TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023, 9:00 A.M.
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09:02:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:02:48AM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO
09:02:51AM ORDER.
09:02:51AM WE NOW GO TO INVOCATION.
09:02:53AM DO WE HAVE SOMEONE FOR INVOCATION TODAY?
09:02:55AM IF NOT, WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE
09:02:59AM PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
09:03:00AM NO INVOCATION TODAY?
09:03:02AM OKAY, STAND FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND THEN DO THE PLEDGE
09:03:06AM OF ALLEGIANCE.
09:03:06AM [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
09:03:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:03:17AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:03:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT, IF WE CAN HAVE ROLL CALL,
09:03:33AM PLEASE.
09:03:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:03:35AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:03:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
09:03:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
09:03:39AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:03:42AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:03:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:03:44AM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:03:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FOR THE MAY 11 MEETING.
09:03:51AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:03:53AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:03:55AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:03:56AM AYE.
09:03:57AM ALL RIGHT.
09:03:58AM LET'S GO TO THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA AND THE ADDENDUM.
09:04:02AM A COUPLE OF ITEMS.
09:04:03AM I SENT OUT A MEMO FOR ITEM NUMBER 32.
09:04:06AM A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNIQUE SITUATION.
09:04:08AM I WOULD LIKE A MOTION, IF IT IS ALREADY FOR COUNCIL, TO MOVE
09:04:12AM 32 AHEAD OF CEREMONIAL ACTIVITIES.
09:04:15AM WE WILL OFFER PUBLIC COMMENT SPECIFICALLY ON THAT ITEM
09:04:18AM SEPARATE FROM OUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND GO BACK TO THE
09:04:21AM REGULAR ORDER OF THE AGENDA A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON
09:04:28AM AND A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:04:31AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:04:32AM ALL RIGHT, SENT A MEMO OF THE CONSENT DOCKET BEFORE PUBLIC
09:04:37AM COMMENT AND SECOND READINGS IF WE CAN MOVE THAT UP.
09:04:40AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
09:04:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:04:43AM A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
09:04:45AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:04:47AM ALL RIGHT.
09:04:47AM IF I CAN GET A MOTION TO REMOVE ITEM NUMBER 45 BECAUSE A
09:04:51AM DUPLICATE OF ITEM 52 SET FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT 10:30.
09:04:56AM A MOTION TO REMOVE ITEM 45.
09:04:57AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
09:04:59AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:05:00AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WITH REGARDS TO ITEM 54.
09:05:07AM A REVIEW HEARING.
09:05:08AM BECAUSE WE HAVE AN INTERPRETER HERE AND A VERY TIME-SENSITIVE
09:05:12AM ITEM.
09:05:12AM IF WE CAN TAKE THAT AT 10:30 OR SOON THEREAFTER BECAUSE OF
09:05:18AM THE INTERPRETER HERE.
09:05:19AM A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:05:20AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
09:05:22AM A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:05:23AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:24AM ANY OPPOSED?
09:05:26AM ALL RIGHT.
09:05:26AM WE WILL BE STOPPING -- HARD STOP AT NOON UNTIL 1:30 FOR
09:05:30AM LUNCH.
09:05:30AM SO EVERYONE KNOWS AHEAD OF TIME WE WILL BE STOPPING AT NOON.
09:05:36AM I ALSO ASKED THE CLERK TO SET A TIMER FOR EACH
09:05:41AM COUNCILMEMBERS' COMMENTS FOR FIVE MINUTES EACH.
09:05:43AM WE BROUGHT IT UP.
09:05:45AM ANY OBJECTION TO THAT?
09:05:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, I BELIEVE YOU HAVE FIVE
09:05:49AM MINUTES BUT YOU CAN ALSO SPEAK TWICE.
09:05:51AM TWO AND A HALF MINUTES.
09:05:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
09:05:54AM TO WRAP --
09:05:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, IF I MAY.
09:05:58AM SPEAK TWICE AFTER EVERYONE HAS GONE.
09:06:00AM IS THAT CORRECT?
09:06:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU CAN HAVE A SECOND TURN.
09:06:04AM ALL RIGHT.
09:06:05AM WE WILL GO TO THE STAFF REPORTS REAL QUICK.
09:06:07AM 55 IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE.
09:06:11AM IF WE HAVE ANYTHING.
09:06:12AM ITEM 56, DO WE NEED STAFF HERE FOR THAT?
09:06:17AM ANYBODY?
09:06:24AM >>JOHN BENNETT: JOHN BENNETT.
09:06:26AM ITEM 56 WILL NEED A VOTE.
09:06:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ONLY ASKING IF STAFF NEEDS TO BE
09:06:33AM PRESENT?
09:06:34AM >>JOHN BENNETT: OH, UNDERSTOOD.
09:06:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DON'T NEED STAFF PRESENT ON 56.
09:06:38AM ITEM 57 IS THE PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN.
09:06:41AM WE WILL HAVE STAFF PRESENT.
09:06:42AM ITEM 58 IS NELSON CONSTRUCTION.
09:06:45AM WE WILL HAVE STAFF PRESENT.
09:06:46AM ITEM 59 INVOLVING WATERING RESTRICTIONS .DO WE NEED STAFF
09:06:51AM PRESENT?
09:06:52AM YEAH, THEY DON'T HAVE A WRITTEN -- A WRITTEN ONE, SO WE WILL
09:06:55AM HAVE THEM.
09:06:55AM ITEM 60 REGARDING ACCELA, I WILL SAY YES.
09:07:00AM THAT IS A BIG ISSUE.
09:07:01AM ITEM NUMBER 61, THERE IS A REQUEST THAT WE CONTINUE THIS TO
09:07:05AM JUNE 15, 2023.
09:07:06AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION?
09:07:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
09:07:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:07:11AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN AND 51 TO JUNE 15, 2023.
09:07:16AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:07:17AM OPPOSED?
09:07:18AM ALL RIGHT.
09:07:18AM 62, REGARDING ALTERNATING MEETING WEEKS.
09:07:23AM THERE IS NO WRITTEN REPORT.
09:07:24AM WE WILL HAVE STAFF PRESENT FOR THAT.
09:07:26AM ITEM 63 --
09:07:29AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO MOVE CONTINUANCE REQUESTED.
09:07:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CONTINUE JUNE 15, 2023 FROM A
09:07:34AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:07:36AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:07:37AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:07:39AM ALL RIGHT.
09:07:39AM ITEM 64, A REQUEST TO CONTINUE FOR 60 DAYS.
09:07:44AM THEY DIDN'T SPECIFY A DATE.
09:07:49AM I WILL SAY JULY 13?
09:07:51AM JULY 13, 2023, MOTION TO CONTINUE.
09:07:53AM WHO MADE THE MOTION?
09:07:58AM NUMBER 64.
09:07:59AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:08:01AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:08:02AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:08:03AM ANYTHING ELSE REGARDING THE AGENDA BEFORE I ASK TO APPROVE
09:08:07AM THE ADDENDUM AND THE AGENDA?
09:08:11AM EVERYTHING IS GOOD?
09:08:12AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.
09:08:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
09:08:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:08:17AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:08:19AM ALL IN FAVOR.
09:08:20AM ALL RIGHT, WE WILL NOW GO TO ITEM NUMBER 32, WHICH WE HAVE
09:08:25AM MOVED TO THE FRONT OF THE AGENDA.
09:08:27AM IS THERE A -- OPENING REMARKS ON THIS?
09:08:31AM CHIEF BENNETT, ANYTHING?
09:08:32AM MR. SHELBY?
09:08:34AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST A REMINDER, COUNCIL.
09:08:36AM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT NOW, BUT
09:08:39AM SPEAK TO ITEM 3, JUST ITEM NUMBER 32, TAKE THE PUBLIC
09:08:43AM COMMENT BEFORE THE PRESENTATION.
09:08:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE TWO REGISTERED SPEAKERS AND NOT
09:08:48AM HERE FOR ITEM 32.
09:08:50AM BUT HERE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:08:51AM ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 32?
09:08:55AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK TO ITEM 32?
09:08:59AM I SEE AND HEAR NO ONE.
09:09:00AM CHIEF BENNETT, ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO OPEN WITH
09:09:03AM REGARDING THIS ITEM?
09:09:09AM >>JOHN BENNETT: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:09:11AM GOOD MORNING, PUBLIC.
09:09:13AM ESPECIALLY TO OUR TAMPA COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
09:09:16AM TODAY ITEM 32, THE MAYOR COMES BACK FOR US RECOMMENDED FOR
09:09:22AM APPOINTMENT BY THE AGENDA RESOLUTION.
09:09:24AM ITEM 32 MOVED TO ITEM NUMBER 1.
09:09:27AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL, FOR HONORING THAT MOVEMENT SO OUR
09:09:30AM EMPLOYEES CAN GET BACK TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING AFTER
09:09:33AM CONSIDERING.
09:09:33AM PRIOR TO TODAY, WE SUBMITTED A COVER MEMO TO COUNCIL AND OUR
09:09:38AM PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WE CALL SIRE OF THE
09:09:45AM CURRICULUM VITAE CARRIED OVER FOR RECOMMENDATION FOR
09:09:48AM APPOINTMENT.
09:09:49AM NO NEW NAMES ON THAT ROSTER AT THIS TIME; HOWEVER, IT IS
09:09:53AM NOTED THAT THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS FOR A NEW WATER
09:09:57AM DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR FOR CHUCK WEBER'S REPLACEMENT.
09:10:00AM NEW CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR TO REPLACE MIKE CHUCRAN AND
09:10:05AM PURCHASING DIRECTOR TO REPLACE GREG SPEARMAN ON CONTRACT
09:10:09AM WITH YOUR GRACIOUS SUPPORT UNTIL THAT SELECTION.
09:10:12AM AND LOOKING TO BRING A NEWLY RECOMMENDED CRA DIRECTOR EARLY
09:10:16AM IN JUNE THAT WILL MAKE THE 27 POSITIONS NAMED IN THE CHARTER
09:10:20AM UNDER -- UNDER COUNCIL'S APPROVAL FOR APPOINTMENT.
09:10:23AM SO THAT IS THE GAP IS THE FOUR AGAINST THE 23 FOR TODAY.
09:10:27AM SO THE 23 MEMBERS ARE BEHIND ME.
09:10:29AM FOR COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION IN THE SAKE OF THE YOU CAN WILL
09:10:32AM I CAN, I WOULD LIKE TO READ THE NAMES ON THE RESOLUTION A
09:10:35AM ALIGN WITH THE CITY CHARTER AND WILL BE IN ALPHABETICAL
09:10:38AM ORDER WITH JOB WORKING TITLES AND ASK THEM TO STAND AND
09:10:41AM RAISE THEIR HAND WHEN ANNOUNCED SO THE PUBLIC CAN SEE WHO
09:10:45AM THEY ARE OR IF ANY COUNCILMEMBERS MAY NOT HAVE MET THE
09:10:49AM DIRECTORS AS ABOVE.
09:10:49AM AS MENTIONED IN THE MEMORANDUM AFTER COUNCIL CONSIDERS THE
09:10:52AM RESOLUTION FOR STAFF APPOINTMENTS, WE ARE REQUESTING A
09:10:55AM PUBLIC SWEARING IN BY WAY OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND
09:10:58AM MISS SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES IS HERE TO SUPPORT THAT.
09:11:01AM SO IF THE COUNCIL IS IN AGREEMENT I CAN READ THE NAMES AND
09:11:05AM IDENTIFY THE MEMBERS ON STAFF.
09:11:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
09:11:07AM >>JOHN BENNETT: THANK YOU.
09:11:08AM AGAIN, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
09:11:11AM SORRY, I HAVE A LITTLE APPLIANCE TO ANNOUNCE.
09:11:15AM KELLY AUSTIN AS THE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND TALENT
09:11:24AM DEVELOPMENT.
09:11:24AM THANK YOU, KELLY.
09:11:25AM BRAD BAIRD IS THE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
09:11:30AM THANK YOU, BRAD.
09:11:31AM JOHN BENNETT AS THE CHIEF OF STAFF RECOMMENDATION.
09:11:34AM LEE BERCAW AS THE INTERIM CHIEF OF POLICE.
09:11:40AM VIK BHIDE AS THE DIRECTOR MOVE HE BUILT.
09:11:44AM THANK YOU, VIK.
09:11:46AM ADRIANA COLINA, DIRECTOR OF LOGISTICS AND ASSETS MANAGEMENT.
09:11:51AM ALIS DRUMGO AS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
09:11:57AM AND OPPORTUNITY.
09:11:57AM JEAN DUNCAN AS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND
09:12:00AM MOBILITY.
09:12:01AM ABBYE FEELEY AS THE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR DEVELOPMENT AND
09:12:05AM ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
09:12:06AM MISS SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES AS THE CITY CLERK.
09:12:10AM MISS CHRISTINE GLOVER AS THE DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL AUDIT.
09:12:14AM MR. RUSSELL HAUPERT, DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION.
09:12:18AM HIS SHERISHA HILLS AS THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.
09:12:23AM DAVID INGRAM AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TAMPA
09:12:26AM CONVENTION CENTER.
09:12:27AM MR. DENNIS ROGERO AS THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
09:12:30AM MR. SAL RUGGERIO AS THE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF SERVICES.
09:12:36AM MR. ADAM SMITH, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS.
09:12:38AM MISS NICOLE TRAVIS THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR DEVELOPMENT
09:12:44AM OPPORTUNITY.
09:12:44AM MISS BARBARA TRIPP AS THE FIRE CHIEF.
09:12:46AM MR. LARRY WASHINGTON AS THE DIRECTOR OF SOLID WASTE.
09:12:49AM MR. ERIC WEISS AS DIRECTOR OF WASTEWATER.
09:12:54AM MISS OCEA WYNN AS ADMINSTRATOR OF NEIGHBORHOOD AFFAIRS, AND
09:13:02AM ANDREA ZELMAN IS THE CITY ATTORNEY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
09:13:05AM DATE.
09:13:06AM THAT IS THE -- THE ROSTER THAT WE BRING FOR YOU FROM THE
09:13:10AM MAYOR TODAY AS RECOMMENDED FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE CITY OF
09:13:14AM TAMPA.
09:13:14AM AGAIN, NO NEW NAMES ARE ON THAT ROSTER.
09:13:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:13:19AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, YOU HAVE YOUR MIC.
09:13:22AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
09:13:24AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROTOCOL IS AFTER THIS.
09:13:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
09:13:27AM YES, SIR, COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:13:30AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO COMMENT.
09:13:31AM AN ISSUE THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED A LOT IN THE COMMUNITY AND
09:13:34AM DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
09:13:35AM FIRST, I SHOULD SAY THAT THE -- THE MAYOR AND STAFF HAVE
09:13:41AM HIRED AN EXCELLENT TEAM.
09:13:42AM A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE WITH THE CITY THAT HAVE FANTASTIC
09:13:45AM EXPERIENCE.
09:13:45AM THEY ARE VERY RESPONSIVE TO US AND THE PUBLIC AND VERY
09:13:51AM THANKFUL FOR THAT.
09:13:53AM EVERY TIME ONE OF THE PEOPLE SITTING BEHIND YOU RESPONDS TO
09:13:57AM THE PUBLIC MAKES US ALL LOOK BETTER.
09:13:59AM AS WE DISCUSSED BEFORE, CHIEF OF STAFF, A LOT OF PEOPLE IN
09:14:03AM THE PUBLIC CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE THE DIFFERENCE OF THE
09:14:07AM MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
09:14:08AM ALL THEY WANT IS A RESULT.
09:14:09AM THE FASTER WE GET IT TO THEM AND THE MORE THOROUGH IT IS THE
09:14:13AM BETTER.
09:14:14AM THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WHERE
09:14:18AM SOME MEMBERS OF STAFF HAVE BEEN RUDE AND DISMISSIVE TO
09:14:21AM CITY COUNCIL WHICH IN EFFECT IS RUDE TO THE PUBLIC BECAUSE
09:14:24AM THE PUBLIC WANTS ANSWERS AND TRANSPARENCIES.
09:14:27AM INCIDENTS WHERE SOME STAFF HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH ATTACKS
09:14:32AM OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
09:14:32AM AS I SAID A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I TOLD MY SUPPORTERS THAT I
09:14:36AM WANT TO TRY TO HIT THE RECESS BUTTON IN THE CITY SAND MOVE
09:14:40AM FORWARD.
09:14:41AM AND PUT WHATEVER ISSUES WE HAD IN THE PAST BEHIND US.
09:14:45AM I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE GUY WHO RAN AGAINST ME THAT SPENT
09:14:50AM MILLION DOLLARS AGAINST ME I MET WITH HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES
09:14:53AM AND SAID BURY THE HATCHET.
09:14:56AM I CALLED THE MAYOR TO CONGRATULATIONS 1998 HER THE DAY AFTER
09:15:01AM THE ELECTION.
09:15:01AM AND SHE CALLED ME AGAIN THIS MORNING AND MET WITH CHIEF OF
09:15:04AM STAFF.
09:15:04AM AND I SEE THAT -- WHAT I AM SEEING RIGHT NOW HOPEFULLY WILL
09:15:09AM LAST, BUT WHAT I AM SEEING IS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WANTS
09:15:11AM TO PARTNER WITH CITY COUNCIL.
09:15:13AM I AM WILLING TO TAKE WHOEVER WORKED ON THE NEGATIVE ADS AND
09:15:17AM FOUGHT US IN THE PAST AND HURT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
09:15:21AM I AM WILLING TO TAKE ALL OF THAT AND MOVE IT TO THE PAST
09:15:24AM WITH THE PROMISE FROM THE MAYOR, CHIEF OF STAFF AND OTHERS
09:15:27AM THAT THE CITY STAFF WILL WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH US.
09:15:30AM WHAT THE PUBLIC EXPECTS THE NOT ABOUT EGOS OR POLITICS
09:15:34AM MAKING SURE WE DELIVER THE RIGHT SERVICES AND BENEFITS TO
09:15:37AM THE PUBLIC.
09:15:37AM UP WOULD JUST ASK ALL OF FOLKS SITTING HERE AND PEOPLE WHO
09:15:40AM REPORT TO THEM, PLEASE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS
09:15:43AM ANYMORE.
09:15:44AM WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM.
09:15:46AM WE ARE -- WE NEED -- THE MAYOR'S LEGACY IS GOING TO BE
09:15:50AM DETERMINED IN FOUR YEARS.
09:15:51AM OUR LEGACY WILL BE DETERMINED IN FOUR YEARS.
09:15:53AM YOU MAY BE HERE PAST THAT, BUT AS AN ONGOING MEASURE, FOLKS
09:15:58AM WILL BE LOOKING AT HOW WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
09:16:00AM PLEASE LOOK AT US AS PEOPLE WHO CAN COLLABORATE WITH YOU.
09:16:04AM WE ARE NOT ENEMIES OF ANYONE.
09:16:05AM WE ARE ALL HERE TO SERVE THE PUBLIC.
09:16:07AM 37 AND I WOULD -- THE LAST THING I WOULD JUST REMIND STAFF
09:16:10AM AND ESPECIALLY DEPARTMENT HEADS IS YOU DON'T REPORT TO
09:16:13AM AND YOU DON'T REPORT TO THE MAYOR.
09:16:14AM THERE MIGHT BE A -- AN OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE WHERE
09:16:19AM YOU OFFICIALLY REPORT TO THE MAYOR, BUT YOU TECHNICALLY
09:16:22AM REPRESENT THE CITY OF TAMPA WITH A BIG C AND WE ALL
09:16:27AM REPRESENT THE PUBLIC.
09:16:28AM IF THE MAYOR OR ANYONE ASKS TO YOU DO SOMETHING NOT IN THE
09:16:32AM BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, PLEASE COME TO US.
09:16:34AM THERE ARE TWO BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IN EFFECT ARE EQUAL AS
09:16:38AM SET OFF IN THE CHARTER, AND WE WOULD APPRECIATE
09:16:41AM COLLABORATING WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE RESULTS.
09:16:43AM I AM THANKFUL TO EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE MAYOR FOR TRYING
09:16:46AM TO SET A NEW -- A NEW MIND SET GOING FORWARD AND HOPEFULLY
09:16:51AM WE CAN ALL COLLABORATE.
09:16:52AM THANK YOU.
09:16:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:16:55AM ANYONE ELSE?
09:16:56AM YES, MA'AM.
09:16:56AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU KNOW, I ECHO A LOT OF WHAT COUNCILMAN
09:17:04AM CARLSON SAID.
09:17:05AM IT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE EVERYONE WHO STOOD UP THAT I HAVE
09:17:11AM RELATIONSHIP WITH ALMOST EVERYONE THERE THAT I HAVE VISITED
09:17:16AM DEPARTMENTS.
09:17:16AM AND ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN GRACIOUS WITH YOUR TIME AND
09:17:20AM HELPFUL.
09:17:21AM AND JUST REALLY GOOD REPRESENTATIONS FOR THE CITY.
09:17:25AM AND I GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT.
09:17:28AM THE MAYOR HAS DEVELOPED A WONDERFUL TEAM.
09:17:32AM WE HAVE GOTTEN A COUPLE OF E-MAILS ABOUT -- ABOUT THE
09:17:39AM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS.
09:17:41AM AND I HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH HIM YESTERDAY.
09:17:45AM I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE
09:17:48AM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, THAT BECAUSE, TO ME, THAT IS THE
09:17:51AM LYNCHPIN OF THE CITY.
09:17:53AM I WORK IN COMMUNICATIONS.
09:17:56AM AND THE QUESTIONS I HAD WEREN'T FULLY ANSWERED TO MY
09:18:01AM SATISFACTION.
09:18:02AM I AM CONCERNED.
09:18:04AM WE TALKED YESTERDAY ABOUT HOW ARE WE EDUCATING THE PUBLIC OF
09:18:11AM THINGS LIKE THIS PARK AND REC DOCUMENT THAT IS VERY
09:18:14AM CONFUSING, AND THE ANSWER I GOT WAS NOT SATISFACTORY.
09:18:17AM I FEEL VERY, VERY STRONGLY THAT -- THAT IS OUR FIRST STEP
09:18:24AM FORWARD TO EVERYONE IN THIS CITY.
09:18:26AM AND I DON'T FEEL THAT THAT PARTICULAR ROLE IS BEING AS
09:18:35AM PROACTIVE AS NECESSARY.
09:18:39AM SO I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS TO GO
09:18:48AM FORWARD.
09:18:48AM SO THAT IS BASICALLY MY CONCERN.
09:18:49AM AND AFTER MY CONVERSATION YESTERDAY, I GOT TWO E-MAILS THAT
09:18:53AM BASICALLY ECHOED THE CONCERNS I HAVE.
09:18:56AM AND SO WHAT -- WHAT WORRIES THE MOST IS THE PUBLIC NOTICES.
09:19:01AM I DON'T FEEL THAT'S OKAY.
09:19:03AM WE NEED TO BE VERY OPEN AND FORWARDING AND ENCOURAGING AND
09:19:11AM CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE HAVE CONCERN ME TOO.
09:19:15AM THANK YOU.
09:19:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:19:21AM YES, MA'AM.
09:19:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I APPRECIATE THE -- I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
09:19:25AM AS A NEW CITY COUNCILPERSON TO READ YOUR RESUME AND AREAS OF
09:19:31AM EXPERTISE.
09:19:32AM I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH ANY OF YOU.
09:19:33AM AND THERE HAS BEEN TAN E-MAIL OF THE DIRECTOR OF
09:19:36AM COMMUNICATION.
09:19:36AM I DON'T SEE IT UNSATISFACTORY ENOUGH TO PREVENT THAT PERSON
09:19:40AM FROM MOVING FORWARD IN THEIR POSITION.
09:19:41AM OF COURSE ALL OF US DESERVE AN OPPORTUNITIES AND AREAS OF
09:19:44AM IMPROVEMENT.
09:19:45AM WE KNOW THAT.
09:19:45AM I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH ALL THE NOMINATIONS AND
09:19:48AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION OR CAN I DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
09:19:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL FINISH DISCUSSION AND THEN
09:19:54AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:19:55AM VIERA AND THEN MIRANDA.
09:19:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:19:58AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:20:00AM I AM INCLINED TO SUPPORT.
09:20:01AM I APPRECIATE THE WORDS OF EVERYONE TODAY.
09:20:03AM I KNOW -- WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK OF POLITICS UP HERE,
09:20:07AM BUT YET IT IS HERE.
09:20:08AM THERE WAS VERY HIGH-PROFILED RACES.
09:20:10AM I THINK IT WAS IN THE 1976 CAMPAIGN, I THINK WHEN HE WAS
09:20:14AM RUNNING IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR THE, I BELIEVE IT WAS
09:20:17AM RONALD REAGAN FAMOUSLY SAID I PAID FOR THIS MICROPHONE AND
09:20:23AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND COUNCILMAN CARLSON PROBABLY THE TWO
09:20:26AM MOST HIGH-PROFILE RACES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:20:28AM THEY -- WE ALL PAID FOR THIS MICROPHONE, BUT YOU CAN
09:20:32AM CERTAINLY SAY THAT ABOUT THEM.
09:20:33AM I RESPECT THEIR OPINIONS WHICH IS TO GO IN DIFFERENT WAYS,
09:20:37AM BUT I RESPECT YOUR OPINIONS 110% BECAUSE YOU PAID FOR THIS
09:20:42AM MICROPHONE LIKE WE DID.
09:20:44AM I WILL BE VOTING YES ON IT.
09:20:45AM I APPRECIATE ALL OF CITY STAFF, AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT
09:20:50AM COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE MENTIONED THAT I THINK ARE THROUGHOUT
09:20:53AM THE -- YOU KNOW, THE LAST YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF.
09:20:56AM PARTICULARLY -- ACUTE TIMES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:20:59AM I HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE CAN -- WE CAN MAYBE -- THE WORD
09:21:03AM ISN'T "MOVE BEYOND IT," BUT BUILD ON THE WORK WE DO HERE IN
09:21:09AM THE CITY OF TAMPA AND ALL OF US AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
09:21:11AM WORKING WITH ALL OF Y'ALL TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
09:21:13AM SO I THANK YOU FOR THAT, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:21:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
09:21:16AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:21:17AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:21:18AM I APPRECIATE THE LAST TWO COUNCILMEMBERS.
09:21:21AM ALL THE COUNCILMEMBERS THAT SPOKEN BEFORE ME.
09:21:24AM I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING.
09:21:27AM LET ME JUST SAY THAT WHEN YOU WORK FOR THE PUBLIC, YOU DON'T
09:21:31AM -- THE MAYOR MAY OR MAY NOT SELECT YOU AS A DEPARTMENT HEAD
09:21:35AM OR EMPLOYEE.
09:21:35AM AND YOU MAY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AS A DEPARTMENT HEAD TO COME
09:21:38AM BE CONFIRMED BY THE COUNCIL LIKE WE ARE TODAY.
09:21:40AM IN ESSENCE, WHO YOU REALLY WORK FOR IS NOT THE MAYOR AND US,
09:21:43AM YOU WORK FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:21:46AM AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT PAY FOR EVERYBODY'S MIC.
09:21:49AM FOR EVERYBODY'S OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE -- NOTICE I SAY THE
09:21:52AM WORD "SERVE" THE PUBLIC.
09:21:54AM WHEN YOU RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, YOU NEVER REALLY HAVE AN
09:21:58AM OPPONENT.
09:21:58AM THE ONLY OPPONENT YOU HAVE WHEN RUN FOR ANY OFFICE IS
09:22:02AM YOURSELF, PERIOD.
09:22:03AM LET WHOEVER RUNS SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
09:22:06AM GOES IN ONE EAR WITH ME AND OUT THE OTHER PAUSE THAT IS HOW
09:22:09AM LIFE IS.
09:22:10AM I CANNOT CONTROL EMOTIONS.
09:22:11AM AT ANY MOMENT, MYSELF, OTHERS, INCLUDING THOSE HERE THAT ARE
09:22:16AM DEPARTMENT HEADS, YOU MIGHT BE EMOTIONALLY IN A MOOD.
09:22:19AM AND YOU MAKE AN ERROR.
09:22:20AM NOW THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ERROR A MISTAKE.
09:22:24AM A MISTAKE IS SOMETHING YOU PLAN ON AND OPERATION YOU MAY
09:22:28AM HAVE A MISTAKE LIKE RUSSIA.
09:22:29AM THAT IS A BIG MISTAKE.
09:22:31AM THEY INVADED A COUNTRY AND NOW THEY ARE PAYING FOR IT.
09:22:34AM AN ERROR IS WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING AND YOU
09:22:38AM FALTER, BUT YOU WON'T DO IT AGAIN.
09:22:39AM THESE THINGS THIS LIFE -- I AM NOT PERFECT.
09:22:43AM I NEVER SAID I AM PERFECT.
09:22:45AM I DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE HERE IS PERFECT IN THIS ROOM.
09:22:48AM SO WHAT I AM SAYING IS, GO DO YOUR JOB.
09:22:50AM IF I DISAGREE WITH SOMEBODY AND I GOT TO TELL THEM H-E
09:22:55AM DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS, I TELL THEM RIGHT TO THEIR FACE IN
09:22:58AM PERSON.
09:22:59AM BECAUSE THIS CITY IS NUMBER ONE IN SO MANY THINGS THAT I
09:23:04AM DON'T WANT TO CHANGE THE IMAGE THAT WE HAVE AND TARNISH IT.
09:23:06AM THE MAY JACKSONVILLE GOT ELECTED THE OUR DAY AND NOT
09:23:14AM SUPPOSED TO WIN.
09:23:14AM SHE WON.
09:23:15AM GUESS WHAT SHE SAID.
09:23:16AM WE ARE MUCH BIGGER THAN TAMPA.
09:23:18AM AND TAMPA IS MUCH BETTER THAN WE ARE.
09:23:20AM WHY?
09:23:21AM I DIDN'T HEAR THAT.
09:23:22AM I WAS TOLD THAT BY PEOPLE ON THE STREET.
09:23:25AM THAT THEY MENTION EVEN THE CITY OF TAMPA WHEN YOU GET
09:23:28AM ELECTED IN A BIG COUNTY LIKE JACKSONVILLE IS.
09:23:32AM A DIFFERENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
09:23:33AM WHEN YOU SAY THAT ABOUT A CITY, SOMEBODY IS DOING PRETTY
09:23:38AM WELL IN THIS CITY.
09:23:40AM YES, PEOPLE WHO GOT -- HAVE TO HAVE A HAND UP TO PUSH UP,
09:23:44AM GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO BETTER FOR THEIR FAMILY, BUT
09:23:48AM AT THE SAME TIME, WE GOT TO STOP THE NONSENSE FROM THAT SIDE
09:23:51AM AND THIS SIDE.
09:23:52AM I AM NOT TAKING SIDES.
09:23:53AM I AM SAYING IN ORDER TO HAVE A TRUCE, NOT ONE PARTY HAS GOT
09:23:57AM TO AGREE TO IT.
09:23:58AM BOTH PARTIES HAVE TO AGREE TO IT.
09:24:01AM I WILL HOLDS BOTH PARTIES TO THAT SAME TOKEN WE ARE TALKING
09:24:04AM ABOUT.
09:24:04AM THAT IS THE APPROVAL AND I AGREE WITH MY TWO PREVIOUS THAT I
09:24:08AM WILL ALSO BE SUPPORTING THIS SLATE.
09:24:09AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:24:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:24:11AM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
09:24:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HI, GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY.
09:24:14AM BEING ONE OF THE NEW PERSONS ON COUNCIL, I HAD THE
09:24:18AM PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO MEET THE DEPARTMENT HEADS OVER THE
09:24:20AM LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND I CAN TELL YOU I ENJOYED ALL THE
09:24:24AM MEETINGS AND I THINK THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC SERVICE IS HIGH.
09:24:27AM PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA CAN BE PROUD OF YOU
09:24:30AM ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR THE CITY EVERY DAY.
09:24:32AM PUBLIC SERVICE IS ONE OF THE BEST, HIGHEST CALLING, WORKING.
09:24:37AM NOBODY IS GOING TO ENDS UP BEING A BILL GATES WORKING FOR
09:24:40AM GOVERNMENT, BUT YOU MAKE HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR CITY.
09:24:43AM AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU FOR THE SEGMENTS YOU CONTROL.
09:24:47AM YOU KNOW, I GUESS, WHAT PREVIOUS COUNCILPERSON SAID, SAME
09:24:52AM THING.
09:24:52AM WE ALL HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT EVERYBODY HAS AN UNIQUE ROLE
09:24:57AM IN OUR GOVERNMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEADS TO THE MAYOR TO
09:25:00AM THE CITY COUNCIL.
09:25:01AM AND WE -- SOMETIMES WE HAVE -- WE HAVE LANES AND SOMETIMES
09:25:04AM OUR LANES CROSS EACH OTHER, BUT WE ALL HAVE TO BE RESPECTFUL
09:25:08AM OF EACH OTHER AND I RECOGNIZE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH
09:25:11AM EACH ONE OF YOU AND I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO EVERY DAY
09:25:14AM AND THE CITY OF TAMPA IS IN GOOD SHAPE BALLS YOU ALL ARE
09:25:17AM THERE.
09:25:17AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:25:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. SHELBY.
09:25:21AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: NO, MR. CHAIRMAN.
09:25:24AM I WILL HOLD MY COMMENTS, UNLESS IT IS NECESSARY.
09:25:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CHIEF BENNETT.
09:25:28AM >>JOHN BENNETT: THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN.
09:25:29AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
09:25:30AM I JUST WANT TO SAY AGAIN BECAUSE I AM REPRESENTING THE
09:25:33AM ADMINISTRATION ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR IS, FIRST, THANK YOU
09:25:36AM FOR THE FEEDBACK.
09:25:37AM I THINK OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, A LOT OF PROCESS
09:25:40AM IMPROVEMENT HAS HAPPENED BECAUSE OF OUR INTERACTION WITH
09:25:43AM STAFF AND COUNCIL.
09:25:43AM I WAS SHARING THIS MORNING THAT PART OF THE THINGS ON OUR
09:25:48AM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, THE FOUNDATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN
09:25:52AM THERE, BUT ADDING THE GRADE A ELEMENTS OF THAT WITH PUBLIC
09:25:56AM OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION IS ALLOWING THIS CULTURAL SHIFT
09:26:00AM TO HAPPEN WHERE GOVERNMENT IS NOT WORKING IN A SILO ANYMORE
09:26:04AM AND ENGAGEMENT, NO MATTER HOW SMALL THE ITEM IN.
09:26:08AM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN, YOU TALKED OF A FENCE THAT IS A BIG
09:26:12AM DEAL.
09:26:13AM EVERYTHING IS A BIG DEAL FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND WE HAVE TO DO
09:26:16AM OUTREACH AND WE ARE LEARNING THAT.
09:26:18AM IF ONE BRANCH OF THE LOGISTICS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT IS
09:26:20AM STRUGGLING, THEN WE ARE ALL STRUGGLING, AND WE NEED TO COME
09:26:23AM TOGETHER AND WORK THROUGH IT.
09:26:24AM I CELEBRATE THE TEAM EVERY DAY WORKING WITH MY NOW 22
09:26:29AM COLLEAGUES BUT CLOSELY TO THE 26 COLLEAGUES.
09:26:32AM WE ALL SIT AROUND AND HUDDLE UP OVER FAILURES AND TRY TO
09:26:36AM PROCESS IMPROVE THOSE.
09:26:38AM EVERYBODY IS IN A DIFFERENT JOURNEY.
09:26:40AM I TRY TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE.
09:26:42AM WE ALL TRY TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE ADMINISTRATION OR
09:26:45AM COUNCIL AND TRY TO IMPROVE IT GOING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE ALL
09:26:48AM THE CHECKS AND BALANCES ARE IN PLACE.
09:26:50AM MOSTLY, TOTALLY FOR THE PUBLIC.
09:26:52AM AND I KNOW I MET WITH YOU ONE ON ONE.
09:26:55AM I MET WITH THE PUBLIC ONE ON ONE.
09:26:57AM WE MET COLLECTIVELY, AND I WAS JUST ASK -- EVERYBODY IS
09:27:00AM ENTITLED TO THEIR POSITION, OF COURSE, ON THIS AGENDA ITEM,
09:27:04AM BUT I WILL ASK THAT EVERYBODY LOOKS AT IT AS A TEAM THAT IS
09:27:07AM ALWAYS WILLING TO IMPROVE AND WORK HARD TO GET THERE.
09:27:10AM AND I WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
09:27:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:27:14AM YES, MA'AM.
09:27:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DID NOT REALIZE THAT WE WERE JUST
09:27:18AM ABSOLUTELY APPROVING THIS RESOLUTION WHOLEHEARTEDLY INSTEAD
09:27:23AM OF INDIVIDUALLY.
09:27:24AM SO I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP THE MOTION AND WILL SUPPORT,
09:27:27AM BECAUSE OF THE OTHER TEAM MEMBERS.
09:27:30AM BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE WORKING AS -- AMAZINGLY AS
09:27:38AM POSSIBLE.
09:27:38AM I AM STILL DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT I CONSIDER THE MOST
09:27:41AM IMPORTANT PART OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:27:45AM AND I AM NOT ALONE.
09:27:47AM I HAVE SPOKEN TO OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS WHO ARE ALSO
09:27:50AM CONCERNS.
09:27:51AM SO -- AND FRANKLY I AM CONCERNED THAT THE REST OF COUNCIL
09:27:54AM ISN'T CONCERNED.
09:27:55AM BUT, AGAIN, I WILL TAKE YOUR -- YOUR WORDS IN THE SPIRIT OF
09:28:04AM WHICH THEY ARE INTENDED.
09:28:06AM AND I ANTICIPATE SEEING A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT.
09:28:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:28:12AM YES, SIR?
09:28:14AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES, JUST TO RESPOND TO THAT.
09:28:17AM AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, I HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME
09:28:20AM MEMBERS OF STAFF IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
09:28:22AM AND WITH THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, MY
09:28:26AM BACKGROUND IS COMMUNICATION TOO.
09:28:27AM I HAD A LOT OF CONCERNS.
09:28:29AM MANY OF THE THINGS I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT, LACK OF
09:28:31AM COMMUNICATION IN THE DEPARTMENTS HAVE IMPROVED.
09:28:33AM OF COURSE THAT MEANT A BUNCH MORE NEW STAFF TOO, BUT I THINK
09:28:36AM THEY ARE JUSTIFIED TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BECAUSE WE NEED MORE
09:28:39AM COMMUNICATION PEOPLE.
09:28:40AM SHOULD NOT BE BLINDSIDED BY -- BY RATE INCREASES AND THINGS
09:28:45AM LIKE THAT.
09:28:45AM THREE, FOUR YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A -- THERE WAS A MAILER
09:28:50AM INSERT ABOUT TAMPA BAY WATER FEE, BUT THEN THE REGULAR RATE
09:28:54AM INCREASE WAS NOT COMMUNICATED VERY WELL.
09:28:57AM THERE HAVE BEEN THINGS LIKE THAT OVER THE LAST YEARS THAT
09:29:01AM WERE POLITICAL AND SOME VERY POLITICAL AGAINST TWO OF OUR
09:29:04AM FORMER COLLEAGUES.
09:29:05AM AND I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS DONE BY THE CITY THAT
09:29:09AM WERE UNETHICAL AND NOT RIGHT.
09:29:10AM I HAVE EXPRESSED ALL THOSE TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, TO THE
09:29:13AM MAYOR.
09:29:14AM I ALSO MET WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEAD OF COMMUNICATION AND
09:29:18AM TALKED ABOUT THAT DEPARTMENT.
09:29:19AM I HAVE CONCERNS, BUT I ALSO HAVE THE ASSURANCES OF THE
09:29:23AM MAYOR, CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE DEPARTMENT HEAD THAT THINGS
09:29:26AM WILL BE DIFFERENT GOING FORWARD.
09:29:27AM ALTHOUGH BY CHARTER, CITY COUNCIL GETS THIS ONE BITE OF THE
09:29:33AM APPLE TO APPROVE OR NOT APPROVE.
09:29:35AM BUT WE HAVE A BULLY PULPIT TO USE HERE AND OTHER PLACE IT IS
09:29:39AM WE SEE STAFF TURNING CITY RESOURCES AGAINST US.
09:29:41AM IT IS NOT ETHICAL TO DO THAT.
09:29:43AM YOU HAVE TO TREAT -- WE EXPECT MAKE DECISIONS FOR POLITICAL
09:29:47AM REASONS AND, AGAIN, I WILL ASK STAFF IF SOMEBODY ABOVE YOU
09:29:49AM OR OUTSIDE IN THE COMMUNITY ASKS TO YOU GET INVOLVED IN
09:29:52AM POLITICS, THAT YOU JUST SAY NO.
09:29:54AM IT IS NOT ETHICAL.
09:29:55AM IT IS NOT ALLOWED.
09:29:56AM IT IS NOT LEGAL.
09:29:57AM DON'T DO IT.
09:29:58AM COME TO US AND WE WILL PROTECT YOU AND GUIDE YOU THROUGH A
09:30:01AM PROCESS TO DEFEND AGAINST WHOEVER MIGHT WANT TO DO THAT.
09:30:04AM THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT, I WILL SAY TO ALL THE STAFF IN
09:30:08AM COMMUNICATION, THE BRAND THAT YOU ARE REPRESENTING, THE
09:30:10AM BRAND YOU ARE PROMOTING IS THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:30:12AM IT IS THE BIG C AND THE LITTLE C, ANYTHING THAT GOES AGAINST
09:30:17AM IT, A FIGHT BETWEEN THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OR ATTACKING
09:30:21AM A CITY COUNCILMEMBER OR TRYING TO ONE-UP A CITY
09:30:26AM COUNCILMEMBER ALL LOOKS DIVISIVE AND HURTS THE CITY OF
09:30:29AM TAMPA'S RECOMMEND REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY.
09:30:31AM THE MAYOR PICKED UP THE PHONE AND TALKED THROUGH MY
09:30:35AM CONCERNS.
09:30:35AM WE NEED TO PICK UP THE PHONE AND YOU CAN REACH
09:30:37AM OTHERS, AND MAKE SURE WE RESOLVE THESE THINGS GOING FORWARD.
09:30:40AM I HAVE THE COMMITMENT FROM EVERYBODY THAT THEY WILL DO THAT.
09:30:42AM AND WITH THAT, I WILL VOTE FOR THIS AS WELL.
09:30:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WAS GOING TO WRAP IT UP WITH A FEW
09:30:49AM COMMENTS.
09:30:49AM YES, SIR?
09:30:52AM >>JOHN BENNETT: I WANT TO MAKE ONE COMMENT THAT THE MAYOR IN
09:30:54AM ALL OF OUR MEETINGS LEADING UP TO THIS TERM HAS SAID ONE
09:30:57AM WORD OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ALL OF IT IS "COMMUNICATION."
09:31:04AM I THINK THAT IS THE THEME YOU WILL SEE OVER THE FOUR YEARS
09:31:06AM IS -- AND, AGAIN, I DON'T LOOK AT THE DEPARTMENT -- KIND OF
09:31:10AM LIKE WHEN I WAS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
09:31:11AM WE CAN'T JUST HAVE ONE COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER.
09:31:14AM EVERYBODY HAS TO BE COMMUNITY SERVICE.
09:31:16AM AND ALL OF US TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY AND FEED THE BALL
09:31:19AM TO COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH OUR PROCESSES TO MAKE SURE THEY
09:31:22AM HAVE THE ACTIONABLE ITEMS.
09:31:24AM SO I PUT THE BURDEN ON ALL OF US TO DO THAT AND THE MAYOR
09:31:29AM TOLD THEM DIRECTLY AND ME DIRECTLY THAT IS OUR CHARGE
09:31:32AM COMMUNICATION, INTERNAL, EXTERNAL, UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS.
09:31:36AM BEEN PART OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR 25 YEARS AND CHANGING
09:31:41AM CULTURE IS -- WE HAVE TO BE STRONG WILLED THROUGH IT AND WE
09:31:45AM WILL GET THERE AND THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO SHINE WITH YOUR
09:31:48AM LEADERSHIP.
09:31:48AM THANK YOU.
09:31:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:31:49AM BEFORE I TAKE A MOTION TO MOVE THIS RESOLUTION, I APPRECIATE
09:31:54AM EVERYBODY'S COMMENTS.
09:31:55AM AND I SHARE MANY OF THE SAME CONCERNS.
09:31:57AM I SPECIFICALLY AGREE WITH COUNCILMEMBER CARLSON.
09:32:01AM HE WAS VERY SPECIFIC.
09:32:03AM I MET WITH THE MAYOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
09:32:05AM I TALKED OF SPECIFIC CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE.
09:32:07AM AND I ALSO RECEIVED HER ASSURANCES.
09:32:09AM YOU KNOW IF WE -- IF WE HAVEN'T LEARNED FROM THE LAST YEAR
09:32:13AM OR FOUR YEARS AND ALL THE DRAMA THAT CAME ALONG WITH IT,
09:32:16AM THEN WE WILL NEVER MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER.
09:32:18AM BUT I THINK THROUGH A VERY GRUELING AND DIFFICULT CAMPAIGN
09:32:22AM SEASON AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS,
09:32:25AM THAT WE HAVE LEARNED, WE UNDERSTOOD, WE SEEN PROBLEMS, THE
09:32:29AM OBSTACLES IN HOW WE OVERCOME THAT, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO A
09:32:32AM VERY PRODUCTIVE NEXT FOUR YEARS.
09:32:34AM AS COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WITH THE MAY
09:32:42AM I DON'T REMEMBER AND COLONEL.
09:32:42AM WORK TOGETHER COLLABORATIVELY, SIT DOWN AND HAVE THOSE
09:32:47AM DISCUSSIONS.
09:32:47AM PICK UP THE PHONE AND WORK THINGS OUT.
09:32:50AM WE WILL MAKE A LOT OF PROGRESS.
09:32:52AM I APPRECIATE.
09:32:53AM A MOTION.
09:32:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM EXCITED TO MAKE THE MOTION, CHARLIE.
09:32:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: OKAY, YOU CAN MAKE THE MOTION.
09:32:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A VERY EXCITED MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN
09:33:02AM HENDERSON.
09:33:02AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:33:04AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:33:05AM ANY OPPOSED?
09:33:07AM ALL RIGHT.
09:33:07AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:33:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CONGRATULATIONS.
09:33:08AM [APPLAUSE]
09:33:18AM >>JOHN BENNETT: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
09:33:19AM NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MISS SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES SO THE
09:33:22AM PUBLIC CAN SEE US TAKE OUR OATH OF OFFICE WHICH IS THE
09:33:25AM FOUNDATION OF OUR SERVICE.
09:33:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:33:28AM YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
09:33:30AM >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE COUNCIL.
09:33:32AM IT IS MY PLEASURE TO PROVIDE THE OATH OF OFFICE.
09:33:35AM PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME.
09:33:38AM BY, STATE YOUR NAME.
09:33:43AM DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT, UPHOLD, AND DEFEND
09:33:53AM THE CHARTER AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, THE
09:33:59AM CONSTITUTION AND LAWS, OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE
09:34:04AM CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
09:34:11AM AND THAT I AM ENTITLED TO HOLD THE POSITION OF ... THAT I
09:34:24AM HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AND I WILL FAITHFULLY PERFORM THE DUTIES
09:34:30AM OF SAID POSITION INTO AND OF WHICH I AM ABOUT TO ENTER.
09:34:37AM SO HELP ME GOD.
09:34:39AM I STATE YOUR NAME.
09:34:45AM A CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
09:34:49AM AND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND BEING EMPLOYED BY OR
09:34:57AM AN OFFICER OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND A RECIPIENT OF
09:35:04AM PUBLIC FUNDS AS SUCH EMPLOYEE OR OFFICER DO HEARBY SOLEMNLY
09:35:14AM SWEAR OR AFFIRM THAT I WILL SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION.
09:35:20AM THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
09:35:25AM CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY
09:35:30AM OF TAMPA!
09:35:30AM [APPLAUSE]
09:35:38AM >>JOHN BENNETT: AGAIN, THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN, THANK YOU,
09:35:41AM COUNCIL, THANK YOU, PUBLIC, AND THANK YOU, STAFF.
09:35:44AM THE MAYOR IS OUT OF TOWN, BUT THANK HER AS WELL.
09:35:49AM WE ASKED STAFF TO TAKE A PICTURE ON THE STAIRCASE TOGETHER.
09:35:53AM I DON'T KNOW IF COUNCIL WANTS TO JOIN OR CONTINUE THE
09:35:56AM AGENDA.
09:35:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL CONTINUE.
09:35:57AM YOU HAVE KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS WAITING FOR YOU ON THE FIRST
09:36:01AM FLOOR.
09:36:01AM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GOT THE MEMO, BUT I SAW SOMETHING.
09:36:04AM >>JOHN BENNETT: MY HISTORY WITH DOUGHNUTS.
09:36:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:36:08AM WE WILL PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AS THEY CONTINUE TO LEAVE.
09:37:03AM >> MY PEERS ARE GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE.
09:37:07AM AND MY COMMENDATION IS ITEM NUMBER 1 ON THE AGENDA.
09:37:10AM IF COUNCIL WILL SWITCH THE ITEM NUMBERS AROUND SO I CAN TAKE
09:37:14AM THE PICTURE AND COME BACK AND BE WITH MY TEAM.
09:37:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL GO TO ITEM NUMBER 2, AND WE WILL
09:37:20AM HAVE YOU AFTER THAT.
09:37:21AM WE WILL FLIP IT.
09:37:22AM SO WE WILL GO TO ITEM NUMBER 2, AND WILL GIVE YOU TIME FOR
09:37:26AM THE PHOTO.
09:37:27AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
09:37:28AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
09:37:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:37:35AM YES, SIR.
09:37:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
09:37:50AM I HAVE WITH ME HERE MISS STEPHANIE YASLOWITZ BARNES,
09:37:59AM CHRISTINA ROBERTS AND THE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
09:38:04AM COMING UP.
09:38:04AM THIS WEEK -- COME ON UP, GUYS.
09:38:06AM GOOD TO SEE YOU.
09:38:07AM THIS WEEK, MR. CHAIRMAN, IS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND POLICE
09:38:14AM PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY WHICH I BELIEVE WAS MARKED ON
09:38:19AM MONDAY.
09:38:19AM AND I WANTED THE COUNCIL TO BE ABLE TO HEAR FROM OUR FRIENDS
09:38:27AM FROM THE ORGANIZATION "COPS" CALLED THE CONCERNED FOR POLICE
09:38:31AM SURVIVORS.
09:38:31AM THIS IS A WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES SUPPORT AND
09:38:34AM ASSISTANCE TO THE SURVIVORS OF POLICE OFFICERS WHOSE LIVES
09:38:38AM WERE TAKEN IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
09:38:40AM I HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF GOING TO THEIR GALA ABOUT TWO
09:38:45AM MONTHS OR SO AGO IF I RECALL.
09:38:46AM I WANTED THEM TO COME HERE DURING THIS WEEK, BECAUSE A GREAT
09:38:51AM ORGANIZATION THAT I THINK THIS COUNCIL WILL REALLY, REALLY
09:38:53AM SUPPORT AND I THINK ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS WILL REALLY
09:38:56AM SUPPORT AND GET INVOLVED IN.
09:38:57AM I WANT TO INTRODUCE OUR TWO SPEAKERS IF I MAY.
09:39:00AM MISS STEPHANIE BARNES IS THE PROUD SISTER TO THE LATE
09:39:03AM OFFICER JEFFREY YASLOWITZ OF ST. PETERSBURG POLICE
09:39:11AM DEPARTMENT WHO GAVE ALL JANUARY 4, 20 11.
09:39:14AM HE SERVED IN THE K-9 UNIT AND FILLING IN FOR ANOTHER OFFICER
09:39:20AM AND GAVE ALL FOR CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG.
09:39:23AM HE SERVED WITH K-9 ACE.
09:39:26AM WORKED WITH THE ST. PETERSBURG FOR 12 YEARS SURVIVED BY HIS
09:39:32AM WIFE, THREE CHILDREN, PARENTS AND TWO SISTERS INCLUDING
09:39:36AM STEPHANIE WITH US AND HE WAS ONLY 39 YEARS OLD AND A TRUE
09:39:39AM TAMPA BAY AREA HERO.
09:39:41AM WE HAVE WITH US HERE MISS CINDY ROBERTS, WHO IS SUCH A
09:39:44AM WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL WOMAN.
09:39:45AM THE PROUD WIFE OF THE LATE CORPORAL MIKE ROBERTS ON AUGUST
09:39:51AM 19, 2009 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA GAVE ALL AS A POLICE OFFICER.
09:39:55AM CORPORAL ROBERTS LOST HIS LIFE WORKING WITH A THE TAMPA
09:40:00AM POLICE DEPARTMENT.
09:40:00AM HE WAS A FAMILY MAN, HUSBAND, FATHER, GULF WAR AREA VETERAN
09:40:05AM WHO SERVED IN BOSNIA AND RESTS WITH HIS FELLOW HEROES.
09:40:09AM IF WE CAN HAVE THE -- IF YOU DON'T MIND -- THANK YOU.
09:40:18AM AND REST WITH HIS FELLOW HEROES AT FLORIDA NATIONAL CEMETERY
09:40:24AM OVER IN BUSHNELL.
09:40:25AM SO I WANTED TO INVITE IS STEPHANIE AND CINDY TO COME AND
09:40:29AM SPEAK ABOUT THIS ORGANIZATION.
09:40:30AM AND CHIEF BERCAW, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
09:40:35AM HOW ARE YOU SIR.
09:40:36AM TO SPEAK OF THIS ORGANIZATION.
09:40:37AM ORGANIZATION THAT STAND UP FOR THOSE WHO STOOD UP FOR US AND
09:40:40AM PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE.
09:40:41AM LADIES, COME ON UP.
