OF THROWING
07:12:44PM MONEY.
07:12:45PM IT WAS ONLY $5 MILLION, BUT IT DIDN'T GO WHERE WE WANT IF TO
07:12:50PM GO.
07:12:50PM THIS YEAR WE WILL PUT MORE MONEY TOWARD IT BUT KEEP A MUCH
07:12:54PM CLOSER EYE.
07:12:55PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE YOU DONE.
07:12:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, I AM FINISHED.
07:13:00PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
07:13:01PM >>LUIS VIERA: COUPLE OF THINGS.
07:13:02PM YOU KNOW ONE BUCKET -- I WILL SUPPORT YOUR MOTION WHENEVER
07:13:06PM IT IS MADE AND WE ARE ALLOWED TO GO ON IT, COUNCILWOMAN
07:13:09PM HURTAK.
07:13:09PM I WOULD SUGGEST ANOTHER BUCKET -- WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A
07:13:12PM DISABILITY HOUSING WORKSHOP THURSDAY, BUT I AM MOVING IT
07:13:16PM BECAUSE OF THE CHARTER.
07:13:17PM MAYBE TAKE A LOOK AT THE UNIQUE AREA OF DISABILITY RELATED
07:13:22PM HOUSING OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WITH INTELLECTUAL,
07:13:27PM PHYSICAL, ETC.
07:13:27PM BUT I WILL BE GLAD TO IT.
07:13:30PM WITH REGARDS TO THE NUMBERS THAT WERE CITED ON HOUSING,
07:13:34PM POINTS TO A HISTORIC CITY OF TAMPA BUDGET ON HOUSING.
07:13:36PM I ALWAYS SAY -- AND SAID THIS FOR YEARS AS A POLITICAL
07:13:42PM OFFICIAL.
07:13:43PM I DON'T LIKE TO WRITE POLITICAL CHECKS I CAN'T CASH.
07:13:46PM I DON'T LIKE TO MAKE PROMISES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING THAT
07:13:49PM I DON'T FEEL IN MY OWN HEART AND MIND WILL WIND UP GETTING
07:13:54PM THE RESULTS THAT ARE PROMISED OR EXPECTED BY THE PUBLIC.
07:13:57PM VARIOUS PROPOSALS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT FORTH WITH REGARDS TO
07:14:01PM HOUSING.
07:14:01PM SOME OF THEM FOLLOW THAT POLITICAL CHECKS ANALYSIS.
07:14:06PM THIS CLEARLY DOESN'T.
07:14:07PM THIS IS SOMETHING DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR A VERY HISTORIC
07:14:12PM INVESTMENT IN HOUSING AND OBVIOUSLY I AM GOING TO SUPPORT
07:14:14PM THAT 1140% -- 110%.
07:14:19PM WE ARE LIMITED IN THE CITY OF TAMPA WITH IMAGES OF HOUSING.
07:14:23PM TWO-THIRDS OF OUR BUDGET GOES TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
07:14:26PM I SUPPORT THAT.
07:14:27PM 110%.
07:14:28PM BUT WE ARE MAKING EVERY EFFORT THAT WE CAN TO FIND HOUSING
07:14:34PM FOR PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
07:14:36PM THESE ARE VERY, VERY HISTORIC ALLOTMENTS.
07:14:39PM IF YOU LOOK WHERE OUR CITY WAS FIVE YEARS AGO, SIX YEARS AGO
07:14:42PM ON THIS ISSUE, IT IS A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE.
07:14:45PM A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE FROM WHERE WE WERE.
07:14:48PM AND WE ARE MAKING GREAT STRIDES IN THAT REGARD.
07:14:51PM THE AMOUNT CITED OF OVER 40 WOULD APPEAR OVER $40 MILLION OF
07:14:56PM INVESTMENT IN HOW LONGING, THAT -- IF YOU WERE -- IN
07:15:01PM HOUSING, IF YOU WERE TO TELL ME FIVE YEARS AGO, I WOULDN'T
07:15:04PM HAVE BELIEVED IT.
07:15:04PM BUT A LOT OF COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE PUSHED THE ENVELOPE FORWARD
07:15:08PM IN THAT REGARD AND I SALUTE THEM 110%.
07:15:11PM AGAIN, THESE ARE STEPS THAT WILL BE PUT FORTH THAT WILL
07:15:14PM REALLY IMPROVE PEOPLE'S LIVES IN THE MIDDLE OF HAD HISTORIC
07:15:18PM HOUSING CRISIS THAT I THINK IS VERY, VERY GOOD IN THAT
07:15:21PM REGARD.
07:15:21PM THAT'S IT.
07:15:22PM THANK YOU, SIR.
07:15:22PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
07:15:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: REAL QUICK, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN
07:15:28PM HURTAK FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
07:15:29PM YOU SAID IT ALL.
07:15:31PM THIS DOESN'T END HERE TONIGHT.
07:15:33PM AN ONGOING PROCESS WATER ERT LEER OR OVER YEAR.
07:15:37PM WE ARE ADDRESS IT AND TRYING TO ADDRESS IT WITHIN REASON AS
07:15:41PM YOU ALREADY STATED.
07:15:42PM IT DOESN'T STOP HERE JUST BECAUSE WE PASS A BUDGET.
07:15:45PM THE FUNDING BEGINS OCTOBER 1.
07:15:47PM A NEW FISCAL YEAR AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, BUT WE CAN
07:15:52PM CERTAINLY LOOK AT THIS QUARTERLY AND MORE FREQUENTLY THAN
07:15:55PM ONCE A YEAR, WHERE WE SEE OUR PROGRESS, WHERE THAT MONEY IS
07:15:59PM BEING SPENT AND MAKING SURE IT IS GOING TO THE RIGHT --
07:16:02PM ALLOCATED PROPERLY AND GOING TO THE RIGHT PLACES WHERE IS IT
07:16:05PM BENEFITS THE MOST PEOPLE.
07:16:07PM YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
07:16:10PM YOU AND THE REST OF COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
07:16:13PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
07:16:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO REPLY TO COUNCILMAN VIERA.
07:16:20PM THE ONLY REASON I SAID THE FIVE BUCKETS BECAUSE THAT IS HOW
07:16:23PM THE FUNDING IS ALLOCATHED VIA -- I DON'T KNOW IF THE HOUSING
07:16:26PM DEPARTMENT CHOSE THIS WAY, BUT THEIR FIVE BUCKETS OF
07:16:30PM HOMELESS SERVICES, PUBLIC SERVICES, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, HOME
07:16:35PM OWNERSHIP AND ACQUISITION AND REHAB.
07:16:37PM SINCE THEY HAVE THE MONEY GOING INTO THOSE FUNDS, WE WILL
07:16:40PM HAVE TO FIND OUT WHERE THAT WILL FALL.
07:16:42PM I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF A SEPARATE
07:16:46PM CATEGORY IS NECESSARILY WARRANTED.
07:16:48PM >>LUIS VIERA: WE CAN DISCUSS IT.
07:16:49PM THANK YOU.
07:16:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
07:16:51PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
07:16:54PM NO?
07:16:55PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU.
07:16:56PM I WANT TO SAY A STATEMENT REGARDING THE BUDGET AND SO FORTH.
07:16:59PM MENTION THAT THE FIRE AND POLICE TAKE THREE QUARTERS OF THE
07:17:02PM MONEY FROM AD VALOREM TAXES.
07:17:04PM WHAT IT IS THIS.
07:17:06PM THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE BUDGET BETWEEN THE FIRE AND
07:17:09PM THE POLICE AND THE BUDGET WE COLLECT FROM AD VALOREM TAXES
07:17:12PM IS ONLY MINUS $25 MILLION.
07:17:14PM IN PAST YEARS THE BUDGET THAT WE COLLECTED, THE BUDGET OF
07:17:19PM FIRE AND POLICE AND SELECTED ALL OF THE CITY AND ALL THE AD
07:17:24PM VALOREM TAXES WAS OVER $50 MILLION MINUS.
07:17:27PM WE HAVE MADE SOME STRIDES AND MONEY GOING IN OTHER
07:17:32PM DIRECTION.
07:17:32PM AND I APPRECIATE WHAT EVERYONE HEARD ON COUNCIL AND WHAT I
07:17:37PM HEARD TODAY.
07:17:38PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE.
07:17:39PM MR. CARLSON.
07:17:40PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, SIR, THANK YOU.
07:17:43PM JUST TO ADD TO OR ADD ADDITIONAL COMMENTS TO WHAT MY
07:17:47PM COLLEAGUES SAID.
07:17:48PM IN TERMS OF THE SALARY INCREASES, 100% AGREE WITH IT AND I
07:17:54PM SAID IT BEFORE AND ANYBODY WATCHING FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU
07:17:57PM GO BACK TO THE GREAT RECESSION, THE STAFF AND THE CITY OF
07:18:00PM TAMPA DIDN'T HAVE MANY RAISES FOR YEARS AND CAME OUT OF THE
07:18:05PM RECESSION, HE UNDER STAND THAT THE RAISES DID NOT KEEP UP
07:18:07PM WITH INFLATION.
07:18:09PM JUST THIS YEAR ALONE 9% INFLATION.
07:18:12PM YOU LOOK AT A 9% INCREASE OF STAFF IN THIS ONE YEAR, THAT
07:18:16PM JUST MAKES IT EVEN WITH THIS ONE YEAR.
07:18:18PM THAT IS WHAT -- IN MY OWN -- I DID INFLATION INCREASE.
07:18:22PM I THINK MOST ORGANIZATIONS HAVE GIVEN INFLATION INCREASES
07:18:26PM BECAUSE IT IS NECESSARY AS MY COLLEAGUE MENTIONED WE NEED
07:18:30PM OUR OWN STAFF MEMBERS TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD FOOD, HOUSING AND
07:18:33PM OTHER THINGS.
07:18:33PM WE DON'T WANT THE CITY STAFF LIVING OUT OF CARS OR ANY OTHER
07:18:37PM SITUATIONS LIKE THAT.
07:18:38PM AND THEN SECOND THOUGH, THEY ARE NOT GETTING A 9% INCREASE
07:18:42PM NEXT YEAR.
07:18:43PM IF THERE IS HIGH INFLATION NEXT YEAR AGAIN, THEY ARE NOT
07:18:47PM GOING TO GET THAT.
07:18:47PM THEY WILL GET ABOUT HALF THAT AND SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE
07:18:53PM CAUGHT UP JUST THIS YEAR -- HAVEN'T CAUGHT UP WITH THE TEN
07:18:56PM OR MORE YEARS THEY WERE BEHIND AND CATCH UP FOR THE FUTURE.
07:18:59PM IF WE WANT THE BEST PEOPLE, GOOD PEOPLE, HONEST PEOPLE IN
07:19:03PM ALL THESE DEPARTMENTS AND WANT THE BEST PEOPLE TO PERFORM
07:19:07PM WELL, WE ARE GOING TO PAY THEM WELL AND OTHER PEOPLE OUT WHO
07:19:10PM AREN'T AS EFFECTIVE AS SOME PEOPLE MENTION BUT WE NEED TO
07:19:14PM PAY THE GOOD PEOPLE WELL TO ATTRACT AND MAINTAIN.
07:19:17PM >>> NEXT, WHEN TALKING OF HOUSING.
07:19:19PM THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN IN FAVOR OF HOUSING AND BEEN
07:19:22PM TALKING ABOUT IT SINCE WE FIRST GOT ELECTED.
07:19:24PM IT WAS A MAJOR PRIORITY OF THIS CITY COUNCIL BEFORE AS PART
07:19:27PM OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S MAJOR PRIORITIES.
07:19:30PM ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO SITTING AT A CRA BOARD WHICH IS CITY
07:19:34PM COUNCIL WEARING ANOTHER HAT AND MY COLLEAGUE MENTIONED WE
07:19:38PM MET AT 5:00 TODAY.
07:19:39PM WE SET ASIDE -- WE ASKED OUR STAFF, THE CRA STAFF, TO SET
07:19:43PM ASIDE 30% OF THE CRA MONEY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
07:19:47PM UNFORTUNATELY THE STAFF ASSIGNED BY THE CITY, BY THE
07:19:49PM ADMINISTRATION, JUST DECIDED TO IGNORE THAT.
07:19:52PM AND NOW WE ARE TRYING TO CATCH UP.
07:19:53PM HAD THEY ALLOWED TO -- ALLOW US TO SPEND THAT OR SPEND THE
07:19:58PM MONEY THAT WE SUPPOSEDLY CONTROLLED TWO YEARS AGO WE MIGHT
07:20:01PM BE FARTHER ALONG IN THIS.
07:20:03PM ON OUR OWN BUDGET WE MET A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO, AND WE
07:20:09PM REAFFIRMED WE WANTED TO SPEND 30% AND WORK WITH STAFF TO
07:20:13PM ALLOCATE AND FIND THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE TO HOPEFULLY GET
07:20:18PM PEOPLE TO BUY HOMES.
07:20:19PM THE -- IF YOU ALL -- THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY, IF YOU
07:20:26PM REMEMBER TWO WEEKS AGO WE CITY COUNCIL AGREED WITH YOU AND
07:20:29PM WE ASKED THE ADMINISTRATION TO PUT 10% FOR HOUSING AND THEY
07:20:34PM IGNORED OUR REQUEST.
07:20:35PM TWO WEEKS AGO I VOTED AGAINST THE BUDGET BECAUSE I HAD MANY
07:20:39PM PROBLEMS WITH IT.
07:20:40PM NOT A SINGLE PERSON FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ASKED ME WHY I
07:20:45PM WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IT OR TO FOLLOW UP ON ANY OF THE
07:20:48PM COMMENTS.
07:20:48PM IF YOU FEEL TRUST REAL THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ARE IGNORING
07:20:52PM YOU.
07:20:52PM I FEEL FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORING ME AND SOME OF
07:20:55PM COUNCIL.
07:20:55PM WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD IN THIS COMMUNITY.
07:20:59PM WHEN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WANT SOMETHING LIKE A NEW OFFICE FOR
07:21:02PM THEIR STAFF.
07:21:03PM DECIDED INSTEAD OF RENTING SPACE DECIDED TO SPENT 108
07:21:07PM MILLION OUT OF GENERAL FUND.
07:21:08PM I ASKED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO MAYBE MOVE THE WATER
07:21:11PM DEPARTMENT FOLKS IN THERE AND USE SOME OF THE ENTERPRISE
07:21:14PM FUNDS TO OFFSET THAT AND USE SOME OF THAT MONEY FOR
07:21:17PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THEY SAID NO.
07:21:19PM WHEN -- IF YOU ADD UP THE $102 MILLION FOR THE NEW OPTION
07:21:24PM BUILDING FOR 500 PEOPLE AND AUTOED INTEREST.
07:21:27PM THEY WERE VERY WILLING TO BOND THAT OUT.
07:21:29PM WILL NOT COME TO US TO BOND HOUSING BUT $17 MILLION AND
07:21:34PM INTEREST, AND $40 MILLION OF A&M OVER THE LIFE CYCLE $220
07:21:41PM PLUS MILLION.
07:21:42PM THAT WAS PUSHED THROUGH VERY QUICKLY WITHOUT A COMPETITIVE
07:21:46PM BID DESPITE AN ARCHAIC INTERPRETATION BY THE LEGAL
07:21:50PM DEPARTMENT.
07:21:50PM I DON'T SEE THE SAME THING TAMPA TOILET TO TAP $2 BILLION TO
07:21:58PM $6 BILLION PROJECT THAT THE PUBLIC DOESN'T MANATEE.
07:22:01PM A WHOLE BUNCH INCLUDING THE RESILIENCY OFFICE WHICH IS GREAT
07:22:06PM HIGHER SPENDING MOST OF HIS TIME TRYING TO SELL INCREASING
07:22:10PM WATER RATES TO DRINK TOILET WATER FOR THE PUBLIC WHEN PUBLIC
07:22:15PM DOESN'T NEED IT OR WANT IT.
07:22:17PM THE BOTTOM LINE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS TRYING TO LISTEN
07:22:20PM AND FOLLOW UP AND WE NEED FOR THE A MFRGS TO LISTEN.
07:22:23PM THANK YOU.
07:22:23PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: SULTY HIS TRAVIS.
07:22:27PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
07:22:30PM IN I CAN NICK, DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
07:22:33PM I DIDN'T HAVE A FORMER PRESENTATION FOR YOU BUT I HAVE TAKEN
07:22:37PM NOTES THROUGH PUBLIC COMMENT.
07:22:38PM AND THERE WAS A REQUEST BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK TO GET A
07:22:43PM SNAPSHOT WHAT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED IN THESE DIFFERENT BUCKETS
07:22:47PM OVER THE LAST THREE FISCAL YEARS.
07:22:49PM IF YOU ALLOW ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SOME GENERAL
07:22:52PM COMMENTS AND PRESENT THAT INFORMATION.
07:22:54PM SO -- YES, SIR?
07:22:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
07:22:59PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: IN YOUR COMMENTS, MR. CARLSON TRIGGERED
07:23:03PM SOMETHING IN MY MIND.
07:23:03PM HE TALKED ABOUT BONDS.
07:23:05PM THAT TRIGGERED SOMETHING IN MY MIND.
07:23:07PM WE BOND A LOT OF STUFF.
07:23:08PM HE SAID BONDING HOUSING.
07:23:10PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: BOND WHAT?
07:23:12PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: BONDING HOUSING.
07:23:13PM GETTING BONDS FOR HOUSING.
07:23:15PM I MAY ASK A QUESTION AND YOU MAY RESPOND TO IT DURING THE
07:23:18PM PRESENTATION, BUT TRIGGERS SOMETHING, WE GET BOND FOR WATER
07:23:22PM AND -- TRIGGERS SOMETHING FOR ME.
07:23:23PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: OKAY.
07:23:25PM SO WHEN MR. CARLSON SAYS THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS NOT
07:23:33PM BEEN RESPONSIVE TO HOUSING.
07:23:35PM I AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
07:23:36PM I AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
07:23:39PM SO I WOULD CONTEND I HAVE BEEN VERY RESPONSIVE TO THIS
07:23:44PM COUNCIL.
07:23:44PM HOUSING AFFORDABILITY IS IN THE MAYOR'S T-3 PLAN THAT WAS
07:23:50PM PRESENTED IN 2019 WHEN SHE TOOK OFFICE.
07:23:52PM IT IS WHAT I READ BEFORE I TOOK THIS POSITION.
07:23:55PM AND I WOULD CON TEND THAT I HAVE BEEN IN FRONT OF YOU ALMOST
07:23:58PM EVERY WEEK TALKING ABOUT HOUSING AND PROVIDING YOU
07:24:01PM SOLUTIONS.
07:24:01PM SO WHEN YOU SAY -- WHEN YOU MAKE A COMMENT THAT THE MAYOR'S
07:24:05PM OFFICE HAS NOT BEEN RESPONSIVE TO THE HOUSING CRISIS, I TAKE
07:24:09PM A PERSONAL AFFRONT TO THAT.
07:24:10PM BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN WORKING MY TAIL OFF TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS
07:24:14PM WITH A SMALL BUT MIGHTY TEAM THAT HAS BEEN CREATIVE IN
07:24:18PM FINDING SOLUTIONS AND CONTINUING TO PERFORM WHEN YOU ASKED
07:24:24PM US TO.