09:40:43AM >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:40:48AM SUCH A WONDERFUL INTRODUCTION.
09:40:50AM I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADD TO THAT IN ANY VALUABLE MANNER.
09:40:53AM AS HE MENTIONED MAY 15 IS NATIONAL PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL
09:40:57AM DAY.
09:40:57AM THIS YEAR IN WASHINGTON D.C., WE SAT ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN
09:41:00AM WHILE THEY HONORED 443 OFFICERS NATIONWIDE WHO LOST THEIR
09:41:05AM LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY
09:41:08AM LIVE.
09:41:08AM IT WAS A LONG DAY AND TOUGH DAY TO SEE THE FAMILIES, THE
09:41:15AM EXTENDED FAMILIES EFFECTED.
09:41:17AM NOT JUST THE FAMILY THAT THE OFFICER LIVED WITH AT HOME BUT
09:41:22AM FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS.
09:41:23AM THE CONCERN OF POLICE SURVIVORS IS THERE.
09:41:25AM WE HOLD CONFERENCES DURING NATIONAL POLICE WEEK TO BRING THE
09:41:30AM NEW FAMILIES AND WHAT COPS HAVE TO OFFER AND HELP THEM
09:41:33AM ADJUST TO WHAT WE REFER TO AS "THE NEW NORMAL."
09:41:37AM THAT OFFICER WILL NEVER COME BACK AND YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER
09:41:40AM BE THE SAME BUT YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD AND BEYOND THAT.
09:41:43AM THERE ARE CONFERENCES FOR FIRST-YEAR SURVIVORS AND MANY ARE
09:41:48AM RETURNING, I ATTENDED FOR THE 14th TIME.
09:41:51AM FIRST TIME ATTENDED NATIONAL POLICE WEEK, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA
09:41:57AM WAS THERE.
09:41:57AM AND I THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SERVE WITH THE CITY.
09:42:00AM SO COPS IS THERE.
09:42:02AM WE ARE HERE LOCALLY.
09:42:03AM 3,000 FAMILIES IN OUR NINE COUNTY AREAS WE SERVE IN THE
09:42:08AM TAMPA BAY AREA.
09:42:09AM COPS IS THERE FOR THE FAMILY EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE THESE
09:42:13AM NEED.
09:42:13AM IF SOMETHING COMES UP LATER IN LIFE, WE ARE HERE IN AND OUT
09:42:18AM AS THEIR NEEDS.
09:42:22AM AGAIN, TOMORROW, ON MAY 19 WHEN THE CITY OF TAMPA WILL HONOR
09:42:26AM TWO OF THEIR OWN WHO WERE LOST IN THE LINE OF DUTY 25 YEARS
09:42:29AM AGO AND DETECTIVE BELL AND CHILDERS.
09:42:32AM I AM SURE THEIR FAMILIES WILL APPRECIATE THAT YOU ARE
09:42:35AM REMEMBERING THE SACRIFICES THAT THOSE TWO OFFICERS MADE ON
09:42:38AM THAT DAY AS WELL.
09:42:38AM PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY WAS INSTITUTED IN 1972 BY THE
09:42:43AM JOHN F. KENNEDY TO HONOR THOSE OFFICERS.
09:42:46AM THE WEEKS SURROUNDING THAT EVERY YEAR IS NATIONAL PEACE
09:42:50AM OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY WHICH MEAN THOSE OF US WHO ARE
09:42:53AM SURVIVING PARENT -- FEMALE IN PARTICULAR, WE CELEBRATE
09:42:58AM MOTHER'S DAY IN D.C. HONORING OUR LOST LOVED ONES AND
09:43:02AM BRINGING OUR CHILDREN ALONG WITH US TO CELEBRATE MOTHER'S
09:43:05AM DAY IN A PARTICULARLY UNIQUE FASHION.
09:43:06AM AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
09:43:11AM WITH YOU AND TO ADDRESS THE CITY.
09:43:13AM IT IS ALWAYS AN HONOR FOR ME TO SAY I AM FROM TAMPA.
09:43:16AM YOU HAVE DONE THINGS FOR US THAT OTHER CITIES DO NOT DO FOR
09:43:20AM THEIR SURVIVORS.
09:43:21AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
09:43:22AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR STANDING BEHIND THE DEPARTMENT AS
09:43:26AM YOU HAVE, AND THAT THEY ARE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE IN
09:43:31AM HEINOUS SITUATION THAT CITIZENS MAY ENCOUNTER AND THEY DO
09:43:34AM THAT HONORABLY EVERY DAY.
09:43:38AM >> I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPEAK AFTER THAT.
09:43:40AM I LOVE HEARING HER SPEAK, SO ELOQUENT ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE
09:43:44AM TALKS OF OUR ORGANIZATION AND CHAPTER.
09:43:45AM BY JUST WANT TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT FROM BEING A SIBLING OF
09:43:49AM IT AND WHAT OUR ORGANIZATION OFFERS.
09:43:55AM ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS FELT -- YOU KNOW I LOST MY
09:43:58AM BROTHER.
09:43:58AM SOMEONE I GREW UP WITH.
09:44:00AM SOMEONE I WAS FRIENDS WITH, FOUGHT WITH, HAD ALL THOSE
09:44:05AM RELATIONSHIPS.
09:44:06AM KNEW HIS SECRETS THAT OTHER PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW.
09:44:09AM WHEN YOU LOSE A BROTHER, IT'S A HARD THING, REGARDLESS OF,
09:44:13AM YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
09:44:15AM WHEN IT IS ON THE NEWS AND YOU ARE ACTUALLY WATCHING IT ON
09:44:18AM THE NEWS AS IT IS HAPPENING AND NOT REALIZING IT IS YOUR
09:44:21AM BROTHER, IT IS WORSE.
09:44:22AM I TOTALLY FORGOT MY BROTHER WAS WORKING THAT DAY
09:44:25AM SO IT WAS VERY HARD.
09:44:27AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS HARD FOR SIBLINGS AND PARENTS AS
09:44:32AM WELL, THERE IS NO -- THERE -- WITHOUT CONCERNS OF SURVIVORS,
09:44:37AM WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY
09:44:40AM WHEN IT IS THERE.
09:44:41AM IT IS SO NICE TO HAVE AN ORGANIZATION THAT OFFERS THAT
09:44:44AM EMOTIONAL SUPPORT.
09:44:45AM CHEF WAS NOT ONE THAT WAS SUPPORTING US FINANCIALLY.
09:44:49AM NOTHING THAT WE NEED FINANCIALLY.
09:44:51AM WE HAVE OUR FAMILY.
09:44:52AM MY MOM HAD HER HUSBAND.
09:44:54AM BUT THE ONE THING THAT IS NICE TO HAVE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN
09:44:58AM EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY SUPPORT US.
09:45:00AM I HAVE SEEN.
09:45:04AM AS A SIBLING, I WATCHED OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN THIS
09:45:07AM ORGANIZATION HAVING A LOT OF PAIN REGARDLESS OF -- MAYBE
09:45:11AM THEY WEREN'T -- THEY HAD FALLING OUTS WITH THEIR SONS,
09:45:16AM DAUGHTERS AND SIBLINGS.
09:45:18AM THE REGRET WHEN THE OFFICER LEAVES THAT QUICKLY AND YOU HAVE
09:45:24AM NEVER GOTTEN TO MAKE AMENDS FOR SOMETHING THAT MAYBE
09:45:27AM HAPPENED YEARS AGO.
09:45:28AM YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I HAVE
09:45:31AM SEEN WITH THE EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS BEYOND, YOU KNOW, THE
09:45:34AM SPOUSE AND CHILDREN.
09:45:35AM MY NUMBER ONE FOCUS IS ALWAYS PUTTING ON THE SPOUSE AND
09:45:39AM CHILDREN.
09:45:40AM THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE LOST THE GREATEST LOVE WITH THEIR
09:45:43AM SPOUSE.
09:45:43AM AND THEIR DAD, WHO EVEN IF THE MOM REMARRIES OR THE DAD
09:45:48AM REMARRIES IF IT IS A -- THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO GET ANOTHER
09:45:51AM DAD AGAIN.
09:45:52AM SO MY FOCUS IN DOING THE GALA WAS WANTING -- I REALLY
09:45:58AM BELIEVED THAT WE NEEDED TO GET OUR INFORMATION OUT FOR.
09:46:06AM I FELT AS GREAT AS OUR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IS, OUR LOCAL
09:46:10AM AREA DID NOT KNOW -- THEY MAY HAVE KNOWN WHO WE ARE, BUT
09:46:14AM DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHO WE ARE AND I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT.
09:46:20AM AND THE FIRST MONTH OR SO EVEN AFTER THE FIRST YEAR -- EVEN
09:46:27AM AFTER THE FORS YEAR.
09:46:28AM AND THAT SUPPORT GOES DAY WAY, NOT BECAUSE PEOPLE FORGET,
09:46:32AM BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE KIND OF GO ON TO THEIR NORMAL, FORGETTING
09:46:37AM THAT WE HAVE A NEW NORMAL.
09:46:39AM WHERE OUR ORGANIZATION COMES IN, WE TRY TO KEEP THAT SUPPORT
09:46:41AM FOR OUR SURVIVORS.
09:46:43AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DO WITH OUR GALA AND
09:46:50AM MOVING FORWARD WITH THINGS IS TO BE ABLE TO BUILD OUR
09:46:52AM SUPPORT AROUND THOSE LOCAL SURVIVORS.
09:46:54AM WE FEEL THAT MANY WANT TO GO TO NATIONAL AND CAN'T ALWAYS GO
09:47:01AM BACK TO NATIONAL SO WE WANT TO HAVE THAT SUPPORT HERE WHERE
09:47:06AM WE ARE ALLOWING FUNDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH.
09:47:09AM I BECAME A COUNSELOR AFTER MY BROTHER DIED JUST RECENTLY.
09:47:12AM HE WAS A PSYCHOLOGIST BEFORE HE WENT INTO IT A -- PSYCHOLOGY
09:47:18AM MAJOR IN COLLEGE AND I WANTED TO FOLLOW HIS LEAD, AND THAT
09:47:21AM IS THE WAY I CAN HONOR MY BROTHER BY DOING THINGS THAT HE
09:47:24AM WOULD BE PROUD OF ME FOR.
09:47:25AM AND YOU KNOW JUST BEING ABLE TO ENTER MENTAL HEALTH FOR OUR
09:47:34AM SURVIVORS.
09:47:34AM I FEEL THAT OUR SPOUSES NEED A LOT MORE.
09:47:36AM I LISTEN TO CINDY, MY SISTER-IN-LAW, TERESA, PENNY, ALL ARE
09:47:44AM SPOUSES.
09:47:44AM I SEE THAT THERE IS SO MANY NEEDS THAT THEY HAVE THAT WE
09:47:49AM COULD BE OFFERING THEM THAT WE HAVEN'T REALIZED THE NEED
09:47:52AM THAT THEY HAVE.
09:47:53AM AND I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO BE OFFERING THEM THAT SUPPORT.
09:47:55AM I WANT -- PART OF MY REASON FOR THE GALA TO RAISE FUNDS TO
09:48:00AM GIVE THEM MORE SUPPORT HELPING THEIR KIDS IN COLLEGE WITH
09:48:04AM EXPENSES THAT MAYBE THEY CAN'T AFFORD.
09:48:06AM YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS.
09:48:10AM MAYBE NEEDS FOR THEM.
09:48:11AM NOT JUST WHEN THEY FIRST LOSE THEIR SPOUSE, BUT MOVING
09:48:16AM FORWARD BECAUSE AN ONGOING THING FOR THEM.
09:48:18AM I REALLY BELIEVE IN THIS ORGANIZATION.
09:48:20AM I THINK IT IS A GREAT THING.
09:48:21AM AND I AM HOPING THAT MORE PEOPLE JOIN IN OUR MISSION.
09:48:26AM AND WANT TO LEARN MORE US.
09:48:28AM AND HELP IN ANY WAY THAT THEY CAN.
09:48:30AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:48:34AM EITHER OF YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING?
09:48:38AM >> I WILL SPEAK REAL QUICKLY.
09:48:39AM I WILL SAY THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
09:48:40AM THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA FOR RECOGNIZING THIS
09:48:44AM ORGANIZATION.
09:48:45AM A FABULOUS ORGANIZATION THAT MORE PEOPLE DEFINITELY NEED TO
09:48:47AM GET BEHIND.
09:48:48AM I KNOW I HAVE BEEN WITH THIS AGENCY NOW FOR 18 YEARS, AND I
09:48:52AM HAVE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THIS ORGANIZATION.
09:48:54AM THEY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR US AS MUCH AS I HOPE WE HAVE BEEN
09:48:58AM THERE FOR THEM.
09:48:59AM IT DEFINITELY -- WE BECOME ONE BIG FAMILY AND UNFORTUNATELY
09:49:03AM IT TAKES A LOSS TO MEET THE SPOUSE OR SIBLINGS OF THE OTHER
09:49:07AM OFFICERS, BUT WE ALWAYS FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE
09:49:10AM WANTED SURVIVORS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE ONE FAMILY AND WE WILL
09:49:15AM ALWAYS BE THERE FOR THEM.
09:49:16AM THEY, IN TURN, HAVE MADE A LOT OF US REALIZE THAT WE ARE
09:49:19AM SURVIVORS AS WELL PAUSE WE HAVE LOST OUR CO-WORKERS WHEN WE
09:49:23AM DON'T NECESSARILY THINK OF IT THAT WAY, OUR CO-WORKERS,
09:49:28AM FRIENDS AND FAMILY, BUT A LOT OF TIMES WE PUT THE FOCUS ON
09:49:31AM THEM.
09:49:32AM BUT THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY A SURVIVOR
09:49:36AM AS WELL THROUGH THIS.
09:49:36AM AND THEY SUPPORT US AS WELL.
09:49:38AM AND IT'S REALLY NICE TO KNOW IF SOMETHING DID HAPPEN TO ME
09:49:46AM OR MY HUSBAND, THAT NOT ONLY WILL MY CHILDREN FROM WOULD
09:49:51AM HAVE THE DEPARTMENT, THEY WOULD HAVE THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION
09:49:54AM AND DO SO MANY FABULOUS THINGS FOR CHILDREN THROUGH CAMPS
09:49:59AM OVER THE SUMMER AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS TAKEN CARE OF FROM
09:50:02AM IMMEDIATE FAMILY TO THE WORK FAMILY.
09:50:03AM SO I REALLY APPRECIATE CINDY AND THE ORGANIZATION AND YOU,
09:50:07AM COUNCIL, FOR RECOGNIZING THEM.
09:50:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:50:15AM >>LEE BERCAW: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:50:16AM LEE BERCAW HERE.
09:50:19AM AND NATIONAL POLICE WEEK.
09:50:21AM IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, THE OFFICERS WEARING A BAND OVER
09:50:24AM THEIR BADGE TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE OFFICERS WHO LOST THEIR
09:50:26AM LIVES AND AGAIN THEIR LIVES FOR THE COMMUNITY ACROSS THE
09:50:29AM NATION FOR THIS WEEK.
09:50:30AM YOU WILL SEE IN THE MEDIA ON THE NEWS, THEY ARE HONORING
09:50:34AM LOCAL OFFICERS EVERY DAY TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
09:50:36AM AND, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T NOT RECOGNIZE OUR OWN
09:50:41AM OFFICERS.
09:50:41AM WE HAD OUR MEMORIAL CEREMONY.
09:50:43AM AND I THINK THE MAJORITY OF YOU ALL WERE THERE.
09:50:45AM CINDY ALSO TALKED BRIEFLY ABOUT COPS.
09:50:50AM AND I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING I DIDN'T HEAR YOU SAY, ONE
09:50:54AM THING THAT COP DID FOR ME WENT I WAS A LIEUTENANT.
09:50:56AM I WAS A SHIFT COMMANDER ON THE SCENE WHEN MIKE ROBERTS WAS
09:51:00AM KILLED AND CURTIS AND KOLKAB WERE.
09:51:03AM THEY HAD A CLASS THAT I WAS SENT CONTINUE TO THAT TALKS
09:51:07AM ABOUT HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILY AND WHAT WE CAN DO.
09:51:09AM AND THAT WAS VERY EYE OPENING FOR ME.
09:51:12AM BALLS THAT IS WHO WE ARE, A FAMILY AND TAKE CARE OF ONE
09:51:16AM ANOTHER.
09:51:16AM TO PUT ON A CLASS TO TEACH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS HOW TO
09:51:20AM TAKE THAT INSPIRATION FOR ME AND TO THAT DATE, WE SUPPORT
09:51:23AM COPS AND SUPPORT EVERYBODY.
09:51:24AM AND JOHN -- YOU ARE LIKE FAMILY WITH ME.
09:51:27AM I HAVE A SPECIAL BOND WITH YOU.
09:51:28AM SO MY HONOR TO BE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU.
09:51:30AM THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING HER IN THE COPS ORGANIZATION.
09:51:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:51:34AM ANYBODY FROM COUNCIL HAVE ANY COMMENTS?
09:51:40AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:51:40AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR THE INDICTMENT YOU HAVE
09:51:44AM GIVEN US NOT ONLY THIS COUNCIL BUT PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE
09:51:46AM AND THOSE LISTENING ON THE TELEVISION.
09:51:49AM AMAZING WHEN YOU GET TOGETHER, YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO A LOT
09:51:52AM MORE THAN DOING IT BY ONE PERSON.
09:51:54AM IT MEANS A LOT, BECAUSE NOT ONLY FOR YOUR OWN SPECIAL
09:51:59AM SATISFACTION BUT WHAT THAT PERSON DID TO MAKE LIFE BETTER
09:52:02AM NOT ONLY FOR HIM, HIS FAMILY, BUT FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF
09:52:05AM AMERICA AND HELPING PEOPLE ALL THE WAY ALONG.
09:52:07AM IT IS A BLESSING TO HAVE THE THREE OF YOU SPEAK, AND THANK
09:52:11AM GOD I'M HERE BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I CAN FOLLOW YOU WITH
09:52:13AM THREE SPEECHES.
09:52:14AM THEY ARE EXCELLENT.
09:52:15AM WE APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
09:52:16AM GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
09:52:17AM >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:52:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
09:52:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: VERY INFORMATIVE.
09:52:23AM THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION.
09:52:24AM I WAS NOT AWARE OF IT.
09:52:25AM COUPLED BY THE MEMORIAL SERVICE I EXPERIENCED LAST WEEK BEEN
09:52:28AM I APPRECIATE THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA IS WELL REPRESENTED EVEN
09:52:31AM IN OUR SADDEST HOURS.
09:52:33AM BUT IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THE KNOWLEDGE.
09:52:36AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:52:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
09:52:38AM NO?
09:52:41AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
09:52:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU FOR COMING AND EXPLAINING MORE
09:52:45AM ABOUT THIS ORGANIZATION AND HOW YOU ARE HELPING THOSE WHO
09:52:49AM HAVE SUFFERED ONE OF THE GREATEST LOSSES NICE TO KNOW THIS
09:53:00AM IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORTS NOT JUST OFFICERS BUT
09:53:04AM FAMILY MEMBERS AND COLLEAGUES.
09:53:05AM SOMETHING THAT MANY PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT.
09:53:07AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:53:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
09:53:10AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE HEROES THAT WE
09:53:13AM LOST AND THEIR FAMILIES.
09:53:14AM PLEASE KEEP US POSTED WHAT WE CAN TO DO HELP.
09:53:16AM ALSO SINCE YOU DO HAVE SOME PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME, IS
09:53:20AM THERE ANY OTHER WAY THAT TO HE WAS OF THE PUBLIC CAN SUPPORT
09:53:23AM YOU ALL?
09:53:26AM >> WELL, ONE THING I WANTED TO ADD TOO IS WE HAD DONE
09:53:30AM NATIONAL -- WE WILL DO CONFERENCES IN AREAS.
09:53:33AM AND LAST YEAR, CINDY AND I WERE FORTUNATE TO ABLE TO HAVE
09:53:38AM NATIONAL DO A TRAUMAS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR AREA.
09:53:41AM SO WE HAD THAT.
09:53:42AM AND NATIONAL IS DOING THEIR NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ORLANDO.
09:53:45AM AND WE ARE HOPING -- BECAUSE OUR -- TAMPA IS A GREAT CITY.
09:53:50AM WE NEED TO HAVE MORE THINGS.
09:53:52AM NATIONAL COMING DOWN AND DOING.
09:53:53AM WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE THEM DO ONE IN TAMPA SOME TIME.
09:53:57AM BUT AS FAR AS HELPING US, WE HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE, WEST
09:54:01AM CENTRAL FLORIDA CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS.
09:54:06AM WE HAVE INSTAGRAM, WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA CONCERNS OF POLICE
09:54:10AM SURVIVORS.
09:54:10AM AND WE DO HAVE A WEB SITE.
09:54:13AM NEVER CAN REMEMBER.
09:54:14AM BUT I THINK WCFL -- I NEVER CAN REMEMBER IT BUT LINKED TO
09:54:22AM OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
09:54:23AM THEY CAN GO ON THERE AND WE DO -- THERE IS A LINK THIS THEY
09:54:28AM CAN ASK QUESTIONS OR RESPOND TO US AND WE GET E-MAILS FROM
09:54:30AM THAT.
09:54:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:54:32AM WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO
09:54:36AM AND THE MEMORY OF THOSE YOU LOST AND THE SERVICE TO THIS
09:54:39AM COMMUNITY.
09:54:40AM AND WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THEM.
09:54:41AM THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
09:54:44AM AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.
09:54:46AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:54:48AM >> THANK YOU.
09:54:49AM [APPLAUSE]
09:54:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEXT UP QUICK APPOINTMENTS FOR 3 AND 4
09:55:00AM AND GO BACK TO NUMBER 1.
09:55:01AM MILLS SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES.
09:55:04AM >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, COUNCIL.
09:55:06AM THIS IS ITEM NUMBER 3.
09:55:09AM MISS DOMINIQUE COBB ASKING FOR REAPPOINTMENT TO THE HISTORIC
09:55:14AM PRESERVATION COMMISSION.
09:55:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY
09:55:17AM ANYTHING?
09:55:18AM >>DOMINIQUE COBB: YES, GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS
09:55:22AM DOMINIQUE ALSHALA COBB.
09:55:25AM I HAVE BEEN SERVING AS VICE-CHAIR FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
09:55:30AM OF 2019.
09:55:31AM TUESDAY, I WAS VOTED AS CHAIR FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
09:55:35AM I SIT AT THE URBAN PLANNER, BUT IN MY COMMUNITY, I DO A HOST
09:55:39AM OF THINGS.
09:55:39AM I WAS PREVIOUSLY THE VICE-CHAIR FOR THE CRA FOR EAST TAMPA
09:55:46AM ALONG WITH OTHER PROJECTS.
09:55:50AM MY MAIN COMMITMENT FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION NOT ONLY
09:55:54AM PRESERVE TAMPA, BUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAT WAS
09:55:58AM NEGLECTED FOR MANY YEARS.
09:56:00AM I HOPE THAT I WILL BRING MORE COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC IN
09:56:04AM REGARDS TO THE HISTORY THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND VAST IN
09:56:08AM TAMPA.
09:56:08AM AND MAKE SURE THAT A GENERATION DOES NOT LOSE THE FOCUS AND
09:56:13AM ALSO BRING UP THINGS THAT CAN ALSO ESTABLISH FORWARD
09:56:19AM MOVEMENT AS FAR AS HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THIS AREA.
09:56:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:56:23AM NO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
09:56:24AM A MOTION TO REAPPOINT THE APPLICANT.
09:56:27AM MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
09:56:29AM SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
09:56:31AM MR. SHELBY?
09:56:33AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF YOU INCLUDED IN THAT MOTION A REQUEST TO
09:56:36AM I THINK BACK A RESOLUTION OF THAT.
09:56:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: INCLUDING MR. SHELBY BRINGING BACK A
09:56:40AM RESOLUTION SO WE CAN RATIFY THAT.
09:56:41AM AT THAT MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
09:56:43AM SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
09:56:45AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:56:46AM ANY OPPOSE?
09:56:48AM CONGRATULATIONS.
09:56:48AM ITEM NUMBER 4.
09:56:50AM >>SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES: SHIRLEY FOXX-KNOWLES, CITY CLERK.
09:56:56AM WE HAVE SAMANTHA DECKER ASKING FOR REAPPOINTMENT TO IT THE
09:57:03AM VARIOUS REVIEW BOARD.
09:57:04AM >>SAMANTHA DECKER: GOOD MORNING, IT IS A MAN THAT DECKER.
09:57:15AM GOOD TO SEE FAMILIAR FACES AND COUPLE OF NEW FACES.
09:57:19AM A REAL ESTATE STATE ATTORNEY AT STEARNS, WEAVER, MILLER BUT
09:57:24AM THE OF THE BALLAST POINT NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEEKING
09:57:29AM REAPPOINTMENT TO THE VARIANCE BOARD AND I HAVE A PLEASURE
09:57:32AM NOW SERVING AS CHAIRMAN OF ITS BOARD -- CHAIRWOMAN OF THE
09:57:38AM BOARD AND LOOKING FORWARD TO FOUR MORE YEARS.
09:57:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
09:57:42AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:57:43AM THIS IS ALSO TO INCLUDE MR. SHELBY BRINGING BACKING A
09:57:46AM RESOLUTION TO CERTIFY, RATIFY, APPROVE THAT.
09:57:49AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:57:50AM ANY OPPOSED?
09:57:52AM YES, MA'AM.
09:57:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, WHEN YOU ARE DONE.
09:57:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
09:57:56AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
09:57:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS.
09:58:01AM MISS DECKER AND I SERVED ON THE VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD
09:58:04AM TOGETHER AND I REMEMBER WHEN YOU JOINED.
09:58:06AM AND I AM JUST SO EXCITED FOR YOU FOR BEING NOMINATED AND THE
09:58:10AM NEW CHAIR OF THE BOARD.
09:58:11AM CONGRATULATIONS.
09:58:12AM AND SHE IS JUST A WONDERFUL ADDITION.
09:58:16AM I AM VERY EXCITED TO HEAR.
09:58:18AM >>SAMANTHA DECKER: I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
09:58:19AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
09:58:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:58:24AM GO BACK TO ITEM NUMBER 1.
09:58:26AM MR. ROGERO STEPPED OUT FOR A MOMENT FOR THE REVENUE AND
09:58:30AM FINANCE STAFF TO RECOGNIZE THEM.
09:58:31AM A MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
09:58:33AM YES, THERE HE IS.
09:58:37AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, THIS IS YOUR ITEM.
09:58:40AM YES, SIR.
09:58:40AM ITEM NUMBER 1.
09:58:42AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF CITY
09:58:54AM COUNCIL TO BE HERE WITH DENNIS ROGERO, THE INDIVIDUAL IN
09:58:57AM CHARGE OF REVENUE AND FINANCIALS.
09:58:58AM THIS COMBINATION IS SOMETHING YOU MAKE, SOMETHING THAT
09:59:01AM IS VERY NICE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:59:02AM THIS IS THE 34th TIME YOU RECEIVED THIS?
09:59:06AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
09:59:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT IT IS.
09:59:10AM HOW YOU RECEIVED IT.
09:59:12AM AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO COMPLY WITH THIS, SO THE PUBLIC
09:59:15AM UNDERSTANDS THAT IT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T GIVE AWAY.
09:59:18AM THAT YOU HAVE TO EARN.
09:59:20AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:59:21AM HELLO, AGAIN, COUNCIL.
09:59:23AM DENNIS ROGERO, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
09:59:27AM AS COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAY NOT SOMETHING THEY SET AND FORGET.
09:59:32AM A NUMBER OF RIGOROUS STANDARDS THAT THIS TEAM HAS TO COMPLY
09:59:35AM WITH, WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD.
09:59:39AM THE STATE AUDITOR GENERAL.
09:59:40AM STATE LAW.
09:59:42AM GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES.
09:59:46AM THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND THIS TEAM NOT ONLY MEETS THE
09:59:49AM RIGOROUS STANDARDS BUT EXCEEDS THEM EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
09:59:52AM MANY OF THEM ARE ALWAYS CHANGING.
09:59:54AM CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM.
09:59:55AM CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.
09:59:56AM IT IS A TERRIFIC REFLECTION ON THE CITY.
10:00:00AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WOULD BE REMISS -- SEVEN INDIVIDUALS
10:00:04AM BEHIND US ARE THE ONES THAT DID A LOT OF THE WORK.
10:00:06AM UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. ROGERO, BUT UNDER THEM, SO MANY
10:00:11AM PEOPLE WHO WOULD IN THIS DEPARTMENT ON A DAILY BASIS TO KEEP
10:00:14AM THE NUMBERS STRAIGHT.
10:00:15AM JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T EARN BY SOMEBODY GIVING IT TO
10:00:18AM YOU.
10:00:18AM YOU HAVE TO EARN IS BY THE PROCESS OF WHICH YOU SIT.
10:00:21AM ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU FOR THE TYPE OF WORK YOU DO AND IN THE
10:00:25AM FINANCE AND REVENUE DIVISION.
10:00:26AM MY HONOR TO GIVE YOU THIS PRESENTATION.
10:00:27AM A PLEASURE OF THE TAMPA OF CITY DOWN PRESENT IN RECOGNITION
10:00:32AM OF CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT FOR EXCELLENCE FINANCING
10:00:35AM REPORTING FROM THE GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL OFFICERS
10:00:40AM ASSOCIATION.
10:00:40AM THE 54th TIME YOU RECEIVED THIS, CORRECT?
10:00:44AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES.
10:00:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MY PLEASURE.
10:00:48AM ALL OF FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA, YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB.
10:00:51AM FINANCE PEOPLE.
10:00:54AM THEY DON'T TALK.
10:00:55AM THEY JUST GO THROUGH THE NUMBERS.
10:00:57AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO THE NUMBERS.
10:00:59AM THANK YOU, AGAIN.
10:01:00AM AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT EARLIER, COUNCIL.
10:01:03AM I DON'T TAKE THAT SUPPORT FOR GRANTED.
10:01:05AM I NEVER WILL.
10:01:07AM LEE HUFFSTUTLER, CHIEF ACCOUNTANT AND AN AMAZING TEAM.
10:01:12AM I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THEM.
10:01:14AM THEY ARE WORLD-CLASS.
10:01:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: INTRODUCE THEIR NAMES FOR US, PLEASE BY
10:01:18AM NAME.
10:01:18AM THANK YOU.
10:01:19AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: CAN I DO ONE BETTER AND HAVE EACH OF YOU
10:01:23AM SAY YOUR NAME.
10:01:24AM THANK YOU.
10:01:25AM LEE HUFFSTUTLER.
10:01:28AM MANAGER, SABRINA McADOO AND SUPERVISOR OF THE FLOOR, PAM
10:01:34AM McCARTER AND LAPASHA GIBBS, ONE OF THE SUPPORT TECHS.
10:01:39AM WE HAVE CHRISTOPHER HUTCHCRAFT.
10:01:43AM THANK YOU.
10:01:43AM CHRISTOPHER HUTCHCRAFT, ONE OF THE ACCOUNTANTS.
10:01:47AM NANCY HARPER ONE OF THE ACCOUNTANTS AND CARMEN SOUTHWELL ONE
10:01:52AM OF THE ACCOUNTANTS.
10:01:54AM I COULD HAVE SPOKEN BUT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME,
10:01:57AM BECAUSE THEY DO AN EXCELLENT, DIFFICULT TIME.
10:02:00AM AND THIS YEAR WAS ESPECIALLY CHALLENGING AS IT ALWAYS IS AND
10:02:05AM CAME THROUGH AGAIN.
10:02:06AM NUMBER 34.
10:02:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:02:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY COUNCILMEMBERS MAKE ANY COMMENTS?
10:02:11AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:02:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK I GOT TO SAY THIS LAST YEAR AT THE
10:02:15AM 33, THE DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF ACCOUNTANTS.
10:02:20AM PARTICULARLY, I KNOW THE DIFFICULTY OF WHICH BEING
10:02:25AM COMPACTING -- EXACTING WITH NUMBERS AND HOW THINGS HAVE
10:02:31AM CHANGED IN ACCOUNTING BUT NOT REALLY.
10:02:34AM YOU STILL HAVE TO GO BACK -- ONLY SO MUCH THAT COMPUTERS CAN
10:02:38AM DO FOR YOU.
10:02:39AM >> WELL SAID.
10:02:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO UNDERSTAND THE ANNUALS.
10:02:42AM AS I WAS TELLING YOU EARLIER ON OUR BRIEFING CALL HOW I AM
10:02:46AM GOING THROUGH THE -- THE REPORT THAT YOU PUT THROUGH.
10:02:50AM AND HOW MUCH WORK THAT IS.
10:02:51AM AND JUST CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU FOR THIS AWARD AND
10:02:56AM ALL THE WORK DO YOU.
10:02:57AM GOING THROUGH THAT REPORT AND PREPARING MYSELF FOR BUDGET,
10:03:01AM IT IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE HOW WELL YOU ALL KNOW WHAT YOU TO
10:03:05AM EVERY DAY.
10:03:05AM SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:03:08AM WE SIMPLY COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT YOU.
10:03:10AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:03:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:03:13AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:03:14AM WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO.
10:03:16AM I HAVE KNOWN YOU SINCE YOU STARTED HERE WHEN YOU WERE CHIEF
10:03:20AM OF STAFF YOU ARE THE BOSS OVER THERE.
10:03:22AM YOU DO A GREAT JOB.
10:03:23AM YOUR TEAM DOES A GREAT JOB.
10:03:27AM NOT AN EASY TASK AND VERY WELL DESERVED 34 TIMES.
10:03:30AM SEE YOU NEXT YEAR WHEN YOU GET IT AGAIN.
10:03:32AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR.
10:03:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
10:03:37AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:03:37AM [APPLAUSE]
10:03:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT, NEXT ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER 5,
10:03:52AM AND THIS EN WE WILL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:03:54AM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: YES, MA'AM, COUNCILMAN, GOOD
10:03:58AM MORNING, CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
10:04:00AM OPTION.
10:04:00AM THE 2022 CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD ANNUAL REPORT.
10:04:05AM PURSUANT TO 18-8, SOMEBODY SECTION I, THE CHAIR OF THE
10:04:11AM CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD MR. AKIL AND THE VICE-CHAIR
10:04:18AM COLONEL REYES IS PRESENT TO PRESENT THE 2022 REVIEW BOARD
10:04:22AM ANNUAL REPORT ALONG WITH THE CHAIR.
10:04:24AM ALSO ARE CORPORAL KATIE THANUS AND DR. COLLINS IS
10:04:32AM PRESENT.
10:04:32AM SHE IS IN THE AUDIENCE.
10:04:34AM EACH ONE OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THE
10:04:37AM 2022 CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD ANNUAL REPORT IN FRONT OF YOU.
10:04:41AM AFTER THE PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT, I HAVE A
10:04:44AM DOCUMENT FOR EACH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER TO SIGN AFFIRMING THAT
10:04:51AM YOU HAVE REVIEWED THE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD 2022 ANNUAL
10:04:56AM REPORT.
10:04:56AM WITH THAT, I WILL TURN OVER TO THE SHARE.
10:04:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:05:00AM YES, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:05:01AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:05:03AM GOOD MORNING, I AM RASHEED ALI AQUIL, THE THE OF THE CITIZEN
10:05:09AM REVIEW BOARD.
10:05:10AM I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE 2022 ANNUAL REPORT.
10:05:12AM I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN THIS PRESENTATION WITH ACKNOWLEDGING
10:05:15AM THE SUPPORT OF OUR CITY LEADERSHIP.
10:05:18AM FROM OUR CITY MAYOR TO CITY COUNCIL TO CITY STAFF AND
10:05:22AM ADMINISTRATION AND OUR LEGAL TEAM, INCLUDING TAMPA POLICE
10:05:26AM DEPARTMENT AND STAFF.
10:05:26AM I WOULD LIKE TO JUST BE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW ITEMS IN
10:05:34AM THIS REPORT.
10:05:35AM I WOULD LIKE TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE BOTTOM OF PAGE TWO TO
10:05:40AM RECOGNIZE THE MEMBERS OF CRB CONTINUED COMMITMENT START WITH
10:05:47AM REVEREND BARTHOLOMEW BANKS, IRENE GUY,
10:05:55AM MR. DEVIN INGANDELA, LINCOLN DeMAYO, CARLOS VALDES,
10:06:02AM COLONEL REYES AND DR. CAROLYN COLLINS.
10:06:06AM WE WOULD LIKE, IF YOU WILL, CONTINUE TO SECTION 2, PAGE 3
10:06:10AM ALREADY UNDER THE ALLEGED POLICY VIOLATIONS OF SELECTED
10:06:13AM CASES I PULLED.
10:06:14AM UNDER CATEGORY STANDARD OF CONDUCT WAS SUSTAINED ON NUMEROUS
10:06:19AM OCCASIONS.
10:06:20AM WE HOLD OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO A HIGHER STANDARD.
10:06:25AM IT IS PLEASING TO REPORT THAT OUR OFFICERS ARE UPHOLDING THE
10:06:30AM INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONALISM OUTLINED BY THE CITIZENS AND
10:06:35AM THE CHANGING COMMUNITY THAT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT OUR
10:06:37AM OFFICERS CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE NECESSARY SUPPORT FOR
10:06:40AM VARIOUS TRAINING EXERCISES TO REDUCE THE NEED OF DEADLY
10:06:44AM FORCE ORCHESTRATED WITH TWO NOT SUSTAINED.
10:06:49AM IN ADDITION TO THE TEN CLOSED INTERNAL AFFAIR CASES, THE CRB
10:06:54AM HEARD AND ADDITIONAL MATTERS OF DEPARTMENT BILLS OF PUBLIC
10:06:59AM INTEREST.
10:06:59AM DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION PROVIDED UPDATED INFORMATION ON
10:07:02AM THE REVISED SAFE PROGRAM THAT INCORPORATED BUSINESS WATCH
10:07:07AM AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.
10:07:08AM PRESENTATION WAS ALSO MADE TO THE CRB ABOUT UPDATES TO THE
10:07:13AM DEPARTMENT'S BODY WORN CAMERA POLICY, SCHOOL SAFETY
10:07:17AM INITIATIVE, GUN VIOLENCE STATISTICS, AND THE CHIEF COMMUNITY
10:07:22AM IMPACT TEAM.
10:07:22AM ALSO IN REFERENCE TO DATA TRANSPARENCY REGARDING TRAFFIC
10:07:27AM STOPS.
10:07:28AM ADDITIONAL METRICS IN THE RESERVE OFFICER PROGRAM.
10:07:33AM WE WILL CONTINUE WITH SECTION 3 ON PAGE 5.
10:07:40AM THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT TRACKS ALL CITIZENS' COMPLAINTS
10:07:48AM RELATING TO POLICY.
10:07:49AM A LIST TO THE CRB OF ALL NEW COMPLAINTS RECEIVING THE
10:07:53AM DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEES IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH.
10:07:55AM THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES A MONTHLY LIST NO TO THE CRB SHOWING
10:07:59AM THE STATUS OF ALL PENDING INVESTIGATIONS IN THE PROFESSIONAL
10:08:02AM STANDARDS BUREAU AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS UNIT IN ADDITION TO
10:08:06AM MAKING A COMPLAINT DIRECTLY WITH THE DEPARTMENT, CITIZENS
10:08:08AM MAY NOW SUBMIT A COMPLAINT VIA E-MAIL TO THE CRB BY
10:08:13AM E-MAILING TPD-CRB@TAMPAGOV.NET.
10:08:22AM ACCORDING TO THE TABLE, THE TELEPHONE SEEMS TO BE THE
10:08:26AM SELECTIVE CHOICE.
10:08:30AM WE AS A BOARD HAD SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS OF MONITORING
10:08:33AM COMPLAINTS.
10:08:33AM AS WE RECEIVE MORE DATA, I AM SURE THE BOARD MAY HAVE
10:08:36AM COMMUNICATIONS -- EXCUSE ME RECOMMENDATIONS MOVING FORWARD
10:08:41AM ON THE CURRENT METHOD OF COMPLAINT BY E-MAIL AND TELEPHONE.
10:08:46AM WE AS A BOARD HAD DISCUSSIONS OF THE CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD
10:08:50AM WEB SITE TO BE REVISED TO PROVIDE A SIMPLER WAY FOR CITIZENS
10:08:54AM TO SUBMIT A COMPLAINT.
10:08:55AM WE ARE AWARE THAT WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THIS MONTH IN
10:08:58AM REFERENCE TO THAT PARTICULAR WEB SITE AND HOW CITIZENS ARE
10:09:02AM ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT COMPLAINT.
10:09:04AM IF YOU WILL, CONTINUE WITH SECTION 4 ON PAGE 6.
10:09:11AM AS MENTIONED IN SECTION, TWO INTERNAL AFFAIR INVESTIGATIONS
10:09:19AM CLOSED WERE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE CRB THE
10:09:24AM ACTIONS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS WERE ALSO REVIEWED.
10:09:28AM IN THE REVIEW OF THESE CASES, THE CRB MAY REND IRA
10:09:32AM RECOMMENDATION OF THE DISPOSITION OF THE INVESTIGATION AND
10:09:35AM THE DISCIPLINE IMPOSED BAILED ON THE EVIDENCE.
10:09:40AM AND TWO CASES REVIEWED, THE CRB CONCURRED WITH THE
10:09:46AM DEPOSITION OF THE CASE AND NOT THE IMPOSED DISCIPLINE.
10:09:49AM I CAN SHARE WITH YOU ALL TODAY THAT THE CRB HAD SEVERAL
10:09:55AM DISCUSSIONS IN REFERENCE TO IT THE IMPOSED DISCIPLINE AND A
10:09:58AM SUBJECT WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR TO SUPPORT FUTURE
10:10:03AM RECOMMENDATIONS IF SO DESIRED.
10:10:04AM IF YOU WILL, WE WILL CONTINUE WITH SECTION 5 OF PAGE 7.
10:10:11AM THE CRB HAS CONTINUED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HIRING PROCESS
10:10:16AM OF PROSPECTIVE TAMPA POLICE OFFICERS.
10:10:17AM THE DESIGNATED CRB MEMBER IS ABLE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
10:10:23AM REGARDING THEIR BEEN OF THE SUITABILITY OF EACH CANDIDATE.
10:10:27AM THE ROLE IS ROTATED ACROSS MEMBERS OF THE CRB AND ALL
10:10:30AM MEMBERS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN IT THE INTERVIEW PANEL.
10:10:33AM HIRING PROCESS AND WE SHARED OUR SURVEY WITH THE TPD STAFF.
10:10:39AM AS A WHOLE, WE WERE VERY PLEASED WITH THE LAST GRADUATING
10:10:43AM CLASS.
10:10:45AM I BELIEVE THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PLACE OF SAFE
10:10:49AM HAVEN, A PLACE WHERE ONE CAN RAISE A FAMILY, PROSPER AND
10:10:53AM GROW KNOWING THAT WE HAVE OFFICERS WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK
10:10:56AM TO ENSURE WE CAN HAVE BETTER SLEEP AT NIGHT.
10:11:00AM I BELIEVE THE CITY OF TAMPA IS BECOMING THE ICON OF THE
10:11:03AM STATE AND WE ARE ATTRACTING VERY GOOD PROSPECTS FROM OTHER
10:11:05AM CITIES AND NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
10:11:07AM OUR RATE OF PAY AND BENEFIT PROGRAMS SUPERCEDES OTHER CITIES
10:11:10AM OF FLORIDA.
10:11:11AM GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE SELECTIVE AND ONLY SELECT
10:11:15AM THOSE THAT CAN SUPPORT OUR HIGHER STANDARDS.
10:11:20AM BELL CONTINUE WITH SECTION 6 OF PAGE 8.
10:11:24AM ALL MEMBERS OF THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL SHALL ATTEND AT
10:11:28AM LEAST CRB MEETING PER CALENDAR YEAR, EITHER IN PERSON OR
10:11:32AM VIRTUALLY AND ATTENDANCE MUD IS BE REPORTED IN THE ANNUAL
10:11:35AM REPORT, WHICH YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU.
10:11:38AM AND IN ADDITION, WE ALSO HAVE A MEETING IN EACH CITY COUNCIL
10:11:48AM MEMBER DISTRICT AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR SAID DISTRICT
10:11:52AM SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THAT MEETING IN THAT
10:11:54AM DISTRICT.
10:11:54AM I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO ATTEND THE
10:12:00AM MEETING TO ALL MECHANICS MUCH CITY COUNCIL AND APPLAUD THE
10:12:02AM TWO CITY COUNCILMEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THIS PAST YEAR,
10:12:06AM COUNCILMAN JOSEPH CITRO AS WELL AS COUNCILMAN GUIDO
10:12:13AM MANISCALCO.
10:12:13AM AND IN OUR RECENT PAST MEETING, LUIS VIERA.
10:12:17AM THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, AND I HOPE THIS
10:12:20AM ANNUAL REPORT REFLECTS THE COMMITMENT AND OBLIGATION OF THE
10:12:23AM CITIZENS HAVE TO ITS CITY.
10:12:26AM THANK YOU.
10:12:27AM I WILL ASK IF ANY MEMBER OF CITY COUNCI HAS A STATEMENT OF
10:12:31AM CONCERN I CAN TAKE BACK TO THE COURT -- TAKE BACK TO THE
10:12:34AM BOARD AS WELL AS GIVE OUR VICE-CHAIR AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE
10:12:40AM HIS THOUGHTS WITH THIS COUNCIL AS WELL.
10:12:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT REPORT.
10:12:44AM AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE MEMBERS THAT SERVE.
10:12:46AM AND THEY GIVE SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT TO THIS.
10:12:49AM WE APPRECIATE YOU AND THE SERVICE YOU PROVIDE TO THIS
10:12:53AM COMMUNITY.
10:12:53AM I SAW MEMBER ROBERT IRVIN.
10:12:57AM HE PASSED AWAY RECENTLY, CORRECT?
10:13:00AM >> YES.
10:13:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND THANK HIM
10:13:04AM FOR HIS SERVICE.
10:13:04AM I KNOW IT WAS MAYBE IN JANUARY, BUT -- YOU KNOW, WE
10:13:08AM APPRECIATE HIM.
10:13:10AM COLONEL REYES, DOCTOR, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR ANYTHING
10:13:14AM YOU LIKE TO SAY?
10:13:16AM IF NOT, WE WILL GO TO COUNCILMEMBERS.
10:13:18AM >> SURE.
10:13:19AM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND CITY COUNCIL.
10:13:21AM JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
10:13:24AM I AM THE YOUNG GUY ON THE TEAM.
10:13:27AM THESE ARE THE FOUNDERS.
10:13:29AM I AM IN MY FOURTH YEAR.
10:13:32AM I JUST WANT TO SAY A FEW THINGS.
10:13:34AM FIRST, I AM EXTREMELY -- AS A CITIZEN AND AS A VOLUNTEER, I
10:13:39AM AM EXTREMELY HUMBLED AND HONORED TO SERVE ALONGSIDE SUCH
10:13:44AM ELSE STEAMED ACCIDENTS SUCH AS MR. AQUIL AND DR. COLLINS.
10:13:48AM I WILL JUST TELL YOU -- AND I WANT YOU TO TAKE THIS AS
10:13:52AM FEEDBACK, THEY ARE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES, LIFE EXPERIENCES AND
10:13:57AM ACUMEN LEND AN UNMEASURABLE PERSPECTIVE AND IMPACT, POSITIVE
10:14:04AM IMPACT, ON THIS BOARD.
10:14:06AM YOU CAN REST ASSURED THEY LEAD A GROUP OF DEDICATED
10:14:10AM VOLUNTEER CITIZENS IN OUR GREAT CITY THAT ARE VERY ATTUNED
10:14:16AM AND SENSITIZED TO NOT ONLY THE SOCIAL ISSUES OF THE DAY, BUT
10:14:22AM THEIR IMPARTIALITY OF JUDGMENT TRANSCENDS TO THE POINT WHERE
10:14:27AM WE CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN.
10:14:31AM AND THAT, I BELIEVE, IS THE POWER OF THIS COMMITTEE.
10:14:34AM THE SECOND THING I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T THANK OUR
10:14:38AM CITY ATTORNEYS.
10:14:39AM MISS CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE AND THEY ARE UNHERALDED AND PULL
10:14:51AM MY BUTT OUT OF THE FIRES ON PROCEDURES AND EDUCATE ME OF THE
10:14:55AM WAYS OF THE WORLD.
10:14:55AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
10:14:57AM VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
10:14:58AM DEDICATED SERVANTS, PUBLIC SERVANTS.
10:15:02AM THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY AND GIVE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON
10:15:06AM ONE OF THE MANY CHANGES WE EXPERIENCED WITH REGARD TO OUR
10:15:09AM INTERACTION WITH THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
10:15:11AM HAND THIS IS -- THE CHAIR ALLUDED TO IT.
10:15:14AM THE ACTIVE ROLE IN THE INTERVIEWING PROCESS FOR OUR
10:15:18AM CANDIDATES.
10:15:18AM THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND I SHARED WITH A PERSONAL
10:15:22AM PERSPECTIVE.
10:15:22AM SERVED IN THE MILITARY FOR OVER THREE DECADES.
10:15:25AM HAVING SAT ON NUMEROUS ASSESSMENT BOARDS WHERE THEY ARE
10:15:28AM ASSESSING PEOPLE FOR CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY.
10:15:31AM THAT WHAT THIS BOARD DOES.
10:15:33AM I AM VERY ENCOURAGED.
10:15:35AM AND I PARTICIPATED AS THEY HAVE ON SEVERAL OF THESE BOARDS.
10:15:38AM AND I LISTEN WITH INTENT, THE TYPE OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE
10:15:43AM BEING ASKED BY TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
10:15:45AM IT IS NOT THE TYPICAL ROTE -- WHAT DOES SCRIPTURE, LINE AND
10:15:51AM VERSE SAY IN THIS POLICY.
10:15:53AM IT IS YOU ARE THIS.
10:15:54AM HE IS THAT.
10:15:55AM YOU ARE IN THIS SITUATION.
10:15:56AM NOW WHAT DO YOU DO.
10:15:57AM AND THEN WHEN -- INEVITABLY WHEN A CANDIDATE WILL GIVE A --
10:16:02AM A SCHOOL BOOK SOLUTION ANSWER WHICH IS GREAT, THEN THE
10:16:06AM INTERVIEWING BOARD WILL THEN GO TO THE SECOND DEGREE AND TO
10:16:09AM THE THIRD DEGREE, TO THE POINT WHERE THEY HAVE LITERALLY
10:16:12AM TESTING THAT CANDIDATE'S INTEGRITY AND THEIR CHARACTER.
10:16:15AM I THINK THAT -- THAT IS IMPORTANT.
10:16:17AM BECAUSE IN THIS CITY, THAT IS WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR CITIZENS
10:16:25AM AND WHAT WE DEMAND FROM OUR POLICE.
10:16:26AM EVEN MORE SO, THE COMMUNICATIONS THAT THIS BOARD HAS
10:16:29AM PROVIDED NOW AS A CONDUIT, AS A CONNECTIVE TISSUE BETWEEN
10:16:36AM OUR COMMUNITY, OUR CITY COUNCIL, OUR MAYOR, OUR TPD AND THE
10:16:40AM FOLKS THAT LIVE IN THIS GREAT CITY I THINK CANNOT BE
10:16:43AM EMPHASIZED EVEN MORE.
10:16:47AM I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
10:16:48AM KIND OF A PERSPECTIVE OF THE SITTING MEMBER OF THE
10:16:51AM COMMITTEE.
10:16:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:16:54AM DR. COLLINS, ANYTHING?
10:16:57AM >> I AM ACTUALLY HERE -- GOOD MORNING TO THE COUNCIL, TO THE
10:17:00AM COMMUNITY, AND TO MY -- YOU ANY BUDDY OVER HERE.
10:17:04AM I DID NOT COME TO SPEAK.
10:17:07AM I CAME TO SUPPORT.
10:17:08AM BUT YOU CAN'T ASK FOR MEAL TO COME TO THE MIC.
10:17:13AM THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING.
10:17:14AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE CITIZENS REVIEW
10:17:17AM BOARD WHICH WAS NECESSARY IN OUR CITY.
10:17:19AM I AM BLESSED TO BE GOING INTO THE END OF MY SECOND TERM AS
10:17:23AM ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS.
10:17:25AM AND WHILE GONE, I WILL STILL MONITOR THEM.
10:17:29AM SIT IN SOME OF THEIR MEETINGS.
10:17:30AM AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE TO REALLY WATCH THE THINGS THAT HAVE
10:17:34AM BEEN DONE FOR ALMOST EIGHT TO NINE YEARS.
10:17:37AM WE OFTEN DO NOT COMPLAIN.
10:17:39AM WE WANT TO SERVE THE CITIZENS.
10:17:41AM WE WANT THE CITIZENS TO UNDERSTAND THE CITIZENS REVIEW
10:17:45AM BOARD.
10:17:45AM IF NO NOTHING ELSE, NOT ONLY ENCOURAGING BOARD MEMBERS OR IN
10:17:52AM PERSON.
10:17:52AM WE WILL ALSO TRY TO ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY AND I WANT TOP
10:17:55AM GIVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE COMMUNITY PEOPLE WHO
10:17:57AM CONSTANTLY CALL ME AND TELL ME WHETHER WE DID A GREAT JOB OR
10:18:01AM WE DIDN'T DO A GREAT JOB, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SIT IN THE
10:18:05AM CHAMBER AND THEY WATCH US.
10:18:06AM I MEAN FROM LEGAL PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
10:18:08AM HEY, YOU GUYS DID A GOOD ONE ON THAT ONE.
10:18:11AM WE ARE REALLY GLAD.
10:18:12AM THANK YOU.
10:18:13AM PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE CITIZEN REVIEW AND MY HONOR
10:18:18AM AND I DITTO THE CHAIR AND THE VICE-CHAIR.
10:18:20AM I JUST WANTED TO BE A SERVANT AND I ENJOYED ALMOST TWO TERMS
10:18:24AM OF DOING JUST THAT.
10:18:25AM THANK YOU.
10:18:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DR. COLLINS.
10:18:29AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:18:30AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN TO THE CHAIRMAN
10:18:33AM AND THE VICE-CHAIRMAN AND THE COMMITTEE.
10:18:35AM AND THE PRESENTATION WAS EXCELLENT, FROM ONE TO SEVEN, TABLE
10:18:38AM OF CONTENTS.
10:18:39AM YOU WENT THROUGH EACH SECTION AND AN EXPLANATION OF SECTION
10:18:43AM ONE, TWO.
10:18:43AM VERY EASY READING.
10:18:45AM AND ONE THAT IS VERY PRECISE.
10:18:48AM WHAT WAS SAID OF THE NEW PEOPLE, THOSE THAT ARE THERE
10:18:50AM ALREADY IS THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS WITH A CONFERENCE CALL.
10:18:55AM UP TALKED TO THEM EYE TO EYE AND YOU GOT A FEELING WHAT THEY
10:19:01AM STAND FOR.
10:19:02AM WE HAVE TO THINK OF WHAT HAPPENED.
10:19:03AM WE CAN DISCUSS EVERYTHING AFTER IT HAPPENED, BUT THESE
10:19:06AM INDIVIDUALS HAVE TO THE TO BE TRAINED TO DO SOMETHING IN
10:19:08AM WHAT, A GENTLEMAN WHO RETIRED 30 YEARS IN THE MILITARY
10:19:12AM SERVICE.
10:19:13AM AND 100th OF A SECOND THEY SAY YAY OR NAY TO SOMETHING
10:19:18AM WHATEVER THAT IS AND THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT.
10:19:21AM YOU AND I CAN DISCUSS IT FOREVER, BUT OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S
10:19:26AM TRAINING AND ABILITY TO SERVE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL THAT WE
10:19:28AM LOOK FOR IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:19:31AM THIS WHOLE COUNTRY, I HOPE THEY HAD INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOU
10:19:34AM RUNNING THOSE BOARDS AND CITIZENS BECAUSE I THINK YOU HAVE
10:19:36AM DONE A FANTASTIC JOB.
10:19:38AM I AM SORRY, BUT I WILL MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR YOUR
10:19:41AM SEPTEMBER HEARING.
10:19:42AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:19:43AM APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
10:19:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:19:47AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:19:49AM AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE.
10:19:52AM FOR ME, THE IDEA OF A CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD IS SOMETHING
10:19:55AM THAT IS ABOUT GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY.
10:19:56AM AND I -- I REMEMBER WHEN I RAN IN 2016 FOR CITY COUNCIL,
10:20:01AM THE CRB WALLS A HOTLY CONTESTED INTEREST AS IT IS TODAY AND
10:20:06AM WILL CONTINUE TO BE BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE -- OF THE
10:20:09AM ISSUE BEFORE US, BUT I ALWAYS SAID FOR ME, THE CRB IS
10:20:13AM CONSISTENT WITH THE VALUE OFF OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND AS
10:20:15AM AMERICAN AS JAMES MADISON AND ABOUT GOVERNMENT
10:20:18AM ACCOUNTABILITY.
10:20:18AM THAT'S IT.
10:20:19AM LAW ENFORCEMENT IS -- IS A PART OF GOVERNMENT THAT HAS
10:20:23AM INTERACTIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY.
10:20:24AM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS OVERSIGHT ON THAT BEEN
10:20:27AM RIGHT.
10:20:28AM THAT OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T MEAN THAT HAD YOU DON'T SUPPORT THE
10:20:31AM POLICE, OBVIOUSLY, BUT HAVING COMMUNITY RELATIONS IS A VERY,
10:20:35AM VERY GOOD THING.
10:20:35AM WE ARE VERY BLESSED.
10:20:37AM WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED NOT JUST WITH THE THREE FOLKS THAT ARE
10:20:40AM UP THERE, OF WHOM I THINK THE WORLD OBVIOUSLY.
10:20:44AM THOSE MY GOOD FRIEND, LINCOLN TAMAYO, THE HEAD OF ACADEMY
10:20:51AM PREP, AN AMAZING, AMAZING MAN.
10:20:53AM JUDGE E.J. SALCINES USED TO SERVE.
10:21:00AM IRENE GUY.
10:21:01AM DEMETRIA.
10:21:06AM SHE HAS SERVED IN THE PAST.
10:21:09AM SO MANY GREAT FOLKS AND BLESSED TO HAVE SO MANY CITIZENS
10:21:12AM AND TAMPANIOS ON THIS BOARD.
10:21:16AM WE ARE REALLY IN YOUR DEBT.
10:21:17AM ANYTHING WE CAN TO DO MAKE THE CRB BETTER, ETC.
10:21:21AM THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PROPOSED CHANGES I SUPPORTED.
10:21:24AM SOME I HAVE NOT SUPPORTED.
10:21:26AM I TAKE EVERY ONE OF THEM ONE BY ONE AND WE HAVE TO BE
10:21:31AM DEPENDENT ON THAT ISSUE TO HAVE A BALANCING TEST OF THE
10:21:34AM MISSION OF THE CRB AND WHAT NOT.
10:21:36AM BUT, AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORDS TODAY.
10:21:39AM AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
10:21:40AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:21:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:21:43AM ANYBODY ELSE?
10:21:45AM ALL RIGHT, YES, MA'AM, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:21:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ALSO WANT TO ECHO WHAT COUNCILMAN VIERA
10:21:52AM SAID, THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT BOARD.
10:21:55AM AND I WANT YOU ALL FOR SERVING AND OBVIOUSLY TAKING THIS
10:21:59AM INCREDIBLY SERIOUSLY.
10:22:02AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:22:03AM I LOVE HEARING.
10:22:07AM HOW YOUR ROLE NOW.
10:22:08AM PARTICIPATING IN THE -- IN THE -- THE CHOOSING OF OFFICERS
10:22:21AM AND HOW THAT HAS IMPACTED YOU AND THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND
10:22:25AM ABOUT TPD AND AS COUNCILMAN VIERA IS SAID ABOUT
10:22:29AM ACCOUNTABILITY AND OPENNESS AND I THINK IT IS WONDERFUL THAT
10:22:32AM YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN MORE AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO FIND THAT
10:22:34AM OPENNESS.
10:22:35AM SO JUST THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:22:38AM I APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE.
10:22:39AM AND THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT BOARD.
10:22:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:22:43AM YES, MA'AM.
10:22:44AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
10:22:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO DR. COLLINS
10:22:50AM WHO SCHOOLED ME DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND PROVIDED ME A WEALTH
10:22:54AM OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE CRB SO I CAN HAVE A BETTER
10:22:57AM UNDERSTANDING, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE IN THIS
10:22:59AM ROLE.
10:22:59AM THANK YOU.
10:23:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:23:01AM AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR BEING
10:23:04AM HERE AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
10:23:06AM AND THE ATTORNEYS AS WELL THAT ARE THERE WORKING OVERTIME.
10:23:11AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
10:23:12AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:23:12AM AT THIS TIME, WE WILL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:23:15AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA THAT IS NOT A
10:23:18AM PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE COME UP TO IT THE LECTERN.
10:23:20AM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
10:23:21AM STATE YOUR NAME.
10:23:22AM AND REMEMBER THAT AFTER THIS PUBLIC COMMENT, WE ARE GOING TO
10:23:26AM ITEM 54, BECAUSE OF THE SCHEDULE AND THE INTERPRETER THAT WE
10:23:31AM TALKED ABOUT AT THE BEGINNING.
10:23:32AM YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
10:23:34AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:23:40AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:23:43AM I'M GOING TO HIT ON TWO THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED THIS
10:23:46AM MORNING.
10:23:47AM I AM ALWAYS A BIG FAN OF CITY STAFF AND THE ADMINISTRATION
10:23:51AM -- THE ADMINISTRATORS WHO WERE IN HERE THIS MORNING.
10:23:53AM I HAVE DEALT WITH ALMOST ALL OF THEM PERSONALLY, AND ALMOST
10:23:57AM EXCLUSIVELY WILL I SAY NOTHING BUT GREAT THINGS ABOUT THEM.
10:24:03AM SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I GIVE A HEADS UP ON THAT.
10:24:06AM ACCELA IS ON THE SCHEDULE LATER ON TODAY.
10:24:09AM ACCELA IS NOT FIXED.
10:24:10AM JC HUTCHINS DID TRAINING WITH US WHICH IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL
10:24:16AM BUT STILL A GOAT ROPE.
10:24:17AM NOT SOMETHING THAT WORKS PERFECTLY.
10:24:19AM NOT SOMETHING THAT IS FUNCTIONAL.
10:24:21AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GET -- WE ARE NOT -- THIS
10:24:24AM IS NOT CAKE.
10:24:25AM IT MIGHT BE BATTER, BUT IT IS NOT CAKE.
10:24:29AM THIS IS NEXT TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:24:31AM THIS PROPERTY IS OWNED BY TECO.
10:24:35AM IT IS PART OF A SUBSTATION.
10:24:37AM NOW, WHEN THE CITY OF TAMPA APPROVED THE BUILDING PERMIT,
10:24:43AM ALL OF THE PERMITS, THE MITIGATION -- THESE ARE MITIGATION
10:24:48AM TREES, OKAY.
10:24:49AM IT WAS ALL DONE WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:24:53AM MAKES SENSE, RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY ARE BUILDING SOMETHING AND
10:24:55AM THEY HAVE TO ASK FOR PERMITS, RIGHT.
10:24:57AM BUT THESE BUSHES ARE DEAD.
10:25:01AM THEY HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR OVER A YEAR.
10:25:04AM I HAVE TEN-FOOT TREES LAYING ON THEIR SIDE.
10:25:07AM I HAVE -- LET ME SEE, I WROTE IT DOWN.
10:25:10AM I CALLED TECO FOUR TIMES.
10:25:12AM I E-MAILED MR. JOSEPH AT TECO REPEATEDLY FIVE OR SIX TIMES.
10:25:17AM I HAVE TALKED TO THE LAWN CARE WORKERS WHO GO THERE TO MOW
10:25:20AM THE GRASS, REPEATEDLY.
10:25:23AM I CALLED THAT COMPANY AND I SAID WHO DO YOU TALK TO AT TECO.
10:25:26AM I HAVE REPEATEDLY FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW TRIED TO GET TECO TO
10:25:30AM DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
10:25:31AM I FINALLY GAVE UP.
10:25:33AM THREW MY HANDS IN THE AIR THE OTHER DAY AND SENT AN E-MAIL
10:25:37AM AND PLACED A NEIGHBORHOOD ENFORCEMENT COMPLAINT FOR IT.
10:25:40AM NEIGHBORHOOD ENFORCEMENT TOLD ME THAT WE SHOULD TAKE UP
10:25:43AM THOSE BUSHES OURSELVES.
10:25:44AM THAT IS NOT OUR PROPERTY.
10:25:46AM NOT MY NEIGHBORHOOD'S PROPERTY.
10:25:48AM YOU CAN'T GO ON OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY AND PULL IT UP
10:25:54AM BECAUSE THEY ARE DEAD AND A FIRE HAZARD.
10:25:57AM ALL YOU HAVE IS SOMEONE FLICK A CIGARETTE OUT THE WINDOW AND
10:26:00AM WE WILL HAVE A FIRE.
10:26:01AM THE CITY OF TAMPA'S PROBLEM BECAUSE THE FIRE TRUCKS COME
10:26:03AM FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:26:04AM I GOT A CALL FROM MR. AMOS THIS MORNING -- I DEBATED OF
10:26:08AM COMING DOWN HERE.
10:26:09AM MR. AMOS CALLED ME AND SAID REQUEST WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION
10:26:13AM HERE.
10:26:14AM I ASKED HIM.
10:26:14AM HE SAID YOU NEED TO GO TO THIS PUBLIC UTILITY.
10:26:17AM I AM FINE WITH THAT.
10:26:18AM BUT I ALSO ASKED HIM TO PUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENFORCEMENT
10:26:22AM COMPLAINT, BECAUSE ONCE THE CITY PUTS IT IN WRITING, THEN --
10:26:26AM THERE IS A PAPER TRAIL.
10:26:27AM HE SAID WE CAN'T DO THAT.
10:26:29AM AND I -- I THINK THAT IS CRAP.
10:26:31AM IF THEY HAVE TO FILE FOR A BUILDING PERMIT, WHY DON'T -- WHY
10:26:35AM CAN THEY NOT BE FINED JUST THE SAME AS EVERYBODY ELSE.
10:26:38AM BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, IF THE FIRE GETS STARTED, THEN WE
10:26:42AM STILL HAVE A PROBLEM.
10:26:43AM SO TELL ME HOW THIS WORKS.
10:26:45AM PAUSE I WENT THROUGH ALL THE PROPER CHANNELS.
10:26:48AM AND I AM BEING TOLD THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA WILL NOT HELP US.
10:26:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL REACH OUT TO TECO.
10:26:53AM I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS PROPERTY IS AT, AND I WILL TALK TO
10:26:56AM THEM.
10:26:57AM AND SEE ABOUT GETTING IT TAKEN CARE OF.
10:26:59AM >> THANK YOU.
10:27:00AM APPRECIATE YOU.
10:27:01AM HAVE A GOOD DAY.
10:27:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:27:03AM YES, SIR.
10:27:04AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:27:09AM I WANT TO SAY UHURU, UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
10:27:16AM WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE NEED TO THINK ABOUT OUR FREEDOM.
10:27:20AM ONE THING IN LIFE, EASY TO MOLEST LITTLE CHILDREN AND GET
10:27:23AM AWAY WITH, BEEN PEDOPHILE ALL OVER THE WORLD GETTING AWAY
10:27:28AM WITH IT.
10:27:28AM IT IS EASY TO MOLEST LITTLE CHILDREN AND GET AWAY WITH IT.
10:27:32AM IT IS PEDOPHILE SITTING RIGHT IN THIS ROOM THAT HAVE
10:27:36AM MOLESTED LITTLE CHILDREN AND GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT.
10:27:39AM AND THIS IS HOW WHITE PEOPLE TREAT US AS AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:27:43AM THEY THINK OUR MENTALITY IS THAT OF A LITTLE CHILD.
10:27:47AM OF LITTLE CHILDREN.
10:27:48AM SO THEY MOLEST US AND GET AWAY WITH IT JUST LIKE WITH THIS
10:27:52AM POLICE REVIEW BOARD THEY CAME UP WITH.
10:27:54AM NO BLACK PERSON CARE ABOUT THAT.
10:27:56AM WE TRIED IT, AND IT DIDN'T WORK.
10:27:58AM NO BLOCK PERSON CARE ABOUT SPEED BUMPS AND PARKS AND
10:28:02AM RECREATION.
10:28:03AM OLD PEOPLE COMING DOWN TALKING ABOUT PARKS AND RECREATION.
10:28:06AM WHAT BLACK PEOPLE CARE ABOUT IS OUR REPARATIONS.
10:28:09AM THIS CITY OWE US EACH AND EVERY BLACK PERSON IN THE CITY OF
10:28:13AM TAMPA AT LEAST $3 MILLION IN REPARATIONS.
10:28:15AM AND THAT IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT.
10:28:17AM ALL THIS NONESSENTIALS Y'ALL TALK ABOUT, ALL THIS NONSENSE,
10:28:21AM HOMELESSNESS AND ALL THIS OTHER GARBAGE THAT YOU ALL TALK
10:28:24AM ABOUT, POLICE VIOLENCE AND ALL THIS STUFF, DON'T NOBODY CARE
10:28:27AM ABOUT THAT.
10:28:27AM DON'T NOBODY REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT.
10:28:30AM WE CARE ABOUT OUR REPARATIONS.
10:28:31AM WE HAVE TO PUT WHITE PEOPLE ON NOTICE THAT WE WANT OUR
10:28:35AM REPARATIONS.
10:28:37AM THAT OUR PARENTS AND US DIDN'T WORK FOR FREE AND UNDERPAID
10:28:41AM AND ALL THIS NONSENSE AND THE WHITE FOLKS GET AWAY WITH IT
10:28:44AM AND THEY TALK OF THE GREAT CITY THEY ARE BUILDING.
10:28:46AM NO, WE WANT OUR REPARATIONS, $3 MILLION PER PERSON.
10:28:50AM $3 MILLION PER PERSON RIGHT HERE IN THIS CITY.
10:28:54AM THAT IS THE ONLY THING BLACK PEOPLE GOT TO CARE ABOUT.
10:28:57AM ALL THIS OTHER NONSENSE THAT YOU TALK ABOUT, WE DO NOT CARE
10:29:01AM ABOUT.
10:29:02AM WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WE THINK OF THE POLICE REVIEW BOARD
10:29:06AM NEXT TIME A GEORGE FLOYD COME AROUND.
10:29:08AM OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WILL SHOW YOU EXACTLY WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
10:29:10AM IT.
10:29:11AM YOU ALL CAN'T KEEP TRICKING US, MAN.
10:29:13AM YOU ALL GOT TO TIGHTEN UP.
10:29:16AM I WOULD LIKE THE CITY OF TAMPA TO REMOVE EVERY CODE
10:29:19AM ENFORCEMENT VIOLATION AGAINST ANY PROPERTY I OWN IN THE CITY
10:29:24AM OF TAMPA.
10:29:24AM THEY STARTED OUT WITH VICKY PRATT.
10:29:26AM AND THEY PUT THESE LITTLE CODE ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE ON YOU AND
10:29:30AM START CITING YOU FOR ANYTHING.
10:29:31AM BLACK PEOPLE CAN'T RESIST AGAINST THAT.
10:29:34AM WE DON'T HAVE ATTORNEYS.
10:29:35AM WE DON'T HAVE MONEY.
10:29:37AM WE DON'T HAVE NONE OF THAT.
10:29:38AM YOU SEE OUR KIDS IN A NICE CAR AND PUT THE POLICE BEHIND
10:29:41AM THEM AND DO ALL SORT OF CRAZINESS.
10:29:44AM THAT HAS TO STOP.
10:29:45AM THAT HAS TO STOP.
10:29:47AM AND WE TALK ABOUT RECONCILIATION AND ALL THIS OTHER
10:29:50AM NONSENSE.
10:29:51AM WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO ARE RECONCILIATION.
10:29:54AM BUT WHO IS GOING TO DO THE RECONCILIATION WHAT THEY DID TO
10:29:58AM ORLANDO GUDES?
10:29:59AM WHO IS GOING TO DO THAT?
10:30:00AM WHO IS GOING TO DO HOW THEY CHARACTERIZE AN AFRICAN MAN IS
10:30:05AM AN INSULT TO ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:30:07AM AN INSULT TO ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE.
10:30:10AM WHAT WE WANT IS OUR REPARATIONS, $3 MILLION PER PERSON IN
10:30:13AM THIS CITY OF TAMPA.
10:30:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:30:16AM NEXT SPEAKER.
10:30:19AM YES, SIR.
10:30:20AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:30:21AM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
10:30:22AM >> MY NAME IS DAVID CORNELL, A VETERAN.
10:30:27AM THE REASON I'M HERE IS BECAUSE OF HART.
10:30:31AM AND HART PLUS AND THE WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY OF HART.
10:30:36AM ALSO, THAT HART PLUS IS RECOGNIZED BY CARROLL WEST COAST
10:30:41AM TAXI.
10:30:42AM THEY HAVE IT ON A RECORDING THAT I HEARD ON THE PHONE.
10:30:44AM ON THE 14th FLOOR OF THE DMV NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE,
10:30:51AM NANCY MILAN TAX ASSESSMENT OFFICE AND ALSO OFF OF
10:30:56AM HILLSBOROUGH, NO RECOGNITION ON THEIR TELEVISION MONITORS
10:31:02AM THAT HART EXISTS SPECIFICALLY AT MARION TRANSFER
10:31:06AM STATION.
10:31:07AM THIS IS A TRAVESTY, ALSO AT HILLSBOROUGH TAX ASSESSMENT
10:31:11AM OFFICE.
10:31:11AM THAT'S IT.
10:31:12AM THANK YOU.
10:31:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:31:15AM >> I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER TO HAVE THOSE ON THOSE TELEVISION
10:31:18AM MONITORS SPECIFICALLY DOWNTOWN ON THE 14th FLOOR, THANK YOU.
10:31:22AM >>LUIS VIERA: MR. CHAIR.
10:31:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:31:26AM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM CHAIRMAN OF THE HART BOARD.
10:31:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HE WILL MEET YOU OUTSIDE.
10:31:31AM HE IS THE CHAIRMAN OF HART.
10:31:33AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SEEING ME AGAIN.
10:31:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
10:31:36AM NEXT SPEAKER.
10:31:38AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:31:39AM HERE AGAIN FOR ANOTHER MEMORIAL EVENT THAT IS -- THAT
10:31:42AM OCCURRED BECAUSE OF THE CITY BUYING BACK THAT MEMORIAL PARK
10:31:47AM CEMETERY.
10:31:48AM WHERE HE ALL DAY WHEN IT COMES TO VETERANS IT DOESN'T MATTER
10:31:51AM OF RAILS, COLOR, GENDER, YOU KNOW WE ALL ARE VETERANS, BUT
10:31:56AM BACK IN 1923, IT WASN'T.
10:31:59AM IF YOU ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU HAD TO GO TO A
10:32:02AM AFRICAN-AMERICAN CEMETERY.
10:32:04AM SO GLAD THE CITY PASSED THIS, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
10:32:06AM THERE IS AN ACTUAL MEMORIAL DEDICATED TO FLORIDA NEGROS,
10:32:12AM WORLD WAR VETERANS IN A CEMETERY THAT I HAD AN EVENT
10:32:15AM LAST YEAR FOR.
10:32:16AM IT WAS DEDICATED MAY 30, 1923.
10:32:19AM BACK IN THAT TIME, THEY RECOGNIZED THAT TRYING TO SERVE AND
10:32:24AM HONOR VETERAN WHO DIED BY SUICIDE.
10:32:25AM VETERAN COUNCIL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH GAMMA BETA SIGMA, 100th
10:32:34AM YEAR CEREMONY DEDICATION 11:00 ON THE 30th AT THE MEMORIAL
10:32:40AM PARK CEMETERY -- THE MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY.
10:32:42AM WE ARE INVITING YOU.
10:32:44AM THANK YOU FOR -- FOR PAYING THAT FOR THAT CEMETERY.
10:32:47AM THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO DO.
10:32:49AM I WANT TO MENTION REAL QUICKLY ONE OF OUR GUEST SPEAKERS IS
10:32:52AM BEHIND ME, NORENE COPELAND MILLER WHOSE FATHER IS BURIED IN
10:32:57AM THAT CEMETERY.
10:32:58AM THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO KEEP THAT CEMETERY.
10:33:01AM I AM PROUD TO HAVE HER SINCE SHE IS CONNECTED WITH THAT TO
10:33:04AM BE ONE OF THE GUEST SPEAKERS.
10:33:06AM THANK YOU FOR LUIS VIERA FOR HELPING ME MOVE THIS THING
10:33:09AM ALONG AND HOPE YOU MAKE IT ON THE 30th OF MAY, 11 A.M.
10:33:13AM AND WE CALL IT FOR VETERAN COUNCIL OF VETERANS, WE CALL IT A
10:33:17AM PATH TO HEALING.
10:33:18AM AT THAT PATH TO HEALING AND MAKE THOSE VETERANS WHO DIED
10:33:21AM BACK THEN.
10:33:22AM MILITARY WHO DIED BACK THEN CAN GET THE HONOR THEY DESERVE
10:33:26AM TODAY.
10:33:27AM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME AND HOPEFULLY SEE YOU ON THE
10:33:33AM 30th OF MAY.
10:33:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:33:35AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
10:33:37AM YES, SIR.
10:33:38AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:33:39AM I AM REVEREND JAMES T. BOLDEN, PASTOR OF THE MOUNT ZION
10:33:47AM AFRICAN METHODIST MUNICIPAL CHURCH HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:33:52AM I RESIDE IN MANATEE COUNTY IN BRADENTON.
10:33:54AM I RISE TO THANK YOU FOR ITEM NUMBER 38 ON YOUR AGENDA.
10:34:05AM IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
10:34:07AM I WANT TO THANK THOSE OF HOW HAVE COME TO VISIT THAT SITE TO
10:34:24AM WELCOME THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL PARK.
10:34:30AM I AM NOT TOO FAMILIAR HOW THINGS ARE DONE IN THE BIG CITY OF
10:34:33AM TAMPA.
10:34:33AM I SERVED ON THE CITY COUNCIL OF BRADENTON.
10:34:36AM OUR MEETINGS WERE USUALLY OVER BY NOW.
10:34:38AM WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS MUCH BUSINESS.
10:34:40AM AND I HAVE TO GET BACK TO BRADENTON.
10:34:45AM SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.
10:34:47AM I AM NOT QUITE SURE HOW THE AGENDA WORKS IN TERMS OF WHETHER
10:34:50AM THIS IS A CONSENT ITEM OR WHETHER THERE ARE QUESTIONS THAT
10:34:54AM ANYONE MIGHT HAVE.
10:34:54AM BUT I DID WANT TO AT LEAST FOR MY MEMBERS TO LET THEM KNOW
10:35:01AM THAT I REALLY WAS HERE AND THAT I AND.
10:35:07AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:35:08AM WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE WORK WE ARE GOING TO DO TOGETHER TO
10:35:11AM MAKE THE PORT TAMPA HISTORY BE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT FOR
10:35:18AM GOTTEN AND TO MAKE THE PORT TAMPA COMMUNITY A COMMUNITY THAT
10:35:22AM EMBRACES THE DIVERSITY THAT IS THERE, THE EQUITY THAT HAS
10:35:26AM BEEN SHOWN BY THIS COUNCIL, AND THE INCLUSION THAT WE SEE
10:35:31AM WITH THE CHANGING OF COMPLEXION, NO PUN INTENDED, TO THAT
10:35:39AM PARTICULAR AREA TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:35:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:35:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IS THERE A WAY TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE THAT ITEM
10:35:46AM WHILE HE IS HERE.
10:35:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHY NOT.
10:35:48AM MR. SHELBY CAN'T HAVE US SO WE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.
10:35:51AM I AM KIDDING, I AM KIDDING.
10:35:53AM LET'S VOTE ON THIS WHILE YOU ARE HERE.
10:35:54AM I KNOW YOU CAME FROM A LONG WAY.
10:35:57AM IF WE CAN JUST PULL ITEM NUMBER 38.
10:36:00AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED TO PULL 38.
10:36:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
10:36:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TO VOTE ON IT.
10:36:04AM SO YOU KNOW WE APPROVED IT WHILE YOU ARE HERE.
10:36:06AM A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND SECOND FROM
10:36:10AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON --
10:36:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: TO PULL IT.
10:36:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SORRY.
10:36:13AM WE PULLED IT.
10:36:14AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE ITEM NUMBER 38?
10:36:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: SURE, MOVE ITEM 38.
10:36:21AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
10:36:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:36:25AM SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:36:26AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:36:27AM OPPOSED.
10:36:27AM CONGRATULATIONS.
10:36:28AM >> I WOULD -- I WOULD JUMP UP AND DOWN BUT IT WOULD BE
10:36:33AM UNSEEMLY FOR REVEREND GOLDEN TO DO THAT.
10:36:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
10:36:37AM YOU ARE NAMING IT FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
10:36:41AM >> YES, MA'AM, THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL PARK.
10:36:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MEMORIAL PARK, THANK YOU.
10:36:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ON THE PROPERTY WAS THE SCHOOL.
10:36:50AM >> SO SORRY.
10:36:51AM IT IS NAMED THAT BALLS THAT WAS A SCHOOL.
10:36:53AM THE SCHOOL FOR NEGROS AT THAT TIME WAS NAMED FREDERICK
10:37:00AM DOUGLASS SCHOOL.
10:37:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:37:03AM >>BILL CARLSON: REVEREND, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU AND
10:37:07AM YOUR PARISHIONERS FOR KEEPING THE STORIE ALIVE OF THE
10:37:10AM CHURCH AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN OF PORT TAMPA.
10:37:13AM AN IMPORTANT HERITAGE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE
10:37:16AM KNOW ABOUT.
10:37:16AM AND APPRECIATE YOU DRIVING ALL THE WAY UP FROM BRADENTON TO
10:37:20AM DO THIS AND TO GO TO MANY OTHER EVENTS.
10:37:22AM YOU HAVE GREAT MEMBERS WHO ARE WALKING HISTORY BOOKS, AND WE
10:37:28AM NEED TO CAPTURE THAT HISTORY AND SUPPORT YOU IN WHAT YOU ARE
10:37:30AM DOING SO FOLKS KNOW THE IMPORTANT ROLE.
10:37:32AM >> THANK YOU.
10:37:33AM FIRST OFF FOR COMING.
10:37:36AM AND I THINK I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T PRESERVE FOR
10:37:39AM PROSPERITY THE NAME OF SISTER CLARA GLEN.
10:37:43AM SHE IS THE MEMBER OF THE MOUNT ZION FAMILY THAT LET ME KNOW
10:37:49AM EXACTLY WHERE THE SCHOOL WAS AND TOOK ME OVER AFTER WE
10:37:54AM CLEARED IT OFF AND SHOWED ME THE FOUNDATION TO THE BUILDING.
10:37:58AM SO I DO WANT THE RECORD TO REFLECT THAT I'M HERE TODAY
10:38:06AM BECAUSE OF THE MEMORY OF SISTER GLEN WHO IS ALIVE AND WITH
10:38:10AM US IN THE CONGREGATION.
10:38:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:38:13AM NEXT SPEAKER.
10:38:15AM >> THANK YOU, REVEREND.
10:38:18AM >> Y'ALL HAVE A GOOD DAY.
10:38:19AM I WILL JUMP UP OUTSIDE.
10:38:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
10:38:22AM AND IT TWO MORE PEOPLE REGISTER $ON LINE AND WE WILL TAKE
10:38:25AM THE REVIEW HEARING AND THE INTERPRETER AND THE TIMING FOR
10:38:28AM 10:30.
10:38:29AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:38:31AM STEVE MICHELINI.
10:38:32AM I'M HERE TO SPEAK OF THE ACCELA ISSUE.
10:38:34AM AND I WAS ASKED TO GIVE YOU SPECIFICS ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT
10:38:37AM ARE NOT WORKING.
10:38:39AM AND WHICH ONES ARE WORKING INTERMITTENTLY AND THEY INVOLVE
10:38:42AM THE SEARCH FUNCTIONS.
10:38:46AM WENT YOU PUT IN THE ADDRESS OR THE PROJECT NUMBER, IT IS NOT
10:38:50AM ALWAYS COMING UP, AND THE SYSTEM DOESN'T ALWAYS FIND YOU.
10:38:53AM SO IN A SYSTEM LIKE THIS, IT USED TO BE A LUXURY, AND NOW IT
10:38:57AM IS A NECESSITY.
10:38:58AM SO WE HAVE GOTTEN TO THE POINT THAT RUN RELIES ON THAT FOR
10:39:05AM SEARCHING OUT THE INFORMATION.
10:39:06AM AND IT IS NOT WORKING TO THE DEGREE IT SHOULD BE.
10:39:08AM IT IS INTERESTING -- I MEAN I AM GLAD THAT STAFF IS
10:39:12AM CONDUCTING THE TRAINING SESSIONS, AND I PLAN TO ATTEND ONE
10:39:16AM OF THEM, BUT IT IS LIKE A NEW CAR VERSUS AN OLD CAR.
10:39:20AM WHEN YOU GET IN THE OLD CAR, YOU TURN IT ON AND IT RUNS.
10:39:22AM YOU GET IN THE NEW CAR, IT HAS ALL KIND OF NEW FUNCTIONS AND
10:39:26AM ALL KINDS OF CAPABILITIES.
10:39:27AM YOU TURN IT ON AND IT GOES.
10:39:29AM THE ACCELA SYSTEM SHOULD BE THE SAME.
10:39:32AM SHOULD BE HAVING 90% RELIABILITY CONCERNING THESE SEARCH
10:39:36AM FUNCTIONS AND HOW DO YOU ACCESS YOUR RECORDS.
10:39:38AM ALL OF YOUR PERMITS.
10:39:40AM ALL OF YOUR APPLICATIONS.
10:39:42AM THEY CALL GO THROUGH ACCELA.
10:39:44AM WE ARE 100% DEPENDENT ON THAT SYSTEM WORKING AND FUNCTIONS
10:39:49AM CORRECTLY.
10:39:50AM I WILL ASK -- NOT THE CITY STAFF'S PROBLEM.
10:39:52AM I THINK IT IS THE SOFTWARE AND ACCELA FUNCTIONS PROBLEM.
10:39:57AM WE HAVE ASKED YOU BEFORE IN OCTOBER OF 2022, WE RECEIVED A
10:40:01AM MEMORANDUM SAYING WE WERE GOING TO GET THE SYSTEM FIX.
10:40:07AM JANUARY 2023, ANOTHER MEMORANDUM WE WILL GET THE SYSTEM
10:40:11AM FIXED, AND WE MEET REGULARLY WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND
10:40:14AM REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE -- FROM THE I.T. DEPARTMENT ABOUT
10:40:18AM IT -- ABOUT ACCELA AND TRYING TO GET IT FIXED.
10:40:21AM THEY NEED TO REALLY COMMIT THOSE RESOURCES FROM ACCELA TO
10:40:24AM FIX IT.
10:40:25AM AND I KNOW -- I AM SPEAKING FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE
10:40:30AM WHO HAVE -- THEY HAVE TO RELY ON THAT SYSTEM.
10:40:32AM AND SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HAVE COMMENTS COME OUT, THE COMMENTS
10:40:36AM COME BACK TO YOU AND YOU CAN'T ACCESS THE COMMENTS.
10:40:39AM SO IT DELAYS PROJECTS.
10:40:44AM IT DELAYS TIMING.
10:40:45AM PLACES YOU IN JEOPARDY OF SCHEDULING AND A NUMBER OF OTHER
10:40:48AM THINGS.
10:40:48AM SO THE SYSTEM, AS YOU SAID, IT IS GETTING BETTER.
10:40:52AM IT NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO BE WORKED ON AND CONTINUED TO BE
10:40:55AM FOCUSED ON TO MAKE IT THE BEST POSSIBLE SYSTEM.
10:40:58AM TAMPA WAS ONE OF THE FIRST COMMUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH
10:41:01AM ACCELA.
10:41:02AM WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY IN THERE.
10:41:04AM THERE AREN'T OTHER OPTIONS.
10:41:06AM SO I AM NOT SAYING GET RID OF ACCELA.
10:41:08AM GET IT FIXED, PLEASE.
10:41:10AM THANK YOU.
10:41:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:41:12AM YES, MA'AM.
10:41:13AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:41:17AM MY NAME IS NORENE COPELAND MILLER, 1911 EAST CHELSEA.
10:41:25AM HE WAS HERE THIS MORNING TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 57 ABOUT
10:41:29AM THE PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN, BECAUSE I WAS -- AS YOU ALL
10:41:33AM TALK ABOUT COMMUNICATION, IT WAS NOT VERY CLEAR AND PRECISE.
10:41:37AM IT IS BASICALLY WHEN WE TALK OF THE FAIR OAKS, WE NEVER --
10:41:43AM YOU WHEN THAT PROJECT WILL GET STARTED.
10:41:45AM I WAS HOPING TO BE HERE ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN.
10:41:48AM BUT AS THE GENTLEMAN BEFORE ME SAID, I NEVER HAVE BEEN HERE
10:41:52AM THIS LONG, SO I PROBABLY WILL MISS THIS PRESENTATION, BUT I
10:41:55AM DO WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE WORK THAT TOUGH DONE
10:41:59AM AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO.
10:42:03AM I AM GLAD THAT I WAS HERE WHEN I WAS LISTENING YOU,
10:42:08AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON TALKING OF RESET, PUSHING THE BUTTON AND
10:42:12AM ALL THAT, AND I AM HOPING TO DO THAT.
10:42:14AM WHEN I SAY GOOD MORNING TO ALL OF YOU, I'M HERE TO DO
10:42:18AM IT IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER.
10:42:19AM I HOPE THAT THINGS CHANGE AND THAT YOU WORK TOGETHER.
10:42:24AM BECAUSE YOU WORK TOGETHER WITH THE CEMETERY WITH THE MAY
10:42:27AM HAVE I DON'T REMEMBER AND ALL THAT.
10:42:27AM I THANK YOU FOR THAT PART.
10:42:29AM BUT THIS MORNING, I HAVE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE WAY I WAS
10:42:32AM TREATED BY ONE OF YOUR COUNCILMEMBERS THIS MORNING WHEN I
10:42:35AM SAID GOOD MORNING.
10:42:35AM AND I AM HOPING THEY LET THAT GO, IF THEY DON'T THEN WHAT I
10:42:41AM SAID BEFORE DURING THE CAMPAIGN SEASON IS TRUE.
10:42:43AM AND I AM GOING TO STAND ON THAT AND THIS MORNING HE
10:42:48AM CERTAINLY CONFIRMED WHAT I SAID ABOUT HIM WAS TRUE, BECAUSE
10:42:51AM HE WOULD NOT EVEN SAY GOOD MORNING AND ANYBODY CAN DO THAT
10:42:54AM IN A NICE WAY.
10:42:55AM I'M HERE BECAUSE I AM GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORK IN MY
10:42:58AM COMMUNITY WITH MY REPRESENTATIVE AND ALL OF YOU, BECAUSE YOU
10:43:02AM -- WE ARE YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
10:43:04AM WE ARE NOT HERE TO BE YOUR ENEMY.
10:43:06AM IT TAKES ALL OF US TO MAKE THIS CITY WORK.
10:43:09AM I WANT TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE YOU ALL.
10:43:11AM WE ARE HAVING A CLEANUP AT MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY ON THE
10:43:16AM 27th AND I HOPE YOU ALL ARE ABLE TO COME AND THANK
10:43:23AM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO BEFORE AND HE CAME OUT TO ONE OF THE
10:43:28AM CLEANUPS AND SUPPORTED US.
10:43:29AM AS MR. WILLIAMS SAID OF THE 30th, WE ARE HOPING THAT YOU ALL
10:43:34AM WILL BE THERE AS WELL.
10:43:35AM WHEN YOU COME IN THAT CEMETERY, YOU WILL FEEL WHAT WE FEEL
10:43:39AM EACH TIME WE GO THERE.
10:43:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEN AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I
10:43:44AM AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
10:43:45AM I CERTAINLY HOPE THE NEXT TIME I SAY GOOD MORNING YOU HAVE
10:43:49AM THE COURTESY TO RETURN THAT SAME DESIRE.
10:43:52AM THANK YOU.
10:43:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:43:53AM YES, MA'AM.
10:43:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:44:00AM SO TODAY WAS MY FIRST TIME EXPERIENCING THE SWEARING IN OF
10:44:06AM THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
10:44:07AM IT WAS INTERESTING.
10:44:09AM SO I WAS -- IT WAS REAL NICE.
10:44:11AM MISS NORENE JUST MENTIONED THE WORD "RESET," RIGHT.
10:44:19AM A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN AS I STATED BEFORE THAT WE RESET
10:44:23AM AND START ANEW.
10:44:25AM WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT THERE WERE CONCERNS AROUND
10:44:31AM COMMUNICATION.
10:44:32AM RIGHT.
10:44:34AM THAT IS INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS,
10:44:39AM I WONDERED HOW IS THE CITY OF TAMPA GETTING THIS INFORMATION
10:44:42AM OUT, HOW ARE THEY COMMUNICATING.
10:44:43AM THAT HAS BEEN A BIG CONCERN OF MINE.
10:44:46AM AND EVIDENTLY IT IS NOW A CONCERN OF A COUPLE OTHER
10:44:50AM COUNCILMEMBERS.
10:44:50AM IF YOU ARE NOT THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, TRYING TO
10:44:55AM COMMUNICATE TO EVERYBODY, A LOT OF MESS GETS LOST.
10:45:01AM THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE FOUND SO THERE HAS TO BE -- EVEN IN
10:45:06AM THE DEPARTMENT HEADS, NOT PICKING ON YOU, MISS TRAVIS.
10:45:13AM NICOLE TRAVIS DOES A GREAT JOB -- A GREAT JOB, BECAUSE SHE
10:45:19AM HAS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
10:45:20AM YOU CAN NOT HAVE THESE JOBS IN THE CITY AND LET IT BE JUST A
10:45:26AM FLY-BY-NIGHT, JUST A JOB.
10:45:28AM YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN ORDER FOR YOU TO
10:45:32AM PUSH IT THROUGH, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE,
10:45:35AM UNFORTUNATELY THINK I DON'T OUT SIGHT OF THE BOX.
10:45:37AM YOU WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN.
10:45:38AM -- OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, YOU WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN.
10:45:42AM YOU WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.
10:45:44AM THAT IS WHY SHE IS GREAT AT HER JOB.
10:45:48AM NO PUN INTENDED FOR ANY OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
10:45:51AM I JUST KNOW HER.
10:45:52AM WITH REGARDS TO COMMUNICATION.
10:45:53AM HOW IS THE INFORMATION GETTING OUT?
10:45:56AM AND THESE ARE THE CITIZENS, RIGHT.
10:45:58AM TAXPAYER MONEY.
10:46:00AM SO THERE SHOULD BE A REAL EFFORT WITH REGARDS TO INFORMATION
10:46:04AM BEING DISPERSED.
10:46:07AM I MEAN, TESTS BEING DONE.
10:46:09AM SOMETHING BEING DONE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY -- THAT
10:46:12AM THE COMMUNITY RECEIVE THE INFORMATION.
10:46:15AM NOT TELLING THE COMMUNITIES TO GO TO THE WEB SITE AND CHECK
10:46:18AM IT.
10:46:18AM SO THAT IS ONE THING.
10:46:22AM CHANGING CULTURES, RIGHT.
10:46:25AM I STILL CALL HIM OFFICER BENNETT, BUT HE MENTIONED THAT,
10:46:30AM RIGHT.
10:46:30AM CHANGING THE CULTURES.
10:46:32AM YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE CULTURE FROM YOUR LENS.
10:46:35AM YOU HAVE TO BE RECEPTIVE AND RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE'S LENSES
10:46:41AM IN ORDER TO THINK ABOUT TRYING TO CHANGE CULTURE.
10:46:44AM CHANGING CULTURE IS HARD.
10:46:46AM BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU
10:46:49AM ARE TRYING TO GET TO CHANGE CULTURE.
10:46:52AM THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
10:46:57AM AND I JUST WANT TO SEE MOVEMENT.
10:47:02AM I HAVE BEEN HERE A WHILE, AND I AM HAPPY WITH WHAT IS GOING
10:47:05AM ON BUT I WANT TO SEE MOVEMENT.
10:47:06AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
10:47:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND WE HAVE TWO
10:47:11AM REGISTERED SPEAKERS, AILEEN HENDERSON AND MR. RANDOLPH.
10:47:16AM >>CLERK: MR. RANDOLPH, IF YOU HEAR ME, UNMUTE YOURSELF.
10:47:20AM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
10:47:21AM >> GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH AND I AM WITH
10:47:24AM THE WEST TAMPA CAC.
10:47:27AM TODAY, I COME WITH A HEAVY HEART IN TERMS OF A DECISION TO
10:47:31AM ELIMINATE THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR THE CAC.
10:47:34AM WHEN YOU REDUCE THAT -- THE COMMITTEES, YOU REDUCE COMMUNITY
10:47:40AM INPUT.
10:47:40AM IT IS THE COMMITTEE WHERE THE WORK IS DONE.
10:47:43AM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE CITY COUNCIL DIDN'T HAVE A
10:47:48AM SUBCOMMITTEE TO COMPARE WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL NEEDS.
10:47:53AM THAT COMMUNITY WILL BE MOSTLY AFFECTED BY THE DECISION TO
10:47:58AM REMOVE SUBCOMMITTEE.
10:47:59AM THE SUBCOMMITTEES ARE SO IMPORTANT.
10:48:02AM IT IS THE ESSENCE OF COMMUNITY INPUT.
10:48:05AM BY DOING THAT, ESPECIALLY IN HAD WEST AND EAST TAMPA, WHICH
10:48:10AM IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY, YOU REDUCE THE VOICE OF THE
10:48:14AM COMMUNITY.
10:48:14AM POINT OF FACT.
10:48:15AM THE PUBLIC SECTOR COMMITTEE IS VERY IMPORTANT.
10:48:18AM HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW.
10:48:19AM BLACK AMERICANS DIE FROM GUN VIOLENCE IN NEARLY 2.4% RATE OF
10:48:26AM WHITE AMERICANS.
10:48:27AM ONE IN 12,000 BLACK PEOPLE DIE FROM GUNSHOTS THIS YEAR.
10:48:32AM 15,000 DEATHS ALONE IN 2021.
10:48:35AM YOUNG BLACK MEN ARE THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN 2021,
10:48:45AM BLAK MEN BETWEEN 14 AND 24 DIED THE MOST.
10:48:47AM GUN VIOLENCE HAS BEEN A LEADING CAUSE OF BLACK CHILDREN'S
10:48:51AM DEATH AS WELL.
10:48:52AM 67% OF GUNS RELATED TO BLACK KIDS.
10:48:58AM HOMICIDE RATES AMONG BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE IN THE SAME
10:49:03AM PLACE.
10:49:03AM IT IS THE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT MOVES THE CAC.
10:49:08AM IF YOU ELIMINATE THE SUBCOMMITTEE, YOU ARE ELIMINATE IT THE
10:49:13AM VOICE.
10:49:13AM AND PEOPLE IN TAMPA, WEST AND EAST TAMPA, YOU NEED TO
10:49:20AM LISTEN, BECAUSE IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY MAKE IT
10:49:23AM IMPORTANT AND GIVE SUPPORT.
10:49:24AM WHEN YOU REDUCE THAT, YOU REDUCE THE COMMUNITY'S INPUT.
10:49:28AM NOW TAMPA IS THE BEST.
10:49:31AM LET'S GET BETTER BY MAKING SURE WE REINSTITUTE THE CAC'S
10:49:39AM SUBCOMMITTEES THAT ARE THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY.
10:49:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND APPRECIATE 1998 YOUR TIME.
10:49:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, MR. RANDOLPH, NEXT UP IS
10:49:47AM AILEEN HENDERSON.
10:49:49AM >>CLERK: MISS HENDERSON.
10:49:51AM IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, UNMUTE YOURSELF.
10:49:53AM YOU HAVE THREE MEN TO SPEAK.
10:49:55AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:49:56AM AILEEN HENDERSON, FOUNDER OF THE CEMETERY SOCIETY.
10:49:59AM FIRST WANT TO CONGRATULATE THOSE RETURNING TO COUNCIL AND
10:50:05AM THOSE NEWLY ELECTED
10:50:07AM A HUGE THANK YOU FOR THOSE APPROVING TO PURCHASE MEMORIAL
10:50:10AM PARK CEMETERY.
10:50:11AM WE KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, WE
10:50:15AM ARE HOPING THAT EVERYONE SEES THE VALUE IN ALL EFFORTS TO DO
10:50:19AM THE RIGHT THING.
10:50:20AM ADDING MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY TO TAMPA'S ALL-WHITE
10:50:25AM COLLECTION OF HISTORIC CEMETERIES WAS HISTORY IN THE MAKING
10:50:31AM TO RECOGNIZE AND RESTORING TAMPA'S BLACK HISTORY.
10:50:33AM ANOTHER THING OF NOTE THAT TOOK PLACE MAY 24, 2023, WHEN
10:50:38AM COUNCIL APPROVED THE PURCHASE OF THE SEMINOLE HEIGHTS TERRY
10:50:43AM WATCHING THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCH WORK TOGETHER
10:50:48AM FOR A COMMON GOAL.
10:50:49AM PEOPLE MISSED THAT COOPERATION IN THE MAKING.
10:50:53AM FIRST TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME WE SAW BOTH BRANCHES
10:50:56AM RECOGNIZING THEIR ROLES, RESPECTING THE DUTIES OF EACH, AND
10:51:00AM TOGETHER HELPING TO RESOLVE A CALL TO ACTION BY
10:51:05AM CONSTITUENTS, YOUR PEOPLE.
10:51:05AM HOPING THE BEGINNING OF AN OVERDUE PROCESS OF CHECKS AND
10:51:09AM BALANCES BETWEEN TAMPA'S EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES.
10:51:13AM BRAVO CARLSON, MANISCALCO, MIRANDA AND HURTAK.
10:51:19AM YOU BEAT ME TO THE PUNCH AND EXPRESSED MY SENTIMENTS
10:51:23AM ADEQUATELY HAD THIS MORNING.
10:51:24AM THE FRIENDS OF BELMONT HEIGHTS IS HOSTING A CLEANUP AT THE
10:51:30AM CEMETERY SATURDAY MAY 27 AT 9 A.M.
10:51:33AM ASKED BY ELLSWORTH TONY WILLIAMS WITH VETERANS COUNSELING
10:51:37AM VETERANS TO DO THE CLEANUP.
10:51:38AM WE GLADLY ACCEPTED THAT HONOR TO HELP THEM PREPARE FOR THE
10:51:41AM CELEBRATION OF THE 100-YEAR MONUMENT AT THE CEMETERY OF THE
10:51:45AM FLORIDA NEGRO WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL DEDICATED FEBRUARY 23,
10:51:52AM 1923.
10:51:52AM WE WANT TO EXTEND A SPELLINGS INVITE TO COUNCILMAN HENDERSON
10:51:55AM BECAUSE THIS IS HER DISTRICT AND OF COURSE ALL OTHER
10:51:59AM COUNCILMEMBERS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AS WELL TO SUPPORT ONCE
10:52:03AM AGAIN HISTORY IN THE MAKING, MOST SPECIFICALLY BLACK HISTORY
10:52:07AM IN THE MAKING.
10:52:08AM THANK YOU ALL.
10:52:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:52:11AM THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:52:16AM A MOTION TO OPEN 9:30 AND 10:30 PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:52:21AM MOTION AND A SECOND.
10:52:22AM >>LUIS VIERA: REGARDING THE CLEANUP ON THE 27th.
10:52:26AM TWO EFFORTS ON THE SAME LEVEL.
10:52:27AM TONY -- I WILL JUST TAKE, THE FIRE FIGHTERS AND THE VETERANS
10:52:34AM HELPING VETERANS, CAN WE TALK OUTSIDE.
10:52:36AM JUST OUTSIDE.
10:52:37AM THANK YOU.
10:52:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AT THIS TIME IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK --
10:52:40AM WE WILL DO IT ALL AT ONCE.
10:52:42AM ANY OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS, 9:30 OR 10:30.
10:52:45AM PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND SO WE CAN SWEAR YOU
10:52:49AM IN.
10:52:49AM [SWEARING IN]
10:53:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:53:05AM WE WILL GO TO ITEM 54 HAD, AGAIN BY REQUEST.
10:53:10AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION IF THERE IS ANY TO RECEIVE AND FILE ANY
10:53:16AM EX-PARTE COMMUNICATION ON ITEM 54.
10:53:18AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WITH A SECOND.
10:53:20AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
10:53:23AM ALL IN FAVOR.
10:53:24AM AYE.
10:53:25AM OPPOSED?
10:53:32AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:53:34AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THE INTERPRETER PRESENT HERE TODAY.
10:53:36AM >> SHE IS.
10:53:39AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: HAVE THE INTERPRETER SWORN IN.
10:53:42AM FOR THE INTERPRETER, PLEASE.
10:53:45AM [SWEARING THROUGH INTERPRETER]
10:53:52AM >> I WILL.
10:53:52AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF THE PERSON NEEDING THE INTERPRETATION
10:53:57AM HERE.
10:53:57AM >> YES, AND SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN SWORN.
10:54:00AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WITH REGARD TO THE CONDUCT OF THE HEARING.
10:54:04AM IF WE CAN ALLOW THE INTERPRETER TO BE ABLE TO TRANSLATE
10:54:07AM WHAT IS SAID SO WE DON'T ALL SPEAK TOGETHER TO GIVE HER THE
10:54:11AM OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE APPLICANT UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND
10:54:15AM LIKEWISE, IF ANYTHING SHE WISHES TO SAY, SHE SHARE WITH THE
10:54:19AM INTERPRETER AND THE INTERPRETER WILL TRANSLATE.
10:54:21AM THANK YOU, MISS PETTIS-MACKLE.
10:54:26AM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: GOOD MORNING, CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE
10:54:28AM FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
10:54:29AM ITEM NUMBER 54, FILE NUMBER DE1-23-88 IS A REVIEW HEARING
10:54:38AM FOR A PETITION FOR REVIEW THAT WAS FILED BY MIGUEL
10:54:45AM AND ROSITA LOPEZ.
10:54:45AM THEY FILED A PETITION FOR REVIEW REGARDING A DECISION OF THE
10:54:51AM ZONING ADMINISTRATOR REGARDING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2716
10:54:59AM WEST WALNUT STREET.
10:55:00AM THE REQUEST FILED BY MR. AND MRS. LOPEZ WAS TO SAY LOW
10:55:06AM VEHICLE ACCESS TO THE STREET IN LIEU OF ACCESS OF THE ALLEY
10:55:13AM TO THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY.
10:55:14AM STAFF DENIED THE APPLICATION ON FEBRUARY 6, 2023 ON THE
10:55:22AM BASIS THAT THE APPLICATION DID NOT MEET THE CRY CRITERIA
10:55:34AM 270-241 SUBSECTIONS E2C5.