07:24:24PM THIS ADMINISTRATION STOOD UP AFTER HEARING A LOT OF PUBLIC
07:24:32PM TESTIMONY IN ONE OF YOUR COUNCIL MEETINGS AND YOUR CONCERN
07:24:37PM FOR A HOUSING HOTLINE.
07:24:38PM I WAS IN L.A. FOR WORK.
07:24:41PM CAME AND SAID WE ARE DOING A HOUSING HOTLINE.
07:24:44PM 48 HOURS, THE HOTLINE WAS UP AND STAFFED.
07:24:48PM BY US DOING THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITIONS WHERE
07:24:52PM WE ASSIGNED STAFF FOR A HURRICANE AND THERE IS A CRISIS, WE
07:25:00PM HAVE A ROLE AND EMPLOYEES THAT ARE ASSIGNED.
07:25:03PM WE DECLARED THIS A CRISIS, NOT THE SAME AS A HURRICANE, BUT
07:25:08PM A CRISIS NONETHELESS.
07:25:10PM THAT IS HOW WE GOT EMPLOYEES TO WORK THAT HOUSING HOTLINE
07:25:15PM WHICH BY THE WAY STILL CONTINUES TO THIS DAY UNTIL WE TURN
07:25:19PM IT TO THE TENANT SERVICE TEAM WHEN THE OFFICE IS STOOD UP
07:25:23PM WITH FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
07:25:24PM SO I AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
07:25:26PM OKAY.
07:25:26PM THE TENANT SERVICES DEPARTMENT WAS SOMETHING -- OR TENANT
07:25:31PM ADVOCACY OFFICE SOMETHING YOU ASKED FOR.
07:25:34PM ASKED FOR $400,000 TO DO THAT.
07:25:37PM THE BUDGET HAVEN'T BEEN APPROVED AS OF YET, BUT I PROVIDE A
07:25:41PM FRAMEWORK TO BE EXECUTED UPON THE APPROVAL OF THIS BUDGET.
07:25:44PM THE BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES THAT I THINK ONE OF THE PUBLIC
07:25:52PM COMMENTS TALKED ABOUT RIGHT TO COUNSEL.
07:25:54PM EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO COUNSEL.
07:25:55PM IT IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN PAY FOR IT OR NOT.
07:25:59PM AS PART OF YOUR REQUEST AND THE ADMINISTRATION BEING
07:26:02PM RESPONSIVE TO THAT, THE BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES CONTRACT IS
07:26:05PM COMING BEFORE YOU ON OCTOBER 6 FOR THAT PARTNERSHIP TO DO
07:26:13PM THAT.
07:26:13PM I AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
07:26:15PM SO NOW I WILL TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE MONEY FOR THE FISCAL
07:26:24PM YEAR, THREE YEARS, 2023.
07:26:29PM WE SHOWED YOU $26.4 MILLION IN THE DIFFERENT BUCKET.
07:26:33PM I AM KEEPING THE SAME BUCKETS AND WOULD LIKE TO TALK HOW
07:26:37PM THAT THE FLUCTUATION OF FUNDING.
07:26:38PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MISS TRAVIS, MAY I -- YOU ARE ON A ROLL.
07:26:41PM BUT CAN I INTERJECT SOMETHING.
07:26:47PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: HOUR.
07:26:48PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS HAVE MADE FROM ALL COUNCILMEMBERS.
07:26:51PM I NEED TO MAKE MY COMMENTS.
07:26:53PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: SURE, MY APOLOGY.
07:26:55PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT I ASKED THE
07:26:58PM STAFF, THE CHIEF, MR. ROGERO AND MR. ROGERO.
07:27:05PM YOU CAME HERE FOR ONE JOB.
07:27:07PM HOW MANY HATS DO YOU WEAR?
07:27:10PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: WORKING AT THE PLEASURE OF THE MAYOR AND
07:27:13PM EXECUTING THE WISHES OF THE MAYOR AND THIS COUNCIL.
07:27:15PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
07:27:16PM WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE MOVING TO THIS CITY.
07:27:20PM AND WHAT THE CITIZENS ARE ASKING FOR BESIDES HOUSING IS THE
07:27:26PM BASICS.
07:27:27PM FIRE, POLICE, WATER, WASTE.
07:27:34PM WE NEED TO KEEP THE CITIZENS AND CITY STAFF AT THE SAME
07:27:41PM RATIO OF WHAT IT IS AT.
07:27:43PM YOU WEAR FOUR HATS.
07:27:46PM WE ARE NOW GOING TO ASK FOR MORE SERVICES, IN HOUSING AND
07:27:53PM LEGAL SERVICES.
07:27:53PM I AM GOING TO, AGAIN, ASK THAT WE PROVIDE MORE STAFF, FIRE,
07:28:00PM POLICE, PARKS AND REC, STORMWATER, PERMITTING, INSPECTION,
07:28:10PM JUST SO WE DON'T HAVE MORE EMPLOYEES LIKE YOU, MISS TRAVIS,
07:28:14PM THAT HAVE TO WEAR THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT HATS TO MAKE SURE
07:28:17PM THAT THE BARE NECESSITIES AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE MET.
07:28:20PM MISS TRAVIS, IF ANYBODY HAVEN'T SAID IT LATELY, THANK YOU
07:28:24PM FOR ALL YOU DO.
07:28:25PM PLEASE PROCEED.
07:28:26PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: THANK YOU.
07:28:27PM JUST TO YOUR POINT OF THE PURPOSE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS TO
07:28:33PM PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO OUR CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS.
07:28:38PM I THINK AND WE DO AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB.
07:28:40PM SOMEBODY MADE THE COMMENT THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS NOT
07:28:43PM LISTENING.
07:28:43PM WE DO A CITIZEN VALUE SURVEY EVERY YEAR.
07:28:46PM AND THE WAY THAT THE BUDGET IS ALLOCATED IS -- IT REFLECTS
07:28:51PM WHAT THE CITIZEN VALUE IN THAT SURVEY.
07:28:54PM WE JUST GOT THE RESULTS THIS WEEK FOR THE MOST RECENT
07:28:57PM SURVEY, YOU WILL BE SEEING THAT SOON.
07:28:59PM THE ADMINISTRATION SITS AROUND THE TABLE AND WE SAY HOW DID
07:29:04PM THE CITIZENS RESPOND TO THIS SERVICE.
07:29:05PM WHAT ARE THEY PRIORITIZING.
07:29:07PM WHAT HAS CHANGED.
07:29:08PM WHAT YOU WILL SEE IN THE NEXT SURVEY THAT HOUSING IS NOW THE
07:29:12PM NUMBER ONE ISSUE.
07:29:13PM I THINK THAT IS REFLECTED ON HOW THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS
07:29:16PM BEEN RESPONDING AND HOW THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN REQUESTING AND
07:29:19PM RESPONDING TO THE HOUSING CRISIS.
07:29:21PM SO WE LISTEN.
07:29:23PM WE COME BACK.
07:29:24PM WE WORK WITHIN WHAT WE CAN.
07:29:30PM AND WE ARE CREATIVE.
07:29:31PM I WILL CONTINUE.
07:29:32PM SO FISCAL YEAR 2020, THESE ARE -- GENERALLY THE BUCKETS OF
07:29:45PM MONEY -- THIS IS AROUND HOW MUCH ALLOCATION -- CAN'T SEE,
07:29:52PM 9.6 MILLION THAT IS ALL FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING.
07:29:54PM YOU ARE IN ESD,SHIP, FUND, BASED ON WHAT YOUR ENTITLEMENTS
07:30:03PM IS.
07:30:03PM FISCAL 22, WE DIDN'T HAVE FALL FUNDS ALLOCATED AT THIS TIME.
07:30:12PM FISCAL YEAR '21, YOU NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A BIG JUMP.
07:30:18PM WENT FROM $9.6 MILLION TO $43 MILLION.
07:30:23PM OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES GRANTS THAT WE GET FROM THE FEDERAL
07:30:27PM GOVERNMENT WAS A BIG PART OF THAT FOR THE HOMELESS SERVICES,
07:30:31PM $4 MILLION.
07:30:32PM IN ADDITION TO OUR NORMAL ALLOCATION THAT WE GET FROM THE
07:30:41PM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, $4 MILLION FOR HOMELESS AND RENTAL
07:30:43PM ASSISTANCE PREVENTION ALL AROUND THE CONTEXT OF COVID,
07:30:47PM RIGHT.
07:30:48PM SO IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE, THERE WAS $# 1 MILLION OF RENTAL
07:30:51PM AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE.
07:30:53PM AND WE PARTNERED WITH THE COUNTY TO DISSEMINATE THAT MONEY
07:30:57PM TO DO THAT.
07:30:58PM SO COVID AND THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FOR COVID INFLUENCES A
07:31:06PM LOT OF THE MONEY WE HAVE AT THIS TIME.
07:31:09PM SO, AGAIN, IN THIS -- IN THIS -- IN FISCAL YEAR '22, THERE
07:31:14PM WERE NO GENERAL FUNDS IN THIS -- IN THIS BUDGET.
07:31:17PM IN FISCAL YEAR 2022 YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE ACQUISITIONS IN
07:31:32PM REHAB WENT UP TO $22 MILLION.
07:31:35PM AS A RESULT OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT, $16 MILLION OF
07:31:41PM ARPA MONEY WE PUT IN ACQUISITION AND REHAB, BECAUSE WE
07:31:46PM RECOGNIZE THAT THE ONLY WAY OUT OF A HOUSING CRISIS IS TO
07:31:50PM PROVIDE MORE ON THE SUPPLY SIDE.
07:31:52PM SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
07:31:54PM WE ALSO GOT AN ADDITIONAL $6.7 MILLION OF GENERAL FUND MONEY
07:31:58PM IN FISCAL YEAR 2022.
07:32:00PM THE COVID CARES ACT MONEY HAS PRETTY MUCH BEEN EXPENDED
07:32:06PM EXCEPT FOR CDBG.