10:55:39AM I PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED CITY COUNCIL THE FOLLOWING
10:55:42AM INFORMATION: CODE SECTIONS 27-241, SUBSECTIONS E2C5 FOR
10:55:51AM ALLEY ACCESS.
10:55:54AM CODE SECTION 27-60, ALTERNATIVE DESIGN EXCEPTION.
10:55:59AM AND CODE SECTION 27-61, THE REVIEW FOR REVIEW HEARINGS.
10:56:11AM ALSO PROVIDED SAMPLE MOTIONS FOR CITY COUNCIL TO USE IN
10:56:16AM CONDUCTING THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
10:56:18AM THE STANDARD OF REVIEW OF CODE SECTION 27-61, SUBSECTIONS J
10:56:25AM 2 IS A DE NOVO STANDARD OF REVIEW, QUESTION MEANS THAT CITY
10:56:32AM COUNCIL CAN ACCEPT NEW EVIDENCE, TAKE PUBLIC TESTIMONY AND
10:56:38AM MAKE A DECISION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PETITIONER MEETS
10:56:40AM THE STANDARDS OF THE TAMPA HEIGHTS DESIGN GUIDELINES.
10:56:45AM AND SPECIFICALLY CODE EXCEPTION 27-241, SUBSECTIONS E2C5.
10:56:56AM STAFF IS PRESENT TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE APPLICATION
10:57:00AM AND THE DECISION.
10:57:02AM UPON RECEIVING ALL OF THE TESTIMONY AND THE EVIDENCE
10:57:06AM REGARDING THIS MATTER, CITY COUNCIL CAN TAKE THE FOLLOWING
10:57:10AM STEPS: CITY COUNCIL CAN AFFIRM THE DECISION OF THE ZONING
10:57:17AM ADMINISTRATOR AND DENY THE REQUEST FOR THE DESIGN EXCEPTION
10:57:22AM BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIRED CODE SECTION.
10:57:25AM OR CITY COUNCIL CAN OVERTURN THE DECISION OF THE ZONING
10:57:31AM ADMINISTRATOR AND, THEREFORE, GRANT THE DESIGN EXCEPTION.
10:57:33AM WITH THAT, I WILL TURN THE PRESENTATION OVER TO STAFF.
10:57:40AM MR. COTTON.
10:57:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:57:44AM MR. COTTON.
10:57:45AM >>ERIC COTTON: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:57:49AM ERIC COTTON, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:57:52AM BEFORE I GET STARTED, WANT TO INTRODUCE DAVID HUNTER, OUR
10:57:56AM NEW URBAN DESIGN COORDINATOR.
10:57:58AM IN THE FUTURE YOU WILL SEE HIM BEFORE Y'ALL ON SOME OF THE
10:58:01AM POSITIONS.
10:58:03AM FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT MISSION, MISS PETTIS-MACKLE SAID.
10:58:11AM LET ME PUT THIS UP ON THE -- HERE WE GO.
10:58:16AM AGAIN, THIS IS A PETITION FOR REVIEW FOR DESIGN EXCEPTION DE
10:58:20AM 1-23-88.
10:58:22AM THE PETITIONERS ARE MIGUEL AND ROSITA LOPEZ AT PROPERTY AT
10:58:29AM 2716 WEST WALNUT STREET.
10:58:31AM RESIDENTIAL RS-50 AND LOCATED IN THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY
10:58:35AM DISTRICT.
10:58:36AM THEY ARE PROPOSING TO BUILD A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
10:58:38AM THE CODE REQUIREMENT IS THAT IN WEST TAMPA, YOU HAVE -- YOU
10:58:44AM SHOULD ACCESS THE ALLEY IF IT IS AN OPEN AND USED ALLEYWAY
10:58:48AM VERSUS THE MAIN STREET.
10:58:49AM I CAN DO A QUICK AERIAL VIEW OF THE PROPERTY.
10:58:54AM THIS IS -- THIS IS WALNUT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF WALNUT
10:58:58AM BETWEEN TAMPANIA AND HABANA.
10:59:03AM HERE IS A BETTER PHOTO OF THE AREA.
10:59:06AM YOU CAN SEE THE PROPERTY.
10:59:07AM THERE IS AN EXISTING ALLEY NETWORK THAT YOU CAN SEE RUN
10:59:11AM ACROSS TAMPANIA AND RUNS BEHIND THESE PROPERTIES AND CROSSES
10:59:16AM OVER HABANA AND MOVING TO THE WEST.
10:59:20AM THE APPLICANT PROPOSED -- THIS IS THE APPLICANT'S PROPOSED
10:59:25AM SITE PLAN.
10:59:25AM A 14-FOOT ALLEY IN THE REAR.
10:59:27AM THE HOUSE HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR ACCESSING THE MAIN STREET
10:59:31AM OFF OF WALNUT, WHICH BEGAN BY CODE IS NOT ALLOWED.
10:59:36AM SPECIFICALLY, THE CODE SECTION 27-241 E 2C 5 STATES
10:59:44AM BASICALLY AFTER AN EXISTING LOT ADJACENT TOP A OPEN AND USED
10:59:51AM ALLEY, VEHICULAR ACCESS TO THE SITE SHOULD BE PROVIDED FROM
10:59:55AM THE ALLEY AS PRIMARY ACCESS.
10:59:57AM JUST A PHOTO.
11:00:01AM PROPERTY RIGHT NOW IS CURRENTLY VACANT.
11:00:04AM WHEN STAFF DID THE REVIEW, THIS WAS THE CONDITION OF THE
11:00:11AM ALLEY.
11:00:11AM THERE WAS SOME DEBRIS IN THE ALLEYWAY.
11:00:14AM YOU CAN SEE PALM FRONDS AND SUCH.
11:00:18AM AND THERE WAS SOME DIRT AND CLEARING THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
11:00:22AM MORE RECENT PHOTOS AND PROVIDED BY A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC
11:00:29AM DID E-MAIL THEM TO ME YESTERDAY.
11:00:31AM SHE IS HERE TO DISCUSS THE REQUEST, BUT JUST TO HIGHLIGHT
11:00:34AM THEM.
11:00:38AM THIS IS THE ALLEY AS IT EXISTS TODAY.
11:00:41AM IT HAS BEEN CLEARED.
11:00:42AM DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF AT THIS POINT?
11:00:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANY COUNCILMEMBERS?
11:00:54AM YES, MA'AM.
11:00:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DOES THIS PROPERTY SIT IN THE WEST TAMPA CRA.
11:00:59AM >>ERIC COTTON: NO, MA'AM, THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY DISTRICT
11:01:02AM BUT NOT IN THE CITY ITSELF.
11:01:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:01:07AM >>ERIC COTTON: YOU ARE WELCOME.
11:01:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:01:09AM DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR PRESENTATION, SIR?
11:01:12AM >>ERIC COTTON: YES, SIR.
11:01:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL NOW GO TO THE APPLICANT.
11:01:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I MAY ASK, I AM LOOKING AT THE WHOLE
11:01:23AM THING.
11:01:23AM I WOULD LIKE TO ASK -- THIS IS A NEW LOT THAT IS VACANT AND
11:01:27AM A NEW HOME BUILT.
11:01:29AM >>ERIC COTTON: YES, SIR, A PROPOSED SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
11:01:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IN DOING THAT THE ALLEY IS THERE AND
11:01:35AM LOOKS -- APPEARS THAT IT DOES HAVE SOME DRIVEWAY THAT YOU
11:01:38AM CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE AND CLEANED UP JUST A LITTLE BIT.
11:01:40AM IS THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE ALLEY WIDE ENOUGH TO MAKE A TURN
11:01:44AM -- HOW MANY HOUSES ARE THERE THAT HAVE ACCESS TO THE ALLEY
11:01:47AM IN THE BACK FOR RESIDENTS?
11:01:49AM >>ERIC COTTON: I WILL SHOW YOU THE AERIAL AGAIN.
11:01:51AM IT IS A MIX.
11:01:52AM A MIXTURE OF HOW IT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AT THIS POINT YOU CAN
11:02:06AM SEE SOME PROPERTIES HAVE DRIVEWAYS, SOME DO NOT.
11:02:09AM A FAIR MIX OF HOW IT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED THE STRUCTURE HERE.
11:02:17AM DO NOT HAVE THE DRIVEWAY, THIS HOUSE DOES.
11:02:21AM DEPENDS IF YOU ARE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET WHO HAS A
11:02:25AM DRIVEWAY, AND SOME DO NOT.
11:02:27AM SOME ACCESS THE ALLEYWAY.
11:02:29AM IF YOU CAN SEE SOME CARS AND JUST DRIVE AND PARK IN THE
11:02:33AM FRONT, REGARDLESS WHETHER THEY HAVE A DRIVEWAY OR NOT.
11:02:36AM BUT I DID -- THIS WAS VERIFIED BY MOBILITY THAT THE ALLEY IS
11:02:40AM -- MOBILITY DID VERIFY THE ALLEY IS DRIVABLE AND CAN BE
11:02:45AM UTILIZED FOR THE ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY.
11:02:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?
11:03:01AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO, SIR.
11:03:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
11:03:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HAS THERE EVER BEEN A HOUSE ON THAT PIECE
11:03:08AM OF PROPERTY?
11:03:09AM >>ERIC COTTON: I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
11:03:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A CURB CUT ON THE STREET?
11:03:13AM >>ERIC COTTON: I DO NOT BELIEVE SO.
11:03:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
11:03:16AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:03:17AM APPLICANT.
11:03:18AM YES, MA'AM.
11:03:19AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:03:21AM MY NAME IS --
11:03:29AM >> GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS MILADES, AND I CAME TO REPRESENT
11:03:35AM MISS ROSITA AND MIGUEL.
11:03:37AM [SPEAKING THROUGH INTERPRETER]
11:03:56AM >> MR. MIGUEL IS REQUESTING TO HAVE A DRIVEWAY IN THE FRONT
11:04:01AM OF THE HOUSE BECAUSE AS YOU WERE ABLE TO SEE THE PLANS AND
11:04:06AM THE MAPS, THE HOUSES THERE DON'T HAVE ACCESS THROUGH THE
11:04:11AM BACK TO THE ALLEY.
11:04:12AM AND HE IS AN OLDER GENTLEMAN WHO HAS MOBILITY PROBLEMS AND
11:04:22AM USE AS CANE TO WALK.
11:04:26AM AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO
11:04:41AM HAVE A DRIVEWAY IN THE FRONT, BECAUSE AS -- AS YOU WERE ABLE
11:04:45AM TO SEE, IN THE ALLEY, NEIGHBORS THROW OUT TRASH AND THINGS
11:04:50AM LIKE THAT.
11:04:50AM THANK YOU.
11:04:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:04:56AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
11:05:00AM I SEE NONE.
11:05:00AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:01AM AT THIS TIME, WE WILL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND GIVE YOU AN
11:05:05AM OPPORTUNITY FOR REBUTTAL AFTER THE FACT.
11:05:07AM >> OKAY.
11:05:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:14AM YES, MA'AM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:05:17AM YOU HAVE THERE MINUTES.
11:05:18AM >> SHOULD I SPEAK SLOWLY FOR THE TRANSLATOR.
11:05:22AM IF SO I DON'T WANT TO BE PENALIZED.
11:05:25AM MY NAME IS SANDY DIEGO SANCHEZ.
11:05:29AM 2805 THIXTON.
11:05:32AM I AM A CITY OF TAMPA NERD AND I HAPPENED TO SEE THIS ON THE
11:05:38AM AGENDA AND THOUGHT I WOULD.
11:05:39AM TUESDAY AFTERNOON, ON MY WAY TO A WEST TAMPA CAC MEETING,
11:05:44AM I AM ON THE COMMITTEE, AND I DROVE BY THE PROPERTY.
11:05:46AM AND EASILY DROVE THROUGH THE ALLEY IN MY RELATIVELY NEW CAR.
11:05:51AM RESULTS, NO SCRATCHES.
11:05:52AM THIS ALLEY IS PRETTY CLEAR EVERYWHERE EXCEPT BEHIND THE
11:05:57AM APPLICANT'S PROPERTY.
11:05:57AM I DID NOT HAVE TO MOVE A BLOCK THAT HAD FALLEN FROM A
11:06:03AM NUISANCE CONCRETE WALL.
11:06:04AM I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE I AM NOT HERE AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF
11:06:08AM THE WEST TAMPA CAC.
11:06:10AM I'M HERE AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN.
11:06:12AM BUT WITH THAT, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY, RATHER, EVEN THOUGH
11:06:17AM THIS PROPERTY IS NOT WITHIN THE WEST TAMPA CRA, IT IS WITHIN
11:06:22AM THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY AND IS A CITY ORDINANCE.
11:06:25AM THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY UNDER ITEM 5, RESIDENTS, I AND I
11:06:33AM QUOTE, DRIVEWAY CAN BE MINIMIZE DRIVEWAY PROLIFERATION,
11:06:38AM LIMIT CONFLICT POINTS BETWEEN VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS AND
11:06:42AM PRIORITIZE SAFETY OF THE PEDESTRIAN.
11:06:43AM IF AN EXISTING LOT IS ADJACENT TO AN OPEN --
11:06:51AM >> COULD YOU SLOW DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT.
11:06:53AM >> IF AN EXISTING LOT IS ADJACENT TO AN OPEN AND USED PUBLIC
11:06:59AM ALLEY, VEHICULAR ACCESS TO THIS SITE SHOULD BE PROVIDED FROM
11:07:02AM THE ALLEY AS THE PRIMARY VEHICULAR ACCESS POINT PROVIDED TO
11:07:08AM MEET MINIMAL STANDARDS 27-283-12.
11:07:14AM ALL STREET PARKING SPACE STANDARDS.
11:07:17AM UNQUOTE.
11:07:17AM THIS PROPERTY IS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE WEST TAMPA
11:07:21AM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'S PICKUP LINE.
11:07:24AM IT WILL BE IN THE INTEREST OF IT THE SAFETY OF THE CHILDREN
11:07:26AM THAT ALLEY ACCESS FOR PARKING BE CONFIRMED.
11:07:29AM IN THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST, THEY STATED THAT OTHER HOMES ON
11:07:34AM THE BLOCK HAVE FRONT DRIVEWAYS, AND THEY DO.
11:07:37AM THESE HOMES WERE BUILT BEFORE THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY WAS
11:07:42AM DESIGNED.
11:07:42AM THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEST
11:07:45AM TAMPA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PICKUP LINE.
11:07:50AM I ALSO NOTED THAT THE APPLICANT MAY HAVE TROUBLE WALKING ON
11:07:54AM GRASS.
11:07:55AM I AM NOT SURE WHY THIS IS AN ISSUE BECAUSE OF NO ORDINANCE
11:07:59AM THAT PROHIBITS A CONCRETE DRIVEWAY FROM BEING BUILT
11:08:02AM THROUGH THE ALLEY ACCESS DESIGN.
11:08:04AM THEIR SITE PLAN SHOW A PAVED DRIVEWAY THAT CAN EASILY BE
11:08:09AM ADAPTED FOR THE ALLEY ACCESS.
11:08:11AM THE PICTURES IN THE FILE FROM THE CITY'S PAST PRESENTATION
11:08:15AM SHOW THAT THE ALLEY MAY HAVE BEEN OVERGROWN.
11:08:17AM BUT YOU CAN EASILY STAND IN THE MID{SUFFIX}LE OF THE ALLEY
11:08:20AM AND LOOK TO THE EAST AND WEST TO TAMPANIA AND HABANA AND SEE
11:08:25AM CLARITY THERE.
11:08:26AM THE SLIGHT CONGESTION IN THE ALLEY IS DIRECTLY BEHIND THE
11:08:31AM APPLICANT'S PROPERTY.
11:08:32AM I AM NOT SURE WHY CODE ENFORCEMENT HAVEN'T NOTED THE
11:08:36AM NUISANCE OF THE CUMBERLAND BLOCK WALL WHICH IS THE
11:08:41AM APPLICANT'S RESPONSIBILITY.
11:08:41AM I ASK YOU TO CONTINUE TO DENY THIS APPLICANT'S REQUEST IN
11:08:47AM THE INTEREST OF THE SCHOOL AND ADHERING TO THE WEST TAMPA
11:08:49AM OVERLAY WHICH SHOULD GUIDE YOU TO MAKE THIS DECISION.
11:08:52AM THANK YOU.
11:08:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:08:54AM NEXT SPEAKER FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
11:09:01AM WE HAVE NO ONE REGISTERED.
11:09:02AM ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR THIS ITEM?
11:09:07AM I SEE NO ONE.
11:09:07AM DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL STAFF COMMENT AT THIS TIME?
11:09:14AM WE HAVE REBUTTAL TIME.
11:09:15AM YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TOP
11:09:19AM ANYTHING AT THIS TIME.
11:09:20AM [SPEAKING THROUGH INTERPRETER]
11:09:39AM >> I WOULD SAY THAT ACCESS THROUGH THE BACK AND THROUGH THE
11:09:43AM ALLEY IS AN OBSTACLE FOR THAT FAMILY.
11:09:46AM THE TREES AND ALL THE PLANTS ARE OVERGROWN.
11:09:49AM AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO KEEP UP WITH THE
11:09:52AM MAINTENANCE.
11:09:53AM AND THE REST OF THE HOUSE HAS AN ACCESS THROUGH THE FRONT
11:09:58AM WITH A DRIVEWAY, WHY CAN'T THIS HOUSE NOT HAVE IT.
11:10:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYTHING ELSE?
11:10:08AM >> NO, THANK YOU.
11:10:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT WILL WRAP UP THE REBUTTAL.
11:10:12AM DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS BEFORE WE ASK FOR A
11:10:16AM MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING?
11:10:20AM YES, SIR.
11:10:20AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:10:23AM MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
11:10:25AM MISS PETTIS-MACKLE CAVE YOU THE PACKET TO HAVE IN FRONT OF
11:10:31AM NEW ADDITION TO THE STAFF REPORT.
11:10:32AM IF YOU TURN TO WHAT IS MARKED AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 3 AND 4,
11:10:37AM IS THE CRITERIA FOR YOU TO APPLY FOR YOUR ANALYSIS OF YOUR
11:10:41AM DECISION BASED ON THE EVIDENCE YOU HAVE HEARD.
11:10:43AM AND THAT, AGAIN, IS -- IS SUB 5.
11:10:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:10:49AM DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THIS PUBLIC HEARING?
11:10:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:10:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:10:56AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
11:10:58AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:11:00AM ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A MOTION AT THIS TIME.
11:11:02AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:11:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:11:04AM I AM GOING TO MOVE TO UPHOLD THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR'S
11:11:10AM DENIAL OF DE 1-2388 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2716 WEST
11:11:18AM WALNUT STREET, BECAUSE THE PETITIONER FAILED TO PROVIDE
11:11:21AM COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE
11:11:25AM WEST TAMPA OVERLAY, DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT DESIGN STANDARDS
11:11:30AM FOR ALLEY ACCESS IN CITY OF TAMPA CODE SECTION 27-241 E2C5
11:11:40AM SHOULD BE WAIVED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: HEALTH OF -- OF
11:11:51AM AN OWNER IS NOT COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE BECAUSE
11:11:56AM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LAND, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
11:12:00AM THERE.
11:12:00AM AND AS EVIDENCED BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND STAFF AND MOBILITY
11:12:06AM DEPARTMENT AGREEMENT, THE ALLEY IS ACCESSIBLE.
11:12:11AM IT IS WIDE ENOUGH TO TRAVERSE.
11:12:15AM AND THE -- YES, THAT IS WHERE I WILL STOP.
11:12:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:12:29AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:12:31AM ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION?
11:12:33AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:12:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST FEEL THAT I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND
11:12:38AM THAT THERE IS A LAW, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
11:12:43AM WHEN YOU LOOK -- I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS CASE
11:12:45AM PARTICULARLY, BUT YOU LOOK AT THIS BLOCK AND ANY OTHER BLOCK
11:12:47AM THAT HAS AN ALLEY AND YOU LOOKED AT EVERYBODY ELSE CAN PARK
11:12:51AM UP FRONT -- AND I APPRECIATE WHAT HAD THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS
11:12:53AM SAYING.
11:12:53AM I APPRECIATE THAT THEY WANT PUT THE AUTOMOBILES IN THE BACK
11:12:58AM TO SEE MORE PEOPLE WALKING THE STREETS AND PLANING AND DOING
11:13:00AM THAT THING.
11:13:01AM BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DISTRICT, THIS IS NOT WHERE YOU
11:13:04AM COME IN AND SAY I AM GOING TO DO -- TEAR DOWN 50 ACRE AND DO
11:13:07AM IT THE RIGHT WAY AND ALL THE PARKING IN THE BACK.
11:13:11AM SOMETHING LIKE THAT RIGHT THERE ON SPRUCE.
11:13:13AM AND MacDILL AVENUE.
11:13:17AM THE WHOLE BLOCK WHERE THE MARTINEZ FAMILY USED TO HAVE THE
11:13:19AM HOUSE.
11:13:20AM EVERYTHING NOW IS THE IN ALLEY.
11:13:21AM AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:13:23AM I THINK IT WORKS WONDERFUL, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE A SITUATION
11:13:25AM LIKE THIS, WE ARE GOING TO -- IN MY OPINION, IF I WAS A
11:13:31AM PETITIONER, I WILL ASK THE CITY TO GIVE ME PERMISSION
11:13:35AM TO PUT IN THE ALLEY WHEN EVERYBODY'S INGRESS IS THROUGH THE
11:13:38AM FRONT.
11:13:38AM A LAW THAT WORKS FINE IF EVERYTHING IS WAS BEING CLEANED OUT
11:13:42AM AND YOU ARE BUILDING SOMETHING NEW AND DONE THAT WAY, BUT
11:13:45AM WHEN YOU HAVE TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO HERE,
11:13:48AM AND NO ONE ELSE HAS THAT I THINK ABOUT THE WHAT.
11:13:53AM WHAT IF WE TURN IT DOWN AND WHATEVER AND IT GOES TO COURT.
11:13:57AM WHAT DO YOU THINK THE JUDGE IS GOING TO DO?
11:14:00AM THE LAW IS THERE BUT WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE THAT EVERYBODY IS
11:14:02AM DOING THAT?
11:14:03AM NONE.
11:14:03AM JUST LIKE WHEN WE DO THINGS IN ANOTHER -- I WILL TELL YOU
11:14:07AM ANOTHER AREA.
11:14:07AM YOU GO APPLY FOR A BUILDING PERMIT OR SOMETHING THAT YOU
11:14:11AM WANT TO DO IN REPAIRING OF A HOUSE AND YOU WANT TO PUT
11:14:15AM PAVERS OR DO WHATEVER.
11:14:16AM AT THE TIME OF PERMITTING, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GIVE YOU THE
11:14:19AM INFORMATION THAT -- IF YOU HAVE PAVERS, THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY
11:14:23AM MORE THE RUNOFF WATER AND CONCRETE TO EXPAND THE FRONT OF
11:14:33AM IT.
11:14:33AM YOU FOLLOW THE PERMIT AND DO YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO YOU GET
11:14:37AM A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND YOU ARE VIOLATE CAN THE LAW AND NOT
11:14:41AM PAY FOR THE WATER RUNOFF.
11:14:42AM I AGREE WITH THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK ONE HAND IS TELLING THE
11:14:47AM OTHER HAND TO ADDRESS PUBLIC.
11:14:50AM SAME WITH SWALES.
11:14:53AM APPROVAL OF A RESIDENCE.
11:14:55AM YOU SELL IT TO ME.
11:14:57AM I DON'T LIKE THAT SWALE.
11:14:59AM I FILL IT UP AND I FLOOD BOTH PEOPLE ON EACH SIDE.
11:15:03AM NOBODY TOLD ME WHEN I BOUGHT THE HOUSE.
11:15:08AM SAME THING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.
11:15:11AM SELL THE HOUSE TO GUIDO AND SOMEBODY ELSE SELL IT IS TO
11:15:15AM SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT PERSON THEY WANT TO YOU DO WHAT I DID
11:15:18AM WRONG.
11:15:18AM SO THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOME MIDDLE GROUND ON ITEMS WE HANDLE
11:15:24AM LIKE THIS, NOT ONLY IN THIS CASE, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME
11:15:28AM UNDERSTANDING OF COMPASSION, WHEN THEY BOUGHT THIS HOUSE,
11:15:33AM DID SOMEBODY TELL YOU HERE IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, I DOUBT
11:15:37AM IT.
11:15:37AM THAT IS WHERE WE ARE MISSING THE ACTION, NOT THAT THEY ARE
11:15:40AM RIGHT OR WRONG, BUT WHERE HAVE WE HAVE GIVEN PROPER
11:15:45AM NOTIFICATION -- NOT THIS CASE, BUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IF
11:15:49AM YOU DO SOMETHING.
11:15:49AM THAT I KNOW OF, NEVER.
11:15:51AM MAYBE I AM WRONG.
11:15:52AM I AM NOT SAYING I AM RIGHT.
11:15:54AM BUT THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE DONE GOING
11:15:58AM FORWARD THAT THESE THINGS CONTINUE -- NOT CONTINUE, I SHOULD
11:16:02AM SAY, AND MECHANISM OF WHICH WE CAN NOW DO SOMETHING THAT
11:16:07AM BETTER FOR SOCIETY.
11:16:09AM I AM NOT SAYING IT IS NOT BETTER, IT IS, BUT HOW DO WE
11:16:13AM EQUATE THAT TO THE PROPER STANDARDS OF THE WAY YOU GET
11:16:17AM THINGS DONE.
11:16:17AM ONLY TIME OF PERMITTING AND AFTER THAT NOBODY CHECKS IT.
11:16:21AM THE SELL THE HOUSE TO SOMEONE ELSE AND RECORDED IN THE
11:16:25AM COURTHOUSE.
11:16:25AM I BUY THE HOUSE AND I AM STUCK WITH IT.
11:16:27AM THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE BECAUSE
11:16:30AM THEY ARE NOT SAYING THE FACTS TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS
11:16:33AM BUYING WHO HAS NOTHING TO DO -- NOT ABOUT THIS CASE.
11:16:36AM BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT I LOOK AT.
11:16:38AM I AM NOT SAYING THAT I AM RIGHT AND WRONG.
11:16:42AM CHANGE THE MECHANISM TO DO THINGS SO EVERYBODY KNOWS.
11:16:45AM THE CODE ENFORCEMENT IS ACTIVE, NOT REACTIVE.
11:16:50AM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:16:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE ELSE?
11:16:54AM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
11:16:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: QUESTION.
11:16:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION.
11:16:58AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU HAVE A QUESTION RELATING --
11:17:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL HAVE TO REOPEN THE HEARING THAT.
11:17:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: LET ME RESTATE MY ASSUMPTION.
11:17:09AM DURING THE TESTIMONY, THAT THE CITY DISCLOSED THERE WERE
11:17:12AM OTHER HOUSES ON THE STREET THAT HAD ALLEY ACCESS.
11:17:15AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF YOU WANT TO REOPEN THAT.
11:17:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I MOVE TO REOPEN SO THE GENTLEMAN CAN
11:17:21AM HAVE HIS QUESTION ANSWERED.
11:17:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:17:26AM THE HEARING IS REOPENED.
11:17:29AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU WANT TO SEE THE OVERHEAD.
11:17:31AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM OKAY -- SIR, YOU TESTIFIED OTHER
11:17:34AM HOUSE ON THE STREET THAT HAD ALLEY ACCESS AND UTILIZING
11:17:37AM ALLEY ACCESS.
11:17:38AM >>ERIC COTTON: ERIC COTTON, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:17:41AM OTHER PROPERTIES THAT DON'T HAVE DRIVEWAYS ALONG THE FRONT.
11:17:46AM I DO NOT DRIVE THE ALLEY
11:17:48AM I DO NOT KNOW IF THEY HAVE ALLEY ACCESS OR NOT, BUT THERE
11:17:53AM ARE OTHER PROPERTIES ON THAT STREET THAT DO NOT HAVE
11:17:55AM DRIVEWAYS TO THE STREET.
11:17:57AM THAT WOULD LEAD ME TO BELIEVE THEY ARE PARKING IN THE
11:18:00AM REQUIRE OR HAVE ACCESS TO THE REAR OR I THINK AS I
11:18:04AM INDICATED, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO JUST PARK IN THEIR
11:18:07AM FRONT YARDS AND POP THE CURB AND PARK IN THE GRASS.
11:18:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:18:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE ASK FOR
11:18:14AM ANOTHER CLOSING OF THE HEARING?
11:18:16AM YES, MA'AM.
11:18:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, WAS THIS
11:18:20AM ALLEY ACTUALLY CLEARED FOR THE SAKE OF THE PRESENTATION
11:18:23AM TODAY?
11:18:24AM BECAUSE IT -- IT APPEARS TO ME TO BE A VERY WEAK CLEANING OF
11:18:28AM AN ALLEY IN TERMS OF ACCESS.
11:18:30AM IT IS A BARE MINIMUM TYPE OF CLEANUP TO SAY, OH, YEAH, IT IS
11:18:36AM ACCESSIBLE.
11:18:37AM >>ERIC COTTON: ERIC COTTON, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:18:40AM I AM NOT SURE WHO CLEARED THE ALLEYWAY.
11:18:43AM THE PICTURES OF THE BRUSH IN THE ALLEYWAY.
11:18:46AM THAT IS THE SITUATION WHEN STAFF REVIEWED THE REQUEST
11:18:49AM INITIALLY AND WE DENIED TO HAVE ACCESS OFF OF WALNUT.
11:18:53AM THE.
11:18:54AM THE ALLEY IS ACCESSIBLE.
11:18:56AM ALLEY MAINTENANCE OR CLEANUP GETTING RID OF TRASH AND DEBRIS
11:19:01AM AND STUFF BY CODE IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ADJACENT
11:19:04AM PROPERTY OWNERS.
11:19:05AM I AM NOT SURE IF CLEAN CITY WENT OUT TO CLEAN THE ALLEY.
11:19:09AM WEST TAMPA CRA CLEANED IT.
11:19:12AM I DON'T KNOW WHO CLEANED THE ALLEYWAY ON THIS ONE.
11:19:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO CLOSE ORDINANCE MANISCALCO WE HAVE
11:19:19AM A MOTION.
11:19:19AM YES, MA'AM, ANYTHING ELSE?
11:19:21AM NO?
11:19:21AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:19:23AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:19:25AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:19:26AM WE HAD A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK WITH A
11:19:29AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:19:30AM ANY OTHER DISCUSSION.
11:19:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES, PLEASE.
11:19:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
11:19:35AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO I HAVE -- YOU KNOW, AND I WILL -- IN
11:19:40AM ALL DEFERENCE TO MY COLLEAGUE AND DISCUSSION ONLY THIS
11:19:45AM ISSUE, I HAVE TO GO WITH THE FACT THAT THE OVERLAY DISTRICT
11:19:48AM IS A JOINT AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT WAS
11:19:51AM ESTABLISHED, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE PUBLIC PROCESS.
11:19:54AM AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PEOPLE WITHIN THIS AREA ARE
11:19:57AM GOING TO LIVE AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR PROPERTY.
11:20:00AM SO I AM EMPATHETIC WITH THE PETITIONER'S PLEA AND THEIR
11:20:06AM CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE TO CONFORM WITH THE
11:20:10AM OVERLAY DISTRICT AND THE STANDARDS THAT WE HAVE SET.
11:20:13AM IT IS WHAT WE HAVE DECIDED AS A COMMUNITY THAT WE WILL HOLD
11:20:19AM THE PROPERTY OWNERS THE OVERLAY DISTRICT ACCOUNTABLE.
11:20:23AM SO I WILL BE VOTING IN FAVOR OF WHY UP HOLDING THE ZONING
11:20:27AM ADMINISTRATOR'S DECISION ONLY THIS PROPERTY.
11:20:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:20:30AM ANYTHING ELSE?
11:20:31AM A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:20:32AM THIS IS TO WHY UP HOLD THE DENIAL.
11:20:35AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:20:38AM LET'S HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:20:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:20:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:20:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: NO.
11:20:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
11:20:51AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:20:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:20:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO.
11:20:56AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH VIERA, MIRANDA AND MANISCALCO
11:21:03AM VOTING NO.
11:21:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:21:06AM AT THIS TIME WE WILL GO TO THE CONSENT AGENDA AND BEGIN WITH
11:21:09AM COUNCILMAN VIERA, OUR CHAIR FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:21:11AM YES, MA'AM, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:21:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BEFORE WE START CONSENT AGENDA, I WAS WONDER
11:21:16AM GOING WE CAN GET THE NELSON CONSTRUCTION IN BEFORE LUNCH
11:21:19AM BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING HERE BEFORE.
11:21:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL DO THE CONSENT AGENDA AND GO TO
11:21:24AM ITEMS 6 AND 7.
11:21:26AM THEN NELSON BEEN BEFORE WE BREAK FOR LUNCH, THREE MINUTES
11:21:30AM FOR CHIEF BENNETT FOR THE ADMINISTRATION UPDATE.
11:21:32AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:21:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: IN THIS FIRST SECTION ITEMS NUMBER 12 AND
11:21:39AM 13, MY FIRM WORKS WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
11:21:43AM NOT ON THESE MATTERS BUT OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION STEP
11:21:48AM OUT ON 12 AND 13.
11:21:49AM IF YOU VOTE ON THEM SEPARATELY AND I CAN VOTE THE REST.
11:21:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE ITEMS 8-11 AND 14 AND 15.
11:22:00AM >> I MOVE 8-11 AND 14 AND 15.
11:22:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:22:06AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, STEP OUT OF THE ROOM AND TAKE ITEMS 12
11:22:09AM AND 13 SEPARATELY.
11:22:11AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE 12 AND 13.
11:22:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
11:22:15AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
11:22:16AM SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:22:17AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:22:18AM NEXT UP PARKS AND REC --
11:22:23AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I AM SORRY.
11:22:24AM WE CAN HAVE THE CLERK ANNOUNCE THE VOTE ON 12 AND 13.
11:22:29AM >>CLERK: ITEMS 12 AND 13, CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH
11:22:35AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON ABSTAINING.
11:22:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I MOVE ITEMS 16 AND 17.
11:22:39AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:22:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:22:42AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:22:43AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:22:44AM ALL RIGHT.
11:22:45AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:22:46AM CHAIR OF PUBLIC WORKS.
11:22:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 18-27.
11:22:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MANISCALCO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND
11:22:54AM FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:22:55AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:22:57AM OPPOSED.
11:22:57AM FINANCE COMMITTEE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:23:01AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: TAKEN CARE OF.
11:23:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:23:06AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:23:08AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:23:09AM OPPOSED.
11:23:10AM CARRIES.
11:23:11AM MOVE ALL BUT 35 AND 48.
11:23:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO MOVED.
11:23:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:23:20AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:23:21AM NEXT UP, CHAIRMAN CLENDENIN, TRANSPORTATION.
11:23:25AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOVE ITEMS 46-47.
11:23:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
11:23:33AM MIRANDA.
11:23:34AM ALL IN FAVOR.
11:23:35AM NUMBER 48 TO SET THE PUBLIC HEARING 815999 FOR JUNE 8, 2023
11:23:43AM AT 5:301.
11:23:45AM A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:23:46AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:23:48AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:23:49AM AT THIS TIME, WE WILL GO TO 6 AND 7 AND TAKE NELSON
11:23:55AM CONSTRUCTION R CONSTRUCTION AND CHIEF OF STAFF.
11:23:58AM WE MAY HAVE MORE TIME.
11:23:59AM ITEM NUMBER 6 FOR A SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE.
11:24:02AM YES, MA'AM.
11:24:02AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN AND COUNCIL, LaCHONE
11:24:09AM DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:24:10AM ITEM NUMBER 6 IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED TEXT AMENDMENT BEFORE
11:24:17AM YOU FOR A FIRST READING.
11:24:18AM I WOULD LIKE TO REFRESH COUNCIL'S MEMORY AND JUST BECAUSE WE
11:24:22AM HAVE A COUPLE NEW COUNCILMEMBERS, THE PROCESSING SCHEDULE
11:24:26AM FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM AND TOP BRING YOU WHY WITHER HERE
11:24:34AM TODAY.
11:24:34AM YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ITEM WAS HEARD BEFORE THE COUNCIL AT A
11:24:37AM WORKSHOP IN NOVEMBER OF '22.
11:24:40AM IT WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC HEARING IN JANUARY
11:24:43AM OF 23.
11:24:44AM AT THAT TIME, THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTED TO FIND THE
11:24:48AM REQUEST CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
11:24:50AM THIS ITEM CAME TO COUNCIL FOR FIRST READING IN FEBRUARY ON
11:24:53AM FEBRUARY 2.
11:24:54AM AT THAT TIME, THE APPLICANT REQUESTED TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM
11:24:58AM TO ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL OUTREACH AND ALSO TO MAKE CERTAIN
11:25:03AM MODIFICATIONS TO THE LANGUAGE.
11:25:04AM SO THIS REQUEST IS BACK BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING FOR FIRST
11:25:08AM READING AGAIN.
11:25:09AM AND IF THIS IS APPROVED, SECOND READING WILL BE HELD ON JUNE
11:25:12AM 15.
11:25:13AM SO I JUST WANTED TO REVIEW THAT TIME LINE WITH YOU.
11:25:16AM COUNCIL.
11:25:18AM ALSO, I PROVIDED FOR YOU STAFF FINDS.
11:25:20AM WITHIN THOSE FINDS, YOU WILL FIND THAT STAFF SUPPORTS THE
11:25:24AM REQUEST THAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT.
11:25:26AM THE APPLICANT IS ALEX SCHALER AND TYLER HUDSON.
11:25:30AM ALEX IS HERE TO PRESENT FOR YOU THE REQUEST.
11:25:33AM ALSO PROVIDED FOR YOU IS A DRAFT ORDINANCE.
11:25:38AM THE DRAFT ORDINANCE HAS BEEN SUBSTITUTED.
11:25:41AM I HAVE COPIES I WILL PROVIDE FOR THE RECORD.
11:25:43AM IT HAS BEEN MODIFIED TO EXCLUDE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT
11:25:47AM WERE MADE TO THE LANGUAGE SINCE THE FIRST ORDINANCE WAS
11:25:49AM UPLOADED FOR YOU.
11:25:50AM SO I HAVE THAT, AND I WILL PROVIDE THAT TO YOU ON THE
11:25:54AM RECORD.
11:25:54AM WHAT I WILL DO WITH THAT TURN IT OVER TO ALEX SCHALER, SHE
11:25:59AM IS HERE AND THE AIR FORCE AND WILL REVIEW THE REQUEST.
11:26:02AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MAY I JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
11:26:04AM WHEN YOU SAY A DRAFT ORDINANCE.
11:26:06AM SENT THROUGH SIRE AND FILED THROUGH THE CLERK.
11:26:10AM SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING.
11:26:13AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES.
11:26:13AM I JUST HAVE THE HARD COPY JUST IN CASE.
11:26:16AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY, THANK YOU.
11:26:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE COPIES HERE.
11:26:20AM THANK YOU.
11:26:21AM YES, MA'AM.
11:26:21AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
11:26:35AM ALEX SCHALER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
11:26:38AM I HAD LACHONE RUN THROUGH THE BACKGROUND STATES.
11:26:42AM I FILED IN BACK IN JANUARY '22.
11:26:44AM WE HAVE BEEN WORK ON THIS QUITE SOME TIME, A LITTLE OVER A
11:26:47AM YEAR WITH THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AND STAFF WHO HAVE BEEN
11:26:50AM VERY SUPPORTIVE AND HELPED US TWEAK THE LANGUAGE AND TWEAK
11:26:53AM THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AS WELL.
11:26:55AM THE REQUEST WE HAVE BEFORE YOU TODAY, THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY
11:26:58AM IS STILL PALM.
11:26:58AM EASTERN BOUNDARY THE YBOR CHANNEL AND NEBRASKA.
11:27:02AM THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY IS THE GARRISON CHANNEL AND WESTERN IS
11:27:07AM THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER.
11:27:08AM A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND HERE, THIS REQUEST APPLIES TO
11:27:13AM MULTIFAMILY PROBLEMS IN THE CDB PERIPHERY.
11:27:17AM WE NARROWED THE SCOPE OF THIS REQUEST.
11:27:21AM REMOVED HARBOUR ISLAND AND THE LAND WEST OF THE HILLSBOROUGH
11:27:25AM RIVER, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA PROPERTY, JUST OFF OF REQUESTS
11:27:28AM FROM THEM.
11:27:28AM THEY WERE NOT THE INTENDED BENEFICIARY OF THIS APPLICATION.
11:27:32AM ORIGINALLY THIS WAS OVERALL FOR THE CDB PERIPHERY AND TO
11:27:37AM MAKE THIS STRAIGHTFORWARD, THOSE AREAS HAVE BEEN REMOVED
11:27:41AM FROM THE REQUEST TODAY.
11:27:43AM THE AMENDMENTS WE HAVE BEFORE YOU ARE.
11:27:44AM RELATED TO PARKING, LOADING AND GREEN SPACE.
11:27:47AM A LOT OF THOSE CODE SECTIONS WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH YOU.
11:27:51AM A LOT OF THE WAIVERS WE REQUESTED ON OUR URBAN PDs IN THE
11:27:55AM PAST.
11:27:55AM TO SET THE TABLE, THIS APPLICATION IS NOT RELATED TO ANY
11:27:58AM SPECIFIC PROJECT UPCOMING.
11:28:00AM THIS DOESN'T PROCEED ANY SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT; HOWEVER, THIS
11:28:03AM IS US REVIEWING OUR PD THAT WE FILE IN THE URBAN CORE AND
11:28:09AM REALIZING WE ARE REQUESTING A LOT OF WAIVERS FOR THESE SAME
11:28:12AM CODE SECTIONS, LET'S CHANGE THE CODE TO APPLY TO MORE URBAN
11:28:18AM DEVELOPMENT.
11:28:18AM THE FIRST REQUEST IS IN REGARDS TO PARKING.
11:28:22AM THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA WITHIN THE CDB PERIPHERY THAT
11:28:27AM MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS IN THAT SPECIFIC AREA WILL BE HELD TO
11:28:30AM THE SAME PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR MULTIFAMILY AND
11:28:36AM THE CBD 0.75 SPACES PER UNIT.
11:28:38AM WE ARE BEING ASKED TO BE ELIMINATED FROM THE VISITOR
11:28:43AM PARKING.
11:28:43AM THIS IS NOT A NEW INTRODUCTION TO LAND IN THE CDB.
11:28:47AM THE SPECIAL DISTRICTS YBOR CITY AND CHANNELSIDE DON'T
11:28:51AM INCLUDE THAT .25 SPACES FOR VISITOR PARKING EITHER AND WE
11:28:57AM ARE REQUESTING THAT OTHER AREAS THAT ARE LEFT IN THE
11:28:59AM GEOGRAPHIC AREA BE WAIVED FROM THE VISITOR PARKING
11:29:03AM REQUIREMENTS AS WELL.
11:29:03AM THE NEXT REQUEST WITH REGARDS TO LOADING.
11:29:05AM THESE SHOULD BE VERY, VERY FAMILIAR CODE SECTIONS FOR YOU.
11:29:09AM WE ARE PROPOSING NO MORE -- THE DEVELOPMENTS REGARDLESS OF
11:29:12AM SIZE AND SQUARE FOOTAGE ARE ABLE TO USE A SINGLE LOADING
11:29:15AM BERTH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT.
11:29:16AM WE ARE ALSO ASKING TO REMOVE THE CONTINUOUS MANEUVER
11:29:20AM REQUIREMENT AS WELL.
11:29:21AM AGAIN, WAIVERS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN QUITE OFTEN HERE.
11:29:24AM AND THE LAST REQUEST IN REGARDS FOR GREEN SPACE.
11:29:27AM CURRENTLY THE WAY THE CODE READS, BUILDINGS SIX STORY OS ARE
11:29:32AM GREATER ALLOWED TO USE A PERCENTAGE OF THE LAND AFTER THE
11:29:34AM BUILDING FOOTPRINT CALCULATION; HOWEVER, SOME PROJECTS THAT
11:29:38AM AREN'T AS TALL, LESS THAN SIX STORY ARE HELD TO A PER UNIT
11:29:43AM THE WAY THE CODE READS.
11:29:44AM WE ARE PROPOSE POSING THAT ALL MULTI FAMILY BE ABLE TO
11:29:50AM CAPITALIZE ON THE PERCENTAGE OF PARCEL CALCULATION INSTEAD
11:29:55AM OF A PER UNITS CALCULATION.
11:29:56AM A GOOD COMPARISON AND I WAS TRYING TO BREAK IT DOWN AND NOT
11:30:00AM BE SO TECH CAL WHEN IT COMES TO THE MATH.
11:30:05AM WITH THE CBS PERIPHERY, DENSITY AS F.A.R. INSTEAD OF PER
11:30:12AM UNIT AND OF GREEN SPACE OF THE UNIT, BECAUSE THIS IS AN
11:30:17AM EXAMPLE OF THE PLAN AND ESTIMATED NUMBERS.
11:30:18AM WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED GREEN SPACE FOR A DEVELOPMENT OF 100
11:30:22AM UNITS IF SHORTER THAN SIX STORIES 1.27 ACRES.
11:30:27AM IF BY THE PERCENTAGE CALCULATION REQUIRED ABOUT .13 OR .14
11:30:35AM FOR OUR URBAN AND THE BUILDING PERMITS ARE PUSHED FAR BACK
11:30:41AM FOR PROJECTS JUST OUTSIDE OF THE URBAN CORE.
11:30:47AM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND IF YOU HAVE ANY
11:30:49AM QUESTIONS, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
11:30:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:30:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:30:57AM I SAW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AREA.
11:30:59AM IS THIS ONE WHERE THE DEVELOPER CAN PARK THEIR CAR ANYWHERE
11:31:03AM THEY WANT.
11:31:04AM >> WE TOOK THAT PORTION OUT FROM THE REQUEST.
11:31:06AM IN ADDITION TO THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA BEING LIMITED.
11:31:10AM THE ORIGINAL APPLICATION DID INCLUDE LANGUAGE THAT ALLOWED
11:31:14AM 25% OF ON-STREET PARKING TO BE COUNTING TOWARD YOUR ZONING
11:31:19AM PARKING AND A LITTLE CONFUSING OF BEING ABLE TO PARK.
11:31:23AM AGAIN, IT WASN'T KNOWN IN THE SAY THAT ONLY.
11:31:26AM DEVELOPMENT CAN PARK -- IT WOULD SAY THESE ARE STREET SPOTS,
11:31:31AM PARKING.
11:31:36AM AND THAT HAS BEEN REMOVED AND WILL BE VISITED LATER.
11:31:40AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEY ARE NOT BRINGING THIS UP.
11:31:41AM I WONDER WHY.
11:31:42AM I GLAD YOU ADDRESSED IT.
11:31:44AM THIS MUST BE SOMETHING COMING UP THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
11:31:47AM >> I THINK IT WILL BE ADDRESSED IN A LARGER UPDATE.
11:31:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I REMEMBER TAKING THE HEAT VOTING AGAINST
11:31:55AM SOMETHING THAT I REALLY LIKED.
11:31:56AM THE PARKING WAS CLOSE TO UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA AND THEY
11:32:03AM WANTED .04 AND THEY NEEDED .02.
11:32:11AM WHY DO WE HAVE A TRANSIT PROBLEM.
11:32:14AM NEVER SAID I AM SMART.
11:32:17AM AND WITH MY ONE-CELL BRAIN, MAYBE GET NEW EYES AND GET NEW
11:32:23AM GLASSES BECAUSE YOU ARE SEEING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE.
11:32:25AM WE HAVE MORE ACCIDENTS.
11:32:26AM MORE PEOPLE GETTING IN ACCIDENTS THAN EVER BEFORE.
11:32:28AM I AM NOT BLAMING ANYBODY, BUT WE HAVE OTHER THINGS IN LIFE
11:32:32AM THAT WAS NEVER USED BEFORE LIKE TEXTING WHILE YOU ARE
11:32:36AM DRIVING.
11:32:36AM TRYING TO LIGHT YOUR CIGARETTE, TEXT AND DRIVE AT THE SAME
11:32:41AM TIME.
11:32:41AM TRYING TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU ARE GOING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE
11:32:43AM BECAUSE ALL CARS ARE AROUND YOU AND YOU WANT TO TEXT, DRIVE
11:32:46AM AND SMOKE AT THE SAME TIME.
11:32:48AM THAT IS YOUR HAVING ACCIDENTS.
11:32:50AM BUT I JUST -- I -- I -- I DON'T KNOW OF THE CONTEXT OF
11:32:55AM EVERYTHING HERE BECAUSE IT IS ALL -- YOU HAVE A LOT OF PAGES
11:32:58AM AND I AM NOT SAYING YOU ARE RIGHT OR NOT RIGHT, BUT SO MUCH
11:33:02AM TO ALLOW, YOU KNOW, 1500 SQUARE FOOT ON A PARCEL.
11:33:10AM THAT IS ONE THING.
11:33:11AM LOADING DOCK.
11:33:12AM I CAN UNDERSTAND THE LOADING DOCK, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY
11:33:16AM WANT TWO 60-FOOTERS AND ONE 30.
11:33:20AM LET ME GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
11:33:21AM DOWN ASHLEY STREET, JACKSON AND YOU MAKE A LEFT.
11:33:24AM YOU ARE LUCKY YOU DON'T GET WHAT THE CITY PUT AN ISLAND
11:33:29AM SAYING HIT ME.
11:33:30AM I'M HERE.
11:33:31AM AND LOADING DOCKS RIGHT NEXT TO IT AND THE TRAFFIC BACKS UP
11:33:36AM RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE YOU HAVE THREE LOADING DOCKS.
11:33:39AM AND ONE OF THEM -- IS COMPLETELY FULL BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE
11:33:44AM THAT THROWS IN THE REMAINS OF SOMETHING SO THE PEOPLE FROM
11:33:46AM SOLID WASTE CAN REMOVE IT.
11:33:47AM I UNDERSTAND ALL THAT.
11:33:48AM BUT IT HAS GOT TO BE DONE SOMEWHERE WHERE WE DON'T IMPEDE
11:33:53AM TRAFFIC ANYMORE.
11:33:54AM I AM SURE YOU ARE WITH THIS.
11:33:57AM AND I AM SURE THIS IS HELPING.
11:33:59AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A TRACTOR-TRAILER BEING MOVED BUT DON'T
11:34:03AM CREATE SOMETHING FROM THE OTHERS THAT WANT TO GET FROM
11:34:08AM POINT A TO POINT B AND A SEMI BACKING OUT OF A BUILDING.
11:34:13AM WE ARE GROWING.
11:34:14AM THANK GOD WE ARE.
11:34:15AM OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS, GRANDKIDS AND FUTURE FAMILY
11:34:19AM OF YOURS TO STAY IN TAMPA, A NUMBER ONE PLACE TO LIVE.
11:34:22AM NUMBER ONE IN THE COUNTRY IN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.
11:34:24AM BUT I WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND YOU FOR TAKING THAT OUT RELATING
11:34:29AM TO THE PARKING OF CARS ON PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:34:32AM I THINK IT IS JUST -- BEFORE WE USE THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY,
11:34:36AM EVERYBODY IS ENTITLED TO IT.
11:34:38AM THAT IS TRUE BEFORE YOU BUILD YOUR BUILDING.
11:34:40AM AFTER THAT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE CARE OF WHATEVER YOU
11:34:44AM ARE BUILDING.
11:34:44AM SO I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
11:34:46AM AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT MIGHT CREATE MY HAIRS TO CURL.
11:34:51AM OR IS THAT IS IT?
11:34:54AM >> I THINK THAT IS IT.
11:34:55AM I THINK FOR THE LOADING FOR PREDOMINANTLY MULTIFAMILY
11:34:59AM PROJECTS.
11:34:59AM NOT THE BIG COMMERCIAL HOTEL DROP-OFFS.
11:35:03AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND.
11:35:03AM I AM NOT AGAINST THAT.
11:35:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:35:08AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN YOU GO BACK TO -- ONE OF THE FIRST
11:35:10AM SLIDES HAS A MAP ON IT.
11:35:12AM YEAH, THAT ONE.
11:35:13AM GO BACK -- THE ONE YOU HAD.
11:35:16AM FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR TAKING HARBOUR ISLAND OUT OF IT.
11:35:20AM BUT WHAT HI REALIZE THIS INCLUDES THE MARITIME LAND AROUND
11:35:25AM THE CHANNEL.
11:35:25AM I JUST -- JUST TO TELL MY COLLEAGUES, THERE IS A MOVEMENT BY
11:35:31AM PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS TO SHUT DOWN THE PORT.
11:35:35AM AND STARTING WITH THAT PERIOD ALONG THERE, THEY JUST GOT
11:35:38AM FIVE PAGES IN THE BUSINESS JOURNAL THE OTHER DAY HOW THE
11:35:41AM CRUISE AGENCY IS SO STUPID AND BACKWARDS IF WE CAN GET RID
11:35:45AM OF THE UGLY STUFF ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
11:35:47AM AND I AM GOING TO COME BACK WITH SOME PROPOSALS TO PROTECT
11:35:49AM THE LAND.
11:35:50AM THE LAND AT THE END OF THE CHANNEL WAS REZONED 15 OR 20
11:35:57AM YEARS AGO.
11:35:57AM THE LANDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CHANNEL, WE NEED TO PROTECT
11:36:01AM AT ALL COST.
11:36:03AM WHAT YOU DON'T SEE IS A PENINSULA TO THE RIGHT.
11:36:07AM ALL THE LAND HAS BEEN DESIGNATED ALREADY.
11:36:10AM AND LAND THEY WILL RECLAIM THROUGH DREDGING.