07:32:09PM A SMALL AMOUNT LEFT IN THE CDBG.
07:32:13PM WE WENT FROM $43 MILLION DOWN TO $37 MILLION.
07:32:17PM AND NOW YOU HAVE THE GENERAL FUND CONTRIBUTING TO THIS
07:32:21PM ALLOCATION AND USING R-MAP -- EXCUSE ME NOT R-MAP BUT ARPA
07:32:30PM FUNDS FOR THAT.
07:32:31PM HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE FOR KISS CAL YEAR '23 THAT WE ARE
07:32:35PM PROPOSING.
07:32:36PM GENERAL FUND AND -- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
07:32:39PM IS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES -- THEY OFTENTIMES LOOK
07:32:45PM AT CITIES THAT ARE PERFORMING VERY WELL IN CERTAIN AREAS AND
07:32:48PM THIS HE AWARD ADDITIONAL MONEY.
07:32:50PM LIKE, IF THEY HAVE ADDITIONAL MONEY THAT HAVEN'T BEEN
07:32:53PM REWARDED, THEY WILL GO BACK TO A SUCCESSFUL CITY THAT DOES A
07:32:57PM GREAT PROGRAM AND PROVIDE YOU WITH ADDITIONAL MONEY.
07:33:00PM THERE ARE TIMES WHERE YOU CAN GO THROUGH A COMPETITIVE BID
07:33:03PM FOR CERTAIN POTS OF MONEY AND WE WENT THROUGH FOR HOPWELL
07:33:10PM FUNDING AND WENT $72,000 THAT WENT INTO OUR HOMELESS
07:33:14PM SERVICES BUCKET AND INCLUDE GENERAL FUND MONEY IN THAT LINE
07:33:18PM ITEM AS WELL.
07:33:18PM THE PUBLIC SERVICES YOU SAW THAT PRETTY MUCH KIND OF STAYED
07:33:24PM CONSISTENT.
07:33:24PM WE DIDN'T PUT ADDITIONAL MONEY BECAUSE FEDERAL RESTRICTIONS
07:33:27PM THAT YOU CAN ONLY ALLOCATE 15% OF ALLOTTED FUND TO SERVICES.
07:33:35PM THAT STAYS AROUND OUR NUMBER.
07:33:38PM THE GENERAL ASSISTANCE GENERAL ONE AND HOPWA AT 6.9 MILLION.
07:33:44PM HOME OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING BUT DOES NOT
07:33:49PM INCLUDE WHAT THE CRA HAS ALLOCATED FOR DOWNPAYMENT
07:33:52PM ASSISTANCE.
07:33:53PM SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS MONEY, EVERYTHING THAT COMES
07:33:56PM THROUGH THE CITY, THROUGH THE CITY OFFICE WITH GENERAL FUND
07:33:59PM AND THE STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING NOT INCLUDING YOUR CRA
07:34:04PM FUNDS.
07:34:04PM TO YOUR POINT AT THE 5:00 PUBLIC HEARING.
07:34:07PM WE TALKED OF REALLOCATING MONEY AND TALKING ABOUT THAT IN
07:34:11PM NOVEMBER.
07:34:11PM IF WE WERE TO ACHIEVE THE 30% IN THE CRA ALLOCATION WOULD
07:34:15PM EXCEED THE $10 MILLION OF AD VALOREM REVENUE.
07:34:18PM SO CAN'T MAKE ANY PROMISES WE WILL HAVE THAT FOR YOU IN
07:34:22PM NOVEMBER TO DO THAT ALLOCATION, BUT KNOW YOUR HOME OWNERSHIP
07:34:26PM AND ACQUISITION LINE ITEMS THAT YOU SEE HERE, ADDITIONAL
07:34:30PM FUNDING BUT JUST IN YOUR CRA BUDGET FOR THAT.
07:34:35PM AND WHAT WE ARE PRESENT IS A $26.4 MILLION FOR HOUSING.
07:34:40PM I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
07:34:43PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
07:34:47PM >>BILL CARLSON: MR. CHAIR.
07:34:48PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
07:34:50PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, THANK YOU, SIR.
07:34:52PM MISS TRAVIS, YOU KNOW I HAVE THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR YOU AND
07:34:57PM MY COMMENTS ARE NOT DIRECTED ON YOU.
07:34:59PM I AM GLAD YOU ARE ON BOARD AND YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR TRYING TO
07:35:03PM FIX A LOT OF THINGS.
07:35:04PM THE ADMINISTRATION HAVEN'T BEEN FOCUSED ON THIS AND A LOT OF
07:35:07PM OTHER THINGS IN MANY AREAS LIKE ROADS AND SIDEWALKS AND BIKE
07:35:11PM LANES AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE, PARKS.
07:35:12PM SPENT THREE YEARS PLANNING AND VERY LITTLE TIME ACTUALLY
07:35:16PM DOING ANYTHING.
07:35:16PM AND NOW OUR -- OUR -- OUR RESILIENCY OFFICER IS SPENDING
07:35:22PM MOST OF HIS TIME TRYING TO SELL TO THE PROJECT A PROJECT MAY
07:35:25PM COST $6 BILLION THE PUBLIC DOESN'T WANT.
07:35:29PM YOU ARE IN CFO OFFICE CAME UP WITH $108 MILLION FROM THE
07:35:35PM GENERAL FUND BONDED OUT FOR A NEW OFFICE BUILDING THAT WILL
07:35:38PM BE VERY NICE.
07:35:38PM HAD YOU HAD RESOURCE OF THE RESILIENCY OFFICER OR THE CFO TO
07:35:43PM SPEND $108 MILLION BONDED OUT OR ANY OTHER RESOURCES, COULD
07:35:47PM YOU HAVE DONE GREAT THINGS WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND MANY
07:35:50PM OTHER THINGS.
07:35:51PM I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN YOU AND HATS OFF TO THE
07:35:53PM ADMINISTRATION FOR BRINGING YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES ON
07:35:56PM BOARD.
07:35:56PM BUT THE FACT IS, THAT WE GOT TO GET BEYOND PLANNING.
07:36:01PM AND WE GOT TO GET THE REST OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO BE
07:36:04PM BEYOND PLANNING AND ACTUALLY GET THINGS DONE AND WE NEED FOR
07:36:07PM THEM TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WHAT CITY
07:36:11PM COUNCIL WANTS.
07:36:11PM THIS IS REAL HARD WORK WE ARE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY AND
07:36:16PM THE COMMUNITY IS TIRED OF THE POLITICS AND THEY WANT TO MOVE
07:36:18PM ON TO ACTUALLY GETTING RESULTS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
07:36:20PM THANK YOU.
07:36:21PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE?
07:36:26PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: MR. CHAIRMAN, I FORGOT TO RESPOND TO MR.
07:36:29PM GUDES' COMMENTS ABOUT THE BOND.
07:36:31PM I WOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH THE BUDGET TEAM TO LOOK AT THAT.
07:36:37PM THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS TO BOND PROJECTS, BUT I WILL TAKE
07:36:41PM THIS OPPORTUNITY OR -- TO SAY THE SAME LEVEL OF ENERGY THAT
07:36:46PM IS BEING BROUGHT TO CITY COUNCIL TO SOLVE THE AFFORDABLE
07:36:49PM HOUSING CRISIS THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THERE ARE OTHER
07:36:52PM BODIES THAT GET WAY MORE FUNDING THAN THE CITY.
07:36:55PM AND THAT ENERGY SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THOSE BODIES AS WELL.
07:36:59PM WE ARE NOT A PUBLIC HOUSING A~.
07:37:01PM AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO TAKE THAT ENERGY THERE AS
07:37:04PM WELL.
07:37:04PM THEY HAVE WAY MORE FUNDING THAN WE DO.
07:37:06PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIR.
07:37:09PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
07:37:11PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I APPRECIATES WHAT YOU DO FOR ME.
07:37:14PM I ASK YOU AND MR. ALIS TO GET IT DONE, YOU GET IT DONE.
07:37:18PM THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY.
07:37:19PM AND AS PEOPLE CAN SEE, YOU ARE KIND OF LIKE ME SOMETIMES.
07:37:23PM YOU LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW IT IS, YOU KNOW.
07:37:26PM AND I AM APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.
07:37:28PM BECAUSE YOU ARE UP-FRONT.
07:37:30PM THAT MEANS YOU ARE NOT SCARED TO SAY WHAT YOU ARE WANT TO
07:37:34PM SAY TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS.
07:37:36PM I APPRECIATE THAT.
07:37:37PM I UNDERSTAND THAT.
07:37:38PM I LOVE WHAT YOU DO.
07:37:39PM WHEN QUESTIONS ARE ASKED, YOU KNOW, THAT IS WHY THE MAN ON
07:37:42PM THE SCREEN SAID THAT HE -- WHEN YOU COME BEFORE HIM AND HE
07:37:46PM GIVES THE BUSINESS OUT, YOU RESPOND.
07:37:48PM REALLY -- WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU RESPOND, BUT YOU
07:37:54PM GIVE THE ANSWERS.
07:37:54PM AND I KNOW MR. CARLSON'S HEART AND HE RESPECTS THAT PAUSE
07:37:58PM YOU DON'T GET UP THERE AND GET FLUFF OR GET FLUTTERED.
07:38:02PM YOU SAY WHAT IT IS AND HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
07:38:05PM THAT IS ALL OF WHAT ANYBODY CAN ASK FOR.
07:38:08PM I AM PROUD OF WHAT YOU DO AND YOUR COUNTERPART BECAUSE YOU
07:38:13PM GET IT DONE.
07:38:14PM AGAIN, THERE ARE A LOT AGENCIES AND A LOT OF TIME WE EXPECT
07:38:17PM DEPEND ON OTHER AGENCIES.
07:38:18PM WE HAVE TO -- LIKE THEY SAY DEAL WITH YOUR OWN HOUSE.
07:38:23PM >>NICOLE TRAVIS: DON'T DISAGREE.
07:38:24PM TAKE THAT ENERGY THERE AS WELL.
07:38:26PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: ACTUALLY NOTED.
07:38:28PM AND YOU ARE APPRECIATED.
07:38:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
07:38:32PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I SPEAK.
07:38:33PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
07:38:36PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO RE-EMPHASIZE BUT WHAT SAID OF OTHER
07:38:40PM AGENCIES AND GOVERNMENT BODY.
07:38:41PM THAT IS WHAT I WAS SPEAKING TO BEFORE WHICH IS IT IS
07:38:44PM SLIGHTLY MIRACULOUS THAT WE ARE GETTING MONEY FROM THE CITY
07:38:49PM OF TAMPA BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
07:38:50PM THEY DEAL WITH A LOT OF SOCIAL WELFARE ISSUES.
07:38:53PM AND AWAY THE I USE THE TERM OF A FAN OF SOCIAL WELFARE
07:38:59PM PROGRAMS.
07:38:59PM A FAN OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HEALTH CARE, NUTRITION, ETC.,
07:39:03PM ETC.
07:39:04PM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE FOR THE IS IT I TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED
07:39:07PM IN THAT.
07:39:08PM HISTORICALLY WE HAD MORE OF A LIMITED ROLE IN THIS REGARD.
07:39:12PM THIS EXPANSION IS VERY, VERY SIGNIFICANT.
07:39:14PM SO I MEAN IF YOU WANT TO GO FISH THE FISH ARE, RIGHT.
07:39:19PM ALSO TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
07:39:23PM AND WE WANT TO HE RATE RATE THAT PAUSE YOUR COMMENTS ARE
07:39:29PM VERY WELL TAKEN, THANK YOU.
07:39:30PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: AT THIS TIME I AM GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC
07:39:33PM COMMENT.
07:39:34PM AND WE ARE GOING TO GO ON A TEN-MINUTE BREAK.
07:39:36PM [GAVEL SOUNDING]
07:49:21PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY
07:49:23PM HEARD.
07:49:23PM WE ARE BACK FROM BREAK.
07:49:24PM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
07:49:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
07:49:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
07:49:34PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: HERE MIRANDA.
07:49:37PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
07:49:38PM >>CLERK: OFF PHYSICAL QUORUM.
07:49:42PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ROGERO, HE IS NOT IN HERE, BUT WE ARE
07:49:47PM GOING TO GO TO THE FINANCE CHAIR TO READ THE RESOLUTION.
07:50:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM 11, 6 AND 2076 BY IS 6.2076 MILLS ON
07:50:13PM ALL REAL AND PERSONAL TAXABLE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2023.
07:50:17PM AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO CERTIFY SUCH MILLAGE
07:50:21PM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
07:50:23PM WE GO NOW TO THE SECTION 1, AD VALOREM TAX RATE OF 62075 --
07:50:34PM 6.2076 MILLS TO RAISE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AS FIXED IN THE
07:50:41PM RECOMMENDED BUDGET IN CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE CITY OF TAMPA
07:50:44PM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 2022 AND ENDING
07:50:50PM SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 FOR THE GENERAL FUND AND MAINTENANCE AND
07:50:54PM OPERATION OF THE CITY OF TAMPA INCLUDING THE PART AND
07:50:59PM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
07:51:01PM IS HEARBY LEVIED TO PROVIDE BY LAW ALL UNREAL PROPERTY AND
07:51:07PM PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXABLE FOR THAT PURPOSE IN THE CITY OF
07:51:10PM TAMPA.
07:51:10PM SECTION TWO, THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK, AS THE PROPER
07:51:15PM AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA ARE DULY AUTHORIZED TO
07:51:18PM EMPOWER AND DIRECT TO CERTIFY TO THE PROPERTY APPRAISER OF
07:51:22PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, THE MILLAGE TO BE LEVIED FOR
07:51:25PM ALL PURPOSES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2023.
07:51:27PM AND IN THE CITY OF TAMPA TO WIT.
07:51:31PM 6.2076 MILLS WHICH EXCEEDS THE ROLL BEEN A RATE OF 5.6641
07:51:39PM MILLS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 200.0651 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES
07:51:47PM BY 9.6% AND REQUEST THE LEVY OF THE MILLAGE TO BE SET FORTH
07:51:54PM ON OUR REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ON THE CITY OF TAMPA AS
07:51:57PM ABOVE SET FORTH AND ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE
07:52:00PM CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
07:52:02PM SECTION 3, THAT OTHER PROPERTY OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA
07:52:07PM AUTHORIZED TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY AND PROPER IN ORDER TO
07:52:10PM CARRY OUT AND MAKE EFFECTIVE THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
07:52:13PM THIS RESOLUTION WHICH SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
07:52:16PM UPON ADOPTION.
07:52:17PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. CHAIR OF THE FINANCE, WOULD YOU PLEASE
07:52:23PM MAKE YOUR MOTION.
07:52:24PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
07:52:32PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IT SAYS MR. ROGERO IS NEXT.
07:52:38PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THE --
07:52:42PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WOULD THE FINANCE CHAIR PLEASE MAKE THE
07:52:44PM MOTION TO ADOPT THE MILLAGE.
07:52:47PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM 12, MOVE TO ADOPT A PROPOSED MILLAGE
07:52:50PM OF 6.2076 MILLS WHICH IS 9.6% MORE THAN THE ROLL BACK OF
07:52:58PM 5.6441 MILL FOR PROPERTY TAX FUNDS THAT ARE USED TO SUPPORT
07:53:01PM THE GO EN RALE FUND OPERATING BUDGET AND COMMUNITY
07:53:06PM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
07:53:07PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
07:53:09PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
07:53:11PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
07:53:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
07:53:14PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
07:53:16PM >>CLERK: CARLSON?
07:53:24PM >>BILL CARLSON: NO.
07:53:25PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
07:53:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
07:53:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
07:53:28PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
07:53:30PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO.
07:53:33PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ROGERO, THE NEXT ITEM.
07:53:38PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WILL THE FINANCE CHAIR PROVIDE THE SECOND
07:53:40PM READING OF THE ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 CITY
07:53:45PM OF TAMPA BUDGET.
07:53:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. ROGERO.
07:53:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING.
07:53:55PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: SECOND.
07:53:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ALL IN FAVOR.
07:53:57PM ANY OPPOSED.
07:53:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM NUMBER 14, THE READING OF THE 2023
07:54:07PM ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING.
07:54:09PM ITEM NUMBER 14 --
07:54:12PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU GO BACK -- YOU SHOULD NOT CLOSE THE
07:54:14PM PUBLIC HEARING UNTIL THE VERY END.
07:54:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO REOPEN.
07:54:17PM >> SECOND.
07:54:18PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION TO REOPEN MADE BY COUNCILMAN
07:54:31PM MANISCALCO.
07:54:31PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
07:54:33PM ALL IN FAVOR.
07:54:33PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: COUNCIL, I AM SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT IF
07:54:40PM COUNCILMEMBERS WANT TO MAKE MOTIONS NOW, NOW IS THE TIME T
07:54:43PM DO IT.
07:54:43PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THERE WE GO.
07:54:45PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
07:54:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
07:54:47PM I RECEIVED A REQUEST -- I KNOW WE HAVE WORKED QUITE A BIT ON
07:54:51PM SILVER OAKS THIS YEAR AS A COUNCIL.
07:54:53PM AND TRYING TO HELP THEM WITH THE CODE ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS
07:54:58PM AND THE ACTIONS THERE.
07:55:00PM THERE IS A COMMUNITY MEMBER MISS ALICIA -- I DO NOT KNOW HER
07:55:09PM LAST NAME -- SHE IS -- SHE HAS SPEARHEADED ALONG WITH
07:55:15PM APRIL COBB, A PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AT SILVER OAKS.
07:55:20PM IT IS CALLED THE "BEAUTY BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION."
07:55:27PM STANDS FOR -- I GUESS I DON'T HAVE WHAT IT STANDS FOR.
07:55:33PM BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON A SERIES OF TRAINS AND WORKSHOPS FOR
07:55:38PM YOUTH IN THIS AREA.
07:55:39PM SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ALLOCATE $50,000 FROM
07:55:43PM THE SOCIAL ACTION FUND TO THE BEAUTY BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION TO
07:55:47PM SUPPORT YOUTH FROM SILVER OAKS.
07:55:49PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
07:55:52PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
07:55:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE ALSO BROUGHT THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF
07:56:03PM MR. ROGERO.
07:56:05PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ARE WE NOW ABLE TO PROCEED WITH THE VOTING?
07:56:10PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
07:56:10PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
07:56:14PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
07:56:15PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
07:56:19PM COUNCILMAN GUDES.
07:56:19PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: IS THIS FUND TO -- THE FUND THAT GOES WITH
07:56:24PM THAT GRANT PROGRAM, CHIEF OF STAFF?
07:56:27PM >> YES, WE WILL ABSORB THAT INTO --
07:56:30PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. VIERA WILL MAKE OF THE INTELLECTUAL
07:56:36PM DISABILITIES AND BUDGET FROM CRIME.
07:56:38PM ONE MILLION DOLLARS?
07:56:42PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: 1.3.
07:56:43PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I GOT MY NUMBERS
07:56:47PM RIGHT WITH THAT.
07:56:48PM THANK YOU.
07:56:49PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
07:56:50PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
07:56:52PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
07:56:52PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
07:56:53PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
07:56:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
07:56:56PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
07:56:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
07:56:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
07:56:59PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
07:57:04PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
07:57:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE NEXT MOTION ISN'T FINANCIAL, BUT --
07:57:18PM SHOULD I WAIT THEN?