11:36:13AM THERE IS AN ARGUMENT MOVE THE UGLY STUFF SOMEWHERE ELSE.
11:36:16AM THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TOLL MOVE IT.
11:36:19AM I WILL COME BACK AND DISCUSS THAT FOR ANOTHER DAY.
11:36:21AM BUT I WANT TO ASK THE APPLICANT AND LEGAL, WHAT IS THE
11:36:24AM IMPLICATION TO THAT LAND ALONG THE STRIP OF THE CHANNEL
11:36:28AM WHERE THE CRUISE TERMINALS ARE NOW.
11:36:35AM OF SOMEONE'S POLITICAL TO RIP OUT THE BLUE COLLAR IN THE
11:36:42AM PORT OR BUILD CONDOS OR JUST HAPPEN TO COVER IN IF SOMETHING
11:36:46AM CHANGES IN THE FUTURE?
11:36:50AM >> I CAN JUST ADDRESS THIS INITIALLY BEFORE YOU ADD
11:36:52AM SOMETHING.
11:36:52AM AS MENTIONED THIS IS NOT -- I FILED THIS PERMANENTLY.
11:36:56AM NOT RELATED TO A SPECIFIC APPLICATION.
11:36:58AM THE SCOPE OF THIS IS PARKING, LOADING AND GREEN SPACE FROM
11:37:02AM THE APPLICANT'S PERSPECTIVE BUT I WILL LET YOU SPEAK TO THAT
11:37:05AM TOO.
11:37:05AM >>DANA CROSBY-COLLIER: DANA CROSBY-COLLIER, CITY ATTORNEY'S
11:37:13AM OFFICE.
11:37:13AM THIS WILL BE AN APPLICATION OF MULTIFAMILY IN THIS AREA.
11:37:17AM >>BILL CARLSON: DOES THIS MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO RIP
11:37:20AM OUT THE CRUISE TERMINALS AND BUILD MULTIFAMILY THERE.
11:37:24AM OR ONLY IF THAT HAPPENED, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO FOLLOW THESE
11:37:28AM RULES.
11:37:29AM >>DANA CROSBY-COLLIER: THAT'S CORRECT.
11:37:30AM THEY WILL REQUIRE THE REZONING AND THE APPLICATION, THE
11:37:32AM SITE PLAN, EVERYTHING TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.
11:37:35AM THEN AS THE DEVELOPMENT STARTED TO BE -- TO BE ENTITLED AT
11:37:40AM THAT POINT IN TIME, THIS TYPE OF REGULATION WOULD KICK IN.
11:37:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: AGAIN, THIS IS QUASI JUDICIAL --
11:37:49AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WANT TO CHIME IN TO LET YOU KNOW A BROAD
11:37:52AM A APPLICABILITY.
11:37:54AM IT IS LEGISLATIVE.
11:37:55AM NOT QUASI-JUDICIAL BUT IT HAS THE EFFECT OF CODE
11:37:59AM REQUIREMENTS THAT COMPLY TO DEVELOPMENTS WHEN THEY COME IN,
11:38:02AM WHETHER IT IS SITE PLAN OR PERMITTING.
11:38:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE -- IT IS LEGISLATIVE.
11:38:07AM THAT IS WHAT I MEANT.
11:38:08AM SORRY, I GOT OFF A PLANE LATE LAST NIGHT.
11:38:12AM THE POINT IS THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO REPLACE
11:38:17AM LOW-LEVEL SERVICE JOBS -- HIGH-LEVEL BLUE COLLAR JOBS WITH
11:38:21AM LOW-LEVEL SERVICE JOBS BECAUSE SOMEBODY WILL MAKE A QUICK
11:38:24AM BUCK ON CONDOS IN THE SHORT RUN.
11:38:26AM PLENTY OF PLACES DOWNTOWN TO BUILD CONDOS.
11:38:28AM NO PLACE ELSE TO MOVE THE MARITIME INDUSTRY.
11:38:32AM WE HAVE A LIMITED DEEP WATER CHANNELS.
11:38:34AM THIS IS ONE OF THEM.
11:38:35AM WE NEED TO PROTECT AT ALL COST THAT LAND.
11:38:39AM THE IDIOTS THAT ARE PUSHING FOR THIS WE NEED TO PUSH BACK
11:38:43AM AND SAY WE CANNOT GIVE UP HIGH-PAYING BLUE COLLAR JOBS.
11:38:48AM IN 50 OR 100 YEARS MORE LAND FOR THE MARITIME INDUSTRY, NOT
11:38:53AM LESS.
11:38:53AM STRATEGIC, IMAGINE IF WE HAVE TO GET OUR OIL FROM MIAMI, HOW
11:38:58AM WILL THAT CHANGE US IN -- IN A HURRICANE AND OTHER KINDS OF
11:39:02AM SITUATIONS.
11:39:02AM WE HAVE TO RESIST THE ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OUT THE MARITIME
11:39:08AM INDUSTRY.
11:39:08AM AND JUST -- THE CRUISE INDUSTRY IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
11:39:12AM THEY WANTON GO AFTER THE REST OF IT.
11:39:15AM PLENTY OF LAND AND WANT TO FOCUS ON OTHER AREAS.
11:39:18AM I WILL WANT TO SEND THIS MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR TO FIGHT FOR
11:39:21AM THE MARITIME LAND.
11:39:23AM END OF THE CHANNEL BY THE SELMON WAS REZONED 10 TO 20 YEARS
11:39:28AM AGO.
11:39:29AM WE CAN'T PROTECT THAT, THE OTHER LAND NEAR THE CHANNEL, I
11:39:34AM WILL HAVE 1,000 PEOPLE IF ANY PLANS TO CONVERT THAT.
11:39:36AM AN IDIOTIC PROPOSAL.
11:39:38AM THANK YOU.
11:39:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
11:39:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ON THAT ISSUE, I THINK WE CAN LIVE TO
11:39:46AM FIGHT ANOTHER DAY ON THAT.
11:39:47AM AND MAYBE WE WILL HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS OF BEST USE OF
11:39:50AM LAND.
11:39:50AM BUT ON THIS PROPOSAL, THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THING --
11:39:54AM WENT I RAN FOR CITY COUNCIL THAT I WANTED TO ENCOURAGE.
11:39:56AM I MAY ONLY HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL FOR A FEW WEEKS, BUT I HAVE
11:40:00AM BEEN A POLITICAL GEEK AND WATCHED THESE MEETINGS FOR A LONG
11:40:03AM TIME.
11:40:03AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT FRUSTRATED ME AS A CITIZEN, WE KEEP
11:40:07AM HAVING TO GO BACK THROUGH PROCESS EVEN THOUGH WE KEEP
11:40:10AM APPROVING THINGS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
11:40:12AM IF WE -- IF WE ARE ROUTINELY APPROVING SOMETHING, WHY DON'T
11:40:16AM WE CHANGE THE RULES TO CONFORM WITH WHAT THE REAL WORLD IS.
11:40:19AM I APPLAUD THE FOLKS INVOLVED IN THIS.
11:40:21AM AND I HOPE AS WE LOOK FURTHER IN THE PROCEDURES OVER THE
11:40:25AM NEXT FEW YEARS, WE LOOK FOR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO
11:40:27AM STREAMLINE PROCESS AND DO BETTER WORK FOR BOTH THE PEOPLE
11:40:30AM WHO LIVE HERE AND THE PEOPLE THAT DO BILLS IN THE CITY OF
11:40:33AM TAMPA.
11:40:33AM SO I THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
11:40:36AM AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:40:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:40:39AM MR. SHELBY.
11:40:41AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THIS IS ON FOR FIRST-READING CONSIDERATION.
11:40:44AM IT IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING.
11:40:45AM WILL COME BACK IF APPROVED BY COUNCIL FOR A SECOND READING
11:40:49AM AND PUBLIC HEARING.
11:40:50AM YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM CONSTITUENTS IF THERE
11:40:53AM ARE ANY ISSUELESS.
11:40:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MR. CARLSON.
11:40:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I ASK A TECHNICAL QUESTION, POSSIBLE TO
11:41:00AM MOVE THE EASTERN BOUNDARY BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING?
11:41:10AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:41:13AM AS FAR AS THE BOUNDARY, IT IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED TEXT
11:41:17AM AMENDMENTS.
11:41:17AM THE APPLICANT CAN STATE IF THEY AGREE TO ELIMINATE THE
11:41:22AM BOUNDARY OF THE EASTERN PORTION.
11:41:23AM LET THE APPLICANT --
11:41:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL PROPOSE NORTH OF THE AQUARIUM, YOU
11:41:30AM TAKE THE LAND BETWEEN THE CHANNEL AND CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AND
11:41:33AM JUST -- YOU JUST DRAW A LINE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT WHERE THAT
11:41:36AM INLET IS UP THERE AND SAY THAT THE CRUISE TERMINAL AREAS ARE
11:41:41AM EXCLUDED FROM IT.
11:41:42AM >> I WILL SAY THAT THOSE ARE ALL IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:41:46AM A LOT OF THIS STUFF IS ALREADY THERE IN THE CODE IN TERMS OF
11:41:50AM REDUCED LOADING REQUIREMENTS, REDUCED PARKING, AND SPECIFIC
11:41:55AM GREEN SPACE CODES.
11:41:56AM >>BILL CARLSON: I AM JUST GOING TO VOTE AGAINST IT BEFORE
11:42:00AM THE BUSINESS JOURNAL PROTOTYPES WRITES A STORY OF HOW I AM
11:42:04AM AGAINST DEVELOPING DOWNTOWN.
11:42:05AM I AM IN FAVOR OF KEEPING THE MARITIME INDUSTRY WHICH IS A
11:42:09AM MUCH BIGGER ISSUE THAN BUILDING A FEW CONDOS DOWNTOWN.
11:42:13AM PLEASE QUOTE ME ON THAT.
11:42:15AM I WILL VOTE AGAINST IT.
11:42:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:42:18AM THAT'S IT.
11:42:19AM WE DON'T TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:42:21AM IT IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING.
11:42:22AM SOMEONE READ A SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE.
11:42:24AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ IT?
11:42:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AND I
11:42:32AM UNDERSTAND THAT THE BUILDING, THE INDIVIDUALS TO RUN THE
11:42:35AM PORT, A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR OPERATION FOR THE WHOLE AREA NOT
11:42:44AM JUST THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:42:45AM WHAT THEY DO -- NOT JUST CRUISE SHIPS BUT WHAT THEY DO ALL
11:42:48AM OVER THE AREA AND MOST LIKELY THE LARGEST EMPLOYER AND
11:42:52AM INCORRECTLY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA BECAUSE OF -- NOT WHAT THEY
11:42:58AM DO THEMSELVES BUT HOW MANY CORPORATIONS THAT WORK OUT OF
11:43:02AM THERE AND WHO THEY HIRE.
11:43:03AM I AM NOT AGAINST THIS.
11:43:04AM THEY TOOK THE PARKING OUT IS THE ONE THING THAT WAS
11:43:08AM BOTHERING ME.
11:43:09AM BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF GUIDANCE
11:43:13AM THAT THE PORT IN ANY WAY WILL NOT BE HINDERED.
11:43:15AM THAT'S ALL I WANT.
11:43:17AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF GROWTH
11:43:25AM MANAGEMENT.
11:43:25AM I AM TRYING TO YIELD IN ON WHAT THE CONCERN IS RELATED HERE
11:43:28AM SO I MIGHT BE ABLE TO EITHER ANSWER THAT QUESTION, OR WE CAN
11:43:34AM -- RIGHT NOW THE PORT PROPERTY IS IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:43:37AM IT IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE PORT.
11:43:39AM SHOULD THE PORT EVER WANT TO DO ANYTHING ON THIS PROPERTY,
11:43:43AM THEY WOULD NEED TO COME AND REZONE WHICH WOULD COME BEFORE
11:43:46AM YOU IN THAT INSTANCE FOR ANY SORT OF WAIVERS OR OTHER
11:43:52AM STANDARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THIS PROPERTY.
11:43:53AM SO MUCH THE CHANNEL DISTRICT HAS ITS OWN CODE.
11:44:00AM UP SAW ONE REZONING FOR THEM LAST THURSDAY NIGHT THAT HAD
11:44:03AM SOME WAIVERS ON IT.
11:44:04AM SO IF I -- IF YOU CAN JUST ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT.
11:44:08AM I WANT TO BE SURE I CAN I AM ANSWERING THE QUESTION AND SURE
11:44:12AM THAT I UNDERSTAND ANY IMPLICATIONS THAT YOU MIGHT THINK
11:44:16AM WOULD BE HAPPENING THROUGH THIS TEXT AMENDMENT.
11:44:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WELL, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET INTO A
11:44:24AM CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSE WHEN YOU SUGGEST
11:44:27AM CONCEPTUAL BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE WE
11:44:31AM ARE DOING SOMETHING IN A WAY THAT IS NORMAL, BUT ABNORMAL
11:44:34AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT.
11:44:35AM THE ONE YOU ALLUDED TO LAST THURSDAY WAS ON THE NORTHERN
11:44:39AM WEST SIDE OF THE YELLOW LINE OF THE EAST SIDE OF THIS MAP.
11:44:44AM AND THAT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:44:46AM 225 OR 227 UNITS, IF I RECALL AND THREE ITEMS ON THAT THAT
11:44:52AM THEY ENDED UP BUILDING, RESIDENTIAL AND A HOTEL AND I FORGOT
11:44:56AM THE THIRD ONE.
11:44:57AM PASSED, I BELIEVE, UNANIMOUSLY.
11:44:59AM WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
11:45:01AM LIKE LOOKING AT A GHOST.
11:45:06AM YOU HEAR A VOICE AND YOU DON'T SEE A BODY.
11:45:11AM I AM NOT TRYING TO BE COMICAL BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT
11:45:15AM IS.
11:45:15AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I THINK I UNDERSTAND.
11:45:16AM WHAT THIS TEXT AMENDMENT FOR MULTIFAMILY PARKING WITHIN THE
11:45:19AM PERIPHERY AREA, THAT IN LIEU OF -- AND I THINK IT IS IN THE
11:45:26AM ANALYSIS THAT LACHONE PROVIDED THAT YOU REVIEWED.
11:45:30AM IF YOU HAVE 101 BEDROOM UNITS IN THAT AREA, YOU WOULD OWE
11:45:36AM 175 SPACES, RIGHT.
11:45:38AM WITH THIS AMENDMENT, IF PUFF 100 UNITS, YOU OWE 75 SPACES.
11:45:43AM SO CHANGING THE PARKING RATIO WHEN THOSE PROJECTS COME IN.
11:45:47AM RIGHT NOW IF THAT PROJECT HAD 75 SPACES AND CAME IN FOR A
11:45:51AM REZONING, IT WOULD BE ASKING YOU FOR A WAIVER, RIGHT.
11:45:54AM 175 TO 75 AND YOU WOULD CONSIDER THAT.
11:45:56AM IT IS JUST CHANGING THE RATIO THAT THEY GET TO USE TO BE
11:46:01AM SIMILAR TO THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT RATIO.
11:46:05AM BUT IT WILL HAVE TO HAPPEN AS THE PROJECTS ARE HAPPENING.
11:46:08AM IS THAT --
11:46:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THERE AGAIN -- AND I'M HERE -- YOU ARE
11:46:15AM MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN I AM.
11:46:17AM I ALWAYS SAY THE WHAT.
11:46:18AM WHAT IF THIS IS ALLOWED AND GOES UP.
11:46:21AM WHAT IF THE CALCULATIONS WERE WRONG.
11:46:23AM YOU GO FROM 175 TO 75, RIGHT.
11:46:26AM YOU ARE MISSING 100 PARKING SPACES, RIGHT.
11:46:30AM WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PARK?
11:46:32AM UNDERGROUND?
11:46:34AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THIS IS A CHALLENGE WE FACE WHEN YOU ISSUE
11:46:37AM WAIVERS ALSO.
11:46:38AM AND WE SAY, OKAY, THEY NEEDED 60 SPACE HE IS AND WAIVED DOWN
11:46:44AM TO FOUR AND NOW NOT OPERATING AND SOMETHING WE HAVE TO SPEAK
11:46:47AM TO DEVELOPERS ABOUT TOO TO SAY THAT YOU NEED TO BE REALISTIC
11:46:51AM IN YOUR OPERATION OF THE MULTIFAMILY AND THE OPERATION OF
11:46:54AM YOUR COMMERCIAL HOW THAT IS -- HOW THAT IS SUPPORTED.
11:46:57AM THIS WILL BE ON A PER REQUEST TYPE OF BASIS.
11:46:59AM I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT WILL HAVE ANY ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE
11:47:04AM PORT AS THEY CONTROL THAT PROPERTY IN ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
11:47:09AM WOULD THEN BE COMING EITHER TO YOU OR FUNCTIONS UNDER THE
11:47:13AM CHANNEL DISTRICT ZONING THAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE.
11:47:17AM SO, I JUST WANTED IF I COULD TO CLARIFY ANYTHING ELSE, I
11:47:21AM WOULD LOVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.
11:47:24AM IF NOT, OBVIOUSLY IT IS YOUR CHOICE OF HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO
11:47:28AM PROCEED WITH THIS.
11:47:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:47:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT I BE GIVEN
11:47:34AM TWO MORE ADDITIONAL WEEKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS AND THE
11:47:37AM EFFECTS AROUND THE AREA IF THAT IS OKAY WITH COUNCIL.
11:47:40AM THAT A MOTION.
11:47:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THIS.
11:47:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS SO I CAN
11:47:45AM LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TO MAKE A BET EVERY DECISION.
11:47:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. SHELBY, THAT IS APPROPRIATE, I DON'T
11:47:53AM SEE ANY PROBLEM WITH IS THAT?
11:47:54AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THAT'S CORRECT.
11:47:56AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: A PRIVATELY INITIATED AMENDMENT.
11:47:58AM SO THE APPLICANT WILL COME -- IF THEY ARE WILLING TO TAKE
11:48:02AM THE CONTINUANCE.
11:48:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WOULD YOU BE AMENABLE TO A CONTINUANCE
11:48:07AM UNTIL JUNE 1, OUR NEXT CITY COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION.
11:48:10AM >> SURE, THAT IS FINE.
11:48:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY OBJECTION FROM COUNCIL.
11:48:13AM I WOULD LIKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM, ITEM NUMBER 6,
11:48:16AM TO JUNE 1.
11:48:17AM WE WILL PUT IT ON THE BEGINNING OF THE AGENDA UNDER
11:48:22AM COMMITTEE REPORT, CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.
11:48:24AM A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
11:48:26AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY?
11:48:30AM >>BILL CARLSON: I SECONDED IT BEFORE.
11:48:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON WITH THE MOTION.
11:48:33AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:48:36AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:48:37AM THIS IS TO CONTINUE THIS UNTIL JUNE 1.
11:48:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH APPROXIMATELY YES, SIR.
11:48:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE MORE LAST COMMENT.
11:48:44AM AS YOU ALL ARE RESEARCHING THIS, THIS BY ITSELF WILL NOT
11:48:48AM ALLOW DEVELOPMENT WHERE THE CRUISE TERMINALS ARE, AND, YES,
11:48:52AM THE PORT CONTROLS THE LAND AND THEY WILL HAVE TO JUMP
11:48:55AM THROUGH A LOT OF HOOPS -- CITY COUNCIL -- YOU CAN'T SEE
11:48:57AM WHERE I AM POINTING 15 OR 20 YEARS AGO ALLOWED THE MOST
11:49:01AM VALUABLE PIECE OF PROPERTY, PRIVATELY OWNED IN THE NORTHERN
11:49:05AM PART OF THE CHANNEL.
11:49:06AM THAT WAS REZONED AND THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REZONED AND
11:49:12AM TOO LATE.
11:49:12AM WE CAN'T DO THAT.
11:49:13AM AND THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
11:49:15AM BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY LAND FOR THE MARITIME INDUSTRY TO MOVE
11:49:20AM TO.
11:49:20AM IF WE ALLOW SOMEONE TO GO WHERE THE CRUISE TERMINALS ARE AND
11:49:24AM BUILD CONDOS, NICE WHEN IT IS FIRST DONE AND SOMEBODY WILL
11:49:28AM MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND PEOPLE WILL HAVE WATERFRONT VIEWS,
11:49:31AM BUT A VIEW OF ALL THE STUFF ACROSS THE STREET.
11:49:33AM WE FOUND THE CLOSER AND CLOSER, PEOPLE COMPLAIN OF THE UGLY
11:49:37AM STUFF ACROSS THERE.
11:49:38AM NOWHERE ELSE TO MOVE IT.
11:49:40AM STRATEGIC INDUSTRY.
11:49:41AM THOUSANDS OF HIGH-PAYING BLUE COLLAR JOBS JUST FOR THE ONE
11:49:46AM IN THE NORTHERN PART.
11:49:47AM 500 HIGH-PAYING BLUE COLLAR JOBS.
11:49:50AM WE WILL NOT REPLACE THOSE.
11:49:52AM THE REASON IS -- OH, WE WILL JUST MOVE THAT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
11:49:55AM THAT BUILDING, UNFORTUNATELY THE FOUNDER PASSED AWAY.
11:49:58AM IT WILL NOT EXIST.
11:50:00AM I WILL RECOMMEND THAT YOU TALK TO THE PORT ABOUT THE DANGERS
11:50:03AM OF -- OF ENCROACHING ON -- ALL THIS WILL DO IS -- IT WOULD
11:50:08AM -- IF -- I WOULD VOTE FOR IT IF IT EXCLUDED THAT PORT
11:50:12AM PROPERTY RIGHT UP TO THE INLET.
11:50:14AM OTHER THAN THAT, I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE
11:50:17AM IT EASIER IN THE FUTURE TO CONVERT THAT PROPERTY.
11:50:20AM >> MAY I ANSWER COUNCILMAN CARLSON FOR A MOMENT.
11:50:24AM YOU BROUGHT THAT UP THE MARITIME WORKING WITH THE PLANNING
11:50:31AM COMMISSION TO HAVE POLICIES THAT ADDRESS THAT PROTECTION.
11:50:33AM I DO -- JUST A PARALLEL TO THIS, YOU ARE CONTINUING TO TRACK
11:50:36AM THAT AND ENSURING THOSE PROTECTIONS AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE
11:50:40AM COMP PLAN UPDATE AS WELL.
11:50:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO SIT AT THE PORT TO
11:50:48AM APOLLO BEACH.
11:50:49AM NO MORE LAND.
11:50:51AM THE RECLAIMED LAND, ALL HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED ALREADY.
11:50:54AM NO ROOM TO GROW.
11:50:55AM IF WE SAY WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AND GET RID OF THAT, NO MORE
11:50:59AM ROOM AND SHRINK OUR PORT IN A TIME WHEN WE NEED MORE OF IT.
11:51:03AM WE NEED TO THINK OF A DYNAMIC ECONOMY AND NOT JUST AN
11:51:08AM ECONOMY WITH ONE LEG.
11:51:09AM REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
11:51:13AM LOOK AT DOWNTOWN.
11:51:14AM WE NEED MORE OF IT BUT NOT TO MAKE THE MARITIME LAND.
11:51:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS ITEM HAS BEEN CONTINUED UNTIL JUNE
11:51:21AM 1.
11:51:22AM ITEM NUMBER.
11:51:25AM A SCRIVENER'S ERROR, I BELIEVE.
11:51:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
11:51:31AM >>CATE WELLS: CATE WELLS WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:51:34AM YES, ITEM NUMBER 7, ORDINANCE CORRECTING A SCRIVENER'S ERROR
11:51:43AM THAT WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 23.
11:51:46AM THE CHANGE IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION DOES NOT IMPACT HOW THIS
11:51:49AM WAS ADVERTISED FOR THE HEARINGS IN 2022 FOR DOES IT REQUIRE
11:51:52AM AN AMENDMENT TO THE SITE PLAN.
11:51:54AM SO WE WILL ASK COUNCIL THAT YOU APPROVE THE ORDINANCE.
11:51:57AM AND I KNOW MR. PORTER, THE APPLICANT'S AGENT IS PRESENT IF
11:52:02AM YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:52:04AM THANK YOU.
11:52:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. PORTER, ANYTHING?
11:52:06AM NO, SIR?
11:52:09AM ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS SUNSHINE IN COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:52:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: ITEM NUMBER 7, ORDINANCE AMENDING 2022-205
11:52:23AM WHICH HAVE REZONED THE PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:52:27AM 4848 EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD AND 2941 NORTH HYALEAH ROAD IN THE
11:52:36AM CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, TO CORRECT A SCRIVENER'S ERROR OF
11:52:40AM EXHIBIT A TO SAID AND REPLACING SAME WITH THE ATTACHED AND
11:52:44AM CORRECT EXHIBIT A PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:52:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
11:52:49AM SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
11:52:52AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:52:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:52:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:52:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:52:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:52:58AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:52:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:53:00AM >>CLERK: WE -- MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
11:53:03AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION HELD ON JUNE 15, 2023 AT 9:30
11:53:09AM A.M.
11:53:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:53:10AM WE ARE NOW GOING TO ITEM NUMBER 58 WHICH IS NELSON
11:53:13AM CONSTRUCTION TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE.
11:53:16AM THEN A CHIEF OF STAFF FOR A QUICK ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE AND
11:53:20AM THEN STOP AND BREAK FOR LUNCH.
11:53:22AM MR. BAIRD.
11:53:24AM >>BRAD BAIRD: GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL, BRAD BAIRD, DEPUTY
11:53:29AM ADMINISTRATOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:53:30AM I'M HERE TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON SOUTHEAST SEMINOLE HEIGHTS
11:53:33AM STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
11:53:35AM I HAVE WITH ME WRINKLE STOCK OF NELSON CONSTRUCTION TO FIRST
11:53:40AM PROVIDE AN UPDATE AND THEN WE HAVE ONLINE, WE HAVE BRIAN
11:53:47AM HUNTER WITH D.O.T. AND WILL PROVIDE AND UPDATE OF THE SHORT
11:53:51AM WORK THEY HAVE ONGOING AS WELL.
11:53:52AM AND WILL.
11:53:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR.
11:54:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU ZOOM OUT JUST A LITTLE BIT?
11:54:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
11:54:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:54:15AM >>BRAD BAIRD: I THINK THEY DO IT IN THE BACK.
11:54:17AM >> I WILL GIVE YOU GUYS AN UPDATE ON 9 PROJECT AS WE ARE
11:54:22AM SEEING RIGHT NOW.
11:54:22AM RIVERSIDE PARK.
11:54:24AM THE WORK IS ALMOST COMPLETE, EXCEPT FOR A GRASS PLUGS IN THE
11:54:28AM TURF BLOCK DRIVEWAY.
11:54:29AM RIGHT HERE.
11:54:30AM AS WELL AS A LITTLE BIT OF SOD THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AS
11:54:35AM WELL ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:54:36AM ON CREST, WORK IS COMPLETED EXCEPT FOR OF THE FINAL LIFT OF
11:54:43AM ASPHALT IN THE HIGHLAND INTERCONNECTION.
11:54:45AM ON FRIERSON, WATER MAIN IS COMPLETELY CONNECTED TO THE
11:54:50AM CITY'S SYSTEM.
11:54:51AM ALL THE REMAINING CURB INLETS WAITING FOR THE OLD WATER MAIN
11:54:55AM TO BE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE HAS BEEN INSTALLED.
11:54:57AM ROAD BUILDING IS UNDER WAY WITH A FIRST COUPLE OF BLOCKS OF
11:55:01AM CURBS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK.
11:55:02AM AND ASPHALT SCHEDULED THREE TO FOUR WEEKS FROM NOW.
11:55:08AM ON FLORIDA AVENUE, THE WORK HAS BEEN DELAYED THERE UNTIL THE
11:55:13AM NEBRASKA WORK IS COMPLETED.
11:55:14AM THE STORMWATER INLET WORK WILL BEGIN -- SHOULD BEGIN THE
11:55:18AM WEEK OF JUNE 5.
11:55:20AM AND TWO TO THREE WEEKS AFTER THAT WE SHOULD HAVE THE FINAL
11:55:25AM LIFT OF ASPHALT.
11:55:26AM CENTRAL AVENUE SOUTH OF HILLSBOROUGH, A PORTION THERE.
11:55:29AM ALL ROAD BUILDING IS NOW COMPLETE, INCLUDING BETWEEN WILDER
11:55:33AM AND CARACAS.
11:55:34AM SOME PUNCH-OUT WORK REMAINS BEFORE WE ARE READY FOR THE
11:55:38AM MILLING -- BEFORE WE ARE READY TO MILL THE REST OF THE ROAD
11:55:40AM AND PUT DOWN THE FINAL LIFT OF ASPHALT WHICH IS ABOUT THREE
11:55:44AM WEEKS FROM NOW.
11:55:45AM CARACAS BETWEEN CENTRAL AND I-275.
11:55:48AM A LITTLE PORTION RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
11:55:51AM THAT ROAD IS COMPLETELY BUILT AND THE FIRST LIFT OF ASPHALT
11:55:54AM WAS INSTALLED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
11:55:56AM FROM RIVER TO THE INTERSTATE, WE ARE ABOUT THREE TO FOUR
11:55:59AM WEEKS AWAY FROM HAVING ALL THE ASPHALT WORK COMPLETED IN THE
11:56:03AM WHOLE SOUTHWEST QUADRANT.
11:56:05AM MIAMI AND OSCEOLA UP ON THE NORTHEAST ARE COMPLETELY PAVED.
11:56:12AM ALL WORK THERE IS COMPLETE.
11:56:13AM ON CHEROKEE, LITTLE PORTION RIGHT HERE.
11:56:17AM ALL PERMEABLE PAVER WORK IS COMPLETE AND ALL THE ASPHALT HAS
11:56:22AM BEEN COMPLETED BUT A 20 X 20 PATCH AT THE IDLEWILD
11:56:29AM INTERSECTION.
11:56:29AM THANK YOU.
11:56:29AM CENTRAL AND NORTH OF HILLSBOROUGH WORK ON THE COMANCHE
11:56:34AM INTERSECTION IS COMPLETE.
11:56:35AM BOX CULVERT COMPLETE FROM COMANCHE FROM HENRY.
11:56:39AM WATER MAIN INSTALLED FROM HILLSBOROUGH TO PALATIN.
11:56:44AM MARCH 30, JUMPING UP FROM PARIS TO WORK FROM PARIS TO HANNA
11:56:48AM AND FROM SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHILE THE SCHOOL IS OUT
11:56:52AM FOR THE SUMMER STARTING BACK ON AUGUST 10.
11:56:55AM THAT IS THIS RIGHT HERE AT THE TOP.
11:56:58AM ON CARACAS EAST OF THE INTERSTATE, THE FIRST LIFT OF ASPHALT
11:57:04AM WAS INSTALLED FROM TALIAFERRO TO THE ALLEY BEHIND THE
11:57:09AM LAUNDROMAT.
11:57:10AM ON NEBRASKA, WE ARE ON SCHEDULE TO HAVE NEBRASKA PAVED AND
11:57:14AM REOPENED ON JUNE 1, IF NOT BEFORE.
11:57:16AM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS, EAST OF NEBRASKA, THE SOUTHEAST SEMINOLE
11:57:24AM HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:57:24AM SOUTH OF CARACAS AND EAST OF NEBRASKA STARTED WOULD, IN
11:57:28AM EARLY APRIL.
11:57:28AM AND WE WILL BE STARTING BACK THERE AGAIN TOMORROW.
11:57:31AM WE ALSO STARTED WORK ON 12th STREET AND INSTALLING 24-INCH
11:57:35AM WATER MAIN THIS WEEK BY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY 48-INCH STORM
11:57:41AM TAKING PLACE RIGHT THERE.
11:57:42AM WORK ON 9th AND ELLICOTT WILL BEGIN IN A FEW WEEKS WORK ON
11:57:50AM LOUISIANA WILL BEGIN IN A FEW WEEKS AS WELL WITH WATER MAIN
11:57:53AM INSTALLS.
11:57:53AM THAT IS ALL WHEN IT COMES TO WATER UPDATE GOES.
11:57:57AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, YOU HAD A FEW QUESTIONS FOR US AS WELL,
11:58:01AM ONE OF THEM HAVING TO DO WITH THE UNFINISHED WORK ON FLORIDA
11:58:06AM AVENUE.
11:58:06AM AS WE STATED ONCE NEBRASKA OPENS, WORK SHOULD BEGIN BY THE
11:58:10AM WEEK OF JUNE 5, AND WE HAVE TWO WEEKS OF WORK REDOING THE
11:58:15AM INLET TOPS BEFORE WE CAN INSTALL THE FINAL LIFT OF ASPHALT
11:58:19AM THAT WILL BE INSTALLED BY MIDJUNE.
11:58:21AM THERE WAS -- THERE WAS A REQUEST FOR A REIMBURSEMENT FOR
11:58:24AM SOFT WASHING HOUSES.
11:58:26AM SOFT WASHING AND PRESSURE WASHING MUCH HOMES ALONG THE
11:58:31AM CONSTRUCTION ROUTE.
11:58:32AM NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT SPECIFICATION,
11:58:40AM AND NOT STANDARD FOR THE ROADWAY BY THE DOT.
11:58:44AM CONTRACT DEPARTMENT HAS MADE IT CLEAR THEY DON'T INTEND TO
11:58:47AM PURSUE OR REIMBURSE ANY OF THE CLAIMS FOR PRESSURE WASHING
11:58:52AM OR SOFT WASHING OF HOMES.
11:58:53AM THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT FREQUENT INTERRUPTION OF
11:58:59AM INTERNET.
11:58:59AM A LOT OF THOSE HAVE BEEN DUE TO UTILITIES THAT WERE NOT
11:59:06AM MARKED ALONG THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
11:59:07AM THE COMMUNICATION COMPANIES DON'T OFTEN MARK THE LINES --
11:59:11AM THEY NEVER MARK THE LINES THAT CONNECT INDIVIDUAL HOMES TO
11:59:14AM THEIR SYSTEM.
11:59:15AM AND WE HAD ISSUES GOING BACK AND FORTH ON THEM NOT UPDATING
11:59:19AM THEIR LOCATES THROUGH THE 811 SYSTEM ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
11:59:23AM BECAUSE OF THIS, WE ARE GOING TO OCCASIONALLY, WE ARE GOING
11:59:28AM TO INTERRUPT SERVICE AND WORK WITH THE COMMUNICATION COMPANY
11:59:31AM TO GET THE SERVICE RECONNECTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
11:59:35AM A MOBILE HOT SPOT ROUTER WE ARE GIVING TO RESIDENTS UNTIL
11:59:40AM THEY ARE ABLE TO GET THEIR SERVICE RECONNECTED.
11:59:43AM QUESTION OF THE PUNCH ...
11:59:45AM WE FINISHED THE ADA ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF HIGHLAND AND
11:59:50AM CREST, AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT DRIVEWAY APRON.
11:59:52AM >> THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF FINAL GRADING AND SODDING THAT
11:59:54AM WILL BE TAKING PLACE THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
11:59:56AM THE ONLY OTHER PUNCH LIST ITEMS WE'RE AWARE OF, 322 AND
12:00:02PM CHANGING THE PITCH OF A DRIVEWAY AT 102 CREST.
12:00:07PM THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL -- THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT HOW
12:00:11PM LONG IT TAKES FOR CLAIMS TO GET RESPONDED TO FOR
12:00:16PM REIMBURSEMENT.
12:00:17PM AVERAGE LENGTH OF TIME IS TYPICALLY ABOUT A MONTH.
12:00:21PM IF IT GOES TO THE INSURANCE CARRIER, SOMETIMES IT CAN LINGER
12:00:24PM A BIT LONGER THAN THAT.
12:00:25PM ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT HIGH LINEAR PARK, WE HAVE SOME
12:00:36PM SIDEWALK THAT WAS -- SIDEWALK DAMAGE THAT WAS PREEXISTING TO
12:00:40PM THE PROJECT AS WELL AS CURB DAMAGE DOWN AT THE CUL-DE-SAC.
12:00:43PM THAT IS SCHEDULED TO ALL GET REPLACED AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE
12:00:47PM CUL-DE-SAC AT THE END OF RIVER WILL BE RESURFACED.
12:00:52PM THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF AREA WHERE WE HAD SOME SOD AND A
12:00:56PM MUDDY AREA THAT CONTINUED TO GET DRIVEN OVER, CARS PARKING
12:01:00PM ON TOP OF IT WHICH KILLED THE SOD, SO THAT SOD AREA WILL BE
12:01:05PM RESODDED.
12:01:06PM DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THE LAST ONE?
12:01:10PM >> THE LAST QUESTION WAS ON CONCERN ABOUT POTENTIAL DAMAGES
12:01:15PM TO HOUSE AND HOUSE FOUNDATION.
12:01:18PM WE HAVE MADE THE DECISION, COUNCILWOMAN, TO INSTITUTE
12:01:25PM VIBRATION MONITORING GOING FORWARD.
12:01:28PM I WILL SAY THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH CONSTRUCTION, THE
12:01:33PM REMAINING CONSTRUCTION IS SMALLER DIAMETER PIPELINE, LITTLE
12:01:36PM BIT LESS INTRUSIVE.
12:01:38PM IT SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM, BUT INSURANCE POLICY GOING TO
12:01:43PM USE SEISMOGRAPHS AND PROVIDE THAT ASSURANCE TO OUR
12:01:47PM RESIDENTS.
12:01:47PM WITH THAT, IF WE COULD HAVE BRIAN HUNTER, HE HOPEFULLY IS
12:01:57PM ONLINE THERE.
12:01:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, IF WE CAN BRING HIM UP.
12:02:00PM >> BRIAN, I WOULD ASK YOU TO BE AS BRIEF AS YOU CAN.
12:02:03PM I KNOW THEY HAVE A HARD STOP RIGHT AT NOON.
12:02:07PM >> BRIAN HUNTER WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
12:02:09PM TRANSPORTATION.
12:02:10PM CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME?
12:02:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:02:13PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
12:02:14PM >> ALL RIGHT.
12:02:14PM THANK YOU FOR HAVING US TODAY.
12:02:15PM WE HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA ON THIS
12:02:18PM PROJECT AND MOVE THIS FORWARD SO THAT THE DRAINAGE ISSUES
12:02:23PM DOWN IN THIS AREA CAN BE ADDRESSED AND TIE INTO OUR FUTURE
12:02:27PM IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE ARE PLANNING TO DO ON FLORIDA AND TAMPA
12:02:30PM CORRIDOR.
12:02:31PM AND WE'VE HAD VERY GOOD COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION ON
12:02:34PM THESE PROJECTS AS IT WENT FROM PLANNING, DESIGN, ALL THE WAY
12:02:38PM THROUGH TO CONSTRUCTION.
12:02:39PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING A FANTASTIC PARTNER WITH THE
12:02:42PM F.D.O.T.
12:02:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:02:45PM >> WITH THAT, ANY QUESTIONS?
12:02:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
12:02:48PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:02:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
12:02:52PM WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE OUR QUESTIONS THAT WE GATHER FROM
12:02:55PM THE PUBLIC IN ADVANCE TO ALLOW YOU TO PREPARE RESPONSES.
12:02:59PM SO I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION TO THAT AND YOUR
12:03:03PM RESPONSES YOU'RE ABLE TO GIVE.
12:03:05PM AS FAR AS THE MOBILE HOT SPOT, IF SOMEONE NEEDS THAT, HOW DO
12:03:10PM THEY REACH OUT TO GET THAT?
12:03:14PM >> THROUGH THE PROJECT HOTLINE.
12:03:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
12:03:19PM PROJECT HOTLINE.
12:03:20PM AS FAR AS REQUESTS FOR REIMBURSEMENT OR CONCERN, YOU SAY
12:03:23PM THEY COULD TAKE UP TO A MONTH.
12:03:25PM IS THERE AT LEAST A PROCESS THAT SAYS, HEY, WE GOT YOUR
12:03:28PM CLAIM OR JUST SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO PEOPLE KNOW THAT IT'S
12:03:33PM IN PROCESS?
12:03:34PM >> YES, MA'AM.
12:03:34PM WE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THEIR CLAIM IS
12:03:37PM UNDER REVIEW.
12:03:38PM SO WE DO PROVIDE THOSE IMMEDIATE RESPONSES BACK TO THEM, TO
12:03:42PM THE PROJECT HOTLINE.
12:03:44PM >>LYNN HURTAK: UPDATE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS, WHETHER IT BE
12:03:47PM AN AUTOMATIC THING, JUST SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE BEING
12:03:50PM HEARD?
12:03:51PM >> WE'LL DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT AND MAKE SURE MOVING FORWARD,
12:03:54PM NO PROBLEM.
12:03:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN WE HAD A REQUEST, WHICH I THINK IT'S
12:03:58PM PROBABLY ABOUT TIME AND DUE AGAIN, FOR POSSIBLY REACHING OUT
12:04:03PM TO ESPECIALLY THOSE FLORIDA AVENUE BUSINESSES THAT ARE
12:04:06PM STRUGGLING WHERE THE CONCRETE OR THE RESURFACING HASN'T
12:04:12PM HAPPENED YET, THE NEBRASKA AREA TO MAYBE REACH OUT TO THOSE
12:04:16PM BUSINESSES AGAIN, LIKE A DOOR TO DOOR, JUST SAY, HEY, HOW
12:04:20PM ARE THINGS GOING?
12:04:21PM IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THERE'S A CONCERN ABOUT?
12:04:26PM I MIGHT ALSO RECOMMEND DOING THAT ALONG CENTRAL WHERE FOLKS
12:04:30PM ARE HAVING THE INTERNET OUTAGES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, JUST
12:04:35PM TO KIND OF MAYBE LET THEM KNOW RIGHT AWAY THAT, HEY, THE HOT
12:04:39PM SPOTS AND AVAILABILITY TO YOU, LET US KNOW AS SOON AS YOU
12:04:44PM FIND OUT ABOUT THESE THINGS.
12:04:45PM SOMETIMES, AS WE LEARNED WITH THE CREST AVENUE ISSUE, IF WE
12:04:50PM KNOCK ON DOORS AND HAVE THOSE QUICK CONVERSATIONS, A LOT OF
12:04:54PM THE CONFUSION CAN BE MITIGATED AND GETTING THAT INFORMATION
12:05:01PM JUST IN PERSON IS ALWAYS SO HELPFUL.
12:05:05PM >> DEFINITELY.
12:05:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND THEN I WOULD CERTAINLY ABSOLUTELY DO THAT
12:05:09PM AGAIN FOR THE HANNA AND PARIS STREET ISSUE RIGHT BEFORE
12:05:17PM CLOSING HANNA DOWN DURING THE SUMMER.
12:05:21PM THAT'S A HUGE PASS-THROUGH THAT MANY, MANY, MANY PEOPLE USE.
12:05:25PM SO THAT'S GOING TO BE AN AREA OF CONCERN.
12:05:28PM I KNOW THE BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA ARE ALSO CONCERNED.
12:05:31PM THEY HAVE ALREADY SEEN A DRASTIC LOSS IN FOOT TRAFFIC.
12:05:36PM SO THAT'S GOING TO EXTEND FOR THE SUMMER.
12:05:39PM SO CERTAINLY REACHING OUT TO THEM INDIVIDUALLY WOULD BE
12:05:42PM REALLY WONDERFUL.
12:05:43PM >> THAT WAS ALREADY ON OUR AGENDA FOR THE WORK IN THAT AREA,
12:05:46PM YES, MA'AM.
12:05:47PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.
12:05:48PM DO YOU BY ANY CHANCE HAVE PLANS FOR MAYBE A MIDSUMMER
12:05:54PM REVIEW, PUBLIC MEETING AGAIN?
12:05:58PM POSSIBLY ONCE NEBRASKA IS DONE IN THAT AREA SO THAT THE
12:06:03PM FOLKS IN SOUTHEAST SEMINOLE HEIGHTS CAN GET A LITTLE MORE,
12:06:06PM NOW THAT THEY ARE MORE IN THE THICK OF THINGS, HAVE THAT
12:06:09PM OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND BRING QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS?
12:06:12PM >> ABSOLUTELY.
12:06:13PM WE HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED FOR MID AUGUST.
12:06:16PM I BELIEVE WE'RE FINALIZING THE DATE, WORKING WITH CONTRACT
12:06:21PM ADMIN ON THAT.
12:06:22PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
12:06:22PM IF YOU COULD LET MY OFFICE KNOW AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THAT,
12:06:26PM WE'LL PASS IT ALONG.
12:06:27PM I KNOW IT WILL ALSO BE ON YOUR WEBSITE, BUT WE WILL
12:06:30PM CERTAINLY MAKE SURE THAT INFORMATION GETS OUT.
12:06:32PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
12:06:33PM I APPRECIATE IT.
12:06:34PM >> THANK YOU.
12:06:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
12:06:36PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND YOUR UPDATE.
12:06:38PM MY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
12:06:40PM TUESDAY MORNING, WE DID A RIDE-ALONG TOGETHER THROUGH THE
12:06:43PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU ADDRESSED EVERYTHING YOU'VE ADDRESSED
12:06:47PM HERE, BUT I SAW IT IN PERSON.
12:06:48PM WE WENT THROUGH THOSE AREAS THAT ARE MOST AFFECTED.
12:06:51PM I STOPPED AND I TALKED TO NEIGHBORS AFTER THE FACT AND GOT
12:06:55PM UPDATE FROM THEM AND LET THEM KNOW, ESPECIALLY ON CARACAS
12:06:58PM AND ELLICOTT AND ALL THESE OTHER STREETS.
12:07:01PM THANK YOU FOR BEING SO COMMUNICATIVE AND RESPONSIVE.
12:07:05PM I KNOW THIS IS EXTREMELY CHALLENGING AND IT IS VERY
12:07:08PM FRUSTRATING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT
12:07:13PM PROGRESS IS CONTINUING TO BE MADE AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:07:18PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:07:19PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:07:21PM AGAIN, LIKE THE CHAIRMAN SAID, THANK YOU.
12:07:23PM YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS ARE NECESSARY.
12:07:26PM THIS PROJECT IS SAVING THE CITY, ALTHOUGH THE EXPENSE IS
12:07:30PM HIGH, BUT THE PIPES DOWN THERE WERE 80 TO 100 YEARS OLD AND
12:07:34PM WE'RE SPENDING ABOUT $25 MILLION ON IT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO
12:07:38PM JUST GOING AFTER -- NOT REPLACING BUT REPAIRING THE PIPES.
12:07:41PM IT BREAKS TODAY, FIVE FEET LATER, BREAKS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
12:07:44PM SO THESE ARE NECESSARY THINGS.
12:07:45PM WHEN IT'S COMPLETE, THE CITY OF TAMPA WILL BE ONE OF THE,
12:07:49PM MORE THAN LIKELY, BEST UNDERGROUND, WHICH NOBODY SEES, BUT
12:07:52PM WE PAY THE PRICE BECAUSE ALL OF US, WE DON'T SEE THE PIPES
12:07:57PM BUT THE WATER LINES AND TERTIARY TREATMENT LINE GOING TO THE
12:08:00PM PLANT THEY WILL ALL BE CHANGED AND BE ONE OF THE FINER
12:08:04PM CITIES IN THE WORLD LIKE IT IS NOW.
12:08:06PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:08:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:08:07PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, DO I NEED TO MAKE
12:08:11PM ANOTHER MOTION TO MAKE THIS COME BACK AGAIN NEXT MONTH?
12:08:14PM YES.
12:08:16PM OKAY.
12:08:17PM I FIND THAT THE PUBLIC -- IT'S JUST A REALLY NICE CHANCE TO
12:08:22PM STOP AND SAY, HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON.
12:08:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW ABOUT THE JUNE 15th MEETING?
12:08:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:08:27PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE FOLKS COME BACK JUNE
12:08:31PM 15th FOR ANOTHER UPDATE.
12:08:34PM AGAIN, IT'S A GOOD SPOT FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW TO TUNE IN.
12:08:38PM SO I APPRECIATE YOU CONTINUING TO COME AND UPDATE AND BE
12:08:43PM WILLING TO SHARE.
12:08:45PM WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.
12:08:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN
12:08:47PM HURTAK.
12:08:48PM SECONDED FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
12:08:53PM THAT'S FOR JUNE 15th.
12:08:55PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:08:55PM CHIEF BENNETT, YOU ARE UP AND THEN WE BREAK.
12:09:00PM >>JOHN BENNETT: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, COUNCIL.
12:09:02PM JOHN BENNETT, CHIEF OF STAFF.
12:09:03PM IN THE EFFORT OF PROACTIVE COMMUNICATION, I JUST WANTED TO
12:09:08PM CHAIR WITH COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE I KNOW WE ALL
12:09:11PM ENJOY OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR THREE UNIONS, AND
12:09:14PM SPECIFICALLY THE ATU LOCAL 1464 IS GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY
12:09:21PM THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNING OF SENATE BILL 256 INTO LAW WHERE THE
12:09:26PM DUES PAYMENTS CAN NO LONGER BE CHANNELED THROUGH THE CITY.
12:09:29PM SO THE MAYOR AND I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT KNOWING THAT
12:09:33PM COUNCIL HAS A STRONG RELATIONSHIP, AS WE ALL DO WITH ALL
12:09:35PM THREE OF OUR UNIONS, AND JUST FOR QUICK DATA, 4,887
12:09:39PM EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY, AND WHEN YOU APPROVED LAST YEAR'S
12:09:42PM BUDGET, THAT WAS THE NUMBER THAT WAS IN THERE.
12:09:44PM ABOUT 3800 OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE UNION-ELIGIBLE.
12:09:48PM IF YOU TAKE POLICE AND FIRE OUT OF THE EQUATION, WE PROBABLY
12:09:51PM HAVE JUST OVER 2,000 THAT ARE ATU ELIGIBLE.
12:09:54PM SO I'VE WORKED WITH STEVE SIMON OFF-LINE.
12:09:57PM WE PUT A FOCUS GROUP TOGETHER WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
12:09:59PM T&I, TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION, ARE A GROUP UNDER DENNIS
12:10:05PM ROGERO AND HR TO SEE HOW WE CAN BEST INTERFACE WITH THE
12:10:09PM UNION GOING FORWARD BASED ON THE BILL AND THE SIGNATURE.
12:10:13PM WE ALSO KNOW FROM THE LEGAL OFFICE THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGES
12:10:15PM OUT THERE AGAINST THIS, BUT WE WANT TO WORK PROACTIVELY WITH
12:10:18PM THE UNION TO SEE HOW MUCH GROUND WE CAN COVER BEFORE THAT
12:10:22PM JULY 1st DEADLINE IS IN PLACE.
12:10:24PM SO WE JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION THAT WE ARE
12:10:26PM WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE ATU OFF-LINE AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN
12:10:29PM FIND AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT THE ATU GOING FORWARD BASED
12:10:32PM ON THE NEW LEGISLATION.
12:10:33PM THAT'S IT.
12:10:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
12:10:36PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:10:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
12:10:39PM PROACTIVE WITH THIS.
12:10:40PM OUR UNION MEMBERS ARE OBVIOUSLY -- OBVIOUSLY THE WORKERS ARE
12:10:48PM THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE ORGANIZATION AND I REALLY APPRECIATE
12:10:50PM THAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING THIS AS SERIOUSLY AS
12:10:53PM POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE REPRESENTED
12:10:57PM CAN BE.
12:10:57PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
12:10:59PM >>JOHN BENNETT: OUR PLEASURE.
12:11:00PM THANK YOU.
12:11:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
12:11:02PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:11:03PM I ECHO COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK'S COMMENTS.
12:11:05PM THERE WERE A LOT OF BAD BILLS PASSED IN TALLAHASSEE.
12:11:07PM IT'S TERRIBLE, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS THE WORST, BUT IT'S
12:11:12PM REALLY, REALLY BAD.
12:11:13PM THE WORST PART ABOUT IT WAS HOW IT EXEMPTS CERTAIN PUBLIC
12:11:17PM SECTOR UNIONS THAT GO A CERTAIN WAY.
12:11:20PM IT'S TERRIBLE.
12:11:22PM I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING THAT.
12:11:24PM I'VE SPOKEN TO STEVE SIMON AND OTHERS ABOUT IT, AND IT IS
12:11:27PM PUNITIVE, IT'S ARBITRARY BUT YET IT'S NOT ARBITRARY.
12:11:31PM IT'S REALLY BAD.
12:11:32PM BUT THANK YOU.
12:11:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHIEF.
12:11:34PM >>JOHN BENNETT: THANK YOU.
12:11:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE ARE IN RECESS UNTIL 1:40.
12:11:38PM I ADDED TEN MINUTES.
12:11:39PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
12:11:42PM [LUNCH RECESS]
1:47:57PM >> HERE.
1:47:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
1:48:03PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
1:48:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
1:48:05PM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
1:48:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA WILL BE A FEW MINUTES
1:48:10PM LATE, BUT HE WILL BE HERE.
1:48:11PM WE ARE AT ITEM NUMBER 49.
1:48:13PM THESE ARE PUBLIC HEARINGS AT SECOND READING.
1:48:16PM THEY ARE NON-QUASI-JUDICIAL.
1:48:19PM IF WE DIDN'T SWEAR ANYBODY IN, WHEN WE GET TO THAT, WE WILL.
1:48:23PM ITEM NUMBER 49, WHO DO WE HAVE PRESENTING ON 49?
1:48:36PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THAT WOULD BE THE CITY ATTORNEY WITH REGARD
1:48:39PM TO THE SECOND READING AND ADOPTION FOR CHANGES TO THE
1:48:40PM CHARTER AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED AND DISCUSSED RELATIVE TO, I
1:48:44PM BELIEVE SPECIFICALLY WITH REGARD TO -- PARDON?
1:48:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS HAS TO DO WITH AMENDMENT ONE THAT WE
1:48:53PM PASSED AS THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION, WHICH HADN'T BEEN
1:48:56PM IMPLEMENTED.