07:57:19PM OKAY.
07:57:19PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
07:57:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
07:57:24PM AND JUST REALLY FAST.
07:57:26PM I WILL MAKE A MOTION -- IT CAN COME OUT OF VIRTUALLY
07:57:30PM ANYWHERE AS LONG AS IT IS NOT AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY.
07:57:33PM BUT LORD KNOWS IN A $2 BILLION BUDGET YOU CAN FIND SOMETHING
07:57:36PM FOR THIS.
07:57:36PM FOR MY MATH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE.
07:57:39PM AND THAT WASN'T MY BEST CLASS IN SCHOOL THAT WE ARE DEALING
07:57:42PM WITH ABOUT $115,000 TO FUND ABOUT TEN TO A DOZEN INTERNSHIPS
07:57:50PM FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
07:57:52PM I WILL MAKE A MOTION AT A SEPARATE TIME WHENEVER IT IS
07:57:55PM PROPER TO HAVE THAT COME BACK US TO FOR THE SPECIFICS AND
07:57:58PM WHAT NOT.
07:57:59PM THAT WILL BE MY MOTION.
07:58:00PM I WILL MOTION WHENEVER I CAN FOR THAT TO COME BACK.
07:58:04PM SO FOR $115,000, I SENT THE MEMO -- TALKED ABOUT IT TO THE
07:58:09PM ADMINISTRATION, ETC., WHETHER IT COMES FROM OCEAN ACTION OR
07:58:12PM WHATEVER.
07:58:12PM IT IS ALL GOOD WITH ME.
07:58:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
07:58:16PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU WANT IT TO COME BACK.
07:58:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: OH, SURE.
07:58:23PM MAY I MAKE THAT AS PART OF THAT TO SCHEDULE.
07:58:26PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: SURE.
07:58:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: OBVIOUSLY TO GIVE PEOPLE TIME BECAUSE IT IS
07:58:29PM GOING TO TAKE TIME.
07:58:30PM WE ARE IN, WHAT, SEPTEMBER?
07:58:32PM SO LET'S SAY -- THE LAST WEEK OF MARCH OR FEBRUARY.
07:58:37PM THE LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY.
07:58:39PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I AM CONFUSED.
07:58:41PM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM REQUESTING FUNDS AND THEN REQUESTING THAT
07:58:44PM IT COMES BACK WITH SPECIFICITY OF HOW THE PROGRAM WILL WORK
07:58:48PM IN FIVE OR SIX MONTHS.
07:58:50PM YOU CAN'T SAY CREATE A PROGRAM, YOU NEED SPECIFICS, BUT I
07:58:54PM HONESTLY WANT TO GIVE THEM TIME.
07:58:56PM THERE YOU GO FEBRUARY 16 IF I MAY -- AS ALWAYS IF MORE TIME
07:59:00PM IS NEEDED.
07:59:01PM GLAD TO ALLOW THAT AS A PRESUMPTION.
07:59:04PM THAT IS TOTALLY FINE.
07:59:05PM I DO MAKE THE MOTION.
07:59:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
07:59:07PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
07:59:09PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
07:59:11PM ANY DISCUSSION?
07:59:12PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
07:59:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
07:59:15PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
07:59:16PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
07:59:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
07:59:19PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
07:59:20PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
07:59:21PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
07:59:22PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
07:59:24PM >>LUIS VIERA: THEN IF I MAY, ON THE ISSUE THERE WITH
07:59:29PM APRIL COBB, ETC.
07:59:30PM I WILL TALK TO THEM AS WELL, BECAUSE DO THEY -- IN -- IS
07:59:35PM SUPPORTED NO MATTER WHAT.
07:59:36PM DO THEY ONLY DEAL WITH SILVER OAKS OR TIMBER FALLS.
07:59:40PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: JUST SILVER OAKS.
07:59:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SILVER OAKS AND OTHER FAMILIES THAT ARE IN
07:59:46PM THAT SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
07:59:48PM BUT THE REAL FOCUS IS ON THOSE --
07:59:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT IS COOL.
07:59:53PM I CAN TALK TO THEM.
07:59:54PM I KNOW THEM, ETC.
07:59:55PM THEY ARE GOOD FOLKS.
07:59:57PM THE OTHER ISSUE IS RETURNING CITIZENS AND VICTIMS OF CRIME.
08:00:00PM THAT IS ALREADY IN THE BUDGET, CORRECT?
08:00:02PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR.
08:00:04PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES FOR THE EIGHTH TIME.
08:00:06PM I AM JOKING.
08:00:07PM ON THE FIRE ISSUE, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE -- AND AGAIN, CHIEF
08:00:11PM BENNETT AND CHIEF TRIPP CAN AFFIRM THIS, THE $1 MILLION FOR
08:00:15PM DISTRICTS 7 IS GOING TO GO -- THAT IS ACTUALLY COMING BACK
08:00:19PM TO US IN OCTOBER.
08:00:19PM I DID A MOTION A LONG WHILE AGO TO COME BACK US TO IN
08:00:23PM OCTOBER THAT THOSE $1 MILLION WILL DEAL WITH RESPONSE 33647.
08:00:27PM AND THEN ON DESIGN FOR THE NEXT FIRE STATION.
08:00:31PM AND I ASKED CHIEF TRIPP IN TERMS OF WHERE THE GREATEST NEED
08:00:36PM IS, AND SHE TOLD ME OF AN AREA FOWLER, ACROSS THE CITY OF
08:00:40PM TAMPA.
08:00:40PM NOT JUST DISTRICT 7, BECAUSE WE WANT TO LOOK EVERYWHERE, OF
08:00:43PM COURSE.
08:00:43PM WITH THAT UNDERSTANDING, I AM NOT GOING TO ASK FOR ANY
08:00:46PM QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE SO WE CAN SAVE ON TIME.
08:00:49PM THANK YOU.
08:00:50PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN.
08:00:52PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I HAVE GOT COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:00:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WANT TO ADD ON TO THIS?
08:00:59PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO BE OUT OF COUNCILMAN
08:01:02PM VIERA.
08:01:03PM IT IS SHOW TIME.
08:01:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO I HAD MENTIONED AND I WAS GOING TO
08:01:08PM BRING IT UP IN THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, BUT IN PORT TAMPA,
08:01:12PM THERE IS A HISTORIC CHURCH, THE PORT TAMPA AME CHURCH AND
08:01:17PM THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS SCHOOL THAT WAS TORN DOWN YEARS AGO.
08:01:20PM AND THEY HAVE A VISION AND I BELIEVE THERE ARE PLANS ALREADY
08:01:25PM FOR A PARK.
08:01:27PM THEY HAD MENTIONED -- WHEN I SAY "THEY" THE PASTOR HAD
08:01:32PM MENTIONED 200 TO $250,000 FOR THE COMPLETION OF THAT PARK.
08:01:36PM IT DOESN'T EXIST.
08:01:37PM THE LAND IS OWNED.
08:01:39PM THEY HAVE IT AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO ACQUIRE ANYTHING.
08:01:41PM I WOULD LIKE TO FROM THE SAME FUNDS THAT COUNCIL HURTAK MADE
08:01:45PM HER MOTION FROM, IF WE COULD AS A GOOD FAITH DOWN PAYMENT
08:01:49PM ALLOCATE $50,000 TOWARD THAT.
08:01:52PM AND THEN THE NEXT BUDGET ARE -- I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO
08:01:56PM THEM AND SAY, HEY, WE HAVE THE DOWN PAYMENT FOR IT.
08:01:58PM AND NEXT YEAR, THE REMAINING 150 OR 200.
08:02:02PM I DON'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS $200,000 OR $250,000, THAT WAS
08:02:09PM THE ESTIMATE.
08:02:09PM IT MAY BE A LITTLE HIGH, BUT AGAIN THE LAND IS ALREADY,
08:02:13PM THIS.
08:02:13PM WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH REAL ESTATE STUFF.
08:02:15PM IT IS THERE.
08:02:16PM AND THERE WAS A COMMUNITY MEETING, I BELIEVE -- I DON'T KNOW
08:02:19PM IF SHERISHA HILLS WAS THERE, OR IF OCEA WAS THERE, BUT I
08:02:28PM DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY BUT PLANS AVAILABLE THAT WE CAN LOOK
08:02:31PM AT.
08:02:31PM I WOULD LIKE TO ALLOCATE $50,000 FROM THE SAME POT OF MONEY
08:02:34PM THAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK MENTIONED WITH HER MOTION TO PUT
08:02:37PM TOWARD THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PARK PER SE, HOWEVER IT IS
08:02:41PM GOING TO BE NAMED.
08:02:43PM THAT IS MY MOTION.
08:02:44PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: UNDERSTOOD.
08:02:48PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:02:50PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
08:02:52PM ANY DISCUSSION.
08:02:52PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:02:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SHOULD THAT COME FROM THE PARKS DEPARTMENT IF
08:02:56PM WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT A PUBLIC PARK?
08:02:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE LAND IS OWNED BY THE CHURCH.
08:03:02PM AND THEY HAVE SOME OF THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY.
08:03:07PM ING THAT IT IS THAT, I SEE IT -- NOT AS A CULTURAL ASSET
08:03:12PM BECAUSE -- THE REAL ESTATE IS THEIRS.
08:03:13PM IT IS NOT OURS, BUT IT WILL BE FOR PUBLIC USE.
08:03:16PM THAT IS WHY -- WHEN YOU BROUGHT IT UP, I SAID -- I THINK
08:03:20PM THIS COULD WORK OR WE COULD TAKE 50,000 OF THAT NOW AND LOOK
08:03:24PM AT THE GENERAL FUND IN THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET TO FUND THE
08:03:28PM REMAINING OF IT.
08:03:29PM JUST TO SPLIT IT UP AND SEPARATE.
08:03:31PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT A LEGAL OPINION, IF I MAY.
08:03:34PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I AM GOING TO MR. ROGERO.
08:03:37PM I SAW MR. MASSEY WHISPER IN HIS AIR.
08:03:42PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ONE OF THE THINGS I MENTIONED TO MR. ROGERO
08:03:46PM THAT WE CAN COME BACK WITH A BUDGET AMOUNT IN OCTOBER WHERE
08:03:50PM THAT MONEY WILL COME FROM, FROM THAT SOCIAL ACTION FUND OR
08:03:54PM THE PARKS DEPARTMENT OR SOME OTHER PLACE IN THE BUDGET.
08:03:57PM I MEAN THE BUDGET IS NOT, AS YOU ALL HAVE MADE CLEAR
08:04:00PM TONIGHT, IS NOT A STATIC DOCUMENT.
08:04:02PM WE DO AMEND IT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
08:04:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FAIR ENOUGH.
08:04:06PM BEING THAT -- YOU KNOW, ONCE WE APPROVE THE BUDGET THERE
08:04:10PM WILL BE FUND THERE REGARDLESS, SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR
08:04:13PM POSITION.
08:04:14PM SO PERHAPS THAT YOU COME BACK OCTOBER 6 UNDER STAFF REPORTS
08:04:19PM AND GIVE US AN UPDATE REGARDING SOME OF THIS FUNDING AND
08:04:22PM WHERE IT SHOULD COME FROM.
08:04:25PM WE ARE APPROVING THE ENTIRE BUDGET WHICH THESE FUNDS ARE IN
08:04:28PM THAT BUDGET.
08:04:29PM OCTOBER 6 UNDER STAFF REPORT AN UPDATE ON THE FREDERICK
08:04:34PM DOUGLASS.
08:04:34PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
08:04:35PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:04:37PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GUDES.
08:04:40PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
08:04:42PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:04:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:04:47PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:04:49PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
08:04:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:04:51PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:04:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:04:53PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:04:54PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
08:04:57PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANYONE ELSE?
08:04:59PM COUNCILMAN GUDES.
08:05:01PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THE MILLION DOLLARS FOR FIRE.
08:05:05PM I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
08:05:07PM DISTRICT SEVEN'S MONEY, BUT I WANT TO BE CLEAR SO THE PUBLIC
08:05:11PM TO KNOW THAT A FIRE STATION WON'T BE BUILT WITH $1 MILLION.
08:05:14PM WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THAT IT TAKES $1 MILLION FOR A FIRE STATION
08:05:18PM AND SOUTH TAMPA AND PORT TAMPA HAVE ONE OF THE SECONDEST --
08:05:22PM IF THE FIRE CHIEF CAN EXPLAIN WHAT THIS $1 MILLION WILL BE
08:05:26PM USED FOR.
08:05:26PM USED FOR THOSE 90 CALLS OR USED -- IN WHAT WAY.
08:05:31PM SO THE PUBLIC CAN KNOW THAT A $1 MILLION WILL NOT GET A FIRE
08:05:35PM STATION DONE IN THIS NEXT BUDGET.
08:05:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: BEFORE SHE COMES UP, A $18 WON'T BUY YOU
08:05:47PM --
08:05:47PM [INAUDIBLE]
08:05:50PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: RIGHT.
08:05:51PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: CHIEF?
08:05:54PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
08:05:55PM BARBARA TRIPP, FIRE CHIEF OF TAMPA FIRE RESCUE.
08:05:58PM NO A MILLION DOLLARS IS NOT GOING TO BUY YOU MUCH, BUT I CAN
08:06:02PM GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE MILLION DOLLARS WILL BE USED TOWARD
08:06:06PM DISTRICT 7 TO ACCOMMODATE THE DISCUSSION WE HAD WITH LOCAL
08:06:10PM 754.
08:06:11PM ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS IN DISTRICT 7 IS NOT ONLY THE
08:06:14PM CALL VOLUME BUT THE RESPONSE TIME THAT IS UP IN THE 33647
08:06:19PM AREA.
08:06:19PM SO I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT I HAVE SPOKE WITH ADMINISTRATION,
08:06:23PM AND WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING INTO WAYS -- I AM WORKING WITH
08:06:26PM THE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT AS WELL TO COME UP WITH BEST
08:06:32PM POSSIBLE MOST EFFICIENT EVENT TO TAKE PLACE FOR THAT $1
08:06:35PM MILLION.
08:06:35PM BUT IT DEFINITELY WILL BE USED FOR THAT.
08:06:39PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED IF
08:06:43PM COUNCILMAN GUDES.
08:06:44PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW --
08:06:47PM >> THE $1 MILLION WON'T -- OUR RESCUE CARS ARE COSTING
08:06:51PM $300,000.
08:06:51PM A LITTLE OVER $300,000 AND OUR FIRE TRUCKS ARE LITTLE OVER
08:06:55PM $800,000.
08:06:56PM SO, YEAH.
08:06:57PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
08:07:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST FOR FUN.
08:07:03PM A BALLPARK FIGURE OF BUILDING A FIRE STATION WITHOUT ANY
08:07:07PM LAND CURRENTLY ACQUIRED WOULD BE --
08:07:13PM >> PROBABLY ABOUT $6 MILLION, $7 MILLION.
08:07:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO GIVE THE.PUBLIC -- A MILLION WOULDN'T DO
08:07:19PM ANYTHING.
08:07:20PM WHAT DO SOMETHING.
08:07:22PM $300,000 FOR A RESCUE --
08:07:26PM >> TRANSPORT UNIT.
08:07:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: $800,000 FOR A FIRE TRUCK AND $6 MILLION
08:07:35PM INCLUDING PURCHASING LAND.
08:07:36PM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC UNDERSTOOD THAT.
08:07:40PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
08:07:41PM >> JUST TO GO BACK TO COUNCILMAN VIERA, UP IN THAT AREA, THE
08:07:45PM VOLUME IS NOT THERE, THE RESPONSE TIME.
08:07:48PM FROM MY LAST DISCUSSION I BROKE IT DOWN AND TALKED ABOUT THE
08:07:52PM CALLS.
08:07:52PM I WENT AND BROKE DOWN THE CALLS EVEN MORE, OF THOSE 91 CALLS
08:07:57PM 53 THAT WHEN I SAY ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT NEEDED ALS AND HALF
08:08:02PM OF THOSE WERE TRANSPORTED.
08:08:04PM THEY WERE ALL MEDICAL CALLS OUT OF THE 91.
08:08:07PM AND I THINK THAT IS WHAT IS NEEDED.
08:08:09PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN --
08:08:14PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
08:08:15PM >>LUIS VIERA: SINCE YOU STARTED -- THERE YOU GO.
08:08:21PM MY UNDERSTANDING WHAT THOSE FUNDS ARE GOING TO GO TO IS
08:08:25PM LOWER RESPONSE TIME AT 33647 AND TO FUND DESIGN FOR ANOTHER
08:08:30PM FIRE STATION, BECAUSE BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN -- OBVIOUSLY YOU
08:08:34PM KNOW THIS A BILLION TIMES MORE THAN I DO, BEFORE YOU START
08:08:39PM CONSTRUCTION, YOU NEED IT DESIGN A YEAR BEFORE.
08:08:42PM THAT IS THE GOOD THING.
08:08:43PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GOOUSDZ.
08:08:45PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: I HEARD A PUMPER TRUCK.
08:08:48PM I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.
08:08:50PM IS THAT A RESCUE CAR AND THE ENGINE HOLDS ON WITH A UNIT
08:08:53PM THERE.
08:08:54PM IS THAT GOING TO BE SPACE BUILT WITH THAT WITH THE MILLION
08:08:57PM DOLLARS AND -- 800,000 FOR A TRUCK.
08:09:01PM WHAT IS A PUMPER TRUCK.
08:09:02PM I KEEP HEARING THAT WORD.
08:09:04PM >> THE PUMPER APPARATUS ENGINE THAT BASICALLY HOLDS 500
08:09:09PM GALLONS OF WATER.
08:09:10PM ONCE AGAIN, IF I GO BACK TO THE 33647, WE NEED TRANSPORT.
08:09:15PM WE NEED ALS TRANSPORT UNITS UP THERE.
08:09:19PM AND THAT'S WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR.
08:09:21PM I AM NOT GOING TO SAY MY QUICK FIX, BUT WITH THE MILLION
08:09:24PM DOLLARS, I AM ABLE TO PUT SOME PERSONNEL AT ONE OF THE
08:09:29PM STATIONS TO HELP WITH THE TRANSPORT AS WELL.
08:09:31PM AND LOOK AT OTHER WAYS WE CAN ACTUALLY GET INTO THAT AREA
08:09:37PM AND ALL THE EIGHT AND A HALF MINUTES THAT OUR STANDARD OF
08:09:40PM COVERAGE STATES.
08:09:41PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU, CHIEF.
08:09:44PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
08:09:46PM ANY OTHER MOTIONS?
08:09:48PM ANY OTHER REQUESTS?
08:09:52PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, IF I MAY, I AM JUST THINKING OF A
08:09:55PM MOTION IF IT IS POSSIBLE NOW OR AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
08:09:58PM I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THE CITY COUNCIL INCREASE PERSONAL
08:10:02PM RESERVES TO THE GENERAL OPERATING FUND.
08:10:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
08:10:05PM >>LUIS VIERA: SOMEWHAT IS THAT?
08:10:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: A POT OF MONEY.
08:10:13PM I WANT TO MOVE IT FROM ONE ACCOUNT TO THE OPERATING FUND.
08:10:16PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I.
08:10:17PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
08:10:18PM >>LUIS VIERA: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THAT?
08:10:22PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE WAY IT IS NOW, YOU CAN TAKE A RAISE
08:10:25PM AND NOBODY WILL KNOW ABOUT IT.