1:48:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE CHANGES TO GENDER.
1:49:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH.
1:49:01PM SIMPLE GENDER CHANGES.
1:49:02PM THE VOTERS PASSED IT.
1:49:06PM WHAT HAPPENED, IT WAS JUST OVERLOOKED.
1:49:08PM BASICALLY IT IS LIKE A SCRIVENER'S ERROR BUT NOT REALLY.
1:49:11PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WELL, IT'S MORE THAN SCRIVENER'S ERROR.
1:49:17PM IT WAS PASSED BY THE VOTERS BUT NEVER IMPLEMENTED THROUGH AN
1:49:21PM ORDINANCE CHANGING THE GENDER.
1:49:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO
1:49:28PM SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 49?
1:49:30PM MOVE TO CLOSE.
1:49:31PM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
1:49:34PM SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
1:49:35PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:49:36PM >> AYE.
1:49:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
1:49:37PM ANY OPPOSED?
1:49:38PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ ITEM 49.
1:49:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, FILE E2023-8 CHAPTER 2, AN ORDINANCE IN
1:49:47PM THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY OF TAMPA
1:49:50PM CHARTER OF 1975, AS REVISED, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THAT
1:49:56PM CHARTER CHANGE, INCLUDED IN ORDINANCE NUMBER 2018-129 AND
1:50:01PM APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF VOTERS AS AMENDMENT 1 IN THE MARCH
1:50:05PM 5, 2019 ELECTION, BY REVISING THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS TO
1:50:09PM REMOVE ALL REFERENCES TO GENDER.
1:50:12PM SECTION 2.02, QUALIFICATIONS, LIMITATION ON TERMS, SECTION
1:50:15PM 2.03, ORGANIZATION, SECTION 2.10, VETO, SECTION 2.13,
1:50:23PM RECORDING AND AUTHENTICATION, SECTION 5.01A, DEPARTMENTS,
1:50:32PM LEGAL DEPARTMENT, SECTION 7.02, BUDGET, SECTION 8.07,
1:50:37PM CONFLICTS, SECTION 10.02, SUCCESSION.
1:50:40PM SECTION 10.06, REEMPLOYMENT; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR
1:50:45PM PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR
1:50:48PM SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
1:50:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
1:50:52PM HURTAK.
1:50:53PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:50:55PM YES, MA'AM, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO PRESENT?
1:50:58PM >>ANDREA ZELMAN: I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING LATE, GETTING
1:51:01PM DOWNSTAIRS.
1:51:02PM THANK YOU.
1:51:02PM THANK YOU TO COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK WHO WAS THE ONE WHO CAUGHT
1:51:05PM THAT THIS PARTICULAR CHARTER AMENDMENT HAD NOT EVER BEEN
1:51:09PM ACTUALLY INCORPORATED INTO THE TEXT OF THE CHARTER.
1:51:13PM HAPPY TO HAVE IT DONE PROPERLY.
1:51:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:51:17PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
1:51:28PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:51:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:51:31PM YES, MA'AM.
1:51:33PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF I MAY, I JUST WANT TO THANK CITY ATTORNEY
1:51:36PM ZELMAN FOR DOING THE WORK.
1:51:38PM WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
1:51:40PM THANKS AGAIN.
1:51:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:51:43PM ITEM NUMBER 50, WHO IS PRESENTING ON ITEM NUMBER 50?
1:51:47PM I SEE ROSS SAMONS ONLINE.
1:51:53PM >>ROSS SAMONS: PRESENTING VAC-23-04, PRESENTED FOR SECOND
1:51:59PM READING AND ADOPTION.
1:52:00PM PROPOSED VACATING TO VACATE A PORTION OF THE UNIMPROVED
1:52:03PM ALBANY AVENUE RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF UNIMPROVED
1:52:07PM FRIERSON AVENUE, SOUTH OF HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE, EAST OF
1:52:11PM HOWARD AVENUE AND WEST OF MENDENHALL DRIVE WITHIN THE PLAT
1:52:14PM OF ZAMBITO SUBDIVISION.
1:52:15PM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
1:52:17PM ALSO, IF A BRIEF PRESENTATION IS NEEDED AGAIN, I CAN DO
1:52:21PM THAT.
1:52:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
1:52:23PM NO.
1:52:24PM ALL RIGHT.
1:52:24PM DO WE HAVE ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC HERE ON ITEM NUMBER 50?
1:52:27PM NO APPLICANT OR ANYTHING.
1:52:32PM A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:52:34PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
1:52:36PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:52:36PM AYE.
1:52:40PM ANY OPPOSED?
1:52:40PM MR. SAMONS, DID WE SWEAR YOU IN?
1:52:47PM >>ROSS SAMONS: YES.
1:52:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, WOULD YOU MIND
1:52:55PM READING ITEM NUMBER 50?
1:52:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE FILE VAC-23-04, AN ORDINANCE BEING
1:53:02PM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
1:53:04PM AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, VACATING,
1:53:07PM CLOSING, DISCONTINUING, AND ABANDONING THAT PORTION OF
1:53:10PM UNIMPROVED ALBANY AVENUE RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF
1:53:13PM UNIMPROVED FRIERSON AVENUE AND SOUTH OF HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE,
1:53:17PM EAST OF HOWARD AVENUE AND WEST OF MENDENHALL DRIVE, WITHIN
1:53:21PM THE PLAT OF ZAMBITO SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
1:53:25PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN
1:53:28PM SECTION 2 HEREOF, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN COVENANTS, CONDITIONS,
1:53:32PM AND RESTRICTIONS AS MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN;
1:53:35PM PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS;
1:53:38PM PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND REPEALING
1:53:42PM CONFLICTS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN
1:53:44PM EFFECTIVE DATE.
1:53:46PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
1:53:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
1:53:48PM CLENDENIN WITH A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:53:51PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
1:53:55PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:53:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
1:53:59PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:54:00PM ITEM NUMBER 51.
1:54:10PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION
1:54:13PM PRESENTING FILE VAC-23-07, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
1:54:17PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
1:54:18PM THIS PROPOSED VACATING TO VACATE A PORTION OF JUNEAU STREET
1:54:22PM RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF SITKA STREET, SOUTH OF WATERS
1:54:26PM AVENUE, EAST OF EDISON AVENUE AND WEST OF NORTH BOULEVARD.
1:54:30PM IT IS IN THE PLAT OF WILMA SUBDIVISION.
1:54:32PM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
1:54:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
1:54:35PM I SEE NONE.
1:54:36PM DO WE HAVE AN APPLICANT?
1:54:37PM YES, SIR.
1:54:38PM I KNOW YOU WERE SWORN IN EARLIER.
1:54:39PM GO AHEAD, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
1:54:42PM >> I AM THE APPLICANT AND I'M HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
1:54:46PM FOR ME.
1:54:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
1:54:48PM NO.
1:54:48PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:54:49PM DO WE HAVE ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON
1:54:52PM ITEM NUMBER 51?
1:54:53PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC?
1:54:54PM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:54:57PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
1:54:58PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
1:54:59PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:55:00PM AYE.
1:55:01PM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ 51?
1:55:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I MOVE FILE VAC-23-07, ORDINANCE BEING
1:55:10PM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE OF
1:55:13PM THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, VACATING, CLOSING,
1:55:16PM DISCONTINUING, AND ABANDONING THAT PORTION OF JUNEAU STREET
1:55:21PM RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF SITKA STREET, SOUTH OF WATERS
1:55:25PM AVENUE, EAST OF EDISON AVENUE AND WEST OF NORTH BOULEVARD,
1:55:31PM WITHIN THE PLAT OF WILMA SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
1:55:37PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN
1:55:39PM SECTION 2 HEREOF, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN COVENANTS, CONDITIONS,
1:55:43PM AND RESTRICTIONS AS MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN;
1:55:46PM PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS;
1:55:49PM PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND REPEALING
1:55:53PM CONFLICTS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN
1:55:56PM EFFECTIVE DATE.
1:55:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
1:55:58PM HENDERSON.
1:55:59PM WHO WAS THE SECOND?
1:55:59PM VIERA.
1:56:00PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
1:56:02PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
1:56:08PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
1:56:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
1:56:11PM ALL PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE OPEN SO WE'LL GO RIGHT INTO ITEM 52.
1:56:15PM THIS IS TO APPROVE AN INVENTORY LIST OF ALL REAL PROPERTY
1:56:18PM WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR USE AS
1:56:21PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
1:56:22PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
1:56:23PM YES, MA'AM.
1:56:26PM >> I HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN.
1:56:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: UH-OH.
1:56:28PM ANYBODY WHO HAS NOT BEEN SWORN IN THAT WILL BE SPEAKING
1:56:31PM TODAY.
1:56:31PM WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TO GO.
1:56:34PM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
1:56:40PM >> MICHELLE VAN LOAN, REAL ESTATE.
1:56:43PM FORGIVE ME, THIS IS MY FIRST PUBLIC HEARING.
1:56:46PM SO WE WERE HERE IN MARCH.
1:56:48PM WE BROUGHT YOU THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING LIST.
1:56:50PM WE ARE NOW COMING BACK AS PRESCRIBED BY LAW THAT WE HAVE TO
1:56:53PM COME BACK FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
1:56:54PM YOU HAVE A MEMORANDUM WITH THE LIST AND VERY BRIEFLY, JUST
1:56:59PM SHOWING THE PUBLIC WHERE THIS INFORMATION IS, THIS IS JUST A
1:57:03PM REMINDER SO THAT EVERYONE AGAIN UNDERSTANDS WHAT BEING ON
1:57:06PM THIS LIST MEANS, AND IT DESIGNATES THAT THESE PROPERTIES
1:57:10PM WILL BE USED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THAT DOES NOT
1:57:15PM COMPLETELY TIE YOUR HANDS.
1:57:18PM SHOULD THERE BE A PROPERTY THAT AN OPPORTUNITY ARISES THAT
1:57:21PM IT MAKES SENSE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, YOU DO HAVE THE
1:57:24PM ABILITY TO SELL THAT PROPERTY.
1:57:26PM YOU JUST HAVE TO USE THOSE PROCEEDS TO GO BACK TOWARDS THE
1:57:29PM FUNDING OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR FROM WHERE ACQUISITIONS OF
1:57:34PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
1:57:35PM AND THAT IS THE FIRST BULLET.
1:57:36PM THE OTHER THREE BULLETS THEN SAY THAT WE CAN SELL IT WITH A
1:57:40PM RESTRICTION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
1:57:42PM WE CAN DONATE TO A NONPROFIT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, OR WE
1:57:46PM OURSELVES CAN DEVELOP AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
1:57:50PM ON THE CITY'S MAP'S WEBSITE RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP, YOU'LL
1:57:54PM SEE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAP.
1:57:56PM THAT MAP SHOWS ALL OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE ON THE LIST.
1:58:00PM AS WE SHOWED EARLIER WHEN WE DEMONSTRATED THE FULL
1:58:02PM INTERACTIVE MAP, IF YOU CLICK ON ANY OF THOSE ORANGE
1:58:06PM DIAMONDS, THEY WILL BRING UP THE PARCEL INFORMATION FOR THAT
1:58:10PM INDIVIDUAL PARCEL.
1:58:12PM AND OFF ON THE RIGHT ON THE LAYERS, YOU CAN PULL UP THE
1:58:16PM FUTURE LAND USE, THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, THE ZONING, ALL OF
1:58:18PM THAT INFORMATION IS THERE.
1:58:20PM LASTLY, ANYONE WANTING TO SEE THE ACTUAL SPREADSHEET OF THE
1:58:24PM LIST, IF THEY GO TO TODAY'S AGENDA AND CLICK ON ITEM NUMBER
1:58:28PM 52, THE THIRD ATTACHMENT, PDF WHICH IS YOUR RESO DOES HAVE
1:58:33PM THE FULL LIST.
1:58:34PM WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS.
1:58:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
1:58:38PM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
1:58:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS LIST.
1:58:44PM I WAS TALKING TO NICOLE TRAVIS ABOUT THIS AND HOW WE MIGHT
1:58:47PM BE ABLE TO MOVE SOME OF THESE PROPERTIES INTO OUR LAND TRUST
1:58:52PM WHEN THAT'S COMPLETED, AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO WITH
1:58:55PM THE PROPERTIES.
1:58:55PM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I MADE THAT MENTION FOR THE
1:58:59PM PUBLIC.
1:58:59PM THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION FOR CREATING
1:59:01PM THIS LIST, BUT TO CONNECT IT WITH THE GIS MAP.
1:59:06PM I KNOW THAT SEVERAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE CONCERNED WITH
1:59:08PM THAT, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT SO MUCH EASIER FOR THE
1:59:12PM PUBLIC TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION AND FOR FOLKS THAT WORK IN
1:59:17PM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING SPACE.
1:59:18PM SO THANK YOU AGAIN.
1:59:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
1:59:21PM ANYBODY ELSE?
1:59:21PM NO.
1:59:23PM BECAUSE IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY FROM THE
1:59:28PM PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, ITEM 52?
1:59:33PM ALL RIGHT.
1:59:34PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE THIS
1:59:37PM RESOLUTION?
1:59:37PM >>LUIS VIERA: I DO.
1:59:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING,
1:59:40PM MR. SHELBY?
1:59:41PM LET'S GET A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
1:59:45PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:59:46PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
1:59:48PM ALL IN FAVOR?
1:59:48PM AYE.
1:59:49PM ANY OPPOSED?
1:59:49PM COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU HAVE THE MOTION TO MOVE THE
1:59:53PM RESOLUTION.
1:59:54PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
1:59:55PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
1:59:57PM ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
2:00:00PM ANY OPPOSED?
2:00:00PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:00:03PM ITEM NUMBER 53.
2:00:13PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: ITEM 53 IS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE
2:00:16PM SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE
2:00:18PM MIDTOWN DEVELOPMENT WHICH MOST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH.
2:00:21PM IT'S BORDERED BY DALE MABRY HIGHWAY ON THE WEST, HIMES
2:00:23PM AVENUE ON THE EAST, CYPRESS TO THE SOUTH AND I-275 TO THE
2:00:27PM NORTH.
2:00:29PM THE PLAT FOR THE MIDTOWN DEVELOPMENT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE
2:00:32PM CITY IN 2017.
2:00:33PM THE PLAT INCLUDED DEDICATION OF A 30-FOOT PUBLIC DRAINAGE
2:00:37PM EASEMENT TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
2:00:39PM THE DRAINAGE EASEMENT CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT STORMWATER
2:00:43PM INFRASTRUCTURE AS WELL AS OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SERVES
2:00:45PM NOT ONLY MIDTOWN BUT ALSO OFF-SITE AREAS.
2:00:48PM ENCROACHMENTS INTO THE PUBLIC DRAINAGE EASEMENT WERE
2:00:52PM PROHIBITED UNDER THE PLAT UNLESS ALLOWED UNDER THE
2:00:55PM DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
2:00:56PM SO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR MIDTOWN WAS APPROVED IN
2:00:59PM 2018 AND DID NOT ALLOW ANY ENCROACHMENTS AT ALL.
2:01:03PM CITY COUNCIL DID APPROVE A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
2:01:06PM DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IN 2022 TO GRANT APPROVAL FOR A CANOPY
2:01:10PM STRUCTURE TO ENCROACH INTO THE PUBLIC EASEMENT AREA.
2:01:14PM AND THIS IS A SECOND REQUEST FROM THE DEVELOPER FOR
2:01:17PM ENCROACHMENTS INTO THE PUBLIC EASEMENT AREA.
2:01:19PM THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS FOR A TEMPORARY ENCROACHMENT INTO
2:01:24PM THE EASEMENT FOR A CONSTRUCTION CRANE AND A CONCRETE CRANE
2:01:28PM FOUNDATION THAT WOULD ENCROACH IN AREAS SHOWN ON EXHIBIT A
2:01:32PM TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
2:01:34PM SECOND AMENDMENT OBLIGATES THE DEVELOPER TO TAKE CERTAIN
2:01:38PM ACTIONS PRIOR TO INSTALLATION OF THE CRANE AND THE CONCRETE
2:01:42PM FOUNDATION AND THEN AGAIN AFTER REMOVAL TO ENSURE THE SAFETY
2:01:45PM OF THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE DRAINAGE EASEMENT.
2:01:47PM SO THESE THINGS INCLUDE VIDEOING THE CONCRETE STORMWATER
2:01:53PM PIPE THAT'S IN THE EASEMENTS PRIOR TO INSTALLATION OF ANY
2:01:56PM ENCROACHMENTS INTO THE EASEMENT, REMOVAL OF THE CONCRETE
2:01:59PM CRANE FOUNDATION PILES, ONCE THE CRANE AND THE FOUNDATION
2:02:03PM ARE REMOVED, AND THEN VIDEO INSPECTION OF THE STORMWATER
2:02:07PM PIPE AFTER REMOVAL OF THE CRANE AND CONCRETE CRANE
2:02:10PM FOUNDATION.
2:02:10PM THE DEVELOPER IS OBLIGATED TO REPAIR ANY DAMAGE TO OUR
2:02:13PM STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE DRAINAGE EASEMENT.
2:02:16PM IN THE EVENT THAT DOES NOT OCCUR, THE DEVELOPER ALSO WILL BE
2:02:19PM POSTING A PERFORMANCE BOND SO THAT WE WILL HAVE FUNDS
2:02:23PM AVAILABLE TO COMPLETE THE REPAIRS SHOULD THAT BE NECESSARY.
2:02:26PM THE LAW REQUIRES COUNCIL TO HAVE TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS BEFORE
2:02:30PM APPROVING THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
2:02:31PM THIS IS THE FIRST OF THOSE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
2:02:33PM THE SECOND ONE WILL BE ON JUNE 1st.
2:02:35PM SO NO ACTION IS TAKEN, NEEDED BY CITY COUNCIL FOLLOWING THE
2:02:39PM PUBLIC HEARING.
2:02:40PM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
2:02:41PM I BELIEVE MR. BENTLEY, THE DEVELOPER'S REPRESENTATIVE, IS
2:02:44PM ALSO AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
2:02:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. JOHNSON VELEZ?
2:02:48PM NO.
2:02:48PM MR. BENTLEY.
2:02:50PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. CHAIR.
2:02:51PM MARK BENTLEY, 401 EAST JACKSON STREET, TAMPA, 33602, I
2:02:55PM REPRESENT BROMLEY TAMPA INVESTORS.
2:02:58PM ALSO KNOWN AS MIDTOWN DEVELOPERS.
2:03:00PM THE INTENT OF THE ENCROACHMENT IS TO AUTHORIZE A PAD IN THIS
2:03:06PM DRAINAGE EASEMENT FOR A LARGE CRANE TO CONSTRUCT TECO'S
2:03:10PM REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, BE ABOUT 300 FEET TALL.
2:03:13PM IT WOULD BE TEMPORARY AND PROBABLY AT MAX BE THERE ABOUT A
2:03:17PM YEAR.
2:03:17PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER THEM.
2:03:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME?
2:03:25PM DO WE CLOSE THE HEARING OR KEEP IT OPEN?
2:03:27PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: CLOSE IT AND IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED FOR THE
2:03:30PM SECOND READING.
2:03:31PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE ANY ACTION.
2:03:33PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: ASK IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE
2:03:36PM PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK.
2:03:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO
2:03:38PM SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
2:03:39PM ANY BEATLES ALTERNATIVE I CAN'T TODAY?
2:03:45PM >> I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START, MR. CHAIRMAN.
2:03:47PM ACTUALLY, PAUL McCARTNEY IS LOOKING AT MY MOVIE THIS WEEK.
2:03:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HE IS?
2:03:52PM >> THAT'S GREAT.
2:03:53PM HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
2:03:53PM WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES.
2:03:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE?
2:03:58PM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
2:04:01PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
2:04:03PM ALL IN FAVOR?
2:04:04PM ANY OPPOSED?
2:04:05PM ALL RIGHT.
2:04:05PM THANKS.
2:04:10PM >>THE CLERK: SECOND PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON JUNE
2:04:13PM 1st, 2023, AT 9:30 A.M.
2:04:15PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
2:04:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I BELIEVE WE GO TO STAFF REPORTS.
2:04:23PM ITEM NUMBER 56.
2:04:24PM I BELIEVE BRAD BAIRD IS HERE FOR THAT.
2:04:28PM >>BRAD BAIRD: BRAD BAIRD, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF
2:04:30PM INFRASTRUCTURE.
2:04:31PM I WROTE A MEMO ON THIS ONE, SO I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY
2:04:34PM QUESTIONS.
2:04:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. BAIRD?
2:04:36PM ANY QUESTIONS FOR ITEM 56?
2:04:39PM DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO MOVE THIS RESOLUTION?
2:04:42PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
2:04:45PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
2:04:48PM ALL IN FAVOR?
2:04:49PM AYE.
2:04:50PM >> THANK YOU.
2:04:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
2:04:51PM ITEM NUMBER 57.
2:04:58PM WE HAVE A CONSULTANT HERE FROM AECOM TO PRESENT THE PARKS
2:05:02PM AND REC MASTER PLAN.
2:05:08PM >> CAN WE HAVE THIS MONITOR AND SHOW THE PRESENTATION,
2:05:11PM PLEASE?
2:05:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU HAVE A FLASH DRIVE TO PLUG IN
2:05:20PM OR --
2:05:21PM >> IT SHOULD BE PRELOADED.
2:05:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PRESENTATION FOR ITEM 57.
2:05:28PM >> THANK YOU ALL.
2:05:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW MANY SLIDES DO YOU HAVE?
2:05:34PM >> ABOUT 20.
2:05:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HEARD 300.
2:05:37PM >> 26.
2:05:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:05:42PM YES, IT'S UP.
2:05:43PM WE'LL PULL IT UP ON THE MAIN SCREEN HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
2:05:46PM IF WE CAN GET THE PowerPoint -- THERE WE GO.
2:06:06PM IT'S ALL YOURS.
2:06:09PM >> BEFORE WE START, SHERISHA HILLS, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND
2:06:12PM RECREATION.
2:06:13PM INTRODUCE JOE WEB WHO IS THE CONSULTANT FOR AECOM.
2:06:21PM THE PARKS AND REC GOLD MEDAL DEPARTMENT BASED OFF OF OUR
2:06:26PM PROGRAMS, WHAT WE OFFER, INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY, HOW WE
2:06:28PM WORK WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
2:06:30PM THIS PLAN REALLY FOCUSES ON THE PHYSICAL, THE
2:06:33PM INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE ASSETS OF WHAT WE OFFER.
2:06:36PM WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE THAT GOLD MEDAL.
2:06:39PM THAT IS OUR NEXT STEP.
2:06:41PM JOE WEB WITH AECOM.
2:06:45PM >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
2:06:47PM JOE WEB WITH THE COMPANY AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES.
2:06:52PM DAVID CARLY IS HERE WITH ME IN THE AUDIENCE.
2:06:54PM BEEN A WONDERFUL PROCESS, LONG PROCESS, LOTS OF WORK, LOTS
2:06:58PM OF INTERACTION WITH THE PUBLIC, BUT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR
2:07:00PM WORK AND VERY HAPPY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU
2:07:02PM TODAY.
2:07:03PM OUR AGENDA VERY SIMPLE.
2:07:06PM GO OVER THE MASTER PLAN PROCESS, SUMMARY OF FINDINGS,
2:07:09PM LONG-RANGE VISION, OUR IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES, AND THEN
2:07:12PM HOPEFULLY IN THE END, IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS, AND EQUAL
2:07:17PM NUMBER OF ANSWERS.
2:07:20PM OUR PROCESS, WON'T GO OVER IN DETAIL, FOUR-STEP PROCESS,
2:07:24PM LIKE ALL PLANNING, QUITE SIMPLE.
2:07:25PM WHERE ARE WE, WHERE DO WE NEED TO BE, HOW DO WE GET THERE.
2:07:29PM WE'VE GONE THROUGH THOSE STEPS OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.
2:07:32PM I REALLY THINK WE'VE PUT TOGETHER A PLAN THAT'S
2:07:34PM COMPREHENSIVE AND PRETTY CONCISE.
2:07:38PM SUMMARY OF OUR FINDINGS, WE DID AN EXTENSIVE PUBLIC OUTREACH
2:07:45PM PROCESS AS A PART OF THIS AND ALSO A THOROUGH, WE VISITED
2:07:49PM EVERY SINGLE PARK IN THE SYSTEM.
2:07:51PM WE INTERVIEWED PEOPLE.
2:07:53PM WE'VE GONE OUT AND SENT PEOPLE TO EVERY FACILITY, REALLY,
2:07:57PM LOOKING UP AT THE CHART ON THE RIGHT, IT'S 60, 56, 62,
2:08:05PM ET CETERA, THAT'S MEETING EXPECTATIONS.
2:08:08PM I THINK THERE WAS SOME DISPARITY BETWEEN THE LARGE, MORE
2:08:12PM MAJOR FACILITIES ARE PROBABLY IN BETTER CONDITION.
2:08:16PM THE SMALLER COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND
2:08:18PM PARTICULARLY YOUR LIKE NATURAL AREAS AND CONSERVATION AREAS
2:08:24PM PROBABLY IN SOME OF THE MOST NEED.
2:08:27PM JUST AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE, OVER 75 WOULD BE GREEN,
2:08:32PM MEANING THE BEST.
2:08:33PM 50 TO 75 WOULD BE ORANGE MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS, WHICH ARE
2:08:37PM ALL THESE CATEGORIES.
2:08:38PM AND THEN WE DON'T SEE ANY RED BUT TENDING DOWN TOWARDS THAT
2:08:42PM AND TIME IS TAKING ITS TOLL.
2:08:44PM THERE'S CERTAINLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MORE THINGS.
2:08:49PM I THINK THE PARKS YOU CURRENTLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, IT'S
2:08:52PM BASICALLY A NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT.
2:08:55PM I HATE THE TERM DEFERRED CAPITAL AND CAPITAL MAINTENANCE OR
2:09:01PM DEFERRED MAINTENANCE.
2:09:02PM IT'S REALLY JUST REINVESTMENT.
2:09:04PM IT'S NOT THAT THEY ARE NOT MAINTAINED, IT'S NOT THAT PEOPLE
2:09:07PM AREN'T TAKING CARE OF THEM OR ANY FAULT ON THE OPERATIONS
2:09:10PM PEOPLE FROM SHERISHA'S, BUT THINGS ARE REACHING THEIR LIFE
2:09:15PM CYCLE.
2:09:16PM THAT'S PRETTY PREDICTABLE WITH THINGS AND FROM A PHYSICAL
2:09:19PM PLANT, PHYSICAL STRUCTURE POINT OF VIEW, THAT'S WHERE THEY
2:09:22PM ARE AT.
2:09:23PM IT'S OKAY, BUT THERE'S CERTAINLY A SIGN THAT IF WE ARE
2:09:27PM LOOKING OUT 10 OR 15 YEARS, GOT TO BE A PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE
2:09:32PM THINGS DON'T FAIL.
2:09:33PM WE ALSO DID AN EXTENSIVE LEVEL OF SERVICE ANALYSIS.
2:09:39PM IT'S A REALLY COMPLICATED MAP.
2:09:41PM IF YOU ZOOM IN ON IT, DARKER GRAY AREAS REPRESENT
2:09:45PM RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
2:09:46PM SO OUR HOPE IS THAT EVERY PERSON CAN REACH A MEANINGFUL,
2:09:52PM OPEN SPACE WITHIN A TEN-MINUTE WALK OF THEIR HOME.
2:09:56PM THERE ARE SOME SMALL GAPS, BUT IN GENERAL, JUST AS A GENERAL
2:10:01PM SCHEME, EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS A LITTLE COMPLICATED, CITY OF
2:10:03PM TAMPA IS DOING VERY WELL.
2:10:05PM SOMETIMES THERE ARE WHOLE GAPS OR WHOLE SECTIONS WHERE THERE
2:10:08PM ARE AREAS MISSING AND WHERE THERE REALLY IS NO SERVICE.
2:10:11PM BUT WITH SOME SURGICAL KINDS OF ACQUISITIONS AND/OR
2:10:16PM IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTIVITY, WE HOPE WE CAN ACHIEVE THAT
2:10:21PM OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
2:10:23PM THE FACILITY LEVEL OF SERVICE, THIS IS ONE THAT IS SOMETIMES
2:10:26PM COMPLICATED TO USE, BUT BASED ON YOUR COMP PLAN, YOU'RE
2:10:31PM DOING WELL IN THAT REGARD.
2:10:33PM THE QUESTION WOULD BE I THINK AS YOU MOVE FORWARD TO
2:10:37PM REEVALUATE AND MAYBE UPDATE YOUR COMP PLAN TO BE A LITTLE
2:10:40PM MORE RELEVANT TO TODAY'S DEMOGRAPHICS AND LIFESTYLES.
2:10:44PM THOSE ARE SOMEWHAT ANTIQUATED, PROBABLY PROJECTED 30 YEARS
2:10:49PM AGO ON A DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE, DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC.
2:10:52PM WE NEED A NEW APPROACH TO THAT.
2:10:54PM MOST CITIES ARE DOING THAT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY TODAY.
2:10:57PM LASTLY, OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVED ACCESSIBILITY IN ALL
2:11:02PM DIFFERENT MODES.
2:11:03PM PEOPLE DON'T ALL WALK OR DRIVE TO A PARK ANYMORE.
2:11:07PM THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS, MAXIMIZING THAT CAN REALLY
2:11:11PM IMPROVE ACCESS AND THE MEANINGFUL USE OF YOUR PARK SYSTEM.
2:11:15PM THE GOOD NEWS, YOU DO HAVE REALLY -- I MEAN, SOME OF THESE,
2:11:21PM THE OVERALL, THE DEPARTMENT HAS DONE A GREAT JOB.
2:11:24PM AS SHERISHA MENTIONED, THEY ARE A GOLD MEDAL WINNER.
2:11:27PM THE PROGRAMS RUN.
2:11:29PM SPECIAL EVENTS, 500 OR A THOUSAND SPECIAL EVENTS. THAT'S
2:11:32PM INSANE.
2:11:32PM MOST PEOPLE IN MY FIELD DON'T BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL THEM
2:11:35PM THAT'S WHAT THE NUMBER IS.
2:11:37PM IT'S INCREDIBLE WHAT THEY DO WITH THE STAFF AND EVERYTHING.
2:11:41PM YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE NUMBERS AND THIS WAS FROM A BLIND
2:11:44PM POLL FROM STAFF, VERY POSITIVE.
2:11:46PM I CAN GET EVERYTHING I NEED TO DO MY JOB.
2:11:50PM YOU ADD THOSE TOGETHER, THAT'S 75 TO 80 PERCENT, IT'S NOT
2:11:53PM UNCOMMON FOR ME TO SEE THAT BE BELOW 50.
2:11:57PM A LOT OF THESE NUMBERS BEING REALLY LOW WHERE IT'S
2:12:01PM INCREDIBLY HIGH.
2:12:02PM KIND OF THE SUM OF THE SLIDE IS YOU HAVE A VERY COMMITTED
2:12:07PM STAFF, WHAT WE CALL IN PARKS AND RECREATION, THEY BLEED
2:12:10PM GREEN AND ENERGIZED DIRECTOR AND LEADERSHIP THAT I THINK IS
2:12:14PM DRIVING A LOT OF PROGRAMS, REAL PASSION FOR DELIVERING GREAT
2:12:18PM SERVICES TO THE CITY.
2:12:20PM BUT WHEN WE GET TO THE PHYSICAL PART, IT'S A LITTLE HARDER.
2:12:25PM WE DID A REALLY EXTENSIVE PUBLIC OUTREACH PROCESS AS PART OF
2:12:29PM THIS WHOLE PROGRAM.
2:12:30PM WE USE WHAT WE CALL A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.
2:12:35PM IN OTHER WORDS, WE USE OBSERVATIONS, QUALITATIVE AND
2:12:38PM QUANTITATIVE METHODS TO COME TO KIND OF A CONSENSUS AND THEN
2:12:42PM WE LOOK AT ALL THOSE DIFFERENT METHODS AS TO WHAT KEEPS
2:12:45PM COMING TO THE TOP AS THE TOP PRIORITIES.
2:12:48PM SO WE DON'T JUST ASK THE PUBLIC WHAT DO YOU WANT.
2:12:50PM THAT'S EASY, RIGHT?
2:12:51PM WHAT IS A WANT VERSUS A NEED VERSUS A PRIORITY.
2:12:56PM SO REALLY TRYING TO WHITTLE DOWN TO WHAT IS, WHAT DO PEOPLE
2:13:01PM THINK ARE THE HIGHEST NEEDS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND NEED
2:13:06PM TO BE DONE FIRST.
2:13:07PM THAT WAS THE INITIATION OF THE PROCESS.
2:13:11PM IF YOU CAN SEE LOTS OF PARTICIPATION.
2:13:14PM IT ISN'T UNCOMMON TO HAVE PUBLIC MEETINGS, EVEN WELL
2:13:18PM ADVERTISED, EVEN TRYING AS HARD AS WE CAN TO HAVE VERY SMALL
2:13:23PM TURNOUT.
2:13:24PM BUT WITH A VIRTUAL ROOM AND SOME OF THE ONLINE PROCESSES WE
2:13:28PM USE, WE TOUCHED 36,000 PEOPLE.
2:13:32PM THAT'S ALMOST 10% OF THE POPULATION.
2:13:35PM WE'RE AWARE OF THE PROGRAM, FOLLOWING IT, GIVING INPUT.
2:13:39PM THAT'S REALLY AMAZING.
2:13:40PM THAT'S ANOTHER ALMOST STARTLING ONE.
2:13:44PM IT'S REAL TREND WHERE PEOPLE DON'T TURN UP ON AVERAGE
2:13:47PM TUESDAY NIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PUBLIC MEETING.
2:13:50PM SO I THINK EVEN EXTENDING IT OUT FOR A PERIOD LITTLE LONGER,
2:13:54PM A GREAT AMOUNT OF PUBLIC INTEREST AND A LOT OF REAL GOOD
2:13:58PM INPUT.
2:14:00PM OUT OF THAT WE TAKE ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS AND WE LOOK
2:14:03PM FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT KEEP COMING TO THE TOP.
2:14:06PM WHAT'S GOOD IS THAT WE'VE GOT KIND OF A CONSENSUS.
2:14:09PM THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD FROM SOME OF YOU, THE THINGS THAT
2:14:11PM WE HEARD FROM FOCUS GROUPS, WHAT WE HEARD FROM PUBLIC
2:14:15PM MEETINGS AND ONLINE, ALL KIND OF CONVERGED AT THE TOP
2:14:20PM THINGS.
2:14:20PM IF WE BOIL IT DOWN EVEN SIMPLER, THIS IS THE TOP LIST AND WE
2:14:25PM SOMETIMES LOOK AT THEM AS BOTH ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES.
2:14:30PM I DON'T KNOW IF THIS SURPRISES YOU, IF YOU'RE LOOKING, IF
2:14:33PM YOU'RE THINKING WHAT IT IS PEOPLE WOULD SAY, NATURE
2:14:37PM ENJOYMENT, NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS, NATURAL AREAS, CONSERVATION
2:14:40PM AND ENVIRONMENTAL LANDS.
2:14:41PM THAT MIGHT NOT BE WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WOULD HAVE
2:14:44PM BEEN IT, BUT IT'S INDICATIVE OF TRENDS ALL ACROSS THE U.S.
2:14:48PM PEOPLE ARE REALLY TRENDING MORE TOWARDS AN AT-WILL
2:14:51PM RECREATION.
2:14:52PM THEY LIKE TO GO CANOEING, KAYAKING, BIKING, WALKING, THOSE
2:14:56PM KINDS OF ACTIVITIES.
2:14:57PM IT'S PRETTY TYPICAL IN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES IN THE U.S.
2:15:01PM LONG-RANGE VISION DERIVED DIRECTLY FROM WHAT WE HEARD FROM
2:15:06PM THE PUBLIC.
2:15:07PM WHAT WE DID IS DEVELOP THESE THEMATIC SUBSYSTEMS THAT WE
2:15:11PM CALL THEM.
2:15:12PM KIND OF A FACET OF A WAY TO LOOK AT THE OVERALL PLAN.
2:15:14PM THIS WAS BASED ON HOW THE PUBLIC PERCEIVES THE DEPARTMENT,
2:15:18PM SO WE TOOK THAT DIRECTLY FROM THE COMMUNITY INPUT AND KIND
2:15:22PM OF FORMULATED A WAY TO LOOK AT IT MORE COMPREHENSIVELY.
2:15:26PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY PARKS, AS I SAID, THE
2:15:28PM REINVESTMENT IN THE PARKS AS REALLY KIND OF THE CORE OF THE
2:15:33PM PLAN.
2:15:34PM I THINK THE LAST TIME I PRESENTED HERE I WAS ENCOURAGED TO
2:15:37PM REALLY FOCUS ON THE WHOLE SYSTEM, NOT JUST ON A FEW HIGH
2:15:41PM PROJECTS, BUT REALLY THIS IS ACROSS THE BOARD, CORNER TO
2:15:46PM CORNER, TOP TO BOTTOM, EVERY SINGLE PARK KIND OF EVALUATION.
2:15:50PM AND YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES.
2:15:53PM 14 PARKS THAT YOU CURRENTLY OWN THAT WERE NEVER DEVELOPED
2:15:56PM BUT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THIS IS REALLY IN YOUR EXISTING
2:16:00PM SYSTEM.
2:16:00PM CONNECTIVITY AND WALKABILITY, THIS HAS JUST BEEN A THEME
2:16:06PM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS.
2:16:08PM LOTS OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT, I DON'T FEEL SAFE CROSSING THE
2:16:11PM STREET, DON'T FEEL SAFE GETTING TO THE PARK.
2:16:13PM WE NEED MORE GREENWAYS AND TRAILS, WE NEED BETTER SIDEWALK
2:16:17PM CONNECTIVITY RIGHT IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE PARK.
2:16:20PM JUST OVER AND OVER AND ALL THE WAY UP TO WE HAD A SERIES
2:16:23PM OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS OF PUBLIC OUTREACH AND OPEN HOUSES
2:16:27PM FOR THE MASTER PLAN AND THOSE SEEM TO BE A LOT OF THE THINGS
2:16:30PM WE HEARD RIGHT TO THE END.
2:16:32PM CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABILITY.
2:16:33PM I CAN SAY, I WORKED LONG ENOUGH IN THE INDUSTRY WHERE 30
2:16:37PM YEARS AGO, WE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THOSE THINGS WHEN WE
2:16:40PM DESIGNED PARKS.
2:16:41PM WE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER
2:16:44PM QUALITY AND HOW WE CAN USE THE PARKS AND IN A LOT OF CITIES,
2:16:48PM PARKS ARE A MAJOR PART OF CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABILITY,
2:16:51PM WATER QUALITY, ALL THE OTHER INITIATIVES THAT ARE VERY HIGH
2:16:55PM PRIORITY, ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA, ESPECIALLY IN COASTAL
2:16:59PM FLORIDA.
2:16:59PM I THINK WE CREATED WITHIN THE MASTER PLAN STRATEGIES IN HOW
2:17:04PM TO LOOK AT THOSE DIFFERENTLY.
2:17:06PM ATHLETICS AND AQUATICS, STILL VERY POPULAR.
2:17:10PM REALLY WANT TO CREATE THAT EVERY KID HAS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.
2:17:13PM THIS PLAN IS REALLY PREDICATED ON EQUITY AND MAKING SURE
2:17:16PM THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME ACCESS AND IS TREATED FAIRLY.
2:17:21PM SO THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOING THAT.
2:17:23PM AGAIN, NOT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT YOU'RE DOING VERY
2:17:27PM GOOD AS IT IS.
2:17:28PM YOU'RE FORTUNATE THAT YOU WEREN'T LEFT WITH A LEGACY OF BIG
2:17:32PM DISPARITIES, BUT THERE ARE IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE MADE
2:17:34PM WITH A COUPLE MORE FACILITIES.
2:17:36PM LONG-RANGE, AGAIN, THIS IS A TREND IN AMERICA.
2:17:40PM MAYBE A LESSER EMPHASIS ON COMPETITIVE SPORTS, MORE ON THE
2:17:47PM EMPHASIS DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM COMPETITIVE SPORTS BUT MORE
2:17:52PM HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
2:17:53PM NOT JUST YOUTH CENTERED.
2:17:54PM I GREW UP, HUGE FAMILY, LOTS OF KIDS, BUT NOW IT'S ABOUT
2:17:58PM EVERYBODY, ALL AGE GROUPS, ALL ABILITIES AND MAKING SURE
2:18:02PM EVERYONE CAN USE THE PARKS AND NOT JUST KIDS DURING THE DAY
2:18:05PM AND WEEKENDS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
2:18:07PM CULTURAL PROGRAMMING, AGAIN, SHERISHA'S TEAM DOES A GREAT
2:18:11PM JOB IN DOING THOSE.
2:18:14PM THE MORE SHE DOES THE MORE PEOPLE TELL ME THEY WANT MORE,
2:18:17PM THAT IT IS A WONDERFUL THING, THAT YOU CAN BRING PEOPLE
2:18:20PM TOGETHER OVER SMALL EVENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO BIGGER
2:18:23PM CONVENIENCE AND COMMUNITY CENTERS TO CITYWIDE EVENTS.
2:18:26PM THAT REALLY IS KIND OF THE GOLD MEDAL OF THIS DEPARTMENT.
2:18:30PM PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER, KIND OF A BLURRY MAP.
2:18:35PM HARD TO LOOK AT ON A LITTLE TINY SCREEN LIKE THIS, BUT IF
2:18:39PM YOU SEE IT AS A GREAT BIG MAP, YOU CAN REALLY DRILL DOWN TO
2:18:42PM EACH AND EVERY AREA AND SEE WHAT THE IDEAS ARE AND WHAT
2:18:45PM KINDS OF THINGS CAN BE DONE.
2:18:47PM I THINK IT'S COMPREHENSIVE AND PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
2:18:52PM I DO THINK YOUR VISION FOR ART TOMORROW IS MORE THAN A TAG
2:18:58PM LINE.
2:18:59PM I'D LIKE TO SAY IT'S NOT MY PLAN.
2:19:02PM IT'S NOT AECOM'S PLAN, SHERISHA'S OR THE CITY'S PLAN.
2:19:06PM THIS IS A PLAN WE DEVELOPED THROUGH THE PUBLIC.
2:19:08PM SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO THINK OF IT AS THE PUBLIC'S PLAN.
2:19:12PM IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES, OF COURSE, ALWAYS SOMETHING.
2:19:16PM HOW DO WE GET THERE?
2:19:18PM WE BROKE THIS DOWN, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THESE PIE CHARTS,
2:19:22PM AGAIN, IT IS A MASSIVE REPORT AND A BUNCH OF APPENDICES IF
2:19:26PM YOU NEED SOMETHING TO READ LATE AT NIGHT.
2:19:29PM BUT 2,200 LINE ITEMS OF INDIVIDUAL THINGS TO IMPROVE.
2:19:36PM REALLY PROPOSED FACILITIES IN EXISTING PARKS AND JUST
2:19:41PM IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING.
2:19:43PM IF YOU JUST TAKE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE FIXING IN THE PARKS,
2:19:47PM 70% OF THE TOTAL, IF YOU ADD IN THOSE THINGS, THE 14
2:19:50PM UNDEVELOPED, IT'S OVER 80% OF THE TOTAL.
2:19:55PM SO REALLY A COMMUNITY-WIDE KIND OF APPROACH TO THE PLAN.
2:19:59PM AND IT'S INTENDED TO BE IMPLEMENTED NOT JUST TODAY.
2:20:04PM I WILL SAY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE SEE, THESE THINGS
2:20:08PM HAPPEN OVER A SLOW PERIOD, MAYBE STARTING 2008 OF KIND OF
2:20:11PM FALLING BEHIND.
2:20:13PM IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO FIX IT BACK UP.
2:20:16PM THIS ISN'T ABOUT RUN OUT IN ONE DAY AND FIX THIS.
2:20:19PM IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO KIND OF TILT THAT BACK IN
2:20:23PM THE OTHER DIRECTION.
2:20:24PM WE'VE BROKEN IT ALL INTO PHASES, ONE TO FIVE, SIX TO TEN, SO
2:20:29PM THAT THIS -- A STRATEGIC APPROACH BASED ON SOMEWHAT
2:20:34PM PROFESSIONAL STRATEGY, BUT ALSO ON THE PUBLIC'S PRIORITIES
2:20:39PM OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FIRST AND HOW THINGS CAN BE ORDERED
2:20:43PM IN A CERTAIN WAY TO MOVE THE PROGRAM AHEAD EFFICIENTLY AND
2:20:47PM EFFECTIVELY.
2:20:47PM PRIORITY ACTION ITEMS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, INVEST IN
2:20:52PM EXPANDED FOCUSED APPROACH TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
2:20:55PM SAYING THAT THERE'S GOT TO BE AN INVESTMENT.
2:20:57PM IT'S GOING TO TAKE TIME AND EVALUATE OTHER FUNDING.
2:21:01PM THERE ARE SOME PARTNERS.
2:21:02PM THERE ARE SOME WAYS IN WHICH THAT CAN BE SHARED
2:21:05PM RESPONSIBILITY.
2:21:06PM THERE ARE CERTAINLY THINGS OUT THERE, EVEN FROM THE FEDERAL
2:21:09PM GOVERNMENT ON TRAILS AND GREENWAYS AND THINGS, BUT IT'S
2:21:12PM ABOUT BEING FOCUSED AND NOT JUST EVERYTHING BEING CARRIED BY
2:21:16PM THE CITY ITSELF.
2:21:17PM POLICY INITIATIVES.
2:21:18PM I THINK THIS IS UNDERWAY, UPDATING YOUR COMP PLAN, MAYBE
2:21:21PM DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE GREENWAYS AND TRAILS MASTER PLAN
2:21:24PM TO LOOK AT THE CONNECTIVITY ISSUES.
2:21:26PM REALLY, A PARKS-ORIENTED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY AND
2:21:31PM RESILIENCE I THINK WOULD BE VERY POSITIVE FOR THE CITY.
2:21:34PM JUST ACHIEVE MULTIPLE GOALS THAT THE CITY IS TRYING TO DO.
2:21:38PM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMMING AND OPERATIONS,
2:21:42PM CONTINUE THE WIDE VARIETY OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE CURRENTLY
2:21:45PM HAPPENING, BUT SOME OF THAT IS BEING LIMITED BY THE
2:21:49PM FACILITIES RIGHT NOW.
2:21:50PM SO REALLY FOCUSING ON EQUITY AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE
2:21:55PM HAS THE EQUAL ACCESS TO THOSE GREAT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
2:21:59PM THAT SHERISHA PROVIDES.
2:22:01PM TRYING TO BE QUICK.
2:22:04PM I KNOW THAT'S A LOT FOR A LOT OF WORK AND A GREAT BIG
2:22:07PM DOCUMENT, BUT I WAS ENCOURAGED TO BE BRIEF AND BE OPEN TO
2:22:11PM LOTS OF QUESTIONS.
2:22:12PM HOPEFULLY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I CAN ANSWER ANYTHING
2:22:15PM YOU MAY WISH TO KNOW ABOUT.
2:22:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
2:22:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS.
2:22:22PM I DID READ THROUGH THIS.
2:22:24PM >> OKAY, GOOD.
2:22:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, I READ IT.
2:22:28PM MY AIDE KELLY HAS BEEN READING THROUGH IT AND I READ THROUGH
2:22:31PM IT LAST NIGHT.
2:22:32PM I APPRECIATE EACH PART OF IT.
2:22:35PM I WAS INTERESTED -- AND YOU DIDN'T TOUCH ON IT BECAUSE I
2:22:38PM LOOKED AT THE SLIDES EARLIER -- YOU DIDN'T TOUCH ON THE FACT
2:22:41PM THAT THERE IS A REALLY INTERESTING PIE CHART THAT TALKS
2:22:44PM ABOUT WHAT THE RESPONDENTS WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY, TO
2:22:53PM INCREASE THIS PARK.
2:22:53PM IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS A GOOD PERCENTAGE THAT WOULD
2:22:56PM BE WILLING TO PAY BETWEEN 5 AND 10 DOLLARS AND MORE A MONTH.
2:23:01PM >> UM-HUM, YEAH.
2:23:03PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AM I CORRECT IN THAT?
2:23:05PM >> YEAH.
2:23:05PM IT'S PRETTY COMMON.
2:23:07PM I WILL SAY MOST PEOPLE REALLY DO LOVE THEIR PARKS.
2:23:10PM GREAT PLACES.
2:23:11PM I'M A PARKS GUY.
2:23:13PM TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH.
2:23:14PM GREAT PARKS MAKE GREAT CITIES.
2:23:16PM MOST PEOPLE, IF IT'S GOING TO REALLY BENEFIT THEIR LOCAL
2:23:20PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY, THERE'S GENERALLY A WILLINGNESS
2:23:23PM TO PAY.
2:23:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APPRECIATE THAT.
2:23:28PM I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY WONDERFUL COMPLIMENT TO SHERISHA
2:23:33PM AND THE ENTIRE PARKS DEPARTMENT AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO
2:23:36PM DO WITH THE PARK SYSTEM.
2:23:37PM I WAS REALLY HARDENED TO SEE THAT, AGAIN, PUTTING MONEY
2:23:43PM WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, WHERE YOUR HEART IS HOW YOU KNOW YOU
2:23:48PM HAVE A REALLY WONDERFUL SYSTEM.
2:23:50PM THE BIGGEST CONCERN I HAD FROM THE PUBLIC WHEN LOOKING AT
2:23:53PM THIS IS THAT THE PHASES DETAIL WHICH PARKS SHOULD BE
2:23:59PM INCLUDED IN WHICH PHASE, BUT IT DOES NOT DRILL DOWN AND TALK
2:24:03PM ABOUT THE POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS FOR EACH PARK.
2:24:07PM I KNOW THAT RESIDENTS WERE VERY CONCERNED, IS MY PARK
2:24:10PM GETTING THIS?
2:24:11PM IS MY PARK GETTING THAT?
2:24:13PM I WAS WONDERING IF THERE'S AN APPENDIX SOMEWHERE THAT DOES
2:24:16PM DETAIL WHETHER INFORMATION YOU GOT FROM THE PUBLIC OR WHEN
2:24:21PM YOU DID VISITS TO THE PARKS, WHAT YOU ANTICIPATE THE ACTUAL
2:24:25PM NEEDS WOULD BE FOR EACH PARK.
2:24:28PM >> AND THERE IS.
2:24:32PM EVERY SINGLE PARK, EVERY SINGLE LINE OF EVERY SINGLE
2:24:35PM IMPROVEMENT.
2:24:36PM SO THAT'S HOW WE GOT TO THESE NUMBERS.
2:24:38PM IT WAS NOT BROAD STROKE.
2:24:41PM IT WAS EVERY SINGLE THING, EVERY SINGLE ONE, ALL THE WAY
2:24:45PM DOWN FOR EVERY SINGLE PARK.
2:24:47PM I BELIEVE THAT CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE'S PERUSAL OR
2:24:53PM LATE-NIGHT READING OR DETAILING THROUGH.
2:24:55PM AGAIN, THIS IS AS BEST AS WE CAN BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE TODAY
2:25:00PM THAT DOESN'T PRECLUDE AS YEARS GO BY, THAT GETS ADJUSTED A
2:25:04PM LITTLE, IT IS A WORKING DOCUMENT BUT WE REALLY PUT OUR
2:25:07PM EFFORT INTO MAKING SURE, AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WILLINGNESS
2:25:09PM TO PAY AND I'LL TALK ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE ELSEWHERE, PEOPLE
2:25:12PM CAN GET THEIR ARMS AROUND A BIG IDEA, BUT WHAT THEY REALLY
2:25:16PM WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PARK DOWN THE
2:25:18PM STREET.
2:25:19PM WHEN THEY GO AND IF IT IS A PART OF A VOTE OR IT IS A PART
2:25:23PM OF THEIR WILLINGNESS TO PAY, THEY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW
2:25:27PM WILL IT AFFECT THEIR PERSONAL LIVES?
2:25:29PM IT'S VERY PERSONAL.
2:25:30PM AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY SEES THAT IT IS EQUITABLY
2:25:35PM ACROSS THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
2:25:37PM I WILL CAUTION ON THE WORD EQUITY.
2:25:39PM IT DOESN'T MEAN EVERYBODY -- SOME PARKS ARE MUCH BETTER THAN
2:25:42PM OTHERS.
2:25:42PM SOME NEED MORE WORK, AND WE HAVE TO BE HONEST ABOUT THAT
2:25:46PM FACT, TOO, SO IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR IN
2:25:50PM EVERY SINGLE SPOT.
2:25:51PM BUT TRYING TO GET IT ALL UP TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF QUALITY IS
2:25:56PM THE AMBITION, I GUESS.
2:25:58PM WANT TO ADD TO THAT?
2:26:02PM >> ALSO JUST TO SAY DEPENDING ON THE PROJECTS AND
2:26:05PM IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE THERE, WE ALSO WANT TO REALLY FOCUS IN
2:26:07PM ON THE COMMUNITY, SO GETTING THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
2:26:10PM IF IT'S A LARGER PROJECT, SO -- THIS DID START TWO YEARS
2:26:13PM AGO.
2:26:14PM WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE NEW THAT HAVE MOVED INTO THE COMMUNITY,
2:26:16PM SO WE'RE GOING OFF OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS BUT IF IT IS A
2:26:21PM PARTICULAR PROJECT AT A PARK, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GO
2:26:23PM BACK AND DO THE OUTREACH SO WE SAY, HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE,
2:26:26PM WHETHER A DOLLAR AMOUNT OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, WHAT DOES
2:26:29PM THAT FINAL PROJECT LOOK LIKE?
2:26:31PM WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE RIGHT NOW AT THIS TIME?