08:10:27PM I WANT TO PUT IT IN TO EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT IS WE ARE DOING.
08:10:30PM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM WITH YOU, YES, SIR.
08:10:32PM SO IN OTHER WORDS BY VIRTUE OF VOTING FOR A BUDGET, WE ARE
08:10:38PM NOT VOTING FOR A RAISE.
08:10:39PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU ARE ENTITLED TO A RAISE.
08:10:42PM YOU CAN -- ANY TIME AFTER THE BUDGET PASSES, YOU CAN DO WHAT
08:10:45PM YOU WANT.
08:10:46PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
08:10:50PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
08:10:51PM BY PASSING THIS, YOU SAID WE ARE ENTITLED -- MAYBE THIS IS A
08:10:55PM LEGAL QUESTION, AND THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED BUT I
08:10:58PM WANT TO CLARIFY THAT LAST STATEMENT.
08:11:00PM WE STILL NEED TO MOVE A RESOLUTION AS A BODY.
08:11:03PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: EXACTLY RIGHT.
08:11:04PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
08:11:05PM BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANY ADJUSTMENT TO YOUR SALARY THERE WOULD
08:11:09PM HAVE TO BE A RESOLUTION MAKING THAT ADJUSTMENTS.
08:11:12PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
08:11:14PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILMAN GUDES.
08:11:16PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. MORRIS -- MR. MIRANDA IS TRYING TO MOVE
08:11:19PM THOSE FUNDS OVER INTO THE GENERAL FUND.
08:11:21PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: OPERATING.
08:11:23PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: OPERATING FUND AND THIS EN WE COME BACK AND
08:11:25PM MAKE A MOTION FOR THE RAISE.
08:11:27PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO BRING THAT MONEY
08:11:30PM BACK AND PUT IT BACK TOWARD --
08:11:33PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: DO WE DO IT TONIGHT OR ANOTHER MEETING.
08:11:36PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ANOTHER MEETING AND A SEPARATE RESOLUTION
08:11:39PM THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE BROUGHT FORWARD BY COUNCIL WITH
08:11:41PM RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAYOR PER THE CHARTER.
08:11:44PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ANY FURTHER COMMENTS?
08:11:51PM THANK YOU.
08:11:51PM I WOULD LIKE TO STATE THIS.
08:11:53PM THAT FIRST A QUESTION.
08:11:57PM WE HAVE TWO VIDEO COMPANIES THAT WE GIVEN -- ASK FOR
08:12:02PM $200,000 EACH.
08:12:03PM THAT IS IN THE BUDGET, CORRECT?
08:12:05PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
08:12:06PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
08:12:07PM WE HEARD DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT FIRE STATIONS.
08:12:09PM WHATEVER.
08:12:10PM I CAN'T PUT A NUMBER ON IT.
08:12:12PM BUT WE NEED MORE STAFFING.
08:12:15PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
08:12:17PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: WE CAN HAVE 200 NEW RECRUITS COME IN, BUT IF
08:12:23PM 214 LEAVE, WE ARE STILL DOWN 14.
08:12:25PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
08:12:27PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WANT TO KEEP THE CITIZEN-STAFF RATIO WHERE
08:12:31PM IT IS AT.
08:12:31PM EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE MOVING INTO THE
08:12:34PM CITY.
08:12:35PM AND, AGAIN, FIRE, POLICE, PARK AND RECREATION, PERMITTING,
08:12:39PM INSPECTION, CODE ENFORCEMENT, SOLID WASTE, STORMWATER.
08:12:44PM AGAIN, I CAN'T PUT A NUMBER ON IT.
08:12:48PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: UNDERSTOOD.
08:12:50PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
08:12:51PM ARE WE GOING TO FINANCE SHARE NOW OR --
08:12:54PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE HAVE A MOTION WE HAVEN'T VOTED.
08:12:56PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: OKAY.
08:12:57PM THAT WAS -- THAT WAS -- THAT WAS A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN
08:13:02PM MIRANDA.
08:13:02PM WHO WAS IT SECONDED BY.
08:13:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL SECOND IT.
08:13:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DID.
08:13:06PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:13:07PM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
08:13:10PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
08:13:11PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:13:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:13:14PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:13:15PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:13:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:13:18PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:13:20PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
08:13:22PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ROGERO.
08:13:26PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: NOW WILL THE FINANCE CHAIR PROVIDE A SECOND
08:13:28PM READING OF THE ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 2023 CITY OF TAMPA
08:13:33PM BUDGET.
08:13:34PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING.
08:13:35PM ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE BUDGET OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA,
08:13:38PM FOR FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2022 AND ENDING
08:13:43PM SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY PROVIDED BY LAW OF
08:13:48PM A TAX ON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTIES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
08:13:51PM FIXING THE MILLAGE WITHIN SAID CITY MAKING APPROPRIATION IN
08:13:56PM ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAID BUDGET AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING
08:14:00PM THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK AS PROPER AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY
08:14:04PM OF TAMPA TO CERTIFY THE PROPERTY APPRAISER, HILLSBOROUGH
08:14:07PM COUNTY, FLORIDA, THE MILLAGE LEVIED FOR ALL PURPOSES FOR THE
08:14:11PM FISCAL YEAR 2023 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
08:14:15PM DATE.
08:14:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
08:14:17PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
08:14:18PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:14:20PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
08:14:22PM ?
08:14:24PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:14:25PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:14:26PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:14:27PM >>BILL CARLSON: NO.
08:14:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:14:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:14:32PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:14:33PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:14:35PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO.
08:14:39PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:14:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
08:14:41PM I -- I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO REQUEST A QUARTERLY BUDGET
08:14:49PM UPDATE AROUND THE HOUSING BUCKETS, HOMELESSNESS SERVICES --
08:14:53PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
08:14:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: PUBLIC SERVICES, RENTAL ASSISTANCE,
08:14:59PM HOMEOWNERSHIP AND COLUMNS FOR FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR THE YEAR,
08:15:03PM FUNDS EXPENDED IN THE CURRENT QUARTER, FUNDS ENCUMBERED I
08:15:08PM THAT TIME AND FUNDS AVAILABLE DURING THE JANUARY 26, 2023
08:15:14PM WORKSHOP.
08:15:15PM WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AROUND HOUSING AT THAT TIME.
08:15:18PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION MADE BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:15:21PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
08:15:23PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
08:15:25PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:15:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:15:28PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:15:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:15:31PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:15:32PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
08:15:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:15:35PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:15:36PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
08:15:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
08:15:39PM I HAVE A SECOND MOTION.
08:15:40PM I AM ASKING STAFF TO DRAFT A RESOLUTION TO BRING BACK TO
08:15:43PM CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 3 THAT PROVIDES FOR THE ONLY
08:15:46PM ALTERNATIVE OPTION FOR THE ARPA $5.5 MILLION FUNDING THAT IS
08:15:52PM CURRENTLY DEDICATED TO SOLID WASTE.
08:15:54PM THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE OPTION BE THOSE FIVE HOUSING BUCKETS
08:16:00PM PRESENTED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET AFTER SEEING THE
08:16:04PM UPDATED ACTIONABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS IN COMBINATION WITH
08:16:08PM THE OUTCOME OF THE EFFICIENCY IN SOLID WASTE RATE STUDIES.
08:16:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OCTOBER 6.
08:16:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COME BACK WITH A RESOLUTION ON OCTOBER 6
08:16:16PM SAYING THE ONLY OTHER THING THIS SOLID WASTE MONEY CAN BE
08:16:18PM SPENT ON IS HOUSING IN ONE OF THOSE FIVE BUCKETS.
08:16:21PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YENL.
08:16:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
08:16:24PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:16:26PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:16:28PM ANY DISCUSSION?
08:16:29PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:16:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:16:32PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
08:16:34PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:16:35PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:16:36PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:16:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:16:38PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:16:40PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
08:16:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
08:16:42PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU ARE WELCOME.
08:16:44PM MR. ROGERO.
08:16:46PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU.
08:16:47PM I UNDERSTAND WE CAN MOVE TO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET
08:16:50PM RESOLUTION.
08:16:50PM IF THE CITY COUNCIL CHAIR WILL MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THAT.
08:16:53PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADOPT THAT.
08:16:56PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I APOLOGIZE.
08:16:59PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:17:01PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
08:17:02PM ANY DISCUSSION?
08:17:04PM ROLL CALL -- SORRY, MR. SHELBY.
08:17:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE AGENDA, THAT
08:17:09PM IS ITEM NUMBER 4, THAT'S CORRECT?
08:17:13PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES.
08:17:13PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:17:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:17:20PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:17:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:17:22PM >>BILL CARLSON: NO.
08:17:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:17:25PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:17:27PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:17:28PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO.
08:17:31PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MR. ROGERO.
08:17:35PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WILL THE CITY COUNCIL CHAIR ENTERTAIN A
08:17:38PM MOTION TO CLOSE THIS HEARING.
08:17:39PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: RECEIVE AND FILE FIRST.
08:17:42PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MR. MASSEY.
08:17:45PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE MADE BY
08:17:49PM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:17:50PM SECONDED BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
08:17:51PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
08:17:53PM >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES.
08:17:58PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
08:17:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
08:18:00PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
08:18:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
08:18:03PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
08:18:04PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YES.
08:18:05PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
08:18:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLISHING HEARING.
08:18:10PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
08:18:11PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING BY
08:18:14PM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:18:15PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
08:18:16PM ALL IN FAVOR.
08:18:17PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCIL.
08:18:20PM >>JOSEPH CITRO: YOU ARE WELCOME.
08:18:22PM THEN I NEED A MOTION TO CLOSE THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING.
08:18:31PM MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
08:18:35PM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
08:18:37PM ALL IN FAVOR.
08:18:38PM AYE.
08:18:39PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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