2:26:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BUT MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT APPENDIX ANNEX
2:26:38PM AVAILABLE?
2:26:39PM IS IT AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE?
2:26:40PM IF NOT, CAN WE GET IT ADDED TO THE WEBSITE?
2:26:44PM >>SHERISHA HILLS: THE WHOLE DOCUMENT IS ON THERE, RIGHT?
2:26:46PM >> YES, I THINK THE APPENDIX WAS UPDATED RECENTLY.
2:26:49PM EVERYTHING IS PUBLIC RECORD.
2:26:50PM WE WANT EVERYBODY TO LOOK AT IT.
2:26:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL GO BACK TO THAT WEBSITE AND SEE IF I
2:26:54PM CAN FIND IT.
2:26:57PM I HAD TWO MORE QUICK QUESTIONS.
2:27:00PM I NOTICED THAT YOU ADDED ATHLETICS AND AQUATICS TOGETHER
2:27:04PM WHEN LOOKING AT LARGER ISSUES.
2:27:06PM THOSE TO ME HAVE VERY DIFFERENT DOLLAR AMOUNTS.
2:27:09PM AQUATICS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE COMPARATIVELY.
2:27:14PM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT A LITTLE MORE DEFINED BECAUSE I
2:27:17PM THINK IT GIVES US A BETTER IDEA.
2:27:19PM I THINK THE ATHLETIC DOLLARS CAN BE A SPREAD A LOT MORE
2:27:23PM READILY THAN AQUATICS DOLLARS.
2:27:26PM AND WHEN LOOKING, AGAIN, IN THE REPORT, THERE WERE DOLLAR
2:27:32PM AMOUNTS ATTACHED TO WHAT THE PROJECTION, AND THE AMOUNT OF
2:27:37PM MONEY FOR ATHLETICS AND AQUATICS WAS LARGE BY VERY FAR, AND
2:27:43PM SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT DIVIDED OUT, JUST TO GET AN IDEA
2:27:47PM OF WHAT YOU EXPECT TO POSSIBLY SPEND IN THOSE AREAS JUST
2:27:50PM BECAUSE I KNOW HOW DIFFERENT THEY ARE.
2:27:54PM AND ONE MORE THING THAT I HADN'T SEEN MENTIONED BUT THAT
2:27:57PM I'VE SEEN OTHER CITIES USE, WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRAILS
2:28:02PM AND GREENWAYS, AND WE ACTUALLY HAD A CONVERSATION SORT OF
2:28:06PM SURROUNDING IT TODAY, AND SHORT, QUICK STORY, WE FOSTER --
2:28:14PM MY HUSBAND AND I FOSTER BEAGLES.
2:28:16PM WE ARE ON OUR 21st FOSTER RIGHT NOW, AND HER NAME IS
2:28:20PM JELLY, AND SHE IS A BEAGLE CATTLE DOG FOSTER.
2:28:24PM SHE REQUIRES A LOT MORE ENERGY EXPENDED THAN NORMAL DOGS,
2:28:28PM THAN OUR NORMAL BEAGLE FRIENDS.
2:28:30PM WE HAVE BEEN TAKING HER MORE AND MORE ON DIFFERENT WALKS.
2:28:33PM ONE OF THE THINGS SHE LIKES BEST IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ARE OUR
2:28:37PM ALLEYS.
2:28:38PM IF YOU FIND -- WE WILL RUN INTO PEOPLE WALKING DOGS.
2:28:43PM THEY ARE WALKING JUST THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS IN
2:28:45PM ALLEYS.
2:28:46PM I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EXPANSION
2:28:49PM OF GREENWAYS AND HOW WE USE EXTRA SPACE, THAT WE DON'T
2:28:54PM DISCOUNT ALLEYS AS SPACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN WALK.
2:28:57PM THEY ARE NOT USED BY CARS TREMENDOUSLY.
2:28:59PM THEY ARE AN ACCESS POINT, BUT THEY ARE ALSO OFTEN VACANT.
2:29:04PM SO WHAT DO WE DO WITH THAT IN THE MEANTIME?
2:29:07PM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT IT MIGHT TAKE TO ENCOURAGE THAT.
2:29:10PM I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY NOT PART OF THE SCOPE, BUT WHILE WE
2:29:13PM WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND WHILE I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT
2:29:15PM THE EXPERIENCES I'VE BEEN HAVING IN ALLEYS RECENTLY, I
2:29:18PM REALLY WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T BRING THAT UP.
2:29:21PM BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.
2:29:22PM I THINK THIS WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION.
2:29:23PM I APPRECIATE THE REPORT AND I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO READING
2:29:27PM THE APPENDIX.
2:29:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBER
2:29:34PM --
2:29:34PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM'S AMAZING
2:29:37PM WORK AND SHERISHA, ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH.
2:29:40PM I CAN ALWAYS TELL WITH SHERISHA THAT YOU ARE IN YOUR DREAM
2:29:43PM JOB.
2:29:44PM YEAH, YOU ARE IN YOUR DREAM JOB, AND IT SHOWS.
2:29:46PM YOU ARE ALWAYS SO ACCESSIBLE AND YOU DO A GREAT JOB.
2:29:49PM ALSO COMPLIMENT YOU ON THE ROBUST SIZE OF THE REPORT.
2:29:54PM FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS A PARKS MASTER PLAN.
2:30:00PM WE'VE BEEN PUSHING FOR A PUBLIC SAFETY MASTER PLAN.
2:30:03PM WHEN PEOPLE ASK WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE PUBLIC
2:30:06PM SAFETY MASTER PLAN, I WANT TO HAND OVER YOUR REPORT BECAUSE
2:30:10PM THAT IS ROBUST.
2:30:11PM WHEN YOU LOOK AT RECOMMENDATIONS, AS I'LL TALK ABOUT A LOT
2:30:16PM OF DIFFERENT AREAS, INCLUDING LOOKING AT INDIVIDUAL PARKS,
2:30:19PM WHAT INDIVIDUAL PARKS NEED, ET CETERA, THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO
2:30:23PM SEE.
2:30:24PM NO RELEVANCY TO YOU, SIR, BUT THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SEE JUST
2:30:28PM FOR THE RECORD IN OUR PUBLIC SAFETY MASTER PLAN.
2:30:31PM SO THIS REPORT IS OBVIOUSLY GREAT.
2:30:33PM THE REASON I SEE THAT THIS REPORT WAS DONE SO THAT WE COULD
2:30:36PM TAKE A LOOK THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR CITY OF TAMPA, SEE THE
2:30:40PM AREAS GROWING, SEE THE AREAS THAT HAVE A LACK OF BALANCE, I
2:30:44PM GUESS, IF YOU WILL, WITH REGARDS TO PARKS AND OTHER THINGS
2:30:48PM IN PARKS, FOR EXAMPLE.
2:30:49PM WE HAVE THREE CITY OF TAMPA RUN GOLF COURSES WHICH ARE
2:30:51PM AMAZING GREENSPACES FOR THE COMMUNITY.
2:30:54PM IN MY DISTRICT WE HAVE BABE ZAHARIAS WHICH IS AMAZING AND
2:31:00PM GETS THE JOB DONE SO TO SPEAK, SO WE CAN HIGHLIGHT THE GAPS,
2:31:04PM IDENTIFY THE GAPS AND TALK ABOUT HOW TO FUND THE GAPS AND
2:31:07PM WHATNOT.
2:31:08PM I THINK COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAD A MOTION THAT WE'LL HEAR -- I
2:31:11PM THINK IT GOT CONTINUED, BUT TO TALK ABOUT POTENTIAL SOURCES
2:31:15PM FOR FUNDING PARKS.
2:31:16PM I SUPPORT THAT 110%.
2:31:19PM THE TALK OF NEW REVENUE TAXES, ET CETERA, COMES UP.
2:31:24PM I DO NOT SUPPORT NEW TAXES FOR PARKS.
2:31:26PM I JUST DON'T.
2:31:27PM WE HAVE CRITICAL NEEDS IN OUR CITY WHEN IT COMES TO
2:31:31PM TRANSPORTATION AND MASS TRANSIT, WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC
2:31:35PM SAFETY FOR POLICE AND FIRE, ET CETERA.
2:31:38PM I COULD NOT SUPPORT ASKING THE PUBLIC FOR MORE REVENUE WHEN
2:31:42PM WE HAVE THESE ISSUES THAT COME BEFORE IT.
2:31:44PM THAT'S MY POSITION.
2:31:45PM I SAW THE SECTION THAT YOU ALL DID, NUMEROUS SECTIONS ON
2:31:50PM DISABILITY ACCESSIBILITY WITHIN OUR PARKS.
2:31:54PM WONDERFUL.
2:31:54PM JOB WELL DONE.
2:31:55PM I THINK I MENTIONED THAT BEFORE.
2:31:56PM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THAT.
2:31:57PM THAT'S SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT.
2:31:59PM WE HAVE TO REALLY PUT A ROBUST EFFORT IN OUR CITY OF TAMPA
2:32:01PM IN MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR PARKS HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS
2:32:05PM ACCESS AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS HAVE AN
2:32:08PM ALL-ABILITIES PARK, AT LEAST ONE IN EACH DISTRICT AND THAT
2:32:12PM ALL PARKS HAVE ACCESSIBILITY.
2:32:13PM I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
2:32:14PM WE'RE WORKING ON IT THROUGH OUR CRA FOR THE AREAS IN THE CRA
2:32:18PM THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED AND OUTSIDE OF THAT FOR AREAS LIKE
2:32:21PM NEW TAMPA, NORTH TAMPA, SOUTH TAMPA, WE CAN WORK ON THAT AS
2:32:25PM WELL.
2:32:25PM THE PURPOSE WAS TO HAVE AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS ON WHERE THE
2:32:28PM PARKS ARE, ET CETERA, AND I WANTED TO BRING UP SOMETHING
2:32:31PM THAT'S OPEN AND OBVIOUS BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS MAP AND
2:32:34PM YOU LOOK AT THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE THERE AND YOU TAKE A LOOK
2:32:37PM AT DISTRICT 7, THE NUMBERS ARE QUITE RELEVANT.
2:32:42PM I KNOW THERE ARE SOME ISSUES I'LL TALK ABOUT WITH CERTAIN
2:32:46PM PARTS OF DISTRICT 7 THAT ARE RELEVANT AND I'LL GET INTO
2:32:49PM THOSE AS WELL.
2:32:49PM IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE ANALYSIS, DISTRICT 7 HAS 11 PARKS.
2:32:54PM ONE OF THOSE PARKS IS THE K-BAR RANCH AREA WHICH IS NOT A
2:32:57PM PARK, WHICH IS A -- THAT'S NOTED IN THE REPORT.
2:33:00PM I'M NOT MAKING THAT AS A CORRECTION.
2:33:02PM I'M SAYING FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PUBLIC WHICH IS A
2:33:05PM POTENTIAL PARK THAT CAN BE DEVELOPED THROUGH THE COUNTY,
2:33:07PM ET CETERA, ET CETERA, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE OTHER
2:33:10PM DISTRICTS, DISTRICT 4, ABOUT 50, DISTRICT 5 ABOUT 60,
2:33:14PM DISTRICT 6 ABOUT 60, THE REPORT FOR DISTRICT 7 I DON'T THINK
2:33:18PM IT HAS THAT FOR ANY OTHER DISTRICT, ALSO NOTES COUNTY PARKS
2:33:21PM AND THEN PARKS THROUGH CDDs AND HOAs WHICH IS UNIQUE TO
2:33:26PM NEW TAMPA, EVEN IF YOU INCLUDE THOSE, THAT'S 26 PARKS IN
2:33:29PM DISTRICT 7.
2:33:31PM 50% LESS ON AVERAGE THAN THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
2:33:34PM THAT OBVIOUSLY IS AN ISSUE.
2:33:36PM BUT IT'S AN ISSUE THAT CONTINUES TO BE A CONCERN IN DISTRICT
2:33:39PM 7.
2:33:40PM YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRE ISSUE.
2:33:42PM SOME OF OUR MOST ACUTE FIRE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE US
2:33:45PM HAVE BEEN FROM DISTRICT 7.
2:33:47PM FOUR OUT OF THE SIX STATIONS WITH THE LONGEST RESPONSE TIMES
2:33:49PM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA ARE 33647.
2:33:51PM WE HAD STATION 13 BY FAR AND AWAY THE BUSIEST STATION IN THE
2:33:56PM CITY OF TAMPA, 50th OR SO BUSIEST STATION IN OUR UNITED
2:33:59PM STATES OF AMERICA IN NORTH TAMPA, RIGHT THERE IN DISTRICT 7.
2:34:03PM SO THAT'S A DISTRICT, RIGHT, WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF ACUTE
2:34:07PM NEEDS.
2:34:08PM PARKS IS A REAL ROBUST WANT, NOT NECESSARILY A NEED.
2:34:13PM WE NEED TO REALLY, REALLY HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THIS ISSUE,
2:34:17PM PARTICULARLY WITH K-BAR RANCH, ABOUT 4500 OF OUR
2:34:20PM CONSTITUENTS LIVE OUT THERE.
2:34:23PM THERE'S AREA OUT THERE.
2:34:23PM I KNOW THE CITY SAYS THERE'S NOT A LOT OF LAND PARTICULARLY
2:34:27PM FOR THE NEW TAMPA AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT.
2:34:29PM THERE IS A LOT OF LAND.
2:34:30PM SO I WANT US IN THE BUDGET TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE I
2:34:33PM THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
2:34:35PM BUT AGAIN, IN SUMMARY, A GREAT JOB ON THE REPORT.
2:34:39PM A WONDERFUL JOB AS ALWAYS FROM PARKS AND RECREATION.
2:34:41PM WE ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOUR HELP.
2:34:43PM I'M BEING TOLD TO SHUT UP.
2:34:45PM THANK YOU.
2:34:50PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA.
2:34:52PM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
2:34:54PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO SAY TO PIGGYBACK FOR A SECOND ON
2:34:58PM WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA JUST SAID, PARKS ARE INCREDIBLY
2:35:01PM IMPORTANT.
2:35:03PM WE FOUND OUT DURING COVID THAT PEOPLE USE THEIR PARKS MORE
2:35:07PM THAN EVER AND THEY FOUND ALL THE PROBLEMS WITH THEM AND THEY
2:35:11PM LET US KNOW ABOUT ALL OF THOSE.
2:35:13PM WE ALSO FOUND THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS CHANGED
2:35:17PM ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF COVID.
2:35:18PM COVID SPED IT UP.
2:35:19PM BUT IT USED TO BE THAT YOU WOULD SUBSIDIZE DOWNTOWNS AND YOU
2:35:23PM WOULD SUBSIDIZE COMPANIES AND NOW WE NEED TO BUILD A BETTER
2:35:27PM QUALITY OF LIFE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING BUSINESSES OUT OF
2:35:30PM THEIR HOMES.
2:35:31PM THEY ARE WORKING OUT OF THEIR HOMES.
2:35:33PM AND THE OLD STYLE OF SUBSIDIZING BIG OFFICE BUILDINGS AND
2:35:38PM SUBSIDIZING COMPANIES DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE.
2:35:45PM CAUSES RACE TO THE BOTTOM.
2:35:46PM WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THE LAST FEW YEARS AS CITY
2:35:48PM COUNCIL IS TO FUND QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES THAT HELP PEOPLE
2:35:52PM WANT TO MOVE HERE AND LIVE HERE AND STAY HERE AND BE EXCITED
2:35:56PM ABOUT THIS AREA AND PEOPLE, OBVIOUSLY, ARE EXCITED.
2:35:59PM TECHNICAL QUESTION FOR A SECOND.
2:36:03PM I GOT BACK FROM OVERSEES LAST NIGHT, BUT I DILIGENTLY READ
2:36:08PM EVERYTHING THE LAST FEW DAYS.
2:36:10PM EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT A HUNDRED-PAGE DOCUMENT.
2:36:13PM I DID NOT SEE THAT.
2:36:15PM IN FACT, I SENT AN E-MAIL TO STAFF THE OTHER DAY AND SAID
2:36:17PM ALTHOUGH I LIKE THE PRESENTATION, I WAS DISAPPOINTED THERE
2:36:20PM WAS NOT DETAIL IN IT.
2:36:21PM I LOOKED JUST NOW AND NO LONGER A HUNDRED-PAGE DOCUMENT ON
2:36:25PM SIRE.
2:36:25PM WHERE IS THE HUNDRED-PAGE DOCUMENT?
2:36:27PM WHERE IS THE 340 PAGE DOCUMENT?
2:36:32PM >> IT IS SITTING ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
2:36:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PUT IT ON SIRE?
2:36:36PM MAYBE THERE WAS AN E-MAIL THAT WENT OUT WHERE IT IS.
2:36:39PM IF I WAS A CITIZEN LOOKING AT THIS ON THE AGENDA, IT'S NOT
2:36:42PM ON THE AGENDA AND NOT ON SIRE AS TO WHERE THAT IS.
2:36:48PM I WAS GONE, I THOUGHT I READ EVERY E-MAIL, BUT FROM A
2:36:52PM CITIZEN POINT OF VIEW THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS
2:36:54PM TO IT.
2:36:55PM THAT SHOULD BE ADDED TO SIRE ASAP.
2:37:00PM >>SHERISHA HILLS: BEFORE WE DOWNLOADED THE PowerPoint INTO
2:37:02PM SIRE, WHEN JOE STARTED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WE PUT THE
2:37:05PM ENTIRE REPORT ONLINE SO THAT CITIZENS COULD SEE IT BEFORE
2:37:08PM THEY WENT TO THE OPEN HOUSES.
2:37:10PM IT'S A 340 PAGES --
2:37:12PM >>BILL CARLSON: LIKE MY COLLEAGUES, I DON'T MIND READING A
2:37:15PM THOUSAND PAGES IF I HAVE TO.
2:37:17PM THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AFTER THE LAST TWO YEARS AND I
2:37:20PM DIDN'T SEE IT.
2:37:20PM I WAS DISAPPOINTED.
2:37:22PM NOW I HEAR YOU HAVE IT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.
2:37:25PM WHOEVER IN THE FUTURE IS WORKING ON REPORTS, WE NEED TO MAKE
2:37:27PM SURE WE PUT THEM ON SIRE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE PUBLIC
2:37:30PM LOOKS TO GET INFORMATION.
2:37:33PM SO I'LL LOOK THROUGH THAT.
2:37:35PM THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS YOU TALK ABOUT EQUITY, BUT THE
2:37:38PM EQUITY I THINK PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT IN MY DISTRICT IN
2:37:41PM PARTICULAR IS THAT IF OUT OF ALL THE PARKS, BENCHES ARE
2:37:46PM BROKEN IN TEN OF THE PARKS, IF BENCHES ARE A HIGH PRIORITY
2:37:51PM THEY'LL GET FIXED IN ALL TEN PARKS WHERE THEY ARE BROKEN
2:37:54PM DESPITE WHERE THEY ARE IN THE CITY AND DESPITE THE OTHER
2:37:57PM THINGS.
2:37:57PM I'LL LOOK THROUGH AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT IS.
2:37:59PM IN THE SUMMARY, ANYWAY, I DID NOT SEE THAT PICKLEBALL WAS A
2:38:02PM HIGH PRIORITY.
2:38:04PM COME OUT IN THE THREE HUNDRED AND SOMETHING PAGE REPORT.
2:38:07PM >> PICKLEBALL, EVERYWHERE I GO, IT'S A CRISIS.
2:38:11PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE PUBLIC IS UPSET BECAUSE IF YOU HAD TO
2:38:14PM CHOOSE BETWEEN FIXING BENCHES AND FIXING THE BASIC WORKING
2:38:19PM OF A PARK, WHAT WE'RE DOING IN SOME PARKS IS WE'RE BUILDING
2:38:22PM PICKLEBALL INSTEAD OF THAT.
2:38:23PM PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THE BASIC THINGS ARE NOT
2:38:27PM GETTING FIXED.
2:38:28PM I DON'T MIND CHASING WHATEVER THE FAD OF THE DAY IS.
2:38:31PM LAST TIME I SAID I WAS INTO POKEMON WHEN IT WAS POPULAR IN
2:38:37PM PARKS, BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD GO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY
2:38:40PM ON THAT WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THE BASIC THINGS FIXED,
2:38:42PM ESPECIALLY IF WE HAVE LIMITED MONEY.
2:38:44PM WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO ACTIVATE PARKS.
2:38:46PM IF PEOPLE WANT PICKLEBALL, WE NEED TO HAVE.
2:38:48PM TO ME THAT IS A NICE TO HAVE NOT A PRIORITY WHEN PEOPLE SIT
2:38:51PM ON A BENCH AND IT FALLS APART BECAUSE IT IS BROKEN.
2:38:54PM I'M USING THAT AS AN EXAMPLE.
2:38:56PM THE LAST THING IS, I'VE TALKED ABOUT CRA MONEY SEVERAL
2:38:58PM TIMES.
2:38:59PM THIS IS NOT THE CRA BOARD, BUT JUST TO REMIND MY COLLEAGUES
2:39:03PM IN THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT CRAs, THERE'S
2:39:07PM SOMETHING LIKE $30 MILLION A YEAR RIGHT NOW.
2:39:09PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THE LAST FEW DAYS, THOSE NUMBERS
2:39:12PM ARE GOING TO GET BIGGER AND BIGGER OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
2:39:15PM LET'S SAY AFTER WE FINISH OUR CURRENT COMMITMENTS, IF THE
2:39:19PM DOWNTOWN CRA GOES FROM 15 TO $40 MILLION IN THE NEXT FEW
2:39:23PM YEARS, IF WE TOOK 20% OF THAT, THAT WOULD BE $10 MILLION A
2:39:26PM YEAR, AND IT STILL WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON THE STUFF WE'RE
2:39:30PM ABLE TO DO IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA BUT IT WOULD TRIPLE THE
2:39:34PM PARK'S BUDGET.
2:39:35PM THERE IS A COUNTERCAMPAIGN GOING RIGHT NOW APPARENTLY BY THE
2:39:38PM MEDIA WHERE SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO GET MORE CORPORATE
2:39:41PM SUBSIDIES, BUT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON WHAT'S FAIR FOR THE REST
2:39:44PM OF THE CITY AND -- ALL THAT MONEY I'M NOT PROPOSING MOVING
2:39:49PM ALL OF THAT, BUT TRAPPING THE MONEY IN DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL
2:39:52PM DISTRICT, SPENDING $4 MILLION ON A PARK WHEN OUR WHOLE
2:39:55PM BUDGET FOR THE WHOLE CITY IS 5 MILLION IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
2:39:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:39:59PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND COUNCIL MEMBER --
2:40:02PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIES, AS I
2:40:05PM LOOK AT IT, WE GOT, WHAT, ABOUT 80 PLAYGROUNDS.
2:40:09PM MAYBE I'M -- YOU MIGHT CALL IT PARKS BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT 80
2:40:13PM PARKS PLUS TWO NEW PARKS AND I'M LOOKING AT PLAYGROUNDS.
2:40:17PM IS THAT THE SAME THING OR DIFFERENT?
2:40:18PM THE CITY HAS 191 PARKS, WITHIN THAT THERE ARE 80
2:40:25PM PLAYGROUNDS, 173 OUTDOOR COURTS OR TENNIS, WHATEVER, AND
2:40:29PM THREE GOLF COURSES.
2:40:30PM THREE EVENT CENTERS, 17 INTERACTIVE WATER FACILITIES,
2:40:36PM FEATURES, 104 ATHLETIC FIELDS, 32 RECREATION CENTERS, FOUR
2:40:41PM ART STUDIOS, TWO GYMNASTICS AND DANCE CENTERS WHICH ARE
2:40:45PM GREAT, EVERYTHING IS GREAT.
2:40:49PM SO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS LOOKING AT IT AND HOW CAN WE
2:40:51PM IMPROVE WHAT WE HAVE?
2:40:53PM >> IN A LOT OF RESPECTS, YES.
2:40:55PM THAT'S THE CORE OF THE PLAN.
2:40:58PM ALL PLANS HAVE DONE MANY, ARE DIFFERENT, BUT CITY OF TAMPA'S
2:41:02PM PLAN AND WHAT WE HEARD FROM PEOPLE IS A LOT OF WHAT WAS JUST
2:41:06PM MENTIONED, FIX WHAT YOU HAVE FIRST.
2:41:08PM MAKE SURE IT'S SAFE.
2:41:09PM MAKE SURE IT'S EQUITABLE.
2:41:11PM MAKE SURE IT'S FUNCTIONAL.
2:41:14PM SO A LOT OF THIS FOCUS IS THAT KIND OF BASELINE INTO THE
2:41:18PM EXISTING SYSTEM.
2:41:19PM THAT DOESN'T PRECLUDE SOME NEW FACILITIES, BUT THAT'S THE
2:41:23PM CORE OF THIS PLAN.
2:41:24PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LIKE HAVING A USED CAR AND YOU HAVE TO
2:41:27PM FIX THE ENGINE OR BUY TIRES.
2:41:29PM YOU BUY THE TIRES, YOU CAN'T MOVE.
2:41:32PM THE ENGINE, YOU CAN MOVE A LITTLE BIT.
2:41:36PM I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
2:41:37PM >> THAT IS REALLY WHAT WE HEARD A LOT FROM PEOPLE IS THAT
2:41:42PM THERE IS A NATURAL AREA IN THE PARK AND WE WANT TO GO WALK
2:41:45PM THROUGH BUT THE LIGHTS ARE OUT.
2:41:47PM WE DON'T FEEL SAFE.
2:41:48PM IT'S NOT DOING WHAT -- IT'S A GREAT ASSET, IT'S BEAUTIFUL,
2:41:54PM BUT WITHOUT THAT, WITHOUT THE RESTROOM FIXED UP, WITHOUT THE
2:41:58PM POLICE ABILITY AND WITHOUT JUST REPAIR OF THE FACILITIES,
2:42:04PM KIND OF LOSING OUT ON THE VALUE THAT YOU HAVE THERE.
2:42:08PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT.
2:42:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:42:11PM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
2:42:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REPORT.
2:42:16PM HOW WOULD COUNCIL GO ABOUT PROVIDING YOU WITH ADDITIONAL
2:42:19PM INPUT AS YOU CONTINUE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT TO THE FINAL
2:42:23PM DRAFT?
2:42:25PM >> WELL, ANY OTHER IDEAS OR ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE, SEND
2:42:28PM THEM THROUGH SHERISHA TO US.
2:42:31PM WE CAN CONTINUE TO LOOK -- IT'S A WORKING DOCUMENT.
2:42:34PM WE'VE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT, BUT THIS ISN'T THE END.
2:42:38PM THIS IS REALLY THE BEGINNING.
2:42:40PM SOMETIMES WE GET CAUGHT UP IN TRYING TO FINISH A MASTER
2:42:44PM PLAN.
2:42:44PM THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR PLAN HOPEFULLY FOREVER, RIGHT?
2:42:47PM KEEP UPDATING AND TRYING TO -- THE IDEA THAT WE'RE TRYING TO
2:42:51PM PUT FORTH IS THAT IF YOU HAVE LITTLE OR A LOT OF MONEY,
2:42:54PM FOCUS ON THE TOP PRIORITIES AND AT LEAST BE WORKING DOWN A
2:43:00PM LIST THAT IS KIND OF A CONSENSUS OF THE PUBLIC AND OUR
2:43:04PM EXPERT EVALUATION TO PROVIDE THAT GUIDANCE.
2:43:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT
2:43:12PM WAS THE PERCENTAGE OF YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF
2:43:16PM YOUR COMMUNITY INPUT?
2:43:18PM >> I CAN'T ANSWER THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
2:43:20PM WE CAN TRY AND GET BACK TO YOU WITH THAT.
2:43:23PM WE DID HAVE SOME YOUTH-FOCUSED GROUPS.
2:43:26PM WE HAVE YOUTH INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM.
2:43:28PM WE SOMETIMES -- THAT'S AN ASPECT OF IT.
2:43:31PM IT'S REALLY ABOUT EVERYBODY, NOT ONLY THE YOUTH, THE
2:43:34PM PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, PEOPLE WITH SMALL CHILDREN AND PEOPLE
2:43:38PM WITH NO CHILDREN.
2:43:39PM WE SEE SOME OF THE KIND OF SHIFTING OF DEMOGRAPHICS AND
2:43:43PM LIFESTYLES WHERE IT ISN'T AS MUCH YOUTH AND WE'RE KIND OF
2:43:47PM LEAVING OUT SOME TEENS, MAYBE ACTIVE OLDER ADULTS ARE NOT
2:43:54PM GETTING THE SAME KIND OF EQUITY.
2:43:57PM SO IT'S EQUITY VERTICALLY AS WELL AS HORIZONTALLY.
2:44:00PM YOUTH IS ALWAYS A BIG PART OF IT.
2:44:02PM YOUTH DEVELOPMENT IS PART OF SHERISHA'S CORE PILLARS OF HER
2:44:07PM DEPARTMENT.
2:44:08PM THEY REALLY DO TRY AND DO THAT A LOT THROUGH THE PROGRAMMING
2:44:11PM AND THROUGH THE FACILITIES.
2:44:12PM THE ATHLETICS I DIDN'T SEPARATE YOUTH FROM OTHER USERS, BUT
2:44:17PM LOTS OF WHAT THAT PROGRAM IS.
2:44:21PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER BECAUSE AT THE
2:44:24PM END OF THE DAY, PICKLEBALL MAY NOT BE THE PRIORITY DEPENDING
2:44:27PM ON WHO YOU ARE TALKING TO.
2:44:29PM JUST A THOUGHT.
2:44:31PM IT MIGHT BE BASKETBALL COURTS, BUT THANK YOU.
2:44:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
2:44:38PM VERY COMPREHENSIVE REPORT.
2:44:38PM IT'S GOOD TO SEE SOMEONE GO THROUGH AND REALLY LOOK AT OUR
2:44:42PM ASSETS TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU HAVE.
2:44:45PM I APPRECIATE THAT.
2:44:46PM I KIND OF -- SAYING DITTO TO A LOT OF WHAT YOU HEARD,
2:44:52PM ESPECIALLY WHAT COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON JUST SAID.
2:44:56PM ONE, I AGREE 100%, YOU HAVE TO FIX WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU
2:45:00PM START BUYING NEW.
2:45:01PM IF YOUR HOUSE IS FALLING DOWN, YOU DON'T GO OUT AND BUY A
2:45:05PM NEW CAR.
2:45:06PM FIX YOUR HOUSE.
2:45:07PM WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE ON OUR CURRENT ASSETS BEFORE WE
2:45:10PM CONTINUE TO BUILD ON NEW.
2:45:12PM THAT BEING SAID, AGAIN, BACK TO COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON,
2:45:17PM YOUTH AND WE HAVE A LOT OF SOCIETAL ISSUES AND WE AS
2:45:20PM GOVERNMENT HAVE RESPONSIBILITY.
2:45:21PM ONE OF THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS NURTURING YOUNG PEOPLE
2:45:24PM AS THEY GROW UP IN THE SYSTEM.
2:45:26PM SPEAKING WITH POLICE CHIEF, TALKING ABOUT REINVIGORATING THE
2:45:31PM POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE, DOING THOSE TYPES OF THINGS TO GET
2:45:34PM SOME OF THE KIDS INVOLVED IN ATHLETICS TO BE ABLE TO FOSTER
2:45:40PM ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT COME WITH IT.
2:45:42PM DEFINITELY, AS YOU SKEW THESE -- THE STUDY FORWARD INTO MORE
2:45:47PM ACTIONABLE ITEMS AND FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE, I WANT TO
2:45:51PM MAKE SURE WE STAY FOCUSED ON ONE OF THE MOST PRIORITY THINGS
2:45:54PM WE SHOULD BE AS A SOCIETY AND AS A COMMUNITY AND THAT'S THE
2:45:57PM YOUNG PEOPLE GROWING UP IN OUR SOCIETY.
2:46:00PM PICKLEBALL IS FINE.
2:46:01PM WE CAN CHARGE THEM PER PERSON BECAUSE THEY'LL HAVE THE MONEY
2:46:04PM TO DO THAT, THE PEOPLE PLAYING PICKLEBALL.
2:46:08PM >> JUST TO RESPOND TO THAT, SOMETIMES THE POLICE ARE OUR
2:46:11PM BIGGEST ADVOCATES.
2:46:12PM I HAD A POLICE CHIEF SPEAK WITH ME SAYING I'D RATHER GIVE
2:46:18PM $4,000 TO PARKS THAN $40,000 FOR ME TO INCARCERATE A YOUNG
2:46:25PM PERSON.
2:46:26PM WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE OUT OF BUSINESS IS WHAT THEY SAY.
2:46:28PM IT IS A LOT FOCUSED ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, PROVIDING SAFE AND
2:46:32PM GOOD AREAS IN WHICH THERE CAN BE ACTIVITIES.
2:46:38PM I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.
2:46:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
2:46:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST HAD ONE MORE QUESTION AS I WAS
2:46:45PM LISTENING TO MY COLLEAGUES AND THEIR WONDERFUL COMMENTS.
2:46:50PM THERE IS A SECTION OF THE REPORT WHERE YOU COMPARE OTHER
2:46:54PM CITIES AND YOU LOOK AT THEIR PARKS.
2:46:59PM COULD YOU SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT -- ONE OF THE THINGS I
2:47:02PM NOTICED, I THINK WITH ALMOST EVERY OTHER CITY IS HOW MUCH
2:47:06PM MORE FUNDING THEY HAVE FOR THEIR PARKS.
2:47:09PM IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND TALKING ABOUT -- DO WE KNOW HOW AND
2:47:14PM WHY?
2:47:14PM IS IT JUST A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE REGULAR BUDGET?
2:47:18PM IF YOU COULD DRILL DOWN TO THAT.
2:47:20PM IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION, MAYBE BRINGING THAT
2:47:23PM FORWARD IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE THOSE CITIES
2:47:27PM REGARDLESS, I WAS TRYING TO DO THE DIVISION AND TRYING TO
2:47:29PM FIGURE OUT THE SIZE AND EVERYTHING.
2:47:32PM MAN, THEY CERTAINLY JUST HAVE A LOT MORE RESOURCES THAN WE
2:47:36PM DEDICATE TO OUR PARKS.
2:47:39PM >> I CAN SPEAK OF IT IN GENERAL.
2:47:42PM I THINK IF YOU DRILL DOWN INTO IT, THE INFORMATION IS THERE.
2:47:44PM IT'S TRUE.
2:47:45PM I WORK WITH MANY CITIES AND WE'RE LOOKING -- I CAN SPEAK IN
2:47:49PM OUR OWN STATE, MIAMI, AND FT. LAUDERDALE AND JUST SOME OF
2:47:54PM THE ONES YOU WOULD CONSIDER.
2:47:56PM I THINK ALSO WE PICKED THE COMPARABLE SPACE ON WHAT WE
2:48:00PM THOUGHT WAS REALLY RELEVANT TO TAMPA.
2:48:03PM THEN WE DID THE RESEARCH.
2:48:04PM SO THERE WAS NO RESEARCH IN ADVANCE.
2:48:06PM IT WAS JUST BLIND, AUSTIN IS LIKE US, PHOENIX IS LIKE US.
2:48:12PM IT'S NOT FAIR TO COMPARE TAMPA TO CHICAGO OR NEW YORK.
2:48:14PM SO WE CHOSE ONES THAT WERE.
2:48:17PM WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE EXERCISE AND GET TO THE END, YEAH,
2:48:20PM IT'S OBVIOUS.
2:48:22PM PARTICULARLY IN WHAT I SEE ARE THE CAPITAL REINVESTMENT
2:48:26PM PROGRAMS.
2:48:27PM MIAMI HAS ONE FOR 400 MILLION RIGHT NOW.
2:48:29PM IT'S HALF THE SIZE.
2:48:31PM AND THINGS ARE STRUCTURED AND SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT TO GET
2:48:37PM TOO HELD UP IN MONEY BECAUSE HALF OF THE MONEY WAS FOR
2:48:41PM SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE AND FIXING THEIR WATERFRONT.
2:48:45PM 40% OF THE WATERFRONT IS PARKS.
2:48:49PM I'M ACTUALLY SPENDING MOST OF THE RESILIENCE, BUT WE'RE
2:48:52PM PUTTING THEM BACK SO THAT THEY ARE MORE FUNCTIONAL AND
2:48:56PM ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT.
2:49:01PM SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT LOOKING AT PARKS AS MULTIPLE BENEFIT.
2:49:06PM AND THAT WAY YOU HELPED TO LEVERAGE THE MONEY THAT YOU'RE
2:49:11PM USING TOWARDS MEETING MULTIPLE GOALS OF THE CITY.
2:49:15PM THAT'S KIND OF THE IDEA.
2:49:17PM PRUDENT.
2:49:18PM I UNDERSTAND PRUDENT.
2:49:19PM BUT IT'S ABOUT BEING, LOOKING AT ALL THE SOURCES.
2:49:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:49:25PM THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
2:49:27PM >> THANK YOU.
2:49:28PM THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
2:49:29PM IT'S BEEN A REAL JOY WORKING WITH STAFF.
2:49:32PM THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY PLEASURABLE PLAN TO WORK ON.
2:49:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:49:36PM YES, MA'AM.
2:49:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
2:49:40PM WHAT'S NEXT ON THIS JOURNEY OF THE PARKS PLAN?
2:49:49PM >> I THINK WE HAVE SOME OF THE NEXT STEP THINGS.
2:49:52PM WE'RE COMPLETING THIS PHASE WITH JUST THE MASTER PLAN.
2:49:54PM AGAIN, THAT'S NOT THE END.
2:49:56PM THERE'S GOT TO BE STEPS GOING FORWARD ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT
2:49:59PM IT.
2:50:00PM I THINK WE HAD SOME RECOMMENDATIONS IN THERE.
2:50:02PM EVERYBODY WANTS TO FOCUS ON JUST THE MONEY, BUT UPDATING THE
2:50:07PM COMP PLAN, DOING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN
2:50:10PM YOU POSITION TOWARDS LEVERAGING CAN BE SOME OF THE FIRST
2:50:14PM STEPS, MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE SET UP TO TAKE EVERY FEDERAL
2:50:18PM DOLLAR FOR GREENWAYS AND TRAILS WHICH ARE BEING FUNDED
2:50:22PM INCREDIBLY RIGHT NOW, MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE WORKING WITH
2:50:24PM ALL OF YOUR PARTNERS.
2:50:27PM SCHOOL BOARD, THE COUNTY, PRIVATE, BEING IN A POSITION WITH
2:50:33PM YOUR COMP PLAN TO DO THAT, THAT'S KIND OF THE FIRST STEPS.
2:50:40PM DO YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT?
2:50:44PM >>SHERISHA HILLS: I THINK YOU SUMMED IT UP.
2:50:47PM TAKING THE RECOMMENDATIONS, LOOKING AT THE BUDGET YEAR AND
2:50:50PM FUNDING OVER THE YEARS, SO COME UP WITH THAT LONG STREAM
2:50:53PM FUNDING SOURCES AND THAT WILL BE OUR NEXT STEP SO WE CAN
2:50:56PM PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
2:51:02PM HOW DO WE PUT OUR MONEY TOWARD THAT.
2:51:06PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT USING SCHOOLS BEFORE.
2:51:10PM WAS THAT AT ALL INCLUDED IN THIS LOOK AT A PARKS PLAN?
2:51:14PM >>SHERISHA HILLS: ACTUALLY FOR US, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE
2:51:16PM STARTED WHILE HIS TEAM WAS GOING THROUGH THERE.
2:51:20PM WE ALREADY MADE OUR FIRST STEPS WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL
2:51:23PM SYSTEM.
2:51:24PM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
2:51:24PM WE WERE ABLE TO GET IN THERE.
2:51:25PM WE'LL BE UTILIZING FOR ATHLETICS KNOWING WE HAVE LIMITED
2:51:29PM GREENSPACE FOR ATHLETIC FIELDS, WE'LL BE UTILIZING THEIR
2:51:34PM FOOTBALL FIELDS, TALKING ABOUT USING THEIR TRACKS AND HOW WE
2:51:36PM CAN WORK WITH IT MORE.
2:51:38PM YOU MENTIONED IT BEFORE, WE STARTED THAT PROCESS AND WE'LL
2:51:41PM BE USING IT THIS COMING YEAR, FOOTBALL FIELDS JUST FOR
2:51:45PM ATHLETICS TO START THERE.
2:51:46PM COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT ALREADY WITH THEM.
2:51:48PM HOW WE CAN BE MORE COOPERATIVE.
2:51:50PM THEY UTILIZE OUR POOLS.
2:51:53PM WE'LL UTILIZE THEIR FIELDS, TALKING ABOUT TRACKS AND OTHER
2:51:56PM RESOURCES, WHETHER THEATERS FOR OUR THEATER PROGRAM, BUT
2:51:59PM MORE AGREEMENTS WITH THEM.
2:52:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
2:52:02PM I HOPE TO SEE THAT INCLUDED IN THE FUTURE AS MAYBE DIFFERENT
2:52:07PM COLOR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHERE YOU HAVE COUNTY-OWNED
2:52:10PM PARKS, MAYBE SCHOOLS THAT WE HAVE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
2:52:13PM WITH IN PINK OR SOMETHING SO WE CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE AND
2:52:17PM SEE HOW THAT MIGHT IMPACT PEOPLE WITHIN THAT TEN-MILE
2:52:22PM RADIUS.
2:52:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:52:25PM >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.
2:52:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEXT UP IS ITEM 59, MR. BAIRD, WATER
2:52:31PM RESTRICTIONS UNTIL RAINY SEASON KICKS IN.
2:52:33PM >>BRAD BAIRD: GOOD AFTERNOON AGAIN.
2:52:35PM BRAD BAIRD, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
2:52:40PM FEELS LIKE OLD TIME FOR ME AS I USED TO REPORT ON THIS
2:52:43PM WEEKLY BACK IN THE LAST DROUGHT, WHICH WAS '06 THROUGH '09.
2:52:47PM JUST REAL QUICKLY, OVERVIEW, WE DO HAVE MANDATORY YEAR-ROUND
2:52:56PM WATER USE RESTRICTIONS.
2:52:57PM A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT.
2:52:59PM WATERING IS NOT ALLOWED BETWEEN 8 A.M. AND 6 P.M. OR ANY
2:53:06PM TIME OF THE DAY ON SUNDAY.
2:53:07PM PLEASE KNOW YOUR WATERING DAYS.
2:53:13PM I'M GOING TO PUT THEM ON THE RECORD.
2:53:15PM THEY ARE ON OUR WEBSITE.
2:53:16PM WE HAND THEM OUT AT EVERY EVENT WE GO TO.
2:53:19PM WE INCLUDE THEM IN THE BILL, BUT IF YOUR HOUSE NUMBER ENDS
2:53:25PM IN 0, 1, 2, OR 3, YOUR WATERING DAYS ARE MONDAY AND
2:53:30PM THURSDAY.
2:53:31PM IF YOUR HOUSE NUMBER ENDS IN 4, 5, OR 6, THAT IS TUESDAY OR
2:53:37PM THURSDAY -- OR TUESDAY AND/OR THURSDAY.
2:53:40PM AND THEN 7, 8, OR 9 IS WEDNESDAY AND/OR SATURDAY.
2:53:45PM GOT THAT ON THE RECORD.
2:53:50PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE'LL GIVE YOU A TEST ON THAT.
2:53:52PM >>BRAD BAIRD: I WATER ON MY WATERING DAYS.
2:53:56PM NOW THE GOOD NEWS BEFORE I GO INTO SOME NUMBERS FOR YOU ON
2:54:03PM OUR RESERVOIR, MAY AND JUNE ARE PREDICTED TO BE WETTER THAN
2:54:09PM NORMAL.
2:54:09PM SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
2:54:10PM WE ARE CURRENTLY BUYING OVER 40 MILLION GALLONS A DAY OF
2:54:15PM FINISH WATER FROM TAMPA BAY WATER.
2:54:18PM MORRIS BRIDGE CONNECTION.
2:54:19PM AND WE ARE OPERATING AT ABOUT 20 MILLION GALLONS A DAY OF
2:54:24PM RAW WATER FROM THE TAMPA BYPASS CANAL VIA THE HARNEY CANAL
2:54:31PM TO KEEP THE RESERVOIR FULL.
2:54:33PM THE RESERVOIR IS HOLDING STEADY AT A LITTLE OVER 19 FEET.
2:54:37PM THE RESERVOIR IS FULL AT 22.5 FEET.
2:54:40PM SO I'D LIKE TO SHOW, USE THE OVERHEAD HERE TO SHOW HOW WE --
2:54:50PM JUST ONE OF THE TOOLS WE USE TO MONITOR.
2:54:55PM CAN YOU SEE THAT?
2:54:55PM THIS CHART USUALLY HAS MULTIPLE LINES ON IT FROM ALL THE
2:55:01PM YEARS WHERE WE'VE HAD DRY CONDITIONS, BUT I NARROWED IT DOWN
2:55:04PM TO JUST THIS YEAR TO TRY TO SIMPLIFY IT.
2:55:09PM OVER ON THE LEFT IS THE RESERVOIR ELEVATION.
2:55:15PM AND THE X AXIS IS TIME.
2:55:18PM SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'LL START ON MARCH 15th AT 22.5
2:55:26PM FEET DESIRED.
2:55:28PM THAT'S TYPICALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE DRY SEASON.
2:55:31PM THEN WE DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE DOWN TO MID JUNE OR JUNE 15th
2:55:37PM AT 16 FEET ELEVATION.
2:55:39PM AND 16 FEET IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT IS WHEN -- IT'S
2:55:45PM CALLED CAVITATION.
2:55:47PM THAT'S WHEN THE PUMP WOULD START PULLING IN AIR.
2:55:50PM YOU START GETTING LOWER THAN 16 FEET AND YOU CAN GET INTO
2:55:53PM SOME TROUBLE.
2:55:55PM SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS YEAR -- OH, AND THE RED LINE OR THE
2:56:00PM LIGHT -- OR THE PINK LINE IS THE RESERVOIR ELEVATION.
2:56:05PM AND THIS IS UP TO TODAY.
2:56:08PM SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WHEN THAT LINE AND THAT SLOPE OF THAT
2:56:13PM LINE STARTS TO EXCEED THE BLACK LINE, THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW
2:56:18PM YOU MAY BE HEADED FOR SOME TROUBLE.
2:56:21PM SO THAT'S WHEN YOU NEED TO START BUYING WATER -- WE NEED TO
2:56:24PM START BUYING WATER FROM TAMPA BAY WATER.
2:56:26PM YOU CAN SEE AS WE STARTED TO DO THAT, IT CAME BACK IN LINE
2:56:32PM AND NOW WE ARE OVER THAT SLOPE LINE.
2:56:34PM IT'S A SIMPLE TOOL BUT IT'S A VERY EFFECTIVE ONE.
2:56:38PM JUST FROM A REGIONAL LEVEL, S.W.F.W.M.D. IS NOT CONSIDERING
2:56:49PM MOVING TO MORE STRICT WATERING RESTRICTIONS.
2:56:52PM SO THAT'S THE LATEST WE GOT FROM THEIR LEADERSHIP OVER
2:56:57PM THERE.
2:56:58PM IN SUMMARY, I GUESS, OUR WATER SUPPLY IS SUFFICIENT AND WE
2:57:03PM ARE NOT PROPOSING GOING TO MORE STRICT WATER USE
2:57:07PM RESTRICTIONS AT THIS TIME.
2:57:09PM OUR RESERVOIR IS HOLDING STEADY.
2:57:12PM WITH THAT, I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS.
2:57:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
2:57:16PM NO.
2:57:18PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
2:57:19PM >>BRAD BAIRD: THANK YOU.
2:57:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HAVE A NICE AFTERNOON.
2:57:22PM NEXT UP IS ITEM NUMBER 60 REGARDING ACCELA, AND WE HAVE
2:57:26PM ABBYE FEELEY.
2:57:27PM AND RUSSELL AS WELL.
2:57:32PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
2:57:33PM RUSSELL HAUPERT, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF
2:57:40PM TAMPA.
2:57:40PM I HEARD SOME ADDITIONAL COMMENTS TODAY.
2:57:43PM LET ME START OFF WITH WHAT I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU AND WHAT
2:57:46PM I MAY HAVE ALREADY TOLD SOME OF YOU AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH
2:57:49PM THIS PROCESS OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, JUST IN SUMMARY,
2:57:54PM ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE NEW.
2:57:55PM WE HAD CONCERNS BROUGHT TO US ABOUT THE ACCELA SYSTEM AND
2:57:58PM ITS RELIABILITY AFTER ONE OF OUR RECENT UPGRADES.
2:58:01PM WE UPGRADED TO A CLOUD-BASED SYSTEM TO IMPROVE ITS
2:58:05PM RELIABILITY.
2:58:05PM WHEN WE HEARD THOSE CONCERNS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO YOU AND
2:58:10PM OTHERS, WE TOOK THEM SERIOUSLY.
2:58:11PM WE FORMED A COMMITTEE OF BOTH OUR BUSINESS UNIT FROM
2:58:14PM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, ACCELA TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVES AND
2:58:17PM BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES, AS WELL AS MY GROUP, TECHNOLOGY
2:58:23PM INNOVATION THAT SUPPORT THE SYSTEM.
2:58:24PM WE REACHED OUT TO THE TAMPA BAY BUILDERS ASSOCIATION,
2:58:28PM SCHEDULED A SESSION, AND REVIEWED ALL OF THE ITEMS.
2:58:31PM WE ASKED THEM IN ADVANCE, PLEASE, SEND US ANY ITEMS YOU
2:58:35PM HAVE, ANY EXAMPLES, ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE CONCERNED WITH.
2:58:38PM DURING THAT MEETING, THERE WERE SOME 25 PEOPLE TOTAL IN THE
2:58:42PM MEETING BETWEEN ALL SIDES, I WOULD SAY.
2:58:45PM WE WENT THROUGH EVERY SINGLE ITEM AND SHOWED THEM WITH
2:58:50PM ABSOLUTE EVIDENCE THAT THE SYSTEM DOES WORK AS DOCUMENTED
2:58:53PM AND THAT THE ISSUES AS THEY INDICATED WERE ADDRESSED.
2:58:57PM IN FACT, I THINK SOME OF THE MEMBERS, THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
2:59:01PM PERSON FROM THE TAMPA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION MAY HAVE REACHED
2:59:04PM OUT TO SOME OF YOU TO INDICATE THAT THEY WERE VERY PLEASED
2:59:07PM WITH THAT SESSION.
2:59:08PM DURING OUR LAST SESSION, WE REALIZED THAT WE STILL HADN'T
2:59:12PM REACHED OUT TO THE TAMPA HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, THAN GROUP.
2:59:18PM JC AND HIS GROUP DID DO THAT OUTREACH.
2:59:22PM IN ADDITION TO TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR THE SYSTEM
2:59:24PM AS A WHOLE, WE ALSO DEBUTED SOME ENHANCEMENTS TO OUR GIS
2:59:27PM MAPS.
2:59:28PM YOU SAW SOME OF THEM WITH THE REAL ESTATE.
2:59:31PM WHAT WE DID WAS WE IMPLEMENTED WHAT WE CALL DEEP LINKING,
2:59:36PM AND WE HAVE A DIGITAL SERVICES TEAM THAT HELPS WITH SOME OF
2:59:38PM THIS STUFF.
2:59:39PM ESSENTIALLY, WHAT WE DID, WHEN YOU CLICK ON A PROPERTY, IF
2:59:41PM YOU'RE LOOKING AT EITHER SOME OF OUR PERMITTING ACTIONS OR
2:59:44PM SOME OF OUR DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS, YOU CAN CLICK ON THAT ITEM.
2:59:47PM IT WILL BRING YOU RIGHT TO THAT ITEM IN ACCELA WITHOUT
2:59:50PM HAVING TO SEARCH FOR ANYTHING.
2:59:52PM WE FELT THAT FOR THE MAJORITY OF OUR CASUAL CUSTOMERS,
2:59:56PM CERTAINLY THAT ADDRESSED WHAT WE HAD, AND THAT WAS OUR
2:59:59PM EXPECTATION.
2:59:59PM UP UNTIL YESTERDAY I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE CASE AS WELL.
3:00:02PM SO WE HAD THESE TEAMS.
3:00:04PM WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE ISSUES.
3:00:07PM AS NEAR AS WE CAN TELL WITH ALL OF THE RESOURCES WE BROUGHT
3:00:11PM TO BEAR ON IT, OUR SYSTEM IS NOT ONLY MORE RELIABLE THAN IT
3:00:14PM WAS BEFORE, IT PERFORMS FASTER THAN IT DOES BEFORE AND IT
3:00:18PM HAS MORE FEATURES THAN IT DID BEFORE.
3:00:20PM WHAT WE ARE SEEING FOR A SMALL NUMBER OF USERS, THE TRAINING
3:00:25PM IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, SHOWING THEM HOW TO USE THE NEW
3:00:30PM SYSTEM.
3:00:30PM SO AS PART OF THAT, AGAIN AT YOUR SUGGESTION AS WELL, WE'VE
3:00:33PM CONDUCTED A SERIES OF THOSE WORKSHOPS FOR OUR FOLKS.
3:00:38PM I THINK WE STILL HAVE ONE MORE LEFT.
3:00:40PM WE HAVE DONE THAT.
3:00:41PM WE HAVE CHASED EVERY ISSUE THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED.
3:00:44PM WE HAVE SPARED NO RESOURCE TO SAY IS THIS REALLY AN ISSUE?
3:00:49PM IS THE SYSTEM REALLY USABLE?
3:00:50PM WE BELIEVE WE'VE ADDRESSED THOSE QUESTIONS BOTH ON THE
3:00:54PM BUSINESS UNIT'S BEHALF, ON THE CUSTOMER'S BEHALF AND ON YOUR
3:00:58PM BEHALF.
3:00:59PM WE DO STILL HAVE A FEW USERS WHO ARE INDICATED THEY ARE
3:01:02PM UNHAPPY OR THAT THEY THINK IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD HAPPEN.
3:01:06PM WHAT I WOULD ASK FOLKS, AND I'M ASKING THESE CUSTOMERS AS
3:01:11PM WELL, ANYONE WHO HAS ATTENDED A TRAINING SESSION WITH US,
3:01:15PM ANYONE WHO HAS SAT DOWN WITH THE GROUP HAS BEEN ABLE TO SEE
3:01:21PM THAT THE SYSTEM DOES WORK.
3:01:23PM IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE PASSED ALONG ALL OF THEIR INPUT
3:01:26PM TO ACCELA TO THE POINT WHERE THEY HAVE RECENTLY ADDED ME TO
3:01:30PM THEIR CUSTOMER ADVISORY BOARD, SO I HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO
3:01:35PM THEIR EXECUTIVES WHEN WE'RE PUSHING THESE ITEMS.
3:01:37PM AGAIN, I FEEL WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN DO.
3:01:40PM WE'VE TRIED TO HELP THE CUSTOMERS AS BEST WE CAN.
3:01:43PM I'VE IDENTIFIED EVERY ISSUE THAT WE COULD.
3:01:45PM I'VE REVIEWED IT WITH OUR BUSINESS UNIT, AND I BELIEVE THEY
3:01:49PM AGREE WITH ALL THE ACTIONS THAT WE'VE TAKEN.
3:01:52PM I JUST THINK AT THIS POINT, FOLKS, IF YOU COULD, IF YOU HAVE
3:01:56PM ANY ADDITIONAL CONTACT, PLEASE ASK THEM TO REACH OUT TO US
3:01:59PM AND SPECIFICALLY ATTEND A TRAINING SESSION, SPECIFICALLY
3:02:04PM GIVE US AN ITEM THAT WE CAN RESEARCH AND SEE IF THAT'S
3:02:07PM SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CHANGE.
3:02:08PM LIKE I SAID IN EVERY CASE, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SHOW OUR USERS
3:02:13PM THAT THE SYSTEM DOES WORK AND IT IS RELIABLE.
3:02:17PM THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY, AS WE PUT IN THESE SET OF
3:02:20PM IMPROVEMENTS, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MILLION AND A HALF
3:02:23PM DOLLAR MODERNIZATION EFFORT FOR ACCELA.
3:02:27PM I RECOGNIZE THAT SOME PEOPLE SAY, RUSS, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST
3:02:30PM PUT THE SYSTEM BACK THE WAY IT WAS?
3:02:32PM AND WE CAN'T.
3:02:34PM TO GO BACK 11 VERSIONS TO THE OLD SYSTEM WOULD CUT OFF SO
3:02:38PM MANY IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE THE LARGE MAJORITY OF OUR USERS
3:02:43PM ARE ENJOYING TODAY.
3:02:44PM NOT ONLY THAT, IT WOULD CUT OFF ALL OF THE ENHANCEMENTS
3:02:47PM WE'RE PLANNING TO BRING TO THE SYSTEM IN THE NEXT 90, 180
3:02:52PM DAYS, OVER THE NEXT LIFE OF THE SYSTEM.
3:02:54PM WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD.
3:02:55PM I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE ANY OF OUR CUSTOMERS BEHIND, BUT I
3:03:00PM NEED THEM TO MEET US AT LEAST SOME OF THE WAY.
3:03:03PM WE HAVE A LOT OF RESOURCES WE CAN BRING TO THEM TO SHOW THEM
3:03:06PM HOW TO USE THE SYSTEM EFFECTIVELY, BUT I WILL NEED YOUR
3:03:09PM HELP, WILL NEED THE DIVISION'S HELP IN BRINGING THE LAST
3:03:13PM CUSTOMERS ALONG WITH US.
3:03:14PM I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN DIFFICULT.
3:03:15PM I KNOW THE ISSUES COME UP IN PUBLIC.
3:03:18PM I WANT TO ASSURE YOU WE'VE HEARD THE CONCERNS AND WE ARE
3:03:21PM ADDRESSING THEM AND WE ARE ADDRESSING THEM AS EXPEDIENTLY
3:03:25PM AND AS OPENLY AS WE CAN AND ALL I CAN SAY, FOLKS, THIS IS A
3:03:31PM MATTER OF PRIDE FOR ALL OF US THAT PROVIDE THESE SERVICES.
3:03:35PM AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS HAPPY, BUT I WANT
3:03:38PM YOU TO KEEP IN MIND WE DID DO TWO AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS
3:03:42PM OF PERMITTED CONSTRUCTION IN THIS SYSTEM.
3:03:46PM WE HAVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HAPPY USERS EVERY DAY.
3:03:50PM I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM FOLKS WHO STILL NEED
3:03:54PM HELP, BUT WE HAVE THOSE RESOURCES FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO STILL
3:03:57PM NEED HELP.
3:03:59PM THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
3:04:00PM I'M WILLING TO ENTERTAIN ANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT
3:04:03PM OR IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM STAFF.
3:04:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
3:04:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
3:04:10PM I APPRECIATE OUR PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE BRIEFINGS ON THIS ISSUE
3:04:13PM THAT WE'VE BROUGHT UP AND WE'VE TALKED AT LENGTH ABOUT.
3:04:16PM SO, QUESTION, VERY SPECIFICALLY.
3:04:21PM IT WAS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH
3:04:24PM THE SEARCH FUNCTION AND POSSIBLY PART OF THE USING
3:04:28PM QUOTATIONS OR NOT USING QUOTATIONS.
3:04:30PM CAN YOU EXPAND UPON THAT OR OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE ISSUES
3:04:34PM WITH THAT?
3:04:36PM >> YEAH, AGAIN, A MATTER OF TRAINING.
3:04:37PM BUT THE SEARCH FUNCTION AS IT USE IT WORK WAS SOMETHING OF A
3:04:41PM GLOBAL, YOU TYPE IN WHATEVER YOU WANT AND IT WOULD HIT WHAT
3:04:44PM YOU WANT.
3:04:45PM TODAY WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS BECAUSE OF CHANGES IN HOW THINGS
3:04:48PM WERE ENGINEERED FOR THE CLOUD, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE WHERE
3:04:51PM THEY ASKED YOU TO PUT QUOTATION MARKS AROUND THE ITEM THAT
3:04:54PM YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
3:04:55PM IF YOU PUT THE QUOTATION MARKS IN, UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT
3:04:58PM SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CHANGE AT THIS POINT.
3:05:00PM IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A BASE PART OF THE PRODUCT THAT
3:05:04PM LITERALLY THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER CUSTOMERS USE
3:05:07PM ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
3:05:08PM WE CAN'T MAKE THAT CHANGE, SO WE ASK PEOPLE, IF YOU WANT TO
3:05:12PM USE THE SYSTEM THAT WAY, USE THOSE QUOTATION MARKS.
3:05:15PM BUT EVEN BETTER, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC BUILDING
3:05:19PM PERMIT, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC NUMBER, THEY HAVE
3:05:23PM SEARCH SECTIONS THAT WILL BRING YOU RIGHT TO THE ADDRESS YOU
3:05:27PM NEED, RIGHT TO THE PERMIT THAT YOU NEED.
3:05:29PM AND THIS IS DOCUMENTED.
3:05:30PM IT IS ON OUR WEBSITE AND IT IS PART OF OUR TRAINING, AND IT
3:05:34PM WORKS BEAUTIFULLY.
3:05:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE USE OF QUOTATIONS ISN'T THE INTERNET
3:05:39PM STANDARD AS FAR AS BEING SPECIFIC.
3:05:41PM YOU CAN'T DO A BROAD SEARCH WITHOUT THE QUOTATIONS?
3:05:47PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, BECAUSE THERE
3:05:48PM ARE SO MANY SPECIALTIES, THE QUOTATION MARKS -- HOW DO I
3:05:52PM WANT TO PUT THIS?
3:05:52PM SORRY, DON'T WANT TO MAKE IT TECHNICAL, FOLKS.
3:05:56PM BUT IT WILL PARSE THE TEN WORDS AND DO SEARCHES LIKE THERE
3:05:59PM ARE 30 DIFFERENT SEARCHES AND TRY AND BRING THEM TOGETHER.
3:06:02PM THEN YOU'LL GET A LOT OF UNRELATED WORDS OR RESULTS THAT
3:06:06PM DON'T MAKE SENSE FOR YOU.
3:06:08PM I THINK THAT'S SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE'RE HEARING.
3:06:10PM WHEN YOU USE THOSE QUOTATION MARKS, IT SAYS SEARCH FOR THIS
3:06:14PM ALL IN ONE THING.
3:06:16PM IF YOU DON'T SEE THIS ALL TOGETHER, IT'S NOT A GOOD RESULT
3:06:21PM FOR US.
3:06:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHICH IS THE INTERNET STANDARD FOR
3:06:24PM QUOTATION MARKS.
3:06:26PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: PRETTY MUCH THE STANDARD.
3:06:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE BROAD SEARCH OF RANDOMLY THE SKY IS
3:06:31PM BLUE, THAT PART OF THE SEARCH ENGINE.
3:06:33PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: IT WILL GET YOU THE, SKY, BLUE, ANY OF
3:06:38PM THOSE THINGS THAT MENTION INDIVIDUALLY.
3:06:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WITHOUT ANY ALGORITHM TO PRIORITIZE IT.
3:06:43PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: ALGORITHM PRIORITIZING, GOOD.
3:06:45PM FROM OUR SIDE, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS IF YOU DON'T INCLUDE
3:06:49PM THOSE, YOU GET THAT UNPRIORITIZED SEARCH.
3:06:51PM IF YOU PUT THE QUOTATION MARKS, YOU GET THE WHOLE PHRASE AS
3:06:55PM YOU'VE INTENDED.
3:06:56PM AGAIN, I'M NOT SAYING THERE CAN'T BE SITUATIONS WHERE YOU
3:06:59PM MIGHT SEARCH IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN WAS ENTERED INTO THE
3:07:03PM SYSTEM, THAT IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE FOR PEOPLE.
3:07:06PM AGAIN, WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS IF YOU USE THE SEARCH AS
3:07:11PM DOCUMENTED ON A WEBSITE, IT IS RELIABLE.
3:07:14PM AGAIN, WE CAN SHOW OUR CUSTOMERS THAT AND WE WANT TO SHOW
3:07:18PM OUR CUSTOMERS THAT.
3:07:20PM AGAIN, IT DOES WORK AS WE'VE INDICATED.
3:07:23PM AGAIN, WE POURED THAT BOTH THROUGH ACCELA TECHNICAL FOLKS,
3:07:28PM MY TECHNICAL FOLKS AND OUR BUSINESS UNIT AS WELL.
3:07:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
3:07:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:07:32PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: YOU'RE WELCOME.
3:07:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
3:07:37PM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST VERY BRIEFLY, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR
3:07:40PM WORK.
3:07:40PM I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP TABS ON THIS AND JUST CONTINUE TO
3:07:45PM KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOLKS, FOLKS FROM THE
3:07:49PM BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, ET CETERA, TO SEE HOW THE ACCELA
3:07:54PM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO WORK AND PROCESS.
3:07:56PM IT SEEMS SOME SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE,
3:08:00PM ET CETERA.
3:08:00PM THERE ARE CHALLENGES.
3:08:01PM I WANT TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW UP WITH THESE FOLKS AND WILL
3:08:05PM PROBABLY COME BACK TO THIS IF PROBLEMS PERSIST IN MAYBE 90
3:08:12PM DAYS --
3:08:13PM >> YOU REMINDED ME WHEN YOU SAID THAT, ONE OF THE THINGS WE
3:08:16PM WERE ABLE TO DO IS PUT TBBA FOLKS IN CONVERSATION WITH
3:08:21PM ACCELA, AND THEY'VE INDICATED THEY WANT TO ATTEND
3:08:25PM CONFERENCES.
3:08:26PM THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR SAME INPUT.
3:08:29PM I THINK WE OPENED A VERY NICE CHANNEL BETWEEN THE FOLKS AT
3:08:32PM THE BUILDING ASSOCIATION AND ACCELA.
3:08:34PM I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE VALUABLE MOVING FORWARD.
3:08:37PM THAT'S AN ONGOING COMMITMENT, AS YOU'VE INDICATED.
3:08:40PM >>LUIS VIERA: YEP.
3:08:41PM THEN HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE NO FURTHER INVOLVEMENT AND THINGS
3:08:43PM WILL GO GREAT.
3:08:44PM THANK YOU.
3:08:45PM I APPRECIATE YOUR REPORT AND ALL YOUR HARD WORK.
3:08:48PM >>RUSSELL HAUPERT: CERTAINLY, SIR.
3:08:49PM THANK YOU.
3:08:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:08:57PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR OF
3:09:01PM DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT.
3:09:03PM I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH RUSSELL.
3:09:05PM WE ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND TOGETHER TO RESOLVE THIS.
3:09:09PM AND ALWAYS TO MAKE OUR TOOLS BETTER FOR THE COMMUNICATION --
3:09:17PM [ENCODER DROP]
3:09:20PM -- I KNOW IT IS THE 3:00 HOUR, COMPLETELY UP TO YOU.
3:09:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY LIKE TO SEE A DEMONSTRATION?
3:09:46PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IT WILL BE QUICK.
3:09:47PM IN FACT, IF YOU ALL HAVE YOUR CELL PHONES WITH YOU, YOU CAN
3:09:54PM PULL ONE OUT AND DO THIS YOURSELF.
3:09:58PM AND FOR ANYBODY WHO IS WATCHING ON THE PUBLIC, THEY CAN DO
3:10:01PM THIS ON THEIR TV SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
3:10:03PM THE TOP ONE IS THE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES ACTIVE PERMIT MAP,
3:10:07PM THAT IS EVERY PERMIT EXCLUDING TRADES.
3:10:12PM AC CHANGE-OUT, HOT WATER CHANGE-OUT, BUT BUILDING
3:10:16PM REMODELING, DEMOLITION, YOU CAN GET TO THAT PERMIT IN JUST A
3:10:21PM MOMENT.
3:10:21PM THE ONE BELOW THAT IS THE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION MAP.
3:10:24PM THAT IS ALL YOUR REZONINGS, YOUR SPECIAL USES, YOUR DESIGN
3:10:28PM EXCEPTIONS, YOUR FORMAL DETERMINATIONS.
3:10:33PM SO WHEN YOU CLICK ON THAT, THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO EITHER OF
3:10:37PM THOSE TWO MAPS.
3:10:41PM HERE IS WHAT THE MAP LOOKS LIKE.
3:10:46PM THIS IS ON THE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION HOME PAGE.
3:10:49PM THERE IT GOES.
3:11:28PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE WITH THAT.
3:11:29PM THAT WAS OPERATOR ERROR.
3:11:32PM ON THE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES PAGE, YOU'D SEE THE ACTIVE
3:11:37PM RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
3:11:37PM IF YOU ARE OUT --
3:11:44PM IF YOU ARE OUT ANYWHERE IN THE CITY AND YOU PULL THIS MAP UP
3:11:55PM ON YOUR CELL PHONE, IT WILL GO TO YOUR LOCATION ON YOUR
3:11:59PM PHONE, SO YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW I AM AT THE CORNER OF OAK
3:12:02PM AND 7th OR I'M AT THE CORNER OF FLORIDA AND OAK TO GET
3:12:07PM THAT GOING.
3:12:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT WORKED ON MY PHONE.
3:12:23PM I SCANNED THE BOTTOM ONE, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION MAP.
3:12:26PM I WENT TO A SPECIFIC PART OF THE CITY.
3:12:28PM I CLICKED THE DOT AND IT GAVE ME THE ADDRESS WITH A LINK TO
3:12:32PM ACCELA.
3:12:33PM IT OPENED RIGHT UP.
3:12:34PM IT'S VERY EASY TO USE IN MY OPINION.
3:12:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE THIS.
3:12:46PM >> ACTUALLY, IT WAS ONLINE AND NOW IT IS DOWN.
3:12:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT LOADED SLOWLY WHEN I CLICKED ACCELA,
3:12:52PM BUT IT LOADED.
3:12:54PM OH, IT'S DOWN THERE, TOO.
3:12:55PM IT'S NOT YOU.
3:12:57PM IT APPEARED ON MINE.
3:13:03PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I'LL USE JC'S PHONE.
3:13:07PM WHEN YOU ZOOM IN TO WHEREVER IT IS, THE BLACK, THIS IS THE
3:13:14PM PERMIT MAP.
3:13:14PM BLACKS ARE DEMO PERMITS.
3:13:16PM THE GREEN IS THE RESIDENTIAL PERMIT.
3:13:21PM IT PULLS RIGHT UP TO SHOW YOU THE RESIDENTIAL PERMIT, RIGHT?
3:13:25PM AND THEN IT TAKES YOU INTO THE ACCELA LINK.
3:13:33PM IT BRINGS YOU INTO THE RECORD OF ACCELA.
3:13:36PM SO I NEVER HAD TO GO IN AND SEARCH.
3:13:38PM I NEVER HAD TO PUT AN INTERNET ADDRESS.
3:13:41PM YOU GO IN AND THEN IN THE RECORDS YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE
3:13:45PM RECORD INFORMATION, ALL THE ATTACHMENTS, THE SITE PLAN,
3:13:49PM WHATEVER IS RELATED TO THE PERMIT IS THERE AT YOUR
3:13:54PM FINGERTIPS.
3:13:55PM SO WE HAVE ONE OF THESE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WHICH
3:13:59PM ARE ALL THE REZONINGS, ACTIVE STATUS MAPS, FORMAL
3:14:04PM DETERMINATIONS, SPECIAL USES AND WE DO HAVE THIS FOR ALL OUR
3:14:07PM PERMIT RECORDS.
3:14:09PM ACCELA IS PROCESSING IN FISCAL YEAR 22, WE PROCESSED 26,000
3:14:13PM RECORDS IN ACCELA, AND THAT EQUALED $2.6 BILLION IN
3:14:17PM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY.
3:14:18PM UP NOW FOR FISCAL YEAR '23, WHICH STARTED OCTOBER 1st,
3:14:23PM WE'RE AT 15,000 RECORDS.
3:14:25PM SO WHILE I BELIEVE THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS OR OPERATIONS
3:14:31PM INFORMATION, EDUCATION, IT'S WORKING OR WE WOULD HAVE MAYBE
3:14:36PM 15,000 PEOPLE UNHAPPY DOWN HERE THAT THEY CAN'T PROCESS
3:14:40PM ANYTHING THROUGH OUR SYSTEM.
3:14:41PM I FEEL LIKE IT IS WORKING.
3:14:43PM WE DID DO THE ACCELA LEARNING LABS AS RUSSELL MENTIONED.
3:14:47PM WE HAVE ONE MORE COMING UP NEXT WEEK, MAY 24th.
3:14:51PM WE ARE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO PLEASE SIGN UP.
3:14:54PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIGN UP.
3:14:55PM JC TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF, WE HAVE 15 INDIVIDUAL LAPTOPS IN
3:14:59PM THAT LAB.
3:14:59PM YOU COME IN, YOU HANDS-ON WORK IN THAT LAB YOURSELF.
3:15:03PM THIS IS NOT US GUIDING YOU.
3:15:05PM WE ACTUALLY CREATE DUMMY PERMITS THROUGH THIS AND YOU CAN
3:15:09PM COME IN, CREATE THAT PERMIT AND THEN AFTER THE LAB IS OVER,
3:15:12PM WE TAKE THOSE PERMITS OBVIOUSLY OUT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
3:15:15PM REAL, BUT YOU GET TO TOUCH AND USE THE SYSTEM AS YOU
3:15:19PM ACTUALLY WOULD FROM THE ACA SIDE OF THE SYSTEM.
3:15:23PM WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO CLOSING THAT OUT, AND LOOKING
3:15:27PM FORWARD TO CLOSING THESE REPORTS OUT WITH YOU.
3:15:31PM SO THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING EVERYONE'S CONCERNS, PROVIDING THE
3:15:35PM BEST PRODUCT TO THE CUSTOMER.
3:15:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:15:38PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THANK YOU.
3:15:39PM SORRY ABOUT THE HICCUPS.
3:15:40PM I'LL GET IT ROCKING AND ROLLING.
3:15:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S FINE.
3:15:43PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:15:44PM WE APPRECIATE THE REPORT.
3:15:46PM THANK YOU, RUSSELL.
3:15:47PM IS THAT JC BACK THERE?
3:15:49PM CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.
3:15:51PM I KNOW YOU DID RECEIVE AN AWARD THE OTHER DAY.
3:15:54PM WE ACKNOWLEDGED YOU HERE, BUT I SAW IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
3:15:57PM CONGRATULATIONS.
3:15:59PM ITEM 62, MR. SHELBY.
3:16:03PM THAT IS THE LAST ITEM OF THE DAY.
3:16:14PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
3:16:16PM MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
3:16:17PM I'M HERE TO PROVIDE A REPORT ON THE POSSIBILITY OF
3:16:20PM ALTERNATING MEETING WEEKS TO ALIGN WITH HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
3:16:24PM SCHOOLS SPRING BREAK.
3:16:26PM IF YOU GO TO THE OVERHEAD, YOU'LL SEE THAT I HAVE THE
3:16:30PM 2023-24 ACADEMIC CALENDAR.
3:16:33PM YOU'LL SEE HIGHLIGHTED SPRING BREAK NEXT YEAR IS MONDAY,
3:16:37PM MARCH 11 THROUGH FRIDAY MARCH 15 OF 2024.
3:16:41PM NOW, AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, YOU APPROVED THE CALENDAR
3:16:45PM PREPARED BY THE CLERK CONSISTENT WITH THE WAY COUNCIL HAS
3:16:49PM PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED IT.
3:16:50PM AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HOW THE WEEKS FALL IN ANY PARTICULAR
3:16:55PM MONTH DETERMINES HOW THE MEETING IS SET UP.
3:16:58PM AS YOU KNOW, ON THE FIRST AND THIRD MEETING OF EACH MONTH,
3:17:01PM TRADITIONALLY, IT'S SET FOR YOUR REGULAR SESSION.
3:17:05PM THE SECOND WEEK OF THE MONTH, YOU HAVE THE CRA MEETING IN
3:17:07PM THE MORNING AND YOUR LAND USE EVENING MEETING AT 5:01 P.M.
3:17:12PM ON THE LAST OR THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE MONTH IS YOUR
3:17:18PM WORKSHOP SESSION AT 9 A.M. AND YOUR EVENING SESSION IS AT
3:17:21PM 5:01.
3:17:23PM JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT MARCH
3:17:27PM DATE AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE MARCH CALENDAR
3:17:30PM FOR NEXT YEAR.
3:17:32PM AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS, IT IS A TYPICAL MONTH OF CALENDAR
3:17:37PM MEETINGS FOR CITY COUNCIL.
3:17:39PM AGAIN, THE FIRST, THIRD AND SECOND AND FOURTH.
3:17:42PM THERE IS NO FIFTH THURSDAY OF THE MONTH IN MARCH OF 2024,
3:17:48PM UNLIKE THIS YEAR, MARCH OF 2023.
3:17:50PM NOW, WHEN A FIFTH MEETING OF THE MONTH -- EXCUSE ME, WHEN A
3:17:54PM FIFTH THURSDAY OF THE MONTH APPEARS ON YOUR CALENDAR, IT IS
3:17:58PM NORMALLY SCHEDULED FOR NO MEETING.
3:18:01PM AND THAT HAS BEEN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, THAT HAS BEEN
3:18:05PM COUNCIL'S CUSTOM.
3:18:06PM THOSE FIFTH THURSDAYS, WHEN IT IS NECESSARY, THOSE ARE USED
3:18:13PM TO REJUGGLE THE CALENDAR TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THIS SORT
3:18:18PM OF SCHEDULE.
3:18:19PM FOR INSTANCE, LET'S SAY JULY TAKES INTO ACCOUNT OF THE FACT
3:18:23PM THAT THERE IS NO MEETING FOR SUMMER VACATION IN THE FIRST
3:18:28PM WEEK OF JULY.
3:18:29PM WHAT THAT DOES THEN, THAT PUSHES THINGS DOWN TO REMOVE THE
3:18:35PM WORKSHOP MEETING.
3:18:36PM I COULD PUT THE CALENDAR ON THE OVERHEAD IF YOU NEED IT.
3:18:40PM BASICALLY, WHAT IT DOES IS IT USES THE FIFTH THURSDAY WHEN
3:18:44PM IT'S AVAILABLE TO FILL OUT HAVING THOSE FOUR MEETINGS A
3:18:48PM MONTH WITH THE MEETINGS IN JULY AND AUGUST.
3:18:51PM YOU DO NOT HAVE A WORKSHOP.
3:18:52PM AND THAT'S WHY IF YOU RECALL, THERE ARE NO WORKSHOPS IN JULY
3:18:56PM OR AUGUST BECAUSE JULY ACCOMMODATES YOUR SUMMER RECESS AND
3:19:01PM AUGUST ACCOMMODATES THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES ANNUAL
3:19:05PM CONFERENCE, WHICH THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE THE SECOND WEEK,
3:19:08PM THE END OF THE SECOND WEEK IN AUGUST.
3:19:10PM SO THAT BEING THE CASE, COUNCIL, IF YOU WERE TO WANT TO
3:19:14PM ALIGN IT, YOU WOULD LOSE ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS.
3:19:17PM YOU WOULD EITHER LOSE A WORKSHOP AND I RECOMMEND THAT IF YOU
3:19:20PM HAVE TO LOSE ANYTHING, COUNCIL DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE ONLY
3:19:23PM ONE REGULAR MEETING A MONTH.
3:19:25PM NORMALLY YOU NEED TO HAVE TWO.
3:19:27PM AS A MATTER OF FACT, MR. MIRANDA WOULD RECALL WHEN WE USED
3:19:30PM TO HAVE IT WEEKLY AS I RECALL.
3:19:32PM THAT BEING THE CASE, COUNCIL, AGAIN, YOUR CALENDAR.
3:19:37PM IT'S PREPARED BY THE CLERK.
3:19:38PM YOU GET TO APPROVE IT FOR THE FORTHCOMING YEAR, BUT WITH
3:19:42PM REGARD TO ALIGNING IT WITH THE PARTICULAR SPRING BREAK, THIS
3:19:46PM IS HOW IT CONFLICTS WITH YOUR MARCH CALENDAR THIS YEAR.
3:19:49PM AGAIN, WE CAN LOOK AT IT IN THE FUTURE.
3:19:51PM IF THERE IS A FIFTH THURSDAY WE CAN MOVE THINGS AROUND AND
3:19:54PM PERHAPS ACCOMMODATE IT THAT WAY TO ALLOW FOR THAT WEEK.
3:19:57PM BUT THAT'S MY REPORT.
3:19:59PM WHATEVER COUNCIL'S PLEASURE IS WE'LL BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE
3:20:02PM IT AS BEST WE CAN WORKING WITHIN THE PARAMETERS THAT WE
3:20:05PM HAVE.
3:20:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
3:20:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MY COLLEAGUES.
3:20:10PM IS ANYONE PLANNING TO ATTEND THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES?
3:20:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE BEFORE BUT I HAVEN'T MADE PLANS
3:20:16PM YET.
3:20:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BECAUSE I WENT LAST YEAR, AND IT WAS JUST
3:20:22PM COUNCILMAN CITRO AND I.
3:20:24PM I'M WONDERING IF MAYBE IN THE FUTURE INSTEAD OF HAVING THE
3:20:28PM AUGUST DATE FOR 2024, WE SWITCH THAT WITH MARCH SO WE COULD
3:20:33PM TAKE AWAY THE WORKSHOP SESSION IN MARCH AND THAT WAY STAFF
3:20:37PM AND THOSE WITH CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN CAN TAKE THAT
3:20:40PM SPRING BREAK TIME OFF.
3:20:42PM THEN IF SOMEBODY WERE WANTING TO GO TO THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF
3:20:47PM CITIES, IT MAY BE ONE OR TWO PEOPLE AND NOT THE ENTIRE
3:20:50PM COUNCIL.
3:20:50PM WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
3:20:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I THINK IT IS A GOOD SUGGESTION.
3:20:54PM IT MAKES IT FAIR.
3:20:55PM AGAIN, BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT DID GO TO THE
3:20:58PM CONFERENCE, YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD WORK.
3:21:03PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT ALSO GIVES OUR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO
3:21:05PM WISH TO ATTEND THIS YEAR THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO BECAUSE
3:21:08PM WE'LL STILL HAVE THAT TIME OFF, WE ALREADY APPROVED THE
3:21:11PM CALENDAR FOR AUGUST OF THIS YEAR, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT AUGUST
3:21:14PM -- WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CALENDAR YEAR -- SORRY, THE FISCAL
3:21:17PM YEAR WHICH WOULD START IN OCTOBER.
3:21:19PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ACTUALLY YOUR CALENDAR GOES --
3:21:21PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I CAN NEVER REMEMBER.
3:21:24PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: END OF THE YEAR.
3:21:27PM IT GOES TO APRIL.
3:21:29PM >> APRIL 2024.
3:21:31PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT USUALLY -- THE CLERK HAS IT BEFORE THE
3:21:34PM END OF THE YEAR.
3:21:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
3:21:36PM THE END OF THE YEAR.
3:21:38PM PREPARING AND PLANNING FOR 2024, JUST BECAUSE THIS YEAR I
3:21:41PM KNOW THERE ARE PROBABLY STAFF THAT ARE ALREADY TAKING THAT
3:21:45PM WEEK OFF OR ARE DOING SOMETHING ELSE.
3:21:49PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [INAUDIBLE] AND YOU ONLY HAVE FIVE
3:21:56PM MEMBERS AND SOMEBODY GETS SICK, DOWN TO FOUR.
3:22:00PM GOT TO LEAVE IT FOR THE FOLLOWING MONTH.
3:22:02PM I'M JUST SAYING THAT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE DON'T THINK
3:22:05PM OF WHEN WE DO THESE THINGS AND YOU HAVE TO PUT THEM INTO
3:22:09PM PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AND WE'RE DOWN TO
3:22:11PM FIVE MEMBERS AND SOMETHING HAPPENS, SOMEBODY CAN GET ILL,
3:22:15PM WHATEVER.
3:22:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF I MAY, I THINK THAT IS A GREAT POINT, BUT
3:22:20PM I THINK WHAT HAPPENS IS WE SIMPLY SHIFT IT.
3:22:24PM IS THAT WHAT HAPPENS?
3:22:27PM >> NO.
3:22:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF WE WERE TAKING THE MIDDLE WEEK --
3:22:29PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU CAN.
3:22:30PM WHAT YOU END UP DOING LET'S SAY ASSUMING -- TAKE MARCH OF
3:22:35PM '24 AS AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU WERE TO TAKE AWAY THE 14th, THEN
3:22:40PM WHAT YOU'D HAVE TO DO IS HAVE A DAY MEETING AND NIGHT
3:22:43PM MEETING TOGETHER.
3:22:43PM YOUR NIGHT MEETING WOULD KICK INTO 5:01 ON THE 21st
3:22:47PM INSTEAD OF ON THE 14th.
3:22:49PM I USED TO CALL THEM TWILIGHT DOUBLEHEADERS WHEN IT WAS A
3:22:52PM WHOLE LONG DAY.
3:22:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK ONCE A YEAR WE COULD --
3:22:56PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ALSO, IF I CAN, OF COURSE, THROUGH THE
3:23:02PM PANDEMIC AND THE WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKING THE PAST FEW
3:23:05PM YEARS, THERE HASN'T BEEN MUCH ATTENDANCE AT THE LEAGUE OF
3:23:08PM CITIES.
3:23:09PM I WILL TELL YOU THAT IN THE 25 YEARS I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH
3:23:11PM THE LEAGUE OF CITIES IN SOME FORM OR FASHION, I FIND IT
3:23:15PM INVALUABLE, PARTICULARLY FOR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.
3:23:18PM I WOULD CERTAINLY RECOMMEND IT.
3:23:19PM THEY DO HAVE NEW MEMBER ORIENTATIONS.
3:23:21PM COUNCIL MEMBER CITRO WAS ACTUALLY ON THE BOARD OF THE
3:23:24PM FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES, AND WHAT -- IT IS NOT ONLY A
3:23:29PM LEARNING OPPORTUNITY, IT IS ALSO A GOOD NETWORKING
3:23:31PM OPPORTUNITY FOR BEST PRACTICES AND ALSO, FRANKLY, WITH WHAT
3:23:36PM MUNICIPALITIES ARE FACING WITH REGARD TO HOME RULE,
3:23:39PM CERTAINLY SAFETY IN NUMBERS.
3:23:41PM I JUST LISTENED TO A PRESENTATION BY SOMEBODY FROM THE
3:23:45PM FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES YESTERDAY ON THE LEGISLATIVE
3:23:47PM UPDATE.
3:23:48PM AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'LL SEND YOU THAT INFORMATION.
3:23:50PM IT WAS INVALUABLE.
3:23:52PM THEY WORKED VERY HARD TO BE ABLE TO -- TO THE DEGREE THAT
3:23:56PM THEY ARE ABLE TO, PROTECT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM HAVING
3:24:00PM HOME RULE AUTHORITY, RETAIN WHATEVER AUTHORITY AND
3:24:03PM MITIGATING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED
3:24:06PM AS THESE BILLS WENT THROUGH AMENDMENTS.
3:24:08PM IT WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SEE ITS
3:24:11PM VALUE THIS YEAR.
3:24:12PM I THINK IT'S AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.
3:24:14PM CERTAINLY AS WE PREPARE THE CALENDAR, WE CAN BRING THAT BACK
3:24:17PM AND REVISIT THAT, UNLESS YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TODAY FOR
3:24:20PM US TO MAKE SURE WE DO THAT WHEN THE TIME COMES AT THE END OF
3:24:23PM THE YEAR TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT 2024 AND HOW WE WOULD ADDRESS
3:24:29PM THAT.
3:24:30PM NOT -- YEAH, IT WOULD BE.
3:24:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
3:24:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IF I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AS MUCH AS I
3:24:41PM JUST LOVE THOSE DOUBLE SESSIONS, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO
3:24:46PM ACCOMMODATE THE SPRING BREAK CHANGE WITHIN THE MONTH OF
3:24:51PM MARCH IF WE JUST CHANGE THAT 21st TO A DOUBLE SESSION?
3:24:56PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WELL, WHAT YOU WOULD LOSE THEN -- LET'S
3:24:59PM TAKE A LOOK AT THIS, IF WE'RE TALKING MARCH OF 2024, YOU'D
3:25:05PM ALSO -- YOU'D PROBABLY HAVE TO LOSE A WORKSHOP SESSION, SO
3:25:10PM YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A WORK SESSION IN MARCH.
3:25:12PM YOU WOULD MOVE YOUR REGULAR MEETING TO THE 28th AND MOVE
3:25:15PM YOUR EVENING MEETING TO THE EVENING OF THE 21st, AND THEN
3:25:18PM YOU'D HAVE A BACK-TO-BACK NIGHT MEETING ON THE 21st TO THE
3:25:23PM 28th.
3:25:24PM THE COUNCIL HAS DONE THAT BEFORE.
3:25:26PM IT IS A VERY DIFFICULT SCHEDULE.
3:25:28PM IF YOU LOOKED AT THIS YEAR'S SCHEDULE, IT IS VERY DIFFERENT
3:25:31PM THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR WHEN WE PLAYED CATCH-UP.
3:25:33PM THE NORMAL RULE OF THUMB IS YOU DO NOT HAVE A NIGHT MEETING
3:25:37PM ON THE SAME DAY YOU HAVE A REGULAR AGENDA BECAUSE THAT IS A
3:25:41PM GRUELING SESSION.
3:25:42PM AND WHAT YOU WOULD DO THEN IS YOU'D LOSE A WORKSHOP IN MARCH
3:25:45PM LET'S SAY FOR 2024 AND YOU WOULD THEN HAVE A BACK-TO-BACK
3:25:49PM EVENING SESSION OR YOU WOULD MOVE AN EVENING SESSION TO THE
3:25:52PM 7th AND THEN HAVE A SECOND ONE ON THE 21st -- EXCUSE ME,
3:25:56PM ON THE 28th.
3:25:57PM THE 7th AND 28th, BECAUSE THIS WOULD NOT BE HERE BECAUSE
3:26:01PM NEXT YEAR THAT WOULD BE SPRING BREAK.
3:26:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BEING ONE OF THE TWO NEW PEOPLE AT THE
3:26:10PM DAIS, WHAT ARE THE LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS WITH ADDING ANOTHER
3:26:14PM DAY IN ONE OF THOSE WEEKS?
3:26:16PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU MEAN A DAY OF THE WEEK?
3:26:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
3:26:20PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: QUITE DIFFICULT.
3:26:21PM FIRST OF ALL, TRADITIONALLY, PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT THURSDAY
3:26:24PM IS A COUNCIL MEETING DAY.
3:26:26PM SO ADDING A DAY THROWS -- WELL, FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAVE TO
3:26:30PM MAKE SURE THE ROOM IS AVAILABLE.
3:26:32PM OF COURSE, IT PROBABLY IS BECAUSE IT'S CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
3:26:34PM BUT WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT MIGHT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF
3:26:38PM ANOTHER BOARD THAT'S SCHEDULED FOR THIS TIME.
3:26:41PM FOR INSTANCE, THE VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD OR THE CIVIL SERVICE
3:26:46PM BOARD, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE.
3:26:47PM THEN YOU HAVE ALSO THE STAFF, THE CLERK STAFF THAT STAFFS
3:26:51PM THE MEETING, CTTV THAT STAFFS THE MEETING AND ALL THE
3:26:55PM LOGISTICS THAT REQUIRES STAFF MEMBERS WHO APPEAR DURING
3:26:57PM STAFF REPORTS, FOR INSTANCE, TO MAKE THE REPORTS TO ADJUST
3:27:00PM THEIR SCHEDULE.
3:27:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS IT UNPRECEDENTED TO ADD ANOTHER DAY?
3:27:04PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT WAS LAST YEAR AND IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT.
3:27:06PM THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION.
3:27:08PM IF IT'S COUNCIL'S PLEASURE, IT'S COUNCIL'S MEETINGS,
3:27:17PM COUNCIL'S CHAMBERS, WHATEVER ITS DIRECTION IS, I'M SURE
3:27:22PM WE'LL BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE IT.
3:27:24PM PAST PRACTICE SHOWS IT'S NOT EASY SHIFTING TO ANOTHER DAY.
3:27:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: -- BETWEEN TWO ALTERNATIVES, SURELY WE CAN
3:27:31PM ACCOMMODATE JUST ONE WEEK OUT OF THE YEAR, IT SEEMS LIKE
3:27:35PM THOSE OF US WHO DON'T HAVE KIDS CAN ACCOMMODATE THE FOLKS
3:27:39PM THAT DO.
3:27:41PM I AM AMICABLE TO CONSIDERING ALL THE ALTERNATIVES.
3:27:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHY DON'T WE THINK ABOUT IT AND COME
3:27:46PM BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING WITH SOMEWHAT OF A PLAN OR OPTIONS
3:27:49PM AND THEN THAT'S IT.
3:27:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WAS GOING TO SAY ALSO THAT IF WE HAD TO
3:27:55PM BUMP A REGULAR SESSION AND HAVE THE 28th, THE EVENING
3:28:01PM SESSION, THAT SESSION TENDS TO BE NOT AS LONG BECAUSE IT'S
3:28:04PM ALCOHOL PERMITTING.
3:28:06PM IT'S NOT OUR REZONING.
3:28:08PM IF WE HAD TO MOVE IT THAT WAY.
3:28:10PM I THINK THERE ARE POSSIBILITIES, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE
3:28:16PM THIS BEING BROUGHT FORWARD BECAUSE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT
3:28:19PM THAT TIME OFF, IT'S NOT JUST COUNCIL MEMBERS.
3:28:24PM IT'S STAFF.
3:28:25PM I THINK THAT IN WORKING WITH STAFF, WE'RE PROVIDING A REAL
3:28:29PM SERVICE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
3:28:31PM SO I THINK IT'S WORTH OUR WHILE TO FIGURE THIS OUT SO WE CAN
3:28:35PM BRING STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT BREAK AND NOT MAKING
3:28:43PM THEM HAVE TO JUGGLE TO FIND CHILD CARE AND/OR TRAVEL AND ALL
3:28:47PM THAT STUFF.
3:28:49PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I THINK IT'S DOABLE.
3:28:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
3:28:53PM >>BILL CARLSON: MARTY, I WOULD ASK IF WE COME BACK, CAN WE
3:28:56PM MAKE IT LIKE A TWO-MINUTE DISCUSSION.
3:28:58PM YOU CAN'T CARRY MESSAGES BETWEEN US BUT YOU CAN TALK TO ALL
3:29:03PM OF US AND IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU COULD COME BACK AND SAY,
3:29:05PM HERE'S WHAT I PROPOSE AND THEN WE VOTE ON IT.
3:29:07PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET A CONSENSUS RIGHT
3:29:10PM NOW AND BRING FORTH A PROPOSAL.
3:29:11PM SULING, ANYTHING YOU NEED FROM A CLERK PERSPECTIVE TO INFORM
3:29:15PM CITY COUNCIL, I APPRECIATE IT.
3:29:17PM >>THE CLERK: I THINK WE CAN RESOLVE THIS TODAY.
3:29:21PM IT IS A GREAT IDEA WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK BROUGHT UP,
3:29:24PM THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE EVENINGS ARE NOT AS STRENUOUS AS THE
3:29:28PM ZONING.
3:29:28PM MOVING A REGULAR SESSION, JUST MARCH 2024, MOVING REGULAR
3:29:33PM SESSION TO THE 28th IS DOABLE.
3:29:35PM WE HAVE TO COUNCIL OUT THAT WORKSHOP AND HAVE CRA IN THE
3:29:38PM ZONING EVENING SESSION ON THE 21st.
3:29:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU THROW THAT PIECE OF PAPER BACK UP?
3:29:45PM I'M SORRY.
3:29:48PM I'M VERY VISUAL.
3:29:48PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT, MADAM CLERK.
3:29:51PM KEEP THE 7th THE SAME WAY IT IS.
3:29:53PM >>THE CLERK: YES.
3:29:54PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE 14th --
3:29:56PM >>THE CLERK: THE 14th WILL BE --
3:29:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: NOW USED FOR SPRING BREAK.
3:30:00PM >>THE CLERK: CORRECT.
3:30:00PM THE 21st WOULD BE CRA.
3:30:03PM AND THE LAND REZONING EVENING SESSION TOGETHER.
3:30:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BASICALLY JUST MOVING ALL OF THE 14th DOWN
3:30:12PM TO THE 21st.
3:30:14PM >>THE CLERK: RIGHT.
3:30:15PM THEN YOU CANCEL THE WORKSHOP SESSION AND MAKE THAT A REGULAR
3:30:18PM SESSION.
3:30:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PERFECT.
3:30:21PM THAT WORKS OUT PERFECTLY.
3:30:23PM >> SO MOVED.
3:30:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO APPROVE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
3:30:26PM CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
3:30:27PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:30:29PM >> AYE.
3:30:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT WORKS OUT PERFECTLY.
3:30:31PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
3:30:33PM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
3:30:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT CONCLUDES OUR AGENDA.
3:30:35PM LET'S GO TO NEW BUSINESS.
3:30:37PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING SIR?
3:30:38PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE 42, BUT NOT FOR HERE.
3:30:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA?
3:30:45PM >>LUIS VIERA: REALLY QUICK.
3:30:47PM YOU HEARD THE FOLKS FROM CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS SAY
3:30:51PM THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE CONVENTION HERE IN TAMPA.
3:30:53PM I MOTION FOR COUNCIL TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE NATIONAL
3:30:56PM ORGANIZATION SUPPORTING THEM.
3:30:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA WITH A
3:31:00PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:31:02PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:31:03PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:31:04PM >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION ON JUNE 1st OF 2023 FOR WRITTEN
3:31:07PM REPORT ONLY ON THE STATUS OF REPAVING OF NORTH BOULEVARD.
3:31:10PM FOREST HILLS.
3:31:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
3:31:15PM VIERA.
3:31:15PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:31:17PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:31:18PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:31:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: LASTLY, I MOTION FOR JULY 13th OF 2023, FOR
3:31:25PM A STATUS ON THE UPTOWN PROJECT FROM BOTH TAMPA INNOVATION AS
3:31:32PM WELL AS THE CITY.
3:31:33PM SOME YEARS AGO, THE PROCESS WAS STARTED, ET CETERA, AND I'D
3:31:37PM LOVE TO SEE WHERE EVERYTHING IS AT, ET CETERA.
3:31:40PM BY THE WAY, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T CHECKED WITH TAMPA INNOVATION
3:31:43PM ON THE SPECIFIC DATE.
3:31:44PM JULY 13, IF THEY NEED MORE TIME OR WHATEVER, GLAD TO
3:31:48PM ACCOMMODATE TO HAVE THAT THERE.
3:31:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, SECOND
3:31:51PM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:31:52PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:31:53PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:31:55PM >>LUIS VIERA: NOT A MOTION, LASTLY I WANT TO STRESS WHAT I
3:31:57PM SAID, WHICH IS WE SAW THAT PARKS MASTER PLAN AND HOW ROBUST
3:32:02PM IT WAS.
3:32:02PM THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR WITH THE PUBLIC SAFETY MASTER
3:32:05PM PLAN.
3:32:06PM SOMETHING AS THICK AS THE BIBLE.
3:32:08PM THERE YOU GO.
3:32:09PM THANK YOU, SIR.
3:32:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:32:10PM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW BUSINESS?
3:32:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE NO NEW BUSINESS.
3:32:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:32:15PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
3:32:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO HAVE BETH ALDEN FROM THE
3:32:19PM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION PRESENT TO COUNCIL
3:32:21PM ABOUT THE TRI-COUNTY MPO MERGER CONCEPT AT THE AUGUST 24th
3:32:27PM CITY COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION.
3:32:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
3:32:30PM CLENDENIN WITH A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
3:32:32PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:32:33PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:32:35PM ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?
3:32:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S ALL.
3:32:39PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THAT UNDER PRESENTATIONS INITIALLY,
3:32:41PM EARLY IN THE MEETING?
3:32:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, AT THE BEGINNING.
3:32:43PM UNDER CEREMONIAL AND PRESENTATIONS.
3:32:45PM YES, MA'AM, COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
3:32:48PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
3:32:49PM I JUST WANTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE PASSED UNDER CONSENT,
3:32:56PM UNDER ITEM NUMBER 44 A RESOLUTION THAT APPROVED THE 47th
3:33:02PM STREET LAND DISPOSITION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TAMPA
3:33:06PM AND RUDG, LLC THAT IS TAKING SEVEN AND A QUARTER ACRES AND
3:33:14PM PUTTING IT TOWARD AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHERE THEY WILL CONTAIN
3:33:17PM 175 RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH WILL
3:33:20PM BE AT 80% OR BELOW FOR AMI.
3:33:28PM I JUST WANT TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE STAFF WHO PUT THAT
3:33:33PM PROJECT TOGETHER.
3:33:35PM WE USED I BELIEVE SHIP FUNDING FOR THAT OR SOME TYPE OF
3:33:40PM HOUSING FUNDING WHERE WE BOUGHT THAT LAND AND THEN WERE ABLE
3:33:44PM TO GIVE IT OVER.
3:33:45PM IT REQUIRES THE DEVELOPER TO KEEP THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS FOR
3:33:53PM 99 YEARS.
3:33:54PM THAT'S REALLY AMAZING.
3:33:55PM IT'S 175 MORE UNITS.
3:33:57PM I JUST WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO STAFF AND JUST TO
3:34:00PM MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC DIDN'T MISS OUT ON THAT.
3:34:02PM THEN I HAVE A MOTION.
3:34:04PM A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CITY OF TAMPA'S FISCAL YEAR 2024,
3:34:08PM PROGRAM YEAR 2023 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, ANALYSIS OF
3:34:12PM IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING, WHICH INCLUDES THE COMMUNITY
3:34:14PM DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM, EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS
3:34:18PM PROGRAM, HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, AND HOUSING
3:34:21PM OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSON WITH AIDS PROGRAM ACTION PLAN IS
3:34:24PM SCHEDULED FOR THE EVENING HEARING ON JUNE 8th, 2023.
3:34:29PM THE CITY'S CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN REQUIRES THAT HEARINGS
3:34:32PM ON THE CITY'S HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS BE
3:34:35PM HELD IN THE EVENING TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERESTED
3:34:39PM CITIZENS TO ATTEND.
3:34:40PM STAFF'S PRESENTATION ON THE ACTION PLAN WILL BE NO MORE THAN
3:34:44PM 7 TO 10 MINUTES.
3:34:45PM PER STAFF REQUEST, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO HEAR
3:34:48PM THIS ITEM FIRST ON THE AGENDA DURING THE JUNE 8, 2023,
3:34:52PM EVENING SESSION IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
3:34:54PM INTERESTED CITIZENS TO ATTEND AND BE HEARD AND THEN BE
3:34:57PM RELEASED FOR THE EVENING.
3:34:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
3:35:00PM HURTAK.
3:35:01PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:35:02PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:35:03PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:35:03PM ANYTHING ELSE?
3:35:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
3:35:05PM THAT'S ALL.
3:35:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
3:35:07PM >>BILL CARLSON: BASED ON THE CONVERSATION EARLIER, I WOULD
3:35:09PM LIKE TO ASK THAT A REPRESENTATIVE OF PORT TAMPA BAY PRESENT
3:35:15PM ON AUGUST 31st AS TO WHY WE NEED TO PROTECT MARITIME LAND
3:35:20PM IN TAMPA.
3:35:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
3:35:22PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
3:35:23PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:35:24PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:35:25PM ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?
3:35:26PM I HAVE A MOTION HERE.
3:35:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:35:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS ABOUT JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
3:35:37PM BASEBALL TEAM.
3:35:39PM I KNOW.
3:35:39PM I KNOW.
3:35:40PM I KNOW I HAVE THREE DRAGONS RIGHT HERE.
3:35:43PM BUT THEY ARE CURRENTLY THE 4A REGIONAL CHAMPS AND PLAYING
3:35:46PM THIS WEEKEND IN FORT MYERS.
3:35:48PM FRIDAY SEMIFINALS AND SATURDAY THE FINALS.
3:35:50PM IF THEY WIN ON SATURDAY, THEY WILL BE 4A STATE CHAMPS.
3:35:53PM THEIR COACH SPENCER NUÑEZ HAS BEEN NAMED 4A DIVISION
3:35:57PM STATEWIDE DIVISION COACH OF THE YEAR AND A JEFFERSON PLAYER
3:35:59PM CAMERON MALLO WAS NAMED 4A DIVISION PLAYER OF THE YEAR.
3:36:03PM COACH NUÑEZ, FIRST-TIME HIGH SCHOOL HEAD COACH AND TAMPA
3:36:06PM NATIVE IN THIRD YEAR COACHING AT JEFFERSON.
3:36:08PM IN THE THREE YEARS, THE SECOND TRIP TO THE STATE FINALS.
3:36:11PM FIRST, I'D LIKE TO WISH THEM GOOD LUCK THIS WEEKEND AND
3:36:14PM SECOND I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION WITH EVERYONE BECAUSE
3:36:20PM YOU'RE ALL THE JEFFERSON DRAGONS, MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENT
3:36:23PM THE JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM WITH A COMMENDATION
3:36:26PM AT A LATER DATE TO BE DETERMINED BUT I WANT ALL OF US THERE.
3:36:30PM SULING, YOU CAN COME TOO.
3:36:33PM PRIDE OF JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
3:36:36PM I'D LIKE TO PRESENT THEM THE COMMENDATION WITH OTHER COUNCIL
3:36:39PM MEMBERS AT A LATER DATE OFF-SITE OR EVEN HERE.
3:36:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
3:36:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
3:36:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: QUICK LITTLE COMMENT.
3:36:54PM I DO APPRECIATE THAT.
3:36:55PM I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT THERE ARE FOUR HIGH SCHOOLS
3:36:58PM HEADED TO THE FINAL FOUR.
3:36:59PM I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT.
3:37:01PM JESUIT, PLANT HIGH SCHOOL, SICKLES HIGH SCHOOL, AND
3:37:06PM JEFFERSON.
3:37:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BUT ISN'T JEFFERSON THE MOST IMPORTANT?
3:37:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL ARE IN THE FINAL FOUR AND THEY ARE ALL
3:37:12PM REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR GREAT CITY.
3:37:14PM IT IS FAIR TO MENTION ALL OF THEM.
3:37:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND.
3:37:19PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
3:37:20PM OPPOSED?
3:37:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO WISH MY STEP
3:37:25PM DAUGHTER WHITNEY A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
3:37:28PM ON SUNDAY SHE WILL BE TURNING 11.
3:37:30PM EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE, LISA, IS HAVING A
3:37:34PM BIRTHDAY ON MONDAY.
3:37:37PM SHE'S, YEAH, 21 YEARS OLD AND WE WANT TO WISH HER ALL A
3:37:41PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
3:37:43PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WANT TO MAKE A CORRECTION, COUNCIL.
3:37:45PM I MISSPOKE.
3:37:46PM NORMALLY YOU DON'T HAVE A WORKSHOP IN AUGUST, BUT THIS YEAR
3:37:48PM YOU DO BECAUSE WE'RE USING THAT FIFTH THURSDAY.
3:37:52PM WE DO HAVE SOMETHING.
3:37:53PM I JUST DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE 31st OF
3:37:56PM AUGUST.
3:37:56PM WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE.
3:37:57PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE ALL DOCUMENTS.
3:37:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
3:38:01PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:38:02PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:38:03PM AYE.
3:38:04PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
3:38:04PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
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